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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-01

Mr.. Jacob Sharp, who unselfshly wrecked
his health in behalf of himself and other own
ers of the Broadway Railway some months ago,
has returned to the city in good condition, and
makes the pleasing announcement that the
University-place cars will be running again
before long. This agreeable legend has been
handed down to us since early in the summer.
and when the cars are running we shall be-
lieve that they are. The public, which has
great respect for Mr.. Sharp as street -snatcher
will be relieved to know that he has nothing to
do with the scheme to put railway i'll Fifth
ave-, because he thinks it would not pay. We
trust MIR. Sharp will never change his mind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-01
3Eew91prjs Dailn Ggibnl5e

FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-01

The Board of Aldermen is precious lot, and
its members proved the fact once again yestcr
day by voting to increase the municipal OK
penses for 1856 by about 100000. Their
action is only a recommendation, OF course,
which the Board of Estimate aud Apporhon-
ment will not pay the least attention to. But
all the same, it shows the cOnsummate assur-
anee of the Aldermen and their desire to
impress their constituents with the idea that
they are liberal crOwd-they are indeed
liberal with other peoples money. We trust
President Sanger will not feel called upon to
support the Aldermen's recommendation before
the Board of Estimate and Airport lOnment. If
he retains his old respect for the opinion of
reputable people he will certainly not do SO.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-12-01

From this distant point of view and Judging
from the information at hand, it seems unlikely
that the elections in the counties in England
will give the Liberals majority in the House
of Commons. Yet Liberals who ought to know
being on the ground, are hopeful, and the re-
doubled exertiOns of the Conservatives and
the ParnellItes indicate that they are not en-
tirely without fear of defeat. The Irish are
urged not to forget Mr.. Parnells directions,
and the Tories are spreading broadcast Mr..
Gladstone's speech in which he said that
small Liberal majority would endanger the
Empire, the application of which is that the
voters should return the Tories. Whatever
the result may be, however, the fact remains
that the borOughs, the most influential part Of
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
ANclEN1 RECORDS.
An Interesting Discovery i'm Egypt-oT&
Manuscripts,

An Interesting Discovery in Egypt-oT&
Manuscripts.
More than thirty Thousand fragments
Of ancient records have been dug up
from the sands of Egypt, where they
have rested embalmed during nine GEN.
turtles, not very much the worse for the
interment. The history of these VEN
cradle documents is remarkable. Prof.
Karabacek supposes that they must at
one time have formed part of the public
archives of Ell Fayoum, and that the
bulk of these archives persisted in a
conflagration, such as destroyed the
great library at Alexandria. The fella-,
heen of those days seem to have risen
in revolt against their natural enemy,
the tax-gatherer, and possibly they ass
social ID together the tax-collector and
the archives as emblems of the same
extortion. If Prof. Karabacek. Isl
right they set fire to Ell Fayoum and its,
documentary treasures without COM!
junction, and these thirty thousand
papyri and parchments, some Of them;
charred by the fire, alone remain Of the
collection. Prof. Karabacek and his
COdOJuUOlS WILL law UuCll III H. O4
work for some time to come in CLASH
flying what has come to their hands.
The Professor makes a preliminary
division of the manuscripts into groups
comprising eleven different languages,
more than one of which will be abso-
lutely new to the well-educated reader.
1t is not surprising to learn that the
key for deciphering those of the manu-
scripts which are styled Meroitic-
Ethiopian has yet to be discovered.
Merely to decipher those fragments
which are written in the more familiar
tongues of Coptic, Hebrew, Syriac,
Persian, and Arabian requires polyglot
accomplishments far from common
even among German scholars. The
very papyri IN which most of these
| records are written are standing evil
dence of the oppression to which the
fellah was subjected. The manu-
factuure and sale Of papyrus was a
State monopoly, and it ended, as mo-
nopolies often do, in driving trade else
where. The day when paper began
to take the place of the papyrus plant
was perhaps the seal of the commercial
decline of Egypt. But that all refine
ment was not crushed out of the
Egyptians who peopled Ell Fayoum,
may be inferred from the numerous
fragments of manuscripts of authors
comprised in the collection. Among
them is a unique specimen of ancient
manuscript fragment of Thucydides,
supposed to be earlier by seven cent
uries than the earliest extant manu-
script of that author. Altogether, the
Ell Fayoum archives may be expected
to prove one of the most wonderful
discoveries in this age of discoveries
London Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
The Drummers' Tenderness.
TSt, Paul Dispatch.1

