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The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-07
AN AMBIGUOUS THIEF.

WHAT exclaimed an Austin
justice to a coloured culprit, ''have
you the audacity to say you do not
recognise this pocket-book?" eyes,
sab. :" "But it was found in your
possession" sin my what-did-yer-
say, jedge?' Sin your possession.
This pocket-book was found in your
pocket, sir" "Jedge, you has done
tole two stories about dat ar. Fust
yer said hit was foun' in my perses-
sion, an den yer lowed hit was
foun' in my pocket. Bofe dem yarns
can't be true. IF de jedges ON de
bench can't tell de troof, hits no
wonder dat poor miserable niggah
like me got led astray.' The JUS
tice drew long breath, and, once
more producing the pocket-book,
said-"You denied just now that
you had ever seen this pocket-book.
1 now ask You again, did you ever
see this pocket-book before!" "Why,
of course! Hit am de same one you
showed me a minute ago. Yer must
be losin' yer mind, jedge." Re-
manded to gaol.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-07
HAIR, TEETH, PORES AND THE SENSES OF
TASTE AND SMELL WANT VIC INA MAN.


A man without hair on any part cf
his body, who never had any teeth,
who is entirely destitute of the sense
of smell, and whose taste is just fine
enough to detect piece of limburger
cheese from stone, was exhibited
to the physicians of the Philadelphia
County Medical Society at its last
meeting. WHAT'S still more astound-
ing about the man, and upsets all
the theories that have been advanced
by medical men, is that the man has
no pores in his skin. Heretofore it
has been maintained that man
could not live without porous skin;
but the most careful examination
under the microscope failed to re-
veal single pore in the body of the
patient. The mans name is Peter
Vending. He was born in Leba-
non County, Pa, forty-eight years
ago, and is now living in Bismarck,
small village seven miles south of
Lebanon, with a wife and eight
children. The latter partake of none
of their fathers peculiarities except
that, not a child has perfect set of
teeth. Mr.. Vending experiences
great inconvenience from his inabili-
ty to perspire. The body being de-
prived of this means of cooling be-
comes intensely hot, and it is neces-
sary to pour water over his clothing
to keep the man cool. In working
with heavy tools the man has to
wear gloves to get firm hold. Mr..
Vending is the youngest of twenty
one children, and, with the exception
of the peculiarities mentioned he has
good health and has never been sick.
He was brought to this city by Prof.
S. H. Guilford, and first shown to
the students Of the Philadelphia
Dental College. He has since re-
turned to his home in Lebanon
! County, Philadelphia Record.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-07

Everybody goes to. Saratoga to
drink the water, but that doesn't ex-
plain why bar-tenders there are
paid 200 dollars month, and it is
hard to get them at that.-Burling-
ton Hawkeye.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-07-07

