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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
All Sol. a Penny.

1t is wonderful how many diverse
articles one can buy for Il penny. If
you are q smart clerk, and desire a but
tonhole, you can buy a bunch of yiolets;
or a cigarette; or q daily paper; or have
your boots blacked: or buy a tin Of wax
v~estas; Or a rustic wood pipe; or a metal
closeup pipe cleaner from a pavement
vender. II you are a workman, and
haven't o careful wife, for q penny you
can get a breakfast of a thick slice OF
bread and butter and q cup Of coffee
YOU can get half a pint of beer; you car
buy a saEEeloy for an extra relish; vol
can get 4 screw Of tobacco; you can buy
a glass OF milk you q get q shave and
make yourself smart. If you are in the
city at lunch time you can buy a bis
cult OR q scone, or an oatmeal digestive
biscuit. Going home from business,
you can buy for a penny a pair Of mo-
hair laces; a set OF pencils with guard
and pen; "the smallest book ever
printed;" a piece of SPONGE; n penknife
a set of fairy money; a lead or compost
ton comb: a bag Of anti-intiuenza lozen-
ges; q " puzzle Matchbox" a set OF
wire pipe-cleaners; a bottle OF infallible
mucilage; a dose of sarsaparilla from
the highly decorated cart; IN electric
shock: a box of silver-platlng powder
a galvanic shock; q box or bottle of
gliding preparation; and a box of clothes
reviver. You can buy a gilt-edged mir
ror, or a packet OF hokey-pokey, or an
albert guard, or a toy watch with a chain
and key, or a set Of dice, OF an artificial
hower-pot with a flower in it, OF a
slice of pineapple, OF a bag of butter
nuts. Then think of the automatic ma
chine when you arrive at the railway
station. For a penny-a penny i a
slot-out comes a small cigar or cigar
cite, a chunk of butter scotch, or a
packet of caramels, or a piece of choco-
late, or some scent for your handker-
chief. or try your weight, or try your
height, a glass of water with the paper
cup, or try your strength. A penny
! will also buy q book of popular songs,
Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress; a pair of
revolving gilt collar studs; an umbrella
ring; a "tightlet' to fasten your scarf or
| collar; a block Of fuel; a memorandum
book; a zinc pail; an iron hanger; a
funnel; a toasting fork; al egg boiler; a
! copper wire fower-pot hanger;a packet
of hat reviyer;; the hardest puzzle OUT"
tooth stopping; tin Of razor paste; and
hundreds of other things that for the
| life Of ma we can never recollect.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
1t Was Recorded.

During a certain sea voyage the mate
of the brig Y, who usually kept the
log" was found n day to be unable
to attend to the duty, because of inebria-
ton, and the work was done by the
Captain, whose last entry was, "The
mate was drunk all day." On the fol-
lowing day, the mate having recovered
from the effects of his indulgence, re-
sumed his former attention to the "log"
entries, when he discovered his supe-
rior's record, and INN ediately remon-
strated with that officer, asking
What was the need, sir, Of making
that entry?"
Wasn't it true?" demanded the COM
mander, in a stern voice.
"Yes," replied the delinquent, "but l
don't see any necessity for making
record of it there"
We'll" rejoined the Captain, las it
is true. it had better stand it had better
stand"
At the close Of the following day,
when the Captain examined the log
book, he was astonished and provoked,
finding entered thereon, 1.-The Captain
was sober all day." Summoning his
subordinate offender, he t%iercely de-
manded,-
"Why did you make that entry?'
why, sir" said the mate, "it was
true, was it not?"
"Of course it was true, but am ] nos
sober every day." asked the now en-
ragged Captain.
well" replied the mate, but, as it is
true, it had better stand; it had better
stand;" w%hereupon he turned on his
heel and left the Captains presence,
but had not taken many teps when he
felt a current Of air caused by a rapidly
moving marline-spike passing in dan
gerous proximity to one of his acoustic
organs, having been hurled by the
angry Captain.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
with q polite inclination of the head
take leave of the driver. And vet
Guadalaiara is the Boston of Mexico
! Rnxfon HernM.
London Shou Gir,s.

