Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-05-01

went out and punched Shaw's head.
When arrested the Judge explained the
term to him, and he planked down $50
and apologized.
A NEBRASKA judge announces pub
licly that he will confirm no foreclosure
of mortgage on a farm where failure to
! pay interest was due to failure of
i; crops. That will probably make him
solid with the farmers, but what will
the eastern money-lenders think?
Ir you are keeping the blinds shut
to prevent the sunshine from fading
the carpet. you will keep the carpet
all right, but likely you will see the
blush of health fade from the cheeks
of those dear children. One rosy
childish check is worth factory full
of carpets.
PuT up fifty wooden boxes in q city,
none Of them in the least resembling
mail boxes, and paint on each one the
sign; This box is for coal orders; drop
no mailin here" and inside of forty sight
hours over 100 letters, designed for the
mail, will be pushed into them. It's a
/ way people have.
The sod house on the Kansas from
tier aud the dwelling OF a Greenland
Eskimo are very much alike, about the
only difference being an overground
burrow in the home of the Eskimo.
All Greenland houses are of the same
size, face the same way, and are built
of the same material-layers Of rough
granite, sod and mortar.
OXFORD COUNTY, Maine, people are
laughing at fire company, the mem
bers of which were in such haste to
get to fire that they didn't even stop
to collect ladders, hose. buckets. or
pumps to take with them-in fact,
didn't even think of these important
articles until they reached the burning
building.
In Paris an aquarium is maintained
for the purpose of breeding fish for re-
plenishing the rivers of France. A
quantity of California salmon are kept
in tank specially constructed for the
purpose of artificial breeding. AS a
result more than 100000 healthy fish
are transferred to the River Seine
every year.
A LARGE block of wooden buildings
in the Chinatown of Victoria, B. c.,
has been burned by order of the City
Council to make room for new public
market. It was deemed advisable tn
get rid of the old rookeries in this way
instead of by removal, so as to avoid
all danger of sickness The Chinese
Theater was among the buildings
burned.
Ii is strange that the use of points
for purposes of punctuation should be
such comparatively modern inven-
ton. OF the four generally used points
only the period e. dates earlier than
the fifteenth century. The colon y is
said to have been first introduced
about l4S5, the comma {, some thirty
five years later, and the semicolon CO
about 1870
NINE years ago resident of Califor-
MIA imported the first ostriches from
Africa, and from these birds have
been bred 468 ostriches now in the
!! STATE. One man, who runs an ostrich
farm in Santa Monica. and has forty
five birds, saws that each bird yields
! 500 year, i,.aking his gross revenue
$4,000; deducting expenses, he has a
p, clear 800 on $4,000 Investment.
| A PROFESSOR of the North Dakota
experimental station says that the
most prolific and. in his estimation,
one of the most profitable fruits is the
buffalo berry. There flourish in the
State three varieties of cherries, two
of raspberries, one OF currants, one O.
juneberry, one of strawberry and one
of wild grape, the fruitage being the
largest in North Dakota, where tn.
plants are dwarfed.
] AMONG the unusual inventions pa
tented by women are improved bottle
stopper, improved method of fastening
door-l1nobs to their spindles, an appli
ance for plucking hair to be used i,
the dressing of furs, improved methot
of preparing leather for the soles O
boots and shoes, for improvements il
electric arc lamps. and for more reli
able indicators, specially applicable 70
use on the rolling stock Of railways.
The MERGED (Cal.) San has vision
Of glory for the community in which
shines, videlicet: "Merced, the starli
CITY of ambitious commerce-in sim