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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-04-15
OFF FOR MExIco.
General Grant's Departure ON Trip Which
Nay Mean BusinsHs or Pleasure.

General Grant's Departure ON Trip Which
May Mean Business or Pleasure.
st. Louis, March 3O.-Gen. U. 3 Grant,
accompanied by his son and several tray.
cling companions, arrived in this city at
o'clock this morning and took ouarters
at the Lindell. The party were DELAYED
on the route by snow storm, and arriy.
ed four hours late. The ex-president was
very much fatigued, and as he had to
make an early start this morning, he inn
mediately retired. He was up early this
morning, and at 8 8:30 the party took car
riages and were driven to the union depot
where they took the Iron Mountain train
for Mexico. Tho Times correspondent
foundthe general seated in the parIor
compartment of President Aliens car,
and had o conversation with the smoker
while the train was made up. Grant was
seated in the back part of the parlor. his
stove pipe hat tilted back on his head.
and half-smoked cigar between his
teeth. He has not changed much in ap-
pearance, although his face is fuller and
his beard is fast changing to gray. Mrs.
Grant was seated opposite to her hus
band, and the other seats we're occupied
by U. 3. Grant, Jr., and wife, Senor Ro.
nero. the ex-Mexican minister, Mrs. AL
len and Miss Sharp, two ladies who are
travelling for pleasure under the escort
Of the ex.president, aud Mr.. N. E. Daw-
son, Grants private secretary. General
Grant WAS willing to talk, but said that
he was SO tired aud tagged out that he
could hardly collect his ideas. He is still
enthusiastic about the worlds fair, and
says that he regrets that other business
compelled him to withdraw from the pres
idency. 1t ought to be great success" !"
he remarked, "and 1 know that the
American people have too much national
pride to allow it to fall through"
"What is the object of your present
Mexican tour?" was asked.
: "Well, about that would prefer to
say very little. I have lately been elect
ed president Of the Mexican Southern
railway, and Of course it is largely in the
interest OF that road that am travelling;
but there are other railroad matters that
wish to look into. and I do not vet
know what shape tho business may take.
In fact, the trip Is partly one of recrea.
tion, % my duties lately have been so
pressing that have had little time for
sightseeing. I hope the weather pro-
phets arc right in their predictions that
to-day will be clear, for those dull, damp
days are most disagreeable to me.
The rest Of the party all;Joined in the
conversation at this point, and weather
subjects were generally discussed for the
next few minutes. Mrs. u. S. Grant. Jr.,
ohatted pleasantly with Senior Romero,
while Ulysses, Jr. puffed his cigar pla-
oidly.
"a Wheu tho weather topic had been
settled tho reporter vcnturetl to ask
What is your opinion Of the Garfield
administration
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-04-15

me general quit smoking and held nm
Iiis hap!is In alarm: II do not want w.
taik politics" lie said; II am ont Of tba,
hoW; and as he continued to protest th"
pen rang and the train. pulled out from ON
Inc party will reach the City of Mex.
ico next Friday. The general will com.
Dlne business with pleasure. and will he
gone about two months. Ibo % rast W. nf .pe pe
party will remain with him 1u mn,;I II i,is h;s
return. ' A'ni uh'ii his
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-04-15

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Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-04-15
Memry's Co,.bolic ,sn,rc,

The BEST SALvE in the world for
Cuts, Sores. Bruises, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
letter. Chapped Hands, Chilblains.
Corns and all kinds of Skin Eruptions,
Freckles and Pimples. Be sure you eet
HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE, MS all
others are but limitations and counter
feits. Price 25 cents.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-04-15

1t is unpleasant to be continually
hacking and coughing. One bottle Of
DR.. Marshall's Lung Syrun viii cure
you. Price twenty live and fifty cents q
bo!!.th Druggists aelli
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-04-15

An old lady writes: 81 was cured OF a
complicated disease of the kidneys by
the use OF two OF Prof. Guilmettes
French Kidney Psds, after all other rem
sdies had failed" III
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-04-15
$. EcIAL NOTICES.

