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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-04
The INTELLICENCER OFFICE

Strictly in advance. Extra copy to clubs Of ten.
Postmasters taking subscriptions are authori zd to retain ten
to repay them for their trouble.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-04

$50 Acres la Bales county, Secs. 6, 7 and =, 7.
Al, X. -. Ne.., icy aI under wIIe fence with
cedar posts; 3H acres now III wheat, and
balance IN cultivation anI niass; good COM
l.rt.,!e new u~rIimg aud barn. Ibis is
rici. M rle iinl 10 miles northwest Oh Dut-
Ter and very desirable. Pre-. Sii 60.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-04
The

n the bond question, is with the people, a it has always been; thinking tha'
the innocent Taxpayer has rights which should 70 respected
as much as those of the "innocent" bondh0der.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-04

IN .cres. q 7. T. 30. r. 81, five miles southeast
of Lexington, on the Salt Pond road, corner
ing al BUNS School House, Az acres under
fence and In cultivation and grass. eeou
fruft. Running water. Frame dwelling hve
rooms and TWO porches. New barn. Rich
land Price S3 $50.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-03-11
strange Int True.

II tallow candle be placed in a gun
and shot at door. it will 60 through
without sustaining injury; and if a
musket ball be shot into the water, il
will not only rebound but be fattened.
II fred through pane of glass, it will
make hole the size Of the ball, with.
out cracking the glass; il the glaas ia
suspended by thread, it will make no
difference. and the thread will not even
vibrate. Cork. if sunk two hundred
feet under water. viii not rise, on &C.
accOunhsf the pressure Of the water.
In the Arctic regions. whes the tenn.
perature is below zero, persons can
converse more than a mile distant from
each other.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-03-11

No doubt it takes pluck for man oI
modest fortune to ask rich woman tc
marry him, and no doubt rich women
often go unmarried for want OF the
asking. The writer once asked one OF
Boston's lovelicst women, something
past hsr frat youth, rich, of excellent
family, and altogether . charming wo-
man: ''Miss L., why have you never
married." II am tempted to tell the
truth" she replied. with vivid blush,
nobody has ever asked me. / am rich
and well born, and my own mistress.
A man could offer me very little have
not, except his love. and / fancy most
men don't appreciate that trife at its
full value. At least they don't know
how should they how much true
mans love is to lone woman. -[Cin-
cinnati Gazette.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-03-11
Self Made.


"Do you see that old man near the
frog pond on the common!"
"Thirty-two years ago that old man
came to Boston with one suspender and
sore toe. He also had basket of
apples which farmer in Lexington had
given to him. He peddled the apples
on Washington street and netted
eighteen cents the first day. How
much do you suppose he is worth to.
day."
'Oh, million aud half" said one.
Two millions, cried another.
''Six millions, three hundred thou.
sand. was the estimate OF the third
person.
81 give it up. remarked the fourth
man. "How much is he WORTH"
"Not an internal cent, and he still
owes for the basket"
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-03-11

The very remarkable statement is
made in the Medical Times that DR..
Fleischl of Vienna has discovered that
the hydrochlorate Of cocaine adminis-
tered hypodermically in doses Of from
one.twelfth to one-fourth of grain will
cure morphinism, alcoholism. and simi-
lar habits within ten days.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-03-11

One of the papers says that just as
the second act was commencing, Nico-
lini whispered to Patti that there had
been a trade dollar found in the money
Mapleson had paid her. That is why,
they say, she played the mad scene to
perfection.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-03-11

The State OF Arkansas derives $25, :
600 per annum from its penitentisry by
leasing the labor of eighty convicts to
cigar manufacturers, and handing over
2SO others to farmers, the consideration
being 3d. IS per month and all expenses.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-03-11
rHE SILVER STATE.
|ugLIsHED EVERY DAY (sUNDAYs Ex-
CEPTED) BY
J. j. HILL & CO.

