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

topics OF THE TIMES.
cuoIcE SELECTION OF IN.
TERESTlNG ITEMS.
onts and Criticisms Based Upon
COM ,..,,,cnings of the Day-Alstoric.l
md News Notes.
rxc1Asp eats Australian eggs.
.sr, has the largest quartz mill.
TUE world is full of rascals who are
Ling whip behind"
M REVEAL its complacence by gifts is
.a Of the native dialects of love.
MANY a Congressman envies mos
Ito His bill always goes through.
WE NAV shut our eyes to painful
tr,,th; but we don't shut our ears-if it's
,hout somebody else.
MAN was made to mourn, but he has
exed things so that his wife has taken
tbe Job OF his hands.
CONSIDER the man who is always
,,n ct,,al-how much time he wastes
waiting for other people.
Tux famous Mercer or Neshannock
.o,otoes are natives of the soil of Mer-
oor County. Pa, and hence the name.
TIVE rate of increase in population of
r.coma during the last ten years was
! 800 per cent. For rapidity of growth
tb;s probably beats anything hereto
fore recorded.
The decrease of the shipbuilding of
me- United Kingdom during 1890
amounts to 29,s23 tons in the aggre-
eate but the production of the Scottish
Yards has increased by 21,000 tons.
If the man who takes up whole
seat in car. while somebody else
stands, will try the plan of sharing his
seat with some one else, he will be sur
nrisel to find how much more comfort
lille the seat will become.
A FOREIGN physician has discovered
hat goats are not subject to consump-
ion. The general belief has been that
bat they beat all known quadrupeds on
consumption, and took in everything
rom circus poster to an oyster can.
LADY Annie Brunt, granddaughter of
ord Byron, with her husband and lit
lie daughter is located on the border of
he Egyptian desert near Cairo. Her
house is tent, and she has adopted the
Iress and customs of the Arab.
INNOCENT" who writes to know what
grand duchess is, is informed that, as
Der title implies, she is very grand
[ersonage who usually makes stir in
he world three times during her life
Fhen she is born, when she is married,
bud Wien she dies.
TIKI locomotive telephone signal en-
bbles two trains approaching each other
to communicate by closing the circuit
when two miles apart. The ringing of
3 gong warns the engineers, who can
converse with each other over the tele-
phone.
A STEEL clip, to facilitate the pulling
on Or taking off of rubber overshoes,
has been invented. 1t is inserted in the
upper part of the heel, and opens OF
closes the shoe, as may be required. A
ring which is connected with the clip
serves to pull the shoes on or of.
QUEBEC wants to find purchaser for
her Plains of Abraham, which are al.
ways tumbling down about her ears and
making trouble. They are war. anted
be in fair condition, will stand in
Pny climate, and the purchaser will be
'elured to take them away this year.
IHEdepositors in private institution
y a Kansas town were getting ready to
make run, as the banker was reported
snort. but before they could do so he
eit by way of the back door ard took
III the cash in his carpet-bag. He rea'
|ohed that in his case it was better tc
I'm than he run on.
AN eccentric old bachelor named
rank Ebeling died the other day al
A'chlson, Kan. He had been engaged
the grain business, and among his
ssets are 5000 bushels of wheat which
ie mad IN his Warehouse five yoars III