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Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-05
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

M. Fourmant has concluded a series
of exact experiments upon trichine in
II eat. He finds that to pack the dis
eased flesh in salt for fifteen months
does not kill the parasites; mice fed
upon the meat died of trichinosis.
Remains of mastodon and num-
Der of curious bones belonging to vari-
GUS other animals have been found
near salt mine at New Iberia, La.
Among them were some fossil teeth of
horses, and they have been presented
to the Yale college museum.
The post-mortem examination of a
mulatto who died recently in Cincin-
natl revealed brain weighing sixty
one ounces. There are on record but
two brains heavier than this-that of
Cuvier, weighing 64.33 ounces, and
Abercrombie's, which weighed sixty
three ounces.
DR.. Reklam considers that headaches
and other consequences of sleeping in
rooms containing flowers do not arise
from any special properties of the
flowers themselves, but are due to a
straining of the nerves of smell in the
presence of perfumes for an unwonted
length of time. The effect is anala
gous to that produced upon the eyes
by an unusual exposure to light, or on
the ears by long-continued sounds.
An enormous quantity of water pass
es through the roots of plants. An
English experimenter has ascertained
that for every pound Of mineral matter
assimilated by plant, an average of
1000 pounds of water is absorbed.
At the French agricultural Observable
ry of Montsouris it was found that in
rich soil, 727 pounds of water passed
through the roots of wheat plants for
every pound of grain produced; while
in very poor soil, 2693 pounds passed
through the wheat roots for each
pound Of grain"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-05
just Like EN-.

Two ladies who were bound some
where in company yesterday entered a
Woodward avenue car together, and
no sooner were they seated than both
made dive for their purses.
"Oh, let me pay!' pleaded one.
"Oh, l couldn't think of itl'
"Oh, do, now; L have just the
change"
"Oh, but l have tickets"
"Yes, but you paid the last time"
"But you can pay some other time.
Here
She was hurriedly searching through
her porte-monnaie, but didn't seem to
find anything.
II told you l had-r'
And the second one began a search
in a wild manner, emptying out pins,
needles and buttons, but no money.
"Why! l do declarep' gasped the
first.
"Strangest thing ever sawl" added
the second.
1'll pay for both," observed a man
on the seat opposite, and he marched
up, fumbled through his pockets and
held out battered quarter to the dri-
yer. The latter would not take it, and
the man marched out and slid off the
platform in the most solemn manner,
and at the next crossing the ladies said
they had taken the wrong car, rang the
bell and got off.-M. quad.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-05
Cavair.

There are many people who pretend
to like caviar, and it is possible that
few may have forced themselves to
relish. the intensely salt or rancid prep
aration of sturgeon eggs called by this
name. We believe the ''delicacy" first
came from Russia, and we can imagine
that native of Siberia, half Indian
and half Esquimaux, might find caviar
a delightful change from whales
blubber and decayed seal. We have
tasted caviar, and think that old rusty
mackerel brine is nectar beside it.
The Germans pretend to love caviar
and Americans who have been abroad
eat it before their friends to show their
acquired taste contracted in foreign
lands. We read in the Deutsche FSSc-
herei ZeitIag that some Germans have
been making caviar from the eggs of
the pike, and we wish them success in
their search after new source of sup
ply of delicatessen. Shakespeare
speaks of something which the general
public cannot relish as being "caviar
to the general" The bard is correct.
as usual. Caviar is caviar, whether
made of triple-salted rancid sturgeon
eggs or of the ova of the pike favored
with seal blubber and stale mackerel
brine.
TO our friends who have not yet
met this luxury we will say that at
dinner, after the pudding, ice cream,
cheese, nuts, figs and raisins have pass
ed, you take a piece of toast about
three inches square and cover it with
quarter inch layer of something that
looks like broken rice stewed in coal
tar. On this you put thick layer of
finely-chopped raw onion and squeeze
lemon over it. You raise it to your
lips; you bite into it and roll your eyes
heavenward and declare that you never
tasted anything half so delicious before.
At the first opportunity you slip down
stairs and take quiet drink out of the
kerosene can to get up a proper after
taste in your mouth.
Yes, the Germans have discovered a
new source of caviar in the pike, aid
don't we wish we had some of it.
The memory of the caviar we have
eaten comes over us like the recollec-
tions of an Arctic explorer when he
thinks of the train oil he has swallow
ed.- Forest and Stream.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-05
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Advice is seldom welcome. Thos,
who need it most take it least.
As every thread of gold is valuable.
so is every minute of time. -
Prosperity is no just scale; adversely
is the only balance to weigh friends.
The more we do, the more we can do
the more busy we are, the more leisure
we have.
Knavery is supple, and can bend
but honesty is firm and upright ant
yields not.
No principle is more noble, as there
is none-mo holy, than that of true
obedience.
He who is the most slow in making
promise is the most faithful sn the
performance of it.
Never let your zeal outrun your
charity. The former is but human,
INC ldJCeT Is divine.
Duty cannot be neglected without
harm to those who practice as well as
to those who suffer the neglect.
Precept is instruction that is written
in sand, and washed away by the tide;
example is instruction engraved on the
rock.
Whoever has contented mind has
all riches. To him whose foot is en-
closed in shoe, is it not as though the
earth were carpeted with leather?
Try to repress thought, and it is like
trying to fasten down steam-an ex-
plosion is sure to follow. Let thought
be free to work in its own appropriate
way, and it turns the machine, drives
the wheels, does the work.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-05
An UnsOphisticated Way.

