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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20
SCALING HERR1NGs.
The Work is Performed in a Some.
what Peculiar Manner.

A peculiar feature of the smoked her.
ring industry in this country is the method
by which the fish are scaled. Enormous
quantities of them are captured in weirs
and gill-nets and the catch thrown into
boats. When load has been secured
the fisherman "treads them out" by
walking briskly back and forth through
the mass Of squir,ning objects at the bot
tom of the boat. The motion of the fish
upon each other. and also the contact
with the feet and legs Of the "treader"
quickly removes the scales. In the
course of half On hour skillful opera
tor will thus scale four or five hogsheads
of the fish.
Another method consists in using q
piece of board about q foot long and four
or five inches in width, which is securely
fastened to long handle. This is thrust
into the center of the mass and moved
briskly about until by continued stirring
the scales are moved in an incredibly
short time. The work must be done
while the fish are fresh, as otherwise the
scales become set and can only be taken
off with great difficulty.
Care is exercised in both processes, us
it not systematically done, many of the
catch will be only partially sealed, and
it stirred about or "trod out" for too long
time the flesh will be soft or bruised,
in which case tho catch will be less sal
able, and if the skin is broken, abso-
lutely worthless.
After scaling they are washed and
sailed in tubs, barrels orhogsheads; then
strung on sticks, from twenty-five to
thirty-tive being placed on each, accord
ing to their size. The next step consists
in re-washing, to remove oil the blood
and dirt that has accumulated, and the
strings arc then laid ON frames in the
open-air to drain and also to harden and
dry the gill-covers. This being accom-
plished they are taken to the smoke
house, properly arranged, the fires started
and the smoking begins.
Several kinds Of wood are used for
this purpose in different countries, white
birch being preferred in France, while
in England, Scotland and Holland oak
chips and sawdust are considered the
best. In this country pine logs that have
been soaked in salt water are selected, as
the salt renders the wood less inAamma-
BILE and it also gives off greater volume
of smoke.
Some Of the curers, when the smoking
process is nearly completed, build q FIRE
with oak logs for the purpose of giving
higher or brighter color to the fish. AS
q matter Of fact, however, the woods
make little or no difference, the chief
idea being to get kind that will burn
slowly and at the same time yield sufR-
cient amount of smoke to cure the fish,
and ut the same time burn so slowly that
there is no possibility Of scorching them.
-[Detroit Free Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20
A Cargo Of Serpents.

For two years agents Of Mr.. William
Cross, the naturalist Of Earle street,
Liverpool, have been engaged in Indie
in the collection of serpents, the result
being that cargo Of tho reptiles haa
just arrived in Liverpool. After trarl
ersing the jungle districts the collectors
succeeded in capturing or purchasing
from the natives who joined in the hunt
about 800 pythons, some Of them four4
teen feet in length being secured. About
fifty died on the journey through tho
country or failed to survive the passage
home, when, for the purpose of transit
they were placed in long coffin-like cases,
through which, Of course, holes were
bored for ventilation and feeding.
The surviving reptiles, to the number
Of about $50, were unpacked at Mr.,
Cross's premises, Earle street, but SO ext
cited were they on escaping from their
cradle trouble. Some of the assistants,
in endeavoring to recapture them, e.
they wound themselves with remarkable
alacrity round posts, stair bannisters and
the legs and bodies of those who hap
pened to be in the way, sustained bites,
which, happily, have not proved serious.
Some of the larger ones also took to
swallowing the smaller fry. To place
some Of the large fellows in the cases re-
served for them required the united
strength Of three men. Mr.. Cross hing
self had several times to be delivered
from the coils Of the creatures. Tha
serpents have now commenced to lay
eggs, Of which there is already small
collection. SO large number Of snakes
has not been seen before in this country !;
but the demand for them from geological
societies, snake charmers and others ap-
pears to be larger than would be readily
imagined. James's Gazette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20
A Sweet.Smelling Disinfectant.

