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Western appeal., 1888-02-11
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Scientists say that the potato rot
comes once in ten years every de-
cayed, as it were. = It'd Bits.
ton Of diamonds is worth $780,
100000. Don't let the dealers come
the 1900 pound dodge on you. Puck.
Too cold for ice cream and no
sleighing. The young man who can't
save money now never can.-Albusy
3ourzal.
One Robert Hickman has lately
patented y calf weaner Perhaps he
can invent a device to wean a dude
from nursing his cane.
There is nothing under the face of
the sky that can be quite so stuck up as
a sheet of stamps, when it tries to-
Detroit Free Press.
1T is all well enough to say that
thirteen is an unlucky number But this
country started in business with thir-
teen States, and seems to be holding
her own.
Some of the men who are anxious
tor revolution as to theater hats
might do good work toward a reform
in theater breaths. Merchant Traveller.
Papa asked little Bobby Nc
Swilligen. ''what is railroad pool?''
F" railroad pool, Johnny?" replied Nc
Swilligen, sis where they water the
stock
What this country needs is a So
ciety to protect the innocent seals from
slaughter At least that is what the
average impecunious husband thinks.
-,Somerville Journal.
"A match vender entered butcher
shop, when the following brief dialogue
was heard: Vender-.Hello, Chops!
How's your liver to-day?' Chops
"Ihree cents a pound. How's your
lights ?"-LoweN Citizen.
"A new cab company just started in
New York, bases its claim for patron
age on patent hanson with top that
lowers to suit the occupant. A cab
with price that lowers to suit the oc-
cupant would fill a long-felt want.
=" What is your speciality. my
friend?" inquired the visitor of a
dime-museup freak. phenomenal
intelligence" !" I'm what direction does
it lie?" '.I'ln the man who ALWAYS
shuts the door, ''--Harper's Bazaar.
People who have studied into the
origin of phrases all agree that the say
ing, II acknowledge the corn" was
invented by man. A woman never
acknowledges a corn no matter in what
condition husband may find his pet
razor.-Somerville Journal.
An article in newspaper the other
day was called "a Novel Railroad"
We have travelled on it. 1t is the rail-
road on which a train-boy drops forty
seven soiled novels of the Suicide Ii
brary series on the passengers lap be-
fore he travels ten miles.-D7ake's Xao-
dziase. -
Tramp" Could you furnish me
lodgings Of some kind tonight" "Why
don't you work and earn money to pay
your way?' II did work until month
ago" ''What business were you IMP"
u was pastor of one of the wealtlliest
congregations in Connecticut lis
that SOP Then what reduced YOU to
this conditionp'' "Seven donation par
Ties IN six months. 49, Omaha World.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
A Business-Iike Offer.

For many years the manufa cturers Of DR..
Sages Catarrh Remedy have offered, in
good faith $500 reward for a case of Nasal
Catarrh which they cannot cure. The Rem
edy is sold by druggists at only so cents
This wonderful remedy has fairly attained
aworld- wide reputation. If you have dali,
heavy headache, obstruction Of the nasal
passages, discharges falling from the head
into the throat, som etimes profuse, watery,
and acrid, at Others thick, tenacious, mu-
cous, purulentt, bloody and putrid; if the
eyes are weak .watery, and inflamed; if
there is ringing in the ears, deafness, hack
ing or coughing to clear the throat, expec~
toration OF offensive matter, together with
scabs from ulcers; the voice being changed
and has nasal twang; the breath offens We;
smell and taste impaired; sensation of diz.,
ziness, with mental depression, a hacking;
cough and general debi ity, you are suffer-
ing from nasal catarrh. The more COM
plicated your disease, the greater the mum
ber and diversity of symptoms. Thousands
OF cases annually, without manifesting half
OF the above SYMPTOMS, result in consump-
ton, and end in the grave. No disease is
SO common, more deceptive and dangerous,
or less understood, or more unsuccessfullY
treated by physicians.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

CAPTAIN GEORGE B. LEAv1Tr, of
Deering, Me-. who has passed two win
ters at Point Barrow, in the Arctic
Ocean, thus describes the climate there.
In the summer months. which are
July and August only, butterflies and
bumblebees are common here. These
are not the only insects to be found at
this point; flies are plentiful, and mos
qu1toes are SO numerous and large
that they drive herds of deer into the
water for shelter from their torment.
This may seem little drawn for an
Arctic story, nevertheless it is strictly
true.'
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
LATER.

