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The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-11

Max Waterman returned last evening
from a trip to Deep creek. -
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-11

cborlev Mix, formerly of Barker, will
.aa charge of the new hotel and saloon
At stanford.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-11

r, A. Wall of Otter creek arrived in
the city yesterday. He informs us that
he has concluded to move his saw mill
to Neihart, the teams being now en-
nute to that camp.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-11

~ Bower and Chas. r. Lee, of
-Jnford, arrived in the city last even
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-11

W Fl. Hunts child showed a slight
;nnrovement last evening, and faint
homes for it's recovery are now entertain
nJ We trust they are well founded.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1884-06-11

Major Lincoln, Indian agent at Fort
Belknap, arrived in the city last even
ing.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24

his invitation, dryly remarked that the
meeting apparently was intended to
celebrate not the memory OF Jefferson,
but the glory of Calhoun and his pet
hobby of notification. I'D like" he
added, chuckling, "to send broadside
into him." After moments thought.
laying down his pipe, he wrote a coul-
teous note of refusal, and begged leave,
according to custom, to send toast
1t was, "rhe Federal Union. 1t must
and shall be preserved"
The toast having been sent by the
President, could not be Ignored. 1t
was read. and the shouts OF applause
with which it was received, and OF
laughter from those who appreciated
the Presidents grim joke, fixed it in
the memory of the public, by whom 1T
was made household word, until the
civil war gave it new and terrible sig
nificance. Youths Companion.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24
HUMOR.
rrum the Norristown Herald

L.
A YOUNG colored man of Illinois is
said to have made fortune OF Sl5O,O09
within year. We suspect he served
few months as porter on Pullman
palace car.
AN exchange says "saw-dust is now
used medically" Saw-dust has been
long used to fatten calves and no
doubt it possesses many other virtues
not yet discovered.
A SOCIETY" item says: "very few
ladies play upon the BANJO" And
after hearing one of them play upon
the instrument, we deeply regret that
the number is not 100 per cent. less.
THE newspaper foreman got mar
riage notice among lot of items headed
Horrors of the Year." and when the
editor learned that the groom's income
was only 81 a week, he said it had better
remain under that head.
A New YORK woman poured soap
suds in her husbands boots, broke his
pipe. pawned his watch, and raised
lump on his head with a poker, without
causing him to invoke the assistance
of the law. But when she pared her
corns with his best razor he went
right off and applied for divorce. He
said the line must be drawn somewhere.
LONDON paper says: "The Princess
of Wales has won two millinery We
tories this year" We suspect she
asked her husband for GlO for new
poke bonnet, gorgeously trimmed, and
f6 for a sealskin turban, with feather
yard long, and he had to fork over
the cash-though where he got the
money is mystery.
A PASSENGER car jumped the track
and rolled down steep embankment.
Several persons were dangerously IN
jured, and one man was found wedged
between two seats, with two RIBS broken.
and sound asleep! A copy Of the Lon
don Times containing an editorial three
columns in length was clutched IN his
right hand.
A MAGAZINE writer says that women
with a purpose, women III earnest.
have q noticeable look of charm.
That depends. If young woman has
purpose" to say Eyes" when her
young man proposes, and is in earn
est" about it, she has more charm, III
his eyes, than at any other period in
her life.
New YORK papers are agitating for
cheaper funerals. Rich people may get
along without expensive funerals; but
when a burglar is killed by fellow
rough, or rlrize-fghter is fatally knock
ed out, the friends of the late lamented
are bound to have big funeral if they
have to pawn every article belonging to
the widow and assess every saloon
keeper in the district.
"DoEs Science Destroy Love of Ma
ture?" asks n scientific magazine. 1t
does. Once upon time scientist in
vented flying machine, and after his
first trial not only his love of nature
but his love of art also was destroyed.
A fall Of sixty-six feet, from the roof
of building, in the interest of science,
is apt to destroy anybody's love of ma
ture.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24
Artemus Wards BOYhOOd.

