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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-09

1.-THE match is off, remarked SquilllSin,
as the newly married pair started on their
wedding gtour.--Binghamton Republican.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-09
New and Elegant Train Service.

The train service on the New York Cen
trail is being constantly improved. Never
before in the history of the Company were
there so many fine trains being run on this
line, and the business is steadily increasing
Last year, the Company carried over Is, 900,
900 passengers, and it is expected this yeaI
the number will be considerably larger. 3
SARCASM is all very well in its way, but
when it's way is your way, and it isn't your
sarcasm, you are not likely to enjoy it
Somerville Journal. af-r. ts.r
BRONCHITIS is cured by frequent small
doses OF Pisos Cure for Consumption.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-09
RAlN! RAIN! RAIN!

If there's one set of men who appreciate good
Fish Brand slicker" costs him less per | year than
any garment made. Did you know it rairs or
SHOWS one day in three the whole year throughi
Fish Brand Slicker" " makes every day pleasant
day to its lucky owner Go anywhere with it in
rain, hail, sleet, snow, or blow, it is wind and
water proof Costs less than rubber, and lasts ten
times as long Rubber is good for show days. but
wear and hard weather, get the. "Fish Brand
Slicker." Every good thing has its imitation, so
has the /" Fish Brand Slicker." Look out. Be-
wh TGad. pon aeeept
any inferior coat when you can have the Fish
Brand Slicker" delivered without extra cost. Par.
ticulars and illustrated catalogue free.
a. J. TOWER, Boston, Macs.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-09

RED, angry eruptions yield to the action
oE Glenns Sui hur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, so cents.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-09

THE lazy bootblack does not improve each
shining hour. He should take lesson from
Howdoth, the little busy Been. o. Plea
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-09
FOR GALL STONES,
BILE BEANS.

Having used Smiths Bile Beans in my
family l have no hesitancy in recommending
them to those suffering from biliousness chills
and fever, etc.
]. D. GAINEY, Limestone, Fla.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-09

Gratffvinp to All.

The high position attained and the univer-
sal acceptance and approval of the pleasant
liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs, as the
most excellentlaxative known, illustrate the
value of the qualities on which it's success
is based and are abundantly gratifying to
the California Fig Syrup Company.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-09

WOULDN'T the detectives achieve better
results if they were shod with "hunting
bootsl"-Shoe and Leather Reporter.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1890-08-09

e76 OofoQ16fl 90 A MONTH can be made
9IJ,SztU0Z1U,&2 working for u S. Persons pre-
terred who can furnish horse and give their whole
time to the business. Spare moments may be protaby
employed also. few vacancies in towns and cities.
b. F. JOHNSON S CO., 1909 Main St., Richmond. Va.
szNAME THIS PAPER srsy time write.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-25
Famous Woman Surgeon.

Nine. Ribart, the ex-grissette, who
was the first European to practice
medicine in the Turkish harems, was
as skillful as most of her contemporaries.
The woman's career is more romantic
than most fiction. Her lover in Paris
wa q medical student; she devoured
his text books with more avidity than
he did her novels. She passed a
brilliant examination at twenty-six, and
went to Cairo to practice: her patients
were soon numbered by the hundreds,
but the excuses into which she plunged
resulted in her incarceration in a luna
tic asylum. She then sought o new
career i'll Cochin China, and at once
won the admiration of the French in
habitants. So speedily did her skill as
a surgeon make her famous that she in
a short time became physician to the
court, and was to have operated Oh the
queen-mother of AMMAN for cataract.
The day before she was to have re.
lieved the old queen, who had been
blind for years, the wonderfully beauti-
full ard skillful d.. Rihart lje}.--prob-
ably from carly escsssos. She drank
hard in her youth and had run the
gamut of Partisan and Oriental meal
gence.-PLiladelDhia Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-25
Shy John ". Mnckax.

