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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16
Strange Bursting of a Gun.

"A very strange accident befeH Mr.. G..
w. Given, of Philadelphia, while rail-
shooting last season. just as he was
rounding the pier previous to getting
ready to go on the marsh, he got upon
his feet, with gun in hand, and his push
er got upon the pushing deck Of the skiff.
A steamboat passing down the river at
the time, made his boat dance, and
finding she rocked little too much and
thinking she would ship water, Mr..
Given, supposing he was nearer the
bank of the "gut," and much shoaler
water, jumped overheard with his gun
in hand. Instead of finding two or
three feet of water, he found himself
going down in n depth of twelve or ff-
teen feet, with his gun in hand, in the
ordinary position of holding muzzle up
ward. He sank to the bottom, rather
allowing himself to do so that he might
make an upward spring when he touch
ed the ground. When he felt bottom
he quickly shifted his gun to the other
hand and turned the muzzle downward,
grasping it as he thought, just back of
the guard. At this moment he heard
muffled report, and felt a singing sem
sation down his leg. On coming TO the
surface he swan to the boat, holding
up his gun with one hand. On reach
ing the skif' he found his gun had burst
under water, laying one barrel COM
pletely over and the load passed through
into the right hand barrel had utterly
ruined his gun. Examination proved
that he had not been shot, and that the
singing sensation was caused by the
conclusion. The right hand cartridge
was found intact, and when he had
grasped the gun at what he had sup
posed was the small of the stock he had
pulled the trigger of the left-hand bar
rel and discharged it under water.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16

too large nor the last too small. Tiny
feet and hands are terms constantly
used by poets and novelists in most
misleading manner. 1t cannot be pos
sible that they are intended by the writ
ers to express anything but general
delicacy and refinement; but notion is
encouraged that results in the destruc-
ton of one of the most beautiful of
natural objects-the human foot. This
unfortunate notion, that the beauty of
the foot depends upon its smallness,
leads to the Gripping of it till it be-
comes, in many cases, a bunch of Grip
pied deformity. 1t is most reprehen-
sible practice, alike revolving to good
taste and good sense, to put the foot of
the growing girl into shoe that is not
only too short, crumpling the toes into
bunch, but, being pointed, turns the
great toe inward, producing deformity
of general shape and, in the course Of
time, inevitable bunions, the only
wonder being that steadiness in stand
ing or any grace of movement at all is
left. -Mineteenh Century.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16
A Reasoning Toad.

The New Hampshire Gazette relates
an interesting instance of toad's cum
ming. A brood of chickens were fed
with moistened meal in saucers, and
when the dough soured little it at
tracted large numbers of flies. An OBJ
servant toad had evidently noticed this,
and every day, along toward evening,
he would make his appearance in the
yard, hop to saucer, climb in and roll
over and over until he was covered with
meal, having done which he awaited
developments. The flies, enticed by the
smell, soon swarmed around the schem-
ing batrachian, and whenever one passed
within two inches or so of his nose his
tongue darted out and the fly disap-
peared; this plan worked so well that
the toad made regular business of it.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16

IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE.
The manufacturers have yet to
hear of a single case Of Dyspepsia
or Billiousness, when ZoPEsA
was used as directed. in which it
was not more than satisfactory.
Many write that tits wonderful
remedy. We can show where as
high as 40 pounds we're gained
by its use in breaking up chronic
Billiousness and Dyspepsia, It's
friends increase very fast, and all
who use as directed are sur.
prised and gratifed.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16
Tobogganing at Montreal.

