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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19
Clildren's sayings.

One day, Willie carried his shoe to
the cobbler's to have it mended. He
entered the little shop unnoticed, for
the minister was there talking with the
cobbler. Willie heard the minister
say:
$50 your daughter is to be married
soon! Whom is she to marry?"
"Mr. Winter" answered the cobbler.
ooh, spoke up Willie, with shake
of his small shoulders and a tremor in
his voice, as if he were attacked by a
sudden chill, won't she shiver!"-
Youths Companion.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19
She Was Saved

While the firemen we're battling v,
the flames in the Detroit Opera nv ~.
and the police were doing their ps sha
keep the great crowd back, boy NV
twelve years of age tried to doaSs 81
officer and was caught and asked "
he wanted. :
"I want to find out if me mother y
burned up in there, he replied
s'Was she in there?" >. hot
II expect she was. She le H. al al
with basket of matches on ns, ro1]
and she said she'd kinder walk a am
until she got tired and then lire a
and ask the TELLER in the boS-omin;i1 /
free ticket to the matinay. D
get it, do you Think"
"No."
"And she's saved?"
Eyes," ro1I
aThen I'm no orphan; ana .hi III
you give me a match to light .h tlat ocd
of a cigar with to celebrate 'u'
sion ?"-Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19


A STUDENT of human nature has
evolved a utilitarian article, intended
to assist woman in purchasing her
tickets at the elevated railroad sta
tions and ferries without keeping q
long line OF men waiting until she ran
sacks several pockets and pulls two or
three yards of samples out of her peck
etbook. 1t is called the purse glove.
This is a glove with a little purse or
compartment in the palm for change
and small tickets. She can't lose it
unless she takes off her glove, and,
therefore, doesn't need to tumble in her
pockets or spend any time in guessing
where it is.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

for legs and arms. Decorate a bit of
bread in fashion as artistically devil
ish as possible, and give it to him
for head. Put the framework of
toothpicks on the neck of bottle or
on the bottom Of glass turned up
side down, and seat the little Cork
Satan on medal line, so-called.
Nothing remains then but to light
one corner Of the wooden sub-struct-
ure, as shown in picture No. 1.
The result of the confagration is
shown in picture No. 2.
The fire, having destroyed the end
of one of the toothplcks, disinte-
CRATES the whole structure. The CEN
trail toothpick. suddenly loosened, lets
fly like catapult and projects the
poor little cork devil into the air.
Good Advice.
That there may be more than one
Interpretation to passages of Scripture
which each reader considers quite sim
pie has been demonstrated again and
again.
A little pupil in an English girls
school, hearing the story Of Joseph fol-
the first time, took decidedly original
view of Joseph's words to his brethren.
It is easy to see how unquestionable
the logic of her reading must have
seemed to the small commentator.
A London schoolmistress had been
talking to her frst-class girls about
the pathetic portion of the closing
chapters of Genesis which deals with
the reconciliation of Joseph to his con-
science-stricken brethren.
After the lesson. by means of "ques-
ton and answer" she elected from the
girls how Joseph could not refrain
himself" in the presence of his breth-
rem, but wept aloud before them; how
he cried: II am Joseph. Doth my
father yet ive?" how he told them
that they must return to Canaan, and
straightway bring back the aged patri.
arch; and, finally, how the great wag.
ons were brought out for the journey.
aAnd now" continued the mistress,
what did kind Joseph give his broth.
ers before they started?"
OF course, she expected the reply,
Provisions and changes of raiment. "
However, this was not the answer she
received.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19
A Runaway Boy.

A Runaway Boy.
Wunst sassed my pa. an he
Won't stand that. an punished me;
Men when he was gone that day,
! slipped out an ruined away.
! looked all my copper cents.
An Climbed over our back fence
In the iimson- weeds at growed
Ever'wher r. all down the road.
Men cot out there. an nen
i ruined some, an ruined again
When met a man at led
A big cow at shocked her head.
went down long, long lane
Where was little pigs a-play
An u grea'-b!g pig went "Booh!"
An jumped up an skeered me, too.
Men ] scampered past; an they
Was somebody hollered: "Hey!'
Amt list looked everywhere,
An they w; nobody there.
I want to, but Tn 'flaid to try
To go back nen. An by an BIZ
somepin' hurts my throat inside,
An l want my ma-an' cried.
Men "A grea'-big girl come through
Where's a gate. an telled me who
Am 1? an ef tell where
My homes at she'll take me there.
But couldn't 81 but tell
What's my name: an she says we'll;
An she looked me up. an says
She know where live, she guess.
Men she telled me hug wife close
Round her neck! An Off she goes
Skippin up the street! An men
Purity soon Pm home again.
An my ma. when she kissed me,
Kissed the big girl. too, an she
Kissed me-ef p'omise shore
won't run away no more.
James Uhitcomb Riley, IN Ccnt,tfy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

