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The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-01-07
a Re mlINIoCGNCE.
A True History of the Once Famous "Bss-
ert Heller"

Robert Heller" the noted magician,
was really William Henry Palmer, ma
live of Canterbury, in England. At the
age of ten years he was musical pro-
1igy, and at sixteen he appeared in con-
cert, and had composed several brilliant
,tndies for the piano-forte. His musical
career was hindered by his boyish fancy
or the illusions of magic, at first mere
recreation, afterward an infatuation.
While still student he left the ROYAL
Academy, in company with another
Voung and noted artist, and at the Thea
.ar Royal, Rochester. he gave his first
magical entertainment. The result was
not brilliant. The friendly confederate
sat in front box, with greatly waxed
mustache, eye-glass and other disguise,
out owing to anxiety he lost his presence
If mind at critical periods, to the discom-
future of the wizard and the disgust of
the audience, from whose missiles the
two young adventurers escaped through
q window at the rear of the stage.
In 1852 Robert Heller" came to the
United States, and soon afterward he
uIhtcu W w dSh'lSIOi' 1Itclc ho DcCdhhc
a professor of music, was organist at DR..
Halls church, became a lion in the dip
tomato society presided over by Lord
and Lady Napier, and married Miss
Annie Kieckhofer, daughter of one OF
the firm of Riggs & Co., bankers. But
his infatuation for Bohemian life was
not overcome. His marriage was not a
happy one, and he persuaded an old
English gentleman named Philips, the
father Of Washington bookseller, to
furnish the funds for new necroman-
GERS outfit. Soon afterward he OBJ
.ained the services of his step-sister, Miss
Ada Palmer, as a confederate, and with
ner he travelled around the world. Re-
turning to the Atlantic coast, he died at
the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia,
November q, 187S.-Ben. Perley POore.
inBoSt0n Budget.
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PERCHERON HORSES.
40 Years Experience.

To a Tribune reporter, Mr.. A. S.
Chamberlain, who for 40 years has been
the proprietor of the "Old Bulls Head
Stables" New York City, said: 81
keep exchange and sale stables for
horses, thousands of which annually
come to my stables from all parts OF
the country. l don't deal on my own
account to any extent. The French
horses have good feet and stand the
pavements better than the Clydesdales,
and bring q better price on the market.
The Clydcsdales are short-ribbed, slim
wasted and lack action. Compare
lively few of them are now brought to
this market. The demand is largely
for French horses. would advise the
farmer and breeders, who are breeding
horses to sell on the New York market,
20 breed from French horses in prefer
ence to all others. Chicago Tri6ane.
Percheron stations of the finest quality
and with choicest pedigrees, registered
in the Perchcron Stud Book of France,
are annually imported in immense
numbers. Within the past two years
1000 have been imported and collected
by one firm alone.
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Potatoes in Winter.

The annual loss to the farmers in the
Northwest in consequence of their pota-
toes being frosted amounts to good
deal of money. The frost in most of our
winters is liable to penetrate into our
cellars and root houses. The only safe
way to winter potatoes in this cold eli
mate is to store them beyond the reach
of the extreme frost. There Is not much
danger of having our pits and cellars too
warm; neither is there danger of our
potatoes heatlng'or sprouting during the
long winter months. Most of the pota-
toes raised are stored in the cellars of the
dwelling houses, and in consequnce Of
the imperfect banking of the houses, the
cold is liable to creep into the cellars.
Every farmer should at once see that his
house is properly banked up.-Ts
Household.
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AFTER A WATCH.
A Feline Trick That Almost Caused o
Domestic Catastrophe.
carson Appeal

