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THE NEHER ARITHMETIC.

A staee-coach robber was enabled to
lay up 81, $50 in ten months, but Nj
agara falls hackman sailed down S., 265
in nine. How much better is it to rob
at Niagara falls than out West.
A tramp gets cold biscuit at one
house, piece of meat at another, an
old vest at the third, and the owner
of the fourth house runs him three
blocks with dog. How much more
does the tramp respect the fourth per-
son than the other three combined?
It takes twenty blows of hammer
in the hands of q woman to drive ten
penny nail three inches. She misses
the nail twice where she hits it once.
How many blows does she strike in all,
and how far can her voice be heard
when she strikes her thumb?
A gentleman who has a library OF
10000 volumes opens ten volumes per
wear. At this rate, how long will it
take him to reach the last book?
Only one newspaper man out OF ey-
erv sixty-four carries sharp knife, but
only one lawyer out of every l20 car
ries lead pencil. How much better
is it to be a newspaper man than law
yer?
In the vaults of the State treasury
are 100000, and the Treasurer starts
for Mexico. How much does he leave
behind him?
In one month the owner OF a three
minute horse lied ninety-four times re-
garding his speed. At this rate how
many times would he lie in year, and
how would it help the speed of the
horse any?
A school teacher gives pupil four
teen paragraphs in the science of gov
eminent, thirteen examples in arithme,
tic, three pages of history, one page Of
grammar, one of photography, and hall
an hour of writing as daily lesson and
expects him to stand IS per cent. Al
this rate how long will it take her tc
rush him into a lunatic asylum?
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WHO AND WHAT ARE THE GYPSLES?


To this, reply that they are of
Aryan and non-Aryan stock from North
ern India, where they have been known
since prehistoric times. In their own
language they call themselves Rom,
meaning husband; but the word may
also have some affinity with ramna,
meaning to roam or wander. believe
that I have been the first to prove that
there is at the present day in India,
among the $50 kinds of wandering
castles of that country, which are all
Gypsies, one in particular which is there
regarded as specially Gypsy, and which
calls itself Rom, and which uses words
not collected in any other dialect, but
which are used by the Gypsies of Syria,
Turkey and Europe. This tribe is al
lied to, and is, most probably, only one
more widely wandering branch of the
Dom, who are also known as outcasts and
Gypsies. When I speak of SO many
kinds of wanderers as Gypsies, and
yet not identical with our own, I may
make my meaning clearer by saying
that, as all the tramps, peddlers, etc.,
who roam in our roads are still not
Romany, so of all the Indian nomads,
there is but one which in every particl
ular, especially that of language, exact
ly corresponds to those whom have
described. Charles G.. Leland, IN the
Ce1lt1tT'u.
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uow SLATE PENCILS ARE MADE.


