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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-08
Other News JOttings.

In the renewed hearing of the case of A. T..
Stewart will case at New York the fact was
developed that the estate had been charged
$6,SO1.21 tor funeral expenses Of the mill
~ionaire.
The case of Gen. Adam Badeau against
the widow of Gen. u. S. Grant, for $4,000
for alleged service on Gen. Grants memoirs,
has been discontinued on consent of both
parties. -
The whaling bark j. A. Rowland arrived
at San Francisco from Fox islands, the Arc
tic ocean. She reports thirteen whalers in
the ice, with little prospects of their getting
out. Their names are: The Ocean, Hidalga,
J. P. West, Hunter, Eliza, Reindeer. Ohio,
Rosario, Saucer, Sea Breeze, Andrew Hicks
and William Bayliss.
Since Sparks wa fired at the Huron land
Office there have been thousands of patents
received at the Huron land Office. But there
are hundreds Of proofs which he held up for
various insignificant reasons that have not
yet come to trial. lust that many settlers
are kept in doubt as to the outcome Of these
suits, and as to whether they will be COM
tedious and expensive process of making new
proof.
The Oregon Railway & Navigation Com
pany has secured the right of way through
the Occur d. Alene Indian reservation in Ida
no, which it has been trying hard to obtain
for over a year.. Many railroad men contend
that this means another transcontinental
line for Portland, the Manitoba system, with
which the O. r. TN. Co.'S lines will connect
in Montana. 1t has been supposed for n
long time that Hills lines would connect with
the Seattle. Lake Shore & Eastern, but this
has been denied. The building of the o. r.
& N. line through the reservation means that
the ore of the Occur d. Alene mines will come
to Portland for reduction.
The Canadian Pacific railroad obtained a
great victory over the Northern Pacific in
the courts at Winnipeg, when the judge rem
dered O decision granting al injunction re-
straining the latter from crossing the Cana
dian Pacific track. One of the grounds on
which the injunction is granted is that the
railway for which a crossing is desired is not
being built by the Manitoba government,
but is really the work of the Northern Paci.
fc, which that company sought to disprove.
The granting of an injunction is a severe set
back to the government, as they are now
powerless to do anything until the supreme
court at Ottawa is appealed to. This is Ger
tain to cause long delay in building the new
line, and puts the farmers of Manitoba at the
mercy of the Canadian Pacific monopoly for
ct least another year. All danger ofconfict
is now over, and citizens sworn in by the gov
eminent as special police have been dis
charged. Supt. Whyte, of the Canadian Pa
cifc, says, however, that he will take no
chance, and will continue to guard the track
with q large force. It is estimated that it
costs the Canadian Pacific over 81, 900 aday
to maintain it's small army of specials.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-08

Italian immigrants to New York
live on nine cents a day. They make
a soup with a bit of pork and cast
off shreds of cabbage and serve it
with black bread. Some italian Ia
borers who are receiving seventy-ive
cents a day are growing rich.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-08

Gold dollars are used for bangles
and trinkets to such an extent that
they have become scarce and com
mand a premium of twenty-five
cents. ..... ..~
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-08

A dweller in the county has OBJ
served that a good file is now a part
of the outfit of the professional
tramp. He finds it useful when
there is a barbed-wire fence between
him and something desirable.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-08

1t must be pretty hard for woman
to lead in fashion" Out of 500 tot
let's and $50 hats surveyed on a re-
cent afternoon on Broadway, New
York, no two were alike, while all
were fashionable.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-08

