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Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
The First CorRets.

As long ago as the days of the Greeks and Romans a slight elancee figure was admired, and stoutness looked upon as a deformity. Martial ridiculed fat women, and Ovid put large waists in the first rank of his remedies against love. Several means were tried then, as now, not only to restrain an expanding figure, but to enhance the beauties of a very slight one. But they were of a different kind from those with which we are familiar. Bandages were worn, with the generic name of fasciD mamillares. These consisted of the strophium, the cloth worn round the bosom; the tenta, a similar band below, and the zona, or waist belt
 When bandages failed, those who valued the beauty of their figure had recourse to a remedy prescribed by Seranus Sammonicus They enveloped their busts with garlands of ivy, which were thrown on the fire as soon as withdrawn, and afterward rubbed all the upper part of their figures either with goose fat mixed with warm milk or with the egg of a partridge. Men were as vain as the wo- men, if we are to believe Arstophanes and other writers. The great comic dramatist mocked his contemporary, Cinecias, for wearing busks of linden wood, and Capi- tolinus, in his biography of the Emperor Antony, mentions that he also has recourse to them to compress his swelling figure.
 Testimony is conflicting, however. Some contend that the ancients wore veritable cor sets arguing that when Homer, in describing Juno's toilet when she wished to captivate Jupiter, speaks of her two girdles, he was really describing a Greek corset; and thai the egide of Minerva, which Virgil describes, is to be interpreted in the same manner But this view Is surely mistaken, for no nlonu-
 
 the use of stiff whalebone corsets, as worn today
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
Boyhood of Admiral Farragut.

Admiral Farragut, one of our naval heroes, once related the following incident of his childhood:
 When was 10 years old was with my father on board of a man-of-war. I had some qualities that, thought, made a man of me. could swear like an old salt, could drink as stiff glass of grog as if had doubled Cape Horn and could smoke hko locomotive was great at cards and fond of gaming in every shape At the close of dinner one day my father turned everybody out of the cabin, locked the door and said to me:
 David, what do you mean to bel"
 "I mean to follow the sea-"
 Follow the seal Yes, to be a poor, miser- kicked and cuffed about the world, and die in some fever hospital in foreign land. No, David; no boy ever trod the quarter deck with such principles as you have and such habits as you exhibit You'll have to change your whole course of life if you ever become a man."
 My father left me and went on deck. was stunned by the rebuke and overwhelmed with modification.
 "A poor, miserable, drunken sailor before the mast. Be kicked and cuffed about the world and die in some fever hospital That is to be my fate," thought l. "rll change my life, and change it at once. I'll never ut ter another oath; will never drink another drop of intoxicating liquor; will never gamble" l have kept these three vows ever since. That act was the turning point in my destiny
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
NOTICE
NOTICE To Property Owners, the Value of Whose Property has Been Increased.
OFFICE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
 OF FINAL COUNTY, FLORENCE. JmlY p. 1SS9.

OF FINAL COUNTY, 7
 FLORENCE, July 2, 1889. Paragraph 2654, tion 2S of the Revised Statutes of Arizona, provides that the Clerk of the Board of Equalization shall make out list of all persons, the valuation of whose property has been added to, with the amount So added on the assessment roll, not appearing before the Board in July, may appear before the Board in August, and upon affidavit that he had no knowledge of such increased valua- tion of his property he shall have a hearing before the said Board.
 The following is list of persons, the valu' to-wit:
 Feliciano Arujo, raised on cattle from 2( head to 40 head. Francisco Ajalla, raised on cattle from F head to 9 head. 1 Sylvester Andrada, raised on cattle from $50 to 800 head.
 Mary E. Bills, raised on real estate iron S1, S2O to g, ,OOO. | Estate of s. Richard, raised on real estate from S1, 300 to 1,6OO.
 Thos Buchanan, raised on ranch improve ments from S2O0 to 400. 1 Francisco Berdugo, raised on cattle from T. head to 9 head
 T. w. Bates, raised on real estate from S25t to 800.
 J. T. Bates, raised on improvements ol real estate from S4O0 to 800.
 Bien & Atkinson, raised on household good from $50 to 100; on merchandise rom $50 t. $500; blacksmith and other tools from S10 to 150 Improvements on real estate iron $500 to 1000.
 Robt. Branaman, raised on cattle from 5( to 75 head.
 John Brown, raisel on ranch improve ments from $500 to 400
 Buzon & Wills, raised on real estate iron $50 to 100.
 A. F. Bellamy raised on household good from S25 to 75; on harness from b to 35 dol lars
 Geo. Benson, raised on cattle from 75 t, 200 head.
 w. A. Cunningham, rais on real estat from S1OO to 1,6OO
 Jesus Castro, raised on cattle from hea to 50 head.
 J. L. Clark, raised on cattle fIom $50 t 500 head ol improvements on real estat from S700 to S1 ,250.
 Wm. Clarke, raised on real estate iron s2, $50 and S9,3S0; on block 159 from $25 t 75.
 J. Champion, raised on improvements ol real estate from $500 to 500; merchan disc from &, 800 to 5000
 A. J. Denier, raised on real estate iron
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
THE CURIOSITY SHOP.
Coined Money-Its Origin-The Shekel
 and the Pound.

