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New-York tribune., 1880-10-26

THE SCINTJLLATING GAS LIGHTI
not REQUIRE matches. alcohol oi ispcra
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Inc gas avoiding al dropping of SPARKS
h,lf Consumed tapefs. alcohol &c Can.
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New-York tribune., 1880-10-26
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-23
STARVING TEN DAYS, HE SAYS.
Thc story of a Homeless Man Who
Was Found in q Pile Of Lumber.

Twelve days ago Charles Riley, Il
laboring man, thirty-six years old, hav-
ing no family, was elected from No.
S4I Mulberry street, for non-payment
of rent. He has been out of work and
had only a dollar. He lived for two
days on that, sleeping in alleyways.
Just as his capital had been exhausted,
which was on the afternoon of August
>, he was taken sick while walking
along the North River looking for
work. Towards dusk he came upon a
pile of lumber at pier AZ, near the foot
of Houston street. climped to the top of
the pile, and removing some of the
planks made for himself II little cabin,
in which he lay down, as he thought, to
die He became unconscious and
when ne revived was so completely eX-
hausted chat he was unable to move.
There he remained, he says, for ten
DAYS wi hout food and without water,
except what he could catch in his hat
when it raincd Policeman George
Lynch, Of the steamboat squad, was on
duty at pier Il yesterday. He heard
the sound Of moaning and traced it to
the lumber pile. Climbing to the top
of the pile he discovered Riley and got
him out Riley's cheeks were sunken
and his face was pale. The officer gave
him some water, but did not dare give
HIM food. An ambulance was sum
moncd and the man was taken to St,
Vincent's hospital, where Re repeated
his story of his ten days fast. He said
he was friendless, destitute and sick,
had never heard of DIR. Tanner and
would not voluntarily undertake fast
for one day even. DR.. Schapps, the
house surgeon of St. Vincent's, fed him
ON milk punches to start with and ex-
poets to have him in good condition in
q few DAYS
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same roof with the woman who has
ruined her life's happiness.
The Diseomforts of Fame.
San Francisco Chronicle.

II should think, /" remarked lady at
the lunch table of the Baldwin yester-
day, ''that poor Adelaide Nelson ought
to have faced death with Il sense of re-
lief" Some surprise at the remark
having been expressed, the lady, who
had known Miss Nelson intimately,
proceeded to recount the petty troubles
of the great actresses life.
"Shc was the victim of ceaseless per-
secdtion." said the regretful friend.
Every day of her life was made miser-
able 10y the attentions of all kinds of
people to interview her on all kinds of
subjects. | had the fact brought forci-
bly, to my notice one afternoon of the
last week of er stay here. | called on
her invitation and found her nervous
and greatly dispmited. i have already
had sixteen visitors, said she, and ex-
pect so many more, that Eve positively
notified my maid that I'm not in to any
person but an old musician, whom I've
known for years, and who is kind
enough to play for me-
"While she was speaking the musi-
clan entered, and before he had finished
the first selection how many callers do
you think put i'll an appearance? Six?
Yes, a whole dozen | don't remember
half of them. | know, though, there
was card from Barton Hill, who
wished to see Miss Nelson about Il
benefit. Then Fred Lyster called in Il
journalistic capacity Then an ambi-
tious young dramatic writer sent up
word that he had kindly prepared and
brought with him five act play for
her perusal. A young lady from
Suffer Street craved an audience for
some purpose not given, but supposed
to be the fell one of confessing that her
mission was to elevate the stage A
proud mother brought an ambitious
daughter to read some Shakspearean
passages and show Miss Nelson that
She had formidable rivals outside the
profession. Two ladies came to m
quire what preparation Miss Nelson
used that made her so lovely on the
stage; money was no object to them in
acquiring the secret. But they didn't
obtain an audience any more than the
many others. Such were the ceaseless
prosecutions to which the unfortunate
actress was subjected, and, pestered
pursued and villified, she ought to
have coveted the eternal peace of
death"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-23
JUMPED INTO A CiSTERN.
4 Midnight Adventure Of Drunken
Husband.
Omaha Republican.


