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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-29
Fine Feathers make Fine Birds.

aunt Hannah yesterday received q fine
assortment of trimmed and untrimmed
nSts. feathers, flowers, and trimmings of
al KINDS. which she will sell at remarkably
low prices. Call and examine the goods.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-29
yEsTEnDAY's sTOCA SALES.

MORNING BOARD.
100 Gould & Curry-li0c
ayO Rest & Belcher-l7Oc
o osO Con. California-45c
sOO ssvsge-l35c
S n Hale & No~rcross-320o
osS Yellow Jacket-1sOc 1850
i iOO 8 Nevads-105c 110c b30
$50 Alts-16Oc
% Union-9Oc
NJ Diablo-3hb 3Aa
400 N. B. Isle-5Oc
s5O Bodie-27Oc 265c
200 Con. Pscitic-85c
iOO Martin White-4oc
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
Last Snake Story of the Year.

A strange story ONE to us from
one of the counties down below here,
and if it were not for the fact that fact
Is more strange than ~fictiCn, we should
feel a hesitancy about relating it. The
story is this: A gentleman having been
at work in a field some distance from
home had carried his dinner with him.
When noon came he took his basket
and went in a piece of woods near by,
and close to a creek, to eat his dinner.
After finishing the meal he sat down
on a log to rest awhile before resuming
his work. While thus engaged, hap
pening to glance Mt an old decayed
stump just before him, he saw a snakes
head protruding from a hole. He ina
mediately seized a long pole AID went
up by the side of the stump waiting TO
see if the snake, which had gone back,
would reappear. In a short time the
snake, not seeing him, crawled out,
and as he did so the gentleman killed
him with a well-directed blow, seeing
then, to his horror, that it was that
most dreaded reptile, the rattlesnake.
To his establishment another came out
and was also slain, and another, and
another, until 81 had been counted.
While still watching the hole he OBJ
served that the last snake had only
been wounded and had crawled off,
and was, apparently, writhing in the
agonies of death some distance off on q
sandbar caused by the overflow of the
creek. He Immediately left his post
and advanced toward the hideous
reptile to dispatch him. When he
reached the spot the snake was appar-
emily dead. Looking down on the
smooth sand near by he saw, to his
utter amazement, the words ''nO
more traced thereon in plain, distinct
characters. He looked at the snake
and he looked at the words. He saw
that q capital N should have been used
in commencing a sentence, and he
made the correction, then, seized with
a sudden superstitious fear, he hasten
ed home and told his strange story.
We give it to the public for what it is
worth. After all, the snake may have
lied; perhaps there was Coluna-
Jus (Ga.) Times.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
administering

In regard to the subject of ballooning
and the recent French experiment in
steering a balloon, it may be noted that
the analogies of nature are adverse to
the attainment of artificial flight by
means of Il balloon. We do not mean
by way of detail, but by way of princ:-
pie. The theory of a balloon is tn It Of
levi ation-that is to say, of counter
posing gravity by the displacing of Il
given bulk of atmospheric air by light
er gas. That the latter method involves
the exposure of 10 large a surface to at
mospheric currents as to require great
force to overcome the resistance of a
rapid breeze by fans, screws, or other
mechanical means, is well known. But
the point to which we refer is this: In
the flight of every bi d or insect the
weight of the animal is directly utiliz ID
for maintaining it in the air. At the
will of the bird, the feathe ed surface
that it exposes to the wind can be 81 in
clined to the movement of the latter as
TO make the creature rise orfall at wi |,
by the direct action of the wind, with
out any visible motion of the wings.
From the deck of a vessel a gull may be
watched, lowering for many minutes
together, without one flap of its wings.
The bird at such tines is q living kite,
its power of self-balance producing the
effect of the string of the kite in main
tanning a certain inclined position rela-
tive to the wind. And although some
birds of the swiftest flight have an ex-
traordinary area of wing surface in pro-
portion to their weight, others, of equal
or even superior power of flight, have
very little wing surface in proportion to
their weight. Thus the problem of
flight has been solved by nature in many
ways; but in all of them the gravity of
the living creature, far from being de-
stroyed or counterpoised, is an essen
tial element of its mechanical action.
The inference that we draw from this
is that the opposite principle, that of
deviation, is not likely to be followed
with mechanical success except on rare
Occasions.--Builder.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
An Indians Appetite.

