Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-02

interesting career IN the Orient is
Colonel WATSON, the first American
officer ever admitted to tho Japanese
Army. The Colonel is tall, distingue
and wcll.preserved man. He went into
the civil war private and came out
major, going afterwards to Japan, where
his services in recognizing the Mikado's
army procured him colonelcy. In one
of the japanese instructions he was SEN
fenced to be beheaded, but he escaped,
was restored tofavor, and is now high in
the Mikado's esteem.
A M1DDLETowN (Pa.) child skipped
the rope until she became blind from
pure physical exhaustion. Her sight
has fortunately been restored, but, says
the New York World, the moral remains.
It is that children, even in their play,
must be subject to the careful advice of
parents, or Of other persons older and
wiser than themselves. Healthful exer-
else develops and strengthens little
bodies. Over exertion stunts and weakens
bodies and faculties as we'll. Too hard
work at play will as surely make Jack
dull boy as will the call work and no
play" of the proverb.
SOME patient grubber, after obscure
statistics, furnishes the following re-
markable figures: He says there are
1900, 900 pianos in the United States,
every one of which was made in this
country excepting 1000 that were i'm
ported; that there are 100000 pianos
sold to households in which there is no
one to play them, and that they there
fore remain dumb and unopened through
out the year. He Furthermore states that
that there are 100000 parlors in the
United States where the furniture is
never uncovered because no company is
entertained. The rarlor is simply kept
as an adjunct of we'll Furnished house,
and not for occupancy or use.
CLAIMANTS of descent from Revolu-
tionary heroes are coming to the front,
now that the children and grandchildren
have died and the ancestral line is length
ened. 1t seems queer to read that q
woman is dead in Arkansas, at the age
of 95, who claimed to be lineal de-
scendant of "Mad Anthony" Wayne, who
died after she was born. But quite as
strange was the exhibition on the plat
form at Ocean Grove Auditorium on
July of woman who claimed to be q
descendant of one of the New Jersey
signers of Declaration of Independence,
and who was introduced by the puzzled
chairman as ''some sort of relative, no
matter what-but ut any rate belonging
to the same family"
IT has heretofore been the practice in
the United States Treasurer's Office,
when counterfeit notes have been dis
covered in packages of money received
from banks or others, to cancel them by
punching and then to return them to the
sender without reference to their final
disposition. Treasurer Nebeker has
directed modification of the practice
to this extent, that while counterfeit
notes may be thus cancelled and re-
turned to the sender for the purpose of
enabling him to make reclamation from
the depositor or other person from whom
such counterfeit note may have been re-
ceived, yet after such proper use has
been made of the cancelled counterfeit
note, it shall be returned> to the
Treasurer and delivered to the chief Of
the Secret Service tDivision for safe
keeping.
The Industrial Christian Alliance -
Is the name of an organization lust
started in New York city for rescuing
outcasts who earnestly desire to reform
The names of leading business men as
we'll as clergymen are included in its list
OF thirty-six incorporators. They will
establish a central depot, with several
industries but no dormitories. Sixty
days will be allowed man to get fairly
on his feet, during which time steady
work will be given him. If he cannot
"brace up" in that time, the Alliance
will give his chance to one who can.
After the central depot is started, sim
liar one will be begun for women. and
rescue missions will be established Ia
care for the children. An industrial
farm on Long Island is also contem-
plated. To inspire outcasts with de.
termination to take hold of life again
and to attain independence, and ia tide
them over their first struggle, is the
leading idea of this unsectarian but truly
Christian charity.
The death of Isaac Hszleaurst. OF
Philadelphia, recalls the following stor,
told by the Telegraph of that city
"Just prior to the historic battle of Mon
mouth, while the British soldiery wer.
on the march through, Lord Cornwalli,