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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17
NEw-FANoLED CYCLES.
Models that Were Exhibited in tha En-
slish Stunley Show.

The results of the Stanley bieTcl
show in England indicate number OF
complex and cumbersome changes
rather than real, simple improvement.
The show brought out five wheels. four
of which will be new to American cv-
clists. The fifth, though shade
lighter land perhaps frailer) than the
safety seen most generally in this
country, will be found to much re-
semble the "B' model Of the Victor
wheel. These five bicycles and the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

tensionea ty means of a hub and an
extra set of spokes which give to the
entire bicycle the aspect of spiders
web out Of gear.
It is not probable that any of the
new-fangled bicycles will be used tc
any extent in America.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

To MAKE an lmpermeable glue. soak
ordinary glue in water until it softens,
and remove it before it has lost its
primitive form. After this, dissolve
it in linseed oil over slow fire until
it is brought to the consistence of a
jelly. This glue may be used for
joining any kinds of material. In ad-
dition to strength and hardness, it has
the advantage OF resisting the action
of water,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

A NEW form of chair has been
brought out by the Medical Battery
Company, of Oxford street, London.
An electric current renders the patient
insensible to pain when an operation is
being performed on him. If this be
true, the days of laughing gas, ether,
etc.. for dentistry are numbered.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

HENRY SINNER lays claim to ten
acres i'll the heart of Cincinnati, valued
at millions, but as there is nothing
mean about him he will quit-claim for
SIS in cash and barrel of whisky.
He says he met All old chap on the
highway one day fifty years ago who
gave him the land for chew of to-
laccO
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

WHILE Brazil was in the throes of
revolution her immigration agents were
passing from point to point in the
United States and telling people what
a peaceful, law-abiding country it was,
and how they wanted the Yankee to
come over there and show 'em how to
farm and do business.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

QUEEN Victoria having presented
the mess of her Prussian regiment
(First Dragon Guards) with por
trait Of herself, the officers have sent
her large and handsome colored pho
tograph of the regimentin parade order.
Colonel Victoria is understood to be
proud Of her command.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

IT is foolish to try to live on past ex-
perience. 1t is very dangerous, if not
a fatal habit, to Judge ourselves to be
safe because of something that we felt
or did twenty years ago.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17
A Little Pot Is Soon Hot

One of the most useful little tnven-
tons lately patented in England, says
the London queen, is this water heat
er, by means OF which food and shaving
water. ETC., can he heated over any gas
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

Our at the Folsom prison, Oregon,
there is horse that has developed an
earnest desire to eat all the red and
green peppers he can get hold of. The
animal behaves just like any other
horse except in this particular.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

A NEW material called "lactite" has
recently appeared in England as q
substitute for bone or celluloid. Casein
is the principal constituent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

TIE latest article to be manufacture
ed from corn is soap. Experiments
have shown that bushel of corn, with
the proper amount of alkali, will make
200 pounds of soap.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

TITS estimated that during the past
year damage aggregating S350,o0o has
been done to buildings in Ashland, Pa,
by the settling of the surface.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

The respiration of insects has been the
subject of study by II. Contejean, who
has found that, contrary to what takes
place in vertebrates, the movement of
inspiration is passive and that of expira-
ton active. The air is DIR; eli from the
body by contractile effort. Hence,
when the insect is wounded, the flow
of blood occurs at the expiration. The
respiratory movement is not interrupt.
ed by cutting off the head, nor by the
absorption of curare, which produces
an immediate cessation in man.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

HIGH heels. it is said, owe their
origin to Persia. where they were in
troduced to raise the feet from the
burning sands of that country.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

r ON Jan. 81, 1861, Kansas was ad-
mitted as State into the Union.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

cumbersome wheel was exhibited in
the "Euclidia." It discloses a new
idea in frames, but the practical wheel
man must be the Judge of its virtue.
The frame of the machine-two bars
bent into the shape of pears and
brought back around the forward semi
circumference of the hind wheels
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

Our prayers and Gods mercy are
like two buckets in a well-while one
ascends the other descends.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

The number of exiles to Siberia this
year, up to Oct. l, amounts to 10000
souls,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

SOMETHING new in the line of enter
tainments is upon the tapis at York
Beach, NIe.--a frost carnival The
hall is to be decorated to represent the
arctic regions, with grottoes, snow
caves and icicles. The audience is ex-
pected to appear in costume suited to
the apparent condition of things, to-
boggan, Esquimo, or snow and frost
covered suits. The children are in
training for appearance as snow fairies.
frost sprites, etc., and sleigh bell
chorus and drill, with 1874 sleigh bells,
is on the programme. The supper is
to match the rest Of the performance.
II the weather continues to behave as
it has done for the last four weeks there
is no doubt that the outdoor accessories
will be in proper trim for the occasion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

