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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-25

The hier class-all sorts of labor
,rs.-Harlem Times.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-25

Supposed to be interested in milk
ooks.-Traveler.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-04-25

Drawing room on morning and evening trains
between Bay city and Detroit, extra charges only
% cents.
Night express east runs Sunday night instead OF
Saturday. All other trains daily except Sunday.
SANFORD keller, Sup't
W. II. JOHNSON,
Ticket Agent, Alpena, Mich.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
Hot Water.

The application of hot water to the
surface for the relief of pain Is an old
and well-tried remedy. The medical
profession now universally recognizes its
value.
At the commencement of a cold the
mucous membrane of the nostrils often
so swells as to prevent the passage OF
air through them, and the person is
compelled to breathe through his mouth.
The discomfort may be often removed
bv holding the feet in quite hot water.
Many q severe headache can be relieved
In the same way.
Pains in the bowels may be mitigated
or removed by applying to them rubber
bags of hot water, or folds of woolen
cloths wrung out from water as hot as
can be borne. The same thing Is true
of face-aches, ear-aches and of most
aches and pains.
The principle on which the relief de-
pends is known by the name of counter
irritation. The pains in each case are
due to a congested state of the blood
vessels. That is, the vessels are unduly
distended with blood, and thus press
upon and irritate the neighboring
nerves.
The hot water, by getting up an irri-
F. tation at distance, enlarges the capil'
laries in that part and thus turns the
blood thither, relieving the pressure at
the points of pain.
The quantity of blood diverted, say
from the head to the feet, by plunging
the latter in hot water, may be seen in
their exceeding redness, every one oi
their millions of capillaries being dis.
tended and crowded with blood
Youths Companion.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
A Maine Potato Country.

Te see the Aroostook when most at
tractive, one should travel through it
early in July, when the grass is Just
ready to cut, and the grain and potato
crop growing. No section this side of
the great West can show such fields of
wheat and oats. But potatoes are the
leading crop, and, no matter where you
are, in the cars, stores, or hotels, every
body talks potatoes. Buyers from Bos-
ton have store-houses at the different
railroad stations, where they collect and
ship them in large quantities. Thousands
of dollars are at this season paid out here
every day, and many farmers are giving
nearly all their attention TO this interest.
Several in this vicinity have from
twenty-five to fifty acres plowed al
ready, which will be planted next
spring. The soil seems particularly
adapted to this crop, and four or five
hundred bushels from an acre is not an
unusual yield. My attention was called
yesterday to young man, formerly
clerk in one of the village stores, with
hardly pay enough for board and
clothes, who last spring leased a piece
of land, planted it with potatoes, paid
out 1925 for seed, labor, and rent, and
raised 81, 800 worth. By this little in
veStment he made more money than he
could have saved as clerk in ten years,
and to-day is really more of man than
he ever before expected to be, having
gained that independence and freedom
that comes with self-reliance and sue.
cess. If other young men from the older
towns where the farms are rocky and
The soil poor would just come up here
instead of hocking to the overcrowded
cities, where they are pretty certain to
work hard and remain poor all their
days.. how much better it would be for
them and the State.-C0r. Boston Jour.
mi.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
PUNGEST PARAGRAPHS.

