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The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09
A WONDERFUL GROWTH.

eome Carefully Compiled Statistics ok
 General Interest Relative to the Rapid Increase in Population and Wealth Of
 the More Northern Portions of the Great Northwest.
 The late reports from the Executive officials of the great States and Terri tories of the Northwest show sur prising growth in population and wealth. This important region com prises the rich agricultural and grazing States and Territories of Minnesota, Dakota. Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
 MINNESOTA.
 The returns from the Minnesota cen- sus taken in May, 1885, show a popu- lation in the State of 1,117,798. In 1880 it was 7S0, ,773 The assessed valu- ation of property in Minnesota is $401,- 028, ,587; in 1880 it was $258, ,055, ,543; in- crease, $142, 973,0
 The cities of St. Paul and Minneapo- lis, the largest and most important business metropolis of the State, and in fact of the entire Northwest. show an unprecedented growth. They are ft- uated so near each other that their cor porate limits now join, and form 6 great commercial center. They arc about equal in size, and their combined population by the census of May, 1885, was 240, ,597; in 1880 it was SS,060, in- crease, 152,557. The capacity of the fiouring mills is 30.000 barrels of flour day. Wheat received last year, 3D. 43S, 222 bushels; elevator capacity, S,5OO,OOO bushels; cut of lumber, 300.- 724,379 feet; new buildings erected, 4,S4S; real estate sales, S29, 9,435,S ,SS0.
 Duluth and Superior, at the head of Lake Superior, separated only by the Bay of St. Louis, form an important commercial metropolis. Their popula- tion is upwards of 10000, and next to Chicago they are the greatest shipping points for wheat in the West, having an elevator capacity of S,000,000 bushels.
 DAKOTA.
 Dakota shows remarkable growth in population, and by the development of only small portion of its great agri- cultural resources shows large in- crease in the number of farms, products of the soil and live stock. The returns of the Territorial census taken in June, 1885, and the report of Governor Pierce to the Secretary of the Interior for 1885, compared with the census of 1880, show the growth of the Territory:
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09
The Moose as a Racer.

It is said that a domesticated moose belonging to half-breed in Maine is a valuable assistant about the farm, and that it is capable, when hitched to sled and driven upon the ice, of beating any horse that can be produced against it. At an exhibition of moose racing in this city some years ago the moose were very disappointing to those who went to see chem, and to the gentleman who had brought them on in the trust that they woulddrove money making attraction when offered to the public at popular adm is sion prices. They were quite slow and lumbersOme, in very painful contrariety to the general belief that had been enter tained of them, and horses of common breed and dubious rapidity were fleet in comparison. Very smooth ice might make a difference, but a harnessed moose running against a good horse on a track of earth would seem thing that was anchored. .-HaTper'S Weekly.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09
Potatoes in Winter.

The annual loss to the farmers in the Northwest in consequence of their pota toes being frosted amounts to good deal of money. The frost in most of our winters is liable to penetrate into our cellars and root houses. The only safe way to winter potatoes in this cold eli mate is to store them beyond the react of the extreme frost There is not much danger of having our pits and cellars toe warm; neither is there danger of Ou1 potatoes heating or sprouting during the long winter months. Most of the pota- toes raised are stored in the cellars of the dwelling houses, and in consequnce of the imperfect banking of the houses, the cold is liable to creep into the cellars. Every farmer should at once see that his house is properly banked up.-Ths Household
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09
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Among the many stories Lincoln used t. relate was the following: Trudging along a lonely road one morning on my way to the county seat, Judge - overlook me with his wagon and invited me to seat.
 We had not gone far before the wagon began to wobble. Said l; Judge, l think your coachman has taken drop too much. !"
 Putting his head out of the window, the judge shouted: Why, you internal scoun- del, you are drunk p
 Turning round with great gravity, the coachman said: "Be dad but that's the frs rightfm s'cision your Honor's giv'n n tweP montl''
 If people knew the facts they would be surprised to learn how many people reel in the streets who never "drink adrop." They are the victims of sleeplessness, of drowsy days, of apoplectic tendencies, whose blood is set on fire by uric acid. Some day they will reel no mOre-they will drop dead, just because they haven't the moral courage to defy useless professional attendance, and by use of the wonderful Warmers safe cure neutralize the uric acid in the system and thus get rid of the "drunkenness in th' blood. .''-The Americdn Rural Home.
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CONCERNING BEES.
Their Special Knowledge of District or Land Marks.


