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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1888-10-04
A Math emat;cal Puzzle.

The Journal has the following, IN
ravcl it.
Two women had dirty chickens zach
which they took to market Tho,
agreed to divide equally tAq proceeds d
their sale
One sold her chickens two for {. liar
getting for her chickens $l5.
The other sold hers ihree fer 4 /, l,sr
getting for her thirty chickens $40.
This made S25 realized fer lie SIKH
chickens.
The merchant called on to di,.ae Ii,
money said
"You sold Your thirty chickens tive
for dollar, and you SOLD your tLr,,
chickens three for dollar. That make
sixty chickens at the rate Of five ftr s.
Well, five into sixty gees twelve tines
twice twelve is ,w,nty.four. Tbat
makes s24 your chickens have broulLi
But as shown above the, the women
actually hae s25 in their pockets Aud
yet the mer, hanl's figures were li.h,
Do figures lie?
Now sharpen yonr pencil and eet
down to business. It's a nice problem
and can be solved, but Of course. enc
nust know how 20 do it.
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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1888-10-04
HARD TIMES

While money is close, wages and prices
row. expenses should be cut down in every
nousehoid. Economy the watch word tor
Mosners. bead oil Doctor bills, by always
keep,hg IN the house, a bottle of Dr. Bos.
ankos Cough and Lang Syrup. Stops a
Cough instantly, relives Consumption, cures
H'oup and PAIN In the Chest in one night
~ ~ Just the remedy for hard times Price
~ ~ CTS am 100. Samples free. Sold by
Dr. j. Q. Monkey.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1888-10-04
The irst Sign

VI failing health whether in the fora Of
Night Sweats and Nervousness, or in q
sense of General WEAKNESS and Loss Of
Appetite, should suggest the use Of
Ayers Sarsaparilla, This preparation
is most effective for giving tone and
strength to the enfeebled system, pro-
noting the digestion and assimilation OF
food, restoring the nervous forces to
their normal condition, and for purify
ing, enriching, and vitaIizing the blood.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1888-10-04

hAchM EfAcE,h . lasting aud fragrant
perfume, Frice 3 ana 70 ccnts
tsAMAN &C.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1888-10-04

It is said that, a. soon as. men can s<be
obtained moro plentiful thaa now,s con-
tracts will be let fer the grading of the
s. & P, extension from Brautam station
on to the Clearwater aud Camas Prairie
country H'a5hiHqtoR J0urnal.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1888-10-04
Cedar Shingles

The undersigned are now mapufactur;,c a.,
Extra Quality of Cedar Shingles nj their nil,
ana are prepared to supply the public with tha
same at the following prices:
First Ciass, per thou sand 81 N
'.......,...,...... = Oh
, Inc mill is located in the upper part of
Lewiston. Shingles for sale at the mill.
Z3-u WYNKO0P & MARTIN
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1888-10-04
ESMON , HOUSE.
Oniontown, w. T.
A. fERScH WELLER, Proprietor
Soard by Day, Week or Month.

rms house Is the best in the town. and hoard
VITA lodging will be furnished very reasonable.
=, livery and feed stable is in connection with
this hotel. Nm "''n
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30

Marshall, Tex, Aug. 2e.-The
cannon ball train due here from the
south at S:s5 a. m. left Hallville, the
first station west of Marshall, all right
this morning, but when passing
through cut few miles of Hallville
struck a COW, the pilot tossing the
animal up on one ofthe sides of the
cur. The cow rolled down under the
wheels of the mail car, the rear trucks
Of which jumped the track. The ex.
press car was completely derailed and
turned over The locomotive pulled
the mail car into Marshall and the
wrecker was sent to the scene Of the
accident.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30
Russian Priests and Monks,

Although the people are forever in
need OF the services of the priest, they
pay him but poorly. For the highest
ceremonies he receives one or two roubles.
and for the smallest and most frequent
few kopecks. The priest and the monk
being both poor. it is no uncommon
sight to see them bargaining for mar
riage or burial. and disputing the price
as they dispute only in Russia. From
that all sorts of anecdotes have sprung,
On one occasion it was priest, who, to
BIO revenged on a father for his avarice.
gave the child Il ridiculous name at bap.
tism.
I'm another, peasant asked his min
lister for permission to get married in an
other parish. Every good" said the
priest, "but have you calculated what
your doing so will cost me9 Now, in
the first place would have married YOU.
Well. that is so many roubles. Then,
you will have children, say seven; that
would be seven baptisms. Next, several
OF those children would die, say three;
that would Ike three burials in my pocket.
After that you would have sons or
daughters to marry. say four; that would
be four marriages should lose." "Yes,
that's very well counted up" replied the
moujik; "but you are already an old
man, and you might be dead long before
all that could happen" "That's true"
returned the priest; 1--WE are all mortal.
and for that reason forbid you to leave
the parish, and shall only ask you ten
roubles for you' marriage. STANLEY
McKenna in The Cosmopolitan.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30