A very pretty form Of disinfectant is
being introduced to sick rooms in Au.
stralia, in the form Of the green branches
Of eucalyptus. The reputation Of the
eucalyptus as an absorbent Of malaria,
and as an antidote in fever-cases is we'll
established, and for some time it's effect
as disinfectant in sick chambers has
been carefully watched.
DIR. Curgenyen states, after twelve
months trial, that in cases of scarlet
fever, if the branches be placed under
the bed, the bedding undergoes thorough
dlsintection, the volatile vapor pene-
trating and saturating the mattresses and
every other article in the room. The
vapor is also said to have a beneficial
effect upon phthisical patients, acting
not only as an antiseptic, but as seda-
tive, and to some extent, as hypnotic.
Il Philadelphia Press.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20
A Young Cossack's Ride.

When the Czarewitch on his recent
journey visited the Krasnogorskiy settle
ment Of Cossacks in Siberia, boy Co.'S
sack, IL years old, begged to accompany
him rs body guard to the border Of the
settlement, q distance Of l43 yersts (seven
versts ore five miles). The privilege
was granted him, and the boy, trim and
nice on his little horse, rode the whole
distance by the right wheel Of the Care
witch's carriage at an average speed of
twenty versts an hour without the least
sign OF WEAKNESS. He had q small satin
ensign with the imperial escutcheon on
one side and the inscription, "God Save
Our August Ataman, /" ON the other. The
ensign had heen wrought by a Cossack
woman, the aunt Of the led. The how
received O gold watch and chain for his
bravery, and his aunt received a diamond
ring.-tNew York Sun.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20
Work of the Friends.

The Society of Friends in England and
America, though numbering but 100, 600,
contribute to foreign missions upward Of
$4,000 annually. A beginning was not
made until 1866, and since then represent.
atives have been sent to Syria, India,
China, Madagascar, Mexico and the
American Indians. Though efficient
work is done in other fields, yet NADIA
gascar has been the scene of their great
est successes. Entering the Island in
1868, they now have eighteen mission
aries, forty native pastors, and 80 other
native assistants; 100 churches with
1000 members and 4O, 600 adherents, and
1872 schools with IA, 6OO scholars. Special
emphasis is laid upon educational work,
and they are generous contributors to the
funds Of the missions of other churches.
New York Witness.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

DIR. Henrik G.. Peterson, Norwegian,
practicing in America, tested the strength
Of the fasting mans grip on the dynamo
meter before he partook OF food, with the
result that it was said to be equal TO
seventy four pounds. As the time ap-
proached for the completion OF the fast
the reception-room in which Jacques has
remained during the whole OF the time
became crowded with spectators.
jacques, who had been smoking cigar
cites during the latter part of the after
noon, appeared to be rather excited. Ibe
cheering of the audience at o'clock an
nounoed that the fast was ever.
Mr.. Davis, who has been the fasting
mans lecturer throughout the whole OF
tho time, said that N. Jacques had &C.
oomplished the most stupendous fast ever
known, and it has proved the great value
Of his herbal powder, the secret OF which
he alone possessed. His contention was
that armies campaigning through hos
tile country, or if men suffered shipwreck
or met with an accident where food was
not procurable, the powder wsun probe
bly, be the means Of sustaining life until
help or succor came. Jacques had been
watched night and day by doctors and BY
members Of the press, and he hoped that
he had now proved to the public without
doubt that he was in possession of
secret which must prove beneficial in all
GASES of emergency. jacques then rose
and carried Kennedy, the mesmerist,
twice across the room, and Immediately
afterward partook Of his first meal which
consisted of chicken broth, fish and
grapes.-[Chicago Herald.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

IT is the fashion to jeer at the hunt
ers in this country who merrily follow
the anise-seed bag over hill and dale.
but certainly this is more commend
able and less contemplate than the
sort of thing they do in England, if
one may judge by the account given
of recent hunt in Leicester. A
party of hunters came upon a stag
and caught it alive. Then it occurred
to them that it was the lawful prev
OF other huntsmen who had been
chasing 1t before they took hand.
They therefore put the unfortunate
animal in a barn with its legs hobbled
and its eyes bandaged. Presently the
second party-or the first in starting
Game up, and in this state the stag
was let out and killed. The anise
seed bag is better than so unsports-
manlike a piece of butchery as this.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

MICHIGAN raises twice as many
peaches as Delaware without telling
half as many lies about the failure of
the crop. Illinois produces much
more whisky than Kentucky and does
not have to bear the stale jokes of
the humorist concerning the dispro-
portion between corn juice and water
within the commonwealth. West
ward indeed does the course of en-
pire take its way, and little north
ward as well.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

