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The Columbus journal., 1880-05-05

THE very latest report from John
Kelly is TO the effect that he intends
to run for president, in case Mr..
Tilden is nominated at Cincinnati.
The Columbus journal., 1880-05-05

An insane woman in Texas at
tempted the other day to kill her
five children by running knitting
needles through their heads, but
was discovered aud prevented from
finishing the job.
The Columbus journal., 1880-05-05

The precinct primaries will be held al
the polling places of the last genersl
election. ut 4 P. NJ, Saturday, May sth,
excepting In Columbus, where the hour
will be 3 O'Clock.
The following action was taken by the
Central Committee: Moved and carried
that all who declare themselves Repub-
lieans in the coming campaign, and who
shall be entitled to vote at the next
election, be eligible 10 vote at the pre-
cinct caucUses.
JOHN HAMMOND, Chairman.
NJ. h. TURNER, Sec'y.
The Columbus journal., 1880-05-05
Republi,.an Go. Convention.

The Republican Convention for Platte
county, to elect six delegates TO The
State convention TO he held at ColumDus'
Nav 18th, al p. NJ, will be held
"WEDNESDAY, MAY 18TH, p. NJ, SHARP,
at the Court House in Columbus.
The several precincts are entitled 10
representation as follows:
The Columbus journal., 1880-05-05

A DECLINE in wheat IN Paris was
reported last week, and some OF the
newspapers there volunteer SYM
pathy for the American syndicate.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22
She Visits a Printing Office.

i She came into the Office, smiling and
beautiful. George and she was engaged,
and George had a case. He had a gal
Icy OF solid nonpariel OIL his frame,
which he was about to lock up and
prove. George, blushing like a girl,
shook her hand and called her his dar.
ling. She eyed the galley and smiled
sweeter than before.
dear she said, still cycling
the galley OF nonpariel, are them the
things you print withP'
Yes, darlingI said Doddy, feelingly.
Sle swept her taper fingers wei the
matter, aquabling the entire galley.
Bless you, my darlingi' said George,
chokingly, the sweat pouring down his
face. rHir' rl...t f.-..
She looked at him and said:
'Why, ODDLY, dear, it's all in little
pieces, amt itP'
Yes, love- said George, gently taking
her hand and leading her toward the
door. Good. bye, darling he said.
Good. bye, Doddy; be sure you come
night
Dear me- she soliloquized, how
George loves mel he nearly sobbed
when 1 touched those funny little bits
a.. -...H T...# A
of thingummies.'
George, moodily: L wish all women
were ir-heaven.i-Exchan0e,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22
Postal Cards,


The postal card is a little over six
years old in the United States, yet it is
doing as well as could be expected for
its age. 1t has only two enemies, the
man who receives duns on it, and the
manufacturers of writing paper. The
little postal aus n decrease OF from
Sl2, 000, 1000 TO SIS, 600, 900 every year in
the business Of the writing paper trades
in this country. Postal cards are made
at Holyoke, and forty men are continu-
ally employed at their manufacture. The
cardboard is furnished in packages OF
5000 each, and every sheet is made
into forty postals. Three presses are
kept going night and day. A machine
sits the sheets into strips of ten cards
each, and these in turn are cut into
single cards and dumped In piles Of
twenty-five each, when they are packed
by girls in pasteboard boxes containing
500 cards. A government officer is con-
stantly on hand to see that no pilfering
Of cards is done. The Holyoke manu-
factory turns out about l,000,000 Of
cards n day. Last year there were used
in this country GAG, 063, 06O cards. Ofthe
new international card introduced a few
weeks since, there have been 1000, 600
used already. The government keeps
on hand in a ire-proof vault 20, 600, 900
of the postal cards. -DetroH Free Press.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22
ACuriOsity in the Vegetable Kingdom.

