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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
P1TH AND POINT.

"A bread famine is threatened in
| Vienna. This comes of scattering the
| Vienna bakeries all over the inhabitable
globe.-N 7. Graphic.
SO Gould has retired upon $780,
700, 600. Some men with that amount
fmoney would sit up all night.-Bos-
on Transcript.
An amateur poetess anNiously
walls: "Oh, where can l find rest?'
Get q position as saleswoman in a store
that doesn't advertise, darling.--N. Y.
Commercial.
A man sitting in the back room Of
a saloon playing euchre brcathes about
eighteen times per minute. A female
voice suddenly falls upon his ear and
his respiration jumps to forty-nine
quicker'n scat.-Detron Free Press.
Did you ever think what you would
do if you had Vanderbilt's income?-
No,rtstown Register. Well, no; but we
have often wondered what Vanderbilt
would do if he had our income.-RAila-
dclphia News.
"A new song is entitled "Brother's
Hair was Cut by Mother" 1t is a COM
panion piece to that soul-stirring hymn
called "Father's Pants Will Soon be
Brothers." "Leaning on my Brothers
Breath" "Sister's Teeth r Plugged
with Zinc," and the other familiar fam
lily ballads. Chicago Herald.
-Gentleman-.You ask me for a
small gift and do not even fake off your
hat from your head. Is that any way
to act?" Beggar-"Excuse me, most
honorable sir. 1 dare not do it, for
yonder stands a policeman. If he
should see me take my hat off it will
occur to him at once that 1 I'm a beggar
and he will arrest me. At present, as
we are now, he merely supposes that
we are two old acquaintance having a
friendly chat."-Fziegcmde Blattcr.
-"I say, Jim, what are you doing
there with those cards?" observed a
gentleman to his colored gardener. II
IS dom some tricks" s'Give me a little
evidence of your ability" said the gen
tleman. Thereupon the colored man
shufled up the cards in true magician
style and performed some very clever
work with them. The gentleman
dropped q quarter into the mans hand
and said to. him: "Jim, you are quite a
juggler." "Oh, no, massa, I am only
q negro man, sir."-Pretzel's Weekly.
-"What time does the State Road
train ~leave?" asked a lady of a railre.d
man. "Two forty-five," was She ready
reply. "Well, I d%eclare,'' she said, with
a puzzled look covering her face. cat
lanta is the strangest place 1 ever saw
about giving information" "Why sop
asked the railroadman.. because, just
now I asked a gentleman what hour the
train left, and he said a quarter to three,
and now you say two forty-fve; 1 can't
understand it to save my life." The
nan walked off leaving her to study out
the problem atlanta Constitution.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
Something in Store.

A policeman patroling Gratiot avenue
yesterday was called into a shoe-shop,
the proprietor of which is an honest,
unsuspecting burgher, and asked:
"Can you tell me if Sheneral Grant is
still in der city?"
"Grant! Why, he hasn't been here
in a year."
'Ish dot possible! My trent, yhas
der PRESIDENT here about two weeks
ago?"
N"No."
"Yhas dere a big riot down town tree
weeks ago in which some Dutchrnans
got kilt?h
.No, sir"
"Vhas dere ome ferry boats got
blowed up?"
"Never heard of any,"
"My trent, ledt me ask one more
question. Vhas some orphan asylums
all burned up one night last week and
all der leedle shildren roastedlik ducks
in der oofen?"
"Of course not"
"Vhell, dot explains to me. I hat a
poy Shon. He vhas oudt nights, und
he doan come home till two O'Clock next
morning. When l ash him aboudt it he
says some orphan asylum burned down,
or some f%erry-poat blew oop, or Shen-
eral Grant vhas in town und WANTS to
see him. So dot poy has been lying to
me?"
CLOCKS that way"
"Vhell, tonight he Will ship oudt as
usual, und by n o'clock he Will come
creeping in. l shall ask him where he
vhas all der time so long, und he Will
say Sheneral Sherman vhas in town. l
shall tell him dot I take him out to der
barn und introduce him to a school
house on fire, und when I am all tired
oudt NIT clubbing him I pellet dot poy
Will see some SMOKES und SHAY home
nights. l fought it vhas funny dot SO
much happens all der time und dey
doan' put it in der Sherman bapers.
Well, vhell, l wish it wash night so !
could pegin to show him dot l am der
biggest sheneral of all."-Detro1 Fress
Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
Dead Indians,

