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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-11-21

did you ever think what you
would do if you had the Duke of
Westminister's income ?" Village
pastor: "No, but / have sometimes
wondered what he would do if he
had mine. London Baptist.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-11-21

True friends visit us in prosperity
only when invited, but in advcrsity
they come without invitation.
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Detroit & Bav City Railroad.
GOING NORTH.
GOING SOUTH,

Day and Evening Express daily, Sundays except
ed. Night Expross daily, Saturdays excepted.
Ii. Il LEDYARD, HENRY c. WENTWORTH,
Oenn Manager, Gen1 Pass. & Ticket Agt
Detroit. Mich. Chicago, Ill.
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81 claim the right of way" says
the hay scales in the street.-Ex.
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Ada Richmond's new piece, written
by Joaquin Miller, is entitled "Tallo
Ho." Not u bad name for q stage
piece. The actors ought to get well
coached in such play, and it ought
to have a good run.-Folio.
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"Why are you SO distant ?" said a
tramp to a beefsteak in the restau-
rant Chicago Herald.
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A Fourteenth street store adver-
tises "real imitation lace."-Ex.
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Singular that electric light com
panies should be so largely composed
of heavy men.-Ex.
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The Christian at Work contains an
article entitled: "How to Make a
Wife Insane" we shall not reproduce
the article; and we are surprised that
a journal, claiming to be a religious
teacher, should print such a recipe
Norristown Herald.
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A nod thing in bonnets-a sleep
ing beauty in church.-New York
journal.
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The age at which many marry
the parsonage.-New York Star.
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A sign of an early fall-a bar of
soap on the cellar steps.-New York
journal.
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A cooling ember--Nov ember.-
Free Press.
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WIT AND HUMOR.

Always in use-the letter Sex.
Everybody's favorite-$.-Detroil
Free Press.
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Flint & Pere Marquette R. R.

Drawing room cars morning and evening trains
between Bay City and Detroit, extra charges only
.25 cents.
Night express east runs Sunday night instead of
saturday All other trains daily except Sunday.
SANFORD KELLER, Supt
w. ~. JOHNSON,
Ticket Agent, Apena, Mich.
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FRYING Fish,

The theory L have suggested is that
melted fat cooks by convection of heat,
Just rs water does in the so-called
boiling OF meat Ii that is correct, it is
evident that the fish should be com
pletely immersed in bath of melted
fat, and that the turning over demanded
by the creased plate theory is I'M
necessary. Well-educated cooks I'M
derstand this, and use deeper vessel
than our common frying-pan, charge
this with quantity of fat sufficient to
cover the fish, which is simply laid
upon wire support, or ying-basket,
and left in the hot fat until the brown
ing of its surface, or of the flour or
bread crumbs with which it is coated
indicates the sufliciency of the cookery.
At first sight this appears extravaganza,
as compared with the practice of
greasing the bottom of the pan with a
little dab of fat; but any house ife who
will apply to the frying of sprats,
behring's, etc, the method of inductive
research, described by Lord Bacon,
may prove the contrary. This method,
to which we are indebted for all the
triumphs of modern science, is nothing
more or less than the systematic APP
plication of common-sense and definite
measurement to practical questions. In
this case it may be applied simply by
frying weighed quantity of fat used
as bath; then weighing the fat that
remains and subtracting the latter
weight from the first, to determine the
quantity consumed. If the frying be
properly performed, and this quantity
compared with that which is consumed
by the method of merely greasing the
pan bottom, the bath frying will be
proved to he the more economical, as
well as the more efiicient-W NJ
Williams, IN the Popular Science
MOnthLM
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The Thermometer as a Remedial Agent.

