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The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07
WaIkIng on the water,

new 1OfK l1cUbef.J
"A tall, good-looking, brown mustached
young man, with jaunty step and a compla-
cent smile, walked quietly over the pathway
leading from the Manhattan hotel to the
bathing pavilion, Coney island the other af-
ternoon. He entered, paid for a ticket and
shortly afterward reappeared ON the beach,
clad in a suit of resplendent tights and carry.
ing in his hands pair of objects shaped like
snow shoes, but considerably thicker. Fitting
these to his feet he waded into the water. He
sank no further than half way to his knees
A crowd of nursenlaids, children, policemen
and idlers gazed at him from the pier, and
the bathers all suspended operations to watch
his movements. He walked out into deep
water, balancing himself and shooting for
ward as though skating. The water was
calm and ne turned and wheeled about en- its
surface. The nursemaids said, aOh, my
the children cheered, aud the idlers looked
awel and the policemen SAILED in calm su-
perlority.
The young man amused himself for a
quarter of an hour. Then he revisited the
bathing pavilion, and came out clothed and
carrying the aquatic shoes under his arm. A
crowd pressed round him and made inquiries,
and young man begged a trial of the Shoes
He got them and, procuring bathing suit,
started out to experiment for himself When
he got to deep water he lost his balance
There was wild yell, and the next moment
the shoes were kicking wildly on the surface
of the water What was going ON beneath
was left to the imagination of the beholders
A boat pulled in and rescued the shoes, and
very much bedraggled and discounted dude
crawled into the boat after them. When he
got his breath he said he didn't know they
were loaded. TAe crowd laughed and cheered
him when he restored the treacherous articles
to their owner. The inventor of the shoes is a
natatorial artist by profession, and he pro
poses giving exhibitions at all the seaside re-
coy-tr
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The Telephone Girl.
Detroit Free Press.l


When Pityboy called up the telephone
girl the other evening to inform the under
taker that the coffin furnished for his
wife was too short she was trying to firt
with telegraph operator aero the street,
and did lot like to be disturbed so she an
sweaed shortly, and rang the bell in Pityboy's
ear, but he was in no frame of mind for
amusing her, as he had been at other times,
so-he meekly said ~Oh!" and then asked to
to be connected with No Alb, when the con-
versation ran as follows:
@Hellon
@HeIlem
as this Burydeep the undertaken"
"Yes.n
II am Pityboy The coffin you sent down
this mornin' for my wife is too short.
"Is that sos How much too short is itF'
About an inch. y
Il can fix that all right
"How win you do it?'
Here the girl switched ON cabihet-maker,
who was directing a lawyer how to make
new Office desk set level on an uneven floor,
and the conversation was continued as fol-
lows:
"That is the easiest thing to do in Bloom
ington."
Eyes, perhaps it is; but how are you going
to do itg
GSaw about an inch off each of the two
feet Pityboy hung up the receiver and
sent the offending coffin back, and then went
to another undertaken, and the telephone
girl has the gall to look innocent aud in
offensive when she meets that undertaken,
TO lost a job through her mischief
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07
OLD TIMES IN TENNESSEE.
The Speed which Was Made Forty.
-Four Years Ago.

