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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21
CAMPING OUT.
The Fun " Outdoor Life-More Desirxbll
in Anticipation Than In Reality.

The Fun " Outdoor Llfe-More Dsslrxbl1
in Anticipation Than In Reality.
Camping parties; are quite the rage
in California during the summer
months, owing to the absence of rain,
which makes them impossible or at
least inexpedient in the more. variable
climate Of the East. That they conduce
to health and are the source of much.
enjoyment is beyond a doubt, but they
are attended by certain drawbacks, as,
is shown by the following little domes--
tic scene:
"This camping-out business" said
the young married man to his guests.
as the wife of his bosom anointed his
peeling nose with vaseline-..this,
camping out is not what it's, cracked.
up to be-"
"Have you been camping oute!"
CHATS what they call it.. There.
were four of us-my wife here, two.
young men about town and myself.
We had to cook"
"Well, that's the benefit of having a,
wife; She"
"S-shr' said the married man. The
young wife very suddenly looked sun
burnt. "She is young-and delicate
about cooking: We did the cooking"
we! Who's WEI"
1.-THE other two fellows and myself.
We got some cold mutton and a
chicken-a spring chicken-spring Of
80. The first question was to kill the
chicken. 1t sprang out of the wagon
every five minutes, and if its legs hadn't
been tied we'd never have caught it."
"Well. that wasn't my fault, was
it?" broke out the young wife.
'.My beloved darling, who said il
was? We did not know what would
be the easiest death for that chicken to
die, so we put it on a fence and fired,
at it for an hour with three revolvers
and a Winchester rifle. That chicken
had a charmed life. 1t winked at the
bullets as they went past anywhere
from a foot to a hundred yards off. II
was no use. None of us could hit it.
so we got out an ak and chopped its.
head off. Then it came to a question
of picking it. We tossed up a half
dollar as to who should do it. I won
the toss-that is, I had to pick tire
chicken. So I sat down on q fence
and this young lady sat opposite and
guyed me. The other two fellows
went fishing. For two mortal hours ]
picked at that chicken. When 1 got
all the feathers off. there was nothing
left; so, as we didn't know how to
cook it anyway, we threw it away"
"Good exercise that. Lots of fun"
''Fun-well-never mind that. Then
the other fellows came home with
some trout. Cary here was set to
cook the fish. He's a first-rate cook, he
is, oh yes! We were all hungry as
bears and we ate grass and things
while the cooking went on. When we
gathered around the fire, we found
that Gary had forgotten to put any
butter or anything in the frying pan;
the fish all stuck to the bottom, and
we had to scrape as much as we could
with spoons. But that wasn't much,
and we lived on cold mutton for two
days. Oh, yes, camping out is great
fun."-San Francisco Chronicle.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21
G
Not in Use in England Until Queen Eliza-
beth's Time.

