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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-27
WHY HE GAVE UP THE ROOM.

81 wish to give up my room," said a
Texas Legislator to his landlady, Mrs.
Flapjack, at the beginning of the term.
"Why do you give up your room,
SenatorP l am sure / will do every
thing in my power it make it pleasant
for YOU"
II don't need any room. am going
to sleep at the headquarters of the lob
by. 1t don't pay me to stay anywhere
else as long as l keep on having such
Mck at poker as have had for the last
night or sou
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-27
Austin siftings.
A COOL PROPOsITTON,

An indignant woman came to apromi-
men Austin physician and asked for a
remedy for her husbands rheumatism.
The doctor gave her prescription, and
told her:
''Get that prepared at the drug store,
and rub it well over your husband $
back. If it does him good, come and
let me know. I've got a touch of rheu-
matism myself. F"
She was not an INDECENT woman
when she came, but was an indignant
woman when she left
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-07-27
Oh,MyBack!

That's a common express
SION and has a world Of
meaning. How much suf-
fering is Summed up in it.
-AThe''singular, thing about
itlis,Ithat pain in the back
isYoccasioned by SO many
things: May be caused by
kidneyL disease,f liver COM
plant, consumption, cold,
rheumatism, dyspepsia, over
work,ynervousSd debility, &c.
Whatever the cause, don't
neglect it. Something is
wrong and needs prompt
attention. No medicine has
yet been discovered that
will SO quickly and surely
cure such diseases as
Browns IRON BITTERs, and
it does this by commencing
at the foundation, and max
ing the blood pure and rich.
VIM. p. Marshall, Of Logans-
port, Indiana, writes "My wife
has for many years been trou-
bled from pain in her back
and general debility incident
to her sex. She has taken one
bottle Of Browns Iron Bitters,
and I can truthfully say that
she has been so much benefited
that she pronounces it the
only remedy Of many medi-
cines she has tried"
Leading physicians and
clergymen use and recon-
mend Browns IRON BIT-
TIERS. 1t has cured others
suffering as you are, and it
will cure you.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
Heg Against Rattlesnake.

A friend tells us of a fight he wit
messed, last week, between a rattle
snake and a hog. To use his own Ian
guage: 81 had Just started up the steep
hill beyond Toms Creek, goingto Roans
Greek, when my attention was attracted
to a hog near the road, champing and
walking around with bristles erect, with
two smaller hogs some few feet away
looking on. Refining to a better view
I saw q good size rattlesnake coiled,
head erect, and his rattles sounding the
note of anger. The SOW, with head
down and bristles erect, was slowly
walking around the snake, champing
her teeth together and the foam run
ming from her mouth. Presently the
snake struck at her but missed his aim,
the SOW %springing to one side at the mo-
ment the snake struck. Instantly the
snake wa again coiled and his rattle
ringing. The sow renewed her circling,
the snake following, with his head al
ways facing the hog: Soon he struck
again and fastened his fangs on her
jaw below the ear. She raised her
head and the snake was raised to her.
Instantly she caught the snake in her
mouth, put her feet on his tail and strip
ped the skin up. Renewing her foot
hold on the body of the snake, she took
another pull and tore the snake in two,
and then, tearing off a part Of the quiv-
ering snake, she complacently set to
eating it up. The other two hogs now
advanced, but the sow took up the
pieces of the snake and walked off q
few steps, and set to finishing the feast.
l had seen enough and rode on,"-
Linden (1enm.) Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
Pens in the Fall.

