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Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-06
New Houses for Sale,

"A All my houses in New Haven located on sI nice resident streets; all new with all conye- 's& niences. As built them and own them can sell at much lower price than you can duplicate the same property. Sold @ number: some of fine best left. Look at photographs of some of them in window of F. R. Smiths shoe store, 789 Chapel st.
 GEORGE L.. AUSTIN Owner
 yna16 24 Admiral Atreet
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-06
LOOK AT THESE BARGAINS,

AfHA "A very deSir8bl6 bF1ck house, IA rOons
 8;A with fine billiard room. finished throughout rear entrance; will be sold at a bargain. New two family house, slate roof 12 rooms all modern conveniences very pleasant street; will be sold low and on easy terms. Two family house, l2 rooms, near Broadway: will be sold low, owner leaving the city. One family house on Park street, near Chapel, 9 rooms modern conveniences; on easy terms. Farms in every direction. Cottages at short Beach, Stony Creek and West Haven.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-06

MfaA Several houses Dixwell ave-; t; bargains. esJ Frame house on View street.
 kA Brick house, store and brick barn. corner Martin and Day streets.
 Two family frame house, cor. Whiting and Hill streets A large house. 12 rooms barn for seven horses and sheds, on Hallock street. AueeiOneerlng and Collection of Rents
 Enquire of LEWIS ASHER, ua1S 153 Church atreat
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-06
9eal Estate.
FOR SALE

hnA At bargain. two lots on Hallock street. E.1 (" @ two lots on Grand avenue.
 THERON A. TODD, jaf 7S7 Chapel street.
 FOR RENT. fA Desirable tenements, having modern iul- # .sJ provements. M. R. ENSCOE, H2lsH a24 2f Exchange Building.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-06

No. Hoadlsy Building. oface open enings. mai
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-06
soc Will Buy a House.

AeAA It is said to be better plan to pay for %::l house by the month than to pay rent. lss&. Try it.
 R. E. .BALDWEN,S ma dav Heal Estate Agency, SIS Chapel St.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-06
FOR RENT

FOR RENT, stA The store No. LOTS Chapel street. Enquire @sI of S. W. HURLBURT, M2 a16 If f,04 Chapel Street.
Morning journal and courier., 1889-06-06

The investigations show clearly that the
 major part of whatever responsibility may
 belong to human agencies for the calamity
 that has desolated the Conemaugh valley must be placed upon the South Fork Fishing and Hunting club. When they leased the lake they closed the waste gates, through which all the water that had ever before ac- cumulsted in Conemsugh lake had found 8 safe and speedy exit. It IS measuraeiy certain that had the waste gates been maintained the dam would never have given away. They were removed, 1t IS said, be- cause whenever they were opened the game fish with which the lake was being stocked | would escape. The fish have escaped all the same, and She lives of eight thousand human | beings have gone with them. As to the dam itself, no description yes printed glVes l any hint as to it's character. inere was nc
 massive masonry, nor any 1reMenoous :M
 exhibition of engineering sklii ID designing the structure or putting 1t up. The dam was simply 8 gigantic heap ot ! earth damned across the course of a noun
 | tain stream between two low hills. It was | faced on each side with layer of heavy rough stone, loosely thrown together and un
 1 cemented. This pile of earth was, as has beer
 stated. about 75 feet high and 90 feet thick a | the base. At the summit it was levelled of so aa to he about twenty feet wide, and { l wagon road crossed it. The builders placed in the forty foot space at the bottom, wher' the creek ran, five huge pipes, each as large a
 | a hopshead. These were covered by an arcf
 of massive masonry, and were arranged st
 be opened or closed by levers in
 tower that was built in the center ot tn
 dam. These Ave big pipes were calculated
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

A traveller just returned from San
Francisco, after considerable stay in
that city, tells me that what impressed
him most was the girls and the feas.
Both are large in size and plentiful in
numbers.
"The women are the fnest-looking
specimens you ever saw" says the
young man. "They are we'll devel-
oped, healthy, and handsome. Of
course | was duly impressed But next
to them 1 think the heas take up the
largest share of attention. They have
no mosquitoes in San Francisco, but
the fleas-their name is legion. Here
in Louisville you frequently see Rough
on Rats advertised for sale. But in
San Francisco it is Rough on Fleas.'
You see the sign everywhere 1t is
favorite poison for disconsolate servant
girls to commit suicide with. / don't
wonder that desperate measures were
taken to get rid of the San Francisco
flea. He is everywhere - in your
clothes, in your bed, in the carpet, in
the furniture. He is not a pleasant
object to talk about, but in San Fran
cisco he is too prominent feature to
be ignored. The flea is one of the
principal objections to the glorious eli
mate of California. a..-LoatiSUille Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
FOLLY AS IT FLIES.

