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The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09
aiadstone's Rebule to Victoria.

Queen victoria's dislike for Gladstone dates back to the time when she hesitated about signing the Irish Church Establish fietit bill: "But, madame, you must sign," said Mir. Gladstone. The Queen indig- nantly rejoined: "Sir, do you know who am?" "Yes, madame," responded MT. Gladstone, ''the Queen of England' But does your Majesty know who l am? am the people of England"
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

Ransom Reddy, of Wakulla, Fla, has raised vine of genuine black pep per, from which he has already gather ed one crop of berries, He got the roots of the vine from a friend in Cali fornia, who had sent to the island oi Ceylon for it in order to experiment
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09
THE SEA SERPENT.

A Mysterious Monster Whose Existence is
 Not at All Improbable.
 When sea-serpent stories appear dur ing what is called the ''silly season." a certain amount of suspicion attaches to them unavoidably, and the scoffer has
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

FABRICS AND CUTICLEs are both rendered marvelously white by GLENN's SULPHUR SOAP. Brown, Soc.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09
Tennyson's s.AIay Oueen."

Who knows but if the beautiful girl who died so young had been blessed with Dr: Pierce's "Favorite Prescriptionn she might have reigned on many another bright May tain cure for all those disorders to which females are liable.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

Governor Hughes, of Arkansas, was recently presented with cane made from a limb of tree which was plant ed in the State house yard at Little Rock twelve years ago by Governor RoYstop.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

THE St Nicholas tells of dog that can count. But it can't equal cat in running up a eolumn:-Te1Gs Siftin9S.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

Ex-MkroR LArkoBs, Baltimore, Md, says the best cough medicine is Red Star Cough Cure. Twenty-Five cents bottle
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

BETWEEN our thermometers and colleges the degree crop is drawing ahead of the peach ditto.-Ife.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

A Philadelphia optician says that there are more people wearing glasses in that city than in Boston and New York combined,
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

THE best cough medicine is Piso's Cure for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

r Is NOT a dye, and will not stain or injure the skin. Halls Hair Renewer.
 Dumb ague can be speedily cured by talk ing Ayers Ague Cure. Try 1t!
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

DoN'T hawk, and blow, and spit, but use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

'DREAM of eggs sign of money" says the the term ''shell out. Chicago Mail.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

THE raciest articles krs written by horse reporters.-Te1Gs SiftingS.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

Two HEADS ought to be better than one. Four lips are certainly better than two.- SonerViils Journal.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

IF afflicted with Sore Eyes use Dr. Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sellit. 25c.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

EVERY man is said to have his price, but the trouble is nobody but himself knows the private mark.-ChicGgo Tribune.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

WHERE are all the bad actors? Read the answer in the stars."-N O. PicGyu'se.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

HE-'Miss Elsa, do you play on the pianon' Sbe-''No. sir; can't play. single note." He-"Elsa, l love yous"-- tJe
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

WHEN you bury an old animosity never mind tombstone.
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09

IT sounds like paradox to say that man is laying up money when he IS saltlng it doWn.-C ChicdQo JOMTHldL
The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-09
All We Ask

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 "My wife had dyspepsia. She could not keep her food down. and had that oppressed feeling after eating She had no appetite. and was tired all the time. She trieS numerous medicines without being relieved but the first bottle of Hoods Sarsaparilla did her great deal of good. She has now taken two bottles. and eat anything she wants "itn- out having that distress, and hss no trouble in re- tsining her food" JOHN BArTESFIELD, Marion Ohio.
 Hoods SarSaparilIa Sold by all druggists. sf; six for s. Prepared only by c. l. HOOD & CO, Apotheearies, Lowell. Mass- 100 Doses One Dollar
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05

