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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-10-11
The Good Old Songs.

Minstrelsy may grow old as the
hills, and companies may keep on put
ting flashy novelties Gu the stage, but
the people will never get over enjoy
ing a sentimental ballad or a pathetic
song of plantation life; any of Steve
Fosters, my Old Kentucky Home, Z"
or "Nelly Gray" A simple song
about babies and a parents love or the
love of a man for q woman, when well
sung, brings an encore every time.
Topical songs will always DO relish
ed, but the audiences are growing
more and more critical, and the music
must be sprightly and the wit neatly
worked out to secure hit for the
singer. The smaller the town the
more love songs and negro melodies
are appreciated, but no matter how ia
miliar a song is, sympathetic male
voice will always make it o go.-In-
terview in Globe Democrat
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-10-11
Mo,ands In Maine.

Antiquarians have made many in.
teresting discoveries in Maine, and
that there are yet. many unsolved
mysteries here well worth their atten-
ton and that Of scientists, is well
known; but that there is anything
that may have been the work of the
mound builders is known to but few.
To a mysterious mound The Eastern
State calls public attention. It is stu
ated in the town of Sangerville, about
one-fourth mile north Of the Dexter
line and about the same distance from
the river called Main stream, and is
on the farm owned by Mr.. Freeman
Flanders. When first discovered,
about fifty years ago, the mound was
about thirty-six feet high and was COW
cred with a heavy fresh growth, some
large trees standing on the very top
of the mound. The mound is Just 200
feet from base TO base lengthwise,
measuring over the summit, and 166
from base to base measuring in the
same manner sidewise across its CEN
ter, and is perfect elliptic in form.
1t is now about thirty feet high, as it
has been plowed over twice since the
land was cleared, and, as far as it has
been examined, is made of soil taken
from the vicinity. Furthermore, a
person standing on its top can see from
whence the soil composing it was
taken, as there is almost a circle of
bare ledge at little distance from it.
Who built this mound is the ques-
ton residents of this vicinity and
others who have seen il would like
to have solved. One neighbor has
dug into it few feet, without finding
anything different from what appears
on the surface. Lately correspondence
has been opened with the officers of
the Smithsonian institute, and they
have expressed q wish for an investi-
cation. Beside the theory of the mound
builders, other explanations are offer
ed. 1t has been suggested that it may
have been raised by the Indians to
mark the location of the great battle
in which the Penobscots repulsed the
Mohawks; that it may mark the burial
place of some noted chief, or that it
was constructed to serve as guide to
some route to be followed. In regard
to this last supposition it is noted that
its position is near the point to which
Main stream was navigable by boats
and at about the nearest point of
crossing from Main stream to the Pts
cataquis valley. Whichever view is
adopted it is quite probable that an in
vestigation would add something to
our knowledge of life in this part of
the world before Maine was settled by
its present owners. Lewiston Jour
nal.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-10-11
Wagner.

Wagner is a wonderful prodigy, an
alteration of genius; a visionary
haunted by all that is colossal, he can
not estimate Alright the powers of his
brain. With no sense of measure or
proportion in his mind, he flies be-
yond the limits of human observation,
and, face to face with his prodigious
endeavors, his gigantic labors, and his
overwhelming expenditure of talent
and hard work, one feels tempted to
quote to him the cruel remark of
Agnes to her lover Arnulphe: ''Hor-
ace in two words would make more of
it than YOU" The true sign of genius
is the sober employment ones means
proportional to the wealth of ones
ideas. Now, compare Wagner's ex-
cessive use Of crashing chords, his ex-
travagances of harmony, with the
simple construction in the sense of the
commandant. When the Emperor
Joseph III said to the author of don
Giovanni" on the first night of its re-
presentation, "Your opera is very
graceful, Herr Mozart, but it has a
huge quantity of notes in it," Mozart
could with justice make this reply:
mot one too many, sire" No one
could say the same of Wagner.-Gou-
nod.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-10-11
The Dead Sea.