A New ORLEANS clergyman SAYS
that if the lottery company is not
beaten at the polls next spring it
will be wiped out in revolution" If
there were less of that form of public
sentiment in New Orleans which
looks to revolution as the only proper
means for Fighting a wrong, there
would be fewer wrongs SO firmly root
ed that the ordinary methods Of law
cannot cope with.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

LYNCH law is poor substitute for
the cool and deliberate justice admin
istered by the courts. The name of
Omaha has been made to suffer by the
Incorporate folly of the mob that
overawed the officers of the law and
dragged prisoner from the jail to
his death the other night. Two
wrongs never yet made a right, and
the original crime. though heinous.
was little worse than that committed
by its avengers.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

The shooting of girls by rejected
suitors is getting to be outrageously
common, and there should be prompt
and vigorous measures taken in every
case which is brought to justice. In
cases where the murder is followed by
suicide, it would shock the public to
resort to the old-time method of
burial at the crossroads, but it might
be effective as d preventive.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

olatc no confidence in saying that it
is to introduce the great Boston diet
of beans to the down-trodden peas
antry. Boston culture and Russian
culture long ago came together on
the bean question, and now the Nj
hilists have taken il IN.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

A MAN who has been farming in
Dakota for four years has suddenly
come into possession OF an English
estate and the title of Earl. There is
many an ancient and noble English
estate for the management of which
four years. experience in wrestling
with an arid Dakota farm would be
the finest sort of schooling.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

MUCH to the alarm of his admirers
Tennyson has written comedy.
When man has become famous by
doing what he can do well, he rarely
escapes from the delusion that he
could have done great deal better by
doing something else. Only some
such delusion could ever have set
Tennyson to writing comedy.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

EVERY word spoken in the Boston
Common Council goes down in the
record, so it is not considered quite
proper for ladies to enter the hall I'M
til after the clerk has finished reading
the minutes Of the preceding meeting.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

ALTHOUGH the devil be the father
OF lies, he seems, like other great in
ventors, to hare lost much of his rep
utation by the continual improve
ments that have been made upon him.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

DON'T get angry at trifles. Look
at vexations now as you will view
them thirty days from date. The
angry man who gets the wrong key
and pushes and rattles the door till
he breaks the lock, loses more time
than if he had quietly gone for the
tight key, and pays for new lock
besides
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

FRAME LESLIE WILDE will proba-
biz be the way she will sign her name
now. II would make the original
Frank Leslie wild if he were alive to
gee it.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

MIR. FRANK LESLIE is said to be 80
years old. Mrs. Leslie herself is
crowding so very hard. She acknowl-
edges forty summers, but her men,
DRY is faulty and she has forgotten
quite portion Of her existence.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

1.-TWO coUNTER-1RRITANTs. accord
ing to Life, are "a mustard plaster
and a woman shopping" Yes? Well,
what's the matter with the third and
worst of ala saucy salesgirl?
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

THE Supreme Court has decided
that the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Company shall pay
a fine for refusing to obey the law of
New York which forbids the heating
OF passenger cars with the deadly
stove. The corporation will 60 to the
United States Supreme Court to test
the constitutionality of this question.
1t is foreign corporation, and claims
not to be liable to the statute because it
does not operate fifty miles of railroad
within the State of New York. No
court has yet agreed with the COM
pany on this point, but it's adherence
to the car stove is remarkable. not
only for it's blindness but for its OBJ
stinacy. The car stove has caused the
company good deal of trouble. 1t
burned up train in the tunnel last
spring and it roasted several people
to death. The consequence was the
Indictment of President Clark and
the dire ctors, and, it is reported,
much mental anguish on the part of
the principal offender. In the mean
time the company has announced that
it has adopted a system of steam
heating and it is known that it's new
cars are fitted up for such system.
Yet it is so welded to the stove that
it continues to fight in behalf of it's
memory, Notwithstanding that the
fatal thing has dragged its officers
into criminal court.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

ACCIDENT risks for women can be
prof1tably taken out at a much lower
rate than upon men. Statistics show
that there are eight sudden deaths
among men for every one among wo-
men
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

THERas are 900. 600 more women
than men in England. Perhaps it
was to this fact that Matthew Arnold
referred when he spoke of the "sav-
ing remnant"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