AS SOON Us the learned and distin-
guished doctors of divinity who are
ezcitedly, not to say rancorously, dis
putting grave questions of heresy-as
aeon as they stop to catch their breath
(which they will have to do pretty
SOON, will some good, old-fashioned
lay preacher get up and in the warm
kindness of his heart say few simple
words on the interesting and edifying
subject of the Christian religion?
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19
with highland gillies around them. On
the occasion of Mr.. Downey's death
the London illustrated papers repub-
ished many of these pictures.
How Canary Cared for a Linnet,

A California lady tells the following
story On bird benevolence. She dom
iciled at one time in q large country
house, and in some of the unoccupied
rooms linnets built their nests. Owing
to the Stats of the shutters becoming
closed by the wind four of five little
birds, deprived of their mothers care,
died in their nest in one room. The
survivor was placed in the cage of a
pet canary and the latter devoted itself
to the care of the little founding.
When the cage was hung outside a
male innet used to assist in the work
of caring for the orphan, and in this
way the little fedgeling was success
fully reared.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

grain before grinding it, and claims
to have discovered that the heat gives
the four a sweetness and fragrance
unknown in the flour of the ordinary
brands, and at the same time adds
much to it's powers of nutrition. Mills
are to be equipped with apparatus for
parching the wheat before putting it
into hopper, and we are told that the
result will be culinary revolution.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

IKE heat produced from the light
uf FREELY is only l per cent of an
a1nal amount of candle light. The
bugs light is produced by chemical
action, as it is increased by putting
Abe fly in oxygen aud diminished in an
atmosphere Of nitrogen.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

Ir has always been supposed that
Ehere were no coal veins in California,
Che geographical formation not being
favorable, but soft coal and lignita
have been found and are now mined in
large quantities.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

The fact that many Of the houses of
Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco
are built of redwood is given as rea-
son for the few destructive fires that
occur in those cities. The wood is al
most uninfammable, and, though fire
will smolder in it, it never blazes. The
great objection to the use Of this wood
in the Eastern States is that it will not
stand the alterations of heat and
cold.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

A TRAVELLER com es back from Mexico
With a new idea which he hopes to
ntilize in the ms .ufacture of -four. He
notes that for centuries the Mexicans
ave been accustomed to parch their
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

MISSIONER was proud of his shave
y md delicate hands. He said that
his fingers We're SO sensitive that he
4nculd with his eyes shut lay on the OK
aet amount of color that he wanted on
q given spot if somebody placed the
point Of the brush upon it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

M. D1EBLER, the French execution
q. has accumulated fortune of 500,
GOO francs by his skill in working the
guillotine. At recent execution i'll
Paris, he had his little son with him,
evidently to give him instruction in
Ahe revolving business
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

A WEDDING took place the other
day III picture gallery at Paola, Kan.
While the preacher was performing the
esremony the artist turned his camera
upon the happy couple and photo
graphed them just as they were reg
STEERING their nuptial VOWS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19
aUMoR.
He wasn,e.

clock, athat like other bows ee,an San atths
many battles at school, and t Iu fought
you J., we're once in fight you staTe Sdhe q
aNo," said he, candidly, IT nsoa
get out of fights as quickly as no asva 70
well, now she observed u;th >
other glance at the clock. IT ~ an.
think you would have been a st auould !
"No. 1 want" ''ayef' =
And to show that he wasn't a o..
he took his hat and went.-Cape e'a Gs,
Item. Voa
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

The specific gravity of body is the
proportion it bears to the weight Of
another body of known density, and
water is adapted for the standard; and,
inasmuch as cubic foot of water
weighs one thousand ounces, advoirdu-
ppis, It's weight is taken as the unit
une thousand.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

A LANCASTER, Pa, man recent &c vii
ceived $50 through the mall l,on fl
letter stating that it was s'ot'
him forty years ago. !
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19


A GERMAN statistician says that
there are 1886 paper mills in the
world, and that OF the 100000, 900
pounds of paper turned out annually,
half is used for printing, 600, oo0,0oo
pounds being required for newspapers
alone, the consumption of which has
risen by 200, 100000 pounds in the last
decade. He alleges that on an average
al Eng.ishman uses annually eleven
aud one half pounds of paper, an
American ten and one-half, German
eight, Frenchman seven and one
half. an Italian or an Austrian three
and one hall, a Spaniard one and one
half, and Mexican two.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

TT. earth's 1900. 600, GOO of human
inhabitants speak 1904 different Ian
&uages, and possesses about 1000 diff
fersnt religious beliefs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19
A Negro Corporation.

