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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-11-20

nm " 'p'h is "hcieupOu the llmepiece WAS
found intact. "'
Il shaii now have the honor of showing Won. "
SAID Monsieur blltzini, us he again took up mis-
position i'll the center OF the stage All the ms,
sistance count upon from the SDirifs ar tha
Silent Sphere Is vOucisaied to me- The wond rouS
eSieriiheht which have called l. Ecoie de Cui-
Ills French accent Is good" Cameron re-
/ marked. ~
but he isn't easy in his mind answered.
Wyoming, who kept his eyes fixed ON the taco
| OF the magician. ~
Il shall now" continued Monsieur Blitz,ni
venture 10 tax your good nature again by re-
/ guessing the loan oil a hat" AS Inc came down
] from the stage his eye caught that OF w yomiDg
| TO whose questioning look he returned Il glance
OF reinsurance. Cameron and his iriend had
seen aireaGy that the performer had rccog nj zed
them iis experts in the art, and they were con.
scious that, as is the custom of coniurers he
was playing AT them wyoming held up his
hat, and the magician smiiingiy took IL from
him and returned 10 the stage.
LEcole de Cuisine tenUe par Belialides was
soon seen 10 oe aNariation on the familiar trick
OF the oIneiette cooked in the hat over ne flame
nj u candle--tLe trick over which Robert Hondin
in his prentice days burnt his fingers aud the
borrowed hat. Monsieur Bltzini broke AN e1v
into WyOming's hat, whereat the Young ladies'
| in the audience giggled convulsiveiy He nd ded
butter and salt ana pepper, ana he stirred these
| sucn IA q man should have when he suns with
| the devil. Then he held the hat over n candle
| ana sudden smoke arose aud fragrant odor
was waited across the tOOtiights. The evidence
| OF the nose proved that the tick mad been nc.
| compiis6ed. Monsieur Blitziui laid the I,na ON
the stage Just In front of the rundown and
was about To put his hand into II 70 Withdraw
| the omeiette. chatting pleasantly the while and
/ making many small jokes about his own Gull.
nary iaanties. when ne happened TO cast his
eyes into the hat. Instantly he withdrew his
| hano ana started back in undisguised aston.
| ishment conmingled with terror The head
ex,sn asse ,, snnke pro.rndsd from the hat and
movement it thrust itself forward from the ha
aaa started toward the spectators. 1t was q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-11-20

Application for rates tO clubs should be made only
TO the office Of the Company in New OrleAuk
For further information write clearly, giving fun
ADDRESS. POSTAL NOTES, Express Money OrderR
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The yearly exports of umbrellas
from England are valued at f5S1,0OO
A Russian convict is said to have
survived a punishment of two thousand
lashcs.
1t has cost the British Government
$3.50, 900 to suppress the locust plague
in Cyprus.
The Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil
is planning the erection Of an academy
of arts, which will be the first of its kind
in South America.
Archer and Wood, the two noted
English jockeys, according to the in
come tax assessment, made last year re-
spcctively $50. 900 and S45,0
"A gentleman who saw a meteor re-
Gently in Surry, England, described it as
being apparently so near him that he
thought he could hit it with a stone.
In the Pcshawur cemetery, in India,
is the following amusing cpitaph:
''Sacred to the memery of Rev. -,
Missionary, aged -, murdered by his
chowkidar. well done, thou good and
faithful servant.'n
In China and Japan girls are named
after some beautiful natural object, and
such names are common as Cherry
flower, Peach-blossom, Plum-blossom,
Bamboo-leaf, Pine-woods, etc
"A patent has been granted in Russia
for a lucifer match that can be used an
indefinite number of times, the wood
being impregnated with q special chem
ical solution that will allow of such re-
use.
The depression in Scotch agricul-
ture is so great that. in n recent mum
Der of a paper published in the north,
forty-seven country mansions, with
245, 900 acres of shootings attached,
were advertised to let.
In Servia it is the custom to build
the partition walls of houses quite thick,
and set stoves in the walls half way
through, so that they do duty in warm
ing two rooms. The stove has no open
ing in either room, but is managed
through an aperture in the wall.
The best decorated man in Prussia
is the Crown Prince of Germany, who
has seventy-two orders and decorations
to plant on his breast, which make him
look as if he wore a breastplate. Count
Puckler, the Marshalof the place, comes
next with tifty-one; Bismarck follows
with a modest forty-eight.
The Island of Juan Fernandez, up
on which Alexander Selkirk, the pro-
totypc of Robinson Crusoe, spent his
four solitary years, has never since'been
inhabited until twelve years ago, when
the present Governor Rodt settled upon
it witlasa small colony. Rodt is a Swift
ger. In 1866 he fought for Austria
against the Prussians, and in 1870 for
he emigrated to Chill, and made himself
useful to the government, at whose in
vitation he undertook the colonization
of Robinson Crusoe's lonely island.
Here he has resided for the last twelve
years as Governor and Judge. Most of
the settlers ver whom he presides are
German and Swiss.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

