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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-12-19

Subject to certain immovahle Gus
toms, the Emperor, in his capacity of
father of the people, can in theory give
any order and can in practice punish
with decapitation or exile any official
or person who diSobeys it. lie is in all
serious affairs, however, obliged to
consult, though not to obey, Il rather
large group of Princes of his dynasty
and great Mandarins, who divide the
departments and the great Viceroyal-
ties among themselves. The dynasty,
moreover, being foreign, is compelled
to respect the army, to some extent,
while this army is, for financial rea
sons, 50 limited in number, that it is
diIlicult to garrison the Empire and
impossible to hold it down for an
hour. 1t is the tradition of the court,
therefore, never seriously to offend
either the army or the people in such
a way as to provoke emutes, more es-
pccaly in Pekin. At present the En-
peror is a boy, only just twelve years
of age, and all real authority belongs
TO widow of the last full-grown En-
peror, IIien Fung-who is called the
Empress Mother, but is not the mother
of the Emperor to Prince Kung, Ii
Hung Chang, the favorite of the native
Chinese. and two or three less-known
high officials. They can send out any
orders they please and are obeyed, but
they cannot afford to risk the insur-
rections which would follow any great
aifront to the pride of the people, such
as the cession of Tonquin would. Chi
ma, in fact, is more solid Turkey
with Sultan, Pashas, army and mob
sharing power in unequal degrees. AS
in Turkey, too all four are bound in
the chain of a law that cannot be
modified.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-12-19

A prominent business firm in one of
our leading cities, who have grown
rich by liberally patronizing the print
er give to their fellow merchants the
following concerning Advertising:
I'VE have for many years studied
the art Of advertising, and still it re.
mains a marvel to us that there is
not a hundred times more of it, We
never yet knew man to advertise his
wares liberally and steadily that it did
not pay. Yet there are thousands of
manufacturers and tens of thousands Of
men, having articles which they declare
ought to be in every household in the
country who advertise as singerly and
closely as though they had at heart no
faith at all. How can they expect
to get their goods anywhere unless
some knowledge Of the article first
gets in the family newspaper? If we
waited till people learned from their
neighbors, we might wait for years
before the most wonderful and useful
invention became known"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-12-19
Sleep Song.


Hush the homeless babys crying,
Tender Sleep!
Every folded violet
May the outer storm forget;
Those wet lids with kisses dying,
Through them creep!
Sootho the soul that lies thought.w cary,
Murmurous Sleep!
Like hidden brooklct's song,
Rppling gorgeous woods among,
Tinhlug down the mountains dreary,
White and steep.
Breathe thy balm upon the lonely,
Gentle Sleep!
AS the twilight brecacs bless
With sweet scents the wilemcss,
ALI, let warm white dove.wings only
Round them sweep!
Der the nged pour thy blessing,
Holy Sleep!
Like soft and rlpennS rain
Falling on the yellow grain,
For the glare of suns expressing,
Plying weep!
Ger thy still sens met together,
Charmed sleep!
Hear them swell Il drowsy hymning,
Swans to silvcry music swimming,
Floating with unmflled leather
Der the deep!
IuCu LarCOm.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-12-19
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.

