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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

had originated, aud yielded himseI,
q gracious smile. He danced I'LL
away with the truly lovely blonde 'e !
ices with her in the refreshmentl rna]
next day he floated her over the wy ~
the bath. on Sunday night he strolio]
the piaZzas with her-there ara no
lights at Narragansett-an when bs
for New York next morning he mr. ~
would be down every SATURDAY, for1
mainder OF the summer. There is y
place on the coast to meet bean,;1
and to have better time after Won
them. than at this same jolly Narra1
Pier. AVA y
Some writer's assure us that life n,
gansett is particularly slow. Tbs1
caught wrong g!impses of the place
have evidently gone in when thai
went out, and gone out when tha
went in. The people here have
and their pleasures are taken spasm1
~. About the only way 10 realize
mensity Of happiness. beauty, and
somencss which finds haven at rbe|
to stroll down the ocean drive 10 n
crescent beach at noontime, and
t.'iIi ilIO'l liIC i'ol WHICH runs It'd
q: the bath-houses. You can't c4]
hotel witt, q crowd. becaus- all nd
are nothing moe than good- sigeI]
ing houses. You mu>t therefore vi
the contents OF the lon. line o; .iesel
to converge. ana the best opnor;!ul
get for TINS is al TIL bathing hour. !
is tho soul of Nurragansett. 1t is ed
the point OF f.cnZy. 1t inauguralesl
tains, it brings to a crisis innuI
affairs of the indiscreet and int1
heart. l doubt if at any other plad
world the seashore man and the
girl are found in such q profusion d
cxcitahility as right here on this sh J
of sand.
A case in point. Yesterday tool
trail position on the bath house piaz
studied human nature with its
loosened. so to speak. I will not
the old ground Of description con-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

A GREAT deal of printers ink is be-
ing wasted on the discussion of the
question, What is our national flower !?
The fact is we have great many ex-
cellent flowers which deserve to be ma
tional: and it would be unfair to all the
others to single out any one of them.
The discussion may be considered as
fifty ended by the wag who writes to
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette:
Say! What's der matter wild wheat
fur der national four?" This reminds
one Of DIR. Johnson's preference. "Of
all flowers" said the great lexicogra-
pher, Il like caulifower.'
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

WHEN Lord Dudley and other noble
lords were arrested in the raid on the
Field gambling club the charge against
them was dismissed by Justice Han
nay. on the ground that "it would be
absurd to fine gentlemen of wealth and
position such a sum as 6 shillings and
8 pence" The same week two small
boys were convicted at Croydon of the
crime of pitch and toss, and they were
each fined shillings and 6 pence and
seven days hard labor.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

A PROMINENT citizen of Parsons,
Kan, determined to sup with party
of friends against the will of his wife.
He was resolved that he would, and
she that he should not go. His friends
missed him, and just for fun invaded
his residence, where they found him
and his wife sitting in their chairs fast
asleep. He had given her an opiate
that he might slip away, and she had
given him one that he might not.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

DooRKEEPER LoEFL Err, of the White
House, has wonderful memory. He
was with Stanton at the time of Lin
coins assassination, and during the
trials Of 1865 was ordered to the White
House for the duties he is still perform
ing. His recollection of faces is re-
markable. "You called on Mr.. Gar
field" or Il remember you during the
Hayes regime, he will sometimes say
to man whom he has never seen but
once, and that years ago. He can tell
a "crank" on sight, and he saves the
President great deal of annoyance by
his acuteness.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

A KENTUCKY swain has just been
welded after courtship that lasted
fifty years. Just think of it! Half q
century of moonlight walks, seaside
strolls, picnic junketing, :freside hug
ging, tender tones, summer drives,
winter sleighrides, whispers of devo-
ton and close and fragrant kisses!
That Kentuckian was certainly phi
losopher, and deserved the prolonged
bliss which all the world must envy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

The Duke of Portland gives these
trifles to his bride: A pearl necklace,
diamond hoop ring, diamond and
turquoise bracelet, gold bangle watch
in red enamel, set in diamonds; pearl
and diamond brooch, dressing case
and travelling bag with gold mounts
and initials in diamonds, gold hunt
lug watch, sable cloak, muff and boa
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

ADAH S. BAcKus, of Eastford, Con-
necticut, recently advertised that she
would pay no bills of her husbands
contracting. It is said that she first
employed the man who is now her hus-
band to look after her business affairs.
then proposed marriage to him fourteen
times unsuccessfully, offering to give
him $3.50 year and horse and car
riage, and at the fifteenth attempt
captured him. This was five Years
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

