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Contracted for at Liberal Rates.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-20
ICELAND IN SUMMER.
A Cool Spot For American Warm-weather
Tourists.


Holiday-makers who are at a loss
where to 60 to insure cool spot, may,
perhaps, be tempted to try Iceland. 1t
is not necessarily cool there, notwith-
standing the refreshing sound of the
name, but it is a good deal less likely to
be hot than Swiss or even Scotch val
leys, and there is a good deal more to
see that would be fresh to the visitor.
Nor is the island by any means difficult
to get at. The Danish royal mail steam
ers make amonthly voyage from Copen-
hagen to Reykiavik, and five of them
run all round the island, as well as call
ing on each voyage at Leith. There is
also an English line during the summer
from Leith to Reykjavik. Iceland is by
no means the diminutive country which
people who do not look at large maps
are in danger of supposing it to be,
when they read that the popu-
lation does not exceed that of a
third-rate English town. 1t is
possible to travel from east to west in a
direct line for a greater distance than
from London to Carlisle, so that the
island is really of very respectable di-
mensions Nor are the people, remote
as is their dwelling-place from the CEN
ters of sweetness and light, by any
means an uncultured race. They have
had a parliament of their own-the AL
thing-for now nearly one thousand
years, and they are great deal better
Instructed than European populations
generally.
The ordinary cockney tourist would
hardly find himself at home among
them; but an intelligent observer, inter-
ested in the study of nature and in the
ways of isolated communities, might
really do much worse during the sum-
mer months than brace himself up for
the winter by week or two in Iceland.
Fishing and farming are the Icelander' s
principal pursuits, and fishing is more
important, perhaps, than farming
There are practically no manufactures
in the country, and trade is SO little de-
veloped that up to last year the
island did not even possess a
bank, though the Althing was serious
ly occupying itself with the establish
ment of such an institution. Some in
teresting information on Icelandic fish
cries is contained in the last report pre-
sented to Foreign Office by Mr.. Consul
Paterson. The Iceland fisherman's S
best customers are not his comparative
ly near neighbors-he has no neighbors
at all but the Greenlanders, within six
hundred miles-but the Spaniards. A
good deal of the fish caught goes to
Copenhagen, but more to Spain, and
Spain gets the pick of the catches.
Wheat-growing is no part of the Ice
land farmers industry. For that the
climate is not warm enough. He breeds
fiocks and herds, and during his short
summer is much concerned for the re-
suits of his hay harvest. These, last
year, were not satisfactory in the south
ern part of the land, owing to the oc-
currence of wet weather late in the sum-
mer. A further reduction of live stock
was the consequence of the scarcity of
fodder. In the north, however, the hay
crop was good, and the farming inter
est there is fairly prosperous.-M W.
Christian AdUOcGte.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-20
PITH AND POINT.

Sydney Smith once described a man
as so dry that if you were to bore holes
in him with a gimlet sawdust would
come out.
The young man on the lookout for
''soft place." through dislike for hon.
est hard work, can fine one-under his
hat.-Boston Herald
Black birch is now the fashionable
wood for furniture. Ordinary white
birch used to be the fashionable wood to
furnish an incentive to the young idea.
Chicago Mail.
-''And so you have resolved never to
marryp" said the sixteen-year-old girl to
a companion of her own age. Eyes,
have. l know it would break my heart
if any one talked to me like pa does to
una. 'h-PhiladelpItiG Herald.
When fish's eyes are prominent,
the fish is known to be fresh. Think of
this, young man, when you 60 about
staring every one out of countenance.
Surely you would not like to be placed
on level with dead mackerel. -Buf
talo Express.
81 would like to call your attention,
madam said peddler at the door, ''to
the justly celebrated Balloon baking
powder. 1t is absolutely pure, and"
''I've tried it, said the woman. ''Oh,
you have. Well, then-er-good day" -"
Chicago Nee0s.
"A medical authority says: persons
have been bitten by mad-dogs and have
not gone mad" And then, again,
some persons get mad by being bitten
by dog that is not mad. They get
mad enough to kick the animal in two.
-NorristoaOn Herald.
Office boy Ito country editor)-"A
man was in while you were out who
said he was genuine John Wilkes
Booth" Editor (hastily)-'He's a
fraud. You didn't give him anything,
did you?" Office boy-"No. He left a
dollar for six months subscription. :"
Editor-''Well, well. And so John
Wilkes Booth is still alive. 1t beats
all. "-Chicago Rambler.
"A city toiler and his little son met a
sturdy farmer in the country, where
upon the toiler remarked: THAT'S a
fine field of oats you have there!"
"Don't you know the difference between
oats and wheat?" asked the sturdy
farmer, contemptuously. ':No. l
don't" 81 thought every donkey
knew thatr' exclaimed the rustic. ''Y You
see, father" said the toiler's little boy,
who had not taken any part in the de-
bate, ''if every donkey knows the differ
ence, it's lucky you said you didn'tr'-
N. Y. Ledger.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-20
A SINGULAR CASE.
Family Peculiarities Which Reappea red in
the Fifth Generation.

