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BanklNot Paper.

The fibered bank-note paper on
which American legal tenders, ma
| tional bank-note currency and 0
eminent bonds are printed, Is maze
| at Dalton, Massachusetts,, IN an old
mill. whose existence dates back to
| Colonial times. If you should stop
1t the old paper mill with proper Gre
dentials, YOU may perhaps, be allowed
to handle q sheet of crisp fiber paper,
or take a peep at the pulp press,
where a. the wet, grayish pulp is
pressed between heavy iron cylln-
ders, hits of blue and red silk thread
are scattered over it's face and silken
ribs laid on its surface. You may go
beyond into the counting room,
where each sheet as it comes from
the drying room is carefully counted,
and examined and then returned
tothe paper cutter to be divided INT into
smaller Sheets. II you trace This
paper still further, you will find that
from the cutters hands it passes
again to the counting room, is sepa-
rated into little packages containing
1000 sheets each, the amount record
ed in a register, and then packed into
bundles and stored in fire and burglar
proof vaults to await shipment to the
United States Treasury. From pulp
room to vault tue precious paper is
watched and guarded as carefully as
though each sheet were an ounce OF
gold. Its manufacture is n OF the
greatest secrets connected with the
Governments money making.
From the vaults of the paper mis-
at Dalton to the guarded storerooms
of the Treasury at Washington, is
but a journey If two or three days.
In the capacious vaults Of the Treas
ury building. among gold and silver
and copper and nickel coins, bullion,
paper currency and official records,
you will find thousands of packages
OF the bank-note paper thus manu-
featured at Dalton. It comes in little
iron safes, such as are used by the
Adams Express company, and each
package and every sheet is carefully
counted by the manufacturer and tie
express company are relieved fron
further responsibility. The paper
that arrives to-day may lie in the
treasury storeroems for years or it
may be sent to the Bureau Of En-
craving and Printing tomorrow, to
return in the course of a months
time q legal tender or bank note.
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The long-looked-for individual has
been found in Texas, who was both
Washington's nurse and Napoleon's
coschmap. Texas can furnish most
anything 10 order, from hnel de-
scendent Of Methuselah to q forty.
acre meteor,
acre meteor

The Government printing Office at
Washington has just made 50,00o, 600
tobacco rebate labels in 65 hours.
This is quick work. The red ink
used cost 1000, and if the labels
were placed in a line they wonld
reach from New York to San Fran
ciecn
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Victory of TELEGRAPH Commands

CHICAGO, May S.-The city council
alter midnight last night, amid great
confusion and after acrimonious de-
bate, passed the ordinance granting
to the District Telegraph Company Of
Chicago the right to erect poles with.
IN the city for stringing telegraph
wires placed in cables. Updsr tn.
existing ordinance all telegraph COM
panles were to have been cOmnelled
on the LIST Of the present month to
pace all their wires under ground
put the operation of the law was de-,
LAY to Dy an injunction granted by the
state ana federal courts, and the liti-
gatlon Is now pending undecided.
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Declines to be Interviewed

SAN FRANCISCO, May S.-Senator
Edmunds positively declines a psliti-
cal interview. The party will re-
main here six weeks, and then visit
Oregon and Washington Territory.
SAN FRAScIsco, May s.-south-
ern Pacific bonds sold at 1923 to 1O4;
Central Pacific shares, Is, seller 80;
Best and Belcher mine soc.
The Bulletin this evening says the
Southern Pacific in controlling a
road from San Francisco to New
Orleans with steamers from the latter
place to New York, enables the Cali
fornia road to give quick and reliable
service. Freight will be moved from
New York to San Francisco in fifteen
days, and freight from New Orleans
the same as from st. Louis. The
Southern Pacific Company believes
the opening of the Atlantic & Pacific
IN July will not affect them.
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Talking of beauty says a h "1nI~
correspondent Of the London uso "rr
the young Duchess Magellan" t Ie
Bandini, married at sixteen, r. s.nt
belle of Rome; a really triulnpnsua,
young creature with the figure t.s
nymph. Mrs. Astor, the vie e
new American minister, only wv" sh.
ty-three, is 50 beautiful that wnen
was presented at court her MH;ra .
remained speechless with aon''"
tiOn.O
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Bliss has proved himself to be the
champion go-as-you-please speaker.
While Bliss il talking for 500 a day
the jury is listening at $1.50a day,
which Is much the harder part of the
business,
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The Dunn Trial.