The best horsehair comes from At
RIGA, where it is imported in bales. It
has to be subjected to several cleansing
processes before it is ready for use.
The trade is constantly having other
material presented to it, purporting to
be as good, but nothing has ever been
found better than clean, we'll curled
African horsehair.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

A MAN near Beaver Falls, Penn,
can cure rheumatism by gently blow
ing on the patients face. There are
some men whose breath would drive
away most anything not absolutely i'm
movable, and probably this man has
that kind of breath. But we should
think the patients would prefer the
rheumatism to the mode Of cure.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

AN exchange says, Danish the pis-
toll The best society everywhere
seconds the motion. A pistol in any
home is menace to the lives in that
home. It is the poorest possible de-
tense against burglars or murderers-
nine times in every ten it shoots the
wrong man. Don't sell your pistol to
some other fellow to do mischief; throw
it in the we'll.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

AT one of the crossroads in Brazil.
an idol carved from the wood of an
orange tree was placed for the Indians
to worship. On one occasion it was
noticed that an old red man omitted to
perform his act of obeisance. On be-
ing commanded to kneel, he stubborn
]y replied "No; I knew him when he
was an orange tree"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

man had thought of no ero
during his little outing tSSaeatsr h
4 fare. a swim. and a:ride. '' en- a I, eha
his supper on Saturday nipb n11 after
that he was not to be let nfy ne disc
had lounged up to the mas nm SO easl
hotel to watch the dancinpra ' fs doa
tentious ball was going on. a ,of a qai
ing gracefully against the i an1s Will
women espied him. The rin 1aiao, a q
sweet and stately blond s'eaader~
d t! an draperies-aiscuuis ssnd1o 9@
then began searching for SON flend
form the act of bringing tha one !
shrine. She met the obligiSnnae lamb
of the house coming awav Young
water tank in the office, and rom Ii
Dictated the innocent New o y 70 hin
the door Of the parlor. ~ Iofk yo
request the fair damselp n rsed j
advanced directly upon his iaae,
young visitor listened to tbs tbs prey
made. looked at the source As sr prop,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

The Dooley (Ga.) Vi,adicator has
the following interesting advertise
ment: "A lady Of our town lost the
overskirt of her dress somewhere on
the street few afternoons since. It
was part of linen overskirt. The
finder would confer favor upon this
lady by leaving the same at this
ofice
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

One of the easiest ways to reduce
weight is to wear short flannel
sweater and ride brisk trot. If the
horse trots roughly, and the rider
bounces up and down in the saddle, so
much the better. Ten pounds week
can be lost by this process. The best
kind of sweater is made by taking four,
six, or eight thicknesses of flannel and
Wrapping them around the loins and
the lower part of the chest.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19
Atkins should give his name, as that
would make his will monument.

TIE editor who hasn't killed his man
is not qualified to follow the noble call
ing of journalism in the South Down
there the establishment of private
cemetery is of more Importance than
the introduction of stereotyping ma
chinery and web-printing presses.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

D. P. ATKINS, of Tyler, Texas, an
nounces that wealthy old genius, who
had no direct heirs, died recently, and
ordered that his property be equally
divided among persons living in the
Southern States who were born the
same day he was, March 9, 1885. Mr..
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

MANY persons in this country will
be surprised to learn that Florence
Nightingale, the noble-hearted woman
whose name is so gloriously associated
with the Crimean war, is still in the
land of the living Although we'll adj
vanced in age and in feeble health, she
is still actively occupied in perfecting
the nursing system which she first
originated in the military hospitals at
Scutari during the Anglo-Russian con-
flict Of 1855.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

Mr.. BANCROFT, the English come
dian, thought to pay pretty compli-
ment to his wife at the recent celebra-
ton of his silver wedding by saying :
"My dear, you ought to have married
a better man than I am" To which
Mrs. Bancroft replied: "My dear, ]
id ,.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

ONE of the simplest forms of shoes
is that worn in Singapore end India.
1t is merely wooden sole, with raised
heel and toe, and peg or post in front.
The shoe is adjusted with this peg be-
tween the big toe and its neighbor, and
the shoe is held on by a muscular
effort of the toes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

A "soLAR" stove has been invented
which will heat rooms directly by the
suns rays. The coal and iron trusts
are doubtless rich enough to buy up
this valuable patent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

Mrs. SAM FooM, Chinese lady who
has lately gone back to China with her
husband, has a singular story. She
was little slave girl, and was rescued
years ago by DR.. Gibson. She gave a
lecture some time since, in one of the
Methodist churches of San Francisco,
on the history of her life. Her hus-
band, Christian Chinaman, started
in business ten years ago, and made a
vow that when he was worth So, 600 he
would go back to China to preach the
gospel to his countrymen. The couple
have gone back, accordingly, as self
supporting missionaries.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

