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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-09
How a Man Walks.

One OF the most remarkable things
about mans walk is the diagonal
movement which characterizes it. The
reader may imagine the hands and feet
to form the four corners of paralfelo-
gram, and the diagonal limbs are OF
course the right arm and left leg and
tae left am and right leg BY "diago-
nal movement we therefore intend to
convey the fact that the diagonal limbs
during locomotion always swing in the
same direction. A soldier on parade
keeps his arms motionless by his side and
on no account must they be allowed to
vibrate. This is not what he would nat
urally do if left to himself.
Watch any one person out of the hun
dreds walking along the streets, and il
will be seen that he invariably swings
his arms as he goes along, perhaps to
an extreme degree if he be rustic, and
less SO If he be town bred. The arms
swing by tle body like couple of
ipendula, and with speed which en-
tirely depends upon the rate at which
he may be walking. The athlete,
anxious to complete the given number
Of laps in mile or a couple of miles
and outstrip his competitors, swings
his arms to and fro with quckness
which corresponds with the motion OF
his swift feet; the Businessman also
swings his arms with motion which,
if not SO quick, exactly times with the
motion of his legs; and even the idle
man about town, lounging along some
fashionable quarter, unconsciously
gives slow motion to his arms which
corresponds to his tardy legs,
Now, il the motion be even careless
ly observed, it will be found that the
right arm swings forward at the same
time as the left leg, and when the right
leg is advancing it is the left arm
which accompanies it. This is the nat
ural gait, and to convince ones self
that it is SO it's only requisite to get a
friend to walk across the room in the
opposite fashion,. e., to swing the
right arm forward when stepping out
with the right leg, and then in the
same manner, when bringing forward
the left leg, to accompany it with the
left arm. Such gait is both unnat-
sural and uncomfortable to the person
who tries it, and also ludicrous to the
observer who watches first attempt OF
the kind. The diagonal movement Of
the limbs is therefore the natural meth
cd adopted by man when walking, and
it is the first and most apparent fact
that one ascertains in studying hui
man locomotion. - Exchange.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-09
Performing Horses.

Such q treat as some OF the boys and
girls have had lately in seeing COM
papy Of trained horses which have been
on exhibition in Boston and some of the
neighboring towns! There were six
teen Of them, each knowing his name
as well as You do yours. First, they
appeared on the stage as parcel OF
children frolicking together before
school-time. At the sound Of the bell
they went TO their places on either side
Of the room, the schoolmaster taking
seat on a platform in the center.
Bucephalus, carry away my hat
and bring me q CHAIR" was the first
order given. Up marched notebook
ing animal to obey his masters COM
mand, though it was no easy matter to
hold the chair in his mouth. Another
brought the mail, lifting up the lid Of
desk with his nose 70 get at the let
tiers, while third was appointed mon
itor to see that the others behaved
themselves One more took bell be-
tween his teeth and rung it as signal
for blackboard exercises. It was a fun
ny sight to see ahorse pick up damp
sponge from the floor and, holding II
in his mouth, rub out figures on tic
board He tried several times before
all Of them were erased, but he perse-
vered until the work was thoroughly
done, though it was plain to be seen
that he did not like the taste of the
sponge.
The game Of leap-frog was one Of the
horse was placed in position, then the
others would run and jump over his
back. After this two animals, and
finally three, were placed abreast, thus
making the leap exceedingly difficult,
and some were unwilling to try. Those
who were successful were loudly APP
plauded, and they seemed as pleased az
children with the praise. coming to the
front Of the stage and bowling their
thanks to the audience. 1t seemed,
sometimes, us if they really smiled,
there was so much intelligence in their
faces. Another interesting scene was
the game of sea-saw, and the skill shown
by one horse in walking up the plank
alone until he got perfect balance was
something wonderful. The military
drill, also, delighted the children greatly.
The horses formed in two lines, moved
of. in platoons and divisions. made hol-
low squares, wheeled right OF left Is tho
officer ordered, and behaved altogether
like the best trained soldiers. II made
= pretty tableau IS they stood in . sSmi-
circle and each horse laid his head across
the neck Of his neighbor, facing the
audience. The show winds mp with =
grond mock battle, in which the dash OF
| fire ana roar Of cannon startle the spec
tator good deal more than the horses.
CongregGtionolist.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-09
How Mr.. ExbeadIc Saved His Own Life.

