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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12
A Drop in Circulation.

J. +. Warner, the well-known Michi-
gan circus man, was acting as advance
agent for Barnum when he entered the
office Of weekly paper in Ohio to see
about an advertisement. Warner was
posted in the ways of the weekly fra
ternity, and could plan just what would
happen in nine offices out of ten. After
the usual greetings had passed he in
CURED of the proprietor his price for a
two-column ad.
"Forty dollars" was the prompt
reply.
"Iou must have large circulation.
James," called the editor to a sore
eyed apprentice boy, who was lazilv
setting type at the back end of the
office. what was our circulation last
week."
eleven hundred" replied the bow.
Let me see your subscription book"
said Warner.
"My subscription book? James.
where is our subscription book?"
Home, was the answer.
'Dou you assure me that YOU have
l 100 circulation?"
James, do we assure him as to the
LSuIco uullleO
"Yes
"Well, I'll give you SIG. This is
based on circulation of 400 copies"
"James?" called ont the editor, shall
we take $lG?"
Eyes"
"Then you practically admit that your
circulation does not exceed 4OO?"
queried Warner
James, what shall we do?"
James turned around to get a fair
look at Warner, and asked
"Any dead-head tickets?"
eyes, sir"
ooh, we'll, that alters the case. Cir
culatlon 275 copies, with column puff
for the show. thought he was patent
medicine and wanted us to take stomach
bitters. . Detroit Free Press
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12
Why the San Never Sets OH the Queell's
DOlnininnS.

The Transvaal Beers, or, perhaps,
more correctly DOORS, never lose any
opportunity OF being rude and often
sive to Englishmen when chance brings
them together, but it is seldom that the
Dutchmen rub it in" so completely as
in the following little incident told me
by all officer of british infantry, who
said he was on the spot at the time OF
the alteration:
what is the use OF handful of rude
animals like you," said the ngllsh-
man, pretending to beat q country
like ours? Don't you know that the
sun never sets on the Queen domin-
ions?"
"What of that?" said the Eoer.
"Why it simply shows our enormous
power" said the other.
cit rather shows something very
different in my opinion" quoth the
Transvaaler.
"And what may that be, pray 2"
sneered John Bull.
why, that you are nation of such
rascals that God Almighty is afraid to
trust you in the dark. "-Ieras SIT
mas
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12
The Bush Was Full of 'Em.

In the - regiment, Indiana volun-
teers, during the late war, was an I'M
usually eccentric native of erin Go
Bragh, who had the fortune while on
picket duty to capture q Confederate
soldier and take him into camp.
In the same company was law and
far from courageous comrade, who
seeing Dan with prisoner to be turned
over to the colonel Of the regiment,
Dan, you are obliged to go back on
headquarters. "
"Bedad, an not bit of it. If Won
want rebel go out and catch one for
yourself. The bush is full of EN-, /" was
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12
Doubtless They We're.

ooh, hum! I feel all broken up to-
day" said Mr.. Younghusband, ruefulls
locking at himself in the mirror.
YES, dear" said the young bride,
tenderly, III know all about it. l read
1t N the paper this morning"
You did, chi" yelled Mr.. Young,
husband, breaking off in the middle OF
yawn and making an excited dash tor
the paper. "Wh-where is it? Wh-what
does it say?"
why, darling, how nervous you are !!
1t doesn't say much. Only that tine
Knights of Leisure held their annual
reunion last night and that the party
broke up at an early hour. [ suppose
they were all broken up just the same
as you, dear, weren't they?"-SomeF-
USUe journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12
A Good Reason.

Colonel Bagly Ito Colonel Smith
! see you passed Maxey without SPEAK
ing to him. I thought that he and you
We're the best of friends.
Smith-We used to be. We roomea
together a long time, you know. -,
Bagly-Yes, know, but why ''"
you fall out?
Smith-We didn't exactly fall o'!'
but ! have no use for him now.
Bagly-Why?
Smith-He's a bill collector.
La71sdlC Traveller.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

WILLIAM G. PRIME, of New. York
City, who for ten summers hassdriven
through New England in his own car
riage, resting on Sundays, and going to
church wherever he might happen to
be, says in the New Princeton Revie1u
that there is no disputing the fact that
in the rural districts of Vermont and
New Hampshire the people have lost
the habit Of going to church. i'+'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

Ira d. SANKEY, on his return from
Europe, intends to join Mr.. Moody at
Chicago. Said he the other day: "Do
1 consider Chicago the worst city in the
Union? No; but consider it very
inflammable CITY," Al
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12
4 Long Lost Relative.