One day last week Jake Tobriner pur.
day present to his wife. He laid it down
a moment on chair and went into the
next room, and when he came back it was
gone. Great was establishment on seeing
the jewelry so suddenly disappear and he
fully concluded that his wife had played q
trick upon him, and said nothing. Finally
at dinner, he said the joke had gone far
enough, and she had better produce the
watch. She knew nothing of it, and Jake
was beginning to feel rather queer, when
he heard a noise on the stoop, and, going
out, found the cat with the chain tangled
about her neck and trying to get rid Of it
He made grab at it, but pussy was toe
quick and slid under the house
with the elegant watch Gathering
along behind. Mr.. Tobriner got a long
pole and poked it about under the house,
and after spell, hearing a noise, saw the
cat upon the woodshed with the watch
still dangling to her neck. He climbed up
with bowl of milk to get the cat, but she
ran under the chicken house with the
watch of course), and then he poked he1
with the pole again; but it was no good,
the cat was up in tree too quick, and the
air was filled with clubs and bricks for
half an hour, trying to bring her down.
Mr.. Tobriner finally went to borrow a gun
to shoot the cat, when she came down her.
self, and getting the watch caught in be-
tween some boards, was unable to get
get away. Mr.. Tobriner got his watch,
and, strange to say, it was uninjured.
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DINNER PHILOSOPHY.
The Human Race Divided into Four Dis
tlnct Glasses.

The Human Race Divided into Four Dis
tlnct Glasses.
Prof. Sumner. of Yale College, 6
vides the human race into three class
es; people who work to-day to pay for
yesterdays dinner, people who work to-
day to pay for to-day's dinncrand those
who work to-day to provide dinner
for tomorrow. But there is fourth
class quite numerous. those who do not
work at all and eat the dinners earned
by others.
There is story of a colored barber
who reformed from hard drinking be-
cause he observed that while he, the
drinking man, bought two pounds of
liver for his family's dinner, the man
who sold him the rum bought seven
pounds of porter-house steak. He took
the pledge forthwith, and ate the por-
ter-house ever after, instead of drinking
up the price of it.
This incident illustrates another prin-
eiple OF Prof. Summers, which is, that
the only fair way for man to get out
of the class who work to-day to pay
for yesterday into the class who work
to-day to provide for tomorrow is to
practice self-denial. "Self-denial,"
says the learned professor, must be
our gospel if we would gain capital,
and almost any one can gain capital if
he practices prudence. So thought
the barber, and acted accordingly.-N
Y. Ledger.
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Indigo-Carmine.

To obtain indigo-carmine use only q
very good quality of indigo, preferably
Bengal, which should be washed in a
hot diluted solution of sulphuric acid
Then one part indigo and five parts
sulphuric acid, &c deg, B., are mixed
together in a leaden vessel the indigo
being first very finely powdered and
dried. The vessel should be kept cool
and the indigo should be added to the
acid little at time, the mixture being
well mixed. A heating of the mixture
should be avoided, as it would cause
free sulpkurous acid, which would i'm
pair the good qualities of the finished
product. Goods Bulletin,
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GREENLAND
Was the East Coast settled ny Northmsr
in the Middle Agesf

