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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-25

success and the worthy dlgnltary 1eeiS very
greatly encouraged.
Many will migrate from the old to the
new town as soon as practicable. But
love!ier meadows than those in this little
burg even HERALD scribe may never ex-
pect to see; that is in this country.
LaketoWn, four miles from Meadowville,
was reached by the U. S. mail wagon
in due time. A glorious outfit carries
this mail. A practical joke occurred while
we were travelling, but whether on the
carrier or the carried l can't tell. Suffice
it to say that it came to pass that at Bishop
Kimball's place change of horse was nee
essary. There was S19.75-horse in a pas
ture hired by said carrier, and S20.25-
horse in the shafts. Awaiting the exchange
of the valuable steed in the shafts for the
less valuable one in the pasture, deponent
and a couple of other worthless started out
on very leisurely walk, and, after con-
versing with mutual friend for twenty
minutes behold it came to pass that the
S19.75-horse and the carrier and mail-rig
hailed US on the Lake Town side of the
creek, the blooming pedestrians having
tramped the distance of two miles. Then
we boarded the vehicle and we found that
there were about six hundred pounds
avoirdupois of humanity "atioat' not to
mention the mail sack and probably several
ounces of mail matter. a society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals could have
made itself immortal just then; but the
question would remain unsettled, which
class of animal suffered more, the human
or the equine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-25

What pure air is to an unhealthy locality,
what spring cleaning is to the neat house
keeper, so is Hoods Sarsaparilla to every
body, at this season. The body needs TO be
renovated, the blood purified
and vitalized the germs of disease de-
Scrofula, Salt Rheum, and all
other blood disorders are cured by Hoods
the most popular and sue SIS
full spring medicine. !53
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-25

Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.,
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
his DEAR AZULA FELL SICK.

One morning his master found him
under a haystack, fast asleep. The
brave little fellow had tried to work, but
he was so wearied by mis- many sleepless
nights, that his eyes had closed in spite
of himself. The cruel farmer pitilessly
discharged him, saying that he wanted
no idlers on his farm.
The poor boy, almost heartbroken, re-
turned to his sister and told her what
had happened. without employment
without resources how could they live?
Sweet Azula tried to console him, tell
ing him not to be discouraged that, a.
svery one knew his good qualities, he
would easily find master kinder than
the one who had so brutally dismissed
him.
The next day Little Boy Blue went of
10 seek employment. He modestly pre-
sented himself at the houses of several
farmers, but his requests were ali re-
fused One had too many servants; an
other thought he was too young; a third
asked him suspiciously why his master
had turned him off.
For several days Little Boy Blue per-
sisted in his efforts, but every evening
he returned home sad at heart, having
found nothing.
"Have patience, dear brother" said
Azula, tenderly. 81 am sure that you
will succeed. and, in he meantime, as !
am quite well again, am going to set to
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16

Once, while out after snipe, not tar
from Montreal, Canada, with Frank Liv-
iugston, well-known sportsman OF To
r0nto, we came upon spot whore
some dozen birds or so were scattered
about feeding, says q writer in "Forcsl
aud Stream. Motioning to Frank to get
ready, we both raised our guns and fired
simultaneously, Frank killing two auu
myself one. My snipe was knocked over
I'm o the water and what was my surprise
when, on reaching the bank to secure
him, 1 saw an enormous bullfrog shoot
suddenly from the water seize my game
and make off with it under my very
nose.
To say was fabbergasted or thun-
derstruck would be mild way of eX-
pressing my astonishment at the audac-
lty of this marine robber, but raising
my gun and taking rapid aim l let him
have q charge of No. 8, which effectu-
ally stopped him in his plundering
career. He had swallowed whole the
legs, body and all but the head of a
snipe one-half the size of himself
While returning one summer after
noon from beach bird shooting on the
shore of Long Island companion shot
a bank swallow, which fell on the mar
gin of pool on the salt meadows. On
going to fish it up it could not be found,
but in the water at the edge of the pool
was seen the head OF a huge bullfrog,
and from it's mouth projected, like two
horns, the tips of swallows wings.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
Two Miles of nIelons.

