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Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-04
Application for Patent.

R. L. Howard, Attorney for Applicant.
Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-04
Application for Patent.

R. L. HOWARD, Attorney for Applicants.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-26
Home Made Candy.

One cup of sweet milk, one cup ol
molasses, half a cup Of sugar, half 9
cup of grated chocolate, a piece OF
butter the size of "a walnut; stir con-
stantly and let il boil until it is thick,
then turn it outon to buttered plates
when it begins to stiffen, mark it in
squares, so that it will break rapidly
when cold. Cocoanut caramels are
made of two cups of grated cocoanuts
one cup of sugar, two tablespoonfuls
of flour, the whites of three eggs beat.
en- stiff; bake on a buttered paper in
quick oven. Nice white candy is
easily made. Take one quart oil
granulated sugar, one pint of water,
two tablespoonfuls of vinegar; boil
just as you do molasses candy, but do
not stir it; you can tell when it is
done by trying it in cold water. Pull
it as If it were molasses candy; have
a dish near by with some vanilla in
1t and work in enough to flavor it as
you pull put it in a cold room, and
the next day you will have delicious
candy.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-26
Seven Quiet Smiles.

Ba-na-na-A vegetable telescope
inasmuch as it sometimes enables one
to see stars.-Winston Sentinel.
Adam was an old gambler. lie
had dice in the Garden of Eden-ir
fact he had a pair-odice.-Carl Pret'
zel's Weekly.
The man at the telephone says
"Hellow but the man who sits down
on a pin-point says just the reverse
Boston Saturday Evening Gazette
Puck calls a deaf and dumb cat an
eccentricity. We should rather con-
slider 1t special dispensation of 9
beneficent Proyidence.-Lowell Citi'
zen.
1t has been decided that a naval
cadet who throws kisses at girl /;
guilty of ungentlemanly conduct
Quite right. lie should carry them
to her and place them gently on hel
lips.-Philadelphia Call.
A Baltimore paper says the Presi-
dent looks at his feet great deal.
He is probably wondering why they
don't get to work and kick some
score or two office-seekers out Of the
White House daily.-Boston Tran
script.
When glowing Sol in summer days,
Those days to fat men trying,
Rains down upon us torrid rays
TIL everything is frying;
( When heat brings comfort to an end
And sadlypen bemoan 'em.
He's happy then who has friend
Turn the cold shoulder on him..
Boston Courier
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-26
Ed. sourH KENrucKrAN:

Ed. SOUTH KENTUCKIAN:
We are here raised up by southern
people, for which l am proud. We
can say that We are doing as we'll as
any other people that have not had
any better chance than we have had.
Look and consider for yourselves.
Again l would say, my friends, that
we live In a temperate zone, and we
should be temperate in all things. /
want TO say TO the colored voters that
this is a year of plenty, and want to
say to those who are seeking office in
this county that we are not asleep.
hear a good deal of harping about the
white Republicans. What Is this
for2 Can we make the white Re-
publicans vote for what they. don't
want? / say We can not, for we
sometimes do not want TO stick TO
the ticket ourselves, but for the sake
Of the party we do so. Now my col
ored brethren, let us first offer some
one for office, that we, as colored peo-
Pile, are ourselves united on, and we
can elect him with ease. But be sure
this is done. A gentleman spoke to
me the other day in regard to the
olored candidate.s He said that we
had but one colored man that could
make the race. l say that If this is
so, that we colored people ought to
go in our hole and pull the hole in
after us. l think we should stop
talking that way and 60 TO work and
we can elect anyone we want. The
same that qualities one man for office
will qualify another for the same
Office, be he white or black. Is it
possible that out of the 2,875 colored
men in this county that we have but
one that can fill The office of jailer ?
Do not say that any more. White
people will read this and they will
think that all the rest of the colored
people ought to 60 back to Hayti. l
understand this is free country and
want to speak my sentiments, and
do this for the good of my people.
l want to say in regard to the Ex-
ecutive Committee, that If we as a
party are not satisfied with their ac-
ton, just let them go ahead until
they come up to the block, Il mean
first Monday in February and then
chop, and we do not kick so much.
We, as a people, hurt ourselves some
times by talk. i think less talk and
more work would be better for US as
a people. l desire to say 10. these
2,S75 voters that the day is fast ap-
preaching when we shall, like men
of war, 90 to the polls and say who
we want for jailer and for every
other Office. l know for the past l3
years there havebeen standing canal
dates in the field, but a change Is
wanted TO be made. Out of the 2,875
colored voters, can't we find brains
enough to make the changer / think
we can. My friends, the day is not
far off when the sun shall rise be-
hind the eastern Frigid zone and
shall set behind the western Torrid
zone on the first Monday in August
next, then IL Is we will meet at the
polls and understand the writer.
Respectfully,
w. W. GRAY.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-26

