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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
Men and Women i'm rona.in.

I landed on the river banks and found
myself in the midst of q population
differing altogether from any had
hitherto encountered over O pretty wide
portion of the globe. Slim, diminutive
creatures the Tonquinese are, compared
with whom even the Bengalee OF the
Ganges delta is giant. But strange to
say, the women in most cases are as
comedy and fair as the men are repul-
sive and ugly. But their size is redicu-
lous. OF about the same stature as the
Goorkhas, they on an average probably
weigh no more than half the sturdy hill
man. The men aud women, when the
men are dressed at all, are dressed alike.
A colored handkerchief is coquettishlv
tied around the back of the head, and
the other garments are long loose
blouse with wide pantaloons. 1t is diff
cult for the new conner at first to dis
tinquish the sexes. What is the most
wonderful, however, of the costumes
now in fashion is the head dress which
the better-otf Tonquinese ladies wear. A
"mushroom-shaped basket" might, per-
haps, describe it, but then the mush-
room must be of the size of drawing
room table. Add two enormous tassels
pending on either side, and place under
meath a Malay-featured, salIow COM
plexioned doll of about fifty pounds
weight, and some idea may be formed
OF Haiphong belle. Men and women,
as in China, all carry fans.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
Captured BY a Hornet.

"You may talk about the cunning of
a fox. but you should have seen how q
wasp turned the tables on spider last
SUMNER" said man the other evening
to New York Tribune reporter, when
they were telling hunting stories. "One
day fellow sportsman and were hunt
ing .grays' on the Ticonderogo flats, up
in Essex county. We were resting on
the top rail of an old fence when our at
tention was attracted by a buzzing
sound near by, which we soon found to
come from one of those big black hornets
that hunters generally steer clear Of.
The old fellow lay in a spiders web,
buzzing away. We saw at glance,
however, that he was not entangled in
in the meshes at all. He would keep
quiet moment and then buzz again.
He continued to act in this manner for
about minute, and We were unable to
account for his strange conduct. Pretty
soon up from its den among the rails
came q good-sized spider, which bravely
grappled with the huge intruder. 1t
then became clear that the action OF the
hornet had been only willy ruse to at
tract the spider, for at once he stung the
plucky little defender to death and hew
away with it to his big nest in thicket
Of blue beeches on neighboring hill
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
Carriage Etiauet,o,

In the ethics of fashionable life, car
riage etiquette occupies a prominent
place. says the Ne.v York Times. One
of the several things supposed to indi-
cate whether woman is born in the
purple, or at least accustomed to car
riage life, is the way in which she leaves
and enters her vehicle. She should
have one foot ont and firmly set upon
the carriage step before she relinquishes
the sitting posture; then the body
should follow easily end naturally.
Nothing is more awkward than to see q
woman thrust her head forth first, and
then find herself forced to double up to
accomplish the rest of the exit. Watch
one who knows how gracefully sink her
weight from one foot to the other, al
most without losing perfectly perpen-
dicular position, securing instantly
walking poise rs she touches the ground,
and the difference between her method
and that of another who lands very
nearly in tumble on the sidewalk will
be discernible.
From Paris tie dictum comes that in
acting as hostess woman should enter
her carriage first. seating herself SO that
her guest sits at her right, which place
of honor she must not omit indicating
to her guest as such. When the host is
a man, however, the guest enters first
and should take place at the hosts
right. This. of course, is in reference
only to cases where both host and guest
are merely riding together. If the host,
either man or woman, is driving, his
seat is always the proper driving one.
A ridiculous combination of gallantry
and ignorance is occasionally seen,
usually at summer resorts, where
woman driving cart or phnton permits
her male companion to occupy the
drivers seat while she handles the rib
bons from his left.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
TOO LATE.
,,,,,A N. HAw1HoRSA

