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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-10-09

Adelaide L. Murdock. Of Philadelphia. will lee
ture in the Court House on Tuesday evening
next The lecture will be free and for the beue-
n of the worthy poor OF Lancaster. subjtct,
present Dav."
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-10-09

ESTATE OF AMOS :. HENDERSON,
IL late OF Lancaster City, Lancaster County
deceased. The undersigned Auditor appointed
to distribute the balance remaining in
the hands OF John. ID. skiles, administrator
of said deceased 10 and among thO-p
legally entitled to the same. will sit for that Dur
pose on Tuesday, October 49, lss6, at 10 O'Clock
u. in the library room of the Court House, in
the city OF Lancaster, where all persons inter.
ested in said distribution may attend
SIS 3tdS j. l.. sTEISMETZ Auditor.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-10-09

quotations by Reed, MoGrann Co. bans ers,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-11
A Blind Mail Carrier.

The mail route between Claryville, a
mountain hamlet in Sullivan county, N.
Y, and Big Indian, Ulster county, is
twenty-one mics long, and is through
the toughest and widest portion of the
Catskills. The road is so rough, in fact,
that the mil is carried on foot, and the
carrier is Clark North, who is totally
blind. He has carried the United States
mail over almost impossible Catskill
routes for thirty years, since he was Il
boy, and has never seen any of the wild
region through which he has travelled.
His former route was in the wilderness
region between Shokan and Sampson
vile, at that time an almost unknown
country frequentcd only by hunters and
fishermen, yet the sightless carrier made
his trips three time week with the
regularity of clockNork. He travels his
present circuit of fortv-two miles three
times week, and has never missed
day either in winter or summer Snow
drifts nor foods seem TO be any barrier
to him. He has never met with an acci.
dent. In spite of his long life of ex-
posure to rain, snow, cold, and heat he
is wonderfully vigorous in health. He
is a walking encyclopedia of the region
through VIII ch he travels
Although unable to read, he indust'i-
ously gathers from others all information
on the current topics of the day, and, as
he never forgets anything, is probably the
best informed person on general subjects
in that part of the Catskill region. Kind,
honest, industrious, reliable, no citizen
in this region stands higher in the esti-
nation of all classes thln Clark North,
the blind mail carrier of the Catsdlls.
-Neto York San.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-11
DAY-DREAMS,

Oh! sweet are the dreams that Darknes.
| brings,
The fragrant roses that slumber filings
! Into the garden of Night
! But sweeter far are the dreams that day
Drops all along life's weary way,
Like dew-drops on the buds of May,
To bless our waking sight.
Oh, beautiful, beautiful dreams that fall
Like tender moonlight over all
The dreary wastes of life
As if an angel went before
! And gilded all the landscape Ger
With the shadow of Heaven, where of yore
| Was only pain and strife.
Oh, beautiful dreams thatspring like flowers
Out of the seeds of hfes dark hours,
Watered with tears of pain
Flowers that bloom mid desert sands,
Zoo fran to transplant to brighter lands,
Zoo fair to be gathered by mortal hands,
Too sweet to lose again.
Oh, beautiful beautiful waking dreams,
That flow like forest hidden streams
By the foot-worn road Of day!
Streams that go singing for loves own sake
Streams that their sweetest music make
Out of the very stones that break
The smoothness of the way.
Oh, exquisite dreams, that softly show
Through the gray-spun veil of eartly woel
Like star in twilight skies,
FOO far to make our own, so near
1t tempts our grasp that pure and clear
On nights dark cheek lies like tear
Wept from an angels eyes.
Oh, dreams that rest on the life Of youth
Like bubbles that rise in the well of truth
From the somber depths beowl
Bubbles that catch each ray OF the sun,
And mirror them upwards one by one,
Till all the well, SO cold, 50 dun,
Cleans with a borrowed glow,
Oh, stars that vanish; Oh flowers that fade,
Oh, streams that are lost in the WOO Hand
shade;
Oh, bubbles that break with kiss;
Oh, dreams that from the bIre1 roots
Of secret sorrows like green shoots
Grow toward the light, yet bear no fruits,
Are ye less fair for thsl
What though ye are but dreams, but dreamst
Ah! brighter our lives cen for transient
CLEANS
Of hopes that ne'er may be ours.
Then pray for dreamless sleep if We will.
For slumber no visions have power tc
thrill;
But, oh! thank God that he gives us still
The dreams of our waking hours.
Grace Denio Litchfeld,i in independent
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-11
ShOeing Troublesome Horses.

