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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-04-22

The following story comes from 3
school in the Midiands. The master
told the boys Of the third class 10
write q short essay on Columbus.
The following was sent up by an am
bilious essayist Columbus was q
man who could make an egg stand on
end without breaking Il. The King
OF Spain said 20 Columbus, Can You
discover America p Yes said Co
lumbus, II YOU viii give me g ship
So he had q ship. and sailed over the
sea In the direction where he thought
America ought 20 be found. The
sailors quarreled aud said they be
lieved there was no such place. But.
after many days. the pilot came 20
him aud said, 'Clumhus. ] see land.
Then that Is America, said Clumbus,
When the ship got nesr, the land was
full Of black men. Clumbus said. ''ls
this America YES, it is. said they.
Then be said. I suppose you are the
niEgersT Yes they said. we are
The chief said, 4 suppose you are
Clumbus.i You are right. said be.
Then the chief turned to his men and
said, There a. no help for g.: We are
discovered at last "-EOadOH &and-
ard.
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Salmon trout are so plenty at Chico,
California, that they stop the mills by
getting into the water wheels and
clogging up the machinery.
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WHAT TIRE HON. s. 8. cox SAW IN
EGYPT.


EGYPT.
But the Nile! Old Egypt Osiris,
Isis, HOTus, Ramesis, ThOtmes-gOds
aud kings-temples, tOmbs-dust ]
What a picture Of contrasts have
seen-contrasts with our living, NOV
ing, electric life in the United States
| wish my experience had been re-
ceived without so much real, unpleas-
ant dust from my poor gorge and
eyes. The dust of sixty centuries, IL
immateTial and prehistoric, Is well
enough, but one seeking relief from
the harsh, cold and wet weather Of
COnstnntinOple ought 10 have Arrest at
Luxor, without dOnkeying amid the
everlasting rocks and dusts Of the
aups
Well, we have been to the BOulak
Museum, where the imagery and
symbolism Of the Egyptians land the
Greeks who followed in the same
work. Is 10 be seen without being pull
verified. IL was a summing up Of our
trim and observation. What Mr.. Mas
peTo and Brother Wilbur-yOu know
WilbOuT, formerly OF the 1itbWRe-
told us at Luxor, and we saw at Den
darah, AbydOs. and other places, was
realized over again at the museum.
IL isa superb collection. After going
the rounds | ssked for 3 peep at ThOt-
mes III, our own dear scFiptural
Pharoah, 50 beloved Of the Hebrews.
They opened the lid Of the sarcOpha-
gus. and I had q good look at him.
He has seen many vicissitudes since
his handsome interment, for you may
recall, he with others, was removed
frola the tomb Of the kings On the arid
mountains of the Theban suburb, on
the west side Of the Nile, TO another
and obscure place. But at last he
turned Up, with his natural and Off
cinl certificatinn with him that he was
removed for cause,
The antiquities OF the Nile, after
all. are the live folks. The people are
too many for the green belt which
runs between the deserts. or else they
are too lazy. They seem 70 work 50
slow, and most seem to be born ever
80 tired. Egypt owes over $500, 900, :
900 20 foreigners, and these poor
fellahs slave away. Going over 10
Abvdos last week, twelve miles
through fields of beans and barley
and groves Of palm, we passed all the
population en- route turned toward
the canals near the Nile, with their
hoes TO dig for no pay. Government
ordered them out, and so they go like
cattle.
Last night we saw the Khedive 1t
q ball 81 the opera house, With all the
foreign insects who prey upon tbese
pOor people. The Khedive talks like
q genial, pleasant person, but he has
20 power. The English are here %
stay, in spite Of sll pr0fessiOBs'-FTf-
rate Letter from Mr.. Cor.
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Ia Crahh Coe Bros, Arnie BroHn. Wm BuneF.
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YaHfy Fails. Kas.
Hla-KeeAey, Kas.


