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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-04-28
Total. 100, 1863

To-DAYB QUOTATIONS.
bAooN-Long clear sizes, l2G; short clear
12lic; breakfast bacon l5c.
Dry sALr-Long clear sides, II l4c; short clear,
nhc.
HANs-Plain. 1i@liko.
IARD-Tier0e, l2Ac, nalf barrel, lSc iO.lb
cams, lSAc; 20-lb cans. lSl.c; 10Th cans, lSca
lib cans. 1891. 3-ih cans
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08
slant, and then resumed its gloomy

slant, and then resumed its gloomy
expression.
"Ir. Croydon has gone, and l sup
pose every one else is off enjoying
themselves" continued Ella.
81 thought Mr.. Croydon was fix
ture; had come on purpose to see you
that is"
Dear me, nor! laughed Ella. "Ile
is on his way to my Aunt Hattie's, who
lives at Liverpool. He Is to marry my
cousin in August, and only stopped
here to consult papa about something"
Miss Terrell-EIa-dea Ella! |
have been such fool!
OF course no right-minded person
would like to intrude on the conversa-
tion which followed; suffice it to say
that two weddings came off in August
instead of one, and one happy pair
consisted of Ella Terrell and Mr.. Perry
DAYTON
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08
Ages of Peop.e Who Marry.

According to the figures compiled
by the clerks in the bureau of vital
statistics, in 204 out Of the total num-
Der of 11,0S5 marriages in 1882, the
bridegrooms were under twenty years
of age. The number of brides under
that age was 2651. The bridegrooms
between % and 25 years of age num-
bered 1922, the brides 1862. There
was 1882 men married who were be-
tween 25 and 80 years old, and 2l2l
women between the same ages. The
bridegrooms between 30 and 80 years
Of age were 1886 in number, and the
brides 747. But $50 men and 435
women were married who were be-
tween 35 and 40 years of age. The
old bachelors who became Benedicts
between 40 and 45 years of age num-
bered All, and the women who when
married confessed to the same age
were POS in number. There were 216
men and 100 women married between
the ages of As and so, and $50 men
and So women between so and 55.
Seventy men and 20 women were mar
ried who were over 55 and under 60.
The bridegrooms over 90 and under IS
numbered 43, and the brides 8. The
bridegrooms over 65 and under 70
numbered 10, and the brides 2, Four
teen men married between the ages OF
20 and 80, but no bride acknowledged
herself over threescOre years and
ten. One bridegroom was between 50
and 90 years of age. Forty-five men
and 68 women refused or failed to
state their ages The record does not
indicate which Of the contracting par
ties in the above list were married for
the second time.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08

sheriff, who noticed their behavior,
said to the reporter that the only re-
deeming trait in Parker's nature was
his love for his wife, whom he had
married about two and half years
ago. She was considerably above him
in the social scale, and sacrificed her
family ties to link her fate with his.
While the husband and wife were con-
versing Parker's lawyer asked that he
might have q conference with his client.
Accordingly the prisoner was taken
from the cage by deputy sheriff, and
walked through the court into the jury
room. His wife walked by his side,
and his sisters and attorney followed.
They took seats, and the prisoner
began to give his lawyer list Of wit
nesses. The wife was seated by her
husbands side. Something drew the
attention of those present from the
prisoner when shot rang out, and
before any one could interfere, second
one was fired. The first shot sent a
bullet through Mrs. Parker's brain,
killing her almost instantly. The
econd shot Parker fired while he held
the weapon close to his own temple.
He died within an hour. Neither he
nor his wife spoke after they received
their wounds. Late in the evening a
letter was found written by Parker,
wherein he showed that the whole plan
was arranged that he should kill him.
self and his wife and that she had help
ed him plot against her own and his
life. When she went to the court
room, therefore, she knew she was
going to meet death. Yet she walked
across the room without a tremor and
entered the jury room, though she
knew that to cross the threshold was
to step into the grave
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08
California Hero.

