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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03
ENGLISH
A Country Where journalism Stimulates
the People in Theory Only.

A Country Where journalism Stimulates
the People in Theory Only.
The journalist, it is customary to say,
is powerful in England, and l believe
that the multitude of those who are de-
sirous of adding journalism to their
regular occupations is, as the sands of
the seashore, innumerable. But men
who mold public opinion by their writ
ing have seldom the opportunity or the
inclination to mix with society. Ger
tain it is that one only catches fleeing
glimpses of them. But does journalism
in England mold public opinion. or
what are the relations in which it
stands to it? If the articles one reads
in the newspapers were a fair reflection
Of the National mind upon any given
subject and at any particular crisis,
then it would follow that whenever the
press is excited the country must be
excited too. But is that the case?
Nothing of the kind. The London
newspapers, in the morning and the
evening. lash themselves into Il fury
over the shortcomings of English Min
listers in every quarter of the globe.
Thousands and scores of thousands of
Englishmen throughout the country
read those diatribes and invectives, for
the most part admirably written, with
warm approval. But nothing m
of them. The public no more thinks
of acting in accordance with their pre-
cepts than it does of taking as its rule
of life the high-tiown sentiments in the
drama which it has just been applaud
ing. Journalism stimulates the people
only in theory. The leading articles,
though the assertion may seem a con-
tradiction in terms, are absolutely incf-
f%ective, because they ar SO effective.
The average Briton, after having read
one of them, acts precisely as the pious
c%hurch-goer does who has listened to a
sermon which has kindled within his
bosom a glow of emotion. Church
goer' and newspaper reader alike 40
their duty. Sermon and article equally
discharge the function o6 q safety valve.
The press interprets what it declares to
be the deliberate conviction of the Ma
ton, and the Nation, with the comment
'.Quite SOL" goes its way.-Society IN
London, bya Former Resident.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03

green-grocer eyes on her fair form and
80 one rare morning in Juno. She
answered his knock at the kitchen door
an1 LOOK from his hands a mess at veg
etaoles that had been paid for BY her
moener out of an average earning Of
snree dollars and q half a week. Her
makeup caught his admiration, and
when ne heard her pounding the life out
OF the Grand March in Norma as he
drove away he felt the javelin of love
at first sight pierce his soaring soul.
lhey met by chance and the light of
the Chinese lanterns at the park on
Sunday night. The clarionet crooned,
the violin whined, the flute shriked.
the bass-viol groaned through its nose,
the Il fiat cornet split the unof1ending
atmosphere with its piercing blare.
At q table beneath an ancestral oak
they sat. Upon the polished board he
raped and ordered beer for two. They
9uaned the foaming beverage and anon
he spoke for more When the clock
struck twelve they arose to go, as full
OF love and lager as only those who've
travelled over that road can realize. At
the maternal gate they parted, she an
afianced bride and he a bridegroom in
the dim perspective of the adjacent
future.
They married, and the union bore its
Legitimate fruit; the mother has one
more change on her toil-tried hands
her daughters husband. His precari-
GUS earnings go to break down his
rickety constitution and to build up a
liquor aristocracy. His wife has
"spouted" the piano, and has nothing
lsft except an expired pawn-broker's
ticket to call to mournful memory the
lalcyon days of her maiden prosperity.
Her mother still plays on the sewing
machine and the young and disap-
pointed wife manages to occasionally
manipulate the washboard.
They are not happy, and there is no
honest reason why they should be-
ArkansaW Traveller.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03
Observation-Disclosures
The Development of the Railway Systems
of the World.