The improvidenc, of the Indian is
proverbial. They toll not, if they can
help it, neither do they spin, unless it
is around the kitchen about meal time.
They take no thought of the morrow,
but will gorge their capacious stom-
achs to the highest notch, utterly in
different of the coming day. To feast
one day and fast six is a pretty fair av-
erage, though hardly up to the Indian
wish.
Night before last the motor crew
tried to measure the appetite of a guile
less Piute of ten sage brush summers,
and to his demand for something to
eat gave him their lunches. Hale,
Rice and Merrigan emptied their buck
cts and the young redman swallowed
all and drank three quarts of tea and
coffee mixed. He then took a jaunt
down to Battle Mountain, but appear
cd again last night to see if he would
not strike another grub bonanza, but
the railroad boys did not respond and
gave up the contract for filling such a
%capacious maw.-AuStn (NeU.) Req
lille.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
Gone Back on Moses.

Nose Schaumberg is in the habit of
getting about 2 per cent. n month on
money loaned. Kosiuscko Murphy,
who is one of Moses customers, was
talking to him a few days ago on Aus
tin venue.
''Why don't you eat pork sausagep"
asked Murphy.
because dot wash forbidden by Mo-
ses."
land you don't work on Saturday."
''Dot wash also forbidden by the laws
of Moses. l always keep the laws OF
Moses, vatever else wicked l do"
you do, do youp How about mon
ey? Doesn't Moses forbid you taking
more than the legal rate of interestpH
''Mishter Murphy, have you read
dose papers in dot Mishter Vanderbilt
has sold Maud S. for $40, 900? Choost
dink vat a fine horse dot must pc, ehp
Goodbye, | sees you later. '-Teras
Siftings.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
His Wife Was Good to Him.

He had failed for half Il million, and
his assets would not pay 2 cents on the
dollar. He gave up everything he had
to satisfy his creditors, not even reserv-
ing the watch in his pocket. And yet
they growled. An old friend called to
see him. He met him at the depot with
a $4,000 span of horses and conveyed
him to a $780, 900 residence, where he
dined and wined him like q prince, on
the finest of china and costliest of
plate.
'Why, JONES'" said his old friend,
81 thought you had failed!'
$50 L have-given up everything,
absolutely everything, to my creditors,
as an honest man should" replied the
bankrupt, in a tone of self-abnegation.
"Why, you appear to be living pref
ty WE'LL" remarked the old friend.
"Ah, my dear sir, how mistaken you
are!' returned the 2-cent-on-a-dollar
failure. Everything that you see is
my wife's-absolutely everything. But
she is too tcnder-hearted to deprive me
OF sheir use on account of my misfor-
tune. '-PitsbWy Chronicle.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
Burdette's Fish Story.

l remember once, myself fishing in
the eddying waters of the Mississippi,
about four miles above Burlington,
striking a catfish. l was using a lance-
wood rod and set reel, and the fish ran
out about twenty-five yards of line,
then turning suddenly made straight
for me as | stood in the water. l struck
ut it with the rod, which broke in my
hand. The Infatuated fish chased me
ashore, ran me through a undergrad,
pursued me across a wide stubble field,
and some distance into the woods,
when, being unarmed, l climbed a
large cottonwood tree. The relentless
fish followed me up the tree, where il
was shot by some hunters just as it was
''cooning' out upon a big limb to get
at me. 1t fell to the ground dead, shot
through the heart. 1t was nine inches
long and weighed a pound and a half
with its clothes on. Which by inter-
probation is dressed.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
Lights Vitiating Air.

The air of a room lighted by gas is
heated twenty times as much as If it
we're lighted to an equal extent by in
candle scent electric lamps. When arc
lamps are used the comparison is still
more in favor of electricity. You will
be surprised to know that our old
friend the tallow candle, and ever the
wax candle, is far worse han gas in
the proportion of air Initiated and the
heat produced; and you will be dis
posed to Iii believe it. But the fact is,
that so long as the candles were used
light ~ so expensive that we were
obliged to be content with little bits of
it; in fact, we lived in n state of semi
darkness; and in this way we evaded
the trouble. 1t is only since the gen.
eral introduction of gas and petroleum
that we have found what an evil it is.
Sanitary Engineer.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
A Sabbatarian Hen.