Being called to prescribe for a pa
tent living in the hills above Keyport,
who had long been afflicted with cpl
lepsy, and whose mind was now some
what impaired, [ noticed a remarkable
pallor of countenance, and that the
surface of the body was very cold to
the touch, so produced clinical Their
mometer to ascertain the temperature.
The young man evidently looked upon
1t as part of the treatment, and, fur
ther impressed by the admiring awe of
his relatives, closed his lips upon it
with as pious care as though it had
been Tyndall's prayer-gauge, and
speedily seemed oblivious of all earthly
things. So wrapt was he that when L
went to withdraw the thermometer, he
gave start like one rudely assailed.
How did it affect you?" queried L.
very well indeed" he replied; ~
think it has made me feel much better"
And then, raising his hand with a air
of benediction, he added: 1T had such
a quoting influence. An hour after
ward L visited young domestic in an
other family, who was convalescing
from mild attack of typhoid fever,
where the temperature had ranged
from 100 to 102 degrees for several
days. While here l related the above
incident to her employer, who laughed
heartily; but the girl, with look of
scornful superiority, cried out "Pooh!
he mustn't ever have seen one before !!
Why, 1 have had two at time in my
mouth, and L thought nothing of it. J"
why was that?" asked |. when L
was on Randall's island" eyes, but
why? What were two used for?" "Be-
cause-because, blurted she. in confu-
sion, my fever was so high they
couldn't tell it with one "-Medicdl
Poona.I
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British Forests.

The forests of the United States
have been so mercilessly stripped of
trees that wood famine is almost inev-
liable in few years. The lumbermen
have been allowed to do practically as
they pleased, and they have pleased to
reap always and SOW never. But an
end is coming to that reckless method
of procedure, and the lumbermen them
selves are beginning to see that Some
thing" must be done. THAT something
can, of course, only be planting on a
large scale. Happily, there is little
fear of similar dearth in Great Britain
none, at any rate, until the greater
landlords are reformed out of existence.
For almost the sole reason that En-
gland and Scotland are so thickly
wooded is the perseverance of the
landed class in tree-planting. One
family alone, that of the Dukes OF
Athole, has in hundred years planted
scores of millions of trees. The
planter Duke who commenced opera.
tions in 1774, planted $1,000, 900 trees,
covering 10, 900 acres, principally upon
the Dunkeld hills and in their neigh
borhood The present Duke of Atholt
plants from 100000 to 100000 tree.
every year. The terrible storm which
destroyed the lay bridge blew dowr
$4,000 of the Dukes trees, but the loss
was hardly noticeable.-St. James Ga
zette.
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around rhe earth faster going east ana
slower going west.
FIFTEEN DEGREES AN HOUR.
The railroad officials of the continent de-
cided to adopt as their standard of regula-
ton the time of the Greenwich observatory,
London, England, and Us the longitude in
which their roads were situated was so many
times fifteen degrees westward from Green
witch, they made their time that many hours
slower than Greenwich time. Hence the Goth
degree of longitude is four hours slower than
Greenwich time: the 18th, five hours slower;
the Goth, six hours: the 105th, seven hours,
and the 120th eight hours-thus making five
different standards between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans These five standards are
shown on the map in the order just mem
toned, viz: lntercolonal, Eastern Central
Mountain and Pacific time.
MERIDIANS.
The Goth meridian. on which Central time
is based, is nine minutes slower than Chicago
solar time. The 18th meridian which gives
Eastern time, is one hour faster than Cen
trail time, four minutes slower than New
York city solar time. Inter-Colonial time,
being based upon the Goth meridian, is two
hours faster than the Central time. Mount
ain time, which is based on the l05th merd-
ian, is one hour slower than Central time.
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scented on the old railroad maps by an elabor-
ate system of colors which would confuse an
ordinary observer. Under the new sys-
TEN there are Ave divisions of time on the
North American continent: lntercolonial,
embracing Nova Scotia and New Brunswick:
Eastern, taking in the New England States,
New York, Pennsylvania. and the States
south of Pennsylvania; Central, including
Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and the
States nerth and south ef them: Mountain,
comprising the roads west of the Missouri
river in the mountains; and Pacific, taking in
the lines on the Pacific coast.
THE FIVE COLORS.
The five colors cannot be given in the map
herewith presented, but the divisions are
marked by shades. and the change will be
comprehended at II glance when these facts
are recalled. The time in which the earth
revolycS upon its axis is divided into twenty
four equal parts, termed hours, and for con-
venience in measuring distances the distance
around the earth from east to west Is
divided into SEQ parts. called degrees of
longitude. The surface of the earth, there
fore, travels as many degrees in one hour as
twenty-four is contained times in 800. or
fifteen. From this it Is seen that there Is q
difference of one hour actual time between
each succeeding fifteen degrees of longitude
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THE RUSSIAN MONKS.
Convent Which Possesses q Costly I'm
perial Autograph.
From the Chicago TribI

