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Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
TO AN OLD COAT.
From Beranger.

From Beranger.
Poor coat, we'll loved for many reasons,
Since both of us grow old, be true;
This hand has brushed you for ten seasons,
Fen Socrates no more could do.
Whilst Time your thin and white seemed stuff
Keeps on attacking without end,
Wisely, like me, his blows rebuff;
And never let us part, old friend.
That birthday flown, when first wore you,
mind well-memory yet IL strong
Ny friends around to honor bore you,
And poured their welcome forth in song,
Your shabby pight-of which i'm vain
flinders them not an arm to lend,
They'd freely feast us now again;
So never let US part, old friend.
You're patched behind, an ancient rending;
That too, recalls past delight:
One night to run from Jane pretending,
/ felt her soft hand clutch me tight
Torn were you, and that frightful tear
took my Jane two days to mend,
Whilst was held her captive there;
So never let us part, old friend.
Have you been stepped in musk and amber,
Which tops sniff, looking in the glass?
Or pushed along an ante chamber,
For swells to sneer at as we pass!
Throughout all France by faction rent,
Ribbons and stars fell strife can send
A field flower is your ornament;
So never let us part, old friend
Fear no more days of idle ranging,
When our two fates became as one,
Of pleasure with pain interchanging,
Of intermingled rain and sun.
For the last time soon shall dof
My clothes, just wait and we will wend
Together, gently going off;
So never let us part, old friend.
Tho Cornhil Magazine. F. DOYLE
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
Hints on Starched Linen.
From the Maine Farmer.

ITOLu ndlut dTuSI
Much has been said and written about
poorly "done up" linen. One will tell US
to use boiled starch, another will say use it
cold, and another says she cannot get the
linen stiff enough to suit her men folks
without first using the starch being boiled,
and then cold. I think the fault in most
cases is not in the starching, but in the
ironing. Linen will not look nice ironed
with rough, dirty iron, no matter in what
way it is starched. 1t is the soiled look
caused by dirty irons, and not a lack of
stiffness, that most men complain Of do
pity the man whose linen comes from the
ironing board looking only fit for the wash.
To prevent this soiled appearance it is not
necessary to have nickel plated or
any other improved fatirons. The
old fashioned irons will do well
enough if kept smooth and clean.
They should be kept in a dry place, to pre-
vent rust, and should never remain on the
stove unless in use. I have noticed those who
keep them on the stove from one ironing
DAY to another always have rough irons and
consequently soiled linen. When they are
set to cool, always set on the end, as they
gather moisture if placed on the face. In
using cold starch, do not have the water
very thick with starch, wet the linen, then
place it on the ironing board and rub with a
dry cloth. This will remove the particles
of starch that would stick to the iron, and
does not take the starch from the linen as
rinsing it would. found no trouble in do
ing up starched clothes in nice manner
since have tried this way.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
Marital Troubles of the Players.

Letter from New York.
The story that Maud Granger and her
husband have separated from each other are
now set at rest permanently, I hope. She
is seen almost every night at some theatre
in New York. accompanied by Mr.. Follin,
the gentleman whose name she bears, and it
is therefore not reasonable to suppose that
thev are on any but the ordinary terms
which exist between man and wife. There
seems to have been widespread and pleas
ant desire to see these people separated, as
everybody, pretty much, has taken hand in
the game with that intention obviously in
view. There is great deal of this sort Of
thing in the profession. I don't know why
it is that actors and actresses can not be
allowed to marry and stay married, in peace
any more than outside parties. But if q
gentleman connected with the stage is seen
in conversation with any other lady than
his wife, there is always somebody kind
enough to report it at headq uarters, and if
on the other hand the wife walks block on
Broadway with male acquaintance, her
husband is generally informed of it without
any unnecessary delay. The dramatic pro-
fession is made up should say, if we're
going to write prescription containing its
ingredients, about as follows: Jealousy, 60
parts; falsehood, 80 parts; ostentation, 9
parts; intelligence in sufficient quantity to
make up the balance.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
Personalities.

