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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10
SURPRISED,

Hearing a story gravely told about a
clam that crawled up wall, one might
reasonably expect that the man who
told it had been putting something into
his mouth to the damage of his brains;
but the following from Fall River cor
respondent carries its explanation with
it. 1t seems that gentleman in Provi-
dence, happenedto be called into his eel
lar late one night.
The wind was blowing almost gale,
the rain poured down in torrents, and
the night was one to cause feeling of
uncertainty in the heart of the
bravest. r
The gentleman in question never in
dulges in intoxicating liquors, and there
is no reason to suppose that his nerves
were unusually disturbed. He is very
fond of CLAIMS, however, and had peck
of the shell-fish in the cellar, which were
to be cooked the next day.
AS he descended the stairs, shading
the lamp with his hand to shield it from
the draught, he saw the bucket of CLANS
at the foot of the stairs. Then he was
amazed to see what appeared to be a
small white clam move gradually from
the bucket, make its way quickly across
the cellar floor, and mount the wall at
the further side of the cellar to dis
lance of three feet from the floor.
Never having seen clam walk be-
fore, the gentleman was seriously dis
turbed. He placed the lamp in con-
venient position, took up piece of bar
rel-hoop as a means of offence, and
moved quickly and softly across the eel
lar floor.
The white object proved to be indeed
clam, but it had used other me- of
locomotion than its own. An indiscreet
mouse had walked over the bucket and
this ambitious clam had fastened its
nippers on the mouse's tail. The mouse,
frightened, had started for his hole in
the wall, but failed to get into it on ac-
count of the shell-fish attachment to his
tail. Of course the gentleman relieved
the mouse of his encumbrance-and
was probably somewhat relieved him.
self. sffa
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10
Johnny's Oritique on the Kangaroo.

"The kangrew amt much ov re-
commend for the factory witch made
him, or maybe he knu in himself wen
the riginal diergram was in the safe, and
rakin up such organs az wuz lief over
he made his ownself. He looks in the
face like shaller goose, and wen you
see him wal1in on his narrative YOU
don't blame nachur for givin him that
expression. His legs mus been made in
different moles, cause the last ones IL
long as a torchlite perceshin, but the
frunt ones has got too much shortnin in.
Snm kangrews has tharo cloze made so
they kin carry there familys round in
thare overskurts, but if wuz boy
kangrew ide rather paddle me one
kanew. Kangrews wares mustaches
like cats, but jackass kin give 'em a
yard start on the ear question an beet
EN- like sicksty. Eff i had ter be kan
grew ide hav mi tale sawd of close an
mend my arms with it so could reach
the bottom of Their preserves"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10
Read what $l.OO will do.

ON receipt of Sl.OO we will send CITY AND CouN.
TRY one year to any address in the United States
Canadas and in addition will give each subscriber
20 Choice Books, each book containing COMPLETE
story or first class novel by celebrated American
or European author, handsomely illustrated and
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each Below we give the names of the gifted
authors and titles of the books we give away to
every subscriber to CITY AND COUNTRY:
A GOLDEN DAWN. By the author of Dora Thorne."
ENocH ARDEN AND OTHER POEMS By Alfred
Tennyson.
BLUE Eyes AND GOLDEN HAIR. BY Annie Thomas
DUDLEY CARLTON BY Miss NJ K. Braddon.
A GILDED SIN. BY the Author of I" Dora Thorne
SISTER ROSE. BY Wilkie Collins.
DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE.
ANNE. BY Mrs. Henry Wood.
VALERrEs FATE BY Mrs. Alexander.
The HISTORY AND MYSTERY OF COMMON THINGS.
EssrCA; or, THE MYSTERY OF THE HEADLANDs By
Eta w. Pierce
THE LAUREL BUSH. BY Miss Mulock.
The LADY OF THE LAKE. BY Sir Walter Scott
AMOS BARToN. BY George Eliot.
GRIMMs FAIRY STORIES FOR THE YOUNG.
CAPTAIN ALRcK' g LEGACY. By M. T. Caldor.
DAVID HUNT BY Miss Ann s. stephens.
HENRY ARKEIL By Mrs. Henry Wood.
REAPINe THE WHIRLwIND. BY Mary Cecil Hay.
RETRrBuroN; OR, The MYsrERY or THE MILL BY
MarRaret BlOunt.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10
The Undiscovered Draft.

