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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03
EMMY Words.

A member of the Irish House of
Commons. who was a fluent but vapid
talker, was making an interminable
speech against bill which Curran de-
Tended. The Speaker at last reminded
him that his time had expired.
"Time, MI. Speaker!" exclaimed
Curran. "He has long since done with
time. He is now trenching on
eternity"
John Randolph of Roanoke gave a
still more biting rebuke to wordy
speaker. A young man newly elected
to Congress, ambitious OF distinction,
attacked the great Nirginian in a
speach Of two hours length, which he
emphasized by an incessant, ludicrous
tossing Of both his arms heavenward.
| When he at last ended the House
turned eagerly to Randolph, to hear
how he would answer the attack He
rose, stood silent and motionless for q
minute, then, with a profound gravity,
repeated the absurd gesture Of his OPP
ponent, bowed, and sat down, imply
ing that there was nothing else in the
speech worth reply.
The House broke into deafening
peals of laughter, and the young man
was annihilated.
The man who talks much has been
the butt for the ridicule OF every nation
since the days of Euripides. III pa''le
6eaatcoalo, mails IL ne dit ric7et" Che
speaks much. but says nothing) sneers
the witty Frenchman. In the Spanish
legend the garrulous man has no soul
to last after death; he turns into wind,
and is happy in making, throughout
eternity, a noise which nobody can
answer.
The Arab proverb compares men
who talk much to mills. sWe hear
their perpetual clatter, but they give
us no flour"
In every language there is word to
describe the insigni6cance and worth
lessness of the blabber.
However, there is room to doubt
whether this universal verdict against
MI Talkative is always Just.
Boys and girls who have been IN
wisely made the constant center of at
traction in their childhood by their
families are apt to acquire the habit of
incessant chatter, which remains with
them even after friction with the world
hos subdued their self-conceit, and
taught them common sense.
Men of a lively fancy, too, are apt
to exaggerate trihes, and give them a
wordy prominence in their talk.
Garrulity, in word, is a bad habit
as often as it is sign of weak brain
but it is habit which almost inva.
riably damages it's possessor in the
opinion of others.-YoutNs Compa1-
| IOU
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

cap of feathers, with the head and tb,I
bealS of bird in front, eight it'll
drop-latch pieces of feather work da]
pending from belt Chat was sl5irts1
q piece Of feather stuff setting up I'LL
a hustle and life-like tail bristhn,1
from it, four little wings to attach II
the shoulder blades and ankles thar1
we were. He had eight varieties. Al
vowed that with heshing, which ,
the name for silk stockinette corse1
cover, and pair of tights, they wou]I
he the sensation costumes Of the conf
ing balls. There were the robin red
breast. the wren, the blue jay, the ori]
ole. the canary. the cardinal, and
the dove. Sweet bird of peace
it is not often your feathers enfold tn
thing YOU are going in for this winter
This costumer says, for the FrencA
Carnival ball, some time in February
he is to furnish seven young and Lowell
GIRLS with their borrowed plumes, and
they 90 as an aviary. Another part]
of ten he is to get up after celebrated
bits of statuary. They will be sod
of animated art gallery and will proba
blv be raided by Comstock.
In the stores one will find speciJ
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03
Russian Weddings.

According to old Russian rule, the
bridegroom makes his bride a present
Of wedding costume, as we'll as of
iewelry. The dowtS Of a Russian maiden
will consist OF a full wardrobe, house
hold utensils, silver articles, carpets,
curtains, china, furniture. and piano.
The latter is indispensable. Every
thing must be Of solid silver. Should
a young wife die without leaving any
children behind, her dowry can be law
fully claimed by her parents. Some
tunes young ladies form parties to help
the intended bride make her clothes.
The month of May is supposed to be an
unlucky month for marrying The name
Of the month resembles in sound the
Russian verb Ito worry;;" hence, in
part, the superstition. On the eve
of the wedding day sometimes "fare-
we'll girls party" is given. No gentle
men attend this. All those present
must be from the unmarried. They
sing choruses, chase each other in the
garden. and romp to their hearts con-
tent. They devour any amount of tea,
ice cream, lemonade and sweetmeats.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