CONTINUED at the old stand the
bally horse.
CAPITAL is timid, which accounts for
its scare city.
The air of the desert 1.-THE camels
are coming"
ir doesn't seem possible that Gen.
Crook can be straight in his dealings
with the Indians.
JOHN l.. SULLIVAN is the champion
ring tighter; and there is no bottle
holder equal to him either.
The skeleton of the Dime Museum"
is like Napoleon at Waterloo. He is
the bony part of the show.
MAMMA, if you had three twins. what
would you call them - troublets ?"
ayes, dear, think / would"
DIFFERENCE between a ship and
street sprinkler walks the water
and the other waters the walk.
WHAT will you call your new Jour-
nal?" "The Post" Wherefore the
PoSt?" $50 the public can tie to it. "
JONES blowing cloud of smoke
into the air)--I am very fond of good
cigar. Mrs. Jones-Then for gracious
sakes get one.
MRS: ScRAGGs, hand me the butter,
please: Mr.. Darlinger, it's exhaus-
TED why you surprise me thought
1t was strong enough to last long
while"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

In u great many children and Young
ladies when he got tuned up He gave me
a dollar for working the Apollinaris racket"
Did you ever have any other queer ex-
periencesW
"Oh. yes but not that ought to tell about
for the paper but remember once went
up to bring down the baggage out of 1O4.
and 1t was early yet, so the chambermaid
hadn't boen into the room, / always look
around u room when party is leaving IT.
to see that | get everything, because most
men leave their ni2htshirts and sometimes
they give me dime for bringing them
down. Women never leave anything. They
niwavS look in all the dresSinp-cnse draw.
ers, and then lock back over the room IA
they go out. and then they come back again
Just as the elevator is about ready to go
down with them, and they do not leave
anything ut all but II whisp Of hair and IL
shoe button with no eye to it. Well, under
the pillow | found this old gentleman's
watch and big roll of money, with rub
Der band around 1t. / took them down to
MN and after he had counted all the money
anu Iouhd IL safe, he gave me busted cleo
ton cigar. with wet end to it,"
what did you say to him?"
tod him did not smoke on account OF
my heart"
Did you ever hear OF him again?"
Yes; he tried 10 run the elevator up 10
MS iloor somewhere that winter whilo the
elevator boy was out for a moment. and
they say the marks of his front teeth can
be seen on the elevator shaft yet. He did
not have time to make tho remark Ouch /
before his soul. such as ii was, had to give
an acoount OF itselt --
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

STAIRS trained TO run ont at a signal,
and no doubt the old gentleman will
exchange his paper for a gun when she
gives the word. It's awful lonesome
work watching for chicken thief-he
comes when you don't expect him !;
you hear the chickens cackle those
that he hasn't got), and before you're
ready he is off. Ny lady, though,
knew the way of the chicken thief, and
she made it her business to pace up and
down the hall, peeping out of the front
door occasionally, then ont of the back
door, and then out of dark room
which looked right down on to the
trees where the chickens We're made to
roost, expressly to trap the chicken
thief
You may be sure the old lady had a
lonesome job pacing around to her
lookouts, and it is not strange that she
fell wondering why the young
missus" took such sudden interest in
cooking and ironing; it is not strange,
either, that she "smelt mouse" the
first pop, and sneaked down stairs to
see how her daughter looked cooking
or ironing.
Well, we won't follow the mother
down into the kitchen; Just suffice it
to say that the visitor had seat near
the kitchen window, convenient to the
ground. He's all right, the old lady
can't catch him in the kitchen because
there's line between the door and
that window, and on that line is
big sheet. Just never mind him; let's
go out and see what the chickens are
cackling about.
The mother rushed to the back
porch Mt the first cackle, turned out
the dogs and hired men, all of which
set up such racket that the last hen
on the place fell to squawking. From
the porch the mother directed tho
hunt for the thief. ordering the men in
the shrubbery, the dogs somewhere
else, until the air was so thick with
orders and counter-orders that regu-
lar bedlam was there. When they all
got tired of yelling and running about
to no purpose they settled down seri-
ously to look for the thief The dogs
would run up to a little bunch of
shrubbery and stop. Then they would
seem to give up the hunt until ordered
on again, when they woult go right to
that same bush and stop. This at
tracted the attention of the hired
men, and, alas for the fugitive, they
looked i'll there and found man. The
mother was SO overwhelmed with iov
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
A Diploma Not the Only Requisite,

