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, 1889-08-15

John T. ~Trowbridge was born in a log
cabin, raised on n New York farm and
composed his first verses behind the
pillow. His mother was q cultivated New
England woman, and the boy inherited
her refined taste, and although not inter-
ested in the studies his common school
education offered him, hungered after
languages-Latin in particular. When
16 he wrote some verses on the "Tomb
of Napoleon" which were published in
The Rochester Republican, and from that
moment he determined to become an
author. After his fathers death he left
the farm and attended u classical school,
where he studied Greek and his coveted
Latin. His twentieth birthday found
him in New York battling almost against
starvation for a place In the literary
arena, and Mt last he won the desired
vantage ground and has sustained it
both with his verse and prose. AS a
writer of boys stories, he has scarcely a
rival in this country, and his poetry is
admirably simple, dignified and musical.
Current Literature.
, 1889-08-15

A generation ago-some thirty odd
years-when ! was a freshman in Bur
lington college, l used to hear on my
visits to Trentona grist of queer stories
about Prince Murat, who once drove
a milk wagon in that town, and was
refused in marriage by q score of Tren-
ton bellies. None of the latter dreamed
that the seedy young farmer milkman
would ever be restored as a prince OF
the empire, and the people from whom
he had borrowed money never dreamed
of being repaid. Times are changed,
and perhaps some impoverished old
women still survive at Trenton who
now wish they had married the milk
man, whose son, Prince Murat, is now
thoughtto DO a brilliant catch.-Phila-
delphia Record.
, 1889-08-15
EXAMINED BY TIE DOCTOR.
Ordeal of Those Who Wish to Get Their
Lives Insured.

oEuCAA U AhOHt VIM rs ~ St nCl
Lives Insured.
To get ones life insured it is first
necessary TO pass an examination by n
physician appointed by the company
one wishes to enter. This examina-
ton, although n very simple process,
has no charms for most people. New
ertheless, it costs nothing, and enables
the applicant to know in Just what
condition heart, lungs and other or
gans are.
Having first expressed 10 the agent
a desire for a policy, you fill out your
application, stating to whom the
money shall go if you should die, also
your age, occupation, birthplace, fam
lily history from a medical standpoint,
and whether or no you ever have
been rejected by any other company.
Next step: The examining physi-
clan drops in and writes your answer
TO a string of questions involving the
medical history Of your family for
generations and your own medical
history. You viii be asked if you
have had any of the 900 ills that flesh
is heir to, the nature of your illness,
its duration, the name Of your attend
ing physician, and the present effect,
if any, of the disease on your system.
Next step; The physician takes out
his stethoscope, and you take off your
coat and vest. The stethoscope hav-
ing been adjusted, the M. d. hearkens
to the pulse like waves that murmur
through the hidden caves of your
heart. Diastole and systole, auricular
and ventricular conditions are care
fully noted, and if some tiny valve,
through Incidence or inability, does
not open and shut with clockwork
precision, the stethoscope gives you
away TO the NJ. D., whose face betrays
his anxiety for your future. If he Is
a doctor OF the old school, or n doctor
gifted with a nice discriminating sense
of hearing, he detects the weakness of
your cardiac apparatus by placing his
ear against your breast, and by either
of these methods the doctor discovers
when you breathe whether your lungs
are clear as n whistle or some one ,of
the tiny bronchi is clogged or affected
with incipient tuberole.
Next step: Your medical examiner
e~Xtricates a tapo measure from his
hip pocket, and, spanning your chest
with it asks you TO expand your
chest, his object being TO find out your
chest measurement and the capacity
of your chest expansion. Over the
abdomen the tape is next extended,
and the circumference of that region
noted. Tape measure put away, he
notes whether your pulse is normal or
otherwise. Your height and weight
are now jotted down. Then he takes
precautions TO learn the condition of
your kidneys, and the examination is
over.
Do you breathe easierl Oh, no; not
until he has forwarded his report to
the company and you have heard the
glad tidings that you are O.. K, and
may take out a policy. OF course if
ycsr application is rejected you do not
breathe quite so easily.-Exchange.
, 1889-08-15
Well Reasoned.

