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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-08-05

The most curious book in the world
is one that is neither written nor
printed. Every letter in the text is
cut into the leaf, and, as the alternate
leaves are of blue paper, 1t is as cas-
ily read as the best print. The labor
required and the patience necessary
to cut each letter may be imagined.
The work is SO perfect that it seems
almost as though done by machinery,
but every character was made by
hand. The book is entitled, "rhe
Passion OF Christ" 1t is very old
volume, and was curiosity as long
ago as the year 1910. AT this time it
belongs to the family of the Prince
de Ligue, and is kept at a museumin
France.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-08-05

New York street-car conductors
work fourteen or seventeen hours a
day with only an occasional Sunday
off, and get about seventeen dollars a
week for it-from fourteen to seven
teen cents an hour.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-08-05

Grasshoppers are doing great dam
age to the hay crop Of New Hamp-
shire. Farmers are catching them at
the rate Of ten bushels day and
burning them.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-08-05

Reports from the New England
seaside resorts are of the slow and
not altogether satisfactory progress
OF the season, the visitors are SEEM
ing to be limited as to the financial
expenditures.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-08-05

Pere Hyacinthe says that all class
es in America are permeted with pro-
found religious sentiment. 1t IS
thought that it takes a stranger to
discover strange things.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-08-05

The coffee fields of Brazil cover
100000 acres, with S00,0O0,000 trees
that is 400 per acre. Each tree
averages one pound of coffee per an
mum, the industry employing 5000
hands.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-08-05

Holyoke, Mass, is expected soon to
become not only the greatest paper
manufacturing but the creates paper
exporting city in the world.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-08-05

Everett & Weddell, private bank
ers in Cleveland, Ohio, in business
thirty years, assigned the other morn
ing for lack of ready cash to meet
pressing demands. Liabilities, ST.
100000; assets several times greater,
but not available Immediately.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1884-08-05
Saturday, August aa, 1854.

for the purpose of electing delegates to
the County Convention. Polls open from
2 O'Clock L. NJ to O'Clock r. NJ
Places of Voting and Names OF Judges
OF Election:
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05

things and iniofmstiOn ~ are found
g"M and worthy oi consideration re-
oeive and the worthless ri CT There
are 80 many new discoveries and im>
provrments in farming, that it Is i'm
possible to keep pace with the rapid
advanctmeuts in farming without II. nch
reading aud study. We. M farmers,
should read more aud study more
about our business. II some of IT, ARE
getting too old and carpleSs, we should
not he in the way of our children.
Instead Of spending four ar FIVE dol.
lars annually for toys, fire works and
other foolish things for our children,
let liz spend the same for good books
Of various kinds, and among therH Il
liberia supply "fagriculInral literature.
Not only subscribe for agricultural
journals hut read them and encourage
your children to read and appreciate
Whist they find sm,d.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05
OUR AGENTS
NEW YEARS GREETING.

The past year, we trust, bus hen
one Of prosperity and happiness I" every
reader of the STANDARD. For two
years in succession the country has
been blessed with rain and sunshine IN
due season and the soil has produced
abundant crops to the Joy and happi,
ness Of the industrious ,iller thereof,
for al of which we should return
thanks and the gratitude Of our hearts
to the giver of these blessings. Farm.
ers III this county were perhaps, as Il
class, never more prosperous than at
present. Many of them have made
and have enough left from the cr"p-
Of 1882 3 to do them two years. We
wish the new year may he as paoducl>
i've and prosperous, but rs three gmd
crop years seldom follow in succeSsion
1t Is probable that Ne may not be 50
fortunate in 1891. As n precaulion
every farmer should take care of his
surplus, lest the coming craps should
be a failure, and he should need it. Al
least, at the presen, low prices Of grain
he should be slow 10 sell his surplus.
The present year may be prosperous,
and we hope it will, but whether it Is
or not, let Us guard against an emer.
genCy, and prepare, plant and cultivate
the coming crnp for all there may he
iu it. Wishing our reades happy
and prosperous New Year, aud many
such, we enter upon its duties resolved
10 improve Oh the past. lEstJ
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05
WARREN COUNTYS FINANCIAL
CONDITION.

