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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13
SHIELDS AND BICYCLES.
Tho Proposed GRotesque Armament OF
.,1;rItlsh Soldiers.

The Proposed GRotesque Armament OF
.,1;rltlsh Soldiers.
If we may believe what we read, it
would seem to be proposed to arm the
British Infantry soldier with a shield.
The new implement" covers, we arc
told, q surface of q foot square, is war;
ranted .bullet-proof, weighs three
pounds, and fixes on to the rifle very
much after the fashion Of the bayonet.
The idea, of course, is that our soldiers,
when thrown out as skirmishers, shall
carry their own cover with them; and
it is supposed that, by sticking the point
of the shield into the ground, they will
not only be protected while firing, but
will have a rest for their rifles. When
not in service it will be carried
slung under tho arm. We must
confess that the suggestion reads
very much like a hoax, and
runs on all tours with that other just
mooted that bicyclists are to be en-
ployed as "scouts." If the fighting is
all on turnpike roads, we can imagine
the vidette-on-cast0rs getting along
without disaster for q short time; but,
even then, a rifle fired with accuracy
at his wheel would bring him down in
q most ruinous collapse. When the
machine is spinning along, no outlet
could ever pass through tho spokes, and
the result would be catastrophe, instant
and complete. In actual imitation of
WAY. that is, across country, it could
not possibly be of any use, and the idea
of the cyclist-scout lifting his machine
over q dongga with Zulus after him, or
trying to get through the bush with
Arabs in pursuit. is too comical for
serious entertainment. Hardly less
grotesque is the notion of the British
soldier with his three pounds of steel
plate at tho end of his rifle lodging
about in skirmishing order.-London
| Iel2IaDh,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13
=, URUGUAY.
Interesting Information About q rrus
nnrnna pnator,l Ranuldin 70

Interesting Information About .. Pros
porous Pastoral Republic. ~
The Republic of Uruguay is devoting
itself to cattle-raising on an extraor Ii
nary wholesale 8. ale. One of the lead
ing r~aisers, recently interviewed, has
given tho statistics. Eight million
horned cattle, 10000, 900 sheep, and
1900, 900 horses constitute the stock in
trade of this model but extensive pas
toral Republic. Tho export returns
show what Il heavy customer England
continues to be. She takes S per cent.
of the total exports. Brazil being debit
ed to 90, France to IL, the United States
to II, and all others to the remaining
~. The country is most prosperous
and the tide of immigration steady
20,224 last year; women, however, in
an alarming minority, and constituting
less than 81 quarter of the arrivals.
Four thousand vessels sailed in the
same year from the port of Monte ;ideo,
with u registered tonnage of
! over 1,500,0 900. Next come statistics
about the cattle. The average novillo,
the steer most used for %fattcning, gives
$50 pounds of jerked beef, sixty-eight
pounds Of sailed hide, and forty pounds
of grease, and besides hat there are
the bone ash, tho hair and the horns.
Business is done on such a wholesale
scale that everything is utilized. All
his constituent pats thus counted up
and allowed" for, the novillo brings in
twenty dollars a head. while tho COM
mission for bringing to the packers, the
cost OF killing and preparing for market
is about four dollars, leaving the net
proceeds at sixteen dollars. 1t will be
seen that such q business as this is nee
essarily extremely profitable. In the
slaughter houses, called ''saladeros,'
500 cattle a day are killed. A lasso, one
end of which is attached to q steam
winch, is thrown over the horns of the
victim and the winh set working the
beast is summarily hauled up against
q bridge upon which stands the s1augh-
ter man, "who with a stab back of and
between the horns with a large dagger
knife cuts the spinal cord, and the ami
NAL drops dead without q struggle.
Chicago Itvbune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13
Triumph Of Modern Surgery.

