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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14
COsTLF FREE SCHOOLS.

Immigrant with large flock Of chill
dfen- came to this country because
heard that education here was Tree.
Native-My poor man, you were mis-
informed. To educate that family q
children in this country will bankruE]
you.
MY goodness! Are the terms 81
high?
Nothing is charged for the teaching]
put you will have to buy about half 1
Ton OF new, standard. revised, improved
and otherwise mutilated school books
every month or ,two."-New T0rI
Weekly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

A COINCIDENCE that is very remark
able is reported from Boston. A team
ster who had been hurt by a car run
ming into his wagon brought suit for
damages against the railway company.
The case came up a few days ago, and
the jury decided to visit the scene of
the collision-a steep hill. They en-
parked in a car belonging to the de-
PENDANT, and had just reached the hill
when the car ran into a furniture waQ-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

A RECENT letter from London says the
Prince and Princess of Wales, although
most hospitable and kind toward their
guests at Sandringham, are as capri
cious as other mortals, and it is often
difficult wen for the best-bred people
to estimate to a nicely the exact point
at which intimacy may become dis
tasteful. Conduct which in the even
ing may be deemed very charming and
amusing may be resented as pre-
sumptuous the next morning.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

GEN. w. 7. SHERMAN astonishes his
friends of the Younger generation oc-
casionally by telling of the variety of
occupations in which he has been en-
gagged during his lifetime. Although
he was educated for the United States
army at West Point he has not always
been a soldier. He was, for four years,
a banker in California; he studied law
and was admitted to the bar in Kansas
City, where he practiced for two years:
he has EARNED it" at various periods
of his life; and has kept close enough
watch on various quiet investments so
that his old days will not be burdened
by want u care.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

In Georgetown, d. c., in a humble
cottage which rents for $40 a month,
lives the only surviving grandchild of
Thomas Jefferson. Her name is Mrs.
Septimia Randolph M%iekleham, widow
of David S, Meikleham, long since
dead. She is now in her 10th year,
a cultured, amiable, venerable old
lady, with two daughters and one son
in her household.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

The old brick house at 10 Washing
ton place, New York, where Commo-
dore Vanderbilt lived and died, was
sold to a fur dealer a few days ago at
a price exceeding 1910, 900, and next
year it will be torn down. The prop
erty belonged to Cornelius and Will
lam K. Vanderbilt, and had been
leased annually to the mother and
brother Of the Commodore's second
wife, who had lived there since the
death of the Wall street king.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

A GREAT discovery of zinc ore has
been made near Field, in Manitoba. A
Canadian Pacific Railway tunnel is
driven right through the lode, which is
simply one solid body Of ore. Tho ore
has always been mistaken for red gran
lite, but it turns out to be a very rich
body of zinc. 1t is at least 100 feet
wide. The ore assays IS per cent. of
zinc, 10 per cent. iron, $3.50 in gold,
and $3.50 in silver to the ton.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

A YOUNG Englishman who went to
clerk it in the Argentine Republic was
SO unfortunate as to indulge in public
1ntoxication soon after his arrival in
the country, and was astonished when,
after being arrested and arraigned in
court, he was sentenced to eight days
labor on the streets instead of a fine.
He couldn't face his acquaintance
after his term had expired, and left
the country.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

In the year 100 there was but one
newspaper in the United States. In
1870 there were 5,S71; this year there
are l6,319, the total for the United
States and Canada being 17,1O7. In
1870 there We're but $4,000 periodicals
printed in tae whole world. Now,
however, there are in the United States
alone -, 791 weeklies, 1898 monthlies,
and 1854 dailies.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

SINCE the establishment of the Wen
ma free kitchens, the number of drunk
ards is said to have greatly diminished.
The medical profession testify to nor
mous improvement in the health of the
lower classes. arrangements of the
stomach, formerly the most frequent
cases in Vienna hospitals, have de.
creased to one-third Of the number Of
ten years ago.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14
IN UNFoRrUN-ArE MILLIONAIRE.

