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Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
Facts About Life.

The statistics recently published by a
leading life insurance company contain
many interesting points.
Americans live longer than our foreign
born citizens.
Among foreigners next to the Ameri-
cans stand the Irish, English and Ger
mans, in the order named. -.
Few Germans or Englishmen die Of
apoplexy.
Germans furnish the highest percent
age of suicide.
Native Americans are comparatively
free from diseases of the liver.
Typhoid fever has the most victims in
the northwest and the fewest in the
south, but in the latter section. there is a
large mortality from other zymotic dis
eases and more liver disease, but less kid
ney disease.-Atlanta Constitution.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
Stand I'm.

A wise physician has lately called
attention to the injurious effects of too
much sitting. The American people are
VIGOROUSLY nation Of sitters. The re-
suit is that the lower limbs grow weak
and spindling, while the body gives
down and doubles up and grows at once
thick and fabby. The internal organs
are cramped and weakened. The stom-
ach becomes dyspeptic, the kidneys de-
bilitated and diseased.
These sedentary people could stand or
walk about at their work twice as much
as they do. Then the chest would ex-
pand and the trunk grow erect, slim
and graceful, particularly if attention
was paid to deep breathing. Admiral
Porter, rs years old, engaged constantly
in literary work, always stands up at
his desk to write. He is splendid
specimen of health and vigor. Stand I'D
to read and write, at least part of the
time.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
What Are "NIorcanatic'' Marriages?


The term 'morganatic," applied to
marriages, had its origin in an ancient
custom by which the bridegroom on the
day after the wedding gave his bride a
morning gift-morganabe. In the case
of nobleman welded to wife of low
estate this morning gift constituted the
wife's portion, or endowment, and from
this gift such marriages took the name
morganatica. The German law, continu-
ing this tradition, allows the members of
the reigning house and certain noble
families to contract marriages in all re-
spect legal and valid. except that it gives
to the partner of lower birth and to the
children no share III the rank, titles and
distinctions CT the privileged house.
S 1ci marriages have often been eminent
ly Happy ones; I1onden Life. -.---~--.--75-,
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28

About the beginning of the Christian
era an Egyptian coloring substance,
known as the Alexandria blue, was in
use in Italy and elsewhere for wall dec
orations. 1t was magnificent, brilliant.
deep sky blue crystalline pigment. The
crystals showed pale rose color when
looked at edgewise. The Alexandrian
blue was, however, lost in the middle
ages, greatly to the regret of modern
chemists and artists. Professor Fougne,
of the French Academy of Sciences, an
nounces that he has rediscovered the art
of making the pigment and will give
the knowledge to any Frenchman who
will manufacture it. The main ingredi-
ents are silica, oxide of copper and lime.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
A Twelve Mile Shot

The professory of gunnery at Wool
witch Military academy, England, sent
this problem to the artillerists of the
world: Given a gun with caliber of 9. 2
inches, a projectile weighing $50 pounds,
the angle of firing being 40 degrees, the
velocity at the start 1916 feet per second,
and how far will the shot travel? The
gun was wound with wire.
Artillerist mathematicians everywhere
bent their heads to the solution of the
problem. Once more it is feather in
the cap Of the modest United States that
the man whose calculation came nearest
the mark was Capt. James NJ. Ingalls,, of
the Fast United States artillery. Capt.
ingalls, is instructor in ballistics at Fort
ress Monroe. The calculation was to be
for the mean or average distance tray-
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28