A singular and actual case of mis-
taken identity was related recently to
the historian. A gentleman living in
one of our suburban towns had an lnti-
mate friend whom he was in the habit
of meeting at the depot in Boston every
evening, and they generally occupied
seats together on the ride home. One
evening he entered the train as usual.
and saw, as he supposed, his friend seat
ed there. He took the vacant place be-
side him, and greeted his friend with:
"Good evening, Walker. "
His salutation was returned, it was
his friends voice, but the speaker looked
little puzzled. While engaged in con-
versation upon general subjects, in
which the gentleman noticed rather
constrained manner in his friend, he
chanced to glance behind him. To his
astonishment there was another "Walk-
err sitting a few seats back. He looked
again at his seat-mate. Wonderful!
In face and form they were identical.
The voice was that of his friend, also.
Only by a slight popularity in dress did
he realize that the person in the rear
seat was the friend he was looking for:
A more perfect double, was never
seen. He rose and seated himself by the
other
"Walker, is this really you?'
"Of course it is, Jones. What is the
matter with you?"
"Good gracious! If this is you, who
is that over there?" and he pointed to
the seat he had just quilted.
Walker looked a moment. 1t seemed
as if he were before a mirror, so exact
was the resemblance. Then he rose
and seated himself by the stranger.
81 beg your pardon, sir, but may 1 ask
your name?" he said.
The gentleman looked at his double,
started in surprise, and then said:
Certainly, sir. My name is-Walk-
er!''
This capped the climax.
81 knew it, L knew it!'' broke in
Jones, excitedly. ''How could it be
anybody else?"
Explanations followed. 1t appears
that the doubles, although now meeting
for the first time, were natives of the
same place, and, though not Immediate
ly related, they finally succeeded in
tracing their origin to a common an
cestor some four or five genations back.
1t is thus that family peculiarities of
feature and voice will sometimes reap
pear in successive generations in totally
distinct branches of the same parent
stock-Boston Record.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-20
WANTED HIM.

A Superintendent Rewards an Honest Ap-
plicant for Employment.
The general superintendent of great
railroad was sitting in his office when a
well-dressed man entered.
"This the superintendent
Eyes"
'Glad to see you, sir. My name is
Bakers and I want a job
''In what department."
''Want position as conductor of a
passenger train"
"Do you understand your businessp"
''Try me once"
81 suppose you would turn in every
cent that belonged to the company?'
''No, sir, I'd whack up"
''About how much would you take per
day?'
lowing to business"
you'd always make it point to
bring in some little money, wouldn't t
youF''
"Well, I'd help myself first and
then"
''My friend" said the superintendent,
81 want you. You have told me the first
truth that l have heard for years, ar
kz1sSGU Traveller.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-20
RARE OLD WILLS.
Peculiarities of Human Nature Illustrated
in the Probate Office.

