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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
Kindness TO Young Horses.

1t would be difficult to find a pref
tier sight than that of Tom Cannon
making friends with one of his young
ones. His rule is never" to go up TO-
the horse but let the horse come to-
him. Some Of the high-bred, sensitive
little creatures are extremely
When their master goes into their box
they get as far from him as possible,
and eye his proceedings suspiciously-
They show a disposition to start from
his hand, however gently it is OUT
stretched, and this they watch at first.
with apprehension. Presently they
look up to. his face, seethe kindly smile.
hear the persuasive tone of his voice.
and by degrees, with their soft little
muzzles outstretched, only showing
slight timorousness by the movement
of their ears, they approach him. A
sniff seems to have a wonderful re-as~
surfing effect. [ never saw one that
was not very soon nesting its dainty
little head and rubbing it's nose con
fidingly against its master, evidently
approaching caresses and soft words.
The spectacle is delightful for a man
who loves animals. l feel certain that
it Sechem had been at Danebury-ol
rather at Houghton-.when he was q
foal, there would have been no occa-
sion to pad his box. Whocan say, too.
what effect this mutual confidence be.
tween man and horse may not have
when the race comes to be run? That
young horses invariably do their best
when Tom Cannon rides them is noto.
rious, yet he treats them as carefully
as if they were children.-Lomdon
SDOrtiuu NeWS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
LOVE.
A Rich Old Lady Who Might Have Been
His Wife.

A Rich Old Lady Who Might Have Been
His Wife.
"reminiscences of administrations of
years gone by, says a Washington let
ter, are constantly coming to Eight,
''Right ove there" said an old society
beau recently, pointing to a brown
stone front near the Executive Man.
sion, olives a woman who might have
been mistress of the White House
under Democratic rule if she had seer
fit to accept the hand of James Buch-
anan. She comes from a very wealthy
Pennsylvania family, and was courted
by Mr.. Buchanan. Her people wanted
her to marry him, but she didn't want
to-. She loved a poor clergyman, rec
tor of a church in her town, but the
family didn't want her to marry him,
and SO they arranged that he should be
quietly transferred to another post,
some hundreds or thousands of
miles away. This broke up, the
match and the maiden, too, for
she went into retirement at once
and has married nobody. Neither tho
Punishment of her clergyman nor. the
elevation of Mr.. Buchanan to the Presi-
dency could make her change her
mind, and she remained and remains
single. She is an old, withered and.
sad woman, living there alone with her
widowed sister in that great mansion,
with actually more money than they,
know how to use. They are the richest
people in Washington, possibly except
ing Mr.. Corcoran, and they do nothing.
with the wealth except to keep up their,
magnificent establishment and pet a.
lot Of cats and dogs" The lady re-
ferred to is the one of whom the sto-y
is told that Mr.. Corcoran. one day sent
her a polite note somewhat as follows.
my Dear Madam: I have been for
some time thinking of charging the
Arlington Hotel. If you will state the.
value of your brown-stone mansion adj
joining, I will send you my check for
the amount" To which she replied:
''lny Dear Mr.. Corcoram: I have for
some time been thinking of charging
my flower garden. If you will state,
the value Of the Arlington Hotel adj
Joining, 1 will send you my check foz
the AMOUNT
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
CHINESE WOMEN.