Broken slate from the quarries is put
into mortar, run by steam, and pound
ed into small particles. Thence it goes
into the hopper of mill, which runs it
into a boiling machine, such as is used
in Touring mills, where it is bolted, the
fine, almost impalpable -four that re-
suits being taken into a mixing-tub,
where small quantity of steatite flour,
manufactured in similar manner, is
added, and the whole is then made into
a stiff dough. This dough is thorough
ly kneaded by passing it several times
between iron rollers. Thence it is car
ried to q table where it is made into
charges-that is, short cylinders, four
or five inches thick, and containing
from eight to ten pounds each. Four
of these are placed in strong iron cham
Der or retort, with changeable nozzle,
so as to regulate the size OF the pencil,
and subjected to tremendous hydraulic
pressure, under which the combination
is pushed through the nozzle, In long
cord, like slender snake sliding out OF
hole, and passes over sloping table,
slit at right angles with the cords to
give passage, with knife that cuts
them into lengths. They are then laid
on boards to dry, and after few hours
are removed to sheets Of corrugated
zinc, the corrugations serving to pre-
vent the pencils from warping during
the process of baking, to which they
are next subjected in kiln, into which
superheated steam is introduced IN
pipes, the temperature being regulated
according to the requirements OF the
articles exposed to its influence. From
the kiln the articles go to the finishing
and packing-room, where the ends are
tbrust for a second under rapidly
revolving emery wheels, and withdrawn
neatly and smoothly pointed, ready for
use. They are then packed in paste
board boxes, each containing 100 pen
ellis. and these boxes in turn are packed
for shipment in wooden boxes contain
ing 100 each, or 10000 pencils in ship
ping-box. Nearly all the work is done
by boys, and the cost therefore is light.
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The new walk in front of L. j.
Moore's is daisy. 1t is carefully laid
and nothing but surfaced plank are
used.
*. Gesme has built shed for ma
chinery besides his wagon, carriage
and paint shop.
The Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany extended its courtesies to Glen
wood last Saturday.
New awnings adorn the front of
Wolff & Wells and Helgeson & Han
sons stores upon Atlantic Avenue.
Miss Lulu Richardson entertained
q number of friends last evening, it
being the eighteenth anniversary of
her birthday.
An effort is being made to complete
arrangements by which lecture will
be given in Morris some time next
month by the Rev. Il. Dewitt Tai
mage. We hope soon to be able to re-
cord favorable result.
Good & Brisbine have an enterpris-
ing team. They attempted runaway
yesterday morning but We're caught
on the fly by the boy in charge. When
the team saw that they were fastened
to new Jackson wagon and realized
the fact that it wonld be impossible to
break or get away from it, they yielded
readily.
Four elegant bed room sets were re-
ceived at Good & B1isbine's furniture
store yesterday morning. Each con-
tains bedstead, dressing case, wash,
| stand, table, rocker and chairs. One
set is of maple, another of ash, and the
remaining two are Of black walnut
while all are highly finished and pol
ished. The firm now have on hand Q
large quantity and variety of an ex
cellent quality offurniture.
Sunday evening last five of the
young ladies of Morris were strollins
out enjoying the bracing atmosphere
and when near the creamery were over
taken and joined by pair of the eN
quisite genus homo vulgarly known a.
dudes. Although very disagreeable tt
the ladies no demonstration was OBJ
served on their part until their return
toward the city, when the lah-de-dal
osoor+ xyoro coooyvbat SurnriSed ant
extremely mortified to suddenly fin'
themselves floundering in the ditcl
which follows the course of the walk
while the ladies rapidly disappears
, from their admiring yet disguise
stare. Twas a lesson not soon to b
forgotten, and the general verdict is
deserved 'em right" Morris girl
don't like dudes.
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Cleaning the Garden of Weeds.

Our gardens are pest beds of weeds,
and they need years following
and working to clean them. This
thoroughly fines the ground and favors
the incorporation of manure, securing
thus clean soil with an increase of
growth and full yield, which cannot
possibly be had where weeds are striv-
ing for the mastery, to say nothing of
the labor required to subdue them,
which is whole seasons work, the
same work to be repeated each year.
It does not require much manure, the
working of the soil favoring enrich
ment.
This does not necessarily deprive
the farmer of garden. Let hin select
another piece of ground and put it in
order, which is readily done by simply
blowing and filming the soil and ap-
plying what manure is needed. Sod
may be treated successfully by plow-
ing it as deep as il will allow in clay
soil, and if followed by the subsoil
pillow all the better, providing the
subsoil break up mellow. In sandy
or alluvial soil deap blowing is all
that is required for working and pull
verifying the sod when rotted. This
must be done the fall previous and
finished with coat of manure, to be
ready to work up nicely in the spring.
If the manure is clean there will be
comparatively little trouble from
weeds, as new plat is usually freeI
from the pest and gives better salts
faction than the old, the produce
growing more BEAUTIFULLY and thriftily
and leaving the ground in excellent
condition to grow other crops.-Corres-
pondence Country Gentleman.
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THE AMERICANS.