 Their Special Knowledge of District or
 Land Marks,
 Mir G. J. Romanes describes an in. teresting series of observations on a subject thus defined in the introductory paragraph: ''1n connection with Sir John Lubbock's paper at the British As sociation, in which this subjectis treated, it is perhaps worth while to describe some experiments which I made last year. The question to be answered is whether bees find their way home merely by their knowledge of landmarks or by means of some mysterious faculty usually termed a sense of direction. The ordinary impression appears to have been that they do so in virtue of some such sense, and are therefore independent of any special knowledge of the district in which they may be suddenly liberated; and, as Sir John Lubbock observes, this impression was corroborated by the experiments of M. Fabre. The conclu- sions drawn from these experiments, however, appeared to me, as they ap- peared to Sir John, unwarranted by the facts, and therefore, like him, I repeat them with certain variations. In the result I satisfied myself that the bees depend entirely upon their spe- cial snowledge district or iand- marks, and it is because my experi- ments thus fully corroborate those which were made by Sir John that it now occurs to me to publish them. "- C1tTr0Dt
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"SPOOPENOYKE."
lis Experience as Publisher of a North
 Dakota Journal.

d1S Experience as or Q NOrIh
 Dakota Journal.
 Stanley Huntlcy, better known as 'Spoopendyke," had about eight dol lars in cash when he took the Bismarck Dakota) Tribune off the hands of its owner, and put his own name over the editorial column as the T1Tbune'S pro- prietor, At the end of the first week of his regime the printers came for their accustomed pay, and he tried to give them the accustomed ''stand-off." /" They refused to wait, ley had to go out into the streets of Bis marck and lasso a partner. He found a man who had enough money to pay off the printers, and he gave him half in- terest in the concern, but that was all the money the partner had. In few days the paper for next weeks issue ar rived by express c. O. D., and the T5ib- une publishers were duly notified of the fact. They hadn't the wherewithal to meet the bill, so they put up job. Huntley went down to the express office, engaged the agent in charge in pleasant conversation and sked him out to have & cigar. The agent accepted, and while he was taking his cigar at a neighbor- ing bar, Huntley's partner went to the house and carried off the package of papers. At the end of that week the printers made their usual insatiate demand for pay, and as Huntley didn't have it himself and didn't know where it could be had, he left the Tribune to his partner, who has since made it pay. -H. LO1iiS Globe Democrat
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A GREAT INVEN TON.
An Apparatus Which Enables a Compass
 to Keep a Ship on Her Course.

