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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-17
AsslissOR.

WYE ARE AUTHORIZED TO AN
w nounoe the name OF w. ID. Hall rs q
fndidate for reelection 10 the ONCE OF tax
gaAsaOr OF rarrant county, election frat
jnsadaY In November.
VITE ARE AUTHORIZED TO AN.
w nounce J. ]. GOodfellow for assessor OF
taxes % Tarrant county. Election nrst Tues
dAy In November, 1851
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-17

vLTE ARE TO ANNOUNCE
w w, Il. Hale M q candidate for reelec
tson 10 the office OF Constable product No.
! Ct the ensuing election.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-17
DISTRICT JUDGE.

WYE are authorized To announce JnO. n.
wv Bwayne as "A candidate for reelection
70 the ONCE OF county clerk of Tarrant cOun-
~. Election November, 1884,
NXTEARE AUTHoRIZEDT TO ANNOUNCE
wv ]. Y. Woods an candidate for the Of
nee OF County Clerk OF rarrant county. Elec-
4 on November Z.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31
Chinese Proverbs.

There seem to be very few European
proverbs which have not been paral-
leled in the Flowery Kingdom, and in
deed it makes the world appear smaller
than ever when one finds that the Chi
nese, a couple or 10000 years ago,
thought and said the same things that
our ancestors crystallized into proverbs
under such differing conditions. Mr..
Giles says of the Chinese proverbial
philosophy: Most Western proverbs,
maxims, household words, etc., are to be
found embedded therein; sometimes ex-
pressed in strictly identical terms, at
other times differing only in point of
local color. Here are a few which will
be recognized at once:
One actor does not make plar.
Out of the VOLTS lair into the tigers
mouth.
Prevention is better than cure.
Better a living dog than dead lion
As the twig is bent the trees inclined.
When the cats away the rats play
1t is the unexpected which always
happens
Oxen till the fields and rats eat the
corn.
Better be a fowls back than a bull
locks rump.
And here are a few the flavor of which
is more decidedly Chinese, though some
| of them have long been common prop
ertv:
Deal with the faults of others as
gently as with your own.
A man thinks he knows, but woman
knows better.
No medicine is as good as middling
doctor.
No needle is sharp at both ends
Straight trees are felled first.
Only imbeciles want credit for he
achievements of their ancestors
Better dog and peace than man in
war.
Don't break vase for q shy at rat.
Every one gives a shove to the tum-
bling wall.
You can't chop thing as round as
you can pare it.
He who rides tiger cannot dismount.
Politeness before force.
Don't make dumplings in a teapot.
Don't take pole-,sx to kill fowl.
Money makes llind man see.
A near neighbor IS better than q dis
tant relation.
Women share adversely better than
prosperity.
There is abundance of shrewdness and
homely wisdom in these and scores
more of Chinese proverbs and sayings
given by Mr.. Giles, and in many of the
specimens of literary style there is an
elegance and evidence of ripe culture
which indicate that fully q thousand
years ago China had attained place in
literature such as no Western nation
attained until much later. -NelC York
Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31
Ben. Butler as a Juror.

When Butler was younger he was
walking one forenoon in Court square,
Boston, when q sheriff's officer came
rushing out of the court room and seized
him, and compelled him to come into
the courthouse, where he was told that
he would have to serve on the Jury,
the panel being incomplete. This was
the old -timew way of making up the panel.
Ben. protested loudly, and informed
the Judge that he was Benjamin Frank
lin Butler, a member of the Middlesex
bar, and therefore exempt from forced
jury service" But the Judge, quite a
wag, although knowing Butler we'll, af-
fected to discredit the story and said !:
If you are lawyer, show me some
proof of what you say"
Butler had only his word for it, and
was put on the jury. The case was a
harness larceny, and Butler, availing
himself of a jurors privilege, began to
examine witnesses at interminable
length. The Court got mad but dared
not show it. Finally the jury retired,
and in the iury-room Butler stood out
for acquittal, and argued his fellow iu-
rors nearly deaf Some of them fell
asleep. Meantime the Judge outside
fairly boiled with anger at the unac-
countable delay of the jury over so petty
a case. At last, after three or four
hours delay, the jury came in. The
Judge beckoned to the foreman and said
to him: "What kept you so Internally
long?"
why" said the foreman, "that con-
founded Butler talked us almost to
| DEATH"
After the verdict was rendered the
Judge, by that time highly diverted at
Buffers ingenuity. excused him from
further service. Ben. retreating VIII.
the observation: II thought you'd get
enough of me. Detroit Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31
Three OF a Kind.