Senator elect Conger is suffering from
curious ailment. At election time he had
run round" on the little finger of his right
hand, and the clasps and shakings admin
istered by the people who congratulated
him were go emphatic and so many that the
trifing trouble was greatly aggravated. He
has been forced to carry the hand in sling
for fortnight.
Charles Sumner, Mr.. z. L. White says,
did not know what dyspepsia was. Speak
ing of his good fortune in this respect one
evening, he said that one of the first requi-
sites to success in political life was good
digestion, and he reminded his visitor that
majority of the senators were portly men.
While he admitted that slim, dyspeptic men
sometimes attained high position, still he
maintained that in order to do so they had
to overcome greater obstacles than those
who had good stomachs.
Mr.. William Black, the novelist, now re-
sides permanently at Brighton, England.
Lately one of his most constant visitors has
been Bret Harte, for whose work the Irish
writer has the highest admiration. Mr..
Black will not produce novel of the GUS
tomary three-v volume length this year, but
he is engaged upon a short story, the scene
of which will be laid in and around Bright
on. It will probably be published In the
Illustrated Ne,cs. The novelist's house is
one of the strong, we'll arranged houses that
Cubit built, and it has been fitted up and
furnished after the popular manner OF the
revival of the old English or Kensington
style of house. The Salmagundi and Tile
clubs would be delighted with the color
harmonies of his drawing and dining room
decorations.
The Rev. Jabez Lafayette Monroe Curry,
D. D., who recently became the general
agent of the Peabody Educational Fund,
has had an eventful life, although he is but
fifty six years old. He was fellow student
at the Harvard Law School with President
Hayes, and on quitting it joined the Texas
Rangers and served for short time in the
Mexican war. He was then admitted as a
member of the bar of Alabama and served
for several years in its Legislature. He
was a Presidential elector for Buchanan
and Breckenridge and in 1857 was elected
to congress, where he at once distinguished
himself as brilliant debater. He seeded
from his Office in 1851 and joined the Con-
federate army for time and then became
a member Of the Confederate Congress.
After the war he studied divinity and be-
came popular preacher in the Baptist
Church. He was for few years President
of Howard University in Alabama, and for
the past ten years has been President of
Richmond College. Last summer he filled
one of our city pulpits during two months.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
Chewing the Cud.

A correspondent having asked the
Country Gentleman whether Illuminating
cattle have the power to raise food once
swallowed in order to put it through the
process of mastication, is thus answered by
DR.. Edward Moore, F. r. G. V. s.: Food
is taken into the body. This contains the
elements of nutrition for different organs,
but not in state fit to be taken directly to
those parts. Grasses and herbs, the nat
ural food of the OK, are OF no use to brain
or bone in crude state; hence, nature has
certain methods for the preparation OF these
vegetable matters within the body for the
ends which they are to serve. These
methods are not alike in all animals.
The processes may be summed up as
follows: First-the reduction of the food
into PUPPY mass, accomplished in the
horse and OK by the teeth, in poultry by
that portion fit for absorption into the
system, from that which is not, and which
latter is consequently elected. Third-The
alteration of the former portion into the
direct elements of the blood. All these
processes may be included in the term
digestion" The Eliminating animals
proceed as follows: The tongue is pro-
truded, grasps the food and draws it to the
mouth; next the teeth are brought into
play; they cut it and crush it, and by the
action of the tongue in mastication the
food is mixed with saliva. In the rumin-
ants, mastication is only partially completed
during feeding time, and the food, thus
rudely prepared, is passed from the mouth
to the pharynx, thence to the esophagus
or outlet, and by contractons of the latter
it is forced down and emptied into the first
stomach. The united action of the above
organs is known as the action of deglutition
or swallowing. Thus mouthful after
mouthful is swallowed until the frs
stomach is full. This process is the
same in the horse, as far as We
have gone, except that the tongue
in the horse has a substitute in thu
lips and teeth in prehension, and also thu
food is thoroughly masticated and mixeC
with saliva before it is swallowed and the1
passes into the single true stomach to b.
digested. But the OK, after filling his frs
stomach (for he has FOUR, either stands O.
quietly lies down, and begins the act of ru
mination. By a combined effort of thu
stomach and asophagus quantity of foot
is urgitated-conveyed back to the moutf
to undergo more complete mastication
This process is called, in common parlance
chewing the cud." The ruminantia have 6
provision in the formation of the guile
| which allows of its forcing food in eithel
direction by alternate contractions, while IL
the horse contractions can take place il
one direction only, and not only 30, but
owing to the angle at which the 9sophagus
enter sthe stomach and the valves, the horse
has no power to regurgitate food.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
Too Good for Him.

