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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17
Women Abroad and st Home,

The New York women are like the
New York men. They are the best
dressed women in the world. Redfern.
of London, and Worth, of Paris, make.
it is true, very fine dresses, but you will
find as many of them worn in New York
almost as in London or Paris. The
cheaper dresses of New York have
style and fit about them which you do
not find in those of the dressmakers Of
Europe. The American girl has better
taste as to dress than the foreign one,
and this is so as compared to France as
well as other countries. The German
girls are, as a rule, dowdy. They don't
understand how to put on their clothes.
English girls wear good stuffs but their
dresses are prim and except among the
richest, ill-fitting. The French women
dress better and show more individuality
of taste than those of the rest Of Europe,
but the American girl surpasses them in
this and she has a better complexion to
build upon.-Frank George Carpenter.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17
The Beautiful City Of Montreal.

The present city of Montreal covers an
area of about eight square miles. its lead
ing streets running parallel with the
river. A magnificent tract Of country,
watered by the Ottawa and st. Lawrence
rivers stretches away from the city on
either side, making panorama from the
mountain summit whose beauty is un-
rivaled. The city really is on an island,
some thirty miles long and ten wide,
justly called the garden of Canada. Its
situation gives it great commercial OPP
portunity. Situated at the head of
ocean navigation, its harbor floats not
only the limited commerce Of river, but
ships whose flags tell of sailing on all the
waters of the globe. The current Of the
river is very rapid, rushing past the city
with speed Of at least seven miles an
hour. giving thus natural water power
that turns the wheels Of countless fac
tories and mills along its banks for miles
above the city.-Cor. Chicago Herald.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17
nutterfleld,a Rnrrnl Rriradr.

Last night I received orders direct
from Gen. Hancock to advance our line
in the direction of the enemy. We were
then only forty-five or fifty PAGES from
the enemys line of skirmishers, who
were secreted in holes dug in the ground.
1t was beautiful night, the moon shin
ing so brightly that was puzzled as to
how ] could advance the line when
every man could be seen by the enemy,
and the least stir, or sight of man on
either side, would draw a shot at once.
l finally thought of plan, and in or
der TO carry it out sent to the commits
sary department for all the empty bar
rels they could spare. I succeeded in
procuring twenty-five or thirty barrels,
and had them filed solidly with sand.
This done, placed q soldier with gun,
canteen of water, a days rations, am
munition and tin plate behind each
barrel.
l then instructed our "barrel brigade
to roll their barrels out beyond our pres
ent line of skirmishers, who were hid
den in holes in the ground about twenty
five yards in advance of our fortified po-
sition. The soil was sandy and loose,
and our boys were instructed to dress up
into line about twenty PAGES in front OF
our skirmishers, and, with their tin
plates, throw up q breast work, which
would be only the work of a few min
utes. It was a curious and interesting
sight to see the brave boys wriggling
along, pushing the heavy barrels OF
sand before them. But the experiment
was success. In the meantime had
commenced digging trench, connect.
ing the skirmishers with the fortifica-
tions, and by morning my ditch was
completed to the barrel skirmish line,
and it was wide and deep enough for
soldier to pass to and from the front line
unobserved.-Gen. F. w. Buttertield's
Diary in Kansas CITY Journal.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17
The Origin Of Cemeteri es.

Perhaps the Turks were the first to
use the ornamental burying grounds
known as cemeteries, but we can not
say in what year. The Jews used to
bury their dead under the earth, and
this mode seems to have been the ear
hest in use. Egypt embalmed her
corpses, and the earlier Greeks and Ro-
mans consumed the body, after death,
by fire, the ashes only receiving sepul-
ture. Subsequently, in those nations,
this practice fell into disuse, at least par
tally, and then their dead bodies were
buried in vaults or chambers under
ground, such as the catacombs. In
ancient Rome the bodies of her most IL
lustrious sons were permitted to be
buried unburned, as a special mark Of
favor. within the walls Of the city.
The next step was the erection Of
churches over the graves of martyrs.
Then emperors and kings were admitted
to sarcophagi within the church walls.
The extension of this practice was the
origin of church-yards. These, in
crowded towns, became unhealthy and
offensive and sanitary measures de-
manded burial without the walls Of the
city. Thus grew the beautiful resting.
places of the dead, which, with their
trees, flowers, landscape, gardening and
works of monumental art we call ceme-
teries. The word cemetery" by the
way, means slumber- place, and is of
Christian origin. Some cemeteries are
-consecrated" by the rites of church;
others are rendered sacred only by the
dust of those consigned to their sod
Louisville Courier Journal.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17
The Talle.t Chimney In the World.

