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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-09
P0CKET-BGOK LOST.

Lost between Fellows Saloon and my resi-
denc- on Third street, on Tuesday evening, a
Pocket-book, containing fye-dollar green
back, and several papers Of no value except
to the owner. The finder can keep the five
dollars IL he delivers the book.
ostf JOHN MARIANA
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-10-09
PROPOSALS WANTED.

OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,
HuMBoLDT COUNTY, STATE or NEVADA.
Notice is hereby given that the Board OF
County Commissioners of said County viii re-
ceive proposals
For the Erection of a Erid.e
Across the Humboldt riv.r oreeiia, up to
and including the Sd day OF J.. u.sJ ,iSSJ.
The bridge is to be built according to the
plans and specifications now On file with the
Clerk of said Board.
All proposals must be sealed and addressed
to the County Clerk, marked Proposals TO
build Bridge"
The Beard reserves the right to reject all pre-
posas.
All materials are to be furnished by the con.
tractor.
By order Of the Board.
AT. gibson, Clerk.
winnemueca, October o, 1884. sod
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-07-18
Mistaken Benev0lence.

Nice child, very nice child observ-
ed an old gentleman, crossing the
aisle and addressing the mother Of the
boy who had just hit him in the eye
with wad Of paper. How old are
you, my son?' None of your business !!
replied the youngster, taking aim at
another passenger. Fine boy smiled
the old man, as the parent regarded
her offspring with pride. "a remark
ably fine boy. What is your name..
my son?' 'Puddin' TameR shep<ed
the youngster, with giegle q his
.eHs: .eH::5aa: s:oia man though. u lima ass
given me three guesses at it, that
would have been the first one would
have struck on. Now, Puddin' you
can blow those things pretty straight,
can't you!' You bet!' squealed the
boy, delighted at the compliment. See
ne take that old fellow over there?
No, no" exclaimed the old gentleman
hastily. Try it on that old woman |
was sitting with. She has boys of
her own, and she won't mind it,
Can't you hit the lady for the gentle
man, johnny asked the fond parent.
Johnny drew bead and landed the
pellet right on the end Of the old wo-
mans nose. But she did mind it,
and, rising in her wrath, scared down
on the small boy as buzzard. She put
him over the line. reversed him, ran
him backward till he didn't know
which end of him was front, and finally
dropped him into the lap of the scared
mother, with benediction whereof
the purport was that she'd be back in
moment and skin him alive. She
didn't seem to like it, Puddir,' smiled
the old gentleman, softly. She's a
perfect stranger to me, but | under
stand she is the matron of truants'
home, and ] thought she would like a
little fun, but | was mistaken And
the old gentleman sighed sweetly as
he went back to his seat.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-07-18
Drink Hearty, Judge"

a story with moral is told in st.
Louis on venerable judge, honored
for his ability and integrity and great
ly beloved by all. BE abounds in all
those natural, gentle and kindly
courtesies that win hearts, and in
these qualities, as on the bench, he is
no respector of persons. Unfortunate
ly he is bachelor, and takes his meals
at restaurants. While dining at
Faust's the other day a rough-looking
chap standing at the bar caught his
eye and exclaimed: Take suthin',
Judge?' His honor gently declieed.
The invitation was repeated, when the
Judge reluctantly accepted, not willing
to have the man, whose countenance
seemed somewhat familiar, fear that
he was sighted. AS they raised their
wine glasses the man exclaimed:
Drink hearty, Judge; you sent me to
the pen for fourteen months once, but
| don't hold any spite ag'in you on
that account
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-07-18
Eelerf Reabing.
Hope as Remedy Against Disease.

