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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-05-03
Driving Park Association

A special meeting of the OwossO Driving
Park Association was held at the City Hall
Wednesday afternoon, to re-organize the
association. New stock to the amount of
about $500 has been subscribed for, and it
| is the intent of the members to have the
track put i'm first-class shape.
The meeting was called to order by Pres.
II. ID. Dewey, and i'm the absence of Sec.
McBain, K. p. Byerly was elected secretary
pro tenn.
The designations of M. w. Willoughby,
VIM. Sawyer, Il. ID. Dewey, N. McBain
and John Stewart as directors were presented
and accepted. The place of director held by
A. G.. Kelso was declared vacant on account
of his not being resident of Michigan.
The stockholders present then elected the
following persons as directors f. p.
Byerly, M. w. Willoughby, w. X. Brewster,
G. j. Stuart, VIM. Sawyer and p. M. Roth
The directors subsequently organized by
the election of +. p. Byerly as president I;
M. w. Willoughby, secretary =, M. Roth
treasurer; track superintendent, VIM.
Saver; track committee, VIM. Saver, NJ
w. Wiloughby, w. X. Brewster.
1t is quite likely that race meeting will
be held here during the summer
Undoubtedly, the place to buy Sewing
Machines is at the store of the Mich. S. NJ.
& o. Co. They have them at all prices
from S15 to 45.-Headquarters for the
''White" 1.-THE King of all.
The w. b. M. societies will hold their
regular monthly meeting on Friday after
noon May 8, at the home of Mrs. Bruce
Buckminster. Refreshments will be served
from five to eight o'clock. A cordial invita-
ton to all. G. p. CURTIss, Sec.
Rev. John Sharp, pastor of the Methodist
church in Huntington, will preach in the As
bury chapel, fourth ward, Sunday evening.
The public is invited.
Rev. G. b. Spencer will preach Sunday
morning on 1.-THE Worlds Outlook" and in
the evening on ''Vicious Reading"
Bicycles, Tricycles, Tandems, Safctys. II
you want the best for the least money, go tc
THE Mich. S. NJ. IL o. Co.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-05-03

Catered afthe Post Office in Osoosso, Mich
E5rtransmission through the mails as Sc
,nd class mail matter.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05
They Need Nerve.

Engineers at rest, sitting in the mar
row cabs Of their engines, lying at@the
depot waiting for the signal to start,
often look to be sleepy set Of fellows"
said the man the other night who runs
the limited to Alliance. DO you know"
he continued, addressing a reporter,
that engineers are always wide awake
when they seem to be indifferent to
events happening around them? There
are few things that escape their vigilant
eyes. Many people have an idea that
engineers go it blind and trust entirely
to the block system and the acuteness of
good telegraph operators, but if they did
this there would be wrecks and lives lost
every day. =
"A good engineer is always on the
lookout. We see plenty of things ahead
OF us that harrow our nerves and make
the hair stand up straight, but as long as
the passengers behind lis don't know it
and we all escape uninjured, we heave a
sigh of relief and say nothing. | tell
you, it is no easy matter to hold a throt-
: tie, shoot around sharp curves and watch
for distractions An engineer looks
down for moment at the connecting
rods of the locomotive, moving back
ward and forward with lightning like
rapidity. He doesn't know at what min
ute Q pin may break and one of the rods
knock his brains out as he leans out osi
the cab q s .,E l.. . -.
= eve have to make schedule time; the
road is full of curves, aud we are likely
to bang into these trains as we pass them.
Little do people know how rasping it Is
on the nerves to be continually making
narrow escapes, and yet one invariably
feels that some day he is bound to get It
in the neck. It is the uncertainty Of the
business that is SO trying. Pittsburg
Dispatch S. .#$ q. Y
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05
Tho Clever Poodle.

Some twenty years back we had a
poodle-white, with one black ear. At
ter the manner Of his race, he was never
quite happy unless he carried something
in his mouth. He was intelligent and
teachable to the last degree. The great
defect in his character was the impossi-
bility of Distinguishing meum from tu-
UNI Anything he could get hold of he
seemed to think, according to his logged
ethics, to be fairly his own. On one oc.
casion he entered the room Of one of the
maid servants and stole her loaf of bread,
carefully shutting the door after him
with his feet, the latter part being a feat
had taught him.
The wonlan-lrish-wa scared and
thought that the dog was the devil in
carnate. The necessity Of discipline on
the one hand and of occupation on the
other induced me one day to enter a
saddler's shop, situated in straight
street about half mil, from our house,
and buy whip. Shortly after my re-
turn home he admitted some act OF petty
larceny, SO gave hin, beating with
the whip he had carried home. Going
for a walk next day, the dog, as usual
accompanied me, and was intrusted will,
tho whip to carry. Directly we got out
side the door he started OIL at his best
pace straight down the street, paying no
attention whatever to my repeated calls.
He entered the saddler's shop and &C.
posted the whip on the floor. When !
arrived the saddler showed me the whip
lying exactly where the dog had depos-
tied it. The Spectator.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05
THE WATER WAYS CONyEN.
TION.


