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Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1886-04-07

The vote for or against the raising
of $1,000 to build new Jail was as
follows in Alpena city, and township
Of Wilson
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-15
PUN0ENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A tobacconist has a sign in his
window: ''Our five cent cigars can't be
beat" We do not doubt it; we tried
one; twas a cabbage.-N. Y. Herald.
Said dude: II just love pigs feet.
I could live upon pigs feet" Said the
modest girl to whom the remark was
addressed: "Are you right sure you
don'tp"
1t liz dredful eazy tew mistake
what we think for what we kno1o; this
IL the way that most ov the lies git
born that are travelling around loose
Josh Billings.
"A Burlington girl stepped into a
jewelers. and asked for pair of ''con-
sistency bracelets" Somebody had
told her that consistency was a jewel.
Burlington Free Press.
Father" said q newly-married
youth, 1--WE discovered that my wife
is fool" 'Say nothing, my son; say
nothing about it and everybody will
think you are happily matched.-Nesc-
man Independent.
Father, what is o phenomenon"
asked little Johnny McSwilligen, as he
was looking over his spelling lesson
last night. "A phenomenon, Johnny.
is man who never says chestnut
when you tell him q joke" was the
reply Pittsburgh CHRONICLE.
Teacher Gin natural history)-
Tommy, where is the hippopotamus
to be found?" Tommy" Africa"
Teacher-"Yes. And what is the chief
characteristic of this wonderful ami
MALI" Tommy (who has seen the cir
Gus pictures)-"He alters has his mouth
wide open. "-Harpcr's Bazaar.
-Fogg ordered a cup of coffee.
"Have it weak" he cautioned the
waiter. After waiting for the bever-
age until his patience was exhausted,
Fogg opened his mouth to speak; but he
didn't bounce and splutter as some men
would under like circumstances. He
merely remarked in compassionate
tone of voice: poor fellow! he un-
doubtedly thought Imeant next week.
Boston Transcript
I'm leap years Japanese girls who
want husbands set out fiower-pots on
the front portico as an emblem. It's
lucky the custom hasn't been intro
duced into this country. Tho pottery
business would boom, of course, but
every house that shelters an unmarried
girl would look SO much like a conser-
vatory that the cats couldn't find room
to Somerrille Journal.
"A weigh.
She entered the store with charming smile.
And said to the clerk, 20, Charlie. say.
Have you moment to spare for me
And let me know how much weight"
"One-thirty IL what the figures say"
"How heavy I am! Assist me. please"
And the grocer saw with dis weather eye
The young man give her gentle squeeze.
-who was the girl7' asked the grocer,man.
Fer moment the youngster answered not:
Then he softly said in Q bashfui voice,
20, that 10 the weigh long have sought"
Eos0eu Courier.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-15

Good" said the American. ''Let
the chief lay his bufalo-robe on this
log"
The Indian wonderingly obeyed.
The doctor let fall one drop of liquid
upon it from vial which he took out
of the box, and when he held up the
robe, the savages saw with secret ter
TOR that it was scorched right through
as if with a hot iron, and that hole
was burned in the wood below it.
''Can We bear shower of rain like
that if bring it down upon your" cried
the American, sternly. 'Or what will
We say if l turn your streams into
bloodp, Look herei'' $50
He filled bark cup from the brook,
and with one drop from second vial
out of his wonderful box turned the
water blood red.
The Indians looked at each other in
silent terror, and even the daring
young chief drew back.
The doctor eyed them in silence for
a few moments, as if to let this lesson
sink well into their minds before he
went any farther. Then he stopped
once more over the inexhaustible box,
and drew forth q third vial, which he
held up so that the whole assembly
could see it.
A fearful-looking vial it was in the
eyes of the dismayed savages-long,
narrow, with a neck twisting like a
snake, and all of jet-black color, with
which the ivory stopper, carved into
the shape of skull, contrasted grimly
enough.
''Beholdr' shouted the American, in
voice of thunder; sin this bottle /
hold the spirit of the smallpox who
destroyed so many of you twelve
moons ago. Say but one word more
and will let him loose to sweep you
from the earth"
A cry of terror broke from every lip,
and in a moment the whole band Tin
GLIDING even the chief himsel0 were at
the feet of the ''medicine-man," implor-
ing him not to smite them with the
fatal pestilence whose awful ravages
were still fresh in their memory.
$50 be it," said the doctor, with the
air of king receiving deputation.
$50 long as the hearts of the Shaways
are clear and their tongues straight all
shall be well; but the moment cloud
rises between us the death vial shall be
opened" .
The mere threat was quite enough
for the terrified savages, and although
the Doctors fair dealing afterward won
the favor of the whole tribe their awe
of his .sgreat medicine never quite
wore off.-David Ker, in Harper's
Young People.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-15
VOICES OF PROPHECY.

