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The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-28
SOMETHING WRONG.

A child who had just mastered her
catechism confessed herself disappoin'-
ed, because, she said, ''ihough | obey
the fifth commandment, and honor my
papa and mamma, yet my many days
are not a bit longer in the land, be
cause | am still put 10 bed at 7 O'clock
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-28
ALL SORTS.

The pastor always "pew-pews" the
idea OF renting seats III his church
Washington Critic.
There is Il melancholy coincidence in
the fact that this Is the age of scientific
cookery and the age of Dyspepsia
Boston Courier.
The one cent per head duty on for
eign cabbages will not prevent some of
the European visitors from writing
books on this country Baltimore
American.
Little boy-Do hotel clerks get big
salaries? Kentucky uncle-Noi often.
"Then how can they afford such big
diamonds?" "WeIl, you sec, they don't
have To pay anything for their Ticker"
New York Weekly.
"The poor know nothing of the trials
of the rich" Perhaps not. But if the
poor read the newspapers they know
that a great many of the rich escape
protracred and painful trials by going
to Canada. -[Norristown Herald
The Misses Browne, so glad 10
see you, Mary! But we've such dread
ful colds, we can't kiss You, dear. We
can only shake hands. Fair visitor-O,
lG1ar, how sad! | hope you haven't got
a cold, Mr.. Brown?-[LOndon Punch
Hatters assert hat the average
American head is considerably smaller
than it WAS so years ago. This il
considering that the average American
head is often so much larger to-day
than it was last night ~Philadelphis
Press.
"Pshawl' said a Sixteenth stree
lady to her husband, who had beer
criticising her attire, "What does /
man know about a woman's clothes
anyway" ale knows the price, III,
DEAR" he replied, gently, and she re
ired.-lWashington Critic.
Popstar-I was just conversing will
a gentleman whose name do not know
Perhaps you can tell me who he is, Mrs
Lopslarp Mrs. L%opstar-I am inclined
to think ii was my husband. o, by th'
way, what was he talking about
"Well. about himself, chiefly" 80
yes; that vas Charlie, sure enough.'-
Yankee Blade.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-28
'TWERE VAIN TO TELL THEE ALL FEEL

A green watermelon sat on II fruit stand,
Singing, 'sMelon, m melon, m-mclon:"
a colored maj stood there with ten cents IN his hand,
Saying, "Melow its mellow, quite mellow
Sc he ate a great big chunk right ont of the heart,
And he ate il al. up to the hard outside part,
And they carried him off in a one horse cart,
Poor fellow, poor fellow, poor fellow.
a physician was summoned-suon he arrived
Saying, - irOuh!e, the trouble, the trouble"
Learning the facts in the case he remedies prescribed;
Patient "Doublch, he doubled, he doubled
Medicine failCd-a kPmturkian suggested "liquid fire."
A strictly pure old article was bought of y. GEYEI.
Patient recovered rs o0rh aud won s. Get Hannah Maria;
Happy fellow, happy fellow, happy fellow.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-28

Go to LoOmis' grocery store. 18th and
Franklin avenue for your castor machine oil.
nus The uesl. juno l6tt
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-28
LARGE ENGLISH BERKsHERE
FROGS FOR sALE

UOUNG SHELTON Is THE HEAD REfA.
OF MY HEARD. NJ PRINCIPAL '%
Erecting stock Is recorded with the ASE@S
Nltionai swine Brrcdcr's Association.
mchgf JAMES HAM. COrder, Mo
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-28
Rheumatism
ard N9@ ul7iQ

These twin .'ts"aS : c."-' -rrp'i .HIGrrlng.
Doctors admit tl#' t."I - 'ti,' L :" cure
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-28

"Faine's C"!rrT Compound hIS Lon II COD
send to me. Tor tn past TWO Years !"IN" sur
fered with neuralgia uf the heart, Gr'.ur after
doctor falling 10 cure M. | hay" now tt'"l
nearly four Bottles OF the CumpUun T. sui an
free from the complaint. | feel very grateful
to you" CHAs IL. LEWIS, Central NIitIS". tt.
The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-09-28
RUSSELL! RUSSELL! RUSSELL!
THE CARRIAGE MAKER!

IT AVISG Il large STOCK Of BuggIcs md Spring
II Wagons ul my own make On hand, which !
vii sell at
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-06-08
THE CARPET MOTH.

