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1874 was 1879 miles.
1875 was 1909 miles.
1876 was IS, 297 miles.
1877 was 67,l72 miles.
1873 was 54,50s miles, for 10 months
1879 was 1921 miles.
1880 was %, 920 miles.
1881 was 1895 miles.
1882 WAS 81, Cos miles.
1889 was s2,oOs miles.
1884 was 1881 miles.
ufouKsr VELOCITY OF WIND FOR THE YEAR.
1873 was 70 miles per hour in December.
1874 was 50 miles per hour in November.
1875 was 60 miles per hour in July.
1876 was a miles per hour in Jan March.
1877 was 40 miles per hour in June.
1873 was sc miles per hour in September.
1879 was IS miles per hour in January.
1880 was A miles per hour in April.
1881 was 4s miles per hour in June.
1882 was 40 miles per hour in March.
1888 was 80 miles per hour in January.
1884 was As miles per hour in September.
RAINFALL OR MELTED SNOW ron THE YEAR,
1873 was 81. 10 inches.
1874 was 25.1S inches
1875 was 1912 inches.
1876 was 1874 inches.
1877 was 4l.o0 inrt
1878 was - ..'es'
1870 20 inches.
, was S9S7 inches.
1880 was 436S inches.
1881 was 1851 inches.
1882 was 1910 inches.
1888 was 1872 inches
1894 was $3.50 inches.
FInsr sNow-TALL FOR TIE YEAR
1873 was on October 9th.
1874 was on October 18th.
1875 was on October 18th.
1876 was on October eth.
1877 was on October goth.
1878 was on October goth.
1879 was on October 23rd.
1880 was on October 18th.
1881 was on November Ord.
1882 was on November 18th.
1888 was on Novembr 2nd
1884 was on October 23rd.
TOTAL NuMDER OF CLEAR DAYS ron THE YEAn
1873 was &C days.
1874 was so days.
1875 was % days.
1876 was IS days.
1877 was III days.
1878 was 100 days.
1879 was 100 days.
1880 was 81 days
1881 was 81 days.
1882 was II days.
1888 was rs days.
1884 was 90 days.
TOTAL NUMBER OF FAIR DAYS ron THE YEAR
1873 was 1856 days
1874 was AZ days
1875 was 13l days
1876 was ll3 days
1877 was IA days
1873 was 1874 days
1879 was 141 days
1880 was l43 days.
1881 was 1923 days.
1882 was la days.
1888 was 16S days.
1884 was 16l days.
TOTAL SUNDER OF CLOUDY DAYS roR THE rEAr
1878 was 143 days.
1874 was 1853 days.
1875 was 1853 days
1876 was l67 days.
1877 was ITO days.
1873 was 131 days.
1879 was 124 days.
1880 was 14l days.
1881 was las days.
1882 was 144 days.
1888 was 11o days.
1884 was lis days.
TOTAL NUMBER OF DAYS ON WHICH RAIN Eel
DURING THE YEAR
1873 was 90 days.
1874 was 30 days.
1875 was 100 days.
1876 was ia days.
1877 was l13 days.
1878 was lis days.
1879 was 10i days.
1880 was III days.
1881 was ITO days.
1882 was liz days.
1888 was 104 days.
1894 Was 103 days.
PREVAILING DIRECTION OF WIND ron rEAn
1880 was from the west.
1881 was from the west.
1882 was from the east.
1888 was from the east.
1884 was from the east.
TOTAL runsER or DArs ON WHICH Snow rrl
pURiHo THE YEAR
1873 was so days.
1874 was 90 days.
1875 was e5 days.
1876 was % days.
1877 was 10 days.
1878 was 50 days.
1870 was IS days
1880 was SO days.
1881 was 50 days.
1882 was IS days.
1883 was 70 days.
1884 was 80 days.
JAMES J. FITZGERALD,
Sergeant Signal Corps U. 9. Arm
Alpena Post Office.
The following will show the amour
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rOtd,~'iii,7o7 s5a,i7s,So t2,7SS94 s2O2, 5s2 81
The number of registered packages
and letters sent during the four years
will be seen by the following:
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Athena Post Office.

