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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
LEOPOLD Won R.ANKE.
of the Career of the Recently ID.
ceased German Historian.

Sketch of the Career of the Recently Do
ceased German Historian.
The late DR.. Leopold Won Ranke was
Gcrmany's greatest historian. His life
was devoted to study, and his works
evidence vast research and mastery of
materials. He had planned for the great
work of his life a history Of the world,
which was to be in nine volumes, but
had completed but six volumes at the
time of his death.
Leopold Won Ranke was born at
Wiehe, in Thuringia, on December 81,
1895, and completed his sixtieth year as
professor in the University of Berlin on
March 81, 1885. He began life as a
student, his position being that Of tutor
at the college of Frankfort-pn-the-
Oder. His first work was published
in 1924. Four years after he wpps sent
officially to examine the public Archives
accessible to him in Vienna, Venice,
Florence and Rome, an occupation ex-
tending over four years. During this
period he obtained the materials for the
books which successfully appeared.
The book which first gave him Euro
pean reputation was entitled ''The
Popcs of. Rome" This great work APP
peared in 1884. Lord Macaulay's re,
view of it in the Edinburgh Review is q
masterpiece. 1t made Ranke's name
familiar to English and American
readers. In 1S4l Won Ranke was APP
pointed Royal Historiographer. 1t was
in 1865 that he was made president of
the Historical Commission of Munich,
and at the same time entitled to prefix
Won to his name.
Won Ranke married an Irish lady,
Miss Graves, a very superior woman,
but of retiring disposition, and who
never shared his literary work. He had
a son and two daughters.
He held command of his surprising
power of mental concentration up to
within a short time Of his death. Last
January the writer of fifty learned books
%conversed with firmness, tluency and
continuity, convincing his visitors that
he was as skilful with his tongue as with
his pen. Weather permitting, the vet
eran of more than ninety years old
walked two hours a day in the open air,
and wrote or dictated eight hours of the
twenty-four. He lived among his books,
thirty thousand of which lined the walls
of his study.
He was a great favorite with the En-
peror William, who presented him with
a full-sized portrait of himself on his
last birthday. On the mantel-piece Of
his study stood a fulIIength photograph
of the Crown Prince in his Cuirassier
uniform, also a gift from the original
Springfield Rcpubican.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
Artists Models in Paris.

A curious bit Of statistical lore has
come to light. It seems that in Paris
there is an official list kept of artists
models and that their number for the
present year amounts to 671. All ma
tionalities are represented in this docu-
ment, but in proportions that seem at
first sight surprising. The Italians head
the list. OF the whole 67l they consti-
tute about a third. Paris herself only
supplies one-half what Italy supplies.
OF French models in the Paris studios
there are but 12O. The Germans num-
Der strong at 80; and then there are 60
Swiss, so Spanish girls, the same num-
Der of Belgians, As English, 80 Amer.
leans, 4 Austrians, 2 Portuguese and l
Irish girl. The statistics supply not
only nationality but age. Of the gu
100 have passed their majority. All the
rest are young girls from lG to 20. OF
course, they do not gain their livelihood
exclusively by their sittings. Most OF
them are ballet girls-or, to adopt their
own definition, dramatic artists.-Sk
Louis Republican.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
NATIVITY OF PLANTS.

Where Some of Our Vegetables, Fruits
and Roots Come From.
Spinach is a Persian plant.
Horse-rad;sh is a native of England.
Melons were found originally in Asia.
Filberts came from Greece.
Ounces came from Corinth.
The turnip came from Rome.
The peach came from Persia.
Sage is a native of the South of Eu-
rope.
Sweet majoram is a native of Portu-
gal.
The bean is said to be a native Of
Egypt.
Damsons came from Damascus.
The nasturtium came from Peru.
The pea is a native of the south of
Europe.
Ginger is a native of the East and
West Indies.
Coriander seed came originally from
the East.
The cucumber was originally a tropic-
al vegetable.
The gooseberry is indigenoust to Great
Britain.
Apricots are indigenous to the plains
of Armenia.
Pears were brought from the East by
the Romans.
The walnut is a native of Persia, the
Caucasus and China.
The Glove is a native of the Malacca
islands, as is also the nutmeg.
Cherries were known in Asia as far
back as the seventeenth century.
Garlic came from Sicily and the
shores of the Mediterranean.
Asparagus was a wild sea coast plant,
and is a native of Great Britain.
The tomato is a native of South
America.
Parsley is said to have come from
Egypt:
Apples were brought from the East by
the Romans. The crab apple is indig-
enous to Great Britain.
The onion was almost an object of
worship with Egyptians two thousand
years before the Christian era. It first
came from India.
The cantaloupe is a native of Ameri-
ca, and SO called from the name of a
place near Rome, where it was first Gull
tivated in Europc.-MVcrocosm.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
QUEER CREATURES.
Why Sponges We're at Last delegated to
Il Place Among the Animals.

