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Decorah-posten., 1880-04-07
WaaOc.


Suab .r bet for en- Gina,
Qunat minprs emo en- Slns.
Oct fan BOG Snssn t.
ARen Iabsr iis BOG iins.
Ost hnbsS si | gsrosn,
Men Dog / ale 4ano,
Set fnots si / So
Rsu DOG i ialtsn Sano,
Oct sr si uol jul,
9fsu fnoss DOG i Gar,
Set fnoes ii / Rom,
Msu BEG i SaurenI,
Set huots si | Sern,
glen BOG i Smscsns Snmmsr.
Decorah-posten., 1880-04-07

Bru9,r ou at teas, loa Tom ibu a
rsnie bin Yibe bel ~bpsranosn Dag
Oct oil ipure bin SsIbrsb.
Decorah-posten., 1880-04-07
gGaeinnlt | 4uitralisu. st II

ydgtinnit | auitmlien. Vt tpoi
Blao fsrteuer fel9enbs Be9iuenbto
lOm ct ssot Bspis pau 9os,rn,s ui,il.
barbeo-l N~uitrnliea. Gn un9 BsrIi.
ner, iou buuos N9sntur / N%uitralisn
Tor ct iterre 4amburssrbuS. bleu pau
en- Sorretniussrsiie baurlis / lit Den.
tire Gle. pan bapbe peo ct ulbttss.
lllI9los miitst BET beirs Gis o9 | Ste.
ben Tor iaost It tunltlgt lom par for.
irroi9.t / Berlin % nepps tunoe iilal.
mes ira ct naturli9t. Sp9oOmmm i
BET iilbae.oGrsnos 81, uOlots BAN
isIuiel9slis mf9,u @usit,lls, bUorior
ban ltrdI bes0O Ig I'll Den nGrmsite
lterre Bp oS LOB bsnts en- Gage. Gen.
ne ianot 3iIi0Iost ms9st bstentsIiet
os lommsntalote meo I'M Yatisnis
Snmtpfts lem al fns 8Ousssr til en-
i9Qes 8o~niultation. Otter en- msest
ombpgasli9 unberiegsIis trat ne iis til.
ba9e | et SlospGrslle Tor at raooi Ian,
% mso barse Nn,lisr uentsbe Yatl.
snten pou I'M 0Om GnbslIs Tom Be
lGrbe SsTrsr ino iSisn, bsrss beitlbsll.
9e @nil9ter lousos lite nosst sOot.
Gen ierit iiltnlots 9rse b%sapnois m,b
iteriis Staanlsl at msob.Ie Yatisntsn
8eiullat,t al Den i9lss SperIesnins.
Sans 9rsos Rolle9sr par eni9 mto
ham /, at BET psnitrs Sls par alpOr.
li9 an9rsbst O9 nsppe itoo I'll of REQ.
be; bstlmoo par oct belrs Sls oloslts
ui,not -. "Wsn, mine 9trrsr, Oct
beirt ,r 10 ct SIaseis!" uobreo ga.
iisntsn o. tO9 1T iunitigs 81. ub.
Ist moutie BABE pGret toiislist at ls
Be IGroe Ssrrsrs fOrbleneos. LANCE On
Iettr. Wen Yallsntsn par life opIast
til WoyO; ban bapoe tabt 3rOen pau
De auiiralits Eager. OUsrsau Nssntur.t
til IN 9aubsmonb % rsilts ioa burti9
ION muIis nIbass til ut Qlsm, buOr
ban inort bIsu bslbrtost.
Decorah-posten., 1880-04-07

Ut iatbulii glar paa GbincNii Gen
apoitOIllts @lcur / SoustOug. lom nu..
rsoe for fsre Nar iioen fiitsos ct To-
tbolt snsslit Blao Der. bar MI be.
epnbt at uosips ct tatboIit Slao paa
binsif i Sbansbui. Blaoet sr no.
turlispis iuor,itct sitsr dinsilit Smas.
Oct er bare trptt paa ben enc Sioe,
sr 3t-i Sob lanst % lGaS,s lem
@anss iammcn. Naar BET u falist,
ar BET omtrent / Sob breot.
- STU fan Yapa %iOriGls big npt.
Ritte bu bar iaat en- lioen Brooer.
Isi, bet mua iss itruI ino % for
teue Wama.
Decorah-posten., 1880-04-07

