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, 1886-02-11

Coffee is the principal produce of
Brazil, growing in the mountain country,
being better MS the hills are sleeper, and
amounting TO 1000, 900 bags annually.
Coffee-growing is ar int resting in
dustry. The seed is first sown, and
when the bush is about two feet high it
is transplanted in rows about four feet
apart. In four years the bush bears
fruit, and thereafter for forty years, the
tree being in full vigor from its tenth
year until it decays at forty.
The labor is done by slaves, many
planters owning hundreds of them.
After the fruit is gathered it is thrown
into large, open yards, paved with rock
and stone. and on n grade sufficient to
run the water away. After some days
exposure to the sun, the berries being
dry, they are put in the crusher to
separate the coffee from the husk.
The coffee is her passed through
large and small sleeves, one under
the other, with a large fan at the
back of them, by which mean the cof-
fee is relieved of the husks and graded
according to the size of the grain. The
best is sent to the burnisher, which gives
it an additional market value, and to OBJ
tain n still fancier quality, though this in
reality is only a question of the eye, the
grain is placed in a tank half full Of a de-
coction Of green coffee beans and water.
After remaining there several days this
dyed grain is dried and FURNISHED and
sold as extra fancy. though it is really no
better than the other rs far as the quality
or taste is concerned. This work is all
done by appliances on the plantations,
and l was told very recently that several
planters have as much a $3.50, 900 in
vested in machinery of all kinds. This
system of getting the coffee ready forth
market is of course only employed by
the wealthy planters. There are many
who are still very backward and retain
all of the primitive methods.-A. De
Figueiredo, Brazilian Consul.
, 1886-02-11

In the days of that u~nattractive Stuart,
James l, al act was passed forbidding
the use of all but a few of the old Gaelic
surnames, which act was partially en-.
forced. The Mac and the o. were the
first and most easily dropped. While the
septs or tribes still existed all the mem.
beers Of the sept were, in theory at least,
descendants of a common ancestor,
whose name, with the o. or the Mac pre-
fixed, designated the sept. The o., an
GENTLY written nj, means a ~male de-
s~cendantr generally, while Mac means
"a son." But it is only in England that
either Of these is prefixed to the name
borne by n woman, in the Gaelic the
prefix Nj, meaning "a daughter" being
used.
An illustration may prove interesting
as showing how the changes in Irish
names have been brought about. The
word maol, or mael primarily means
-bald," and hence was used by the
ancient monks on account of their
tonsure. To shave the hair from the
head was understood to symbolic the
complete dedication OF ones self to re-
ligious service; and hence maol as a pre-
fix came to mean disciple" or "imitatorn
of some religious teacher of saint. So
we have Maol Colin Malcolm), "A dis
ciple of st. Colin" the founder of Iona;
Maol lisa Melissey), "a disciple of Jesus"
Maol Mhuire (Mallory), "a disciple of
Mary" Malone, Maloney, and Muldoon
are names formed in this way.
The colors are displayed in the sur
nampa Of moat pntionq Amonp the
Irish they originated, not more than two
centuries ago, in the nicknames of the
Common clansmen. As samples there are
Finn lin Gaelic written fionn), which
means "white;" Duff (dubh), black"
Donne, Dunno, and Dunn (donn),
brown Glass (glas), green CORN
(gorm), "blue;" Roe and Radd (ruadh),
red Leig Qiath), gray" etc, besides
the translated form, Whyte, Greene,
Browne, etc.-Inter Ocean.
, 1886-02-11


FoRT RUSSELL. Feb. l0.-The ice
houses at the fort are filed with excellent
ice. The quantity put up will be sufi-
cient to last two years.
The concert at Garrison hall last Friday
evening drew a full house.
Sergt Grish, of | company, is the boss
billiardist at the fort.
The minstrel troupe is hard at work and
a fine entertainment is looked for. Every
one is anxious to have it come of, so
hurry up, boys.
A hop Friday evening.
This is the soldiers favorite month
only twenty-eight days-but he looks for
ward to next month with fear and ankle.
ty. for it will be a March of thirty one
days.
The canteen and reading room are
fourishing.
Several re-enlistments have taken place
at the fort lately. Among them Scrgts.
White and Tracey, Of ID company, and
Trumpeter Morse, Of company.
A billy and nanny goat have been a
great annoyance to the garrison people for
the past two or three months. 1t may be
very amusing for the billy and nanny to
chew up shirts, socks and dry goods in
general, and TO take their nights lodging
on front stoops and door mats, but it is
very annoying to people who own these
dry goods and door mats. The boys have
attacked them several times with paint
brushes, artistically decorated their snowy
fleece with elegant monographs, and sew
eral shots from a Springfield rifle have
been fired at them, but all without effect
The owner would confer a great favor by
keeping them at home or sending them
abroad It's n fact
, 1886-02-11