The Development of the Railway Systems
of the World.
1t is the last third of a century that
has seen the greatest development in
the railway systems of the world. In
1850 the total length of railways in this
country was only about nine thousand
miles. At the close of last yearwe had
one hundred and twenty-five thousand
six hundred miles of rail. The total
mileage of the world at the end of 1888
was two hundred and sixty-nine thou
sand two hundred and thirty-four
miles, of which overforty-five per cent.
was laid in the United States. And
calculations have been made which
show that should the ratio that the
construction in the United States during
the past ten years bears to the total
increase continue for a corresponding
period, this country will have consid-
erab1y more than one-half the total
mileage of the world in the year 1898.
1t is further estimated that the three
million square miles of territory in the
United States will ultimately require
three hundred thousand miles of rail-
road, and should the construction of
roads continue at the same ratio as for
the past five years, this number of miles
will be reached shortly after we enter
upon the next century, say about the
year 1905. The total cost of our
railways, down to the close of 1884,
was 81, $50, 600, ZOO. The gross earnings
in 1883 were 1928, 772, 924, and the net
revenue was 1886, Oil, 1874. The figures
with which we are dealing are so inn
measurably beyond those we grapple
with in any other business measured by
dollars, that we can scarcely realize
their magnitude. Some one observes,
as an illustration, the investments rep
resented in the roads of the United
States exceed by more than a thousand
millions of dollars the total of the
worlds circulation of gold and silver
coin, and the gross receipts therefrom
for the year 1883 exceed the total value
of tie exports of all the merchandise
and specie from the United States for
the year. These figures, be it also re-
membered, relate to only one great in
terest, that of railways. There has
been as large. if not a larger, develop
ment of wealth in other directions. The
increase in the value of land. for in
stance, in our country must have ex-
ceeded in gross amount the entire cost
of railway system. On the average
we spend as much on new houses IS on
new railroads. but unfortunately no
building statistlcs are kept outside of .
tAw large cities.-Demoyest's Monthlv.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03
HARD
An Epitome of Many u Fair woman's HIS.

An Epttome OF Many u Far WOman'S HIS
tory.
To her delft touch the ivory keys re-
sponded in tones as sweet as Louisiana
molasses, new crop. From her taper
fingers fell notes as soft as the UNDER
crust of a clearinghouse pie. When
she played "Shells of Ocean, the
sounds chased each other in melodious
confusion through the circumambient
air. In her rendition of clone Rock
by the Sea, with Variations" her ma
nipulation was like unto that of a bare
foot boy with cheek of tan repelling
the charge of two hundred and fifty
yellow-jackets, and the concordant
sweetness rolled pell-mell into the pa
tient ear as do parched peanuts into a
paper bag. When 'sThe Racket"
rushed out at the bidding of her mu-
steal soul, its r%ollicking hilarity caused
every nail in the ceiling to vibrate with
maddening joy. Miss Julia Cantwork
was her name, and her maternal pro-
genitor was a widow who supported
her by taking in sewing and washing.
Such q flower could not long blush
unseen. Such an eidelweiss, blooming
on the jutting crag of PERCEPTIONS
chance, must sooner or later be plucked
by some daring and ambitious hand.
And so it was.
She banged her hair, IS well as the
piano. and these personal and spiritual
attractions constituted the loadstone
that drew to her shrine a dashing young
driver of a delivery wagon. His sur
nAne a Wolf, but his, father had
called him Peleg, to distinguish him
from the balance Of the boys. He did
not circulate in the best society,
although it is certainly true he
made daily visits to many of the
most a%ristocratic families of tho
West End. He first feasted his
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03
REPAIRING

Dssdeats 6AoW1Me How Nature Reproaucsat
Parts Whachs1s~s Besn Destroyed.
We see this in the production Of ad1
mirsbly formed joints in parts which
were at first devoid Of anything Of the
kind. l may quote, as an example,
tho ease of a railway guard. whose arna
had been SO injured that he had been,
compelled to have the elbow with it's
joint cut out, but who afterward de-
veloped a new joint almost as good aS
the old one. In the uninjured condi-
ton the outer bone of the lower arm
the radius-ends' above in a smooth
surfaced cup, which plays against part;
OF the lower end of the bone of the up-
per arm. or humerus, while its side ALSO
plays against the side of the other bono
of the lower arm, the ulna, with the4
mterposition of cartilaginous surface.
The radius and ulna are united to the
humerus by dense and strong mems
branes or ligaments, which pass be-
tween it and them anteriorly, poster
iorly and on each side, and are attached
to projecting processes, n on each;
side of the humerus. Such was the
condition of the parts which were re-
moved by the surgeon. Nine years
after the operation the patient died, and
Mr.. Syme had the opportunity of dis
secting the arm, which in the meantime
had served the poor nan perfectly,
we'll, he having been In the habit
or swinging himself by it from one
carriage to another while the train was
in motion, quite as easily and securely
as with the other arm. On examine
ton Mr.. Syme found that the ampu-
tated end of the radius had formed q
fresh polished surface, and played both
on the humerus and the ulna, q nate
rial something like cartilage being in
tarposed. The ends of the bones Of
the forearm were locked in by two
processes projecting downward from
the humerus, and also strong lateral
and still stronger anterior and posterior
iigaments again bound them fast to the
last-named bone. It would be easy to
bring forward a number of more or less
similar cases. The amount of repro
duction of lost parts which may take
place IN many of the lower animals ia
astonishing. Thus the tails of lizards,
it broken off, will grow again, and tho
limbs of nevis will be reproduced,
with their bones, muscles, blood YES
sells and nerves. Even the eye and the.
lower jaw have been seen to be repro-
duced in the last-named animals. IL
certain worms be cut in two, each hah,
will become a perfect animal, the head
producing a new tail and the tail a new
head; and a worm called q mass has
been cut into as many as twenty-five
parts with a like result. But the most
remarkable animal for its power of re-
pairing injuries is the fresh-water hy-
dra, almost any fragment of which
will, under favorable circumstances
grow into a new and entire fresh ani-
NAL. It is also a notorious and very
noteworthy fact that, in both man andf
the lower animals, the processes Of re-
pair take place the more readily the
younger the age of the injured individ-
ual may be.-St. George Mozart, sa
Fortmightly Review.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03
c%H.LDREN's TOYS.

