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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21

Scissors and shears" yelled l. Il
tell YOU I don't want to hearanything
more about that blasted shindig. or
me and Bill on Jack Shoppers ranch
or anything else that rioted around
these diegings before the landing Of
Columbus If You havc'any news
news that is news-just spit it out. .
"Now, look here, mister; never
YOU mind about the landin' of Kcr-
lum6us or any of the rest of them air
form chaps; but listen to me and
squirt that ink y
AS my friends and the rest of the
world we'll know, ! seldom loose my
temper, and perhaps | didn't then; but
as Mr.. llankerson had asked me sever
al times to spill that ink, | tho ought I'd
do it, and | did spilled it oyer his
beautiful features, stopped it over his
nObby hat, | scattered it on his conf
ding ear, and squirted it into his in
telligent eyes, until it trickled from the
ends of his fingers.
Probably this WAS not according to
his notions or how ink should be spill
ed for he was matchmaker than any
Western cyclone ever dreamed of being.
In some manner, yet unknown to me,
| stretched myself gracefully upon the
sanctum floor and rolled around like a
ball with which a kitten is plaYmg,and
Mr.. HanKerson acted the part of the
kitten.
At length the "devil''and the ''jours"
came out and gentlypersuaded Hanker-
son, by club argument, that he mad bet
ter skip.
When | went to the hotel, Mrs. Ack-
er wanted to know if | had been inter
viewing mule.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21
A Fine View.

Two Boston gentlemen, while tramp
ing through the white mountains the
past summer, came across a lonely hut
among the hills from which the pros
pect.was particularly fine and extended.
The proprietor Of the establishment
was hoeing in small garden, and the
travellers began to quiz him. Said one:
'iYou have an excellent view from
your house ?"
"PurtY fair,' replied the farmer.
II SUPPOSE" continued the first
speaker, wirking at his companion, ''on
fair day you can see almost to Europe.
"Kin see further than that," return
ed the man.
'Hew so ?'' was asked in surprise.
70 "We don't think nothin' of seein'as
far as the mune ~ 20 e.'
The Bostonians had found their
match.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21
Items Of Interest.


The charge against n California
Judge is Of friyolity, and the specifca-
tion is that he puts his hair in papers
every night, woman fashion, to make
it curl when he is on the bench next
day.
In Germany, hereafter, each to wn
must keep n record Of all the hard
drinkers, anu the city medcll men are
bound to report those who habitually
imblbe to excess so that the authorities
may subject them to strict course Of
treatment.
No bureau of the Government ex-
ceeds in importance the United States
Patent Office. From the start it has
been selfsustaining,an now has an un-
expended balanceto its credit Of s. 800
600. This money is the result of fees
paid by inventors TO secure the patents
which protect their inventions. The
business of the Patent Office has in
creased with each year of its existence.
\ farmer from Pocahontas county,
West Virginia, appeared in Staunton
the other day searching for an auction
block and an auctioneer. He was
umb.founded when told that there
were no slaye auctions in Virginia. He
returned to hIs mountain home unable
TO sell the two slaves he had desired to
sell, He had cultivated his farm all
these years in ignorance OF the emanci-
baton proclamation.
MICROSCOPIC ANIMALS IN BRICKS.
The weathering of brick walls into
friable state is usually attributed to the
action Of the heat, vet, and frost; but
from recent observations Of Nj. Parize,
the real destroyer is a microscopic
creature, and the action played 10y the
weather is only secondary. He has ex-
amined the red dust OF crumbling
bricks under the microscope, and found
it TO consist largely Of minute living or
ganisms. y sample of brick dust Ia
ken from the heart of solid brick also
showing the same animalculae, but in
smaller numbers.
THE NOISE OF THE FINGERs.-
When you poke the end of your finger
in your ear, the roaring noise you hear
is the sound Of the circulation in your
finger, which is tbefact, as any one can
demonstrate forhimself by first putin Q
his fingers in his ears, and. then stop
ping them up with other substance.
Try it, and think what a wonder of a
machine your body is, hat even the
points of your fingers are such busy
workshops that they roar like a mall
Niagara. The roaring is probably more
than the noise of the circulation of the
blood. 1t is the voice of all the vital
processes together-the tearing down
and building up processes that are al
ways going forward in the living body
from conception down to death.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21
He'd Wait and See.

