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The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-15
Tricks Of New York Girls.

IOldFd Dell6 IL StLCiutldUb
Bewitohing ma9icians are what O good
many OF the New York girls are trying,
with variable success. to make of them
selves Their dear little fingers land I
have observed that only those with nice
hands take to the diyersion) are apt to
be deft AMI deceptive in manipulating
such simple apparatus as they select
from those originally intended for boys
to play with. Among the apparatus
which they employ is the marble and
vase, consisting of a pedestal of harl
wood, in which ball is placed and
caused to suddenly disappear, appar-
emily shot into the ceiling or into the
air out of sight It suddenly reappears
in your hand, or at any place that
may be designated. Also the magic
nail, an Illusion in which the performer
exhibits a common sixpenny nail,
which may be passed round among the
spectators. Immediately upon its re-
turn she passes it through her finger.
Still another is a box for wedding
ring. It causes the greatest conster-
nation at the supposed loss of we'd
ding ring that slips out of it in the most
mysterious manner, and is as suddenly
recovered Then there is handkerchief
that showers bon-bons on the table and
can be male to disappear in twink
ling. The magic finger can be had.
This trick enables the performer to
thrust one of her fingers through the
crown of hat, which is distinctly seen,
and after exhibition she pulls her finger
out of the hole and returns it uninjured
to the owner.
Goodness mer' she exclaims. as she
hands on impressionable caller his hat
what has happened to this?"
He sees what looks like one of her
digits thrust right through his new tile
and the sensational situation is dra
| m afic
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-15

-nowp And, ere the agitated horticulturist
could recover from his surprise and alarm,
the fruit was severed, and-in his handi
"Hel he' he!" shrilly laughed, or seemed
to laugh, that accursed little pigtail.
Washford started at once to the perpendicu-
lar. With an enfrenzied grasp he tore the
jasey from his head, and with that in one
hand and his il-acquired spoil In the other,
he rushed distractedly from the garden.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-15
Quietly Remark.
Excllanoe.

If you are particularly anxious to
abuse man don't call him o fool, he
might be annoyed; don't call him a
rascal, he might knock you down;
quietly remark, with heavenly smile:
''Sir, you present u fine large margin
for improvement.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-15
An Edition of Six.

Charles Francis Adams, Jr., is anus
ing himself in delightful, if somewhat
expensive fashion says Boston letter to
The Chicago Tribune. He has written
a book and had six copies printed for
his own use. More properly speaking
he has written only the first volume of
what is in the end to be four volume
work. This first volume, is printed in
admirable style, and contains about 450
pages. About two-t thirds of it is occu-
pied with an account of the early settle
ment of Boston, while the remainder is
taken up with the narrative of the An
tinomian controversy. Several papers
which have before appeared in print are
substantially included in the work; as
the account Of Morton and Merry Mount,
Sir Francis Gardener and Blackstone,
the first settlers on the peninsula The
six copies are none of them given away /;
they are loaned to men who are adopts
in Boston history, AID the critic sns of
the readers are invited. Ultimately the
work. revised, if revisions from these
criticisms are necessary, will be pub
isha1
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-15

Bronson Alcott: The deepest truths
are best read between lines, and, for the
most part, refuse to be written.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1884-03-15

sea, upon which it rests, instesd of hav-
ing been built where it is because its
founders had nothing but submerged
sand bars to use.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-28
The Modern CoUuettc.