DR.. J. Mortimer Granville has been
lately rather severely handled by the
medical press of London, because he
wrote letter on this subject to one
of the daily papers. lie is criticised
as having performed an unethical act
in thus advertising himself in an un
professional manner in a lay journal.
This question we will leave to our
| transatlantic brethren, while We say
few words upon the subject matter
Of this letter.
But little touched upon, hope as a
remedy against disease is, if wisely and
Judiciously employed, one of the most
valuable and useful means that the
physican can employ. Call it what
we NAV, and reason about it as We
please, no man Of experience will for
an instant question that imagination,
the prejudices, the mental condition,
the conviction of the patient, in many
cases, exerts most powerful and a
most real influence upon the progress
and termination of diseased conditions.
Has it not happened to every one of
our readers (it repeatedly has to us) to
discover accidentally, so to speak, a
condition of chronic disease, which has
evidently been present for years, and yet
the patient has maintained fairly good
health, and is, at the time of the dis
coverv, in no immediate apparent
danger; vet when told that he is af
| hicted with an incurable disease that
NAV carry him off in few days, or
that he may live for months, immed'
lately willis, like the sensitive plants
when touched, and dies in day Or
two?
Again, do we not all know of cases
of chronic disease, in persons with "a
happy, hopeful, contented disposition,
disease that we felt sure would soon
prove fatal And yet we see them 60
on dag after day aud year after year
enjoying apparently good health. OF
course we are familiar with and
thoroughly recognize the fact that
worry, that mental anxiety, is diamet-
rically opposed to good health and
long life; and in this fact We recognize
the explanation OF the influence OF de-
pressing opinions and advice; for if
we tell man with a nervous tempera-
ment that he may die in few days,
from that moment all peace and con-
tentment vanishes from his life, while
anxiety, worry, and unrest take pos
session Of his whole being.
The practical point to be deduced
from these reflections is that it will
rebound not only to your patients ad-
vantage, but also to your own profess
sional reputation, to make it a rule
always to take the most hopeful view
that is possible of the PATIENTS con-
dition, especially when the man or
woman is one of the nervous, worrying
kind and always to remember that
hope kept alive is the great secret OF
success among quacks. Let US steal
| their thunder.-Ihe Ned and Surg
! Report.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-07-18

That's what he's all the time writ
ing in the sand with his cane,' said
Carrie. Are you his sweetheart?
For few moments there was an
awkward silence. Then Dalmayne
said, very quietly, No, Carrie, she's
not my sweetheart. But should be a
very happy man if she would be some,
thing more than that After short
pause lie turned to Miriam and said
will you:'
1t was very sudden proposal, but
MIram's own nature was so frank and
straightforward that no other mode of
asking such a question would have
seemed so natural and proper to her.
Her answer was given in one word,
and it was the word he most ardently
wished to hear.
Carrie stood looking at them both
for little while, fully conscious that
they had forgotten her existence. Then
she drew long breath and said, well,
| suppose I'll have to play with the
children :.
AS she walked away Miriam's SYM
pathy for her was thoroughly aroused,
and she called after her, Come back,
Carrie, come back, We want you to
stay with us.' But Carrie walked
stolidly on.
Three days afterwards she might
have been seen playing on the beach
with huge Newfoundl land dog, both
of them half wild with delight, and on
/ the dogs collar was inscribed, Carrie
Thornton. From Miriam
i At the appointed time in October
Miriam went to Nellie Lanes house,
and found that young lady and Hattie
Sanford waiting for her. She noticed
I Immediately that they both seemed a
! little constrained and embarrassed +,
/ and was at loss to account for it.
After little general conversation she
said, in her usual direct way. Girls,
/ I've come to tell you I'm going to
leave the society. The truth is, I'm
engaged
a look Of intense relief instantly
came into the face of both her COM
/ panlons.
Il am, too exclaimed one Of them.
/ And so am | p cried the other.
/ While the were satisfying each
others curiosity about their respective
engagements letter was brought in,
which Nellie Lane opened and read
aloud. as follows:
! DEAR Girls: | can't attend the meeting as
| N too busy getting ready to be married and
go abroad Reginald is so impatient that
have agreed to be married next week. But
intend TO ''repress' him Systematically, and
i | hope that when you are married you will
/ treat your husbands in the same way.
Ever yours, 3. NJ.
I have-ao lanbt she wiH repress
'B5t, girls, Pm beginning to think
men are not the only people who need
repressing, and hope that when I'm
married my husband will help me to
raprass nysalf'
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-07-18
Volume XLI.---No. 5.
Really Didn't Know.

