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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
Matrimony By Months.

The common notion that leafy June
is the favorite wedding month is not
sustained by recent statistics gathered
in Massachusetts,. These show that
in June, 1888, there were nineteen
hundred and lightweight marriages in
that Commonwealth, while tho num-
Der for October was twenty-five hum
dred and thirty-six. 1t is a curious
fact, according to these statistics,
that the most popular month for we'd
ding is November, the number of
marriages reported for that month be-
ing twenty-three hundred and forty
three. Herald.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
Burglaries by an Elephant,

While Messrs. sanger's men were
preparing to leave Accrington on
Monday morning, one of the ele-
plants got away from the confines
of the circus and burst open the door
of warehouse of a neighboring CO.
operative store, and when an Accring-
ton policeman entered he found the
truantindulging in biscuits and jam.
A basket of onions stood in the ele-
plants way, but as these were not
to his taste he hurled them in the
road. The officer did not attempt
to seize the animal, thinking it more
prudent to obtain the assistance of
it's keeper. The elephant was on
Thursday morning. discovered in an
other burglary at Chorley. While
the circus paraphernalia were loaded
up, he slipped away in the darkness
and forced open a locked-up grocer's
shop in High street. Here he de-
molished a whole cheese, two boxes
of biscuits, and other groceries, and
altogether did $40 worth ofdamage.
-Eastbourne (Eng.) Chronical.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
Facts Worth Knowing.
There are 2,75O languages.

There are 1850 languages.
Watches were first made in 1476.
A barrel of rice weighs 600 pounds.
The average human life is 81 years.
A barrel offour weighs 1876 pounds.
A barrel ofpork weighs 200
The first steel pen was made in 1880.
A hurricane moves 80 miles per
hour.
The value of a ton of silver is
$37,7O4,S4.
The first lucifer match was made
in 1929.
The first iron steamship was built
in 1880.
Modern needles first came into use
in 1915.
Coaches were first built in England
in 1869.
The first horse railroad was built
In 1S26-'27.
Telegraph wires have to be re-
newed every five orseven years.
One million dollars of gold coin
weighs 1886 pounds avoirdupois.
One million dollars of silver coin
weighs 59,92O, pounds avoirdupoir.
Until 1776 cotton spinning was per.
formed by the hand spinning wheel.
Albert Durer gave the world a
prophecy of future wood engraving
in 1927. ~
Glass windows were first intro
duced into England in the eighth
century. :.
The first complete sewing machine
was patented by Elias Howein 1916.
Measure 900 feet on each side, and
you will have a square acre within
an nch.-Worthington's Annual.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
Courtship in Greece.

When a young Greek determines to
take a wife to himself he does not 60
accounting, but he takes his Oldest
female relative into his confidence,
and they at once 60 hunting for a suit
able mate for him. Manageable
maidens are visited and silently ap-
praised. They receixe the old danes
courteously, answer.all their questions
and never venture to ask the nature Of
their errand. As soon as the visitors
have made a choice the wooer dis
patches them again to the maiden's
home with instructionsto ask her hand
Ii marriage.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
HISTORICAL.

Calico was imported into England by
the East India Company in 1881.
The Egyptian year had twelve
months Of thirty days each, and count
ed five unallotted days at the end.
1t was at the hands Of Henry I. that
the city q London received its charter,
which beside other immunities granted
to the citizens the right of choosing
their W sheriff and justice, to the ex-
clusion of every external jurisdiction.
Our word ''butler' comes from an
old English word, boteler, a man. who
has charge of the bottles. The chief
butler of Pharaoh, mentioned in the
Bible, a N officer of high rank, was
more properly a cup-bearer to the king.
The postal card was twenty years old
on the first of October. Austria has
the credit OF first adopting the inven-
ton, though it was first advocated by
the German postmaster-general, DR..
Stephan. On Oct. 1, 1889, a 'Corrc-
spondenz Karte" first burst on the
astonished Continental world.
In ancient times the Hebrews made
use of butter as food, but the Greeks
and the Romans used it only as an
ointment in their baths. It is probable
that the Greeks obtained their knowl-
edge of the substance from the
Scythians. Tharacians and Phrygians,
| whilst the Romans obtained it from
Germany.
In the times of Edward I. supplies
of corn appear to have been occasion
ally obtained in England from Ireland.
1t seems to have been exported to the
Continent as we'll, until an ordinance
was issued in 1888, prohibiting corn
and other victuals and merchandise
from being carried from Ireland any
where except to England and Wales.
Caedmon, an ancient Anglo-Saxon
poet, wa originally a cowherd attach
ed to the monastery OF Whitby. in
England. He afterwards became a
monk, and composed, professedly
under divine inspiration, poems On
religious subjects which are thought
to have suggested to Milton his
paradise Lost" Some of these are
the Oldest extant specimens Of Anglo
Saxon metrical composition.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
Hanged for Witchcraft.

