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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-10
MIRAGE.

VIII read that book, we'll sing that song.
Rut whcn' Oh. when the days. are long;
When thoughts are free, and voices cleart
some happy time within the year. =,
the DAYS troop by with nolseless tread
The song unsung (; the book unread.
Wen see that friend. and make hm leei
The weight of friendship, true as steel;
some flower of sympathy bestow =
But time sweeps on with steady fiow'
Until with quick, reproac6ini tear
We lay our flowers upon ms pier'
And still We walk the desert sands
And still with trifleS ill our hanqs
While ever, inst beyond our reach
A faireT purpose shows to each. Ill,
The deeds We have not done. but wlileo'
Remain 90 haunt us-unfulillcd.
A. :. Il,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-10
JACKS COURTSHIP,
.s.noR's YARN OF LOVE AND sHIPwREcK.
CHAPTER XXXuI-CoNTNUED.
BY W. CLARK RUSSELL

irgsr - The WrceL Of The Grosce"or,' "A
Crtcn. ""An ocean FrcC- Lshoe,"et
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
An Astonished Elephant.

An Irish gentleman with red artificial
whislers, four men with burned cork
faces, dashing young woman in white
satin, and several other curiosities came
flying out of the back windows and
doors of Forepaugh's Dime Museum
last night. From the subterranean
depths under the stage of the theater
came q series of the most distracting
cries, mingled with Embarrassing roars.
The unearthly noise was made by
Adam Forepaugh's clown elephant
Pickaninny, who had dropped through
the stage and gone crashing into the
green-room, where the actors were
waiting for the curtain to go up ON the
next entertainment. The occupants of
the green-room supposed that the walls
of the theater had fallen in, and fled
wildly to the street. The surprised and
frightened elephant lay on his beam
ends in the middle of pile of broken
boards and tattered scenery. He had
fallen ten feet, and he made no effort to
extricate himself, but lay where he
landed, roaring in way that aroused
the neighborhood. He was pulled out
and taken up stairs to the stage, and, as
an elephant expert said that the animals
cuts and bruises were not serious, the
beast was put through his performance
as usual The trainer, in rehearsinS
the beast in somersault between per-
formances, had allowed him to roll
upon a weak trap, which gave way, and
the playful little proboScidian went
heels over head down below. An extra
force of carpenters spent the night brac-
ing the stage to resist the one-ton aero
bate performances of Pickaninny to-
day.-Ritadelphia Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
A LITTLE DARLING.

Pops darling is little, so little-so sly;
"A plump Little darling with pretty blue eye;
And she sitting and singing,
Her tiny feet swinging,
Yes, swinging on papa's desk, way up SO high
She's a dear little darling, II bright sunny ray
And she's laughing the while-we are looking
her way;
Now cooling, now winking
At Pop While he thinking
And writing of baby dear, swinging away.
And thus in the evening sits baby up here,
Sits singing and swinging-Pop's own little
dear,
Making work of lifetime
One ray of bright sunshine
For all is contentment when baby is near.
Now darling grows sleepy, keeps wake, hut in
vain,
And she lays her head where so oft it has
lain.
Now she's noddng, nid-nodding,
Some dreamy land plodding,
And we sOothe her to sleep till the morrow
again.
So here we sit musing-once more in the
While the light fickers drearily pale in the
room,
Some fairy-land seeming
While thinking and dreaming
Of little ones mother low down in the tomb.
London Young Folks Weekly Budget.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
NOT A BEGGAR.
How an Impecunious Fellow Raised the
Wind In Detroit.

"lhu IN DetrOlC'
Gentlemen, he began in smooth.
molasses sort Of voice, Il am dead
broke but no beggar l want to raise
about three dollars, but shall do it in
a legitimate manner. Now, then, let
me ask you to inspect this"
He took from his pocket a piece of
iron chain as large as his thumb and
containing six links and passed it
around. After it had carefully been in
spected by each of the party he con-
tinued:
Il want to bet my overcoat, which ia
certainly worth SO, against So in cash
that none of you can separate one link
from the Others"
The piece of chain was passed around
again to be more closely scrutinized,
and finally one of the party, who was
machinist, returned it with the remark:
And l want to put up that sum
against your oyercoat that you can't do
it yourself"
'Donen said the stranger as he pulled
off his coat
Coat and cash were put up in the
asked the group to follow him. He
walked across the street and into a
blacksmith shop, and picking up a
hammer and cold-chisel he deliberately
cut out link. The crowd stood around
like so many pumpkins at a county
fair, but when the stranger held up the
link and claimed the stakes the ma
chinist recovered his wits sufficiently to
exclaim:
sold by a professional deadbeat!
The money is yours, old fellow, but in
exactly thirty seconds after you receive
it l shall begin to kick, and you had
better be twenty rods off,
"Thanks-glad to have met you
good day!' replied the stranger, and he
was out of sight in seven seconds.-Dc-
troit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29