During the war a couple of New York
ers went down into Pennsylvania to
prospect for oil, and, having discovered
Il stratum they undertook to pur-
chase five acres of land of an old Ger
man. He was up to snuff, if not to oil +,
and refused to sell at any reasonable
figure. One Of the would-be purchasers
finally said to him:
See here, Mr.. KIOpp, we propose to
buy this land and turn it over to the
government"
"Vhas for?'
ITO help put down the rebellion.
The time has come when every man
must show his colOrs. Are you for the
Union ?"
"Vhell-Vhell-"
"Are you patriot, or not'"
"Vhell, tell you how it vas. If dere
vhas oil in my land, | hold it for one
tousand dollars an acre und vhas a re6-
el. If dere vhas no oil, | sell it to you
fol two Numbered dollars an acre und
vhas a good patriot"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21
Florida Oranges.

In Florida, good land for orange
groves can be bought for one dollar an
acre. If the land is covered with wild
orange trees, they only Feed grating to
become productive of good oranges.
The land must be cleared, for il: that
climate all land that is not in use soon
becomes covered with rank, luxurious
vegetation. Then some buildings have
to be put up, and there also Is the
trouble and expense of evicting squat
ters, who are generally to he found in
abundance on desirable land in Florida.
The expense for land is really small
part Of the cost of starting an orange
grove, and the reason that so many peO-
pie fail in the business Of orange rails
ing is that they start withtoo little cap
ital. A young man with a few hun
dred dollars will go down there and
think that, because he can get his land
cheap, he has money enough to start
grove on, but he generally finds out
his mistake. Besides the expenses OF
which / have spoken there is the eX-
pense of labor, which, although labor is
cheap there, amounts to considerable,
and the cost of subsis stance for the or
ange grower and his family-if he has
one-all Of which count up. 1t will be
two years before the orange trees-pro-
vided he is fortunate enough to get
land that has wild orange trees on it,
and gratis them-will Yeald market
able fruit, and all this time he has to
incur the expenses l have mentioned.
When his trees get to bearing he must
find market for the oranges, and, un-
less he can be fortunate enough to sell
them on the tress, he is at an expense
for transportation. Having once got
fairly started in the business, however,
the expense is exceedingly small as
compared with the returns, and a for
tune can be made unless the orange
grower is unfortunate with his trees.
A Young man must make up his mind
to endure some deprivationS. Ii he
goes into the unsettled part of Florida,
as If he would have to do if he got his
land cheap, he must confine himself to
the society OF the negro squatters and
possibly one or two other orange grow
rstyo OF dozen miles distant. lie
must school himself to view without e.
motion a snake dropping from the roof
| on his dinner-table, Or some wild AMI
NAL sitting on his front doorstep. If
| he is fond of beef and milk he will find
| that he might rs we'll sigh for ortolans
and truf1es. However, if young man
has grit and energy land combines with
those requisites sufficient capital, he
can make fortune as easily and surely
by starting an orange grove in Florida
as IN any other way the world affords.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21

Jeems' oldest son desired to attend
the policemen ball. The mother OF
the young man insisted he should not
go. Have nothing to do with balls, my
son, they are dangerous said the care
full parent. The next morning Jeems,
ir., refused fsh-balls at breakfast, re-
peating the words of his mother the
night previous. The old lady looked
over her glasses at her hopeful and re-
marked: Are you afraid of bones?'
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21
AN INCIDENT FROM
LIFE.