anu tno EOunus
 Coined money is a very ancient invention. There may have been a golden age when gold was altogether unknown, and people paid with COWS, not with coins. When precious metals-gold, silver, copper or iron-began to be used for payment, they were at first simply weighed Englishmen still speak of pound instead of a sovereign. The next step was to issue pieces of gold and silver properly weighed, and then to mark the exact weight and value on each piece.
 This was done in Assyria and Babylonia, where we find shekels or pounds of gold and silver. The commerce of the eastern na- tions was carried on for centuries by means of these weights of metal It was the Greeks, the Greeks of Phocea in Ionia, who in the Seventh century B. c. first conceived the idea of coining money, that is of stamping on each piece their city arms the phoca or seal, thus giving the warranty of their state for the right weight and value of those pieces. From Phoc9a this art of coining spread rapidly to the other Greek towns of Asia Minor, and was thence transplanted to Agina, the Peleponnesus, Athens, and the Greek colonies in Africa and in Italy.
 The weight of the most ancient gold coin in all these countries was originally the same as that of the ancient Babylonian gold shekel, only stamped with the arms of each country, which thus made itself responsible for its proper weight. And this gold shekel or pound, in spite of historical disturbances, has held it's own through centuries. The gold coins of Croesus, Darius, Philip and Alexander have all about the same weight as the old Baby lonian gold shekel, 60 of them going to nina of gold; and, what is stranger still, a sover- eign, or pound, or shekel, has nearly the same weight, 60 of them going to an old Babylo- nian nina of gold In ancient times 20 silver drachmas or half shekels went to a gold she1el, just as in England 20 silver shillings are equivalent to a sovereign. This ancient shilling was again subdivided into 60 copper coins, 60 being the favorite Babylonian figure Knowing therefore, the relative monetary value of a gold and silver shekel or hali shekel, knowing how many silver shekels the ancient nations had to give for one gold shehel, it was possible by merely weighing the ancient coins to find out whether there was then already any fixed ratio between gold and silver Thousands of ancient coin. have thus been tested, and the result ha! been to show that the ratio between gold aut | silver was fixed from the earliest times witt the most exact accuracy. That ratio as Dr | Brugsch has shown, was one to twelve and | half in Egypt; it was, as proved by Dr | Brandis, one to thirteen and one-third il | Babylonia and in all countries which adopted | the Babylonian standard.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
The Paris ExpositIon.

An idea of the vastness of the Paris expo sition may be gained from the area it covers. Although the buildings are closely grouped, the total ground surface is about seventy acres. The buildings are noted for strength, lightness and beauty. Nearly 5000, 900 have already been expended.
 With the exception of Germany, Turkey and Montenegro, every civilized or semi civilized nation in the world is represented. Great Britain and Russia make the best for eign exhibits, and the United States makes 8 magnificent showing South America is well represented, and there is grand display from China, Japan, Siam, Morocco and other eastern countries. Days.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
THE EsTHRTIc WAISTS.

So tho wasp and it's family worked day af- ter day, flying back and forth to their tasseled home, first making the cells for their eggs and food, then, all being snug and tight, hurry ing off again to have the store rooms well filled with provisions for the few who would live until another spring. All through the summer months sounded their energetic, busy hum, telling tale of lots of work to be done and six short months to do it inl Buzz, buzz, buzzl Long since the little occupants deserted their asthetic home, while the tassel, with the house still complete, reposes in the South Kensington Museum of Natural History, a lasting relic of the industry of those aesthetic wasps.
 That this pretty story Is a true one we have the assurance of Mir. M B. Dickman, who told it first to the youthful readers of St. Nicholas
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
ENTERPRISE
FLORENCE, AUGUST 3. 1889
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
FOR THE ESPECIAL ENTERTAINMENT
 OF OUR GIRL AND BOY READERS.