Several Methods of Attacking and De-
stroying This Household Pest.
:. Where carpets are used and only
taken up once year at "hOuse-clean-
ing" the conditions are very favora-
BILE for the carpet bugs increase, par
ticularly where the house-cleaning is
hurriedly done. When house has
once become infested, nothing but the
most energetic measures will COM
pletely rid it of the pest, and in COM
plete riddance is the only hope, as in
a year very few individuals will so
increase as to do great damage. At
house-cleaning time then, as many
rooms should be barred at once as pos
sible, and the house-keeper should go
carefully over the rooms, removing
charged with benzine should puff
the liquid into all the floor
cracks and under the base
boards until every crevice has been
reached. The" carpets themselves,
after thorough beating, should be
lightly sprayed with the same SUBJ
stance, which will quickly evaporate,
leaving no Odor after a short time.
The infammability of benzine should
be remembered, however, and no light
should be brought near it. This done,
before relaying the carpets, it will be
well to pour into the cracks mcder-
ately thick mixture of plaster of Paris
and water, which soon sets and fills
them with solid substance into which
the insects will not enter. Then lay
around the borders of the room
width of tarred rooing-paper, and
afterward relay the carpets This
thorough treatment should answer
in the very worst cases, and in a
house SO cleaned the insect will prob
ably not regain foothOld during the
ensuing year. Cloth-covered furniture
which may have also become infested
should be steamed or also treated with
benzine, and chests or drawers in which
infested clothing has been stored should
be thoroughly sprayed.
Another method of treatment con-
sists in laying damp cloth Gan old
towel or a folded sheet will do) smooth
ly over the suspected part Of the car
pet, and ironing it with hot iron.
The steam thus generated will pass
through the carpet and kill all the in
sects Immediately beneath. If not too
laborious, an entire room could be
treated to advantage in this way
Good Housekeeping, .:
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-06-08
"If She Only Would. 3"

IF she only Uould believe it, Mo
average strength and health of girl
does not stand in the way of 1.-The
higher education of women"
If she only 1OouLd not make haste at
table, but sit willingly and sociably
through the time allotted for meals,
indigestion" another of the school
girls bugbears, would never put in an
appearance. Steaks, chops and rOasts
should be both :'well-chewedr and
''well-chatted.
If she only 10ottld forego little lunches
and midnight spreads, eat only at table,
never touch a nut, a cake, candy or
fruit. ''between meals" those other
terrors of the girl student-''d ''dyspep-
sia," ''biliousness," ''loss of appetite"
would not make her their prey.
(The girl careful in all these mat
ters will be sure to have inviolable
rules for her baths and her out-of-dOor
exercises).
If she only a0ouLd. furthermore, hold
1t to be "bad form" to indulge during
schOol-life in formal calls. the theater,
dances, correspondence and making
acquaintance with gentlemen. and the
reading of current fictiOn-then, great
ease and simplicity of living, and time
TO rest, would be possible to her, to-
gether with tremendous concentra-
tion of the mind upon study; she would
find herself, day after day, full of sat
tack" pursuit" corps d'esprit, "
''love of investigation, mastery"
and all the other high vitalities of
brain and blood that make the 'hard
pull and long pull' of a school-course
an enthusiasm and joy.-Wide
Awake
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-06-08
MAKING FRENCH WINES.

Amusing Story of the Alleged Falsifica.
tiOn of C1arets in France.
The Justification of wines is once
more becoming burning subject in
France 1t is notorious that millions
of bottles of the vim rouge which is
consumed at home and sent abroad are
guiltless of one drop of the juice of
the grape. Concerning this wholesale
classification" of Bordeaux wines, l
was told an amusing story this winter
by French gentleman who was my
travelling companion from Marseilles
to Paris.
Here is the story: A farmer in Nor
mandy, seeing wine advertised by a
firm in Bordeaux, wrote for couple
of casks of it, and forwarded the
money. A fortnight afterward it ar
rived at the station, and he sent his
carter to bring it home. The carter
brought two casks, but, to the farm
er's astonishment, only one cask was
full; the other was empty. An
examination Of the cask showed
that it had not been tampered with,
and there was no trace of leakage.
Evidently an empty cask had been sent
by mistake. The farmer at once wrote
to the Bordeaux wine merchant to
complain of the carelessness. In due
course reply was received, which
was as follows: Dear Sir-I am sorry
for the mistake made by my man, but
you can easily rectify it. If you will
fill the empty cask with water and
leave it for a fortnight you will find
the wine all right. The ingredients
are at the bottom of the cask, but my
man foolishly admitted to add the
water. Waiting your further orders.
| am, sir, yours, etc"
My French friend assured me that
this was a fact. The story became
public through the Norman farmer de-
manding the return of his money, and,
the wine merchant objecting, the case
came before the law courts. After
this, what price for "vin ordinaireP"
If that's what they give political pris-
oners, no wonder BOulanger ran away.
George K. Sims, in London Referee.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-06-08
CURRENT SUPsRSTlTIONS.
Information Obtained from Old WOme
in Countries Near and Far.