The way to raise the finest quality of
peas is, after the first sowing, to plant
them deep and mulch them, SO that the
soil they root in is always cool and moist.
In the careless manner in which peas
are frequently cultivated they have very
little flavor and delicacy. It is so with
raising what is called the snapper
beans. They are seldom planted deep
enough, and as Il consequence have no
more flavor than a piece OF India-rub-
Der and are about as tough, butthe beans
planted in September, and in due time
are for sale in our markets, are really
delicious in flavor and fairly melt in
the mouth. This is the result of cool
soil. But We're these beans planted
three and four inches deep, as we have
more than one suggested, throughout
the season, and mulched in the hottest
portion Of it, we could have, as with the
peas, these vegetables at all times up tc
November in perfection.-Gxrmautow
Telegraph
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Judge Folk, of Brownsville, Tenn,
has invented q spiral windmill, which
will run street and railway cars.
"A Suspension Bridge inventor is at
work on a boat with which the ascension
of the whirlpool rapids of the Niagara
is to be made.-M. Y. Times.
An Atlanta GA man has invent
ed a wheel for wagons in which, if a
spoke breaks, neither tire nor rim is re-
moved to put in a new one. The inven-
ton has been patented.
up to 1876 the standard capacity
of freight cars was 10000 pounds. In
1877 a few were built to carry 3d. 900,
and since 1879 the standard cars, both
of the East and West, have been built to
carry 10000.
Soda springs have been found at
the head of Ahtanum Valley, some
twenty-six miles from Yakima City,
Washington Territory. Good bread
has been made by simply mixing flour
with water from the spring, using no
other ingredient but sa1t.-Denver
Tribune.
"A correspondent of the British
Medical Journal states that he has
found the application of a strong solu-
ton of chronic acid three or four times
by means of a camel's hair pencil to be
the most efficient and easy method of
removing warts. They become black
and soon fall off.
1t has been ascertained by MI. C. o.
Boutelle that the magnesium light, as
used by the United States Coast Survey,
is ar effective night signal for distances
as great as forty-five to seventy miles.
Even the ordinary student lamp with a
parabolic reflector may be seen as much
as forty miles away.
Mr.. r. H.. Wadlow, a BROOKLYN
(Ga.) man, after three years. hard
work and study, has finally invented
and patented a new method of making
shoes. The entire uppers of these shoes
are of one piece, with no seams that
touch the foot. They are made with
an adjustable instep, and fastened with
buckles of his own invention.
The London Lancet tells how ia
cure a bone felon. As soon as it is felt
put directly yer the spot a fly blister
the size of your thumb nail. Let it re.
main for six hours, at the expiration Of
which time directly under the surface
Of the blister may be seer the felon,
which can instantly be taken out with
the point of a needle.
Pine sawdust, highly compressed,
has been successfully used to make up
center frames of carriage wheels. Il
is said to be so solid that it will bear q
pressure equal to twenty-three tons pei
square inch. As sawdust has also been
used for partitions and bricks, its appli.
cation to the production of complex
carvings and mouldings does not seen
to be far of. This opens up quite :
new market for sawdust, which has
hitherto been a comparatively vast.
prQdpet.-Bost0n Pest.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04

bells that rang wildly, clocks str;l;..
from a dozen steeples, and thronnS
them all the slow, deep boom of ~
market-clock. The street was fnu 'n ae
hurrying people, going home to dinnoo.'
Gathering over the pavement came ane H.
empty express wagon; the driver hest.
tated, then turned up to the brimminc
water-basin, and let the big gray horss
plunge his nose in the cool water. a
flock of brown sparrows were takina
sh~ower-baths in the overflow; and az tIss
driver waited his eyes followed tb sas
with amusement from the water to fl.
| branches where they dried their festL'
| ers. What was that under the treep a
child lying asleep on the grass?
''Looks like my little woman" said
the driver, jumping over the fence. and
coming up to the tree in three strides.
'Sure's you live it's herself" he said
as he picked the little sleeper up in hi,
strong arms. He stopped again for ths
doll, and thrust it head first into Ii
pocket; but the little hand chung to ths
flowers ever in sleep. The big horse
whisked away, but with the jolting Of
the wagon the blue eyes opened.
"'What we s'pose mother'll sayy,
asked the driver, pressing the Soft
cheek against his rough coat. ''Whera
was ye goin', anyhow"
'.Just went a-walkin," said the little
woman, land 1 couldn't go back cause
the house got lost"
When the terrified mother had assured
herself that her darling was safe and
sound, when the little woman was
eagerly crowding her withered flowers
into her tin cup, the father looked up
from his dinner to say:
Spurious how I happened to drive BY
the park to-day; haven't been that way
in a week."
"'Tis His hand that leadeth me-
sang the little woman over her flowers.
The father looked at the mother and
nodded.
MAY be-" he said, thoughtfully.-
Emily Huntington Miller, in S. S.
| Times. 4,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
rcverberations of the thunder put the

