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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-01
THE TITLE ON TIE CROSS.

Tx ON TIE NIHOls7s
At the Knox Presbyterian Church the Rev d. g. Wyie
preached The Title Cross" He said in part
week in the earthly Life
Events crowded each To-day stand
We minge multitude the
ast bitter cry II finished lie dead DIED OF broken
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-01

The following were Saturdays quotations for unlisted
curfties:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14

be taken lest he. cut away rigging,
braces OF guys with his terrible jaws, or,
for . change, snapped off q mans arm
or leg. A scantling from the ships
dunnage was found and thrust. in his
mouth. This two-inch pine piece was
snapped in twain like a match. Then
one Of the great iron pump-bars took
its place and the sharks Jaws set upon
it like a wise. AT short intervals he
cavorted the deck with this iron bar
crashing against things promiscu-
ously, ali on board sud-
denly finding it agreeable
alongside the rails, or fore and aft. In
time he was made fast to the ffe-rails
and then subdued by a fve-hindred-
pound skid being got across his back
with a couple Of sailors at either end Of
the timber, as the old boards were
mounted in the s.see-saw" time of your
youth-tide. Then the rest of the crew
quickly dispatched the monster with
their sheath-knives, and never wit
messed such qualification and joy as were
shown by the sailors ip taking the life
Of this their deadliest enemy. It app
preached delirious human fendishness,
and the cutting and slashing were sick
ening. The shark-which measured
sixteen feet in length, its liver alone
filling aten-gallon cask-being done for,
its remains were cast into the sea, save
the backbone, which, on being boiled
and cleaned, was divided into precious
souvenirs Of q victory whoseNkind no
one on board had previously happened
IA share ~ w WnL.cnanm N 1Ihsrnno
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
4 HORRIBLE & &

- Black Crime Illustrative Of the Use q
the knife In Sicily.
a horrible decd Of blood committed
near Girggenti gives an illustration Of
TIE me Of the knife in the island Of ssici-
~ Two butchers, father and. son, Of
the name Of Indicate, who kept d shop
insthat town, not long since took two
hothers named Alfonso and Giovanni
Cannetoni into partnership Before
longthe Cannetonis began to trade in
annbs' carcasses separately on their
own account, and disagreements
which ultimately led to a collision be-
tween Baldassare I~ndelicato and Alfonso
CAnnetoni.. They drew their Butchers
knives from their belts on each other.
Alfonso aimed a well-directed blow at
Baldassare. He parted it with his left
arm, which was cut to the bone. and al,
the same instant drove his knife into
the heart Of Alfonso, who fell dead on
tthegspot. Al that moment a young son
ct Alfonso, aged nineteen, came up
with q bludggeonft0 his fathers assist
ance. Baldassare struck him to the
ground, and then cut his throat across,
ssas he WOuldhave slaughtered asheep.i''
Mad with rage, Baldassare then rushed
into the shop, and taking GiOvanna, the
sbrothero of Alfonso, by surprise, killed
him With slash across the abdomen.
Turning then to leave the shop, he ia
finted Q serious wound ON q person lust
entering. All this occurred within the
space OF four minutes, the result 0f the
lcOllieiOn being three persona killals and
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
HEARING UNDER MATER.
Effects Of . BLOW Felt Mt the Depth 81
Eight Feet. 1@

Vs. ~ Tue Acpch 81
Eight Feet.
Some years ego I made : practical
experiment BY diving to . depth Of
some seven Or eight feet, and remain.
ing below while a party efsfriends upon
the bank shouted as loudly is thev
could. Not q sound was audible. Then
4 went beloWfagain, when a blow was
struck upon the surface OF the water
with a walkingg-stick The effect was
most startling, and treaty thought that
something must have struck mo VIC.
lently on both ears simultaneously. II
North America, when the lakes are Gov.
cred with q thick coating of ice, the II.
dians can kill the beaver. even thouah
lt5be swimming ut considerable denth
The hunter, who can see the animal
through the transparent ice, merely
strikes violently on the frozen snrfaca
with his4cluh The Vibration il com.
mnulnicated to the water, and thence
through the ears to the beaver. which
rolls senseless on its back, thus ailnw.
ing time fer the hunter to cut \ hole y
the zee and pierce the animal with his
pear before it can recover its senses -
sBaYrtiA Weekly. ~
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
A RAGING RIVER.
Father OF Waters Overfiows, Break.
ing Leyees and Inundating Rich Farm.
ine Lands. s

