Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-23

of wine for Anne lea. Unfortunately
for American consumers of French wine
makers are not dependent upon the
grape.
IT is surprising what number OF
American doctors discovered sure cures
for consumption long before Koch ever
thought of his. 1t was very courteous
of them to withhold the information
until the German physician had made
his announcement.
SWAN GusTAFsoN. q laborer in the
Illinois Central gravel pits at Chero,
kee, ILL.,, has received news that rel
alive has died in Pennsylvania, leaving
an estate valued at $3,OOO,OOO, which is
to be divided among six heirs, of whom
Gustafson is one.
LONDON to-day is five times as
large as it was at the oIening of the
present century. From 100000 at that
time the population of London grew to
1,50O,O0o in 1880, and by 1855 it had in
creased to 100000. Since 1855 it has
more than doubled.
For five years Japan has had postal
savings banks, and the depositors have
increased from ten thousand the first
year to nearly four hundred thousand
at present, and the del osits from less
than sixteen thousand dollars to more
than twoofv millions
VENICE is one of the poorest cities in
Italy. 1t has lao, 200 inhabitants. OF
these no less than 10000 have their
names inscribed on the books Of the
"Congregazione di Carita" as recipients
of relief; that is to say, nearly one
fourth of the population are paupers.
PROBABLY the oldest house in the
United States is decaving stone dwell
ing that stands in Guilford, Conn. 1t
was built in 1910 and is still occupied.
In colonial timesit did duty occasionally
as fort and was p ace of refuge for
settlers when King Philip was on the
war-path.
MucH'of the confuson around house
is due to the boy getting ready to go
to Sunday school. If every one does
not wait on him promptly, he says no
one takes any interest in his soul, but
he finally arranges it SO that he is too
late, and remains away from Sunday
school after all.
In England they give their football
players $l5 to $40 week regular sal
airy, with 81, 900 bonus at the end of the
season if their conduct has been credit
able. The plan of putting premium
up for good conduct has a Wholesome
effect. The plan might be tried on
baseball players.
THE Brazilian Government has re-
peatedly offered liberal reward for 8
plan resulting in the abatement of the
vampire plague, which in the provinces
of Matte Crosse and Entire Rios makes
stock raising almost impossible. As
many as twenty of these winged blood
suckers often attack O COW in a single
night.
A LEGAL light who is interested in
the recent African horrors has called
attention to a statute in force in En-
gland providing that when any MUIR
der shall be committed on land out of
the United Kingdom the criminal may
be tried and punished in any part of
England or Ireland where he may be
unprecedented"
PROF. KocH's breakfast, which he
takes shortly after 8 o'clock, would
hardly please the palate of an Ameri-
can. 1t is composed solely of an unin-
viting white soup into which he puts
any amount of little squares of toasted
bread. His dinner taken at 2, consists
OF one course OF meat and vegetables,
one light sweet dish, and to finish all,
a plate of soup.
IT is wonder any of as ever accom-
plish anything. Until noon each day.
we think what lots of work we intend
ed to do to-day. Afternoon, we stop
hoping for to-day, and spoil the rest OF
the days work in hoping and planning
for tomorrow. Not one man in ten
does more than half a days work each
day, and yet We complain and worry
every day that We work SO hard.
MEN are LATEST in the morning, and
can do their best work three or four
hours after they get up The women,
on the contrary; can do better work the
first three or four hours after getting
up than they can do at any other hour
of the day. If anything happens to
interfere with the first part of the
woman's day, the whole day is lost to
her as far &c work is concerned,
HE deepest lake in the world is
Lake Baikal, in Siberia. Its area of
over 5000 square miles makes it about
equal to Lake Erie in superficial ex,
tent; it's enormous depth of be-
tween 1000 and 1850 feet makes
its volume of waters almost equal to
that of Lake Superior. Although its
surface is 1850 feet above sea lavo1 &c