prh,ic, without SO much rs a thought
that any one would think she should do
it indoors. Or, maybe. it is a mar in
scanty garb, sitting on the threshold 81
his shop, washing hislong legs in basin
of hot water. Sometimes you may come
across a conjurer performing at one
of the tiny clear spaces where
the road widens for Il few yards.
Close by this spot I once met a
man who seemed to have a knife
broken off short in the top of his skull,
and the blood apparently was running
down upon his clothes. The people
stood aside with what I thought was a
shocked aspect as he solemnly walked
on, looking to neither right o left,
and it proved to be only Il famous con
jurer going through one OF his most re-
markable performances. Occasionally
you may happen upon one OF the &C.
centric customs of idolatry, and see a
new house consccrated by the presence
of the black-faced idol. BY the way,
while we are Just finishing our journey,
I will tell you Il curious fact about
Cinnamon and foreign pictures. The
Chinaman who sees aforeign picture for
the first time looks at it with the eyes
of a grown-up child. When l had dis
covered this fact, l tested the truth of it
many times by showing pictures to in
telligcnt friends. A fine sketch of the
interior of a Turkish man-of-war, four
guns served by about ten men, and the
Admiral standing in the foreground
with his hand resting upon his sword,
was put down as ''mountains;" and a
large and elaborate picture of the funer-
al Of Mons. Theirs proceeding through
the streets of Paris was said to be ga
ship at sea-" This is an interesting
fact for psychologists Life
an China
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07
THE PRESIDENTIAL MATCH.

The Belief in the Presidents Coming
Marriage to Miss Folsom, of Buffalo,,
Gaining Strength Daily Opinion at
Washington.
BUFFALO,, N. Y, April 21.-Whatever
doubt existed about the rumored forth
coming marriage OF Miss frankie Folsom
to President Cleveland must now be BAN
ished. 1t is the talk OF the best people of
the city. 1t is stated the ceremony will be
performed at the White House in June next.
Nh. Josiah Cook, the well known lawyer,
who used to be a chum OF Mr.. Folsom and
Mr.. Cleveland, said:
Oscar Folsom and Grover Cleveland
were more attached to each other than IL
two men | ever knew, and l do not wonder
That the President regarded MI. Folsom's
beautiful daughter with an affection which
rlpened into matrimonial intentions. Os-
car Folsom never had u fault more serious
than to provoke a smile. He was a polished
gentleman, q true friend and a man who
was never more happy than when assist
quaintance with his daughter, but l am sat-
listed that She possesses all the ~bestqualities
of her father"
The News says:
"Rumors OF President Cleveland's en-
gagement to Miss Folsom nave been
traced to sources so reliable as to leave no
reasonable doubt of their accuracy. There
are further rumors that the President in
tends to make his home i'll Albany on his
retirement from public life. Whatever may
be his intentions in that regard, the choice
Of bride among Butfalo's fair ladies, and
especially one to whom reference is made
here only in terms of highest praise,
must draw him nearer in thought and SEN
tlnlent to his old home. In common with
his many old-time friends, we extend to
him our warmest congratulations and best
wishes"
WASHINGTON, April 21.-The only people
in town who nave any positive knowlcdg e
concerning the Presidents marriage are
the President and his private secretary.
The latter refuses to affirm or deny the re-
ports, although there is no doubt that he
would be out in great haste with a denial
ii the President SO wished. Several of the
Presidents friends have felt on intimate
enough terms with him to gently claff him
upon the subject, but to all the President
has made NO sign beyond good naturally
evading the subject.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07
ITALIAN EYES.
A Country Where Pretty Blondes Are a,
II Considerable Premium.

