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AFTER family prayer, a few evenings
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fight on the street, and during the
action one of the men dropped 9 lot Of
copper coins, stopped and began pick
ing them up. When the fight was over
some one asked /: why did you stop to
pick up that stuff when you were being
pounded?' Because" replied the man,
Il was taught that if I took care of the
pennies the pounds would take care of
fbor,colvos 49, s1H IsEszd .tF5ls ~
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-08-13

"Tf you are quiet, honest citizen Of
Galveston, how did these skeleton keys
and brass knscklcs happen to be in
your pockets - Il reckon, Judge, me
and the policeman must have changed
coats in the scufiie; NE were very much
excited. ~ Galveston News.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-08-13

"No, Samuel" calmly replied Mrs.
Bartlett, IN answer to his furious and
sarcastic questions, enc. 1t isn't be-
cause there's no gay cloth in Burling-
ton that / patched your Summer trous-
ers with seai-brown basket cloth; but
I'm going to break you Of your loafer-
ish habit OF going il your shirt-sleeves
during business hours, or III make you
the laughin stock Of the town" And
when Mrs Livernore makes up her list
OF ''Spperiluors wamcn" she leaves
Mrs. Bartlett oGt every time
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-08-13

II would not cause a shade OF pain
to overspread thai race so fair; ah. no,
dear girl, nor woGld ] deign to add q
mite unto your care l woald not have
that lovely hue cf features clouded by
= frown, but duty bids me say to you,
your back a2ir's all s-coming down"
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-08-13
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-08-13

Vennor's promised cold wave didn't
strike us "a5ou. the 20th," but he says
we'll catch i yet before the middle of
December. 4 slight error ia dates
doesn't discourage Vennor.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-08-13
Fresh Gr3,cris..

A new shipment Of groceries just re-
ceived by G. CuIEowErI, at his cash
store, whole his customers may now
purchase seven ruunss Of brown or six
pounds Of white sugar for one dollar.
with the satisfaction Of knowing that
he has no artlquatci goods. shopworn
or defunct, to being to the front and
shove under thci' noses to excite their
pity to bay thea II re5urn for the favor
OF selling bis sugar on SO small q mar
rin. mh30.tf
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-08-13
NEWSPAPER AGENCY

II n ~ IN M n "a AWE1NVH
The following Daily Papers will be delivered
in town or forwarded 20 the country every
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rate of Twcaty. five Cents pea Week,
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Any Book, Novel Story Paper Pictorial or
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c. ClIENoWETH, News Agent.
Winnomucca. May IL. 1SSQ ii
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-08-13
NOTICE no CREDIT0Rs.

In the District Court OF the Fourth Judicial
District of the State OF Nevada, in and for tho
County of Humboldt, in the matter of the ed
tate OF PA'rHiCh TULLY, deceased
Notice is hereby given by the Undersigned,
Administrator of the estate of Patrick 2uily.
deceased, to the creditors Of ard all per-
sons having claims against the said deceased
to exhibit tfe same, with the necessary voiics,.
ers, within ionr months after the iirst putiica-
ton OF ohis got'ce, TO the said Administrator.
at his office, ~ Main street, Winnaauccas
Humboldt County, State of Nevada
NJ. cpS ENAElM, P1blSc Adninistrayoys
Winnemueea. New. August % ,saA I'm
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-08-13

We have just received our own brand
of coffee, The finest in the market,
Try it. m5 LEVY q Co.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-08-13

Look not upon tac wine when il is
red" 1t is suspected that Solomon
was interested in the champagne trade.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-08-13

Tanners stomach now works in its
shirt-sleeves. Its coats are all worn
out.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-08-13

The genrl adopshun Of fonetic spcln
wud nok Josh Billinge hirn kite.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24
gotten and passed by in the giving of
gifts.-Bost0n Journal.
He 'Mixed Them Up.o