Piles are frequently preceded by a sense
of want Of weight in the back. loins and
lower part OF the abdomen, causing the
patient to suppose he has some affection
of the kidneys or ~nelghboring organs. At
tunes, symptoms of~indigestion are present
hntulency, uneasincss Of the stomach, etc.
A moisture like perspirtion, producing a
very disagrceAble itching, after getting
warm, is a common attendant Blind,
bleeding and itching piles yield at once to
the application Of DR.. Bosanko's Pile
Remedy, which acts directly on the parts
effected, absorbing the tumors, a~llaying
the intense itching, and etfecting a per
manent cure. Price so cents. Address
The DR.. Bosanko Medicine Co., Piqua.
q. Sold by w. N. Hunt
, 1886-02-11
VALUABLE FARMS IN NORWAY.


How the Norwegians Work Their Rugged
Mountain Observation-Disclosures.
Some OF the most valuable farms in
Norway would be spurned as n gift by
American husbandmen, who are seldom
content with places Of sudden undula-
ton, or, indeed, with anything but
pieces Of rich prairie or bottom land. But
the Norwegians are industrious and
thrifty grangers, have comfortable barns
and fine cattle. and generations Of lam
lilies succeed each other in possessing
and working their mountain farmsteads.
Their houses are substantially CON
structed Of wood, and inside there is an
air OF comfort and cleanliness.
But what Of the farm? Look about
you. Mountains hem us in on all sides;
there is no room for the fields as we
know them at home; but grass grows
luxuriantly among the rocks, with occa-
s%ionally a patch as large as an ordinary
villa garden. There the farmer cuts a
portion Of his hay crop, on which his
horses and cattle are mainly de-
pendent during the eight winter
months. But his bayfield, is yet
wider spread. Glance upward some
1000 feet these. where an opening oc-
curs in the dwarf birch, and you will OBJ
serve the diminished form of q man busy
at work. That is the farmer, n thorough
mountaineer, cutting the grass which
grows ON yonder narrow ledge Of rock.
He has been up since early morn, and
will probably not descend till evening;
not a tuft of grass will be left ungathered;
not n foot of level ground on that steep
and rugged mountain side but will be
visited, and its small crop carefully re-
moved by the industrious bergsman.
If he has n wide stretch Of field Chill
pasture or moorland) in his boundary.
the farmer erects wooden sheds, in which
he stores his hay till winter, when, by an
ingenious continuance, he mas the whole
rapidly and easily conveyed TO the valley.
A familiar object in n Norwegian glen is
the strong steel wire which Stretches
from the foot to the summit of the
mountain. Down this wire the bundles
Of hay are expeditiously sent without
labor, and then carried in sledges TO the
steadings. Without such a method
many weary journeys would be necessary
ere the hay required for n long winter
could be brought down. 1t appears the
Norwegian farmer borrowed the idea OF
this hay telegraph from his brother hills
men of the Tyrol.5Chambers' Journal.
, 1886-02-11

Thousands OF pedestrians move to and
fro past the stock exchange and about
the money center of the city each day.
Solid old financiers, whose check would
be taken unquestioned for q million,
come and go. Dapper clerks, who look
like m~illionaires ON steen dollars n week;
messenger boys by the score fit hither
and thither with hands full Of bonds or
other securities making deliveries accord
ing 10 contracts and sales arranged on
the exchange floor. Bank agents, with
small fortunes often in the capacious
portmonnaies strapped TO their waists,
going to the clearinghouse to make good
the daily balances, while every few mo-
ments comes the numbering WACO
pushed along the sidewalk conveying the
ash from Uncle Sans collecting counter
ut the custom house to Uncle Sans
strong vault below the sub-treasury. On
every side is wealth, yet attempts at
robbery are very rare, and successful
ventures at thievery scarcer still.
The fact is that every face passing
along Wall street is scanned. 1t is n
great place for seeming loafers and
loungers. Curbstone brokers have the
semblance of loungers. Clerks enjoy n
cigarette on the sidewalk. SO a lounger
more or less is not noted. But all who
apparently loaf about with little to do
are not loafers. They are ~sharp-eyed de-
tectives, to whom the face of every crook
in the country is known, and who are
constantly on the lookout for those faces.
New York World.
, 1886-02-11

