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THE FARMER TELLS HIS WIFE
About His Experience in Trying to Nap
IT OH "a Sleeniny-CaF

About His Experience In Trying to Nap
It OH sleeping-CaE.
"Yes, slept well enough when the
ears were moving, but we got into the
depot from St. Paul at a. M, and when
the car stopped woke up. wanted tc
sleep till morning, as the car stopped
there, and SO rolled over to go to sleep.
1t was just as quiet as death around the
depot, until switch engine, began to
monkey around switching cars. Did you
ever try to sleep when an old cow with a
bell on was browsing around in the
street, or in gardens Then you know
how it is. That switch engine would be
heard away up in the yard half a mile
away, ringing her bell like cownibhling
a. cabbage, then she would work up
nearer and / could hear her chew,
chew and snort as though she had
swallowed turnip and got choked.
Then she would hitch ON to q car or two,
and move away.
!: II would get little nearer asleep,
when she would come back slowly, then
stop and blow her whistle, as a COW would
below, and couldn't get it out of my
mind that it was COW. / found myself
dreaming about going down into the pas
ure barefooted, to drive up drove of
locomotives to be MIXED. / had them
surrounded, and their eow-catchers all
pointed toward the cow-yard on the old
farm, and they would stick their heads
out sideways to nibble grass, and would
yell at them, and one old ugly locomotive
with one horn would turn and run into a
tbrindle locomotive and she would run
away off in the woods, and would have
to 90 after her. When had got her back
into the road, all the rest of the locomo-
.tives were acting up, one paving the
ground and. believing, another running
her horn into the ground and throwing
dirt over her back, while others were
rearing up and hooking, and acting just
like lot of cattle.
"The only one that had sense was the
old bell locomotive, and she started right
along towards the house as soon as |
came out of the woods, and the rest re-
luctantly followed. 1t was hard work to
get the whole drove of locomotives
through the gate of the old barnyard, in
my sleep, because some would block the
way of others, but finally the hired man
began to set out pals of slops and bran
mash, and the locomotive with the bell
on ran its cow-catcher clear down into
the bran mash, and then the hired girls
came out with milk pals and stools and
! told the locomotives to hoist, and then
they sat down right by the tender and
pretty soon heard the milk from the
/ locomotives streaming into the tin pals,
and the girls said $50, boss and l went
to sleep Say, pass them pancakes."- y
Peck's Sun,
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Pro Tenn. Presidents of the Senate

Az an indication Of how often it has hap
pened that at an important time, either ow-
ing to the death Of president or vice presi-
dent, president pro tempore has presided
over the senate, it may be mentioned that
in forty years-that is, since the electoral
votes were counted for Polk and Dallas in
February, ls45-an actual vice president has
presided during the couating Of the votes
for president and vice president in the pres
ence Of the two hou q: of ongress but four
times-in 1851, when John C. Breckenridge
was vice president; in 1856, when Hannibal
Hamin held that Office; in 1873, when
Schuyler Colfax held it; and in 1881, when
William A Wheeler held it In 1S45, 1858,
1851, 1869, 1877 and 1885 a president pro
tempore of the senate opened the certificates
Of the electors, etc, AMI it now seems newt
able that the same will be the case In 1880
---PhiIadeiphia Timex
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evening dresss So successful was this open
ing that the applause began with the rising
of the curtain, and ended not until the going
down thereof. Theodore Thomas was the
conductor, of course Who else; could have
done it? And he was SO well pleased with
the performance that, at its close, smiles
chased each other over his face like streaks
of sunshine in eloudland, and this wasn'L
his first experience in conducting opera,
either Look at him in the picture and see
if he isn't as handsome and youthful as ever.
The Sun, of this city, says what all lovers
of honest, home-brewed music will indorse
in these words:
In the hundreds of concerts which he has
given, and which have reached from the At
lantic to the Pacific, Thomas has cultivated
in thousands of Americans the love Of music
of high class, and has done much for the
musical education of the people. He has un
dertaken now to provide the talent of Ameri-
can boys and girls with the sunshine of en-
couragement which it needs to develop in,
and if he carries out the plan it will be a
prouder work than anything that he has
done before. By and by, when we have
PATHS of our own sending their voices up
out of sight and bassos with double base
ment and cellar voices, this picture will be
craven in the hearts of proud mothers, and
hung instead of the bless-our- home mottoes
in the happy homes of genius all over the
land-n
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ture. The costumes are to be prepared. This
requires archaeological lore and artistic
sense, as well as good, reliable, old-fashioned
industry. The opera of "Lohengrin" alone
requires 900 costumes.
Scenic skill is needed, and numerous aids
not visible to the naked eye will have q field
in which to exercise their talents. Ali in all,
this newborn child of American enterprise
and talent has the good wishes of its kim
folk, and will doubtless have their substan-
tial assistance in the future
I I1,nrrI
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projects. In addition to this she generously
gives her time and efforts, frequently, it is
said, taking upon herself the thankless task
of management. 1t is also said that she fur
nished the capital for several musical cam
paigne, in which Theodore Thomas has been
the chief figure and Charles E. Locke sec
ond.
She employs two secretaries to attend to
the correspondence and other affairs which
are the natural outgrowth Of the important
musical affairs in which she is interested.
During the musical seasons she is constantly
importuned by the strugglers. in the mu
steal fie.d-singers or would be singers,
pianists, violinists, artists of much energy
and poor luck-to lend her influence in pro
curing engagements, and sometimes to open
her purse, for the wolf of hunger roams un.
checked in Bohemia. She receives these
callers, one at a time, in back parlor de-
voted to business. The front parlor contin-
ually overfows with waiting applicants.
1t is not generally known that Theodore
Thomas tour with the Wagner singers
Materna, Winkelmann and Scaria origi-
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Boyhood of Wagner, the Composer