Tobogganers are on the hills in hum
dreds. Such sight! One after another
from the hillside the toboggans fit noise
lessly down the steep down, down,
each one on the toboggan holding his OF
her breath. Who can breathe in such a
situationP The only thing l can liken
the sensation to is the headlong descent
Of a balloon, only you know that you
are upon mother earth, and here is no
numbing sensation. You feel the fric-
ton, yet you have hardly time to hear
It until you are at the bottom of the
steep-1,00 feet in quarter of n min
ute. Then the pace slackens gradually
as you dash onward, ceasing when the
momentum is past. From the top of the
hill it is division of shadows fleeting
downward with the peculiar swish of a
sky-rocket The reverse picture fol-
lows--the walk up the hill and the flirta-
ton with bellies whose eyes, at least to
their consorts, rival the stars. This is
tobogganing as found it, Correspond
euce N. y. Herald.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Since November Ist, the number
of hogs slaughtered in Chicago is g.
43I,ooo.
Sheep require pure water. They
drink but little, but to do we'll need
to drink often.
Do not let the cattle prune your
orchards; they always were bunglers
at such business.
Poultry products sell for cash, and
can be sold at any time !; two import
ant points in favor Of the business.
Ground bone or bone meal is an
ingredient whose value as mixture
in poultry feed has no equal for its
cost.
In caring for stock, good judgment
and skilful management: will tell as
much, if not more, at this season
than at any other.
Perfect cleanliness in the stables
will aid greatly in the manufacture of
butter; in fact it is impossible to
make fine butter from filthy kept
cows.
Unground feed should be fed to
fowls at night because it is slowly di-
gested and fills up the long interval
between sunset and morning better
than soft food. Try it and see if the
result is not much to your advantage.
Fowls are early risers. Do not
make them stand around on one foot
these cold mornings waiting for their
breakfast which should be a warm
one. Cooked vegetables and scraps
OF any kind, thickened with bran,
shorts or meal, make good morning
feed for poultry.
The Dowagiac Times says, zone of
our subscribers who feeds quite
number of sheep every winter, in
forms us that he tried the experiment
this winter of feeding grown wheat,
but not with encouraging results.
A part of the flock ate it readily,
while others would not, consequently
they fattened unevenly. Ground
with corn and fed to other stock, the
result was excellent.
The following table is the result
of thorough test made at the Mas
sachusetts farm and is of interest to
every stock breeder
zone hundred pounds of corn
meal is equal to 70 pounds of wheat,
SO of oats, 90 of rye, III of barley,
s33 of corn stocks, 400 of oat straw,
200 of timothy hay. 100 of clover
hay, 500 Of Irish potatoes, Gas of
ruta bagas, 600 of beets, 100 of car
rots, 100 of cabbage, 90 of beans, 40
of oil cake, or 1900 of white turnips,
for feed stock"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16


AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE REAL
ESTATE TRANSFERS FOR THE WEEK
ENDING FEBRUARY "a, 1888
BYRON.
NJ. L. Stewart & Co. to Noah Joslin, Lot
II, BIKE. sos.
Ephraim Beebe to John Dowen, ct of
ne !. sec SO, $4,000.
John Dowen to Ephraim Beebe, Cd of n
VT. sec IS, $4,000.
NEW HAVEN.
w. ]. Barkhurst to Catharin Lockhard, W
I ofse4, sec SO, $4,000.
owosso CITY.
Ed VanTuyl to Estey Mani. Co., Lot II
Blk 10. $500.
w. M Fitzpatrick to Elliot Virgins, $ /
ofn c I, sec Is,
Jas. A. Chapinto A. III. Paddock, Lot
Blk 10, c. IL. Calkins' add, 5000.
RUSH.
John Graves to Vim. Downey, n / of n
!, sec 80,
sHiAwAssEE.
II. F. Iiemenway to Amos Foster, pit Of S
WI of W /, sec IS, 1900.
VERNON.
J. Delos Jewell to Nelson A. Payne, pit of
n w 4of n W I, sec ~, $500.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16

Chairs and camp-stoois as used by
undertakes in funerals, who take these
seats from place to place, are rightly
viewed by the Scientific american as
disseminators of disease, and it with
nearly equal reason deprecates the car
rving around If the icc-boxes from house
to house.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16

HJI6T IOHY WHN WtVW WWsWHY HfWy IS
Br0Nght 10 those tchO Need a.
"Wel Pat" said an Orange county Physician to
complaining Irish patient some years ago, "for
that pain in your chest you had better go home and
put on mustard plaster. can't think this minute
of anything better. And by the way" added the
doctor turning to friend, A" wish somebody would
invent real good plastersomething actually help
full for such eases as Pats. Maybe they will some
time, when its too late for me TO use IT,"
When BENSON'S CAPCINE POROUS PLAS-
TER was placed on the market about ten years ago
the doctors hope became fact. Because Of the
rare medicinal virtues inherent in it, its rapid ac-
the slow-acting plasters of former days. for all
affections to which plaster Is very applicable.
Price % cents. In the middle OF the genuine is cut
the word CAPCINE.
Seabury Il Johnson Chemists New York. MIG
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16
Made Cheaply and Paid for Dearly.

