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Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
General Grants ncticcnca.

He was never q secrctivc man until
the positions of responsibility in which
he was placed compelled him to be
chary of giving expression to his opin-
ions. He then learned the force of the
philosophers maxim that the unspoken
word is a sword in the scabbard, while
the spoken word is asword in the hands
of ones enemy.
In the field there wero constant WIS.,
itors in camp ready to circulate any in
timations of the commanders move
ments, at the risk of having such val
liable information reach the enemy; in
the White House, every encouraging
expression to an applicant for favors
was apt to be tortured into a promise,
and the President naturally became
guarded in his intercourse with gener-
al visitors. When questioned beyond
the bounds of propricty, his lips closed
like vice, and the obtruding party
was left to supply all the subsequent
conversation. These circumstances pro-
claimed him man who studied to be
uncommunicative, and gave him rep
utation for reserve which could not
fairly be attributed to him. He was
called the american Sphynx" and
Ulysses the Silent" and he was pop
ularly supposed to move about with
sealed lips.
When accompanying him through
New England the summer after the
close of the war, it was soon seen that
the stories of his reticerce had pre-
ceded him. The tri p was the first of
those grand ovations with which he was
always greeted by the people through
whose communities he travelled. The
train stopped for few minutes at a
small town in Maine, and the people,
as usual, took the opportunity of ex-
tending greeting and delivering their
words of welcome. AS the General
stood in the doorway of the rear car, a
tall, gaunt-looking woman elbowed her
way through the crowd till she got near
the platform. Here she stopped, and
put on pair of spectacles with glasses
in them that looked about as big as the
lenses in large telescopes, and taking
a good look at the General, said, gasp
ing for breath as she spoke, "Well,
I've come down hyere a-runnin' right
On the clean jump, nigh on to tew mile,
just to git look at the man that lets
the women do all the talkin'. Cen.
Horace Porter, IN Harper's Magazine
for September.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
Paris As To Health,

In health, Paris is on Il level with a
hundred other places. 1t has nothing
of its own to offer. Its climate pre-
sents fair average of the qualities and
faults of central Continental weather;
the air is drier and more vivifying than
that of England; extremes of heat and
cold are sometimes felt, but they are
unfrequent; strong winds are rare; and
though fogs have become somewhat ac-
climatized of late years, the air is on
the whole fairly bright and pleasant.
But the same atmosphere may be found
almost everywhere along the same par
allel of latitude. The sanitary condi-
tions are good; the sewerage is excel
lent; the water is abundant and pure,
and the precautions against infection in
all its forms are minute and well ap-
piled. The material conditions of life
are, however, growing so much alike
in all large towns that we are living
everywhere under more and more sim
liar influences, and it may be said with
out much inexactness that, so far as
Europe is concerned, what used to be
called especially healthy or unhealthy
place is becoming difficult to find. Epi-
denies come and 60 in Paris as they
do in other centres of population, but
they are seldom traceable to local
causes, and usually assume general
character. But all these qualities are
merely negative; they imply the alb
sence of objections, not the presence of
recommendations; Paris possesses no
positive advantages in climate or
health, and English people will not be
tempted to live in it for reasons of that
sort.-7he Fortnightty RevieU.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
Jay Gou d WaistcOat.

A young friend of Gsorge Gould was
dining with the family. Conversation
turned on tricks, and the young friend
said he could take off a mans vest
without removing his coat. He eX-
planned that feat, which consists of
working the vest down the arms by
gradually coaxing the shoulders
through the armholes. Then the vest
can be removed by slipping it off un-
der the coat sleeves. Dexterity and
patience are required. The young man
was positive he was the only one pres
ent who could do it. Mr.. Gould listen
ed to the explanation and said that
any man could do it, and that he could
do it on the spot. he caller was zeal
ously anxious to bet his modest pile
against an equal sum to be put up by
the millionaire; but the latter advised
him not to bet any more than big
apple. as he would be sure to lose it.
Mr.. Gould thcrcuPon proceeded to per-
form the elusive act. He first took off
his coat.
Hold on, sir," said the young man,
"that is not permitted; it is barred"
Il understand that replied the
banker: 'I'll put on the coat again.
I'm only getting ready"
Then he took off his vest and at once
put on his coat, and succeeded it with
putting On his vest outside of his coat.
PPM at your service now," he quiet
ly said.
The young man lost an apple, but
gained a verification of the important
truth that there is more than one way
of doing a thing. In his own style
there is no greater lover of quiet fun
than Jay Gould.-BrookLyn Eagle.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
Some SuperstitiO"a.