Some months ago Mr. George Cotton,
favorably known as a breeder of poul-
try of the highest grade, presented to
the young son of a friend a pair of white
Seabright chickens of rare beauty in
appearance. When taken to their new
home, near the city boundary, n of
the hens began to lay eggs, and has
continued to do so without any inter
mission, except on Sundays, up to the
present day. Every precaution and
test has been used to discover if the
aforesaid hen had in any way labored
on the Sabbath day, but among the'ten
or twelve in the family it is the unani-
nous conviction that she observes the
Sabbath in every way, as a Sabbatarian
should. Her boy owner contends with
all seriousness that the hen respects
the Sabbath. He watches the chicken
house carefully, keeps it under lock
and key, and finds an egg in the nest
daily except on Sunday. His wonder
is how MI. Cotton could have so trained
his chicken in youth, so that when it
became a hen she ''did not depart from
it," and concludes it is the result of a
good example. He cannot understand
it any other way.-BaHimOre american.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
j.. Wilkes Booths Body.

'In reply to an inquirer last Sunday
concerning the disposition that was
made of j. Wilkes Booths body, the
Courier-JournaJ was in error" said
General Dan Macaulay to a reporter
yesterday.
'On what point was the answer
wrong?'
I'm the statement that the body was
taken out on the ocean and thrown ov-
erboard. know that q great manv
stories have been told on that subject,
and l also know that all of them are
~groundless."
'How did you obtain your informa-
tionp"
From his immediate family. Imme-
diately after his death his remains were
buried in the navy yard at Washington,
where they remained a year or two,
during all of which time a sentinel
stood guard over them. After the ex-
element passed away, and his death
was in a measure forgotten, the family
was permitted to remove the body, and
it was taken to the family burying
ground, on the old Junius Brutus Booth
farm, a few miles from Baltimore. One
of the family related the incident of the
reinterment to me, and told me that
the coffin was opened in order that
there might be no uncertainty about
the matter, and the features were iden-
titled. "-InterCieW UtM General Dan
Macduley.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
The Future COachman.

The man who keeps a fiery team and
handsome daughters is in a quandary.
If he engages as coachman the usual
dashing young man the chances are
that the dashing y. m. will dash off
with one of the handsome daughters.
If he engages some old fellow the chan
ces are that the spirited horses will
dash off with him. On the n hand
the happiness of the family is in danger
of being wrecked. On the other hand
the family itself is in danger of being
wrecked by a runaway team. 1t seems
TO be the alternative between a rum
away horse and a runaway daughter.
The only remedy appears to be thatpa-
terfamilias shall put none but eligible
young men on the coachman's box.
This opens a new field for II young
society men who at present stand all
the day idle.
II would like a position as coach
man." the young man will say to the
old man.
"What is your genealogyp" asks the
ancient.
~ come from the Oldest Manhattan
families, the Schneiders and the Schoon-
erhondzenburgs."
''What are your prospects in lifeP"
81 have $4,000 a year at present and
expectations"
That's all right. By the way, a
youdrive?"
"Oh, yes; l keep a four-in-hand."
"Then consider yourself engaged"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
After-Dinner Speakers.

The after-dinncr orator whom l nov
have in mind, is on his legs before the
company, digging his fork into the la
ble-cloth, his lips quivering. his eyes
wandering and blinking. and an OBJ
servant doctor would say that with II
little more strain upon him the poor
man would go off in a fit. As to what
he did blunder out, the least that's said
the better. The poor fellow finishes
and falls into his chair, glaring wildly
he has made his after-dinner speech.
Mr.. John Bright is conspicuously one
of the very best public speakers in Eng
land, and this is what he once said
about after-dinner speaking at n BAN
quct in London:
81 must confess that since dinner ter
minated / have been actuated by some
thing like a feeling of envy. Ihave en-
We'd the speakers who have gone before
me the facility, the fuency, with which
they have been able to perform the task
that has been allotted to them. L be-
lieve there is no task so severe to which
n speaker can be put as TO make q
speech which is not absolutely uninter-
esting on m occasion like this" Now,
mark, the great speaker speaks OF
speakers Cow, then, about the
great bulk of us, who are not speakers
at alp If Mr.. Bright can with difficulty
do it, what is to become of you and /,
dear reader, who have not the gift OF
gabp-HoWard Paul iR San francisco
NesUS Letter.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
The Pronunciation of American
Names.