Stump Ashby addressed the people
of West Station on Tuesday last.
He is one of the leaders of the Union
Labor party, and is a good speaker
and very original in many of his en-
pressions. He denounced the DEM
ocratic party, President Cleveland
and the Mills bill. He said Cleve-
land was as absolute n dictator as
Julius Cesar, and that we ignorant
fools skulked about under his legs to
find ourselves dishonorable graves.
But he hoped the people would soon
have enough sense to cease their
worship of man who could pull his
shirt off without unbuttoning his
collar. He denounced the Mills tariff
bill as scheme of the monoplist, and
that it would rob Texas of one or
more Of its most prosperous indus
tries. He exhorted his hearers to
drop their allegiance to both the old
corrupt parties and join the one
whose cause he was espousing.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30
A First Glass Drug Store.

When our readers have occasion to
buy medicine, which0we hope they
may seldom have, Or drugs, or chem
icals, perfumery or toilet articles or
any other thing kept in first class
drug store, we would warmly recon-
mend them to go to Peeler's, Austin
street, second door from Fifth, next
to Waco State Bank. Mr.. Peeler is
one of the incest gentleman in the city,
and born and raised a druggist. He has
big stock Of the purest drugs and
medicine, sells very reasonable and
the very best pharmeceutists behind
the desk to compound prescriptions.
Peeler's proprietary remedies are sta
pie goods all over the state. See his
locals, giving list of the pure medi-
cines he compounds, and call and see
him when needing anything in his
line.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30
How to Learn a Language.

Ting 'Noiapuk craze seems to have run
Its course and died. and everybody has
made up his mind that we have not vet
eos Vac world language. If people only
knew how easy it is to learn French or
German or Italian there would be less of
these foolish attempts to force an un.
Known tongue upon the world. To get
along as we'll us there is any necessity in
foreign country you do not need more
than 1000 or 1900 words. Think
lfcw easy It Is to get these words in
your memory. That means less than
The number Of words in an average
newspaper column, and It is really the
TACT that you can get enough of French,
say, to get along with as easily as your
can memorize a column in the daily
newspaper. 1t is so with German and
with Italian. You get the grammatical
construction and then all you have to do
Is to make yourself a vocabulary.
The trouble is that people imaoine
ta1ning strange tongue is SO hard that
'isey Will not attempt 1t in common
sense way, but they shrink from the diff
ficulties which only exist in their own
in'asfnatpns. Cardinal Mezsofauti
corfd take grammar AMI a dictionary
ora strange language and hear a eonfes-
sion from It in three days. hold that
the average man can do partly as well
as that, anyhow, if he applies himself in
the right way. There Is no reason why
every educated man should not lie eouin-
ped with at least three modern Ian.
gEtFs, and six months of his spare time
of the hours wasted on novels and
trities0would do the work.-C. II. De
Ligne In Chicago News.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30
The Cockro,.cl, OF Ipsiin.

