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The Arizona sentinel., 1888-11-03
IDENTIFYING A TRUNK.
A Careless Traveller Finds His Baggage b.
Revelation.

A Careless Traveller Finds His Baggage by
a Revelation.
A passenger over the Lake Shore
who had lost his baggage check was
called upon yesterday to pick out his
trunk from fifty others in the baggage
room. He succeeded in establishing
its identity after awhile, but when
pieces at once.
''Have you any clothes in it?" quer-
led the official.
81 suppose so, of course"
"Any valuables?"
"There is watch, but I've forgotten
how it looks. l guess it's silver,
though"
''Any books?"
81 guess so, but I amt sure.
"Well, what are you sure OFF"
Gimme ten minutes to think"
He took fifteen and walked up and
down, and at last revelation come.
"Say, I've got itr' he chuckled, as he
came back.
"Wellr
"Well, if that's my trunk there are
six new eucher-decks in a green box
right on top"
ANY peculiarity about the cards?'
"You bet! That's where I'm solid.
Every pack has marked back, for 1
bought 'em to bamboozle the country
chaps out of their shekels. l am 60
ing out of here with a hog show, and
after the show | play poker. Just look
for them cards.
The trunk was opened and the cards
found as described, and the owner
whispered:
might 1 have the audacity to hope
you won't gimme away on this?
Christopher! but you orter see how the
suckers do bite at this season of the
yearr Detroit Free Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-11-03
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
DUCK AND CHICK.

Said downy young duck
To fluffy young chick:
"Come down to the water and swimi
By fine bit of luck,
The right path can pick,
And the horse-trough is full to the brim,"
"Ireally don't dare ~
Was the prudent reply;
~ have often been cautioned you know,
With the greatest of care,
To walk where it was dry,
And with giddy young ducks never CO."
She replied with sneer:
ITO me it is clear.
To your mothers tail feathers you arc tied;
You run at her cluck,"
Said this naughty young duck.
81 don't think you have much pride"
The chick hung his head,
While with bushes he said;
II never have learned to swim
You see that by my toe;
But would like to go
suppose 1 can walk on the rim"
With his thin yellow legs,
Like long scaly pegs.
He walked on the perilous rim;
He watched his friend dive,
And come up still alive,
Though she paid no attention to him
His mother, the hen,
Called again and again.
But her darling child never replied.
With motion too quick,
He had slipped-the poor chick
And he fell in the water and died.
Clara g. DOlliUer, in Our Little ones.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-11-03
COSTLY ALUMINIUM.
Some Interesting Things About 1t an
Its Production.

Some Interesting Things About 1t and
Its Production.
Aluminium, as the discoverer spelt it,
or aluminium, as it is often carelessly
pronounced, is, like all mythical and
expensive elements, vastly overrated.
1t furnishes very rapidly, only, the
rust being white, it is not very offen-
sive. 1t can not be used for any thing
where it comes in contact with salt; a
pot of aluminium would be perfor-
ated by the salt of common soup if only
used for few months; spoons would
be rough and perforated in the space
of a year; nothing exposed to salt air
or water could be made OF aluminium.
When pure, its greatest tensile strength
is only little more than that of Ordi-
nary zinc that Is, only about one-half
that of STEEL Its hardness is about
that of soft copper, and it is just about
as nasty to turn, file and
drill as copper, without having
the strength, pliability and
malleability of copper. Its conductive
power for electricity for the same
weight is that of copper, hence tele-
graph and telephone wires might be
made of it, if both have the same
price, sixteen cents per pound. Its
peculiar chemical properties preclude
the use of soft solder with the usual
soldering fluids; it can be soldered,
out at the points of contact and solder
aluminium becomes very weak and
unreliable. Its peculiar melting point
(six hundred deg. c. precludes the
use of hard solder (melting point sev-
en- hundred deg. C). 1t is very sensi-
tive to impurities. Half of one per
cent. of silicon, or iron, renders it as
brittle as pottery ware.
AS clay banks contain about alumni
mum eleven per cent, iron four per
cent, the balance being water and
oxygen, it may be seen by any chem
ist, considering the chemical proper
ties of the impurities, that aluminium
can not be isolated pure from common
clay for less than two dollars a pound,
this being the lowest price of the chem
icals needed, vessels, coal, etc., for
this purpose. If only as much as one
eighth of one per cent. of silicon re-
mains, it can not be rolled and drawn
into wire, but silicon and aluminium
are very hard to separate completely.
There is no market to speak of for
aluminium at two dollars a pound.
Most of the aluminium now used is
beaten into white foil and used for
silvering sign letters, etc. 1t is used
for opera glasses, galvanic needle in
Gators and few scientific purposes. 1t
has been source of great revenue to
the chemical credulity and mysticism
upon moneyed non-chemists; probably
fifty companies are existing in the
United States by which some sharp
witted chemist obtains living and the
inventors a large amount of hope at
first, but considerable experience later.
l do not believe that one pound of
aluminium has yet been made in the
United States that has not cost the
maker at least five hundred dollars.
The only factories are in France, and
if they sell it for fifteen dollars pound
it certainly costs them fourteen dollars
to make and sell it. Beware of alum
inium inventions! Springfield (4lgsJ)
Union. >,
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-11-03
A Singular Experience.

