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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-06-30
Renew. Her Youth.

Mrs. Phoebe Chesley, Peterson, Clay Co.,
Iowa. tells the following remarkable story,
the truth of whichis vouched for by the res.
idents OF the town: 81 am 70 years old
have been troubled with kidney complaint
and lsmeness for many years; could not dress
myself without help. Now am free from
all pain and soreness, and am able to do all
my own homework. owe my thanks tc
Electric Bitters for having renewed my youth,
and removed completely all disease and
pain" Try bottle, only so cents, at J. A
Bonham's.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-06-30

Trains and 2 run daily.
Train runs Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
days.
Train runs Tuesdays. Thursdays and Satur-
days
Passenger trains make close connection at
Mound House with express trains of Virginia
and Truckee Railroad. which connect at Reno
with east and west-bound trains OF Central Pa
cifc Railroad.
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At Hawthorne, with United States Stage Cos
coaches for Aurora (26 miles,; Bodie t37 miles,
and for Lundy and Bridgeport.
At Luning, tl25 miles from Mound House,,
with Gilmer, Salisbury & Cos tri-weekly
stages, leaving Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
days. for Downeyville, Grantsville and Bel
mont.
! At Candelaria, with United States Stage Cos
stages for Columbus Is miles, Silver Peak.
Montezuma, Aida Valley, Gold Mountain. etc
At Keller, with stages for Cerro Gordro (6
miles,, Darwin (22 miles,. and Panamint.
HIM YERINGTON,
Ri. LAWS, General Superintendent.
Assistant Superintendent.
ID. A. BENDER,
General Freight and Passenger Agent.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-06-30

c. H. Rulison came over from Reno Thurs
day. He has been employed erecting a
Huntington mill at Oreana for some Eastern
company for ssme weeks past.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-06-30

Station Agent Coffin and family have beer
visiting friends in Reno this week.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29
"HE'S IN THE SOUP"
The Origin of the latest Addition to the
Vocabulary of Slang.

| SOCahulary OF sfanss
Every body and every thing that
doesn't just suit every body else ia sure
to be consighea by somebody or other
to "the soup" The world, in fact;
seems to have become an immense
| tureen,' and all its inhabitants are float
ing about like chopped vegetables in a
julienne. Why this should be SO and
Why the ''in the SOUP idea shoul Id be
uppermost now in the mind of every
citizen who wants to say something
iurny is not more apparent than was
while ago the reason for every one
being Inclined to tell every one else to
LET her go, GallagherE The origin
OF both expressions il involved in OBJ
senrity:
In the s5ttp'' first achieved classic
authority, so far as cad 1.6w be ascer-
tanned, in one of the picturesque stories
III whs: are called sporting" events.
The event WIS the arrival in this
country last fall of Kilrai4, ths: pttgiliss
The situation was that the big CuiiaFS
der, Etruria: with the pugilist aboard,
lay in the darkness hf quarantine watt
ing for morning, and tss With kil-
rains friends aboard was h0vering
about anxious to- get Kilrain off and
bring him up to the city, The captain
O. the Etrtiria had announced, With Il
severity that seemed Unnecessary, that
no such drunken crew should como
titit where near his vessel The
disconsolate bit tot unhappy crowd in
the tug had to content itself s%ith howl-
ing greetings to Kilrain across watefy
gulf that separated the two vessels.
CnG 0f she men on the tug, johnson
BY maine. was so anxious to get as near
kilrain MS possible that he ttilnhled
overheard. One Of his companions,
witnessing this act, instead of assailing
the still depths of the darkness that
brooded over the waves by shouts for
help or shocking the Calm stars over
head with frantic cries for rope, sims
ply balanced himself against the rail
and called out:
"1fo! Johnston's fell in &c soup"
Th5 s'rhlirne audacity of the compar-
ison of the great at,artic to plate of
soup was wasted on the drunken crew
that heard it, but the waves chuckled
g1eefully ripples against the tugs
sides, the stars twinkled merrily, and
next morning, when people read about
it, it tiekled the public fancy so that the
new slsas became quickly the pet ex.
preston of the day, and by this time
it has attained just about yipeness
enough to make it ready to pick and
lay away along with Mr.. Gallagher and
other slang once of repute.-M Y
Sul.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29
OLD MYSTERY PLAYS,
Something About the Favorite Entertain-
ments of the Fifteenth Century.

