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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

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Witness-Next day he w lec5on'
on the street, an told wandered .
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

A REVOLUTION is taking place in the
drinking habits of the Japanese. The
rice brandy called "saki," which has
been so long their national beverage,
is being supplanted by beer brewed
after the German method.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03
Raving Crazy.

Witness-An' then Mr.. Sims thar
lowed ne was q rooster. AN strapped
on tin bill. an went to pickin' corn
with the chickens.
Probate Judge-Probsbly the ax-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

I this season of pic
MICS, vacations, aud
'rambles in the coun-
try, thousands of
women and children,
and some men, be-
come poisoned by
contact with or the
exhalations from poi
son ivy and poison
oak. Apropos of this
subject, DR.. e. M.
H al 9, of Chicago,
contributes the fol-
lowing to the Inter
Oooo,1. "Tho mi.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

The sudden, unexpected death of
three persons has saved the life of one
man. Aero Policy, West Virginian,
was to be tried for an assault on Julia
Hester, the penalty of which, in that
State, is death. The only witness was
the girl herself, her sister and her
mother, and all three of these were
killed few days ago in railroad dis
aster on the Chesapeake and Ohio. The
case against Policy has, therefore, nee
essarily been dismissed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03
bruised and the berries are very sour.
It has no poisonous effects.

NOT all the wisdom of the world is
contained in books. If you doubt this,
go and listen to nineteen-year old
youth while he instructs his pa.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

Old and young leaves of poison ivy
rhus tox.). The older leaves are
bluntly serrated; the young leaves have
their edges smooth.
This illustration shows the leaves
and stem of poison oak or poison su-
mach (rhus venenata). The edges Of
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

DAVIS DALTON. the American who
swan across the English channel, says
that he found the temperature of the
water to change six times on his way
across, and this added to the cause of
the extreme exhaustion he suffered.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03
POPULAR SCIENCE.
BY PROF. j. F. ELsoM.
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

The French government is said to
pay newspapers 100000 in subsidy.
That is not exactly the method in this
country. The editors are sent on for
eign missions or given lucrative Offices
at home
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

JOHN BROWN, son of John Brown of
Harper's Ferry fame, lives quietly at
Putin Bay, o.. where he cultivates a
small vineyard and fruit farm. He is
an old man now, having been one of
the prominent persons in the stirring
period in which his father figured. He
is much annoyed by tourists, whoinsis
upon hunting him up and discussing
the exciting events around Harper's
Ferry just prior to the war.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

In some hospitals in Europe it is Gus
tomary to allow visitors to converse on
certain days by means of a telephone
in waiting-room with patients in the
wards, and this arrangement has been
found to work admirably, as it not in
frequently happens that the nervous
state Of the patient or the possibility of
infection of the visitor renders closer
communication inadvisable.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

ONLY fifteen cases of insanity in any
way referable to the effects of the
Johnstown flood have been discovered,
and of these seven had been insane be-
fore the food and had been restored.
OF the eight who had not been previous
ly insane two were quite old and one
Incorporate. Finally seven of these in
sane persons recovered under hospital
treatment.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

ordinary corpse at Very short notice,
but when man requires funeral prep
arations of an unusual kind his prn-
dent and sensible course is to getevery-
thing ready in advance. So thought
Mr.. Ritter. of Fayetteville, Ark, who
measures sixty inches around the waist
and weighs 500 pounds. Knowing that
the coffin which man Of his great size
would require might, if called for sud
denly, tax the lumber yards and UNDER
taker shops of Fayetteville beyond their
capacity, he has had his coffin built. 1t
is an imposing structure, with handles
for twelve pall-bearers. Mr.. Ritter
now feels that he is ready to go when
ever the Lord may call, and is conf
dent that while great soldiers and
prominent statesmen have had larger
funerals than his will be, none of them
have ever had larger coffin.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

SOME one has invented an electric
mouse-trap. It consists of an electric
cage containing cheese. The mice natu-
rally approach it for purposes of in
vestigation, but the instant they touch
the wires an electric current strikes
them dead.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

The people of California are said to
have the impression that when Senator
Leland Stanford dies he will leave his
vast fortune of $4O,O0o,0o0 to the
State
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

PRocRAs11NAI1oN may be the thief of
time, but it was never known to get
anything else.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

sonous effects of both the ivy
and oak (rhus tox. and r.
ven.) are often very distress
, ing, and SO severe as to dis
able the victim from work for
a long time.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

MONEY lenders in Italy used to dis
play the money they had to lend out on
banco, or bench. When one of these
money lenders was unable to continue
business his bench or counter was
broken up, and lie himself was spoken
of as bancorotto, !. e., o bankrupt.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

An undertAker's establishment is
always ready to attend the burial of an
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03
VINES TO BE STUNNED.

