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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

There are twenty-eight heirs to the
succession to the British throne.
The different shooting clubs of
England have in five years purchased
$4,000 pigeons for sport, at a cost Of
9S0,261.
"A list of about five hundred per-
sons who sent crosses or wreaths on the
occasion of the funeral of the Duke of
Albany is published in the London
newspapers ''by authority"
The new imperial palace at Stras-
burg is to be completed in three years,
at a cost of Sl,250,0OO. 1t seems q
piece OF extravaganza, us the Emperor
has a dozen palaces already.
An acropolis of immense extenthas
just been discovered at Ekhmeem, Up
per Egypt. Five great tombs, or cata-
combs, already opened have yielded
one hundred and twenty mummies. and
the sites OF over one hundred calacombs
have been verified.
Henry I.abouchere, who is not only
editor of an influential London journal,
but q member of Parliament as we'll,
has been going into uncomfortable
mathematics by showing that the cost
of the royal family, about 81, 1000, 900
annually, would give a meal to GOO, 900
children on 400 days in the year.
The London Lancet tells why tho
Patent Medicine bill did not pass Par
lament. Its fourth clause declared
that any patent medicine shall be
deemed toIea poison until an analysis
by. the Pharmaceutical Society shall
show it to be otherwise The Govern
ment opposed it because the revenue
would suffer ~severclyif the drugs should
be sub ,ected to so severe q test.
Colonel Burnaby, in the London
FortnaghtlY Rericw. deals with the sub
iect OF balloons. He is of the opinion
that they can never be utilized as a
means of locomotion, but that the use
OF captive balloonsin war will come into
extensive use. By combining the more
recent process of military signaling
with the use of the balloon, the actions
OF the enemy may be observed as the
men on a chess board.
Prince Bismarck was once admon-
ished for whistling on the Sabbath dav
in Scotland, has never forgotten it. and
will not be in the least surprised when
he hears, as he will with grim satisfac-
ton, that Nh. Gray, a member of the
Helensburg United Presbyterian
Church, who had been elected to the
Office of Elder, has just been refused or
dination by the session on the ground
that she took a walk in the country Sab
bath afternoon"
Man, according to Mr.. j. W.
Knowles. must have taken up his resi-
dence in Ireland at q very early stage
in the history of the world. Nj.
Knowles has discovered tlints at Lane
and other places on the northeast coast
of that country, some of which, he be-
lieves, show evident traces of human
workmanship. Cne large Clipped inn
plement was found in what appeared to
be true undiSturbed towlder clay.
There are other tools which MIR.
Knowles has in his possession which
seem to indicate that man had lived in
Ireland before the paleolithic period
during, in fact, the glacial epoch.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
The Dudes Uncle.

There's a man." said the oracle, as
he walked down Broadway with the
World's town listener, ''who deserves
q great deal of credit"
He pointed, not at a man, but at a
battered s'gn on the other side of the
street, which indicated that q business
in diamonds was carried on within.
"That man." continued the oracle.
"began life by swapping jack knives.
lie used 10 go around the streets, with
a little bundle of cutlery under His
arm, and his method was to approach
and ask q man if he didn't want to ex-
change his old penknife for a new on.
OF tirst-class Sheffield make. About
min times in ten the stranger would
accept the invitation. Then the neri-
pa;etic dealer in b AIDES would open h;s
bundle and negotiations would bepin,
The end of it generally was that the
stranger received a good. new knife in
exchange for his old blade and gave the
dealer q little something to boot Tho
Old knives were cleaned, polished and
supplied with new handle, and swannoI
over again. The idea was nnv.I and
its originator made a good dc,l Of
money out of it. When he had am,sSni
asnug little capital he set up a diamond
Joan business over there, and he is Wont h
a cold million now. hen ,hr Jvana
van money they 60 in to see him and
r'ls, tue wine OF 'hcir diamonds, IA
won't take any other kind of sccnr;tr
and lie makes money hand over NAVY
IA. Y. UorlL 0Sn
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
Rich Mems Wills.

