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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-13
ORIGIN of Ammonia.

Ammonia is obtained in large guam
titles by the putrefaction OF the
urine of animals. Encyclopedia
Britannica.
Every housekeeper can test bak-
ing pow der containing this disgust.
ing drug by placing a can Of the
"Royap or ANDREWS Pearl top
down on a hot stove until hested,
then remove the cover and smell.
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
does not contain Am monia, Alum,
Lime, Potash. Bone Phosphates. i!
is prepared by 8 Physician and
Chemist with special regard TO
cleanliness and healthfulness.
Prove it By the above test.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-13

The new shopping-bag is oblong in
shape, rather "boxy" in appearance.
and comes in smooth leather, with
dalkly colored Japanese designs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-13
PRoMPTINGs.

Barrett is now on the high seas.
Both the western tour of B srrett
and of the Wallack company are
under the management Of the Fr0h-
man Brothers.
Craig, Charlotte Thompson's lead
ing man,is said tohaye been selected
as leadi in one of the Silver King
companies next sc ason.
Beecher has been present only at
four theatrical performances in his
life: these were Pinaiore, SaIvini,
Irving and an amateur representa-
ton by his own family last week.
We walt in esgerness for the COM
ing Of Fife Ellsler; also for the ap.
preach of Osmond Tearle and Sophie
Eyre, the latter Rose Coghlans
substitute in the Wallaek compa ny.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-13

sLEEPLEss NIGHTS, made
miserable by that terrible cough.
6hiloh's Cure In the remedy for you
Hala BIZ z. O. a. I Drag 8oEa- ca
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-11-21
Books That Mold the Face,

In ones intercourse with the world, he can
not fail to feel that the absence of an intellec-
tual expression often mars the beauty, and
renders unattractive those who may have
naturally well formed faces and symmetrical
figures. Books, it is true, of themselves are
not obtrusive. To be had and enjoyed, they
must be sought and read, and if the seeking
and selection be judicious and the reading
systematic, the result will be beneficial, will
inspire generous and tender sentiments,
strengthen and improve the mind, giving 10
the countenance a pleasing and charming ex-
preston and beauty as attractive as as it is
unading. THE lady who is judiciously con-
versant with books will find" says
the writer before mentioned, cher counten-
ance improving as her mind improves and
her looks ennobled as her heart is elevated,
and they who select and read pure and ele-
waiting books can rest assured that their
friendship will become more interesting and
their attractiveness greatly increased" Ply.
steal beauty, so desirable and so often and
generally sought to be improved by paints,
cosmetics and other nostrums, is and ever
must be inferior to mental but, when the two
arr combined in lady of sense, they render
her conversation exceedingly interesting and
her personal charms captivating, if not, in.
deed, irresistible.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-11-21
Princess Louise and Brown.

Apropros of children's department, story
is recalled of the lately dead John Brown,
the Queen of England's faithful henchman
When he first entered the service of Prince
Albert, the little princesses, hearing their ia
ther address him as Brown" used the same
form in speaking to him. The Queen cor
rected them, and they all addressed him as
"Mr. Brown" excepting the Princess Louise,
who, imperious even in childhood, persisted
in her right to use the name as her father
did. One morning the Queen heard her and
informed her that If she again addressed Mr..
Brown, without handle to his name, she
would be sent to bed. The next morning,
when he presented himself in the royal apart
ments, where the family assembled, the little
miss said fiippantly:
"Good morning, BrownP'
Then, as she saw the eyes of her queen
mother fixed upon her, she rose, and with a
curtesy, continued:
"And good night, Brown, for l am going
to bed "
And she walked resolutely away to her
punshment.-Free Press.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-11-21
pnetilal.
WOULD WE BE wILLINGY


Would we be willing, If the summons came
To countermarch this life, to live the same
Once more?
Say pain and Joy, and poverty and wealth,
Good days and dark days. illness and health.
Lived Ger?
The new life just as the old one had been:
To find like friendship and the viler men,
AS yesterday?
And would 1t pay Life, like play,
Is relished at we go. from day to day
But stay
Not many play is worthy of recall;
The actors one by one come on, and curtains fall
They go away;
And shifting scenes, and music long and drear
Crates on the listner's weary ear.
We dread the play.
And so, as children tired of toys and sleep,
At the close of life comes less and less to keep
Us here Away,
And then so many that have gone before,
And carried hopes to a brighter shore,
Are saying, come.
These absent long. with anxious gaze,
Leading and lightning the darkest ways,
Would call us home.
Would we be willing to refuse their prayer?
All, no Some day we'll greet them there
Some day! Roe Kirk.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-11-21