done; but there are no combinations
so rich and beautiful as the shades of
leliotrope, varying from the pale Law
ender to the deepest purple that ever
glowed in the heart of a pansy. An
other feature Of the Charity was the
number of hand-painted costumes.
wealth have taken up the idea OF wear
ng rich satin, once plain. With the
addition of lace, it does duty on an
other occasion, and then decorated by
hand painting, it comes to the front
brilliant success from an extended
career of usefulness. A little Grip
pied creature named Foster, who
never did and never will walk, began
to paint dresses some years ago. She
will take plain satin gown and deity
make it radiant with blossoms, and al
most vocal with birds. Several cos
tunes were made tine by painted pet
ticoats, and one dress of rich cream
white satin was painted six inches
deep about the train, up the front and
on the waist with large blue pansies--
not the Haunting yellow and purple
things-but dewy, tender, shrinking
blossoms huddled together, the very
perfection of flowers perfectly painted.
Some one who seemed to know said
the lady wearing it paid Frenchman
in Brooklyn $3.50 for the painting.
None too much. 1t was the loveliest
flower painting on satin ever seen.
Young girls wore simpler costumes,
! such as the one here sketched, as she
danced at the head of cotlllion with a
bearded partner. Two other ball cos
tunes are accurately shown in the
ensuing pictures, precisely as they were
worn on that occasion.
There have been one or two intro
ductory dances of fancy character in
New York, notably one called the
Cercle lAmite, which tried as hard as
ever it could to be naughty. But ii
you have ever noticed, it is as unsuc-
cessful to try to be wicked as it often
is to be good.
However, the bald-headed man and
the adolescent cad need not despair.
There's the French ball, and several
awful symposiums called Prospect
balls will be as bad as the worst can
wish. But there are reputable mas
querades in New York. Already the
costumers have laid in character dresses
that show the way the season will 90.
Mythology has been ransacked. Al
the deities on Mount Olympus are to
represented in undress uniform. One
man exhibited dozen boxes, some
what larger than cigar boxes.
"What are these?" asked the visitor
Costumes.
an the name of decency what sort
of costumes?"
Different birds"
Then he went on to display tin.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03
stretch between hin and the lobster

stretch between him and the lobster
grounds.
"Pm good for it, though" exclaimed
the Young paddler, but not so conf
IDENTIFY as at first. Suddenly, without
the least warning as il seemed to him,
in the most unceremonious way, his
boat began to tip.
Il have hit something!" he said. he
rose in his boat as il to ward Off TINS
invader. The boat struck the interior
ing object a second time. Ted man
tanned his standing with extreme diff
Guilty for q single moment, and then
ceased to maintain it at all. '0ver INTO
the water he went. Down, down, he
sank!
Oh, with what swiftness did his mind
run back over the past, like one look
ing over landscape for the last time,
and looking as rapidly and intently as
possible that everything might be taken
| in and held. He thought Of those at
home. He saw them all, saw them at
their work, saw them at the hour TOR
morning worship, saw himself kneel-
ING in their midst. How he wished he
had manifested a larger respect Tor
those moments of reverent stiffness
about him but irreverent Impotence
within. He now came up to the sur,
face of the water, hit something and
clung to it. This was the punt which.
| if it could not maintain its balance, re-
fused to sink.
"Sam! Sam! Sam"
In these hurried, frenzied appeals.
his voice echoed over the waters. Sam
rushed to the rivers edge, showed OIL
in boat often tried and always safe,
rowed to the struggling, clinging Ted
and rescued him,
"There!" said Sam, as they reached
the shore again, Don't trouble that
punt again."
Oil won't Sam"
There was short period OF silence.
Sam began again. :,
a must say, Ted, you did cling we'll
to that punt" :,
"Weli, Sam, I will tell you how it
was, and-I-l shan't think in the flu
ture as L have-have-thought.'
"Why, how SOP"
We'll, out therein the-water what
do you-suppose 1 heard?"
81 can't say"
Il heard = father praying, &c
pleased, 0 Lord, to keep us-this
day-from harm and danger Yes,
Sam, and ] said-to myself father
doesn't pray ~ for nothing know,
and how-it helped-me-cling.
shan't-f eel-again, I don't-think,-
as l did this-morning at-prayer-
time. "-The Interior.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