True Story of the Industry of a Colony
 of Esthetic wasps and Their Queer
 Home-The Goose and the Kite-Young
 NIacaulay's System of Reading.
 What keen eyes they havel these busy little workers flying hither and thither, over hill and valley, in the early spring days. House hunting, that is what they are doing In at your window, under the caves of the barn, getting in the most inconceivable and, some times, unwelcome places Nothing is beneath their notice; no, not even an old, discarded curtain tassel, as a friend tells me who has seen the tassel
 Perhaps it was once one of the much prized treasures of some small girl, rambling through the loose hay, with her arms so full of toys that the treasure dropped and was lost forever to its owner.
 There it lay, unseen, until one day busy wasp came buzzing around the barn yard and, being wasp of high aesthetic taste, this odd looking, pretty colored object in the long grass attracted it's attention and gave it a most brilliant Idea.
 First taking peep In at the top, it disap peared from view, only to reappear at the other end; then, the inspection revealing all that its cultivated taste demanded, flying of with satisfied buzz to return with a whole colony of it's fellow workers, ready to begin on the new home
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03

Take strip of wood one by one and a half inches and about four feet long. Make holes near the ends. and pass straps through them-one to buckle around the horns and the other around the body back of the fore legs. Buckle this strap tight. The COW cannot turn her head either way far enough to reach the ud- der, and the device will not hinder her from pasturing or from the free use of the head, except in the one direction.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
Boomerang Mine Jumped.

NTHEREAS, IT HAS JUST COME TO MY w knowledge that it is claimed by one of the owners of the Boomerang mine that said mine has been jumped by one Patrick Morgan, on or about the first day of January, 1889. No tice is hereby given that said Boomerang mine was not open for location and warn all persons against purchasing said Boomerang mine or any interest therein from said Morgan.
 JOHN c. LOSS
 Co-owner in Boomerang mine. CASA GRANDE, A. T., Feb 5, 1882
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
What a Goose.

In the distant azure sky A flock of geese go sailing by. When in their midst appears bird, The like of which they've never heard "An enemyi" the leader cries, And at the fancied monster flies. All the geese that follow after Now are buboling OCT with laughter. Right through the foe the gander flies, Exhibiting marked surprise For all that caused this sad alright Was just our Tsddy's new spring kitel
 Wide Awake
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
A Cure for Roaring.

It may interest owners of horses to know that the marc ridden by Col Ed wards in the Old Berks Hunt club race, and who finished second, was very bad roarer (hence her name "Aroara J, but was operated upon by MT. Jones, of Lei cester, who inserted tracheotomy tube Considering the length of the course, a long four miles, the pace, the holding ground and big fences, her performance was wonderful testimony to the eff ciency of MT. Jones' operation. The tube which is inserted in the trachea of the throat is certainly a wonderful thing. The time occupied in this race was nine teen minutes.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
Notice eOfDLssOluttOn OfCO-part-
 R,su

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CO., " partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, has this day been dissolved by mutuul consent. Eugene Middleton will continue in the stage business between Florence and Globe, A. T., and will pay all bills owing by the co-partnership, and is hereby authorized to collect all accounts due the same.
 JOSEPH THOMPSON.
 EUGENE MIDDLETON. GLOBE, A. T., June 1, 1889.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03

Device for Curing a Self Sucking Cow.
 In the accompanying cut is represented device recently described by Ohio Farmer as being of value in preventing A COW from sucking herself,
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03

Lost yesterday, somewhere between sun- rise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
Files Wanted.

Any person having copies of the following numbers of THE ENTERPRISE will confer favor by sending same to this office to complete our files:
 Vol. ', Nos. to 5 inclusive, of date April 9th to May 7th, 1887.
 Vol. z, No. 21, August 27, 1887.
 Vol. 7, No. 46, February IS, 1888.
 Vol. 8, No. 20, August IS, 1888.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
Sherin7s Sale.

