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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-02
Work for Prison Bird !. -
llouth's CompEin

Il have never had TO complain Of my
work people, wrote DE Lesseps, while
the suez canal was building, -snd yet |
have employed pirates aud prison birds
Work made them all honest. and none OF
them has ever taken anything from me.
not so much as handkerchief.
A gang Of these prison, birds galley.
slaves escaped from the Adriatic-landed
on the isthmus. and DE Lcsseps set them
10 work The Austrian consul claimed
them as convicts who had broken out
Of their prison ship. In the Orient,
they take no lote Of time and
DE Lesseps delayed answering the consuls
letter for weeks He kept his prison.
birds" at work. gave them enough to live
on. and paid them liberal wages At last
the consul was willing not only to let The
escaped convicts continue at work. but TO
send their wages home 10 their relations.
the had nothing to fear. said DE
Lesseps, 10 explanation Of his influence
over these galley.slaves; -they never went
10 bed hungry. they knew that trusted
them, and that they were working for a
cause Of universal interest
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-02
JoItiug a. a Cure for Dyspepsia.

lNtN ibrk hhn anu EApfessl
A druggist on Broadway said that tn,
stage coaches were the heslthiest riding
vehicles Ia existen' e, none excepted
@Why, all the ladies who rode daily in
them were in excellent health. rs gen.
eral rule. Some who were my customers
and bought q great deal Of medicine to
assist digestion before they began TO ride
on the numbering omnibuses, never suf.
fered from that complaint afterward
Actually, believe riding In those coaches
cured me Of dyspepsia For ten years |
rode down TO my store almost daily in
them. When started had bad case
of dyspepsia In year felt consider.
ably better, and in three years was en-.
tirely well j attribute my recovery to
the coaches The exertion of getting ia.
and then the forward luuge to put the
change in the box; then, perhaps. 10 re.
turn 10 the rear again and get n seat. and
while on the way TO fall over half dozen
laps-these were minor affairs compared
10 the jolting. jumping seat
FINALLY became coachriding fiend
! became used 10 the jolts and bumps,
and never felt so contented as when |
could knock over several passengers In
my attempt TO sit down. became an eX-
pert, and could tell others who were vet.
Gran coachers and reckless OF results 1t
is good feeling TO have u sure sign Of
health. can ride in car now, but II is
monotonous aud lame aud utterly without
eXertiOn These cars running down
Broadway mean indigestion aud dys
pepsA for they will have no spasmodic
iolts at each block to dash a man foot
or two from his seat But am a drug.
gist and have got the medicine, so can't
cumDlnin
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-02
How oil Cloth Is Made.

The palette of the artist who paints the
bright figures upon oil cloth is a round,
revolving table, about ten feet in diameter,
with checks Of red. yellow, brown and
other colors In a row around the edge
The artists brush Is block eighteen
inches square. There may be seven col.
ors In the pattern. II so, he uses seven
blocks. Round whisks the big circular
palette, down presses the block. "thump.
thump, hump goes the iron palette, and
the ochrr and The vermilion are Impressed
on the burlap The foundation of the
goods Is burlap, made Of jute. All Of II
Is imported from Dundee. Scotland. Ii
Is coarse. gauzy substance lou can
easily see through It It's first treatment
is starching
II runs over twenty-five steam drums
and is thoroughly impregnated with tap.
ioca. Then the ground paint is put on
"a brown or perhaps tan color. The
best goods receive seven coats of paint
After each coat. the cloth goes through
securing machine. which works the paint
In and smooths Il Then the printers lake
the cloth and stamp the figures on it
The printer stands before table on which
the cloth is laid. Zach color is put on
separately. A block containing the lines
for all the red used In the pattern is laid
on the thin bed Of paint on the revolving
palette. above described. and then care
fully stamped on the cloth. The first i'm.
preston leaves a skeleton OF the figure.
When the artist has turned his palette
around once, all the six or seven colOrs
have been STAMPED on the piece, and the
pattern appears in its entirety. Then the
cloth Is moved forward and the process is
repeated for another row of figures. The
blocks are made of rock maple Printing
is an operation that requires nicely Of
touch and experience The printers are
paid By the piece A good man can print
three thirty live. yard pieces day. After
having been printed, the cloth goes to the
bakery. where II is hardened by being
dried on racks in a hot room. The next
process is vanishing and the last is trim.
ming. II is six or eight weeks after the
burlap is starched before 1t is well hard.
ened and packed for shipment
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-02