At Salem, Mass, are the official
records of Essex county as early as
1890. The testimony of the witch
craft trials is complete in it's original
form, but there is the record of only
one execution, that OF Bridget Bish-
op, whereas nineteen lives in all were
sacrificed at that time in response to
a popular fallacy and public delu-
sion.
There were half a dozen witnesses
in: Bridget Bishops case, mostly
young girls IA and 16 years old,
and they swore that they had been
sorely afflicted since they had I'M some
way incurred Bridget's dislike. One
Of them had been awakened in the
dead of night to find Bridget's spec
ter sitting heavily on her chest. She
attempted to clap her hands at her,
but the ghostly visitor hoped out
of the window.
Another young woman was similar
~ awakened one night and discerned
the form of a devil, which she de-
scribed Is a cross between q bat and
q monkey. From it's perch on the
foot-board the devil said to the
maiden: "Ye have been afflicted of
mind of late, and troubled sore. Do
my bidding and We shall want for
nothing" With this, according to
the maids story, the spirit held out
a book and asked her to sign. She
refused and the .hideous form disap-
peared. She felt positive that the
spirit was that of Bridget Bishop, be-
cause on the morning she found her
alleged disturber in Che orchard, and
then and there accused her of being
possessed. The girl dared her to
deny the charge, and Bridget did
deny it. This seemed to be evidence
conclusive, and Bridget was duly
put to death on Gallows Hill. At
tached to her death warrant is the
certificate Of Sheriff George Corbin,
evident of the fact that he had con-
veyed rye body ofsaid Bridget Bishop
out Of His Majesty's Goal in Salem
and caused ye sd Bridget to be
hanged by the neck until she was
dead. st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
The Bid Was Withdrawn.

In Jacksonville, Fla, in the winter
Of 1S48, an auction sale of the per-
sonal state of a deceased planter,
comprising some seventy or eighty
slaves and other "chattels, was held
in the pnblic market place. I was
glad of the opportunity to see for
myself how such things were done.
On beginning the sale the auctioneer
announced that families would not
be separated, but would be sold in.
'lots." After a number of "1ots had
been duly brought to the block and
knocked down to the highest bidder,
a bright looking boy was brought
forward and placed upon the stand.
The 'auctioneer at the same time
called all old colored man among the
crowd to come up and stand beside
the hoy. He. did so. and the auc-
tioneer then said:
Gentlemen, the old man is this
boys father; he lives in the West
Indies, and is a free man. He wants
to buy the boy and take him to his
home to make him free. He bids
$500, which is all the money he has,"
The intent of this statement was
evidently to discourage any advance
of that bid, and it touched a sympa-
thetic cord in his audience. The
crowd watched the proceedings for a
minute or two in silence, while the
auctioneer dwelt upon the bid of
$500, and was calling it out for the
third and last time, when, from the
outskirts of the crowd, a voice bid
"Fifty." Every eye was at once turn
ed in the direction of the bidder, who
was a rough, dissipated looking fell
low, a typical slave trader in appear
ance. The auctioneer paused a
moment, looked annoyed, and then
repeated his previous statement con-
corning the old man, emphasizing the
remark that $500 was all the money
he had. "And now," said he, II am
bid four hundred and fifty" From a
dozen voices came the cry: with
draw your bid!" The auctioneer
dVulUtu UAc IeSulU. Liz UlOuCl
growled a surly refusal, saying he
"wanted that boy, and had as good
a right to bid as anybody" "Four
hundred and fifty" came slowly from
the lips of the auctioneer, The shouts
of "Withdrawyour bid!' we're repeat
ed in angry tones on every side.
"Well," said the bidder. II with
draw it,"
The auctioneer quickly went back
to the original bid, on which he dwelt
two or three times, when down went
his hammer. "Sold at four hundred.
Old man, the boy is yours; take him
down." The crowd cheered, and the
principal figure in this little drama
who, the moment before, had been
the picture of despair, hurried down
from the stand smiling and happy
New York Sun.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
The Rocker.