Artemus' father died when the boy
was about ID years old, and, as the
family circumstances were somewhat
limited thereby, he was apprentlced to
Mr.. j. NJ. Xix, who published the Coos
Democrat, at Lancaster, n. II. The
stage line to Lancaster ran by the
Brown homestead, and the drivers were
not unfamiliar with the ability of the
future genial Snowman" in the way of
practical Jokes. They knew how he or
ganized shows, wherein his fathers red
COW, with coat sleeve stuffed full of
hay hanging from her nose, served as
the elephant, upon which innocent
country youth were invited to ride, with
startling results. They knew, too, how
old Deacon Hale's white horse had been
induced to wander away for miles fol-
lowing tempting bit of hay, hung just
beyond reach 10y means of a lath
strapped to the horses neck.
There was an endless series of pranks
gotten up by the boy to mystify the vii
layers in general and his mother in par
ticular, and all these were well known
TO the stage drivers. So when the
young humorist started for Lancaster,
eager to know as much as possible
about his future residence, the veteran
driver, Steve Seary, having previously
conspired with the boys in Rix's Office
to give young Brown fitting recep-
ton, assured him that Mr.. Xix was q
pious man, and that his hands were, if
anything, more pious than he, and that
the sooner the would-be apprentice
crammed on the catechism the better.
Charles listened dolefully. 1t was late
at night when the stage reached Lam
caster and in the morning young Brown
hied himself to the Office. The force"
consisted of lourneyman and an APP
prentice named Smith. They received
him solemnly. The journeyman hand
ed him Bible and made him read
chapter, after which he was examined
on the catechism. His ignorance was
commented on, but he was permitted
to 90 to work. At noon similar per-
Torrance was enacted, while an intense
gloom rested on the Office during the
day. The next morning Charles went
to the office resolved to run away at the
end of the week, but, on looking about,
failed to find his low-craftsmen. Fur
ther search revealed them under the
garnet stairs too intoxicated to walk.
Young Brown was so angry over the
sell that he wrote note to the driver
threatening vengeance, which was never
carried out.
Browns fame as a humorist was
surprise to all who knew him, and even
to himself. A greater surprise to his
kinfolk now is the interest still mani
tested in the dead incrrymaker and his
work. They thought that all attention
would cease with his life, but every
year the number of people who visit
Waterford TO see his mother-now al
most 80 years old-increases. - Water
ford (Ne) Cor Ne,C York Sun.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24
Some Noted Sayings.

A letter to an English paper from the
grandson of one of Nelson's aids at the
battle. of Trafalgar, gives the true ORR
gin of his famous order TO his squad
ron.
The Admiral gave the order to tele-
graph to the whole fleet, Nelson ex-
poets every man to do his duty to-day"
1t was found that the word Nelson
would require six sets OF flags to be
displayed in succession.
Time passed. A Lieut.. Browne,
looking over the cookbook, found that
"England" could he sent mp with but
one flag, and suggested that the order
should run, "England expects every
man to DO his duty" to which Nelson
heartily consented. Hence the elo-
Guent touch which thrilled all Britain
TO the heart, was due 20 deficiency in
the signal code.
Many of the finest sayings recorded
of great men owe their origin to acct
dent. Goethc's dying words, more
light" are said only to have referred TO
the opening of window, and not to
any prophetic dawn in the world of
German Thought. Webster's trium-
plant Il still live!" in tile light of cold
TACT, appears to have been spoken in
consequence of the physicians order to
"give him the MEDICINE Mt certain
hour, if ne still lived" 1t was with a
gesture toward the cup that Webster
used the words so long misunderstood
and memorable as his last
Another sentence which beiame the
rallying cry for defenders of the Union
during the civil war originated in q
| joke. In 1882 the followers of Calhoun,
incensed at the public demonstrations
on Washington's birthday, issued invi-
tations for state banquet on the birth
iday of Jefferson,
Gen. Andrew Jackson, on opening
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24
Cliff Dwellings.

There are come remarkable ruins
about four miles southe st of Magda-
lena, Mexico, in the State of Sonora,
which have of late attracted a good
deal IF notice. There is among these
one pyramid, with base of 4, $50 feet
square and an elevation of $50 feet. 1t
las winding roadway, leading by an
easy grade from bottom to top, wide
.Dough for cayriag s. This Is several
miles long. In the sides of this mount
ain, as one ascends, he passes hundreds
of chambers cut in the solil rock with
walls, floor, and ceiling hewn to an even
precision truly remarkable. These
chambers vary III size from five to ten,
sixteen, and even eighteen feet square.
There are no windows and but one en-
trance, which is always from the top.
The height of the ceiling. usually, is
eight feet The walls are covered in
places with heiroglyphics and figures of
men and animals. In some places feet
and hands of human beings are found
cut in the rock. Who constructed these
dwellings is not now certainly known.
Some claim that they were the ances-
tors of the ancient Aztecs or Toltecs. IL
is not improbable that they are the
remains of ancient Zuni tribes. Infer
Dream
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24
Beautiful Words.

