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The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-01-01

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She was remarkably sensible lady
who made the request of her friends that
after her deceass she should not b buried
BY the side Of y brook: where bsbbline
lowers woaaA wake her lsom her dreams;
nor In any grand cemetery, where aight-
seem, coming over epItsphs, might dis
tract her, bat be laid away to take her
let sleep under the counter Of some mer-
chast who did not advertise in the news
papers. There, she aaid, was to be found
peace surprising al understandings
depth Of quiet slumber, on which neither
the sound OF the buoyant foot Of youth
nor the weary shulIle Of old age would
ever intsuds.-Alb1ny Ness.
-Whea Washingtoa formed hia Csh-
inee i had bat four members. the h
tsriog Department being unknown. the
War and NsSy being undsr one head.
aad - Footnaster Gsasral bsing suA-
ordinate 10 the Treasury. OF thess loae
Rest6ons he gave two to Vrginisns-
BoOuea9y e Ska1e JcAerson and Attoe.
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
Chinese Ideas Of Justice

Chinese ideas of discipline are pecu-
liar. A short time since the land
office at Fussu Hong was attacked by
thirty bandits disguised as regular
troops. The officer in charge defended
the place brav.ly, and did not yield
until l. of his men had been killed
and himself and five others wounded.
The robbers rlundered the treasury,
set fire to the Office and rode off. In
any other country the officer would
have been commended for his courage,
but the Chinese authorities looked at
the matter differently, and he was pro-
nounced severely to blame for not hav-
ing taken measures to acquaint himself
with the advance of the robbers, and
for having failed to beat them off. He
was, therefore, cashicrcd, while the
officer in special charge of the treasury
was adjudged to have had a larger sum
deposited than he should have kept by
him, and was called upon to make
good the loss to the public out of his
w funds.-N Y. Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
TIE WHITE
Explorer Stanley's Emphatic Repetition of
aMuch-Questioned Statement.

Justat this point l improved the good
chance of getting some information
from Stanley about the mysterious
"white Africans who are said to exist
in the interior of the continent. Flaw
ing just written a novel about them I
was naturally anxious-now that it was
just too late for any corrections-to
find out exactly how many mistakes 1
had made. ''It was in Mtesa's country
that YOU met those white Africans from
Gambaragara, wasn't it?' inquired I.
''Do you really think there are a whole
nation of them in the interior. as some
people say?" 't1ndeed l do. Mtesa's
officers told me that there were. great
numbers of them settled upon the slopes
of Mt. Gordon Bennett (tllat big ex-
tinct volcano, you know, to the north
east of the great lakes), and that they
were a timid, unwarlike set. more
given to. skulking among the rocks
than coming out for Il fair fight
in the open. The four that 1
saw in Urganda were tall, slen-
der. long-limbed fellows. with brown
curly hair, rather prominent noses,
lips somewhat full and thick Though
not all of the African type. and COM
plexions not u bit darker than Il mulatto
iii our Southern States.'' '.And do YOU
really think they're a pure-bloodcd
African race? Mightn't they be de-
scended from the first Portuguese colo
nists. who settled on the East African
coast in the days of Vasco Ola CANA
md Albl:qucr4ue?" mo, l shouldn't
think that very likely. What would
the Portuguese be doing there? 1
don't fancy they ever got as far inland,
as that. It's much more probable that
thcy'rea tribe of light colorcd ETH
opians, or perhaps of Copts, driven
down from the north by conquest. Be-
ing, as the Waganda told me, an II
warlike and timid race, they would
naturally keep themselves secluded in
these mountain Businesses Of theirs.
avoiding all contact with the ~fiercer
tribes around them. "And in that
way" suggested 1, sthey would pre-
serve their light complexion unmixed."
''Just so; and as 1 tell you they were no
darker than Il light mulatto-some Of
them perhaps not quite so dark"
"And their ome were very hand
some, were they not?' s:They were in
observation-disclosures than any that l saw
elsewhere in Africa, although some of
the Urganda women were very good
looking, too. One of my chief cap
tains was married to Il woman from
Urganda, who went all the way down
the Congo with our expedition. n--Duvid
Her, IN N. Y. Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
MODERN SCIENCE.
It's Discoveries In Regard to Mans Senses
and Constitutions.