The world has never before seen So
cial phenomena at all comparable with
those presented in the United States.
A society spreading over enormous
tracts, while still preserving it's politi-
cal continuity, is a new thing. This
progressive incorporation of vast bod
les has never occurred on such scale
before. Large empires, composed of
different peoples, have, in previous
cases, been formed by conquest and an
nexation. Then your immense plexus
of railways and telegraphs tend to
consolidate this vast aggregate of States
in a way that no such aggregate has
ever before been consolidated. And
there are many minor cooperating
causes, unlike those hitherto known.
No one can say how it is all going to
work out. That there will come here
after troubles of various kinds, and very
grave ones, seems highly probable; but
I'LL udUlOuS nave udIi, ttuu WILL nave
their troubles. Already you have tri-
umphed over one great trouble, and
may reasonably hope to triumph over
others. It may, I think, be concluded
that, both because of its size and the
heterogeneity of its components, the
American nation will be long time
in evolving its ultimate form, but that
it's ultimate form will be high. One
great result is, I think, tolerably clear.
From biological truths. it is to be va
rieties of the Aryan race forming the
population will produce finer type of
man than has hitherto existed; and a
type of man more plastic, more adapta-
BILE, more capable of undergoing the
notifications needful for complete So
cial life. I think that whatever diff
culties they may have to surmount, and
whatever tribulations they may have to
pass through, the Americans may rea-
sonably look to time when they will
have produced a civilization grander
than any the world has known. Her
bert Spencer, IN the Contemporary
ReUieaU.
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glacial period in years. His investi-
cations have been carried on in certain
localities of England and Wales,
where he has found that limestone
rock around boulders has been worn
away to u depth of not more then six
inches. AS the limestone rock is de-
nuded at the rate of not less than an
inch in a thousand years, the boulders
must have been dropped by glaciers
notlonger ago than 5000 years. Such,
at least, is Mr.. Macintosh conclusion
as stated to the London Geological
Society.
Besides the CONSPICUOUS displays OF
aurora borealis so frequent in Arctic
regions, several observers have re-
ported the presence at times of a pc
culiar diffused light after the dis
appearance of daylight. The phenome-
non was witnessed last winter by
Prof. Lemstrom from his observatory
in Lapland. He decribes it as phos-
phorescent shine or diffused lumin-
osity, of yellowish-white color,
rendering the night as light as when
the moon shines through thick
hazy air. He disposed to believe that
the appearance has an auroral nature,
and that it is present in northern Lap
land during most wint er nights.
Prof Proctor reasons thus that the
moon has grown old six times as fast
as the earth, comparison of the
masses and radiatpg surfaces of the
two bodies making evident that the
earth's internal heat was originally
sufficient to last six times as long as
the moons supply. On the very mod
crate assumption, therefore, that only
| twelve millions of years have passed
Isince the earth and the moon were at
the same stage of planetary life, this
astronomer shows us that sixty
millions of years must elapse before
the earth will have reached the stage
of life through which the moon is
now passing.
| How do earth-worms increase the
fertility of the soil is question
which may we'll be asked, since it is
| plain that these creatures can add no
new material to the soil. Herr Hen
sen has answered by proving that the
worms greatly aid plant-growth by
making burrows through which the
delicate roots reach the moist subsoil.
They also draw into their burrows
vegetable matter from the surface
| (where it's fertiliZsng ingredients
would be wasted) hasten its decOm-
position and distribute it through
the various layers of the soil.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

Investigations by Herr Schulz in
dictate that. poisoning by the use of
a nickel-plated appliances is very
improbable, even when the plated
ware is used for containing acid food.
He obtained less than third of a
grain of a nickel form sour milk which
had remained in contact with the
metal for eight days and he adj
ministered acetate of nickel to a dog
for considerable time with out per-
ceiving any effect except an increase
i'm the animals weight. Injected un-
der the skin, however, the salts of
nickel and cobalt are shown by AndeT-
son Stuart's experiments to produce
poisonous effects invariably.
Mr.. d. Macintosh has described
an attempt to fix the date of the
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CATCHING THE sPEAKERs EYE.

