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Richland beacon., 1881-02-05

II humanity continues rs o1Illible as il
has shown itself III the last few wears. we
shall advocate a new kind Of school
primer in order that people may learn in
their childhood what YOU can beat into
some Of them with a triphammer. even
when they are old enough to go to Con-
gress.
One lesson We should advocate having
fixed mp in something after this style:
WHAT is three card monte ?''
''lt is bad, bad game"
Who plays three card monte?"
''One man who looks like farmer.
One man who looks like a new-school
philosopher. "
Can two play this game?'
Eyes, my child. Even four can play
at this game"
"What does the fourth man do?"
He gets left. my child. He gets
badly left. He loses all his money. He
pulls his hair and uses wicked words
Then the fourth man is an ass for
playing"
''He is an ass. = Wheeling Leader.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05
The Diet Fiend.

There is the man who has made up his
mind to keep his health good by eating
the right sort of food in proper quantities
and with the right kind of mastication.
Resolution sits upon his brow, his ewes
turn scornfully upon his fellow men and
he deliberately and with malice afore.
thought sits with superbly folded arms
IN the restaurant. painfully working his
mouth, as if he We're a type of Samp.
sons celebrated jawbone engaged in the
duty of staying bit Of brown bread.
He becomes nuisance to his landladv.
or his wife; he buys fish. which he eats
for his brains, and struggles in the morn-
ing with harsh oatmeal and sour baked
apples, chewing, chewing. chewing.
while casting contemptuous elances
around upon the disguised people who
are not SO good and are not going to he
SO healthy as he is to be. He even turns
his toes out, abhors butter, and walks
on the side of the street which is the
healthiest. His children receive no
candy, and his wife only receives a scold.
ing because she does not live ND to the
laws of health. He becomes pale, fretfnl
and morose, and says Of healthy man.
HE lives for his stomach" while he is
dying for his.-NeU York Herald.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05
The Camel on His Native Heath,

And now heaves III sight the unchanged
qnlntessence of Orienfalism-there is
our first camel, a camel in Use, III his
native setting and not In menagerie
There is a line of them, loaded with
bullding-stones.w YEARLY shambling along.
The long bended neck apes humility,
but the supercilious nose in the air ex-
presses perfect contempt for all modern
hfc. The contrast of this naughty
''stuck-up-ativeness" ut is necessary to
com this word to express the camel's
ancient conceit) with the royal ugliness
of the brute, 10 both awe-inspiring and
amusing. No human royal family dare
he ugiier than the camel. He is a mass
OF bones, faded tufts. humps, Jumps,
spiay- Joints and callosities. His tail is
ridiculous wisp, and failure as an orna-
ment or fiy-brush. His feet are simply
big sponges. For skin covering he has
patches of old buffalo robes. faded and
with the hair worn off His voice is
moro disagreeal,le than his appearance.
With a reputation for patience. he is
snappish and vindictfve His endurance
is over-ratedLtliat is tosay he dies like
a sheep on an expedition of any length,
if he is not well FED. His gnit moves
every muscle like the ague And yet
this ungainly creature carries his head
in the air. and regards the world out of
his great brown eyes with disdain. The
sphinx is not more placid He reminds
me, j don't know, why, Of 3 pyramid.
He has resemblance 70 a palm-tree
1t is impossible to make an Egyptian
picture without him What Hapsburg
ftp he has! Ancient royal? The very
poise of his head says plainly. Il have
come ont Of the dim past. before history
as; the deluge did not touch me: l saw
Meres come and 60; 7 helped Shoofoo
build the great pyramid; I knew Egypt
when Il hadn't An obelisk nor . temple;
I watched the slow building of the pyra-
mid a: Sakkara Did 1 not. transport
I've fathsrs Of your race across the desert?
There are thrse OF US; the date -pdh. the
py..nA and psssM PEI. ~ zsElthl1g II, H,,s1se else
,II,n~Npp- - -
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05
4 Story Of Tom Ochiltree.

