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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22
HolHOW.
AChincse City With Novel Smells Rlvalina
tho ~Far-Famed Smells of Cologne.

Chinese City With Novel Smells Rivalina'
thu Far-Famed Smells of cologne.
Hollow is not an attractive town.
The streets OF the suburb outside the
wall are even narrower than those of
ordinary small towns in China, much
dirtier, and the visitor, who has already
some knowledge of China, detects a
few varieties of bad smell that impress
HIM with the idea of absolute novelty.
The inhabitants show the mixed types
Of Fokien and Kwang-tung. with such
ind genous clements as have, during
many thousands of years, been finding
their way here from the mainland Of
the peninsula of Father India, or the
islands that lie to the southwark of it.
They are well-disposed and far less GU
rious than the Chinese of mainland cit
les. The shops contain such Chinese
goods as are suited to a population of
this class, with odds and ends of Euro
pean and American notions which have
within thirty years found their way to
the most retired villages in the interior
of Asia. The markets make a liberal
display of fish and pork, which is con-
sidered the diet in China, and.
what can not be seen elsu-
where, a kind of water-snake
(for sale at the f~ish-stalls), which is
esteemed a delicacy by the Hainanese.
The dress is with some variations, that
of the Kwang-tung provinces. The
language heard in the streets is so diff
ferent from that of the mainland as to
be hardly ineligible to a native of
Canton. The houses are of lava-stone,
or brick. one story in height, and
though swarming with pigs, dogs, and
vermin, are permanent and comforta-
BILE III a climate that is always cool and
sometimes cold in winter. The resi-
dences of the merchants and officials are
spacious. The guilds have large balls,
or detached buildings, conspicuous py
their Chinese ornaments in front, their
two lofty poles bearing huge baskets,
and a stage where theatrical represen-
tations are occasionally given. The
wall of the old town is not crenclated
The streets within it are broader and
cleaner and the shops large: and better
stocked. The foreigners connected
with the customs and c~onsulates are
comfortably do~mcsticated in Chinese
houses, no European residences having
been built during the eight years since
Hollow became an open port.-Cor.
San Fra ,cisco Chronicle.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22
How an Insect Breaches.

II we take any moderately large in
Sect say a wasp or a hornet, we can
see. sven with the naked eve, that a
series OF small. spoclike marks run
along either side of the body. These
apparent spots, which are generally
eighteen or twenty in number, arc, in
;ace, me aperatares through which air
Is admitted into the system, and are
generally formed in such manner that
no extraneous matter can by any posi-
Dlllty find entrance. Sometimes they
are furnished with a pair of horny lips.
winch can be opened and closed at tho
WIN OF the insect; in other cases they
are uenseiy fringed with stiff interlacing
oiastles, forming a filter, which allows
ar, and air alone, to pass. But tho APP
Paratus, OF whatever character it may
oe' Is always SO wonderfully perfect il
ies action that it has been found i'm
possible to inject the body of a dead in
sect with even so subtle a medium as
spirits OF wine, although tie subject
was 1lrst immersed in tho fluid and than
paced beneath the receiver of an aig
pump.-BoSton Budqea
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22
THE GLACIERS OF ALASKA,