CLOSE VoTING.-In 1910, when Harrison
ran against Van Buren,, there was difference
in the vote in Maine of only Ali, in Michigan
of l, 1886, in Pennsylvania OF 1,345, in total
vote of 2S7,097, and in Virginia of 1892.
Between Clay and Polk in 1874 there were
differences in Louisiana of 701 votes, in New
Jersey, 1923, and in Tennessee, Folks home,
Clay led him by just 113 votes. In 1S4S,
between Taylor and Cass, the difference be-
tween votes for the two was, In Alabama.
9S1 in Delaware, 523; in Iowa, 1000; In
Mississippi, 615, and in Virginia, >1,462. liz
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-11-21

Nor THAT KINDA correspondent of the
Cincinnati Saturday Night relates this: Apro-
pos of Gen. Thomas, we recall an anecdote
that was told of him during the war. While
his headquarters were at Nashville rough
West Virgiuian-a Captain-came to him for
leave of absence. He said he desired TO go
home and visit his wife, whom he hadn't seen
for whole year. "a yearY" echoed Gen.
Thomas; "why my wife and l haven't seen
each other in three years" THAT may Re
all right for you" said the Captain; "but
men my wife amt that kind of folks" A
shout of laughter went up from the Generals
staff, in which Thomas Joined heartily, and
the man got his leave.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-11-21

mo DAY FOR WHUsTLIN'. THE late Dr.
Macadam used to tell of tipsy Scotch
man making his way home upon bright
Sunday morning when the good folk were
vending their way to the kirk. A little dog
pulled ribbon from the hand of lady who
was leading it, and as 1t ran from her che ap.
pealed to the first passer by, who happened
her poodle. woman" he retorted, with
that solemnity of visage, which only
Scotchman can assume, "Woman, this is no
day for whuslin'."
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The Egis & Intelligencer
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TRANSIENT ADvERTIsEMENTs.-- Square, 3
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Of the above named articles. or sell the same on
commission. The best market prices obtained
for consignments and liberal advances made on
statements made.
wPURE ANIMAL BONE, s. @. BONE and
all other Standard Fertilizers for sale at the
lowest Cash Prices, trade or time. aus
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-11-21
A Good Critic.

Dannecker, German sculptor, worked
two years upon statue of Christ, then he
called little girl into his studio, and pointing
to the figure, asked
WHO is that?"
"Some great man." answered the child.
The artist simply said: II have failed;
will begin anew"
He worked six years, and then again
brought the same maiden to his studio.
"Who is it now ?" he asked.
She gazed at the statue long and silently.
Then bowed her head, and with tears in her
eyes answered:
at is He who said ; Suffer little children
10 come unto Me-
The sculptor laid aside his chisel. He knew
his statue was success.
No CAUSE FOR ALARMING learn that
there are many idle silly rumors among the
negroes, and some of them have fears grow
ing out of the election of Gov. Cleveland to
the presidency. Under Democratic rule in
North Carolina they have found protection,
and they have received a thousand times more
help in the way ofscbools for their children
and asylums for their afflicted than they ever
received from their own party. With Cleve-
land as President their condition will be pro-
tected in every right they have now, and
being less the victims of bad, designing men,
they will prosper more and be happier. In a
few months everything will settle down,
quiet and good order will prevail, and if
there is any disturbance it will be their fault
and not the fault of the whites Wilmington
IN Gl Star
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-04-16
The Origin of the PostofIice.

The English Illustrated Magazine says
that the postoffice is an example of the
mode in which things change while
names remains. 1t was originally the
office which arranged the posts or places
at which, on the great roads, relays of
horses and men could be obtained for
the rapid forwarding of government dis
patches. There was a chief postmaster
of England many years before any sys-
TEN of conveyance of private letters by
the crown was established. Such letters
were conveyed either by carriers, who
used the same horses throughout their
whole Journey or by relays of horses
maintained by private individuals, that
is, by private post The scheme of car
rying the correspondence of the public
by means of crown messengers originated
in connection with foreign trade. A
postoffice for letters to foreign parts was
established 'for the benefit of the Eng
lish merchants in the reign of James l.,
but the extension of the system to in
land letters was left to the succeeding
reign. James l., by a proclamation is
sued in 1885, may be said to have
founded the present postoffice. By this
proclamation he commanded his ''post.
master of England for foreign parts to
settle a running post or two, to run night
and day between Edinburgh and Lon
don, to go thither and come back again
in six days, and to take with
them all such letters as shall be directed
to any post town in or near that road
Neighboring towns, such as Lincoln and
Hull, were to be linked on to this main
route, and posts on similar principles were
directed to be established on other great
high roads, such as those to Chester and
Holyhead, to Exeter and Plymouth. So
far no monopoly was claimed, but two
years afterward a second proclamation
forbade the carriage of letters by any
messengers except those of the kings
postmaster-g general, and thus the present
system was inaugurated The monopoly
thus claimed, though no doubt devised
by the king to enhance the royal power
and to bring money into the eXchequer,
was adopted by Cromwell and his parlia-
ment, one main advantage in their eyes
being that the carriage of correspondence
by the government would afford ''the
best means to discover and prevent any
dangerous and wicked designs against
the commonwealth. The opportunity
Of an extensive violation of letters, espe-
cially if they proceeded from suspected
royalists, was no doubt an attractive bait;
and it is rather amusing to notice how
the tables were thus turned on the mon
archial party by means of one of the SOW
ereign's own acts of aggression. How
ever, from one motive or another royalists
and parliamentarians agreed in the estab-
lishment of a state post, and the institu-
tiOn has come down without break
from the day Of Charles l. to our own.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-04-16
Sugar in Tobacco.