Without commencing upon the
Tagliafieros ('Tallivers') of Virginia,
there are the Cecils pronounced Sysls,
or Syssls), the Champeneys (Chaun-
eys), Rollestones (Rallstons), Leighs
(Lees, Lays. and oftentimes Lyes), the
Undertakes CTimliks), the Ashuests
(Ashetts), the Blounts (Blunts), the
Eloarts (Allests), Auchtenbanches
(Arbois), and the Kers (Kares). A
family rejoiced in the name of Polly.
The eldest son, an unkempt youth of
10, was called George Washington
Polly. But the name was always writ
ten Pauline. Then the name Ralph
was always RATE, and the name Hele-
ma was accented on the first syllable
an English custom, but n not usual
in the North.
In Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missis-
sippi, many other names occur, Otter
of French, Spanish or Indian deriva-
ton, which assume a peculiar dialectal
form. Beauchamp pronounced Bee
chum), Daughty (Doty), Dockery
sometimes spelt Dackery-a contrac-
ton, it was said, of the French Du
Cherie), Des Moulin Oemlin), Dupuy
(Dupee), Pevensy (Pinsey), and many
others which assume more or less va
riety in expression and pronunciation.
The Critic.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
Another Champion lEcan Man.

A Montreal physician takes the palm
for sheer, clear, unadultcrated mean
ness. He took into his employ last
fall a young man named Ezra Tilton, q
Woodworking, deserving young man,
who went into service in the hopes of
being able to save up enough during
the winter to purchase n horse and cab,
it being his ambition to become n cab
man.. Several times during the winter
the doctor said to Ezra. You are
sick" mo" he would reply, I'm
very WE'LL" but the doctor would insist
that he was sick, and Induce him to
take some medicine. 1t also happened,
in the natural course of events, that
Ezra occasionally broke - household
implement of some sor, When spring
came Ezra went to his employer and
said: II have not drawn any money
during ;ho winter sir, because I
thought il was just as safe in your
hands rs it would be anywhere. I'll
take it new, sir, if you please"
''Well," said tho doctor, producing q
memorandum, book, II find that you
owe me - dollars for attendance,
- for medicine, aud --- for break
age. There is $3.50 coming to me, but
I'll make you q present OF it,"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14

In the stamp bureau of the P~ostofice
department at Washington is q little
instrument that is used for measuring
the thickness of sheets of paper. 1t Is
useful in determining the quality of the
stock put into envelopes and other sta
tionery by contractors with the govern
ment. The unit of measurement is a
sixteen-thousandth of an inch. While
exhibiting it to an inquisitive reporter,
the chief of the bureau demonstrated
that a hair from his head was about
twenty sixteen-thousandths of an inch
in diameter, and a hair of his mustache
was thirty sixteen-thousandths of an
inch thicker.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
He Didn't Carve.

A nice, fresh young dude was invited
into the country to spend a few days at
O plain farmers to secure a needed re-
Taxation without excitement. He was
aesthetic and accomplished, but his
friends watched him the first morning
of his arrival and the cows didn't eat
him. He was safe at dinner time az
o'clock, and taking his place at the
table he watched the lady of the house
carving q chicken. She noticed him,
and to relieve the embarrassment inquir-
ed:
''Um. Mr.. Fitzclarence, do you
carvep"
"Aw, 1 beg yoah pahdon," he re-
piled, startled from his revery.
81 didn't do anything. 1 only asked
if you carved"
"Beg pahdon, no. 1 nevva acquiah-
ed the accomplishment, you knaw, but
l paint rawthaw well, you knaw, on
chinaw, faw an amatah, and l pwopose
taking cahving lessons at the acahde-
my this wintaw, you knaw."
The poor lady let her knife slip, and
Mr.. Fitzclarence had to be taken out to
the horse-trough to get the gravy off
his clothes. Merchant Traveller.
ave hev summer" said the orator,
as he pulled down his vest, sin order
dat watermellyons may ripen, and we
hev winter dat 'possums may fatten up.
We have 16, 456 changes of weather in
de course of q var in order TO accom-
modate all minds, as fur us possible.
We hev moonlight nights for such pus-
sons as am behind hand in hoein' corn
or sawin' wood, an we have dark an
cloudy nights fur de benefit of burglars,
cats, and gas companies. Natur' did
MT make the kentry all mountains nor
prairie. kase she realized dat de scene
ry would be monotonOus. Had dc sile
been all sand we could have raised nuf-
lin but sweet 'taters. Had it bin all
clay we should have run largely to
wheat, an crowded de price down to
Is cents per bushel. De ocean was
made salty So dat de corpses of horses,
cows, dogs, and cats dumped into it off
Coney Island wouldn't interfere wild de
seaside hotel bizness. De lakes war
made fresh in order dat Chicago an
Buffalo might one in a while change
DER drinks. Fack am, my hearers,
mar nm a mighty slim grain of sand
when compared to natur'. While she
has made eberythin' fur de bes' an in
de bes' way, de wisest man on airth,
had he been giben de job of maxim q
yaller dog, would hev got de fore an
hind legs all mixed up an left de tail
off altogether. Lime Kun CIub.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS FOR
WASSEE COUNTY.