Not in Use in England Until Queen Eliza-
beth's Time.
1t is much to be regretted that when
more luxurious notions began to pre-
vail, the fine oaken chairs of our
castles, halls and country houses were
banished to the servants hall or the
lumber room, or sold as worthless an
tiquities that few cared to preserve. 1t
is possible that some of them were put
to even lower uses. When Sir Roger
de Coverley had seen the two
ton chairs in Westminster Abbey, Adj
olson says she whispered in my ear
that if Will Wimble were with us, and
saw those two chairs, it would go hard
but he would get a tobacco stopper
out of one or t'other of them"
When Sidney Smith entered upon his
newly built parsonage at Boston, near
York, he gave a carpenter who came
to him for parish relief a cart load of
deals and a barn to work in, with the
Injunction, ':Jack, furnish my house."
One of the chairs Jack made stood for
some years in Sidney Smiths siustice
room," then found its way into the
kitchen, was given to Mrs. Kilvington,
and is now in possession of his new
biographer. Mrs. Stuart j. Reid. 1t is
a rustic chair of justice, and as such it
is worthy a passing allusion.
The transition from the armchair to
the easy-chair was not made all at once.
When men and women wanted real re-
pose they formerly found it in divans,
couches. sofas, and WHAT in Shakspeare's
time were somewhat ~reproachfully
called 'day-beds." A loose cushion
was made for wooden chairs, and it
was sometimes placed upon, at other
times underneath, a richly embroidered
cloth or an animals skin. 1t is doubt
full whether for many hundred years
the easy-chairs of Western Europe were
anything more elaborate. The fixed
seat and padded back and arms did not
come into use in England until Queen
Elizabeth's time. An armchair was in
fact, an article of costly luxury, and
sometimes of %reproach. In Wycliffe's
New Testament he makes the scribes
fond of the ''first chaierers in Sinago-
gis." Marston, an English dramatist,
describes ga fine fac'd wife in a VAIN
scot carv'd seat" as a ''worthy orna-
ment to a bridesmaids shop" but he is
lashing the practice with his whip. Ben
J%onson, satilizing the way in which
! women spend their time, writes:
| At twelve o'clock her dinner time she keeps,
And gets into her chaire, and there She
| Perhaps till foure, Or somewhat thereabout.
-C0sseWs Family Magazine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21
CORSAGE DRAPERiES.
h Kind of Draperies Sought for in the
City of Brotherly Love.

The Kind of Draperies Sought for in the
City of Brotherly Love.
An exquisite material for scarfs and
corsage draperies is a fine silk gauze,
figured at short intervals with loops of
chenille of the same color. The loops
are about an inch and a half long and
are secured to the gauze merely at the
two ends, but they cling to the ma
terial and do not form pendants. This
gauze is as supple and soft as fine tulle,
and it's beauty is illustrated in a curl
ious scarf worn with a low-cut corsage.
The scarf is passed around the neck
and both ends are drawn through a
diamond-studdcd gold ring, and the
ends are then carried around the cor
sage, over the bust, down under the
arms and are knotted together in the
back, where the surplus length is
allowed to fall sash fashion.
Many dresses are cut square in the
neck and others are in V shape. These
are often filled in with tulle or some
one of the fashionable laces; again
they are only edged with lace or ruch-
ing, and the neck is adorned with one
of those dog collars, which are shown
in a number of forms, from the simple
band of black or colored velvet to the
most gorgeous necklet of precious
stones.
Some of the most attractive bands
have a fringe of beads, pearls, jet, gilt
or steel; others have a kind of shower
of pearls or beads in front, ending in a
pear-like tassel. All styles Of pendants
are now worn for evening suspended
to narrow bands or ribbons of tulle.
which are tied in a little bow on one
side of the neck.-Philudelphia Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21
A o GRIEVANCE.
Disguised at His Mothers Forgetfulncss of
His Dead Father.

HIS DeaO taCnCr.
"What ails you?" asked a policeman
of a boy on Fort street east, who had a
rock in his hand and was menacing a
woman in a door-yard.
.Look-a-here," answered the boy, as
he dropped the stone and sat down N
the horseback, "she's been %deceiving
me in the awfulest manner"
"How?'
:She's my mother. Pap died two
years ago, and we've never been up to
sec his grave since. Every week SHE'S
promised to take me up on Sunday, and
every Sunday she's said to me:
"'Never mind, sonny. We can't go
to-day, but your pap's grave won't run
away, all the same. He's there to
stay"
Chats kind of unfeeling like" re-
marked the officer.
"You bet it is, but it don't begin with
what she's said and done. She took of
mourning and began to drink lemonade
and chew gum inside of three months,
and she keeps speaking of him as the
late deceased. Last Sunday l wanted
to go up aud put some pansies onpap's
grave, but she gin me a clip on the ear
and said:
"'Your pap's grave be hanged. l
had to wash for six shillings a day to
buy his whisky and tobacco, and I'll
pansy you if you don't quit your pes
tering!
II don't say as pap was perfection,
but I do blame mann for feeling so
kinder gay over it"
"WilI she marry again?" asked the
officer, in a cautious voice.
..Will she! She's dying to-! She's
on track of five or six different men,
and she'll Il some of'em down onless
they Jump the town. 1 guess that's
why she don't want to hear about pap's
grave. Just afore you come along l
SAYS to her:
".Mam, it's a beautiful day; let's you
and I go up and see if anybody's put a
suntiower on pap's grave
..And she wheeled on me and yelled
out:
".Pap's grave again! Allus pap's
grave! I'll have a pap around here IN
about a fortnight who'll wallop pap's
grave out of you, if it takes a leg!"
"Humph!" sighed the officer.
"And So" said the boy, as he slowly
counted the five coppers out OF his vest
pocket, 81 guess I'll skip. guess III
90 to Arizona and become a stage rob-
Der. I'll learn to shoot with both
hands and I'll rob everybody, and
when 1 get rich I'll come back here
and take that second husband and mop
him all over pap's grave and pound
him to a jelly! You bet l will''-De-
tyolt Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21
How a Chinaman Passes an Exami.
nation.