"A Boston flirt, on receiving an offer
of marriage, rushed into the hall and
called up stairs, Mother, am engaged
to anybody now?"
~Metamorphosis extraordinary: A
young man who was supposed to be un-
commonly soft, has been found running
away from his tailor as hard as possible.
The Judge.
That's lovely necktie you have
on she remarked. "Glad YOU like it;
1 thought it rather neat myself" Eyes,
it would look so well in the silk patch
work quilt am making. Elevated
Railroad journal.
The mushroom crop is so scant this
fall that gatherers think there is mush-
room for improvement. Meanwhile
hasty pudding is n safer thing to put on
your table. Hungry children have lots
of mush ROOM Pittsburgh Telegraph.
How can keep the cattle from
breaking down the fence to get into my
garden at night?" said an Austin man
to a neighbor. That's easy enough. ="
''But how can keep the cattle from
breaking down the fencep' ''By leav-
ing the gate OPEN Teras Siftings.
The sting of a bee, it Is said, when
compared with the point of fine needle
under powerful magnifying glass, is
scarcely discernable. But the trouble is
that when a man gets a bee sting, he
forgets to compare it with q needle;
hence it always is discernsble, and by a
large majority. Transcript.
-"'Tis a poor rule that does not
work both ways. Yesterday was ut a
dinner party, when glass of wine was
spilled on the table. Herr Meier put
some salt on it and no one said word.
subsequently the salt-dish was capsized.
and poured a grass Of wine on it,
whereupon / came near being thrown
out of the house. Fliegende Batter.
The smallest county in Pennsylvania
is the most modest. Its strong point is
its Lack-o' -wannaty. The most evenly
balanced county in its profit and loss ao-
count is Lose-earn. The rag-pickers'
county is Alley-gainy. The most stal
wart county is Armstrong. The most
disreputable county is Snider. The
deadest county for education is Schuyl
kill.-Philadetphia Bulletin.
An humble Sausage thus Addressed
| a naughty Seal Skin sack: "How does il
Happen, my Friend, that you do no
Recognize me, when it was only Two
Months ago that you Used to Skin up .
Tree whenever Iapproached" To thi,
the Seal Skin Sack saucily Replied
"You had None the Better of Me then
Mr.. Sausage, for while 1 was Skinnins
up the Tree, you forsooth Were Sailing
down the Street with Tin can tied t.
your Tail. ."-DenUer Tribune Fables.
Then you are thinking of build
ing a residence next season." sug
| gested Flub to one of our heavy
pockets. ''Yes thought I should ge'
up something in that line" "Wha
stvle of rchitecture-Gothic, or Doric
or Corinthian, or-?n 80. little o
everything. My wife inclines to tn,
Mary Ann style; but 1 guess I'll put uI
genuine Betsy Jane cottage, with {
pizarro all around it That'll suit m,
well enough. Chicago Times.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
A Curious Tobacco Vow.

In 1850, when Hester Clymer, Of
Reading, Pa. was defeated as the DEM
ocratic candidate for Governor, DIR.
Jacob Sheetz, well-known citizen and
physician of Pottstown, made vow that
he would purchase no more chewing
tobacco or use any until the Democrats
succeeded in electing their candidate for
Governor. That vow he kept sacred for
sixteen long years until Wednesday,
when thoroughly satisfied that Paitison
had been elected, he stepped into we'll
known tobacco store and purchased the
weed by the pounds, and had it cut up
into plugs. Whenever any of his friends,
many. Of whom were aware that the
Doctors long tobacco fast was over,
would ask him for .'chew' he pulled
out his large bag, in which he carried it
and gave them a whole plug. The
Doctors determination not to chew or
buy tobacco until the election of Dem
ocratic Governor was known all over this
section of country and many joke was
created. CHICAGO Herald. .
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
Wen Up In Botany.

Yes, she visited the country and con
sidered herself superior to ignorant. COM
mon farmers. She was learned in botany.
and with lofty airs sItold Farmer y. she
knew every plant that grew. The far
mer coming from the field one day
plucked cluster of blossoms and car
ried them to the house. .'Do you know
these blossoms?"' he asked of her. 30,
yes. of courseI do, /" she replied ''They
are very rare and so beautiful; too sweet
for anything. 1 am perfectly familiar
with these flowers; know all about
plants; these grow on trees in the
woods" What is their name" asked
Farmer D., with sly wink at his wife,
who stood by choking with laughter
..why-really-I can't recall their ho-
tanica1 name just now; but l suppose
you have some vulgar name for them.
''well, !" replied D., i've ignorant farm
ers call them potato blossoms" "You
horrid thing. cried she. spitefully, .'to
bring me suehia mean old weed" She
cut short her visit and returned to town.
-NetODsdn (Gd. Herald
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


