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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
The Provident Rat.

"SOmc months ago the Free Press
contained an item about n gentleman
leaving two pounds of Boston crackers
in his office in the Mechanics block
one evening and finding them all in
the drawer of his writing desk the next
morning, stacked up like poker chips.
At the time | thought it was lie, but
| don't now. I've got rat up to my
house that can discount that one"
Thus spake gentleman who is well
known in municipal circles.
produce your rat!"
GAS YOU are aware, | indulge in q
garden. One of my chief products is
popcorn, of which / make it point to
grow enough each season to keep the
children happy all winter. On We'd
nesday, after supper, went out to pick
it, and my wife charged me to preserve
the husks, as she wanted them for n
sham pillow. l commenced pulling off
the husks, throwing them and the ears
into q basket, but this was slow work,
so / picked off the ears and filed the
basket, thinking that the girl might do
the husking.
THAT basket was placed beneath q
table In the back Kitchen, ana
thought nothing further about it until
Saturday afternoon, when / went out
co pick the remainder of the corn. L
found the basket neatly filled with
husks, but no ears, and naturally
enough supposed that the girl had
attended to them. That afternoon L
completed the picking, and placed the
basket of corn and husks beneath the
table. On Sunday afternoon thought
l would husk it and put it away. In
the first basket 1 found precisely two
ears clear at the bottom, and in the
second two more.
''Mv wife suggested rats right off,
and L commenced search. In the
woodhouse, adjoining the kitchen, 1
found rat hole in the floor. AS
choice between moving my winters
wood and prying off weatherboard, 1
chose the latter, and beneath the floor
found my corn nicely stacked up.
That pesky rat had carried every ear of
it as much as twenty-five feet, and
there were over 200 of them. Detroit
Free Press.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14

anything. I like to smoke ana close
my eyes and think. And yet do not
like to think. A wasted life is not pleas
ant for reflection. The hardships that
/ have endured, the things that might
have been, haunt me and disgust me
with myself"
"Relatives down Eastp" inquired the
man by his side, who was getting inter-
ested.
Eyes, sir, my mother, and that's
what's taking me over the divide,
stranger. A curious thing about that.
Mighty curious. For thirty-five years
/ hardly gave the old lady thought.
She wrote frequently and wrote when
had time, but not like ought to have
done. was absorbed in gold hunting,
when one day received a letter from
her containing her photograph. She's
more'n seventy-tive years old. 1t struck
me like an avalanche. Poor old moth
en- says /, and as looked up saw
myself, wrinkled and gray, in a glass,
and observed, Poor fool boy Well,
sir, from that moment lost interest in
gold, quartz, and placers. When L
looked at the snowy peaks l saw my
mother. l dreamed of her at night.
Her eyes were always before me, SWIM
ming in tears as they were the day we
parted. Finally gave up, converted
what little property l had into dust,
and determined to go home. l don't
care who knows it. Here's '49er who
has been lured from the gold country
by mothers tears. 1t will pay me
richer dividends than the things that l
have been chasing so long. Chicago
Herald.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
He Was in the agency" Business

The base of the Apennines is an ele-
giant country for road agents, and all
the old books of travel are filed with
stories of captures, ransoms, hair
breadth escapes and the like. But the
railway ruined the business, and most
of the gentlemen engaged in that lu-
crative branch of commerce have gone
to America. A pious old dame who
got on the train at Portland told me
that she used to receive regular remit
tances from her son in Nevada, until he
was executed by lawless mob who
would not listen to his explanations.
She said he was in the agency bust
ness of some kind. Judging from the
appearance of the neighborhood, the
looks of the old woman and the partic-
ulars of the story, it was, not difficult
to guess what kind of "agency" her
son had employed in. The peasants of
this district are poor and adventurous;
the Valley of the Reno has always been
the highway of travel between the
plains of Lombardy and those of Tus-
cany; the Apennine regions are close at
hand to furnish places of refuge for
lawless characters, and it is hereabouts
that most of the highway robberies
which followed the era of the tourist
travel into Italy and preceded that of
the railway, occurred.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
Childhood Troubles.

