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, 1888-08-09
Low Big Ben. Arc Runr.

The twelve bells of st. Paul's cathedral
in London are said to be the grandest
ringing peal in the world. 1t is a matter
of pride with the English that they al
ways swing their bells instead of merely
swinging the clappers after the fashion
prevailing in Russia and other parts of
continental Europe. The Briton swings
even his largest bells in the good, old
fashioned way, and it is quite an under
taking TO swing the sixteen ton "Great
Paul, - which, with its five-ton brother,
supplements the noble peal on the grand
est Protestant cathedral in the world.
On the day Gen. Garfield's body was car
ried TO the grave, the writer stood in the
square in front Of st. Paul's, and heard
these chimes peal in honor of the dead
president. Dense crowds filled the neigh
boring streets, and the adjacent windows
and housetops were black with humanity.
All London was there TO listen to the
mournful requiem of the bells. 1t was o
solemn spectacle when, as q stranger in
q strange land, u saw those tens of
thousands Of Englishmen hui doing
honor TO the noble dead. 1t was an evil
dence of international sympathy, affec-
ton and brotherhood which one who
saw 1t can never forget. -Boston Herald.
, 1888-08-09
ArtIst ver-u, Cattle Dealer.

Artists can, in the course of a summer
mornings walk in the country, find ma
terial for their best landscapes, and their
training has been such that the knowl-
edge so found can be applied TO the
best advantage. With eyes that sec
everything in nature, Judgment that re
jects the commonplace and takes cog.
nizance of all hat which is valuable, and
with a memory that is as faithful to re-
tain every effect as is the sensitized plate
III the camera, such artists represent the
highest type of Natures pupils. A few
pencil memoranda of subjects, taken
Ulstily during the walk, is all that is
needed to fix the scenes and locality, and
serve in the reproduction of these in the
studio. The opposite type is found in a
worthy P~ittsburger, a cattle dealer, who
recently sat for his portrait. He had
just reHlrned from a trip hat extended
through the grandest and most impress
sive scenery of the great west, and the
artist-a devout lover of nature-hoped
to extract from his patron some fresh
ideas of the grandeur of the Rockies and
the canyons of Colorado. 1t was n hope
less longing. The cattle dealers mind
was an absolute blank as to natures
handiwork.
ne Was ~oNeIllo"lHS WIN hnOWleuSe Oh
quite n different order. He filled the
artist with details of the cost of raising
cattle in every state and territory of the
west, of the best places and the poorest;
of the cost that each marketable steer
represented, and of the cost of shipment
of cattle from every western point to the
nearest market. The artist was wearied
with a surfeit of cattle knowledge and
vas constrained to ask about the noun
tains and the lakes and the scents won
ders of the land of cattle and canyons. 1t
was useless. His patron, outside of his
own narrow but practical field of obser-
walton, had seen nothing and could only
reply, mountains? Really 1 did not
notice them except to think that they
seemed a good deal in the way of the rail-
roads. '-Pittsburg Bulletin.
, 1888-08-09

1t is very unusual to find in a great
smoker a healthy appetite for plain food,
and medical opinions may be had in any
number as to dyspepsia caused by smok-
ing. To whatever degree the habit affects
the nervous organization, it appears to be
certain that the process which is regarded
as soothing is really destructive. Sir
Benjamin Brodie must have known what
he was writing about when he declared
that ''the poison of tobacco acts by de-
stroying the function of the brain" In
a Russian hospital In 1866 a DR.. Chad
nowski took the liberty of examining by
means of a pump the digestive powers of
six smoking and as many non-smokng
soldiers, and he recorded that Sin the
former the time required for digestion
averaged seven hours, while in the case
of the noi-smokers the mean period of
digestion was only six hours" With the
present enormous consumption Of tobacco
the social consequences, apart from those
concerning the bodily and mental powers
of the consumers, are important.-Pal
Mall Gazette.
, 1888-08-09
nIormon COLON, in ohlhuahua.