A passenger who boarded train
coming east over the Detroit, Lansing
and Northern road, at Ionia, the other
day, took seat in front of woman
who was very curious minded about
the country. She asked about the
crops, the prices of land, the charac-
teristics of the people, the climate,
and many other things. To each and
every question he returned respect
full
Don't know ma'am-l really don't
know
is this as good a climate as New
York;
4 think so, ma'am, but l amt sure
DO the people seem cheerful?'
4 think they do, but I'm not GER
tain
Whom do they seem to prefer for a
Presidential candidate p
Cant say, ma'am.'
Are the farmers low spirited over
the price Of wheat?'
'They may be, but l can't say as to
that
Should you say this was a good
State for young man to begin life
in?'
i shouldn like to say, ma'am
His on-committal answers seemed
to annoy her, and after a brief silence,
she continued:
Have you been in Michigan long,"
Three years, ma'am.'
and yet you don't seem to have
posted yourself much
well, ma'am, to tell the TRUTH he
piled, as he turned about, Pm resi-
dent Of Ohio. | came up here and
stole horse, and was sent to the Ionia
Prison for three years. | haven't
been out more than two hours yet
She rose up and took the fourth seat
back in way that made the dust fly.
ard she didn't open her mouth again,
even to the conductor, until the train
was running into Detroit.-Detroit
Free Press.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-07-18
T H E BEST
G L 0 T h | N G

The largest and finest Stock ever shown
at prices which cannot be equalei else
where.
Our entirely netr aock is so serrablo
that every man and boy should have a
suit. and 10 appear handsomely dressed
you must wear our cofhes.
Should your circums ances be such that
only small amount can be invested IN
clothing. then our house is one to patro.
nize for the reason that you get jus, what
you pay icr; economical administration
of al its affairs makes our establishment
the popular one 10 buy from. Every gar
ment in our house entirely new, handsome
and SPryicpaIle
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-07-18
RE ES.
A tie game-Getting married.

~ lle SaIle-UeItlHS HaIIlleu'
A political bolt is troublesome
hardware.
A tight place-The ballet girls
dressing-room.
1t is asserted that Adam was mar
ried on his wedding Eve.
A hen can only lay on nest, but
ship can lay both on and off.
Although your doctor may say you
owe your life to him, he will not take
it in settlement of his bill.
True love is so warm that ice cream
will not throw a chill over it.
An exchange says, You cannot move
the world Yes you can. Commence
with Wheeling West Virginia.
The Maiden's Prayer--That she may
make mash before any Of her female
lacquaintances.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-07-18

Bat, girls, Pm beginning to think
men are not the only people who need
repressing, and hope that when Pm
married my husband will help me to
reuress myself'
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-11
Taught Him POIiteneSs.

The pay train stopped at Willow Bend
to pay the railroad hands and to iqui-
date claims for cattle on the track in
that section. A gaunt, hungry looking
granger stepped up to the smart young
man who was dispensing the cash IN the
rear end of the car.
SCOT my name on your books, Mis-
ter? ?"
Chow should ! know unless you tell
me your name?"
"Kerrect you are. You have got the
edge on me there. Well, my name IS
Rufus McConkey."
"Yes, said the young man, referring
to his books; "Mr. McConkey, have
got you down for hog"
"Have me down for hog, have you !?
Well, I'll have you down for half an
hour, and I'll be on top of you maxim it
sorter excitin' to you, if you don't revise
that expression. Now, say after me:
Colonel McConkey, School Trustee,
Fourth District-Your name, sir, is on
this here list as honey fider creditor
of the I. and G. N. Railroad; which the
amount are ten dollars, the vally of one
spotted Berkshire hog; said amount OF
ten dollars it do me proud to hand to
you. Won't you have cigar, Colonel ?"
The smart young assistant paymaster
repeated after Mr.. McConkey word for
word, handed Mr.. McConkey the ten
dollars and then gave him cigar. Colo
mel McConkey put the hammer OF his
six-shooter back to half-cock and then
strobe out, mutterinsrs .sssasse city chaps
think they're smart, huff6ey'll find they
has to come out on the peraries to learn
perIiteness an grammar. - Austin
tSiftin0S.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-11
OUR SMALL CHANGE.
How Postal Currency was Invented aud
Brought into Use During the War.


