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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-28
Artificial Lungs for the Drowning.

Professor Poe, of Bridgeport, Conn,
has invented an artificial pair of lungs
which he uses in restoring life in cases
of drowning and asphyxiation. He is
experimenting on pet rabbit, and has
already drowned it and restored it to
life eleven times. The rabbit has also
been suffocated by the fumes of burning
charcoal until all signs of life were ex.
tinct. The Professor then attached his
patent bellows to the animals mouth
and forced oxygen into the lungs. The
returning suction drew out the deadly
eases, and the artiti :;al respiration pro
duccd q muscular contraction and ex-
pansion of the lungs until life was re-
stored. Professor Poe claims that his
invention will save human beings as
well as rabbits, -~AHantd Constitution,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-28
A Fatality Pursues Imported Horses.

Ill fortune seems to follow the noted
racehorses bought in England for ship
ment to the United States. Prince
Charlie, who was purchased by an
American only six or seven years ago,
died soon after his arrival here, and his
owners at once secured Lord Falmouth s
Derby winner Kingcraft to take his
place. Kingcraft died on the voyage;
and it is a singular coincidence that
Blue Gown, winner of the Derby two
years before him, also died at sea.
Stranger still, the same fate has befallen
Ossory, brother of the mighty Ormonde,
who cost Milton Young over $1,000 a
few weeks ago. Ossory could not have
been shipped at worse season, yet Mr..
Young did not think it necessary to in
sure his life. Though not Derby win
ner, Ossory was horse of high class, his
breeding being as fashionable as that of
any animal in England. There are at
the present time two Derby winners in
the United States-the American bred
Iroquois and the imported st. Blaise.-
1few York Tribune,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-28

J. T. FLETCHER, of Jenkins Bridge,
Va, was in his grave and men were
bricking it up, when they heard groan.
They opened the coffin and found
Fletcher's heart beating. He was taken
home, but died two days afterward
withoot regaining consciousness.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-06

The present session OF the legislature
has now been in session sixty-fve
days. Adjournment may take place
the last of this week and it may not.
1t is not probable, however, since the
pay stopped at the end of sixty days,
chat the members will be willing to
remain longer than this week. The
business of this session should have
all been disposed of in good shape in
side of the sixty days, and The journal
is unable to understand why this was
not done,
The above clipping taken from the
Falls City Neb. Journal shows that
the Nebraska legislature aid the tf-
teenth legislative assembly of Arizona
are about in the same boat.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-06
TATE SPRINGS. TENN. Tuly d. 1888.
Chairman.
Jos. J. STEIN, Secretary.

TATE SPRINGS, TENN, July a, 1888.
The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ca:
During the spring of 1871, while working
In the field at my home in Morgan county,
Ca, pulled off my shoes to give my feet
rest. Unfortunately, walked into clump
of poison oak, and in a few days my feet
were in terrible condition, and l could not
put on a shoe because of the soreness and
swelling. was treated as poison oak cases
usually are, and everything was healed up.
About the same tine the following spring,
and every succeeding spring for five years
brought back the same condition of the dis
ease, only each time it became more dis
tressing, because l began to think it was
lifetime trouble. Finally, was induced to
try Swift's Specific. / took six bottles, and
to-day am entirely well. My improvement
was gradual from the first, and no evidence
of the disease remains. shall take pleas
ure in testifying as to its curative proper
ties. 1t is the greatest blood purifier in ex-
isteucc, Yours truly, J. L. MORGAN.
The foregoing certificate is taken at
random from thousands of letters in posses
sion of the Swift Specific Co., and presented
simply as sample. 1t is a voluntary
statement, giving facts and results of the
case. Its accuracy and genuineness are
beyond question.
A valuable Treatise on Blood and Skin
Diseases mailed free. Address
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
Drawer 3 Atlanta, Ga.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-06

The legislature viii meet today, but
will take a recess until next Tuesday
40 await the arrival Of Governor VOL
Gay.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-06


An act relating to marriages
passed by both Houses and signed
by the Governor, provides that any
male person under the age Il or
female under the age of Is who
shall contract marriage without
the sanction of their parents shall
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor.
1t also provides that each marriage
contracted in the Territory shall
be certified by a certificate which
shall state the names of the parties,
etc.. and that the certificate shall
be filed with the probate judge,
who shall receive two dollars for
each certificate so filed to be paid
by the person presenting said certi-
fcate for record.
A violation of the provisions of this
act is punishable by fine not ex-
ceeding $500 or imprisonment not
exceeding six months.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-04-06

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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
PURSUED BY ILL LUCK.