A Man Who Has Made q Small Fortune by
Manufacturing and Selling Nothing
Else.
A reporter who was strolling up
Second e a few evenings ago.
had his attention drawn to a number
of children in front of a small storeI
They were eagerly s%crutinizing and
admiring a number of many-colored
wooden and rubber balls in the win
dow. The writer, upon entering4
found a multitudinous assortment of
children's toys. The salesman and
proprietor, air in one, was asked which,
assortment of toys pleased the littlo
ones most and me with the greatests
demand, and replied with as much seri1
BUSINESS as a man who did a million
dollars worth of business in a year:
''That all depends on the season Of
the year. my friend. Just now the
bouncing ball is in season. What is q
bouncing ball?" repeated the man.
with apparent amazement at the report
erHs ignorance of children's playthings.
''Why, here it is. Let me show you
how it is worked, for I guess the lit&let
thing was not in vogue when you were
young"
The vender of the so-called bouno-
ing ball, which had an india-rubber
string attached to it, bounced:it in all
directions, catching it scientifically I'M
his hand as it bounced back. At the
end of the string was a small loop,
through which the operators finger is
inserted, thus leaving the hand in a
position to be open so as to receive tho
bali ~
''Do you sell many of these toys?'s
was asked. i
Thousands" came the prompt re-
ply: ''They are cheap, and besides
easily lost. Then again we have the
India-rubber bah, which is most sought
after because it is not so Liable to
smash Windows orlooking-gfasses. The
wooden bouncing ball, as you a II.
Is a very hard substance, and sometimes
gives the youngsters a hard knock. I've
seen many of them with pretty good
humps on their faces from their efforts
to catch the ball as it rebounds"
''How do the prices range?"
"All the way from one to fifteen
cents. Come around here any day.,
Sunday particularly, and you will see a
stream of children going and coming
from here that would do your heart
good"
'You seem to be making a good liv-
ing" was remarked.
Eyes. Ihave lived here for nearly
eighteen years, and have been in no
other business than selling children's
toys in all that time. l am not q mill
lionaire, but I have plenty, thank good
ness. l please the young folks and
they please me, God bless them! It
vas through their patronage I bought
this little house a few years ago, SO
that I have made up my mind that f
will cater to the little ones until I am
called away. I am busy all the year
round, between kites, skipping-ropes.
tops. hooples, marbles, sleighs, and
many other kinds of toys for children.
IN Y. Mail and Express.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03

What, you a newspaper woman"'
a friend exclaimed: ~ thought you
were a teacher "All newspaper
writer's are teachers" came the quick
reply from the bright Boston girl who
had exchanged the ferrule for the pen.-
Philadelphia Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03

When Maud S. trotted a mile in
two minutes nine and one-fourth sec.
onds, she moved forty feet ten and
tive-sixteenth inches every second. Her
ordinary stride is seventeen feet, but
assuming it to be twenty feet, each
hind foot would touch the ground at
least twice every second N. Y. Her.
o11 dr. ..
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03

George Washington the first Presi-
dent of the United States, never saw .
steamboat; John Adams, the second
President, never saw q railroad; An
drew Jackson, the seventh President
knew nothing about the telegraphi
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth Presl
dent, never dreamed of such q thing ~
the telephone.-M !. Post
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03
TAKING THE 8

