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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20

Z. Nihilist proclamations issued in Russia
sentencing the Car to death.
o. The pacing horse Johnson makes the
fastest time at Chicago ever known, a mile in
2:10. News of tic discovery in Alaska of an
immense river.
10. Earthquake in California. Snow-storms
in Nebraska and Colorado.
IL. Meeting at Brooklyn of the Woman
Suffrage National Convention. The bankelR
meet in national convention at louisville.
Lord Lorne and Princess Louise leave Canada
for England. The Span sh Ministry resign in
body. Heavy snow storm in Manitoba.
Forty people drowned in a food in s ain
Anniversary of the discovery of America colc-
brated in Spain.
IA. Seven p, rsons drowned by the founder.
ing of schooner near Boston. War prepar-
atoms in Prussia Mysterious murder of To.a
Burns, at Lincoln, H.
Is. The United Sta es Supreme Court d =
cides the Civil Rights law uneons itutional.
Forty women killed in crush N Il Jewish
synagogue in Russia, caused by a false a arm
of fire.
16. Epidemic OF trichiEoss in Saxony. Dis
astIous storms ON the English coas..
II. Over 200 lives IL stroyed b. an earth
quake in Asiatic Turkey
Is. Reappearanoc of the clio era in Egypt
10. Twenty-Five lives lost by mine explos-
ion in England.
20. News of the signing of treaty of
peace between Chilli and Teru
II. Henry Irving, the English actor, arrives
at New York. Snow-storm in Minnesota
Discovery of god dcpcs Is at isbcn, Dakota.
%. Heavy snow-storm in Colorado
%. The Marquis of Lansdowne, new Gov
ernor General of Canada. arrives at Quebec.
Ten girls lose their lives by the explosion of
a squib factory at Kingston, Pa
p. Snow~storm in New England. Dcstruct-
i've gaze along the Massachusetts coast. Slos-
son beats Sexton for the billiard champ:on-
ship. A farmer named Frazer, of Newcom.
erstown, Ohio, kills his wife three Oh ldren.
and himself.
IS. News of Tie loss OF FIVE vessels on to
New England coast, and the drowning Of
twenty-seven persons.
20. News of war preparations in Russia and
Germany
%. Intelligence of more earthquakes in
Asia Minor. Chief Justice Coleridge sails for
England.
20. Destructive cyclones in Louisiana and
Kentucky. Disastrous rain storms in Illinois
and Indiana. Seven lives sacrificed by an
explosion of dynamite at Brooks Tunnel. Pa.
Henry Irving, the actor, begins an engage
ment at New York
30 Mysterious explosions in the UNDER
ground railway tunnels in London, England.
81 Loss of the steamer Holyhead and
fifteen lives in the Irish sea. Disastrous
coniagration at Savannah. Ga. ten lives lost
NOVEMBER.
!. Capture of large gang of eounterfeiters
In Fike county, Ind. Orange disturbances at
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:. Mrs. J. NJ. Hauning, last survivor of the
Alamo massacre.
10. Surgeon General Charles II. Crane. of
the United States army.
L.. Col. Barnahas Burns, prominent
Ohloan.
Il. Mrs. Boniface, a well-known actress.
Il. Gen. james n. Steedman, of Toledo. O.
10. 5. VI. Edgell, leading citizen of St
Louis, Mo.
20. Ex-Congrcssman Charles ]. Albright, of
Ohio.
sl. Mrs. John Russell Young, wife OF the
American Minister to China
-. Capt. Mayne Reid, the English novelist.
"a. Jean Paul. distinguished French sur
geon
%. Rev. !. W. Pembroke, oldest Congrega-
tional minister in New Hampshire.
Is. William Coffin, colorea, at Plainneld,
\. j., aged lib. Margaret Manor, at Brook
lynn. Y, aged 10s.
20. G. n. Fox, of New York. formerly As
sistant Secretary Of the Navy.
81. Armistead Burt, ex-member of Con.
gress from South Carolina.
NOVEMBER.
?. Frank d. Pond, OF Ohio, author OF the
Pond liquor law.
8. William Swinburne, of Paterson, y. j.,
the pioneer locomotive builder.
g. Theodore F. Randolph. ex-United States
Senator and Ex-Governor Of New Jersey
O. Gen. Aiehibiades de Blanc, prominent
jurist of Louisiana
H. EN-Gov. Matt Head, of New Hampshire.
Admiral Creighton, of the navy.
II. DR.. J. Marion Sims, of New York. cele
brated surgeon
10. Gen. Augustus c. Dodge, ex-Untcd
States Senator from Iowa.
q. Com John NJ Bcrrien of the navy.
%. John MeKeon, an eminent New York
lawyer.
rs. soiourner Truth, the noted colored
woman, aged los
p. At Brscoe, H., John J. Simmons, aged
1902
Is. Hon. William l.. Greenly, prominent
citizen of Michigan. Lieut. George b.
Carse, of the United States army
20. Ex-Goy. william E. Stevenson, OF
