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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09
Sermons for Children.
Jewish Messenger.

jewish messenger 49,
Most boys and girls do not like ser.
mons; they say they are too long for
their highnesses. Perhaps they may like
these short sermons. They will give
food to think over, and must not be
read too hastily.
A Swedish boy fell out of the win.
dow and was badly hurt, but with
clenched lips he kept back the cry OF
pain. The King, Gustavus, who saw
him fall, prophesied that the boy
would make a man for an emergency.
And SO he did, for he became the fa.
nous General Bauer.
A boy used to crush the flowers to
get their color, and painted the white
side OF his fathers cottage in Tyrol
with all sorts OF pictures, which the
mountaineers gazed at as wonderful.
He was the great artist Titan.
An old painter watched a little fell
low who amused himself by making
drawings OF his pot and brushes, easel
and stool and said: "That boy will
beat me one day" So he did, for he
was Michael Angelo. sEa
A German boy was reading q blood.
and-thunder novel. Right in the midst
of it, he said to himself: "Now, this
will never do. get too much excited
over it. can't study so well after il.
So here goes!" and he flung the book
out into the river. He was sFie liter.
thegreat German philosopher.
Do you know what these little SER
mons mean? Why, simply this, that
in boyhood and girlhood ara shown
the traits for good or evil that make
the man or woman good or not.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09

In the lobby of the capitol at Wash.
ington has hung for years a crayon
portrait which could not beidentifed.
About a year ago, two omen recog-
nized it IS a picture of John w. Tay.
lor, OF New York State, who was in
congress for twenty consecutive terms.
Taylor was speaker OF the sixteenth
congress after Henry Clay left the
chair to construct the Missouri COM
promise bill. He was also speaker OF
the nineteenth congress. As old Rip
Van Wrinkle says: "How soon are we
forgot"
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09
How Each Nationality Hides tts
Money.

Commercial Advertiser: The peculiari-
ties of the people OF different n%ationalities
in their way OF carrying money formed a
topic OF onversation at Castle Gal den.
Most of the English immigrants" said
one OF the money changers, Garry their
coin in a small case in which their sover.
eigns or shillings fit snugly, and have the
case attached to q chain, which they
keep in a pocket as they would a
his little canvas bag in which he
keeps gold, silver and notes altogether.
But a great many OF the Irish girls have
their sovereigns rolled u pand sewed on the
inside OF their dress, very frequently, too,
inside OF their ~corsets, n often have to
borrow my penknife to cut them out when
they come to get them changed.
II have seen some old Germans who
would pull off from around their body a
a belt that l am sure must have cost 40
or GO marks, and fish from it 3 or four
marks in silver to have changed.
The French mostly carry a. small
brass tube in which they can place
40 or SO 2O-franc pieces, and remove them
one at o Zine. There are very few Italians
who doz't own a large tin tube, sometimes
a foot long, which they have hung around
their necks by a small chain or cord and in
which they keep their paper money or sflv.
or coins. Swedes and Norwegians are sure
to have an immense pocketbook that
has generally been used by their faith.
ers and grandfathers before them
and which will have enough leather in it
to make a pair Of boots. The Slavonians
or Hungarians generally do not carry
pocketbooks, but they find more ways Of
eoncealing what money they have. than
any class OF people I know of. Their long
boots seem to be the favorite place, and
in the legs OF them they also carry the
knife and fork and spoon which
they have eaten with on the wky
across. But / have seen them
take money from between the lining and
outside OF their coats, which they would
pet at by cutting into u buttonhole.
Some Of them use their caps and very
many use their prayer books, placing the
paper money on the inside OF the cover
and pasting the fly leaf Of the book over
it. But I think more Of that nationality
stow away their change inside their stock.
ings than any other place, and don't take
their stockings of from the time it IL put
there until they want to change it.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09

Women. have the right to vote in
municipal elections in Kansas; on
school questions, in a o or less re-
stricted way, in Colorado, Indiana.
Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Oregon, Vermont, and Wisconsin, and
in the territories OF Dakota, Ida
no, Montana, and Washington. In
Wyoming Territory they vote on
equalterms with men. In Arkansas
and Mississippi they vote Ito petit.
tion) on the sale ofliquor. No mark
ed effects OF the experiments in WON.
an suffrage have yet been noted, eth
er good or bad.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09
The failure of the Panama canal

The failure of the Panama canal
scheme will doubtless soon be an
nounced in France and the results will
be simply appalling. The French ma
ton has subscribed nearly 5000, OOO,-
600 toward M. de Lesseps's only fail
urs, the subscriptions coming mainly
from the poor and Industrious middle
classes. 1t represents their savings.
and the news that it has been sunk in
q useless ditch in the new world will
ruin thousands and seriously embar.
rass the government itself.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09
Nuggets of Foreign News.

