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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02
The kings chariot was massive affa

The kings chariot was massive affair
mounted on runners. A throne in the
rear end of the chariot reached the
height of fifteen feet, and over it was
grand canopy sparkling with dia-
mond dust, perfectly representing a
coating of boar frost. On the throne
sat his Majesty, massive and imposing,
in his robes OF polar bear skins. The
interior of the chariot was thickly COW
cred with skins of the same kind, and
from the back of the throne they
hung, their skirts dragging in the snow.
Back of the throne slumbered an ante
lope.
On the front of the chariot Rocky
Mountain goat stood on pedestal of
ice. The framework of the chariot,
which was thirty-two feet long, was
covered with white canvas, uphol-
stored and painted in realistic repre-
sentation OF ice, snow, and frost. The
chariot was drawn by six milk white
horses in elaborate trappings. White
frost plumes nodded above their heads,
and their harness was covered with
diamond dust to represent frost. A
man disguised as polar bear sat on the
seat and held the reins, while at the bit
of each animal walked white bear in
upright attitude.
Following the Kings chariot we're
four floats, built for the benefit of his
suite, comprising the Mayors of st.
Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and Winona.
all hidden under bear-skins and their
faces disguised with heavy white
boards. The boats of the suite were
made in various designs. One repre-
sented big seal, another an Arctic
whale, and the two others polar bears.
The prevailing colors of each were
white and blue and green, represent
ing snow, water and ice in infinite
forms of picturesque beauty. The
horses drawing the floats were white.
and across the launches of each ami
NAL was thrown light-blue blanket,
with white bear in bas relief in the
center. The second float was drawn
by three horses tandem, and led by
white bears. The third float was
drawn by span of horses driven by a
polar bear. The fourth was drawn by
two span Of horses, led by bears, and
the fifth was drawn by four horses
abreast.
The carnival clubs, with attendant
drum-corps and brass bands, formed
for the reception of the royal visitor at
2 o'clock, and fifteen minutes later his
Majesty arrived and the procession
started on it's march to the ice palace
through the principal streets of the
city. The streets were crowded sew
eral hours before the time set for the
appearance Of his Majesty. There was
scrambling for good positions, and,
when an exceedingly good point was
secured, nothing would prevail upon
it's possessor to leave until the last to-
boggan suit was lost to view around
the next corner. In nearly every win.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

cation is confident that, financially,
this year the carnival will be a success.
The procession marched to the Pal
ace grounds, where Mayor Smith ten
dered the freedom Of the city to the
Ice King, together with the keys of
the Palace. There were upward of
10000 people on the grounds. The
vast concourse patiently stood in the
cold and pounded their toes on the
snow and watched the tedious ceremo-
MES of giving Borealis possession of his
glittering abode. At the close of the
ceremonies an immense banner, with a
polar bear painted upon it, was run up
over the central tower of the Palace,
and the reign of Borealis had begun.
The procession was nearly mile in
length, and several of the clubs carried
with them elegant floats of peculiar
design, while others carried their
bouncing blankets on their shoulders
stretched on framework 1t is esti-
mated that there We're three thousand
uniformed men in line, and the sight
was q beautiful one.
The storm:ng of the ice palace form
ed an interesting feature of the ten
days festivities. Each soldier carried
Roman-candle rifles, blazing torch,
and other paraphernalia of war.
When the word was given the fire
king, clad in his robes of flame,
mounted his fiery chariot, drawn by
four equally fiery steeds, and escorted
by an army of little devils and his gilt
tering followers. set forth to give the
ice king roasting. The fire kings
forces arrayed themselves around the
ice palace and bombarded the crystal
walls with red-hot shot and
shell. The sight was one of the
most beautiful possible to con-
ceive. From every tower and loop-hole
of the crystal palace darted forth
streams of many colored fire, and the
kissing of gorgeous rockets shooting
starward was silenced by the bursting
of immense bombs, thrown to an i'm
mense height by mortars inside the
castle.
The besiegers were not idle by any
means, but shot fiery dots and sheets
of flame at the palace in the attempt to
demoralize the defenders. The gilt
tering walls of the palace reflected
back thousands Of prismatic rays. The
grounds of the palace were filled with
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

