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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-11-24
Sacred

The funeral over, Tom loaded up his
artillery and started on the warpath for
Jim Bradley. He found the sheep
camp deserted. He was robbed of his
revenge. But he is looking for Bradley
yet. WELLS DRURY.
Virginia, Nevada, Nov. %.
M. w. Hodkins, at the Glove Depot,
opposite the Arlington House, has just
received a large and fine stock of gloves
and mitts for gents, ladies and children
of the latest styles. Best assortment
and lowest prices in the State. Hand
sewed buck gloves a specially. Also,
mems buckskin underwear, SOCKS, sus-
penders, etc. ..-u o4-1m*
There will be turkey shooting at
Swift's Springs, 200-yard range, Oh
Sunday, the Goth, and Thanksgiving
Day. n15-td
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-22
Taurus In Traces.

The bull IS both playful and pugna-
cious. When confined in a stable and
fed as usually fed, TO look Bice, both of
these characteristics are stimulated. A
bull plays hard is rough in his manners
This Is well enough when bull meets bull.
but when the playful propensity is exercised
toward his keeper, as 1t often ls, 1t is
dangerous. A toss of the head by way Of
a gambol or exercise may kill man. and
then again bull who has been pampered
doesn't feel like stopping, aud is very
liable TO continue his gambols. A large
number of the injuries from bulls are due
TO these bullish propensities, which are IN
creased by the treatment which they re-
ceive Instead of being kept confined in
stables, like prisoners IN cells, bulls. should
be made to work. When young they
should be thoroughly broken aud kept in
subjection, and be taught TO mind at the
word. They are capable of performing
hard work, which would not In the least
lnjure them, but would make them better
sires than when kept in an unnatural con-
tinement A bull and an OK may be worked
together, Or two bulls, or bull may be
worked singly. | have known them 10 be
used in all these forms. and single bull,
with a collar made TO ut his neck and
blt in his mouth, with reIns attached, 10
do rs much hauling, attached to boat or
cart, as a pair Of horses. Thousands OF
dollars are wasted annually in the shape of
useless bull fat and muscle. Bulls are
usually kept too fat, especially thorough
bred ones, which stimulates them 10 be
restive and ugly, Or at least not SO easily
managed. With q ring in q bulls nose,
and broken TO lead, IL Is q very easy mat
ter TO bring him work In the yoke. |
have known pair TO be hitched up and
taken 10 the field at once, led by the nose,
put TO work drawing stones without any
trouble whatever They will soon lesru TO
follow the driver without any leading, and
thus really become q serYiceable team.
Bulls thus handled, with plenty of work,
will rarely do any injury TO persons. A
oull will live on coarse fare, and on this &C
count makes cheap worker. He can be
made 10 do more than earn his keep, be-
aides being less dangerous. His stock will
De better, and he will be surer getter.
For rough aud tough places bull team is
Just the thing, as there Is no danger of their
being Injured, and they will save the risks
to the horses. Less grain will be required for
the horses If the bull is made 10 do a part
of the heavy work. Exposure to storms
won't hurt HIM, which often brings SICK
ness to horses. Better slaves than pets.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-22
The Wrong Boy.

In an ALLEGED s'horse thief" case there
was quite a lettle sensation. The accused
was John Campbell, young STRIPPING of
perhao os eighteen, and not bad looking
boy at ALL The principal witness for the
was young gir who claimed
to have seen Campbell in the stable. Just
before she took the stand counsel for the
defendant managed to get another boy,
very much resembling him, into the seat
next to Campbell. After few questions
the willy lawyer looking all the time at the
other boy, ask the witness if she could pos
itively identify the prisoner. She must be
verv careful, and make no mistakes, etc.
Looking over the seat, she said; ''There
he is, there.
"You are quite sure, now, are yous'
SAID the lawyer.
''Oh. yes, sir, quite sure, " was the con-
fident response; why / know Johnny
Campbell well.
This is my case" exclaimed the law
yer, and Court, Jury, audience and al
saw that it was. In her confusion th'
Young lady had identified the wrong boy
Counsel for the state Immediately threw
np the case, and the Court room was con
vulsed with laughter, during Whlchyouns
Campbell withdrew in the company of hi
relatives and friends.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-22
/ want to Smoke.
EN-.

