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Morris tribune., 1884-11-19

sometimes . couutryman comes
into the car and drops some money
into the box, expecting that the con-
auctoE Wilr take it ont and give him
change. They do pot knoW there IS
an aperture for change in the door
Some of them are so ashamed OF the
ignorance that they subside when they
find out what bad break they have
made. Often on this car gold pieces
hare been put in IS fare in that way.
A granger once came in and threw o
/ four-bit piece in the box. He continued
standing and looking at me for block
or SO, and thon had the door opened.
He said that he wanted his change. I
tried to explain matters to him, and
told him to go to the Office. He would
not have that You needn't take me
for sucker he said in loud voice;
i know as much as you do, and I
won't stand any of your little games
BE commenced to get violent, and so 1
proposed that he should take his
change in tickets, in order opacity
him. To this he agreed, and L gave
him o half dozen transfer tickets, which
he could only use that day. He was no
sucker, but he took those tickets and
sat down as if he were the smarter OF
the wo:"-priper, in SAP Franeiseo
Examiner.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19
Garf1eld's Monument.

Keller's design was accepted by the
Garfield monument committee. The
monument will be about two hundred
feet high, and will resemble shot.
tower. Mr.. Keller says it will take
three years to build it. The body oil
Garfield will be deposited in ground
vault beneath the monument Hard
sandstone will be used in the construc-
ton. The coats-of-arms of all the
states will ornament the surface of the
monument each being placed beneath
window. The committee has been SO.
verely criticised for its selection. The
shaft of the monument will be hollow.
The ground plan resembles balloon on
it's side with basket attached. In the
basket-shaped part of the monument
will be a flight of stairs, which will
enter the monument thirty feet from
the ground, q relic-room, and vesti-
bule. A bronze gate will lead into the
tower from the vestibule. Within the
tower will be room thirty feet high,
containing large marble statue of
Garfield and number of polished
granite pillars. NHmerons stained
glass windows will throw mellow
light upon the statue. The inside
will be more artistic than the out
side. Visitors will be permitted to
enter the vestibule, but not the tower.
AL they can see of the interior of the
latter will be through the bars Of the
bronze gate. It is estimated that the
monument win cost $3.50. 600.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19

A late investigation shows that
Australia contains 10S species of
snakes-35 of them harmless, and 70
yenomous.
At the Danish scientific station in
South Greenland, Namortalik, heat
and mosquitoes in summer are so
troublesome as to be suggestive of a
tropical climate.
Attention has been drawn to o tree
of Southern India,-the "Tuchmig"
of the Chinese or Prameria glanduli-
fera of botanists from which it is said
large supplies of cautchouc can be
| drawn.
Quite successful experiments in dis
tributing the electric light to great
distances haye been made in eonnec-
ton with the Turin Electrical Exhi-
bition. A Siemens dynamo of thirty
horsepower generated current which
was simultaneously used by three cleo
trio light systems distributed over q
circuit of "a miles.
st. Stephens College, Delhi, boasts
of q prodigy in the person of blind
student named Chanda Singh. He
cannot read OF write, but has such a
wonderful memory as to be able to re-
peat all his teXt-books-English,
French and Urdu-by rote, and to
rapidly work out sums in arethmetic,
even the multiplication Of any num-
Der of figures by another equally large.
1t has just been made known that
during the great volcanic disturbance
at Krakatoa telephone communities
ton was almost impossible in Singa-
pore, 500 miles away. On subter-
ranean cable, of about two miles in
length, words were drowned by Pc
culiar sounds resembling pistol shots.
The phenomenon seemed to be of an
electric nature, rather than acoustic.
The littleness of any one PERSONS
knowledge is astonishing. II do not
even know ap astronomer" says Mr..
Richard A. Proctor, Hwho il not ig-
norant in some departments of his
own subject; nor any chemist geolo-
gist, botanist, entomologist, or other
specialist, who if really master-wIll
not admit that there are departments
ofhis special subject about which he
knows very little. How much more
ignorant must he be of subjects out
side the few he can have made his
own"
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19
"POOr CarlOtta."

