Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-31


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Coon Mother Nature has stored up
bountiful supplies for the generations
TO come. A coal field forty eight feet
thick has been discovered by the Great
Northern Railroad in Australia.
CALIFORNIA has taken an invoice of
her giant trees left standing, and finds
2,675. The largest OF these is 50 feet
in circumference. Visitors at the
Worlds Fair will see one of them.
AN immigrant girl who landed in New
York the other day has nose five and
seven eighths inches long, but you can't
always tell by the length of the nose
how far it will go into other peoples
business.
THE fact that Col. H. J. Isby, the
gifted Alabamian. is still talking about
his solution of the problem of perpetual
motion calls forth the dreadful sus-
picion that he has solved it with Sam
sons favorite weapon.
Two sTREET-ARABs have been arrest
ed for robbing a postotfice to secure
cigarette money. If it had been q
grave the larceny would have been
committed notwithstanding. A cigar
ette-smoker is hopeless case.
WHY do people wait until man is
sick. and can't eat, to send him good
things? When he is we'll, and would
like something good, no neighbor comes
in with fancy jellies, old wines, and
things like that. Things are very I'M
fair.
DID you ever try to figure out how
much is due to the accident of birth If
you have not. don't try the experiment,
because you are liable to find out that
you have taken hold of problem that
will stay by you during your life
time.
The news that Italian immigration
has begun to fall off will call out no re.
grets in this country. We obtain many
good citizens from Italy, doubtless, but
we unquestionably get as many bad
ones from that quarter as from all the
rest of Europe put together.
TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS worth of
choice dog-hesh wrapped up in three
hides was landed in New York City a
few days ago and was received with
more marks of distinguished honor
than whole shipload of human flesh
from the country of Christopher Colum-
bus that happened to be landed about
the same time.
AN old British soldier who served in
India is authority for the statement
that the real name of Rudyard kipling
is John Trader and that his father was
Tor many years sutler and contractor.
Thus vanish our literary idols one by
pne. How Rudyard did pour the Walls
Of his contempt upon trade and traders
in his breezy letters.
ENGLAND has exiled King Theebaw
Of Burmah to Bombay. There he lives
with his harem, his stable, his servants
and all the Injuries of the season and
without care, all ct the expense OF
The imperial treasury. There are some
monarchs now in full commission in
England who would be glad to ex-
change places with him.
OWEN COUNTY BRECKINRIDGE, a
lawyer of the Pacific coast, owes por.
ton of his name to a romantic circum
stance. In 1858 John G. Breckenridge
was running for Congress in Kentucky
and Owen County gave him the victory
and to a son born upon the day of the
election he gave the county's name as
an expression of his gratitude.
ONE of the best living English humor-
lists is jerome K jerome. the author OF
"Three Men in Boat, idle Thoughts
of an Idle Fellow" and "The Diary OF
Pilgrimage. American readers have
supposed that was his real name. The
Book NeUs, in speaking of his last
mentioned, The Diary OF Pilgrim
age" gives the authors name as J. W
Alrowsmith
A QUESTION has been raised in Ohio
about the legality of marriages con-
summated by retired clergymen The
law reads that any minister of the gos-
pei, while regular minister of a so.
ciety or congregation, can perform the
marriage ceremony. The right of re.
tired clergymen to perform the mar.
riage ceremony has not before been
seriously questioned.
That esteemed contemporary, the
Atlantic cable, takes pains to inform
this gaping contine It that his royal
hunkiness, the Prince of Wales, remov-
ed his gloves When he went into the
witness box. It was much more in the
direction of our desires, however, to