"A Massachusetts, woman has made .
bequest of 80, 200 to Boston University
''for the purpose of clothing worthy
theological students"
In Prussia they appreciate the value
of health and the necessity of exercise to
maintain it. Tho minister of education
has ordered that the boys in all the
schools be made to play athletic games =,
The "Singing Pilgrim Philip
Phillips) and his son, who now sings
with him, are shortlyFto return home.
after a successful tour of song through
out the British Isles. Mr.. Phillips and
his family will visit the West Indies
until April next.
From March l to November l the
American Sunday School Union estab-
lished 1875 -new-Sunday schools in the
Northwest and brought 2.028 teachers
and 1920 scholars into them. besides
aiding l,O33 old schools, which have
5.149 teachers and 44,1oo scholars
CHICAGO Tines.
The First Presbyterian Church in
New Albany has q deacon, John Bush
nell. who has held that responsible and
honorable office for fifty years. A few
evenings ago the ladies of the church
celebrated his seventy-eighth birthday
as a mark of respect to his integrity
and Christian indianapolis
Journal.
Tight lacing has often been attacked
as injurious to the health, but now it is
said to be injurious to morals. A Phila-
delphia parson recently preached a ser
mon on the subject. and argued that the
divine truth could not find its way into q
heart squeezed and cramped by corsets.
Philadelphia Press.
The teachers in the public schools at
indianapolis have been in the habit OF
sending out pupils to ascertain the
whereabouts of absentees. BY entering
houses where scarlet fever was raging
several of the scholars contracted the
disease, and now the School Board pro-
pose to put stop to such use OF the
pupils.
1t is said that a curious old gentle
man in New York has been collecting
sermons until he now has about IL, ZOO
of all sorts. He began nearly thirty
years ago. He laid up bound volumes
at first, but later he preserved the SER
mons he found in pamphlets or fully
printed in periodicals. In order that he
might arrange his material, he learned
book-binding, and for all these years he
has given his nights and holidays to the
work of arranging, indexing and sys-
tematizing his material.-M z. Times.
-Chunder Sen. the leader of the Free
Brahmins in India-an almost Christian
sect, opposed to idolatry and caste lis q
man of unusual attainments. He is a
graceful orator, both in English and
Bengalese, and a profoundscholar in the
philosophy and sciences of Europe He
has travelled much. having visited Lon
don and been presented to the Queen.
Personally he is of striking and hand
some appearance, being. more than six
feet tall, and in the prime of life. He is
very wealthy, and at his own expense
maintains a large church in Calcutta,
and edits and publishes a paper called
The New Dispensation.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
HOME AND FARM.

"A poultice of fresh tea leaves moist
ened with water will cure q stye on the
eyelid.
Black corn has been raised in Liv-
ingston County, n. Y. 1t is described
as being as black as an African, las sweet
as sugar, and retains all the attributes
when cooked,
Bread Pie: Two cups of bread
crumbs, one cup of water, one cup of
sugar, one teaspoouful of tartaric acid,
and one teaspoonful of essence of lemon.
Boil together. Bake two crusts aud
place mixture between.-Ihe House
hold.
Indian Meal Cruel: Use the finest
AID best quality of meal. Wet two
spoonfrrls in cold water and beat till
there are no Jumps; then stir it into
pint and half of boiling water, and let
it boil half an hour, stirring constantly.
Season as liked best.-CoUltry Gentle
man.
"A son of Rev. j. r. Battle, of Thom-
asville, Ga, has won a prize of twenty
dollars in gold offered by Southern
agricultural paper to the boy under six
teen years of age who would report the
best yield of any crop on half acre OF
land Master Battles crop was $50
bushels of sweet potatoes to the hall
acre.
Fruit Cake: One egg, one cup Of
sugar, one and half cups of -four, half
cup of butter, two-thirds of cup OF
currants, one cup of raisins, half tea
spoonful of baking powder, three tea
spoonfuls of sour cream or milk, one
teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cloves
and nutmeg; in place of baking powder
and sour milk you may use, if you
choose, two teaspoonfuls of yeast; in
this case it will not need to stand in the
tin to rise for an nhour.-Detroit Post.
Ammonia is very useful in the
kitchen. A few drops mixed in the
water viii take off any grease from
plates, dishes, etc., better than soda ,and
does not injure the skin of the washer as
the constant use of soda does. Ladies
will find this useful hint when they
find themselves in the capacity of inn
promptu maids-of-all-work. Sponges,
hair-brushes, etc., are best cleaned with
diluted ammonia-in fact, it is q very
useful thing for many purposes in the
house.-N. Y. Herald.
Sheep should have airy, well-lit-
tered sheds, with plenty of sunshine,
and protected from snow. One great
advantage of keeping sheep is to con-
vert straw into manure. Hence much
litter is usually srrewn in sheep sheds,
to the distress of the sheep, unless they
have hard places to lie upon, because
their feet and legs get so hot A few
| platforms, like old doors, which can bt
shifted about every few days by turning
over, will be greatly enjoyed, and viii
| promote both health and comfort.-EE.
! change. .-l-sr
"A nice addition to beef soup JUS
before sending to the table is to drop in
poached eggs which have been cooked
in salted water and neatly trimmed. ont
for each person. Some add slices o
lemon or yelks of hard boiled eggs, one
for each plate, Just before sending to the
table. Bread dice is also a very mic,
addition to soup and should be prepared
in the following manner: Cut bread in
to dice an inch square and fry hand
some brown in butter. They should bt
prepared several hours before dinne
and left near the fire to crisp and dry
The HoUSebeeDer.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
Didn't Know His wire's Name.

