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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-04

Jaw Gould himself now seems likely to
60 into the Atchison directory. 1t is OPP
raaal with him. - New York Times.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-04

The assistance of Louis G.. Munford,
Esq. of this bar and the advice of T. j.
Powell, ESQ, city attorney, have been
most valuable. The courtesies of other
officials of the city have been of no little
service, particularly the secretary and
his assistant, with whom there was much
contact nacessnriIv in thssA.nl1rsa of the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-04
avorite Line to isfe North
East aud Southeast.

Double dsflgiine OF Pullman Palace Sleeping
Cars thEonghto st. Louis via the
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-04

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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-04

a. FAULKNER, Gen. Pass. Agent. Houston.
c. D. LUSK, Depot Ticket Agent, Fort Worth
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
PRACTICAL EDUCATION.
How to Sat isfy the Ever-Growing Deman
for Hard Facts.

How to Sat isfy the Ever Growing Demand
for Hard Facts.
While we have never insisted that
work-benches will be introduced into
every district school in our land, we
do insist, and have insisted for years,
On the Introduction of sense-exercises
and sensible expressions of sense-ex-
ercises in every school. high and low,
rich and poor. We are living in an
age of realism. Theories are at dis
count. Hard facts, are in demand.
The education that touches the life
that is, is highly valued. In this ma
sight of the spiritual. but we must also
not lose sight of the fact that the
spiritual of the present largely comes
through the material, and that
by the material the true
spiritual life of an individual
becomes practical, earnest and useful.
We believe in God, but we also believe
in man. We believe in the Kingdom
of God, but we believe also that to the
kingdom of man He has committed the
care of this lower world. Here in the
midst of things we fight the battle OF
life, and it is by means of things that
we handle, see, feel, taste and smell;
and so become lifted above the ma
teriality of the world, into higher,
spiritual, earnest, practical, common
sense religion. The great heart of the
world throbs in unison with the work.
ing men in it. The time for lazy. dig
nified do-nothings has passed away,
and the time of active. earnest labor
ers in the shops, on the farms, among
the mountains. and in the rooms where
the thinking is done, has fully come.
We are going to say, over and over
again many more times, life is real
Let us make it so in all our schools
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
MAKING FRENCH WINES.
Amusing Story of the Alleged Falsifica
ton of ClaretS in France.

Amusing Story of the Alleged Falsifica-
ton of C1arets in France.
The Justification of wines is once
more becoming a burning subject in
France. It is notorious that millions
of bottles of the vim rouge which is
consumed at home and sent abroad are
guiltless of one. drop of the juice of
the grape. Concerning this wholesale
classification" of Bordeaux wines, I
was told an amusing story this winter
by French gentleman who was my
travelling companion from Marseilles
to Paris
Here is the story: A farmer in Nor
mandy, seeing wine advertised by a
firm in Bordeaux, wrote for a couple
of casks of it, and forwarded the
rived at the station. and he sent his
carter to bring it home. The carter
brought two casks. but. to the farm
er's establishment, only one casll was
full; the other was empty. An
examination Of the casE showed
that it had not been tempered with.
and there was no trace of leakage.
LNlueHllS dH cIHpey Cooh Ldu bcell SeH1
by mistake. The farmer at once wrote
to the Bordeaux wine merchant to
complain of the carelessness. In due
course a reply was received, which
was as follows: Dear Sir-I am sorry
for the mistake made by my man, but
you can easily rectify it. If you will
fill the empty cask with water and
leave it for a fortnight you will find
the wine all right. The ingredients
are at the bottom of the cask, but my
man foolishly admitted to add the
water. Waiting your further orders,
l am, sir, yours, ETC."
My French friend assured me that
this was fact. The story became
public through the Norman farmer de-
handing the return of his money, and,
the wine merchant Directing, the case
came before the law courts. After
this, what price for win ordinaire?"
If that's what they give political pris-
oners, no wonder Boulanger ran away.
George R. Sims, in London Referee.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

is better than cycle of Cathay; and
to found dynasty on the Upper Nile
may seem to Emin Pasha far more at
tractive work than to lecture in uni
versity which has forgotten him On
tropical beasts and birds. Anyhow,
he had, when Stanley left him, elected
to stay where he is, one of the most
noteworthy figures which even this
age of separate personages has pro-
duced. Savants are common enough,
and savants with a love of exploration,
but the adventurer who obtains a
crown, or the power of crowned
head over a defined territory, is rare
Spectator.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
PlTH AND POINT.