II should like to make your flesh
creep" is the involuntary thought of one
who essays to describe the Indian cock
roach. Who that has been in India does
not know the fiat. shining. ill savored,
coffee colored thing seen only in dimly
lighted places. the eyes starting out Of
the head, the long, ever moving feelers,
the swift, uncertain movements, the sud-
den. uncontrolled fight when he dashes,
perhaps, into your face, and for brief
and horrible moment his clammy legs
cling to your skim What life he must
lead! Ever in cowardly terror OF his
life. his perpetual instinct is to hide
himself. From some dark corner he
glars at you with guilty eye. AS he
darts from place to place he knows you
will kill him il you can. and he knows he
deserves to be killed. Even in the houses
OF the highest in the land the oockroach
is not unknown. Boots, gloves and
books bear witness to his ravages, and
pungent smell betrays his presence in
your wardrobe.
But the paradise of the cockroach is a
ship. 1t is in the depths of the ships
hold, where he may hide among the
cargo undisturbed and feed on all rank
things, that he is in his glory. Happily
he seems unable to live except in trop-
ical heat, SO that in the great passenger
steamers constantly returning to Europe
he is seldom seen. The home of his
heart is the hold of the ship whose course
Is limited to the tropical seas. There,
among bales of rice and kegs of oil,
where darkness reigns and the air is hot
and foul and where human foot rarely
intrudes, he roams at will from post to
post. Thence the more venturesome
spirits ascend to the upper decks and
haunt saloons and cabins, and especially
pantries and storerooms, where corners
and crevices shelter them and there are
endless chances of 'loot." Hence comes
the chief ingredient of that sickly atmos-
phere which strikes the sense on descend
ing from the outer air and often makes a
voyage in such vessel penance in
deed.-Blackwood's Magazine.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30
Gen. Gresham Tells u Story.


Zone day." said the general, in a
recent interview with Eli Perkins, 81
mee an old soldier who had been
wounded in his face and when l asked
him in what battle he had been iniur.
ed, he said:
II got it the first day at Shiloh, sir.
"But how could you get hit in the
face at ShllohF l asked.
well, sir, said he, half APOLOGIZE.
cally, after l had run mile or two |
got careless and looked back
This story reminds me of how one
Of Ellsworth's fire zouaves killed his
first confederate. He said that he
marched out to the battle of Bull Run,
and when about half WY there he met
a Johnny reb in ambusS.
''What did you do then? l asked.
sWell, SIR" he answered, II drew
out nv revolver and he drew out his
bowie knife, and then l took the lead
from the start and kept in clear into
Washington city and"
"But how did you kill the mani"
run him to DEATH" was the re-.
ply.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30
A Fine OEer.

Do you want hay. corn, bran, wood,
chickens. eggs, butter, a COW and calf,
or have you anything to sell or barter,
see Geo. b. Lambdin. I do bushes
ut present under my hat, and can be
found on the street after nine o'clock
until four. GEO. B. LAMBDIN.
l will buy your cow and let you
keep her as long as you buy feed from
me, or will bring you u cow, if you
have none.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30
PERSONALS.


Mrs. G. +. Kingsbury, is we regre
to learn, very i'll.
Mrs. O. w. David, who has beer
quite i'll is recovering.
Mrs. John Woods, living Oh Frank
lin street, is very ill.
J. b. Scarborough, city, registered
at the Brunswick to-day.
Mr.. Harry +. Garland Of Galveston
is stopping at the Brunswick.
Rev. A. A. Gilbert has returned to
Jacksonville, Illinois, his home.
Mrs. J. II. MEMS, Eagle Springs is
stopping at the Brunswick hotel.
Willie Counts, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Counts, 905 Dutton street, is
very dangerously Ill,
Mr.. Oscar Radney, of Georgia, is in
the city and will probably make
Waco his future home.
Capt. NJ. M. Boggess, who returned
from Colorado last week is out on the
streets, much improved in health.
Miss Pauline Kusner, who has been
spending the vacation, visiting
friends at Navasota, returned home
yesterday.
County attorney r. A. Blair, re-
turned to-day from Wooten Wells,
where he has been for a few days of
recreation.
Hon. w. S. Baker returned from
San Antonio, to-day where he has
been for severed days, attending
to some legal matters.
Mr.. Victor Thodberg, of Leasing,
Soloman & Rosenthal, is able to be
at his post again after weeks tussle
with the prevailing fever.
Mr.. w. NJ. Beers of Fayetville Ark.
is in the city, Mr.. Beers is young
man of fine attachments and an acqui-
sition to any city. He will probably
make his home here.
MIR. F. w. Vesey leaves to-day with
Mrs. Vesey, for st. Louis. on his way
to Ashville, N. c., where he expects
to make his future. Mr.. Vesey has
for several year been an esteemed
citizens, and Waco Will regret his
loss. but wish him prosperity in his
newly chosen home.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30

Rev. j. M. Halsell, will on next
Sabbath occupy his pulpit again,
morning and evening. In the eve
hing he will combine with his SER
mon some of the religious aspects of
MS trip across the ocean, to the PAN
Presbyterian Council in London, and
several places on the continent All
are invited.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30