Many of the mortals of to-day have
a passion for digging for the relics of
deceased a~boriginnes. They hunt for
traces of the noble red maj with an
eagerness similar to that with which
their fathers sought to avoid his pres
ence. For generations they have found
the Connecticut Valley a fertile field
for their researches, and from year to
year the excitement breaks out in a new
place because of some fresh discovery.
No n will dare predict for how many
decades to come enthusiastic diggers
after red mems bones will continue to
unearth them, along with the utensils
and belongings which followed the a v
age into his grave. Some of the col
lections which have been made of these
things are remarkable, particularly that
Of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial
Association at Deertield. W. are also
told that w. A. Lord, of Warehouse
Point, Ct, can fill a room fourteen feet
square with arrow-points alone, and
that his neighbor, DR.. Wood, of Wind
sor Hill, has a museum of Indian relics
which is worth going far to examine.
There are certain points along the val
ley which have long been known as
reservations for such things. To this
day the plow-sharc at the South-end of
this city is liable with each recurring
spring to turn up something of interest
unseen before. The Indians buried
their dead near the river when they
could. but they seem to have chosen
positions which they imagined would
not be disturbed by the elements. They
selected, for instance, a high hill over
looking the mouth of the Ashuelot,
where it flows into the Connecticut, for
a general burying-ground, the where
abouts of which might never have been
known but for the excavations made in
building the Ashuelot Railroad. And
so in Longmeadow, some five miles be-
low this city, they inferred many bodies
in Il meadow facing the river, but at a
distance of at least twenty-five rods
from the bank. Never in their most
troubled dreams did it dawn on them
that in the coming time the river
would so widen as to undo their work,
and the spring fresnets would reveal
that above which the grass had grown
green for two centuries. At this point
the river attains the greatest width of
its whole course, the distance from
shore to shore being half a mile by
official surveys, and the eastern bank is
being cut off at the rate of a road a
year. The peculiar thing about this
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The Longfellow copper mines at
Clifton, Arizona, employ over 1000
Mexicans and Cinnamon.
Jefferson Davis estate of five hum
dred acres at Brannon, Miss, is, now
mainly devoted to grapes and oranges.
Three factories in the United States
consume nearly two million eggs a year
in making a peculiar kind of.:paper used
by photographers.
Mr.. Walsh, a Mississippian, has in
vented and patented an ingenious quilt
ing frame, by which the work can
readily be done by any sewing-machine.
Detroit Post.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
has arranged for the distribution of forty
thousand silk-worm eggs to parties in
Kentucky who desire to make expert
ments in sericulture.
"A Canadian has invented a method
of putting glass in sash without the en-
ployment Of putty. Every family man
who has ever tried to get old putty out
of a sash in order to put in a new pane,
will rise up and call the Canadian
''blessed. "-Rhiladelphia Mews.
An interesting feature at a recent
county exhibition in Great Britain was
an iron watch, which has been turned
out by Messrs. Crowther Bros. & Co. in
Kidderminster, for the purpose of show
ing the extraordinary malleability of
their metal. The watch is said to be
very perfect in every respect.
1t will be but a short time until you
a have your picture taken free of cost.
A German has invented a safe with an
attachment that on being touched flares
al electric light on the scene, and at the
same instant uncovers a prepared plate,
on which the burglars photograph is
taken, while an alarm is sounded. It
will be a ''safe cure" for burglars.-M.
Y. Herald.
Sam Collier, the veteran pugilist, is
about to apply for a patent for a SWIM
ming machine. 1t is called "Collier's
Improved Automatic Swimmer" Small
screw propellers are placed on each
foot, and they are revolved by the
wearer kicking out vigorously. Mr..
Collier has experimental in a bath-tub
with great success, and when the
weather is warmer he will give exhibi.
tions in the Delaware River.-Chicaqo
Journal.
The taste for frogs legs is nov
spreading rapidly in this country, after
a long period of comparative stagna-
ton. One of the largest dealers in the
country, a Boston man, has set a hun
dred expert frog-catchers at work in the
New England States, and estimates that
the. demand this summer will be double
that of last year. An experiment in
breeding bullfrogs in England is about
to be made and a considerable supply
of spawn will be sent owe for that pur
pose next month.-Boston Post.
There is a curious clockin the cathe-
dral at Lubbock, Germany. On the end
of the hour-hand there is a little clock
which keeps xac time with the large
clock. This little timepiece of course
goes round and round the larger dial, and
reminds one of twheel within a wheel. :"
In a Swiss museum there is a watch
that is only three-sixteenths of an inch
in diameter. 1t is inserted in the top OF
an o~ld-fashioned pencil-case such as our
grandmothers used to possess. Its lit
tie dial not only indicates hours, min
utes, and seconds, but also days of the
month.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
All Quiet at Belleville and Collinsville.
A1EAGER