The application for a charter for .
negro trade-school association at Mem.
phis, Tenn, indicates a move in the
right direction. The object is to train
colored people in mechanical trades,
domestic science and sick nursing. Il
cannot be too often and too earnestly
insisted that the future of the colored
race depends largely on the multi
plication of its skilled artifcers, men
and women who can manufacture and
construct.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

AT least one person in three between
the ages of ten and forty years is sub
lect to partial deafness. The great
majority of cases Of deafness are here
aitary and due to the too close cousan-
guinity of the parents. Deafness is
more prevalent among men than among
xomen because the former are more
exposed to the vicissitudes of climate.
III is thought that telephones tend to
bring on deafness when one ear is used
to the exclusion of the other.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19
A Neighborly Neishborboo,

A Neighborly Neishborhood.
Mr.. Goodheart "a suburban res;denA
Good morning! What can do f.,
you this bright and beautiful sprins
morning?"
First Neighbor a noticed vo,
hadn't begun making garden yet and and
I thought I'd just step over and borrow
your spade.
Mr.. Goodheart -" Certainly - car.
tainly. Here it is. Good-day."
Second neighbor-"How do Mr.
Goodheart! Will you let me hsva
your hoe for few minutes?"
Mr.. Goodheart-"Y-e-s. Certainly !
Third Neighbor-"G Good morning
see Mr.. Spinks has your spade and Mr.!
Pinks has just passed me with YOU,
hoe, and as you can't do anything With
rake without a spade and hoe ID
break the ground, concluded I might
just as well drop in and borrow you'd
rake. Thanks. /"
Fourth Neighbour see you are no)
making any use of your wheelbarrovI
Mr.. Goodheart-a will need th|
wheelbarrow the moment I begin maxi
ing garden.
Neighbor-@Oh, yes, of course. Bu|
you can't make garden without spad|
and hoe and rake, you know, and I'd
rush back with the wheelbarrow quiel
as l see the spade coming baei
Thanks"
Mr.. Goodheart-"N don't forsd
that I'll need this wheelbarrow just !
soon as Mr.. Spinks comes back wi
my spade"
Fourth Neighbor-soh, TIL b
plenty OF time to get through with
barrow. Spinks told me he'd be bull
with your spade for a month. Me-
York Weekly.
The Man from Romufus...-r- 4
Il left Romulus at 10 o'clock III
morning." he began to say to the p
liceman on the corner.
"Where's Remus?" interrupted II
facetious cop, who was also somewhI
Of q classic.
"Remus? There amt no Remus,
he said, with puzzled look.
eyes, there is, too. Didn't you eyd
hear of Romulus and Remus?"
"Never heerd of Remus. No."
what, never heard OF the twins tA
she wolf suckled?"
Twins nothin'," he exclaimed
"You don't know what you are talkln|
about. There amt no Remus, az
Romulus is the town out here on tH
railroad where I live. You'd betty
study up on your Biography, before u
try to learn strangers anything" Az
he left the policeman paralyzed.-4S
Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19
Didn't Mood 1t.

Irate father-I never gave my faths.
impudence when was boy. N''
Son-Maybe your father didn't nasa
little. ''a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

A HAMBURG bachelor who died re-
Gently got even with a woman who
iilted him by leaving her a legacy of
$4,000 marks and the following letter
~Msdam-Some thirty years ago I was
sutton for your hand in marriage.
You refused my offer, and as conse
qnance my days have been passed in
peace and quietness. Now I requite
your goodness. :.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

Nor an island has risen or sunk from.
sight in the Pacific Ocean for thirty
four years, and biologists say that ma
ture is resting for future mighty eff:
fort. An English geologist predicts
That within fifty years convulsion Of
nature will sink the whole of New
Zealand fifty feet below the surface Of
the sea.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

LOOK out for red stockings. It has
been remarked in Paris that the wear
ing by children of red stockings coin
asdes with pustular eruptions on their
Segs and feet. The Board of Health
employed chemical expert to ascer-
tain whether the dyes coloring the
stockings contained poisonous matter,
snd his report says that all the many
specimens submitted to him derived
&eir red color from aniline and con-
anining large proportion of antimonic
nide. As children perspire freely,
his matter enters into solution, and
81 thus taken into the pores.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19
CHILDREN's COLUMN,
A DEPARTMENT. FOR Little
BOYS AND GIRLS.

