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Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
A Colorado WOman's Museum.

You will ask yourselves, "What does
that mean--a woman's museum?" and
you will think, I suppose, that it means
only a%collection of curious things which
some woman has bought and arranged
in glass cases. All, it is quite different
from that. / will try to tell you about
it, and perhaps by the help of the pic
lures, and what | say, you will get some
idea of how wonderful a museum it is.
There are many things in this muse
um-shells, minerals, coins, curious ar
NOR from japan, queer garments from
Alaska, taps. cloth from the Sandwich
Islands, and a great many other Curl
o~sities, more than | can remember, or
could have room in the st. Nicholas to
tell you about. I am going to tell you
only about the stuffed animals and
birds. These are the most interesting
things in the museum, and the wonder
full thing about them is, that they all
were stuffed and many of them killed
by the oma who owns the museum.
Think of that!-of a woman'S being
able to fire her rifle as well as any old
hunter could, and then, after she
has brought down her bear or her wild
cat, knowing how to skin it and stuff it
so that it looks exactly as if it were
alive. This is really the most wonder
full thing of all. You know very well
how stuffed animals generally look.
You know they are dead as far off as
you can see them; but these animals all
look as if they might walk off any min
ute t~heyliked. Mrs. Maxwell (thatis the
name of the woman who has made this
remarkable rauseum) is really a sculptor
of animals. She molds the animal out
of plaster, of the size and in the position
she wishes. Then she fits the skin on
the plaster shape.
7 If you visit the Centennial Exposition
at Philadelphia, you may see these stuff
ed animals and birds in the Kansas and
Colorado building, where Mrs. Maxwell
has arranged them for exhibition.-H.
H., in ST. Nicholas for October.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
How the German Government Locks
After the Finances.

A Berlin letter to Zion'S Herald has
the following: Every body has implicit
confidence in the German rulers at Ber-
lin. Not a cent Of money is misappro-
priated; the largest military establish
ment in the world is managed without
a race of corruption. In the summer
of 1873, about 10000 troops met in and
about Hanover for drill. Their board
and lodging was engaged and paid for
by Government officials; but, the &C
commodations not being thought suffi-
Gent, private arrangements were fire.
quently made, by which the. soldiers
supplied themselves with many extras.
A provision dealer was engaged to &C.
company $50 men to a small village,
the bargain being that he should have
his board and lodging free, besides the
profits on what he sold. The soldiers
paid, every day. out of their own pock-
cts for his board and lodging but, one
evening, a soldier (who is nov a stu
dent in Gottingen, and told me the sto.
.rv) forgot to pay a half groschen Ga
little over one cent?, and so it was
charged to the Government, and paid
by the Officials in Hanover. The dis
crepancy,: however, was! detected i n
Berlin, and an explanation required.
NV friend, the student, immediately
sent the half sgroschen to the village,
and wrote to Hanover, saying that ne
had forgotten to pay, but that the mat
ter was all right now. In the course OF
the next summer he received a long
communication from Berlin, charging
that the payment of the half groschen
by q, private person only made the mat
ter worse. A full and complete ex-
PLANTATION was required from the officers
of the regiment. '' 'n-"f
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
School and Church.