elbow do you manage a horse when he
refuses to be shod2" a ked reporter of
a burly blacksmith in South Baltimore.
The blacksmith drew the hoof of u
large horse between his legs before an
swering the question, and bending the
toe till it nea"ly touched the forelock,
replied: "This is the first thing we try
as being the handiest remedy we have in
the shop. We just twist the toe up in
this manner and it tightens the muscles
of the le until the horse can't move. 1t
is the pain that makes him docile He
stands there patiently after that and takes
the nails like an old pine board. If
this don't work though-as it often does
not with horses from the country-we
have another remedy. Do you see that
'twitch' yonder!n
The blacksmith nodded his head to-
ward a carriage-spoke dangling from the
wall with piece of clothesline tied to
the end of it.
THAT is the most magical thing in
horseshoeing you ever saw. We wrap
that rope around the beasts upper lip
and man stands continually at his head
holding the spoke The latter is used as
jackscrcw. Every time the brute kicks
new turn is tlken in the clothes line until
the beast gets as much as he can stand
The fight, as rule, never lasts long.
After few turns the most obstreperous
kicker is knocked out. The pain at his
nose draws his attention away from his
feet so completely that think you could
cut hisleg off and he wolld not know it.
Yes, sir; if it were not for the witch
simple as it is-there would be lots of
horses unshod or blacksmiths walking
around with broken heads. You may
talk about twisting pigs tail or getting
bulge on an elephant but for bringing
beast to his senses this little device
beats anything that ever was made
THE worst horses to shoe entirely are
those that have what is known as 'blooda
in them. Good stock will show itself in
the blacksmith shop every time. l was
shoeing Preakness several years ago and
was unaware of the fact until l had
wrestled with him several minutes. He
had cast a shoe while training at Pim!ico
and was brought to shop in northwest
Baltimore where | was employed. The
beast laid back his ears and stood per-
fectly still until l had got ho,d of him
and was in the act of levelling his hoof.
Then he came down on me like a sledge-
hammer with both his thighs. His eyes
flashed and he stripped his teeth clear
back to the jaw joints. When he felt
me weaken he drew back his leg like a
bowstring, and before could recover
sent me sprawling into the dirt. Luckily
there was no shoe on his foot at the time
or might have received an imprint that
would have followed me to my grave [
have several marks now from horse kicks
all over my body. A man is never
horseshoer until he has the trade mark
stamped upon his countenance, they say"
-Baltim0re Ame1ican
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-11

Can evoort Market, at Little Twelfth
street, for the sale of vegetables The
countrymen wait at Washington for the
hour to sell their stuff at Gansevoort.
When the present Washington Market
Building was erected, in 1884, at a~cost
of S27O, 900, the old irregular gangways
Of the former structure were preserved in
order that the holders of stands might
retain the same relative positions as they
had Lefore. Many of these stands have
passed from sire to son, and though most
OF the ELDERS have passed beyond the
realm of trade, few are left to revive
the memories of Eve olden time"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-11
What Hundred.Eyed Animals See.

