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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
.nussia's Domination I'm Asia.

A great and motley throng of brown
ish Hindoos, dusky Afghans, pallid
Persians and yellow Cinnamon, together
with the vari-hued compilations of the
nomad tribes and minor nationalities of
Central Asia, is preparing for the pic
turesque pomp and ceremonials of coro-
nation at Samarcand, the historical capt.
tai Of Tamerlane, of the great white car
of Russia, who will henceforth become
also emperor of Central Asia.
This great forthcoming event, which
the activity of the Nihilists three years
ago postponed, is dwelt upon no less with
interest by the impressionable and
glamour seeking Orientals of Calcutta,
Pekin, Cabul and Teheran than looked
forward to with innate pride and gratifi-
cation by the chief parsonage in the COR
onation, who thus contemplates the re-
alization of long cherished dream which
has irradiated the slumbers and gilded
the waking thoughts of the long line Of
Russian imperial rulers for generations.
Now the completion of the Transcaspian
railroad makes the project easy of execu-
ton, and all Central Asia is agitated
with the coming event. At the corona
ton OF the reigning emperor in Moscow
few years ago special care was taken
to insure the presence of powerful
Asiatics, who were duly impressed with
the tremendous military display which
they witnessed, and returned TO spread
abroad the fame and dread of Russia.
The same effect will be produced in a
more marked degree at Samarcand.
While in Turkestan this event will
destroy the last vestiges of formidable
opposition to Russia's domination, it will
also create uneasiness in England, and
even Germany will view with disquietude
this extension Of Cossack domination
into Central Asia.-Philadelph In
uilirpr
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
How the Solid Mon Talk.

Every man who has ever wore o felt
hat in America has heari of Robert Dun
lap, tho great hat manufacturer. Dun
lap, four years ago, was ono of Cleveland's
most enthusiastic admirers, but hero is
the way he talked to q reporter of The
Cincinnati Enquirer, John r. McLean's
able Democratic newspaper:
81 work 700 hands. At the last election
I set in for Grover Cleveland and used my
best influences with my men to accom-
plish his election. Now don't think he
will get vote out of tho establishment.
Business Is hard enough, sir, for these
politicians to keep their hands off it.
Give them on inch and they will DO taking
ON ell. Whenever politicians put their
hands into our business affairs they do
nobody any good. confuse the times and
render us liable to close up and turn out
our men. Mr.. Cleveland has taken tho
gratuitous pains to trouble such estab-
lishments as mino, and / think we will
remind him at tho election that we appre-
ciate his attention"
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Following Up Their Patrons.

The custom among business firms Of
following their patrons to different re-
sorts is gaining rapidly. Dress goods and
imported costumes are now exhibited in
hotel parlors; embroidery and all devices
in fancy work are spread upon hotel
tables, and the city dealer in fancy wares
has become dangerous rival to Indians
with their stock Of gay baskets. 1t is
said that modistes sometimes follow de-
linquent customers to the resorts on dun
ming bent; manicures have become part
OF all fashionable hotels, and others make
the most of summer marts, and often
gain much profit from their enterprises.
Chicago Herald.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Cramp of tho Pinnists.

Certain functional diseases of the hand
and arm have been observed in pianists
by Mr.. Vivian Poorc. This cramp Of
the pianists he estimates to be eight
times as common as the cramp of
writers; and he finds especially liable to
it those who practice with the wrist con-
tinually held rigid. The symptoms are
painful stiffness of the shoulder and of
the right arm, less frequently of the left
side. cramps of the little finger and Of
the ring finger, sometimes with trem-
blng-this distressing condition often
persisting after exercise with the keys,
and being brought back by the least ex-
ertion Of hand or fingers. Cold, seden-
tary habits, weakness and predisposition
to rheumatism and govt increase the La
bilty to it.-Arkansaw Traveller.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
His Conversion was Too sudden.

