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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-05
Taking Leaf photographs.

A very pretty amusement, especially for
those who nave just completed the study OF
botany, is the taking of leaf photographs.
One very simple process is this: At any
druggists get an ounce Of bichromate of
potassium. Put this into a pint bottle of
water. When the solution becomes saturat-
ed-that is, the water has dissolved as much
as it will-pour off some Of the pure liquid
into a shallow dish; on this float a piece of
ordinary writing paper till it is thoroughly
moistened. Let it become dry in the dark.
1t should be of a bright yellow. On this put
the leaf-under it a piece of black soft cloth
and several sheets of newspaper. Put these
between two pieces OF glass Gall the pieces
should be of the same size), and with spring
clothespin fasten them together. Expose to
a bright sun, placing the leaf so that the
rays will fall upon it as nearly perpendicular
as possible. In a few moment it will begin
to turn brown; but it requires from half an
hour to several hours to produce a perfect
print. When it has become dark enough,
take it from the frame and put it in clear
water, which must be changed every few
minutes until the yellow part becomes white.
Sometimes the leaf veinings will be quite dis.
tinct. By following these directions 1t is
scarcely possible to fail, and a little practice
will make perfect.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-05

which grow there. A Maryland kiss is rich
and juicy as a terrapin stew. In the Old
Dominion you are met with a genuine hos
pitality; the girls kiss as though they wanted
you to stay. The Ohio girl is described as
possessing the comprehensive qualities of
the OHIO man-she wants all she can get,
and gets all she can. A Louisiana girl is said
to be like eating sugarcane, while North Car
DINA girls stick like tar. But the Montana
girl carries the cake. When she kisses it
runs through all your veins and leaves a lin
gering sensation delightful in its exquisite
ness. 1t is a combination of all the joys Of
the present and future combined.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-05
The Lady EsIhete and the Cup OF Tea.

"Will you have a cup of tea?" she asked,
with tina PARKWAY look in her eyes express
sive of anything rather than the ADMINISTERS
ton of creature comforts. The robust bar
bayian assented. Poetry led the way to the
table.
Looking back over her shoulder as she
went, and speaking to the youth in the cor
ner, she said: 'The divine ethos!' AS she
spoke a radiant smile came over her face-a
smile that had been hired to express spiritual
illumination and the consciousness of priest
esshood.
$50 you take sugar? ?" she asked, sweetly,
in preparation for her hospitality. The ro-
bust barbarian answered: "No, no sugar,
thank you" Poetry held the teapot in her
hand, poised in mid air-the tea unpoured.
"The grand sublimity Of Dante marched
with the lovely tenderness of Petrarca," she
said again over her shoulder to the youth in
the corner. do you take sugar? ?" she then
asked the robust barbarian kindly. 'No; no
sugar, thank you," this latter answered.
Poetry poured out the tea.
"During the process she said, with great
sweetness and touching hospitality: 81 may
give you sugar?" enc; no sugar, thank
you," was the reply. The tea poured out,
Poetry took up the milk jug.
1.-The many sidedness of Shakespeare and
the perfect form of Goethe" she said again
over her shoulder to the youth in the corner.
To the robust barbarian, Sugar." mo"
said the robust barbarian quickly. Poetry
poured out the milk.
Still holding the cup, he looked back to
the youth in the corner. And ADD TO this
transcendent whole the stately march OF
Spencer she said. ssThis is what the true
poet should be-and this is what you will
some day be-"
On which she hastily shovelled in two
spoonfuls of sugar and handed the cup to the
robust barbarian, with a charming smile.
s.You take sugar, | think p she said, very
sweetly; II hope | have made 1t sweet
enough"
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-05
The Discouraged Man.

A newspaper once contained an advertise
ment for a man to fill a certain position,
which concludes with No scouraged man
need apply" There was deep worldly wis.,
dom in this, for encouragement is a terrible
drawback in fighting life's battles. The dis
couraged man is defeated in advance. He
carries failure about with him he faints
when he needs most to be strong he falters
when decision is most needed he halts
when he ought to hurry forward he cannot
stand up under the strain and burden of the
race. It is hard that it should be so-harder
still that SO little real sympathy is felt for
disbursement. The world does not need
such a man, and has little mercy for him !;
and SO he falls Into the ranks Of the unsuc-
%cessful, while he of high hope, who is yet
new in the struggle, who has not supped tie
bitter cup of disappointment and found out
that all is vanity and vexation, strides before
him and is accepted while the much tried
man fails. There is something contagious
in q buoyant, happy, energetic spirit, which
carries those who come in contact with it
away, and success is as often the result Of
this strong animal force as Of perseverance
and continued effort. All the experience in
the world will pot carry the man of deep
encouragement successfully through an en-
fprnrisp
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-05
Hope Ahead.

