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The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02
Inspecting Telegraph Poles.

A young man with gimlet two feet
long stopped in front of telegraph
pole in a street in New Yok City the
other day and began to bore into
it. Another young man stopped also
and asked the first what he was about.
to which the following reply was
made: 81 am going to find out how
long this stick will stand up. l am
employed by the company that owns
the pole and it is my business to 90
about the streets making inspections
like this Every pole is numbered,
and when | make my report the COM
pany takes action according to the
condition of the wood. This is the
only way we can tell how strong the
pole is, for decay begins beneath the
surface and works toward the center.
1t shows on the outside last So you
can't tell from the looks whether pole
may not come down in the first high
wind, or light one either, for that mat
ter. This One," and he withdrew his
gimlet and looked at the fine shavings
clinging to it. will last a year without
danger. There is one on the Bowery.
near Fourth street, that looks perfectly
sound, much better than this one, in
fact, and yet it is decayed from surface
to surface, and is liable to tumble any
day. Cor. Ro chester Democrat.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02
HOME AND FARM.

The more an animal is exposed the
less it will produce, either of pork.
wool, mutton, beef or milk.
When using baking powder, stir
in shortening after all ingredients are
added, including the flour. 1t makes
much nicer and more faxy biscuit.
Strawberry vines that. are well
mulched will not be affected by sud-
den changes of weather. The mulch
prevents the plants from beginning to
grow too early in the season. Straw
berry plants that bloom out very early
are ones that have their blossoms
killed by late frosts.
Cranberry Roll: Take quart OF
cranberries. stew them and sweeten to
taste; make a pastry as you would for
biscuit; roll little thinner than for
biscuit; fill with the cranberries, roll
up the sides and ends and steam an
hour and half or bake; to be eaten
with sauce or cream and sugar.
The only reason why plants so
often make better growth in the
kitchen than in the front room is that
the air is so much more moist. If a
kettle or pan of water is kept upon the
stoves in the rooms where the plants
are, it will aid materially in keeping
up good growth.
Apple Meringue: Stew apples,
sweeten and flavor to taste, and put
the fruit in the dish it is to be served
in. Let it cool. Beat the whites OF
three or four eggs with little pow
dered sugar, to froth which can be
cut with a silver knife. Spread this
smoothly over the fruit, and set the
dish in the oven for about fifteen min
utes. The crust should be a crisp,
light brown. 1t is better served at
once, for the meringue grows tough in
cooling.
The uncovered manure pile is a
great breeder of flies and a nuisance
near house. But it may also be OBJ
jectionable from its economic aspect.
Flies are great scavengers, but in
destroying the offenslveness of ma
nures they destroy much of their fer
tilizing value. 1t is better far to
avoid both evils by covering manure
piles as quickly as made with fresh
earth, which is an effective absorbent
and deodOrizer.
-Pullets should be carefully fed
and prepared for the winter season, if
egg products are desired. Young birds
will not do as well the first winter if
their early feeding is neglected. They
must be brought into condition before
the really cold weather sets in, but
they should not be over-fed. Oats,
corn and barley, in proportion of 10,
20 and 10 pounds respectively, with 1C
pounds of wheat bran, if the grain is
all ground, is an excellent feed. But
there should be a goodly percentage
of green food given them.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02
FACTS ABOUT FRIDAY.

