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The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02
MetaI-Cutting Machinery.

An account is given of the introduc- ton into England by Mime. De Long of her metal-cutting machinery, which has for some time been unsuccessful use in France. She has now, 1t appears, per fected some ingenious machinery, worked by steam-power, which cuts with the utmost precision the hardest and softest metals in any design, so that by it can be produced a gold lace-pin or a steel castle-portcullis from the solid metal. without any molding or filing. This unique industry is divided into four general branches. The first is the pro- duction of gates, doors, balcony-fronts and other architectural metal-work, without casting-plates of brass foot thick being thus cut into lattice work at single operation; a second branch is the making of lattice-metal work filled in with glass, to super sede the ordinary leaden frames for church and other ornamental win dows; the third branch comprises the inlaying of plush and ebony jewell cases, cabinets, etc., with red and vel. low copper, steel, and other metals. and a fourth for the working of pie. ture-frames, baskets, crests, etc, out of the solid metal fully finished. Chicago Tribune
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02
Water as an Aid to Blasting.

Attention is called by the Coal TTade Journal, in an elaborate article, to the fact that the value of water as an aid to blasting, when used in connection with explosives, is rapidly becoming rec ognized in this country, as well as in the larger mines and quarries of Eu-. rope. Among the favorable points per- taining to this process, special mention is made of the fact that the powder, in exploding, bursts the tube containing the water, and-careful estimates show ing-with increased power or explosive violence; this is because the rending force is extended through the water, in accordance with certain well-kn0wn principles of hydrostatics, over the en- larged interior area of the bore hole, due to the space occupied by the water tube. A much larger quantity of the material to be mined or quarried is thus brought down or loosened with smaller quantity of the explosive used Again, the heat given off by the burning of the powder and surrounding gases converts a larger proportion of the water into steam, the elastic force of which assists in the operation of blasting, and the steam and remaining water together ex- tinguish the flame and flash of the powder.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02
Curious Boundary Lines.

In tine tempestuous times of Governor Belcher's reign over Massachusetts Bay, in 1751, a great dispute arose as to the boundary between that colony and New Hampshire. It was referred to the Grown, and a certain boundary line ordered to be drawn. A man named Hagen surveyed this line, and allowed 10 deg. for the westerly varia- ton of the needle when he should have allowed only deg. 40 min. The result was the loss to New Hampshire of triangular piece of territory two and three-quarter miles wide at the base and stretching from Dracut to the Connecticut River This error has never been officially corrected, and now joint commission has been appointed by the two States to confirm the line, over which Massachusetts has been exercising only prescriptive rights for one hundred and forty-fve years. The curiously notched boundary line north of the Merrimac belongs to the same period and resulted from an at tempt to follow the windings of the river at distance of three miles.-N r Sun
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02
4 WOflDERF UL OPERATION.
Two New Pupils Formed for . Blind
 Girls Eyes.
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Dr. G. c. McDermott has performed two operations on a patients eyes this week that are considered marvellous by those who have knowledge of the subject. The patient is little girl from Lebanon, Ohio, who is now with her mother at 5 West Seventh street. Her name is Mary Mar garet Reardon, and her father is an em- ploye of the l., B. & W. Railroad. She is eleven years old, and has been almost totally blind since birth, being afflicted with what is known as congenital cata- racts The center of each pupil had @ cat aract, and she could only see dimly from the circle around the cataract. As her mother said, she could see dark objects moving, but could not distinguish horse or COW from train of cars. She had re- ceived an education such as is given to the blind, and can read very well the raised letters which are used for the sight less. Her parents had been anxious to have something done for her eyes since she was three years old, and taken her to prominent specialists, who would not guarantee that they could do her any good. Within the last few weeks Dr. McDermott has been treating her, and Tuesday last he made an operation on the left eye. He did not attempt to re- move the cataract, but made an incision in the lower part of the eye, and formed 8 new pupil. He then ban- daged the eye, and found yesterday that it had entirely healed up without in- hammation. He therefore repeated the operation on the right eye yesterday af- ternoon The little girl, who had fine, intelligent face and pretty golden hair, was startled when the bandage was re- moved yesterday morning from the first eye operated on, and declared that things looked strange to her. She took no an- esthetic while the operation was per- formed, and never flinehed or cried. The doctor says that for a few days his patient will have to wear a bandage, and after that she will begin to see, and in few weeks be able to read common type.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02
BLUE MONDAY.
Origin of a Custom Prevalent in Man
 Countries.