Among the election returns of Con-
necticut town was this: "Mrs. Ander-
son desires the prayers of the congrega-
ton for her husband gone to sea! !" 1t
was dropped in the box by some cler-
gyman who had mixed it up with his
ballots. When Professor Stowe was at
Andover, while preaching a preparato-
ry lecture on Saturday afternoon, he
found some notices lying on the desk
and at the proper time for reading the
announcements he took them and read:
'The funeral of Mrs. Jones will be at
tended next Tuesday afternoon at two
o'clock" "the ladies' sewing society
will meet at the house of Mrs. Professor
Barrows Wednesday afternoon at three
O'clock" "the sacrament of the Lords
supper will be administered in this
church next Sunday afternoon" s'the
preparatory lecture Saturday afternoon
at three o'clock" And then, as Prof. Park
who told us the story said, an idea visibly
entered his head coming down as plain
ly through the air as bird is seen to
light upon twig. Prof. Stowe began
to stammer and said "perhaps, perhaps
this last notice ought to have been read
last Sabbath" and after ponderiDg q
moment he said "perhaps the one be-
fore it should" and then with an ex-
preston of great impatience added,
"perhaps they all should" and finally
when he saw the congregation all smil-
ing he said, ''yOu have no business to
leave these old notices here in the pull
pit."-St. Adams Messenger.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24
The Stranger Friend.

There is a gentle stranger drawing nigh to every
dwelling
We cannot hear his footsteps fall so softly on the
snow,
And yet as he comes nearer,
And his smile shines out the clearer,
'Tis no more the face of stranger, but a friend
whom well we know.
He came at first infant and his rest was In the
manger;
For the inn was full of pilgrims on that wondrous
Christmas night.
But he stayed for love and duty
And to fill the world with beauty
Bringing perfect joy for sorrow, turning darkness
into light.
How he loved the hearts he sought for is not told
by bells carols,
But in more pathetic pictures of the garden and
the cross;
Yet he came to bring us pleasures
And to make us rich with treasures
And he did not shrink from sorrow, or from pov
erty or loss.
But he turns to some with yearning, and they dc
not care to know him.
Though their hearts are faint with sorrow, and
their eyes with tears are dim,
He would chase away their sadness,
Till they sing for very gadness,
But they will not let him heal them-they car
find no room for him.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24
Something New in Entomology.
From the Detroit Free Press.l

Last Sunday as Mr.. Jones was return
ing from church with his family he dis
covered IA new and singular looking bug
thing of scientist he was naturally
pleased with the new specimen, and
forming his pocket handkerchief into a
sort of cage, he pounced down on it,
and succeeded in capturing it.
''Bring the microscope, children" he
called, 'and tell your ma to hurry !
want her to look at it; Pm sure it be-
longs to the Hemiptera class and is a
new specimen. Here, Charlie, put your
eye to the ocular side and tell me what
you see."
"Oh pa, amt it splendid7 2 It's got
four wings, eight eyes, and, oh, my
amt it sparkler, though Red, and
green and yellow, and-oh it is get
ting away, amt it pa 2"
''Then it isn't dead ~ clied Mr.. Jones
in ecstasy; 81 wasn't quite sure
whether it moved or not. Let me look
Yes it's a terrestrial, think after all
it belongs to the genus Pentatoma-the
antenun have that peculiar flexible
look and yet, now that | look again
IbC OyC Go oCCh W lIitI III Is puy
tOcoris, in which case it will be very
destructive to your mas plants, and we
must kill it at once. I'll ask Prof Sill
1t will he, in any case, valuable ad.
dition to science. Maria, where's the
chloroform
Cup on the clock shelf; what are you
going to do with it ?" asked Mrs. Jones
who had been giving her undivided at.
tention to the baby.
''Kill this bug as soon as you have
examined it," answered Mr.. Jones, in &
lofty voice. 81 shall present it to the
Detroit scientific assOciation-n
'Well, guess not, Mr.. JONES'" brok,
in his wife, who was looking with mucl
interest at the new specimen. 81 pait
81 for that bug last week to wear OF
my new bonnet, and 1 must have drop
ped it off when | came in. 1t belOng
to the genus milliner9, and couldn't b,
any deader if it had been baked for
century. Science will have to get aIon,
without it, Jones. It's already classi
fed" Poor Jones
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24
An Incident of the War.