n uo1t will! case is still before the
courts and it will be years before a set;
dement, VIII be reached. The same re-
mark applies to the Hammersly case
and thus leads one to a reference %
some other instances OF the klna.
Stephen Girard, who was the richest
man in America in his day. died in
1881, leaving the enormous sum OF nlne
millions-eaual to thrice that amount
at the present time. He had no chll,
dren. and after making a few personal
lepaciesthc grand estate was ~bcqueathed
to charitable objects, chief of which was
the college. The Girard estate was tho
largest ever thus devised. either in this
country or any other. The best estate
ever beoueathed to charity in this city
was the Sailors Snug Harbor. Its
original value was small but has in
creased immensely since the bequest
was made, and Stewards uptown pal.
ace now in other uses) occupies part
of it. The ground rent paid for this
plot is S45. 600 q year, and this is prob:
ably not %one-9uarter of the entire en-:
ldowment. Next in Importance is the
Astor library, for which purpose old
John Jacob tequeathed 100000, and
the family has NICE his death added
$500, 900. The Cooper Institute is the
greatest public benefit conferred dur.
inc the life of the donor. 1t cost $780,.
900 twenty years ago and since then
some important improvements have
been added.
The Demitt ~dispcnsary was q gift OF
"a lady Of that name, who inherited an
;estate from her father, q noted watch
maker. The Roosevelt hospital was the
lbequest Of an eccentric bachelor, who
lived q miserable life and hated his
heirs to whom he left nothing, giving
all to charity. A law suit cnsued and
the matter was finally compromised.
The heirs got a handsome slice of the
estate, and enough was left to erect a
grand hospital. The Leak and Watts
orphan asylum is another charity de-
vised by private beneticcnce. and it has
been OF great benefit TO the world.
Madame Jumel, like Roosevelt, hated
her hcirs-at-law, and therefore Ee-
iqueathed her immense estate to chart
table objects, but the will was contested
and it was set aside on the ground OF
insanity. William B. Astor, notwith-
standing the immensely Of his estate,
only left $40, 900 to charity. Commo-
dore Vanderbilt did better than was ex-
'pected, but this was due tothe influence
OF his wife. Among the recent postum
nous benefactions which attract no
tice are those OF William L. Dodge,
which are more than one-third OF a
million, and Samuel Willets, the opu-
lent Quaker, who did much better, his
benevolent requests being nearly a halt
million. Wil.ets was a very close mar
and dressed so plainly as to really look
shabby. / have occasionally met him
in Wall street clad in thrcadhare gar
ments, and wearing a broad brimmed
hat SO faded that its original black had
become a dingy blue. HIS whole APP
pearance was SO suggestive Of poverty,
that an ordinary observer would have
viewed him with pity. Such was tho
man who b%equeathed half a million te
,charity.-M Y. Cor. Atica Hsruld.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
Russian Morality.

Morality, even in respect to the re-
lations of the two sexes, is almost I'M
known among the upper classes of
society, and if the accuracy of this
| startling statement be doubted a
reference to any modern novel or story
in the Russian language will prove that
not even a native and patriotic writer
can describe his countrymen and
countrywomen except in colors which
q French novelist would shrink
from depicting. Virtue and con
stancy are, as a rule, wanting in both
husband and wife, The dqpravity
turtles largely imbibed from nurses and
servants. bred under a dcmoralizing
condition of sewage, and which has
naturally reacted upon the class from
which it sprang, has spread and~be-
come intensified to a terrific extent with
the spread of education. The Nihilistic
plague affects nearly the whole female
population above the peasantry. The
widest possible definition OF women's
rights is acquired at the institutes of
noble young ladies, as we'll as at the
humblest boarding and day schools,
and the enjoyment of those rights
after marriage is encouraged by the
immortality OF the men and the facility
with which auricular confession to q
debased and servile priesthood con-
dones every oflense against the laws Of
God and man. 1t may be here asked,
''Has the Greek Orthodox religion pro-
duced no effect on the morality OF
the Russian nation?" Alas! the only
answer is: None whatever. As q caste
drawn originally from the servile class,
the priesthood, and particularly the
p%arochial clergy. is to this day, with
only too few exceptions, stepped in the
grossest ignorance and superstition.
Dependent upon his parishioners for his
daily bread, the priest can not, even if
he would, avoid pandering to their
vices. he shares with them the de-
basing vice Of drunkenness, and he can
therefore show no example of honesty,
morality, industry or true enlighten-
ment. He takes but little part in the
great work of national education; in
deed, his participation in thatwork has,
in many cases, according to a Russian
State paper. been rejected on the
ground Of the danger which it would
present to the moral and intellectual
development OF the people. The church
is already fast losing the fictitious hold
which it has had over a superstitious
and ignorant nation. The report of an
Imperial commission issued in 1861 at
tested that even in the old centers of re-
ligious fervor the churches were rapidly
being abandoned by the peasantry for
the dram-shops, and were being fire.
quented only by old women and chill
dren, while secession from the orthodox
church, into which the Greco Uniates
have recently been driven in so barbar-
ous a manner, was very much on the
increase. Society and religion are thus
both going through a period Of dissolu.
ton in Russia, while the country is coy.
cred with a network of secret societies,
all aiming at the subversion of the shat
tered fabric OF the State.-Brooalyn
E0gIe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
George Vanderbilt.