How damp and cold and foggy it was
in Lambeth Palace Road one Deem
Der evening. 1t was terrible noisy too,
for huge carts, laden with heavy goods
from the Southwestern Railway tre-
minus hard by, ratified incess antly over
the stones, and everybody hurried along
to be out of the thoroughfare as soon
as possible.
Three little urchins formed an excep-
tion to the bustling crowd, for they
fingered for more than an hour round
the big iron gates of St. Thomas's Hos
pital in spite of the constant knocks
and pushes they received, custom hav-
ing made them almost unconscious of
such treatment. Besides, the attrac-
ton which kept them there was pow
erfnl one. They had actually witness
ed, while they awaited, the arrival of
no less than three Christmas trees.
Two Of them, it is true, were only
young fir trees dug up from a planta-
tion somewhere in the country and
sent straight to the hospital there to be
dressed up in all their attractive fnery
but the third tree was present from
the wife of one of the consulting ply
sicians and was already trimmed and
decorated and covered with toys.
There was..some delay in moving it
from the light cart and carrying it into
the building, and so the three small
boys outside had time for long look
at 1t in all its beauty. One must be a
child to understand what that beauty
is; colored flags, gold and silver balls,
dolls, trumpets, candles, crackers,
sweeties-- they need a child's imagina-
ton to be appreciated, but we may per-
haps, happily have enough of it left in
us to know how much they convey to
him.
The boys on the sticky pavement
outside gave long-drawn sigh as the
beautiful tree went out of sight, and
they turned away to their own usual
acknowledgement, fog, cold, discom-
fort, such as they had been accustomed
to all through their short lives.
"My !" said one of them, Jimmy by
name ''wouldn't just like to be sick
in there and ave that there tree to
play with -
1t was a sentiment echoed by the
other two. as they edged themselves a
long the railing of the hospital. making
their way back toward the room they
usually slept 10 in Lambeth
swell, We amt sick" said another
Of them, called Peter, although the
harsh, dry voice he spoke IN his white,
wan face might have told another tale.
"And so we amt got no tree ~ said
the third boy, Bill. They had almost
reached the corner of Westminster
Bridge, in depressed silence, when Pet
as he was commonly called-sudden.
ly stopped, and, with smile that was
pleasing enough to see, although his
companions did not notice it, exclaim
ed:
s'Ain't got hidea -
After which statement he PROFOUND
ed to his attentive audience, ideas be.
ing, if not rare, always interesting to
boys. And certainly Pets was origin
al and worthy of consideration.
he suggested that one of them
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21
The Crutch in the Corner.

Written Just after the t0dr by John MelhtoM
-"O!d Termont."l
"Why, Billy. your room is as cold asthe hut
We had by the swamp and river,
Where we lost our mai0r,and Iim, you KNOW,
And sixty more with the fever. q.
"Wen, Tom, old fellow. It's hard enough,
But the best at times knock under;
There's ne'er stick of wood IN the house
But thatcrutch In the corner yondert
'Sorry Ilsted9 Don't ask me that, Tom;
II the Rag was again IN danger
I'd aim gun with an aching stump
At the foe, were he a brother or stranger.
But. say. ought a wound from shot or shell,
Or q pistol bullet, by thunder!
Forever to doom . poor fellow to want,
With that crutch in the corner yonder?
''That crutch, OLD eomrade, ought ever to be
A draft ut sights ON the. Nation
For honor, respect, and friendly hand;
For clothing, and quarters and ration!
My wife-She OegS at the Nugget House,
Where the bigbugS live in Splendor.
And brag, DER their wine, OF the fights that
Such as that in the corner yonder!
"And Charlie-he goes to some place up town,
Some ttckeEfOr Soup arrangements
All well enough for a hungry boy,
But, Tom, Its effect Is estrangement!
I'd sooner have kicked the bucket twice DER
BY a shell or round ten-pounder,
Than live such Il life as I'm doing now,
With that crutch in the corner yonder.
There's ne 'er thing left to pawn or TO sell,
And the winter has closed on labor;
This medal Is all that Is left me now,
With my pistols and truSty Saber;
And those. by the sunlight above Us, Tom,
No power from my trust shall Sunder,
Save the One that releases me at Last
From that crutch in the corner yondcr.
"I can raise this arm that is left to me
To the blessed heaven above us,
And swear by the throne of the Father there,
And the angels all, who love us,
That the hand / lost and the hand ! have
Were never yet stained by plunder,
And for love of the dear old flag, | now
Use that crutch in the corner yonder.
Dol ask too much when say we boys,
Who fought for the Nations glory,
Now that the danger is past and gone,
In comfort should tell our story
How should we have fought when the mad
shells screamed -
And shivered our ranks, wonder,
Had we known our lot would have ueen to beg,
With that crutch in the corner yonder?
There's little we hear of w-a-days
But pardon and reconstruction,
While the soldier who fought and bled for both
Is left TO his own destruction.
'Twould be well, i think in these nipping times,
For those Congress fellows to ponder,
And think of us boys who use such things
AS that crutch In the corner yonder."
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21

