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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07

GEN. GRANT, in that new Galena sta
tue. stands with one hand in his pocket.
This fact brings out the following story :.
On one occasion about $4,000 people
tried to pay their respects to him in
person. He had shaken hands for
hours, and was resting with his hands
in his pockets, while a procession of en-
thusiastic admirers filed by. A little
girl, 6 or Z years old, slipped through
the line Of guards about the General
and went close to him in dazed, awe
struck way. She looked him over with
a puzzled expression on her face, and
then, taking the right hand from his
pocket, shook it, kissed it, and put it
back. much as she would put down a
sleeping doll. The crowd yelled for the
little girl to "pass it round" and the
General, taking her by the hand, stepped
forward and resumed the handshaking.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07

IF the Naples hotelkeeper who built
that bonfire Oh the top OF Mt. Vesuvius
end set the tourists from all over the
world to Aoclzing there to see the erup-
einn--Sf he will communicate with o
. few OF CUR summer resorts and name his
kslta DE will hear something to his adj
>ns'an;ase.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07

Az English head servant gave notice
that he would leave for being excluded
from eEe dining-room during the family
refast and thus losing the diners
stt,s1es
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07

II makes no difference how much
will always wish the day after he tells
hia his troubles that he had not told
cutie SO much
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07

4 MANS idea OF being good to wo-
man Is to give her opportunities to be
good ~ him.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07

EVERY man is natural born loafer.
1@st the hardest working man you know,
have taste of loafng, and before two
days are up, it will come as naturally
TO him as swimming is to duck.
Everything goes to show it is against
nature TO work.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07

THE devil is perfectly satisfied when
NE has succeeded in convincing man
that his worst is the best he can do.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07

ALL men are alikein one particular
the most humble believes there is q
kick coming to him.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07

As SOON as a man gets little re-
sigion= he gets the idea into his head
that he should be able to convert the
day5l
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
A. CHOICE SELECTION OF IN
TERESTlNG ITEMS.

the happenings OF the Day-Historical
snnss Mews Notes.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07

HARD times ahead for the boarding.
houses The California prune crop is
8 failure.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07
Foreign Fragments.

Next Lcsson-"The Five ThousaA'
Fed" John s: Liza.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07

"OA4O, OACA ANOdu ia uuS DIX Te1OlCCO In
bis own safety and in the safety of his
family. and looked out on the wreck of a
ruined earth.
Christ, bounded of prosecutors, denied
q pillow, worse maltreated than the
thieves on either side of the cross. hu-
man hate smacking its lips in satisfaction
after it had been draining his last drop
OF blood, the sheeted dead bursting from
the sepulchers at his crucitiXion. Tell
me, 0 Gethsemane and Golgotha! were
there ever darker times than those?
Like the booming of the midnight sea
against the rocks, the surges of Christ's
anguish beat against the gates of eternity,
to be echoed back by all the thrones of
Heaven and all the dungeons of hell.
But the day of reward comes for
Christ; all the pomp and dominion of
this world are to be hung on His throne.
uncrowned heads are to bow before Him
on whose head are many crowns, and all
the celestial worship is to come up at
His feet, like the humming of the forest,
like the rushing of the waters, like the
laundering of the seas, while all Heaven,
rising On their thrones, beat time with
their scepters: 'Hallelujah, for the
Lord God omnipotent reigneth! Halle.
lujah, the Kingdoms OF this world have
become the Kingdoms of our Lord Jesus
Christi
That song of love, now low and far
Ere long shall swell from star to star:
That light, the breaking day which tips
G. Tho golden spired Apocalypse
Again, learn from my subject that
events which seem to be most insignlfi.
cant may be momentous. Can you i'm
agine anything more unimportant thar
the coming of poor woman from Moat
to Judea? Can you imagine anything
more trivial than the fact that this Ruth
Just happened to alight-as they say
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07