1t is only the unlucky who think
fortune blind.
Dignity is expensive, and, withou,
other good qualities, is not particular
ly profitable.
Every thing is smooth sailing with
us when we have no difficulty in rails
| ing the wind.
Character like porcelain-ware,
must be painted before it is glazed.
There can be no changes of color after
it is burned in.
Because a man sleeps we'll is no
sign that he has an easy conscience.
He may have got tired out committing
| sin.-Somerville Journal.
Pay your bill twice rather than go
to law. There are as many lawyers
clamoring for the wrong as there are
lawyers clamoring for the right
Atchison Globe.
1T is only natural that the man who
never has time to do any thing never
seems to get any thing done.-Mer-
chant Traveller.
1t amt true dat sorrow 'velops all
de good p'ints O er man, fur de pusson
dat grows up in sorrow is like de stalk
O. con dat grows up in de shade. He
mout be jest ez tall, but he won't be
nigh so healthy. Traveller.
Some men will not shave on Sab
bath, and yet they spend all the week
in shaving their fellow-men; and many
think it very wicked to black their
boots on Sabbath morning, yet they
do not hesitate to black their neigh
boris reputation on week days.
Beecher.
When Drexilius was asked by a
friend how he could do so much as he
had done he answered.: 1.-The year has
three hundred and sixty-five days, or
eight thousand four hundred and sixty
hours; in so many hours great things
may be done; the slow tortoise made a
long journey by losing no time. -
Bishop Horne.
"A life without suffering would be
like a picture without shade. The
pets of Nature, who do not know what
10 Call uUt iGttllLt IL, nave Ill
ways a certain rawness. like foolish
landsmen who laugh at the terrors of
the ocean because they have neither
experience enough to know what those
terrrors are, nor brain enough to
imagine them.-Hamerton
"A difference between honorable
and dishorable competition Is the con-
duct of the victor to the vanquished.
Some men rise above others only to
crush them-others to lift and exalt
them. Some boast with noisy triumph
and scorn those who are left behind;
others have "a way of making people
feel comfortable. One artist who has
risen high in public favor uses his in
fluence to depreciate the works of his
brother artists; another takes them
by the hand and gives them cour.
age for fresh endeayors-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
Keen Cool and Live Long.

A calm, cool temperament is doubt
less an aid to long life. It is the
people who are easiest troubled and
oftenest excited who wear out first.
Bulwer, m one of his novels, makes
the cynical remark that two things are
essential to the greatest longevity-a
good digestion and bad heart This
has been applied often to old men who
were not sympathetic in their Temporal
ment. 1t does not follow, however, that
because men are impertubable in man
ners they are heartless-much less
than they have bad hearts. Men may
be actively wicked as well as appar-
emily Indifferent on the subject of
Righteousness. When man lives to a
great age the presumption is that he
has taken good care of himself. Some
are more scrupulous to do this than
others, and some find the task much
easier than do the most of their fell.
Iows.-Boston Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
CURRENT SUGGESTIONS