The Dead sea is SO named from the
old belief that no living thing could
dwell in it, and that its exhalations
were SO poisonous that even birds fly
ing over it dropped down dead. This
is known to be a greatly exaggerated
account, as few fish are to be found
in it. Chateaubriand, indeed, alludes
TO the noise made by tho multi
tudes of small fish, which come out
Of the lake and leap about on the
shore" The inhabitants of the ada
cent country regard the Dead sea with
terror, owing TO the tradition that its
waters cover the engulfed cities of So
dom and Gomorrali. '"Those waters
Of death stretched into the southern
desert, and all around us far as the
eye could follow, blank hills peered
over hills, pale, yellow, and naked,
walled up in her tomb forever the
dead Gomorrah No fly hummed in
the forbidden air, no grass grew from
the earth, no weed peered through the
void sand, but in mockery of life
there were trees bowed down by Jor-
dan in some ancient flood, and those
grotesquely planted upon the forlorn
shore, spread out their grim, skeleton
arms, all scorched and charred to
blackness by the beats of the long, ST.
lent years. Brooklyn Eagle.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-10-11
Smoking a Pipe with Carlyle.

l smoked pipe with Carlyle yes
terday. We assembled from his dining
room carrying pipes and tobacco up
through two stories of his house and
got into little dressing room near
the roof; there we sat down; the win
dows were open and looked out on
nursery gardens, their almond trees
in blossom, and beyond bare walls Of
houses, and over these roofs and
chimneys, and here and there steeple,
and whole London crowned with
darkness gathering behind like, the il
limitable resources of dream. I
tried to persuade him to leave the ac-
cursed den, and he wisbel-but-but
perhaps he didn't wish on the
whole.-Letters and Literary Remains
Of Edward Fitzgerald.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-10-11
Disease I'm Lower Animals.

The theory is held that some of the
lower animals suffer from disease in
duced by the same family of germs
that causes typhoid fever in the hui
man species, and that they may, by
means of their secretions and excre-
tons and slaughtered carcasses, con-
vey the disease back to man. Many
instances are recorded where outbreaks
of what appeared to be typhoid have
been traced to the eating of meat of
animals known to have been diseased
when killed. One authority relates
the following: A butcher refused to
buy a calf, because it was manifestly
i'll; the family, therefore, to whom it
belonged killed and ate it themselves,
and six of their number were attacked
with typhoid fever. DR.. Crawford
tells of another instance of this sort.
At Kloten, q place seven miles north
of Zurich, on the Both of June, 1873,
festal board was spread, and 600 per-
sons partook of the viands, out of
whom 800 fell i'll with typhoid fever,
and 1878 others who had eaten at the
inn whose landlord had furnished the
collation., making in all 66S persons
affected with the disease from the eff
fects of the same feast. There were
40 others affected secondarily, making
III cases directly and indirectly from
the feast. The cause of the outbreak
was traced directly to sick calf fur
nishcd the innkeeper by butcher,
as it was clearly shown that only those
who partook of the veal thus furnish.
ed were attacked. This veal had been
procured from a dealer at Seebach,
who had sold the liver of the same
animal to q fellow townsman, who
was in like manner attacked with ty-
phoid fever. The brain of the same
animal was sent to the parsonage at
Seebach, and all the family were at
tackled with the Same disease. The
calf was ascertained to have been al
most dead when receiving the dis
patching blow from tie butcher. Not
withstanding the large number of in
stances which appear to support the
theory that typhoid fever is communi-
Gated by animals to man, it is by no
means settled that such is possible. In
fact, there are grave doubts if the dis
ease caused by eating meat believed to
be infected was actually typhoid fever.
Boston Herald.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-10-11

