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The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
ELECTRICAL LIGHT.
How It Affects Flowers, Vegetables and
 Other Plants.


 Other Plants.
 From time to time, of late years, ex- periments have been made of the effect of the electrical light on flowers and plants, with results seemingly the same, to wit, feeble efforts of some plants to prolong their periods of bloom into the night and then pre- mature decay. One has only to study their actions, as obs erved, to conclude that even plants need rest, or, to be more precise, they seem to thrive best under the conditions which nature has imposed-the period of darkness and the period of the light, which is heat as well; or else that the family of plants, as now they are, sprung from these exact con- ditions, and will not thrive without them. It is the nature of some flowers, as every one knows, to open at one period of light and close at another; of others to open only at night and close before or at the moment when the orb of day tops the horizon. So strictly do some of these follow their unwritten laws that floral clocks have been con- structed, so that one may step out into his garden, of bright day or clear night, and learn the time by the con- dltion of bloom on the floral dial.
 Prof. WOllney, of Munich, satisfied by experiment that electrical light will not advance or improve plant growth, recently tried the effect upon them of the current itself. We quote the fol- lowing, being the means employed and its result:
 He ''took patches of ground twelve or thirteen feet square, separated by boards penetrating the earth to the depth of foot. In one case he ap- piled two earth plates and interposed five earth cells; in another he inserted an induction apparatus; and in third, plate of copper at one side and a plate of zinc at the other side to form a natural battery. Peas, potatoes, car rots, etc, were planted on these and other patches, but the electricity, whether of high or low potential, seemed to have either no influence or a bad one upon their growth"
 Plants being full of sap, and sap fairly good conductor, every fiber must have been reached, and, so far as the Professor was enabled to perceive, the only effect of the current was to pro- yoke perturbation on the protoplasm. -Scientifc An1erican.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
ANCIENT WATER WORKS.
Great Engineering Feats Performed Many
 Centuries Ago.

l Great EngIn IneerIng EeatS Performed Many | Centuries Ago.
 The very first thing done by every community, savage or civilized, is to provide for water supply. Savages simplify matters by placing their tene- ments within easy reach of a river or lake. Civilized people have their water brought to them. This is not of easy accomplishment, and some of the greatest feats of engineering have been performed in supplying water to ancient and modern cities.
 When the British captured India, they found. in all parts of the country, tanks and reservoirs on an enormous scale, and some of them thousand years old.
 The water works of Peru were even older. The Incas built aqueducts from the slope of the Andes, for distance of more than one hundred miles, to the capital. The water was carried part ly through tunnels cut in the rocks and partly on arcades on supporting pillars of mason work to span valleys, the channels being composed of cut stone without cement. From these great aqueducts a number of branch canals and conduits were laid laterally for irrigation purposes.
 The ancient water works at Jerusa lem consisted first of wells in the lime stone ridges on which the city was built; but as the population increased, tanks and cisterns for rain water were placed in secure inclosures and within the walls of the temple. An aqueduct of stone laid in cement was construct ed to bring water from the pools of Bethlehem, about six miles distant. StrabO mentions that it was a very rare occurrence for Jerusalem to suffer from water famine.
 About the year 600 B. C., Polycrates, King of Samos, built an aqueduct to supply his capital, bringing water through tunnel cut through limestone rock for distance of six thousand yards. About the same time, the peo- pie of Lycia. in Asia Minor, carried water across the vale of Petrea through stone syphon.
 Carthage brought water from the hill ranges on the south, over seventy miles distant. and the ruins of an ancient aqueduct may still be seen.
 The water works of Athens were be. gun about 560 B. C., and consisted of stone aqueducts lined with baked clay, and carried almost wholly on the sur- face of the ground.
 The ancient city of Mexico was SUD- piled with water through a wooden aqueduct, built by Montezuma, carried across a causeway. In Egypt and China, gigantic works for conveying water have been in existence from re- mote antiquity. Taken all in all, the efforts of the mOderns are yet insignifi- cant compared with those of the ancients. Golden DdgS.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
A Silver Tea-Set in the Mint.

Many curious articles are taken to the United States mint from time to time for conversion into solid cash. Said Supervisor Fox: "A short time ago a lady sent trunk to the min filled with silverware. She was an aged lady and was wealthy. l called upon her to see why she had sent the trunk of silverware, and at the same time to apprise her of the fact that she would realize but little upon it, in asmuch as the Government allowed no more than the absolute value of the metal for an article sent to the mint She said to me: I don't care what it brings. That trunk contains a service of silver which I prize most highly. It was the gift of my father to my mother on their wedding day, and 1 don't want it to fall into any other hands. I don't want those precious pieces, sacred to me, to become the property of others. They were the gift of my dear father to my sainted mother more than eighty years ago. and when they died they came into my hands. What 1 want you to do, Mr. Fox, Is to see that the service of silver is placed in the crucible and melted up. want you to see it done your. self. don't care any thing about the money it will realize I promised l would attend to it and I carried out her desires. Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
TENACIOUS WEEDS.
How Their Seeds Are Scattered by the Cola
 Winds of Winter.