A Toronto woman steals $12. 900 worth
OF bonds and skips to the States.
The first through train for ten days ar.
rived at Winnipeg over the Canadian Pa
cific from the coast on the I'd. Snow slides
are OF constant occurrence in tho noun.
tains.
A dispatch from Providence says that
that city, Bristol, Warren, East Green.
witch and other bayside towns were badly
shaken up by q dynamite explosion in
Newport harbor.
Prince Oscar was formally betro thed to
Miss Munck in the royal palace, Stock
liant one and was witnessed by all the
members Of the royal family and the cab.
met ministers. The king proposed a toast
to his sons health.
London Truth: John L. Sullivan's
friend, Barnard met Jem Smith and Flem-
ing. the latter's manager, in Fleet street.
but was unable to arrange q match be-
tween Sullivan aud Smith. Smith declined
to fight before the end OF May, while Barn.
ard refused to postpone the fight beyond
the last of April. Smith stated chat he
would proceed to America in the autumn
and would arrange a match there with
Sullivan.
Special from Dublin: Two evictions were
mace at hllHiniil, county Ciare. 1ne
sheriff was protected by 200 policemen.
A mob tolled the chapel bell, groaned and
threw missiles at the evictors. The police
charged the people, ana q hot ish
took place. Messrs. Roche and Boland,
merchants at Longiord, has been sentenced
to three months Imprisonment each, and
nine farmers to one month each, for taking
part in an unlawful a~ssemblage on the oc-
casion OF the release from prison
OF Father Egan. The trial Of Mr..
Blame, M. p. Tor Smith Armagh, on
d charge Of melting tenants to re-
sist the authorities, took place, and re-
suited in q conviction. He was sentenced
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09
Criminal Calendar.

DR.. Jurden OF Chippewa Falls murder.
ously attacks Editor j.. N. Phillips from
behind. Philips, though dangerously in
jured, fires three Intellectual shots at his
assailant.
At Buffalo, N. Y, John Cullen, a ship
calker, aged thirty.four years, killed his
mother, Ann Cullen, with an ak. He was
arrested. He gave as An excuse that he
committed the crime so that his mother
would not have to 60 to the workhouse.
By an unusual combination OF circum.
stances there are o two men in Mon.
tana prisons awaiting only the lapse OF a
few days to suffer capital punishment.
One is John Hart OF Boulder, in jail at
Helena under sentence TO be hanged for the
murder OF John w. Pitts. The other is NJ.
l.. Scott OF Granite, who awaits a similar
doom in the Deer Lodge penitentiary
for the murder Of his wife. Hart is sen.
fenced to be hanged at Helena on the 10th
inst, and Scott at Deer Lodge on the
18th.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09

In Massachusetts dogs are put to a
good purpose. A county tax is levied
on them, and the money, after all
damages done by dogs have been paid
for out OF it, is returned to the towns
to be used by them for their public
library. In Middlesex county last
year the receipts from the dog tax
We're $36,372.7O; the expenditures for
damages So. 9o3.2s leaving q hand
some sum for the encouragement Of
letters.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09

The English publishers OF the revised
edition of the Bible, especially the re.
vised New Testament, complain very
much that the venture, in a business
point OF view, is a dead failure. There
is no demand for this revised Bible,
either in part or in whole. Much
money has already been lost, they
say, more will be lost, and they pro.
TESS not to be able to understand why
the sales are not larger and the profits
more ~reassuring.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09

appeal was given. The trial OF Mr.. Cox,
NJ. P. for East Clare, on charge OF violat-
ing the crimes act by addressing the ten
ants at Kildysart. began in that place.
The people OF Kildysart and the surround.
ing neighborhood gathered, and headed by
priests marched toward the court house:
They were charged by the police, who used
their batons freely. AMI cleared the streets.
Many persons were injured. The people
collected again, and finally the police de-
cided to allow them to remain.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09