IN tne hkesF
The old controversy as to whether or
not the east coast Of Greenland was set
tied by the Mortimer, who built thriy-
ing colonies on the west coast in the
early middle ages, has been decided ~
. Danish Government expedition, sent
out in the spring of 1888 to explore the
little visited coast. The early Norwe-
gian records speak of sixteen parishes
and nearly three hundred villages on
Greenland eight or nine hundred years
ago, when it had its own Bishop; but
this entire civilization had persisted
when Davis penetrated along the west
coast to the strait that bears his name in
1885. The fact that an eastern" and
western" settlement were spoken Of
in the records led to the belief that both
coasts had been settled in the carly days,
while modern explorations have made
progress only along the west coast.
Nordenskjold who visited these regions
in 1883, believed that he had found
traces of ancient habitations on the east
side similar to those found along the
west coast. The Danish explorers have
proved him wrong. They spent two
winters on the east coast and penetrated
a hundred miles further north than the
point (65 degrees IL minutes) reached
BY Graah in 1929, mapping out the land
and calling 1t king Christian the
Ninth's land" but they found no trace
of previous occupation, except beer
bottle which the Esqumaux who in
habit these high ATTITUDES had looked
askance at for several years, believing
it to be somehow connected with the
elves Of the inland glaciers, which they
fear as evil spirits. The explorers were
unable to account for. the presence OF
the bottle, that had the name of a we'll
known Norwegian brewer blown in the
glass, until they learned of Nor
denskjold's previous visit to the neigh
borhood. The coast was quite accessible
last summer north of the dreaded glacier
Puissortok, and presented an unex-
pected view of handsome mountains
and green valleys, with very little ice.
No doubt remains, from the report of
the expedition, that by the eastern set
element" in the old record was meant
the one further south on the west coast,
for in the lower ATTITUDES this coast
trends sharply toward the cast I'M
portant ruins have been found there
Chicago 1Fjhrne.
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Look out what you say TO him; for q
trifie he will take your life. Lower down
and lower down until, outcast Of God and
man, he lies in the alms-house a hlotch OF
loathsomeness aud pain. Sometimes he
calls out for God. and then for more . INK.
Now he prsys, now curses, now laughs as
hends laugh. Then bites his nails
to the quick. Then runs both
hands through the shock Of hair that hangs
about his head like the name Of wild
beast Then shivers until the cot shakes
with unutterable terror. Then, with up
lifted fists, fights back the devils or clutches
the serpents that seem winding him in
their coils. Then asks for water which is
instantly consumed by his cracked lips.
Goirg his round some morning the sur
geon finds him dead. Straighten the
limbs. You need not try to comb out
out or shove back the matted locks
Wrap him in a sheet. Put him in q box.
Two men will carry it down to the wagon
at the door. With chalk write on the tor
of the box the name of the destroyed.
Do you know who it is:
That is you. Oh, man, if, yielding to
the temptations to dissipated life, you go
There is a way that seemeth bright and
fair and beautiful, but the end thereof is
death.
Devote these December, January and
February evenings to high pursuits, In
nocent amusement intelligent, sociali-
ties and Christian attainments. Do not
waste this winter. We shall soon have
seen the last w-shower. and passed
up into the companionship of him whose
raiment is white as snow--as no fuller on
earth can whiten it. 10 the right hearted
the winter nights of earth will soon end in
the June morning of heaven.
The river of God from under the throne
never freezes over. The foliage of life's
fair tree is never frost-btten. The festi-
walls and hilarities and family gatherings
of Christmas times on earth will give way
to the larger reunions, and the brighter
lights and the gladden. scenes, and the
sweeter gariands and the richer feastings
OF the great holiday Of heaven.
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T,cKLIsH CRocopiLEs.
wounded Gavisls That Dawl Just Like
Calves.

Calves
The gavial Is kind Of crocodile that
Is very ticklish. Although the skin Of
a large gavial Is very thick and the en-
tire back is covered with long plates
nearly a quarter of an inch thick"
writes w. I. Hornaday, noted travel
er, ''it is still as sensitive to the touch
rs the bottom of q mans foot. Unlike
all the other saurians l ever hunted,
they come out upon the sand-bars very
early in the morning, and are to be
found there at all hours of the day un-
til almost sunset. individuals have
their favorite haunts, and unless dis
turbed the same crocodile will return
day after day to the same sand bank, as
have plainly seen by observing those
that were peculiarly marked, Often
when watching gavials that lay appar-
emily sound asleep upon the sand, have
seen them suddenly reach leg back
ward or forward to kick off fly that
had lighted upon them. A nine-foot fe-
male which / captured was excessively
ticklish upon the back and sides.
Wounded gavials often bawl aloud like
calves when seized by their captOrs-a
thing l have never known any other
crocodile to do. Golden Days.
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THE bowels may be regulated, and the
stomach strengthened, with Ayers Pills.
A corresnondant writna,

A correspondent writes: noticed
in the Evening Post specimen of Ger
man translation which brought to my
mind sentence took from an old
German grammar some time ago, which
perhaps may be new to you: "A blind
become hen, who to the scratching
accustomed was, after that she blind be-
came ceased not to scratch. OF what to
the poor fool availed itP Another seeing
hen, who her tender feet wished to spare
this observing, yielded not from her
side; and as often as the Blind become
hen grain upscratched had, ate it the
seeing one away.-N. i. ECening Post.
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IL! -