The marvels and triumphs of modern
surgery are wildly illustrated by q
case treated by Prof. Nussbaum, of
Munich, and described in the Garten-
laube Kalender. Eleven years ago he
took charge of d boy so uniformed and
crippled that he was obliged 20 crawl
about on all tours. Nine serious opera
tons were performed, four crooked
bones were broken, three stiff joints
forcibly extended, several sinews cut
through. and nerves stretched. Weights
were then attached to certain cs,
and by means of massage, baths.
ointments and electricity SO much
progress was made that IN q few years
the boy was able to walk erect with
the aid of crutches and Il special appa-
ratus fastened to his feet. Subse.
quently he was enabled to throw away
this apparatus. and exchange his
crutches for a cane, and to-day. after
eleven years of treatment, he is "a
healthy and vigorous youth, who can
not only walk like other young men,
but dance, ride on horseback, etc.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13
WISE USE OF N

Why Every Young Man and Boy Should
Aim to Lay by Small Weekly Savings.
But very few young people know the
true use for the money they earn. 1t il
first to pay for subsistence; second in
aid to those needing charity; third, and
last, rs a source OF income or accum,,-
lation. To spend money for any other
purpose is to waste it Everything pus-
chased should be of real and substan-
tial value, convertible into. other and
greater value if possible. No one can
afford to give his time and genius to
earning money and then expend what
he has earned for that which is no SUBJ
stantial. Far better is it to accummu-
late and hold ones earnings until the
time for death comes, and then turn it
over to some worthy charity. where it
may do good for the unfortunate.
Every one can earn enough and more
than enough to meet all his wants and
needs if they be as moderate as they
should be. and if he finds he has a sur
pAs. which he is certain of, he can be-
stow it upon those who have been I'M
fortunate. In. expanding money the
young man should always ask himself:
..Do l need thisp" He should not ask:
"Do l want this?" Wants are, too
often, the children of children. There
is nothing manly in giving away to de-
sires and being governed by them. 10
do 80 is to become the slave of morbid
appetite. How many men, in the
evening of their days, looking
back a see that they have
earned millions of dollars. even, and
vet have not managed to save to them
selves a single hundred. 1t is this
which embitters the close of a life. The
man sees that he has been not only less
frugal than he should have been, but
wasteful. His ~hard-earned money has
slipped out of his hands in driblets as
fast as he could earn it. He has spent
it for useless things. He has even
damaged his health in indulgences
which We're poisonous to his physical
and mental SYSTEMS. When a young
nan secures employment he should
firmly resolve-'out of my earnings all
necessary expenses shall be paid. The
remainder l will rigidly reserve for
future uses in the anne direction" We
aver that all young men will meet =
period when five hundred dollars would
prove the first step to q competence to
support them in old age. Then it
should be the aim of every mechanic
Of other industrial TO secure that sum.
1t may take two or three years to secure
it If so, all the more reason for Sc
curing it. Money to one so long &C.
cumulating such a sum is of far greater
value to him than to one who gets it
ahead in n year. But, above all, the
pursuit of this course makes a better citi-
zen and a better man, in all respects, OF
the one engaged in it, than does the So
called liberal and open-hearted gen
erous'' life. The latter is the life OF a
Lspendthrift who becomes besmirched
with all the evils of humanity, and too
grace. Tho Popularity is among his
own class, and not worth having. -A1'
b0ny Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13
A DEGRADED o p
Strange characteristics of the Terra dc
Eueso Indians.