How an Ingenious Citizen Proposed to
Turn 1t to Frofit.
Mr. Illuck-Say, Mariah, now that
your uncle has lett you little money
you just go and buy all the property
you can get hold Of in Frogtown. The
people there are selling out for almost
nothing and moving back to the city.
Mrs. Illuck-What are they selling
out for?
''Cause they're nearly eaten up
every summer with flies. The flies
there are perfectly awful-no standin
them at all; they just populate the
town."
Huh! Then why do you want me
to buy there. Id like to know"
'Ill tell you, Mariah. You know
that I'm the un uckiest Teller that ever
lived, don't you?"
81 should say So If you'd dig for
water you wouldn't find any thing but
dry rock till he struck fire, or came out
on some Chinese desert l do believe
that if you'd buy stocks that was
bound to rise in month the world nd
come to an end before the month was
OUT
'Jesso; that's me. Well, you go buy
property in Frogtown. You'll be buy
in it; wont. See?'
but the flies?'
'Ill go there and settle down as an
agent for fly paper. an there won't be
fly there next summer" -Elmira IN.
W Telegram.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
Queer Place for a Nest.

On the arrival of a passenger train
at Derby the other day the carriage
Taper found in the spring of a horse
box thrush's nest full of eggs in pro-
cess of incubation. This is an instance
of the migration of birds which even
White. of Selborne, had not the oppor-
tunity of observing. The passion for
travel has been hitherto supposed to be
confined to the featherless bipeds, and
even among them it is usually repress-
ed when they are expecting an addi-
ton to their families What could
have been the train of circumstances
which led the bird to build in railway
trainp It is possible that they may
have been deceived by the carriage
Taper. The woodpecker." says the
poet, makes stiller by his sound the
inviolable quietness. and perhaps they
confused his note with that of the rail-
way official; 1.-THE spring" of the horse
box may also have contributed to their
mistake. Perhaps the naturalist, how
ever. may have some other explanation
TO offcr.-Pau Mall Gazette.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
VERY APPRECIATlVE.
An Eastern Mans Exalted Estimate Of
California Hospitality.

An Eastern Mans Exalted Estimate Of
California Hospitality.
When a friend comes from the East
and you take him out to see the sights,
you show him every thing with an air
of proprietorship. The place seems to
belong to you. It does not matter
whether you have been here since 1919
or whether you only came a month be-
fore your friend. You take him through
the park and you point out all its beau
ties with that self-satisfaction which
seems to say: II did all this. You drive
him to the Cliff House and show him
the seals, and smile as if you owned
them. You dwell upon the beauties of
the bay, and the shipping seems to be-
long to you. You even direct his at
tention to the elegant mansion of some
millionaire, and speak of it in tone
as if you had made the millionaire and
paid for his house. Your friend is CRATE
full He feels as If California was all
your doing, and he would not have en-
joyed it If it had not been for you. But
he does not often carry it as far as q
gentleman who came out from the East
few months ago. He had been shown
every thing; he had the marvellous
beauty and wealth of the State elabor-
ately explained to him; he had been
dined and wined and made to enjoy
himself. He had been enthusiastically
entertained one night with an elegant
dinner and plenty of good wine, and
great deal of lively storytelling, and
he was in an effusively admiring con-
ditiOn. 1t was about one o clock in the
morning. and merry and mellow he
found himself in circle of friends,
joking and chatting, when suddenly
the house began to shake. the windows
to rattle, the globes to jingle. He was
happy and gay, and he merely looked
up and said:
THAT must have been pretty heavy
wagon passing?'
THAT! That was an earthquake"
IAN earthquakeP You don't say
SOL" he said. as he arose and grasped
his friends hand. THANK you! You
have given me the best time I ever had
in my life. You have shown me the
most beautiful scenery. You have
given me the best dinners. the best
wine; and now you have given me an
earthquake. Pm obliged to you-deep-
ly obliged to you. l shall never for
get your kindness San Fran
cisco Chronicle
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
EDISON AMONG KINGS.
The Great Inventor Honors Any Sovereign
to Whom He May Speak.

