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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26
SWAN AWAY WITHOUT
HEART.
A Mobile Doctor Tells a Most Raw
Shark Story. kab

Mobile Doctor Tells = Most Rem.
Shark Story. ahls
DR.. Rhett Goode, the WALL,
surgeon of this city, tells storr A NOW
is certainly one of the most ra,r s Which
ever recorded. It is a fish story sfi h9
true one. outa
The doctor, with Messrs "
Barney, p. o. Zadek, and W. g. o.: d.
brand, was the guest of Capt. I e ~
Black, manager of the Sullivan NV r; ".
Company, On an occasion down tho . ~
Wednesday. The party reacb .ns : 10y
Morgan early in the morning. and , soft
the day in fishing, ENJOYING 1 a1os spent
sport. Mr.. Barney brought two shssI
lines and cast them early in the Sl dsa
but not until afternoon, when thu may asy,
was at dinner, did he get a bite RTShs.y
the fishermen pulled in two modo,a aea
sized sharks, one about five feet laof
and the other about seven feet ,on ug
When the fish, after considerable -
element, were pulled on the wba..
they were given their quietus W.T., Will
an ak. "1su
Some time after it was suggested tb.4
DIR. Goode open the sharks and '4 ra
cover whatever gold watches. f;no as'
rings, etc., their stomachs shonld9 y.
found to contain. The doctor onans ~
the -footer, and then piled ~
knife on the smaller shark. The stow cr0
as he tells it is as follows: A'
II made straight incision and onenod
the body of the shark. I took out tha
stomach, the alimentary canal, and tho tho
intestines, and, having examined thu tho
stomach, threw those organs over into o
the water. Having q curiosity to 400
how large heart such fish has I ont
into the diaphragm and extracted thu
heart. This organ. 1 found, was about
the size of an egg, rather small.
thought for so large fish. The cur.
GUS thing about it was that it continued
to pulsate after I had taken it from thu
fish. 1t beat regularly for minute Or
more, lying there ir my hand. When
it stopped beating I pricked it with thu
knife and it again pulsated for short
time. It was PERFECTLY empty of blood,
Meantime the pilot and Others
pitched the seven-foot shark off the wharf
and it sank to the bottom. We could see
it plainly through the clear water. They
then took the smaller shark, all Of
whose internal organs I had removed
and whose heart held in my hand, and
threw it into the water. You can Judge
of our surprise to see that shark swish
its tail around and flap its fins from
side to side, and then swim brisklv
away until it disappeared"
ut went with the current?"
"Yes, but it was swimming. We all
saw it as plain as could be. The other
shark sank like shot; this one swan
straight away, as naturally as any fish
WAS the fish apparently dead when
you cut it up?"
"Yes. It did not make single move
all the time was cutting it. The way
that dissected fish did, beats anything
ever heard of or ever imagined. w
could see it for twenty or thirty yard
as it swan away. 1t made the pilots
down there open their eyes, 1 assure
you"
Mr.. Zadek, who was present when
the doctor described this curious hap
pening, said, when referred to, that i
was "a true bill"-the most wonderful
thing he ever saw.-MObjle Reaister.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

upon an ordinary cotton band. On each
coil there is gross, or LA matches, and
the band is between each layer. A curl
Gus arrangement of the machine is that it
will coil nothing but q perfect match
and throws the defective ones aside.
The coiling is slow and one man can tend
five machines, which will ordinarily coil
about one hundred and fifty gross per
day. After the coil is made up the ends
are planed down even and put upon q
hot iron, which opens the pores of the
wood. Both ends are then dipped into
birthstone, into composition of phos-
phorous, glue and other materials, and
hung upon racks for ten minutes, at the
end Of which time they are dry. The
coils are then unrolled, the matches put
into square frame, cut in two in the
middle, boxed and packed ready for
shipment. The boxing is mostly done
by boys and girls.-Hearth and Hail.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

A SWIMMING glove which insures
swift movement in the wafer, has been
invented by a Spaniard. The glove
has webbed fingers like the feet of a
waterfowl, so that on spreading out
the fingers during the propelling stroke
in swimming, comparatively large sur
face will be presented to the water, and
consequently the propelling action will
be greatly increased
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26
Matches,

Large planks are cut up into blocks,
double the length of the match, and put
one at time upon the cutting machine.
Two large knives converging at the
points are driven back and forth upon
the block, and numerous little clamps
beneath, wide enough apart to pass one
match between, are pressed up, each
taking off match at every passage OF
the knives, at the rate of sixty min
ute. The particles are packed in square
frames and placed in kiln dryer, over
the furnace, where they remain twenty
four hours. They are taken out and by
means of curious machines are cooled
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

