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The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-03
COSTLY DIAMONDS.

Few, oven among the royal families Of
Europe, have more valuable diamonds
than Mrs. Stanford. wife OF the Cali
fornia Senator. One who can speak
autlloritatiyeIy says her diamonds are
valued at 81, 900. 600. Her husband
bought four sets of diamonds for her
when the valuables Of Queen, Isabella,
Of Spain, were sold in Paris and paid
upwards Of 5000, 600 for the four. One
set is OF the stones known as blue dia-
monds, as they emit violet rays by day :
another has pink rays in its stones the
third set is of yellow diamonds, as yell
low as topaz, and the fourth is Of flaw
less white stones. Each set has a tiara
necklace, pendant. brooch, earrings,
from four to six bracelets and some
finger rings, all the same style of make
and of corresponding stones.
In addition to these Mrs. Stanford
has some genuine black diamonds, cut
pear-shaped, and numerous other dia~
mond ornaments in variety Of styles.
One necklace t(not belonging to any Of
the sets above named) is valued at $780,
900 and its pendant at $50, 900. She
has over sixty diamond finger rings.
which she keeps on a string Of black
tape. To accommodate all these Jewels
she has case which was made to order
of steel, with cast-iron handles and
burglar-proof locks. The case has a
separate drawer for each set of diamonds,
and is, of course. nearly all the time
deposited in a bank. Mrs. Stanford
cares very little for these treasures.
especially since the death of her only
son, whom she idoIized. On one oc-
casion, before his death, she wore nearly
all her jewels at once.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-03
COLD VS.. WARM CLIMATES.

Dio Lewis has spent three years
among conslnnptives seeking restoration
/ In Southern California, and has LOST
faith in war,a climates for invahds He
/, writes thus :-The inhabitant of the
tropics is the son of a rich man. He
has no occasion to use his faculties and
they sleep. The inhabitant of the
arctic regions is the son of a very poor
man. and III compelled to struggle for
existence. The inhabitant of the tenn.
perate zone is the son of man who has
enough to give his offspring every oppor-
tunity on condition of stout and per-
sistent efforts. From the bracing north
ern regions come the great thinkers OF
two continents.
Give New England the climate OF
southern California, and she would soon
begin to l,se her most precious trea-
sures, her patience, prudence, forecast,
industry, perseverance, strength and
| endurance-in brief. her exceptional
vitality. Our summers are hot and ex-
hausting. 1t is the cold season that
gives to the people of the north their
characteristic force. Every medical
man will tell you that whatever tends
to invigorate is good for the consump-
tive, and whatever tends to enervate is
bad for him. It would seem wrong,
then, to remove weak person from an
invigorating to an enervating climate.
This thought, and much observation,
led doctors to send their exhausted
patients to winter in Minnesota and
like localities OF late they are divided
between warm and cold climates.
/ have no doubt that in genuine con-
sumption the northern climate is good
one. am sure it is better than that OF
southern California. Though if the
choice be between life in stove and fur
mace heat here, and life in the shade of
q copper tree there, the latter is better.
But if the choice is between the sweet
air Of open CRATE fires and, dressed in
abundant fannels, much life out of
doors in the saddle in ali weathers, if
the choice be between these here and
winter in southern California, urge the
patient to remain in New England.
The money required for journey
across the Continent will fit up his sit
| ting room with open CRATE and furnish
it with wood or coal. The money re-
quired to pay board away from home
will supply a saddle horse and the extra
thickness of wooden garments for the
legs and feet Commencing with an
hour asday on walk. the patient viii
soon spend five or six hours day in
the saddle. His pulse at the beginning
is say one hundred within month it
will fall below eighty. Here is strong
impulse toward recovery. Twenty years
observation among consumptives in
New England, and three years among
consumptives seeking restoration in Cali
| fornia, confirm these statements. Those
who find fault with New Hampshire
winter do not need new climate so
much as they need new ideas about pure
air and gentle exercise.
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-03


