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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
ARKANSAS DENTIST.

Faith Cure Was a Failure. but Not
So the Drivers Fist.
There were five men OF us and three
women, besides the driver, who were
staging it between two towns in Kan
sas says the New York Sun. We set
out at o'clock in the morning for an
all-day's ride, and had not made two
miles when the oldest man in the
crowd, who was from the Nutmeg
state and built on Yankee principles,
suddenly exclaimed:
By gosh to squash!'
whats upp" asked one of the lot.
The toothache! She's hit me in
that ERE lower double tooth, and I'm
in for bushel of trouble"
Just try and not think of it," sug-
gested one of the women. keep
your thoughts on your family"
He tried it for two or three minutes,
and smile of affection came to his
face. 1t died away, however, to be
replaced by look OF ferocity as he
yelled out:
Hang my family, but it won't work!
Has anybody got any camphor?"
Nobody had. We hadn't even drop
of whisky. One man had some tobac-
co, but the Yankee couldn't go it The
ache, once started, grew worse, and as
he began groaning a second woman
suggested:
"Ive heard say as imagination has
all to do with pains. Suppose you i'm
agine you are sound asleep and dream,
ing of angels and such"
He tried it, and for a minute or two
the ache let up. Then it struck him
with a Jump and he seized his jaw and
yelled:
"Jerusha jackson! but I'll be gaul
burned if I han't goin' to die right
here! Driver, stop the wagon!'
1t was stopped, and he wanted to
know how far it was to a town. He
was told that it was twenty miles, and
he fetched a groan rod long anC
said:
"It's got to be done! Driver, come
down here"
"What do you want?"
you've got to knock it out! Yor
are the biggest man in the lot, and ]
guess you kin hit purity fair blow.
Give me a litter right here on the jaw"
"Do you mean itP'
''Sartin, and don't waste any more
time. Spit on yer hand, haul off, anc
sock me one right on that tooth.
want it knocked into a cooked hat"
''But you will go with it,
Cant help that. Now, imagine
that I've called you double barrele,
liar, and whale away"
The driver drew back and thel
landed on the exact spot, and the Yam
kee tumbled head over heels in tn
grass. He was up in minute, how
ever, and he put his thumb and finger
into his mouth and pulled out tw,
teeth and shouted:
"Whoop! It's one extra, but that
all right! Shake, old man, and ther
drive on with the band wagon! We
whoop! Toothache gone-pain gon,
happiness come to stay! Here's 1
dollar, and if you want to brag arount
about knocking Teller fourteen feet
won't say a word"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
Rattlesnake Oil.

There are places in South Georgia
where men extract oil from the rat
tlesnake and use it to cure rheuma-
tism. These persons will give negro
81 to point out rattlesnake to them,
and then they kill it in a peculiar
manner. They place forked stick
over the snakes head, then put a
cord around it and strange the
snake. This is done to keep the
snake from biting itself. The body
of the reptile is then strung up and
the oil extracted from it. 1t sells at
So per ounce, and this industry is a
very profitable one. The snakes in
that section are very large, averag-
ing five feet in length, and one RATHER
gives up a great deal of oil. A little
negro once saw two rattlers lying
close together and wanted to get the
money for finding them. 1t was a
mile to the nearest house. He was
afraid the snakes would crawl off
while he was gone, and so he took off
his coat and placed it between the
snakes. He went off, came back,
and found them still eyeing the coat.
He had them charmed. So the snake
is cultivated down there as a profit
able industry.-Athens ga. } Banner.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
SHE HAD NERVE.
A New York Woman's ENCOUNTER
With TWO Burglars.