A notable fact in connection with the
counting up of the years products is the
unusual quantity of fish and marine an
finals with which Monterey Bay has
been crowded during the entire season.
School after school of herring, sardines,
smelt and other small fish have swarmed
the waters, breaking the nets of the
fishermen and furnishing food to swoop-
ing clouds of sea-gulls. The larger food
fish-rock-cod, barracuda, founders,
skate, etc.--have been taken in the
greatest abundance and in the last few
weeks whales, large and small, have
spouted and plunged and floated, to the
delight of all admirers of these great
marine mammals. Latterly great
schools of seals and sea-lions have Wis.,
tied the bay, and last night a bevy of
seals came in around the piers and kept
up constant barking like so many dogs
after chicken thief. This morning
they kept well in shore and saluted
everybody they saw with friendly bark.
Whalers report an unusually severe sea-
son in the north, and this cause, COM
bined with a bountiful yield of their
food supplies in the way of sea vegeta-
ton, has probably sent them to the
friendly feeding grounds or waters Of
our bay.-SdNtG Cruz SaTf.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
The Springfield Armory.

The Armory shops will turn out more
rifles this year than ever before since
the war, the average being 140 day.
Last years product was $4,000, and the
product of the year before was $4,000.
The amount of work depends on the
amount of the appropriation, which is
about 100000 a year. The shops are
now working at the best advantage for
all concerned. There are 458 men as
against AIS year ago. Since March l
the eight-hour system has been in force,
and there has been general readjust-
ment of wages. Formerly skilled and
unsEilled day laborers alike received
$2.7j a day. The average pay is still
about the same, but the tariff has been
adjusted so as to make the wages agree
more nearly with the capabilities of the
workmen, and to make the change from
ten hours to eight hours without loss to
the Government. 1t is found the men
work so much more effectively in pro-
portion under She eight-hOur rule that,
with the more equitable arrangement of
wages, the cost of the rifle has not been
increased. Such increases as there might
have been is more than compensated
for by the good machinery and inn
proved methods introduced.-Spri11g-
field Republican. .r ...-.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
The Manicure's Art.

The Partisan fashion of having Il pro-
fessional manicure polish and point the
tnger-nails has become surprisingly
prevalent in New York. At the best
known establishment in town there are,
besides the proprietress, about Il dozen
young women assistants. The "pa-
tient" on his arrival is shown into re-
ccption room. elegantly furnished,
where he awaits his turn. When it ar
rives he is ushered into the operating
room and placed in an easy chair with
a table attachment, on which are jars,
brushes, spOnges, files and various lit
tie ivory implements. The iinger-tips
are first soaked in cologne water, then
covered alternately with a salve and
powder. Then follows the polishing,
filing and shaping. The whole per-
Torrance lasts about an hour and costs
one dollar. When it is finished the pa
TENTS nails are fit objects for preserva-
ton in the Smithsonian Institution.-M
y. Mail and Cypress.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
Home Life in America.

Scenc-The next room. Door shut.
Nothing visible except an audible voice
the other side of the door. Enter audi
bic voice, audibly, speaking orally in
vocal accents:
Hah!
There, now!
Hell up
Hole DIP!
Hole dup your red!
cunt you hold your head dup!
Put TIM
Puttit tin!
Put tin your foot!
Turn arOundi
Turn rOU12d!
o, goodness gracious! don't you know
how to turn around?
Hold your head still!
Don't do that!
Tother arm!
The other arm!
0, great land. 90 to your mother!
1t is a man, dressing his infant son in
the morning .-RoJert j. Burdette, IN
BrO0klyn Eagle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
e STRONG SWORDFISH.
He Drives His Blade Through Nine Inches
of Copper and wood.