If the lobster's eye consists of more
than a hundred separate eyelets, each
with its own lens, what sort of a picture
of the outward world does the animal
see? Does he see a hundred different
images of the same object3 AS he crawls
along the rocky sea-bottom in congenial
haunts, where the willy fishermen temp
his epicurean appetite with his favorite
food, does he see hundred lobster pots
where there is only one! Does the single
whelk bait within look like hundred
tempting morsels3 The same question
would apply to the lobster's enemies,
great fishes with fiat, pavement-li
teeth, which easily crush through the
armor-plates which form his shell. Sup
posing the lobster to multiply such enc
mics usually by the hundred. his life
could scarcely be said to be happy
one. The question thus raised is an
interesting one, especially as it applies
not only to Holsters, but also to all in
sects. For instance, does the housefy,
with its 4, 1000 eyelets, see 4,000 house
maids dusting the window-pane when
there is really only one3 Does the
cabbage-butterhy, with its 1900 eye
lets, see every cabbage multiplied
1900 times2 And does the dragon
fly in the same way see 36, 600
turquoise -colored companions hawk
ing about by the pond side when
there is only one. The problem has
been fought over by biologists with
much vigor until quite recently. The
oluoon+on of +bo p1nIt;plo xy;s:Or +boorv
astonishing as that theory may seem,
have not been wanting; but eventually
the advocates of the single vision theory
are now in possession of the well-fought
field. Whatever be the number of eye
lets, or the number Of pictures received
on the cornea it is the retina which re-
ceives the ultimate impression from ex-
ternal objects. The delicate, subtle and
mysterious nerve ends which we call the
retina are the ultimate sensory apparatus
which determines what shall be seen.
The conclusion arrived at is briefly this.
Apart from the lenses and cones in front,
the lobster's or insects eye is hollow
sphere pierced by numerous close-set
perforations, running down the facets
toward the centre of the sphere. Only
those rays can reach the retina which run
in the axis of the perforation. Other
rays than the axial rays are required to
produce complete picture at the retinal
end of each perforation. 1t follows that
the light-impressions caused by the
axial rays, whose number corresponds
with the separate nerve rods, form sin
gle picture or "mosaic" of points of sight
on the retina. Leisure Hour.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-11
The Deadly Street Car Wheel.

A man who has kept "tab' on the
subject told me the other Cay that there
was only one man in Chicago who had
survived the accident of street car
wheels. "There is something in street
car wheel" he continued, (which is
deadlier than the upas tree. 1t kills with
q certainty that is almost terrible. Peo-
pie are thrown down embankments in
team cars, run over by engines, cut by
buzz-saws, and lJwn up by dynamite,
aud then mlnage to CT s) through wear
some days and nights and die of old
age. But it is rare that one survives a
street car wheel | do not pretend to
say why this is so, but have the figures
to prove it. You remember, perhaps,
the long list of dead ones which is
charged up to the South Side Cable COM
pany. 1t became so appalling that the
company finally had to put guards be-
fore the wheels of the cars. The street
car wheel mashes tho bone and shocks
the system, and the victim dies a death
almost as horrible as that of hydropho-
bia. The exception | have stated is still
living in this city, but his life is bur
den, and he has told me that death
would have been preferable. - Chicago
Herald.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-11
Fate.

1t is strange how mans destiny is
sometimes affected by circumstances.
Take, for instance, the case of Senator
Stanford, the millionaire of California.
Many years ago he wanted to start a
pa, er at Port Washington, this State.
He had the newspaper fever as badly as
possible, but at that time could not buy
an outfit west of Philadelphia, and finally
gaveup the idea, went to theland of gold
and grew up with the country. Had he
been able to get the material readily with
out paying 50 much freight, he might now
be one of the pioneer editors of the State
(if he could have stood it so long,, and
go around with the boys every year when
they have their excursions. Instead of
that he has more money than he knows
what to do with, and has never felt the
supreme satisfaction experienced by
country editors in pulvetizing an 'es-
tcemel contemporary. ."-PecES Sun.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-11
Better than n Vote.

They strolled together through the grove,
And as they fingered on they way,
In fervid tones he told his love,
That summer day
His ardent VOWS she, trembling, heard,
Her cheeks with brightest bushes dyed,
And as her glanceS sought the sward
She softly sighed.
"Speak. darling, speak, the lover said;
ooh, say my pleadings are not vain!n
She answered. not, but hung her head
And sighed again.
"That you are dilfident and shy,n
He said, "those downcast looks denote;
You will not speakl then you and
VIII take vote.
at is an easy thing to do;
A ballot, sweetest, cast with me,
The question being, shall we two
United be-"
Again she let her lashes fall;
Then murmured with q charming air:
"Dear Jack, why need we vote at all,
Why can't we pairN
Boston Courier.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-11

A Georgia hunter, sixty-fve years old,
says that since he began hunting he has
killed 991 deer and 1877 alligators,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-11