The Strange Inner Life of the Almond.
Eyed Women of China.
Chinese ladies wear robes of silk of
any or every color-their frightful little
feet protrude from the legs of a straight
pair of satin pantaloons-much like the
European garment in form. The GUS
tom of martyrizing the feet always af-
fects the legs, which invariably become
thin, atrophied or deformed.
Little feet are not admitted to the i'm
perial court. Only the daughters of
Tartar generals are admitted to the
Emperor's palace, and these Tartar
girls are never subjected to the torture
OF having their feet deformed. Still, I
am told. that the Tartar girls are not at
all anxious to go to Pekin, where some
dozen OF the poor creatures are con-
demned to the life of a recluse in those
huge palace buildings, surrounded by
lofty walls.
If you should chance to meet a we'll
dressed Chinese woman, either walking
or In an open %palanquin, you may as
sure yourself that she belongs to the
disreputable class. AS for the women
OF the people, they go freely through
the streets; they carry packages, mer-
handise of all kinds. and adopt very
successfully, by reason of their uncom-
monty well-developed muscular power,
the trade of porters.
The great Chinese ladies are served
by female dornestics called ..amahs."
1nese servants sometimes perform COM
missions, but not as a rule. No woman
employed in an ~aristocratic family
Arrows herself to be seen upon the
street without good reason.
A mandarin's wife must not show
herself under risk of being sullied by
lhe gaze of the populace. She shares
inc honors of her husband, gives parties
IN her own house, visits her female
friends, but the street is forbidden her.
The Chinese women love their chill
dren, and are much loved and re-
spected by them. The story about
Chinese infants being thrown into the
river is pure hu1nbug. The affection
shown to the children by the women of
tnc lower classes is often touching;
they carry them strapped to their
shoulders even while at work.
In the houses of the rich mandarins
there are always several courts-little
open yards-through which one has to
pass before reaching the female apart
ments, which are always separated
from those of the men. The married
people alone occupy the same room;
every other member of the family must
occupy a separate room.
Inc most luxurious Chinese up
Aolstery and furniture never invites
one TO Idle repose-in fact the best fur
nlshed house is barely comfortable.
me oed has no springs, but mas a mum
oer OF little cotton mattresses covered
WIN silk and padded countcrpanes
winch are all rolled up in one mass
during the day.
c II must not be supposed that n
onlhese woman exactly resembles an
olher Chinese woman-it We're Just as
1asional to say that all French women
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
Songs.

Prof. Blackie, in the course of some
remarks about songs, recently made at
Manchester, Eng, said: "The mixing
of music with words-words that stir
the soul and instruct the minds the
most intellectual of all possible enter
tainments.'' This suggests that the
s~ong-makers of America should exer-
else greater care in the composition of
the words. Many songs have had a
brief season of favor in the thcaters,
which, had the sentiment been as WELL
expressed in the words as in the music,
might have become as thoroughly sug-
geAive of the American nationality as
the "Annie Lau2ie' or s.Scots wha
hae'' of Scotland.-Current.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20

After weary waiting, the Austria.
lians have at last succeeded in raising
salmon in their rivers, thanks to the
persistent energy of Sir Samuel Will
son. A number of fish have lately
been caught in the river Yarra- near
Melbourne, which are believed To- be
some of the California salmon satro-
duced by him several years ago.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20
There are 10000 widows in

There are $4,000 widows in India
from three to five years of age, who
will never again be married. In that
country as 0 o as a child is born a
match is made by the parents. If the
boy dies the girl becomes a widow, and
must wear mourning for her iatended
as long as she lives.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20

The name OF Arizona, the Sentinel
of that Territory says, was not be-
slowed through any poetic orange.
ments of Indian or Spanish names, but
is derived from aridus, dry, and zon&
Q girdle OF belt
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20

A State record has been discovered
at Trenton, N. j., showing that one
John Fitch launched a steamboat on
the Delaware River twenty years before
Fulton's steam craft, the Clermont, ap
peared on the Hudson.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20

The man who was fastening up the
door to his pig-sty, to secure a brace
OF runaway shoats, said: "You are NV
pair-if-I-nail-ye."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-20

During the cholera epidemic in
Paris the deaths among single men
doubled those among the married men.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-05-21
WATCH
The kid N EYS.

They are the most important
secretory organs. Into and
through the Kidneys flow the
waste fluids OF the body,
containing poisonous matter
taken out or the system. II
the Kidneys do not act prop
erly this matter Is retained,
the whole system becomes
disopdered and the following
symptoms will follow: Head
ache, weakness, pain In the
small OF back and loins, flushes
OF heat, chills, with disordered
stomach and bowels. You can
thoroughly protect the Kid
neys by BURD0CK BLOOD BIT
TERS, and when any OF these
symptoms manifest them
selves you can quickly rid
yourself OF them by this best
OF all medicines for the Kid
neys. BURD0CK BLOOD BIT
TIERS are sold everywhere at
81 per bottle, and one bottle
will prove their efficacy. " ..
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-05-21

BY land or at sea, out ou the prairia
or 10 The crowded city, Ayers Cathartic
Pills are the best for puraatiye pny.
poses, everywhere alike convsp iept, an.
caclous, .nnd safe. For sluggish bowels.
torpid liver, indi digestion, Sad breath
n snre remedy.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-05-21

