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Huntsville gazette., 1889-03-09
PRIZES

After the diplomas had beeu dis
tributed, the President announced
that Or. Ambrose Morrison, Of this
city, had offered gold medal to the
best stu 'ent in mechanical and oper-
ative dentistry. The Dean Of Van
derbilt University had examined the
work of the contestants and the med
al was awarded to T. A. Curtis.
In the Medical Department DR.,
j M. Thompson passed the b st ex
animation in obstetrics and was Civ
en- fine lair Of forceps.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-03-09

The Washington tide turns home
ward.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-03-09
WASHINGTON.

In the Absence of Vice-President t
Morton, Senator Ingalls, is
Appointed President of the
Senate Pro Tenn.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-03-09
Now for business.

Official heads will begin to drop.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-03-09
POstma aster General.

John Wanamaker was horn in Phils
DELPHI about fifty-one years ago. His
parents were poor and IS father q
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
His Case the Sadder.

This is the seventh time within
two hours that you have asked me
when the train left for lansing" re-
Piled the policeman at the Third
Street depot to young man with a
sachel.
lis it against the lawr'
No, but it is rather annoying to
me.n
"Well, if it annoys you, how do you
think ! must feel about itp The fare
is 81 60, and I've got to think of some
way to get out there ON $3.50. DE
troit Free Press.
In 1880 some thirty young women in
Berlin started an Old Maids Club. with
q provision for q fine of 1000 marks
upon every one who married. The
club was great success, but suddenly
an expidemic of marriage set in, and
at the annual meeting this year only
one member was left. and she found
herself called upon to dispose of %, 600
marks. the accumulation of the fines
paid by the former members. She took
the advice of the ex-members, and il
was decided that half the sum should
go to a hospital and that the solitary
old maid should have the rest for her
self.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
PUBLICATION or LAWS.
How Blemishes Are Often Engrafted Upon
Our Statute Books.


The laws are published in various
forms. They are first published sep
arately in sheet form, as ''slip, laws"
as soon as possible after being received
by the bureau and numbered IL the
order of their receipt. When go pub
lished the slip laws are given to the
editor of the laws Ga competent per-
son elected from the legal profession
by the Secretary of State and private
ly employed for that purpOse). who
notes marginal references to previous
legislation, arranges the acts and res
olutions by chapters" and prepares
suitable index: and under his editorial
care at the end of the session OF Con-
gress, they appear again in pamphlet
form as session laws" Lastly, at the
close of Congress, the laws of each
session are gathered by the editor into
a single volume and bound as 'Stat-
utes-at-Large The numerous read
ings given to the printed proof, and
the careful comparison with the text
of the originals, effectually guard
against discrepancies. The manner in
which the department performs its
duty is thoroughly creditable; the
manner in which Congress dismisses
its own work is, in many instances,
absolutely disgraceful. Some of the
rolls received at the department are
disfigured by erasures, interlineatlons
and blOts, by errors in photography,
capitalization and punctuation and by
hieroglyphic mangling that suggest
the masterpieces of schoOl-bOy
art. These and more serious imper-
fectiOns, once placed upon the parch-
ment roll, are law. However glaring
the blunder, however mischievous the
distortion or omission, the State De-
partment is pOwerless to add con-
| Meeting dot or stroke. Mistakes made
by Congressional enrolling clerks have
undOne Legislation accomplished by
Congress after hours of debate. An
item of half a million dollars for pub
lie purposes was bodily left out in the
enrolment of recent appropriation
act; and the substitution of comma
for a hyphen in transcribing a tariff
measure some years ago caused loss
to the Government of thousands Of
! dollars before the error was detected
| and further loss arrested by the pas
sage of another act. These are but
specimen cases. 1t is humiliating to
think that a sleepy Or incompetent
clerk should be able to Illustrate the
legislative will of a Nation, and start
ling to reflect on the opportunities for
fraud by deliberate tampering with the
| public rolls. Blemishes enough are
engrafted upon our statute-books by
the legislators themselves, in the shape
| of careless or unwise enactments;
| surely, if we can not always have clear
craftsmanship, we should have at least
clear penmanship in the parchment
record of our laws The blame, like
the remedy, rests with Congress.
Edm und Alton, in St. Nicholas.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
THE COMMON HOUSE FLY.
When and Where 1t Breeds and How II
Passes Through the Winter.