RATES OF ADVERTISING:
Das Square 90 lines) first insertion. ....sz 60s
ssch subsequent insertion, per square. %.
A LIBERAL reduction to regular advertisers.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-03-11
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS:
bne copy, one year, BY mail: W 90.
bpe copy, six months, by mail. ......... 90
bue copy. three months, by mail. ........ Q so.
Delivered by carrier. Is Cents per week,
AGENTS:
c. W. CRANE, 3is Pine street and 10 Leides.
3or6 street, Room 80, San Franc
W. A. CAswELL, Sacramento, G
BF. RILEY is authorized to e.
ssapt for subscriptions to the Sill n
Paradise Valley.
a X. YoUKa Is authorized 10 collect and
poeipt for subscriptions to the SILVER STArs at
Bax Aeadcws.
4. GrErz 10 authorixed to collect and receipt
spw subscnptions 70 the SLyxR STATE in Spring
CITY.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-22
A Florida Dissipation.

We say good night to Aunt Katy
and drive on. The sky Is peculiar to
Florida on such a night--a steel blue,
with thousands of tiny, ffeecy clouds
like daisies, fecking its bosom, and
under which the moon looks and
laughs like beautiful face throu gh a
BRIDES white veil. Wepass through a
lane, on the right of which we see
glimpses OF water through clumps OF
young oak, and come presently to the
Jackson orange tree. All the Jack
sons are out on the porch of the little
brown house-father, mother, and ba~
bies--and there hang the clustered or
anges from three to four thousand, on
that grand old tree. Old! Well, per-
haps twenty years have roughened its
bark; and after jackson is dead, and
his children's children, somebody will
pluck the golden fruit from those same
limbs, for it has seventy-fve years yet
in which to reach its prime. jackson
comes up, and with his hands full of
silver goes back with baskets and lad
der, and presently we are pairing and
eating the luscious fruit.
''Perhsps de ladies would like some
sugar-cane," jackson says, pocketing
his money. "I's got it wild ten jints,
5 cents stick OF course we are all
clamorous for sugar-cane, and keep
the gentlemen of our party busy cut
ting the big sticks into sections. May
be you don't know what feast we had
on oranges and sugar cane away out
in the wild woods OF Florida. = Core.
sponedence San francisco Chronicle.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-22
IT (Iured Him.

I would like to tell you of an Incl
dent of observation-disclosures that cured Il
schoolmaster entirely of this often
comical mental defect. The bell was
ringing for school, and the masters
wife wanted a pail of water and hod
of coal. To save time, the master
stroye to get both the water and the
coal at the same time. He drew the
water from an old-fashioned we'll, and,
getting the bod filed with coal. entered
the house with his hands full. He
walked up to the sink and placed the
hod of coal where the water pail was
usually kept, and, taking the pail Of
water into the sitting room, poured it
into the stove. The, kissing steam
blew open the stove door, issued fro m
the coal chamber and every seam in
the stove, scorched the master, put out
the fire, and filled the house with
steam. n, t. ss,
i. Amid it all issued the agonized shout
Of the schoolmaster: s'Blast my eyes!
I've made another mistaken He never
made another. In the week that he
was done up in linen bandages and
goose grease his mind as well as his
body was restored to a healthy con-.
dition. - Norsoich Bulletin.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-22
Deluded Negroes.

The close OF the war found thou.
sands of unemployed, unrestrained,
and impecunious colored people in the
District of Columbia. With every adj
vancing step of our armies they gath
cred up great bales of articles that
seemed most desirable to them from
their own domiciles, and from the
homes of their masters they made
their way to Washington, the Mecca
Of their imaginatlons, under the i'm
preston that freedom and plenty were
to be attained by reaching it. They
came by tens and by hundreds. The
old and the decreplt, the young and
helpless, the niddle-aged and strong.
On foot they came. and they bore with
them their goods and chattels. Stout
girls of II carried the fat, shining ba-
bies; lads of all ages bal&nced upon
their heads baskets of provisions for
the journey: buxom tield-hands bore
great bales consisting Of feather-beds,
missum's dresses, mirrors, and band
boxes, and the men were burdened
with an amount of sundries that would
make a cart-lOad.
No exertion was sxhansting, no OBJ
stacle insurmountable, "Gwine MORT,
where you all cum trum," was the
exultant reply to all interrogatories
concerning their destination.
They knew little, but they dreamed
much, of what would be the result of
the sudden and unprovlded-for change
in their condition. 1t was leap in
the dark, but they imagined it a leap
from darkness into llght--from state
of bondage into glorious condition
of freedom; and they naturally con-
sidered that they would be recipients
Of the blessings that such q change
should produce.
Alas' alas! for the awakening from
this delusion! They found themselves
at last in Washington, homeless and
friendless. They stood upon the
wharves and gazed and wondered.
The great dome Of the capitol, the
marble walls of the public buildings.
the busy throng going and coming
from their accustomed places OF bust
ness, amazed them. No feast was
offered them; they We're invited to no
hospitable homes. They found them
selves strangers in a strangers land,
destitute and despised, and pinched
by hunger and faint with the reaction
of stimulated imaginations, they be"
gan to grope their way into alleys, and
byways, and stable-lofts, and rude
novels, and 80 became, twenty-five
thousands of them, denizens Of the
American metropolis. How they
lived, how they suffered, how they
died, will never be written.-Be's: Per-
lev Poor IN Boston Budget.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-22