John W. Mackay, the BONANZA king,
is as shy as a school girl, makes no pre-.
tense OF wealth: keeps his own counsel,
steers clear Of reporters and wa: never
known to give an interview for lublica-
ton. He never answers any of the
thousand begging letters that CINE to
him In the course Of a month, pays no
attention to what his neighbors ire do
ing, but rather minds his own business
II unique proceeding in tbs day.
How much money he is worth is. still a
topic of speculation. His fortune is
placed anywhere from $50, OOO,,0O to
5000, 600, 900. Perhaps the tirstsum is
neare" the truth. But nobod- will
ever know until he dies. lie las no
confidants. He is really the lastof the
Big -Four who ruled the mines # the
West for SO many years.
There IS L topic on with Mr.,
Mackay talks to his most inmate
friends. This is his wife. H, is as
much in love with her to-day as ever.
There is nothing that delight him
quite so much as to read of her social
successes abroad. That she shoul have
conaaered even among queens II the
Old World is no small feather IL the
cap of one who was once a lowly wo.
man III q mining camp. Mr.. Mac,ay is
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-25
Trouble In the rrcasurv.

Ayoung Chinaman who had acquired
two Thousand dollars, and cherished n
wholesome fear Of banks, was for some
time perplexed concerning the DISPOSE
ton of the money. Finally he invested
III a Jade bracelet, worth even hundred
and fifty dollars, and two of gold and
diamonds, wearing them day and night.
on his left wrist. Thus he made his
left arm a savings bank, reseryinp
the right as q faithful guard to the in.
stltutlon on his left. Wo was happy
and doled out sharks'-tin and birds,
nest soups to his countrymen with a
broad smile every Sunday. Recently,
n some mysterious way, We became
hard up for ready cash. After tossing
upon his bunk for several niahts he
finally concluded to draw on his hank
account to the extent of the jade brace
let. But great was poor Wo's SURPRISE
when he found that he couldn't taka =
off. The ten years extra ayoirduno;s
had etfectually imprisoned all his banL
account between the elbow and tho
wrist. To break the jade bracelet as
meant the loss of the whole seven
hundred and fifty dollars. The other
?eweiled bracelets are all behind the
jade, and Wo, although wealthy. is v vae
poor. His creditors have advised lin
to pawn himself. n'n
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-25

He was a goodfellow, was Smithers."
said the old miner, as he stood with
barred head where Smithers had last
been seen, "but no man can go fooliu.
along in a camp like this kickin' OF
every tin can he sees lyin' on the side
walk. 1t may be public spirited, but ii
amt good policy for the individooal.
Course Smithers didn't know that
ornery Bill Jones had left a full can
O dynamite on the walk, Jest from bein:
too lazy ter carry it inside, but he ortc1
bin on the lookout. Whar is Smithcrs
now? He's all over. He was public
spirited, ez [ said. and mcuhe its :;
comfort ter him to be all over the cam,
at once, but his intiooence is too much
difoosed now ter count fer much
Thar's a lesson in this, boys. Don't di-
foose yer influence. An thar's another
lesson. Don't be too public spirited,
The leadin' men amt that way in BIG
cities. They talk big and do a little
suthin' now an then, but fust thev look
out fer the iudividooal. Wa'ai, Smith.
ers amt here an lie was a good man.
Let's Ticker. "-Merchant Trurcle,..
The best man to disourse q crowd is
a ,n;ol--~,o1-ok
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-25
Language of Men and Animals.

Animals emit natural sounds, by
which they express some thought or
feeling. This is, no doubt, in some
sense language. Then we are told in
all seriousness that parrots and other
animals can be taught to speak, and
that thus this barrier between animal
and man is broken. Now, speaking q
certain language is not an ingrained
hereditary necessity, which passes from
father to son as an organic part of the
nature of the son. Children of Ger
man parents, transplanted to this coun-
try, do not speak their fathers language
unless special pains is taken to teach It.
In spite Of this, men do as a matter
OF fact, transmit their language to the
following generation. The second gen
Grafton acquires it, and just as certainly
passes it or to the next. Language is Q
vast property of conventional, social
signs OF thought; these signs become
instruments for further thought, and
there can be no question that the fore
most characteristic of man is not so
much that he possesses some language.
but that he possesses conventional lam
guage, and that it can be transmitted
like any other result of civilization. A
parrot may say, "Polly wants a hickory
nut and learn to associate the pleasure
OF eating the nut with the sentence, but
no parrot ever taught this sentence or
any other to his offspring. In the same
way the natural sounds of animals.
which form rudimentary language, must
be just those sounds, and no others:
the young Of IN animal, no matter how
correctly brought up by its own parents,
could learn only the sounds of the
parents. Man only can frame language
and transmit it; every animal is the de-
scendant of another animal that never
framed a language of its own. This is.
at the same time, the most simple and
the most noticeable difference between
the language of man and that of ami
mails. If any human language is ever
SO primitive, the mere fact that it was
framed by those who speak it, and
that it has been transmitted from
generation to generation, forms an in
surmN untable barrier between man and
animal.-Irof. Maurice Bloomfield. IN
Baltimore San.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-25
Isurdett,s Reflections.