CHICAGO, May Sin the trial of .Jera
@D%nn TOT the murder of the pugilist
ELLIOTT, the forenoon session Of tho
crlmlnalc court was taken np in tryins
10 secure a jury. One juryman Thus far
mas Deen accepted by both sides r.
Is estimated that two DAYS win no
consumed in obtaining a full panel W
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Denver Storm

DENVER, May S.-Tho .,
which visited Denver to-day WIS., n
heaviest and most remarkah%Iss Vas the
known. The day was usherade ever
q heavy shower of rain, At 9 IN BY
the sky cleared and the dav o'clock
to be exceptionally fine promised
later the SKY again was overcast aour
a terrific thunder and lightninr and
nounced the approach Of tho an.
ana increased with its fury. 9sofm
rain drops and hailstsnes m eoon
coming down together. Tho nenced
were Immediately deserted streets
!ence OF the storm rendered it nn. We
for enyone to be out. Incredihiau saie
may seem fully eight inches of As it.
stones, some as large as plnms aaii
in the lower part OF the citv in s,;ie l
minutes. The street car driva. .nirty
hitched their horses and sonu IN.
shelter where they could. 'T Tfg
horses were securely hitched Int ,helr
broke loose and went tearing thsoaey
the streets, which being desert lJus 81
one was injured. The storm Iast 40
fully all hour. Countless wind s,eu
were broken, gardens demolished "'S
Trees stripped Of foliage and ~ ta'
were flooded. Lighting struck 'i W
several places in the city, but strann ~
~ no one was fatally injured. ~
Chinese houses were crushed m; .e
the weight of hail stones, and wy" tha
inmates dangerously hurt. In f. ue
the storm was entirely loca,. t%a
to the crops and fruit tro n
was comparatively light.
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n.t tAooMA, W. T., May ga dis
patcn says Verona Baldwin Is
Mas lately tried for shooting the mil.
lionaire, E. A. Baldwin. hoe hnar
asylum. " pi"cou III an
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ALEXANDER n. SULLIVAN.

In his resent speech before the Chi
cago meeting called to ratify tn
Philadelphia platform adopted b.
the National League of Irish-Amer
leans, Mr.. Sullivan referred to him
self, and to q feeling which existet
against him among a certain class il
Chicago. The following from a cor
respondent Of a Cincinnati paper
gives an account of the matter t.
which MI. Sullivan referred, and
also a brief sketch of his career before
he appeared so prominently before
the people at Philadelphia. Mr.. Sui
Ivan was born in Maine and is
thirty-fve years of age. He stumped
Michigan for the constitutional
amendment giving negroes the right
of suffrage, and was an active Adolf
ZIONIST He wss Republican until
1872, when, being a strong friend Of
Greeley, he supported the liberal
movement, and has since been a
Democrat. He studied law with A.
S. Sullivan, of New York, and has
been for a numbered years in success
tul practice in Chicago.
In 1875 he was a reporter on the
Chicago Times. His wife differed
from and. antagonized one Hanna
ford, superintendent of schools in
that city. She, it appears, was an
editorial writer OH the Times, and
used the columns of: that paper to
attack Hannaford, and the latter re-
piled through the columns of an edu-
cational monthly edited by him. The
controversy became very bitter, and
az Mrs. Sullivan rather represented
the Roman Catholic element in the
city, the quarrel partook somewhat of
the nature of a sectarian sqdabbie.
One night Alexander Sullivan, to-
gether with his wife and bis brother,
went in a hack to Hannaford's resi-
dence On Dearborn avenue. AS the
three droye up, Hannaford was wa
tering his grass plot. His wife and
children sat upon the veranda. The
alighted and renewed the
quarrel. Hannaford said that the
place was his home, that his wife and
children were about him, and that it
was no place to resume the quarrel.
He rather led or pushed Mrs.
Sullivan gently toward her car
rage At this moment Sulli-
van, without any warning, turned
and shot Hannaford dead. Then the
three leaped in:o their carriage and
drove away. Hannaford expired in
the arms of his wife. The city was
at once in an uproar. Sullivan de-
]ivered himself up, and the police
were kept On guard, and no one was
allowed to see him, for tear that he
would be either shot Or hung. He
was tried twice. The Roman Catho-
lies were stirred up by Sullivan's
friends, and as the trial progressed
every effort was made to arouse sec
prejudice. The most distin-
guished lawyers were employed to de-
fend the prisoner. On his first trial
the jury disagreed; OF the second, he
was acquitted; but for a long time
he appeared on the street,
he was followed and hooted at. 1t
this unfortunate affair to which
Nh. Sulli, an alluded in his speech.
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The Semi Weekly Miner.
NAY 9, 1883.
Silver was quoted yesterday in
New York at 81. O91.
That Texas meteor story is now
recognized as Tom Ochiltree's boss
To # ~