A'Nf~NNN
of Copper and Wood.
A very remarkable event has occurred
in the recent experience of the three
masted schooner Thclnis, of Boston,
commanded by Captain n. E. Kendrick,
and now lying in Ship Island harbor.
The Themis sailed from Mobile on
August with cargo of lumber for
Tampico. She was tight vessel, taking
in very little water and requiring but
little use of the pumps. On the fifth
day out from Mobile Captain Kendrick
himself tried the pump and found no
water-that is, none above the five
inches play allowed between the lower
end of the pump and bottom of the
hold. An hour or two afterWard the
mate happened to try it, and to the
great establishment of the Captain, re-
ported twenty inches of water The
water was pumped out, but was soon
found to be running in again at the rate
of nearly twelve inches an hour. This
was near the bottom, and of course the
rate of leakage would diminish as the
elevation of surface of the water and
extent of its cross section would increase.
1t was enough, nevertheless, to create
alarm, and to keep the crew continually
employed at the pumps during the pass
age to Tampico, and while discharging
the cargo, these efforts were redoubled.
1t was fully ascertained that the leak
was not near the water line-as had
been hoped-but at the bottom of the
vessel. Finally, the mate, cropping and
exploring about the hottor'r gaaer.
that he had fou1..N" IN a lstickings9pl.d
ceiling or inner lihog of the timbers,
which he could not remove. He was
told to break it off, and at length
brought up about two inches of what
the captain OF once recognized as the
end of the blade of a sword-lish.
On further examination it was found
that the blade had penetrated in the
first place, the copper sheathing of the
schooner; then the outer timbers of the
hull, four inches in thickness; next a
vacant space of nine inches between the
outer and inner timbers, or ceiling and
lastly four and one-half inches more of
solid wood constituting the ceiling, al
together nearly nine inches of plank and
copper, with eleven inches of vacant
space, including the two inches of the
end broken off How much of the sword
remained outside has not yet been as
certained The blow was struck from
below, in direction nearly vertical, and
some idea of its amazing force may be
found from the figures above given. The
point of impact was a little forward of
the mizzenmast, about three feet from
the keel, on the starboard side. BY
tearing away part of the ceiling Captain
Kendrick was enabled partially to stop
the leak, and to bring his vessel first to
Appalachicola and thence back to Ship
Island, where he was sent for quaran-
tine, although he had a clean bill of
health. This is, no doubt, the most ex-
traordinary case of piscatorial swords
manship on record. There is no room
for question of its entire truthfulness.
The fragment of the sword is still stick
ing in the bottom of the schooner, and
will be available for examination when
she comes to be locked for repairs. NJ
o. Times Democrat.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
ARTIFICIAL EYES.
How They May be Made to Move in Their
Sockets, the Same as Those Which
Nature Placed There.

L ldctu lheTes
A very important surgical operation
was performed in this city yesterday, the
ultimate results ofwhich promise to make
stir in medical and surgical circles.
Heretofore the best that surgery has ac-
complished in replacing destroyed nat
ural eyes with false ones has been to
put in the injured members place a
glass eye, which, however skillfully
made, can always be detected because
it has no motion, but remains stationary
while the healthy organ is gazing from
point to point. The purpose of the new
operation is to give to the artificial eye
the same motion as that of the natural
eye.
The operation was performed yester-
day morning by DR.. Roland d. Jones,
of No. 1882 Green Street, upon Benny
Irwin, seven years old, of No. 80S Noble
Street, whose eye was nearly torn out
by an accident on Saturday last. DIR.
Jones was assisted by Doctors j. f.
Written, H. N. X. Swank, Edward
Nunez and j. p. Boyd. The coniunctiva
was first severed from the eyeball; the
muscles of the eyeball were then taken
up and cut from the ball, the optic
nerve cut and the eyeball taken out.
The severed muscles were then caught
up again and sewed to the under sur
face of the conjunctiva, and when this
had been accomplished the conjunctiva
was allowed to fall back into the cavity.
1t thus forms sack, in which when the
healing process has been accomplished
the artificial eye will rest. DIR. Jones
theory is that when the muscles have
become permanently attached to the
conJunctiva, as they will in the healing
process, they will respond to the move
ments of the muscles of the healthy eye,
move the sack, and consequently the art
iticial eye in conformity with the move
ment of its natural companion. Owing
to the badly inhamed condition of young
Twins wounded eye, the result of the
operation will not be so perfect as
might otherwise have been the case, but
it is confidently expected that enough
was accomplished to demonstrate the
value of DIR. Jones' theory. PbitGdeL-
phtG Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
HOW THE DEACON WAS FOOLED.
Out on Lark-A Hard Nights Work
The DeAcon's Thanks.