Strange characteristics of the Terra del
Euego Indians.
The Terra del Fuego Indians, the ugli-
est mortals that cvcr breathed, arc always
on the lookout for passing vessels and
come ont in canoes to beg and to trade
skins for tobacco. The Euegians, or
"Caroc Indians rs they are commonly
called, to distinguish them from the
Patagonians, who dislike the water and
prefer to navigate on horseback, have
no settled habetation. They are a SIM
pie people, with q dirty and bloated ap-
pearance and faces that would scare a
mule. They have broad features, low
forehcads V which the hair hangs in
tangled Jumps, high cheek bones, fiat
noses. enormous chins and jaws, and
mouths like a crocodile, with teeth that
add to their responsiveness. Their skin
is said to be Of q copper color. They
are short in stature, round s~houldered,
squatty, and bloatel, q physical defor-
nifty said to be due to the factthat most
of their lives are spent in canoes. The
women are even nor repulsive in their
appearance than the mon, and tho chill
0ren. which arc uncommonly numerous,
look lihe young balloons. their intelli-
gence seems to be confined to a knowl-
edge of boating and fishing, and they
exercise great skill in both pursuits.
Scientists who have investigated them
say that they are of the very lowest or
der Of tho human kind, many degrees
below the Digger Indians.
Although these people live in q per-
pctual winter, where 1t freezes every
night and always SHOWS when tho
clouds she'd moisture, they go almost
stark naked! The skin Of the otter and
guanaco are used for blankets, which
are worn about the shoulders and af.
ford some projection !; but under these
neither wcaoen o men wear anything
whatever, except shoes and leggings
made Of the same material, Which pro-
| tect the feet from the rocks. There is
one little attempt at adornment by
both sexes in the way OF necklaces,
bracelets and earrings made of fisI,
bones and sea shells, which arc often
ingcn;cusIy joined together.
Their food consists of mussels, fish,
sea ani;.als and flesh of similar sorts,
which they catch with the rudest sort
of implements. Their fishing lines arc
made of grass and their hooks of fish
bones For weapons they have bows
and spl is. the former having strings
made 6the cntrails of animals. and
the latter being long, slender poles,
with tips OF sharpencd bone. They
also use sings with great dcxterity,
which arc made of woven grass, and
are said to bring down animals at long
range.
During the day they are always or
! OF the trunks of trees, the whole family
going together, and usually consisting
Of a man, two or three wives, and as
many urcilins as can be crowded into
the boat. When the night falls they &c
ashore and build q fire upon the rock!
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13
A Fine Piece of Engineering.

The Bellows Falls (Vt) Canal Com
pany finished work on their massive
head-ggates that have been over a year
in building at a cost of nearly two hun
dred thousand dollars. Over the huse
archways and piers forming the gates 10
a big building Of brick, holding the ma
chinery that operates the gates. "a
thirty-tive horsepower engine drives
two hundred feet on main shaftlns'
with thirteen large pulleys, seyenIs-
two and seventy-eight inches in d'am ir.
ter, and eight counter-shafts with thi II
ty-two-inch clutch pulleys running ~
opposite directions. that the shaft may
be started or stopped either to owe %
raise the gates, each gate being now @.
independently Of the Others. Inc lint
plen.ents for opening the gates consIs.
of big iron screws twenty feet long pas.
ing through the bib of heavy gsee'
connected with the machinery aooao.
The gates are among the finest psi 2a al
of engineering in New England. IN a a,
tho blasting that has been done no wv
has been killed.-M Y. Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

