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Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-14
Notice of Forfeiture.

'o ROBERT WATERS; YOU ARE HEREBY
a.. notified that we your 90 owners, have
appended One Hundred Dollars In labor and
asnprovements aa upon the State of Maine lode.
M ni.e me west side OF Ruby Hill, Eureka Mining
srs1iet, Eureka county, Nevada, during tho
yoar 1o 1882 and IL within ninety days after this
soslce OF publication you fail or refuse to pay
;;oar ;n proportion of said expenditure. amount.
has has W $33. your interest in said claim will
sse.me sSeoome the property OF your co-owners. under
session 1884 Revised Statutes of the United
S'a'es, A. j. HUTCHINSON,
r.. J.W. LAMBERT.
eureka. August 8. 1886. aul-9o
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-14

OB PRHNTIN0-NEw STYLES OF
a, Tpe at the SENTINEL ONCE. Letter Heads
VIZ neaos, Cards, etc., printed in the best
'' khsvn to the "Art preservative."
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-10-28
PENNSYLVANIA
STATE COLLEGE.
Next Tenn begins September s. 1856.


This institution is located In one of tho most
beautiful and healthful spots OF the entire Alle-
gheny region. 1t is open to students of both
sexes and offers the following Course Of Study:
/, A Full Scientific Course of -Four Years.
g A Latin Scientific Course.
3. The following ADVANCED COURSES, of
two years EACH following the first two years of
the Scientific Course: (a) AGRlCuLTuRE;( ~
NATURAL HISTORY; (c) CHEMISTRY AND
PHYSICS; (d) CIVIL ENGINEERING.
4. A short SPECIAL COURSE in Agriculture,
5. A short SPECIAL COURSE in Chemistry
6 A reorganiZed Course In MECHANIC
ARTS, combining shop-work with study New
building and Machinery
Z. A new SPECIAL COURSE 1.-TWO years) in
Literature and Science, for Young Ladies'.
s. A Carefully graded Preparatory Course.
9. SPECIAL COURSES are arranged to meet
the wants of individual students.
Military drill is required. Expenses for board
and incidentalS very low. Tuition free. Young
ladies under charge Of n competent lady Prin-
cipal.
For Catalogues, or other information address
GEORGE w. ATHERTON, Ii. D.,
President,
27-29 State College, Centre Co., Pa
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-10-28

store orders but that they represented
80 much cash and were convenient
cash circulating medium for the con-
venience OF workmen.
Jfa circulating medium is the simil-
itude of money, they are taxable un0er
the act of Congress at the rate of ten
per cent. every time they are issued,
and as the officers of tie company pub
licly declared that they were simply
cash orders, the collector Of internal
revenue for the district Investigated the
subject and decided, upon the state
ments of the parties issuing them, that
they were circulating medium and as
sessed the lawful tax upon them. When
notified of the tax, which was ten per
cent. on some $6U, 900 the officers of the
company appealed the case to Commits
sioner Miller, of the internal revenue
department, on the ground that the
coupons are trade or store orders and
not q cash circulating medium. The
commissioner refuses to give any infor-
nation on the subject, but 1t is known
that the appeal is before him, and that
he must decide either that they are a
cash circulating medium and tax them
or that they are store orders and de-
clare that they are not taxable. In view
of the political prominence given to the
store order question in several Penn.
sylvania contests, including governor
and congressman, it excites general in
terest in Washington political circles.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-10-28

OUR UNE0UALED OFFER; Ts" & @ % % @ @ II %
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FRANKLIN philadelphia
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-10-28
How q Farmer Slaves.