Truth and soul that is ready for
truth meet like the fuel and the flame.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

FREE living leads to free thinking,
and free thinking to free living.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

bracket. The illustration fully az
plains its construction. Something
similar has been in the American mar.
ket tor some time. it serving we'll to
boil a single egg or heat water for a
cup OF tea. 1t is in especial favor for
warming baby food at ght.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

acts of the lessec-an important prin-
ciple, of wide application.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

ALL is but lip wisdom which want.
experience.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

DIsBEL1EvERs in vaccination for
smallpox should consider the state
ments just made to the French Acad-
envy of Medicine by DR.. Brouardel.
While Germany loses only ITO persons
per annum from smallpox, France ac-
tually loses $4,000, to be accounted for
by the rigid way in which vaccinatioA
is enforced in Germany and by the
carelessness Of the Frenchmen. In
1865, when vaccination was not obliga-
tory in Prussia, the mortality was 81
per 100000 inhabitants. After vaccin-
alton was enforced, the mortality fell
in 1874 to $50 per 100000, and in 1856,
to 0.049. At the present time, the
mortality from this cause in France is
43 per 100000.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

EIGHT years ago Sacramento
woman gave tramp Il dollar. The
tramp subsequently went to work, &C
cumulated fortune OF $4,000, and,
dying the other day, left all his estate
to his benefactrcss. Tramps should
cut this out and show it to the lady of
the house when they apply for assist
ance. 1t is not quite so certain as the
ordinary lottery, but the tramp might
SCOOP in a dollar now and then.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

The natives on some Of the Pacific
islands, being provided with neither
metals nor any stone harder than the
coral rocks, Of which the atells they
inhabit are composed, would seem
badly off, indeed, for material Of
which to make tools OF weapons, were
it not that their very necessity has
bred an invention no less ingenious
than curious and effective. This is
nothing less than the use of sharks
teeth to give a cutting edge to their
wooden knives and swords. The
mouth of the shark contains 800 teeth,
arranged in five rows, all closely lying
upon each other, except the outer row,
and SO constructed that as one tooth is
broken Or lost another takes its place.
The teeth are not only pointed and
keen-edged. but are finely and regular
ly serrated, SO that the cutting power
is greatly increased. Indeed, SO great
a faculty have these teeth for wound
ing that the implements and weapons
upon which they are used have to be
handled with great care. The King
mill islanders make many strange ar
ticles of sharks teeth.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

A MAN died in Savannah the other
day who played no small part in the
sea duel between the Alabama and
Kearsarge. His name was Michael
Maher, and he was petty officer of the
Alabama. When the Alabama had
been sunk by the Kearsarge, and the
latter's boats had rescued her crew,
Maher jumped from one Of the Federal
boats with the Alabama's papers in his
pockets, was picked up by some En-
glish or French craft, and escaped to
England
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

IT is to a woman that tho ~ t;a ~
peals when it needs consolS'"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-17

The Smithsonian Institution, along
with the sages of the land, has con-
cluded that many valuable animals are
fast becoming extinct. Instances in
the past occur to us-the buffaloes,
for example, to mention singular
notable case-and touching the future,
we all have been fearful lest the seal
should follow him to the happy swim
ming grounds. The forthcoming pub
LEGATION of the Smithsonian will sub
stantiate these melancholy forecasts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-04

told him at once that could not take the
mission to Spain. Said 1, 4 don't want to
go to any of the eflete monarchies of Eu-
rope. 1 have served all my life for my
party, and l have never asked for an Office.
I had thought that L might take one as a
sort of vindioation of my principles, but
since you have so many better men than
myself. I think I had better go back to
Kentucky and retire to private life.
Lincoln, who had been rather reserved
up to this time, here got up and put his
hand on my shoulder and said, T don't want
you to go home, Mr. Clay. want to do
something for you, but I am so hedged
around here that can't do just what will.
Isn't there some place you will take?"
'Well," said l, ''You have made up your
Cabinet. How about the missions to France
and England?" President Lincoln then
said that these had been promised to Adams
and Dayton, and that he didn't see how he
could let me have either of them. 'Well,"
said 1, that settles it. There is 90 other
place I want. 1 will go back to Ken
lucky"
HOW HE WENT TO RUSSIA.
president Lincoln again urged me not
to CO. He said: STAY few days, Mr. Clay.
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BARBER SHOP BAY RUM.
Tho Article Is Wonderfully Diluted and
Sometimes Badly CoIored.