Father OF Waters Overfows, Break
ing Leyees and Inundating Rich Farms
Ing Lands.
HELENA, Ark, April 29.-The river is
now above the highest point reached in
1882, but both the st. Francis and Missis-
.sippi rivers have ceased to rise. There was
2 general breakup in the Arkansas leyees,
from the break, ten miles below here, down
to where the levee ends at Old Town, dis
tance of twenty miles. All efforts TO holdthe
remaining parts Of the levee have been
abandoned, and the watersiis now sweeping
through in numerous places. the breaks
ranging rom 100 feet to half a mile in
width. Every acre of land subject to an.
overflow from Helena to Laconia will be
Inundated. The back water is now coming
INTO the city slowly, but it will probably
only fill the bitches.
The leyee a mile below Austin has, been
swept away for several hundred feet. This
will result in the overflow Of large por.
ton OF Tunica and Coahoma counties.
The loss from this crevasse will be great.
because all the crops had been planted and
were growing. Portions OF the track Of
the Iron Mountain railroad between He
lena and Mariana are ten inches under
water. ".
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
LARGE FISH.
"A Matter OF Interest to Believers II -
Sen Serpent's Existence.

"A Matter OF Interest to Believers II -
Sen serpent's Existence.
/ will not insist upon any Of the nu-
merous creatures such a. manatees,
seven foot turtles, gigantic squids and
huge swimming lizards, which may have
gone sometimes to make up elements in!
various sea serpents, new OF old, but
will content myself with'a few true fish,
quite big enough to add their mite to
the general mystification Of the ocean.
One hundred and forty different kinds
of sharks are known to Dr.. Gunther, Of
which the blue shark attains twenty-five
feet and the p%orbeagle ten. But. the
huge carcLarodon, the most formidable
of all its family, reaches the length of
forty feet; it is strictly pelagic in it's
habits, and occurs in all tropical and
s~ub-tropical seas. Forty feet is q fair
length; but the Challenger dredged up
from the deep ooze of the Atlantic the
teeth Of q still larger shark, at least
double that size; and if the ownersso OF
those huge fangs are now extinct, they
must ut any rate have become so within
o very recent period. Our own North
Atlantic basking shark reaches thirty
feet; and the hammcrhead also attains
an extremely creditable size. Vastest Of
all, however, is the enormous ~rhinodon,
q gigantic shark-like fish Of tho Indian.
ocean and the Pacific, which is known
to exceed fifty feet, andsis said to have
arrived at as much as seventy. The
tunnies and sun fishes, though far
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
DEVELOPMENT OF BIRDS.
The Marrow Gap Existing Between Them
and the Reptile Family.

The Narrow Gap Existing Between Them
and the Reptile Family.
"a birds feather was thrown on the
screen at the beginning Of Prof. Bick-
more's recent lecture to the teachers.
The feather was SO magniied that it ap-
peared more than three feet in length,
showing the name in which each barb
was fastened and braced into position,
and the nerves that passed into the
quilts. "a series of colored plates showed
the many varieties Of birds which
formed tho subject of the lecture in
their natural colors.
Prof. Bickmore said that feathers were
divided into two classes-the contour,
feathers and the down, the barbs Of
which were not braced, but turnedSin
any direction. Birds. unlike reptiles.
are warm-blooded. Prot. Agassiz
taught that birds were a distinct and
isolated class in the animal creation.
In the short interval since Agassiz's
death ornithologists have discovered,
mainly through fossil remains. that
birds are closely related to reptiles in
their structure and the gap showing the
NAACSe COAACCUiOA " VIC Two
is now small. Ono Of these
fossil birds discovered in Ger
many was purchased by the British
Museum for i small fortune. "a picture
of it was exhibited as. restored BY Prof.
Owens, showing . body heightened out
into a tail that without the wings closely
resembled q reptiles body. a variety
having teeth is found in the fossils In
the Rocky mountains The teeth are
not for masticating food, but for Selling
and retaining the prey. Those species
like the ostrich have not developed the
ability to fly, but usetheir wings mainly
20 assist in or swimming, have
Hat breasts, while thespecies marked BY
great power Of wing have developed d
keel-shaped breast Tor a particular ar
rangement of the muscles. Among,
those Of the flat breast were the great
auks, which were found in large. NUM-
bers on the Atlantic coast formerly, but
within the last half century have be.
come almost extinct. They were as
large as geese and the markets were s,,n-
piled with them in the last century. The
museum has one Of the last that has been.
captured, for which $6l6 dollars was
paid.
Another species is still in existence
which isgalmpst without wings and the
teathers are like coarse hair. The differ
ence between hair and feathers Prof.
Bickmore showed on the screen. The
museum has also > collection of moars.
. rare New Zealand bird showing two
stages Of develOpment.-M. y. Ta7bya.s.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
CATCHING A SHARK.

