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The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
Why Are There So Many Bald. Headed
Men!

Why so many bald-headed men, and
so few bald women? Why is it that
they shine like billiard balls? Why
this spectacle of bald-headed BARRIERS
rubbing the dry tops Of ba,d-headed
men, recommending invigorators war
ranted to produce busby locks in less
than a fortnight, while bald-headed
spectators and middle-aged men with
wigs look on with derisive smiles !;
though all the while their wives and
daughters throng our streets covered
with crowns of beauty, and charming
actresses toss their blonde tresses in
luxurious %profusion on the stages Of
II theaters? Our male population
will 10 doubt take a serene satisfaction
in saying that it is because men have
more to worry them than women, and
have the trouble of contr,ving how to
support their wives and daughters.
Probably, however, that is not the rea-
son. Women, of course, have finer and
longer hair than men, but men destroy
their heads under their hats, and thus
heat the tops of their craniums until
the hair dies out for want OF air. Men
should either take off their hats eftener
ventilate them better.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
Horse

An exchange, in reply to the ques-
ton, "What is meant by the expression
horse power,'" says:
The power of prime movers is meas
ured by horse power. Watt found that
the strongest London draught horses
were capable of doing work equivalent
to raising 80, 900 pounds one foot high
per minute, and he took this as the
unit of power for the steam engine.
The horse is not usually capable of
doing SO great q quantity Of work.
Rankine gave $500 pounds per foot as
the figure for a mean of several expert
ments, and it is probable that $4,000
pounds per foot is a fair minutes aver
age work for a good animal. 1t would
require five Or six e to do the work
of a strong horse. Watts estimate has
become, by general consent among en-
the standard power measure
ment for all purposes.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
Warranted.

Four to six bottles of DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery are warranted TO cure Salt
Eheum or letter and he worst kind Of PIN
pies ON the face. Two to four bottles are war
ranted TO clear the system Of Boils. Carbun-
cies and Sores. -Four 10 six bottles are war
ranted to cure the worst Kind Of Erysipelas
and Blotches among the hair. Six to ten bot
ties are warranted &c cure Running Of the Ears
and Corrupt or Running Ulcers. Eight to ten
bottles are warranted to cure Scrofulous Sores
and Swelling-. Two TO Elk bottles are war
ranted to cure Liver Complaint.
WONDER To HERSELF
TAsKrows, Delaware Co., o., March ~, 1873.
To DIR. L. V. PIERCE:
Your Discovery needs only q fair trial and it
will do all You recommend it to do and more
too. When l was fifteen l caught cold and
for twenty-eight years / have been perfect
wreck Of disease. and all the medicines and
doctors bills have run up at times TO two and
three hundred dollars. and never any better.
but worse, when I gave up all hope last
spring Of living the summer through. / re-
ceived one Of your Account Books. and told
my husband after Ieading it that it WAS too
late to try furrET'~uel Ire said i. was never
late. He went and bought two bottles
and l found it wss helping me very much.
Since 1871 was troubled with Catarrh and
Sore Throat, and was almost entirely deaf in
one ear. and my voice was as dull as could be.
there WIS cohslant pain III my heac. Vow
my head is - sound rs 4 dollar. my voice II
clear. and 1 have used ten bottles Of your
Discovery. 1t has cured me O. Catarrh, Sore
Throat, Heart Disease. Spine Affection and
Torpid Liver. My Liver was very bad. My
was rough. When l put my hand on my
body it was like fish scales. Now it is a.
smooth and soft as a child's. In conclusion |
will say l have been well for three months. l
am a wonder to myself and friends. This is
but an imperfect statement; half has not been
Yours with respect, HESTER LACK,Y.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
One Place Where the Leak Is.