MAUD Howe in "a Newport Aquarelle." W
The forms of coquetry are infinitely varied,
and some of them are much more reprehensi-
BILE than others. The woman who undertakes
conquests simply for the glory of displaying
at the wheels of her chariot the captive she
holds by the rosy bonds Of love, is the com
monest type. AS her coquetry is of the most
patent kind, it's wounds are rarely severe or
lasting, and yet there is certain vulgarity
about this spirit of conquest which makes
this type of woman dangerous to both men
and women
more subtle and disastrous influence is
welded by the woman who is bent on the
scientific analysis of the various effects pro-
duced by the tender passion on men of differ
ent character and nature. She has little
pigeon-holes marked with different charac-
teristic names, and into these she Classics
every new specimen. She is apt soon to dis
cover that the pigeon holes may be very few
and that nearly all the men she meets will tit
exactly into one or another of them When
she has arrived at this conclusion she is salts
fled; two or thu &c good specimens of every
sort having been coolly analysed and properly
PigeOn-hoied.
Another class, perhaps the most dangerous
one into which we are dividing coquetles, in
cudes those women who fancy themselves in
love with each fresh lover. They are emo
tional and sympathetic women, who, being
incapable of strong feeling themselves, are
borne along by the force of passion which
fascnates them, and which they would gladly
reciprocate. In their often renewed disap-
pointment at finding that the new lover can
not make them forget themselves, they feel a
sense of injustice and never dream that they
are not the injured ones.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-28

velers esconced themselves and played poker
on the bottom while the paralyzed populace
looked aghast
The lucky ones formed sort OF aristoc
racy, and l do not recall anything more ex-.
trAordinary off the burlesque stage than the
soirees they used to give. Big, hulking fell
lows, who didn't know a quahrille from
quadroon, would amble around the hall in
dress coats made in Denver, and their fingers,
unused to gloves, sticking out separate from
each other, like radiating rays from a central
sun of white kid. Many of them were, in
deed, whited sepulchers, and would not stand
too close analysis even into their raiment.
On one occasion, while in the midst of set
of the "Praire Queen" a gentleman became
enraged at his Opposite" and incautiously
peeled of his swallow-tail to mop the waxed
floor with him, revealing thereby the mortify-
ing fact that his collar, shirt-front and cuffs
were hollow and detached shams, and merely
pinned to the blue flannel shirt that long asso-
citation as a miner had made him loath to
part with. A bosom friend of this gentle
man was a gaunt, rawboned farmers boy,
who had wandered into the west and whom
sudden riches had dragged out Of the obscu
rity of prospect hole. stuck a diamond in his
bosom and dropped down into the midst OF
the ultra aristocratic circles. He distin-
gushed himself at his debut. A young lady
remarked to him that her sister had PEN
chant for water color painting, and he
promptly replied:
"Why, kin they get one for that My old
man applied fur one fur wound he got at
Shilo, but the pesky government wouldn't
give it to him cause he'd lost his discharge
papers"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-28
Beecher and the Book Agent.
New York Cor. Chicago News. !

New York Cor. Chicago News.
Henry Ward Beecher spoke in his talk this
evening of men blessed with wit humor and
imagination who, when troubled, could take
themselves out of these circumstances, like a
candle out OF candlestick, and set them
selves down somewhere else to be happy. A
man who had proper sense Of humor was
like wagon with springs-he did not jolt.
Mr.. Beecher knew how that was himself
Such man was able to cast aside moody
thoughts and fears A man who claimed to
be an English clergyman came to Mr..
Beecher's house. Mrs Beecher saw him,
and told Mr.. Beecher that he was very in
sulting When Mr.. Beecher came home an
other time the man was there He was lit
tie man, and sat in the parlor purple in the
face.
II sent you book, he growled. ''Did you
receive itr'
81 did
"Ani you were not gentleman enough to
acknowledge the receipt Of it l think your
wife is no lady"
walk, said Beecher
you, sir, turn me-
81 took him by the neck" said Mr.. Beecher,
land rushed him out. | was not angry; was
burning up. When got back in the room it
was SO absurd that lay right down on the
aoor and laughed. Suppose had kept mad
Imagination, wit and humor help one to
grace. | have been criticised because | made
people laugh. II made them cry suppose
it would be all right. The bible don't
say so"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-28
[Rockland Courier azette.1