There will be no pews in the new
Roman Catholic Cathedral on Fifth
Avenue, New York. Visitors will be ac-
commodated with chairs placed in
groups about its many affairs and chap
els.
Superintendent VIM. T. Harris, of
St. Louis, reported 29,795 pupils en-
rolled in the first week of the present
school term. The number enrolled the
first day was 26,327, being an increase
of 1928 over the first days enrolment
of last year.
There is gratuitous and obligatory
instruction in 10 of the Mexican States.
They have S,103 schools and $4,000
pupils. The instruction consists of
reading, writing, Spanish grammar,
arithmetic, the system of weights and
measures "morality and politeness."
In addition they teach in nearly all the
schools the duties and rights of the
citizen. ~-.
In Hungary there is a large fund
for pensioning teachers who have given
the best years of their lives to the SER
vice. A teacher can retire on half-pay
after 90 years. service, three-fou1ths
pay after so years. service, and those
who, by reason of greater vitality or
general health, continue for 40 years in
this branch of their country's service,
receive full pay during the remainder
of their lives.
Cardinal Manning recently express
ed his belief that the education of Eng
land was in a crisis, involving the ques-
ton whether the formation of the char
acter of Christian Englishmen should
be p~erpetuated or not. He spoke strong
ly in favor of religious education, and
remarked that the men who should de-
prive the education of England of
Christianity would have to answer an
account in eternity which he dared not
utter in words.
Two men who applied for admis-
sion TO membership in the Seventh
United Presbyterian Church of Pitts
burgh were refused on.the ground of
their connection with Secret Societies.
One Of them was an Orangeman and
Odd Fellow, the other an Orangemen
and Good Templar. The question OF
their reception was afterward referred
to the Presbytery, which decided that,
according to the standards of the United
Presbyterian Church, members of secret
societies can not be admitted to church
fellowship.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
A Novel Use for n Crater.

A number of experiments having
proved favorable, the Board of Physi-
clans of the Neapolitan Hospital for
Incurables have determined to build a
hospital for incurables in the crater of
Solatara, lying between Naples and
Poz1uoli, in Southern Italy. The vapor
that arises from the crater has been
found to be charged not only with sui
phur but also with arsenic, and it is
said that several persons suffering from
lung diseases have been restored to
health by inhalihg this vapor fer a few
weeks. The crater is owned by the
Government, but DIR. De Luca has for
some time had an establishment in it
for the manufacture of chemicals.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
Science aud Industry.

Between May 4 and August II
there were shipped from the various
fisheries on the Columbia river, Oregon,
to San Francisco, los, 800 cases of sal
mon.
The manufacture of silk is the
greatest addition to the manufacturing
industries of New Jersey during the
past 80 years. New Jersey manufac-
tured one-third of the whole silk pro-
duce of the United States in 1876.
The Fall River mills, for the first
time since 1873, are all running on full
time. Orders are received for goods
enough.to occupy six months Or a year.
This revival is the prelude to a general
return to activity throughout New Eng
land.
-Sea-weed can be utilized by being
made into a kind of leather. The sea-
weed is pressed between, sheets of
carded wadding on hot, polished metal
plates, and dried quickly. A coating
OF linseed oil is given, and afterwards
a thin coat of wax, and final pressure
between the hot plates, when it will be
ready for use. 7aaiE''7
Another household hazard is upon
us in the shape of substitute for bees
wax, which is dug up near the large
coal-gas beds of Austria, and is very
combustible, and with difficulty soluble
even in oil of tu%rpentine.1 1t exhales a
benzine-like odor, and, in its purest
form after bleaching, is used for can-
dies, wax flowers, polishing, pomades
and laundries.
"A striking illustration of American
enterprise is furnished by the move
ment to lay a four-inch pipe from the
oil regions in Western Pennsylvania to
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
Treatment of SMALLPOX.

I A correspondent writes to the St.
Louis Globe Democrat: In writing this
article, it is my aim to show, where
pains are taken, that this loathsome
disease a be dealt with in such a man
ner that the pit marks car be entirely
obliterated and the skin regain its Or
iginal smoothness. All that is required
is to follow these instructions:
From the third to the fourth day the
eruptions generally break out; on the
sixth they begin to ripen, being red at
the base, and the top having an appear
ance of a tester, which is filed with pus.
1t is the latter we wish to attend to. The
only instrument needed is q needle. In
sert the point into each one as fast as
they ripen, and let off the matter, wip-
ing carefully with a piece of raw cotton
or any other material of equal softness.
Follow this UP as often as they refill,
and be, as gentle as, possible, so as to
cause no pain. Those parts exposed to
the air are the first to ripen. The rea-
son of the great danger that has attend
ed this disease has been the allowing of
these pustules to gather and break, and
thus running into each other, and ter
fminating almost invariably in death.
The above, treatment has been fol-
lowed in many cases, and with good
success ; and. instead of having a dis
figured face, the patient retains the same
features as before afflicted with the dis
ease. The remedy is simple and well
werth trying, but Of course, as in all
things, care and patience must be OBJ
served. .,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
ITEMS or INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