During her sickness her husband, for so the
man calls himself in the epitaph on the tomb
stone, watched tenderly over her. But he
would have nothing to do with the citizens of
Alexandria, and would give no account what
ever of himself The mysterious couple of the
City hotel were the talk of the town, and the
goSsips of the city were trying to learn some
thing about them. They were bafiled at every
point The French maid servants could not
speak a word of English, and the physician
who attended the beautiful lady's last hours
would say nothing in regard to her. When
death came the female servants and the hus-
band alone beheld the face of the dead wife,
and they alone were present when the funeral
services were celebrated The citizens were
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05
FROM BOSTON.
A Scrap from Prentice Nulford About
Writers.
RANK GEORGE CARPENTER.
Especial Correspondence.l ]

Especial Correspondence.l
BOSTON, Aug. 3O-Able and interesting
writers are increasing at rate alarming to
those long in the profession. Everybody"
now writes and almost everybody writes
well New literary stars of second and
third class magnitudeS are constantly
appearing in the horizon. A new con-
stellation rises, sets and starves about
once in seven years. The average pay on
newspapers may be Sl2 week. When the
literary horse is worked out, ne or she goes
off in corner and dies quietly and M ser
ably. OF late peoples writings are most
valued who have done something worthy of
or Union general who tells his story
IN magazine probably gets as much for it as
the mere Bohemian receives for half a years
work in telling other peoples stories An
article from jay Gould or John L. Sullivan
would bring the average Bohemian's yearly
salary. This is as it should be. People want
that those who have done something should
tell themselves how they did it. The mere
writer who can do nothing but write is really
now a medieval institution Besides, the
profession, as connected with newspapers, is
not respectable To be known as news
paper man" or correspondent" is to he prac-
tically tabooed in fashionable and business
circles. A newspaper feller," male or female,
is regarded as a sort of spy or eavesdropper,
ready to pounce on any bit of gossip, real,
manufactured or inferred, and sell it for a
price. OF course, the public wants the gossip,
still they are disposed to regard its collectors
as safe ouly when they are poaching on
other peoples preserves. These observations
are intended only for the latitude of Boston.
PRENTICE MILFORD.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05

Alexandra Is oulv sven miles from Wash
ingtOn- Ferry boats and trains run every
half hour, and a pleasant way to go to it Is 10
cross the Georgetown bridge in carriage
and drive past Arlington, where Gen. Lee
used 20 live, and on down the Potomac shore.
The ferry takes You from the ragged edge of
the capital city. and a half hours ride down
the Potomac lands YOU on the Alexandria
shore. very near where Braddock jumped
from his hnat on his way to his disastrous DE-
feat The city has 1900 people now, but it
covers enough territory for twice the popu-
latiOn. As you approach it from the river il
is not hari 10 recognize its ancient grandeur.
The buildings are Old and many of them are
breaking with age. Empty warehouses lime
the wharveS, and the god of decay points his
palsied finger at yDu wherever You turn.
The place seems to have fallen into Rip Van
Wrinkles slumhcr. Your feet echo along the
CLOSED houses aS You pass through what were
once busy thoroughfarS. and the chief signs
of life are here and there sleepy looking he
groeS. in ragged clothes. leaning against the
brick corners of buildings whose edges have
been almost rounded by time. The main
business street Of the city is livelIer, hut even
the business men move as though they were
youthful Methusclahs, with centuries Of life
before them, and the very wagons go at the
pace of hearsas-
The people, however, are well bred and
kind The raggedest boy will tip his hat To
you if you speak TO him, and if you ask di-
rection Of a business man he will leave his
store and go four blocks or more to show you
what You want
The citizens Of Alexandria have a great
reverence for Gen Washington, and the
town is full of unwritten tradition about him
Mount Vernon is only nine miles away, and
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05

do IN Italy-a bd"so prof tndo 1latfng no
hand notes, he could not veil be a teHOre,l },
and should he accounted cclcbro, dtstinfO,
e0regiO, rs they all arc, where would his al
mirers pose his laurclsl These be some Of the
disadvantages - tho advantages are fewer,
hut not To be despised. He would never have
any expense for bats, collars, nocktics or hair
dye. He could not be called upon 30 head an
army or n subscription list. Should he COM
init capital crime capital punishment would
be clearly ont of the question. he would
have a fortune III his incredible misfortune,
and be able to carry his whole family on his
headieSs shoulders, 50 that tho poor woman
who wept over the birth If little monster
would smile to find herself the mother of q
great profit.
But alas, my arncies and speculations were
vain, for this strangest iusUS ndiUrO Of his
time is dead The machinery Of his queer
little body was too much for him. He CGAld
not make head against n life Of such alb
normal conditions and difficulties, and sOOn
gave it up. GRACE GREENWOOD.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05
ENGLISH WOMEN.
What Caste Does for Them Over the Sea,
Poor Things