A startling incident is told of Major
E. w. Everson's account of the Confed-
crate prison at Point Lookout during
the war. Toward the close of the war,
1t became necessary on account of the
lack OF capacity in the general hospital
for Onfederates-which was located on
the extremity of the Point-to place
many of the sick prisoners in seven
large frame buildings erected for that
purpose within the pen. A startling
event connected with those buildings
is in order of record here. 1t was Just
after the dawn of day when / strolled
out of my quarters on the margin of the
bay to find relief in the sea air from the
Oppressiveness of an unusually sultry
night. 1t was at once evident from the
peculiar atmosphere and death like in
describable stiffness that something ont
of the usual routine was near at hand.
Soon there was heard rumbling, roar
ing and kissing sound. Looking across
the Potomac, about eight miles distant,
the cause, in an alarming shape, was
discovered in a huge waterspout at
tached to large, angry cyclone, in
form like the placing of the nOzzles of
two tunnels together. 1t was making
its way from the Virginia shore diagon-
ally towards the prison enclosure.
About mile out was anchored the
three-turreted monitor Roanoke, one of
the largest in the service-the frigate
of that name razeed-and carrying an
armament of one fifteen-inch and two
eleven-inch guns. On came the mon
ster of wind and water, presenting an
appearance never to be forgotten, the
hidaOus seething Increasing as it ad-
vanced. The destruction of the Roam
oke appeared to be inevitable her fate
hung, as it were, in the balance, when
Il curl of smoke was seen to puff out
from the centre and largest turret. The
tifteen-inch shell shattered the water
spout, and the huge tornado, like lib
Grated balloon, shot upward with light
ming rapidity high in the heavens.
Then with equal velocity it plunged
downward, striking and wrecking the
large comissaIy building near the river,
and carrying everything before it at the
dock as if it were so much chaff in
September gale, inc' ding sentry
boxes, in which .ldier was killed
and two othe' Agled by being hurl-
ed many re stance. Mounting in
the air a. In less time than it re-
quires ecord it, the cyclone descend
ed t. a appearances squarely down
an'or, the hospital buildings in the
uIson camp. BY singular freak, and
fortunately, it struck the only building
of the seven which was not occupied by
the sick, and which was used for the
storing of clothing and other materials.
This the cyclone carried ont in the bay
in the twinkling of an eye, so to speak,
taking it as clean to the ground, sills
and flooring, as if the boards and tim
bers had been sawed off. Neither were
there seen of it afterward board or other
article. This escape from frightful
disaster was almost miraculous, and the
degree of readiness with which the
closely and long-cOnfned prisoners
viewed their escape as an interposition
of Divine Providence may readily be
excused.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24
Salaries for Wives and Daughters.

1t is as natural for woman as it is for
man, to desire to spend money in her
own way-to be free to choose, and free
to economic and free to spend whatever
may be spent upon herself or her ward
robe. 1t is delightful privilege to be
free, and to have ones will with what
ever expenditures may be made for ones
own convenience or necessities. A man
who will interfere with this freedom and
who will deny this privilege to those
who depend upon him is either thought
less or brutal. We know-and women
all know-men who are very generous
toward their dependents, but who insist
on reserving to themselves the pleasure
of purchasing whatever the women of
their household may want, and then
handing it over to them in the form of
presents. If these women could only
have had in their hands the money that
these gifts cost, they would have spent
it better and they would have gratiied
their own tastes. A man may be gen.
erOus enough to give to a woman the
dresses and ornaments she wears, who
is very far from being generous enough
to give her money, that she may freely
purchase what she wants, and have the
delight of choosing.
This is one side-nOt very repulsive
One-Of mans selfishness in his dealings
with women but there is another side
that is disgusting TO contemplate. There
are great mulitudes of faithful wives,
obedient daughters, and cleft over' sis
ters, to whom is never given a willing
penny. The brute who occupies the place
of head of the family never gives dollar
to the women dependent upon him
without making them feel the yoke of
their dependence, and tempting them
humiliatiOns. Heaven pity the poor
women who may be dependent upon
him-women who never ask him for
money when they can avoid it, and new
er get it until they have been made to
feel as meanly humble as if they had
robbed Il hen-roOst
There is but one manly way in treat
ing this relation of dependent women.
If man recognizes a woman as a de-
pendent-and he must do so, so far, at
least, as his wife and daughters are
concerned-he acknowledges certain
duties which he owes tOthem. His du-
ty is to support them, and so far as he
can do it, to make them happy. He
certainly cannot make them happy if in
all his treatment of them he reminds
them of their dependence upon him.
We know of no better form into which
he can put the recognition of his duty
than that of an allowance freely and
promptly paid whenever it may be call
ed for.
If man acknowledges to himself
that he owes the duty of support to the
women variously related to him in his
household, let him generously deter
mine how much money he has to spend
upon each, and tell her just how much
she is at liberty to call upon him for,
per annum. Then it stands in the rela-
ton of a debt to the woman, which she
is at liberty to call for and spend ac-
cording to her own judgment. We
have watched the working of this plan,
and it works we'll. We have watched
the working of other plans, and they do
not work well.-[Dr. Holland in Decem-
beT Scribner.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24
May Santa Claus Visit All.