A tall, erect man of forty-five wears
strolled along Chestnut street yester-
day, idly looking at the passers-by who
thronged the thoroughfare, saws the
Philadelphia Press. He wore a derby
hat, a dark top coat, and carried a stick
of the most approved pattern. His
clothing was cut in the latest style. and
his heavy Vandyke beard proclaimed
him to be a man Of fashion. For con-
venience he may be called Mr.. Clinton,
and he lives in New York. Mr.. Clinton
was left an orphan with $50, 900 income
when he was fourteen years old. Since
then he has been everywhere and seen
everything. He has made two trips
around the world, has hunted silver-tips
in the great divide, and has killed tigers
in the jungles. He has been on a Polar
expedition, and has tramped through
portions Of South America. Mr.. Gin
ton is at home in Siberia, and would
not be lost in Hong Kong's crooked
streets. Yes, as he said last evening.
ne is the most miserable man on earth.
He married because so many
girls lay in wait for his money, thus
making him suspicious. He doesn't
know what to do nor how to kill time.
He is by no means unknown as an
ethnologist, and is an authority on GER
tain gases. He is musical, and fond of
pictures and books. But everything
bores him. Just now he is especially
melancholy. Last summer one of his
cousins was taken seriously i'll, and a
nurse from Philadelphia was called into
requisition. The nurse is a magnificent
specimen OF womanhood, tall. 1.-the. and
agile, possessing eyes and teeth and
hair that perfectly charmed young Mr..
Clinton, who had been all over the
world. Her manners and conversation
captivated him. He fell in love, pro.
posed-aud was rejected. Since July
he has been getting miserabler and
m~iserabler." so he says, and has pro-
posed twice more to the nurse.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

The last Sultan of Turkey was ac-
customed to shut himself up with q
negro slave and his ~tavorite wife in a
secret room of his palace and there
gloat over his treasures. Plugging his
arms into a heap of gold-dust and let
ting it slip through his fingers seemed
to give him more satisfaction than gaz-
ing on his pile of jewels.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14
,srBMax1NE BRIDGE.

Il S{ib.M LfxSxNL
While the French and English are
discussing the construction of a tunnel
beneath. or a bridge across, the English
Channel. and Americans and Russians
are canvassing the possibility Of br1dg-
ing Behring Straits. a Swedish en-
gineer, Mr.. Rudolph Li1llequlst,
breaches a project for crossing the Ore
sund, a sound between Denmark and
Sweden, with neither a tunnel nor ex-
actly a bridge, but with a combination
of the two--a bridge under water. The
distance across this sound, between
Elsinore, on the Danish island of Sea-
land, and Helsingborg, on the Swedish
coast, is only about three miles.
The sound is now crossed by a ferry,
but the delays caused by the incessant
passing of vessels, as we'll as by fire.
auent stress of weather, are often bur-
lensome to passengers, and some more
expeditions means of transit has long
been demanded.
A bridge is out of the question, not
only on account of the distance, but on
account of the great quantity Of traffic
through the sound: and against a tun-
ael objections have been made which
seem to be insuperable. So it has oc-
Cured to this Swedish engineer to re-
sort to a construction which is neither
he one thing nor the other.
His proposition is to erect a viaduct
.lnder water, upon piles, at a depth
sufficient to leave ample room for
steamers Of the deepest draught to pass
above it. The viaduct will consist of
Two tubes, one within the other, the
outer tube being Of iron and the inner
of steel, and the space between them
will be filed with concrete. Within
the inner tube the railway tracks will
be carried.
The piles" upon which the whole
will be supported are not to be ordi-
nary wooden piles, but caissoms, or
metal cylinders, also filled with con-
crete. They will be placed about a
hundred feet apart.
The supports will give the structure
the character of a bridge, while to the
passenger in a train the impression will
be precisely the same as if he We're
passing through q tunnel.
The joints Of the sections of the great
tube will rest squarely upon the piles,
or abutments, and each point will be
enveloped in a coating of asphalt,
which, besides rendering the tube
water-tight, will join it to it's supports,
and render the whole structure firm
and solid.
1t is maintained that this submarine
bridge will be much less expensive
than either a tunnel or a bridge above
water. A tunnel involves vast expendi-
ture, and the immense solid abutments
which would be required in the case of
a bridge above the water will be rem
dered unnecessary by this method of
construction.
The supports will be subjected to but
a 1.-THE of the weight which an ordinary
bridge must bear, and, furthermore,
will not need to be so constructed as to
resist the pressure of winds and ice.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

The French Civil Service costs mo re
o than it did twenty years ago. In
the Budget of 1871 the amount de-
nlanded under this head was e1O, 12O,-
600. IL the Budget for 1890 the same
estimate figures for within o trihe of
Ell, 000, 600. And there is said to be
nothing whatever to show for the in
creased expenditure.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14
FALSE ALARM.