That tobacco as ordinarily prepared
by some of the manufacturers, is fire.
quently sweetened with molasses, honey,
licorice, etc., is not doubted, but we think
it will be a surprise to most people to
learn that a considerable percentage Of
sugar is a natural constituent of tobacco.
Yet such has been demonstrated to be the
fact by Professor Attfeld, f. r. s.
Eight samples were obtained from plan
ters in different parts of Virginia, Ken
tucky and North Carolina which gave, to
100 parts of leaf, from 5-57 to 900 parts
of tobacco sugar, and from S-23 to 1890
parts of total saccharoid matter. In to
bacco grown in unfavorable conditions,
OF without sufficient heat, the amount of
sugar is often but mere trace, while for
lght-colored or bright Virginia leaf it
viii average about ten per cent.-Seiea,
tiJic American.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-04-16

poor. For instance, take the Ballard
family. Thomas, Benjamin. George and
John, four brothers, all in our clutches,
together with an aunt. There is one
brother out of Jail, but we are satisfied
that he is an honest man. Thomas Bal.
lard is a wonderful fellow. He is the
only person. so far as we know, who
has succeeded in initiating the fibeI
paper upon which the genuine
notes and bonds are printed At present
he IS serving a thirty years sentence as a
reward for his discovery. He is a chem
ist of no ordinary attainments, and he
invented a process by which he was able
to take a genuine So or 81 bill, and com.
pletely remove all the traces of ink from
its surface. Then, with a counterfeit
plate of higher denomination, he would
print upon the genuine paper, and thus
raise the note. Speaking about raising
notes, here is a check on the Third
national bank of New York which was
raised from $451 to $26, ,96S, and paid,
in 1876. The perpetrators worked off
with chemicals all that was written in
the check except the signature, and 1
regret to say that we have never been
three steel plates which were engraved
by Ulrich for S. issue. The engraving
is done on soft steel, and when COM
pleted the plate is hardened. To give
you some idea of the amount of labor it
takes to engrave these plates can only
say that we have evidence that Ulrich
was fifteen months completing them.
Perhaps the greatest curiosities in our
entire collection are the bills which made
their appearance about four years ago, ex-
ecuted with pen entirely by hand At
first we thought that it must take a great
amount of time for the rascal to turn out
one of those bills, but now we think that
he produces about one a week. The
denominations are fifties, twenties and
tens, and they are turned into the trea-
sury for redemption from all parts of the
union
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-04-16

my jackknife out of my pocket, managed
to open the big blade with the stiff,
swelled fingers of my other hand. Then
] cut and slashed for minute tore the
bandage off my mouth, and spit out a
deer's-horn charm. / was nearly
smothered with my efforts; for of course
| couldn't breathe through my mouth till
| got the scarf off; but l soon gained my
breath and set up free man.
"Then l began to think and to act.
My right hand was just streaming with
blood, and an idee struck me. / smeared
it all over my face, till it was perfectly
red with blood. Then / got up and
fshed white sheet out of one of my
chests, piece of white factory that I'd
used in some of my tricks. l put that
around me, turned down the lantern and
the other light inside the curtains, got
out my slx-shooter, then leaned back
against the wall and waited.
81 was nearly half an hour yet before |
heard the old heather coming. lie stole
in, soft as cat, and slid along up the
curtains / always carry three lamps
with me. Two of them were burning in
the room; but he seemed puzzled about
the light behind the curtain. Presently
he opened a crack and peeked in. What
do you think l saw2 The horriblest fac
ever human being wore! The cheeks
painted a blarish green, half-moons of
ghastly yellow under the eyes, jet
black ring about the ugly, grinning
mouth, and three blood-red stripes across
the forehead while the little black eyes
shone with fierce, beastly glitter that
couldn't be described.
He'd got himself up in a more fearful
shape than ! had. He was going to scare
me; but he didn't succeed-not anyl
Gle give surprised 'whooh' as he
looked on the floor; there was nothing
there but Il bloody spot. I'd cleared
away the ropes and tossed 'em one side.
Then ho looked up and / stepped for
ward, jerked the curtains one side, and
exhibited my git-up to him. With a
sharp yell he threw up both his hands,
and there came over his bedaubed face
the ghastliest look of fright it's ever been
my fortune to behold. l wish l could
have painted it; l should be famous to-
day.
'But didn't give him any time to re-
cover; | jumped for him, and struck out
as | jumped, He went his length on
that platform like a beef-ox. Then 1
grabbed the pieces of rope, and before
he come to himself enough to realize
what the movement meant, / had him
tied, yes, and had that old deer's-horn
charm between his jaws, bound there
with his own red scarf, tighter than
wax!
'I'd bound him with limp muscles, and
he was there to stay! He came to him
self in a minute and glared at me fright
fully.
''Ha; ha! says 1. You'll breathe on
the white dog, will you-you7 Lay there
and learn to let the medicine of the white
man alonep
But didn't waste time palavering at
him. l hustled my things out of there,
hitched onto my cart, and skipped out
and away; and, gentlemen, never went
fooling round any Comanche village
agin. y YOUTHS Companion.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-04-16
Elephants Of the Past and Present.