How to Distinguish Poisonous from Harm
less shrubs-Poison Ivy and Poison
N,Ir
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

An army officer who had been travel
ing in the far Northwest says that the
largest trees in the world are to be
found in the vicinity of Mount Tacoma.
Many of them are $50 feet high, and
placed alongside the big trees of Cali
fornia they would rear their lofty tops
more than 100 feet above the tallest of
them. There are trees at the base of
the mountain, he says, whose foliage is
SO far above the ground that it is impos-
sible to tell to what family they belong
except by the bark. II wish, !" he adds,
that some Of these prodigious trees
could be exhibited at the worlds fair. {"
Undoubtedly they would he wonder
full sight for every visitor.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

The record of this year has been
such that people wait with certainty,
amounting almost to stolidity, the re-
port of some serious disaster for every
day in the week; but there is IN ele-
ment in the matter that sets one think
ing, aside from the occurrences of acct
dents. How does it happen that there
is SO apt to be a coincidence in the
character of the crimes and the acci-
dents of given day of given week :?
Why, because car, upon switchback
railroad in Pennsylvania, breaks loose,
runs down mountain and kills num-
Der of passengers and employees, should
another car, nearly 5000 miles away,
in California, do the same thing? One
can readily understand how the infu-
ence of example may lead persons
whose minds are not we'll adjusted to
initiate the crimes of others. but it is
not easy to account for the condolences
which do not involve volition.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-03

proposals for marriage, and. giving q
description of herself, she also enumer-
ated the qualifications she required in
her s1itor. Among those qualifications
she mentioned that he must be the
owner OF real estate. She received
many letters in reply, but one of them
was strictly original. The writer said
that he possessed all that the lady de-
sired in her future husband. He was
good looking, he held responsible po-
sition, had many friends and was re-
ceived in good society, and could sup
port family comfortably. AS to real
estate, he had that, too; he was owner
of plot of ground in a cemetery which
was large enough to accommodate him,
a wife and six children. The lady Sc
lected the writer of this letter from the
whole number of suitors. She opined
that young man of his position who
had thought of acquiring graves for
himself and large family before he
was married was surely worthy of the
endowment of her hand and heart.
AWAY over in the extreme northeast
corner of the State of Virginia is the
most curious city ever seen. The en-
tire corner of the State has for time out
of mind been owned by the Franklin
family. The land was absolutely of no
use, but the part of the estate under
water was good for oysters, the flavor
of which made them famous. For
nearly fifty years everyone and any one
helped themselves to the bivalves. It
was not, in fact, until the death of the
owner that any effort was made to
make any money out of the only pro-
duct of the property. From that time
on the boom in Franklin City was
on, until to-day there are hundred
houses Every house stands on piles,
and is from three to four feet above the
surface of the ground. The best and
most pretentious structure of the city
is huge frame hotel, in which the
rates are seven cents a day, with
liberal reduction for permanent board
ers and families. One of the most curl
ous things are the wells Most of these
are covered with water at all times. 1t
seems quite strange to be drawing pure.
fresh spring water from the bottom OF
the salt water bay.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-15
WHAT GAJTSES IT.

The scientists have been active and
somewhat ingenious in finding solutions
of the unwonted miidness of the past
two winters. That given by Sergeant
DUNN, who operates the weather bu-
reau at New York city. is of special in
terest. as itindicates causes that seem
to be of a permanent character. His
statement, which should be based
upon reliable figures, is that the
warmer belt has been south of
the forty-third degree of latitude,
and that north of that the weather
has generally been colder. This, ac-
cording to Mr.. DUNN's theory, has been
due to the alleged fact that the storms
have gone further north the past two
winters than previously. The vacuum
caused by them has drawn in the warm
waves from the south. This movement
of the storm forces to higher latitude
is due to the widespread Irrigation now
prevalent in Colorado, Wyoming and
Nebraska. When this is pr1cticed
further south, down toward Texas, the
former storm path will be resumed and
the old-fashioned winters will return.
If this is the solution, the friends of the
milder winters may oppose the extern
sion of the irrigation schemes further
Sooth
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-15
Value of Personal Charms.