Two residents of Webster County, Ne
braska, have rows of lightning rods on
their houses that cost 800 each.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Ella Wheeler-Wilcox says 10
Is like waiting for your epitaph to wait
for accepted articles to be published
by magazines.
Rev. Miss Callock is the name Of
. lady Universatist preacher who is at
tracing considerat lie attention in
Southern California.
"A Columbus CO., paper has a So
ciety col,E IN headed "Out of the
Hurry -BurlT." The paragraph an
nounces that a Columbus young lady
has gone to New York.
Charles Dickens. the novelist's
son, is following in the footsteps of his
father as a reader. As writer he has
had no succesA but it is thought that
he will be happier as an elocutionist.
From the sixth to the fifteenth cent
uries there was deep interest in the
monastries in copying and binding
manuscripts, especially Of classic auth
ors. All classes studied in these mo-
nastic schools, so that the rich and poor
were brought together On the field of
learning.
Mrs. Joshee, the Hindoo lady who
lately was graduated from the Wom-
ans Medical College of Pennsylvania,
carefully preserved her caste while in
this country to insure her reception in
high-caste families in India, and even
cooked every one of her own meals and
served herself at table.
DIR. Frederick N. Palmer, the Bos-
ton physician who committed suicide
by jumping from Portland steamer
recently, was postmaster at Battle
boro during Folks Administration. He
was the originator of the first Ameri-
can postage stamp, which, was en-
graved by Thomas Ghubbuck, Of
Springfield, for the postmaster's per-
sonal use.-Boston Journal.
Mrs. James T. Fields will be missed
at Manchester-by-the-Sea this summer,
having leased her cottage. 1t was in
this cottage that the late James T.
Fields wrote the note to DR.. Oliver
Wendell Holmes, using the then un.
familiar designation of Misunderstanding
ths-Sea instead of the old-fashioned,
unadorned name, Manchester; DIR.
Holmes, with mild humor. dated his
reply from Observation-Disclosures" -
Boston Budget.
General Sherman's middle name,
"Tecumseh," he owes to his father,
who had removed to Ohio just before
the war of 1912 with the British and
Indians, and, in spite of Indian depre-
dations, '-seems to have caught fancy
for the great chief Of the Shawnees.
In the new edition of his life, General
Sherman says that his father had tried
for years to get one of his sons named
"Tecumseh," but that he did not sue
coed until his mother had named son
for each of her brothers. Then she ran
out of names, and Judge Sherman had
his way Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-23
A Satisfactory Apology.

Old Nose and another old darby
were standing on corner discussing
matters and things, when Jim Web
ster happened to pass
''Dar am forty regular chicken steal
ers in dis town, including Jim Web
ster," remarked the old man.
Jim overheard the remark, so he
came right up to Nose and threatened
to eliminate him if he did not take it
hack.
''Den dar am forty regular chicken
stealers in Texas not includin' Jim
Webster. Is yer satisfied now?"
Jim said, very much affected: Uncle
Nose, when man 'pologizes, he jess
disarms me right dar. Shake, old man.
i 'Talnt often nowadays dat anybody
fatters me as you has jess done. ~
! Texas SiftinQs.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-23
HUMOROUS.

-Barnum had to dispense with tho
services of his glass-eater because the
man discovered an inclination to dine
off the tumblers in the ring. Boston
Transcript.
When a grocer advertises every
variety of raisins, does he include der
ricks, pulleys, jack-screws, yeast, rope
and tackle, bent pins and mustard
plasters?-Evansvill Argus.
After Chestnuts.
20, where are you going, my pretty maidT'
I'm going a-chestnutn9, sir" she said.
Aud she spoke sober truth. in sooth, for l0l
She had ticket for the minstrel show.
The Judge.
1.-THE doctor said he'd put me On
my feet again in two weeks" "Well,
didn't he do itP'' "He did, indeed. I
had to sell my horse and buggy to foot
his bill. "-Teras Siftings.
Her little brother (holding up the
cat)-"Say Boo Mr.. Smith" Mr..
Smith, for, Bobby" Her little
brother-'I want to know if you can.
Sister says you can't say Boo to
cat.
Why does young man embracing
his girl at the garden gate just as the
old man approaches remind you of .
love scene at the theaterp Because he
is hugging his girl before the foot
lights.-Pdcifc Jester.
Smith" said q Court street lawyer
to his young clerk, "why weren't you
at the office earlier this morningp"
BEG pardon, sir, but am areformer.
l believe that the office should seek
the man, not the man the Office. -
Boston Courier.
Little Tommy-"Can l eat anoth-
er piece of pieP'' Mamma (who is
something Of purisD-'I suppose
you can." Tommy-"Well, may Ip"
Mamma-"No, dear, you may not"
Tommy-'.Darn grammar, anyway
Chicago Rambler.
81 shall teach you to speak properly,
and then to write as you speak, y said
a teacher in the public schools. poor
Billy Wilcox!' said little voice, ap-
parently involuntarily. "What about
Billyp" asked the teacher. please,
ma am, he speaks through his nose
he will have to write through his nose"
m y Ledger.
Eyes. indeed, Miss Clara con-
tinued Mr.. La Dedah, giving an ac-
count of his travels, 81 have been in
great perils, don't you know. One
time on q railway train out West,
don't you know, we were stopped by
the train robbahs, don't you know,
and one fellow, terrible brigand he
was, you know, he put his pistol to me
head. don't yon know. and he said:
Your money or your brains! and pom
me soul. Miss Clara, had nothing for
him. "-Burdette.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-23
AFTER DEATH.