Ny son, there are just two things in
the world that 1 don't know about, and
you have just asked me about one of
them. l don't know why there is
trouble andsorrow and toll and poverty
and sickness and death in this beautiful
world. l used to know when l wa
much younger, but l find that as l grow
older Idon't know q great deal more
than 1 used to know. l don't know
why the best people seem to have oil
the suffering and the great sinners have
all the fun. 1 don't know why innocent
men suffer for the wickedness of guilty
men. 1 don't know why the man that
cast the faulty column in the Pember-
ton mills wasn't crushed when the mills
went down. I can't see why my neck
because a train dispatcher sends out q
wrong order, or / signal man goes to
sleep. don't see why my neighbor
should be cursed with i'll health and
suffering, just because his grandfather
wa a hard drinking old protiigate. /
can't see why 1 should have neuralgia
just when 1 want to feel at my best. I
don't see why some people starve when
worse people founder. Well, you say,
wouldn't it be pleasanter if all these
crooked things were Strengthened out?
Yes, oh, yes. And wouldn't I run
things a little better if / had the rum
ming of them? Ye-e-hold on a min
ute-ye[ don't know, really, that I
want to try. There are several things
to consider when you sit down to run a
universe. True, if 1 managed things 1
could make several improvements at
once. I would never again have the
neuralgia, forone thing; my boots would
not run over at the heels like an italio
d; my pantaloons would not work up,
or bag at the knees, and my collars
would not climb the back of my neck,
and my mustache wouldn't keep waxed
like a bristle at u end and out like q
satin ribbon at the other, and-but
there are some other things to look
after. The little matter of day and
night l think I might manage for a
week. may be, but there would be an
eclipse Dr. two to look after. an occa-
sional rain, some snow, a late spring,
or an early autumn, or a capricious
harvest time to manage; there are GER,
tain movements of the sun and other
planets that have rather delicate rela-
tions with the earth-come to think of,
it, my boy, 1 have never yet been able
to control my W personal neuralgia.
Now, you are very kind, but Twill most
respectfully decline the appointment.
l find, in looking into the varied and
trying duties connected with the office,
that my bodily and mental strength
would not stand the great tax that
would be laid upon them. While I am
in the highest accord with the admins
t%ration, and wish to give it, and to the
extent OF my poor ability do give, my
most earnest support and encourage
ment, yet, [ much prefer to do this in
my capacity as q private citizen
Exchange.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-25
He Didn't Know His Audjto

II witnessed a very laughsb
dent last winter" said a Frsnst
to the Town Talker the ol
and the moral, if there be aa
story, is that a man should ID
crowd before whom he talks ind
nately. It was in the Court Of
chamber, just after the aljoa|
A crowd OF gentlemen were
around, and the chief spokesnd
loquacious member of the Fl
genus loafer, who was not aed
with all present. One of the B
young lawyers in the State
stepped out after making a sped
had been drinking, and the n
man said: "What a mistake sd
lows make in thinking they sgd
ter when they are half full Of !
Now, I have heard that our tv|
tors keep soaking full when q
and | think it a shame
Zone of them has quit Qua
marked one of the gentlemen p|
Which one?' was the query,
L have,' answered SeDa!@
burn, as he got up and walked 4
"The dumbfounded talkatNa
caught his breath and said:
now, that was one dirty break d
1 didn't know Blackburn was VI
thousand miles of here. But J
care. l have heard that \
Blackburn drinks too much to1
even a Kentuckian's reputation
Still another stranger sp'9
with: Well, lie just never did,
an excess, and [ know that lnq
hasn't touched a drink in a ID
was Senator Blackburn's nephe'
time. and the talkative man ny
escape without standing on the Q
his going"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-25
A True Story of Early Days in Texas.