The Monsters Resolute and Terrible Str1JK-
gle for Liberty.
Our captain, being o man Of caution
and prudence, as this incident clearly
shows, determined to cast anchor on the
banks that night, as we had notSyet
reached deep-sea room in the gull, and
there might be somewhere along the
edge of the banks bad places the hydro
graphers not set down in the charts.
Sails were furled, the anchors cast, and
our vessel lazily swung around stASn
Cuba-ward. It was a glorious tropical
evening. The sea was like aplainSof
m%aryeloualy colored shell, polished and
luminous. Ocean and sky were alone
visible. ave where the sailor-dreaded
Orange bays thrust their gruesomeblack
shoulders out;of the sea half q score 81
miles to the northwest. Suddenly one
Sof the crew sang out: sE
"a shark! IA shark, sir!'' u
Where away?''
sPort-amidships, sir!' SsS
There wa a lively scramble Of Us I'll
down the port side to the main rigging.
The rays Of the setting sun refiected
from the ships side Lit up the water.
strangely to the white coral bottom but
three fathoms below, giving every 3
ject in the sea q weird, naturaf size
and appearance, and there, not a8foot
from the vessels side layssa monstrous|
shark, resting just underneath the sur
face Of the water, perfectly motionlesss.
looking at us with almost human eyes
of unctnous, subliMated malevolence.
The cook bounded to the laZarete for d
piece of pork and the mate for the
shark-hook-a murderous iron hook
like an ordinary fsh-hoOk, but as thick
S your thumb and fully two feet long
and in less than a minute the bait was
placed alongside the searfend Tempt
ingly: He reiterated a BIT, seeming to
contemplate both us and the fine piece
Of pork musingly. Then. al if rumi-
mating: Il would have preferred that
whitehead, literary gentleman, or even
that fat. chubby little Nova Scotian
sailor, but pork is pork anywhere, and
commands q sea price in these lati-
tudes!!''--he advanced leisnrely.
Stand byH!' said the5mate, quietly.
Eight Of us ssstood by with the line,
half . big as your wrist, grasped
firmly. Then the shark moved a little
closer, and Of a sudden turned belly
upward Immediately under his antici-
pated evening meal, and instantly his
awful under jaw rose and fell
with . crash on that pork and
tremendous barb. Then what a foun-
dering. and pulling, and hauling and
cursingwer ttsre. We pulled like
heroes, but could scarcely get him out
Of the sea No description could con-
vey the sharks fury. We got hin,
alongside finally, and then began
drowning him By bringing him into the
mir a~nddropping hmopen-mouthed back
to fill him with water. Then how grand
he struggles againt Fully q quarter 81
an hour elapsed before we landed him
on deck; and the greatest cars had a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
PHI AND POINT.

ga man can not get along 4
world without j fair allowance 3
check. There are times wlien5
ponderance Of chin will seryog h;,, Pc
well.-M \. L~sdspeadent. 'ssu
AT a cheap restaurant: .syy,ll
have a twenty-five cent dinner. Al yoa
thirty-fye cent one r. What il IN q,
ference between thetwo!saa I n ce. w.
sir ."-Chicago Mdg.
"A lawyer 81 large e-xperienca.
some observation defines the III a - 80
ilization IS getting your neichhos,.
money out Of his pocket and into yon.
own without making yourself arunenahl.
to the law.-M X telegram.
A Washington correspondent ~.
refuses to share small bits 81 news wiz waS
his fellow-correspondent approns;
ately called an item-miser.:-Fiasb nro
Telegraph.
what and When to Eat,.s il u.
title Of an exchange. The swhens||
never gave us, any trouble .insour. eatinc
but we have been compelled to do .
sight Of diminishing after the Hwhat.S|
Burlington HaWkeye.
The impudence OF these poets i
alarming. One ofgthem has the cheei
to complain because the Chicago Tn.
une misplaced q part Of his poem, Get.
ting it under the head OF 1.-THE Pork
Market '--7sras .Syif7ings.
a black cat, we are told. bring,
good luck. "A man at Pinedale who
Curnnd = hNaoL naf fOr nSnns v.n@,r u !,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14

