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Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-10-04
A Chinese Farmer.
portland Oregoaidn Farmer.)

l. LUttoh1 O|SJO|ttut IoT"eef'J
An intelligent Chinaman, who for
several years conducted an establish
ment for the publication and destruc-
ton of soiled linen at the north end,
and thereby accumulated considerable
coin, concluded last fall to try his luck
at farming. He rented farm up the
valley, and was seen no more in his
accustomed haunts until recently, when
he returned, looking very seedy as to
clothing and very downcast. One OF
his old patrons meeting him said:
"Well Lung, how did you make it
at farming?'' %
"Not muchee good" replied Lung,
sadly. IL SOW wheat and birds he
come catchee some. Byme by wheat
grow up and plenty squirrel come and
catch heap. Then leaping- machine
come cut him and cost too much, and
when thasher man come take all wheat
pay him, and his gang eat up my tlee
fat hog and cuss me cause [ not give
'em pie tlee time every day. | nc
likee farm any more. buy washee-
house if my fend lend me some
money!"
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-10-04
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

CERTAIN Hindoo sects believe that
there are precisely 100000 transmigra-
tions allotted to each mortal.
IN Italy and Japan, water from the
hot springs is extensively used in the gar
dens Tor the production of early crops.
THERE is natural bridge in Ari-
zona which, it is said, far surpasses in size
the well-lnown natural bridge in Virginia.
HARVEY discovered the circulation
Of the blood in 1919. By the ancient Greeks
warm air, and not blood, was supposed to
course through The arteries and veins.
A MONSTER lobster in the London
fisheries exhibition was sent over from
America. 1t measures three feet in length,
and one of its claws weighed eight pounds,
the total weight being about twenty-eight.
Doors, with high heels were first
worn by Madame de Pompador. She dressed
her dainty feet in them on all great occa-
sions when she desired to show her inpor-
tance. Hence the expression, "on her high
heeled boots"
THERE is German superstition
that the finger pointed at a star will Ger
tainly rot away, because the angels kill 1t,
and the Ojibways warn their children not
to point at the moon, telling them that, if
they do, she will bite their fingers off.
NEARLY all the myths as to the Or
! igin of fire represent it as stolen from the
gods, sometimes by bird, sometimes by an
animal, sometimes by a man. In several o.
these legends the stolen file is hidden in
wood, whence it may be brought out by
rubbing.
THE Hartford, Conn, Times says
that it has been found that worm-eaten ana
partly dccayed logs make the best sounding
boards for pianos, and within a few years
piano firms have sent agents through Con
necticut to find fallen and partly decayeI
chestnut logs, and such timber has been sold
at good prices after the owners had consid-
cred it entirely useless.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-10-04
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Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-10-04
When the End of Polygamy Comes

III. D. c0n,ooy, in San Francisco chronicle.)
In the Revelation ON Celestial Mar
riage, given to Joseph Smith, Nauvoo,
july y, 1843," it is written: "And
again, verify, verify, I say unto you,
if any man have a wife who holds the
key of this power, and he teaches unto
her the law of my priesthood, then
shall she believe and administer unto
him, or she shall be destroyed, saith
the Lord your God, for [ will destroy
her" This constantly repeated SEN
tence is the iron out of which many
marriage rings are made in Utah !;
they bind the Mormon woman, but
she docs not pretend to love her fetter.
In the breast Of every woman in that
Territory there is an enemy or a po-
tential traitor to the system of polyg-
amy, and when, as must sometime be
the case, the struggle with polygamy
becomes a recognized war for the de-
liverence of woman, the end Of the
Deseret dispensation will be swiftly
it is to be feared violently-reached.
AS Goethe wrote "Ever the woman
ly leadeth MS onward.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-10-04
Itching piIes..sympsom. and Cure

The Symptoms are moisture, like persplra-
ton, intense itching, increased by scratching,
very distressing, particularly at night, seems
as if pin-worms were crawling in and about the
rectum; the private parts are sometimes affect
ed. If allowed to continue very serious results
may follow S,oap,e's Ointment is pleasant,
sure cure Also for letter, Itch, Salt Rheum,
Scald Head, Erysipelas, BARRIERS Itch, Blotches,
all scaly, crusty Skin Diseases. Sent by mail
for SO cents; boxes, $l.25, Tin stamps). Ad-
dress, DIR. SwAYNE Il EoN,
Philadel4 4ohia, Pa. Sold by Druggists.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1883-10-04
He Didn't Know.
1.-THE Judoe.)