Jacks and Myrta's father was all early
pioneer on the Texas border and had
gone o short distance from home on that
fatal day. He was not afraid to leave
his family, for the surrounding Indians
were friendly, and besides, there was
the fort near by, though most of the SOL
diers were away, gone to act as escorts
to wagons bringing provisions. Every
thing seemed so ~peaceable that, of the
men left behind, some were off hunting
and some were washing their clothes at
q creek lear by. But suddenly u band
of hostile Indians made their appearance,
and after destroying the fort and its few
brave defenders, they stoppeda moment
at the log-h~use where Jack and Myrta
lived, killed their poor mother, and
took the two children prisoners, not,
however, before the courageous bov had
shot one-the foremost Of them-dead
with his fathers gun, for which act their
lives would have been immediately
taken had not the chief i%nterposed and
commanded that they should be
spared.
Then began the long march to the
far-away home of the savages. Poor
little Myrta soon grew SO weary-she
was only 5 years old-that she came
a dropping by the way. and at last
she whispered to her brother that she
could not go another step. Jack was
almost ready to drop himself, but the
thought of being obliged TO leave her
behind gave him new strength and he
took her IN his back and trudged pain
fully along. But in "a few moments,
much to his surprise. a strong Indian
took her from him and Icarried her the
rest of the way. At night-fall they
stopped to camp in a deep, dark wood.
The children were too tired and mis-
cradle to eat. They laid down side by
side on the ground, Myrta with her
arms around her brothers neck, and
first asking the dear Lord and their
dear mother to watch over and help
them. they kissed each other good
night" and fell into a troubled sleep,
and did not wake till early morn when
their captors were preparing to take up
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-25
Tho Iana.r.

A,.a.. Land ofthc ~
Illustrated Magasinna. Of The
America, relates tbe faY,,. Will
illustrative of America soI'9Siasi
lunch: 'iA ~lestaun
1t was not an a@ristocr...
by any means: merely IySeafie ID
geo1s order, where food o ne Of
strictly indigenous to , ana eol
French cooking and yj, ,,'s e9as
"klckshaws" and "stutf"9 s 4, lsq
were well-to-do bushes, 1As]
neighborhood, minale1s laea
book-keepers, and a 1" v'l
ladies' from out of town l ~
cursions. Scarcely had d saopH
than ! had a feeling tbat w. We
a republic, where there esra' !; ihS
class, and where even H. 4 u
gaycons carry themselles n ;.l .s
If consciously in possessiass !a1s
A little child with Us l lr ota}
glish, and chatted t. to N nasH
French. The garcom uS IN
looked at her with sm VINO y
Presently, he delihoro.I
his napkin, aud with ny
chucked her under the cl,;. uei1
That's a funny way to o' tait.
"better learn the Amer as'
it's lots easier!" !
"The land of the f~reer1
One day 1 was reading !; ! 'Ns
library. Near me sat a VOW ~
neatly, even elegantly, '9uas1
attentively reading a file Of a'e "
devoted to Housekeeping. =;
see one of them, and asked NJ Y
She gave it to me with easv ca y
ners, and we entered into eo 81
She told me, with a pretty ,a.s]
cent. how she cooked cert,; wy, /
which things her family Vera ~
and of her intention, some tin ny
some of her own receipts ia ill.,.
keeping journal. We r, NY
mutual politeness, and d;a
her again for some time. o n.y.
discrepancies arose between ~ !
list and articles returned \
laundress. insisted to the w ~
brought them that the laun1rss,
come herself. She came. /. !,
friend of the public library.
We have an excellent tab]p.G;
light-handed, but not lights,
and the color Of gingerbread.
breakfast and lunch, she waits
in a cay toulard over he,
tresses, thus immensely aldjr
picturesqueness Of our soue7
eign menage. AT dinner she
in the bonnet blanc Of a French
and no persuasion can persuade
leave it off. As is the i
America, our servants eat eyac
we do, serving the kitchen tsbl
serving the dining-room. One
matron was about to send
fried oysters. "You may have
said our black-and-tan PHYLLIS,
ing the dish: eve jest dispi
the Kitchen"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-25