FRIDAY, February %, 1872, George Wash
ington was born.
FRIDAY, December 2, 1791, the Albany
library was founded.
BISMARCK, Gladstone and Disraeh were
born on Friday.
FRIDAY, March %, 1909, the Hudson river
was discovered.
FRIDAY, June 30, 1851, Louis XI. humbled
the French mobiles.
FRIDAY, March IS, 1776, the stamp act
was repealed in England.
FRIDAY, June 10, 1892, Columbus discov
cred the con tinent of America.
FRIDAY, December %, 1920, the Pilgrims
made their final landing at Plymouth Rock
FRIDAY, June Is, 17S5, General Winfield
Scott was born in Dinwlddie County, Va.
FRIDAY, June 10, 1884, Sturgeon, the cele-
brated English preacher, was born.
FRIDAY, November 20, 1921, the first Ma
sonic lodge was organized in North Amer
lea.
FRIDAY, September %, 1850, Arnold's
treason was laid bare, which saved the
United States.
THOMAS SUTTON, who saved England from
the Spanish Armada, was born on Friday.
FRIDAY. January IL, 1443 Charles the
Bold, of Burgundy, was born, the richest
sovereign of Europe.
FRIDAY, November %, 1914, the first news
paper ever printed by steam, the London
Times, was printed.
FRIDAY, October 10, 1881, the surrender OF
Yorktown, the browning glory of the Amer
lean army, occurred.
FRIDAY, June IL, 1902, Alexander Won
Humboldt, in climbing ChImborazo, reached
an altitude of 1900 feet.
FRIDAY, September z, 1855, Melendez
founded st. Augustine, the Oldest town in
the United States by more than forty years.
FRIDAY, April & 1916, the first known
newspaper advertisement was published in
the Imperial Intelligencer, in England.
FRIDAY, May IA, 1856, Gabriel Fahren-
heit, usually regarded as the inventor of
the common mercurial thermometer, was
born.
FRIDAY, October z, 1777, the surrender Of
Saratoga was made, which had such power
and influence in inducing France to declare
for our cause.
FRIDAY, March 5, 1896, Henry VIII, of
England, gave to John Cabot his commits
sion which led to the discovery of North
America. IQlS is Inc EfSG ALuSriCdu SGdGe
paper in England.
FRIDAY, November 10, 1920, the Mayfow
err, with the Pilgrims, made the harbor Of
Provincetown, and on the same day they
signed that august compact, the forerunner
of our present constitution.
FRIDAY, July Z, 1776 the motion was
made in Congress by John Adams, aud Sec
onded by Richard Henry Lee, that the
United States colonies were and of right
ought to be free and independent.
FRIDAY, March 20, 1913, Pope Clement XII
promulgated his bull of accommodation
against the Freemasons. Ever since the
allocution communicating indiscrimlnate
~ all Frecmasons the order has received
an immense forward impetus in Italy
France and Spain.
FRIDAY, July 1, 1925, General Lafay ettt
was welcomed to Boston and Toasted by
the Freemasons and citizens and atten dec
at the laying of the cornerstone of Bunker
Hill monument, erected to perpetuate the
remembrance OF the defenders Of the rights
ana liberties of America.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

In 100 years England has aided
her merchant ships to the amount of
$275, 600, 900 and her private shipyards
to the amount of 500, 100000.
The Sultan of Turkey, who is a
most tickle man regarding his fads,
has become interested in typewriting
and is practicing the art sedulously.
AT last accounts there were no
fewer than 1,64S newspapers and peri
odicals published in Paris. OF this
number Free Masonry claimed twenty
four.
Recent elections in England and
Wales placed medical men at the head
of the municipal government in the
towns of Hull, Bath, Marlborough,
Wolverhampton, Liskeard, Morpeth,
Godalming, Congleton, Caine, New
Rooney and Yeovil.
"A report from Hirschberg, Prus-
STA, states that while reservoir was
being made a subterranean river was
lately discovered in the Riesengebirge.
1t is about eight feet below the surface
of the earth. The river is said to be,
at one spot, four hundred and fifty feet
broad.
The decorations of orders of chiv-
airy which belonged to the Emperor
William are now deposited in the Royal
Schloss at Berlin. They fill a large
rosewood chest, which contains ten
o,,I fhi,atHv- f1KTn
large cases.
There are three million more wom-
en- in Great Britain than men. More
than one-third of all the women of
marriageable age in England are I'M
married. Fully one-half of the women
of the educated middle class, gentle
women, of manageable age are single.
Statistics show that, under the
Divorce Act passed by the British Par
lament some thirty years ago, there
has been a very large increase of di-
vorce cases in Great Britain, much
larger than can be explained by the in
crease of population. This does not
tell well for the people. or for the OPP
Grafton of the lawn. Y. Independ-
ent.
1t is reported from France that the
Huguenots are very actively engaged
in evangelical work there, having es-
tablished 600 stations or headquarters.
In the American chapel in Paris one of
their leaders recently said in the course
of an address that the Huguenots could
not be crushed out, but would live and
work until France was spiritually free
if it required another st. BarthOlO-
new.
An enormous wave is reported to
have struck the beach at Baracoa, in
Cuba, recently, and flowed inland for
a distance of 400 feet before it retired.
1t destroyed in its course nearly three
hundred huts and houses, but happily
no lives, as the inhabitants saw it COM
ing and fed to the nearest hill. Curl
Ously enough, the wave was neither
tidal nor due to earthquake disturb
ances, but, it is stated, to a north wind
which had blown for three successive
days.
The floating gardens on the rivers
of Cashmere are formed by the long
sedges being interviewer into a mat,
earth being superimposed thereupon,
and the stalks finally cut under water,
thus releasing them from the bottom
of the lake. They are usually about
twenty bv twelve --ardS in size A dis
honest Cashmiri will sometimes tow
his neighbours garden away from its
moorings and thus appropriate its
produce, which generally includes
cucurbitaceous fruits and vegetables
and fine description of grape.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