Not long ago a train on a prominent rail-
road in this State carried a jolly party of
five st. Paul commercial travellers. They
were bound to different points and whiled
away the time with stories more witty
than nice. In one of the passenger coaches
was a w%an-faced woman, neatly but
poorly dressed, in whose arms was a
sleeping baby. just as the train left
small station the baby began to breathe
unnaturally, and in a few moments had
passed away. The grief of the mother
can be imagined better than described.
She was among strangers and far from
her home and friends. Inquiries revealed
the fact that she was entirely destitute of
money, and the officers of the road were
compelled by duty to require some DISPOSE
ton of the body to be made. The story
spread through the train, and then the
laugh in the drummers' car was stilled,
the idle jest ceased it's rounds. They went
in to the side of the afflicted mother and
in voices as gentle as a woman's rendered
manly sympathy. Tender hands took the
dead child from the arms which held it in
their agonized grasp, while without a
word the five put sufficient funds in the
hands of one of their number. A little
coffin was telegraphed for to the next sta
ton, the express charges away out on the
frontier were cheerfully paid, and the
mother given in the neighborhood of fifty
dollars in cash.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
THE LONDON TOWER.
A Structure to BE No Longer Devoted to
the Storage of Arms.

A Structure to Be No Longer Devoted to
the Storage of Arms.
In the future, it would seem, the
Tower is to be, even more than in the
past, n Of "the sights O London"
1t is to be entirely Invested of
it's utilitarian character. The rifles in
the Armory are to remain, but the
whole of the large store of arms is to
be removed to the central depot at
Weldon. This, we are told, is in full
filment of a desire that the Prince Con-
sort had very much at heart-a desire
that the Tower should be preserved
wholly and simply as a building re-
markable for its architecture and for
it's historical associations. In accord
ance with this view, the barracks and
hospital stores were removed i'll 1869,
and the accoutrements a few years
after. The workmen, of course, went
also, and nowlthe building will be de-
serted, so far as permanent tenants are
concerned, by all ave the small garri-
son which has always been maintained
there. The arrangement will probably
meet with general approval. 1t is,
perhaps, as well to separate in this case
the practical and the sentimental ele'
ments. The maintenance and the use.
full functions of the Tower means, OF
necessity, wear and tear, to which it is.
no doubt, desirable that the building
should no longer be subjected. There
is very much to be said for keeping
such famous old places as the Tower in
as perfect a state of preservation as pos
| sible. We can find plenty of localities
for the storage of arms, but we a not
adequately repair any damage which
may be done to our ancient historical
landmarks. We a "restore" them
in one sense, but not in another
London Globe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
GENERAL GRANT.
His Secretivenence in Positions of Grave
RESPONSIBILITY

His Secretivenence in Positions of Grave
Responsibility.
He was never a secretive man until
the positions of responsibility in which
he was placed compelled him to be
chary Of giving expression to his
opinions. He then learned the force
of the philosophers maxim that the
unspoken word is a sword in the scab-
bard, while the spoken word is a sword
in the hands of ones enemy.
In the field there were constant Wis
itors in camp ready to circulate any
intimations of the commanders move
ments, at the risk of having such valu-
able information reach the enemy; in
the White House, every encouraging
expression of an applicant for favors
was apt to be tortured into a promise,
and the President naturally became
guarded IN his intercourse with general
visitors. When questioned beyond the
bounds of propriety, his lips closed like
a vice, and the obtruding party vas
left to supply all the subsequent CONVEX
sation. These circumstances pro-
claimed him a nan who studied to be
;uncommunicative, and gave him a
reputation for reserve which could not
fairly be attributed to him. He was
called the american Sphynx" and
"Ulysses the Silent" and he was pop
:ularly supposed to move about with
sealed lips.
When accompanying him through
New England the summer after the
! close of the war, it was soon seen that
the stories of his reticence had pre-
| coded him. The trip was the first of
| those grand ovations with which he
was always greeted by the people
through whose communities he
| travelled. The train stopped for a
| few minutes at a small town in Maine,
and the people, as usual, took the OPP
p%ortunity of extending a greeting and
delivering their words of welcome. As
the General stood in the doorway of
the rear car, a tail, gaunt-looking
woman elbowed her way through the
crowd till she got near the platform.
Here she stopped, put on a pair of
spectacles with glasses in them that
looked about as big as the lenses in
large telescopes, and taking good,
look at the General, said, gasping for
breath as she spoke: "Well, I've come
down hyere a-rannin' right on the
clean jump, nigh on to tew mile, just
to git a look at the nan that lets the
women do all the talkin' Gen..
Horace Porter; IN Harper's Magazines!
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
SERVICES At THE CAPITAL.
Tho way he Sabbath Was Formerly OBJ
served by Legislators.