When and Where 1t Breeds and How 1t
Passes Through the Winter.
The common house fly (Musca do
mestica) is one of the most widely dis
tributed insects, and yet very little is
known of it's life history. Prof Pack
ard in his great work, Guide to the
Study of Insects" says: mo one has
traced the transformations of this hy in
this country" He then proceeds tc
copy few lines from European work
in regard to the form of the larva, but
the information given in regard to it's
early stages is meager and unsatis-
factory. Figuier, in his magnificent
illustrated work, 1.-The Insect World"
after briefly describing the house fly
says: Every one knows how annoy
ing it is toward the end of summer,
and especially so in the south of
France during the hot season." But
he gives no information in regard to
its habits, where it breeds or lives in
the larva or grub state. We have also
consulted a number of chronological
works published in this country in re-
cent years without discovering any
additional information in regard to the
life history of the house fly. 1t is sup
posed, however. that the females de-
posit their eggs in all kind of filth or
decaying vegetables and animal sub
stance, where they hatch. and the
grubs feed until they are transformed
into reddish-brown pup9, from which
the perfect flies issue during the warm
weather in summer and autumn.
Whether the eggs laid late in the
season pass the winter safely or after
becoming grubs remain half or wholly
dormant until spring is at present
unknown. But as house flies are found
in their perfect state in houses and
other buildings during the winter, it
may be that the entire summer broods
are the progeny of those few individu-
ais carried over from one season to the
next.-N. Y. Sun
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
EXTINCTION or A RACE.
Death. in 1876, of an Old woman t"e
Last of the Tasmanians.

IL,
Last of the Tasmanians.
letter from Hobart, Tasmania to
the Springfield Republican tells the
story of the entire extinction OF race
within the lifetime of a generation.
The natives of Tasmania or Van DIE
mans Land numbered about Iooo
when the island was cOlOnlzed IN Iooo
and were a kindly, pleasant people
who were not cannibals like the inhaol-
tants of the other islands, aud asked
only to be let alone But when the crews
of the sealers that infested the region
made attacks on them and carried OH
their women and children, they natur-
ally avenged themselves on the white
settlers. whom they killed and whose
houses they burned whenever an OPP
portunity offered. The settlers MADE
war in return, being greatly aided by
queer habit the Tasmanians had OF
keeping fires burning when they slept
to frighten away spooks. These guild
ed their white enemies to their hiding
places, until the natives finally took to
inaccessible Businesses in the bush,
whence they broke out in forays upon
isolated farms. The Governor tried to
bring them to terms by sending them
proclamations setting forth his friendly
intentions by means Of pictures repre-
senting black fellows and whites clasp
ing each others hands, walking togeth-
or, ETC. As this did not work, a Gordon
of 5000 soldiers was formed across the
island which moved south with the in
tention of corraling all the natives in
Tasman's peninsula. 1t was tremendous
undertaking. and when it was finished
at a cost of $500, 900, the reward con-
sisted of just one man and a boy, who
had been caught while asleep; these
were the only natives who had been
seen during the whole operation. Then
Hobart bricklayer, named George
Augustus Robinson, who had studied
the language and customs of the Tas-
manians, offered to go among them,
acquaint them with the Governments
disposition, and bring them in. Ac.
companied by "a native man and woman,
he undertook and successfully accom-
plished the task, though he spent three
years in doing it, walked over 1000
miles, and suffered from cold, hunger
and thirst, narrowly escaping death
more than once. But in 1885 he
brought in every survivor, the number
having been by that time reduced to
2O3. They were transferred to Film
ders Island, within sight of Tasmania,
and there cared for by the Govern
msnt. But they rapidly pinned away,
from inconsistencies, apparently. for
they would go in a body to the shore,
where they could see their former
home, and there sit and weep. In
twelve years but forty-four remained,
and in 1869 the last man died, King
Billy, the cause in his case being liquor
In 1876 the race came to an end in the
person of the woman who had accom-
panied Robinson on his mission.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21

