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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-08-06
Executive Ability.

Few men are blessed with the tai
ent of doing more than one thing well.
In the economy Of nature our gifts, as
IA rule, are few. One may be able to
plan but cannot execute, while his
executive ability is his
strong point The man is, good at the
wheel, but lacks the combining power
which keeps the whole machine regu-
larly in motion. Another is an adept
in designing ingenious things, but
lacks capacity as business manager
Similar experiments are met with in
every trade. Occasionally we find
notable exceptions to the rule in men
who possess a combination of different
and varied excellences which give them
superiority wherever they are placed; !;
but such instances are rare, SO rare, in
fact, that the exception only proves
the rule Such men are, of course,
successful. They must be, since they
possess nearly every requisite in the
whc:e range of ability, Other men,
not trained, practically, about the de-
tails of construction and qualities of
material sometimes build well. but hav-
ing an executive power well developed
and supported by clear judgement,
trained by general experience, they
master all difficulties. Executive tai
ent, though often gift, is not always
so. To a large degree it may be &c
quired or developed. In nearly every
person there is germ which, with
with proper cultivation in a proper di.
rection. will develope trait tc a certain
degree. But for want of judgement
or want of guidance from those who
ough. tc advise and assist in the choice
of pursuit, too many of cur young
people miss the right way--that is
they miss the special thing they are
most fit for, and time is wasted, OIL
life SO far as usefulness goes, become'
almost failure. Success now mus
be gained against high competition
Minute division of pursuits renders at
tainahle a high degree of perfection
and with this perfection in Others
every one has to contend. In every
trade or occupation, in every hranc!
OF business, special skill and adapta
tion are now the essantial conditions
of success. Passing out OF school ou
youth blunder into occupations, ofte,
missing those which they have a tai
ent for, and thus working all thei
lives at a disadvantage, or loosin;
years in the quest of a right pursuit
it ought TO be possible our youth t
receive such direction as will he'll
them to avoid these mistakes. Herei
is u great duty On the part of parents
In fact it is their highest duty to fin
r out what their children are best quail
fed to do, and to aid or direct thel
in acquiring both the knowledge an
habit Of it. For the great majorit
= executive ability must come from cs
/ perience and application. The art {
! getting on in the world must /
learned in practical way, by dire'
personal contact with aiia rs. The.
s is no system of rules to compass it. :
i Oi'eqOnian.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-08-06

Teachers Examination.

What is the Neccssity of the periodi-
cal re-examnaton Of teachers! Who
is it necessary! Are teachers minds
so like sieves that they can only retain
the knowledge for short timer If
this year they an excellent examina
ton in algebra, must they be re-exam-
ined next year on the same subject!
are doctors and lawyers and ministers
90 frequently re-examinedl We fail
to understand the reason OF this ever
itst.rg -exomination mania that
annually takes possession of school
officers IT looks like the exhibition
of little brief authority. One thing
certainly is just. 1t is. if teachers
must be re-examined frequently, it
should be by those of their own pro
tession. Barne's Educational -Honthly'
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-08-06
How he got the Kettle.

Bishop Selwyn was a benevolent
and kindly spoken man, as well as a
great and famous one. He interested
himself much in the poor, especially in
miners One day, coming on a com
pany of the latter, he heard them talk
ing in very animated way, so loudly
thai he said to them: MY friends,
something seems to interest you ali
very much ; may ] inquire what it isF'
To which they replied: "You see
that old copper kettle thereY we found
it, and We're saying the one who could
tell the biggest lie should have it"
"Oh, said the Bishop, | am sorry for
that; | hope you will never again tell
lies. Tis a fearful habit, and so un.
manly. Why, never told lie in
my life" Whereupon the miners
shouted in one breath: Give the
governor the tea kettle"
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-08-06
Buffalo Hunt.

