Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-12

THE HERAL
BY KREIDLER & GuNDERsoN.
WASHINGTON SPRINGS, SD
ENGLAND dates the American reyo-
luton as commenced July IA, Iva.
ONE of the English hosiery firms
refoots all stockings purchased OF
them.
A Boston man advertises for female
heas. He is willing to pay good
price for all he can get.
The United States is said to be the
greatest candy country in the world,
.$5,O0O,OOO worth being consumed
every year.
The irrepressible Yankee is said to
have invented safety seamless trous-
ers pocket woven complete in one
piece, no stitching or sewing being
necessary.
A WRITER declares that Kodiak ISL
and, Alaska, as larger than either OF
the New England States, with a genial
climate capable of producing many
varieties of fruit.
The under ground system of telegra-
ply is gaining favor rapidly in Ger
many. The recent storm on our East
ern coast, so destructive to wires and
poles, is al Argument in favor.
A WONDERFUL memory is possessed
by Wallace Chapman, four-year-old
boy in Kansas City. A poem Of nine
teen stanzas was read to him three
times, and he could repeat it word for
word.
SCIENTISTS who have made partic
ular study of the subject maintain
that the Indian method of making ma
pie sugar dates from times unknown,
and is not in any degree derived from
the white man.
For the want of rye, wheat OR pota-
toes, the peasants in the Russian prov
ince of Karan bake bread of acorns It
produces COLES, swelling of the limbs
and distension of the abdomen. The
disease is fatal in many cases.
In the year 1870, when the English
telegraphs were taken by the govern
ment, the total revenue was g612, 3O1.
Five years later it had risen to 91, $685.
982; in 1880 it was el,469, 795; in
1885, e1,S2O,764; and last year it was
s2,364, O98.
A BUILDING site in Washington pre-
sented nothing extraordinary from out
side appearances but upon excavating
the builders were unable to find the
earth sufficiently solid for the founda-
ton to rest upon. The difficulty was
overcome by driving piles.
THE first water mill ever built was
erected on the river Tiber, at Rome,
A. D. so. Windmills were in original
use in the twelfth century. Tidemills
were operated in Venice about 17Os
Sawmills are said to have been in use
at Augsburg, Germany, about 1882,
ABRAHAMA hen on farm in Cecil
County, Maryland, belonging to VIM.
d. Summers, of Philadelphia, lately
surprised its owner. 1t laid dark
brown egg, which measures seven and
three-quarter inches i'll its long diam
eter, and six and half inches in its
short diameter.
Mr.. ATK1NsoN's bill for curtailing
the verbosity of the House of Commons
proposes limitation of talk to half an
hour by the clock for Privy Coun-
cillor and fifteen minutes for ordinary
members. Oddly enough there is said
to be good deal Of support ready
for it.
The Electrical Engineer holds that
the problem Of obtaining light without
heat is now one of such immediate mo-
ment and the pecuniary reward conse-
quent upon successful solution of the
problem is SO great that the energies
of the inventors can be bent in no bet
ter direction than this.
DRUNKENNESS is the failing of the
Hercules beetle, q South American in
sect. It sometimes attains growth
Of six inches in length. 1t is said that
it rasps the bark from the slender
branches of the mammn tree until the
juice flows. This it drinks until it
drops to the ground intoxicated.
EuRopE's population on Jan. was
100000. The population of each
Of the other continents was estimated
RI no ac fo11owc. Acio QSO Onn Onn.