"
It seems, by a decree in the Imperial
Gazette, of Pekin, that the willy China
man is not insensible to the facilities
offered by competitive examinations
for cheating. The Gazette states that
cit frequently happens that the candi-
date never appears himself at the ex-
animation, but hires a substitute in his
w district, who presents himself for
examination under the assumed name
of the candidate" The decree goes
on to say that it is extremely difficult
to detect this fraud, and the only
remedy suggested is that the candi-
dates from each province shall be ex-
amined simultaneously. Exactly the
same fraud has more thar c been
detected at examinations in England,
and it is probable that it has occurred
in a vast number Of instances in which
it has never been detected. The
remedy proposed by the Chinese Gov
eminent is altogether inadequate, for
a Chinese district is so extensive that
the probability Of II candidate being
personally known to any Of the others
is small indeed. In England the
remedy would be simple and easy OF
application, as impersonation would
be rendered impossible were each M
didate on sending up his name obliged
to enclose a photograph. verified by
his schoolmaster or a magistrate OF a
town to which he belongs. Photo
graphy is not yet universal in China,
but some security at least would be-
given were q specimen OF the candi-
dates handwriting, similarly attested,
to be forwarded.-L0ndon STANDARD.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21

fo,nd IN which his bones arst are
.ounu' 1t is certain that the climate
m "as inach warmer in Europe than it is
Low how. I'm my calculations. man has
vesns So,loo years on earth, and 349, O54
santh nave passed since the axis of the
@ e'1.n nrst moved out of perpendicular.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21
"A runaway marriage is the lates

"A runaway marriage is the latest
sensation in Webster, jackson County,
N. c.. Oscar B. Coward eloped with
Miss Emma Long, one of the prettiest
girls in the county. The marriage
license was issued by the young lady
herself. Her father, who is County
Register of Deeds. had left several
blank licenses at the house with his
name already signed to them, so that if
any one should come for a license
while he was out of town some men,
Der of the family could fill out the
blanks over his signature. His daugh-
ter secured one of these blanks and
filled it out herself. She is not yet
fourteen years of aga-Rschaaond Dta>
pateh.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21
The developments of human in

The developments of human in
genuity are so varied that we are con-
stantly changing u style of living
without, however, being physically
adapted to it. What we eat, the speed
at which we eat. the hours we sleep,
the kind of work we do and the time
we give to it, are not in accordance
with our physical conditions.-MI-
Waukee Sentinel.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21

In this country, where food is so
cheap and so abundant, there is no ne.
cessity for a~dulterating any article OF
dietary Importance. But such adu!ter-
atoms are practiced, and will continue
to be unless the people are awakened
to the magnitude Of the danger, n
the necessity OF protection theretrom.
PROT. IL. W. Wiley
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21

Honey cake: One cup Of white
sugar, n cup rich sour cream, half q
teaspoon of soda, two cups OF Hour,
flavor to taste. Bake half an hour and
eat while warm.-INe Household.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21