SILVER goods Of all the latest etxl.s in. :,
~ ce'rcd by II. g. Clark a. Ca. tho icvsin,ac 70
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13
,erquisites be covered into the Treasury and a

perquisites be covered into the Treasury and
salary fixed by law for the Secretary.
| 1.-THE railroads are in good condition, with
large increase of equipment, and with but few
exceptions they have responded to the require
ments of the law in furnishing statistics of their
operations. Legislative action Is asked to pre-
vent extortion in localities where discrimination
is made.
The Governor recommends the appointment
of a committee of five to report what legisla-
ton is necessary upon the subject OF fire and
life insurance. The existing legislation upon
this subject is crude and incongTuous.
Attention is called to the necessity Of Gov
ernor's dwelling-house, with the request that
steps be taken at once by the General Assembly
upon the matter.
We quote the closing paragraph of the mes
sage:
lieving the times demand such action, has al
ready undertaken an advanced line of work IN
the collection Of prompt and reliable statistics
in regard to the growing OF recently harvested
crops. An Interstate Convention has also
been held, with view to extending thus
work and making it uniform and ef-
stock-producing States of the West.
Our State Board has also instituted and is now
conducting through its Secretary series OF
Farmers Institutes, or Agricultural Conyen-
tions in different counties of the State, the OBJ
ject being to create greater interest and intelii-
gence in the important pursuit Of agriculture.
This and other works now in contemplation by
the Board are for the Advancement of the best
interests of this most important industry,
and should, in my opinion, be done at
public expense. The Board of Agriculture
was created by law for this very object Other
States have already undertaken similar work
under sufficient special appropriations from the
several Legislatures. I therefore recommend
that you make careful investigation and
make such special appropriation, in
81 he, n
shall, in your wisdom, seem sufficient for the
proper prosecution of the work"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13
Charcoal.

If we wish for some substance which
will catch fire from the smallest spark,
we find that among thousands of bodies,
simple and compound, that exist in
nature or are produced by art, the most
suitable for our purpose is pure carbon
in the form of tinder. On the other
hand, when we want a crucible that will
bear without taking fire the flame of the
hottest furnace, we make it of pure car
bon In the form of plumbago.
The wax mold of the electroplater
is non-conductor of electricity, and tits,
therefore, necessary to cover its surface
with some good conducting material; it
is found that the best material is finely
pulverized plumbago; but this same ele-
ment, when crystalized, as in the dia-
mond, is the most perfect of all nom
conductors.
Carbon, in one state, is as soft as
lampblack, in another it is the very
hardest substance known; in one it is
brilliantly transparent, in another it is
perfectly Opaque in one it is the most
costly ornament in the crowns of Kings,
in another it is shoveled out of the way
rs worthless.
In all these changes in the condition
and properties of carbon no law can be
discovered, with the single exception
that the temperature at which various
kinds of charcoal will take fire are in
fixed relation to the temperature at
which the several kinds are prepared.
This is of the utmost Importance to the
manufacture of gun powder; they have
caused it to be investigated with great
care.-Monttly Magazine, London.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13
The Difference.

Tennyson can take worthless sheet
of paper and, by writing poem on it,
make it worth $1,000. That's Genius.
Mr.. Vanderbilt can write fewer words on
a 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 'tEagle-
bird" and "Twenty Dollars" That's
Money. The mechanic can take the ma
terial worth fifty dollars and make it into
a watch worth 800. That's Skill. The
merchant can take an article worth
TWENTY-FIVE cents and sell it to you for
800. That's Busines. A lady can pur-
chase comfortable bonnet for ten dol
lars, but prefers to pay 500 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.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13
THnN AND NOW.
sr OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.

Dear ancient school boy.i Nature taught to them
Showed them strange sights; how on q single stem
Admire the marvels Of Creative PowerI-
Twin apples grew, one sweet, the other sour
How from the hilltop where our eyes behold
In even ranks the plumed and hammered maize
Range It's long columns, In the days Of old
The live volcano shot lis angry biaze,N
Dead since the shadows OF Noah's watery days
How, when the lightning split the mighty rock,
The spreading fury of the shaft was spent;
How the young scion Joined the alien stock
And when and where the homeless sparroWs went
To pass the winter Of their discomfort
scant were the gleamings in those years Of dearth;
No Cuvier yet had clothed the fossil bones
That slumbered, waiting for their second birth;
No Lyell read the legend of the stones;
Science still pointed to her empty thrones.
Draining Of orbs to eyes of earth unknown,
Herschel looked heavenward in the starlight Iale;
Lost In those awful depths he trod alone.
Laplace stood mute before the lifted veil;
While home-br.d Humboldt trimmed his toy-ship's
sail.
No mortal feet those lofHer heights had gained
Whence the wide realms of nature we descry;
In vain their eyes our longing fathers strained
To scan with wondering gaze the summits high
That far beneath their chlldren's footsteps lie.
Smile at their first small ventures as we may,
The school-boy's copy shapes the scholars hand,
Their grateful memory fills our hearts to-day;
planned,
While vars dread plowshare SCARED the suffering
land.
Child Of our ciildren's children yet unborn
When on this yellow page you turn your eyes,
Where the brief record Of this May-day morn
In, phase antique and faded letters lies
How vague, how pale our fitting ghosts will risel
Yet in our veins the blood ran warm and red,
For US the fields were green, the skies were blue.
Though from our dust the spirit long has fed,
We elived, we loved, We toiled, we dreamed like
you,
Smiled at our sires and thought how much we
knew.
Oh might our spirits for one hour return,
When the next century rounds its hundreth ring,
An the strange secrets 1t shall teach to learn,
To hear the large truths its years shall bring.
Its wiser sages talk, its sweeter minstrels singi
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13
Esquimaux Carpentry.

