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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17
"A RIPE OLD AGE.

james Tunny, Of Boston, Has Passed the
Century Mark.
Probably Boston's Oldest citizen at the
present time is James Tunny, Of No. 90
Linden Park street, who was 101 years
old few months ago, and if he lives
few months longer will be 102 years old.
He has been resident of Boston for
over forty years, and citizen of the
United States for sixty years. and says
he came to this country when he was "a
young man about 40 years of age"
Mr.. Tunny was born in Ballyshannon,
Ireland, in 1857. His parents were peas
ants his father died young and his mo-
ther died before she was old enough to
get any fame for longevity.
His aunt, however, was very old-how
old he didn't know; but he we'll remem-
bers that when she was over 100 years
old she walked three miles with lighted
candle over rough country road to at
tend midnight mass in the parish chapel.
Mr.. funny left Ireland in 1881 for the
United States. To quote his own Ian
guage, he recently said: 81 was niver
scholard an me mem'ry fails me o the
ould times, but moind well TIL day I
kim to Ameriky. II had only known"
he went on with quaint pathos, that I'd
live to this age, I'd ha' had larnin' to-
day. Nawthin' kin be done widout ed
dication, an niver had no eddication."
Mr.. Tunny is very proud of his old age,
but is modest as to his scholastic attain
ments. He could read and write very
well once, but he has forgotten now, he
says, how to do either; but Margaret, his
wife, says that down to only few
months ago he read his Bible every day
The district around Mr.. Tunny's house
is not at all thickly populated. The CEN
tenarian's house, an old wooden struc-
ture in which the couple have lived for
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17

AUSTRALIAN BALLoT-FLOOR DIAGRAM.
The ballot has long been in use in Eng
fish corporate bodies, and the American
colonies inherited it from the mother
country. But free voting by the people
more nearly as it is in America was only
proposed by O'Connell in 1880. The new
plan did not at first make much Roadway,
for O'Connell's only received twenty-one
votes in the house of commons His
proposition afterwards received support
from Grote, Golden, Macaulay, and at
length Brougham and other prominent
Englishmen. Finally, under the leader
ship Of Gladstone, it was adopted in
1879, with regulations to secure secrecy.
This took the ballot out of the hands of
corporate bodies, like the English bor-
ough, and distributed it to greater ex-
tent among the people.
For many years the best method Of
casting votes has been subject for study
with reference to rendering fraud i'm
possible, and the ballot box has under
gone many notifications. Still the vote
is cast substantially always on the same
general plan. The vote is printed on a
piece Of paper and cast into box.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17

over forty years,
is not a stones
throw from a big
tract of unoccu-
pied and unculti-
waited land, on
which a good
many trees and
shrubs grow. A
:good sized stream
runs over a dam
of stones under
an old wooden
ls NJ
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17

ANOTHER FORM OF MARKING PLACES.
New countries, whose people take a
system from old ones where it has been
long in use, are very apt at making i'm
proyements. They are untrammeled by
nsages, and take the system Invested Of
any appendages by which it is clogged
among those from whom they took it.
The Australian system, which in some
form has been adopted in several of the
United States, is about as follows:
As the voter enters the voting room
through the rail clerk hands him bal
lot with the names of all the candidates
on it. This he passes to the marking
stalls, and marks the names of the can
didates he wishes to vote for, according
to the plain directions before him. Then
he goes and deposits his ballot, and all is
done. No heelers or bummers or be-
witching but resolute maidens are al
lowed to loiter around in the voting
room. The public, however, are not pre-
vented from watching the proceedings,
provided they keep on the outside of a
rail dividing them from the ballot, but
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17