s. When the poet wrote n
"A dew-drop on the b by plant
IL Has warped tbs giant oak forever
he did not mean that his little adjective
should help make a compound noun.-
Probably no was not aware that the
vegetable kingdom contained any thing
that looked like a real baby. According
to the Portland (Otegon) Standard.
however, such a phenomenon has been
found. That paper says:
No curiosity exhibited in this city for
years has attracted such general atten-
ton as that wonderful plant at Shanna-
hans art gallery. Fully three thousand
people have visited the place to look
upon the botanical wonder.
! 1t is said to be indigenous to Japan -
Its technical term has not been ascer-
tanned, but it is known, and appropri-
ately so, as the Baby Plant
1t is of the genus lily, sometimes at,
tanning the height OF four feet and bios
lsoming semi-annually. The n OF
which we write is, however, not more
than twelve inches in height, with leaves
about six inches long ami two inches
wide.
The flo wer is star. shaped, having five
petals Of handsome brown and yellow
color. The calyx encircles and protects
a tiny little figure that bears an exact
resemblance to a nude baby, its little
arms and legs outstretched and the eyes
distjv silly marked.
lowering over the diminutive form is
a small canopy, angel-shaped, having
extended arms and wings, and peering
closely into the face of the infant. The
family OF plants Of which the baby is o
member produce not only the specimen
on exhibition, but also give perfect i'm
%itation, il such they can be designated,
OF different animals, insects aud birds.
Mrs. M uk Hopkins, of San Francisco,
has one Of the latter varieties, for which
$500 was paid.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22
The OId.FashIoned Girl.

She hourished thirty or forty years
ago. She was q little girl until she was
dfteen. she used to help her mother
wash the dishes and keep the Kitchen
tidy, and she lsl 40 ambition TO make
pies so nicely that papa could not tell
the difference between them and NAM
mas and she could fry griddle cakes at
ten years OF age and darn her own stock
ings before she was twelve, 10 say moth
ing OF knitting them herself.
She never said 81 cant" and 81 don't
want TO" 10 her mother when asked 10
leave her play, or run mp stairs or down
on an errand, because she had not been
brought up in that way. Obedience was
a cardinal virtue in the old. fashicned
girl. .r. ..fl..s
She rose in the morning when she was
called and went out into the garden and
saw the dew on the grass, and IL che
lived in the country she fed the chickens
and hunted up the eggs for breakfast.
We do not suppose she had her hair
in curl papers, or crimping pins, or had
it banged" over her forehead, and her
aounces were no trouble to her.
She learned to sew by making patch
work, and we dare say she could do an
cover and over" seam as well as nine
tenths Of the grown up women do now
a-days. .. '.gaI -I
The old. f~ashioned little girl did not
grow into a young lady and talk about
her beaux before she wa in her teens,
and was not fancying a hero in every
plow-boy she met.
She learned the solid accomplishments
as she grew NJ. She was Taught the
art of cooking and housekeeping. When
she got a husband she knew how TO cook
him a dinner. llia ga lsau .5-
She did not think she knew as much
as her mother, and that her judgment
was as good as her giaudmother's.
Aud if there be an oldsfashioned little
girl in the world to-day, may heaven
bless her, and keep her, ana raise up
others like her.
. H.. .... ......... ...
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22
How a Professor Played Barber.

1t is often found to be very embar.
rassing to look exactly like somebody
else. Indeed, the Germans have a super.
stition that it brings fatal luck, for il
n happens TO meet his double
Qhey say), it is a sure warning Of death
to both. The mistakes incident to such
resemblanees are, however, generally
more comic than tragic. Says the Lon.
don Telegraph;
1t appears that the double of an emf.
nent professor Of physiology at the Der.
lin University is a hairdresser, whose
shop is situated in the immediate neigh.
borhood Of that institution, and who,
well aware Of his likeness to the learned
doctor, carefully copies the latter in
dress bearing and demeanor.
A few days ago the professor was
walking homeward from his lecture.
room when a gentleman, entirely un.
known TO him, stopped him in the
street, saying: M
Follow me to my house. l want
you to cut my hairl" lf
The amiable professor, one of W hose
principles Of life it has always been
never TO Withhold from a fellow-creature
any service that it might be within his
power to render, meekly accompanied
the stranger home, and there addressed
himself TO the task thus imperatively
prescribed to him.
Forlorn of professional scissors, he
picked up a pair of shears, used for cut
ting paper, from a writing-table in the
dressing-room to which he was con-
Quoted, and, with this implement, pro-
ceeded most conscientiously to cut his
victims hair down to the very roots.
When he had cleared about half the
skull of its hirsute covering, he accident
ally stuck the point of his shears into the
scalp of his patient, who, s~pringing to
his feet in great wrath, exclaimed,
Cant you take care what you are
aboutp Do you call yourself a hair
cutterPn- fl..
IA hair-cutter!" replied the aston.
ished sage, certainly not. / ana emily
Professor B, very much at your
service, as you perceive"
In a very logical and common-sens
address upon the evils of intemperance
one of the eloquent clergymen of New
York city recently said that the custom
of " treating" was founded on a benevo.
lent and h%ospitable feeling, but it was 8
custom that had done more harm thar
all the enemies the country ever had,
and would result in even greater harm
if permitted.to continue. 1t had made
the American nation a nation of drunk.
ards. More drunkards had sprung from
that custom than from any other cause.
II was a yoke upon the necks of thou
sands. Men did not like to be. called
stingy, which was perhaps the CHIEF
reason why they treated. But let them
abandon the custom, and they would
become a help and a power in the cause
of temperance. What was wanted was
a custom to correct that of /" treating
One man might be strong and able to
resist the temptation of a %"treat, an
other might be weak and fall. This
thought should, therefore, make an
honest man refrain, lest he might be-
come an unhappy instrument of an
Others ruin. s.f..
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22
Grass An Orchards.