The emperor and empress are re-
member with more love and justice
as time goes on, and the latter is in
variably spoken of as "poor Carlotta.
She won the hearts of the common
people as the wife of no subsequent
ruler has ever been able to do.
AS one incident among hundreds
illustrating this fact, let me tell you
what occurred not long ago at the
Teatro Principals: A well-known Mexi-
can opera company had been delight
ing this llusic-lGying people for many
nights, and the favorite primo dopns-
gay and pretty little creature-was
loaded with gifts and favors. One
night, for an encore, the audience (who
are always far more excitable and de-
monstrative here than our colder blood
ed gatherings at the north) demanded
of the prima donna one of the many
little songs written at the fall of the
empire, ridicpling the emperor and
empress. The prima donna endeav-
ored to divert them from the point,
coquettishly singing other songs at her
prettiest, but still the cries continued
for the one at first demanded. In vain
she did her best in other lines, tho
willful audience would not be diverted,
the cries degenerated into bowls and
then into Kisses, till she was driven
from the stage. The manager, going
behind the scenes to exercise his per-
sopal authority, found her in a passion
of tears, Che explained that she had
once been maiden ct the palace, that
the empress, discovering her talent
had been her patron and paid for her
musical education, and that the very
dress she was then wearing was 'poor
Carlotta's'' gift. Could she use the
advantages thus gained to ridicule her
benefactOrs MeanYhile a perfect
pandemonium was raging in the
theater; yells, cries, and groans we're
deafening; many people were hastily
leaving, and chairs had begun to rain
down upon the stage from the galleries.
with alarming indications that heavier
articles might soon be expected to fol-
low. The manager stepped to the
footlights amidst a shower of missiles,
and explained the situation. With the
characteristic volatility of the Latin
race, the little girl was recalled in the
midst of her tears and cheered to the
echo, order was restored, and the
offensive song was rendered By the
chorus without her assistance, -aliese.
can Cor. Springfield Republican,. ?
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19

Pioneer Press:-A good many Re-
publicans are putting on airs just now
because they voted against Blaine;
that is to say, because they voted to
put the Democratic party in possession
of the government, with all the same
implies. The ground upon which they
justify this conrse is simply that they
had no faith III Mr.. Blaine's official
integrity. Without going into that
question, further than to say that if
the campaign accomplished nothing
else for Blaine, it at least resulted in
the complete refutation of the charges
founded on the sinister construction
which his enemies put upon the Null
ligan letters. This should be said in
justic to that anost shamelessly abused
of American statesmen. There is not
u particle of reason to doubt that if
| Blaine had been elected he would
have been governed by one ambition:
to make his administration II mOnu-
mental answer throughout all the
history of the American republic to
the charges of his enemies against the
purity of his official character. Mr..
Blaine may have made mistakes in
climbing to that exalted position. But
once in the chair of George Washing
ton, he would have had nothing else
to covet within the range of human
ambition than to make an illustriOus
name-to stand out in the annals of
the time as the best embodiment and
exemplar of the very virtues which
his slanderers denied him. We be-
lieve that Blaine's administration
would have been par excellence re-
form administration, and that more
than anything else he desired the
presidency because of the greatness OF
the opportunity it would have put
his detractors to shame and silence
forever at the bar of history.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19
Negroes and Negro Minstrels.

The London Saturday RevieU, quot
ing the language of Bully Bottom, who
calls Justify for ''the tongs and the
bones," proceeds to say that the love
of negro minstrelsy is confined to the
English-speaking tribes and nations
to Great Britain and the United States.
In France and Germany, it seems, the
people have the good sense and the
good taste to refuse to enjoy such en-
tertainments as the so-called s:negro
MINISTRIES" are in the habit of putting
on the stage. In Germany they toler-
ate in this line nothing less than the
real negro, and even he, to win ap-
proval, must prove that he has been an
apprentice to the experience of planta-
ton life. In this matter the Germans
are wise. They have tact and instinct
on their side. We are compelled to
admit that the United States are the
headquarters for negro minstrelsy.
Here the great fraud was invented, and
here the people bow down in ecstatic
alteration before it. The mystery of
the whole business is that it is as popu-
lar in the Soulh, where it's true char
acter is known, as it is in the North,
where much has to be taken for granted.
Whoever heard of band of genuine
plantation negroes playing on the
bones, the tamborine, and the banjo,
or singing such songs as Killarney"
and "Baby's Sleeping Now" or repeat.
ing stale jokes and conundrums out of
che medical almanacs? Perhaps it is
the heartrending absurdity of the whole
business that gives it zest. Who can
sayp Perhaps it is best to collate the
mystery into conundrum and eK-
press it thus: "Oh, Mr.. Hawkins! Can
you-can you tell us-can You tell us
why the niggero minstrel shows-why
the niggero minstrel shows are so pop
ular in this our native land?" We
await Mr.. Hawkins reply.-AtIaa'ta
Constitution.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19
The Value Of Vaccination.

