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Smyrna times., 1882-01-25
A Wonderful Dwelling.
THE HOUSETHA IS OCCUPIED BY A COUPLE
OF OHIO GIANTS.

Captain Martin NanBuren Bates who
llNeS on farm near Seville, O., is 7 feet
IL inches high and weighs 40 pounds.
Mrs. Bates is feet II inches hirh and
weighs Alb pounds. 1t is a difficult matter
to convey an adequate idea of the pro-
portions OF such dwelling as the one oc-
cupied by the Ohio giants. A door that
IS SIX feet six inches high is large-sized
opening i'll the side Of house, that is a
dwelling house, not a cathedral. But the
doors III the domicile Of the Bates giants
are 10 feet high, and the knobs are nearly
as high rs the reporters head.
The house was built by Captain Bates
IN 1876, and is elegantly furnished. In
the main building on the ground floor are.
besides the spacious hall, the bed chamber
OF the giants a sitting room and parlor.
The couch on which the big couple sleep
was made especially for them, and it is a
curiosity to look at. 1t is extensive
enough to give the great people room to
stretch in, and it looks as big as an Ordi-
nary sized floor 1t is really ten feet long,
wide i'll proportion, and about twice as
hlgh as common bed. The magnificent
dressing case is also huge affair, with a
glass upon it nearly as big as the side of
house. In the sitting room is piano OF
ordinary size itself, but it is mounted on
blocks two feet high, so that the instru-
ment is away up in the air, out of the
reach of common folks. There are two
rocking chairs in this room that are 50
big that the reporter had to climb up into
one OF them the same as an infant would
Chamber up into "high chair" 1t is
very expensive for the giants to live. as
they have to pay such an exorbitant price
for everything they wear. For instance,
it costs the captain $50 pair for boots.
1t is most astonishing sight to come
across the two giants out for a drive.
City folks who have seen the ponderous
wagons with wheels reaching to the second
story of house, used to haul stones
weighing tons, can form an idea of the
vehicle used. 1t is pulled by six stout
Norman horses, and it is enough to make
a man think he has got 'em, sure, to sud-
denly meet such spectacle ON the road in
the country. Passing wagons have to let
the rails down and the giants go by.
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

A CORNER IN CoRNCoBs p" There is a
corner in corncobs somewhere said a
New York wholesale dealer in pipes, " for
the demands of manufacturers of corncob
pipes cannot be met, even at advanced
prices. There has never been such Il
scarcity in the supply. The pipes, too,
seem to be in greater demand than ever.
Many men won't smoke any other kind.
| know one rich society man who would
be in disgrace if he was seen in public
with cOrncob pipe in his mouth, but who
keeps his pipe in his bedroom and has a
quite smoke before he goes to bed. The
man who invented the process of harden
ing o cOrncob has became Independently
rich, Some cob pipes are costly because
OF the silver mountings but the pipe that
sells for five cents is most popular s'mok-
ers say that the corncob pipe issweeter than
any other. Southern negroes who know
what is good from hoecake to possum,
would't give cobpipe for the finest meer-
schaum if they couldn't get another. |
suppose the short corn crop has had some
thing to do with the scarcity, The oobs
of a poor crop are not fit to make pipes
out of
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

Said Jim Webster to Rev. Aminadab
Bledso, Of the Austin Blue Light Colored
Tabernacle " | went to hear you preach
last Sunday night and while was listenin'
ter yer elOquence, I wished dat know
ed for certain dat | was gwine ter die in
your chnrch,'' Parson Bledso felt very
much hattered and asked; What does
yer want ter know eff yer gwine to die in
my church for?'' "Rekase eff / knowed
hit for certain would never go dar no
moab. "-TerdS <ings.
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

AN ORIENTAL. BEAUTY.-NIadame Nos
hida, the wife of the new Japanese Minis
ter, is so beautiful and so small that her
fitting place would seem to be in a glass
case. No taller than child of ten, she
has all the charms and graces in miniature,
and her perfect little Japanese beauty is
always offset by the most perfect toilets.
French taste and fingers dress her after
the most approved manner, and fram her
own country she brings stufs, brocades
and embrOideries unnattainable and un-
namable in our dry goods trade. The
perfect oval of her face, with its clear,
cream complexion and half opened black
eyes, is surmOunted by masses of blue
black hair that give her a strangely digni-
fled and stately mien. Perched on the
edge of one of the superb ebony and bro
cade chairs of her long drawing room,
with her tiny slippers not touching the
floor, and she is one of the most charming
little figures to be seen, and Washington
will miss one of its prettiest pets when the
dlminutive lady has Washington
Republican.
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