How Their Seeds Are Scattered by the Cola Winds of Winter.
 There is a kind of winter seeding 1ot generally entering into the plan of the average farmer. Winter is in thought associated with period of rest and comparative death in the vegetable world. The winter wheat lies dormant in it's frozen bed beneath the white blanket of fallen snow, and the ears of corn selected for next springs seeding are stored out of the reach of the mice in the crib. All meadow and pasture land sleep on until wakened by the silent quicken ing of the spring. Nevertheless there is work going forward through the short days and long nights of the se- were months in the dead of winter. Every gust of wind that hurries by the street corner and dies away in momentary calm; every giant gale which comes down from the frozen North and sweeps whole States with bosom of relentless fury, may carry with it the germs of weeds and deposit them in some secure place where the spring sun finds and quickens them into new life.
 All sowings are not confined to the lewly-harrowed field or the rich and mellow garden. If it were so, farming and gardening would be a less serious matter than it is, Many seeds like those of the dreaded Canada thistle are provided with light, feathery ap- pendages by which the ripened seeds take long flights in the upper air like so many miniature balloons. Other plants, as the burdock and begger's lice, rely for transportation upon the passing animals to which they adhere by hooks, thus stealing ride. Others still are left without any special struct- ure for migration, and must therefore depend in part upon the favoring con- ditions of winter. The various sorts of tumble weeds break up into number of parts, or by decay of the main stem at it's union with the soil the whole plant is set free and blown by the wind where it listeth. There are many weeds which remain upright with their seed-bearing portion above the fallen snow and when the smooth crust of ice forms over all, the seeds, loosened by the elements, are blown for miles over the frozen surface only to find lodgment in some ditch, hollow or other place of safety. This helps to explain how marvelously weeds spring up in cultivated ground American AgrtcuIturist.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
A MEDICAL TALK.
Domestic Animals Considered as Vehicles
 of Infection.

Domestic Animals Considered as Vehicles of Infection.
 It is reported from Chicago that by no means inconsiderable local out break of scarlatina has been brought about by cat, which acted as the means of conveying the infection. It has long been known that almost any thing which can serve as a vehicle for carrying the desquamating epithenum of scarlatina patients may act as an intermediary between the sick and healthy; and although recent study of the specific levers tends to show that the period in which these diseases are most likely to be communicated is the acute stage rather than that of con- valescence, it must be admitted that some of these diseases can be conveyed by such methods as the reception and subsequent discharge of infectious ma- terial from the coat of cat nursed by patients. But that any thing like an outbreak of scarlatina should be di- rectly brought about by such cause is contrary to experience, which goes to show that this disease is not often communicated from one person to an- other through the agency of a third party who is free from the disease; and it is far more probable that any extension of scarlatina in the case re- ferred to was due to infection con- tracted directly from the first person to whom the disease was conveyed. But our main object in referring to the incident is to draw attention to the fact that the domestic animals do con- stitute a distinct danger to man, in so
 ar as some of the specific infectious levers are concerned. AS yet we know nothing about any disease in the cat which can lead to scarlatina in the hu- man subject But it is probably highly different as regards diph- theria, for number of instances have been placed on record in which, while diphtheria has been prevalent in the human subject, a similar if not the same disease has been ascertained to exist among cats, and 1t IS certain that in some preva- fences there has been close association between the human sick and the af- fected animals.
 We are at present. only just on the bOrderland of wide subject-namely that of the relationship of diseases of the lower animals to diseases in man; and we may possibly learn hereafter that, apart from the origin of infective diseases in the lower animals, the lat te- may serve as media for cOmmuni- eating infections to an extent as yet not understood. Certain it is that the manner in which dogs, cats and other domestic animals are at times fondled by those to whom they be- long, and to whom them become ats taehed, is not free from risk. .~-LaAoet,
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