to have been lost on Lake Michigan with the
entire crew, has been heard from. She passed
Eagle Harbor all safe. E
The secretary of the navy is undergoing an
experience seldom known among cabinet
officers. One month ago the promotion of q
typewriter and clerk in the bureau of steam
engineering left a 5000 vacancy to be filed.
The civil service commission was called up to
furnish a list of eligibles for the selection of a
clerk to fill the place. Theselection wasmade,
but the appointee declined the Office. Anoth-
Grand another declined. A telegraphic re-
fusal was received from the twelfth appointee.
A similar experience is being undergone in
filing o position at $3.50 in the navalrecord
Office. Nine ladies have refused the appoint
ment and the tenth has just been notified of
her selection. The difficulty in both these
cases seems to be with the salaries offered.
John Hayes of Duluth was shot at West Su-
perior by Harry Barnett. Hayes had been in
Barnett semploy and discharged. HemetM Mr..
Barnett and threatened to Edo him up." The
later warned Hayes not to approach him.
but Hayes did not heed the warning aud Bar
nett drew the revolver and fired. The ball
entered Hayes abdomen, making d severe
jail. He is the owner Of the West Superior
theater, and also has a theater in Duluth.
Hayes is q well known sporting man.
The Manitoba mounted infantry militia
thonuh there annaar ~ no No ~, - ed;a4a
danger of a conflict. The arrival of q large
force of Northern Pacific graders from the
Morris branch frightened the Canadian
Pacific people n night, md caused the hur-
ried march Of troops to the scene. At Q
later hour a Northern Pacific train was ac-
c~identally backed into the Canadian Pacific
locomotive, obstrueting the line. This was
regarded in a serious light by the Canadian
Pacific, and additional troops were called
out, but no blows were struck. Contractors
teams under contract of the Manitoba gov
eminent at the 'front.' are working away.
1t the heads Of their horses. The govern
ment men are all under the impression that
an attempt will be made to convey an
engine over the Canadian Pasifc track.
Grading on eitherslde OF the Canadian Pa
cific, presumably with this end In view, is
now being rushed to completion. Supt.
Whyte will resist any attempt to carry a
locomotive over.
In a tavern opposite the Law Courts, in
London. Joseph Kayanauph drew q revolver
and fired q shot at Blanche Cox. The shot
did not take effect. K~ayanaugh was arrest
ed and committed Is iail on the charge 81
attemnted murder. II il reported that both
K%ayanaugh and Cox had been cited to ap-
near as Witnesses before the Parnell connmis.
sion. A 1aye-chambered revolver. with four
Of the chambers loaded, was found on Kav.
ried tRe weanon for elf-deIapsa' a. had heen
threatened with death for making certain
disclosures.
The followin order has been nIaced II the
hands az every agent az tha Maine Central
sraiIroad. T;ctet;ng Chinese ~ ~ thro,rah
Canada nndar tha7 rocant. oct ~ cnnorosa
prohibiting the return to the United States
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-08
Talk About People.

At Winchester, Kentucky, Eli Perkins, the
lecturer, stepped off the Chesapeake & Ohio
train for lunch, and got into a quarrel with
Andrew Mitchell, who owns the restaurant,
over the i%nattention of the walters. He call.
ed Mitchell an ugly name and was promptly
knocked down, whereupon he retired to the
cars. 49,, a." % -. =@ T. aj
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-08

A bridge gave way in Girard, Ala,
and q mule team, q load of lumber
andthe driver fell through. a distance
of twenty feet. Nothing suffered
damage except the bridge.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-08
Railway Building.

The Railway Age ofChicago gets the follow
ing resume Of railroad construction during
the year. Stew people have had any correct
idea of the amount of railway construction
which has been in progress in the United
States during the present year. The impress
sion which widely obtained at the m
ment of the year that railway extension had
been practically suspended and that 1888
would show very little addition of railway
track, seems to have continued, although
the statement published in this
journal for the first six months showed that
nearly 1000 miles of track had been laid.
The fact that the great companies which
added thousands of miles ofnew road in1SS7
practically ceased construction at the end of
that year, for the time being, seemed to war
rant the impression that railway building
had practically come to a standstill. But
while few of the principal companies have
been doing much new building, still work
has been quietly in progress OF hundreds of
short lines all over the land, and already
new track has been laid this years in every
one of the AZ states M territories with three
exceptions, those of Rhode Island, Utah and
Nevada, and almost 5000 miles Of main line
have been added to the railway system ofthe
country since the LIST Of January last"
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-08
pissinx d spsoll fron ths SOIL.

James y. Eddy, ~ Rhode Island who
beepsdigging for Capt. Kidd,e traaaaro:a
0hNo tnrnedu andlonsksttl mn ofpsai1
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-08
BottineQu Pioneer.
JOHN W KENNETH, Editor 1 Pasl.h.r.
BOTTINEAU, DAKOT.
It is related Ola Lincoln, Neb., man
chat he journeyed to California in or.
der to Q an old enemy executed.