IhNhs ~ ANHNNhN+l
can not close this sketch without re
ferring TO the tonfederate commander
when he came upon the scene for the first
time. Gen ! ee was an unusually hand.
some man even in his advanced life. lie
seemed fresh from West Point, so trim
was the figure and so elastic his STEP cut
of battle he was as gentle as woman,
hut when tue clash Of arms cane he could
fight and urged his battle with wonderful
determination. As usual thing he was
remarkably well balAnced-always SO ex.
oept on one or two occasions Of severe
trial. when be failed TO maintain his exact
eauipOise His orders were always we'll
considered and well chosen. He de.
pended almost too much on his officers
for their execution. jackson was very
skillful man against such men as Shields.
Banks, and Fremont but when pitted
agaiust the best Of the Federal command.
ers he did not appear 30 we'll Without
doubt the greatest man OF the rebellion
times, the one matchless among i0. 600.
900 for the peculiar difficulties Of the
period. was Abraham Lincoln.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-02
Novelty Mt Manhattan Beach.


A new feature OF entertainment has
been introduced at Manhattan Beach.
The large marine amphitheatre has been
changed into an exhibition hall and twice
each day during the season there will be
novel entertainments In connection with
a brilliant prsmatic fountain. The waters
OF the fountain will be Illuminated In all
colors Of the rainbow by electric and cal.
cium lights Zach entertainment will be-
gin with u series OF dissolving views.
after which the scene will be transferred
into yaregated grotto under the sea,
where Neptune will appear and summon
bis satellites from the deep. The official
announcement Of this exhibition says;
THE tradition OF the ideal mermaid will
be realized. represented by young ladies
sporting in the briny deep. Giant frogs
sea nymphs, and al the hosts Of water
spirits will add their voices and energy 10
this ocean pageant
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-02
Boston Post

"Ah. Miss Smytb. going walking"
"Y4, / am Just going TO take my little
dog out
"Well. ali. may have the pleasure Of
going along with your"
Oh, yes indeed, would Just as soon
have two Of you
Hle didn't 90.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-02
No Increase u Interest.
lChicago tribunal

An Fnglishman now resident In Eng
land. who lived in America for many
years. says that he is quite unable TO dis.
cover an increased interest there In thii
country The men take little interest Ia
IL the women less. Such man as Mr..
Lowell was scarcely known outside Of q
small circle until he became minister, aud
sven then only, rs rule, TO London PEG
pie Names which are household words
20 ms here are unknown there.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-02
THE SWEETEST wosn
Edgar Nash In The OIrrent.l

Edgar Nash In The Curentl
~what Is the swsetest word that mortsh
kenln
A woman asked who walked between two
First one said -Home;" the other "L1vs is
bsst:'
And then the woman softly whispered,
ARest'
yes" raid the first; wherever / ma
roam
Nv rest ideal Il in a far-off home"
yes" said the other; "it 70 loves behest
To those on whom he foadly smiles, to rest v
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-02

A German chemist Is said TO have dis
covered an Antidots for strychuina
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1885-08-02

Hyde Park Herald: The public Is in.
terested IN the health of every member Of
The communltH Anything that In urcs
mans lehluh lniures The community 10
which be belongA
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-31
The Giants OF Patagonia.

