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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-03-14

NICHOLAS SHILLEN, proprietor. Foot of High
street Mineral Point. The Globe is firSt-class
hotel in every respect, is centrally located and
the prices charged are moderate. 4 good barn
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-01

MOTE SOME OF THE PRICES AND COM
IN pare them with what you have been
paying. On and after this date I will sell for
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-01
NOT THE RIGHT TIMBER.

Mr.. George William Curtis, Of Harper's
Weekly, gives us the following pen por-
trait of his candidate for the Presidency:
mo candidate can be strong who un-
necessarily ~revives old party feuds, and
that the common aim should be to find a
man Of the Presidential quality who does
not revive them, and who would be ac-
ceptable to all views"
The man who never ex presses an opin-
ion in emphatic words, who never makes
an opponent vince, and who never makes
an enemy. may do for the Nastless
Harper's Weekly, suggests a contempt
rary, but he has no Presidential timber.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-01

This, within q few dollars more or less,
is what the formidable navy of the
United States cost the dear people, and
year after year Congress appropriates
millions to keep up the appearance of a
naval establishment. The total amount
expended on this branch of the service
has now grown to be tremendous. A re-
port by the Secretary of the Navy to the
Senate was made a few days ago, in COM
pliance with a resolution of that body
requiring the Secretary to transmit a
statement showing the date of construc-
ton, original cost, and total expense for
all repairs since their construction, of all
vessels borne on the Navy Register in
November, 1883, under the Bureaus of
Construction and Repair, Steam Engin-
eering, and equipment. 1t is only when
such a report is called for that the people
can learn the expense of building and
maintaining the remnant of Robeson's
navy. The Secretary's report does not
mention the fact that several of the YES
sells in his list were pronounced unser.
viceable by the Naval Advisory Board
recently, or that many of them require
the expenditure of immense sums Of
money yet to make them serviceable.
Many are of SLOW speed and hardly efic.
lent as cruisers; others are armed with
smooth-bore guns only. The monitors
are nearly all out Of condition, and the
tugs and sailing vessels are not efficient
for war purposes.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-01
PACIFIC COAST ADvICES.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
heath of AN Old Miser.

SHASTA, CAL, Jan. 31.-John Manning,
an old resident of this county, was found
dead yesterday near his cabin, a short dis
lance from town. He was found lying in
a ravine. The wet ground showed signs
of a desperate struggle on his part to re-
gain his feet and reach his cabin. Che
Coroner's jury rendered q verdict of death
by apoplexy, induced by starvation. 1t is
said that he had gold dust to the amo0nt
of $4,000 in his possession, he having
been successful in mining, but a thorough
search of his cabin revealed nothing,
neither money, provision nor clothing.
He was too miserly to purchase food, and
existed by begging.
San Francisco Intelligence.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 31.-In the matter
of the Grand Jurors who were committed
for contempt OF court for refusing to tes-
tify as to how they voted on the Hill
Nelson indictments for forgery in the
Sharon divorce case, the Supreme Court
to-day decided that Grand Jurors could
not be compelled to state how they voted
on any Indictment.
Col. o. w. Sheldon, Associate Justice
Of Arizona. died suddenly to-day.
John Spreckels states that he will leave
for the East in a few days to purchase or
contract for the construction Of two more
large steamers for the Oceanic Company.
The steamers will be placed on the China
line, touching at Honolulu.
money VILE" Cleaned Out.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31.-The row of
shanties dubbed "Moneyville," erected on
the Ocean Beach, at the western confne of
Golden Gate Park, occupied by whisky,
hot coffee and doughnut peddlers, was
this morning cleaned out by a body of
men under orders of the Park Commits
m~issioners. So much has been said about
the resistance that would be offered at any
attempt to eject the squatters that blood
shed was feared. No resistance, however,
was encountered, as, with the exceptions
that the occupants of the booths had not
arrived, the boards and other property of
the owners were piled up in heaps, and
afterward removed into the city.
No Changes I'm the Tariff Laws.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 31.-A Chronicle
Washington special says: Those who fol-
low the leadership Of Randall in the House
give out boldly that they do not intend
that anything shall be done by the House
in the matter OF making any changes in
the tariff laws, and that to shut out all
such attempts they propose to hurry up an
adjournment to as early q date rs possible.
1t is said that this Is the real reason why
Randall has held back the appropriation
bills. This is the first time for years that
several of these bills have not been passed
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-01