That there are still intelligent
people who oppose vaccination, and
strive to make it appear that it is not
only useless but injurious, need sur
prise no one acquainted with the
vagaries of the human mind. For such
persos, testimony is of no avail.
They are not capable of seeing the con-
illusions ola logical train ofreasoning.
Facts to them are inferior in power to
prejudices.
Yet there are facts which now and
then are brought to ones notice, so
startling in their native hideousness
that it seems wrong to pass them over
in silence. If it is only as matter of
medical statistics, we must print a ref
erence to a letter from DR.. Neve, of
the Mission Hospital III Cashmere,
which has appeared in the Civil and
Military Gazette of Lahore: "Thanks
to the exertions of the. English au-
thorities, vaccination has been carried
to some extent in that portion of India
state of things in an entirely unprotec-
ted country was to be SEEM" DR..
worst ruled by us but in Cashmere the
Neye says it would be nearer the
truth to say that the population is
annihilated than to say that it is deci-
mated by the scourge of smallpox.
Smallpox is epidemic In every village
and town of Cashmere. II recently
obtained from all my hospital staff a
statement of the mortality of small
pox among their immediate relatives.
They represent twenty-five families,
and in these 100 members were born,
Of whom exactly 100 died of smallpox.
Two or three children have not yet
been attacked; all others have had
the disease" Thus, of these 100 per-
sons at least IS per cent had been at
tackled by smallpox, and of those IS
per cent succumbed. 'There is not
much room for hoping" DR.. Neve
says, that these figures indicate any
very usual rate of mortality, and, of
course, the evils inflicted by the dis
ease are lifelong in many who survive
| the attack"
Such is the condition of things in a
country where vaccination is not
practiced, and such it was here before
the discovery of Jenner. So it would
| be again were the crazy notions of the
Observation-Disclosures to prevail-which
however, we do not greatly fear. The
world may be old, but it is not that
senile.-Med. and Surg Reporter.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19
LAND OFFICE AT BENSON, MINI,


Complaint having been entered at thi:
office by Patrick McCarroll against Thoma:
Maison for failure to comply with law as t.
Timber-Culture Entry No. S27, datced Oct. 80
1877, upon the north east quarter, Section q
Stevens county. Minnesota. with a view tC
the cancellation Of said entry; contestant
alleging thai the said Thomas Maison die
not, during the fourth Year since. making
said entry, plant five acres of said tract tC
trees, seeds or cuttings, as required by law
alsu, that he has not, nor has he caused to bt
protected and cultivated ten acres, or any
said lind dnfiHs tie tflh, SIKH, or seventh
years since making said entry, as required by
law, and that Ire has wholly abandoned said
tract the said parties are hereby summoned
to appear at this office on the 10th day of Dc.
cember 1854, at o'clock a. NJ, to respond
and furnish testimony concerning said al
legged failure.
As D. S. HALL, Register.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19
LAND OFFICES AT BENSON, MleN.,

Notice Is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before the
Clerk of Court for Stevens county, at Morris,
Minnesota, on November 22d, 1884, viz: John
Schmpps. homestead application No. 1904, for
Eehsriies the following witnesses to prove
his eoI,GffiiSouS Residence UPON, aid 'cgitiya-
ton of, said land, viz; Thomas Ltrkin, Au-
M snssn s All ors county Mines
nesota, d. $. HALL,
"A Register.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19
Authorities are not agreed concern