In proportion as the Canadians and
English become satisfied that President
Cleveland was playing to the gallery" In
his recent message. they begin to talk big
and knit their brows and to attempt to
rival Mr.. Cleveland in gasconading and
braggadocio. Sir Hector Langevin, the
Canadian minister of public works, and
Sir John Thompson, minister of Justice,
recently delivered political addresses In
the province of Ontario, in which they
plucked sundry feathers out of the Amer
lean eagles tail in revenge for the twist
which Mr.. Cleveland gave to the caudal
appendage of the British lion; and one
was just about as much in earnest as the
other.
Sir Hector exhorted his constituents to
be collected and clam while discussing
President Clevelands message, and said
they should not resent too much hard
names and hard words spoken against
Canada; but no intimated that the Sleep
ing lion might be aroused, and then there
would be trouble. Sir John Thompson
struck a higher note, and asserted that
the citizens of Canada were in no mood to
submit to tho dictation of any foreign
power, and that If Canadians were inn
posed upon it was their duty to uphold
their rights and defend the honor of their
country. "
Across the water the message is looked
at in somewhat different light, but it is
not regarded as anything very alarming.
The Whitehall Review criticises 1t in
these words, after reviewing tho action of
the senate in rejecting the treaty:
'In word, President Cleveland has
lowered himself to the level of the sena.
tors and has forgotten dignity, states
manship and everything else In an at.
tempt to gain party advantage over his
opponents.
When the president wants 20 create
sensation he should have the claque bet
ter drilled. 1t has taken his foreign sup
porters some time to grasp the situation,
and even now The Whitehall Review
shows that it has not thoroughly learned
its lesson, ns it blurts out the truth too
plainly and directly. The Canadian gen.
try appreciate the situation much better,
1t would seem. as they whoop it up Just
enough to keep up interest in the mes.
sage.
Here at home, however, tho message
has fallen very fiat. Americans laugh and
wink and say: Pretty good political
dodge" but they decline to believe that
Mr.. Cleveland's sudden conversion to
Americanism is genuine. or that 1t is in
tended to last longer than until the even
ing of tho 9Th of November.-SanF Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Little Points, but yvcighty.

1t is true, as asserted by the Democrats,
that Mr.. Morton has o barrel" The
people found that out good many years
years ago when he tapped it SO literally
for the relief Of want and suffering in
poor old Ireland.--St. Louis Globe. Demo
crat.
Mr.. Humans little speech. in which
he says the tariff taxes tho laboring man
from the crown of his head to the soles of
his feet, Is q regular top and bottom
game. 1t Is fully as delusive as the ordi-
nary racket Of that sort. It will fool
those who bet on it just as badly.-Den-
yer Times.
The New York city Democrats are very
much annoyed that the president does not
remove Postmaster Pearson. who Is Re-
publican. Never mind. He Is the kind
of Republican that votes for Democrats
for Office, and therefore almost as useful
as the real, genuine mossback to the
party. Let him remain. Minneapolis
Tribune.
1t is probably true, as Mr.. Blaine says,
that If wo should adopt the Mills Clcvc-
land free trade policy, our factories would
not be closed; but it is equally true. as he
adds, that if kept open they would not
pay moro than half the present wages.
The issue, in other words, Is not SO much
that of caring for the interests of the
manufacturers as it is that of protecting
the laboring people against the loss Of at
least 80 per cent. of the pay which they
now receive.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Poor Mr.. Bayard's diplomatic ventures
oil seem to come to grief. Now that his
pet fisheries treaty has been rejected by
the senate, his cup of woe must be over
flowing. Alasl poor Bayard. However,
Cleveland now has an opportunity to
prove that oil these allegations Us to his
pro-British sympathies are false. BY oil
means let us have war against Canada
dark, bloody, horrid war. But 1t must DO
over in time for the November election
Minneapolis Journal (Rep.)
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Laughter indicative OF Character.

An authority on laughter says: 1t has
been observed that laughter is indicative
Of particular temper and character, ac-
eording to the sound of the vowel that
prevails in exclamation. Persons that
laugh in broad Latin "a" are open
hearted, honest people, fond of noisy jo-
cundity, but perhaps Of voluble mood.
Excessive jerking laughter, however, Is
an evidence Of vulgarity. Those laugh
ing in dry "a" are respectable, but
little expansive, and hard lot of people.
When the Latin ''E" prevails there pre-
walls also phlegmatic, melancholy tenn
per. Timorous, unsteady people, also
those imbued with malignity, laugh in u
kind of swelling ~" Laughter in 20"
is the utterance of proud, bold, impera-
tive, somewhat bantering people. Be-
ware Of those that laugh in 100 (u).
They are traitors, haters, scorners.-New
York Sun,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Very Peculiar wedding Rings.