Tunny's house. His head is slightly bald
on the top, but the sides are well covered
with fine brown hair and his beard and
nustache are white. His eyelashes have
gone and his skin has lost some of the
freshness Of strong manhood. His fea-
lures are firm, but the desiccated look of
very old age is not seen on his withered
face. The limbs, however, are very
much emaciated, and the position of his
body indicates great feebleness.
For a living Mr.. funny followed the
business Of a peddler, and never did
much Of any other kind of work Since
the war he has done little or nothing
except light household duties, as saving
wood, etc. He tried hard to join the
Union forces at the outbreak of the war,
but the authorities would not accept him
as he was too old. His memory is fail
ing him rapidly, but he has an old neigh
bor, 81 years Of age, who visits him daily,
and these two veterans talk Of events
that took place when America was still
in her infancy.
He married over fifty years ago, and
has lived with his wife in the same
house ever SINCE They had one child,
but he died many years ago. Ever since
his youth Mr.. TGnny has smoked and
drunk liquors, but never to excess. He
still smokes occasionally, but of late
years the use of tobacco has made him
sick at the stomach. Only short time
ago he sawed the wood used for cooking
the meals in the house for few weeks,
and sometimes he is able to get about
with the aid of cane. His temper is
very even, and he has enough interest in
the scenes about his home to make
humorous remarks, and when they are
appreciated he smiles kindly.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17
A Very Good story.

Florida girls are not like their Alabama
sisters (by The Age Heralds estimated
for the former abhor slang. But for
downright emphasis of expression and
that brevity which is the soul of wit they
yield the palm to no other state.
Several weeks ago a number of brave
young men and beautiful women from
the interior came in on an excursion
A small knot Of the visitors were walk
ing leisurely through the park. when the
following conversation was overheard
between two of the visitors. 1t is re-
ported verbatim, though it is impossible
to reproduce the drawing, earnest tone
in which it was delivered:
'Sal," asked one, displaying the folds
of her new dress. and taking sly hitch
at her hustle. 'Sal. how do my dress
fit?"
Fingers and toes couldn't better it"
EDO John seem ter notice it?"
"Can't keep his eyes often it."
"Do my hustle shake about any?"
''Shakes jess like jelly" replied Sal, as
they proceeded on their way with an air
of triunph indescribable. -Jacksonville
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17
EVE WAS SNAkED

out of the Garden Of Eden has there
been such sneaking snake to snake
people out of house and home. Shake
the snake and come to the New York
Cash Bazaar for Dry Goods, Millin-
cry, Boots and Shoes, etc, and save
rs per cent.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17
ACCOMMODATION

For travellers going to Barker and Kib-
hey from Great Falls. Good stabling
and feed. Board and Lodging. Wines,
Liquors and Cigars. Robt. Bates, Otter
Creek, six miles above Belt.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17
Sun River Ferry.

:, The undersigned is now operating his new
Ferry Boat on Sun River, Just above the rail
road bridge, near Great Falls. Round-trip tickets
over Ferry and Wagon Bridge at reduced rates,
W. u. CAS(lADDEN, Prop'r.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17

We are on the track Of thar mon
ster serpent Credit. Strangle the
serpent or it will strangle you.
Thousands of people are killed every
year by the venomous snakes of In
dia, but this Great American Cobra
brushes in it's coils tens Of thousands
annually. Cast off the cursed coils
Of the caressing Cobra Credit before
they crush you. Do not hesitate or
delay. We will help you cut the
coils. Begin to trade with us on the
cash plan and you will save on each
purchase something to apply on that
old bebt that is crushing you and
paralyzing your energies. Begin
now. Every lost day is lost dollar.
Don't listen to the voice of the pro-
prietors of this murderous animal.
Never since
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1889-08-17

GROUP WHOOPING COUGH and
Bronchitis Immediately cured by Shilnh's
Cure For sale at lapeyre Bros
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24

kNANES IN ENGLISH CARDS OF iOiU.
ninety-seven; but this number was found in
convenient, and for q long time packs Of
sixty-two were made. from which there was
a reduction to fifty two, the number found
most convenient for the hand. 1t is curious
fact that from the first certain games have
been held more stylish than others. Whist
has been the most s'tony," and all fours
c'seven up1 the least respectable from the
first, while euchre has been the middle class
and reliable game. Whist, however, is the
result of combining two or three older games,
and in Johnston's dictionary it is defined as
ga game at cards requiring close attention
and silence" Euchre has always been con-
sidered the conversational game
Since 1850 literature has been 50 full of ref
erences to cards as to prove the universally
of the game Many Of Shakespeare's heroes
played cards-''primero" was a favorite
game-and casting lots and telling fortunes
by cards was equally widespread Very
many games once played are either entirely
obsolete or merged in modern games. The
national game OF Spain Is ''ombra," a very
complicated game by three persons with for
ty cards Poker is now looked upon as an
American game, which must be because Of
American skill IN it, as it was first played in
Europe In conclusion, it must be said that
the discussion as TO the origin of cards, like
that as TO the morality Of their use stands
about as It cid when it began. The cuts
Illustrating this article are copied from the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24
CHINESE CARDS.