An Apparatus Which Enables a Compass
 to Keep Ship on Her Course.
 While repairs on the old Government yacht, the Tallapoosa, have been in progress, MT. c. H. Washburn has been fitting to her his apparatus, which is in. tended to enable her to steer herself. Filler ropes are attached to the end oi piston rod that works in long cylin, der placed athwart-ships. To operate the 6l1er compressed air is let into one end or the other'of the cylinder, thus throwing the piston from side to side. The valve which allows the compressed air to enter the cylinder is controlled by a little brass cylinder, which also is operated with compressed air, The valves of this little cylinder are, in turn, operated with an electrical cur rent passing around magnets, just as a telegraph machine is operated. The yes sel is made to steer herself by connecting the compass card with these magnets in such way that when the vessel deviates from her course, and thus revolves about the compass card, even to the frac- ton of a point, the circuit through the proper magnet is completed, the proper valve in the air cylinder is opened, which in turns throws open the valve of the big cylinder on the proper side, and the tiller is so moved that the vessel is brought back on her course The de- vice for completing the circuit by means of the movements of the ship with ref egence to the compass card is very sim ple. A verticle needle is pivoted above the card so that its lower end passes down through a slot at right angles to the poles. The upper end of the needle stands between two platinum points, which are connected with in sulated wires leading to the magnets controlling the valves of the cylinders.
 At a trial of the apparatus before a number of naval officers on the vessel as she lay at the wharf the compass card was swung from side to side by means of bar of steel. The moment the vertical needle above it touched a platinum point the circuit was completed, and the helm was thrown to one side. When the card vibrated back it drew the helm over to the other side very promptly. There is a device by which the compass card con- trol can be cut out, and the motions of the ship controlled by a small wheel turned by a seaman. The officer of the deck also can cut out all the other cir cults and throw the helm from side to side, by moving 8 small lever on the bridge. While the apparatus works smoothly and promptly in smooth water, it has yet to be tested in seaway.
 In connection with this device for steering the ship, Engineer Towne has invented an apparatus for making the ships distilled water palatable. He takes air that has been compressed for use in the cylinders, runs it through jacket of sea-water to cool, and then discharges it into a tank of distilled water. The expansion of the air, of course reduces the temperature of the water in proportion to the degree to which it has been compressed, and, wh en bubbling up through the water, il arates it, thus removing the fiatness characteristic of water which has been either distilled or boiled.-N. r. Sun.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09
Valuable Manuscripts.

The Russian police have succeeded in discovering in the ex-Monastery of the Cistercians at Santa Croce in Gerusa- femme four boxes containing one hum dred and forty-four manuscripts, which it would seem were withheld at the time when the Italian Government took pos session of the libraries of the different monastic orders and concentrated their contents. in the newly founded public library in the Roman College, called the Victor Emanuel. That these manu- scripts were missing was recognized at the time. and their recovery now is mat ter for congratulation, as among them are many of great value, some of them being of the seventh and eighth centu- ries. s.-N. '. Post.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09
A Travelled Letter.

In 1872, something over thirteen years ago, Andrew Brown, of Clark County, Washington Territory, addressed letter to a person living in East Portland, which letter was mailed at Vancouver. About month ago MT. Brown had the same letter returned to him through the dead-letter office at Washington. There have been many complaints about the management of the East Portland Post office, hut-none of theh1 had introduced thirteen years travels of a letter into their details until this instance. It is evident that the letter did not reach Washington until within the present year.-Portlaiid Oreaonian.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09
The local papers at Rawlins. Wy

The local papers at Rawlins, Wy. T., describes a sensation that occurred there very coolly. It says: 'Last Fri day another homicide happened. That makes seven so far this week. Four Ace Lyons and Dcvil-Lake Charlie en- gagged in little game of draw. Charlie dealt and FoUr-Ace stood pat and bet fifty dollars. Charlie stood, and raised fifty dollars. Foor-Ace called. Charlie mad four aces and king and Four-Ace had four kings and an ace. Each ac- cused the other of working miracles, and they instantly agreed to settle it ny another game of draw. They drew revolvers, Both died"
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09
THE GREAT PROBLEM.
The Latest Development in the Chic ago
 St. Louis Foot War.

The Latest Development in the Chic ago.
 St. Louis Foot War.
 Have you ever exhibited your feet in your home, St. Louis?''
 It was in one of the dime museums where the display of women with big feet is in progress, and the question was asked by one of the visitors who had stopped to talk with the St Louis woman, the possessor of the biggest feet shown and the pride of the management. She was an affable creature and apparently took a real pride in her feet, chatting freely about them and about herself gen. orally. The feet were certainly mar. wells; they were each about the size of a sheep and shaped very much like coffin. She answered the question put to her without hesitation.
 Exhibit them in St. Louis? No, cer. tainly not. wouldn't draw there, you see, because my feet wouldn't attract any attention. I worked out there in a number of families, but my feet never caused any comment. They weren't any bigger than the feet of the people all about me. They don't bother me any,"
 But don't you see how much larger they are than the feet of the people all about you here?"
 ''Of course do, and I don't under stand it. Everybody seems to have sucB tiny feet in Chicago! I don't see how you manage to walk with them" And then she added, in all innocence: T suppose it must be something in the cli. mate"
 Inquiry of the managers of the lnu scum disclosed the fact that they had made no effort to secure what would be a novelty in St. Louis. They had sim ply telegraphed down there to send up hired girl. They knew the feet would be all right for the show Chicago Tribune
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09
sThe Proper Study of Mankind Is Man, ,