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~ tbe t3sl,;ng banks ,,rafar,;,,o ! Is
re4oa;,, af home All ouk handla the nro.
ducts. and transact other necessary
business of stbe civ His ,,lace 4 now
supplied by men 81 the provinces and
by waits and strays from all nations.
There Is quite colony 81 Portuoese
from the western islands. who occupy
quarter by themseles, and are worthy
and industrious citizens. There are
Irish, Swedes, Norwegians and Danes,
but exceeding all others the Bluenosea
from the maritime provinces Of the
Dominion. These men are born fsher-
men. reared to that occupation in lack
of any other. Naturally shrewd, the
swiftly-launched well-appointed vessels
of Yankee shippers, and their improved
methods OF fishing, early attracted their
attention and led to their shipping on
them when opportunity occurred.
There has been for years steady stream
Of these hardy fellows flowing into the
port. They make excellent fishermen,
marry there. settle down. and add much
to the towns prosperity. There ara
others. again, to whom more of romance
attaches men OF birth and education
from England and the Continent
whom youthful errors or wrongs have
driven into exile; others seemed to have
adopted the business because of its
danger and adventure. Avolume might
be made of these tales told in town Of
men Of this character, who are nov, or
have been, forecasltlemen on the cod and
mackerel catches. Like sailors. the
Cape Ann fishermen are quite super
stitious. One finds the study OF this
trait quite Interesting The supersti-
ton against beginning trip on Friday
is strong with them. When vessel
sails near enoupI 10 HALF Wav rock on
the bank vovaoes the crew are ami r..
pitch coppers and niolsles mon IL !. RI
bring them good lnck.. They balieva
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-03
a NEW USE FOR TRADE DOLLARS.

A new use has been found for the
much abused trade dollar by an enter
prising ieweler. He takes the despised
coin and makes it into such shapes as he
can without destroying its identity.
Some of the designs are copyrighted,
just as publisher would copyright a
book, to keep the sharks and guerillas
Of the trade from stealing them.
Here is one, said the dealer. pro-
ducing what appeared to be a new speci-
men of the coin, designed for a pocket
piece. The piece is split and followed
out so that picture Gun be placed in it.
The pieces fit together SO perfectly that
no one would ever suspect the use to
which il has been adapted. Here is
matchbox made of four of the dollars.
You see the coins, although split SO that
both surfaces show on the face of the
design, are SO bent and worked into
shape that their outlines are undis-
turbed. Nothing else enters into the
composition of the box but the hinge"
Another curiosity shown wasa cigar
cite case made of coins OF various demo-
limitations Dimes quarters, half dollars
and trade dollars, welded on to silver
base Of alligator skin design, and SO oxi-
died that the coins seemed century
old.
:" Is there no law against putting the
coin to such use?" inquired the reporter.
"You can do as you please with
United States money if you do not
attempt to counterfeitit or try to pass it
after you have mutilated OF otherwise
tinkered it. Speaking Of counterfeiting
reminds me of friend in the same line.
He conceived the idea of making
cigarette case out Of gold and enamel to
resemble roll Of bills :
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-03
HE KNEW now IF WAS HIMSELF.

"Well, we ore penniless or mighty
near it. /" he said, as he reached home
and threw the evening paper to his wife.
"Wh-what is it ?"
'.The Mechanics Bank has busted.
and we had 81, 900 on deposit there"
But, Richard, she said, after glanc-
ing at the article, "the president says
that he hopes to pay all depositors in
full"
"And didn't say the same to my
creditors when 1 failed in the grocery
business and did single one Of them
receive five cents on the dollarS" ha
hoglAIl
The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-03

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The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-01-03


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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29
The Country School Teacher.

