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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-17

While the French are marching into
China, Chinese restaurant has in
vaded Paris. Among the delicacies of
its bill of fare are desiccated eggs. Fresh
duck eggs are covered with a mixture
of cinders. I've soda, powdered hcorice,
lie in oil and are left for several months
until their yolks become first green
and finally black. The darker the yolk
the greater the delicacy. The birds
nests from which the far-famed sogp is
made are built by species of swallow
which abounds on the coasts of Java.
Ceylon and Borneo, and practically
consists of a gelatinous substance OBJ
tanned from marine plants. The nests
are boiled either in chicken broth or in
milk with almonds. The result very
much resembles vermicelli soup, but is
more costly. The Chinese restauranter
also offers his customers smoked sharks
fins, dried cutie and sailed rats.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-17

Here y'are, now; two packages for
10 cents" yelled seedy-looking en-
velope peddler in Grand street. Here
yare, this way; two packages for 5
cents !" howled another envelope ped
dler, almost crowding his fellow-mer-
chant off the sidewalk. Women out
shopping noted the difference in price.
and soon bought ont the two-forfive-
cent man. Then both peddlers drifted
around the corner. and the one who
had sold no envelopes divided his stock
with the other. remarking, with u
chucAle: 1T works boss, pard. don't ii -
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-17
The Wonders OF the ia.

Prof II. J. Rice, employed to attend
to experiments i'll fishhatching, said
addressing u reporter: Il will show
you the proboscis of an oyster, some
thing rarely seen except by scientists
experimenting like myself. You see
in this little bowl of water something
that looks like piece of thin scale,
with fragment OF substance to it, all
the size of lady's tinger-nail; well,
that's an infant oyster, about a month
old. | will now place it under the mi
croscope, and you will then discover the
proboscis."
In a moment the professor had adj
iusted the lens. and the reporter looked.
grasped for the table. The professor
smiled. Through the tubes OF the mi
croscope the reporter gazed again, into
wide sea. wherein lay hideous mon
ster, and from It's Understandable body
there rose a great serpentine coil which
swaved hither and thither Us if search
ing for victim.
1--WE are not certain of the functions
of the proboscis yet, but think that,
like an elephants trunk, it is made Use
OF 70 catch and pass the food to the
mouth. When the oyster Is five months
old it loses its proboscis that is, it is
absorbed and becomes part Of the lips"
Il have counted the pulsations OF the
heart" said the professor, "and it ran
from thirty-five to fifty minute; that
of full-grown oyster does not beat so
fast. l will now show you its tentacles. >
Again the lens was adjusted and the
monster examined, and from its sides
stretched away out into the sea We're a
number of long arms, but without
hands or fingers, and the monster kept
stretching them out and pulling them
in
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-17
Providence Journal. !

A combination of dragging and fret
ting kills more than half the sick peo-
pie i'll the world; mans enemies can
not do him near so much damage as his
friends. The world is possessed with
the notion that when man is taken ill,
a terrible ado must be kept up, an al
tenation of nursing and fussing, while
preternaturaly wise and whispering doc
tors, sympathizing friends, fearful rela-
tives and chattering nurses add their
contributions to the wrong side, and all
because somebody is ill and needs
chiefly rest.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-17

1t is proposed to utilize the water
power at the falls of the Potomac, q
few miles above Washington, for the
purpose of lighting that city by cleo
tricity. The plan is to put n cluster Of
powerful lights upon the top of the
Washington monument, which is 400
feet high, and this will give the city a
condition of perpetual moonlight The
experiment will be interesting and valu-
able, and ought to be encouraged. The
idea of supplying motive power for all
New York by wire from Niagara falls
has often been talked about, and the
Potomac scheme, if successful, will
demonstrate its practicability.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-17
SING ON.