The following will show the amount
Of business done at the Alpena Post
Office, of which Chas. w. Trask Is the
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Wednesday, Jan. 81, 1885.
Weather at Alpena-1s7s.s5.

The following table shows the aver
age temperature, highest temperature
lowest temperature, total movement
of wind, highest velocity of wind,
prevailing direction of wind, total rain
fall, first snow fall, total number clear
days, total number of fair days, total
number of cloudy days, total number
of days on which rain fell, total num-
Der of days on which snow fell, for
the year 1884, as compared with pre-
vious years:
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The number of domestic and for.
eign money orders issued, also the
number of postal notes, for above
mentioned years, is as follows:
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capable post master, for the year
1884;
RECEIPTS.
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The number of registered letters
and packages mailed from the Alpena
Office during the year 1884 was ,535.
The receipts of the Alpena post
office for the years 1881, 1882, 1883
and 1884 arc as follows:
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FInsr sNow-FALL FOR TIE YEAR
1873 was on October 9th.
1874 was on October 18th.
1875 was on October 18th.
1876 was on October eth.
1877 was on October Goth.
1878 was on October goth.
1879 was on October 23rd.
1880 was on October 18th.
1881 was on November Ord.
1882 was on November 18th.
1888 was on Novembr 2nd.
1884 was on October 23rd.
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AVERAGE YEARLY TEMPERATURE ron THE YEAR
1873 was 400 degrees.
1874 was Ala degrees.
1878 was $40 degrees.
1876 WAS 400 degrees.
1877 was i36 degrees.
1873 was ASA degrees.
1879 was 42.2 degrees.
1850 was Az degrees
1881 was 40 degrees.
1882 was 42.7 degrees.
1888 was Ss.s degrees.
1884 was i0.4 degrees.
HI0HEsr TEMPERATURE ron rEAR
1873 was 81 degrees in June.
1874 was o. degrees in June.
1878 was 81 degrees in July.
1876 was o. degrees in July.
1877 was IS degrees in June.
IT'S WAS % degrees in August.
1879 was 50 degrees in August.
1850 was 9: degrees in june.
1881 WAS 81 degrees in July.
1889 was 50 degrees in July
1855 was s. degrces in August.
1884 was % degrees in September.
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HIGHEST VELOCITY OF WIND FOR THE YEAR.
1873 was 70 miles per hour in December.
1874 was 50 miles per hour in November.
1875 was 60 miles per hour in July.
1876 was a miles per hour in Jan. & March.
1877 was 40 miles per hour in June.
1873 was sc miles per hour in September
1879 was IS miles per hour in January.
1880 was A miles per hour in April.
1881 was 4s miles per hour in June.
1882 was 40 miles per hour in March.
1888 was 80 miles per hour in January.
1884 was 4s miles per hour in September.
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LOWEST TEMPERATURE ron rHx rrAA

LOWEST TEMPERATURE ron rHE rrAR
1873 was IA degrees below zero in March.
1874 Was degrees below zero in February.
1878 was &c degrees below zero in February.
1876 was II degrees below zero in February,
1877 was IA degrees below zero in January.
1873 was degrees below zero in January.
1879 was % degrees below zero In February.
1850 was IS degrees below zero in December. =
1881 was 27 degrees below zero in February.
1882 was 81 degrees below zero in January.
1898 was % degrees below zero in January.
1884 was 20 degrees below zero in January.
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colds, soar throat, hoarseness. Troches
15c, liquid 25c.
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RAINFALL OR MELTED SNOW ron THE TEAR,
1873 was 3l.i0 inches.
1874 was 25.1s inches.
1875 was 1872 inches.
1876 was 1874 inches.
1877 was Al. 90 inrL
1878 was - ''s'
1910 20 inches.
- was Ss.37 inches.
1880 was 1853 inches.
1881 was 45.6l inches.
1882 was 1910 inches.
1888 was $500 inches.
1884 was g. 81 inches.
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Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies, ant
beg-bugs, skunks, chipmunks,go phers. Is
Druggists.
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Parkor's Pleasant Worm Syrup Never Fails
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Board of Education.