II was an ingenious suggestion, by
wbomsoever first made, that retaliation
TO. the injuries to American commerce
nroduced by the exclusion OF our pork
NV European nations should be made by
prohibiting the importation OF foreign
cbeeses. The strength of the measure
could. suggests an exchange, certainly
moi be disputed, since that would prop
erlv be computed on the basis OF the
strength of the article affected; and it is
n well established fact that some speci-
mems Of foreign cheese, notably that
from Brie and Neufchatel, have been
known to PROSTATE strong men at a
range of 100 yards.
The ~propriety of such exclusion could
not be successfully denied, either. No
one can dispute the fact that the taste
for foreign cheese is a perverted one.
No native-born American was ever known
In he able to eat it without q long and
severe inward struggle. 1t is donation
alizing in its effects. 1t tends to pre-
vent the German or Frenchman who
ome to this country from becoming
assimilat ed to our institutions. No man
who prefers cheese to pie for his dessert
is ut to exercise the p~rerogatives OF
American citizenship. So long as the
Frenchman can obtain his calf's brains
and Brie, and the German his Wiener
worst and Limburger, he remains so Tar
forth a Frenchman or a German and can
not become an American. It is what a
man eats that determines not only his
bodily but to o great extent his mental
constitution. The eating OF foreign
cheese is not conducive to a right under
standing of the Constitution of the
United States. The trainers OF that IN
strument, and its great interpreters were
men who never even smelt a German
cheese. Some of the best Of them were
presumably brought up on pie. The con
clusion is irresistible that a true under
standing Of our Constitution is hindered,
il not precluded, by a diet of the one,
and furthered by a large constitution OF
the other. The influence of foreign
cheese on our political institutions is,
therefore, utterly and irredeemably bad.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-01
O.. A LIAR.

. The Reno Gazette quotes from some
newspapers published back in the 18th
century paragraphs in which George
Washington is called a liar. a horsethief
and everything else that is bad. Our
contemporary draws a parallel between
his case and that of more recent heroes
and statesmen, such as Blaine, Grant and
Garfield. These, also, it says, will stand
immaculate a hundred years hence, not
withstanding the abuse they are SUBJ
jected to now. All hail to the dull for
getfulness of time and the charities Of
history.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-01

ID sBBIT METAL-FROM 100 TO 20O
ID pounds OF bsbbit metal for sale at the
otice. Eureka, Nevada.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-01
NOTICE.

NJ WIFE, MYRTLE WILLIAMS, HAVING
1Nl left me and her home, l forbid all persons
from trusting her on my account, as I will not
pay any debts contracted by her.
JOHN WILLIAMS.
D~UcKwArER, Nye County. New, Jan. %. 1884.
ja3i-1w+
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-01
A Gratifying Discovery.

It has been found out that Emile lola
failed to pass his graduating examination,
but plunged into journalism from which
after two years work he stepped forth into
eminence as an author. Zola's name will
henceforth be coupled with Daniel Web
ster's as proof that a classical education is
only . handicap to genius.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-01

Cleanliness and purity make Parker's
Hair Balsam the ~favorite for restoring the
youthful color to gray hair.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-01
KILLED by a Collision.

DENVER, Jan. 31.-A Republicans Lead
vile special says: William Manly, a con-
struction boss, and three men, employed
on the Denver Il South Park Railroad
came down the hill into the city or a fla
car, and when near the depot collided with
a car of iron. All jumped, and Manly
was instantly killed, the Others were
seriouslY Injured.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-02-01
NEW TO-DAY.
white Pine County Bank
Eureka, "a
WOODRUFF
CASHIER PARDf

Transact a General Banking Business.
Draw on Wells, Fargo h 90. San Francisco,
New York aud London.
Exchange on San Francisco, 25 cents for
draft on New York, IS cents for $50 or under,
and so cents for 500.
Local Agency for the Fire Insurance Asso-
citation of London, Manchester Fire Assurance
company Of Manchester, and London 4 Lanca-
shire Fire Insurance Company of Liverpool.
fe1-tf
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-19
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Rurninp OF Rnrna.