,,,,o and saw the kings Of men
boa war yroot lance that none but they could
{oise the great '"-''>o
wi ela.b awhile, my soul, and when
laid. "Fo'n o,h ;s fun, thou too shalt win tho
thy sifeaseN
field led, when the awaited day
t.nr;val a stranger gray
MON nv arm. and said: Too late /!
biz manu- " Inv s,,ear and shield!'
,os Young, lifted up mine eyes,
ben ,a w' a,stere philosophy ach1eve
Ahu e .r;as that teach men 10 De wise,
y sicfot!l1es1 ~ NV soul, .Erelong, believe.
Dher Etsla roo shalt wisdom known
Int while waited lol
b .n fnnre came and said, "Too latel
s ~ " hath no relnive
,as voung I was maiden sweet,
hen Va a.n;iinc ewes made sunshine In my
Whose slii'A'"e
nr 1e,n" n temple Without stain and meet,
n''a in MI, ouoth ], ITO house this virgin
su p,,,' vhen At hast sought
!rhs ,nnii, that graybeafd caught
~ and frowning said, 'LaggaFd! too
lh "p by love unb,est!"
,.oe Young, Gods face upon me shone;
eeh ~ yelled mine eyes, and whispered,
es' dr,am, God dwells IN Heaven alone. y
var a,Ian to Heaven ] came thaving paid
u' w,i h.s TON
,Ne'' mice said, .Knov, IN Me
Ivy. power and Wisdom be.
~" onl! and th,,n hast learned too late
III nn,y is mans goal!
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
Why 1t Did Not Dry.

The following incident was authorit-
atively told of New York merchant.
Although a gentleman of comfortable
means, the merchant has frequent
economical fits. Desiring to surprise
his wife upon her return from the coun-
try, he concluded to undertake the task
of vanishing his dining room, which had
lost some of its lnstre. After devoting
some little time to searching for pot
of varnish which had been used on pre-
vious occasions, the merchant, coatless
and with rolled up sleeves, began his
job, which, after labor Of eight hours,
he finished to his entire satisfaction.
The following morning he rose early,
and his mission was to examine his work.
Greatly to his surprise he found upon
entering the room that the varnish had
not dried particle, although both doors
and windows had been left open. \
closer examination disclosed the fact
that unfortunately he had not found the
pot Of varnish, and had actually warm
ished his entire dining room with maple
svrnn
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
Young Lady Kills a Cougar.

While housewarming was in pro-
gress at Thomas G. McAdam's farm
house on the Nooksack, q tremendous
splashing was heard in the brook near
by. All rushed to the stream, where q
cougar was found eating fine salmon
he had just caught. The men, without
alarming the great cat, went for their
guns, and when about to fire heard the
crack ola rife, and the cougar leaped
high in the air and fell in the brook
dead. A bullet had passed through the
left ear into the neck and severed the
SPINAL cord. Miss Maud Burning had
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
some VERY Long sieges.

Siege of Troy, apocryphal, ten years.
Siege Of Tyre. actual, thirteen years.
Authorities, Bohn's and other diction-
aries of the Bible. "Worterbuchder
Schalchten," Belagerungen und Tref.
fen Aller yolker, Won st. General F.
Won Kausler (B. G. 572-5S5, l., l01).
"Sieges ct Capitulations Celebres," 63,
GA. Ezekiel XVI, xvii. xviii. The
longest modern sieges since artillery
has assumed its proper functions were:
l. Siege of Ostend by the Spaniards,
l6O1-1G04-three years.
Like Tyre, Ostend could be succored
from the sea. The garrison only capt.
ulated when the town and works were
literally mere masses of ruins. 2. Siege
of Gibraltar, attacked by land and sea
by French and Spaniards, 1779-1783,
for four years. This defense by the
English stands without parallel in the
annals Of war. g. During the thirty
years war, Olmutz, taken by Tortensen
in l642, was besieged or blockaded for
| six years, from l642 to 1646, and was
still held by the Swedes in 1850, when
they gave it up in accordance with
agreement, not compulsion.
Other examples of astonisllingly long
sieges are cited by Notes and Queries.
Constantinople might be said to have
been beseiged by either Persians or
Turks from A. d. 62G to CTS. From
66S to 675 the Turks repeated their at
tacks yearly. From 675 to 1852, when
taken by assault by Mahomet II. it was
as much besieged as Troy actually was,
if at all, for the poor Byzantine Greeks
had to be on their guard continually,
and they were liable to attack any month
or wear.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
What Makes Beautye