The pretty custom of parents address
ing each otheras papa" or '.mama' in
the presence of their children soon bc
comes a confirmed habit, even when the
youngsters are not around. Some time
ago a well-known New York Journalist,
with his wife, acted as sponsors at the
christening Of child. aud at the con-
clusion of the ceremony, the minister
asked "Mr. Blank, what is your wife
Christian nameP" The newspaper man
hesitated, stammered, and then turned to
his helpmeet, saying, "Mams, what is
your first nameP" OF course everybody
laughed; but when that journalist got
home his wife gave him blessing minus
the benediction.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
A Singular Fatality.

Early in the present year man named
Lansard fell down the precipice of Bella
vardaz, on the road between Giettaz and
Flumet in the Alps of Upper Savoy. On
October Turin merchant by the name
of Bibollot, while travelling the same
road with two school teachers from Clu-
saz, stopped to examine the wooden
cross, which had been erected at the
scene of the accident in accordance with
the local custom. al cannot understand
what Lansard was doing TO lose bis foot
ing here" said NJ. Bibollot, ''and still
less how he should have been killed"
He had scarcely uttered the words when
he lost his balance and fell headlong
down the precipice. His companions,
descending into the gorge by a footpath,
found their friend frightfully mangled,
and half an hour later he died
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
A Word of Caution.

AS is usually the case where an arti-
Gle of true merit has attained n world
wide reputation by its wonderful results
as the celebrated Electric Bitters have
done, certain unprincipled parties have
endeavored to initiate them, and expect
to induce the unsusDecting public to
purhase their fraudulent wares. Ask
your druggist for the genuine Electric
Bitters, that are guatanteed to cure and
tlke no others. Sold by j. w. Hough-
ton at Soc. 7-1y
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
The Doctors. Secret.

Probably no new development will
more surprise the public, than to learn
the secret of success of certain leaiing
physicians. When they have a difficult
fies their scientific skill, they prescribe
DIR. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds. having dis
guised in a prescription bottle, with
their own directions and name attached.
The patient is cured and they get the
credit.-Tribune. Trial bottles free at
Houghton's Drug Store. Large size
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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
1 seemed to be in the full possession of

