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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
History Of Russian Coronation.

The first Russian Gar who intro
duced the ceremony of coronation into
Russia was the mighty John III. or
Ivan III. C462-1505), the contemporary
Of our Edward w., Richard III, and
Henry VII. He married Sophia, the
niece of the very last Imperial orthodox
Emperor OF Constantinople, and by this
marriage claimed a sort of succession
to he first Christian Caesar. 1t was in
his reign, when the Turk became mas
ter OF the ancient capital of Eastern
Christendom, that the kings of Western
Europe seem first to have become aware
OF the rise of the powerful new Chris
tian monarchy in Eastern Europe, and
began to send Ambassadors to Moscow.
Ivan did not crown himself, but in 1893
solemnly invested his grandson. De-
metrlus, with the Imperial Christian
diadem and robe which had been
brought from Constantinople, and had
been worn by the Caesars Of the Eastern
Empire. The ceremony of junction at
the coronation was afterward intro
duced by Ivan w., or ''The Terrible"
and has since remained as it had all
along been in Western Europe, an in
separable adjunct of the coronation.
Ivan Nv. was the first Gar who received
the Eucharist at his coronation. Mich
ael Theodrovitsch insisted upon being
anointed, not only on his forehead and
over his lips, but on his beard also, al
ter the biblical precedent. In earlier
times the clergy Of the Russian Church
played a greater part than they do at
present in the coronation ceremony. As
1t was held almost indispensable alike
in England, France and Germany that
the National Primates, the A%rchbishops
OF Canterbury, Rheims and Mainz,
should "consecrate" the national mon
arch to his Office, so it was in Russia
with the Patriarch of Moscow. The
frelate was supposed to be the peculiar
steward and minister of the sacramento
rite OF coronation. He gave the divine
continuation and JUNCTION to the pre-
sumcd free choice of the people. The
voice ct the people was thus supposed
to become the voice of God. The no.
tioATf a divine right inherent in the
head of a reigning family was a COM
paratively late conception in Russia, as
well as in the West. This appears,
however, to be now the predominant
notion both of the Russian Cars and
the Prussian Kings. The present Ger
man Emperor. took the crown from the
altar and placed it upon his own head
Similarly in Russia the representative;
OF the Church now play quite a subor-
dlnate part in the coronation of the
Cars, being little more than minister
ing servants and assisting spectators;
Formerly the Muscovite Patriarch stood
IN much the same relation to the Mus
covlte Monarch as the Roman Pope
stood to the Roman Emperors through,
u the Middle Ages. The thrones o.
the Gar and the Patriarch stood upon
an equal level, and the Russian secular
n ecclesiascal chieftains represented
Inc ancient theory Of 'the Two Swords
London Echo.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
LATER NEWS

SHORTLY before five O'Clock on the after.
noon of the 18th a cyclone of formidable
dimensions struck Kansas City, No., and
within a few minutes it had caused the de-
struction of $500, 900 worth of property.
-Four lives were known to lave been lost
and many persons were injured more or
less severely. A great deal of damage was
done in the surrounding country, and over
two hundred and fifty families were made
homeless.
EX-GOVERNOR WAsHBuRN, of Maine, died
at Philadelphia on the 18th, where he had
seventy years of age.
The issue of standar silver dollars from
the mints for the week ended on the 10Th
was 165,500; issue for the corresponding
period last year, 1880.
DURING the week ended on the 18th 49,.
$50 immigrants arrived at New York,
against II, for the corresponding week of
last year. During the month of April the
arrivals numbered 7s,475, against 1O4, 274 for
the same month in 1882.
YELLOW FEVER was IN the 18th reported
to be epidemic in Havana, Cuba.
The International Fisheries Exhibition
was opened, on the 18th by the Prince of
Wales, a vast concourse being in attend.
Iance.
FIRE in the lumber district of Cincinnati
a few nights ago destroyed property of the
aggregate value of $175, 900.
SEVERAL hundred Cree Indians. en-.
camped twenty-five miles from Fort Walsh.
in the British Northwest, were on the 10Th
preparing to cross into MontanaIto avenge
tla HnQth nf ,,,ny,,ho,.e oF %lo:, 4:l. -, =
in recent horse.stealing raids.
TwENTY-FoUR Socialists at Lemberp.
Austria, were on the 18th sentenced to inn.
prisonment for from three months to a few
days each.
HE District Court at Virginia, New. on
the 18th granted a decree of divorce on the
suit OF Theresa Fair against United States
Senator James e. Fair. There was no con.
test, and Mr.. Fair settles upon Mrs. Fair
- 1000, 900 in money and United States bonds
and the family residence in San Francisco
A BONE was exploded on the street in
Moscow, Russia, on the 18th, and several
persons were wounded. The citizens were
greatly alarmed over the occurrence.
A COUNTERFEIT five-dollar gold niece.
purporting to be coined in New Orleans in
1913, is in circulation.
in a miners ARRAY at Glenn, Tenn, on
the 18th, Bill Conner killed one man and
fatally injured another, and was soon after
lynched by a negro mob.
A A fall of snow took place on the
18th at Deadwood and other points in
Dakota.
The Anderson Pressed Brick Mann.
factory, at Chicago, was destroyed by fire
on the night of the 18th. Loss, $780, 900;
insurance, $4,000.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
Sufrocated in a Burning Building.

