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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-04-05

Having Just received al immense and superb cargo BOOTS, SHOES.
HATS, GAPS, GLOVES, &c. bought fresh from the factories ata n enormons
discount for cash, we challenge any house in LAFAYETTE County to sell anv
article IT Goods in onr line, of thu san quality of Material, Style and Fimsh
similar to ours, for tn unheard of Low Price at which W are selling them.
We profer to duplicate ANY bill Of Goods, in our line and 6nisb 1T the
same time Goods of BETTER Material Style and Finish, than any house in
Ours are br saa N lev, No. Nobby, Stylish and Fresh from the factories of the eaat
and west, made of he bcstm material, and of superior and unrivaled workman.
ship in Style and Finish, and of LASTING QUALITIES. that would make a
hole in the rock of GibraNer.
This Is our abiding place. We have come to stay, and our aim and
desire Is t please and give ausfactOn % the rubic and GU host Of paIrous by
presenting to them . SUPERIOR and uneanaed line Of Gools
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-04-05
At Prices that Defy Competition

Some of the Unparalleled Bargains we are offering re IS follows:
A fancy line of Ladies' Kid Button Shoes, hobby in style, perfect in Al
and superb in material, 81 so, worth 81 SO.
Ladies' Kid Button Shoes, perfect beauties, at 81, worth 90.
A large lot OF Misses Shoes, sam make, of splendid material. at 90 o
worth % IS.
Misses Side Lace Kid and Goat Shoes. at 81 IS and 81 80, worth 50.
In Mems Boots, asoid substantial, we'll made arthle for 81, worth 80 75
Misses Tie, at rs cents, worth 81 25.
Ladies' Cloth Slippers at 40 cents, worth Is cents.
These Goods aer t Shoddy, but First Class i'll Every Respect
We are bound to have your trade and custom, and If vu have not heer
trading with us,W We earnestly invite o to make us a friendly call whichw will
cos. you nothing, M aloW ust the great pleasure Of showing YOU through m
stock III person. We wait 10 see 0 YES opena II spakIe at te
daisy beauties W have to exhibit in Nohhv and Fancy Shoes. f. T adies od
Misses. at prices so marvelous!y low as will astonish and tansfx. mi to exche
your unbounded admiration at a line of Boots, Shoes, Hate, Caps. Gloves Rc
for Gentlemen, Youths and Children, If such beauty in max an1 Hnisb and
excellence OF material as ws never before oHeredf for sale il this marLet
We are tired Of seeing orr citizens imposed upon and being hnmbuesed
by tn cry OF cheap goods which, after being bought, turn ut to he wo17h
less trash. We give you FIJI value for every dollar o. spend with us and
beg you most earnestly to come and see our Bargains, and if YOU buy mr. arc
lot pleased, we will refund your money, q thng " e haye never yt haen comaS
on o do, so well pleased have been all our customers N
Come and see us and we will make You happy.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-04-05
NOTICE,

W. 4. GORDON.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-30
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The palace of Sennacberib at Nine
ven stands upon mound mile and
half in circumference.
The Hindoos dress their dead in
white, with touches of red for crema-
ton, or sometimes in saffron.
Semiahmoo, in Whatcom county.
Washington Territory, marks the ex-
IRENE northwestern corner of the Uni
ted States.
A German scientist claims that the
white pine is an excellent weather in
dicator. If we are to expect rain or
snow within reasonably short time
the branches Of the last two seasons
growth will be pendulous. If such
weather be long way off the branches
will be raised rather than dropped.
Seaori Reynolds, of Black River,
may claim the distinction of being the
champion Bible reader. He is eighty
four years of age, and has always been
a reader of the Bible, but fourteen
years ago, after a severe illness, he
began TO give it increased attention,
and has read it through, on an average,
once in every twenty-five days.
Among the curiosities of ancient
credulity was the belief that certain
birds possessed stones of remarkable
talismanic virtue. One of these was
supposed to be found in the brain OF
the vulture, which gave health to the
finder and successful results when So
Letting favors. Dioscorides gives an
account of the use of an eagle stone in
detecting larceny. The ;tlectorius, a
stone worn by the wrestler Milo. was
so called from being taken out of the
giZzard of a fowl A stone like a
crysta', as large as bean, extracted
from cock, was considered by the
Romans to make the wearer invisible.
The Africa elephant hunters who
go from cool and comparatively healthy
countries, brave the hottest and most
deleterious Ethiopian regions with
impunity. and this they attribute to
their habit of daily fumigation of the
naked body with sulphur. Again, it
appears that in Sicily, while most of
the sulphur mines are in high districts
and free from malaria, a few are at a
low level, where intermittent fever
prevails; in the latter districts, it
seems, while the population of the
neighboring villages is attacked by
fever in the propoltio of ninety per
cent, the workingmen in the mines
suffer much less. not more than nine or
ten per cent. being attacked.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-30
Newspaper Growth.

