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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-03-18
A CASE OF PREMONIT1Ou-
Alex. Skirving in Nineteenth Century.

| -1eA' ohHVinS ID Nlneteenth century.
AS reader of the London Times.
have noticed the proceeding" of tn
Physical Society, ana as your socisrv
has invited communications, I respee-
fully beg to offer you short staten az-
/ OF my experience on a subject whicL
/ 60 not understand. Let me prem So
that am not scholar as / left school
at II years Of age in 1927, and I thare
fore hope you will forgivs all sins against
composition and grammar. I an a
working foreman of masons at Win
chester cathedral, and haze been for the
last nine years a resident, of this CITY
l am a native of Edinburgh.
1t is now more than thirty years ago
that was living in London, very near
where the Great Western railroad now
stands, but which was not ahen bull. I
was working the Regents Park s5s
Messzs- Mowlem, Burt & Freer7an.
! who at that time had the government
contract for three years for the mascrl's
work Of the capital, and who yet cary
on mighty business at Milhank, W.T.
minister / think it was Gloucester
gate If I mistake not. At all events it
was THAT gate Of Regents Park to the
eastwas11 OF the Geological gardens at
5he northeast corner of the park. The
distance from my home was,too great
for me to- get home to meals, SO 1 car
red ny foo4t with me, and Therefore
had no call to leave the work all dav-
On a certain day, however, 1 suddenlv
t4lt an intense desire to go home: but
as L had nc business there [ tried to
suppress it,, hat it was not posslb, to
do SO: Every minute the desire to 90
home increased. 1t was 10 in the
morning, and [ could not think of any
thing to call ne away from the work at
such time | got fdgety and uneasy.
and felt as If I must go, even at the
risk Of being gidiculed by my wife. as. [
could give 10 reason why [ should
leave my work and lose Cd. an hour for
nonsense. However, [ could not STAY.
and L set Oft for home under an impulse
which [ could Dot resist.
When / reached my own door and
Knocked the door was opened by nv
Wlte's sister, amarried woman, who lived
few streets off. She looked surprised
tAN' '''1Ae-r " II totAli I'LL y Low titi YOU
know?" Know WHAT" said Why,
about Mary Anne" sad, 7 don't
know anything about Mary Anne Cmy
wife,. N"Ihen what brought you home
at PRESENT." Il can hardly tell you. [
seemed to want to cone home But
what is wrong?" asked She told me
that my wife had been rua over by cab
and been most seriously injured about
an boar ago, and she h&d called Tor me
ever since, but was nov, in fits, end had
several in succession went upstairs,
and though very i'll SIZE recognized me-,
and stretched forth haf arms and took
me round the neck an6.pulled M head
down into her bosom, The fits, passed
away directly, and mTypresence, seem
to tzanqulliZe her, sun that she got into
sleep and did well. Her sister told NE
that she uttered the most piteous cries
for me to come to hen, although there
was not the least likelihood of MY com
ing. This short narrative has, only one
merit, it is strictly true.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-03-18
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NEWS OF THE WEEK SUMMARIZED.
General Grant Worse,

q The Medical Record of the 18th says: The
8 Intensive process in the anterior Pillar has,
since the consultation, extended to the adjoin-
ling sisspf the tongue, and the bride of tissue
4 bounding the perforaton of the anterior pillar
4 internally gave way Wednesday and Thursday
the patient was in reasonably comfort
able state. His temperature normal and
pulse regular but he was suffering
somewhat from the effects of insom
MIA His digestion is good, and serni-sollid
food taken easily and with reasonable relish.
He suffers no pain. In face of all these gener-
al symptoms, the local difficulty has markedly
increased and parts in the vicinity of the: ul-
cerations are becoming more infltrated
An associated press dispatch of the 18th says:
Gen. Grant went to bed early on Wednesday
might, but he did not fall asleep until nearly
midnight. He suffered considerably from a
q pain in his right ear The alterations in his
throat had also taken on more angry appear
ance and cocoaine was used again to allay the
+ pain The infltration is extended to
The deep seated tissue, and the disease
is spreading with more rapidity than
lit has shown for some time. In the even
ing he ate quite heartily of food, but did not
have any appetite. He tried to be cheerful and
appear in good spirits, but it was evidently
done by an effort Of WILL and did not express
his feelings, which, on account Of the severe
pain were not pleasant,
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-03-18