The following story carries its own moral,
and may, perhaps, recall some one to an
apprehension Of the fact that his wife is too
good for him, seeing that he is not what he
ought to be.
An eminent public man who shall be
nameless---a man of great intellectual pow
er, of real goodness Of heart at bottom, but
sadly broken and demoralized by long
continued course Of wrong living and much
wrong doing-was once told by q B Don COM
panion how certain other public man had
been abusing him.
Never mind, said our eminent friend,
whose soul was really above the petty scan
dial and malice. "The fellow is only dirty
blackguard, and care not to know what he
says Of me-
"But, my dear sir, if he is allowed to 90
on in that way he will ruin your character;
he will destroy your credit; and, perhaps,
injure your prospects in the future"
4Tut, tut! My character what there is
Of it's too tough for such man to iniure;
my credit is phantom, at best; and as for
my prospects in the future, Idoubt If he
can make them more dubious then thew are
now" 800
well, persisted the friend after little
pause. how do you like the idea Of his
making free with the name Of your wife?"
The man was aroused on the instant
aHa! Does he dare?"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
SuperstitiOns of Turkish Women.

The Turkish woman is fanatical conser-
vative. The world in which she lives is
unmoved by the practical facts of the nine
teenth century which makes life burden
to her husband: No Chinaman was ever
more impervious to ideas of improvement.
She is fercely intolerant in matters of re-
ligious belief. The teachings of Koran
have reached her by word of mouth, and
surrounded by perfect Talmund of tradi-
ton, and these teachings shape her view of
the outside world. In obedience to them,
she commonly hates foreigners with pas
sion. As she passes you on the street she will
pray with audible fervor that your eyes may
become blind. or that God may curse you.
She is superstitious in the extreme. In
sickness she will use the saliva of an old
woman who has never been divorced, or
will inhale the fetid breath of an odori-
ferrous and sanity dervish, in preference to
the choicest prescription of an educated
physician. She is assured that Satan in
person teaches Americans their skill in
mechanical arts. She believes in charms.
She will not live an hour bereft of her
three cornered bit of leather which incloses
the mystic phrase that is potent to ward off
the evil eye. She distrusts Tuesday as the
mother of i'll luck, and will not celebrate
the birthday anniversaries Of her children,
nor even record the date, lest some magi-
clan use it to cast spell against the child.
Magazine for March.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
eyes; he declares that your wife is alto.

eyes; he declares that your wife is alto
gether too good for YOU"
"What! Does he say that?"
eyes; he has said it repeatedly
"Well, well, there's something good in
the fellow after all. Bless him for the truth
he tells-for, my dear fellow, that is true-as
true as gospel"
The great man sat for many minutes,
with his head bowed upon his hand, and
when he next looked up, his face had grown
wondrously soft and pathetic.
Eyes; he told the truth! think I'll go
and have chat with that woman Who
knows but she may help me? I have not
thought Of her. Bless the rascal for re-
minding me. Yes, Sir! He told the truth
there!"
And the worker for the nation-the poll
tician, worn and weary-set forth to find
the one being on earth in whom, when all
else failed him. he could trust.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazettel

The Ri. Rev. Bishop Gilmour, Cleve-
land, Ohio-Chas. S. Strickland, Esq.
9 Boylston street, Boston, Mass. Capt
Paul Boyton, the World Renowned Swim
mer;-Prof, @. o. Duplessis, Manager
Chicago Gymnasium, Chicago, In.;-Wm
H. Wareing, Esq, Asst General Superin-
tendent, New York Post Ofice-Hon
Thomas L. James, Postmaster, New York;
Stacey Hill, Esq, Mt. Auburn Inclined
Plane Railroad, Cincinnati, Ohio, are
among the myriads who have experienced
the beneficial effects of that most remark
able remedy, st. Jacobs Oil, and who have
testified to its efficacy in unqualified terms
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
A Georgia Note.
From the New York Evening Post.