The nineteen young men who have
been studying journalism at Cornell
have been pronounced graduates after
a years study and turned ont to make
their reputation in the harder school of
professional work. The ease with
which they learned business requir-
ing the best efforts of a lifetime by
those who do not get to Cornell will
be a bar to their advancement. In
nearly any well-managed office they
can now get three or four days work,
ON trial, at a salary which Will about
pay their board, and if they show the
skill of an ordinary reporter they NAV
eventually work their way upward If
they don't they will go out the big
front door more quickly than they
came, diploma or no diploma. Sheep
skin is all right in its place, but in the
newspaper business it takes something
more to make q mark. --Phitadelphia
Inquirer.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

at the practice of industry himself, but h ad
the theory all right and could find openings
for other folks bully: He got me the job at
the Palace. He then began to rest He did
most of his resting in the bar-room of the
Palace. He said once that he had read in Il
paper somewhere that the earth was tho
Lords and the iullness Thereof. He didn't
want the earth. he said. but if there was any
fullness left over he would be glad to get
enough for grown pei SON."
Where is your father now?"
he is busy Just now iilling n drunkard's $
grave. 1t is the first opening he ever filled
with any kind of satisfaction. ii my faith er
had put the talent into most ANYTHING ell
that he did into his bowlin' up he would
have been rich man. and | could have got
out IN the grass ana played and had fun in
stead OF getting knec-sprung here in II hot
hotel, breathing gas leaks and sewer gas
while other iloys are chasing squirrels"
What do you think of tipping in Amer.
ica?"
Well ! think it's just getting on its feet
and getting to be self supporting. But :.
amt what it ought to be. In the old coun.
tries everybody tips title. but here it is
only the liberal folks that does it. and sc
they are overworkcd. We would rather get
nickel head all day than get II qnurtel
from one or two. Outside of the big cities
tips arc mighty seldom, you bet Here in
New York it is getting to be pretty good
I've made dollar day quite often outside
OF my. regular pay. which pay is pretty
blamed small. Bell boys watch the Office
mighty close, and some rooms We fight
over. while others get mighty slow serv-
ice."
What was your best tip?"
Well. 1t was dollar, ! believe. We had
temperance lecturer in No. 49, He was a
reformed temperance lecturer. That is. he
had been II rounder and so finally he had
braced up. it seems. and went onto the
platform. He done we'll as u lecturer all
allowed, and great crowds came to hear the
man who hal been lerked out of the gutter.
| was sent 10 answer his bell. He looked
ut me kind of skittish, and then he walked
the floor quite spell and looked out OF the
wlnder Finally he wanted to know il ]
was to bo relied on to transact business
without too much conversation. Isaid yes,
and that | had the secrets of great mon and
great actresses locked up in my breast. and
that had time lock on it AMI that the
world wouldn't know anything about 1t till
Gabriel said 50. and then the reformed lect-
urar told me to bring up an Apollnaris bot
tie full OF common cooking whisky and a
high glass. / done so, and people that
went to the lecture said it Just laid over
anything they ever heard as regards be-
seechin tenderness and all that kind OF
business. He was a wet-eyed lecturer with
wabble in his voice. and he could gather
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

som a9ain. The old man also invited other
friends to call. He said he was In the sere
nnd yellow leaf, as one might say. but yet
would strive 10 interest each and all who
might drop in on him. and il they would
Just take him as they found him. they would
he welcome"
At this point the bell-boy looked at his
Waterbury and said he must go. Thanking
him for his information, and dividing nv
scanty store with him. we shook hands
and the next moment he had shot down the
stairway like fat scientist engaged in fall
Ing from the tall gate of a big balloon.
BILL NYE.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
SEARCHING FOR THE THIEF.

