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The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
ST. PETERSBURG.
How People Live and Lodge in the Great
 Russian Capital.

How People Live and Lodge in the Great
 Russian Capital.
 The really mysterious element of life in St. Petersburg is one that transcends Western experience. Below the out ward forms of things you enter an at mosphere in which thought seems limit ed by new laws. Out of novel habits, strange customs, hereditary legacies of the intellect in which you have had no share, the fancy makes stair for its as cent into another planet. The differ ences you encounter everywhere are un- hkenesScs not between Aryan and Ar yan, but between Europe and Asia on the one hand, between a new and an old civilization on the other. Readily would the native help you in your bewilder- ments, were it within his power, but the abnormal to you is the normal to him. You call upon him to look, and he sees nothing. Your specters are his thin air, the novelties you italicize his daily commonplace. So that in time your surprise becomes less demonstrative, if not less acute. In time your diary is content to hold the mirror up to nature. ''The Municipal Council, n for example, ''has just fixed the price of bread for the next twelve months. ' "Thc GOlos, punished for improper ten dencies, by an order depriving it for six months of the right to publish advertise ments.' 1.-The authorities about to raise money by imposing tax on all foreign CTS resident in St. Petersburg" Newspapers contain appeals on behalf of poor families in the Capital "A well-known police official purchases the wife of subordinate for ten thousand roubles. "' Newspaper proprietor ex- fled to a northern province for having published a cartoon representing, in a series of nine views, the torments of dog attacked by a wasp, and finally forced to retire into his kennel; the whole without headline, but believed in official circles to be an allusion to the Tsar's enforced retirement to Gatschina." ''Householders warned that the morrow is the 'name-day' of the Empress, and that they must celebrate on the oocasion-that is to say, hang out banners and burn lamps-or pay nedNl p6DdilN. Auu lHuS IL IllIlS oH, this record of events, mere story of familiar experience to the native Rus sian, but to the foreigner a tale of doings in world all other than his own.
 It may be well here to remind the reader that the habit of living in lodg- ings is general in St. Petersburg. So far as Russian life is bivouac, the term lodgings" is aptly used; etymologically it corresponds with the English ''house," or ''hOme," and is therefore without the sense usually associated with it in the West. In the capital q man who lives in his own house occupies little more than corner of it, or sleeps in palace. Some of the richest families are content with lodgings, and but few of them need all the apartments which constitute St. Petersburg flat This is in itself sug- gestive of the scale upon which houses are built in the great Russian cities. But it is all too inadequate as prepara- tion for the statement that St. Peters burg lOdging-house frequently contains as many as a thousand rooms, with a population ot from two to three thou
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
AnMadman,s. I.aracr.

"SireI" exclaimed man in the homely garb of mechanic to Richelieu, Fri 1e Min ister of France, as he was entering his pal. ace: "Sire, have made discovery which sh' I make rich and great the. nation which shaI deyell,opft. Sire, will you give me an
 Richelieu, constantly 1inportuned, finally ordered the " Ihadman" imprisoned. Even in l he did not desist from declaring his "deIus '' which one day attracted the attention of British nobleman, who heard De Cause's story, and developed his discov- cry ,f steam powerl
 All great discoveries are at first derided
 Seven years ago man yet under middle age, enriched by a business which covered the continent, found himself suddenly stricken down. When his physicians said recovery was impossible, he used new dis covery, which, like all advances in science, had been opposed bitterly by the school men. Nevertheless, it cured him, and out of gratitude therefor he consecrated a part of his wealth to the spreading of its merits before the world. Such in brief is the his tory of Warmers safe cure, which has won, according to the testimony of eminent per sons, the most deserved reputation ever ac- corded to any known compound, and which is finally winning on its merits alone the approval of the most conservative practi- tioners- Its fame now belts the globe The Herald.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
NURSERY HINTS.
Directions For Mothers Who Believe That
 Prevention Is Better Than Cure.

