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The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-01-09

Mr.. George A. Post, Representative
in Congress from the Fifteenth Pennsyl-
vania District, is but twenty-ninc years
Of age, and is the youngest member of
Congress. PHILADELPHIA Press.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-01-09

asa Barker, of Lynn, Mass, sui
cided the other night. lie was the head
and front of the concert-giying Barker
family of a quarter of century ago.
He hung himself in the woods while
despondept. BoSion Posi-.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-08-30
Spanish Cigars.

Not the least among the curiosities
Of Seville is the tobacco manufactory.
Tobacco Is one of the royal monopo.
lies, and it is manufactured in a pal
ace. A very cursory glance at this
singular establishment will afford some
idea of the value of this NOM poly.
1t is noble and stately edifce, of a
quadrangular form, six hundred feet
in length by four hundred and eighty
broad. 1t is surrounded by a moat,
and approached by drawbridge, like
regular fortihcation. Soldiers are
continually on duty at the entrance
and in the courts-all the work-people
are carefully searched every night on
leaving the establlshment-an nc
cloaks are permitted within its pre-.
cincts-all precautions against the alb.
stractiOn of the precious weed. II
employs no fewer than five thousand
hands. OF these three thousand are
women-almost all of whom are EN-.
ployed in twisting cigars. Of the two
thousand men, great portion are
similarly occupied: while a consider
able number are employed in the man.
uracture of the different articles and
implements which are required in the
establishment. Women are preferred
for the manufacture of cigars, as light
ness and delicacy OF touch are Of i'm
portance In this branch of the business.
Two immense halls are set apart for
the cigar twisters-one for the men
and the other for the women. The
largest of these, in which three thous-
and women are seated, busily engaged
in rolling up the fragrant leaf, each
with little basket of bread and fruit
beside her for dinner, presents very
extraordinary spectacle. The work is
performed with amazing rapidity, and
a single individual will roll up, from
five hundred to six hundred per day.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-08-30
A Notable Banker.

w., r,,,,o,, A.. ,,l.,4 ,.t.. !,
NJ" ,;nd noa' '.ee,., One oiu1aU DauAe' n, II,
S%p,e9' la ulet ,, reoenviy. ~ was a 1Iea'
to., ~ io''a nlln lin '"'H' - mo Su.eu' unUsVon,
o~.iouo "ay, ~ ooiiio VI Vle enn'ilen'
o,ioo 4,s 10 nau , hno"n. AlnonSsC many
Sonet' S.t no no was % vno DaiNei loi Oh W aiCei
H ,'r.' ~ ~. DuI"ol' w. mn1 "IoVe III Napies
I'M o S1S &c 1ooa oy' ay " onipori III Ohe
",iSoi NJ S y, 49,, 1o'A,oo' loi olisleiio"' LOW
I,,' p,.da,.., ~ .na' say Sooiesy moniah Lauy
Dioo'i,s IIe Is 'on, % anu iol Vuo lnoIe SllCeu
IN lion, ini'',rNol'on' n, I ihueeu' tne iattei
% naue nnl' il uinei pieseilI ol 'ne auto
ei"pn hnSiiuSouip' Vi one Vi her nhea'
es. poeIio. ~ L uine, AneW many Oh tne
ri'U oouupo'oi' anu ln'siciahs ol Vhe
uay, Wheh ne came 10 reside In Nap
les hosslni nau peeh hers tor years, and
Hr' turner hau Ghe privilege oil nearing
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-08-30
NUMBER 81.

nually, 1900 of them progduc an
daily average of $500 gallons, worth on
the spot from Z to cents per gallon-a
neat little income.
Some idea of the magnitude of this
kind of agriculture may be derived
from the fact that two special pulque
trains run daily into the City of
Mexico, with the same regularity that
milk trains come into our metropolitan
cities, yielding the railroad revenue
of 81 900 day for freightage. Wish
ing to see for ourselves the whole pro-
cess Of pulque making, we visited
magueY hacienda on the plains of
Upam not long since. Our little cara
van took up its line of march for the
Tinacal, or vat house. This is an
enormous adobe shed, with earthen
floor kept as clean as the deck of
man-of-war. One side of the building
is occupied by huge watts of OK hide, the
hairy side upward, called tinas. In
each tina was a thick curd OF nadre
(mother) pulque, which performed the
Office of leaven. After about three
hours of fermentation in the watts the
liquor is drawn into barrels for the
pulque shops and for the hower-decked
booths which adorn all the highways
and byways of Mexico.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-08-30