What do you propose doing toward
securing good teacher for your school
this winter? Make an effort this year
to improve the school, Find out what
teachers can be secured before you go
to the school meeting. Talk things
over with your neighbors, and see what
they want. Put some good business
man on the school board, and support
him heartily in all needed reforms.
Make the grounds attractive and the
house comfortable, even if it does cost
a little to do it. Visit the school as
often as you can. Tell your children
to mind the teacher, and never encour-
age them in rebellion. II you think
the school is unfit for them to attend,
take them out of it, and do not send
them there to carry on an authorized
INSTRUMENTATION. Watch the teacher,
and still be reasonable with him. If
your boy does not learn as rapidly as
he should, see if some of the fault is
not in the boy. If you neglect the
school, you neglect your duty as citi-
zen.-Rural Ne1U- Yorker.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29

houses OF infamy. And we do
according to law. and we tnrn Nv .ss woI
srisl every every hour. and grind up warm ia. l. nd
, "nI ; :; neads, and the earth about n,
,nall ~, Is no. more saturated with tho " h
age .nan inc ground about oil these n ne;
aestfoylng institutions is saturatodm n1
1he 9lood OF victims. We saw . ~ vi
island nelghoorhoods and villages. ~ &c 10y
us us more supply" And to Westchestos sel
0ls,er and all the other Countess counties of I, az
YORK: send us more men ana wom NJ Nc
p,nt under the wheels" Give o nut
chance and we could grind nm i ~ I,
municipal mill 500 q day. Weharvodh
machinery; we have enough men WIN vInona
run them. Give us more homes TO hn ~
Give us more parental hearts to n NJ etos
Put into the hopper the wardrobess ' a,'a 2
family Bibles, and the livelihoods of sna
and children. Give us more mat on WY
these mighty mills, which are wa.
tears and snlphurous with woe. and vi. ~. vi
bling with the earthquakes of an noa uei
God, who will, unless our cities I wen
cover us up as quick and as dean open
August of the year 70 Vesuvius aypl,a ~
Herculaneum. ''''aleha|
y man ana woman, ponder the nail
thy feet! See which way Won oro pam "
Will you have the destiny of Fdwssoh Q
Nicholas? On this sacramental dar " ,a
the FURNISHED chalices stand in the n,,, nAe|
of the people, start from the foot of tboaa
for usefulness and heaven. Plu,arch' !. 81
us that after Caesar was slain an n ~
twenty-three wounds had been disnl n
to the people, arousing an uncontro Tiaye (
excitement, and the body of the dead Hl' so.
queror, according to ancient custom ~ w
been put upon the funeral pile md ~ nj
flames arose, people rushed up, took fru
the blazing mass torches with which ' ~ ]
ran through the city, crying the plorr
the assassinated ruler and the sham
his assassinators. On this sacrament p
day, when the five bleeding wonna
of Christ your king are Shown ~vpn|
you, and the fires of i!
earthly suffering blaze before your u; L.
agination. each one Of you take fowl WI
and start heavenward-a torch with Gnl
for yourself and light for others. for III II
race that starts at the cross ends at y, NJ
throne. While the twenty-three wounds ! J
Caesar wrought nothing but the consa1
nation of the people, from the five wonnd
of our Conqueror there flows transforu
ing power to make oil the upconnta
millions who will accept it, forever barn
and forever free. VH.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29
How the Indians Made Sugar

The Jesuit fathers, who were tho 6rs
white men in this country among III
Indians, made sugar regularly evorl
spring by tapping the sugar-maple. n
this time the Indians did not have irOl
kettles for boiling the maple SAP M
Then it became curious question hal
they did manage to boil down the sue|
culent juice without a kettle to boil h
in. They tapped the trees with thei|
tomahawks, and inserted Spite in tbl
incision to conduct the sap from M
tree to the vessel beneath. Their spjll
was a piece of dry pine or cedar wood
grooved on its upper side for the sad
to flow down. No doubt this proces]
was extremely crude, still with all id
crudities they succeeded in producinI
a considerable quantity Of sugar each
spring. Their buckets were made b
taking roll of birch bark, and sewin1
up the ends with deer sinews or roots
Thus they got vessel capable of hold
ing a pailful: and no doubt the sad
caught in such vessels was just as sweel
rs that which we now gather in ou|
bright tin pals, at far greater expensd
and trouble. Gathering the sap from
the birchen buckets it was carried II
the original red men to the boiling
place. This boiling-place was lay2
caldron made Of large sheets Of bnA
bark. Beside the caldron a fire wa
built, and in this fire was placed 10
of stones. As soon as the stones bel
came heated to red heat they werd
dropped into the birchen caldronI
previously filled with sap. By taking
out the cooled stones and putting ID
more hot ones, and repeating the prc|
cess, even slow as it was, they col
the sap to boiling. Once got to boiling
by reheating the extracted stones, they
kept up the boiling, and so continued
the process, until after time they got
the sap boiled down, and sugar was the
result. That was making sugar without
the aid of q kettle, and no doubt many
will almost doubt the accuracy Of the
statement. It is a positive fact, for my
forefathcrs who came to this province
IN the last century have handed down
in family tradition the story of the pro.
cess just as [ have narrated it. Indeed
they were eye-witnesses of the process
themselves. With the advent of set.
tiers of course the Indian soon learned
better, and traded his furs with thefllr
dealers for iron kettles, and then began
making sugar much as the white man
docs now Too.oo,J in G7oho
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29
Showed His Choler.