The experiments which have been
and are being made in Germany and
in this country on the five senses show
that there is no especial apparatus for
each in the human system. 1t has
been proven that touch, for example,
is not a function of the skin solely, as
heretofore believed, but is an organiza-
ton which works out its wonderful
results through distinctly created ma
chinery. This machinery registers
the minutest pressure and the slightest
alteration in temperature. Scientists
demonstrate that there are distributed
spots on the skin which are cold and
hot, and that there arc places intcrme-
diatc between these oscillations which
are inscnsible both to pain and to cold.
These cpidermal spots are unequally
distributed over varieties of human
bodies, but are to be found in such size
and localities as are best adapted to
the wants of an individual; and further,
that they peculiarly differ in their dis
tribution on the body Of the same per-
son. 1t is stated, too, that the places
intermediate between the cold and heat
spots may be pierced with a sharp in
strument without producing pain. All
feeling, of course, proceeds from the
brain, the apparatus of touch being but
e register in given localities of the
human organism. A gentle pressure
on the hidden springs of the machinery
is at once telegraphed to the brain, and
the answer is sensation ~plcasurable or
painful. Another discovery has been
made, and it is that the whole of the
esophagus is alive to temperature, thus
evincing that the apparatus of touch is
made sensitive even there by the at
mospheric pressure. In fact, if the
hidden organs could be reached, it
would be seen that the organ of feeling
variously operates upon them. 1t is no
longer conjectured that the entire
surface of the body breathes, and
German scientists go so far as to
say that in the experiments touch
ing the five senses they ''indicate
the external covering of the human
body as the primeval andreliable source
of knowledge of the external world"
and justify the belle" that further re-
searches may ''shed more light on
some of the fundamental problems of
pscychical action and unfolding That
is going too far in the reputation of
the primary motor, mind. Neverthe-
less. the onward stride of science is
developing something wholly new in
regard to that ':fearfully and wonder
fully made" being, man, and the GU
rious part of it is that man himself is
becoming gradually but surely to attain
a knowledge of himself! Discoveries
as to touch and temperature are the
most recent of wonders, and the twen-
tieth part of the mysteries of each have
not yet been developcd.-N. Y. Mer-
cua'y.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

An artists chance for drawing a
turkey in a rattle is no better than any
body elsc's.-Boston Rulqctin..
Talking about being in comforta-
bic circumstances, did you ever see two
lovers occupying one armchair?-Bur-
kayton Free Press.
-''Ah. Miss Green, what a lovely
complexion Miss Pink has! I declare
she is as pretty as q picture" ayes,
Mr.. Black, onc might almost think she
had been painted by one of the old
masters Chicago NcWs.
"A South Side girl who covered her
face with her hands when she thought
her lover was about to kiss her, in
her disappointment complained: 80,
Harry, my hands are SO small: there's
room enough for five hundred kisses
between Chicago, Telegram.
-':Darringer, l sympathize with you
in your financial distress. AS friend
Yc@ car trust me every time" But,
Bromley, that doesn't happen to be the
kind of friend l ana looking for: Iwant
a friend who will trust me :"-Rhil0del-
pisa CoU.
Rev. H. r, Hnweis says that ga
poem becomes Il hymn as it becomes 81
lfter.' According TO, this notion"
says a certain young man, "my girls
father is not n poem. Anyway he
doesn't become a hymn when he be-
comes a LITTER" This may be because
he is opposed to the meet-her:-Nor.
rstown Herald.
Matilda SNOWFALL, the colored do
mestic in an Austin family, was sus-
pected of helping herself to some wine.
Own up, Matilda, that YOU have been
drinking out of this bottle of Rhine
wine," said the lady Of the house.
mo, mum, I nebber, has been near dat
bottle" ''Are o sure?" LOB course
is. ketch me a-drinlin' dat ar sour
stuff what Fuckers up yer mouf. No,
num- ! has got better sense dan oa'
"A Boston girl was at 4 New York
reception. $50 you are from Boston?'
said u young gentleman to her. 80,
dear!' She responded, with an accent
OF despair, chow did You know? I'm
sure l tried Marlborough to conceal 1t.
"Io conceal itp" he repeated, with =
puzzled air. "Surcly, you are not
ashamed of lt?" 80, no, replied she,
with engaging candor; but | thought
everybody would be afraid to speak TO
me if they knew l was from Boston.
Philadelphia Press.
20, dear" exclaimed Mrs. F., after
Valnly e~ndeavoring to pour hot water
out OF the empty tea-kettle, show dld
forget it, wonder. I'm getting a per
feet simpleton. I wish I did have a
little common conco ,, llRnt NV dear,
Interrupted Fogg, ''supppose you haa,
10 you think you'd know what to Nv
with it?' "Do with it?' echoed MIS-.
r.; "many things. Knight want to Do
married again, you know, and it mlsl.
! save me from making a fool OF myseA
q second time. ..-RQstQn TRANSCRIPT
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
FORGOT HIS GLASSES.
Old Mr.. Johnson's Remarks About His
Daughter and Her Beau.