served by Legislators.
Divine services were held every Sun
day morning in the old hall of the
House of Representatives, but when the
new hall was occupied, and the war
was commenced, Congress began to
elect Washington clergymen as chap
lains, who preferred to occupy their
own pulpits, and thus a the expense
of hiring substitutes. The result has
been that while under the old plan of
having Congressional services at the
Capitol nearly all of the Senators and
Representatives attended, but few of
them now ever darken the doors of the
city churches.
The old hall of the House, modelled
after a Grecian theater, was as impos-
ing IN appearance as it was unfit for
Legislation. The talent of successive
architects, of the luxuriant L'Enfant,
the magnificent Latrobe, and the prac-
teal Bullfinch, aided by the decora-
tions OF accomplished sculptors, foreign
and domestic, and set off by all the
gorgeousness of modern upholstery and
Honduras mahogany, wrought and
polished by the master artists of New
York and Philadelphia, had %conspired
to make a room utterly unfit for any
earthly purpose to which it could ever
be applied, for no member could hear
what any other member said. At the
bottom of a lofty colonnade, which
| rivaled the Portico of Pantheon in mag
nitude and surpassed it in the richness
of its materials, was the curtained
pagoda, which, like the poets
nightcap, ga cap by night, a stock
ing all the day." after serving for
six days as the throne of human
legislation, became the chair Of pulpit
eloquence on the seventh. There was
a choir composed of those officers of
Congress who were singers, with the
wives and daughters of some of them,
and hymn books were provided.
The chaplains of the Senate and of
the House, who alternately oficiated,
adhered to their respective forms of
worship. Distinguished divines visit
ing the metropolis were invited to
oficiate at the Capitol on Sunday, and
thus Roman Catholic bishops, Hebrew
rabbis, Unitarians. P~resbyterians,
Episcopalians and Methodists each had
an opportunity for explaining their re-
spective creeds. Whenever the sermon
was too long, and an inspection Of
watches told the audience that the
Northern mail had arrived there were
visible signs of Impotence. When il
waxed later, and the resident auditors,
who went to the city churches in the
afternoon, began to fear that they
would lose their W early and frugal
Sunday dinner, other symptoms of dis.
quietude were visible. And when at
last the dinner bells were heard from
the neighboring boarding houses, many
of the audience would unceremoniously
leave, bringing the preacher to ar
abrupt conclusion. 1t is to be regretted
that these Congressional services at the
Capitol have been discontinued. They
secured the attendance of the Senators
and Representatives, not one in twenty
of whom now hear a sermon, and they
exercised a pleasant influence upon the
asperities Of legislation.-Bem Perlcs
PO0rp.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25

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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
A Singular Ceremony.

A curious ceremony was performed
recently at Travancore. India. The
Maharajah was weighed against a mas
of pure gold, which was then dispensed
in charity. This custom, called "Tul-
abhara," is of great antiquity. 1t is
not unknown in other parts of India;
though of course gold is only used in
the case of wealthy persons, the hum
bier sort being content to weigh them
selves against spices or grain: On the
present occasion the Maharajah
weighed a little over nine stone. The
Brahmins, it is said, wished to defer
the ceremony, in the hope that the
Maharajah might more nearly approach
the weight OF his father; VINO ala NOT
years Old, when he weighed fourteen
and three-quarters stone.-N. Y. Eve's-
fN0 Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
A FEARFUL

How Mr.. Smith Wa Disturbed BY the Al
vent of q Life Insurance Agent.
''Mr. Smith, 1 called to see if I
could take your life. You see,
"Wh-wh-what d. you sayp" sx-
claimed Smith, in some alarm.
II say that I've come around to take
your life. My name is Gum. AS soon
as 1 heard you were unprotected, that
you had nothing on your life, 1 Thought
1 would just run in and settle the mat
ter for you at once"
Then Smith got up and went to the
other side of the table, and said to HIM
self: ssIt's a lunatic who has broken
out of the asylum. He'll kill nae if I
halloo or run. l must humor him."
Then Gum, fumbling in his pockets
after his mortality tables, followed
Smith around the room and said to
him: ''You a choose your w plan,
you know. It's immaterial to me.
Some like n way and some like an
other; it's a matter of taste. Which
n do you prefer?"
"Id rather not die at ALL" said
Smith, in despair.
"But you've got to die, of course"
said Gum; CHATS a thing there's no
choice about. Ali 1 can do is to make
death easy for you-to make you feel
happy as you go. Now, which plan
will you take.
Couldn't you postpone it until to-
morrow, so as to give me time to
think?"
mo; l prefer to take you on the
spot. [ might as well do it now as at
any other time. You have a wife and
childrenp"
eyes, and I think you ought to have
some consideration for them and let
me Off"
"Well that's a curious kind of an
argument" said Gum. "When 1 take
you your family will be perfectly pro-
tected, of course, and not otherwise"
"But why do you want to murder
me?"
'Murder you!-murder you! Who
in thunder's talking about numbering
you?"
"Why, didn't you say"
81 called to get you to take out a life
insurance policy in our company, and
"Oh, you did. did you?" said Smith,
suddenly becoming fierce. "Well, ]
amt a goin' to do it, and I. want you
to skip out of this, or I'll brain you
with a poker-come now, skip!"
Then MIR. Gum withdrew without
selling policy, and Smith is still un.
insured.-Cor. Chicago Ledger.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
Mr.. LINCOLN.
An Incident Illustrative of His Kindness of
Heart.