There was man in to see you while
you were out, said the foreman to the
editor of Dakota paper, "and he said
he thought he must be some relation
to you, because his name WAS the
same"
He was rank fraud I haven't got
relative in the world. You didn't 20
like blank fool and give him some
money, did you?"
why, no, he didn't ask for any.
He said he guessed he'd subscribe on
the strength Of the relationship here's
the two dollars"
Subscribed, Ell? Well, we'll, that's
good. Must have been Il cle George
Il never expected to see him out in
this country. -Estelli1e Bel.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

REALLY, not all Germans are music
lovers. The Hohenzollerns are not.
Franz List. after vainly trying with
his most brilliant performances to pro-
duce some impression upon Prince
Frederick, brother of the King of Rou-
mania, exclaimed: "No wonder! All
the Hohenzollerns have known cared
nothing for music. Old Prince Albert
once told me he looked upon music as
an expensive noise; and of his own
son, now Regent of Brunswick, he
said: He cannot be true Prussian
Prince, for he does not admire women,
nor get drunk, and does not play on
the organ!'"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

LENA Fry, the little daughter of
David Fry, of Loudoun County,
Virginia, who astonished the physi-
clans and people in that vicinity
by her long sleep, is dead. She was
fifteen years old. Her first long sleep
lasted sixty-six hours. Then she was
thought to be dead. Her last and final
sleep lasted nine days. She begged
those about her not to let her go to
sleep, but they could not relieve her of
the drowsiness which took possession
of her. All efforts to awaken her were
fruitless. The doctors say she starved
to death while asleep,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

EDMUND YATES is authority for the
assertion that General Sir Redvers
Butler has been struck by the excessive
poverty Of the Kerry and Glare peas
antry, and has of course written his
opinion on the subject to Sir Michael
Hicks-Beach. Although it is not his
business to make recommendations as
to rent or land, he has seen enough to
convince him that the root of all dis
order in Kerry lies in the miserable
and impoverished condition of the peo-
pie. He has in fact told the Chief
Secretary that if the land question
could be settled, very little would be
heard of home rule.
OsE morning recently, before day
light, four men in two boats were en-
gagged in spreading their nets in San
Francisco Bay. The men were putting
out a heavy seine net, and had almost
got it into position when sudden pull
announced that monster fish of some
kind had been entrapped. The boats
were some distance apart, and the dark
ness prevented the men in one from
seeing the other distinctly. Within
minute after the first pull both boats
were drawn toward each other, and it
was only by careful steering that they
did not come together in collision. For
nearly two hours the monster who had
them in towpulled them about the bay,
during which time it exhausted itself
and t's men pulled for the shore.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12


The rock foundation in South Caro-
lima and neighboring States, says the
New York Times, slopes from the
mountains of the Appalachian system
where it is at the surface-to the up
lands, and the slope is continued under
the everything soil and deposits of the
lowlands to point one hundred miles
from the coast, where it begins to fall
at sharper angle. The formation
along the coast upon which Charleston
rests is largely a deposit caused by the
natural transfer of soil and fragmenta-
ry rocks from the mountains and high
lands during very long period. From
one century to another this load washed
down from the highlands has been
growing heavier, and the seward slope
of the rock table underneath has given
it seward tendency. In the depths
beyond point 100 miles from shore
there was nothing to restrain this ten
uCuCy. az 1dSb " Lll1c Culuo WuGu TnlS
tendency became irresistible and the
great mass slipped seward. Such re-
adjustments of the surface of the earth
are continually being made. In some
regions they are fastened by volcanic
action. Great masses that might have
remained almost stationary for CEN
fury in the absence OF any disturbing
influence have received from volcanoes
the impetus required to move them.
This influence may be interchangeable.
A land-slip may sometimes have caused
a volcanic eruption by suddenly in
creasing the pressure upon deposit of
lava. Moreover, it is plain that the
depths Of the earth are hot, whether
there be molten internal mass OF not.
and the introduction of sea water by
gravitation through assures intoxicated
cavities may cause the development of
steam which will exert its force in dis
turbing the surface. This may be the
cause of some earthquakes OF land
slides.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

Twenty six men then pulled in the net.
which was found to contain shark
fourteen feet long, nine feet around the
body, and weighing fifteen hundred
pounds. 1t is the largest ever caught
in the bay. Three others, eight and
half, four, and three feet long. were
captured the same day.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12
There's Millions in 1t.