each issue more frequent than once i
week. The postage was required to
be paid in advance, either at the mall
Elng, or delivery Office. These rates
were repealed by an act Of Tune, 1874.
which went into force Jan. 1875,
The rate Of postage on mail matter Of
the third class, mere disc, ETC., was
liked by the law OF 1872 at I per cent
for every two ounces or fraction there
OF. The law Of March 8, 1875, made
the rate cent for every ounce or frac-
tion thereof. Under these last-named
laws the letter postage was 5 cents for
local and drop letters in free delivery
Offices. 2 cents for every haH.ounce or
fraction thereof, and / cent for every
half-ounee at Offices not having free
delivery. On March 8, 1883, a law was
enacted by congress reducing the rate
of letter postage from 3 to 2 cents per
half ounce, to take effect October of
the same year. On the Sd of March,
1888, the following changes. were
made: The weight of all single rate
letters is increased from one-Ralf an.
ounce each to one ounce. All news
papers sent from publication offices or
news agencies, including sample cop
les, are entitled to transmission at the
rate of cent per pound. Any article
in newspaper or other publication
may be. marked for observation, ex-
cept by written or printed words, with
out increase of postage, A.special5l0 10
cent stamp is also to be issued, which,
when attached to a letter in addition
to the lawful postage thereon, will in
sure it's immediate delivery by special
messenger at anytime between Z a.
N. and midnight, --Mtlsoaukee Eveaimt
Wtccos, e5a, 1t.f5. w. III -
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-22
OPTICAL Illusions.

'Many people, writes a lady cor.
respondent from Newark, '.are deceiv.
ed by optical illusions On recent
morning I looked into my broth
er's room, and saw him standing
at his dressing-case. Then remem-
bered that | had heard him 60 down
stairs, and said to myself: This is
an optical Illusion Knowing that it
was such, looked at the figure until
it slowly faded away. Let me- add
that am in good bodily health, cheer
full, and, believe, sound in mind. A
friend who died lately said in her last
hours, when apparently she was ra-
tional, that she saw her dead parents
and brother in her room. She ex-
claimed, addressing the friends who
stood at her bedside: There they are,
right there. Can't you see them?'
repeat that, as far as any one could
judge, she was thoroughly conscious.
But we will pass over her case, for it is
not exceptional, and while we can not
say she was delirious, neither can we
affirm positively that she had her
senses.
''But here, think, is an unusual
form of optical illusion, if it was an
illusion atall. A few days ago we'll
known business man Of New York
passed away. His widow is a clear
minded and educated lady, without
any morbid or superstitious faint in
her. nature, or any belief in spiritual
ism. While bending over her husband
shortly before his death she observed
that the expression of his face was
changing, and the next moment saw
there, instead, the dead face of her
brother. The two men were entirely
unlike in appearance, one being light
and having blond beard, and tho
other very dark. Shortly afterwards
the lady saw on her husband s face the
expression of another deceased friend,
and little later that of third. Her
morbid and overweight fancy de-
ccived her, someone says Could two
persons be deceived at the same time
and in the same way? I ask this be-
cause three years ago this lady and
her sister watched beside the dying
child of the latter. The little girls
face suddenly changed. One of the
ladies saw that the other observed
this, and said: ..&
":Emily, who was it?'
'Adelaide,' WAS the answer.
"'Yes, Adelaide.
"The two ladies have told me that
they saw Enthusiastically the face of
their dead cousin, woman, shining
out through the face of the dying
child. I offer no explanation of these
phenomena, and present them only be-
cause to me they seem very interest
North An,erican.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-22