| Something About the Fayorite Entertain-
ments of the Fifteenth Century.
The shepherd, like King Caspar, has
been decked out in superfine clothing,
high-life shoes, soft doeskin hose, a
dalmatica of rich brocads.1 silk, a fur
lined cape, wallet trimmed with fur,
and a felt cap starred with a big
jewel; while on his fingers he wears
rings in profusion-all of them doubt
less lent BY the treasury of the cath
edral. His crook is adorned with
streamers of ribbon and bunch of
holly, and the Dluidical mistletoe has
been honored with place on the bag
pipes. But who is that little maiden SO
quantity dressed, who is arraying
patient eve with garlands of Christ
mas roses? This is Madclon, the little
shcphetdess, whose history has been
~pretIly told by modern French poet,
Emile Blemont. Madelon came with
the shepherds to adore the infant Jesus,
but being poor, she had, no present to
offer, and SO she stood back behind the
shepherds and Magi and wept and
prayed. And the angel Gabriel came
down from Heaven and said to Madelon:
Little shepherdess, why do you weep
and why do you pray?' And Madelon
answered, with quavering voice:
"Alas! | have no present to offer to the
infant Jesus If could only give Him
some roses. He has not a single f6wer.
But it is freezing, and spring is
far away. Good angel, woe is mc!''
And Gabriel took M adelon by the
hand and led her out; and when they
were outside a golden light seemed to
float around them. Then Gabriel struck
the frozen earth with his rod. and be-
hold the ground was covered with fresh
flowers, of which Madelon gathered a
posy and gave to the infant Jesus. In
memory OF this miraculous origin of the
Christmas rose, Madelon is decking her
eve with fresh garlands, and she her
self is tricked out with brocadgs and
jeweled kirtles, and her head-dress is
of a tall peaked hennin, the
very height of the fashion, and of
muslin vail, which happily
shelters her lovers from the too vehe~
ment ardor OF her heauteous eyes. How
artlessly and sincerely these good shep-
nerds must have played their parts,
and how quaint must have been the
sffect!-T Theodore Child, in Hayper's
Magazine.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29
PULMONARY DISEASES.
How Climate is Made the Scapegoat Of
Personal Imprudence.

How Climate is Made the Scapegoat of
Personal Imprudence
pulmonary aisease is the scourge OF
our climate" says the medical faculty,
in its sententious way. This has long
been said, and the phrase will probably
continue to be- repeated while grass
grows and water runs. Yet it is little
better than Il libel on the elements, for
all that:
Climate is made the seapegoat of per-
sonal imprudence: If people piU over
heat their houses and places of busi-
ness in winter, if they choose to sit, for
an hour at time, overcoated, shawled,
hated and India-rubbered, in one an
others oven-like offices, and to plunge
thence, bathed in perspiration, into an
open-air temperature below the freez-
ing point, what right have they to
charge the climate with their coughs,
infuenzas, sore thrAats and consump-
tions? Nobody could be pitched out of
the tropic of Capricorn into the frigid
zone two or three times day without
damage to his breathing apparatus, we
take it.
Practically, so far as difference of
temperature is concerned, thousands of
us pass through this sort of ordeal al
most every winters day. And yet suf-
ferers from diphtheria, pneumonia,
bronchitis, asthma, ETC., generated by
their own insane neglect of the most
obvious sanitary rules, arc taught to
believe that they are the victims OF
influences.
Keep the thermometer down to sixty
five degrees in your stores, counting
houses and domicils from November
till April; never sit in rooms heated even
to that moderate degree in your beaver
cloths, furs and promenade headgear;
warm yourselves with exercise instead
of immodcrate artificial heat; and don't
be afraid to let the outside air
brush the inside of your dwellings.
etc., with it's healthful wings, at least
Twice every twcnty-four hours. Do
his, all ye who are subject" to coughs
and colds that keep you barking and |
he winter through. with a
glimpse of consumption
n prospective, and we venture to say
you will think better of this "terrible
,li.."rIG next spring than you do at
sfesent.-N ]. Ledger.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