The Patagonian, in the upper part
of his body, is Of huge build. His
trunk and head are large, his chest
broad, his arms long and muscular.
On horseback, he seems far above the
ordinary size of man. When he dis
mounts, however, it is seen that his
legs are disproportionately short and
slender; they frequently bend outward.
His walk is heavy and numbering.
These are the well-known peculiarities
which are found in the Tartars. and in
all races of men who spend most of
their time, like the Patagonians, on
horseback. But it is only a little over,
two centuries since the horse was in
troduced into this region. The natives
who were first seen chased the swift
guanaco and ostrich over their I'M
mense plains on foot. Such activity
required long, straight and muscular
legs. It is not too much to suppose
that the: total change in their habits
Of life, which has occurred since they
became nation OF horsemen, has de-
tracted at least two inches from their
stature. Adding these lost inches to
their present height, we recover the
giants who astonished the companions
of Magellan. and yindlcate the mar
ratives which later writer's have dis.
credited - Science. 3 E.&
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-31
Feeding All Army.

[ For many years prior to the Mexican
war, writes Il New York correspondent
to The Alba,lu Journal, a purchasing
commissary for the United States army
was stationed at New York city. The
extent Of tho depot and the amount of
supplies there obtained were very
limited fol- some time in consequence
OF the small size OF the army. 1T was
not until the commencement Of the
rebellion IN 1861 hat the abors OF this
depot reached increased magnitude
and great proportions. With over q
million 81 men in the field to be sub
sisted. "a very great quantity of the
articles Igof the ration meats, Hour,
hard bread. sugar, coffee, teas, salt
etc. y ne cessary for many OF them,
were obtained in this CITY. Not unusal-
Nv cargo after cargo Of coffee was pur-
chased for the troops. At several times
during he war special purchases of this
article were obtained abroad, AS il
could be SO procured mOre &C nonl-
K ally for the arnly Under the man
agement OF thsn colonel afterward
Big Cen. A. B. s Eaton, cOnnmissary
general OF Substance, United States
army The purchases were very ex-
tensiYe. To-. Eaton had corps of
experts, well ruined, SOM lof the
best merchants in the cit as inspec-
tors and nd inst ors, and secured for che
government the ne sc articl which.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-31
An ELOQUENT TRAMP.

A stupid looking tran,p knocked at
the door OF one of the finest residence
in Austin, and was received by the
lady of the house, who expressed some
curiosity to know what he wanted.
''Please, mum, give me dime to
get a glass of bread-'scuse me,
mean loaf of beer' .
Il hain't got no money" the lady
replied. =
faint got no money? Then,
madame, you should move into "a
cheaper house. so you will not deceive
the humble tramp by the gorgeous
ness OF you residence. You are living
beyond your means. Economy is
wealth. &
'Now you clear out of here or I'll
call my husband"
1 "Cut down your expenses, madame
cut down your expenses, or sooner
or later. your husband will be in my
fix. I had just such wife as you,
and that r. what has brought me to
the condition l am now in. Reduce
your expenses, madame, and some Of
these days you may have dime-a
whole dime--which may be the means
of preventing some hungry, thirsty
fellow mortal from committing suicide;
or it may be a quarter, q coin of the
value of twenty five cents, that will
upholster the dark clouds of his des-
pairing soul with a silver plated lining
and his stomach with book beer Fair
lady, good bye" -Ierns SittinQs.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-31
Exempt from Taxation.

There is in New York City 1886, 694, =
O6O worth Of real estate exempt taxa
ton. OF this S173, 1914, 06O is city prop
erty, 12.64O, 900 is United States
property, $40. 211,5 800 is church proper
~, and $33, 948,5 800 comes under the
head Of miscellaneous, belonging TO
schools, libraries, and charities. AT
per cent and the taxrate in New York
City is usually higher than that the ex-
empt churcaand miscel laneous proper
.ty would pay nearly 81, 5OO, 600 . year
toward the expenses Of government,
AS il does not pay it, others must, and
in this way sec,llar realty, is made to
pay, BY force, 8 500, 600 q J ear for the
support of churches, etc. This u
pushing the excamp tlon doctrine pre-
~ far. The same rule prevails, Ii
prep ortionate measure, through out the
country. And that IL does prevail,
and with little or no protest, il = sstrik-
ing proof Of the tolerant and kindly
feeling Of the Amarican public toward
& religious ! lsi and educssi nal terprises
of all sorts. sssss ss's71s
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-31
Bill Nye and the Bronze Goddess.