reverberations of the thunder put the
stability of the balloon to u feaful and
unforeseen test. The whole fabric was
convulsed with continuous vibrations,
and tossed and pitched in a manner
which made it difficult for the giddy
and benumbed a%eronautt to keephis hold
on the car. However, with some diff
Guilty he managed to open the valve
and descended at noon on Saturday to
within, as far as he could calculate, 800
metres of the sea. Unfortunately, in
the lower strata there prevailed a thick
fog, which made it impossible for him
to ascertain his exact whereabouts. He
made another ascent in hopesof finding
the elements more propitious, but the
storm was still raging up in the clouds.
and he therefore considered it prudent
to keep nearer the sea. AS the after
noon wore on he noticed with alarm
that the gas in his balloon was dan
gerously decreasing, and he began to
realize his peril.
At four o'clock the ropes dangling
fromthe car touchedthe sea, andhe knew
that the critical time had come. The
whole of his ballast, of which the car
could hold but a comparatively limited
supply, had by this time become COM
pletely exhausted. He at once threw
out, one after another, instruments,
cases, and indeed every movable article
in the car. But the balloon responded
languidly, and in a very few minutes
the a itself touched water, and the
sea broke %furiously almost every min
ute clean over the car, drenching its
unhappy occupant to the skin. The
ropes and lines too were dashed about
in a b%ewildering manner, and these
combined horrors almost made M.
L'Hoste despair, when he caught sight
of the sails Of a fishing lugger, which
turned out to be the Noemi. The Cap
tain of the Noemi almost simultane-
ously caught sight of the balloon, which
he for some time took to be a ship on
fire, and Unanswered round and round
accordingly. When, however, he as
certained what the strange craft really
was, he at once launched a boat, and
with immense difficulty rescued the
aeronaut from a fate which, but for his
timely appearance, would not have long
been delayed. L'Hoste found he had
been rescued within ten miles of the
English coast. He and the balloon,
which had burst, were taken aboard the
Noemi and landed at Antwerp shortly
after midnight. L'Hoste is full of graf
itude to the Captain of the Noemi.-
Brussels Special to London Telegraph.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
The Canoe Of the Water Moth,

The gnat builds his egg boat. Tho
water moth, another little creature, |
puts together q real canoe. 1t is a very
curious thing, made of bits of straw and
reeds all matted together. 1t is Just
the shape of the caterpillar that livesin
it. The insect breathes with gills just
like a fish, and yet cannot swim.
So he fastens this straw and grass to.
gether, winding them all around with
his w silk. The body Of the cater.
pillar is soft and delicate, you know,
and might get hurt if it was left ex.
posed. This is the reason why he GOV.
ers it SO carefully, all but his head.
This funny sort of is open at
both ends. 1t is so fixed that when the
grub is tired of sailing he can sink down
upon the sand. Reaching out of the
upper end II his six little feet, with
which he drags his small boat after
him whenever he wants to get his din
g or put up for the night. After sew
eral days he not only oreeps out of this
strange house, but out of his skin, a.
the same time taking on moth wings.
Many people call these queer creatures
"laddis worms" If you huntfor them
with your young eyes, you can find these
little nests of stone, and gravel, and
leaves, made by the grubs, though they
Are very small. They seem to have
great taste in fixing them. You should
see the houses they make of fresh leaves,
curiously put together. They hang
from their shoulders like so many wings.
They are even more like q bud lust
ready to open.
These pretty cases of leaves are glued
together, leaving an opening at its top
just large enough for the little creatures
to put out their head and shoulders when
they want to look about forfcod; Others
of the same species cut pieces of reed
or wood into lengths or strips, and join
them together as they go on with their
work. They use a certain kind of c.
ment, which is better able to stand
water than any ever made by man. And
they often finish up the whole by put
ting a broad piece, longer than all the
rest, overhead, to shade the doorway,
so that no one shall see them work.
Some of these funny grubs break Oft
bits of the stems of rushes, which, you
know, grow in the water, and weave
them into a sort of round ball. Then
they hang them together on the stem Of
some other water plant, making a little
cell in the middle to live in. Some use
tiny shells even, with snails and other
animals alive in them. They keep these
poor things just as if they were in pris-
on, and drag them all about with them.
Our Little Ones.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
A Queer Wedding Present.