Not few of those calling themselves
students treat their textbooks as the
Family Bible'' is usually treated. OF
one of these loiterers about the gates OF
knowledge the following story of how
he was taught lesson is told:
An old tradesman in a French town
sent his nephew Alfred to study law at
Paris. He gave him an old code an
notated by leading member of the
country bar, and said,-
II will pay You visit in March, and
if am pleased with your progress, /
will give you such tip as will make
glad your heart and cause your face to
shine"
In March the old gentleman called on
his nephew.
swell, Alfred, hard at work, I see
Made good progress with your codep
Pretty well through it by this time, l
expectP"
Eyes, respected sir, my life has been
one continual grind. Your venerable
friends marginal notes found of great
service while laboring at the CODE"
Good boy-excellent young man!
You got my draft of course. 1t is a
pleasure to me to reflect that my bounty
was not ill-bestowed.
''Your draft, unclep No; 1 never re-
ceived it."
''Show me that CODE"
The old. man opened the book and
showed his stupehed nephew draft for
two thousand francs, dated five months
before, which had all the time been re.
posing between the first two leaves Of
the code!
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10
A Dogs Understanding.

A celebrated picture shows little
boy crawling on the floor and inquiring
of a pet dog, Cant you talkP" The
dog looks as If he is not sure about it,
and seems to say, Perhaps can; I'll
try" There is no doubt that dogs I'M
derstand many words, and we give the
following anecdote from Hartford, Ct,
in which dog named Major showed
unusual sagacity:
Majors hatred Of a cat appears to be
deep-seated, and he will kill all that
come in his way. His masters wife
had cat which she determined Major
should not harm, and she took great
pains to impress the big brute with this
idea.
The dog seemed to understand every
word she said, but would keep his eyes
fastened upon puss with longing and
hungry look, as if it were a great self
denial for him to obey.
But his mistress conquered and made
him understand that he must live on
friendly terms with puss. More than
once he had been seen watching the cat
with look of evil intent, but, out of
respect to his mistress, he conquered his
nature, and would throw himself upon
the ground with a sigh expressive Of
deep disgust at the situation.
One morning, the lady told her hus-
band that the cat had become so trouble
some that she guessed it would have to
be killed. A few minutes later, a rush
and struggling noise was heard, and
as the lady of the house fastened to the
door to see what had happened, Major
walked up to his mistress and laid at
her feet the dead body of puss, then
looked up with an air OF triumph, and
wagged his tail with intense satisfac-
ton. He had heard his mistress ex-
press the wish that puss might be killed,
and this was so in consonance with his
own feelings that he went right out and
finished the cat.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10
Patented Articles.

The most valuable and money-mak-
ing patents are those which are OBJ
tanned upon small articles. The ''re-
turn ball." which sells for ten cents,
yields to the holder of the patent an in
come equal to that on a capital of five
hundred thousand dollars. The rubber
tip on the end of lead pencils, which is
used for erasing false marks, is also Sc
cured by patent, and for every tip used
the manufacturers pay royalty to the
inventor, which gives him an independ-
ent income. The consumption of these
pencils is very great, and the simple
idea of tipping them with rubber has
placed the man who originated it be-
yond the reach of need in the future, so
long as he clings to his patent. An
other very simple but very valuable in
vention is the gummed paper wrappers,
which obviate the necessity of using
mucilage or paste to secure papers for
the mails. The patent is on the appli-
cation OF the gum to the wrappers, and
royalty is paid to the inventor of eve
ny wrapper thus prepared. AS the num-
Der of wrappers used daily in the for
warding of mails amounts to hundreds
of thousands, the income derived by the
inventor from his royalty will be seen to
be a magnificent one. The gimlet-
pointed screw was patented in 1916. 1t
is familiar to everybody, and millions
have been realized from its manufac-
ture, yet so simple is the principle that
the wonder is that it was not thought
out and applied almost as far back Us
the age of iron. The patent shoe-tip,
now universally used in boys shoes,
has brought its inventor somewhere
about two millions of dollars. Proba-
bly, the most valuable patent in the toy
line ever taken out in any country is
that which secures the Plympton roller
skates to its holder. Skating on rollers
bears but faint resemblance to skating
on ice, but it is exhilarating sport, new
ertheless, and sprang at once into pop
ularity with the young of both sexes.
In Brazil and tropical countries where
ice is unknown and skating impossible,
except upon artificially frozen ponds,
the rollers were greeted as a veritable
godsend, and Kinks with smooth earth
ern floors sprang up like magic. The
value Of the patent on the roller skates
to its holder Is estimated at over one
million dollars, and he expended over
one hundred and twenty-five thousand
dollars in legal expenses alone to pre-
vent the patent from infringement in
England. The dancing negro, which
can be seen in any toy-shop, and which
is simply figure of a Dinah or Jum-
DO balanced by wire, which is moved
rapidly up and down by a system of
clock work in the box upon which 1t
dances, provides an income for its in
ventor Of thirty thousand dollars year.
The common needle-threader, to be
found on sale at nearly every street cor
ner, Is worth ten thousand dollars a
year to the man who thought out the
problem which might easily have been
solved by n boy of ten years, only twas
not And these are but few of the
trifles which have enriched men.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10
For SIPS City and Country and
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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10
Late Tests With Improved Cuttings