HE Honorable Artillery Company,
of London. the oldest military BODY in
the Wcrld, and a portion of whose
members visited America recently. has
been disbandcd. The Prince of Wales
had become disccntented with the
manner in which the finances of the
Organization We're managed, and also
with tho lack of discipline which ex-
listed in it's ranks. He had urged the
members to abandon their charter
privileges and become part of the
regular volunteer forces. This sun-
gesfion was opposed by a majority Of
the officers. and as consequence The
Prince Of Wales. the Duke Of Portland
ard 1t ers sent in their designations
and forwarded complaint OF the con-
dition ct the company to the Queen
and she w.th1reW the company j war
rant
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29
ROYAL ETIQUETTE
Members of the Queens Household Lik'
to Act as Plain People.

Members of the Queens Household Like
to Act as Plain People.
The custom of English royal families
are frequently startling, original ana
oysr-elaborate to New Englander. But
at tha same time there is frequently con-
siderable simplicity observable, partlc-
utarly so the higher in rank you go.
The royal family, although surrounded
by inevitable forms and ceremonies, at
every opportunity make an effort 10
free themselves from these customs ana
restraints For instance, If you visit as
guest at Marlborough House you WILL
find less formality and etiquette thah
in many families lower down In the
social scale. Such naughty old da!nes
as the Dowager-Duchess of Marl-
! borough ard others of her style would
not pub you at your case as do the
Prince and Princess Of Wales by their
simple manners. a friend Of mine who
visited them told me they entered the
room where lbs waited them, unan-
nounced, and greeted him simply and
sordially. Only the first words ad-
dressed to them must be ''yorr Royal
Highnesse" ind need not be said again
The Prince, in fact, particularly enjoys
an unconatrained manner in those about
him: the easier you are, within tho
bounds Of good breeding. the better he
likes you. He talks little himself, al
though he makes an excellent speech
and address, but he is /; good listener.
He, like all the reigning family, speaks
with slight German accent, his rs be-
ing very foreign.
The Princess, of course, speaks with
even More u an accent, and As she IS
quite deaf, she also is not much OF a
conversationalist. There are people
who think she has nothing to say. My
lady readers may be interested TO know
that her three daughters have bccn
taught at the Dress Reform Association
to if1uke their own dresses, which are
always simple, but admirably cut and
fitted. The wardrobe of the Princess
is kept in a large upper room at the
Marlborough house, which room Is
lined with shelves, inclosed by doors.
All the dresses are folded in large sheets
on these shelves, which draw out, and
two or three maids have charge of a
large ana gorgeous assortment OF cos
tunes OF Svery conceivable occasion.
No servant is allowed to be seen by
their Royal Highness except those
whose duty is to be with them Or near
them. As they approach the maids
and men must hide themselves, bus this
custom is not confined to royalty; it ex-
lists in all other houses of the aristoc-
racy as WELL And there is we'll
known Duke who, if in driving over his
estates sees servant Or a laborer, has
him discharged at once, and should the
trembling hireling hear him approach
climbs the nearest tree or hides himself
behind it OF bush, as though guilty of
some misdemeanor. But this Duke is
nothing, if not eccentric. For instance.
the firtest apartments in one OF his cas-
ties are Under the ground, and, except
for at occasional ride Or drive, he lives
buried beneath the surface of the earth,
in princely maauer, to be sure, but in
perpetual candle light, on, let us hope,
electric light. Transcript.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29
High Iy Intelligent Proverbs.