Information Obtained from Old Women
| in Countries Near and Far.
The funeral procession must not
cross river.
The last name dying person calls is
the next to follow.
| A dish-cloth hung On door-knob is
= sign of death in family.
The corpse must not pass twice over
any part of the same road.
| To dance on the ground indicates
disaster or death within year.
Whoever works On sick per son's
dress he or she will die within a year.
If hoe be carried through house
some one will die before the year is
| out.
If thirteen sit at table the one who
rises first will not live through the
year.
The person on whom the eyes of a
dying person last rest will be the first
to die.
Whoever counts the carriages at a
passing funeral will die within the
year.
To break looking glass is sign of
death in the family before the year
closes.
Ii three persons look at the same
time into a mirror one will die within
the year.
The clock should be stopped at the
time of death, as it's running will bring
ill luck.
If one dies, and no rigor mortis en-
sues, it indicates a speedy second death
in the family.
If a hearse is drawn by two white
horses death in the neighborhood will
occur in a month.
1t is unlucky in funeral for those
present to repass the house where death
has occurred.
If rain falls on a new-made grave
there will be another death in the fam
lily within the year.
If the grave is left open over Sunday
another death will occur before the
Sunday following.
To keep the corpse in the house over
Sunday will bring death IN the family
before the year is out.
IL 10 lHlliChS " pass tufOuSu d
funeral, either between the carriages
Or the files of mourners on foot.
If rain falls into an open grave an
other burial in the cemetery will occur
within three days.
AT funeral entering a church before
the mOurnerS means death to some of
the entering party.
10 put on a bonnet or hat of one in
mourning is the sign that you will wear
one before the year is out.
If any one comes to a funeral after
the procession starts another death will
occur in the same house.
In Switzerland, if grave is left open
over Sunday, it is said that within four
weeks one of the village will die.
If, during sickness, pair of shears
be dropped in such a manner that the
point sticks into the floor, it indicates
the death of the sick person.
When woman who has been sew
ing puts her thimble On the table as
she sits down to eat, it is q sign that
she will be left a widow if she marries.
A common saying in England is:
Happy is the corpse the rain falls
on" This belief exists also in the
United States. Thus it is said that if
rain falls at the time of the funeral it
is sign that the dead has gone to
Mail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
"lf She. Only Would"

If she only sUoald believe it, the
average strength and health of girl
does not stand in the way of 1.-THE
higher education of women
If she only aUould strictly obey rules.
all would go we'll enough with girl
at school, for in these, days any school
of reputation has good regulations and
''suggestions."
If she onlW ,ooutd invariably go to
bed at ten O'clock instead of sitting up
'just a few minutes, longer" girl
would wake next day alert, and with
d clear head. and those educational
bugbears, nervousness" ''lassitude,"
"irritableness" and Insomnia" would
ever follow upon her hard study.
IF she only aoould not make haste at
table, but sit willingly and socially
through the time allotted for meals,
indigestion" another of the school,
girls bugbears. would never put in an
appearance. Steaks, chops and roasts
should be both ''well-chewed'' and
''well-chatted."
Dshe only WouW forego little lunches
and midnight spreads, eat only ut table,
never touch a nut, q cake, candy or
fruit. ''between meals" those other
terrors of the girl student-.dyspep-
sia,' ''biliousness,f '.loss of appetite"
would not make her their prey.
(The girl careful in all these mat
tiers will be sure TO have inviolable
rules for her baths and her out-of-door
exercises)-
IT she only acoSld, furthermore, old
1t to be had form" to indulge during
school-life in formal calls. the theater,
dances, correspondence and making
acquaintance with gentlemen, and the,
reading of current fiction-Men, great
ease and simplicity of living. and time
TO rest, would be possible to her, to-
gether with tremendous concentra-
ton of the mind upon study; she would
find herself, day after day, full of lat
tack" pursuit" ''corps d'esprit,"
''love of investigation" mastery
and all the other high vitalities of
brain and blood that make the "hard
pull and long pull of a school-course
an enthusiasm and joy.-Wide
Awake.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