Tho Rocker.
Backward and forward the rocker goes,
Waiting the baby to sweet repose;
Close by the cradle the mother croons
Lullaby, rock a by nursery tunes;
Dreamily singing she patiently tries
Sleep to bring to the baby's eyes.
Minute by minute the evening fits.
Still in the chair she drowsily sits;
Soothing and rubbing the aching gums,
Longing for slumber that ever comes;
Rocking the baby that fretfully lies,
Filling the room with its nervous cries.
Weary with watching the mother sings,
Wooing the god with the leaden wings;
Softer and softer the ditty grows,
Now the little ones eyelids close;
Sinking at last into dreamland deep;
Mother and baby are fast asleep.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
Patient Toll,

One OF tho most remarkable in
stances of patient toll in ornament
ing the pages of a book vas separa-
ting the columns of the Loudon
Polyglot Bible, completed in 1900
by ruling red. lines between the col
umns of print on each page. Five
red lines were necessary on each
page. These were made by hand, of
course, and called for the exercise of
the greatest skill and care, for. a
single blot ruined at least four
printed pages. This is the famous
bible which was at first dedicated to
the Lord High Protector Cromwell,
but who, in a substituted dedication
to Charles Ii, after Cromwell's death,
lie pleasantly styled "Draco lilo Mag
NUS" 'That Great Dragon!"-De-
<trOit Free Press. r.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

nu fangrd ways. I 'spelkt yu has tn
git a yunger niggah tn lurn how tn kuk
on eat ole thing whar yu kant g de
fir nor nothin', an don't no what IL
goin' on in sid. Now, yu jist go inter
de hous' missus, an let de ole niggah
alon'."
The mistress smiles and leaves the
determined old cook master of the situa-
ton and monarch Of all she surveys.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
The Best

yet published for any blood medicine is the
printed guarantee of the manufacturers of
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, which
warrants that wonderful medicine to benefit
or cure in all cases of those diseases for which
it is recommended, or money paid for it will
torpid liver and impure blood and their
names are legion. All Skin. Scalp and Scrof-
ulous affections, Eruptions, Sores and Swell
ings, Saltrheum, letter, Erysipelas and kin
dred diseases, are among those in which the
~"Discovery" effected marvellous cures,
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
An Insurance Clerks Good Fortune

An Insurance Clerks Good Fortune.
It isn't often that a young clerk still in his
teens has $15, 900 placed in his hands to do
with as he pleasee, and to use as his fancy
may dictate; yet this was q little event that
occurred last week to Roe Grant,. q young
man who lives on Vine street with his parents
and WHO'S employed in the Offices ofthe Hart
ford Life and Annuity Insurance Company,
in this city. Young Grant held one.twentieth
of ticket 63 1856, which drew the first capital
prize of $500, 600 in the drawing OF The
Louisiana State Lottery Company on the
18th of October. The lucky young man was
questioned by a newspaper man and he en-.
phatically denied having won the SIS, 600,
but expressed himeelf as being willing to re-
ceive such a, sum. Since the interview the
newspaper man has learned that Grant did
receive the money; that it vas paid to him by
the manager of the Adams Express Company
in this city, and that two supernumerary
policemen guarded the house the night the
money was kept therein. All this was done
without the knowledge Of Grants parents,
but when they, too, found ont how fortunate
the son had been, immediate efforts Nere
made to suppress it's publicntionsrHartford
Conn., Times November 16.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
Do You Want a Job?