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nan. 9 CraVens A , Fulief, lMiinrook, ka1l
keller 4 ', NeEkirk, Rcynoits a ?, v FIl-
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A Baker, Z Barrett, A B Daniel, Mrs P Fly,
Wm Hoffman, II Hanison, Holhert
c Iohnao1, " c Johnlon, G D Prstts
Jef Robinson, n Savage. sFruden A a, r WI
liams. 7 " ziesler.
Mcoliad, Rds.
prri.r Rro. Tru Norrir rrhomu-sarina. Kas1
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Well watered pasture for 100 head
OfstOek, 5 miles north Of BrookvIlle.
HEBER SMITH.
y a. Salina.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1886-04-22

The following is the report Of the
public schools for the month ending
April 9Th, 1886
THIRD WARD.
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J Kenioah, Qluuoin. KS, A L.afham, n Tnlss-
hack = r LTul. EcGorrc1 4 @, w Fau, G
ParFiIt, " Reeves q. At Rec, " shaGsr.
~ 80 No. n 49,, 8 49,, 49,
DaHeon, . W Farfes, r Flaader., nousrian.
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Concerning COffins.

Some one not long since invented a
papier mache coffin. Among the advan-
tagcs claimed for it was its close resem-
blance to wood, its lightness, waterproof
quality, and incombustibility, though
why this latter quality should recommend
the new casket is not apparent. The
paper caskct has been patented, but has
not been put upon the market. Iron and
bronze caskets have been for some time
in favor, and recently marble caskets
have come in. They are practically in
destructible, being made of compost
ton of powdered marble dust and Port
land cement, and nodded and baked
like pottery. A certain peculiar post
mortem vanity has found qualification in
transparent glass coffins, but hard wood
is still more used than any other mate
rial. and for all practical purposes it is,
doubtless, as satisfactory as anything
else. On the score of healthfulness, in
deed, the less durable the casket the bet
ter for the surviving population OF the
earth. ..-New York Sun.
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How Alcoholic Liquors are Made.

Whatever may be our individual views
or pre-; ;udiccs in relation to the use and
abuse of alcoholic liquors, the process OF
their manufacture is very interesting
chemical operation. Proofspirt Is de-
fined by the United States internal reve-
nue. laws to be that of alcohol and water
which contains onc-half of its volume of
absolute alcohol and 53.71 parts of water:
When the alcohol and water are mixed
together-while neutrality-suspicious.
in volume takes place to the extent of
3.71 parts, resulting in 100 parts OF
proof-spirit. The law declares that the
duties on all spirits shall be levied ac-
cording to their equivalent in proof
spirits. The hydrometers adopted by
the Government for the purpose OF test
ing the degree of strength are graded
an. marked 20 degrces) for water, GOO
degrees) for proof-spirit, and Goo de,
grees) for absolute alcohol. at a standard
temperature of sixty degrees Fahr.
Alcoholic liquors can be made from
any substance that contains saccharlne
matter already formed by nature, or
from any substance that contains the
constituent elements that can be con-
verted by some artificial process into the
saccharine principle. In the United
States they are generally produced from
corn, rye, wheat, barley, rice, molasses,
apples, grapes and pea' hes; sometimes
from potatoes and beets. Vinous ter
mentation converts sugar, glucose, or
saccharine matter into alcohol and car
bonic-acid gas; the latter passing OH
into the atmosphere.
In order to bring about vinous or alco-
holic fermentation five agents are lndls-
pensablc, viz, saccharine matter, water,
heat, a fermcnt and atmospheric air.
Sugar or saccharine matter in its various
forms is the only element from
which alcohol can be produced; the 9TH
ers are mere a,xiliarics to the decom-
position. on.-Popular Science Monthly.
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A Substitute for GunpoWder.

A substitute for gunpowder is de-
scribed in Science as having come into
recent use in the American coal mines.
Caustic lime is ground fine and consoli-
dated by pressure Of forty tons in car
tridges. After the holes are drilled in
the face of the coal, an iron tube half
an inch in diameter, with small groove
externally on the upper side, and several
perforations, is inserted the whole length
of the hole. The cartridges, which have
a groove to fit the tube, are then inserted
and tightly rammcd, and the hole
t;lmped. A small force pump injects
through the tube quantity of water
equal in bulk to the lime. The water
escapes through the perforations and
along the groove, saturating the whole,
and driving out the air. The tube is
then closed by tap to prevent the es-
cape of the steam. which, by its force,
cracks the coal away from the roof,
and then follows the expansion OF the
lime
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WORDS OF WIsDeM.