Poor Things
Gen Adam Badeau in one of his recent
articles on the ariStocracy, tells the following
unpalatable truths: The women of the aris-
tocracy are profoundly affected by the insti-
tuition of caste. Their lives and characters
are widely different from what they would
be without its influence. Born dependent on
the other sex: ineligible, for the most part,
to independent rank: only the daughters or
wives, or sisters, or mothers of peers; de-
prived of any equitable share of fortune;
doomed TO be, more than any other women,
the mere appendage of man-all the disad-
vantages of Sex are for them intensified in
peculiar degree.
The two facts OF their absolute dependence
and their consequent and necessary anxiety to
please a man-far other and greater than the
natural desire of woman for a mate-cannOt
but tell upon the character and develop
traits not in themselves attractive or lovely.
They make the women less trlstful, less un-
selfish. They detract from the exquisite
delicacy which is wOman's greatest charm.
The woman who is known to seek a man is
far less likely to be sought; yet every high
born woman in England feels that she is in
the market waiting for the highest bidder;
every desirable man thinks he has but to
throw the handkerchief.
Finally, the English women are inferior in
position TO the men, and this not only makes
them inferior in individuality and force of
character, but lessons the attractiveneSs of
their behavior. There is something about
them when compared to the men that
makes you think Of the difference the second
rate people pay a lord-a relative absence of
distinction. No one can possess perfest man
ners who is incessantly conscious that his own
dignity is inferior to that of his companion,
and no woman in England is the equal of q
man. Tlis is one result of caste
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05

Alexandria WAS NashlngtOn's town. Old
citizens tell me that he had a little Office here
and did great part Of his business in it. He
useSl to ride up from Mount Vernon daily, and
while he was young man he was such
lover of horses that at one time it is said he
rode ten different horses during .he same day
through the Alexandria streets. He owned
property in Alexandra. and one of his first
investments was a couple of lots in the city.
During the greater part Of his life he went TO
church at Alexandria, and the old church he
attended still stands and is used now as it was
then by an Episcopal congregation. 1t has
queer green window shutters which lift up
ward from the bottom and under which show
out small, square, old-fashioned panes Of
glass. A large lawn surrounds the church
and this is filled with the tombStones Of gen
erations long passed away. Curious stones
they are. Slabs of slate with death heads
and cross bones. Slalis of broken marble
with cherubs above the inscription, and a
whole volume Of obituary poetry below it.
Most Of them date back to 1900, and none
are later than 1890. The interior of the
church is filed with high box pews, and a
wide gallery upheld by yellow pillars runs
around the walls below the ceiling. On either
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05
CITIZENS OF ALEXANDRIA.


The Alexandria market is quaint
sight 1t is kept inside of great court
on the spot where Payne had his fuss
with Washington. Lieut. Payne was
candidate for the legislature against a man
named Fairfax who lived at Alexandria.
Washington supported Fairfax, and during
the campaign he and Payne meeting one day
on the side Of this market began TO talk
politics Payne thought Washington in
suited him in a remark that he made and he
resented the insult by promptly knocking
Washington down. Washington was a
colonel at this time, and the report went like
wildfire through the town that Lieut.. Payne
had killed Col Washington Washingtonis
troops wanted to take charge Of Payne, but
Washington, as he pointed to his black eye,
said that the assault was his affair and he
guessed that he could manage it. Every one
thought that this meant a duel and when
Payne got note from Washington the next
morning asking him TO come To the hotel he
expected nothing else than challenge. He
found Washington with his head tied up, and
with some wine and glasses on the table
before him. As Payne entered Washington
apologiZed for his words of the day before,
and the two drank to new friendship over the
wine. The Alexandria market is filled with
hundreds of little booths where the farmers
bring their produce and display it for sale.
In the Alexandria cemetery. surrounded by
pines through which the winds moan a con-
tinuous requiem, lies the grave of the female
stranger. A great slab of marble, big enough
to cover the coffin of giant, rests over 1t, and
the six queerly cut marble pillars which up
hold this look as fresh as though they had
been cut yesterday instead of in the days of
seventy years ago. Around the grave runs a
little wall of granite but the great tree, which
during this long period grew up and over
Gbadowed it, has been cut away, and the mid
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05