room in the house, kitchen included,
and other luxuries to correspond.
But after awhile my business began
to ruin down, and had to shut down
on expenses. My wife suggested
that we economic on the gas bill;
so bought a lot of lamps, and we
stopped using the gas-burners, ex-
cepti in the parlor, when we had COM
pany. When the man with the Ian
tern came around to look at the me-
ter / fairly kicked myself with Joy
to think how it would astonlsh him.
But it didn't.
1.-THE bill for that month was just
as big as 1t was the month before,
and when 1 squealed there was the
meter to back them up. / couldn't
get around that. Well, next month
| thought I'd experiment. So l
put the lamps away in the garnet,
and used every gas-burner in the
house. Kept two chandeliers in the
bedrooms going day and night, Just
for luck. Bill for that month just
the same. Then / thought I might
as well be getting all the good out of
that meter that it would stand, so l
told the gas company I'd like to have
a couple of chandeliers put in the
stable for the use of the hired man.
They came and put them in, and
that very same day a man came to
fix up the meter. Said some of the
meters were wearing out inside, and
had to have some of their driving
wheels renewed, or something of
that sort. Tho hired girl said that
he took out cog-wheel and put in
larger one, and then wound it up
like an eight-day clock. At the end
of that month the bill was about
twice as big as before
"WelI, that month bill settled
me, you can just bet. 1 tapped a
hole in the pipe leading to tue barn,
ran another pipe over to our next
neighbor, and let him have all the
gas he wanted for 10 per cent off.
Inside of two months 1 was supply
ing the whole square, and it didn't
cost a cent more than it did to
supply my house and stable. By
this little scheme andby strict econO-
my have been enabled to amass a
handsome sum of money, and as
soon as you take this house off my
hands I'm going to move into the
big brick down on the corner. I'll
turn this little monopoly right over
into your hands. It's little dam
gerous, but if you've got the nerve
your gas needn't cost you cent,
and as said at first, and"
MY gas isn't likely to cost ME
anything, anyway" said the stran-
ger, interrupting him for the first
time.
| Why?'
Because" said the stranger,
solemnly, Pm the new Secretary
of the gas company. Boston
Courier. ~ e."
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There is now only one street in
Paris lighted by electTcity-the
Place de Carrousel-at the expense
of the municipal exchequer. The
Jablochkoff light of the Avenue de
rOpera has. after long trial, been
extinguished. The system of cleo
trio lighting is nevertheless making
some progress, although erratically.
After having been employed to ad-
vertise itself, it is found useful as an
advertisement to enable one shop
keeper to outvie another.
This was club dialogue and it's
sequel: Q.-"What are you smok-
ing?" A.-"An imported Havana. /"
Q.-'How much does it COST"
A.-"A quarter" Q.-'How many
do you smoke day?' A.-"Haif
dozen" Q.-"How long have
you smoked?" A.-''Thirty years. +"
Advice-tMy friend, with that a
mount Of money You could have
bought q house on Fifth-avenue.
The parties quilted the Brunswick
and strolled up town. AS they came
near the Windsor, the smoker asked:
Q.-"You never smoker" A.
"Never." Sarcastic reply-"Then
point out your house. "-Music and
Drama.
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Burglars may be kept out of any
house by leaving the valuables out at
tight on the front door steps.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19
The Growth Of New York.

Two hundred and seventy years ago
the good ship Tiger, commanded by
Captain Adraien Block, was burned to
the waters edge as she lay at anchor,
just off the southern end of Manhattan
Island. Her crew, thus forced into
winter quarters, were the first white
men who built and occupied house on
the land where New York now stands;
''then,'' to quote the graphic language
of Mrs. Lamb, IN her history of the city,
Gin primeval solitude, waiting till COM
merce should come and claim its own.
Nature wore a hardy countenance, as
wild and as unframed as the savage
landholders. Manhattan's twenty-five
thousands acres of rock, lake and roll
ing tableland, rising at places to height
of one hundred and thirty-eight feet,
were covered with somber forests, and
old, decayed and withered limbs con-
trasted with the younger growth of
branches; and wild flowers wasted their
sweetness among the dead leaves and
uncut heritage at their roots. The wan
ton grapevine swung carelessly from
the topmost boughs of the oak and the
sycamore; and blackberry and rasp-
berry bushes, hike q picket-guard, pre-
scented bold front in al possible ave1'
nues of approach. The entire. surface
of the island was bold and granite, and
in profile resembled the cartila ginous
back of the sturgeon. -, This primeval
scene was the product OF natural forces.
working through uncounted periods of
time, the continent slowly rising and
falling in the sea like the heaving breast
of a world asleep; glaciers carving pa
tlently through ages the deep, estuaries;
reasons innumerable clothing the. hills
with alternate bloom and decay.
This same sun shines to-day upon the
same earth; yet how Transformed!
Could there be, a more astounding exhi-
bition of the power of man to change
the face of nature than the panoramic
view which presents itself to the spec
tator. standing upon the browning arch
of the bridge whose completion we are
here to-day to celebrate in the honored
presence of the President of the United
States. with their fifty millions; of the
Governor of the State of New York.
with it's five millions; and of the
Mayors of two cities, aggregating over
two millions of inhabitants? In the
place of stiffness and solitude, the
footsteps of these millions of human
beings; instead of the smooth waters,
''unvexed by any KEEL highways Of
commerce ablaze with the flags of all
nations; and where once was the green
monotony of folested hills, the piled
and towering splendors of a vast
metropolis, the countless homes of
industry, the echoing marts of trade,
the gorgeous palaces of luxury. the
silent and steadfast spires of worship!
To crown all, the work of separation
wrought SO surely, yet so slowly, by the
hand of time, is now reversed in our.
own day, and ''Manhattan' and s'Sea-
wanhaka" are joined again as once,
they We're before the dawn of life in
the far azoic ages.-Froan Adram S.
Hewitt's address on ''IAe Great Bridge
and its Lessons. "
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19
A Hair-Dresser On Badness.