Sing, sing on,
Zen though no listener
Softly doth chide thee,
Sweetly doth praise.
Sing, sing on,
For thy glad music
Thrills through the azure,
BriShtens the days.
Some heart DER weary,
Some soul benighted,
Mayhap the singing
Gently hath drawn
Out of the darkness,
Into the sunlight;
Sweetly to cheer her
Sing, sing on.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-17

A Willimantic factory girl wrote her
name and address and desire to be
married in nice little note, which she
placed inside the band of the hat she
had Just finished. Her father bought
the hat On his way home that even
ing he paused at house which they
were plastering and obtained slender
and supple lath. The girl will here.
after make hats plain.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-01-17

A kina husband and numerous
father is the epitaph now popular in
Utah.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03

Old Commodore Garrison the latest
millionaire caught up by rotten prac-
tice in fnancering on grand scale, is
said to have been party to the gigan-
tic steal OF which, eight years ago, Jay
Gould obtained possession of the enor-
mously valuable Missouri Pacific Rail
road, by means of the foreclosure of a
third mortgage for $4,O00,00O,-prop-
erty in the name of which $54, 0OO, 900
ofsecurities have since been put on the
market. One party of resistants to this
"snap" were induced to withdraw their
opposition, on the promise that they
should receive 81, 600, 900 of new stock
in the new company to be organized by
Commodore Garrison, for whom the
road was to be bought, ard who is
charged with having been party to the
fraud. In such operations as these and
the rumor and suspicion of them that
keeps and will keep the financial world
in suspense and solicitude until all men
like their authors have been completely
crushed by the sure grinding Of "the
mills of the. gods" and thrown out Of
business, and their places supplied by
the men they laugh at as too simple and
honest for this world. z.} -.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03

There seems to be no reason to doubt
that the Gladstone administration of tho
British government will soon be super
sed ID by one more in harmony with the
present sentiments of the people on for
eign affairs. Mr.. Gladstone realizes the
situation in which his Egyptian policy
hi plac ID hinay and will not be sur
prised at any time by vote Of want Of
confidence, which means an appeal to
the country. Mr.. Gladstone's second
administration began April Is. 1880,
and has lasted therefore, over four years.
This is a longer period than the average
ministry has held power during the
past half century. Lord Melbourne
was Prime Minister for six years and
four months; Sir Robert Peel four years
and nine months; Lord Russell, five
years; Lord Derby, ten months; Lord
Aberdeen, three years; Lord Derby,
again, one year and three months; Lord
Palmerston, six years and four months;
Lord Russell, eight months; Lord Der
~, ] third lime, two years; Disraeli, nine
months Gladstone, iyeyears; Disraeli,
assecond term, sir years, and then came
Glsdstoneis second administration. Il
.loes not now appear probable that the
sLiberal party VII triumph il the next
general eleetic,
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03

The Boston Advertiser says, as Is IN
lisputably true, that the true sources
If our wealth are not in Wall street,
but on our prairies, in the cotton fields,
in the coal mines, in the factories, in
the work shops, and in the people that
produce tangible values; but the
modest but sounder trader is curtailed
in his discounts because of the shock of
a great failure and the depression of
stocks in the metropolitan city. InAa-
tion reaches the suburban districts in
one form or another, and gambling in
Wall street means sooner or later loss
to many, who with all their conserva-
tism are unable to control the CONNER
cial tide which Gibbs and flows alike be-
yond their view and their power for di-
rection.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03

|! ID elecll1 e5l
IS Dss ssi f IN 81 9 : ssaIss
exchange Aid Ubf. "a 6 81 O63llicofhG An
fonr afs STRONG 1ildeh meils aid SStp for
him e they think he ON e made "a Accept the
leave il . the state ooflSew, York
Charles schuyler, ve.ltlny MERIDIAN. u
New York, left his fortune u Theodore ST
ouinton .4d IAala Schuyler Wellington, his
grand children, on condition that they married
each other, otherwise to the one who was will
ing to marry. II both declined to marry, the
estate was to go toa charitable institution.
Young Theodore was willing to marry his pret.
ty cousin, but she positively refused and u
earning her cwA living At service in Boston;
st. Qainton advertised 70 .sarn MiSs Halhilton's
Whereabouts, with the Intention IT voluntarily
Wellington ss# this personal and called at the
postoflce for the letter mentioned, and then
wrote him touching letter, thanking him for
his generosity Friends who know both parties
now say that it would not be strange if old MI:
Schuyler's wishes would be fulfilled
There are at present f6ndr homes for disabled
soldisrs=At Dayton, 0hid, Augusta, Me-, Eli
~aukee, Wis, aHd Hamptea, Wand the num-
Der of minated Is constantly increasing. In
1SsOthere were 1908 inmates at the four homes.
in 1881 there were 1916 In 1882 there were
STAT, and in 1888 there were 8, 626, and this in
spite of the large number of deaths The
homes are all crowded, and cannot accommodate
those who apply for admission The bill tor
house, nppropriates $250, 600 for the erection
Of q home and requires that the building be
commenced within the next sk months. It d. :
reefs the board Of managers of soldiers homes
to report upon the ACCESSIBILITY of establishing .
ton in Michigan.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03
EoreiQn Flashes.