Who ever heard of old age-old age,
with its long and tender memory
speak slightingly of the sorrows of
childhoodp This is reserved for the
preoccupied and callous middle age to
do. From the indifference which many
grown people exhibit toward the griefs
of the very young, it might be inferred
that their own childhood had become
an indistinct vision, or at least that it
no longer possessed aught of interest
for them. The little troubles of chill
t!renp But all trouble is relative, and
great and small, in this respect, are
movable terms. Sorrow itself grows
old; even the sacred vehemence of grief
felt for the lately dead suffers mellow
ing change as the years lapse. How do
we know but that in another life the
most considerable tribulations endured
in this take rank with the troubles of
children?
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
Pc. Box 270.
PROBATE ORDER.
STATE OF MICHIGAN, !

STATE OF MICHIGAN, !
COUNTY or SHIAwAssBR. %
At session of the Probate Court for the Count,
of Shiawassee held at the Probate Office, in the
City of Corunna on Thursday, the 9th day OF
November in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty -four
PRESENT, A. A. Harper, Judge of Probate.
In the matter of the Estate of James II
Goble, deceased.
Emma l.. Goble, administrators of said estate
comes into Court and represents that she is now
prepared to render her final account as such adj
ministratrix.
. Thereupon IL is Ordered That Monday the Isl
day of December next at ten o'clock in the fore
noon, be assigned for examining and allowing such
account and that the heirs at law of said deceased
and all other persons interested Ia said estate are
required to appear at a session of said Court then
to be holden at the Probate Office, in the City OF
Corunna in said county, and show cause, If any
there be, why the said account should not be al
lowed.
And tits Further Ordered that said administrative
give notice to the persons interested in said es-
tate, of the pendencyl of said account, and the
hearing thereof by causing copy of this order to
be published in The TIMES, newspaper printed
and circulating in said County for three success
sive weeks, to said day of hearing
A. A. HARPER,
IA TRUE CopYD Judge of Probate
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
Families at Billiards.
Billiard tables are becoming matter
II household furniture instead of a wick

Billiard tables are becominga matter
of household furniture instead of wick
ed luxury to be sought after in some
hidden saloon. The use of them has
spread widely to private families, and
tensions to modern conveniences that
have been built in the past few years
have room for billiard table just
large enough to allow free swing for a
cue over the nine feet by four and half
table that is usually bought.
One thing that private tables is effect
ing is that ladies are beginning to learn
to play, not so much with their BROTH
ers or gentlemen friends as with each
other. Women often have rather
lonely time of it during the day, and a
billiard table is a novelty to which they
take naturally. Few of them grow ex-
pert at it, though now and then one
may develop into a player who sur
prises her brother, or whoever it may
be, when bet happens to be played
off.
In some houses it is regular mania
and extends down to the servants, who
peep through the open door OF lingcr
excusingly on the staircase to see how
the shots are made. The mistress of
an Orange street family was astonished
when she returned from q series of af-
ternoon calls, which she had finished
sooner than she expected, and ran up
stairs to her dressing-room without
ringing. On the landing she heard
murmurs and smothered applause in
the billard-room. The door was open
ed and she waited and looked in. The
cook, ruddy Irish girl, and the cham
bermaid, stout German who could
hardly speak English, were wrapped up
in the cues and balls, while the colorcd
gentleman, who waited on the table,
attended the door bell, and BACKED
shoes, acted as scorer Bridget was
slightly ahead, 20 to 27, but Gretchen
was at the bat, and from the intense ex-
preston on the colored score-keeper's
face, she was going up ahead. After
run of four she stopped and the mis-
tress stepped in. 1t then came out how
the servants had been employing their
leisure time.
The chief trouble with keeping pri-
vate table, especially when beginners
do most of the playing, is the liability
to have the cloth torn and the cues and
balls damaged. Repairing torn cloth
is mean and costly job, and table
with many patches and servings on is
hurt. If there are young children in
the house and they have access to the
billiard-room the balls and cues won't
last long. Ivory or any other kind of
balls can't stand being rolled around
the floor, and the leather of the cues is
not near proof enough not to play out
when used for a shinny-stick.
Few pool tables are sound in private
houses. Billiard tables only abound,
and pool for drinks is not known,
though pool without drinks is perhaps
as rare. The whole change from play
ing in public saloon is in keeping
with the tendencies of the present time
to be exclusive.-Ne,0H acen NeOs.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14

