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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

Three meals, off the leavings Of Som.
tocrat! Ugh! Twenty cents! Fho ass q
What did you git?" wv
What did I get? 1 was Offered ..
shirts and pair of pants. Told thu Y, y
meaning but misguided woman Nv
wasn't an old clothes man. and ecom,,aaa
ed her to sell them to Jew. lug LUG
meals or shirts or trash OF any liz
takes money to do business with me- aug
in a dollar and forty cents to-day. WI
want meals walk into a restauran!aa
order 'om. When Iwant shirts / v
Cheap Johns up the street and hnssoo
Shirts! Cold victuals! Git out y,
sight! You're a disgrace. a burninu
grace to the profession. you are"
Elm extreme cold weather. when cha j
cury reaches "bulbwards," the s.a
sometimes suffer. Then it is hard "
cure the price of q lodging. and man W
driven to eXtremities. AT such times
ever. the police stations are thrown q,
and great numbers ACCOMMODATE
kept from freezing. The surplus cells
filled and as many more are lodsed =
the broad flagstones which cover them
hundred and more are often stowed !
in a single police station. In the mn,
they are given a duffer and q bowl of az
and sent adrift.
Most tramps are made SO by drink
that monster continues to rule them
an iron hand. Most of the money he,
or stolen by them finds its way to the a
saloons and barrel houses" MANY
resorts are supported by money Be-,
under the prctense that the supplics;
starving, or is without the means ~
curing a place to sleep. These low sail
are the principal loafing places Of tra
during tho day. The investmelr oil
cents in a drink entities them to !
| themselves at the fire and lounge abo1
a time. Soon. however. they are III
out again. to procure the price Of and
drink, with the ACCOMMODATING -treedd
the saioon.'
During a long and cold winter num
become sick and find their way TO thai
pital, and later to the potter's field
as survive do not needlessly prolong
irksome city lifo. but depart early cal
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

NEAR Healdsburg, Cal, is redwood
tree twenty-four feet in diameter,
within the hollow of which squatter
and his family have taken up their
abode. A few days ago q hupter was
attracted to the spot by the sound of
voices. Tc close the opening in the
tree rude door had been constructed
of deerskins. Inside the tree benches
and tables had been constructed OF
redwood bark fastened together by
wooden pins.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

A LADY we'll known in Boston society
having been informed that the poet
Whittier, when he received an inspira-
ton. was won't to retire to a certain
corner of certain room and there
kneel, while he reduced his thought to
words, at once, with her own fair
hands. made handsomely embroidered
cushion. This she conveyed herself to
Oak Knoll, and formally presented it
to Mr.. Whittier, although she had not
had the slightest previous acquaintance
with the poet. The emotion of the
later upon receipt of this attention can
scarcely be described, but they are
more easily imagined than is the spec
tacle of the good old man Juggling a
pillow about with him to kneel upon
in the event of bright thought strik-
ing him.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31
Sundays in England.

The question of Sunday obser
is one which disturbs the cler'
England more, perhaps, than
other, says an exchange. In
places the clergymen themselves
in order to secure some sort OF r.
for the day, inaugurated y
ing that as soon as the church
ring, the players shall leave the !,
and attend to their religious q
An effort is also being maa
encourage the opening OF mt'
and picture galleries on SUNDAY
position is taken that it is BEL
provide some innocent anus
than to allow the men to ldle
the streets and otherwise pas
Sabbath in vicious idleness.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

A REMARKABLY fine specimen of me-
teoric iron has just been received at
the North Carolina State Museum from
Rockingham County. Its greatest
length is twelve inches, with an aver
age breadth of eight inches, and it is
about two inches thick. Its general
shape is fiat, though somewhat concave
on one side and convex on the other, as
if broken off on the outer surface of a
rounded and larger mass. The speci-
men is coated with thick crust of
dark-brown rust, and weighs twenty
five and three-quarters pounds.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

keep off the cold. and frost through sole
less shoes bites his toes; in short. when
winter is at hand. tho tramp leaves his IA
miiiar. much-loved Stamping ground"
and turns his face cityward, there to enter
upon another phase OF his hybrid exist
ence.
The fowl. which. answering from
time to time the shrill call of its leader and
sailing gracefully away to the southward.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

AN indignant relict makes her pro-
test to the New York Tribune against
the indignity thrust upon widows by
the ungrammatical compiler Of obitu-
ary notices. When she dies this par
ticular widow insists that she does not
want any fool editor to put her down
as "Mehitable, widow of the late Jona-
than Jones'" This lady very properly
feels,that all the facts can be presented
to the public, and at the same time
with correct grammatical construction,
by saying: "Mehitable, widow Of Jona-
than JONES'"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