The Mississippi house OF representa-.
tives has not only passed a bill for
the pensioning OF disabled Confeder.
ate soldiers who are unable to work,
but they included in it a provision for
the "colored servants ofthe same who
are similarly situated" This beats
anything in the pension bill line that
has aver been proposed.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09

Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox is q firm
believer in inherited talent, and it is
said that she attributes her genius for
poetry to the fact that her mother
read "Lalla Bookh" through with
great interest just before her talented
daughter was born.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09

An extraordinary feature OF the re
cent storm on the Northern Pacific
coast was the breaking Of the glass ia
Aillamook Lighthouse, at the mouth
OF the Columbia river. The light
house tower is 100 feet above the sea
level. vet huge waves, rolled up by q
s~outheaster, swept over the top oftha
lighthouse and extingnished the light
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09
DAKOTA

During December past 22.s3l i'm.
migrants arrived in this country,
against 21,17S in December. 1883.
During the year 1887 immigration
to this country amounted to 200, 1881,
against 1886, 361 in 1885.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09
Not in session.
HOUSE.

~HOUSE ."
Mr.. Collins, from the committee on Judi
ciary, submitted to the house adverse re-
ports on the bills to Greats a court of Gus
toms n proposing a constitutional
amendment empowering congress to grant
j to the common schools OF the states.
Laid on the table.
Mr.. Dockerey, OF Missouri, from the
committee on postotfices and post roads,
reported q bill authorizing the appoint
ment OF II division supe~rintendents OF the
railway mail service. :,
Mr.. Nutting, OF New York, offered q res
olution calling upon the secretary OF the
treasury for information in regard to the
refusal OF the Canadian authorities to al
low American wrecking vessels and mach
inery to assist American vessels while in
distress in Canadian waters: and as to
whether Canadian wrecking vessels and
machinery are permitted to operate in
American waters. Referred.
SENATE. n
Not in session.
Congressman Wilson presented ia tn
house a petition from the executive com
smittee Of the w. q. T. u. of Minnesota
signed by Mrs. H.R. Herbert and Mrs. e.
s.. Wright OF Red Wing. Mrs. c. L. Hay.
ward and Mrs. M. A. Henderson OF Min.
neapolis, representing 1000 members,
asking for the abolition OF the internal
revenue taxation upon whisky. claiming
that the imposition Of tho tax rendered
the suppression of the alcoholic liquo,
traffic much harder
Mr.. Wilson Of Minnesota (Dem.) spoke
in support Of the contestee and declared
that men would be moral psrjurers II they
did not vote their honest convictions ir-
respective OF every party consideration.
Mr.. Outhvaite OF Ohio supported the ma.
jority rec olution, and the house, without
reaching q vote, adjourned.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09

A lady living in Rappahannock
county, Virginia, hadtwelve stands OF
bees, which were very valuable until a
distillery vas started in the neighbor.
hood. Since 1T was started, hove
ever, the bees pay frequent visits to
the still, get very drunk and are of lit.
tie profit.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-02-09

~unforgiving spirit.
After school closed ! fell i'll, and she
had the hardihood to inquire after
me and tell my father chow sorry
she was." She did not dream that
the same illness was to a great ex-
tent, brought on by worry caused by
a babel Of uncharitable wagging
tongues. Oh, no! And / had, morning
after morning, during the bitter cold
weather, taken off her little daughters
shoes, and held her feet in my hands
until they were thawed out.
never would advise anyone pos.
| sessed Of conscience to teach. /
could neither eat, sleep nor enjoy my.
self in any way that Winter. But my
experience was Of value to mt. /
taught successfully afterwards, but
established my own practice.
There is nothing in the wide world
so trying to the nerves, so dispiriting,
as teachers work. What one gains
to-day one loses tomorrow. II one
had only the children to deal with it
would be g. small matter to govern
them, but when the parents are con-
stantly finding fault with q teachers
methods OF conquering children who
run wild at home, and who expect her
to govern fifty children without strict
measures, when the same parents can
not govern three or four with strict
measuses, it is rather q trying task.
Let him who disbelieves try, and see.
One of the contributors Of the Help
ing Hand recently charged d teacher
with using Language to q little girl
which was unseemiy in the extreme. !
do not doubt the lady's statement,
but, like the teacher who answered iii,
! think the neighborhood ia which she
, 1888-09-13
The Vineyards of France.