"Stand back, gentlemeni Clear the
track" shouted the police, and as the
uickly-gathering crowd surged back,
steamer No. came up the street, the mag
nificent black horses striking fire from the
pavement
But holdi A wheel comes off the steam
err is overturned, and the brave firemen are
picked up bleeding and senselessl
An investigation revealed the fact that in
oiling the steamer that morning the steward
had neglected to put in the linch-pin. A
little neglect on his part had caused loss
of half million dollars. The busy marts
of trade are full of men who are making
the same fatal mistake. They neglect their
kidneys, thinking they need no attention,
whereas if they made occasional use OF
Warmers safe cure they would neper say
that they don't feel quito well; that a tired
feeling bothers them; that they are plagued
with Indigestion; that their brain refuses
to respond at call that their nerves are all
unstrung. Journal.
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A young clergyman who had come
to supply the vacant pulpit of the church
in New England village, had an ex.
tremely boyish appearance, and made
his way almost unnoticed into the pull
pit, where he was concealed from view
by the reading-desk in front of him. But
an old Lady who sat close on the right of
the pulpit in consideration of her deaf
ness, was much concerned to see boy
in the place of the expected clergyman.
So she arose very softly, stepped on tip
toe to the pulpit-stairs, and, reckoning
with her forefnger, whispered loudly in
coaxing accents: Come down, my boy;
you mustn't sit there; that s the place for
the ministerr"
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A PHANTOM TRAIN.
A Lightning Express Train That Made No
Noise.
Hanover IN. H. Special

Hanover IN. H. Special
John Saunders and Hiram Townsend
were riding home from this village last
night, when they came to crossing over
the railroad track.
There's a train coming" said Saunders,
pointing up the track in the direction of
East Berlin.
The men pulled tho horses in by the side
of the track to let the train go by. 1t ap-
peared to be sun ounded by thick mist,
although the night was lear and the stars
were shining. The eng neer could be seen
looking out of the window of the cab, but
there was no noise as the train drew near.
The fireman kept pulling on the bell rope
as is customary when nearinG crossing,
but not sound came forth. he phantom
engineer was recognized by Veral parties
as Tom Williams, 40 was lied on this
section of the roa II fe W, IS ago, while
running on the n ianigl express.
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Prof Rice of Weslevan Irn;vorO;,

Prof. Rice, of Wesleyan University,
in recent lecture, told of a freshet at
one time when the Connecticut River
was fifteen miles wide at Hartford and
200 feet deep at Middletown. The
between thu latter city and
Meriden were islands in the river that
run to the Sound in two channels, the
new one running over the Wallingford
plains in New Haven.-NeU HI zen Post.
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AN exchange says that bath has
been established in Albany, N. Y, where
orthodox Jews may battle in accordance
with the requirements of the Talmud.
This custom is still observed throughout
the Old World, and in some places in
this country. There are two other baths
of the kind in the United States.
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Hydraulic ;'ostal Delivery.
[Tombston c "A. t. Epitaph.l

In the mountains above Chico, the resi-
dents along lumber fume have a novel
way of getting their mail. 1t is started on
a raft from the head of the hume at regu-
lar dates, and the people below watch for
il, take out what belongs to them, and then
send the raft, with its precious cargo, on
the way.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-01-07

Chicago girls are taking to crazy.
quilt making for the winter. This is
being done so that they will have in
door employment and thus keep them
from going out and leaving huge foot
prints in the snow. Chicago girls are
not as crazy as they appear Kentucky
EtoSs Journal,
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Maryland, MY Maryland.

Maryland legislators, who are always
alive to the public interests, have endorsed
the new discovery, Red Star Cough Cure,
because it contains neither morphia nor
opium, and always cures. HE price is only
26 Oeut2
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PIXIES TooTHACHE DROPS cure in minute, go
Gtenn's Sulphur Soap heals and beauties Csc.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns Bunions.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-01-07

II afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thonpson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it, 2oc.
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A PRovERB says-Hunger is the best cook.
That may be so, but hunger hasn't got any.
thing to cook-Te1as Strings.
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TALMAGES SERMON.
A Discourse on Winter, and How
to Meet It"

The Designations Incident to the season
FOrcibly Presented and Illustrated
A Plea for Abstinence On the
Natal Day of tho New Year.
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EVERY one is perfectly satisfied who use
Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers.
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No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consump-
ton. Cures where other remedies fail. 25c.
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A PAIR Of slippers-Banana and orange
peel-Lopel 0itiEsN
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For all Sewing Machines.
STANDARD GOODS ONLY.
The Trade Supplied.
send for wholessls price
list. BLELooK h'Y'eCo.,
~ Lpoaslsk. % oaiA, Nc,
, 1886-07-17
The Senate's Work.