Any Esquimaux asked to undertake
journey or perform labor he does
not like does not declare that he is not
at home, but he has precisely similar
formality adapted to his own circum-
stances. He does not like to tell the
stranger proposing to him that he does
not wish to go, or that the pay is not
sufficient, or, in short, that he will not
go; but he says, II have no boots"
This is not to be accepted as hint that
a pair of boots would be an acceptable
present; it IS merely polite refusal,
and in strict politeness must be ac-
cepted as unhesitatingly as our own
"Not AT home"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-05
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Always out of countenance-T
nose.
The blandest counsel may be cross
examiner.
High words-"Tip top" "peak,"
summit" etc.
Now the thrifty fisherman figures
up his net gains.
A mans tongue often betrays him,
but he always can count on his fingers.
A man has invented chair that
can be adjusted to 800 different posi-.
tions. 1t is designed for boy to sit
in when he goes to church.
The great question of the day at
present is how to wear high all-round
collar and still be able to sneeze hard
without cutting your throat. -.
One of the sweetest pictures of do
nestle economy is poet backing
white stocking so that it won't show
through the fissure of his boot.
"He's grown to be a polished gen.
tleman, anyhow" said an old lady
gazing fondly as she spoke at the shin
ing bald head of her son, just returned
after long absence.
"Papa," said lad the other night,
after attentively studying for some
minutes an engraving of human
skeleton, chow did this man manage
to keep in his dinner ~
A little chap in Gallatin, Tenn, son
of prominent turfman, was asked by
his school-teacher to define "good
breeding" "a mare with two Lex
ington crosses" was the instant reply.
Johnnie, how many bones are there
in the human body?" Whose human
body? Mine?" eyes, yours, for in
stance" "Can't tell. You see I've
been eatin' shad for breakfast, and
that upsets the anatomical estimate at
once"
A society has been formed in New
York, to be known as the "Order of
the Iron Tie" 1t is supposed to be an
organization to use its influence to per-
suade men to wear tie that the
women folks cannot work up into a
patchwork quilt.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-05