Political offenders ana obstructionists
in Abyssinia are treated in q manner
which some other Christian countries
may well take into consideration for
suppressing unparliamentary language,
and to insure calm debate. The offen-
ders are arrested, chained, and placed
on a small table land on the top of Abba
Salama. high, rocky, precipitous
mount, about thirty miles from the
city. So sheer and steep are its sides
that the prisoners are drawn up by
ropes. Their chances of escape are nil,
unless indeed they dash themselves into
eternity on the rocks belC q. There is
a land on which they may grow grain,
and wells in which they find water.
There is no speaker to keep order, and
they may, if they choose, abuse prime
ministers and crowned heads to their
hearts content, but they return no
more to the ways of the world. AS for
the rebelliOus subjects taken in arms
against their king, they are often des-
patched by that Christian monarch in
the most expeditions and painless man-
ner. Gunpowder is forced into their
nostrils, ears and mouths, lighted
time fuse attached to either one of these
useful members, and when the explo-
sion takes place it generally incapaci-
tates the victim from further intrigue.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-08-30

ing to recover their breath or to ask for
particultrs.
In Kensington Gore those persons
who were not senseless from terror
heard leather lunCel newsboys below
ing 'Speshul edreshun |" "'Orrible
attempt TO assassiDate the 'Ome secre-
tary ~ discovery of internal ma
chimes l'' and on buying a paper read
the following startling announcement:
This morning Lady Harcourt attend
ed the Fancy Fair at the Albert Hall,
and on returning home she brought
with her small sealed parcel,
which it seems she had purchased
there. 1t was opened in the presence
of Sir William Harcourt, and turned
out to be an internal machine con-
structed with diabolical ingenuity,
which had only failed to explode by a
miracle. Four private detectives, who
are always In attendance on the Home
Secretary disguised as footmen, at
once proceeded to the Albert Hall
to investigate the occurrence, while
the Internal machine, which Is said
to resemble travelling clock, was dis
patched to Scotland Yard. On inquiry
at Sir Williams residence we learn
that he is as we'll as can be expected.
The authorship of this fiendish outrage
is at present shrouded in mystery,
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-08-30

New York has an italian popula.
tion Of about fifty thousand,
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-08-30

Milk Is, and must be, the chief sus.
tenance of infants. 1t is their main
reliance, and when this fails or Is viii.
ated, they must succumb. The quality
of their milk supply is to them life or
death. We always contemplate with
horror the relation between milkmen
and city infants. There is an unholy
aspect about 1t. On one side is seen
shrewd and designing adults in the
vlgor of life, selhshly and heartlessly
striving for gain from theprice of blood.
On the other is seen 'Rachel weeping
for her children because they are moi"
The milkmen get the pieces of silver,
and weeping mothers lay their infants
in the tomb. They perish at the hands
of the milkmen, and the blood of help
less innocence is on their skirts. There
is no denying it. Thousands of infants
die annually in the cities of the United
States from the use of bad milk. The
doctors know it, Psychologists know it,
intelligent men know it, and the milk
men know it.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-08-30
oUTwARDs OR HoMEwARDs.

Still are the ships that in haven ride,
Waiting fair winds or turn Of the tide;
Nothing they fret, though they do not get
Out of the glorious ocean wide.
o wild hearts, that yearn to be free,
Look, and learn from the ships of the sea !
Bravely the ships, in the tempest tossed,
Buffet the waves till the sea be crossed;
Not in despair of the haven fair,
Though winds blow backward, and leagues
be lost.
o weary hearts, that yearn for sleep,
Look, and learn from the ships on the deepl
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
Wanted to Ask Her Husband,
Boston Globe

A lady who manages a large hose
supporter mandatory in a town not
a hundred miles from Boston tells the
following:
II was il my sales-room one mora
ing when woman huttered in and
asked if we kept ose-supporters. I
told her yes, though we did not usual
ly sell them at retail. Since she seem
ed rather disappointed, 1 added that
she might buy single pair if she
wished.
Gould l show her different stylesi
All. yes, | could, and did. Well.
which did think was the best-the
ones which fastened the stockings to
the waistband or corsets, or those with
arm-holes like shoulder braces2 / told
her that was entirely matter of in
dividual opinion, but she did not have
one about her that morning. So she
talked. and examined and considered
a while longer, and | was getting tir-
ed when she asked:
"'Well, would you mind my taking
these two pairs to my husbands store
I'd like to ask him which he thinks
I'd better have
my good woman said l, 1 am
glad to see you, for you are a curiosi-
ty. l didn't suppose there we're any
women like you in these days. Take
them; take them both. l will make
you a present of them, and then
your husband will be sure to be pleas
ed
''She went away looking rather 1nys
tilted, and l don't believe she sees the
joke yet"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
The Newsb5y's Story.
New York Herald