THE trial Of NJ. r. Billings, charged with
the murder Of County Attorney Kingsley,
at Waverly, Iowa, Is in progress at Du-
buque.
MORE than 5000 tickets were sold for the
Knights Of Pythias ball at Chicago, on the
Sth. It was the largest ball ever given In
the west.
SENATOR c. Z. Davis has resigred as
member Of the Republican National com.
mittee for Minnesota. The Sta,e commit
tee will choose his successor on the 18th.
WEATHER Prophet Kellogg, of st. Paul,
predicts mild March, the gradual disap-
pearance of the snow without high water,
and an early spring. The worst storms of
the month will occur on the 3rd and 4th and
9th to 3lst.
TIE Brainerd, Mimi, Board Of Trade has
reorganized.
GEO. WELLS, of Rochester, Mimi, was
Killed at Rhinelander, Wis, whils working
in t % woods.
Up to date s3o4,o0o. have been paid for
saloon licenses at st. Paul, MINI.
AT the Re wood, Canndn, boundary line,
U. s. Gust oms officers captured 50 COO
worth of opium which was being smuggl d
nto New York state.
AT Nav York Mills, Mimi, A. s. Blowers,
assigned on the sth, liabilities $4,000 assets
$4,000.
SALTWATER celebrated its new Union
railway depot with a ball.
AT Jamestown, Dak., Fred Newhauser
committed suicide on tho Sth, taking IS
grains Of arsen c. Financial trouble was
the cause.
AN cmployein st. Cloud, Mimi, planning
had hand cut OFF by the rlucb:nery, on
Wednesday.
TIE House, at Washington, will not pass
the Blair education bill.
The kitchen OF tho house Of G. N. Parek,
at Brainerd, Mimi, was demolished by the
explosion Of the cook stove froma a stick Of
wood nalic.ously loaded with dynamite.
TnE trial Of James Funk for the murder
Of his wife last December is In progress at
Wilrnar, MINI.
The death OF Ira DaGraff Of Winona,
Mimi, took place at the Merchants Hotel,
st. Paul, on the Sth, after an Illness of q
few hours. His age was 90 years.
TaE stones in corn mill at Broadiands,
ILL.,, bust fro'-l overhoating, on tho Sth, de-
molishing the mill, killing two men and
seriously injuring two others.
AT Center City, on the sth, Erick Erick-
son was sentenced to the penitentiary for
life, for tho murder OF his wife Dec. so.
1887, at Nesseltown MINI.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
JOSIE HOLMES.

She Refuses to Enter u Plea of Guilty to
the Charges Against Her.
CINCINNATI Feb. S-Monday it was
agreed between Miss Josie Holmes con-
nected with the Fidelity Bank illegalittes,
and the district attorney, all the au-
thorittes concerned having consented, that
Miss Holmes. who is still in jail,
should appear in the United States Court,
plead guilty and receive sentence which
the court would afterwards suspend, she
in the meanwhile to be liberated from
prison When the time came yesterday for
this proceeding Miss Holmes, through her
attorney, informed the district attorney
that for the present she had changed her
mind and that she would not enter a plea
of guilty.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
THE WORD TuMBLER.>
how 1T Came to be Applied to Our &c
mon Drinking Utensils.