Tine recent explosion of gunpow-
der factory at Berkelay, CAL, develop
ed hero. Frank Roller saw the
shower of sparks set fire to taupau-
lin On the deck of a schooner lying at
a wharf. He knew that fifty tons Of
the explosive was aboard the vessel
The crew were aware of it, too, and
they scampered away as fast as posi-
BILE. But Roller leaped through the
window of his house, ran to the pari-
lous craft and extinguished the flames
by throwing on water with a bucket.
If the fire had reached the cargo the
town and everybody in it would have
been destroyed.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

IT bears the palm-The hand.
A telegraph wire is like mustache.
1t is of no use when it is down.
1t doesn't take much provocation for
a man to "get down on" soft bed.
Worth makes the man. When Worth
makes the dress he breaks the man.
Lumbago is one of the back taxes
that you can't readily supply a check
for.
Herein differeth We damsel from We
potato: She masheth the more readily
when raw.
The churchman and the family UNI
brelIa closely resemble each other in
one particular They both keep Lent.
Mercury is called the "god of elo-
quence." This may account for the
eloquence let loose on the subject of
Thermometers during a cold wave.
PEOPLE who don't understand why
parrots are invariably so vicious in
their discourse, must be. stupid. What
would you expect from bird but fowl
talk?
If you really dislike a man it is well
to remember that nothing will mad
him more than to catch him near a
hand organ and go up and offer him
some coppers.
1t has now become fashionable in
Eastern cities to be married as early as
six o'clock in the morning. This starts
the bridegroom into the habit of early
rising right off
A little girl was walking along the
street the other day, when she saw very
bow-legged man with short coat on.
"Oh, MAJ she cried, There's a man
with tunnel under him."
civilian, my son." says an econom-
ical mother to her son, 'for mercy's
sake don't keep On tramping up and
down the floor in that manner, you'll
wear out your new boots" He sits
down. "There you go-sitting down.
Now you'll wear out your new trousers!
declare, never see such a boyP'
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08
Horrible Tragedy.

The jury room of the criminal court,
in st. Louis, was, few days ago, the
scene of an extraordinary tragedy.
John C. Parker, a criminal who has a
record of the blacklist kind in many
western cities, killed his wife and him.
self. He was a native of st. Louis,
and about thirty-three years old. He
was awaiting trial for killing John Pay
ton in saloon. His pretty young wife
Nellie, and their five-months' old baby,
was in the court room in company with
his two sisters. The wife leaned
against the wire screen and talked to
her husband some time while another
case was being heard. 1t was remark
ed at the time that they were very
afectionate to one another. A deputy
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08
The Minister'S Coat.

In the days of early Methodism in
Northern Ohio, a preacher had been
appointed to q new circuit, and wore
on his first round a fashionable broad
cloth frock-coat, which his tailor had
innocently provided for him. This be-
came a source of great grievance to
the home-spun laity, and it was finally
resolved to make it a matter of disci-
pline. So at the first quarterly confer
ence charges were prepared in due
form, and the offending minister noti-
fled to be present and make answer.
Entering the room where the presiding
elder and lesser magnates were assem-
bled, the preacher stripped off his coat,
hung it on the back of chair, and
pointing to it, said: "Since it is the
coat that offends, try it. Could preach
any sounder gospel in robes or cassock :?
1t seems to me that it is not the man
ner of the coat, but the manner Of
the man in the coat, that should be
considered" And there the trial
ended.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08
FAMILY DOCTOR.
Dayton.