An opinion is very generally enter
tanned that turf in orchards is not only
not injurious to fruit trees, but is ac-
tually an advantage, as forming a cover
which prevents the too rapid drying OF
the soil. Both OF these views, says the
Berlin PreSse, are erroneous. As regards
the first, it has beer actually proved that
tuIfed ground gives out far more mUis-
ture than unturfed. Practical expert
ments have shown that during five
months in the summer a morgen of turf
land gives of, on the average, 500 cubic
Get OF water a day; unturfed ground,
though dry on its surface, is not able TO
withdraw so much moisture from the
subsoil; the evaporation which goes on
through the leaves of the grass is far
greater. Turf presents afresher appear
acne, because the roots which attract
the moisture permeate the dry super
fetal layer Of soil. The importance OF
the amount of water supply is evident II
we reflect that the quantity e~vaporated
from the turf in the course of these five
months would, if collected, form a stra-
tum OF l.5 meters in depth. The proper
ton of this, whichis due directly to rain,
is only about GA meter, so that
at least a meter must be made
up from other sources if the ground
is to be kept moist. On good
soils this necessary compensation is
complete, at all events in parts. Coarse
sandy lands, however, and some others
DO not belong TO this category; the
plants growing on them are referred to
the subsoil, and thus, in case of pro-
longed drought, are very liable to in
jury. That turfs and trees together
consume more moisture than either
alone is self-evident. If there be plenty
of moisture in the subsoil, tree-growing
and grass-growing can be carried on
together, especially if the situation be
protected from drying winds. Both
growths, however, make their demands
on the fertility Of the soil. Where
there is much underground water, and
consequently plenty of moisture, no ill
effect may ensue, but if young trees are
planted in ordinary turfed soil the dis
advantages soon become manifest.
Often such trees will stand for years be.
fore they make any appreciable head
way. And the reason of this is obvi-
Gus, for in their earlier years the roots
of the young trees are lying near the
surface of the soil, where the little moist
ure and nutriment hat may be resent
are absorbed by the roots OF the grass.
1t is only when theroots have got down
deep that the trees begin TO make way.
In this manner not only is turf injur-
ious to fruit trees, but any other kind
of plant with thick or matted roots.
Lucerne, for instance, planted under
young trees will o o kill them, and
the same holds good of carrots, endives,
caraways, and many other varieties.
H
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22

Words OF Wisdom

Let men laugh when you sacrifice de.
sire to duty, if they will. You have
time and eternity to rejoice in.
A work of art is said to be perfect in
proportion as it does not remind the
spectator of the process by which it was
created.n r'F@ 1853 in -'lH
There is nothing more ~disgracelul
than th9t an old man should have moth.
ing to produce, as a proof that he has
livodllong, except his years. w
To feel much for others and little for
ourselves, to restrain our selfish and 10
indulge our benevolent affections, con.
stitute the perfection of human nature.
Man, being essentially active, must
find in activity lis JOY as well ~ his
beauty and glory; and labor like everS.
thing else that is good, is Its W re-
ward,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22
PACRTIR.