The order of morning business in
Congress is unintelligible to strangers,
and is merely the successive recogni-
ton, by the Speaker, of those members
who have obtained from him promise
that they can have the floor. In keep
ing these promises, the Speaker often
pays no heed to members in the front
seats who are endeavoring to attract
his attention by cries of Mister Speak
er!" in every note in the gamut, accom-
panied by frantic gesticulations, and
recognizes" some quiet person beyond
them. II have been member OF this
House three successive sessions, said
an indignant Tennesseean who had
vainIy tried to obtain the floor, "and
during that time have caught the
measles, the whooping-cough and the
influenza, but have never been able to
catch the Speakers eye. Ben: Perley
Poore.
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List of Letters.

Remaining uncalled for at the Post
Office in Morris, Mimi, July 8, 1888.
Buttles, w. HI. Foley, VIM. j.
Finnegan, w. P. Lody, William
Sannes, Hans Olson, Miss Segreed
Inglebretson, How
Persons calling for the above will
please say advertised"
M. l.. ToRPEY, p. M.
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Look Here?

have just added to my stock supply Of
Trunks and Valises, and am bound to sell at
Rock Bottom Prices for Cash. Please give call
before purchasing elsewhere and you will be
satisfied that you can get the best bargain you
ever got before, in the line of Saddles Harness,
Trunks, Valises, Whips, Saddlery Hardware &c.
JAMES DEMPSEY.
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Hot weather is coming. Prepare
for it by buying refrigerator at
81 A. A. STONES.
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Try Good & Brisbine's No. Is Tea.
1t is the best in the market. 80
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White and Brown Lime, Hair,
cement and Plaster Paris for sale
Lime sold at reduced prices by
25 E. BOWERS.
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For Feed, Flour and Lime, 20 /" II.
Hutchins Lime, Flour ana Feed Store
on the west side of the X. r. -
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Imported Port and Sherry VINES at
22tf CHAS. w. RoHNE'S.
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WANTED:-A man and woman to
work on farm.
3St5s* l.. I'll. PUsHoR.
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Imported Port and Sherry Wines at
22tf CHAs. w. RoHNE's.
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Fresh roasted Coffee, every day by
the pound at Coles Lunch Room. %
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Fine assortment of Canned Goods
at Coles Lunch Room. -
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Highest cash price paid for oats.
81 COGEL & DEKAY.
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We have few Empire Mowers, a
few Hollingsworth hay rakcs and
few Jackson Wagons for sale ut cost
to close out the stock.
80 GOOD & BRISBINE.
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A large stock of candies has just
been received at
80 GOOD & BRISBINE'S.
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French Breakfast Coffee is the best.
1t will be delivered at your homes by
80 GOOD & BRISBINE.
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FOR SALE.

Cocoa.nuts and Maple Sugar al
Coles Lunch Room. -
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EAST SIDE OF r. r. TRACK.

Before buying elsewhere, call and
examine our new stock of Groceries,
Notions, Boots and Shoes, which will
be sold at rock bottom prices.
II H. f. DYE & Co.
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FOR SALE-Three Good Second
Hand Seeders, at Watson & Leonard's
Rarn
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All grades of Morris and Mime
apolis Flour at III. Hutchins. "a
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Good Farm Horses. For particulars
enquire at the office of
6tf COGEL & DEKAY.
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White and Brown Lime, Hair
cement and Plaster Paris for sale
Lime sold at reduced prices by
% r, bowers.
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The highest market cash price paid
for calves. l.. III. STANTON. If
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DR.. J. N. Allen is now upon his farm,
but will be in town again in few days.
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Fine lot of Tobacco, Cigars and Pipes
of the best brand at Coles Lunch
Room. %
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Bran, Oats and Ground Feed at II,
Hutchins. "a
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DIR. Heenan is the agent of the
American and Red Star Lines, at
Morris. 49
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Largest assortment of Crackers and
Cakes in town at Coles Lunch Room.
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Good Business Property For Sale,
adjoining the Printing office, above
Newells store. One lot for 1915, or
two lots for 500. Enquire of
S. SELLECK,
IS Duluth, Mimi.
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Chepest Tea and Coffee in town at
Coles Lunch Room. %
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FOR SALE.