Many years ago, when Denver didn't
have any opera house, and the Rocky
Mountain country was terra incognita
of the world, there wandered out to the
region of Fort Benton man named
Exbeadle, who made himself unpopular
among the Shoshones by killing some
of the most prominent men whenever
he could catch them away from home.
As result ofthis course of vproce-
dure, Mr.. Exbeadle had large private
cemetery, and hostilities wore declared
by the tribe. fsIs
Mr.. Exbeadle was speculator, and
one day fortune threw in his way a lot
Of fireworks that didn't meet with a
ready sale and he purchased them, more
for his own amusement than anything
else. These he put to one side, and
didn't think of them again until one day
there was council of war in the Sho-
shone tribe, at which it was resolved to
extinguish the light Of Mr.. Exbeadle
and send him across the mysterious
river. is
They notified him that the intention
was to make him climb the golden stair
in about fifteen minutes, western time
1t looked pretty dubious fora moment,
and he didn't know exactly what to do,
not having time to consult counsel.
1t was a dark night in autumn, and
Mr.. Exbeadle feltthat the morrow would
| be of very little interest to him.
| Like an inspiration, however, came
the recollection of his fireworks, He
rose and said. s... ,..is
9 Gentlemen of the forest, you APP
parently have the bulge on me, and /
admit you are largely in the majority.
utyou do not know me. lam medicine
man from Michigan, andI can make il
mighty interesting for you If you carry
this thing too far. just say for your
own good, and more in sorrow than in
anger. II you take out my vitals and
feed them to the vultures | will linger
near you in the spirit, ana will annoy
you pretty plenty. am aware that |
have planted some of your leading men
in the cold, cold ground, but that isn't
| a marker to what | will perform when
| get out of the flesh, where won be
delayed by the inclemency of the
weather.
:. | will now proceed to show you a
few little amateur efforts of mine as a
| biNNiSiihS man iioiti away pNCh.
Mr. Exbeadle then let off new style
of sea serpent from a slight elevation.
1t was the biggest thing in the line Of
pyrotechnics that was ever turned loose
| west of the Missouri. 1t shot out into
the dark about nine feet like car load
of delrium tremens and squirmed
through the inky bosom of nightlike an
uneasy demon in his sleep. The gath
ering warriors of the tribe took one hor-
rified look at the kissing emissary and
lit out. They left all their baggage that
didn't happen to be tied to them, and
there hasn't been Shoshone Indian
seen there since
Mr. Exbeadle picked out the best
ponies belonging to the tribe, loaded ur
the rest of the fireworks and went home.
He lived many years after and became
one OF the most trusted Indian Peace
Commissioners known in western his
tory. -Nye's boomerang.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-09
For Young Readers.
A "MorrER' s" CARES.


I'm taking out my Claribel
This morning for an airing;
She has been sick so very long.
We bofe have found II wearing.
She's had the meascls and the mumpe
And all since last December.
Sides several ovvcr sicknesses
Whose names can't wcmembcr.
I've had her vnc-ci-na-ted, too,
And oh the scar it's lcavingl
But all these flngs are noffin to
The time when she was teeving. al
j sat up all night long wis her;
She grew worse fast and fasters
gave he pollyHollic, aud
Put on u mustard plaster.
She's been so patient and 90 sweet,
love 10 kiss and pet her.
Poor child, she's suffered ev'ryhngt
But now the darling's better.
Ihope the air will do her good:
Dear. don't kick OF your cover"
I've been SO anxious, no one knows
Or feels IL like movveri
-E7cdnor A. Hunter, IN HasTer's Young People
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-09

Her sister looked up into the Majors
face for second, then dropped her
brow on his shoulder and said:
20 N.Y. ss
And the Major, looking down at the
face before him, now entirely empty of
ROBUSTNESS and everything else but
tenderness, forgot all the past, placed
ms arms about the graceful figure that
rested on him, and said:
20 my" esf
And although he has been married
ten years, he never has had reason to
regret his mistake. The Hour.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-09