A Country Where Pretty Blondes Are at
II Considerable Premium.
The iris of the eye of Italians is most
commonly chestnut; according to NJ.
Mantegazza. the proportion of such is
"a per cent, the black eyes number %
per cent, the blue II, and the gray 5.
Piedmont and Lombardy have the lare-
est proportion of gray eyes; Venetia of
blue. In general, the chestnut color Of
hair amounts to II per cent. then comes
the black hair, 26 per cent; then the
blonde, 8 per cent. (though in Venetia
it is S.) Black hair is rare in Venetia.
More than three-fourths of the Italians
have abundant hair. Southern Italy
excels northern in this respect; in Tus-
cany the poor heads Of hair preponder-
ate (5o against ~ per cent? AS to
beard, the color does not always coincide
with that Of the locks. While chestnut
preponderates, this prepondcrance is
less marked; and one sometimes finds
chestnut locks with blond, and more
often brown, boards. Rushv boards
with abundant locks are most common
IN the south Of Italy. In two-thirds Of
Italy the natives wear the beard short or
are clean shaven. This practice dom;.
mates especially in Tuscany (s3 Der
cent the Sardinians have most lono
boards $50 per cent.). Red hair in Italyy
mas been a subject OF discussion AMONG
anthropologlsts; some think red-hai,ri
persons are remnants of Il race almost
extinct, and which extended TO tho
oahks OF the Rhine and into England;
o.hers th'nk RED hair y mere physiology,
can be drawn. In Italy %throuohout ona
1lnds a few cases of red hair. In ono
commune, SAINT Agata di Puglia. ra,;
halr Is predominant. No e%yplan,tion
mas been given of the fact. Badness !.
most common in Tuscany. In It,lv
generally, of 10000 young men az,
amined Tor military service 20 were va
!ectea 1or premature badness, and ~
| Tor dlseass'of the scalp.--.Natvs,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07
Totals for United King.

dom...................5,7O3 5,03s 1l,465 1854
The total for 1885 shows q net in
crease of about twelve per cent. upon
the failures for 1884. But these official
figures only tell us of the cases that oc-
Cured through the Court of Bankrupt
cy. There is no way of arriving at
any reliable statistics of the many
other actual failures that have
happened during the a Not
only has there been IN increase in
the private arrangements effected with
creditors, but also in regard to county
court administrations. Then there is
that large class Of eases where debtors
simply drop through, or run away, or
get work as journeymen, but which are
nevertheless equally failures, and equally
bad for their creditors. 1t is useless
when we remember these facts merely to
compare the figures in bankruptcy for
1885 with those of 1882 or 1883, and say
there is a decrease. There has been no
falling off in the totals of f~ailares, and
these simply prove that many i~nsolvent
debtors have privately arranged with
their creditors or have done without, as
the cheap system of liquidation was
taken away, and they could not afford
the more costly present plan. Il must,
moreover, be borne in mind that every
new bankruptcy act has had the appa-
rent effect OF cutting down the totals of
failures. The act Of 1869 did this. as
our comparative total shows, and the
fact that those totals rose again did not
prove an actual increase Of insolvency.
but rather that debtors grow more used
to the new law, as they doubtless will to
that of 1Ss3.-Kemp's Mercantile Ga
zctte.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07
Mandalay in Flames.

