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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

CHiLE's territory is about as large
as that of the combined States Of
New York, New Jersey. Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland, Ohio and Indiana,
with the whole of New England
thrown in, and it has a population OF
only a little over 100000. 1t is a
good place for the restless c1nigrant
who is seeking roomy country TIC
grow up in and isn't afraid of revo.
luton occasionally.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

AS A result of eating German-bred
pork, seven Saxons are dead and thir-
ty others are very i'll. It has not
been learned that trichiniasis from a
German hog is materially different
from that Of the American porker-
but it is much more numerous,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

The more enlarged our mind, the
greater number we discover of men
OF originality. Your commonplace
people see no difference between one
man and another.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

THE crimes recently committed In
the East by imported Italian laborers
were fairly startling both in character
and number. 1t is a great misfort!
une that there has yet been found nc
successful way of keeping the Grim.
inal class of other countries from
flooding our own, and endangering
our lives and property and adding tc
the expenses of our prisons and poor,
houses,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

INDIANA doesn't want to put on
style. The authorities the other day
fined saloonkeeper SIS for having
stained glass in his front window.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

it is OF the greatest Importance if
the means of eliminating them with
out injury to the medicine has been
found
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

Two FRENCH doctors claim to have
discovered signs of life in heads sew
cred from the bodies of murderers by
the guillotine. The discovery must
be regarded as useless until the heads
can be forced to tell what they know,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

IT would seem that man named
Fishback ought to be Finn. Any
way, the person of that name now in
generated charged with embezzle-
ment appears to have been a scaly
fellow
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

WILL Chicago admit that It ever
has fire in which the less is less
than ST., 100000?
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

ACCORDING to the compilations oil
Philadelphia paper, at the present
rate of consumption the pine lumber
in Minnesota and Wisconsin will be
exhausted in six years. In fifteen
years there will be no considerable
areas Of commercial lumber nearer
than Washington and Alaska. That
means lumber famine, according to
the Philadelphia authority. 1t is
worth while to look over the field.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

THERE are all kinds of fads for
making weak people strong; we won
der that some one does not advocate
sleep as a cure-all. We never knew
any one to get more OF it than was
good for him, and half the people in
the world are really suffering for a
lack of it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

In twenty years there has been no
counterfeiting of the United States
postage stamps. The only criminals
who tried it gave up in despair when
it came to initiating the flavor Of the
mucilage Uncle Sam uses.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

= ITALY will build at once three new
1ron-clad battle-ships, each of 1880
tons displacement. Italy. in the
present condition Of it's national
finances, goes to this expense for the
purpose of enforcing ample revenge
at New Orleans-or for some other
purpose.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

A DIME MUSEUM trust is the latest.
Tt will find it a difficult job to get a
corner on the fat woman.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

WHEN you buy Dickens works for
a dollar you are getting brain work
mighty cheap" says the Boston News.
Similarly, it might have added, when
you pay several times as much for a
copy OF Society as Have Found 1t, -
You are getting mighty cheap brain
work.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

A KENTUCKY colonel died from an
overdose of whisky. A Monroe
County, Pa, child swallowed the
handle Of Its rattle and died. A
Jerseyman fell out OF his bed while
fighting a mosquito and broke his
neck. Danger turks in the simplest
walks in life.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

IHE COURSE vi CVeIlUS III all the
South American republics seems to
afford constant object lesson, teach.
ing that republicanism can not be
successfully made to order on paper.
The slow process of education and the
enlightened self-interest begotten OF
commerce and industry are necessary
to develop that intelligent and moral
force in the people which disposes OF
would-be dictators without resort to
such sanguinary proceedings as have
of late been witnessed in Chilli.
Col. DYRENFORTH is not to be al
lowed to have the field all to himself
as rainmaker. Another Chicago
man, Mr.. Louis Gathmann, has a
plan for producing rain by the use OF
liquef1ed carbonic acid gas, which can
be made cheaply and in immense
quantities from lime and marble dust.
He proposes to I'LL six-inch cylinders
two or three feet long with this ma
terial at a pressure OF 800 pounds to
the square inch. and explode them at
a distance of mile or SO above the
earth's surface. The sudden expan-
sion of the contents will produce a
temperature OF seventy degrees below
zero, and cause the formation of a
very large cloud in obedience to the
well-known law that q lowering of
the temperature OF. volume Of air
decreases its capacity for sustaining
moisture. It is said that ex-senator
Farwell has Investigated the theory,
and intimated that he proposes to
give . trial to the scheme, which in
language facetiously ascribed to the
inventor will enable any one to get a
oopious shower, no matter how hot
the day, by dropping $500 in the
slot"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