To show the enormous profits made
by gas companies the following figures
have been ascertained from a scientific
gentleman who has for several years
been interested in gas productions:
"You will be surprised to learn, per-
haps, that the coal used by the larger
companies costs them nothing, that is to
say, their profits are so large that they
entirely wipe out the original cost of the
coal.
''Let me give you outside figures:
One ton of coal costs, say $5, which
leaves a liberal margin on the actual
figure paid for it. Add cost of convert
ing it into gas, 50. This makes total
outlay of 81.
"Now, from this ton there is given on
an average 5000 feet of gas, which at
80 25 per 1000 will realize 500 20. To
this amount add the proceeds of q cal
dron of coke casually it is q caldron and
q half, say $3, which with the value of
the tar-worth about seventy-five cents
brings the total receipts from one ton
of coal up to $24. Deduct from this the
cost of the ton and the labor of convert
ing it into gas. and you have total
profit of S17. So that actually the coal
costs the gas companies merely the cost
of conversion.
'Of course there must be an allow
ance made for wear and tear, but as the
plant and other apparatus have long
ago been paid for out of past profits, /
have not included them in my calcula-
ton" IN Y. Journal.
RHEUMATISM POSITIVELY CURED
in the shortest time. Write for free
40 page pamphlet on rheumatism, to
r. X. Helpenstine, Druggist, Wash
ington, ID. c. a
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1883-03-16
Free /! Cards and ChK0M0s.

We will send free by mail sample set of our
large German, French and American Chrome Cards,
on tinted and gold grounds, with price list of over
200 different designs on receipt of stamp for post
age. We will also send free by mail as samples ten
of our beautiful Chromos, receipt of ten cents to
pay for packing and postage; also enclose conf
dental price list OF our large oil chromos Agents
wanted: Address +. GLEASON g. CO., 46 Summer
Street, Boston, Mass.
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-09
THE LIME-KILN CLUB.
The Situation of the COlOred Man as Bro.
 Gardner Finds Him.
From the Detroit Free Press. l


 ''l hold heah in my hand," said Bro. Gardner as the sixteen kerosene lamps il1 Paradise Hall were turned on at full blaze, Ca letter from Washington axi1, me to furnish de guv'ment wid such statisticks regardin' de culld race as we hev thus fur bin able to gather since de organlzashun of de Lime Kiln Club. De Secretary has prepar'd an will ford de followin' valuable slices of informashun
 Il. Gin darkey cooked hat an tin sword an de noise of drum, an you kin lead him anywhar' you will.
 "2. We can't see dat de color am bleachin out any.
 "3. We doan' know dat de black man has growed any wuss doorin' de las, twenty y'ars, an we can't prove dat he has growed any better.
 A. Truth, honesty an industry am three great jewels hidden in de groun' Looks like heap of cull'd folks war too lazy to dig down an find 'em.
 "5. Our religun am bout de same. an our pollyticks all mixed up.
 "6. De inventiveg enius of de race hasn't turned so much to mechanism an art as to plannin' how to make one days work bring in libbin' fur de rest of de week.
 "In case any of de members know of any fudder faks b'arin' on de issue I should like to h'ar from him."
 Sir Isaac Walpole thought he could see great improvement in social eti- quette. Colored brothers who had for merly heaved brick-bats at him now raised thelr hats as they passed, and women who once went barefoot in their shoes now were stockings costing six bits.
 Glveadam Jones had seen 8 great change in his race in ten years. When black man who never owned 8 fowl in his life had chicken pie three times a week the year round there was a con- blnat1on Of genius and progress which could not be kept down or drowned out
 Waydown Bebee thought the colored man was more industrious than in former years. He had known lots of them to work hard all day for insignifi cant wages to get money to patronize policy shops and purchase lottery tickets.
 Several other choice bits of informa- tion were cheerfully rendered, and the Secretary was instructed to incorporate them and write his report in red ink.
 '"To boil de matter down inter syrup, , added the President, "de culld man has got his liberty, but am hungry an ragged fo'-fiths of de time. He has got de bal lot, but de white folks have got de offices. He has got civil rights, but he hain't got de cash for seat in de par kay circle or de palace kyar. Let us puzceed to bizness'
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-09
THE EXTRADITION CLAUSE.
What Tynan and sheridan Have to Say About the Indictments Found
 Against Them.