CATER ALL" remarked a young lady
who had been reading the various in
dictments which have of late been
published against the sparrow, "after
all, these sparrows seem to be a great
nuisance. / think we had better get
rid of them and make up our minds to
endure the worms. Sparrows are
worse, don't you think so ?''
II don't know" said her beau
thoughtfully; 81 never had sparrows." "
FLIES AND BUGs.-Flies, reaches, ants, bed
bugs, rats, mice, gophers. chipmunks, cleared
out by Trough on Rats 15e.
: : The Importance of newspaper depends
quite as much upon its blood its circulation.
-NeO York Neacs.
CATARRH OF THE MISUNDERSTANDING irrita-
tation, inflammation, all Kidney and Urinary
complaints, cured by 'Bucha-paiba-" 81.
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Hundreds of people came forward,
each with a theory :-One man had
seen a hack driven along dark street
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-08

came in. but kept on with their sports.
The next place visited was the dining
room, where two long. low tables, with
benches on each side suited to the
size OF the little people, offered ac-
commodations for thirty-siy. From this
upstairs TO the nursery proper. At
the top landing was gate TO keep those
lust beginning TO walk from falling down
the steps. 1t happened TO he the hour for
sleeping with some Of the children, and
there were a dozen or so stretched out on
the floor, with little pillows under their
heads. Bare legs in some cases and stock
ings and shoes IN Others. At the farther
end OF the room two or three children were
standing waiting TO be washed. At the end
near the door were the babies cribs. Here
were two or three little youngsters, the
youngest only two weeks old. Over their
cribs mosquto-netting was spread TO keep
off the flies. Everywhere cleanliness and
order prevailed, while every child seemed
satisfied and happy.
Calls were then made at the Day Nursery,
427 Pine street, Mrs. GOudkOp matron,
where the average attendance is thirty-one
a day, and at the Day Nursery and Kinder
garten, Tenth street, above Spruce, where
there are fifty children in the kindergarten
and an average OF twenty day in the
nursery. At all OF the places the remark
was made: II am glad the public is to
hear something OF this work. The people
who support this charity are doing much
good"
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A Wonderful Find.
A MANUSCRIPT COPY OF PORTIONS OF THE BI
BLE THOrS ANDS OF YEARS OLD.

a MANISNRlII tOf1 OF fOkiIDNS VI luE d.
BILE THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD.
From the New York sun Cable Letter.l
A Mr. Shapiro, OF Jerusalem. booksell-
er and dealer in antiquities, has just de-
posted in the British Museum fifteen slips
Of black sheepSkin leather, on which are
written, in characters similar to those on
the celebrated MoabIte stone, portions OF
the book Of Deuteronomy differing
materially from the received yer-
sion. The date Of the slips is the
ninth century before Christ, or sixteen cen
tures older than any authentic manuscript
OF any part Of the Old Testament. Mr.
Shapiro bought them from an Arab, and he
asks for them S5.000.000 from the British
Museum. Ii genuine, the interest and i'm
portance OF the discovery cannot be over
rated; and so far as variations in the sacred
text are concerned, there is promise OF one
OF the greatest controversies that scholars
have ever entered upon. The decalOgue
furnishes 4 good example for comparison
with the received version. quote from
the Shapira record:
81 am God. Thy God, which liberated
thee from the land of Egypt, from the
house OF bondage. Ye shall have no other
Gods. Ye shall not make TO yourselves
any craven image. nor any likeness that is
in Heaven above, or that is i'm the earth be-
meath, or that is in the waters uHder the
earth. Ye shall not bow down 10 them
nor serve them.
~ am God, your God, sanctiiy. In six
davs have made the Heaven and the earth,
and all that there is therein, and rested on
the seventh day. Therefore, rest thou also,
thou and thy cattle, and all that thou hast
II am God, thy God. Honor thy father
and thy mother.
- am God. thy God Thou shalt not
Kill the person Of thy brother.
u am God, thy God. Thou shalt not
commit adultery with the wife OF thy
neighbor.
81 am God, thy God. Thou shalt not
steal the property OF thy brother.
~ am God, thy God. Thou shalt not
swear by my name falsely, for | visit the
iniQuity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation Of
those who take my name in vain.
81 am God, thy God. Thou shalt not
bear false witness against thy brother.
81 am God, thy God. Thou shalt not
covet his wife, or his man servant, or bis
maid servant, or anything that is his.
81 am God, thy God. Thou shalt not
hate thy brother in thy heart.
81 am God, thy God. These ten words
God spake."
DR.. Ginsburg. the eminent Semetic
scholar, to whom DR.. Gladstone has just
given $50 towards the production Of his
work on the MaSorah, has deciphered the
above, and is busy completing a transa-
ton and determining on behalf OF the
Museum the genuineness of the fragments.
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LOCAL MATTERS.
The Teiegraphers.

