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, 1886-06-22
END or The FIRST ACT.

The lights burned lower; a faint perfume
Stole its way through the crowded room.
The boxes were filed
With fair women, who rustled in silks and
Who looked and listened with eager faces
AS the singers trilled
Their melodious numbers and played their
parts,
And made sad havoc in some soft hearts,
For they sang OF love.
Oh, what a theme
To make the young and beautiful dream;
SO they sang of love,
And this was the scene:
The Burgomaster, with brow serene,
Slumbered and dreamed in his ~high-backed
chair
While his daughters stood in the moon
light fair
That streamed through the easement and
touched their hair,
And round their waists were the circling
arms
OF their soldier lovers; and all the charms
OF the moonlight, the music that rose and
fell
One cord DER the other with dreamy swell
In the heart of the l~isteners wrought a
spell
FOR the moment divine.
Was 1t mine and thine
This passion they counterfeit there as
well,
Thus we once swore with many q VOW
Many a kiss unremembered now.
Since then Loves story must sure have
grown old.
So often you've heard it by others told.
Onr love grew cold
As our minds grew farther and further
apart,
Until at the last
Our passion had passed
And left us each with an empty heart.
Empty. and yet
| felt the agony of regret
AS for a moment that sweet love song
Swept with its thrilling measure along.
And ! remembered a moonlight scene
With you and l in the window nook,
And l was saying, "My life, my queeni"
While your father dozed DER a dreary
book.
Was 1t a wonder that real 1t seemedi
Was 1t n wonder l dreamed
Till the curtain fell,
Breaking the spell?
Phil I. Rarker
, 1886-06-22

A western newspaper contains the fol
lowing; Everybody in this camp knows
Towser, the Mono mine Towser The dog
Towser rides up and down on the cages,
through drifts and cross-cuts, and goes all
over and through the mine perhaps oftener
than any miner of them all. Yesterday a
brilliant idea struck John O'Neill and
some others, and they spirited Towser into
a backyard. They washed his hair as clean
to the skin as 1t possibly could be washed,
and then carefully PANIED the muddy
water to the very highest percentage, and
the entire dog absolutely assayed in fine
gold s23.17. as weighed on Soderling's
scales. When Mono assays s23.l IL to the
dog, she is certainly starting out on q
boom, and we defy any mining camp or
the Pacific coast to beat II. Exchange.
, 1886-06-22

The fact Of the Mayfower. the NEW
yacht built to race with the English
champion, having stuck on the bottom
in launching seems to exercise the minds
Of yachtsmen to a greater degree than
would be deemed credible to people who
regard it as an idle superstition. II am
free TO confess" said A. Carey Smith,
that | am a firm believer in luck. Some
yachts are lucky and Others are not, and
| nave never known an instance where n
yacht stuck in launching but hat she
was more or less unlucky during her ca
recr.' Henry Peipgrass states: Il would
never expect anything from a yacht of
mine that stuck on the ways. Capt. Sam
Gibson of the Gracia and Capt. Dand of
the Stranger agreed that they never
knew of a yacht that stuck in
launching having a successful ca
reer. which opinion was conceded with
by John NJ. Sawyer, who has built a
large number of the yachts constructed
in America during the past twenty
years.
Henry Andrews states: "If | owned
n yacht and she stuck in launching, /
would sell her to the first purchaser
Frank Hopkins, one of the most expert
cnced yachtsmen in the country. said;
Il believe in luck as applied to yachts. II
any yacht Of mine stuck on the ways, ]
would dispose Of her at the first opportu-
nifty Capt. Charles Mackin, who has
followed the record OF every New York
yacht built the past twenty years, ex-
pressed the following views: Il
think the talk about luck is
all m~oonshinc, but, nevertheless, it's
a fact that every yacht that stuck
in launching seems TO have been unfor-
tunate. II they entered race they either
had too much or too little wind, would
get aground or in collision, or lose spars.
or do anything but win the race. This
may or may not be luck, but 1t is a
cold, shivering fact in yachting history"
Boston Post.
, 1886-06-22