The Tewksbury investigation is
yieldinggood fruit. It has awakened
inquiries in other States, and the re-
suit is that similar Investigations are
being inaugurated.
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WASHINGTON, May S.-The G this
Service rules were approved
morning by the President, sup'"
TALLY as printed on Friday last.
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THE ELECTION

A1AO AC8AAy 0A AOSoA SASSO
which haye taken place in this Ter.
ritory during the past few years, the
one that came off in this city the day
before yesterday cannot be accepted
as a just criterion of the numerical
strength of the two political parties
here. Local jealousies and bicker'
ipgs had much to do in determining
the result. If a square party vote
had been cast every man upon the
Democratic ticket would have been
elected, but Jealousies and OLSEN
sions in the Democratic party rem
dered this impossible. This feeling
manifested itself in the most destruc-
tive form to party discipline-in rails
ing up Independent candidates who
drew nearly all their support from the
Democratic party, thus defeating
tvodib regular nominees. In view
of the disadvantages under which
the Democrats labored the result
may be regarded as fEattering to
them. The Republicans worked
with desperate energy, and, if reports
be true, they followed to the letter
the advice of one of their speakers at
their meeting last Saturday night, to
vote the Park, Jefferson County and
VAUDEVILLE for the Republican
ticket.
The Republican candidate for
Mayor, DR.. Whitford, was elected by
a handsome majority. While not
an objection could be urged against
his opponent, the Doctors personal
popularity drew to his support a
large number of Democrats, and to
them the Doctor owes his election,
which fact he recognizes and publicly
acknowledges. As neither patronage
nor emolument attaches to the office,
the Doctors victory is a rather bar
rem one, and is shorn Of all political
significance. The fight of the day
was made for the Marshalship, and
Mr.. Venable, the Democratic nomi-
nee, carried it off over the heads Of
two opposing candidates-the regular
Republican and. All Independent.
Judge Laspeyre beat his Republican
opponent for the City Attorneyship
by a majority of 200. His victory
was no surprise, as his election was
conceded from the moment of his
nomination. The Republicans gained
the City Assessor and Collector,
through the agency of an Indepen-
dent candidate, who never had a
chance for an election but who sue
in drawing off to his support
. sufficient number of Democratic
votes to insure the election of a Re
publican. The same may also be
true IN regard to the Police Magis-
tracy. If a Republican gets in at all
will be by one majority through
the candidacy of an Independent.
The Democrats elected three out of
the four councilmen-that body now
seven Democrats to one Re
Thus it will be seen that |
out of the nine offices filled by the
the Democrats named five of
the occupants and the Republicans
named three, one being doubtful.
While the result of the election is
with but little political sig
nificance, it must be conceded the
in view of the disadvan-
tages under which they labored, are
justified in uttering just one hearty
crow.
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There are seventy pupils enrolled in
the Glendive school,
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"Yes, sir, that's the man, and hes
brave enough to do anything, from
pulling Down q Rebel flag to leading
adrunken comrade out of . saloon
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The President went to Florida Tor
health and diversion. The following
extract from a private letter by one
of the correspondents who accom-
panied him is evidence that he Is
getting the better of the former:
Thermometers dead average, @'
Mosquitoes the size of bumble-bees,
One bite On the ankle will make you
walk lame. The sands are flll VI
fleas. These creatures have the Mh,
tanned energy of the far North. lne
orange season is over. The co'Inlt!
is flat, damp, and malarious. Inc
fishing is poor and conducted uhael
great difficulties. The President lSs
been bitten by mosquitoes ana liea1
until he is beginning to be recollclleu
to going back to the ot1ice-seehels'
Everybody is cross ana out OF hulior
You see notes of changes TO oui
plans. We are hunting for a collr
Portable place. Old Sanford ha'
cooked his goose inviting the fI n;m
dent down here, after lying 10 n In;s
about the paradise condition OF t his
country. You see if he ever gels lh IL.
foreign appointment. me Gnr!
sport down here is alligator sli'o.in %
That involves as much danger a.
numbering cows, but it will nlaA. ,s
good subject to talk about when INV
hunters return.
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He'd Scoop a Little.