! Why Sponges Were at Last delegated to
"a Place Among the Animals.
The choicest sponges are obtained
| from the Mediterranean sea. Many OF
| a less fine grade are exportedfrom Flor.
! ida, the West Indies and the Bahama
Islands. All sponges are marine except
one, the Spongilla. This is to be found
in streams and lakes attached to sticks,
| stones, etc. 1t has been known to find
its way INTO water-plpcs, and to ac-
cumulate in sufficient quantities. to make
necessary it's removal. Soft, brittle
sponges of no commercial value are to
be found nearly everywhere along the
seashore attached to rocks, shells, etc.
Sponges assume quite a variety OF shapes
in their growth. Some are branchcd, CIV
ing them Il very decided plant-like APP
pearance. Others are cup-shaped, and
are sometimes called basket spongcs.
Very many take on NJ definite form or
are amorphous. SO far as l know, no exc
PLANTATION has ever been given Of the
different forms they assume in their
growth.
Asspongesw erefo a long time consid-
cred plants, it is interesting to consider
why they were at last RELOCATED to a
place among the animals. The char
actcrs which identify them with animals
are chiefly two: The nature Of their
food and the composition of their body
substance. Animals live upon organic
natter; that is, upon other animals or
Upon plants. Plants, on the contrary,
llte upon inorganic matter, such as
wtter, carbonic acid gas and ammonia.
Tied by this test, sponges are animals.
Sd too, as to the nature of their body
substance; it does not contain any OF
thd compounds characteristic of plants,
as Atarch and cellulose; but its chemical
COMPOSITION agrees with that Of many
Other animals. And so, notwithstand-
ing the fact that some sponges arc very
plant-like in shape, and that all, in hay
ing no power of ~locomotion, but in
being rooted to one place, are like the
great majority of plants and unlike the
great majority of animals, they are yet
true animals. After all, these resem.
blances TO plants are only superficial.
There are many species of lower plants
which have the power of locomotion,
and there are quite Il number of animals
besides the sponge which are tixcd.-N.
7. Independent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
EXCELLENT CUSTOMS.

Social and Business Habits of the Ex-
trcmely Deliberate People of Japan.
There is no such brief and hurried
salutation used in japanese society as:
81 am glad TO see you," Or; 81 am
pleased to meet you" Instead of thus
abruptly greeting IN old friend or new
acquaintance, the japanese say, to
translate them freely: 81 am thorough
" saturated with happiness at having
the pleasure of hanging myself upon
your honorable eyelids." That sounds
like something. Again, when a young
man writes to his sweet little Japanese
girl, away in the country, for instance,
instead of sending her one thousand
kisses, as we hurried and fretfuI United
States young men do, he writes some
what in this fashion: dearest Lump
ofSwcetness: / am filled with excru-
ciating Impotence to reach your side,
so that | may hang myself upon your
bliss-dispensing, sugar-coated lips four
thousand six hundred and ten million
times, and perhaps few times more for
good count"
l an not sure that the social customs
of Japan permit a young man to kiss
his little betrothed peachblow Yum-Yum
that many times at n session of the
court; but he is allowed to promise that
number of kisses, anyway, and if he is
not in a hurry, and the japanese are
in a hurry. he will do his best to
keep his promise.
In accepting An invitation to dinner
the Japanese do not say: 'sIt will give
me pleasure to dine with you, as YOU
suggest" But: 81 shall have great de-
Light i'll putting myself upon the out
side of all the Injuries of the season UNI
der which your hospitable board is ac-
customed to groan." That is merely q
free translation of one of the very sim
plcst forms of accepting an invitation
to dinner in Japan.
rather like the Japanese style of
polite intercourse. There is nothing
hurried or abrupt it. 1t makes one feel
as if the undertaker's bill were far off,
and that there is really no necessity for
hurry and painful commotlon. And it
is much morc pleasing to the ear than
our brief style of social communication.
Of course, w are all in very much of
a hurry in America. But hurry is the
thing that is keeping us awake Of nights,
causing us to acquire store-teeth in early
life, and to become a nation of dyspep-
ties.
AS girls. we are in a hurry to be wom-
en- with an abnormal hustle and a beau;
as boys, we are in a hurry to wear a
mustache and plug-hat; as women, we
are in a hurry for a hundred new things
that the treasury department is i'll pre-
pared to provide; as men, we are in q
hurry to pocket the Doodle and get away
from the police.
We should strive to live more calmly,
! il not SO s%umptuously, and to die with
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

