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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
Stage Notes.

AUSTRALIA has just got roller-skates,
and is so busy with them that the thea
ters suffer.
MISS ELLIE WILTON has accomplished
her laudable purpose of collecting
enough money to erect monument to
the memory of John T. Raymond.
MORE famous stars have graduated
from "Evangeline' than from any other
piece in American stage history.
Among them are Nat G.. Goodwin, w.
H. Crane, Georges. Knight, Henry E.
Dixey, and Richard Golden.
THE latest English writer on theaters
holds that theater should be ten feet
distant from other buildings, or at least
it should occupy corner location.
Exits should be provided on all sides,
and there should be windows in every
part of the house, both for ventilation
and safety.
ROBSON and Crane, who are probably
closer friends than any two actors on
the stage, are totally unlike. Robson
loves his books and pictures, and is q
hard student. Crane, on the other
hand, is fond Of base ball and the race
course, and is probably the more pop
ular actor. He is the drollest of men,
and his fund of anecdote is inexhaustible.
A THEATRICAL agent has kept list OF
companies that have stranded the past
season. They number sixty four, in
Guiding the Rice-Sweatnam minstrels.
OF these twelve We're companies with
stars, three in which two OF more stars
appeared, while the others were simply
plain troupes. Four resumed only to
fail again, like Jennie Yeamans and
Agnes Herdon. These companies have
given the courts over $50 cases for
breach of contract and salary.-Dra-
matte Times.
AMONG the professionals who will
spend their vacations abroad are Joseph
Brooks, Nat Goodwin, W. T. Carlton,
Creston Clarke, and Maud Granger.
Robert billiard and Robert Mantell
will be at Long Branch. Among a
host Of sojourners at the different water
ing places will be Edwin Booth, Maggie
Mitchell, Irene Nerona, J. w. Rosen-
quest, and Alexander Comstock, while
Annie Pixley will 60 to Yellowstone
Park and frankie Kemble to the White
Mountains.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
Pretty Homes of Acto,s.

A prettier home than John Webster's
and Nellie McHenry's, at the High
lands, cannot be found, while the hos
pitality Of Lolita at Hopatcong, and
Maggie Mitchell at Long Branch are
we'll known everywhere. J. K Emmett
has glorious time in Albany. Joseph
Jefferson at Buzzard's Bay, W. II.
Crane at Cohasset, Neil Burgess at the
Highlands, H. NJ. Pitt at Flushing, A.
NJ. Palmer at Stamford, Oliver Byron
at Pleasure Bay, Gus Pitou at Sleeps
head Bay, John Robb at Bath Beach,
and Fanny Davenport at Canton. Hun.
dreds of others own pretty homes, all
of which shows that theatrical people
are not behind in their enjoyment
Dramatic Neocs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
THE CAREFUL DRUMMER.

"Do you know that man over there?
asked one Detroiter of another on the
Lansing train the other day, says the
Free Press.
| NO."
well. he's drummer for Jeffer-
son avenue house, and I've known him
by sight for fifteen years. His en-
ployer told me the other day he hadn't
lost day for twelve years."
@He looks the picture of health.
$50 he does; but want to make o
bet with you. I'll bet you a silk
hat he carries remedies with him for
no less than six different ailments.
"Ill do It'll"
They went over and the case was ex-
planned to the drummer, who laughed
and replied:
*Well, dunno. carry some tro-
ches to avoid hoarseness. 1 carry a
bottle of cough medicine to ward off
pneumonia. ] have porous plaster
in my grip to put on If get lame
back. / have some corn salve, bottle
of Jamaica ginger, some quinine cap
sules, phial Of peppermint essence,
a box of mandrake pills, liver
medicine, gargle for sore throat, and
a."
"Good lands!" cried both gentlemen,
in chorus.
ooh, we'll, what did you expect?"
he inquired, with an injured air. IA
man on 81, 200 year can't carry around
Q whole drug store, can he?"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
4 USEFUL AGENT.