The Board OF Education of the city o.
Alnena met in regular session in the Sec
retarys Office on Wednesday evening
January 14th 1885, and was called to or,
der at 1880 o'clock by the President.
PREsENT.-Andrew Harshaw, Presi.
dent; John s. McVicar, Secretary, and
Trustees Potter, Dewey, Wagner, Mellen
and Gjorud.
Journal of session held December 10Th
1884, read and approved.
COMMUNICATIONS.
From w. II. Phelps, Offering to supply
the school with short hard wood as fol-
lows: Green, for $1.50 per cord; dry, for
$1.75 per cord.
REPORTS or OFFICERS.
From the Superintendent, n statistical
report of the public schools for the month
ending December Goth, 1884 Accepted
and ordered placed OH file.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
From Finance Committee, recommend
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Constantly OH hand at the popular
grocery and provision house of John
rowe & Grant, Dawson block, corner
Second and Chisholm streets. They
keep no
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And stale stock, but their goods will
be found always fresh, and of the
very best, while their prices are
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-13

Jackson, nut 10 o brother in.law OF w. II.
English, the owner Of the building.
A man giving the name of G.. Goar called
on the police at the Depo! yesterday morn
ing to watch for his clipping daughter. Up
to date she mas not been captured.
The Indianapolis Association of Station.
airy Engineers will hold q meeting at
wrights Hall this evening. George Minor,
nj Cincinnati, will read O paper on The
Steam User and Engineer
Anna NJ. Locke is suing the Citizens Street
Railway to enjoin it from the use OF the
alley running east from Illinois street, above
Tenth street She claims they had no right
Of way and sues for 81 900 damages.
The High School graduation exercise, at
Brentwood will be held this evening. The
graduates are Allie Clark, Mamie Espey. Ar.
thur Barn es, Lula Gross. Mary Mescsll, Nina
STARTS, Ezra Keller and Eta Landlord.
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K. P Work At Danv,lle.

Grand Instructor Heiskel and several
other c Ulcers wen; to Danville, Ind, Mon.
day evening, on an invitation from Danviile
Ledge No. As. and conferred the three differ
ent ranks on twelve candidates. The work
lasted until o'clock g. NJ, after which q
splendid supper spread before the
knights, which was highly appreciated. The
Lodge is composed of the very best
citizens Of the town, and is
in good financial condition. The
Indianapolis Knights came away feeling that
the DanvilIe brethren were the right kind of
manly stuff to belong to the firm OF Damon
~ Pythias, and that they were never better
treated at any previous meeting where they
have been called 10 duty. 1t is hoped that
they will make it convenient to attend the
Grand Lodge entertainment In June, in
order TO give the Indianapolis knights an
opportunity to reciProcate their kind feeling
and knightly courtesy toward them.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-13
Murder Case Reversed.

Judge Howk, of the Supreme bench, yea
terday delivered an opinion in the Warmer
murder case, reversing the decision aud re-
handing it for another trial. The court be-
low sentenced Wartner to death on his plea
OK guilty, without trial by jury. The
opinion is based on Section Is of the State
Constitution, which says: "In all criminal
prosecutions the accused shall have the right
to public trial by an impartial Jury" ETC.,
and the Court adds, This right is his per-
soDal and constitutional right, which he can
not be deprived of, nor can he waive it,
unless such waiver is expressly authorized
by statute. This case is a capital case and,
in such. there not only is no statutory
authority for the defendants waiver of his
right to trial by jury, but the ststuts de
clarss that the trial thereof must be by Jury"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-13
CITY IN BRIEF.