At Smithill's hall, near Bolton-le-
Moors, there is still to be scen-an OBJ
ject of interest and curiosity to a large
number of Tisitors-thc print of
mans foot in the fiagstono. 1t is said
to have been produced by George
Marsh, who suffered martyrdom during
the prosecutions of Queen Mary in
1555. When on one occasion the truth
of his words was called in question by
his enemies he stamped his foot upon
the stone on which he stood, which
ever afterward bore the ineffaceable
impression rs miraculous testimony
to his veracity. This story must have
been an afterthought to account for
what we may suppose to have been
prehistoric Tanist stone. In connec-
ton with this modern legend another
of a somewhat different character may
be related. A good many years ago, at
the back of the British Museum, there
was piece of waste ground called
Southampton fields, noted as resort
for low characters. There was a ira
dition connected with it that two broth
ers in the Monmouth rebellion took op-
posite sides and engaged each other in
fight. Both were killed, and forty i'm
pressions of their feet were traceable
in the field for years afterward. The
field has long beon built over, and the
precise locality can not now be point
ed out. But Southey went to see the
curious sight, and has given a graphic
description of it in the second series of
his Commonplace Book" The i'm
pressions were about three inches deep
in the hard soil no grass ever grew in
the terrible hollows, and no cultivation
of the soil could obliterate them, for
when the ground was plowed they per-
sisted in reappearing. Southey men,
tions that he saw no reason to doubt
the truth of the story, since it had been
confirmed by these tokens for more
than hundred years successively. 1t
is probably fact with circumstance
tho circumstance, to say the least,
extremely doubtful. Upon the legend,
which was known far and wide, Jane
and Anna Maria Porter based one of
their popular romances, called 1.-THE
Field of the Forty Footsteps and the
Messrs. Mayhem took the same subject
for melodrama.-BlGcktoood's Maga-
zine,
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
Great Mems Feet.

"Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the pas
tor of Plymouth, continued DR.. Palm
er, 'has soft, chubby feet. He always
wears a broad-soled, easy-fitting shoe
of the finest kid made, and suffers but
little from corns or bunions. l bright
en- up his finger and toe nails about
once month. Mr.. Beecher is most
interesting talker. The last time he
was here he related many pleasant an
ecdotes of his home in Peekskill, where
he resides with his family during the
summer. In speaking of the regiments
encampment at Peekskill, MIR. Beecher
remarked that the boys in blue greatly
added to the income of the shopkeepers
Of the town, and taken upon the whole
they improved its social and moral con-
dition.
''Rev. DR.. Talmage, who recently
sailed for Europe to rejoin his family
in London, is also one of my custom
ers. His feet in some respects resem-
BILE a canoe, being long and narrow. /
cannot say they are free from corns
and bunions, like Mr.. Beecher's, but
nevertheless they are pleasant to look
upon. DR.. Talmage's toe-nails grow
out perfectly straight, and are as pink
and white as woman's. ."-NeW York
World.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
Lakes of Solid Salt in Asia.