To witness o farmer shave is one
of the most painful operations ever
witnessed outside of downright butch
cry. For some reason away beyond
the depth of present knowledge, the
man who breads the country always
has beard like new hair brush, and
he never could learn how to sharpen a
razor.
He gets on the back stoop with his
shaving utensils, and after rubbing
the razor over the strap in an awk-
ward fashion until whatever trace of
edge it may have had has been de-
stroyed, he hangs up his broken glass
and takes q position alongside the
kitchen door, where the old lady will
be sure to jostle his arm when she
goes out to empty her dish water.
With a brush that has but little
handle remaining. he manages some
how to stir up lot of lather from
soap that would raise blister on the
bottom of q boys foot in dog days,
with which he coats his face till moth
ing but his eyes and the back of his
head are visible. With a cob dipped
in warm water he goes over the stub
ble with vigor that makes the flesh
creep, until be feels that all the reas
enable precautions for comfort in the
subsequent operation have been taken.
Taking the razor and looking at it
suspiciously over the top of his glass.
es, he runs his thumb along the edge,
fails to dra W. blood as he had hoped,
and then with sigh like leaving a
town in hurry, he grabs himself by
the nose, shuts his eyes, and gives
scrape that makes his hair stand On
end as bunch of beard seems to come
out by the 70 OTIS
But once at it terrible desperation
seems to nerve him, and with teeth
set he goes right on with determin-
alton to get the agony over as soon as
possible. Howls of woe break from
him now and then, as an expression
that poisons life steals over his face
and stops there till the last nerve has
been pulled out OF socket by that ter
rib!e razor, and the last bit of stubble
has been laid low, when, with sigh
of relief, he strikes up hymn of
thanksgiving and joyfully throws his
shaving paper into the swill barrel
near by.-Ex.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16
BELLE PLANES GEYSER.

An Explanation of the Phenomenon That Has
Started the Inhabitants 0fThat Village.
A late dispatch from DesMoines, Iowa
says:
The recent Outburst at Belle PLANE of
powerful subterranean stream, caused
by the sinking of an artesian well, excites
great interest in Iowa, SIS showing the
possibility of gaining an abundant sup
ply of pure water from natures fountains
IN the rocks below the surface drift and
sediment. A number of successful drill
ings have been made in that place but this
last seems to have struck fssure of
great size, through which poured stream
of immense volume and force. A careful
study of Iowa geology will furnish an ex-
PLANTATION of the phenomenon. The town
is situated in the valley of the Iowa river,
twenty or thirty miles south of the line
of outcrOp of the Hamilton group of
rocks. The impervious limestone strata
dips southwark at an average of fifteen
| feet to the mile. At Belle PLANE these
rocks lie at considerable depth; covered
with shale blue clay, surface drift, gravel,
and SOIL The water tricles through the
sandrock at the far northward, flowing
down through assures until it is confined
between the limestone beds and the super
! incumbent mass of imperviOus clay.
The press from the distant fountain head
is very great. The Belle Flaine we'll was
sunk through the clay and friable ma
terial to the depth of about 185 feet, and
the force of the upward stream was suffi-
cient to enlarge the aperture, breaking
through the shale and blue clay, and
throwing up vast quantities of clay, sand
and gravel. It is reported that the other
wells ceased their flow when this great
geyser was struck. This indicates that
there is connection of assures and a
common fountain head at the north, and
it may be expected that there will be in
time some decrease in the volume of wa
ter, but if it can be controlled it will
prove bonanza of blessedness to the
town
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16
AN ACTIVE VOLCANO.
A Description of the Eruption of Kilauea.