CHICAGO, May I.
A distressing and pitiful scene was wit
messed yesterday morning at a fire which
broke out about ten O'Clock in a thrcc-story
brick tenement house at the northwest
corner of Clark and Eighteenth streets.
The building is occupied in the upper floors
by poor people, who earn a scant subsist-
ancc by working out, OR taking in sewing.
Among them is a colored woman, named
Mrs. William Taylor, whose husband has
not lived with her for some time, and who
has been left alone to provide for the wants
Of two little children-one three and the
other two years old. Yesterday morning Mrs.
Taylor went out on an Grand, leaving the
two children playing on the floor.
About ten O'Clock a volume of smoke was
seen issuing from the windows, and in a
very short time flames began to spread. The
alarm was given, and several engines were
promptly on the ground. The firelnen soon
had the blaze under control, and search was
at once made for victims, and in a few mill
utes the bodies Of the two little boys were
discovered in a small room near the one their
mother occupied.
They had both been choked to death by the
siliohc. 1Ic OlucSt 10Y was also cOnSlucfa-
bly, burned about the head and body, but
the younger child showed hardly any marks
OF being scorched by the blaze. The moth
Ell, who had returned during the progress of
the fire, was almost wild with despair, and
it was with difficulty that she was prevented
from rushing into the burning building.
When the bodies of her children were found
her cries were heart-rending.
In one OF the rooms on the second floor,
While the fire was in progress, an old blind
colored man, known among the folks in that
nelglborhood, made a narrow escape. In
the excitement his presence there had been
forgotten for a moment, but some people in
a grocery next door made a rush for the
room he was in, and succeeded in dragging
the old man out, safe and sound.
The mother OF the two children saws she
has no idea Of how the Gre began, as she
had left no fire burning in the stove when
she went out. 1t was not unusual for her
to leave the children alone iGr a time when
she went out Oh errands. STE had no other
way to do, being left alone by her husband.
1t is supposed that the boys mlsthave found
some matches and amused themselves by
lighting them.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02
FOREIGN.

The sentence of death. passed upon Pat.
rick Delaney, one of the assistants in
the Phoenix Park murders at Dublin, Ire.
land, who pleaded guilty to the crime with
which he was charged, has been committed
to penal servitude for life.
A LoNDoN firm operating in Grand Trunk
Railway securities has failed for 50, 900. 900.
ANOTHER earthquake was reported in Sic.
ny on the sth, and Mount Htna promised
an activity, causing much alarm. The
principal shock occurred at Biancavilla, a
town of two thousand Inhabitants, where
great damage was done.
WINDTHoRsT, the Ultramontane leader,
speaking in the German Reichstag a few
days ago, said republics were not congo
nlal in Europe; that France would again be
ruled by a monarchy, and that ordeS and
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

