Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-18
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
For the best definition of money, a
London paper lately offered prize.
Henry E. Baggs, Sheffield man, won it.
He defined it as ian article which may be
used as universal passport to every
where except heaven, and as q universal
provider Of everything except happi-
ness"
WHEN Little Johnny Abbott, aged
eight, Of Battle Creek, Mich, dreams, he
devotes his whole attention to the visions
Of Morpheus. A few nights ago he
dreamed that he was out West Staying
whole tribes Of savages. In his night
clothes he arose, crept to the roof, slid to
the ground, and walked thirty rods in the
wet grass before he awoke.
The savants and historians Of Italy are
low deeply interesting themselves in the
question Of Columbus real birthplace.
Five or six places besides Genoa claim
the honor, and among them is Bettola.
It is reported that proofs have lately
been discovered establishing Bettola's
claim, and that the town will erect q
monument to Columbus ct once, and in
tends to send an envoy to the Worlds
Fair with these proofs and other his
torical documents Of interest.
Mr.. S. T. WILLIAMS Of Chicago is the
author Of novel plan for promoting the
interests Of the Worlds Fair. He pro-
poses that the Commission shall strike off
several million stamps and supply every
druggist and railroad agentin the United
States with a quantity Of them, together
with little blank books having Worlds
Fair printed on the cover. Any one
applying may have book, and he or she
will be invited to buy the stamps, Of q
denomination Of to so cents each, and
place them in the book. The Worlds
Fair management is to redeem the stamps.
Any one purchasing 500 worth of
stamps will receive 5000 in cash and
an admission ticket. In other words, the
Exposition Company would constitute it.
self savings bank, paying, however,
no interest
The impovcrishment Of Europe seems
to- be strangely balanced by increasing
wealth in this country, and as the re-
sources Of the Old World are exhausted
those Of the new are increased or made
apparent. Our bountiful harvests are
supplying Europe's deficiency, and just
as Great Britain is figuring on the proba-
BILE exhaustion Of her coal fields, dis
coveries Of immense supplies Of that fuel
are being made in Alaska. Captain
Miner, of the schooner Henry Dennis,
brought to Seattle few days ago some
specimens of excellent coal from Unger
Island, in the Schumagin group. Alaska.
The coal is similar to camel coal, and is
pronounced to be of tirst-class quality.
The Baldwin locomotive works of Phil
adelphia have just completed for the
freight service Of the Erie Railway the
largest compound locomotive in the world.
The weight Of the engine is 10000
pounds, exclusive of the tender. 1t has
three pairs of driving wheels sixty-two
inches in diameter. Theweight on these
wheels, which is the measure Of the power
Of the locomotive, is 107 900 pounds. Its
length is SO feet, and height 16 feet. 1t
is expected that this engine can be run at
saving Of from 80 to 40 per cent. over
the same size single expansion engine.
But, after all, the Erie's new locomotive
will not appear so big when the Baldwin
Company has constructed, for the same
company, five new ones, which are to
weigh $4,000 pounds each.
UNLESS there is some mistake in the
figures, the wealth of the city Of London
during the last ten years has increased at
an astonishing rate. According to the
City Press, the profits assessed to income
tax under Schedule D in 1880 were
about :e39, 100000, while in 1889 they
were e7O,OOO,OO0. That is, the profits
have almost doubled in ten years. This
result in greater part is due to general
growth of prosperity, and the tendency
shown by the great profit bearing bust
ness to Capitalization. Every great pro-
vincial house finds it necessary to havea
branch in London, and London branches
tend to become trunks. 1t is suggested,
also, that the increased vigilance OF the
revenue officials may have something to
do with the matter.
Says an American dentist, who is prac-
ticing in Mexico: II am getting rich,
and any good American dentist who will
come here and stay can do likewise. !
made $4,000 the first year, and 1 have
done considerably better right along
since that time. I get from 500 to $3.50
for full set Of teeth on rubber. The
same thing in the States costs you s15:
Whenever administer gas | charge $40
for the pulling of tooth, and when a
number are pulled charge $40 for the
first tooth and IS for all succeeding ones.
For jerking out tooth without gas L
charge SO, and in the United States you
would only get so cents for this work.
As to filings, they range from IS up