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The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-02-20
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The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-02-20

WE hone thot the present Congress Will
mass the Blair Sunday bill It's some
thing tha, is needed for the general well
fare of the nation The performance o'
common labor, either by individuals or
sorporations should become thing OF the
mas, in this country on Sunday
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-02-20
THE MARKETS
Cheese.

SHIPMENTS FOR WEEK ENDING Feb TO-
Cheese 254O pkgs., weighing .s2.1sO 10,
p,,,,ar 40 2,430
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-02-20
TERMS

MARCH An we will control the Execu-
tive Judicial and Legislative departments
of the r,vernment for the first time since
March 4 1875
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

been difficult to teach it properly, be-
cause it is dance that requires two
perso MS, and as I'll, there has been
but one pupil at a time in school.
Thus it happened, naturally enough,
that many of the pupils of the minuet
to-day are the dancing masters them
selves, who are obliged to perfect them
selves ill it in order to supply the de-
mant Of their patrons. 1t is usually
taught by ladies, because the move
ments of ladies i'll the dance are of
very great Importance and make by
far the most picturesque feature of it.
The writer wandered into an uptown
academy few days ago and found
that a lady teacher, who was at one
tim" a famous ballet dancer, was taking
advantage Of the absence of pupils at
that hour to instruct one of the waltz
teachers in the minuet Forat least half
an hour they courtesied to each other
and looked up at the ceiling and put
ont their feet and swayed. about the
empty room, and the lady was chatter
nyali the time to her pupil and to the
wliter in explanation of the various
movements through which she was put
ting him.
The first thing" she said, "that q
lady has to learn is to hold the skirts
of her dress. In the beginning of the
nlnuet she must take her overskirts
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

ONE OF the proofs of the eminent re-
spectabi!ity of these Unit d States is
that we have dog for every three in
habitants. 1t costs us 5000, OOO. 900
7 annum to support our 100000
dogs. The food given to an average
dog every year would yield return of
$50 if fed to chickens. Our high toned
dogs many Of them consume more than
working people, and move in the very
best society. Before any strange gen,
tleman ven ures to set foot within the
gates Of a Southern plantation he waits
respectfully till the hest comes to the
gate and introduces him to his dog.
Michael DaTitt .cnce declared with
great cloqveace and effect before a
large and respectable New York audi
ence that Ireland was the only country
in the world where one could travel
for miles through the country without
ever seeing a dog. "Alas," he said,
"a people living on the most produce
tive soil in Europe, far less thinly
populated than Massachusetts, cannot
afford dogs, for they need the food
themselves" No wonder MIR. Parnell
resents the latest Tory scheme OF Eng
land to devote So, 200, 900 to the forced
purchase of farms from landlords.
The wrongs of Ireland can never he
patched over by such delusive make
shifts. But they show that the fear of
Ireland's land monopolists never gives
them any rest
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

probablv would have disappeared alto
gether from tie world if it had not
been for the theater. There are sew
eral classical plays in which the min
uet figures as bit Of stage spectacle.
In spite, however, of the admirable
beauty of the dance and the interest it
always arouses in the spectator, it is
very frequently the case that it is
omitted in the performance of plays
of which it was originally feature.
This fact shows more strikingly than
any other the narrow escape the minuet
has had from sinking into oblivion, for
it is part Of the actors business to
learn fancy and society dancing, and
the one reason why the minues is
omitted in the performance of plays is
because the actors do not know how to
dance it. There have been, however,
few artists who have studied it, and
thus kept it alive. The best teachers
are placing it upon their curriculum Of
studies, and nearly all of them look
forward to seeing it resume it's old
fashioned place in the list of social
entertainments.
Until this winter the minnet has
been regarded by the dancing masters
as fancy dance, and it has frequently
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18
Why We Sink in Ouicksand.