A committee of stockholders who waited
upon the superintendent of a California mine
to ask why in blazes the said mine hadn't
PANIED out anything but assessments, were
graciously received, invited to be seated, and
the official explained:
sGentlemen, you are all aware of the fact
that we had scarcely begun work when the
mouth of our mine was blocked by a land
slide. That put us back a month"
They nodded their remembrance.
"Then we had just got in shape TO take out
1000 tons of ore, worth So, 900 per ton, when
the mine caved in. You recall it?"
They did.
ssOnce more we bent ourselves to the bur-
den Of reaping $500 for every $40 invested,
when the mine was flooded by a subterranean
river"
That was true also.
sThen we had just got the water out when
we discovered that our mine was located on
another mans claim. We had him shot to
prevent trouble, and once more we were
about to declare q dividend of 2OC per cent
when the dead mans heirs put in an appear
ance. There were three of them. We
chased one over the range, had another hung
by the vigilance committee, and am happy
to inform you that I have four men out after
the other, and am every hour expecting to
hear that he has tumbled off . cliff. Gentle
men, there is hope ahead-golden hope.
-
Please come up and drink with me; after
which there will be another assessment Of
10 per cent?
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-05
POOLING THE REDS.
The Wonderful Escape OF q Worthless
Wag I'm the Wilderness.

Many years ago, when Denver didn't have
an opera house, and the Rocky Mountain
country was the terra ~5nc0gnito Of the world,
there wandered out to the region Of Fort
Benton a man named Exbeadle, who made
himself unpopular among the Shoshones by
killing some of their most prominent men
whenever he could catch them away from
home.
AS a result Of this course Of procedure, Mr..
Exbeadle had a large private cemetery and
hostilities were declared by the tribe.
Mr.. Exbeadle was a spectator, and one day
fortune threw in his way a lot of fireworks
that didn't meet with a ready sale, and he
purchased them, more for his own a muse
ment than anything else. These he put to
one side, and DIDN'T think Of them again un-
til one day there was a council of war in the
Shoshone tribe, at which it was resolved to
%extinguish the light of Mr.. Exbeadle and
send him across the mysterious river.
They notified him that the intention was
to make him climb the golden stair in about
fifteen minutes, Western time. 1t looked
pretty dubious for the defendant for a mo-
ment, and he didn't know exactly what to do
not having time to consult counsel.
1t was q dark night in autumn and Mr..
Exbeadle felt that the morrow would be OF
very little interest to him.
Like an inspiration, however, came the rec
election Of his fire works. He rose and said:
"Gentlemen of the forest, you apparently
have the bulge on me, and I admit that you
are largely in the majority, but you do not
know me. | am q medicine man from
| Michigan, and [ can make it mighty inter
esting for you if you carry this thing too far.
/ just say this for your W good, and more
in sorrow than in anger. II you take out my
vitals and feed them to the ~vulture, | will
linger near you in the spirit, and | will annoy
you pretty plenty. | am aware that [ have
planted some of your leading men in the
cold, cold ground, but that isn't a marker to
what [ will perform when / get out Of the
flesh where / won't be delayed by the inclem-
ency Of the weather.
Il will 0 proceed to show you a few
little amateur eHOrtS OF mine as q meulclue
man from away back"
Mr.. Exbeadle then let off q new style OF
sea serpent from a slight elevation. 1t was
the biggest thing in the line of pyro
technics that was ever turned loose west Of
the Missouri. 1t shot out into the darkness
about nine feet like a car load of deliriun
tremens, and equirmed through the inky
bosom of night like an uneasy demon walk
ing in his sleep. The gathered warriors OF
the tribe took one Mortified look at the kissing
emissary of hell and lit out. They left al
their baggage that didn't happen to be tiee
to them, and there hasn't been a >ehoshont
Indian seen there since.
Mr.. Exbeadle picked out the best ponies
belonging to the tribe. loaded up the rest Of
his fireworks and went home. He livee
many years after and became che of the mos
trusted Indian peace commissioners known
in Western history
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-05
How American Girls Kiss.