I'm London the windows of private
houses are washed by limited liability
company at the rate of eight cents a
window.
The discovery of bit of gold in
the gizzard of duck recently killed
on farm in Forfarshire. Scotland,
has been followed by the finding of
gold bearing quartz in the same neigh
borhood.
The new constitution of Japan is
described as "a government of the
Emperor. for the Emperor, and by the
Emperor" 1t no more resembles
Magma Charta than bat does an ele-
plant, and makes the government of
Japan in reality government of Il
am"
The climate of Afghanistan is so
very dry that without irrigation moth
ing can be grown below an elevation
of $500 feet, at which point dew first
begins to form. During the summer
season the people live chiefly on mel
ons, which are grown in such guam
titles that sirup is made from them.
The London pavements, which
strike every visitor from this side of
the water as so perfect, are receiving
a tremendous amount of local abuse
now. Wood and asphalt are too slip
perry; macadam can't stand the heavy
wear. The opinion is freely heard
that London ''has not yet solved the
problem of street pavements, and
seems as far off from it as ever"
Denmark has new and unique
society. 1t is called the "Celibacy
Assurance Society" its object being to
provide for women who can't or won't
marry. Premiums begin at the age of
thirteen and end at forty. At the lat
ter age an unmarried woman receives
an annuity for life. If she marries at
any time after taking out policy she
fOrfeits all claims on the society. The
profits of the society are expected to be
enough to provide we'll for members
who never marry.
1t is said that in the Southern part
of Russia the peasants use a coin of
such small value that it would take
100000 of them to buy an American
dollar. and these coins are so scarce
that a man who has a hundred is
looked upon as rich, and one who has
q thousand is considered very wealthy.
1t is strange to think a person wealthy
who owns two-fifths of a cent, and
comfortably well Off on one twenty
fifth of q cent
The very interesting discovery of
many years ago of Jewish colonies in
Western China is now well-supple-
menteG by the discovery of Christian
clans or sects in Africa, south of
Abyssinia. These wholly isolated peo-
plies have retained some forms Of Chris
tian belief and worship since the early
centuries. when Egypt and the lands of
the South were in the hands of the fol-
lowers of Jesus. MOhammedanism.
arising in the seventh century. cut off
this section, and has obliterated Chris
tianity to the north of them. What is
left, however, of the better faith is
now so thoroughly degenerate that it
is not worth the preserving. Africa is
full OF wonders.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23

Some years ago. just at dusk, a
maid-servant in certain beautiful
home took it into her head that
it would be rare fun TO
dress herself in sheet and brighten
another of the servants. So she slipped
into the grounds, hid herself behind
tree, and waited her opportunity.
Dancing merrily along. singing with a
voice like bird, came a sweet little
daughter of the house, who had been
sent on an errand to the lodge at the
end of the green avenue. The merry
child, sensitive to her finger-tips,
caught a glimpse of the straight. stark
figure skulking behind the oaks. and
was so frightened that few months
| sfterward she died-of nervous shock
the physicians said, which then began
its fatal work.
In one of our New England colleges
a youth who had been studying hard
that he might enter the freshman
class was startled from his sleep at
midnight by party of fellows IN
masks, who proceeded to make sport
for themselves by the stupid process
called ''hazing" their companion.
They had their silly fun, but it is TO be
hoped that none of the number en-
gagged in it can ever think of that night
without pang, for it made the youth
insane.
| don't like to believe that any of
my readers engage in this wretehed
kind of jesting. If they do, it is be-
cause they have never looked at it
from the right point of view. There
isn't among my friends one. l am sure
who would be happy in making any
one else miserable.
I saw Fred the other day perched i'm
nook way, way up in a tall tree. and
thought: ''What a splendid climber
you are, Fred and how nimbly you'd
run to the mizzen-top if you were D.
sailor boym know that Fred was as
sure-footed as cat, and his eyes like
q squirrel, and the grip of a monkey,
so | was not alarmed on his account.
Not so his mother. She came to the
door; called Fred! Fred!" and finally
deserted; him in his airy nest, from
which 'shis voice fell like a falling
star" Then she was greatly distressed
and frightened. and was disappoint-
ed in Fred, because, instead of reliev-
ing her fears at once, he said:
''Oh, pouf, mamma! there's no dan
ger. Why are you so excited? I've
been here dozens of times"
He did descend at last; but q true
Fred means to be Il
gentleman-would not have allowed q
woman to. be. frightened even for an
instant, especially when the woman
was his own mother.
The spirit which leads one not to
care when friend is suffering terrors
on ones account is the same which
makes the practical jest possible.
Aunt Majorie'ss children must Danish
this if they would make their little
world happy.-Harper's Young Peo-
pie.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
LOVE OF NATURE.
The Pleasure of Having Known in Chill
hood Brooks, Hills and Sea.