CNo. 662.)
 TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE SECOND | Judicial District of the Territory of Ari- zona, in and for the county of Final
 Guadalupe Mason, Plaintiff, vs Chas Rapp and Candida Rapp, defendants
 Under and by virtue of an order of sale and decree of foreclosure, issued out of the District Court of the Second Judicial District Territory of Arizona, County Of Pinal, on the 5th day of July, A. D. 1889, in the above entitled action wherein Guadalupe Mason, the above named plaintiff, obtained a judgment and decree against Charles Rapp and Candida Rapp, de- fendants, on the 22nd day of April, 1889, which said decree was on the 22nd day of April, 1889, recorded in Judgment Book ?, of said District Court page 43, am commanded to sell all of that certain lot, piece parcel of land, situ ated in Florence townsite, county of Pinal, Ari- Zona described as follows to wit:
 Lot or block l04, commencing at the south west corner of said lot or block 104, and running thence east 125 feet to Bailey Street; thence north along the west side of Bailey Street 21 feet, thence west 125 feet to Main street, thence south along the east side of said Main street 21 feet to place of beginning.
 Notice is hereby given that on Monday, the 5th day of August A. D. 1889, at Il O clock a. Ill. of that day. in front of the Court House, in the town of Florence, Arizona, will in obedi- ence to said order of sale and decree of for closure, sell the above described property or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy plaintiffs judgment with interest thereon and costs (amounting in all to s1279.47) to the high est and best bidder for cash in currency of the United States JERE FRYER Sheriff.
 FLORENCE, A. T., July g, 1889.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
County Treasurer.s Notice
COUNTY TREAsURER's OFFICE
 D.,- GAy,,rrv nrra1,

COUNTY TREASURER'S OFFICE l
 FINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA.
 FLORENCE, Arizona, July 9th, 1889. J The following warrants arc now payable at my office, viz: All warrants on the General fund from No. 62 to No. 72, inclusive, issue of 1888, Interest ceases from and after this date. D. c. STEVENS, Treasurer. Pinal County, Ariz.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
Notice.

IN Thursday, August the 1st. 1889, at F o'clock of said day, will sell, at the Rep risita ranch, Pinal county, Arizona territory, cash, all of the cattle horses of the HH M'' brand being 700 head of cattle, more or less, and nine head of horses, more or less
 The said cattle and horses being formerly the property of Ochoa X Price. The said cattle and horses will be rounded up, us near as can be done, and will be in full view and subject to inspection on said August l, 1889. Terms of sale, cash on delivery; delivery to be made oil said Represita ranch, For further informa mation see address w Wood Porter, Florence; Ar
 iZona. J. NJ. BIGGER, Trustee.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
"If YOn PleaSe.n

We've just heard of an island far away.
 Across the rosy sunset seas, Where we'n send to stay, for year and day. The folks who o.get to say Please"
 In well manned ship together, And we'll hoist the sail on the date without fail, Quite regardless of the weather. And when they come back they'll be so polite, They'll say how'd 'ye-do" on their knees. Won't 1t be Q delight to behold such a sight, And to hear them in chorus cry "Please!"
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
Special Notice.

A IL PERSONS ARE NOTIFIED MOTTO PUR- A chase any cattle or horses in the K or o D brands from F. o. Donnelly or any other person without my consent. No sale of any of the property mentioned in my complaint, filed Sep tember 18th, 1888. will be approved by me, and special attention is called to the decree of the District Court of Pinal County, filed April 12th, 1889, in the case of Donnelly vs Donnelly and the terms and conditions thereof
 FLORENCE, June F, 1889 NJ. NJ. DONNELLY.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
IMPORTANT. Addr, ss M. A. .DAUPHIN.
 New Orleans, La.
or M. A. DAUPHAN,
 Washington, D. C.

By ordinary letter containing Money Order. issued by all express companies, New York FIX change Draft or Postal Note.
 Address Registered letter Containing Currency to NEW ORLEANS NATL BANK,
 New Orleans, La,
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03

We, the undersigned Banks Gnd Bdnke's, ,cll pay aH prises dralcn in The Louisidnd State Lotteries lUhieh mag be present ed at our counters.
 R. VI. MALMsEY. Pres. Louisiana Natl FIX PIERRE IANAIN, Pres. state Natl Bk A. RlLOWaN, Pres. New Orleans NaclBk CARL KOHN Pres. Union National Bank
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03

RENENBER that the payment of all prizes is GUARANTEED BY FOUR NATIONAL BANKS of New Orleans, and the tickets are signed by the President of an institution whose chartered rights are rec Ognized in the highest courts; therefore, be- ware of any limitations anonymous schemes.
 ONE DOLLAR is the price of the smallest part or fraction a ticket ISSUED BY Us in any draw ing. Anything in offered for leas than a dollar is a swinde.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03

For Club Rates or any further information desired, write egby the undersigned, clearly stating your residence with State County, Street aud number. More rapid return mail delivery will bc assured by your enclosing an envelope bearing your full address.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
AGENTS WANTED.