An army officer stationed ut Fort
keosh gives an account of an inter
esting buffalo hunt which recently took
place Oh and p the Yellowstone. The
crow Indians getting little short Of
meat went ii pursuit of bison, and
finding a herd of 1000 attacked it
savagely. The animals became infuli-
ated after a while and started in u
panic for the river, followed by the no
less excited Indians. Soon there was
All indistinguishable mass of redskins,
buffalo and ponies in the stream. and
the current being strong many of eacl
were drowned 1t is estimated that
thirty savages were drowned, and po
nies and buffalo innumerable met &
similar fate -- Idah0 Democrat.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-08-06

A singular story is told of Man
chester IN. H. man, n mill overseer,
who received his pay the other even
ing and started for home. He remem-
bered nearly reaching his house, and
thinks something must have happened,
as he found himself on a railroad train
at Chicopee, Mass. the next morning
without knowing how he came there.
his wateh-charm and ten dollars in
money were missing, and he had a
confusion on one side of his head, from
which he infers he had been assaulted,
though not robbed. as the missing mon
ey was equal 10 his railroad fsrc tt
Chi.opee.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-08-06

\ generous soul is sunshine to the
mind.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-08-06

CHEYENNE, July 24.--Carl Schurz
with his two daughters and private
secretary passed through bound for til >
Pacific Coast, where they will inspect
Indians, public land and mining inter
ests, Secretary Thompson also passed
through yesterday for the Pacific
Coast and will probably join Shurz.
OepEs, g4.-secretary schur,
passed througll-to.day for California.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-08-06
Arrival and Departure Of Mails to all,
from Lewiston, 1. 4.

To .nd from Waila Walla and intermediate
points. Leaves daily. (sundays excepted at
Ga. n. Arrives daily. tSundays excepted J
at I. p. NJ.
T" and from Mt. Idaho. Florence. Warrens,
Elk City and Slate Creek. Leaves daily
SSuKdays excepted) at ) A. ~, arrives at p. NJ
To and from Pine Grove and intermediate
yoints. Leaves MONDAYS. Wednesdays ana
Fridays Mt 6. 4. NJ. ARRIVES Tuesdays, Thurs.
days and Saturday ut I. p NJ.
To and from Pierce City. Leaves Mondays
.st Z, 4. NJ. Arrive Saturdays at 5, =. NJ.
Ia and from Colfax. Leaves TUESDAYS.
.Nufslays and Saturdays Mt Il A. NJ. Arrives
2.na,!ays. Wednesdays and Fridays at !, 7. NJ.
ra and from Waiiowa. Leaves Mondays
Wednesdays and Fridays, arrives Tuesdays
Thursdays and saturdays.
W.hu-Lea.es Tuesdays and arrives Wetiucs
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-08-06
A prorninen. dentist in this city

A prominen. dentist in this city
has recently been Employed i'll making
quite extensive repairs on the teeth of
an ettractive young widow from the
mining districts of of Colorado, who
has been spending a few weeks with
friends IN this city. He completed
his work one d Y last week, and on
taking final look at it, remarked 10
cu'arly, that she had better keep her
mouth shut on her return home, or
some enterprising miner might get to
prospecting there. ''l shall not object
to that. doctor" she promptly replied
"hut they must coptine themselves to
surface indications until they have ae
xuired title, after which, Of courge
they, c,.n so down to bedrock. Ell
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-08-06
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-01
" A Tramp Abroad"

Beyond doubt the new book from
the pen of Mark Twain is his master
piece. 1t is lively in tone, and instruct
i've from beginning to end. This ex-
tract from his experience in his trip to
the Swiss mountains, after being out in
a soaking rain is so pleasantly told that
We make an extract:
1--WE stripped and went to bed, and
sent our clothes to be baked. All
the horde of soaked tourists did the
same. That chaos of clothing got mix
ed in the kitchen, and there was cOnse-
quences. [ did not get the same draw
ers [ sent down, when our things came
up at 6:15. | got a pair on a new plan
They were merely a pair of long white
ruff1ed-cutfed sleeves, hitched together
at the top with narrow band, and they
did not quite come down to my knees.
They were pretty enough, but they
made me feel like two people, and dis
connected at that. The man must
havn hnnn an IDIOT who cot hirn,rnlf mp
that way to rough it in the Swiss noun
tains.
The shirt they brought me was short
er than the drawers, and hadn't any
more than what Mr. Darwin would call
"rudimentary" sleeves. These had edg-
ing around them, but the bosom was
ridiculously plain. The knit silk under
shirt they brought me was on a new
plan, and was really sensible thing; it
opened behind and had pockets in it to
put the shoulder blades in, they did not
fit mine. They gave my bob-tailed
ulster suitable for a giraffe. [ had to
tie my collar on, because there was no
button behind on the foolish little shirt
When [ went to dinner long stranger
recognized his ulster as soon as he saw
the tail of it following me in, but no
body claimed my shirt and drawers,
though | described them as we'll as pos
sible. [ gave them to the chamber
maid that night when [ went to bed,
and she probably found the owner, for
my things were on a chair beside my
door in the morning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-01
ACCIDENTS. q