The elephant will be exterminatet
in another hundred years, so scien.
lists say. But the honest farmer will
come TO town to see it just as he al
ways did, and he will go back home
feeling and looking as though tho
beast had stepped on him-just the
same.
The internal heat of the earth is be.
ing investigated by the German Gov.
ernment. A shaft sunk at Schlade.
bach has penetrated about 1866 feet
under ground, believed to be the
greatest depth vet reached by boring
At this point the earth's temperature
is l20 degrees Fahrenheit.
Upon my arm she placed her hand,
SO soft and white, l longed to seize 1t,
Would | ofendr took 1t, and
What could do but gently squeeze it9
Her waist was then within my reach,
And when so near to ME found 1t
Ispent no precious time In speech.
But softly put my arm aroundi it.
This brought quite near her ripe, red lips
Sweet lipsl Could mortal man resist 'emi
trembled tony finger tips,
And drew them nearer and | kissed 'em.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-26
Yellow Carriers in Vogue.

From an Account Of Long Branch Ball.
Round the black-stockinged left
legs of full half the girls in the as
semblage were garters of yellow.
That was for luck. IdOn't know how
the knowledge was ascertained or
disseminated, but we all know 1t now
that the clasp of a yellow elastic
brings good luck to the wearer. The
disclosure, got TO the Branch unex-
pectedly in mid-season, and the de-
mand for yellow elastic far exceeded
the supply. The local merchants or
dered all they could obtain and had
lots of white stock dyed, but some
poor creatures have had to 90 with
out the fetch Notwithstanding. Their
sufferings, like the joys of those who
had secured the right elastics, were
hidden demurely under their petit
coats.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-26


Two "Sams'-Sam Jones and Sam
Small (Old Sl)--the Georgia evan
against sa all Sunday srE traic, and iI~I. wSen.
ever they hold forth are said TO be
so effective that one can track them
simply by finding out about the Sun
day laws Of any town they have
visited. The people of Birmingham,
Ala, woke up the other morning to
find that the Common Council had
drawn the tightest kind of a rein
upon them and that any sort of busi-
ness-selling newspapers, shaving,
boot blacking, street car running and
livery letting had been prohibited.
In nearly every place where these
preachers have set their big tent,
similar results have followed.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-26
Thomas Jetferson's Young Friend
[aoarpn in the Cleveland Lendcr.l |

