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The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-09
CONDENSED TEL.EGRAMS.

W. c. FARMER, a commercial traveller rom St. Louis, was shot and killed at Shreveport, La, on the 5th, by Charles Parker from Georgia. Parker asl a man named Pierson had a difficulty over a card table, and Farmer received the bullet meant for Pierson.
 A CORPORATION has been formed at Chicago whose object is the purchase and removal to that city of the famous Libby prison of Richmond, Va.
 THE Grant Monument Association has issued circular addressed to artists, atchitects and sculptors, inviting corh- petitive designs for monument to be erected over Gen. Grants grave, to cost S500, ,0O0. Prizes of $500, 5000, $500, s3oo and Sa00 are offered.
 IT is reported that the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company has decided to build line from Jessup, Ga, to Jacksonville, Fla. The new line will be no miles long and will probably be completed by next fall.
 OWING to the alarming frequency of attacks of robbers upon mail trains on sparsely settled routes in the far west, and the almost constant peril in which the lives of postal employees are placed by these marauders, the postoffice depart ment has determined to arm, at the ex- pense of the government, every postal employ on these exposed routes, with weapons of the most effective kind.
 THE shutting down of so many furnaces for want of coal has caused many of the iron ore mines along the East Pennsyl- vania railroad to close down. The miners, who have large families, received but 72 to 92 cents per day, and consequently even when working, are in almost abject pow erty.
 A COMMUNICATION signed by eighty eight members of Congress, asking for the dismissal of Statlstician Dodge, was re- ceived on the 9th by the Commissioner of Agriculture. The movement is understood to have originated with the tobacco growers, who were aggrieved by the sta tistician's crop report last summer.
 IT is reported that the Ways and Means Committee will propose a reduction of the sugar duties to the extent of 20 per cent, with the understanding that such reduc- tion will decrease by about $il 100000 the revenue derived from duties on this staple.
 JlM CoRNELIrs, negro IA years old, was hanged at Minden, La, on the 4th for the murder, a year ago, of Ernest Wren, the 4-year-old son of C. r. Wren, member s the Legislature from Webster parish. A CONVENTION of Prohibitionists is called to meet at Nashville, Tenn, on the ped. The principal business of the con- yention win be the appointment of dele. gates to the National Prohibition Conyen- tion, which raeets at Indianapolis in the spring.
The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-09
plrH AND POINT.


 Getting up with tho son is a com- mon practice where there is a tecthing boy baby in tho family. -Dsir0n Fr,, Press
 Blame is always safe for nothing in the way of human thought or con cepiion ever was OF ever can be per- tect.-Julian Hrwtb orHc
 A Western travelling chiropodist recently plaeaidel ", stern Kansas town with the announcement: "see the corncuring hero comes
 Humility in man consists not in denying any gift that Is in him, but just valuation of it; rather thinking too meanly than too highly. -RaB
 Some public lecturers ou subjects relating to the higher loro charge an cxorbitaut price; bnf. when they can get it. they generally consent Co take a lower hire
 The young man N - would waste time kissing @ girls hanl wouid cat the brown paper bag and leave the hot-house grapes for some one else.- SomerUiiie Jour1la,
 A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong. which ls but saying in other words that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. Pope
 Caleb Whiteford the noted pun steT, seeing lady earnestly knotting some fringe, asked what she was do. ing. 'Knotting, sir. she replied, and asked him: Can you knotP' T can not ne answered.
 -'Havc a smoke. SimsonP' said his friend. as he passed out fragrant Havana No, thank you, I've sworn off " 'Well, put one in your pocket to smoke tomorrow. = Harttord EUeni1sg Post.
 Ut was a shrcwd maxim of Wes ley not to be positive in things of doubt and uncertainty. When l was young man." said he, Il was sure of every thing but in few years find- ing myself mistaken in thousand in- stances, I became not half so sure of most things as before. V
 Did she have arawhide when she assaulted you?" asked his Honor of a meek gentleman. who accused his wife with assault with intent to kill. No. your Honor" said the poor man. feeling of himself tenderly, 1T m the one that had the raw hide; in fact. your Honor. have it still. "-Ba6ato Courier.
 How many birthdays do you think l have had?' ono person was heard to say to another in the horse car 70. about forty-seyen, hazarded the person addressed. Only one birthday The rest have been an niversaries, was the explanation, and the car suddenly stopped. = Hartford NetDs.
The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-09
KALEIDOSCOPE MAKING.
Dcit Young Women Turn Out six Grosi
 Day in One Shop.