The Speed which Was Made Forty
-Four Years Ago.
jefferson Cor Gainesville Press
Great houses were built and filed to over
flowing in Greenville with great piles of light
bread and pies of every description, and great
bitches were dug in which to barbecue hum
dreds of beeves and sheep, and tables mile
long were filed with everything good to eat
in the memorable campaign of 1S40 when
Andrew johnson and William Brownlow
were the champions of the Democratic and
old Wing party. Andrew johnson was
tailor, and made the suit that he was inaug-
urated governor in.
Along the present line of the East Tennes-
see, Virginia & Georgia railroad the old
stage coach was the only mode of public con-
veyance except the old aat-bottom boat that
calmly waited for freshet to float it down
to the mouth of the Tennessee riva r. Goods
were hauled from Augusta, Ga, in six
horse wagon, making the round trip in six
weeks Salt was hauled from the "salt
works. in Virginia, costing 25 cents bushel.
Land plaster was taken out of the ''plaster
bankn in the vicinity o. the salt works, in
humps weighing many tons, broken up and
sold at the bank for $3.50 per ton, and sold
only commercial fertilizer used. Sown upon
red clover in the spring at the rate of 200
bushels per acre, it produced rank growth
upon the very poorest land,
Almost everything upon the table was
homemade" The finest apple and peach
butter was made by boiling down sweet cider
and thickening it with apples or peaches.
When cool it could be sliced like cheese The
finest molasses | ever saw was made from
the sugar maple; boiled little thicker it
made the famous maple sugar that we used
to carry in our pockets and give to our sweet
hearts. Buckwheat cakes and molasses was
a common breakfast dish; twenty bushels of
buckwheat to the acre was grown on this
land. Molasses were also made from apples,
persimmons aad pumpkins Cider was boiled
down and kept sweet all the winter. Even
small farmers would kill twenty-five to thirty
hogs. The rivers were full Of fish that it took
two men to carry them, and they were caught
in fall traps during freshets. There were no
telegraphs nor telephones then, and letter
postage / believe was 25 cents, paid when the
letter was taken from the Office. Goose
quilts were used for pens, and much of the
ink was from pokeherTies,
II never saw @twister,h siis,ek collar, pcr
dSable lines to q plow- horse In Tennessea, 0nd
rarely ever saw a two-horse wagon. Corn
huskings, apple cuttings and sugar making
gave ample opportunities for social enjoy
ments There was no axle grease then, but
the star bucket hung from every wagon
coupling pole Wheat was "tramped OUT with
horses in the barn floor and cleaned with a
windmill Rye was threshed out with
fail Taxes were collected by the sheriff,
while on his rounds on other business. The
colleges consumed one day in examinations
before all the trustees and only cne day in
defamation; the rates of tuition was 81 per
month, divided between the president and
vice president.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07
An Economical Sehen :

LANbW AOIA
A reporter poked his head into a Chatham
street barber shop and was greeted with the
:ry:
"Come in; you're next, sir.
He seated himself in the only vacant chair,
and was assaulted by a small boy and big
sather brush
"Aley-you going to sh-shaye me-" asked the
reporter, blowing soap out of his mouth.
"No, sir, | just ladder yer; amt big
fuff to shave yet
"We have four chairs explained the pro-
prietor of the establishment, "and three bar
bers, but we can accommodate four custom
ers at the same time. The boy lathers tie
face and brushes the hair, while the expert
does the shaving 1t keeps the boy busy, and
enables him to acquire those particular
branchee of the profession to absolute perfec-
tionn
st also saves the expense Of one barber,
doesn't itY' ventured the reporter.
"Well, yes, suppose it does pay my
BARRIERS S12 week and the boy So can
thus accomplish the SAME amount of bust
ness with a saving Of SO week When
the boy hasn't anything else to do he strops
razors for practice, and when be gets little
bigger he win begin to shave strangers
care strangers easier to shave than rega-
lar customers.
@Yes; good deal easier
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MECHANICS WITH SCIENCE
Destined 10 Effect Ehe Chief IscvoIu-
tiOn in This Country.

ton in This Country.
[sd. .thH in Cincinnati Enquirer
A great trouble with the southern states to-
day, as mercantile customers, is their illdif-
ference, except in certain districts, to the
tastes and aspirations passing over the rest
of the country. The manufacturing
and artistic spirit is kept alive by the ex-
travaganea, so to speak, of the people That
is to say, il a man buys a carpet instead of
whisky, and spends his money in ornament
ing his house instead of betting it away on a
race or cotton option, he becomes a better
customer in proportion as he is better
citizen
Nothing viii civilize so like the manufact-
ures Wherever they have gone another
spirit has come over the society. We are too
early for art to affect us much and observe
in those counties where mere art has -four
ished that the great body of the people are
still ignorant Mechanics with science ere
destined to effect the chief revolution in this
country. Out of science and manufacture
have already come the phosphates and other
organic manures which have brought up
poor soil and made it possible TO cultivate
cotton to the base of the Allegheny
mountains.
When slavery passed from the surface Of
che ground the fossils of fish and other beings
<.ider the surface reached out their bones as
If to say, "Here is your slave who viii work
for you and you cannot abuse him. Much
of the want Of civilization in the old mount
ain portions of America arises from the en-
tire absence of money as circulating me-
dunn There are families in the mountains
of West Virginia. and / suppose of Kentucky
and Tennessee, who, before the war, hardly
saw real dollar from the beginning of the
year to the end Their business was exclu-
sive barter, selling what they had to the mer-
chant at his price, and taking in return what
he had to offer also at his price. The mer-
chant seemed to have an interest in bringing
up the quality of the peoale. Beautiful
things, refining things were not among bis
wares. The people got coffee and tobacco
and sugar, and hardly spelling-book II is
true that they were happy, but SO is the fox.
In the older times religion reached into
those hills and implanted that spirit called
piety, which is next to worldly ambition.
The war seemed to paralyze the preachers in
the south, and flung them back upon the
crude people there, not turning their faces
toward the light of the cross any more, but
toward the darkness of the Golgotha. De
voured in the politics of slavery, religion has
ever since been to large extent kind of
passive force, like that of the Jews who as
sembls in the wailing place in Jerusalem to
howl about the past. The new preacher has
come with the fire on his brows and fire in
his eye It is the much deride,i, the throb-
bing, the screaming, the evangelist locomo-
five
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07
TILE NEW LALLA RooKH.