From the New York Evening Post
We we're this morning shown, at lead
ing bank in this city, note of which the
following is copy, excepting the amount
and names. The note came to the bank in
the regular way of business, and is a curl
osity. All that part of it excepting names
and amounts is printed as if there was a
general demand in Georgia for. blanks Of
that description:
"($500l Atlanta, Ga.
s'Sixty days after date promise to
pay--$ 5000, and hereby bind myself,
my heirs, executors, administrators, and
assigns, to take no advantage of the Home
stead or any other rascally Georgia law, 80
far as this debt is concerned. So help me
God and keep me steadfast in due perform
ance of the same.
Witness my hand and seal.
John Jones. [sEALl"
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
Lock to Your Seed Wheat.

If any farmer who raises spring wheat
has not good, clean seed, now is the time
to be looking it up. There is more leisure
and better chance to find it now than just
at seed time. It can also be thoroughly
cleaned. No farmer should SOW weed
seeds, as he will always have volunteer
weeds enough. It will pay to SOW nothing
but the best seeds Of all kinds, free from
foul weeds and mixed grains. A good plan
to get good seed is to get the grain dealer
to watch the wheat as it comes on the mark
ct, and let him buy il. as he can generally
buy it cheaper than the farmer can, and in
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24

Frank Robertson,a wealthy young planter
Of Wise county Tex, mysteriously disap-
peared three years ago on the day set for
his marriage with Jessie Bane, neighbours
daughter. Miss Bane became insane, and
is to-day in an asylum. For three years
Robertson's mother advertised far and wide
for her missing son and finally doubled the
offered reward. Two farmers living near
by then confessed that young Robertson
had been hanged as a horse thief by o band
of vigilents and dug up his body in q ravine
has begun suits against all the parties i'm
plicated.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
Atlanta, Ga.
[Ypsilanti Mich Commercial. I

lowing from Mr.. Carl Siegmund, Cor Con-
gress and Washington Sts.: My daughter
suffered from Rheumatism to such an ex-
tent that it crippled her, rendering her un-
able to walk ct all. We consulted many
physicians and used all kinds of medicines,
but in vain. At last st. Jacobs Oil effected
the happiest result. 1t cured my daughter
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24

Up to the close Of the year the Lake Su-
perior copper mines have produced since
their commencement 300, 900 tons Of ingot
copper, valued at $140, 000, 900.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24

midwinter it can generally be bought rs to
80 per cent. cheaper than at seed time: Get
good seed; SOW early; cut early, and thresh
early and, as general thing, sell early.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24

Queen Sophie, of Sweden, during six
years of her illness, has SO suffered from
nervousness that she has not been able to
listen at all to music, though she is very
fond of it. Upon her recent marvellous re-
covery at Amsterdam her eldest son hasten
ed to her, and his singing was her first
musical enjoyment. He has beautiful
voice and the eyes of those present filed
with tears as they saw the radiance in the
mothers face and the emotion which the
son tried to conceal as he sang to that moth
er, restored to him almost from her death
bed
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24

why we should not send them gift of flow
ers? They are suffering tortures Of body and
mind; the greater therefore the necessity Of
enabling them to appreciate Mr.. Bruce
Jones's pictures. Fever is always by their
bedside, and their windows and roofs let
in wind and rain and snow. By all means,
then, let us instruct them ITO lay out as
gardens any avail able strips eff waste ground,
and to encourage the cultivation of plants,
not only in windows, but also in areas and
back yards
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-07-23
WIT AND HUMOR.

PUBIC apinlr.-Nrs. Smith: "What
have you gentlemen been plotting down
stairs, that you look SO gulltyf" Mr..
Smith plotting, my love: POOH The
fact IS, we've been having a serious chat
about the disgraceful-- yes d~isRraceful
way foreign hotels are-er-draincd, and
all that and lin the interest OF our fami-
lies and other English families who go
abroad in the autumn, Jones, Brown,
Robinson, and-er-l, have elected our
selves into a kind of sanitary inspection
committee, aDd have settled to pop over
fust for a week or two, you know, and re-
port upon some Of the hotels at the best
known French watering places. including
-cr-Paris. Rather a risky thing to do,
Of course; but we -er look upon it in the
light Of q duty"
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-07-23
a Losing Joke.