"This is Mr.. Brown, of jamestown, J
believer"
NO, l hain't. Ny name is Simon
Plunket, who be you?"
ooh, excuse me. | took you for my
friend Brown. How much you do look
like him. But did you say your name
was Plunket Why, [ knew your uncle |;
shake hands
oval, now, reckon that's queer"
said Simon; (which one was it you
knowed, Amos or Dave?"
at was Dave; why I'm very glad to
have met you. Plunket, old boy, lnany's
the time I've heard Dave speak of his
nephew ST"
"lou don't say so. Wall now, It's
strange | should have run agin you"
Perhaps can be of some use to you
if you are stranger here"
Iaas, mebbe you can tell me where
to bank. | hain't got power o money
with me, but then it's good thing to
not have much around you, you know,
in strange place"
"Ies, yes, you're right, but wouldn't
You like to make a little more to put
with it,"
oval, don't care if do, but how 2"
Come with mo, and I'll show you"
Take drink Mr. Plunket,' he said,
as they entered a saloon. Then they
went into an inner room, and he intro
duced Plunket to very particular
friend; they all sat down to a card
table and took hand. Plunket be-
came very much excited, and was sure
he could make good deal of money.
One of them bet heavily on his hand,
the other doubled it,
Plunket smiled benignly, and said ::
NOW, keep cool, gentlemen, keep cool
got real good hand, and I'm just
goin' to do something with it; don't get
excited now,' and he reached into his
pocket and took out an immense old
fashioned wallet, which was exceedingly
fat, he opened it and removed huge
something wrapped in newspaper He
proceeded to slowly unfold it. The two
sharpers looked eagerly on, almost
breathless with expectation; but paper
after paper was laid aside, and still
there seemed to be nothing but paper.
Finally small tin box was brought to
light, about the size of thimble. What
possibly could such a small box con-
tain of any value? A priceless gem
perhaps. Their mouths fairly watered.
The cover was lifted, displaying small
silver coin.
1--WE been keepin' it for luck" re-
marked Plunket, taking it out. Say,
kin you change a Canada fve-cent
piece ?"-Carl PretzefS Weekly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31

One night q party of New York
Legislators arose from the green
covered table with empty pockets and
craven stomachs. 1t was too late to
get anything to cat at their respective
hotels, SO they adjourned to we'll
known restaurant and enjoyed a hearty
repast.
"How are you going to liquidate?"
asked one of the party, picking his
teeth retlectively.
''That's what I've been thinking Of"
said another, who halls from the land of
bards, saints and statesmen, "and l
want you to stand by me in what I'm
going to do"
The waiter was RING for and to him
the Celt explained thus:
Boss. we got into little difficulty
here. Each one of us insists ON paying
the bill, and, as we are all pretty flush,
neither one will give way. Now, then,
to settle it, propose that we blindfold
YOU, and that the first man you catch
pays the score. 1t will be worth q
couple of dollars to You"
The darkey grinningly consented
they blindfolded him with his own
apron, and he started with outstretched
hands TO capture his man. After tum
bling over everything in the room and
sustaining several severe bruises he re
moved the bindfold and found himself
the only occupant of the room The
festive feasters had slid ont as soon as
the apron had been tied on.
1t will not take away any from the
joke to say that the bill was settled ant
nm explanation given the next morning
Men York Star
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31
In the Line Kiln Club,

The Chairman as The Committee on
Applications arose and said he desired
to make a statement. Two days pre-
vious to the meeting his committee had
decided favorably upon batch of thir-
teen applications, and he had tied up
the letters with a piece of rope and
placed them in his bootleg for safe
keeping
"An' dey am now missin'?" asked the
President.
"Yes, sah | reckon dat at de time I
was run ober by milk sleigh an had
two ribs splintered dose applicashuns
mus ha' bin lost in de snow"
"Brudder Juneberry Gosport, no
mans ribs mus be allowed to interfere
wild de regular bizness of dis club. Thir-
teen people anxsals o iine to us am
delayed an d sapfo ntel bekase you
stopped in de midllc Of de road to h'ar
de ban play an wa RIM ober by spot
ted milk hess an left fur dead. In de
;ucher all papers belongin' to dis club
mus be l,i It de hall, an kin only be
removed / Use of fab Detroit Free
Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31
Why the ROad.Bed Was so Smooth

YES" said the editor, as he stood
with the superintendent of the road on
the rear platform of the last car on the
train, yes, you have fine track and a
smooth road bed
Eyes" replied the gratifed superin-
tendent, Il have no hesitation in saying
that our srack is one OF the best, and
the road-bed one OF the smoothest ever
made"
"The smoothest road bed ever saw"
said the editor, enthusiastically.
do you know how the road bed hap
pens to be SO event." queried the su-
perintendent
al suppose because you ordered it to
be so constructed"
"Well, not exactly that. The super
intendent of construction was once an
actor"
what had that to do with it?"
"Why, he took extra pains to make
it smooth so that the walking would be
good for transforming dramatic com
panies when they should have occasion
to use the track"
ooh, l see, SomeruiUe Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31
The Yall1e Of Shade Trees.