New York SUM-
In The Philadelphia Casket of AuEask
1929, find this:
aOur readers may remember the beautiful
apostrophe in Lalla Rookh, beginning:
@sOh, ever thus from childhood's hour,
I've seen my fondest hopes decay;
never loved tree or flower
But twas the first to fade away, etc.
"In a late Georgia Courier we find the fol-
lowing parody. The last stanza is exquisitely
affecting, and is founded on the eternal ex-
perience of childhood:
a''Twas ever thus, from childhood hour
I've seen my fondest hopes decay;
never loved bird or flower
That did not fly or fade away.
4 never had little kit,
To pur so softly on my lap,
But fortunes malice followed it,
To kill by cur or schoolboy rap.
1'I never had bit of toast
Particularly good and wide,
But fell upon the sanded floor,
And always on the buttered side'"
I have copied the above as it stands on
page 379 of The Caslzet. The Casket was
published by Samuel G. Atkinson, at liz
g1hestnut street, Philadelphia. G. r. J.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07

A curious historical procession viii h
organized this month in Belgium during Tire
celebration coumemorating the tiftieth ann
yer ary Of the introduction Of railways into
the country. The procession win present all
iuown means Of transport from the aneienl
Roman chariot 70 the modern electric rail
way, and win include the locomotive ard
coaches Of the first train which ran in Bel
ginm IN 1884, manned by those officials ami
workanen engaged on tie line who still sur
vfve.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07
Ttmas Change.
Bloomington Eye.l

Forty years ago nc man with mustache
could have been elected president In those
days the mustache was considered un6ignified
if not immoral, and man who sported one
was locked upon with suspicion 1t was the
badge Of the adventurer, gambler and the
r. ke in the estimation of many good people,
A mustache like Cleveiand's would have inn
periled the chances of the most popular candi-
cate IN the country, and I1ogan's would have
caused an absolute stampede TO the other
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07
Highway Of Notable Landmarks.

lExcbange.l
That thoroughfare known in early days as
the great Calzada Tacuba, which may still
be followed ia an almost direct line from the
site where once stood the palace of Axaya-
catl, occupied by Cortez and his little band,
past the venerable church of San Hipolito
and the spot pointed out as the scene of Al
varado's miraculous leap; still further on to
Popotla with its poetical and romantic MEM
cries clustering around the tree Of the Noche
Triste, and Tacuba, with its Church Of Our
Lady of Remedies-the shrine Of hel. who was
the presiding divinity Of the conqueat-and
finally to the Indian Villages Of A2teapotzalco,
in primitive times the fourishing seat Of one
of the most important and powerful tribes
that dwelt in the valley Of the Anahu.ie
Nc better or more ing inder
fralished for the illustration Of certain
periods in Mexican history than tllis pic
turesque highway, which destiny seems to
have decreed shall remain perpetual herit-
age to the original owners of the soil; for,
after lapse Of centuries, anl in spite Of the
strange vieissitude Of fate. ihe same race
that III the days 81 Mon .umls was won't to
frequent the gaizasla Of iacila may still be
seen tinonging tho k,eal. IT. VII; il one might
iietgilie to be haunta 4ty th m8les 0f their
an eStpFs
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07
Florida to Have Native silk Esag.
Tallahassee Flo1Sdian1

The Woinan's silk Culture association Ct
Philadelphia propose to manufacture from
Florida cocoons handsome flag for the state
os Florida. That is, if Y1oridians will con
tribute $500 with whica TO purchase cocoons
aud 4 fray other incidental expenses, the as
sociation i,ill make and present the flag. It
IS 10 be regulation size and the presentation
viii take place at the Inauguration of the
sext chief magistrate Of Florida
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07
4 miI,uanr-ee Sonnot.