Gleitriit @rlpsuirg / yirma. &ons
5blbau al Burma. iOm oilers lite bar
Oto for at D1rs no9sn mt9st %ciOilils.
RET Ssrl'sr, bar bdlaitst at lp'lall99iele
IL 0igs msb en- al ben s~urOpGlits 81.
plliiatiOns m,it moouns S~pnnoslicr,
ost sIstlrIiis 9ps. ION ban opsnlflebet
bar b,ntst fra be forbade Gnasllim9no
aon9 Sblbou bar rsmlis lsnot en-
Nesnt iii Salfutia ior at aiflebs "Sr.
ban GItciric eight Company" ocn
iterits Del al bets Npparatsr % Sra.
finer. Gen birmanlf, @9,nt GAO ton.
tant 10000 Rnpisr paa 0aonosn, o.
eilsr 6Orlpomos oil BE- ilmIsos On.
foitniu9sr for Be sIstttiits BIus-40
situ 5abIotOHs 90 s sitsr Regulator.
ipitsmst % oerss Nnbrinsslis / va.
tablet % / be ionssliae SuUr / Wan.
oalap toite en- Wllion Nuplsr. 30.
birmanlts WuisitGts Sinantisr maa
aabenbart btnnbs zig / en- uomGrtst
6Oriatnins.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-07
Pooling q Chinaman.

A plump little Celestial, his almond eyes
,winklIng with deligh, and an extraordinary
grin lighting up his yellow countenance, drop
ped in TO witness the lottery drawing the
other day
He watched the blind folded bows draw
the numbers from the wheels with apparent
interest and bore the Jokes of the crowd
around with evident good nature
Say, John. YOU ~ashec that mans
shirtee ?" asked one Of the crowd pointing
TO one of the benevolent looking commits
sioners.
Il washee heapee plenty shir,ee if vince
plize, replied the bland Mongolian.
Have YOU 20, ticket, john" asked the
man in the crowd
well. me thinkee me habee," replied the
Chinaman, drawing one from his pocket
"Tlekee ?" he asked
The man looked a, the number, and. scan
ming his list, found that it had come in for
$500 prize"
We'll, John" replied the man in the
crowd, very lnnocently, IL think you've
lost
''Chneeman losee allie time" said the sub
jsct Of the howery empire, "gotee no luckee
Gless ,low tiickee away"
You needn't do that, John, said the man
with patronizing air. III give you dime
for il.
"Dlime too lille Gimme a Dolce" said
the Celestial.
"A dollars too much for ticke, that can't
win. Well split the difference and call it
half dollar, eh?" said Johns kind inform
ant.
Chinee man glottee no luckee; Mclean
man takee allie mlonee Takee the ,lickee
and gimme 40 bit:ee," and John passed
over his ticket in exchange for the money.
When the Mongolian's grinning features
had disappeared, the man chuckled and re-
marked that he had got her this time
Lets see the ticket ?" asked one of his
friends.
The man who had made the lucky invest
ment handed the ticket over, when his friend
exclaimed
"Why, George, this was drawn las, June"
.'Is that so ?" asked the man dumbfound-
ed, the revelation that he had been duped
dawning upon him. Where is tha, lying
rascal Of a heathen Chinee who pu, up this
job on me-
But the Chinaman could nowhere be found
and the man had to be satisfied with the ex-
perience he had purchased tor half dollar.
i n. o. Picaynne.
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Burdette's Want Of Reverence,