There was Il lively soiree out in north
Omaha one night last week, in which
the principal actors were newly
married couple and two or three neigh
bors. 1t appears that, to the young
man. at least, the bliss of married life
had begun to wear off to some extent,
and he had taken to spending his even
ings down town, and of late most of
the night even. He carried the night
key with him, which always gave him
Il ready entrance to the house, but the
young wife thought that the Young
Mems Christian association and the
lodge didn't meet seven evenings in the
week, and so one morning last week,
while her liege lord yet slumbered,
she secured the night key. She
had resolved to put Il quletus
on the down town business forth
with, and accordingly that evening, her
husband going out rs usual, She secure
ly fastened i'll the windows and doors
and went to bed Away long in the af-
ter part OF the night she heard soft
footsteps on the front porch and FUN
bling at the lock. Then some one tried
all the rest of the entrances, but TO no
avail Around in the side ofthe house
and about six feet from the ground,
there is Il small circular window which
opens out from the hallway, which was
near the room where the servant girl
was sleeping. This window had been
left open for ventilation 1t was long
after the proper hour for loving hub
bic" to be in their nests, when the gill
heard somebody scrambling up the
side of the house. She didn't scream
| as most girls would have done, but
| quickly arose and seized broomsticl-
that powerful engine of fe
male warfare-and made ready
for defense. After few yigor-
ous efforts the intruder succeeded in
getting about half way through, when
| the heroic maid of the kitchen, let fire
on him with all her might, and made
/ hin beat Il hasty retreat. The next
minute she heard splash and cries
/ for assistance. The cistcrn. which was
| immediately under the window was
/ left open, and when the man was
/ forced to jump, he lit square into it.
! At Ing juncture the wife appeared and
| tool, in the situation, and by the help
of some of the neighhors they sue
! ceedcd III rcseuing the tardy husband
/ from his unpleasant situation. The
| young man was very penitent and was
/ promptly forgiven, but was given to
/ understand that after this he must re-
member that there was woman about
! the fouse.
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The Present Condition of Palestine.

Everything is taxed, every fruit tree,
so none now are planted; every COW or
horse, etc. Every vegetable sold out of
a private garden Every eighth egg is
not taxed, but taxes of district is sold
to the highest bidder The farmer is
unable to sell measure of his corn
till all has been collected into heap,
and the tax collector has set his sum
upon it, from which there is no appeal.
Double taxes are expected this year,
because after three years of scarceness
the harvest promises TO be abundant.
Nothing like small farmhouse is to be
found far or near. If there were, the
owner is liable to have soldiers or rev
enue officers quartered upon him, to be
boarded and lodged at his expense.
The towns are filthy in the extreme,
none more so than Jerusalem itself
were, however, a rate Is levied from
every house for lighting and cleaning
the streets, while a sprained ankle or
splash into a hole IF blacklist dirt Is
sure to be the result of a mementary
carelessness. There is no hope for
Palestine while it remains in the hands
of its present rulers. One result of the
British occupation of Cyprus already
has been to make Mohametans, / was
told, both in Egypt and Palestine. hope
that the same bright thing of better
days might dawn upon them.-Rer- Mr.
Stacey.
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SHE WANTED TO BE 4 MAN.
And sec III Her Husband was not
Flirting with Another Woman.
Rochester Evnrass