The Grown has presented d to the Grand Jury at Dublin bills for murder against Peter Tynan ("Number One''), John Walsh, and J. F. Sheridan, and 8 bill as accessory to murder after the fact against Fitzharris. As these parties are in America their extra dition will be demanded from this Gov ernment. What Uncle Sam will do about the matter is the absorbing qu es- tion now.
 MT. Ford, of the Irish World, assert ed with much positiveness that Lyman is in New York City attending to business, we'll knowing that his every movement is watched by the British detectives. He refuses to be interviewed on the subject. When asked if he feared extradition Sheridan said to New York reporter: 'I stand here coolly and fearlessly awaiting the worst efforts of the British Government, said he. "Any time the United States authorities want me a simple inquiry will disclose my where abouts. I do not propose to run away nor secrete myself. To say whether I will be extradited would be presump- tion." He says he was in Paris at the time of the Phoenix Park murders and can easily satisfy the authorities of this. | When asked if he would fear trial in British court, he answered: "There is no doubt of the kind of trial I would getthere, and declares that he has been shadowed by detectives for some time,
 Gen. Roger A. Pryor, the counsel of | MT. Sheridan, did not seem to regard the indictment of his client as imperil- ing him. "When his extradition seemed imminent short time ago, Gen. B. F. Butler and myself went over the case to- gether and we came to the conclusion there was no way in which he could be extradited. I believe that now. Yes the murder was political in one aspect. You may rest assured that Gen. Butler, the senior counsel, will take advantage of every point to prevent MT. Sheridan s extradition. MT. Sheridan will not keep out of the way. He is very scupulous about not seeming to hide. There is no l fact or law to justify his axtradikion
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-09

| I1o GOrm6nUeQ n1mSolf, meanwhile, I'm
 agining Captain Burgess paying court t,
 zay-haughty little Zay-who probabl,
 wished to have no more to say to him.
 But the truth was that Fay was mucl
 more miserable than himself. She gay,
 Captain Burges the cold shoulder with
 out hesitation. Now that she had quar reled with Lawrie, and he did not come near her, she knew that she loved him She did ''Ot know that he was sick. She believed that he was angry with her, and with reason.
 "After all, I might have listened tc his explanation. I believe he did get the violets, and then gave them away, to whom? Oh. to some other girl P cried Fay, jealous and miserable. 'I don't believe he went to funeral. A queer kind of funeral, late in the after noon! Oh, I know nowhere is some body else! I know he don't love me as love him!''
 Zay had favorite aunt to whom she conided her griefs- -saintly Aunt Mercy.
 My dear," she said, 'sthere is no way of forgetting our troubles so we'll as by contemplating the woes of others. I am going on benevolent visit this after. noon. Come with me and see the poor folks of Grim's Alley"
 Now Fay did not like poor folks, but she bathed her swollen eyes and followed Aunt Mercy.
 *
 "God bless the handsome face of the kind young gentlemanwho did, it ma'am. and If I never see tn likes O him again I'll never say tn rich isn't kind hearted, with my poor baby buried in his snow- white handkerchief, with beautiful IL, w. embroidered on the corner, and covered with the violets-oh, how sweet smellin' they were !-that he had his hands full of, to carry them to some lady likely He was beautiful young gen tleman, an Dickie an I'll never forget him p
 Fay understood. They had chanced upon the miserable basement from which the poor child had been buried. The tears filled her eyes.
 She made call that evening upon Lawrie's mother, which, so far, was good form; but when she heard that Lawrie was sick, she cried
 "Oh, he didn't catch anything in that dreadful place, did he p
 She was so agitated that Mrs. Wrex- ham was astonished and bewildered, while she soothed her; and the doctor was sure Lawrie only had bad cold.
 Then Fay asked to see him.
 "Will you go up to his room ?" asked Mrs. Wrexham. ''We'd rather he wouldn't come down."
 ''I think I will,'' faltered Fay, blush ing. Lawrie started at sight of her as if he had been shot, but when she said, put ting her hand in his, CT have been to that poor place and know all. Forgive me !" | ne was the picture of happiness. And in two days the engagement was 
 The wedding followed in due time md fastened upon Zay's beautiful breast, with the orange blossoms, was bunch 'f violets.- World.
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-09
TEAR AND SMILE

What are you?' said tear. To smile playing near. With fickering shimmer, You transiently glimmer Sn the meaningless features of mirth, But you nothing express Of the angui h and stress That make up mans portion on eartb.n You are rather severe" Said the smile to the tear. "For as day, to shine bright, Needs background of night, So grief must be bordered with g,adness And the light of smile, More than once in a while heiPs tear to unbosom it's sadness"
 JOSEPH DAWSON
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-09
Local News a Speciality.
4 LOVE THOUGHT