DO you know, anyhow. don't feel very
much reverence for old thing, that are simp-
!y old. suppose it is heathenish and aw-
tul boorish, but can't help it. Here, the
other day. man bought an old spinning
wheel. "One hundred and twelve wears
old. he told me, proudly, and he was going
to take II home and set it up in his library
and never part with it. And for the life of
me ! couldn't see why. The man didn't even
know the name OF the family he bought it
Of |, bad no interest in the world for him
beyond its age. lie might have gone out
into the street and picked up boulder two
thousand years ola with just as much local
and historical interest for him as the spin
ning wheel But tina, the former owner of
that spinning wheel should sell it for money,
that did surprise me. II had a world of
memories for him. He could touch the
tr.adle and the whirring wheel would Groom
out the same old monotone that had droned
its drowsy accompaniment 10 the cradle
songs that hushei him TO sleep in his baby
days It would sing to him in his manhood
and IN the long evenings of his old age, Of
white haired grandma and a mother with
patient face and beautiful eyes; it would
sing of thousand old time memories and
forgotten faces il would repeat snatches of
songs, and old forgotten tender words, for
him il would sing how the tender mothers
face grew patient and sad and careworn as
the Years went on, and the beautiful ewes
were faded with tears and dimmed with
watching and the loving hand tainted with
WEAKNESS until at last one day the whirring
wheel stood still, and its silence spread
great heavy quiet all over the old home
How the man whose grandmother and moth
er sat at that busy wheel could sell it,
cannot understand. But what it could be to
the man who bought it is fully as grea,
mystery. |, will sing none of those songs
TO him. 1t would be like a man talking
Bengalee TO Spanish parrot Harkeye.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-07

The German Emperor, after inspect
ing the new barracks of the second guard
Dragons in the Pioneerstrasse a while ago.
contriyed, while chatting with the sfticers in
the messroom, TO write a few words with a
chalk pencil upon the tunic Of the senior
regimental captain, unperceived by that Of
fcer. This done the Emperor left the room,
laughing heartily, accompanied BY the col
onel of the regiment, Prince Frederick of
Hohenzollern, whereupon the senior staff
officer present walked up to Captain Won s.,
and to his utter CONSERVATION, proceeded TO
untasten and remove his epaulettes. In
conscious Of having committed any derelic-
ton OF duty, Won s., remained motloness
while this ominous operation was performed
but his painful perplexity gave place to ju-
bilant exultation when the lieutenant colo
mel produced pair Of majors epaulettes
and dexterously buttoned them to his shoul-
ders. The words hastily scrubbed by he
Emperor upon Captain Won SIS uniform were
'Zum major befoerdert" promoted to ma
jor), and the subsequent details of this gen
ial surprise had been arranged by him be-
forehand with the lieutenant colonel 1t is
said, that, in his rejoicing at his unexpected
advancement, the newly made major called
upon the senior non-commissioned officer of
his squadron and said to him: Sergeant
major, the squadron is relieved from duty
for to-day. Let them have as much drink as
they please. l pay for all
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-07

HISDoo GIRLs.-The Hindoo girls are
graceful and exquisitely formed. From
their earliest childhood they are accustomed
to carry burdens on their head The water
for family use is always brought by the girls
in earthern jars, carefully poised in this
way. The exercise is said to strengthen the
muscles Of the hack, while the chest is
thrown forward. No crooked backs are
seen in Hindoostan. DIR. II. Spry says the
exercise Of carrying small vessels of water
on the head might be advantageously intro
duced into the boarding schools and private
families, and that it might entirely super
sede the present machinery Of b-bells,
baek-boards, skipping ropes, etc. The young
ladies ought to be taught to carry the jar as
these Hindoo women do, without ever touch
ing it with their hands. The same practice
Of carrying water leads to precisely the same
results in the south of Italy as in India A
Neapoltan female peasant will carry on her
head a vessel full Of water to the very brim,
over a rough road, and not spill drop of it !;
and the acquisition of this art or knack gives
her the same erect and elastic gait
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-07
The AmbideYter.
HOW A FAST REPORTER MIXED coUPLE OF
ARTICLES.