Something that Will Interest the Jutsn-
lie Members of Every Household -
Quaint Actions and Fright Sayings Of
Cute Children.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19
Satan's Slu,np,

Five long toothpicks, straight and
perfect, are necessary for this trick.
The way in which they are put to-
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

A STATEMENT is in circulation that
Wisconsin is the leading tobacco-grow-
ing State in the Union, says the Bank
rs' Monthly. Wisconsin grows much
If the solacing plant, but the state
ment is not supported by the census
figures Of 1880. Wisconsin, however,
raised two and a half times as much
sDbacco in 1890 as she did in 1880. The
progress Of the other States we have
not at hand authoritatively at this
writing: but expect to have census re-
parts to quote from on this and other
interesting farm statistics ere long.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

gether will be best understood by
consulting the accompanying illustra-
ton.
Having completed the framework,
the diminutive bogie.man must be
constructed. His body may be made
of a cork and he may have matches
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

ITALIAN and negro women in Gotham
are peculiarly fond of what is common
ly known as the "head handkerchief,
and the use of this article is charac-
teristic attempt upon the part of both
races to cling to customs learned in a
climate very different from that of
New York. The determined way in
which both races cling to outdoor life
is another manifestation of the same
instinct. The popular name for the
italian and negro headgear, by the
way, admirably illustrates the fate of
words in the mouths of the ignorant
and thoughtless. "Kerchief" means
primarily head covering. When this
article of dress came to be carried in
the hand it took the name of handker-
chief, OF "hand- head cover, and in still
later times the original "kerchief" pop
uiarly acquired the name "head hand
kerchief," which is "head- hand-head
cover"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

Ir is said that between $4,000, O0O,-
900 and 100000, OO0.O 900 codfshes are
taken from the sea around the shores
OF Newfoundland every year. But
even that quantity seems small when
we consider ,h.t a single cod yields
something like 3,500,O0o eggs each
year, and that over 5000, OOOeggs have
been found in the roe OF single cod.
A herring OF six or seven ounces in
weight is provided with 3O,O00,O 900
ova. After making all reasonable al
lowances for the destruction of eggs
and Of the young, it has been calcu-
lated that in three years a single pair
of herrings would produce 1874 900, 900.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

EVERY year 100000 railroad ties
are used up.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

ONE of the gayest men about New
York appears at the end of long con-
vivial winter looking quite as fresh
and wholesome as tea rose Asked
how he managed to hide all signs of
the wear and tear of dissipation he re-
Piled Il run myself on time table.
In the winter ones system will stand
liquors and heavy bodied wines, but
with the middle Of March I switch off
upon Mosel wine-the lightest bever-
age know of. It is not only thin and
mild, but it is slightly acid, which is
what I'm after. Every morning I take
little Sarsaparilla, and by April / I
am as fine and full of tone as fiddle. :"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

APENNsBURG, Pa, gentleman, whose
barn was formerly overrun with rats, is
no longer troubled with them, and he
used neither traps nor dogs in driving
them out. About year ago he pur-
chased fox somewhere in the West.
The fox was given the freedom of the
barn, and in short time after it's ar
rival all the rats found it convenient to
depart, and none of them seemed to
have believed it expedient to return.
Reynard catches rats after the manner
OF terrier, and. when not engaged, is
frequently seen following his master
about like well-behaved canine, to
which he bears no little resemblance.
He is perfectly tame. and goes about
the streets of the town without being
molested by the dogs that roam around
ready to attack any animal not of their
own tribe.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

Uncle Hiram-Well, begosh, il
amt the most absent-minded man
ever seen! Just see where he mas
his cuffs! Around his ankles! lux
Puck.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

want to, but Tn 'flaid to try
To go backne1. An by an BIZ
somepin' hurts my throat inside,
An l want my ma--an' cried.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-19

Men a grea' big girl come through,
Where's a gate. an telled me who
Am 1? an ef tell where
My homes at she'll take me there.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-08-21
PERSONALS.

TIM little king of spain does mot know
his letters yet and I'll mental education
has been forbidden him. He IL 30 fraR-
lie and puny physically that the slight
cot exertion Of the mind fatigues him.
GEORaE A. AvKRY, OF Dover, n. H.,
has . currant bush in his garden which,
II Il said, stands twenty feet high and 10
loaded with large, red c~urrants; they
are picked with the aid Of = ladder.
CAPT. GEoRaE DEWEY Of the navy has
lived FOR the last five years with only
half . liver. The other half was cut OF
by the italian surgeon while Capt
Dewey was lying Ill from liver disease
1t Malta in 1866.
The devotion Of Miss Shepard, who
laid her jewelry on the ''altar OF the
Lord" at Saratoga. vas surpassed a
short time ago by the Duchess Eugene
Litta Bologuine In Milan. TO express
her complete abandonment Of the pomp
and vanities Of the world, the Duchess
sold her wonderful gems for 5000, 600 and
gave the money to her priest, with in
structions to erect with 1t . hospital fol-
little children