1T was the trick Of the triumvirate
vnarles Foster, Charles Moore and
Charles Gt0]veuor, that took tho Repnb-
lican STATE Convention away from Co
lumhus and located II at Springfield. Tho
Idea was TO head OF 0eueral Beatty. of
Columbus, who aeDIres TO the Governor.
shin.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-05-21

! have used Ely's Cream Balm for
cotarrb and cold IN tho head. II Ia a flrat
rate preparation: would recomInend n N
anyone a,iieoted.-.R. W. Chsever, editor
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-05-21

THAT you are bothered nearly to
uUHh death with rheumatic twinges
or the pangs of neuralgia is no reason
why you should continue to suffer. Ex.
pertinent with good medicine. Try
Thomas Eeleetric OIL. Reeolleet II 10
GUARANTEED by every druggist. Ncu-
ralgia and Rheumatism never stood be.
fore n.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-05-21
If 1T aUere possible

w "NsS HO"O"NSN
to get the testimony OF tho multitude who
have used HOOPS SARaAPARILLA for de-
bilty, languor, lassltude, and that general
feeling OF stupidity, WEAKNESS and eShaus'
ton which every ono feels during this season.
we should be able to present TO our readers
such an overwhelming mass OF commend.
atory messages, that the few who have not
tried II would do so at once. II is positive
fact, and has been so eflectually demon
strated that no one to-day denies II, that
Hoods sarsaparlla contains more real med
olnal value than any article before the people,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-05-21

CllnVAl us a man or women, II you
VuWVv can, afflicted with toothaehe,
earache, headache, baekaehe, any ache,
that has sought relief In DR.. Thomas
Eelcetric OIL to no advantage, and In re.
lurn we will refer you to thousands Simi.
liarly affected whom this medicine has
restored and cured completely.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-18
i !: lfyanflrla Waztttf.
X
WEDNESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER IS.

THE BIRTH OF AN IcEBERG.-lne olr'n
of a huge iceberg, phenomenon that mas
been seen only once or twice by European
end to a certain extent has remained mat.
,sr of theory, was observed by the Danish
sxnlorers on the east coast of Greenland lasi
summer. The berg are formed by breaking
eff FROM The end of glaciers extending frcn
The perpetual ice of the unexplored interior
,n the coast and into the sea. The water
buoys up the sea end of the glacier until IL
breaks by its own weight with noise That ,6I
sounds like loud thunder miles away. Inc
commotion of the water, as the lceDele
turns over and over in the effort to attain It's
balance, is felt to great distance aloug the
coast. The natives regard it as the WORK
Of evil spirits, and believe that to look upon
The glacier in its throe is death. The Dan
ish Offices, when observing the breaking on
of the end of the great glacier PulssortoH
through their telescopes, were roughly or
dered by their Esquimaux escort, usually
submissive enough, 10 follow their example
and o,nrn their backs on the interesting
scene. They had happily completed their
observations and avoided an embarrassing
conflir, with their crew Us 4 Seeming COM
,,.ianca with the order.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-18
RAILROADS.
1907 GREAT 1907
1000 PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE 1000
10 THE NORTH. WEST AND SOUTHWEST.
DOUBLE. TRACK STEEL RAILS.