The Mormons have within the past
three years seen the advantages of cheap
grazing and farming lands in this coun-
try and the opportunity to escape perse-
cution in the United States. The results
are seen in the fourishing colonies of
Juarez and Diaz, the former adjoining
us, the latter about seventy-fve miles to
the north.
Each colony comprises from 200 to
300 souls. They are recognized for their
fair dealing, honesty and thriftiness.
The country owes them a debt of graft
tude for introducing high grade live
stock of all descriptions, farming imple-
ments, seeds, trees, saw and flour mills
and industries hitherto unknown to the
Mexican but in its most primitive form
Though polygamy is against the law in
this country, the Mormons are tolerated
and encouraged, and up to the present
time have been of immense benefit to the
country in educating the natives to a
more advanced class of work. Some
proselyting has been dbne by their mis-
sionaries in the southern part of the re-
public, mostly in and about the City of
Mexico.
They attempted to induce a number of
the converts to form part of the JuareZ
SOlOIly, DuL dlItI ringing dDOub thirty
families they were obliged to return them
to their homes. The Mexican converts
could not amalgamate with the Ameri-
ans. The Mexican, though converted
in belief, could not be converted to the
amer and customs of the American.
Besides, they are a great people for
forming attachments to the land of their
birth. They rarely leave the home they
were born in. This is decidedly SO among
the lower, half Indian class that COM
prised the majority of the converts. To
this fact the Latter Day Saints, as they
prefer to be called, attribute their fail
ure. The colony of Juarez is laid out in
rectangular form, divided into streets
and lots. In the latter their little
wooden houses are erected, the only
wooden houses in this portion of the
country, surrounded by gardens and
trees. In case of plural wives" two
or more houses are seen In the same lot.
Louis Ross in New York World.
, 1888-08-09

Every once in a while we discover that
some mountain peak must give up the
undeserved distinction conferred upon it
OF. holding its head higher than all other
submits. For a long time Mount CHM
borazo was supposed to be the highest
mountain in the world until in the prog
ress of the Himalayan surveys Mount
Everest was found to overtop it. FouT
years g w. w. Graham, who has been
higher above the sea than any other
mountain climber, asserted that Everest
must yield the palm of supremacy to an
unnamed peak about seventy miles from
it. We IL supposed that Mount st.
Elias was the loftiest mountain of North
America, but we now know that that
honor belongs to Mount Wrangel, which
is about 500 feet higher than st. Elias.
1t was also supposed that Mount Kilima-
Marc, 19, 700 feet high, was the greatest
elevation in Africa, but now comes Count
Teleki, the Hungarian traveller, with the
assertion that this mountain must play
second fiddle to Mount Kenia, about 200
miles north. He is the only man who
has yet assembled Kenia. New York
Sun.
, 1888-08-09

AT home the Bulgarian woman is a
sturdy, honest housewife, helpmeet to
her husband in all that the term applies.
Beside attending to the care of the
household, she performs not less of the
hard, grinding drudgery of the field than
her husband does, and often more. Nor
does she rebel at this or think it a hard
ship. From early youth the Bulgarian
maiden is accustomed to share with her
brothers the labor and exposure of the
fields, and at marriage her husband is
required to pay her father n sum of
money to recompense him for the loss of
her services as a field hand. She is lit
orally purchased from the father by her
husband, the consideration ranging from
500 upward, according to the means of
the wooer. AS a mere matter of course
she then performs as much farm drudg-
cry for her husband as she did pre-
viously for her ther.-Thomas Stevens
in Woman.
, 1888-08-09

Meissonier, in order 10 study thoroughly
the movements of the men and horses in
the storming squadron in the picture
'1S07," he pursued, as he told us, an en-
tirely original method. First of all, in
the autumn of the preceding year he had
a large piece of ground near the city
sowed with rye. In May, when it stood
in green stalks, by permission of the COM
mandant, he had a battery of artillery
driven over it. OF the trampled stalks
crushed by the wheels Meissonier made
large and sufficient Studies. lie then
procured permission from the military
authorities to have n battery in garrison
at Poissy ride over it, and directed the
troops to shout ''Vive l'Empereur,"
swinging their swords and trumpets. So,
by repeated observations of these cuiras-
siers and horses, he impressed upon his
mind the whole scene, at the same time
making the most complete studies of
single horses and men, and of every part
of their figures, in the uniforms of the
French cuirassier regiments in the time
of Napoleon.-Art Connoisseur.
, 1888-08-09