AT first when my face shall ~ changed, and
20
To dwell in a silence that can not be
broken,
A few whom love will lament me, know,
And eyes VII be dim when my name shall
be spoken ztl-.l- .c
II any have blamed me. their ccnsure will
cease,
For when the fun light of eternity flashes,
There's nothing to do but to whisper of peace.
And no one can war with q handful OF
ashes.
But o, to be gone from the home that was
mine
With no more a share in its joys or its sor-
Ny part In its plans to forever resign,
No thought Of to-day and no care for to-
morrow!
All this is beyond me- How strange It will be
To COON journey that has no returning,
With year after year speeding on without me
To gladden. or grieve when the sunsets are
burning
The children will lean their light weight on
the stone,
To spell out my name, and to question and
wonder
What it's to lie there in the darkness alone
Through moonlight and starlight and roll
ing OF thunder
But then in a moment some butterfly gay
Will hover above them and chide their dc.
laying
With beautiful wings 1t will lure them away
OAnd they will forget all the stone has been
saying.
But I shall lie pat emily there in nv place,
The slumber part of my life and my story:
Till some time the morning will flash In my
face,
And / shall awake to its gladness and glory.
Ellen M. III. Gates, IN N. Y. Evangelist.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-23
Care Of Umbrellas.

Umbrellas will last longer If wnen
wet they are placed handle downward
to dry. The moisture falls from the
edges of the frame and the fabric dries
uniformly. If stood handle upward,
the top of the umbrella holds the
moisture and takes long time to
dry, thus injuring the silk or other fab
rio with which it is covered. Umbrel-
la cases. too, are responsible for the
rapid wear of the silk. The constant
friction causes the tiny holes that ap-
pear so early. When not in use leave
the umbrella loose; when wet never
leave it open to dry, as the tense con-
dition thus produced makes the silk
stiff and then it will soon crack.-N
Y. Commercial Advertiser. -
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-23

The street stands in our large cities
are more profitable than is generally
supposed. One of the little peanut and
orange stands on Park square, Boston.
pays eleven hundred dollars q year
ground rent. The receipts a some Of
the stands have been more than fifty
dollars day during peach tins. Boo
ten journal
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-23
Leo Hartman says in the New Yorl

Leo Hartman says in the New York
Star ''Nihilism in Russia, though
comparatively quiet now in manifest
ing itself, is by no means dormant aSr
idle. No one need be astonished at
any time at an outbreak more tre-
mendous, far-reaching and dangerous
to Russian absolutism than any in this
past. The blood of our martyrs will
yet be avenged, perhaps much sooner
than the world suspects; but of my
reasons for this have now no right to
enter into any explanation.
The Dillon tribune., 1886-11-26
STATISTICS OF SUICIDES.

M. Auguste Vacquerie, making some
calculations from criminal statistics in
France, says among every 100000 Of the
population 81 men and women COMM,
suicide. The desire to destroy themselves
with their own hands increases among
Frenchmen as they get older. The per.
centage among the suicides under sixteen
years Of age is /; from thirty to forty IA
per cent, and above sixty, 80 per cent.
During The last year for which statistics
are available there were 1872 suicides
committed in France, and over sixth Of
them within the Department Of the Seine
5,o64 were ,nen and zoos women, and hall
Of the men were unmarried. Hanging Is
favorite mode adopted, 5000 employing it.
Drowning was selected by a,o3o, and GOT
preferred the revolver. Over 200 threw
themselves from windows, and only lag
took to poisoning. The principal causes
assigned for the suicides are mental and
physical weakness, debauchery, chagrin
and ,nisery.-Ex.