n you eat onions it will leak out.
This is the year for maiden efforts.
A compositor makes money hand over
fist.
Acorn on the tree is worth two on the
toe.
A homely servant girl in a house is a
well spring OF joy.
General Melikoff's reply TO the
Nihilist who tried to kill him: You be
hanged
There doesn't seem TO be anything in
the Monroe doctrine 10 keep DsLesseps
from eating American dinners.
The Car escaped being blown up by
being late to dinner. Most married
men meet with a different fate.
A man who had a bad cold said he
had just set up a rig OF his own. 1t was
a little hoarse and a hack.
The sight Of a bank cashier making
his way towards the depot has started
more than one run on Chicago banks.
Hail March, thou August month!
We own thy royal sway;
Who now declines TO hail thy reign
Perhaps in April May!
They have discovered q new way out
West to hasten the disappe arance Of the
Indians. They make brakemen OF them
and set them to coupling cars.
SYMPATHY. Squire; Got your eye in
mourning again 1 see, Patl' Pat: 'OI
havel It's in mournin' for the batin' !
gave that brute Rafferty, this dayi'
A little girl went into a drug storethe
other day and said to the proprietor in
q half whisper, If a little girl haint got
no money, how much chewing-gum do
you give her for nothing?'
The Boston Post has got the idea that
there is no love in second marriages,
and that where the wife lends her hus-
band a quarter she expects it back in
something besides kisses.
At dinner she had a doctor on either
hand, one Of whom remarked that they
were we'll served, since they had a duck
between them. YES she broke in
her wit is the sort that comes in flashes
-'and l am between two quacks.' Then
silence fell.
II is curious to note how a Tanning
new silk handkerchief will struggle up
from the deepest breast pocket into the
light of day and linger there, while the
soiIed cotton one skulksla the bottom,
making only now and then a hasty sally
into the open air. 'r. DfI
A fellow stopped at o hotel at Lead
vile and the landlord charged him 81 q
day for five days. Didn't you make q
mistaken No. said the landlord. Yes,
you did; you thought you got oil the
money / had, but you are mistaken. ]
have a whole purse full in another
pocket.
A Western man, having lost bis wife,
was accosted by a sympathi7ing friend,
who remarked upon his w~oe-begone APP
~pearance. We'll, 1 guess you would
look thin, too" was the melancholy
rejoinder, If you had to get up before
daylight, make the frep, draw water,
split wood, and feed the cattle, all before
breakfast. Ijust tell you what it is, il
l don't get somebody to fill poor, dear
sainted Maria's place I will be resting
by her side before many weeks are
past, g.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22
AnriI.

oh, strangely fall the April days!
The brown buds redden in their light,
And spiders spin by day and night
The willow Lifts q yellow haze
or fpdnging leaves to meet the sun,
While down their White-stone courses run
The swift, glad brooks, and sunshine weAyei
A cloth Of green for coEslip leaves
Through all the fields of April days.
oh, sweetly fall the April dAysl
My love was made Of frost and light,
or light TO warm and frost TO blight
The sweet, strange April OF her ways.
Eyes like a dream Of changing skies,
And every from and blush l prize.
With cloud and fash the spring comes in
With froWn and blush maids loves begin,
For love is like rare April days.
-scribner for May,
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22
A Sinister Object.

At a late auction sale in room No. s,
of the Hotel Drouot, in Paris-a vast
depot of curious and valuable merchal-
dise-a sinister object was knocked
down at 1875 francs to the buyer for
the South Kensington museum. This
object was no less than a prince of the
family of Montezuma. The said prince
was enclosed in an immense glass jar.
His history is most singular. He was
the uncle of the celebrated Cazique.
Taken prisoner, with his daughter, by
the Spanish, both were confined in the
convent of San Isadoro, where some
time afterward they were immured
alive by the Inquisition. The chemical
properties Of the immediate surround
ings were such as to preserve the body
in a remarkable way. 1t is in a stand
ing position, and resembles dark-yellow
wood. The body is horribly contorted;
one shoulder is much higher than the
other. The hands are crossed before
the body ard are terribly sllriveled.
The cord which evidently bound them
had disappeared The cheeks were hol-
low, the eyes terribly sunken. Much
of the hair had fallen. The face OF the
little girl, who was about twelve years
old, was much more calm. She had
been immured above her father in the
same wall butnot in the samehole. All
the papers establishing this strange his
tory are absolutely authentic, according
to the Muse ArtiS ique ct LiHeraire.
Other French journals give al account
ofthe sale.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22