When Ira Phillips, Deputy Mar
shall Of Pittsboro, went to an illicit dis
tiller's house, the other day, to arrest
him, the mocnshine dropped quietly on
the floor, stretched himself at full
length, and told the officer to take away
the goods. AS the distiller weighed
800 pounds, the revenue officer was
obliged to go for help, and when he re-
turned the bird had flown. louisville
Courier Journal.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-09
-"Do YOU know the prisonerp'' ask

"Do you knowt the prisoner?" asked
a Harlem judge Of witness. "Yes,
sir, I do. / know him intimately; he and
were in bank together at the same
time" ''Ah, when was that?' was the
question Of shrewd lawyer, who was
counsel for the prisoner. "Well, as
near as l can remember, it was five
years ago, and about three o'clock in
the morning; none Of the bank officers
were present at the time" The wit
ness was speedily excused. Harlem IN.
r. J. Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-06-09

Omaha reports the cost of living
there thirty per cent. more than 10
other cities of similar size in tho region
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1883-03-03
A Corpse for a Driver.

Frank Morrow arrived in town suna.x.
night. He reports that on the 31st Of ,as,
month, while he was driving from Glad.
stone to Westbourne he met, about three
mites west OF the latter place, a team driy-
en- oy man enVeloped in buffalo coat
something in the mans appearance at
tracted his attention, and he shouted 70
hiSsl, out received no answer. Then Mr.
niofloW turned back and stopped the team.
oh shaking the driver he found him frozer
SUN, whereupon he turned the team around
ana took it to Westbourne. The dead
mans name was John Robinson. and his
parents 1--we short distance south of Glad
stone. so faras could be gathered. he had
lelt Portage la Prairie in a semi-iptoxicat.
ed condition, and as he had = ;ar of ,io,or
with him, probably INDUCED TOO freely on
the way, and fell an easy prey to the cold
wind which swept over the prairie. When
found, his fur coat was unbuttoned and
there was every indication that his death
was attributable to too much wbfskav
E''nipeg Free Press.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1883-03-03
STANDING ON IT'S BEAD.
The AcrObatic Feat of q New
York, SUsquehanna and West
ern Locomotive.

AL 2la O'Clock yesterday morning, loco
motive - Of the New York, Susquehan-
ma and Western Railroad stood in the round
house, at Marion, Jersey City. Steam
was up and everything was ready tor a
start, but the engineer and fireman had
not yet mounted into the cab. Without
warning the throttle valve blew open, and
with a snort the engine dashed down the
track. 1t passed on to the main passenger
line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and in
the natural course Of events would have
sped on through Railroad avenue and into
the company's depot at Jersey City,
would have plunged by the bumpers into
the river
At Point Of Rocks, however, the switch
tender threw the flying engine on the
freight tracks which run over the elevated
road, between Fifth and Sixth streets, 10
the Pennsylvania freight depot 1T Harsh
mus Cove. 1t wac prevented from reach
ing this point only because the rails had
U6Cu iSDiOfEb JiDit ilip IFttch lOI Inc DlI-
pose Of substituting aH iron bridge for the
wooden one over Jersey avenue. When
the locomotive reached this point ii plum
ged over the sleepers, and crashed through
the wooden span into the street below. The
locomotive was much injured, bat it is
said to be susceptible Of repair. The wood
en- bridge span was I'LL ready for removal.
The engine stood on its head, with the
rear part reclining against the trestie at
an angle of forty-fiye degrees, and in
such way that it did not interfere with
travel, the trestle having already been
showed ON the street for the substitution
of the iron span. Passers by found much
to laugh at yesterday in the singular po
sition occupied By the engine after its wild
rum Y. Sun.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1883-03-03
dimensions of Heaven.