MIR. Paul Liptay, the Centennial
Exhibition correspondent OF the SIX
lesyding newspapers of Hungary, is said
to be doing an excellent work in &C
.a~uainting the people of his country with
the best features Of the fair that are
distinctively American.
Mr.. F. w Fairholt has written a
history of tobacco, with an account of
the plant and its modes of manufacture
and use. The book is highly praised
by the English critics. 1t seems that
the first English smoker was not Sir
Walter Raleigh, as has been asserted,
but Ralph Lane, who was sent out by
Raleigh as Governor of Virginia and
returned to England in 1856. r
Mr.. r. H. Newell (Orpheus G.
KERR has been troubled with a curious
affection which made it impossible for
him to take solid food. He continued
about his usual business, but took no
nourishment, save a cup of coffee once
q day and a glass of milk punch every
other night. He lost so pounds in
eight weeks, andlhis physicians be-
lieved that the pneumogastrlc nerves
were dead. He is now recovering.
Bret Harte, the author of the
"Heathen Chinee," is said to be very
much annoyed that that very ordinary
but popular poem has made him much
better known to the general public than
all his other works combined; particu-
larly does he exhibit much vexation
when a person just introduced to him
remarks that he is " happy to meet the
author of the : Heather Chinee.'"
These verses, according to the CORE
spondent, were thrown off n day
while in the Overland editorial room
without any idea of publication. The
author attached no Importance to them,
and they remained for several months
in his drawer, when, in making up the
Mo@tkly one day, a poem Of about that
length was needed, and Harte, having
nothing else OF hand, though not with
out serious misgivings, put tin. ~
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28

valley about 115 miles north of Munich.
On the east are the Fichtel Mountains,
and Ion thePwestathen lorely seeaery of
"Franconian3 SWITZERLAND. Baireuth
stands in what was an ancient section
of Germany, under the name of Fran
coma. This was subdivided into Upper,
Middle, and Lower F~ranconia. In 1906
this was distributed among various
Duchies, Bavaria getting the lions
share. Baireuth is well built, and has
some fine edifices. "The HERMITAGE"
a royal palace, with beautiful parks
and grounds, is about three miles dis
tant.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
Odds and Ends.

The season is at hand when the
pensive house fly hangs gloonilT to the
early morning walls, and wishes to
gracious that some n would get up
and build fire.
The Russian Government will al
low NO Protestant mission to be estab-
lished within it's dominions. Since 1924,
six such missions have been opened, but
have been broken up.
The man who chews up a pen
holder while pausing to think, will get
hold of more six-syllable words than
the man who simply sucks his thumb.
Free Press. I'LL E{I{ffll
Sheridan had a very CONVENIENT
formula for acknowledging all the new
publications that were sent to him:
"Dear Sir: I have received your ex-
quisite work, and / have no doubt 1
shall be highly delighted after I have
read it."
-Unquestionabiy Noah exercised his
best judgment when he stocked the ark,
but Humanity viii never cease running
its fingers through its hair and wonder
ing why he imported bed-bug Seed
halton Times.
The following are some of the
rhymes in Browning's new poem:
"Circle" and "work i'll - s'was hard"
"hazard ;" "whitewashed sides of it"
"far and wide SO ft;'' .sgrunt is'tp'
1" contrapuntist; )" "proven," "Beet-
hoven my house, "pious ;''"pon-
tiff, "won't if" etc. That's the way
he makes big poetry. Why, it's worse
than rhyming' grasshopper and baby
jumper.--Graphic.
The young ladies at the Mount
Holyoke Seminary are not allowed to
60 to ride with a gentleman unless he
is a near relative or an accepted sutton.
Here is a case where the governing
authority was circumvented: One of
the young ladies asked for permission
to drive out with a gentleman. "You
know the regulation of the institution
was the answer: els he your father?''
emo" "Is he your brother?" "No.''
care you engaged to him?" "No,
but | expect to be before / get back
That answer carried the day, and
there is much philosophy in it touching
the whole subject of courtship, kissing
and carriage-riding.
Mr.. James Russell lowell has
done a very graceful act. His Centen'
NAL Ode concludes with a tribute to Vir.
ginia, Mother of States and ~unpollut.
ed men," A Virginia gentleman wrote
to the poet, asking for a transcript q
these lines to be suspended in the Ii
brary of the State. Mr.. Lowell prompt
ly replied, and not only transcribed the
concluding verses with. his own hand.
but had them handsomely framed, an6
forwarded them, free of charge, to the
State. Accompanying the gift was {
letter which, we are told, "evidenceC
the same atfectionate and patriotic spir
it which breatbes through every line OF
the verses" It is further added by the
Richmond paper which furnishes the
above facts that "not content with thi!
gift to the library, he promises to sent
the photograph of the elm under which
Washington stood when he took CON
mand of the army, framed in its owl
wood. Surely Virginia has a soft place
in her heart for him whose thoughts arr
so noble and whose spirit is SO gener
ous."-Harper's Weekly.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28

