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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-03-09
Waits of Wit.

There are some very straightforward peo-
pie in Galveston. One of them came up
into the News Office yesterday and saunt-
eling up to the Sifters desk, asked: II
hear that the bible has been revised. Do
you know if many Important changes have
been made?' "a good many, I believe "
''Then there is no mistake about Anan-
las being struck dead for lying?" 'No, I
believe not"
"Wen, if I was you would find out
about it, and he strolled out as unconcern-
eddy as you please.
''There, Georgia. said the boys father,
"don't repeat that again; you've told it
once, and once is enough" George stop
ped in the midst of his story, as in duty
bound, but he was heard to mutter some
thing about hearing father tell the same
story lots and lots of times. Strange that
children should wish to usurp the privil-
eye of their elders boston Transcript
One morning when the Rev. Willis Of
fered the Lords prayer in the Nevada Sen
ate, Doolin leaned over to Hammond and
remarked: HE stole that prayer, and I'll
bet on it. heard the same ideas expressed
in Eureka at funeral over two years ago.
"When is a man not a man." asked Jones.
Of course he expected everybody to give it
up, and then he was going to say, when
he is shaving" But they didn't give it
up; not bit OF it, One said when he was
fool enough to deal in conundrums; another
answered when he worked over Jokes a
thousand years old, and third teld Jones
to look in glass and see for himself
Jones said he didn't see what in time they
were driving at, but somehow he had lost all
interest in his conundrum and hadn't the
heart to tell them the tue answer.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-03-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

The manufacture of beet sugar at Frank
lin, Massachusetts,, which has been extern
sively advertised, has proved bad failure,
and farmers have suffered heavy losses.
The cost of manufacturing was five times as
much as expected. The company deter
mined to lease the mills for term of years,
upon the payment of interest upon all the
Indebtedness, together with taxes and in
surance, SO as to determine once for all
whether the manufacture Of beet sugar
could be financially successful.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-03-09

SECRETARY EvARTs says that he has
spent $4,000 year more than his salary
for the last four years, and it is known that
ex-secretary Fish did the same. That comes
of ''setting up" the wine for the represen-
tatives of the effete monarchies of the old
world. President Hayes gave them tea and
coffee, good enough for anybody and
saved 100000 in four years. 1t is gravely
suspected that Mr.. Blaine will follow the
example of his illustrious predecessors in
the foreign Office, rather than that of the
president land he can afford to do SO.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-03-09
The Wisconsin SenatOrshiD,

The Wisconsin Senatorship.
The question as to the successor Of Mr. Car
penter has been somewhat complicated by the
following telegram from ex-chief Justice Luth-
er S. Dixon:
..z. Milwaukee, Feb. g.
Hon. John E. Eldred, Chief Clerk Of tho AS
sembly, Madison:
At the request of my friends am candidate
for United States senator, and will be glad to
receive the nomination [Signed] L. S. DIXON.
Two years ago Judge Dixon, when it was
known that his candidacy would insure election,
positively refused the wishes of friends, and
now yields only after a continued and extraor-
binary pressure The Cameron stock has de-
clined to some extent but his friends still have
hopes of his election
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hearty hand shake, had afriendly chat, is con