The School Commissioners election will be
held June Is.
John Bridges is improving. Thompson,
who shot him, has not yet given bail.
The ConnersvilIe Milling Company was In
corrorated yesterday. The capital stock is
So OOO-
Gordon Post G. A. r. will attend Dscora-
ton Day services at the Sixth Christian
Church.
The Indiana Eclectic Medical Association
will meet 10 Pfafflins Hall this morning at
10 O'Clock.
Thieves robbed Morgan's drug store on
East Washington street of q quantity OF
cigars Monday night.
The ST. Louis train due here at $40 D. m.
made the run yesterday in six hours and
twsnty-three minutes.
Especial train OF general passenger agents
csme in over the l. and st. L. yesterday after
noon bound for Cleveland.
Star Lodge No. conferred the Ampli6sd
Third last evening on candidate in their
usually impressive manner.
A number of Knights of Pythias went to
Dsnville Monday night to assist in confer.
ring degrees upon several candidates.
The Indiana Blooded Stock Company ship
ped fifty FIVE Aberdeen Angus cattle and
ninety Herefords to Chicago Monday.
Cries of murder and for help from a wo-
man in a hack at the corner of Tenth and
Ash streets created some excitement Mon
day night.
Il SO pane of glsss was broken at the Den
lion Hotel yesterday by a guest who sup.
posed it to be an open window and attempted
10 walk out.
William Wallace, employed at Sinker &
Davis foundry, had his clothing torn from
his body Monday evening it being caught in
the machinery.
Patrolman Thornton has recovered GUAM
tity OF valuables stolen from ]. n. Stricken,
OF New Augusta, three weeks ago, which were
shipped to Decatur, Ill.
The Indianapolis district of the women's
Missionary Societies of the NJ. z. Church
will begin its session this morning at the
California Street Church.
Judge Walker chased around his yard
for . burglar on Sunday night. Had
be looked in the ash bin he would have been
too much paraly zed to shoot.
George w. Jackson. the new chief manager
Of the Engiish Hotel, il in the city and takes
charge at once. He is not related to III. n.
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OLD PAPERS.

Good conditioned old papers for sale at
this Office at only 40 cents per hundred.
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To Contractors and Builders.

Elsewhere in this mornings Sentinel will
be found an advertisement to Contractors
and Builders" The Trustees of the State
University advertise for proposals for the
building of . college chapel, boiler house,
etc. The details of the proposition are all
explained in the advertisement referred to.
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RYAN, The Halter.

p and 23 South Illinois street.
Spring Styles. Popular Prices,
Ryan, The Mems Furnisher.
q and % South Illinois street.
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Kid Gloves in Mosquitsire-4 button aud
lacipg hooks. in all grades and new colors.
LADIES DRIVING GLOVES In desira bic
coiors.
GENTS CASTOR GLOVES, all sizes.
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New styles Wall Paper.

Carl Moller, 16l East Washington street,
has elegant new styles Wall Paper aud Win
dow Shades. You can Go better here than
anywhere else in the city.
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Suggested From the Scrap-BOOlk.

Equal parts of oil of cajuput and oil
of peppermint, applied locally, relieve
the pain of neuralgia and gOut.
If croton oil be shaken up with alco-
hoL its irritating properties are dissolv-
ed, and it acts as powerful but benign
purgativc.
Strong black tea, used cold. forms an
excellent prophylactic against common
sore throat 4 solution of table
salt, one dram to pint, is also etfica-
clous.
Tie injurious actions of coffee on the
organs OF digestion is said TO be obviat-
ed by the use of sugar with it, and in
this case il is not only harmless but alb
solutely beneficial.
An alkaloid derived from the inner
bark of the pear tree has cured eases of
intermittents which have resisted Gui-
nine, arsenic, etc. The alkaloid is call
ed ''pereirine, and is given in quanti-
ties of thirty grains per day. DR.. Ger
reira, of Brazil, considpres that it may
become rival to quinine, and DIR.
Baker, OF Brazil, thinks thatits destined
to become great blessing to malarial
regions.
The depression of spirits and nervous
exhaustion for the relief of which many
persons fly to large or repeated doses
Of alcohol, may be much more effect
ually combated by alvolatile (aromatic)
in suitable doses, say dram. This
restores the spirits and rouses the en-
erey in remarkable manner, and is
free from the pernicous effects attend
ing the use. or abuse, Of whisky and
brandy. Medical lortd.
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Priority of Invention.
The following are points in decision
on NTi0ritV Of iDVpntj tjoO.