Dom be unpopular. De unpopular man
ain liked by de neighbors.
De whitewash brush covereth a null
titude er spots.
De man wot steals money FUN de
pocket OBJ his friends ain no better dan
a thief.
Don eat h'arty dinner ef yer aim
hungry en- have t pay for it.
Don propose marriage to an old maid
onless you want to marry her.
Truf am mighty, but he ain alters easy
to trabbel with.
De American citizen am king in he
own right. but he amt got no subjects.
DE wise man leabs his winders on
locked at night SO dat de boyglers won't
hev t smash dc glass t. git IT, Har-
psrs Basar.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29
A MISSISSU P. RIVER HORROR.
Ihe Steamer Kate Adams Burned
twenty TO Fifty Lives Lost-Oyer
100 Bales of Get on Destroyed.

The Steamer Kate Adams Burned
Twenty TO Fifty Lives Lost-Oyer
100 Bales of Get on DESTROYED.
| MEMPIs, Tenn, Dec. 23.-The GU :et of the
Sabbath was broken by news of steam.
boat disaster rivaling that of the Golden
City in loss of life and sensational details.
The Inflated craft in this instance was the
| Kate Adams, which has been accorded tho
name of the Queen of the Port" For six
years she piled the river between Arkansas
City and Memphis. Now she lies a charred
and blaekened wreck on the muddy bottom
OF the Mississippi, with only her stern post
showing above the water. Her cargo is
either burned or floating down the river.
Her more precious freightage of souls is
almost equally broken and scattered. The
loss OF life is variously estimated at from
twenty to fifty, including the third clerk
and two white cabin passengers, several
white deck passengers, and the rest coll
ored. The exact number cannot yet be
learned. The fire lroke out on the lar
board side of the boat while many of the
passengers were at breakfast, and as the
bonny Kate was steaming merrily along
just below Commerce, Miss, forty miles
Memphis. In less than fifteen minutes the
fastest craft in these waters was no more.
The Kate Adams was just six years old
when the ignition of cotton bale sent her
to the bottom of the river on whose bosom
she SO proudly fioated. She was worth
fully $4,000, having had repairs costing
nearly one-third Of that amount put ON her
within the year. She was insured for $685.
COO through st. Louis and Cincinnati un-
derwriters. But Yesterday a thing OF
beauty, she is gone to join the feet that
lies down in the muddy waters of the great
river, shorn of all her fair proportions.
The following is a list of those who are
known to have been drowned: George Cor
bett, third clerk; Andrew Reese, cabin
James Nelson, texas tender;
Monroe Jackson, burner tender; Senator
Coleman, second pantryman; Andrew
Mays, third pantryman; Hilliard Horton,
barber; Joe Porter, roustabout; Lee Fin
ley, roustabout: Frank Wells, roustabout. |
ALI the above except Corbett were colored. |
Unaccounted for: w. A. Covington, |
planter, Bolivar county, Miss; Samuel |
Robinson, saloonkeeper, Friar's Point, |
Miss.
The injured: Mrs. L. j. Brown, Laconia,
Ark, ankle sprained; Capt. John w. Har-
is, Memphis, lower spine broken by stage
flank falling on him, and internal injuries
hought to be fatal; Richard Young, as
igtant engineer, severely bruised on the
over limbs and body. A number of me-
.roes whose names could not be learned
vrre more Or less seriously injured.
The cargo consisted of 1l61 bales of cot-
on, 81 bags seed cotton and 1906 sacks cot
on seed, all of which was consigned to
iemphis. The cotton was insured at $50
bale.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29
srIscELLANEoUs.

REWARDS of s., 500 have been offered for
the capture Of the Duck Hill (Miss.) train
| robbers
ANinventory of the estate OF the late A.
.. Abeil founder of the Baltim ors Sun,
was probated recently. BY his will the
isan newspaper was bequeathed absolutely
10 ms three sons. The total appraised and
assessed value of the estate. not including
the good will OF the Baltimore Sun, is S.
Oos 9sa13 Various gratuities amounted to
$500, 900.
Dix farmers started to cross the river to
Montreal on the ice during the recent
storm. They were not heard from and it
was feared they broEs through and per-
ished.
HE London Standard thinks the recent
change in the Baltimore 81 Ohio MANAGE
ment not conducive to honest managa.
ment. Several American newspapers ID ke
the same view.
The annual catalogue of Harvard College
viii show the total number of students fo
be 1,ss9 against 1850 last year. This i .
rise Of 245 against 2as last year,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