Directions For Mothers Who Believe That
 Prevention Is Better Than Cure.
 In recent book by Marion Harland, "Common Sense in the Nursery" she attributes much of the babies sufferings from cold to the placing of the children on the floor to play. She says: ''In the best warmed room there is inevita- bly, current of cooled air close to the floor, in which as baby sits on the carpet his feet are bathed, while his shoulders may overtop it." She considers an- other prolific source of trouble the hold ing of the young monarch close to the window, the air in close proximity to the window panes being several degrees cooler than that further in the room, and more or less draughts through the castings of the window can not be pre- vented.
 Sudden changes from the room used as a nursery to the halls, or rooms with which might be avoided by extra wraps when it is necessary to expose a baby to such change. Flannel night dresses coming below the feet far enough to al low of being drawn tightly at the hem, forming bag, without preventing the baby using his feet with perfect freedom, are onevof the means to prevent eXpo- sure at night. Marion Harland suggests loops on the lower edges of the mat tress, and corresponding buttons on the blankets, as 8 safeguard against expo sure to cold in the night.
 In the daytime have a mattress cov- cred to put on the floor for baby to stretch and roll on, or box with sides not more than five or six inches high, entirely padded on the inside, and large enough to hold the baby and his toys; this, with high baby-chair having table attachment, will prevent hours of suffering, anxiety and toll.
 One wise mother, whose babies are the pictures of health, bundles them up every day as warmly as though they were to go into the outer air, and they are car ried, and allowed to run when large enough, about a room the windows of which are all open. This allows them to nave all the DenenG posSlDle rom outer air when the weather is so in- element that they could not be taken out of doors. These babies rarely have a cold, and when met out of doors in winter they are charming sight. Ap- parently they are clad in such way as to be perfectly proof against cold. Soft woolen dresses and cloaks, hood tied closely under the chin, warm leggins, thick-soled shoes without heels, and, when the snow is on the ground, rubber boots, complete their costume. With red cheeks, shining eyes, and clear, ring ing voices, they are the embodiment of health and happy childhood Christian Union.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
JoHNNY's INoUIsIrIvENEss.
How PrecOcious Youngster Discovered {
 New Kind of Dirt.


 New Kind of Dirt.
 On train up in Wisconsin was a small boy from Chicago and his large mother. They had been visiting some country relatives, and the large mother was evidently afraid the small boy had acquired bad habits and other para sites while playing with his country cousins, for she got his head down upon a newspaper in her lap and held it close to the window, and began to look around in the hair as if she had lost something. Every few seconds Johnny raised his head and inquired in loud voice:
 ''Ala, what you doing?'
 ''Hush, Johnny" his mother whis- pered, ''I am looking for dirt Then Johnny resigned himself to his fate, only to rise up again in few sec onds, and exclaim:
 Ma, do you find any dirt?" ''Sh-h! Lie down, Johnny" was the good mothers reply.
 Twenty seconds passed, and the in quisitive boy bobbed up his head once more, saying:
 Ma, want to see the dirt ''Be still, child, sh-h!'' whispered the industrious matron.
 Down went the little head, but it could not rest in peace. The eyes in it rolled around curiously, and soon it bobbed up again, and the boys gaze fell upon the newspaper.
 ''Say, ma,' said the amazed Johnny, in voice so loud that the passengers all turned to listen.
 ''What, child?'
 ''I say, ma-it's awful queer dirt that's got feet, ain't it?''-ChicGgo Her dld.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

A bad case of it: Several gentle men were talking about love, and Gill hooly said he had an uncle who went crazy on account of the tedder passion. That's nothing!' replied Gus De Smith, my cousin Tom is more in love than any man I ever heard of. ''Is he really in love?'' ''Is he? He is so much in love that he has become letter-car- Tier so he can get to read her letters sooner. Beside, as letter-carrier he knows if she is getting letters from any other feller.-Teras Sitttngs.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

In Iowa gangs of swindlers are working" the farmers in the same way with the "Standard'' mill. In Michigan, especially in the southern counties, agents are busy buying straw stacks for paper mills. They never haggle at prices, but give notes at a generous figure, asking for receipt ito send to their employers to show that they have made purchases. Ofcourse, the paper to which the farmers sigma ture is thus obtained generally turns up a promissory note, left at some bank for collection, or sold to some ''inno- cent" party. The deluded farmer might be worse of, however-he has the straw.-RurdI NetO YorEer.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

An artful minister's wife fractured a mum social the other evening and add ed S147.S3 in fines 10 the church treas ury by casually remarking that she had seen lovely new bonnet up stairs in the dressing room and asking whose it was Every lady in the room responded: ''It', miner and then tbey all said other things, so that thei: husbands had tc borrow car fare to gCt home. -,Somcr silIr Journal
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
wears Teach More Than Books.