II colored and ornamented; the kings are
mounted on elephants and there are no
queens-the old Hindoo etiquette being adj
verse to the introduction of females to the
pubhc-and the second rank card is the vizier,
or prime minister, mounted on a horse. AL
most every card has some specific device to
mark It's value, and the pack must have been
very valuable. From this pack and many
other evidences it is believed by some that
the Hindoo game of Chatunaji, or the ''Four
Rajahs," highly complicated game of chess,
furnished the starting point for cards-that
is, cards are an outgrowth of old chess, sort
of attempt to simplify the game and make
the materials more convenient for transpor
tation. Chess, as every one knows, is an
East Indian production.
At this point one might, if this were
philosophical treatise instead of popular
sketch, enlarge on the natural tendency of
the Hindoo mind to complicated forms.
When they would represent god as very
powerful they gave him q whole row of arms.
Their tracery and latticework is bewilder-
ing mass of vines, lines, leaves and flowers,
and on the front of their finest temple in
stead of a few bold figures, they crowd as
many heads, arms legs aud serpents as the
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24

spades pixies, for the soldiers, ana tie dia@
monds for professionals and officials. The
variations attempted have been very many.
In the French revolution the four leading
court cards were adorned with the heads Of
philosophers and other Voltaire,
Rousseau, Moliere, La Fontaine, etc. In the
United States at one time Washington,
Adams, Franklin and Lafayette were used,
while the queens were represented by Venus,
Fortuna, Ceres and Minerva A late ''fadn
in England was to use the faces OF Gladstone
and Others. A very beautiful series Of cards
was issued during the American civil war,
in which the suits were flags, shields, swords
and rifles, the court cards colonel, goddess Of
liberty, etc. but they did not take" There
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24
A Pacific Coast Association.

A San Francisco paper says the propod-
ton to organize a Pacific Coast association to
govern trotting and pacing events, and to ex-
ercise all the functions now enjoyed by Pie
National and American associations, is NEST
ing with great favor among horsemen, and
the probabilities are that all the county agri-
cultural societies throughout the state aad
the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse association
will combine with kindred societies of all the
states and territories west of the Rocky
mountains in the organization Of the conten-
plated association. Interested and energetic
parties have the matter in hand, and circu-
lars have been addressed to all Pacific coast
racing socierieS. asking their Co-operarion.
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24

CARDS OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
cards II the pack-rhree suits OF nine each
and three single cards superior to all Others.
The names Of their cards referred TO num-
bers, sums OF money, files OF soldiers, etc.
It is q little odd that we know 50 little that
is certain about the origin and meaning OF
the names Of our cards The heart and dia-
mond are plain enough. bur the Sub is not a
club and the spade is more ike spoon The
common explanation is that the 50 called
club is really the trefoil or other three leaved
plant, and tie spade vas accidentally 50
named from TIE Spanish word for pike head;
but there are objections to this theory. Al
most every conveniee. natural object has
feen at one time or another pictured On
cards, but cups, swords and coins were long
the favoriteS The Germans ut first used
hearts. bells, acorrs and-lsaves. but about
144o the French established the existing
names, which have held ever since
One writer declares these four were meant
70 represent the four arches Of the French
people: The hearts for the ecciaiastics, the
ciuha~ nreEnffi fan sShA-A-&n~tn..>I~a-S 49,
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24