Jem Mace, the celebrated prize fighter.
once spent winter in New Orleans He
used 10 amuse himself and his admirers
by betting the drinks with them that
they could not hit him-thev TO do their
best to hit him. and he simply 20 ward
OIL the blows. Tom Ochiltree. of Texas
who has gained considerable reputation
from his intimacy with General Grant.
and perhaps even more reputation from
the fast running horse which was named
after him, happened TO be in New Or
leans during the winter. Some of Ochil-
trees friends told him Of Mace's favorite
bet. Ochiltree is snort, thick-set, DOW
erfully-built man. His hair is Just red
enough to indicate fiery temper. As
soon as he was told Of Mace's bet he
fired mp and said he would bet the crowd
a champagne supper that he could hit
Jem Mace. The bet. Of course, was taken
at once, and the whole party started
ont In search of Mace. He was easily
found in a neiglboring drinking saloon.
Mace was standing at the bar in the
act of taking drink. Ochiltree stepped
quietly up beside him, and hit him sud
denly singing blow on the cheek.
Mace quietly placed his glass on the bar.
and, scarcely moving his body, brought
his right hand up and struck Ochiltree a
fearful blow just under one car. His
friends rushed to him, gathered him up
and carried him to the nearest hotel
Doctors were sent foi In a great hurry.
and after two or three hours Of hard
work they succeeded in bringing Ochil-
tree back TO this earth He was confined
TO his room in the hotel for three weeks.
however. When he finally reappeared
he was forced to furnish tho champagne
supper. Some of his friends said to him:
- What IN the world made you such a
BANKED fool as to hit Jem Mace?"
Why. said Ochiltree. "I thought
would Just tap him without his knovl-
edge and would then explain to him i"
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05
The Difference.

Tennyson can take worthless sheet
of paper and, by writing poem on it,
make it worth 5000. That's Genius.
Mr.. Vanderbilt can write fewer words on
similar sheet and make it worth $50
100000. That's Capital. And the United
States can take an ounce and a quarter
Of gold and stamp upon it an Eagle
bird" and Twenty Dollars" That's
Money. The mechanic can take the ma
terial worth fifty dollars and make it into
watch worth 800. That's Skill. The
merchant can take An article worth
TWENTY-FIVE cents and sell it to you for
500. That's Busines A lady can pur-
chase comfortable bonnet for ten dol
lars, but prefers to pay 800 for one, be-
cause it is more stylish. That's Foolish
ness. The ditch-digger works ten hours
a day, and shovels out three or four tons
Of earth for one dollar. That's Labor
Richmond State.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05
Oyster Dredging.

consumers of the lucious bivalye have
n''ie ldea of :ho hardsAipS which attend
ule EtDor OF taking oysters from then
cosy beds. II would seem that taking
one consideration with another. the
uredger hie Is not happy one. 4 Bal
tmore paper gives the following GLIMPSE
OF the business:
There Is no occupation in the world
more iaporlons or productive Of pain
Than oyster dredging. The bractish
waters of the Chesapeake freeze rapidly
over all shoals AID bays when a cold
snap comes. The tolls of the dredger
,ien become tor;ures. The method of
taxing oysters from the prolific and lin
MiesS beds of the Chesapeake is simre.
Inc dIedgcs. which are simply iron
"ags witt Il protecting under-scoop at
tAched, are dredged across the ovst1
peds ty the motion OF tl,r vessel. and
are then hauled up by windlasses. When
the dredger is not working at the wind
lass he Is squatted on deck bending over
The oyster heaps, culling them ont. The
shells Of the oysters are generally COW
cred with a parasitic growth known as
dog stones" The conglomerated lrmps
OF oyster growth are broken up with
hammers; shells, babies" and refuse
are thrown overheard, and the marketa-
Ole oysters are then run into the hold.
As last as tine dredSes are empticd on
deck their contents must he culled. II
Is an occupation at best about as inter
estlng as breaking stone. When carried
On III freezing wind, exposed to the
frozen spray, with sharp shell edges cut-
ting into sore hands. and grit and mud
rubbing into chaps and raw places. il be
comes torture. Hauling at the wind
lass Is only better because more active.
Inc skin sticks to the irons in frosty
weather, and the hands stretched down
10 grasp the Icy. dripping aredSes often !
leave blood stains where they touch. For |
this work the pay ranges from Sl2 to 500 |
a month, with food found.
Thus it Is that the work Of n dredcer |
Is looked upon III Maryland as the worst |
that can fall to the lUt of man. The ex- |
treme expression Of aversion with a hav- |
shore d,rkey is to say, Il would as lief |
drcdge as do that"
There IL a prevalent belief among the |
colored population that pungv captains
kldnap stray darkies who NAV come into
Their reach, 1t certainly is the case that
captains make no inquiry as to where
Their hands come from. Shipping mas
ters get two dollars q piece for them.
Many poor fellow has walked up from
a drunken stupOr TO find. to his horror.
that he was down the bay in pungv.
As rule, windlass hands are the poorest
species Of tramps. Many Of them are
picked up from the brickyard hands who
iock into town after the brick making
season is over.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05
E>quimaux Carpentry.