Dumley is man of singular ex-
periences." When he can't stop q
busy friend and tell him some singular
experience it's because he isn't feeling
well.
Brown" he said, buttonholing that
gentleman, "a most singular expert
ence occurred to me this morning. 1
have owed Robinson some money for a
long time and l wanted to pay up.
Not knowing his address l was about
to step into drug store to consult a
directory, when whom should | see
coming up the street but Robinson
himself; singular, eh?"
"Er-did you pay him the money!"
"Yes"
''Yes, Dumley, it was singular for a
fact. IN Y. Sun.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-11-03
VOLUME XVII.
JOHNNYS COMPLAINT.

Our preacher says-an' of course he's right
It's very wrong to tell fib,
$50 mothers taught me ever since
She rocked me IN my little crib,)
That's why can't just understand
Why in his sermons he Will run
Along like sixty when he's saidi
but one word more and have done"
When first heard him say those words
They made me glad, for I, you see,
Was tired, for half-hour sermons seem
Enough for little folks like me;
But gracious! L was quite surprised
To find he'd only just begun.
When pausing for a breath he said:
But one word more and have DONE"
wonder what he'd think if
Should say, when at his home I'd sup:
Just one plum more and have DONE"
Then eat his wife's preserves all up?
guess he'd ask me what meant;
I'd have to say was in fun
Just like he must be when he says;
but one word more and have DONE"
-Wdds WhppLe, in Richmond Dispatch.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-11-03

If you will notice it, it is always
the candidate who gets left who in
Weighs against the use of money by the
other fellow. When man gets whip
ped he is as full of morality as an egg
is of meat. Boston transcript,
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-11-03

-RetributiOn. -''What is the matter
with your eye, Dick?" asked his en-
ployer on noticing that Dick wore a
green binder. mot much. There is
an actor living next door to me, and he
kept me awake nights rehearsiag
heavy stage dialogues; so l tried to
square accounts by giving his boy a
drum. The actor found out who gave
the boy his drum.-Drdke's Magazine.
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-11-03

The confidence most people are
compelled to place in the meter is one
sort of a gas-trust, and a very un'
satisfactory one at that Life,
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-11-03

Saratoga is famous for spring
water and Niagara for fall water.-
Y0nkerS Statesman,
The Arizona sentinel., 1888-11-03

-Bella's little sister was asked to de-
scribe Bella's lover by friend OF the
family; she did very well till she came
to the whiskers and then she hesitated
They're some kind of lovely meat
whiskers, but it isn't beefsteak, and
can't think" She had heard Bella say:
THE mutton chop is so becoming to
you, Algernon. Judge.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-30
CROSSING THE LINE.
The Story Of One Fourth of July
at Sea.