About the time that Daniel Drew
began his Wall street career, he was
up in the country one time to visit
some friends, and two farmers called
upon him to decide a case. One had
sold the other five bushels of wheat,
and proposed to measure it in Il half
bushe), and sweep the top of the
measure with a stick. The other
objected and Uncle naniel asked to
decide.
"Well, legally speaking, a bushel
is only d bushel," he answered.
"And can the measure be swept
off"
II think it can"
"What with 2"
"Well, if l was selling wheat
should probably use half the head OF
a flour barrel"
(which edge of it:'
"Gentlemen, this is a point | can
not now decide on" sighet the Old
man. eff | was selling to Il widow
or preacher | am certain that
should sweep the measure with the
straight edge, but if l was selling 10
q man who pastures his road and MS
pigs in his neighbor's corn, I'm
afraid [ should use the circular slde'
and SCOOP 4 little TO boot
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-11-29
Capabilities of Mexico.

The physical formation of Mexico is
simply an extension southward of the
great Colorado thothtain-base plateau.
Wheat grows on the plateau of Mexico
at from six thousand to nine thousand
feet above the sea leyel, and between
the eighteenth and twenty.fourth par
allels of latitude. Corn grows every
where except in certain waste DISTRICTS
along the northern frontier, where the
soil is the same as the alkuli plains of
Arizona and New Mexico. The wheai'
growing area of Mexico extends from,
say, PuebIa nearly to COlima, about
five hundred miles east and west, and
from southern Michoacan to Xacatecas,
about four hundred miles north and
south, an area Of ~ 600 square miles.
Under the Mexican plan Of cultivation
three crops are taken off the land every
two years-one crop Of wheat and two
crops OF corn. The average wheat crop
of Mexico now dOesnOt exceed 20 BUSH
els to the acre. Corn on irrigated land
runs about 80; on dry land about 30
bushels to the acre. The mode of cul-
hvation is similar to that used by the
Egyptians thousands of years ago.
Nevertheless, the wheat raised is Of the
very finest quality. Apart from tho
50 600 square miles spoken of above,
which is tho choice wheat producing
area, there is sufficient outlying wheat,
barley and corn land now under actual
cultivation to supply the present popu.
latiOn Of Mexico, ten millions. These
people are at present fed on grain
raised just where they live, there hav-
ing been up to this time no organized
machinery for transportation OF pIo-
ducts from one part Of the country to
the other. Mexico is substantially a
cOrn.fed nation, sevcn-eighthS OF the
people living on tertillas. Were this
wheat area cultivated to its full ca-
pacity, namely, 1884 square miles,
it is estimated that it would yield, I'M
der present conditions, 20 bushels of
wheat and 30 bushels of corn per acre,
as follows: First year, wheat crop, 22l,-
SGG, $50 bushels; first year, corn crop,
ii3, 1888, 320 bushels; second year, corn
crop, 43S, 1873, 800 bushels. Or, say, an
average of 10, 100000 bushels OF wheat
and 0,000, 600 bushels of corn every
Vpar,
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Boston Traveller.
The ethics of good sleep should form
part of household morality. Ii is
hardly an cXtraVagant assertion that
comparatively few people, after child
hood is passed, know by experience
what perfect sleep IS, AMI satisfy them
selves with poor apology for this
most perfect refrCShment. Rising tired
and weary from disturbed, imperfect
sleep, they proceed to summon up lost
energies by strong tea or coifec, which
in its turn again intGrferes with per-
feet rest at night; and this process Of
life, more than any mental or physical
labor, wears women out and makes
them prematurcly old.
81 have been reading myself to sleep
after retiring" said Boston woman
the other day, "and when have done
this for Two or three nights | can see
that look five years older"
It is an experience that any woman
can verify, and, conversely, she can
see that sleeping in perfectly dark
and well ventilated room brings back
contour and the roses OF childhood or
early youth.
The most perfect sleeps obtained by
carefully closing the blinds, raising and
lowering the windows to admit plenty
of pure air, and drawing down the
heavy shades, thus making the room