Nh. Spinks: 81 had such q beauti-.
full dream last naght, Miss Briggs!
thought [ was IN the Garden of Eden
~" Miss Briggs with simplicity;
"And did Eve appear as she is general
y represented, Mr.. Spinks?" Mr.,
Spinks Gill didn't look w--
Punch.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-20

tary Lamar will have been a year
in Office many frauds will have
been discovered and done away with.
The Interior Department will rival in cor
ruption the Navy Department, and the
evils are of far more serious nature.
Already the country has seen the con-
dition of the navy, and the gross manner
in which jobs were got, got that money
might be made out OF the Government,
and not that the country might have a
powerful and efficient navy; while the
showings in the Interior Department are
equally as bad, and from recent dis
closures as to the way in which importers
have their goods undervalued, ii
looks as though there was some
thing materially wrong in the
Treasury Department and the De-
partment OF State. But as time goes on
no doubt all these things will be looked
into, and necessary and beneficial re-
forms introduced Surely with the Dem
ocracy in power once more and the "Con-
federacy in the saddle again." all affairs
and departments of the Government will
receive a much needed overhauling, and
one that can only result in good to the
whole country
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-20
The Buttermilk Boom.

1t has been discovered that buttermilk
in remarkable degree satisfies the crav-
ing for strong drink, and enables a man
to endure fatigue in warm weather better
than any other drink he can use. The
proprietor of a bar, who disposes OF over
a dozen pailfuls daily, says it is remarka-
BILE how quickly the appetite for it in
creases after the first glass. He thinks it
is destined to destroy more drinking than
ST. John and his Prohibitionists can ever
do. 81 have" said he, studied chem
istry since We took to selling buttermilk
and know that Tactic acid is one of the
chief agents that gives acidity to the
gastric juice OF the stomach in health.
This is the acid of sour milk, and, there
fore, one OF the best summer diet drinks
that one can use is buttermilk. ."-LoR-
caster Pa J Era
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-20
Pooling With the Typewriter,

A spirited young lady OF this city is re-
ported to have summarily ended an in
terested and promising love match,
simply because her adored young man
insisted on conducting his part of the cor
respondence with the aid of typewriter
She declared she could easily read his
manuscript, and did not propose to file
away any more machine-made love let
ters. There is indeed something cold, un-
sympathetic in friends letter that has
been ground out of typewriter 1t lacks
individuality, suggests the printed cir
cular. No doubt the typewriter, in the
hands of an adept, expedites business,
but some men will spend more time fool
ing with the apparatus, and afterward
attaching their names to the awkwardly
constructed lines in order to make people
think they employ correspondence
clerk, than if they were to sit down, pen
in hand, and dash off the little message
they wish conveyed.-Cincinnati Com
nercial Gazette.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-20
BEGINNING TO MOVE.

The Government officers whose duty it
is to enforce the provisions of the fence
law OF February %, 1885, are beginning
to move. The first ranchman ordered to
clear away his fences enclosing public
and is one NJ McMullen, OF Colorado.
He had some $4,000 acres fenced in,
and when the L. S. Marshal went to
arrest him for contempt OF court in
not removing his fences when ordered, he
resisted the Marshal and was shot in the
leg in consequence. His case will serve
as warning and an example to others
who are doing the same thing that he has
been doing.
The gentleman who is at the head OF
the Department having control of these
matters is so quiet and retiring in his man
ner, so unostentatious in performing his
duties, that people forget him almost. More
has been done since last March to
correct the evils and abuses which have
grown up with the land system than for
twenty years prior thereto. The Presi
dent has issued the necessary orders to
bring about this reform, but Secretary
Lamar made the investigations and
brought out the facts. Yet Secretary
Lamar is the man of whom it was said by
all who we're hostile to the Administra-
ton, that he was too feeble in health to
attend to the duties of his Department,
and even were it not, that he
was too much of the Southern
type and character to be vigorous in the
management OF his Department. In say
ing that he was of the Southern type the
idea was meant to be conveyed that he
was of that ideal type that Northerners
imagine Southern gentlemen to be--that
is, gentlemen of wealth and culture; the
most graceful and polished of hosts mag
unanimous and brave, but withal indolent
and somewhat negligent, preferring
that things should take care of
themselves rather than to take care of
them. Secretary Lamar has all the graces
and accomplishments attributed to South
ern gentlemen, but none OF that luissez-
fare nature, as the French SO nicely term
it, that has been attributed to him. 1t
was he'who first brought to notice the
leases OF the cattlemen in Indian Terri
tory, although his name has not been
much seen in connection with the
matter, but only the Presidents, who
issued the orders for removal; but in
nothing has the President shown
his wisdom more than in the
selection of his Cabinet. Before Secre-
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-20
Songs OF the Republicans-"They Are
Seven.