PRESIDENT CARNoT has accepted a
copy of the Breton Bible, the first and
only translation from the original
tongues existing in this language. The
book was presented by the Rev. DIR.
Bullinger on behalf of the Trinitarian
Bible Society, of London, the publish
ers, and by Pasteur Lecoat, of Tremee,
Brittany, the translator, who We're re-
ceived in audience by special appoint
ment. These gentlemen presented at
the same time to M. Carnot a copy of
the first and only collection of Breton
hymns, by NJ. Lecoat, set to sixty-six
old Breton airs, collected by DIR. Bull
inger from the lips of Breton peasants
and afterward harmonized.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

CARTooN1sr GILLIAN, who ought to
be good authority, corrects the popu-
lar impression that the feelings of pub
lie men are hurt at finding themselves
caricatured. On the contrary, most
public men like it and invite it. They
send their photographs to the cartoon
list in their favorite attitudes. and as
sist the artist all they can. When Mr..
Gillian pictured the late Mr.. Cox as a
clown, that CHEEKY gentleman sent the
cartoonist his compliments and full
set of his writings. bound in morocco.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31
A PRIMARY teacher in one of the

A PRIMARY teacher in one of the
schools of Independence, Kan, was
talking to her class about peace-mak-
ers, and asked, "What is a peace
maker?" Two hands were raised one
said, "a peace-maker makes pieces of
things; the other, He makes pieces
for us to speak" Yet some persons
think that if child, on being asked if
it wants to so to heaven, raises its
hand, it should at once be received in
to the church and admitted to the holy
communion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

thing else. She had charge of lot OF
little folks, and it was not until num-
Der of anxious mothers appeared at
the schoo1-room door that she discov-
cred anything wrong. Then she learned
that instead of it's being eleven o'clock,
as she supposed, it was in reality al
most one o'clock.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

GENERAL CROOK is one of the most
unassuming men possible. There is
nothing about his face, figure, carriage,
clothes, cut of his whiskers, or style OF
hair, to denote the remarkably success
full soldier-the man whose influence
with the red aborigines is almost abso-
Lutte. His wife, on the contrary, with
her plump, erect figure, white hair
combed back from striking, almost
masculine face, is noticeable in any as
semblage. She is the daughter of al
old Marylander, now dead, whose heart
and soul were pinned to the success Of
the Confederacy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

gogues were recently opened within
the space of ten days, and the city now
has forty-seven of these places Of wor-
ship, which is larger number than
can be found in any other city in the
world. The Hebrew population has
doubled in ten years. Some trades
thew almost entirely control.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

A FRENcHMAN who smoked excess
sively for sixty-two years is now suffer
ing from motor hemiplegia and sensory
anasthesia. A terrible warning, this,
for the cigarette fiend.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

The word tramp" is generic term and
comprises many species. between which
the universal points of resemblance are q
loathing Of work and q passionate love OF
variety, both in diet and scene.
From the plain Specification OF the term.
the tramp, rs class. first earned the title
upon long stretches of country road: turn:
pixies. and railway tracks. 1t is amid rural
scenes that he forgets whatever trade or
by slow gradations becomes more bearded.
dirtier. raggeder. and, if possible. more
lazy and better contented with his vagrant
lot.
AS the tramp is the child OF the country
1t is there. upon his native heath. that he
become the historian of his class. With
country people and those who dwell in
villages and towns he is familiar sight.
and in his own proper person is known
Aot;po ,yhatbar nm the STAGE of the then
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31
~ Acting whether on the stage OF the thea
1T Tow. +Eo of

has ever been ac-
counted u pleasure
able occupation. TO
this feeling your
tramp offers no eN-
ception. When the
generous crop of
melons and fruits
has been harvest
ed, and corn. unfit
for roasting-ears.
is ripening and
hardening in tho
shock: when the
shelter of Il hedge
or haystack no
longer Suffices to
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

HE waters. II q v II &
flowed by way of rivu-
let, creek, and river
to the mighty ocean,
return again in gentle
rain-drops to gladden.
the green valley from
whence they started
forth: birds migrate
with the changing sea.
sons; indeed. all nat
ure seems to move in
circles. to which rule
those children of nat
ure, "tramps," form no
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