Among other valuable lessons imparted
 by this teacher is the fact that for a very long time Dr. Pierce's ''Golden Medical Dis
 covery" has been the prince of liver correct ives and blood purifiers, being the house able consulting physician to the rich patient, and praised by all for it's magnif- cent service and efficacy in all diseases of a chronic nature, as malarial poisoning, ail- ments of the respiratory and digestive sys- tems, liver disease and in all cases where the use of an alternative remedy is indicated.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

A Brooklyn carrier-pigeon, started on fly to Washington, was picked up three hundred miles from land by a ves- sel, taken to Liverpool, and returned to its owner on the return trip of the ves- sel.-Br0okly1s Eagle.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
Facts fnr Families.

In order to cook your hare, you must al ways first catch it.
 It is much easier to catch a cold than to catch hare.
 To get rid of cold, always use Red Star Cough Cure.
 To get Red Star Cough Cure, only re- quires twenty-five cents.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

A short distance from St. Paul is a point where the observer can look into five counties A town has been lately started there, which it is expected will some day rival St. Paul and Minneapo- lis. Chicago Herald.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

HEVoLTAIc BELT Co.,, of Marshall, Mich, offer to send their celebrated ELECTRO VoL- TAG BELT and other ELECTRIC APPLIANCES on trial for 30 days, to men (young or old) afflicted with nervous debility, loss of vital ity and all kindred troubles. Also forrheu- matism, neuralgia, paralysis, and many oth- CT diseases. Complete restoration to health, vigor, ,and manhood guaranteed. No risk in- cured, as 30 days trial is allowed. Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet, free.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

Patents are issued in this country at the rate of six hundred a week, and yet nan who paints his mustache is without any means of concealing de- ception which deceives no one.-AHa- Cdlifor71ia.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
Pile TunnOrs

however large, speedily and painlessly cured without knife, caustic, powder or ointment. Consultation free. Write for pamphlet and references, enclosing two let ter stamps for reply. Worlds Dispensary Medical Association, 665 Main Street, Buf- falo, N. Y.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

-"Gum Corner" is the name given a little cluster of buildings in Byron, Me, which includes two spruce gum fac tories. Each of them sell about five tons of gum annually, and the business brings snug sum of money into the town Boston JosT7sdl.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

DR. TANNER says that with the unaided eye only about five thousand stars can be seen. Dr. Tanner has evidently never been on skates.-Chicalo Il.fer Oceall.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
Delicate Diseases

of either sex, however induced, promptly thoroughly and permanently cured. Send three letter stamps for large illustrated treatise. Worlds Dispensary Medical As sOciation, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

THE faith-cure is gaining many converts around the country, but we are not yet san guine enough about its success to try it on our tailor.-Toledo BLddss
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

"ARE you asleep, babyl' ''Yes, man. ma; and you know the doctor told you not to wake me to give me any medicine. ."-N r. LedQer.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

SwEETMEATs-Sugar- hams.-PhtS- bargh Chronicle TelegrGph.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

SWEDEN is good cattle country, because there the animal never strays, the cattle men always finding their Stockholm.- Folio.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

PIKE's ToorHACHE DROPS cure in minute, 25c GLenn's Sulphur SOdp heals and beautifies. 25c. GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns Bunions,
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

DO YOU enjoy good health. -Sked Cross "Why, yes, of course. Who doesnt" re- piled Ross, tersely.-N r Independent.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

HELLO, Judson, how are youi" Pretty well, thank you" How are you at home" "Wife says I'm rather rumpy."-CofumbHs iSDectdtOr
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

RELIEF is immediate, and a cure sure Piso's Remedy for Catarrh. 50 cents.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