The performance of Succi, the Ital-
ian, who succeeded in living after fast
of forty-tive days, can badly be consid-
cred OF any public advantage, though as
a test OF human endurance is not with
out interest The fast of Tanner, few
years ago, only lasted forty days, and
he claimed to come out of it refreshed
and prepared for better work physically
and mentally than before That was an
experience stimulating further trials in
fasting as means for promoting human
welfare. But Succi came so near col
lapsing on the last day of his fast that
nobody will be tempted to emulate his
example. It is probably just as we'll.
The world is never benefited by with
holding what is needful for human ex-
istence, else those who produce the
worlds food would not be recognized as
its benefactors, as they undoubtedly
are. It will never do for an agricul-
tural journal to give its approval to an
experiment as to the practicability of
living without eating. Besides, speak
ing in all soberness, we believe that it
is not intended as the way that men and
women ever ought to live.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

A SPOON has been operated upon by
San American genius. This spoon has
.spring- pressed scraper adapted to move
ON the spoon bowl, with means for re-
gulating its movement, by means of
which all sticky and adhesive substances
may be quickly and easily removed
from the bowl without the use of an ad-
ditional instrument.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

A JUSTICE of the,peace in county in
Wisconsin has had 24O appeals taken on
his decisions during the last six years,
and only one of them failed to be sus-
tanned. He started out to decide cases
according to common sense" but he
doesn't seem to have hit it very hard.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

THE country store-keeper is a great
advocate of cleanliness in the dairy.
Indeed everybody is who consumes
butter. But the country store-keeper
Is Just as loud in his demand for cleanli-
ness as anybody else, and when he is
through preaching cleanliness he will
set tub Of butter next to the kerosene
barrel.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

expenses of Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley. so
that it costs about 81, 200 every time the
explorer lectures. Pond never receives
less than 600, and frequently gets
SIS, 600 for lecture.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

HANNIBAL HAsILIN is credited with
having such an aversion to music he
will never, if he can avoid it, go into
church until after the opening musical
exercises are concluded.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

ONE of the largest hogs in America,
If not. in fact, the largest in the world,
was reared by Junction City (Kas. J
man. The length was eight feet and
nine inches; girth of neck, six and one
half feet; girth of center of body, eight
feet; width across the hips, thirty
inches; weight, 1, 532 pounds.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

GIRLS should be more discrete in
telling their secrets to one another.
When one girl of a crowd marries, she
tells all the secrets of the crowd to her
husband, and he tells them to all the
other men. 1t is mean in him, but he
does it,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

An English weekly paper spoke of a
concert given by the Bristol Howling
Club" and was st once sued for libel.
The paper protested that it meant to
SAY bowling, and not bowling, but the
jury said it was an editors business to
be absolutely correct, and this one was
'mulcted for e2OO.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

She Chose = Short Life and = Merry One.
An Atchison woman has been in
formed that she cannot live two years.
She has therefore resolved on making
the most of her time, and has entered
upon career of merrymaking ard
gayety. Another doctor tells her that
if she will saw off on high living
and go slow in her merrymaking she
can recover her former good health.
The gay life strikes her fancy, and she
accepts the death warrant of doctor
No. 1.--Atchison Globe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

GEN. SHERMAN goes out great deal
in New York, and he says he has for
several years expected policeman to
hit him with his club some night as he
was returning home. It hasn't come
yet, but when it does he will be all
ready to turn the officers flank and leave
him behind in the race.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

IT is not often that lost art is re.
covered, but it is said that the chemists
have triumphed in the matter of the an
Gent sAlexandrian blue" This blue,
the ideal of painters and decorators, was
a peculiar and remarkably durable
color. The chemists are said to have
achieved a successful analysis of the
coloring on the Pompeian frescoes, and
to have reproduced the paint, identical
with the ancient coloring in every par
ticular.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

The fanatic who scared so many San
Francisco people up into the hills by
predicting tidal wave last summer was
ordered tomove on and made to go, and
since then has soured on the whole
business and even refused to predict
when he would put in an honest days
work
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

A CONVICT in South Carolina prison
escaped from jail, Christmas eve, went
to his home and spent Christmas and
then returned to the penitentiary.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

. "A NATIVE pilgrim" at Lapore, India,
said that "a new god would appear to
kill off the English" and he had
scarcely uttered the words when he was
locked up on charge Of sedition, and two
days later found himself in prison for
ten years. The English didn't propose
to allow any more gods in India.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