Ice.
When the Davidson glacier takes its
last turn in its course and pushes out
through q grand gateway in the
mountains, it spreads out in fan shape
and sweeps down in a long graceful
slope to its terminal moraine. The
moraine has been built up from the
water by the deposit of rocks, peb-
bles and sand, ground up and car
red down from the mountains by the
glacier, until a long strip of dry land
formed in front of the melting ice.
The moraine before the Davidson ola
cier was made so long ago that a
dense forest of ancient and lofty pines
has stretched like q hedge across the
three miles Of the glaciers front.
Forty miles across the mountains By
the ice, OF around four or five times
that distance by water to the other
side OF the mountainous peninsula is
the famous Glacier Bay, the great
natural show place of Alaska. Seven
immense glaciers flow into the waters
of the bay, coming down twenty, forty
and ever sixty miles from great snow
fields in the White Mountain and Fair
weather Alps Range. One of che larp-
est Of these ice rivers is named the
Muir Glacier, in honor of Professor
John Muir, of California, who was the
first white man to tell the world of its
existence no further back than 1879.
He went cautiously up an inlet of the
bay in an Indian canoe; but large
ocean steamers ride up within a
quarter OF a mile of the ice front now
each summer, and are received with
spirits at every visit.
Sailing up that long inlet filled with
bergs and floating ice, one sees a broad
gray river of ice pouring down a great
valley between two mountain ranges,
with tributary streams of ice joining it
rom every gap and detile. and from
.round every jutting point.
The frozen flood, with it's tossed and
broken waves. stretches ten miles across
from mountain wall to mountain wall;
and the long tongue of ice running
down to the Inlet presents 4 water
washed, crystalline cliff three miles
long, and from two to four hundred
feet in height. Slowly creeping down
the valley, and %thrusting itself into the
water, the ice is honey combed. by the
washing of tides and huge pieces Of
the front, and avalanches of ice are
sliding down INTO the water with a con-
tinuous crash and roar at low tide.
The spray and waves dash far up the
glittering front after one of these great
ice slides, and there is a magnificent
play OF prismatic colors on the frcttod
and fantastic ice wall when the sun
light falls full on the western front.
The largest glaciers of Switzerland
could be pit away in a corner of the
Muir Glacier and lost; aud except en-
the coast Of Greenland Il 10
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

The total height of the Bartholdi
statue of liberty will be, when com.
pleted, 317 feet above the water level.
The height of the spire of Trinity
Church, New York City, from the sur
face of the ground is 2S4 feet. The
Bartholdi statue wiilthereforc be thirty
three feet higher. The height of the
.tAys1s of the New York and Brooklyn
Bridge is 278 feet above the water level.
The Bartholdi statue will therefore be
Ghlrty-nine feet higher.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

EASTERN stationers are reporting large
sales Of imported tissue papers since the
for making decorative articles of
this inexpensive material began. This pa
per is produced in every conceivable
shade and in graduation tints, and in
Ssae hands of ingenious persons of artis-
tic tastes, undergoes wonderful trans
formations in PLAQUES, flowers, fans,
screens. dolls, bonbenieres, mats, pic
tnre frames, CRATES and hangings.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

PANJDEH, where the first Russo-Af-
gl.an battle was fought, is between six
~ and seventy miles south of the old
Russian boundary, and about fifty miles
north of the line now claimed by the
Russians. but disputed by the Afghans
and English. 1t is, in fact, very near
the center of the disputed territory,
(which extends from north tosouth about
NO miles, and from east to west about
100 miles on its southern side, and $50
ON its northern. .
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The courts of France, it is said.
consider it a libel to overestimate q
lady's age.
Nine Australian telegraph opsr-
ators are said to have become lunatics
from overwork during the past thirteen
months.
"A Nuremberg chemist says that
paste made of starch. glycer!ne and
gypsum will retain its Elasticity and
adhcsiveness longer than any other CO.
ment.
The modified Constitution of Hol-
land provides that the crown shall pass
to the Princess of the House of Orange
who is nearest related to the last King
when there is no direct issue.
AT a recent meetingof the support
crs of the Home for Lost and Starving
Dogs in London it was stated that the
number of dogs brought into the Home
during the year ending the 31st of De-
ccmber last had been 10 fewer than H.
772, being eighty-five in excess of the
preceding twelvcmonth.
I'm the Tower Of London are twen-
ty-one specimens of shields, with a pis-
tol attachment in the center, the weap-
on being a breech-loader, and slightly
projecting, so that it would hardly be
noticed by an enemy until it was dis
charged. All these shields were car
ried in former mes as concealed
weapons"
Two F%renchmen, the brothers
FORE, have invented a new kind of
harp, made entirely of wood. Instead
of str ngs. the inventors use strips of
American fir. The sound is produced,
as in the ordinary harp. by the con-
tact of the fingers, but theplayer wears
leather gloves covered with rosin. The
tone of the instrument is sad to be one
of remarkable purity.
The enormous wealth of the Or
leans Princes is chiefly derived from
Louis Phi lippe's mother, who, incense
| quence OF the death OF her brother. the
Prince de Lamballe, became sole heir
ess of her father, the Duke of Pen
thievre, the richest subject of France.
The Duke died in 1893. His daughter
had two days before his death been d.
vorced from her worthless husband,
who was thus debarred from touching
her property.
-Kossuth, while still alive, enjoys
the satisfaction of knowing what the
worlds opinion of him will be after
death. He has, it is asserted, cut out
all the obituary notices that have
reached HIM, and they fill half q dozen
scrap-books, hundreds of newspapers
having been sent him from different
countries as soon as it was known that
the report of his death was untrue,
Twenty-Five Germans who have en-
tered the Chinese service were required
to take Chinese One Of them,
who was formerly captain of a COR
vette, is now called Wang-Li-Triane,
which, when turned into English, means
Mr.. High Wall. He has Just been pro-
noted to the rank of Admiral, and
commands the Chao Yung. Another
German officer IS now named Lin-Pao,
or Mr.. Six Cannons.
Shop signs in London were former
ly not affixed to houses. but were placed
on posts or hung thereon with hinges.
So largely did these increase at one
time that they absolutely obstructed
the free circulation of air, and were
supposed to be among the causes of the
frequent epidemical disorders of Lon
don. They also naturally aided the
spread of contlagrations, and on these
grounds were atterward forbidden to
be displayed
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