Ragged and dirty, but bright as
dollar, Edward Broderick, twelve
years old, typical New York news
boy, was arranged for examination
before Justice Duffy, at the Toombs
Police Court, on complaint of a police.
man that he had overcharged a
traveller for carrying satchel. The
boy had been locked up for three
days.
what did you charge the manw
asked the justice.
Half a dollar" replied the boy.
1T was dirt cheap. Why. de baggage
weighed a hundred pounds an most
broke me back. l carried it from de
Fall River boat to Broadway. He
hadn't orter kick"
They say you are a regular bag
gage smasher. Is that so?"
I never smashed nothing, but I'm
fly enough cetchin' on to odd jobs all
the same"
Where do you live?'
"Hain't got no home but lodging
house"
Where's your father and mother2'
Il rever saw any"
do you support yourself2"
''Why, of course does. The perlice
wouldn't do it for me, would dey? l
kin get along if dey leave me alone.
Homeless, friendless, twelve years
old, and full of pluck" soliloquized
the justice, and he added aloud, "Boy,
you are discharged"
Here, Johnny" said several spec
tators of the ene, and dimes and
quarters were dropped into the lads
hand. He began to cry at this. and
ran out sob5ing: "Youse be mighty
good to poor duffer like me"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28

A great slide over in NVoolford's Can
on the other day fairly shook the
earth, and toll gate keeper named
Merk went out on an exploring expe-
dihon. He found that cabin occu-
pied by family named Maxwell had
been carried away, and that 1t was
packed with snow packed almost as
hard as rock to the depth of twenty
feet. Seeing that he could do nothing
unaided, Merk went around the coun-
try and raised force of twenty men,
who, armed with picks and shovels,
fastened to the scene. By dark they
had touched some of the logs that
formed the cabin, and working by the
light of huge fire they had kindled
the hardy fellows continued their ex-
ertions. By IL o'clock they had got
down to the level of that portion of
the cabin which remained intact, and
hammering on the walls they waited
for an answer. In an instant came a
knock in reply from the inside. The
delivers broke into cheer as the well
come sound reached their ears. 1t
took them an hour longer to cut
through the logs and pass some bran
dy and bread through the logs to the
family.
The Maxwells father, mother and
Jour children-had been saved from
death almost miraculeusly. They
were hudlled in a little space not
more than ten feet square, and when
found were almost dead from hunger,
cold and terror. The father and the
eldest child, lad of eight years. had
been trying to cut through two-foot
log with jack knives in an effort to ex,
tricate themselves. After getting the
family out the brave men who had
worked so long and hard carried them
all to the toll house, where they were
kindly attended to.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
A Perfect Gentleman Described
Columbus JJo,,,s Gozafta

The editor of the Champion, the
Chicago liquor organ, declares that
the saloon-keepers are just as respect
able as any other class of citizens.
Some peoples ideas of respectability
are rather queer.
who is that man who has just
gone outl" asked traveller of bar.
keeper in Deadwood city the other
day.
That" replied the gin-j erker,
that's perfect gentleman-one OF
the most perfect gentlemen in the
camp"
Indeed" said the surprised strang.
er.
you bet he isl Why, the ,other
night over at Sack Bowie's game he
killed a man for something or other,
and the next day he paid the under.
takers bill out of his own pocket and
sent the widow Darrell of -four. Its
true he made a big winning, and all
that; but how many men do you meet
nova days with a great big heart
like thati Hes perfect gentleman
sir.n
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
Why Frida Stanler Took Poison.
New York Tribune.