Authorities are not agreed concern
ing the poisonous properties OF the AMI
line dyes. DR.. Grandhomme, VINO
has had the benefit of prolonged OBJ
servations in German aniline works,
is of the opinion that they are poison
Gus only when containing arsenic.
N(essrs. Poincare and Nassias, how
ever, consider them dangerous even
in state of purity. magenta being the
least dangerous of all.
The Governor of the island of Samos
has just discovered an ancient tunnel,
about 5000 feet long, and constructed
| at least nine centuries before the
Christian era. The old seaport re-
ceived it's drinking water through
| this tunnel, which was mentioned 10y
Herodotus. 1t is wellpreserved, with
water tubes about ten inches Ill d.
ameter. The precision Of the work of
the ancient engineers was hardly
equal to that of the present day, the
tunnel being bent in the middle.
The planetNeptune, it will be re-
membered, was discovered in Il re-
heavens having been automatically
! determined before the planet itself
was found. After long investigation
Mons. Camille Flammarion, the en-
| luent French astronomer, has become
| convinced of the existence of yet an
other planet, it's orbit being outside
that of Neptune. He predicts that it
will he finally discovered, but not for
some years to come, and that it Will
appear as star of the twelfth magni-
| tude-quite large enough to be seen
and followed by many telescopes now
in use.
Travellers in polor regions have sur
vived exposure to Il cold as great as
rs degrees below zero Fahrenheit. On
the other hand, the Inhabitants OF
some parts of the globe are forced tc
endure at certain periods natural
temperature considerably higher than
100 degrees above zero. A still great
er heat-greater even than POO degrees
may be borne by the human body fol
short time. Brewster mentions
that Chantry and five or six friends
remained two minutes in the sculpt
or's drying furnace, bringing out
thermometer which stood at $40 de
} grees. Chantry's workmen entered
the furnace when the Temperature
was as high as $40 degrees.
At the South Kensington Aquarium
the effect of brandy in resuscitatins
fishes nearly dead has been demon
strated by fresh and remarkable eX
periments. Two Prussian carp wer'
taken from the tanks and placed il
; dry cans for four hours, when, on be
ing returned to the water, neithe
showed signs of life. Brandy wa
then administered to one, and at one
revived it. No stimulant was givel
to the other fish, which was allowed
to remain in the water for q consider
able time, when, as it appeared to b.
really dead, it was taken out ant
thrown upon the ground. Four hour
later, however, it was picked up, an(
little brandy and water was poured
down its throat. The experiments
was astonished to observe slight sign
Examination, and quite amazed, OF
replacing the carp in the water, to Sc
it slowly recover and feebly swim
away. Both fishes have since BEEF
; renorted as we'll as ever.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19
What a Mississippi Pilot Says.

Capt. D. M. Riggs, who is we'll
known at New Orleans and along the
Mississippi river, says, II have been
suffering from dyspepsia for the past
five years, and from broken rest, by
severe pains in the bowels and kid
news. 1 tried every medicine recon-
mended for these diseases, without
success. At last I used a bottle of
Browns Iron Bitters, which proved a
perfect success in my case" 1t cures
all liver, kidney and malarial disease {.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19
LAND OFFICE AT BENSON, MINI.
November 18th. 1884.

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice OF his intention
to make final proof in support OF his claim,
and that said proof will be made before Hen
nv Baldwin. Clerk of Court, at Morris, Mimi,
ON December 9th, 1884, viz: Daniel Gumb,
one of THE hefrsRf RlcEaId GHnb. deceased,
neis Section 3, Tdtn12s3, Range ~ 80 -
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cultiva.
Graceyille, MINI; Edward Moore, Daniel
Connors and John McNally. of Morris, Mimi.
IL D. s. HALL, Register.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19

All the vessels of the British NAVY
which carry divers are to be supplied
with telephones for the purpose Of sub
marine communication.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19
LAND OFFICE AT FERGUS FALLS, MINI,
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LAND OFFICE AT FERGUS FALLS, MIMI
November 18th, 1884. !
Notice Is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof In support of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before the
Clerk Of Court for Stevens county, at Morris,
Minnesota, on December 3Oth, 1884 viz: Bap-
tist Rocbiepbach, homestead application No.
giH, farale se's seGti9p i, Town 49, north OF
Range 4S west atb r.
his continuous residence upon and cnltivas
ton of said land, viz: j. Gavin Donnelly md
I. II. Donnelly, Of Donnelly.. Minnesota; Ole
G. Hanson and William wunsch OF Morris,
Minnesota.
AZ b. N. JOHNSON, Register.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19
LAMP OFFICE AT FERGUS FALLS, MINI.