THEY say the Folding Saving Machine is iDlDaeaSe. See advertisement in this paper.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

WHEN silence reigns is it nec;sSary tC carry an umbrella !-PdlHer Journal.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

Too MUCH scratching at the polls makes 6 head feel sore the next day. Hartford Times.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

A PEWTER pot may be made of printers zinc.-PittS5urgh Chronicle.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

THE man who received a tomahawk by express acknowledged that he had queer axe sent.-BOStOn Transcript
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

AN Irishman says he can see no earthly reason why women should not become med ical men.-PhilGdelphid Cal.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

"WHEN the sky falls we shall catch larks," but some men when they are out on larks try to catch the sky.-BOStor Globe.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

A MAN may sometimes not be gifted. and yet have mantel fall on him-a wood mantel.-BUrliRgtoH Free Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

WHAT is the difference between hungry boy and gluttonl One longs to eat and the other eats too long.-Golden Ddys.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

ADVICE to butchers-If a man refuses to pay his bill for rmutton-suet.-Chiea Tri6-
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

THERE is field for roam ants around many a sugar barrel-MdrdthOT Lr'depe''d- eTt
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

TIE cigar that is called imported is about as appropriately named as the hired girl we call domestic.-Y Y0RkerS Statesman.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26

A MAGICIAN who can eat fire is easily sat isfied. He's light eater, you know.-Chi- eGgo WGH.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
Ynnne Men. Read This.

THE thermometer gains nOtoriety by de- grees, so to speak.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
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The Arizona sentinel., 1885-12-26
CONSUME PTlON

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The Opelousas courier., 1885-09-26
K Ginger Ale.

"The demand for ginger ale" said a
prominent manufacturer Of that arti-
Gle, increases very rapidly. When [
started in it years ago, there was not
more than twenty in the business.
The most of my business now is man
nfacturing tue extract for others to
put into potable form, and these 9TH
ers have grown from thirty to about
500. In the main, all the makers use
the same formula and method. They
mix the extract with pure sugar syrup,
dilute with water until an ordinary
bottle contains about fifteen drops of
ginger, and put this into bottles with
a carbonic acid machine. Two quail
ties are made, one, the better, for priv
ate use and frst-cIass hotels and sa-
looms. and a second for the general
barroom trade. The difference is al
most entirely in the quality of the ex-
tract employed. With the first we
make a ginger ale that sells for 81 or
1920 per case of twenty-four bottles;
the second runs from fifty to seventy
five cents a case. 1t may surprise you
to know that three-fourths of the So
called imported article is made here.
The bottles belonging to favorite
brands are carefully kept and sent to
US regularly to be filled. We leave
the labels intact or paste on fac-similes,
and put In new corks and metal cap
sules or tags. There is not one person
in a thousand who can tell the differ
ence. In one first-class hotel l have
been filling and reilling the same old
bottles nov for seven years, and /
think it will keep on as long as 1 live"
us there no bad ginger ale in the
market?"
Eyes, there are two bad kinds. and
both so bad that the Board of Health
should stop their manufacture. They
are made in large quantities here in
New York and Brookly n, and sold
chiefly to beer saloons and ice cream
stores. One kind is made from cheap
ginger, and is doctored with the ex-
tract of red pepper and other chemi,
Gals to give it body and bite. The
men make it claim that red pepper is
good for the stomach, but they never
refer to the other chemicals. The
other and worst kind is made by a few
German establishments. Instead OF
using a pure extract, they buy up
whatever they can of condemned and
spoiled ginger root. Some of them
make their own extract from this and
reinforce it with cayenne. Others
grind it up and brew a vile ale from
it, which they finish with cayenne
and glucoSe,-NeW York Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-09-26
Lta,t,,t,.a fn 1,.optcat Cgfanates