Thorough test trials have been in
progress at Sandy Hook with DR.. Cat
ling improved guns, before the United
States Ordnance Board, for the past two
weeks. These trials, which have been
eminently successful, may be prolonged
for another week. DR.. Calling was
present during the first ten days. The
new feed allows the musket-caliber Cat
ling to be fired at any degree of eleva-
ton. The penetration at 5000 yards
was through one and half inches of
timber, and at $500 yards giving the
gun Sc degrees elevation), the bullets
struck the targets (Which were COM
posed of boards lying flat on the ground)
passing through two one-inch boards
penetrating the sand four inches. At
1000 yards-664 elevation-the bullets
passed through two one-inch boards
and five or six inches in the sand. In
every case the bullets struck the targets
point on and retained their rotary mo-
ton. This was proved by the spiral
scratches on the balls after they had
passed through the boards. The gun is
now being tried at shorter ranges
These experiments have established the
fact that Calling gun fired at various
elevations can kill men in entrenched
positions at all ranges from 100 to 81
800 yards. The elevation required for
different distances is determined by O
quadrant and noted. AS the gun re-
mains quite steady while being fired,
the bullets can be made to drop at the
point desired. The value of such q
weapon of warfare is unquestioned. DR..
Cuttings new torpedo, one-barreled gun
was also fired and worked well, making
excellent targets at one mile range
Army and NdUy Journal
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10
The Morality Bard,

II want to get q position for my wife
on your paper if / could" said a meek
man with slight tinge of reproach, as
he came into the boomerang Office yes
terday and sat down on the desk with
his coat-tails in the cold, calm depths of
the paste fountain.
''She is really one of the literati, al
though people who has known her only
by her washin' and ironin' don't sus-
pect it. /, however, know her great
mental scope. I've been married to her
twenty-one years next frost, and I've
been thrown more or less in contact
with her. My soul and hern has COM
muned together time and again, and we
have discussed questions Of considerable
depth off and on.
''She writes a good legible hand and
is quick in figures. Whether you want
some one to make out bills for pay To-
Gals, or write a eulogy on paid. up
subscriber, she's your huckleberry. She
is a perfect lady, and you might have
her on your corps for years and the
forked tongue of scandal would never
touch you. She's plain, of course, in
feature, and has an impediment in one
limb, it being shorter than the other by
four inches. This gives her an eccen-
trio movement when she walks, like q
self-rake reaper; but Lord, you'd never
notice that after you come to know and
love her.
'sShe can trill stanza of poetry oc-
casionally, too, If you give her time to
think of few hard words. She has
wrote some as fine things as have ever
saw in the English language. She is
better, however, on death than anything
else. She loves to turn loose and mourn
in easy rhyme at SO much per stanza
and found.
'.She wrote short poem on the death
of young man in our neighborhood,
who was drowned while in o swimming
in the Sinking Water Greek. 1t run
something like this:
20, treacherous, treacherous tide,
Young William for to drownd-
To madly yank him of his base
And whirl him round and round.
1--WE found him in the twilight hour,
Freed from hts earthly woes
His calm face upward turning,
And alkali up his nose. -.
"His person was sunk in the shifting sand,
His mouth was open wide,
The Pollywogs nestled in his ears.
Heneath the fragrant tide.
.His open-back shirt lay on the shore,
And the balance of HIS trousseau,
While HIS soul went scooting up the flume,
Out through the ether blue.
"'Twas down around the coyote Point
We found him when evening fell,
And we planted him under the cactus vines,
In the shaft Of the Mountain Bell.
"Goodbyc. william, far away
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10
Keeping off Intruders.