j. L. Miller, ECO, Chairman of the
County Court has completed settlement
with all the county officers and fpd
their books and accounts correct abd
satisfactory. The county is financially
in good condition. The Indebtedness
Of the county is $16S7.8O, and the
assets are little mere than $1,000,
which after paying all claims agains.
che county viii leave balance in the
county treasury Of nearly $1,000. Now
as this is the beginning ola new year,
and our county and our people are in q
healthy financial condition, wouh il
not be propiCiOGs time 10 begin the
long talked of and much needed work
Of building good roads and bridges in
cur county2 Who of the Honorable
County Court will have the courage
10 bring the question before the CsWl
next MOnday, and heW many Of that
body will immortahze themselves BY
declaring they are for jj'd;Cieus system
Of taxation TO encourage the building
Of good roads and bridges2 We ear
BOT have more propi.ioUs time to b.
gin laying plans and assessing taxes fol
that purpose than the Let Monday il
January 1884. It's a matter Of TOT
mech Importance to the farmers 4
longer delay action.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05

alnng the line would he much mnre
valuable IN account Of cheap transpnr.
talion. The Cincinnati beef and
pork markets are now our best mar.
kets and with a direct line TO that
city these products would pay the
farmers much better profits. II advo,
eating the connection with the Cincin
natl Southern is our sin, and the only
si1 we have committed against the
good people of White, we are not
afraid of their verdict. We are slow
to believe brother Baker would will.
IulIy misrepresent us and trust he will,
like II little man" acknowledge his
error. and remove any undue preju
dice he may have created, if any,
against the STANDARD. The purpose
IF the STANDARD has ever been to Ell.
courage. support and build up, and
better the condition of all classes, not
only in Warren, but in White and
every other county in the State. Our
Efforts may not have accomplished
much, but our intentions have been
gnnd and have met with such encour.
agement as to enable us to 60 on and
do what we can to help and encourage
the farmer.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05
FARMERS SHOULD READ MORE

No physician or lawyer could rea.
sonably expect to keep pace with his
profession without reading and study.
ing the same. 1t is equally as impOr,
tant that the farmer should read and
study his business in order to succeed.
There is nothing for which four or FIVE
dollars could be spent annually by the
farmer to greater profit than for good
practical agricultural books and papers.
If the old man is so welded 10 his old
ways and notions of doing things on the
farm and will not furnish bis family
with suticieney of agricultural litera
ture, the boys and girls should furnish
themselves. Every family on the
farm who make farming their business
should take their county paper and at
least two or three good agricultural
journals, and study them. Such
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05
What are Fences Por 2
To the Standard.

To the Standard.
They are, l suppose for only one
purpose-to keep stock out Of our
fields. Then which is of the most
value-the stock or the fences, take
them all over the State Will some
statistican please tell US, also how much
more the land that is inside Of these
fences is worth than the fences cost
The day is coming when this will be a
question of importance, and when some
big changes will be made. The PEI
pie grumble at State and county taxes
hut not of the fence tax, which IS the
biggest by long jump.
Non FENcER.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05

tended, and al'O have them appoint
one of your most active, progressive
and competent citizens to superintend
the expenditure in corporation with
this bureau and report result.
With the compliments of the season,
/ am, with great respect, your friend,
A. j. MoWHIRrER, Cum'r.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05
1901 THE CUJTIvAToR 1904
IOOl AND lOOH
Country Gentleman
THE BEST OF THE gf
Agricultural WeeklieB.


THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN is the lead
Ing Journal of American Agriculture. In
amount and practical value Of contents, In
extent and ability Of correspondence, In
quality Of paper and style Of publication, It
occupies the FIRST RANK 1t 10 believed
to have no superior in either OF the chief
divisions Of
Farm Crops aud Processes, ANIL
Horticulture q Fruit Growing,
Live stock and DaIrying {
while It also includes all minor departments
Of rural interest, such as the Poultry, Yard,
Entomology, Bee Keeping, Greenhouse and
urapery, Veterinary Replies, Farm Quee-
ticDs and Answers, FirOside Reading, De-
nestic Economy, and summary Of the
news Of the week. It's market reports are
unusually complete, and much attention is
paid 10 the prospect Of the crops, as throw
ing light upon the most important Of all
questioDs-When to Buy and When to Eell
Il Is literally illustrated md intendeA 70
supply, in continually increasing degree
and In the best sense OF the term, Q -
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05
Remedy for Chicken Cholera.