~.
sidered significant
House The deficiency BILL the last of the
appropriation bills, passed. The funding bill
passed, after a long discussion and sharp
parliamentary contest, all the seuate amend
ments being concurred in The bill is in the
shape as that in which itleft the senate, except
ing few verbal changes. On motion of Mr.
Carlisle, the rules were suspended and bill
passed amending the funding bill so as to con-
form with the amendments made by the WAYS
and means committee.
One OF the most impressive speeches of the
day was made by Carlisle (dem of Ky.) when
he brought on his supplemental bill. and urged
It's passage under a suspension of the rules.
he spoke with unusual earnestness. and was so
anxious to make it clear that he had been hon
est in framing the fifth section, that his effort
had an element of appeal in it that touched ev-
en- the Republicans. Frye rushed forward i'm
pulsiyely to say: cit is universally conceded on
this side of the house that the gentleman from
kentucky is the jewel of his party"
THURSDAY, MARCH 8.
SENATE-The general deficiency bill was
passed, with large number of amendments,
after Mr.. Hoar's amendment containing the
substantial features of the vetoed refunding
bill, had been offered and withdrawn, the Dem
ocrats evincing opposition to it. The Japanese
indemnity fund bill, directing the payment of
81, 1863, 224 to Japan, passed
HousE-The President sent in message We
TONG the refunding bill, principally on the
ground of opposition to the 9TH section, and
that it takes from the banks the right they have
heretofore had under the law to purchase and
deposit as security for their circula tion any of
the bonds issued by the United States and de-
prives bill-holders of the best by requiring
them to deposit bonds having the
least value of any bonds issued by
the government. A molten to con-
Si6ny. tho woe Lost 70
Cox moved to suspend the rules and pass the
apportionment bill, the house to vote first on
the various numbers of representatives pro-
posed until one was agreed upon. Carried
vote was taken on 1872 and lost-l19 to 1872
A vote was taken on 319, which was agreed to
-l36 to 1913; one democrat voting in the neg
alive and twelve democrats in the affirmative.
By this apportionment the North gains Is and
loses 3; net gain 13. The South gains ID and
loses none.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-03-09
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The democratic senators will organize in
committee Immediately after the new senate
meets, and act promptly on all nominations
In any event, prominent democrats in the SEN
ate say there will be no opposition to any of
Garfield nominations.
The amount deposited in the sub-treasury
up to the close of business last Saturday, to take
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-03-09

when the fremen went to work They were in
formed of the belief that some Of the children
were still in the building, and made an effort
to reach the upper floor. In short time the
flames were beaten and the door of the dormi
tory burst open. The victims of the fire were
found beneath the cots. Only two were touched
by fire, but all had evidently been deaf some
time
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-03-09
ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.

There is an unusual number of small pox
cases in Chicago, and efforts are making to
isolate the disease.
A collision on Virginia railroad killed two
engineers and fireman, and DR.. Caldwell of
White Sulphur Springs.
The boiler in Charles Harrence's saw mill
located at Millville, Ind, exploded, instantly
killing N. Martz and iniuring several others
There are reports of unprecedented high
water IN northwestern streams owing to sud-
den heading up. Miles city, Montana, was four
feet under water.
The Chicago and Rock Island passenger train,
struck broken rail near Prairie City, Iowa.
About dozen persons were injured, but none
fatally.
The agents, at New York, of the steamer
BRISTOL City, out sixty days, have abandoned
all hopes for her safety, and are making up
| SUBSCRIPTION to be divided among the widows
and orphans Of the officers on board
Robert Hayes, superintendent of the Wood
ruff sleeping cars, slipped while crossing the
was struck by locomotive, run over across the
middle of the body by the forward wheel,
wedged between that and the next wheel and
dragged fifteen feet The locomotive had to be
lacked up to get the corpse out
A deplorable condition of affairs ia reported
at Honolulu. Small pox is epidemic Many
houses are quarantined No one is allowed to
enter or leave the city, and inter communica-
ton between the islands is stopped. The city
is in very bad sanitary condition There is
not single sewer within it's limits and the
ground is honeycombed with vaults, which have
not been cleaned in a quarter of century.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-03-09
How They Get Their Tods in Maine.

Whisky in Main, says Neal Dow, is car
ried in small bottles in the pockets of the
liquor sellers and dealt out upon the sly;
it is put into teapots, placed upon the kitch-
en- shelf, it is built into the walls Of houses,
in tin cans, with small rubber pipe by
which to draw it off; it is concealed in
the bed; it is concealed in bottles under the
floor, put there through trap that can be
only reached by removing the bed; it is con-
cealed in small fiat bottles in the ash pit
under the ovens of cooking stoves; it is
hidden in wells attached to strings fastened
some inches below the surface of the water;
it is buried in manure heaps; it is concealed
under the floor of the pigsty; it is hidden
away upon the fiat roof of the house. access
to it being had only by a ladder through a
scuttle; it is hidden in attics, under the
floor and in cellars buried in the earth.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-03-09