Talmage in Ladies' Home Journal
Young women are often led to depend
for happiness upon personal charms.
Do not be beguiled into such belief.
Beauty is such subtle thing, it does.
not seem to depend upon facial proper
tions, or upon the sparkle of the eye, OF
upon the flush of the cheek. You some
times find it among irregular features.
1t is the soul shining through the face
that makes one beautiful. But alas for
those who depend upon mere personal
charms. They will come to diSapDOint-
ment and to great fret. There are so
many different opinions about what are
personal charms; and then sickness,
and trouble, and age do make such raw
ages. The poorest god that a women
ever worships is her own face. The
saddest sight in all the world is women
who has built everything on good looks,
when the charms begin to vanish. Oh,
how they try to cover the wrinkles and
hide the rayageS of timei When Time,
with iron-shod feet, steps on face. the
hoof-marks remain and you cannot hide
them. 1t is silly to try to hide them.
/ think the most repulsiye fool in all the
world is an old fool!
/ never could understand why a
woman should be ashamed about get
ting old. 1t is a sign, it is prima facie
evidence, that you have behaved toler-
ably well, or you would not have lived
to this time, The grandest thing, l
think. is eternity, and that is made up of
countless years. When the book of
books would set forth the attractiyeness
of Jesus Christ, it says: "His hair was
as white as snow" But when the color
goes from the cheek, and the luster
from the eye, and the spring from the
step, and the gracefulness from the
gait, alas! for those who have built
their time and eternity upon good looks.
But all the passage of years cannot
take out of ones face benignity. and
kindness, and compassion, and faith.
Culture your heart and you culture
your face.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-15
COMPULSORY VOTING.

A billin the Maryland legislature pro-
poses to make voting compulsory. Sew
eral states have laws to compel children
to attend school, and some insist that a
man shall be able to call for his beer in
English before he can be an American
sovereign: but it is aforementioned that
any state directly imposes fine for not
voting. Some cities in Missouri make
the payment of the poll tax contingent
upon the discharge of this fundamental
duty of freemen. The Maryland bill
imposes fine of S. aud costs OH all who
can vote and don't. This will hardly
become law. Maryland is a Demo-
cratic state, and Democrats generally
are patriotic enough to vote without
compulsion. 1t may be admitted of
many Republicans, too, that laws are
needed to keep them from voting more
than once, rather than not at all. Still,
more recently there is little occasion to
complain that they are doing more than
their share of the voting.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-15
ODD ITEMS.

Queen Eiizabcth's prayer book is
shown in the Tudor exhibition in Lon
don. 1t is bound in enameied gold and
printed by A. Barker in 1874, and is one
of the chief wonders of the Tudors
shown.
Mrs. John McWilliams, a Nebraska
wife. petitions in the court to restrain
her lawful husband from patting her
on the head, poking her in the ribs and
talking baby talk to he'll"
On tomb in Blairville. Penn,
cemetery may be read this curious cpl
taph: "A. B. was good son, a loving
husband. fond father, an able lawyer,
but an honest man."
The telegraphic postal card is great
convenience in Paris. Open cards of
this kind are delivered anywhere in
Paris with an hour after they are
mailed for six cents; closed ones, CIV
ing as much room as an ordinary letter,
for 10 cents.
There is woman in Glynn county,
Georgia, who has spoken to nobody but
two women and little girl in sixteen
years. She lives within two miles of a
railroad and can hear the whistle of the
engine every time it passes her house,
yet she has never seen an engine or
ridden on train. Sc has been living
at the same place for sixteen years.
The bill for a dinner in Paris res
taurant recently included the item !:
Pas de dessert, 3francs"-no dessert, 8
francs.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-15

leaders of the party to an open revolt,
in the hope that some one of them may
be able to snatch the prize in 1892. AS
result, combinations in the interest or
other candidates are being made all
over the country. The BLAINE parti-
sans are busy, ALGER is getting in his
work with the Grand Army, WINDOW
is using the treasury patronage. to his
own benefit, TONI REED is making the
most of his parliamentary record, AL
LIsoN sleeps with one eye open and
keeps the open eye on the NOM
nation in 1892, FORAKER is sting
ing under defeat which he
charges to administration treacherv,
WARNER MILLER has painful recol-
lection of the bruises he got when he
fell outside of the breastWorks. Mr..
PLATT, MATT QUAY and .'Block"
DUDLEY are putting their heads to-
gether to find candidate who is not in
doetrinated with the peculiar Sunday
school principle that it is right to be-
come the beneficiary of fraud but
wrong to reward the perpetrators of it.
Altogether, there is very rebelliouS
condition of affairs existing in the Re-
publican party, and the presidents card
announcing himself a candidate for re-
election did not appear a minute too
soon.
Read between the lines, the presi-
dents public announcement of his can
didacy is notice to the great army OF
federal officeholders to stand loyalty by
their chief. 1t means that the office
holder who goes into the BLAINE or
WINDOW or ALGER combination will be
guillotined. The president proposes to
boss the party and handle the party
machine in his own interest. He has
established his headquarters in the
saddle, and will personally conduct his
own campaign, which is the only re-
source left to a captain with mutinous
command.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-15
OUR HoMELY FARE.
Count G1eichen Thinks It Too
Squashy and Sloppy.