Strict discipline is usually the order.
and, whatever advantages either sex
may otherwise enjoy, a marked equality
exists as to the fines imposed through
out the day. These "correctors. vary
from 2 pence +" 10 shillings, and to
enumerate the mnltitudinous opportun-
tiles presented to the unwary would
cover much paper. The list of of
fences" may, often be found in a dra-
per's check-book, and sufficient food for
long study is afforded to fresh hands"
in mastering its details. In fact, in
some houses, It's said, all the repula-
tions are never understood. Suffice il
to mention q few stock offences, such as
too long a meal, late arrival, incorrect
bills, Incorrect checking, taking bad
money, giving wrong change, leaving
ones department without a Just reason.
and many other misdemeanors which
trip the nnwary. To balance this net
work Of penalties a "spiff" system is US
ually adopted, Splits being premiums
placed Gu certain articles, not of the
last fashion, indicated by q marvellous
hieroglyphic put on the price-ticket.
These marks are we'll known by the as
sistant, and the almost invisible mystic
sigh explains why an article, wholly I'm.
suitable, is foisted on the jaded custom.
or as "iust the thing" The price.
marks themselves are often conundrums
to madam" because these too are writ.
ten in unknown characters, often drawn
from a motto card.
In some firms the girls, when no,
serving, are permitted to adjourn to /.
comfortable sitting and reading room
or are allowed to sit behind the coun
tiers, and, with respect to food, DANTE,
are often provided in form of fish, fow
OF pastry, which the less favored
fellows" fail to obtain. The averag
times for meals are half an hour, an,
twenty minutes for dinner and tea re
spectively, except through the hotties
weather, when the tea-time is extende,
to thirty minutes, in consideration 9th
longer hours consequent to light even
ings. Supper is usually provided i'm
mediately after closing time, and the
q much-coveted span of freedom i
enjoyed till IL o'clock sharp, or l
o'clock n night a week, for the con
venience OF p%laygoers. AS fellow
wholcontemplates starting q business fo
himself usually chooses a wife fro1
among the girls" of the house, it wi
be seen that a real "trade-unionism" e,
lists among the community, in q pecu
liar sense, and the so-called "rag-trade
!, is thus perpetuated by duly qualifie
assistants.-PaW- Mall Gazette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
The Living Microscope.

John Thomas Heslop, of Birmingham,
England, is a lad whose powers Of vision
are marvellous. He is known as the "liv-
ing microscope on account of being
able to see the most minute objects
clearly defined. In 1873 or 1879 he
was attacked with some battling eye
trouble and came very near losing his
sight forever. After the disease had
reached it's worst there was an instant
and sudden change TO. the better, which
resulted in a complete cure Of oil intiam-
alton in an incredibly short time. 1t
was not a cure, however, that brought
back the old eyesight like that possessed
by the average genus homo. When it
returned it was with extraordinarily
increased powers of vision. To John
Thomas the most minute plant louise
was as large as a rabbit, and the mos
quito's bill as large as an ak handle.
He could see and describe distant M
mute objects with startling clearness ana
precision. He was amazingly shocked
upon repairing to the we'll to get a cool
ing draught to see the immense number
of hideous creatures that were floating.
fighting and wriggling about in the
water. From that day to this water has
never passed the lips Of John Thomas
Heslop; his drinks consist wholly Of
coffee, tea and milk, thoroughly boiled.
The doctors say that the entire organi-
cation of the eye has undergone q struct-
ural change and that the cornea has be-
come abnormally enlarged. Spring
field Republican.
A SOUND discretion is not so much in
dicated by never making a mistake as
by never repeating it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
What He Did.

One would say that Shakespeare, at
least, must be the one exceptional
prophet to be honored in his own coun-
try, but. widely spread as we know his
fame to be, at least one Englishman had
no very clear idea Of its cause.
Some years ago, while passing
through Standardization. MI. Toole,
the English comedian, saw a rustic Sit
ting OF afence. -,
"That is Shakspeare's honse, isn't
it?" be inquired, pointing to the build
ing.
"Yds.".
Ever been there?" &c..
"Nq"
"Bpught up here?"
"Yes."
Dbl he write anything"
"Of, yes, he writ"
"Waat was it?' .,.,
WALL" answered the rustic, It think
he witt for the Bible"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
-.nu,cAL MAN.