WHAT HAPPENsT TO CIGARETTE SMoK ERs.
Seeing numerous cases of injury caused
by. cigarette smoking published in your
valuable paper l thought 1 would send
you another one to add to your already
long list A friend of mine who Is q vet
eran cigarette smoker was Mortified few
days ago to find the enamel eaten or pois-
ened from the back of his teeth by 1oop-
stantly inhaling and blowing the poison
Gus smoke through them. On consulting
dentist he was told they would decay so
fast that in three months he would be
compelled to wear false ones.-PhiIadeI-
phia Times.
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

The blood at times becomes loaded with inn
purities and moves thick and sluggishly in the
veins. This cor ion of the vital fluid cannot
last long without serious results An altera-
tive is neeped to purify the blood and impart
energy to the system, and there is none better
than Aver Sarsaparilla.
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

Ofno account now: "Look heah, squire.
dah's niggah in Galveston what's been
sassin' me; supposin' just maui de life
outen him?" The lawyer replied: "You
would be apt to get your neck stretched"
Now, boss, you is jokin' What do white
folks care for one niggah noah or less
now de census is done tOok?n
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

When babies are fretful they distArb every
body, and mothers should know how soothing
Parkers Ginger Tonic IS. 1t takes away half
their anxiety, stops babies palms. and is always
safe and pleasant to- use.-Honle Journal
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

Under new law in Massachusetts the
proprietor of Boston store has been fined
500 for employing cash-boy under four
teen who had not been to school twenty
weeks in q year.
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

LIES JoURNEY.-Man's journey, on
life's tempestuous stream, begins with a
ssqual: The star that first guides his frail
bark is found in the milky way, He is
shook up on the cradle rocks until the
sun sinks to rest. The sail which keeps
him straight is the spanker. yet it is easy
to tell by the cut of his jib wether he will
ever make boom. He learns to paddle
his own canoe, eventually rising to the
position of first mate on court-shiD
During a calm, his canoebial life-boat
rides safely over the breakers, but if he
splices the main brace too oftea or gets
half seasover, his sea ofhappiness becomes
turbulent, and a storm follows. When
old age approaches, he grows baldheaded
and sails with bare poles until the worn
out hulk becomes unseaworthy and his
soul deserts the craft for the mysterious
hereinafter. If he has sailed according
to the great chart, he will eventually find
safD harbOr, where the tempest will
meyer disturb him,-W. A. Wilkins.
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

Harriet Beecher Stowe SAYS: 4" A dog is
nothing but organized love-love on four
feet, encasetl in fur and looking piteously
out at the eyes-love that would die for
you, yet cannot speak"
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

In eur family of ten, for over two years Par
ker's Ginger Tonic has cured headache, malaria
and in fact all other complaints so satisfactorily
hat we are in excellent health and no expense
or doctors or other medicines Chronicle
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

Boston girls now have an esthetic style
of walking. 1t is composed of series of
nervous jerks, twists and wriggles, sugges-
tive of coarse fannels worn for the first
time.
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

Oscar Wilde evedently knows that his
personnel is quite as valuable as his lecture.
since he writes club in Baltimore that
wished to give him reception that he
charges $500 night for attending enter
tainments not given in private houses.
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

The ice harvest commenced last Satur-
day from Catskill tt Albany. Two hun
dred and thirty-three thousand tons are in
houses between these points from last
year, and is is expected that l, ,14G,0O tons
are to be housed, The ice is eight inches
thick,
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

Ex-Speaker Randall has proclaimed him
self in favor of Robert E. Pattison, pres
ent Controller of Philadelphia, as the next
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Pennsylvania.
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

NORTH CAROLINA PoLITICs.-Some of
those engaged in the movement for coal
ition of the independent democrats and
republicans in North Carolina are of the
young democracy. The burden of their
complaint is similar to that of young dem
ocrats in several other Southern States,
that all the honOrs and emoluments go to
the old stageFs, and the young men of the
party are left out in the cold.
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

New York society is now deVOting itself
to pet monkeys. The dear girls must
have something to remind them of their
fOppish lovers when they are absent.
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

Winter is the season when 4nen clip
theis horses and put extFa fiannels on
themselves,
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