Virginia.
80. Prof. Tice, of st. Louis, a well known
weather prophet.
DECEMBER.
/. julius Payer, the Austrian Arctic ex-
plorer.
3. g. r. Minol, leading merchant of Bos-
ton.
4. Frederic Ives. wealthy publisher OF
New Haven, Conn.
6. John. I. Donnely theatrical manager
Philadelphia.
Z. Alex. c. Josiyn, a well-known hotel man
OF New York, Boston and Cincinnati
s. +. f. Bishop prominent and wealthy
citizen OF Connecticut. James BURNS u lead
ing citizen of Detroit.
TO- Mrs. j. 4. Brown, of Milwaukee. a
noted temperance lecturer.
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Londonderry, Ireland. Conclusion of the
Coroner's inquest into the Fora Burns murder
mystery at Lincoln. III. snow-storm in New
York.
;. Moody begins a six months evangeliz-
ing engagement in London. Political riot at
Danville, Va, in which seven negroes are
killed.
4. Mary Churchill, the long-missing st.
Louis girl, found at Indianapolis.
8. News of the loss Of the whaling bark
Lonise and her crew in the Arctic ocean.
Train robbery near Danville Junction, Ill.
6. Seven people killed and s200,00 worth OF
property destroyed by a cyclone at Spring
field, Mo.
I. colliery explosion in Lancashire, Eng
land, kills sixty-three men. Adelina Patti ar
rives at New York
s. Several persons killed by the falling of a
portion of the roof of the Wisconsin Capitol
building at Madison.
III. orrin A. Carpenter, arrested for the
murder of Fora Burns at Lincoln, H., dis
charged from custody. Celebration of
Luther's 400th birthday.
1874. Disastrous gales ON the chain of
lakes, resulting in the wrecking or over
thirty craft and the drowning OF upward Of
fifty people.
IL. Destructive storm on the Chesapeake
Bay; many lives lost.
IL. Eight lives sacrificed in railway acct
dent at Streator, Ill.,
Is. Lynchng of Jacob Melting at Oxford,
Ind, for the murder of Ada Atkinson
-. Loss of the bark Plormanden with
eleven of her crew, off Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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49, Ex-Congressman G. L. Fort, of Illinois.
II. J. H. Connolly, well-known inventor,
of Pittsburgh.
is. Nelson Ludington. millionaire banker
of Chicago. Rev. j. c. Talbot, Episcopal
Bishop, of Indiana.
l6, w. c. Pendleton, prominent vir-
ginian.
Il. John W. shackelford, Congressman
from North Carolina.
Is. r. S. Newbold, of Pennsylvania, ex-
Minister to Mexico
10. Henry Kip, yice-President United States
Express company
20. Ex-Congressman Larrabeo, of Wiscon-
sin.
II. Prince Frederick Charles of Germany.
j. c. Fargo, of the American Express COM
rany.
%. Gustave Dore celebrated French
painter. Ex-Congrcssman Charles Delano, of
Massachusetts. Joshua Hutchinson of the
celebrated Hutchinson Family of singers.
Ann Eliza Bray, English novelist. Sir Rich
ard England, noted British General Dr.
George NJ. Beard, fan Gus New York physi-
clan.
"a. George Judd, the oldest practicng law
yer in Wisconsin. Judge james Patrick. the
oldest editor in Ohio.
20. Ex-Congressman Louis Selye, of New
York. Col. o. II. IRISH Chief of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, at Washington
49, Alexander Dimitry, of louisiana, ex-
Minister to Central America.
FEBRUARY
m L +bo
singer.
6. Ex-Consressman c. b. sedgwick, of SYRIA
cuse, n. Y.
Z. Ex-Gov. Edmund J. Davis, of Texas.
s. Hon. C. b. Slocumb, author of the Ne
braska liquor law.
9. VIM. z. Dodge, millionaire merchant and
philanthropist of New York
10. Charles Il. Thorne, a well-known actor.
IL. Marshall Jewell, ex-governor of Con-
nesticut.
Is. Ex-Gov. Edwin D. Morgan. of New
York.
II. George W. Morrill,, formerly Major
General in the army. Commander Francis
Morris, of the navy.
Is. Ex-Gov. William f. Smith, of wiscon-
sin. Richard Wagner the celebrated German
composer. Meyer Magnus. German philan-
thropist.
Is. DR.. Hugh Glenn, of California, the larg-
est farmer in the world. Ex-Gov. Stephen
Hampstead. of Iowa.
L. George Dawson, yeeran Journalist, of
Albany, n. Y.
-. Samuel j. Medill, managing editor of
the Chicago Tribune.
90 Col r.. A. Packer, a very wealthy Penn
sylvanian.
%. Fanny Drisooll white the Wisconsin
poeoess.
70. Dr. John NJ. Duke. prominent Louis
vile physician. The widow of the late Gov.
Jewell, OF Connecticut Belle Cook, the
champion equestrienne.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20
NEUROLOGY.
A List of the Distinguished Dead
of 1888.
JANUARY.