A Convent Which Possesses q Costly I'm
perial Autograph.
According to tradition the Apostle
Andrew visited the place where the city
of Kieff now stands, on the high shore
of the Dnieper, and, erecting a cross
there, said: "In this country there shall
shine a great Christian state" Ten
centuries later Vladimir, the great
Prince of Russia, baptized his people
in Kieff and shortly afterward perhaps
on the spot trodden by St. Andrew, the
first Russian convent wasfounded. The
monks dug their cells i'll the ground,
and thus the famous catacombs were
made. l have visited these catacombs.
While my monlIish guide, with a taper
in his hand, led the way and pointed
out the last resting place of this or that
saint, l wondered at the gigantic work
performed by Russian monks centuries
ago. TO dig an underground cell, to
spend whole lifetime in it, to die and
be buried there-what faith must
these austere men have possessed. Dark
and narrow were the cells they lived in,
but they spread the light of Christian
faith far and wide in Russia. Prayer
was their special vocation, but they also
worked hard. They destroyed the pa
gan temples and built Christian
churches in their stead. Their academy
was for centuries the only institution
where theology, philosophy, and the
sciences were taught. In the catacombs
the monks mortified their flesh, prayed
to God that He would forgive their
sins and also the sins of the world at
large, wrote chronicles, painted holy
images, prepared vegetable medicines,
and buried the martyrs who persisted at
the hands of Tartar khans, Russian
Princes, or pagan mobs.
Centuries have passed, and what do
we see in these catacombs? The holy
relics and dry bones of these old monks
are exposed to the sight of curious peo-
pie. The monks no longer live there.
They go there only for the purpose OF
trade. Large metallic plates are put up
at the grave of each of the fifty canon
lied saints, and every day the monks
obtain piles of money from the pious
pilgrims who come there from all the
Russias. They sell the tears of st.
Theophilus, the weeper, the oil that
runs from the grave of st. John OF
Many Suflerings, and drugs from the
grave of st. Agapit, the Physician. In
this manner the Kieff convent has gath
cred many millions of rubles, and be
side it owns bushels of precious stones.
During the Crimean war, the Gar
Nicholas borrowed from the Kieff con.
vent 100000 rubles upon note in his
own handwriting Nicholas never paid
the money back. Once when the late
Gar Alexander visited Kief the prior
seized the opportunity to remind him o.
this debt to the convent, showing hin
Nicholas note. Alexander shed tears
kissed his fathers autograph, and said
"Truly, holy father, it is my beloved
fathers handwriting. Oh, what treas
ure you havel Keep it in the sanctu
airy, and guard it better than your owl
eyes.
With that he returned the note to thu
prior. 1t is the costliest autograph il
existence. Petersburg Cor. Neu
York Sun.
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Curious Incidents in the Oil Regions.