Military movements do not fatigue
Emperor William, who, after reviewing
his Guards and the different armycorps
of Prussia at % dozen different places in
the course of this month, win proceed
to Wurtemburg, and to Asace-Lorraine
for a like purpose
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
Foreign Notes.

The King of Sweden has present
ed Nine. Christine Nilsson with the
Swedish civil order, "Pour lie Merite.''
The decoration consists of a gold med
al, with the inscription, "In sui memo
riam," surrounded by a royal crown
richly set with brilliants.
The Russian Government has un-
der taken the difficult job of unifying
the Russian language. A recent ukase
prohibits the publication or sale of
books printed in the dialect of Little
Russia, as we'll as dramatic perform
ances or lectures in it. The ukase is very
distasteful to the l4,000,0 900 of Little
Russians, or Ruthenians, who like their
w language, though they live under
the Gar.
Mime. Christine Nilsson, the Swed-
ish singer, is meeting with an enthusi-
astic reception in her native land.
Crowded pleasure trains are run to all
the towns where Sc sings, and at
Stockholm it, was .ln6 necessary to
open the doors of tlth. Cathedral, there
being no concert-roona efficiently large.
At the request of the King of Sweden
she has consented 70 appear as Mar
guerite in The Royal Theater at Stock
holm.
"A native of Crs.cow, named Verey,
who obtains a living by acting as Inc
terpreter to foreigners in Paris, has
been sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment for singing the "Rhin Allie
manG" {" Watch on the Rhine'0 in the
public streets Of Paris. The complain
ant was Auguste Carriere, SECRETARY of
the School OF. Oriental Languages and
Captain in the Territorial Army, whose
patriotism vas insulted by the treason
able song. Z t.'i +lt "a
Madame. Conneau, the foster-sister
and lifelong friend of Napoleon Ill,
has deposited in tile archives of the
National Library at Paris a package of
documents that may throw some light
into the ~subterranean passages of
European history. In her will it was
provided that~his letters to her, begin
ming when he was only 10 years old
and ending with one written 2 months
before his death, should be placed in
the library, and that the seals of the
packet containing them should remain
unbroken for 105years. sf@ SAGA
Nothing is SO serious or even so
shocking that a Partisan will not poke
his fun at it. One OF the Paris papers
says that intervention has now become
imperative in the Eastern war. s1The
Bulgarian atrocities, T" says this journal,
which adopts the Russian view of the
question, shave reached a climax. We
hear that the Bashi Bazouks have
placed 300 innocent peasants inside a
church, after having obstrueted every
means of exit, and that they
then played ON the organ a variety Of
carefully selected extracts from Wag-
ner's last OPERA"
--Baireuth, made famous by Wagner,
is a pleasant town of about 10000 in
habitants, situated in q wide and fertile
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28

Philadelphia. The plan is completed
and the work is already begun, and
when finished a steady stream of pet
roleum amounting to 5000 barrels a
day will flow from the Oil wells into the
great Philadelphia reservoir.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28

"A young German lad manned Stress,
at Laporte, Ind, who had been in the
habit of carrying a pistol, was playing
with it the other day and pointed it at
his grandmother, when it went off, the
ball striking her in the temple, and
causing instant death,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28

In Napa Valley steps have been
taken to procure Chinese laborers to
pick the grape crop, the wine market
being depressed and a greater than
usual economy being necessary.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
CROOKS LAST BATTLE.

