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

THE HERA 4
BIZ BLANK & BLANK.
WASHINGTON SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA /
rEans 9 60 GO Per no Year il in Advance
The Bank OF England was estab-
lished in 1894.
The man who is really anxious to do
something for you is usually too poor.
The Farmers Alliance has 116 pa
pers in Kansas--one to every county,
with ten to spare.
The main marble staircase alone in
Mrs. Mackays new London residence
cost over 100000.
AT Nashville, Tenn, during snow
storm, countless numbers Of small
fish fell. They resembled carp.
A FARMER in Holt County, Kansas,
has 26 living children, all of whom are
unmarried and live at the homestead.
The printing press which Voltaire
set up in Ferney to demolish Chris
tianity is now used to print Bibles in
Geneva.
A BILL passed the Texas Senate
making it felony to fight prize-fght
in the State either with gloves or with
out gloves.
KANSAS requires for the instruction
of her 5O9,6l4 school children 11,612
teachers, paying her male teachers $40
and her female teachers 1874 a month.
The English telephone patents have
expired, and the monopoly there has
come to an end. The Bell patents in
this country have still three years to
run.
FOLLY consists in the drawing of false
conclusions from just principles, by
which tits distinguished from madness,
which draws just conclusions from
false principles.
AN employee of the Cincinnati Street
Car Company has held the position of
switchman for thirty-ive years at a
salary of SIS week: He at one time
had family of ten children.
A MAN who hit on the idea Of pop
ping corn in an attractive stall in the
busiest part of Fulton street, New
York, in full view of the shopping
crowd, is making lots of money.
The city gas works of Berlin
brought 81, $50, 900 clear profit into the
treasury during the last financial year,
despite the unusually heavy expendi-
lures for new gas houses and conduc
tors.
The late Cardinal Simon, who was
the son of shoemaker, became mill
ionaire and one of the richest prelates
in Europe. There is wide difference
between pegging soles and healing
souls.
MRS. SARAH HALL, of Bucks County,
Pa, 81 years old, has 104 descendants
living-three children. twenty-five
grandchildren, sixty-nine great-grand-
children and ten great-great-grand
children.
THERE is in Holt County, Missouri,
afarmer who has twenty-six children,
including eleven pairs Of twins, all iv
ing with him. He can truly and even
as pathetically as Patti sing, "There is
no place like home"
The widest plank on earth is Oh ex-
hibition at the railroad depot at Hum
boldt, Cal. It was cut at the Elk River
mill, and is sixteen feet in width. 1t
will be among the Humboldt exhibits
at the Worlds Fair in Chicago.
AN artesian we'll near Albert Lea,
Mimi, which spouts both oil and water,
often changes the programme and
sends out a stream of small minnows
which are wholly unlike any known
species of fish found in that vicinity
ACCORDING to reports which have
recently been published, Germany en-
ploys $500, 900 Of her women in indus
trial pursuits; England, 1000, 900;
France, 1856, 900; Italy, $500, 900 and
Austria Hungary about the same num-
Der.
The Empress of Germany, since her
confinement, has given fresh proof of
womanly sympathy by ordering 100
complete sets of baby linen to be given
to poor mothers. She has also set
apart 10, 900 marks to accompany the
gifts.
The withdrawal of the cattle from
the Cherokee Strip has left little for
the wolves to feed upon and they have
migrated into the grazing countries of
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