The two American papers of 1121
and thetwenty-fve OF 177l have grown
into more than 10000 in 1888, and are
about equal in numbar to all the
journals of the rest of the world.
Sometimes the news of old Rome was
written in red chalk on the walls of
house, and sometimes the tablet was
hung out where the public could read
with more convenience. 1t was in
this way that julius Cesar, who was
in his time journalist, instructed his
people both as to the proceedings of
the Roman senate and the occurrences
of the day, and perhaps this was one
reason of his popularity. Births,
deaths, trials, executions and anecdotes
were published. The reporter was
abroad and the stenographer also, and
the latter in his own wdy-though we
know not just what that way was
took down the speeches of the
Roman senators. Stenography had its
origin in Rome, and it's more modern
use, like many other things, is but a
restoration of one of the lost arts
Cromwell set the example. so common
III OuI CIVIL w dl--Ol dbbSlCHll& u
ing press to the army, and the first
newspaper printed in Scotland APP
peared in I.eith in 1928. 1t was
only reprint of the London Journal,
and issued for the amusement of the
Round Head followers of the Pro-
tector. Ninety years before, Venice,
then at war with the Turks, issued its
Gazette gazette being the name of a
small coin to prevent the circulation
of false news. So, when the Spanish
Armada threatened the invasion of
England, Queen Elizabeth, for the
same cause, in 1888, issued the English
Merc,trie, the first paper printed in
England. The first Irish paper APP
feared in 100, and the first penny
paper in England in 1705.-Hon.
ETuStuS Brooks.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-30
The Greed for Gold.

One day | went to seeI the famI
Bank of England, which has a tHtl
corps of nine hundred employs
which it pays six poor millions
francs wages 100000, and p
sesses in its Golfers the neat sun.
400,000,000 ($80,000,000) in gold 40
silver, and pr, serves under g'aS@
banknote worth a bagatelle Of .
100000 ($5,000,000). | entered D
great hall where payments were mad
A hundred employees, standing al
hundred little windows, dis RID
gold and silver with jugglers' raptI
IN rolls, handfuls and shOyelius, 4
creditors hastily fill pockets and
and make off like robbers. casting
picious chances about them.
should see the cleaning and falaI
of smiles, the very slight working
the eyebrows and lips, and then
sand expressive but ineXpressibleodi
ments OF the faces at the sight OF
gold; and you should see that q
how it frisks, jumps, spark S =
clinks ike CHEEKY laughter and %
every sort of coquetry, SO that it SCI
animated and rascally. ], too, H
this spectacle 1elt for the first tl
guilty disturbance, and made sle
face that any one who had seen q
that moment would have Ge
Arrest him p This feel ng Sd
not have had at eighteen. AL
age one never thinks Of not "gs
rich" Youth, as a great pod
sad, is mysterious awaiting
among the thousand things exp
in the distant and indefinite futua
"getting rich.' One hopes
1aguely, for legacies from unh
relatives, and for packages Of
notes found on the bedroom ta5s
evening after the theatre, sen!
one knows whom: but every y
year cancels one word Of thee z
full promises of our good genie
then the sight of gold maAs
thoughtful and awakes mela.s
longings, not from love Of ea'.
for that dear independent
forced labor deprives us or au'
able to work ten years at w
book, to keep at home fouf team
languages, to travel in Africa,
your lady-love a diadem Of run.
a palace of granite. -Ed1'o'
AmictS.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-30
How Tacks are Made.