| Information Obtained from Old Women
in Countries Near and Far.
The funeral procession must not
cross a river.
The last name dying person calls is
the next to follow.
A dish-cloth hung on door-knob is
sign of death in family.
The corpse must not pass twice over
any part of the same road.
To dance on the ground indicates
disaster or death within year.
Whoever works on sick per sons
dress he or she will die within year.
If hoe be carried through house
some one will die before the year is
out.
If thirteen sit at a table the one who
rises first will not live through the
year.
The person on whom the eyes of
dying person last rest will be the first
to die.
Whoever counts the carriages at q
passing funeral will die within tho
year.
To break looking-glass is sign of
death in the family before the year
closes.
If three persons look at the same
time into mirror one will die within
the year.
The clock should be stopped at the
time of death, as its running will bring
i'll luck.
If one dies, and no rigor mortis en-
sues, it indicates speedy second death
in the family.
If hearse is drawn by two white
horses death in the neighborhood will
| occur in a month.
1t is unlucEy in a funeral for those
present to repass the house where death
has occurred.
If rain falls on a new-made grave
there will be another death in the fam
lily within the year.
If the grave is left open over Sunday
another death will occur before the
Sunday following.
To keep the corpse in the house over
Sunday will bring death in the family
efore the year is out.
1t is unlucky to pass through a
funeral, either between the carriages
or the files of mourners on foot.
If rain falls into an open grave an
other burial in the cemetery will occur
within three days.
At funeral entering church before
the mourners means death to some of
the entering party.
To put on bonnet or hat of one in
mourning is the sign that you will wear
one before the year is-out.
If any one comes to a funeral after
the procession starts another death will
occur in the sumo house.
In Switzerland, if grave is left open
over Sunday, it is said that within four
weeks one of the village will die.
If, during sickness, a pair of shears
be dropped in such manner that the
point sticks into the floor, it indicates
the death of the sick person.
When woman who has been sew
ing puts her thimble on the table as
she sits down to eat, it is sign that
she will be left widow if she marries.
A common saying in England is:
Happy is the corpse the rain falls
on" This belief exists also in the
United States. Thus it is said that if
rain falls at the time of the funeral it
is a sign that the dead has gone to
Heaven. Chicago Mail.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-06-08
PITH AND POINT.

1t is only the unlucly who think
fortune blind.
Dignity is expensive, and, without
other good qualities, is not particular
ly profitable.
Every thing is smooth sailing with
us when we have no difficulty in rails
ing the wind.
Character like porcelain-ware,
must be painted before it is glazed.
There can be no changes of color after
1t is burned in.
Because q man sleeps well is no
sign that he has an easy conscience.
He may have got tired out committing
sin.-Somerville Journal.
Pay your bill twice rather than go
to law. There are as many lawyers
clamoring for the wrong as there are
lawyers clamoring for the right
Atchison Globe.
1t is only natural that the man who
never has time to do any thing never
seems to get any thing done.-Mer-
chant Traveller.
1t amt true dat sorrow 'velops all
de good p'ints O er man, fur de pussOn
dat grows up in sorrow is like de stalk
O. con dat grows up in de shade. He
mout be jest ez tall. but he won't be
nigh so healthy. Traveller.
Some men will not shave on Sab
bath, and yet they spend all the week
in shaving their fellow-men; and many
think it very wicked to black their
boots on Sabbath morning, yet they
do not hesitate to black their neigh
boris reputation on week days.
Beecher.
When Drexilius was asked by a
friend how he could do so much as he
had done he answered.: The year has
three hundred and sixty-five days, or
eight thousand four hundred and sixty
hours; in so many hours great things
may be done; the slow tortoise made a
long journey by losing no time. -
Bishop Horne.
"A life without suffering would be
llh0 d. EJlCGuT0 WlGuOuO SlldOC' uO
pets of Nature, who do not know what
suffering is can not realize it, have al
ways certain rawness, like foolish
landsmen who laugh at the terrors of
the ocean because they have neither
experience enough to know what those
terrrors are, nor brain enough to
imagine them.-HamertOn.
"A difference between honorable
and dishorable competition is the con-
duct of the victor to the vanquished.
Some men rise above others only to
crush them-others to lift and exalt
them. Some boast with noisy triumph
and scorn those who are left behind;
others have "a way of making people
feel comfortable. One artist who has
risen high IN public favor uses his in
fuence to depreciate the works of his
brother artists; another takes them
by the hand and gives them cour-
age for fresh endeavors.
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J. W. DORRINGTON, Proprietor.
NUMBER 28.

