Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-11-14
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"You said" remarked one, chat the
defendant sat very close to your"
Eyes, sir" was the reply, with a hec-
tic flush.
"How close"
"Close enough, SOS one cheer was all
the sittin room we needed"
"And you say he put his arm around
you"
No, I didn't
"What did you say, them"
~ said he put both arms around me-"
""Then what?" -,
"He Rugged me-"
every hard?"
Eyes, he did. SO hard that 1 came
purity near hollerin' right out"
"Why didn't you 'holler?f'"
Cause"
CHATS no reason. BE explicit.
please. Because what?"
"Cause l was afeared he'd stop"
"Ihe Court fell off the bench and had
to be carried out and put under the nv
drant for the purpose of resuscitation."
Merchant Traveller.
LONDON, Nov. 5.-American lotteries
in Paris and London have been greatly
excitid oyerthe presidential election in
the United States. Various news rooms
were kept open throughout the night,
and as conflicting accounts were re-
ceived each party became alternately
jubilant nddepressed. The Democrats,
however, were the most sanyuine.
The Daley News. in an editorial up
on the latest advices from America that
Blame has 10000 majority in New York
state, says:
This result must be a surprise to his
friends as much as to his opponents.
Blaine has fought his battle with an
energy and spirit that even his oppo~
nents must admire. Gladstone's recent
efforts in Scotland were almost insig-
%niticant compared with the efforts Of
Blaine. Nevertheless the gradual re-
coyery OF the Democratic party from
great depression in 1863 encourages the
Democrats and alarms their opponents.
The present struggle is simply a ques-
ton of personal preference. The large
ness Of the vote is a healthful sign Of
the interest Americans take in their
politics.
The Standard arguing upon the hy-
pothesis that Cleveland had been elect
ed president, says:
The election will naturally imply a
sweeping displacement of those whose
means of livelihood depend upon poll
tics. Cleveland's friends would forci-
bly, urge upon him that it was his first
duty to eypel those who have been fol-
lowed by corruption.
Alpena Journal:-Some Of the San
born county papers are continually
barking about getting the eastern tier
o ftownships of Jerauld county attached
to Sanborn, but they should remember
that the size of u legislature is double
what it was two years ago, and that
Ordway no longer rules the territory,
and that it is not as easy to slice coun-
ties up as it has been in the past. 1t
will be when the generation that now
inhabits Sanborn county are making
p%igeon-toed tracks on the shifting sands
of eternity" before that county will ev-
er get any of Jerauld %county's valuable
territory.
Detroit Free Professionalism has
set his wits to work to devise a new
name for incendiarism or arson when
committed by people rich enough to
hire lawyers to defend them. 1t is
called pyromania-a mania for setting
things on fire. Just as a poor ragged
devil full of liquor is called drunkard.
while a man who can employ a doctor
instead of a policeman to take care of
him is called a dipsomaniac: and as a
poor girl who steals is a thief, but a
richer one a kleptomaniac; so we now
shall have i%ncendiaries and "pyromanl-
acs." But will it cut down the annual
destruction Of $1OO,0OO,0OO?
Texas Siftings:-Mose Schaumburg's
daughter, Rebecca, although one of the
most stylish young ladies in Austin, is
no longer as much Of a spring chicken
as she used to be. Moses brother, Ike,
is on a visit to Moses, and during a
conversation on family affairs, Ike said:
mine Colt, Wy don't Repecca marry
some rich feller?"
mine Colt, Wy don't some rich Teller
marry dot Repecca? Dot poor girl did
all vat she could now for more as twen-
ty years"
Louisville Courier Journal The
New York Observer holds that it is
much better to have one well-endowed
and well-mannered theological semina-
~ in a given district than several mo-
nohippic ones. 1t is a good thing to
see the coarse expression zone horse