ARTICLES.
Prom the Kansas City Journal
There is reporter at the Times Office who
writes with equal rapidity with either hand
He is an ambidexter, and bold, bad one at
that. When there is rush Of work at the
office and the devil is shouting "coppee"
like fiend incarnate, the useful reporter
sits down a, his desk in full company front,
and with a pencil in each hand sings of
local happenings by the yard He writes
on two sheets at once. and don't let his
right hand know what his left hand is driv-
ing at but it's driving all the same.
Yesterday he got a little of his mental
base, and attempted to write up dog fight
and wedding in high life at the same time.
He got things mixed. His hands ran clear
away with the gray matter in his skull, and
things became terribly confused. This is
the way his items telescoped each other:
At Grace church last night. the nuptials
of Thomas Johnson and Miss Julia Law
renee were celebrated in most magnificent
style. costly floral horseshoe being directly
over the alter. and when the yellow cur saw
the ho, flames Of anger darting from the
eyes Of the brindle beast. he opened with
the impressive strains of the wedding march,
As the handsome couple walked down the
aisle the excited crowd began to get frantic,
and there were yells Of Sick EN-, Bull :"
"a, him now. fowser,r as the SPECTATOR,
became interested in the fight Tbe bride
vas elegantly a,,ired in pure white garment,
Of the mos, costly fabrics. and she wor, The
traditional white veil and wreath Of orange
blossoms, had him BY the neck. and his ton
que began TO loll out and his eyes to turn
somersaul,s as if in the customary black sui,
white gloves. ears cropped close 10 hi, head
He was a disreputable looking dog in the
beginning, and ought to have been whipped
for being so homely. He is of good family
and is engaged in one Of the mos, ex,en,iv.
manufacturing enterprises in the West. Bu,
the yellow cur seemed to he getting the adj.
vantage. as he had now succeeded in secur-
ing d. a,h grip on the throa, Of the big
hrindle, and when he tenderly kissed the
bride. according ,o the ancient custom h;s
back was covered with mud. and hi. of
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-07

Politics in the Ball Room.

"Well, say," said one of our hes, Young
men a, North Hill hop he other evening,
"you know 'bou, this fellah Hancock Well
say, he amt some one that's presiden, Of an
insurance company is hep Writes awful
coarse hand. YOU know'"
Nav" replied the best young man ad-
dressed. "he's man that signed constitution
Of United States great politician, reckon
Had a row with Gen. Washington at battle
Of Monmouth"
"Haw, no. interposed third bes, man.
..tain't that fellah. Cad. he's dead, man,
pom rny soul be is"
well, say?" exclaimed the FIRST best
man. "when'd he die?"
Can, say, m sure" replied the third
best young man, who appeared to be .
Young man OF broad information on general
topics, .'but know he's dead This Ham
cocks military man colonel in the army.
and governor Of some island near New
York
The other best young men gathered
around him with a common expression Of
the liyeiiest interest. Finally one Of them
asked
well, say? What's be want to run for
president for, il he's governor Of an island p
Don't know" said the well informed bes,
young man, "but guess he has TO. b'lieve
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-07

CHICAGO LUMBER TRADE.-In the at
tempt to give an idea of the extent Of the
Chicago lumber trade at the present time
figures delude and dissatisfy. 1t is easy to
say that the city handled, in 1882, las, ,OOO,-
900 feet in 1872, LISA 900, 900 feet; in
1879, 1900, 100000 feet-the last figures
representing nearly one-thrd cf the entire
manufacture Of the Northwest: but mil
lions" convey no startling idea to the lay
mans mind. 1t may help little, however,
to mention that to bring this lumber into
the city would require average arrivals of
thirty cargoes per day for two hundred days
each containing quarter of million feet !;
or that if a number of canal-boats, each con-
tanning one-eighth of million feet, we're
loaded with the importation of 1879, and
placed IN line in the Erie Canal, they would
reach. touching end to end, from Albany to
Rochester-three hundred miles.-fA. A.
HAYES, JR., in Harper's Magazine for Oe-
tober.
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I" Millions In It."