Quichsand is composed chiefly of
small particles of mica mixed largely
with water The mica is so smooth
that the fragments slip upon each other
with the greatest facility, so that any
heavy body which displaces them will
sink, and continue to sink until a solid
bottom is reached When particles of
sand are ragged and angular any
weight pre- ssing on them will crowd
them together until they are COM
pacted into a solid mass. A sand COM
posed of mica or soapstone, when sufli-
GENTLY mixed with water. seems inca
pable of such consolidation
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

theirs, and have dressed ~ up LOT nseln
the ball rooms and parl3rs of to-day
They have not done this hecause of
their inability to invent Nc " figures. or
vary the old ones and pat new name
upon them. but because til fro has been
popular demand for the pinuet. 1t
promises now to become in\ the course
of two or three seasons the I'M popular
dance for the better class Of parties.
There is reason for con9atulation
in this movement, for tie min
net is one of the most artisti& dances
ever invented, and there is 10 better
ground for laying it aside than there
would be for musicians to give up
writing sonatas, or for sculrtors to stop
carving Roman deities.
The minuet went out of fishion as n
sacrifice to the passion 70, novelties,
and in the growth of the waltz, hich
became universally popular and adj
mired, it was entirely forgotten, and
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

with both hands, Just clutching the
edge of the garment with the tips OF
the fingers, and raise it from the floor
about as high as the tips of her boots.
Then standing squarely upon both feet
she is in the first attitude OF the min
uet. Following that comes the bow,
which is most difficult accomplish
ment.
II think it quite likely that one of
the reasons why the minuet went out
of favor was the very considerable de-
gree of skill which is required to dance
it properly. It is even easier to learn
to become first-rnte waltzer than an
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

Isaac BARRETT, who was appointed
a page in the United States Senate,
upon the motion of Daniel Webster,
tifty-seven years ago, is still connected
with that body, acting as assistant
door-keeper. He is writing his remi-
niscences OF public men A number of
members oftlla present Congress We're
once pages, Senator German being
among them Ti.ere are no better
schools i'll the country Tor sharpening
the wits OF bright boy than the two
houses of Congress, excepting news
paper offices, whore boys are likely to
receive better moral training.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18
Indifferent minuetist, if 1 can use the

wOrO.
"The bow is made by drawing the
right foot back and placing the toe
upon the floor and bending the whole
weight of the body back upon it and
keeping the left foot squarely upon
the floor. The lady should sink her
self as far as possible without losing
her balance. AS she goes down, the
heel of the left foot may come slowly
off from the floor, but the heel Of the
right foot must net touch it. 1t is an
exceedingly trying movement until one
has mastered it, and it takes not only
muscle but some nerve to keep the
equilibrium. In this movement the lady
must not take her hands from her
skirts; her eyes must be directed
slightly upwards and her head should
not bow forward. 1t should rather
turn little bit in the direction Of the
eyes. The movement must be made
very slowly, and the recovery executed
with equal deliberation.
"The gentleman's bow during this
interesting process is of much similar
nature. 1t consists in laying his hand
upon his heart, and bending forward
very low. Partners should recover at
the same moment.
"In minuet and fancy dancing it is
as necessary TO train the arms as it is
the legs. Nearly all the old-fashioned
dancers employed arm gestures for eff
feet, and it requires deal Of patience
to learn to use the arms gracefully.
One rule lies at the base of all arm
movements. and that is never to make
a gesture in such way that the dane
er's face shall be concealed from her
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18
The Legend Of n Rose.

There is most sentimental story at
tached to the Gen. Jacqueminot rose.
Finding his daughter in the garden in
the embrace of a lover he had forbid
den her to meet, the General killed
him on the spot, his blood flowing
where a pale rose bush stood. The
daughter soon died of despair and
asked to be buried in the garden where
her lover died. Out of the grave grew
the blood-red rose that is now called
the Jacuueminot.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

partner, if she is dancing in society; or
from the audience, if she is dancing in
public. l will illustrate that by a
movement which I introduce into the
nlinuet as teach it. I will call it the
Spanish"
The lady who had all this time been
pulling the waltz-teacher this way and
that, and showing him how to hold his
arms, made him stand beside her, and
they faced the writer. The lady. with
her right hand grasping her skirts in
the way she had indicated, took the
gentleman's right hand, and, swinging
her body upon her hips away from
him, raised his hand until she had
brought it over the back of
her head, then she looked
with an engaging smile at a
crack in the ceiling, while the gentle
man, his right hand extended as indi-
Gated, and his left at his side, swung
about in the other direction and looked
gravely at the ceiling up IN the other
side of the room. After maintaining
this pose for a moment, or, if it had
been in actual dancing, until certain
measure Of music had been played,
they slowly changed this position by
swinging the bodies around toward
each other, at the same time never
moving their feet until they We're
looking directly into each others eyes.
This completed the movement, and q
very graceful one it was, too.
IF you write anything about the
minuet," said the graduate of the bal
let, don't forget to say that at no mo-
ment of the dance should the lady
take both hands from her skirts. AS
in the figure I have just shown you, it
is sometimes necessary to use one hand
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