GospAT1N APosroLoFF, young Cos
sack engineer, has designed "bateau
plongeur" which will dive into the
Atlantic off the English coast and
come up in New York harbor twenty
six hours later. 1t is the old story of
being shaped like fish, with a spiral
ridge on the outside, running around
it twice, which in some way or other
will be made to revolve.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA of Spain, who
was turned out of the kingdom twenty
years ago. thinks the outlook for mon
archs is discouraging. If monarch
is good-natured and liberal, sedition is
encouraged to break out: if he is Sc
we're in suppressi.,g sedition his harsh
ness is made . pretext for revolution.
Do what he Will or turn as he may he
is sure to be beaten in the end. The
ex-Queen says that her grandson
keeps his throne simply because the
Spaniards are too chiyalrous to send
into exile young widow and a father.
less child.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

The late Vicar of Fotheringay, in
his passage through the bankruptcy
court, acknowledged that he had striv-
en- to redeem his fortunes by backing a
horse or two, but he had no luck.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

The bear which Squire Schlogg shot
near Bridgeport, N. j., a few days ago,
gave about eighty families their first
taste of bear meat, and furnished nice
rug for the squire's daughter Susie.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

PROFESSIONAL rat-catchers receive q
salary of 81, 500 per annum. There are
only ten of them in the United States.
But there is no danger of the profess
sion dying out; twelve or thirteen
thousand of last summers medical col
lege graduates will be hunting around
for jobs this winter.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31
A TRAMPs' END.

to see the first violets bloom by the sl
country lanes. and taste the sweet butt
which the fresh spring grass has imp|
tho color OF gold.
And so on. until one day they are mi
from their trail among the farms and
lunch counter in the city, and theirI
tramp is ended at an unmarked grave.
DWIGHT BALD1
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

QUEEN VICTORIA lately gave her con-
sent to the abolition of number of
useless court appointments. including
the mastership Of the buckhounds, but
Lord Salisbury declined to make the
sweeping changes involved because he
needed the patronage to keep his party
friends together in the House of Lords.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

A D1L1GENr deliver has discovered
that the use of "down" as transitive
verb did not originate with writer's on
sporting topics, but has the authority
of Sir Philip Sidney, who, three hun
bred years ago, concocted this line
"To down proud hearts that would not
willing die"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

A TEACHER of one of the Cincinnati
schools made strange mistake the
other day. Her clock in some manner
went wrong, and while all the scholars
in the other school-rooms were dis
missed for dinner she kept on teach
ing, entirely ignorant of time or any,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

EM1N BEY has two relations in this
country, it is stated-his fathers Sis
ter, Mrs. J. P. Robson. Of Pittsburgh,
and a nephew Cher SOM who has served
as Mayor of Terre Haute.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

AN Englishman has bought the con-
tents of the royal castle of Nuremberg,
containing the most complete collection
of instruments of torture extant, cost
ing $4,000 in all. There is library
of three thousand volumes, giving the
history of crime and torture for many
centuries.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

A NEWSPAPER agent, being told by
an old lady that it was no use to sub
scribe for the papers, as Mother Ship
ton said the world was coming to an
end this year, said: "But won't you
want to read an account of the whole
affair as soon as it is over?" "That I
will" answered the old lady. and she
subscribed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

ALowER SoucoN, Northum berland
County, Pennsylvania, farmer, while
butchering the other day, struck bull
lock with sledge-hammer and left the
animal for dead. When he returned
from his breakfast the animal was fin
fishing chest of meal
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

The cremation idea seems to find its
largest number Of adherents and sup
porters among Americans, in spite of
the fact that the Germans are sup
posed to be the most progressivein this
respect.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31
THE AMERICAN TRAMP.
AS MIGRATORY IN HIS HABITS AS A
WATERFOWL.

In the Summer He Invndes the Rural Dis
tricts, but Frost and Cold Drive Him TO
tho City, Where He Becomes "B"m- =
His Mode of Lifc-The Final End.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

In unloading bananas at the New
York wharves the stevedores frequent
~ encounter scorpions and snakes,
which have curled up under the banana
heads in search Of long nap and sleep
right through the trip to New York.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

RUSSIA is increasing her field artil
1ery. Hitherto each brigade had six
batteries of eight guns each, but now
each brigade will have eight batteries
of eight guns, or total Of sixty-four
guns, instead Of forty-eight as hitherto.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

ACCORDING to General Crook, Sit
ting Bull has no reputation among the
Indians as o brave; he is only a medicine
man. How lucky it is for us that the
indians do not send out their braves to
eight the Government troops!
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

THREE men and one surveyor laid
out the largest part of Manhattan ISL
and in 1918.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

ErHELBERTA ANGELINA MARGuERITA
ArGUsrINA PATTERSON is the name of
. Belmont County. Ohio, schoolgirl.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31
Paganini and the Cabman.