The Pleasure of Having Known in Child
hood Brooks, Hills and Sea.
There are many pieces Of sheer good
fortune for children of luck in this
world: it is well to have been born rich
which command the prizes of life.
But it is perhaps no less happy and
supreme gift to have been born q
child of the universe; to have known
in early childhood brooks, mountains
and sea; to have felt the companion
ship of the sky, and in listening to its
thunder to have heard deep calling
unto deep. There is often an incom-
municable and half-unconscious sense
of these things in the heart of a
child. wholly apart from any training
or habit of observation. 1t is
a seed which any soil will quicken; the
commonest landscape will be food for
it as fine as the Alps. In fact, there is
sometimes with the child as with the
artist sort of instructive selection of
the humber phase. Among the men,
cries of journey through Switzerland
in my childhood, that of woodland
bank at Rosenlani, covered with moss
and with tiny pink flowers, remains to
me as having afforded at least as keen
a pleasure as the glacier itself, and the
image of Mont Blanc had no power to
efface the delights of the ''spring lot. :"
The power upon us of scene or
thought lies partly in the extent Of our
ntima CIV with it.-Atlantic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-05-23
EMIN BEYS EMPIRE.
One of the Most Unique Communities
Founded in This Century.

One of the Most Unique Communities
Founded in This Century.
Originally German jew devoted to
science and investigation, he has be-
come in reality an independent SOW
ereign, and having turned Mussulman
he rules the great region intrusted to
him with absolute authority. His thir-
teen hundred black regulars have set
tied and married in the land, and will
never, he says, return to Egypt by
their consent. He himself lives like
an Asiatic, which, no doubt, by blood
he is; and he has formed a negro army
so we'll disciplined that it has defeat
ed even the fanatic soldiers sent
from Khartoum. He has herds of cat
tie and flocks of sheep, his supplies of
grain are more than ample. and he is
accommodating a stock of ivory which,
if the road to the northward ever
opens. may bring him great wealth. in
the European sense. He is, in truth,
an African sovereign. and as his au-
thority consolidates itself, and that OF
the Mahdi dies away under the blows
IL 10 SuSlIt1IlliiS o!ii IlIC " C9u" ctI u, hC
may hope to stretch his dominion from
the Albert Nyanza northward to Khar-
toum. Having renowned Judaism
and quilted civilization for years, he
can be little tempted to quit that po-
sition and return to the less varied life
of an almost penniless student of nat
ural history in Berlin. There is no
TO hi to+o hot ],
will never desert his followers, and
that if he leaves his kingdom he will
carry with him 5000 souls. thousands
of them women and children. To
march southwark with that cavalcade.
through the awful forest of the Aru-
whimi to the Congo, or eastward to
the Zanzibar coast, would be deS-
perate attempt, nor is there any thing
to be expected from the settlement
which, if he retreats, he must form in
some new region. to draw him from
the banks of the Nile, where he is IL
Prince, and whence he may
in time communicate easily with
Germany by the Suakim route
European journalists, in discussing
such a parsonage, are apt to assume
that cultivated European must al
ways be longing for Europe. and this
was clearly Stanley's own idea; but we
doubt if that is always the case. AL
most all Europeans detest the tropics,
but ever now and then. in India, in
Cambodia, in China and in tropical
America, a European is to be found
whom nothing would induce to return
to the tanner life of Europe, and who
finds in the society of the inferior
races never-ending charm. A natur-
alist has always occupation for his in
tellect, power has attractions for all
strong minds, and Emin Pasha, though.
if we may trust biography which has
every sign of truth, he has Joined the
long list of renegades from higher to
a lower faith-for though Judaism is
not Christianity, it is loftier faith
than Islam-may feel that in partly
civilizing great African kingdom he
is doing a great work. That is the i'm
preston we derive from his own ac-
count in the latest letters published.
and there is no reason why it should
not be true. We are not ali alike, or
all convinced that fifty years of Europe