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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-12-30
Weather.

The lowest temperature at various
sections of the country was as follows
during the week ending December ~,
1SS5-Saturday excepted-thc six
observations being taken at ten
o'clock P. M, by the U. s. weather
observers
10 O'CLOCK p NJ. OBSERVATION,
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-12-30

Children seem especially prone to com.
plants OF the bowels. A seyen-year.old
boy of Mrs. Harriet Orr. OF Lancaster
Pa, was troubled In that way, and a
neighbor advised her to use Mishler's
Herb Bitters. She gave him teaspoon.
ful every time his bowels were moved
The pain was soon checked, and in a short
time the little fellow was enjoying good
health.
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Lumber-1884.5.

We have full reports of the amount
of lumber, lath and shingles manufac-
tured at the eleven city saw mills and
five city single mills this year. The
amount Of lumber manufactured was
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CITY Bonds.

The undersigned, Comptroller of the city of AL
pena, county of Alpcna, State of Michigan, will
receive until February 1886, sealed proposals for
the purchase at par Of ten Thousand dollars in
bonds to be issued by the city of Apena to dofray
the expense Of erecting bridge across Thunder
Bay River in said city. The party Offering TO take
the bonds at the lowest rate of interest shall be
considered the lowest bidder The bonds arc 10 be
in the sum Of five hundred dollars EACH numbered
from to twenty inclusive, and payable $4,000 in
Ave years. $1,000 in six years, 600 in years
$1,000 in eight years and 81 coo in nine years. In
tercst payable annually on the LIST day of August
Of each year, at Alpena, Detroit or New York, at
the option of bidder. Bonds payable August LIST
Of the year of their maturity.
Valuation Of taxable property in city 1910 $50.
Number OF inhabitants in city, 10000 The city
has no Indebtedness.
j. ID. TURNBULL,
Comptroller city of Alpena
Dated December 22nd, 1885.
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Annual Meeting of the Agricultural
Society.

The annual meeting of the Alpena
County Agricultural Society for the
election of board of directors and
for such other business rs may proper
ly come before the meeting, will be
held at the office of w. +. Rogers,
Secretary, on Saturday, January 9th,
1886, at 2 o'clock p. M. Every mem.
Der of the society is earnestly re-
quested to be present.
w. T.. ROGERS.
Secretary.
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Annual Election.

ALpESA NATIONAL BASK.
Alpena, Mich, Dec. 2ist, 1885.
The annual election for directors of
this bank, will be held at its banking
house, on Tuesday, January 18th,
1886, between the hours of II A. NJ.
and II M.-twelve o'clock noon.
JOHN G.. COMFORT.
Cashier.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1885-12-30

I had Q severe attaok OF catarrh, and
became SO deaf / could not hear commqn
conversation. suffered terribly from
roaring In my head. procured q bottle
OF Ely's Cream Balm, and In three weeks
could hear as well as ever could, and
now can say to all who are afflicted
with the worst OF diseases, catarrh, take
one bottle Of Ely's Cream Balm and be
cured. 1t Is worth 81 200 to any man,
woman or Child suffering from catarrh.-
A. e. Newman, graylIng, Mich.
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ALPENA WEEKLY ARGUS.
wednesday, Dec. 30, 1885.

The small pox is about over at
Montreal.
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Board of Education.

The Board Of Education Of the City OF
Alpena met in regular session in the Secre-
tary', Office on Wednesday evening, Deccm-
Der 23id, 1885, and was called to order at
8 o'clock by the President.
PREsENr.-Andrcw IIarshaw, President ;
John S. McVicar, Secretary, and Trustees
Dewey, Maltx, Mellen, Wagner, Bruno and
Racette.
Journal OF session held December 9th,
1885, read and approved.
COMMUNICATIONS.
From James Malcolm, asking the Board
to grant him the privilege Of using one Of
the rooms in the Central building to
hold night sessions in.
Received and ordered placed on file.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
From the Finance Committee, recon-
mending the payment of the following
bills:
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Detroit, Bay City & Alpena R.R.
Time Table No. @.
TRAINS ooIsG SOUTH. TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Mail and Express. Mail and Express.