A STRIKE OF OPERATORS ON THE CHESAPEAKE
AND ONO ROAD WHICH CAUSES 40 TROU-
BILE.
The strike OF a number OF telegraph
operators on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
way, which occurred Monday, has given
the company but little or no inconvenience,
the movement not having been general
enough. Mr.. Me B. Leonlrd, the compa-
ny's superintendent Of telegraph, who
went up the road Monday morning, tele-
graphed yesterday to Assistant General
Manager Sweet, in this city, that all the
operators west Of the White Sulphur
Springs remained at their post, while the
defectiOns between that point and Char
ottesyille were comparatively few, and
their places were easily flied. Mr.. Leonard
says the strike is virtually at an end so far
,as the Chesapeake and Ohio road is con-
cerned. None Of the operators on the
Eastern division OF the road left their
posts. In reply TO question to the opera
tors in the company's general Office in this
city as to when they intended TO strike. re-
ply was made that they had no intention OF
doing so. Al trains are running regular
ly, and the strike Monday did not inter-
rupt their movements in the least. The
company was fully prepared for the emer-
gency, and would have managed their busi-
ness bad all their operators left.
At the Western Union office Mr. p. A.
Cudlipp. who remained on duty for week
after the great strike began and then join
ed the strikers, returned TO his post yester-
day. The business OF the Office here Is
moving along smoothly.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-08
AIegcud of Cologne.
IIOndOn SocIety.


Adelheid Ricbmodus, wife OF one OF the
mediayal Senators who swayed the des-
tinics of Cologne, died. TO all appearance,
and was buried in the vaults OF the neigh
boring Apostelkirche. 1t was said Il VAL
liable ring could not be removed from her
hand. and was consequently inferred with
her. This excited the cupidity OF the SEN
ton. who came at night to steal, and falling
in his efforts to loosen the ring, tried to
sever the finger. Blood flowed; the lady
revived and SAT up in her coffin, to the hOr-
ror Of the thief. After the first paralyzing
shock of finding where sue was, she passed
through the gates he left open in his flight,
and still wrapped in her winding-sheet,
Lnocked at her husbands door. The SER
wants. on looking out, recognized her. and
rushed terrified 10 their master 10 say they
had seen her ghost; but on calmer reflec-
tion. AdeIheid continuing TO knock and
beo plaintiyely for admission, they con-
cluded she was alive and said so. Richmo-
dus declared the whole trick OF their ina
oination, and said he would rs soon believe
his horses were transported to the attics as
that his wife lived. As he spoke the clat-
Ter Of hoois above proved his incredibly
rebuked by miracle. The door was
opened 10 the shivering lady, who told her
story and was afectlonately received, be.
coming "the joyful mother OF children,"
and dying in reality at an advanced age.
The horses heads carved In wood. painted
one black sad one gray, still look from the
top window to convince the skcptic and the
next street, liicbmodstrasse, Is named afier
the much-euduring woman.
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Police Court.