In the preface of her recently pub
lished work, Woman and Temperance, 4"
Mi s Frances Willard gives her reason
for devoting so much space to almira-
ton of her co-laborers in these beauti-
full words: IL thought before you died
I'd just tell you how much L have
always loved and honored you. This
sentence has in it matter for reflection.
1t hints at one of the most unaccounta-
bic errors in our conduct of life's rela-
tionships. We speak our words of
praise too late. We blow the trumpet
of our appreciation at the earnest work
er's ear but not until deaths finger has
closed it up forever. We utter at the
grave side the tender words that might
have kept sensitive souls with us in a
new lease of life. We build monuments
with money that, if bestowed upon the
living toiler, would have REINFORCED
the wasted energies and reawakened the
declining courage
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24
The POpulat ion Of China.

Many persons entert ain doubts of the
accuracy of the figures for the popula-
ton of China. -Four hundred and fifty
millions seems an incredible number
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com :
mercini makes some statements which
ought TO remove doubts. l. The Chi
nese Government has census system,
under which, at irregular periods, it
obtains an enumeration for military
purposes of the male members of fami-
lies between the ages of 16 and go.
Multiplying this number by five gave
in 1912 population of Ala, 6S6, 1914.
The census of 1856, on the same system
gave III round numbers 40, 900, 900, in
increase of about per cent. in fourteen
years. THIS reasonable rate of increase
which is less than one-fifth of our ratio,
gives credit to the Chinese figures. 2.
A better method of testing the figures
Is by comparing the number of persons
to the square mile with the number in
other populouS countries. China has
an area of 5,250,00 square miles, and
450, 000, 900, for all the density of pop
ulation, is So persons to the square
mile. Now, in Germany there are $50
to the square mile, and in France $50
TO the square mile. 1t Is well known
that China is densely populated
country; even its waters swarm with
human life. Canton has 80, 900 regis
tered boats, on which families live as
their homes; and though the Tartar
provinces are sparsely populated, the
people are so thick in the rest of the
country that So persons to the square
mile seems TO be below rather than
above the truth - Exchange.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24
From the Hoosler.l

~sOS'AN@'s
A CARDINAL virtue-a papal indul-
gence.
THERE are more swells on the sea
than there are on the shore.
No LAWYER but very green one
would "take the will for the deed"
A FEMALE corn doctor in Cleveland
is called Divinity" because she Shapes
our ends.
The latest wrinkle in fashion is for
ladies to go with walking-sticks. Dudes
are walking sticks.
4 MARK of birth-the Irisman's pug
nose. A mark of breeding-the En-
glishman's pug dog.
VIoLINIsTs should he considered
very prudent men. They usually have
four strings to their bow.
The Indianapolis journal has a
colored reporter on its staff. You may
have noticed that some of the news has
been highly colored.
A MAN may smile and smile and be
unwilling still" but the chances are
that he will smile" and smile" until
he becomes obstreperously noisy.
A NEW JERSEY man named n boy
baby Oscar Wilde. When that boy
grows up and realizes the full purport
of the thing we may expect TO hear of
case of "Justifable patricidc" in that
State.
An article in an exchange is headed,
SLOW TO Preserve Pianos" We didn't
have time to read it, but we feel con-
strained to caution our readers to keep
the preserved pianos on the top shelf
ont of the reach OF the children. They
are foo rich
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24
THE ECONOMICAL DINNER PARTY.
by Il. v. BLAKE.