whats this Dead Scott decision aboutf
queried Mrs Wigglesworth, lo king up from
khe paper. Dread Scott-not Dead Scott,
korrected Mr.. Wigglesworth, with man $
patronizing smile OF superiority. "Well,
Dread Scott, then. What is itr' Mr. Wig
ellsworth was stuck, but he looked wise
Something to do with the Mexican war;" he
explained. Gen. Scott, you know, was
terrible fighter, and the Greasers got to refer
ing to him as the Dread Scott. Some decision
or other he made about a battle is what the
papers mean" Mrs Wigglesworth, with a
satisfied air, folded the paper back and
turned 10 see if any new people had been
born, while Mr.. Wigglesworth winked to
himself at his having got out of it so smoothly
''All a woman needs" he mentally remarked,
''is to have thing explained one way or an
other Don't matter what you tell EN-, so
long as it's something It's mighty sight
easier than having to answer hundred ques-
tons Makes EN- respect a man, too"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-28
A Man with a silver Ak all.
[Chicago Times.

One OF the queerest curiosities on the globe
is a man with silver skull who is now Wis
iting in Louisville, Ky. During fiercely
contested battle in the late war this interest
ing individual was struck in the head with
piece of shell, which tore away the entire top
Of his skull, leaving the brain most horribly
exposed. Strange to say, he survived the
terrible wound and noted surgeon who was
one of the ply sicians in attendance upon the
late lamented Garfield, succeeded in fitting
a silver plate over the opening which
shielded the brain, equally as well rs the
skull. This plate is about the size of a mans
hand and works on hinges, and may be
raised up and down at will. The re-skulled
man does not experience the least pain, and
as he wears wig all evidence Of shattered
skull is concealed.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-28
4 liable DLSINFECTA

New York Sun.
A disinfectant introduced to the med
ical profession by the late DR.. Goolden
has been used in London eight years.
Half drachm of nitrate of lead should
be dissolved in one pint or more of
boiling water, and two drachms of COM
mon salt in bucket of water. Pour
the two solutions together, and let the
sediment subside A cloth dipped i'll
this snd hung up in room will sweeten
fetid atmosphere instantly, or the sol
ution thrown down drain or over u
heap of rubbish will produce like re-
suit. Clothing worn by patient with
Infectious disease, or bed linen, can be
put ut once into this solution without
injury TO the material. thus destroying
the risk of infection for those persons
who wash the clothing. Although 1t Is
n strong poison taken internally, IT does
not injure the skin. 4 room could be
scrubbed with the solution, and would
be sweetened ut once by the process.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-28


1t is well known that the round form is the
best fer chinmeys in workshops. II facilitates
the escape of the smokel and gives less hold
for the wind. besides requiring less material
for. construction Round chineys are, how
81 difficult to build, and in some places the
Of workmen 10 make the round kind
compelled the adoption Of square or octa-
! g,a Il forms To obviate this a European
firm makes bricks in the shape Of wedges
and corresponding with the radius which tho
chimney u to have.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-28
a Hint in a and h ere hief..

A patriotic manufacturer at Rouen
has designed some handkerchiefs for
thepurpose of diffusing military knowl-
edge. They are printed on linen in in
destructible black. The information
was compiled by two officers of high
position and besides comprising a com
plete system of drill, valuable hygienic
information is given, and all sorts of
instruction appear as to the best means
of rendering assistance to the wounded,
and how to help comrade home who
is injured. Great personal cleanliness
is enioined, and sound advice given as
to hunger, thirst, sleeping, marching,
etc.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-28

- y klii0s A.
3 with the mu
.at alum or phos.N
iu cans.
'OWDER CO.,
rect, New York
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-28
fOrcc OF Habit.
Milwaukee Sentinel

Photography is being used to de-
termine the height of clouds, but the
photographers cannot break the force Of
habit, and when they point their cam
eras at the sky they always say
-Now, look pleasant, please, and don't
STIR"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-28