BRYCE WILLIAMS, one of the few sur
vivors Of Waterloo, died recently in
Perth. He piped to the Seventy-ninth
Highlanders on the field, and also took
part in the entry of the victorious
British party into Paris.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

A STRIKING argument against the
senseless multiplication of public holi
days is presented in the readable col
umns of the Pittsburgh Dispatch:
The preacher, wise and eloquent,
With many verbal gem,
Had pictured to grand extent
The New Jerusalem.
"Oh. there" he said, there will be peac
And Joy that lives alway;
And in its streets will never cease
perfect holiday"
Spake then an elitor-no Turk:
"Ne'er may heaven see!
holiday means double worl
At single pay for mel"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

WHEN some one asked Susan B. An
thony if it did not tire her to shake
hands, she answered.: Yes it does,
but not half so much as it did 20 years
ago to stand all alone with no hands to
shake at ALL
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREAS
URY BATCHELLER was told recently
that he looked tired. ut makes me
tired to look at SO much money in the
Treasury vaults" he exclaimed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

A HOME for Kansas City working
women, to cost $4,000. is to be built
by the Woman's Exchange of that
city on 81 1000 lot.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

ago, and the course of welded life
seems not to have run without jars
since that time. The couple have
now separated.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

Mrs. ASHTON dixie manages to take
care Of her household, run newspa-
per, discharge her duties as member
Of the London School Board, and has
on hand scheme to defeat the wiles
of certain French legislators.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

A WESTERN paper answers the query
of the New York Press, What is a
colonel?" by saving: GA Kentuckian. !"
This is mistake. All Kentuckians
are colonies but not all colonies are
Kentuckians.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

IT has been decided in Russia that
women may. be physicians, but they
must confine their services to children
and adults of their own sex.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

THOMAS DELwoETH, who was once o
slave in the South, is now President Of
the Builders Laborers' Union at st.
GATHERINGS, Canada.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

Much is written lately about
mans being loverlike to his wife.
Well. love is good thing in its way;
but more than one woman would will
1ingly exchange Kisses for kindling
Vuoo6
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

mind, devoured all.
That night. when he came to Dream
land, he found it flooded with straw
berries. There We're great cities in
which people did nothing but eat, buy,
and sell strawberries. Mobs stoned
him with strawberries. He fled. and,
in fleeing. he ran into garden
of Strawberries. His feet became en-
tangled in the vines and the vines be-
came serpents that coiled about him
and devoured him. And again, he was
running across a great plain and q
huge strawberry fell from the heavens
and crushed him. But he came into
existence again and found himself fee
ing before a frightful monster. Hor-
rors! It's overtaking him. The earth
suddenly yawns beneath him-he is
falling, falling, falling, until he lands
in pit of Strawberries. He writhes
and struggles and sinks in strawberries,
and finally is smothered in strawber-
ries.
But no amount of horror can ami
hilate his individuality, and he died a
thousand and ten horrible deaths.
Finally the great day of reckoning
comes and he is conference.-the eat
strawberries forever.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19
verse;.

THAT chaste human violet, Nina
Irving, the Poetess of Tarrytown, says
in publisher letter apropos Of the
erotic poetry of the day: eff this
growth of female passion
poets is allowed to flourish unchecked
the name of poetess will soon become a
term of reproach, deadly insult, and
the work Of the high priestesses of the
poetic art, such as Mrs. Browning,
Christina Rosetti and Jean Ingelow,
for the intellectual advancement Of our
sex will have gone for naught.'" In
this instance we side with the fair and
passionless Minna.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19
FLANK IL RLANK.

THE Kurds of Armenia are burning
their prisoners ut the stake. 1t is =
whey they've got.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

A SONNET at wedding is something
new, but John Boyle O'Reilly has
made the innovation graceful one.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

THE mausoleum company at New
York proposes to subject the bodies of
the dead to process of dessication
which is described as "the art of pre-
venting putrefaction and all it's revolt
ing changes by forcing overland around
the body continuous current of dry
air. A body at the New York hospi-
tai which has undergone this process
for eight months shows no signs of de-
cay. and remains in an almost life-like
state. The mausoleum will have q
capacity of 10000 bodies, and at the
last trump will undoubtedly be one Of
the most animated centers in the uni
verse.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

