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ROme's First Journal.

The first Roman journal, issued over
1000 years ago, appeared but once a
year. The editor Of this paper was the
Pontlfex Maximus, whose duty it was
to chronicle all the important events of
the year. The news was written on
white wooden tablets. ard attached to
the houses of the citizens. But the
thirst after knowledge and the curiosity
of the people grew rapidly and in such
a measure that the government, the
only issuer of the journal, found itself
obliged to issue a daily,which appeared
either on taplets hung out in public
places, or was written in red chalk on
the walls of the houses
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THE STAR ROUTE CASES.

Some misapprehension seems to exist
IN the pubic mind in regard to the
further prosecution of the Star Route
swindlers. Owing 10 adverse newspa-
pe. criticisms on the prosecution, some
have received the impression that the
recent dismissal of the case brought on
information, finally disposes OF the
whole matter. 1t is true that in some
few of the cases the defendants will be
able to plead the statute of limitation,
but it is sta ed on good authority that
new cases will be brought by indict-
ment to winch this objection cannot be
raised.
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Ireland,

LONDON, November 15.-The docu-
ments seized in connection with the
arrest ofTobin, the Fenian, relate to
the establishment by force of arms of
an Irish Republic. They reveal the
existence of an extensive organization
known as the "Royal Irish Republican
Society,"" with numerous members.
The books, rules and the list of men,
bers ofthe society are likely to throw
light on the existence of similar organ
Z ations elsewhere.
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Examine the List.

ANY one can have the the choice Of any one -
more books on the list BY using little energy -
industry.
The paper is cheap at the price and there 10 -
diniculiy In getting Subscribers.
The paper and books ART nj sent postage paid.
sKE WHAT WE OTTER.
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hook. beautiful book q ~ pase.; ., III. Vial.
For " WI ni s. ssnd .rre worti fSif.J J"h" NJ" ao"
54s pages Illustrated
s.For s: we will send four copies Of the vl'iiS,
naaes. or a copy Of the Arabian Nights Entertain
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:. For q. will .end i've ccrlss Of ,Ls vl,,o.
4 complete concordance of the old and new Tesla
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Fsirie Tales SO pages and Bunyan's Pilgrim Pro-
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. copy Of Wehster's tnsbiId En-! lrii''na'y
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ecriher-
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ENGAGED.

I've snt ut her feet by the hour
In the properly worshipful way;
I've carried her many q flower;
I've read to her many lay;
Social battles with friend and with lover
For her sake often have waged;
And now from her lips discover,
That she, oh that she Is engaged
One season we led In the German,
And one we were Partners at whist,
On Sundays We heard the same sermon,
The opera never once missed;
We were generally winners ut tennis,
Our skill at the target was gauged.
But the difference between now and then Is
For, now she-for now she's engaged,
] have carried parasol DER her,
When We strolled In the deep shadedgr0ve
Whole minutes I've dallled before her;
Assisting 70 button her glove;
As she aprang to the saddle my fingers
Her wee foot moment have Gagged,
And the thrill IN my pulses still fingers.
Though now. She though now she's
engaged.
Does she ever live over / wonder,
The night that We sat In the cove,
One shawl wrapped about us. while thunder
And windstOrms and hail ragged above!
How trembling she hid her white face on
My shoulder, and how assuagcd
Her fears by the story Of Jason
Does she think Of u that when Engaged.
On my walls hang her many mcmentoes:
That cathedral she skctched me IN Rome
1t was nfter my life she sent those
SILK slippers to welcome me home;
I've the letters She wrote me at college
In book all assorted and PACED
How delightful to read with the knowledge
That now shc-yes-nOw she's engaged.
I'm going to call there Tomorrow
In her joy she will greet her old friend
Without even u shadow Of sorrow
That the friendship had come to an end.
And close in my arms l will fold her,
No matter for Papa eniaged,
Shall his wrath from me longer withhold
her
When to mc-tis to me she's engaged.
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Clubbing Rates.