sWhat makes beauty?" is the ques-
ton asked by the London Spectator.
Beauty is . result of race, of circum-
stances. such as personal freedom and
mode Of life, and Of continuous diet, not
OF intelligence. and still less Of the &C.
QUESTION of knowledge, which latter
can benefit only the individual whose
features are fixed past serious change
before study is even begun. A man or
. woman inherits his or her face, and
mental habitude, though it may affect
its meaning, cannot alter its shape. It
may even be doubted, strange as many
will deem the assertion, whether con-
tinuous education will produce beauty,
whether the growth of intelligence will
even in ages yield the physical result
which We notice the authors of Utopias
always assume, as if it were scientific
ally demonstrable consequence Of the
new society.
The most beautiful black race in
Africa. tribe in Nyassaland, on whose
looks even missionaries grow eloquent,
and who are really as perfect as bronze
statues, are as ignorant as fishes, and
though they have discovered the use of
fire, have never risen to the conception
Of clothes of any kind. The Otaheitan,
when discovered, was as uncultured as
the Papuan now is; yet the former APP
proach as nearly to positive beauty as
the latter does to positive deformity.
The keenest race in Asia, and, as all
who know them assert, the strongest in
character, the Chinese, is decidedly the
ugliest of semi.civilized mankind, while
the Hindoo, if sufficiently fed, is, even
when as ignorant as an animal, almost
invariably handsome.
The Circassians, who know nothing,
and are rather stupid than exceptionally
intelligent, are physically faultless
race. far more so than the Germans,
who though the best trained people in
the world, display marked common
ness of feature, as if the great sculptor,
Nature, had used good clay, but taken
no trouble about the modelling. Some
of the very ablest among them belong
to the dat.nosed, putfy-cheeked, loose
Tipped variety.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
G..ol,n. a Moth Destroyer.

"What shall do with my fur cape?"
an anxious damsel was overheard by
Pittsburgh Chronicle reporter inquir-
ing of druggist lately. II have been
away on visit and there have been
moths in my friends wardrobe, for first
1 found one little bare place in my cape
where there ought to have been fur.
and now there is another aud [ am in
despair"
| 1T is useless to try to find moths in a
fur cape," was the druggists answer,
"but take big bottle Of gasoline and
saturate your cape with it. Then roll
it up in paper for q day or two, and you
will find no more bare spots unless you
go visiting and hang it in the same
wardrobe"
But am so afraid Of gasoline
"Yes. it is dangerous, when used care
lessly. but if you treat your cage to its
gasoline bath in q room without fire and
with open windows. you are entirely
safe. except from odor; there is no es-
Gaping that for few hours at least"
Gasoline seems to be about the only
remedy which can be applied with dis
patch and certain effect when moths
are discovered invading valuable fur
garment, and in this season of fur it is
we'll to bear the remedy in mind
Surely furs were never so fashionable
rs now; and if you would be in style, at
least one fur garment must be found in
Your wardrobe.
And, really. it makes very little diff
ference whether il is dainty little
Astrachan shoulder cape. costing from
$14 to $50, OF sealskin mantle,
trimmed with Russian sable, which the
dealer assured You was q bargain at
81 ZOO.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
People Who Baths.