JANUARY.
L. Leon Gambetta, eminent statesman of
France. Elisha Allen, Hawaiian Minister at
Washington. Josephine Meeker, survivor of
the Ute massacre. Eliza Hawthorne, only
sister OF Nathaniel Hawthorne
?. VIM. II. Hooper, ex-Delegate in Con-
gress from Utah. Edward ]. Hale, publisher.
New York
3. DIR. Warren Stone. eminent physician of
New Orleans. Rev Titus Coan, noted mis-.
sionary.
o. Gen. Chanzy, Life Senator of France.
Charles Gossage, leading dry-goods merchant
of Chicago.
8. Jean clcsinger, famous French seulp-
tor.
Z. VIM. A. seaver, editor of Harper's
" Drawer" Matthew f. Whittier, only broth
er of the poet.
8. Judge Josephus C. Guild, leading citizen
OF Tennessee.
o. Thatcher Perkins noted inventor.
VIM B. Napton, ex-Supreme Judge of Mis-
souri,. Gen. Devaldin. an eminent citizen of
France. NJ. C. Campbell, of the original
Campbell Ministries.
10. Hon. Lot NJ. Morrill,, ex-senator and
Ex-Governor of Maine.
II. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd of Lincoln assas
sination memory. Clark Mills, the sculptor.
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kills seven people. Extensive military prep
arations IN Russia.
ri. Return TO England of the family of
Carey, the Irish informcr Agitation by the
Land Leaguers reopened in Ireland. Henry
NJ. Stanley, the African explorer. head from
%. Destructive gale ON Lakes Ontario and
Erie. The Emperor of Germany appoints
King Alfonso, of Spain, Colonel of German
regiment, which causes much il-feeling in
France. Terrible railroad accident in Rou-
mania New York morning newspapers re
duce their prices.
q. Heavy express robbery on train at
Iaseton, lad.
SO. Attempted train robbery in Western
Kansas. snow-storm in Minnesota.
80. Forty Cinnamon killed near san Fran
cisco by the explosion Of a powder-mill The
Spanish King hooted ty mob in Paris,
which causes much excitement in Spain.
OCTOBER.
I. Snow-storm in Maine,
2. Evangelists Moody and sankey sail for
Ireland. Burning of the Pittsburgh EXPOSE
ton buildings.
8. The authorities of stratford-upon-Avon
refuse permission TO exhume the remains of
Shakespeare. Meeting at Philadelphia of the
| thirty-third convention OF the Protestant
Episcopal Church Of the United States Ma
| tional Convention of the laundrymen at Chi
cago.
A. woman at Lampasas, Mexico, murders
her five children and kills herself. The en-
tire Ministry of Norway mpeached
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20
CHRISTMAS AT THE DOOR.