''TSrSq,I Written for This Paper1
To see my spare spars at the present
time and view the jury mast l wear for a
backbone, around which my summer gear
flaps idly in the sultrv breeze this warm
weather, you would scarcely suspect that
lay claim to being an old Jack-salt. Why,
running rigging may need overhauling
and my old hull be little> the worse for
wear my boy, but you may punch my top
lights, if can't reef, hand, steer, box the
compass or shift the quid equal to any old
sea-dog of your acquaintance. am one of
Neptune's sons, legitimately baptised in
the equatorial bowl on the Fourth of July
almost twenty years ago. Those were days
when the rich merchants son had no better
chance to crawl aft through the cabin win
dows than did the son of poor fisherman s
widow. Both commenced their nautical
career as boys before the mast and fought
their way upward and won promotion ac-
cording to their merits. Nowadays, the
rich mans son passes an examination at a
naval academy and takes his different de-
grees like collegiate landswab until he is
declared proficient in navigation. Had
their nautical educations been acquired in
the good old-fashioned way, there would
be less bones bleaching in the caverns of
the sea and less widows mourning for
brave Jack salts, who have lost their lives
through the ignorance of the kid-gloved
navigators of modern days.
But am getting ahead of my tow-rope !
started to tell you about Fourth Of July
at sea on board an American merchant
man. Dash my tOpsails, boys it makes
my blood Jingle with pleasure to think of
the good old days when my blood was made
to Jingle by ropes end. 1t don't seem to
be more nor yesterday since l made my
first voyage round the cape-bu'st my
stunsils if it does
1t was along the latter part of June, two
or three years after the war, when our
clipper left the Victoria docks in Liver
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-30
HURRAH FOR THE FOURTH.

The Fourth of july as a holiday fills
It's measure of pain and of Joy.
Affecting the man with its manifold ills,
Delghting the soul of the boy
When bombs and torpedoes are tearing the air,
And rockets are soaring on high,
No wonder the nervous folks shiver or swear;
But hurrah for the Fourth OF July
IT'S sad at a time of such blistering heat
10 shut yourself tight in the shell,
To keep out the terrible din of the street
Aud the odious sulphurous smell.
When the small boy alone is abroad in the
land,
When old people tremble and fly
From the shots and the shouts and the bray OF
the band,
Then hurrah for the Fourth OF July!
When midnight at last draws a vail DER the
scene,
And the firing no longer we fear,
How restful the thought, and how sweetly
serene,
That it comes only once in year,
As our glorious forefathers suffered and died.
We suffer, although We don't die;
But we look from the past to the present with
pride,
And hurrah for the Fourth of July.
The tumultuous ranks OF the boys of to-day
Our guards o! the future supply,
and liberty grows in that riotous way;
So hurrah for the Fourth of July!
" Y Sun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-30
A MARRYING RACE.
The Cnromantic Way in Which the Turks
Select Their Brides.

Select Their Brides.
In Turkey every body marries young,
and, one might perhaps be permitted to
add, those who can afford it marry often.
Such thing as an old maid is absolutely
unknown among the Turks. They are a
marrying race, and as a general thing the
girls are married off by the time they
reach their teens, and often year or two
before. A Turk may possibly fall in love
with his wife after their marriage, but it
wouldn't be very easy for his affections to
antedate this ceremony, for the first time
he ever sets eyes on her face is in
the nuptial chamber, after the wedding
guest having retired When young
Turk becomes old enough to marry, then
his mother and a few confidential female
friends undertake to find him wife. In a
body they call upon such of their neigh
bors as are blessed with manageable
daughters and state their mission in
business-like way. The daughters are
trotted out for inspection much as though
they were young colts or calves offered for
sale. The wife hunters look the daughters
over critically, question the mother and
partake of coffee. In a few minutes the
daughter that has been inspected retires.
from the room. If her appearance has
failed to please the visitors nothing more is
said. If, however, they are favorably i'm
pressed they linger and enter into nego-
tiations for her hand in marriage to the
youth in question. The girls age health.
accomplishments, trousseau and kindred
matters are inquired into in the most.
matter fact way. The mother Of the
damsel, on her part, inquiries quite as min
utely into the merits and dement's of the
proposed husband. Troy Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-30