From q paper read by Sir Peter
Lumsden before the Royal Geographic
cal Society: Yaroilan means "the
sunken ground" and no word can bet =
ter describe the general appearance of
the valley of these lakes. The total
length of the valley from Kangruali
road on the west to the Band-i-Dozan,
which bounds it on the east, is about
thirty miles, and its greatest breadth
about eleven miles, divided into two
parts by connecting ridge which runs
across from north to south, with an
average height of about 1900 feet, but
has a narrow, which rises some 400
feet above the general average. To
the west of this ridge lies the lake
from which the Tekke Turcomans
from Merv get their salt The valley
of this lake is somc six miles square,
and is surrounded on all sides by a
steep, almost precipitous descent, i'm
passable for baggage animals, so far
rs am aware, except by the MerV
road, in the northwest corner. The
level of the lake l made to be about
l, ,430 feet above the sea level, which
gives it descent of some 400 feet from
the level of the connecting ridge, and
of some $50 feet below the general
plateau above. The lake itself lies in
the center of the basin, and the supply
of salt is apparently unlimited.
The bed of the lake is one solid mass
of hard salt, perfectly level, and cov-
cred by only an inch or two of water.
To ride over it was like riding over
ice or cement. The bottom was coy
cred with slight sediment, but when
that was scraped away the pure white
salt shone out below. How deep this
deposit may be it is impossible to say,
for no one has yet got to the bottom of
it. To the east of the dividing ridgo
is the second lake, from which the
Saryks of Penjdeh take their salt. The
valley in which this lake is situated is
much the larger of the two. The val
ley proper is itself some fifteen miles
in length by about ten miles in breadth.
The descent to it is precipitous on the
north and west sides only, the eastern
and southeastern end sloping gradual
ly up in a succession of undulations.
The level of this is apparently lower
than that of the other. / made it out
to be some 800 feet above the sea level.
The salt in this lake is not so smooth
as in the other and does not look so
pure. 1t is dug out in flakes or strata,
generally of some four inches in thick
ness, is Loaded into bags, and carried
off on camels for sale without further
preparation.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
Three FPiGiu Facts.

l. Every man knows better what he
wants to buy and sell than his govern
ment can possibly know for him. He
will buy and sell to the best advantage
if left free to buy and sell as he choos-
es.
2. Every one who buys sells at the
same time. His purchase is really an
exchange. The money he pays for the
goods which he buys is really an order
given to the seller for other goods.
The more buying, the more selling.
8. AS regards dealings between in
habitants of the same street, the same
village, the same town, the same coun-
try, no one thinks of disputing these
truths. But they are just as true as
regards dealings between inhabitants
of different countries. II. Farrer.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
The Bet Was OFF.

A few days ago, after couple OF
esteemed citizens, who are close neigh
bors, had arranged to pass few days
with their families at lake in Oak
land county, one of them offered to
wager box of cigars that he would
catch the largest fish. The wager was
promptly taken, and next day one of
the gentlemen put in an appearance at
fish stand on the market and said to
the dealer:
'.Have you got fresh pickerel
weighing about fifteen poundsP"
81 have, sir"
"Well, l want you to put him on ice
and ship him to me at-Lake. | pro-
pose to catch him on a hook out
there"
'Very well, sir. think I'll ship the
two together.
"The twoP"
"Yes, sir. Mr.-(mentioning the
other esteemed citizen) was here an
hour ago. and bought one weighing
twenty pounds. 1t will take less ice
to pack the two in the same box!''
The fish were paid for, but the
bet was declared of. - Detroit Free
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
MARKET REPORT.
CORRECTED WEEKLY BY i d. Coo
Morris Jan. 27, 1886

The most recent 10 c..n.c eruption III
the United Sale, WAS that VII cn mai
filled Feather Lake. Nort"rrn t"ii-
fornia, III or about The year 1850. Tnis
locality has lately been visited ny the
eminent ptutonist, &. Z. Ddtt"n, wno
says that the lavt sheet poured out
was over 100 feet thick, and covers a
space about Dy - miles i'll xtcnt, in
the center OF Whicn Il ciiIdCr cone GU
leet high covers the REM. he lava
sheet is rough and jagged in the ex-
treme, he says, but SHOWS as yet no
trace of wltnering. For a space OF
4O0 to 500 yards from the coAe the
trees were all killed.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

The Dakota County Tribune says
From the number of members of the
last legislature who are being an
nouced as candidates for the various
state offices, one is led to wonder if
they were not thinking of future pos
sibilities when they voted to increase
the salaries of the Offices they now
covet, They seem to forget all about
the constitution, which prohibits that
sort of thing.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

Bangor (Dak.) Rustler:-The St.
Paul clergymen are seriously attack
ing the labor problem, it is said. 1t
speaks well for the st. Paul clergy.
1t is high time that the American
clergy should interest themselves and
lend the weight of their great influ-
ence in matters temporal. They will
acquire infinitely more spiritual in
fuence if they will assist oppressed
and struggling humanity to obtain
the necessaries.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