wnen sne saw the Two strong men
holding the game she had been after
80 long that she ordered him bound
hands and feet and carried in the bot
tom of their springless wagon to Jail.
Dots right, missus, shouted Susan
'hab de no count rascal toted off to de
dungeon"
When they got the culprit bound
hand foot they laid him down on his
back in the snow, while they hitched
up the team that was to cart him off.
The whole family, Aunt Susan and all,
looked on from the porch, and when
the two strong men tossed him in the
wagon like sack of potatoes, and
drove away with him, the household
congratulated themselves on being
well rid Of Il troublesome rascal
At the breakfast table the next
morning the chicken-thief was the
chief topic, and when breakfast was
over the young missus" slipped into
the kitchen to discuss another side of
the affair with Aunt Susan.
You may be sure" said Aunt Susan,
dat dat ere white man done got to de
big road fore de dogs got out for de
chicken-thief, case he popped out en-
de widder ies us ole missus came into
de door. He had time enough to get
away fore de hans got out after de
hen squawk. No, honey, you kin jes
bet dey didn't nobody see him"
just then Il boy called with note.
"Ah!" exclaimed the young lady,
heres note from him telling lis all
about it," and she hastily tore open
the letter and began to read:
MY DEAR MIss-Pleasc send my horse homo
and toll my folks that won't DO home to-day
maybe not for several days. You will find the
horse down in the lane, where l left him last
night before l had the misfortune to step on
that miserable old hen.
don't ask this rs II favor for myself but out
of sympathy for my horse he must be hungry
and / know Lo would like to lie down once
more on n soft bed with his clothes off. i can
sympathize with him. Yours in jail
BLACKSTONE.
l never spoke to the girl after l got
out, but when ever ! would see her she
smile "a smile that didn't like.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29

matter of time when I would go calling
and find the mother in the parlor play
ing Home, Sweet Home" and the
daughter-well, tine daughters where
abouts varied. Sometimes it was bust
ness, sometimes sickness, or out of
town, or something which signifed alb
sence from where | thought she ought
to be.
When / look back on some of those
evenings now they seem very dull,
but then they We're interesting, be,
cause / couldn't quite make the matter
out.
The mother would say a few words,
then she would thrum chord OF Home.
Sweet Home, then l would say some
thing, and she would say "Yes, then
she would say Excuse me, please"
During the ten minutes of her alb
sence l would work my poor head fol
all it was worth, and get set of ques
tions and answers all arranged for us,
but when sie came back and | set my
dialogue in motion, somehow or other
what l conceived to be funny would
fall fiat, and what l thought real smart
and serious, she would laugh at, just
as if 1T was funny. OF course | didn't
want to be rude and rush right out OF
the house while everything was in
dead calm, nor did | feel like going
when she was laughing at something
that wasn't funny. The fact is, it was
hard to stay, and there didn't seem tc
be any proper time to go. When did
get away, | would blame the poor girl
for having such an uninterestina
mother
Then would get another girl-or,
rather try to get another girls mother
My success would run right along il
the same channel of its predecessor
and then the mother would spring the
old formula-in-chief on me, with sucl
variations as the changed conditions
seemed to warrant. finally got tired
of that variety which had such same
ness to it, and made bold one day tc
tell mother so. She didn't say it il
so many words, but she made me un
derstand that, as / didn't like hen
style, the next time she caught me on
the place, she would sic" the dogs
on me. The three dogs were not
particularly large or vicious, but
they had big barks, and when ]
left the mother still talking and pes
ticulating, | thought about that, and
made up my mind the bloody nose
had got with the girls former bean
wasn't in vain. I'd just quit the old
lady and cultivate the negro cook and
the dogs.
"Now, loollee we're, Marser H., the
cook said to me shortly after the fracas
with the mother, "ef yer wants to cum
in de kitchun to see de young missus,
cause you an de Gle missus don't
'zackly git along, Susan amt er carin,.
an bein' as how de ole missus done
tole us you're name want gwine TO be
talked about yere, | isn't gwine to tef1
nobody when you is here, jes so long
you don't bodder Susan, and dat's me-
De young missus is in de kitchun
'waithl' fur you now, an you jes' go in
while | gifts some wood an watches out
for dem niggers what's er prowlin'
erbout yere for ter hook de chickins.7
Now that we have got to the chick
ems, just leave me.in the kitchen with
Aunt Susan and the "young missus,"
while we take look at the "ole missus,"
upstairs.
1t is dark up in the hall, but you can
see her laying" for the chicken thief.
She's got the two hired men down
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
Fancy and Fact.