III" builder St lects snow of the proper
consistency by sounding a drift with a
cane made Tor the purpose, of reindeer
horn, traightencd by etoaniLg. un,l
worked down 10 about half an inch III
diameter, with tcrule Of walr1ls ttlsk o.,
The tooth Of bear on the bottom. Bv
thruStlng tins into the snow he can tell
whether the layers deposited bv success
I'VE winds are separated by bands Of
SOFT show, which would cause tLe blocks
L. break. When the SNOW is SCI, ctel lie
d;TS . plt to the depth Of eighteen inches
or two !cet, or about tha length of the
snow block. He then steps into the pit
AMI proceeds To cut ont the blocks bv
lrSf cutting down at the ends Of the pit
anu then at the bottom afterward. cut-
ING =. litIc c!.aniel about an inch or two
deep. making the thickness of the pro.
posed block.
Now comes the part that renuires
practice 10 accomplish successfully.
Inc rXprrt viii, with few thrllsts OF his
khlic Ill INST the night places, split off
the Nnow-block and lift it carefully ont
to await removal to its position on the
wall. The tvro VIII almost inevitably
break the block into two or three pieces
MT, rly unfit for the use of the builder.
When two men are building an ieioo.
oie cuts the blocks and the other crects
the wall. Wien sufficient blocks have
Lrth cut out to commence work with.
The builder marks with his eve or per-
maps draws line with his knife describ-
lng tile circumference of the buildinp.
usually circle abOut ten or twelve feet
III diameter, The first row of blocks is
then arranged, the blocks placed SO as
t. Incline inward and resting against
each other al the ends. thus affording
mutual support When this row is COM
piet"d. the builder cuts away the first
and second blocks. slanting III from
the ground upward. SO that the second
tier, resting upon the first row. can be
continued on and around spirally. and
hy gradually increasing the inward slant |
u perfect dome IS constructed of such |
strength that the builder can lie fiat !
upun the outside while chinking the !
lnterstlces between the blocks. The /
chrnking Is, however, usually done by |
women and children as the building |
progresses, and additional protection |
weather by banking up. with large
wooden snow-shovel, the snow at the base
often being piled TO the depth of three
or four feet. This makes the igloo per
fectly impervious To- the wind III the
most tempcstuous weather. When the
house is completed the builders are
walled i'll. Then a small hole about two
feet square Is cut in the wall on the
side away from where the entrance is TO
he located and is used to pass in the
lamps and bedding. 1t is then walled
mp and the regular door cut about two
feet high and niched at the top. 1t
would bring bad luck to carry the bed
hing into the igloo by the same door If
would be taken ont. Before the door is
opened the bed is constructed of SNOW
blocks, and made from one to three or
our feet high, and occupies three
ourths Of the entire space. The higher
he bed and the lower the door the
the igloo will be.-From an
irctic Erploror's "reminiscences.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05

A cRErAcEoUs chalk, which the natives
carves into grotesque figures of men and
animals, occurs on the Polynesian islands
of New Britain and New Ireland (about
latitude four degrees south, longitude
l30 degrees east, and some specimens
have been sent to England by the Rev
G. Brown, Wesleyan missionary to that
region. ''The chalk Of which the fig
ures are formed" he writes ''is, 1 am in
formed, found only on the beech after
an earthquake, being cast up there in
largo pieces by the tidal wave; and only,
so far as we know at present, in one dis
trict on the east side of New Ireland
An analysis. made at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
shows that the substance is not as pure
Q limestone as ordinary whlts chalk.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05
Are Your Closets Ventilatedl

There is nothing so handy in a house
as an abundance of large, roomy closets ::
but because they are handy and extreme.
ly useful they are apt to be abused.
There are many things which, as mat
ter of course, are always put into closet.
of which the articles of outward wearing
apparel make large part. There are
always things which ought not to go
into the closet, 1. e., a closet adjoining or
closely connected with a living or Sleep
ing room. OF such are all soiled under
garments. the wash clothes, which
should be put into large bag for the
purpose, or roomy basket, and then
placed In the wash-room or some other
welI-aired room at some distance from
the family. Having thus excluded one
of the fertile sources of bad oders in
closets, the next point is TO see that the
closets are properly ventilated. 1t mat
tiers not how clean the clothing in the
closet may be. Any garment after be-
ing worn for while will absorb more or
less of the exhalations which arise from
the body, and thus contain an amount of
foreign-it may be hurtful-matter
which free circulation Of pure air can
soon remove; but if this is excluded, as
in many close closets, the effiuvia in
creases, aud the clothes closets and ad-
joining rooms in time possess all odor
that any acute sense of smell will readily
detect. Every closet in daily use in
which the night clothes are hung by day
and the day clothing by night, should
have an airing as well ss the bed. If
the closet can be large enough to admit
Of a window-and it is in some cases
an ample provision for sunlight and the
circulation of pure air is provided in the
window, which should be left open for a
short time each day. In the case Of
small closets ventilator could be put
over the door or even in il. In many
cases such precautions for pure clothing
are not practicable, and the next-best
thing is, to see that the door of the
closet is left open for half hour or so
each day at that time when the windows
are thrown up and the large room is
purified with fresh air from out of doors.
In this way, first. by keeping ont clothes
for the wash, and second, daily
changing of the air, the closets NAV be
kept comparatively pure.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05