Geyer, Wagner's stepfather, wanted to
make young Wagner painter; but the
boy was very awkward at drawing. He
says: Il had learned to play 'Ueb immer
sTreu und Redlichkeit' and the tJungfern-
Ekrans' (Freischutz), which was then
quite new. The day before his death
f(Sept. 80, 1921 had to play these to
IGeyer in an adjoining room, and i heard
him family saying to my mother. DO
you think he might have gift for
mrsic?' AT the age of IA Wagner
secretly began to write Q grand tragedy
|lt was made up of Hamlet and Lear,
forty two men died, and sonse of them
had to return as ghosts to keep the fifth
act going New York Sun.
The Gratitude of English Operatives.
In ST. Giles house, the ancestral home
Iof the earl of Shaftesbury, there is q
monument to which the late owner could
hardly point without emotion. This is a
large bust of the earl, presented to
Emily, wife of the seventh earl or
iShaftesbufy, by the operatives OF the
manufacturing districts of the north OF
England, as a token of their esteem and
regard for the preserving and successful
efforts of her noble husband in promoting
by legislative enactment a limitation Of
the hours of labor of children. females
and young persons employed in mills and
factories Aug. 6. 1850" On this occasion
IL Geo persons are said to have kissed the
earl's hands.-C Chicago Herald
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they Responded .s One Boy

Dear children" said the teacher, ito
day relate ] q stoy. The Anton was q
good boy who throughout no badness uear
could. One day saw be that bad boys q
dog with stones assailed Then spoke he to
them: oh, how bad are youl Upon the
place let me bs thrown str Tbs bad boys
held IA. ard now guess what they furthe-
doae aave.n
u the scholars with ciie voice: 'ffhey
have at she Anton the st ,nes thrown. ~.
Oyerset from the the omnibus II
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John Gilbert (basso|, associated with Mr..
Whitney, is a journalist as well as singer,
and an american. He has been with the
Emms Abbott English Opera company.
The American Opera company is not
synonymous with the Ameri an School Of
Opera, recently started in this city, though
Theodore Thomas is at the head OF Eota.
The organ cations are distinct, bus occupy
common tTs und in the effort TO educate
Americans in musical art The opera com
pany will give oppor. uni les to pupils of the
school, as tley are prepared Tor work from
time to time
One critic siys: The noble motive which
stimulated thts beginning of this operate
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NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.