That our ancestors emanated from
the shades of tree land is one of the
few points on which Moses and Darwin
agree, and it seems hardly probable
that the descendants of a forest race
should be damaged by a little tree
shade, especially where that shade is
confined to the six warmest months in
the year. After October, when sun
shine becomes preferable to shade,
trees do not obstruct the rays of the
sun. They merely moderate its sum-
mer glare, and at noon offer the best
possible refuge from the brooding heat.
No human continuance can rival the
anti-caloric arrangements of leafy
canopy-free access to all the winds of
heaven, and roof impervious not only
to the direct light of the suns rays, but
also to their warmth, which is felt
through q single roof as plainly as
through a himsy sunshade. But o
shade tree, with its hundred strata of
notwithstanding leaves, interposes an
etfectual barrier to the hottest sun
and, moreover, plants have direct re-
frigerating influence, analogous to that
of animal bodies in generating warmth.
Even under the blazing sun the Juice
of oranges, watermelons, apples, ETC.,
is from ten to fifteen degrees colder
than that of stagnant water, and on
cloudy summer days the air of tree
less district is considerably warmer
than the atmosphere of shady forest
ON shady days.-Dr. Felir Oslcald, la
LippincotfS Magazine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31
illegible Prescriptions.

According to Philadelphia paper, a
well-known pharmacist Of that city re-
Gently studied for week q prescrip-
ton that had been handed TO him, and
finally had to give it up The same
paper SAYS there are several we'll
known physicians in that city whose
handwriting is SO miserably bad that
druggists tread to have their prescrip-
TONS handed over the counter, and
only from experience and by careful
study are the formulas of many others
decipheyed So important is this mat
ter Of handwriting IN prescriptions, and
so numerous were the sins of this kind,
that the County Medical Society was
obliged to publish the following "hint"
for the purpose of preventing the oc-
currcnce of mistakes: Physicians
should write their prescriptions care
fully and legibly, making use of good
paper, and. whenever possible, of pen
and ink. When obliged to write with
pencil, they should take the precau.
ton to fold the prescription twice, 50
as to prevent its being defaced."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31
A HOspitaI for Sick Plants.

Tommy, go up to Mrs.-'s this
afternoon and get those azaleas. She
was III this morning, and said that
they're sick again
This order was given by wcllknown
florist yesterday to one of the men who
was at work in the greenhouse attached
to the store. "You didn't know we
kept hospital and boarding house for
plants did you?" he continued with q
smile and addressing customer. well,
we do, and that part of the business has
grown considerably during the last
year or So What do mean by hospit-
al and clearinghouse? Why, that
people send their plants here to be
taken care of when they begin to die or
wither, or to be kept for them while
they are away from home in the sum-
mer. No, not when they begin to die
when the plants"
Here is what we call our hospital
book 1t has a list of all the plants
that are sent here to be doctored into
health again. See this entry: March
4, received Of Mrs. six white-violet
plants; condition very bad; returned in
good order and bloom, March 81 : and
this: March 9, received of Miss box
of twenty young Jacks -that means
Gen. Jacqueminot rose bushes con
dition bad; returned seventeen plants
in perfect health, April 2; three plants
died, and so on, at the rate of about
three entries a week during the spring,
and seven or eight in the winter season.
"The boarding list, as we call this
book, is n record of plants sent to us to
take care of during the summer, and il
will soon begin to be long one. AT
present there are only about dozen
boarders in the house. most of them
belonging to people who have gone to
Europe or to Florida. No. | can't show
them to you for we keep them at our
nursery, just out of the city limits"
Further inquiries eliciicl the inform
alton that the rates of skilled medical
attendance" in the floral hospital and
for both "board and 10 ~e9" in the
floral boarding house wcr. very moder-
ate and within the reach of plants in
the most moderate circumstances.
"For, you see,' said the florist, nearly
all our patients and boarders have been
purchased from us before they were
taken sick or come to hoard, and We
make the rates just as low as we can
-Philddelphid Record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31
Keening a Carriage.