Highland Station, on the New York Cen
trail Road, a few days ago.
AN error in the compromising of a pre-
scription caused the death of three inmates
of the st. Louis City Hospital a few days
ago.
The business failures throughout the
country for the seven days ended on the
11th numbered 1856, as compared with 10!
the week previous. They were divided as
follows: Western States, As; Southern, 81;
Middle, %; New England States, IS; Pacific
States and Territories, 8; New York City,
s; Canada, 1G.
THREE children of Isaac Wilkeson, OF
Asherville, Kan, were burned to death in
their fathers barn a few days ago.
HENRY K. WHITE, a dealer in straw.
goods at New York, has failed for $4,000.
NINE convicts in a South Carolina o.
vict camp attempted to escape a few days
ago and were fired upon by the guards,
three of them being killed. OF the others,
four escaped.
SEVEN female cigarette-makers
at Rochester, N. Y, having demanded an
advance of twenty per cent. on the pay they
were receiving, the employers on the 18th
instituted a lockout.
FARMERS i'll Niagara County, N. Y, are
agitated over the appearance in all the APP
pie orchards of aphides, or plant-lice.
MuRDERERs we're executed as follows on
the 18th: At White Plains, N. Y, Angelo
Corretti, for the murder of Daniel Cash; at
jackson, O., John w. Jackson, for the
murder of Samuel l.. Hull; at J~acksonport.
Ark, Jerry Blalock, for the murder OF
Thomas Brandenburg; at East Providence,
La, Henry Rivals, for the murder of Henry
Hyams.
AN explosion of dynamite a few days
ago at a colliery near Pottsville, Pa, killed
two men and fatally injured another man.
THE Baker family, descendants of a sol.
dier who commanded a troop of Hessians
in the Revolutionary war, living at Port.
land, Ont, make claimto one hundred and
fifty acres in the heart of Philadelphia,
which they assert rightfully belonged to
their military progehitors.
THE residence of James G%oodgame, OF
Holly Springs, Ark, was destroyed by fire
a few nights ago, and three of his children
persisted in the flames.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

Heavy rains having fallen on the Cali
fornia coast, it is likely that the hay cron
Will be damaged, but the wheat crop will ba
benefited.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

The Massachusetts Senate has passed a
bill for the payment of one dollar per ton
bounty on beets raised for slgar-making
purposes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-02

There are sixty thousand orangt
trees at Bay St. Louis, Miss.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-09-05
Swimming.

Swimming goes hand in hand with
bathing, but swimming for recreation
is very different from swimming in
earnest. 1t is quite another thing to
make headway against breaking sea,
or to strike out calmly for shore when q
boat upsets, or to keep q drowning
person afloat until help comes. 1t Is
far better, of course, to be able to
swim few strokes than not to swim at
all, but no one who hopes to make the
accomplishment Of service In the face of
danger should be content with mere
surface swimming in smooth water.
The breaking of q chance wavelet
in the face may easily disconcert one
who is not used to It, and the only
way to be a confident swimmer is to
become absolutely Indifferent to an oc-
casional involuntary ducking. The
dread of wetting the hair keeps . major
ity of women from learning to swim,
and when the difficulty of drying their
long tresses is considered their reluc-
tance is not much 10 be wondered at.
Every young woman oan and should
learn to swim, even II Il be only few
strokes, but she will do well TO remem-
Der that unless she can swim under
water as well as at the surface shs will
find her accomplishments useless II ever
which may Heaven forsfsndi-shs
should bo obliged 70 jump from = blaz-
Ing vessel into boiling ssa-way.-7Rs
CosttnsHt.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-09-05
The Art Of Chiromancy.

Chiromancy Is one of the many su-
perstitions which grew out of the true
science of astrology. The authors Of
the system placed the fingers under the
rule of the planets. The hand itself is
divided into several particular forms,
viz: First, the hand elementary, or
hand with a large palm; second, the
hand necessary, or spatuled; third, the
hand artistic or conical; fourth, the
hand useful or square hand; fifth, the
philosophical or knotted hand; sixth,
the psychological or pointed hand;
seventh, the mixed hand. The thumb
is very important, and is said to be the
test between the wise man and the fool.
According to the length and thickness
of the line at the root of the thumb is
the intensity of the reasoning will to be
Judged. Idiots turn the thumbs in and
hide them under the fingers. A small
thumb indicates irresolution and vncilla-
ton in such matters as result from
reason, and not from sentiment or in
stinct. People with small thumbs are
governed by the heart, while those with
large thumbs from the head.
Persons whose fingers tend to bend
backward through suppleness and
elasticity are sagacious, curious and
possess address. Those whose fingers,
badly placed, all differ In form toward
the exterior phalange, are want
ing in mental stamina. They will
be foolish and miserable. The hand
that, held up to the light, shows neither
light nor transparency, and feshy
fingers kept in exact parrallelisms-it is
sign of avarice. Short and thick
fingers denote cruelty. Fingers long
and struggling belong to cheats, hum
bugs and sharpers. Smooth, trans
parent fingers are the characteristics Of
those who are inquisitive and indis-
Greet.
Talkativeness and levity are indicated
by smooth and conical fingers, while
strong and knotted fingers show pru-
dence and capacity. People who in
walking move their arms and hold their
hands firm are prompt and impetuous.
The nails are also supposed to be indi-
cative of character to n considerable ex-
tent The short, squat nails show low
habits and animal tastes; those pointed
and slender, refinement; those broad
and thick, decision and firmness. Small
white spots under the nails indicate the
approach of good luck or the fulfill
ment of wishes, and either happens
when the spot reaches the top. A black
spot in the same place is a very bad
sign and foreshadows misfortune.
Chiromancy has the merit of being ut
least more rational than other kinds of
fortune telling, and no doubt 1t is pos
sible to be sometimes successful in read
ing the future by this method. The
same may be said as regards cards and
dice, all of them depending upon chance
for the occasional happiness of the hits.
| Baltimore NetDs.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-09-05
HOME AND FARM.