Heavy and thick the winter snow
Fails on the frozen pane:
Wild winds over the houss-top blow,
Turning the creaking yane.
None will come TO our house to-day,
In such cold and stormy weather.
Mother, tell us game to Hay
Merrily all together;
"or tell us tale of fairy-land,
Such as you've often told,
Where elves are dancing, gieesome band,
Mid trees of silver and gold"
Children, over the frozen moor
Some one is coming now,
Who'll tell tale, when he's crossed the door.
sweeter than all know.
''Hark! hear his step at the gate;
Soon will the summons ring,
Come make ready our room of state
There he is, Killing, ling, ling"
CHRISTMAS OUTSIDE.
Children, open the door, pray;
Mer1ily come to meet me
Many and many house to-day
Has put on its best to greet me.
All your prettiest carols sing,
Welcome ME with joy.
For see what beautiful gifts bring
For each little girl and boy
And list TO the tale Of Christmas cay:
How once. in a lowly s,all,
Meek and mild in q nanger liv
The Lord and Monarch of all
Best of gifts fer peasant and prince
Was this sweet baby dear:
To keep ven ia mind OF il ever since,
bring you merry che =.
Ard glad come TO each little child
To iill its heart with joy:
For that dear Lord, so meek and mild,
Was once Himself boz.
Then open our doors and make ihom wide
Wider each little heart;
And he JOY bring yoa, whste'cr leide,
Shall never again DEPART
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20
Che BLESSED Dan.

For Christ was born in Bethlehem
On Christmas day in the morning.
And all the bells on earth shall ring
On Christmas day, on Christmas day;
And all the bells on earth shall ring
On Christmas day in the morning.
And all the angels in heaven shall sing
On Christmas day, on Christmas day;
And all the angels in heaven shall sing
On Christmas day in the morning.
"And all the souls on earth shall sing
On Christmas day, on Christmas day;
And all the souls on earth shall sing
On Christmas day in the morning.
"Then let us rejoice amain
On Christmas day, on Christmas day;
Then let us rejoice amain
On Christmas day in the morning."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20

and of the steamers Condor and Hymethus
In the English channel, forty people going
down. hurricane on the Newfoundland
! coast wrecks many vessels and causes great
loss of life.
Il. Ex-senator Spencer arrested in Nevada
and taken to Washington. Disastrous rain
storms in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. A
cyclone in Missouri and Arkansas kills sew
eral people.
-. Jacob ID. Crouch, a millionaire farmer
and three other persons murdered near Jack
son, Mich. Intelligence of the massacre of
Hicks Pasha's Egg ptian army in the Soudan
Minister Lowell chosen rector of st. Andrews
academy, in Scotland
"a. Butchery of the Ruddy family of four
Iersons at Iaconia, n II. Train-robbery
near Heming, N. NJ. sergt. Mason, the
President.
70. Sinking of tho steamer Rome and
drowning of twenty people in Lake Geneva,
Switzerland
26. Gee, ration in New York Of the centen-
nal anniversary of the evacuation of that
ely by the British loss of the steamer
Eclipse, on Lake Ontario; eighteen reople
drowned
y. Loss Of The Dutch bark Judith on
the Norwegian coast: eighteen lives lost
sixteen persons drowned by the loss of the
schooner Buso, in the Gulf of Mexico
rance removes tie prohibition on American
PORK. eye at Prairie du Chen, Wis.
90 Ex-senator Blaine unfolds to the public
ii scheme of allied Federal and State taxa
ton Disastrous railway accident at Wor-
cester' Mass. News of the loss of six
Gloucester Mass fishing schooners, carry
ing scventyfivc men
80. Bloody fight between burglars and
officers az Shelby. Chic Mrs RAIL of Bal
tmore, kills her two children and commits
suicide
DECEMBER.
|. Patrick O'Donnell, the slayer of In
former Carey, convicted and sentenced to
death at London
:, Eighteen pcop,e killed in railway col
lision in France.
3. Meeting of Congress at Washington.
T. Loss of the steamer Princess Louise and
nine OF her crew, on the coast of Newfound-
land.
:. Attempted train robbery near Memphis.
Tenn.
.. Dynamite explosion in Toronto. Canada
Loss of pilot boat and ten persons in New
YORK harbor.
:. Earthquake shock in Arkansas. Four
men iynched in Brown county, Neb. News
OF the loss of seventy sailors belonging TO
the Gloucester (Mass.) fishing feet
:. four Mexicans lynched at Fort Davis,
Tex
Il. Meeting at Washington of the National
Republican committee.
THIS Is thu .onno,, &c l...n.4nI:. -
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20