Any young man is fool, in the es-
timation of the Davenport Gowa) Ga
zette. who goes into government of
flee where such office is subject to a
change with every administration.
He had better learn to be printer, a
drug clerk, blacksmith "a baker, a
cobbler, a tailor-anything which will
give him independence and the prob
ability of permanent employment.
His hands may not be so soft and his
fingernails less artistic, but depend
upon it he viii be vastly more pleased
with the place he occupies in the So
cial structure. Every man should fit
himself for some particular sphere in
life. Until he does that he is slave
to any and every exigency.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
FARM NOTES.

Montevideo Leader:-There is little
profit in raising STOCK or running q
dairy, where starvation methods are
practiced. The man in this country
who cannot afford to feed his stock
literally and make them comfortable
should live single, raise wheat exclu-
sively, and buy his beef, pork, butter
and eggs. He may run behind con-
tinually, but that he is bound to do
anyway so long as no one suffers but
himself, it is little matter.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
An Enlerprising Reliable
House.

Max Buckentin & Bro. can always
be relied upon, not only to carry IN
stock the best of everything, but to
secure the Agency for such articles as
have well-known merit, and are popu-
lar with the peope, thereby sustaining
the reputation'of being always enter
prislng, and ever reliable. Having
recured the Agency for the celebrated
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, will sell it on IL positive
guarantee. 1t will surely cure any
and every affection of Throat, Lungs,
and Chest, and to show our confidence
we invite you to call and get n Trial
Bottle Free.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
An Answer Wanted.

Can any one bring us n case of Kid
ney or Liver Complaint that Electric
Bitters will not speedily cure? We
say they can not rs thousands of
cases already permanently cured and
who are daily recommending Electric
Bitters, will prove. Bright's Disease,
Diabetes, Weak Back, orany urinary
complaint quickly cured. They puri-
fy the blood, regulate the bowels, and
act directly OH the diseased parts.
Every bottle guaranteed. For sale at
soc. bottle by MAX BUCKENTIN &
RRO
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

Minneapolis has already begun to
boom her proposed exposition. If she
will conduct this exposition, 50 that it
will not interfere with the state fair,
the state at large will aid in all her
efforts, but If the exposition is to be
antagonistic to the state fair, the peo-
pie at large will take but little inter-
est in it. No place, not even Mime
apolis, can expect support in selfishly
exalting local interests to the detri-
ment of the interests of whole state.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
FLOWER SFFDS FRFF.

The publishers of the Housekeeper
are anxious to secure larger number
of three months trial subscribers, and
offer to mail postpaid to any lady
who sends twenty-five cents for tri-
al subscription three months, twelve
packets Of American grown choice
flower seeds. For specimen copy of
this charming home paper, and full
particulars as to offer, address Buck
eye Pub. Co., Minneapolis, Minn.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

A Halifax dispatch states that one
thousand Spring Hill miners are out
on a strike. The trouble was caused
by some nen in the north part of the
workings demanding an increase of
wages, is the place was considered as
dangerous to work in. The demand
was not needed, when the whole force
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
Bucklcn's Arnica Saive.

The Best Salve in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter. Chappen
Hands, ChilbIains Corns, and all
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. II is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price 2G cents per
box. For sale by Max Buckentin &
Bro
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

The value of time is clearly demon
strated by DIR. S. A. Allibone, in his
"Dictionery of Authors" when he
shows by a time table (taking days in
a year 3l3, and working hours in a
day s. that minutes lost each day is,
in year. 8 days, hours and min
utes; 10 minutes is 6 days, hours, 10
minutes; 20 minutes is 13 days and 20
minutes; 80 minutes is 10 days, 4
hours, 80 minutes; 60 minutes is 80
days and hour. - g so
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

The best on earth can truly be said
of Griggs Glycerine Salve which is a
sure, safe and speedy cure for cuts,
bruises, scalds, burns, wounds and ali
other sores. Will positively cure
piles, letter and all skin eruptions.
Try this wonder healer. Satisfaction
guaranteed or money refunded. Only
rs cents. Sold by druggists,
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

