The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-04-22

insertion ave cents per line for each additional in
sertion.
Teeth for Ten Dollars at the office
of DIR. Jones, Dentist.
Robert Gibson, of Macon County,
Missouri, died few days ago, at the
age of one hundred and twenty years.
He was considered as being the oldest
man in the world, and "his death was
so gradual that they could scarcely
tell the moment of his death"
We are prepared to believe, implicitly,
that last statement. They perhaps
did not get the exact time of his
death. They probably missed it at
least twenty years. An old colored
lady in his County was returned by
the Assessor as having died at the age
of one hundred and thirty-seven, but
there were no patent-medicine men or
book-agents, or marines, standing
around, and we didn't say much about
it at the time.
A Cincinnuti paper of last Satur-
day published portraits of five distin-
guished New York beauties. You
might walk the streets of Jackson all
day, and you would never meet a girl
half SO homely as the best looking
portrait in the group. If the New
Workers want pretty wives, they
should come west.
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A terrible crime has been discovered
by the Detectives at Quebec, Canada.
A regular system of entlcing young
and innocent girls away from their
Canadian homes, and selling them to
parties in the large American cities,
has been unearthed It is claimed
that fifty girls have been sold by
agents to Chicago house, within a
year. The plan is for the mild man
nered agent to ingratiate himself or
herself with young girl, then entice
her away for visit to the United
States. After the girl reaches the
States, she is soon lost to her family
and friends. lie there ever was a
crime for which the perpetrator should
be given "a short shrft and a ready
rope" this seems to be one. The
crime of Internal doggery-keeper, in
running young men, is bad enough,
but this surpasses it in blackness.
The matter will be given in the hands
of the British Minister at Washing
ton for investigation.
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Rev. Crooks informs us through
the Wellston Argus that in Mexico
even the buzzards would not touch
the carcass Of soldier who had been
in the habit of using tobacco. 1t has
been proven therefore that it is proof
against cannibals and buzzards. This
would be an encouraging thought
with regard to the tobacco-habit,
were it not that the protection never
comes until after death. We may in
fer, however, that the tobacco-users
carcass is proof against everything
but hyenas and Democracy.
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The discussion Of the geological
formation Of Goals may be considered
beneficial as means of educating,
and form interesting reading matter.
Geology must have for its basis three
things-history, accepted theory, and
intelligent calculation, A trained
mind may evolve theory, or inter
pret sign, and arrive at a conclusion
entirely satisfactory to that mind, yet
awaken to find that it is greatly at
fault. For instance, one NAV demon
strate to his own entire satisfaction,
through geological calculation, that
he has coal, and gas, and oil, under
his land Yet he may dig down and
find nothing but gravel and soapstone.
There is an old saying ''all signs fail
in dry weather" He might add that
''all geology fails when the deposit
saint thar
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A dispatch to Saturdays CONNER
cial Gazette, from Logansport, Ind,
says:
Captain Cyrus Vigus, ninety-three
years old, and veteran of the war of
1912, of this city, has received word
that the House of Representatives
passed bill increasing his pension
from eight dollars to fifty dollars per
month. Mr. Vigus sent four sons to
the war with Mexico, and had six
sons in the civil war, and all save two
are dead. One, helpless cripple for
life, is at the Dayton, (O) National
Soldiers Home. He is probably the
oldest survivor of the war of 1872"
No sir. He is not the Oldest, by a
year or two. Samuel Baker, Of this
place left ninety-three behind him,
long ago. A special act has just been
put through Congress, increasing Mr..
Bakers pension.
The Payne Investigating Commit
tee of the Ohio Legislature has fin
ished its labors and by majority re-
port favors the submission of the tes-
timony to the U. S. Senate for the
consideration Of that body as to the