Hear twice before you speak once.
He dances well to whom fortune pipes
He doubles his gift who gives in time.
He fights with his own shadow.
He giveth twice that giveth in a trice.
He has bee in his bonnet. .
He has bought his noble for nine pence
He has had bite upon his bride.
He is wise man who speaks little.
He is proper who hath proper condi-
TONS -- 90.
He knows not B from bulls foot
He knows not a hawk from a hand
saw. ..,-. -.--........ ID
He lacks most that longs most.
Help the lame dog over the stile.
He liveth long and liveth we'll.
He'll find some hole to creep out at.
He loses nothing for the taking.
He loses his thanks who promises and
delayeth.
He loses nothing that keeps God for
his friend. .
He loves roast beef well that ticks the
spit.
He may well be contented who needs
neither borrow nor fatter.
He must needs run whom the devil
drives.
He must stoop low that hath low
door.
He plays well that wins.
He's Jack in office.
He's gone upon sleeveless errand.
He that always complains is never pit
tied.
He that bows in the dust fills his eyes.
He that falls in an evil cause falls in
the devils frying pan.
He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sor-
rowing.
He that has no shame has no con-
science.
He that hath no silver in his purse
should have silver on his tongue.
He that hath good harvest may be
content with some thistles.
He that is angry is seldom at ease.
He that is warm thinks all are so.
He that lendeth loses double doses both
his money and his friend.
He that ticks honey from thorns pays
too dear for it. 1
He that lies down with dogs must ex-
pect to rise with feas
He that lives not well one year sorrows
for it seven.
He that liveth wickedly can hardly die
honestly.
He that reckons without his host must
reckon again.
He that runs fast must not run long
He that runs in the night stumbles.
He thatplants not corn plants thistles.
-Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28

ncred sellishness. He had not been
taught respect for age or sympathy for
halplessness, Therefore. he failed to ex-
ercise either Would it not be worth
while for parents and teachers, while
teaching the boys a good many other
things to teach them manners, too? If
they can't be induced to do it from a
love Of good manners on their own part
they should do it for very shame, for
every exhibition of selfish boorishness
like the one above mentioned is an ad.
vertisement to the world that all the
world reads of lack of proper home
training. The boorish boy gives away
his boorish parents or teachers.
In the same car, before it became quite
so crowded was another boor-the fell
low who folds and unfolds his newspa-
per, digging his elbows into the passen-
gers on each side of him while doing so.
This fellow is in almost every morning
and evening car. His elbows are worn
sharp by constant practice, as thousands
of his fellow riders can testify from pain
full experience. He is worse than the
IVY io titlSu y pcSll tduSub SOOu uldu-
ners and isn't old enough to shave learned
himself, for the newspaper boor is usu-
ally full grown and often a middle
aged man. There is another type of the
newspaper boor found in most street
cars. He is the fellow who gets in soon
otter the car starts and becomes so alb
sorbed in his newspaper that he can't see
other people standing, while he and his
newspaper occupy the space of two or
more seats.
Really, it is hardly to be wondered at
that half grown boys sit in supreme and
unconscious selfshness while crippled
age stands, when they are furnished so
many examples of boorish selfishness by
those that should be their teachers and
exemplars in courtesy. Can't some kind
hearted and wealthy philanthropist be
induced to find an institution for the re-
formation of the various adult street car
Doors, including, besides those just men
toned, the cross legged boor, the fellow
whose cane or umbrella is stuck out to
trip other passengers, and all the other
examples of the genus boor? If these ILL
hammered fellows were reformed, per-
haps the half grown lads might learn
street car courtesy by the process of imi-
Observation-Disclosures Times.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
THE EDITOR.


BEFORE.
Who In his sanctum sits up late,
And strives, with sentences of weight,
TO set to right affairs of statel
The editor Admire him
Who deeply molds the public thoughts
For money who can ne'er DO boughtf
Who always for the right has Fought
The editor Respect him
Who notes what great men do and say
And files obituaries away
When they shall die, to print next dayf
The editor Revere him.
Who gives us cure for cough or cold,
Who suffers patiently and long
And seldom uses language strongf
The editor Don't chide him
Who ignorance must ne'er confess,
Who knows of all things more or less
Or what he don't know sure can gueSsf
The editor Consult him
When youthful talent seeks to rise,
Who views its growth with friendly eyes.
Its merits quick to recognized
The editor Oh, bless him
Who doth good Judgment sadly lack.
Who has of taste not Ger smack
Who sent my little poem back?
The editor Confound him
- Exchange
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
august 9Th and goth, September 10th and
24th. and October 9th.

The MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS
RY. ("Albert Lea Route", will sell
upon the above named dates round
trip excursion. tickets to points in
Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee,
Indian Territory, Colorado, Idaho,
New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming,
Arizona, Missouri, Iowa, Louisiana
and Alabama at rate Of ONE FARE
for the round trip. Tickets good 30
days from date Of sale, Stop-overs
granted in the territory to which
tickets are sold. For information re-
garding rates, maps, call on any
agent, or write to
G.. II. HoLDRIDGE,
G.. II. & P. a.
MiMneapolis, Mimi. 31tf.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
Good BOYS Rewards.

Visiting Aunt-Ah Johnnie, am
very grad to have your mother tell nae
that you are sucl, a good little boy. Of
course you know where all good little
boys will 80?
Johnnie, Yes, ma'am.
"Well, tell me-
''Their papas will take EN- to the cir
Gus. "-EXclange> ...
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28

An old inhabitant, not so very old
either, remembers New York city when
it had not a single tenement house, and
when the daughters of well-to-do citi-
zens swept their own sidewalks and the
street itself out nearly to the middle
Now two-thirds of New York's million
and half of people live in tenement
houses, and if the daughter of well-to-
do citizen should be seen sweeping a
sidewalk she would be thought to be a
candidate for the insane asylum. Then
the population of the city were nearly
all Americans. Now there are whole
streets whose inhabitants can scarcely
speak word of English. But the change
which strikes the old New Yorker most
is what he calls ''the rise of squalor
Gne;' that is, the increase of poverty.
He says: 'The squalor line is rising in
New York as surely and as mercilessly
as the tide rises in the rivers that sur
round it. I only hope way may be
found to force it to recede."
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The merry old boy who wrote the
lone Horse Shay" reached his S0th
birthday this Goth of August. He him
self wrote to Julia Ward Howe few
months ago, on her roth birthday: SIT is
better to be 70 years young than 40 years
old" DR.. Holmes himself, though one
of the most industrious men of his cen
fury, shows us how to be 80 years
young. In fact, it is this eternally
youthful quality in the famous author
that attracts us so. 1t is like the sparkle
of champagne. The greatest blessing an
old man or woman can pray for and
strive for is this unfading youthfulness
of SOUL
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes was born
in that year prolific of famous men, 1909,
in an old gambrel rooted revolutionary
house which is still standing. 1t took
several years for the young poet to find
out what he did not want to be. His
family designed him for the church. He
rebelled against it with all the force of
poetic imagination, chiefly because of
the general dismalness of the preacher
of his childhood-"a clerical visitor with
a sad face and wailing voice" He also
studied law for a year and finally settled
down to medicine. The medical profess
sion know him as 4 marvellous anato-
mist and microscopic. We outside know
him as the Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table and the man who wrote the weird
and terrible novel, "Elsie Venner," but
most of all as the author for youth,
whose work is full of humor and Joy
and brightness, as well as sweetness. AS
a writer of poetry for special occasions
he certainly has not his equal in the
English language. One of his sayings
which especially tickled the fancy of our
British cousins is this: "Give me the
luxuries of life and I will dispense with
its necessities. "
DR.. Holmes became famous when he
was 81, and has staid so ever since. May
he live to be a hundred years old!
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28

in the columns of your valuable paper
that we are o'eagents for St. Patrick'>
Pills, the most perfect cathartic ami
liver pills in the market. They not
only physic, but. cleanse the whole
system; purify the blood and regulate
the liver and bowels; they are vigor-
GUS but gentle in their action and can
always be depended upon. For sale
by Fritz BucEentin.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28

Bicycling for ladies is becoming quite
the rage in the suburbs of American
Cities The women ride the two wheeled
safety machines and thenewspapers talk
OF grace ami beauty on the wheel"
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28

The flag with forty-two stars will not
be legal until July 4, 1890. The new
states will not be admitted until next
winter. The law says on this subject.
"On the admission of new state into
the Union one star should be added to
the union Of the flag, and such addition
shall take effect on the 4th day of July
then next succeeding such admission. ."
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28

It seems as though the age of alumni
mum is almost here. By a process known
in Europe the cost of it has been brought
down to a dollar a pound One of the
greatest obstacles in the way is the diff
Guilty of getting it in a pure state.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28

Half Fare--5 Harvest ExCur-
SiOnS.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28

At nRrGli!srs AsD DEALERS.
sGE CHARLES A. voGELEa CO.. Baltimore, ma.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
English Proverbs,

Minneapolis, Mimi.
Morris tribune., 1889-08-28
HORSE AILMENTS.