I am in favor Of a Statue of Liberty
Enlightening the World, because it
will show that we keep it On tap VIM
ter and summer. We want the whole
broad world to remember. that when
1T gets tired Of oppression it can come
here and Cypress us. We are used to
it and we rather like it. II we don't
like it we can get on the steamer and
90 abroad, where we may visit the
effete monarchles and have high
old time. @
The sight Of the Goddess of Liberty
standing there night and day, bathing
her feet in the ripping sea, will be a
good thing. It may be productive of
good in a.direction that many have
not thought of. AS she stands there
day after day bathing her feet in the
broad Atlantic, perhaps some moss
grown Mormon moving toward the
far west, confirmed victim, of his
matrimonial habit, may fix the bright
picture on his so-called mind, aud re-
Numbering how, on his arrivalin New
York, he. saw Liberty bathing her feet
with impunity may be led in after
years to try it on himself. Boston
EI4lObg X &t@$ 2a s@4#.l H. ;a -aa3 II %&8FE Y
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-31
Where the Scorpion Gets His Poison.

wv W VAO A1SOA pun UVLS Has SIUlSOIls
When he strikes you with the end Of
his tail, like q wasp. he exudes 4 ven
somous liquid, and aman might better
hold a red-hot iron ii his hand than to
get a tenth part Of . drop Of this
liquid into his blood, tits not neces-
Isarily fatal, particularly in the Bahia
mas; but it condenses the heat Of forty
furnaces. In some parts of South
America scorpion bites are frequently
fatal, but ! have not heard of any one
having been killed by them in Nassau.
This is easily accounted for. The
scorpion likes to feed on decayed
wood. "a South America, where dye
woods and other poisonous woods.
abound, the scorpion feeds upon them,
and thus work into themselves good
supply Of outside poison Y Rich, taken
together with his naturally poisonous
liquid, does Its work for whoever IS
unfortunate enough 10 III stnr ,ut,.
in aseAu, sach poiso car woods are
lew. and tho soorp ions hays tp fatten
themselves srespec tably on pine cedar
and ma ogaily rom q Nt1ssdss l.es.S
tee.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-31

Robert G. Ingersoll vii, summer I'M house
at Marblehead Neck called IN anspsshemet-'' y
That name wonld sound like blasphemJ any
where else than n Maine or NassachEs it's.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-31

ssWell, my young gentleman, how would ltl.
you like your hair cut e oh, Ike papa's
please !: with little round hole ct the top. =
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-07-31
!. Pruning n 4 Timber Trees SIS

OOWnSIle pin OIL tne GTee, WHICH COM
mences the work of decomposition,
spreading to other parts Of the wood.
Another writer says: The physlolo-
gy of pruning trees requires looking
into. The woodman in pruning cuts
the branch clean off near the trunk,
leaving the concentrlc rings which
usually form round the base of a
branch. AS growth progresses, the
bark gradually grows over the wound
till it is quite covered, and it IS then
supposed to be healed. The time re-
quired for this depends or the size Of
the branches, butin good sized branch
es ittakes years. Meanwhile, the ex-
posed wound is very apt to collect
moisture, and from that and other
causes the tissue rots back into the
trunk, leaving a hole which may in
the end destroy the tree, and always
iniure it more or less. Paint will pre-
vent decay, but unless tits applied
frequently il wears off, the face of the
wound cracks, water gets in, and de-
cav follows. I have examined many
tree wounds from artificial pruning,
and found this to be the result in nu-
merous Instances. Nature prnnes in
another way and with different results.
Decay ing branches break off sooner or
later some distance from the trunk.
When this happens, nature at once.
begins TO work by closing in the bark
at the base of the branch, which is
! final y forced off when the bark meets.
/ IL not befo lore. In vigorous trees decay
in such case rarely extends farther
than tho base Of the branch, because
the projecting pieces afford protection
from moisture until the wound is heal
{ ed over, ~ il often very well shown
IS the buried knots of sawnsupS trees
Ind u ramble through q broad belt
Esof Woodland the other day, which, (
nm assured, the pruning hook IS has
never entered, md was impressed by
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-22
The Tornado.