It will cost over $1,000, 900 to
run the city government Of New York
this year. The rate of taxation is
1920 per 81, 900 assessed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-27

ter door, he flung up his hat, and cried jo..'
fully: II shall die, then for bert"
He was brought before the Revolutionary
Tribunal When the act of accusation was
read to him, he said, with scornful, curl
ing lip:
81 am stranger to your laws as well as
to your crimes. If have deserved punish
ment, it is not among Frenchmen that
should suffer"
From his prison he wrote farewell letter
to poor little Marguerite, far away in the
secluded house at Mayence
II die for the woman l love-" he said. "On
the scaffold her spirit awaits mine. Death
will unite US. l go with glad heart for
| no longer desire life'
| He dressed himself for the scaffold like a
bridegroom for the presence of his bride.
His lilac coat was embroidered with gold
thread His powdered hair, his breeches,
and waistcoat of white satin and frills of
finest lace, gave him the air of a courtier,
"At last l shall see her again." he said.
pressing to his lips the chestnut curl the
Ijailer's wife had given him.
| He mounted the guillotine with smile on
his lips and rapt, uplifted look in his eyes.
at laSt!n he repeated, and stretched him
self on the weigh-plank.
| So ended one of the straugest attach
ments the world ever knew-Or was this
only it's beginning 2-Hd,per'S BGzar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-27
SOMETHING GREAT.

The trial was ended-the vigil past;
All clad in his arms was the knight at last,
The goodliest knight in the whole wide land,
With eyes that shone with purpose grand.
The King looked on him with gracious eyes,
And said: He is meet for some high emprise.'
To himself he thought: 81 will conquer fate;
will surely die, or do something great"
So from the palace he rode away;
There was trouble and need in the town that day
A child had strayed from his mothers side
Into the woodland dark and wide.
Help cried the mother, with sorrow wild
''Help me, Sir knight, to seek my child
The hungry wolves in the forest roam;
Help me to bring my lost one home ~
He shook her hand from his bride rein:
"Alas poor mother, you ask in vain.
Some meaner succor will do, may be,
Some squire or varlet OF low degree.
There are mighty wrongs in the world to right
keep my sword for a noble fight.
am sad at heart for your baby's fate,
But ride in haste to do something great"
One wintry night, when the sun had set,
A blind old man by the way he met:
'Now, good Sir knight, for Our Ladys sake,
On the sightless wanderer pity take
The wind blows cold, and the sun is down;
Lead me, pray, till l reach the town"
''Nay,' said the knight; II can not wait;
ride in haste to do something great
So on he rode in his armour bright,
His sword all keen for the longed for fight.
Laugh with onslaught" cried the merry crowd.
40 weep walled Others with sorrow bowed.
''Hep US I" the weak and weary prayed.
But for Joy, nor grief, nor need he stayed.
And the years rolled on, and his eyes grew dim,
And he died-and none made moan for him.
He missed the good that he might have done;
He missed the blessings he might have won.
Seeking some glorious task to find,
His eyes to all humber work were blind.
He that is faithful in that which is least
Is hidden to sit at the heavenly feast.
Yet men and women lament their fate,
If they be not called to do something great
Florence 1yiee in Chambers Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-27
How Oysters Are Fattened.

The business of planting oysters and
having them grow properly after they
are planted is not very well understood
by the general public. There lisa great
deal of money invested in the industry
along the Delaware Bay, and occasion
ally some of those heavily interested,
in financial manner, come out OF the
little end of the horn. The process of
catching oysters and fattening them
for the market is, to say the least, a
very interesting one. After the oysters
are caught they are placed on an i'm
mense float, which is air-tight on all
four sides. There are a number of
corks in the bottom of this float, and
after the oysters have been carefully
laid out on the bottom the corks are
Withdrawn, allowing the float to fill
with water and 90 to the bottom of the
bay. The oysters will then open their
mouths like any other fish and drink to
their hearts content. After two or
three tides have swept over them they
are brought to the surface once more.
By this time they have become plump
oysters ready for market. The supply
at the present time is about equal to
the demand. Choice prime oysters
sell at from 81 to 50 per thousand;
while "cullens' rate at from $3.50 to
So. 80 per thousand. -PhiladelphiG IN
O7LiTSy
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-27
FACTS ABOUT MUSK.
Where and How 1t Is Obtained and What
1t Is Worth.