Lieut.. Won Francois, the African ex-
plorer, has recently described a strange
custom among the Bayanzi, who live for
many miles along the Upper Congo. The
custom would seem to make life q good
deal of burden to their married women.
Brass rods, which are the favorite cur
rency in the country, are welded into
great rings around the necks of the
wives. Many Of these rings worn by
the women, whose husbands are well to
do, weigh as much as thirty pounds, and
this burden must be carried around by
the poor women as long as they live.
Frequently" says Lieut.. Won Fran.
co.'s, zone sees poor woman whose neck
is raw and sore under the heavy weight,
and in places the skin is rubbed off by
the ring. This is sure sign that the
ring has been recently welded around
her neck, for after time the skin be-
comes calloused, and then the strange
ornament produces no abrasion. But
tho weight Is an inconvenience; they
never get used to it, and it is perpetual
tax upon their energies. In every crowd
of women may be seen number who are
supporting the ring with their hands,
eAA mus iNt % tihiO ASiiCNihS thCI weary
shoulders Of the heavy bur6en. 1t may
be said that with every movement OF
their bodies the rings give them discom-
fort.
"A ring is never put around wo-
mans neck until she is believed to have
attained her full physical development.
Once on, it is no easy matter to get it off.
The natives have no such thing as a file,
and, though they can hammer lot of
brass rods into one. it is very difficult
for them to cut the thick mass Of metal
in two. Women who increase largely
in flesh after the rings have been fas-
tened on their necks are in danger of
strangling to death, and instances of this
sort have been known to occur.
"Yet these women regard the cum
brous ornament with pride, imagine that
it enhances their importance and beauty,
and wear the burden with light hearts
Brass is the money of the country, and
by putting it around their wives necks
the men are pretty certain that it won't
be stolen or foolishly expended. But it
is an odd and cruel sort of savings
bank. New York Sun.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Fnttenine tho Goose,s Llvcr.

Little does the over fed sybarite know
what cruelty is often practiced so that
his dainty palate may be sufficiently
tickled. Harper's Bazaar has this to say
concerning pate dc foie gras: Every
body knows that tho pate de foie gras of
Strasburg is the best in the world, but
very few of us have. more than vague
idea of the methods employed for enlarg-
ing the livers of the geese from which it
is made. Now tho liver of the goose so
trained, if we may use the expression,
is twelve times as large as nature in
tended it to be. In order to obtain this
result the unfortunate geese are sub
jected to torments unknown even to the
early Christians. The first thing done is
to nail the feet of the geese fast to
planks, so that they may not arrest the
desired tumefaction Of the liver by even
the slightest movement. Secondly, their
eyes are put out, that nc glimpse of the
world they have left may disturb them.
Finally, they are crammed with nuts, a
delicacy of which they are extremely
fond, but they arc not allowed to drink
drop of water, although they suffer
such tortures from thirst that they utter
piercing cries of agony.,"-The Epoch.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Tho Big Rooster.s Indignation.

A disappointed barn yard fowl is often
as cross as if it could show its temper
after the manner of human beings. The
big dominique rooster was q very good
natured fellow with hens and young
chickens, and he seldom resented having
kernels OF corn, no matter how many,
snatched out from under his beak, when
it was done in fair scramble. But if
he had begun to crow, and kernel was
Unexpectedly dropped where he certainly
would have got it, had he not been SO
busy, it was too much to see his share
taken away by any other fowl. He fire.
quently pecied the offender as soon as ho
could stop growing and showed general
i'll temper for few moments. His in
dignation was SO amusing that we fell
into the habit of teasing him in this way,
until. ar last, the old fellow began to
practice choking down the rest of his
crow when corn was thrown in front Of
him. Gradually he managed to stop
moro and moro quickly, and in the end
he would swallow his voice with q gulp,
and snatch q bit of food as promptly as
if he had not been Growing at all.-Ben-
jamin Kair in Popular Science Monthly.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Lincoln and a High Protective Tariff.

In 1889, when Abraham Lincoln was
candidate for seat in tho Illinois legis--
lature, he addressed convention as fol-
lows. Even at tho present time, efter
fifty-six years, the words he uttered mako
good political platform:
GENTLEMEN, FELLOW CITIzENs-I pre-
sumo you know who am. am humble
Abraham Lincoln. l have been solicited
by my many friends to become candidate
for the legislature. My politics can be
briefly stated. am in favor Of the i'm
provement system and high protective
tariff. These are my sentiments and POI
litical principles. If elected shall DO
thankful; If not, It will be all the same
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Greatness Sitting for Its Picture.