One of the petty worries OF fashiona-
BILE life is the administrative parapher-
MALTA connected with keeping a
carriage" The bother of the horses
falling periodically i'll, each time ON the
very day you most especially wanted
them; the anxiety of damaging the mar
ket value of the beasts by late hours in
the cold and wet; the high jinks of an
Incorporate or dishonest soachman ire
commended to you doubtless as an Al
in the coachman world); the mysterious
and expensive ways of forage contract
ors, veterinary surgeons, and livery
tailors, all make up a sum total of
botheration and annoyance which hun
dreds of people have found quite past
endurance. This has led many gentle
men of average means to buy their
own vehicles and have IL en- horsed and
attended to at livery stables The ami
mails are guaranteed to be always in
good health and at hand, the men like
wise; and the yearly cost can well be,
for Obvious reasons. much under that
| of amateur housekeeping, and yet yield
| a good profit to the stable-keeper.
| What Is, however, wanted, III order to
| let the putile have tatr trlal OF TINS
harrassing and more economical way of
keeping carriage is for large livery
| establishments o be built in the various
centers Of fashion, especially designed
for the particular work required The
experiment, we hear, is being tried in
Liverpool on this scale by well-known
horse dealer of that town. He has
erected building for the purpose. 1t
is situated in the Seton Park District
the Belgrayia of Liverpool The floor
space of the structure covers over
1000 square yards. The carriages are
taken up ON a lift to the first floor,
and the conveniences for doing so are
such that the vehicles will keep their
smart newness much longer than they
possibly could in any ordinary private
town coach house.-Lo1ldoll Builder.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31
SUGGESTIONS OF VALUE.
NEVER let tea boil.


For rough hands use lemon Juice.
STRONG I've cleans tainted pork bar
rels.
TEPID milk and water clean oil cloth
without soap.
A HOT shovel held over furniture re-
moves white spots.
TURPENTTNE applied to cut is a pre-
tentative of lock- jaw.
SPRINKLE sassafras bark among dried
fruit to keep out worms.
OIL stains on carpets, if action is
taken Mt once upon the oil being spilled,
may be removed by scattering corn
meal upon them. The meal will absorb
the oil. Also the application of hot
iron through heavy sheet of blotting
paper will have like effect.
A USEFUL and even tasteful cover for
the marble slab of the sideboard is made
of strip of canton flannel Just the
width of the slab. 1t should be long
enough to hang over at the ends with
white or colored ball fringe, and a row
of Kate Greenaway figures may be out
lined at each end Line the flannel
with fine white cotton cloth, or with
Turkey-red cotton.
The broad and sometimes very I'm.
slightly looking window sills of the base
ment windows can be greatly improved
by being covered with the dark, double
faced canton-fannel Tack it on with
very small tacks. First cut the flannel
to tit the window sill, and tack the side
next to the window on the under side
OF the flannel, and then turn it over so
as to entirely conceal the tacks. It
must be put on very smoothly, and it
will give comfortable aspect to TN
otherwise barren-looking room.
To CLEAN PAPERED WALLs.-Cut
the crust off of stale bread very thick,
and rub the walls carefully from top to
bottom, in a straight line, using fresh
piece of bread as soon as it looks much
solled. Wall paper is cheaper than it
used to be. You can get fair quality
OF paper in exceeding pretty patterns
for % cents roll. The American
papers measure eight yards to roll.
The English rolls contain twelve yards,
and are about an inch and a half wider
than the American, so that if one fancies
patterns or colors most in the English
papers, it is just as economical to buy
them, although the cost of each roll is
q little more than that asked for those
manufactured in our own country.
USE BoRAX IN WAsHING.-In en-
ploying a common, cheap, but clean
soap, often put less than level tea
spoonful Of powdered borax into the
bottom of my tub, pouring hot water
on it, and then cooling to the proper
degree. This borax makes the wash
ing more easy, and is good for the
hands, healing them when chapped, and
leaving them in good condition after
washing. Whatever good soap you
use, it IS not necessary to boil the
clothes, but this process helps in most
cases, especially if the clothes are we'll
stirred about the boiler. 1t is not best
to leave them actually boiling many
as this will turn them yellow.
The whole washing may be done with
out warm water, If desired, but more
or stronger soap must be used, and the
labor is harder. We want to loosen the
dirt between the fibres of the cloth as
easily as possible, and then to rinse it
all away. This is the philosophy of
making soiled clothes clean.-Ameri-
can Agrjctdtari'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31
James Msaiss! Institute
Continued from last rrcet)
How Watch Cases are Made.