in the Probate Office.
The first will ever admitted to pro-
bate in Philadelphia was executed in
1852 by Thomas Freams. 1t is in a
perfect state of preservation, and is ac-
companied by bond and inventory of
the effects of the deceased which showed
that he died worth ESQ.
Stephen Girard's will is another curl
Gus work. 1t is in book form, covers
thirty-five pages, with Girard's sigma
ture at the bottom of each page. After
executing it Girard became possessed of
additional property, which necessitated
the adding of three pages of codicils.
His estate at his death was valued at
nearly $5, 100000.
The smallest estate ever admins
tered on was valued at $40, and the
largest S12,O9O,0OO, being that of Asa
Packer.
The will of Matthew Baird, who be-
queathed an estate valued at S1,000,-
600, was written on one sheet of legal
cap, while other wills, representing
values in the neighborhood of $500,
cover eight or nine large pages of pa
per. The shortest will on record con-
tains but two lines.
The records for the year 1910 contain
a will written upon a common piece of
straw-paper, such as butchers wrap meat
in. 1t had been torn from a sheet and
has ragged edges, and is written in lead
pencil, the signature and bequest being
unintelligible.
A will recently admitted to probate
set aside sum of money which the de-
ceased requested should be spent for
barrel of whisky to be drank by his
friends after his burial. Another man,
more temperate in his tastes, ordered
that his friends should drink barrel of
cider at the expense of his estate.
The will of Sergeant Hampden Sidney
Gardner, who was a member of the IA
nous Greedy expedition, appears among
the records of last year. 1t was written
at Camp Clay, Darlington island, near
Cape Sabine, Arctic regions, on June II,
1884, just before he died. The document
is strip of paper about twelve inches
long by three inches wide, and is writ
ten in lead pencil. By it he left 5000 to
his wife, to whom he was married but a
short time previous to the journey which
ended in his death. -Philadelphia Rec
ord
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-20
A. NEW-FASHIoNED GIRL.

She'd great and varied knowledge, picked
up at a female college, of quadratics,
hydrostatics and pneumatics very
vast
She was stuffed with erudition, as you stuff
leather cushion, all the ologies of
the colleges, and the knowledges of
the past.
She had studied the old lexicons of Peru
vians and MeXicans, their theology, an
thropology and geology DER and DER.
She knew all the forms and features of the
prehistoric creatures-ichthyOSa OSauruS,
plesiosaurus, megalosaurus and many
more.
She'd describe the ancient Tuscans, ana the
Basques and the Etruscans, their
griddles and their kettles, and the
v:ctuals that they gnawed;
She'd discuss, the learned charmer, the the
ology of -Bramah, and the scandals OF
the Vandals, and the sandals that
they trod.
She knew all the mighty giants and the mas
ter minds of science, all the learning
that was turning in the burning mind
of man.
But she couldn't prepare a dinner for a
gaunt and hungry sinner, or get up a
decent supper for her poor voracious
papa, for she never was constructed
on the old domestic plan.
Lyon Union.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-20
NUMBER Is.

to take your own word that you did IL,
l suppose? What do you know about
Waterloo, Ishould like to know
"The man never answered a word,
but just turned down the collar of his
cloak, lifted his hat about an inch off
his head, and looked me full in the
face.
"Talk of being hit by athunder-bolti
If half dozen thunder-bolts had gone
down my throat, one after the other, /
couldn' thave been more utterly foored.
This man whom I'd been contradict
ing, and bullying, and asking what he
knew about Waterloo, was the Duke
of Wellington himself!
1--we never been positive since that
day, and, what's more, / don't think !
ever shall again. ."-David Ksr, in Har.
per's Young People.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-20
HUNTING STORIES.
Two Yarns From HoOsierdOm Which are
Worthy of .Munchausen.