A paragraph was recently published
describing the Mechernich lead works in
Germany as having the tallest chimney
in the world. This is an error. A taller
chimney is that Of Joseph Townsend at
Port Dundas, Glasgow, Scotland, built in
1e57-S-9. The foundation consists of
thirty courses of brick work, the lower
most course forty-seven feet in diane
ter, the uppermost thirty-two feet six
inches in diameter. The hight above
the foundation is asa feet. The diane
Ter at the base is thirty-two feet and
thirteen feet six inches at the top. A
nine-inch lining built inside. distinct
from the chimney, with space between
the walls, is carried up to a height of
sixty feet. Mr.. Corbet was the builder.
Brick foundations are used in building
tall chimneys.-Cor. Detroit Free Press.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17
Horrors. In the London Press.

No wonder that publishers Of shilling
shockers are crying out about the fiat
ness of their once active market. Why,
every morning the newspapers are con-
verted into penny dreadfuls, full Of ro-
mantle and blood-curdling sensations,
such as would have delighted Poe, a
La Fanu, or a Gaboriau. Il is the sheer
est nonsense for purists in literature to
decry plots, or to say that the taste for
horrors decent horrors, that is) is on the
decrease. II is constant quantity
which never varies-that is to say, the
taste for murders or disappearances, II
they require unraveling, and furnish en-
ployment for the mind more exciting
than word puzzles. is inborn in 999, 800
people out of 100000. Who then is
going to pay shilling for -shocker"
in big type. when he can get whole
battery in BREWER for q pennyf-Pall
Mall Gazette.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17
tn. ni.,rihution of life.

In his presidential address to the Brit
nh association, on the geology Of the
Atlantic, Sir ]. w. Dawson mentioned
two curious paradoxes concerning the
difficult problem of tie distribution Of
life over the earth: First, the chances
of the wide distribution of marine spe-
cies are not exceptionally great, as
might be inferred, for the reason that
the great depths OF the sea have been
found to be as impossible to most ma
rine animals as the land itself. Second,
the deep sea, which is so great barrier
to the passage Of shallow water ami
mails, seems actually. under certain con-
ditions, to afford facilities for the mi
grations Of land animals and plants,
greater than those Of unbroken conti-
nents.-Arkansaw Traveller.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17
Benefits Of Laughter.

Probably there is not the remotest
corner or little inlet Of the minute blood
vessels of the body that does not feel
some wavelet from the great convulsion
produced by hearty laughter shaking the
central main. The blood moves more
lively-probably its chemical electric or
vital condition is distinctly modified-it
conveys a different impression to all the
organs of the body as it visits them on
that particular mystic journey, when
the man is laughing, from what it does
at other times. And thus it is that a
good laugh lengthens mans life by
conveying distinct and additional stim-
ulus to the vital forces. The time may
come when physicians, attending more
closely than they do now to the in
Vulnerable subtle influences which the
soul exerts upon its tenement Of clay,
shall prescribe to the torpid patient $50
many peals of laughter, to be undergone
at such and such time," just as they do
that for more Objectionable prescriptions
"a pill or an electric or galvanic shock.
Scientific American.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17
SYMPTOMS or TYPHOID FEVER.
Points ny which a Common and Often
Fatal Disease May BE Recognized.