Young men in Nashville used to have
a strange idea of fun. About twenty
years ago, during a cold spell, they
organized a society with fun as its
avowed object. The fun consisted in
raising money and distributing it among
the poor people of tn. city and county.
In the course of one winter they raised
and gave away $4,000. The young men
who were engaged in this frolic are now
gr~ay-headed, but they maintain that
they never in their lives enjoyed them
selves as much as they did during that
memorable winter. A few such practical
Jokes would be a blessing to every town
in the United States. 5Chicago journal.
, 1886-02-11

There will be a mass meeting of the
people of cheyenne and all other re.
sidents of Wyoming who may be in the
city, at library hall, this evening, at 1880
O'Clock for the purpose of organizing
a Territorial Agricultural and Live Stock
Society. All those interested in the mat
ter are requested to attend. Prominent
speakers will be present and explain the
objects OF the proposed society.
By Order Committee.
, 1886-02-11

The habit of administering %quinine in
powerful doses, as an antidote to malarial
maladies, was once dangerously common.
Happily this practice has undergone a
wide reform. Not only the public, but
professional men have adopted. not who'll
ly, Of course, but largely, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters as a safe botanic substi-
ute for the pernicious alkaloid. The
consequence OF this change are most i'm
portant Nov fever and ague sufferers
are cured-forrnerly their complaints were
only for the time relieved. or half cured
the remedy failing to produce any appre-
ciable effect, except the doses were in
creased. A course Of the bitten, persis-
tenty followed, breaks up the worst at
tacks and prevents their return. The
evidence in favor Of this sterling specific
and household medicine rs Of no ambigu-
Gus character, but positive and satisfac-
tory, and the SOURCES whence il proceeds
are very numerous.
, 1886-02-11
PROPOSALS. ron PRINTING
TERRIroRY OF WYOMING,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
SfCRFTARYis 0FPIcF
OHEYENNE. February 5. rs

S~EcRErARY's OFFICE,
CHEYENNE, February 8, 1886.
Sealed proposals will be received at the
Office of the secretary of the territory un
I'll ten (l0) O'Clock a. m. Thursday, the
25th day of February, 1886, for the print
ing, binding, press work, and material, Of
the following:
One thousand Il, 1000 copies of the
session laws, 9th legislative assembly, nine
hundred 5000 copies to be in pamphlet
form. one hundred 900 copies half
bound. ,
Two hundred and fifty ESQ copies OF
the journals of each house two hundred
and twenty FIVE (225) copies Of each jour
nal to be in pamphlet form, twenty-five
(25) half bound.
Composition on the laws and journals
to be printed in book form, and to be set
in small plea. solid.
In printing the laws and journals, the
work to be measured in all cases as plain
work. side notes to be measured sepa-
rately in the laws according to the type in
which they are set, but head notes TO be
considered only as a part Of the page and
not TO be measured separately.
Half titles and blank pages in the body
of the work not to be allowed except when
absolutely necessary.
Press work of the same, for each token
Of two hundred and fifty (250) impressions,
eight pages to constitute a form of book
work.
The laws to be printed and delivered
within twenty-five (25) days, and the
journals within sixty (60) days after the
adjournment of the legislature.
Persons bidding for the entire work
must accompany their bids with a bond
to the United States in the sum of two
thousand $1,000 dollars with good and
sufficient s~ureties, conditioned that the
the bidder will enter into u contract to do
the work as required, if the same be
awarded to him, and for the faithful per-
Torrance of the work.
Separate bids for the laws must be ac-
companied by a bond IN the sum of
twelve hundred l$l, 200 dollars condi-
toned as above.
Separate bids for the council or house
journals must be accompanied by n bond
of four hundred ($400) dollars, or for both,
eight hundred $500 dollars conditioned
as above.
No bid fixing a price exceeding the rates
allowed by the United States will be con-
sldered.
Information in regard to United States
rates, furnished on application.
Final payment will not be made until
the composition, printing and binding
shall have been approved by the comp
troller of the United States treasury.
Each proposal must be in a sealed en-
velopc properly endorsed on the outside.
The right is reserved to reject any or
all bids, or any part of any bid.
Il. s. N. MORGAN,
Secretary of Wyoming Territory
, 1886-02-11

There was a gathering of gentlemen
interested in the oil fields in Carbon coun-
ty, at II. Altman's last evening for the
purpose Of consulting together in refer
encc to the plans for the future. Certain
parties in Cheyenne who have never
cared to have the matter mentioned, own
quite valuable claims in the oil region,
and the TACT is last being developed that
they will Dol be a good and paying in
yestment Nothing of a definite charac
ter was decided upon last evening.
, 1886-02-11