Prince Bismarck has hit upon most
effectual plan for keeping inquisitive in
truders away from Varzin. He has is
sued peremptory mandate forbidding
all the inhabitants of the village and
neighboring country to entertain any
strangers whatever. So strictly en-
forced is this order that a newspaper
correspondent recently was compelled
to tramp to a town several miles away
at midnight for the shelter that was re-
fused him by the Chancellor's tenantry
at Varzin.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10

feel like paying awoman of her strength
of intellect and grip of genius. Till
then adieu. will call again Friday and
complete the trade" Without another
word he was gone, and he has not been
seen since. Later on, however, when we
want to double up the subscription of
the paper, we will publish another one
of these poems. With our present IA
cilities we do not dare to do lizard
nlie boomerang.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10

Even Montana must have its sensa-
ton. An old Chinaman found dead at
Park City is said to have been rich once
in China, and to have been engaged in
conspiracy which. resulted In his
death sentence and the confiscation of
his property. He escaped from prison,
emigrated to America, and was mark
cd man even here, suffering many perse-
cutions from the Six Companies.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10

The hawks are of immense size, some
that have been killed measuring six feet
from tip to tip. Wild turkeys weigh
from eight to twenty pounds, and large
numbers are sent from the Blue Noun
tain region to New York and Philadel-
phia markets. Sportsmen from the
cities visit the region every season, and
spend weeks at the cabins of the local
hunters who serve as guides to the
hupting-grounds.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1882-11-10
Rupture (

A. Shermans Method
dangers sangaon and without the injury russ nc Those
Ito
professional gentlemen Ministers Merchants Farmers
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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-30

DEATH IN THE ROYAL FAMILY OF CLAL.
AM.-Ths historical Jenny Limo, wife,
No. 2, Of the Duke Of York, died at Sea.
beck last week. Jenny Lind and Queen
Victoria, the Dukes two wives, were rem
dered famous in the history of this town
by the lated. Ross Browne. who kept them
before tho public in his newspaper arti-
Giles and IN his humorous contributions
IN Ha,Pers Magazine ten years ago.
Jenny Lind was the one Who was shot
and half wounded BY soldier from the
Gsrrison some ak or eight months ago.
We learn from Rev. Ayron Eells that
Jenny got on . spree At Seabeck and
fell IN the fire, getting % badly burned
that abe died. The Duke meets his be-
reavoment in . st0ical manner.-Argus,
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-30

FoA SAN FRANcIsco.- a.
below named left this city yesterday
afternoon for San Francisco on the
steamship Geo. w. Elder: Ut Cooke,
wife and child, p Nicholas and wife, W
+ Epler and wife, J A Eplsr, q Cast and
wife. J MoGiivra, George Toop, w II
Row, wife and child. b Randolph. U II
Rasin, Mrs II Wilkin c F Debest, II
Bouerman. VIM Bailey, II Bigslow, F
Whitmore, Lottie NcHaie, Jas Craw-
ford, Miss shannon, W Wsllss, A Hult-
man, Y Olsen. G Z Simonds. II Garvin.
J n Maleom, w g Nolket, Geo Shep-
hard. n Young, L GibhArd. w Glib
hard, b Dsupins. DE Gushing. J s
pinnArd. Al Cling. W II Rodgers, Jn0
Rcntholt, h Madison.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-30
PACIFIC COAST.
O@eial Vote Of the Terrftory.