All trains run by the Ninetieth Meridian on Gen.
trail Standard time.
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Moved by Mr.. Dewey that the report be
accepted and warrants be ordered drawn
for the payment of the several bills as rec
commended. Carried by vote as follows
Ayes-Dewey, Maltz, Mellen, Wagner,
Bruno and Racette. Nays-None.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The following proposals were received
for furnishing 200 cords of wood:
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co sum P.TI0N

have positive remedy for the above disease; by Its use
thousands OF Of the worst kind stsndns
have been cured Indeed strong faith in is sesey
that will send TWO BOTTLES FREE together with VAL
UABLE TREATISE this disease any sufferer Give
and r. o. address, DR. T. A. eLoCuh, Isl Pearl st., N.Y.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-30
British Breeding.

The other day q young and very
pretty woman, with eyes OF the kind
supposed to be able TO melt the typical
ice, was on the point of stepping into
an omnibus where only one seat was
left, A wel-dressed, well-got-up man
of about 80 pushed her rudely aside as
he sprang up the steps and took the
vacant place. At another time, on
coming out of the theater while the
people were waiting just inside the
door for their carriages and cabs, a
man lighted a cigar and blew the
smoke into the face of lady standing
there with q friend. She made q ges-
ture Of repugnance, when the man
said, Gentlemen may smoke here.
You may smoke here, but you can
not be a gentleman if you do, ~ said
the lady-one Of these not easily put
down.
The annoyances to which young wo-
men travelling alone are often subjected
IS again by no means q proof that our
politeness is intrinsic. II lady meets
an ordinary young Englishman who
does not know her, she meets someone
who does not hold her worthy of polite
ness. who does not 60 out of his way
to show her any. Ii she is pretty be
stares at her, perhaps smiles, perhaps
speaks; if she pc Of no personal attract.
iyeness, and has only her womanhood
as her claim, he leaves her emphatical-
" TO herself. Whatever she may be
about to do-to pass through a Door
way, enter 4 railway carriage, or an
omnibus, or lift he pushes past her,
though no one is hurried for time, and
lets her follow meekly after. The elder
men are more courteous. They retain
still q certain favor OF the stately old
times when manners were part Of a
gentlemans education, and politeness
was one Of the points Of distinction be-
tween q courtier and a boor The Lon
don queen
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-30

THE court paid him was merely n
form of superciious condescension
which wealth and birth sometimes
amuse themselves by layishing on wit
and parts.
..Self-interest he had found to be the
kew of human action.
The world doesn't give its whole
heart to the ravisher Gifts favors."
Ale was sensitive to the proprieties
as only those are who take on refine
ment through oxtraneous teachings. -
"A self-made man, he secretly
adored the coud itions and heredita
ments that no genius, 10 Efforts can at
tain.
HE worshiped money. and painted
for the precedence it gives in a new
society, where character is slow in pro-
ducing its due influence.
The spear OF truth is singularly
blunt before the armor Of egot,sm and
habit engendered by social rivalries
and human frlilty.
In a large city a man is sometimes
well thought of even if he cannot pro-
duce tree exhibiting revolutionary or
Mayhower ancestry; in the Valedos-
neyern'-NdrimS from Tile M.Rey-
Makers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-30

w. L.. EalltlIan.
Il. ". Patterson, VI. u
J.TB. vivian, w. ID,

nFFGCE opposite Pulford's Drug Store, High St.
NJHogrs from to ga. m and TO 5 p. m. In
Office nights, 23tf
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-30
Eminent Smokers.