During the latter part Of 1871, as I
sat by the evening fire, moodily pom
dering over the hard times, my wife
said:
Hub, I wish you would buy Dolly
and l new dress for q Christmas pres
ent."
/ felt as though this little request
which my wife wished to construe as an
act of hberality and kindness, was
nothing more than a duty on my part,
and, under this feeling, 1 could not
possibly refuse, though the want of
money made it almost impossible to
comply with this very reasonable and
modest demand upon my purse. My
salary was good, and, in years agone,
had furnished my little family with eli
the necessaries and many Of the luxu-
ries OF life. / was, in the general ac-
ceptatIon OF the term, a temperate man !;
my morning call, MONDAY lunch, and
evening social took only a pittance of
fifteen cents each, while my fragrant
Havana drew upon my purse for only
ten cents after breakfast, dinner and
supper. These were small outlaws, and
seemed necessary to my health, COM
fort, and social standing !; they were
mere t~rifies, and could not possibly
amount to much, n way or the other.
1t Is true L was out of debt, but, what
was worse, out of money, and the mod
est request of my wife seemed TO har-
rass me to a degree unimaginable to one
not in exactly the same fix. The old
adage. "the mickles make the nue.
kles," came to my mind very forcibly,
and, under the peculiar circumstances
surrounding me, / made a firm resolve
to act upon it for the next twelve
months. 1 could remember very well
that 1T was considered, in nv Younger
days, rather ~disgraceful for boys to be
caught smoking or chewing tobacco, or
drinking whisky; consequently, these
little habits must contribute their mites
to the money-box, which l procured for
the purpose of catching the stray
nlckles spent for unnecessary articles.
In a few weeks 1 imagined 1 felt bet
ter without the toddy and cigar, and
thought of them only as discarded vices.
as each day L deposited the little
amounts In my savings bank.
just twelve months after the time l
resolved to do away with the unnecessa-
ry expenses, 1 opened my ~money-box,
and, to my surprise. found Just two
hundred and seuenty-three dollars and
seuenty.Fue cents! 1t may be well to
state that the new dresses, with many
Injuries for the table, and ornaments
Tor my little home, Were now procured
without any difficulty whatever. Old
Santa Claus wa also more lavish with
his toys and good things when little
Dolly hung up her little stocking on
Christmas Eve. Ifelt happy-sot moo
dy-under the good influencesthat were
brought about by the price of bad hab-
Its ; and, what Is better, 1 have found
out the cause of hard times and "where
the leak is."-Southern Temperance
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
A DesOlate Land.

Greenland is almost continental in its
dimensions, containing not less than
10000 square miles, and is all a bleak
wilderness of ice and snow, save a little
strip extending TO "a deg. north lati-
tude, along the western shore. The
coasts r deeply indented with bays
and iOrds, which invariably terminate
in glaciers. The whole interior seems
to be buried beneath a great depth of
snow and ice, which loads up the valleys
and wraps over the hills. Nothing can
be more desolate than the interior. 1t
is one dead, dreary e1panse of white so
far as the eye can reach-no living
creature frequents this wilderness
neither beast, bird, nor insect. The
silence, deep as death, is broken only
when the warning storm arises to sweep
before it the pitiless, binding snow.
This represents the state of the north
ern part of our continent in the ice age.
Some of the Greenland glaciers attain a
vast size. DR.. Kane reports the great
Humboldt glacier as sixty miles wide
at its termination. It's seward face
rises abruptly from the level of the
water to a height of 800 feet.
Since ice is lighter than water, when
ever a glacier enters the sea the dense
salt water tends to buoy it up. The
great tenacity of the frozen mass enables
it to resist the pressure for a time.
By-and-by, however, as the ice reaches
deeper water, its cohesion is overcome,
and large segments are forced from it's
terminal part, and fioated up from the
bed of the sea, to sail away a iceberes.
The glacier evidently crops under the
water to considerable depths, or, so
long as the force of cohesion is able to
resist the tendency of the salt water to
press it upward.
Though Greenland is said to be in
habited only upon the south and west
coast, there is a record of an early set
Element upon the side toward Iceland.
with which there has been no cOmmuni-
cation for 400 years. The colony was
planted about 1000 A. D., which
fourished, and maintained intercourse
with its mother country till the begin
ming Of the fifteenth century. Since
that time, owing to the setting in of the
arctic current, and the consequent
gradual increase of ice upon the coast,
the colony became inaccessible, and
the records of it disappear from history.
At various intervals between, 1879, 175l,
etc, down to W time, the intrepid
Danes have striven in vain TO reopen
communication with their lost colony.
This emerald coast, with valleys well
stocked with reindeer andvereant glades,
is now shut in by the pitiless ice-pack,
and the fate of its inhabitants ought to
excite the interest of the world. 1t
would be very interesting to be in
formed of the condition of this colony ;
whether the increasing cold has en-
larged the glaciers so as to push the
dwellings out to sea, or whether the
habitatiOns are still standing, and a
population has sprung up who know of
the outside world only by Tradition
Popular Science Monthly.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
The Preci0pS Metals