VI bUrnSs
1t is noticeable that u larger number of
the burnings of barns is mentioned by
the periodical press in the summer than
at any other time. Some of the fires are
undoubtedly caused by lightning, the
moist vapor from the uncured hay max
Ing favorable conductor for the electric
fluid. But there are barn fires which
cannot be attributed to lightning, to
lighting of matches, to light from Ian
terms, nor to the invasions of careless
tramps. 1t may be that the spontaneous
combustion OF hay is as possible as the
spontaneous firing of cotton waste. All
fibrous material, when moist, and com
pressed, and defended from the cooling
influences of the outward air, is subjected
to heating similar to that of fermenta-
ton; and in some instances the degree of
heat is sufficient to cause actual, visible
combustion. In the case of recently
"cured" hay this danger is as great as, in
similar circumstances, other materials
may be. Frequently the grass is cut in
the early morning, while wet with dew
is turned twice during the day, and gath
cred and packed in the "mow" or the
ebay" before nightfall, with perhaps a
sparse sprinkling of salt. Such com
pressed mass of tibrous, moist matter will
heat. How far the heat will 90 toward
generating a combustion may be inferred
from foolish trick which the writer wit
messed several years ago.
A large meadow of hay had been cut,
cured, and cooked, previous to removal
A shower threatening, the cocks were
covered with caps of canvas and left for
the night. While getting the hay in,
the next day, one of the working men
dropped an unighted match from his
pocket into a cock of hay, and in few
minutes it was ablaze. 1t afterward
was ascertained that he had spoken of
the warmth of the hay as he lifted it
on his fork, when a companion remarked
that it might be hot enough to light a
match, on which he put match into a
rick, and before they had passed on five
minutes the rick was on fire.
Everybody conversant with farm life,
where hay is permanent and important
crop, knows that for weeks after get
ting in the hay the barn is warm when
the doors are opened in the morning.
There is an amount of heat that is abso-
lutely unpleasant when the thermometer
outside registers sixty degrees, but which
is quite welcome with the outside tenn
perature of forty degrees. This barn heat
is undoubtedly from the moist hay, com
pacted and enclosed. The cure for the
possible spontaneous barn burning would
seem to be a thorough curing-drying
of the hay before it is housed. We dry
all our herbs and some of our vegetables
without injuring their peculiar and in
dividual qualities. There is no reason
why hay or other fodder material stored
in large masses should not be rendered
equally innoXious to the influences oil
heat by thorough drying. ,Scientif,
d,,o,,;co,,
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-19
Tar.

Professor Peckham, in an interesting
article on tar, has this to say in regard to
its manufacture: 1t was known to the
ancient Greeks, and DR.. Clarke, who de-
scribcs the method of manufacturing it
in the forests of Bothnia, says there is not
the smallest differences between the pro-
ccsses then practised and those of ancient
Greece. Along the whole coast of the
Gulf of Bothnia the inhabitants are very
generally engaged in this occupation.
They make use of the roots of fir trees,
with logs and billets of the same, which
they arrange i'll conical stack, fitted to
"A cavity in the ground, generally in the
side of Il bank. In the bottom of this
cavity is placed a cast-iron pan, from
which spout leads out through the
bank. The heap is covered over with
turf and is then fired, as in making
charcoal. Tar collects in the latter
part of the process of charming, and
runs off through the spout into barrels
In Sweden, where the business is also
important, some peculiar methods are
adopted to increase the yield of tar.
Trees of no value for the saw mill are
partially peeled of their bark fathom
or two up from the gro ind, not enough
to kill them, but only to check the
growth. After five or six years, when
cut down, the wood is found to be much
richer in resinous matter, which pro-
duces tar. Along the coast of the South.
ern States, especially of North Carolina,
Virginia and Georgia, the business is car
ried on upon large scale in connection
with the manufacture of turpentine,
rosin and pitch. Old trees which have
ceased to produce turpentine, and dead
wood which is rich in resinous matter,
are selected for the coal pits. The process
there does not differ materially from
that already described Chicago Inter
ocean.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-19
How the Bedou. ms Conquer Thirst