i TORPEDO boats can hard III he overesti-
mated. They are a sagreeable thinea
to- contend with. Backed bY electric
/ tY in Its manifo Ia applic lions nothing
can be- more formid BILE. s No country
cares to- haVeits ships destroyed and Sits.
sailors massacred ~ Wholesale. Thera-
fore, as the foreign policy of this coun-
try contains little Of aggression, were
its ports guard ed as above it could
stand no possible peri,
TO show how deeply the great pow
ers appreciated the need OF torpedo
boats 1t may be stated that England
has built % first class and 81 second
class, and is building q first class and
6 second class, q total af 129 France
owns Is first class and 50 second class.
and is building first class and second
class, total OF rs. Germany has built
50, is bnildine 20 more Of the powerful
little steamers, expanding in so doing
So, O0O, 900 or ne-6hird Of her annual
naval appropriation, on: their construc-
ton and equipment, and cOntemplates
a further fleet of As when these are
ready. When all are IN the water
Germany will lead the world. Russia
has 4 first class and III second-elass,
and is building 4 first clsss, total of
125. Italy possesses is frst-class. 81
second-class, and is building IA, q
total Of So. Of the minor powers Hol-
land owns "a; Norway and Sweden Is,
Austria IA, and Denmark 8. The
United States has none, unless the
Alarm may be so counted.
A first class boat Of the pattern al
luded to is about 100 feet long, draw
ing from A to 6 feet Of water and
capable of steaming l6A knots per
hour when at sea, and of keeping it
up for at least $50 miles, with an
ability to carry enough coal for a
cruise of 1000 miles. Her armament,
besides torpedoes, consists OF q brace
of revolving cannon. The quick and
terrible work of these little crafts was
evinced on the Danube during the
Turco-Russian war, when the Russians
demolished many vessels, and later,
during the present Franco Chinese
troubles, when several Chinese IRON
clads of the first class were blown to
atoms, together with their crews, aud
without harm to the destroyer
Brooklyn Eagle.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-22
heard q hog squeal. He fred and
killed bald eagle measuring seven
feet from tip TO tip Of wings. The
half year old hog was killed By the

heard hog squeal. He fred and
killed q bald eagle measuring sever
feet from tip to tip Of wings. The
half year old hog was killed By the
eagle. IA i s#'5#ss.S5
The value OF the dairy product q
the state OF Iowa alone, for the year
1884, amounted to $50, 600, 600; viii
the total value Of the butter, cheese
and milk produced in the United
States, for 1884, was $500, OOO, 600.
These figures are best appreciated By
noting the value of some OF the Other
products. h. II.
The president Of the New York
Dairymen's association says thai
Holsteln milk contains very small
cream globules, which are slow to rise;
hence the Holstein milk will bear
transportation better than the milk d
any other COW.
British BATTLES IN Eleven Years.
The following is list Of British
battles, with the losses thereat, fought
in the last eleven wears, from Amoafu]
to the fight at Bakers zereba: At
Amoaful, where Sir Garnet Wolseley
routed the Ashantees, our loss was Z
killed and 500 wounded. At Pelwar
Kotal (Afghan war Gen. Roberts)
our loss was officers and 10 men kill
ed and officers and II men wounded.
At lsandlana Zulu, Col. Durnford),
all our men were killed-2S officers,
500 men. and 1000 natives. At sRorke's
Drift we lost II killed and 10 wound
ed. AT Slobane mountain, South
Africa, we lost II officers and 80 men
killed and wounded. At Ekowe our
loss was trifling, their being scarcely
more than ii killed and wounded. At
Ulundi we lost 104 killed and wounded.
At Charasiab, in the second Afghan
war, Gen. Roberts, marching to Cabul,
lost in action "a killed and 81 wounded.
At Cabul, where the fighting continued
three or four days and Roberts re-
treated to the Sherpur environments,
we lost II killed and 164 wounded.
Gen. Cough, struggling to relieve Sher-
pur, lost killed and 80 wounded. At
Ahmed Khel we lost II killed and 1874
wounded At Maiwand, when Gen.
Burrows was defeated by Ayoob Khan,
we lost 81 officers, 500, English, and
700 natives killed, Is officers and 80
men missing. At Mara, when Gen.
Roberts defeated Ayoob Khan and
brought the war to an end, we lost 29
killed and 161 wounded. AT Laing's
Mex our losses were 81 killed and
missing and 100 wounded. At Ingogo
we lost $50 killed and wounded, and
at Majuba IS killed, 131 wounded, and
60 prisoners taken. At Tel-el-Kebir
we lost officers and As men killed and
20 officers and 800 men wounded. At
Teb officers were killed, II wounded,
Is non-commissioned officers and priv
ates killed, and 1923 wounded. At
lanai our loss was 5 officers and Sc
men killed. 8 officers and 1O5 men
wounded. At Aboo-KIea we lost 9 Of
ticers and IS men killed 9 officers and
SIS men wounded. At the battle Of
Gubat we lost 10 killed and 66 wound.
ed. At Hasheen our loss was II kill
ed and ~ wounded. In the battle of
the following Sunday we lost z officers
and 63 men killed, s officers and 80
men wounded, besides large number
of men belonging to the Indian con-
tingent. Mall Gazette.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-22
The Bloody Canyon.