OOuuC UIcICueh 1HIuAS IOO
Squashy and sloppy.
Count GIeichen. of the British navy,
in an article on New York In Murray'S
Magazine, says: '.It was o'clock when
/ reached the hotel, and time for dinner.
On the principle of eating foreign food
in a foreign country, ordered all the
strangest sounding plates OH the bill of
fare: clam, soup, pumpkin pie, hominy,
buckwheat cakes, sweet potatoes, very
hasty wild turkey, and cranberries. The
Jsult was a squashy. sloppy meal, at
the end of which my stomach was full,
but didn't feel as if I'd had square
dinner. The only thing did not follow
the American system in was drinks, for
they drink nothing but coffee and such
like Stops at dinner, and then adjourn
to bar to correct their lnsides with
cocktails.
After diuner to Days theater, where
the bills announced the first night of a
new American piece, IAN International
Struggle" or some name like that.
However, when got there that piece
was not being given 1T was 1.-The
SQUIRE" by Pinero. AS every one
knows. the Daily company is first-rate,
but still l wished they would not
spring surprises on one, and
act one play when they have adver-
tised another. Another slight surprise
was that, having stood up in my place
to let lady pass, the next moment
found me seated on the ground in an
unbecoming heap, the seat of my chair
having sprung up when did. This is
one of the innumerable Yankee mo
tions," and is all right when you know
it, but you've got to know it first.
Otherwise the theater is comfortable
enough, and lavishly, not to say richly,
furnished and decorated.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-15
STORY OF A DAY.

Californian Corbett bests Dominick Nc
Caffrey.
ST. Paul's base ball team defeats Mime
Apolis ii to 10.
The Gilbert Starch works at Des Moines
are destroyed by fire.
Thomas Cochran Jr. gives new motto to
he chamber of commerce.
Preparation are being made to resume
work on De Lesseps' big ditch.
Miss Cody wins the Grand National stakes
at Clifton, a run of four miles,
Judge Flandrau presents portrait of Joe
Rolette to the Minnesota Historical society.
Millionaire Lehman, of Chicago becomes
violently insane from softening of the brain.
A singular and mysterious shoot lg ARRAY
occurred sunday night on the Fort Smelling
road.
Henry Willard was entertained by ana made
his proposition to the Twin City Commercial
club.
Aid. MCGOWAN. Brueshaber and City Clerk
Haney, of Minneapolis, were indicted for
bribery.
Boston police prevent the proposed fight
between Godfrey and Patsy Cardiff, of Min
neapolis.
Enough dynamite to blow the whole town
to atoms is found near the state reformatory
at St Cloud.
Northern Cheyenne Indians are on the war
path i'll Montana, and troops are asked for to
round them up.
The Pan-American congress declares in
favor of an extradition treaty that will cover
every class of crime.
The CLAN Iular swelling on Lawrence Bar
rett's neck will prevent him from ever again
appearing on the stage
HIowans who are stockholders in the Stickney
railroad system bring suit to declare Illegal
alleged excessive bonding of the line.
Both branches of congress adjourn without
transacting any business as a mark of re-
spect to the memory of Samuel j. Randall.
Robert Ray Hamilton need not give his
wife Eva any more money to enable her to
defend the action brought by him for divorce.
The supreme court of the United States af-
firms the decision of the. circuit court of Cal
fornia authorizing the discharge of Deputy
Marshal Maggie, who shot and killed Judge
Terry.
Premier Greenway of Manitoba, will be
summoned to testify as to what he knows
about the finding of woman's clothing in q
room he is said to have occupied in a Winni-
peg hotel.
The body of Clerk Meyer. murdered by his
employer Phillipsen. in Copenhagen, Den
mark, is found among the un claimed goods
in the New York custom house, packed in a
barrel of lime.
Citizens of Butte. Mont, by their votes
condemn the rejection of the vote of Precinct
Sd last fall. The Democrats elect their can
didate for mayor and six out of seven alder
men. Anaconda goes Democratic by 400
majority.