greater elaboration, even though wo
must be buried with less eclat. We
should not crowd nature by eating a
dinner of thirteen courses in seven min
| utes and three seconds, and expect to
escape remorse and a bald-headed doc
tor. 1t seems to me that we could use
some of the Japanese sit-down-and-take-
it-calm-ativeness and for-time-I-don't-
neutrality-suspicious. in u domestic
economy to our great and lasting adj
vantage.
In America every body tries with all
his might to hurry every body else.
One hurries us up in the morning, an
other hurries us all day long. and our
wives hurry us home at night. Our
business hurries us, and our creditors
hurry us the worst of al. Even the
weather has caught our lively habits
and hurries us, too.
Our correspondence and conversation
show what a miserably hurried people
we are. And there are entirely too many
phrases in general use in u social and
business intercourse, which on account
of their extreme brevity and explosiv,
abruptness, CRATE harshly on the sens-
tive ear. For instance, what could
sound more unpleasant to man who
hates hurry and worry than this:
''Please remitn!' or this: ''Send check
at once, or we will draw on Vol at
sight," The japanese have much
pleasanter ways of framing similar little
business messages, and we might be-
come a happier people by adopting sug-
gestions from them.
"Will you, at your convenience, do
me the kindness to hang Il check for the
inclosed bill i'll the vicinity of my eye
lidsp" certainly sounds less harsh and
gritty than: enclosed find bill; remit
at once"
The japanese do not say: .Keep off
the grass!!" but: .sThe municipal au-
thorities will consider it an everlasting
kindness if you will hang yourself off
the verdure." There is nothing coarse
and savage ABOUT that, and it don't
make us feel as if we must 90 on the
grass just for spite.
To my mind there is nothing more
facilitating and enervating to our race
than the hurry and hustle and five min
utes for refreshments that mar our So
cial, domestic and business customs.
and make our boosted civilization
sham and fit subject of ridiculc to older
and calmcr nations.
Let us pause md sit down and learn
something from the Japanese.-ScoH
Way, IN Puck.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

But even as he laughed, tA...
the click of the pistol, and '9 Ea. u
cious hen fell dead on tho inns
"What hev l doncpn s.oald
Melinda. "Why didn't vo orled y
she was in the way?:" '0u Tell
t.. She wasn't nowhere ne,,
insisted Uncle Jonathan as n
thought you was goin' to Shoe, 'aad
mark" 'ooe at
Poor Jim was crying as tbon.,
heart was quite broken. 'sA
"Ncver mind" said his on
ting his head. "Tn buy Won 'a,
hen, and We'll eat old Scratch f a,o1
ner. Firm pistols is always Ss.
GUS" osl)
Uncle Jonathan picked y,
Scratch and carried her off to up %p
her for cooking. He was gone p ,
while.
When he came back Aunt NJ.
had returned to her ironing. ,n ~s
was sitting disconsolatcly on tbs h
step.
"Look here what I found.n h,
slowly.
. There were some shining par|
in his hand. p1
why, it looks like gold" said
Melinda. "Where did you pit ity;|
sin old Scratch's craw," said n
NJonathan. "I'm goin' to take i, !
assaycr's. Whatever it is, it \
out Of our garden" !
The assayer discovered that !
Uncle Jonathan brought him woJ
dollars worth of pure gold, and /
few weeks the garden WAS lease1
men who began sinking a shaft
BY the next Fourth of July
Melinda, as the wife of a wealthy i
had grown bettcr-tempercd, and
went to school and was as indepeu|
and manly as though he had |
worn a bingham apron.
II tell you, Melindy," Uncle j
than used to say, 81 wasn't such A
as you thought when I set round
smoked my little black pipe an Id
Scratch do my prospectin' fur md
Golden Days.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

The True Story of n Mother, Cat
Three Little Squirrels.