A YOUNG man out in Waupun, Wis.,
organized an accordion corps. At last
accounts he was still half mile ahead
of the inhabitants. but things looked
quite encouraging, as he was very
much ont of breath.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21

An Illinois man had accumulated a
few thousands, and his health was such
as to convince him that he had not
much left of life. He picked out the
scriptural clause, Lay up treasure in
heaven, }" and believed that he could O.
hey. The process that he invented was
to convert his wealth into paper money
and burn it prayerfully on an alter. lie
went so far as to build the altar and
kindle a sacrifcial fire, but he had burn
ed only $40 when his relatives forclbly
deprived him of his religious liberty.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21

only think of it = exclaimed Chi
cago girl, Il weigh one hundred and
twenty pounds i'll my stockings. Do.
you?' replied her cousin from st. Louis,
glancing at the feet Of the first speaker,
L Wonldn't have believed it. How
much do you weigh altogether
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21
Saint | got a hidea -

Saint | got a hidea p,
After which statement he propound-
ed to his attentive audience, ideas be-
ing, if not rare, always interesting to
boys. And certainly Pets was origin
al and worthy of consideration.
He suggested that one of them
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21

[ Written Just after te tOdr by John Mcintosh
-"Od Term0nt."l
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1884-02-21

Something new eh; | ruther cack-
late | know what he people want.
Wall, gosh darn my looks, l should
say l did! Youjustspill that ink and
I'll giveyou ncws-yes, siree-news.
There was a shindig goin' on at Jack
Shoppers ranch, and me and Bill"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-06-19
Crimes and Criminals.

Acting Gov. Thomas of Utah has granted a
reprieve to Hopt, the murderer, pending his
appeal to the United States supreme court He
was to have been shot on the 18th
Marietta Ryan was convicted of murder in
the first degree at Roanoke, Va. Instigated by
an illegitimate lover, she poisoned her hus-
band, popular colored preacher, last Jan
uary.
Otto H. Weidner, general delivery clerk in
the st. Louis postoffice for several years past,
was arrested recently for robbing letters of
money. On being taken before the United
States district court Weidner pleaded guilty
and will be sentenced Friday.
At Chesterville, about fourty miles distant
from Ottawa Can, in remote and quiet dis
trict woman named McCadden, aged about
sixty. while returning from her sons residence,
was attacted and brutally butchered by one
Thomas ASgart The murderer killed her
with an AK.
Tompsett and Louder, murderers, were
hanged in the Picton, Nova Scotia, jail, Tues
day for the murder of Peter Lozier, a CONNER
cial traveller, on the 21st of last December.
They were both executed on the same scaffold
at the same time. They maintained their inno-
cence to the last Owing to the bungling of an
inexperienced hangman, both men suffered
great agony and died hard
At Chattanooga recently, John Williams and
his wife, while they were peacefully asleep in
their home, were startled about 2 a. NJ, by a
loud report and awoke to find the room full OF
smoke, and the mattrass perforated with slugs.
Williams ran to the door and saw man rapid
ly disappearing in the darkness. He pursued
him, and saw him drop his gun, and then lost
sight of him. The gun proved to be the prop
erty of a man named Dick Miller, and he was
arrested.
At New Albany, Mass, deadly ARRAY oc-
Cured between J. r. REEVES, mayor of the town
and editor of the Union County Optic, and
Lloyd Ford, desperate. They had an alter
cation about the congressional contest between
Morgan and Watson, candidates for the Demo-
cratic nomination Each shot five times. Ford
was shot in the breast, from which he died
One bullet from Ford's pistol struck Squire
REEVES, brother of J. r. REEVES, infiicting a
flesh wound in his leg. just as Ford was dy-
ing he said to a bystander, 'Did run? No!
Then I die in peace"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-06-19
Casualties of the Week.