There Is no abatement in the terrible
smallpox pest in Chicago, Pittsburg, Rich
mOnd and other cities and towns where it
has been allowed to get beyond the con-
troll of the health authorities. Pittsburg
is sorely stricken, the number of new cases
amounting to from twenty to thirty per
day, and the ravages of the disease in
Richmond are such as to have alarmed the
State Legislature, now in session, and
put them to looking about for more
healthy location in which to continue their
law making. ina great many cases small
pox, as well as other contagious diseases.
are spread broadcast through communities
by indiscretion and the innate longing of
some people to attend funerals and look
upon the face of the corpse
Smyrna times., 1882-01-25

A farmer owed Walt Perkins TWENTY-FIVE
dollars, and had owed him for years. One
day he met Walt and said: "Dont be un-
easy, Walt. have the thing all fixed by
which l can pay you" Walt asked him
how he had got it fixed, and the old gran
ger said: Well, Walt, ifnothing happens,
next year | hope to raise good crop of
corn, and l intend to trade some of the
corn for a pair of oxen, and know an old
man in st, Charles county that owns an
old mare, and he wants to trade her for q
yoke of oxen. Now, Walt, when l raise
the corn and get the oxen, will make the
trade for the old mare, and then | will
bring her home and raise mulecolts-and,
Walt, the very first mule colt l sell you
shall have the money.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27

EX-Cadet Whitaker at Athens, Ga,
spoke of fraudulent Hayes ''boss
loving Grant" and accidental Ar
thur.
Chester A. Arthur, Jr., and Miss
Maude Crowley, daughter of Richard
Crowley, Of New York, are to be mar
ried early next month.
VIM. H. Vanderbilt Pierre Loril-
lard, and Miss Catherine Wolf,
three of the wealthiest people, perhaps,
in the United States, have adjoining
pews in All Saints Chapel, in New
port.
The Princess of Wales, now in her
3Sth year, is described as looking
scarcely n day older than when, on
March 10, nineteen years ago, she stood
at the altar by the side of her young
husband.
Hon. John Tod lately died ut Victoria,
b. c., aged 81 years. Forty years ago
he was in charge of old Fort Kamloops,
and n day, when almost alone, was
surprised by a largo party of Indians,
who invaded the fort for the purpose of
plumber, and perhaps murder. Quickly
knocking out the head of one of several
barrels of powder he deliberately light
ed a match and threatened to blow up
the fort and everyone in it if the Indians
did not instantly leave the neighbor-
hood, which it is needless TO say they
did.
During Edwin Booths recent engage
ment at the Adelphi, the Prince of
Wales attended his performance, and
sent for him to receive the royal con
gratulations. 81 desire to ask you one.
very important question, Mr.. Booth"
said the Prince. Booths brain reeled.
In a second it flashed upon him that he
was to be asked his terms for appearing
at buckingham Palace Or Windsor Cas-
tie; or, perhaps, he was to be called
upon to solve some great artistic prob
lem that had banled all the English
tragedians. lie bowed low and mur-
INJURED his willingness to oblige his Roy
al Highness. "Wbat do you think, Mr..
Booth, y continued the Prince, ''of-
Mrs. Langtry's prospects in American"
The famous tragedian will never be able
to explain what he replied, nor how he
found his way backto his dressing-roOm.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27
FOR WOMEN ANDApour WOMEN