An engine, said to be the smallest in
the world, has been made by watch
maker now connected with watch
manufacturing company. AS de-
scribed, the engine is of the upright
pattern, and is made of steel and gold.
1t rests on a 25-cent gold piece, and
can be worked either by steam or COM
pressed air. The cylinder is little
less than 1-16 of an inch in diameter,
with little less than 1892 of an inch
sti oke. The balance wheel is 1-3 of an
inch in diameter and can make some
thing like one thousand revolutions a
minute. The wristpin is sapphire cut
49,: ...3 3arpose. rntiddelphid Led0er.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
A Mothers Tears.

In the crowd at the Lake Shore De-
pot last night was big fellow wearing
fur overcoat and n broad-brimmed
hat. He walked up and down the
great platform with his hands in his
pockets, smoking and singing, appar-
emily in the best of humor. One of
those inquisitive men always to be
found near railway train, who had
been watching him for some time, final
ly ventured to address him.
From the Westp"
The individual i'm fur removed his CT
gar and replied: "You bet
"Going Eastp'
"You bet"
The inquisitive man became interest
ed. He was going East, too. 1t was
eleven years since he had been east OF
Lake Michigan, and he was going down
to see the old folks in Pennsylvania.
THAT amt marker to me" said
the Westerner, with a great vehemence.
Il went West in 40 and this is my first
appearance this side of the Rocky
Mountains since. / live when I'm to
home in Maine and that's where I'm
going now. When left there was a
boy of twenty-five or Whereabouts. Do
you think they will know me nowp"
and he stroked his iron gray beard
thoughtfully.
They will if you've got rich in the
meantime" said the inquisitive man,
making an effort to appear as il he did
not care whether the question imp lied
by his remark was answered or not.
He was equally surprised when his COM
panion responded:
That's just it, stranger. I've been
on the coast these thirty-five years.
Jerusalem! but think of ia lifetime
almost. I've had morn thousand
prospects that were considered i'm
meDse. I've been chasing something,
nothing, all these years. Sleeping or
waking I've seen the glitter Of gold.
Did you ever get that wayp No, of
course you didn't. have seen gold
everywhere and yet could not find it.
The mountains with their snowy peaks,
the glistening ice, the sparkling frost
have all filed me with wonder, avarice,
greed. Everything that shone has
tempted me. My eyes, have been
strained so long, my whole being has
been so absorbed in this cursed search
that it fires me tn look anywhere or at
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14

Mr.. Blyth, of London, has a new
plan for disposng of the dead. 1t is to
abolish all permanent cemeteries, and
allow each piece of agricultural land to
take its turn as receptacle for the
bodies of the dead. After five years as
a cemetery he would use the ground
for agriculture, on the theory of a ro-
tation of crops. He remarked, in his
argument, that Beneath the waving
corn or the stately pines the remains Of
the dead would forever be free from
desccratiOn -
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14

Figures are wonderful things. Here
is q sample of what can be done with
them: By placing one grain of corn on
the first square of chess board, doub-
ling the number of grains for each sue
ceeding square, the quantity of corn
required for the whole board of sixty
four squares would fill 1,S44,37 barns,
each holding 1000, 600 bushels of 1O0,-
600 grains each, bushels round num-
bers. If the United States grows $780,
600, 900 bushels each year, 1t would re-
ouire little over 800 years to mako
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
Walking Skeleton.