HOW It Came to be Applied to Our Com.
NV. mon Drinking Utensils.
|, for one, never thought why the
large glass that holds ourmilk or water
was called tumbler until, once upon
time, happened to have luncheon
at All-Souls' College, Oxford. ALL
Souls is a curious college. 1t has no
students or 'under- graduates" as we
call them in England. 1t consists of a
master and number of "fellows''-
men who have taken their degrees and
have distinguished themselves as schol-
ars. There is a quaint old rule in
Latin THAT saysa man, to be fellow of
All-Souls'. mnst be '.well born, we'll
dressed. and moderately good doctor
in singing" There is no question
nowadays of singing! But of good
breeding and good scholarship there is.
And to be elected fellow of All-Souls'
is a great honor.
One of the most distinguished fel.
lows is Prof Max Muller, the great
philologist, who, though he is a Ger
man by birth and was not educated at
Oxford, was elected to All-soul's as q
mark OF respect for his immense learn
ing. The ''common-room," or the fell
lows smaller dining-room, is a delight
ful place, with its great fireplace and
its walls all wainscoated with black
oak. while through the great window,
with its heavy stone mullions, you look
out on to ancient ivy-grown buildings
round quiet court which is filled with
space of velvet turf. On the day of
which speak, Prof, Max Muller was
giving luncheon in this splendid room
to the charming and talented Princess
Alice, the wife of the Grand Duke of
Hesse Darnstadt, AND second daughter
OF Queen Victoria. There were not a
dozen guests besides the Princess and
her husband, and veay agreeable lun-
cheon we had, with pleasant talk on all
kinds OF interesting subjects.
But what excited the curiosity of all
the strangers present was set of the
most attractive little round bowls of
ancient silver, about the size Of large
orange. They were brought round,
according to the custom of the place,
filled to the brim with the famous ale
brewed in the college. These, we were
told, were tumblers. and we were
speedily shown how they came by their
names-a fitting lesson for the guests
of a philologist! When one of these
little bowls was empty it was placed
upon the table mouth downward. In
stantly, so perfect was its balance, it
few back into its proper position, as if
asking to be filed again. No matter
how it was treated, trundled along the
floor, balanced carefully on its side,
dropped suddenly upon the soft, thick
carpet, up it rolled again and settled
itself with a few gentle shakings and
swaying into its place, like one of those
India rubber tumbling dolls your baby
brothers and sisters delight in. This,
then was the origin of our word tum-
bier, at first made OF silver, rs are these
All-Souls tumblers. Then, when glass
became common, the round glasses
that stood on . fiat base superseded the
.exquisitely balanced silver spheres and
stole their names SO successfully that
you have to go to All-Souls' and few
other old houses to see the real thing.
- WJde-A A10ake
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
MAxWELL'S FATHER.
Ho Arrives from 1Sns:und and Begins His
Efforts to Save His Sons Neck.

Ho Arrives from England and Begins His
Efforts to Save His Sons Neck.
New YORK, Feb. 8-Among the passen-
gers on the steamship Aurania Monday was
Mr. N. S. Brooks, the father Of the prisoner
Brooks, alias Maxwell, who is under
sentence Of death at 81 Louis for tho MUIR
der Of Mr. Preller. He was met at the pier by
n lawyer, and from the conversation be-
tween him and Mr. Brooks it was evident
that another attempt would be made to
save Mpxwell from the halter This effort
will probably take the shape of an appeal to
the Governor OF Missouri for pardon or
commutation Of sentence. He is under
stood :s being disposed to blame the Su-
preme Court for what he regarded as aone
of the most unfair and unjust judgments
ever passed in civilized country" One
source Of regret In the mind of the father
is that his son did not tell the whole truth
of the matter Immediately after the death
Of Preller
WAsHNGToE, Feb. S.-The father of Hugh
NJ. Brooks alias Maxwell, is in this city and
will make application to the Supreme
Court for rehearing Of his sons case
which will prevent the issuance Of the
courts mandate for this term
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

WHEN the first vessel completed the
passage of the then new Erie canal, in
1926, there being no such thing as a
telegraph, the news was communicated
to New York and to Butfalo by cannon
placed within hearing Of each other
from Albany toeach of the other cities.
The signal was passed along in this
way from Albany to New York and
back again to Albany in fifty-eight
minutes. This is quicker than mes
sage can be sent over the same route
and answered now. considering the
time usually consumed in the delivery
at each end.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

1T is Injurious to rub the eyes while
intiamed by the cutting winter winds
and the dust raised thereby, and equal
ly SO to bathe them and go out i'm
mediately again in the air, as then
there is danger Of catching a cold. A
prominent optician declares that most
of the eye troubles at this season are
caused by imprudence in rubbing and
bathing. He also says that in rubbing
the eyes the tear-line from the outside
to the nose should be followed. though
the majority pass the fingers from the
inside out which, he asserts, affects
tie sight.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
The law would be a bird of paradise were
it not for its dreadful bli--Douslas Jerrold,

