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Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-23

marten, skunk and beaver, as well as
otter and seal-skin, and also Siberian
squirrel, are all made up here. as well
as some furs of minor value, and all
have the same characteristics regard
ing the flying of the loose hairs
and the absorption of arsenic into
the system. In some few establishments
they receive beaver skins an nataret
and pluck out the long hairs, though
that work is not always done here.
Sealskin also has to be treated in the
same way, and the coarse long hairs
are plucked out leaving the soft fur ex-
posed. Some of the girls who work
at the fur trade are set to making but
tons for the sealskin sacques, and as
this work is comparatively easy it is
very poorly paid. They earn by steady
work about four dollars week if ex-
pert In some cases whole family Of
girls will be found working together
1t takes about a year for girl to learn
fur sewing, though those who finish
off garments must of necessity under
stand 1t better still. The pay is fair
Tor experts, Tor they can earn up 10 teii
dollars week, but the work is not
steady, and in the winter and spring
there are many idle months, so that the
average is at once reduced to five dol
lars. When learning, girls usually get
one dollar a week for the first year,
and 1t is very rare that one receives
over five dollars week inside of three
years, and this then is reduced nearly
one-half by the dull months. The
most of the fur manufactures in this
city are owned by Hebrews, and they
are uniformly kind to the girls. There
is not one complaint from over two
hundred girls seen by the writer, O
any brutal or unmanly conduct. They
are treated with great respect-M y
| MniI and ErDrpsS
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-23
SPENCER'S LUCK.
An Ex-senator Tells How He Got Hi
First Start in the World.

An Ex-senator Tells How He Got Hi,
First Start in the World.
Ex-senator Spencer gave me the other
day the story of his first piece of good
luck, which illustrates the fact that
fortune has quite as much to do even
with mans getting good start in
life as mere merit. Spencer says that
he went to Des Moines, Ia, when he
was young fellow, and arrived there
with just $75 in his pocket. He was
alone and without friends. He was
very homesick, and went to bed early
to escape the blues. While he was in
bed he was walked by conversation
in the next room. The conversation
was on such subject that it attracted
his attention Immediately. He got up
and listened at crack in the thin par
tition between his room and the next
and heard the two commissioners who
had the locating of the capitol of the
State of Iowa discussing where they
would place it. They finally agreed
where they would go, and then made
arrangements to buy certain tract Of
land adjacent to the location, the only
part that was for sale. Mr.. Spencer
said that he got up very early in the
morning and went to the owner of this
piece of land. He asked him what he
would take for it, and he said $500
cash. Spencer said: "Well, l suppose
thirty days is cash, is it not? l am
here from New York, and it will take
me about that time to get the money"
The man said: Thirty days is good
enough. if you can pay something
down" So Mr.. Spencer paid $50 and
took receipt for it. An hour later
the man wanted to back out of the
sale, but the receipt held it Spencer
sold that piece of land so as to clear
$500 within the next ten days This
gave him his first start He went to
Nebraska and from that State went in
to the war. While he was in Nebrasks
he lived in hotel with FIVE friends.
each of whom afterward came to the
United States Senate. These men were
Kellogg. Paddock, Hitchcock, Upton
and SsunderS-M T. World,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-23
Why the Old Man Was Slow.

"Helloa. Uncle Boggy," said ayoung
negro, speaking to an old negro whom
he overlook in the street. "W'yn't yer
walk faster an not let me pass yer dis
wayP"
Hole on er mint, the old man re-
quested. "Yer've seed er man totin' er
sack O con, hain't yerP'
"Oh, vas, sab"
''An' yer's seed er man totin' err
empty sack. l spozep"
81 sho has :"
.'Ah, hah. an didn't yer allus notice
dat de man whut amt otnothin' in his
sack walks faster den de one dat's got a
full ssck?"
ssYas, sahP"
wall. yerse'fs one O. dem men wild
er empty sack. Run er long, SON, fur
yer amt got weight enuff on yer
shoulders to hol' yer on de eroun'. y
Arkansaw Traveller.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-23
POISON IN FURS.
Industrious Girls Who Receive Small Pay
for Very Trying Work.

