Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-17

Of the commandments.
New MENlco has clergyman named
She Rev Innocent Wolf The name is
horribly suggestive Of sleeps clothing
bat we are assured that there is alb
solntely nothing in Il name.
Az FEVER" said The Moderator, at
the Influenza Convention, "may be
hkened to tie vote. !" Hear, hear!"
cried the audience. "The eyes and
nose both appear to Ia We it.
IHRET California lions were recently
billed by hunter in Fresno County.
One OF them measured fully eight feet
: from tip to tip, and is being stuffed.
The other two were ne lrly as large.
MONTANA is larger than the empire Of
Turkey. Texas is larger than the
whole Austrian Empire by 10000
square miles and New Mexico is larger
than Great Britain and Ireland to-
gether
A FARMER maintains that no potato
bug will attack potato vine growing
from hill in which bean has been
planted. Follow back that mans
lineage and sooner Or later you will
srrive at Boston.
AL Gordon, Ga. during Il thunder
storm the other day. q buzzard at
tempted to soar above the clouds, when
he was struck by lightning and fell
dead to the ground. The birds body
was badly burned.
THE Siamese and Malays blacken
their teeth with q varnish made of
charred cocoanut This is d style
among them more generally observed
than backening the ey ebrows is among
tine ladies Of our land.
A CONTRACT has been drawn up by
well-known lawyer and signed and
sworn to by some twenty-odd Of the
leading business and professional
men of Wellsville, agreeing in the fu-
ture to neither treat" nor be "treat-
ed. The badge of the order is
small copper cent worn as a pin
AN experiment. has been made on q
railroad between Rome and Frascati,
with new combustible prepared from
ignite, rich deposits of which have
heen found in Italy. OF the new fuel
5S7 Kilograms did the work of 300 kilo-
grams Of coal. 1t is thought the dis
coyerv will obviate the necessity of i'm
porting coal. ...=....
Two OF the German Emperor's favor
tie dogs recently ran away from the
stables at Potsdsm without leave and
without their muzzles, which is nec-
essary article Of dogs attire in Ber-
lin and its neighborhood. elk" and
"Schnurchen," after days. enjoyment,
were taken UP by the police, but were
eventually restored to the royal stables
after payment of a fine of three marks
FOR each by the Emperor.
A JURY at Spokane. Wash, after
being out twentyfour hours, could not
agree, when the Judge ordered them
back to the jury-room to remain until
they reached verdict He also in
structed the baiiiff not to give them
anything to eat until they had found
verdict of guilty or not guilty i'll
highway robbery In ten minutes
thereafter the jury returned verdict
finding the prisoner guilty as charged.
If you do not wish any odor from
kerosene lamp or stove, do not blow it
put. Turn the wick dow II till it is q
blue flame, and let it go out of itself
The eason for this is that every kero-
sens flame generates in burning q little
gas, which is consumed when the wick
is turned up to it's full height After
the light is turned down this gas feeds
the fame till after it is consumed. If
the tame is blown out the otlor and
presence Of this gas is at once appa-
rent
TIE Indiana State Board of Health
has requested railroad managers to
provide cars with thermometers and to
keep the tempera sure as near as pos
sible at seventy degrees and at the
same time to provide perfect VENT
llation and spittoons partially filled with
disintectant solution. If the request
be complied with winter travel will be
more agreeable and far less risky. 1t
takes robust traveller to bear the great
charge from superheated cars to the
wintrv air outside and not take cold
Generally the brah~men or portors
in charge seem to think the passengers
should be satisfied if the car is kept hot
enough, without limit.
A SHORT time ago an anthropologist
Ut New York City got group of men
of many races in his house for a purpose.
In the group there were North Ameri-
can Indian, q Chinaman. a negro, a
Hawaiian, Hebrew, an Arab, an East
Indian and Europeans of the Gothic
Celtic, Slavic and Latin races. All of
Tham vora foun1 in Nav York opd a II