Sr. LOUIS owns eighteen parks and
sonares. embracing 2, l07 acres, costing
s1 I 405. 600 originally; and on which 81
c72 600 have been spent. Forest Park.
tbe largest of the lot, contains l,37l
.cres but Tower Grove Park, the gift OF
Henry Shaw, aud improved under his
pe,soual supervision, is tar the finest.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05

! A FIrIsHEp performer the dead aci.
I or.
hEAR ..nl for bcar-Braiu and his DIM
ncI.
/ A HOLLOW cost-The cost Of penny
whistle.
CoLD scLnapps are appreciated by
Dutchmen.
FIREMES, as we'll as other people, like
10 talk of their old flames.
81 WOULD like Ia die tonight. "l.ens
poet, for once coLAiug INTO sympathy
with the people.
AcroRs have 20 face thc music-tkat
IS the music of'thc orchestra some
Oh II Is very bal.
WILL, Wit, Won cant say l ever
contracted bad habits. NO. sir: Won
generally expanded tLcm."
WHAT L wants ter know" said an
.trkaHss,s schOol-hoarl official, II, how
"a rivers mont is gwine Ter tc bigger dan
IL head.
i MAy who IS as trlc n steel. possess
ing an iron VIII, some gold anl ~ fair
proportion Of brass. should he able to
endure the hardware oi tins world.
WHY don't England sit down on
Ir"!mnd!' asks an exchange. For the
seine reason a man with "A boil don't
care to sit down on II too carelcsslv.- -
G0irestDn Neus
\ PHIL ,DELPHA quack informs the
public that he is not exclusive: If a
patient wants it gentle and mild I'm "A
homeopath, and when ANYBODY wants
thunder and lightning In al allopath.
GREEDY grocer (to farmers wife who
is Supplying him with buttcr)-"
pun o butter is over licht. gudewifc.
GGlewlfe-' Blame yersel, then I
weighed il vi the pun o sugar / gat
fr..e w vcaSreen.
WHAT have You been drinking or
catiug?' exclain ed III, wife. as he re
turned late al night. Liquor ish ~ he
responded, and then he winked at him
SET III the dark, and brea,hod thin TIL
She Got asleep.
WHY don't you put the ,ooth-picks
on the table ?" asked guest at Gal
weston hotel. after he hal finished his
dinner. Because after you used ono
Yesterday, you didn't put II back in the
saucer. responded the new waiter
Gaireston NcUs.
TEE late Rev. DIR. Symington. not
feeling well one Sunday morning, said
to his beadle who WAS "a character:
d" Man Robert. ] wish yOu would preach
for me to-day Il Gamma do that"
promptly replied Robert; "but / often
pray for you.
\ CLEVELAND boy was asked bv his
teacher If lie did not want to be an
angel and with the angels stand" Said
The boy Il would rather stand here
until after Christmas, and see If Santa
Claus does not bring me Il top and
new sled.
A BRIGHT little girl was urging her
mother to 90 up stairs and hear her say
Ter prayers before retiring. Her mother,
lot finding it convenient. told her that
Iesus could hear If just rs well. "But,
mother" replied the little doubter,
q Jesus can't turn off the gas"
A CUTE little 5-year-old, whose par
nts were connected with the Prcsbv-
erian church, said: Mamma, was
lhrist Jew?" Yes, dear" replied
he mother. "Well, that's strange.
ow, isn't II. mamma, when his father.
iod, was a Presbyterian ?"
OMAN alive" exclaimed the Judge. in
heated discussion of a tangled theo-
,gical point with his friend, Il tell
III, you are a free agent. You do not
I'VE to obey any one" "Yes, said Mr..
GOODMAN. meekly, "but l do though"
.Who?' shouted the Judge. "Who?"
Ny wife, her two sisters, and the
aby," hOwled the good man, meekly
r. lumphant.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05

RVke- mother q tKD sons Twins. met
6r9Uf OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
(Which one Of yortwo boys sla speak
inc to9" asked the mother. why do you
asS?' inquired the lad prudently. BE
canse if it is your brother l will box his
ears" at is not my. .brother-it is l. !"
..Then your brother is wearing Your
coat. for yours had a hole In 1t. "No:
mother. L am wearing my own coat.
..Good heavens. cried the mother. look
ing at him intently, ''you are your
brother after all 10y
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES,
\ a Gentleman.