Mamma and papa may be equally loved
but the least thoughtful of children do
not fail to notice that they nave different
characteristics. Two little girls were
n day eating berries from a bush, and
one said;
"Shut your eyes and open your mouth,
and play you're n little birdie" So the
other n obediently put back her head,
stretched her mouth wide and received
in it q big berry.
"Thank you, papa robin" said she.
"How do you know 'twasn't a mamma
robinr' asked the one who had played
parent bird.
"Oh, cause you dropped It way down
my throat" was the reply.-Youth's
Companion.
, 1889-08-15

Fight your own battles. Hoe your
own row. Ask no favors from any
one, and you'll succeed n thousand
times better than one who is always
beseeching some ones influence and
patronage. No one will ever help you
as you can help yourself, because no
one will be so heartily interested in
your affairs. The first step will be such
a long one, perhaps; but carving your
own way up the mountain you can
make each one lead TO another, and
stand firm while you chop still an
other out. Men who have made for
tunes are not those who have had five
thousand dollars given them to start
with, but boys who have started fair
with a well earned dollar or two.
Men who acquire fame have never
been thrust into popularity by puffs
begged or paid for, or given in friend
ly spirit. They have outstretched
their own hands and touched the pub
lie heart. Men who win love do their
own wooing, and never knew a man
to fail so signally rs one who induced
his affectionate grandmother to speak
a good word for him. Whether you
work for fame, for love, for money, or
for anything else, work with your
hands and heart and brain. Say II
will" and some day you will conquer.
Never let any man have it TO say, ~
have dragged you up" Too many
friends sometimes hurt n man more
than none at all.-Yorkville Is. O.
Enquirer.
, 1889-08-15
TOO MODEST

As nearly as can be learned wolves are
II a coy and retiring disposition. Thcy
dislike the din and turmoil of civilized
ways and conine themselves TO the I'M
frequented haunts OF the forest or open
prairie. Perhaps they had some iutima-
tIon that several hundred Cheyenne peo
pie were to turn out yesterday TO seek a
more intimate acquaintance with them.
IL may have been innate modesty which
prevented them from rendering them
selves at all conspicuous. Never were
people more anxious to make the acqaint-
ance Of wolves and never were wolves less
anxious TO extend their mountaineering.
The whole country for twenty miles
south and east of Cheyenne was thor
oughly circlcd and worked ia the wolf
roundup yesterday. Pretty nearly every
thing except wolves were caught. 1t is
more than possible that last night a stray
wolf IRON some secure lookout played
peek-a boo with the last struggling rem
nant of the wolf hunt cavalcade. Per.
baps a little later, with only the gentle
moon for a witness, he dallied with the
juicy steaks of a calf or colt that he had
slain.
But the wolf must beware. Nemesis
is pon his trail. There will be other
barbecues at Chalk Bluffs and the diff
dence of his wolfship may be overcome
by the persistence of designing man. The
wolf must go. He has become a pest 10
the surrounding ranchmen. Fat and
sleek as he now is, retiring in disposition
though he be, the winters wind may yet
whistle through his hide and a leaden
messenger may find such Judgment in his
anatomy that his digestion will not be i'm
proved thereby.
Beware, wolf, beware.
, 1889-08-15
LETTING GO HANDS.
One of Those Unhappy Happenings Thai
Make All Observers Feel Sad.

One Of Those Unhappy Happenings That
Make All Observers Feel Sad.
Two friends of mine, a couple who
had been married for twenty years,
came to the conclusion that marriage
was q failure for them. They agreed
upon divorce.
Years before. the man had been well
off, but had lost everything through
speculation. He took to drink and soon
degenerated to a worthless burden upon
the wife, who supported the family by
taking boarders.
For ten years these two had lived to-
gether in the same house, the estrange-
ment widening as the husbands folly in
creased, until she could endure it no
longer. The papers were made out and
the day came when he was to leave the
home he had made so wretched.
/ happened to DO n witness to their
parting. There was no one in the house
at the time but we three.
She picked up his shirts and collars,
which she had that day ironed with her
own hands, and he stood on the threshold
with the parcel under his arm, besides a
trunk which contained his other personal
belongings.
Scarce q word was spoken. Both
seemed to feel that n crisis in their lives
had come.
For twenty years these two had been
together, through light and shade, in
good fortune and i'll, and now they were
Ia part forever. Twenty years before,
buoyant with youth and hope and conf
dence in each other, these two had linked
fhafr Huou f,rnshAr TI.a-. Io z1-.- a.
look alike, so potent had beer the force
OF association.
What touching memories must have
surged through both their hearts MS they
stood thus, she leaning against the stair
way in the hall, and he standing on the
doorstep with the dusky twilight closing
in about him as If to emphasize the
darkness of the future years.
The hour seemed strangely I'm keeping
with his strange parting. There are
moments 80 tragic in life that speech is
aumbly inadequate. This was one of
them.
?"
he slowly said, in a dazed way, as he
turned toward the door.
"All but this, Frank-do you want it?''
and she handed him a packet of faded
letters tied with a crumpled ribbon.
He turned pale as a corpse, as If not
until that instant realizing all the part
ing meant. He looked at the packet,
slowly united the ribbon and wound it
about his hand, his whole frame trem-
bling violently.
Keep them-Annie-for mel" he sob
bed, made one convulsive step toward
the woman, then turned and walked out
into the night.
And she?
Well, an hour later 1 stepped softly
into the hallway, alarmed at the deathly
silence. Still leaning against the stair
way she stood, the letters clutched tight
ly in her frigid hands, her eyes strained
out upon the night as if they saw the
ghosts of bygone days when faith and
happiness were hersl That look will
haunt me forever.-Boston Commercial.
, 1889-08-15