1enuyson, according to CARLYLE,
'foats in and out in a great ell
ement of tobacco smoke, wide.
breezy, comfortable figure of a man
not easy to waken, but great when he
is once aroused. " Carlyle's own pipe
went with him to the end Doctor"
he said in his later days, when at some
health resort he had called in the local
Esculapius, ''I'll do anything We say.
but We maun ma TAX away my pipe. -
When he was usher at AMMAN he suf-
fercd, as he always did, from dyspep-
STA He went forty miles to consult a
doctor OF great local fame, who told
him to stop smoking He stopped sew
eral months. but it produced no effect
upon his malady, so he took up his
abandoned pipe again. Il found, - he
said, "that might as well have put
my woes into the long, hairy, hollow
ear of the great jackass | met as to
have ridden forty miles to consult that
Doctor" Bismarck always smoked
like Nesuyius until the inlirmities of
advancing years compelled him to
exercise a certain discretion, but even
now Iudt nc lHS IltSSGu HIS fUtu Dlfun-
day lie is rarely seen outside of official
hours and spaces without huge por-
celain pipe, with its stem yard long,
hanging against his waistcoat 1t is
plain enough that tobacco has been as
ISOLATED with some of the highest prac-
teal speculation and imaginative work
which has been done in the world since
twas discovered, and if it could be
brought face to face with its enemies in
some court qualified to sit in Judgment
on its case it would doubtless have a
good deal TO say for itself. ~ Broobiyn
EGgle
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-30

The peculiar and striking beauty Of
the variegatcd marble of Tennessee
has arrested the attention of builders
in every part of the United States.
Not only is it now used for ornament
ing buildings, both public and private,
but it is largely consumed in the man
ufacture OF furniture. This marble
exists in great abundance in the coun-
ties of Hawkins, Hancock, Granger,
Jefferson, Knox, Roanc, Blount, Mon
roe, McMinn and Bradley in East Ten
nessee, and in Franklin, Moore and
Maury, in Middle Tennessee, and Hem
ry and Benton, in West Tennessee.
The best, however that of the finest
grain and susceptible of the highest
polish-is found in East Tennessee.
Fashion rules in the shades of the coll
oring. When the colors are blended
into each other in the stone it is re-
iected for fine work The most pop
ular is where the white spots are dis
tinctly outlined on 4 ground of red
or yariegated, and quarries of this kind
are considered extremely valuable.
The variation of cOlorlng is infinite.
DR.. Jernagin collected for the Bureau
of Agriculture nearly 100 varieties, all
differing in the arrangement of colors.
This industry is developing rapidly.
Five years ago there were but four or
five quarries in East Tennessee. The
Industrial Rcuiel0, at Knoxville, now
reports forty. And this rapid increase
IS due to increased demand. 1t now
commands a price % per cent greater
than the white Italian marble, and is
used for every purpose for which that
celebrated marble is used except sculp-
ture. -NashU8ie (IcHn.) AmertcaR.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-30
w. Eastman, VI. ID.

DHYNoIAN AND SURGEON, Mineral Point, Wis
ONCE in drug store
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-30
County omeers.
The Tribune DIRECTORY.
PHYSICIANS
II. parnlley. VI. u,

/ | OMEoPATluC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
| oflco at the residence Of Joseph Parmley, Milf
Gin, Wis. Office hours 20 II a. m, and to- p. m.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-30

DuYstcIAN AND SURGEON oace in Len.
ahan's block, up stairs. first door to left. Resi-
dence first door west from NJ E. Church Mineral
Point. Wis.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-30
Note This.

s. 7, Osborne, teacher of music,
will be in Mineral Point at all times
excepting Tuesdays and Fridays.
4l-tf
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-16

HISTORICAL.