oub on lbark-A Hard NIGHTS WORK
The Deacon's Thanks.
I'm proof against you this year,
boys. Every door and gate on the place
is locked up tight"
Deacon Bump stood at his gate, with
a good-humored smile, as we boys vert
along in the early evening, intent on
playing Halloween jokes upon such
neighbors as might have left us any OPP
portunity.
"Ihat isn't fair, deacon. You ought
to have left us little chance"
Couldn't do it. I'm getting too
old, you see, to be trottIng all over
town after my traps. Go long with
you all. You won't find anything loose
here"
We went on and had the usual
amount of sport playing the same old
tricks.
Passing the deacon on our way back,
we stopped on perceiying that his lights
were out.
at would be jolly to play the good
old soul some sort of a joke after all
his care-wouldn't it?" said Harry
Grant
"Tip-top. Can't we?" said another.
at was a regular dare to us. We
ought TO do something" . ,.
We COZ .nlted. ...
On the other side of the quiet village
street stood wagon, loaded with cord
wood, large and heavy.
"Ill tell you," said Jim Hart. Lets
pile that woOd-the whole load-in the
deacOn's wood-shed. 1t would be the
best thing out. He'd be sure to get
into iirst-class scrimmage with that
cross-grained Pat Mallory. Both of 'em
would be completely dumbfounded as
TO how it got there, and when they
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29
Women who make their LIVING 7

Women who make their living by
dress-making, millinery, teaching fancy
work or painting, are daily imposed
upon by friends and strangers who
come to them for suggestions and ad-
vice about material, shades, designs
and patterns, defrauding the worker of
hours ofvaluable time without a thought
of paying for the advice given, and
often do not even thank the person
for the suggestion which she has
spent time and money in acquiring.-M
T. HernId.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29

The stockmen in Southwestern Col
orado are tired of the outrages commit
ted by the Ute Indians, and have re-
solved to kill on sight all Indians found
OFF the reservation.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-11-29

DR.. Hammond, of New York, ad-
vises women who wish TO be beautiful
TO live upon mutton.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-15

Ladies approve. u y0nr Hno4inl
illle Joker
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-15
A C0NARDLY DEED
Grant Ferguson Shot While Surround
ed by Lot Of Dancers.
The Would-Be Assassin Fires Through an
Open Window and Flees.


List night about quarter 10 II
o'clock negro man rushed up to
GAZETTE reporter on Main street and
excitedly told him man had been
shot at dance down on East
Second street and was dy.
ing. When the news gatherer
reached the scene he found Grant Fer
guson, negro who worked for Mr.
John Nichols as cowboy, lying on
the floor of one-story building, while
all ABOUT him were those who but n
short time previous had been making
the night merry with their pleasure,
but who then were silent in tue pres
ence Of life that seemed fast ebbing
away.
One who was present when the
shooting occurred told the reporter
that about il o'clock, just ss q set had
been finished and tie dancers were
standing on the floor, a pistol.shot was
tired through the window and Grant
Ferguson fell. No one saw
the person who fired tie shot,
bat q colored womsu who lives just
across the street saw man running
] away Just hlteT tue VlStpl WAS HFeuf
The ball entered Ferguson's neck on
the right side about two inches below
the ear and came out on the
left temple near the eye.
The wound was evidently made from
a No as pistol. AS soon as he was
shot Ferguson said that IL was done 10y
Stewart Brockman, a negro with
whom he had quarreled IN the morn
ing, and who has been his enemy for q
\ long time. 1t was stated 10y one
of the dancers that Ferguson
said he saw Brockman through tn,
windOwjutt as the shot WIS fired.
\ The officers we're notified and pro
ceeded to the place, but no on could
say positively who did the shooting
no one saw Brockmnu ut the dance
i and many could not say from wha
! direction the shot was fired
There was an open window ON th'
west side of the building aud Fergu
son was standing close ~ II when III
was shot, aud it was near this window
the man was seen running away IA
the darkness.
Ferguson bears pretty hard nam
az police headqu ,rters and has been al
Z before the courts number of timer
eBrockman is powerful man and
well known Ia the city. No arrest ha
been made UP to a la'e hour
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-15
TYLER.
The Day IN bio supreme oourt.