fifty genuine red men, squaws, and
pappooses reside. They occupy their
skin tepees, and have their dogs and
ponies with them.
An elaborate programme had been
arranged for the ten days covering the
Carnival season, and it was carried out
almost to the letter. There were deco
rations, illuminations. monster process
sions, snow-shoe races, curling and
skating contests, etc.
A correspondent at st. Paul gives the
following interesting account of the
Inauguration of the Ice Carnival:
Borealis, king of the hyperborean
realm, arrived in the city in blaze Of
glory that was chilly yet magnificent
He came followed by retinue of at
tendants clad in polar bear skins and
flowing boards that hung heavy with
frost. He came followed with blare
of trumpets and wild waving of ban
ners that brought every able-bodied
citizen to the gate of entry and set
them wondering at this scene of unique
magnifcence. The day was propi-
tious one for the event. The mercury,
which had been low-spirited for two
weeks past, manifested an inclination
to be gay and jubilant, and when the
kings chariot reached the city the Their
mometer registered five degrees below
zero, but the air was damp and the
heaviest kind of wraps were the order
of the day.
An unusual amount of labor and ex-
pense had been expended in the con-
struction of the chariot of the Ice
King and the floats occupied by his
attendants. They were Of elaborate
design and extremely rich in finish.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

PHOTOGRAPHIC plates can now be
prepared which are more sensitive to
light than even the human retina; they
subserve an excellent purpose in astro-
nomical photography, for by their use
it is possible to map out stars in the
heavens which are so dim as to be to-
tally invisible to the eye looking
through the telescope. The plate is
fixed and allowed to remain behind the
eye-piece of the telescope, the rays of
light Invisible to the eye gradually
producing the change in it necessary to
the production of an image. 1t is
claimed for them that they will photo
graph the eruption Of scarlet fever
some time before it is visible to the
eye. thus permitting the trouble to be
recognized earlier than formerly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

at the base fifty feet square, with
smaller circular towers at the corners
twelve feet in diameter. This shape is
carried to height of eighty feet,
when the corner towers end, and the
grand central tower assumes circular
form, and, with diameter of AZ feet,
rises to height of about 14O feet. On
the sides Of the tower spacious inches
contain images of snow-shoers, tobog-
gamers, skaters and animals modelled in
ice. The Palace is so designed that
the perfection of electric illumination
from the interior of the Palace is
achieved.
The Carnival grounds are inclosed
by high fence concealed by ever
green's, and within the Enclosure sports
of various kinds are almost constantly
in progress. On the west side of the
park is long, swift toboggan slide
with four courses. A generous area is
devoted to an ice-rink, and another to
the Scotch game of curling, A course
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

openings and are fanked by towers of
different heights and sizes. The court
walls have an average height of thirty
feet, and run at various angles, termin-
ating in small towers of different shapes
and designs.
Probably one of the most unique at
fractions Of the Palace is the Maze,
situated at the northeast corner of the
court walls. 1t is designed to bewilder
those unwary enough to undertake to
thread its mystic paths. 1t is about
80 feet in diameter, and has five sepa-
rate passages which lead to the center
of the puzzle, where circular stairs lead
to platform extending to the exterior
of the Maze. The interior of this nov
city is divided into series Of circular
walks by low walls of ice, and the
problem is to reach the staircase not
an easy task, by any means.
The main tower of the Palace starts
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

w. W. CoRcoRAN, the WASHINGTON
millionaire and philanthropist, would
indeed be a great man if for no other
reason than he knows how to handle a
surplus. In his benevolent life of 80
years he has given away in charities
NEARLY 100000. One OF his most
patriotic acts was the removal of the
remains of John Howard Payne to
American soil and the erection Of a
monument to the author Of "Home,
Sweet Home" He receives the usual
number of unconscionable requests
made by worthy and unworthy alike.
A woman wrote him: II want barrel
'of mess-pork. and wont you to send
it to me-" Mr.. Corcoran laughed and
sent it. Then the greedy cormorant
asked for another.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02
He Was Finally Admitted.