Mr. f. Springer, of Merchandising, Pa,
writes: 81 was afflicted with lung fever and
abcess on lungs, and reduced to walking
Skeleton. Got free trial bottle of DIR.
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
which did me so much good that l bought a
dollar bottle. After using three bottles,
found myself once more a man, completely
restored to health, with hearty appetite,
and gain in flesh of 4S lbs"
Call at OSBORN BROS Drug Store and get
a free trial bottle of this certain cure for all
Lung Diseases. Large bottles $I.oo. 3
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
Thousands Saw 40.

Mr. I. W. Atkins, Girard, Kan, writes
81 never hesitate to Recommend your Elec-
trio Bitters to my customers, they give en-
tire satisfaction and are rapid Sellers"
Electric Bitters are the purest and best med
icine known and will positively cure Kidney
and Liver complaints. Purify the blood and
regulate the bowels. No family can afford
to be without them. They will save hun
dreds of dollars in doctors bills every year.
Sold at fifty cents a bottle by OSBORN Bros.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
FOR SALE.

Registered Berkshire pigs of all
ages and both sexes. Also a choice
lot Of thoroughbred American Merino
rams, and a few Short Horn cows,
heifers and one choice bull calf from
the prze winning herds and flocks of
Messrs. c. Hubbard & Son, Benning-
ton, Mich. Inspection invited. a
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
RuckIen's Arnica SaIye.

The BEST SvLvE in the world for cuts
bruises, sores, ulcers salt rheum, fever sores,
teter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and
all skin eruptons, and positively cures piles,
or no pay required. 1t is guaranteed to
give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price IS cents per box.
For sale bv Osborn Bros.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14

Abraham Thomas, of England, re-
Gently went to Indian Territory and
married an Indian girl worth 100000.
That, under Indian laws, makes him
full-blooded member of the tribe, but
does not give him any control of the
property.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14

TO anybody who has disease of throat
or lungs, we will! send proof that Piso's
Cure for Consumption has cured the same
complaints in other cases. Address,
E. II. HAzELTINE, Warren, Pa.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14

What has become of Owosso's Heat &
Light Co., is daily asked on our streets,
Can the officers of the company give the
public any information
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14

The reason that the Council Proceedings
were not published last week, was that the
City Clerk did not furnish the copy until
Tuesday morning of this week.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
NECTAR FOR THE GODS.

GARDEN FoRMosA, ooLoNG TEA, 1884
CROP: The finest tea gro,on IN the aoorld:
Delicate leaf, rosy and aromatic, and while
sleeping filling the home with its sweet
scented fragrance: Nothing like it ever
before offered in Owosso. Come and try
it, and then buy lob chest and be hap
py. For sale only by
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
ALL NERVOUS AND CHRONIC DISEASES.

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AGEMARRED
Who pS h @ay ada @ h6 peeqy naen
and confidently rely upoh els skill as ptycin
yigor
which renders life burden marriage victim
both
CURE ruined health
CURES
s than Sns penei Sr Par %ss e y a4S acquire %
DIR. ALBERT,
Pc Box s7O. CLEVELAND OHIO
Cases and correspondence acrcdy confidential
the Uuted States
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14

Forty dollars pays for a full business
course in Parsons East Saginaw Business
College.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14

So far from having 81 grandchildren
as the photographers assert, Sir Moses
Montefore in fifty years of married life,
has had no children at all.
A Mothers Teara.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
DUFF & BANIsTER.

Oakside School, Owosso, Mich, board
ing and day school. Fall term opens
Sept. LIST. For particulars apply to Mrs.
l.. T. Gould, Principal.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-14
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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-12
TOPPING.
.,Ir. 6 8. s. tchwell. in an a