L seemed to be in the full possession of
all my members szssz-',zial'
As L said, 1 doubled up my fist. or
imagined L did, aud struck out Justify as
Fritz came near, but the blow fell on
nothing. Fool that wasiAthere lay
my bodily appurtenances all dead before
me. t
.'Villainl III have you hanged for
thisF' yelled with the first puff of air I
received from the bellows. I'm go at
onoe and summon the Coronerr'
Alas! forgot had no legs.
''Keep a civil tongue in your head or
I'll be obliged to shut off your wind"
said Fritz.
-.How long can live thusp" asked.
5'Probably twenty minutes" he an.
sweredi THAT is if my strength doesn't
give way. It's hard work-this pulling
and pumping both at once"
Tor goodness sake keep it up"
pleaded. Don't mind what / said
about going for the Coroner. l was a
little excited just them"
"rm not afraid of your going" said
he. "But tell me all about your feel
ings, old fellow"
I'm getting too short of breath to
talk much" 1 replied.
Fritz renewed his exertions, but his
energies, it was evident, were failing
rapidly. TtsikiEtEt
sNo use,', he said. at last. I've got
to give it up. Ny strength is quite ex-
hansted."
.Don't-don't stopr l gasped.
/ 3" Can't helpit, he answered.
" If you stop I'll kill your I whis-
pered. hoarsely. for the stream of air
was getting feeble ~-.
Fritz laughed tauntingly.
became infuriated, i was seized with
q sudden desire for vengeance. Ifelt as
though i had a hundred hands, each en-
dowed with giant strength. made a
desperate effort to spring upon Fritz,
and. 10 my establishment, this time sue
ceeded. My hands were at his throat,
but Fritz was strong and held me at bay.
o Hal hair he laughed.
In an instant everything was changed,
no longer sawIny headiess body on the
| floor. Ny head was as fast as ever on
my shoulders and Fritz was holding me
in his arms and laughing at the violence
of my struggles GYEOl
| Ihave never taken hasheesh since; for
it was while under the influence OF that
drug that Fritz's strange talk about
| Brown-Sequard's s investigations and GER
tain extravagant theories of his own made
me imagine yself the subject of q hor-
rible experiment, the frightful details of
which assumed, for the time, reality
to which the senses were as actively
alive as they are this moment to the OBJ
jects which i see and touch.-T
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10

If you have a Cold or Cough of any
kind, buy a bottle of Hills Peerless
Cough Syrup. use it all, If not satisfied
return the empty bottle and we will re-
fund your money. We also sell the
Peerless Worm Specific on the same
POdophyllin Pills will cure headache.
billiousness, constipation, etc., or nc
pay. One pill dose.
43ly ii. G. STARR & Co.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10

"A correspondent of the New York
Erersing PoSf gives the following ac-
count of an electric storm on the sum-
NIT of Pixies Peak, II, ,174 feet above
the sea: "For over two hours every
thing was tipped and covered with elec-
tricity. Spanish pack mules, left on the
summit for the night, appeared to be
all on fire ;the clothes OF the men seemed
ablaze; electricity streamed from the
tips of the fingers, from the nose and
from the hair. The thermometer on top
of the building spat fire at every revolu-
ton. Every rock on the summit was
covered with ame."
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-10
Sights Mt Honolulu.

1t is midday, and the town is crowded
with riders Of both sexes. As we re-
turn TO the hotel we meet a string of fif-
teen mules laden with sugar sacks.
driven forward by red-shirted natives,
riding on Mexican saddles developed in
multitude of mysterious cords, trap
pings. and cumbersome externals:
Cavalcades of Laughing young women
coming IN from the country, riding
astride, according to the custom of the
place, with no CONSCIOUSNESS of our en-
barrassment, pass US with coquettish
glances They sit so wen, and look so
absolutely at ease in their manly attitude,
that hostile criticism is impossible.' We
by and by discover that the glances and
smiles are levelled at our Jehu. This
young man carries on running fire of
Comment or chaff against the fair eques-
trians who 90 by us. Judging from
their sparkling eyes and ready retort his
remarks are regarded as favorable indi-
cations of his approval. That our cabby
was s'catch" in the matrimonial. mar
ket, and his empty bungalow coveted
possession, raised him still higher in our
estimation.
Finally, we land in the market-place,
an open square. with long narrow booths
open at the sides, forming rectangular
passages for purchasers. Here elderly
DANES are purchasing poi and the simple
adjuncts of their daily food. Quantities
of uninyiting-l looking fish lierexposed on
the stalls. advertising odoriferous stale
ness. Sweet potatoes and fruits are piled
upon the ground beneath at the mercy of
peripatetic poultry. We resist persua-
| sion to buy or TO eat. The octopus. We
are informed, constitutes a Hawaiian
delicacy; but we do not see any. and are
chary of believing travellers tales. As
we pass along the streets we notice
several American ladies, radiant in Paris
ian toilettes, descending from their bug
gies at different shops. We learn that
Californians frequently resort to Homo
lulu for rest and change. There are
also resident American merchants in the
town, which probably accounts for the
vigorous life of mercantile proceedings.
4 The fertile soil and salubrious climate, a
heat well tempered by sea breezes and
constant showers. make 1t a charming
SPOT for temporary residence.-i.o''doH
4 Soctety lll4A1--A AL 80