LONDON, April 21.-A dispatch from
Manoalay says: To-day being the Bur-
mese new year, fifty followers of Prince
M,yingzaing set fire to the city in several
places at four o'clock in the morning.
Hundreds OF houses have been burned.
The treasury, post-ofiice and the smaller
buildings within the palace Enclosure were
destroyed. One-third OF the walled city
has been ruined. Troops pursued and capt
ured severa! incendiaries. Mr.. Devinc, the
English military apothecary, was killed,
a number OF encounters took place outside
the city with the Princes followers, several
" whom were killed, and many were
wourasd on both sides.'i
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07
Heavy Dn(alcation-

MONTREAL, Can, April 22.-Thc greatest
excitement prevails all over the province
on the fact becoming current that Il detail
cation OF overS7O,O00 had bcendiscovered
in the Crown Lands department at
Quebec. 1T appears that the money
was embezzled by Mr.. Gale, who had charge
OF the department for thirty years. and
who died lately in Philadelphia, where he
absconded to when his d%efalcations were
found out. Deceased confessed on his
death bed that he had appropriated the
whole amount in the past three years and
lost it in speculations on stock-exchange.
Deceased's estate will only reimburse the
Government $4,000, and this is all that
will W recovered.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

The Pennsylvania manufacturers ex-
poet a big increase in the steel and iron
trade as Dol as the labor troubles
cease, and have put their furnaces in
order for the production of 500, 900 tons
of rails this year in excess of present
orders. There is prospects of increased
activity in railroad building.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

lr is remarkable to say the least that
Che New York stock market should re-
main SO firm, Notwithstanding the labor
troubles in the southwest and elsewhere.
Improves that the times are determined
to be good if given half a chance.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

The longevity of women who are
fortunate enough to marry soldiers is
shown in the fact that our pension rolls
bear the names of 10000 widows of the
veterans of 1912. The brides of seventy
four years ago are nearly centenarians
now and the number Of them quite sur
passes belief.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07
so tough.

MIR ENocH PRATT, who gave Balti-
more its fine free library, is thought to
be worth six or seven millions, all self
made. He is past seventy, understood
and very thin, though he is still hale
and agile.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

The middle of July appears to be the
time most generally accepted by Con-
gressmen as the probable date of adj
journment. Speaker Carlisle has al
ready been notified that forty members
desire to make speeches on the tariff
bill. and the estimate is roughly made
Chat the tariff discussion may continue
for six weeks.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07
TOPICS OF X DAY.

A BILL granting women the right to
vote at municipal elections in Massa-
chusctts has boon defeated in the Legis-
laturc of that State for the twentieth
tjmc.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

The exports of wheat from this coun-
try arc less than in 1885. butthe amount
of cotton is SO much greater that the
brcadstufls and cotton together amount
TO about ST., 900. 900 per week over last
years exports.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

4 woMEN's labor union has been in
corporatcd at San Francisco for the Lur-
pose of manufacturing wearing apparel,
establishing laundrics, eating houses,
restaurants and reading-rooms. Capt.
sal stock 800, 600 in 81 shares.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

THERE have been some imitation.
t'two-for-a-ccnt" strikes of school chill
,dren in various cities of the Union, and
now the school teachers of Wakefield,
Mass. threaten to strike because their
salaries have been considerably re-
'duoed. But here public opinion, it is
thought, will be with the strikers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

II is reported that the French Wal
Department, which has for many years
been experimenting with balloons, has
discovered a propelling power sufficient
TO drive a machine through the air,
without regard to The direction of the
wind. This agent is understood to be
electricity. Further, a balloon that can
be stored in any direction has been
constructed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

AN Oregon newspaper has no patience
with those who lament the disappear
ancc of the buffalo. 1t says it will be
well when he is gone and he wouldn't
have lasted SO long except that he was
Sn tOuoh
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

LEADERS Of fashion are now begin
ming TO discard bird skins as ornaments
on their head gear and are taking to
vegetables. Full-grown carrots, beets,
onions or cars of corn on hats and bon
nets would look just as well as the re-
mains of defunct birds. besides being
much more humane by sparing the little
warblcrs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