. j. Any one VINO takes paper regularly fltm ID
fostdce-whether directed to his name or another's
OF whether ne mas subscribed or notis responsible
2 1t person orders his paper discontinued be
must pay all arrearages or the publisher will con-
Time TO send until payment is made and collect the
whole amount, whether the paper is taken from tn
office or not.
3. hecourts have decided that refusing to take
tneneTspapers or periodicals from the Postofhce OF
removing and leaving them uncalled for, lie pTisnG
fdeie evidence OF intentionalfraud,
FapeFs ordered to any address can be changed to
another address at the option of the subscriber .
Remttances by draft check, money order or regis.
tered letter may re at risk All Postmasterv
are required to register letters on sapphcation,
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The principals of the American Opera
sompany are the products Of dozen states
lime. LAllemand, a leading soprano, was
porn in Syracuse, this state. She was
never heard in this country until the open
ng night of the OPERA when she appeared
4, Katherine. She studied in Paris, Dres-
len and Stuttgart, and has been one of the
prominent colorature singers of Europe
Miss Helene HastreiteE, also a leading So
5rano, is native of Louisville. Mr.. lheo-
lore Thomas is considered an American, if
he did make t e. mistake of not being born
on native soil.
Kate Bensberg, soprano, who played in the
role of Blanca, is a native of St. Louis, and
has been five years student in Germany.
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How Steamship Companies Are Cheated.

How Steamship Companies Are Cheated.
Speaking Of how ocean steamship ceR-
panies are annually defrauded, an officer OF
one of them says In an interview: "Every
person who has ever crossed the Atlantic has
noticed several elegantly attired gentlemen,
who at times would wander haughtily among
the steerage passengers, condescend to con-
verse with the intermediate people, and on
fine days invariably promenade the hurricane
deck No one knew WHO they were; no one
had ever seen them eat anything, and the pas
sengers, one and all, discussed the mystery of
where those fellers hung out every nightF
Well, these same gentlemen obtain all this
freedom and -nry by simply buying q
steerage ticket boarding during the voy-
age in either y carpenters or boatswain's
room n-Exchang2
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A California River Blown Dry

During the recalt high windstorm Link
river was blown almost entirely dry, 50
much so that men and boys walked
across the bed of the river picking up
fish by the hundred As this statement
may be doubted by some exchanges we
will explain by stating that the river has
numerous falls and the wip.i kept the
water from flowing from upper Klamath
lake while the lower lake could not back
no above the falls. California Paper.
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ana Lucentlo il the successful suitor. Petru-
chic declares his intention of proposing to
Katherine Her father gives his consent,
but the tug of war is in getting Katherine's
consent She is furious at his presumption,
but he refuses to accept his dismissal, and
obstinately declares that he has been &C
cepted, and fixes the wedding day. BE
keeps her waiting on the bridal morning,
arrives late, indifferently clad, marries her
and hustles her away before the wedding
festivities have scarcely begun He suhse-
quently breaks her temper and wins her
affection" as one critic expresses it, two
extraordinary things to do certainly, but
all things are possible in opera, which
frequently distinguishes itself by getting as
far from nature as fiction can go.
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The healthy piscipline Of r,o,,b,s,

No wise man would seek to be exempted
from the healthy discipline of trouble any
more than an intelligent child would wish
TO be exeusel from school and to be allowed
70 play al day and every day In tbs mead
ows No We aIe a.os butterflies ffas diff
firm flower - flower; life Is real, life u
earnest anl the tCii.c o. sorrow braces aud
strens ssthsals is to make it 20. so.-SpurReon.
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- ~
promising Amel'i-
can industry. It
opens the way for
hundreds, perhaps
thousands, of eager
hands, as we'll as
finished throats, to
exercise themselves
with hope of re-
ward. 1t develops
specialists in many
lines of work. and
suggests possibili-
ties of stupsndous
IL T.
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mated with her.
She is the wife of
t he wel-k N o W N
anti-monopolist.
But to the open
ing. As l said be-
fore. everybody
was there, every
body who had dia-
monds and other
operatic accessor-
les, for what wo-
man can appreciate
opera with covered
s b o ul d er s, an d
what man could en-
joy it ia anything
h,,t thu Sorrnrn-f
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chusetts. He be-
lieves firmly in the
continued success
and growth of
American opera.
He attained his
proficiency in ora
torio in London.
He has travelled
with the Thomas
orchestra, sun G
with the Boston
Ideal company and
at all the festi-
sa
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venture. as well as
the commencement
of q school which Is.
now e,n'y the germ
of what is destined
ultimately to be-
come a. national
conservatory of
large proportions
and ambitious In
tentions, cannot be
too highly valued
as the nucleus of q
ma innal gro with
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Alonzo E. Sted-
dard, who sang
Hortensio, is a
baritone from Mas
sachusetts. w. H.
Fessenden. tenor,
the Lueentio, is
from Buffalo, and
was graduated at
Dartmouth college.
He used to be in the
Kellogg concert
company, W. H.
Lee (Petruchio) Is
a New Yorker, not
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.Nieht ras.are af the Canal.