Superior Inter Ocean: The people
Of Superior will probably never have
another so good an opportunity to
display their public spirit and aprre-
citation of the advantages which this
city possesses, as in the manner in
which they will carry on the arrange
ments for the water ways convention.
1t is not enough that invitations have
been sent out. Those invitations
were based primarily upon the repre-
sentative character Of this city as a
marine port and railroad terminal,
but more broadly in view of the enor-
nous necessities of the commerce of
the lakes i'll its capacity of servant to
to the people Of the Northwest.
There is every reason to believe
that the Northwest is more fully alive
to the urgent needs of The transporta-
ton interests than even those inter-
ests themselves. A difference of a
cent per bushel OH the wheat crop of
Minnesota, means an item of over ST.
100000 in all probability on the re
ceipts Of the farmers of Minnesota
and Dakota this year. That cent
they will receive, as against 1888 or
1887, by virtue of the Eastern Min
nesota and the Northern Steamship
Line. But to that cent might be
added another, could the Northern
Line vessels carry their full cargo
between Superior and Buffalo. To
that end is the waterways convention
to be held.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05
Auburn Haired Girls.

All young women possessed of red hair
can remember that in the days of their
childhood their hi"sute adornment was a
source Of nocking ,nerriment to their
friends. and the term "sorrel top" or
"strawberry blonde" was ono of con-
tempt. They wondered perhaps, why
it was that they were always called ''red
headed, " when their playnates were de.
scribed as being black, brown or golden
haired But the 'red headed" girls don't
mind now that it is every young wo-
mans ambition to be auburn haired, and
she hopes Ivy the use of hair dyes to
attain the shade which belonged to the
wicked Lucretia. If she gets exact
ly the right shade she does not see
why single thread OF her hair
might not be preserved by the United
States government and exhibited as is
the one SO proudly shown in Florence as
having belonged to the wicked Lucretia.
It is odd how many famous women have
had this Titan red hair Catherine of
Russia gloried in it, and Anne of Austria
had brown hair just on the verge of
being red. Ninon de LEnclos was equally
proud Of her warm colored tresses, and
Mary Stuart seemed a daughter of the
sun. Jane Hading and Mrs. Potter boil,
have warm auburn hair, but it does not
reach the real tinye, which is that which,
crowned, in all her glory, the head of
the Empress Eugene, she who has known
the extreme Of happiness and Of sadness
Atlanta Constitution
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05
4 Chance for You, 4, 8 Men.


The south Of the future is not to be the
south Of the past. Agriculture is no
longer to be the absorbing industry, but
one OF MANY Industries, as great, or even
greater, than it was, but allied to others
that will give new impetus and vigor to
it and make the southland hum with re-
newed life and energy, In this career,
of industrial development the south viii
have need for the services of her young
men of genius, push, industry and per
severance. There is room today and an
inviting field for thousands Of this kind.
She needs civil engineers. mining ex-
perts, architects pattern MAKERS ma
|-ciiinists, inolders. carpenters, stone cut
tiers and brick masons. skilled operatives
in factory and shop. She needs every
man with bright brain, trained muscle
and Skilled fingers to take part III and
help on this grand work of industrial
Development
There is better opportunity in this
field for the young man Of genius. pluck
and patience, better prospects for pro-
noting and the acquisition of wealth
than any of the overcrowded professions
offer, where SO few reach the top, so
many struggle on the way and meet
with disappointments at every turn.
The professions of law and medicine,
which seem to have fascination for
our educated young men. are now and
have been for years oyercrowded, and
yet every year adds to the number. of
those who enter them The field for
service does not expand in proportion TO
the increased number of those who seek
it, and the consequence is division of
a limited business among so many that
only few of recognized superiority and
reputation are reasonably paid for their
time and knowledge We say this with.
out any disposition to disparage either of
these respectable and honorable profess
| sions.
But the field of manufacturing indus
tries is wide and inviting, becoming
wider and more inviting every year, and
there is no danger of its being over
crowded. There is the opening for our
bright and ambitious young men who
wish to strike out for themselves and
hew their way to fortune and fame
Franklin IN. c. Times.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05