| l'Ourp' IN tue cleveland Leauer.l
One day when Thomas jefferson
was riding through Virginia Oh hi
way from Washington to Monticello
he came upon boy trudging alon,
with his clothes in a satchel, which
hung on stick from his shoulder
He was motioned to get in, and in
moment he was sitting by the side o
the President, who opened the con
versation by asking him who he was
and where lie was going. He replieC
that his name was Morgan, and tha
he was going home. from school, ant
continued by putting the same ques
ton to the President, saying: al beg
your pardon, stranger, but wha
might your name bep'
The President replied: "My namt
is Thomas Jefferson"
The boy looked up, astonished, ant
asked: "Not Tom Jefferson, Presi
dent of the United States ?"
"Yes," replied Jefferson, and as he
did so the boy jumped from the gig
and into the road, saying: II have
heard of you, Tom Jefferson. My
father says you are a rascal, and
wouldn't he thrash me If he caught
me ridin' with you'll Father knows
you, and he thinks you are the big.
gest scoundrel in the country"
The President was 70 amused al
the boys charming candor that he
invited him into the carriage and
brought him to his journeys end,
urging him before leaving to call up
on him in Washington, promising
him anything he desired should he
honor him with a visit.
"You'll not forget me ?" asked the
infant terrible.
"Not l." replied Jefferson.
A year or thereabout after this Oc-
currence young Morgan becoming
disgusted with things about home,
ran off to Washington trudging his
way with staff and gripsack, and COW
cred with mud, dust and clay made
his way to the White House and
walked boldly into room where he
saw Jefferson bending over a table
writing. lie went up to him and lay
ing his hand on his shoulder shouted:
"Iiello, Tom Jefferson, I've come
after that Office" The Pre,i-
dent looked up, but could
not remember the boy. Noticing his
amazed look, young Morgan, con-
tinued: "There, l told you that you
would not remember me when
came here" Jefferson replied that
his face was familiar, and on Morgan
telling him who he was, the Presi-
dent treated him kindly, and asked
him to be seated. lie then called a
servant, and sent the boy off to be
brushed up, asking him if he had an
other suit Of clothes. to which he re-
piled that he had. Hs was then Civ
Ell room in the White House, and
the President told him to look about
for few days and see what kind of
an office he wanted. This young
Morgan did, and at the end of the
first day told Jefferson he believed
he would take colonelcy in the ar
my. President Jefferson laughed,
and told him that the colonels were
always old men. He must take
something else, but not to be in
hurry; to look around and see the
city. He thtn sent a midshipman
with him TO make things pleasant for
him, and in day or two young Nor
gan decided that he would rather be
a midshipman than anything else.
Jefferson at once gave him the ap-
pointment, and he went ON a ship
Immediately. He made a splendid
naval officer, and he died commo-
dOre
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-26
From Bill Nye.

~ had good time in New York
and Boston, and was surprised that
was not looked upon as a monstrosi.
ty or freak of nature. There was a
great many people in New York the
day / was there, who were total
strangers TO me. New York is get
ting TO be very thiCkly settled, and
many people go there TO do their
trading. While Twas there a steam.
boat got in from England and Great.
ed very little excitement. People in
New York are not easily startled.
I stopped at a hotel where 1t cost me
IS day for the bare necessities OF
life, and when I paid my bill il
created no surprise whatever. You
can go to the Fifth Avenue hotel and
stay for days and not excite remark.
There was a head-waiter there who
spoke to me frequently aud picked
out seat for me at the table, and
seemed to take great interest in me.
Once he asked me if my dinner was
all right. l told him it was bully
and good deal more than general
ly had at home, Even If 1t hadn't
just suited me l should not have told
him so, for could see that ifI had
been displeased, he would have shut
up the house and made good deal
of trouble. So l told him it was all
first-rate, and he seemed to feel very
much relieved. / have eaten at o
great many hotels before, but he was
tho only head-waiter that ever tried
to be friendly with me. Most OF
them are austere and dress so much
better every day than 1 do on Sun.
day, that they make me feel ashamed
Of myself. / had a friend once
though who married the sister of a
head-waiter at hotel, and he said
that the head-waiter at times threw
aside his air Of hautenr and reserve.
He said once he heard him laugh a
little"
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-26
How the Cabinet Lives.

Sec. Villas keeps bachelors hall.
Sec. Bayard owns his own house
Sec. Lamar lives in a boarding
house.
Atty. Garland lives with his moth.
er in very retired way.
Sec. Manning has not yet rented
permanent quarters in Washington
Sec. Endicott is the only member
of the Cabinet who has rented 8
house.
Sec. Whitney has not yet secured
permanent quarters in Washington
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-26

Have used Tongaline in some six
cases of neuralgia. Besides other
nervous affections, and am prepared
to say that, so far as my experience
extends, 1t is one of the most reliable
remedies that has ever come into my
profession.
]. A. WARD, M. D., Troy, Mo.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-26

Ladies wear in the morning, when
they go out in the street on foot, and
do not intend paying any visits,
costumes of woolen fabrics without
any mixture ofsilk, velvet or plush.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-03
FiShermen's Yarns.