A Description of the Eruption of Kilauea.
correspondent OF The Hawaiian Ga
zette gives the following account of a re
visit to Kilauea:
"The molten lava is visible in three
different places all of which I visited
Two of the three places are quite diff
cult of access, the approach being cir.
cuitous route up and down over masses OF
loose rocks, and possibly only in day
time. These two places are quite near
each other in the neighborhood of what
was formerly the new lake, though some
called lakes I should call them wells
One of these is where liquid lava was first
seen after its disappearance in March
This Is somewhat irregular in shape, be-
ing perhaps, thirty feet wide and sixty to
seventy feet long, and not less than one
hundred feet in depth. To obtain a view
of the well, one must 60 to the very edge
of the we'll and look over, and this can be
done with safety at only one point. I'm
mediately beneath this point at the bot
tom of the well, but where it could not be
seen with too great risk, there was an
immense noise and evidence of great &C
tivity. Over the portion of the bottom
hardened, except in one place, where it
could be seen as if it were pulled out and
thrown up little distance every few sec
onds.
The other well was nearly circular in
shape, perhaps thirty feet in diameter
and one hundred feet in depth. This
could be approached .only at one
point, and this point was on the leeward
S1 hot ho Of Il 10
would allow one to remain there only a
few seconds at time. At the bottom of
the well partial cone was formed, per-
haps ten feet across, and in this lava was
boiling with intense violence, now and
| then throwing up a spray of lava quite a
hundred feet to the mouth of the well and
almost into the face of one standing on
| the edge and looking over.
The third place where the liquid lava
could be seen was the lake below the west
lake, and get specimens, but it is an ex-
tremely hazardous undertaking. There
are, or were, two lakes here, but they seem
to- have merged into each other, the
activity being confined to the part last
| formed. Small lava flows were constant
ly breaking out, and in the evening there
was SIlS1 oil DI6dh1IS up vi dDOuU one
third of the surface. This lasted only
one or two minutes, but was followed by
quite extensive lava flows. I saw nc
fountains and no cones here. The point
for observing this lake is about 500 OF
1000 fit. distant from it. One can get on the
| edge of the perpendicular wall Immediately
above it $50 or 200 feet but this is unsafe
as landslides are constantly taking place
at all points. When I visited this place
two days later, its surface had evidently
risen, and it was more active than when
saw it before. There were signs of &C
tivity in other places but no fire could bt
seen. About the middle of July some
lava appeared in the Halemaumau, but
it has not continued in activity. The &C
tivity of Kilauea is evidently increasing
and, while the sight at present is wei
worth seeing, there is promise of more
in the future"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16
er, what do you think.
A Story of Faith.
PHILADELPHIA News.

The conversation drifted to publishers
and he told me pleasant little story In
which Mr.. Moore, publisher of the Rural
New Yorker, was the benefactor. A natur-
alist of considerable note resided in Ian
caster city at the time. He owned lit
tie home, had profession, but was not
rich in this worlds goods. Mr.. Moore
used to send to him all queries in connec-
ton with obnoxious insects, etc. The
naturalist would make drawing of the
insect, give its proper name, explain It's
habits, pe3uliarities, ETC., all of which
would appear in The Rural New Yorker.
One Christmas morning the naturalist
said to his daughter:
"My dear, there is turkey in the stove
to be sure, but this 25-cent piece is all the
money I have IN the world. Not a bright
outlook"
Presently a needy neighbor dropped
in to solicit aims, and the naturalist
promptly handed her the quarter. He was
big-hearted man, a devOut Christian,
and with sublime faith in Providence.
daughter, the money will come back
to me four-fol
just then the postman handed in let
ter. The naturalist opened it and found
in it a check for $50.
1t was from Mr.. Moore, who wrote in
substance:
'You have been very kind in preparing
those articles for US from time to time.
You, no doubt, regarded it as "a labor of
love- but we must ask you to accept this
check, not as a complete compensation,
but as a slight expression of our appre-
citation of the value of your work"
"There, Mary, what did tell you?" the
old naturalist cried, his eyes filling with
tears.
This is true incident, and should the
Lancaster dailies copy it they will have
no difficulty in supplying the naturalist's
name.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16

heard the Friday previous, and how they
had gone downstairs and gone to all the
doors, but found no one, and while down
stairs the next morning they all heard a
shrin scream apparently from Rebecca's
room. They rushed up only to find her
sitting quietly by the window, look
ing out upon the park, peaceful and hap
"'Didn't you cry out or call just now?'
was asked.
"And she replied, with surprise:
"'Why, no, 1 have just been sitting here
still as possible
''Mr. - then asked me if [ could de-
scribe the old lady. I did, and they all
looked aghast.
"'Could you tell her picture do you
Think
II was sure that [ could know that face
anywhere. So they brought large pho
tograph album, and there were several
other old ladies there, but j picked out
mine of the night before as the identical
old woman, and was told she was the
grandmother of the patient, who had
made a great pet of her, bringing her up
after her mothers death.
''That next night the poor lady died in
great agony, and calling on US to take
away the people she saw about her. It
was a sad case. There had been some
trouble, some great mystery, in her life,
as [ afterward learned.
"The doctor, when he called after her
death, exclaimed at my looks, and re-
peated the facts to him. He smiled and
said I was all worn out and needed rest,
that nervous fatigue had merely produced
an optical illusion; go home and sleep a
day or two, and I should come out all
right I presume that was so. I went
home and was sick myself for nearly two
weeks.
"And that is all the story" said Mrs.
Rogers, 'and cannot stop minute lon:
ger, for Mrs. S. is waiting upstairs for
her electricity. Don't let the dog and old
woman keep any of you awake tonight,
for don't believe it myself"
And off the blessed dear went to her
round of duties, while we still sat by in
the dim light and discussed possibilities
and probabilities, and as usual came to
no conclusion.
Reader, what do you think.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16
Pipe Smoking as a Fashion,
Philadelphia Record.