Good morning, Mr.. Johnson" said a
young man to an elderly and n%eas-sighted
passenger who had come off without his
glasses; "going up to town."
eyes; got to do a lot Of trading at the
stores, an 1 don't know how on airth I'll
get along without my glasses"
"Getting ready for the wedding, I sup
pose"
eyes; my darter Emmer is goin' to git
married. She an hat good-for-nothin'
Hank Williams hev made a match of it at
last. thought that young man would
never get down to business. He's as slow
as sorghum molasses in January, an as
shiftless as an Injun. d%on'tbelieve he can
carr his salt, an s'pose III have to sup
port him."
"But, Mr.. johnson -"
ooh, he's good enough for Emmer.
That's the worst girl 1 ever raised. She
hain't a bit like her mother, nor like me,
nuther. hey to pull her out Of bed every
morning, an she's as lazy as an old dog.
She can't bake, an hain't with a cuss on
the sew. A fine poor mans wife she'llmake.
Besides, she hez bunions on her feet as big
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
To Prevent Rusting Of iron.

A composition has been invented by
an English engineer which is claimed
to ctiectully preserve iron from
rust being also usefully applicable to
other materials. such as stone and
wood, used in conjunction with metal.
This composition consists of 100 parts
virgin wax, l25 Of Gallipol, 200 of
Norwegian pitch, 100 of grease, 100 of
bltumen Of Judea, 235 of gutta pcrcha.
l20 OF red lead, 20 of white lead, these
ingredients being mixed together in
the order named i'll a boiler, the outta
percha being cut up in small pieces or
rasped. The mixture is stirred at each
addition and poured into molds. Tor
iron it is melted and laid on with a
brush; for stopping holes it is used as ,
paste,-Boston Transcript.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
there is a Are-cscape with egress through q

there is a fre-escape with egress through q
window.
"At the north end OF this passage THERE'S
an egress through window and down over
the roof in the rear.
''Tlere will be red lights burning through
the night at the main stairway. After 60
ing down one flight, turn to the left and
keep to the left. (The next stairway is UNI
der the above.)
"Otherwise turn to the right through the
passageway and keepto the right anadown
the other stairs.
"a Waterman will be on duty through
the night, and in case Of fire will sound the
gong"
. "There, how's that?" exclaimed the drum
MGR. "Now, look here" He threw open q
window. 1t was just about eight feet to
the sidewalk.-Hartford Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19

irigerator car, 1--WE have d daisy up at our
house. She is a new girl. Idon't know
where my wife got her. I only know that
she got her and that s'e.is o. daisy-green
one. Thu first day after she came was Sun.
day, and we had some friends for dinner,
The girl was ted to ring the bell when the
meal was ready. Pretty soon we heard a
going out what do you suppose we found?
The new girl shivering on the porch"
please, sir says she, L ringef' the bel,
to let you know that dinner liz seady.'"-
Chicago Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19

as early rose pertaters, an she kin eat
more'n a. hoss. An that amt the worst
ont. If twan't for her mother that girl
wouldn't keep herself clean, an she never
thinks o. slickin' up her hair nor putin
on somethin' nice 'cept when company's
expected. She's Il rcg'lar SLOUGH, Emmer
is, an she kin wear out seven pairs o. shoes
a year. But she's good enough for that
Hank Williams, an ii he'll only support
her III be tarnaI glad to git her Off my
hands. S'pose you've got al invite to the
weddin'?"
eyes, I'm invited. You don't seem to
know me, Mr.. Johnson"
eyes I do, but l can't just place you. Let
me see-I haven't got my glasses with me
but l know you. Your name isis"
"Hank Williams, sir."--Chicago Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
verses so as to shoot straight back at the.