Origin of Custom Prevalent in Many
 Countries.
 It used to be custom in many conn tics for the journeymen and laborers to consider every Monday day set apart for idleness, and no induceinent would be strong enough to make them labor.
 In the sixteenth century it was a GUS. tom in Germany to decorate the churches with blue on fast days. The tradcsmen begun to keep their lasts by ncglecting their work. and then servants followed the example, Having nothing to do, the common people spent the time in drinking and eating, until ''To- day is Feasting Monday became a proverb. The custom, at first confined to innocent amusements the evening of fast days. was soon extended to every Monday in the year, and at once firmly established, it soon grew to be distinguished by tumults and debaucheries. Nothing proved ef- fectual to prevent the disorders until the matter was taken up by the Diet. This was brought about by company of shoemakers at Augsburg in 1726, who excited other workmen at Wurtsburg, 6y letter, to riotous acts. The magis- trates forbid the correspondence, and the shoemakers regarded this as an in- fringement of their rights.
 In 1731 the Diet published an edict abolishing the keeping of Blue Monday. Very little attention was paid to it, how ever, and in 1764 the Emperor Francis renewed it. In 1772 a decree of the En- pire was made abolishing Blue Monday, but even then it was many years before there was much change in the observ- ance of the day, the journeymen tailors being among the last to fail to devote every Monday to the worship of Bac- chus in spite of any rewards which might be offered to tempt him to honest labOr.-BoSto7 Globe.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02

call for drinks for all the rest, and issue a special order for dozen of cham pagne and tub for himself Selfish Oh, no, there was nothing selfish about it. He merely poured the champagne into the tub, pulled off his shoes and stockings, and washed his feet in it. Of course he was crazy, but don't gold make nine out of ten men crazy, whether they dig it out of the earth or get it in Wall streetp
 Everything had to be paid for in gold dust, and every bar had weights and scales to test the value of the dust, which was then current coin. For what 8 miner then paid for an ordinary round of drinks he could now buy heavy gold ring, but such a ring then would have been of small value in Australia com- pared with the worth of pint of whisky. The eccentricities of successful miners coming to the cities to spend their gains extended to their clothing Almost all of them were fond of tall silk part of the hat that was most becoming, some preferring the top and some the bottom, and a common sight was man walking in crowded street wearing the highly polished crown of a silk hat, fol- lowed or accompanied or preceded by a man whose head showed itself above the low walls encircling the rim that had thus been cut off from the upper portion of the hat.
 Elaborate weddings took place every day. As often as not the bride and bridegroom sat together on the driver s seat of furniture van, both drunk, and still drinking health and long life to the crowd that was cheering them on their way, and exchanging jokes with the long procession that drove or rode after the happy couple. I don't know whether such weddings resulted we'll or not, but they were celebrated very often.
 ''The police force of Australia was one of the best in the world. It was very like the Royal Irish Constabulary. But it was all out of town, and while very fair order was preserved at the diggings themselves, in the towns every man seemed to be following the dictates of his own free will, whether they proved him to be saint or sinner. "- N r Sun.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02
EUROPEAN HOTELS.
An Americans Experience in the Hostelries
 of France, Italy and Spain.