The man who first suggested the use Of
an x as the signature of Il person who
could not write was no philosopher. The
fitness of things should have led him to
select the cipher, which as nautograph
is eminently significant in most cases.
Binghamton Leader.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

THE heroine of recent magazine story
was t'nimbussed with the jOnquil OF her
hair and her husband was ''myoped. " A
man who is ''myoped" is liable to mistake
his red-headed wife for one of those MIN
bussed' things. -Norristown Herald.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

"A New Haven man was famous for
mis- slips of the tongue. He said thai
he was very fond of veal, especially
veal culverts. and that he never walked
up stairs in the insurance building, but
always rode in the cyltiYat0p
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

WHAT this country wants more than
anv thing else is more holidays, more ex-
cuse5 to lay off from work one day, often
Involving the necessity of laying off the
day following to recuperate. -Texas Sltt-
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

AN enterprising halter sent out cir
cular stating that men are bald because
they wear wool hats instead of silk ones.
This is not the only reason men are paid
They sometimes marry the wrong woman
Peoria Transcript
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

ALWAYS avoid harsh purgative pills. They
first make you sick and then leave you consti-
pated Carriers Little Liver Pills regulate the
bowels and make you well. Dose, one pill.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

POLICE officials, in raiding poker rooms,
should make up their minds to thew to
the line let the chips fall where they
NAV. "-Rocheste Post.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

TIE German Herr IS an equivalent for
the American Mr. The American her is
more than an equivalent for an American
Mr-Terre Haute Express.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

YOUTH is the time of hope; When 3
man GETS little older he stops hoping ana
begins reaching out for whatever ne can
get.-Somerville journal.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

Corn IS maize and dance is a
maze, which is pretty conclusive proof
that there is bond between dancinS
and corns. - BinghamptQn Republican.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

"LATE hours are bound to tell on man, {"
says an exchange But not half so surely
as q spiced breath-YonkerS States man.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

THE best known remedy for consumption is
Oxygen Cure Write DR.. Geppert, Cincinnati.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

ACTORS can't believe the supernatural,
because they don't see the super" nat
ural As a matter of fact, the "super"
never is natural.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

A GLASS eye has one compensation
everybody else can see through the device
if the wearer cam life.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

AN inveterate smoker = Vesuv1us.-
Prairie Farmel
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

A PAIN centrally located may double a
man and thus naturally increase his signs.
-Binghamton Republican.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

THE ubiquitous sign, Post no Bills" " mas
never deferred tailor from hrlng MS HIS
siyes at you through the post-omce'
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

ALL played out - open-air concerts
Oneida Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

A MODERN economist says take care o
your nickels and the slots will take car
of themselves"
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

WHEN girl is bent on getting married
she stands straighter than ever'-Aeh-
lucky State Journal
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

MEN who have horse sense know VINE
to say neigh. Boston Courier.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

THE THROAT. =" BrOloIt's Bronchial
Troches " act directly on the organs of the
voice. They have an extraordinary effect
in all disorders of the throat.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02
HOODS SarsapariIIa

Is carefully prepared from Sarsaparila. Dandelion'
Mandrake. Dock, Pipsissewa, Juniper Berries, and
other well-known and valuable vegetable remedies,
by peculiar combination, proportion and process,
giving to Hoods Sarsaparilla curative power noe
rossassad huc
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02
Hoods SarsapariIIa