For $s.as we Will send post paid to
an, address the WEEKLY GRAPHIC and
the WEEKLY GLOBE DEMOCRAT one
year.
For SI.7s we will send tie GRAPHIC
and the COMMON SCHOOL VISITOR for
one year. or for $..oo We will send the
GRAPHIC the VISITOR and the HOME
TREASURE all these for one year.
Clubbing rates with other papers will
be given in a week or two.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-11-18

Says Gath" 1.-The New York dailies
are set up in the midst of such tremen-
dous influences that they are circum-
spect and cautious. Their power is so
great, and tile enterprises pressing for
recognition and aid are so rich and
numerous, that there is suspicious crit
ieism ofevery piece of news offered.
Then, too, many Of the papers are under
partisan or special control, and must
cut their work out to suit dictation
that is unjournalistic, and usually un.
wise. The Western papers want the
news undiluted, and care little or moth.
public VIZ
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Thanksgiving.

In obedience to the call Of the Pres.
dent Of the United States, public
Thanksgiving services are to be held
in the Presbyterian church at eleven
o clock, a. NJ, Thursday the 24th inst.
The last minister coming into the COM
munity Rev. Mr.. Chambless, with
Rev. MIR Wager, alternate, has been
selected to deliver the discourse on the
occasion. These services are to be
union in character. All the people are
invited.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-11-18

OMAHA, Nov. "a brief dispatch
received here early this moning states
that Sheriff kilian, of Hall county, got
on the track of Ed. and Alonzo Max
well alias Williams, the Pepin county,
Wisconsin, murderers, and after hard
fight captured Ed near Grand Island.
.Alonzo escaped. a posse is now in
in pursuit.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-11-18

Father, did you ever have another
wife besides mother?'
mo, my boy: wha, possessed You to
ask such question:
Because lsaw in the old family bible,
that you married Anna Domini, 1896,
and that is not mother, for her name
was Mary Brown
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Give Min Z Rest:

When enfeebled by long suffering pro.
eeedlng from torpid liver, biliousness.
indigestion, constipation, or sick head.
ache, take BuRDoCK BLOOD BrrrrRa
Which give rest to the weary and rein.
ylgorates all the organs OF the BODY
Price, $l.OO; trial size, 10 cents. For
sale by j. G. Jamison.
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Another Official EmbeZZler.

New YORK, November 15.-Deputy
Collector Ernest A. Thormalen, of the
First Collection District of Illinois, was
arrested to-day on charge of embez.
Element while in the Government EN-.
ploy, and will be held pending advices
from Chicago authorities.
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Dropped Dead.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, November 15.-
William w. Walker, an old gentleman
who come from keokuk to Kansas CITY
a year ago, dropped dead this morning
at his residence in this city. The cause
was congestion of the lungs. The de.
ceased was quite wealthy.
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-11-18

The Medical Association of the 1 9Th
Congressional District will meet in Ma.
con City on the e4th and 25th of No
vembel 1871. This Association mum.
bers over fifty members.
All the physicians of Adair county of
the regular school are respectfully in
vited to attend.
MORAN, NJ. d.,
Vice President, of Adair Co.
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A teacher. endeayorine to familia

A teacher, endeavoring to familiar.
ize little girl with the various coun-
tries ofthe western hemisphere, with
little evidence Of success, finally asked:
"If | were to bore a hole through the
earth, and you were to go through at
this end where would you come out?"
"Come outa" replied the child; "why,
I'd come out Of the hole, Miss"
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Never Fails.