A villa &c OF a Thousand sioux Encoun-i
tered and Charged by the Cavalry
Large Quantities of Supplies Captured
American Horse, MOrtally Wounded.
Gives His Views of the Sioux Situa-
fiRn.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28

is now at Fort Laramie, awaiting the
arrival of Gen. Crook OF, advices from
him as to what point he may meet him
for counsel. JOHN F. FINERrY.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28

TO
All communications for this paper should bs
essariT for modification, but as evidence of good
faith on the part OF The writer. Write pnly on
one side 81 ire paper. Be particularly careful,
IN Giving names and dates, to have all letters or
fsrcs Lain and distinct, ~ 9gY YI
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
~ = ID IN
Haps and Mishaps.

Haps and Mishaps.
A few days ago the young son of
David Tolan, editor. of the Delphos,
CO., Herald, was thrown from a horse,
breaking his right arm in two places,
which produced lockjaw, from which
he subsequently died ~ CO.
IN. F. Dunn, a civil engineer of No
b~lesville, Ind, committed suicide in
indianapolis, a few days since, by
taking morphine: He leaves a wife and
one child. jss- .a . ft-. -..
Mrs. Eugene Jacobs, of Martin,
Mich, the mother of three children,
committed suicide recently by taking
poison. She refused to swallow an an
tidote, and died an hour after taking
the poison. No cause is known for the
act. F. tr- ". 81 '.
Alex. Coker, a Texas herder, was
running cattle recently when his horse
fell, and the long lariat that hangs at
the saddle-bow became entangled
around the herder's leg. The horse
rose quickly and ran, dragging Coker
across the plains, but had proceeded
but a little way when Cocker managed
to draw his pistol and shoot the animal
dead.
George Atwater,' one Of the pro-
prietors of the Fountain Mills, at Du-
buque, Iowa, committed suicide by
hanging himself. 1t appears he became
much detected at the poor wheat crop,
as well as having to rebuild the dam,
which had been carried away by recent
freshets. He was in good circum-
stances, independent of the mill.
The wife of Henry Benter, of the
town of Wilcox, Winona County, Mimi,
recently committed suicide by hanging
herself in a barn during the absence Of
her husband in the harvest field. No
cause is assigned. The same day, Mrs.
johnson, wife of Norwegian of Vino
ma County, while temporarily insane,
fatally cut her throat with arazor.
DIR. Henry Ward, of Hornellsville,
n. Y, went into Alonzo Van Scoterd's
barber shop, and while the latter was
absent getting a pail of water, the Doc
tor took a razor and deliberately cut his
throat from ear to ear. He died in a
few minutes. He was well connected,
and occupied a high position in his pro-
fession and in society. He had one
railing vice, the love of strong drink.
He was unmarried, but leaves an aged
mother.
Miss Mary E.. Runnels, aged about
IS, while on her way from Mears to
Maryland, Mich, stopped over night at
the Rathburn House in Grand Rapids.
Upon retiring she blew out the gas in
stead of turning it off, and her room
being in a distant part of the building,
the escaping gas was not discovered
until the chamberinaid came to clean
the room, when its occupant was found
dead in bed.
Virginia Smith, a young lady OF
National, Clayton County, Iowa, fell a
victim to the wiles of a young mar
named Squire Hudson, to whom she
was engaged to be married. When the
ruined woman was about to give birth
to a child, Hudson married her, but hel
sense of shame was so great that she
soon after took a dose of poison and
died from its effects. She was a young
lady of rare personal attractions and
highly esteemed in the community.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28

with our column, and talk freely to the
guides. They are treated like our. own
So far they have toldth truth
about the lay of this unknown land.
may have some more fighting be-
fore we reach Camp Robinson, Red
Cloud Agency. We have suffered very
much from the constant rain, and the
number of sick is daily increasing.
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