The iron is received from the rolling
mills in sheets from three inches to
twelve inches wide, and from three
feet to nine feet in length, the thick
ness varying, according TO the kind of
work into which it is to he made,
from one-eighth to one-thirty-second of
an inch. These sheets are all cut in
thirty-inch pieces, and by immersion
in acid cleaned of the hard outside
flinty scale. They are then chopped
into strips of a width corresponding
to the length of the nail or tack re-
quired. Supposing the tack to be cut
is an eight-ounce carpet tack, the strip
of iron, as chopped and ready for the
machine, would be about eleven-siX-
teenths of an inch wide and thirty
inches long. This piece is placed firmly
in the feeding apparatus, and by this
arrangement carried between the
knives of the machine. At each revolu.
ton of the balance wheel the knives
cut off small piece from the end of
the plate. The piece cut off is pointed
at one end and square for forming the
head at the other. 1t is then carried
between two dies by the action
of the knives, and these dies
coming together form the body Of the
tack under the head. Enough of the
iron~proiects beyond the face of the
dies to form the head, and while held
firmly by them, lever strikes the pro-
jecting piece into a round head. This,
as we have said before, is all done
during one revolution of the wheel
and the knives, as soon as the tack
drops from the machine. are ready to
cut off another piece. These machines
are run at the rate of about $50 revolu-
tions per minute. The shoe-naiI
machine, for cutting headless shoe
nails, are run at about 500 revolutions
per minute, and cut from three to five
nails at each revolution.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-30

affected soon attracted attention y
became patronized by the great :. =
even operated on the toes of the ~ Sl'
himself. He amassed wealth and H.
in splendor.
A man named Magliabecm NJ
possessed Of an extraordinary Memo.
Tie was born in Italy, in le5
His parents were so poor that n
were glad To have him engaooS
errand-boy TO a grc Ger. He could ~
read, yet was always porting over 4
old leaves of books used as waste.o,,.
by his employer. A bookseller kn5d.a
ing the boy could not read asked h.
what he meant by staring ~ n
printed paper. He said he did y.
KIN w, but ould only be happy nI.
could live with him who hal alw,1
so many books. The book-sell :.
ployed him. He soon learned To r,,'
and what was most remarkable her..s
in every language, never having he
taught any. His extraordinary apple
ton, remarkable talents and prodlci~
memory II ade him famous. He ~
appointed librarian TO the Cardinal
Medici. He read every thing indscrr
inately, and retained not only 4.
sense but the words, and even n
manner of spelling. Magliabpchi ppy
so renowned for the vast extent Of n
reading and his amazing memory nr
the learned usually consulted lh
when they were writing on anyN
ject. If priest was going to WIZ
the life of saint he would rems,
Magliabechi's assistance as to rofe
ences. The librarian would tell I'M
who had said anything about that pg.
ticular saint, and name certain a
thors, giving sometimes as manyRi
hundred, naming the books, the wOrl
and the very number of the page \.
did this so frequently and SO exach
that he came to be looked upon n
oracle. The Grand Duke Casino III
made him his librarian. On day IA
grand duke sent for him, and asss
him if he could get him book tt
was particularly scarce. mo, sir
replied, sit is impossible. for there
but one in the world. That is in d
grand signior's library at Cons,al.
nople, and is the seventh book on "a
second shelf, on the right hand as so
go in"
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-30
SparrOWs on Toast

A popu' ar French cook OF ~
who knows something about 7 1,
says the new law should =
with delight by all good ll'si
sparrow, he says, is not onil
eat, but is really a great den. -,
in France nothing en- oys gr. -.
ularity among gourmand9 10
sparrow when properly pre- ~ -, I.
pie or fricassee on toast. =
of the American kitchen Iua
sparrows have not infrelueD.I:
good service in the seasons
tender and succuIent reed 4
been less plentiful than usu1L ~
broiied young sparrow IS MI
taken for Delaware reeu
this. to the French cooh
worth considering when ths
of the little birds really CON-
it ever does, and he thinks :.
little pests must 90 they lps
y ITO the broiling P
Z srants to be thrown ave-
Record.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-30
What Petroleum Killed.