That poem you published this
morning vas rather clever, Mr.. Clug-
ston," remarked the caller, Though 70
the critical reader it might have seemed
a trihe incoherent and disconnected. :"
THAT poem" replied the editor of
The Doodleville Yelper, fishing a fly
out of his paste pot, ''was a contribu-
ton. After we had the forms made
up we discovered it was an acrostic
conveying the intimation that 'Clug-
ston is a darned chump.' We had no
time to wait, and hadn't anything to
take the place of that poem, SO l told
the foreman TO change the order of the
verses and mix up the lines so hal the
first letters wouldn't spell anything,
and go to press. 1t spoiled the thing
for an acrostic," continued Mr.. Clug-
ston, with a heavy sigh, indicative of
the burden that Expresses the mind
of a man charged with the destinies
of a great journal, but it didn't
seem to hurt it much rs a poem."-
Chicago Tribune.
, 1889-08-15
She Can Ererlastinrlr Drink Soda.

There goes n girl who Is the cham
pion soda water drinker of Buffalo,"
said a Main street pharmacist to a man
who is addicted to the habit. Eyes,
sir" continued the garrulous compoun-
der of nauseous drugs, ''that girl can
get outside of more soda water than any
three girls in the high school. She came
in hero Saturday, and, on a wager,
poured seven glasses Of the stuff down
her pretty little throat in just fifteen
minutes. She drinks at least two glasses
of soda with vanilla flavor every time
she comes in here."-Buffalo Express.
, 1889-08-15
A Suggested New Use of Photography.

Professor John Trowbridge, in Serb
ner's, calls attention to the importance,
from an engineering point of view, of
making careful photographs of steel and
timber at the point of rupture under a
breaking load, suggesting that in this
way we may learn something important
on the much exed question of elasticity.
This is a suggestion worthy the atten-
ton of our metallurgists, some of whom
have made a critical study of the be-
havior of iron and steel under strains.
, 1889-08-15

Send two cents in stamps to L. L. Lo-
max, general passenger agent Union Pac-
ciic railway. Omaha, Neb., and secure a
copy of Outdoor Sports and Pastimes,
containing complete rules for lawn tennis,
croquet and base ball; Just issued.
, 1889-08-15

&c largest stock OF fine brandies, old
WHISTLES, choice hqueurs and superine
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets.
, 1889-08-15

DIR. Appers Office hours for the treat
ment of catarrhal diseases and diseases of
the eye and ear will be from 2:30 to 5 D..
N. Carey block, room l6.
, 1889-08-15
ICE.

Lake Mahpdutah ice. j. f.. Murray,
1916 Ferguson street.
, 1889-08-15

For the HtTt thirty days
II iCiH sell California Bi0n-
h6:s .f COST in order TO
make room for car goods.
III. M.fRKS.
Cor. Eddy and Eth SIS.
, 1889-08-15

Wyoming Creamery and jerks Butter
at f. S. Johnston & Bro.
, 1889-08-15

job printing at the Leader Office.
, 1889-08-15

Courtesy of Hyo. Archives E Hist
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-02-16
Mr.. wHYMpER's BLuNDER.
How a Famous English Artist Made Hun
salf RitlicuIOus.