Points ny which a Common and Often
Fatal Disease May BE Recognized.
When a person becomes i'll, suffering
with slight chills. loss Of appetite. fire.
auent nose bleeding, irregularity of the
bowels. coated tongue, rapid. weak
pulse, body temperature rising regu-
larly about one degree daily till l05 de-
gree Fahrenheit is reached, with fugi-
tive pains, especially in the back and
head, with progressive muscular and
mental weakness and and inclination to
be stupid, the presumption is very strong
that the patient has typhoid fever, and
this notion is much strengthened II,
with the above symptoms, there be q
tumid abdomen, gurgling on pressure on
the right side.
These symptoms may exist about four
teen days and gradually abate and the
natient recover, but the patient may, on
the other hand, 60 on from bad to
worse and finally be destroyed by ex-
haustion, perforation of the bowels or
bowel hemorrhage. II on examination
of the body of one dead under the above
circumstances there be found numerous
patches of infiamed surface in the bowel
known as the "ileum" it is perfectly
proper to ascribe the death to typhoid
fever.
The poison Of the disease, which 10
probably a microscopic plant exists
mainly in the bowel evacuations of those
sick of the disease. 1t is true that this
substance has never been isolated and
shown to men as one would show sam
pie of wheat or other seed. but it exists
all the same, and when person devel.
ops the disease it is because he has swol-
lowed some of the poison with his drink.
most likely, and it passes along the all
mentary canal till it finds good soil In
which to grow-that is, in the position
indicated, known as -Pyers' patches" q
glandular formation bearing the ra.re
of learned physician long since dead.
1t is probable that some in vigorous
health might take small amounts Of this
poison into the system and escape un-
hurt. A temperature of 212 degrees,
that is, the boiling point, kills the poison
of all zymotic diseases. Here in brief Is
the sum of the prevention of the trouble:
Maintain high state of the general
health and boil all suspected water be-
fore using. In fact it is well to use
nothing but boiled water when any cpl
demic disease prevails.
Some typhoid fever patients will re.
cover by rest in bed using only liquid
food. Others will die in spite Of the
best attention. These last are either
constitutionally weak or received enor-
nous doses of the poison. Enteric fever
is much the better name for the trouble
in question. .-Philadelphia Times.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17
Tho Crumblinx Obelisk.

A new theory in regard to the crumb-
ling Of the Egyptian obelisk in Central
park, New York city, Is that the damage
was done before the stone was brought
from Egypt, and dates back to the time
when the soldiers of Cambyses looted
and burned Heliopolis, where the monu-
ment stood. The monument belonged
to the temple of On, the Egyptian name
for the sun. The Greeks called the city
On Heliopolis 1t is believed that the
fires kindled by Cambyses caused the
disintegration and scaling which have
been witnessed. This theory is born out
by the fact that granite is not greatly
affected by our climate, while Il is
readily destroyed in the heat OF great
tires. Rochester Democrat
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17
Mushrooms In Europe.

A strange variety Of taste has pre-
vailed in many countries in regard to
mushrooms. In Russia the peasants are
never without them. They are hung
up to dry in the roofs of the cottages.
like oat cakes in Lancashire, and form
q greatly esteemed relish to all sorts OF
dishes. In some parts of Germany, also,
they are largely preserved in brine for
cooking purposes, but in England it is
only lately that thy have come into gen
srsl use.-London Magazine.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17
Two Tiny Worlds.

The two satellites Of Mars are pro-
nounced by Newoomb by far the small
ct heavenly bodies yet known. Their
diameters cannot be stated with any de-
gree of accuracy, bat that Of the outer
satellite may be as small a. five miles,
while that of the inner satellite proba-
bly, lies between ten and forty miles
Arkansaw Traveller.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17
Breathe Through the Nose.

A physician at the Social Science
convention recommended nasal respira-
ton and the proper regard for perfect
respiration and expansion Tor the lungs.
The body often gains twenty five pounds
In fiesh by the establishment of nose
breathing. Chicago Tribune.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1886-11-17

Charts of the Pleiades show. as visible
10 the direct eye, 625 stars. but tho
photograph reveals 1,42l.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-31
CASPER'S Drug Store,
LOCAL BREVTlES.

Foss Hayward went to Columbus today.
NJ. NJ. Defrees, of the |. b. X W, is in
the city today.
General J. Warren Keiter went To Belle
fontaine this morning on business
Mrs. W. s. Huffman and daughter Hattie
returned last night from Chautauqua
Miss Cora Mitchell. of Manchester, Ohio.
is visiting Miss LEILA Miller, on Butter
street
sMiss Della Amos of Sidney. was in the
city this morning. She left for Columbus
at 1880.
John Rhoades. route agent Of the Ameri-
can Express company, was in town this
morning.
Neil Kerr, travelling passenger agent of
the Cincinnati Southern railroad, is in the
city today.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Flack returned yes
terday from a two weeks visit to Magnetic
Springs, Ohio.
w. A. Gross and wife left today to at
tend the Christian church conference which
convened at ten O'Clock this morning at
New Carlisle.
l. II. Kelley went to Columbus this
morning. lie will be present when the Col
umhuS Knights Templar confer the Red
Cross degree on eighteen applicants.
Mrs. w. S. Huffman and her daughter,
Hattie. arrived from Chautaqus Monday
evening. having enjoyed their Sojourn in
that summer city in the woods immensely.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-31