The prize of $50, 900 offered some
years ago by the French government to
any n who should invent a remedy for
that destructive disease of the vine,
~phylloxera, has not yet been awarded,
although experiments with some of the
remedies proposed have yielded encourag-
ing results. The losses caused by this
disease are mormon About one-half
of the vineyards of France have been
totally destroyed by it. Mr.. Roosevelt,
our consul at Bordeaux, reports that the
loss caused directly by the destruction of
vines is thus far 81, 440, 900, 900, to ~hich
should be added more than $3.50, 900, 900
expended for wine and dried grapes i'm
ported to make good the shortage, raising
the total loss So, 600, 900, 900. The value
of wine imported into France, to be
''doctored' in various ways for use at
homo and sale abroad as the product of
French vineyards, has risen from ST.
$40, 34s in 1876 to 500, 900, 900 in 1887.
New York Times.
, 1888-09-13
A Cure Tor SleenIessness.

The terrible evil of insomnia has SO
many different sources that the utmost
we can hope from any single artifice is
to afford relief from it under one special
form. l venture to think I have hit upon
a plan which thus remedies a very com
mon mot ~aggravated) kind of sleepless-
ness, and, with your permission, will
endeavor to make your readers who may
be fellow sufferers, sharers in my little
discovery. 1t is now, l believe, gene
rally accepted that our conscious, day
light thinking processes are carried on in
the sinister half of our brains-i. g., in
the lobe which controls the action of the
right arm and leg. Pondering on the
use of the dexter half of the brain-pos-
sible in all unconscious cerebration, and
in whatsoever may be genuine of the
mysteries of planchette and spirit rap
ping| came to the conclusion Shared,
no doubt, by many other better qualified
inquirers) that we dream with this lobe,
and that the fantastic, immoral, sprite
like character of dreams is, in some way,
traceable to that fact.
The practical inference then struck me;
to bring back sleep when lost, we must
quiet the conscious, thinking, sinister
side of our brains, and bring into activity
only the dream side, the dexterlope. To
do this, the only plan 1 could devise was
to compel myself to put aside every
waking thought, ever soothing and pleas
ant ones, and every effort of daylight
memory, such as counting numbers or the
repetition of easy flowing verses, the lat
ter having been my not wholly unsuc-
cessful practice for many years. Instead
Of all this, / saw l must think of a dream,
the more recent the better, and go over
and over the scene it presented. Armed
with this idea, the mex time 1 found my
self awakening at 2 or 3 o'clock in the
morning, instead Of merely trying to BAN
ish painful thoughts, and repeating. as was
my habit, that recommendable soporifc,
Paradise and the Peri" l reverted at
once to the dream from which / had
awakened, and tried to go on with it. In
q moment / was asleepl And from that
time the experiment, often repeated, has
scarcely ever failed. Not seldom the re-
suit is sudden as the fall of acurtain, and
seems like a charm. a friend to whom
1 have confided my little discovery tells
me that, without any preliminary
theorizing about the lobes of the brain. she
had hit upon the same plan to produce
sleep, and had found it wonderfully
eficacious.-Cor. London Spectator.
, 1888-09-13
Work of a Drug Clerk.

