Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-13


had fallen from the nest to the street
where they were in imminent danger o,
being run over, or devoured by the mum
crous cats and dogs in the vicinity. She
asked the first man that came along tc
watch them for her while she rushed
into the house for basket, in which she
carried them to the top Of shed and
left them. In q short time the paren,
birds had found their lost babies and
carried them away. Each placed wing
under one of the little fellows and then
each one tapped its outside wing, two
wings serving for both, and thus they
safely supported their precious burden.
How they found the little ones so quickly
is wonderful, rs the top of the shed was
quite distance from the street."
COED KATE" horse burned to death
in Cincinnati, was, her owner alleges,
forty-fvc years old. She was born in
| Wales of thoroughbred stock. She was
shipped to Canada in 1916, being only q
yearling. The voyage had bad effect
upon her, and the importer sold the
stunocd colt to farmer, who kept her
until she was three years old, when she
began to grow. The farmer sold her to
Hugh Morgan, a lumber dealer, and he
kept her up to his death, in 1861. She
was Of q jet black at that time, and
served rs Il carriage horse. At Mr.
Morgan's death the mare went to Mr.
Inning, who ran u planning MILL He in
turn sold her to fish and oyster dealer,
and it was of this man that her last
owner bought her seven years ago. She
was then thirty-cight years Old, but
lively rs q kitten.
81 KNOW of half q dozen frauds. " said
New York post-otfice employee, "who
wnxcd rich by mailing advice to people
who expected something for nothing.
Everybody has not heard of the man who
advcrtiscs to send sewing machine for
twenty-five cents, and who sends the
dupc needle; OF the man who offers a
steel portrait of Garfield for ten cents or
of Franklin for two cents, and who mails
a tive-ccnt and a onc-cent stamp with
the engraving on them of those gentle
men. These people rarely get caught,
because man feels so cheap he will not
complain. The latest fraud of this sort
has Just been arrested for advertising in
the agricultural papers How to Keep
Hogs Healthy TO inquirers who sent
him the fifty cents asked, he replied:
Feed them we'll and water them when
they need it,"
A CoLoRED woman in Georgia hoed
cotton until midday and then lay down
for nap in the shade of q tree. She
was barefootcd. Suddenly tickling
sensation in one of her big toes disturbed
her slumbe,. She looked seepily in that
direction, and saw sight that made her
teeth chatter. A huge black snake had
swallowed the tee, and was acting as
though he proposed to swallow the rest
of her. AS she gazed along the sleek
back of the undulating serpent he
seemed so long that his tail was below
the horizon. When she recovered from
her temporary paralysis she arose like a
sky rocket fired s!antw;se, and disap-
p6ared in the pine timber with blood
curdling Shrek. After being jerked
through the underbrush for few rods
the snake let 90.
The vitality Of the mule is little short
of amazing In Memphis, Tenn, one
fell twenty-five feet down an opening in
the street. 1t landed on its head and,
the hole being narrow, it was unable to
change its position. 1t was supposed
that the beast had broken its neck, as q
sharp, clicking noise wac heard when it
struck bottom. After half an hour the
mule was hoistcd out by the heels and
laid on the ground. 1t showed no signs
of life, but, notwithstanding. it was
given brandy literally and, in little
while, to the surprise of the thousand
spectators who had collected, the mule
rose to his feet and walked off as though
nothing unusual had happened.
A REMARKABLE occurrence took place
at Florence, S. c., about the middle of
July. A hailstorm of unprecedented Sc
verify completely devastated the fields,
stripping the leaves and stalks from the
cotton and leaving bare stems over a con-
siderable area. Three days after the
storm some persons from the town
gathered cotton bags full of the hail
stones and made ice cream with them.
Most of the stones were considerably
larger than hens eggs, and the devasta-
ton was complete as far as the storm
spread.
AN old brindle COW belonging to an
Indiana man broke into another's field,
and in court the owner of the field
proved that the COW destroyed the fol-
lowing mentioned property, to wit: Two
four-year-old cherry trees, seven apple
trees, five pear trees, one plum tree, 100
head of cabbage, twelve rows of beans
five rods long. one row of beans one and
a half rods long, fifty to $50 sweet pota-
to plants, one bed of onions, three
grapevines, and fourteen blackberry
bushes.
scn1vEN COUNTY, Ca, has a genuine
curiosity in the form of colt which car
ries pair of unmistakable horns on his
head. He is now nearly year old, and
in no way remarkable save for the horns,
which have grown with him until now
they are nearly foot in length and as
handsome pair as any COW ever carried.
Nor far from Portland, Me-. barn
was set on fire by lightning. The same
bolt that fired the building shattered a
pipe that connected with water main,
and the flow of water extinguished the
flames.
In recent storm in North Dakota