lady The New York Worlds reporter who
attends to such things could find none Of the
family, but young Lady friend Of Miss Ma
bel Schaus gave him this as q starter:
at is all very horrible, but Mabel has
eloped with Charlie Stilhnan. 1t is all her
fathers and sisters fault Her father insisted
they should be publicly betrothed, although
he KIN that Charlie had not Yet been d.
vorce and thai Mrs. Stillman refused to
proceed, and Charlie and Mabel were separ-
ated for two years. Her father often insult
ed he7-once In my presence-acd her sister
told every body Mabel was bad She was not;
she was good, pure, sweet, noble girl Her
father drove her out of her house, and heard
he said publicly he had disovned her; then
her sister, at whose house she was staying,
ins1,Itsd her 50 that no girl could stand it, and
Mabel went out to Cincinnati 10 study music,
SO as to be able 10 earn her living, and then
Charlie heard of it, and see this happened 1t
is terrible, but what was Mabel to dol They
have acted for over two years as though they
wanted 10 drive her to 1t. !"
QUEER IDEAS oy MORALITY.
It is not necessary TO point out the peculiar
notions of sexual morality and social obliga-
ton which are too plainly revealed IN this
Young wOfll1uS ~ "SO1N N&s'S
been all right if be had had divorce, she
thinks The rights of the first Mrs, Stilflnan
are not to be considered. DR. Stillman was
next sought and unfolded a remarkable tale.
He was married, he said, in 1873 10 his second
cousin, Miss Harriet E GTeennaIl, OF Mys-
tic, Conn 1t was runaway match, and
they soon became very unhappy" Their
son " = born in 1879. and soon after they mu-
tuaIly agreed TO live as two. And at this
point ths doctors philosophy becomes inter
estiug He gives il thus:
"Of course there are many such cases in
eociety, and this particular situation is neither
a novelty nor interesting for your columns.
Our separation was as absolute IS though she
lived in one city and / in another. Although
we lived under the same roof our life was
continual series Of jars and discords. At last
nv wife conceived the idea that she and l.
particularly she-would be happier If we
were divorced, and she signifed her desire in
that direction II was thoroughly under
stood matter between US that she was going
10 take that step, although how or when had
not then been determined"
In September, 1855, &C party IN New
xogk city. De metthe yother wozaan.as--Ac, !
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24
A NBV YORK ITEM
Family Complications of the
Stilimaus and Schauses.
4 ENGAGED TO A MARRIED NAN.

AN Eminent Physician Betrothed to
Maiden While Awaiting Divorce-His
Wife Declines to Help Him out-The
Maiden Takes the Bit in Her Teeth.
Plainfield, N j., furnishes the latest moral
agony, also the completest- II an expert
artist in social misery, marital mischance,
maiden infatuation and manly folly had been
asked to furnish plot combining all the ele-
Inents of misunderstanding, misrepresenta-
ton, conflict of laws and ternpers, maynard
ness and consequent unhappiness he could
not have done it better Betterl Mol He
couldn't have done half as well as the con-
currence of facts has done it, for this is as
suredly one of the cases In which truth is
stranger land much more comphcatedJ than
fiction
If you doubt it, consider that the charac-
tiers Of the piece are these: a young married
physician who holds high rank in his profess
sion lives unheppily with his wife and they
agree to virtual separation; he falls in
love at first sight" with a girl of l9 and she
feciprocates; her father is not averse il the
doctor can secure a divorce; the girls family
take her to Germany and the doctor follows;
he there sins against the German social code
10y appearing in public with the maiden, and
she without a chaperon; her father, indig-
nant, insists upon an announcement of the
'engagement;" this ruins the girls reputa-
tion IN America and makes her miserable at
home, and SO she solves the problem by flying
to her lover and then-why, then, of course,
there is On explosion and the public is neces-
sarily let into the family secrets because The
New York World takes it up
DEVELOPMENT OF THE CASE
The World puts all its reportorial machin-
cry TO work and every detail is brought out;
the other papers come in and add q few facts,
but for the details which follow The World
Is the chief authority. And it is no small
affair. A physician of high professional
standing has eloped with the daughter of
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24
TO Was Tired of Them.