There are only five professional
lion tanners in this country, with
owe 200 lions to be kept tame and
in a peaceful state of mind. The
salary of a tanner is never less than
$50 per week, and some of them get
800. 1t is a light and easy en-
ployment,. no regular hours, and al
ways brings free tickets with tide
troit Free Press.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
Did You Read

the large advertisement OF The Youths Com
panion which We published last week? This
remarkable paper has the phenomenal circu-
lation of AGO. 600 copies weekly. No other
journal is more welcomed by old and young
in the families throughout the land. Tho
publishers make a special offer once O year,
and to all who subscribe now will send the
paper free to January /, 1890, and for a full
year from hat date. The subscription price
il $1.75. Address,
TIE YoUTH's COMPANION, Boston, Mass.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
General Grants Practical Wisdom.

General Grant was notably one
OF the best informed men in the
United States. When asked how
he had time for study, he replied that
he had no time for it; that he confined
his reading entirely to the columns of
the best newspapers, and thus imbibed
more practical knowledge and infor-
nation than he ever secured from
books. -Leslie's Weekly.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

Avoca, Wis, was the scene of q tragedy re.
GENTLY. Thos. Folliard, proceeded to the
house of Lyman Dew1tt. He was denied ad-
smfttance apd ordered four times to leave but
! refused whereupon De~wittsproddced d revol-
iyer and shot Folliard three times. Daath
sMas instantaneous. Trouble hos existed
some tims between the two over DeWitt's
Nie. @
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

A SORE THROAT OR Cough, if suffered to
progress, often results in an incurable throat
OF lung trouble. "BRowN's BRONCHIAL
TRoCHEs" give instant relief
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

Ifevery woman in this land knew for her.
self the actual quality of Dobbin's Eclectic
Soap, no other washing soap could be sold.
Millions do use it, but other millions have
never tried it. Have you? Ask your grocer
for it.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

A PECULIAR situation is described
in the last novel Of q well-known
novelist. While the hero is sitting
atthe feet of the heroine she is said
to look up into his. face and to draw
his head down to her own.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

A proposition is under consideration to
provide for increasing the membership of the
United States supreme court from nine to
eleven.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

The commission appointed by the liquida-
tor of the Panama Canal company to ex-
anime into the affairs Of the company on the
isthmus have sailed from Paris for Aspin-
wall.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

W. c. Shurtlef of Waterloo, Iowa, succeeds
Silcott as cashier of the sergeant-at. arms OF
the lower house of congress.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

The New York Worlds correspondent at
Maranham, Brazil, cables that on Nov. 10
twenty citizens we're killed in O fight between
the lmperialists and Republicans.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

Some one has declared deceit worse than
one. Many are the Connected" who cry
down legitimate remedies, and who deluds
suffering humanity, whose only salvation 10
the immediate use Of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
Gle jests at scars, who neverfelt O wound"
and a man may stand with his hands in his
pockets, and laugh at u poor worn rhen-
matte. but if he is a gentleman. he'll step in
to the nearest drug-ehop, and buy him q bot
tie of Salvation Oil for Is cents.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

The old smokers delight-"Tansili's
Punch" Americas finest SC. Cigar.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

When everything else fails, DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy cures, so cents, by druggists.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

The spread of influenza throughout Berlin
and many other parts of Germany ID rapid
and causing a great deal OF suffering. Prof
Virchow is one of the victims of the disease.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
Helpless 40 Days

The great agony caused by r~heumatismsis in
describable, and the gratitude OF those who take
Hoods ~Sarsaparila and are cured is often be.
yond expression. The following is from q we'll
known Wisconsin farmer. and is endorsed by the
editors OF the Neillsville. Wis, Times as entirely
true: D..
For IS years I have suffered with sciatic rheu.
matism. Last November I was taken worse thar
ever; and was unable to get out of the house. ]
was Utmost helpless for forty days. suffering great
agony all the the time. In December I com
menced taking Hoods S~arsaparilla. After the
second bottle I was able to be out and around
and attend to business. I took five bottles, and
am now so free from rheumatism that only oc.
casionally I feel it slightly on q sudden change OF
weather. have great confidence in Hoods Sar-
saparilla." CHARLES HANNAH, Christie. Clarke
Co., Wis.
N. B. II you make up your mind to try Hoods
S~arsaparilla, do not be inducedt to take any other.
. Hoods SarsapariIIa
soldby all druggists. 81; six for S.. Prepared only
by G. I. HOOP &C.,, Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