Five feet s inches 10 "medium
height in a man, and 40 years "middle
agc." -
If the area of the United States was
as densely settled as that OF France,
there would be room here for 6oO,OOO,-
300 people.
In Holland the farmers hold n bull
meeting once year, and the experts
choose the best breeders from the
animals brought in.
Crows first appeared in Russia after
the French retreat from Moscow, and
the people still hate them and Call
them Napoleon's scavengers.
The word interest was first used in
an act of Parliament Of 1923, wherein
it was made to signify a lawful in
crease by way Of compensation for the
money lent.
Cesar's "Veni, yidi, vici" / came, |
saw, conquered) dispatch was writ
ten after the battle of Xela, which was
fought A b. {. Pharmacies, King Of
PUntus and son of Mithridates being
his antagonist,
A walking skeleton in Lille, France,
can 50 contract his diaphragm as to
drive the air completely out of his
chest, so that not more than one inch
of space remains between his heart
and his backbone.
ArchdeacOn Bruges mentors gen
tleman who was SO thoroughly II
gamester that he left in his VIII an
injunction that his bones should lie
made into dice, and his skin so pre-
pared as to be a covering for dice
boxes.
The sand crabs of the Keys of Flori-
da are perfectly white, and live
in holes in the white coral sand, where
they are hardly distinguiShable, never
leaving it to 90 among the mangrOves
a few feet away, for there, where the
falling leaves have formed a dark
background, their ghostlike formswould
stand out in bold relief.
Fannie b. Ward writes from Saltillo
that at whatever hour Il person dies in
Mexico it is customary to appoint the
funeral Just a hours later and that as
the mortality is greatest all over the
world at nights, the most of the funeral
ceremonies in Mexico are performed at
night, no women being permitted to
attend The poor hire the collins in
which their dead are borne to the
grave.
The Chinese assert that they invent
ed hair-pins and assign dates to their
introduction and successive improve
ments, saying that they began to wear
them of bamboo in the Chow dynasty,
ll22 b. C. Some 500 years later,
under the fortunate reign of Slang
Wang, eighteenth Emperor of the
Chang dynasty, they were produced
from ivory and under King Wang
twenty-ffth Of the same line, those of
tortoise-sEell were introduced. Later
still, about the middle of the third
century, hairpins, either of silver or
gold, were brought into use, and
having carved heads, being all appar-
emily of the single form, made like
unto phTniX, they We're known as
ph~nlX pins.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-12-19

The San Francisco chronicle says
that fifty females employed in the mint
in that city are called adjusters and
their pay is $2.75 a day, counting week
days and all holidays but Sundays. Their
hours are from o'clock in the morn
ing until 4 o'clock in the afternoon,
with the exception of Saturdays, when
they cease at 2 o'clock. These ad-
iusters occupy two large rooms on the
second floor of the mint. One is used
for the adjusting of silver and the
other for that of gold. The floors are
carpeted, and each lady had IA marble
top table, pair of scales, and fine,
delicate file. Before the gold is turned
over to them to be adjusted it goes
through the process of being rolled,
annealed, cut, and washed They
then take it in a state called "bldnks,'
that is, perfectly smooth, and the
weighing is done. 1t is weighed to
see if each piece be of standard weight,
which must be 4l2l grains for a silver
dollar, slight discrepancy being al
lowed on either side. If a coin is
found outside of the limit after being
weighed by the adjuster it is returned ;
if too light it is condemned and it must
be remelted {; if too heavy it is filed to
its proper weight. This is the ladies'
work, and an interesting sight it is to
watch the small white fingers deftly
handling the shining pieces. a room
near the adjusting-room has been set
aside for the ladies, who use it as a
lunch-room two long tables are pro-
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-12-19
WHOLE NO. $3.50.

vided and a janitress furnishes hot
water for making tea, and also keeps
the place neat and clean. Several Of
the ladies have been in the mint for
a number Of years
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-12-19

"Better lay-it than never" said the
rooster to the hen.. -
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-08-10
aaalalIllIl'l
mGmeKoUs.


There is many a slip between the
banana skin and the sidewalk.
The barefoot boy yields bis sole di.
rsctly to the influences Of nature.
At this season of the year you bad
better go to farm than a pharmacist.
The wheeIwright is an eloquent man.
He is spokesman for q great many
people.
Silver has been found near Troy. 1t
Is TO be hoped that this will not lead to
another Trojan war.
IL was the cockney barber Who wrote
a letter to bis girl beginning, maggie,
dear, my hone love-"
The vocalist and the business man
are, after all, very much alike. They
both raise money on their notes,
IL is said that the brewer does not
indulge in many hops nowadays. He
leaves them to the high priced, fashion
able watsring-plsces.
The engaged couple Is not two
souls with but a single thought, as is
generally supposed. The thought
about staying single never occurs to
them.
Economy Is wealth. If you ish to
save money, and put on style during
the Summer, shut up your house and
go live on your poor countr. relations.
An exchange remarks that dudes will
probably be plentiful at the beaches this
Summer. Well. We suppose the beach
is the proper place to look for the
swells.
A Cincinnati paper says that it has
been discovered that the railroad res
taurAnt buns are susceptible Of high
polish, and druEmers throughout the
country are wearing them as watch
charms and ring settings.
whats your name g. said a new
teacher the first day of school, grabbing
q trembling enlprit who had just dis
charged 4s-calibre spit-ball at a girl
across the aisle. "Abacadabra Swart,
out" replied the trembling youth. The
stern features Of the irate pedagogue
relaxed, and look Of pity stole into
his iambient orhs. '.That's all rigbt,"
be said sadly. @Yoa can go. You a,e
panished enough. Gobody shall say I
ever raised my hand against a pupil
suffering with name like that"
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-08-10

