Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-20

he had ridden Wneel, anu W Oach ~
up with promise that he never Will.
The hunting costume for women In
Great Britain is of such clerical stamp
that when a lady was thrown lately in
Ireland a countryman rushed up with
the remark eff your riyerince will
just kape along the bank a bit, there
is a handy rail your riyerince might
climb over."
III was found from careful germina-
ton tests at the Wisconsin station that
the hulled grains of timothy seed
neither terminate so we'll nor retain
their vitality SO long as those not
hulled; also that timothy seed, when
properly stored, is fairly reliable up to
five years old.
HE Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald
prints the following inscription from a
tombstone, which evidently refers to a
member of one of the old before-the-
war darby families: "Henryetta, EN-
meretta, Demiretta, Creamertarter,
Carolina, Balstic, Daughter of Bob and
Sooky Coffin"
ORDINARY accumulators OF storage
batteries for electrical work are not
very portable. owing to the liquids
they contain. In consequence OF this
trouble it has been proposed to add
little sodium silicate to the cell, which
has the effect of turning sulphuric
acid solution into jelly.
A REMARKABLE petition to the Queen
is on its way from India. 1t is upward
of sixty feet in length, and is signed
by more than two thousand women OF
India, who are anxious that the age at
which marriage may be legally en-
tered upon shall be raised from its
present limit of ten to fourteen years.
HANDBELLs vary more than those
designed for public use, and are often
composed of brass, silver, and even
gold. 1t is a common idea that silver
is mixed with other metals in the cast
ing of bells, to mellow the sound, but
this is a mistake; any large quantity
of silver would seriously injure the
tone.
HERETOFORE the Postmistresses of
France have been practically debarred
from marrying. By an old-established
rule husbands of Postmistresses could
not engage in number of trades or
professions on the theory that they
would offer temptations to the hus-
bands to tamper with the mails. Now,
however, the government has abol-
ished these restrictions to the choice of
husband with the exception of police
officials.
Soon after the battle of Lexington
in the Revolutionary War, Ethan Allen,
at the head Of eighty backwoodsmen
from Vermont, known as Screen
Mountain Boys" made a sudden de-
scent on Fort Ticonderoga, near the
south end of Lake Champlain. Enter
ing the fort in the night, he found the
commander in bed. and summoned him
to surrender. I'm whose name?" de-
manded the officer. I'm the name of
the great Jehovah and the Continental
Congress!" replied Allen. With the
fort Allen secured supply OF powder,
then very much needed by the Ameri-
cans.
GOLD mining in the colony of Vic
toria shows decided tendency to de-
cline. Between the last two decennial
censuses the number of miners fell
from 4,425 to 35, ls9, and the popula-
ton on the gold-felds from 27O,4 to
230, 944, and this in the face of an in
crease in the total population of 49,
600. Eight years later-that is, at the
close of 1ss9-the Mining Department
estimated the gold miners to number
25,OH only. The total was very nearly
equally divided between alluvial and
quartz mining-the latter, however,
slightly preponderating. The Chinese
miners, who only count for 1921 in
tets number, are nearly all engaged in
the alluvial mining
AN interesting sequel to Miss Elaine
Goodale's work as a teacher among
the Indiansis her engagement to marry
DR.. Charles A. Eastman, o full blooded
Sioux. DIR. Eastman lived among the
Indians till he was IA years old, pick.
ing up smattering of education at 8
reservation school, and forming an am
bition for something better. He went
to Beloit College. and from there tt
Dartmouth, whore he took the full
course. After studying medicine a
Harvard he returned to his people il
Dakota, and has been doing usefu
work among them. DR.. Eastman anG
Miss Gocdale are both at the Pin.
Ridge Agency, and the former hal
been appointed house physician of the
little Episcopal Church which now
forms the emergency hospital for In
dams who were injured in the recent
battle at Wounded Knee.
A PIrTsBuRG friend of the late Capt
George Wallace, of the Seventh Cav
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