Ben: Perley Poore, in the Boston
Budget, says Postal currency, which
was the "change" during the war and
until the resumption ofspecie payments.
was the invention of Gen. Spinner, who
had represented the Syracuse district Of
New York III Congress, and had been
appointed Treasurer of the United States
by President Lilseoln. Small change had
vanished, and in buying a dinner in tho
market change had to be taken in beets,
cabbages, potatoes and what not. Gen.
Spinner was constantly appealed to from
all quarters to do something to supply
the demand for small change. He had
no law under which he could act, but
after buying a half-dollars worth OF
apples several times and receiving for
his half. dollar in change more or less dlf-
ferent kinds of produce, he began to
cast around for a substitute for small
change. In his dilemma he thought OF
the postage stamp. He sent down to
the Post Office Department and pur-
chased quantity of stamps. BE then
ordered upsa package of the paper upon
which Government securities were
printed. He cut the paper into various
sizes. On the pieces he pasted stamps
to represent different amounts. He thus
initiated substitute for fractional silver.
This was not, however, Government
transaction in any sense; it could not be.
Gen. Spinner distributed his improvised
currency among the clerks of the de-
partment. They took it readily and the
trade folks more readily. The idea
spread; the postage stamps, either de-
tached or pasted upon piece OF paper,
became the medium of small exchange.
1t was dubbed ''postal currency" From
this Gen. Spinner got his idea OF the
fractional currency, and went before
Congress with it. That body readily
adopted it, and but short time after
Gen. Spinner had begun pasting opera
ations law was on the statute book
providing for the issue of the fractional
currency which became so popular. The
fac simile of postage stamps was put Oh
each piece of currency, and for long
time it was known as ''postal currency.
An enormous amount never was pre-
sented for redemption and the Govern
ment was consequently the gamer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-11
Vessels Loading ON Dry Land.

"When this vessel was loaded there
was not pailful of water about her, y
said Captain George f. Snow, of the
schooner Carl D. Lothrop, of Province
town, now lying in Gay street dock.
loaded with plaster from Nova Scotia.
Captain Snow then explained that in the
Bay of Fundy the tides rise and fall
forty to sixty feet. At Windsor, where
he loaded, the wharves are built on the
sides of hills, beyond the reach of the
high spring tides, and have but four
teen feet alongside at high tide. Ves-
sells to load approach them at high tide,
and leave with the same. When made
fast, no loading is done until the tide
has gone out and the vessel has sunk to
an anchorage in the mud. She remains
in this position eight hours out of every
welve. As soon as she floats work is
knocked off, and resumed again when
the tide is out. The beach is SC
shelving that should vessel break hel
wharf lines she would roll over and ovel
down the beach.
The plaster mines of Nova Scotia are
located along the shores of the rivel
Avon, from Chivaree to Windsor, prob
ably distance of ten miles. 1t is taken
from veins which are reached through O
sandy loan that covers them, but al
some points it Juts out in cliffs anc
lodges. All of the mines or quarries are
located close to the river shore, and the
haul to the vessels is very short. D
late much of this plaster has been ar
irving in Baltimore, although the bull
of the product of the mines find a mar
ket in New York. k.-Baltin1ore San.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-11
Trouble Ahead.

The New York Herald says: During
the current fiscal year nearly.thirty
four million gallons of whisky must be
removed from bonded warehouses, and
either exported or thrown upon the
market. In the latter event nearly
thirty million dollars in taxes must be
paid to the government by the owners
of the whisky. This tax, if enforced,
means ruin to these owners, and, it is
said, will involve the fall of many banks
which have made heavy loans secured
by this commodity. If three or fou
millions of gallons are thrown upon the
market per month, there is no limit to
which the price may not fall. 1t costs
about sixteen cents to make a gallon of
whisky, and the tax is ninety cents
There is going to be heavy loss some
where.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-11
GUNS VERSUS ARMOR.
What the Experiments at spezIa, Italy.
Show to the Naval World.