1t is said that Boston girls have theiI
arms lathered and shaved before going
to a party, so their arms look bald
headed and feel soft.
"Oh, Mabel dear, you act so queer,
what makes you SC forlorn2' "Oh,
John-boo--bool you'd act so too, If
you had such a corn. THE Chiropo-
dist.
A woman went home on q stretcher
from her pleasure trip to Atlantic City,
because, as a sure for mosquito bites,
she had bathed her legs with undiluted
carbolic acid.
A New Haven lady refuses to per-
nit her daughter to go away on a visit.
Last time she visited she came home
and insisted upon eating with her fork
and having an extra plate for her pie
New Haven Register.
1t wasn't ignorance, but q desire to
tease the young man from Chicago that
made her say to him: 81 should think
you'd find it very gloomy living where
there is no society, no theatres, no
street cars, no anything" And be
foamed at the mouth, he was so mad.
- Boston Transcript.
GLOW do you like our church music,
by the way?" inquired the deacon of
the new stylish young lady. 81 just
admire it ever so much. That beauti-
full song, Spirit, oh G~enteel,' just
suited me-" And she sailed out of the
vestibule with the most genteel carry
ACKNOWLEDGMENT air imaginable.
Boston Globe.
The Spirit of a Man: Ezekiel Blaze
is a meek man, but when he overlook
his wife last week clipping with his
neighbor Kalin, he spoke right out
angrily: ''It's mighty mean in ye
Kalin, t'r go and steal all the wife L
had. l hope that yell have t'r live
with her an endure her tongue now all
yer born days" $50 it, BLAZE; pitch
inter i'm hard" said Dan Pelter, en-
couragingly. 81 have" continued
Blaze; 81 knew I'd got t'r say some
thin to show that I've got the spirit of
a mar in my buzzum."
Mrs. Stowe, the woman-suffragist
leader of San Francisco, appeared in
trousers before the Social Science Sister
hood the other day. The Call says {:
''Her hair was cut short, and bound up
with a narrow blue ribbon. She wore a
black velvet coat-tailed basque, and a
short black silk-plaited skirt. The line
of beauty was concealed by black cas-
simere trousers covering the instep.
Her CATERS were of cloth, and on her
breast was a red silk badge stamped IS.
S. s. and fastened with a diamond pin
and two artificial roses. She carried a
fan. 4 have a double flannel on under
my dress, and no corsets, she explained.
Il never wore corsets in my life. ,"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27
A Cough, Cold or Sore Throat

should be stopped Neglect frequently re-
suits in an IgclrdGLe Lialq DtSdedSe or ON
sumption. BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TRIO
CHES do not disorder the stomach like
cough syrups and balsams, but act directly on
The flddBted paris, allaylng irritation, give
relief TO Asthma. Bronchitis, Coughs, Ca
tarrh and the Throat Troubles which Singers
and Public Speakers are subject to. For
thirty years, Browns Bronchial Troches have
been by physicians. and
always give perfect satisfaction. Having
been tested by wide and constant use for
nearly an entire generation, they have at.
tanned well merited rank among the few
staple remedies ofthe nge. Sold at % cents
n hDN ayeryHhgra
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27
EMMA ABBOTT.
some Denver Papers Criticize Her

With her defective voice, Emma Alb
bolt never will succeed in making any
part acceptable, whatever it may be.
Her inteIpolating of the "Old Folks at
Home'' was ridiculously out of place,
o was its beauty enhanced by the
''darkie'' accent. This pandering to
the vulgar taste is detestable in one who
would aspire to the higher forms of art,
But go to-what is art as compared
to the jingle of coin?-Denver Inter
Ocean.
Miss Abbott is not u natural singer,
she is an artificial one-that is to say,
she is not naturally gifted with a voice,
but has had m supplied her by art.
Unfortunately art has not yet concluded
its labors, for she only possesses part of
a voice at presenter medium tones
are wanting. And not only are they
wanting, but those notes which now do
duty for them are produced in several
ways, now open, now closed, but gener-
ally nasal. The quality of her trill is
extremely thin and reedy, without the
power of crcScCndo. Her rhrasing is
particularly crude and uniformed; breath
is taken at any time at will, irrespective
alike of literary or musical ~exigencies.
In addition to all this Miss Abbott is no
actress. Always the same action, GEES
ticulations, and want of facial express
sion. Always the same smile, broadly
beaming, pleasant at first, but intensely
wearying ere the night is over-let alone
the conductor, a failure; the bright par
ticular star, because immature, iDjudi-
cious, and inartistic, Il failure; the
stage management a failure; what can
be said of the Abbott Grand Opera
Company" but-A FAILURE?-Den-
yer Republican.
Abbott usually gets more than she
deserves. | happened to occupy the
same box with her one night at the Ia
Dor Opera House, and we were intro
duced. She is very coarse and continu-
ally brags about how much money she
has Just banked. Her husband is a non
entity, a fifth wheel to the wagon.
During the evening she said to some
gentlemen, loud enough for me to hear,
that some actresses depended for success
alone on their figures. I~interposed that
still others advertised themselves like
patent soap. She has a disagreeable
way of saying, oh, you are an opera
bouffe actress, or You fill spectacular
roles, i believe Then she turns
around and deliberately advertises her
self as Honest little Emma She poses
asa prude, because she has no figure.
If there was but a little shapely flesh on
her body and legs she'd take to tights
at once. L wouldn't like to be the tenor
who gets her sloppy kisses. They are
absolutely nasty. | don't believe she
ever gambled in stocks. She isn't clev-
er enough. It's another advertising
dodge, and as an advertiser | can't deny
her success. "-Nellie Larkelly in st.
Louis Post Dispatch.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27