The Great Inventor Honors Any Sovereign
to Whom He May Speak.
Thomas A. Edison, the greatest in
ventor the world has ever known, is
now receiving honors in Europe from
the hereditary royalties who are far
less use to the world than he. There
have been inventors before whose dis
coveries have revolutionized the in
dustries of the world-men like Guten-
burg, Watt, Stevenson Whitney, Full
ton, Morse and Ericsson; but it is
doubtful if there has ever lived a man
of such versatile inventive genius, of
such bold orig nality in conceiveng, and
OF such painstaking patience in carry
ing out his marvellous conceptions as
Thomas A. Edison. His invention of
the telephone, of the electaic light and
the photograph, each in itself honor
enough to immortalize a man, places
him at the top of the list of the worlds
great inventors to mention his in
Vulnerable minor inventions. many of
them of the greatest utility to man.
kind.
Measuring him by the standard of
the practical good he has done the
world what man is worthier of honor
than Mr.. Edison? Surely none of our
living Observation-Disclosures of Con-
gres, Governors and diplomats are to
be compared with him in this respect.
We have probably produced no poet or
literary man who will be remembered
longer than he. Considering the won
derful inventions that may still lie in
formative state in his mind, there is
surely no man whose death would be a
greater loss to the country.
The kings of Europe can not honor
Edison by granting him receptions and
giving him titles. In accepting these
gifts at their hands he honors them.
Surely Tom Edison, the ragged news
boy and impecunious telegraph opera
tor. honors any king to whom he con-
descends to speak. He is the biggest
king of the whole crowd. Yankee
Blade.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
An Extraordinary Refrigerator,

A young friend of mine, who has for
several years each summer gone with
his father on a camping trip on the
south Shore of Lake Superior. tells me
OF a novel expedient they often en-
ployed for preserving their venison in
warm weather. In that country some
of the streams are fanked by long rows
of sand-hills, whose composition is so
loose that they shift about continually
under wind of any force. In the VIM
ter time the high winds often blow the
sand over the great snow banks which
lie upon the north side OF the sand
dunes. covering up the snow to depth
of several feet The snow is thus kept
unmelted, and even in the middle OF
summer one can dig down through the
sand to it and find the best imaginable
sort of natural refrigerator. In this
way, said my young friend, they buried
their deer and trout. and found them
entirely fresh so long as they cared to
leave them. This is certainly new
instance of natures bountifulness with
the sportsman. Forest and Stream.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
DlMIEUTlVE MACHINERY.
A Perfect Engine Built on . Twenty -fiv
Cent Gold Piece.

A Perfect Engine Built on . Twenty five
Cent Gold Piece.
The engine-makers, like the watch
makers, have tried to attain distinction
in the matter of the diminutive. In
1870 John Penn, the eminent maker of
great steam engines, who resided at
Greenwich. England, came into posses
sion of what was then the smallest
steam engine in the world. 1t stood
on three-penny piece. 1t really
covered less space, for its base plate
measured only three-eighths of an inch
by about three-tenths. From the ex-
treme smallness of the model some of
the details were omitted, but not enough
to interfere in any way with its going.
The screws were only One-eightieth of
an inch in diameter, and these were
duly furnished with hexagonal nuts,
which only could be loosened by aid of
a tiny wrench made for that purpose
The weight of the whole model, with
out the three-penny base, was less than
the weight of the coin itself.
Six years later. at the time of our
Centennial exhibition, Penn would
have felt ashamed of his 'threepenny-
piece engine" had he had it on exhibit
ton at Philadelphia. During the prog
ress of this great exposition Levi
Taylor, of Indianola, Ia, placed on
exhibition ''side by side'' with the
great Corliss engine an engine, perfect
in all its parts, built on a twenty-five
cent gold piece, and with some of its
parts so small as TO only be seen by aid
of a powerful microscope. The entire
engine weighed but three grains. In
other words it would have taken 40
such engines to balance an ounce avoir-
dupois. Three of the Penn engines
would have weighed more than LAG like
that made by Taylor. The engine made
by d. A. Buck, of Waterbury. Conn,
is usually given. in lists of small things,
as the smallest engine in the world;
but this is a mistake. The one men
toned last above so far takes the palm
for smallness. The writer cheerfully
admits that the Buck engine is more
perfect in its details than the Iowa
wonder, but the fact that its base plate
is gold dollar forever kills its claim
to being the smallest. as the Iowa en-
CINE. as mentioned above, uses a
twenty-five cent gold piece for the pur-
pose. Bucks engine has 148 distinct
pieces of machinery, held together by
81 screws. Three drops OF water filed
the boiler to overlooking. The diane
ter OF its cylinder is one-twenty eighth
OF an inch; the length of stroke, three
thirty seconds of an inch; its entire
weight. four and half grains. West
ern Manufactures.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
NEW ENGLAND iDloMs:
Some of the Noticeable Peculiaritles of G
Yankee Dialack.