Samuel l.. Clemens writes the following
to the New York Erening Post: have
just seen your dispatch from San Francisco
about 'Gold in Solution" in the Calis,oga
springs, and about the proprietor's having
extracted $1,000 in gold of the utmost fine
ness from ten barrels Of the water during
the past fortnight by process known only
to himself. This will surprise many of your
readers. but it does not surprise me, for
once owned those springs myself. What
does surprise me. however. is the falling off
in the richness of the water In my time
the yield was 81 dipperful. am not say
ing this to injure the property in case a sale
is contemplated | am only saying it in the
interest of history 1t may be that this
hotel proprietor's process is an inferior one
yes, that may be the fault. Mine was to
take my unele-I had an extra uncle at that
time. on account of his parents dying and
leaving him on nv hands-and ill him up,
and let him stand Is minutes to give the
water chance to settle well. then insert
him in an exhausted receiver. which had the
effect Of sucking the gold out through his
pores. have taken more than 81 900 out
Of that old man in day and a half
should have held on to those springs but for
the badness Of the roads and the difficulty
Of getting the gold to market
| consider that gold-yielding water in
many respects remarkab able, and yet not more
remarkable than the gold-bearing air of
Catgut Canon. up there toward the head Of
the auriferous range. The air-or this
wind. for it is n kind of a trade wind which
blows steadily down through 400 miles of
rich quartz groupings during an hour and a
quarter, every day, except SUNDAYS
heavily charged with exquisitely fine and
impalpable gold. Nothing precipitates and
solidihes this gold so readily as contact with
human flesh heated by passion. The time
that William Abraham was disappointed in
love he used to step out doors when that
wind was blowing, and come in again and
begin to sigh, and his brother, Andoyer
j., would extract over 81 so out of every
sigh he sighed right along. And the time
that John HARRISON and Aleck Norton quar-
relied about Harbison's dog, they stood
swearing at each other all they knew how
and what they didn't know about swearing
they couldn't learn from YOU and me, not by
a good deal-and at the end Of every three
or four minutes they had TO stop and make
a dividend if they didn't their jaws would
clog up that they couldn't get the big
nine -syllabelled ones out at all ; and when
the wind was done blowing they cleaned up
just little over : 600 apiece know
these facts to be absolutely true, because |
got them from man whose mother knew
personally.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-07
The Dead at Arlington,
From an Grafton at Arlington on Decoration Day,
1865. by General James A. Garfield.

From an Grafton at Arlington on Decoration Day
1865. by General James A. Garfield.
If silence is ever golden, it must be here,
beside the graves Of $4,000 men, whose
lives were more significant than speech and
whose death was poem the music Of which
can never be sung. With words, we make
promises, plight faith, praise virtue. Prom
ises may not be kept; plighted faith may be
broken; and vaunted virtue may be only
the cunning mask of vice. We do not know
one promise these men made, one pledge
they gave, one word they spoke but We do
know they summed up and perfected, BY
one supreme act, the highest virtue of men
and citizens. For love of country they &C
cepted death; and thus resolved all doubts,
and made immortal their patriotism and
their virtue.
For the noblest man that lives there still
remains conflict. He must Withstand the
assaults of time and fortune must still be
assailed with temptations before which lofty
natures have fallen. But with these the
conflict ended, the victory was won. when
death stamped on them the great seal Of he
roic character, and closed career which
years can never blot.
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potsrp.
fErou she Nev York Tribupe.l
Lookout Mountain. 3-Beutelsbaoh
1880.