The people who are mlsled into IN
vesting their money in these enter
Pyises are not the only ones to suffer.
The stockholders in old established
lines are injured by the cut-throai
competition of these speculative roads.
The railroads Of the country are now
experiencing the disastrous effects OF
this kind of business. 1t was thought
few months ago that it had been
checked by the promise of reputable
bankers to discountenance the efforts
to market the securities of new enter
prises of this character. But this
proves not to be the case,
as during the first three
months of this year 666 new
lines have been chartered, with con-
templated mileage of SO. 1856 miles, of
which nearly $4,000 miles are under
contract. Probably the greater part
of this mileage will return a fair in
terest on the actual investment. What
is needed more than any thing else is
legislation to prevent the issue of
bonds and stocks above the actual cost
Of constructing and equipping a rail-
road. This is where the trouble comes
IL.
Few persons realize the enormous
and perpetual burden imposed on the
people of this country by this system
of "overcapitalization." Mr.. Henry
V. Poor, recognized authority on
railroad statistics, estimated that OF
the capital stock, bonds and other evil
dences Of Indebtedness issued by the
railroads of this country, amounting
at the close of 1888 to 81, 495, All, 81 lat
least So, 900, 900, 600 represented what is
known as ''watered stock" Another
estimate based on the returns up to 1886
placed this watered stock at IS, 900, 0O0,-
600. The people of this country are
paying hundreds of millions of dollars
in the way of dividends and interest
on these fictitious securities. And yet,
instead of this species of fraud having
suffered a check, it seems to be onsthe
increase. Pennsylvania is one of the
few States that have legislated wisely
on this subject. 1t is shameful that
a vital necessity to the whole country
like railroads should be made an in
strumentality in the hands of few
persons for the systematic robbery of
the people. -Philadelphia Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
TO REDUCE DISCOMFORT.

How Ladies and Gentlemen Should Con-
duct Themselves in Public Places.
Do not carry your umbrella or cane
so that the person behind you is
threatened with the loss of an eye, or
must dodge to avoid a thrust in the
face or ribs. Be especially careful not
to carry it under the arm at an angle
of forty-five degrees going up stair
ways.
Do not wait until in front of rail-
road ticket window to consult the time
table. Do not wait until in front of the
ticbet-seller before your pocketbook is
found. Try TO have the money ready,
the exact change if possible. and re-
member that while you may have
plenty OF time, every one following
you is not so fortune.
When entering a pew in church, do
not sit down in the aisle end. and COM
pei each person to crowd past you. Go
Through to the end. and remember that
to be polite requires that the least dis
comfort and excitement shall be caused
by your acts. Brigands, robbers, or
Indians are not likely to make descents
on public places of worship OR amuse-
ment in our day, and women may be
trusted to sit in the aisle end of the
pews and seats.
When there are no reserved seats,
and the whole house is sold at uni
form price, it is hardly fair for one
person to 60 and reserve three or four
seats for her friends, saying 1.-The seats
are engaged" to those who, more Just
and polite, refuse to question the in
justice, and unquestioningly take less
advant; geous seats, though they sacri-
feed time to secure better, and are dis
turbed, after the performance or lect-
ure has begun, by the late arrivals
who had used a friend to defraud the
public.
If you meet a friend in a store, do
not forget, in your own JOY of meeting
her, that the clerks time is paid for,
and that you have no right to monop-
Ollie it to the exclusion of other trade.
In leaving church or any public
hall, do not stop in the aisle-ends of
seats, preventing other people from
leaving the building who may have no
time to spend that way.
To remember that there are other
people who have their own affairs that
need immediate attention, who make
engagements for certain time which
they expect to keep, is to be simply
just. To clog little as possible the
currents of travel is the part of every
considerable man and woman. Chris
Ian Union,
The natural soap mines of Owens
Lake. CAL. are thus accounted for bv
one OF the company now working
them. He says that the waters of the
lake contain strong solution OF
borax and soda. In these waters there
breeds grub which becomes a Av.
The lies die in the water and drift
ashore, covering the ground to the
ieFth OF a foot or more. The oily sub
stance of the flies blends with the
porax and soda. and the result is a
layer OF pure soap. These strata re-
peated from year to year form the SOAP
mlnes' where large forces Of men are
now employed.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
RAILROAD BUILDING.
How 1t Is Made an Instrumentaiity 10
Robbing the People.