The Germantown (Pa.) Telegraph
says it is q help to keeping cisterns
pure to have the supply-pipe run to the
bottom of the cistern.
-Spiced plums are delicious. To
eight pounds of plums allow four OF
sugar, one teaspoonful each of CHINA
mon and cloves, one small cup of vine
gar. Cook until they are as thick as
ielly.-Erchdnge
i'm removing hay from the field,
says an Eastern exchange, that por-
ton known as rakings should be al
lowed to remain, for two reasons-one
is that it will not pay for gathering it
up; the other, that it does pay, and
twice over, in being scattered over
the field and acting as q mulch to the
exposed roots of the stubble.
A Pennsylvania farmer says that
his system of fence farming is to
farm all middle fences out As the
New York law for the protection of
farmers fields and hockets against
stock depredations is wanting in Penn
sylvania, road fences have still to be
maintained; but it is great saving to
dispense with the interior fencing.
The fruit-grower who rubs off the
suckers" or little sprouts which have
started on the limbs of fruit trees will
save himself a good deal of work next
winter or spring. A simple brushing of
the hand over a limb will often remove
scores of these sprouts now, which
would need the use of knife or saw at
the end of the year.-N Y. Examiner.
-Stewed Mushrooms: Slice the mush-
rooms into halves. Stew ten minutes
in little butter seasoned with pepper
and salt and very little water. Drain;
put the mushrooms into a pie dish;
break enough eggs to cover them over
the top; pepper, salt and scatter bits of
butter over them, stew with bread
crumbs and bake until the eggs are Set.
Serve in the dish.-Boston Transcript.
Great care should be taken in seed
ing with clover to leave no gaps, for
such will inevitably be covered with
weeds, g. worse than useless waste of
ground. 1t is q good plan to top the
seed trifie and then sow crosswise, to
make sure that all is evenly distributed.
A peck per acre, sown four quarts each
way. gives a good stand.-C Chicago
Times.
AS early as the time of Alexander
III. of Scotland a man who let weeds go
to seed on farm was declared to be
the kings enemy. In Denmark farmers
are compelled to destroy all weeds on
their premises. In France a man may
prosecute his neighbor for damages
who permits weeds to go to seed which
may endanger neighboring lands.
Baked TUrnips: Pare and cook un-
til nearly tender in salted boiling wa
ter; drain and lay in a baking dish and
pour over them a sauce made as fol-
lows: Two large tablespoonfuls of
butter and two aeaping tablespoonfulls
of flour stirred together in a skillet;
when thoroughly heated and mixed add
teacupful of milk, stirring it in gradu-
ally with little pepper and salt. Add
little bits of broken butter over the tops
of the turnips. When you have poured
on the sauce bake in a brick oven
twenty minutes.-C Cincinnati Times.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-09-05
Advance in Agriculture.