Another English fashion that our
young men are adopting is pipe-smoking,
TO the exclusion of cigars and cigarettes
You see all the strong, ine-looking young
fellows who come to New York from the
country every morning smoking short
briarwood pipes; they used to smoke
cigarettes. There is also fashion that
I applaud, for l think there is nothing
more pernicious than incessant cigarette
smoking. Young men know it is unman-
ly to smoke cigarettes except on occasion
during a dinner hour, or something of
that sort; but when they sit down for real
comfort they want pipe, particularly
out in the wind. A cigar may be enjoyed
after dinner, but no man who knows how
to smoke would think of smoking a cigar
in the wind. Small boys and ladies will
continue to smoke the cigarette, sup
pose, though did hear a young lady say
not long ago that she preferred a pipe to
cigarette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16
STORIES ABOUT THE STAMP.
Interesting Facts in Connection with Affairs
in Postal Matters

Interesting Facts in Connection with Affairs
in Postal Matters.
The report of the postmaster General
for the last fiscal year, which is now being
prepared at the department, shows some
interesting figures in relation to the post
al service. One curious feature shown by
this report is the point at which the ordi-
nary American draws the line of economy
From the time the postal cards were first
introduced into this country until the rate
OF letter postage was reduced to cents
per ounce there was a steady and con-
slant increase in the sales of postal cards.
This change in the law went into effect on
the lst of October, 1883, and for the pre-
cedlng twelve months the department
had disposed of something like 3S5.OOO,-
600 postal cards. Thus IN ten years the
annual consumption of postal cards had
increased from a few millions up to a
third of billion. The ordinary increase
IN the value of stamps sold is in the value
of stamps sold is in the neighborhood of
Is to 10 per cent. per annum, and the
sales of postal cards should, in the or6in-
airy nature of things, increase in about
the same ratio, but since 1883 there has
been no increase to speak of. During the
last year there has been a decided falling
off. This is due to the fact that people
have, since the reduction of letter post
age, gone back to sealed correspondence,
as the margin between l and cents is
not sufficient to induce them to use the
postal card to so great an extent as form
erly. Officials of the department believe
that the high-water mark in the use of
postal cards has been reached, and that
once favorite method of communication
Is distined to become less and
less popular each year, and that the pos
tai card will finally remain in use princi-
pally as an advertising medium through
the mails. Notwithstanding the inroad
INTO the revenues of the department.
winch has been made through Congress
slonal action each year, the receipts for
the hscal year ending 1885 will show a
net increase over the receipts for the
year 1888 OF about S1,5OO,OOO. The reduc-
ton of postage on newspapers from ,
cents to cent per pound caused falling
OH IN the revenues last year of about ST.
100000. This shows that upward of a
million pounds of newspapers were demo-
sited in the mails by publishers alone.
besides the tons which were sent ont in
wrappers by private individuals to which
postage stamps were affixed. The denart-
ment is just recovering from the effects
of the reduction of letter postage. and if
there shall be no further cutting down in
rates it will not be five years before this
important branch of the government is
again self-sustaining.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16
Yielded to his Friends.
ArkanSaw Traveller.