Heart.
~"Speaking of Mr.. Lincoln's kindness
of heart" said an old Massachusetts
man recently to a representative of the
Chicago Inter Ocean, 81 will never for
get the only time that 1 exchanged
words with him. This.was in the sum-
mer of 1864, and our regiment was
stationed temporarily near Washing
ton. One day 1 strolled into the
ground between the White House and
the river, and threw myself flat IN my
back under the trees. 1 was in a dis
consulate frame of mind, as the weight
of the wal at that time was very heavy
upon me. I lay there for some time,
absorbed in my own thoughts and
looking up at the fragments of blue
sky seen through the leaves of the
trees. l heard some persons approach,
heard them sit down on one of the
benches near, and [ turned my head
carelessly to see who the intruders
were. 1 saw at a glance that my visi-
tors were President Lincoln and his
wife. 1 sprang to my feet, gave a
military salute and started away. The
President returned the salute with an
awkward sweep of his long. ungainly
arm, and said: Don't 90. What is
your regimentP' When l had told him
that 1 belonged to the Fifteenth Mas
sachusetts, and had answered some
other questions as to what service 1
had seen, he asked: '.Are you going
to re-enlist?' I said, NO., not immed-
lately; I want to 60 home in time to
vote for your reelection He smiled,
turned to Mrs. Lincoln and said in old
fashioned Kindness: There, mother,
you see, that's the way all my boys
feel. Then he turned to me and said
with tender seriousness: I am very
glad to know that the soldiers who
have done such hard work in the field
feel that way. We all are bearing u
burdens in this war, and I only hope
that I may bear mine as patiently and
hopefully as do the boys who carry
the rifles Then he shook my hand
and said 'Good-by,' and after I had
stepped away some eight or ten feet
raised again his long arm and gave
another military salute, with a smile
on his face that will stay with me
through all my life. 1t was a little
thing, but do you know that a thous-
and times, asleep and awake, that
smile has come to me, and whenever it
does come 1 feel myself a better and a
stronger man"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25

Fannie Eliza, a little daughter of
Benjamin Eliza, colored, of Weston, W.
Va, was for fifteen days the subject of
a strange malady. From about the
third day of June until the 18th she
had not eaten a single morsel of food,
and took nothing except now and then
a drink of water. During this interval
she was not confined to bed by illness,
and in the day time would walk around
as usual. On the fifteen day her appe-
tite apparently returned. The first
thing she called for was cheese, and
since that time she has eaten as heartily
as anybody. Her fast of three hundred
and sixty hours has not affected her
seriously. About four years ago the
little girl drank some lye-water, and
since then, at times, she has not been
able to eat; but never beforefor SO long
q time,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
IMocking Birds.

The Atlanta (Ga.) Consultation says:
.*Many hooking birds are shipped
from Atlanta every season to the North
and West. The young birds are caught
by the hundred by small boys, who
peddle them at fifty cents each. They
are kept in their native cline until
they are four or five months, old, and
then are sent by express to all parts. of
the country. A good bird, four months
old, is worth from three @ five dollars.
They sing well when a year old. 1t is
astonishing to what extent their imita-
tive faculties may be trained by a little
patient ingenuity. There is a knocking
bird in Atlanta who whistles Dixie
Last Rose of Sum.aer,' and two or
three other airs perfectly. He is esti-
mated at a fabulous value by his proud
owner"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
The longest respite on record has

The longest respite on record has
been granted by the Governor of Dela-
ware, in the case of Lewis f. List, who
was sentenced to death for a murder
committed in Wilmington. The law
prohibits the Governor from commut-
ing a death sentence, so he overcame
the legal prohibition by respiting List
until Friday, May 20, 1940-over fifty
four years. He is now in his twenty
fifth year-M. Y. Sua.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
Half-D ollar In q Horses Heart.
ISan Francisco CALL

The Chico Record tells how a horse be-
longing to Charles German, living seven
miles west of town, died suddenly last
Tuesday, and upon being opened a fifty
cent piece was found clogging the right
ventricle of the heart, so firmly imbedded
as to stop the flow of blood. From appear.
ances the coin mast have been in the heart
for months. -
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25

Recent experim nts at Sandy Hook
have demonstrated that rifled guns
can not safely be used for projecting
dynamite bonds, and as a consequence
the old smooth-bore cannon will come
into use again. Every advance step
in the science of warfare seems to '
its accompanying drawback.-N. Il
Tribune
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25

Very entertaining stories come
from the West this summer. One is an
account Of a rattlesnake stopping .
locoMotiye.-Boston Post.