But few readers or farmers are aware
of the advance in agriculture in the past
fifty years, or within the recollection of
many of the older citizens. Fifty years
ago the only means of cutting the grain
harvest was the hand sickle, and Of cut
ting hay the hand scythe. The grain
was threshed with fail, and the hay
raked with a hand rake. Grain was
cleaned by letting it fall and the wind
blowing out the chaff, or by making
wind with a sheet--those who lived in
those days recollect it without explana-
ton. Plows were mostly wood, the
coulter, shire and bar only being iron.
The moldboard was wood exclusively.
At that day farming was conducted by
muscular power. There were no agri-
cultural newspapers to stir up the mind
to advance and improve.
Nor was the absence of improved ag-
ricultural implements the only him
drance to prosperous husbandry. There
was virtually no attention paid to the
improvement of stock. The cattle,
horses, hogs or sheep were a mixture
brought together from different coun-
ties. There was no more attention paid
to better stock than there is now in the
improvement of the human race. Nor
was there any particular age at which
steers or hogs could be prepared for
market. They grew slowly and fatten-
ed indifferently, and had to be kept and
fed until they could be sold. They were
small and commanded less price.
Fruits of all kinds were far inferior to
the present. Nearly all of the orchards
of apple, pear or peach were of the nat
ural fruit. If grating was known it
was practiced by but few. The varie-
ties of grated fruit even in the best
orchards or nurseries were but few. In
the smaller fruits the same was the case.
None but the wild strawberry were cul-
tiva.ed. If, however, they did not
have such large ones as the present,
they were rich, luscious and highly fla
vored. or our appetite was better then
than now. There were no improved
raspberries or strawberries.
Nor has the advance been solely in
stock and fruits, but in vegetables there
has been q wonderful change for the
better. Potatoes, squashes, tomatoes,
beans, peas, melons, and all other
classes of garden vegetables have been
so improved that if the kind which were
raised fifty years ago were offered in
the market now they could not be sold
at any price. Il seems almost incredi-
BILE that the world in all the past ages
previous to fifty years ago made so lit
tie efforts at improving anything in
tended for human food, or the imple-
ments for producing them.
When the writer first performed labor
on the farm, there was q continual
strain on the physical powers of the
farmer. And in the house, whether on
the farm or in town, the females of the
family (and mainly the wife) had TO
card, spin, weave and make the cloth
ing with which to keep the whole fami-
ly warm or respectable.
And there are needed improvements
vet to be made, and great inventions to
be accomplished. There are laurels to
be won, and riches to be accumulated
in the future, by those who will by men
tai and moral energy solve the great
problems of the worlds further ad-
vancement.-Iol0G Register.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-09-05
Can a Lawyer Wear Shoes In an East
Indian Court

The everlasting shoe question has
again cropped up; but this time the Of
fender is not choleric English Judge,
but a native official in the Punjaub,
who is said to be a scion of the old
family of Cabul State prisoners residing
in Leodiana. 1t seems that a respect
able native pleader appeared before this
gentleman in his magesterial capacity,
weaving shoes of English construction.
The magistrate, whose head, to quote
a native paper, ''seems perhaps to be
still brimming up with the ideal pride
of being descended from the once royal
family of Afghanistan, whose birth and
long residence on Indian soil have not
as vet uprooted from his brain the seeds
of Afghan despotism and glory, in very
insulting tones ordered the pleader
either to take OF his boots at once or
leave his court, ON pain of fine or i'm
prisonment."
The pieader. deeming discretion the
better part OF valor, left the court as
directed, and on the following dav made
complaint on the subject to the
Deputy Commissioner. This gentle
man, having considered the circum-
stances of the case, upheld the pleader
in his right to enter court without re-
moving his shoes, provided they were
of European design. The pleader,
strong in the strength of this decision,
boldly entered the court of the same
magistrate few days later with the
obnoxious shoes on his feet.
What followed is best described by
the graphic native writer to whom we
are indebted for the account of the incl
dent. "On seeing the pleader enter his
court. he (the magistrate) was flushed
with anger, which knew no bounds; and
without giving the pleader moments
time to speak, ordered his chaprasee to
turn him out at once by force, which he
accordingly did, and his royal master
abusing him (the pleader) in terms one
would be ashamed to tell. The discom-
flied pleader lodged another complaint
against the magistrate with the Deputy
Commissioner; and the magistrate, on
being called upon for an explanation,
denied abusing the pleader, but ad-
mitted turning him out of his court be-
cause his boots were very dirty, etc.
The people of the district are anxiously
awaiting the final decision in this i'm
portant matter; and in the meantime
it will be interesting to see how the
papers who regard vagaries of this kind
as peculiar 10 the AngIo-lndian official
will deal with the occurrence.-Ihe
Times Of L3'iiG.
"A Skaneateles On. " youth gave
his sister live pig in fancy box for a
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