Rang to the anthems of the free
1t took all our past National distresses.
and it takes all our present National
sorrows, to lift up our nation on that
high career where it will march along
after the foreign despotisns that have
Knocked, and the tyrannies that have
jeered shall be swept down under the
omnipotent wrath of God, Who hates op-
preston, and Who by the strength
OF His own red right arm will make all
men free. And SO it is individually, and
in the family, and in the church, and in
the world, that through darkness ana
storm and trouble men, women, churches,
nations, are developed.
Again. see in my text the beauty of
unfaltering friendship. ! suppose there
were plenty of friends for Naomi while
she was in prosperity; but of all her &C.
qualntances, how many were willing to
trudg e off with her toward Judea, when
she had to make that lonely journey?
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03
4 SneezlnE Spot

Everybody knows the cray bone"
Ia the elbow. A man has had his at
tention called to an alleged crazy spot
above the nose, about which little has
been said. He sneezed while in the
BARRIERS chair having his hair combed-
did / touch the sneezing poiDtf' in
uuired the barber. He then proceeded
TO explain that the ''sneezing spot" was
a sensitive place to the left Of the mid
die of the forehead why" said he
there are men who come in here who
sneeze regularly every time ! comb
their hair or shave them, just as soon
as the comb passes over that spot !
had a man in here who sneezed three
times just as hard AZ he could, all b
/ cause 1 touched the ~slsezing spot II
must be a very small nerve that tcklel
the nostrL"-Abany Journal
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03
ventIlatinr the store closet.

There is no greater desideratum in
the kitchen than a properly ventilated
store closet, arranged with shelves for
food, movable racks on the floor for
barrels and other arrangements 70 keep
food in the most wholesome manner
A simple device where the store closet
opens out of the kitchen and is on the
sunny side of the house is to have a
hole cut in the floor, covered over with
wire netting, 50 as to let the cool air OF
the cellar into the closet. This cool air
coming in contact with the warmer air
of the kitchen makes a constant eircu'
latfon. A properly built store closet,
however, should be situated on the
north side Of the house, and wen ven
tilated by a window opening outdoors
-Exehange
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

at T. vestry meeting n Of the mem
bers was declared by another TO have
'bc2.sS over with rage" because hb
proposition had been received with gen
eral laughter by the board Sir" r
Piled the derided one, Il was not in
a q 1t would require somethiU
rather more infammatory chan tn
cracking of thorns under the pot to
make me boil" But it is doubtful
whether many Of them saw =" Az
the Yer EounA
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

This story is told of one 81 the lead
ing dry goods uru Of New York: He
was carrying % heavy stock Of fine mil
linery goods when tile round topped
derby hat fOI WOMEN .a-auue suddenly
Fashionable. The iutra-r was flooded
with them. auI t!i ..rr regarded as
the only tllu- to a- a.uI uu the head
This mercAau; f.r.:. "a great loss on
his stock of millinery. and decided TO
prevent t. He first bought up all the
derby hats he could and then adver-
tised them extensively. offering them
for sale at ridiculously low prices.
The result was that the derby fell
into disfavor among fashionable women
at once. and he saved his market for
his more expensive goods. II is by
strokes such as this and the careful
watching Of the market and feeling OF
the popular pulse that fortunes are
made by the few extremely successful
merchants. Brooklyn Life.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03
Endurance Of the Horse.

A gentleman desiring to test the en-
durance Of a horse drove one 1000
miles TO a dogcart, the cart, passenger
and baggage weighing over 800 pounds
The journey was done in nineteen con
secutive days, an average Of over fifty
two miles a day. The longest distance,
sixty-eight miles, was covered on the
last day. The road was selected at
random, and led from London to
York. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Carlisle,
Nottingham and London again. The
horse was fifteen hands high, what is
called well bred" and returned home,
according to the report Of the veterin-
airy, no worse for the journey.-Ex.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

VINO seese or wild ducks, mIIks
most OF the species which breed On the
shores of the Arctic ocean, are In no
curry 70 leave their summer quarter
20 long as there il food enough on ths
tundras. Hence, their early appear
Ence in the south may be taken as .
Asn that the snow has acquired posses
non Of the northern feeding groundS
But Sc admits Of no other interpreta-
ton. stnce it by no means follows that
this cold snap will take an equatorial
SirechoD- or that the birds will outstriP
lie progress Of the cold. In reality,
they often arrive with the very weather
they are held 60 pDgnosticate.-E
phange.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