Wife Cime midnight)-Hark! Hus-
band! Wake up! hear the rustline
OF silk and the clank of chains.
Husbank--Yo do? Horrors! Then
the reports were true. Twas told this
house wa haunted.
Wife (much relieved)-Oh, is that
all? l was afraid Fido had broken
loose and was tearing my new ball
dress.-New Vork Weekly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

PRINCE BISMARCK was on one oc-
casion challenged to fight a duel by the
Austrian statesman Count Rechberg.
Both were at the time Ambassadors to
the German Diet at Frankfort.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

IT is said that nearly all the postal
clerks and carriers who become thieves
begin by stealing letters addressed to
lottery agents, which they know are
almost sure to contain money.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

A FoUR-YEAR-oLD son of William H.
Wood, of Center Square, Montgomery
County, who swallowed a carpet tack
in March, 1883, ;coughed it up a few
days ago. His throat allied continually
in the interval.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

The authorities at Nordhausen, in
Saxony, at the suggestion of the dis
trict medical officer, have issued an
order to BARRIERS to disinfect their
brushes and other implements imme-
diately after use and before they are
applied to the hair or beard of an
other customer.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

The writer in the North american
Reuieav who says that the ideal news
paper should sprint in its news col
umns nothing but that which has been
verified" will please inform anxious ed
itors how he would verify an item from
New Orleans, another from London,
and a third from Paris, about 2 o'clock
in the morning, when the molten lead
is bubbling in the stereotype room,
the steam is kissing in the press room,
and Uncle Sans mail will leave at
$3.50 a.. m.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

WHILE sinking a we'll at his new
sawmill neal Seymour. Ind, Jesse Cox
came across some large chestnut trees
thirty-fve feet below the surface in a
perfect state of preservation.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

SAMUEL CABLE, a Stark (Ohio) farm
ell, worth $50, 600, thought he was dy-
ing. and decided his property to five
children. He recovered and asked
them to restore it, but they refused,
and now he appeals to the court on the
plea that he was not of sound mind
when the deeds were made.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

A HALF-DEMENTED hermit, who is
supposed to be a victim of the Johns
town flood, has been found living in a
howell in a gulch near the Carbon Hill
bunkers not far from Tacoma, Wash.
His name is Jasper Milton, and he de-
clares that soft coal is all that he eats.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

at the University of Bologna. William
Gordenio was the first person upon
whom the title of doctor of medicine
was conferred. He received it from
the College of Asst in 1929.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

AN old lady in New Haven died the
other day and left 50, 900 "to James
Brown, of Stonington," and when
James was notified five of him APP
peared to claim the cash. As she didn't
particularize the James she wanted to
make happy, they will have to divide
the money between them.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

The Lancet says that the human
body can be enbalmed so as to insure
Identification three thousand years
after death. That may be so, but who
is to do the Identification?
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

Ii may not be known to many peo-
pie that Queen Victoria is an ardent
student of African geography, and
could pass a very creditable examina-
ton in that subject with Mr.. Stanley
as the interrogation. Her Majesty has
carefully watched the Portuguese en-
croachments, and when the news of
the outrage on the British flag reached
London it was the Queen herself who
insisted on Lord Salisbury compelling
Portugal to come to a definite under
standing without delay.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

The first cash John D. Rockefeller
ever had was a quarter, which he is
said to have earned working for a
farmer to get money to go to the circus.
He was her a poor boy, living near
Owepo. N. Y.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

The most costly book in the world is
a Bible in Hebrew. An offer of its
weight in gold was once made, and it
was ascertained that this offer amount
ed to $102, 600, which was refused, and
the volume is still in the library of the
Vatican
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

MEXICO has a right, Of course, to
subsidize a line Of steamers for the i'm
portation Of coolies from China. Labor
does not seem to have much to do with
politics in Mexico, and foreigners have
no business to interfere. But barbed
wire is rather costly, and the Mexican
Government may as well take notice
before it commits itself any further
that it will be expected to keep up a
good and sufficient rabbit-proof fence
thirty feet high along the 1,5Oo miles
Of the American boundary.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

Mrs. SARAH Heller WHITMAN, the
last love Of Edgar A. Poe, was a woman
of exquisite beauty, whose face was a
poem, and whose life was a romance.
She mourned her poet lover for more
than thirty years after his early death,
and defended him from first to last,
with all a woman's deep faith and I'M
dying love. His friends were her
friends, his enemies her enemies. He
was an idol enshrined in her heart of
hearts, to be worshiped there forever
more. In her latter years she always
dressed in white, with a veil of the
same color thrown over the back of her
head, and she sat in a room lighted by
alabaster lamps, whose shades were
lined with rose color.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