1t has been said that all possible plots
OF plays or novels may be reduced to six
or seven elementary motives. FROM an
attentive perusal of Republican criticisms
of the Administration, we are led to be-
lieve that to be successful at present a
Republican newspaper writer needs to
make himself master of only six or seven
subjects-seven only in case his journal
publishes a Sunday edition. The order
may be changed, but these six subjects
will last through the week and the month.
For instance:
l. The Apotheosis of Treason.
:. Sham Reform.
3. John Roach, or the Martyr of Protec-
ton.
4. The Postmaster at Meridian.
3. Where are the Rascals?
6. Hypocritical Democratic Civil Service
Reform.
Z. HIGGINS.
If desired, No. may be used in place
of either or all of the others.-Nebr York
San
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-20
FOR PRINCIPLES SAKE.

Last nights Ne,cs contained a long
leader entitled ''Do not judge in ad-
vance" wherein it endeavors to show
why people should not seek TO say what
will be the course or conduct OF men
now under indictment when they shall
stand before the Court for trial. From
the general tenor of the article, one would
infer that there is strong disposition
among some who are indicted to obey the
law and abandon their religion, as the
News terms it. 1t partly presents both
sides OF the picture, showing what men
will have to suffer if they live their re-
ligion and go to prison, and also what
cravens they wouldbe to abandon their
families The whole picture is drawn
from the Ne,cs' stand point, but it makes
one remark that should not pass un-
needed. In speaking OF those who have
promised obedience to the law in future,
or who may promise such obedience it
says:
''The only solace that the renegade
from faith and family can bring to his
wilted soul is the fact OF his freedom from
Imprisonment. But at what price is
this immunity purchased! TO save his
precious self he casts adrift the wife who
has given him her hearts affection while
in the bloom OF youth, and has borne him
children. Toward her he performs an act
of surprising cruelty, for, if she be true
to her nature, the abandonment consigns
her to the Shiny cavern of despair. He
avoids the consequences of an Internal
law himself, and lets its malignant
results fall upon the head OF a
helpless victim, whom he had
sworn to protect, love and cherish. "
A terrible thing truly, is it not? But
how are those men TO he characterized
who, to save themselves, permit their
wives to go to jail for contempt of court
when word from these same men could
save them? Ii it is alleged that the
women who 90 to jail under these cir
cumstances are not the wives of these
men who are charged with violating the
Edmunds law, then if these men were
men, would they not step forward and tell
these women to answer the questions
For what principle do they allow weak
women to go to jail when word from
them might save these women? Is there
difference in the degree OF infamy that
will cause q man to abandon a woman to
the world to save himself and that will
cause him TO let her suffer imprison-
ment that he may go free? There
may be, but it is SO fine that
human ken has never discovered, it.
1t sounds very pathetic to talk about a
Il mans casting ''adEift the wife who has
given him her hearts affections while in
the bloom OF youth, - but what OF those
eases, numerous cases, too, where men
have practically east the wives of their
youth off when those wives have lost the
bloom that was the charm and pride OF
their youth, for another who is in the full
flush OF that youth, and whose maiden
cheeks have that bloom which the Ne,rs
speaks of 50 pathetically? Men should
be deprived OF the license OF abandoning
ut their own sweet wills the wives from
whose cheeks the bloom OF youth is gone,
no mattor under what principle they may
claim the right. The Netcs' picture is
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-20
CORRESPON
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s
d a. N x.
UTAH.
SALT LAKE CITY, :