t. temper the frigid atmosphere.
Around this they cuddle in q most
affectionatc way. The namo of the
islands upon which they live came
from these fires. The early navigators.
when passing through the straits, were
amazed to see these fires spring up as il
by magic all over the islands every
night ut shutdown, and so they called
them Terra del Fuego. or the land of
fire. The English shorten the arpella-
ton, and thus the place is known a.
Fireland.
No one has ever been able to ascer-
tain whether they possess any sort of
religious belief o: have religious cerc-
monies. Across the straits the Pata-
gonians, or horse Indians, are of u high
or order of creation, and perform sacred
rites to propitiate the evil and good
spirits. in which, like the North Amer
lean savages, they believe, but the
Fuegians arc too degraded to contcm-
plate anything but tine necessity of
minislcring to their passions and ap-
petltes. They eat fish and flesh uncook-
cd, and appreciate rs dantics tho least
attractive morscls. Their language is
an irregular and meaningless jargon,
apparently derived from tho Pata-
gonians, with whom they were, some
time in the distant past, connected.
Bishop Sterling, of the Church of En-
gland, q devoted and energetic man,
who has charge of missionary work in
South America, with. headquarters on
the Falkland Islands, has made some
attempt to benefit these creatures, but
with no great success. He has q little
schooner in which he sails around, and
has succeeded in ingratiating himself
among the F'egians by giving them
presents of beads and Irvine, blankets
and clothing. They use the first for
ornaments, the second for fishing gear,
but trade off the other things for rum
and tobacco the first chance they get.
AS long as his gifts hold out he will be
kindly received. no doubt, and his de-
votion meet with encouragement, but
if he should land among them without
the usual plumber they would probably
kill him at breakfast time and pick his
ribs for lunch. Toward the Atlantic
coast the savages are of a higher order.
and the Bishop has established a mis-
sionary station in q little town in which
they live. His assistants have succeed
cd in persuading the inhabitants of this
village TO wear clothing and run a prf-
mary school, from which much good
may come.--C0r. ~ y. San.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Master Galcctti, a lad eleven years
old, won the first prize for piano play.
ing in Paris recently.
From $4,000 TO s (. 200 head of cat
tic arc slaughtered monthly in the prov.
incc of Rio Grandc, Brazil.
Partisan curiosity-huntcrs collect
hats. wigs, s~hoc-bucl1lcs and stockings
belonging to celebrated persons.
The refusal by a ~teeiotal tailor to
make clothes for rumsellers is a new
aus for Temperance discussion in Lon
don.
1t is noted that the bodies of Chi.
nese soldiers in Tonquin were left un.
touched by tho vulturcs and were com.
pletcly mummificd. Opium pickle did it.
-'.Nhy pay a shilling for y lamb
when You can have the Lamb of God
for nothing?" is the neat and reyerent
query made in y handful distributed by
the %Salvationists in London.
According to tho ToAoi1c. one of the
largest picture dealers of Berlin has
committed suicide after losing upward
of 1000. GOO francs in the gambling bells
of Paris.
Tho Gattis, owners of the Adelphi
Thcptcr, London, are said to have lost
$4,000 They started in. London as
vendors of penny ices. and are now the
owners of several immense restaurants.
All over London are Italian houses
kept by mon who have been in their
service.
Cholera failed to strike asingle one
of the 1900 women employed in the
National tobacco factory, at Valencia,
Spain, though the disease ragged VIC.
lently in that city, and the Medical
World recalls that tobacco workers
were also noticed to enjoy exemption
from attack during an epidemic at Am.
sterdam.
"A club of 1900 members in Berlin
recently advertised for six medical OIL
GERS to attend them at u salary of $3.50
per II each. This would make the
contribution from each member of the
club about sevcnty-tiye cents q year
for medical attendance. Moro than
400 doctors applied for the places.
1t has been decided by tho Metro
politan (London) Police Commissioners
that persons found attempting suicide
shall no longer be summarily taken
into custody and brought before a
magistrate, but that application may be
made for 81 magistrates warrant to APP.
prchcnd them on y charge of misde-
meanor
The abundance of salmon around
the islands between Japan and Siberia
is something wonderful. A scientific
traveller, just returned, says: '.Ihey
exist in such numbers that in the sum-
mcr and fall their fins stick out of the
water near the entrances of rivers.
looking like masses of tangled kclp."
Moro than 5000 have been taken ut q
single haul.
Father Bcnomi describes the False
Prophet as a man Of towering stature,
with a fat, round 'facc. and hard un-
quailing cyes-unqucstionably q fana-
tic, honestly believing IN his mission
to restore the pure Islam. His author
ity over his adhcrcnts was unlimited.
He prohibited singing, except in homo,
OF the Prophet, and also smoking, and
transgressors OF these edicts were pun.
ishcd with a hundred stripes from 6
whip of hippopotamus hide. A frs
theft was punishable with the loss o
the right hand, and q second with that
of the left foot. Father Donomi says
that he saw several of these cruel am.
putations for petty offenses.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

LhcoR1cE is grown in Sacramento
County, Cal. A patch of several acres
near Florin is devoted to this root. The
plant has been found to thrive, and the
soil is filled with the roots, which have
grown to large proportions and pene-
1ratcd to a considerable depth. This
patch is q demonstration that the plant
can be successfully grown in California
>on suitable soil.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

THERE is being built in Washington
the largest sewer in the world. 1t is
twenty-five feet in diameter for a dis
lance of two thousand feet, and twenty
feet for another five thousand feet, or
about a mile. A train OF cars could
pass through.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