Jinks-That fellow Silipate ts the
most inexcusable fool / ever saw
Wink-What has he been doing to
your
Jinks-A few days ago some one In
vited him to dinner at our boarding
house. Well, sir, that idiot just praised
every dish on the table and compli-
mented the landlady on her cooking
until she raised her terms two pounds a
week.-London Tit-Bits.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03
IN THE OLD MAIDS PLOT.

odd Burial Place I'm Greenwood That
Suggests Many Curious Thoughts.
'sThis right here is the plot where the
Society Of Old Maids was buried
The guide that showed US through
Greenwood cemetery made this rather
Queer announcement with that non
chalant precision for which guides ar
poted
what do you mean
This piece Of ground" replied the
guide in the same tone, was bought
by the Society of Old Maids. IL was
agreed that they would all be buried
together. That was a long time ago.
The society don't exist now. The last
Of 'em was buried years ago. The So
cietv was started by three sisters.
There's their graves alongside each
other. There's some thirty Others there.
You can see the ~gravestoues for your
self"
And 81. far as could be seen the guide
was right. The plot of ground seemed
10 be about 80 10y 40 feet. The grass
grew long and rank over all of the
graves in il. and evidently none of
them had been opened in years Not
all Of the graves had headstoues, so II
was impossible to judge with any accu-
racy as 10 which was the last member
buried Of this rather unique society.
One thing was certain, so far as the
gravestones could prove it, and thi;
was that none but unmarried women
rested in that particular piece OF
ground. On every stone vas the an
nouncement, so that no one could e
astray, that the woman who rested be
meath was a spinster.
Another thing the visitor noticed wa
that most C the ''old maids" as they
chose to call themselves, did live TO b
old maids in good sooth, for of thos,
who had headstones few had died unit
they had attained a ripe old age. Evi
IDENTIFY carking care had not interveneC
to shorten their days. But examples o
this were found in more striking form
on the headstones Of the three sister
who are said to have originated the 50
ciety. There were some quaint an
pious inscriptions there, and It wa
shown that all of these three wome.
had lived TO be more than 100 year
old. One had attained the age of III
and the other two had lived to be abou
10Y and los. respectively.
The visitor could not but wonder,
all could be told, whether some Of III
women who rested here under the tres
may not have had their loves, the
tears and fears and heartaches, Just q
do those who marry and are given j
marriage; whether small tragedies, I
human kind. buried with some Of tho'
spinsters now sleeping so PEACEFUL.
might not have led them 10 live the
lives apart from the devotion Of hu
band and the love and laughter
children.
But there was no one there TO al
swer.-New York Recorder.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03
Girls and Their Hearts.

Why is it that when girls have an OPP
portunity to ask for advice, or have
their fortunes told, or anything in that
line. the first thing they do is to ask
something about their hearts or the
hearts of others with relation TO their
owna Don't they ever think Of any
thing else except emotiOnsi Or is It
that they feel competent to settle all
other questions Observation-Disclosures
Free Pres.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03
&c DIdn't Cet Il

london cabmen have many tempta
tons 70 impose upon. their flares, and
L is hardly to be wondered at that
they sometimes catch a tartar in She
attempt. The author Of The PhilosO-
pher in slippers says that a large part
Of their undue gains is derived from
trnid women, who find it difficult to
withstand their bluster. Still, even E
woman may rebel upon occasion.
A lady who once save a cabman an
extra ~sixpence after paying his proper
fare. found that he was not disposed to
be grateful
''Wen, mum" said he, ungraciously.
'Tn take the money, but | don't thank
you for it."
you haven't it yet" said she, alert
u Withdrawing the sixpence and he
never did bave it
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03
an. -. nnrInr Ind MIddIs -.