Man that is married to a woman is Of
many days and full of trouble. In the morn
ing he draws his salary, and i'll tie evening,
behold, it is gonel It is a tale that is told; IL
Is vanished, and no man knows wither it
goeth He riseth up clothed in the chilly gar
ments of tie night, and seeketh the somnolsnt
paregoTic, wherewith to soothe Lis infant
posterity He eometh as horse or OK, and
draweth the chariot Of his offspring. He
spendeth the shekels III the purchase of fine
linen to cover the bosom Of his family, yet
himself is seen at the gates of the city with
one suspendeT Yea, he is altogether
xvrafchegI
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07

WdUtfDlI'YI IAIltfItHI.I
A story comes from Boston's Every Other
Saturday of large woman handsomely
dressed, with plenty Of jewelry, sho recently
entered horse-car where every seat was oc-
cupied. No one moved till at length an el-
derIy gentleman slowly rose and offered her
his seat Ste took it deliberately with an air
and said. you are gentlenlan-a perfect
gentleman The rest is togs's
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07
The Uee of RruEa.

q hlIaueLp plla Ileugef.
Nobody need give up the use of fruit, Tor II
i usually the best Of summer foods. But eat
the fresh, uaeooked fruits ii the morning
only, frst being sure it is rile, and cook nh
the fTui8s ut are to served after The noon
hour, end especially al that a1e bought at
several days distance from tho place where
they grow
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07
$50 growing PLANS.
fExchange1

Conc;sshells filed with earth rnaks pretty
receiver for growing PLANTS. Air plants
thrive we'll arranged thus as it requires but
little earth. If yen wish to plant ferns ii
such shells, and particularly if the shells ara
SMALL it IS well to mix the soil with sand AS il
retains the moisture.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07
4 Floral Custom.
ra........... 49,.

The pretty custom OF leaving q bunch oR
a0mers with card when calling Is common
with cottagers at the most fashionable sum
mer resarts, and Nil undoubtedly be followed
next winter IN New York Tho bunch ii
small. and the flowers contain some so'sshla
sentimank
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07
i .ssa i be gstting oEE.
Tle sgpply EaaaI . 1I.s Damana.

aWhat, asks very tender writer, awhat
can take the place Of babies!s-' -'shl Bend
your ear p little lower and we'll tell you
Other babies. You didn't suppose this years
crop lasted forever, did youi Goodness,
man, it viii be clear out Of style IN eighteen
months
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07

A little iaaagnesIa aiM water VIII some.
times correct the acidity If q chilas stomach
and render unnecessary any stronger u8dE
eira
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07

Eli Perkins HALF 81 the Kickedness f1;lf2
world Is all suspicion any wsts Tils a'ori s
not 50 had as many suspicious good Feo.lA
wculd make it cut ~ be.
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07

Helen Wihmalls. Women who live IL t y
Feelings and m5st Of them do--liTe closer
natare than men,
The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-07

Spreads and shans are now out Of fsstiop
Bound bolster and silk or satin spreatis 3
any fayo critic color~have taken their piece,
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-30
THE NEWS IN THE CITY.
GOSSIP FROM THE STREET
AND SIDEWALK.

Dashes Here and There by the "News'
Reporters 80 Yesterdays Happenings
Told in Brief Parsgraphs-Pi at
Police Headquarters.
The police made four arrests yesterday.
Wallace Cumming was elected yester-
day a member Of the Board of Trade.
Exporters were buying cotton lively
yesterday. The sales were 4, So bales Tor
the day.
The sale Of fine furniture and piano by
c. II. Dorset. advertised for yesterday,
will take place to-day at il O'Clock, a. l16
state street.
The maximum temperature yesterday
at savannah was ,l.3 deg. The minimum
was - and the mean Ij.l The average
rainfall IN the Savannah section % The
cotton belt was 81 Of an inch.
Superlntendent Of Schools Baker will
be in his office al the Chatham Academy
tomorrow FRIDAY and Saturday between
10 and II o'clock, 10 Issue cards of admis-
SION to the schools, which VIII reopen Tor
the tall term on Monday.
Sneak thieves are the source OF a good
deal OF worrimeut TO the fruit dealers.
George Perry. who keeps stand at Bull
and Bryan street. had a lively tus5le with
a young negro who had bagged pocket
fun ~ p0megran2tes yesterday and started
OF % enjoy the results Of his raid Perry
was watching his man and colared him
before he had A0t far from the stand and
forced him to settle at fun rates for his
plunder.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-30
Thn nellrnrn Annlnl-.,ni.