perfectly dark. Then, on going to bed,
90 there to sleep, not to write or read,
or think or plan, but for that most val
uablo of all things, the foundation Of
all activity and energy perfect sleep
A few nights of this experience vii
work a magic transformation in looks
and in feelings.
Above all, let us divest ourselves oi
n traditional prejudice that there is
somehow virtue in early rising. Wher
early sleep is obtained, early rising is
indicated by nature by waking; bu
artiticially produced it is pernicious
Unless there is an exceptional reason
il is far wiser to sleep till one waken'
naturally, and one hour then will dc
the work of three when one comes tC
il tired, uyrefreshed. Natures swee
restorer" is of all things the most in
N-iUnrqtinp
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Demorests Monthly for December.
Nearly everyone who testified before
the Senate Commission which sat in
New York recently, as to the best
means of beuefting the laborlne
classes, agrees that vital changes must
be made in our common school educa-
ton. Boys and girls must be trained
to work as well as to read, write and
cipher. France, Germany, and
especially Switzerland, are far ahead
of the United States in technical and
art education. Hence tho immense
superiority of the foreign workman In
all our shops and manufactures ovei
the native employees. The American
is naturally the most intelligent, quick
witted, and inventive, but he is left
hopelessly in the rear when in compe'
tition with the trained European
artisan. We must rid ourselves of the
superstition that our common schoo
system is perfection. As matter ol
fact, it is wofully deficient as compared
with the industrial education given by
continental European nations to then
working classes. Apart from oul
scientific schools. the Cooper Union
and tho Bo 'ton archaeological Institute
no provision has been made in th'
United States to do work that requires
! intelligence and artistic skill.
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"Franccs Readiness for War" is the
title of pamphlet which appeared
here toward the end of September, is
already in its fourth edition, and is be-
ing translated into French and Italian,
says Berlin telegram to The London
Times. The author is q PruSsian Of
licer. HIS opinions claim to be founded
on careful study of French affairs and
personal observations made at the last
French autumn maneuvers. The con
tents of the pamphlet are briefly a
follows Numerically, the French army
is decidedly superior to the German
has 1896 men and 1874 guns more.
But numbers are moi rything in this
question. On the German side must Dt
reckoned the greater uniformity of
training, which France can not rival,
because of her system Of dividing the
recruits iAto two portions, one OF which
serves forty months and the other only
eight or ten; greater solidity OF the
cadres, which are stronger in time OF
peace; greater uniformity in the aug
mentation of the number of the men;
better quality and kecner attention OF
the subalterns; strategically better
railways, swifter power of concentra
ton, and a greater number ot
squadrons and If horses fit for service.
Germany has S72 field squadrons and
SO reserve squadrons; France has sos
of the former and 81 Of the latter, in
cluding tho African troops. In Ger
many squadron has $50 hor9es; in
France nominally $50, but really not
more than 12O. The French forts which
guard the road and railways near the
frontier will, contrary to the original
intention, require the defense of active
troops. The French are warlike, but
not militaro; the Germans drink in the
military spirit with their mothers
milk. The French have no permanent
commander-in. chief. They are not
steadfast in adversely, and do not will
ingly follow any leader who has not
bound victory to his chariot wheels.
Political societies exercise disintegrat-
ing influence in the French army,
both among officers and men. In
short, there are still many weak points
in that army as regards training, re-
cruitin,', and general administration,
which must be remedied before it can
be called ready for war. With refer
ence to the subject matter of this pam
phlet, l may state that an augmentation
of the German artillery is now seriously
intended. The minister of war seems
to favor the project.