There has been much complaint of adul-
teration of food in Paris lately. M. And
rieux, the Perfect, has adopted a method
that will probably succeed in putting Sc
we're check on adulteration. He purposes
opening vast chemical laboratory in a CEN
trail part Of the city, where the public can
take any artical of food and have itanalyzed.
AS the French laws are very severe against
persons taken in adulteration, this plan
will brighten most of the offenders into hon
ssty.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-20
Artesian or Self-Spouting Wells.

In 1888 the French Government began
the sinking of an artcsian we'll at Gre
| nellie, then snburb, but now q portion,
OF Paris. This well wn9 not completed
until February 26, 18H, when. at q
depth of l, 1872 feet, the auger, having
penetrated ledge of rock, suddenly
sank Ill several yards OF water. When
the drill was withdrawn, the water of
the well spurted 112 feet above its top.
and continues yet to run in constant
stream. Paris is situate in tho lowest
portion Of n basin shaped mass of for
nations, SO that the strata slope toward
the city. AS in Cincinnati, which is
built on the lowest formation geologi-
ca'ly within several hundred miles, a
deep flowing we'll may he sunkcn
almost anywhere in its "basin" with
almost surety Of obtaining steady
flow of water. The Grcncllc we'll is
utilized for many purposes, discharges
800, 900 gallons per diem, and, as the
water is pure, it is used for drinking
when cooled down from its temperature
OF 81 degrees Fab. Mt the mouth of the
well. The immense abattOirs-slaughte
houses--ln the neighborhood ara kept
clean by its waters. Since 1841, the
city OF Paris has gone rather extensively
into the artesian well business. The
largest is that ut Passy, which was COM
pleted III 1860. This is two feet in diam
eter and nearly 1900 in depth, and dis
charges five and two thirds million gal
Ions daily, but it's great flow has dimin
lshed the yield of the Grenelle we'll
about one-fourth. ST. Louis has vuinly
attempted, by boring hole some 5000
feet deep, to obtain an adequate supply
OF water. She has one artesinn well at
the Belcher sugar works which dis
charges tepid, medicated water. It is
pretty, certain that any we'll sunk deep
enough IN the Cincinnati basin to dis
charge constant stream by natural
force would produce warm mineral
water, but it is possible the streams from
such wells might be found highly useful
lof many economic purposes. At nil
events, "the Paris of America" mioht
become even more like her European
exemplar by sinking few huge artesian
ells.-Cancinnah Gazette.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-20
How to Make Labor Cheerful.

dozen or so years ago the wife of
President Garfield wrote her husband a
letter, in which the following passage
occurs:
L am glad to tell that, out of all She
toll and disappointments of the summer
just ended, L have risen up to victory;
that the silence Of thought since you
have been away has won for my spirit O
triumph. 1 read something like this
the other day: There is no healthy
thought without labor, and thought
makes the laborer happy Perhaps
this is the way have been able to climb
up higher. 1t came to me one morning
when [ was making bread. I said to
myself: Here L am, compelled by an
inevitable necessity to make our bread
this summer. Why not consider it
pleasant occupation, and make it so by
trying to see what perfect bread I can
make? p It seemed like an inspiration,
and the whole of life grow brighter.
The very sunshine seemed flowing down
through my spirit into the white loaves,
and now believe my table is furnished
with better bread than ever before, and
this truth, old as creation, seems Just
now to have become fully mine, that I
need not be the Sinking slave to toll,
but it's regal master, making whatever L
do yield me its best fruits. You have
been Ring of your work 80 long maybe
you will laugh at me for having lived so
long without my crown, but L am too
glad to have found it at oil to be entire
ly disconnected, even by your merri-
ment. Now 1 wonder if right here does
not lie the terrible wrong, or, at least,
some of it, of which the woman suffrag-
lists complain. The wrongly-educated
woman thinks her duties disgrace and
trets under them, or shirks them if she
can. She sees man triumphantly pur-
suing his vocations, and thinks it is the
KIND of work he does which makes him
grand and regnant; whereas, it Is not
the kind of work at all, but the way in
winch, and the spirit with which, he
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-20
The English Joke.