Green Vegetables kept constantly
on hand at r. X. COLES %
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CLOSING OUT At COST.

Imported Port and Sherry Wines ut
22tf CHAS. w. RoHNE'S.
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BRAN AND SHORTS.
For sale at Riverside Roller Mill. 2Otf
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Fine assortment of Fresh Confec-
tionery at Coles Lunch Room. %
Fine sparkling Cider and Lemon
drinks at Coles Lunch Room. -
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cabinet" the days of Richie, the
days when editors wore, spaniel
like, the collars of imperious pol
iticians and were servile in allegi-
ance to their masters. The PEG
pie have steadily enlarged their
controlling power, and the press
and the people have steadily estab-
lished more intimate and mutually
advantageous relations. One OF
the points is the introduction of
decent language and relative fair
treatment in the course of party
warfare, to which these remarks
invite notice,
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In MemOriam.

u We have to record the decease, af-
ter long and severe illness, of Mrs.
Sarah Jane Buser, wifeof Mr.. Theo.
Buser, Deputy Postmaster of this
city. More titan a year ago she be-
gan to suffer, as Was supposed, with
temporary liberation, in her left
lower face. This slowly developed
into a.tumerous disease. The best
medical counsel failed to give relief.
Little by little her sufferings in.
creased until the afternoon OF the
9th, lust, when, Unexpectedly to her
friends, she sank rapidly, and soon
passed beyond decay and death.
During all these weary months there
was no complaining; rather, she
was cheerful and most patient. For
long time she had strong hope Of
recovery. Her intense interest in
and direction of her family affairs ex.
tending to the minutest care for her
husband and children continued to
the very last day. She was natural,
.ly a woman of kindly heart. THUS
she had thrown to her a large num-
Der of neighbors and friends. These
returned lively sympathy, with
kindest offices, in her time of suffer
ing. As they sought day by day to
aid her in bearing her distress, they
came more and more to know that
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she had aid superior to any they

she had aid superior to any they
could give.
For several years, at intervals, she
had been seeker at the affairs of
her church of that soul-re5t promis-
ed by Him, "who spake as never
man spake," to all who would bring
to Him their burdened hearts. Hith'
erto the search had appeared almost
without result. dow, however, as
all else failed, there ensued such a
developement of faith that she was
made to rejoice In sustaining spir-
itual power. She expressed great
and constant peace in casting herself
on Christ as an infinite Redeemer.
When on earth, Jesus had often
stopped to cheer them that were
burdened both with mental unrest
and bodily agony. So, now he came
to his suffering child. Her conf
dence became strong. Thencefor
ward halo of light foated in to
dispel the gloom which had almost
oppressed her friends, as they saw
the vital forces of the sinking one
SO surely ebbing away, without the
ability themselves, even to mitigate
her distress. This dear light of an
assuring and saving faith in the
Giver of life, failed her not unto the
end. Her last words were of Christ
as saving Redeemer.
Viewed thus, as time and means
of spiritual development, the suf-
ferings of this excellent woman may
not be improperly estimated as
real and enduring good. Now that
she sees as she could not while in
the perishing clay, she understands
those words of mysterious import
"What | do thou knowest not now,
but thou shalt know hereafter"
They are now vivid to her, with the
realities of eternal good. Her love
as a wife and mother, and her chris
tian cheer thre' the closing period of
suffering, will ever be an Inspiration
to her family and friends, who
mourn her. She was born January
31st, 1884, and at her death had
spent 49 years, 6 months and Is days
in the pilgrimage of life. G. IL.