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The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
Fascination If counterfeiting.

That old saying, "Once a counterfeiter
always n coumterfeiter," is true i'll 900 cases
out of every 1000. There is a fascination
about the manufacture of spurious coin that
when a man follows it for n while and gets
rid of his stuff he become holder, until he is
finally captured. Long years of imprison-
ment do not seem to wear out the ardor for
the counterfeit mold. There is counterfeit
ing carried on i'll n mild degree all over the
country. We find the young ''cross roads"
man making a little occasionally with his
plaster Of paris molds, and then we find that
some stereotyper has applied his art with
papier machc and turned out II very good
looking dollar made of type metal. By the
stcrcotyping process a better milled dollar is
secured than by any other process, but that
class of men very seldom go beyond the ex-
detrimental stage. They may make one or
two, and then find they can do SO and quit
through fear. Starvation sometimes drives
n man into the business of making spurious
coins, but this is not often. The case is very
rare that Il counterfcitcr ever escapes dctec.
ton; i'll fact, at this age of the world it is
simply impossible for them to escape for any
length of timc.-United States Agent i'll
Globe-Dpmocrnt.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
An independent Telegraph System.

Z
There has grow up among tho farmers Of
a county i'll Michigan u telegraph system,
which might generally DO extended through
out the rural districts everywhere. The sys-
tenn began by two farmers connecting their
houses by a wire for their own convenience,
and operating their line with the ordinary
Morse instruments. Gradually other farmers
extended the line to their houses, and after a
time tho wire was run into n neighboripe
village.
Seven years ago the combined farmers and
a few village merchants organized them.
selves into a company, and it has since been
extended, until now it has sixty-five miles Of
WIRE and ninety offices, two-thirds of the
latter being in fa~rmhouses, and nearly all
the rest being in stores, where these farmers
DO all their trading. One or two newspaper
Offices as many moro railroad freight offices,
the county telephone exchange and the
larger postofliccs are all connected. Every
farmer is his own operator, battery man and
line repairer. OF course, any quantity of
private communication is kept M between
the stockholders of this independent system.
There are two or three indepenpent systems
Oh these lines i'll operation i'll the county. mr..
ranged so that they can I've connected With
each other at fn:ersecting points. and the
whole scheme is being vor1cd very choaply
aud Observation-Disclosures Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
EXERCISE for the Bilious.

AS u simple Illustration take the man of
sctlcntary occupation promo to what is called
bilionsncss. lie is assured that he needs ex-
%ercise, and 50 enters upon the practice of
walking four or five miles, or even longer
distances, daily. He improves, it cannot but
he Il benefit to him. Still, were he to devote
Il part of the time given to walking toa more
varied form of exercise, lie would find it less
of Il task and the gain still greater. To get
the greatest good out of IL walk one must
fling his arms around and so carry himself us
to bring every muscle of the body into play.
But few people would care to indulge i'll such
an exhibition on Il public street, and 50 when
the generality of them walk they do SO almost
entirely with their legs, i'll other words, only
the lower half of the body is much exercised.
Tho bilious patient, especially, needs to cxcr-
else all parts alike, and SO draw the blood
from the liver into the muscular system, re.
lieving that important organ, which is more
or less congestel.
Again, to mechanically compress the liver
and assist it to empty itself is necessary.
When n man rides horseback, the liver is
actually churned, as it were, and that is why
bilious patients derive so much benefit from
that peculiar form of exercise. If Il man
who walks four or five miles Il day could
give no longer time to physical work than
that, he would do better if he walked half
the distance and spent what remained of his
time i'll II gymnasium, or i'll saving wood
Boston Herald.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
Spelling Ideas with Words.