ST. LOUIS, May 80.
A special from Belleville, ILL.,, to the
Associated Press says: Everything is quiet
here. Reinecke mine, where the unfortunate
affair occurred, is working under protection
Of the militia. This is a machine mine
and does not employ regular miners,
and was working Monday under an
agreement made with the miners some days
ago. If any further trouble occurs, it will
be at mines some distance from there,
which at this writing have not been heard
from. The Sheriff reports all quiet at the
pits in this immediate vicinity. The streets
OF this city are crowded with miners and
citizens, discussing the events of Monday.
The firing by the militia is not generally
viewed in a favorable light.
COLLINsvILLE, ILL.,, May 90!
The Abbey Mines, Nos. 3 and 4, are
working with a full complement of men,
and no trouble is anticipated. Many of the
men at work have been in the employ OF
the company many years, and are satisfied
and willing to work. They are paid
by the day at the wages fixed
when the miners were receiving az
other mines three cents per bushel'
and was entirely satisfactory. While the
wages of the coal-miners have been reduced
from thirty-tfnee to fifty per cent, the
wages OF the men employed at mines NOS.
3 and 4, have not been reduced any. Ine
attempts to stop these mines were merely 10
stop the supply of coal for St. Louis, ana
not on any demand for increase of pay.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16

--'My deeds have been evil, and !
am lost" said George Gould, twenty.
eight years Of age, Of Gloversville, n.
T., Just before shooting himself .-Troa
IN. ~ Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16

Rev. Adirondack Murray tells the
New York Times that the interviewer is
the curse Of American newspapers,
making them merely a nationalized
sewing society.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16

Aaron Burr's original commission
as attorney-at-law, Signed by Chief
Justice Richard Morris, of New York.
February l, 1882, is now in the relic.
room of the Ohio State-house. 1t
written on vellum, eight and a half oy
ten inches in size, and bears a red wax
seal with the motto: "Laudem vinclt.
On the same page of the sc%rap-book IL
which it is pasted is one of the old StaW
lottery tickets, with the inscription
mot two blanks to a prize."-CIeo0'
land Leader.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16

"A trestle bridge across Lake Point
ehartrain, on the New Orleans & North
eastern Railroad, will be t%wenty-one
miles long.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16
Cards for Canine Callers.

"What do you think of that?" asked
awell-known stationer yesterday, speak
ing, to a reporter. Turning the leaves
of a sample lot of visiting cards he
pointed to a small p%asteboard on which
was printed, in delicate script, the
words: "Fido McFlimsey, 1885 nth
street."
''What is he-a Dude?" queried the
scribe.
ga dude! No; he isn't a Dude. He's
a dog, and here are several more like
him." was the reply, as the stationer
turned and took down a box from one
of the shelves and emptied its contents
on the showcase. From the pile of cards
he Don fished out five more of the same
size as that pasted in the book and
handed them over to the reporter. Three
of them were in script, one in old En-
glish type and one in small roman cap
itals. They read:
Mannheim street, Germantown:
...............
GRIP.
1914 e. street,
.........
................... ...................
JACK.
...........
.........s.
TOPSY BOWWOW
AND THE
MISSES BOWWOW
800 South-st st.
90.
PRINCE.
No. s3l SontA-st
SatUriays-Bones.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16

The Onondaga Indians living II IL
New York marry and separate at WILL
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-06-16

Portions of Indiana Visited by a Destru,
tive Storm - Nineteen Persons Said =.
Have Been Killed, Many Others Wound.
ed, and Much Valuable Property De.
stroyed,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-13
Buying a Volcano.