A well-known company in town sent
an agent down there to drum up bust
ness and he collected about $1,000,
which he promptly put into a poker
game. It followed the regular course.
He did not pay it in to the company,
and the affairs got much mixed up.
They sent another man down who set
tied up everything, squared off the
company down there, and put things
generally straight. Having done this,
and having little money Of his own,
he dropped into the same poker game
in which his predecessor had lost his
coin. He won. He kept winning and
luck was evidently quite in his favor.
He stood $500 ahead, when an old gam
bier, who was one OF the players, looked
up and said:
"Say, that company'sa good compa-
ny. cts got pluck, and I'll give it my
business"
"Thank you, you're kind"
eyes, I've known companies as got
let in for money lost by their men at
poker, but, - me, this is the first
company as I ever knew as sent man
down to win it back. San Francisco
CLyO12ic7e
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
THERE Bald MEN xUCCErn

20, Fergy you are getting bald" re-
marked Mrs. Montgomery in her sweet.
lmpulsive way, as she ran her hands
through her husbands hair.
Ugh, know it, grunted Mr.. Mont
gomery. Been married some time.
you KNOW" he added with feeble grin.
Mrs Montgomery eyed him for a
minute suspiciously. Then her express
sion changed to one of sweet and ch;ld.
like innocence.
But never mind, dear. I've noticed
that baldheaded men are usually sue
cessful.'
'You have, eh?"
Yes, they always get to the front
when there is ballet in the play."
Then Mr.. Montgomery made a mild
search through his pockets to see If a
note ne had received last week VIVA
% 'ss'ng' Indianapolis Journal
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
Il PM<SlinO Question.

Will some kind friend inform the
Republican why it is that all the peo-
pie who 60 to theaters don't some time,
by accident, take it into their heads to
60 on the same night? Why is it that
in the course Of week it often happen
that the house is just evenly filled every
night? Why is it that the receipts for
a whole week do not vary more than $40
or $12, and seldom more than $50 on a
night? In city like New York or
London a piece often has run of six
months or year, with full houses all
the time, but very few, if any, turned
away. How is it that audiences of Just
such particular size will distribute
themselves over such large period
What lew is it that regulates the attends
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
THE INDIAN LEO.

AS everywhere else in India, they
have scarcely any calf to the leg. I
suppose that has ever been the charac-
teristic of these people, for the images
of the gods in the laws of Elephantas,
executed several thousand years ago,
have the same deficiency. In an old
image the leg tapers from the thigh to
the ankle. The African has high
calf and long shank; the European q
well-developed calf and short shank.
With these people the shank may be
said to run up to the knee. The Jap
anese have calves remarkably devel-
oped. These people were evidently in
tended by their Creator to sit as we'll
as stand upon their legs. They did it
in Buddhas time. His Oldest images
represent him as sitting, with the soles
of his feet turned almost upward In
dams can sleep thus for hours. We
had fat, high-caste native officer for q
fellow-passenger for several hours. He
had room to lie down, but instead of
doing so he gathered his legs under
him and slept for several hours. 1t is
very convenient. If were believer
IN transmigration I would pray that after
my next birth [ be so trained that I
may thus rest myself. When these ma
tive people come to stop they squat
down as instinctively as does dog. It
is amusing to see crowd enter a sta
ton and await train. Every one at
once squats on his launches and takes
his ease. 1t is great saving of chair
legs, and this is decided convenience
In this water-saturated atmosphere.
where chairs have q constant tumble
down habit. -Carter II. Hurrison's
letters from India.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06

tain ard crew below they have broken
the windows of the cabin by plunging
in swalms against them, and have at
tempted to burst in the doors. Although
this may be something Of an exaggera-
ton, it is nevertheless true that fire.
quently horses and cattle, after the most
frightful sutferings, have died from
mosquito bites on board the vessels
PAi1uGe{phi0 Times.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
CHINESE sUPERSI,171ONs.