People are advised by Dr.. Foote's
Health Nouth1ynot to sleep in the same
undergarments worn during the day.
1t may be useful 10 know that
hoarseneSS may be relieved by using
the white of I'm egg thoroughly beaten,
mixed with lemon iuice and sugar. \
tea-spoonful taken occasionally is the
dose.
The London Lahcet says that the
people who snecZe ofteneSt are some
times the healthiest. y sneeze sets
the blood circulating and throws off
cold which is trying to settle.
An exchange says: Not one in a
hundred, at the most, know how to
make mustard plaster, and vet mus
tard plasters are used in every family,
and physicians prescribe their applica-
tion, never telling anybody how to
make them, for the simple reason that
doctors do not know, as a general rule.
The ordinary way is TO mix the
mustard with water, tcmpering it with
little flour; but such plaster as
that makes is simply abominable.
Before it has half done its work it
begins to blister the patient. and
leaves him finally with apainful, hayed
spot, after having produced far less
effect in a beneficial way than was in
tended. Nova mustard plaster should
never make blister at all. If bis
ter is wanted, there are other plasterS
far better than mustard for the pur-
pose. When you have a mustard
plaster, then, use no water whatever,
but mix the mustard with the white
of an egg, and the result will be a
plaster that will "draw" perfectly,
but will not produce a blister even up
on the skin of an infant, no mattel
how long it is allowed to remain on
the part. For this we have the word
of an old and eminent physician, as
well as our own experience
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08
Remains Of the Seven Wonders,

In addition to the pyramids, after
some research on the part Of Mr.. New
ton, who is in the employ of the Eng
lish government, the foundation and
many of the fragments of the mauso-
leum at IIalicarnassus have been dis.
closed. which, with the mounds indicat-
ting the positions of the walls and gar
dens of Babylon, are the only remains
of the "Seven Wonders Of the World
The Colossus of Rhodes, composed of
brass cast in pieces, was oyerthrown
by an earthquake, 224 B. c. The frag-
ments remained until the ninth CEN
tury, when the Saracens sold them to a
Jew, who is said to have loaded 900
camels with them, they weighing 720,-
900 pounds. The original Temple of
Diana was set on fire $50 B. c. by
Erostratus, an obscure individual who
sought by this means TO make his name
famous. 1t was rebuilt, but again des-
troyed by the Goths, A. D. 256. The
mausoleum gradually crumbled and de-
cayed, though as late as 1440 A. d.
parts of it were used by the Knights of
Rhodes in the construction of castle.
The destruction of the Olympian Jove,
at Ellis, and the Pharos of Alexandria,
was probably accomplished by barba-
rian invaders.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08
Fire Escapes.

1.-TWO things are needed" said John
Decker to a reporter, "to secure to the
public security against loss of life by
fire. The first is a common sense es-
cape, the second the universal adoption
of such an escape. For thirty years
served as a volunteer fireman, sitting
for eight years on the board of en-
gineers. and holding for five and halt
years the position of chief of the de-
partment. and not few have been the
number of so-called fre-escapes brought
TO my notice l have given the sub
iect mucn time and study, and the re-
cent fires with the attending loss of life
have confirmed the opinion l have held
for years In this matter. Balconies OF
iron extending across the front, side or
back of building, the floors connected
by ladders Of iron, endless chains, por-
table ladders and towers and folding
window-escape may all be well enough
as far as they 60, but they do not 60
far enough. Inmates Of a burning
building intuitively make at once for
the stairs. A practical fire-escape, then,
should be constructed with this fact in
view. This to my mind can be done
in no better way than by building one
or more iron staircases enclosed by
some freproof material and separated
from the building proper 10y a hollow
wall. These starways should connect
with every floor by automatic iron
doors, which should open from the hall
so that no impediment to their being
readily opened might obtain. Thus.
upon an alarm of fire, the occupants OF
a building could descend in safety
without fear of falling or exposure
which fear, / believe, has occaSioned
the death of more than one person dur
ing the last year. If the building be
large one, then, two, three, or even
four of these fireproof staircases might
be built, each one of them communi
eating with every floor of the building
When / was in the legislature the
question of fire escapes came up ano
was the subject of much discussion
but that was all that came of it. The
general adoption of some such means
of escape by our hotels, theatres, apart
ment houses and large factories would
soon educate the people to a knowledge
of the means at hand for escape ir
times of danger, and would not dis
fgure the buildings or call upon weak
women and little children to climb
hand over hand down swinging chain
or a hanging ladder. In my present
capacity as superintendent of fire
appliances for the Erie railway my
means for observation are numerous
and varied, and no one plan but this
suggests so many good features or such
likelihood of meeting the requirements
of the emergencies Of fire, in theatre,
dwelling or hotel.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08
Showed His Money.


