Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-27

years old, and yet he weighs 80
pounds.
RosEBERy, the famous jumping
horse, at Toronto, Canada, recently
broke its own high-jump record Of
eighty-four five-eighths inches by clear
ing exactly eighty-fve inches.
The editor of the Toice flung shaft
of satire at "the gnat and camel con-
science" of a contemporary, but it
came out in print great and carnal
conscience"
WHEN the Young Mems Christian
Association of Chicago begins to serve
the Lord in fourteen story building.
prayers for protection from cyclones
will be in order.
DURING the recent severe weather in
England sea gulls were fed from the
windows of houses on the Marine
Parade. Wild fowl were found on the
beach half frozen and nearly starved.
The greater quantity of hair from
which wigs are made for England's
Judges, lawyers and clergymen comes
from China, where it is cut from the
heads of beggars, criminals and the
dead.
IT is said that the wife of William
Morris, the well-known poet, artist and
socialist, is the most beautiful woman
in London. Her portrait is soon to be
placed in one of the great art galleries
of the English capital.
Two HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS a
year are spent by the London School
Board in enforcing the attendance of
children. They are advised to try the
French plan of getting children to
school by good lunches.
The Chinese believe that the devil
always walks in astraight line, and for
that reason they make the streets of
their cities crooked. Boston is the only
conspicuous American city which ap-
pears to hold that theory.
RESIDENT of Antelope Valley, New,
reports thousands of wild horses
ranging on the mountain plateau near
his home. It is impossible to raise q
band of tame horses in that section
because they join the wild herd.
The spot in Rome where Nero COM
mitted suicide is said to have been dis
covered. It is on the Pincian Hill and
was identified by the discovery of a
stone with an inscription fixing the To-
cation of the villa where it is known
the deed was done.
The item going the rounds that
Blind Tom, the colored pianist, was in
poor-house is denied. He is not only
not in poor-house, but still giving
exhibitions and adding to the store Of
wealth which will enable him to live
bountifully in his old age.
AN old colored woman living at
Atchison used to prepare herself every
night for death by dressing in blue
gown, and she was always surprised
to find herself alive the next morning.
She kept this up until she wore out
three or four blue gowns, and then
she quit.
BUTTER starts in Washington at q
cents per pound. That is hotel butter
1t then ranges at 25, 80, IS, As, so, So
rs, and 81 per pound. This las
is for the families that have sold ga!
wells or struck plumbago mine ant
want to run through their cash as fas
as possible.
AN Iowa man jumped off a moving
freight train to save walking a mile
He turned over in the air, shot out tt
the ditch, and came down head first il
puddle Of mud and water, and wa:
found dead with only his legs sticking
out. Even a railroad ditch can't b.
fooled with.
The majority of military officials
favor common gunpowder in war, as i
is believed that the smoke of battl
saves thousands of lives, and it fur
nishes cover for troops to change posi-
ton without being slaughtered. TIL
better way is to favor peace and NJ
powder at all.
For many years Gottfried Heller,
New York tailor, had been accustomed
to bite off the ends of threads ant
swallow the remnants. He died
short time ago at the age of As, ant
the doctors say that death was caused
by poisonous dyes used in the thread
he had swallowed.
A NEWCOMER is trying to maxi
contracts with all the giants in thi
country, and thereby secure his owl
terms from side-shows and museums
It is said that giants haven't beer Sc
scarce in the market for twenty-fv
years, and there is talk Of importing
half a dozen from foreign countries.
NEAR Tanga, in German east Africa
an important series of stalactite cav
ems has been lately discovered. They
are in a. aystem of T11ra ssic linn astona