Inc following calculation, lased on
text OF Revelation, is from the Cl,arlottes-
vile Jetersopian:
Revelation XXI, IS: And he measured
the city with reed, twelve thousands fur
longs. The length and the breath and the
highth are equal.''
Twelve Thousand -furlongs-7 ,920 900
leet, which being gcubedis is 943, ,0ss, 600. .OO0.-
ooo, ,o0o, 900, ZOO, 900 cubic feet, and half Of
which we will reserve for the Throne of
dod and the Court of Heaven, half Of the
balance for streets, and the remainder, a.
vlded by 1895, the number of cubic feet in
lhe room-sixteen feet high-wll be 30
s43, $50 100000 rooms.''
Adopting the above computation as COR
rect we have calculated that there will he
room for 125,oO0, 900, 600 900. 900 900 600
sous OF the size ofthat of the editor of the
press to crawl through the keyhole Of
Heaven at time.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1883-03-03
The Tripe-Eater.

How on earth can anybody eat tripe is 3
mystery to nine-tenths of the human tam
lily. Tripe is made from the large-wel
you all know what tripe is, without our de.
filing the columns Of pious paper by de-
scribing it. 1t is no more intended to cal
than the horns and hoofs, and persons who
eat it, do it to be eccentric. Occasto, .ally
you see a man order tripe at hotel, but he
always looks hard, as though he hated
himself and everybody else. He tries to
look as though he enjoyed it, but he does
not: Tripe is indigestible, and looks like
an india-rubber apron for a child to sit on.
When it it is picked it looks like dirty
clothes put to soak, and when it is cooked
il looks as though the cook was boiling a
dish cloth. On the table it looks like
glue, and tastes like piece of oil silk um-
brella cover. A stomach that is not lined
with corrugated iron would be turned
wrong side out by the smell of tripe. A
man eating tripe at a hotel looks like an
Arctic explorer dining on his boots, OF
| chewing pieces of frozen raw dog. You
cannot look at man eating tripe but he
Will blush, and look as though that he
wanted to apologize, and convince you
that he is taking it to tone up his system.
A woman never eats tripe. There is not
money enough in the world to hire wonl-
an to take corner Of a sheet of tripe in
her teeth and try to pull off piece. She
Wonid starVe before she would place the
section of internal rawhide between her
lips. You see man eating tripe and he
tries to cut off slug of it, and he acts as
though he hopes the knife will fail to do its
work, and when he gets it off, and puts a
piece in his mouth, he chews it with long
teeth, the way girl with an ulcpratod
tooth chews rubber gum. ANY man but a
confirmed tripe eater had rather eat the
two heads OF a snare drum, sticks and all,
than to tackle piece of buliet-proof tripe.
Those who eat tripe are men who have had
their stomachs play mean tricks on them,
and they eat tripe to get even with their
stomachs, and then they go and take a
Turkish bath, TO sweat it out of their sys-
! tenn, Tripe is superstition handed down
from former generation Of butchers, who
sold all the meat and kept the tripe for
themselves and the dogs, but dogs of the
present day will not eat tripe You throw
piece of tripe down in front of a dog, and
see if he does not put his tail between his
legs and go off and hate you. Tripe may
have value, but it is not as food. It NAV
be good to fill into 4 burglar-proof safe,
with the cement and chilled steel, or ii
might answer to use as breast plate in
time of war, or it would be good to use for
bumpers between cars, or it would make a
good face for the weight of pile driver,
but when you come to smuggle it into the
stomach you do wrong. Tripe! Bah! A
piece Of Turkish towel, cooked in axle
grease, would be pie compared with tripe.
George w. Peck.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1883-03-03
Scientific Items.