Tho Article Is Wonderfully Diluted and
Sometimes Badly Colored.
If all the bay rum used in the barber
shops in this country was genuine it would
require about so times the amount of land
now devoted to the culture of the bav tree
to supply the demand, says Philip Selden,
New York importer of bay rum, in the ST.
Louis Globe-Democrdt. About so per cent of
the fluid used in the barber shops is genuine
and pure. Bay rum, you know, is, in its
perfect state, very strong, and will stand any
amount of "rectifying," as we call it. One
gallon Of pure bay rum will make ten gal
Ions of barber-shop bay rum. Som times
they add 10 gallons of water, and make
enough stuff to stand bay-rum label for q
year. Yet some BARRIERS have the impu-
dence to charge extra for it. In most shops
in New York known as '10c shops" they
charge &c extra for bay rum What they
sell you for bay rum costs them about SC a
gallon. You get q tablespoonful of it used
on your face.
Sometimes the adulterated fluid is col
ored with chemicals to make it look attract
i've, and there is nothing more dangerous or
conducive to skin disease than such COM
binations. A great deal of so-called bay
rum sold as the pure article is manufactured,
and was never distilled from the bay leaf or
any other leaf. The United States uses less
genuine bay rum than any European coun-
try
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and through this came about the negotia-
tions which gave us Alaska"
"What do you think of George Kennan'
articles on Russia?" said L
81 don't think much of them," replied
General Clay. 81 don't think the man is
acting like gentleman. He accepted their
hospitalities and he is now misconstruing
and disappearing them. 1 don't believe
there are any greater cruelties committed in
the Russian prisons than there are in the
American prisons"
STORIES OF HENRY CLAY.
Cassius Ne. Clay was q cousin of Henry
Clay. He says that Clay would have made
great general, and he says that the sim.
ilarity in all respects between Clay and
Jackson was striking. They had heads very
much alike, and they were intellectually
much the same in character. "I believe
that Clay would have been President of the
United States had he had chance to dis.
tinguish himself in the army, and the only
man in the past whom L eau compare with
Clay and Jackson is Julius Cesar. All
three men possessed great moral courage,
all were statesmen, and Clay would have
made, I think, an equally good general
with jackson or Cesar.
"Clay had remarkable physical courage.
They tell q story of him Lexington during
his early law practice there. He was tall,
gaunt young fellow of 81 or % years of age
when he imagined himself insulted by a
man who was 10 or Is years older than he
was, and who was very much stronger. Clay
attempted to fight the man, and the man
knocked him down. Now it was the GUS
tom in those DAYS for the under man, when
he found he could not succeed against his
adversary, to cry enough and the man
then got off him. Clay would not cry
enough and the crowd, thinking he would
be killed, pulled the man off.
HE COULDN'T GET ENOUGH
'fNo sooner had Clay gotten to his feet
than he went at the man again and he was
again knocked down and pounded. The
man was pulled off and Clay again attacked
him, and finally, in order to save Clay from
being killed, his friends took his opponent
into a store and kept Clay on the outside
for fear he would fight himself to DEATH
Clay had number of duels and he had a
good military mind.
"Henry Clay was an entirely different
man from Webster Webster was a great
natural quickncss of Clay, and don't think
he had as great soul as Clay had. He was
not man of great personal magnetism, and
l don't think his moral character was as
good as that of Mr.. Clay's. 1 first met him
when 1 was a boy on my way to college. and
I was greatly impressed with him then, and
he was Clay's supeior in education and in
generalization. He was not as gross as Web
ster, and as far as his relations with the
other sex are concerned, he was o much
purer man. He was a friend of mine and
he was my lawyer in the suit which was
brought against me for carving up the no.
torious bully, S. NJ. Brown"
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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get into the market. They have thin and
| brittle rinds and and they are sure to break
| in shipping. You note that this melon has
| white seeds, and still it is as ripe as it can
be. 1 find that the seeds of melons change
with cultivation, and the seeds of this
stock were black when I began to cultivate
them a few yeers ago, but they have changed
from year to year until they are now as
white as snow.
for the General keeps bachelors hall-he
discussed gastronomy and the laws of health,
and told me that he attributed his longevity
to Temperance in eating, and that he always
got up from the table hungry. He pre-
ferred vegetables to meats, and though the
table was loaded down with good things, he
took but little.
PRETTY NEARLY INDEPENDENT.
He proudly said that everything on his
table with the exception of the pepper, the
salt and the coffee, had been raised by him
on his farm, and that he felt happy in being
independent. AT one time during nv stay
he talked of farming, and said that he found
the raising of Southdown sheep and export
that he has the finest sheep in the United
states. Within the past few years General
CLAW has divided up q large part of his Ken
tuckv lands and has given them to his sons.
He still holds, however, $50 acres about his
home, and the working of this is his busi-
ness and amusement.
One evening during my stay I asked Mr..
Claw who was the greatest man he had ever
known. He replied: Il believe that Abra-
ham Lincoln was the greatest man this
country has ever produced. AS diplomat
he was greater than all his diplomats AS
General he was superior to any General in
the army, and as statesman he far out
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-04