worthy OF a sMunchauSen'
A gentleman by the name of John
son, of Daviess County, Ind, who has
been quite hunter, told a story that
once on a time he saw fine turkey COB
bier on a tree, and, taking sure aim, he
fired Being good shot, and the tur-
key not far off, he was surprised that it
flew away. Going under the tree on
which the turkey sat, it was found that
he had shot the fowls head clear from
the body, while the latter had flown
away.
A Abystander declared it was true, for,
said he; II was coon-hunting in the
same woods johnson shot the turkeys
head off in and the turkey flew away, and
by the light of the moon discovered a
very large, fine coon. Taking a good
aim, fired, and down came"
1.-The coon?" inquired several voices.
mo, his tail l had shot it clear
from the body"
''And did you get the coonP''
r. "N-o-o-o 1t skipped by the light Of
the moon. Detroit Free Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-20
THETELETOPOMETER.
An Apparatus Adapted for Land-Surveyi
and Military Purposes.

An Apparatus Adapted for Land-Surveying
and Military Purposes.
An ingenious instrument for ascer-
tanning the distance of accessible and in
accessible points from the observer and
from each other has been invented by
DR.. Luigi Cerebotani, professor of the
university of Verona. The apparatus
consists mainly of pair of telescopes
mounted on a stand and fixed on tripod
for use. The telescopes are both brought
to bear on the object, and reading Is
then taken from graduated scale on the
instrument, which, compared with set
of printed tables, gives the distance. By
this means the inventor obviates the
necessity for the base-line, which
has hitherto had to be laid
down in these operations, and he dis
penses with all trigonometrical calcula-
tions. Distances can be measured be-
tween far-off objects, and by means of a
sheet of paper fixed on drawing board
rough plan of the country under meas
urement can be sketched. In the same
way the distances of ships at sea, or of
moving objects on land, can be deter
mined. The apparatus appears to be
well adapted for land surveying, and
particularly for military purposes. In
fact, it is stated to have been already
adopted in the German army in the
latter connection, and it is about to be
tried by the authorities of the British
War Department. A practical trial was
recently made with the instrument on
the Thames embankment, when its
varied usefulness was demonstrated
st. James Gazette.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-20
The Efficacy of Moxa.

Although tattooing is confined to the
lower orders of the japanese, round
white spots are to be seen on the skin OF
almost every native of Japan in all
ranks of life. These spots are known,
DR.. Baelz tells us, as ''moxa," and they
are produced by burning the flesh in a
peculiar way, with the object of curing
some disease. The belief in the efficacy
OF moxa is universal in Japan, and the
Portuguese and Spaniards must have
adopted the same faith in its power to
alleviate or cure deep-seated pain, for
they introduced both the treatment and
its Japanese name into Europe,-N y
Graphic.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-20

Sydney Smith once described man
as so dry that if you were to bore holes
in him with gimlet sawdust would
come out.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-20
READING FOR THE YOUNG.
DR.. CARL.

Little Carl thought he
A doctor would be;
So, out in the hall,
He made his first call
On his pet, Molly,
With her wax dolly.
He wore tall hat,
His papa'S cravat,
Tied in large bow,
Three inches, or so;
He had book, too,
Pill-boxeS, few.
He felt very grand
With cane in his hand,
And glasses or nose.
Upon his tiptOes
(TO make himself talD
He squeaked through the hall.
Then he made a low bow,
Saying: Madame, just how
Does your young child appear2
The sweet, little dear"
And in his small fist
He took the dolls wrist;
Said: Pulse is a going!
That's bad! There's no knowing
What next it will do;
Don't let it come through"
He studied his book
Shut it up, and then took
rrOH Jue IuOLuer, 0er cnlluS
He twisted and smiled;
Said: "a great man am I,
My dear, she won't die"
Then he said: 81 must see
Now her toDgue-dearle, mel
Just put her to bed,
Her tongue is all red
When peoples are right,
Their tongue is all white.
Here's a pill-nOw take it
In nice jelly make it
All mashed out of sight.
Take them ali, dear, tonight
Tastes good, you can say,
For that is the way
The doctors all do.
I've heard them-have your
Then Carl turned away,
But came back to say:
"Ten dollars to-day
Is what you must pay,
Shall charge more next time
A bright silver dime"
Then the boy he went out
With Jump and shout
A bright dime, found we
For this little NJ. ID.
ats worth it, said Molly,
For he weld my dolly"
Great doctcr was he,
Our little Carl Lee!
Sophia L.. RQJfOuS, in ~. Y. Tribune
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-03-20

