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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-02-22
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Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-02-22
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01
Practical WOman's Rights.

In Bridgewater, VT, resides woman
who has for years put in practical ap
plication the doctrine of "woman's
rights" at least so much of it as asserts
a woman's right to get a living in any
way she shall choose. and to wear the
dress most suitable to her work. We
commend her story to the Vonsan's
Journal. Mrs. Minor owns three
farms, two Of which she has purchased
from the profits of the first one, and
which she carries on precisely as her
husband did i'll his lifetime, when he
was the head and she assisted him in
the work. She has two or three hired
men, but she takes entire charge of the
work, buying and selling cattle, mar
keting produce, driving cattle to mar
ket, and directing operations generally.
She also does her share of the heavy
work, frequently blowing all day in the
spring, riding O moving machine in
the summer, pitching on hay, and even
occasionally shearing sheep with the
hands. All this she does as well as
man, and to accomplish it she wears
"bloomer costume, consisting usually
of loose jacket reaching just above
the knees, pair of pantaloons of the
same material, cut like mans, except
that there is "spring" at the bottom,
and pair of mems boots, the legs of
which are concealed by the pantaloons.
Her summer working-suits are usually
made of calico. and she wears cos
tune of this pattern everywhere, "to
mill and to meetin'." When very
young she married, and her husband
died, leaving her three daughters. She,
then adopted the bloomer" costume,
and became a practicing cold-water
DOCTOR" In her practice she met Mr..
Minor (short and accent on the last
syllable), French farm hand who
could neither read nor write, and mar
ried him. His employer sold them the
farm on trust, which they worked and
paid for, and from which they made
enough to purchase two adjoining
farms. One child was born to them,
daughter. Her own children became
very fond of Minor, and taught him to
read and write. Before his death,
which occurred about two years ago,
he became good man of business. and
he and his wife were highly esteemed as
good neighbors and citizens. All her
daughters are we'll educated and good
musicians, two of them we'll married,
one to teacher, whom she assists in
his profession, and a third is soon to
marry New York gentleman. Aside
from her costume, the only popularity
the mother has ever exhibited was in
dressing her daughters like boys, and
working them as such until they were
old enough to rebel. She is woman
of good education and judgment, and
is consulted by farmers ON matters of
business, as we'll as called on for neigh
borly kindnesses in cases of sickness.
She is now about 81 years old, and is
worth about $25. 900, but works as hard
as ever.-Springfeld Mass. Republican.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01
The Maya Hieroglyphics.
The Maya tablet at Washington of

The Maya tablet at Washington offers
an opportunity to the ambitious student
to immortalize himself in the company
of Champollion aud George Smith in
their deciphering of Egyptian and
Ninevah inscriptions. The stone was
presented to the old National Institute
Of Washington by Charles Russell, Of
Philadelphia, and the reception OF it
was recorded in the bulletin of the in
stitute as follows:-" Dec. IL, 1842-A
box containing hero glyphical slab Of
stone from Palenque, Central America,
from Charles Russell, Consul of the Unit
ed States at Laguna, Isla del Carmen,
Mexico" Its dimensions may be
roughly stated at six feet high and
three feet wide, the thickness being
four or five inches. Its face is divided
into one hundred and twenty-seven
spaces of an irregular quadrangular
shape, forming what may be called
cartouches or shields, on which are in
cised representations of the human
hand or eye or some other feature.
The reading of these hieroglyphics is
one of the lost arts, for although the
Maya is still spoken by all the Indian
tribes of Yucatan and adjoining prov
inces, and there are religious books,
such as hymns, catechisms and psalters,
extant in it, yet, being written with our
alphabet, they can in no way be used
in interpreting these ancient characters.
There are now known but three manu-.
scripts in Maya character, namely, the
the Mexican manuscript No. OF the
Imperial Library at Paris, the Dresden
Codex and the Manuscript Troano. OF
the first nothing is known, as it has not
been investigated, except to make it
certain that the characters correspond
with those of the sculptural tablets.
The others have been studied to some
extent by scholars. but with results
which have not been accepted as
satisfactory. The late DIR. Berendt,
who spent many years investigating the
Maya language in Central America, re-
ported the existence of an additional
slab, of which this Washington stone
forms part. Professor Baird has Sc
cured an impression of this, and he is
preparing to lay before the scientific
world the means of studying both tab
let's by casts and photographs, and of
unfolding, if possible, the secrets OF the
Maya hieroglyphics.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01
Remarkable Work of Art.