Almost every photographers studio Of
any Importance in the country has, at
one time and another, been visited by
some notable people, and there are not q
few in the business who can tell very
amusing stories about the whims of
greatness when it sits for its picture.
Politicians and members of the legisla-
ture arc not, as a general thing, hard to
please, as they are almost all SO used to
the proceeding that they grow careless
about it, but actors, ministers, literary
people and artists are in bad favor with
the knights Of the camera.-Chicago
News.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Seaside Sights.

Sandy stretches, surging surf. salty smells,
Shelving shore, scorching sun, shining shells,
Sprinkling spray, sparkling surface, stormy sky,
STUFFED stages, sprightly spinsters, suffers shy.
Stylish SUITS soaked stockings, splashed skirts,
Sly sparkling, soft speeches, summer shirts.
Shrieking swimmers, shapeiy shoulders, sick
SWANS,
Skinny shins. sunshades, stretching senes.
Scudding schooners, screw steamers sloops, sails,
Srssll smacks, strong sailors, silvery scales,
Saving stations, signals streamers, shrouds spars
Skillful shippers steering ships, seats. stars
Savage sharks, sea serpents, skates, soles,
Snipe, snappers, shrimp, scollops, sunken shoals,
Sea spiders. swarming 'skeeters, seagiills, AZ
Silly singers, soulful stroers, swift SOULS.
Splid'sleep, startling scores saline shifts,
Strapped strangers, stern sires, shallops, skiffs
Splurging striplings, sappy snobs, sudden squalls
Sedgy swamrs, scarfs, satins, silks, shawls
Sabbath sinners, social scandal, snkers, smells,
Scheming scamps, Simple Simons, sporting swells
H. G. Dodge in New York World
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Extravngance.

Mr.. Cawdell, as we may CALI him--accent
on the second syllable, of course-had been
abusing his wife for buying some dry goods
which no did not regard as necessary.
Look here" said Mr.. Cawdell, ~ gave
you $3.50 yesterday, and you went and spent
it right of, rs you know, for q lot of calico
and needles and thread and that sort of thing.
Didn't youW
"Yc-es, said Mrs. Cawdell, timidly.
And rebuked you for it last nightF'
"Yes. you didr
"Ehl Well, hope you heartily repented
your extravagancep'
eyes, indeed, Mr.. Cawdell! cried so last
nigh that FL soaked three handkerchiefs!"
Soaked three handkerchiefs! There you
go again-running up washing bill in that
perfectly reckless wayr'-Youth's Compan-
ion
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Tricks of tho Trade.

"What beautiful peachcs!' said an old
lady as she stopped ut stall in tho market
and admired q basket Of early peaches. They
were covered with pink Cauzo and looked
very tempting. Hr
Tho old lady bought the peaches and took
them home. The next day she appeared
again at tho stall and showed the stall keeper
b small piece of pink net
"Do you keep that kind of yelling for sale!'
she asked
The stall keeper told her that he did not.
"Well," she said "when got them peaches
home, they were small, and sour and green,
and I thought If / could get some of that
stuff that made them look SO pretty and
plump in the basket, I'd wear it myself. If
1t would improve me as much rs it did the
peaches, folks would think I'd found the
Eliza of life."-Detroit Free Press.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
A Second Dfunchhauscn.

One morning before it was light went up
on Pigeon creek to shoot pigeons. I tied my
horse to a swinging limb, and waited for it
to become light enough for me to SEQ how to
shoot. When it was light enough 1 shot at
some pigeons near by, and when tho smoke
cleared away I noticed that my horse was
gone. looked all around for him, but could
see him nowhere. until hearing a groan
looked up and saw him hanging in the air.
Ihad tied him to the top of tree OH which
the pigeons were roosting, and when fired
the gun the pigeons few, tho tree straight.
ened up and carried my horse with it.-Tal-
bottom (Ga.) New Era.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Americans Havo Better Taste.