/ was talking the other day with
Sauerwein, the eminent and learned
hair-dresser, of Regent street, and while
he trimmed my poll he said several
things worth knowing. Here they are:i
Badness, when not the consequence of
old age, Is disease. and it is a far more
terrible enemy to overcome than white
hair. No healthy person should begin
to be'bald till after fifty years Of age,
and yet general lamentation arises of
Young people, barely in their twenties,
losing their hair. Here, therefore, must.
be some defect of constitution, somedis-
ease of the hair, that should not exist.
Headaches, and, indeed, almost every
kind of suffering, whether of the mind
or body. frequently cause the hair to
fall. Too much study or thought or APP
plication of any kind will have similar
effect, Women are less subject to bald
ness than their brothers. Man works
more with his brains, generally speaking,
than woman. He also INDUCES in drink
or other excuses more than women,
and, as rule. keeps his head covered
more than women do. .,- An Italian prov
serb says: 8 Cnppel7o. uccide capello. -
Hat kills hair.'A Hygienic precautions
may do much toward maintaining the
hair thick l knew of man who kept
hisrhair thick, almost black, by never
wearing a hat all his life. At eighty he
married third wife and had a third
family of children: You must not ex-.
pect, however, that your. hair will never.
fall, even in health, nor need you be dis
mayed when you see hair come off when
brushing or combing. Hair falls at Ger!
tain seasons as dead as leaves from
trees. to make room for new ones to-
grow. If, however, you see too many
come off and the fall continues too long,
then cut the hair as you would cut a,
faded plant: it will grow stronger
richer afterward. I once said to Sir
Erasmus Wilson: i think we hair
dressers would have nothing. to do if
people cut their hair regularly, and
wig-makers would be ruined, Ere
quently washing in cold salt water is
also recommended to prevent the hair
from falling, and daily friction, isgood. -
american Register. = IS - *
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19

was out at her side, pale and anxious.
mo bones broken she said, mer-
'rily. 81 did think for moment that
the stars were shining below"
"Not hurt, Dana? Oh, but you are.
There is great bruise on your fore
head. You have had terrible blow
there
She put up her hand. The dark hair,
waving low on her brow, had been
pushed back, showing ivid bar rum
ming transYersely from the temple.
''Look at me, Launt," she cried,
dramatically. "Think once more. It
is not a bruise, but birthmark. A
mark of shame and disgrace, perhaps,
for all l know. never felt as if were
doing you any wrong before, but do
feel that may be now. No wonder
Papa Oliphant hesitates. with such a
mystery hanging over me. Let US say
good-bye and part. You don't want 2
wife who is marked like CAIN
haunt stopped and touched his lips to
the spot, then brushed the soft hair
back into place with gentle touch.
mo power on earth shall part us, -
he said. MY darling, my darling!
how little you know me if you think a
trifle like that could have the slightest
effect on my love-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19
A Kn0ck.DOWn Argument.

An ex-railroad manager, who in days
past has ranked among the best and
who well understands what is expected
of passenger conductors, remarked yes
terday that he did not approve of the
methods now adopted to ascertain
whether conductors were honest He
thought the tendency was to degrade
the service and make dishonest men of
those who were honest. This ''spot-
ter business, he said, was creating a
sentiment with the travelling public
that, all passenger conductors We're
thieves. This, he was satisfied, was not
the case. He was confident that as
large per centage of conductors were
honest as in any other service on rail
ways, in banks or business establish
ments. He thought too much was ex-
pected of conductor for the salary
paid him. For instance. he is expected
to dress neatly, and to do so he must
purchase three or four suits of clothing
a year, as the wear and tear in railroad
service is great 3 The conductor is paid
$50 to 500 per month, and the earn
ings of nearly two months are required
to clothe him properly, Usually con-
ductor is away from his home two-thirds
of his time, and he is expected to board
at good hotel to make friends for the
road with (which he is connected by
keeping bis end up in treating to cigars,
etc In fact, be, is subjected to numer-i
Gus incidental expenses, the evading of
which would damage his reputation and
that of the road He remarked that we
laughed derisive1y when it was said he
must have good watch; if he had q !
poor one it would not be safe for him to
run his trains by it. The fact was that
a conductors position, at best, was a
responsible one and productive Of large
expenses, and he should be paid a good
salary-one on which he. could take
care of his family properly and conform
to all reasonable requirements of his
position, which he can not do ON 800
per month. He thought if conductors
were paid 81 800 or So, 900 a year they
would value their positions more, and,
therefore, would be honest in their deal
ings with the company. He was satisfied
that the charge of dishonesty of con-
ductors was greatly exaggerated. A
mans honesty could be usually rated
by his habits on the road and at home.
He would not employ a man who lott
cred around saloons, bucket-shops and
gambling-dens, and drove fast horses.
Conductors should be paid salaries
which would permit of their laying by
something for old age. He felt graft
fed always when he heard a conductor
who had been on the road twenty five
or thirty years had a nice home or good
farm, and he would be the last man to
insinuate that because he has SO pros
pered that such property had been pur-
chased by stealing from the road on
which such conductor ran.--isadsd'supo
lis Journal. a'@5t RS @@EH i
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19
CHAPTER XIII.