The following are points IN decisions
on priority of invention:
The party who first reduces an in
vention to actual use is entitled to the
patent for it, although the other party
may have first conceived it, if he did
not exercise reasonable diligence in re-
ducing it to practice.
If q party who first conceived a ma
chine followed up the idea diligently,
and was the first to reduce it to actual
practice, he is entitled to patent for
it, although his competitors had COM
plete working drawings of it previous
" prepared, and had obtained a pat
ent-
Whoever first reduces an invention
to practice and makes an application
of it TO use, will usually be the prior
inventor.
Ia order TO defeat a patent the courts
require it to be shown that another
not only conceived the invention in
dispute before the patentee, but was
the first to perfect and adopt the same
to practical use, Or was using reasona-
bic diligence for that purpose.
The parties who first embodied an
invention in a machine which they
kept in operation afterward for actual
use, besides manufacturing and selling
other machines, are prtnld tacte en-
titled to that patent.
He is the inventor, entitled to the
protection of the patent law, who is
first to complete the invention and
publish it to the world, and not he who
confines the knowledge of it to his eli
ent.
Where an invention consists of q
combination of elements, the date
when all the elements are combined is
the date of the invention.
When one is first to conceive an in
vention, he throws aside ali evidences
OF the conception, makes no effort to
complete or Introduce it to the public.
and delays making an application for
a patent for nearly four years after
another has brought it into extensive
use, he has standing as an inventor.
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American PaleontoiOgy.

1t is one of the peculiar advantages
OF the North American Continent to
the scientist that the geological struc-
ture of its great interior is compara-
lively simple, so that its history can be
easily read. 1t follows that the history
of tho succession of life is recorded
with the same regularity, and may be
read by those who viii bestow the nee
essary labor upon it. Those who have,
during the last ten years, devoted
themselves to this study have been re-
warded by the discovery of the course
of development OF many lines of ami
mails, SO that it is now possible to show
the kind of changes in structure which
have resulted in the species Of animals
with which we are familiar as living on
the surface of the earth at the present
time. Not that this continent has Civ
Ell Us the parentage of all forms OF ami
NAL life, or all forms of animals with
skeletons or vertebrate, but it has
given Us many of them. To take the
vertebrate, we have obtained the long
since extinct ancestor of the very low
est yertebrates. Then we have discov-
cred the ancestor of the true fishes.
We have the ancestor of all the rep
tiles, of the birds, and of the mammals.
Ii we considered the mammals, or milk
givers, separately, we have traced up a
great many lines to their points of de-
parture from very primitive things.
Thus we have obtained the genealogi-
cal trees of the deer, the camels, the
musk, the horse, the tapir, and the
rhinoceros, of the cats and dogs, OF the
lemurs and monkeys, and have i'm
portant evidence as to the origin of
man. We have the primitive mammals
from which all these kinds that | have
mentioned drew their descent, and from
which, no doubt, many other lines We're
derived which we have not yet discov-
cred in North America. Such are the
lines of the elephants, the hyenas, the
bears, the hogs, and the oxen. The
ancestors OF the strange, pouch-bear-
ing marsupiaIia, have been found in
part. These creatures, now confined
Except the opossums) to Australia and
the adjacent islands, were, at an early
period, widely distributed over the
earth. Some of these are found in the
fossiliferous deposits of our plains and
Rocky Mountains. .-fr0JeSS0r Z. ID.
Cope, IN Popular Science Monthly