not admitted to the upper rooms of the hotel,
and the closed coffin was carried directly TO
the hearse, and from the hearse TO the
cemetery. BY his orders this tomb was
erected, and he disappeared after the death as
mysteriously as he came. This in reality is
all that is known in regard to this mysterious
lady. Conjecture has run riot in explaining
the story, and the romance of haunted
cemetery and hermit stranger who hangs
around it are whispered over Alexandria tea
tables. By some il is thought that the female
stranger was an American, and by some she
is supposed TO be the daughter of Aaron
Burr, Theodosia Burr, and the ship on which
she had embarked from Charleston diSap-
peared two years before the female stranger
died at Alexandria, and she was, ! think,
older than % years. Why the strangers hus-
band would permit no one to see her face
after she was dead gives rise to the suppOsi-
ton that he may have feared its recognition
by those who looked upon it. Another story
is that tlsA female stranger had two rival
lovers and that the successful one brought
her to this country to avoid the vengeance of
the other. Those who tell the latter story be
leve that the unsuccessful rival followed the
couple to this country, and murdered the
widower near Alexandria, and that this muir
der was the mysterious one for which Monroe
offered a reward during his presidency. The
circumstances are such, however, that con-
lectures of all kinds can be made in regard
to it Remembering the wealth of AleXan-
dria at this time ard the fact that it was
often visited by the diplomats and great men
of the Washington court across the river, lit
may he that the lady was a member of one Of
the noble English families, and that her hus-
band or lover, whoever he may have been,
feared that there might be sightseer who
would recognize her. Who she was will
never be told. The actors connected with her
burial are long since dead, and this tomb
alone remains as a monument of this mySteri-
Gus love of seventy years ago
FRANK GEORGE CARPENTER
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05

The meaneSt teacher on record-and that
means a great deal to the children-is the one
at Liegnitz, in Germany, who gave her class
the following problem for a holiday task:
From $50, TSS, $50 deduct go until nothing
remains" The poor girls figured and figured
for hours without making much Roadway:
finally their tears attracted the attention of
the parents. 4 simple division will show that
the figure 629 is contained in the larger one
no less than IA, 900, 800. Allowing three dedpc-
tiOnS minute and twelve hours work day,
it would take over six hundred days to do
what had been given the girls as holiday
amusement. Chicago Herald
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05
A WlFE'S LAMENT.

l know a mountain, high and grand.
And scanned with chasms dark and deep:
Dark, stern, magnificent it stands
And guards the har:il-t NJ its feet,
Through cloud, and fu-, and morning mist,
Unmoyed by tempest, storm. or time;
And when the sun its brow has kissed
1t smiles with radiance sublime.
The fertile valley lies below
Clothed in her shimmering summer dress,
Aud smiles up tn the gray. cold rock
That guards, but stoOps not TO caress-
know q face, a kinEly face.
That towers high above my own
An artist 5 eye, q form Of grace,
A poet soul, a heart Of stone,
He stands unmoved by praise or blame,
With conscious power and mind complete
He lives for labor, art aad fame.
Nor hee,lS the offerings at his feet.
Id give the world were the sun
To kiss q smiles that naughty face,
And 80 tn lightning glance Of love
Light up thos' eyes wsh tender grace.
! ncStlr mutely at his feet,
He shields me from the storms Of life;
hrinG; him offerings pure and sweet
4 worShipiag devoted wife.
But, ah. his heart, once all my own,
FUrEg'tS the gracious tenderness
OF bygune days. | sit alone,
He guards, but Stops not to caress
JACINTA JACQUEs-
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05
4 Composition on Fishes.