shad weighing 8 pounds 8 ounces is
said to have been caught, within a few days,
by William Cox of Penn's Neck, Salem
County, NJ.
Among the attractions in Fulton Market,
weighing 800 pounds and white-fish from
Lake Erie weighing1613 pounds.
Drs. Buchner and Emmerich have
found evidence during their studies in
Sicily as to the origin of cholera that the
disease makes its way into the system
through the lungs rather than through
bet alimentary canal.
Hauling in their shad nets on May Is,
E. Alderman and Edward Felter found en-
tangled in the meshes a bull head stur-
geon, which after hard work they manag-
ed to land It was feet inches long, As
inches in girth, had head 2 feet long, by
IA inches broad, and weighed 1927 pounds.
The fish was caught in the Hudson, at
Nyack.
Fourteen hundred blackfsh were driven
ashore by men in boats at Wood End,
Provincetown. The fish were speared and
sold at public auction at an average of
$1.21 apiece, the gross proceeds being
nearly $4,000. This amount was divided
among she men engaged in the catch. Each
receiving about $50. The amount Of oil
received from one fish is one barrel. This
is the first school of blackfsh which has
been seen in that locality for number of
years.
Two young men in Louisville, KY, nam
ed Hoskins and Young, went fishing re-
Gently on Harrod's Greek and caught one
of the strangest specimen of the genus
piscis ever seen. 1t was about two feet
long. The fore part of the creature re-
sembled an alligator, and the head was
something between an alligator's and a
lizards. The mouth was armed with two
sets of small sharp teeth. The hind part
of the animal looked like a squirrel, and
1t was ornamented with very large bushy
tail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-03
" No Dead Wood in This Offer

AMONG THR $50 kinds of Cloth Bound Dollar
Volumes given away by the Rochester On. Y.
american Rural Home for every 81 subscription
to that Great page, 48 COL, Is year old, weekly
are (all SKI inches from 300 to 900 pages bound in
CLOTH:
Law Without Lawyers. Danelson's Medically Coun
Family Cyclopeda. sellor.
Farm Cyclopedia. Boys Useful PaEtimes.
Farmers and Stockbreed- FveYesrs Before the Mast
ers' Guide. Peoples History of United
Common Sense in Poultry States
Yard. Universal His. of all Ma
World Cyclopedia. tions
What Any One Should Popular History Civil Wal
Know. (both sdes.)
Any one book and paper one year, postpaid
s1.15 only! Satisfaction guaranteed. Reference:
Hon. G. R. PARSONS, Mayor Rochester. Samples
&c. RURAL HONE Co., LTD, Rochester, N. Y
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-03
IGNORANT VISITORS.
Strange Mistakes of People Who Go to Wash
ingtOn.

The ignorance of the character of
Washington city, its public buildings, the
relation of its lawmakers to one another,
ETC., as displayed by visitors, writes Muir
ray in the Indianapolis News, is something
appalling. 1t is not confined to the back
woods of Arkansas or the dirt-eaters of
North Carolina, but permeates the intel
Hgent people who reside in the city of
Boston and in the nearer city of New
York.
Here we fellows on the row have been
writing about Washington from ten to
twenty years, and imparting valuable in
formation on every possible subject in
connection with the government and pub
lie affairs. We are actually driven every
week to conceive something new, or write
up something old in a fresh manner. And
10 us nearly everything seems old and
stale. When | come across a New York
an who thinks the president lives in the
capitol building, or a Massachusetts man
who has an idea that the senate and the
,dpreme court hold joint sessions, l feel
is If our newspaper lives were in a man
Ter running to waste. You think these ex-
operations? Not bit. / have met two
uch men within the last two weeks. 1t
GEMS strange that New York broker
'orth couple of hundred thousand Cat
imes) should know 90 little about these
hing. Yet my chance acquaintance was
ound to be very Intelligent and clever
,herwlso.
He said:
"A good many of US think and read of
cry little beyond Wall street. It is as
luch as [ can do to master the financial
olumns of the New York press. When I
,af T
read, skim over the local sensations
have been doing this for years"
"And your set does the same thing,
oppose" I suggested.
practically, yes. Some of the fellows
we theatrical or musical tastes, or run
ter horse-hesh, or the ladies, or base
IL, or yachting, or something or other,
I'D these read still less. The strain of
e street requires relaxation. Books?
mt belleve a dozen books a year are
ad by the whole force.of operators com
ned. Upon my word, I havn't read a
ok for five years. I havn't time. and
len 1 have time l have no inclination.
y knowledge of government affairs is
ry crude. You are inclined to LAUGH AFT
at you call my ignorance. But remem-
r ignorance is a relative matter. No
4iy can master everything, and the sue
,ssful men of the age attempt to mas
but one thing. The news is your pro-
sion. If I should take you into a
OK exchange tomorrow you would be
ghed at for your ignorance. Do you
DIV the gamet of puts and calls ?"
confessed to the justice of his criti-
N.
We'll, the dealer in margins must have
ny of the qualities of craftsmanship,
sion of character, subtlety, nerve,
ing power, convictions. understand
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-03