yzo,, Earth SHIRTS fire Propittate6 ana
Demons Dricen -4tcdy.
rPopular Science Monthly.l
The superstitious beliefs and observ-
,nces If the Chinese are numberless,
and they occupy more or less the time
and mind of every individual in the ma
ton. Those here recorded are COM
mon among the people near Swatow.
am unable to say how many OF them
are purely local.
When child is just one month old,
the mother, carrying it in scarf on
her back, induces it to look down into
we'll. This is supposed to have
mentally invigorating effect, producing
courage and deepening the understand
ing.
A mother feeds her young infant
from a cup rather than from bowl or
plate, because bowl, being capacious,
has an occult influence in making the
child large eater; while plate. be-
ing shallow, causes him to throw up
bis food on slight provocation. The
cup, being small and deep, insures his
taking but little food, and keeping it
for assimilation.
When the child becomes ill the
mother gathers thorns from twelve
species of plants and makes an infusion
in which she washes the child, hoping
TO wash the disease, with the demon
that produces it, into the water. She
then carries the water to an open space
where many go to and fro, and there
throws it upon the ground. As she
goes from her own house the inhabit-
ants of the streets she traverses, shut
their doors, to prevent the disease from
entering their abodes. A woman of
my acquaintance recently told me that,
having no fear of demons, she did not
shut her door when q neighbor
passed her house carrying water in
which child having fever and ague
had just been washed, and the very
next day she herself had chills!
If child falls from high place to
the ground spirit money is Immediately
burned upon the spot by the mother,
to propitiate the demon who is trying
to pull the child down to destruction.
When child has fallen there is dam
ger that he may have left his twelve
wits in the earth on which he fell, so
the mother at once makes with her
empty hand the motion of dipping from
the ground to the child's chest Thus
she replaces in the child what might
otherwise be permanently lost in the
soil. If man fall into a cesspool or
we'll a long-handled dipper is used to
dip out and restore to his bosom his
scattered senses; then three sheets of
spirit-money are thrown burning into
the we'll, and o heavy stone is cast after
it.
1t is unlucky to leave much hair on a
boys head when he is old enough to
wear queue; therefore the head
should be shaved so as to leave but a
small patch on the crown. Abundant
hair is symbolic of a burden on the
head, and heavy queue may soon
bring the care of family upon the boy
through the death of his father.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
CASTING 4 FACE.

The person whose face is to
taken" is placed fat upon his O1
his hair smoothel back by pomatun1
prevent it covering any part Of the
and conical piece Of paper, Or as''1
or a quill put in each nostril to lF'|
through. The eyes and month
then closed, and the entire face J
pletely covered with salad OIL |
plaster, mixed to the proper COM
gency, is then poured in large s19
fuls to the thickness of one'QuaT'e'
one-half inch. In q few minutes
can be taken off as if it were Y
When cast of the entire head d
the whole human figure is relo'1
either cast Of the face is added \
mass Of clay which is to be modesp
the required figure, orthe whole w
is modelled from drawings preparsu]
that purpose. This is the work "
sculptor. /,
When the clay model is fnlsDsa
mould is made from il as in the 'V'1
cases. If the model he bust y
ridge of clay is laid along the VI
from the head to the base, ape
front is first completed up to 'ne y
by filling up the depression ~, A
three inches deep. The ridge u h
is now removed, the edges OF 1ns n n
ter are oiled, and the other nan '''I
in similar way. The two hal' IT, !
likewise tied together with cofu .,a
the plaster is poured in. ID wi
Gated figures. say "Laoco ~, c,j
statue is oiled and covered Will
tine, which is cut off in sec',V' !.
means of q thin. sharp knife, eacp !, r
serving as a mould for its own 20
the new statue. Jour7aa"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
Iom-From Paris. Maine.
7IME-TlBLE CLAssIFIC4rIOy,

Mr.. Baskingridge?" said the ticket
agent at the suburban station; 90, yes.
he's perfect gentleman-goes to town
on the S:37 train every day. 1 don't
think he's been on the 7:19 once this
winter; and as for the 6:50-why, he'd
as soon steal chickens as to go on the
:50!"-Pucl..
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
HEn ONE CONSOLaTIOy.

Aunt Dinah-Ef I wa yo', Pomp, I'd
try git job O. whitewashin'.
Pompey-Yo' JUS understan', Missus
Dinah, dat Use changed my perfesshun.
Use done come out as labor re-
former.
Dinah-Den all Use got ter say, Mis-
ter Pompey, is dat it's mighty lucky
dat owns wash-tub.-Puch.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06