Industrious Girls Who Receive Small Pay
for Very Trying Work.
OF all the skilled labor that women
do, probably the worst and most UNI
healthy is that of the fur-sewers and
few live to work at II more than FIVE or
six years. They gointo consumptive
decline, lose their sight or become vic
Tins to arsenical poison. The busy
season with fur-sewers is during the
summer and early fall, as the gar
ments that are to be sold the following
winter are made then, and as that also
is the season when moths are flying it
is necessary to keep the work-room
closed as far as possible, to prevent
any of those dreaded insects from en-
tering. In consequence the air is filled
with minute particles of fur.wh keep
up constant irritation of the lungs
and desire to cough which frequently
develops into pulmonary consumption
in those predisposed that way. The
flying hairs also get into the eyes. and
there are few of the girls who work at
that trade long that do not have red
and sore eyes, though some of them
attribute that trouble to the presence
of the arsenic which has been used to
cure the skins. The fur dealers will
tell you that there is no danger to
the health in that business, and that
there are no poisons used in the prep
arations of the pelts, but one glance at
the girls will disprove that, for nine
out of every ten will show unmistakable
evidence of poisoning in their pale
faces and pulled out eyslids. Every
pelt has to be cured with more or less
arsenic, and no amount of subsequent
shaking or dyeing viii remove it all.
The girls receive it into their system
with every prick of the needle and
every particle of dust they inhale. The
very air is scented with its pungent cop
perry odor.
Fur sewingis in itself no harder than
any other kind of sewing. The work.
ers are generally seated in low chairs
and have the work in their laps and
and thus bend directly over it. The
stitch is an over and over one and is
sewn with linen thread, and then the
seams are fattened out by means of 9
bone instrument the wrong side being
first dampend. The work is tedious,
as it is composed of hundreds of small
bits of fur matched and sewn together
to piece out lengths or alter shapes,
The sewing up of a garment is the
easiest part of it Sable. bear and fox
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-23
OSTRICH FEATHERS.
How the Health of the Bird Affects Its
Valuable Piumes. N

How the Health of the Bird Affects Its
Valuable Piumes.
Ostrich chicken feathers are useless
nntil they are year old; they are rare
ly cut before. AT twelve months they
are cut off. The stumps dry, and after
few weeks the bird sheds them, or
they can be drawn out without pain and
with ease. The feathers then take six
months to grow before they can again
be cut. Three pluckings are obtaina-
BILE in two years. time. The process of
plucking continues for many years, but
it requires the greatest care to prevent
the feathers deteriorating. The feath-
ers from the wild bird are the longest
and finest, but rarely more than three
on one bird are sufficiently perfect to
render them fit for commerce. Hence
the necessity of the farm. A male bird
turns black at about the age of eighteen
months. The black and black-and.
white feathers are pulled from different
parts of the body; the white feathers
come from one row only in the wing
tail feathers are never as white as those
in the wing, and are usually bleached
for ''tips." So little is known about
the habits of the ostrich that people are
surprised to find how the health of the
bird affects its feathers. In MANY OF
the best feathers is what appears to be
line running across the feather. This,
NAV be, is not caused by the
packing-string being too tightly
tied, but by a days illness. So
delicate are the feathers and so init
mately and so wonderfully connected
with the organization of the bird that a
days dyspepsia from overlooking or UNI
derfeeding will leave this mark. A del
icate bird has its feathers more or less
marked throughout. Ostriches are not
camped out for breeding until the male
bird is four and the hen three years of
age. They lay from ten to fifteen eggs
and incubate forty-two days. The male
bird is pattern husband and father; if
accident should overtake his mate it is
most usual for him to continue the sit
ting, and he has frequently been known
to bring off the brood successfully,
''mothering" them with the greatest
care until they can peck, which is not
until three DAYS after Matching. The
nest of the ostrich is always in the sand,
and is scratched out by the male bird;
the hen forms perfect wall of sand
round her with her wings before the
eggs are Matched. The ostrich knows
no fear, and is a most formidable and
dangerous opponent. Their cry, which
answers to cock-crowing, is deep bel
low that can be heard for couple Of
miles, and is called "bromming The
depression in ostrich farming has been
caused by an overstocked market.
Naturally those in climates suited to
the bird imported them from the Cape.
When the steed was stolen, the Cape
Government locked the stable door; but
alas! the one hundred pounds premium
on every bird exported was too late q
measure to prevent thriving farms
growing in Australia and India, and il
Is with chagrin bordering on despair
that the Cape farmers find the retail
trade cleaning the profits. = Chicago
Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-23
WHOLESOME BREAD.
A Simple Receipt Which Is Certainl
~ Worth a Trial.