The eucalyptus belongs to the myrtle
tribe. 1t is said that there are as many
as 100 varieties of the tree. They are
native to Australia, but have already
been introduced into most of the tropical
and temperate countries of the world.
Two kinds have been chiefly cultivated,
the red gum (resinifera), and the blue
gum (globulus), which is the better
known. 1t is famous for its rapid
growth, as it often makes an increase in
height of from six to nine feet a year.
The tree continues growing at this rate
until it has reached an size.
The products of this tree are numerous
and varied. The wood is said to be val
liable for the carpenters and builders
uses. The gum, or rosin, is employed in
the manufacture of soaps, perfumes,
lozenges, court plaster, liniments, syrups,
pomades, toilet ~vinegars, as well as many
preparations used for artistic purposes,
such as vanishing oils, and trac-
ing paper" There has been for some
years established in Paris a store for the
sale of eucalyptus perfumery.
But by far the most valuable and i'm
portant property of this tree is its power
of correcting malaria. This quality is,
perhaps, due to the aromatic oil which
the tree contains, or more probably to
the drainage effected by its roots. 1t has
been proved in many countries in which
the tree has been planted. In Algeria
the cultivation of the tree has rendered
many low lying or marshy districts in
habitable, where, in the early years of
French occupation, foreigners could not
live on account of deadly fevers.-
Youths Companion.
, 1888-08-09

The deleterious effect of arsenic upon
the skin was recently discussed in the
Pathological society of London, after a
communication had been read by Mr..
Jonathan Hutchinson. The skin is the
tissue on which arsenic has, perhaps, its
most marked influence. The poison may
spoil the complexion instead of improv-
ing it, by making it muddy and unsightly.
A similar action is exhibited in all parts
of the skin, and may lead to the devel-
opment of soft corns, not warts, on the
palms of the hands and soles of the feet,
where a roughened condition also grows
up under its influence. Mr.. Hutchinson
also expressed the belief hat arsenic can
produce epithelial cancer .-Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
, 1888-08-09
New York and rn.eIsn cities.

There is no palpable New York in the
sense in which there is a Paris, a Vienna,
n Milan. You can touch it at no point.
1t is not even ocular. There is instead a
Fifth avenue, n Broadway, "A Central
park, n Chatham square. How they
have dwindled, by the way. Fifth ave
nue. might be any one of n dozen London
streets in the first impression it makes on
the retina and leaves on the mind. The
opposite side of Madison square is but n
step away. The spacious hall of the
Fifth Avenue hotel has shrunk to sitting
proportions. Thirty-fourth street is n
lane; the city hall a handbook; the Cen
trail park a narrow strip of elegant land
ecape, whose lateral limitations are con-
stantly forced upon the sense by the
Lenox library ON one side and the mon
ster apartment house on the other
Princeton Review.
, 1888-08-09
A FRlGHTFUL SKIN DISEASE.
SunerInEs Intense. Head Nearly Raw.
Body Covered with Sores. Cured
by the Cuticurn Remedies.

MESsRs. STEVENS & BRUNER: Monroe, n. G.
Dear Sirs:-Aboutt two months ago, on read
ing your recommendation, l bought a bottle
Cuticura Resolvent, one box Cuticura Salve,
and one cake Cutlcura Soap, for my son, aged
l3 years, who has been afflicted with eczema
for n long time, and l am pleased to say that l
believe the remedies have cured him. His
sufferings were intense, his head being nearly
raw, his ears being gone except the gristle, and
his body was covered with sores. His condi-
ton was frightful to behold. The sores have
now all disappeared, his skin is healthy, eyes
bright, cheerful disposition and working every
day. My neighbors are witnesses to this re
markable cure, and the doubling ones are re-
quested to call or write me or any of my neigh
bors WIN. $. STEPHENSON
Winchester p. o., Union Co., N. c.
, 1888-08-09
Growth of city children.

Quetelet. in his well known treatise
son Man." pointed out that the growth
of town children is quicker than that Of
country children. The demands upon
the nutritive powers are larger; and,
consequently, we can understand how it
comes about that the educational burden
is felt more by town children han their
country cousins. He showed that the
growth is more rapid in girls than boys,
and probably the effects of the labor OF
acquiring education are felt more by the
girb.-Good Housekeeping.
, 1888-08-09

"No, ma'am," said the tramp CRATE,
fully, as he shouldered his bundle and
prepared to start on again, 81 don't keeI
fur nuthin' more to eat, thank you, but
I'll be obleeged if you'll give me two or
three O. them there biscuits. l don't
carry no wespins, and they've got a say
age dog at that next house. "-ChicagC
Tribune.
, 1888-08-09