A willy Crocodile,
Who t,welt upon the Nile,
Bethought himself one day to give dinner.
Economy, said he,
is chief o. all with me,
And shall considered be-as I'm sinner"
With paper, pen, and ink.
He sat him DOWN 20 think,
And, first OF all, SIR Lilo he invited;
The northern Wolf, who dwelis
In rocky arc ic dells;
The Leopard and the Lynx, by blood united.
Then Mr. Fox, the shrewd-
No lover me of good
And Madam Duck with sober step and stately
And MIR. Frog. serene,
In GARD OF bottle green,
Who wHrbled bass, and bore himself sedately.
Sir Crocrodile content,
Tue invitations sent;
The day was come-his guests were all assem-
bid;
They fancied that some guile
Lurked in his ample smile;
Each on the other looked, and somewhat trem-
bled.
A lengthy time they wal:
Their hunger wakes great,
And still the host in conversation dallies;
At last. the tables laid,
With covered dishes spread,
And outi in haste, the hungry party sallies.
But when-the covers raised
On empty plates thev gazed,
Each on the other looked with dire intention;
Maam Dusk sat last of all,
And MIR. Frog was small,
She softly swallowed him, and made no men
ton.
This Mr. Fox perccives,
And saying: by your leaves,
Some punishment is due for this transgresson,
He gobbled her in haste;
Then, much to his distaste,
BY Mr.. Lynx was taken in possession.
The Wolf, without pause
In spite of teeth and claws
Left nothing Of the Lynx to tell the story:
The Leopard, all irate
Athis relation 5 fate,
Made mince- meat OF that wolfish monster hoary.
The Lion raised his head
Sinco1 am fHng. he said
1T ill BELTS the King 10 lack his dinner!"
Then on the Leopard sprang
With mighG OF claw and fang,
And made O meal upon that spotted sinner.
Then saw In sudden fear
Sir Crocodile draw near,
And heard him speak, with feelings of distrac
ton.
"Sinco all of you have dined,
Well suited TO your mind,
You surely cannot grudge me satisfaction
And s2oth deal OF guile
Lurkoq in his ample smile,
And down his throat the roaring Lion hasted.
ECONOMY, with me,
Is chief of all, said he,
And am glad to see there's nothing wasted"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24
No Fool Like, Etc.

"None, except those in costumes, car
enter" said n masquerader to an ole
gentleman who was about TO enter the
ballroom.
"Nonsense / am too old to put or
the fools cap and bells" exclaimed the
old man.
isn't that your wife, that young
woman there in the light costume p
asked the first speaker.
Why, TO be sure it is"
"Then you needn't be afraid to put
on the cap and bells, for they will fiji
you admirably" returned the young
man.-1er1s SJtings.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24

AN old lady in Portland, Me-, who
was acquainted with Ralph Waldo En-.
erson. and knew him well in later life,
says that he was so indolent that she
was not at all surprised when he gave
up preaching and went to live in Con-
eor,l, simply TO think.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24

HERE is pebble which everybody Us
flinging at everybody else: Some PEG
pie give according to their means, 9th.
ers according to their meanness.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-01-24

NORWAY has heavier ocean tonnage
than the United States.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-09-11
A Forged Pass.

Last Monday, says the Messenger,
telegraph operator, who signed his
name as Charles Roberts, boarded the
east. bound passenger train at Battle
Mountain. When Conductor Davis
asked him for his ticket he presented a
telegraphic pass, or special ticket to
Ogden, with Superintendent Fillmore's
name attached and eountersigned by
Jas. Brown, Freight Agent at Battle
Mountain. Conductor Davis held the
pass and telegraphed to Agent Brown
to know ii he had countersigned pass
for the party named. Mr.. Brown an
swered that lie had not countersigned a
pass for anyone that day. Davis then
gave the pass to Mr.. Coddingtcn, the
Division Superintendent, who tele-
graphed to j. 4. Fillmore aud ascer-
tanned that he had not given any such
pass. Roberts was arrested at Elko,
and was to have had an examination
yesterday.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-09-11
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
Personal Notes.

Robert O'Neal, of Paradise is in
town.
Judge Scott, of Battle Mountain, is
in town.
II. B. Purdy, who has leased the
Eagle mine and mill at Spring Valley,
is in town.
Hon. G. w. Cassidy passed through
yesterday homeward bound from Cali
fornia.
Rev. G. w. James, who was appoint.
ed pastor OF the M. +. Church here, ar.
rived yesterday with his family, by pri-
vate conveyance.
John Guthrie left for Austin and Eu-
reka yesterday. His health, which has
been precarious of late, is improving,
and he looks we'll.
DIR. J. j. Moore arrived yesterday
from the west, and was welcomed by
many old friends. He has opened rooms
at the Lafayette Hotel.
Hon Charles Sumner, Member of
Congress from California, passed west
yesterday. He has travelled extensive
ly in the east since Congress adjourned,
and he says the prevailing opinion is
that Cleveland will be elected beyond
doubt.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-09-11
Newspaper Changes.