A Simple Receipt Which Is Certainly
Worth a Trial.
1t is strange that so many people
should know so little about the prepara-
ton of really good food. 1t is useless to
point out few shining examples here
and there-go east or west or north or
south and good bread, for instance, is
almost unknown. And Coffee who has
not shuddered time and again at the
decoction served under that namep /
have drank it when l could not have
told to save my life whether l was
drinking coffee or tea, or both, or some
thing else. But to return to bread. To
be really good, it should be white.
spongy and tough, with dark red
crust that melts in the mouth with an
indescribable sweetness, and leaves but
one wish in the heart-more bread. To
make it, but two things are necessary;
good -four and good hop yeast. No
one can afford TO use poor flour, for it
absorbs SO much water that it will not
20 one-half as far as flour of better
grade The next requisite is home
made yeast. The dry kinds in mar
ket are seldom fresh, and yeast
is so easily made and so easily
kept that it is poor policy to buy it.
The following receipt l know to be
good: Four potatoes, two handfuls OF
hops, one tablespoonful of ginger, two
of salt, half cup sugar and one half cup
of good fresh yeast. Boil the potatoes
and hops together, and scald half cup
of -four with the water; as soon as
sufficiently cold, add the yeast, sugar,
salt and ginger and ferment twenty
four hours, and then bottle. 1t will
keep six weeks in the hottest weather.
Half cupful will make from fonr to
six loaves. The bread should be set
over night, and thoroughly kneaded in
the morning, the longer the better. but
from half to three-quarters of an hour,
anyway. Bake well, and just before
taking from the oven, wet the tops Of
the loaves with cold water to insure that
deep, dark red glaze so dear to the goot
bread lovers heart. Never use par
ticle of butter or lard in bread, for il
DESTROYS the crustiness. = Cor. Obi
Farmer
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-23
One Dollar Per Year.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Mrs. Langtry often walks eighteen
miles day and tires OUT two men
on the road.
w. w. Coreoran, the Washington
banker, is lightweight years old, and
has given more than $2,000,00O for
charity. Washington Star.
The widow of Parson Brownlow
still lives at Knoxville, Tenn, and
keeps bound volume of BroWntot0's
Wing as memorial of her husband
Carl Banck recently celebrated the
fortieth anniversary of his connection
with the Dresden Journal as musical
critic. He is now in his SEVENTEEN
year.
The Catholic periodicals of the
United States in the English language
consist of one quarterly review, about
seven monthly magazines and about
thirty weekly papers.
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe realizes
that her cup of literary distinction is
full and running over, and has ~
nounced that she will write no
for publication. N Y. Tribune.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes
tographs are everywhere to be ST
London shop windows, and>the
are still talking of him as the
the year, as great success in Eng..~,.
as Dickens was in America
Jenny Lind, the once famous
songstress, has given up her London
mansion, and is now living in contented
retirement at Malvern Hills, Eng She
is sixty-fve years old, and her voice
still retains much of its power.
Probably the youngest preacher in
the world Is l. Z. Bill, Baptist, only
twelve years of age, who preached a
sermon recently at st. Martins, N. b.,
to large congregation. His father is
clergyman. Chicago Journal.
General Harvey of the United
register. He became soldier in 1Slo
and participated in every war in which
the country has engaged since that
time. He is eighty-six years OF age
and very rich.- Chicago Inter Ocean.
MIR Cooley, who died leaving
fortune OF two or three millions, made
chiefly out of his Lady's Book, when
asked why he did not raise the stand-s
ard of his magazine said: 1 am
making magazine for the few, b.
magazine for the Eliza James I
are in vast majority. "-Philadelp
Press. r<s t
The Farmers Cabinet, of Amhel
Mass, has been published eighty-tf,,
years, during the last seventy-six Of
which it has know but two pro-
tors, the present senior editor.
E. d. Boylston, and his fathe
ter of whom purchased it in
sold it to the former in 1847.
Boylston commenced work at the
at the age of eight, and now at
age of seventy two does more or Il
in the composing-room every week.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-23
TO A MOSQUITO.

