Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-10

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BY BLANK & BLANK.
yEssJNGroS SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA
81 90 Per Year, if in Advance.
s1fAt+9 ~. 90 If not III Advance
In France there Is government raA
of 2 per cent. levied on all bets on
races.
The death roll of the last Con-
gress is the largest since the organiza
tion of the Government.
New YORK now has larger area and
mileageo asphalt pavements than has
either London or Paris.
A GHOST that whistles through its
teeth is reported to have made its APP
pearance in Kansas City, Mo.
THERE is a great wave of juvenile
crime in New York City just now.
Some philosophers attribute it to the
fact that so many children are out of
school.
BISMARCK has found one friend that
he can trust without hesitation. 1t is
q little wren which comes at call and
perches upon the hand that has swayed
the destinies of nations.
The Canadian Militia Department
has decided to increase the capacity of
the cartridge factory at Quebec, so
that the Martini Henry ammunition
for Canadian use can be manufactured
there.
The new court dress to be worn in
Berlin consists of light-blue coat
with red trimmings and elaborate sill
yer embroidery. This garment will
be worn hereafter by all members of
the high aristocracy holding hereditary
court offices.
COLONEL John G. Taylor, of Dayton.
KY, has fallen heir to estates in Ireland
that make him the Earl of Tyrone, and
better still, give him property valued
at $7,000,0o0. 1t is needless to say
that Kentucky will soon lose one of its
prominent colonies.
"TAKE any twenty-five tall, lean
men," said an old court officer to re-
porter, "and you can secure jury in a
murder case. They have no conscien-
tious scruples against the death penal
ty. As rule, short, thick men have
doubts on this point"
DRs. BERLIN and Picq, of the Nan
tes faculty, who recently injected ff-
teen grains of goats blood into the
muscular tissue Of the thighs OF two
patients suffering from tuberculosis,
assert that cures can be effected by re-
newing such injections every ten days.
ABE1r now being made for a Louisi-
ana electric light company will be the
largest in the world. II is to be 6 feet
wide, 40 feet long, and will take the
skins of IT'S animals to complete it.
When finished it will weigh two tons,
and cost $1,000, or about $40 a square
foot.
The report of the Russian Imperial
Commission, intrusted with the duty
of investigating the Hebrew question,
is decidedly in favor Of the Russian
Hebrews, and proves that they made
their living not through usury but by
agriculture and other industrial pur-
suits.
A NEW use is reported to have been
discovered for English hops-namely,
for the curing of bacon. It is found
that a sprinkling of hops in the brine
when bacon and hams are put in pickle
adds greatly to the flavor of both, and
enables them to be kept for an indef-
mite period
A SYRACUSE man, who wanted some
genuine, homemade and unadulter-
ated Bavarian beer," sent over to
Bavaria and got two barrels. He was
Dragging of the purity, when chemist
analysed the beer and found the adu1.
tefat1ou per ceut. greater ILian IN the
average American brewed.
&. The rabbit cannot climb the outside
of tree, but he can climb up the in
side of hollow tree, provided the
hollow is not too great in diameter
The thing is done by humping" hi
back, and with his back against one
side and his feet on the other side h.
works his way up.
The President of Delaware say
ings bank refused to give tramp II
cents, and the tramp went about hint
ing that the bank was unsafe, and il
twenty-four hours there was a rul
which took out many Thousand dollars
hut fortunately NOT enough tn occasio,