TIE grave of Gen. William r.;
Harrison, ninth President OF tn1 ~,
States, is on q beautiful nstara, y.
near his old residence at Nof'n =,
on the banks of the Ohio, ttteep =,
below Cincinnati NO ho 80
marks the spot, and the grave ~ :
has remained neglected.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
RAINFALL ON rae

hA1NFAAA ON TIRE PLAN,
Wheat growers and otha
classes of citizens have besn
interested in the repeated stst
made in the last few years, that I'm u
nual rainfall between the M;ss;l
River and the Rocky Monn.sa'ss
slowl y increasing. The fact. Ha
fact, has great agricultural imn - u
The testimony offered in proof
however, has, until recentlv w..
satisfactory, and has fallen ss ea|
demonstration. Something m 'n.'
elusive is now added by Mark W
rington, editor of the .Amey;co w.
geological Journal, in a recan.
Der of that publication.
If a chart be constructed ~
lines are drawn through places
the same annual rainfall, thesa %
in the region under cousideratio,
be found to run nearly parallel vA'
one along which the precip;t,x]
forty inches passes near Moptra ,sa
bany, the southern shore of the
lakes. Northwestern Iowa. md
southwark to the Texas coast
1ndianola The line for thirtv n
runs near St. Paul, MINI, th,1
Eastern Nebraska, and Central K,l
and Texas. The twenty inches
along q line starting in Northern NJ
sofa, curving out beyond Bism1
and then aiming nearly straight fo]
upper Rio Grande. At Chevenn1
rainfall is about eleven inches
Harrington has made compar;soI
tween the position of these twona]
thirty years apart, and finds a
tinct westward movement in Soma
tions of them. He uses Blodcetp,
Denlson's data Lorin Blodgetf,
lation of rainfall statistics for
United States, which came out in i
though now out of date, is a voI
recognized value and covers nerd
several years. Harrington, in nal
an average from these figures, I'll
they may be said fairly to repre-
the situation of 1850. Denison
Denver physician who las vri
extensively on climate, from sapi
point of view, and has employed in
pairing his tables the Signal.servic(
ports of o term of years, ending
1883 and averaging about 1850.
method employed by Mr.. Harm,
and the character of the work dom
the authors whom he cites justify d
confidence in the results attained i
inquiry.
1t appears from this comparison
in the extreme northern part Of Mi
sofa the lines of equal rainfall
receded eastward slightly. A I
trifing movement, in the same d
ton, occurs in Southern Texas.
where there has been progress to-
the mountains, the most marked Chi
being between latitude 40 and As
grees. Thus the twenty-fve-inch
has moved from the neighborhoo
st Paul, out into Dakota, being
placed by the thirty.inch line.
Southern Dakota the twentv-inch
has advanced from the vicinity Of
ron toward Fort Bennett, upward Of
miles, and is succeeded by the TIVE
five-inch line. In Iowa and Mime
the movement is equivalent to al
five miles year in thirty years
Nebraska and Kansas slightly
Without entering into any detailed
plantations of the phenomenon
Harrington observes that the incre'
rainfall occurs along the line Of lar
immigration to the plains; and as
invasion is still going on, on an e
nous scale, it is hardly safe to
clude that the attendant meterolog
change will not continue even furt
-NelU IOrl. TY.iI7i11s.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
THOUGH1FUL no THE LIST.

Minister Ito sick man)-You realize,
my dear brother, that YOU must die?
Sick Man-Yes, and I shall die with
perfect resignation; but please don't
mention that to my wife.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06

New YORK epicureans are paying
$1.25 per pound for mushrooms. 1t is
the price which helps to make some
food palatable.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
LIN INTRODUCTION.

Tom-Dick, want you to know Mr..
Lunkers, from Paris
Dick-Proud to know you, Mr..
Lunkers. Waiter, open a bottle OF
yellow label.
Tom-From Paris, Maine.
waiter, make that or
der three red-eye whiskies with pepper.
-Jud1e.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
FEW MEN HAVE ONE,

A prohibitory .constitution-one that
can't stand anything stronger than
water.-Burlington Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06

A CIRCULAR fan unto which sweet
scented grass is bound by tiny ribbons
watts perfumed breezes upon beauty IS
cheek.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06

The difference between love and the
other kind of heart disease is that the
other kind of heart disease is generally
fatal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-07-06
CANADA, besides her Good fishing

waters, has the heaviest locomotive IN
the world. It weighs 1OO, 600 pounds.
Connecticut western news., 1888-03-21
AT WASHINGTON.
Some Matters of Moment Brought
 Up at the Capital.