And the prisoner died during the
night, vanquished like Brutus, grand as
Cato.
He had died of an heroic Indigestion.
He had eaten all his straw.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-28

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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1884-02-28

Some friend Of mankind has invented
bedroom alarm by which the clerk in the
Office can wake guest any hour without
ssnding stAlwart porter TO alarm the entire
hall
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-15
The Minnesota Republicans,

The Minnesota Republicans In con-
gress who voted for the Morrison bill
did so through fear of the resentment
Of their constituents II they opposed
tariff reform. These constituents.
who drove them to set their faces
against the whole Republican side OF
congress, are Republicans; for Demo.
cratic voters would have had no inilu
ence with Republican congressman
and could not have induced them Ia
oppose the Republican policy Of the
country, And II these Minnesota Re,
pubiicans are 80 incensed at protection
as to force their representatives Il
break loose from party bonds aud vot.
with Democrats for Democrat,
measure, would they not Az readil,
vote direct for Democrat as for Re
publican? in an issue between fre.
trade and protection. the Democrat,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-15
THE Cincinnati New. .,o,,,,, !, N

-
plains that 1t Is financially IN 49,, "a
ion' and that receiver was ~, Sonul-
because In the settlement OF old tlsh,s S b.
necessary 10 have one man ernpor..s' !" =
act. There nre 100 stock holders ahn,, 70
nine too many for ordinary purrosss ',.e' Y.
insisted on unntng the estabiishmen, ~ nl'
selves. ''''ene Them
TIE Albany News announces tho, !.
has thought the good win OF the A,b.n- :. y
nom Mr.. j. Q. Son, who will remove he s sss
teriai to neighboring town ana soor hin ss's'
the publication OF new paper und.r ! .'s'l
name.' Albany cannot suitably sun,or, , ,."'
papers, and this change, we are coni,aer,
VIII result In good to Albany az wei, as ~. !,
to n proper compensation for the labor M s y.
good newspaper. ~ oDc
The Chicago Herald is one Of M, :,
GAzErrE's most valued exchanges Til.
cel'ent newspaper has Just en,ered Nv I, vN :
fourth year of Its existence, and NJ. 49,. ,av
grows better as It grows older, The cn, .ue
Herald Ia neither an organ nor nm vshr,"s,
but Is truly an independent journal. ora :.
such has won high position rs is ettes,ea (.
It's daily circulation of nearly $1,000. Tho IT, -
aid gives the kernel OF all the news az tbn ~.
and inhlcts no useless hull on It's readers \
Is a first.class newspaper and TIE a ,yv,,,,
welcomes Its daily visits.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-15
A Split in the Old Ticket.
tChicago Herald.l


Democratic sentiment favorable n
the candidacy of Tilden is widespreaS
andwell-nigh unanimous. But the se,,.
timent suggesting the candidacy of the
old ticket in its entirety Is not SO clear
II you take one you must take the
other, say the friends and admirers ~
the lesser half of the old ticket. Won
can't split sentiment in two. Ant
Gramercy remembers, perhaps with
chagrin, that one reason Operating IN
prevent Tilden's election in 1880 was
the unwillingness of Brother Thomas
to take his old place in the procession
That disinclination is said to have dis
appeared, but if it may be granted that
Sam'l j. Barkis of New York IL willing
so far as he himself is concerned, It
will have to be admitted also that he
is DESTROYS of securing another running
mate. There is as much warrant for
the one assertion as for the other. He
favors, or is said to favor, an Ohio man.
or, falling one of these, he would take
Hoosier other than Tummis--Mc.
Donald, for instance.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-15
The Gamblers Going.