An Irishman, waxing eloquent upon
the glories of the old country, declared
that certain nobleman's palace, not
far from where he used to live, had
"three hundred and twinty-fve win
ders, one winder for livery day in the
year."
Another man, who was always COM
planning of the hard work he had to do,
broke out one day: "Well, now, I wish
I was home again in me fathers foine
old castle"
"Your fathers foine old castle, is it ?"
said one of his companions. Sure
and it was foine old castle and no
mistake. Ye could stand on the roof
of yer fathers castle, put yer arm down
the chimney and open the front door"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
She Was Tired of II.

"NIr. Smithers," said his wife, "if
remember rightly. you have often said
that you disliked to see Il woman con-
stantly getting herself into print"
81 do" said Smithers positively.
"You consider it unwomanly and in
delicate, believe"
"Nery."
"And you don't see how any man
could allow his wife to do anything of
the kind"
"Yes, think so now"
"Well, Mr.. Smithers, in view of all
the facts in the case, feel justified in
asking you for new silk dress"
"a new silk dress"
"Yes; for the last eight years / have
had nothing better than eight-cent cal
leo and / want something else. I'm
tired of getting into print "-Merchant
Traveller.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
4 Smile.

A young doctor, wishing to make
good impression uTon German farm
er, mentioned the fac that he had re-
ceived u double education, as it were.
He had studied homeopathy, and was
also a graduate of regular" medical
school
"Oh, dot vas noding," said the farm
er; Il had vonce calf vot sucked two
cows, and he made noding but com
mon schteer after all."--Americd,a
Medical journal.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29


him If he would mind being interviewed for
publication. He said he would not. but
would have TO wait until six o'clock, at
which time his days work closed. and he
would be at leisure. At that hour he ap-
peared at my door. He is n medium sized
boy. but older than thought ut first He
might be anyway from five to twenty years
old. Sometimes he looked one way and
sometimes the other. He said he had been
in the business all his life. The first day
he worked he cried good deal for his
mother and still felt kind of hungry for the
boyhood he never had.
would you mind telling me your name
my sonF l queried III superior accents.
My home name is Henry Clay Williams.
Here my name is Front"
What would you do if you had your time
for Year,"
Il would play. Never played II day in my
life that can remember. Jest polish my
trousers on II settee and wait till the Office
hollers Front and then I've got to run up
five or six flights knock on the door. and
find that some old postilence OF u feller has
forgot what it was he runy for. That's
what puts tho gray hairs into Il boys head"
How did you come to take hold OF the
hotel business2"
We'll my mother died just us 1 got out
OF skirts and my father he was II Door hand
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1889-08-29
sTime cuts down all,
Both great and small "
Artistic Indifference.

L must mention melancholy fact
which shows how Fictitious is the taste
of the public for art, says Paris cor
respondent. People go in shoals to an
art exhibition when it is fashionable"
one; it is the proper thing then. II
seems that the exhibition of Barve's
works is not fashionable, for no one
goes to it; the entrance fees scarcely
amount to more than guinea a dav.
Although the hall has been lent by the
Beaux Arts school, the expenses will
not be covered; and yet some of the
bronzes exposed are perfect master.
pieces, worthy of Grecian art. Barye
Is the first sculptor who ever modelled
animals as they really are Before his
time people We're satisfied with the
wigged lions, such as those that deco
rate Trafalgar square; triumphs of con.
ventionality, negations of truth. He
took the trouble to go to Jardin des
Plantes and study the living model
and although the king of the desert
does not come out to his full advantage
in cage, still Barge modelled mar
ve!ous things. He loved all wild ami
mals-even elephants, buffaloes, and
rhinoceroses, dogs stays, roes, goats,
or even rabbits, serpents, izards-in
fact, all animals. But it is the custom
to consider as secondary the art of an
animal painter or animal sculptor, and
poor Barge died in distress beside his
masterpieces. 1t is, however, some
consolation for his ghost to know that
Americans are covering his bronzes
with gold; although it is shameful that
in his own land such Indifference is
shown to his memory. 1t is said that
America will erect the statue of which
France does not deem him worthy.