An Americans Experience in the HOstelries
 of France, Italy and Spain.
 The dining-room and kitchen in Italy and Spain are based on those of France with some differences. There is the chsf, the garcons and the style of service all nearly the same. It may be well to give the style of dinner served every day in some thousands of hotels in France-in fact, in all the hotels of the. country, except the best in Paris, Bor- deaux, Lyons, Marseilles and few other of the larger cities. A few spoon- fuls of colored liquid are first placed in the bottom of your plate, which make on the retina the faint spectrum of a soup. You are next given a small piece of fish, whose presence can be de- tected by the aid of a powerful micro scope. An entree follows scarcely more patent to the vision. and then roast cut into thin slices, which the waiter offers, trembling with anxiety, lest the famished guests should be tempted to take two instead of one. With the roast there is, of course, salad, and afterward vege- table, served with the same economy. The meal ends with some kind of sweet, perhaps boiled custard, called cream in the bill of fare, spoonful or two of which is placed in the middle of the plate of each guest. When the cheese is offered it is greedily snatched away, lest it should be too freely partaken of, and with little fruit, never found good on 8 hotel table in Europe, except the very best, the repast is ended Coffee is not served; it would spoil the busi- ness of the cafes, where the guests of all the hotels and restaurants congregate after dinner to take their coffee and dis cuss the news. Coffee is the one thing in France and Italy that is al- most always good. The meats are not always to be commended. An excel- lent beefsteak may sometimes be had, and excellent fowls in large cities, but rarely in the country. But everything about the hotel table in France suggests constantly the idea that you are in a country where provisions are scarce and dear, and where, off the great lines of travel, hotel expects to makea good living out of half dozen guests. Economy is ob- served in Italy, but the dinner at the table d'hote is on a slightly more liberal scale. In Spain provisions are cheaper, and the hotel table is properly served, the quality being quite as good as in France, the table wines much better and the prices lower. Butter is not put on the table either in France or Italy. If the guest wants it he must ask for it. In Spain it is always served in abundance, tasting slightly of oil, in little white round shavings that resemble the curls about the forehead of. handsome dow ager. In the south of Italy the same oily taste may be remarked in the but ter, while in Lombardy and Piedmont, more particularly at the hotels of Milan and Turin, the butter is as good as can be found anywhere in the world. It is unsalted, but salt is furnished the guest to use with it if he desires. Cor SGn Francisco Chronicle.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02
A CALL IN PERSIA.
The Formalities Established by the Elite
 of Teheran.

 The Formalities Established by the Elite
 of Teheran.
 The manners of the courtly occupant of this Teheran mansion are guided by an etiquette that is indeed ga law of the Medes and Persians, which. changeth not, The visitor sends notice an hour or two previous to calling. If the visit is one of importance, notice is sent the previous day. You will go in fashion suited to your social position and the rank of the host. Whether on horseback or in carriage, you will be accompanied by number of mounted attendants. As you approach the house, servants, mounted or on foot, come forth to meet you, and one returns with speed to an- nounce your coming. A dozen attend ants escort you to the reception room. According to your relative rank. the host meets you at the foot of the stair case, at the door, or at the upper part of the room. The question of seats is one also requiring the utmost circumspec- ton in observing the various shades of rank. If your rank is superior to that Of the host, you are invited to occupy a sofa alone, at the upper corner, while the host sits on a chair or on the floor at your right. The left is more honorable than the right in Persia. If of equal rank, he occupies the sofa with you; but if you are inferior. then the positions are reversed. The upper corner of the room is in any case the most hon. orable position. If number are pres ent of various ranks, each one knows his place at glance The passing of refreshments is also a matter of unde- viating strictneSs, the number and quail ity depending upon the time of day and the character of the guest. The kalfGIa, or water-pipe, offers fine opportunity for display of Persian manners. Ac- cording to precept and custom, a Mo hammedan can not smoke the same pipe with a Christian, and, except on rare occasions when the host is man of progressive. views, separate pipe is furnished for European visitor. But among Persians it is the custom for the highest in rank to receive the pipe first, offering it to each in turn before Smok- ing himself. For an inferior to accept the offer is an incredible offense against good manners. But each in turn after this ceremony takes few whiffs at the pipe, all taking care to eject the smoke from the bowl before offering it to the next. The attendants on such an occa- sion leave their shoes at the door and retire backwards. ."-S. c. IF Benjdplin, t11 Century.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02
HOME AND FARM.