sensational suicide, which parallels to-
some extent that of Joseph w. Burnham in
New York, occurred in London. The victim
was Frank Willis Burge an active and hitherto
successful broker, and one Of the best known
members of the London stock exchange.
Mr.. Henry Kose,> well-known journalist OF
Hill, England, is engagedin the preparation Of
b new work on political economy, based on the
theories Of land reform promulgated by Henry
George, and will also write complete life of the
refOrmer.
The Spanish cabinet yesterday, King Alfonso
presiding, decided that two officers found gull
ty of desertion at Santa Colarno de Farnes be
shot Immediately. The government urged that
this severity was necessary to preserve disci-
pine In thearmy.
In the Emo case at Quebec Mr.. Roberts, the
cashier Of the Second National bank, was the
principal witness, and gave the precise figures
of Eno's defalcation at $685. 900, and Ct the
sums contributed to relieve the bank from it
as S3,04O,O0o, Of which Eno's father paid 3d.
London dispatch: THE first death here by
cholera occurred June 4, but was kept secret
Over fifty deaths have thus far occurred. Four
teen fresh cases of cholera were reported re-
Gently One patient died The gravity of the
SYMPTOMS is decreasing. There have been fifty
three cases of cholera SO far, of which twenty
two resulted fatally.
Russian advances in the far east are again
attracting much attention in diplomatic circles.
1t Is believed in England that Russia, being
enaboldened by the success of France in Ton
quin, is deliberately attempting to pick quar-
rel with China in the expectation Of adding to
Russian territory in Asia Frequent collisions
have occurred on the Russo-C Chinese frontier,
and there are other indications of an approach
of serious hostilities.
There was lively discussion Of Germany's
colonial policy in the reichstag in connection
with the consideration of the proposed treaty
of commerce with Corea, and the bill providing
for the subvention of colonial steamship lines.
Conservatives and National Liberals spoke in
advocacy of the subsidy scheme The Clerical
and New Liberals urged an examination of the
details Of the measure before making the bill q
law. Bismarck resented the reproach which
the delay necessary for such examination would
imply. He expressed regret that a portion of
the house did not place necessary confidence in
him
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03

Massachusetts trial is being had
OF newly-invented burglar proof, self
registering ballot boxes for popular use.
The patented articles are said to be es-
pecially secure against ballot-stufing
and other devices by which a count is
made to vary from the number of hon
est ballots. The trouble in Massachu-
sets is not altogether ballot stuf6ng,
but from efforts Of capitalists and en-
ployers of labors to control votes.
Thirty or forty years ago. The state
furnished envelopes in which voters
could place their ballots so that nobody
could know the ticket voted, but ways
were found to render the scheme prac-
tical nullity, and was abandoned. But
the subject generally is still of interest in
that state.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03
Crimes and Criminals,

Aman giving the name OF E. r. Marshall
was arrested in Milwaukee while attempting to
pass ESQ Bank of England note at the Mer-
camille Exchange bank.
Lewis Keckley Of Oregon suspect of setting
3re to his house, and burning skeleton in
tending to represent his own remains, so his
wife could recover his life insurance, who
was arrested at Ashland, feigned to be crazy.
He WAS taken by the Sheriff back to Hills
boro
As Kate Murphy was walking along the side
walk in Cincinnati some boy threw lighted
firecracker into her pocket The firecracker
exploded and ignited her clothing Before
the flames were put out she was seriously
burned about her lower limbs and hips. She
cannot i've
At the house of James Howard, at Pickett's
Creek, Ky, billiard johnson knocked at the
door and when Howard looked out, shot him
dead johnson then searched the house for
Joseph Neal and found him concealeded be-
hind the stove. They both fired at once, and
both fell dead without speaking. The trouble
was about a notorious woman.
Adolph Dills, German farmer living in
Creek township, Woodbury. county, Iowa, Sc
duced the thirteen year-old daughter of a
neighbor named Greap. The girl becoming
enceinte, Dills endeavored to have her mar
led to his twelve-year-olds son. Failing in this,
he took the girl and left; also taking his boy
along. Warrants have been sworn out and Off
GERS will attempt to capture the runaways, but
there is, as yet, no clew to their whereabouts.
Dills is an old resident and has grown-up
family.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03
The Angels Of Silence.