Well" said Peters to an inFen'" "g
friend, what are you working on now:
you've heard how drowning men
grab at straws."
ooh, yes" 49,.
We'll, I'm making little better
article than grows. and I'm golng,,,~'o
sell it to every drowning man III 'n'
country. It'd Bits.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

The story comes from Nebraska that
rattlesnake bit dog, but singular
enough the dog did not die, but devel-
oped hydrophobia, transferred the
rabies to the cattle. and killed fourteen
of them.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

All recent banquet of the Society
of the Army of the Tennessee. at Rock
Island, Illinois, General Sherman pre-
sided, and rather abruptly cut off Major
j. NJ. Beardsley, of Rock Island, who
proposed sentiment and attempted to
make a speech. After the banquet
Major Beardsley shook his fist near
General Sherman's face and INDUCED
in violent language. He was led away
by friends, but was so incensed that
he renewed his denunciations little
later, but was again restrained. General
Sherman is always in commander
duty or off
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

Mrs. GEORGE NJ. PULLMAN, wife of
the palace-car millionaire, usually
travels in train of four private cars
one drawingroom for reception and
reading purposes, with easy-chairs,
lounges, piano, ETC. !; another dining
room, equally elegant; another Sleep
ing car, perfect in its appointments,
and another for the accommodation of
six blooded trotters and carriage
horses.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

WILLIAM JoBEs, of Bushville, Pa,
was out shooting woodchucks. He
shot one as it sat summing itself at the
mouth of its burrow. The shot tum-
bled the animal over. Jobes picked
up what he supposed was his dead
game, but the woodchuck was not yet
dead. 1t grabbed the hunter by the
hand, and sent it's teeth into it until
they met and locked. Jobes tried to
get the woodchuck loose, but could
not, and the animal died in that posi-
ton, making the lock still more closely
set. Jobes was obliged to walk three
miles before he came to house, where
the jaws Of the animal were cut and
the hand released The hand was
frightfully lacerated and swollen, and
it will have to be amputated at the
wrist.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

The longest drouth that ever w. W.
Cured in this country is said to n fo1l
taken place in 1862, when no ram :, TO- 10.
from the LIST OF May to the LIST OF IVY
TENDER.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

A New YORK correspondent, who
lately visited the mon stery Of the
Passionist Fathers at Hoboken, where
miraculous cures are said to be eff
fected, says that in the course of his
peregrinations he was considerably
startled. In one of the rooms, on
bed, lay life-like figure i'll wax, just
received from Rome, in whose thighs
was supposed to be imbedded bone
from a tomb recently opened in the
Catacombs. The inscription on the
tomb told that the body OF deacon of
the early church who had obtained
martyrdom had been buried there.
The waxed face, surrounded by
wreath of laurel, was life-like, but a
knife protruded from the heart, and
the blood stains were horrible.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

A PAPER from Tacoma says, in illus
tration of the queer things woman
suffrage is responsible for, that Gin
Lincoln County, Frank M. Gray, ed
itor of the Davenport Times, who was
member of the Territorial Republican
Convention, is Republican candidate
for the Legislature, while Mrs. Gray,
his wife and associate editor, is can
didate on the Democratic ticket for
School Superintendent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

TERMs:-sss.oo Per Year in Advance.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12

WASHINGTON SPRINGS, DAKOTA.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-11-12
THE HERALD.

BY BLANK s. BLANK.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-07-21
An Early Lynchins Party.

Captain Frech recently left Memphis
] for his new home in Kentucky. lie
was citizen of Memphis before, prOba-
| bly,, any other German now living
here, set foot on these bluffs, and he
entertsins some very interesting remin-
iscence5 of those days when the SOUTH
ern boundaries Of the city were at Pop
lar street and the county site at Raj
eigh. One incident especially deserves
to be recalled on account of Its inner
ent humor-a lynchlng-in which some
of our most respected Germans, now
gray-headed men, took prominent
part. At that time-about forty years
ago-Memphis did not enjoy a great
reputation for peace and quietness.
Murders were frequent; punishments
few and far between; in one word, the
situation was such as to hold out every
inducement to Judge Lynch.
One day another most brutal murder
occurred. a Main street merchant was
shot and killed In front of own door,
where he was quietly sitting beside his
wife. Tne murderer had been caught
and lodged in the county jail at Raj
eigh. The bloody deed caused uniyer-
sal indignation. especially among the
Germans of that day, who soon reached
the conclusion 10 take the law into
their own hands. Accordingly they
met, procured rope, and boldly
marched to Raleigh, where nobody had
an inkling Of their coming. They COM
pletelY surprised the jailer and could
have forced him TO surrender the keys,
but-peaceful Germans as they were
they first tried persuasion, following
the line of argument that resistance
would be useless. This argument
seemed to have the desired effect, for
though reluctantly, the jailer threw
open the doors, saying: "Well, boys, If
you must have i'm, go in and get 'im."
They poured in; but no sooner had
the last one crossed the threshold than
the heavy iron door swung back, and
displaying a sarcastic smile, the iailer
turned and drew the key. At the same
time the courthouse bell sounded the
alarm. The brave avengers were
trapped, and Immediately had more
important business on hand than lynch
ing their fellow prisoner, namely, to
beg of. In this emergency they sent
for Captain Frech, who fastened to the
relief of his countrymen. He did not
think it prudent to give bonds for all
of them, but he succeeded in having
them tried on the spot. They were
convicted ald fined one cent each and
cost, which the captain paid for all OF
them. This was the irst and last Ger
man lyncbing in Memphis.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-07-21
Administering the Chinese Oath.