GEN. Booru, head of the Salvation
Army, has been devoting himself to
the effort of popularizing the methods
of his followers ia California. He has
not met with great s1,cc. IS. The hood
lums of San Francisco have proved
too vigorous for the Salvationists.
Booth has had to place himself at the
head OF a charging column number
of times, but even his heroism has not
been equal to the task of overcoming
the California mobs. Say. Booth.
where's Barrett:" is favorite pleas
antry among the street urchins when
ever tile Salvation commander shows
himself in public
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

L. FoL1ESDER, who keeps lodging
house in Kansas City, has received an
thentic information that he is one of
two heirs to an estate of $1,000. 900
LETT by an uncle in Roum MIA. Follen.
der was so overjoyed by his good luck
that he went on big spree. took NOR
phine to induce sleep, and was only
saved by hard work and stomach
pump from missing his fortune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

A CRANK has come forward in Keys
vile, Va, who claims to have discov-
cred meteorological omen proving
that Benjamin Harrison will not sur
vive his Presidential term 1t showed
on the 18th of November in the year
when Benjamin Harrison's grandfather
was elected to the Presidency. It
showed on Nov. 19 in the years when
Taylor and Garfield were respectively
elected to the high st Office in the land.
None of these men lived to fulfill his
administration. AS it showed on Nov.
10 this year the Keysville sage deduces
the conclusion that BENJAMIN Harrison
has not four years lease of life. All
of which is nonsense.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

SIDN. BARTLETT, who was gradu-
sted at ] award College seventy years
ago, an. is oyer ninety years old, ar
gued a cas- before the Supreme Judi
eial Court of Massachusetts recently
with marked success. Mr.. Bartlett has
been engaged in cases with such men
as Lemuel Shaw, Rufus Choate, and
Daniel Webster, and has long outlived
them ALL
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

BARON HUDDLEsroN, the famous En-
glish Judge, recently observed that
such was the intricacy of the lunacy
laws that they had tendency to re-
duce persons who gave an abstruse
study to them into persons for whose
benefit they were intended.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

CONGRESSMAN ROBINSON, of Louisi-
ana, is said to be the greatest bear
hunter in the South He is also an OK
pert hunter, an has followed
more than one panth r into the Jungle
He keeps pack of hounds and bear
dogs, and his kennels are famous all
through the South.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

' Four times Henry Blackman, con-
yicted of the murder of Stonowall
Fondee. in schley County, Georgia,
has been prepared for execution, the
date e. h time being put off by new
trials. He was to have been hanged
lately: but on account of new evidence
the Gc.2rror rcspited him until next
Marc
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

WALTER CONVEY, Vice President
Morton's private secretary, is an
'Englishman, who has been in this
country about ten years. Like Presi-
dent Harrisons secretary, he is also
newspaper man.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

Oh, where is the little old woman, l wonder,
They tossed on u blanket one day?
I'm tired OF rain and Of clouds and of thunder;
wish 1 could send her again up yonder
To sweep them all quickly away.
Twas useless the wishing, but while still
worried
And wondered what bet. er to do
A CHEEKY young zephyr flew up, and he hurried
Those clouds, till, all hustled and crowded and
hurried,
He swept them away from the blue.
Then out came the sun fairly beaming and glow
ing.
From hiding away from the rain;
And out came tho flowers, all smiling and grow
ing.
And out came the children, with Joy OVERLOOKING
"Ho! ho 1t lis sunshine again"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

LAD HERBERT, of Lea, is said to
have g ountered the other day in
New 1a..s, in the garb of Little Sis
ter OF Inc Poor, a young lady who
was, 'oy Years ago, one of the
wealth. nd most sought-after bellies
Of Lc" =, relinquishing that station
to sc' the humber one in which
she no novns.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

of man whose health IS not robust.
All the bruslueness has departed from
his mann r. He is more courteous
and suave than when he WAS an office
holder. and he has .hc air Of studied
amiability which is a nee s ,i:v adjunct
to public life in Europe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

CARL SCHuRZ is once more an easily
recognizable fgureson the sire ct in New
York. His beard has turned from the
dark red which formerly characterized
it to what might be called muddy
gray. His general appearance is that
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