&0n on Je0eEDon Avenue md Rcmunerotlvo
In tAe Seventh Ward.
"Say, old fellow, the next time .
census of births and deaths is to be
taken, don't you fail to get a job in
one of the big-bug wards" exclaimed
jolly Nick Tisler to q reporter a few
days ago.
Don't believe I'd like it. ALWAYS
makes me sick to go around mixing
beer"
There's lots of fun in it."
"What. in drinking fifteen OF twenty
kinds of beerp"
mo. in taking the census. You'll
never know how cussed lazy some peo-
pie are until you take a big book under
your arm and go around asking ques-
lions. I've been around"
Where did you find the LATEST
Upon Jefferson avenue. Oh, 1
don't know as she is real lazy, but up
there they're so stuck up they wouldn't
come to the door if you rang the bell
all day, for fear you'd think they was
the servant. At n house I rang the
bell seven times-the girl was out to
the shed, 1 s'pose, and the woman was
a-settin' in the bay window about four
feet from me, and looking at me all
the time.
cat another house I seer the woman
up stairs at the window as 1 went up
the front steps. A fat, good-looking
girl came to the door and Icommenced
firing questions at her.
"'Any children been born here during
the last year?' says I.
Don't know says she; 4 hain't
been here but three weeks. I'll go and
ask missis,' and away she toddled up
stairs. Pretty soon she came toddling
back and says:
"'Missis wants to know what you
want to know for?'
"'Tell her 1 am taking the city CEN
sus, as required by law each year. SAYS
I. and away scooted the girl again.
When she got back she said:
Eyes,
"'How manyp' says I.
"'Only one,' SAYS she.
"'Boy or grip says I.
"NGirl.' says she.
"tWhat's her name?" says L.
"'Dimple,' says she.
That's her baby name,' SAYS I.
Whats her real, full namep"
"IM ask missis,' says she, and up
she went.
".Beatrice Branscombe Brown saws
she.
when was she born?'
"In ask missis,' says she, and I
whistled The Watch on the Rhine
clear through before she came back.
".Day before Christmas says she.
"'What is her fathers name:?' says 1.
"'Mr. Brown, of course says she.
"'What's his first name?' saysI.
"'I'll ask missis.' Tho girl was fat
and she'd begun to puff by that time,
and she waddled as she went up the
stairs.
"'Benjamin Bruce Brown says she.
"'What does he do for a living? says
"'Keeps a%store,' says she.
"'What's her mothers name?" says
L.
"tTll ask her. says she.
"'Betholinda Berthelet Brown says
she.
"Just then the woman came to the
head of the stairs, and says:
"'Seems to me you're asking a great
many impertinent questions
CLAW requires it, says I. Where
were you born?'
".Bufalo.'
"sHow old are you?'
"'None of your business! Matilda,
| shut the door,
ooh, it's fun! Say we get ten cents
apiecefor births and deaths and that day
l made just fifty cents. Up in Dutch
town you can make six or seven dol
lars a day.-DetroW Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03

"A Louisville gentleman had the
first tooth of his grandchild mounted
on a gold pin and yea it on his scarf
as an ornament.-LouisuiHe (Ry.l
Courier-Joarnal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03

P%ost,otfice clerk in Prussia was
~ 70 be constantly in trouble with
lamps. Sometimes he had more
~ INA the stamps sold for were
VI. ~ al other times less. 1t was at
N discovered that he could not tell
Stamps from green.
sea captain who used to work en-
aery when time lay heavy on his
lost all appreciation for colors
'erlasklng his eyes and was after
unable to distinguish red worsted
amusing story is told of Dalton,
',neofated English chemist. He
Quaker, and although about to
,1seAted at court, was unwilling to
n.e scarlet robe of a doctor of
@"S' as scarlet is forbidden to
wL But Dalton was color blind,
nnaL offered the scarlet robe he
M1aole to e anything strange in
ON Aol only wore it at court but
me street for three or four
E>Hiu'll MS Quaker brothers in con-
Fhim' expressed their horror at see
lrina, SO attired. Dalton was so
Aeo that it is said he burned the
mnn blindness has been found very
non sailors and sea cap
riol. Holmgren found, out of
AMY "e'lsn sailors. ninety-four color
lj se.a lh!s is about an average of
lot. ase' found in the examinations
lisinrnthl s country. The increase
Hrms at sea is an indisputable
0" many remain unexplained
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-10-31
Railway Time Table.
DEVILS LAKE DIVISION.
tTueedays. Thursdays and Saturdays.
Wednesdays and Fridays.
G.. q. WARREN, G. P. A.,
P. KELLY, Agent, st. Paul, MINI.
Devils Lake, DIT.