Yesterday said the moon to me, %
looked down upon a small courtyard
surrounded on all sides by houses. Ii
the courtyard sat a clucking hen with
eleven chickens, and a pretty little CIR
was running and jumping around them
The hen was frightened, and screamed,
and spread out her wings over her little
brood. Then the girls father came out
and scolded her, and l glided away and
thought no more Of the matter.
"But this evening, only a few minutes
age, I looked down into the same court
yard. Everything was quiet. But
presently the little girl came forth
again, crept quietly to the h%en-house,
pushed back the bolt and slipped into
the apartment OF the hen and chickens.
They cried out loudly and came tlutter-
ing down from their perches and ran
about in dismay, and the little girl ran
after them.
IT saw it quite plainly, for I looked
through a hole in the hen-house wall.
/ was angry with the wiliful child, and
felt glad when her father came out and
scolded her more violently than yester-
day, holding her roughly by the arm.
She held down her head, and her blue
eyes were full of tears.
What are you doing hereg he
asked.
"She wept and said: I wanted to
kiss the hen and beg her pardon for
frightening her yesterday, but I was
afraid to tell YOU
"And the father kissed the innocent
child's forehead and kissed her on the
mouth and eyes."-Hans Christian
dooIoreo3
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-25
McCarthy's Struggle with a Min

McCartly's Struggle with a MINI
It is worth travelling a mile =
David Lewsley tell how he and
sentative John Henry McCaythE
Eighth New York district too'
couple of mint juleps at shop,
Nature gave the Little Giant
physical proportions, but made y
oversight Ivy a double end0Nu
brains, q heart SC big it STICKS !,
his eyes, and ~ facial pro'i!e as ~
and exquisite as Tie HE, o.
cameo. o..
"We went in, and I ordered y y
of juleps;" said Lewsle!y' :.
ested parties say that the 'ats J
for them.) "The barkeepef Y
work, mixed the liquor in ptvs :
portion, shook the mixture IL !
cracked ice, /, slowed away a :;
pineapple, q section of banana, !, !,
lemon and orange, a couple oil o. !
and a strawberry in each, '"ls's i
handful of mint, and crowned !,
thcusting two tall rye straw nj
tumblcr. 1 stopped over srater''
commenced to suck in the !1ll ,s.s.,
| was compelled to stop anu W." vi,
Judge. He eyed his luleePp . h NJ,
The straws lowered above DIS =
the masts of d ship. He st0o; ~, i
toe. 1t was a failure. lie e1
the bar fender. Still they Wet ~,
his reach. He attempted to II,
straws hand over hand like ~ 81
climbing the forestry L 10,
work. At last the Judge wa \
lift the jnlep off the bar, Sc; i,
floor, and stand up in a cnai! =, il
to gather the ends of the straw
mouth. "-Washimgton FosL
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-25
The Sparrows and the Flowerpot.

A lady who lives in q pretty country
town where the English sparrows have
driven almost all the other birds away,
said an English sparrow was O great
deal better than no bird at all; and she
thought, Though I don't like them as
well as I do our own little sparrows, and
yellow birds, and robins, yet I will
build them o house that will suit
Them"
When the house was finished, the
sparrows cooked their little heads to
one side and looked at it, but would not
go into it.
At the very time the new house was
put up on its pole for the sparrows, q
big iower-pot was broken by one of the
servants, who threw it into o corner
with some other rubbish.
By and by, as the summer advanced,
q creeping vine found its way to the
broken pot, and Chunk lovingly around
it.
One day, however, the lady espied
the heap of rubbish, and was hurrying
away to tell the gardener that she could
not have it there, when she noticed her
sparrows circling around it and playing
o sort Of hide-and-seek in it.
She thought what a pretty thing it
was, as it lay there with the dainty vine
twined about it, and while she was look
ing, there came up a shower, and she
ran under a tree near by for shelter.
Then she saw the sparrows run into
the vine covered pot and stay there
during the shower, and she thought she
had never seen anything prettier in her
life than the picture they made.
What she did after that was to lif,
the pot without disturbing the vine, and
put it so that the cats could not get a.
it, thinking that when the next spring
came, the sparrows might take it for 8
home, and sure enough they did.
AS for the gorgeous bird-house, it re
manned without a tenant until it was
ruin, when the little sparrows decided
that it was pretty enough to use, 81
they used it.-YoutA's Companion.