At the Driving Park yesterday
among the crowd of spectators near the
grand stand was a person dressed in
new suit of gray cloth, wearing n style
of hat quite common among men, and
light hair. The stranger attracted con
siderable attention as he walked
through the crowd and cast alternate
chances at the people in the stand and
upon the track A small boy became
impressed with the idea that the "man"
was woman, and he quickly inform
ed Sergt Rowarth of his suspicion.
Officer Keith also heard of the strange
man, and after some conversation with
the sergeant, Officer Keith was sent to
interview the man. A casual glance
at the unknown satisfied Keith that
the person who was attracting so much
attention was woman in mans attire
She was invited to the police stand,
where she told her story, which was to
the effect that She suspected her hus-
band, Oscar Field, of flirting with an
other woman, who was in the grand
stand. She came here with her hus-
band from Chicago, where they reside,
and have lived happily until within the
past month. They were stopping at
the Osburn House, she said, and Mr.
Field was at that time ON the track, as
he was interested in some of the horses
The woman carried bundle under
her arm which contained her own
clothes. She was taken to the police
office, where she remained until her
husband arrived In further CONVEX
sation with the officers she said she
went with her liege lord to the Park on
Thursday last, and detected him in u
Irritation with woman in the grand
stand. Yesterday he made an excuse
for not taking her to the races, and
this aroused her suspicious After he
left for the track she purchased a suit
of mems clothes, bought blond wig to
cover her dark lair and procured a
mans hat. At the station house she
donned her female garb and accompa-
MED her husband, who is reported as a
prominent gentleman of Chicago, to
the hotel. doubtless realizing her I'M
enviable position to the fullest extent
and regretting that she had taken such
a foolish step. 1t is said that she has
been an invalid for several months, and
that her mind has been slightly affect
ed thereby.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-23
The Future Queen of England.

The London correspondent Of the
Boston Herald, writing of the recent
grand fair at Kensington House, says:
" | have seen her Royal Highness more
than once, but never admired her so
much as when she came up the steps
surrounded by her shy little daughters.
No wonder the English love and revere
the Danish Princess who has made so
good Il wife and mother. What man
would not die for Alexandria as he saw
her leading her three little girls, the
personfication of all that is lovely and
admirable in woman The Princesses
Victoria, Louise and Maude almost
chung to their mothers skirts as they
mounted in a group to the terrace, clad
in their simple blue dresses. The
Princess of Wales wore an exquisite
costume of heliorope silk, shot with
gold and trimmed with white lace; in
her hand she carried II large bouquet
of camellias and other white flowers.
She acknowledged the sweeping cour-
tesies of some of the ladies and respect
full salutations of the crowd of visitors
with a dignity in which there was no
trace of stiffness. Her sweet face, still
fresh and almost girliSh, despite her
wifehood and maternity, made all other
beauties seem either pale or COM
mon beside her, for it is truth, and not
fiattery, to say that the Princess re-
mains the prettiest woman in England"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-23
angerOuS Stage Riding.

RCd Bluff cause.
The California and Oregon stage left
Rcdding for Ureka on the arrival of the
up train on Wednesday with two pas
senecrs, Il gentleman and lady. At the
top Of the hill, about a quarter of a
milo from Sacramento ferry, the driver
discovered that his brake would not
hold, and fastening the lines to the
brake lever he got down from the seat
and knocked the right-hand block out.
The noise started the horses, and they
ran down the hill. The driver made
spring for the lines, and lost his footing
and could only catch the two right
hand ones. This pulled the horses
over the bank and down a steep preci-
pice, carrying the stage and everything
with them. The horses and coach
rollea over two or three times while go
ing down the Hill, and when they came
to the bottom were piled up in a shape
less mass, the lady still being buttoned
to the scat by the heavy leathern apron.
She 1sas fatally hurt. The man did not
receive Z scratch. The horses were
badly bruised and the coach a total
wrCe :
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-23
HOW A MILDLY GOT MARRIED.
Heaven. MY wife is Hanged.


A MILDLY in the ROYAL Navy, he went
ashore at Portsmouth with some mess
mates, and there made merry until the
funds were exhausted and n long bill
run up at a tavern at the Point. The
signal was made for all hands on board,
but when the careless middies would
have obeyed it the landlady interviewed,
vowing they should not leave until the
reckoning>was paid, and called in a
bailiff and his men to show she was
in earnest. The youngsters threatened
and entreated all to no purpose. The
obdurate woman reminded them that
they would be irrietrievably ruined if
the fleet sailed without them, and
pronounced her ultimatum. Said she
to her Mortified debtors: 81 will give
YOU all a chance | am so circum-
stanced here that | cannot very well
carry ON my business rs single woman,
and | must contriye somehow to get Il
husband, or, at all events, be able to
produce Il marrige certificate. Now
the only terms upon which ! viii set
you free are that one of you marries
me. | don't care snap which it Is;
but one of YOU | will have for husband
OI tlSt " Jun you All Su anu oii snip
sails without you" Finding the vixen
immovable, the unhappy midshipmen
cast lots, and Watty drew the fatal slip.
The lady procured license and the
knot was tied; after which she babe
them, husband included, goodbye, in
timating that she did not want to see
him again, the marriage lines being all
she wanted, and these were safe in her
possession. The ship sailed, the mid
dies keeping their strange doings at the
Pointa strict secret, as they had sworn
to do before drawing lots. Twelve
months later, when the ship was at
Jamaica, batch of English papers
reached the midshipmen's berth.
CHANGING over them Watty was attract
ed by an account Of robbery and
murder at Portsmouth, and the execu-
ton of the culprits Suddenly leaping
to his feet he waved the welcome news
paper above his head, shouting:
THANK Heaven, my wife's hanged
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81 BALLROOM EDYL.
BY WILLIAM II. MAYS.