ONE hundred million dollars is the
estimated value of the cotton crop of
Texas this year. A wonderful State,
indeed, with resources estimated to
equal the requirements, SO far as cotton,
grain, fruit, iron, aud lumber are con-
,cerned, of all the United States, pro.
vlded Texas had the population it can
support
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

Mrs. B1NGo-There knew it. Those
moths have got at your dress suit and
eaten hole right through your pocket.
MIR. Bingo-I'll bet they were female
moths
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

ONLY five States in the Union have
larger populations than Massachusetts,.
She has more Inhabitants to the square
mile than any other State, more capital
invested in manufacturing and more
money in the savings bank in proper
ton to population. Such State must
supply good market for all its farmers
produce for sale. Manufacturing cen
ters demand large supplies of dairy pro-
ducts, vegetables, fruit, eggs, and meat.
Study the demand anG regulate the sup
ply accordingly.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

PORTLAND has taken the Oregon ex-
port salmon trade away from Astoria,
with the result that Americans, instead
of Canadians, get the carrying trade.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

In digging out an old we'll at Muir
phys, Calavears County, CAL, the other
day, a skeleton with handouts on was
found. Its history is unknown.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

WHAT can be the matter with our en-
terprising dime museums that they
have not already discovered, secured
and advertised the man who shot Sit
ting Bull? Herein is a plain, an un-
usual, shocking dereliction.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26
Order Of the Longest Rivers

The Amazon, in South America, falls
from the Andes through a course OF
1900 miles; the Mississippi. from the
Stony mountains, runs $50 miles; La
Plata, from the Andes, 2.215 miles; the
Hoangho, in China, from the Tartarean
chain of mountains, is $500 miles, the
langtsekiang runs from the same noun
tains and is 1000 miles long; the Nile
from the Jihel Kumri mountains,
courses $3.50 miles; the Euphrates,
from Ararat, is 1920 miles long; the
volga, from the Valdais, is 2, 100 miles Les;
the Danube, from the Alps, is l,19o
miles in length; the Indus, from the
Himalayas, Ito miles long; the
Ganges runs from the same source anu
IS l,650 miles long; the Orinoco, from
the Andes, 1900 in length; the Niger,
or Wharra, is 1000 miles long; the
Don. the Dneiper. and the Senegal 81 are
zach over 1000 miles in length; the ?a
Rhine and the Gambia are 1888 miles IL
extent
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A CHOICE SELECTION OF IN
TERESTlNG ITEMS.

Comments and Criticisms Based Upon
the Happenings of the Dsy-Historical
and News Notes.
A NEwLY-ELECTED school-teacher at
Bonneville, Pa, is but ID years of age.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

The institution of Christmas as q fes.
tival is said to have been during the
reign of Antonius Plus, about $50 A.
D., but the first certain traces CT it are
found during the reign of Commodus,
$50 to 1872 A. d. 1t was now almost
universally observed, though all ma
lions do not keep the same day. 1t is a
day eminently fitted for gift-making;
the Magi laid their precious offerings
in the cradle of their Lord; but gifts
should ever be accompanied by ex-
pressions of good will.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

MAJOR POND will make at least 49,
600, possibly 100000. out of Stanley,
whom he pays $780, 600 for fifty lectures.
In addition to this he pays the travelling
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

LARGE and valuable deposits of nickel
have recently been discovered in Silesia
The discovery gives great satisfaction to
Germany, which hereafter will not have
to look to foreign countries for its sup
xalv
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26
Two Useful Pet Lions.

The lioness appeared to amrse her.
self by playing pranks on human
strangers of her own sex, lying in am-
bush for them under the dining table
The writer continued: Fearing that
something serious might occur if l al
lowed my pets their liberty any longer,
I had large cage constructed, and for
the first week or two was obliged to
spend much time in it with them. The
lioness fretted great deal, and the only
way had OF quoting her was to go in
and lie down, using the lion as pillow,
while she stretched herself beside me
with her head on my chest.
One day the sheriff informed me that
he had summons in his Office for me
to serve as juryman. I begged of,
but he was inexorable. A few days af-
terward he rode up to my gate, and l
called my servant to open it for him
while hurried to the lions cage. Pres
emily / heard him calling me, and on
my answering he gradually found his
way to the den, in which I was seated
on the lions recumbent body, while the
lioness sat behind me with her chin
resting on my shoulder. As soon as he
saw me he sprang back and cried,
"Come out of there!'
Hand that summons in here and
will do So"
DO you want my arm torn OFF,"
mo, but I want you to make q legal
service of that paper by handing it to
me-"
II shall not take any such risk, but l
will tear up the paper if you will only
come out and save me from seeing you
torn to piece"
All right. do SO, and will try oget
out alive"
The paper was torn up, and stepped
out OF the cage, much to my friends re-
lief. A short time after 1 met the
Judge in the street, who wished to
know if my mode of lodging jury duty
was the one commonly practiced in my
own cOuntry.-FOrest and Stream.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