The new vegetable ivory is prepared
from ordinary potatoes. The tubers
arc peeled, the ''eyes" cut out, and the
discolored portions scraped away. After
being soaked in calculated water, they
are boiled in sulphuric acid, then taken
out and washed, first in warm water,
afterward in cold. Potato ivory is said
to be hard, durable and elastic, and
easily dyed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

II IS now stated officially that the
consumption of liquor in this country
yearly is GO, 156, 9o3 gallons of spirits,
1876 barrels of fermented liquor, and
20, 500, 900 gallons of wine. The guam
Gty Of beer consumed is about 595, OOO,-
900 gallons. In other words, two gal
Ions of liquor arc consumed for every
one bushel of wheat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

A NEW and ucce .sful remedy has
been found for the distressing nervous
complaint known as hay fever. One.
sixth of agrain of the recently discover
cd remarkable annsthetic cocaine is in
%corporated into what are called tabloids
and inserted in the nasal passages. The
nostrils are closed until the pellets arc
dissolved. when it will be found that the
sensitive mucous surface is restored to
health.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

The Car of Russia has bestowed upon
hlvan Clark, of Cambridge, Mass. the
golden honorary medal of the empire
Gin acknowledgment of the excellent
performances of the great object glass
made by Mr. Clark for the chief tele-
scope in the Pulkowa observatory. This
medal is given very rarely, and only for
extraordinary merits. Only one othe,
has been granted by the present En-
peror,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

In the Salt Lake ~Pcnitcntiary are
twenty-five Mormons serving sentence;
five are awaiting trial, and four have
served their time and been released.
The prosecutions are slow, and are get
ding more difficult, from the fact that
witnesses are sent away.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

THE college Presidents and high
school principals of New England have
resolved to adopt a uniform system of
entrance examinations, with inter-
changeable papers. OF course, that
involves a uniform system of require
ments for entrance and a supervisory
intercollegiate board to arrange and
conduct tic examinations.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13
H DAY.

4 BosToN actuary figures out the
profits of the Bell Telephone Company
on a ten years investment of $3.42 ut
1854. The cost of the instrument is
S3.42, the annual rental is $14, and tine
onlv other item is interest at six per
cent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

A~DAMsCoBITE is the local name of a
mineral which is said to be found in only
one place in the world, and that is the
State Of Missouri. The stone is very
peculiar in its structure and properties.
Its cutting power is diamond-like, cut
ting away steel very rapidly, and still
retaining an exceedingly fine edge.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON will
celebrate her SEVENTEEN birthday on
November II, and Mrs. May Wright
Scwall, Chairman of the Executive Com
,mittcs of the National Woman's Suf-
fragc Association, makes the suggestion
that the women of America hold memo
rial meetings on that day.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13
Laws.

Any person who takes the paper regularly from TIC
postoffce, whethsr directed to his name or whether HI
il q subscriber or not, is responsible for tho pay.
The courts have decided that refusing to take news
papers and periodicals from the postotf:cc. or rrmov
Ing and leaving them rncalled for, is prinsl Jdcte evi.
deuce OF INTENTIONAL FRAUD.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

The Provincial Bank OF o nu mi
Ayrcs mas a capital OF $780, ooo'o ooo ouo.]
deposits amounting to o1'gvv'o INV
These figures are not equale1 W N
United States bank
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

! THE reports from postmasters on thu
special delivery system indicate very
decidedly that before the system be-
comes permanent important changes
will have to be made in it. In small
Offices it is not going to pay. Already
a good many of the messengers have
thrown up the job in disgust. At Keo-
kuk. Iowa, only one special delivery
letter was received in a week. III most
of the Offices the messengers have not
earned 81 a week. In many cities of
considerable size the local postage does
not pay for the carriers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

"a NEW marvel has appeared in the
sleaveDs. The nebula in Andromeda,
the Oldest known to astronomers, has
attracted the attention of scientific men
recently, because of the temperance
OF. a star which. it is claimed, is identi-
Cal with the one that the wise men fol-
lowed when they came from the east, to
hail the newly born Savior. This is
orc of the variable stars. invisible for a
time, it reappears in about three. hun
dred and fourteen years. 1t is often as
bright as Jupiter. This wonder can be
seen any clear evening.