Mile Smith, an old colored
woman, claiming to be 104 years old,
died yesterday. Her youngest son
who was infirm from age, followed
the remains of his mother to the
grave.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30
LOCAL P1OK-uPs.

|
Peeier's Drug Store for Violin and Guitar
Strings, Paper, Pins, Ink and Pencils, all at
bottom prices
Fresh arrival of Dozier-Weyl crack
ers and Blanke Brothers candy at
Early & Finks.
Up to the present time nineteen
bales of cotton have come into the
city by wagon and sold at nine cents.
One of the incest and quitest places
at which to drink Is the Cotton Ex-
change.
Peeler's Cholera Mixture will cure cramp
collie, cheftrs morbus, tiarrh@a and lux. War
ranted.
Jno. l.. Dyer is having an elegant
new house erected on the site of the
old one.
There is an egg famine on hand.
Hens are doing their duty but farmers
cannot bring their products into town.
Finest stock of imported, straight
Havanas at blouse of Lords" and
Palace saloon.
Peeler's Drug Store for Perfumery, Face
Powders, Toilet Soap, Combs and Brushes.
Cheapest in town.
The wind was in the north this NOR
ming and has been blowing from that
direction all day which gives hopes of
clearing weather.
Pecler's Corn Remover takes of corns with
out pain or scar. No CURE No PAY!
One of the incest and quietest places
at which to drink is the Cotton Ex-
change.
The Little Five" give a concert
and dance at Padgit's park tonight.
1t promises to be a very enjoyable
affair.
Joel B. Frazier whisky, guaranteed
twelve years old at Early & Finks.
The river is falling to-day which is
great relief to the farmers whose
plantations border thereon. A flood |
would prove very disastrous to them
at this time.
Genuine imported blackberry BRAN
dy for medicinal purposes at Palace
saloon.
The tariff question is now popular
subject for discussion on the street, in
the street cars and in Offices. 1t is
the oldest question in the universe
and very nearly led to a row in the
ark. Shem being high tariff man
and Ham free trader.
The finest beef, mutton, veal, and
fish are alwaye to be found at J. C.
Crippen's market, corner Fifth and
FrankliA.
The present muddy condition of the
streets in the suburbs is death on
horse flesh. The grocerymen suffer
the most, the daily canvasslng and de-
livery of goods, stralning their re.
sources to the utmost.
All the fancy goods and choicest
delicacies new and fresh at Robin
sons grocery store.
The night school of Prof. Hills
Business College will begin September
Ist. 1t will afford splendid oppor.
tunity for young gentlemen and young
ladies whose evenings are unemployed
to secure frst-class business educa.
ton or knowledge of short hand or
type writing. No one with spore time
should neglect the opportunity.
If you want fruit cans or glass jars
Tor canning 60 to Barney Feldhake's*
Fancy Holland Herring and Rus
sian Sardines, Bay Shore Mackerel
and new chip beef. just received at
D. ]. Miller's.
DR.. Cranfil of Waco, addressed the
leep water convention last night at
Denver and treated that body to the
that Texas would give
hundred thousand votes for prohibi-
lion Marion Martin for governor.
Capt. Jack Elgin was not there to
tone down the Doctors figures.
A Big Drive.
l6 pounds Prunes for 81 90.
, 70 pounds Dried Apples for 81. co.
20 pounds Dried Peaches for sl.OO.
30 pounds Grits for 8, co.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30

Hayden Davidson and Glen Brown.
TWO genial statesmen will be pleased
TO wait on you at Robinson's new gro
Gerry store.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30

Its been 80 wet in some parts Of West Viz.
GINA 1hat farmers will have to harvest their
crops with Washington Critic.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30

al, uhe Silver Moon Is always open and
VIII give you prompt q ttention.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30

A very important suit, especially
to the people Of Ballinger, was filed
in the United States District Court
yesterday. 1t is styled Jos. p.
Smythe, ct ais. VS.. First National
Bank of Ballinger, OF ais. The action
Is trespass to try titles to 73S acres
of land situated on the north bank of
the Colorado river, and comprising
the whole of the town of Ballinger.
Inc plaintiffs are foreigners and live
IN Ireland. They claim the land by
inheritance from one Robt. Debut
Smythe, who died in California in
1876. The plaintiffs will come from
Ireland, and will appear in person at
the time of trial.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30

A letter was received by a family
yesterday which had All odd appear
ahce to persons not acquainted with
quarantine processes. ]. was from
San Augustine Florida, and the mail
in which it came had been fumigated
IN one OF the quarantine posts, a
Gordon Of which surmounts the
plague infected district. The letter
was perforated through and through
with net work Of tiny holes. All
letters 1t seems are perforated by
machinery and then smoked with
disinfectants.
Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30

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Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-30
A Big Drive.