His collar stud was missing, and lie
the engine kissing, like great big
giant kissing, as he leaped upon the
train.
He plunged into a seat there, and
twas his luck to meet there, the very
fine and sweet fair that he longed 10
see again.
But she gave him the cold shoulder,
and his rage he could not shoulder, 50
at last he up and told her she was
heartless thing.
She said, "you'd have some choler,
before, I'd bet a dollar, any insult yos,
would swaller, SO go and bay the rlns +,
But button he procured, at u! y,
next town twas secured, and he sala
he had endured her sarcasm too strong !.
And while his anger bubbled, ne lei y
her looking troubled, and his collar u
was doubled, for season that was long
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29

BERLIN papers copy from the Ger
mania an account Of an important dis
covery in glass manufacture made by
Friedrich Siemens, of Dresden. He
has succeeded in casting glass in the
same way as metal is cast, and obtain
ing an article corresponding to cast
metal. This cast glass is hard, not
dearer in production than cast iron, and
has the advantage of transparency, so
that all flaws can be detected before it
is applied to practical use. It will be
much less exposed to injury from at
mospheric influences than iron. The
process of production is not difficult,
Che chief feature being rapid cooling.
The hardness and resisting power of
this cast glass are so great that expert
ments are being just now carried out at
the Siemens Glass Foundry, at Dres-
den, with the purpose of ascertaining
whether the material could be employed
for rails on railways.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29

The ninth white man to cross Africa
from sea to sea in the central regions
has recently reached Zanzibar, and is
now on his way home. He is Lieut..
Gleerup, who for three years has been
in the service Of the International As
ISOLATION. When his term of service
expired nine months ago, says the New
York Sun, he was at Stanley Falls
station, on the Congo. He was at lib
erty to make comfortable voyage down
the river on steamer, and could have
reached the Atlantic in about month.
He chose, however, to make the toll
some eight months march to Zanzibar
with an Arab caravan dispatched by
Tippu lib, the great Central Afri-
can slave and ivory dealer. Three
years on the Congo had not impaired
his vigor or dulled his appetite for
African adventure. His route was up
the Congo to Nyangue, and then almost
east to Tanganyika and the Indian
Ocean. Lieut.. Gleerup will doubtless
be able to give many interesting facts
about the depots the Arabs have estab-
lisned on the upper Congo and their
remarkable advance down the river,
where, for several hundred miles. their
influence is much greater than that of
the Congo State. He also passed
through the new German possessions,
and will be able to acquaint
us with the progress of this
unique and predetermined enterprise.
Thirty four years ago Livin gstone was
the first white man to cross Africa. 1t
was in this famous trip from Loanda to
the Indian Ocean that he revealed the
upper Zambesi valley to the world and
discovered the great Victoria falls.
Ten years ago Cameron crossed the
continent from Zanzibar to Benguela,
thwarted in his ambition to follow the
Congo to the sea by his inability to
procure canoes. Stanley little later
solved the Congo problem. Wissmann,
five years ago, was the first to cross the
continent from west to east, travelling
much new territory, and discovering a
monarch in Central Africa who was
able to honor his visitor by opening a
bottle OF champagne from Paris
About the same time Matteuci and
Massari followed route that was sup
posed to be impracticable, travelling
from the Red Sea through the fierce
Mohammedan states south of the Sa-
hara, and attaining the mouth Of the
Niger in safety, though so fever-worn
THAT Matteuci died the very week he
reached London. Capello and Ivens,
in their great journey tive years ago
from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean,
explored the source of the Congo
Gleerup completes the list Of travellers
who have crossed the continent within
the tropics.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29
Fish in Polluted Water.