an absurd situation, to interfere with
his rights, to do something which will
hurt him in body or mind. not very
deeply perhaps, yet really, is the OBJ
ject of the practical joker. l have
never in my life been able to see the
least good. the least innocent fun, in
practical jokes, but l have seen great
deal of evil and mischief resulting from
them. / can not think of q person ad-
dicted to practical joking as any thing
but mean and contemplate. For how
can we honor the disposition which
takes pleasure in cruelty?
Some years ago, just at dusk, a
maid-servant in certain beautiful
it would be rare fun to
dress herself in a sheet and brighten
another of the servants. So she slipped
into the grounds, hid herself behind q
tree, and waited her opportunity.
Dancing merrily along. singing with a
voice like bird, came a sweet little
daughter of the house, who had been
sent on an errand to the lodge at the
end of the green avenue. The merry
child, sensitive to her 6nger-tips,
caught a glimpse of the straight, stark
figure skulking behind the oaks, and
was so frightened that few months
afterward she died-of nervous shock
the physicians said, which then began
its fatal work.
In one of our New England colleges
youth who had been studying hard
that he might enter the freshman
class was startled from his sleep at
midnight by party of fellows in
masks. who proceeded to make sport
for themselves by the stupid process
called ''hazing" their companion.
They had their silly fun, but it is to be
hoped that none of the number en-
gagged in it can ever think of that night
without pang, for it made the youth
insane.
l don't like to believe that any of
my readers engage in this wretched
kind of jesting. If they do, it is be-
CdlS0 bDCy nebNO nONOI lOOhOO GU IL
from the right point of view. There
isn't among my friends one, / am sure,
who would be happy in making any
one else miserable.
/ saw Fred the other day perched in
nook way, way up in a tall tree. and
thought: "What a splendid climber
you are, Fred, and how nimbly you'd
run to the mizzen-top ii you were a
sailor boyr' / know that Fred was as
sure-footed as cat, and his eyes like
squirrel, and the grip of a monkey,
so | was not alarmed on his account.
Not so his mother. She came to the
door, called Fred! Fredm and finally
deserted him in his airy nest, from
which "his voice fell like a falling
star" Then she was greatly distressed
and frightened, and l was disappoint-
ed in Fred, because, instead of reliey-
ing her fears at once. he said:
''Oh, pouf, mamma! there's no dan
ger. Why are you so excited? I've
been here dozens of times"
He did descend at last; but true
gentleman-and Fred means to be
gentleman-would not have allowed a
woman to be frightened even for an
instant, especially when the woman
was his own mother.
The spirit which leads one not to
care when friend is suffering terrors
on ones account is the same which
makes the practical jSst possible.
Aunt Majorie's children must Danish
this if they would make their little
world happy.-Harper's Young Peo-
pie.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-06-08

The qualities of different vegeta-
bles are worth knowing in the spring.
According to one authority celery acts
upon the nervous system, and it is a
cure for rheumatism and neuralgia.
Tomatoes stimulate the liver. and
spinach and common dandelion, pre-
pared in the same way, have direct
effect on diseases of the kidney. Onions,
garlic and olives promote digestion by
stimulating the circulatory system.
with the consequent increase of the
saliva and gastric juice. Raw onions
are also regarded as remedy for
sleeplessness, and the French believe
that onion soup is an excellent tonic in
cases of debility Of the digestive on
gaas q
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telligent, are worse than any wild ami
NAL when in one of their sudden fits OF
ungovernable rage. The amount of
killing they take is incredible. Heavy
rifles that kick tremendously often
have little effect in stopping their wild
charges, and in one instance, in India,
even field-piece, fired repeatedly,
failed for a considerable time to put an
end to the career of mad elephant.
Chambers journal.
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They Would Be So Nice.