Faribault Republican: 1t appears
that the meat inspection law does not
prevent the puschase of meat outside
of the state and its shipment in, un-
iessit is exposed for sale afterwards
Awaiting themselves of this loop hole
the leading hotel proprietors of St.
Paul and Minneapolis, it is alleged,
are purchasing the greater part Of
the meat consumed in their hotels in
Chicago. Of course this is viola,
ton Of the spirit and intent Of the
law, which is based upon the assump.
ton that no proper inspection: of the
meat will be made, except by LEGAL
inspectors. The etfectof this patron.
age of Chicago meat dealers is said tc
have become manifest in the local
markets Of the Twin Cities.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05

New YoRK, July 2.-Sone days
ago, Nathaniel Mckay, the staunct
Republican who imported pictures oI
impoverished English work1ngwomer
for campaign purposes last fall
received a fine game cock from San
Domingo. He sent the bird to Johr
5. Clarkson, assistant postmaster
general, with note to the effect thai
"the cocks growing should steady hi
nerves while decapitat;ng the Demo
cratic ofticerholders." In his repl,
Mr.. Clarkson said:
ut can give no more pleasure te
anyone than it does to myself to hell
put Republicans into Office. That i:
what the contest was for, and l be-
lieve in standing up for n healthy
and honest Rcpublicanism."
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05
MAHTOMEDI CHAUTAUQUA
ASSEMBLY,, 1850.

The seventh Annual Matomedi
Chatauqua Assembly will convene at
Mahtomedi, (White Bear Lake, equi-
distant from St. Paul, Minneapolis
and Saltwater, July 4 to August 6.
The Program will be divided into
three parts, as follows:
FIRST Painfully 5-9-12, Lee
lures and Concerts.
SECOND pART.--July 16 to %,
"Bible Conference" under the
management of the State Committee
of the Y. NJ. G.. A.
| This will be notable meeting and
will be of great value to Christian
workers along all lines.
The detailed program is being ar
ragged and will include several noted
teachers from abroad. Among others,
T. Grafton Guinness, and Hudson
Taylor, of London, Eng, the noted
Chinese missionaries; Rev. J. II.
Sammis, Of Grand Haven, Mich, and
Others, who will be present through
out the whole Conference.
THIRD PART.-The Seventh An
nual Mahtomedi Chautauqua Assem-
bly,, July "a to August 6. The
following Departments are provided
for: j.
Normal Glasses, and S. S. Methods,
Rev. J. =. Gilbert, D. D., of Indian
apolis, Ind, General sup't Of the In.
terriational Sunday School Institute,
Conductor,
| Physical Culture, Prof: r. l..
Weston, Snp't Of the Gymnasium of
the Y. NJ. G. A. st. Paul, MINI,
| Conductor. ..-~. i III. 81. -.
b w. G, 7. T.. Training School,
Miss Esther Pugh, Of Chicago,
Treasurer Of the National w. CT. ;,
Conductor. y& @:y.. =
Mental Training Glass, Prof.
Sehram, Conductor. 4. n ::
Kindergarten, Mrs. Y. K. Hay
ward, Conductor.
The following Lecturers will appear
among others:
Rev. Z, Dewitt Talnlage, July q.
Peter Mamreof Won Finkelstein, Of
Jerusalem, lectures on Life in Pales-
jtine, 3
signor Guisippe Vi.ale, the renown-.
led yiolmist.
| Prof ", NJ. R. French, Conductor
! of the Chicago Art institute, lectures
on Art, illustrated BY the crayon.
Rev. 4 q Hay, Missionary to
India, The sepoy Rebellion, and
| Life in India $50
Prof. ] freeman. Lilcra.ure
and Travel.
Is Reduced r,,tes o, all Railr,ai-.
For further particulars address
AssooD,s AZ
Secretary Box 2I4o
SIS Pau, sIinn..
Recognition DAY All.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05

by the vote taken Saturday, Hyde
Park, Lake, Jefferson, Lake View
and Cicero, having combined area
Of one hundred and thirty-one square
miles. were annexed to Chicago, in
creasing the area of that city from
forty-three to one hundred and sew
enty-four square miles, making it the
largest city in the United States, with
population Of one million one hun
dred thousand. Philadelphia ranks
next, having one hundred and twen-
ty-nine square miles, the product Of
annexation. New York has the area
Of fcrty-one aud a half square miles,
Brooklyn twenty-six and i hall, St.
Louis sixty-tn 10 Kansas City twenty,
81. Paul tifty-eight, Minneapolis ak
ty-four IL point of population Chr
cagp anticipates the eleventh census
will show it To- rank rs the second
city of the country, New York being
/: frst, philaIelphis third and Brink
lyn fourt i.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05