AiiplIsIICss
The American beauty roses are VoI
$50 dozen.
BLACK shoes and black hosiery
worn with dinner costumes.
PLAIN heavy gold bands are fashlS
able as engagement rings.
WITH a red-fox robe and a blue'l
wrap a carriage costume is beyo
cavil.
VESTS, bretelles, collars and cuts
white MORE are put on black and G
ored silks.
Many light-colored kid gloV
stitched IN white are seen at afternV
receptions.
The "Dalmatia skirt" is the ma
, given the adjustable petticoat TO wy
a train may be attached.
NECKLACES of broad ribbon ore
OF the kind contrivances of fashion
hiding a cordy, bony neck.
A CHAMPAGNE bottle of gold bae]
by stirrup Of platinum is an a''|
tive design for a scarf pin.
Tiny cups of she!l-like china
cafe noir have a single rose
bottom. Excepting the tint and
Of gold about the brim, no other
GRAFTON is used.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

inducement to buy plain silk stocking
in solid colors, since fancy hosiery
more fashionable. A tip to fair shopl
pers is to replenish their stock wit
splendid stockings at the smallest out
lay. Almost every lady can embroidei
and nothing is more becoming than
embroidered stocking. The plain
solid-color, sewing-silk article can
got at reasonable prices. SO can knit
ting silk that washes like white cotton
A few spools OF this, and several pair
of stockings can be transformed into
stock OF hosiery, looking dollars wheI
they cost dimes. You want to cut
pasteboard just the size of the desire,
stocking. Double your measuring tap
and cut your pasteboard just hal|
the number OF inches; slip this into thI
stockings and embroider upon it. Th|
pattern must go all around the leg, anI
to have a good effect the pattern Shout
be graduated i'll size and reach just Y
the calf, the pattern being smalle}
on the instep and round the ankle, and
letting itself out as it ascends. Tvl
shades of green, two of rose, FEY
stitches in one direction of the darke]
green, and in the other Of the lightes3
! fill up the space between with the tV
rose shades, the deepest at the bottom
then you have pretty bud. Coul|
off the rows between. and at regna|
intervals put q dotof chalk, on blac|
Or dark stocking. Then buds an ind
or two apart and graduated as til
stocking swells are very pertty. On |
blue stocking, two rings interlocke1
the one of darker blue, the other !
lighter blue than the stocking, LODI
very we'll. Graduated dots in gradd
ated shades make a snowy stocking.
Speaking OF stockings naturally lead
to carriers. Almost every very fashlo1
able girl and woman possesses a pard
gold clasps just now. Some OF thed
are set with stones that make then
very valuable, and in almost every Gag
some sentimental inscription is ed
graved on them. At the close OF n
cent concert there was found big
elastic with handsome gold clasp /
horseshoe shape. Inside it were tlI
words "Dickey;s Punkey." How tOuc1
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03
A Palatable Ola Podrida Prepared
Specially for Our Fair
Readers
Fashions in Dress, Notes on Housekeep-
ing Affairs, and Other Topics
of Interest.

This is a lovely woman made loveller
by her house robes. Let us under
stand it. The long clinging draperies
are crepe de chine. The skirt is
original in the coloring, having en-
broideries of dark silk and passe-
menterie. on q groundwork OF pale
blue satin. Round the bottom is q
large ruche of soft white ostrich feath-
ers. the same trimming being repeated
around the neck, and falling down one
side of the white Grape de chine train,
which is lined throughout with pale
blue. On the left side is great
bunch of green, white, and pale blue
ribbons. tied in a careless bow, and
falling almost to the skirt.
The writer was in New York at the
time of the Charity and two other
famous annual balls, and nothing can
be more instructive and interesting to
our ladies than to tell them OF the dress
ing on those occasions. At the Char
ity the costumes were not in all cas- es
rich and elaborate, for You may take
one of the old knickerbocker arlstoc-
racy, and she will wear a shabby black
silk, with little good lace, or black
alpaca, with diamond brooch. and
think she is dressed to death. 1t IS the
new blooded swell who goes in for ma
terial at S25 yard, and jewels and
trimmings to match. We have heard
good deal of the decadence OF hello
trope, but that color was prominent.
AS many as hundred women wore it.
Certainly twenty of the handsomest
costumes we're OF this so-called un'
fashionable hue. Heliotrope, like
crushed strawberry, had q mania il
this city at one time, and with the
usual result that the thing was over
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, is a lively
and enterprlsing city of 10000 inhabit-
ants. It is situated near the crater of
81 large extinct volcano. which, accord
iug to scientists, may resume active
operations at any moment. The AucN-
iasders, however, are not terrified at
the prospect, and, i'll fact, are going to
cement the bottom of the crater aud
use it as reservoir for their water
sap1slv.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