OF all hum-bugs accursed,
Mosquito you're the worst;
You poise on me-Td like to poison you.
All summer slap you come.
And make yourself ito mum
As slap my other blood relations do.
I've bills enough sent in
Without yours, bird of sin;
To scratch for slap (of course i missed my
ann.
I'm bored by others, too,
But when I'm bored by you
I'm overheard, slap wish you the same
All day and night you sing:
30, Death here is thy sting"
Till in cold blood l itch to kill you! Oh
Miss Quito, you must be
Completely mashed on me,
And slap)-you are. You amt for there
you go.
Well, when the cold waves hum,
You won't, and you'll succumb
When Jack Frost nips you worse than you
nip me.
But, then, old friend, you may
Freeze to me any day,
And you'll be warmed" as tsap) you ought
to be.
III. G. Dodge. in Gooddtus Sun.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-23
HUMOROUS.

MISERY may like company" says
colored philosopher, "but I'd raider
hab de rheumatic in one leg den hab it
in bof. "ei'7 i{ tyi'B4a l't1
There is bear at Denmark, Me-,
that eats dogs. Every well regulated
city and town should have a vigorous,
capable bear with just such an appe
tite.-Leviston (Me. } Journal.
We read of Rev. Mr.. Grim ma
rying couple at Yocumtown, J
There is grim sort of humor in be
matrimonially yoked at Yoke'emte
by Mr.. Grim. = Norristotcn Herald
In the juvenile papers we RET
der the head of pets, v Of dogs
tame that they will eat from your har
There are other dogs so tame that I'll
will eat from your leg. There are some
in Newark. - Tfd-BttS.
Z What makes you grow up to be
menp" teacher ina primary school in
Melrose, near Boston, asked of her class
of boys the other day. II know, said
the smallest boy in the class "What
is itP' Birthdays. " 4e
Why He Left. -
Ayoung man who had luck at bezique,
Used to play all the days of the wique,
But when they glanced up his sleeve,
He exclaimed Il must leevelp
And stra'ghtway was gone like striquc.
Life.
what do you think? woke up
!bis morning absolutely deprived of all
intelligence, perfect IDIOT ''And
how were you when you went to bed
last nightP'' 'The same as usual"
'sOh, that accounts for itn--French
Joke. z .tA .eSf an
1.-THE last link is broken the fel-
low said. when he kissed his giA good
bye forever, at her request. because
her parents wished a dissolution. A
few days after he received note,
saying: Dear George, there are plenty
more links; come and break them. -
NJ u Ledger. Hae tf
AN Irish tailor, making a gentle
mans coat and vest too small. was or
dered to take them home and LET
out. Some days after the ger
was told that his garments
to fit countryman of his
let them out at shilling a.
Y Telegram. IS
so, isn't it lovelytnight, A
plus? just fancy how delightft.
nights must be in the Orient!
azure blue sky, the perfume of "a,
flowers, the soft tinkling II tell
you. Miranda, dear, prefer the nights
they have in Alaska They re Just i'm
mense.n ''Immease, AdolphusPn Yes.
for counting They're so long, you
know. Philadelphia Cal.
| The small boy who furnishes the
historian with a good deal of data
watches his baby sister with constant
curiosity. ''She doesn't know any
thing" he said. 'sShe caa't talk; she
can't think; she can't read He
looked at her a moment, meditatins
on his own superiority. and then said
/ pityingly: "Poor little thing: she's
I never been to a circusr' - Toledo Blade
English school-board education
/ continues to yield curious results. TIL,
latest is this: In answer to the ques
ton put by the diocesan inspector
describe some effects of the proceed
ings under Queen Mary the glib an
swer was reeled off: MANY of tn
Bishops were deprived of their sees.
One of the managers. however, sskes
the meaning of the statement After |
long pause one boy put up hIs ban
and said: Had their eyes put out
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-23

He wasn't brave young man and
it took him some time to muster up
courage to say: Ethel. / would to
Heaven you were Opportunity" why.
George" Because then l might en-
brace YOU" ''0h, you mean MP
Indianapolis Herald
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-23

"A young man wants to know how
10 bring out mustache. Tie cord
around it tightly, hitch the cord to q
post and then run baekwsrd.-M 7.
telegram
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-09-23
ASSISTED EMIGRATION.