Hpsss arr siiips have been permitted To-
pass through the Sucz canal o,ly in day
: light: Inf now war ships and steamers prss
viie.. with electric lights Of sufficient power
TO illuminate the canal 200 yards ahead ma,
10 at night
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Labouchere on Rich Men.

There is no class In the country so mar
row-aninded and SO selfish as rich men.
They imagine that the world Is created for
them alone, and that the sole aim Of state
manship ought to be TO enable them TO re-
tain what they have and to obtain what
they have not. To worship the golden calf
Is debasing. But what is to be- expected OF
a country III which the legislature Is COM
posed almost exclusively ef golden calvess
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Mrs. Thurber's
work jim musical
circles / has been
something extraor-
dinary,.= and until
recently has not
been known to that
presumably all-see-
, ing beast, the pub
: lie. She has a large
and independent in
come, q great part
Of which she de-
votes to the prac-
ii C al encourage
ment of musical
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doubfedly in time becoma equal in artistic
results to that which any country in the
world can boast Americans are not de-
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some substitutes fspr T.es.ssss

Leather-board, pancakes, artifcia;
leather, and straw-hoard are some Of the
substitutes for leather which have been
widely introduced In the construction Of
boots and shoes.
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TERMS--l S--lNVARlABLY IN ADVANCE,


One Year ..S4 90
Six Mont he. tH
Thies Months. "
When not paid in advance the rate will be Fire
LoilAfs per year.
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RATES OF ADVERTISING,

Regular advertising payable quarterly, as due
transient advertising. payable in advance
special Notices are 30 per cent wore than reg
a.,r advertisements
local advertising Is cents far the first insertion
u cents per line; for each succeeding Insertion
ines rouned in Nonpsriel measure. y
lib Work payable on delivery.
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4 Thanksgiving Dinner a la Mode.
Ipastaa Rancau

Much hilarity was occasioned at Thsnks-
giving dinner party by the cook serving tie
turkey with paper ruffies around its legs
and another of Elizabethean proportions
round the long neck, on which she had
fastened an improyised head, composed OF
vegetables There was also .'button-hole"
bouquet of parsley and a rosebud "cafs'ed'
i'm beet. The gallant gentleman's health
was drunk in some ''extra dry" of which
the cook duly received her share, in the
kifcban .
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03

The Postmaster General has taken
an important step in his late order
designating all the post-ofices in the
United States and territories as spe-
cial delivery offices, beginning with
October /. On and after that date
every postmaster will be held respor-
sible for the immediate delivery OF
every article of mailable matter prop
erly stamped with a special delivery
stamp directed to a place within a
mile of the post-ofice.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-03
Ohio Republican Politics.