WASHINGTON, July l6.-The house
bill increasing the pension of John Ryan.
and the senate bill granting a pension to
james Noyes were taken up and passed,
the latter bill being described by Mr..
Cockrell as a mere act of charity to a col
ored preacher who had only served a lit
tie while in the Louisiana National
guards; but Mr.. Blair said that the man
had also served in acolored regiment and
in the veteran brigade. The next bill
passed was a house bill granting a pen
sion of 1925 monthly to Miss Mary G..
Thomas, who had acted as a volunteer
army nurse and superintendent of nurses
at Frederick, Md. After ten more pen
sion bills were passed, the senate resumed
the consideration of the river and harbor
bill. The question was finally taken ON
agreeing to the committee amendment
(reduc'ng the appropriation 25 per cent J
and it was agreed to-yeas 81, nays Is.
The bill was then passed-yeas AZ, nays
IA. The senate her took up the naval
appropriation bill. The amendments re-
ported by the committee on appropria
tions were all agreed to without question,
and the bill was passed. The senate then
adjourned.
, 1886-07-17
The Dllke-crawford Scandal

LONDON. July l6.-In the Crawford
divorce case to-day Sir Charles Dix,
being sworn, denied totally all allegation,
concerning him made by Mrs. Crawford
in her confession. Continuing, Su
Charles declared that Mrs. Crawiord's
confess ion was an act of deliberate con
spiracy against him. He accounted fol
the animus prompting this conspiracy by
saying that he had once through u friend
advised Mrs. Crawford to abandon an
intrigue she then had with Capt. Forster.
The captain learning Of this advice,
charged witness during an interview in
1885, with trying to blast his (Forster' 81
character, aud challenged witness to a
duel. Witness declined the challenge
and treated the affair as utterly ridiculous
Witness then proceeded to furnish evI-
dence suggesting hat Capt. Forster and
Mrs. Crawford, finding that a discovery
Of their liason was imminent. concocted
the story against witness contained in the
lady confession.
The cour was crammed with notabili
tiles, including many well-known ladies'
The reporters had difficulty III obtaining
seats. Crowds Of people were unable to
gain admittance. Mrs. Virginia Craw-
ford was dressed quietly 10 a brown cos
tune. She was accompanied by her sis
ters, Mrs. Ashton-Dilke and Mrs. Harri
son. She arrived early and conversed an
imatedly with her counsel, Mr.. George
Lewis. Sir Charles Dixie, who was ac-
c%ompanied by his wife. looked careworn.
He followed the evidence with the keen
est. interest. 1t was generally thought
that Sir Walter Phillimore, who repre-
scented the proctor, was somewhat biased
in favor of correspondent. When sum
moned as a witness Sir Charles was visi
bly, affected. In walking to the witness
box he almost staggered; but he soon re
covered his self possession and answered
questions with clearness and decision.
For instance, he replied to the question
Did you make love to Virginia Craw-
ford2" with No, certainly not.
Mrs. Crawford and Sir Charles fire.
quently exchanged g%lances. The former
smiled amusedly when Sir Charles denied
that a liason had existed between them.
The spectators in the court room showed
great interest in the narratives of witnesses,
regarding Sir Charles alleged intimate re
lations with a French woman, who was
formerly in the service Of his father, and
afterward in his own service Sir Charles
it was stated, allowed her f40 yearly, and
when she was in England always visited
her at No. IS Warner street, London.
Much interest was also taken In the
story of how the mysterious Fanny
vanished, reapreared and vanished again
before the last trial; reappear' d after
wards and gave evidence to Sir Charles
Dixie s solicitor, and finally vanished, and
is now not to be found. 1t is generally
thought that Sir Charles has not made
a favorable immersion.