There is ON exhibition at the store of
Mr.. Bandann, nearly opposite the Bal-
ietin office, work of art of such strik-
ing character that we should be doing
injustice to our readers if we did not
advise them to go and see it. It is by
a young sculptor, NJ. Ezekiel, Vir-
gilman, who has studied in Berlin and
afterward in Paris. where he won the
prize of Rome. II is simply marble
bust, somewhat above life size, of
Jesus, the Saviour, bound. for scourge
and crucifixion. Even in this dreadful
theme, as the artist had conceived it,
there is nothing revolving, but every
thing to stir profound compassion. Al
though the breast is bound with cords
and the head dropped in physical ex-
haustion, yet ones sense of this is COM
pletely overmastered by the spiritual
power of the expression-by the living
face, with its forgetfulness of personal
pain, its calm, mistaken faith, its en-
tire resignation and its profound and
overlooking pity. The great mass of
modern sculpture is merely decorative,
and therefore dependent more upon
lines than upon life, while even French
plastic art, in common with most of its
current painting, has little to distin-
guish it except technical accuracy, and
frequent extravaganza, mitigated by
high superficial finish. In this fash
ionable furniture there is fine dexterity,
but 10 imagination, no creation, no
power. Here, ON the contrary, is a
simple block of marble, wrought up
BY a sincere artist into life so human
nay, so superhuman-that the con-
temptation of it holds the gazer with a
power almost preternatural. 1t is not
easy to master this feeling and to refer
such a work to the intellect alone for
formal criticism. But even here it will
bear the coolest scrutiny. It shows
patient thought, manual command,
richness and simplicity of minor forms,
masculine beauty, exquisite finish, and
yet all these things as servants OF q
penetrating mental vision, holding
steadily before it the living form of q
creative imagination. This image Of
our Lord is the embodiment of manly
beauty, yet strictly Jewish in its type.
And it is not little singular that the
artist is himself q Jew--oGs OF that great
race that has won distinction in all the
fields of human achievement and given
illustrieus names to every branch OF
art. Manifestly he has been possessed
with the profoundest sense of the earth
" life of Jesus, with its belief, its com
passion and its lonely sacrifice. 1t is
this conception that lives in his work
all IN
a ;onslv IMPRESSIVE e. II Is not q "piece
of art" for connoisseurs and dilletanti.
But men and women reverently familiar
with the imaginative work of the
worlds great masters, will, in looking
at this marble bust. and touched with
its human beauty, confess an influence
above the senses-the presence OF o. pro-
found spiritual power-the highest and
sincerest tribute to the genius that pro-
duced it.-Baltimore Bulletin.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01

Gentlemen in mourning in Philadei-
phia wear black ribbon In the button
hole.
Theodore Tilton recently sat in the
box OF an indianapolis theatre willis
Bessie Turner acted in ga Celebrated
Case"
An old man, who had permission
from Gen. Butler to cut wood in the
swamps Gear New Orleans, is still cut
cling, and even sells the right to cut.
He insists that his permit has never
been revoked.
The female chimpanzee of the Phila-
delphia Geological Garden is dead, and
students of the Darwinian theory are
interestedly watching the strangely
manlike expressions of grief by hee
male companion.
To avoid the CHASTITY stare which eyes
often assume in photographs, English
photographers now make sitters look ct
the dial plate of a clock, and tell them
to let their eyes travel slowly round the
figures. The rotary movement of the
eyes is too slight to interfere with the
Photographic process.
The movement for the re-establish-
ment of the punishment of death in
Switzerland is, owing to the continuous
increase of heavy crimes, gaining
ground. Deputy Freuler has already
proposed in the Council of State the
abolition of section 65 of the Federal
Constitution, by which the punishment
of death was abolished.
Three tourists undertook to walk be-
hind Niagara falls few days ago. The
danger is great in winter, owing to the
ice. One of the trio, in picking his
way over the slippery path, ran against
huge icicfe, which broke off and fell
on him. He was badly cut, and mas
since been insane, but whether from
blow on the head or from fright is moi
settled.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01
Heat and Light in the Sick Room.

A recent writer gives the following
sensible suggestions on this subject:
Each person in room should be sup
, nlied with 5000 cubic feet of air per
hour and this should be done, where
possible, without creating perceptible
draft, for the nervous irritation in
duced by drafts is liable to produce in
ternal infammations.
The temperature of the sick room
should be kept at uniform height, the
best average being from 90 to 70 de-
grees F., except for infants or very old
people, who require temperature from
Is to so degrees F., and for these it is
especially important to guard against
changes, and to keep it as uniform as
possible. All cases of fever require o
temperature lower than the average, as
from so to 60 degrees f., to assist in
reducing the high temperature of the
body; but when the fever subsidies,
and there is much debility remaining,
the temperature should be raised some
what above the average.
As o patient can bear a greater degree
of cold when in bed thanswhen out of
it. convalescents from severe disease,
feVefS especiallys suouiu uufo tuo tcm-
perature of their rooms. higher than
that maintained during the height of
the attack. Diseases of the air pas
sages, as Group and diphtheria, require
a high temperature $50 deg. to IS deg.
Fahrenheit) and O moist atmosphere.
The best method for heating the sick
room is by the open CRATE fire. The
sick room should not be darkened by
blinds, except where there is disease
of the eyes, with photophobia, or when
the patient is very restless and cannot
sleep then strong light must be ex-
Muded. Otherwise the sunlight should
be allowed to enter and act chemically
decomposing the noxious gases, and
thus purify the air. OF course it is not
advisable to place the patient under
strong uncomfortable glare of sunlight,
nor in summer to allow the suns rays
to shine into the room and raise tho
temperature too high. Artificial light
has no useful effect, but does harm by
burning up oxygen.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01
A Marrying Man.