The late James T. Fields, while he was an
active partner in the publishing firm Of Tick
nor 4 Fields, was waited upon one morning
by n young guntlcnan-a sugar merchant,
who hal poetic aspirations. The young man
Complain,ri that his manuscript poems had
b,Snn rcjecttrl 10y the firm, and he desired to
know the reason why, inaSmuch aS all Of his
friends had hearl the verses read and de, Jared
them 10 H. an invaluable acquisition 10 Amcri-
can literature
Our reader decides that, said Mr.. Fields
i'll his blandt>t tones
Then would like to see the reader"
Always the perSonlfiCatiOn Of amiabihty
himself, the publisher conducted the young
sugar merchant upstairs TO the rpa,ier. That
parsonage sat at desk heapcd high with
manuS,'ripts. He carefully read few pages
Of each manuscript and then dropped them
into n basket at his feet. Occasionally he be
came morc than ordinarily Interested, ani in
that case placed the package inside his desk
why, he goes through them just as sam
pie sugar" exclaimed the would-be poet in
great amazrncnt
That is because he Is aS familiar with lit
erary wares as You are with sugar" rejoined
Mr. Fields
Il ann satisfied, said the merchant Let
us GO
The young hard gave up the writing Of
verses, hut he acquired large fortune in
sugar-Will NJ Clemens, in Detroit Free
pr,7>S
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-31
Fashions in Tombstones.

There are fashions in tomEStoueS, hut they
change slowly. The styles of the present do
not differ much from those of twenty years
ago, but a difference is noticed in those set up
fifty or more wears ago. There Were never
columns in those days. As now. the cheaper
stones were plain slabs. One OF the expensive
shapes, which always marked distinguished
grave. was a marble slab laid horizontally on
four marble columns, making a sort Of a
table. The inSc iption was carved ON the top,
which allowed plenty of space for verses
which no well regulated gravcStone Of the
first part of the century could do witoout.
TheSe verses, which read 80 quantity now,
Were always written by the pastor. 1t was
his duty when one of his parishioners died to
compoSe suitable stanza, and the ministers
were always paid for them-a thing that few
periodicals even of those DAYS would have
done. In ulieH times nothing but brOwnStone
and sandstone was used. The carving was
crude, and one Of the requirements of fashion
was that every slab should have a human face
carved over the inscription The stylish
gravestone to have now is a recommendation
York Mail and EXur-ss
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-31
A WONDERFUL SAIL WELL.
Ono Well That Eas Produced eos, sA.-
400 Gallons Of salt Water.

One Of the greatest wonders Of the world
and vet comparatively unknown is the well
which for the last sixteen years hes been flow
ing almost pure sclt ut the rntc Of over ZOO
gallons Tcr day Il is located in Etna
borough, along Pine creek, Just oTDosito the
city The history Of the well wGs related to
Il reporter 10y Mr. ! l. Robertson. He said
that in the spring II lNI2 the firm decided to
sink a we'll 10 secure natural gas TO run their
works. and the contract was given TO Chal-
FAINT \ Graft At depth of 100 fee: n salt
water v,ln was struck. Shortly after the
tools were lost, and after fishing" for them
for several months tn, were caught The
well was then drilled 10 IA depth of 800 feet,
when the tools got lost again, and after spend
Ing five months in unsuccessful attempts to
recover them It was decided to abandon the
well
\ strong vein Of gas was found at a depth
of $40 feet hut there was SO much salt
water that II could not find It's way out. Its
pressure was 50 great, however, that the salt
water was forced UP nearly ninety feet in the
air
For seven years this salt water continued
TO flow at the rate Of sixty barrels er hour
sometimes more and sometimes less hut never
falling short of fifty barrels 1t Swclled the
little brook ut It's side Ia IA g"od sized creek
and thence poured into the Allegheny river
IL was So strong in chloride Of sodium rs to
kill all the fish that came within certain
limits Sf the place whcr, 1t entered the river
The idea of utilizing the water seems not to
have entered any ones mind until about five
We II after the we'll began 10 flow. Several
capitalists then conceived the plan Of extract
tn. tsblgg-iIR f s.sll1rv1 ba
and manufacturing salt For some reason
the scheme fell through then, hut two years
later a company was formed which established
the second largest SiltworkS in the United
States. making about lj0 barrels of salt daily.
After all the salt has been taken from the
water il goes through "A process which eE-
tracts the bromide. which forms large pro-
portion of the character of the water from
the well. This is Il very valuable medicinal
product.
When the water leaves the latter works it
would h. perfectly pup' and tastcl,sSs were it
not for the acids. etc, used in extracting the
salt and bromide
The amount Of water coming from the
well to-day Is rs great aS when it was struck
sixteen years ago. 4 Peculiar feature is that
on some days, for a Ierinl Of about an hour,
the well hccomcS unusually agitatod and the
pressure simply terrific. requiring the strong
est kind Of joints and casing To- hold the
WATER
1t is almost impossible To comprehend the
amount OF water this well draws from the
bowels Of the earth. In sixteen years, at the
rate Of 5000 gallons per day, it would have
thrown off 2E gallons of water
Pittslurg Comnrrr,'ial- -Gaa,tte
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-31
THREE HuNoRED MILES FOR rs CTS,
How You Can go from Piitsburg to Cincin-
matt for Two Bits.