 It costs the Prince of Wales $50,- 900 year to keep up his hunting stables.
 Hundreds of English girls are now adopting shorthand for a livelihood.
 In Berlin heavy wagons are not allowed on certain streets. In Paris any carload of rattling material must be fastened till it can't rattle.
 The telegraph lines entering the central station at London are all un- derground. It appears all the more wonderful when it is said there are 1,700 different lines.
 Princess Eugene of Sweden has sacrificed her family jewels to build a hospital for cripples upon an island off the coast.
 The Queen incurred expenses in her jubilee as well as other people, the cost to her having been 960 000, and the largest payment being in the department of the master of the horse.
 Paris receives 100, 900 francs by the will of citizen who was run over and killed in that city. He bequeathed the money to erect bridges over the streets at the most dangerous points,
 The old tTr0wa Hall at Leicester, a curious wooden building. in which Shakespeare is said to have acted, is now occupied as a school of cookery. A pulley still shows where the drop curtain was.
 Emperor William of Germany is still carrying on his crusade against all things not Teutonic. He has ordered the officers of his army to discard pointed English boots and wide creased trousers. He has also made change in the royal crown, which he consid- cred too high for his style of beauty.
 The Earl of Onslow, the new Gov ernor of New Zealand, is thirty-five years old, and has never done any thing particular in his life, beyond be- ing a lord-in-walting to Her Majesty in 1880, and recently serving as Under Secretary for the Colonies and the Board of Trade. His salary as Gov ernor is $25, ,OO0 year.
 A course of popular scientific lect- ures has been inaugurated at Victoria Hall, London, to which the price of admission is only one penny. The lectures are designed to benefit the poor, and great pains are taken to make them entertaining as well as in- structive. The movement has enlisted the sympathy and cooperation of emi- nent scientists.
 The project of a maritime ship canal to connect Bristol with the En- glish Channel is being revived in En- gland, and it is said a syndicate is in course of formation with view to its promotion. The length of the pro- posed canal will be forty-fve miles. The cost of construction is roughly estimated at 970,000 per mile.
 Drink seems to be as prevalent in Belgium as anywhere else-perhaps more so. A newspaper published in Flanders states that ''the daily con- sumption of a workingman-not a drunkard-therei includes at 5:S0 a. m., a 'worm-killer;' at a. m., an eye opener;' at II a. m., a 'whip;' at D. m., a 'digester;' at p. m., a 'sOldier,' and at 7:30 p. m., 'finisher. The regular yearly expenditure, without counting extras on festive occasions, amount to 219 francs, 500 to 1,20O francs being the usual wages.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
In front of a shoe store in Colum-

In front of shoe store in Colum- bus, Ga., stands stuffed bear shin. A visitor was passing eating oceans. While he was opening the nuts and de- vouring their contents he became ob- livious to his surroundings. Raising his eyes in front of the store he found himself, as he supposed, confronted by an angry, living bear, and, plying his knife vigorously, he cut the stuffing from the imaginary wild beast in a style that would have delighted the heart of a Rocky Mountain hunter. The bear is dead, and the young man wished he was, too, many times since, when being leased by his fun-loving companions.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
An OId-Fashioned Gun.

A curious Thibetan musket or match lock has found its way from Sikkim, where it was picked up after battle, to Calcutta. It is described in the h. dian papers as of primitive design, al- though comparatively new. It is a smOoth-bOre muzzle-loader, mounted on long, narrow stock. The barrel is fitted with double-pronged rest, the points of which are sharply shod,
 so that the rest itself may either be placed firmly in the ground or used, if necessary, as bayonet. The contriv- ance is ingenious, and the weapon is not altogether to be despised. At tached to it is belt, on which are strung six hollow wooden plugs for powder charges and small horn for priming powder. Philadelphia Ledger.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
A SENSIBLE DUCHESS.

How Her Grace of Sutherland Shocked
 the London Swels.
 The late Duchess of Sutherland was, during the active period of her life, the cause of no little bewilderment and disquietude among the rank-rever- ing denizens of that aristocratic sec tion of St. James where Stafford House stands in gloomy grandeur. Her common-sense methods of secur- ing convenience, without regard to ceremonious formalities, often startled the deYQtees of eonYentionality and
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19
n euiltv off Assault and Battery

phyllin or other rasping purgatives, posi- lively despair of helping your liver. Vlo- lence committed upon your inner man will do no good. Real help, prompt and thorough, is to be found in the wholesome anti-bilious medicine, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which is, moreover, productive of happy re- suits in malarial disease, rheumatism, dys- pepsia, nervousness and kidney troubles.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19

There is said to be nothing in all Europe to equal the extent and beauty of the flower gardens and fruit or chards surrounding the new Hotel del Monte, at Monterey, Cal, which are said to have cost the railroad company owning the establishment $150,0QQ
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It is said that the only herd of buffalo on this continent belonged to Major Bedson, of Winnipeg, who has sold them to a prominent Kansas cat tie owner for $18,0O0. The Canadian Government, it is said. is anxious to keep the herd in that country.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19

THERE are other white caps which in- spire even greater terror than those of Ohio and Indiana. They are usually en- countered by the fellows who insist upon us ng a shoe-buttoner for night key.- MemDIiis AdU tIlce.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19

ALL disorders caused by bilious state of the system can be cured by using Carter's Little Liver Pills. No pain, gripping or dis comfort attending their use. Try them.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19

THE best preparation to keep a lady's hand ''free from chaps" is a report that she has no money
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19

SLEEPING-oAR porters generally give a fat man wide berth.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19