verses so as to shoot straight back at the.
speaker.
"NWhat I ' want" said apompous orator,
aiming at his antagonist, "is good COM
mon sense"
"Exactly," WAS the whispered reply.
'that's Just what you naed.".
An instance OF unkind repartee is re-
corded OF Charles Lamb:
One day a loving mother brought her
beautiful goldcn-haircd baby into dinner in
her arms. She was very proud OF her sweet
babe, and, holding it up with pride and 10y
in her eyes, she said:
"Mr. Lamb, how do YOU like babies?,
"lllke 'em boiled, nnadam-boilcd!'
vi course that mother never loved Mr..
Lamb after that.
The finest piece OF repartee in the En-
glish language is the instance where two
l%rlshnen were walking under the gibbet of
Newgate. Looking up at the gibhet, one
OF them remarked:
"Ah, Pat, where would you be if the
gibbet had done It's duty?"
Faith, Flannagan,' said Pat, sand I'd
be walking L~ondon-aH a1one!"-From Eli
lerklns' Lecture before Princeton College.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
"A Cruel Doctor.

"Look here, doctor, I don't want you to
60 to my house INC frighten ny wife again
as you did this morning"
brighten her? How did I brighten
her?"
Didn't she ask you what the symptoms
OF hy%drophobia are?"
Eyes"
"And didn't you tell her the patient az
ways has a strong aversion to water?"
"Certainly."
eyes, well, the poor woman is down sick
with fright. She thinks I'veg the hydro
phobia ."-CAicago News.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
Proper Protection of Stock.

The rule to be observed by every
farmer in regard to the proper keeping
of cattle is that every animal from the
greatest to the least should be kept
happy and savedfrom pain and misery.
Then the stock are probably kept, and
the profit is in proportion to the degree
OF comfort enjoyed by them. Every
farmer before he r%etires to his own
warm bed at night or before he eats
his abundant supper. should ask HIM
self: Are my cattle, horses. sheep,
pigs, and fowls resting in comfort and
with well filled bellies? If he can not
answer himself aflirmatively and his
conscience accuses him of neglect, let
him be assured that his pocket is suf-
fering just as much as his stock are,
and that, moreover, his conduct is lust
as inhuman as if he prodded his AMI
mails with a fork or beat them with
clubs.-N Y. Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
Practical KNOWLEDGE,

Aunt johanna spending II few days with
her niece)-And SO you belong to q cook
ing club, Matilda. Do you find that you
gain any practical knowledge from your
lessons?
Matilda-Oh, yes, indeed, aunt. You
spoke last night at dinner OF the coquiNe
OF chicken, you know.
Aunt Johanna Yes, it was delicious.
Matilda (triumphantly-Wen, chat was
our last lesson. Dur teacher made it 10,
US, and l was SO delighted with it that be.
foro / ever cane home l drove arcuui to
the caterers and ordered it at once.--M, /.
San.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
A SAFE HOTEL.
HOW a New England Landlord Protects
His Guests.

"Safest town in New England is this
town. remarked . drummer the other day
as the Boston train rolled into the gloomy
depot ut Salem. Mass. Landlord takes
no end OF trouble to save you from being
burned up, Notice posted right upon the
WALL Reaching a room in the hotel a few
minutes later, the drummer pointed to this:
'Notlce-ln case OF fire the means of es-
cape rom this room is to turn to the ripht,
"At the southern end OF this passameway
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
Mercantile Notes.

Overcoats are increasing in popularity
but vests are being pulled down. Drugs
generally are quiet, with glue sticking at
about the old rates. Highwines are strong,
but sponges are at a great discount. Naval
stores are slow and buyers OF tarhave diff
Guilty in getting their stocks off ~theirhands.
Tobacco is strong and dealers are appar.
emily up to snuff. Dealers have not the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
BITS OF REPARTEE.
Where Pat Would BE II the Gibbet Had
Done It's Duty.

Repartee is a sudden flash. It is turning
a current of thought i'll al opposite direc-
ton. 1t is the upsetting OF a train of
thought. 1t is really %deforIning a thought.
Repartee is q case w%hereone speaker makes
a plain statement, aimed in a certain di-
%lection, which "a nearer collides with and re-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
IN

All communications for this paper should be accom-.
panied by the name of the author; not necessarily sc3;Ss f fSa
mart Of the writer. Write only on one side OF the pa
per. Be particularly careful In giving names IN, 'a ana n nates
Ct names are often difficult to dectpicr, because of the
careless manner in which they are written.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19

An excellent remedy for hiccough
for young and old is granulated sugar
moistened with pure vinegar. For an
infant give from a few grains to a tea
spoonful.--Io1ont Globe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
Thermometer Indications.