When to the woodland was wont to repair.
In the season of pleasure and mirth,
N rustied 70 myriad focks of the air
And numberiess tribes of the earth.
How slender the sound that is echoed here
now
These bright, frozen arches to thrill
The snap of twig or the creak of Dough,
Or the Sigh of the wind on the hill.
Tho nest of the warbler is empty and tossed I;
The partridge is lonely and shy;
And, clad in livery white as the frost,
The rabbit slips silently BY.
The squirrel is hid in the heart OF tree,
Secure from the sleet and the snow.
And who was so merry and saucy as hep
Tho jauntiest fellow I knowl
Yet, under the burden of ice Mt its brink,
All shining and CLASSY and gray,
Tho sweet,throated stream where loitered
to drink
II murmuring still on its way.
And hsrkl what note from the dusky re-
Tho bird of the winter sends FORTH
Who taught you defiance of tempest and
O. lover and loved of the Northa
Though forest and hillside are heavy with
snow,
Yet hope Is alive in the breast
Tho water, imprisoned, Is calling below;
The chickadee chirps of her nestl
-Dord Reed Goodale. In 81. Nicholas.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-15
INDOOR LIFE.
Suggestion Of . Punishment That Wouls
Fit Many Americans.

Z Fit Many Americans.
At Troy Wallace Ross and Fred
Plaisted rowed match in roller rink;
rowed around in two rowing machines
on castors. This is probably about the
last thing that will be introduced into
the roller rink, unless race between
ocean steamers on wheels can be ar
ranged. Little by little the American
people are learning to take all their
field sports in the house when the first
white frost comes. Croquet was
brought into the parlor ten years ago;
then some lazy villain invented the par
lor rifle, and all the targets and rifle
ranges were brought into the house.
Then the ringing steel blades were
taken off the skates and wooden cas-
tors substituted, and the lake was
moved into the house and boarded over
with yellow pine. Foot ball, polo,
walking matches, target practice, base
ball cricket, all the field sports, have
been taken into the parlor or the rink.
The horse races will be moved in next.
In little while America will have no
earthly use for Outdoors" not even
as place to be buried in, because,
after we have fenced in, floored and
rooted over this entire continent, shut
out the sky and the air and the sun
light, and have lighted the gas
and stirred up the dust and breathed
the atmosphere Overland overuntili
be breathed no longer, it will be most
fitting and proper that we should
crawl into cast iron retort and be
showed into q crematory heated zone
seven times more than 1t was wont to
be heated" and, in dust and noxious
vapors and gases, close life of grad
ual incineration. There should be a
law making it penitentiary offense
for man to take part in any game in
side roller rink that can be played in
the field, in the pure air and the bright
sunlight. Physically, we are growing
to be lazy, effeminate people, and nm
less we are driven out Of the rink, we
will never feel the turf spring or the
snow crunch under our feet. The one
great reason why cremation finds so
much favor with Americans is because
our ideal of supreme comfort is to be
shut up in . tight box, close to a
scorching fire, with nothing to breathe
save an atmosphere that would kill two
hundred acres of grass and whole for
est of trees and flowers. l think, in
looking over this paragraph, was
little harsh in making the punishment
mentioned few lines above imprison-
ment for life. ! move to amend, there
fore, by making it hanging, accom-
panied with cremation, either before or
after the hanging, as the prisoner may
desire.-Burdettc, in Brooklyn Eagle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-15
STRANGE SURGERY.
How New York Physicians Effected Cure
of Lockjaw.


