Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

THE HERALD.
II KRE1DLER & GUNDERsON,
WASHINGTON SPRINGS, S. D.
TIE earth's 1,5oO. 600, 600 of human
inhabitants speak 1904 different Ian
8uages, and possesses about 1000 diff
ferent religious beliefs.
Ir has always been supposed that
Ehere were no coal veins i'll California,
Ehe geographical formation not being
favorable, but soft coal and lignita
have been found and are now mined in
large quantities.
M. D1EBLER, the French execution
*. has accumulated q fortune of $780,
GOO francs by his skill in working the
gudllotine At recent execution in
Paris, he had his little son with him.
evidently to give him instruction in
ahe revolving business.
IKE heat produced from the light
uf FREELY is only per cent. of an
e1nal amount of candle light. The
bugs light is produced by chemical
action, as it is increased by putting
Ahe fly in oxygen aud diminished in an
atmosphere of nitrogen.
MISSIONER was proud of his shave
ly md delicate hands. He said that
his fingers We're SO sensitive that he
4acnld with his eyes shut lay on the ex-
aet amount of color that he wanted on
n given spot if somebody placed the
puint Of the brush upon it.
A WEDDING took place the other
day III picture gallery at Paola, Kan.
While the preacher was performing the
ceremony the artist turned his camera
upon the happy couple and photo
graphed them just as they were reg
STEERING their nuptial VOWS.
The specific gravity Of body is the
proportion it bears to the weight Of
another body of known density, and
water is adapted for the standard and,
Inasmuch as cubic foot of water
weighs one thousand ounces, advoirdu
ppis, It's weight is taken as the unit
une thousand.
Nor an island has risen or sunk from
sight in the Pacific Ocean for thirty
four years, and biologists say that ma
ture is resting for future mighty eff
fort. An English geologist predicts
That within fifty years convulsion Of
nature will sink the whole of New
Zealand fifty feet below the surface of
the sea.
A HAMBURG bachelor who died re-
Gently got even with woman who
Ilted him by leaving her a legacy of
$4,000 marks and the following letter :
-Msdam-Some thirty years ago was
. sutton for your hand in marriage.
You refused my offer, and as conse-
qnance my days have been passed in
peace and quietness. Now I requite
your goodness"
THE fact that many of the houses of
Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco
are built of redwood is given as rea-
son for the few destructive fires that
occur in those cities. The wood is al
most uninfammable, and, though fire
will smolder in it, it never blazes. The
great objection to the use Of this wood
in the Eastern States is that it will not
stand the alterations of heat and
cold.
AS SOON Us the learned and distin-
guished doctors of divinity who are
excitedly, not to say rancorously, dis
putting grave questions of heresy-as
aeon as they stop to catch their breath
(which they will have to do pretty
SOON, will some good, old-fashioned
hay preacher get up and in the warm
kindness of his heart say few simple
words on the interesting and edifying
subject of the Christian religion?
AT least one person in three between
the ages of ten and forty years is sub
lect to partial deafness. The great
majority of cases Of deafness are here
ditary and due to the too close consan
guinity of the parents. Deafness il
more prevalent among men than among
Komen because the former are NOR.
exposed to the vicissitudes of climate
Ut is thought that telephones tend tt
bring on deafness when one ear is usee
to the exclusion of the other.
A STATEMENT is in circulation tina
Wisconsin is the leading tobacco-grow
ing State in the Union, says the Bank
Gs' Monthly. Wisconsin grows mucl
af the sOlacinp plant. bnt the state