A Big Drive.
l6 pounds Prunes for 81 90.
70 pounds Dried Apples for 81. 90.
20 pounds Dried Peaches for sl.OO
30 pounds Grits for 81, 90.
30 pounds Hominy for 81. so.
o. j. MILLER
The Gabert Brothers, fashionable
tailors, under the Pacific hotel, carry
the biggest and finest stock of goods
in Waco. They are just receiving q
large stock of new goods, domestic
and imported, and have tailors lust
from the east so they can get up suits
on short notice. Best of fits and STYLES
guaranteed. ~
Mr.. Il. w. Byrum, big farmer liy.
ing near Axtell, said to-day in con.
versation, that he had never seen
finer cotton in his section then this
year. He has sixty-fve acres in up.
lahd cotton which he says will make
forty bales.
Tombstone epitaph., 1888-03-17

An Associated Press dispatch from Denver, dated March I4,h, states that the cattle trust of that city, of which President Head, of the International Range Association, and Ex-Governor Routt, both of Denver, are the head, have just closed a contract with the French government to supply the French army with Iso,ooo head of beef annually. The trust was organized shortly alter the meeting of the International Range Association year ago, and within that time has succeeded in monopolizing a part of the foreign beef trade. Very little has been said as to its transactions. The contract with the French govern ment will be filled with cattle taken from the ranges of the West, and will be the the largest contract ever filled by an American cattle company. Shipments will begin immediately to Chicago and St. Lotus, where the cattle will be slaughtered. The her bidders were the Platte company of South America, the Armour,, of Chicago, and large cattle
 firm of Canada.
Tombstone epitaph., 1888-03-17
The cat is at last out of the Bagg-a

The cat is at last out of the Bagg-as witness the following:.
 The political party which gives to the people ticket composed of the most progressive citizens ot this county to represent them in the Legislature, will win at the coming election. Prospec. tor. The EPITAPH agrees with its contem- porary-progressive citizens are needed in the Arizona Parliment, and begs leave to present the following list from which to make selection
 Stanley Chipman Bagg.
 Stanley C. Bagg.
 s. C. Bagg.
 Bagg.
 Bagg, the Boycotter.
 Bagg, the Anti. Chinese Kgitator.
 Bagg, the Chinese Laundry Wrecker
 And "jest" B .pg.
Tombstone epitaph., 1888-03-17
surely.

The burro of the Tombstone Prospec. tor strayed away last week for two days, and the consequence was that on Friday and Saturday no paper was issued from the office of that truly good journal. On Sunday, however, the versatile Stanley C. Bagg, shied his castor into the rings and the paperhas appeared with astonish- ing regularity every day this week. The EPITAPH had thought that all the anna. teurs in Southern Arizona had been given a trial at the newspaper business, and it will wait with eager expectancy the out. come of the present venture. At the same time, the Prospector under the present management has the best wishes of the EPITAPH.
Tombstone epitaph., 1888-03-17

A contract has been concluded between the Great Falls Water Power Company of Montana, and the Montana Smelling Company, by which the last named cor poration is to proceed with the erection of smelling furnaces at the Great Falls Of the Missouri on larger scale than has ever before been undertaken, making the larges. plant of the kind in the world. The Montana Smelling Company is compos- ed mainly of the same gentlemen who are interested in the Colorado Smelling Company of Pueblo, one of the largest establishments of Colorado. The com pany have acquired 24o acres of land at Great Falls, and have already purchased 2,5oo,ooo brick, all that can be obtained at Great Falls and Helena, for the erec- ton of their building. Contracts for the buildings and plant have already been made, 25,ooo tons oimetal from Montana mines contracted for, and the new works will be in active operation by August of the present year. The capital stock of the new company is ST 500, 1000, which will be in creased as required. The plans call for the expenditure of nearly $2,ooo, ,ooo for the erection of furnaces and structures to accommodate the business that IS to be done.