"My dear" remarked Mr.. snaggs, as he
entered the house the other night. "Ihave
bought a new thermometer"
"Why, isn't that one on the porch all
right" asked Mrs. Snaggs.
eyes, but We'll keep this in the sitting
room here, and let the other remain out.
side"
At breakfast the next morning Mrs.
Snaggs said:
II don't believe that new thermometer
OF yours is a bit of good"
"Why not?"
because it is up to sixtv-ive, and that
one on the porch, that we candepend on, is
down to zero. You had better take it
back and get it changed."-Pittsburgh
Telegraph.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19

brass to advance the rates, and the more
far-seeing ones would copper the chance Of
such a result. Many descriptions Of goods
are on the shelf, but some dealers augur q
change for the better, but as this can no:
be at present rendered any planer it only
adze to the uncertainty.-Detroit Fres
Press.
The Daily Tombstone., 1886-10-01
Summons.

x THE JUSTICES rOUET, TOWNSHIP No One, III the CUunsy of Cochi5c, Terri tory oi Arizona, ChGrivs EardinI, plaintiff, Va. Guisepi.c F0ntana, defendant.
 Before C. z. Alvord, Justice Uf the Peace, ..rmund SjOO.
 Tnc Territory Of Arizona sends greeting .u Guisrppe FunIana, detendant.
 You ale hereby summoned and required 50 appear Le:uIe me ut my office in Tomb stone, County uG Cuchlse, on the Sth day q July, / D. lSS6. at 10 o'c:ock a. m., 10 an sw=r the complaint of llG abnIe nam, C plnintIr! wh" osmands ai you that you arc ir d"h.cd t- li ID in he sum cf thtte hurdreo S:Hu) dollars, ciI pIomIsory n"te giving n You t1 rlsin,if il IS ,uGte iullt apucars b.; cuiuplaIn- noH cu Ii ip my office.
 A-d |! ,Uu iJ.il .O aPp,ai anu answer sai rOmplllrL as herein required, the pl"intii HI,l take judgment rgaim-t yon as d. man d. ,ud fur Il 6 costs of tis suit.
 Given urder ny hpnd tbls 6th day nf Ma, | D lSSG Y ALFOS.',
 Justice uf The fv:ce
The Daily Tombstone., 1886-10-01
FREDERICK aTEtRsARDT, Dit.
HENRY DUBACHER, Plaintiff


 FREDERICK aERRARDT, Dit.
 Action brought in the County Court of cochige County, erritory Of Arizona, and the comp amt filed in the said county of Co., Chise. in the oficc Of the Clerk of the said County Court.
 he Territory of Arizona sends greeting to Frederick Gerbardt, defendant:
 You are hereby required to appear in an action brought against you by rhe above ehise county, erritoTy of Arizona, and to answer the complaint filed therein, within twenty days (cxclubive of the day Of service) after the survice.on you of this sum-lons, if served within this eoulty; or if served out Of this county, but in this district, with in thirty days; otherwise within forty days, or judgment by default will be taken against ysu according to the prayer of said complaint
 Said action is brought to recover an ac- counting and dissolution of partnership aud judgment for amount due from dc'end- ant to plaintiff, as fully appears by the com. plaint filed herein, duly certified copy ei which Is hereto attached. And you are hereby notified that if you fail to appear and answer the sad complaint, as above re- aured, the said plaintiff will take judgment against you by default and apply to the Court 'or the relief demanded Tn the com plaint
 Given under my Land snd seal Of the CouEty Court uf Cochise County, Territory sf Arizona. tLis $rd day of Septembe:, 4. , sSsS
 s--'. "A. Q. wALLAC' Clerk
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The Daily Tombstone., 1886-10-01
FOR SALE.

Furnished louse of three ro7ms and kitchen, comp'e.e 'or hou=e k, eP- ing. on Allan strs ct, hetween S.vFnth and Eighth. Will be sod cheap if applied for at once. For particulars apply as this office. s-!4 in