John II. Won Dohlen, German gro
Ger in New York, changed SO note
for a strar ger, and, in doing so display
ed large roll of money. Soon after
wards two young men entered the
store and said they had made bet as
to whose hat would hold the most
molasses.
"Dot's holdings to me, said Dohlen.
81 know holdings aloud such pisi-
neSSes."
But the young men were not to be
put off. They said they would pay
for the molasses. The grocer grum-
bled about the "voolishnesses" as he
took the hat they wanted him to fill
and went to the rear of the store.
AS he returned with it to the man who
held out his hands for it, he stepped
between the two. The one who took
the hat said:
"Well, how much does it hold?"
Before the aStonished grocer could
answer he was seized from behind, and
at the same time the hatful Of mo-
lasses was clapped on his head and
pulled down over his eyes. Blinded
and bewildered, he could make no re-
sistance while his money was taken
from him, and when he got the hat off
and ran out on the sidewalk, dripping
with molasseS, his dispoilers were gone.
He lost 1914 and the molasses.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08
The Girls.

The GirISS
Hear the laughter Of the girls
Pretty girls:
What fund of merriment each ruby lip unfurls. \
How they chatter, chatter, chatter,
In the balmy hour of night,
While the stars that over-spatter
All the heavens hear their clatter
In a soft and mild delight,
Keeping time, time, time,
In soIter-kinder rhyme,
To the Naturalization that, unceasing, eyer
purls
From the girls, girls, girls, girls,
Girls, girls, girls
From the Wild capricious, saucy, jaunty girls.
See the flirting of the girls
Radiant girls;
How the softencd brain of lover wildly whilrs
Through the Aaazes of the ball,
Up and down the stately hall,
How he skippeth to and fro,
And perspires.
Would that we could tell the idiot oil we know
OF the fires
Into which the false one hurls
Each new victim--see the fame-how it swirls,
How it curls,
How il curls;
Better Ear that they wers churls
Than fall victim TO the girls;
To the prnttle and the rattle
OF the girls, girls, girls,
OF the girls, girls, girls, girls,
Girls, girls, girls
To the sacking and heart -racking of the girls
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08
Should Carry Bells.

According to aruling of the secretary
of the treasury, a vessel cannot be
fined for the failure to have fog-horn
on board in ordinary weather, but
there may be an imposition of a fine If
a bell is not sounded while the vessel
is at anchor in fog. In view Of the
many accidents from collisions Of late
it would be in the line of enforcing
precaution if all vessels were fined FOR
not carrying bells. :.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08

A Morse Legend.
A Morse king sat in his hnll one night,
And the tempest was raging without;
The sea roared and dashed on the rocks near
BY,
And the lights Of heaven were out
A great fire blazed with dazzling light
On the hearth OF solid rock;
The brighter it cleaned tor the blackness OF
storm
And the sound of the oceans shock.
While he sat and talked, bird few inu
And over the monarch's head;
Then out through the open easement again,
To the wild, dark night it sped.
"Such is life," said the king "from darkness
to light,
FROM sunshine to storm, without rest"
eyes, sire," courtier replied, "yet the bird
Has somewhere in safety, a nest"
-.M. L. Emerson.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1883-03-08
NEWSPAPER LAWS