In reviewing Il manuscript not long ago !
had occasion to say: "Yours subject is good,
and well treated in spots, but your matter
should be boiled down at least half. If you
will do this carefully I am sure you can find
q market for your article"
The answer to this was as follows: 'The
children of my brain arc sacred to Inc, aud
the cool manner in which you suggest II gen.
eral massacre is nothing less than shocking.
Up to the date of your letter no editor or
reader has ever suggested SO much as the
insertion of q comma, or the elimination of q
word"
There was moro of this stuff, but the above
is a sufficient sample. Now I knew by the
appearance of this manuscript that it was II
very ancient mariner, indeed. 1t had evi.
IDENTIFY made a number of tempestuous voy.
ages, remaining with the owner on the return
trips only long enough for u new invoice of
postage stamps. This paper had been care.
fully read, too, for it possessed real worth,
and l was clairvoyant enough to know that
more than one editor had with reluctance
marked it 'unavailable," and with a "Why
will writer's string out so? Why spoil ideas
with words!'
"The pen is mightier than the sword" but
the scissors and the blue pencil are some.
times mightier than either.-Eleanor Kirk in
The Writer.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
SOME EXPENSIVE LuxuRIEs.
Costliest Articles in America-Furnitnr,
JcWelry, Books and Pictures.

Costliest Articles in America-Furnitnre,
Jcwelry, Books and Pictures.
l have come across a curious paper COM
pied by some of those cranks with u passion
Tor figures and statistics and is meant to show
how tremendous is the luxury of this city.
lie begins by saying that Mr.. II. G. Mar
4uand has the c~ostlicst piano in the world.
Steinway made the works and the case
painted by Alma Tadema-was done in Lon
don, the whole costing $4,000. This stands
IN Mr.. Marquand's famous music room, one
OF the most luxurious and beautiful cham
nefs IN this country. He also has the cost
nest billiard table in this country, having
PAD Tor 1t III round numbers SCI, 600, and
everything in the house is on a scale to har-
monize with these expensive bits of furniture,
1he costllest dinner service ever made was
done in this city by Tiffany. Mr.. Mackey
brought with him from his mines 5000
worth of bullion, and this the jewellers made
up into n service, asking $40, 600 for the
work, making the cost of it in all sla5, 600,
and no sovereign in Europe eats from such a
gorgeous plate. Yet, strange to say, Mackey
IS as simple as possible in his manner. The
c~ostliest string of pearls in this country be-
longs to Mrs. Louis Hamersley, and was the
one she wore on her neck one night last
winter when n thief put his hand in the car.
riage window and tried to snatch them, sue
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
FROM OFFICE TO OFFICE.
vagahond Irdd crs Who Thrive on Small
Profits aud Quick Sales.

vagabond Trld crs Villa Thrive on Small
Pr"iiis aud Quick Sales.
The business section of this city has from
time i%milrmorial been curiously infested by
a decidedly original aud cntcrprising crowd
Of small traders, Spectators and other adj
venturrrs with whom slight profits and quick
sales are Il maxim. 1t is not only the Shoe
string leddlcrs and such like cheap jacks
who thrive 10y going from Office to Office, hut
men of almost every craft. While | was in
one Office the otherday Il pcripatctic phrenolo-
gist came i'll and wanted to feel our bumps.
In another found Il corn doctor planning
down the %tcnant feet. At another still, a
ragrant Sleight- of-hanl performer did some
tricks and passed around the hat, and BARRIERS,
furniture members, GLACIERS, carpenters and
painters travel about in search of Jobs and
probably find them.
There is scarcely anything Il man cannot
buy down town in the course of n week, with
out leaving his Office. Tailors' agents will
measure him for clothes, to he mad here or
in London. Vendors will supply him with
hats and boots and Undertaking; he can
buy cigars and song birds, and beer and dogs,
aud whisky and sealskins for his wife, and
toys for the youngsters, from the vantage
ground of his office chair. There are drum
,ncrs who go about soaring up trade for shirt
manufacturers and others who offer building
lots, nnl houses, and furniture for sale OF
the installmrnt plan, while rs for the fine
arts and literature they have their agents
everywhere, ready to deal for cash or credit,
as occasion may demand.
The customers of these venturcsome trades
men are not drawn from the highest ranks
of trade. 1T is as impossible for a peddler to
get ut a great %tinancier, or lawyer, Or mcr-
chant rs it would be COR him to enter the
kingdom of heaven by climbing II telegraph
pole. But there are thousands of men who
are engaged in minor businesses, running
offices of their own and easily accessible to
the public as it passes, and upon these the
pcddlrrs prey, Wit goes Il great way toward
making trade. The vcnder who can talk
we'll and crack Il joke with facility will pros
per even in the worst of times. There is one
young fellow who sells writing pads alone
among the artists and other independent &C.
cupants of downtown Offices, who might own
quite II snug bank account by this time if he
saved the money he picks up. But, like
most of his kind, there is u shiftless streak in
him, and he does not try over hard to sell his
wares when he does not actually need money.
This seems to DO the weakness of all of these
vugabond industrials. Sufficient for the day
is the good thereof, and ample for the man
is that fortune which keeps his wants of the
hour supplied. There do not seem to be as
many women among these random mer-
chants as there once were. Even the female
book agent is not as numerous Us she used to
he. But the number of mel SO busted con-
tinues to increase with years and, to all aEr
pcarances, to grow in prosperity with time,
too.-Alfrcd Trumble in New York News.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
a Tloorwulker's Expensive MISTAKE.