Deft Young Women Turn Out six Gross
 Day in One shop
 How do we make kaleilo-copcs; Come this way and will show you
 Tho speaker. Q thin-faced German, long engaged in manufacturing kaleidoscope led the way into a small store. Al work bench eNteud- ing the entire length of the shop many girls were busy
 "1he first young woman. said the manufacturers wraps the black paper about the glass reiloctors that produce the optical illusion. These strips of glass. when thus arranged and fastened together form the boly of the kaleidoscope. The next girl simply inserts the united reilectors into the pasteboard cover and then passes inc octagonaI pasioboard tube to her neighbor Mum Der three adjusts the brass ring which secures the glass discs in the end. Be- tween the discs. or plates, are placed the scraps of oolored glass the beads and various trinkets which tumble ADoNt Ns tue hhtciuH9Copo h' ''NVi'N' and when reflected by the mirrors form themselves into ever-shittiug mathe- nautical figures. The othor young women are armed with hammers lo break the colored glass info fragments We obtain tho oolored glass from the waste scraps purchased very cheaply of stained lass mauuiactories. The kaleIdoscope- retail a seventy-iive cents each We can make six gross a day of this kind, and abou. twenty gross of ihe five-cent kind Tho finest fuclory is in Providence k l Carpet designers get many of theh pattern fcp the Kaleidoscope. '-M J. tad Md EcpresH
The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-09
The Harlem River Improvements

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-Colonel Gillespie of New York, the engineer in charge of barbor improvements, was before the House cossmittee on rivers and harbors yesterday and explained the character of the proposed improvements on the Har lem river, for which an appropriation of S500,0 is asked. The Colonel thought that the proposed improvements would be of great importance to commerce,
 Arguments were heard by the Hous 0 committee on merchant marine and fish. cries, in reference to bills prohibiting the capture of menhaden within three miles of the Atlantic coast. The hearing will be continued on Monday next.
The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-09
Lnare me Knirht, of Labor

CINCINNATI, Feb. 3.--Among the tbree thousand locked -ont shoemakers in this city are eleven hundred women. At a meeting held yesterday to discuss tho matter, the whole subject was referred to the joint board of executives composed of three executive committeeman from each local assembly, making twenty four in all. This board met last night, and will report 10 fnll meeting of the employees to-day. The reason for this is that the shoemakers of this city will shortly leave the Knights of Labor District Assembly No 4s, and join National Shoemaker s' Assembly No. 2l6. They are fully de- termned to stand firm,
The Russellville Democrat., 1888-02-09
Assicned but solvent.

NEw YORK, Feb. 3,--George Reyes {, Sons & Co.,. have assigned to George A. Wells. Preferences amount to g, TIA, It is positively stated that the firm is per fecty solvent, having enough assets to pay all debts. Liabilities, $50, GOO
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-23
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YOU KISSED NE.

YOU KISSED NE.
Josephine S. Hunt.l
y,u kissed me- my head
Dropped low on your breast
With a feeling Of shelter
And infinite rest
While ahe holy emotions
Nv tongue dare not speak
Flashed up in a flame
From my heart to my cheek.
Your arms held me fast
OH YOUR arms were so boldl
Heart beat against heart
In your passionate fold.
Yonr chances seemed dra wing
Nv soul through nay eyes
As the sun dra VS. the mist
From the seas to the skies.
Your lips chung to mine
Till prayed in my bliss
They might never unclasp
From the rapturOuS kiss.
You ks ed mel my heart
And my breath and my will,
In delriouS JOY
For a moment stood still
Life had for me then
No temptations, no charms,
No visions Of happiness
Ont Of your arm.
And were this instant
An angel, pc seSsed
OF the peace and the Joy
That are given the blest,
would fling my white robes
Unrepentingly down,
would tear from my forehead
It's beautiful crown,
To nestle once more
In that haven of rest,
Your lips upon mine,
My head on your breast.
You kissed mel my soul
In bliss so divine,
Raeied like drunken man,
Foolish with Wine;
And thought 'twere delicious
To die there, if death
NOuli but come while my lips
Were yet mott with your breath;
II my heart might grow coli
While your arms clasped me round
In their passionate fold.
And these are the questions
ak day and night:
Must my lipstaSte no more
Such exquisite delight?
Would you care if your breast
Were my shelter as then,
And if you were here,
Would youli7s me again?
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-23
INDUSTRIAL SWITZERLAND.
hmnFoideries and SiIks-Decline of the
Watch Trade Cheese.