....Dr. S. S. Sa tchwell, in an article
In the methodist AdUdnce, of Goldsboro,
strikes heavily at gypsum flour, glucose
sugar and the large quantities of food
and drinks, as well as drugs and medi-
cines, imported from abroad and sold and
use,l in North Carolina. He truthfully
says:
AS one of the preventive measures
of br, aking up this increasing and prodi.
gious food adulteration, our people
should use the neglected remedy of rails
ing their own home supplies. 1t we
would aid in the keeping of dyspepsia
from the State and many nervous diseases
if we would have heath aud the com
tort of independence, and sustain prop
erly our own home Industries, let us be
come self reliant in what we eat anC
iriak. Ills is an effective way to break
up Ii is az minab'e traffic Is food adul-
teration, al d to enable our own fellow
cit z MS to : t under their own vines anC
ig rIees " tn none to molest or max.
hem afraid. l. +, u rely upon our owl
gardens, orchar Is, dairies, hen houses
coru and WI, at fields aud hog raising. !
sc would ii a healthy, prosperous anC
happy lie pie
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80 Pretty wives and
Lovely dauRh.ers.'

~
INV farm lies in a rather low and
miasmatic situation, and
NV wife -
..Who:'
..W as a very pretty blonde!"
Twenty years ago, became
"Sallow."
"Hollow-eyed.'
..Withered and ased,'
Before her time. from
.Nalarial vapors, though she made no
particular complaint. not being OF the
grumpy kind, yet caused me great I'M
e~asiuess.
"A short time AGO | purchased your
remedy Tor n OF the children, who had
q very severe attack Of b~iliousness, and
il occurred to me that the remedy might
help nv wife. as l found that our little
girl upon her recovery had
LOST"
..IIer sallowness, and looked aS fresh
as a new blown daisy. Vel the story
is soon told. My wife to-day has gam
ed her old-time beauty with compound
interest. aud IS now A. handsome a ma
! iron Of | do say it MYSELF as eau be
found in this county, which Is noted ioi
pretty women And | have only Hoy
Bitters to thank for it.
The dear creature Just looked over
nv shoulder and says, L can f1attel
equal to the days of our courtshlp, am
that reminds me there might be NOR
PRETTY acioes If my brother farmers
would do as l have done
Hoping you may long be spared to d'
good. | thankfully remain
Most truly yours,
G. J.. JAMES.
BELTsvILLE, Prince George 60 Nd,
Nav Goth, 1883. !
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-12
HARD-WORKED SENATOR'S

HARDIN ORKED SENATOR'S AT
LUNCH.-The Senate restaurant has be-
come the club room of the capitol. With
a colored man in charge, the Senators
now get the best cooking and attention
in town. Representatives 20 over there
to lunch. and Senators boast of it out
side. John Francis is the colored man
who took the restaurant. with $4,000 or
3 1000 a year. do the Senators gen
orally spend much money with you?" |
asked him. No" he went on, las a
rule, they come down here and eat
crackers and milk. My milk is most all
cream. and they like it. Most of them
are here each day, although a few have
their lunch sent to a committee room.
Senator Morrill, always eats crackers
and milk so do Senators Uoar and In
gals. Mr.. Platt always drinks tea.
Senator Vest likes to stand up to the
oyster counter and take a dozen OF the
she'll, with some ale. Perry Belmontis
often here eating raw oysters. General
Logan is very aAstemious. Mr.. Aldrich
generally eats a steak. But tie best 81
our custom is from the outsi ,ers. They
eat more and hig~her-priced dinners tLan
the Senators. Gencrous? Well, not
many of them. They do not come
down to the waters very handsomely
The poorest men are the most liberal,
Mr.. Frye is kind aud always has q
pleasant word for the walters so does
Mr.. Garland Governor Vance has his
pockets full Of dimes. and throws then
out literally. General Logan, when be
feels good, is liberal. but the tips gen.
orally come more from outsiders thar
Senators. A large closet full of brandy
and wines stands invitingly in view.
Notwithstanding the rule that no intoxi.
eating liquors shall be allowed. They
are sold to any one who calls.-Cor
Troy Times.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-03-12

-Phenol sodique is one of the most
useful mixtures the chemical arr has pro-
duced. 1t cures cuts or burns more
quickly than anything else we have ever
used. For catarrhal affection, infectious
tevcrs, ETC., il i one Of the les. proven
tlve> known. We know it 10 be a coed
disia'ectarr. and heartily recommend it
"a such. Times, Marie. a, Pa.