The Cleveland Leado has u word to
say in defense, or cxtenuation, of the al
legged insatiate fondness for ice cream at
tributed TO the girl Of the period. Speak
ing OF the frequent newspaper Jokes on
the subject it says: Some of the tests
are new, many old, a few bright, the
great majority more or less tircso,ne. and
all Of them are based upon the idiotic
assumption hat one OF the most repre-
hensible and dangerous Of American ex-
t%ravagances is the feminine eating Of ice
cream. 1t is about time that this non-
sense should stop. The sex which squan-
ders three quarters of a billion of dollars
every year in drink aud tobacco ought to
make less noise about the comparatively
insignificant sums which women consume
in daintics of any kind.
, 1886-06-22
THE CAUSES OF ''seLf-poisoNINe.,
How viruIen, Poison. Arc Sometime

How viruIent Poisons Arc Sometime.
Developed Within the Human System.
Our readers are familiar with the fact
that, In Bright's disease, the kidneys are
unable fully to remove their allotted por-
ton OF the waste matter of the system.
Hence this accumulates in the blood as a
hurtful and often as a fatal poison, the
heart, lungs or brain at length giving way
under its influence.
Still more familiar are they with that
uncomfortable and depressed condition,
popularity known as ~biliousness, due to a
partial failure in the normal action of the
stomach. liver and bowels. In both these
cases the body Is, to a greater or less ex-
tent, self poisoned.
Thirty years ago it was discovered that
decomposing animal substance develops q
violent poison. Twenty years later the
poisonous principle was isolated, crystal
lized, and n name given it-ptomaine. In
1870 Gautier discovered a somewhat sim
liar poison in the muscular juice of
healthy animals. and also in their urine.
Later 1t has been extracted from focal
matter.
All these are poisonous in a high de-
gree. Some resemble the venom OF the
most poisonous serpents. That obtained
from healthy muscle, when injected in
minute quantity into the veins of a dog
produced stupor. trembling, universal
spasms, slow respiration, and death in
forty-fve minutes.
In 1881 DIR. Gautier found that such
poisons constantly appear in the excre-
lions of living and healthy animals, and
even In the saliva. The term eucomain
was adopted as tho aamo OF such us are
developed in the living body They are
believed to be normal products OF bod
lily waste, as much 80 as -carbonic
acid, urea, etc. According to -Gautier,
they accumulate in the blood when
for various reasons the skin, the kidneys,
and the digestive tract fail to eliminate
them.
In a state OF health we resist incessant
self poisoning, not only by elimination OF
the poisonous principle. but especially by
its combustion In the body. Says the Bos-
ton Medical and Surgical Journal:
"The greater part of these poisons are
very oxidizable, and it is by the vlvifying
influence of constantly renewed supplies
of oxygen in the normal state that they
are burned in the blood, perhaps also in
the tissues, and disappear. But let any
cause whatever diminish the access Of air
to the blood. or let the quantity OF
hmmoglobin"-(that portion of the red
blood %corpuscle which has such an affinity
for Observation-Disclosures in chlorosis'
(green sickness) and anRmia, and there
will soon be an accumulation of azotised
| substances Of the nature of ptomaines and
leucomaines.
Hence the benefit to be obtained from
whatever can excite the functions of the
skin, the kidneys, and the intestines, and
especially from whatever energies res
piration and the making Of good blood.
Youths Companion.
, 1886-06-22

IT DAILY becomes more evident that the
senate is disincllned to adopt the rash
legislation of the house on the subject of
public lands. \ bill to amend the pre-.
emption and timber culture laws has been
introduced. and the desert act will proba-
bly, be modified so as generally to conform
with the amended bill published in The
LEADER several weeks ago., or in the di-
rcclion Of the amendments therein sug-
gcste4 Such modification would subserve
the public interest to a much higher de
gree han absolute repeal.
, 1886-06-22

The Boy and the Barrel.