The following cases were disposed Of
yesterday:
r. \. Kennedy and l.. VI. Smith were
fined 81 each for fighting in the street.
Matilda Peasants (coIoredJ and Willie
Blankenship, charged with cursing and
abusing each other. The cases were dis
missed on payment OF cost.
| Edward Page (colorcd) charged with fe-
| loniously aSSaulting and wounding Albert
! Dabncy. The offence having been commit
/ ted on James river near Chaliin's Bluff,
Henrico county. the Police Justice decided
that he had no jurisdiction, and sent the
accused to Henrico county for trial.
Joe Mann and John Judah (both colored>
were charged with feIOniously assaulting
! George Coombs. The evidence showed
that Mann and Judah went into Coombs's
store, on Seventeenth street, Monday night,
and became enraged because Cocmbs re-
fused to credit them. A fight ued,during
which Mann threw several weights at
| Coombs. One Of them struck him on the
head, cutting the scalp TO the bone.
/ Coombs drew pistol and fired at Mann,
which caused hIm TO run out OF the store.
| During the fracaS Judah took a pistol
! from his pocket and threatened to use it..
| Mann and Judah were sent on to the grand
jury.
Mr.. Thomas +. flanagan, merchant en-
gagedn business on Brook avenue, in God
din's old tavern. near the branch, was before
the court yesterday morning to answer
the charge Of violating the city ordinance
in using city gas improperly. The princl-
pal witness against Mr.. Iannagan was a
/ discharged clerk, who stated there were
! two connections leading to Mr.. llannaSan'S
premises from the strecimain; one OF them
connected with the meier. while the other
! did not: that Mr.. flanagan had been in the
habit OF makinga connection with the latter
| by means Of piece OF rubber hose, which
enabled him to use gas in several rooms in
his house without its passing through the
meter. The case. after a partial eXamina-
| ton, was continued until this morning in
order that other witnesses could be sum-
mOned.
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WHERE AND HOW THEY ARE CARED FOR DU-
RING THE MOTHERS DAYS OF Toll.
Philadelphia Times.J
"You ask me what parents who work
away from home do with their children
when thew themselves are busy" said
BENJAMIN J. Grew, secretary OF the Society
for Protection of Children from Cruelty.
..As to baby-iarming | can give you no in-
formation. | do not doubt that there are
women in this city who would accept Il
child and $500 with the understanding that
the child is to die. But wheneyerwc have
clue TO such persons they are oil before
we get to them. Working people who
have children too young TO be lett at home
find shelter for them in the different day
nurseries scattered about the town. There
they are taken care OF, fed, washed. and
taught some little alphabetical knowledge
at an expense OF not more than six cents q
day.
"What is your opinion Of the charity ~
"Without doubt it is meritorious one,
and doing a great deal OF good"
Mrs, Luckman, matron ut 22lS Lombard
street. said "The children here, and in
fact i'm all these day nurseries, are OF work
ing people who do their work away from
home. In most cases the mother is n
widow and works out, washing or house
cleaning. Sometimes father, whose wife
is dead or in some hospital, brings his
children here. We never take child
whose parent works at home; nor do we
keen them over Sunday. We have kim
dergarten school for them part OF the day."
From the rules aud regulations: Five
cents day is required fer each child
Three meals a day are given OF good,
wholesome food, and washing and bathing
strictly attended to. Children are received
at half-past 6 in the morning, and must be
called for by : in the evening.
From the twentieth annual report the
following facts were gained: Number OF
childen admitted, 154 families represent
ed, 90; daily average attendance, 20
greatest number in one day, 80. The an
nual statement for January /, 1888, shows
Expenses for the year, Sl,S19.2l, and .
balance on hand, Sif5.G4. The largest bill
for provisions was for milk-S240.90 fof
the year.
A request TO see the children and their
quarters was readily granted. In the yard
there were some hali-dozen playing with
out any appearance OF restraint. Every
child was busy with something. All had
their play CLOTHES on, which were unusual
ly clean. and the children themselves
showed the marks Of wholesome care. In
the entry there were some more children.
They didn't seem disturbed when any one
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-08
Meeting OF the Middle District Bop
tiSt association.

The Middle District Association OF the
Baptist churches OF Manchester, Chester
field, Powhalan, and Amelia. meets to-day
at 10 O'Clock A. NJ. with Mount Hermon
church, Chesterfield county, about twenty
miles from Richmond. This beng the cen
tcnnial session, a large attendance OF dele
gates and visitors Is expected. Ample pre-
parations have been made by the hospta-
ble citizens OF that vicinity. Not less than
1000 persons will be present, il any idea
Of the crowd can be obtained by the eXteH-
siye arrangements provided for their ac-
commodaton. ID. VI. Goode was modera-
tor and J. l.. Dorset clerk OF the last Assoc
citation. The Illness Of Captain GoOde will
render it necessary to elect another pre-
siding officer.
The Association will be in session
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday OF this
week. After the reading OF letters from
the churches, and the election OF officers,
Rev. l.. w. Moore will preach the intro
ductory sermon. DR.. j. l.. VI. Curry will
deliver the centennial address. Besides
these entertaining and instructive eXer-
ciscs. reports will he read upon education,
State. home, and foreign missions, which
Will be discussed by able speakers. Indeed,
this session is expected to be the most sue
cessiul ever held by this venerable body.
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a New Name For II.

They are always getting new name for
that indcscribablc fix that fellow gets In,
commencing with Vanderbilt feeling OF
wealth and ending with a desire not to
live always. Excuses innumerable have
been made for il. Sometimes il is what
has been eaten. and again the stomach is
out OF fix, and frequently the blame is laid
on the quality OF the liquor. The fact l.,
very few people have the courage TO charge
il to the liquor dry so.
\ curious case OF the readiness for cX-
cusps occurred here the other day. \ most
excellent salesman in leading house on
Main street went ont and saw so many men
flat he became tired. He had taken beer,
mint-smaShes. and all sorts OF cooling
drauchts. until be began TO have bad
oniniop OF himself. He couldn't 90 home,
Tor lust at that time he imagined home a
nuisance. He thought he would slip IN AT
the store-door and 20 upstairs to bed
room and escape exposure. His employer
saw him, however, and, needing his SER
vices. followed the salesman. He reached
the room and found him lying down.
"Ge. up: want you down-stairs,' said
the employer.
Cant; I'm shick."
"Sick! What's the matter?"
.cNo. thinks m'lishus fefer."