Stove wood is only worth about
half as much in the vicinity OF the
large towns Of New England as it was
fifteen years ago.-Boston Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-21

The highest point eve reached by
man was by balloon-27,OOO feet
Chicago Herald.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-04-29

Charles Sherman Brown, Chief Engineer
Of the Fair Haven (Conn.) Fire Depart
msnt, died suddenly on the oath. Mr.. Brown
was well known all over the country, and
was Vice President Of the National Asso-
citation of Chief Engineers of Fire Depart
ments.
During the week ended April 25 the total
exports of specie from the port Of New
York were $844,811. OF this amount the
exports to Europe were $602, ,76S in silver,
and the exports to Havana were $201 100 in
gold. The imports Of specie for the same
period were $l02,254.
Plymouth. near Wilkesbarre, Pa, is
afflicted with an epidemic resembling
typhoid fever. There were nineteen
deaths on the 25th and 26th, and large
number of cases. The disease is due to the
bad sanitary condition of the town.
The following changes are noted in the
statement of the New York associated
banks for the week ended April 25: Loans
decrease, So, ,6l9, 600; specie increase, 81, ,G06,
600; legal tenders increase, $202,100; de-
posits decrease, 81, 900; circulation de-
crease, $1,000; reserve increase, $2,74s, ,750.
The banks held $5S,74S,4 ,425 in excess Of legal
requirements. n..
Isaac w. England, the publisher Of the
New York Sun, died at Ridgeway, N. Y,
on the 25th. He was in the fifty-third
year Of his age.
The autopsy on the body Of Kate Lums-
ley, known as the Fort "Plain faster" who
died few days ago near Utica, N. Y,
shows that death was caused by consump-
tion. There was nothing to indicate un-
usual abstinence from food.
Emerson Leland, well known in roller
skating circles throughout the country and
leading promoter of the art, died at his
residence in Boston on the 25th after brief
illness, Of pneumonia, aged sixty -four.
The Farmers Loan and Trust Company
of New York, began a suit on the 2jth for
the foreclosure Of a mortgage of SIC, 700 900
held on the Bankers and Merchants Tele-
graph Company. The Trust Company al
leges that the Telegraph Company is in
solvent and that nothing can save it.
During the marriage ceremony Of Mary
Duryea and Julien Sazey at Jamaica, l..
l., on the 18th Frank Lami, an admirer Of
bride who had not been invited to the we'd
ding, fred three shots through the win
dow, one Of which took effect in the brides
| leg. He was arrested. >
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-04-29
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.


An Odessa dispatch of the 23d says:
"Leading English mercantile houses are
closing up their business and arranging
with their connections for transfer Of their
correspondence to other hands preparatory
to the members Of the firms leaving Rus
sia. Public excitement is increasing. There
has been further fall Of Russian securi-
ties.n
The customs authorities Of Ottawa, Ont,
on the 22d seized consignment Of hard
ware from New York State. The authori-
ties were in possession Of information to
the effect that the goods were manufac-
tured by prison labor. The Importation Of
such goods into Canada is prohibited.
Recent advices from Batavia, Island Of
Java, report tho recurrence Of volcanic
disturbances. A recent volcanic eruption
in the district of Passarveau almost en-
tirely devastated the place. Thousands Of
dwellings and plantations were destroyed,
and it is feared that hundreds Of the in
habitants have perished.
Tennyson, who is Liberal In politics,
has written for the London Times poem
on "England's Fleet" in the concluding
lines Of which he warns Gladstone that II
the present Ministry has wrought the dis
grace of England as a naval power they
will be "kicked from their places"
| AParis dispatch states that the property
OF menagerie company was burned in
that city on the night Of the 23d and large
numbers of the animals perished in the
flames. The crowd which had gathered to
witness the fire became angry at the fail
ure of the police to make any effort to save
the beasts and riot occurred. The police
were overpowered and the mob compelled
them to eat the roasted flesh OF tho burned
animals. Most Of the officers were made
dangerously Ill by their enforced diet.
An avalanche at Deydisfoul, Iceland .
few days ago killed twenty-four persons.
Mr.. Mclean, Of the Hudson Bay Com
pany, who left Fort Pitt Manitoba, the
day before the battle, had a parley with
the Indians. They told him they only
wanted TO kill the police and take their
arms and ammunition. The Indians num-
bored about $50.
Right Hon. John Naish, Attorney Gen.
eral for Ireland, has been appointed Lord
Chancellor Of Ireland, vice Right Hon. Sir
Edward Sullivan, deceased.
Within four days ended on the 26th 2,062
persons, most Of whom were Irish, have
left Queenstown for America. The present
emigration is said to be unprecedented.
The Right Hon. John Bright has replied
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-04-29
LATER NEWS.