CAzAsDAIGU4, n. Y, sSpecial.-John Use
of Springfield, Livingston county, and an
unknown man entered the house of Daniel
Mead, of the same town, at midnight last
night. Mrs. Mead was awakened by noise
in the sitting room, and when she opened
the door she discovered a man rifing the
secretary where Mead kept his money and
another standing by the stair door. She adj
vanced into the room and said: "Who are
you and what are you doing here?" The
man at the desk turned and made
a grab for her throat, but she
seized him and called loudly for
help, maintaining the contest with the
burglar until his confederate beat her with
a club and broke her arm and wrist in three
places Mr. Mead was not awakened until
he heard the smashing of furniture in the
struggle. He met one of the ruffians and
grappled gith him, and had nearly over
powered the man when the other pulled a
revolver and fired, the bullet entering the
mouth and passing through the back of the
head, making a probably fatal wound.
When assistance came the burglars had
fed and Mead was found unconscious.
Mrs. Mead recognized the man who dealt
the blows as John Use, and posse was at
once organized to capture him. He jumped
out of SECOND story window of his house
and fed to the woods, taking with him a
repeating rife. The men followed and sur
rounded the forest, but fear Of the rifle pre-
vented their going after him. The Meaqs
are popular and if the injuries prove fatal
Use will need strong protection to prevent
the eitigeps from melting out punishment
without legal forfnality. Uses confederate
escaped, and no trace of him can be found
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
ArfiHeiol TmAfh

The finest artificial teeth are made
Of the best ivory, but the great major
ity OF false masticators now in use are
simply pieces of specially prepared
hard porcelain. The following is one
of the processes adopted for their man.
ufacture: Fine calcined or roasted
quartz powder, background four-spar,
china clay and very little oxide Of tin
are very intimately mixed and ground
together, and afterward made into q
soft paste with water. This paste il
poured into moulds of various Kinds and
sizes Of teeth, and allowed to set The
plastic grinders are then transferred
to furnace, where they are 'tcured'
that is half-haked or hardened
When this has been done they are GOV
cred with an enamel made of paste o
spar and quartz, and finally subjected
to an intense heat until they are suff
GENTLY baked, when they are ready fo
the dentist. Surgical Reporter.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
Florida Undereround.

"Talking about adventures in
strange places" said J. S. NJ. Hodge,
of Jonesville, as he settled himself
down in a three legged chair i'll the
Office, lone year ago had an ex-
perience that l shall not soon forget
or repeat. In my neighborhood there
are numbers of natural wells. These
wells are round, and the walls are of
rock. Some of these wells are very
deep and others have no bottom.
Zone year ago my neighbor, Henry
Turner, lost q calf, and after search
ing for it a week he decided that it
had fallen in one of these unused
wells and came to me for assistance.
| told him that the calf was dead,
but consented to go down the well.
Descending to the depth of about
forty feet came to what | supposed
was the bottom, Becoming accus-
toned to the darkness, / discovered
q long, horizontal cave in the rock.
The lost calf had o bell,
and after listening l heard
the tinkling far off in the
distance. Moreover it appeared to
be partly submerged in water. The
hunt was growing exciting, but ]
could not enter that dark hole, PEG.
pied with snakes by the imagination
by myself. Calling to the top, I ask.
ed that another man come down
with a lantern. My brother came
down, and we started on our jour
ney through the earth. We had tc
crawl, for the crevice was not more
than three feet high. We had pro
ceeded about 100 yards when sud
denly we came to a large cavern
which could not be measured in the
darkness. just before us was a body
of water into which the calf had fall
en-. We managed to throw a rope
around it and pull it up, and then W.
got out of there with all possible
haste. l had no inclination to ex
plore further, and shudder when
think of the possible danger thai
surrounded us in the earth"
These natural wells are among TIN
wonders unexplained. 1t it believed
by many thatin ages past the grounc
sunk in, leaving these round holes il
the solid rock. Mr. Hodge used tn
water from one of these wells TO
drinking. 1t is sixty feet deep, am
the water is cold, clear and pure
Gainesville Record,
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A Very Valuable Book.

We see items sometimes about the
value of rare books in the hands of
bibliomaniacs or at auction sales,
but there is now in San Francisco a
a volume than which there are few
more valuable in the world. 1t is
worth exactly $50, 000-not a fancy
price, either Thirty thousand dol
lars is it's actual cash value. 1t is
the register of the whereabouts and
identity of 3, O00Chinese corpses in the
city cemetery, all of which will have
to be dug up and returned to China
in due time, while a disinterment per-
NIT costs $40. The ex-superintend-
ent of the cemetery has the book,
and says that he made it, and that,
therefore, it is his own private prop
erty. The health officer thinks it be
longs to the city. We think so, too
for it is clearly the duty of the su
perintendent of the cemetery to keeI
register or list of the graves anc
their contents. We hope thai
prompt action will be taken to pre-
vent destruction or Disappearance
OF the book pending legal settlement
of it's ownership.-San Francisco Re
port.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
Americans and Royalty.