The Merican Financier. published in|
the city of Mexico, says: A foreign|
company is reported to have bought
the volcano of Popocatepetl from it'd
avner, General Sanchez Ochoa, with
the intention of excavating a tunnel
and establishing a grand factory Of
sulphuric acid at the foot of the maj
iestic mountain. With the great at
traction of tourists to this city which
will follow the establishment of rail !
way communication with the STATED
the ascent of Mount Popocatepetl will
be a popular feature for many, and
some time it may prove a profitable
undertaking to build an inclined rail-
way to the summit Of the mountain
like that running up Mount Wash ngI
ton, and to establish fine hotels ami@
the eternal SHOWS of the peak, whic
rises over two miles above the level o.
this city and nearly three and a hal
miles above the sea-level.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-13
Chinese Towns.

Notwith standing their high-2own
names, the general run of Chinese
towns are miserable places, with mar
row, tortuous streets destitute of
paving or foot path, but worn into ruts
and holes, which overturn any con-
veyance, and subjects the pedestrian
to the constant risk of slipping down
and breaking his bones; piles of refuse
are to be met at every turn, filing the
air with their seething and abomina-
BILE odor. In dry weather one is
blinded by the dust, in the rainy season
the mud renders these noisome alleys
almost impossible. In no other coun-
try do travellers find such a lack of de-
cent accommodation. The Chine 70
rest-houses are pretty well all alike,
and somewhat on the plan CT the old
fashioned coaching inns as far as gen.
eral arrangement Is concerned, but in
no other respect. Around a large
courtyard are constructed series of
sheds and low-storied buildings, the
former for the accommodation of
beasts, the latter of men. The apart
ments for the use of human beings
consists generally of two rooms, one
rather larger than the ether, both with
floors of brick o., earth. In each room
is brick stove, or kang, about six and
a half feet by two and half, running
across the entire end of each DOM. On
this kang, covered generally, but not
always, with mat of bamboo, PUSHES,
or camers hair, one sleeps. In winter
it can be heated through fire-hole in
the middle of the room, a method of
warming up which certainly produces
headache and may cause sutfocatlon. A
small square table, ten inches high, is
invariab y found upon the stove in the
larger room, off which the Chinaman
takes his food, or upon which, the meal
finished, are placed his opium pipe and
paraphernalia thereto belonging. The
furniture of the apartment consists OF
a square table and one OF two chairs or
benches. No rugs, bedclothes or uten-
sis of any kind for eating, ETC., are
supplied, but small wooden tubs for
washing are brought in when required,
and warm water is generally procur-
able. For any other convenience the
open courtyard must be used. There
are no windows, but lattice frames,
covered with yellowish. semi-trans-
lucent paper, run the length of all the
apartments. Drinking water is gem
orally drawn from well in the yard,
and should be strictly avoided. The
rooms are always dirty, the dust and
filth which blow in from the yard being
rarely removed.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-13

DR.. Felix L. Oswald, in an article on
the " Remedies of Nature in Popular
Science Monthly, says: But nine out
of ten dyspeptics resort to the drug
store. They get bottle of "tonic
bitters." They try DR.. Quack's Dys-
pepsia Elixir" They try "blue pill
in the hope of rousing Nature, as it
were, to a sense OF her proper duty.
Now, what such "tonics can really
do for them is this: they goad the sys-
TEN into the transient and abnormal
activity incident to the necessity of ex-
polling a virulent poison. With the
accomplishment of that purpose the
exertion ceases, and the ensuing ex
haustion is worse than the first by just
as much as the poison-fever has robbed
the system of larger or smaller share
of its little remaining strength. The
stimulant has wasted the organic
energy which it seemed to revive.
But" says the invalid, "if a repetition
of the dose can relieve the second re-
action, would the result not be prefer
able to the languor of the unstimulated
system? Wouldn't it be the best plan
to let me support my strength by stick
ing to my patent tonic?"
Yes, it would be very convenient,
especially in times Of scarcity, if a
starving horse could be supported by
the daily application of patent spur.
1t would save both oats and oaths.
Even a fastidious nag could not help
acknowledging the pungency of the
goad. But it so happens that spur-fed
horses are somewhat shOrt-lived, though
at first the diet certainly seems to act
like charm. For day or two the
drug stimulates the activity of the
digestive organs as well as of the mental
faculties, but thesubsequent prostration
is so intolerable that the patient soon
chooses the alternative of another
poison-fever. Before long the pleasant
phase of the febrile process becomes
shorter and the reaction mora severe;
the faded system is less able to respond
to the goad, and, in order to make up
for the difference, the dose of the stimu-
liant has to be steldily increased. The
invalid becomes bondsman to the
drug store, and hugs the chain that
drags him down to the slavery of a
confirmed poison-habit.
Circumstances may differ. A dys-
peptic who intends to make his own
quietus within a month or two, and in
the meanwhile has certain amount OF
work to finish, would be justified in
stimulating his working capacities by
all means, in order to improve to the
utmost whatever chances Of mundane
activity may remain to him. But he
who intends to stay has to make uI
his mind that recovery cannot bf
hoped for till he has not only discon
tinued his drug, but exriated the
burden of sin which the stimulant out
rage has added to the original cause OF
the disease. Nature has to overcome
the effects both of malnutrition and Of
malpractice. The drug has complicated
the disease.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-13
The BOndhOlders.