He7uJ CtuU. Jul WinioICi " 1eus-
sia during the administration of Abraham
Lincoln, and for the past 80 years one of the
leading thinkers of the country, he is to-
day, at 81, almost as strong intellectually
and physically as he was when he made his
first abolition speech as a student in Yale
College nearly 60 years ago.
His four score years have not diminished
his courage, and his arm is as ready to strike
in his own defense to-day as it has been in
the many deadly encounters of his past,
wherein in self defense, he has used the
pistol and the knife in the support of his
doctrines and has fought to the death.
BRAVE AND CULTIVATED MAN.
There. is no braver man in the United
States than Cassius NJ. Clay, and doubt
whether there is gentler or more cultured
one. have spent several days with him
on his estate known as White Hall and
have had hours of chatty conversation with
him about the great men he has known, and
as to some of the most stirring incidents of
his eventful life.
Casius NJ. Clay was perhaps the richest
Young man in the South. His father had
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ranked his Cabinet He was clogged IN MS
administration by his Cabinet, and he had
some bad elements about him. lake
Seward, for instance. He was not IN sym
pathy with Lincoln. He was man OF no
principle, and he was always WORKING Ior
himself and stealing from the Presidency.
nIs OPINION OF SEWARD.
'T knew Seward very we'll before the
convention of 1860, and I called on MN
ut Washington. He was then very anxious
to be President, and he showed me paper
he had written in which he announced ne
was for the Union, slave or free. That
killed him with me, and then decided that
1 would have nothing to do with his can
didacy. He knew that went against MIN
and he became my enemy and we were en-
emies till the day of his death. he was
Secretary of State while was In Russia,
and he heaped many petty insults upon
me.
81 first met Lincoln before he was elected
to Congress. 1t was during lecture that
gave at Springfield that Lincoln was sitting
whiting in the back part of the crowd. L
became well acquaintedwith him later on,
and when he was nominated was leadlng
candidate for Vice President, but did not
go to the convention nor make any enort TO
have my friends nominate me, and Haml1n
was chosen. President Lincoln wrote me
shortly after this that he intended to ap--
point me Secretary OF War. I had served
in the Mexican war, and had some military
training. L would have accepted the posi-
tion, and remained at Kentucky at my
home waiting for Lincoln to fulfill his
promise. At last, one day, received
letter telling me had been made Minister
to Spain, l did not wish the Spanish mis-
sion and 1 started at once to Washington to
see about it"
HE COMPLAINED TO LINCOLN.
IT went to the White House as soon as I
got to Washington" continued General
Clay, "and found the President in the Ii
brary. He received me pleasantly and
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United States, and carried on all the pre-
liminary negotiations An American
traveller named Perry Med. Collins had
gone across Siberia and he had interested
Sibley, the President Of the Western
Union Telegraph, in the scheme for build
ing telegraph line from America across
Bering Straits to st. Petersburg. Sibley
attempted to get charter for this line
through me, and got one which would
have made the fortunes of the company had
they not spoiled the job at Washington
through our Secretary of State, Seward,
pressing the famous Perkins claim. In my
chaner we had clause which provided that
every telegram from Siberia to st. Peters
burg should pay to the American company
a rebate of one-half of the price of the tele-
gram This L got out of my friendships at
St. Petersburg, and had interested two of
the Grand Dukes of Russia to take stock in
the company. Then Seward pressed the
Perkins claim.
NO KIND WORDS FOR SEWARD.
s'It was an outrageous steal, and Seward
knew it. He commanded me to press it,
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How many people who look at Fahren-
heit thermometer know why it is divided in
212o between the zero and boiling point. 1t
is fairly well known that Fahrenheit estab-
lished his zero at what he believed to be
absolute cold produced by a mixture of Ice
and salt. Ten thousand volumes of mer-
curry at the Fahrenheit zero are 10, ,212
volumes at the boiling point of water. In
some way or other Fahrenheit hit upon this
fact, hence his scale.
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vast tracts of land,
and he left him 1900
acres of the very best
Kentucky blue grass.
White Hall is one of
the finest mansions
of the South. Gen
eral Clay was born
upor the spot on
which no now lives,
and his fathers s
hou7e cost $50, 900,
anG General Clay
has added such i'm
provements to it as
to make it cost $780,
900 more. It is a
great red brick of
three stories of