TITS q new caprice in letter writing
TO photograph the house from which the
~letteris sent and to have it printed
Mpon the paper instead of the address.
This is especially adopted by parties
who have handsome country seats. 1t
is q fashion that a be adopted by a
few, not the mass, and its very exclu-
s%iveness and eccentricity will cause it
10 be received with favor by many.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

1T may be said now that, SO far as the
near future is concerned, the Soudan
campaign under Lord Wolseley and
xsen. Graham is at an end. Gladstone
has formally announced that his policy
includes the withdrawal of both little
armies from Africa, and it is entirely
lnfNobable that any Indian troops
which may be sent to take the place. of
these crack regiments will do more than
hold a few points on the Red Sea and
on the Lower Nile.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22
THE sentence of Milton Weston, the

THE sentence of Milton Weston, the
wealthy Chicago capitalist, to iveyears'
imprisonment in the Western Peniten-
xiary for completely in the Murraysyille,
<'a-) gas well murder, embodies a
pointed lesson to those who have been
won't to 1agrantly violate the law in
their eagerness to secure possession of
valuable properties and franchises.
Probably there will not be so much of it
hereafter as there has been. Sojourns
IN ~penitentiaries are not pleasing to
contemplate.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

SANITARY science says that the cause
OF individual attack is the drinking of
cholera water, chat is, water into which
cholera bacteria have found their way.
of course there must be first an impor-
faton of the disease before the water
can be contaminated. Where the water
is originally pure and is conveyed
through close and clean pipes there is
very little danger of an extensive out
break.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

A CHICAGO man, who says he knows,
writes to the Inter Ocean, protesting
against the current idea that courtship
is a happy time. He likens it to %sbunko,"
end completes his infamy by remarking
that the girls mother is often the s'bun-
ko steerer," and that the father not in
frequently enters into the conspiracy to
force an unwilling declaration.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

TIE European crisis is increasing in
INTENSITY. The action of France in show
ing so clearly its alliance with Russia
rs against England has created the
naost profound agitation in the latter
country. If a war is precipitated, it is
believed it must, sooner or later, involve
che whole of Europe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22
ago.

The indications are all in favor of a
hate spring and cool summer. The old
est inhabitants Of Virginia and the Caro-
Xmas report that it is the most backward
season in fifty years, and that the winter
quarters of woodchucks are still pro-
Yected BY weather strips.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

ALTHOUGH hardly a year passes
without trouble in some part of her vast
doninions, Great Britain has had no
war OF magnitude on her hands fsince
the Crimean, now nearly thirty years
au,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22
TO

Al Communications for this paper Should be accom-
i.ailsd by the nams of the author; not necessarily e
TART IF Me writer. Write only on one side of the pa
hy5. Be particularly careful in giving en- names asi.a and IA
ser names arc OFTEN difficult to %decipher, because OF tn
vsrelces manner III which tn Y are writtes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

Ell MAHD1 AID General Wolseley can
0 take back seats while General Kom-
arof and Sir Peter Lumsden step to the
front to receive a little newspaper no.
toriety.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