Bathing is matter of instinct with
most of the lower! animals including the
birds and certainly the fishes, while it
doesn't seem to be 80 to any degree with
man. Most people don't battle, even in
civilized countries, TO any extent worth
mentioning, OF all Europeans the Rus
SLAMS are most addicted to the bath In
st. Petersburg there are vast vapos
baths, to which the common people re-
pair by thousands every Saturday
night. carrying clean towels aud birehen
twigs. While lying upon the marbis
slabs in the baths, they fog each other
severely with the twigs, atterward
standing around red-hot stoves and
pouring pailfuls Of ice water over one
another. The fiogging stimulates the
circulation, and when the reaction
comes after the ice water performance,
the bathers lie about in . condition Of
ecstacy-as sort Of: nervous intoxication.
I The ancient Romans were extrava-
gantly fond of bathing. They got their
notions about the bath as luxury
from the Greeks, and at one time there
were nearly nine hundred public bath
ing establishments in Rome, many of
which were the most beautiful and
elaborate structures ever seen in the
world. The baths Of the Emperor
Diocletian covered more than half OF
square mile, and contained, beside i'm
mense basins and thousands of marble
recesses, theaters, temples, halls for
feasting, promenades planted with trees,
Libraries, schools for youth, and acaile-
mics for the discussions Of the learned.
The bat,ers sat on marble benches Ne
low the surface of the water. around
the. edges Of the basins. scraping Them
selves with dnll knives of metal aud
ivory, and taking occasional pl1nges
into the water.
Dissipated Romans would spend
whole days in the bath, seeking relief
from over-indnlgence in eating aud
drinking the night before. Everybody,
even the Emperor, used these baths,
which were open to every one who
chose to pay the'price Of admission.
1t was not ueual for the old Romans
to have bath-tubs in their houses,
though OF date fifteen hundred years
before that, or thirty-five hundred years
ago, the noblenen of ancient Greece
had their dwellings supplied with bath
tubs of terra Gotta. A portion of such
o bath.tub was found by DIR. Schilie-
mann in the palace Of the King of Ty-
rus, contemporary with Achilles, Paris,
Helen, and the war against Troy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
Ship Railway,

A great deal of fun was made BY
some of our newspapers over. the pro-
posed ship railway Of the late Capt.
Eads, whereby vessels were to. be lifted
upon iron tracks and propelled bodily
across the Isthmus Of Tehuantepec.
As matter of fact, however, precisely
similar project has been undertaken in
Nova Scotia, and the eminent engineers
who have charge of the execution of
the plan have no doubt Of its success.
The Governor General of Canada
'vinited the works the other day and
fixed the pedestal for the hydraulic lift
intended to raise vessels of 1000 tons
displacement from the dock to the level
Of the iron rails.
This ship railway Is designed to span
the isthmus of fifteen miles between
Chignecto Bay, an inlet Of the Bay Of
Fandy. and Bay Verte, an inlet 10 the
Gulf OF St. Lawrence. When COM
pleted, it will shorten the voyage from
New England ports to those Of Prince
Edward Island and of the st. Lawrence
by some five OF six hundred miles of
stormy water. If this road Is success
ful, the Canadians will undoubtedly
build another ship railway, seventy
miles in length, to connect the
Georgian Bay Of Lake Huron with the
eastern end of Lake Ontario at Toronto.
BY such route, three days would be
gained between Duluth and the At
lantic. ee-A4
Strange as the idea Of ship railway
may seem to modern Journalists, it was
familiar enough in ancient and medinval'
times. For 300 years the Greek
mariners were in the habit of dragging
across the Isthmus of Corinth their
triremes, many of which, it has been
computed, must have had displace-
ment of $50 tons. As the road
over which they moved their
vessels was of polished granite, pro-
vided with cribs and rollers, it NAV
not unfairly be described as ship rail
way. The Ottoman Turks are known
to have transported ships overland, and
in l438-39 the Vetetiaus conveyed q
feet OF thirty armed vessels bodily over
the mountains between Adriatic and
Lake Garda. in order to raise the siege
OF Brecia by the Milanese.
There was another memorable Incl
dent of the kind in our own day, when
in lS49 Commodore Vanderbilt, partly
by means of the San Juan River but
mainly by dragging the vessels over
fallen trees and rocky portages, man.
aged to launch two steamers on Lake
Nicaragua.
If the Greeks and the Venetian
could move vessels of hundreds of tons
burden over land surfaces greatly in.
ferior in smoothness to that presented
by steel rails, and without being able
to avail themselves of hydraulic press
ure or of steam, the construction of /.
ship railway should present no insuper
able difficulties to modern engineers.
Nev York Ledger.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
Co,a Como, rurouyh the Feet,

A noted medical author observed {:
"No doubt much OF la grippe comes
through the feet. Thin-so!ed shoes,
or thick soles. standing on ice or snow,
or cold wood, until the sole attains the
same degree OF cold as that on which it
rests; then cold feet, cold legs, cold alb
domen, cold lungs, cold in the throat
in the head: the eyes, the nose, the
mouth, speaking witnesses, testifying
to the body resting on the feet and the
brain resting on the body, that a plain
violation of every reasonable rule of
health has been permitted, to be paid
in penalty OF suffering and pain; of lost
time, of care and anxiety of friends, it
may be OF DEATHS not this and this re-
suit sufficient warning ?"-Machias
U1LiO7l-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
origin Of Familiar Fairy Tales.