Tbs Chinese Government has Just
appointed Henry Merrill Chief Com
missioner OF Customs at Corea. at a
salary of $4,000. Henry is Yer
mont boy. and was born and raised at
DuDtnerston.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03
TIE LITTLE FOLKS.


Oh. merrilv now, my deary.
Willie Wisp through the marsh doth fit,
And he holdeth his little lantern,
Lest he TAIL i'll & wayside pit
He sleeps 'lnorsst the tnll blue lilies,
Willie Wsp i'll the marsh all day,
But ut night lie liShtetl his lantern,
And uiicketh ont 90 play.
Through the fields, with their golden torches,
The tirehes come in IL troop;
Low over the trees is sailing
The moon like silver sloop.
Yes. the ilreiiies como with their torches;
And now through tie bearded grass
The slowworlns bring their yellow lamps,
That the fairies may see to pass.
The fairies were ferried from elf-land
In a boat on silver wire,
And they France thro the fields on their milk
white StecdS,
A-strikinc out diamond fire.
Now leave your supper, my deary,
And come with :. langh n1id IL shout
l will plead with Your gentle mother
hat for once she will letyou out
Como bither. my clear-eyGd lnssie;
You will find in the meadow. maybe,
4 fairy ring, though never glimpse
Will there come of 1t to me.
You MAY SEQ the dance OF the 1alfies,
Though to it he blind; ~
You may hear them call to their miik-whit
steeas,
And their silver bugles wind;
You may see the moon like asilverNwheel
Roll over the road oil blue:
You may see the ti.oon like Il silver slcop
In IL Mayeless ocean, too.
But look in your childhood, denry,
Or your heart may grow so old
That Won cannot see the fairies danes,
Or the giowworius lamps OF gold.
And YOU so low for wisdom
III after years may stoop;
You will sec the moon lake !, barren globe,
But never silver sloop.
Jumpers omtg People.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

JoHS GREENLEAF WHIrrlER's eighth
eth birthday. it is pleasant to learn.
was celebrated not in New England
AIones but in many other parts Of the
country. Observing the anniversary
of the birth OF poet is Il custom that
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

L. @. C. LAMAR says that Franklin's
autobiography was the first book put
IN his hands 10y his mother after he
mad passed the age of toy books. He
was a delicate boy, but worked with
the others on his fathers plantation,
where he learned to pillow and plant
and dig garden, and even to shoe a
horse
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

NioLrKE is reported to have said re-
Gently; An my youth it was predicted
I should take part in three great wars.
4 have taken part in two. When may
we expect The third?
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

PROF. ROCKINGHAM of Princeton.
who has recently returned from Italy,
has brought with him an extensive col
1ectisn Of casts and Of Babylonian and
.AssKrian seals and cylinders. Besides
these he brought valuable collection
of antique vases from Etruria, illus
trating Etruscan archaeology from the
archaic to the Roman period. This
collection. which is most complete his
aoricaily. and comprises about two
hundred specimens, came from exca-
7sations made at Civita Castellana, near
Rome. While in Germany Prof. Froth-
ingham procured several wood-carvings
of the fifteenth and sixteenth centu-
.ies, carved casket of ivory and
ebony of Gothic workmanship, and a
manuscript of the fourteenth century
with fuli-page illustrations.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

LAHsUcHEEE says: The illness OF the
German Crown Prince has been attrib-
,steJ to the fact that he rarely has his
1,ise out of his mouth; and no doubt
his case is being hourly quoted as a
warning against the evils of tobacco.
AS master OF fact the Grown
Prince never smokes pipe except
when he is campaigning, and then two
pipes day have been his usual allow
znce. As rule, he smokes three mild
cigars dag, OF few cigarettes. Few
Germans are such moderate smokers
as the Grown Prince has alwa VS. been.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

pR. Sne1ENHRL1N, Of Berlin, has III
noculated dogs with the newly discov-
cred bacillus OF cancer. So far no cam
Ger has been developed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