This is a month of weddings, and
what to send as a present is a vexatious
subject to many. At a recent wedding
in New York there were five card-re-
ceivers of the same kind, and inquiries
on the part of the donors revealed the
fact that all had been purchased at the
same place, and because recommended
by the storekeeper, who found they
caught the fancy and consequently adj
vised them to all. At another there
were four sets of after-dinner coffee
cups. In this connection a good story
occurs. A gentleman in impecunioas
circumstances wished to make a hand
some present to a friend entering the
bonds Of matrimony. He wrought out
for himself a little scheme. He went TO
a wholesale store and asked to see some
of their broken ware. Among other
stuff he was shown a very handsome
vase that was badly broken, which m
good condition would have been worm
seventy-five dollars; the remains Toulu
sell for five dollars. He purchased Inc n1
remains and had them carefully
packed and forwarded with his cara,
the recipients, of course, imagining thas
they had got broken on the way, anu
not informing him of the fact lest no
might go to additional expense. KANE To-
a clever dodge, as lodges go! But M ND
told this to friend who went u aro
likewise. He, however, was misuna Mo
stood by the dealer who, in sending t 11v
remains" had each piece caie1u'iy
packed SO as to prevent further brean,
ages, and consequently, the ruse wa.
exposed. The system, though, OF Se r.
ding presents is carried to an sur "a
tent.-N. Y. Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
At Sea in a Balloon.

M. L'Hoste, q young man of engage
ing manners, l found to-day looking
very pale and fatigued from the perils
to which he had so recently been ex-
posed. He is suffering most from gid
diness, but hopes that a days rest will
set him up again. AS soon as his
health shall be quite restored, he as
sured me with much earnestness that
he will make another effort to cross the
channel. and expressed himself conf
dent of ultimate success. M. L'Hoste
said that after various preliminary trips
last week, in company with his friend,
M. Eloy, he determined to make the at
tempt to reach England on Friday even
ing, having a prediction for night
trips. When the time for starting ap-
preached. however, his companion
thought the weather looked TOO threat
ening for aerial navigation, and ener-
getically endeavored to dissuade him
from his purpose, but without success.
Even Eloy's refusal to encourage his
rashness by accompanying him had no
effect upon his obstinate resolution to
make the trip. Accordingly at midnight
on Friday the balloon Pi1astre de Roster
NooO OA LII 1dplAtif dSCCllNlCu.
Almost Immediately the weather,
which had been hazy all the evening,
set in very thick, the result being that
L'Hoste passed the night in the midst
OF a fog, which not only chilled him to
the marrow, but prevented him from
obtaining the least idea whittier he was
drifting, or even if he were moving at
all. However, the weather cleared on
Saturday morning, when to his no small
disgust, he found himself out at sea in
the neighborhood Of Cape Grsnez. He
at once threw out ballast in order, if
possible, to find a favorable current,
and soon rose to a height of 1000 me-
teres, at Which altitude he suffered Sc
verely, his face being half roasted by
the heat Of the SUM-. while his feet were
numbed and almost frozen. Two hours
later he found himself over a town of
some sort, and drawing the valve line
descended rapidly. and with the assist
ance of passers-by cast anchor on the
esplanade at Dunkirk. Being deter
mined to persevere, he calmly took
breakfast in his car, surrounded by a
gaping crowd, and afterward increased
his store of ballast. Noticing a favora-
BILE change in the wind, he %ungrappled
and rose gradually to a height Of 5000
metres.
He must have travelled quickly, for
he soon found himself over the sea, off
the coast of Belgium. Far up among
the clouds he found a terrible difference
in the weather, for almost without
warning, he sailed into a violent storm
wave. Here the beating Of the rain,
the heavy gusts Of wind the loud
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
P1rH N POINT.