The Rev. John Mondeline, of Brook
lyn, just sentenced to five yearsIim-
prisonment for bigamy, missed his call
ing. He should have been humorist.
In his confession to the Judge he wrote:
"After my first wife died. in 1878,
went to Philadelphia, where became
acquainted with Mary E. Rustel, and
married her. Soon after my wife left
me on account of my religion. l then
went to Newark as a preacher of the
gospel. There l became acquainted
with an old widow, who proposed mar
riage to me, and, after telling her my
circumstances as regards my wife, who
is living, got married to her. She also
left me. then went to Bradford,
Conn.,, where made the acquaintance
of third woman, to whom l was mar
ried. She found out the circumstances
respecting my previous marriages, and
one morning upon returning from work
/ found that she also had fled. I then
came to Troy, where I formed the &C.
quaintance of servant girl, to whom
was married. She fed from me.
Learning that this last person intended
to lave me arrested, left Troy and
went to Lowell, Mass. came across
a friend who introduced me to young
lady. l proposed and was married to
her. About a month after she was in.
formed of my previous marriages, and
1 had to leave Massachusetts,. l then
came to Winfield, l.. l., where I mar
ried my present wife, Miss Wiedel, and
for which marriage I was locked up.
1 therefore ask for mercy"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01
A Mean Advantage.

There were score or more of women
gathered together at Mr.. Johnson's
house. Mr.. johnson is good hearted
man and q respected citizen, though he
is rather skeptical in some things. The
women had just organized "The For.
eign Benevolent Society" when Mr..
Johnson entered the room. He was at
once appealed to donate few dollars
as foundation to work on, and then
Mrs. Graham added:
ut would so pleasant in after years
for you 10 remember that you gave this
Society its first dollar and its first kind
word"
He slowly opened his wallet, drew
out q $40 bill, and, as the ladies
smacked their lips and clapped their
hands, he asked;
"Is this Society organized to aid the
poor of foreign countries?"
"Yes-yes-yes!" they chorused.
"And it wants money!"
"Yes-yes."
"Well, now," said johnson, as he
folded the bill in O tempting shape,
there are twenty married women here.
If there are fifteen of you who can make
oath that you have combed the chill
dren's hair this morning, washed the
dishes. blackened the cook stove, and
made the beds, I'll donate ten dollars"
IT have" answered two of the crowd,
and the rest said:
why, now, Mr.. Johnson"
elf fifteen of you can make oath that
your husbands are not wearing socks
with holes in the heels, the money is
yours, continued the wretch"
Just hear himw they exclaimed,
each one looking at the other.
"If ten of you have boys without
holes in the knees of their pants, this
X goes to the Society" said johnson.
"Such manw they whispered.
eff there are five pairs Of stockings
in this room that do not need darning,
Ill hand over the money!" he went on.
"Mr. Johnson" said Mrs. Graham.
with great dignity, the rules of this
Society declare that no money shall be
contributed except by members, and,
as you are not member, beg that
you will withdraw and let us proceed
with the routine business. "-Philadei-
phia Record.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01

Pitcairn Island, the home Of the de-
scendants of the Bounty mutineers, is
about three miles long by two wide,
and very mountainous, being abut / 200
feet high in some parts. The cocoanut,
breadfruit, pineapple, and many other
fruits grow in great abundance, espe-
cially oranges, lemons, and citrons
There were, three years ago, 70 inhab-
itants all told, men, women and chill
dren, some being very handsome, the
women having beautiful hair, and, al
lowing for the hot sun, have fairer skins
than would be supposed, being hardly
darker than Europeans. They depend
on passing vessels for all their clothes
and agricultural implements, &C., al
ways going barefoot, except on Sun
days, wheE some few of them wear
boots. They grow sweet potatoes,
yams, cotton, arrowroot, and Indian
corn, which they give in exchange for
clothes. The chief person in the island
is Simon Young, grandson of Midship-
man Young. He officiates in church on
Sunday, also at the day and Sunday
schools they use the Church of Eng.
land service, and generally read SER
mon from the "Sunday at Home"
of which they have some volumes. All
have fine ear for music, and sing most
beautifully. When anything has to be
decided they call general meeting,
and go by the majority of votes. The
oldest person on the island is a step
daughter of John Adams /; she is u
years of age, and hale old woman.
They still have cannon which belonged
to the Bounty and carpenters wise.
Consumption is the only disease known
among them. There is great scarcity
of water, which, they fear, will event
ally force them to leave the island.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01
The IndIan's. idea Of Property.