Has met peculiar and unparalleled success at home.
Such is its popularity in Lowell Mass. where it is
made that whole neighborhoods are taking it at the
same time, and Lowell druggists sell more OF
Hoods Sarsaparlla than of all other sarsaparilias
or blood purifiers. 1t is sold by all druggists. 81;
six for s.. Prepared only by G. 1. HOOD & CO..
ApOthecaries. Lowell. Mass.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02
Pandora,s Rox of EVILS

Never contained worse one than malaria.
Extirpate it when it first shows its hydra
head. If you don't, it will wind its sinuous
length about you, and, perhaps, in the end
crush you. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters an
initiates and prevents it. So it does dyspep-
STA, constipation, liver complaint, kidney all
ments, rheumatism and nervousness. You
cannot select ia prompter tonicand Alternative.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

A PERSON who serves US through fire
and water-the cook.-The Vineyardist
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

Ii you want to be cured of a cough use
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

For any case of nervousness, sleepless-
ness, weak stomach, indigestion, dyspepsia,
relief is sure in Carter's Little Liver Pills.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

THE promising young men of a commu-
nifty are no better than the paying young
MEM. o. Picayune.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02
Hoods SarsaparilIa

Is the best blood purifier. It Scrofula, Salt
Rheum, BOils, Pimples, all HumOrs. Dyspepsia.
Biliousness, Sick Headache, Indigestion, General
Debility, Catarrh. Rheumatism, Kidney and Liver
complaints overcomes that tired feeling, creates
an appetite, strengthens the nerves, and builds mp
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

"A cat crawled into the muzzle of
loaded cannon at the British barracks
at Cape Colony a short time ago.
When the evening salute was fired she
was thrown distance of 200 feet, but,
strange to say, lived for two hours after
her involuntary flight.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

A HAND to hand affair-courting IN The
dark.-Burlington Free Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02
Finding Money in Egypt.

A villager lately found some money
in the bank of the Nile by accident,
but not by happy accident; for what is
good fortune in the West is misfortune
in the East, so reversed is the order of
things in the Orient. The villager was
in a boat, with three others, and run
ming their boat into the bank of the
river, stove in an earthen jar buried in
the soil, and containing money. Three
of the trOvers took some; the fourth,
being cautious man, and having his
doubts as to the consequences, did not
take any. The circumstance, of course,
came to the ears of the nearest Gov
ernor, and the men were all put in
prison. First, they were all basti-
nadoed for keeping the thing from him;
and next, because they did not produce
as much as the Governor considered
they must have taken. The poor fell
lows gave up all; but why should the
Governor believe they had given up
all, or that one of them had taken
none? A little more beating, and a
little more Imprisonment had the de-
sired effect of producing more money,
the unlucky finders being glad to take
some from their own stores at home,
besides what they had taken from the
accused jar in the bank, to satisfy the
hungry and cautious Governor Y.
ed pr
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-03-02

The gentleman on the left took Mercury, Potash
and SarsapariIla Mixtures, which ruined his diges-
ton and gave him mercurial rheumatism. The
gentleman on the right took SwIFT'S SPECIFIC
Is s. s. which forced out the poison, and built him
up from the first dose.
SWIFTS SPECIFIC is entirely vegetable medi-
cine and is the only medicine which has ever cured
Blood Poison, Serofula, Blood HumOrs and kindred
diseases Send for our books on Blood and SKIN DIS
eases mailed free THE SWIFT SPECIFIC co.
Drawer 8, Atlanta, Ga.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-25
Governmental.

The governor is in receipt of large
number of applications for the office OF
inspector of oils under the new law.
ooMPTRoLLEB's DEPARTMENT.
L. A. Burns, deputy collector of Lee
county, settled with the comptroller yes
terdsy for his chief.
Thomas Langham, collector of Jefferson
county, settled with the comptroller yes
terday.
Taylor county yesterday paid $4,000 in
terest due on its bonds.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
The following charters were filed yester
day in the Office of secretary of state:
Llano Water Supply company; capital
$4,000. Incorporators: j. II. Knowles,
M. s. Knowles and W. Knowles.
Austin Base Ball association; capital
$4,000. Incorporators: TT. Mum, j. A
Barbisoh, W. s. Drake, Wallace Miller
Directors: T. j. Mum, j.. A. Barbisch, w
s. Drake, John l.. Peeler and George p
Stacy.
First Presbyterian church, of Kerrville
A. G. Sheriner, W. G. Garrett and others
trustees.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-25