ACCORDING to Roman marriage
custom the bride, on her entry into her
husbands house, was prohibited from
treading over his threshold, and lest she
should even so much as touch it, she was
always lifted over it.
In Boston, in old times, those who
lost parents wore mourning for three
years, and widows never left it off. The
dead were carried 10y bearers, and must
be borne past the town house or
through portion of the main street.
ONE of the first virtues taught the
knight, which has greatly influenced
modern warfare, was pity for his enc
my. 1t was common phrase that O
warrior without pity was without wor-
ship. In all the wars of chivalry, says
the historian of Brittany, true soldiers
never injure the tillers of the soil"
The Romans possessed the germs OF
international law in their "fecial rules"
or religious customs, recognized by the
various Italian States in their early his
tory, in regard to declaring war and
other duties between States. 1t was
something that band of priests could
restrain warriors, and that war could
not be made without legal forms.
THERE is curious law extant in Eng
land in regard to brass buttons. 1t is,
by acts of Parliament passed in three
reigns William Ill, Anne, and George
L., illegal for tailor to make, or man
to wear, clothes with any other buttons
appended thereto but buttons of brass.
The law was put in force for the bene-
fit of the button makers of Birming-
ham.
A FORM of superstition very common
in days gone by was the supposed infiu-
ence OF the evH eye, being designated
by the terms Overlooked, "firelooked,"
or "eye-bitten," certain persons being
thought to possess the power ofjinfict-
ing injury by merely looking upon those
whom they wished to harm. This piece
of folk lore may be traced back to the
Romans.
The Ham Citadel is celebrated po-
litical prison in the town of Ham,
France. 1t was built Iii 1470. The
central tower is 100 feet high and the
walls are thirty-six feet thick. Many
noted prisoners have been confined
there, among others Louis Napoleon,
who, after his failure in Boulogne in
1910, remained here for six years, until
he succeeded in making his escape.
The Glastonbury Thorn was haw-
thorn which once grew at Glastonbury,
Somersetshire, England, tabled to have
sprung from the staff which Joseph of
Arimathea stuck in the ground. The
tradition is that it blossomed every
Christmas Day; and so highly priced
were the blossoms that they were ex-
ported by merchants of Bristol to foreign
parts. In the time of Queen Elizabeth
one trunk of the double-bodied tree was
cut down by some Puritans, and in the
reign of Charles l. the other was de-
| stroyed.
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supply" when her slender figure and
wan face attracted his attention. He
took the story, telling her he had not
time to read it then, but il she would
leave her name he would look it over.
She gave her address and left, per-
formed her errand and went home.
Matte and her mother were very
busy, even the younger ones assumed
little responsibilities, and all were o.
busy as bees
Day after day passed till there were
only two before Christmas. Matte had
been to the Office time and time again,
but no word from her story. She had
almost given it up, when, one evening
about dusk, as she was taking some
sewing home to lady on Summit
avenue, she thought she would try
once more. There was no need to give
her name, for as soon as her eager face
appeared, q large envelope was handed
her, and Matte knew she had received
her doom. The stores were beginning
to be lighted and people were hurryinp
to and fro with suspicious-lookine
bundles; an air of mystery prevailed
No one was more mysterious than
Matte as she made her way through
the jostling crowd. She went straigh,
to her room, lighted her candle, and
opened her letter; when, what should
fall to her feet but two new crisp So
bills! Her happiness was unbounded
her plans could all be carried out.
And what merry Christmas they
had. Johnnie scrambled out of bed as
ha he
to see what Santa Claus had brought
him; when the first thing that caught
his eyes was pair of red-topped boots
Just like those he saw in the window,
he said. And there was book TO,
Madge, mittens for Amy, new dress
for Matte, and fancy bags of popcorn
and candy for them all. There was nc
more sleep in the Van Wyck house
hold that morning. Mrs. Van Wycl
was putting on her last shoe, when she
uttered little scream and they all rar
/ to see what was the matter. When she
examined it she found something rolled
up in tissue paper which she had sup
! posed was a sly little mouse. Undoine
the paper So bill rolled out; then they
all clapped their hands and showed
each other their presents.
When dinner time came, their mother
said she had surprise for them. They
all sat down to the table. She wen
into the kitchen and brought in a fine
roasted turkey; and they peeped under
snowy napkin, and there was large
| frosted cake, with frosted raisins OF
| top. They were a happy family that
day, and no one in the whole town was
as radiant as Matte Van Wyck; for she
had found out that Where there's {
! will there's a way" Chicago Ledger
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Shells That Travel.