A Barrel which was Floating with the
current was Espied by a Boy in a Boat,
and after a lard struggle he managed &c
land it on the bank. When he discovered
that 1t contained nothing of value, he In
d~ignantly exclaimed:
"See TO What Trouble you have put me
for Nothingi You should have gon youi
way and let me aloneln
Moral. Many n man will Borrow his
Neighbours Balky Horse and then insult
the Lender Detroit Free Press.
, 1886-06-22

\ SUNDAY law has been passed by the
Democratic legislature of Louisiana, a
state which has never before enacted my
-rsuctiye CESSATION of the kind. The
enactment Is by nc means stringent, leav-
ing theaters and similar places of amuse-
mcnt under no restraint and generally
combining its provisions to the proper sub
iects OF such measures the places of bus
mess and occupations of labor. 1t has
been adopted against the unanimous vote
OF New Orleans AMI is triumph Of the
country parishes. Less feeling than a law
so unpopular is likely to provoke, has
often changed the political complexion of
a state.
, 1886-06-22

That near-sightedness is rapidly ~increas
ing is a well-established fact. In fifteen
years the proportion in the Polytechnic
school OF France has risen from 80 to &
per cent, and so per cent. of the tudents
have to wear glasses. In the ancient am
phitheatres, as NJ. Sarcey recalls, 10000
spectators sat and viewed the games with,
out n glass. Contrast a modern audience,
with this, and consider how much Of the
present defective vision is due to ignor
ance or neglect OF proper care and atten-
ton to these delicate organs.-Chicagc
News
, 1886-06-22

SENATOR PLUMB uttered a simple tru-
ism when he remarked in the course of
debate a few days ago, that Security of
title to land is as great a necessity as civil
zation. He might, with equal propricty
have declared it an essential to c%iviliza-
tiJn. inasmuch as it is the first step that
marks the cmergencc of people from a
nomadic and barbarous state. There can
be no motive TO improve and develop the
resources of a country without assurance
that the citizen who invests his capital or
labor, or both, shall enjoy the fruits OF
his enterprise. This it is which stamps
as unwise the congressional attempts to
interfere with the reclamation of lands
which must remain reproductive forever,
without an outlay of means beyond the
mere labor of the individual settler.
, 1886-06-22


lf THE country, in the opinion of its
representatives in congress assembled,
requires the levy of AN income tax. let
them proceed forthwith openly and
squarely to meet the demand by providing
appropriate legislation. The practice of
attaching revenue bills as riders to other
measures, is reprehensible IN itself and
dangerous as a precedent. The Blair bill
%pensioning disabled soldiers, together with
another bill on a similar subject. will come
before the house with a clause imposing
m income tax to meet the expenditure
involved. 1t is estimated that a revenue
Of 10000, 200 would result from the pas
sage and carrying into effect Of this meas
Urea sum which would largely exceed
the expense to be met. Let pension bills
stand on their own merits and be met
with M appropriation, and the Weld of
revenue bills 90 to the aggregate Of the
national funds.
, 1886-06-22

Two MEscALERo chiefs have entered
government service in Arizona as scouts
against the hcstiles. They ought not to
be trusted for Il moment as they belong to
one of the very worst and most trcacher-
Gus tribes Of Araches. 1t should be re
membered that whatever of prctcxt or
excuse may be found for the slaughter of
Capt Crawford, arose from his employ
ment of friendly Apache scouts, whom
he could not control.
, 1886-06-22

TIT origin of the Swiss Confederacy
dates back to 1903. But there is a repub-
lie named San Marina. in northeast Italy,
which sprang into existence In AL, OF
which little thought has ever been taken.
The country would not now be noticed.
only that II has been SYSTEMATICALLY stated
a railroad is to be constructed which "will
traverse the entire republic" This is not
so stupendous an undertaking, as might
be thought, since the length OF the road
aid
, 1886-06-22

If you are suffering with low and de-
pressed spirits, loss of appetite, general
debility, disordered blood, weak constitu-
ton, headache, or any disease of n bilious
nature, by all means procure n bottle OF
Electric Bitters. you will be surprised to
see the rapid improvement that will follow;
you will be inspiied with new life; strength
and activity will return; pain and misery
will cease and henceforth you will rejoice
in the praise Of Electric Bitters. Sold at
fifty cents a bottle by w. n. Hunt.
, 1886-06-22

a SPECIAL to the Omaha HcraW con
tradicts the rumors set afloat as 10 various
intended iunketing trins to be made this
summer by the president and Members of
his cabinet. Naval vessels are no longer
to be used as pleasure Excursions. That
sort of thing came to an end in March,
1885. and is not likely 10 be renewed
under the present administration.
, 1886-06-22