Mr.. George Vanderbilt. the Youngest
son of Mr.. William H., is a great pet
in the family, and as much for the rea-
son that his tastes are very different
from the others as because he is the
baby. He is the only one in the family
with any leaning toward literature. He
is not a very literary young man, but
his tastes instead OF turning toward the
race-tracks, or towards yachting, turns
to books and things OF a som what SIM
liar nature. He has quite a fine library
and a collection of articles of unusual
and unique interest. One of the most
remarkable of his possessions is the
chess table and chess-men thatformerlv
belonged to Napoleon l., and which he
used during his exile at st. Helena.
Not only this, but there is even more of
a CHASTITY interest ATTACHED to this SOU
venir. 1t was standing by the table
when the physicians were making their
post-mortem examination of the dead
Emperor, and when they took out the
heart, they pulled open one of the
drawers OF this little table and
laid the heart upon it and
to-day II may see the deep stains of
luc U1OOu Oh VIC luS1uc Oh Jlc QraWer.
This relic belonged to Mr.. McHenry,
of railroad celebrity, before it came into
George Vanderbilt possession. Young
Vanderbilt, who was a frequent visitor
at Mr.. McHenry's house in London,
used to look at this table with longing
eyes and often expressed his envy Of its
possession. So Mr.. McHenry, who was
fond of the young man, determined one
day to send it over here to him as a
surprise. In the meantime he met q
friend of the Vanderbilt family, who
told him that he had been authorized
by Mr.. William II. to offer him $40, OOO
for that chess-table to present to George
on his twenty-first birthday. "Keepyo1
$50, 00O," said Mr.. McHenry, Il have
no use for it. The table is already on
its way to George, and will reach him
on his birthday" which it did to his
great delight. The same day, by the
way, Mr.. William H. said to MI. Nc.
Henry: 81 have just paid over to
George 50, 500, 600 as his proportion oil
his grandfather's will. The boy must
take care of himself now Which
think he do very readily on his in.
come.-M. Y. Cor. Buffalo Commercial.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
l I AND POINT.

If a married couple avoid the fl
quarrel they will never have a secol
-LoWcW Citizen.
The man who pr:des himself
always speaking his mind IS the fiji
one to kick when he finds anybody e
exercising the same priyilege.-Din
Free Press.
"A woman always carries her pur
in her hand, SO that other women W
see it; a man carries his in his inst
pocket, SO that his wife won't see it.
The young women who bites
tinger-nails and kisses her pug dog
the nose would fall in q stony faint
seeing her father nip q piece off Il
butter lump with his own knife.
Chicago Tribune.
-''lIave you heard of the VALLEY
Babyland?' asks Ella Wheeler. ld
we have, Ella; but what we are pa
ticularly anxious to know is wheth1
there is a path that goes around it an1l
where?-Burhngton Free Press.
De easiest touch O. dc BABY
fingers ain ez soft ez natur. Nobot
makes no difference how genie, Il
shove de ten'er cotton sprout in de d
without mashin' it. but natur can sho1
it through q hard clod.-ArEaN1
ITuvclcr.
"A worthy old lady offers tile 4
lowing advice to girls: ''Whene,ef
fellow pops the question, don't bh]
and stare at your foot. Just thNI
your arms around his neck, look NJ
full in the face, and commence tois7
about the furniture"
-Lillian-What a queer title ff
book, ma! Ma-What title? Lillian
"Not Like Other Girls" Mail
rather odd. Is it a novel? Lillian
les. wonder what the heroine "
Ge If she is not 'like other girls" y
Il don't know, unless she goes "
the kitchen and helps her mother
stead of staying in the parlor to '
novels. -Philadelphia C0N.
.-"And so now they're eng'ss
Well, Jessie. to think of you, wlth!S1
beauty and accomplishments. ard!
lovely voice, being cut out by sasn !;
ignorant little fright as that M' =
Uuickson? You sang to him, =, W
pose?" Eyes, mamma, by the ~,
But she made him sing, you know, In n
played his accompaniments for nmr
"Why, can he singt" mo, rlal1n
but she made him believe he couu'
LONDON Punch. ..
1t was a Cass avenue car; n
Young ladies' were standing up oA, ~
in front of a morbidly eccentIN
who had not once looked at them m
fered them q seat. One of them sen,
on his foot, which had no business
there anyhow, and maintained n' I'D
sltion. Then he looked at ln' .Vy
passengers and asked aloud:
am like a character in an Ola , .uard
rhyme?' Nobody answered, ,a .ums
all We're dying to know: h p,.Ib,
said the eccentric man d he settles ii.;
in his ill-gotten seat, Il have 0ei''
NY s."--Detrol Free Press
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20