How 1t L. Made an Instrumentality fos
Robbing the People.
The need OF the country Tor In
creased railway facilities is not the
reason why 14,818 miles OF new road
have been placed under construction
or contracted for in the first three
months of the present year. The IA
cilities which the issue of new bonds
and stocks offers to spectators to
make money easily is the true explain
alton of this large increase in mile
age. For every thousand dollars in
vested in one of these enterprises, on
an average. bonds and stocks are is
sued representing three times that
amount. These are floated by banking
houses. and then follows struggle to
make the roads earn the fixed charges
and pay a dividend. This effort is
rarely successful, and if it does sue
coed it is at the expense of fairness
and honesty 81 'sssaes,s and DaSSen.
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-Jinks Cat a party)-I don't see
what's the matter with that pretty wo-
man over there? She was awfullv
iirty little while ago, and now she
won't have any thing to do with me-.
Stranger have just come in. She's
my wife.-N. Y. Weekly.
Master of the house 7srappinp his
clothes vigorously)-"Bridget, whv
didn't you dust my study chairp''
brldget-''Sure, sorr, Oh knew vez
would be sittin' down in it prisentlv
and Oi thought it wasn't necessary =
Napoleon !. declared that agricul-
lure was the basis of all natural pros
perlty, and set aside a million francs
Ior the establishment and maintenance
Oh SIX experiment stations for the de-
Veiopment OF the beet sugar industry.
The New York Sun says that laws
intended to check the use of tobacco BY
children are well meant. but ineffect-
ual' and that only the establishment
OF public and the multiplication of pri-
vate spankeries'' will accomplish any
thing.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21


One OF the keenest things ever Sa-o
on the bench is attributed TO Juus'
Walton, of Georgia. While holding
term of Supreme Court at Augusta nc
sentenced a man to seven years III
prison for a grave crime. The prison,
er's counsel asked for a mitlgation =,
the sentence, on the ground thai ',.e
prisoners health was very pa .,
..Your Honor" said he,{ Il am sat.snos
that my client can not live out hail 'n .bs
term, and | beg of you to change w.
sentence .'Well under those vi
cumstances, said the Judge = VII !,
change the sentence. Will mar IL Tbe
for life, instead ofisevsn years. ..nal
prisoner chose to abidS by the ORE I Id
sentence, which the Judge perk''
him to elect.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21

There is an old man in Chichester
vile, in the CatskilIs, who always
speaks out in meeting. Recently a
city divine preached in the little Meth
odlst church of the village, and the old
man became SO excited at one or two
nome thrusts in the sermon which
seemed to apply to certain "close"
nelghbor, that he got up and shouted,
That's right, youngster; hit i'm
again" And later on. when the SER
mon appeared to come home to him, he
cried out in stentorian tones, THAT
So b'gosh. We're all sinners, ev'ry
burned one of u.s."
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21

-"Merciful Congress-" cried the
frenzied editor. as he wheeled around
IN his chair. "what IS your article?"
Its ham, replied the visitor, as he
laid it on the proof slips II smoked
hull lot tother day, and l thought
praps you might wanter try one. Eff
you don't care for it, though" The
editor seized the ham with an iron
hand. There is always room for
these articles" he said, pleasantly.
by the way, you haven't been in to
see me for two months. Any thing
wrong up at the farm?'- brakes
Magazine.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
"e'illN' THE WATER"
a Maine Girls Comments Upon Seeing
Steam Fire Engine.