says the illustrious Pope If he had in cluded woman in the list, be would have been nearer the truth, if not so poetical. Dr. R. V. Pierce has made them both life study, especially woman, and the peculiar derangements to which her delicate system is liable. Many women in the land who are acquainted with Dr. Pierce only through his 'Favorite Prescription, |" bless him with all their hearts, for he has brought them the panacea for all those chronic ailments pe- culiar to their sex; such as leucorrhea, prolapsus and other displacements, ulcera- tion, t'internal fever" bloating, tendency to internal cancer, and other ailments. Price reduced to one dollar. By druggists.
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Yonnr Men. Read This.

THE VoLTAIC BELT Co.,, of Marshall, Mich, offer to send their celebrated ELECTRO-VoL- TAG BELT and other ELECTRIC APPLIANCES on trial for 30 days, to men (young or old) afflicted with nervous debility, loss ofvital- ity and all kindred troubles. Also forrheu- matism, neuralgia, paralysis, ,and many oth- CT diseases. Complete restoration to health, vigor, and manhood guaranteed. No risk in. cured, as 30 days trial is allowed. Write them at once for illustrated pamphlet, free.
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Lost and Found.

I have been both. cred with cataIrh aboui twenty years. Host my smell entirely and al most lost my hearing, My eyes were getting so dim Ihad togetsome one to thread my nee dle. Now I have my hearing, andI can see to thread a fine needle and my smellis partly restored, and 1t seems to be improving all the time. Ithink there 1 s nothing like Ely S Cream Balm for Ca. tarrh. MRS. E. E. GRIMES, Rendrill, Per " Co.,, Ohio.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09
WHITENING WALLS.
Disadvantages That Can Be Removed By
 Boric Acid.

Boric Acid.
 The Deutsche BGuzett,ng has lately commented upon the dangers resulting from the use of certain substances in whitening walls, as well as from the size and other compositions used in pa per hanging, etc. From the fact that painters brushes are injured by lime freshly slaked, they often mix with it organic substances, which are liable, it is considered, to cause infection. The same remarks are applied in general way to paperhangers. These disad- vantages can, it is said, be obviated by adding one-tenth of pound of boric acid to each gallon of ordinary milk of lime. This addition has the advantage of preventing the appearance of stains when paper or size colors are applied to walls not sufficiently dry. In cases of disinfection it is necessary for special care to be exercised as to purity of the lime used.
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has been laborious and costly work, but the end justifies the effort. Obstruction in any important channel means disaster. Ob- structions in the organs of the human body bring inevitable disease. They must be cleared away, orphysical wreck will follow. Keep the liver in order, and the pure blood courses through the body, conveying health, strength and life; let it become dis ordered.and the channels are clOgged with impurities, which result in disease and death. No other medicine equals Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" for acting upon the liver and purifying the blood.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09

THEY were just married, and he was about nineteen years her senior She threw her arms around his neck and said: "l am your darling, ain't F" This was soft even for wedding day. He replied "Ess co iz; ess indeed % iZ core husbands dar- ling" This was at least ten years sotter.- ChicaQO IeleQrdpl.
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-Euoiuee,i,,o describes under th

-Engineerillg describes, under the name of mystery gold,'' an alloy re- sembling in appearance, weight. and in withstanding the jewellers test of strong acids. Its analysis is given as follows: Silver, 2.4S; platinum, 32.02; copper, by difference, 65.50. Strong boiling in nitric acid, even when an article made of it is left in it for some time, has ap- parently no effect upon the alloy which is coming extensively into use.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09

WE guarantee the speedy, painless and permanent cure without knife, caustic or salve, of the largest pile tumors. Pamphlet and references sent for two letter stamps, Worlds Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09
NORTH DAKOTA.
MONTANA.