10 months; was cured by st. Jacobs Oil; cure
has remained permanent. w. ]. CLINE.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-15
Sham Antiquities in Paris.

There is a great passion NOWADAYS
for antique articles, and it has given
birth to world of sham antiquities
An army of handicraftsmen are busily
engaged in the manufacture of these
wares. which are palmed off on confid-
ing people as being 200 or 800 years
old, and dated from any desired land
mark in history. Old chairs, old tables,
old silver, old jewelry and old any
thing, even if made last week. have
great value in the eyes of many per-
sons satisfied with antiquity in appear
ance. Worm eaten furniture is now
one of the RACES. This stuff is easily
produced with aid of bird shot, which
is fired into it, Old houses, torn down,
furnish worm-eaten timber, which is
turned to good account in fabricating
old sets of furniture. Old door keys,
medieval bellows, gilt fambeaux in
Louis XIV. style. warming pans and
brass tenders of the fourteenth cent
ury, candelabras and even old snuff
ers, find purchasers as fast as these
antique wares can be made by skillful
artizans in out of the Way places of
the gay capital. O.d coins and Re-
gency clocks are cast by the ton every
day in Paris. but they are very scarce
and bring fabulous prices Jewellers
Weekly.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-15
UNKNOWN HEROES.

Noble Men Whose Acts Do Not Come to
the Light of Public Approval.
The world is full of hero worship,
and many are the fortunate ones we
honor and revere. Some won by
knightly deeds on battlefield, some
by splendid prowess in saving life
periled by fire or flood-by every form
of daring bravery or noble effort the
list is swelled. And quick and gen.
erous appreciation is awarded all such
deeds of exceptional heroism.
All heroic acts, however, do not come
to the light of public approval There
are unknown and unnoticed heroes
and heroines in private life whose
names are not destined to be sung in
numbers" whose quiet lives flow on in
uneventful stiffness.
But the young man who voluntarily
resigns the ambitious plans of youth.
with all their vaguely splendid posi-.
bilities. to care for his aged parents,
which is an obligation, perhaps. dis
tasteful to him, seeing his more fortu-
nate brothers and comrades winning
fortune and renown that might be his,
is hero of no humble type.
The girl who. putting aside her own
happy dreams of the future. dedicates
het life to the care of an invalid
mother or crippled sister, making
th Dir lives bright with the light she
dc MES her own is heroine, though
not always recognized as such.
In many an obscure home the frail
mother is the heroic spirit, who meets
tho blows OF adversely with the shield
OF cheerful industry. Brave and
never despairing, thankful and hope
full to others, she might have poems
written of her heroism if her station
had been higher in the eyes of the
world. Texas Stiffness.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-15

An immense glass bubble or globe
which has been exhibited at the Paris
exposition is over five feet in diameter.
with a capacity of 1850 imperial
quarts, and weighs forty-eight and a
half pounds. 1t is as pure as crystal,
and without blemish, and is a work
OF the French glass-blowers said to
have never been equafed.
An English trader at Ngove, on the
southwestern coast of Africa, has had
for some time a young female gorilla,
whose docility is described as most re-
markable. JEANNE. as the baby gorilla
has been named, sleeps with her mas
ter, and tries to follow him wherever
he goes. weeping like a child if left
behind. She recently accompanied
him on a journey of twenty miles or
more. walking all the way. She has
acquired many civilized tastes and
habits, and will drink tea, ETC., out OF
cup or glass, displaying the utmost
carefulness pot TO break the vessel.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-15
ORIGIN OF IDAHO.
How q Poetic Name Came to Be Applied
to a Pros erOus Territory.