In buying silver watch case great care
should be taken to secure one that is solid
silver throughout. The cap Of most cheap
silver cases is made of composition known
as albata, which is very poor substitute
for silver as it turns black in shsrt time.
The backs Of such cases are made much
thinner than those of an all silver case,
being robbed in order to make the cap
thicker and get in as much as possible Of
the cheap metal. Another important point
inasilyer case is the joints or hinges, which
should be made Of gold Those OF most
cheap cases are made Of silver, which is
not a suitable metal for that purpose In
brief period it warps, bends and spreads
apart, allowing the backs to become loose
upon the case and admitting the dust and
dirt that accumulate in the pocket The
Keystone SilverWatch Gases are only made
with silver caps and gold joints.
ST LOUIS Mo- Feb L. Iss3
In long and varied IpeTiepce handling Watches
cannot bat acknowledge and give that
the Keystone Solid Silver Watch Cases lie best
made 70 our knowledge Having no soldering they ~.
be they heated for soldering and have more
resisting power against pressure than other
N the market AtERMOD JACcARD JEWELKY Co
Send esnt stamp Esytons Watch Factories. Phs-
oepha, Pa, for handsome Illustrated phIst shon=
James Boss Aad ksyssszs ns,sh Cases made
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31
'CH!CAGo,
MILWUAKEE
AND ST:PAuL:

1t owns and operates over 1890 miles Of road in
Northern Illinois, Wisconsin. Minnesota, Iowa.
and Dakota; and as its main lines branches and
connections reach all the great business centers
OF the Northwest and Far West. Ii naturally
answers the description Of Short Line, and Best
Route between
Chicago. Milwaukee, ST. PauIand MINI
neapoiis.
Chicago. Milwaukee. Portage, La
Crosse and Winona.
ShtcagO. Milwaukee,, Ortonyille, Aber-
deem and Glendale.
'hica%o, milwaukee,, Eau Claire and
Chicago, Milwaukee,, Wausauand vIer-
rfti.
Chicago, milwaukee,. Beaver Dam,
Fond du Lac and Oshkosh.
Chicago. milwaukee,, Wauk csha and
OconomoWoc.
Chicago. milwaukee,, Madison and
Prairie du CHEN.
Chicago. milwaukee,, OWatonna. Nam
kato and FarfbauIt.
Chicago, BeIoit. GAINESVILLE and Miner
al Point.
Chicago, EIain. Rockford and pu-
buque.
Chicago. Clinton. Rock Island. Cedar
Rapids and Eama.
Chicago, Des MoInes, Council RIuGs
and Omaha.
Chicago, Canton. sioux city, sioux
Falls and Nan,<ton.
Chicago. milwaukee,. Albert Lee and
Southern Minnesota Points.
Chicago, MilySauhee, Mason city, Mitch
ell and Chamberlain.
Rock Island. Dubuque, 81. Paul and
minneapolis.
Davenport, Calmar. ~. Paul and Min
neapolis.
milwaukee,. Racine. BeIoit, Freeport
and Rock Island.
Mitchell, Wolsey. Ashton and aberdeen.
dim River Valley Lincl
Pullman Sieepers and the Finest Di1fnu Cars IN
me World are run on the main lines of the Chi
CAG0, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAfLWAK and every
attention Is paid to passengers by courteous en-
ployes Of the Company.
; 5. MERRILL, A. V. IL. CARPENTER
General Manager Gen. Pass. Agent.
). Il. CLARK. GEO. II. HEAFFORD.
General Supt. Asst Gen. Pass Agt.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31

5. S. MERRILL, .V.U. CARPENTER.
Gehorai Manager Gen. Pass. Agent.
). T. CLARK. GEO II, HEAFFoRD,
General Sup't. Asst GEN Pass. AIT.
44y1
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31
Railroads.
nHnnm The use of the term
NHHtJItt "Short Line in con-
NHun nection with the corpo-
UuUHI rate name of a great
line e: !: !: ~: I: ): J; +: !:

aecommodations-al of which are furnished by
the greatest railway in America
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31

Pullman Sieepers and the Finest Dining Cars IN
the 0orid are run on the main lines Of the Chi
CA60 MILWAUKEE 6 ST. PAUL RAfLWAY, and every
attention Is paid to passengers by courteous en-
ployes Of the Company.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-31

sold prices
everybody Call and them Highest paid for Country Produce