Nh. J. Leist, warehouseman for Lautz
Bros, Buffalo, N. Y, says he had a
swelling on The foot which he attribu-
ted to chilblains. He used THoNAs'
ELECTRIC On. and is troubled no longer.
For sale by J. G. Jamison.
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A little girl while out for an afternoon
walk. saw pompous-looking man
stru,ting down the street. With child
like simplicity the little thing ran up to
him touched him on the arm and SAID:
"Excuse me, sir; but are you any
body'in PARTICULAR"
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-11-18

TuE Louisville Commercial says
trains on the Cincinnati and Southern
railroad are delayed every day by the
scarcity of water. Trans ont this way
have been delayed for exactly The OPP
nosi,e reason-too much water.
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Physical SuGerin

No one can realize, except by personal
experience, the anguish of mind and
body endured by sufferers from dyspep-
sia, indigestion, constipation, and other
diseases of the stomach. BURDOCK Blood
BlrrERs are positive cure for this DIR
est of all diseases. Price $1.0O: trial
size 10 cents. Fox sale by j.. c. Jami-
son,
Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1881-11-18

The Chronicle thinks that the pros
pcct is that indictment will fail to indict
in the Washington Star route cases.
We hope net.
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1t now takes an hour and quarter to
distribute the kirksville morning mail,
but you need not go after 1t. If you
don't like to wait.
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The democracy will be ready to pop
up in the next campaign-with an en-
tire change Of programme as the thea
tire bulletins says What the pro-
pramme is to be no one knows.
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'oh! why should the spirit Of mortal be pw,i,,
or take In Its strength such bosstful delisAt.
a single bald hornet can scatter = crowd
Ahd wasp that means business can put ,h.rn
flight.
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|. 0. D. F.

KANSAS CRY, November 15.-The
grand encampmeut of Odd Fellows
met in annual session here this morn
ing.
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The poet no doubt had reference to
the people who invest their money in
lottery tickets, when he wrote the beau
tiful lines:
Screen not alone in summer time,
But in the winters frost and rime"
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A bad fix-Repairing broken WIN
dow with an old hat.
The Gigantic COlOred MastOdOn Min
strelS.
1t may be safely asserted that nothing
like the plantation scenes. songs,
dances and quaint sayings has ever be-
fore been seen or heard in this country.
-LLondon Daily Telegraph.
4 Signal Victory.
The value Of electricity as a remedial
agent has gained signal victory over
prejudice: THOMAS ELECTRIC On stands
foremost in this class OF compounds.
Testimonials from all parts tell of the
wondrous cures OF rheumatism, neural
gia, hurts, and sores. ETC.. effected by its
agency. For sale by J. G. Jamison.
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Any one can have the the choice Of any one %
more books on the list by using little energy -
industry.
The paper Is cheap At The price and there 10 -
dimculiy In getting Subscribers
The pnper and books art nj sent postage paid.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-09-08
Aaron Burr as a Borrower.

1t.was IN the summer of 1872, when q
member of the class Of 1916 in Harvard
College on visitto Boston of Saturday,
that / was called upon by a Mr. Fessen-
den and intrusted with a letter addressed
to my father, reported to have been re-
ceived from Aaron Burr, landed in Bos-
ton that morning after four years resi-
dence In Europe, which letter requiring
an immediate answer [ delivered the
same afternoon to my father at his coun-
try seat in Brookline My father, open
ing and handing it to me to read, seri
ously epioioed upon me no considera-
ton whatever to mention the recep-
ton of it to my elder brother or any one
in the family or out of it, which / have
never done to the present day-sixty-
nine years-with oneexception, hereafter
recorded
The letter contained request Of Aa-
ron Burr for private interview, with a
loan of money On apledge of some boxes
of books. My fathers answer, which he
likewise handed me to read declined the
interview, also the pledge of books. in
closing for him 500 in bills Of the
Massachusetts, bank, which was all that
was nee. ssary to carry him to his New
York friends, expressing his surprise at
the Application TO one known to have
been the friend Of Hamilton.
Some years after arriving from Europe
with M wife, at her mothers ON the
Hudson, ] was told by some oiiicious
friend that Mr.. Davis, a friend Of Aa
ron Burr, had spoken dispar Pingly OF
my father for not allowing Bulr an inter-
view, Burr probably neyer mentioning
any preuniary assistance. / gave no
credit to this report, and never heard OF
il again A short time after returning
to Boston | communicated to highly
esteem med and respected friend. the late
President Josiah Quincy, the above iu-
cident Of my life, Mr.. Quincy advising
no further notice Of it, coming from
such q source. - Boston AduorfiSer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-09-08
Flies That Get Drunk.