PEOPLE Are Killed by Coughs that Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar would cure. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
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LIVESTOCK SHIPPERS AND FEEDERS Read ad. of c. c. Daly & Co. other column.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19

"'BRowN's BRONCHIAL TROCHEs' are ex- cellent for the relief of Foarseness or Sore Throat. They are exceedingly effeotive."- Christian World, London, Eng.
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It is one of the pecuiiarities of things in general that the freshest men generally tell the stalest stories.-BdngOr COmmer- ci1L
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THOSE who wish to practice economy should buy Carter's Little Liver Pills. Forty pills in vial; only one pill dose.
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IT is the astronomer who most frequent ly rises to observe. Philadelphia Ledger.
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VERY few persons can hold their own on their first sea voyage.
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BY no means a water-color exhibition the toper's nose.-BOStOn Commercial Bulle- tin.
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"UNEQUALED as an advertising medium" the woman who says Il thought I'd just run over to tell you"
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A RUNNING account-report of horse race.
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THE young clerk who goes about full jeweled should le watched.-JelUeleTs IEeekIlI
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No MATTER how big and stout presti- digitateur may be he is always slight-of- han6.-Terds SJtin0S
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IT is when d oo-1 Io new that there is music in the sole.-DetTOt Free Press.
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A MATCH between two dentists in their art would probably result in a draw -Bos ton Courier
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No WONDER the minutes fly so fast they are making up time.-Time.
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A cANAL-1oCK is sort of navigate Puck
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MANY people have good aims, but they never pull the trigger. Western PloCmdn.
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CREMATION Day-Friday.

PASSENGERS mustn't expect to hear the jib boom in calm weather.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19

FLANNEL cakes should neither be all wool nor yard wide.-Puclf.
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STABLE characteristic groom. TIE old notion that blood will tell is vein conceit.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-01-19

DRUM would be good name for bar spirit-stirring, you know--Teras Sift njS-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-23
WORSE THAN NO WINE.
a Chanceiful of Wry-faced Communi
caDts-Vinegar in Place of Wine.

cants-Vinegar in Place OF Wine.
Apropos of the recent no wine incident
that took place at the last communion
season at the Baptist Church in this
place, lady tells us of more amusing
mishap somewhat of the same kind that
befell congregation of one of the then
largest churches in this country several
years ago.
a good sister, who was noted for the ex-
cellence of the wine she made, furnished
ana prepared the bread and wine for the
communion of this church. The excel
lence of the wine she furnished was always
the subject OF remark by strangers who
happened to partake of it, and never was
wry face made on this solemn occasion.
At this particular time-perhaps it was
in August meeting-there was an unusu-
ally large congregation in attendance. In
the absence of silver service, which was
unheard of in those days, a cut-glass
pitcher with goblets to match served in
stead. The minister. after preaching.
found the communion table supplied with
these, the pitcher being filled with what
appeared 70 be beautifully clear finid.
such as the good sister always furnished
for these occasions.
The ceremonies were gone through, the
wine poured into the goblets, and the dea-
cons, one of whom happened to be the
husband of the good sister, started through
the congregation with it. Remembering
the good taste of the fruit on the vines on
former occasions, the members were not
afraid to give it good sip, and this they
did on this occasion. All par;ook, and
though frowns and wry faces and tears
came to their faces they hid them and said
nothing The deacons, unconscious of
these, kept ON until the entire congrega-
ton was served, and they returned 10 the
table to serve each other.
The husband Of the good sister was the
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-03-23
FRANKLIN's WORDS OF WISDOM.

Creditors have better memories than
debtors.
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep
thee.
When the well is dry, they know the
worth Of water
If you would have your business done,
go; if not, send.
What maintains one vice would bring
up two children.
If you would know the value of money
try to borrow some.
Not to oversee workmenis to leave them
your purse open.
Want of care does more damage than
want of knowledge.
The eye Of the master Will do more work
than both his hands.
By diligence and perseverance the mouse
eats the cableln two.
Now / have a sheep and COW. every
body bids me good morrow.
Experience keeps dear school. but fools
will learn in no other.
Industry needs not WISH and he that
lives upon hope will diefasting.
For age and want save while You NAV.
no morning sun lasts all the day.
Lying rides upon debts back; it is hard
for an empty bag to stand upright
If YOU would have faithful servant and
one that you like, serve yourself
Work to-day, for you know not how
much you may be Kindred tomorrow.
Buy what thou hast no need OF, and ere
long thou wilt sell thy necessaries.
Woman and wine, game and deceit,
make the wealth small and the want great.
Him that by the pillow would thrive,
himself must either both hold or drive.
Always taking out of the meal tub and
never putting IN, soon comes to the bottom.
Drive thy business, let not that drive
thee. Sloth makes ali things difficult, in
dustry all easy.