All examinations for he present year will
be held at Corunna.
State questions will be used at each ex-
animation.
Special public examination on Friday,
Sept. IL, 1884.
Special public examination, Friday, Sept,
70, 1884.
Regular public examination, Friday. Oct,
81, 1854, and continued. on Saturday, Nov.
Ist, for the accommodation of applicants for
the higher grades of certificates.
Special public examination, Friday,
March Is, 1885.
Regular public examination Friday, March
IT, 1885, and continued on the day following.
Special public examination, Friday, April
"a, 1885.
Special public examination, Friday, Aug.
aS, 1885.
Examinations will begin promptly at s
O'Clock a. m.
a limited amount of time will be given for
each branch.
Examinations will be held in the school
building,
BY order Of the boa ! of examiners.
9. II. BRANDT,
Sec'y.
Byron, Sept. Ist, 1884.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
A Perfect Preservation.

Mr.. Runaround was out late the
other night, and the next morning at
breakfast, in order to Justify" himself,
he remarked to his wife:
''Pet, we have been married twenty
years, and you look almost as young as
you did then"
"You have not changed a particle"
she responded sweetly.
mot changed" he answered in sur
prise, remembering his gray locks and
ruby nose. why, how can you say
that?"
because things preserved in alcohol
never change" she answered.
Mr.. X. but cred his na~pkin-ring I'M
der the impre sion that it was amuffin,
and the meal prog cssed in silence
WaShin1tOn Hdtchet.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14

ate the bread or manly LABOR. fLteen
years of struggle and toll, and last
week the local papers Of Rock Rapids
shouted to the world the glad news
that he had caught a black bass weigh
ing five pounds and three inc
Young man, industry, honest industry
and perseverance, are the winning cards
in the struggle for existence, and vir-
tue is its W reward. 1t is well that
this is so, as that is frequently the only
reward she gets.-Bo6 Burdette.
The Waterbury american relates the
following as having recently occurred
on a Connecticut railroad: "A woman,
well dressed and intelligent, boarded n
train with three children, whom she
placed on the seat in front of her.
They were neatly dressed in holiday
attire and were evidently bent on n day
of fun at the picnic grounds. She paid
her fare to the conductor and turned
her attention out of the window when he
looked inquiringly at the children.
When he asked about them she turned
and said indifferently: Il don't know;
they are not mine The little ones
were uneasy, and one of them, a pretty
little girl, had a look of grief and sur
prise on her face that was pitiful to see.
She turned around, and, as the woman
said They are not mine she threw
her arms over the seat and cried out,
despairingly, why, | am, mamma
The conductor passed on, too indig-
nant to think of his fare. Madam
he said, Il hope you are ashamed of
yourself for disowning your W child
rem for a matter of thirty cents She
gave the little girl a bitter s~colding,
and when they got off at the grounds
they did not look Apply"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
Sarah Althea Hill, of the famous law

Sarah Althea Hill, of the famous law
suit against Senator Sharon, is of me-
dunn height, well developed, with a
1.-the. trim figure. She gives at first
sight the impression of a woman who
is abundantly able to take care of her.
self, and yet the expression of her face
and her attitudes are very womanly, as
though she lacked confidence and were
appealing for support. Her features
are regular, her face oval. She is
neither blonde nor brunette, with dark
brown hair, which is allowed to fall in
graceful waves over her full round fore
head. Her most attractive feature is
the full brown eyes. Her nose is clear
cut, and her mouth is also resolute in
the habitual compression Of her lips;
but this Is somewhat belied by a slight
droop at the corners, as though an
originally fine will had been overlaid by
q strain of righteousness which weak
ened and coarsened it. Her whole
manner shows nervousness and vitality.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14

Pressure on the ears is to be avoided
by persons who wish to preserve their
sense of hearing. Narrowingof the au-
ditory canal by the pressure of a hand
kerchief worn over the head and tied
under the chin, as it is commonly adj
justed by the peasant womeno of Europe,
often causes deafness; and the cornette
Of the nuns, pressing tightly against the
pavilion of the ear, frequently produces
che same effect.