Choose always the way that seems
best, however rough it may be. Custom
will render it easy and agreeable
The bow cannot possibly stand al
ways beat, nor can human nature or hu-
man fraility subsist without some lawful
recreation.
Pastime is a word that should never be
used but in a bad sense; it is foolish to
say that a thing is agreeable because 1t
helps to pass the time away.
There is some help for the defects of
fortune, for if man cannot attain to the
length of his wishes he may have his
remedy by cutting them shorter.
Worldly faces never look so worldly as
at a funeral. They have the same effect
of grating incongruity as the sound of a
coarse voice breaking the solemn silence
of night.
There are moments when by some
strange impulse we contradict our past
selves-fatal moments when tit OF pas
sion, like stream of lava, lays low the
work of half our lives.
If heaven consists in state of holy
dispositions and affections, and not in
"pearly gates and purling brooks, " this
is the state we ought to cultivate If we
would reach the heavenly life.
A recent careful calculation shows thai
England owns nearly three times as larst
an extent of colonies as all the rest Of Eu'
rope together. Her colonies are eighty
five times as big as the mother country
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Guarding tile Rich.

The residences of the Vanderbilts, the
Astors and Jay Gould in New York are
constantly guarded against cranks by
private detectives. The private service
for the protection OF the Vanderbilts,
Astors and Gould was organized three
years ago, and is ostensibly separate for
each family. though the men who defend
the Vanderbilts and Astors are provided
by the same establishment, and practi-
cally work together. Regular patrol duty
is done, night and day, and twenty de-
tectives are exclusively employed for the
purpose. There arc four Astor residences
and five belonging to the Vanderbilts,
all in or close to Fifth avenue, between
Thirty-third and Fifty-second streets.
The spies are on watch eight hours each
per day, and the beats are so arranged
that the nine houses cannot be ap-
preached unseen by one or more of the
guardsmen. William H. Vanderbilt was
the originator of this system, and he was
melted to it by the large number of
cranky letters which he received. He
professed to have no fear of rational evil
doers, but was apprehensive that maniacs
might at ack him or some member of
his family. Since his death the mails
have been laden with all sorts of appeals,
demands, and threats directed to his
sons.
Jay Gould's self-protection is more Sc
cret and characteristic. He does not en-
trust it to detective agency, but hires
his own body-guard. For years he has
always been accompanied by stalWart
young fellow. But that is safeguard
against Wall street enemies. Cranks
who might cut up capers in or around
his home are under the view Of spies
whose quarters are in room of the
Windsor hotel, across the way. That is
additional to patrol duty done by sep
arate set of men. These employees of the
millionaire families, whose names are
poor peoples synonyms for wealth, are
kept informed as to every new demon
stration by a crank, and they are alert
to descry and drive off the monomaniacs
who attempt any exploits Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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To Cure a StOOD,

A stopping figure IS not only familiar
expression of weakness or old age, but it
is, when caused by careless habits, dl-
rect cause of contracted chest ard dcfec-
tive breathing. Unless you rid yourself
of this crook while at school you will
probably go bent to the grave. There is
one good way to cure it. Shoulder
braces will not help. One needs not an
artificial substitute, but some means to
develop the muscles whose duty it is to
hold the head and shoulders erect. l
know of but ore bulls eye shot. 1t is to
carry weight on the head. A sheep
skin or other strong bag filled with
twenty or thirty pounds Of sand Isl good
weight. When engaged in your morn
ing studies, either before or after break
last, put the bag Of sand on your head,
hold your head erect, draw your chin
close to your neck, and walk slowly
about the room, coming back, If you
please, every minute or two to your book,
or carrying the book as you walk. The
muscles whose duty it is to hold
the head and shoulders erect are hit. not
with scattering shot, but with a rifle
ball. The bones of the spine and the in
tervertcbral substances will soon accom-
modate themselves to the new attitude.
One year of daily practice with the bag,
half an hour morning and evening, will
give you a noble carriage, without inter-
fering a moment with your studies.-
Halls Journal of Health.
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Charming and Catching Rats.