"a. WARREN, G.. P. A.,
P. KELLY, Agent, st. Paul, Mimi.
Devils Lake, D. Z.
Churches.
Westminster Presbyterian ~Church-Rsv. G. +. Con.
verse. Services every Sunday At II . m and 1890 7. IA
Sunday school at IL N. Prayer meeting "Wednesday
evening At pastors residence At = p. N. A cordial ill.,
vitation 10 extended 70 all. =
N. E. C~huch-Services 1t the school house every
Sabbath, morninE and evening, by the Rev. A. B. Bar.
low, Of II .. m. and 7:3O ?. n
L0dges.
cRoYrox LopoE 10. 16, I. 0. o..
Meets every Wednesday at o'clock pm. at their hall,
Devils Lake. D. I. Visiting brother az .ordially in.
vited to attend. JANE Nv tt, NC.
H.. c. HANsskoueH, r. g.
MASONIC.
Minnewaukan Lodge, No. Is, A. !. and A II.
~v-Regular communications hrst and third
~rhuIday' on OF befOrs full moon Of every
B CossErr, " N. wJCaRrsfIk ..
J 4 PssCIvAL, q ". A B BENNETT. J D.
b J NCIHrrRk, J w. RoBBRr FERevsoN, Tyler.
@ " KELIRy, Treasurer. DE NolaAk, Sseetary.
O.. G. ENis, SIS. LaAyssas OssAsal is.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-10-31
Queer Partnerships.

One of the most interesting exam
pies of intelligence among the sea.
crabs, IL that of q hermit-crab. which
seems to have q perfect understanding
with q sea-anemonc, that fastens itself
upon its shell, and shares the food the
crat may capture. This might be con-
sidered an accidental occurrence, were
it not that the crab proves its friend
ship by assisting the anemone to move
to its new shell, when, by reason of its
growth, the crab has to change its
quarters; and if the anemone is not
satisfied with one shell, the crab tries
others until its friend is suited.
A similar friendship exists between
another hermit-crab, found in the Med
iterranean Sea, that is also accompan-
led by an anemone. In this case the
friendship is not altogether disinterest-
ed, as the anemone is used as a decoy
by the willy crab, which gives it board.
lodging, and travelling accommoda-
lions, in return for its services.
The crabs called Dromie encourage
the growth of various animals and
plants upon their backs, and the spider
crab Of our own shores, known as the
decorator, is invariably found bearing
upon its back a thick growth of sea-
weed. placed there by itself. The
Glass-crabs are SO transparent that
print can be read through them, and
being thus difficult to detect, they read
lily escape the watchful eye OF hungry
fishes. From -. f1dcrs VI the sea-" By
=. +. Holder, in ST. Nicholas for Sep
fc1nZer.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-10-31
Amccdn,es Of Justice.

The justice of the peace is sometimes
a popularity, and if some one does not
watch him he will exceed his jurisdic-
ton. II took n constable. Il sheriff, a
prosecuting attorney and . club to con
vince a Wyoming justice Of the peace
that he had no right 10 send u man to
the penitentiary for life. Another JUS
tice in Utah sentenced II criminal to be
hung on the following Friday between
twelve and n O'Clock OF said day,
but he couldn't enforce the sentence.
A Wisconsin justice of the peace grant
ed a divorce and in two weeks married
the couple over again-ten dollars for
tho divorce and two dollars for the re-
lapse. Another Badger justice bound
n young man oven 10 appear and an-
swe at the next term uf the circuit
court for the crime of chastity, and
the evidence was entirely circumstan.
tial. too.
Another one, when his first case came
ui'. jerked a cand.e-hox around behind
the dining-room table. put his hat on
the back OF his head, borrowed q chew
of tobacco from the prisoner and said:
"Now, boys. the courts open. The
first Teller that says II word unless
t teil Your story" Then e sc1 witness tines
and the defendant teeled of his yarr
without being worn Tic justice fner
the defendant ten dollars aud made th,
; complaining witness pav half tho costs