After such twaddle as this it is COM
fort to turn to these fair angels of 81
lence, the Nuns of st. Dominic. Would
you believe..that within an hours ride
of New York fifty women have taken an
eternal vow Of silence and of perpetual
seclusion? Never again (since last
Thursday will an outsider be permitted
to enter the clustered monastery at
Newark, NJ. The contemplative nuns
of the Order of St. Dominic we're insti-
tuted at Prouville, in France, about the
year 1906. They have ever kept up
their organization, supporting them
selves by their needle, lace and ilumi-
mating work, for which they are justly
celebrated. ss sss 8 5.&s: s.. .ss. !
f. They make ecclesiastical vestments
and altar cloths only, now, and no
money is solicited from the outer
world. The perpetual alteration Of our
Lord in the blessed sacrament goes on
day and night, two nuns being always
found kneeing before the sacred niche.
There seems to be some meaning in
cher sacrifice" il this case, although it
is . fearful vow to take, and one which
we can imagine but few who would be
able to. keep. It is 8 holy life, and they
are great fayorites with their church.
More useful and more desirable IL the
life Of the Sister of Charity, however
who goes about dong good ono would
guImlee.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03
Crime Lightly Punished

The jury in the Mount Pulaski murder case
returned a verdict of guilty against J. Fl. Hall
and fixed the punishment at penitentiary for
life. William Ferris and Mrs. Bell Hall were
acquitted The crime, one of the most barbaric
of its class on record, was committed in August,
1882. On the Goth of that month the bodies of
Charles McMehon, a wealthy bachelor farmer,
Robert Matheny, were found on Mr.: McMahon's
farm few miles east of Mount Pulaski, hay
ing been dead several days. McMahon's head
was battered almost beyond recognition, and
the heads of the others had been nearly severed
from their bodies Matheny was from Hazel
Dell, Wis. McMahon was murdered for his
money, and his men presumably because they
interfered to save him. The two Barber
brothers, the desperadoes who were lynched
in Iowa in June, 1888, were suspected Of COM
plicity in the Mount Pulaski murder
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03
Punishment of q Brute.

Allen Worth, dissolute man aged thirty
years, living at Baraboo, married pretty but
weak minded girl of seventeen years, named
Ableman, about three weeks ago. and immedi-
ately started on wedding trip down the North
western road to Howard prostituting his bride
for pay to railway men along the line. He re-
taken from his home by an indignant mob of
masked men, making most desperate resist
ance, and treated to coat of tar and feathers,
his head and feet alone being spared. He was
then hunted from the town like wild beast,
and, stark naked, sought refuge in the wild bluffs
hpe ar ereated intense ns eo@
but the citizens generally of Baraboo justify
the act Both Worth and wife are we'll con-
nected, the latter being niece Of Col Able
man, now deceased, for whom Ableman's
Station was named
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03
General News Items,

The corner stone of the Batholdi pedestal
will be laid Aug. l.
Billings h Morrison, Appleton, Wis, paper
makers, assigned.
The partially burned Union Depot at St
Paul is to be rebuilt and gereatly enlarged
Chicago's directory this year shows an in
crease Of ID 500 names, or 49, 700 in population.
W: D. Hill was renominated for congress by
the Democrats of the Sixth district of Ohio.
Pauline Goode, Jewess of Easton, Pa, mar
ried coal black negro, giving upher family
and friends. -
At the Episcopal conference Of Nebraska,
Rev. DR.. Potter Of Geneva, N. Y, was elected
bishop of this diocese, vice Bishop Clarksorl,
deceased - -
Some Of Jim Keene's friends in Wall street
say he is rapidly recovering from his reverses
By bearing the market, and that within a1nonth
past he has in that way made 9 clear million
The efficiency Of the American life.saying
service is BEST shown by . comparison with the
British institution for that purpose Last year
1883, the British saved only 725 lives; while
16 imperiled # IA 81 u.
+ An official count of the state election has just
bean made. For congress, B. Hermann, Re-
publican, has q, 600, and John Noyes, Demo-
ua4 q, 652; Herrmann's majority, 2, O47. The
wonnan's suffrage amendment received 11,223
votess against i, 2, Ia 3s5 & !.
a private letter from South Dakota states
that concerted effort is being made to push
Judge Edgerton q the candidate OF united
%I,n l..
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03
Camping out" under favorable con-
ditions. is n comnarative7v chean form