n
,y W. ross
.O,r,sen cents a day
lon r Ink and cracker
dissipation gay
o..p,s for tobacco:
''.h,d an extra us"
.~,utscli raised Wal
,nnurious habit
h7 II'u woodcauck, or
;rs1e a rabbit; ntont
!. wa cost II ctbt
T.. ,jsht Ivy up in bank
~ Of t,s labor.
o'''' nnnd ii meals, the crank!
N,'', s,n his neighbour
liz ~ en-, enough to last
her dag hai passed.
,,utsloons nor vest,
',,yrensiSe jacket;
IN v.ni,-his pas be4uest,s
FH ,",,uII stand the racket.
Fls';; !, thirty Years. lis true
Fl4t tn.,I twas good rs new.
A,.,, on.. snit to his back,
nscntfs and collars.
Nn.a' left ,iis nephew Jack
| it'l'' .IrIlnTE
'', nv ran this fortune through
look a year or two.
r.,Il
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30

SPIRITUAL life is strong just in the
proportion in which it a propagate
itself and inoculate others with its es-
sential power.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30

MEYER touch a vine that has three.
fneeked leaves-that is, leaves divided
into free parts. Vines that show i've
fngeIed leaves may be handled with
safett. Poison ivy has three fingers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30

AN English literary statistician has
a;scovored that of the 562 heroines IN
last years novels 372 were blondes ana
1870 bIunettes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30
Politeness in the Boston Of Mexico

In Guadalajara when you enter q
street car you are expected. before tax
ing your seat. to bow, hat in hand, to
your fellow passengers, none Of whom
you have ever before seen. Arrived at
your destination, you must rise, smile a
friendly farewell to the car in general,
shake hands with the conductor aud,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30

G4D can gid rotten stick and dirt
sullyan ipgot.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30

The tired boy snored in the @~rafter'
room Just above. The child vas asleep
asleep for evermore. A handful of
flowers lay on the bed beside her. The
policeman did not come and get them.
-ArkansaW Traveller.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-02
HOW 1t WORK S.

The fact that BUTTERwoRTH finally
voted for the MCKINLEY bill, under
party pressure and alleged assurances
that the senate would throw the thing
over, does not spoil the good points he
made in the closing debate. The one
Oh copper IS forcibly stated. and applies
substantially to other articles. 1t illus
trates the processes of what is Gale d
protection. He says:
Why. sir. there has not been a time in two
decades when my countrymen have not pro-
duced copper as cheap as any other nation
IN the world, and most OF the time cheaper;
and yet we have these people, who, on an in
out over 100000. 900 in dividends i'll nine
teen years. coming and asking additional
protection.
He gees on further:
Why, Mr.. Chairman, it would be better If,
at the time we first imposed this tariff, we
had taken every man connected with that
employment i'll the copper mines, boarded
them at the Fifth Avenue hotel. and set them
up in the banking business for life.
That is unQuestionably true, but there
appears no particular reason for sin
Cling out copper as a special bene-
ficiary of the fostering of the tariff de-
signed to help out people who want
larger profits than their business nat
urally pays. What if they could make
copper cheaper than any foreign ma
ton, was it not home industry and an
infant? If their profits were $50, 100000
on an investment of 81 100000. did they
not contribute to the campaign funds to
secure more protection? 1t may be
cheeky to come for more profits, but the
system is one of greed and selfishness,
1t does not stop at any question of ex-
istence, but puts out its avaricious
palms for all that can be reached. Mr..
BUTTERwoRTH says that in this case
the infant, after being gorged and fat
tened beyond all decency for nineteen
years, now comes like hog to the
trough and grunts for more. 1t may be
rather an extreme case, but the country
is thronged with millionaires made in
that process. 1t is the way the thing
works.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-02
PERSONAL POINTS.