MY NAME" she said, sis Frida
Standler; | am seventeen years old,
and have been in this country three
years My folks live in Germany,
and have no friends in this country.
A year ago l came to live with
Ferdinand Braun, the large furni-
ture manufacturer, at 1T East One
Hundred and Ninth street. Mr.. Braun
was a widower, and has two children
"a girl of ten years and boy of
thirteen years He made love to me
and made me believe he would marry
me. | believed what he said and was
happy, for | loved him. 1t was only
the other day found out that he was
going to marry another girl, the
daughter of wealthy people, who live
at Mount Morris avenue and One
Hundred and Twenty-second street.
Her name is Fanny; that is all l
know. She is rich. | am poor. l
have only what have saved out Of
my wages. Last night the wedding
took place at the girls parents house.
l did not want to live when l knew
of it. l bought the poison in store
oh VIC AoI SOIucI vi o-Ao 11un-
dred and Tenth street and Third
avenue--10 cents worth-and kept it
with me. AT midnight, when l knew
they were going to start from the
stable in One Hundred and Twenty
fifth street, where the coach was
waiting for them, I went around
there and waited. l took the poison
when l heard them coming, and tried
to get into the cab with them, that l
might die there. Mr.. Braun told the
driver to drive on ond leave me. OH
Then l forgot what happened-we
were at the police station, know"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
4 Dakota Domestic Blizzard.
Bismarck Oak Tribune.

The other day a Bismarck gentle
man was coming up from Standing
Rock, and stopped to see man who
lives near the Cannon-Bau River. In
response to his knock at The door he
heard shrill, sharp Come inl" and
on entering found a sharpe-faced,
angular woman sitting in the room
under an open scuttle hole leading
into the loft above, with shotgun on
her knee. is the gentleman of the
house in9" he asked. Eyes, sir, he
air." Can l see him moment2"
mo, sir; you can't see a hide nor
hair of inn" why can't /, madam
| would like to speak to him on bust
ness" IF you was a dyin', and Jim
the.only doctor in Dakota, you couldn' t
sot an eye on him till he gives in an
talks decent. At dinner a while ago
he told me to pass i'm the apple soss,
an tof him it wasn't soss, an he
said he knowed better, it was soss, an
I toll him that wen he TUX notion
that little apple sass'd feel soothin'
to his stomach to say so, an he said
he'd have that soss or die. Then I
toll hem I'd defend that sass with life,
an made break for the shotgun,
an he made break up through the
scuttle inter the loft. Wen his
senses come to him an he gives in
that sass is sass, he kin come down,
but if he makes break, afore that,
off goes the top of his head. Thar
sets the sass, stranger, an thar's jim
up in the loft, an that's the way the
matter stands just now, an reckon
you'd better mosey along an not get
mixed inter the row." As the gentle
man moved away he heard her voice
saying: Jim, wen you get tired o
yer durn foolin' an want this sass,
jes' squeal out" And a gruff voice
from the darksome garnet responded
''Sossl"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
He Read His Policy.
Wall Street News.

He had house insured in the sub
urbs of Pittsburg, and early in Janu-
airy he secured an insurance of several
hundred dollars. When the Febru-
airy rise in the rivers came he rode
into town every day to hear the re-
port, and one day he was told that
his house would be floating down
stream before morning.
Next day he was in town again, and
was asked:
well, were you drowned out?"
THE water is four feet deep where
my house stood"
Were you there when it started
Off"
II was there when it took fire and
burned"
Burned
Certainly The insurance com
panies don't pay for a house carried
off in freshet."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
A DREAM.

An old man sits IN his easy chair
On q dreary winter night,
His face as white as his flowing hair
That shines in the lamps dim light.
And he falls asleep 10 dream at last
OF the happy days of yore,
While anon the smould ring embers cast
A glare on the oaken floor
O, wake not the peaceful dreamer now,
Before his dreaming is done;
No shadow rests on his wrinkled brow;
Then let his wild fancy run.
In dreams he now lives In other days
When his heart throbbed not with pain;
Ger his fathers fields he once more strays,
And he romps as child again.
He gees his home in the quiet wood,
Beside the murnuring sea,
And stands on the beach where oft he stood
Ere he left his native lea.
He sees the majestic ships go by,
As In long, long years before,
And hears again the sea bird cry
And the waves plash on the shore.
He hears the voices Of long ago,
And the songs that charmed his youth;
He watches the log fires ruddy glow,
And listens TO tales OF truth.
The old man smiles in that fair dream-land
For he sees a face 50 dear;
He feels the touch Of a mothers hand,
And the dreamer drops a tear.
Beautiful dream OF that aged man.
o. that il might last for aye.
So bright are youths scenes TO him again;
DO stay happy yisiOn-stay.
The dreamer wakes with n heavy sigh,
Will. tears on his cheek fall fast,
And he says as he wipes his fearful eye
Sweet was my dream Of the past!'
THOMAS J. MAcMrRRAY
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
Elaboration of New Gninea.