1t is curious fact, and one only
just beginning to be comprehended
in the United States, that Americans
of both sexes have, at one time or
another, enjoyed far more popular
ity, with royal personages than have
any Europeans of a rank below that
of the highest aristocracy. A very
Intelligent explanation has been
given of this. In Europe everybody,
outside of the charmed circle i'm
mediately surrounding kings and
queens, stands so much in awe of the
sovereign and royal family that they
are formal and constrained in the
presence of even the remotest rela-
tive of a crowned head. Americans,
on the other hand, while rendering
all due respect to the prince or prin-
cess to whom they may have been in
troduced, are won't to chat with
them aggreeably and vivaciOusly as
with any other acquaintance, with
out being struck dumb by the high
station of the august person
age. One can readily i'm
agine what pleasant change such
bright and unrestrained CONVERSE
tion must be to those whose inter
course with his or her countrymen
or women, outside the Immediate
groups of personal attendants is
limited to Eyes, your Highness," or
"No, your Highness," uttered with
bated breath and with an air of in
tense reverence.
Before the q. United States was
carcely nation there were cases OF
Americans hob-nobbing with the rul.
ers of the ''effete monarchies." Pau
Jones, for instance, the famous naval
hero, was on the best of terms with
Louis XVI, of France, and with
Catherine of Russia, before the ad
vent of 80. Count Rumford, a ma
tive of Massachusetts,, who lived anG
tlOurished at the same period, was
the closest friend and political ad
wiser of the Elector of Bavaria
Washington Irving once trotteC
Eugene, when she was child, upo1
his knee, and entertained Napoleon
III at Sunnyside, while, to cite al
example from the other sex, we have
the case of the daughter of Genera
Cadwalader of Philadelphia, who's,
daughter Frances married into tn
great Erskine family of England
whose descendants to-day includ
the present Dnke of Portland ant
the sou of Lord Archibald Campbell
prospective Duke of Argyl.-Phila
delphia Times.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05

ped her hands &,ftly as she sobbed
over and over:
"Bress de Lord! Bress de Lord and
Massa Lincumw
Surely if Thanksgiving day Is kept
by the giving OF thanks, 1t W s never
more devoutly observed than by the
Willoughby household that night
How eagerly Daisy told her story and
Roy his. How breathlessly he listen
ed Us Daisy related word for word
Just what oar dear president said"'
Wasn't it too good of him, Roy
she concluded, ito take the trouble to
even send the money to bring you
home himself?'
But Roy had the gold pieces snug 10
his pocket.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
Confidence Regot of Success.

So confident re the manufacturers of that
world famed remedy. DR., Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, that it will do all that
they represent, in the cure oliver, blood and
lung diseases, that, after witnessing its
thousands OF cures for many years past, they
now feel warranted in selling it las they are
doing, through druggists) under positiI e
guarantee of it's giving satisfaction in every
case, or money paid for it will be refunded.
No medicine of ordinary merit could be sold
under such severe conditions with profit to
its proprietors, and no other medicine for the
diseases for which it is recommended was
ever before BOLD under q guarantee of q cure
or no pay. In all blood taints and impuri-
ties Of whatever name or nature, it is most
positive in it's curative effects. Pimples,
blotches, eruptions and all skin and scalp
diseases are radically cured by this wonder
full medicine. Scrofulous disease may affect
the glands, causing sweljngs or tumors; the
bones, causing "fever-sores," white swell
lings" or "hip-joint disease" or the tissues
of the lungs, causing pulmonary consun p,
ton. No matter in which one of its myriad
forms it crops out, or manifests ITSELF Gold
en- Medical Discovery" will cure it if used
perseveringly and in time.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
WANT PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
New Congressman Figuring Oh Pres
ents for Several Cities.