One ton 2,OO pounds avoirdupois)
of gold or silver contains %. 163 troy
ounces. and, therefore, the value of a
ton of pure gold is $500, 799. 81, and of
q ton of silver, S37, 704. 81. A cubic
foot OF pure gold weighs ], 2lS. 40 pounds
avoirdupois. A cubic foot of pure sill.
yer weighs $685. pounds ditto. One
million dollars gold coin weighs 3.65SS
pounds avoirdupois ; one million dollars
silver coin weighs IS, ? pounds
avoirdupois. If there is one rer cent.
of gold or silver in one ton of ore. il
contains 29i. 63 ounces troy, of either of
these metals. The average ~ineness of
the Colorado gold IS ISL in 1000, and
the natural alloy, gold 7S1, silver 300
copper 10; total, 1000. The calcula,
tions at the mint are made on the basis
that 43 ounces of standard gold, or 900
fine (coin), is worth $500, and IL ounces
of silver, 800 fine (coin), is worth SO. 50.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
A Decisive Test.

Aperson attending the Mardi Gras
festival of Memphis gave out, with some
.empressement, that he was q Chicago
Alderman. This statement having been
called in question. an official Of the
Phoenix City was interviewed by tele-
graph N the subject, accompanied by a
description of the gentienan who claimed
such exalted eminence. SIS he drunk
or sobsr?" came back over the wires.
Drunk" "He's the right man, then,
and is worthy your confidence" was the
reply.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
THIRTY YEARS EXPERIENCE OF AN
OLD

YRS. wIEsLOw's SYRUP Is THE
PRESCRIPTION OF one OF the best Female Physi.
clans and Nurses In the United States, and has
been used TOR thirty years with never falling
safety and success by millions Of mothers and
children, from the feeble infant OF one week old to
the adult. It corrects scidity Of the stomach, re-
iieves wind collie, regulates the bowels, and gives
rest, health and comfort to mother and child
We believe IL to be the Best and Surest Remedy In
the World in all cases OF DYsENTERY and DIAR-
RHEA IN CHILDREN, whether 1t arises from
or from any other cause. Full directions
for using will accompany each bottle. None Genu-
inc unless the facsimile Of CURTIS 4 PERKINS
10 on the outside wrapper.
eOLD BY ALL MEDICINE L
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30

THE French writer, Jules Verne, in
his last book, makes a railway train
on its way to California-stOp while two
men fight o duel ; and this same train,
when it is discovered that q railway
bridge has been carried away, merely
backs q few miles, and putting on q full
head Of steam, leaps the chasm.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30

The horse Captain MCGOWAN trotted
in harness 20 miles in 50 minutes, %
seconds, at Riverside Park, Boston.
Oct. 81, 1866. 1t was a match against
time, $4,000 being bet against $500
that the horse could no. accomplish the
distance in one hour.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30

DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON said he never
took up a paper without finding some
thing which he should have considered
it q loss not to have seen. Ben. Butler,
however, counts reading them q dead
loss Of time.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
UrM,S Wor The most scientific q

HUMAN WOE.-The most scientific and
successful treatment of Paralysis, and all de-
formities of the human body, Diseased Joints.
Piles. Fistnla. Catarrh and Chronic Diseases
is practiced at the National Surgical Institute,
Indianapolis, Indiana. Long experience, une-
most humane institution in the United States :;
80, 900 cases have been successfully treated.
Send for their large Journal, giving full par
ticulars of treatment, etc.-[Com.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30

AFRIEND of ours who is chief clerk in
the Governmental Dispensary says that no
medicine chest is now complete without John
sons AnOdyne LinimfRt. We always sup
posed it was prescribed by law il il is not, it
ought to be. for certainly there rs nothing in
the whole mdterid medicd OF 20 much impor-
lance to the soldier and the sailor as John
sons Anodyne Liniment.-[Com.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
Dr.. WILuoFr's ANrI-PERIopIc OR FE-