Jenkins Ito Jones)-Why don't you run
for the legislature?
Jones never thought anything
about it.
Jenkins-You could be elected.
Jones-You don't think so?
Jenkins-I know it,
Note from Jones in the next morning s
paper:
I'm desire to yield to many friends, I
hereby announce myself as a candidate
for the legislature. I have not sought
this office but am compelled to yield to
my friends"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16

At the ffty-seventh autumnal exhibit
ton of the Pennsylvania horticultural
Society, at Philadelphia, the first thing
which attracts the eye of visitor is a
representation of the old mill at New
port. The floral model which occupies
the center of the hall is sixteen feet high
and fourteen feet in diameter. The work
is made of hydrangea panaculata, a
brown flower, having the appearance Of
rough stones very like the original. Over
this are asparagus vines. The columns
and arches of the structure are made of
astors, tube-roses, roses, carnations, dahl
las and many other bright and fragrant
cut flowers. The mill is ornamented in
side and out, presenting 700 square feet
of flowers. In one window there are
doves and in another wise-Iooking OWL
The piece was designed by firm Of Phil
adelphia Tourists, and twenty men work
ed two days and one night to complete
If
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16
The Danger of Dust.
London Lancet.

Darkness, damp and dust are potent
agencies of disease. Everybody recog-
nlzes this; but how many fail to adopt its
precepts! If there be sermons in stones,
surely the summer dust and its dangers
would prove fruitful subject for medical
discourse. There is as great difference
between London and country dust as there
IS between corresponding muds. Pull
verified matter would be harmless enough
If it were deprived of its physical
prosperity of ready DIFFUSION. The at
mosphere is laden and swarms with par
tlculate matter Of high complex nature.
Its chief peril to living beings resides in
the organic constituents. Largely this
organic material consists of minute forms
OF life in state of latency, only waiting
for spell OF heat and moisture and a
favorable amount of light, or it may be
darkness, to awaken it into activity. The
habits Of individuals IN every class of
society, including the masses, are calcu-
lated to diminish, but rather to augment,
the amount of organic matter in our at
mosphere. Mucus, saliva and humor,
peculiarly known as matter" must be
discharged from the mouth and nOstrils
to the extent of many gallons daily and
not a little of this comes from infective
sources: while we venture TO think that
the bulk of it mingles with the dust of
our streets and courts. If as seems not
unlikely, consumption is largely caused
by germs" then very ready theory may
be advocated concerning the mode in
which the contagion is caught. Who can
estimate the amount of mischief that the
shaking of mats may have caused? How
many young girls, early in the morning
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16
Fernando Wood and His House.
Chicago News,

When Fernando Wood was Mayor he
sold his house on the Grand boulevard
and Seventy-seventh street to the city,
and received $4,000 for it. 1t was a
great price in those days, and Mr.. Wood
continued to live in the house rent free,
the city being ignorant of its ownership,
which was discovered yesterday. Mr..
Wood was sharp, but if he had kept the
place his heirs would have received sew
eral times $4,000 for it, now that the
city wants the land for street opening
purposes. Thus was Fernando Wood
an unconscious spoiler of his heirs and
benefactor of the city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16

Within the past few weeks the banks of
the Elbe, near Dresden, has been the
scene of singular yet pretty sight at
twilight. From Dresden up to Koening-
stein, the shore on either side of the riv-
er was lined with fires, lighted for the
purpose of destroying the large moths of
the so-called white worm,' which swarm
just before dark, and which, attracted by
the light, are killed by thousands. The
insect is attracted by the flame, and
with its wings singed drops down dead
on white sheets spread on the ground
the fire, where they are swept up by thou
sands and tens of thousands, their dead
bodies not only furnishing dainty food
for birds, but alas an excellent manure
for farm purposes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16

on their way to business, have, so to speak,
received their death blow while inspiring,
all unconscious of harm, some of the
clouds of dust that always greet them?
who can tell? The abatement of this dam
ger and nuisance is difficulty that seems
insurmountable, Much may be done by
personal habits of prevention.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16
Had a License.
La Crosse Chronicle.

"Look here, you mustn't beat your wife
like that" said a neighbor to a Peen
avenue man who was caressing his better
half with barrel stave.
"Why not? guess [ have a right to-"
said the wife-beater.
"Why so?"
Because I am a saloon-keeper and
have lick-he license"