Chief Clerk Webster, man of great
zeal and usefulness in his work, denies
that school girls and boys have better
chance in these examinations than men
and women of more mature years. Tha,
the competitors are not school children
IS shown by the average age of candi
dates, which is about 80 years 1t il
noteworthy, however, that the average
age OF those who fail is always greater
than that of those who succeed Oh
common school graduates IS out of l0C
fail, as against only II Of 100 Of high
school graduates Among candidate!
who claim academic or collegiate educa
ton the percentage of failure is nearly
80, and tho business college graduates
60 but or 3 per cent. better
Not many of the problems are difficult
A majority are in simple addition, null
tiplicat;on and subtraction Few fail or
these, but may do on such questions as
express in figures the following mum
bcrs: One husidred and ninerceu billion
one hundred and twenty-one million
eleven thousand and forty -one one hun
dred thousandths:' and also on such a!
this--"Express in words the following
numbers: G,sA,57l .43l. 03." ~ Washing
ton Letter.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05
4 New Cigar Horror.

Among the latest limitations which
have been successfully introduced Into
the tobacco trade of this city and other
cities are cigars, the wrappers Of which
are made out of specially perfumed
paper. A gentleman we'll known in the
iron manufacturing circles of this vi
cinity was the first to inform a Com.
mercial Gazette reporter that smoking
material Of this kind was new in the
market. He has recently returned from
visit to Norfolk, Va, where he met a
drummer for a large tobacco factory Of
New York state. This gentleman in
formed the Pittsburger that he was then
introducing an imitation cigar wrapper
which was SO deceiving in its character
that experts could scarcely distinguish
it from the genuine
This preparation was made from rye
straw, and one portion of the process
was to steep the material in strong
solution made from tobacco stems. The
grain of the straw, together with the
manner in which the material was
dressed, would lead any person to sup.
pose that it was a sample of the leaf
used in making wrappers for cigars of q
more than ordinary quality. The flavor
of tobacco was also present, owing to
the paper having been immersed in the
solution made from the genuine article.
-Pittsburg Commercial
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05
THE PUBLIC DEBT.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-The re<luc-
ton in the public debt during the
past month, as shown by the state
n,ent issued from the treasury depart
ment today, was s16,255, 929, and for
the fiscal year just closed SSS, $685.
OBS. During the preceding fiscal
year the debt was reduced $113,S44,-
$50. The total debt now less cash in
the treasury is sl,O76,646,62l. The
net cash or actual surplus in the
treasury today is ST, 4S4,O42, against
slO3, 33O,464 year ago. Receipts
from all sources during the fiscal
year just closed aggregated $685.
591 ,675, against 1879, 266,074 for the
preceding year. Customs receipts for
the past year amounted to s224,971,-
234, an increase Of nearly 100000
over the preceding year, and it is the
largest revenue from this source ever
collected by the government in one
year. Customs receipts in 1882 came
very close to this sum, aggregaling
2O,5O0,0OO. Internal revenue re-
ceipts for the year just closed aggre.
gated $131, 662, lO6, or nearly 81, 5OO,.
600 more than during the preceding
fiscal year. While the revenues fol
the year just closed have increased
about sS,750,000 over those of the
previous year, expenditures for the
year, which aggregated s3OO,O64 ,795
are s32,0OO,O0O more than they were
during the preceding year. The or.
binary expenses Of the government
during the past year were s153,734,.
1877 against $134,65O,442 during the
preceding year. About 100000
OF this increased ordinary expense
during the past year can be account.
ed for by $3,5W,000 increased wal
department appropriations; $780,.
appropriations for new cruisers, ST..
100000 postal revenue deficiency
and s2,50O,000 court of claims iudg,
ments. The pension charge for the
past year was sS7,977,6S2, or about
sS,OOO,O0O more than for the previous
fiscal year. With total receipts dur.
ing the year amounting to s3SS,59l,.
675, and total expenditures (exclus.
i've of s17,25O,OOO expended in
premium ON bonds purchased) aggre.
eating s2S3,000,O00, the surplus
revenue of the government for the
year will amount to 100000 600
against Sll9,612,116, the amount Of
surplus revenue reported by Secretary
Fairchild in his last annual message
for the fiscal year ended June 30
1888.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05
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ASHES.