tons, and clambered out the boat to the
deck in a partially drowned condition.
Bravo, my heartyn' said Henglish.
Amy, at my elbow, ''you stood it like a.
bloody trump. There's good stuff for a.
sailor in you, sure pop. Go aft and shift
your toys; then come back and bear a hand
at baptizing the rest of the greenies. You're
an old tar now, you know"
went aft and shifted my toys and,
after a severe scrubbing, ] succeeded in
removing the greater part of the tar from
my face; but distinct traces of it remained
in light brown streaks long after / reached
our port of destination, Calcutta.
Out Of respect to my position on the ship
had receive the first initiation, that it,
might give n-e a chance, should | choose,
to aid in the baptismal ceremonies of the
other unfortunates who had never before
crossed the line. But l had no heart to
take an active part in the subsequent pro-
ceedings. Recollection of my own discom-
fort deferred me from it. During the af-
ternoon the sun waxed hot and old Neptune,
in attempting to scratch his head, dis.
lodged his wig of oakum which rolled to
the deck and discovered the bullet-cropped
pate Of Dublin Dan. The "ould woman''
turned out to be Demara Dick, who chafed
his arms where they were blistered in the
sun and swore he never would play lady
again for all the sport to be had on the
high seas. Plum duff was served as extra
rations and Teach watch was given a
bottle of grog to drink to the health of the
Government under whose flag they sailed
the glorious Stars and Stripes. A cracked
VIOLIN MANNED banjo and broken-keyed
concertina furnished music in the evening,
and the motley crew, of most Ell nations,
joined themselves in the enjoyment and
celebration at sea of the birthday of liberty
for American people-the never to be-for
gotten Fourth of July BURT ARNOLD,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-30

mol. We made good Roadway until we
struck the "hoss a" latitudes, and you may
Eeelhaul me for land-lubber if we didn't
stick Just north of the line for almost a
week.
About six bells on the dogwatch one
night an old tar on the lookout sang out:
al Ere we goesp' The watch on deck all
make break for the lee rails, and, sure
enough. we could see a slight wake astern :;
and on looking aloft the royals, that had
swung listlessly from their yards in the
vertical sun for week, gave vent to dis
NAL creaks as they yielded to the pressure
If the breeze against their canvass.
"Man Che weather braces" hurriedly
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-30
DOCTORS, PLEASE ANSWER.
Information Which the Public Has Sought
from Time ImnemoriaI

wish some one would explain to me why
doctors-whether consciously or uncon-
sciously-cause our passing ailments to be-
come such a source of revenue to the drug
gist. If one has an acute attack of-well,.
say bilious cohc-the NJ. ID comes, and be-
sides the necessary equipment of rubber
water bags, and flannel, and mustard plas-
tors, and 1axseed poultices, there is a bot
tie of red liquor price fifty cents) for nau-
sea- and white one for aiding digestion
(price seventy-five cents), and box Of
powders for relieving pains Qrice seventy
five cents) The next morning the
medicine is changed. The bottles, with
only a couple of teaspoonfuls gone
from either, are put aside, and
more seventy-fve and fifty cent bot
ties ordered in. The next day
these (still three-quarters full are put
away and dollar bottle of tonic and box
Of pills brought in. Two days after, the
tonic-still only half consumed-is set.
aside, another dollar bottle of different
tonic substituted with the addition of h
box of powders. While that relay of medI-
cine is still to the front the patient gets.
well and goes down town. He has on hand
a druggists bill of about six dollars. two
thirds Of which is for the medicine "rem-.
nants" which he can only throw away.
Now, surely the physician had some con-
ception how many doses the patient would
need Of each awful notion, and why every
time write out for one stomach prescrip-
ton which would suffice for hospital
ward l-ChjcdgO Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-30

81 We air; an it's peroud Oh am ter own
yees fur er son, Misthur Clarruk. Yerrl
be er credthit ter tina sarvice whin we air.
boptoized. Now, we raslets, yees kin chris
ten Mr.. Super in tina fons.''
His varlets quickly took their cue, and 1
was grabbed by the shoulder and feet and
poised in the air.
Ui bopto.se yees in Their name av Davy
Jones, Ould Mither Carey and the Floying
Dootchman; an may yees niver be afther
bringing baad luck ter tina clipper that'n
sail yees."
With splash l lit face down IN the,
" font" which was the long boat filed
with salt water for the occasion. Ny
hands had been united, and quickly felt
my feet, and tore off the bandage from my
eyes. A dozen buckets of bilge wat er,
handed me from as many different direc-.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-30
The BABY ANARCHIST.