''1n connection with the
Waltbam Watch Company, it may be
stated hat when the proprietors Of
The Age desired to present Mr.. G. E.
Morrison Ohe explorer of New Guineaj
with reliable chronometer, acting
upon tAe advice of Mr.. z. L. J. Ell
lery, the Government Astromer, two
Waltham watches, were, however,
procured for Mr.. Morrison instead.
These were kept at the Melbourne OBJ
servatory for a fortnight, and thor
oughly and carefully tested, and were
pronounced by Mr.. Ellerv, at the end
of that time, to be better suited fer
Mr Morrison's requirements than az y
Extract from the Mel
bourne AGe.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28

OF the many very beneficial TO ID
remedies for infants and invalids, we
know Of none which have received so
many encomiums as Ridges Food, pre-
pared by WoolIich & Co, of Palmer.
Mass. Reliable and well known. having
stoo the test of years, it is to-day in the
foremo tanks. We have known fam
lies wht re it has been in use for long
period of time with results SO satisfac-
tory that they will not do without it.
Tie proprietor is a gentleman of stand
ing in every sense of the word, and a
thorough professional chemist. Great
as IS his business in all its departments
It re. elves his direct personal supervis-
on. Hence it is that Ridges Food
maintains its foremost position, ami
hol Il it popularity with the pub :.
VIII as it is known across the water. L
mGs fair, with us, under its Ans ris al
management. to far outstrip its Etuc :
pean popularity. Pilot.
The South African Medical Journal
which describes itself as ''bantling,"
complains that the ethical tone of
Cape Colony is even worse than it is
in England. For patient to sug-
gest a consultation is to morally of
fend; for one doctor to help another
is unknown, and patients in the tenn
porary absence of their own attend
ant, are left to the tender mercies of
chance"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
Couldn't Back 1t Up.
Merchant Traveller.


A lawyer who had been "bully-rag-
ging" a witness for some time at last
got him down TO personal questions. >.
he asked, that the defendant male
certain remarks about met"
II said SO, sir"
"Ah, thought so. Well, now, sir,
l should like to ask if he could sub
stantiate those remarksi"
No, sir, 1 don't think he could"
"Ah; something ibelous, presume.
Will you be kind enough to state to
the court what he said?'
Yes, sir; he said you were an honest
and truthful man, and"
''Th : enough. Call the next
witness. and the lawyer went into
the jury-roon for a minutes relaxa-
ton without excitement.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
The Presidential Problem.

While Thousands are Specializing - 70 whom
vi e2ercSse the presidential functions Of our gov.
eruusenG and after March 4th, 1885. The tray-
cling public has succeeded IN sowing . problem
which 70 them is OF Far greater personal interest,"
VIZ skics Is the best, cheapest and most cen
An.Ner invariably i the Grand Union Hotel
opposite the Grand Central Depot Whyf For
the Trason that trevesers arriving a. this oepo<
save 8 carriage hire and transfer Of baggage;
can G35faIn elegant rossm from 81 and upwards
PER day. as the best and che4peSr meal 70 b
round u tie metropolis, and can reach any part
VI tie city By stepping into horse car, stAgo CT
eirsated train right al the hotel door.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
Nothing but Ears.
Philadelphia Call.

PA" said little boy to his father
on their arrival in ST. Louis, Il didn't
know the people in this city had
wings"
"Wings7 Certainly not" replied
the father.
Then what are those things that
stick up so hight"
Hush, my boy" said the father in
an undertone; you mustn't speak so
loud. Those are ears"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-28
PULMONARY CONTAMINATION.

pKAR SlR:-I recelNed the trial bottle Of your
White Wine of Tar Syrup, which you sent 10 u,y
address. My wife has been troubled with hung
disease for more than eighteen years. and WAS
pronounced to be last January in the last stages
Of Pulmonary Consumption She commenced
taking your valuable medicine and received re
lief at once. She has used three bottles since and
is using the fourth, and her health is better
than for many years. We cheerfully recommend
it to all afflicted with any trouble OF the throat
lungs. We now get our medicine through John
Potter, our merchant at this place,
Yours Respectfully REV. ]. Il. Fly
Brooklne Station, Mo SUsANE Fly.