TO IHE NORTH. WEST AND soUTHWEsI'
DOUBLE TRACK, STEEL RAILS.
SPLENDID SCENERY.
MAGNIFICENT EQUIPMENT.
Iii effect November 10, 1885.
:r%rs leave Washington, from station, corner OF
Sixth and E streets, rs follows:
For PittsbMrg and tho West Chicago Limited
Express Of Palace Sleeping Cars at $50 q. IN,
daily; Fast Line, 500 am. daily, to Cincinnati
and st. Louis, with Sleeping Cars from Harris
burg to Cincinnati, and Hotel Car to ST. Louis !;
daily, except Saturday, 30 Chicago, with Sleep
ing Car Altoona to Chicago. Chicago aud Gin
cinrati Express, at 7:10 p. NJ. daily, with
Sleeping Cars Washington to Chicago and Har-
risburg to Louisville connecting ut Harrisburg
with Western Express with through Sleepors
for st. Louis. Pacific Express, 1000 p. nj.
daily, for Pittsburg and the West. with through
Sleeper Harrisburg 10 Chicago and Cleveland
ELLTIMcEE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD.
tcS Erie, Canendaigua Rochester, Buffalo. Niagara
1OGO?. NJ daily, except Saturday, with Palace
Cars Washington 70 Rochester
For Wiliamsport, Lock Haven and Elr,irs st
$50 =. a., daily, except Sunday.
For New York SID the East, 1:15, $50 and II: go
= u, 200, 400. 1000 and 11:2O D. H.
o.. SUNDAY $50 =. N, 300, 400 1000 and
11:2G :. =. Limited E&:i:c<s O. Pullman
Parlor .;s. G:;;: ~. d:.iiy. cxc, i sun,!ay
fo9 Boston Without change. 200 = IL. every
liz.
|cr ::r,.Nly: : z. I'll through trains connect 4.
ieisy: CitE '.ith coats % Drookiym Auna&,
a!.ort!i; direct transfer 20 Futon street, svoid
ing double fcgciago across New Yorl. City.
!nr Philadelphia, T:l5 $50 and HOO H. H..
200, loo, 800, 1000 and 11:lO y. III. On
Sunday $50 =. H.. 200, 4:Ou, GOO. 1000 and
11:2o pm. Limited Express. $40 =. ~. daily,
except Sunday.
For Baiti1nor, $50, r1:15. $50 $40. $50 and
HOO p. n: snd 1905. 200, 400, l:25, 4:4O,
500, 7:10, 1000 and 1l:2O T. III On Sunday,
$50 $50 and 41:C0 a. "a, and 200 400,
600, 40, 1000 and 11:20 p. IL.
For PoPcS Greek Line II a. M, and LAO p. n =,
daily except SUNDAY.
For Annapolis 7:15 2. NJ, ard 1905 and 4:25
p n. daily except Sunday. On Sunday j p. N.
ALEXANDRIA AID FREDERICKSBURG RAILWAY
AID ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON KAILEoAn.
For AicxsnGria, 600. 40 9:25. II: O1 Gnd 1875
3. m, EOS, 4;26. i:35, Sol, sos aud 1887
IL. On Sunday at GOO. 9:25. and i1:o1 q. IA,
aud sos p. III.
Fox Richmond and tho South, GO and 11:O1 g.
H. daily, and 4:35 p. n, daily except Sunday,
Trains leave Alexandria for Washington COS,
SEQ, loco and 1910 y. NJ; LOO, 3:O5. 1923,
GIG. !:15 and 1912 p. M, and 1910 mid.
night, except Monday. On Sunday al 800 and
1910 3. n; T05 AID 1912 F.. ~.
Tickets and III Information ri the Office Northeast
corner o. 18th street and Penna avenue, and at
the station where orders can be loft for the check
ing Of baggage to destination from hotels and
residences J. r. WOOD, g. P A.
CJiAS Z. PUGH, g. r.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-18

Leave Washington ct co a. H. ard 4 10 .. m .,
and alexandria st . 10 Il. and 30 p. n. Pass
Leesburg, going westyssrd At ii % Il. III. aud
80 =. IA, and arrive at Round Hill Ut IL a.
IN. and ! - p. IN. Leave Round Hill at 81 q.
Ill. SID ! 26 P. n. Pass Lcesburg, going cas-:
ward, at d So Il. IN. and , 12p. H., ana arrive a.
Alexandria 1T 3 :,6 n. m. and 4 OF p 1n and at
Washington at 8 80 a. nj. and 4 10 p. III.
All trains arc daily except the 90 a. III. train
from Washington, the 10 a. NJ. train from
Alexandria and the 1 26 p. m. train from Round
Hill, which are daily except Sunday.
~ Passengers from Washington will take tic
Wash, Ohio and Wcst'n. cars at the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad station at 900 e. III. and 445 p.
IA, and go through to Round Hill without change
o: cars.
The $40 4. NJ train from Alexandria and 900
pm. train from Washington connect st Round II i'll
with Daily Limo of Coaches for Snickersvile, Der.
ryville and Winchester: also with Line of Coaches,
which leave Locsburg daily for Aldie and Middle.
burg.
Both trains, Westward, make close connections
at Vienna, with Sissons Line of Stages for Fairfax
Court House.
One thousand mile communication tickets, $50
Alexandria, Nov. ID, 1885
l.. BELL Superintendent
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-18
NORTH BOUND.
PULLMAN SERVICE.