Norr=rloEet. drawing Capital Prizes are not en
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-03
GRAND M0NTHLY DRAWING,
At Inc Academy ot Music, New Orleans,
 Tuesday August 13, 1889 CAPITAL PRIZE. $3OO,OOO

100000 Tickets st Twenty Dollars; Halves SIO: Quarters S0 Tenths S2; Twentleths S1.
The Delta independent., 1889-11-05
Fattened Like Cattle.

Fattening slaves in park and feed
ing them up like animals destined for
the table, and then leading them to a
shambles, where they are slaughtered
like oxen. cut into pieces-and shared
bit by bit among hungry cannibals-
such Is the practice which is permitted,
according to d French explorer, in
some of the French. Belgian, Portu-
guese, and even British territories in
Ubanghi. The 'fattening parks" or
paddocks arc, he says, to be seen in
each village, and contain men and
women who have been taken in war
The poor wretches tako their doom
philosophically, and some of them to
whom M. Fondese offered freedom act
ually refused it. They eat. drink,
dance, and sing until the head "Fetish-
man comes round, accompanied by an
orchestra of tom-tom and tin-kettle
players, selects a sufficient fat speci-
mon, carries him or her to the market
place OF the village and splits open his
or her head with hatchet or scythe-
like knife. The eyes and tongue OF
the victim are given TO the "boss" fe-
tish and the rest Of the body is divided
among the anthropophagi.
The Delta independent., 1889-11-05
Pretty MOmen. Bless En-.

A Pennsylvania young lady while
standing before u mirror smiled at the
reflection Of herself in the glass. In
stead of seeing her beautiful counter
part return the smile she beheld n
grinning image with the bright side OF
its face twisted out OF shape. In re-
pose her face is now as beautiful as
ever. hut when she smiles her express
sion is hideous. Here is an opportuni-
ty for the moralist to get in little es-
say on the evil effects OF vanity. But
it would be unkind as well as quite use
less. Pretty women, bless them! are
here to be admired, and if men were
prohibited from so doing they would
lead very unhappy existence. There
is no objection to women admiring
themselves either. 1t is hardly right
that any woman should be debarred
from enjoying beautiful being just
because it happens to be herself. There
are some people who object to their
showing to others that they are self
conscious OF their loveliness, and there
are others who would like to have
them willing to admire other pretty
women. But these are minor points
and scarcely worth mentioning.
The Delta independent., 1889-11-05
Kate Drexel's Aim.

''1 may say writes Saratoga cor.
respondent TO the Troy Times, "that
Miss Kate Dexel is said to be perfectly
happy in her cloistered home. The
work to which she is looking forward
is the christianization OF the lndain and
religious care OF the colored race in
this country. She has given $50, 00o
already for Indian missions and has
done much FOR colored people. So far
rs she has gone she is bound to moth
ing. Her friends think she will not
take up with n nuns life, but will re-
turn to the world. She IS petite
woman, mild as dove, but her will is
like iron. The rules OF the cloister
cannot appear irksome to her. for in
practice she has long followed them.
Fancy this gentle girl, with an inc ONE
OF $500. 900 a year, turning her back
upon the world and devottng her life
and fortune for the welfare OF the In
dians and colored people.
The Delta independent., 1889-11-05
Oil In British America.

The finding of anthracite in the
Rocky Mountains OF Canada has been
followed by the discovery of an oil
field in the same region, though not
near the same place. Some railway
engineers have just made the an
nouncement of n great find of this de-
scription. the particulars of which are
now on their way to eastern Canada.
The oil is said TO be of n high quality.
The existence of n great oil field in the
basin Of the Mackenzie River, which
flows into the Arctic Ocean, has been
known for years. The Canadian Par
Lament some time ago appointed n
special committee to take evidence on
the resources of tho Mackenzie Basin,
when this fact came prominently be-
fore them. 1t is alleged that these oil
fields are second only in extent and
importance to those OF Russia near the
Sea.