The ORIGINAL ABIETINE ONT
MENT is only put up in large two ounce
tin boxes, and is an absolute sure for old
sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands and
all skin eruptions. VIII positively cure all
KINDS OF piles Ask for the ORIGINAL
ABIETlNE OINTMENT. Sold by DIR.
W. N. Hunt, at 25 cents per box by mail
80 cents.
, 1888-08-09

According to DR.. Pesetty Cevera,
writing in a Spanish journal, if blood be
mixed with a little bile, small crystals
are formed which are of different shapes
in different species Of animals. In man
they are right angled prisms, in the
horse cubes, in pigs r~homboids, in sheep
%rhomboidal plates, in dogs right angled
prisms very similar to those seen in
human blood, and in chickens more or
les1 regular cubes. Brooklyn Eagle.
, 1888-08-09

If it were not for the climate, Quito
would be in the midst of a perpetual
p%estilence; but notwithstanding the pre-
vailing flthiness, there is very little sick
ness, and pulmonary diseases are I'M
known. Mountain fever, produced by
cold and a torpid liver, is the commonest
type of disease. The population of the
city, however, is gradually decreasing,
and is said to be now t9out 60, 900.
There were 500, 900 people at Quito
when the Spaniardscame, and a hundred
years ago the population was reckoned
at double what it is now. Half the
houses in the town are empty, and to see
a new family moving in would be a SEN
sation. Most of the finest residences are
locked and barred, and have remained
SO for years. The owners are usually
political exiles who are living elsewhere,
and can neither sell nor rent their prop
erty. Political revolutions are so COM
mon, and their results are always SO dis
astrous to the unsuccessful, that there is
4 constant stream of fugitives leaving
the state .-Curtis in American Magazine.
, 1888-08-09

aHV-NHVIf y - VNNs % WNFs
THE POTTER DRUG n CHEMICAL GO.
GenLLemen:-Mr WINS. Stephenson of this
county brought his son to town to-day to let
us see him and to show us what Cutlcura
had done for him. This is the case
referred to in our letter to you some time ago
To look at the boy now one would suppose
that there had never been anything the mat
ter with him-seems TO be in perfect health.
We have written and herewith inclose what
the father has to say about the matter,-wrote
it Just as he dictated.
We are selling quite a quantity of Cuticura
Remedies and hear nothing but praises for
them. We regard the Cuticura Remedies the
best in the market, and shall do all we can to
promote their sale. Yours truly,
V Il BRUNER,
, 1888-08-09

Collie. diarrhea and SIMMER complaints
are dangerous at this season ol the year,
and the only way to guard against these
diseases is to have constantly on hand a
bottle of some reliable remedy. BGGgs'
Dinrrhea Balsam is a positive relief in all
these disagreeable cases and is pleasant to
take 1t will cost you only 30 cents. w.
n. Hunt druggist.
, 1888-08-09

7 lie largest stock of fine brandies, old
whiskies, choice Hquetrs and superfne
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets
, 1888-08-09

sold everywhere. Price, Cuticura, soc; Soap,
25c; REsolyent, 81. Prepared by the Potter
Drug and Chemical Co, Boston, Mass.
RN- Send for allow to Cure Skin Diseases
81 pages, 90 illustrations and 100 testimonials.
, 1888-08-09

Cuticura, the great skin cure, and Cuticura
Soap, prepared from IL, externally, and Cuti-
cura Resolvent, the new blood purifier, inter
nally, are n positive cure for every form of
skin and blood disease, from pimples to scrof-
ula.
, 1888-08-09

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. It
sootnes the child, %softens the gums. allays
the pain, cures wind collie and is the best
remedy foS diarrhna Twenty five cents
a bottle
, 1888-08-09
DR.. Vagaer&ca.
sHGOrAnIsrS