HE title of doctor was invented in
the twelfth century. The first person
upon whom it was conferred was
1rnerius. a learned professor of law,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

A Missouri farmer with a turn for
statistics has furnished a communica-
ton to his county paper on the subject
Of official salaries, in which he states
that an official who receives 81, 600 per
year salary absorbs the price Of 26,66G
bushels of corn at Is cents per bushel,
IL OF 6,666 bushels of wheat at 60 cents
per bushel, or 80 1885, bushels of oats
at IL cents, OF the price of fifty good
farm horses. He also estimates that
a farm hand at $13 per month would
have to work the year round for a
quarter of a century to earn the same
amount, and adds that in 1~S66-'67-'6S
about 5000 to 5000 bushels of corn
would have footed the bill, OF 5000
bushels of wheat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

ROBERT E. G1oE. although gerving
out a life sentence il Joliet Pxison, acts
as the Warden's coaehman and trusted
messenger.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

Love pays strange pranks with some
people. Gen" George G. slicer,
aged 81, is the handsomest man in the
lumber regions of Pennsylvania. He
has a son who is worth several thous-
and dollars ind is proprietor of a store.
The son was engaged to be married to
Anna Switzer, who is the belle Of the
village, Gen" Slicer made his son a
visit, was introduced to Anna, and in
two weeks won her affections and
eloped with her. He neve earned
more than S35 a month during his fifty.
four years existence and has not 81 tc
his name. Anna will have $40, OOC
when she is of age and young Slice1
will have a broken heart when he gets
old enough to vote.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

In Germany a railway fiagman at the
crossing at q small station thought he
had the grip when all the other employees
OF the road were getting leave of alb
sence from the same cause, and applied
to the company's doctor to be exam
ined. The doctor could not spare the
time to stop at such a small place, SO
he telegraphed the flagman to be
standing beside the track when the
train went past, with his tongue out.
and he would examine him on the fly.
The aagman dutifully stood with his
tongue out all the time the train was
slowly passing his station, and the
next day the company received from
passengers a dozen complaints Of the
experiment conduct of one of it's en-
pioyes at the station.
FRANK A. PADDOCK. a prominent
lawyer Of Glens Falls, N. Y, died the
othes day, aged 81 years. His death
was tae result Of a singular hallucina-
ton. Three years ago, while Mr.. Pad
dock WIS at his country seat in Delhi,
Delaware County, he one day read
Rider Haggard's romance, "Allan
Quatermain." The incidents narrated
in the boo!s made such a vivid impress
sion upon his imagination that that
night he dreamed that he was in the
sea swimming away from reptiles. He
thought he saw his brother standing on
a rock, stretching out his arms to save
him, and imagined that he had to dive
to same himself from some approach
ing monster. So real was the dream
that he rose to his feet and dived out
Of bed, striking his head on the floor
with such force as to cause severe in
jury. Paralysis subsequently set in as
the result of it, and although he re-
turned to the practice Of the law later
he never fully recovered from the nerv-
Gus shock occasioned by his dream, and
to which his death is directly traceable.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14

SOME of the ordinary expressions of
the Chinese are very sarcastic and
characteristic. A clustering harmless
fellow they call paper tiger" When
a man values himself overmuch they
compare him to a rat falling into a
scale and weighing itself" OVERRIDING
q thing they call ga hunchback MAX
ing a bow" A spendthrift they com
pare to a rocket which goes off at once.
Those who expend their charity on re-
mote objects, but neglect their family,
are said "to hang a lantern on a rope,
which is seen afar, but gives no light
below"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14
on, breaking two Of the windows and
shaking up the jurymen. The team
ster received a verdict for 81, 100.

JUDGE THOMAS L. BoULD1N, of Char
lotte County. Virginia, owns the plan
tation on which his grandfather and
great-grandfather I buried, and
which has been in the family 146 years,
and although he is " years of age he
sleeps in the same room he was born in
and upon the same bedstead he was
born on. Judge Bouldin shows with
pleasure the spot where stood the
cabin which his ancestress, who came
from Maryland, had erected in 1744,
and the tradition is that she wept be-
cause she found no place for her gold
lace hat.