A ChInaman named Lee Din was
brought before Police Judge Lawler, of
San Francisco, for examination on a
charge Of having made an assault upon
Yee Toy, one of his countrymen, with
intent to murder HIM. AS soon as Yee
Toy was called as witness for the peo-
pie, the defendant, through his counsel,
asked that the witness be required to
take the Chinese oath. that is to say.
cut OF the head of chicken while de-
claring to tell the truth. Judge Law
Ter said that he did not keep
chickens on hand for that purpose,
whereupon defendants counsel stated
that the defense would provide the
chickens to be decapitated and that a
messenger was on hls way with a num-
Der of fowls. In short time a China
man came into court with sackful OF
chickens, bucket and keen-edged
cleaver, and laid these on the floor in
front of the witness-stand, and China.
man, after tying pullet by the legs
handed it, together with the cleaver, to
the witness, who hesltated about taking
them. Judge Lawler asked how this
peculiar oath sholld be administered.
Special counsel for the people stated
that his client Informed him that IT was
the duty of the witness to cut off the
head, while counsel for the defense said
that his client told him that the ac-
cused party IS the one who must bs the
executiOner. Interpreter Millard, in
answer to question by the court, said
that as he understood the matter tie
head of fowl is only cut off when it is
desirable to obtain the truth from the
witness upon particular point. An
English-speaking Chinamsn volun-
teered the information that before the
cutting the witness must subscribe his
name to an cath stamped upon paper
made IN China for that purpose, and
also sign it. Judge Lawler, after re-
marking that there appeared to be a
diversity OF opinion as to what is the
proper course to pursue, asked Te-
porter who was present what he knew
about the custom.
1.-The custom, as explained to me-"
said the reporter, sis that the witness
about to be interrogated is the one to
cut off the fowls head, and while doing
so must say, AS cut off the head of
this chicken may l be beheaded if 1 do
not tell the truth"
THAT, l suppose" said the judge,
sis correct, but it would be better to
have some Chinaman here to explain to
the court how this peculiar oath shall
be administered, and for this purpose
the case will be adjourned"
The case was then adjourned and the
parties interested disappeared from the
courtroom, very much to the disgust
of Bailiff Mcnamara, who expected
that he would be able to secure 4
couple of the executed chickens for
supper.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-07-21
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
A little kindness goes good ways

A little kindness goes good ways.
1t costs more to revenge wrongs than
to bear them.
The trees that are not most in the
sun tear the sweetest fruit.
1t is less painful to learn in youth
than to be ignorant III old age.
Life, that never needs forgiveness,
has for its first duty, to forgive.
1t Is not so difficult to know ones
self, as to confess the knowledge.
Each departed friend is q magnet
that attracts us to the next world.
The serene, silent beauty Of a holy
life is the most powerful influence in
the world.
Prudence is one of the virtues which
were called cardinal by the ancient
ethical writers.
No fault can be rs bad as the feeling
which is quick TO see, and speak of the
faults of others.
Promises made in time of afllictiOn
require better memory than people
commonly possess.
We should not measure the excel
lence of our work by the trouble it has
cost Us to produce it.
One of the hest rules in conversation
Is never to say anything that any one
present can wish unsald.
Fully to understand grand and
beautiful thought, requires perhaps rs
much Tune Us to conceive 1t.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-07-21
Titled American Bellies.

4 vivacious and accomplished young
woman in New York society, who lives
on Madison avenue not far from Thirty
fourth street, has been devoting many
of her leisure hours since she graduated
at Mount st. Vincent Acadamy last
summer IN compiling volume contain
ing sketches of the American bellies who
have become the brides of European no.
blemen. She entered on her work with
the vim and tact of an experienced re-
porter, and made the very best use of
the special advantages she possessed by
laying under contribution all her city
friends who have spent an extended
time in Europe, as well as the ladies q;
the foreign embassies in Washington.
Already She has list of over 100 nota-
BILE names, and as she will pass the sum-
mer in Europe with her parents she can
complete the work there. One of the
most interesting features of the book. Of
which small edition is to be printed
for private circulation, will be the chap
ters devoted 10 the married lives of the
ladies who have assumed titles and
adopted a more aristocratic style of l:v-
ing tLan that to which their American
sisters are accustomed. The lady who
expects to enter the most exclusive So
cial circles viii give the result of her
personal observations, and take nothing
from hearsay. The favored few who
will have the privilege of reading the
volume will then learn many secrets
that all American women have been
anxious topossess. They will expect to
be told frankly whether crests and cor
onets are really as enchanting as they
are painted. Th. manuscript of the
Forthcoming volume is written on tint
ed paper, in a strong and clear but es-
sentially feminine hand,