Some OF the Noticeable Peculiarities OF the
Yankee Dialect.
The drawing and twisting of vowels
is by by no means characteristic of Ver-
monters. nor of Yankees in general.
It is true that the offensive sounds are
heard here, but it is also true that they
belong to the more illiterate people. as
specially imperfect speech always does,
and that they are by no means confined
to the six States. This popularity of
speech. the one thing most insisted
upon by writer's upon Yankee dialect
from first to last, and commonly ac-
cepted as the great characteristic of the
people, is to-day heard more in New Jer-
sey than anywhere in the six States so
far as know, and is found more or less in
almost all parts of the country. Again,
while it is true that some genuine YAM
KEGS, and whole communities of them,
drop the ''h'' in such words as when"
so far as my observation goes, they are
not many.
The country around Boston shows
this popularity, but I have never met
it elsewhere in New England, and here
it is utterly unknown. This, however,
is an English thing that is preserved in
England. as we'll as here, and
may be met : with in many
parts of the country. Another mat
ter of lager sort than mere pronuncia-
ton, which is found among Yankees as
well as other people, is the redundant
use of negatives. Some members of the
race in this section are very ingenious
in piling them up, as may appear by a
couple of instances ''taken from life,"
thus:
don't spose there amt nobody seen nothin'
o. no old felt hat nowhere?
don't s'pose you don't know of nobody that
don't want to hire nobody to do nothin's
1t will be observed that both these
instances are questions, and that each
begins with the II don't s'pose." which
comes so very often in Yankee speech.
But this use of negatives is not peculiar
to the Yankee any more than the drawl,
although it is much more common in
this locality. And in relation to the
misuse of vowels one curious thing that
l have noticed is tendency to reverse
the proper sound of "a" In some cases.
Thus a great many people in this Sec
ton. if speaking the path to the pas
ture," will have the "a" in the first
word as in the ''last," and in the last one
as in "far," exactly reversing the
proper places The thing holds true
with great many similar words
Providence Or. ~ Journal
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
Queer Facts About Figs.

While musing upon the many won
derful products of nature. how many
stop to consider the peculiarities of the
fig? 1t is utterly unlike any other fruit,
in that it has no blossom. Every other
fruit heralds its coming and gives it's
promise with a flower. And then most
certainly the fig must have lungs or
breathing places. for from the little
button at the end there are minute
ducts or air spaces, which run right
through the fruit and clear into the
stem. If, in drying. the fig is not
placed as it grew on the tree, the fruit
sours and molds.
1t would seem that these air vessels
must be placed so as to exhale while
the fig is drying. even as they inhale
while it is growing. The fruit does
not hang from the tree. but inclines up
ward. held by the stem, and this but
ton or mouth opens toward the sun.
If not so placed when being dried the
button is shaded and the fruit then
spoila. Altogether the fig is one of the
most remarkable of all nature pro.
ducts.-Kern County Californian.
The surest way to please Is to for
get ones self and think only of others.
There is one thing about death; il
never complains that it doesn't know
how to take some .peoz,sa.~
NO man is SO bad that if the way
were known good place could not be
found in him. Concealed beneath
much vileness and all the external ug-
illness that gives him his reputation.
there are spots of purity and beauty
waiting for some explorer who shall
bring them to light Alas, that so off
en- they are never reached! United
Presbyterian.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
Remarkable Presence of Mind.