The Princess of Wales inherits her
unfortunate deafness from her mother
and not from her father, says the Pail
Mall Gazette. But the Queen of Den
mark makes up, like her daughter, for
weakness in her ears by exceptional
brilliancc in her eyes. 1t is from her
mother. too, that the Princess inherits
her gift of perennial youth, for the
Queen, though now well stricken in
Years, looks at least ten or fifteen years
younger than she is.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

NINE. MUNEM1TsU MUTsU, wife of the
Japanese Minister at Washington, en-
teltains her intimate friends with mu-
sic on the "koto," the japanese piano.
1t is six feet long by about eight inches
wide, and the silk strings are drawn
lengthwise on the rounded top. Nine.
Mutsu is clever performer on the
"koto," and she is specially acceptable
when she renders the music of the
"A1ikado."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

THERE are probably very few people
who know the name of the inventor Of
the wheelbarrow. The sculptor,
painter, architect, engineer-in fact
many-sided genius and universal schol-
az, Leonardo da Vinci, of taly-the
man who painted the original picture
of "The Last Supports the INVENTOR
of the whealbarrow. His fertile brain
conceived the idea about the time Co
lumbus discovered America. 1t is
hardly possible to think OF man who
was touched with the highest order oil
the divine art of painting bringing him
self down to the diametrically opposite
study OF simple mechanical invention,
but such is the case, says history.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

WHEN Chicago anarchist under
stands that he can't fool with the law,
he knocks under just as humbly as
any one else.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18
CIAL CORRESPONDENCE

HI dancing-mas-
'teH have gone to
the shelf VIII ere
the must.y relics of
thdlast century are
stoied to get a
noyflt.y for thi s
seabn's entertain
merit. They have
bro4 ght out from
its .4ding- place the
old fashioned min
net which disap-
peartd with our
gr eat ran d ia
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

S1LAs T1LToN, father of Theodore
Tilton, died recently at Keyport, N. j.,
aged 81. He was the oldest resident
OF the place.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

WHISTLER, the eccentric artist, is
painting horribly realistic picture Of
the body of one of the Whitechapel
viotifns
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18
BALL ROOM NOVELTIES Is.
REVIVAL OF THE t1p-rAsH1oNEp
STATELY MNUET.

1t Promises to Beco,1c the Rage-In-
structions to Besinneis-The Bow, and
How 1t Is Accomplish cd-How to Hold
the skirts and the Arr ls.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

QUEEN VICTORIA is said to be greatly
angered by some of the published
passages in the memoirs of the Duke
of SAKE oburg Gotha. Among these
are certain private letters of the late
Prince Consort, especially the one at
lacking Lord Palmerston. She is also
displeased by the reference to Napoleon
III. and the Empress Eugene, who is
numbered among her most intimate
personal friends.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

CHARLES MITCHELL, of Indiana, has
gone crazy trying to find a peach-tree
that would bear fruit in winter.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

EARN HARRIS, of Port Jervis, il
bootb!ack, and gentleman, too, q
that ne wants others to be gentlen
IS evident from this inscription on
box: No ungentlemanly, drunken,
dlsorderly persons boots or shoes W
De polished. Earn Harris"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

SILVER is being found in great
quantities in the Madras Presidency,
India.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND, the
Presidents sister, will make three
months visit at the White House.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

TIE population of Japan is 3d.
069.007
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

for other purposes, but just the
edge of the front skirt should be raised
at all times" FRANK FILE,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

gate. A young woman cautiously a
preached.
MAY I come in 2" she asked.
No, you kain't!" he exclaimed.
Amt you never goin' ter let 4
Gomez"
Never"
please"
Go on away, now. Clear out"
The woman went away, and mi
who overheard the conversation wei
up to the old fellow and asked him vi
he had driven the woman away.
Cause she's my daughter an did,
marry ter suit me. he answered.
Didn't she do we'll -
mo, she flung herself away, whs
sht, mout er hit the nail squar' on y
head"
Don't you think that her husbaD
will make living?"
He mout do that, but Twin aa
the thing. The Teller has got land a
hogs an bosses, but the Teller that
wanted her ter marry has got three
the best foS-hounds in the county
Yes, but has he got anything else|
Anything else? Why, blast 4
l1gnnnt hide, what do you mean? Lei
here, you'd better go on now, fu1
don't believe it's a good idee to hl
you loatin' erbout the neighborhoo
anything else? Go ON erway now,
LII set the dogs on you!"-Aykans'
Traveller.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-01-18

victims.