Tue Omaha HeraH h this 10 say Of
Secretary Lamar One of the really
great men and orators of this country is
/. Q G. Lamar. The honorable secre.
tary Of the interior will deliver the eulogy
at the unvciling Of iheSiatue to the illus.
frious Calhoun in Charleston. The ora
tor will honor himself, his country and a
great American statesman on that occa-
sion. Mr.. Lamar senatorial eulogy on
Charles Sumner was one of the master
pieces Of our national oratory and will long
survive the noble man who had the cour-
age the patriotism. and the splendid
ability to pronounce it at that particular
period in our history
, 1886-06-22

Some aspiring amaturs in Connecticut
attempted Richard ILL.," the other eve
ming. At the passage when the haunch
back king offers his whole kingdom u
sight for a horse, a saw-horse was danglr,
down in front of the astonished monarch
Then the king got mad and threw hi
sword at the practical joker. He missed
his aim, though, and the weapon cut al
ulgy cash under the eye of n stage hand
Chicago Herald.
, 1886-06-22

For enterprise, push and a desire to get
such goods as will give the trade ~satisfac-
ton, W. n. Hunt leads all competition.
He sells DIR. Bosanko's Cough and Lung
Syrup, because its the best medicine on
the market, Tor coughs. colds, Group and
primary consumption. Price 80 cts. and
$l.0O. Samples free.
, 1886-06-22

You are allowed a free trca Of thirty
days of the use of DIR. Dyes Celebrated
Voltaic Belt with Electric Suspensory APP
planes Tor the speedy relief and perma-
nent cure of nervous debility, loss of vi
tality and manhood, and all kindred
troubles. Also, for many other diseases.
Complete restoration to health, vigor and
manhood guaranteed. No risk is incurred.
Illustrated pamphlet, with full informa-
ton, terms, etc, mailed free by addressing
Voltaic Belt ~. Marshall. Mich.
, 1886-06-22

FRANCE. in her downward progress
toward rcd-rerublicanism, may yet COM
memerate the centennial of the reign of
terror by a repetition Of its crimes. But
there is ample time Tor a revolution or
two in the next seven years.
, 1886-06-22

A gentleman walking through a rail
road station the other day was accosted by
fair maiden thus: She-Excuse me
but is this not Mr.. Greyi He-O, no
that is not my name. She with ar e
preston OF the greatest susprise)--Why
are you sure,-Boston Record.
, 1886-06-22

The Omaha Bee has entered upon its
sixteenth year. From a small beginning,
it has achieved a complete success, and
remained under the same manage
I'm its foundation.
, 1886-06-22

New York Herald has opened II
{ure fire on Blaine, but it is without
mu~i,Iaith in the Logan boom, inasmuch
as it takes occasion to remark: The Re
publican party might do worsc- and it
rrobahly will
, 1886-06-22

And in the muscles of the neck and shout
der, usually most violent after nightfall.
are among the cheerful manifestations Of
neuralgia. 1t is an affection OF the nerve
intensified by a cold. Repose, bringing
with it a cessation Of pain, is induced by
Hostetters' Stomach Bittcrs. which is a
fine nerve tonic and tranquilizer. 1t is
also a reliable means of checking rheuma-
tism and govt. These maladies have al.
ways more or less to do with the kidneys
that, when inactive, fail to throw off the
impurities which engender them. The
Bitters car be relied upon to renew a
healthy and purifying action of the renal
organs Besides this, it gives tone to the
stomach, liver and bowels, and enriches
the circulation. Appetite and sleep both
profit by it. and it is a well -accredited
means of fortiiying the system against
malaria. II hastens the recovery of
strength by convalescents. mitigates the
infrmlties Of age, and helps the constitu-
tionally feeble.
, 1886-06-22

ATTENDANCE on morning prayers, rig
idly insisted on ever since Harvard was
founded, have been made wholly optional
at that university.
, 1886-06-22

INCONSISTENCIES infest the rugged regions
of Northeastern Pennsylvania, having
been pretty thoroughly suppressed in the
mountainous districts farther south.
, 1886-06-22
New una.rtatinx, In M, south.