hm0Foideries and SiIks-Decline of the
Watch Trade Cheese.
Cincinnati Enquirer
switzerland more than any other Eu-
IUpVan country is working to improve
lne methods Of manufacture as we'll as
'uo {ualty OF product, and recent can
Uu@ ana national laws are helping
vi! much to that end. Schools and
o "ssoClatlOnS for the improvement and
t PlUHOIlon o. industrial enterprises have
U'sI multiplied. Much money is ex-
tt lor these purposes; the benefits
t tm' ~ are, however, really harvested
W tne purchasers or consumers of these
fa 3'uui"ctufed articles. In the manu-
e eassuFe OF embroideries and linen arti-
dn ,s, M regard to their beauty and
SSS r aIy switzerland is unquestiona-
rope 00Ni1Viy III Eu-
dn aho same ce may be said of the silk in
mna.iy The embroideries are made
A.! III the cantOns of st. Gall and
ba6pS TN1eIl, Doth by machines and bv
i a"oo handmade embroideries and
NOV" nous, once OF the highest value. are
anS giving way to the machine made
r rn% ihe competition between the two is
in6na ,J oFI4lgng prices down. The silk
gro TsiIy mas obtained a wondrous
eaI;t;o on IN the Canton Zurich and To-
Ara a; it tributary to it 81, 600 silk looms
by - Dto use OF which 5000 are driven
Swa s'eam power. Sixty-one Thousand
ribIon" re occupied in the work, The
eDny tiLuuStry at Basic is said to oc-
0o6 6y , ABOUT $500 looms, with about -
Isn "5nee 1882 the export from sw;+uou
has 80 20 the United States of Watches
SON % thnsd a steady decline. The raa,
watob 5nerelor Is not because the SHiSs
ma rTlieS are les good now tbon E fon
port'1 bn mty Stlll maintain "a good re-
ment Of V tb because of the rapid deyelon-
the TDito s5e IS same branch of industry IN
or ten ni'go States during the past EIGHT
beantT years. American watches in
pete wifi Tno quality, successfully com
not o nivn oWiSS and Jurgensen watcbas
in F Eu,y IN the United States hnt ' ais1
The ood5ope' and en- in AnStro '1ioo
factnrro"n' ahtage the Swiss watch TO-" e,r'
leasno mas over his American '' oni
adams ~ the cheapness of Iahor - Tbo
former is is thu @tlfn the latter has over the
and maeb 6Hae he, with his perfect tools
larger num nhInerys is able to produce a
period Of t ti oer OF watches during q GIVEN
for the lat yasne ina IMAM his Swiss colleagues
by hand Ia6o.h mas much of his work done
600 worth wit 1t erland exported $1,000.
of whit VI cheese to outside cornt 49,,
United "a. 5000 worth came ea ~ ths
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-02-23

This is the oldest established house In this
line of business In San Francisco, and we are
prepared to fill orders of all kinds in our line.
SPECIALITY in PACKING all kinds of FRUIT
for long distance markets.
Your. Patronage rs Solicited
545 mar10'ss.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-03
frees in the Streets.