Some farmers are trying to console themselves with the idea that rotten po- satoes left on the ground will be worth considerable as manure. The idea is fallacious. The potato is mainly car- bon and has very little manurial value N. r. Herald.
 Corn Meal to Mich Cows: Do not be deceived into feeding corn-meal to milch cows. Fed freely it at first in- creases the milk flow, but soon goes to fat and lessens the milk. Many val- uable COW has been injured by over-feed. ing in this way.-IndianG Farmer.
 To kill the Canada thistle take a knife and cut the heart out of them as soon as they make their appearance in the spring, and fill up the vacancy with salt, then take your foot and press it down solid and cover it up, and that will be the end of-the Canadian thistle.
 Nut Cake: One cup butter, two cups sugar, four eggs. one cup milk. two teaspoons baking powder, sifted through with three cups flour, one and half cups shagbark meats. Frost the top, and before marking it off put rows of English walnut meat (broken in halves) across on every slice.-Bost0n Globe.
 Wash for Blotches on the Face Take dried (unmanufactured) tobacco leaves, half an ounce; pour on pint of boil ing water; let stand for one hour; then strain, and add to it thirty drops of cre- osote With this infusion wet the parts frequently throughout the day, and at night moisten cloths or cotton in it and lay upon the parts affected.-Toledo Blade.
 It is claimed that two per cent. of a horses weight of good nourishing food is all that he should be fed a day. By this rule horse weighing 1,500 pounds should receive thirty pounds of food. So says the LiUe Stocb Record, but it must be considered that something de- bends upon the amount of labor per- formed, as well as the digestive capac- ity and appetite of the nimal.-IrOy Times.
 A Nice Tea Dish: Make short sweetened pie crust, roll thin and partly bake in sheets Before it is quite done take from the oven, cut in squares of four inches or so, take up two diag- onal corners and pinch together, which makes them basket-shaped, now fill with whipped cream or white of egg, or both, we'll sweetened and flaw ored, and return to the oven for a few minutes. Albany Journal.
 Pumpkin Soup: Take three pounds of pumpkin; peel it and cut it into small pieces. Put it in a saucepan with water enough to cover it, adding little salt; boil gently until it is soft, drain it and pass it through fine colander, for it must not be watery. Put three pints of milk in stewpan and mix with it the strained pumpkin; let it come to a boil; add very little white sugar and salt and pepper to taste, and serve.-BOston Badget.
 Apple Indian Pudding: Into one quart of boiling milk stir a cup of corn-meal. Into this stir quart of sliced sweet apples. Add a cup of molasses and teaspoonful of salt, Mix all together we'll. When ready to put into the oven, add two quarts of milk. Pour into larg,, buttered pud- ding dish or pan, and bake slowly four hours. When cold, a clear, amber colored jelly will be formed through out the pudding; the apples will be of dark, rich brown; altogether most delicious dish.-The Household.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02
AUSTRALIAN ARGONAUTS.
The Degrading Orgies When the Rich Vel
 low Was in Every Mans Pockets.

The Degrading Orgies When the Rich Yel-
 low Was in Every Mans Pockets.
 'I've digged for gold, and I've found gold wherever gold was to be digged for and found" obstinately remarked an old Australian, in reply to some observa- tiOns just made by a Californian gold miner. i've digged in California as hard as you have, and I've digged, for my pains, in Ireland, when fellow 'salted' hole in Galway and raised a company to blow up the gold that he had Sowed. But there was more gold, and redder gold, and maybe better gold in Australia in 1852 than there has been in any other part of the world before or since. And there was more fun gettin' the gold than you could shake stick at
 The harbors of Melbourne and Sydney were crowded with ships that couldn' t get away, because their crews had de- serted them and run off to the diggings; and the the towns were crowded with the sailors, and lots of others, too, comin' back with their pockets full-for nobody seemed at that time to be tryin' to make fortune and go home. All they wanted to do was to raise enough money for a good spree in one of the towns; and their notions of what a spree meant would, 1 think, have asbonished even a Californian. A dozen times I've seen a fellow walk into a liquor saloon with crowd behind him,
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02
The Value of the Percheron Stud
 Book of France.