II is said that Leopold Won Ranke looks
like a perfect specimen OF those medieval
philosophers who spent their days and
nights in front Of huge, outspread folios,
with No companion but a pensivo cat,
and no furniture or ornament TO their
cells save skulls and cross bones, sand
glasses, elixir phials, and chemical re-
torts. His name are described as
afTable and unaffected, and he never dis
plays any Of the d~isagreeable, eccentrici-
ties of genius. The aged historian works
from 10 O'Clock in the morning until 2
daily. and again from 0 o',lock in the
evening until / n. m. His best work is
done at midnight. Foreign Letter.
, 1886-02-11

NtN hpNh ~ AhAAg h'hhN RkpF
The population Of the city at that time
was $50, 600, and the increase since then
has been six-fold. Hence the destruc-
ton of 1000 buildings at the present
time would be no greater loss relatively
speaking) than the fire of 1925 was to
the city then. One reason of the great
destruction was the extreme severity of
the weather. 1t was one of the coolest
nights of the season, and this, of course,
impaired the operations of the firemen.
Added to this was n high wind, which
gave the flames an almost irresistible
impetus. The result was n blazing ex-
panse, which covered thirteen acres, and
would have reached a far greater extent
had il not been for the extensive area
created by blasting. This was a last re-
sort, and was successfully performed by
n detachment of United States troops
sent from the navy-yard.
The effect of the great fire was n wide
extent Of bankruptcy. Many of the
richest merchants We're reduced to utter
poverty, and then there was n large class
Of insurance shareholders who were cut
short of dividends, since all the insurance
companies were ruined, except the
Chatham and Etna of Hartford. The
next day n public meeting was held in
the city hall, with the mayor in the
chair, and a subscription was opened for
the sufferers. The damage. however,
wa too great for any such effort, and the
humiliation Of such a vast amount Of
capital was felt in the pressure which
afterward became as famous as the fire
itself. The pressure of 1898. indeed, was
the most pr~otracted this city has ever
witnessed, and it was seven years before
the retu of prosperity New York
Letter.
, 1886-02-11

A firm on Wall street, New York, has
in operation and on exhibition what is
probably the smallest working printing
press in the world. IL is AN interchang-
able cylinder, printing from a c%ontinu-
Gus roll, with n cutoff. 1t is but 12 LIZ
inches in length and 71-2 inches high.
Its width in the widest part is 10 1-2 in
ches. At the office where it is in use it
has been necessary to furnish 10 brokers
and others a daily letter Of financial
news. Until the invention Of the press
this service was performed by the mani
fold system. Nine manifolders Were re-
quired, working very rapidly. By simple
hand power, after the type is set, POO
copies per minute of any circular can be
printed. With a dynamo machine TO
furnish the power, over 800 copies can be
printed in the same time.-Chicago
Herald.
, 1886-02-11
Secretary Of Wyoming Territory
Proposals For stock and work Cattle.
Lumber. stoves. Harness, Wagons.
Agricultural Implements. lard ware
Etc. for the Indian rrviee

For stock md Work Cattle,
Lumber. stoves. Harness, Wagons.
Agricultural implements. Hardware
Etc. for the Indian Service.
DEPARTMENT OF The INTERIOR,
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jan. %. 1886.
Scaled proposals, Endorsed Proposals
for Stock Cattle. Work Cattle, Lumber,
Wagons" etc. las the case may be), and
directed to the commissioner of Indian
affairs, Nos. 65 and CT Wooster street,
New York. will be received until | p. M.
Of Thursday, February 25, 1886, for fur
nishing for the Indian service about $50
yoke work cattle, 2,475 head stock cattle,
1000 sheep, 4l4,000 feet lumber, 100
stoves, ATS sets harness, l96 wagons, also
agricultural implements, hardware, etc,
Regular BLANKS for Bids Are Not Re
Qidred.
Schedules showing the number of stock
and work cattle. and lumber, required at
various agencies, and the kinds and
quantities, in gross, OF all other
goods, conditions to be observed
by bidders, time and place of delivery,
terms of contract and payment. and all
OlntT utCcSSdIl iueiTuCllOIh Will DC luT-
nished upon application to the Indian
office in Washington, or Nos. 65 and 81
Wooster street, Nelo York; VIM. II. Lyon,
No. 4s3 Broadway, New York; the com
missaries of subsistence, u. S. A., Chi
cago, st. Louis and st. Paul; and to the
postmasters at Kansas City, Mo, Sioux
City, Ia, Yankton, D. T., and Tucson,
A. II.
-
Bids will be opened at the hour and
day above stated, and bidders are invited
to be present at the opening.
&The right is reserved to reject any or
all bids, or any part OF any bid, if deemed
for the best interests of the government;
in making the awards, to increase OF
diminish to any extent the quantities
called for in schedule and to require de-
livery of twenty-five per cent more or less
than the amount specified in any contract.
Certified Checks.
All bids must be accompanied by GER
tilted checks upon some United States
depository, payable to the order Of the
commissioner of Indian affairs, for at
least fire per cent of the amount of the
proposal.
j. d. c. ATKINS,
Commissioner.
, 1886-02-11