Winnipeg's Tuesday fire cost $S4,S In
suranee $l5,5
Frances Wade Hughes, a lawyer of national
repute, was striker with paralysis at Pottsville,
Pa
Michael Driscoll got caughtin a log jam on
Warm Springs creek, Deer Lodge county, Mont !,
and was killed
D. NJ. Marshall of Matamoras, W. Va, be-
came deranged when tho cyclone passed over
that place on Tuesday, and shot himself with a
revolver.
Marion Deems, aged twenty three years, was
shot and instantly killed in his boarding house
in Baltimore Thursday night by Lewis Stranger,
the proprietor, who mistook his boarder for
burglar.
A fire caught in the building occupied by the
National Rubber and New Brunswick Rubber
company, at Boston. The three upper stories
were burned. An explosion of naphtha oc-
Cured OH the second floor Three firemen
named Hodgson Halsey and Littleton were
badly burned They were taken to the hospit-
al Others were injured as follows: John
Flavel, district engineer, Cunningham Capt.
Willard Capt Frost, Lieut.. Gradyck and Lad
derman Sweetzer. The loss will be heavy.
Insurance, s49O. 900 on stock and $27, GOO on
building.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-06-19
The bill in the New York legislature

The bill in the New York legislature
for the suppression of indecent publ
cations has now become a law by the gov
ernor's action. This makes the sale or
circulation in any manner of any obscene
magazine, pamphlet or newspaper mis-
demeanor; and makes any one guilty OF
the same offence who "sells, lends, gives
away, or has in his possession with in
tent to sell, or give away, or to show, or
advertise, or otherwise offers for loan,
gift, sale, or distribution to any minor
child, any book, pamphlet, magazine,
newspaper, or other printed paper, de-
voted to the publication or principally
made up of criminal news, police re-
ports, or accounts of criminal deeds; or
exhibits upon any street or highway, or
in any other place within the view, or
which may be within the view, of any
minor child, any book, magazine, pam
phlet, newspaper, writing paper, pic
ture, drawing, photograph or other ar
ticle or articles coming within the de-
scriptions of articles mentioned in the
first and second sub divisions of this Sec
tion OF any of them"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-06-19
Personal News Notes.

DR.. Worthington declines the Nebraska bish-
opric.
The Harvard overseers have decided not to
confer the degree of LII d. on Gov. Robinson
of Massachusetts,
At Concord Mass, recently, Miss Elizabeth
Hoar, daughter of Hon. E. d. Hoar and Sam
uel Bowles of the Springfield Republican,
were married. Among those present were ex-
Secretary of State Evarts and Senator Hoar.
James Knox Polk, the namesake and grand
nephew of President Polk, has been taken to
the asylum for the insane at Hartford. This
was the climax of an erratic career. His &C.
centriclties of late have been strongly
marked. Last year he shaved off his eyebrows.
One day soon after, he got off on a tantrum
and pounded neighbours boy on the head with
a beer bottle.
Lawyer Davidge, who assisted in the prose-
cution of Guiteau, said a witty thing in court
the other day. The council ON the other side
of the case in which he was engaged is noted
for his stupidity, and when he began speech
with the words 81 have an idev," "Your honor"
broke in Mr.. Davidge, 81 apply for writ Of
habeas corpus to take it out of solitary con-
finement"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-06-19

Section 4,747 of the United States
Revised Statutes provides that "no sum
of money due or to become due, to any
pensioner, shall be liable to attachment,
levy or seizure, by or under any legal
or equitable process whatever, whether
the sum remains with the pension Office
or any officer or agent thereof, or is in
course of transmission to the pensioner
entitled thereto, but shall inure wholly
to the benefit of such pensioner." In
the recent case of Robion VS.. Walker. in
which the Interpretation of that section
was involved, the Kentucky Court of
Appeals held that pension money re-
ceived from the United States is exempt
from seizure for debt while it is being
transmitted to the pensioner, but not
after it is actually received by him.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-06-19
Death Of Hon. Hester Clymer.

Hon. Hester Clymer, died suddenly at Read
ing, Pa, of paralysis. Mr.. Clymer was born
in Berks county, Pa, Nov. 5, 1927 He received
his primary educatian in the schools of Read
ing, and in 1S47 graduated at Princeton college.
After studying law he was admitted to the bar
in Berks county in l849, and practiced there
until 1851, when he removed to Pottsville. At
ter following his profession until 1856, he re-
turned to Reading, where he acquired an extern
sive practice. He held many State and local
positions and was elected to and served
throughout the Forty third, Forty-fourth,
Forty fifth and Forty sixth congresses as rep
resentative of the Eighth district of Pennsyl-
yania. He acquired . national reputation for
the part he took as member of q house commit
tee, in discovering frauds in the administration
of Gen. Belknap, secretary of war under Grant,
and in Subsequent impeachment proceedings
against the deposed secretary.