How Famous English Artist Made H11ns
self Ridiculous.
Charles Whymper. the well-known en-
graver and animal painter Of London, told the
following story few years ago: II dined 81
Alderman So-and-So's last night, and as q
mark OF honor his eldest daughter was as
& bright girl, but the way she drops her
.h's' is enough to make mans hair turn
gray. But got along very nicely WITH her
and Lady Bletherington on the other side,
until the ladies' were ON the eve Of retiring
to the drawing-room. The Alderman had
but recently moved out to Highgate; and T
was talking about the beautiful scenery
near the house, the views to be had from
the windows, the fine air, and so on, When
Miss suddenly said: ] think 1 get
prettier every day, don't you?' What could
she means / didn't dare to answer her, so J
said: Il beg your pardon--what did you
says' L said I think J. get prettier every
day. There was no installing her words,
30 said: 'Yes, indeed, you get prettier,
and no wonder IN such fresh air and But
just then she caught her mothers eye, and
with the other ladies she rose and left the
room. AS she went out she looked bacs
over her shoulder with such whitening
scorn in her eyes that knew had put my
foot in it somehow. Then it flashed upon
me that had misunderstood her; she had
dropped an h; what she had said was not 6
silly compliment to herself-tne sentence
really was, i think Highgate prettier every
day." Mr.. Whymper was never invited Il
Alderman So-and-So's again.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-02-16
he Meant &C. O. d.

An cup North" clergyman, says the Al
bany IN. ~ Argus, was recently annoyed
at the delay Of New York firm in shipping
some stained glass windows for his church,
so he nied himself to the telegraph office
and indited and had wired to the delinquents
the following terse and expressive telegram:
s'To--, New York.
ssSend those windows p. d. -"
The windows came in short order, but Inn
agine the CONSERVATION of the clergyman
and the horror Of some Of his church MEM
bers when a ssleaky vessel in the form Of q
messenger boy. who had glanced at the
original message, found that he could not
keep the secret and told it to another youth,
who directly repeated it to his mother
and then it was the subject OF street talk
Some of the good people Of the town are
still wondering how the pastor came to be
so familiar in his quotations with the pecu-
liar authorizations of Colonel Bardwsll slote,
tho "member from the Cohosh deestrick =
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THE INDIAN DEAD.
laid to Rost i'm tho Boughs OF Forest
Trees-The Widows Chant.

C,ald to Rost In tho Bou&hs Oh 1okoss
Trees-The Widows Chant.
Ovsr in the northeastern part OF the
White Earth reservation is a graveyard
where lie the remains OF those VINO nave
gone to the happy hun ting grounds. Ine
original style of burial that prevaiteo
among the tribe before white men set 1oo1
on the continent has been followed 20 solae
extent. The graves are in the branches OF
big trees. A resting place for the dead has
been made Of branches and sticks half
woven together and fastened to the Limb OF
the tree, and on these, covered with bark,
and with bow and arrow on their breasts,
ready for use in the land Of the great spirit,
the remains are laid, high enough to be OUT
of reach of wolves, if there are any, forever
and forever rocked to sleep as the W1no
blows through the grave. Sometimes, at
night. when the moon shines in the clear
sky, an Indian woman comes from her
tepee and sits in the shadow OF the great
oak tree that is her husbands grave ana
she sings song-a sort of low, plalntlVe
chant of sorrow for her dead. In autumn,
says the Minneapolis Tribune, when tne
leaves fall from the tree, she gathers them
and takes them to her tepee, where she
makes a couch for her children to sleep on. II
she passes under the grave OF her dead
husband by daylight she does not look up Ut
it, but turns her eyes to the ground ana
gives sort of mournful cry, as II she were
calling to the dead man, and had not the
heart to look to learn if he had heard her-
voice. Some dozens Of these graves are
scattered through the timber land on the
reservation. Some have been there Tor
years, and are covered with moss and dead
leaves. Flocks of bluejays haunt the wood
where these bodies lie, and they send out
screams as mournful as the scenes around
them all day long. 1t is desolate spot
where white men seldom go, even in mid
day, and where the only sound that breaks
the solemn stiffness at night is the song OF
the Indian woman and the cry of hybrid
wildcat that prowls through the darkness:
Some of the Indians believe that the great
spirit comes down and protects the dead,
and when in the winter the wind makes =
creaking through the woods they say 1.-THE
great spirit is in the trees" and they put
out the fires in the tepees, and, sitting
around the ashes, chant mourntuliy, and
sit shiyering in their blankets till the wind
dies away or the morning dawns.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-02-16
WEDDING PRESENTS.
Nothing More Than Legalized System
Of Levytng Islacxmal.