At the Ohio state republican convention
held at Columbus, the folio wing ticket was
nominated:
Secretary OF state, James s. Robins on; SUI
preme Judge, Marshall j. Williams, clerk
Of supreme court, L. H. Hester; school
commissioner, Eli T. Tappan; member
board OF public works, w. NJ. Hahn.
The committee on resolutions made q re-
port which was adopted.
1t condemns the Democratic party for
failing to settle the fishery dispute, and in
~rolying the United States in a quarrel with
Mexico when arbitration was at hand; says
the Democrats, while processing to favor
civil service reform, have made the name
Of reform odious; condemns the removal
Of old soldiers from Office on the ground Of
offen sive craftsmanship, and condemns the
wholesale veto OF pension bills by the
president; believes in the Republican
doctrine OF a tariff, and in the devel-
opment and protection OF the
labor interests; favors the r~estora-
ton Of the wool tariff of 1867, and
condemns the placing OF the same on the
iree list;fayors legislation to promote har-
mony between employer and employe; COM
mends the Dow liquor law and applauds
the efforts of Gladstone and Parnell to Sc
cure home rule for Ireland. One of the
resolutions reads: '"The United States SEN
ate, in refusing to order an investigation
Of the means by which a seat in that body
was procured for Henry b. Payne, has dis
appointed the just and reasonable expec-
cations OF the people OF Ohio.
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clay and pieces Of timber performed indie
scribable gyrations, hundreds Of feet
in the air, some falling close tc
the points from which they started
while Others shot off through space with
irightful velocity, only conforming to the
laws OF gravity after a long fight. Stones
weighing from one to one hundred and fifty
pounds were thrown into fields two miles
from the scene. Trees were stripped 81
their foliage, fences by the mile were laid
low, telegraph poles we're snapped like
reeds, and the prairie looks as if a thou
sand steam plows had been at work upon
it. The little board OF trade building,
seven miles from the scene OF the explosion,
was greatly affected by the disturbed con.
dition Of the atmosphere. The main hall
on the second floor is lighted by three
slIcats Of plate glass, each about twelve
feet square. The upper and lower OF these
sheets were shattered.
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Condensed General News.
onsn,nr ., the Minneapolis Exposition.

The great Minneapolis Exposition was
formally opened on Monday, the 23d INST
bv n procession OF dignitaries oi various de-
Cress. and exercises within the building IN
presence Of at least 10000 people;
After divine blessing was invoked
bv Bishop Ireland, and addresses
nv officers OF the association, hon.
G X. Davis of St. Paul delivered Il master
w Grafton which was loudly applaudeu'
when Mr.. Davis had finished speaking
President Washburn read the following
telegram. which had been received during
the delivery OF the Grafton.
PRosPECT House, UPPER SARANAC LAKE,
n. Y..Aug. 23.--Hon. W.D. Washburn' Tres,
ident: With many thanks Tor the klna
message sent to us by the officers anq OIL
rcctors OF the Minneapolis Industrial eA-
position, Mrs. Cleveland joins me IN tender
ing TO then hearty congratulations upon
the auspicious Inauguration OF an eNhlcl'
ton which not only demonstrates the
prosperity and progress OF the great north
west, but must also reflect credit upon a
country whose greatest pride IS the happl,,
ness and COntentmeut OF its people ana
the cnjOyments Of all the gifts otGod' MIS-
Cleveland GLADLY complies with your re
quest, and will set in motion the machinery
Of the exposition. She awaits your signal.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The signal was Immediately given by the
telegraph operator, and the response came
almost in an instant.
Mrs. Cleveland stepped forward toglyeth the
signal which should move the machinery
more than a thousand miles away. The
spectators laughed heartily when the presl-
dent gravely admOnIshed her not to start
it with a Jerk. The circuit was open the
whole distance, and within two minutes
after Mrs. Cleveland had pressed the but
ton the reply came from Minneapolis that
the machinery WAS working beautifully.
III the evening there vas Il grand iIluml-
nation of NiccoIat Avenue, witnessed by
tens of thousands, which will be repeated
during the time the exhibition lasts.
John T. Raymond, the actor, is serious
ly i'll in New York.
DR.. Frederick Hoadly OF New Haven,
Conn, who has been insane for some time,
has been taken to the Bloomingdale asy-
lum. DR.. Hoadly went on the Greedy ex-
petition as medical director.
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The last legislature of Kentucky
passed an act establishing a state
normal school for the preparation
OF teachers for the colored public
schools of that state, and made an
appropriation of ST, 900 for the cree
ton of buildings and $4,000 annually
for running expenses. 1t was contem-
plated by the legislature that as an
inducement to have this school locat-
ed in their midst certain communities
would offer to donate lands and build
ings for that purpose, and that 81
600 expended thereon by the state
would be ample to place the school
in successful operation.