Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19

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The latest, in dress, for gentlemen is
the Father Hubbard" An exchange
says, simply drop the suspenders and
wear the shirt loose over the top of
your pants. instead of. tucking it in, and
you have The Father Hubbard"
Philadelphia Call:-"Make your hus-
bands comfortable at home, and they
will not 60, out in the evening"" ex-
claimed a, Cincinnati preacher, lately.
The next day Cincinnati wives were
anxious1y inquiring about the price of
beer by the key.
"Gentlemen," a frank Western Judge
isquoted as saying officially, "the Court,
as the bar we'll knows, is naturally
quick-tempered, and if this court had
not taken warning in time, and alb
stained from the use of ardent spirits
this court would now be in the peni-
Tertiary or it's grave"
Gather" said ayoungstcr who, with
his. sire, was watching the horses at
play in the field, "do you know why
you are like Jay Gould"
"Well, no, sonny, LIDO not.n
otis cause you have. lots of rolling
stock" ..s
"All right, you go and water the
stock and then you will be like JAY
Gould, too"
| A thoroughbred Kentucky heifer,
named Lille Dale, ate a leaf of tobacco
and then lay down and gasped away
500 worth of blooded stock into the
invisible beyond. BY and by fine bred
cattle will learn. to leave the food of
god-like man alone. Next thing you
know, the race horse will get to. drink
ing whisky with the Jockeys, and a nice
set Of brutes we will have,
An English exchange tells us Of a
novel competition that has lately en-
tered into the market. 1T other words.
milk is put into q can on this side of
the water, and in eight or ten days de-
livered in London. This looks very
like a joke, but SC many wonderful
things are done nowadays that one
hardly knows what to believe and what
to doubt. If kept at allow temperature
it retains its sweetness for that length
of time, but it certainly would not pos
sess a very fresh taste.
Frederick Douglass has been heard
from. He discusses the prohibition
movement in newspaper letter of con-
siderable length and great force. He
shows that a vote for st. John is half a
vote for Cleveland, and a positive in
jury to the cause of temperance. His
reasoning is cogent, closing with an ap-
peal to the Republicans of prohibition
tendencies to stand by the party until
justice and liberty have been establish
ed, and the ballot rendered sacred at
the South as well as the North.-Inter
Ocean.
Sioux Falls Press:-The c%artoonist
has tackled the prohibition question in
Iowa, and E. E. Savage brings back
from Des Moines some samples of his
work. The moon in it's first quarter is
pictured sailing over the Hawkeye
state with a most direfully distorted
vlsage, eyclaiming, "However shall 1
get fullY Then the rotund orb is
again depicted with a jolly leer in the
eye, and the tongue thrust out Of one
corner of the mouth, the rollicking SUBJ
ject declaring, II know where to get it,
all the same! Ha! hal" and down be-
low is a sign, "Morphia."
South Dakota will probably carry off
the prize for the largest squashes, both
at the Chicago and Milwaukee exposi-
tions. A few days ago an Elk Point
correspondent wrote the Sioux CITY
Journal Of a l62-pound squash which
had been captured ear that town, and
the agricultural editor of that paper
wanted the squash for a paper-weight
and wrote the Elk Point correspondent
to secure it for him. On Friday he re-
ceived the following: "The 1G2-pound
squash has been shipped to the Chicago
exposition. Two that weighed 1925
pounds each were shipped to Milwau-
kee. The three filled a double wagon
box comfortably full from the seat
back."-Sioux Falls Press.
AT Lake George the water is so clear
and the sand at the bottom so clean
that the depth a be appreciated, and
the ease of drowning is apparent there.
A mother of a ~six-year-old boy, while
averse to denying to him the pleasure
of boating, sought to rob it of it's perils.
She said to herself that he would be
safe if he couldn't fall overboard; and