A horseman dismounted before a
lonely dugout in Missouri, and con-
fronting the proprietor of the place
asked for accommodations for the night.
The farmer surveyed him critically and
said:
-; - Air you selling cure for hog chol-
era?"
S:e"No, sir; I'm selling nothing"
us that SO? Wal, p'r'haps ye mout
roost in the barn eff that's so. But say,
stranger, yer not takin' airy subscr p
tions for the Life of Grant, air ye?'
"No, SIR"
eff that's the case mout letye bunk
on the floor of my dugout. But yer not
sellin' any new tangled oats, air ye
that'll prejuce four bushels to one OF
airy other kind?"
II have nothing to do with oats, as
sure you"
oval, this beats all I'll hef to try
an rig up a cot fer ye to sleep on, an |
guess I'll find room fer yer boss in the
cattle shed. But see hyar, stranger, l
want squar deal. Ye won't spring
airy patent revolving churn on us eff we
treat ye right, will ye?"
II don't know a churn from water
Wheel"
"Now, this is singular. Yeseem to bea
white man, an I guess I'll chuck ye in the
spare room an put yer boss in the barn
But want ye to look me squar in the
eye an say that ye haven't airy condition
powders to sell; ye don't want to flash
out airy setting sun stove polish, er
french blackin', er harness lie. Doye
promise?"
Certainly I do. I'm not an agent for
any sort OF trap. In fact I'm out here
trying to find and arrest a rascally
dealer In moving machines who swim
died lot of farmers in our neighbor-
hood"
Stranger, yell sleep in my bed ter
night, an me an the ole woman'll bunk
on the floor. Go in an tell her to fash
up the best grub she hez while I curry
an feed yer boss. NEBRASKA STATE
Journal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

SENATOR EyARTs rides to the Capt.
tol in one Of the long red herdic
coaches that pass within block or two
of his home The drivers all know the
Senator. and stop the coach as soon as
his shirt-collar heaves in sight. The
Senator then goes up the vehicle as far
as lac can get from the door, which
move, OF course, brings him near to the
ticket-box. In that position he plays
amateur conductor with much grace
and amiability-puts five coppers in
for the Irish ladies with large baskets.
asks "t hauge or tickets" of gentle
men who pass up silver dollars, and,
for'his own part, always prudently in
vests in tickets, instead of recklessly
putting five cents in the box.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

HALF century ago Capt. Jonathan
Greene was the most skillful gambler
in the United States. He is now a
resident of Philadelphia, and claims to
be the only man who was in the battle
of San Jacinto in 1886. Capt. Greene
renowned gambling forty-fve years
ago, wrote four books against that vice,
and now he asks for aims in consider
alton of his having refrained from Win
ming fortune at cards.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02
Printers ri.

Evangelist Ito editor)-I have called
upon you, my dear sir, because I am
interested in the workingman, es-
pecially printers, and have few cues
tions | would like to ask. Will YOU
tell me, first, what, in your opinion,
is the cause of SO many printers being
tramps?
Editor can and will. Did YOU
ever eat pie?
Ev.-Sir, this seems irrelevant.
Ed.-Not at all. Printers live on it:
and any printer whom pi won't make
tramp of has strong nerve. -CAi oqo
Ledger.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