V@ctoh v0tc 0I inc ucbb1bOtys
OLYMPIA, Nov. 28.-The official vote
of this Territory for Delegate to Con-
gress has Just been received by Score
tsry Owings. Thomas II. Brents, Re
publican nominee, received IL ,23S votes.
and Thomas Burke, Democratic NOM
ines. S242 votes; scattering, 8; total vote
Is, 4s9; majority for Brents, 1856.
lnAians In the NosshWess.
PORTLAND, Nov. 3.-Col. Gardner,
Indian Inspector, returned this vesk
from visit TO all tribes In Oregon and
Washington Territory. lying east OF the
Cascade mountains, and inv ostern
Idaho. The total number u 10y662. OF
which one-sixth are males Of n. They
have nearly half million acres OF ara
bic land. Col. Gardner IL we'll pleased
with the Indian thrift shown, and
thinks that the great ''civilizer
raiiroad-will be instrumental in teach
ing at least half the Indian population
to earn their ivines with their hands
While at the Cmatilla agency he secured
consent for a survey and appraisement
and sale Of $40 acres Of the reservation
which sdjoins the town Of Psndle-
ton.
VuDOoG0s
The boarders of Mrs. Pdu0er's board
ing house on Alder street, we're poisoned
last night by eating cake made with
colored sugar, which had been used to
decorate Thanksgiving cake. ALI who
ate tho cake we're seized with q terrible
burning in the stomach and violent
nausea, but it is thought mono will die.
Physicians are of the opinion that q
combination of colorsd sugars and soda
formed tho poison.
Ben johnson Indicted.
Ben johnson, the Indian who ia &C.
cussd of the assassination of DR.. Hutch
inson and son at Yaquina bay, ON the
18th of August last, was indicted yes
terdsy by the Grand Jury of Benton
county for murder.
The News.
Articles Of incorporation Of the North
,pest yeus Publishing Company were
filed with the County Clerk yesterday
by J. A. Strowbridge, Geo. F. Wells,
George Woodward, samuel Coulter and
Nathan Cole, Jr. Capital stock, $780,
600. Object. to publish daily morning
newspaper in Portland. The first num-
Der of the NeUs will be issued shortly
after New Years.
Casnlbalism, Etc.
SAN Francisco, Nov. 29.-Schoonel
Roderick, which arrived at Brisbane
from the South Seas, reports that when
recruiting for Islanders her boats were
frequently fred upon. A number OF
returned natives were seized, murdered
and eaten by the inhabitants of Pasma
and AppOntona Islanders. They also
boarded the schooner Lena, and incited
recruits to seize the vessel. The mutt.
ny was quelled, and three Of the marau-
ders killed.
Costly stables.
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 29.-Ths Golden
Eagle stables were burned Ut midnight
with all horses, wagons, omnibuses and
personal property, valued at $47 900
The building was worth about $1,000.
SAN Francisco, Nov. 29.-Tomorrov
the banks, stock boards, public Offices
and principal places of business will b
closed.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-30
ELEVEN YxARs' CHANaxs.-Dayton
Journal: Just eleven years ago last
Wednesday D. G. Guernsey landed on


Journal: Just eleven years ago last
Wednesday D. G. Guernsey landed on
the townsite Of Dayton with thirty dol
lars in his pocket. The town had been
laid out but few weeks; and what now
constitutes Main street was then lane
with rail fence on each side and in the
fields was standing grain. But one or
two houses RraOed the site. Mr.. Guern-
soy went to work on salary Of $50 per
month; soon he became part proprietor
of mercantile establishment, was hon.
cred with several positions Of honor and
trust by the citizens Of this county. and
BY strict attention TO business he has
made himself good fortune. On the
spot whore stood a rail fence he is now
erecting an elegant brick structure; and
last Monday while viewing his building
he remarked: There were not MANY
plate-alass fronts In Dayton eleven
years ago today" Dayton has grown
from this small beginning, although
thrice savaaely visited by flames and
several times by pestilsnce, until now
she numbers her business houses and
dwellings by hundreds: some Of which
are not only substantial but really fine.
Mr.. Guernsey has been identified with
our interests almost wholly from the
beginning; and it gives us pleasure to
make this brief refer ence to his pros
perity, which has not alone been his but
DAyton's % well.