YER AND CUE ToNIci-Wiiloft's Tonic has e.
tablished itself as the real infallible chill cure.
1t il universally admitted to be the only relia-
bic and harmless chill medicine now in use.
Its efficacy is confirmed by thousands of GER
~ti,icates of the very best people from all parts
of the country. Il cures malarious diseases
Of every type, from the shaking agnes of the
lakes and valleys to the raging fevcrs Of the
torrid zone. Try il. II has never been known
to fail. WaEELocK, FISLAY 4 Co, proprie-
tors. New Orleans.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30

AGENTS desiring to canvass for popu-
lar. quick-seUing,, standard wOrks, as
cart Of Money Making" by Mills, etc,
see card Of A. Broomhali, Muscatine, Ia.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
VETERINARY Surf

VETERINARY Surgeons all w TIE
country are recommending Steriddn's CdodLry
Condition Po,cders for the following trouble
in horses Loss Of appetite. ~roughness Of tie
hair. stoppage Of bowels or water, thick waite g.,
coughs ard coldr, swelling OF the gland,
worms, horse all, mick wind. and heayes.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30

keed's Temple OF Music, Chicago.
Good secondhand pianos. sI25 to $3.50.
New Rosewood pianos. 500 to $500.
New Square Grand pianos. ESQ to s475.
Warranted to please. OF money refunded.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
Go TO RIVERSIDE Water Cure, Hamilton, III.

THE NORTHWESTERN HuRSE-NArL Co. s
. Finished " Nail is the best in the world.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
g STARTLING REVELATIONS"

IL n work OF great merit, adapted 90 all su ne ring
iron nervous debility and ignorance OF the causes
and effects proc uciDg n prernature decay a the
energies 81 the human constitution. 1t unfolds.
by its sim pie teach ne, the proper couIse ~ treat
ment. diet, etc. TO cure Lost Manhood and all who
are afflicted. Send q &c. stamp for PAMPHLET to
l.. y. FELTON,, " d, Waterbury, Conn.
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30

Dr, j. Walkers California VIM
c-ar BitterS are n purely Vegetable
preparation. made chiefly Rom the ~.
tive herbs found on the lower ranges ~
the Sierra Nevada mountains Of Callior-
nia. the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therctom without The use
of Alcohol. Tho question - almost
daily asked. "What Is the cause of tho
unparalleled success oi SiNEGAI BIT
rERsir Our answer j., that they remove
the canse Of disease, and The patient ~
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and "A he giving principle.
a perfect RcnoyatoF and ~lnV,gorator
Cf the sys;cm. Never before IN tho
history of the world has = medicine hs'n
compounded possessins IN" reniaTAhbio
qualities of VINEGAR t;fTTERS IN healing Tho
SEX q. every disrase man heir "a. They
arr a gentle Purgativc a veil as . Tut.c.
relieving Congestion ur Inflammation q
the Liver aud lisCerI organs IA E4hou
-
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30
ScrOfnla, or Kings Evil, White

Sweliings. Ulcers, Ery-ipclps. Sweli~l Sses.
Goi;fe. Scrofglous Iuaainmafipus. iuID.sul
lntammati0us. Mcrcuriai Affection. O.l
sores. EruPtions 81 the shin. sore Bye. c,a.
In these. "a in all other constitutional ps
eases. WALKERS YiSEGAR BITTrEz have
shown their great Curative power Iu tbr
mo- .i-f,r.s. 81 .,4...lN-
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FOrtify the body against disease
u " NEFNs" Ut N FET'Ws
Dyspepsia @ r. indigestion, Head

~ purifying all ia iiuids WITH NINEGNR
bITrERs. No epidemic can take hold
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30

rheumatism, Gout. Bilious, RruIlt-
tent and Intermittent Fcvers, Disease ~
the Blood. Liver. Kidneys aGd B.nl:rf.
thes. Bit,ers have no equal. sGch Dsscae-4
are eau Ssd by Initiated Hlo,sl
The Red Cloud chief., 1874-04-30