ACCORDING to Secretary Mobiles re-
port, $3.OO0,OOO worth of timber was
stolen from the public land last year.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

FREDERICK IVES, the former young
Napoleon of finance, is living quietly in
New York, devoting his attention to &C.
quiring another fortune. He is the
same well-dressed, suave and self-confi-
dent character as he was before his fall.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

THE annual statement of the pie in
dustry in New York City shows that
there are twenty establishments that
bake pies exclusively. Or these one
company turns out s, 500 pies dav, or
2,660,500 pies year not counting Sun
days, and another averages 1000 day,
2,19l,O00 a year. The total annual
consumption of pies in that city aver
ages fifteen for each man woman, and
child.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

AN English magazine writer with
speculative tendencies has been dis
cussing the reason OF the delicacy and
purity of the beauty of American wo-
men. The magazinist is ingenious
enough in hunting up causes for this
fact, but with true Anglican simplicity
he misses the important point that
American women are pretty chiefly be-
cause they are born so.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26
Where the Banana Grows.

In South America the banana is not
thought of as a luxury. In fact it takes
the place of bread and meat and veg
etables among large part Of the peo-
pie. Every garden has its banana
patch, just as we have our indispensable
rows of potatoes. On the Isthmus of
Panama the cars spin past hills COW
cred from base to summit with the
beautiful broad-leaved plants, their
great clusters Of fruit hanging from the
stems just under the leaves. The ba-
mana plant looks something like an i'm
mense Gala lilly. Its stem is made up
of the bases OF the leaves, SO sheathed
or folded around each other and hard
ened as to sustain the weight of the
mass of foliage above.
1t will in some localities attain a
height of twenty feet. When two years
old it bears fruit and then dies, but a
number of young shoots spring up from
the base of the old stem, SO that it con-
tinually renews itself, and the farmer,
who is usually an Indian or negro, has
no trouble. except to keep the weeds
and the old withered trunks cleared
away from the growing plant. Even
the trunk is of some use, for in contains
q fiber almost as soft as silk which can
be woven into the most exquisite mus.
Inns. Indeed some of the dainty India
muslins are made of this very FIBER
H0Tpe1'S Young People.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

ToAA1Y-Paw, what is flame" MI
t1sg-Fame, my son, is something .
nan makes money out OF after he
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26

A SENSIBLE innovation has been
started by a Presbyterian pastor, the
Rev. DIR. Henry Van Dyke, of New
York City. Instead of reading the Gus
t2n'ary church notices dnring the serv-
ice, he has placed in the pews printed
copies of all the notices in bulk, so that
the congregation can take them home
and read them at their leisure, This
serves two-fold purpose. 1t prevents
any interference with the regular serv-
ice, and gives the notices more prom
lnent character. Other churches might.
with profit, carry out the same arrange
ment, though DIR. Van Dykes idea is,
perhaps, too elaborate for all, as it con-
templates regular church circular, in
which the church services are an
nounced and the special and regular
meetings Of the week, news items in
connection with the church, the SUBJ
jects of Forthcoming sermons, and the
program Of the churchs missionary and
charitable work.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-26
An Intelligent Oyster.

Oysters frequently reach great old
age. The ridges OF water lines on the
shell indicate the number of years until
they got beyond forty; then the lines
are wider and indicate period of ten
years. I once saw an oyster eiehty-six
years old. 1t was caught in Delaware
Bay four years ago: That oyster had
Intelligence. I put it in tank of salt
water and it opened and shut itself up,
as If enjoying a bath. One day I put
the oyster on plank by itself in order
to study its shell with microscope. II
lay there dead and dumb like. I stepped
aside to wait on customer who
wanted Blue Points. The tom-cat
walked up to the oyster and began to
turn it over with its paws. Suddenly
the bivalve opened its shell and caught
the cats tail. The cat bounded off
like rocket, humping the oyster
against the pavement. The octoeen-
arlan chung to the cats tail. I never
saw the !cat or the oyster again.-Ne,D
York Weehlu.