The report of Hon. s. T. Hauser, Governor of Montana, to the Secretary of the Interior, October, 1885, estimates the present population of the Territory at 110, 900; the population in 1880 was 39,157; increase, 70,S43. The report estimates the value of the silver, gold, copper and lead exports at $20, ,250, GOO; teef cattle, 75,0O0 head, valued at $4,500,000; and of wool, 6,000,000 pounds, valued at S1,400,000. The number of cattle now in the Territory is placed at 900,0 ,000 head; sheep, 1, ,200,- 900 head, and horses, 120,000 head.
 WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
 Washington Territory has eXperi- enced rapid growth, since the con struction of the Northern Pacific Rail- road has made accessible its rich agri- cultural districts. The population has increased from 75, ,120 in 1880 to 175,- 900 in 1885. The Territory is free from debt with S47. 901.81 in the treasury, and the assessed valuation of property in 1884 was S51, ,00S,4S4.
 GOVERNMENT LANDS.
 The reports from the United States General Land Office for 1883, 1884 and 1885 give the aggregate amount of Government lands entered in the entire United States for that period at 54,- 076, 432 acres, of which 29, 330, 351 acres, or 55 per cent. of the acreage, was taken up by settlers in the six North roct Gtatoa on6 Tor1.itOr.ia viz.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09

One of the chief factors contributing more largely than any other to the Wpid settlement in this region was the building of the Northern Pacific Railroad through these important States and Territories. Its construc- tion was made possible by the liberal grant of lands made for that purpose by the general Government. The line was opened for through traffic about two years ago, and considering the progress already made in develop ing the rich agricultural, grazing, tim Der, mineral and other native re- sources of the broad belt of country which it traverses, it is safe to predict that at no distalt day this region of the West will count its inhabitants by millions, and the amount of wealth it's people will realize can scarcely be esti- mated
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Three OuOtatiOnS.

When a man is hanging, cut him down, then go through his pockets Terds Post. When a man is coughing give him Red Star Cough Cure.-BGltinlore NeacS.
 When you want to conquer pain, use St. Jacobs Philadelphia .Neaps.
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WHEN Clara heard that one of her friends had married the three-armed man from California, she exclaimed ''What bliss !''- Rochester POSt- Express.
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r7A MAN in Massachusetts is so stingy tha he doesn't shade his letters when he write: because it wastes ink.-BurlingtOn Ere Press.
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"WHAT is your circulation?n asked the inquisitive individual of the editor. Blood, principally" was the calm reply.-DdnS- yille Breeze
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FINE-One dollar and costs. Finer-The Judge. Finest-The prisoner.-Loi0eH Cit izen.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09

ALL men, says the Declaration of Inde- pendence, are created free and equal Yes, but then some of them get married. PhilG deLpti0 Chronicle Herald,
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WHEN the astronomers skim the ''milky way" do they ever make use of the "big dipper?''-SiouG Falls Leader.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09

BRIGHAM You've acquired the title of Gen. eral from having been called ''Briggy, dear" so often by his numerous wives ". r Ladepetdent.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09

IT is the professional flute player who has to whistle for his money.
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DUDES have begun to wear bracelets. An old-fashioned cuff alongside the head will show them how an ear rings.-N r. Jour 1nI
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growth of the Territory:

The census returns of Dakota show larger per cent. of growth in the number of inhabitants. farms and manufactures in the northern half of the Territory than in the southern half viz:
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WHY should a man be careful about mar riage? Because a wedding is almost alway a ,1liSS take.-N '. Ledger.
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'IN union there is strength" as the creamery man said when he mixed lot of lard with the butter.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09

IN Albanian when girl comes of age her brothers are expected to find her suitor.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09

Robert Burns, in writing a poem, was always careful to use words that the most uneducated person could read fly understand Here is one of Roberts choicest stanZaS:
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09

PIKE'S TOOTHACHE DROPS cure in minute 25c Glenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beautifies. 25o. GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns & Bunions.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-01-09

BEST, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso' Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. soc
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THERE is a town in Massachusetts not afraid of smallpox or typhoid fever. It's Haddam.