GENERAL GRANTS sixty third birthday
was generally observed throughout the
county on tho 27th ult. in an appropriate
manner. The General took drive through
Central Park In the afternoon. A large
number of school children gathered in front
Of his residence in the morning and piled
the policemen on duty with regard to the
hero's health. Flowers and con9ratula-
tions poured in during the entire day.
The jury in the Dickson Star Route jury
bribery case brought in q verdict Of not
guilty on the 9th ult., after being out
about half IN hour.
REAR ADMIRAL DAVIS reports from the
Asiatic station 10 the Navy Department
that nearly all the English, Russian and
French war ships have been withdrawn
from treaty ports. The disposition OF the
Chinese toward foreigners, he says, re-
mains unchanged.
THERE were two very distinct shocks Of
earthquake felt at Knoxville, Tenn, about
five o'clock on the morning Of the 26th ult.
The window panes ratified and dishes tum-
bled TO the floor In many houses, while the
houses themselves shook.
THERE was rumor in London on the
9th ult. that another battle had occurred
between the Afghans and Russians in
which the latter wero defeated, losing 1900
men.
A MONTREAL (Can.) dispatch Of the 9th
ult. says apprehension Is felt for the safety
Of the nuns in the convent on Nuns Island,
above Victoria Bridge, About twenty nuns
reside there, and there Is no COM
munication during the time the Ice
in the river Is breaking up. The
island Is completely submerged, and the
water appears TO be up to the second story
OF the convent building. The rushing tor
rent and huge blocks Of floating ice pre-
vent communication, and the Sisters OF the
congregation to which tho nuns belong
fear that disaster has befallen them.
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas has issued
q general order directing postmasters, In
conformity with the laws passed by the last
Congress, to change postage on 6rst-class
mail matter on and after the 1st Of July
next at the rate Of two cents per ounce or
fraction OF an ounce, instead OF two cents
per half ounce, and 10 reduce the rate OF
postage on second class matter from two
cents TO one cent per pound.
THE four-story brick building No. 90
Third Avenue, Pittsburgh, occupied as o
paper warehouse and furniture store room,
was completely Quilted by fire on the night
OF the 27th ult., entailing n loss OF $4,000.
Nine flremen were buried under falling
walls. One was killed outright and three
probably fatally injured. '
RICHARD Pam, well known citizen Of
Albany, N. Y, fell dead at his residence in
that city on the 9th ult. He was almost
totally crippled by in6ammatory rheurna-
tism and tried TO walk, when the pain
went 10 his heart. He was fifty- three years
Of age, and had held many responsible
positions In the city government.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1885-04-29

A Leadville (Col.) dispatch Of the 26th
says that news reached that city on the
25th that eleven men working in the Home
stake mine, on Homestake Mountain, Eagle
River, had been buried in snowslide. A
rescuing party Immediately left Leadville
for the scene. 1t was found that the
avalanche had fallen upon the cabin of the
uasuspecting miners, crushing 1t to atoms
and burying them beneath mountain Of
snow. Ten bodies were recovered.
Arbeiter Hall, Detroit, Mich, took fire
during the progress of dance early on the
morning Of the 26th and the building was
totally destroyed. Three hundred people
were in the hall at the time, but all es-
capped without injury. Loss $4,000.