AS the Pacific express train coming
east on the Central Road reached Ann
Arbor the other day there were many to
get off and on, and there was the usual
hurry and confusion. Among those get
ting aboard was little old woman about
60 years old, who secured the assistance
of the brakeman and drew herself up the
steps of the smoking car.
"This way, madam-this way" called
the official as she laid hand on the door
of the smoking car; but as she paid nc
attention he continued
"Hold on, madam-that's the smok-
ing car"
"Wall, don't you 'spose I've Travelled
enough to know that ?" she queried as
she whirled around. 'T guess know
where to 60 when want to KEEP
And she entered and sat down, fille(
her old clay pipe, borrowed light, ant
was soon putting away in the creates
contentment.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-22
Anybody Sick

Recently Mr.. Sarsaper told his wife one
morning that he had got about tired OF
butterlng his bread with spoon, and that
day he sent home refrigerator. II was
a beauty and be felt prond OF 1t. SO much
that he had good deal 10 say about 1t at
the store.
II suppose you have 10 put ice IN ii,
don't your" inquired one of the clerks.
Certainly" said Mir. Sarsaper; but
then it takes very little. It's an improve
ment on all others ever made. Full OF
little boxes and places for all sorts Of
things. Keeps everything superintendent,
vegetables, milk aud so Un-without any
mixing up. Ii makes hot weather so much
more comfortable, Bob, to pull up TO the
table, and find every nice, cool and crisp,
instead of limp. sour and slushy. We
wouldn't be without 1t again for any
money. l wish you would run in and look
at il Bob, the first time you're going by.
It's a curiosity, and know you'll get one
AS soon as yeu see it. Dun't bother about
CEREMONY run in at any time.
About two o'clock one morning Mr..
Sarsaper was awakened out of his stum-
Der, that always keeps company with an
easy conscience by his wife poking him in
the ribs, and calling on him to hustle out
and see what the matter was. The door
bell was jingllng like all possessed.
MIR. Sarsaper crawled out OF bed, and,
after banging his nose on the door-post
until the blood started, giving himself a
black eye against the corner of the man
tel, and falling down over pretty much
everything In the room, he finally made
his way to the front part of the house,
threw up a window, and peered out into
the wet and mucky gloom.
"Who's there" he demanded, looking
dawn at the top OF an ummbrella-
MEL" came in a thick voice from the
under side of 1t.
"Who's me?"
"Bcb."
"Oh!" it's you is III What's the matter,
Bob; anybody slck3"
"Oh, no. You see I've been out to
Sodamsville with some of the boys to help
institute lodge, and I'm Just getting back.
| happened to think about that refrigera-
tor of yours as was going by, and so
thought I'd stop in and see 1t, without
ceremony as you said. Come down and
let me in. I'm in hurry to get home,
and can't stop but minute"
Mr.. Sarsaper said something that would
bend the types double if we should under
take to print it, and slammed down the
window. He remarked to Bob the next
day that for downright GOODNESS his re-
frigeator was q bake oven compared to the
prank practiced on him.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-22
Touched lis vanity.

A dark k-eyed beauty, with a mouth like
a mules ear and nose like sugar-cured
ham, saddle-colored complexion, and
Vomething sweet and assuring In her de
meanor, walked into our den the other day
and bearded uS.
81 want TO to see the gentleman who ed
Its this paper, SAID she.
We pointed ourselves out.
IL lecture On temperance" said she,
"and let me assure you that | just tear the
life out of the whiskey subject every
time throw my jaws apart"
"lndeedl
"True as gospel, and the way 1 get in
my work on the tobacco subject would
tickle the heels of your boots"
"You seem TO be a kind of female
Benson, we ventured.
Worse than that. II Benson and Cough
both boiled down and copper distilled,
they would't do to travel on the same train
that do. And, besides that, am natu-
rally literary character. don't mind
giving the thing away TO you, for you
seem to be u square man, but ] am the au.
thor OF Beautiful Snow.
"You are?'
"Yes am. write like mule kick
ing, and the publication of my lecture
would make the fortune of any half-star-
we'd editor in Arkansas.
al have never consented to have my
lectures published" continued she, ''but
| don't care if you give report of IL,
provided it don't extend over two column.
Give me ten dollars-fve now and the
other five after it is deliYered-and its all
right. Here is the copy for the report, so
you won't be troubled.
She laid down pile bf manuscript, and
looked at us in a superior kind of way
that seemed to say, You havn't got five
dollars"
Now if there is anything that makes us
mad II Is to insinuate that we are not
wealthy, and as, strange 10 say, just at
that moment we happened to have, for
once in our life, whole five dollar bill
all ut once, we pulled itout with lord
ly air and handed it to her.
She took 1t, smiled, bowed, and retir-
ed.
The next morning our beloved Mayor
said:
ELLEN Arabella Smytbe, you were very
drunk and disorderly last night, but as
your little rest in the cooler has seemed TO
bring you 10 repentance, will let you 60,
provided you leave town in one hour"
AS she walked down the railroad she look
ed up at the office window, and spying us.
squealed:
ii will send you few notes from my
next point. You can remit at your leis-
ure."
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-22
ohiects of Interest In Indla.