OF all the states in the Union, Geor-
gia brings the most fantastic things to
the surface. Its very latest oddity is a
spider as big as hickory nut, the long,
curved back whereof shows the human
face in profile. The face is like that of
a man of the Malay type, the brow, the
eyes, the nose, the mouth and the chin
being initiated with a precision quite
ctartli inv in It's w1v
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

Another great name is added to the
death roll for 1856. 1t is that of eX-
Coy. Horatio G. Seymour of New
York. There seems to be an unusual
fatality among great men at the pres
ent time.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

There has been no abandonment of
principle or dignity in the conduct of
the ST. Paul winter carnival. The
carnival grounds have been closed on
Sunday and in other ways have the
sports been under restraint. In most
respects, st. Paul is a very sensible
citv
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

The London Times says that on a
recent test of several thousand bayo-
nets now in use in the British army,
being fair representation of the quail
ity of all, thirty-three per cent were
found to be useless, for lack of stiff
ness and temper.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

Henry NJ. Stanley says that Ia his
journey across Africa he started with
$50 pounds of books, but reached the
Atlantic with only the Bible, Shaks-
peare, Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus," a
work on navigation and an almanac.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

Don't commit yourself to the for
tunes Cfany candidate or set of candi-
dates too early. Wait till all are in
and then select those who are best.
In selecting men for office, the doc
trine of the "survival of the fittest'
should be remembered.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

am well aware that butter made in
winter lacks flavor and color, but with
proper care it can be made sweet and
clean. Very much depends upon the
food the cows eat; in order to have
color, corn meal, with beans and oats
ground fed literally, and u little oil
meal added, is about as near perfect
rations as can be given in winter,
with plenty of good, bright, Timothy
hay and Il mixture OF ciOvcr. 1t is a
common sight to see in this part OF
the country cows in winter time with
their hips loaded down with manure,
their bags ditto, with their backs COW
cred with hay seed and dust. The
brush and card are never seen in the
COW stables; to them the cows are to-
tai strangers. Now this is all wrong.
AS rule the cows are we'll fed; some
have bank barns, but there is a want
OF care in grooming and handling. 1t
pays to card and brush the COWS dai-
ly. They look better and are better
and certainly the milking can be done
more cleanly.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

The st. Paul Globe has done itself
proud lately. Its accounts of the Win
ter carnival festivities are more COM
plete and more accurately given than
those of any other paper.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

EX-President Hayes says that dur
ing the last fifteen months $33, $50 has
been disbursed from the Slater fund
in aid of colored schools i'll the South
ern States
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

1t is said that Mr.. Gibbs lately APP
peared at Il public reception in dress
coat and kid gloves. If this be true,
it is all up with him as a granger can
didatr for governor.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

Nothing connected with the present
administration is really genuine un-
less the word reform is blown in
the bottom of the bottle.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17
A Pan-EIectricaI Aspiration.

Winona Republican.
o, weave me Garland of telephone stock,
Upon wires that never will sunder or rust
And embroider thereon this motto 50 pat:
High official POSITIONS a public trust"
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

Mr.. Stead is regarded by Louise
Mitchell, ut least, las Il champion in
the holy war against the tyranny of
vicious men over WOmen.N
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

Railroads get into II fight occasion
ally and down go rates. If hotel keep
ers would follow suit, people could af-
ford to trayel more than they do.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

Seattle property has declined 40 per
cent. in the past two years, according
to the Post-Intelligencer.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

My wife, who suffered severely from
rheumatism, received marked benefit
from the Athlophoros while taking it
and that the benefit received has been
permanent admits of no doubt. John
son Stephens, Hazel Green, Wis.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

Drummers and peddlers are not
popular at Port Arthur. They are re-
quired to pay license of $500 per
day. For selling goods without Ii
cense they are liable to fine of $50.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

Bro. Dewey has been appointed
clerk of court for Big Stone county.
He will make an efficient officer.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

The most persistently prominent
man in the country-Fitz John Por-
ter.
Morris tribune., 1886-02-17

The editors of Minnesota appreciate
brains. This is why c. K. Davis is so
popular among them.