"Them ar flies is old topers, every
one OF EN-" said Dock street beer
drawer, as lie handed over a glass OF the
toaming beverage to a thirsty reporter
every newspaper office has thirsty re.
porter.
Eyes, they are topers," he spoke up
as he drew the reporters attention to a
swarm of flies that were RECALLING them
selves In trough from the drippings OF
d spigot.
"Now, what / tell you is the truth !;
them ar flies drink pint of beer every
day, and then they go and sober up.
See that netting over those pictures
Well, the flies come down and fill up
then they shut one eye like a drunken
fellow going for 8 lamp-post, and start
for that netting. Sometimes they don't
make it. and fall to the floor, where they
he until they sober up You're laugh.
ing, put in the bar chemist.
A" am not, " replied the reporter, "I
am taking it all in. /"
"Weil, they stick their feet in the
holes in thai mosquito netting. aud sort
o tangle their legs around it. You see
they feel pretty timber, so faint no trou-
ode, and they hang on there until the
bulge passes ont OF their heads. That's
50. Do you know, I've got an idea some
OF these + sky flies 90 out aud bring In
their friends? Tn N flies drink a pint
OF beer day that's over a gallon a week.
Now, there's pretty near a million flies
on that netting-how much does it take
to make eaeh one tight? Here's a slate, y
and the beer-slingcr handed one over to
tie reporter II figure it ont.
just thea the clock struck four. and
aisort tea thousand OF the topers started
for the beer trough with a whirI. to take
plp before supper. Some OF them
irnk long and deep, and then lay upon
til II baeks aud kicked their legs vigor.
ously. -Phtiadciphiq Record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-09-08
Br, her Gardner on Sympathy,

" Am dis sympathetic lIentry, or am
we race of 7nconsistents ?" asked the
old man as he slowly unfolded his legs
and stool erect. " rs soon as muir
derer am sentenced to be hung a she /
of de public begin to weep an shuttle an
wipe der eyes an Potassium fur his par
don, entirely forgittin' de wilder an
challen of de victim. What do you call
dat? Grant had two terms, big salary
an good show, an while 10000 OF funs
in America wanted bread 'punlic sym
pathy' raised quarter Of millyon of
dollars fur man already rollin In
wealth? What do You call dat,2 A
gineral who neber won battle am pre-
sentt / wild g, 900 Wort of silver-war'
rev public sympathy, while %, 000 pri-
vata sojers, manned and wounded fur
life, have to fight de hull kentry fur
a paltry penshun? What do you call
dat g? A good husband an kind father
am killed cherry hour in de day in dis
kentry, an Il man would have hard
days work to collect fund Of two dol
lars to help bury him. Ii Vanderbilt or
Gould war to be smashed mp tomorrow
somebody would suggest a testimonial of
a millyon dollars. If twenty honest but
poor men war smashed up mex day it
would be nip an tuck to raise fund
large huff to pay for de collins. We
am fust horritied at a murder, an den
tnrn aroun' an weep ober lie murderer.
We SEN men to prison to punish EN-, an
de Judge an jury turn aroun' an sign q
petishun for pardon. We make laws one
day an seek to upset EN- de mex. De
man who commits a great crime to-
day am spoken of rs fren' tomorrer.
AFTER sleepin' On it one nightly call him
81 lunaiic M tin' excuses for him. Pub
lie sympathy has abolished the gallus'
an vet it viii suffer woman and children
to starve an freez to death Men rob
our banks an am pursued, not to be
punished, but to be given "a commission
on DER stealings. Public sympathy, rs
see it. am a sort o jar filled wild but
termllk, bones, hash, buttons. scrap
iron, beer-slops an wilted bouquets. /
doan' want any Of it If break de law
want de penalty enforced. Ii l meet
wild misfortune l want to borry instead
Of beg. If I die want no eiloeies on
my varahues or criticisms on my iailins.n
~ o1 TB,aae
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-09-08