mix talIow and besfbonss with the hog
fat, put it into rendering tanks, then
put the product into tiercss and label
It prime steam lard. In the month of
December last nearly 5000 tierces of
this mixture were put upon the
market.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-08-10
wM,rIT DID ron AN OLD LYDIA

Coshocton Station, N. Y.Dec.2S, 1878.
Gents A number of people had
been using your Bitters here, and
with marked effect. In one case, 8
lady Of over seventy years, had been
sick for years, aud for the past ten
years has not been able to be around
half the time. About SIX months
age she got SO feeble she was helpless.
Her old remedies, or physicicans, bee
ingiof no avail, I sent 10 Detroit
forty FIVE miles away, and got bottle
of Hop Bitters. It improved her so
she was abas to dress herself and walk
about the house. When she hY
taken the second bottle she was
to take care of her Gown ?
walk out to her neighbo,
Improved all the time s'
and children also have 6s1ved &
benefit from their use.
w. B. HAFHAwAx
Aug. Z. s. Ex. CO.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-08-10
NICkxAmEs or STATES

The following are the nicknaHes
given to the residents Of the different
States. Most ofthem have become
Historical:
Alabama-Lizards.
Arkansas-ToothpIcks.
ia--Gold-hunters.
COlorado-Rovers.
Connecticut-Wooden nuImegs.
Delaware-Blue hens chickens
Georgia-Crackers.
Iilinois-Snckers.
Indiana-Hoosiers.
Iowa-Bawkeyes.
Kansss-Jayhawkers.
Kentucky-Corne crackers.
Louisiana = Crtoles.
Maiu-Foxes.
Observation-Disclosures.
Miehigau-Wolverines.
Mississippi -Tadpoles.
Missnnri-Pukes.
Nebraska-Bug- -eaters.
Nevada-Sage hens.
New Hampshire-Granite boys.
New Jersey-Blues or clam
catchers.
New York-Knickerbocker.
North -Tarboilera. tarheeis
and Tuchoes.
Ohio Buckeyes.
Oregon-webfeet and hard cases,
Pennsylvania Leather-heads and
pennanites.
Rhode Island-Gun-Aiuts
South CaroIina-Weazels.
/ Whelps.
Texas-Beef- heads.
Vermont-Green Mountaia heys.
Virginia Beadles. -
Observation-Disclosures.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-08-10

~<Y~@% %W people are aiwayso
~ the lookout for chan
ces TO increase their EARNINGS, and In time become
wealthy those who de not improve their opportuni.
ties remain In poverty. We offer D great chance 20
m ke money. We want many msn, women, boys and
ID TO work for right In their own localities. Any
one can do this work properly from the first start.
The business viii pay more than ten times ordinary
wages. Expensive outfit fufnshed free NoOne who
engages fails % make money rapidly. You de-
vo youT whole tlisetn iIta wfk only your spare
nlonleIts Pull fof1nrthi and ali that IL needed
sent free. Address sTIxsox Il Co., Portland, Maine
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-08-10

A congressman speaking one day,
Got lame in his jaw, they d. say,
With the ache he was toiling,
But a st. Jacobs Olling,
He said was worth all his pay.
The champion driver Dan Mace.
Who never was cleft" in a race,
Says for cuts and spraIns,
And for bodily pains,
st. Jacobs Oh holds the first place.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-08-10

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The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1883-08-10

The following are the nicknaEes
given to the residents OF the different
States. Most ofthem have become
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
Kabb, L:,ienthal Got the Girl at Last

New YORK, June 21.-The Rev. L. NJ.
Lilienthal. of Baltimore, the Jewish rabbi
who adopted Lolita Galloway as his daughter
after converting her to his religious faith,
and then tried in vain to marry her in Balt-
mere, came to New York and pursuaded a
rabbi here to perform the ceremony. On
Monday the rabbi shipped his household
goods, under the name Of NJ. Jappa, to R. H.
Sarasohn, of No. Al East Broadway. Mr..
Sarasohn said to-day that he had known Mr..
Lilienthal for ten or fifteen years, while he
was a rabbi in Boston, New Haven and Bal
timore. The marriage of Mr.. Lilienthal to a
convert was strongly opposed to Jewish Gus
tom, and was not looked upon with favor by
his friends and acquaintances He had en-
gagged rooms in Henry street, and expected
to get position as a preacher in New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
Natural Gas for Fuel.