The bright comet of 1882 hat was long
such conspicuous object in the southern
sky, is no longer visible to the naked eye.
1t was seen by several observers in the
early part of the month, in the absence of
moonlight.
The discovery of a new comet near the
constellation Of Orion, which was reported
in the papers few days ago, is evidently
q mistake by some one, for it is not proba-
BILE that SO bright a comet would have es-
capped the notice of special comet-seekers
in that region of the sky for 10 days. 1t
conld not be Eucke's comet, for that comet
is faint and it has no marked train. 1t is
also late for the appearance of Eucke's
comet whenit would be brightest.
A new illustrated scientific weekly
journal, entitled Science, is about to be
published at Cambridge, Mass. A com
pany has been form ed of which DR.. Alex
ander G. Bell is president, with capital
OF So9,0O0 as its financial basis. Moses
King is publisher. The array of names of
scientific gentlemen who are to be respon-
sible for its matter and management is
certainly an imposing one, and may be
taken to mean large things for the new
enterprise
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1883-03-03
HANGED FOR HIS FIFTH
MURDER.
End of a Desperate Who had Killed
his Man i'm Texas. Arkansas. and
New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Feb. .9.-Milton
Yarberry was hanged in the"ld Jail yard
to-day for the murder of Charles Campbell
on June 21. 1882 Yarberrv was about Al
years old, tall and lean. lie had small
ill-shapeh head, keen gray eye, and a
generally repulsive appearance. lG had
been arranged 70 hang him in the EXposl-
ton building, bur Il number II citizens
protested There was large force OF
military on the grounds to preserve order.
Yarberry spent the most of his time dur
ing the last few days playing violin in
his cell, but as the hour for the hanging
took freely Of stimulants.
Yarberry was a native Of Texas, and
spent most OF his early life aat Decatur,
where he was a cowboy, rough, and gAmb-
Ter. He got into Il difficulty with freight
er, killed him, and fled to Fort smith,
Ark. There he met the notorious des-
perados, David Rudabaugh and David
Matthews, and joined them as highway
man. Near that place Yarberry shot and
killed a grover who would not submit 10
being robbed. The trio then parted. Var
berry feeing to Texarkana, and thence
travelled from one State 70 another. In
Arkansas he killed man whom he
thought was a detective, tut who proved
to ,e an inotfeuiye traveller. ana after
:" ard fed TO Dodge City, Kan Thence he
went TO Canon City, Col. where he manag~
ed variety show. got iii deDt TO every
botiy who would trust him, and then left
the town. In 1879 Yarberry came TO Los
Vegas, where he ran II dance hall for IL
time, and then moved to the line Of the
railroad, which 1T That time had not reach
ed Albuquerque. About that time Il
t1eighter was killed and robbed of several
hundred dollars near Los Vegas, and Var
berry was suspected. He next came to
Albuquerque with his pockets full of
money, and was soon aiterward appoint
ed constable of the precinct. In short
time he killed Henry Brown of Nashville,
but, through the incapacitg Of the jury,
was acquitted. Soon after his acquittal he
shot and killed Charles Campbell, for
whose death he paid the penalty of the law
to day. He was a member of the BILLY
the Kid" gang, and narrowly escaped
Iynchiug for the murder Of Campbell.
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1883-03-03
Ihe Policy of Mining Assess
ments.

we believe our Butte exchanges ar
wisely advising the Legislature of the Ter
rltory OF Montana, TO give to mining incor
porations in that quarter the power to lev,
assessments on their stock. For our part
we have always regarded the assessable.
stock system the safest in the end for the
whole body of shareholders in any mining
venture. 1t is open to abuse, we are well
aware, and has been made the means on
the Pacific Coast Of brazen robberies of the
worst possible character AS we are also
aware. However, so is the non-assess-
ment plan liable to equally great abuses,
and we know of instances of the most fla
grant frauds which have been rendered of
easy execution by that system. The prac-
tical matter for the Legislature of Montana
is to devise such legal guards against any
abuse Of the assessment power, and to pro-
vide such pains and penalties for all posi-
BILE abuses as shall make them most dam
gerous undertaking. It should be partic-
uarly prescribed that the officers and trus-
tees OF company shall not avail them
selves, (collusiyely or otherwise of their
fiduciary position, practically or in sub
stantial effect, to avoid the bona ,fde pay
ment of assessments an their own stock.
which may have been levied, while enforc-
ing payment against all other shareholders.
Unquestionably, this has been done in too
many instances, and the facility with
which it may be done has been Il bane of
the assessment PLAZA bane, however,
which may be effectually cured by proper
legal enactments defining the precise de-
gree of crlminality of such transactions,
providing punishment.therefor, and giving
to stockholders such legal right Of access to
the bookseand records, and to the under
ground works of a mini. g property as
shall place all the partners in mining en-
terprise practically on the same footing.
These are some of the provisions to be
made In any law. 4sher salutary require
ments will be found in the California stat
utes, which should be copied. Such safe
guards would strip the assessment system
of all rational objections on the part of con-
servatiye business men wishing to embark
in the business of mining.-Ne,p York
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