May the dear Lord bless and pity
those children to whom Christmas
means nothing and brings nothing: Can
any one fathom the disappointment OF
those hopeless little folks who pin M
their stockings in faltering hope that
Santa Claus may see them, and craw
out of bed in the cold gray morning on.
ly to find them empty The joy of thi,
glad Christmas tide-the gladdest time
of all the year-is tinged with sadnes,
and pathos as we think of these. Coco
people all, let us do our utmost to di
minish their numbers. If we can Civ.
but little, let us give to the little ones
And let us pray and believe that til,
Christ-child will come with some spe
cial benediction to those of his lttl
brothers and sisters who have been for
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24
Yale "Fun." {"

Even Harper's Weekly has spoken
approvingly of the Yale Thanksgiving
jubilee performance at New York, in
which prominent gentlemen were ell
gagged, including candidate for the
United States Senate. Mr.. Curtis, like
the rest of the world, was amused.
The ''fun" was certainly elaborate
enough. 1t included "take offs" on
members of the university faculty.
Graduates dressed themselves to repre-
sent the peculiarities of professors and
repeated tricks of speech habitual to
their victims. The double of one
instructor, for example, imbihed glass
of liquor and remarked, approvingly,
"That will do,"-a phrase familiar to
class-rooms. The exercises were con-
Quoted by graduates who have thus
revived on national stage what had
been forbidden by the college authori-
ties at New Haven. Instead of a boy
ish college frOlic, the jubilee has become
the property of educated gentlemen
whose proceedings are elaborately re-
ported by the daily newspapers.
Passing over the exceedingly refined
and dignified character of your gather
ing, gentlemen alumni of Yale, it is fa;r
to enquire whether the professors have
any rights as men which you are bound
to respect? Where is this to end
Let US suppose that modest, sensi-
tive, conscientious man is unfortunate
enough to be a teacher in Yale college
In the discharge of his not always
agreeable duties the professor incurs
the i'll will of some dolt. At the mex
''jubilee" of the New York graduate,
this scholarly gentleman is held up t,
ridicule before the American people b,
his ex-pupils. Ha, no, no here is
joke at which erybody is expected {,
laugh. Yes? But is this ''funn afte
all There is suggestion here of th,
frogs in the fable: Supposing Mr.. Isaa,
Bromley or the Hon. Mr.. Depew pu
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24
VOLUME 44---NUMBER 1865.

themselves in the place of the professor
thus caricatured. For what sum of
money would they submit to this most
damaging of all abuse Can anything
repair the injury done to the feelings,
the reputation, the home influence of
such a professor Could any libel be
more cruel and insulting?
1t really seems to US that there is
nothing so very funny in all this. 1t is
in fact eowardly, malicious and stupid
business carried to the extent of deep
personal injustice. Can Yale college
afford to see this years "jubilee" re-
peated ?-Springfeld Republican.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24
" Up Salt River. "

The Cincinnati Commercial gives the
following information to correspOn-
dent who asks, "What is the meaning
swer to your question opeus up Il very
interesting bit of Ohio River pioneer
history. Professor Schele De We're
gives the origin of the phrase in his
book called 'Americanisms, the English
of the New World Before the day of
steam all navigation of the Ohio River
was carried on by tiatboats and keel
boats. 1t was necessary to row the
keelboats up stream. The labor was
painful and exhausting. There were
slaves all along the Kentucky side of
the river in those days. When a negro
had been refractory or Sassy it was
the custom to punish him by hiring him
out to row keelboats up the river.
This punishment was rowing up In
time it became the popular slave term
for scolding or punishment of any
sort all over the country, much as the
term to blow up is applied nowadays.
Professor De We're quotes this sentence
from the New York Herald of May 7,
1856. 'We hope the president gave his
secretary good rowing up for his i'm
becility.' Salt River was, and is, a
little tributary of the Ohio in Kentucky.
1t was so crooked and dangerous that
rowing keelbOat up its waters was
about the hardest labor a man could
undertake. Hence to row a man up
Salt River was as severe a punishment
as could be imposed on him. The ex-
preston became proverbial. One day
on the floor of Congress, a member from
Kentucky made use of the phrase in q
happy allusiOn. The expression was
thence crystalyzed in the popular
speech of the country. From that day
to this, the person or parry that has
been badly defeated in. an election il
sent up Salt River"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1880-12-24

The New York Observer tells of a
man who wished to make minister a
little present on or before Thanksgiving
and enclosing $50 in note, sent it to
him as follows:
''ReU. and Dear Sir Having no tur-
key to give you for Thanksgiving,
send two eagles instead"