"Georgia has the biggest watermelon
patch in the world" said Mr.. J. j. Grif-
lin, who has seen it, Think of lane
two miles long with melons on each side
as far as the eye can reach. 1t is an in
teresting sight when the laborers go out
ut daylight to gather the melons. Squads
OF them are moving the vines aside to
make roads for the wagons to go through.
Others are humping and cutting off the
melons from the vines, while others fol-
low, gathering the fruit into the wagons.
I never saw anything like it.
THE larger melons will average forty
pounds and there will be lots of sixty
Founders. There will be carloads of
1900 melons with hardly u melon under
thirty-five or forty pounds. The com
pany who own this immense melon patch
of 800 acres, will make a big thing out of
it. In my judgment their profit will be
not less than $50 carload, and they
will ship 400 loads. Sixty thousand dol
lars on 300 acres will beat cotton. With
out disaster they will make such a sue
cess that the farmers who are watching
them will plant an immense acreage in
that section next year Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
EyeIids That Have Strange Power.

l saw two women jugglers at Jeppore,
says a writer in the New York "Mail and
Express" They were bright. intelligent
looking girls, one of whom appeared al
most old enough to be the mother Of the
other. They did many wonderful things,
one of which was mixing up sand in
water, and then putting the hand into
the discolored fluid they brought a hand
full of sand which they filtered through
their fingers as dry as before it went in.
The youngest of these girls was perhaps
10 years old. She was tall, well-formed
and fine looking. She had bracelets on
arms and on feet, and her eyes were as
beautiful as those of gazelle.
One of her tricks was the lifting of a
heavy chair by her eyelids. the thought
of which almost makes my eyes sore.
The chair was a heavy mahogony one,
which belonged to the room in which l
was stopping She tied two strong strings
to the top of this, and affixed the ends of
these strings to her eyes by little round
metal cups, each about the size OF a
nickel. These fitted over the eyeballs
and under the lids, and she bent over
while they were so fastened. Raising
herself she pulled up the chair with
with these strings with the muscles of
of her eyelids, and carried it from one
side of the room TO the other.
1t was a horrible sight, and as she took
the metal cups from her eyes they filed
with water, and she almost sank to the
floor. 1 told her the trick was disgust
ing, and that she ought never to try it
again. Still, for this and the rest of the
show, these girls were we'll satisfied with
two rup ees, or about 20 cents.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
The suez Canal Traffic In 1889.

In 1888 3O3 more vessels passed
through the Suez canal than in the pre-
vious year, the increase in tonnage being
737, $40 tons. The percentage of the ton
mage of Great Britain was 1855 Of the
total, as compared with 1881 in 1887,
France having diminished from 6.51 per
cent. in 1887 to 5.S3 in 1888, and Italy
having diminished from 4.2S per cent. to
4.O3 Germany is now fourth on the list,
having taken the place of Holland, which
occupied that position in 1887.
The tonnage for 1888 is the highest
ever registered There has been con-
siderable development in the night traffic
through the canal. The average dura-
tion of passage through the canal for the
total navigation was 80 3-4 hours, as COM
pared with 81 hours in 1887 and 49 1-2
houra in 1888
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16