A modern theory, through which
the condition Of the deaf mutes has
been wonderfully changed, acts upon
the supposition that such afflicted per-
sons are mute only because they are
deaf. There 10 no defect in the vocal
organs, but the fact that no sounds can
be heard led to the superstition that
they cannot be initiated. Science,
however. has at last succeeded in
remedying SO serious a difficulty.
Speech is accomplished both by the
motion OF the lips and the vibration of
the throat Sight will give us intelli-
gence in regard to the first, and touch
should apply knowledge Of the second.
In beginning to teach deaf mutes
the art Of speech, they are first placed
before a mirror, and taught to form
with their lips the different vowel
sounds used in speaking. But this is
not all. Sounds are produced not only
by the lips, but by the larynx, the vi
bration of which is strongest in the
region known as the Adams apple"
The pupil places his finger upon his
masters throat, while that vibration is
going on, and then, touching his own,
strives to initiate it. Then, when he is
in possession Of these elements of
speech, he has only to combine them,
in order to produce syllables, words
and phrases
The course of instruction is not,
however, a very rapid one, since O
series Of exercises known as the pre-
paratory period has first to be accom-
plished. It is an interesting fact that,
before learning to speak, the lungs,
larnyx, tongue, lips and eyes have to
be so exercised as TO be in a state of
readiness to operate.
Each inspiration draws into the
lungs an average Of thirty cubic in
rhes of air, but in speaking at least
Dne hundred and twenty cubic inches
are used. The deaf mute must, of
course, be taught to inhale a sufficient
quantity OF air, and to regulate respi-
ration, otherwise his air supply would
fail, and his speech become jerky and
disagreeable.
Ii the larynx, also, were not given
preliminary exercise, the spoken word
might be feeble or discordant, while the
tongue, unaccustomed to any work
but that OF managing the food, must
learn to accommodate itself to differ
ent set Of motions.
The lips of deaf mutes are always far
less supple than those of persons nor
mally developed, and consequently
require systematic exercise. The eyes
do not need to be taught keenness, as
they have always been on the watch
to supply information usually furnish
ed by hearing; but they are taught
to attain greater power of fiXedness,
that the attention may be concentrat-
ed without diversion upon the lips of
any person speaking.
1t has been observed that the sense
of touch is less delicate in the deaf
mute than in other children, and this,
also, demands special exercise
Youths Companion.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-10-11
FIFTH
POINT

Rsmew5ey-Its circulation Is 10000 day-over
million week-and it costs by mail as cts.
month. four months 81 oo,-one cent day.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-10-11
A Jacobite Curse.

Many curious documents connected
with the two Jacobite risings, not
merely from the Stuart side, but (what
are rarer) from the Hanoverian side,
still exist. Many of them are quaint
and humorous, but space prevents the
quotation Of anything longer than the
succinct Jacobite curse, which was
written on folded slips of paper and
handed to likely persons In the streets
Of Edinburgh. It ran simply, May
God damn Hanover, Vivat Jacobus. !"
--Athen@um.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-10-11
Just n Hint to Boys.

I stood in store the other day,
when boy came in and applied for a
situation.
Can you write good hand9" was
asked.
"Yaas."
Good at figuresa"
"Yaas."
Know the city well9"
"Yaas."
THAT will dol don't want you,"
said the merchant.
But" / said, when the boy had
gone, IT know that lad to be an hon
est, industrious boy. Why don't you
give him chance"
Because he hasn't learned to say
Yes, sir, and No, sir If he answers
me as he did when applying for sit
uation, how will he answer customers
after being here month";"
What could say to that He had
fallen into bad habit, young as he
was, which turned him away from
tho first situation which he had APP
piled for.-h. Quad in Detroit Free
Press.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-10-11
English WILD Cattle.

The only herds remaining in Great
Britain are those Of Hamilton park,
Chillingham park and Charley park.
1t is difficult to determine to what ex-
tent they are pure. Storer was of the
opinion that mo wild herd, if impris-
oned in park, and interbred for sew
eral hundred years without cross,
could be in existence now" There is
a. tradition that whole herd from
Drumlanrig twas sold and driven off
to Chillingham" about a hundred
years ago, and that fresh blood was
occasionally introduced from other
sources. On the other hand, there are
evidences of inbreeding in the fact
that the annual increase is only one in
five.
1t is we'll authenticated that the
Hamilton cattle were formerly horn
less, and the horns which they now
possess are said to be the result of the
invasion of the park by West High
land bull. Black, black and white,
and brown calves are occasionally
born in each of the three wild herds,
which is another symptom of crosses
in the past. These colored calves are
always destroyed, and were it not for
this it is by no means certain that
white would now be the prevailing
color. At Somerford park, in Ches-
hire, Sir w. Shakerley has herd of
domesticated hornless cattle which
strongly resemble the Charley breed.
Individual cows have sometimes given
fourteen quarts at milking and seven
gallons a day. The ordinary COWS
most like the existing breeds of wild
cattle are the Ayrshires, which have
much in common with them in form,
color and horn Saturday Review.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-10-11