PRoF. MCELRoY has been reappointed
president pro TEN. of the Michigan uni
versity.
AT Lake Station, near Milwaukee, Wis,
Gerhard Schimpfgen was struck by lightn-
ing and instantly killed.
WILLIAM NEWTON, a workman at the
Lake Superior mine, was struck by falling
plank and instantly killed.
A 6-YEAR-oLD child Of Geo. Knowles, of
Plome, Ill, while playing near an open
cistern fell in and was drowned before as
5istance came.
WHILE bathing in Eel river, near
Adamsboro, Ind, with party of young
men, Dor Teal, aged %, was drowned.
His body was recovered.
john WATTS, an old citizen of Galena,
was found drowned in the Galena river.
He was engaged in securing driftwood
| from the river.
LoUDoN COUNTY, Virginia. farmers are
excited over the recent appearance in that
vicinity of 4 beast which is half dog and
half calf.
Two little boys named Munford, were
caught in the shafting at Thomas & Co. 5
mill, at Chase, Michigan, and both terri
bly, mangled. One was instantly killed,
and the other fatally injured.
TIE steamer City of New York, OF Al
exandre's Havana line, caught fire while
| lying at Brooklyn dock and was towed
into the stream, where she burned to the
waters edge.
WILLIE WOODWARD, 10 years old, son
of the proprietor of the American house
was killed on the 24th inst, at Georgetown
| Cal, by being crushed between a hearse
and the side of a large box.
GEORGE F. JONES, Is years of age, was
killed at Brookfeld, Mo. He was with an
excursion party and was caught under an
engine which was turned over by a mis-
placed switch.
Two valuable COWS owned by David
| Smith. of Hudson. was killed bv lightning
At Savbrook, ILL.,, nine head of valuable
cattle were struck by the express on the
Lake Erie and Western railroad and
killed.
THE fine frame country mansion of J
3. Harvey, situated near Chesterville, Ill.
was burned on the Goth inst. Only few
articles of furniture were saved. There
was no insurance The fire is supposed tC
have been the work of an incendiary.
AS some boys were playing in L. E
Kent's warehouse, Of Pontiac, Ill, a boy
bv the name of Eddie Deval. about years
old, was drawn into the elevator and smoth
cred in the corn. The body was taken out
and the coroner held an inquest anC
rendered verdict of accidental suffoca
ton.
Mrs. HnsEMANN and her eighteen
months old child were run over by a rail
road train at Grand Park station, Illinois
on the 9th inst. Mrs. Halsemann was
fatally injured and her baby instantly
killed.
WHILE a number OF boys were playing
in livery stable at Lebanon, Ill, one o
them accidently knocked over LOADED
shotgun which was standing ina corner
causing its discharge. The load entered
the body of a young man named Corri'
Grey. aged 10, causing his death two
hours later
DICK McQU1sTIAN, 11-year-old-boy 0
Plano, ILL.,, met with a strange acciden
) from the effect of which he died last night
F He had forty-eight boxes of paper per
cussion caps in his hip pocket, and wa
THE body of John A. Minimum wa
found in the woods, near Littleton, Ill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-01
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO. June -Wheat-Unsettled and
No. > red winter, SO, No. > Chicago spring, SS]z
G8S1a for seller cash. SS1a bid for June; 8S2l q
$50 July; S52a August; No. Chicago spring, u
a79. Corn-Easier at 3+14 9342s for seller
cash: 341L for seller July; 947s for seller Au-
gust; rejected 323a 9334. Oats-DuI, weak
and lower; 2355 for seller cash; 2455G25 for
seller July % for seller.August. Rye-Steady and
unchanged at 70. Barley-Stronger at 10. Pork
Dull weak and lower; 1l.90 for seller cash;
I1.S7ls Gl.8S for seller July; 1879 Gl2 for
seller August and September. Lard-Dull weak
and lower 655 for seller cash July; $50 for seller
August The Drovers Journal reports: Hogs-
Receipts, $4,000; shipments, 1000; opened
moderately active and lower mixed packing, 4. 10
Q425; choice heavy, 4.9O9445; closed steady;
mostly sold. Cattle-Receipts, I 200; shipments,
555; exports good demand; natives, 5g1O lower;
42OG460 for butchers; 2.20G3.10 for grass fed
Texans 80 on sale active but lower at 3.4SG $50.
Sheep-Receipts and Shipment none; merely
nominal The 'Droyer's Journal" London cable
says Sheep and cattle, better market and cent
higher: best American steers, Ice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-01