Mr.. w. P. Faulkner has informed
US that he has found pine tar an effect
i've remedy in chicken cholera. He
makes Il strong tar water, aud witt
the tar water makes up corn mea
dough and feeds to his chickens. Tai
we know to he healthy animals, snc
Why not equally so for fowls. Tht
remedy is doubtless good one anc
may he easily applied,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05
Notice to Debtors.

I'VE take this method of calling the atten-
w ton Of all parties that are indebted 10
ns by note or account at Daylight, that we
expect them to settle with US by the lat Of
January, 1884 AS the business Of said firm
at the place aforesaid must be closed up at
once, Mr.. E, N. wager, the present merchant
at that place, is fully authorized to collect
and receipt for all debts due us, Fail not 10
give this your special attention, as this only
gives one month in which TO attend 10 the
mater. Dee Let, 1883.
JOHN w. TOwLEs & SON.,
Gath. Warren Co., Tenn.
Formerly Of Daylight,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05
Holmes Lininent

Is an INESTIMABLE BOON to all child.
bearing women; real blessing To suffering
females; true
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05
Mothers Friend.

When applied few weeks before confne-
msnt it will produce a. safe. and quick deliv.
cry, control pain, and alleviate the usual
dread, agonizirg suffering, beyond the pow
er of language to expressl
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05
Tennessee and the International Expo.
Sition.

Capt. McWhirttr, Commissioner of
Agriculture, has addressed the follow.
ing letter to the Judges Of the county
courts in the State, with a view Of stir
ring them up to the Importance of adj
verli,ing the products aud resources of
the State in the Great International
Exposition Mt New Orleans next year.
To the Honorable Judge of the COunty
Court-Sir,
NASHVILLE. TENN, Dec. %, 1883.
Impelled by IA sense of the obligations
resting upon the State of Tennessee to
widen her capacity for the development
of her almost illimitnble resources OF
field, forest and mine, water power and
manufacture, | feel it my duty to ad.
dress you, as your commissioner, the
object Of which is to suggest the impor.
lance Of prompt aud positive enactment
being made by the honorable county
court, over which you have the honor
to preside, at It's quarterly term, the
first Monday in January, 1884, for the
purpose of creating county fund,
which will enable your county to be
fully represented by specimens of its
resources in the Worlds Industrial Ma.
tiunal and international and Cottnn
Centennial Exposition, to be held in the
city of New Orleans, La, commencing
Dec. /, 1884, and TO continue until
May /, 1885.
The management Of the Exposition
has at our suggestion set apart 1900
square feet Of fioOr space and 2,400
feet Of wall space for the State Of Ten
nessee, which can be used free Of charge,
and it only remains for you, the repre-
sentatives Of the people of your good
county. whether or Dptyou will elect
to utilize the same. You are aware
that our State Legislature has made no
appropriation for thspurpcee whatever,
and in fact, it will not convene before
the first Monday in January. 1886,
which precludes the possibility Of timely
aid from that source.
The question is, will yOur honorable
body adjourn without taking some ac-
tive steps toward furthering this grand
advertisement Of your wealth. Win
you permi. this golden opportunity to
pass unimproved of placing before the
eyes Of the world the living evidences
of your skill, your agricultural, forest
| and mineral resources. Il would be
most unfortunate for you to 80 decide.
An appropriation Of two hundred and
Fifty dollars averaged from each county
in the State, properly expended, would
insure for that county a splendid die
play Of its resources. Upon this sum
Haywood county, Of West Tennessee,
made herself famous at the Southern
Exposition, Louisville, KY, and has
thereby turned the tide Of immigra.
ton, not only TO her own borders, but
to the whole of West Tennessee. II
weuld be an opprobrium upon our
State if it failed to avail itself of this,
the grandest University Of object teach.
ing ever offered 70 the South. Think
of I'll An exposition building en-
bracing within its walls more than
1000, 900 square feet Of floor space,
open to the Gorld-and that near our
doors, and in the great metropolis Of
our own dear Southland
Please bring this most important
matter to the notice Of your honorable
county court in such manner as will
induce it to make the necessary appro
lpriation tsr carrying ont the objects in
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-01-05
LIVE AGRICULTURAL NEWSPAPER