Nothing that requires any artistic taste
is as well made in Great Britain as in the
United States. English manufacturers
have no taste. In carpets, calicoes. wall
papers, fancy goods of all kinds, we beat
them out of sight. FREQ trade would
substitute the coarse and crude manufac-
lures of England for the nice and tasteful
ones of this country, at tho same time
killing off our industries and taking bread
and butter out of the mouths Of American
worlSmen. That does not seem to be
quite tho right thing. indianapolis Jour.
nal.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Economical Locomotive Engineers.

"You have seen the cotton waste with
which engineers rub up their engines2
Well, that isn't as valuable as gold dust,
but every engineer is as careful of it as if
it were. lie has a bag in his cab to keep
it in, and when he has used it he puts it
back in the bag with as much pains as
an old lady would use with her quilt
pieces. Quite tho natural thing for him
to do, you say; but there's where you
arc wrong. Unless mon are trained to
be careful about these things the natural
way seems to be to throw away or other
wise lose more than they save. Now,
suppose every engineer on the road saves
cents day by an economical use of oil
and waste, that amounts to q pretty
penny when you reckon on tho thou
sands of engines run by tho road. You
see how system and discipline pay!
There's nothing like it.'-Philadelphia
Times
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Campaign Against saccharine.

T1ss French sugar makers have COM
menced campaign against saccharine,
extracted from coal tar. Experiments
have shown that 1t is not noxious, but
the Society of Agriculturists have petit
toned the governmental forbid its man.
ufacture, as prejudicial to tho beet root
sugar trade.-New York Sun.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Not q Success.

She had tried oil the systems of mncz1onics
that were known, yet never could remember
names. When she was introduced to gen.
tleman bearing the peculiar namo of "Slam''
she told her mother that she would never be
able to remember it.
"Why, yes, you can, DEAR" said her
mother. Just think of slam-bang and it
will come easily enough"
So she recited slam-bang every time she
thought Of her new acquaintance, Gld when
she met him again held out her hand cord
tally as sho said:
~ am very glad to meet you, Mr.. Bang
Detroit Free Press.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
Happy and Hungry.

For over five years ! was con-
slant sufferer with that most terrible
and annoying disease, dyspepsia.
Alter paying out hundreds of dollars
the only medicine | found that would
do me any good was Sulphur Bitters.
Six bottles cured me. Now | can eat
well and am happy and hungry.
i EDITOR.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
She Blushed

awfully when told her what to do
for those horrid pimples with which
her face was covered. She now says
if you want pink and white COM.
plexion with nice clear smooth skin
you must use that best Of all blood
purifiers, Sulphur Bitters.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
AT NIGHT.

At set Of sun we fch the breath OF night
Come with the salty seaweed up the bay;
We heard the curlews calling far away;
We saw long lines OF foam. and watched the
fight
OF giittering gulls, and trailing snowy white;
The shrouded crane Jew inland; dim and gray
The crags rose, as the sun sank with the day,
And like horn the moon hung DER the height,
Stepped In her mists. and haloed In her light,
Blurred like a face IN oils. or. like some dye,
Her beauty stained the canvas OF the sky.
The winds turned seward. and the stars were
bright. $500 IItf ..
And when the tide went out--as tides must do
Our hearts went With il. and we thought CT
yon .ftI
Allan Simpson Botsford In Overland Monthly.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
The Secret OF EIoquence.

Sixty years ago the leading pulpit ora
tor of New York city was DR.. John M.
Mason. During a visit to Scotland he
heard DR.. Chalmers, and thought him
the greatest preacher Of the age. A
friend asked him, on his return home,
the secret of Chalmers eloquence. "His
blood earnestness," was the prompt an
swer.-Youth's Companion.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28
The Genuine Article.

"Now, ladies an gents" vociferated an
orator in front of n Boston dime museum,
"walk right in and view the great Athenian
knife swallower, the only one on exhibition.
Ten cents, ladies an gents, it will neither
make nor break
'Is he a genuine Athenianf' demanded the
crowd.
$50 help me, he was born, brought up and
captured in the wilds of Athena"
Then they rushed in.-New York Sun.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-28

A marriage certifcated properly
comes under the head Of moose paper
does it not?
Brown says he is going to study
the language Of Finland in order to
get the proper Finish TO his educa-
tion.
A learned man of Genoa claims to
have discovered that Columbus was
morose and solemn, while Vespucci
was Americas.
Memphis, Tenn, is the greatest
inland cotton market in the world.
1t receives from 100, 900 to ,ooo, 900
bales annually.