In an article on "The Rescue of Chi
nese Gordon, in the Century, General
r. Z. Colston, late of the Egyptian Gen
eral Staff, SAYS "In the 'Wateriess
Land, water is a paramount question.
If it be asked how large body of
Bedouins like the ten thousand who
nearly destroyed the British squares at
Tamai manage to subsist, the reason is
plain. In the first place, they do not
need the enormous trains required for a
European army. They are the most alb
stemious of men. Each man carries a
skin of water and a small bag of grain,
procured by the purchase or barter from
caravans. Their camels and goats move
with them, supplying them with milk
and meat, and subsisting upon the scanty
heritage and the foliage eff the thorny
mimosa, growing in secluded wadics
These people could live upon the increase
of their flocks alone, which they ex-
change readily for other commodities !;
but being the exclusive carriers and
guides for all the travel and commerce
that cross their deserts, they realize yearly
large amounts of money. AS to water,
they know every nook and hol-
low in the mountains, away
from the trails, where a few bar
rcls of water collect in some shaded
ravine, and they can scatter every man
for himself, to fill their water-skins. On
my first expedition, near the close of the
three years drought, l reached some
wells on which ! was depending, and
found them entirely dry. 1t was several
days to the next wells. But my Bedouin
guides knew some natural reservoirs in
the hills about six miles off. So they
took the water camels at nightfall, and
came back before daylight with the
water-skins filled. An invading army
would find it hard to obtain guides, and
even if they did, they must keep to-
gether and could not leave the line of
march to look for water. Beside, the
Bedouins, accustomed from infancy to
regard water as most precious and rare,
use it with wonderful economy. Neither
men nor animals drink more than once in
| forty eight hours. AS to washing, they
never indulge in such wasteful nonsense.
/ When Bcdouins came to my camp, water
was always offered them. Their answer
would frequently be: No, thanks; |
drank Yesterday They know too we'll
the Importance of keeping up the habit
of abstemiousness. No wonder they can
subsist where invaders would quickly
perish
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-19

light. Mineral fertilizers furnish no
weed seeds, and their effect is to slightly
harden the ground, causing a better set
Ting and fewer solutions.
American farmers find that turnips OF
ruta-bagas leave the land clean from
weeds, but much less fertile than before
they were grown. English farmers say
the turnip is renovating crop, but it is
so only by feeding the crop on the ground
where grown, together with much grain
or oil meal.
One advantage in the soiling system is
the freedom from weeds in the feed,
which with COWS at pasture in summer
gives bitter taste to milk and butter.
With corn fodder, millet or other cult
waited crops suitable for soiling purposes,
there is better quality and greater uni
formity in the milk product.
1t is good plan in churning not to
put in the two or three last messes of
cream. If churning has to be done every
day, it should be of the cream gathered
twenty-four to forty-eight hours before.
In small diaries the cream should be
stirred slightly every day, to prevent
danger of injury from mould.
To prevent grapes from mildewing,
the vines should be sprinkled with flour
of sulphur three or four times during the
season. The mildew is a fungus growth
which the sulphur destroys. If the
grapes have begun to mildew, all that
are affected should be picked off and
burned, or buried where they cannot in
jure the remainder.
Some farmers only feed grain to horses
when hard at work, thinking hay or
grass sufficient at other times. This
practice is not so common as it used to
be, and deserves to be less so. Some
portion of grain in the feed is both
cheaper and better than all hay. When
horses are not at work, grain and straw
will take the place of grain and hay.
When grain fields are seeded with
clover it is not best to cut the stubble
very short, as it is more useful for hold
ing snow in winter as protection for the
clover than it can be anywhere else
But if the field is to be plowed after
harvest cut as close as possible, as the
stubble is worse than useless as manure
for wheat making the soil too light and
norous.
Fungold growths on the surface are
the chief and probably only cause Of scab
in potatoes. If coarse manure is used,
its rapid decomposition in the soil is
liable to make the potatoes scabby and
unstable. A better quality, and. in most
cases, larger quantity, of potatoes can
be produced by liberal use of mineral
fertilizers, especially those containing
potash.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-19
(!