of Lockjaw.
Nathan Silverstone, carpenter,
nineteen years of age, living at No.
80 East Broadway, was discharged cured
from Gouverneur Hospital recently
The doctors state that his recovery is
something remarkable, inasmuch as
that on his admission on the 18th of
last November he was found to be suf-
fering from tetanus, or lockjaw, sus-
tanned by falling on his head while al
work. For several days he could not
speak and had violent and very fire.
quent tetanic commissions. Between
these commissions he partook only spar
ingly of milk, which was administered
to him by means of an ordinary nurs-
ing bottle. Under these conditions he
lived for couple of weeks, and in the
meantime medication having had no
effect, the doctors resolved to test the
dernier resort of cutting off the nervous
supply to the seat of injury, an opera
ton only very recently brought in
vogue. Only slight scalp wound de-
hoeOu thO ioSdeiou VI tuP injury.
A hypodermic injection of hydro
chlOrate of cocaine -four per cent. So
lution) was first introduced beneath
the scalp to an@sthetize the parts, and
then free V-shaped incision was made
half way around, the scalp wound CON-
pletely covering the posterior auricu-
lar and occiputalis minor nerves,
which Immediately insulated the nerv-
GUS supply from the seat of injury.
The incision was dressed and bandaged
antiseptically and the patient put to
bed. His commissions became less fire.
quent and in few days they ceased al
together. His jaws gradually relaxed.
and at length he was able to articulate
and take solid food. Three weeks after
the operation he was up and about,
and on his departure no man could be
more grateful than Nathan Silverstone,
and few can lay claim to have as good
q reason to appreciate the progress OF
modern surgery. 1t isssaid on good
authority that previous to the introduc-
ton of this latest operation for lockjaw
seventy-five per cent of those afflicted
had died.-N. =. Herald.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-15
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The American Bible Society has
elected for its President Judge. L. L.
Fancher, a distinguished lawyer of New
York. and manager for over twenty
five years.
The city of Newton has the largest
number of Episcopal churches of any
place in Massachusetts in proportion to
population. There are five churches
for seventeen thousand people.
The Baptist Home Mission Society
have erected near Muscogee, Indian
Territory, fine brick structure, cost
ing with furniture $25, ZOO, for the In
dian University. 1t is called Rockafel-
Ter Hall from the generous giver Of
that name, who gave $40, 900 towards it.
james Russell Lowell said in his
recent address at Bryn Mawr College
that appeals in behalf of retaining
Greek in college curriculum come
from men who are "old enough to have
forgotten their Greek and too old to
find any necessity for beginning to
study" boston Journal.
The circulation of the Scriptures in
the whole world since the beginning OF
the present century is estimated at 200,-
600, 900 copies, of which 10000, 900
are placed to the credit of the British,
5O,OO0,000 to the Americans and
80, 100000 to all the other Bible soci-
cites. During the past year these So
cieties together possessed over six and
one-half million Bibles Chicago Irib.
une.
There is school in London called
the Zenana and Medical School, from
which sixty women have been sent out
as missionaries to India in connection
with the Baptist, Episcopal and Wes-
leyan churches. Lady Duferin, wife of
the Viceroy of India, is said to be en-
thusiastic in advocacy of sending more
well-trained women as missionaries to
that country.
"A recent Yale graduate told story
at New York dinner of a young man
who attended Michigan college, and
to exc out enough money to put him
through, gave lessons on the piano to
young ladies. The faculty heard of it.
and in the college prospectus printed
the names of the young women as stu
dents in the musical department of the
college. He thought this plan might
give Yale a boom if that staid old
college could be induced to adopt it.
st. Pauls Cathedral, London, has a
precentor, the Rev. c.. A. Belli. whose
salary is one thousand pounds year.
and who has held the Office for over
thirty years. He is reported to have
very strong objections to choral serv-
ices, and consequently takes very small
interest in the cathedral. His last ap-
pearance there was at the thanksgiving
for the recovery of the Prince of Wales,
several years ago, and the younger
officials do not even know him by sight.
DIR. T. l.. Cuyler, in describing
Edinburg, says it is 1.-THE only city that
has reared a public monument to an
eminent minister of the Lord Jesus
Christ in this century-unless we ex-
cept the statue of DR.. Witherspoon in
Philadelphia. - "The figure of Chal-
mers," he adds, sis very majestic. The
king of preachers stands there clad in
his robe, with an open Bible resting on
his outstretched arm; and his grand
benign face wears the look of determin-
alton which the original face wore
when he marched out of st. Andrews
Church at the head of the Free Church
procession.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-15
A souI-Absorbing Occupation.

Yes, my son, it is possible for you to
live to the end Of your days, perform
ing successfully every day the rare feat
of keeping your mouth shut at the
right time, Of never utteringa sentence
until you have first weighed it careful
ly in your mind, revised it and adjust
ed it accurately to existing conditions
Of things. Yes, you can do that. But
then, you won't do any thing else. No,
my boy, If you do that, always, you
won't do one other lingering, solitary,
lonesome thing in all your life. You
will have time to do nothing except to
think what you are going to say and
how you are going to say it, and then
by the time you are all ready, and open
your mouth, the man you were going
to say il to win have grown weary Of
waiting and gone away.-Burdstte, in
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-15
FOB DUB YOUNG FOLKS.
OUR TREASURE.