The Hard Lines Of Those Able
Bodied Paupers.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-14
ALIAS
District Court Summons.
ALIAS

In the District Court Of the Sixth
Judicial District. I'm and for the
County of Eureka, State OF Ne
vada.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-14


YVHE STATE OF NEVADA SENDS GREET.
ing to O. r. Thomas:
You are hereby required to appear in an
action commenced against you as defendant
By II. johnson as plaintiff, in the District
Court OF the Sixth Judicial District, in and
for the County Of Eureka, state OF Nevada, at
the town Of Eureka, and answer the complaint
therein, which is on file with the Clefk Of
eaid Court. within ten days after the service
oD you OF this Summons exclusive Of the day
of service), II served In said county, or
twenty days If served out Of said county, but
within this district, and in all other cases
forty days; or judgment by default will be
taken against you, according to the prayer of
said complaint.
The said action is brought to recover judg.
ment against you, the said defendant, for the
sum Of S641 % due from defendant to plain
tiff upon certain promissory note, set out and
described in the complaint hled in this cause,
to which reference Is hereby made, with in
terest on said sum from the 10th day of Feb
ruary. 1883, at the rate Of onepe 3cent per
month until paid. together with costs Of suit.
All Of which win more fully appear in the
complaint on file herein, TO which you are re-
ferred
And you are hereby notified that II you fail
to appear and answer the said complaint as
aboverequired, the said plaintiff will take judg-
ment against yon for said sum Of $641 92, in
terest as aforesaid and costs Of suit.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, l, A. A.
ANDRE. have hereunte set my hand
[sEAL.l and affixed the seal OF said Court this
18th day Of May. A. D. 1886.
County Clerk and Ex.oficio CLERK Of the Dis
trict Court, Sixth Judicial District. Eureka
County, Nevada.
By Z. D. yAsDRRLrErH, Deputy CLERK.
je3-6w
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-14
sHERIFF's SALES.
SheriH's Sale.
In the Sixth Judicial DistricG
Court of the State of Nevada, In
and for Eureka County.
III. N. Allen, Plaintiff,
The OnOndaigua Gold and silver
Mining Company, Defendant.

PY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION IS sUED
ID out of the District Court Of the Sixth
Judicial District of the State of Nevada, In
and for Eureka county, on the 10th day OF July,
A. d. 1885, and to me directed and delivered
for q judgment rendered in said Court on the
26th day Of June, 1886, in favor OF II. M. Allen,
plaintiff, and against the Onondsigua Gold
and Silver Mining COMPANY, defendant, for
the sum of S703 25-100 ia United States gold
coin; with -anterest in like gold coin, at the
rate Of 10 per cent per anuum till paid, to-
gether with the sum of S604 40-100 United
states gold coin, costs and disbursements,
have on this, the 18th day Of July, 1886,
levied on the following escribed real estate,
to wit: The Onondaigus mining claim sit
nate about six miles west from Palisade, in
Stafford Mining District, Eureka county, Ne
vsds, commencing ct monument and running
ten hundred feet northwest and hve hun
dred feet southeast, with three hundred
feet upon each side Of said ledge.
Also, one frame building used as an assay
office by said company.
Also, the following described personal prop
erty:
One asssying outfit,
One lot mining tools,
Four canvas tents.
All Of which 10 situate on the above de-
scribed onondaigus mining claim, Eureka
county, Nevada.
Notice is hereby given that on
Tuesday, the goth day OF July,
A. ID. 1855,
Between the hours Of O'Clock A. N. and 8
O'Clock p. NJ, to wit: IL o'clock noon Of said
day, / will sell ali OF the right, title.
aud interest of the above defendant. in and
10 the above described personal property. to
be sold by me on the ground above described
at public auction for cash in hand to the
highest and best bidder to satisfy said execu-
ton and all costs
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-08-14
Ana notice IA herebv given Chat on

And notice is hereby given that on
Wednesday, the 4th day Of August,
A. ID. 1856,
Between the hours of 0 o'clock a. NJ. and 8
o'clock NJ. to wit: II O'Clock M. Of said day,
will sell all the right, title claim and interest
Of said defendant. Onondaigua Gold and Sill
yer Mining Company. Of, in and to the above
described real estate at the front door Of the
Courthouse. at public aaction. for cash in
hand, TO the highest and best bidder, to satisfy
said execution and all costs.
WIN. STIN5ON, Sheriff.
By A. STISsoN, Deputy.
BAKER s. WINES, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Eureka. New, July Is, 1886. jyl5-td