The Washington Sunday Herald
has the following interesting gossip as
to the holders of American securities:
This year the largest single bondholder
the treasury department knows is
Mr.. Vanderbilt, who will receive the
interest on $37, 100000. A year or two
ago he had $50,OQO,000, but he has dis
posed of s13,000,0O0 for some purpose.
The next largest owner is Mrs. A.
r. Stewart, who has about $50 900, COO.
AS some of hers are coupon bonds the
amount of her holding cannot exactly
be told. Ten years ago Mr.. a. L.
Stewart had $40,00000O in bonds, the
most of them being skies. Mr.. Gould
has $13,000,000 in registered bonds
and a large number of coupon bonds,
which he keeps to use as collaterals in
Wall street when he needs large sums
of money. A California millionaire,
Mr.. Flood, is the next largest holder.
He has $l5,000,000. Then there is an
estate in Boston and three or four per-
sons in New York who have each $1O,-
100000, and lady in New York-un-
married, TOBIAS S8,QOO,0OO. The
estate of Moses Taylor, in New York,
has S5,O00,000, and d. o. Mills, White
law Reds faith sr-in-law, $4,0o0,O0O.
The house of the Rothschilds holds
nearly one-quarter of Americas whole
bonded debt, as, including all the
bankers of that name, they have $780,
100000. Baron Leopold and Sir
Nathan Meyer De Rothschild each own
$3O,O0O,O00, and the head of the vi
emma house has $25, 100000 in his own
right. Lady Hannah De Rothschild
who married the Earl of Roseberry a
wear OF two ago, brought to her hus-
band $20,000,000 in American foul
and one-halfs.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-13
Mushrooms.

DR.. Horace T. Evans, of Philadel-
phia, believes that all mushrooms con-
tain some of the poisonous property
which, when present in excess, causes
accidents-that is, sickness and death
from eating mushrooms. Even those
which are ordinarily considered safest
and best are at times Objectionable,
owing to conditions affecting their
growth. This explains why experts
In the selection of edible fungi are
sometimes mistaken. 1t isn't their
fault, but the fault of the mushrooms.
which are evidently a dangerous luxury.
= Or. Foote'S Health Monthly.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-13
THE STORM.
Crash!
The thunder came!

Crash!
The thunder came!
The lightning's flame
Lit up the murky night.
The stars that shone so bright
A monument since, and the fair moon,
The black clouds cover now, and soon
The tall trees writhe and bend their giant
forms,
Bowing obeisance TO the King of Storms
Who now rice on the winds with dark por-
tentious frown,
And following swift behind, the rain comes
dancing down.
The big drops fercely beat against the
pane,
Then family cease, ana then surge up
agan.
The rolling thunder grows less loud,
And swift athvart the darkest cloud,
A widening rift appears,
And from the heavily spheres,
The star soon CLEANS,
And pale moon beams,
Flash!
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-13

The number of calf skin tanners in
Continental Europe is estimated to be
some 10000 or so.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-07-13

IN prosperity work is a duty; in
h sfortune it is a refuge,