In the prosperous days of New Lon
don, Conn, as many as six whalers
used TO come in one day to that port.
They had made voyages of two, three,
and even five years. Six whalers would
enter the harbor together, each striving
to come in first. When the anchor
was let go from the side of the first
ship to get in a boat was lowered and
the burly captain was set ashore.
Everybody shook hands with the cap
tain, and to each shake he replied with
grip that would have pulverized an
English walnut.
This was in the golden years of
1913, 1S49 and 1850. Prices were high
and sales quick, both for oil and bone
and the voyage afforded splendid
lays" as the whalemen said. Even
the dark-face1 Portuguese, the Coma
los and Petros, had for their share 800
or 5000 in gold
AT that time Beach, Bra LEY and
Porter street were nothing more than
rows of boarding houses and saloons
for sailors. All nationalities We're rep
resented at the carousals. There were
Portuguese, Kanakas, Cinnamon, Next
cans, negroes, mulattoes, red Indians,
Lascars and Norwegians. Money was
poured upon TIE bar and no change
was asked for. Gold was only god
while it was being spent. The New
London of that time was full of fat
negresses in pink and yellow gowns
and wearing monstrous earrings and
breastpins. Fights were common, and
then sheath knives flashed above the
heads of the motley merrymakers.
Jealousy, inflamed by drink, was the
usual cause of these affrays. The pro-
prietor of the dance-house would
Soothe his customers into decorum by
careSsing their skulls with the sword
of a swordfsh or with an island war
club which some native had one day
pawned for drink
The return of these richly laden
ships (and the fleet was then SO large
that one whaler came in weekly while
another went OUT always brought
prosperity to the commercial world OF
New London. But whales became
scarce. This was the result of the in
discriminate Slaughter which the
whalemen had made Before long pc
troleum was discovered. TIE market
soon dropped to point that rendered
further successful whaling impracti-
cable. Not ship sails out of the port
of New London now, and but few
schooners are engaged in sea-elephant
and fur-seal fisheries. The great iieet
of ships, having ouslived their useful
ness, laid their bones during the rebel
lion at the bottom of Charleston and
other Southern harbors.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-30
He Liked To.

They were deeply in love, and by
the lambent light of a turned-down
lamp they talked in mellow tones of
all that constituted happiness for
Them. At last the girl in dulcet voice
SAID
"oh, Algernon, do you like to
travel?'
"Ay, sweetheart, that 1 do. 1t
broadens ones views, develops ones
mind, expands ones knowledge, in
creaSes-'
Don't 90 into particulars. Alger-
non. 1t is enough to know that YOU
like to travel, for hear fathers foot
steps coming downstairs, and if You
don't carry your desires into effect
pretty rapidly there may be difficulty
the front hall"
Algernon Travelled. Merchant-Tia ;
sler.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-30
wounded. Assuredly, coed days

wounded. Assuredly, a coed days
work
On Friday the FIVE bodies were
brought into Sivas amid triumphal
strains of martial music. As they are
laid down stiff and powerless in front
OF the courthouse, their splendid arms
and chests all bare. our vail paSha
draws near, examines the wounds in
the Lead, chest and back. and then,
turning to the great crowd thronging
around, he says: Look well, and
understand the end OF highway rob
ber's life
After lying two DAYS exposed, the
bodies are buried with no ceremony,
civil or religious, no winding sheet
even, without soul in Sivas TO speak
a word of sympathy over their wide
pit. Their wounded comrade who
escaped is dead
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-30

Mrs. Homespun, who has a terrible
time every morning to get her young
brood out of their beds, says she can
not understand why children are called
the rising generation.-BoSton Tran
script.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-10-11

"sleep"-the hooking semblance of
physiological rest-by dose of either
of these narcotizers is simply intoxica-
ted. No wonder that habitual drunk.
enness of this class first impairs and
then destroys the vitality of the mind
organ, and places the subject of a mis-
cradle artifice at the mercy of his emo>
tional nature, and makes him the crea-
ture of his passions. When will the
public awake to the recognition of
facts with regard to these most PERM
cious of stupefacients? Persistence in
recourse to them has no better excuse
than unwillingneSs to search out the
cause of the "wakefulness" which pre-
vents natural sleep.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-10-11