But it's better than nothin'. And the
old woman will be company for Jane
Eliza and the children. It's old HUI
dah Jones, you know Cappen Jones'
widder, down in Frog Lane"
"Ohl" said Mrs. Ackley.
Il expected her up last night" said
Abe, drawing on his blue yarn
mittens; "but l guess she found the
weather one too many for her rheuma-
tiz; SO now I'm goin' arter her, with
an armchair tied into the box-sled!
And, by-the-way," fumbling in his
coat pocket, "here's letter got last
night. Guess it was meant for father.
but opened it by mistake"
"Who's it from? ?' screeched Abigail,
who had just come down stairs, half
frozen, from her freless room, tying
her apron strings as she came, while
Maria was visible. twisting up her
back hair in the distance.
"Your rich cousin, in New York"
said Abe. "She amt comin'l She's
made up her mind to rent furnished
fiat in New York, where she can be
near her doctor and her favorite clergy
mani"
"Nonsensew said Maria "That's
only practical joke, as some one is
tryin' to come on us. Cousin Jones is
here Already"
"Asleep in the best chamber, where
Pm goin' to light fire at seven
o'clock" added Abigail
"What!" roared Abraham.
"Girlsl' shrilly exclaimed Mrs. Ack-
ley, "it's a dreadful mistake as we've
all of us madel This old woman amt
our Cousin Jones at all. It's the town
poor as Abe has took to board!-old
Cappen Jones widow, from Frog
Lane"
And she struck an attitude in front
of the stove like Medea before the sac
rificial flames. aael
"And we gave her cold fowl and
raspberry-jam," cried Maria, "and the
whole of the meat pie
"And my choicest linen sheets, and
a fire in the best chamber groaned
Mrs. Ackley. my goodness mel how
could we be such fools2 ?"
"Go and wake her up at once" said
Maria to Abigail. "Tell her Abe Ack-
ley is here, to take her where she right
ly belongs; and ask her how she dared
to impose upon decent people like us?"
1T amt her faultw sighed Mrs. Ack-
ley, "It's ours Goodness, what
idiots we've been!'
"Well, you haven't asked me to
breakfast" said Abraham, junior
waggishly; "but l guess I'll stop for
bite and sup, and take the old lady
up to our home arterward. 'Tain't a
good plan to travel on an empty
stomach such weather as thisp'
And the bewildered Mrs. Jones was
whisked away on the box-sled before
she knew the rights and wrongs of the
case, leaving the Ackley family discon-
solate.
81 never was so mistook in my life
before" said Mrs. Ackley.
But Abe, junior, regarded the matter
as stupendous Joke.
"Old Mrs. Jones got first-class
meal and nights lodgin' free gratis
out of mother" said he; "and 1 don't
remember when anybody else has done
as much"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-05

Deal very gently with those who are
on the downhill of life. Your own
time is coming to be where they now
are. You too are stepping westward.
Soothe the restlessness of age by amuse-
ment, by consideration, by non-inter-
ference, and by allowing plenty of oc-
cupation to fall into the hands that
long for it. But let it be of their own
choosing. and cease to order their ways
for them rs though they were children,
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-05
BY BEN. S. GILMORE.
Her King.


She has not fund her king rs yet,
The golden days glide by;
They bring no sorrows to forget,
Nor any cause to sigh.
No heart for her devotion made
The passionate summers bring;
Unframed she walks, and unaflrayed-
She has not found her king.
Men bring their titles, and their goM,
She turns in scorn away.
The man must be of different mold
She swears she will obey.
Though poor in honor and in lands,
Rich in rarer thing,
II led by God alone, hestnnds,
When she will own her king.
But when he comes, rs come he will,
Strong to support, and grand,
With supplication that shall fill
Her SOUL like her commands;
She'll place her hand in his, and take
Whater this world may bring,
Proud and contented for his snke,
Whom she hath crowned her kingi
Temple Dai
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-05-05
Prophecy.

I have heard it in the forest
Where the branches gray and bare,
From the sea of pines upstarting,
Stand like phantoms in the air;
Ghosts of beauty once SO fair.
have heard the distant echoes,
Faint and far, but wondrous sweet,
Telling that the summer cometh
Crowned with ecstasy complete;
And earth thrills beneath my feet.
l have seen the tidings written
On the far blue of the skies;
have heard the brooklet singing
Softly meath its roof OF ice,
Oi the coming mysteries.
"Summer's coming, coming, coming"
Speed the news from tree to tree.
Clouds of heaven bear it onward,
River, tell it to the sea.
Summer comes the earth is Free"
George l.. Heath
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-11
Improvements.