The amount of gold actually in cir
culation in England is estimated to be
FL 1000 sterling, or about S65 tons.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

Miss ANNA T. DICKINSON, who has
been i'll for nearly year, is slowly i'm
proving, and will shortly leave her
home at Honesdale, Pa. for Florida,
where size will winter Miss Dickin-
SONS Illness is due wholly to overwork
and worry, and her physicians prescribe
long rest as the surest cure. She
will go South accompanied by friend,
while her faithful sister, Susan d.
Dickinson, will remain to care for the
aged mother, now also an invalid. Miss
Dickinson expects to undertake pen
work as soon as she returns in the
spring
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03
Fashion FripDeries.

ing! "Dickey's Punkey" never appl
for it and never will.-Chic0go Ledg
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

A s'rTpENr at Brussels, Belgium. was
imprisoned for having stolen overcoats
from restaurants. He used to sit down
En- place and ask the waiter with whom
he settled his bill to hand him GER
tain overcoat hanging against the wall,
which he would put on with the help
of the waiter. In most cases the pro-
prietor OF the stolen garment did not
miss it until good while later, when
the thief was safe from detection. The
other evening, however, the overcoat
taken was missed Immediately after the
theft, when the waiter who served the
thief was still able to give descrip-
len OF him. By that description the
s4an was arrested the day following.
He is also accused now of having stolen
aseeks from che royal library.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

THEs:H IS a curious we'll of water at
tile kelly place, near Taylor Gasilin's,
IN Williamsburg County, South Caro-
dina. The we'll is about twenty feet
deer. and the water on one side OF it is
all fine time bubbling up like water
when it is boiling. On the opposite
side Of The we'll the water is in con-
slant state Of agitation. sizing and
popping as though it was confined in a
not vessel. The noise can be heard
some distance from the we'll. The
water is cold and fue for use. This
phenomenon has been going on for
some time.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

PRoFs. TRowDRIDGE and Hutchins,
of Harvard College, report that extern.
sive and careful researches tend to dis.
prove the view that oxygen exists in
any part of the sun
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03

4 LARGE Baltimore manufacturer
wishes he had found out who Senator
Cllllom was before he began denounc
ing the interstate commerce law, writes
Washington correspondent. The
manufacturer in question is interested
in having some Improvements made in
the channel Of the Potomac, along
which he and other capitalists have re-
Gently established a steel mill. The
Senate Commerce Committee was in
yited down the river to look over the
improvements needed. The committee
happens to include in it's members Sen
ator Cullom and two other members,
German and Harris. of the Senate
committee which is responsible for the
interstate commerce law, as we'll as
Senator Reagan. The Baltimore peo-
pie arranged big spread at which the
big Baltimore manufacturer was seated
beside Senator Cullom. During the
speaking which followed the banquet
the Baltimore man was explaining the
success of the scheme to his Senatorial
neighbor. tits a great thing he said,
proudly ave are making lots Of
money, but we would make great
deal more ii it had not been for that
blanked interstate commerce bill. ("
Senator Cullom was greatly amused.
He was confident his companion did
not know he was talking to the rankest
interstate commerce man Of them all,
but before he could reply he was called
on for a speech. He rose and simply
told the story on the big Baltimore
manufacturer That person was dunn
founded. His face was redder than
| the Holsters caught on the Maryland
coast Him sorry said it, " he STAN.
merea, but 1 shan't take it back. Why
in thunder didn't you explain who you
were?'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-02-03
Simply Bruised.

Simply Bruised.
Young Doctor--You say you have
a pain in your side.
Patient-Yes.
GLOW long have you been troubled
with it
@Since last night. 1 was walking
down town about one o'clock. All of
a sudden I felt sinking sensation
OH"
"Epilepss
"And then all was dark. [ ha---s
Epilepsy, sure; GO on"
Il had stepped into coal-hole. -
st. Paul CLIQUE.