NEW YORK Is going to have the
finest hotel in the world. It is also
going to have the tallest temple in
the country. New York is pre-emi-
nent as going to have" town. It
has been going to have Grant
monument for years, and is as far
away as ever.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

RUSSIA and Germany are setting an
excellent example in deputing COM
petent officials to accompany the
Worlds Fair ENJOYS back to America
to arrange for space for the exhibits
of their respective Governments. It
only remains for the other European
Governments to follow their example.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-09

NEARLY a million dollars worth Of
bicarbonate Of soda was destroyed by
a fire in Pennsylvania. The blow
falls heavily upon the discriminating
interests of the country, but unless
the baking powder men are seeking
to mislead the public, there is plenty
Of alum to fall back upon.
A GERMAN inventor having made
it possible to photograph the interior
of the stomach or any other portion
Of the anatomy it may be necessary
to explore, it would be an interesting
experiment to investigate the quality
and volume Of gall possessed by the
man that chews tobacco in church.
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the branches, boughs, and leaves Of the
tree were found pictured upon his breast
and other parts Of his body with the min
uteness Of photograph. One Of the
witnesses of this surprising phenomenon
inquiries: eff electricity will transmit
such impressions thirty feet upon a no
more sensitive surface than the human
skin, why may it not do it for an indefi-
mite distance?"
In the village Of Rutchy, in the pro-
vince of kietf, Russia, an OK saved tho
life of shepherd who was attacked by Il
female bear. The man was thrown to
the ground, and the bear wos about to
begin her meal. when the OK appeared on
the scene. and running at the bear, gave
it Il powerful blow with his horns. The
bear finding an enemy in the rcar,
dropped the man to tackle its new assail-
ant, thus enabling the shepherd to effect
an escape. The OK meanwhile drove the
bear and her two cubs back to the woods.
The shepherd was seriously injured, but
at last accounts was recovering.
A BALTIMORE freak is a frog Of good
size and triAe light in color, but appar.
emily not different from any other frog.
The freakishness developed when his
frogship was worried, when, instead of
hopping of or giving utterance to the
deep, sonorous note usually heard from
frogs, he simply opened his mouth and
cried. The frog is nothing If not
human, and suggests, both in tone and
volume, bad, peevish child. The cry
is not single note, but several, and is
continued even after the annoyance
ceases.
Mrs. Luc1Ak MAYBERRY, of Little
Rock, Ark, is the mother Of ten boys, all
born within married life Of thirty.nine
The morning call., 1891-04-20
QUEEN OF HER KIND.
Mile. Siccard, Sovereign of the $4,000
WasherwOmen OF Paris.

Mile. Siccard, Sovereign of the $4,000
WasherwOmen of Paris.
The washerwOmen of Paris form a rich
and powerful corporation, and once year
they enjoy splendid frOlic. Long before
the great day of Mi-Careme dawns, they
have held their elections, chosen their COS
tunes, arranged their order of procession,
and decided where they will hold their even
ing revel
In each quarter of Paris there is ga
voir," or public wash-nOuse, and along the
river Seine there are also many others. In
these 30 or 40 establishments there are al
ways many robust types of feminine beauty,
and woman who desires 10 become the
talk of the town can do it most effrctually
by getting the nomination of Queen of the
Washerwomen" for the season.
The pageant generally represents a
strange mixture OF pagan mythology and
medieval splendor
There are $1,000 women in the corpora
ton of waSherW0men. So 1t is no light
honor to be chosen their queen and to have
absolute power over them, II only for one
day.
Nile SIccard, this years queen, is a splen-
did brunette, &c Yeas old, with profile
worthy au antique statue of Venus and q
bust of almost as heroic size as that of the
great statue of the republic, near which she
was crowned queen the other day. She was
the unanimous choice of the women in all
the Paris lavoirs. In the procession she
rode in great coach garnished from top to
bottom with camellias and draped with red
velvet sown with golden stars. The coach
was drawn by four magnificent white
horses.
Crowned with a golden diadem, dressed
in cream-colored satin gown with golden
embroideries, the beautiful blanchsSeuse
perhaps fancied, as she rode enthroned on
her coach past the hundreds of thousands
of laughing ParislanS, that she was indeed a
queen.
But that did not hinder her from taking
her usual place next morning in the wash
house and attending to her business as
nSnal-EX
The morning call., 1891-04-20
BARRETT AND BOOTH.
They Sought Criticism and Were stasge:

They Sought Criticism and Were Staggered
With the Result.
Apropos Of the death of Lawrence Barrett
a story that has never been published of a
conversation at the Windsor Hotel in New
York between the dead actor and his now
sick partner Booth may be of interest,
SAYS tie Kansas City Times. They were
waiting for friend, and while walking In
the hotel corridors they fell to discussing
the merits of the average gallery god"
Barrett, who was ever the friend of the
gallery god" insisted that their judgment
was infallible in matters pertaining to the
drama. Booth. on the other band, thought
that the cultivated, well-read man was the
more competent critic. How they came to
get started on this topic in this fashion will
never be known, for Booth and Barrett were
not in the habit of talking shop together,
especially in public place. Finally, in q
spirit OF fun, Barrett remarked:
Tell you what we will do. We will walk
over to Seventh avenue. That is a fairly
representative street. | will stop every
urchin newsbOy and ask him what he thinks
of my Ganelon if you will stop every we'll
dressed dude and ask him what he thinks
of your Rcheieu," the characters happen
ing to be the ones in which the two great
actors were cast that week in New York.
The vanQuisbed was to pay for a quiet
urchin with a bundle of papers appeared to
be likely customer. and Barrett bought a
paper and inquired " What do you think of
Barrett, my little man ?' " Barrett, Barrett
yes! he is de Teller WHO Is runnin' against
Flnnegan down in the Fourth ward. My
boss says he is no good" Just then dude
with an unusually large cane came up the
avenue and Booth commenced talking theat-
ricals to him. Richelieu, Rlchelieu," said
the young swell, 81 don't think know him,
don't you know. He don't belong to our
set, you know. and l don't care about Guilt
waiting acquaintance outside of our club"
Sadder and wiser the actors walked back 10
Delmonico's, and that night Booth and Bar
retU both paid for their own suppers out of
their own pockets by mutual agreement.
The morning call., 1891-04-20
AT OAKLAND.
ETerett's Two-BagEer Drives Home the
Winning INNS.


Winning Runs.
The game at the Emeryville grounds yes
terday morning was well attended. The
play was tedious and at times uninterestng
The San Jose team won by score of to g.
and Everett is entitled the credit of the
victory, as his timely two-baEger drove in
the winning runs. Harper's pitching again
kept the COlOnels guessing, but his delivery
was not so steady as on the day he was last
pitted against the Oakland team.
Mars was in the box for Robinson's men,
and outside OF the second and fifth innings
prevented the opposing batters from bunch
ing their hits. In the third inning he struck
Ebright on the side of the head with a
pitched ball, but the third basemRn ap-
peared stunned for a moment only. 1t was
later discovered that EbTight had sustained
q fracture OF the temple-OOne, but his in
Jury did not deter him from playing during
the balance of the game or in the afternoon
contest.
In the first inning for Oakland Long was
given first base on balls, stole second, went
TO third on CantilliOn's sacrifice ard scored
on McQuaid's single. McQuaid stole second
and started to steal third, when he was
caught between the bases. Everett In
throwing the ball struck the runner in the
back. The sphere bounded out of reach
and McQuaid scored.
In the third McQusid was safe on Fo-
garty's error, stole second and went to third
on Speer'S nigh throw, scoring on Lohman'S
Single.
In the fourth Hines went to second on
Everett's high throw and scored on Mars
single.
In the sixth Lehman was given first on
balls and took third on Phillips double.
Both runners scored when Fogarty erred on
0'NeiPs hit.
In the first for San Jose McGucken was
safe on Phillips error, took second on a
passed bailed and third on a wild pitch. Nc
Vey was given first base on balls, and when
he stole second Lohman threw high to the
bag. McGucken scored and McVey took
third. Dooley sacrificed and McVey scored.
In the second inning Stallings hit safely.
vent to third on Speer's single and scored
en- Harper's sacrafce fly.
In the third inning for San Jose McVey
went TO first on balls. Dooley hit to Mars
who threw wide to second, McVey going to
third and Dooley taking second. The bases
were filed, when Ebright was hit by a
pitched ball and Everett cleared them by
Tapping out twO-bagger. Everett took
third on a force hit and scored on the
throw down to shut off steal at second.
The score:
The morning call., 1891-04-20
CURED BY AN EXPLOSIVE.
An Injection of Nitro Glycerine Restor.
n Man tn Life