Three Little Squirrels.
Mrs. Williams stood OH the pord
her farmhouse home in Indiana
day, looking for her two boys, Wild
been out hunting. In a corner Of
porch was a big basket, in which
old cat, with three kittens about al
old. Presently the Two boys CAM
Will had his hat in his hand, car.
something, which proved to be !
very young squirrels. They had l
the mother, and, finding the II
ones in the nest, had brought :
home, and meant to raise them
pets.
"I'll put 'cm down here, and
box for en-" and Will, taking
little things from his cap, and p1
them on the floor of the porch
that moment, Tab jumped out q
basket, and marched up to them.
"Oh, the cat! She'll eat 'em
cried Mrs. Williams, and was stO
to rescue the squirrels, when
stopped her. ''let's G what !
do"
What puss did do was to walk
around the squirrels, smell them
tie, and then lick and cares :
parring softly over them.
stayed a moment, then i
and walked away, when,
ing one of the squirrels cry
turned back, watched them a
then deliberately picked one Of
up, and carried it to her basket
ing it down with her kittens, sls|
back and carried the other two ID
same way. When they were all
nest, she cuddlcd herself down
them, licking and smoothing thell
as if they We're her own babies.
The boys were delighted, but
Williams was greatly alarmed,
wanted them to take the little 4
ures out, declaring that they won
eaten by morning. The boys, Ad
er. left the squirrels and kittenst0
or, and the next morning they VT
contented as if they had always
there.
And there they stayed, and the
old Tab brought them up with hey
family. They soon got large enl
to run up the trees in the yard.
they would play and frisk about
return, when tired, to their catl
er. At last one of them ran of
woods, and a day or two later tha
err ones followed. The boys th
catch the ungrateful little beasts
did not succeed.
Puss whined and mewed after
for a few days, and refused to be
forted, but finding they did not 'd
devoted herself to the rest OF her
ly, and seemed to conclude to .
no longer for her foster-children,
This incident actually occurred
as given, near the little village O
mony, during the year just pas
Matte Dyer Britts, IN Youths 4"
ION.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
Brought the Exact Time.

The individual who is hopelessly
stupid may not be held accountable as
a sinner, but he is apt to be a Stumbling
block to the amiability of clear-headed,
energetic people. A French-American
soldier was starting for Nashville one
day during the war, when an officer
called out: Solomon, bring me the
Nashville timc!'
Late in the evening the man returned.
called upon the officer who had asked
for the time and said:
"lt was juste one-quarter NV tree
o'cluck when l leave re seetie; then I
time"
"But what time is it now?n asked tho
officer.
"Ah, dat l know not! You saw.
'Breeng me Nashville time;;' 1 brings
hlm eexzackly!'- Youths Compauion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
Too Funny For Any Use.

Two dudes meeting at a picnic.
First Dudc-Aw, Authaw, isn't thu,
jaullye
Second Dude-Awfully jaully, Chau-
lie.
First Dude-Did you wide aw walk
ovah, Authaw?
Second Dude-I wode Chaulic, but
one OF us walked, dawn't you know.
First Dud-Naw, Authaw?
second Dude-Ya-a-s, Chaulie.
First Dude-Which one, Authawp
Second Dude-The hawse. of cowo
Chaulie.
both-Ha! Hal! HaM-Td-Bas
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
pEADING FOR THE YOUNG.
SLEEPY.

sat one evening watching
AIi1tle golden head
That was nodding Ger q picture-DOOk
And pretty SOC | said:
"Come. darling, you are sleepy.
,Ion't you want to go to ped!'
sNo.' she said, II isn't s'cepy,-
But l can't hold up my head.
sJust now it feels so heavy,
There isn't any use:
Do let me lay it Town TO rest
On dear Old Mother Goose!
] sha'n't shut up my eyes ataH,
Aud so you needn't fear;
Ill keep EN- open all the while
To see thiSp picture here"
And, then, as T said nothing,
She settled for a nap:
One curl was resting on the frill
OF the old lady's cap:
Her arm embraced the children small
lnhabiting the shoe.
80 dear" thought l. what h l say?
For this will never do"
! sat awhile in silence
Till the clock struck a ding ding"
And then L went around II kissed
The cunning little thing.
The v!olets unfoldcd
AS ] ! kissed her. and she said:
IL isn't s'cepy, sister;
But ] guess III go to bed"
-Eran0elist.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