*The Babes in the Wood" according
to an English authority, is founded upon
an actual crime committed in Norfolk
near Wayland Wood in the fifteenth
century. An old house in the neigh
borhood is still pointed out, upon q
mantel-piece in which is carved the en-
tire history. cinderella" has been
traced to an Egyptian story. About
67O B. c., Princess Rhodope was bath
ing and left her shoes upon the bank Of
the river. An eagle pounced upon q
shoe and carried it off to King Psamit-
ticus at Memphis. The King, struck
with the smallness and beauty of the
shoe, sent forth proclamation for the
owner. In due time marriage was
celebrated. Jack the Giant Killer" is
said to be based on the tradition OF
Corineus. the Trojan King of Corn
wall, and one of the companions of
Brut1s. who amused his leisure by rout-
ing out the native giants. blue
Beard" was Count Conomor of Brittany,
who having murdered his previous
wives. married Tryphynea. the Gig nth.
She, having learned his character, fled,
but was pursued and slaughtered. "Tom
Thumb, Little Tom of Wales, no big
ger than miller's thumb" was King
Arthur's famous dwarf, sometimes con-
founded with Tom of Lincoln, who
married the daughter of the mysterious
Prester John. "Humpty-Dumpty" was
a bold. bad Baron. who was tumbled
from power in the days of King John.
His history was put into riddle, the
meaning of which was an egg.-Ne;o
York World.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
INDIAN WARS.
Have Cost the United States Gov.
{, .sn, a Thousand Million Dollars.

[NCE the 4th OF
July, 1776, when
thisGovernment
began, the In
dams have cost
the U n it g d
States a thou
sand million dol.
lars, says the st.
Louis Globe.
Democrat.
When the old
Pequot chief met
the Pilgrim Fa-
theirs near Ply.
month Rock and
said, Welcome,
Englishmen," he
.,.el fe 4 OON
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
A Fair Devotee.

Dc Broker-Your wife is very re-
ligious is she not?
De Banker should say she was.
Not month goes by that I don't have
to pay out two or three hundred dollars
for Sunday dresses and things. street
q Smiths Good Neses.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30

done the deed from the second-story
window, at distance of l75 yards. All
Joined hands and circled to the left,
with the lion nnd the lambin the CEN
ter. 1t is only few days ago that Miss
Burning killed huge bear, that is now
being stuffed. VnatcOm Reueille. 80
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30

10s 1 WIN uoS pAo
paring to ! cave
Guanajuata, Mexi-
20, writes Edward
Byron :Lovather,
when I encount-
cred the sexton,
who was "a verit-
able son Of his fa-
ther, and who
came into the of
fee Of sexton only
at his fathers
death. When the
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
A Great Financier.

Ticks You remember young Grab
Der who went West couple of years
ago, don't you?
Wickles-Yes, how did he do?
Ticks-Do? Why simply great. He
cleared 1000 the first year.
WI want to know! And how did he
do the second year?
T-Well, the second year he cleared
ont.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30

A MAN never feels SO bad that he will
not feel worse if one asks him what he
feels badly about.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
Sweet charitv-A La Mode.

"Mr. Potts, we have come on behalf
of the Charitable Cooking school. We
wish to get all the things at cost or be-
low. If You refuse this, Mr.. Potts, we
are in position to make you regret it
but, dear Mr.. Potts, sure you will
oblige us. 1t is such a beautiful
charity"
Mr.. Potts aside, sadly)-They get
She halo and / pay the piper.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
Intense Rivalry.

Little Barbara has brother, who is
her rival as we'll. The other day she
said to her mother: -.
Mother, is Max older than I am?"
Her mother said he was.
"Well," she responded in q tone Of
eminent displeasure and disappoint-
nent, We'll, that boy beats me in
everything, and he has heated me a
bornin', too" .-Was hi1agtoqa Star.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30
QUEER BuR,Als.

Grus.ome Underground Csverns In
Mexico.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-30

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