piece of iron rolled in the new Fal
con mill, at Niles, the other day is as thin
as sheet of ordinary paper. 1t would
take $50 sheets to constitute one inch in
thickness. The mill made this piece just
to see how thin they could roll.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-03
Important.

When you visit or leave New York City, save
Baggage, Expressage and 50 Carriage Hire and
stop a. the Grand Union Hotel; opposite
Grand Central Depot
million dollars, 81 and upwards per day. Euro
pean plan. Elevator. Restaurant supplied with
the best Horse cars stages and elevated rail-
road to all depots. Families can live better for
less money at the Grand Union Hotel than at
any other first class hotel in the city
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-03
A Cure of Pneumonia.


Mr.. D. H. Barnaby, OF Owego N. Y, says that
his daughter was taken with violent cold, which
terminated with Pneumonia, and all the best
physicians gave the case up and said she
could live but few hours at most. She was in
this condition when a friend recommended DR..
VIM. HALLS BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS, and
advised her to try it. She accepted it as the last
resort and was surprised to find that it produced
marked change for the better, and by persever-
ing in its use a cure was affected.
A thick, blush fog, such as preceded the choI-
era plaques OF 1866 and earlier years, is observ-
able at Cleveland, and much alarm results.
VITAL POWER IS INFUSED INTO THE SYSTEM
every organ regulated, every secretion purified,
the nerves OF motion and sensation strengthened,
the brain refreshed the appetite renewed, the di-
gestlon improved by the Irresistible Vegetable
Restorative, DR.. WALKERS VINEGAR BrrrERs 1t
does not change disease from one form to another
it kills disease.
Inc Montana stock growers convention at Miles
City, Mont, has forwarded contribution of
81 ,OO0 to the cyclone sufferers of Minnesota
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-03

Start the bile, relieve the bilious stomach thick
aching hsad and overloaded bowels. Small gran
MES small dose, big results, pleasant in oper-
alton, don't disturb the stomach Csc
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-03

Why suffer piles? Immediate relief and COM
plete cure guaranteed. Ask for Rough on Piles"
Sure cure for itching, protrudng, bleeding or
any form OF Piles. SOC. At druggists or mailed
Up to date 1900 car loads of oranges have
been SfipDed from Los Angeles Cal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-03
WELLS HAIR. RAISAM.

If gray, restores to original color. An elegant
dressing softeHs aud beauties. No oil nor
grease. Tonic Restorative. Stops hair com
ing cut; strengthens, cleanses heals scalp.
A Swatara, Pa, trapper captured liz hawks
in eleven days last month.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-03

months treatment for SOC. Piso's Remedy
for Catarrh. Sold by druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-03

''ring clear through heaven like bell" One of
the best deeds is to alleviate human sufferingS.
!" asst Lall my daughter was in decline, says Mrs.
Hlnson, of Montrose, Kansas, And everybody
thought she was going into consumption. got
her d bottle of Dr. r. Y. Pierce'S 'Favorite Pre-
scription,' and it cured her. Such facts as the
above need no comment