How q Poetic Name Came to Be Applied
to Pros erOus Territory.
From time to time something ap-
pears in the public prints connecting
the name of Joaquin Miller with the
origin of the word Idaho" in which
it is always claimed that the word in
question resulted from an interview
which Miller had with Colonel Craig
while both were travelling through the
Nez Perez country in the summer of
1861. Miller is said to give Colonel
Craig credit for composing the word
from elements found in the Nez Perez
language and which Craig is said to
have first pronounced Edaho, applying
the word to the appearance of a neigh
boring mountain, upon whose summit
something was seen to glisten like a
diamond or gem. This was no doubt
the origin of the Miller Craig gem of
the mountains, but not of the genuine
article nor the word Idaho"
In the spring of 1860 several months
before the discovery of gold had at
tracted the poet of the Sierras' into
the Nez Perez country, a steamboat was
built at the upper cascades on the
Columbia river under the auspices of
the Oregon Steam Navigation Com
pany; and when the steamer was
launched the word Idaho appeared in
its appropriate place as the name of
the vessel. The definition of the word
then given to the world was gem of
the mountains" and the word was
then said to have been taken from the
language of one of the Indian tribes
inhabiting that portion of the Column
bia river valley. Some efforts have
been ma Re to find out who it was that
first suggested that name for the steam
en- but thus far without success.
The steamer Idaho piled upon the
waters of the Columbia during the
spring, summer and autumn of 1860,
and its name was quite familiar to all
who travelled through the country that
year. When it became necessary to
find a name for the new Territory,
which was organized in March, 1868,
somebody. probably Salucius Garfield,
suggested the name of the old steam
boat that had been long since used up
and relegated to the ''bone yard."-
Idaho Statesman.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-15
THE WORST HEN-PEcKInG.
How q Meek Woman Manages to Have
Her Own WAY.

How q Meek Woman Manages to Have
Her Own Way.
eff there is man in the world that
excites my sympathy it is henpecked
husband" said Colonel Rimple.
''Some time ago my friend Amelton
invited me to go home with him. |
promised. providing he would wait
until transacted a certain piece of
business. He agreed reluctantly. say
ing that he promised his wife that he
would be home at certain hour.
After l finish ID my business accom-
panied him. As we proceeded he re-
marked:
"'Rimple. / am the worst hem
pecked man in town. That's why
am in such hurry
Il was very much disappointed when
we reached the house. l expected to
see notwithstanding woman, with
a savage face and harsh voice, but I
was introduced to a little, meek-look-
ing woman. with delicate face and
plaintive tone of voice. After supper.
when Amelton and l were sitting in the
library smoking, ! remarked:
Say, didn't you mislead me about
that henpecked business? | don't
know that ever saw gentler woman
than your wife.
"'No, sir; / have not misled you.
Gentleness is her strongest hold. 1t
is her gentleness that knocks me.
Don't think that the scold is the worst
type of hen-pecking women. for she
isn't Why, sir, if my wife were a
scold | would get mad and leave the
house, but as it is L am disarmed.
When | leave home my wife always in
sists upon my appointing the exact
time when I will return. If I am
late, no matter what business has de-
tanned me. she cries and takes on, and
declares that l don't love her. When
l VOW by all things sacred that 1 do
love her, and that l was detained by
business that could not be postponed,
she wrings her hands and weeps so
violently that l am sometimes
afraid people think I am abusing
her. She has a way of signing and
turning over in bed with kind of de-
spairing fiOunce, and instead of asking
me. as is her custom, if l have locked
the doors, she slides out of bed with a
suppressed "Oh, mel" and goes on a
tour of inspection. Every time she
quiets down | try to convince her that
she is wrong and that / do love her,
but just as soon as say word she
breaks out afresh and turns over with
another despairing founce. Next
morning she gets up before 1 awake.
When l get up find her at the break
fast table with swollen eyes and an ex-
preston of such unutterable sadness
that feel like kicking myself. This
is what | call the worst kind of hen
pecking, and don't misunderstood me
when | say man doesn't want more
than two such sieges month. -
ArkansaW Traveller.