Texas is . great State for ants
Sullivan ought to 60 there. Doesn't
the Scripture say, "Go to the ant, thou
Blug-hard?"-Erchange.
Somebody out West is trying to
dnd out how mary mules there are in
the country. We give it up. It's a
question Of Observation-Disclosures
Brown, being invited to assist at his
friend Robinson's wedding, said he
couldn't give the bride away, but he
could give the groom dead away if
occasion required.-CAicago Times.
Those who have lost their money
in Chicago lard can feelingly say that
their fortune has grown "small by de
grease and beautifully less."-FMs-
burgh Telegraph.
-"Yes," says Mrs. Parvenu, eve
have taken a shattoe at Newport on
Maria's account-she's twenty-six, you
know, and we Will entertain in as hos
pital style as any of the others. IN. Y.
Graphic.
TEL should be very much obliged if
you would give me a puff" said the
book agent as he entered a sanctum.
"With pleasure" responded the editor,
removing a cigar from his mouth and
Offering it to the visitor. "Take two
or three."-PAiladelphta Mews.
Count Smith put on a clean paper
collar last Wednesday, when the Their
mometer was 104 degrees in the shade.
and it melted round his neck nathree
minutes and fifteen seconds. This is
the fastest time made by a paper collar
this year.-Son Francisco Newsletter.
"A lady stopping at hotel in Aus
tralia was bitten by a rat, and has sued
the proprietor of the hotel for $4,000
damages. The bite was not severe, but
her fright was so great that her hair
hanging on the back of a chair-turned
gray before neutrality-suspicious. Her
aid.
Mrs. Lovefcwers Qrom her window,
to new maid servant, who is at work in
the garden): what are you doing in
the ~petunia bed, Norah?" "Shure,
I'm pullin up all the wild carrots, m !;
an I'll have it all wed in a minnit, m"
"Are you sure that you know the weeds
from the young plants?" "Faith, I
am, m. They smells jist like tame
carrots, m; an smells ivery wan
soon's I pulls it up. 'm."-Harper's
Bazar.
-Harper's Bazaar is authority for the
dictum that a widow should be married
in a bonnet. In our opinion this idea
is wrong. By the time the widow has
selected the style of bonnet in which
| she wishes to appear at the ceremony
the groom will have lost patience and
gone elsewhere for a wife. The best
thing for a widow to be married in is in
a hurry. Unless she has money. Then
she can take her. time:-Rochester IN. "
ost-Erpress.
johnny had come home from school
| several times within q month with va
rious bruises on his face and body re-
ceived in fights with his schoolmates,
and on the last occasion his mother
threatened him with severe punishment
if he ever engaged in a fight again.
Only a few days after the small chap
appeared with a black eye, and, scared
by the stern maternal greeting, "Well,
sir?" he departed from his usual truth
full ways, and stammered: "I fell down
and hit my head on a stone" '.And
which got the worst of it?" asked his
big brother. "Oh, the other fellow, you
bet," answered Johnny briskly. "He's
gone home with two black eyes,
H0rpe7's Bazaar.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04

Red Dog, Arizona, is getting civil
lied. A coroner was appointed last
month, and next morning he impaneled
a jury to view the most recent corpse.
The following was the verdict: 1--WE,
the jury, dooly swore, find that deceased
KEN ter his deth by the juimint off God
fer heven kawled Bill Jaxon a lier."-
Chicago Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04
Our Young Folks.
TWO LITTLE GIRLS I KNOW.

know a little girl
you! Oh, noO
Who, when she's asked to go to bed,
Does just So
She brings a dozen wrinkles out
And takes the dimples in;
She FUCKERS up her pretty lips
And then she does Begin:
"Oh dear me! l don't see why!
All the others sit up late,
And why can't II"
Another little girl I know,
With curly pate,
Who says: when I'm a great big girl
I'll sit up late;
But mamma says twill make me grow
To be an early bird"
So she and dolly trot away
. Without another word.
Oh, the sunny smile and the eye 80 blue
And-why, yes, now l think of 1t,
She looks like yOlL.
Vo,,tb,s non,,nnSon
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-08-04

Eight young women of Eliza1er 10.
near Pittsburgh, Pa, were arrested re-
Gently for singing "Rock OF Ages
der a window of Mrs. Martha laylo ~
house. When the matter came before an ,t
Burgess Mrs. Taylor failed to make ~
q case and was obliged to pay the coz
National Republican., 1883-09-14

tariff tho country ever had, except Henry
Clay. In 1876 the party was for "a tariff
only for revenue aud in 1850 IL was for IA
tarfifor revenue only" In 1855 is balancing
itself between protection and free trade,
favoring each, both, and neither Wattcrsop
breaches mornings and Randall in the even
ings. The voters may take their choice if
they will only vote tho democratic ticket,
Tho party has neither principle nor preiu-
dice on the tariff question. II is in favor of
whatever tho man wants who has not yet
voted on election day. 1t is all things
to all men, and issues its promises on both
sides of public questions as freely as ever a
spendthrft issued his notes. 1t wants the
Offices, and if It could get power and should
be called on to redeem its pledges it would
pay them off IN double.faccd convention
resolutions, which could be construed oppo-
site ways Such is tho confidence game of
the democracy.