Mamma said the little boy, thought
fully, "win people eat beans in heavenr
1T is not likely, Tckiowell, " responded the
mother, that we shall know less of the laws
that govern our intellectual growth in the
great hereafter than we know here in Bos-
ton. Leguminous foods will be used to a
large extent undoubtedly, my SON."
Alas How little we know Of the causes
that make or mar the future Of mankind T.
That boy went forth from the presence Of his
mother an avowed Buddhist-Chicago Tri-
brI,,a
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24


cord1ng 70 MS account the two fell in love at
first sight, and certainly there is nothing in
the language or actions of Miss Mabel Schaus
to contradict him Hesoon arrived at good
understanding with all aef family. Her
father insists that he did not know DR.. Still
man was a married man until matters had
gone SO far that, for his daughters sake, he
wanted them to so farther-that is, he
wanted the doctor to hurry up that divorce
case, get freed from his wife and marry
Mabel Immediately thereafter. The reason
for his anxiety is so peculiarly Germanesque
that it can only be understood from study
of the facts.
THE SUPPOSED GERMAN IDEA
In 1886 the Schaus family went abroad and
Miss Mabel fell into a melancholy condition
DIR. Stillman was SO agitated on hearing this
that he sailed for Germany at once. He met
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24

millionaire of New
York city, and the
good natured pub
lie, the slow ly
taught public, is, as
usual very much
amazed to find that
human n q t ur o
works among the
wealthy, the tai
ented and the edu-
Gated very much
as it does with Oar
by and Joan, with
this slight excep-
ton that Darby
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24
EARLY ITALIAN CARDS.

space will hold. How such a people must
have reyeled in the complications OF chess,
especially as time was no object to the class
who played it. Even in cards there is some
room for complications The number of
hands which may be held at whist by all four
players is 697, 3sl o, a51, S54 zoe, 80 Os6, TO-
600. You might as well call it eternity. You
can comprehend the one as easily as the
other
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24
HINDoosTANEE COURT CARDS


siderable real learning has been shown in trac-
ing their development. Wehave been treated
to unnumbered expositions of their religious
origin; how the heart and the spirit, the club
or clover leaf and some other religious SYM
Dol went together, and how king and queen
were devised to teach reverence for dignity
Many moralists have dissuaded from the
use of cards by repeating the old story that
they were invented to soothe the melancholy
of an insane king. In like manner the fifty
two cards have been referred to the weeks in
a year, the four suits to the four gospels or
the four seasons, the thirteen cards in suit
to the thirteen apostles Including the one
chosen in place Of Judas, the thirteen months
in the Jewish and Saxon calendar and many
other things, and the various games played
with them TO supposed political complications
in the kingdoms where they have been used.
The real truth appears to be that cards, like
most Of the amusernentS of common life, were
never invented, but rather grew slowly to
their present form, and that, like nearly all
the complicated games, they came from India.
Nor were they known in Europe till a COM
parativeiy recent period, and it is fact that
one Of the first kings who used them Charles
VI, of France) soon afterwards became in
sane, which possibly gave rise to the current
story.
THE OLDEST "DECK."
The Royal Asiatic society has a pack Of
Hindoostanee cards which are known to be
thousand years old, the gift of high caste
Brahnin. There are eight suits, all curious
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24
"A Priceless Blessing. "
A YER'S CHERRY PICTORIAL

A HER'S CHERRY PECIORAL
n is the best remedy for Group.
Whooping Cough. Hoarseness, and all
the sudden Throat and Lung Troubles
20 which young people are subject.
Keep this medicine in the house. Hon.
c. Edwards Lester. late [. s. Consul 20
Italy, and author of various popular
works. writes -
With all sorts Of exposure, in all
sorts of climates, have never, 10 this
day, had any cold nor any affection Of
the throat or lungs which did not yield
to Ayers Cherry Peetoral within "A
hours. OF course I have never allowed
myself 10 be without this remedy IN all
my voyages and travels. Under my
own observation. il has given relief to
vast number of persons while IN acute
cases OF pulmonary Inflammation, such
as Group and diphtheria in children, life
has been preserved through its effects.
] recommend its use IN light and fre-
Quent doses. Properly administered,
in accordance with your directions, Il >
6 priceless blessing in any house.
Wichita eagle., 1889-07-24

surance, published
last year, was at
once adopted as a
standard by several
companies in Eu-
rope and America.
1t Was therefore no
small thing when it
was suddenly an
inounced that DR..
Stillman had been
peremptoriiy dis
missed from mis-
place with the Mu-
tual Life company
on the charge that
he had seduced and