Russell Sage is seventy-four years old.
He declares that he feels every bit as
young as he did at fifty. He is ahead of
his friend Jay Gould in the matter of
health. anyhow.
Sir George Birdwood is the founder of
Primrose day, April 10, in England.
The modest little flower has caught OIL
and owes Sir George lasting debt of
fragrance for his services i'll their be-
half.
Ada Cavendish, who once made tour
of America, has announced her inten-
ton of returning to the stage. Miss
Cavendish belongs to the old school.
She is more prehistoric than Lolita or
Maggie Mitchell.
Oliver Wendell Holmes believes in
reading many books by proxy, particu-
larly the big, thick volumes printed in
small type. Nobody believes in read
ing DIR. Holmes books by prOXy-the
proxy would have the best OF such an
arrangement.
Henrietta Rae, one of the best women
artists of England and painter of love-
ly nude pictures, is married to an art
lst, and they work in the same studio.
The husband is Finest Normand. They
are both under thirty, and have one
child.
Mrs. John E. McElroy, sister of the
late President Arthur, is quiet little
home body, and lives at Albany. Her
love of domestieity, her charm of man.
ner and her beauty are still as notable
as when she was the first lady of the
land. presiding in the White house.
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's
place, WaddesdOn Manor, where the
queen visited recently, is an Aladdin's
palace. 1t is surrounded by beautiful
terrace-gardens and is crammed with
pictures, old furniture, statuary and
priceless china. Money, and not ge-
Mrs lamp, was the magic influence that
wrought its splendor.
Edwin Booths friends agree in saying
that he is very lazy in private life. He
cannot walk six blocks without being
tired. He and Lawrence Barrett will
summer al Cohasset and spend much
time in yachting. The melancholy Dane
will look lugubrious in white sailors
suit, and when he bitches his trousers
or spices the main brace MelpOmeme
will feel like shedding tive-act tear.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-02
A GOOD MONTH TO LIVE.

June met a profusion of compli-
mentS as it made its debut Yesterday,
both from setimentalists and the prac-
tical. The cloudless sky and perfect
temperature we're an inspiration to the
idealists, joy to the senses, and sug-
gestion of growing corn and wheat to
the materialist. No month in the dozen
has more of the conditions of physi-
cal enjoyment in this climate than
June. 1t has some unusual advantages
this year, both in the character Of its
immediate predecessor and in the celes-
tial disposition. Three of the brightest
planets, Venus, Saturn and Mars, are
very rarely so favorable for obServa-
ton at one time. Venus, the most con-
spicuous of all the heavenly bodies ex-
cept the sun and moon, is all this month
visible in its brightest phase for cou-
pie of hours after sunset. After her
retirement for the night Mars will be
the brightest of the more distant
luminaries, rivaling Jupiter, who
now appears in the southeast soon
after IL o'clock. About IL o'clock
tonight the moon touches the
apex of the cone of the earth's
shadow, and makes its nearest
approach about half-past 10. If it en-
tiers the shadow partial eclipse of the
moon will ensue. The scientists ter IN
ii the lunar appulse, and will observe it
with much interest. This is the month,
also, in which the sun concludes his tour
to the north, stopping on the 2lst, and
at once beginning to turn back. There
will be rather more than fifteen hours
of daylight at that time. six hours or
so more than in December. All the
planets except Mercury and Neptune
will be plainly visible IN the evening
hours this month. 1t is quite in keep
ing with the arrangements of Nature
that it is the period for the ''sweet girl
graduates to shed their gentle radi-
ance. Culture and Nature present their
bouquets, and June is good month to
live, if it does bring the census man
with his questions.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-02
WILLS NOT SAFE.

1t is a curious fact that some OF the
wills expressed in few plain words
by unprofessional men stand the Judi
cial gauntlet, while those of the ablest
lawyers, where large estates are left,
are contested with almost invariable
success. There are hardly any excep-
tons in notable cases. The wills are
either broken or so modified as to ma
terially change the purpose of the will
maker. Recent and familiar instances
are had in the cases of Commodore VAN
DERBILT, SAMUEL j. TILDEN and a. T.
STEWART. If men like VANDERBILT
and TILDEN were unable to devise their
property SO that greed could not inter-
fere to defeat their wishes, it would
seem almost useless to write wills.
TILDEN made it a special study to pre-
vent any contest Of his will. The heirs
who were dissatisfied would have been
left without any share had they failed
in the protest, but the risk was success
fully taken. The VANDERBILT will
was pronounced by able legal minds to
be as unassailable as legal ingenuity
could devise, but CORNELIUS forced the
estate to come to his terms after an
enormous expense IN litigation. If there
is money enough in the thing for the
lawyers, the purposes of any will can be
thWarted. Ii makes prosperous times
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-02
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
THE STORY DAY.