Camping out" under favorable con-
ditions, is comparatively cheap form
of summer recreation, and is also pleas
ant and healthful. It is fast supersid-
ing residence for u longer or shorter
period at the fashionable and expensive
summer resorts, where wealthy people
and those who would like to be thought
such, do most congregate, and spend
their time in ostentatious exhibitions of
themselves and in frivolous entertain
ments. Those who camp out can Sc
lect their own company, their own styles
of dress, and recreations suited to their
own ideas of 'healthful recreation and
social entertainment, while the numer-
GUS inventions and conveniences in the
way Of tents, lodging, food, cook
ing boating, ETC., make camping out" q
source of comfort and pleasure almost
unknown in-former years.
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03
A Recreant Timber Agent.

Madison Special: Col. George g. Henry of
Chippewa Falls has been indicated by the Uni
ted States grand jury of bribery for unauthor-
atively taking, while acting as United States
timber agent, 81, 600 from Derig & Averill, and
ex-senator Thomas Scott Of Merrill, in settle
ment of trespass cases against the latter, and
afterward failing to turn the mouey over to
the government He has been considered an
exceedingly efficient official, and stands high
with the chief Of his department al Washington
Three years ago his name was prominently be-
fore the public for the extreme zealousness
with which he prosecuted trespass against
Congressman Price of Black River Falls. He
is said to have also received $213 from Isaac
Staples of Saltwater, and various sums from
other parties. His trial will take place at the
next term Of court ~
The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-07-03
Personal News Notes,

Allan Pinkerton, the founder of the Pinker-
ton detective system, is lying at the point of
death.
E. K Hindman, one of the most prominent
railroad men of Pennsylvania died at Pittsburg
Of consumption.
Gen. Horace @. Lee, late postmaster, colonel
of the Twenty seventh Massachusetts regiment
in the war, and mustered out as brevet briga-
der general, died in Springfield recently:
Walter Wilson, who left Montreal suddenly
on the eve of his wedding and who has since
been sojourning in New York, returned, and
the marriage will be celebrated privately.
The sultan has sent present of a valuable
carpet and other costly gifts to Mr.. s. Hewitt,
who during his visit in Turkey last winter, was
presented to the sultans by Mr.. Wallace, the
American minister
Hon. s. s. Caldwell, ice-president of the
United States National bank of Omaha, and
ex-mayor of that city, died there, aged fifty.
He was prominent in nearly every public en-
terprise and leaves an estate of $500, 900.
Miss Mary Randolph, eldest daughter of the
late Thomas J. Randolph, and greatgrand-
daughter of Thomas Jefferson, died at Edge
Hill, the family residence in 'Albemarle coun-
w. Vd.3 AOCouI1y. Ou0 Wd6 ~ 1mOuLlCcuO.
Judge John Kelley of Pennsylvania has left
Washington for Philadelphia to prepare for a
voyage to Europe. He will sail from New
York for Southampton Wednesday, the Sd, from
which point he will travel overland to Zurich,
via London and Paris.
Mrs. Blaine and Miss Hattie Blaine went to
Bar Harbor last week to arrange their cottage
there for occupancy during July. The cottage
is the one Senator Hale has occupied for sew
eral years, but which on account of his new
residence at Ellsworth he will not need this
summer.
Charles Melz bartender in Henry Dow's sa-
loon in Albany, N. Y, has just come into pos
session of 100000 in hundred acres of land
and an ancestral mansion in Saxony. He is
the son of Baron Sterdendorf, and fed to this
country after killing Lieut. Wertzen.- He ex-
poets Bismarck will condone his crime.
Gen. and Mrs. Sheridan are going to Chicago
to be present at the inauguration Of the new
driving park, of which he was one of the or
iginators, and is still the president They ex-
Pect to remain in Chicago week or 80. Later,
in July, Mrs. Sheriden and the children will
60 to Manchester, Mass, for the summer.