Representative La Toilette, of Wisconsin, says there seems to be & Wide mlsunderstand- ing of the nature of his bill amending the law relative to the weight of mail packages. Sec- tion 3,S78 of the Revised Statutes now pro- vides, ''No package weighing more than four pounds shalt be received for conveyance by mail except books published or circulated by order of Congress" Mir. La Follette's bill pro- poses to raise this limit from four pounds to eight. This section of the Revised Statutes does not affect newspapers and periodicals that go as second-class matter. on which there is no restriction as to weight. Mir. La Follette's bill would allow packages of merchandise weighing as high as eight pounds to go in the malls, whereas under the present law no pack age weighing in excess of four pounds is mail able.
 large force of clerks is at work in the Treasury Department preparing the data for 8 reply to the Senate resolution relative to frauds in connection with the importation of sugar at the port of New York. On the 1st inst. the Senate passed a resolution directing Secretary Fairchild to transmit the reports which have been made by special agents other Treasury officials touching on frauds and evasions of duacs on imports of sugar within the past two years, and also relative to any maladministra- ton on this subject in the Custom House. The Secretary to-day informed the Senate that the reports are so exceedingly voluminous that several weeks will be occupied in copying them They will then be sent to the Senate.
 Senator Piatt reported the bill for the ad- mission of North Dakota. The report says that the area of the proposed new State is 47, 900 square miles, principally composed of roli- ing prairie land capable of supporting large population. The present population exceeds 2OO, ,OOO, and Is said to be more numerous than that of any State ever organized from the public domain. The inhabitants are emigrants from every State in the Union.
 Senator Stewart reported the bill for the admission of Washington Territory. It pro- vides that the boundaries of the proposed State shall include, besides the present Terri tory of Washington, what is known as the Pan Handle of Idaho-the annexation of the Pan Handle, however, to be subject to vote in favor thereof by the the people of the district proposed to be annexed.
 bill to provide method for the settlement by arbitration of controversies between inter- State railroads and their employees was intro- duced by Senator Blair. It is the bill passed by the last Congress, but which failed to re- ceiye the signature of the President. A new section is added which makes it unlawful for employees to strike until after the railroad has 1etled foa ays days te ecupay with . txqueat
Connecticut western news., 1888-03-21
RAILROAD SLAUGHTER.
Thirty Persons Dead and Others
 Likely to Die.

JACKSONVILLE, March 1S.-A terrible acci- dent occurred to the fast Cuban mail train near Blackshear yesterday, caused by broken rail under the baggage car. The baggage car got of the track about quarter of mil be- fore it reached the bridge at Hurricane River. The train passed safely over the bridge. Im- mediately on the other side there Is trestle several hundred feet in length. When the baggage Car struck this trestle work 1t gave way, and the entire train, with the exception of the engine, dropped through. The train consisted of 8 combination car, three baggage cars, smoking car, one coach, two Pullman sleepers, and private car of the Lehigh Val ley Railroad. This private car, which was the only one not broken to pieces, was occupied by President Wilbur of the Iehigh road, his fam ily and friends, who survived the shock.
 When the engine reached the bridge over Hurricane Creek, which is thirty feet high an1 $50 feet in length, a speed of over forty miles per hour was being made. When it struck the trestle the front axle of the baggage car broke down, and that car, followed by the balance of the train. jumped the track, knock ing the trestle down, and the whole fell into the creek. The engine and tender tore loose
 and reached the other shore safely. In the creek there was only three or four feet of wa ter. The Pullman took fire, but 1t was ey- tiDguished before any damage was done. The only part of the train that did not leave the track was the engine. The truck under the baggage car broke fully quarter of mile be- fore the tr ,ln reached the bridge. The trestle IS about 800 feet in length, and this includes 400 feet at the west end. the tender and engine lodging against the abutment. The baggage car left the track on the trestle which accounts for the accident. The ties show where the trucks cut deep into them. It was this car that careened the rear cars, and by it's strain dragged the tender down, the engine having safely crossed over. Had it not been for the presence of mind of engineer Richard Welch much more horrible fate would have been in store for the wounded. Hurriedly despatch ine the sneina with fireman to Blackshear, NY dn n tao Nxeck and, with the assist