THOUSANDS and thousands Of birds
nre being slaughtered this spring to
adorn the hats, bonnets and dresses of
women. This is q cruel shame for
which many tender-hearted women are
the u~nintentional cause. a concerted
revolt against the fashion of wearing
stuffed birds should be iinaugurated by
all5humane women and especially BY
those who i in q position to exert an
influence over fashionable ladies.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14

An episode Of a novel character has
just passed through the Portland, Ore,
p%ost-ofice. The novelty consisted in
the material upon which it was written,
which was a %gentleman's linen cuff.
There was nothing unusual in the con
tents. which wore simply a dun, couched
inSthe following language: "Please call
around and pay your wash bill. Your
laundryman." The cuff was adorned
with a two-cent stamp.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
THE PRAIRIE cHlcKEH
Some Points Not Mentioned m Cure.
Natural Histories.

some POINTS NOT mentioned m Curfe1e
Natural Histories.
The prairie chicken is the leading
l,ame bird inhabiting this region. Il
is somewhat smaller than the ordi.
nary domestic hen found scratching
in the garden and flies fasterwhen You
are shooting at ii. It seems to, have
acquired the fly habit earlys In youth
and it hangs on. After. : hunter has
shot five dollars worth of ammunition
into the limitless void from whence the
prairie chicken recently flew hs, is sci.
dom adverse to stating, for publication
if necessary, that in his opinion its fly
education has been far from neglected.
Daring the spring season Of theayear
the prairie chicken is engaged in look
ingthe ground over and chanting its
low, captivating melody before break
fast. As soon as the weather will per-
nit the hen will withdraw from the
whin Of social life and lay seventeen
Observation-Disclosures eggs In 3
nest in the grass. Seldom waiting to-
be asked she then takes her seat and.
for the space Of three almanac weeks
Seem to be lost in meditatioMs
Probably one Of the most pleasing
sights in nature is q prairie hen thus
buried in thought and Specializing as to
how she will probably feel after waiting,
three weeks for breakfast.
At the end of the time seventeen
young prairie chickens ame out Of the
shells and commences Ia Az while thA
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14

The recent flood in the Purgatory
river. Colorado. affords q curious in.
stance of how names are changed. The
Jesuit missionaries who first named the
s.iyer called it 'Purgatoire." The rough
Americans who followed them promptly
change the difficult French name to
.'Picket-wire," and now the geogra-
pliers have translated in into s.Purga-
tory" The last name will probably
stick.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14

A FEW weeks ago q pretty Young
school-teachcr in New Jersey took the
liberty of applying her school whip to
the shoulders Of a trustee who had the
effrontery tofavor the appointment Of
another teacher in her place. For thus
exercising the great American privilege
of striking, the grand jury has seen fl
to indict the young woman.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