An Injection of Nitro Glycerine Restores
Man to Life.
There has jnst occurred in the city OF
Spartansburg, S. c., one Of the most remark
able cases of recovery, in which a we'll
known citizen has been snatched from the
very grasp of death. A special from that
city to the st. Louis Globe Democrat saws:
For several months W. II. Posey has been
suffering from severe attack of jaundice,
with other troublesome complications. He
grew wore and worse, until his friends lost
all hope of his recovery. His brother, DIR.
Posey, was sent for. Indiscretion in diet
brought on commissions, and to all appear
ances he died. His breathing ceased, his
pulse stopped, and his brother turned away
and said 1t Is all over. Then DR.. Hill pro-
posed to inject DitrO-glycerine into his arm.
Ii he was dead it could do no harm. He
did so, and In few minutes his heart be-
gan to beat, the lungs to respire and the
pulse to throb, and he was again live man.
The jaundice is now under control and
there is every prospect of Mr.. Posey's re-
coverv. OF course, the nitro-glycerine could
not arrest death under all circumstances.
In this case the cause of death was heart
failure. and the powerful medicine restored
its action.
But for this Mr.. Posey would now be a
dead man. Those who were present say
the effect was wonderful. DR.. Hill has
used this remedy once before. When old
Mr.. Tpttle was so i'll DIR. Hill gave him up
for dead. Every breath seemed his last,
when Dr.. Hill thought of the nitro-glycerine
The morning call., 1891-04-20
MEN ABOUT TOWN.
Short Stories Gathered From the
Hotel Corridors.
Miss Phoebe Couzens-Racine's Future-Cali.
fornia Wines-Knows Better Now-It
Was the Same Old Gang.

II regard Racine as the greatest living
race-horse," said Speaker COMBS yesterday
to party of friends at the Grand Hotel
"Tenry and Salvador, of course, are both
magnificent animals, but l do not believe
that either of them is match for the Palo
Alto colt. II it came down to contest of
speed and endurance between them l be-
lieve that both Tenny and Salvador would
be like label on bottle-they wouldn't
be in it. sold Racine's grandsire to Sena-
tor Stanford, and for that reason have
watched the colt with great deal of inter-
est, and may have allowed my.pride in him
on that account to warp my judgment, but
l am firmly Of the belief that he will prove a
wOrld-beater during the coming season.
just watch him closely and see if l am not
right in my judgment. l am willing, at all
events, to risk my reputation as a prophet
on the matter, and have no fear of the re-
Sult "
The morning call., 1891-04-20

miles below. He had gotten into the wild
est Fart of the gorge when very large bear
slid down the side of the mountain and con-
fronted him on the railroad track. He had
nothing but large hunting knife to defend
himself. The bear, which was ravenously
hungry, attacked him and lively tussle
ensued. Snangler struck right and left. and
inflicted several severe wounds Oh the bear
which had the effect of greatly engaging it.
At last it made a dash for him with open
mouth, and as ne held the knife upright in
beast, which closed its jaws upon it. He
dare not withdraw his HAND, and the knife
was fast in the roof of the mouth of the
beast. 1t struggled fearfully, but he held
on, while the blood spurted in stream
over his arm and into his face. He evidently
had severed an artery, for in few minutes
the bear rolled over dead. Just at that mo-
ment train came up and took Spangler
aboard. He looked.very much like pig
sticker in q Chicago slaughter-house, but
having killed the bear he was the hero of
tho hnur
The morning call., 1891-04-20
1.-THE WEEDS OF TURA."
A PoIynesian Legend About a Husbands
Gray Hairs.