Laura (innocentiy) -Doesn't the train
60 through long tunnel soon, George?
George-Tunnel just ahead, Laura.
Leans forward and whispers to boy on
seat in front. Johnny, 1 want you
TO cough with all your might while
we're going through this tunnel
Here's half a dOllar!-C Chicago Tribune.
"A royal order. which has Just been
Issued at Berlin. sanctions the creation
In Jerusalem of an evangelical estab-
ilshment with corporated rights. The
object OF the new body is to preserve
existing evangelical institutions, and to
add to the number.
The mission of the Sandwich Tsl-
ands cost the American Board $500. 600
In ALL while the trade, which. of course.
goes to the benefit of the commercial
community. amounted at the end of
sixty years to about SIC. OOO, 600. with \
Clear profit annually Of more than $780,
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
WILL BE HEN-PEcKED.
For the Second Time In His Life an Old
Man Loses His Liberty.

For the Second Time In His Life an Old
Man Loses His Liberty.
The hour was growing late; the pas
sengers in the sleeper had all gone to
bed. A porter approached slower g."
and. jerking the curtains apart mum.
bled something. whats the matter?''
demanded a rather oldlooking man,
getting out and following the porter.
who had stepped back few PAGES.
Il say. sab. that l am sorry to tell
you but you'll have to change cars"
what forp" the old fellow thun.
dered.
You want to go to St Louis, don't
you?'
Yes"
''Well, but this sleeper goes to Kan
sas City,"
"Why in thunder didn't you tell me
so, hah?"
81 didn't know myself till just now"
''Why didn't the conductor tell mep"
he roared.
Il don't know, sah."
Where is your pumpkin headed
CONDUCTOR"
Back in the smoking department, "
The old man went into the smoking
department and thus addressed the
conductor:
Didn't you know wanted to go to
ST. LOUISE" :.
mot until I happened to look at your
ticket just now"
'.And now I've got to change cars at
the next station?"
Yes. if you want to 60 to st. Louis. "
This is an Internal outrage. Listen:
For six years have been counting the
Widow Hennipin. Sometimes my
chances would be up and sometimes
they would be down. 1t rocked along
this way till last week and then l mar
ried her. and now we are on our we'd
ding tour. Look here. my dear sir, for
the love OF humanity please let this car
go on to St Louis, for it won't do to pull
my wife out of bed at this time of night
and make her change cars. She'll
swear didn't have sense enough to
know where I wanted to go and all
through life she'll hold me down. My
dear sir. if you believe in the liberty of
man let this car go to St. Louis; don't
help to hen-peck me. If you don't come
to my aid that woman will always be-
lieve that l am weak-she never will
have any more confidence in me-will
hold me down and ride over me, l tell
YOU"
I'VE have about reached your station.
Hurry up.'
But can't you help me?"
81 can not"
''Then / am lost-lost and hem
pecked for the second time in life. ~
Arkansaw Traveller.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
Cause of the Complaint.

''When man gets more than ne
thought he was getting in horse-trade
he ought not to kick, had he?"
"Well. ] shou Id say not"
.'Gimlet bought an animal from me
last week and now is furious"
"You don't mean to say he got more
than he asked for?"
'Yes; but only two spavins. -
Judge.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
An Editors Epitaph.

Weeping Widow Ito marble-cutter)-
Iwant suitable epitaph placed on my
husbands grave-stone. Poor man, he
was killed by having safe fall on him.
Can you suggest oneP
Marble-Cutter- Perhaps so, madam.
What was your husbands businessP
Widow-He was an editor.
And the marb.e-cutter chiseled on the
tomb: Gone to Press. "-Lawrence
American.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-22
In Persia Christianity has had g

in Persia christianity has had great
success during the last three years. In
Western Persia there aye now more
than 1000 church-members. What Is
still ms re hopeful. much of this prog
ress is made through the efficiency of
native pastors. OF the seventy-nine
students in the college at Oroomiah,
seventy are Christians. There are
many village schools established by the
missionaries, and Dr. Labaree reports
that the Moslems of Persia are more
accessible than those of any other
land.