She dropped this rosebud half an hour ago,
While gliding through that witching waltz Of
Strauss:
/ saved it from destruction dire below
The ponderous feet Of Phillips and his spouse
Tell me, sweet rose, before your petals fall
Does my love Enow I 0ye her best Of all!
Another waltz. And as 1 feared. again
That chattering noodle Briggs her yis-a-Fi'-
He's rich, though rather J1ssse. and It PLAIN
He loves her-.baf the very bind could see,
How graciousiy she listens {" his draw
All can she know ! love her best Of ALI
never told boyg her wnsome face
Comes to INV thoughts unhid the whole lag
through
Inever asked her if there Is place
In her Young heart where I'm remembered,
too
Yet watching her I lean against the wall
And tell my soul ! love her best Of all.
NoS halts the music for little space,
And seated see she gathers dantiiy
Her gowns gay folIs aside to make place
4 place for Briggs- BY JoYe She heckons
Hei
Ny queen, come, Now let what may befall,
] know she knows love her best Of all.
The soft, stil lawn steals up the whitening ky:
The lights ar, out. the music dumb and 'iead'
Beneath the stars together. Size and /,
An hour ago--whaI was it that We sand!
Strange gladuess thrills my heart as recall
Her whispered words: i love you best Of all,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-23
What Nervous People Endure.

Nobody but themselves can adequately understand.
The symptoms are often undefnable, though mex
pressibly tormenting, and it well may be doubted
whether any acute malady infcts more fortunes
than chronic weak nerves. Inauguration is the
surest course to overcome undue sensitiveness Of
the nervous system, which proceeds from weak
ness, the proximate cause of which is usually i'm
perfect digestion and assimilation. That superb
invigorant, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, remedies
that enfeebled and disordered condition of the
stomach which is the most fruitful cause of ner-
vousness and a rapid increase of vigor and ulti-
mate disappearance of all nervous and dyspeptic
symptoms, may surely be counted upon by those
who are wise enough to employ this genuine rem
edy, in preference to the many palliatives of ner
vousness A spoonful before meals win be
found to improve appetite, as well as facilitate
digestion, and repetition Of the dose at night
promotes repose.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-23