ents for Several Cities.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram,
The congressman from the new states would
like to take home with them some public
buildings, eight in all, for North Dakota,
Montana and Washington. They feel that
they need them, end are going to ask for
them in plain words, Some Of the congress
men have been to interview the treasury
officials, and Congressman Hansbrough and
Wilson, at least, are preparing billsin which
their requests will be specified Mr.. Hans
brough wants a building for Fargo, one for
Grand Forks and one for Bismafck, to be
used for holding United States courts, the
customs and postoffices. Mr. Carter will ask
for buildings at Helena and Butte, and Mr..
Wilson has at this early date interviewed
the supervising architect of the treasury to
find out what appropriation should be
asked fer buildings at Spokane Falls, Seat
tie, and Haceipa. He proposes to put in a
request for p $20o,9O9 building at each of
these cities. Some tims ago the condition
of the postoffiee at Grand Forks, Y. D.,
was such that its present quarters must be
enlarged, and the owners asked for an in
crease Of rent. In response to this request
an allegiance of $1,000 q year for rent has
been promised by the treasury officials.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
Hunting for the Meteorite

1t is reported that the Alpinites
are greatly excited over the falling
of an immense meteor in the vicin,
ity of Mount Bullion. The ball Of
fire, which is described as much larger
than the Markleville court house,
struck with force that made the
earth tremble, giving a report like a
cannon. The citizens of Alpine have
been out securing the hills in search
of the aerolite. Although many peo-
pie saw it fall, opinions differ in loca-
ton from five to ten miles.-Genoa
New Courier.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
That Fetched II.

Pallet Ito Polly Poser, the popular
modeD-I want you to call up a look
of expectancy of longing for some.
thing that you feel you will never
grasp.
Polly (promptly)-All right, Mr. F.,
I'll think Of that thirty bob as you
owes me for that last half-dozcn o.
settin's. That Il do the trick, If any.
thing will.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
A Curious Fish.

T. Peraccio, an italian fisherman
of Oakland, brought up a strange
fish from the bay in his seine yester-
day. The catch, while not a mon
strosity, is a piscatorial curiosity,
none of the fishermen of the bay hav-
ing ever seen it's like. 1t is about
eighteen inches in length, of a brown
ish color, and of peculiar shape. The
head, so far as q casual examination
can determine, is devoid of eyes, and
the body is covered by coat which
opens in a double flap in the back.
The head is provided with several
prongs and feelers.-San Francisco
Examiner.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05

The Girard (Philadelphia), Northwest
National, Mercantile, Firemen's (Baiti-
morel, and Reading lose from $1,000 to
s., 900 each. Other losers, the amounts OF
which the risks cannot at present be ascer-
tanned, are:
London and Lancaster, Elliot, Atlantic
Of Providence, First National OF Hartford,
Long Island, MUTUAL Fire of New York,
Commonwealth, Armstrong, Hecla, Reli-
ance, United Firemen's, Lumbermens S,
fremont, Milford Mutual and Fall River.
This fire, coming as it does on top GT the
great blaze at Lynn, is crushing blow to
many ofthe smaller companies, and it is
not at all unlikely that it will cause the
supervision Of many ofthem.
THE WORK OF THE FLAMES.
The scenes about the fgs were replete with
excitement and activity. The police were
prompt in roping off the streets and keep
ing back the crowds, leaving ample room
for the firemen. On every corner en-
gines pulled, rumbled and emitted tor
rents of black smoke, while hose lines
6y the score lay in twisted, tangled web
I'D and down the street for blocks on all
sides. The territory bounded by Kingston,
Bedford and Chauneey streets was the
principal theater of destruction. Here
the confagration leveled everything.
within an hour after the first
alarm sounded the whole structure of
Brown, Burrell & Co.'s building collapsed
with a TREMENDOUS crash. The flames were
darling from doors and windows and the
interior of the block vas a glowing fur
mace. Dry goods and ottar combusti-
BILE materials with which the floors were
packed burned to white heat Granite
nj dorS alta6 away Ii Ike
ice. The streams from the engines were
we're dissipated in vapor before they touched
the fire. Suddenly the cry arose, "The
walls ere falling; back, back. The
crowd suFged back for their very
lives, startled by the shout.
Firemen dropped their nozzles and
rail- to save the apparatus Great gaps
opened in the walls and bricks trom cor
nices dropped into the street with 6HliaQas
clatter. ThYee engines and the aerial lad
der and water tower were in immediate
danger and their crews buckled to the task
of getting them out of harms way. Every
moment was one of peril. Masses OF
TANGLED ELEGTRIe WIRES,
blocked the wheels of tb6 machines and OBJ
structed the way. Firemen desperately at
tempted to effect a clearance, bat II was
slow work, and 1t was by superhuman
effort that one engine alone was saved. Lofty
walls of blazing buildings were totterine
and the men were compelled to flee. There
Syas confused and deafening roaT and g
denise cloud of smoke and dust mounted
heayeaward. When it cleared away the
luxurious palace of trade had van
ished, only p fantastic heap o
bricks, shattered stoA6. twisted iron beams
and broken columns marking the SITE TIVE
engines which had been stationed a
Channeey and Bedford streets, still stood
upright amid the wreck, but ruined beyond
repair. The boiler of No. % had burst as
monstrons Stone fell directly upon il, fiat
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05