"Talk about tumbles in the price of
oil" said veteran operator on the
Bradford Petroleum exchange, moth
ing like the one of the winter of 1860
has been known in the modern days of
the trade. That was the winter that
Jesse Heydrick put down the old Farm
ers and Mechanics we'll, or rather the
company that he formed put it down,
and that was the first company ever
formed to develope the oil territory. The
we'll came in good for about 1900 bar
rels day, and half of it couldn't
be taken care of, but ran down the
creek in a regular flood. Oil was oil
then, and was worth Sl3 barrel. Pitts
burgh was the only market, and We
had only one way to get oil there, and
that was by running it i'll barges down
the Allegheny river from Oil City. OF
course it was necessary to have freshets
to transport it in this way. The win
ter that Heydrick struck his well the
river was frozen over, but he was bound
to get some oil to Pittsburgh. He sue
ceeded in cutting n way through, and
ran ten fiat-boats down. He sold all
his oil for Sl3 barrel The next day a
thaw set in, and in two days the river
broke up. Then the boats began to
run, and in short time the market
was overstocked, and in less than a
week oil was selling at 90 cents barrel.
"The early days of oil production
were attended by many curious incl
dents. One of the queerest was a
streak of luck well owner struck on
the creek in 1868. He had drilled q
well down to the third sand, but found
nothing but water, and three days con-
tinuous pumping failed to bring any
thing else to the surface, so he aban-
doned the well in disgust. The next
day neighbor of his, who was operat-
ing on an adjoining lease, came over to
see the Disguised well-owner, and in
formed him, with much excitement.
that since the pumping of water had
ceased at his well great trouble had re-
suited at the other well, which had
yielded thirty barrels of oil day as
long as the water was being pumped,
and upon the stopping of the water
pumping had filled up with water and
produced no more oil.
THE result was that the man who
owned the producing well hired the
less fortunate operator to keep his
pump going, for which he paid him $40
week. The producing well was thus
restored to its former condition, and
things worked satisfactorily for six
months, when suddenly one day the
well that had been yielding nothing
but water began pumping o / and the
one that had yielded oil in turn became
water we'll. The changed situation
resulted in q lawsuit, which was won
by the owner Of the we'll that had at
first yielded nothing but water."-
Bradford pa Cor. NelU York Sun.
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Stage immortality.

The people must have amusement,
and if denied a healthy, innocent,
home growth, they take what they can
get from other sources. Mind you,
don't mean to say that French plays
performed in France are immoral.
They are only such when presented to
us. This sounds strange, but it is true,
all the same. Woes growing out of
evils peculiar to community make
material for literature either in novels
or the drama. Their exhibit has n
tendency to correct the i'll. On this
account we consider Lady Macbeth, a
murderess, highly proper to look upon,
while Lucrezia Borgia, an adulteress,
is regarded with horror. And why
Murder is our crime, adultery that of
France. Donn Pidtt
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A Peculiar People.


There are some odd facts in re-
gard to the result of 5000 or 1000
years of Chinese civilization, and we
presume that those who may speculate
upon the probable condition of the
Anglo-Saxon on or about the 1st of
January 800 A. D., will not overlook
a few OF the salient features which have
grown up over the advanced age of the
Mogolian dynasty. just think of it;
there is not road in all the broad
expanse of populous China where even
a wheelbarrow could be driven or
horse led except around Shanghai, and
here the English have built them.
They have No cemeteries; no tomb
stones mark their last resting place
on the earth. Those who own
private gardens bury their dead and
those of their friends therein. Those
who have no gardens or plats of ground
lay the bodies of the dead in rough
boxes on the surface of open fields.
The Chinese regard the souls of their
ancestry as links in the length of a
great chain, which, they say, enables
them to reach up to the Supreme
Source of life and Ruler of the uni
verse. This is the reason why these
remarkably quick-witted, keen people
will not tolerate the construction of a
railroad in their country. They declare
that the locomotive and rafting trains
would certainly violate the sacred
charm influenced in their hehalf by
causing the abrupt, sacred flight of
their ancestry, who are lowering around
them.
They have no banks in China, and no
coin of value except our silver and that
of Mexico. They have no lawyers, but
they have perfect, rigidly enforced
system of law and order. The princi-
pals alone can plead their cases. The
first social rank in Chi can only be
attained by literary merit. All China
men read and write because education
is compulsory. Every man in China is
free to compete for literary degree,
and last year l07 600 candidates for this
honor were entered at Canton for exam
nation. Those of this large number
who pass muster here are free to adj
vance to the high1r national grade COM
petition at Pekn-held annually there
and when they pass this ordeal they
become mandarlns. and live in high e,-
tate at the public expense No mill
tary man is allowed to compete for
these liberal honors in China. This
annual selection, +. ON the whole Chi
mes people, of its rulers, who repre-
sent its best thought and mental power,
has probably been the greatest and
most potent factor OF their remarkable
vitality and preservation "a nation,
but at the same time it increases the
wonder that they should have stood
still on the avenue of progress for hun
dreds of years.
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Reducing the BlemiShe. -,