Trains Nos. Do ana OIL, Pullman Bullet and
Sleeping Cars, between Washington and New
Orleans without change. Pullman Buffet and
Sleeping Cars between New York and Atlanta
without change. Mann B0udor Cars Atlanta
to New Orleans via Bennington.
Train No. so makes close connection at Green's
boro with Sleeper to AShcriHe n. c.
Trains Nos 50 and 50, Pullman Buffet and Sleep
ing Cars between Washington and New Orleans,
without change. Pullman Sleeping Cars be-
tween Washington and Augusta without change
Trains Nos. 81 and 55 Pullman Sleeping Cars
between Washington aud Louisville without
change. Pullman Sleeping Cars between Char
louisville and Cincinnati without change.
BRANCHES.
MANASSAS DIyISION-Daily except Sunday
Wcstwald-Lcave Washington ..:3O p. M. Alex
andria, 2:55 p. III. Manassas sos D. III. Ar
rive Front Royal 6:32 p. m, Rivcrion GAL p.
Ill. Strasburg 1908 pm Accommodation leaves
Manassas 4:15 a. II. Arrive Front Royal
1920 q. m, Riverton 1895 NJ. Strssburg
11:3O a. NJ.
Eastward-Lcave Strasburs G:1O 3. III. River
ton G:3S a. W. Front Royal 6:51 4. III. Ar
rive Manassas 9:15 a. NJ. Alexandria 1915 4.
n. Washington 1910 IN. Accommodations
leave Strasburg 1900 noon. Eiycrton 1880
noon. Front ROYAL 1:20 p, nj. Arrive 8Ianas.
sas 7:O5 p IN. Alexandria $50 p. M Wash
ngton 0:15 p. IN.
WARRENTON BRANCH.
1ralnS los. OU Ol, O4, anu I'D connect daily ut
Warrcnton Junction to and from Warren
ton. Trains Nos. SD, So and 50 daily, except
Sunday, to anc from Warrenton. Train No.
So does not connect with W2rrcnton.
FRANKLIN DIVISION
DAILY except Sunday. Leave Rocky Mount 700
Il. IN. Arrive Franklin Junction 1920 Il. M
Leave Franklin Junction 500 p. III. Arrive
Rocky Mount 11:3O pm.
CONNECTIONS.
At Orange with p. +. d p. r. r. for Frcdcricks-
burg. At Gordonsvillc and Charlottesville with
Chesapeake and Ohio Ry. for Richmond Old
Point, Staunton, and points East and West, and
Virginia Springs. At Lynchburg with Norfolk
AMI Western L. r. for Southwest Virginia,
Bristol, Chattanooga, Memphis, Nashville and
Knoxville and with Richmond and Ale
ghany r. +. for Lexington and Natural Bridge
rs well points Z. & \. i. r. cast of
Lynchburg.
At Danvile with Richmond and Danville, for
all points in the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia and
the South. a Rvcrton with Shenandoah Val
Icy r. Z. for Luray and Points in the Page Val
ley. AtStrasburg with the Baltimore and Ohio
for Harrisonburg Winchester and points in the
Shenandoah Valley.
All trains make close connections at Washing
ton with through trains to and from the North
and West via both Penna. and 3. G. D. r. r.
Through tickets It lowest prices to all import
ant points in the United States This is the best
line for points in Texas and California
For all information, tickets and Sleeping Car
reservations apply to agents of this company, or
J. S. B. THOMPSON,
Assistant General Passenger Agent,
Alexandria, Virginia.
ROBERT ANDREWS, Supt. and Eng.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-18

COAL COAL.
We invite the attention Of dealers aud con.
SINNERS to our largo stock of CAREFULLY ERR
PARED COAL of tho following varieties:
LYKEN'S VALLEY
LORBERRY and
SHAMOKIN RED ASE
WHITE ASH (free burning and hard) Of stos,G.
cr broken, egg stove and and nut sizes.
Also GEORGES CREEK, CUMBERLAND and
KANAWHA SPLINT, from West Va.
Making Coal speciality we aim to keep only
the HIGHEST GRADES, and having two large
Storage Yards, each variety is kept separate, and
is especially prepared for family use.
Yards foored, and all Coal sent out WELL
SCREEND AND FREE FROM IMPURITIES.
Dealers, families, public institutions and man.
ufactories supplied st lowest market rates-pcr
ton OF 2240 lbs. J. L. ZIMMERMAN,
Successor to T. J. Mehaffey 6 Co..
my7 Wharf and Yards foot of Quoon st