"There's not rat-pit in Chicago, said
Ed. Dorney, one Of the recognized l;cal
authorities in such matters, "and rat
catching exhibitions have not been given
here for two years. 1t doesn't pay
here"
s'Are there any professional rat
catchers here now2" was asked.
"There are one or two semi-profession-
ais. Dick Toner is the best professional
rat catcher in the country. He'll catch
you more rats in a night than a dozen
traps will, and he'll bet big money on it.
He is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New
York now, Ibelieve. What does he earn?
Fifty dollars week. If you should see
him going down Broadway you'd think
him railroad president. lie is fine
looking MAN and dresses elegantly. He
only works three hours a night, between
eleven and three o'clock, when all is
still"
"How does he catch the rats2"
SIN various ways. Sometimes with his
hands and sometimes with tongs. He
goes into a room and turns out all the
lights, and waits. When he hears rat
he flashes dark lantern on it and the
rat is so astonished it rises right up on
its launches, as you've seen gopher do.
Before the rat knows what tc do it is
seized by the tongs. OF course the num-
Der Dick will catch in a night depends
on how many there arc about the prem.
ises. Rat -catchers have various means OF
getting the rats to come out of their
holes. They have ways of charming and
enticing them through their sense OF
smell. Then they have tame rats which
they carry about in their pockets and use
to drive out the wild rats. The rat
catcher stops all the holes but one, for
instance, puts his tame rat in that, and
then rings bell. A rat will always run
when it hears bell ring. The tame rat
runs down into that hole and the other
rats hear it coming and they startand run.
There's only one hole where they can get
out, and when they come out they are
caught. - Chicag0 News.
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A Population Armed to the Teeth.

Hyderabad, says London Telegraph
correspondent, is unquestionably one of
the most peculiar md interesting cities
of India, although of no ancient founda-
tion and possessing no very remarkable
buildings. Koolub Shah, who created
this capital in 1859, A. d., beautified the
place with stately mosque and the pic
turesque edifce called the Chahar Minar,
or the "Four Minarets," through the
archways of which the main traffic of the
bazaar still passes. Outside the gray
and white walls of the city runs the River
Musah, in stony channels, which are filled
with turbid food during the rains, but
at other seasons trickle feebly with a
chain of shallow pools, where ele-
plants bathc and the town washing is
clamorously DONE This rocky stream
is spanned by three broad bridges, sepa-
rating the Hindoo suburbs from the town
proper, wherein all-or almost all-is
Mohammedan in character. The long
whitcwashcd streets of the capital, with
their shop fronts formed by Saracenic
arches; the mosques occurring at frequent
intervals the tall sculptured minarets
seen constantly rising above the city
roofs the sign-boards bearing Persian,
Arabic or Hindi inscriptions; the names
of the shopkeepers, and the multiplicity
of beggars on the mosque steps and at
the gateways, give the general impression
of a sort of Indian Damascus or Cairo.
This is intensified by the busy throng
blocking up the main streets with per-
petual tide oi life; for here one sees per-
petually the snow-white turban of the
"true believer" mingling with the red
tarboosh of the Mohammedan negro and
the green caftan worn by the Syed, or
the Hadji, who has made his pilgrimage
to Mecca.
This population goes armed, as has
been said, to the teeth-to the stomach,
to the back and legs, the neck and head.
In truth, it is hardly less the fashion" to
wear pistols, sabres, daggers, guns and
spears in Hyderabad than to carry UNI
brellas in Piccadilly. At the guard
houses sit the Arab troopers, with long
matchlocks held spearwise between the
knees, and cotton fuses smoking. The
Muslin "-nasher," as he caracoles down
the bazaar, strokes his moustaches with
the blade of his sword; the noble on his
elephant lays his crooked tulwar across
his knees; the messenger goes down the
street with the letter which he is to de-
liver stuck into the sheath of his silver
hated knife; the dealer squats at the
shoe-mart with lapful of poignards ratt-
ling against his rupees; and every fifth or
sixth shop sells lethal weapons: The
whole capital gives the idea of being, as
it were, ''on half-cock," and ready to go
off at a touch into turmoil and revolu.
ton. 1t is, however. only an idea; and
though the populace has decidedly an in
dependent, free and easy manner not
witnessed elsewhere, and although a
European might be somewhat carelessly
jostled here and there if he walked
through the more crowded OF the bazaars,
there is no sign of turbulance or want OF
civilty that I could notice, and broils are
said to be of singular lnfrequency.
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Fiddling to Cure the Dyspepsia.