Among all the North American In
dians, when in primitive condition,
personal property was almost unknown (;
ornaments and clothing only were recog-
nized as the property Of the individual,
and these only to q limited extent.
The right to the soil as landed property,
the right to the products Of the chase,
etc., etc., was inherent in the gems or
clan, body of toasanguinii, group Of
relatives, in some cases on the male
side, in others on the female. Inheri-
lance was never to the children of the
deceased, but always to the gems. No
other crime was so great, no other vice
so abhorrent, as the attempt OF an indi-
vidual to use for himself that which be-
longed to his gems in common; hence
the personal rights to property recog-
nized in civilization are intensely OBJ
noxious to the Indian; he looks upon
our whole system of property rights as
an enormous evil and an objectionable
sin, for which the gods will eventually
punish the wicked and blasphe.
nous white man. From these opin-
ions, inherent alike in their So
cial institutions and religion, arises
the difficulty which the govern
ment has always met in obtain
ing the consent of the Indians to the
distribution of the lands among them
in severality. Tribes have been willing
to receive lands and distribute them
themselves among their gems. Among
those Indians who have been longest in
contact with the white man--as the
tribes in the Indian Territory and Min
nesota-much property has been &C
cumulated, and with the increase of
their wealth the question of inheritance
and individual ownership has at last
spontaneously sprung up, and at the
present time these tribes are intensely
agitated on the subject; the parties hold
ing radical sentiments are rapidly in
creasing, and it is probable that soon
among these tribes the customs of civ
ilization in this respect will be adopted.
Among all other tribes the ancient Gus.
toms are still adhered to with tenacity.
In this matter, and many others of o
similar character relating to their Gus
toms and beliefs, we must either deal
with the Indian as he is, looking to the
slow but irresistible influence of civil
zation with which he is in contact to
effect change, or we must reduce him
to abject slavery.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01

Emperor William also gets letters
from servant girls. Here is one Of the
latest: Majesty, do send q couple Of
lines to my Robert. Tel him that he
must marry me, and that if he marries
me he shall have work at the railway
station as long as he lives, but that if he
does not marry me he shall not be al
lowed any work. But do. / pray, send
your most high commands to him at the
latest by Saturday, so that he may come
again to visit me next Sunday"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01

New PRovERBIAL PHILOSOPHICAL
short horse is soon curried, but a m ule,
short or long, will kick you into the
next township.
A wise man reflects before he speaks
a fool speaks, and then reflects while
his eye is getting we'll.
Who hath cold hath sorrow to his
sops, especially if his handkerchief
hath starch in it.
Who wants to beat dog soon finds a
stick, but already has the dog shot
around the next corner, yelling Xxi yir'
Trust not horses heel, nor dogs
tooth, neither man who says he'll nav
you Saturday.
The fool never thinks higher than
the top of his house, and penneth the
festive joke at the expense Of the light
ming rod agent.
Rather go to bed support ess than
rise in debt, now that the bankrupt law
has expired.
A spendthrift lets go the bride, grabs
his steed by the name and yells, =" Whoa
Emma!'-OH City Derrick.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01

The Mayor Of Philadelphia has UNI
dertaken to enforce in that city the law
against Sunday shows. He meets with
strong opposition from the Germans.
who have for many years attended Sun
day evening performances in their the
atre. His action was melted by the
Sunday opening of a low variety
theatre, in which liquors were sold to
the audience.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01

An old gentleman in Key West took
his sons watch to show him how easily
he could be robbed, and then asked
him the time. The young man was
distressed to find his watch had been
stolen. "Never mind" said his father.
=" / took it to show you how easily You
could lose it here it is" But as he
felt in his pocket to return it, he was
surprised to find that some thief more
adroit than himself had taken it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01

A letter from Iceland AYERS that an
earthquake was fslt in Reikjavik, re.
Gently, and that large fires" were OBJ.
served in the distance in the sea, sup
posed to have been volcanic subma-
rine eruption. The weather has been
very bad, O number of vessels have
been lost, and large focks of sheep
have been killed by the heavy snow
storms, or literally blown from the cliffs
into the sea.