Marry a Gentleman.
Marry q gentleman,
6r1s, u You car,
Geu.le and tender,
Though 10 los q man;
One WHO vi. treasure
h.s cAlll ~ Us VIE,
Sc.EL!Lg ~ ROB them
VI sweetness u re.
One who viii never
The brute's par; assume,
tilin2 bis household
With sorrow and gloom.
II on loves altar
Tbs fame yuu can :sl,.
Marry gentleman,
"-r.-. d: You can.
iou VII be happy.
And r,u "! 3c g.ai,
Though Lg ou!y
Il" commonly clad:
Pleasure j. f-eting,
And .if- beta span
Marry a gruCcmau,
Girls. If You can.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05

The California Horticultural describes
wealthy man in that State, whose land.
free of debt, is worth $500, 900. He lives
in a weather beaten shanty in the midst
of his wheat fields, the barn-yard sur
rounding the house, the well 200 yards
in one direction, and the woodpile 200
yards in the other, with no fruit tree OF
flower in sight.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05

The paragraphers think there is little
probability of having clear weather in
the future, with Hazen doing it out.
Richland beacon., 1881-02-05
She Knows -.

\ woman always knows when she is
pretty. Isn't il strange that she never
knows when she Is the other thing? We
can all put up with good deal of SIM
pcrlng Donsense from pretty glrl. hut
"A homely damsel must deport herself
with straight laced dccorum or she
makes herself Ridiculous. Perhaps il is
unfair. but the world viii have il so; and
II stands all ineyOrablr lay.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-05

OAK GROVE GLEANINGs.-

OAK GROVE GLEANlNGs.-
Seeding is about finished in this
town.
Mrs. Carrie Richards is visiting at
her brothers, Sidney Meyers.
Gotleib Reeck is building an addi-
ton to his house.
Charles Virgins and family are
again residents of Oak Grove.
Mrs. Strowve will visit Germany
this summer to see friends of lang
syne.
School in district No. commenced
on Monday last under the supervision
of b. II. Corcoran.
The Irish citizens of this town re.
Gently organized Land League with
a membership of twenty-one.
Mrs. Samuel Mullen is preparing to
build new dwelling house this
spring.
viii Caldwell passed through here
last Sunday, en- route for his school in
the Spring Grove district.
Henry Eichman met with very
painful accident on Sunday of last
week. While shooting at hawk
the breech of the gun blew out,
breaking the stock into fragments,
the lock striking him on the forehead
and filling his right eye with powder.
1t is feared that he will loose the sight
of one, if not both eyes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-05
BREAKERS AHEAD.

Senator David Davis, of Illinois,
who has achieved considerable nota-
riety by occasionally placing himself
upon the political "fence," has re-
Gently written letter which contains
truths that will meet with a respon-
sive echo in the hearts of thousands
who go to make up the masses of the
Republican party, and they are truths
which should cause the political wire
pullers to pause and reflect upon the
future of the Republican party If they
persist in guiding it onward in its
present course. Among other things,
Senator Davis says:
''Our politics has become degraded
into shameful scramble for the
spoils of office
"Great corporations and CONSOLE
dated monopolies are fast seizing the
avenues of power that lead to the con-
troll of the government. ;"
Corporations not only levy toll on
the industry of the country, but every
blanket with which their children are
warmed, every plowshare that turns
the soil, and the necessary articles of
household economy are taxed by an
exorbitant tariff for the profit of
monopoly"
He asks, "Who proposes, on either
side, to protect the just rights of the
great agricultural community with
twenty-five millions of populations"
and says that practical reform is inn
possible on any large scale while one
hundred thousand offices and a
patronage represented by FIVE hundred
millions of annual receipts and expen-
ditures are offered as the prizes of
success. Having little hope of genuine
reform in either of the existing polit-
ical parties, Senator Davis would
favor the formation of new party,
having among its cardinal principals
civil service reform, control of
monopoly corporations and modifica-
ton of the tariff laws. The time is
not far distant when the people, out
of sheer desperation, will demand the
ascendency of these principles and it
will be wise for the Republican party
to place itself abreast of the signs of
the times and secure to the people
what they will sooner or later demand.