FALLS VIEW was unknown until created
by the Michigan Central Railroad, which
stops its trains at this point to enable its
passengers to enjoy the grandest and most
comprehensive view of the falls that is to
be anywhere obtained. Before that time
people came in carriages from the Ameri.
can side to "1nspiration Point,'' the view
from which Howells said was 'suneuualled
for su blimity," but Falls View, being mora
elevated, the scene from it is much finer
No other road runs to or near this point and
through passengers by the Michigan Cen
great advantage without detention or addi-
uonal expense.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

JAIL officials of Dayton. Tenn, hit
upon novel way of furnishing runa-
way prisoners. Silas Blanchard and
his wife, Alice, convicted Of burglary,
escaped. but were recaptured at Stew
enson, seventy-fve miles away. AS q
hint to behave better in future they
were made to walk back the entire dis
fonna
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
Plantation Philosophy.

knows some pussons dat / likes ter
talk ter, not becaze / think 50 much O.
'em, but becaze wen I verses wild EN-
/ allus thinks mo- o. merse'f.
Eatur', it pear like, takes er sort o.
pleasure in fingin' cold water on Gle
bright promises dat she l,ab made. De
blacklist ha'r is nearly allus dc sooncs'
ter turn gray.
Dar is many things wus den de lie
dat is used fur ter kiver up er bad
truth; not dat kline dat hides er crime,
but de kline dat makes us b'lebe dat
suthin good has been said erbout us.
when de fack is dat suthin' bad has
been said. ArkGnsGsD Traveller.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

EIGHTEEN State prisoners in Russia,
under sentence of death for having be-
longed to q secret society with bombs
and printing-press in it's possession,
had their sentences commuted to vary
ing terms of Punishment and imprison-
ment Among them were a nobleman,
Il Cossack Captain and four women.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

FRANCIS MURPHY, it is said, intends
to enter the ministry if the conference
OF the Methodist church will accept
him He already has license as a
local preacher, which was granted him
by the Erie (Pa.) conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church before he
went to Europe.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

LATEST advices from China estimate
tho total loss of human life by the
great flood that submerged one OF its
chief and most populous provinces in
December last at seven million. 1t
was the most disastrous overflow
known in the history of the world
since the great Deluee of the Bible,
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
FROM WASHINGTON,

THERE were $50 business failures In the
United States during the seven days ended
on the Sd, against 268 the previous seven
days
PRESIDENT Cleveland on the Sd approved
and promulgated a revision Of the civil
service rules, which makes an off1ce-holder
who levies political assessments or attempts
to coerce the opinions OF their subordi-
mates liable to discharge. Several other i'm
portant changes in the rules are also made.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 4th aggregated
1886, 81 ABS. against 1851, ,571 ,933 the
previous week AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1887 the decrease
amounted g. per cent
HE Government decided on the 4th to
arm all OF the postal employees in charge OF
mail matter on exposed Western routes,
the object being to put a stop to mail rob-
beriea
In the United States the fire losses during
January last were $13, 800, sS5, against
$7, 912, $50 in January, 1887. In the first
two days of this month nearly $4,000, 900
worth Of property was destroyed
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
his. Royce,s Sad Condition

PLAINvIEw, Nsb., Feb. S.-Miss Louie NJ
Royce. the schoo!-teacher who laid on the
prairie all night during the recent blizzard,
with three Of her pupils, all OF whom died
In her arms, had both feet amputated here
yesterday Her left arm is badly deformed
by large pieces Of flesh dropping of, but
physicians say 1t will probably not be nec-
essary to amputate II.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
COMPETING WITH STANDARD OIL

A New Syndicate to Pipe Oh, to Toledo
and Erect Ref1nerles.
TOLEDO. O., Feb. 6-The Blade publishes
statement that syndicate of New York,
Toledo, Chicago and Detroit capitalists,
representing $25,OOO,OOO, held
meeting Monday night and organ
lied to build pipe line from the North
western Ohio oil fields in Toledo, and to
erect efneries, SO as to compete with the
Standard Oil Company. They claim to own
patents on new procs IS OF refining, and
can place the produce on the market at
cheaper rate. The capital stock OF tae new
company is $40. 00O 600 The only name
that has yet Teen publicly connected with
the enterprise is George F. Clark, Of Chi
cago
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