LAND OFFICE At FERGUS FAILS, MINN.,|
November 10, 1854.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has ffed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support Of bis claim,
and that said proof will Be made before the
Clerk of Court for Stevens county, at Morris,
Minnesota, on December 30, 1884. viz: Thomas
McCanney, homestead application No. 5992,
far the nwl. Section Il, Town 126, north of
Range ~ west 5th p. NJ.
He names the following witnesses TO prove
his continuous residence upQr cultiva-
ton of said land, viz: Joseph fray, M
b. Williams, Rody. KeeshaS Michael
NfiiI1gsbA.:
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10, 1851.

Fargo Argus: --Beecher, Ball and
Burchard, the clerical BIS Of the late
campaign, are about equally entitled
to the ribbon as the premium donkey.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19

The Republican office holders at
what to do. Some Of them are luIIed
with the talk that Mr.. Cleveland is
committed to civil service reform, and
cannot consistently dismiss honest
and public servants. But
the majority Of them are preparing to
travel in the spring or early summer.
1t is believed that Mr.. Cleveland will
not be able to withstand the pressure
that will be brought to bear up on him
by the hungry vandals who have
made him president. His cabinet will
begin by appointing as their chief
clerks and immediate assistants, per-
sonal and political friends Then they
will appoint the friends of certain SEN
ators and members. This will open
the way to unlimited removals, and
sooner or later Republican office hold
ers will have to go.
A correspondent Of the New York
World, describing how every foot of
the soil is utilized in France, men
tions the method pursued to supply
the country with fuel by the growth
of Lombardy poplar. The correspon-
dent says: ''In going from Paris to
Geneva, via Dion, we pass through
the best portion of France. For hun
dreds Of miles every inch of land is
cultivated. The abrupt side hills are
in grape vines, and the flat land in
grain. Here we see the phenomenon
of double crops-a crop of grain and
vegetables growing under a crop Of
trees. The Normandy poplar trees
are from an inch to three feet in di-
ameter. They are trimmed within
six feet of the top. The boughs, which
are cut off every year, make fagots
enough to warm France. We often
see men and women grading wheat
or hoeing beets in the midst of wood
giving no shade. When you look
across the country, the tall boughless
trunks look like black streaks painted
against the sky. They make the view
very picturesqe. Wood is sold in
France for third ola cent q pound.
1t is worth as much as corn in Kansas
by the pound. So when the Kansas
man burns corn, he is no more profit
gate than the Frenchman who burns
,fagots."
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19

Grover Cleveland is the next Presi-
dent Of the United States. The Off
cial count in New York shows him to
have q majority of about 100 and to
be elected. He has been elected by a
peculiar combination of parties and
no men. What his administration will
be know one knows. If he cOnsults
the independents and the better class
of his Democratic supporters and acts
in harmony with their views, his con-
duct Of the nations affairs will be all
that any reasonable person could
wish. If, however, he yields to the
wild clamor Of the great mass Of his
party and permits the most numerous
but neverless the worst Of his surpor-
tiers to shape his policy, his election
will prove national calamity. What
Mr.. Cleveland will do in this respect
remains to be seen.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19

OF all the indirect influences which
contributed to Gleveland's election,
the most potent was the Reverend
donkey, Burchard. Cleveland should
appoint him consul to some cholera
or yellow fever afflicted state and com
pei him to accept the appointment.
Morris tribune., 1884-11-19

President Arthur has issued pro-
clamation as usual, appointing the
last Thursday in November, the
twenty-seventh day, as the national
Thanksgiving and urges all people to
"pay reverent acknowledgment to the
Giver of all Good for the countless
blessings whcrewith he has visited
this natiOn.n