The Maine girl, tall and ruddy, kisses az
though she were taking an impression in the
chewing gum of her native State. The Mas
sachusetts girl kisses in the Greek style. fla
voured with brown bread. The New York
girl goes at it IS if she were dabbling in q
Wall street speculation. The kiss of . New
Jersey girl is fiery as a taste of appleiack,
better known as Jersey lightning. Little
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1882-04-05
THE CHOICE.

(which shall it be, dear mother?
To which home shall l go?
The grand old castle beside the sea,
Or the little brown cot below.
(which shall it be, dear mother?
Ap'ain white muslin gown,
Or the richest and rarest of lace and silk
To be found in Insleytown?
(which shall it be, dear mother?
A tiny plain gold ring,
Or wealth of gems and diamonds rare,
That would ransom a captive king?"
"My child, your heart must answer
The question your lips have asked,
Lest sowing in pride you sorrow
When the harvest is overpast.
"Choose with your heart, my darling;
Let pride be swept away;
Flowers are fairer than Jewels,
Gather them while you may.
soften glittering diamonds
Conceal but an aching brow,
And the chill hearts bitter throbbings,
Bear record of ~falsehood's VOW.
"Truth is the brightest jewel,
That W%omanhood can wear;
Never a silken robe can cure
A heart grown sick with care.
"The world is not all sunshine,
There's many a stormy day,
And love is the sweetest shelter,
When clouds obscure the way.
$50 choose from your heart. my daughter,
Remember this life Of ours,
Must have some thorns and briers
Among its fairest flowers.
:sBut thorns and tears, and dark news
Matter not, SO love is true;
While you climb keep step together,
With the higherlife in view"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-01
One Hundred and Thereabouts.

Mrs. Sybil Tickner of Cornwall
Conn.,, was 100 years old on Feb. 4.
Emily Ayers, for forty years a ser
rant in this family of w. E. Wyatt OF
Baltimore, died recently, aged lO4.
The Rev. Edward Palmer of Barn
well, S. c., still breaches every Sunday
although he is in his 93d year.
Mrs. Polly Cleveland of Morrisville,
n. Y, is in her Tooth year, and in good
health, and Mrs. Deshon of Portland
Me-, was 1913 On Dee. -.
When Caroline Taylor was sold as a
slave to Col. David Sloan in Charles
ton, S. c., in 1895, she was %. She
died recently in Centreville. township.
A lady who died recently in New
burypOrt, Mass, in her 9Ist year, was
attended by a physician for the first
time in her life in her fatal illness.
At the date of the Declaration of In,
dependence Andreas Bisconair of Sar-
anac, N. Y, was one year and a half
old. He is in tolerable health.
Uncle Davy Colson, living On Col.
Jordan's plantation, Hawkinsville,
Ga, is Ill years old. When be first
rode a mule to mill the Revolution was
not over.
One of the Americans seamen seized
by the English and confined in Dart
moor prison in 1872 vas David Win
gate, who died recently in Rochester
n. H., at 90.
When Mrs. Mary VIM died recent
iy in Philadelphia, At l0l, she left sur
wing here children, 35 grandchildren,
81 great grandchildren. and "A great
great grandchildren.
The oldest person in the State of In
diana is Father Imhoff Of Richmond,
who is now in his 10TH year. He ha'
a good appetite, but his mental facul
ties are failing.
The Dominion of Canada gives
pension or $25 to Louis Vatican, AL
indian chief born in Canada JOG year:
ago. He was commissioned by Queen
Victoria as Chief Of the Banogwais.
In the war of 1912, James Isom spen'
his time in a mountain cave making
saltpetre for the manufacture of gun.
powder for the American army. HI
died on Jan. 4, at Richmond, Ky.
aged 102.
Samul Bockley died recently al
Flint, Mich, in his ls9th year; Mrs
Caroline Carey at Buffalo, aged lO4
Mrs. Ann Denny, at Smyrna, Del, ii
her l05th year, and Mrs. Catherine.
Branch, in Boston aged Ill.
The oldest married couple in Rhode
Island are Cromwell and Deborah Cor
ton of East Greenwich. On the l0tf
day of April Mr. Gorton will he 90, ano
his wife has completed her Goth year.
They were married sixty-seven years
ago.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-01
LIES LIMIT.
Can a Man Reach and Pass.ths
Age Of