vetoed by the governor. The first is that
known as the Greer county bill, and the
other is the bill allowing railroads of this
state to consolidate with lines running out
of the state. The bill diminishing the
iurisd iction of the county court of Travis
will be permitted to .bscome~a law. The
separate coach bill will also be allowed to
pass into a law, it being merely per-
missive and not mandatory act.
1t will become law without the govern
or's signature. The land validating act
will also pass muster.
PARDoNs GRANTED.
The governor has granted the following
pardons:
James S. Boyd, of Jones county, illegal
branding;2 years.
s. L. Young, Dallas county, embezzle-
ment; years. Convicted in 1886.
Abe McCulloch, of Milan county, six
cases, "a years; sentenced October, 1885.
Full pardon.
Frank Richards, of Grayson county,
carrying pistol; imprisonment remitted.
James Ready and Frank Mitchell, of
Dallas county, carrying pistol; imprison-
ment RENTED.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT..
Treasurer Lubbock is paying school
warrants to and including registered No,
| 325,
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-25
THE MONToPoLIS BRIDGE.
The Matter Still Unsettled-High
Water Mark, Etc.

The acceptance of the Montopolis
bridge is still before the commissioners
court. The court was in session all day
yesterday WITHOUT coming to any conclu-
sion. County Surveyor Wallace made his
report in writing to the court. He took
observations from two marks that wer Q
pointed out to him as the high water mark =,
and the question still remains where is
the high water m lrk of 1869, which is
called for by the terms of the
contract. Taking the mark on Deats'
portico as the high water mark of 1869,
which seems to be the most authentic
mark of that great flood, the bridge is
found to be about feet below this level;
taking point on cottonwood tree,which
was also pointed out as the high water
mark of 1869, the bridge is about feet
above that level. Col. j. II. B. Miller ap-
peared before the court as counsel for the
King Iron Bridge company the
builders. A good deal has
been said about the action
of the supervising engineer binding the
county to an acceptance of the bridge, in
directing the work in certain particulars,
and an extract is here made from the con-
tract which seems to have direct bearing
upon this point: The entire structure
shall, with its material, structure and work.
manship, be subject to the inspection of
the engineer and the acceptance and ap-
proval to the honorable county judge and
county commissioners court of Travis
| oOuntv.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-25

of about 25 years Of age. He has been
in the city about a week, having come
here from Waco, where his wife and rela-
tiyes live. The cause of the unfortunate
occurrence is said to have been domestic
infelicity. He had separated from his
wife, and since he had been in this city
had written to her several times,
but had received no response.
Yesterday afternoon he told some of the
boarders at the Shipman house that he
would rather be dead than alive, and in
timated that he would take dose of NOR
phine. Some time during the afternoon
he bought 20 cents worth of whisky and
expended the same amount for morphine.
About supper time he drank some of the
whisky and took dose of the morphine.
When he went into the dining hall ne
acted rather strange, and soon after went
to his room and laid down. Some one
went in to see about him, and he had
taken another drink of whisky and was In
the act of taking another dose of NOR
phine. The physicians were then sum-
moned, and the rest is told. At late
hour last night he was doing well and out
of danger. The young man is said to
have been butcher at one time in Waco.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-04-25
Sudden Death.

L. P. Gordon, an aged employe of the
City Street Railway company, died rather
suddenly yesterday morning at his room
at the upper street car stable. The de-
ceased had been suffering with rheuma'
tism, but he seemed to be better yesterday
morning and reported for duty. He was
soon taken sick, however, and died in a
few hours, his death evidently having been
caused by rheumatism of the heart. Uncle
Billie, as he was fsmiliarly known, had
been in the employ of the company as
driver and as stableman continuously
ever since the first car made its trip over
the road, some twelve years ago. He was
in the fifty-seoond year of his age, and w6s
faithful, honest and upright, heritage
that the greatest in the land might be
proud of. The funeral will occur this
morning at 10 O'Clock.