The mission of the English humorist
is, to darken the horizon and shut out
the false and treacherous Joy of exist
ence--to shut out the beauty of tho
landscape and scatter 81 gloom over
the brOad-green earth.
English humor is like sore toe. It
makes you glad when you get over it. 1t
is like having the smallpox, because if
you live through it you are not likely to
have it again.
When we pass from earth and oar
place is filled by another sad. eyed genius
whose pants are too short, and who man
ifests other signs Of greenness, let no
storied urn or animated bust be placed
above our lovely resting place, but stuff
an English conundrum so that it will
look as it did in life, and let it stand
above our silent dust to shed it's damp
and bilious influence through the ceme-
terry as a monument of des0lation and a
fountain Of upshed tears, and the grave
robber will shun our final resting place
as he would the melon patch where
lurks the spring gun and the alert and
irritable bull dog.-Laranaie Boone
rang.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-20
WHY SHE SQUIRSIED,

oh Thy 50 restless, darling, as il you iain would
Yourself from out my presence--tell me- fairest Of
the fair - -
my conversation stupid, that you dnch and twist
Like an nrchtn with the choiic, or an old man with
10 L tire you with MY stories, or annoy you with
Tr wear upon your patience crlticsirg other folks2
it'e Why you are so restless, aud keep turning
And Struggling up your shoulders-,au mo svootost
OF the sweet"
lie maiden rad hides her blashng face within her
nile ner fair breast with emotion colapses and ex-
Ana IN timid voice replies: "No, no. indeed, my
hour tones like sweetest music fall upon my liscn-
cnng car; ~
h0or prt sence fills me with delight; could forever
Beneath the sclnctilatohs OF your sparkling native
But ior the past ten minutes I have bsen on tor
ror 1mne Lug has been promenadpg up and down
-Det,oR Free Press.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-20

was thought that her opposition to the
alliance wac due to preference for
somebody else, and 1t was finally dicid-
ed that /, her music teacher, must be
the obstacle. Prince Gortschakoff. in
order, to get rid of me, procured my
arrest Gnd deportation. She had been
surprised at my sudden disappearance
and had instituted inquiries, but had
learned nothing until quite recently, and
then only by accident A masked bail
hdd been given at the residence of a
lady of high rank, and while seated In
an alcove tho Princess had overheard a
conversation regarding herself. She
was about to interrupt it when one Of
the speakers coupled my name with hers,
and her curiosity overcoming her scrup-
les, she listened. Armed with the knowl-
edge THUS acquired, she had accused her
uncle of the outrage. He admitted it,
and defended 1t as matter of necessity.
Sh" urged him to secure my pardon. but
he refused. What wus the Use of SO
much trouble over a music teacher? Of
course, she could do nothing, but it was
the thought Of my unhappy fate that
led her to visit the prison."
Had she really formed m attach
hient for you ?" asked the writer
"WhaG foolish question:" said the
professor. "This is not love story.
You forget that she was Princess"
"No, remember that she was wo-
man."
"Well, I have finished. And, now.
is not land in which such things can
happen a land Of rlcves. I tell you, my
young friend, that my case is not en ex-
ceptional one. Thousands and thou.
sands have suffered more whose offenses
were less grave than my supposititious
one. 1t is the same to-day. No man is
safe i'll Russia. Without cause, without
warming, without trial, anybody may lie
torn from his family and sent to- Siberia
to die by inches. 1t is terrible -
"And you think all this may be
changed by killing an Emperor or
two ?"
''Who knows? 1t is not impossible.
If by terrorism the Russian pcop'e can
obtain constitution. it will We cost
less t)tan the Great Charter of England
IF terrorism fail, there will be . revolu-
ton"
" But to return to the Princess. What
has become of her"
"Slc is ~ Nihilist, heart and soul
"And you ?"
:" am a teacher Of music and Ian
@uAgcs. -CHicd6O Ucr0ld.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-20
Shrinking Pride.