Some portions of New York are hand
some enough to rank it with Paris among
the beautiful cities of the world; others
are almost wretched and dirty enough to
class it with ConstantinOple. 1t is a
strange tumble of splendOr and squalor,
beauty and ugliness. As rule, however,
the portions inhabited by the rich and
well to do classes will compare favorably
with the similar portions of almost any
city in the world, and some of our noble
streets cannot be matched anywhere. The
chief defects in these sections are the
lack of parks and the still more glaring
lack of trees in the streets. London is
studded all over with private squares,
which are selfshly reserved for the fami-
lies living about Them but they do form
precious breathing spots, and if the poor
children cannot go inside they can at least
play on the sidewalk underneath the few
tree branches that hang over the ratings.
These numerous parks go far to redeem
the blackness and ugliness of London
streets.
Paris has not so many parks, but trees
flourish almost everywhere in its streets,
and make them a delight to the eye.
Washington, once a shabby Maryland vii
lage, now conspicuous among capitals for
its beauty, owes large part gifts charms
to the far sighted policy that planted a
hundred thousand trees along its broad
avenues. But New York, which has
fewer parks by far than it should have, is
almost absolutely devoid of trees. The
stranger, driving up Fifth avenue, looks
with wonder down each street he passes,
seeing only long tunnels of brown stone,
and not tree, nor so much as a sprig of
anything green, to break the monotony.
A general system of tree planting would
in a few years transform this city with its
great array of handsome houses into a
city that for stateliness and beauty would
be the talk of the world.-New York Tri-
buna
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-03
Profit of Mars in Statuary.

Some years ago visited the studio Of q
famous Berlin sculptor. He was model
ing a small group representing lieuten-
ant who has just returned from recon-
nOitering expedition, bringing some inn
pOrtant intelligence to his superior officer
A casemate torn by bomb and a dozen
stacked guns formed the background. 1t
was intended to be cast in bronze as a
mantle ornament or possibly a clock.
Round about the studio were similar sub
jects, some in plaster and others in clay.
The cannon, the rife, the bugle, the
sword-in fact, all che instruments of war
were seen wherever you turned.
'Do you, artistically speaking, regard
the gun as beautiful object?" l asked
the sculptor.
NO, regard it, artistically speaking,
as hideous object" he answered.
But it represents to you something
which you think is beautiful?" persisted.
Yes, he said with cnuckle, lit rep
resents to me, in the present case, 1,50O
marks easily earned. What can be more
beautiful, unless it were $1,000 marlis?'
But, joking aside, would you regard
me as impertinent if | ask you why you
keep on modelling guns, when you think
them hideous" :
MY dear sir" he replied, with signif-
icant shrug of his shoulders, lone must
live "-Boyssen in The Chautauquan.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-03
Truck Driver and Boy.

People who know the truck driver only
from hearing his cursing of his brother
driver of the car platform do not know
the gentle depths of kindness to which he
can descend. The other day small Italian
boy staggered through Stanton street
under load of long, rough boards, spoil
from some demolished building. A truck
slowly clattered up the street behind,
and the boy got one eye on it, dropped his
boards, laid them out along the curbstone,
one end out on the street and the other
on the curb, and looked appealingly at the
big Irishman who drove the truck The
Irishman grinned and the boy smiled
brightly Then the horses were swerved,
and the left wheels of the truck went
crashing over the boards, smashing them
into easy lengths. The driver and boy
grinned at each other but neither said q
word Both were properly gratiied.-
New York Sun.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-03
Cider in Great Britain.

1t is in general use in the western coun-
ties, Devonshire Somersetshire and Here
fordshire especially. 1t is commonly
made and drank on the premises; that is
to say, there is an orchard on every farm,
large or small; and the cider is made for
the family use, including the men en-
ployed. This is what is called rough
cider, and the quality depends on the sit
uation and the section. On large farms,
or at the squire's mansion, it Is often,
when just made. put into an enormous
cask, constructed by professional
cooper within the cellar, much too large
ever to have been put into or taken out of
the cellar, and then drawn off the lees for
use; there is no better way of drinking
cider than this, case in which the liquor,
after having been made, is not moved at
all; and your real west country cider
drinker likes his cider with no nonsense
about it, sometimes giving a preference
to il when it is what he calls rash-the
word being applied to the cider, and not
to the drinker, as the ignorant might sup
pose. There are many definitions of
gentleman, of which ''to set in chimbley
cornder, drink zider and cuss" is one to
be heard of to the misunderstanding
Review
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-03

The most disagreeable phrase in fire.
quent use by Americans, so to speak, is
$50 to speak" 1t is useless, and it is ill
conditioned. 1t is used to fill up awkward
cracks, as Canadian uses his senseless
chi Ell! Ell! and an Englishman his "don
cher know" By the way, no nation on
earth uses so few provincialisms as the
American, so to speak, and the worst one
used by people with an approach to cul-
ture is, so to speak. Ii is borrowed, how
ever, so to speak, from the English.
The London Telegraph says: alfred
Nobel tanned nitro -glycerine; so to speak. ;"
Franklin tanned lightning also, so to speak
and Goldsmith-was it?-had a hand in
Tanning the Shrew," so to speak. On
the whole no one needs that you tell him
that you speak so; for he has sense to
understand it for himself. so to speak
Globe Democrat.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-03
Novel Duel i'm France.