The failures that have occurred in
New York are simply the failures of
stock gamblers. 1t is result that has
been predicted for more than a year
past by men who were acquainted
with the hazardous operations of deal
ers in stocks. 1t is the inevitable fate
of gamblers to lose at last. They can
not hope to turn winning cards at
every deal, and the gambler in stocks
is no more secure against the turn of
luck than the gambler who conducts
his operations over the green table.
The condition Of affairs is just this I:
Bulls on the stock exchange have been
forcing securities up, up, up, unit |
they have been lifted of a foundation.
AS long as they could keep these stocks
going up everything was safe. But
there must be q limit to expansion,
and when this limit was reached those
firms on which the inflated stock was
lunloaded had to suffer the loss of the
difference between the real and ficti-
tious value of the stock. The load was
more than they could bear, and they
had to succumb. This cause was de-
scribed and this result foreseen by the
], New York Herald year ago, and it is
but the natural, inevitable outcome OF
, gambling risks.
, The solid business of the country
: will not suffer, for it is in too good 6
g condition to be affected by involve
ments of Wall street spectators. il
f has bottom which the safeguarding
J operations had not. There is no in
q flation at large, but on the Contrary
e business has been more than usually
S conservative, and all values are dowr
to lizard pau" 1t is as absurd to tall
about general and serious hurt to lie
:. gitimate business interests being force,
S by the failure of few stock specula
: tors as to say that a-losing deal by
e faro dealer will result disastrously t
the general business interests OF
&c town. Business in Texas was neve
II on firmer basis than at this time
N and men who have examined the stu
E. alton feel very easy about it.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-15
THE AZETTE: FORT WORTH, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAYS.

policy. The protection IL gives to the
laborer comes in only as an affix of the
protection 1t gives to the capitalist.
The capitalist and manufacturer is not
prohibited from sending abroad to the
cheapest labor market Of Europe and
engaging the 'pauper labor of Hum
gary and Russia to come to this coun-
try and underbid the native workman,
but the workman is debarred from
sending to Europe for his purchases II
he can get them cheaper than at
home. He must pay what the manu-
facturers, the benetlciaries of protec-
ton, demand from him. That is how
Mr.. Arthur has protected the Ameri-
can capitalist and the American work
man.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-15

THE late DIR. Samuel ID. Gross of
Philadelphia, perhaps the most emf
nent surgeon this country has ever
produced, was an ardent advocate of
incarceration as the most advisable
method OF disposing of the dead. Ii
was his explicit instruction that his
body should be cremated and the order
was obeyed, the incarceration taking
place in the lie AIoyne crematory al
Washington, Pa, last week. The
American Medical association, which
was in session at Washington at the
time, paid high and marked honors tC
the memory of DR.. Gross. The exam
Pile set by a man of such eminenct
will likely furnish an additional an,
strong argument for the advocates o
cremation. Indeed, it may be salt
that the preponderance of opinion
among the leading members of tn
medical profession in this country i
in favor Of the practice.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-15
Why Not Try High License {?


Why should not the temperance PEG.
pie try high license before they go to
agitating prohibition and endeavoring
to suppress the liquor traffic. High H.
cense has been tested in few states
and found to work well. Maine, which
Is the banner prohibition state. has
one revenue liquor license from the
United Ssates) for every SIS of her pop
ulation. In other words there are two
liquor saloons to every 1000 inhabi-
tants in Maine. They may be hidden
and under the surface, but they exist,
and they make people get drunk and
yield no revenue to the state. High
license aims to regulate rather than
suppress an evil. Nobody believes
prohibition will suppress liquor selling
and drunkenness. Why not attempt
then to regulate the matter? It is In,
next best thing to suppression, which
cannot be accomplished.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-05-15

Two religious dogmatists at Pitts
burg fought fist fight to settle u dis
puted point of religion. The best
muscled man in such argument as this
is pretty sure to carry his point. A
similar case took place at Dallas not
long ago, except that the disputants
used pistols instead of fists TO decide
the controversy, which gives a more
permanent quality to the affair, as
there is no appeal from the decision of
a Colts ii-calibre. However, 1t is to
be hoped such modes of argument will
not come into vogue, as it would give
such men as Sullivan and Ben Thomp.
son undue prominence as religious
controversialists.