Azula was rpudy to go wherever her
brother wished to IKE her, and the two
set forth hard in hand. They climbed
hill and descended into the plaiu whore
Little Boy Blue had heard the voice of
his invisible friend. The friend vas
there awaiting them. He led them down
into a valley and then through a narrow
gorge, whore the ground wa co
with a soft moss, and on both sid wer
eambing plants and long branches o
ferns.
Farther on the path grew still mar
rover, and the light of heaven disap-
Pc ared in the increasing gloom. But the
Two silvery wings of their little guide
lighted up the place, and the two chl-
dren followed, and finally entered
grotto, so completely concealed that no
human eve could ever have discovered
it. Beyond this grotto they stopped,
dumb with amaZement. What specta-
Gle A dazzling light, perfumed woods,
fields covered with flowers, lakes blue rs
the heaven itself.
1t was fairyland; it was the kingdom
of the elves. Near a silyery stream was
a flock of sheep as white as snow, and on
a throne OF moss, under canopy OF
roses, sat the King and the queen OF the
elves Little Boy Blue and his sister
| uILeG0u SuOuIS Vi JOY anu SldPPSN vhOii
hands on seing all these beautiful things.
Their guide invited them to follow him.
and led them before the royal throne,
Little Boy Blue took off his hat and
| made low bow.
The king said to him: Little Boy
| Blue, know that YOU work faithfully
and that you have dear little sister.
Will you remain here and tend my
sheep? You shall bo we'll fed and vel
dressed and no one will be unkind to
you"
'Oh! thank you," cried kttle Boy
Blue, 81 accept with pleasure.
Then the queen. turning to Azula. said
"And what do you know how to do,
my beautiful child:'
II know how to spin"
The queen ordered distaff and a spin
ming wheel to be brought and A2Illa It;
once gave striking proof of her ahii-
ity. Little Boy Blue was appoin,e,.
first shepherd to the king and his sister
first spinner to the queen.
The elves applauded these appoint
ments, and the two gentle orphans, con-
tented TO be together and to do their
duty, lived long and happily in fairyland
| Boston Globe.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
A Pen fnr the Rnhv

Little Jacks mother is enjoying g
happy freedom from anxious care while
bout her household du'ies, knowing
that Jack is placed whore he can iDjurc
nothing and nothing can iniure him. A
convenient safeguard like the one il.us-
trated in the engraving and which can be
folded and conveniently stored away
when not in use, is made as follows It
is formed of four frames fastened to-
gether uprightly, each frame consisting
Of two posts and three rails. 1t requires
strips of boards two inches wide cut intG
iwonty pieces of three different lengths.
Tho eight posts are twenty-one inchc-
high: the six side rails are forty-eight
inches long. and the six end rails are
twenty-three inches long. Any other
size may be used it being necessary TO
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16

II you save all the slops from the
house, the wash-water, and suds of sun
dry occasions during the week, you will
ind that you have a supply of nutyi-
mcnt at hand to draw upon which is IA.
richer than you had any idea. 1t viii
not make a poor soil permanently rich,
but it will afford sufficient nutriment To-
nourish such plants as you grow in il
during the summer in very satisfac-
tory manner. We planted some ANIMALS
ON u stiff clay that had been thrown out
OF cellar. We water them regularly
with suds and slops, and they surpass in
.rowth and Righteousness those grown
in the garden.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
LITTLE bUr DnUaa d | !. {

Once upon time, in little rustic
louse, lived happy boy. His father
vas a shepherd, and was greatly es-
Ieemed by the whole village His
mother spun, woye and dyed wool. She
nad made him pretty blue jacket, which
ne always wore and all the neiphbors
called him Little Boy Blue" In the
day Time he helped his father drive the
sheep to pasture, and in the evening he
played with his sister, who was Younger
Lhan he, and whom he loved very dearly.
and he was so kind and gentle that eyefy
one was delighted to see him.
But, one cold winter, his father died.
ana short time after the mother dice
also. The two children remained alone
IN the world. They had an uncle who
vas captain OF n sailing vessel, and he
oHered TO take Little Boy Blue with him
on his ship.
WIN you also take my sister Azula?'
asked the child.
''No, | cannot do that.
Then will not go with YOU. | will
not leave my sister to travel on the kinp'a
most beautiful ship.
so the children remained in their little
house among the hills. Little Boy Blue
entered the service of q farmer by whnso
MS iather had been employed, as she
herd. He was active, intelligent =
obedient, and the farmer obIigedt an
do all sorts OF menal work, andp I'm 10
but very little. That little. ana MN
was sufficient to provide foo6 hoWelrL'
ter and himself, so he was o. lor MS Bis
One day his dear Azula onlent;
could not care tor her dur leii SICK 4i'
as soon as his wog} ing the day' nut
hastened to her aud 4 was '"o'u H'
she felt 6etten ar -ook no repose until
out. id he was about worn
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16

farmhouse where he had once mora
vainly applied for a situation, ne sat
down upon stone by the roadside. He
was 81 sad that he burst into tears.
Suddenly he heard soft voice, which
said 20 him;
'Come. come, Little Boy Blue; tho
king of the elves wishes you to take care
OF his sheep
Little boy Blue replied: ''rhank you,
thank you'll My sister * all alone at
home ! rust return 10 her
The silycry voice replied
Go ana get your s.t"f nd bring her
with you to In" kinCt!n.n o. III" .ves. ="
vt these words TIE pnf r. G, ran
to the little house and e,., ioyuusy II
have found a place, dea lister. in the
kingdom of the elves; viii you go there
with me?"
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
DO NOT Cvoxvd your plants.