What shall little children bring
On Christmas day, on Christmas day?
What shall little children bring
On Christmas day in the morning?
This shall little children bring
On Christmas day, ON Christmas day:
Love and joy for Christ, their King,
On Christmas day in the morning!
What shall little children sing,
On Christmas day, on Christmas day?
What shall little children sing
On Christmas day in the morning?
This grand old carol shall they sing
On Christmas day, on Christmas day;
With all their hearts their Offering bring
On Christmas day in the morning
For Christ was born in Bethlehem
On Christmas day, ON Christmas day;
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20
Bennie's Christmas Composition.


Il like Crismus first rate Crismus
is jolly good Teller. So is my mother.
When Crismus comes mother always
gifts headake, coz she bakes pies in
hot oven. | wouldn't bake no pies in
no hot oven if | was my mother. I'd let
somebody else bake 'em an I'd eat 'em.
Crismus comes but onct a year. / wisht
it would come every day. Crismus
comes when there is snow and ice.
Il don't like snow on pond, coz your
skates stick so, an you can't see the
holes, an you go through Jim Delan
he was skating onct an he went through.
an he got wet, an he got awful wal
Looping from his father. l guess it hurt
him, coz he hollered like wild steer.
| don't know whether wild steers bol-
lers, but they hooks. Jim Delan is a
Jolly Teller. Sos my mother. Sos
erasmus. Crismus is jollier Teller than
wild steer is, coz wild steer-a wild
steer-a wild steer" and here Bonnie
could not read. for great blot of ink
covered three or four lines, but bravely
skipping the blot he ended with, "coz
wild steer is no Teller at ALP
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20
KITES WANTS.
BY EVA NJ. TAPPAN.

Me want Christmas tree,
Yes, me do;
Want an orange ON it,
Lots of candy, too.
Want some new dishes,
Want a red pail,
Want a rocking-horse,
With a very long tail.
Want a little watch,
That says Tick, tick!"s
Want a newer dolly,
Cause Victoria's sick.
Want so many things.
Don't know what to do;
Want little sister,
Little brother, too.
Won't you buy 'eIn, mamma?
Tell me why you won't.
Want to go to bed?
No. me don't.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20

WHO can be insensible to the out
pourings of good feeling, and the hon
est interchange of affectionate attach
ment, which abound at this season of
the year?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20

his is the season of hospitality, mer-
rlment and open-heartedness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20

. Destructive cyclone at Greenville,
Texas. Thomas Cafirej, the fourth of the
Phunx park conspirators, hanged in Dublin.
Healy and Dav.tt released fIom Imprisonment
in Ireland.
g. Democratic State convention of Iowa.
Republican State convention of Ohio.
:. Lynching bee Mt Waverly, Iowa.
s. one hundred and fifty people X He'd by a
powder explosion at Scutari, Albania.
o. Timothy Kelly hanged at Dublin for the
murder of Lord Cavend.sh. Sule,man Daoud
executed at Alexandria.
10. Five men killed 10y boiler explosion at
College Point L. l.
II. Five persons drowned at Benjamin,
Utah. by the oapsizing of loat Violent
storms in Iowa and Wisconsin. Gen. Crook
returns to Arizona from a successful Indian
hunt in Mexico.
49, n. L. Dukes killed by young Mutt at
Unointown, Pa Greenbaek convention in
Ohio. Arguments concluded in the star
route trial; the jury render a verdict of ac-
quittal.
H. The dynamite conspirators Gallagher
and others. convicted and sentenced at Lon
don.
Is. The high license liquor law passes the
Illinois Legislature.
Is. Meeting of the Ohio Prohibition con-
vention. Great excitement on the Chicago
Board of Trade, caused by the failure OF
Peter McGeoch.
Il. Destructive rain and wind storms in
Illinois. Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska.
over 200 children killed at Sunderland, En-
gland, by a panic and rush in a public hall.
Fourteen people drowned by foods near
Seneca, Kas
81. Ohio Democratic convention. Destrue-
tive tornados in Missouri and Kansas.
% Four train-robbers executed in Ar
kansas. Two men lynched in Tennessee.
%. Twenty-Five lives lost by the sinking of
the steamship waitara, of Portland, England.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20