WHEELING, W. Va. June 21.-A we'll being
sunk for natural gas by the Central Glass
works Company, of this city, to-day. at a
depth Of $40 feet, after piercing thick vein
of sand rock, struck strong flow of gas
1t was conducted from the mouth of the
well in pipes and lighted, making a blaze
thirty feet high. The gas will be used for
fuel in the glass-house. This is the fourth
well which has been successful in striking
gas in this vicinity. One is now in progress
at Martins ferry, just across the river, and a
number of others are under contract Nat
ural gas bids fair to be the fuel of the future
and to revolutionize manufacturing as the
only cost for fuel will be the expense OF sink
ing wells
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
Supervising Architect Hill Develops
a Great Loss of Memory.
General Sherman's Tribute to the Charac-
ter Of General Ewing-Changes
Among Treasury Officials.
EVANS'S An.
Removal of the Chief CIerk-Probabilitie ties
About Indiana.

About Indiana.
Special to the Indianapolis JOurna..
WASHINGTON, June 2l.-Commissioner
Evans gave the tail of his coat
firt to-day and bounced his chief
clerk, General Clarke No reason
is assigned, but it is suspected that the Com
missioner has taken this plan to stop
leak. 1t is not charged that Gen
eral Clarke leaked, but it is quite
certain that official correspondence has
leaked through his office. The General has
been let down easy by an assignment to duty
as special inspector. The vacated Office has
not yet been permanently filed.
1t is whispered that in the redistrict-
ing of the internal revenue districts of
Indiana Messrs. Cumback, Moon and
Veatch are to be relegated to
private life, leaving Mckay, Carter
and kirkpatrick in possession. This is not
official, but it is given as the guess of man
who has probably received a pointer. The
consolidation scheme will probably be an
nounced IN a very few days.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
The Proceedinc. in Detail.

COLUMBUS, June 21.-The Democratic State
convention convened at 10 o'clock this morn
ing, with the largest crowds ever seen on sim
liar occasions in Columbus Not more than
half the people could be accommodated i'll
the opera-house. The sultry weather and
rain made everything disagreeable. The con-
test between Ward and Hoadly, for Cover
nor, waged fiercely during the morning
hours. The convention was called to order
by Clark Irvine, chairman of the central COM
mittee, and reports OF the committees ap-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
They Have Since Diverged.

AHey nave SlhCe OiVerSeus
Columbus Special.
Judge Hoadly was approached by Hon.
Israel Green, of Mount Vernon, who discov-
cred Lincoln, and was greeted very cordially,
when Mr. Green remarked:
Judge, the last time you and 1 were to-
gether in convention was on the 18th of June,
1856, just twenty-seven years ago, when we
helped to nominate Fremont for President
at Philadelphia"
"Well. yes, that's so" replied the Judge;
but are we together now as we were them"
"Oh, mol" replied Mr.. Green; II am still
where was, but you have decidedly scat
te1edl"
The reply caused considerable merriment.
Some one in the party remarked to the
Judge that he must be a very bad and
wicked man, when he replied that if he was
nominated he would be- surely. Mr.. Green
then spoke up and said that if they would go
back to 1856 he could vouch for the good
character and standing of the Judge, but
since that time he was not able to say. Mr..
Green is an uncle of Frank Hatton, First As
sistant Postmaster-general, who learned the
drug business with his uncle at Cambridge,
Guernsey county, this State.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
THE NEWS AT WASHINGTON.
Senator Plumb's Views the Work of the
Ohio Democrats,