Once upon a time the mule, without
having received an invitation, attended
a convention of animals that was called
for the purpose of discussing the best
methods of family government. "What
do you know about all thisP" asked the
president, tauntingly; "bave you ever
raised any childrenP" The mule wept.
"Ah, no" she said, 81 have never raised
anything but full-grown men; but,
land Of the pilgrim! you should see
how 7 raised them-you should see me
raise a man that weighs as much as
David Davis" Upon a rising vote the
mule wa Immediately elected foancial
secretary with power to Send :,- rer-
sors and papers. - ~urinqion HawSeve
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22
OmeEducatiO

/. From your children's earliest in
ianay inculcate the necessity OF. instant
obedience. fIH B!H-ft'tI N
Q Unite firmness with gentleness.
Let your children always understand
that you mean what you say. ...
3. Never promise them anything un-
less you are quite sure you can give
what you say. ~eillh .'E'' w.
A., If you tell a child to do something,
show him how to do it, and see that it
is done.
s. Always punish your child.for will
fully disobeying you, but never punish
in anger. hI.
g.. Never let them perceive that they
vex you, or make you lose your self
command. tiftI HEt M
I If they give way to petulance or
ill,temper, wait till theyare calm, and
then gently eason with them on the
improperly of their conduct.
s. Remember that a little present
punishment, when the occasion arises,
is much more effectual than tie threat
ening Of a greater punishment should
the fault be renewed.
8. Never give. your children anything
because they cry for it.
TO-. On no account allow them to do
at one time what you have forbidden
under the same circumstances, at IN
other. IN 4 IN q
4 IL. Teach them thatlthe only sure
and easy way to appear good is to be
good. EEw NJ @
gggl2.A ccustom them to make their lit
tie r~ecitals with perfect truth.
10. Never allow talesbearing.
IA. Teach them self-denial, not self
indulgence of an angry and resentGul
spirit Ir buiE lis fu sfslifyu
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22
The stupldest Man in Maine.

The stupidest man in the State is a
farm hand near Lebanon. He was hired
to plow a ten-acre field, and his boss,
wishing him to draw a straight furrow,
directed his attention to a cow grazing
right opposite, telling him to drive di,
rectly toward that cow. He started his
horses and the farmers attention was
called TO something else. In n short
time he looked Ground to see what his
hired man was doing. The COW had
left her place and was walking around
in the field and the hired man following
her, drawing a zis-zag furrow all over
the field,-Bangor (Me.) Commercial.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22
me SMALLEST Book II the world.


The smallest book ever printed since
type was first invented is a microscopic
edition Of Dante's "Divina Commedia,'
/. which was on view last year at the
Paris exhibition. The whole volume Of
500 pages is only five centimeters long by
three and q half centimeters wide, CA
eentimeter is less than half an inch
Two sheets of paper suaiced to contain
all 1.-THE 1923 verses Of the poem, thirty
! verses occupying q space of somewhat
less than eight square centimeters. The
printed was cast as long ago as 1894, but
no complete book had, hitherto been
turned out in il, the difficulties for com
positor and reviser being so enormous
that the attempts were given up time
after time, no one being able to continue
TIT. work. In 1873 fresh attempt was
made to "set upo the I" Commedia, :
and some notion of the difficulty ex-
perienced may be gathered from the
fact that the work occupied no less than
five years in its completion. The TEXTS
that of Fraticelli, the reader was a GER
tain Signor Luigi Busato, and the COM
positor, Giuseppe Geche. The eyesight
of the latter is irretrievably ruined. Tbs
writer in the AHgemeine Zettung,I from
whose article this notice is extracted,
states that he is unable to form 3 judy
ment as to how the corrections wore
. carried out, for even with the best mag.
nilying glass he was unable TO follow
The text continuously. The edition has
been christened -" 10 Dantino," the
Little Dante" A thousand copies OF
It are to be struck off, and will shortly
be put upon the market, after which the
type will be at once broken up.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-22

The Prince of Wales is %retrenching his
expenditure, which has been cut down
one-halfin each of his residences. The
time, however, has come when the
assistance of the prince has become
necessary, notin the serious administra-
ton of the government, but in the en-
tertainment of those who govern. The
queen has opposed this assumption for
the last three years, but at length con-
sents to deposit in his hands, if not the
globe n dscepter, a all events the visit.
ing list and lord chambfrlain's book.
The responsibility is not of mere even.
ing receptions or gardennparties, but
involves the more serious business of
banquetings and royal feasts, and the
prince, who has been compelled to re-
duce his expenditure through heavy
debts contracted in this very task, re-
quires Il supplement to his income.