On Monday morning, work on the brick
walls of Martin Rockers building was
begun and the building will be erected as
quickly as possible. -
Work of tearing down the old sheds
and buildings occupied by Nm. hewitt
was also commenced, to give place to the
new brick building to be erected by DR..
Lamme. The building is to be 22xSO
feet, with an iron front, handsomely
furnished with tastely corniee and cut
stone trimmings. This building will
employ several laborers and hurried to
its completion. A portion Of the upper
story will be occupied by Luce & Arm
strong, lawyers, and the balance divided
into Offices. The lower portion will be
occupied by a mercantile business.
The Masonic Temple and the lower
rooms will be finished in month, as the
material is now on hand. The wains-
cotting and window castings are of black
walnut and oak, and when completed
the building will be the finest in Boze-
man.
The new school house building is al
most ready for the brick and will be a
lasting and beautiful monument of good
workmanship.
Frank Benepe's elegant residence on
the hill near the school house is almost
ready for occupancy. 1t is a. fine build
ing, handsomely finished and a residence
that Bozemanites may be proud of.
Matt w. Alderson's new residence is
also ready for the brick, and from its
commanding site will be admired by all
who love the beautiful.
p. s. Rountree's residence is also a fine
addition to Bozeman's handsome resi-
dences, and is about ready to be occu-
pied.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-11

In conversation with agentlcman from
the east few days ago, he remarked that
Bozeman was the best and most promis-
ing place along the line Of the Northern
Pacific railroad. This was something
we already knew, but in course of con-
seryation some things were said which
we did not know, among others, that in
many places persistent efforts were made
70 inform people that Montana was no fit
place to go to, that it was vastly over
rated, that crops were not good more
than once in ten years, that we had frosts
every month in the year, and that to his
knowledge many persons had been de-
tered from coming here, through the
representations of these defamers, of our
country. We have not words to express
our indignation at such practices, but
wish the retailers of these falsehoods,
no worse fortune than to be consigned to
the bleak and trceless regions of Dakota,
from whence they come, but it has sug-
gested to us another thing. and that ia,
that an organized persistent effort be
made to make Montana better known
than it is. That bureaus of emigration be
organized and pamphlets gotten up and
distributed, showing the advantages
Montana possesses, OF climate and soil,
mines, yield of crops, value Of lands,
school facilities, societies, etc, ect. We
know what we have. We must let the
world know it.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-11
AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE.

There has been organized and incor-
porated what is known as the Montana
Improvement Company, who have made
a contract running for twenty years, to
handle the lumber business along the
line of the Northern Pacific railroad,
paying therefor stumpage fec to the
railroad for lumber cut on their lands
Every principal point along the road
from Dalles to Miles City will he supplied
with an adequate supply of lumber of
good quality. From Missoula to lake
Pen d'Oreillc, the Northern Pacific
traverses for the distance of $50 miles a
magnificent belt of white and yellow
pine, fir, cedar and tamarac of superior
quality. This company have already
commenced operations and have on hand
now about 5000, 600 feet of lumber and
adding to their stock about $4,000 feet
daily. Upon the completion Of the road
every important place along the line,
between the points indicated will have a
lumber yard, and Of quality equal to
eastern lumber and at prices far below.
We regard this enterprise as one of the
largest and most important ever under
taken in Montana, and when once estab-
lished good seasoned lumber can be
procured at any time, a desideratum
which has heretofore neverb been attained.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-11

We were in hopes that before this,
steps would be taken TO erect a hotel
building, here, suitable to the wants Of
ouF growing cou1tty. The first remark
. stranger makes is, You need good
large hotel here and one would be the
greatest advertisement to your country,
besides the attractions offered in and
around the Gallatin valley, would induce
many people Of means to spend the sum-
NOR month"; her, If they could be pro-
Sidsd Niths sditable Accommodations.
We dare say the hotels here are as good
q any In the country, but they are linn
tied in capacity and do not meet the
wants of the travelling public. Cannot
some move be made in that direction?
Is there any doubt about it being pay
Ing jnv6stpenh We think not, andssin-
-cdsSsk hope thatsteps will be taken, and
at once to meet this crying need.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-11