LeOAGaat7s0 en 19'Opac0t C~ft9ftGTeSs
My experience confirms the remarks
of DR.. Van Danckelman in Nature,
respecting the little damage done by
lightning in tropical climates. In the
plains of India at the commencement
of the monsoons. storms occur in which
the lightning runs like snakes all over
the sky at the rate of three or four
flashes in a second, and the thunder
roars without a break for, frequently,
one or two hours at a time. During
twelve years residence in India Iheard
0. only two human beings and, / think,
three buildings being struck, although
in parts of Lower Bengal the popula-
ton amounts to more than 600 to tie
square mile. / always attributed the
scarcity of accidents to the great depth
of the stratum of heated air next to
the ground keeping the clouds at such
q height that most of the flashes pass
from cloud to cloud, and very few reach
the earth. The idea is supported by
the fact that in the Himalayas, at 5000
feet, objects are frequently struck. ]
have seen more than a dozen pine trees
which had been injured by the light
ming on the top Of n mountain be-
tween 5000 and 5000 feet high. In
the British Islands thunder storms are
said to be more dangerous in winter
than in summer, and such a fact. if
true, can be explained by the very thin
stratum of air then intervening be-
tween the clouds and earth.-Iondoa
NGture.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-09-26
nrer,ti,,a Hater pytth 9 Banoo,..

If when upon a long hunt or jour-
ney the Kaffir be unable for a long
time to find water, he sometimes
ayails himself of the instinct Of one
of those animals which he frequently
keeps in a domestfcated state-the
Daboon. or chacma. The baboon takes
the lead of the party, being attached
to a long rope, and allowed to U
about as it likes. When it comes to a
root of bahama it is held back until
the precious vegetable can be taken
entire out Of the ground, but in order
TO stimulate the animal to further ex-
ertions it is allowed to eat Il root now
and then. The search for water is con-
Quoted in a similar manner. The
wretched baboon lii Intentionally kept
without drink until it il half mad
with thirst and is then led by q cord
as before mentioned. By what signs
the animal Il guided no b can even
conjecture. but IL water il III the
hhQThoood the haboon Is sareIo
The Opelousas courier., 1885-09-26
A Monster CAM

On roughly hewn trunn!ons in the
center of Ribbon & March's shops in
Jersey City there rested a peculiar
looking mass of tubing that was ex-
planned by the foreman to be the most
powerful gun in the world. The mon
ster was cast by the Pneumatic Dyna-
mite Gun Company, and if the expec-
tations are realized nothing afioat can
withstand the one of its terrible broad
sides. The barrel is 80 feet long,
breech-loadkng, and weighs forty-threo
tons. 1t is of heavy wrought-iron,
brass lined throughout and with a full
bore of 8 inches. 1t was cast in four
sections, Is feet long, with iron COL
lars, which are welded together
with stout steel bolts. The barrel is
bolted to eight reservoirs, where the
compressed air necessary to fire it
is stored. Brass nozzles connect the
reservoirs to the barrel and the
amount of air necessary to throw out
the %projectile is regulated automatlca.-
Iy. Upright castings carried on
twelve-inch channel irons support the
whole, which is moved by compressed
air to any position desired by the gun
ner. More formidable looking than
the gun itself is the ~projectile fired.
The cartridge, which is of brass. is
five feet long and fits the bore snugly.
In an iron cone at the head of the pro-
~iectile $50 pounds of dynamite are
stored, covered with a slight cap of
thin metal, which is easily broken off,
exploding the projectile wherever it
strikes. When the gun is charged the
gunner takes his stand on a platform
behind the barrel, and by can of a
lever closes the breech. By simply
turning a crank the desired elevation
is obtained and fixed. The lowest of
the levers opens the noZzles leading
from the air chambers and instantly
the shaft cartridge is thrown out.
Sufficient air to fire six projectiles is
stored in the cylinders. There is no
recoil. AS soon as the carriage is
completed and the gun mounted it
will be taken to Fort Lafayette, where
the test will be made under the super
vision of a commission of naval men
appointed by the government. 1t is
the biggest piece of ordnance ever
built in the world. 1t puts in the
shade anything ever built by Krupp.
Work was begun in October, but the
boring was so difficult that it required
much longer time than was calculated.
1t has been tested and shows no sign
Of weakening under apressure of $500
pounds to the square inch. The com
pany expect to sell the gun to Secreta-
ry Whitney if it proves serviceable.-
NeD York World.