"lt is very rare that mistakes are made in
arrestins women for shoplifting who are not
actually guilty of it; it is altogether too
dangerous. The most Notable case of this
kind which | remember occurred in BROOKLYN
soma years ago. The wife of u Kings county
official bought a quantity of goods in tho
store of one of the Brooklyn dry goods firms.
An over o%fllcious foorwalker thought she had
taken something that she had not paid for
and he directYl her to go to the office. She
Indignantly refused, whereupon the man
secured assistance and carried her there,
where She was searched by three female at
PENDANTS, but nothing was found on her for
which she had not n receipted memorandum.
Then she was told sEc could 90, but positively
refused and said:
"sI desire to have my husband sent for,
md lie will inquire moro particularly into
this outrage
"Shc wrote a note and directed it to her
husband in his official capacity. a member
pf the firm. who appreciated the gravity of
the mistake, begged hard that the lady would
say no more about the matter, saying that lo
would indemnify her foA the outrage which
be acknowledged had been perpetrated, but
she was obdurate und refused.
"When the husband arrived the oyerturcs
for settlement were renewed and again re-
fused. The tloorwalker, the men who assisted
HIM and the women who made the search
were arrested for assault. The matter was
given the widest publicity i'll the newspapers,
and the result of it all was that SO strong was
the feeling against tho firm because of it that
it had to retire from business. This was Il
salutary warning which dry goods mon have
not forgotten. New York Press.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
a Sanitary View of Cremation,

"hilel am not a member of the crematory
associatlen' still favor cremation as n VERY
proper manner of disposing of the dead, A.
1t IS something of an innovation in this
country, there arc in consequence only a few
ored way, but l look for many converts te
the new method. After all cremation is NOT
sucha terrible thing as some have pictured
it. 1t simply ~accomplisles in a few hours
what in the natural order would REQUIRE
years; The body is bound to become ashes.
anu .ne intense heat of the crematory re.
duces 1t III a few hours; whereas in the old
way it takes u long time before the reduction
is complete. There are many good nrc,.
nents used i'll support of cremation which in
the course of time will make it moro ponular
among the general public. Viewed from a
sanitary Standpoint there is no doubt tina,
way.-Dr. j. r. Wildwood in Globe Demo.
crat.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
The Drummer Got left.

y Scotch story is that of a diminutive
drummer in a local brass band, who was in
the habit, when out parading will his com
rades, of walking by sound and not by sight,
owing to his drum being so high that he was
unable to sec over it. Thu band, OH Satur.
day afternoons, paraded usually in one direc-
tion, but the other day the leader thought he
would change the route a little, aud turned
down a by street. The drummer, unaware
of this movement, kept on his accustomed
way, drumming rs hard as ever he could.
BY and by, after finishing his part and not
hearing tho others, lie stopped, and, pushing
his drum aside, lie looked to see what was the
matter. His establishment may be imagined
at finding that he was alone. "lIae!' he
cried to some b%ystanders, "has ony o ycsccn
a band hereaboot."-The Argonaut.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18