"a. Great damage in the region of st. Louis
by an overflow of the Mississippi river
victed of rot at Paris and sentenced TO six
years Imprisonment. News OF tie breaking
out of tie cholera in Egypt Eighteen China
men killed by railway collision in Montana
20. The oh o Supreme Coart decides the
Scott Liquor law ccnstlt atonal The Cabne
at Wash ng on besides 10 ad in prevent NJ
the landing of "assisted4 EN- grants at New
YORK.
%. A family of five persons drowned neas
Madison, Ind, by the upse.ting " a boat
Meas of the drowning b. floods of seventeen
psrsons in Nemaha county, Neb.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-20

the most prominent public men in the coun-
try. William Writ Sykes, a well-known au-
thor.
"A. Count of Chambord, head of the royal
house of France
rs. Walter f. Pool, member of Congress
from North Carolina.
%. +. NJ. Pease, Ex-Governor of Texas
SEPTEMBER.
=. jackson Downer, ex-Associate Justice
of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. NJ. E..
Cults, member of Congress from Iowa.
3. Ivan Tourganief, the famous Russian
novelist.
4. Marwood, England's professional hang
man.
Z. Mrs. Julia P. Smith, novelist, at Hart
ford, CT.
Q. Col. David p. Holloway, prominent In
diana politician. Sir Harry Maxse. Governor
General of Newfoundland
10. Hugh Law, Lord Chancellor of Ire
land.
IL. Henri Conscience. noted Belgian nov
elist. Admiral Pierre, noted French naval
officer.
IL. Hugh j. Hastings, noted New York ed
itor. Gen. I. s. Faantleroy, former United
States army officer. Thomas Green David
son, ex-member of Congress from louisiana
Pe,lis Nanny, of Moline H., inventor of the
Nanny reaper. Charles j. Foster, New
York journalist.
ID. Sir Richard Collinson, of the British
navy. George H. Bangs, Superintendent of
Pinkerton's Detective Agency.
a. Victor lie Franc, Life Senator of
France.
IL. Junius Brutus Booth, the actor.
%. DR.. E. F. Hatfield, eminent Presbyteri-
an divine.
20. Col George Knapp, senior proprietor
of the st. Louis Republican,.
g. Diana Colphus, of London, Canada,
aged lis years.
OCTOBER.
2. Judge Kidder, of the Dakota Supreme
Court.
3. Rear Admiral Sands, of the navy.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-06-22

hat which IS 20 years old. The Emperor
must look good deal like an editor.
New York has lady barber who shaves
with string. 1t must be mighty pleasant
sensation and we suppose that there arc lots
OF men who would pay Is cents TO have a
pretty woman draw soaped string all over
their countenances but it must be pretty ex-
pensivc to have to step across the street every
time and pay an oily handed artist of the
male sex another 10 cents to complete the
job.
What Makes the Sun Hot?" is the head
ing OF an article in the New York 1,iJune.
wei, were blessed if we can sec how it can
help being so this weather.-Bostoa Post.
In preserving meat, it is first sailed and
then smoked but the young man of the per
llod who would preserve his maniness thinks
he must reverse the process, and the smoking
Is made to prcccdc the unfreshening.
TON transcript.
Tue Apache way Of Furnishing scduccr is
to tic lariats to his ankles and wrists and pull
him to pieces with horses. In civilized com
munitics the fashionable way is TO raise the
hands in holy horror at the girl and scnd.a
nice present when the man marrics somebody
else. Phtdlelphjd Nc,rs,
A lively scramble occurred in Chicago
newspaper office last week. Somebody stole
the pastc-pot aud shears, and for time it
was feared that the regular edition would be
lost friendly contemporary however,
came 10 its rclicf.-R0chester Post E1press.
The man who sees nothing but the news
paper lis reading when lady wants his
seat in a car, is man who would be so busy
with his prayer book as to blk the contribr.
t'on-box, when it passes by in church. -Ne,c
Ori,dBN PirdyUHe.