Messrs. Brice, Thomas and associate s
have completed their delivery OF the ma
jority Of the Memphis and Charleston
stock to the Central Trust Company, in
trust for the consolidated bonds of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia. 1t
Is understood that means for making this
purchase, and for extinguishing $S00.000
Of 1.-THE debtOtthe East TennesseeCOmpany,
were obtained by the sale Of 100000
Knoxville and Ohio bonds at par. The
above parties nave also acquired control,
by purchase, of majority interest OF
Walden's Ridge railroad, leading from
the Cincinnati southern, at Emory Gap,
to the Knoxville and Ohio, and OF the
Coal Greek and Oakdale Coal Companies,
owing 5000 acres of coal land along
those roads, giving the Knoxville and
OHIO and East Tennessee control of the
entire output Of coal on those properties,
100000 tons per annum.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-30
Railroads IN OHM

The announced intention Of the Chinese
government to build a railroad in north
ern China indicates a wide departure from
the old Chinese theory. 1t is only few
years ago that the government at Pekin
bought up railway near Shanghai that
had been constructed by a foreign COM
pauv. and. having gained possession of
the property, tore up the tracks and broke
up the locomotives and cars. 1t was at
that time officially announced that the
Chinese government did not propose to
permit an entrance into China OF this
product Of a civilized age; but for one
reason or another a change IN opinion
has taken place. II is not improbable
that in the recent troubles in TOnquin the
government at Pekin discovered that it
would be exceedingly convenient 10 pos
sess easy and rapid means OF dispatchmx
troops from one end OF the empire to the
other. The railroads built in China will.
for some time TO come, be built with an
eye mainly 10 their military convenience
hut, rs has been shown in Germany, Rus
sa and india, railroads built, even for
military purposes, are quickly utilized by
the people in their trade with each other,
and though less convenient, perhaps,
than roads constructed solely for business
purposes, find, in the end, their chief ser
vice in meeting the daily demands OF the
ppQula
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-30
LnrnI ParnnnnI.


Or. A. G. Bouton returned from the
North yesterday.
Maj. John Rutherford returned home
yesterday after two months absence in
the North.
Mr. Charles Franok, Commissioner OF
the North, Central and South American
Exposition, is in the city in the interest
Of the exposition, which will open AT New
Orleans on Nov. 10.
Among the arrivals at the Pulaski
house yesterday were: NJ. J. Heade and
wife, ST. Augustine; Henry Moole, a. &.
Chalmers, New York: G.. II. Payne, BOs-
ton; A. +. Weaver, Cleveland, o.; w. Ii.
Leonard, Louisville, Ky.
At the Harnett House were Il. A.
Hays, Ocsla, Fla; II. w. Price and q. II.
Lane, Albany, y. Y; W. T.. Belcher.
knoxville, Tenn; James Graham, New
York; l.. G. Parsons, Baltimore; y. W.
Marion and NJ. l.. Burnett. Marion, Fla.
John IL. Lamncr. Baltimore; Judge ). r..
Grover, Arcola, Ga; II. i. Werner, Wa
tertown, \. y; l.. J. White, Philadcl-
phia; q. h. Williams, Louisville. Ga.
AZ the Marshall house were: The
Tally Ho' Company; b. Holmes. Au-
tusta; Mrs. K. scarratt and daughter,
Gainesville, Ca; VIM. L. CHASER, iOnk-
rrs, y. y; Mrs. h. McColgan, Baltimore.
Miss Lula T0mlnsou, NaldOsta: Mrs. T.
F.Caulk, Louisville, Ca. T.. l.. sutherland,
Winston, n. c.; l.. J.. Kennedy, Pearson,
"a; +. n. Fell and wife. Florida; w.
Paterson, Liverpool, Eng; j.. Il. Crosby.
southport, Eng.
At the Screyen house were: W. r.
pattillo, Atlanta. A. y. Sholes. Augusta,
s. h. Burgstetter, Lumber CITY, Ga.
Misses Love and Misses Malone, Quincy.
Fla; G. De W. Wilcox, u. :. A., r. &.
Ilowold, Columbus, o.; O. Martin, Ocala,
FLA.