Where and How 1t Is Obtained and What
1t Is Worth.
Every one knows the odor of musk,
ibut every one does not know that it is
Sthe product of secretion of the musk
deer.
This animal is regarded by certain
naturalists as species of gazelle; it is
about the size of a roebuck, and of
gentle and timid nature. Its move
ments are quick, lively and graceful;
but it is especially distinguished by
little sac situated near the navel,
and containing the much-prized musk,
which is secreted as kind of clothed
and fatty humor of brown color, much
resembling dried blood. 1t is only
found in adult males.
Four kinds of musk are distin-
guished in commerce-that from China
or Tonquin, which is considered the
best; that from Yunnan, that from
Assam, and the Kabartine musk, from
Russia and Siberia. 1t appears, not
outstanding the opinion of Cuvier,
that many other species of this family
are provided with musk-pouch, which
may explain the difference presented
by the various samples met with in
commerce.
The price of musk is from s. to $40
an ounce in the natural pouches. The
high price is d strong temptation to
fraud: and the musk is often found
mixed with lead, iron, copper, sand,
increase the volume and weight. After
the introduction of the foreign bodies,
the pouches are closed up again in
so ingenious a manner, that only the
eye of an expert can discover the
fraud. The purest musk, and the most
valued by the Chinese themselves, is
that voided by the animal upon stones
and trees.
The odor of musk is perhaps the
strongest of all known perfumes. Only
minute quantity is necessary to per-
fume a large quantity of other material.
1t is of an incalculable divisibility. If
one opens bottle containing this per-
fume, the whole surrounding air is
saturated with its odor, which may be
carried by the wind for long distances.
Musk was well known to the ancients,
and was highly priced by them as a
medicine, as it still is among the
Oriental nations. About 600 pounds
are annually consumed in the United
States, of which ninety-eight per cent.
is used in perfumery, and the remainder
in medicine.-PopulGr Science NcUS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-27
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Truth told now does not shame the
Devil, but as novelty it attracts his
attention.-N. 0. PicGyune.
1t takes a maiden of thirty-three to
confess that she is not so bitterly set
against smoking after all.-IeCaS Stt-
ingS.
Even if praying always did bring
rain, some people we all know of would
never need to buy an umbrella. SOM
Grille Journal.
According to Pasteur and Cham
perland, typhoid bacillus is, in ninety
nine cases out of a hundred, COM
municated through drinking water.
The man who parts his name in the
middle and the man who parts his hair
in the middle are near relatives in this
great family of humanity Merchant
Traveller.
"A Boston woman made the tour Of
Europe and came home and never
even mentioned it to her most intimate
friend. Dumb? All! You've struck
it.-DetroH Free Press.
The trouble with the cOncert-hall
singer who MARBLES II can not sing the
old songs is that she doesn't succeed
any better with the new ones Norris
torn Herald.
Mr.. Winks Cat a party)-"Who is
that gentleman you were talking TOP"
Mrs. Winks-'I did not hear his rame,
but he is some great scientist" ''How
do you know" 80, from the awk-
ward, tomfool way in which he talks
to women. "-Pbjtadelphi0 Record.
When the leaves begin to take on
a golden tint and there is a bracing
chill in the air that makes log fire en-
joyable, it is the signal for the noun
tain hotel-keeper to walk around in his
shirtsleeves and straw hat, and talk
about the awful hot weather that must
be raging in the city.-Pucb.
They were going to Saratoga the
next day, and she donned her new suit
to show her papa how sweet she looked
it it. The old man was enthusiastic.
beautiful, my dear, beautiful. Now,
what kind of a suit do you call that?'
Papa" she said, as she shyly fingered
a button on his coat, chats business
suit ~ Y World.
-Smith-''Mr. Jones. let me make
you acquainted with DR.. Brown. You
didn't think we had doctor in our lit
tie town, did you?" Jones-"Happy to
meet yon, Doctor! Yes, knew you had
doctor here" Smith-''You knew
it! How did you know it?' Joltes--
"Why, l saw a cemetery about half a
mile out. | should have judged you
had at least two DOCTORS
Great Scientist-"Don't bother me
now" Wife-"But | must; there is
not a thing in this house to eat. y
THAT reminds me. I've just finished
an elaborate article on What Primitive
Man Ate, and What | want to
know is what is certain cultured man
and his wifet to eat?' "Humph! We'll,
let me see. o, just sit down and read
that article. 1t will take away your
appetite, my dear, "-Onsaha World
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-27
DANGEROUS READING.
The UnwhoIesOme State of Mind of the
Noracious NoveI-Rcader.