A correspondent of Ihe San Fran
CISCO Chronicle who has been exploring
the Sierras IN the vicinity of the Yose-
mite thus describes the "hloody can
yon" which lies about forty mites
from the valley. Toward evening we
neared the head of the bloody canyon
at what is known as the Mono pass.
Never before had we gazed on such a
scene of barrenness and utter desola-
ton as that which was now open be-
fore us. Being so near night the effect
was doubly enhanced. To. the west
the sun was yet an hour high and was
tinging here and there the snow-cov-
cred granite with blood-red spots,
while the shadow intervals were Of the
color of blued steel, but to the east and
below us it was to all intents and pur-
poses night. An occasional sparkle at
our feet, very far below, denotes the
presence of a lake, and the muffled
roar and hiss also told of waterfalls,
probably cascades in the outlets of the
various lakes, which, from description,
we know existed in this canyon, but
now could not see
The canyon is the usual V-shaped
kUiHe VI dill Iuo OtIlOEuld canyons.
But this one is a giant among pygmies,
The northern slope is al least 5000
feet deep, and the southern one fully
1000 feet in depth. And we find from
sketches made at the time that tho
angle of the slopes is as sharp as 60 or
20 degrees, with many perpendicular
faces of 800 or 1000 feet. Now, in
this evening light, the top Of the great
cliffs was Of a deep purple-red, with
black. purple shadows; the face to the
north was series of great ridges,
running vertically in parallel lines to
the slant of the rock, and each ridge
notched and broken up into a series Of
saw-llke indentations. the shadows
Of the Sierra we've projected below far
out ON to the brok>n plain, but ceased
at the foot of a misunderstanding
mountain on the edge of Mono lake.
The lake and the distance were in
beautiful rosy light where the sun
struck the ground beyond the shadows.
The general effect was grand beyond
descrintiOn. u. - -----.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-05-22
The Happy Men in Hospitality.

The Canadian, as any one will admit
who has been his guest, posse sses in
an eminent and most enjoyable degree
the virtue Of hospitality. In him are
happily blended the best characters
tics of the Englishman and the Ameri-
can. The Englishman, hearty as the
welcome which he extends to a guest.
still compasses his house and his heart
round about with barriers of reserve
and suspicion, which it is not always
easy TO surmount, or to throw down.
The American on the other hand, for
all his prompt courtesies and willing
ness to oblige and to entertain, IS
often apt to carry what we might call
the hotel and business atmosphere into
his acquain tanceships. He entertains
sroyally, but it often seems as il he
grudged the time and the personal at-.
tention which are requisite IN order
that the guest may enjoy himself TO
the utmost. The Canadian, as we
have already sand, blends is 9 happy
measure the best traits of his British
progenitor and his American neighbor.
- ,11silndelobiG l2ecord SIS