AN examination into cigarette
smoking among small boys shows that
in u majority OF cases parents are to
blame. The fact is, mighty few people
arc fit to have children.--Augusta (Ga.)
Chronicle.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22
death marked for its ow

Sudden death marked for its own
a village COW of Kansas. The curious
wner instituted an investigation which
revealed in her stomach the following
articles usually foreign to healthy d.
gestion: Some gravel and shot, a piece
Of rock, one pin, three tacks: two screws
and five single and eight elght-penny
nails.-N. Y. Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

IT seems that Bismarck has decided
70 sit on the fence and watch the squab-
bic between England and Russia, with
no desire to take a hand in the fight.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22

If we publish jokes people sa, -
arc rattle-Ecadcd, and if we omit jokes
We are told we are an old fossil-N y.
Eali1fa.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-22
TOPICS OF H DAY.

The indications for a general Eu-
ropean war have not been IS strong
kicne the battle of Waterloo.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-03
GOING NORTH

-CONNECTIONs AT TERMINAL POINTS.
At AugustS-Trains 81 and 50 connect with
outgoing trains Of Georgia Railroad, Column
bla, Charlotte and Augusta Railroad, and
south Carolina Railroad. Train SO connects
with outgoing train on Augusta and Knox
vile Railroad. Train 81 connects with trains
for S%ylvania, Wrightsville and Louisville.
At Atlaata-Trains 81 and SO connect with
AIRLINE and kennesaw routes to all points
North and East, and with all diyerglng roads
for local stations.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-03
A Crazy Man on Horseback.

EftHt tAr AtthettN ~ 4 - AFttNNNfts
The crazy man who ran through John
street yesterday afternoon caused the
biggest kind Of excitement. His name
Is John Mokeon and he halls from
Jockey Hill. His first appearance WAS
in the yard at the rear of Cummings
brewery on Lucas avenue, where he was
seen sitting astride of the neck OF a gray
horse. He was bareheaded., barefoOted.
and had on no clothing excepting a red
flannel undershirt and a pair OF pants.
The horse he had taken from Cummings
barn, and the owner, George Delaney, Of
Glasco. who was visiting Mr.. Cummings
on demonstrating with him for taking the
animal, received a blow from MckeOh
alongside Of the mouth, which cut him
badly and knocked him down. Delaney
fell senseless under the horse, and the
wild man proceeded to ride around the
%barnyard. chewing one Of the ears Of the
horse. Efforts were made 10 lassO him by
Cummings. and, although JailOr Couroy
and Special Officer WesthrDok we q look
Ing on, having been halled, they made no
attempt 30 arrest him. After performing
for nearly an hour in the b%arnyard. the
horse started across the cOrnticld 10
Lucas avenue. and then through Green
and John streets 20 the Ulster County
Bank, Win the crazy nIa on It's back.
ON arriving az the bank corner Mckeon
commenced cheNllG the hoiSt5 ear, the
poor horse hanging is head until nearly
go he ground, as il trying TO get away
from the man. At last "A piece OF the ear
was bitten on and the mar fell 10 the
ground. He Immediately started On n
run down John street. taking the centre OF
the horse ear track, and men, women and
childred could be seen darting into door
WAYS aud open gates "a the insane ri
hail10ed: "l'm the Wild man. bewarei'
At the corner of John and Crown streets
Doe turned, ana, STOPPING over, picked up
= handful OF mud. with which he he
on Il walk, and Robert Plough and Wal.
ter keilaud, who had chased after him,
captured him, Ploug tip-toeing stealthily
behind MIN and grabbing him hy the
tnloat, and Kelland plnionlug his hands.
He was brought TO jail by his captors and
locked mp.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-03
LIKE FATHER IKE son.
The Marquis of Queensberry and his
Boy spar In san FrAnoIsoO.
From NE san Franotsco Chronicle.