''There were white elephants in this
country, running wild once" says an
elephant authority. "How so? Merely
because white elephants occur wherever
other elephants do, and 8, 600 years ago,
more or less, this country had its herds
that roamed over the land Just as buffa-
loes do now. There's not State that
their remains haven't been found in.
Here in New Jersey they have been
found, seven or eight in the same bog,
where they had probably rushed in fear.
The positions in which they were found
showed that they struggled hard to get
out. In Connecticut, near New Britain,
skeleton was discovered some time
ago that was three feet higher than
Jumbo Another has been found on
the mountains in Vermont, and the finest
skeleton was unearthed in Newburgh
and placed in the museum at Boston.
According to Professor Dana, its measure
ments are Height, eleven feet; length
to the base of the tail, seventeen feet;
tusks, twelve feet long, two and half
feet being inserted in the sockets. When
alive the height must have been twelve
or thirteen feet and the length, adding
seven feet for the tusks, twenty-four or
twenty-five feet.
SIN the State museum at Albany you
will find a fine elephant that outjumbos
Jumbo. People have tried to prove that
it was buried by a Snowman, but the
skeleton was taken from an ancient pot
hole by Professor James Hall, the eminent
State geologist, and before it was dis
covered there was blasting, and several
thousand loads of rock and gravel were
taken out. Nearly all the timber found
in the hole had been gnawed by beavers,
and as this was at Cohoes, where the
beavers are rather scarce to-day. 1t is
natural to suppose that the great ele-
phant dropped in a good many years
ago.
There were a good many different
kinds of elephants in those days, all of
gigantic size. The mammoth was as
large as any, and roamed over our North
ern shores, several other kinds finding
their way as far down as Mississippi.
One elephant had legs ten feet long, and
a.body twice the size of Jumbo's, and
its tusks turned down instead of up. 1t
probably lived in the water and hauled
itself out by using these weapons as
hooks. In India at this time there were
eight or ten different kinds, from giants
with very small heads and tusks fourteen
feet long, going down to a very sharp
point, to others that were mere pigmies,
and had long hair. These lived high up
in the mountains, and have a modern
representative. The very smallest lived
at Malta, and were scarcely over three
feet in height.
"Among the hairy elephants there
were all tints and hues. Some were
black, Others were gray, grizzly white,
red, yellow, etc. All this is known, as
pieces of their hair and hide have been
found. The elephants are going fast.
There are only two kinds left-the Afri-
can and Asiatic-and in fifty years, if
Africa and Asia are opened up as they
promise to be, they will be entirely
wiped out of existence. ."-Nea0 York Sun.
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OUT OF LOVE AND OUT OF DEBT


OF happy men the happiest yet
As he that's out of love ard debt,
Who owes no kiss TO womankind,
Who has no duns 60 craze his mind;
With heart and thought and conscience fire.
Where is the man more blest than hel
"Out Of love aud out Of debt"
Motto none will eer regret.
To all surrounding reconci'ed,
He sleeps as sweetly as a child;
BY neither love nor debt DISTRESSED,
His dreams but glorify his rest.
he never breads the morn TO see,
For days with days in peace agree.
"Out of love and out of debt"
Motto none will eer regret
Who's had his share of debt and love
Knows what the peace they rob him Of;
And, once relieved of love and debt,
His slavery never can forget
No longer will he bend the knee,
But sing the pwans Of the free
"Out of love and out of debt"
Motto none will e'er regret.
For all the bliss that love can give,
There's more of woe with love to live;
He plucks the perfect, thornless rose,
Who honored manhood, no man owes.
No love, no debt ah there's the key
OF life, for him, who'd happy be.
"Out of love and out OF debit
Motto none will eer regret.
George Birdseye.