aud published, but Mr.. Graham believes they
did his magazine no special good. His famo
lis Il large handed publisher spread, however,
and did him great service. His friends told
him his lilerality would ruin him. On tho
contrary, it won him n fortune ina few years,
rs he confidently expected it would.
Mr.. Graham is now - years old. Forthrec
years he has been an inmateof an opi,halmic
hospital. He had cataracts removed from
both eyes. For two Years lie was totally
blind, hut hanks To good Treatment his sight
has Eecn partially restored, and lie ili> left
the hospital to begin life anew. He has
made and lost two fortunes, and now Il: the
age "f nearly four-score years lie is about to
take up his pen and try to make q new for
tune. He is not at all Gust down, although
hc hasn't Il penny to his name. The rcs.ora-
ton of his cycsisht has made him rs happy
us Il boy chasing a butterfly. This sudden
restoration to the light of day, after Il period
of nearly five years of partial and total blind
ness, is like Il new birth-it is being born
again; the happiness of early manhood is
being restored, and old agc itself is unfcit.
1t is Il renewal of youth and of hope for the
future.-Ncw York Mail and Express.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
A MAN OF OTHER DAYS.
George Rex Graham, The Founder
Graham's Nayazine.

George Rex Graham, tho Founder OF
Graham's Magazine.
Forty years ago no man was better known
i'll literary circles than George Rex Graham.
His name was a household word. He was
the protector and owner of Graham's Maya
zine. Although Il writer Of grace and force,
Mr.. Graham never made amy p%retence to be.
strictly speaking, a literary man, but he was
n generous employer, and in many instances
was also tho discovcrer of our best known
and greatest writer's. He was the first Amer
lean publisher to pay respectable prices for
literary wares. Bayard Taylor, whose earli-
est poems he published, was amazed when
Graham rendered him IL S35 check for two
poorly priced poetic illusions. For his
Spanish Student Longfellow received $50
from Mr.. Graham, and for 1.-THE Village
Blacksmith" $50. Fcnimore Cooper once
called IN him in answer to a note. Graham
wanted him to write ten naval stories.
81 can't write for you,' said Cooper, rather
~contemptuously, adding, 'you can't pay me
enough"
"How much do you want for each story1'
asked Graham.
"onc hundred dollars-in ADVANCE was
Cooper's reply, pausing before uttering the
two last words, as if lie thought they would
end the matter. Without IL moments hesita-
ton Graham wrote out and handed Cooper o
check for $1,000. Tie stories were written
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
Four Hours q Week.

Four hours q week devoted to any study
by any young man will make him a thorough
scholar in his speciality long before he is old.
Real study for four hours u week will have
the most astonishing results. In five years
the student will have learned so much that
he will he inclined, i'll his establishment at
himself, tothink he Knows all there is to lie
known; i'll ten years he will know what lie
does not know of what is yet to be learned;
in fifteen years he will be at the front anon:
those who know all that is known.-St. Louis
Republican.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
Not Ready Cor 1t.

In a lecture recently delivered in London
it was stated that type writing was part of
the regular course in some American public
schools. Not yeti Many boys and girls have
learned just enough shorthand in the even
ing schools to spell "knife" and eight with
three letters when using long hand, but i'll
Producing the type writer to ruin their
chirography is one of the improvements"
yet to come. The type writer is undoubt-
edly of very great assistance to some bust
ness men, but a wise teacher would no more
give it to q pupil with an uniformed hand
writing than q seamstress would give a sew
ing machine to a child who could not stitch
well. Those who are at once habituated to
laziness never become laborious .-Boston
Transcript.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18

When Mr.. Lincoln made his visit to Gen.
Grants camp at City Point, Va, in 1864, lie
was met by the general and his staff, and,
upon being asked how he was, said: II am
not feeling we'll. l got pretty badly shaken
up on the bay coming down, and am not al
together over it yet" "Let me send for Il
bottle of champagne for you, Mr.. Prcsident,'
said one of the staff officers; "that is the
best remedy l knaw of for seasickncs:."
"No, no, my young %frielri,' said Mr., Lin
coin; "Ive seen Amy Il mar in my time sea
sick ashore from drinking that very article. !:
Chicago Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18