winters of 1886 and 1887, and hundreds
of thousands of people have been
drawn thither to witness the. gorgeous
crystal carnival and participate in the
many exhilarating winter sports. The
grand central feature of these festivals
is, of course, the mammoth castle of
glittering ice. The palace of 1885 was
the largest of the kind ever builded in
the world up to that time, and it con-
tanned 10000 blocks of ice. The one
erected in January, 1887 was, however,
nearly twice as large, containing $4,000
blocks of transparent ice, and being
900 feet long, 200 feet wide, and 10
feet high 1t was wonderful combi-
nation of towers, turrets, battlenents,
balconies and outworks.
Astounding as was the achievement
of that year, the present ice palace far
outshines it in every detail It covers
about an acre of space, and reaches a
height of 140 feet. It's ground dimen-
sions are at least $50 feet square, and
$4,000 blocks of ice 22x32 inches and
about Is inches thick were used in it's
construction. The ice, which was taken
from placid lake north of the city,
would weigh 100000 pounds, and
if used in the building of wall six
feet high and eight inches thick would
reach fourteen miles!
The main entrance has a large arch
twenty feet in width and seventeen feet
in height, fanked by small circular
towers on either side sixty feet high.
The three other entrances have large
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

The Norwalk Record says that when
Gen. Sherman was invited to attend
the installation of Col. Anderson as
National Chaplain he declined, saying
with vehemence: "Just put yourself
In my place. Imagine yourself chased
up by crowd who stare at you and
holler at you, and then you can appre-
ciate the situation. l sometimes feel
as if I'd like to strangle some of these
Marching thro'- Georgia singers. You
see those fingers? Well, I've entirely
lost the use OF them shaking hands.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

QuITE novel contest was recently
decided at Bright. i'll Dearborn County,
Indiana. William Liddle, a merchant,
and Jesse Grim, a blacksmith of the
village, offered to wager $25 that they
could outpull any two horses in the
township. Steve Cook, a farmer, who
possessed fine team, and believed
they could outpull anything from a
porous plaster to a steam engine, ac-
cepted the bet, and, in the presence of
concoylrse Of neighbors and friends
Of the respective contestants, the trial
of strength was made. Liddle and
Grim lay flat on their backs, with their
feet firmly braced against an immova-
BILE structure arranged for the purpose,
aud with their heads pointing from the
horses, that were hitched distance of
forty feet away to piece of timber
held firmly in the hands of the pros
trate men. The test was to be settled
by the horses either pulling the timber
from the hands of the men or else
pulling them from the ground to their
feet, three trials and three minutes
steady pulling each trial the extent of
the contest The excited farmers and
villagers crowded around the parties to
witness this singular feat of strength
and endurance. The horses two differ
ent times were whipped into pulling
their best, but with distended muscles
and swelling veins that told of the ter
rife strain upon them the PROSTATE
men held the horses to their position.
At the third trial the excited farmer
lashed his horses to force them to their
utmost, when, by sudden jerk, the
timbers in the hands of the resisting
men, and to which the horses were
hitched, snapped in two pieces, the end
of one piece striking Grim in the side
as it broke, rendering him unconscious
for nearly an hour. He was supposed
to be dead, but finally recovered, and
is out OF all danger of serious results
from the blow.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

BERLIN will soon be the most brill
iantly illuminated city in Europe. The
electric light is being fitted all along
the Inter den Linden, and the Leip-
ziger strasse, which is upward OF mile
In length, is already Illuminated
throughout by electricity, which is to
he introduced into all the principal
streets and squares.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

In visits to nearly forty tribes OF
american Indians, DR.. J. S. Newberry
has found twenty-three kinds of native
vegetable products included in the In.
dian dietary. besides a great variety OF
nuts NJ and vegetables. - Arka1asaw
Trareler.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

PRESIDENT GEORGE B. ROBERTS, of
the Pennsylvania Railr DAD, is some
thing of novelty in the business
world. He is said to be very careful
to avoid anything that even looks like
profiting personally by the inside in
formation which his responsible Office
forces upon him. When it was pro-
posed to build the Schuylkill Valley
Branch of the Pennsylvania, MI. Rob
erts objected to having it pass through
his farm, lest it should be said that he
directed the selection of the right OF
way SO as to enhance the value of his
zeal estate.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