General Banking Business Transacted
Foreign and Domestic Exchange bought and
sold.
Special attention given to the purchase and
sale of ores and bullion.
Returns for collections promptly made at cur
rent rates.
Telegraphic transfers made and commercial
and travellers credits issued, available in the
principal cities OF the world
Having in addition to our Bank correspond
entS, an Express Agency in almost every
town West of the Rocky Mountains, affords us
special facilities for making collections and
executing commissions
Accounts of Banks and Bankers, mercantile
and manufacturing firms, corporations, min
ing companies, stock growers and individual
received on favorable terms.
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-02-21

80 you don't believe In ialrles.
a did not answered Mr.. Thompson,
humbly. "But how did you know"
ooh, | was riding past on big June
bug, and heard you deny our existence. |
bumped the bug against your hat and
tried to knock it of, but it was no go"
answered the sprite.
care you fay" asked Mr.. Thompson,
with some hesitation.
"Puck," was the short answer. Then
he continued, malicousIy, "Pll make you
believe in fairies before I get through with
you"
ooh, don't trouble yourself" said Mr..
Thompson, showing some alarm, and pre-
pairing to rise.
"No trouble at all, assure you" was
Puck's answer, given with mock polite
ness. "Don't go away" he added; "your
feet are asleep, so don't disturb them"
Sure enough both of his feet were asleep.
Just then large moth came flying past,
and Puck jumped lightly on its back.
Grasping It's long antenne like pair of
reins, he drove the frightened insect back
and forth under Mr.. Thompson's nose,
brushing that portion of the poor gentle
mans face with the great downy wings;
finally Mr.. Thompson began to sneeze.
With triumphant laugh Puck sprang to
the ground, and cried, "Now I've given
you fine cold in the head to remember
me by; perhaps after while you will be-
lieve in fairies" and the little rascal
rolled on the turf, and laughed loud and
long at his mischief.
The katydids struck up lively strain,
and long procession of fairies appeared
from among the trees. Some were walk
ing, others were flying on their gossamer-
like wings, while others still came mount
ed on night moths and beetles; and one,
who from his appearance Mr. Thompson
judged to be Puck's brother, swooped down
on the back of bat. Puck paid no at
tention to the newcomers, but continued
to laugh, when the fairy Queen stepped
from the throng, and struck him sharply
with her sceptre,
Glow now, madcap? Did we not give
strictest orders that no mortal should be
present at our feStivaI?"
Puck sprang to his feet with most
innocent expression on his face.
I 81 y IN l,I ,,>rk .-
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-02-21


II have given him token to keen N.
in his head"
"Of what hnd?D
"a most mighty cold. # you could
but hear him sneeze!p and the misebievoD.
Puck again went off into fit of laughter.
In the mean time the other sprite had
not been idle, but had collected numbe,
of large and ravenous mosquitoes alone
the shore of the lake, and now LET Them
loose around Mr.. Thompson's head Thew
at once set to work, and when poor Mr.
Thompson tried to defend himself against
their attacks, he found to his horror that
his hands as we'll as his feet were asleep.
The Queen saw his predicament and
ordered one of her attendants to drive the
offending insects away. Then half
dozen stout young knights, armed with
lance and sword, sprang upon the backs Of
their winged steedS, and soon the mos
quitoes were impaled upon their spears.
The Queen then turned toward the author
Of the mischief
"You, too!' she exclaimed, severely.
"You and your unruly brother shall pay
for this nights sport by guiding this poor
mortal home, and thereby lose your share
in our merry making"
Mr.. Thompson felt sorry for the two
rascals, and besides he wished to witness
the fairies dance; so he made bold 10
speak.
"Ifyou would kindly permit, he said
politely, ~ should like to remain; then
these two little fellows, who | am sure
meant me no harm, can take part in The
festivities"
The Queen bowed graciously, and The
katydids, who had been silent, struck uP'
lively tame. The fairies danced, and Puck
and his brother joined the circle.
How long this lasted Mr.. Thompson
could not tell. He was startled Oy QUO
deep croak Of a bull frog, followed w.
warning cry from an owl that had pee.
watching the proceedings from n0'"
tree.
"Another mortal, " cried the fairies; , .r
in second they had vanished. Ins e. e..
dds had resumed their monotonoos 'D-
ing, and only Puck and his OFo'nS' v
left with Nj. ThmpsOn.
Mr.. Thompson sprang to his ''7
r.,...J Al -. / IL "a, IL oplnnD
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-02-21
,rr. Thompson and the Fairies.
BY ALLAN F0RMAN.