A/Bleacher that may be used In the pairing
room without Inconvenience from burning sui
phur. Are approved by hundreds Who have them
In use. Capacity O.. 100, $50 and 200 bushels in
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In operating. Capacity 100 to 800 bushels il "a
hours. Pease's Slicer. ParRelPs Chopper PAIRING
Machines, &c We pay freight For illustrate
ed circulars, address A TODD SON,
Pultneyville, Wayne Co., NY
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-08-08
BOUNDING ALONG.
sOne Reliable Gossip About tie Mines
In the South End.

All reports indicate that the mining in
dustry in south Santa Fe county is whoop-
ing along at a rate of speed that keeps
every man down there up to his eyes in
business. Work is pushing under the
new management at the Cash Entry and
Central. On the Chester dump there is
a large lot of fine ore about ready for ship.
ment, and Morrison is pushing things on
the Galena Chief. Great activity prevails
in the coal pits and at the charcoal ovens
Dolores new mill is grinding out the gold
daily, and the Gov. Ross mine will be the
next to secure treatment OF its ores there.
At San tsdro there seems to be no let
up in the boom, while the number of
labering men employed in the camp is
daily on the increase. The Lincoln.Lucky
people. closed their conference at the
Palace hotel last night, agreeing upon Il
policy that will rebound TO the credit OF
both the property and San Pedro.
The executive committee will visit Pedro
on Tuesday next to look into the advisa.
bliIy OF putting down two additional
shafts. Col. johnson thinks the twenty
live men now at work will be increased
to fifty in number in few days. He has
Il letter to-day from A. H. Reynolds,
cashier OF the Lincoln-Lucky company,
which says:
"They (the miners) say the Bullion is
looking fine. John Mclaughlin tells me
there are five feet OF good ore in sight.
The Lincoln Lucky is in fine ore also;
never looked better"
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-08-08
Personal.

Col. r. NJ, Johnson goes to San Pedro
tonight.
II. 7. Wright and wife left this morn
ing for San Pedro.
Mr.. II. n. Smith. jr., one of the leading
real estate men at Kansas City, is here on
a sight seeing trip.
Hon. Mariana S. Otero, Republican
statesman and a popular gentleman with
all classes, is up from Bcrnalillo on bust.
ness to-day.
Hon. Justus Clark, OF Red Oak, Iowa,
returned to-day from q visit to his Socorro
county breeding farm. He is quartered
at the Palace.
A. NJ. Anderson, Cerrillos W. Hughes,
Copper City; c. Mccormick, Antonito;
John Watts, Wichita, Kas, are among
to-day's arrivals at the Exchange.
John Watts, formerly of this city, for
several years past cashier Of q Wichita
bank, is here circulating among old
friends and looking after his real estate
interests.
A. NJ. Storey and wife, Hillsborough,
is the way it reads on the Palace hotel
register to-day. Sierra county's popular
sheriff was married at Colorado springs
the other day to Miss Florence Smith.
The happy bride and groom arrived here
asst night, and after brief visit will pro-
coed to Hillsborough.
At the Palace: NJ. F. Otero, Berna.
lilo; F. j. Gentry, Pueblo; Phil Prayer,
st, Louis j. p. Hurless and wife, Camp
Supply; Justin Clark, Red Oak, Iowa;
Mariana Barela, Merillie, N. NJ: d. U.
Epperson, Vandalia; II. N. Smith, jr.,
Kansas City; J. II. Hawley, Troy, N. Y;
a. J. Morrison, Kansas City, Alex. M.
story and wife, Hillsborough.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-08-08
Alex. Douglas Sorrow.