The builder selects snow of the proper
consistency by sounding a drift with q
cane made for the purpose, of reindeer
horn, Strengthened by steaming, and
worked down to about half an inch in
diameter, with a ferule of walrus tusk or
the tooth of bear on the bottom. By
thrusting this into the snow he can tell
whether the layers deposited by success
sive winds are separated by bands of
soft snow, which would cause the blocks
to break. When the snow is selected he
digs pit to the depth of eighteen inches
or two feet, or about the length of the
snow block. He then steps into the pit
and proceeds to cut out the blocks by
first cutting down at the ends Of the pit
and then at the bottom afterward, cut
ting little channel about an inch or two
deep, making the thickness of the pro.
posed block.
Now comes tie part that requires
practice to accomplish successfully.
The expert will, with few thrusts of his
knife In just the right places, split off
the snow-block and lift it carefully out
to await removal to its position on the
wall. The tyro will almost inevitably
break the block into two or three pieces
utterly unfit for the use of the builder.
When two men are building an igloo,
one cuts the blocks and the other erects
the wall. When sufficient blocks have
been cut out to commence work with,
the builder marks with his eye or per-
haps draws line with his knife describ-
ing the circumference of the building,
usually a circle about ten or twelve feet
in diameter, The first row of blocks is
then arranged, the blocks placed so as
to incline inward and resting against
each other at the ends, thus affording
mutual support. When this row is COM
pleted, the builder cuts away the first
and second blocks, slanting in from
the ground upward, so that the second
tier, resting upon the first row, can be
continued on and around spirally, and
by gradually increasing the inward slant
a perfect dome is constructed of such
strength that the builder can lie fiat
upon the outside while chinking tn.
interstices between the blocks. The
chinking is, however, usually done by
women and children as the building
progresses, and additional protection
secured from the winds in very cold
weather by banking up, with a large
wooden nsnow-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 in the
most tempestuous weather. When the
house is completed the builders are
walled in. Then small hole about two
feet square is cut in the wall on the
side away from where the entrance is to
be located and is used to pass in the
lamps and bedding. It is then walled
up and the regular door cut about two
feet high and niched at the top. 1t
would bring bad luck to carry the bed
ding into the igloo by the same door it
would be taken out. Before the door is
opened the bed is constructed of snow
blocks, and made from one to three or
four feet high, and occupies three
fourths of the entire space. The higher
the bed and the lower the door the
warmer the igloo will be.-Frons an,
arctic Explorers "reminiscences.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13
He Is an ASS.

If humanity continues as gullible as it
has shown itself in the last few years, we
shall advocate a new kind of school
primer in order that people may learn in
their childhood what you can't beat into
some of them with triphammer, even
when they are old enough to go to Con-
gress.
One lesson we should advocate having
fixed up in something after this style:
"What is three card monte ?"
'It is bad, bad game"
'Who plays three card monte?"
"One man who looks like farmer.
One man who looks like a new-school
philosopher"
''Cantwo 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.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13
The Utilizing of the Tide.

A Philadelphia engineer has invented,
it is claimed, q machine by which the
power of the tides can be utilized Num-
erous plans have been proposed for the
accomplishment of this most desirable
end, but only under exceptional condi-
tions have they been practical or econom-
ical. If the new device can harness the
tide in an open channel, 80 as to convert
any considerable portion of the vast
power into working force, the inventor
will rank among the great benfactors of
humanity. Emerson says somewhere:
Hitch your wagon to star. A device
for utilizing mechanically the fresh tides,
as they sweep along our shores, would
come next to that, since it would enable
US, through converters and carriers Of
electricity, to hitch our wagons to the
sun and moon.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13

supported the suspended doctor, that lit
tie gentleman had offered many induce
ments for him to hold fast. When ques-
toned he responded chiefly with cav
ernous and mysterious smile, only say
ing:
master DIR. Jex is a gentleman;
starch in or starch out, he's de gentle
man straight"
And brother John, who is somewhat
acquainted with slang, said, with great
laugh, "fWell, old man, you had bully
chance to judge, so you must be right. !"
-Harper's Weekly.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13
0HsfAr dredging.