Voracious Novel-Rcader.
The mischief of voraciOus novel
reading is really much more like the
mischief of dram-drinking than appears
at first sight 1t tends to make all
other literary nourishment intolerable,
just as dram-drinking tends to make
all true food intolerable, and to super
sede food by drink. The voracious
novel-reader of to-day, as we have
said, rejects Scott, because SCOTS
novels contain so much good food that
it is not mere storytelling. The gen.
uine novel-reader detests what he calls
tame stories, stories in which the in
terest is not exaggerated and piled up
ten times as high as the interests of
ordinary life. He wants always to be
| feeling a thrill of excitement running
through his nerves always, to be living
in Imagination through the concen-
trated essence Of the perils of hun
bred adventurous lives, instead of toll
ing calmly through the ordinary hopes
and fears of one. No state of mind can
more calculated to divert the energies
from the sort of quiet tasks to which
they should be habitually applied, and
to keep them stretched on the tenter-
hooks of expectation, waiting for a
sort of strain which is never likely to
occur, and if it did occur, would GER
tainly not find mans energies any
the better prepared for it for having
been worn out previously with a long
series of imaginary eXcitements. The
habit of drinking, it is said, leads
to fatty degeneration of the heart i. e.,
excessive fattening round the heart,
and weak action of the heart in conse-
ouence. So, too, the habit of exciting
novel-reading leads to fatty degenera-
ton of the literary mind, i. e., to an
unhealthy and spasmodic action of the
imagination, and a general weaken
ing of the power of entering thoroughly
into the solid interests of real life. So
far as we know, the only effective cure
for this habit of literary dram-drinking
"a cure not always forthcoming a
moral shock of some kind which eX-
poses the hollowness of all these unreal
interests, and makes them appear as
artificial and melodramatic as they
actually are. That, however, is cure
which is an extremely painful one,
almost cruel in its notwithstanding
er.-LondoH Spectator.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-10-27
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The mastodon is thought to have
been a species of elephant, and from it
the true elephant sprung.
"A new utilization of "a waste prod
uct is the manufacture of paper from
the cedar chips of pencil-makers. The
paper is said to keep moths from car
pets, wool, furs, etc.
The range of 10000 yards attained
by elevating one of the newest breech-
leaders to forty-fve degrees, has led to
the calculation that the Hilton gun
fired at that elevation would carry
twenty miles
The discovery of a new gas has
been reported by two English chemists.
1t is a sulphohuoride of phosphorus,
best prepared by heating pentasul-
phide of phosphorus with lead fluoride
in a leaden tube, and has been named
thiophosphoryl fuoride. 1t inaames
spontaneously on contact with air.
In some recent experiments a red
hot wire was made to serve as a tele-
wire several inches long was placed in
circuit with a charged accumulation
and induction coil and a receiving tele-
phone, and, when the current had
heated the wire, words spoken to the
latter were audible in the telephone.
THE idea that all microbes are in
furious to shealth,' says the Sanitary
NeoOS, is a very common one, even
among those who pose for well-in-
formed persons. The fact is that they
are now believed to play not unim-
portant part in the process of digestion
and the transformation of food into as
simiable form"
Considering the fact that many
astronomers are inclined to regard
Alcyone the chief star of the Pleiades,
as the center about which the universe
revOlves, it seems quite curious that
many savage and semi-civilized tribes
have given this group of stars an eX-
traordinary Importance. The peculiar
beliefs which they hold concerning it
appear to be of great antiquity.
The Krupp gun-factory at Essen
has taken up the manufacture of alu-
minum according to the system of Pro-
fessor Netto, of Dresden, who, in his
process, uses cryolite, a mineral found
in Greenland. This process is said to
yield pure aluminium at q cost Of about
three dollars kilo., and can produce
an ingot of q llilos. in about an hours
time. 1t is supposed that it will be
used at the Krupp factory as an alloy
for steel.
Remains from coal beds prove that
the ferns, OF which several thousand
species are known, constituted very
important part of the earth's earlier
vegetation. They are still abundant,
especially in moist tropical regions.
In the Antilles they comprise about
one-tenth of the vegetation; in Ocean
/ lea, one-fourth or one-ffth; in st.
| Helena, one-third; in Juan Fernandez,
one-half; and in England, one-thirty-
! fifth