DAVID DAY, the hermit of Green
Pond Mountain, was lately found dead
IN his cabin near Middletown, N. Y.
He was seventy years old. and for
thirty-five years had lived alone in a
miserable old Eovel. It was case of
disappointed love.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

Mrs. MARIA BARTON will not write
any more books except for pleasure.
Her claim to Mexican property worth
$5, 900. 900 has just been decided in her
favor after eighteen years of hard
fighting.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

G. M. LOOMS, of New Haven, Conn.,,
recently asserted that in the last
twenty-five years he had sold more
than thirteen thousand pianos. He
has since appealed to the authorities
for protection.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

The Electric Club rooms in New
York City were formally opened to
members and guests the other night.
A number of electric contrivances were
IN motion. Doors were opened, safes
unlocked, steaks and chops cooked
and clocks were moved, all by cleo
tricity '.. '..... ..as
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

CROWDS of people recently crossed
the Hudson river on the ice from
Yonkers to the New Jersey shore. The
feat had not been performed before
since the winter of 1879.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

RUNAWAY marriages are not popu-
lar in Russia. A young girl has been
sent to prison for four months, and
will lose her share in the family prop
crty because she married without the
Duternal consent.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
WEST AND SOIITH,

NEAR Long View, Ga, Hubbard Harrel a
colored boy ten years old. was made drunk
by party of men on the Sd, and going to
the home OF his brother-in-law, James
Pope, killed three children
DURING January the product of the Michi-
gan copper mines was 8, 152 tons
On the Sd Governor Oglesby was at the
State prison in Joliet, and accorded an in
terview to Fielden and Schwab, the Chi
cago Anarchists, who expressed their grati-
tude to him for saving them from the gal
lows
A coLoRED farmer named Amos Grant
living near Macon, Ga, murdered his wife.
his boy and his wife's sister on the Sd and
then killed himself Family troubles caused
the crime
ERNST BRocKoB, a thirteen -year-old Chi
cago boy, died in great agony on the Sd OF
hydrophobia He was bitten by a dog q
month ago
BOILER explosion on the 4th In saw
mill near Belmont, O.. killed five men and
fatally injured two more
DURING the absence on the 4th Of Lester
Singletary and his wife from their home
near Columbia, 8. G., their house was de-
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

A Low estimate puts the number of
persons supported by all the forms of
employment furnished by electricity at
five million.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

A FIDDLE one hundred years old has
been presented to Governor Taylor, Of
Tennessee, who fiddled himself into
Office In contest with his Republican
brnthar ...........
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
Tho Dakota Blizzard.

SIOUX FALLS, D. T., Feb. Sit is the pur-
pose of the Territorial Superintendent Of
Public Instruction to compile list Of
every person who persisted in Dakota dur
ing the fatal snow-storm of the 10Th of
January last, for general distribution. The
work Of gathering the statistics is being
performed by county superintendent OF
schools This county furnishes seven
The object OF the publication is to contra
dict the exaggerated reports circulated
throughout the States
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

1HE Washington Critic drops into
leap-year poetry as follows:
We do not hesitate to stS
That 1888
Is something very choice and gra
For ladies who desire to ms,
And when they meet their proper fs,
You bet we don't exaggera8
When boldly we asseverS
That not woman will be IS
In gobbling up the tempting bS.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
Father and Son Killed.

DARvnIR, Ill, Feb. sBy the bursting
OF burrs in new corn mill at Broadlands,
u Tuesday John G. Hays, well-known
farmer, and his son Andrew were killed
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

A New YORK correspondent asserts
that there are fifty widows in that city
with fortunes ranging from $l,000,-
600 to $15. 1000, O00
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

IT is estimated that the Chinese mer-
chants of New York pay the United
States Government over 81, 500. 900 per
year for duties on imported goods.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

PROF T. STONE WIeeINs says that
the next earthquake period in this
country will begin August 19, 1904
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

For thirty y-two years Mrs. Catherine
Murdock has kept the light in the
Rondout (N. - lighthouse burning
brightly.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11

A mans character is Ii e fenee-it can
not be strengthened by whitewas but he
can strengthen his voice by using DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup.
Western appeal., 1888-02-11
A6.No other Line can show such Record~sn
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