been for the last three hundred and;
fifty years, and so. we presume, it will,
be. From this source was derived the
enormous wealth which in former times
the spanisrds drew from Mexico. With.
the profits of mining the massive and
costly buildings of the Mexican cities,
all re les OF the Spanish epoch, were,
constructed; and whatever prosperity
may be in store for Mexico hereafter.
must, we suppose, mainly proceed from
the same source. 1t is not an agricul-
tural country; it is = mining country,
with a little agricultural thrown in.
Nature made it such, and such it re-
mains.-Editog1al Cor. N. Y. Sun.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

Paper bottles are now maaa
large scale in Germany and Austr;o.n
"A cigarette machine at Durb.ns
c., turns out two hundred "smokar,'S
minute.
A knitting company at Cob..
N. Y, makes from 1900 to :, OoO l I"ueS
Jerseys daily. ''u's'
New tools for cutting nmn.
should be rather hard than soft, 81 Me1
temper will be reduced by wear.@E..a1
Times. N
Two cases have been reported .
an English medical society in WHY
the electro-magnet has been suneo'
fully used for removing pieces Of iss'
from the eye.
1t has been figured out bv \.
Wood. the eminent student, Of notn,l
that if a mar could eat as much in n.s
portion as q bird he would consumma
whole round of beef for his dinner.
In eighteen counties in Central q,
Western New York two thousand na]
pie plant sorghum each year, but n
perimentally only, and on q SINAI
scale. About thirty thousand galjoS1
OF sugar L produced.
"A new use has been found for 81,
dust by employing it, under q rece,
patent, as a substitute for sand in hona1
p%lastering. 1t is claimedto be cheansl
lighter, warmer. more porous, and !
ITS non-conducting qualities causingtj
inner surface OF the walls to retain M
heat which sand plastering allows /
escapc.-Mechanical News.
Charles f. Ritchel, of Bridgcpo1
N. Y, who tried to inventa flying-mI
chine, will get 800, 900 to perfect A
invention with from the estate of Mai
well, a millionaire brewer at Milwo1
kee, who left $500, 900 for experimen1
in aerial navigation, one-tifth of it N
ing specified as for Ritchel's machin1
Ritchcl will begin experiments on
large scale.
DIR. johnson once declared: stTbpl
is nothing, / think, in which the powl
of art is shown us much as in playin|
on the violin" The violin, althoush
seems simple, requires great care in
construction. Each variety of woo|
has its variety of sound. The pressu1
of the four strings of the violin is sd
to be equal to about ninety pounds, an
yet the whole instrumentmay not weld
more than two pounds.
bennington, Vt, has the Jared
dealer in the world in genuine sprud
gum. His average sales of this cod
modify reach $4,000 pounds a~nnuaI
The largest portion of the gum is d
tanned in Canada, though considerabl
quantities are procured in New Ham
shire, Maine and Vermont. The guu
gathcrers go many miles into the fore]
erect a cabin, and stay long enough ID
each to collect 100 pounds.
A new method of electrically loca
ing and following veins of metal in
earth has been applied in Massachj
sets. In searching for metal veins, 1
inventor drives two metallic stakes iM
the ground at the termini of the field
be tested. The stakes are connected
an electric battery and to an alarm,
the stakes have not contracted with
a metallic substance, the circuit
through earth only between the pol
and of too great resistance to allow
alarm to act. If, however, they hal
contracted with metallic matter, i
circuit is closed and the alarm aets,(
Electrical ReuaeW.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
Mexico.