AMONG the deeds of heroism that
shine on that dark background of
misery at Johnstown is the unparal-
lelled self-sacrifce Of Mrs Ogle. For
twenty years she has been the tele-
graph operator at Johnstown. She
was among the first to get news of the
impending danger. Instead of fleeing
for her life, she calmly called up all
the operators along the line of the
valley and warned them of the coming
calamity. She held her post in the
teeth of death until the last point she
could reach had been warned. ''This
is my last message" she telegraphed,
and it was practically her last moment,
too. She had given her life for others
by as noble piece Of sacrifice as the
brightest page of history records.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

why did you wink at that girl that
passed 2" Force Of habit. She's soda
water fountain girl"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

hoN Il VI dEesS is 0Oln6 Tor Turkey
what missionaries have failed to dot
is wearing out polygamy and working
a great moral reform How is that for
the preacher against vanity? It seems
single wives are coming into fashion in
dear old Turkey, because the poor man
cannot afford to dress the entire harem
as it individually dresses and now in
sists upon. So far, SO good. Don't let
us question the means of grace as long
as the end is accomplished For my
part, don't see why Paris fnery
should not become source of regen-
GRAFTON. For ages it has been accused
OF the very reverse, but when it be-
sieges the Mohammedan religion and
turns that upside down, and through
its insidious eloquence makes an OPEN
ing for the woman question in be-
nighted land, I think we ought to give
the devil his due and be grateful! As
things are tending, it won't surprise
American barbarians to hear by an
other decade that even the yashmak
has been abolished. 1t is pretty thin
affair now, and when the bonnet is
fairly installed, the veil will have to go.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19

The newest thing in electric loco
motion is the Ward omnibus, which
runs by electricity on all sorts of
tracks, up or down grade. Rails are
dispensed with, and all special tracks /;
and the van is run over asphalt or
wood, or pavements OF stone, or com
mon macadam. This is a wonderful
stride in advance of what had been
looked for. Are we to be entirely rid
OF the cost of laying rails for cars ?
Probably not yet, but ere long. A
system OF electric carriages, self guided
as well as self-propelled, is sure of
coming soon into use. Then we shall
have aerial navigation. and between the
two rapid transit is solved. The ex-
pense of travel will, at the same time,
be reduced to small fraction of its
present cost.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19
A LAND OF STRAWBERRIES.
BY o. l.. c.

NocllAliHA ScuucAoo,
but he was one of
them who, at table
set for ten. but oc-
cupi e d ~ only
! about half so many,
by intrigue and mis-
representation o +
facts, succeeded in
having all the sur
pl US strawberries
passed to him, and,
with a voracity that
besDOke q carnal
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-12
A Pubiie Benefactor.

aEWho is b. Fl. Warner, of Rochester, n.
z, whose Safe Remedies especially War
oer's Safe Cure. have attained such success
and celebrity at home and abroadF
The question Is inspired as much by a1ec-
ton as curiosity, since through. his 1nstru-
mentality hundreds Of thousands, in both
hemispheres, have been restored to h@alth
and happiness
Hon. a. 81. Warner, then, is leading and
honored resident OF Rochester, not only, but
q prominent and influential citizen OF the
United States On several occasions chosen
by his party as National delegate TO nomi-
nate President Of the Republic, he has been
a member of the Republican State Commit
tee and of its Executive Committee. He Is q
member Of the American Institution for the
Advancement of Science; President OF the
Rochester Chamber of Commerce; success
full and upright business man. He has given
away fortunes In charities. The celebrated
and costly Warner Observatory Of Rochester
was conceived, endowed, and is maintained
by him. His munifcent prizes for the dis
covery of comets has been at once the won
der and delight of the scientific world.
The yellow fever scourge III the South, the
Ohio floods, the fire disasters or Rochester
and other cities awakened his profoundest
sympathies, and in each instance his check
for from $500 to 5000 swelled the several re-
lief funds. Where other wealthy men give
tens and hundreds, he gives hundreds and
thousands.
His charities are as ready and magnificent
as his enterprises and public spirit are bound
less.
The world has need of more such msn.
An incident led him into the manufacture
of medicine. Seized some twelve years ago
with what the ablest physicians termed fatal
kidney disease, he was miraculously restored
to health by what is now known as Warmers
Safe Cure. At once he resolved to make
known the merits of SO potent remedy, and
the consequence is that to-day he has i'm
mense Laboratories and warehouses in the
United States, Canada, England, Germany,
Austria Australia and Burmah. Sales of
his Safe Remedies are enormous, and their
power over disease simply marvellous.
The merit of production is in exact keep
ing with the character of its producer. An
honest and reliable man himself, Mr.. Warner
makes honest and reliable medicines-a fact
abundantly attes5ed by their phenomena
efficacy and popularity.