Nothing More Than q I-egnHzed SysSen3
Of Levying Blacimal.
The world has hitherto bowed it's head to
blacknnail for wedding presents. Is 1t, asaa
the Lcnl}on Standard, a merit IN man TO
woo an6 win a pretty woman? Or is 1t
merit in q woman to captivate gilded
numbskull, that they should Immediately
levy blackmail upon all their friends; aye,
and even their bare acquaintance! Doubt
less there IS considerable amount OF
shrewdness and perseverance displayed in
she pursuit; hence it may be considered
highly naeritorious action when two young
people succeed in the endeavor to make each
other miserable for life. But why shoula
we, who arc not in the smallest degrees
gamers by the interesting event, open QUIZ
sometimes sparscly-lined purses in order TO
give either gentleman or his betroth d
wedding present? II a man goes up to
city daily for the purpose Of making nnon'
the world says he is q shrewd fellovi w
no FOOLS flesh about him; and it b.
chance he may make a lucky coup upo
stock exchange, or in whatever busine.
may devote his labors to the worship OF .
golden cali, his friends will either say he las
the luck of Luclfer, or perhaps that he is
hard-headed, steady worker, and deserve*
his coveted prize They do not rush OF to
Regent street in search Of some costly tr!b-
ute; rather would they expect him to benel
fit them in some way in giving little din
ner at Richmond or Greenwich. Why then
should man because his friend writes to }li1a
saying: 1 MY darling Chriscable has prom
ised to make rae the happiest of men" inn
,nediately begin to rack his brains in order
to discover what he shall buy as q suitable
wedding present? Would it not be far more
sensible, and perhaps more heartfelt II he
wrote to his friend and wished him joy OF
his great good luck in winning the lady OF
his Loves Surely there would be more rea
feeling in such course than i'll the little
packet which is sent straight from the sill,
yersmith's, with Tom Smiths or John
Jones' compliments. At any rate, there
would not be the feeling OF loss attached TO-
the action which must in many cases render
the announcement of friends bliss SUBJ
ject rather of annoyance than Of gratitica-
ton. There are few people who are nos
glad to hear Of friends projected mar
rage, aud perhaps there are few also who do
not feel the imposition Of the wedding pres
ent business.
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a QUEER PROPHECY.
Ominous Lines Fore telling the Destru>
ton Of French Civilization.

Ominous Lines Foretelling tho Destruc-
ton Of French Civilization.
A Belgian paper processes to have un-
earthed really curious passage out Of an
old book in the State Library Of Brussels,
says the Tablet. This book was published
by Jean Stratus in Lyons in the year 1885,
and contains number of astrological
"prophecies " much in the style Of the
more celebrated ones Of Nostradamis.
Among these is said TO be the following:
"1u do vivre ct mourn, 0 Gaule, soubs trois
30,
Deux sieclos sous 30 L, tn haulseras, o
Gaule.
Tu corseras Bo IL, aims tie feras tombeau;
Puts soubs mitron Eo III, B:s Clem clord ton
role"
The meaning Of these lines seems to be
something like this: "Thou must live and
die, o Gaul, under three Bo's. For two
centuries under 30 I. thou shalt rise, O
Gaul. Thou shalt raise up ~ Bo H., and
thou shalt rend thyseh into pieces. Then
under 30 III, the baker, Bis Glen will end
thy role" The explanation Of the supposed
"prophecy" is plain enough "Bo l." is the
Bourbon dynasty, which ruled France for
two centuries-from 1889 to 1889, from
Henry ". to the outbreak of the revolu-
ton. DO III Is evidently Napoleon Bona
parte, and IS corseras ~ seems to be play
upon his Corsican origin. Lastly, who can
fail to see that .'Bo Ill.," the s' baker," is
Boulanger Whilst the "Bis Glenn !" who
is to bring frances destiny to an ignomin-
ious end can only be Bis [marck and Glenn
[enceau]. Such IS said to be the prophecy
published in 1885 by one jacques 1aolan,
Doctor of Laws and Advocate to the Par
Aament Of Macon
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-02-16
An ofnoial Pencil-sharpener.

While your correspondent was talking to
one Of the clerks of the State Department
eother day, says Washington letter to
the Kansas City Journal, the gentleman in
question touched an electric button aud a
swarthy messenger appeared at his elbow
in moment. Nota word was said, out the
clerk, with a grand air, passed to the mes
senger lead pencil, the point Of which had
been dulled. The messenger bowed almost
to the floor and vanished without sound.
In two minutes he again appeared, and
with an obsequious salaam, he handed the
newly-sharpened Faber to the CLERK and
again almost striking the floor with his
head be departed without having a word
passed between the two. That is one
sample of the way in which the air in the
diplomatic branch of the Government af-
fects an unsuspectlng young man who is
induced to accept Government salary for
the service he performs there.