A Po1ynesian Legend About a Husbands
Gray Hairs.
Tura, coming from over the seas, found
himself in land named Otea, and leaving
his canoe, travelled inland. Travelling
through the dense forest, he saw fairies sit
ting in the flowers of the climbing plants
and swinging on the llIanas which traied
from the high boughs across the vistas of
the wood. These fairies were curiously
shaped beings, having small heads and
large bodies, while their hands and feet
were attached to limbs so short that they
seemed as if extruding from their
bodies. Tura had brought with him the
sticks wherewith fire is produced by
friction, and he proceeded to kindle O
fire and to cook some food, much to the as
constituent of the fairies, who had always
consumed their food in its natural state
Tura fell In love with one of the fairy
women and married her. His wife recipro-
Gated his affection and they lived happily
together; but one day, when the elfn spouse
was combing out her husbands hair, she
suddenly cried out, "Oh, Tura, what is this
white hair among the black ones ?" He
told her that it was sign of age and of ap-
preaching decay, the forerunner of DEATH
Then his wife wept bitterly and refused TO
be eomfOrted 1t is a touching story. the
sudden surprise and grief of this child of
the immOrtals on her discovery of that which
to us poor sons of clay is so common and
obtrusive fact. The old legend has given
rise to a proverbial saying, "The weeds of
Tura." as synonymous expression for
gray hair.-LOngman's Magazine.
The morning call., 1891-04-20
MARRIED.

HILL-DORIS-In this city. April Is, 1891, by the
Rev. Father McAvoy, Arthur b. Hill OF Oakland
and Lilne Loretta Doris OF San Leandro.
RODOLPH-DUTToN-In this city, April I6, 1891 &.
by the Rev. w. l.. Citizens. George W. RodOlph OF
Oakland and Carrie Maude Dutton OF San Fran
cisco.
YoLK-GRIM-In this city April IA. 1891. by the
Rev. j. Fuendeling, bernhard Volk and Marie
Magdalena Grim.
Observation-Disclosures this city. April 10,
1891, by the Rev. j. Fuendeling Ferdinand Der
enthal and Dora Behlmer.
LACHMANN-SHo RTMEIER-In Alameda, April
TO- 1891, by the Rev j. Fuendellng, Johann
Christian Dietrich Lachmann and Marie Fried
erike Luise Shortmeer.
BALDwIN-DoUGHT Oakland, April 10,
1891, by the Rev. w. L. Citizens, Frederick A.
Baldwin of San francisco and Loretta Isabelle
Doughty of Oakland.
SCHULZE-SCHoENA Alameda, April Is,
1891, by the Rev. II. E. j. ongerth. Max Schulze Of
Oakland and Minna schoenau or Alameda
CARRIGER-O'BRIEN-In Sonoma, April IA S9l,
by the Rev. J. j. Sullivan, W. w. Carriger and
Katie O. OBrien.
The morning call., 1891-04-20
PERSONAL NOTES.

w. T. Davis of Nevada is at the Palace
J. W. Conger of Fresno is stopping at the
Lick.
Senator Campbell of Solano is quartered
at the Grand.
H. V. Morehouse Of San Jose was in the
city yesterday.
John Daggett has returned to his home in
Siskiyou County.
R. d. Mcdonald of Eureka is guest of
the Occidental.
Judge Van Fleet of Sacramento was at
the Grand yesterday.
L. A. Ransom of Los Angeles is in town
and at the Baldwin.
Senator Bailey of Santa Clara Is in the
city. He is at the Palace.
w. II. Hatton, the attorney in the Olsen
case is registered at the Lick.
j. ID. McCabe, the Modesto attorney, is
among the guests at the Lick.
B. J. Harlow of Los Gatos was among the
arrivals at the Palace yesterday.
P. J. Mccormick, the Bakersfield con-
tractor, is among the guests at the Lick.
A. j. Johnston, the State Printer. returned
to Sacramento last night, after spending
several days at the Grand.