A sallow complexioned old lady, ac-
companied by remarkably unprepos-
sessing daughter, walked into an Austin
photograph gallery.
BE you the PHOTOGRAPH man?" she
inquired, wiping her spectacles, and
carefully adjusting them to the various
spurs, dips, angles and sinuosities of
her Corinthian nose.
"Yes, ma'am," replied the artist in
plate glass and chemicals, "can l do
anything for you?"
mo, I'm too far over the bay to waste
any mechanical genius on me. It's my
daughter, Partheny, here, that l wants
TUX"
"An right, madam, will YOU
Cant yer soften down her complex.
ion a little, an tone up her nose what
was broke fallin' out winder?"
Il think so, replied the artist.
can kin yer wipe off them freckles ?"
"Oh, yes.
1--WE seen photographs of dead coolies
of our relation, an I've alters noticed
that the picters hattered 'em clean out
of sight. / know enough about the biz
to recognize that you've got the whole
thing in yer own hands, an kin turn
out a Professional beauty or jimpli-
cute of the first water, Just as yer please.
Do you think you kin reduce those ears
a trifle-jest leetle. know Partheny
has got big ears, but still she amt no
jack-rabbit. Partheny is n generous
girl, as yer kin see by her ears"
IL think there will be no diiiiculty"-
"How about that air squint in the left
optic? Do yer think yer kin manage
that?"
"Oh, yes, 1 can touch it up with India
ink"
"What, particular pose do yer think
Partheny would take best in, full face
or side show?"
"You mean quarter view or a pro-
file?'
II guess / do. Yer see the photo
graf is goin' to a young Teller what put
an advertisement into newspaper for
correspondents, and Partheny's writin'
to him. Now you see how necessary it
is for the picter to kinder favor her lit
tie blemishes. You'll do the fair thing
by Partheny, won't yer?"
Certainly. What size, madam, cabi-
net or cards."
(Which is the biggest?'
cabinet.
"Guess then we'd better try her on a
cabinet. Ef the photographer does a
good job, the bigger the better. What's
yer fggers?"
-Four dollars dozen for cabinets. "
"How much for one?"
"Same price; it is the negative that
costs, not the number"
well, all right. just go ahead an
square them shoulders back a little,
an bring the nose down fine. an wipe
off the freekles, an straighten the eye,
an reduce the ears, an whiten the com
plexion--an' the hair 1t won't be red
in the picter, will it?"
"Oh, no. There will be no color
shown but black.
"That's a comfort. Graciousl Par
theny, what would he think if yer sent
i'm an oil paintin' taken from life! Kin
/ stay in the room?"
ooh, yes"
"All right. Strike an artitood, Par.
theny, that won't give you away, an
we'll rope in that young man as sure as
yer foot high. "-Terds SUtings.
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The several meridians are indicated upon
the map, as well rs the territory included in
the different divisions The irregularity in
the boundaries is caused by the various roads
wishing TO adopt as their standard the time of
the meridian nearest which the greater num-
Der of their lines are situated.
The country is indebted to two citizens of
New York for the original suggestions leading
up to this important innovation. The idea
occurred 10 Prof. Cleveland Able, of the
Signal Bureau ut Washington, and his plans
were elaborated by Or. +. A. u. Barnard. Of
Columbia college. Prof Able proposed his
plan as early as 1873 at II meeting of the
American Meteorological society. 1t is UNI
necessary to review the many discarded sug-
gestions made from time to time in regard To
time standards. Suffice it TO say that they
were all found to be too sweeping and revolu-
tionary. The scheme which is now adopted
has received the emphatic approval of Il
number of scientific associations among
them the American Meteorological society,
the American Geographical society, the
Canadian Institute, the international Geo
graphical Congress mt Venice, and the lmpe-
rial Academy of Sciences at st. Petersburg.