Consumers of the lucious bivalve have
little idea of the hardships which attend
the labor of taking oysters from their
cosy beds. It would seem that taking
one consideration with another, the
dredger's life is not a happy one. A Bal
timore paper gives the following glimpse
of the business:
There is no occupation in the world
more laborious or productive of pain
than oyster dredging. The brackish
waters of the Chesapeake freeze rapidly
over all shoals and bays when a cold
snap comes The tolls of the dredger
then become tortures. The method of
taking oysters from the prolific and linn
itless beds of the Chesapeake is simple.
The dredges, which are simply iron
bags with protecting under-scoop at
tached, are dredged across the oyster
beds by the motion of the 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 out. The
shells of the oysters are generally cov-
cred with parasitic growth known as
'dog stones" The conglomerated Jumps
of oyster growth are broken up with
hammers; shells, 'tbabies," and refuse
are thrown overheard, and the marketa-
BILE oysters are then run into the hold.
AS fast as the dredges are emptied on
deck their contents must be culled. 1t
is an occupation at best about as inter-
esting as breaking stone. When carried
on in 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, it be-
comes torture. Hauling at the wind
lass is only better because more active.
The skin sticks to the irons in frosty
weather, and the hands stretched down
to grasp the icy, dripping dredges often
leave blood stains where they touch. For
this work the pay ranges from $12 to 800
month, with food found.
Thus it is that the work OF q dredger
is looked upon in Maryland as the worst
that can fall to the lot of man. The ex-
treme expression of aversion with bay
shore darkey is to say, 81 would as lief
| dredge as do that.
There is prevalent belief among the
colored population that pungy captains
kdnap stray darkies who may come into
their reach. Itcertainly is the case that
captains make no inquiry as to where
their hands come from. Shipping mas
ters get two dollars 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 pungy.
| As rule, windlass hands are the poorest
species of tramps. Many of them are
picked up from the brickyard hands who
flock into town after the brick-making
| season is over.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13

A oRETAoEous 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
13O 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 sis, I 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
a limestone as ordinary white chalk.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13
The Enormous Diamond.

Of the many millions in value the
diamond mines aid river diggings of
Griqualand West have yielded, the Kim
berly Advertiser says, the "Porter
Rhodes" diamond stands alone in water,
purity, and size combined. The AdUer-
tiser says: 'sThis remarkable diamond
was found on the 10Th of February last,
in one of Mr.. Porter Rhodes claims in
Kimberly Mine, and handed to him by
one of his overseers, who will reap sub
stantially the reward Of his fidelity. Mr..
Rhodes has kept his secret well until the
past week or two, when few personal
friends were treated to . view, some of
whom suggested exhibiting it in aid of
the Carnarvon Hospital, and although
the seemingly high sum of one sovereign
per head was charged, the sum of G120
was netted in one day in Kimberly alone
for the first institution of Kimberley.
In weight it is $50 carats, in shape that
of dodecahedron of perfect form, spot
less and f1awless, with small secondary
nartural facets finely ribbed, which i'm
part a beautiful stain-ike appearance to
it. A piece has been broken off very
cleanly in the line of grain or cleavage
from one side of about thirty-fve to
forty carats, and another piece of about
fifteen carats is gone on the opposite
line of cleavage; also, very clean frac-
ture, and at the same end of the stone,
80 that the whole has the appearance of
the top of an egg with small piece off
one side. That it will cut brilliant as
perfect in form as in purity is the opin-
ion of our best experts, whilst as to its
water or whiteness one and all unite in
pronouncing it so exceptionally fine that
the sight of it can never be effaoed from
memory. Experts know that there are
various kinds of whiteness known to the
trade, some more valuable than others.
The whiteness of this diamond has been
tested in every known way, and it is
generally described to be of a lovely
satin-liks whiteness, without n particle
of steely blue, pinkish, or any tinge or
taint of any color whatsoever"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13

FLORIDA is an illustration of what can
be done to aid the prosperity of State
where systematic effort is made for that
purpose. Soon after the close of the
war special effort was made to advertise
the advantages of soil, climate and pro-
ducts of that State, and the result is an
increase of go per cent. in the population
in ten years. There is no State or 10
cality in the Union but what has some
interest or advantage for some purpose,
and carefully prepared description of
such advantages will be sure to bring its
returns.