One of the principal objects of interest
IN India to the straL ger Is the temple of
worship. Yoi can enter ard witness their
worship of the various idds with which
their temples are adorned, and to which
they are consecrated, by paying tritie to
The usher. He will then ;ake you to every
point of interest, and explain to you the
meaning of what otherwise would seem a
senselcss devotion. He vii show you also
the other temples and instruct you in their
peculiarities and the weirc legends con-
cerning them. Near one of the temples is
The old car of Juggernaut, upon which the
poor victims OF long ago used to be broken,
and under whose ponderous wheels many
wretched victim has been crushed to ap'
pease the anger OF the gods
Among the other points OF interest Is the
river Gauges, worshiped as sacred by the
natives, and called by then The goddess
Gavga. Pilgrimages are made to particular
places on It's shores, ablutius performed,
The dying exposed, the dead thrown In,
infants frequently sacrificed. The river is
replete with interest from its source to its
mouth. Rising as it does among hills OF
eternal snow III the Himalaya mountains,
| and sweeping down distance of 1900 miles
10 the Bay of Bengal, where it forms the
most extensive delta In the whole world,
| making and unmaking yealy Thousand
of acres of ground. According to an an
cient legend this delta Was formed by tht
| god silva, who, squeezing the water through
his hair, let 1t run down through his fingers
thus forming the innumerabl' streams tha
divide the delta. This deIh begins at
distance of 200 miles from tie sea, forming
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-22
Go no Further.

There are no flies or mosquitoes nc the
White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, but there
are plenyt Of snakes in the outlying
with copper-heads, rattlesnakes and adjers.
There are no desirable walks and drives
abont there. The majority Of visitors kee p
within the 800 acres known as the White
Sulphur reservation. The other day a
mountaineer brought in two huge rattle
snakes. He had them In a wooden box
with glass top. They rolled, Kissed and
struck at visitors whe bent over the box,
greatly TO the terror OF she children who
crowded about the owner Of the snakes.
One colored man expressed great fear that
the snakes would get out and bite some
one. "That would be ali day with them,
guess, said he. ooh mol" said the noun
taineer; "a rattlcsnake bite doesn't amount
10 nothin'."
''lt don't?" said visitor.
HNo," said the mountaineeT; there Is
not a man up in our pearts but what has
been bit by rattlers good many times. II
is easy enough 10 cure the bite.
Howl"
''Some put on turpentine. That draws
the plzen ont. Jest put the mouth of
bottle filled with turpentine on the wound
and the pizen will drop out and make tur-
pentlne green. Some, however, kill the
snake and bind piece on the bite. That
droprs tho plzen out. There is a man up
our way, however, who meyer does nothin'
when raTtler bites hlm. He has been
bitten three times, The bites kind a
swell up, but after time the swellln' went
away again"
did he say he did nothing TO cure the
bites?"
yes"
''He must have lied"
HE Is preacher. and"
'Enough-You need not go 10 fur
ther."
The mountaineer says that the worst
snake in the mountains Is the copper
head. Ii gives no warning, is often in
cined To be aggressive, and strikes quickly
and surely. Its bite Is much more deadly
than that Of the rattlesnake. There is q
den OF snakes at Cool Khob, q station
some thirty miles from here, where there
are thousands of snakes In a great cavern
that no native has ever been bold enough
To approach, to say nothing of exploring.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-22
Heart Disease.