Some interesting researches on lne
injury to the fisheries and fish cullu. liz
by sewage and factory waste wale q.
have been made in Germany by Welge. w
Sacre, and Schwabe. Among o1n Il
results, it was found that CHLORIDE EN- =,
lime in the water, in proportions lro on.
O.04 to O.0O5 per cent. exerted an lb
mediately fatal action upon teD the
while trout and salmon persisted III ~: NV
pne per Of cent 9as 81 hy ssn acid
killed tench and trout. Iron ac1eI linn N
q specific poison on fishes, as did ala orr
also. Solution caustic lime had a VIZ y
violent effect. Sodium sulph1de' ,as
the proportion of Dol per cent. T T%s
endured by tench for half an hour i de-.
injurious action of putrid sewasa1 thu the
ponds on the poisonous gases anu
deficiency Of oxygen.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29

TWENTY-FIVE years ago Patrick Dris-
coll, just arrived from ireland, found
pocket-book containing ove~ $3.50, in
Salem, N. J. He told his employer,
who advised him to keep it until the
owner appeared. The other day Charles
W. Dunn happened to speak in the
presence Of Mr.. Driscoll, now pros
porous merchant, about his brother,
Samuel Dunn, now dead, losing a
pocket-book years before. Mr.. Dris-
coll at once took book from his pocket
and handed it to Mr.. Dunn, who iden-
tilted it as the one his brother had lost.
He was asked to count the money.
There was just $151.7s. Mr.. Dunn
tried to get Mr.. Driscoll to keep the
money, but he refused. He said it was
load off his mind to get rid of that
$15l.79.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29

WHATEVER his lineage, it is not less
true that Geronimo is one of the most
remarkable Indian commanders the
nation has ever known. Gifted with
the cunning and ferocity Of savage
beast, almost void of human instincts,
and skilled as modern professional in
the use Of arms, all combine to make
him most dreadful enemy. Added
to these peculiar traits is his singular
and almost unlimited influence over the
people among whom he has lived. He
has command Of English, Spanish. and
several Indian dialects, and in military
capacity and the power to use his re-
sources he is more than match for
any of the trained soldiers who have
been hunting him for years.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29

RECENT comparison shows that the
silk of Bengal is fully equal to that of
Italy, but the curious difference ap-
pears that the italian worm spins a
thread nearly five times as loag as that
Of the worm of India.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29
MISS PoLLY GENUS, Of Washington

MISS POLLY GEHR1s, of Washington
township, Pennsylvania, who recently
died at the age of eightyfour, was al
ways a manly sort of woman. She
hired out to the farmers to work in the
field, and could do mans work. She
smoked and chewed tobacco for over
fifty years, and boosted that she had
never had beau, and that no man
ever lived who dared to ask her to
marry him.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-29

The fast trotter is an American crea-
ton, and he is properly classed as a
national institution. 1t is gratifying to
note his improvement from year to year.
Thus far this season no horse has shown
up which promises to equal the per-
Torrance of Jay Eye-See, 2:1O, OF that
Of Maud S., 2:0Sa, but shoals of 2:2O
flyers have challenged admiration. In
these days 2:3O trotter is of very lit
tie account in circuit battles. Horses
which train on to extreme flights are
rare, but when we see the standard
qualification advanced ten seconds the
conclusion naturally follows that i'm
provement has attended the efforts of
breeders and trainers.