driver. All possible safeguards should
be thrown around the liability of acci-
dent to life or limb, especially as the
handling the reins Is often entrusted to
timid or inexperienced persons. diner
icQn CuLttUat0r.
TIMOTHY FOR DAIRY MEADOWS. One.
OF our principal meadow grasses is tim
othy, and this forms tuber or bulb
just above the surface of the ground
and is injured or DESTROYED when this
bulb Is cut or eaten off. Pasturing
meadows of this grass is likely greatly
to lnIure these bulbs, and this explains
the serious injury that occurs when these
meadows are pastllfed IN the fail. Gut
ting too close with moving machines
often Injuries it. Timothy is, perchance,
the most valuable meadow grass. as
with proper attention, it viii easily CON
tinue ten years III succession to Weld
large crops. If our meadows consisted
of kentucky blue grass. wire grass.
orchard grass, red-top, etc., pasttrino
would not be fatal, although not adyisa-
bic except on ailuvial or oyerfiowed land.
But let US see what the real yalue OF
the aftermath of timothy meadow is
worth. Take the case mentioned of sew
enty-fve acres pastured. Four cents
worth Of wheat middlings and corn meal
per day to each COW, would have pro-
duced more milk and LEI. the cows in
better condition, during the five or six
weeks that they are allowed to run a
portion of the day upon the meadows.
inns would have cost at most, only about
81 60 per head, whilst the damage to
the meadow was at least ten times rs
much. Meadows require generous at
tention. sirould be top-dressd with stable
manure IN the fall, instead of pasturing
them, and when this cannot be had,
should be top dressed with some COM
merclal fertilizer every few years, and
shns kept in full production, and your
dairy full fed through the winter. Nd
tioaat Lice Stock Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-09-08
The Dynamite Piano.

Several musical composers have
turned their attention Of late TO Eastern
tragedies. The Musical HcraId gives a
short musical story in ridicule OF the
new style After representing rival
lovers in the usual way, the story con.
cludes:
"Haw interrupted the tenor, che al
ways plays the same thing and always
without notes. doubt he can play
ans thing at sight.
!" cen play any composition at sight,
even with one eye closed" responded
the proud pianist.
9 1t is well, . sneered the tenor. 81
have here with me new composition
Of my own, NIhillstie symphony in
several movements. You will observe
that it begins pppp aud continues very
softly until thus chord Ca diminished
seyenteenthJ, which is To be struck Tiff.
% you think you can give the sudden
climax 2"
~ have force enough for two moro
is il you wish them, calmly replied the
pianist, as he sat down before the NJ
stmment. lie began very softly, So
softly that one might have heard pin
drop. Minka sat beside INN IL ecstasy,
although very Little Of the sound vas
antdbie the fatal diminished seyen-
teentI chD4d Approached. IL came.
owooping his arms wildly ID the ar, he
let them crash upon the piaiio--hang
1he fragment % tins two lovers
spread ovrr tnree counties. The tenor,
VIC hid led, had sm n, q ia /, ~
upon tie keys, ana achieved bis re-
yenge. He MAS never cart Vi any
more by order 81 the DenevO.eai Car,
the leEI.ius w.re carefully sesIa u,
Jui, ~ sacy co;nd lot be asso RIA ,.lI.
certainty, tA1 W ~ Mntlei a oar 81 81;
where taey still rJmAlB, iealinl tsstI-
Iaony 81 the sii, er ) revenge.