The great conch or strombus has a
veritable sword that it thrusts out,
sticks into the ground, and by muscular
efforts jerks itself along. making de-
cided leap. The squids-that are the
brightest forms of mellusks-leap en-
tirely clear of the water, often several
feet. They are the ink-bearers, and
from their ink-bag comes the sepia used
by artists, while their bone is the cutie
fish bone of commerce. Many of the
cookies have method of flying through
the water that is quite novel. They
are generally beautifully colored, and
have long, streaming tentacles, and
suddenly, without warning, they dart
up from the bottom, and by violent
opening and shutting of their valves
they rush away, with their long, reddish
hair streaming after them, presenting a
very curious appearance. The shell
known as the Lima Mans is particularly
remarkable for these flights, and all the
scallops are jumpers and leapers.
When placed in boat they have been
known to leap out, and the ordinary
scallop has been known TO jump out Of
pot when placed upon stove. --Reho-
10th Mass. Herald.
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japanese Animals.

Some of the animals in Japan are
quite different from the same spe-
cies which are seen in America. The
cats, for instance, have the shortest
kind of tails, or else none at all. Being
deprived of this usual plaything, they
are very solemn pussies. An Ameri-
can once took one of these tailless cats
to San Francisco as curiosity, and it
utterly refused companionship with the
long-tailed feline specimens there; but,
finding cat whose tail had been cut
off by accident, the two became friendly
at once. japanese dogs are almost
destitute Of noses, having the nostrils
set directly in the head. The smaller
the nose. the more valuable the breed.
The goldfish of that country have re-
markedly wide aud beautiful tails, which
look like lace. 1t is said that $1,000
was offered by New York gentleman
for the first pair which could be brought
to that city alive, but repeated attempts
have proved that the fish cannot stand
the voyage across the Pacific.
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THE Legislature reassembed. after nearly a
weeks recess, on. Wednesday. the sth inst Both
houses spent the day In committee OF the whole
not enough members being present to take mp
the third reading OF bi Is. The SEN
ate passed the ~ House aSst,tusions Of learn.
ing, being especially desi ned 70 ad-
NIT of q union of the two Detroit medical ooi-
leges. The bill to make the possession OF game
or fish during the close season prima facie evi.
dence OF the illegal capture OF tne sam w.
ney General In the House the Governor noted
his approval OF acts amending the Mn kegon
charter: amending the Bay City charter; organ
ling Iron County: incorporating the pubic
schools OF Bangor, Bay County: IN orporatins
the East saginaw Board OF Education
In the Senate the following bills were passed
on the 9th inst: Incorporating the councils OF
Royal Templars; authorizing Jackson Coun-
ty Supervisors and Agricultural Society
70 sell grounds; amending section Gss,,n:
to be used in judicil proceedings
In the House the following bills were passed :
Abolishing the office of Swamp-land and Road
Commissioner; authorizing the Kent Agrcu,-
tural Society TO dispose OF certain property;
TO pension Detroit firemen; to secure the
doors OF the Girls Industrial Home At
Adrian; amending the Grand hapdr
school act; requiring Prosecuting Attor-
neys to furnish the Attorney General with state
the Supreme Court: amending section 6O7s.
Howell, relative to the organization OF town
ship boards of inspectors: defining the quailn-
cations OF deputy sheriffs; 70 Irotect ana de-
fend acts in notices OF seton; the pili PUNISH
ing by castration oufrages on children, WAS
amended by making the crime punishable by
death. The amended at was then defeated.
and the question indefinitely postponed
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-04-16
Detection OF OIeomarrarine.

DIR. Thomas Taylor, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, reports a series OF
experiments with oleomargarine of diff
ferent fats, using variety of acids to
ascertain what permanent change OF
color would take place by oxidation,
etc. OF the various acids employed
sulphuric acid gave the most satisfacto-
nv results. The test is very simple
one. If few drops of sulphuric acid
be combined with small quantity oil
pure butter, the butter Will assume firs<
an Opaque whitish yellow color, and
after the lapse Of about ten minutes il
will change to n brick red. Oleomar.
garine made of beef fat and treated in
the same manner changes at first ia
clear amber, and after the lapse oil
about twenty minutes to q deep Grim
son.