Gov. Miller officially recognizes restitution
in some localities Of North Dakota, and sug.
gests q plan to distribute aid.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21

Oregon, h Paradise Of Farmers.
Mild, equable climate. certain and abundant
rops. Best fruit, grain. grass and stock country
n the world. Full Information free. Address the
oregon Immigration Board. Portland. Oregon.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-21
BEFORE THE WAR.
Description Of a Day on a Plantation
Thirty Years Ago.

Negro Songs and supsrstitions-A Black
Mammy's Antipathy to Cooking Stoves
Scenes That Have Passed Away Never to
Return-A Lawyers "Reminiscences.
John L. Peak, a prominent Missouri
lawyer, recently read before q literary
society an article portraying life in
the south in ante-bellum times, enti-
tied IA Day Ona Plantation Thirty
Years Ago."
Iwould not be understood, said he. in
anything l shall say tonight as either
condemning or approving an institu-
ton which thirty years ago existed in
nearly one-half of the states of our
union, and which was a mighty factor
in shaping the political, social and do
nestle life of these states.
In the ~ante-bellum days the tiller Of
the soil who cultivated cotton, sugar
and rice, was called a planter and the
land he cultivated was called a planta-
ton. Not unfrequently a plantation
embraced from 10. 600 to so, 900 acres of
land and was cultivated by from 1000
to 1900 slaves, all owned by the M
planter: In the border states of Ken
lucky, Maryland and Virginia, the
ti]ler of the soil vas called a farmer
and the land he cultivated was called
a farm. These farms usually contained
from 200 to 800 acres of land and were
cultivated by from ten to forty or fifty
slaves, all owned by the n farmer.
Instead of rice, cotton and sugar. these
farmers raised corn, wheat, oats, rye,
hemp, tobacco, hogs and mules. In the
border states where farm life prevailed,
the negroes though slaves, were allow
ed far greater liberty and larger license
than they enjoyed in the Gotten grow
ing states, and the phases of social life
were quite different in the two sec
tione T.oh TIC i'm than I'll AZ wa
, 1889-05-09

In the issue OF the Western Horsentan
under date of May 4, the following start
ling statement is made under the heading
of "Wyoming's Palo Alta"
THE bay mare Ollie, owned at this
farm, it will be remembered. was the first
Wyoming animal to beat 2:3C in a race,
the performance being over the Omaha
track in 1887"
Now this sounds all right at first read
ing, but with the thinking cap" it looks
odd, and a tug at memory reveals the fact
that Ollie was bred and ioaled amid the
blue grass Of Kentucky, and was brought
to Wyoming as a 2-year-old; that at the
fall meeting at Omaha in 1887 she won
a heat in 2:294, which record she has
since reduced to 2:24, at Denver last Octo-
Der, when she peat Spartan, Little Joe,
and several other good ones.
During the latter part of August, 1887,
that grand and game daughter OF Belvoir
and sturdy. old Lady Wild, paced AMI
won a heat over a poor one-half mile
track at Paris, KY. in 2:26f, and at that
time she was only a 3.year-old. Another
tug and it is remembered that Wickopee
was bred, foaled and owned in Cheyenne.
and as such represented the equine own
ers of this section.
In 1887 the Omaha fall meeting was
held the latter part of September, while
Wickopee paced her mile at Paris the last
week in August, thus capturing the 2:3O
flag from Ollie by nearly a month.
1t is conceded by all, THE LEADER in
cluded, that Mr.. Beckwith has a fine col
lection of standard bred horses. and that
he is constantly improving the same, but
it is impossible to let his fast mare Ollie
have credit for a performance that was
the work of Wickopee, especially since
the latter is a native.