How You Can go from Pittsburg to Cincin-
matt for Two Bits.
The following special from Pittsburg will
be of interest in Springfield: Return tickets
to Cincinnati over the PittSburg. Cincinnati
and ST Louis railroad were sold OH the
streets of this city last night and today for
- cents. This the lowest rate ever known
10 Pittsburg, the regular fare to Cincinnati
being So 80. and is the result of fight be
tween the Baltimore and Ohio railroad COM
pany and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St,
Louis. The former company ran an eN
CurSion from Cincinnati to this city on sat
urdsy, round trip for $3.50, and from
Columbus for 81. 80. The Pittsburg Cincin-
natl and ST. Louis did the same yesterday
and these two roads brought into the city
upward of $500 people. The tickets are
good TO return until tomorrow. but about
One-third OF this number do not want to go
back so soon. As consequence there
were several hundred return tickets for sale.
The ticket brokers soon purchased all they
wanted. and the remainder went begging for
sale on the street at prices ranging from IS
down TO 25 cents, and some could not be
sold at all
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-31

If You get into the confidence OF anv
keeper Of large livery stable he will tell YOU
that he has one "unlucky" vehicle. If it is
taken out, the horse runs away, the wheel
comes off, the driver meets with an accident.
or the occupant comes hack angry or dis
satisfied Every railroad has an engine or
cab that is crank. II j.. a notorious fact
that locomotive viii have suIky fit and
won't make time for several weeks then,
having apparently recovered its good humnr,
come into the station "n the second Then
you will hear Of locomotive which will
always run tn" slow with one engineer, too
fast with another, and Just right with a
third. think this must IL another case OF
animal magnetism, hut how or why it plays
thcSe prunkS neither you nor l can tell
Philadelphia Call.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-31

Ask an American tn come and have drink
and the chances are that if be refuses he will
do 50 on the grounds that he has just eaten.
Ask an EnGli~hnan, and il he refuses it will
H. for the rsas"n that he has not eaten. The
former almost invariably drinks on an empty
stomach, and the latter on full one Then
an American, when he drinks spirits. takes
the stuff neat. without any water, while the
Engli>hman invariably dilUteS his with water.
Then again. "cocktailS, or compound drinks
of any kind. except hot whisky and sugar,
are quite unknown to the majority of drinkers
on the other side, and every old topper will
tell you that it is the mixture that kills-Cor
Chicago Herald.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-31
1t is Well to he on with the Old Love B"
fore Being ON with the New.

September is a capital season for making
way with the old piano and introducing the
new. The old instrument has probably done
its duty. 1t should be granted permanent
leave of absence in favor of newcomer
that shall ill the house with melody, and 50
welcome back the summer absentecS.
About the incest thing that the head of
a family could do just now, would be to re-
tire the old piano. Then when ;he wife
and daughters entered the parlor there
would be such JOYOUS surprise a. would
infinitely enhance the happiness of home
coming and anmihilate any lingering regrets
the fair ones may have at ending their sum
meT> outing.
Take our kindly advice and go 10 K +.
Brandon n Co. "a Arcade, and secure
one Of their elegant instruments for your
family.