There is nothing gained by growing
three plants where there is only room for
two. The two plants that the place
would comfortably accommodate will be
much finer than the three that you
could manage to "just squeeze in" And
remember that one plant, we'll grown, is
worth a score of poorly grown ones
One good plants something to be proud
of, while a number OF poor specimens
ought to make the grower ashamed, not
of the plant, but OF himself. Treat
plants precisely as you would people,
and give them all the chance they wan
to develop. Let them show what they
can do, and they cannot do this when
they are ramped.-American Agrlcul-
tuTict
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16

Top and bottom OF the vase-are COM
posed of equal triangles of the plain silk
and material like the body or center
square the other two are chiefly of the
plain silk, but small triangular pieces Of
the watered silk are fitted to one corner
of each, 1t is well to make each section
on a cambric or muslin lining if rich ma
terials are used, but il prints or cambrics
are chosen, it may not be necessary.
Squares pieced by this or similar de
signs are pretty to combine with crazy
patchwork. Four finished squares. some
what smaller than the one described, put
together so that the vases all point from
The center to tho corners make pretty
cover for q lounge or chair cushion.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
The Pressure of Monuments.

The pressure at the base of the Wash
ington monument is jS.35 pounds to the
square centimctre, while that upon the
base OF the Eilfel tower is not more than
nine pounds to the same space. In only
two instances has the pressure at the
base of the Washington monument been
exceeded, one Of siXty-siX pounds to The
square centimetre being considered dam
gerous. 1t would seem then that only
by the use of iron can such heights as
been attained in the Eiffel tower be
reached.-Exchange
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16

A farmer named Hilton hired a very
inexperienced boy to help him about the
place. One morning he told the lad TO
go and salt the calf over in the pasture.
The boy took about a quart of salt,
rubbed II all over the calf working it into
the hair. A gang of colts in the pasture
scented the salt and got after the calf.
They licked the hair all off the calf's
back and tried TO lick the hide off, too.
The farmer tried to catch the calf to
wash 1t, but the creature, thinking he
The boy, calf and farmer are all an
happy. The colts are the only ones that
got any fun out of it.-Savannah Ra~nb-
lican
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
Frirhtful Norway Avalanche.

On both sides of the Josen Fiord, on
the west coast of Norway, mountains
rise perpendicularly to a height of sew
eral thousand feet. One morning, some
days ago, stones and rocks, some OF
which are said to have been as large as
house, began to fall on the western side
of the ford. The avalanche continued
for over two hours, accompanied by q
noise heard ten miles distant. A black
cloud settled over the ford, the water OF
which was in terrible commotion for
many hours.-N ature.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
SINGULAR LAW CASES.
SUA.tE THAT PUZZLED LEGAL HEADS
on TWO CONTINENTS.