It contains the pedigrees and brief descriptions of about five thousand of the best bred Percherons, and none but the produce of recorded sire and dam are now eligible to entry. Every one is familiar with the old breeding axiom, Like begets like or the likeness of some of it's ancestors. From this alone the most obtuse mind will lreadily perceive that a knowledge of those ancestors is as necessary to the sue cessful breeder as the perfection of the animal himself. Stud books are histo- ries of Il individuals of a breed, and are, therefore, the only means by which the value Of any animal for breeding purposes can be measured; while the worth of animals of unknown ancestry, however fine they may be, individually, can only be ascertained by experiment. This is the reason why animals of es- tabliEhed pedigrees, tracing through a line of excellent ancestry, always com mand higher prices. In this advanced age of scientific breeding any person attempting to disparage the value of pedigrees, or opposing improvement through the means of stud books, must be actuated by selfish motives and should be regarded with suspicion. There are many horses being imported from France, of whose origin nothing is known.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02
Ueln to Good DIre,tion.


 In the British Medical Journal Dr. W. Rob erts, of England, discusses the effect of liquors, tea, coffee and cocoa on digestion. All of chem retard the chemical processes, but most of them stimulate the glandular activity and muscular contractions. Dis titled spirits retard the salivary or peptic digestion but slightly when sparingly used.
 Wines were found to be highly injurious to salivary digestion. On peptic digestion all wines exert retarding influence. Tn y stimulate the glandular and muscular ac- tivity of the stomach. Effervescent wines exert the greatest amount of good with theleast harm to digestion. When ones digestion is out of order every ything goes awry, unless, as in the case of T. T. Seals, of Bellaire, Ohio, who had had bad dys- pepsia for seven years, the digestive appar- atus is kept in apple-pie eating order by Warner's Tippecanoe, the. best appetite producer and regulator in the world.
 Tea, even in minute quantities, complete ly paralyzes the action of the sally D. The tannin in strong tea is injurious. Weak tea should be used, if at all. Strong coffee and cocoa are also injurious if used in ex- cess.-Ihe Cosmopolitan.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02

We often see children with red eruptions on face and hands, rough, scaly skin and often sores on. the head. These things indi- cate depraved condition of the blood. In the growing period, children have need of pure blood by which to build up strong and healthy bodies. II Dr. Pierce's .'Golden Medical Discovery is given, the blood is purged of its bad clements, and the child's development will be healthy, and as it should be. Scrofulous affections, rickets, fever-sores, hip-joint disease or other grave maladies and suffering are sure to result from neglect and lack of proper attention to such eases.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02
Michael Dayitt the Irish aoitator

Michael Davitt. the Irish agitator, says: "A pickpocket told me the his- tory of his arrest one day in the follow ing language: I was jogging down a blooming slum in the Chapel when I butted a reeler who was sporting red slang. broke off his jerry and boned the clock, which was a red one, but l was spotted by copper, who claimed me. 1 was lugged before beak, who gave me six doss in the steel. The week after I was chucked up I did snatch near St. Paul's, was collared, and got this bit of seven stretch. "-Merchant's PdtrOl
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02

An American lady in Paris, declar- ing in company that she never would return home, apd finding herself op- posed, turned to the late William Henry Huntington, who was present, and asked him if he thought he would ever wish to come back to this country. ''Well," said he, ''after you have lived here three or four years there will come to you 8 great rush of Remembrance of old friends and places, and great desire to see them once more. And then-then you will be so glad to think that you are to sail next weekr'-Qbicago Times.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-02
MT. Myers, in the Fortnightly I

MT. Myers, in the F'ort''ightly Re- vieso, claims for hypnotism the most re- markable moral potency. It made an idle school-boy industrious for the space of three months (though at the end of that time the effect wore of, and he declined to be again hypnotized), !, and it can permanently cure man of an inordinate partiality for tobacco and hper