The London Times lately contained
an advertisement for a smart-looking
second footman, who must have unex-
ceptionable character and be active, an
early riser and speak French and
English The inducements held out to
this paragon are eighty dollars q year
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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-03-27

We acknowledge receipt of the
number Of the Rayne Signal a
ID. t weekly paper edited by Mr.. G..
i" Felter and published by Mr.. G..
T.. Addison, in the town of Rayne
Landry parish, La. We cheer
lily place the Signal ontlour ex-
aaange list and wish it and its enter
sing young proprietors the sue.
zess, that their energy, industry and
laarnalistic merits so well entltle
to. As an additional reason
.or cur hearty good wishes for the
,uccess Of this worthy enterprise We
axe pleasure in mentioning the fact
Inst Mr.. Addison is the son OF our
.oyhood friend, Mr.. E. I. Addison
.a9 able and worthy editor of the Alb.
aaville, Vermilion parish, MERIDIoN'
who, with the editor OF the
4 AprroLrAN ADVOCATE, when they
were boys, stood side by side recelv
lag lessons in the art preservative o
I'll
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-03-27
STATE OF LOUISIANA;
TWESTY.PIFTH Judi DISTRICT COURT,
Parish Of Vermillon.
No. Is

Succession Of Portals Hebert.
Notice is hereby given to all par
ties interested in he said succession,
or having any opposition to make to
the tahleau of debts and charges
and Of provisicnal settlement filed by
Theodule Bronssard, administrator
Of said succession, to file the same
in writing in the Office of the
clerk of court within ten days from
the date hereof.
Given under my hand and seal OF
court, this 9th day of March. 1885.
ALCIDE LEBLANC, Dep-Clerk.
Smedes & White, Attys.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-03-27

are combined, except as herein expressly
provided for a separate license shall be re-
CURED for each kind of business +; and
nothing in this ordinance shall lie con.
strued as licensing or permitting any per,
Torrance which is prohibited by other
laws, ordinances or police regulation.
Be it further ordained, til, 1t the licenses
issued in pursuance of this ordinance shall
commence on the first of January and end
on thirty-frst Of December, of the year in
which they are issued, and that said Ii.
censes shall be collected in the manner
provided by the charter of the town and
existing laws on this subject of the Town
of Abbeville and Of this State.
On motion Council adjourned.
w. B. WHITE, J. J. ABAD1E,
Secty. Mayor.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1886-03-27
Constable's Sale.
STATE OF LOUISIANA.
PARISH OF VERMILION.
Third Justices Court.
No. &c.
Edouard Noel
VS..
James W. Cannon.

BY virtue of a writ of fieri facias
issued out OF the Honorable Third
Justices Court, in and for the parish
Of Vermilion, in the above entitled
and numbered suit, and to me direct
ed, ! will proceed TO sell at public
sale to the last and highest bidder,
at the late residence Of James w.
Cannon, in the town Of Abbeville,
parish of Vermilion, with benefit OF
appraisement. on
Saturday, April 10, 1886,
between the hours Of IL o'clock A.
NJ, and 4 o'clock P. NJ, and continn.
ing from day TO day if necessary, all
the rights, titles, interests and de-
mands Of the defendant. j. W
Cannon, in and to the following
described property, seized to satisfy
said writ, tO-wit =
One lot Of old house furniture and
crockeryware, one stove, two sewing
machines.
Terms-Cash.
Given under my official signature
this 9th day of March 1856.
A. l.. LEBLANC, Constable.