Some OF the upstarts of to-day can not
carry package. The late Chief Justice
Marshall, the first biographer of Wash.
ngton, was once in market in Waabinn.
ton, when an insurance agent. with a
Waxed mustache, was pricing q turkey
I'D buy it," he said, "but Pve No
way of carrying it home" Do
~ How much will you give ?" said the
/, "Twenty-fve CENTS" was the replv
dlVe me an order to your wife. then
Tor the money!" replied the Chief. .Jns'
hce' whom the agent did not know Tbo
man holding the highest position in the
United States carried home the tnrlSev S
and got the twenty-five cents from S tSSe
agents wife, who knew the Chief-Jnstice
md war horrified at the lesson her airy
husband had received. ' "AiJ
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-20
A Visit to Henry Clay's Tomb.

Here we visited Ashland Farm, the
home Of the "Great Harry of the West"
All OF that once magnificent farm Except
portion owned by James Clay and on
which he now resides) was bought by
the State Of Kentucky. A portion has
been set apart for an Agricultural and
Mechanical School. The old residence,
on account of its dilapidated condition,
has been rebuilt by one of his sons on
the same model. A good many of the
trees planted by the hands of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clay as ornaments to the grounds
have been cut down and carried away.
He is buried in one Of the most elevated
spots in the Lexington Cemetery. The
State of Kentucky has erected over his
remains very imposing monument of
granite and marble, cut from its own
quarries In the basement Of the mon
ument, through glass door, Is seen his
tomb, on which is inscribed one of those
eloquent sentences, taken from one Of
his speeches in Congress, in which he
calls on God to bear him witness to the
purity OF his motives and the absence of
any desire for self-aggrandizement that
prompted his advocacy of the pending
measure before Congress. .-Lesinqtoss
Ny.) Cor. Macon Telegraph.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-20

FIGURES are startling. In 1853 two
Portuguese brothers named Goes took
INTO the Argentine Republic eight COWS
and one bull, and from those have des-
cended herd of 10000, coo cattle, which.
with the sheep, constitutes almost the
entire wealth of that country. Of recent
years the stock, which has run down
considerably, has begun to be improved
Ill the vicinity Of Buenos Ayres by
crossing with short horn breeds.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-20

T.. B. CoNNERY has been retired on a
pension from the editorial management
OF the New York Her0ld His successor
is Frank Langley, of the editorial staff
OF the London Telegraph. Mr.. Nord>
hoff, the chief Washington correspondent.
has been appointed principal editorial
writer, in the place of l. Chamberlain,
deceased. John Russell Young and
Joseph Howard, jr., are the assistant
editorial writer's.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-20

ARKANSAS is q very wild State, but
still it is an unhealthy State for outlaws.
Train robbers in Missouri manage to al
ways evade tile authorities, but not so in
Arkansas. They overhaul them and bring
them to Justice in short order. When
we remember that Judge Lynch, in
Arkansas, last year, passed sentenced Of
death on 109 criminals, wecan but con-
clude that her citizens mean to be honor
ably and honestly dealt with.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-20

In coNsoNANoE with other things the
present wear. the apple crop Is light
one. Michigan, the great apple State,
reports the lightest crop in many years.
LIN Illinois "apples are selling at Ave
times their usual price" In New York
and Maine the crop is very light, md in
Massachusetts the trees are almost bar
rem. Seven of the best fruit growing
countries report almost no crop.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-10-20

GUtTsAt has told his story at great
length, and in it he details minutely how
he watched and waited for the President
nearly three weeks before desirable op-
portunlty to commit the act presented.
itself. He maintains that he was al.
rected by divine inspiration-as were men
IN the olden times-to take tho life of
this man to unite factions, He tells his
story deliberately and lucidly and with
out single trace Of insanity,