.TsllM1 tENssA e~-r fA ~ ITM EVTFENX3
The bridal dress Of the Princess u.
ialie, of Spain, cost $50, 600.
Experiments in steering balloons
are to be made in Ill the fortified places
in France. #
Queen Victoria's household, Ia
which there are 1,000persons, cost near
" S2,00O.O00 a year.
An inventor in Solothurn, SwitxEer-
land. has patented q steam velocipede
which attained a speed Of about twelve
and q half miles an hour.
"A lady in the Queens service, who
made the mistake of wearing cherry
ribbon during9a recent term Of court
mourning, has been deprived % her Ipo-
sition for two months.
AN English paper, speaking 81 the
launch of q new vessel, says: 1.-THE
christening ceremony was performed ~
Lady Campbell. Her tonnage isl,8l0,
and she can carry six guns
The largest pharmacy in Europe,
says the Vienna Medizinische ZeitHNg, IL
at Moscow, and is that of WoldSmar
Ferrein, where about seventy or eighty
assistants are employed and sevenSsto
eight hundred prescription are prepared
daily. sSS
Arrangements are being made i
England and Scotland to establish dam
ger signals, in; connection with lAsthe
weather service, for the purpose Of max
ing known such atmospheric changes
as may affect the working Of the mines.
The massive ironschestssin which the
manuscript Of the Doomsday bookswas
formerly kept is still preserved In the
British office of public records, and IL
will be an object Of curiosity at the
coming Of the eight hundredth Dooms-
day anniversary.
In London thoproblem of disposing
Of snow in the streets is said to have
been practically solved at comparatively
moderate expense. Pits are provided
with steam coils at the bottom, and the
snow is shoveled into them, whom it is
rapidly melted and run off by the
sewers.
Among the advertisements in late
German paper appeared b esfollowing:
ssThegentleman who found aSpurse with
money, in the Blumerstrasse isreauested
to forward it to the address OF the loser,
as he is recognized. - A few days after
ward the reply was inserted: 1.-THE
recognized gentleman who picked up q
purse in the Blumenstrasse requests the
loser to call at his house,. II
The Danes do not propose to have
any receptions in the butter supply. "A
law enacted in Denmark last wear COM
pels all makers and sellers Of adulter-
ated imitation, and bogus butter to pack
it in ellipticaltubs, conspicuously marx
ed margarine" and Furnishes in
fractions of the law BY q fine Of
from 200 to 1000 kroners (about
$@54 to $54O). The enactment was forced
by the agriculturale element Of the country
despite The opposition by the bogus but
ter people. III
There is a stir among musicians in
Europe at q little story from Naples.
When, Bellini died his brother Carrnelo
came into possession Of all of Belini's
autographs. Carmelo kept the writings
shut up in a chest, and'never ever into
the day of his death, last year, SO much
as lifted the lid. But the other dsy
Carmelo's heirs, more curious, openeA
the chest and there found the soriginal
..Ernani''-a precious gem in the eyes
of the famous musicians admirers
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14

Two New Haven dry-goods firms
were determined q few days ago to un-
dersell each other in disposing Of prints
called crazy cloth, for which each had
paid twelve and one-half cents a yard.
One at last sold the goods at one. cent a
yard, ard the other reduced the price
to five cents for ten yards, no n pur-
chaser being allowed more than that
amount.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14

The printers in the calico-makin9
mills Of the Connecticut valley have q
very close organization Of their in
each sneighborhood, and will not inn
part the secrets Of their. trade to any
but their own sons or the sons Of mem
bers Of affiliated erganizations.-Hart.
ford Go3rant.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14

ANUMBER Of literary men, says the
81. James Gazette, smoke simply to
make an income. They have learned
that with a pipe in their mouths
thoughts not only come more readily,
but in better order, and that while it is
often difficult to get the proper word if
they r not smoking, it runs to the
.pointof the pen the moment they eight
up"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
xEWsrArn

Any person who tskest the paper regularly .ffumthe
oet0mOos.Whet directed to his name or whether h1
u s1becfdber or NOT, = re1p0nsibao for the PAY.
The courts have decided that lefusing to take news
papers and. cenOdlcAh from tho pOst0fdce, or fenn0r
ing and leaving them uncAllcd f0t. n Qttes0 J1&6 evAs
vcncc Of INTENTIONAL EaAuD. s4
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14

The discovery Of a hitherto I'M
known lake in the Persian Desert was
announced at a late meeting of the
Vienna Geographical Society. It is at
least twenty-five miles long, and from
Molrammedan evidence appears to have
dried mp after q previous existence and
to have filed up at a quite recent date.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14

Tue Sphinx Of Egypt is to be investi-
gated. Il is reported that a company
has been formedin Paris to aid NJ. Mas
p,eroo in carrying on his Investigations.
IT is thought that the Sphinx is a tomb
and that under it or inside Of it,some
valuable and interesting material may
be discovered that will add a few years
more TO the length Of history. The
work will be carried on with care, SO
that the great Sphinx may not be dis
figured by the somewhat tardy autopsy.