Although the Country Gentleman hes
been Greatly Enlarged by increasing lis bise
from l6 to 20 pages weekly. the terms cos.
tinue ss heretofore, when paid strictly in ad-
vance One copy, one year, $3.50; -Four
Copies $40, and an additional copy for the
year free 10 the sender Of the club; Ten
copies, e2O, and an additional copy for the
year free 10 the sender Of the club.
gar All new subscribers for 1854, paying
In advance now, will receive the paper
weekly, from receipt Of remittance to Janu-
airy let, 1884, without charge. 1d'ti T
@-Specimen copies free. Address on.
LUTHER TUCKER 4 BON, Publishers
ALBANY, N. Y. e@
The Mineral argus., 1884-10-16

clared All that is WANTING 4. $3.50
with old Bourbon bloodin b7m" .n oSe rignt man
~ ~ the army. Dion, Macon Smiss Tn-
bnt P s. me provincial cities like the republic
ev Inc crops in England and France are good
Kent "V WERE. with the exception of hops in
fields are so ~ france is splendid. The
2 sickle. A man and his wife and three chill
az can reap with the sickle and bind abont
T. nuch wheat as one man can revp and hind
az ~ hnerlca In America the wife Is ATTENDING
scbonI IGusehold duties and the children are AZ
indian corn is raised all over tbe sontha'-
nan OF France. They plant one stalk in 4 biIi
a ny zoe II by hand TIL weeds are ali boed
V SWL OF the wheat, barley and oats bv hand
"hea'l Is worth in Dion $1.2 % per busRel.
The Mineral argus., 1884-10-16
English and French Girls.

London Letter to Philadelphia telegram.
an RUE, the young English girls that one
meets In society have as little to saw as have
the French society damsels. though thew are
by no means kept under such severe restraint
IL mas been suggested that the French girls say
nothlng because they are not parmitted to
speak, while the English girls say nothing be-
cause they have nothing to say. They are very
sweet, and simple, and modest. but thew lack
sparkle and entrain most -woefully. English
girls, TOO, are in general far less brilliantly ed
ucated than are their American contemporaries
mere Is very little serious devotion to literature
VI accomplishments, such as one sees in the
more literary circles of America, among the
Younger members of society. The amateur
singers, for instance, are too dire and dreadful
70 De even named in the same breath with the
usual run OF our girl musicians. In many in
stances, voice, time, and tune are altogether
hacking, and yet the vocalist will placidlv
MARBLE straight through the innumerable
verses of a ballad or attack a diAicnIt
Italian aria with the serene conviction
That the whole affair is passing off admirably.
HOW Is she to know that it is not?-there is
nobody among her hearers to. enlighten her.
On the other hand, they have much taste in
fancy work, and English homes are prettily
decorated with satin cushions. mantlepiece
draperies, etc, painted by hand in water COL
ors or with fine and delicate embroideries, the
handlwork of the ladies of the family. But as
10 either intellectual or artistic employments.
they are far less addicted to them than our own
young girls. They ride well and are devoted
to la~wn-tennis and other outdoor games. and
in the main are a healthy, happy race, physi-
cally supurb, but lacking mental brilliancy
and charm. 1t is perhaps for this reason that
The married state in England differs so widely
from the same institution in America. Here
II is a monarchy, while with us it is a republic.
The English husband is an a%utocrat, and ad-
mlts OF no discussion respecting his DEGREES.
household and its movements are reonlat'
ed to suit his whims and convictions. and his
wife and daughters must shape their actions
accordingly. But there is plenty of warm
love manifested between husbands and
wives in England, and so matrimony here far
more resembles the same institution with US
than does the welded state in France.
The Mineral argus., 1884-10-16
An Imbeci1e Chained for Thirty
Years.