the conference, the porte will be driven
10 look for support to addresses and
demonstrations against Greece by the dis
tricts to be ceded 1t is thought probable
the porte will intimate that, in view of
these manifestations, it will be unable 10
give effect to the decisions of the confer
ence, and must leave their execution to
others better able to deal with the Albanian
insurrection
IT is reported that the conference at
Berlin is at loggerheads; that Austria and
Russia are unwilling to 60 as far as France
and England desire, for fear of reopening
the whole eastern question. 1t is reported
that Italy energetically protests against
the extension of Austria's right of control
in the Adriatic, and that the projected
settlement ofthe Montenegrin difficulty by
the cession of Dulcigne is, therefore, likely
TO fall through.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-01
Robbed offer Hair by Tramp.
New York Tribune.

Agatha Dockrill, aged u years, the
daughter of Madame Dockril, the
bareback rider who is travelling with
Barnum's show lives with her aunt
Miss Rosa Kemble, in Valentine ave
nue., near the Kingsbridge road. She
goes to school at South Fordham and
to reach the school house crosses q
lonely field know as Dunn's Orchard,
hedged in by stone walls. As she passed
q large rock standing in the field on
Thursday morning tramp sprang for
ward and seized her by her hair, which
fell over her shoulders in long braids
With one slash of long knife he cut
one of the long braids close to the head,
and reached for the other. The child
screamed and, pursued by the tramp.
His foot was caught in the root of an
apple-tree, and he was flung heavily to
the ground. The girl reached the main
road and the school house much ex-
hausted. The principal took her to
the Fordham police court and made
her tell her story to the police. The
woods were secured for the tramp, but
he was not found.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-01
NO. 27.

to elect, the candidate has TO put HIM
self TO considerable amount of expense
and trouble. The main outlay is in
providing floating polls. For some rea-
son the government does not divide the
district up into voting precincts, al
though there are seventy odd miles Of
stormy sea between the two main groups
of Islands. As the electors are thus
isolated, and have in many eases no
means in reaching the polls, the candi-
dates are put to the expense of bringing
the polls to them. Steamers are char
tered at Observation-Disclosures, which
cruise among the various islands, and
offer, in one way or another, the chances
for each privileged islander to vote
with but little trouble or expense to
himself. This is more than can be said
of the successful candidate who is usu-
ally out Of pocket not less than $4,000
before the canvass and the election are
over. while his competitors outlay
cannot fail far short of the same sum
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-01
SABaESRAWS.