The recent experiments made at
Spezia to ascertain the penetrative
power of the 120-ton gun have shown
that no armor yet made can resist the
new steel projectile thrown by this mon
ster gun. Targets representing the
armor of the ironclad Italia and con-
sisting of Sc inches of solid iron with
heavy wooden backing were completely
pierced-the proiectile passing beyond
the target and burying itself deeply in
the sand. 1t is true that the italian
officers believe that the angle at which
the casemate armor of the Italia is
placed would enable it to defect the
shot of even the 120-ton gun, and they
can console themselves at present with
the fact that they possess the only guns
of that size that are afoat. Still, the
fact remains that artillery has won an
other victory over armor, and that the
great italian ironclads can no longer be
invulnerable.
1t seems perfectly clear that the gun
must always conquer the armor. There
is practical limit to the thickness of
armor which any vessel can be made to
carry, while there is no such limit to the
size of guns. No matter how thick the
armor that may be placed on q man-of-
war, guns will be built to pierce it. The
time is evidently coming when armor
will be abandoned as useless, and the
navies of the world will consist of un-
armored vessels, any one of which can
be destroyed by single shell from the
enormous guns that will be in use by all
nations.
When that day comes no man-of.war
will risk a naval battle if it can be avoid
ed, for the only chance of safety in such
battle will be to plant shot in the
enemy's hull before he is ready to fire.
The whole duty of a man. of-war will be
to destroy merchant vessels, and to keep
out of the reach of the enemy's men-of-
war. Speed will be the chief merit of q
naval vessel, and crack ship will not be
one which fights successful battles, but
one which is most successful in running
away. Sailors will point proudly to the
Victory or the Constitution of the fu-
ture, and claim that she has run away
from more hostile ships than any other
vessel afoat, and the proudest title that
frigate can earn will not be the "un-
conquerable," but the ''uncatchable.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-11
Top Dressing Grass Lands.

The fall is the best season for top
dressing grass lands and putting them
in good shape for the spring. When
meadows have been pastured the drop
pings should be broken up and spread,
and all the unconsumed punches OF
herbage should be moved off level. 1t
might perhaps be resented as too trlte
and unnecessary an admonition that
grass should not be pastured down too
closely just now, but it is one of those
points upon which ''line upon line and
precept upon .precept" is entirely appl1-
cable. For even knowing the unprofit-
ableness of feeding the herbage which is
hard, innutritive, and indigestible, and
the injury of leaving the sod bare and
unprotected, farmers as a rule neglect
the plainest and simplest wisdom in this
respect, and leave their cattle out on the
meadows until the herbage is worn down
to the roots. A common objection made
to leaving an aftermath upon meadows
80 that the rank ''fog"or dead grass is an
obstacle to moving the next season.
This is wholly gratuitous alarm, and If
one needs proof he is referred to the
wild growths of the prairies and
meadows, which thrive exceedingly
well in spite of it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-11
A Mountain of Cod.

Professor Huxley says that ga noun
tain of cod," varying from 100 to $50
feet in height, moves for two months in
every year from westward to southwark
past the Norwegian coast. Every square
mile of this colossal column contains
100. 600, 900 of fish, which even on short
rations consume no fewer than $40, ,000,-
600 of herrings every week. The whole
catch of the Norwegian fisheries never
exceeds in year more than half mile
of this cod mountain, and one weeks
supply of herrings is needed to keep
that area of fish from starving.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-12-11
Tomato Preserves.

Green-tomato preserves are in high
favor in certain localities, and are en-
tirely unknown in others. Here is q
reliable recipe for making them: Take
one peck of hard and unripe tomatoes,
scald them by pouring boiling water
over them, remove the skin, and cut
them into thin slices; slice also six
lemons, the skin of the lemons is to be
left upon them, but the bitter seeds
must be removed; scatter six pounds of
brown sugar over the tomatoes, and one
heaping tablespoonful of ginger; put
into large kettle and let them boil
slowly until they are tender; skim them
thoroughly; can just as you do any
other preserves.