nWhy, tell you, fairies are an impossi-
bility. They can't exist, and | thought
that the idea was expl oded and dismissed
from the minds of sensible people years
ago"
"Why can't they EXIST" inquired
young man, who was about the only one
among the summer boarders who dared
combat the old bachelor.
Why?" repeated Mr.. Thompson.
"Why, because they can't, and because they
don't. Every strange circumstance for
merly charged to fairies can now be traced
to natural causes" replied Mr.. Thompson,
loItily, as he left the piazza for his evening
walk. "Fairies -" he muttered, as he
walked along" fairies! pooh! redculous!o
mr.. f'homFaUn IN no very good
I'll mor The boarders had begun dis
lssion about fairies, and Mr.. Thompson
had taken all they had said in earnest, and
had combatted their theories vigorously; f.
nally he lost his temper, and left in disgust.
He walked down the road until he came to
d grove which bordered a tiny lake. When
he reached the edge Of the water he seated
himself on fiat stone, and watched the
ripples silvered in the moonlight, with
the water-lillies, closed for the night
floating to and fro on the surface, and here
and there lily that remained open shining
slike white star among the green leaves.
Now and then frog would croak, and the
lkatydids kept up a continual chipping.
After a time his attention was attracted by
the katydds, which did not seem to be
making their monotonous cry, but were
playing regular tune lie listened in
tendy, and could distinguish the time of a
march. Just then the frogs in chorus
croaked prolonged roll-call, which was
followed by the bugle-call by whip-poor-
will up in the tree. He bad hardly com
menced to account for these strange
proceedings when small figure appeared,
Or rather bounced upon the little space of
turf on MIR. Thompson's left. re was a
queer-looking little fellow, dressed in a
tight-6tting suit of green, and with a
most mischicyons expression on his face.
Iie came over and seated himself on a
toadstool opposite to Mr.. Thompson, and
Arkansas ladies' journal. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1884-1886, 1885-02-21
continued

statement, and the Queen continual
laughing,
"Think you he is cured of his unbeIiefY
II have given him token to keen me-
in his head
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-12-26
CONDENSED TELEGRAMs.

Rev. Downs, of Boston, has made q
legal demand for possession Of his church,
and, being refused, will institute proceed
ings.
Ben Blanchard. the real estate dealer,
who left Terre Haute, Ind, about three
months ago, leaving debts variously esti.
mated from $4,000 to 100000, arrived
home Thursday and gave himself up.
Dorlin F. Clapp, Peekskill, N. T.,
bank president, died suddenly in his chair
while talking with friend.
The business block on Front street
Cincinnati, occupied by the Western Paint
and Roofing Company, and by N. Erhsrt
Jr, & Co, patent roofeIs, burned; loss,
$4,000.
The Fisk University Jubilee Singers
(colored) were refused ho!el accommoia'
tlons at Troy, N. Y.
There is evidence that special policemen
headed gangs of repeaters in the last cleo
ton in Cincinnati.
George F. and Samuel Work, two Phila.
delphis brokers, have been found guilty OF
q conspiracy to defraud the Peoples Pss'
sepger Railway company.
1t is ruled by the Land Commissioner
that lands occupied by actual settlers or
held under claims Of record are excepted
from railroad grants and withdrawal
The abolitionists Of Brazil are demand
ing the immediate and unconditional free
dom of the slaves, and the Emperor is With
them in sentiment. He advises the execu
ton of the law passed in 1871, which pro
vided that children born Of slave mothers
after that date should be Tree.
At Orlando, Florida, EDoch Carter shot
and killed l. D. Beasley, policeman.
The foreign markets for breadstufs con
tinue in 8 very unsatisfactory condition.
The decision in the Atlanta election
case was against the liquor men, who vii
appeal.
An Ell Paso Tex. dispatch states tha
in fight between Indians and voluDteHI
eleven savsges were killed and thirty thre'
horses captured.
A national convention Of third snc
fourth class postmasters will be held il
Chicago, February 10. The leading Oh
iect is payment By the Government 70
rent, light aud fuel for third and fourtl
class post Offices.