As Irishman was asked for his marriage
certificate. He lifted his hat, revealing q
large scar on the head, evidently done with a
fat iron. This evidence was. to the point
Our certificates are the praises of those who
have experienced wonderful cures by the use
of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
Salvation Oil is the greatest cure on earth
for pain. 1t affords instant relief and speedy
cure to all sufferers from rheumatism
neuralgia, headache, sore throat, cuts
bruises, &c. Price % cents.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
The Name America.

Amerigo Nespucci had no part in the
bestowal of his name on the new world.
1t was the act of body of learned men,
Columbus always believed that the
country he had discovered was a part
of Asia; but the discerning and COM
prehensive mind of Vespucci thought
differently; he believed it to be sep.
arate continent. His written descrip-
ton of the country, It's people, climate
and productions convinced the learned
men of Europe that his views were cor,
paat
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05

IL really what The Youths Companion is. It
publishes each year as much matter as the
four-dollar monthlies. and is illustrated by
the same artiRts. 1t is an educator in every
home, and always an entertaining and whole
some companion. 1t has a unique place in
American family life, If you do not know it,
you will be surprised to see how much can be
given for the small sum OF $1.75 ayear. The
price sent now will eutitle you to the paper
to January, 1891. Address,
TIE YoUTH's COMPANION, Boston, Mass
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05

A heavy rain was falling and the
street car was crowded. A sweet
young girl entered and glanced tim
idly around. "Take my seat, miss, !"
exclaimed the hollow-eyed consump-
tive near the door, seeing that the
hurley, beef-fed man sitting next to
him did not offer to rise. "Thank
you, SIR" she replied. And that
sweet young girl, with dripping Cos
samer, sat down by the side OF the
hurley individual and drenched him
with cold rain water till he could feel
his spinal column growing shorter,
while the hollow-eyed consumptive
hung on a strap, dry and happy.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
As a Suggestion.

A Cleveland business man who
leaves his horse and buggy on the
street a great deal OF the time always
removes the bur from one OF the front
wheels. About twenty loafers have
jumped into that buggy, given the old
horse cut, and gone hundred feet
to be pitched out on their heads aud
used up.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
THE WINNER.
The Promptness with Which MIR.
Harris Received His Money from
The Louisiana State Lottery.

The fact of the winning of the SIS, 900 by
our townsman Henry Harris in the last
drawing of The Louisiana State Lottery is
not new to our people, but meeting the ex.
sheriff yesterday we asked him if he had yet
received his check. Mr.. Harris replied. THAT
the money had promptly come, and that
everything connected with its receipt had
been most satisfactorily done. ~ like" said
he. "the way The Louisiana State Lottery
Company do business. The fortunate holder
OF the winning number sends his ticket to
the home Office and as soon as the mail can
return q check is received for the iull amount.
There is no qnibbling, no discounting, no
delays, everything is done promptly and
squaTely. As to what to do with the money
| haven't yet exactly settled guess / viii
invest the money in real estate in the best
county in the State ofCalifornia- Napa-nnd
enjoy the fruits of my good fortune. "-Napa
Gal. Reporter November IL.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05
Wonders of the Human Heart

The workings of the human heart
have been computed by a celebrated
Psychologist, and he has demolished
that it is equal to the lifting of 100
tons in "a hours. Presuming that
the blood is thrown out of the heart
at each pulsation in the proportion
of SO strokes per minute, and at
the assumed force of 9 feet, the mil
cage of the blood through the body
might be taken at 2O7 yards per
minute, Z miles per hour, 178 miles
per day, 81 800 miles per year, or
5,15O,S80 miles in a life time of 81
years. The number of beats of the
heart in the same long life would
reach the enormous TOTAL Of 2,869,,
TIC, O0Ol-Detroit Free Press.