The question as to whether boycott
ting is conspiracy is to be legally tested
in New York city, where two members
sof a labor union have been held to bail
for trial on charges of conspiracy to
ruin the business of a tradesman. A
number of ~boycotters were arrested and
fined. and others discharged,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

RHODE ISLAND is to have prohibition
after July. The amendment was car
ficd by 400 votes over the necessary
thrce-Gfths. but does not go into effect
for three months.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07
PITH AND POINT.
-Tl1ere are two thincs wh;oA,

There are two things which
is bound to take on faith-his m man
private opinion of him and what ",les
ages are made from.-FuU Pin. saus'
Vance. ... az
"A writer describes a beauty "a
ing a exquisitely moulded fac" nav,
which two dark hazel eyes are the NJ "
trail feature" Where IS her noss s cen
ated?-Burlington Free Press. '''u'
There is an article going the rouna.
Of the press entitled, "Howto get rich I'u :
And yet there are more than a do1.,
poor families right here in this to p1sa
This comes of not reading the newsm.
pers.-Norristown Herald. p
The plain untitled citizen can slid,
along in life without receiving m ,"as
criticism and abuse; but when he has
handle to his name he must exnoo.
everybody to take hold and shake him
up.-N. O. Picayune.
The reason why people do not d.
as they r told hundreds of times in
papers, books, pulpits and elsewhere il
that they eve take it to themselves
but always fit it on somebody else. and
then wonder why people don't try ~
mend their ways.-Chicago Ledger.
At a recent meeting of Sorosis in
New York Miss Parloa startle the laaic,
by asking: Glow many of you know
how to boil a p~otato?" 1t is rather
singular that Miss Parloa should have
mistaken a meeting of the brightes
women in New York for an intelligence
otlice-Nor1lstown Herald.
-"Them's mine." said Colonel Yer
ger. "All right. Colonel" replied
Jules Barnfeldt, the bartender. sane
be careful not to charge me with then
twice." ''That's something I neve
do" "You had better not overchare
me, because l keep all the drinks l tax
in my head" 81 knew that, Colonel
before you spoke. Anybody can tel
that just by looking at YOU" N. B.
Colonel Yerger's face looks as if it ha
been painted red and vanished .-Tsra
Sitmgs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07
LAWS.

Any person who takes the paper regularly from tho
%postoftce, whether directed to his name or whether he
iis Z. subscriber or not, is responsible for the pay.
Tnc courts have decided that refusing to take news
papers and periodicals from the posroiiicr. or rrmoy.
Ing and lcAving them uncnlicd for, IL prin Z Jucic cvi-
deuce Of INTENTIONAL FRAUD.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

The colored people of Washington
celebrated Emancipation Day recently
with q parade. At the armory of one of
the colored companies the soldier dele
gated to run ZIP the United State flag,
by mistake ran up the Confederate stars
and bars. The sensation was immense.
A patriotic clerk in the War Department
rushed to the rescue, and hauling down
the emblem of the lost cause, restored
the cquanimity of the National Capital.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

FRANCE sends news that the cholera
has appeared within its limits, and in
the news is contained a warning to us.
The temperance of the scourge SO
early indicates that, far from having
died out. it will rage with a new yigor
CHS summer, and mayhap run it's course,
not only through Europe, but through
America also, Or at least in those parts
OF the two continents where efficient
means have not been employed to keep
1t out. 1t behooves every one to put
in operation the best of sanitary rcgu-
}atiDns.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07
BRITISH

Tradcsmen Who Went Under in England
During -Four Years.
The failures last year were distributed
among the following trades and, for
better comparison, we give the total
number in each trade in 1882, 1888 and
1884:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-07

Tommy Gray:
I am six years old
And l like play and fun,
mean to grow up
Like George Washington.
So when mother said,
"Who ate all the pie" -
spoke like q man,
And said: "It was l."
But she didn't say
She'd rather lose the pie
And know that her hoy
Would not tell a lie.
She just shut Inc up :"
Where l couldn't see,
/. Then sent me to bed
without any tea.
Ella Ball, in Babyhoo,