When an individual is reported TO have
died of disease of the heart, we are in the
habit of regarding 1t as an inevitable event.
as something which could not have been
foreseen Oh prevented, and as 1t is too much
the habit, when persons suddenly fall
down dead, to report the heart as the
cause. This silences all inquiry and ia
vestlgation and saves the trouble and Incon-
venlence of post-mortem. A truer report
would have q tendancy 10 save many
lives. 1t is through q report Of disease or
the heart that many an opium eater Is let
of into a grave, which covers at once his
folly and his crime; the brandy drinker,
too, quietly slides around the corner thus,
and is heard of no more in short, this re-
port of disease Of the neart Is the mantle
of charity which the polite Coroner and
sympathetic physicians throw around the
graves of generous people. At scientific
congress at Strasburg it was reported that
of sixty-six persons who had suddenly died,
an immediate and faithful post mortem
showed that only two persons had any
heart affection whatever - one sudden
death only IN thirty-three from diseases of
the heart. Nine out OF sixty died Of apo
plexy-one out of every seven; while forty
six-more than two out Of three-dled OF
lung affection, half of them congestion OF
the lungs, that is, the lungs were so full Of
blood they could not work there was not
room enough for air to get in TO support
life. 1t is, then, of considerable practl-
cal interest to know some OF the common
everyday causes of this congestion Of the
lungs O disease which, the figures above
being true, kills three times as many per
sons at short warning as apoplexy ana
heart disease together. Cold feet, tight
shoes, light clothing, costive bowels, sit
ting still until chilled through after having
been warmed up by labor or long, hasty
walk, going too suddenly from a close,
heated room, as lounger or listener or
speaker, while the body Ia weakened by
continu | application or abstinence or
heated by long address; these are the
| frlghtful causes of sudden death In the
form of congestion of the lungs; but
which, being falsely reported as disease
of the heart. and regarded as an inevitable
event, throw people off their guard instead
of pointing them to their true causes, ali
of which are curabl3; and very easily 30,
as a general rule, when the mind has once
been intelligently drawn to the subject.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-22
Our Horses In England.

What is the moral to be CLEANED from
this unusual excellence of Foxhall asks
an English paper? We must not forget
that, although the Americans began
importing English thorough-breds as far
back as the commencement of last cent
ury, they did not seriously address
themselves to the task Of raising blood
stock until after the great civil war,
which ended in April, 1866. That with
in Is yeFrs they should have been able
to produce Foxhall speaks volumes
for the soil, water, and climate of Ken
lucky; and during the next 20, 30, or
so years We expect that many as fine,
or perhaps even finer, horses will be
raised them Western hemisphere. But
it is probably due to English air, food,
training, and riding that Foxhall Is
now what we saw him to be Recently
1t is not disputed that the blood
of our English brood mares is purer
than that of their American sisters,
whose pedigrees in many cases lend, 1"
es the phrase runs, Sin the woods. }"
But. as a climate in which thorough
bred foals may be dropped to advantage,
we do not believe that anything more
favorable can be found upon earth than
the United States to the south of Mason
and Dixon's line. When Richard Brins-
lev Sheridan was buried in Westminster
Abbey with splendid pomp and cere-
mony, although bailiffs struggled to
tear the last blanket off his body while
the breath was still init, a witty French
wag remarked that "France was the
place for man of letters to live, and
England for him to die in" Foxhall,
in the same manner, has been fortunate
in the place of his birth, and in that OF
his training. The Kentucky grass is the
most nutritious in the world, but the
English and Scotch oat far transcends
the oat of the United States. In til e
management, training, and riding OF
thorough -breds our horse-loving cousins
are still in their infancy, and Mr.. Keene
may well thank his stars that he sent
Foxhall to England to be trained. The
Grand Prix, the Grsnd Duke Michael
Stakes, and the Cesarewitch have sci
the Kentucky-bred colt upon the very
highest pinnacle of equine glory; and il
is singular TACT that, while Blue Gowr,
the best horse of this day, was in course
of transportation across the Atlantic,
at the bottom of which he now lies
Mr.. J. R. Keene was at the same mo
ment in possession of an American colt
who within year was destined to show
himself equal, if not superior, to si
Joseph Hawley's sturdy little Derb!
winner.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-22
The st. GOthard Tunnel.