most heartless case of cruelty and inhum-
an treatment has just been brought to light in
Crawford county, Pa, by the Committee on
Lunacy of the State Board of Public Charities.
The victim, who is an imbecile, has been kept
chained in a little hut by his brother for over
thirty years. The nan who imprisoned his
brother for three decades is a farmer. Thirty
years ago his younger brother became an i'm
beetle through disease. Though perfectly
he disliked to have him about the
house, and so be built a little shanty about a
hundred feet away from the farmhouse, and
there he kept his brother chained like a wild
beast When the committees agent appeared
upon the farm he found the insane man lying
on the floor of his hut naked and in desperate
straits. He was reclining on a bale of straw,
which had done service as a bed for many
months. Within reach lay a big black pan
filed with bones and the refuse of the family
table, on which the prisoner was expected tc
make his MONDAY meal 1t is expected that
other revelations of the same kind will be made
after a vigorous examination of the commits
sioners.
The Mineral argus., 1884-10-16
Taste in Wives.
From the New York Tribune.

from the New York Tribune.
A worthy young Connecticut farmer being
! ersuaded that sit is not good for man to be
Alone" came to this city to seek a wife. Sew
eral of his n%eighbors had taken to themselves
helpmeets from among the plump and pleasing
immigrants, and these matches had all turned
out so well that he was minded to follow suit
But having inspected the arrivals of eligible
girls at Castle Garden for two or three DAYS.
and not having as yet seen any one to whom
his heart went out, this adventurous agricuI-
turist bethought himself of another plan. and
one for which, indeed, he had no warrant
of neighborly example. He had read in the
papers some little time ago an account of the
arrest of a young woman named Emma LARA
bee for burglary. This young woman was de-
scribed as a professional burglar. and it was
said she had an ~unconquerable passion for
that kind of illegitimate amusement. Now it
occurred to the young man from Connecticut
that if Miss Larrabee would marry him he
might be able to reclaim her, and forthwith he
sought her out As he promptly ascertained
that she had a prior engagement in the peni-
tertiary, it may be hoped that he will detach
his affections from this bright particular star,
and rest content with some less notorious but
probably more trustworthy maiden from over
the sea, if indeed the good state of Connecticut
connot furnish him with a homemade Ameri-
can wife.
But though his taste in choosing a wife may
seem odd it is but the outcropping of a ten
dency which is by no means new. When. for
merly, Australia was a penal colony, the set
tiers were allowed to marry the female convicts,
and it was observed that those women who had
the hardest" records always were snapped up
first In the same way when young women
have committed startling crimes they have in
variably attracted suitors if they escaped the
A remarkable instance of this was
the case of Madeline Smith, q Scotch girl of
good family and position who poisoned her
over in E%dinburg some thirty years ago. The
trial was very sensational 1t was shown that
he prisoner had had a liaison with the de-
ceased, who was a Frenchman, and that desir-
to marry a man in her own station she de-
iberately murdered the lover. The jury
brought in the Scotch verdict, mot proven"
hough her guilt was clear, and within a week
she had more than twenty offers of marriage,
hough she was known to be a poisoner. Cases
If this kin go to show that the women who
,ush over murderers and fill their cells with
lowers, have not a monopoly of that particular
of folly, but that men, too, are amenable
o the subtle magnetism of Dotoriety, and are
Iuite as capable of playing the moth to Grim.
nal luminaries, provided the latter are young
nd good looking. And it is not always that the
friendly walls of a penltentiary interpose be-
ween these fascinated moths and the fatal at
raction which would so surely SINCE their
The Mineral argus., 1884-10-16

Repetition is sometimes the only way to i'm
press a truth upon the mind. Accordingly
take notice that DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets" (the original Little Liver Pills.
continue to be wonderfully effective in cases OF
sick and nervous headache, constipation, indi-
gestion, rush of blood to the head, cold extrem-
tiles, and all ailments arising from obstruction
of the bodily functions. Their action is thor
ough yet gentle, and the ingredients being en-
tirely vegetable, they can be taken with impu-
nifty into the most delicate stomach. All drug
glsts.
The Mineral argus., 1884-10-16

DEAR SR:-I used the White Wine of Tar
Syrup you sent me, and must confess 1 derived
more benefit to my lungs from it than from
any remedy ] have ever tried, and cheerfully
recommend 1t to every one having aEy kind
Of lung trouble.
Truly yours,
REV. A. M. HUMPHREY,
Minister Of Baptist Church.
Trila, Coles Co., Ills.