We offer no apology for deyoting so much time
and attention to this much neglected class OF
diseases, believing that no condition of human
fty Is too wretched TO merit the ympathy and
best services OF the profession to which we be
long, as many are innocent sufferers, and that
70 relieving the amicted and saving
them from worse than death, is no less a
than the surgeon or physician wholly close APP
phcation excels IN any other b anch of his pro-
is dawning when the false philanthrophy that
condemned the victims of folly or crime, like
the lepers under the Jewish law, to die uncared
for, has passed away.
YOUNG EN
Who may be su ffering from the effects OF youth.
full follies or indiscretions, will do well TO avail
themselves OF this the greatest boon ever laid
at the alter of suffering humanity. DIR. WAC
NER will to forfeit five hundred dol
lars for every case of seminal weakness or pri-
vate disease of any kind or character which he
undertakes and fails to cure.
MIDDLE-AGED MEN.
There are many men OF the age OF 30 to 60 who
the bladder often accompanied by a slight
smarting or burning sensation and a weaken
ing of the system in a manner the patient can
not account for. On examining the urinary de-
posits a ropy sediment will often be found, and
sometimes small particles of albumen will APP
pear, or the color will be of akin or millish
hue, again changing to a dark and turbid ap-
p~earance. There are many men who die OF
this difficulty ignorant of the cause, which is
the second stage of seminal weakness. DR..
Wagner viii guarantee a cure in all such
urinary organ. Consultation free. Thorough
examination and advice. $500.
See the Doctors additional advertisement in
the Daily Denver News and Tribune-Republi-
can.
All communication should be addressed
DIR. WAGNER & co.
l4l4 Larimere street. Address, Box 27S3, DEN
yer, Colorado.
Cut this out and take along
, 1888-08-09

One of the wonders of Paris is a well
1850 feet in depth. Hot water rushes
ont of this well in a stream ia feet high.
, 1888-08-09

pTMPLES, ~blackheads, red, rough, chapped
L LII and oily skin prevented by Cuticura
Soap.
, 1888-08-09

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-29
Not fling Nc mipccs,

WASHINGTON, June 2S.-The nations
Democratic committee and the notifca-
ton committee appointed by the late
Democratic convention to notify Mr..
Cievelsnd and Mr.. Thurman Of tAeir
nominations 10y President snd Vice Presi-
dent, nat st the Arlington house to dzy,
me noutcsttc7 committee, with Hon. P.
A. Collins Of Massachusetts,, il the chsir,
and Thomas S Petit OF Ken ,ucky, secre-
;sry. The proceedings were conducted
N scc-e' eessiCn. TIE committee
adjourned at y O'clock, sud it was an
ncunced it had decided to notify the
President at O'Clock tn dsy, and siso TO
lew Washington to morrow evening for
Columbus, TO notify Mr.. Thurman. A
letter OF notification WAS submitted by
Mr.. JsCO6 Of h -niuCky, and was accepted
oT the commi.yee. Tle letter was signed
~ ell those present. Tce committee also
accepted sn invitation from Sscre,sry
WhJt1ey TO visit his cCultry home at
Grass isGd o N ROW sf.eInoon.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-29

Be jSmi2 HhrEi5-L, U.lIed STATES Sen
at0r from I0diaca, is enc Of the foremost
men in the politics Of the H0osIer state.
Ipdia1a being 20 70 speak the pivotal
state OF future pIeaidehtisl campo gus
it is safe to surmisa that her sons viii
occupy most prominent positions in the
national sGsir5. She probably bag within
her borders more s-pirsnts for the presi-
dency than any other state in the Union
Benjamin Harrison, 81 whom our RketCh
treats, YVES bern August 20, 1888, at
Hamilton, Ohio. He attended thu uni
versitY 81 Ozt1rd, OlIo, and graduated
from thst institution. For two years ne
read law in CinciGn,t ii, aEd in 1881 went
to Indianapolis, which mas ever since
been his place Of residence. He soon
acquired startling reputation for
his ability in law matters. In
1850 he WAS elected reporter OF
the Supreme curt of Indisna
At the outbreak OF the late civil
wcr he enlisted il the Federal service and
WAS soon after commissioned second
lieutenant. He was ere If the Ia, 0O0 men
who responded to Pie ident LiGColn's
csil for troops. After the expiration Of
the term Of his e2lIs.meLs he ocgSLIz9d 8
company rs volunteers, end Was made
Colonel Of the S ven 10th Indiana VOlun-
teers. lie TTas cmpissioned B-igsdier
General ZEd U6E mustered cut in 1865.
In 1876 he ran for vernon Of Indiana,
on the Republican ticket bat was de
feated. In 1879 he WIS pointed to e
Mississippi river commission. In 1881
he vas chosen for Id. -nE 20 succeed j.
Mcdonald (DtmccrN'> in the United.
States Ssus,e, sud r'C = host Of friends
in that body. Il 1884 his name WAC
most prominently menlioted IS the posi-
bic choice OF the Republican NJ
tioR&I Convention and had break &C.
cured in Bisile's forcet be
probsbiy would h1Ve been nominated.