Nine-tenths of Mexico consists of a
vast plain elevated from 6,OOO to 5000
feet above the sea level, enclosed on the
east and on the west by lofty ranges of
mountains. The soil of most of this
immense plateau would be fertile, no
doubt, if there was an abundance of
water, but scarcity of water is its most
impressive feature. The mountains on
ural moisture from the two oceans.
The streams are few and small, and ex-
cept during a brief rainy season Of two
months in summer, agriculture is only
possible through the aid of artificial IT.
rigation. The sum of water available
for this purpose is exceedingly limited,
much inferior, indeed, to the supply
employed for the same purpose in Col
orado and New Mexico. Thus during
the dry season a very large proportion
of the Mexican plateau has the appear
ance of a desert. From Ell Faso on the
Rio Grande on the north down to Ia
catccas, q distance of $50 miles, the
whole land at this time of the year is
waterless, yerdureless, an expanse
mainly composed of sand and dry dust,
relieved only by a scattered growth of
cactus and mesquit bushes. The
mounSains stand grim and bare in
the attenuated atmosphere, without
a tree and almost WITHOUT a shrub upon
their broad and tawny sides. Here and
there, at great distances, the course of
a stream may draw a ribbon of green
ness across the arid landscape, or a
hacienda, with its group OF farm build
ings enclosed in q massive stone wall
like a fortress, suggest the fact of hui
man habitation; or a herd of cattle or a
flock OF sheep may diversity the scene;
but the prevailing effect is that of a
fruitlcss waste. Mr.. ID. B. Robinson,
the able manager OF the Mexican Cen
trail Railroad, cherishes the hope of
finding, through the means Of artesian
| wells, water enough to irrigate this
country; but where is such a body
of water to be taken from? The only
possible source would be the rainy
slopes on the east and west of the great
sierras; but we fear that the probability
of giving fertility to the region through
irrigation from artesian wells is very
small indeed.
This formation, this dry, elevated
plain, extends from the northern bound
"AS ". iSHAS WY I" u ouI GA
cursions only reached into the State OF
Morelos, some hundred miles south OF
the capital; but there the general
character Of the plateau remained
substantially unchanged; and it is
not too much to say that in
nine-tenihs of the Mexican republic
the land is of this sort, destitute OF
qualities that are Indispensable for ag-
ricultural purposes. This also accounts
to a considerable extent for the sur
prising magnitude of the estates into
which the country is divided. Except
in a few favored and limited districts,
there are no small farms there, because
) culture in small holdings is out of the
question; and estates Of hundreds of
thousands of acres are the rule, because
it is only on an extensive scale that
farming can be made to pay its ex-
'penses in such q country; and it must
be mainly cattle-farming and sheep
farming at that.
The chief business prosecuted in
Mexico to-day is mining. So it has
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
Majority Report on the Danyille Riot.
NO FURTHER EXPLANATION.

WASHINGTON, May 2s.-The majority
report of the Senate Election Committee on
the Danville riot was submitted yesterday.
1t declares that the riot was preconcerted
for the purpose of intimidating the negroes.
The committee found no evidence that the
negroes had fired a shot until after the
whites had fired a volley. The whites were
generally armed, but the negroes were
not. Arms were distributed from
shops and stores to the whites who had
none The objects of the whites were:
First, to intimidate the colored voters in
localities were they were strong; and,
second, to produce such a feeling in the
State as would induce white electors to join
with their own race and escape the reproach
to which they would he subjected it they
fraternized with the Triggers" 1t was made
to appear that the blacks were the offenders,
when in truth the white Democrats were in
possession of the town.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
Count TOlstoi. Minister of the I

Count Tolstoi, Minister Of the In
terror, is said to be preparing a reform,
in Russian prisons, with the intent al
making them morelikc the prisons ostba
other European States. The organiza-
ton Will De cia.ned upon English an!
German models, end their supervision
will be intrustc6 with special commits
sons. It is also proposed that homes
for released prisoners shall be bull.
where they can lind work and shelter.
For the multitudes Of beggars, whic.,
are now u Nuisance in the streets Il
every Ku>sian town, large work-housts
are 10 be erected.