Around the house ali day he goes,
: By baby fancies led;
He sometimes stands upon his toes,
. And sometimes on his head.
He takes the flower, pot and all,
And puts it in his lap;
He spills the syrup in the hall
This naughty little chap. a
Your silk umbrella spick and span,
He sticks in deep rat-holes;
And with his mothers rarest fan
, Hammers your frailest bowls.
He ties the pendulum with a string
While singing baby songs;
He's always sure to put one thing
Where something else belongs.
He'll take match and light the cat,
He'll paint the poodle's head;
And pour frail crackers in your hat
And leave them in your bed.
Adown the register he'll throw
The spools with nimble wrist;
He's often wished in Jericho
The Baby Anarchist.
But never war upon him wage,
Nor whip him till he roar
Suspend him in a roomy cage,
Five feet above the floor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-30

Ashout whose JOY, half psalm and half prayer,
RINGS far out over the encircling seas;
And. as its echoes slit the trembling air,
The stars and Stripes fly out upon the breeze.
That matchless flag, whose silllen folds enroll
All that is noble in a splendid race
Firing with pride each patriotic soul,
And marking Freedoms fash from place to
place!
Peal on, ye bells! Flash forth, We beacon-fres
Ring out, We cheers from loyal bosoms hurled
RISE waiting minstrel, tune your eager Tyres,
And sing Nations birthday to the world
The day that checked tyrant's ruthless hand
That yainly strove to stay peoples will
The day when chains became as ropes of sand,
When Freedom spoke and all the world stood
still
Let the Nations sing of pomp and war,
or bloody conquest, battles fought and won
Aa2n6en, &Et goes swelling from afar
T7ss5ess,9safns to meet the rising sun,
flls how Nation, born mid deadly strife,
Lives in glory that can never cease,
And seeks through all the coming years of life
Naught save a splendid reign of lasting peace.
HAROLD X. VYNNE.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-30

A BASE BALL umpire dreamed that one OF
his decisions was contested and the sub
sequent proceedings were so realistic that
when he awoke next morning he found the
pitchers nose brolSan--JCgdiee's Mdgdztl le,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-06-30
INDEPENDENCE DAY.

LOWLY the sun creeps
up into the sky,
Gliding the hill-tops
with his rudy hand,
And from the heavens,
in pompous majesty,
Proclaims the break OF
day throughout the
land.
And, as he scars into
the vaulted space,
A thousand guns their
sombre greeting roar;
A million bells their
jangle interlace,
A people S shout breaks
forth from shore to
shore.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-01
IN A SMALL WAY.

Tho Esos Of tho Day Pointediy Psr.-
xraphsd for Hssty Headers.
THE Board of County Commissioners
will meet this morning.
THE West Liberty cornet band went
with the Andes, yesterday, on trip to
Cincinnati.
THE REGISTER Ia indebted TO Mr.. Hugh
Maxwell, of Marshall county, for lot OF
fine harvest apples. They were greatly
appreciated.
A GIRL got full out at Stella Chester's
place last evening and raised racket in
attempting to get her clothes out Of the
house. Officer Bell went out to see what
the row was about, but found everything
quiet.
Mr.. JOE MORAN, of the South Side, a
popular member Of the s. 8. s. Fishing
Club, of the Eighth ward, came up to the
city the other day with the largest catfish
caught this season. IT can be seen at 1916
Wood street,
A STILL alarm was sent into the Vigilsnt
engine house yesterday afternoon about
o'clock caused by blaze in dwelling
house next to Bells foundry. The fire was
in the corner of the roof and was extin-
guished with little damage by few buck.
cts of water.
J. l.. YOsT, q well.known B. & o. en-
gineer, had to buy q new watch yesterday.
His fireman asked him for q chew Of
tobacco, and in reaching it over to him,
his watch chain caught on one of the rods
and jerked his watch from his pocket and
under the wheels.
AT meeting of the directors Of the Pr
oneer Society, held last evening, His
Honor Mayor G. W. Ssabrigbt, Mr.. Anton
Reymann and Mr.. Augustus Pollack were
selected to represent the German citisens
of Wheeling in the meeting to be held
Thursday evening in the interest Of the
coming Volksfest
JUST as an electric motor passed Alley
on Main street last evening Q woman Let
ont q scream that was heard for several
squares and people ran from all directions,
thinking she had been struck by the mo-
tor. The screams came from girl who
was attempting to cross the street with q
baby buggy, when . horse almost ran over
the infant, hence the blood-curdling noisa.