The ladies of - Church were pack
ing box of clothing to send to the
wife of Western missionary.
Mrs. Any dear Mrs. B, what can
you be thinking of to send off those
lovely stockings of yoursP The very
newest color, too!
Mrs. BIT does break my heart to
part with them, and shouldn't think
of it if 1 hadn't just read something
about the dye stuff they used to get
this particular shade, being liable tc
poison one frightfully.
Mrs. A-Oh, horrors! Let's get them
out of our hands quick! Here, there's
room for them right down in this cor
ner.-Munsey's Weekly.
The leap year privilege is said te
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SILLY AND WICKED FUN.

What "Aunt Marjorie Precept" Thinks
About Practical Jokes and Those Who
Engage in Them.
A practical joke is sort of trick
played by one person upon another, in
the hope of making him uncomfortable
and ridiculous, To put ones friend In
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VOLUME XVIII.
WHAT WINS.

The world has full many hero:
Go read what those heroes have done,
And you'll find that though oft they wer
baf1ed
They kept up their courage, and won.
They never lost courage in failure,
Giving up, as the weak-hearted will,
But said: I'VE will try and keep trying,
And conquer all obstacles still"
And this they have done, the world over
Their tasks were accomplished at last
BY often-repeated endeavor.
The young oak may bend to the blast,
But it springs to its place when it passes,
And grows to new strength every day,
And in time It stands firm in the tempest
Whose wrath whirls the tall pine away.
Defeat makes a man more persistent
Il the right kind of courage is his;
He determines to conquer and does it,
And this is what heroism is.
Strive on with patient endeavor;
The steadfast OF purpose will win.
Defeat comes to-day, but tomorrow
May usher the grand triumph in.
-ESen Z. Rexford, in Wide-Awake.
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Gladstone on Washington.

When l first read in detail the Life
of Washington" was profoundly i'm
pressed with the moral elevation and
greatness of his character, and found
myself at loss to name, among the
statesmen of any age or country, many,
or possibly any, who could be his
rival. In saying this, l mean no dis
paragement to the class of politicians,
the men of my own craft and cloth,
whom, in my own land and my own ex-
Ferience, l have found no less wanting
than other men of love and of admira-
ton. / name among those who seem
to me to come near even to him. But
/ will shut out the last half century
from the comparison. l will then say
that if, among all the pedestals sup
piled by history for public char
acters of extraordinary nobility and
purity, | saw one higher than all the
rest, and if [ were required at a mo-
ment's notice to name the fittest occu-
pant for it, / think my choice, at any
time during the last forty-five years,
would have lighted, and it would now
light upon Washington. From Glad.
stones Letter toe. w. Smalley.
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FOR OUR YOUNG READERS.
THE DIsOeEDIENT CHILD.

THE DlSOBEDIENT CHILD.
He makes his mother sad,
The proud, unruly child,
Who will not brook
Her warning look,
Nor hear her counsels mild.
He makes his mother sad,
Who, in his thoughtless mirth,
Can e'er forget
His mighty debt
To her who gave him birth.
He makes his mother sad,
Who turns from wisdom way;
Whose stubborn will,
Rebeling still,
Refuses to obey.
He makes his mother sad,
And sad his lot must prove;
A mothers fears,
A mothers tears,
Are marked by God above.
Oh who so sad as he
Who. DER parents grave,
Too late repents,
Too late laments,
The bitter pain he gave?
May we ne'er know such griet
Nor cause one feeling sad;
Let our delight
Be to reQuite,
And make our parents glad!
The Appeal.
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"A Wisconsin woman describes her
runaway husband as "an ordinary
looking man, troubled with short
breath and long mustache."
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The leap year privilege is said to
be $50 years old