People have no idea what a much
abused class of workers are the drug
clerks. They have to spend years study
ing chemistry and other branches con-
uected with the pharmaceutical profess
sion, M after they go to work what do
they get2 The answer is-precious little.
Aside from the small compensation al
lowed lis for our services, there are the
long hours and Sunday work. l rarely
work less than thirteen hours a day, and
am required to work even harder on the
seventh day of the week than the first.
Besides filling prescriptions and serving
customers with other articles in the line
carried by the trade, 1 am kept on the
run to the soda fountain. The drug
clerks generally have but really little
time 10 enjoy the good things of this life,
and, after serving many years in the
business, l can truthfully say hat there
is little in it. The salaries paid years
ago were better than now, but ever hen
it was not a luerative profession. The
aus of the present low salaries is the
large accessions to the ranks of the medi-
cine mixers year after year. They are
being turned out of the colleges of phar-
macy in droves every year, and when
beginning do not object to working for
low wages. The consequence of this is
that the salaries Of the old timers have to
come down, as the owners of the drug
stores do not care about paying more
than they can avoid.-Drug clerk in
Globe Democrat.
, 1888-09-13

The total number of stars one can see
will depend very largely upon the clear
ness of the atmosphere and the keenness
of the eye. There are in the whole ce-
lestial sphere about 5000 stars visible to
an ordinarily good BYE. OF these, how
ever, we can never see more than a frac-
ton at any n time, because a half of
the sphere is always below the horizon.
II we could see a star in the horizon as
easily as in the zenith, a half of the
whole number, or 5000, would be visi-
BILE on any clear night. But stars near
the horizon are seen through SO great a
thickness of atmosphere as greatly to OBJ
scure their light, and only the brightest
ones can there be seen. AS a result Of
this observation, it is not likely that more
than 1000 stars can be taken in at a sin
gle view by any ordinary eye. About
1000 other stars are SO near the South
pole that they never rise in ourslatitude.
Hence, out of G, 200 supposed to be visi-
BILE, only 1000 ever come within range
of our vision, unless we make q journey
towards the equator.-Professor E. s.
Holden in The Century.
, 1888-09-13

The laundry where all the linen from
the Dolma Bagtche palace is washed is
under the direction of a man, but the
work is all done by women. They have
no w~ashboards and rub the garments in
their hands. They do not boil the
clothes at all, and they are white as
snow. They wash the clothes through
two waters and then pack them tightly
in baskets, covering them with towels,
which they strew thickly with wood
ashes and sliced lemons. Boiling water
is then poured over them, and the clothes
remain thus all night and in the morn
ing are rinsed and hung out.-New York
Herald.
, 1888-09-13

Earth was not to the Egyptians what
it is to us-a globe carried safely through
space by the laws of gravitation. Every
body in Egypt knew that it was 4 fat.
oblong, quadrangular slab, more like the
upper board of a table than anything
they could imagine. 1t was surmounted
by a fiat, iron roof stretching at some
distance from it and supported by four
strong pillars, which prevented it from
falling and crushing what was under
meath. Thus the world was. like a two
storied house, the various parts of which
might be connected, as they are in our
houses, by a staircase or by a ladder.
The Egyptians supposed hat there was
somewhere in the west a tall ladder
which went up straight from earth to
heaven. Gods and goddesses watched it
day and night. Nobody was allowed to
climb it unless he had the password, and,
even after giving it, those poor souls
were in danger of never reaching the
OPP who were not helped by the hand of
some piteous divinity. Once on the solid
door of the armament they Travelled
iorthward until they came to the brink
If the boreal ocean; there they found
Inc ferry boat or the ibis of Thot, the
fldge Osiris and his assessors, the island
of the Happy, where they settled forever
and ever among the indestructible stars,
IS indeatructible as any of them. Pro
ssor Maspero. r.
, 1888-09-13

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 a
few kopecks. The priest and the monk
being both poor, it is no
sight to see them bargaining for a mar
riage or a burial, and disputing the price
as they dispute only in Russia. From
that all sorts of anecdotes have sprung.
On one occasion it was a priest, who, to
be revenged on a father for his a~varice,
gave the child a ridiculous name at bap-
tism.
On another, a peasant asked his min
lister for permission to get married in an
other parish. very good" said the
priest, ''but have you calculated what
your doing SO will cost me2 Now, in
the first place 1 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 be three burials in my pocket.
Ater that 0 would have sons or
daughters to marry, say four; hat would
be four marriages l should lose" Eyes,
that's very well counted up" replied the
moujiki ''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 1 forbid you to leave
the parish, and 1 shall only ask you ten
roubles for your marriage. STANLEY
Mckenna in The Cosmopolitan.