We have little woman home,
Her height is only three feet three:
But she is just the sweetest o1e
That mortal eyes could ever see.
No matter what "stOrm-signai6 say,
Nor how the heavy rain clouds lower,
The little woman in our home
Makes sunshine every hour.
Perhaps It's scattered from her curls.
I'll tell you what's my firm belief
think little golden ray
OF sunshine. somehow, came to grief.
And. falling on her dainty head.
Thought mid its tresses 1t would hide,
And then. enamored of its nest, -.
Resolved there to abide.
And then, think tho fogs, one night
When earth was lost in sweet repose.
Pilfered the fragrant. dainty tints
Enclosed within a sleeping rose;
Then stole from out pansy's heart
Two lmpid drops of perfumed dew,
And then they bathed her cheeks aud
Giving them thus their witching hue.
If pain or worry scans my brow,
Our little woman finds 1t out,
And by the sunshine of her smiles
Soon puts the 'vapors" all to rout
There's magic in her gentle touch.
And in her laughing, vibrant voice:
The sound of her light, springing step
Can make my heart rejoice.
She's ike fiash-now hero. now there,
And always on her nimble feet
She's all about the house ut once,
With happy song and laughter sweet.
= When, sometimes, tear-drops dim her eyes,
Like showers on an April day,
They've scarcely fallen ere her smiles
Have chased them all away.
Dear little womani Her tiny hands
Smooth many pain and fret away.
She brings into the sweet home life
Z - An added beauty every day.
And yet she's but q wee, wee maid
A Laughing. dancing, merry sprite;
But ali. our little woman still,
Our treasure. our delight.
Claudio ThGrf1. IN Golden Ddus.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-15

An exchange says: THE San Fran
cisco girl of 1885 is principally remark
able for her abilities to express herself
with q Standardization combination
of conciseness and volubility." That
is rather surprising characteristic for
. ''girl of 1885," Some of the Norris
town girls of eighteen are not so highly
gifted in that direction. -Norrislos0s
Herald
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-15

To beat the whites Of eggs quickly
add pinch of salt Salt cools and
cold eggs froth rapidly.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-15

New Workers contemplate erecting
. monument at Albany to the patriotic
women Of the State.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-05-15

II men are so wicked with religion.
what would they be without it?-
ItoSktiss.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-11-20
SANITARY CLOTHING.

The clothing reform proposed by
DIR. Gustav Jaeger, of Stuttgart, is
said to have been already approved
and carried out by thousands of Ger
mans, not few Russians, and some
Englishmen. DR.. Jaeger contends
that clothing made exclusively from
wool, natural covering for animal
bodies, is the safest and most health
full for mankind to wear, and he urges
its use for all purposes of men and
women. Not only would he exclude
every article made from cotton or
other vegetable fiber from the apparel
in use by day, but he would also re-
ject them from the beds on which we
sleep at night. He advocates gar
ments of such form that draughts of
cold air under them are prevented,
while he doubly protects the throat
and chest by an extra thickness OF
cloth, and keeps the feet clean and
dry by the use of boots of porous
leather or felt, and porous inner soles
The advantages of wool over vegeta-
BILE fibers are claimed to he very great,
as the latter impede the circulation OF
the air, retain the noxious emanations
of the body, and expose the surface
of the skin to sudden change of tenn,
perature, while wool is free from those
objections.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-11-20
SheriH's Sale

By virtue of an Order Of Sale and Decree.
issned out of the District Court of the Second
Judicial District of the Territory of Idaho. in and
for the county of Alturas, wherein Hall q Burn.
side are Plaintiffs, and George Costin ct al are
Defendants, upon judgment rendered on the
29th day of October, 1886, for the sum of Two
Hundred and Sinety-aight and 35-1OO Dollars
ts295.35), besides costs and interest, have this
day levied upon all the right, title claim and in
terest OF said Defendants in and to the following
described real estate, to-wit:
Lot numbered in Block ar" of Reeser Addi
tion TO the town ot shoshons. Alturss county.
Idaho Territory. as destgnsted the official nj al
of said town ON hle in the office of the Recorder of
said AlturRs county.
Notice is hereby given that will on the 2Itb
day of November, 1886, az 1 o'clock D. m of said
day in front Of the Courthouse door Of the county
81 Ast'rss sell at Public auction, for cash lRwful
money, III hand, All tn rigLt title claim and IL,
terest of said Defendant George CostiY et al
Of, In sud 70 the above described property. or So
much thereof hs shall sat sly said Judgment Wit
interest AMI costs, to the highest and best bidder
Dated the LIST day of November, 1856.
c. II. FCREY, SHERIFF
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Renews Her Youth.

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay
Co., Iowa, tells the following remarkable
story, the truth OF which is vouehed for
by the residents Of the town: 81 am 70
years old, have been troubled with kidney
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could not dress myself without help.
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| owe my thanks to Electric Bftters for
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Captains Fortunate Discovery.

Csr4. Coleman, schr. Weymouth, ply
ing between Atlantic City and n. Y, had
been troubled with cough so that he WAS
unable to sleep, and was induced to try
DIR. Kings New Discovery for consump-
ton. II not only gave him instant relief,
but allayed the extreme soreness in his
breast. His children were similarly af-
fected and a single dose had the same
happy effect. DIR. Kings New Discovery
is now the standard remedy in the ole
man household and on board the schooner
Free trial bottle of this Standard Remedy
at j. A. Rupert's drug store.