What will the harvest be? This query
is nat intended p apply to q spiritual
harvest, but to the prospect Of crops in
the Gallatin.valley. Unless some unfor-
seen calamity happens, our advices point
TO good crop, where sufficient water can
be obtained to irrigate. There are con-
tinguencies which may yet arise to
shorten the crop If indeed it does not
destroy it In some localities. In some
portions of Dakota the wheat crop will
be failure and continued hot weather
may make light crop all over that ter
fitory.# This to some extent. is to be
JARED here, but not such IN extent
because we have what they have not) d
system Of irrigation, but we are liable to
itosts, and have heretofore been plagued
with grasshoppers, but we cannot hear
that they exist in any portion of the
and it is not probable that we
will be visited by them, although few
weeks ago we observed fight of them
up the West Gallatin canyon.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-11


A little time and labor will make the
grounds about the house look tidy, neat
and inviting. There is no use in having
the yards all covered with sticks, chips
and last years burdock stocks, to stick
their hateful burs into clothes and stock
ings. Use the garden rake and wheel
barrow. If there are dry leaves drifting
around, so much the better, they will
make a good absorbent for the manure
shed or piggery. No matter if the house
is old, or brown, or moss grown with age
if it is cleaned up neatly it will look as if
it were comfortable and give favorable
impression of the inhabitants, and few
flower roots set out and trimmed up
nicely will make the homeliest place
look pleasant. A few vines running up
the sides of the house so rs to shade the
windows and doors are as much of an Or
.nament to an old house as they are to a
fine mansion. A pretty porch can be
made over the door by setting long poles
each side of the steps and passing strings
over the top backward. If you cannot
get hop vines, plant beans, morning
glories, or sweet peas, and train them to
run up, and you will have something
that will give pleasure all along summer.
days. Boys will enjoy helping if you
only show them how to do it, and it will
be lifelong pleasure to them to know
how to make things look pretty. Do not
think it will take too much time. Chill
dren can be taught early in life to make
themselves useful, and there is no child
but that likes to see a pleasant home,
and if they know how to do it will take
hold and help make it 80.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-11

The friends Of Hon. Isaac D. McCut-
cheon claim that there has nothing been
done in the matter of his divorce of a
clandestine or underhand nature, that
the defendant had full and ample notice
Of the action and of the grounds set forth
why . decree should be granted, that
the proofs were ample and heard at
length by His Honor, Judge Wade. and
decree granted in accordance with the
facts. That the reason for bringing suit
here was simply to gain time. As the
Secretary of our Territory, we would be
glad that no dishonor should attach to
his name on that account, and if there
was nothing wrong in the proceedings
and. the reasons for granting the decree
wers ample, We Mould dislike to see any
isjueice done him, therefore it would be
well to know all the facts before unfavor-
able comment was made. As we have
said before it looked wrong on the sur
face, but there IL always two sides to q
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-07-11
.fniJ 18th The Bozeman ba,

~. .ge 49, :
OnJuly 4th the Bozeman base bah
club:shet TIE famous Helena club on the
dianond field and after a spirited con-
tel. defeated them. The score standing
Helena ten, Bozeman twelve, although
the last half of the ninth inning was pot
p|ayed out. to the end. The Helena
papers are inclined to attribute their de-
feat to the fact that Robinson (catcher)
had his thumb dislocated, but the score
shows that better playing was done by
the Helena club, after that occurrance,
than before. They say victory is only
loaned and we hope these two clubs may
again meet, but trust it may be. at Boze-
man the next time and we hereby assure
the Helena club the most generous and
cordial treatment. Our boys will only
smile over defeat and should that be ad-
ministered them, they will accept it
gracefully and try again. Bozeman is
entitled to the championship of Montana
and it should be- gracefully accorded
until the honors are fairly won from
them. As it stands now they have just
cause for congratulation, in that they
have defeated very good club.