A schoolma'm at the Chase house has the fol-
lowing Juvenile composition among her
school house manuscript! a Goldfish is the
only Annymal that amt got no neck. There
amt but one kind of fish in the World that
lives on the land and Flys round iii the air,
and that is a fish h-hawk
"A Goldfish has a large mouth, and my Sun
day school Teachers got large mouth too.
Two kids got fiteing in the vestry one day and
one of EN- pulled quite lot Of Hare out of the
other kids He'd and the experimenting
pounded one of his EerS with book and SO
they uuit.-SduirreI Island Suuid.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05
HOW WOMEN BATTLE.
The Fair Creatures Who Swim on Dry
Land,
lGoecial Corrpsoondence. !

AsBURY PARK, Aug. &0-They talk about
going to bathe as though there was no pleas
ure equal u it, and are all impatient till they
get 10 the scene Of prospective enjoyment.
They put on their bathing suits in great glee,
and go down to the waters edge with quick
and joyous step. a spectator, unfamiliar
with their methods. would be sure to expect
something fine in the way Of aquatic perform
ance. am sorry TO say that he would be
disappointed. Tho earcrnGSs and audacity of
the fair hathers ends three feet from the uI-
tlmate tide mark
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05
Manuscripts for the ,IagazIne.

Magazine Editor-How many new manu-
scripts came in to-day's maili
Office Boy-Twenty-two sir.
We'll, pick out all that you are able to
read and send them back
Il can read all of EN-, sir, except one.n
"Ah! let ME have that-evidently by some
noted author. Omaha World
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05

TOMB OF THE FEMALE STRANGER
day sun beats upon it now as it did when it
was erected. Around the outer edges of the
granite wall the grass is now green, and a
spray or two Of ivy is growing here and there,
but under the slab the black earth hes sunken,
and the coffin and its contents have long since
cr1imbled into dust
In this grave is buried one of the most mys-
terious stories Of American romance 1t is a
story which the old people of Alexandria
have discussed for years. but which they are
no nearer solving now than they were when
Washington was a village and Madison was
president. Before tell you the story let us
read the epitaph cut upon that big marbl.
slab. The type is well engraved, and the let
tiers are sunken deep into the stone. They
read as follows:
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05

Divers in thirty feet of water at Holyoka
dam, near Hartford, have kept up communi-
cation with the men at the pumps by means
Of telephones. The wire runs down and
through the helmet to n small telephone, so
that the diver can direct the work of the
hosting engines more directly than by the
old system of signals by jerking life line
New York Sun.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05

Husband-I have been making my will,
dear. Leaving you everything, with-ah-
full power to Temarry.
Wife-Oh, darling, never!
Husband-Ycs, love And with a sar-
donic chuckle in that case shall feel assured
there will be at least one who will daily de-
plore my death.-London Punch.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05

This stone is placed here by her disconsolate hus
band,
In whose arms she sighed out her latest breath
And who under God did his utmost even to soothe
the cold dead ear Of death
How loved. how valued once avails thee not
To whom related or by whom begot
A heap Of dust alone remains Of thee.
lis al thou ART and all the proud shall be-
ITO whom gave all the prophets witness that
through his name whOSoeyer believeth on him
shall receive remission of sins -
Acts, 10th; 43rd verse.
In 1sl6 Ale iria was greater than Wash
ington. 1t surpassed Baltimore in size, and
it was one of the leading shipping ports of the
interior. Many Of the old houses which were
the mansions of those days still stand, and
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05

A New York Snowman has received from
Brazil an anaconda described as thirty feet
long, or as long as three fence rails, and it is
as big round as a water pail. 1t is supposed
TO be 80 years old, and there are said to be
snakes in the forests of the Amazon that are
$50 years Old.-Chicago Times-