u prominent physician Of Pittsburg sad
joklngly to lady patient who wa,,,complaln
ing of her continued i'll health, and Of his
inability to cure her, ''try Hop Bltters.'
The lady took il in earnest and u-ed the
Bltters, from which she obtained perlna-
nent health. She now laughs a: the doc
tor for his joke, but he is not 50 well
pleased with it as it cost, him a good pa
( ont.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-07-23
81, the weather on Mt. Washington any

81, the weather on Mt. Washington any
better or more certain than 1t used to be z"
ina iired Pingrey of a friend who spends
his summers at the White Mountains.
:'We,l, l don't know that it isl said his
friend why do you ask /" 81 heard
that since they built the railroad, the
tourists had a different climb 1t. That's
ALL added PiDgrey, as he cut his name in
big letters on the Office furniture.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-07-23

"MY WIFE remarks one benedict to
another, has just the Iovliest head Of hair
you ever saw. When she lets it down it
reaches in a mass of ringlets below her
waist" 'That's nothing, replies the
other" when my wife lets hers down
1t falls to the floor !"
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-07-23

Nh. PElM went fishing, and on his re-
turn told sonnet terrific hes about what he
caught. Said sharp TO him, "What do you
want to tell such yarns as that for? Tell
something possible, If not probable. Don t
you know that everybody saw that you
were lying?' Yes answered Prim.
Then, what the blazes did you do it for z"
'sWhy, wanted them to know l was ly-
ing. | didn't want them to think l was
eccentric"
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-07-23

DRUGGIST. -"Doctor, you must prescribe
more calomel and less bltters- I'm all
out Of the latter and have an immense
stock Of calomel on hand, and'must work
i, of this month, or take a heavy loss
Physlcian-"Tcll you the truth. l begin to
thlnk that caloInel is much superior to
bltters.n Doth wink, both smile, and
both walk briskly of, like men who have
done u good deed. In unity there is
strength.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-07-23

CHOW, then, madam. please look stead
lily at tins place on the WALL SAID a photo
grapher to an old lady, when he had put
her in a position and the plate in the cam
era. The old lady looked hard at the spot
indicated, then got up and walked across
the floor and infinitely inspected it, and
then, turning to the photographer, gently
remarked. 81 don't see anything there"
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-07-23
Iniiau4Is1lI-, lnsliana, Farmer.)
Right.

When every one says a thing is so, it
must be 81" Ga this point Mr.. a H.
Lyman. Druggist, Manistee, Mich, writes:
Every one who tries St. Jacobs Oil, says
tina. it ls the best remedy ever used for
rheumatism. Mr.. White, q customer,
after having employed every known spec
lfc for rheumatism was cured by st.
Jacobs Oil.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-07-23
Don't Get The (hilis.

II you are suffice. 10 AgCe you mus: be sure
to Keep foGr Liver. bowels asd icnevsi In eooi
free condition. When 80, YOU Will be safe from
ali ss.sck-. The rsnedy - use Is kidney
OFT II Is tie BEST preventative o. al ms
laTlal diseases that YOU cAa take. See ajver-
tl-ement Ia another CO ufnn.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-07-23
Hahitu.al Co>tixenc>s

X u g Oane OF n.atly very Amer can woman
From II u-u.iiv ar SEA those disorder, that 90
surely und. rhine their health aud strength.
Evers woman owes it 10 herself and to bel
family 10 use that celebrated medicine Kidney
Wort II is the ~ure r. medy for c nstlpation
and for all disorders OF the Kidneys and liver.
lrv 1T IN hqni ar dry form Equally ef6cien,
III ether, boston St.t.idy Budget
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-07-23

"THE dog Z" SAID Junior Alley, in re-
Spouse to a remark about his looks. Eyes,
he is not in very good condition. He lost
over two pounds of flesh this morning in
as many minutes" How was that -
'Oh, it was a piece Of liver Another dog
got it away from him.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1881-07-23

HAVE you tried the blue-glass remedy
vet asked Smith Of Jones. NO, 'said
Jones; that is only indirectly. My
miihman, judging from the color Of his
milk, is trying il on his cows and so in
directly on me-"