Eleven persons are killed in hurricane at
Sofia.
Congress will talk silver and politics this
week.
North Dakota gets the heaviest rain since
1882.
It is commencement week at the state uni
Tersity.
The car promises to look into Siberian
scandals.
Enumeration for the eleventh census be-
gins to-day.
A New Jersey woman puts morphia in her
husbands tea.
The st. Paul battery is to take part in the
Kansas City drill.
The body of Acrobat Murdoch is found in
the Chicago river.
Schaefer the biliardist, runs 5000 points
in three nights without skip.
Mrs Parsons says dynamite will put capital
and labor on an equal footing.
Judge Wallin, of the North Dakota supreme
bench, is stricken with apoplexy.
The Western association games areswon by
Omaha, Sioux City, Milwaukee and Denver.
The Philadelphia & Reading orders its con-
due tors to quit the brotherhood or its en-
ploy.
Gov. Thayer, of Nebraska, has revoked his
order calling an extra session of the legis-
lature
Young Edward Crosby hints in his will
that he killed himself because his wife had
threatened to leave him.
A Chicago divine thinks great temple
should be erected on the grounds of the
worlds fair, where leading preachers of all
religions could speak.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-02
ASSISTANT MEMBERS.

Only fear of their constituents will re-
strain the house from adopting the bill
to provide a private clerk for each MEM
Der. Those who do not hope to return
will have little interest in the matter,
and may be inclined to oppose 1t in
order that their successors may expert
ence the full measure of their labors.
But the large majority expect to be re-
elected, and will pass the bill if it can
be made to slip by without attracting
much attention. One of the Kansas
members has announced that he cannot
afford to remain in congress on account
of the expense of the duties imposed
upon him by his constituents. His
salary does not cover the outlay. 1t is
true that most of the members of the
house are burdened with the de-
mands made upon them. Some
of them employ clerks and stenog-
raphers in order to answer their CORE
spondents. This is more particularly
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-02
SHORT STOPS.

There has not been prisoner in the
Armstrong, Mo-, Jail for five years, eX-
cepting an occasional tramp who is per-
United to lodge there.
A Caledonia, Wis, cOroner's jury in
the case of Mrs. Catherine Aplichel re-
turned verdict of accidental drown
ing with the intention of suicide"
Scotchmen banqueting in London are
now entertained with music of real
Northern bagpipes, played into phono-
graph and sent to London by express.
The Salt Lake Herald says one marked
result of Mormon rule is that that city
of 1000 had no debt and the smallest
tax rate of any city in the United States
five mills a year.
A Kansas City woman. Mrs. Mary
Martin, failed in meeting the last pay
ment on her bed. and constable lifted
her sick, emaciated body upon cot
and carried away the bed.
James Mountner, of the Omaha mine,
Grass Valley, was saving through log
the other day that was thirteen inches
through. In the center was large
frog, that was cut in two pieces.
An English naval officer has invented
a pneumatic line-throwing gun. very
light and portable. which fires hollow
she'll bearing the cord to wrecked yes
sci or into bur ming building OH dry
land.
The sloop-of-war Enterprise has
record of thoroughly discontinued lot
of officers-four general courts martial,
tWenty-three summary courts martial,
sixty-three deSerterS and several score
of alleged illegal punishmeDts of en-
listed men.
A tramp piled a lot OF ties ON the
Northern Pacific track, near Portland,
Or, the other night, and then gave
warming to an approaching train. He
succeeded in being made hero and in
living high until close questioning clio
tied confession.
A sheep owned by New York state
farmer gave birth to lamb last week
with two heads. Every feature of each
head was perfectly formed and COM
plete, the heads beginning to unite just
back of the ears. Unfortunately the
queer freak did not live.
A new disinfectant has made its ap-
pearance under the name OF thlocamph.
1t is combination of camphOr with
SulphurouS acid, containing over sixty
times its volume of sulphurous acid gas,
which. upon its exposure i'll a warm
room, is gradually evolved.
The grappIe plant of the alahart
desert is said to be a real vegetable curl
osity. In its general appearance it looks
more like starfish than plant, and
each ray or arm is tipped with barbs,
which, when fastened to the wool of
sheep, have to be cut out, that being the
only way of removing them.
Henry Willard, the eminent financier,
is writing his biography for the use of
n
Germany, and the story of his early
years is written in German, while. hav-
ing been educated in France, his school
DAYS are described in French. His Dusi-
ness and social life i'll America will be
recorded in English.