The French critic, Albert Delpit, New
Orleans creole, and NJ. Febvre, of the
Comedie Franchise. recently decided to
settle the difference arising out of the
mutual attacks on each other by means OF
a duel Their seconds arranged the pre-
liminav conditions of the encounter,
which were that Delpit should read aloud
to his adversary a five act comedy pre-
pared by him for the Coincide Franchise,
after which Febvre was to act some OF
his principal roles. and the one who first
showed signs of WEAKNESS was to be de-
clared the vanquished party. Before Del
pit concluded the reading of his drama
Febvre, with yawn, extended his hands
in token of reconciliation and declared
himself vanquished.-New Orleans Times
Democrat.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-03
The Shirt of a Tiger.

The dread of ghosts is common to all
aboriginal races of India, from which it
has been very generally adopted by their
Aryan conquerors, and even by the lower
classes of Mohammedans. All ghosts
are believed to be mischievous, and some
of them bitterly malicious, and the only
means employed to oppose their rancor
is to build shrines for them, and to make
them offerings of fowl a pig, or, on
grand occasions, of buffalo. Any severe
illness, and more especially any epidemic
disease, such as smallpox or cholera, is
attributed to the malignancy of certain
of these spirits, who must be propitiated
accordingly.
The man tiger Is, perhaps, the most
dreaded of all these demon ghosts; for
when tiger has killed man the tiger is
considered safe from harm, as the spirit
of the man rides upon his head and guides
him clear of danger. Accordingly, it is
believed that 1.-The only sure mode of de-
stroying a tiger who has killed many peo-
pie is to begin by making offerings to the
spirits of his victims, thereby dePriving
him of their valuable services" The
Ghosts,most propitiated gre of those who
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-03

VI course, the tubs with the chips has
closely fitting cover. From this cover a
bamboo pipe leads to succession of other
tubs with bamboo connections, and the
last of these tubs is divided into two CON-
partments, one above the other. the divid-
ing floor being perforated with small
holes to allow the water and the oil to
pass to the lower compartment. The
upper compartment is supplied with
straw layer, which catches and holds the
camphor in crystal in deposit as it passes
to the cooling process. The camphor is
then separated from the straw, packed in
wooden tubs, and is ready for market.
The oil is used by the natives for illumin.
ating and medical purposes.-New York
Mail and Express.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-03

One of the first things to attract my
notice in the Canary Islands was the
healthful appearance and fine develop
ment of the common people. There is no
doubt that they are by birth a superior
race, but it is also true that they use a
food which, being highly nutritious, must
contribute to their physical development.
There is nothing mysterious about this
article whielc is known as gotiO. 1t is
simply the -four made from any of the
cereals, by parching or roasting before
grinding. One can scarcely pass through
any village of the CanarieS without wit
Messing some step in the preparation of
this food The grain is first picked over,
then roasted above a charcoal fire, and af
terward ground at the windmills which
abound everywhere. When it is to be
eaten milk, soup or any other fluid Is
mixed with it, without further cooking
Nothing can be more handy" than such
an article of food.
The Canarian laborer, if he goes forth
to his work alone, takes with him some
gofio in bag made of the stomach of a
kid; if there are several persons, the skin
of kid is used When meal time has
arrived, little water is poured into the
bag with the gofiO, the mixture is well
shaken and the meal is prepared without
further ado. The Canarian archipelago
consists of seven inhabited islands, with
a population of 2S0, 900 persons. At least
200, 600 of them live economically on goio,
as their fathers did before them, from
time immemorial The food is said to be
not only delicious and wholesome for
those who are not accustomed to it, but
to possess also a tendency to counteract
certain digestive ills to which the civilized
stomach is heir, thus restoring man, in a
measure, to the physical condition of the
happy savage.-Cor. Popular Science
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