The importance Of the horse during
the Middle Ages. especially on the cru
sades and in the tournaments which
followed in the wake Of the crusades,
Is significant Fully half the glamoI
and romance that surrounded the
knight belonged 10 the horse. for with
ont the horse those daring deeds In be-
half Of the weak and suffering had
never beer done. The horse. however,
has had his reward, for the best feature
of the Middle Age, outside the church,
is closely identified with his name, last
ing trees Of which are seen in the noble
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

Libraries for Farming Communities.
! do not know vino secured the law
TO establish township libraries in In
diana. but may every blessing rest on
him. for he did "a wonderful work, M
the man or committee who selected the
books had a genius for the task which
rose TO an Inspiration. How many
rainy days, how many long winter
evenings, hov many moo hours did l
spend in por ng owe the Abbott his
tories, the narratives Of travel, and
those book in which scientific princi-
Piles were 1pularly explained
The re, Elections Of the vast benefit
and pleas re | derived from that little
library mere haQdiul of books-to
which / .rudged a loht distance through
rain an snow Il grt AN occasional COW
eted volume. leaves the firm conviction
in my mind hat the b~enevolence and
wisdom of man cannot devise a more
benefcent fundamentally than some
general scheme whereby instructive and
entertaining books may be made readi'
" accessible to the youth Of the rural
portions OF our cCuutry.~ohn w
Bookwalter in Forum
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03
nanre. I'm a Mining counr.r.

Talk about deserted mining towns,
or rather Of deserted oil towns back in
PENNSYLVANIA. Why, some Of the old
time cities Of Nevada are today almost
forgotten. In Austin portions Of the
main street. which in years past were
the scenes Of large business transac-
tons and mining excitements, have in
the past three years absolutely grown
I'D with sage brush. When the moon
rises an observer would be led to be
Heye that here and there large stores
with stone fronts, once occupied by
PROSPEROUS merchants, were brilliantly
lighted, only to find on passing that
the roofs Of the buildings have fallen,
and the rays Of the Don CLEAN through
the still intact doors across the shad-
owed sidewalks with sepulchral effect
San F-sr cisco letter.
Quaker in Great Britain.
1t is commonly supposed that the So
eiety of Friends is a dwindling body,
| Many will be surprised TO learn that, 50
far from this being the case, its mem
bers and associates In this country have
increased during the last twenty years
from IS, 900 to about %, 900. In Great
Britain there are about 16, 600 in actual
membership, besides 5000 Others, who,
by the regular attendance of Us meet
ings, are practically identified with the
BODY. These %, 900 Friends live main
" in England, where there are about
800 congregations. The Calvinism o.
Scotland and Wales will probably ac
count for the fact that less than 3O'
Friends and only about ten small meet
fngs are to be found in those countries
London Tit-Bits.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03
FANcIEs.

Fair. bright thoughts and fancies golden
Haunt the window where my sou
Sits alone. in prison holden.
Yet defying my control
can hear their tones Of sweetness
And sometimes ] catch "a word.
But the song In its completeness
Never mortal ear has heard.
Through the sash. with glow and glimmer.
Faces peep, as fair as day
But / only see the simmer.
As the white wings lift away.
Once ] thought t1 cage and bind them
With the letters of o. rhyme;
But. alas ! cannot find them
shall never make them mine.
N. L0watur BOZ Arkau-aw Traveller.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03
musical with IN tho sIiddIe Ages.

MunlNAA NY III 1T ~ AA11A 1kfHH
The Middle Ages were a prolific source
of musical myth, and the learned chron.
ielers who did not hesitate 20 regard
Alexander rs a knight Grant who over,
threw Darius in the lists, and Julius
Caesar as an emperor elected by the
European diet which contained Pom.
pey, Cato. Atticus, Scipio and Solomon
as its five electors. were not at all dis
tressed by the often asked question,
''What is the origin Of music In the
worldT' According TO them there exist
ed at the time Of Noah a celebrated king
entitled Blegabres. He lived before the
food. and inhabited land where, in the
name Of a less illustrious namesake
Of his. King Cole by name, not only
did music flow most sweetly, but otheI
things besides of a more ardent nature.
There is here, perhaps, a direct allu-
sion to Noah's intoxication, but moth.
ing is stated thereon in the tale.
King Blegabres lived I'm this happy
land, and listened all day long TO the
strains of cornet, psaltery, sackbut,
etc. ; in fact, the court breathed eter
nal music, as, according to Homer, the
court Of Eolus, king of the winds, il
described no less graphically and mys
teriously as doing. The memory o.
King Blegabres and his court, washed
out by the food, was after awhile re
vived by St. Julian, the patron saini
of minstrels, who, bya divine intuition
was enabled to report concerning thu
infancy of the musical art. -Chambers
| Journal.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