One of the leading teachers of the
violin in BoSton-and IN America relates
that young woman came to him for
instructions, and after lesson or two, he
very frankly and honestly said to her:
1T is of no use for me to teach you.
The simple fact is, you have no musical
ear"
"Oh, know that" she returned with
the utmost sweetness and candor.
"But why" he asked, in astonishment
easily imagined, "do you come to me If
you know you have no carr"
ooh, it is because of my health" an
swcrcd the interesting pupil. My doc
tor says there is nothing so good for my
dyspepsia as the exercise of the arms
get in violin playing. g."-Boston Budget.
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Life Studies by Lige Brown.

The late worm escapes the early bird.
Nothing but time can keep up with the
Indicator on gas meter.
The man who loved the watch-dogs
honest bark was not tramp.
The Chinese Lave sure way OF remov-
ing dandruff. They do it with sand
paper. 81,
A man is obliged to die before his will
amounts to anything, but that OF a woman
is always in force.
In the pursuit of knowled ge man never
gets on the right track until he finds out
that he doesn't know enough to brag
about.
The man who said that "hope is
brighter when it follows fear" had just
finished occupying chair in company
with his wife's bonnet.
The papers are searching for the man
who is always ready for an emergency.
The woman always in waiting for an
offer will be found first.
A woman NAV not be very far.sighted
in business matters, but she can diagnose
the trimming of bonnet as far as man
can smell fried onions.
tConscience makes towards of US all, I"
wrote the immortal bard, but the man
with his stomach full of boiled cab
bage has his own private opinion on the
subject.
A foreigner at once understands how
it happens that the United States is al
ways prepared for war when ne learns
that there are upward of four hundred
colleges in this country.
1t is said that the ratio of marriage is
declining, but if so, statistics are some
times contradictory. Over six million
bottles of hair restorative were sold in
this country last year.
A Michigan man by feeding tramp
found long lost brother of his wife. We
suppose this ought to be taken as SOL
emn warning against something or other,
because he has had to keep on feeding
him ever since.
Prometheus was chained and tortured
to have his picture taken, but no master
of the brush has ever had the forethought
to cut "across lots" to Immortality by
embalming on canvas the sufferings Of a
man in BARRIERS chair.
When placed under microscope the
sting of bee presents a polish of daz-
cling beauty; but when placed in the
end of mans nose the polish is missing,
and the appearance more like that OF a
rat-tail file dipped in vitriol. This is Of
fcial.- Chicago Ledger.
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Glass Blowers Cheeks.

1t is announced that Messrs. Appert of
Clichy, France, have discovered pro-
cess that will make glass blowing by the
mouth unnecessary. Many attempts
have been made to get rid of this painful
process in the operations of glass making,
but to this day in every bottle house may
be seen palc-facea men with their checks
hanging limp in folds, the result Of years
of glass blowing by the mouth. Cases
have been known in which mems cheeks
have been worn so thin that they have
actually cracked, and it is IL common
sight in bottle house to see blowers at
work with their thin checks pulled out
like the fingers nf a glove.
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A Government Ratcatcher.

A colored laborcr in the United States
Treasury, Washington, has the record of
having killed six hundred rodents with
his bare hands. lie has the knack of
grasping the animal by the skin between
the ear and the jaw and by a sudden
twist ending his existence. There are
a number of rat traps in the building and
the ratcatcher makes a daily round to
sec what the supply is. killing the cap
tivcs as he proceeds. He is not entirely
dependent upon traps, however, but
often catches the rats as they scamper
about the waste paper rooms. The
Treasury employees say that he never has
vet been bitten by rat during his
career. Some of his victims are great,
big mossbacks that have defed capture
for wears. The ratcatcher feels secure
in his government position.-Baltinors
Ners.