Love, if Death prove but a dream,
 And we seem Waking out of it, to grow, Dearsr to each other far
 Than we are In this human life below. VIII our spirits dimly yearn
 As they burn In Knfinity on high, For each old familiar grace
 Of this blaze, Where we fingered but to die? Will our souls remember we'll
 What befell On this moonlit night in June Nature swooning into bliss
 And kiss That put heart-beats into tune?
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-09

THE theory so ably advanced by some of our esteemed contemporaries that the floods are due to the denuding of our for ests is not without its effect. A tramp re- fused to saw wood for his dinner, giving as reason that he was bitterly opposed to the destruction of our forests, and would do nothing to encourage that kind of business. And he walked off picking his teeth.-- Cincinnati Enquirer.
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-09

Is THERE in this country any law against marrying a deceased wife's sis ter Stranger. No; none is needed. When the average man marries . second time he usually prefers to chanRe hiA
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-09

He fell in love with her at once My dearest friend was she And vowed he'd never even dreamed Such beauty there could be. " Her smile was like & gem" he said, |" Like limpid dew her eyes," But most of all her ripping hair Filled him with glad surprise. He was poet, and in verse
 About it he did rave, |" It's golden chains have bound me fast, '' He sang Ga willing slave" Oh, had he known, as we'll knew, It was boughten "wave'!
Connecticut western news., 1883-05-09

DooToRs are generous men. Who ever heard of a doctor rushing out to chase away boys who were taking fruit
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-03
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA.

By the arrival of the City Of Rio de
Janeiro at San FranciBco the following
Central and South American news is at
hand
Fred Kerr, passing under the name of
Warren Stuart and other aliases, and who
absconded In January last with $50, 600
from Chicago bank, has been cleverly
captured here by Fl. G. Julian, of Pinker.
tons Detective Agency, and is now impris-
oned on the United States steamer Essex.
Yellow fever continues in Lima and
Callso. 1t is hoped it will not, however,
become epidemic.
Two hours fighting took place between
the partisans of Sslszar and Alfaro, in
Et uadoT, IN which the latter is said to
have been victorious. Some ten persons
were wounded, but none were killed.
The yellow fever and black vomit in
crease daily at Buenos Ayres. There were
forty deaths on the let Of April.
The bandit Mendoza las been captured in
Pemuco, Chile.
Santiago Vergara, Governor OF Quillota,
has been named Intendente Of Chloe.
Uruguay has purchased gunboat. and
the Argentine Republic has purchased an
other war ship.
Four men were more or less injured by
the falling OF seaffolding on which they
were at work at Panama on the 4th of last
month.
yientemilla is said to have offered to
leave Guayaquil If the Revolutionary Gov.
ernmens win appoint him Minister Pleni-
potentiary to England with the salary of
Field Marshal, return bis property which
has been confiscated, and pay him $50, 900
for losses ne has suffered.
An official Government orgaa is now
being published in Manabi, Ecuador.
Owing to the discovery OF some rich gold
diggings boundary question has cropped
up for discussion between Yentzne'a and
British Guiana.
A snake doctor is at present giving won-
derful exhibitions in Bogota He allows
the snakes TO bite him, applies al antidote,
and suffers no injury. he recently lost
large collection through a servant making
a mistake aud placing an exceptionally
yenomous one in box containing others of
milder type. The result was the death
of the whole of the latter.
Observers of the different phenomena
connected with earthquakes have remarked
that Immediately after each movement the
water il The wells and springs acquires s
milky color, which it retains for some daya.
This color is not acquired from the sur
10 inding coil, or from dirt which is shaken
into it. Il must, therefore, result from
eome deeper, and mp to the present un-
known, Cause.
News from Buenos Ayres says that
clash between the Argentines and Indians
is announced Eighteen Indians and two
Argentines were killed.
The Chilean Government has ordered the
prisoners Dsrteano, Peruvian, and Zollo
Flores, ex.Bolivian Minister TO Peru, to
Chillan.
Fever is announced or board the United
States steamship Pensacola at Lima.
A Frenchman while engaged fixing the
telegraph wires near the Panama Railroad
Company's Office at Cotton, fell, striking
on a water tank, the cover of which had q
long wooden spike runnirg through il.
This passed almost through the mans body,
causing an ugly and fearful wound.