Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09
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r,srrEs prominent and influential
.,:,ans. were arrested while shooting
'. ,,,s" in Columbus (Ind.) gambling
house.
X ireland, before st. Patrick intro
,,ood Christianity, there was q temple
u ~ Tara. whore fire burned ever, and
=. ,s on no account suffered to go out.
voru1sG in the way of wealth seems
,,o nowadays. Even coal dealer
w., ,ss cone to the walr Some old lady
. ,. stocking full of gold dollars will
%aye TO suspend next.
voop paving is so popular in Paris
chat they will not hear to any other.
:, j. oi,eless, can always be kept per-
~ fsc i. clean, and supports the heaviest
.soaic without difficulty.
orr,cIA1 returns OF the Canadian
.o.lfshery show that 39,547 seals We're
taken the past season, IN increase of
e 600 over last year. OF this number
i, asa we're taken off the cost Of British
ro,umbia and Is, 165 in Behring Sea.
THE richest American President was
George Washington. He was worth,
when inaugurated, s35o,ooo. which for
those days was fabulous wealth. He
was the richest man in the colonies
for the time. Van Buren, was the next
richest.
IN North Dakota they have churches
on wheels. The idea appears to be
ti,at in that State of magnificent dis
tances people can't be expected to 60 to
church, so the church is brought around
tothem. 1t might be good idea even
in more thicllly settled localities.
A NATIVE gentleman of Bombay has
been investigating the ancient history
OF the game of ball-bat Cor chowganguD
as given in the epic Of the Persian poet
Firdus. A game something, but not
very much like cricket appears to have
been played centuries ago in Persia.
Ir is said that the health of the
operatives improves where electric
lights are used. Their appetites and
their ability to sleep increase. This re-
suit is quite marked in some cases in
London. The light is also said to be
better for the eyesight.
A MAN lost his life in Minneapolis be-
cause lie blew out the gas instead of
turning it out. There would be moth
ing strange about so common al episode
but for the fact that the man was a
hotel keeper and did not intend to COM
NIT suicide. No one thought that q
man in his business could be caught in
that way
AFTER man has been loafng a few
days, one of the signs that he is getting
used to it is that his hair begins to look
rougher, his boots are not so we'll
BACKED, and his clothes make you think
of whisk broom. He has more time
to devote to his appearance than before,
but care OF appearance means work, and
ms taste of loating is killing all of that
IN his makeup.
SO EFFEcTUAL has been the trans
mission of the fearful poison, and so
wholly does the disease still mock at
mans efforts to countcract it, that of
twenty-six patients who were bitten by
a mad wolf and afterwa1d inoculated
by NJ. Pasteur, five died in Paris, and
four more who had been treated with
apparent success died of hydrophobia
immediately after their return to
Russia.
HE Emperor of Austria has dis
covered that Hungary exports yearly to
this country butsl00,000 worth of wine.
while the annual sales of Hungarian
vine here amount to some millions, and
the Emperor is greatly astonished. His
imperial majesty is evidently one OF
those supplemented persons who
imagine that the United States will go
clear to France and Germany for grapes
when she has large surplus Of goose
berries on hand.
ONLY IS per cent of the total popu-
lation of Portugal can read or write,
and it is no wonder that when the wind
blows from the southwest every house.
wife locks the front door to keep out the
spirits of the dead. Let farmer
dream that he saw black pig on the
highway and no one within ten miles OF
him will change his shirt for month,
believing that by so doing he will start
m epidemic.
DEsEIT1oNs from the army are de.
cEeasing slowly, but as the benefits OF
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