z
Wrapped In u sadly tattertt. rtan
Alone + puff my briar brow,.. = '.
And watch The ashes sett -.
In ialnbent flashes ~ e.. .' =
+ While tfro' the blue, thick. curling haze
z strive with feeble eyes TO gaze
Upon the hall forgotten days ~. -.
That left bit ashes -.
Again we wander through the lane.
Beneath the elttis ard o,n again,
Across the ripping fields Of grain
Where softly FLASHES
A slender brook mid banks Of fern
!, At every sight my pulses burn, 49,
At every thought ] slowly turn
And find but ashes
What made my fingers tremble so
AS you wrapped skeins of worsted snow
:. Around them, now with movements slow
D. And now with dashes!
Maybe It's smoke that blinds my eyeA
Maybe tear within them lies;
But as puff my pipe there flies
4 cloud Of ashes
Perhaps you did DOT understand
How lightly flames of love were famed.
All. every thought and wish I've planned
With something clashes!
And yet within my lonely den
~ Over pipe. away from men,
lloye TO throw aside my pen
Ind stir the ashes.
do Witt Sterry In Judge
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05

The Indian population Of the United
States is increasing slowly. Not in
Guiding Alaska, tho Indian population
on reservations is PA $50, of which
21,3OO are mixed blooIs 1t appears, by
the 1887 government statistics, that for
that year there were 4,T04 births and
3.SsS deaths, leaving an increase of only
one-thtrd of one per cent Of course
this varies on different reservations, as
in New Mexico the increase was over
two per cent But it is observed that,
with this one exception, where the In
dian population is comparatively large,
as in the Indian territory. Dakota, Mon.
tana, Washington, Arizona and Califor.
mia, there is little or no increase. The
education of Indian children l., going on;
the number Of Indian schools in 1887
being 23l, with an average attendance
OF 1925, at a cost of $l.035.3.O to the
United States, while in 1878 the number
of schools was 1877 average attendance,
3,4So, and cost for their support,
$105. e53.- Nov York Telegram,
According to the newest English life
table, the children born i'll England in
any one year have now divided among
them "nearly two million years of life'
more than would have been the case
thirty five years ago.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-05
CHICAGO, July 1.-The Farmers

CHlcAeo, July 1.-The Farmers
Review will publish in its issue this
week careful estimates based ON re
ports from itseorresspondents relative
to the probable yield Of wheat in the
winter wheat states. With the ex-.
ception of Kentucky and Indiana,
where drouth was experienced in
April and May, winter wheat arrived
at the harvest stage in good condition
and with good prospects Of large
per cent of"No. 1 hard" There is
little change in the acreage except in
Kansas. where there is an increase of
about % per cent, and in Missouri
and Illinois. where there has been n
considerable falling off in the area
devoted to winter wheat. The condi-
ton of crop at the time of harvest, as
compared with last year is us follows:
Illinois, Is per cent; Michigan, 100;
Kentucky, 105: Kansas, 40; Indi-
ana, 125; Ohio, 1876: Missouri, 100.
Average yield per acre: Illinois, is
bushels; Michigan, 16; Kentucky,
10.S; Kansas, 20; Indiana, 10; Ohio,
IA; Missouri: Is. Acreage: Illinois,
2.259,64o; Indiana 2,7S4,062; Ohio.
1865 Kentucky, 1,O13,22S;
Missouri, 1,402,626; Kansas, 1872
500; Michigan, 1,612,847. Total
yield for seven states: 195,373,OOO
bushels. !. Assuming that the crop in
the other states Of the Union will
yield the same return as last year
viz: 117,S60,0O0 bushels, the total
winter wheat crop in 1889 will be
about 323, $4,000 bushels. The
prospects are also very favorable for
good yield Of rye, although the
area is indicated to be about 10 per
cent less than last year. The average
yield per acre, however, will be heavy
enough to make up any deficiency in
acreage. The present indications
point to yield of 2S,951 900 bushels,
the largest crop since 1884.