ANOTHER crank turned up at the
White House the other day. He was
man of medium height and dressed
in the regulation old soldier garb, his
right sleeve being pinned to his breast.
tie announced that his name was
Hoover, and that he had been elected
President of the United States by the
Knights OF Labor and independents,
He was placed under arrest.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

THE Navy Department is informed
that the United States steamship
Trenton, flagship of the Pacific sta
tion. is now at Panama, with Rear
Admiral Kimberly on board, and that
1t is proposed to keep her there until
all danger OF trouble on the isthmus is
past
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

WILLIAM RALsToN. who has been
made insane over too close attention to
the subject OF the Whitechapel muir
ders, is the well-known writer of folk
lore and myths. and has written sew
eral well-known books and contributed
number OF articles to English period
1cals. lie became interested in the
mysterious murders to such an extent
that his mind was unbalanced, and he
is now in tho custody of a keeper.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

1T is rumored that the Earl OF
Shrewsbury, who supplies London
with hanson cabs, is about to invade
both Paris and New York with his
conveyanees. He will furnish New
York with cabs, it is said, which win
carry a passenger to any part of the
city for twenty-five cents.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29
A Valuable Colt.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 20.-It is report
ed that negotiations are pending between
Higgin, the California turf man, and
Bryant & Scoggan, owners of the great
two-year-old Proctor Knott, which, dur
ing the summer months, won the Junior
Champion and Futurity stakes. Haggin
is said to have offered $4,000 for the
gelding, and the owners have signifed
that $4,000 would about secure the ami
NAL. representative of Haggin is said
to be en- route to dicker with Bryant g.
Scoggan. The latter were offered $40, 600
for Proctor Knott just before the race for
the Futurity stakes.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

DIR. JAMES E. REEVES, of Chatta.
nooga. Tenn, an eminent microscopist,
has been studying the tissues of the
liver and kidney from persons dying
with yellow fever, and has discovered
micro organization that closely re.
sembles specific germ.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

The Philadelphia & Reading Rail-
road Company has given two months
extra pay to the families of the men
who were lost on the company's steam
collier Allentown off Cohassett, Mass.
November 26.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

THREE members of the G. A. r..
pension legislation committee were in
conference in Chicago recently, devils
ing way 10 push the Dependent PEN
sion bill in the next Congress.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

Under the laws of France person
who is reported dead by legal official
must remain dead, no matter how much
he comes to life II hewants to live hs
must take some other namer
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

+. N. YELLAND, of Philadelphia, has
transferred to the trustees of Wilber-
force University, Dayton, o., one
thousand acres of rich mineral lands
inEastern Kentucky.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

AT the fourth annual meeting of the
National Indian Defense Association
in Washington Rev. Alexander Kent
was reelected president and Captain
w. Bickford secretary.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

A SLEEPING car on the Illinois Cent
raj railway caught fire the other night
near Kankakee, Ill, while the pas
sengers were asleep. No one was in
iured
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

RICH finds of gold are reported in
the mountains sixty miles from Sem
tinel, Ariz., but the extent of the field
was not known
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

In the recent Parliamentary election
at Colchester. Eng, the former Con-
servative majority was reduced three
hundred on largely increased vote.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

TIE bill for the division OF tho great
Sioux reservation in Dakota, prepared
by Delegate Clifford, has been favor
ably reported to the House.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

THE Panama railroad has been
washed out in several places by a
heavy storm and the Panama canal
has been much damaged.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

MEMORIAL services in honor of the
late General Sheridan were held in
fremont Temple on the 18th under the
auspices of the city of Boston.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

THE South Carolina Senate has
passed q bill to appropriate $4,000
per year to be used in caring for in
digent and disabled veterans.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

The widow of the late Chief Justice
Waite, who had been critically Ill with
pneumonia i'll Washington, was re-
ported much better.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-29

The RepubHque Franchise and the
Temps of Paris are both in favor of re-
pealing the act expelling the Due
'd'Aumale.