The Nevada State Journal, published
at Reno, has been reduced to the dimen'
sions OF the SILVER STATE, size that
is becoming the standard for Nevada
newspapers. Dull times is the sup
posed cause Of the change. On the 9TH
er hand the Elko Free Press has made
its appearance as daily, which is an
indication OF lively times in Elko coun.
ty, which last year paid more taxes in
to the State Treasury than any other
county in Nevada.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-09-11
Fine Vegetables.

Mrs. Josiah Springer, Of Unionville,
has sent some specimens of the fine
vegetables raised in her garden to
friends here Among other eatables
are ears Of corn as large as those raised
on the Mississippi bottoms, and pota.
toes that can not be excelled anywhere.
Owing to its sheltered situation, Union
vile produces better coen than any
other place in Central Nevada.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-09-11
THE PIUTE PRINCESS.
Lecturing at Reno on the Wrongs
Her People.

The Gazette says Sarah Winnemucca,
the Piute Princess, lectured to fair
audience at Reno Monday evening.
She referred especially to her trip East,
and those whom she had met in Boston,
the appeals she made in behalf of her
race, and the views held by the Indian
Missionary Societies relative to the
wants of her people. She said these
Jealous societies had only one idea in
view-that of administering to the spir-
itual wants, which they proposed to
cater to through missionaries, tracts,
books, ETC., which were of no avail, for
the reason that her people could net
read, and that religious teaching would
not go far on an empty stomach.
What was wanting was food, clothing,
farming implements, practical teaching,
their rights to be recognized in courts.
and hold the title TO lands. She was
particularly severe on Indian Agents
and the manner in which they enriched
themselves a. the expense Of those
whom they were presumed to protect,
and drew a severe picture Of the clergy
who came among her race, who, while
ostensibly doing the Lords service with
one hand, used the other sdroitly to
fill their pockets. She claims to be
working to raise means to start an in.
dependent school at the Pyramid Res
ervation. In this it is hoped she will
have success. The lecture, while novel
was interesting and we'll delivered.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-09-11

The Messenger says Johnny McWil-
Hams, at Battle Mountain, gathered
las pounds Of apples from one tree that
stands in his orchard. This is the sec
ond crop. and clearly shows that apples
can be raised on the Humboldt desert
as well as ON the Truckee Meadows and
elsewhere in Nevada.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-09-11

While we have been shivering with
cold here in Nevada for the last week,
people have been sweltering with heat
in the Atlantic States. At Chicago the
weather has been uncomfortably hot,
and the mean temperature has been
higher since the first Of September than
in any previous season since the Signal
Service was established.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-09-11

Experiments with the galvanometer
upon the track Of the New York Central
Railroad show that the electric currents
flow through the rails continuously.
The movement is generally toward GEN.
ters of electric disturbance, and is per.
ceptibly affected by the passage of cars;
fast passenger trains being much more
effective than freight or coal trains.
One steel rail- at Rochester was so much
affected by these currents as to become
a permanent magnet.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-09-11
Young MEN! RCAD TIES.

The voLTAIc BELT COMPANY, OF Marshall,
Mich, offer ID send their celebrated
Electric v0;taic Beif,
And other ELECTRIC APrLIAScEs, on trial for
thirty days, to men young or old afflicted with
nervous debility, loss Of vitality and manhocd d,
and all kindred troubles, also for rheumatism,
neuralgia, paralysis, and many other diseases.
Complete restoration to health, vigor and man
hood guaranteed. No risk is incurred, as 80
days trial is allowed. Write at once for illus
trated pamphlet, free.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-09-11
GRAND ENTERTAINMENT.

Comstock mines, well known to many citizens
OF winnemucca. will give an entertainment
here on SATURDAY EVENING, September IS,
consisting Of
Nevada and Utah-ll4 scenes, from 10 10
feet square, shown by L. J. Marcy's patented
scopticon. This entertainment comes well
recommended from neighboring towns, and af-
fords an instructive as well as amusing even
ing's entertainment. The admission win be 10
cents; children Is cents. s8-td