The destructive nature of the tornado
is wholly due to its compression within
q limited area. A storm, if spread out
over q large stretch of ground, Is COM
paratively harmless, but upon being
contracted to tine limits of a few rods,
as Is frequently the case. a~ttains, by the
very fact of the compression, a rotary
notion and great destruetiveness. The
forward or progressive motion of a tor
nado is rarely more than twenty miles
an hour, while the rotary motion is
never less than eighty and has been
known to reach two hundred and fifty.
This is determined by the laws of
dynamics, as shown by the effects.
Horses and wagons are carried away,
sometimes for miles, houses unroofed
or totally wrecked and many lives lost.
In the s~uddenness OF the approach of
tbs dreadful visitation resides the ele-
ment of danger. The track of the tor
nado being comparatively narrow a few
minutes warning would suffice to ren-
der escape easy. No such warning is
possible. The elemental forces which
give rise to a tornado give no warning
of its approach. In ar instant the ter
rible visitor Is here, the next instant
gone, leaving death and destruction in
its path. The storm recently was very
disastrous to property, and has made
many homeless wanderers. Now, If
ever. is the time when the hand of
charity can be opened to advantage and
the sufferers wants relieved.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-22
Rat,IesDake Island.

About nine miles below Columbia, s.
O., is an extensive, rich and thoroughly
cultivated farm, known as Green Hill,
Of which Mr.. John G. Seegers, Ii of
our wealthy and most progressive citi-
Gems, is the proprietor. In the midst
of Green Hill Is an island, called Rattle
snake Island. The name is given to 1t
because of the millions of rattIesnakes
which are bred in the midst of its i'm
penetrable vegetable growth. Many
thousands of these horrid, venomous
reptiles are killed every summer, but
the number never decreases. On the
contrary, from summer to summer they
seem to be ever increasing. Fortunately
for the laborers and the live stock, these
deadly reptiles never leave the island
alive. From the spring of the year to the
season when rattlesnskes go into winter
quarters, the water which surrounds
the island deters them from leaving
their abode, where they sustain them
selves on birds, insects and other
snakes, but all day long in the summe
the island banks are lined with them.
The negroes on the farm carry on a
large traffic In the sale of rattlesnake
oil, which is applied externally for the
cure of rheumatism. The negroes ap-
proach the island IN ~batteaus, and upon
nearing the banks the snakes coil up,
in striking attitude, and spring their
~rattles, one after another, until the air
Is filed with their terrible notes OF
warning. The negroes go armed with
three-pronged. long-hsndled forks, the
sharp prongs OF which they drive into a
snakes head, and when death ensues
the repulsive but ~lifeless reptile is
pulled into the boat by means of the
fork. The snakes are then put through
a culinary process the secrets of which
are known only to the medicine men
among the negroes, by which a small
quantity of valuable oil is extracted
from each snake, This oil is sold at a
high price, and it is claimed to be an
infsllible remedy for relief of all rheu-
matte pains. In the swamp lands the
exposed condition of the negro laborers
renders them easily subject to rheuma-
tism, but it is a remarkably fact that
not a negro on the Seegers place, where
this oil is prepared and sold, has ever
been known to suffer from rheumatic
pains for a longer time than from the
moment of attack until the application
of the oil to the locality of the pain.
The darkies frequently turn an honest
penny by the sale of rattles and of
young snakes, from which they have
removed the poisonous fangs. This
traffic in rattlesnake oil is rapidly in
creasinR, and is becoming popular
among the white sufferers from rheu-
matism, and to establish a monopoly in
the base of supplies the negroes are
negotiating with the proprietor foI the
purchase of Rattlesnake Island,