IT is said that there is not a single
hcathcn to-day in Fiji. Out of the
population of 10000, no fewer than
lO2, 900 are adhcrents to the Protestant
Church; the others belong to the Roman
Catholic Church.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

A LUMINOUS cement is now made in
England and may be used for ceilings.
at the ends of bridges, along paths and
roads, and wherever the sunlight may.
during the day, excite the phosphorcs-
cent quality of the material and make
it GLOW at night.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

AFTER nearly twenty-four years, Cen
eral Fitz John Porter has been exon
Grated of charges of cowardice made
against him at the second battle Of Bull
Run, which worked his dismissal from
the army, and is restored. But time
and recent legislation will prevent Cen
'eral Porter from entering active service.
He has passed the age at which army
officers are placed on the retired list,
and he will now be placed on that list
with the rank he had at Bull Run.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

The baseball managers evidently be-
licvc in sumptuary legislation. The
captain of the Chicago team has been
forced to pay $40 for the luxury Of
swearing at an umpire atDetroit.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

The japanese have not only nearly
500 miles of railroad in operation, but
they make their own cars, and the
building of the line from Tsuruga to
Ogaki was conducted by young Japa-
nese engineers, whose task included
two large bridges and q tunnel a mile
l,nU
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

DICKINSON College at Carlisle, Pa.
has the u%ncnviable record Of the worst
and most foolish exhibitions of student
folly of the year. 1t is 4 co-educational
concern, and because a girl entered the
competition for one Of the prizes the
boys all quit and tried to break up the
exhibition contest.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
Dress Shoes for Summef'

Ornamental shoes for dress!
are conspicuous among all fanG!
dealers. The toes in nearly eVe!I
are deliberately ornamented IN
embroidery, or otherwise. strap
ornamental paste buckles are y y.
vogue. The prettiest shoes n
single strap buckled high on 1nsn
the open space below allo T1s
embroidered hose to be seen. NV
of the shoe is cut very low,
an Irish diamond slide, simlla
buckle above, is threaded wllpi
of kid to finish it. The backs
of the new slippers are OF a"
height, reaching up the an5S
as high as a boot would q"
Post.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
LAWS.

Any person who takes the paper regularly from the
postofice. whether directed to his name or whether he
liz q subscriber or not, is responsible for the pay.
The courts have decided that refusing 10 take news
papers and periodicals from the postoffice. or rcmov.
Ing and leaving them uncallcd for, Ia priR1I J0cie eVi.
deucc OF INTENTIONAL FRAUD.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

-Governess-Now, Jack, if l were to
give twelve pears to Maudie, ten to
Edith and three to you, what would il
be? Jack Gagged six)-lt wouldn't be
far.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

The hauling of the heavy : nj n
stone for the steps up to the s,n
OF the millionaire Flood, in o1 ru
cisco, has been attended VIII -,
Dor. The trucks on which ~ ID
was placed were veryheaVy' Dr.,
ty horses were necessary " nil,
load up to the top OF NOD hs q
wheels made deep ruts IN ~. III
crushing the stone pavenea' n,
earth. Hundreds OF peoPi'
the operation.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

TIE Barring Brothers are nearly as
rich and powerful as the Rothschilds.
1t is a half-American house, and keeps
$50. 900, 900 "rcady for instantaneous
,.o ~
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

OF the group Of glaciers at Glacier
Bay, Alaska, each one is 800 feet high
and is supposed to be submerged about
the same number of feet. They are
about three miles wide and extend along
seventy-five miles. These glaciers are
the sights of the world. The pale blue
tinge OF ice has a fascination for the
eyes. The continual falling of Ions OF
the breaking and cracking masses
uses a roar Of d~eafening sound that
no artillery could equal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
TOPICS OF H DAY.

PRESCOTT EvARTs, a O of the Scna-
tor, was among the priests ordained by
Bishop Potter, of New York, the other
3av.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16

No printing office in. sis IT,
pboying over thirty printers
to do work on Sunday.