AT a conference of the European
representatives of the transatlantic
steamship lines in Bremen it was re-
solved that the examination of emf
grants with view to determining
whether they should be permitted
to enter the United States ought
not to be made by the consular
agents Of this Government, but
by agents controlled by the compan-
les. Presumably the next step will
be to attempt to force this view of
the matter upon the Government,
but it is an attempt which should
have no success. Faulty as is the
present consular inspection of emf
grants, it is perfection in comparison
with the results likely to follow the
surrender of this duty to the steam
ship companies. 1t is the business of
those corporations to carry as many
emigrants as they possibly can secure,
and no regard for the interests of the
United States is likely to impel them
to rigidly weed out the pauper, the
diseased, or the criminal from the
vast hordes of people who seek trans
portation to that new world which
they think an Ell Dorado.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

THE men who are opposed to women
wearing dresses that only reach to
their shoe-tops should form crusade
against the men who spit tobacco
Juice in public places. The public
halls, street cars, and most of the
churches will have little pools on the
floor that ruin woman's dress skirt.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

YALE seniors arc going 10 wear
caps and gowns hereafter. Having
adopted the flowing garb of femin-
Unity, they only need the girls now to
make the situation complete.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

ACCORDING to a contemporary
nothing is sold in Baltimore on Sun
day except ice, bread and milk. {"
Surely it is not so bad as that, for
they can not have the inhumanity
to refuse to sell railroad ticket to
some other town.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

THEY are telling such terrible sto-
ries about famine in Europe that
pretty soon the tender-hearted Amer
leans will be giving away their grain
by the ship-load instead of selling it
for So a bushel, as they intended.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

New WORKERS are planning "a
clearinghouse trust" It will fiji a
hng-felt want of a lot of fellows who
never could get "a trust in that line.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

THE spectacle of the underwriters
discussing "The Model Policy"
and saying never word about ALL
"a is what makes the Afro-American
throw down his newspaper with a
sniff. - -'"----
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

The man who stepped on banana
peel will not give immediate credencc
to the statement that an acre of
bananas will support more people than
thirty acres OF wheat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

Boston Nihilists are to send an
embassy to Russia. The Gar should
not be worried about this, for we vi
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

In the modern comic opera the
sokes are not funny, but the music is.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

WHAT has become of the ola-fash-
toned boy who called his sister ~Sis?a
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

FEAR of what people will say has .
more religious effect on the world
than feaT0 what the Lord will think.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-11-20

President BaRillas has asked ConRress 10
restore capital punishment in Guatemala
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MONEY talks, and it talks cents, too.
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-02

have never done aught that an
ashamed Of or regret, but / do not wish
to give my name and it is my right t
withhold It."
"Have you ever killed anybody2'
mildly inquired one Of the journalists.
SEepniak opened his eyes at this ques
tion, as well he might, but he answered
1t promptly in the negative,
u didn't suppose that you had, /" said
the inquirer.
Somebody asked what stepniak
thought Of the murder OF Seliyerskof
by Padlewsh.
81 don't justify that" said Stepnaik.
at was not necessary. In country
like France there may be an appeal to
public opinion, and force is not neces.
sary. l am sorry that Padlewgki COM
mitted that murder. All the same
though. / am glad that he was not az
rested"
Tho last question put to Stepniak was
whether or not he considered that the
reigniug Cars life was in danger.
"Yes, DO, was the answer that came
with great emphasis. IA great revolu-
tion is impending in Russia, and unless
some concessions are speedily made to
the people 1t will soon come upon the
and, depend upon it, rivers Of
blood will how."
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-02
Buried DsrtpC a storm.

OMAHA, NEp,, Jan. i.-ARpeciHl to the
BE from Pine Ridge Agency says: Gem
eral Miles has assumed command OF the
forces here, relieving General Brooke
who started this morning into the field
with tne Second infantry going by way
Of OeiriChs to point sonle fifteen miles
north OF here. Yesterday nmid a blind
ing and bitter storm 10 OF che soldiers
killed st Wounded Knee were buried
With milita<g donors. =.
Owing to the intensely critical condi
tion OF the surroundings, Wit! hordes Of
the enemy iockipg about the aee.hey
threatening an attack, the usual sslutt
OF guns was omitted.