The Day in the Supreme Court,
Special 10 The GaEette. lU
TYLER TEX, Nov. 1.-THE gu
preme court affirmed: Galdsticker Ell
al. VS.. Ford, from Milan.
Reversed and referred: Carter vs.
HaVkins ct al, from Hunt.
Reversed and remanded: Hartman
va Butler from Rockwell; Jacobs,
Bernhem Il Co Va. Crum, from Tar
rant: the III 'uston Il Texas Central
Railway W. Gilmore, from Gayson.
Submitted on briefs and oral argu'
ment for both parties Allyn d Co
va Willis 81 Bro, from Navarro.
on briefs for both parties; johnson
va. Bryan et al, from kaufman; Far.
rar Va, Beeman OF al 4, from Morris
Beemau W.. Jester Bros, from Ma
vRrro.
Motions for reheahng submitted
Epstein n Co Va. Holmes ct AL, from
Lamar; Smythe VIZ. LumpkiD, from
Anderson; Lumpkin va. Smythe, from
Anderson; the international & Great
Northern Railway Va. Dawsey, from
Smith. n
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-15

J. II Rayp, 1910; j ~. Willams, slI,
Constable OF precinct No Il w ID.
Nelson, 1909; Jeit Payne, 5T7
Justice Of the peaoe Of preuincl Nos;
w N Tinnon, l2G
Constable or preciucl No s: e. G.
Brock, 49, Lewis Maggard, IS,
commissioner Precinct No. .. w.
j. Motley, $40.
Justice Of thepeace, Precinct No. ..
w Il Minor, 795,
Constable, Precinct No. .: w. ]. ].
Simpson, 23S; II FGb0rn, 400.
Justice OF the peace, Precinct No. s;
23k MUi
Constable, Precinct No. 3: c. Z,
Hopkins, 2l2; Lee DEVICES. pa.
Commissioners, Precinct No. 3: II. A,
Dlekey, S42; j. WOmck, Ill.
Justice otthe peace, Precinct No. 4
J. A. Brewer, 52l.
Constable, Precinct No. 4: J. NJ,
West, 52l
Justice OF the peace. Precinct No. 4
Ia NJ. McCuiston, 3l6. u. ~
Constable precincs :: w. ID. Muhe,
$50.
Commissioner precinct 4; John EN-
berson, 57S, e, ~
Justice Peace, precinct 3: II, g,
Pierson, 222 en st. ..tir
227
Justice Peace precinct 6: r.. G
Cloud, 340,r,
Constable precinct Q: J. A. Mclean
/ ofbi In UI.I rI.It. tsf
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-15

H. by length. Rlehball broke badly
before the quarter was reached In Sgl
Down the bsckstretch the little black
paced in fall form aud crowded up on
the leader The half was reached i'm
los, Around the lower turn the pace
was very hot aud Riehball went into
the air The finish was tame. Jewett
was pulled almost TO walk aud passed
under the wire winner OF the heat in
2:204, The pools now changed and
Jewru became strong favorite a, Sl6
TO Sl0for Riohball The pools on the
third heat sold in favor of Rlchball ut
S25 to $50
The sport closed on account of dark
ness after this heat and the race will
be finished to-day. The running
events occurred between the heats In
the harness races.
In The match race for $500, half.mile
dash, between Little jake aud Noon
light, the former WAS the favorite at
odds of $40 to SIG. 1t was catch
weights. AS Jake went by the re-
purters' stand the little coon ON him
grinned with delight. II being evident
that II was about his frat event, or the
feeling that he was riding the favoriie
AtfAill UNtlNdlliG hAlus A5 Nut llhS lClA
Moonlight went away with the lead,
but inside of three hundred yards
Jake passed her and opened gap OF
seventy i've yards, aud came home an
easy winner by ahalf-dozen lengths in
81 seconds.
THE ONE AND A HALF MILE DASH.
Great interest was conferred in this
race. The entries vert; J S Camp
BELLS b. =. John Sullivan, years
weight lis pounds; J B.. Johuson'a b
m. Olivette, years. weight III
pounds; j. S. Browns &, III. Blu,
Bird, 5 years. weight 1lS pounds; II
b. Wamlinis s. e. Pitchiork Johnny
years, weight ll5 pounds; J b Evers
5. s. Bonnie Australian 8 years, weigh
1lS pounds; ]. a Parks s. m. Lizzie
Parks, aged, weight ll5 pounds.
Pools were sold in this race upor
horses TO win the half mile, the mill
and the mile aud half Pitchfort
Johnny was the fayorite for the hal
mile, Oivette for the mile and JONI
| sullivan the mile and half.
The f.vorites won in each instance
Time, 53l, l:4s}, 2;4l.