Why is it that tall man always has a
week display of beagd?
Why, on the other hand, does little,
short man inevitably carry fierce nous
tache that overshadows the entire coun-
tenancel
Why is it the visitor you most hate
always puts your mucilage brush
back into the ink bottle!
Why is man with new gold watch
SO solicitous about his lapse of time?
Why do servant girls know so much
about cooking before you hire them and
so little afterward!'
Why do we drop raspberries on a
white tablecloth and never on a red one 7
Why is man so short in his memory
when you have a bill against him, and
Why is it per contra, that he doesn't
forget to call in every day when he has
one against you!
Why does hired girl always hang
the meanest piece of the weeks wash
nearest the street,
Why do we hate the man who tells us
our faults in secret, and
Why do we love man who praises us
in crowd?
Why do flies prefer alighting on a
fat mans face when he is trying to catch
an after dinner nap?
Why, when your boy has visitors, and
particularly ingenious and diabolical
piece of mischief is the outcome of the
afternoons congress, do you always lay
all the best blame on your reighbors'
children!
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-09-19
Household Hints and Recipes.


For damp closets or cellars, put shall
low dishes of Stacked lime, and change
often.
Hold your broom upright don't dig,
but push slightly. Carpet and broom
will last twice as long.
The best way to boil corn is to boil it
with part of the husks on it. Remove
the silk and the tough outer covering,
leaving the white inner leaves. The
corn will be much sweeter if cooked in
this way.
If the syrup in which plums are to be
preserved is very hot when they are
dropped into it, they will cook so quick,y
that they will not lose their shape
and if put into the cans with care, will
well repay one for taking the trouble.
Lemon fritters are specially delicious
after this receipt Take one cup of flour,
one egg, half tablespoonful Of butter,
one tablespoonful of sugar. one cup OF
sweet milk and the juice and grated pulp
of one lemon. The grated yellow rind
may be added to the sauce.
The night before a picnic, boil some
eggs until they are very hard; then drop
them into can or jar in which you have
some picked beets. In the morning the
eggs will be pink and will be delicately
favored. If possible carry them in a
can with the vinegar still on them.
Willow baskets which have become
soiled or discolored may be made very
ornamental again by bronzing or gliding
them. The powder may be purchased
l.at Il .ha h., x,l
with little white varnish and be applied
with a small and rather soft brush.
Tomato pie can be made by peeling
and slicing green tomatoes; to this allo "
four tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one OF
butter and three and a half of sugar
flavor with nutmeg and bake very
slowly with two crusts If the to natoes
are first stewed there is then no danger
of the pie being too juicy.
Whipped cream with gelatine is an ex-
cellent dish. Take three pints of rich,
sweet cream, sweeten to taste and flavor
with three teaspoonfuls of vanilla; whip
to a perfectly stiff froth; dissolve three
quarters of an ounce of gelatine in a small
teacup of hot water, when cool stir it into
the cream, put into moulds and set in the
iceboX.
Butter or string beans, if cooked and
and picked according to these direc,
tions, are delicious: Wash them and
steam them until they are tender, but
not soft; put them into jar and pour
hot vinegar over them; sweeten the vim.
egar and season highly with cinnamon.
Another way equally excellent, but which
gives different flavor to the pickles, is
to boil them in sailed water until tender:
then pour over them the hot vinegar
which has been sweetened and in addi,
ton to the cinnamon has liberal allow
ance Of pepper; cayenne or black may
be used