Mr.. Alex. Douglas sends the New
MEXICAN copy of quaint looking pub
lication, the Courant and Courier, OF e.
gin, Scotland, which contains beautifully
written article OF nearly q column touch.
ing the death OF the gentleman's brother,
Mr. John Douglas, manager of the Balm
dalloch and Invershle estates at Marion
burgh, Scotland, says the paper:
"Not for years has such q gloom been
cast over this wide district as hen the
sad intelligence of Mr.. Douglas death
went abroad. Although such an event
was looked for, still while life existed
many refused to give up hope, and when
at last death came. the district in which
Mr.. Douglas was SO highly esteemed and
respected mourned q beneiactor and a
true friend. For in his official capacity,
as factor for Sir George Macpherson Grant
deceased ever showed all consideration to
the tenantry in any business matters
which they may have brought under his
notice, and as Il private gentleman very
many priced him as a true and most stead
last friend. Nor did he, when occasion
demanded it, fail to keep sight of his duty
to his employer. But Shen delicate bust
ness matters, requiring minute manipula-
ton and tact had to be transacted, de-
ceased alwa"s kept i'll touch with the
tenantry, and, by reason of his natural
aptitude for business and personal popu-
Iarity, got over these obstacles in man.
ner satisfactory to all parties concerned"
Mr.. Douglas was. a native of Quay, in
Perthshire. He was chairman of the diff
ferent school boards connected with the
estate, and, besides, was justice of the
peace and commissioner OF supply for the
counties OF Moray, Banf and Inverness.
Deceased leaves two SONS and daughter,
the care of which will largely fall upon
Mr.. Alex. Douglas. The latter gentleman
has multitude of friends in New Mexico
and Colorado who will regret to learn of
his sad aftliction.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-08-08
ROUND ABOUT TOWN.

Note the call for q meeting OF the Board
uf Trade tomorrow.
The =" Masonic hall" crown is in place
on the Kahn block and sets off the APP
pealance Of the new structure in good
style.
Miss Mugler has removed her millinery
bazaar to more convenient quarters in the
Griffin block. She has a fine line Of
novelties on display ia celebration of the
event.
Real estate men say there Is an active
demand here for good modern dwelling
houses, and they wonder why it is that
more of such class Of buildings are not in
process of erection.
The county board will meet tomorrow
for the purpose Of canvassing the vote in
this county on delegates to the state con-
stitutional convention. 1t is probable al
so that other business will receive atten-
lion, including the much needed improve
mcnt OF the plaza.
Conductor Gardner came over from
Las Vegas this morning and will take
Conductor Stimmell's run on the branch
While the latter goes over to bring his
family here to reside. After long siege
at house hunting Mr.. Stimmell finally
secured brick dwelling on the south side.
Don Mariana Berela, sheriff of Dona
Ana county, is visiting the capital. He
reports it very dry in the lower end of the
Mesila country. About La Mesa and at
FL Paso there is little or no water in the
irrigation bitches. However, the fruit
about Las Cruces is in good condition and
the large grape crop is safe.
K. W. Hashagen, market man OF
long experience, who has kindly word
Tor all civil patrons, has arrived from st.
Louis and taken charge of the counter at
August kirchner's city meat market. AS
heretofore he choicest meats of the sea-
son Mt bed rock prices will be kept on
sale at this old reliable stand.
The time of the district court was &C.
cupied this forenoon ia hearing arguments
in the case OF A. Staab w. Sol Barth, q |
county suit, brought on bond
made by Barth agreeing to deliver to
plaintiff certain sheep. 1t appears he did
deliver the sheep but failed to account for
the natural increase in the flock, hence
tins litigation Neill B. Field represents
Mr.. Stasb; II. L. Warren for Barth.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-08-08

The extensive and popular hardware
establishment of E. D. Franz yesterday
got in car load of the celebrated Balm
wagons and also car load of the neat.
est, triggest and most substantial buck
boards yet introduced in these parts.
This firm has stock of hardware on ex.
Iibltion that is certainly credit to the
commercial prowess OF Santa Fe. Mr..
Franz, by reason OF his business connec-
tons ut st. Louis, is enabled to purchase
after personal inspection, in large guam
titles and at prices that other dealers in
the territory scarcely dream OF, and hence
it is that in point Of superior goods and
low prices he is enabled to take the lead
and hold it.