fbroW NE NeW noR2 IHOuot
Lookout Mountain. 1868 -Beutelsbaoh
1880.
"Ysh. shpeAks English leetle; perhaps you
shp-sks peter der German"
mo, not . word."-"veiI. den, Mecster, Il
hardt for to be oonder.tandt.
l Sos drei yahr In your cOontry. aghts in der
army init sherman
Twentiet Illinois infsntry-6ghtin' Joe Hook.
er's commando"
$50 you've seen service in Georsia-s veteran.
eh!" "Veli, tell you
Shusf how Il yos. vent ofer 10 sixty, and
landt in Nei York:
! shpends all mine money. gets sick. und near
dies in der Hospiddai Bellevue;
Ven ] gets peter ! tramps 70 sheeca@o to
look for some work."
"Preity Young then. l supposev' yah,
svAnsig spout; und der bcopIes
Noi ! goes to for to ask for some work dey
hsfe none for to geef;
Fiery Won laughs; but I holds my head ops
shust 40 high as der steepes.
Only dot var comes along, or l should have
die, belief
Ever get wounded, / notice you walk rather
lame and unsteady.
rshaw got wooden leg. ehf What battle
AT lookout don't ssys
was there too-wait = minuie-your beer
glass is empty slready,
Call for another. There! tell me how 'twas
you got wounded that day"
"vell. We charge ope der side Of der noun.
tain--der shy vos all smoky aud hAsy.
We fight all day long In der clouds, but I ne
fer get hit until night
Butt don't care TO say mooch spout II. Der
poys called me foolish and crazy.
Und der doctor ,o' cut ofe my leg, be say.
.(snut'-.ius IL RI ms shusf right -
But ! dink's l wood do dot thing over again.
shusf der same, and no matter
Not ANY man say Well, let. hear it-you
beedn mind taking 10 me,
FOR was there. too, As ! tell you-and Lor !!
how the bullets DID paiter
Around on that hrr asiwork OF boulders that
sheltered our ienih tennessee.
"so' Dot vos Tennessee regiment charged
upon oufs IN de eiening,
shus, oeforc DARK; und dsy yell ~ dey
charge, una We 1eef . hurrah.
Der roar Of der EuSs. 1t vos orful. l."-''Ah. yes,
] rememembrr, twas deafenins.
The hottest musketry firing that ever our
regiment saw.'
"Und amer We drove dem back, und der nigh,
come on, listened.
Und dnk. dot hear somcpody callin'-a
voice dot cri~t.
'Pring me some saier for Cots sake'-I saw
his pelt-blzie glisisn.
oonder der moonlight, on der barapet. shu.,
outside"
Il dhrow my can,ecn ofer TO we're he lie, bu;
be- snswer
Dot his len hand yos gone, and bis right arm
broke NIT fall;
Den ! shump ofer. und gife him 10 drink, but
shust a. ran. sir.
Bang. came q sharpshoo,er's pullct. uad
dots how IL yos-doi is ALL"
a., III, = ~,
thew Him. ,o, b,frien.,rd-
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-07

Can you keep secret ?" said Mr.. Mid
dlerib, impressively, looking at his wife.
'Indeed can," she exclaimed eagerly, run
ming across the room that she might cling
to the lappels of his coat while she listened.
"Well," said the brutal man, ''you can do a
great deal more than can, then. never
could remember one long enough to tell it"
II Burlington Hapksye.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-07
Post Office Notice.

OWING 70 the failure Of Congress 70 make an ap,,
u preparation for Incidental expenses connected
With the Post OMce Department, have receaved
~ r. from that depsriwent that the extra expen-
ses connersed With opening. and distri eusins
msils durins the night rne viii not Be net BY ne
Coyernment- Noeice n hereby giver sAAe g AND
Il dsrk and nails arriving during Ne sighf YIN
sot b dissahsssd sl HeS.s26i 26iu.x,.-.
piswussA May In. ~.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-07

Weakness Of the stomach causes indiges-
tion, and in that state no one can have good
health. The Peoples Favorite Tonic Bitters
purify the blood and strenthen the stomach.
and remove al causes that undermine The
systso. This i6s-saving ssnedy y adves-
ted in these columas. 3w4l
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-07

-"very gritty this salsd, said friend
70 Douglas JerroId one day when they we're
dining together; ''don't you think so?"
"Gritty," repeated Jerrold, gritty! Why,
l call i gravel path with only few weeds
on il
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-10-07

"Men often jump at conclusions, says the
proverb. So do dogs We saw dog jump
at the conclusion u! cat, which was stick
ing through the opening Of . partly closed
door, and it made more disturbance than Z
church scandal.