If subscribers order the discrimination OF
newspapers, the publishers may continue to
send them until oil arrearages are paid.
If subscribers refuse or neglect to take their
newspapers from the Office to which they arc
sent, they are held responsible until they
have settled the bills and ordered them dis
continued.
If subscribers move to other places with
out informing the publisher, and the news
papers are sent to the former place of resi-
dence, they are then responsible.
ADVERTISING RATES:
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column. s 90 u 90 % 90 % O0 50 co
One inch makes equare Administrations and Ex7
ecutors' Notices 30 60 Transient advertisements and
locals 10 cents per line for first Insertion and censper
line for each additional insertion.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-24
IF YOU HAVE

Cough, Gold, Sore Throat or Hoarseness,
yoa will iiud it a positive Cure. II you are
roabl,d with Asthma, Bronchitis, Tickling
d the Throat, or have any fears OF Con-
EHPtion, you will lind 1t prompt relief
j your child has Group or WhOoping
Cough, get Il at once. A sure cure.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-24

The Right Hon. Anthony John Mum
della, the English Minister oil Education, a
few days ago made some interesting state.
ments to correspondent OF The Boston
Herald. sour illiteracy in England" he
said, "is lamentable but we arc emerging
from ii; and in few generations, say
three, we will rival Saxony and Switzsr-
land aud far outstep America. 1t is only
fifty years, indeed less than that
by eight years, since the Govern.
ment took up the cause OF edu-
cation and gave money for it. At
that time the Americans had an establish.
ed common free school SYSTEM, and
throughout Germany education was com.
pulsory. We did not arrive at that stage
until 1872, thirty.four years later. But
compulsory education is our stronghold,
and the success with which We have ad-
vocated its introduction, and the way it has
made returns for our efforts, are at once
gratifying to us and Of enormous value to
the nation. You may believe me, it was
hard struggle at first. Our own
party besought the few Of US who
urged it 10 90 slowly and prophesied no
end OF social troubles. They assured us
that in the north, and particularly among
the manufacturing people, we. would
awaken an opposition to the execution Of
the law that would lead to rioting and
mere serious results. Not only that, but
the future interests Of the Liberal party just
at that time, like young giant feeling It's
growing strength would be- imperilled. But
we persevered and l made my entree into
Parliament very shortly after that to rep.
resent one Of the largest constituencies Of
working men in England, and that too
upon the declaration that was welded to
the plan OF compulsory education.p
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-24
LONE PROOF.

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-24
origin of 1.-The Calendar.

Popular Science Monthly.
The word calendar" Is derived from
calenditm, denoting the commandments
OF months, which, in the language Of an.
cient Rome, was called dies ealend9, or sim.
ply caieRdG; |. c., days on which calling
out" should occur, from "calo," cal. This
calling OUT took place upon the reap.
pearance OF the small crescent after new
moon, and at the present day remains the
custom among the people who, as for in
stance the Turks, reckan time wholly from
the recurring phases OF the moon.
roofs of public buildings by appointed
priests or seers, who were required 10 seek
for the moons crescentin the evening sky
either two days after tho new moon, or four
or five days after the last appearance OF It's
light in the morning sky; this, then, was
established as the beginning OF the month,
the single days being reckoned by counting
backwards or forward from the night, or
from the intermediate day OF full moon.
This method OF reckoning time from the
revolutions and phrases OF light OF the moon
has been long practiced in those countries
In thich the constant clearness Of the
heavens enables people to determine with
considerable accuracy the first appearance
oil the moonlight, theso.called new light"
and, again, among those limited intercourse
with other nations afforded no comparison
OF fixed standards.
In countries, however, where continued
clearness OF the sky was not afforded, or
where the necessity was urgently felt for
regular determination Of future dates, the
seers at length desired that they be permit
ted to calculate, upon the basis Of the past
determinations OF the duration Of regular
months, the recurrence Of the phases Of the
moon for certain time in advance, and
Herewith the regular succession Of the
months, and to publicly record the nun.
Der and the method Of counting the days
OF the single months. Thus, in place Of the
public proclamation from the house-tops
OF the observed appearances, the calendar
now came into use, containing calculations
OF the calling days"