He anxiously)-What did your fa-
ther say1
She (sweetly)-Nothing, except that
he would look you up and see Il you
had enough 70 support a wife.
He-Um-my dear, hadn't we better
elope tonightl-New York Weekly.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

Syrup"

Here is an incident from the South
Mississippi, written in April, 1890,
Just after the Grippe had visited that
country. 81 am a farmer, n of
those who have TO rise early and
work late. At the beginning oflast
Winter / was on a trip TO the City
Of Vicksburg, Miss. where I got well
drenched in a shower of rain. l
went home and was soon after seized
with a dry, hacking cough. This
grew worse every day, until l had
TO seek relief I~consultcd DR.. Dixon
who has since died. and he told me
TO get a bottle of Boschee's German
syrup. Meantime my cough grew
worse and worse and then the Grippe
came along and l caught that also
very severely. Ny condition then
compelled me to do something. l
got two bottlesof German Syrup. l
began using them, and before taking
much Of the second bottle, / was
entirely clear Of the Cough that had
hung 10 me so long, the Grippe, and
all its bad effects. Ifelt tip-top and
have felt that way ever since. -
PETER J. BRIALs, Jr., Cayuga, Hines
Co., Miss. .
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

An American named Edwards about
four years ago al New York was sen
fenced 10 death for the sixth time. On
each Of the five previous occasions he
had escaped the capital punishment
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

Professor Mendclef has succeeded in
distilling petroleum from mineral sub
u which cannot be distinguished
from the natural product This re-
wives faith in the belief that petroleum
is OF mineral origin
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

A cat at MontreuK which a open
doors heard another eat outside new
ing to get in. No one answering the
request, it rose from the chair on which
II was sleeping, walked GRO the room
20 the door. opened IT, and let its
friend 10.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

What kind Of seeds ought ] TO plant,
Uncle 81. 20 get a coed squash cropf'
squash. o. course. What did yer
suppose-Hocks New York Epoch.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

The small, round black seeds of Can
ma indica are used BY the Burmese for
sacred beads and BY the Hindoos for
necklaces. They are called IN Guiana
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

Kind Lady What a Lice little girl
you arel l. your father IN business In
this city,
Little Girl-BCsiness! My papa
doesn't have TO bother about business
'sAh! Gentlein an Of leisure. thenf
'rYes'm He's q detective Good
News
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03
word chisairy. Caroline *. Sherman
IN Chicago Herald.


There mu~t be some reason why
women llvr 80 few pockets. and will
persist ia carrying their money In a
dainty little hand pocket, SO tempting
to sneak thieves. suppose it is like
the wearing of earrings. some habit Of
u primitive ancestors, when our fore
mothers borc the burden OF the house
hold effects iu cares and money, while
her LEG. lord did the fighting. -PIila-
delphia Press.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

1t was the time of night when bored
bellies yawn and beaux linger. Hints
innumerablp had been sOwn On barren
ground. George Deadgone would stay.
Finally Miss Nosnooze excused herself
tor "a few moments. A minute later the
cook. in full regalia, entered the parlor'
and. walking up to George Deadgone,
asked
What would you like to have for
breakfast. sir
And then George Deadgone, noticing
that Miss No-uooze had gone, went
New York Herald.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03

buckshot. for the natives use them as
shot in their blowpipes.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-03
MAKE A NOTE OF THIS.

The YELLOWSTONE JOURNAL reaches Fl
larger class of people in the city and surrounding
country and has a larger circulation Than am
othor naner. and is therefore the best advertising
medium.