Can man reach and pass the age OF
100 yearsi is a question concerning
which ply siologists have different
opinions. Button was the arst one in
France 10 raise the question Of the ex-
'rcmr limit of human life. In his
opluIon, man becoming admit at 10
ought to live six times that age, or 10
90 years. Having been called upon to
account for the phenomenal ages attri-
bHted by the Bible to the patriarchs.
he risked the following as an explain
alton Before the food the earth was
less solid less compact than it is now.
The law Of gravitatlon had acted for a
little time the productions of the globe
had less consistency, and the body Of
man, being more supple, was more
susceptible of extension. Being able to
grow for a longer time, it should in the
consequence, live fer a longer time
than now.
The German Professor Heusler has
suggested on the same point that the
ancients did not divide time as we do.
Previous to the age Of Abraham the
year, among some people of the East,
was only three months, or a season; so
that they had a year of spring, n of
summer, one of fall, and INT of winter.
The year was extended so as to consist
Of eight months after Abraham, and of
twelve months after Joseph. Voltaire
rejected the longevity assigned to the
patriarcha of the Bible, but accepted
without question stories of he great
ages attained by some men in India,
where he says, 1T is not rare to see old
men of 100 years. The eminent French
phys:ologist, Flourens, fixing the com
plete development of man at twenty
years, teaches that he should live five
times al long as it takes him to become
an adult. According 10 this author,
the moment of a complete development
may be recognized by the fact to the
AUCTIONS of the bones with their ap0py
ing. This junction takes place in horses
at 5 years, and the horse does not live
beyond twenty-five years; with the OK
at 4 years, and it does not live seyond
twenty years; vita the cat at Is months,
and that animal rarely lives over ten
years. With man it is affected at 20
years, and he only exceptionally lives
beyond 100 years. the same physiolo-
gist admits, however, that human life
may be exceptionally prolonged under
certain conditions Of comfort, sobriety
freedom from care and observance Of
the rules of hygiene.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-01

GREAT FALL IN DAHvILLE RAIL
ROAD AND WEST POINT TERMINAL
Stocks. Yesterdays sensation in bust
ness circles was the fall in Danville rail
road and West Point Terminal stocks.
Though at 40 time approximating the
dignity of a panic, it yet caused a decided
commotiOn amongst those interested,
and the brokers called for margins
in a way that indicated severe losses on
the part of those O able to protect
their ventures.
The cause of the decline is not yet
clearly understood in Richmond, but
Mr.. Clyde, General Logan, MIR. Bryan
and other gentlemen left here for
New York yesterday, and will soon as
certain what is the matter, and proceed,
as far as possible, to rectity the trouble
if the stock does not resume its former
station to-day. The general opinion is
that men whose speculations required
them to have possession of considerable
amounts Of Danville stock forced it down
and then bought at low prices ali they
needed to cover their transaction, and
that having done SO they now let it go
back to Old figures.
By private kilograms to brokers the
Danville stock was quoted as follows at
the opening and closing:
Opening, 216
Lowest point reached, 80
Closing sales, 1876
The stock Of the West Point Termi-
nal Company was affected at about the
same rate, being quoted at the same
rate, being quoted at the opening at 235
and at tie lowest at 135.-Richmond
D,spatch.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-01

There is a great deal of balderdash
printed and talked on the subject of the
United States being a Union by Ma
'tural laws" bound by the same chain
Of mountains, rivers, plains, &c.
On the same principle, Europe should
be one Union, Africa another, and
South America likewise. The truth is
1here is no country on the globe more
markedly divided into two great Sec
tions than the North and the
South. Moreover the boundary
lines of half the countries on the map
are mere set lines, without regard to
rivers, mountains, or other natural
divisions.
Gov. Cameron, of Va, is showing
a good deal of energy in suppressing the
OYSTER stealers who have SO long prey
ed on the Rappahannock bivalvcs: He
went to Norfolk, and embarked with a
battalion and q battery on two steam
ers. The oyster boats were surprised,
but attempted to escape until they
found the cannon balls dropping arou nd
them. From 60 to 20 p%risoBers were
taken, and lodged in Jail.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-01