Mensman's Peptonized Beef Tonic
the only preparation of beef containing
its entire nutritious properties. 1t con
tains blood making, force generating
and life sustaining properties; invalua-
BILE for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and all forms of general
debility; also, in all enfeebled condi-
tions, whether the result of exhaustion,
nervous prostration, overwork, or acute
disease, particularly If resulting from
pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Haz-
ard " Co., proprietors, New York.
Sold by druggists. alphabetically
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27

The bullet with which Charles S.
Burton was shot at Salt Lake, close on
three years ago, was removed the other
day, the lead falling from his mouth.
The bullet struck him in the back of
the head, about an inch from the ear,
and, going through a thick bone at the
base of the head, passed and lodged
near the upper part of the nostrils. He
bled for some time and gradually re-
covered; though he has been troubled
ever since. The bullet, which was
partly encysted, fell into his mouth and
he was CORRESPONDENCE happy. The
escape was a decidedly narrow one
Denver Tribune.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27

1t is wittily retorted by the Boston
Saturday evening Gazette to the de-
claration of Mr. Matthew Arnold con
corning America: mot one man in
100, 600 has either the manners or the
cultivation of a gentleman, or changes
his shirt more than onc q week, or
eats with a fork" that, as it is gener-
ally understood here, q large part of
the population of Great Britain have
no shirts to wear, and are glad enough
to get food of any kind to eat not to
are whether they take it with a fork
or their fingers.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27

Mr.. M. E. Ludington, of Chicago,
writes: my mother, Mrs. II. r. Lud-
ington, rs years of age, has a daughter,
Mrs. Cadney, aged 60, who has a
daughter, Mrs. Tice, aged 40, who has
a daughter, Mrs. David, aged %, who
has a daughter . years of age, and all
are, living in Sullivan county, N. y,
except my mother, who resides in New
York city.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27

In American households the prevail
ing complaints are weakness Of the
stomach and its consequences. indiges-
ton, and rheumatism.
Such sufferers "a lay a good founda-
tion far health by using Parker's Gin
ger Tonic, as it tones mp the stomach
and nerves, and keeps the kidneys act
i've to carry Off the foul matter.-N. o.
Picayune,
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27
THE STATUE.

There was q statue, only common clay.
Which in the sunshine stood onesummerday
And just through one brief. magic hour-I'm
told
Because the sun shone so, seemed n-cs, gold.
There was a hero, hero but to one.
Who had his gilded hour beneath Loves sun.
And then, all me! the sunshin e died away.
And len the ~hero-bare, duh, COMMON clay.
LtENVoI.
Are you the hero, or are you the sun?
A word, mon ami. and my fables done.
Ifyoum must blame-beJust, and blame the sun.
FRANCIS HoDGsoS BURNETT.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27

"You do not tell me that your hus-
band is up and entirely cured by so sim
pie a medicine as Parker's Ginger
Tonic?" Eyes, indeed, l do" said
Mrs. Benjamin to her neighbor, ''and
after we had lost e~ighty-nve dollars in
doctors bills and prescriptions. Now
my husband feels as well as ever"
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27
Personal! To Men Only I

The Voltaic Belt Company, Marshal,
Mich, will send DIR. Dyes Celebrated
Electro oltaic Belts and Electric APP
pliances on trial for thirty days to men
young or old who are afflicted with
Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality, and
Manhood, and kindred troubles, guar
anteeing speedy and complete restora-
tion Of health and manly vigor. Ad-
dress as above. N. B.-No risk is in
Cured, as thirty days trial is allowed
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27

The enlisted men of the Signal Ser
vice and Ordnance Department are all
in the dumps, for by G. o. los one and
a half inches of the width of the waist
band of their trousers are Topped off,
and instead of buttoning with two
buttons in front said trousers hereafter
are only to have one button in front.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-09-27

Probably the largest and best paid
army in the world is that composed of
the railroad employees in this country,
they numbering about 1,200, 600, with
400, 900 at work on railroad construc-
ton, or LOCO, 900 in all. This is about
nj eighth of the working force of the
country, reckoning only adult males.