q Maine oirfs comments Upon Seeing .
Steam Fire Engine.
1t was not many years ago that Ka.
fury Barker. brisk and talkative
Maine girl, came up from York County
TO boston to look for household EN-.
ployment. She found it in a family
where the people were willing to sub.
NIT to her talkativeness and familiar
ways-she had no idea that she was in
the family on any other than equal
terms-for the sake of getting a capa-
Die and industrious helper. One after
noon katury was sent by her mistress
TO the square to get some thread which
was vel:Y much needed.
The errand was not likely to take
more than fifteen minutes, and Katury's
mistress did not think it necessary to
tell the hustling Maine girl to make
haste. But after long time had
passed, and the girl did not return, the
mistress began to worry
''What c,-s have happened to the
child? | have never known her to
otter"
Soon after, however, the girl came
n, red and breathless with excitement.
why. Katury, where have you
,een?' asked her mistress.
Been! My goodness, ma'am, there's
- fire down t. the square-the awfulest
fire you ever see! More'n five bundled
folks stan'in round lookin' on, an the
craziest lot O. fools-my! Why, what
do you think they're a-doin'?"
What, Katury? Putting out the
firep''
mo, and that's the wust ont. There
they be, fellows with big hats on an
red shirts. an their sleeves rolled up,
stan'in' round "a kind of b'iler, pilin'
on coal, an bilin' that there water be-
fore they put it ont the fire!''
Boiling the water! Why, Katury, it
must be q steam-engine!''
''Steam-engyneo | guess not! Them
fellers they jest went to work, kinder
cool an collected, an got lot O. coal
an stuffed it in underneath their b'iler,
an there they was, b'ilin' the water
an not goin Il step toward that fire! 1
jest stepped up t the policeman that
stands there, an says 1: May be they
call us folks from Down East green,
but if that ere ain't the greenest thing
[ ever see, my name amt Katury Bar
ker!' says |.
"'Green?' says he, kind O. careless.
What's green9'
I" 'A-stoppin' to bile that water fore
they put it out the fret says l. No,
SIR says |, 'ye don't ketch the folks
down in Maine dom a stupid thing like
that!' An that policeman he laughed
right in my facet"
The joke was so good that the family
were soon all in possession of it, and
finally an anecdote based upon it crept
into one of the newspapers. This
printed anecdote was shown to Katury
''Oh, dear! dear.'' she exclaimed.
''It'll get copied into the York County
papers, an what'll 1 do then?"
20 Katury," said her mistress, to
reassure her, you see there is no
name given in this story; 1t just says
"a country cousin Nobody could tell
it was YOU"
Lands sakes, ma am" said Katury,
shaking her head sadly, 1.-The minute
they see that down in York County
they'd jest GnOW twas me!"-Youth' s
Companion.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
me Coat MADE the Hors~

A citizen of xenia, o, had the
family horse clipped, and then told his
wife and daughter that he traded of
the faithful animal. Both were as
founded and began Immediately to
critcise the new one. How ugly his
color is. said one of them. What an
ungainly shape, too," remarked the
other. And see how wild and reck-
less he acts, " said the mother, who al
ways dotted on the gentleness of the old
horse In this way they dissected the
new horse for quite awhile. aud when
told the truth could hardly refrain from
apoloeizing to the old horse they had
80 slandered.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-21
HORSES WORTH HAVING.
The Kind of Animals Progressive Farmers
Ought to Raise.

The hlnO OF Animals Progressive Farmers
Ought to Raise.
There is room at the top' in horse
breeding. "Do you know of good
horse for sale?" / asked farmer
friend the other day. WELL" he
replied, 1.-The fact is, two or three
buyers in our section watch out and
snap up all the good horses the farm
ers can be induced to SELL" ''What
becomes of themp" 1 asked. "Oh!
the cities not only get the best of the
farmers sons, but the fine horses as
well. There is one just over on the
next street, in a stable, raised by a
neighbor, who has standing offer of
$500 for him but he expects to realize
$500 as soon as the driving season
opens" Later I saw this high-priced
horsehesh-a six-year-old Cleveland
bay mare. weighing probably 1925
pounds without blemish or puff, and
handsome as picture.
Strong. active, feet. she could be
hitched to any of the numerous family
rigs used in cities and trot off briskly
with four or five passengers. The
man who raised her sold a gelding OF
the same parentage two years ago for
$400, and now has two matched four
year-olds closely related valued at $500
or 5000 for the pair. 1t is certain that
the sire of the horse l saw was not
a crooked-legged. spawned, ill-tem-
pered old screw, or the mother
walleyed ringboned. windbroken mare
only good Ito raise colts" Perfection
never comes from such sources. 1t
took no larger stable, no bigger past
ure. no more feed to raise her than to
raise scrub, but she is worth $3.50
the most. And then there is the men,
tai pleasure and growth to be derived
in developing and handling so beauti-
full an animal.-L. B. Pierce, in N. Y.
Tribune