ONE of the rarest of wild animals, a
white deer, was killed a few days ago
near Snowshoe Mountain, Clinton
County, Pennsylvania, by Prothonotary
Mann, Of Sunbury. 1t was nearly
pure white, and one of the largest does
ever killed in the region. But three
white deer were ever killed before in
this part of the State Old hunters
generally believe in the backwoods' SUI
perstition that to kill a white deer fore
bodies evil to its slayer, and all who
have heard of Parliamentary Manns
deliberate defiance of the. superstition
are aghast at his temerity, and proph-
esy all sorts Of bad luck for him. He
will have the magnificent skin of the
animal stuffed aud mounted.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

warfare make it interesting to know
the total number Of animals which the
leading countries OF the world can
throw into the field OF battle. Here,
according to the latest statistics, is the
list: Russia, Il, $40, 900 horses; Amer
lea, $500, 900; the Argentine Repnb-
lie, 4,0O0,000: Austria, $500, 900; Ger
many, 3,350,Ooo; France, 2,s00,00O
horses and 100000 mules; England,
>, 100000 horses; Canada, 2.G24, 600;
Spain, $4,000 horses and 100000
mules; Italy, 100000 horses; Bel
GUM, $4,000; Denmark, $4,000;
Australia, 3O1, 900; Holland, 1875, 900;
and Portugal, $4,000 horses and So
600 mules. 1t will be remarked that
Russia heads the list by an enormous
majority.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

WHEN we are alone we have OIL
thoughts to watch, in our families gu
tempers, and in society our tongues.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

HE Oldest tombstone in the German
Empire ~ is one at Worms, which bears
the date A. D. 900.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02
REIGN OF THE ICE KING.
St, PauI's Midwinter Festival a Grand
Success from Every Point Of
View.
An Interesting Description Of
the Magnificent Ice
Palace.
The Entrance of King BOrealis-A
Magnificent Professionalism.
ins the Palace.

OVAL sport was the
order of the day in
st. Paul from Jan. %
to Feb. 4. It was the
season Of the mid
winter festival = the
Ice Palace Carnival. :
Two of these carni-
walls had previously
been held, in the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

THE important roles which cavalry
and artillery play in the art of modern
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

INTERESTS which blind some people.
enlighten Others:
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

ELDER WILLIS WARREN, noted
colored Baptist preacher Of Georgia, is
a remarkable man. He is very large,
fat, jolly, and bald. He cannot read
OF write, but he has gained complete
authority over thousands of his people
in Lee. Dougherty, and Baker counties.
Each of his followers is assessed 81 a
year, which is religiously paid, and
Papa Willis" income is very large.
He owns large plantation. which is
worked by members Of his congrega-
ton in turn without any expense to
him. He drives into Albany, Ca,
where he has recently built church,
seated in handsome carriage behind
housekeeping black horse. 1t is said
that he uses his great power with his
congregation for good and that his adj
vice to them is excellent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

A BUFFALO milkman wears nick ell
Scent piece as watch charm, and
gives this reason: "Over a year ago 1
took this nickel, which was then beau
tifully gold plated. as a So gold piece,
in payment of a bill. AS soon as de-
tected the fraud I took it back to the
woman who passed it on me, but she
refused to make it good. So I fastened
it to my watch chain and kept on sup
plying her with milk. But now every
day | make her quart one-fourth water,
and once week I credit her with one
fourth the amount of her milk bill.
When the sum total standing to her
credit is s4.95 she shall have pure milk
once more, and not until then. She
knows the milk is watered, but when
ever she shows an inclination to COM
plain handle the nickel and say that
my milk is as pure as gold. That
settles it..
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-03-02

A horseman dismounted before q
lonely dugout in Missouri, and con-
fronting the proprietor Of the place
asked for accommodations for the night.
The farmer surveyed him critically and