MISS ALIcIA's DISCOVERIES
Mrs. Oliphant was languishing in
|sspite of the sea breezes, IN spite of the
complete freedom she enjoyed from all
social restraints. Her husband, who
had been in i'll health, Was growing
.rlddy and strong; and he pettad his
pale wife and was infinitely watchful
and tender of her.
"You have been trying to make an
Invalid out of me for years. Rose" he
said, land you have broken down under
the strain. 1t is my turn now, and I
am going to be physician as well as
nurse; look me in the face while pre-
scribe for you, madam. In the first
place we are to havea complete change.
Seclusion for time is all very well, but
you are having too much of it. We
will make the prescription SO many
grains of congenial companionship, so
much of a hostess duty. to be COM
pounded with shopping and dress-mak-
ing, the whole to have dash of we'd
ding flavor about it. You are tortur-
ing yourself where there is no neces-
sity, and to put an end to it | shall in
sist upon naming the wedding-day for
those impatient children; let them
realize their dream of flying southwark
when the birds go. > When the wedding
is once. over, this haunting dread Of
yours will be laid at rest"
''Oh, no, no"' cried Rose. eff there
are disclosures to come let them come
before it. Wait until that man Quest
returns; if he has discovered nothing
viii consent, not BEFORE
A grave look, which had often rested
upon Mr.. ELEPHANTS face of late, came
over it now. - Is /.
what it is to 60 estray from the
straight road of truth and honor!' he
said. 1--WE have done it with thevery
best of intentions, and we are bound
now in net of our own weaving. 1
am beginning to feel, Rose, that we are
not acting the right part toward Far
rington. He is thoroughly earnest and
manly; from looking upon him as an
interloper and an unwelcome accession
to our number, | can realize that be-
will grow dear as a son. l believe that
we can trust him. that it is our duty to
trust him with all the truth. Whether
he takes her in spite of all. as 1 be-
lieve he will do, or leaves her then, we
will have done no less than our duty to
him"
-z- TO BE CONTINUED.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19
PTTH AND POINT.

The sale of boot-jacks last yeartwas
1000 less than the year before. Is
this country going to bed with her boots
on Detroit Free Press" ai.. !, @'''..
-Three-fifths of the fashionable alli-
made from pig-skin. This, at least, is
the allegation, but perhaps the alligator
lies.-FAilddelphia Ne,Us. - i4oaI 2aI
I'll am saturated to the epidermis,''
said the high-school girl, throwing her
gum boots into the corner. II don't
wonder at that, replied her mother;
they give you such hard lessons at
school TN. XIJour7saIi oga a,@t
The Crow Indians have been caught
putting rocks in the bales of hay they
SELL to the Government. The day is
not far distant when all Indians will be
civilized enoughnto vote. philadelphia
Nes1s. 3ii 81 sGatbTrHa Ea1uiiisurt
.-r-In modern Egypt young man is
not permitted to see his twife's. face
before marriage. Whoever has invested
in prize packages can imagine the feel
ings of the average young Egyptian
as he gazes on his trinket for the first
time.-Moderaa Argo. '~~
h'-'sA beautiful Boston girl has crossed
to Europe in the steerage Of, the Cunard
liner, just to see how it'was,p says an
exchange. For, the same reason her
mother has been keeping boarders to
pay the. daughter expenses.-N. 0.
Pscdyu,,e. '5"T "a" 1"''7ff"''iHi '...i5
They were approaching an ice.
cream saloon, and she isaid "Oh,
Charley, I'm going to have a new dress
cut bias-Oh-oo. S-p-p7p!-there's an
ice-cream saloon. Goody - Eyes.
and it is like your new dress, for it will
be cut by qsi:"' and tbs, hprridl old
wretch led the. painting damsel across
the street.-Neso Haren Register. '''
Little Johnny says that when he
was baby, his mother tells him that
he was as.goed as pie, and used to sleep
all night and half the day Now when,
he does not get up the first time he is
called, he gets fearful scolding and
occasionally something else beside. He
can't see why what was praiseworthy
in the infant should be reprehensible in,
the boy.--N. Y Post.
Miss Jenny Marks, of Baltimore,
won a sewing machine by making
guess at the number of pills in bottle
in. window. There were 25, 100 pills
in, the bottle, and she guessed 1880
There were over 5000 guesses, and the
worst one was a guess of 5000, 900.
The man who guessed 100000 was
one of those fellowslwho get their edu-t
cation by reading gas-meters.-OH City
Derrick.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19