1t is estimated that fully S36,0oo,0oo OF
northern and English capital was invested
in new undertakings in the south In the
first three months of the current year.
, 1886-06-22

TowNsHEND. of Illinois, has been nom
mated by acclamation, for re election to
congress, by the Democracy of his dis
, 1886-06-22

EDWIN p. WHIrpLE, distinguished as
a critic, cssayist and man of letters gen
orally, died in Boston last week, at the
acc of is.
, 1886-06-22

No CANDIDATE once defeated before
the people has ever recovered prestige.
Even Henry Clay failed in the effort
, 1886-06-22

The senate seems inclined to insist up
on its amendments.
, 1886-06-22

Letter heads, bill heads, and note heads
at the Leader Office.
, 1886-06-22
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Pearse 4 McGill, Druggists.
, 1886-06-22

Wedding and visiting cards in great
variety at the Leader Office.
, 1886-06-22

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives &
, 1886-06-22

Legal blanks at the Leader Office
, 1886-06-22
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, 1886-06-22

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, 1886-06-22

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Cheyenne, Wyoming.
, 1886-06-22

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, 1886-06-22

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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-10
Produce Exchange.

Alphabetically fancy per Dbl, sadg. so;
poor lots 25050c.
Berries-Selling at SOC for common to poor
with few sales of fresh, fancy at SOC early.
Better supply from Tennessee, though de-
mand is constantly growing.
Beans-Fancy navy, per blu, SITS; fine
navy, $1.5O@1.75; medium, 81 .2501. so; dirty
lots. 75c@S1.
Butter-Fnncy creamery, 20@21c: extra
firsts, 1f@20c; dairy, fancy, 15@1Sc; dairy.
seconds, 10@15c; thirds. 3GD1Oc; fresh roll and
print, 10@15c; old roll and print, 4@5c; pack
ing stock, 405c; grease, 2@21ac.
Cider-FrOm l to 10-bbl lots, New York
81 50G04.75; half Dbl, 81. 50@2 rs; Michigan,
S5.5096. GO; half Dbl. S2.5002. 10; Motifs, $3.50;
half Dbl, S3.25: boiled cider per gal, soc.
Cheese-Fancy full cream, l1@13c; fine full
cream. 9011c; part Skins, rose; skins, 5@7c.
Dressed meats-Beef, hind quarters, 61&@
Sc; country dressed, 506c; sides, city dressed,
50615c; country dressed, 411a@5c; fore quart
ers, Sole; veal, choice S01Uc: dressed pork,
414@41@c; hams. city. 9lD11c: hams country
rose; breakfast bacon, 9011c; shoulders, 5a1
&c; sides, 607c: mutton, city, 4@5c; mutton
country, 5t@51ac.
Eggs-In to 1O-case lots, strictly fresh,
&c.
Game-Moderate offerings; ducks, doz.,
81 .25D1. rs; plovers, doZ., so.
Fish-Fresh bass, 5@6c; fresh, common
305c; fresh cod, loo: frogs legs. doz, 25c
halibut, 10@12c; mackeral, 15@Dl8c; founders
11@1212c.
Fruit-Aprioots, dried, ID, 10000: bananas,
bunch, S2@3; pineapples, doz., So 5OQDs. IS
dates, mat, $5@6; dates, fard, 1O0I2c; figs
double cr'n. l301Sc: lemons. Messina. $50
| Z; California lemons, S3.75@4; oranges
Los Angeles. So. 50(J3; San Gabriel, So. T5@
1926; Riverside Oranges-Seedllngs, So. 75@
A.; paperrInds, S4@4.25. Medium sweets
| S404.25 Wash Navels So.
Fur-Nominally steady; winter rats, SC
fall rats, Sc: kits, 1@2c; fine coon skin. 75c
| No. coon. soc: No. 8 coon. csc; medium