An important meeting of managers of
the savings banks in the principal cities
has taken place at Milan. They consti-
tuted the superior council of the newly
instituted national bank for the insur-
ance of workmen against accidents aris-
ing during their work. In the first year
of operations $4,000 workmen availed
themselves Of the advantages of this sys-
tenn of insurance.
, 1886-02-11

WV. Reed, druggist, Of Winchester,
Ind, writes. Zone OF my customers,
Mr. Louisa Pike, Bartonia, Randolph
county, Ind, was a long sufferer with
consumption, and wa given up to die by
her physicians. She heard of DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption, and
began buying it Of me. In six months
time she walked to this town a distance OF
six miles, and is so improved that she has
quit using it. She feels she owes her life
TO il" Free trial bottles at W. N. Hunts
drug store.
, 1886-02-11

1t is the objective center of every
western railroad; it has energy, thrift,
and money; it is Chicago-the busy,
pushing, substantial, good, bad, hand
some, ugly, prosaic, and interesting city
of the great west. One must see it be-
fore thinking he has seen America. 1t is
to the west what New York is TO the
east-the great center, the real me
tropolis, the city where there is to be
seen every phase of life that has any
where an existence. Its many arms
reach out in every direction, grasping
whatever is good, bad orr indifferent.
Like a huge giant, ravenous and strong
it lies in the very center of the country
feeding upon the east and its own sur
rounding territory, and supplying the
cities and the villages that have now
grown accustomed to look to it for their
support. Cor. San Francisco Paper.
, 1886-02-11

In Mensignor McColgan's church at
Baltimore some gas jets IN put to an odd
use. A statue Of st. Peter, brought re-
Gently from Germany, stands near the
altar, the figure being clad in n purple
tago, topped by a buff cloak, with fringe
of gold. The circle Of jets is put above
the head Of tho figure, and a curious ef.
feet Of halo is thus givcn.-Exchange.
, 1886-02-11

Insurance Commissioner Office,
Wyoming Territory. Cheyenne,
Wyo., Feb S, 1856.
IL is hereby certified that the Connect
cut Fire Insurance company of Hartford.
in the state Of Connecticut has complied
with the insurance laws OF this territory,
and is authorized to transac the business
of fire insurance in this territory for the
current year.
Witness my hand aud seal Of office the
day and year first above written.
j. d. FREEBoRN.
lsEAL Insurance Commissioner.
, 1886-02-11

Insurance Commissioner = Office,
Wyoming Territory. Cheyenne,
Wyo., Feb. Q, 1856.
1t is hereby certified that the United
States branch OF the Phoenix Assurance
company Of London, in the Kingdom Of
Great Britain, has complied with the in
surance laws of this territory, and
Is authorized TO transact the business Of
fire insurance in this territory for the cur
rent year.
Witness my hand and seal of office the
day and year first above written
j. d. FnEEnonN,
lsEALl Insurance Commissioner
, 1886-02-11
SUMMER MI N

There is no blast howe'er 80 fierce it blows
Across wide Moorlands leaguered fast by
SHOWS,
THAI does not bear the presage OF a tune
The thrush will carol in the heart OF June.
&C. s." in Youths Companion.
, 1886-02-11

One of the holiday books recently Is
sued in England was printed in blue ink
on green paper. This was done in &c
cordance with the advice of n German
scientist, who says that the short-sight-
edness Of his countrymen is due in par
10 the German characters. but mainly to
the violent contrast - ink and paper
black anl~htas~@1etegald
, 1886-02-11

A hundred years ago ladies used muifs
five or ten times as large as the little rollf
OF fur or %pounches OF plush and ace in
closing the hands nowadays,
, 1886-02-11

The largest stock OF hne bnndics, old
whiskies. choice hqncnrs and superfne
cigars AT George Masters web known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streeta.
, 1886-02-11

FREE m sssss. s..i 1i case, Of
and physical weakness, lost manhood, NERVOUS
proAration, result of indlscfetion, excesscs or
any other cause, cured by Nervftn, strong
taith That VIII cure every casa prompts me
postage. etc. DH. A.G OLiN. Box ~. Chicago
, 1886-02-11

Chicago quotations received constantly
at our Office, 6 and \, Commercial block.
Cons and see rs. Nef, Prentice X Co.