blowing; for by blowing your land in
the fall you can turn the weeds under
that have sprung up in stubble before
their seeds have matured, and thereby
destroy large number of seeds of
noxious weeds which, if allowed to ma
ture, would render the cultivation of
the future crop much more difficult.
These remarks, of course, apply with
equal force to any land, whether stubs
BILE or sward, that is intended to pro.
duce crop the following season.
In order to efectually turn the
weeds under, your pillow should be pro.
vided with weed-hook, or haYe u
chain adjusted to the end of the dou.
bletree and to the beam of the pillow in
such manner as to drag the weeds
down, so the pillow would turn them
under more perfectly.
This, in addition to destroying the
seeds of noxious weeds, will provide
your land with good crop of green
manure, which is an item worthy of
the consideration of any enterprising
and wide awake farmer.
There are other benefits to be de.
rived from fall blowing that should not
be overlooked.
By exposing the soil to the action of
the frosts its particles are more thor
oughly separated and the whole mass
reduced to finer filth than can be eff
fected in any other manner.
There are still further important ad-
vantages to be derived from the prac>
tice of fall blowing. In consequence
Of the strong attraction which exists
between clay and those gases that are
contained in the atmosphere, rain,
snow and dew, and the soil being turn
ed up and exposed to them, it seizes
upon the ammonia, carbonic and nitric
acid which they contain and holds
them for future use.
The strong affinity which clay has
for manurial gases almost efectually
prevents any waste, by evaporation,
of any it may contain. This, it seems
to us, to be sufficient to demonstrate to
any thinking farmer the great adyan'
tage from fall blowing.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-10-11
Changes Of a Century.

The nineteenth century has witnessed
many and very great discoveries and
changes
Steel pens we're introduced for use
in 1903.
About 1910 the first express bust
ness was established.
The first successful trial of reaper
took place in 1888.
The anthracite coal business is said
to have begun in 1920.
In 1886 the patent for the invention
of machines were granted.
In 1916 Elias Howe obtained q pat
ent for his first sewing machine.
In 1918 the streets of London were
for the first time lighted with gas.
In 1909 Fulton took out his first
patent for the invention of a steamboat.
The first successful method of max
ing vulcanized India rubber was pat.
ented in 1889.
The first public application to practi-
cal use of gas for illumination was made
in 1902.
In 1906 wooden clocks began to be
made by machinery. This usbered the
era of cheap clocks.
About the year 1888 the first rail,
road of any considerable length in the
United States was constructed.
The first steamships which made reg
ular trips across the Atlantic Ocean
were the Sirius and Great Western in
1880.
In 1890 there were only twenty-five
postofices in the whole country, and
up to 1887 the rates of postage was 81
cents for letter sent over 400 miles
In 1913 there was built in Waltham
Mass, mill, believed to have beer
the first in the world, which combined
all the requirements for making finished
cloth from the raw cotton.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-10-11
One Hundred Years Ago.

"Come up on the 10th of October
next" remarked DR.. G. G. Graham
last fall to the writer at the Louisville
Exposition "come up on the 10th of
October, 1884, and help me celebrate
my hundredth birthday"-and as the
grand old man spoke his form grew
more erect, while his eye sparkled with
its native fires. He had just inscribed
his name, without the use of glasses, on
the Tennessee registry, and seemed to
have no suspicion that he might not
survive another twelve month. The
Louisville Times, of Thursday, says;
ga rare event in single life will be
celebrated by an old time dinner at the
Gait House next Friday week. On
that day DR.. G. G. Graham, still hale
and hearty citizen of Louisville, will be
one hundred years old. Three years
older than the present "more perfect
union of the States" he has slept I'M
der the bearskin with Daniel Boone,
hunted deer with Simon Kenton, seen
the States grow from thirteen, with a
population of 5000, 900 to thirty.eight,
with population of 100000; been
contemporary with every president of
his country, and was a guest at the
marriage of Abraham Lincoln's father
and mother"
So the man who was born one hun
dred years ago-the best specimen Of a
man we ever NETS still alive and
vigorous, looking like one who might
see another twenty years at least. He
walks ten or fifteen miles daily on his
geological inspections, and can break
down most men under fifty. He is the
father>in-law of the late Ex-Governor
Bramlette, and of Joe Blackburn, of
Kentucky. May his one hundredth
anniversary be most happy event,
with many returns of the day.