VIII. STAR OUTLINEs.-A fire at
Liberty, Va, destroyed a block of bull
dings; loss$3O;000; partially insured.
Della McGraw stabbed and kill
ed on Magazine street, New Orleans,
by her husband, from whom she had
recently separated. "A warehouse
and 1000 bales of cotton burned at
New York Tuesday night; loss about
$50, o .-Calvin J. Cowles, Of Char
lotte, N. c., offers lands in Wilkes and
Alexander counties to the jewish re
fugees from Russia expected at Phil
adelphia. --One mar killed and
mother dangerously injured at Ian
caster, Pa, while firing a salute in
honor of the Democratic victory in
that city. -Th sloop Dauntless
ashore on Fox Shoals, off the Virginia
coast two men were washed of anG
lost.-The captains wife and two
children and two eamen of a wrecked
barque were picked up off the coast OF
California they were furnishing and
about to resort to cannibalism FIX
Confederate soldiers resident in Cincin.
natl presented a memorial tablet to the
widow of the late President Garfield
G. A. Withers, formely of Gen Nor
gan's staff, made the presentation
speech, and slobbered and gushed sick
enlngly.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-01
ELEPuANTs.-Colouel Pollock.

ELEPHANTS. Colonel Pollock, in
sport in British Burmah," gives the
following particulars about the elephant
which will be new to most readers !:
"El, plants when asleep snore a good
deal, and | nave often seer them use a
foot for a pillow on which to rest their
mead. They are very human-like In
.any of their ways. They get a piece
of wood and use it as a toothpick.
They will plug a wound with clay.
They scratch themselves with the tip of
their trunk, and if they cannot reach
the part they take up a small branch
aud use that. As a rule, they are
frightened at fire but an elephant of
the battery at Assam used to help to
put out fires, and she would do what
never saw any other animal of her kind
do. and that was after a fallen bufalo's
throat had been cut through all but the
vcrtebla, when told to do SO, she would
put her foot on the neck, twist her
trunk round the horn and hand it up.
Some few of them will hand up birds
after being shot, but they don't usually
like touching dead bodies"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-01
PROFESSIONAL.


Toisnot, \. c.. has IS business
houses and in 1873 there was but one
small shanfy AZ that place.
We notice that the Raleigh ( Gas
ton road mas reduced its rates on corn.
Capt. Williams, lessee of the O. & II.
agrees to charge no freight where it is
for the poor. This Is good and proper.
Lauisburg Enterprise: O. II Blocker
is to be the Republican candidate for
sheriff of Cumberland county. The
present incumbent r. w. Hardie,-i
an efficient officer, a popular man, and
such an one as everybody likes to vote
for.
Henry Hill, who was put off a Georgia
railroad train last summer because he
insisted on riding with his coat of,
though the conductor instructed him
that it was inpolite to the women in the
car, has obtained a verdict for IS, 900
against the company.
vii. Star: a gentleman from CO.
lumbus county informs US that a Mr..
Pearce, of that county, sent TO White
Vile a few days since for some qu%inine,
being troubled with light fever. He
received what he supposed to be the
medicine sent for and took a dose Of
it tie same night. after which he went
TO q neighbor's house, where he O
complained Of feeling sleepy, and wa.
shown to a bed. About II O'Clock tie
family were aroused by bursts of laugh
ter apparently issuing from the visitors
room, and, upon entering to ascertain
the cause of the unseemly and unseas-
enable mirth, Mr.. Pearce was found IN
the agonles Of death, and was soon al
forwards a corpse. Upon investigation
it was found that he had taken NOR
phine instead Of quinine-the result of
a terrible mistake somewhere and ly
some one.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1882-03-01
A MIRAGE IN THE CLOUDS.-Duri

4 MIRAGE IN THE CLOUDS. During
the recent fire at Atlanta an old farmer
near Marietta, Ca, processes to have
seen a mirage of the burning city in the
siouds. He was astonished at a bright
red glare that seemed to shine out and
light up everything around, and, on
looking up, ne saw a terrible sight in
the sky-a large red spot in the mid
die Of which he saw buildings on fire
and men running to and fro. He says
he plainly saw streets crossings each
other and railroads and trains of cars ;
but all appeared upside down. The
smoke and flames appeared to watt
away toward the west till they died out
in the darkness.