Problem, tram China Over the Pr1vn-
ing Of "a tVife - Paris Sends n
p SER yVit!, ti,e Rest--A Novel Point IA
y,voree f.a.Y7. An AmusnE Case f'uAl
E.ist'oI.
There are con, 'inually arising legal
questions of such n novel and peculiar
rharacter Us to baiA g and perpley even
the acume OF The ke 'enest "ltied law
yers Of the day. Such instances a. tie
following cannot fail TO be amusing ana
interesting to The general n 'aoef' stys the
New York Dispatch :"
A curious law case was recently re-
ported from WeNchow, in Glib Ia zap
pears to be quite a regular cush lh mere
Tor man to literally pawn hiA Wiie TO
another person, il he desires so to do' a
man recently took another mans WIG
In pawn, ON hearing from ONE as'l '-n-
g,rs that the days of his own "l.N 7
nalf'' were numbered The agrcemeA &
was, that the woman "'talten over was
20 be ready for appropriation When re-
quired d.
Ii afterward transphed that this
woman had already been pawned to
;hird party, who was too poor to sup
port her comfortably, and that she her
self had fraudulently procured her see
lud paWnjng. The problem for the
WenchoW authorities is to lind out the
egal rights of the respective owners
and pawners, the whole affair being
Illegal
From Paris comes the report of an
other curious case. A certain countess
insured her jewels, etc, against fire,
with an insurance company. An ear
ring, valued at G22, on the mantcl-piece
,n her dressng-room, was acciden tally
knocked off, fell into the fire, and was
burnt. The insurance company con
ended that this was not loss BY fire
within the meaning Of the policy, and
declined to pay-"the ordinary fire used
in the CRATE was not fire." and so on
The French court however, decided that,
whether grate-flre or any other kind Of
ire. ga fires fire for a that" and &C
:ordingly made the insurance company
pay up.
Sometimes the cases brought before
lawyers for their advice are of a semi
ridiculous nature, on account of the novel
circumstances in which the occurrence
complained of may have happened. The
sase mentioned in Max Adaler's "Elbow
Room" Is, of course, pretty we'll known,
but as it gives good idea of this class
of cases, we will here touch upon it.
Two men owned n dog between them;
each paid half the cost Of the animal.
One OF them, Tompkins, was afterward
bitten by it. He now wants to know
whether he cannot recover damages for
assault and battery" from Potts, the
other part-owner. OF course it is clear
that such an idea is absurd on the face
If it, because Tompkins would be liable
for any misconduct on the part of the
dog, as part-owner, as well as Potts.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16

cut the side rails two inches longer than
twice the length of the end rails. In
making the frames, place the top rail
even with the tops OF the posts and the
other two rails below, five inches apart,
clear In putting the frames together
hinge both end frames to the back frame
on the inside 80 that each can open only
at an angle OF ninety degrees, letting the
side rails pass by the end rails. In fas-
tening the front frame, fit the side and
end rails so they cannot move up or
down and hold in place with hooks.
Th,~ frame work can be moved to any
part of the room. and u soft rug spread
undolneath makes it comfortable place
for the baby, either in winter or summer.
American Agrlculturist.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
HOUSEHOLD VOTES.

Cups and saucers stained with tea may
be made bright again by using damp
salt.
Willow furniture should be scrubbed
we'll with salt and water, applied with a
nail brush. to slean it. Dry 1t thor
oughly.
A room with low ceiling will seem
higher If :he window curtains hang to
the floor. Lambrequlns may be used to
extend the curtains TO the ceiling and
thus carry out the effect.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16

Dahlias should always have stout
stakes driven close to the main stalk o.
the plant to give the support needed 20
case of high winds. If these stakes an,
painted green they will not be noticeable
and Il they are taken indoors in autumL
when the dahlia roots are taken up. thcl
will last several years. They are much
neater than anything that happens to
be at hand" when you get around to al.
tend to this necessary work.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
Work of Electricity.

There are now in use in the United
States more than $3.50 central electric
stations for light and power. There are
210, 900 are lights and 100000 incan-
desceut lamps There are fifty-nine
electrical railways in operation in March
last, and eighty-six roads in process Of
construction. The increase OF capital
In electrical investments during 1888 was
nearly SIC, 600, 900. These are very slgnif.
cant figures, and they point unmistakably
to the course Of future inventions and
discoveries Exchange.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
On the Reach at Nice.

"Yes," said Jagley, "the prince OF
Wales was at Nice the same time l was
there, last summer. While walking on
the beach saw the the prints
What did he look hke7"
"The prints of his feet on the sand.
they looked like number mines. Judge,
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-08-16
A Frugal Mind.

Care you going to leave your wife
at home this summer again when you
take your vacation2
D.-No, indeed / am going to take her
along. 1 spend too much money when
am alone on my vacation. .--Siftings.