The st. Gothard Tunnel, nine and a
third miles long, pierces the Helvehc
Alps, and forms link in the st. Goth
ard Railway, connecting the Swiss rail
ways with those of Upper Italy. 1t
exceeds the Mont Cens3 Tunnel in length
by 1856 feet. The northern end of the
tunnel, Goeschenen, is 80 feet from
the southern end of the station platform,
situated 3637-5 feet above the sea level,
and 2,204 feet above Lake Lucerne.
From this point the line rises with IA
gradient of in III for "a, 600 feet, then
with gradient of in 900 for 4, 428
feet, where it reaches the highest point
of the tunnel 3,795 feet above the sea.
Then after a length of l, ,279 feet it de.
scends with a gradient of in 200 for
$3.50, when the gradient is reduced to
/ in 500 for 13, 1872 feet, which brings it
to within 984 feet of the platform of the
station at Airolo, situated 1856 feet
above the sea, and 3, 100 feet above Lake
Maieur. The normal width of the tun-
mel is "a feet IL 3-16 inches at the level
of the rails, and 26 feet inches at the
height of feet inches above the rails.
The height of the tunnel is 20 feet /;
the roof is semicircular The floor of
the tunnel is formed with fall of q
per cent from each side toward the CEN
ter, and at the lowest part is a drain
215 inches deep. Up to the level of
the top of the railway sleepers the floor
is filled with ballast. The nature of
the revetment varies with the rock ira
versed. In addition to the main tun-
mel there are fifty-two subsidiary tun-
nels on the line, having total length
of II miles, and "a bridges and viaducts.
OF the entire length of the st. Gothard
line II per cent is tunneled and l per
cent bridges and viaducts. The main
tnnnel carries two lines of railway, 4
feet 8! inches guage.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-22

a perfect wilderness of creeks and rivers
and during the wet season is almost
entirely inundated. Ii Is navigable from
Hurdwas, but above Cawnpore only for
river crafts and passenger steamers, but
below Allahabad for large vessels. A large
amount of traffic Is conducted on its waters.
The Island of Elephants derives its name
from the gigantic stone figure of I'm ele-
phant which formerly stood upon Its
shores. Ii Is situated In the harbor Of
Bombay, seven miles from the city aud
contains several very remarkable ancient
cave temples cut in the rock and adorned
with numerous sculptured figures OF the
Hindoo mythology. The largest OF these
cave temples Is 1873 feet long, and Is sup
ported by twenty-slx pillars. The island
is six miles in circumference, and always
of interest TO travellers.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-12-22

The editor of Nature thus comments
on the effort now making to carry out
the scheme of the late Lieutenant
Weyprecht, the discoverer Of Franz
Josef Land, for the establishment of q
ring OF observations around the North
Pole: Many Arctic authorities are Of
opinion that the days OF great and ex-
pensive national Polar expeditions are
past, and that the money thus spent
would be put to much better use by be-
ing devoted to the carrying on of con-
tinuous series of observations, At
various points around the Arctic area OBJ
servatories will be established as near
as practicable to the Pole, where a con-
tinuous series OF observations will be
taken, according to a common, prear-
ranged plan. These observations will
be connected with meteorology in all its
departments, with terrestrial magnetism
the aurora borealis, atmospheric electri-
city, the movements Of the ice, biology
combined with geographical exploration
where practicable. After year or two
of such observations we may then be
able to compare aud coordinate Polar
conditions with those which prevail Ia
regions further south. vast array OF
data must necessarily be accumulated
that cannot but be turned to valuable
account by science.
Our knowledge of the meteorology Of
the temperate zone can never be com
plete until we are well acquainted with
Arctic conditions, and thus the work to
be done at these observatories viii have
an important practical bearing. Not
only SO, but it Is maintained that
it is only when we have the
knowledge which will be collected
at these stations that we shall be
in condition TO send out an ex-
pedition for the Pole itself with anything
like scientific assurance of success. We
cannot but regret, then, that England
has no share in the scheme. The coun-
tries forming the International Associa-
ton are Russia, Germany, Norway and
Sweden, Denmark, Austria, the United
States, and we believe Canada; France
and Switzerland lent it their counte-
nance, and Lieutenant BoVe's italian
Antarctic expedition in to some extent
affiliated to the Association. Stations
are to be established on the north coast
of Siberia, Novaya ZemlYa, Spitzbergen,
Jan Mayen Island, the west coast of
Greenland, Lady Franklin Bay, and the
neighborhood of Behring Straits. The
colony for Lady Franklin Bay, sent Ont
by the United States, has already. ps
believe, reached its destination.