The celebrated violinist, rag
had once to give concert at me
Felice in Genoa, and being la
drove in cab. On aiighting bev
the usual fare to the cabman' W
fused it, saying that q great ma"
was able to play as we'll on one
as on four, ought to give HIM az
double the fare. !:
Every well" answered Pagan II.
will pay you double when you " "
able to drive me to the theatei .
wheel. "-Pick-Me-Up Up,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

The Jews are said to be rapidly in
creasing in numbers, wealth and infu-
enoe in New York. Four new syna-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

A CIRCUS elephant sold in Philadel-
phia the other day brought 81, 700.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

WHY not pour the drink into Oh :.
ter? It is destined to the gu
last. Why not pour it there h az
and not wait to strain IT. 'i''c
man. and spoil the st'asnef
work?
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31
By BLANK & BLANK.

FRENCH newspapers refer to Buffalo
Bill rs civilian lie Butf1e."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

A MYSTERY of the Attic regions may
be cleared up next year if the season is
open. This mystery is: Where do
the whales go when ice begins to set in
along the Alaskan coast? Whalemen
know they go eastward, and it is sup
posed they congregate about the mouth
Of the great Mackenzie River, but this
and the region to the northeast of the
rivers mouth are practically unknown
territory. The Pacific Steam Whaling
Company, of San Francisco, has just
purchased strong steamer, which will
be sent to the Attic next spring with
orders to push through to the mouth
of the Mackenzie The reason for this
is that whalebone is rising in price, and
this seasons catch showed that the
whales are rapidly decreasing in their
usual feeding grounds.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

A TREASURE owned by Mr.. Bernard
Quaritch is the MS. prayer-book car
ried by the first Earl of Shrewsbury
at the battle Of Chatillon in 1443, in
which both he and his son was slain.
It was discovered, as is supposed, after
the fight by some Bretons, who took it
to their province, where it remained
until about forty years ago. There is
some reason to think it was written
during the Earl's captivity in France,
and it is probable that it was the work
of his chaplain. 1t contains many
English devotional and patriotic
rhymes in the style of the Benedictine
monk Lydgate, some of whose poetical
work it includes. By a fortunate
chance, several missing pages, long
separated from the main work, have
now been recovered.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

JEFFERSON DAVIS first became ac-
quainted with Lucius +. Northrop ut
West Point the latter being one Of the
youngest cadets. One day an officer
on duty insulted young Northrop and
the fiery South Carolinian resented it
with blow. 1t was Davis duty as
captain OF the corps of cadets, to re-
port the matter, but he had noticed the
unprovoked insult and admired the
spirit with which the young cadet
promptly resented it, and he passed
the matter over. From that moment
Davis and Northrop became friends.
and when the Southern Confederacy
was organized at Montgomery, Ala,
with Jefferson Davis as its provisional
President, he invited Northrop to be-
come the Commissary General of the
Confederate army.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

TIE old adage, that "there is no fool
like an old fool, receives fresh illustra-
ton from West Union, Ind. A dis
patch from there says: Paul Hill, an
old resident, over seventy years of age.
was called recently to Pennsylvania by
the spirit Of his former wife through q
medium. Taking his earthly partner
with him he went to Hop Bottom,
where he was induced to leave his wife
and live with his spirit affinity. The
medium obtained his moneys, 600
and his wife came back. His eyes are
now opened to the fraud, and he will
try to recover the money he gave up.
1t is said that his wife's spirit wanted
some apples, whereupon he bought and
gave the medium 200 barrels. Silk
dresses and other material things were
offered to the ghost, and appropriated
by the woman of flesh, until he is pen
niless."
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-01-31

PARCELS sent by post are subject to
hard usage before they reach their des-
tination, and if carelessly tied up the
contents are apt to be lost or destroy
ed. Whatever the contents they must
be as snugly packed as possible and
tied with strong cord. The narrow
pieces of ribbon that often come around
handkerchiefs, and the bits of nice
Irvine if saved will come handy here.
If photographs, cards, pressed flowers,
ETC., are laid between two pieces of
pasteboard little larger than the
thing sent, and notches made in the
center Of all four sides in which to
tightly tie the strings, they will, as a
general thing, come out in good condi-
ton. Stout, white paper is the best
for the outside wrapper, and the adj
dress written clearly in some conspicu-
GUS place will help insure for it safe
delivery.