vides the bulk of all between his wife
and daughter, as is eyeryway fitting. J
MY regard is for Miss Oliphant her
self, what her father may leave her."
said Launt, coldly.
''Oh, of course, of course. But con-
sidering that she isn't Miss Oliphant,
and he isn't her father, l thought you
might take some interest in the
fact. / know, of course, that /
am not telling secrets in saying this to
you.s By the way, Mr.. Harrington, did
it occur to you to ask who she aS?'
1T occurs to me that you are exceed
ing the bounds of your position, sir"
Il would be if / should indicate, by
any flight of fancy, that she could be the
France child whom l am in search of.
Don't look so insulted, my dear sir, l
don't indicate it; But l wove the plot
of a novel which possibly may never
write out of material not unlike those
two cases, where the mother. first dis
owns her own child, and afterward
passes her off as an adopted daughter
the motive, Of course, being the usual
one of disgrace and danger. You
couldn't imagine anything of that sort
in connection with Mrs. Oliphant, now,
could you?''
g can imagine your becoming so Of
fensive that shall deny myself the
pleasure of your further company" re-
tOrted Launt, as he left his seat and went
forward to the smoking-car.
2, ''But rather think that idea will
haunt him, nevertheless, unused Mr..
Quest, and he was right. 1t did come
back to haunt him when time grew
older.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19
AT a large gathering of people nea,

At large gathering of people near
Lenoir, in North Carolina, at the fu-
neral Of William Shell, an old and promi-
nent citizen, a curious incident occur
red. The clergyman announced that
as soon as the funeral was over there
would be marriage in the valley near
the cemetery. There was regular
race to the scene, and in u few mo
ments John Hoover and Emma Wike
stepped forward and We're married on
the stump of an immense tree.~-GE:ca
40 Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19
OH NOBLE. HOW ILoTE YOU

- OH NOBLE, HOW l, LOVE YOU!
AS dewy daisies at your feet,
AS birds that sing above you,
-'"i You are as pure. and blithef and sweet
- as Oh, Mollie. how / love you.
The words are few,
st1us-ffV But they are true
Oh, Mollie, how love you! -, ..r
Phe poet sings his sweetest strain
To love and love dear duty;
."' lean but gaze and gaze again
Upon Sour grace and beauty.
80 can not sing
A single thing
But, Mollie, how 1 love you,
The rich man brings a splendid gift;
The soldier talks of glory;
My face to yours l can but lift,
XII. And tell the same old story.
The song is old,
'S But TRUE as gold
oh, Mollie, how L love you,
can not call you nymph or queen;
s,s..f. .Ny lips are SO unwary,
your own sweet name Slips in between
You're Mollie not a fairy.
-~'' Oh, Noble, how love you.
The livelong day 90.
~ 81 can but say: II
Oh, MOllie, how l love you! ---.. -
.s--t ~ = -Lfuk e. Barr. in " Y. Ledger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19

1t is estimated that the Illinois
Central Railroad handles million
trunks in six months. unhandling not
less than a quarter of them. It is
great trunk line.-ChicaQo Neus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19

There are in London ninety-three
recognized clubs having over nineteen
thousand members, who, on the aver
age, pay an annual subscription of
thirty-five dollars. The total income of
these clubs is estimated to reach S.,
OOo,O00 aEear.x - 3 4 ssr~ /
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19

The dog-tax nets the different State
Governments about SIG, 100000 per an
mum, and the Commissioner of Agri-
culture says it costs $50, 900 to feed
them.