DsTP" NE""s -
ache. Pain In the Shoulders. Coughs.
Tightness Of the Chest, Dizziness. Sour
Fluctuations Of the Stomach, Bad Taste
IN the Mouth. Bilious Attacks. pI,p.ta
tation of the Heart, Inflammation az tbc
Lungs, Pain in the region of the Mi
ncys. and n hundred other painful symp-
toms, are the oiIsprings OF Dyspcps.I
one bottle will prove n better guarantee
Of IT. merits than a lengthy advertise
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

Steerage rates to Europe have been
increased to 500.
The coastwrecking company's steamer,
A. Winau, is reported lost, with all on board,
fifteen persons.
a large number of German bondhold-
era of the California Pacific railroad company
have petitioned that the company be thrown
into bankruptcy, and aek the United States
district court to issue an injunction restrain
ing it from mortgaging or encumbering it's
property.
The police of Washington have ar
rested a gang OF book thieves that have been
making extensive depredations on the com
mittee rooms of the capitol. One thousand
three hundred and fifty pounds of documents
have been recovered. Most of them are val
liable volumes and cannot be replaced
Thieves systematically entered the rooms and
carried away their plunder.
No official information has been re-
ceived by our government or by the represent
atives of foreign governments at Washington,
confrmatory of the newspaper accounts that
Spain has paid indemnity to Great Britain in
satisfaction of damages in the Virginius case.
The correspondence between the United States
and Spain continues, but with no prospect of
settlement by this means. Therefore, it is
probable that our claims for indemnity viii
become subject of arbitration according to
the terms of the Fish-Pole protocol.
S. S. Foster, United States consul at
Apia, in the Navigator group of islands, says
he was at the port about the last OF May, when
the German sloOp-of-war AucOna came there.
Her commander levied 800, 900 upon the native
chiefs, but through the Intervention Of Ameri-
can missionaries reduced the claim to S14, 900.
Five thousand dollars Of this amount was raid,
and bonds taken for the remainder, payable in
two years at one per cent. per month interest.
The sloop sailed to another port seized lands
in dispute between Germans and natives,
burned their houses and sailed away. Day
says he is an eye witness to these transactions.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1874-10-30
The Shooting of Nevada '' Teams. -

Recently, at g saloon on the Divide,
some men were discussing the shooting
affray which occurred during the morn
ing between two brcthers-in-law, Full
man and Ward. It was agreed on all
hands that it was shocking bad shooting
a discredit to Washoe. At least a
Phoebe man bantered the Comstock man,
whom he knew to be good shot with a
pistol, to go out IN the back yard with
him and do some shooting, just to show
the "boys" how il should be done. In
the saloon was box of eggs, and what
the Piocher proposed was that each
shoot two eggs off the bare head of the
other at the distance of ten PAGES, the
one missing to treat the crowd. The
ComstOeker was bound not to be bluffed
by q man from the other end OF the
state, so to the back yard all hands ad-
journed. Each man used his Own six
shooter. The Comstocker first bus
ted his egg on the top of PIocher's
head, which exploit was loudly applau-
ded by all present. 1t was then the
Piocher's turn to shoot, and an egg was
produced to be placed on the head OF
the Comstocker. but when he removed
his hat there was a great laugh, for the
top of his was head as smooth as a bill
lizard ball. For full ten minutes all hands
tried in vain to make an egg stand or
his head. It couldn't be done. The
Piocher then tainted the ComstOcker
with having gone into the arrangement
knowing that he was safe. The latter
told him to set up his egg and he was
all right-he was there. The Piocher
went into the saloon, and a moment af-
ter came out with a small handful of
-four, which he dabbed upon the bald
head of the Comstocker and then tri
umphantly planted IN it his egg, fell
back ten steps, and then knocked It off
The ComstOcker then told him to put
up his second egg and shoot at it, as he
didn't want n have his head chalked
twice during the game. This was done,
and the wreck of a second egg streamed
over the ComBtOcker's pate. The Pho
cher now stood out with his last egg on
his head. The Comstocker raised his
pistol and fred. The Piocher bOun ed
q yard into the air and the egg bounced
whole from his head. "I've lost p said
the Comstocker. 'Iet all come up and
drink. BY a slip I've put half the
| width Of my bullet through the top OF
his left ear - and so it proved upon
/ measurement Virginia city Enter
1 prise.