A MINISTERIAL crisis is imminent in Aus
tria.
TIE Jesuits expelled from France have
purchased a house at Prague.
TURKEY is busy making official repre-
sentations in Berlin.
A FRIEND of Challemel-Lacour chal-
lenged O'Donnell to duel, but O'Donnell
declined.
PRINCE ORLoFF has arrived in Berlin.
He will probably confer with Prince Bis
marck
In the district of Lauban, near Breslau,
Prussia, torrential rains killed Sc persons
and destroyed 105 houses last week.
THE chamber of deputies passed the re
ligious estimate by vote of 800 to 66, the
extreme left joining the minority.
The imperial ulzase fixes the number OF
men to be in 1880 for completion of the
Russian army at 235,000.
A DISPATCH from ST. Petersburg says
Russia favOrs q naval demonstration of the
powers to enforce the decisions of the con-
ference.
A BERLIN dispatch saws: 1T is consider
ed here possible, that if necessary, the
western powers will make Il naval demon
stration 10 enforce the decisions OF the con-
| ference"
In the house of commons the motion OF
Stevenson, liberal, for closing public houses
on Sunday in England and Wales, was
adopted-153 to 117-with Pease's amend
| ment, that said houses should be closed as
nearly as possible the whole day. The
government opposed the measure.
4 PARIS dispatch says: Swiss paper;
state that the St. Gothard tunnel is il
great danger of falling in. Landslide:
continue to threaten the masonry. and en-
gineers think the only way to avert the
danger is to modify the line traced out fol
the tunnel.
THERE is complete absence of security
for life and property in Constantinople
Assassinations in and about Pera are o
daily occurrence, and assassins are per
mitted to escape. Some Turkish refugee!
have murdered an American steward O
Roberts college in open day. Col. Com
meroff7s assassin remains unpunished.
THE view prevails in diplomatic circles
in Berlin that. owing to the unanimity o
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-01
A One Pound California Infant.
San Francisco Chronicle

hodI 1 IdHClSCO OllIOlllCIc.
For week past the rumOr has been
current in Oakland and on the ferry
boats that the Athens of the Pacific had
produced a phenomenon, second only
in importance to the giant powder ex-
plosion, in the shape of a "One-pOunder."
A reporter was yesterday dispatched to
investigate, and was admitted TO view
of the smallest sample Of the gems
homo he ever beheld. 1t was lost at the
time in q set Of ordinary baby clothes,
the mother, delicate looking young
woman of IS, finally finding it. 1t was
II days of age and named Albert.
Though perfectly formed, as babies go,
it was all head, like n prairie dog, and
the head was the tiniest and prettiest
little head that ever mother smiled
over The eyes were large enough to
be decidedly blue, the nose was as DIFF
ferent from the usual plebeian wart
which babies affect as could be imagin-
ed, being well defined, and the little
mouth resembled closely a properly
planted bullet hole from 22-revOiver.
A fine head of hair crowned the little
grape-shot Uranium, and a plentitude Of
wrinkles all over the forehead gave an
appearance of gravity and knowledge
of the world to the new citizen far be-
yond its days. The proud little mother
raised several acres of drapery and eX-
hibited two tiny feet. They were 50
small that both occupied with ease an
ordinary baby shoe, and each demand
ed dolls pedal garment for a neat fit.
The hands, though completely furnish
ed with finger nails, looked precisely
like those of baby monkey IL. size.
When born on the Goth of May, it
weighed about twelve ounces avoirdu
pois. Three days later, after it had
much increased in size, it weighed one
pound. The father and mother are Mr.
and Mrs William Sangey. Mr.. Sangey
is painter by trade, and a young man,
and thinks just as highly, if not more
50, of his son as if he weighed fifteen
pounds. Albert at present is lively
when awake, and very hungry and very
sleepy in general, these being the only
prominent qualities of his temperament
dS vet
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-07-01

PRESBYTERIAN feeling in Glasgow has
been excruciatingly outraged by a reso
luton Of the shareholders of the Tram
way company to run cars on Sunday
DR. Jeffrey, a prominent light of the
unco'gude, in the city where the re
turns of drunkenness and bastardy are
about the highest in the world, told his
congregation lately that he hoped none
Of them would ever be found in these inn
pious vehicles on Sunday, and if pos
sible never on a week day, and pledged
himself to abstain from them always il
possible.