Ohio Democrats.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, June 21.-In an interview on
national and Ohio politics, this evening, Sen
ator Plumb of Kansas, said: II think that
the prospects are much brighter for the Re-
publicans now than they have been for a
long time. We have all the elements of sue
cess in 1884. The result of the election
in Ohio will go a long way toward
determining the next Presidential election.
In New York and Pennsylvania the Ohio
campaign this year will become one of the
most memorable in the later political history
of the country. 1t will be bitter fight, and
there will be much in it to inspire
both sides with confidence and
to disturb them with fears
The Democrats will go in with hurrah, but
as the campaign grows older they will have
to face the fact that they have big job on
their hands. Mr.. Hoadly has many elements
of weakness; he is comparatively late con-
vert to Democracy, and thousands of old-time
Democrats will resent his nomination to the
extent of refusing to vote for him at the
polls The nomination of Hoadly means
that the Democrats will have all the money
they want to run the campaign with, and
that they will not have to go out of the
State to get it. Hoadly will run
another Bookwalter fight. He will
run it on the merits and dimensions of the
bar'l. The Democrats will go in prepared TO
Sr- nd raoney like Water and a campaign con-
dhcted that way has its weak points. The
people very soon become disgusted
with an open, shameless exhibition of a bar'l.
Hoadly is stronger than he will be at any
stage of the campaign. He will have to
jump into the arena with great clatter and
noise. 1t is a necessity of his disposition.
He is an unknown factor in popular elections
in Ohio, and the first thing for him to do is
to inspire his following with confidence.
He will endeavor to mass the liquor vote of
the large cities of the State on
his side, but while he is
attending to that, the enormous
country vote may be getting away from him.
T do not think Hoadly is as strong in Ohio
by at least 10000 votes as Durbin Ward
The support Hoadly will receive from the
Thurman wing of the Ohio Democracy
will be very lukewarm; on the other
hand. the Republicans, under the leadership
of Senator Sherman, Governor Foster and
men of that stamp will gather themselves
together for great struggle. Sherman and
Foster have everything at stake, and they
have never been beaten in Ohio. They have
heretofore proved to be invincible
Senator Sherman has the confidence
of the Germans for his stand on the finance
question, and do not know that the liquor
interest is opposed to him. He will exert
powerful influence in that direction.
From a careful survey of the field
am satisfied that the Republicans will win
at the polls if the campaign is properly
managed, and have no doubt it Will be.
They have at least as good chance of sue
cess as the Democrats, and when the chances
are even the Republicans generally win in
sustained struggle"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22

CINCINNATI, June 21.--The Commercial Ga
zette's Maysviie, KY. special says: "A
whole neighborhood in the country back of
Maysville are out hunting young negro for
horrible outrage on young girl eleven
years old, and if they catch him he will be
lynched tonight"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
The National Demooratio Convention.

CHICAGO June 21.-A committee of the
IroquoIs Club, the leading Democratic Or
ganization of the West, left for New York
this afternoon to confer with S. J. Tilden.
Abram S. Hewitt and other leaders, with a
view to securing the holding of the next
Democratic national convention in Chicago
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
A Pleasant COuple.

FREMONT, O., June 21.-A singular bridal
party left this city yesterday. 1t consisted of
Ira Stump the horse thief, and his bride of
three days. Sheriff Pohlman chaperoned the
party, and will terminate the tour at the PEN
itentiarY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
The New Hampshire senatorship.

CONCORD, June 21.-The Legislature, in
joint convention, balloted for senator as fol-
lows: Whole number 324; necessary to a
choice 1853. Edwin H. Rollins received 113;
Harry Bingham, 119; Aaron f. Stevens, II;
James w. Patterson, %; James F. Briggs, 30;
Gilman Marston, IL; Benjamin f. H. Pres
cott 2; scattering 4. Rollins sustained a net
loss of 10 from yesterday; Patterson gained
s, Briggs and Prescott 2. 1t was voted that
no ballot be taken until Tuesday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22

John P. Martin, of Green county, for Mem
ber of Board of Public Works. The conven-
tion adjourned at 1:15 this morning. having
been in session over fifteen hours.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22

Wa. Fl. BURKs, druggist, CT Sullivan, Gays
Browns Irown Bitters gives .,ood salts ction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22
AFFAIRS AT THE CAPITAL.
Commissioner Evans Continues the
Work of Decapitation.

Latest About Indiana Revenue Districts-A
Guess to the Collectors Who VIII
BE Consolidated Out
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-22

FAR, far better than beer ale, porter or wine,
and free from intoxication-is Hop Bitters. =