From the San Fr0nctsco Chronicle.
At an early hour yesterday morning the
Marquis Of Queensberry, his evening
dress covered by a short o%yercoat, stroll
led into Maynard's sporting place, looked
cautiously about the deserted benches,
peered into the empty poxes, for it was
the hour after the early crowd had left
and before the late crowd had arrived,
and the Marquis appeared happy that
there was no one he knew about
the place.
"My boy been IN here this eVeningg'
the agnostic Marquis asked the man
aver.
"He was in early, sir" replied the
manager.
The Marquis walked about the place a
few minutes, and observing MIR. Prof.
June Dennis, Esq, snOOzing in a corner.
raped him on the shoulder, and asked
him If he wanted to put on the gloves.
The Professor did not know who his
antagonist was, but accommodated him,
and the two men, stripped TO the waist
had as lively a set-to as the place has
seen for many q day. Three rounds We're
fought at a rafting gate, and the
Professor wondered what he had picked
up.
AT an early hour in the same evening
7. X. Percy l.. Douglas. son of the
Marquis, entered Maynard's place, and,
taking the manager aside asked:
My governor been in here this even
ingy'
NO, not this evening"" said his man
ageT.
The kindergarten-class MILDLY walked
about the place, strewl with loaflng slog-
gers, and tnally asked the manager to
pick him out a boxer of about his own
weight.
son, III get you one who'll use you
right" responded the obliging manager.
"Oh | don't want any odds" responded
j.. X. Percy l.. Douglas, flushing,
A boxer of his weight was selected
for him. and the two young men had a
sl0gging match that delighted their small,
but crlticAl circle Of s%peetators.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-03
BENTON,s BRAG.
The Egotism or a Great Man and How
1t was Displayed.

FF0NH me ADHtft = iHNANifft"Ns
Fifty years ago strangers, on entering
the United States senate chamber. asked
that Clay, Webster, Calhoun and Benton
might be pointed out to them. They were
the four leading statesmen Of the day
and the personal appearance of each one
justified the gaze OF his admiring part
isans.
But neither Of the first three, not even
Webster. was more striking in figure,
face. or head than Benton. He was con-
spicuous physically, dressed neatly, bore
himself with dignity, save when lrrltatrd,
and delivered instructive n editylng
speeches upon such. subjects as he had
Investigated.
His senatorial brethren used to dislike
his dictatorlal manner, and the people
thought him pOmpous and egotistlcal.
Mr.. Benton's bearing wRs not conciliatory.
He was as dogmatlc toward his colleagues
az if they were plgmies and he a giant.
In addressing a popular assembly he
threw modesty aside, and spoke boast
ingly OF himself and his deeds.
Though fond Of talking about himself
prompted by a strange freak OF mOdesty,
he rarely used the personal prOnOun
~ employing the third person instead
as Benton said this or ''Benton did
that
'Citizens,' said he once, in a public
address-be rarely said ''tellOw-citZens'
no man since the days OF Cicero has
been abused as has Benton. What Cicero
was to Catiline, the Roman c0uspirator,
Benton has been TO John Caldw well Cal
noun, the South Carolina nulliier. Cicero
Illuminating his phillppics against Catiline
iu the Roman forum; Benton denOuncinR
John Caldwell Calhoun on the floor OF the
a f1ariHup senate (fTpAFo a ga in af ff9filInp o
Benton against Calhoun"
Colonel, ! believe you have made an
impression on these people," said a
friend TO him, after he had ended his
speech.
Always the case, sir" replied the
egOtistical but sincere man; "always the
case, sir. No n opposes Benton but a
few blackjack prairie lawyers; fellows
who aspire to he ambition OF cheating
some honest farmer out of a heifer in a
SUIT before a justice of the peace, sir
these are the only opponents Of Benton
Benton and the people, Benton add
democracy, are one and the same, sir
synonymous terms, sir, synonymous terms,
sir"
Two OF Benton's active political op-
pOnents were Jones, a state senator, and
Birch, a judge OF the supreme court. They
followed him in his canvassing, and re-
piled to his speeches.
Citizens" said the amazed statesmen,
81 have been logged all over this state by
such men as Claude Jones and Jim Birch.
Pericles was once so logged. He called
a servant, made him light a lamp, and
show The man who had dOZged him the
wav home.
"But it could not be expected Of me,
citizens, that | should ask any servant of
mine, either white or BLACK, or any free
negro, to perform an office of such, humi-
liating degradation as to gallant home
such men as Claude Jones and Jim Birch
and that with a lamp, citizens, that pas
sers-6y might see what kind of company
ny servants kept"