In Japan the marriage ceremony is per
formed in a tent pitched OF the summit of a
hill. The BRIDES party proceeds
to the appointed place by one route, and the
groom's party by another. In the tent they
are confronted by the god of marriage, a
figure with II dogs head. With the aid of o
priest and lighted hambeaus the knot is tied
amid the loud cries of all present. Mean
while, at the foot of the hill others have kill
died a bonfire. After the ceremony in tho
tent the bride dcscends the hill and commits
to the flames all tho toys of her childhood,
aud receives in her hand a distaff and roll Of
cotton.-Thomas Stevens in New York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
Advice to the overworkcd.

Nervous people worry most, but they also
work most. Well, the question one is in
clined to ask himself when he feels something
wrong with his health is: cam l over
working MYSELF" 1 would answer thus: "If
you really enjoy working, it cannot injure
you very much; but, on the other hand, if it
is force work, and you find little pleasure in
it, then it will tell on your constitution
But many people canrot afford rest. Well,
but wonders can he done by taking exercise;
by breathing only fresh air night and day,
indoors and out; and by careful regulation
of the diet. In conclusion, let me cntreat of
you, as you value your happiness, not to
neglect first departures from health. The
story of the reservoir has really II moral for
every one of us.--Cassclls Family Magazine.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18

To THE EDlron-please inform your readers
thutI have n positive remedy for the above
named disease. i y Its timely use thousands OF
hopeless cases have hccn permanently cured. l
shall be glad to send two bottles OF my remedy
FREE TO any Of your readers who have consump,
ton if they will send me their cypress and
post office address. Respectfully; Il. A. SLo-
tUM, NJ. c. 1871 Pearl ST., New York.
nec "a. Am
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
They Couldn't Compete.

In u western state a party of young men
assembled to 'shivaree" a newly married
couple. When they commenced with their
horns, tin pans, horse tiddles and other must
cal instruments the bride seated herself at
the piano and commenced one of Wagncr's
operas, effcctually drowning the noise made
by the serenaders, who left in disgust-De
troit Free Press.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18
A Lovely Girl.

1t is possible for a lovely girl to be pos
sessed of geographical traits. She may havc
Mobile features, an u In balmy breath and q
Mississippi mouth.
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18

Statistics appear to show that Ill England
domestic servant are growing comparat' ely
fewer
The Dickinson press., 1888-08-18

I. The Editorial Department.-This includes managing
editors, city editors, telegraph editors, exchange
editors, editorial writers, special writers, and about
thirty reporters. The DAILY News staff is
admittedly without a superior in the West, and
a. The Telegraph Room..To save time special wires arc 9e
run into The DAILY NEWS building, and the
papers own operators take the messages and hand
them Immediately to the telegraph editor. The
number of operators is 8
3. The Compositions Room.-When "copy" has passed
the hands of the proper revising editor it goes to
the type-setter. There are q good many Of him in
The DAILY News ofice-on an average 70
all the type-setting. The Linotype" machine
"sets type" by casting aline-oftype, on somewhat
the same principle as the type-founder casts a
single type. Fourteen of these machines are in use
in The DAILY News Office, and the number of
persons required in this department is 90
S. The Artists and Engravers' Department.-But the
metropolitan daily now gives its readers not only
reading matter, but also illustrations. By the aid
of good artists, zinc enhers and photography by
electric light The DAILY NEWS is now printing
the best newspaper illustrations in America. This
takes the best service of skilled workers to the
number of 7
.. The Stereotype lFoundry.-The m%atter-type and pic
tures-being now locked up" i'll the forms the
work is next transferred to the foundry. A metro
politan daily no longer prints from its type. In
order to print a large edition quickly it is neces.
sary to multiply the printing surfaces, and this is
accomplished by casting duplicate stereotyped
plates, from which, after they have been fastened
to the presses, the printing is done. Of stereo-
typers The DAILY News requires 8
2. The Press Room.-THE DAILY News uses six double
psrfecting presses, capable of printing loo, 900 COM
Pleto papers per hour. To run these there are
required men to the number Of. 26