Then he stopped and pressed his lips
to hers. A long fluttering sign escaped
them.
Arthur" she whispered; Arthur
/ am here, dear, he said.
And then he laid her down out of his
arms, as though, with returning life,
he remembered the duty it brought
with it,
The mother sprang forward.
do not be alarmed" Mr.. MainN ~
ing said, gently, on seeing her. Her
horse threw her ] think there IS no
serious injury"
No serious injury None to Dora,
. hut Barbara knew that her wound was
past healing
When, few hours later, they knew
that there was no need for anxiety on
her account. Barbara shut herself up
within her own room to hight her bat
tie
II cannot give him up, she moaned.
+ lie does not know his own heart He
will forget this child. and she-she can
not love him"
But even as she reasoned came the
remembrance of the one word. car
rhur." and the tone in which she had
spoken it.
Il will try her" She said, and for the
FIRST time in her life came a feeling of
bitter resentment even against her
child.
They were sitting together in the Ii
hrary rs she entered.
Arthur" she said, Il think it is
time that you told Dora the truth"
The mans face paled. She could al
most see him grid his soul for the con-
dict, and crush out his heart behind
his honor. Even Dora looked up with
4 suspicion Of coming trouble.
1t IS only this, dear" Barbara said,
turning to her daughter, 'has not Mr..
Mainwaring told you that he was an
engaged man.
Then she saw that the steel had
struck home. The child answered
nothing as she turned two wet re-
proachful eyes to him, who dared not
meet their gaze Until this instant she
had not known that she possessed "A
heart. She learned it now to her cruel
cost.
Il must congratulate Mr.. Mainwar-
ing" she said, calling up all her wo-
mans pride to aid, her then FASTENED
/ from the room to hide the burst of tears.
The two were left alone
Docs She suspect, to do you Think
She asked, gloating over his torture.
She must know" he answered. Il
am ready, Barbara, to fulfill my bond.
| Let there be no further delay"
will you not, then, plead that l
asked only the pound of flesh, without
drop of blood. and that your life must
pay the forfeit | demand?"
What can you mean he asked, III
a bewildered way
Only" she said, that | plead my
cause for yours Release me Arthur.
| find | cannot marry YOU"
Five minutes ago she would have
thought herself incapable of the sacri-
fee, yet here she stood, quiet and
cain, giving no outward sign of the in
ward whirlpool, nor the torture that
wrung her as she watched the weight
lift from his soul at her words.
You no longer love me?' he qucs-
toned
Il am growing old, with mocking
laugh: and in his blindness he accepted
her words as denial. and went forth
content, little dreaming ofthe sacrifice
the mother had made for her daugh-
tors happiness.
\ little later he came to her, Dora
blushing, radiant with happiness, by
his side
will you give her to me?' he asked.
Il loved her, Barbara, because he was
vOur second self :"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-23

way the party had to cut road through
the steep CLASSY barricade. This they
effected by making hugh fires on the
glass to thoroughly heat and expand it,
and then dashing the cold water of the
lake against the heated surface so as to
suddenly cool and break it up by
shrinkage Large fragments were in
this way detached from the solid side
Of the mountain, then broken up small
by sledge hammers and picks, not,
however, without severe decorations of
the hands and face of the men from
flying splinters. In the Grand Canon
of the Gibson River, the explorers also
found precipices of yellow black, and
banded obsidian, hundreds of feet high.
The natural glass of these localities has
from time immemorial been dressed
by the Indians to tip their spears and
arrows
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-23
4 ElaSS Mountain.

Another marvel recently brought to
light ii the Yellowstone Park Of North
America is nothing less than noun
tam Of ohsidian or volcanic glass.
Near the hoy Of the Beaver Lake a
band Of explorers came upon the re
maFkable mountain, which rises IN
eslumnar cliffs and rounded bosses to
many hundreds of feet in altitude from
kissing hot springs at the margin of the
lake. As il was desirable to pass that
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-09-23
A Missing Vermont Cattle Dealer.

A dispatch from Rutland, VT, says:
mo circumstance since the exposure
of Batchelder, the Brandon bank forger,
has so aroused the people of Addison
county, as the disappearance of Thomas
S ockett. the livestock dealer, who
went to the Boston market, as was his
weekly custom, the I'd, and he did not
return. 1t is believed he sailed for
Europe, taking some $4,000, obtained
of farmers and drovers throughout the
state, but mainly in Addison, Chitten-
den and Rutland counties, of whom he
had bought on credit, stock for the
market. The losses OF his victims
range from 800 to 81, 500 each, and some
run as high as $1,000 Shockett has
speculated in live stock in the state
for thirty years, beginning when he
was but fifteen years old. Some twenty
years ago he became mixed up in law
suit with one Hammond, involving the
paternity Of his only child, and de-
manded $50, 900 damages After a con-
test of several years, during which the
ablest lawyers in the state were EN-
ployed, the court awarded him 5000,
but previous to this his opponent had
become bankrupt. 1t IS now thought
that this suit so crippled him that he
could never extricate himself, and when
concealment was no longer possible he
fled. He viii be found and brought
back if possible. f"