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Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-16
THE HUMAN FAMILY.
Interesting and Instructive Facts About
the Worlds Population.

Interesting and Instructive Facts About
the Worlds Population.
The number of men capable Of bear
ing arms is calculated at one-fourth of
the population.
There are 1904 languages IN the
world. and its inhabitants profess more
than | 900 religions.
Those born in spring are generally
of more robust constitution than
others. Births are more frequent by
night than by day, also deaths.
There are on the earth 1,0DD, 900, ,000
inhabitants; of these 33, 3,033, ,033 die
every year, 9l,s2l every day, $3.50
every hour, and 60 every minute, or
every second.
The number of marriages Is in the
proportion of 75 to every 1000 individ-
uals. Marriages are more frequent
after equinoxes-th is, during the
months of June and December.
The married are longer-lived than
the single, and, above all, those who
observe sober and industrious con-
duct. Tall men live longer than short
ones. Women have more chances OF
life in their favor previous to fifty
years of age than meu have. but fewer
afterward.
The number of men is about equal to
the number of women. The average
OF life is about thirty-three years. One
quarter die previous to the age OF
seventeen. To every 1,OOo persons only
reaches one hundred years of life
To every 100 only 6 reach the age OF
sixty-five, and not more than l in 500
live to eighty years of age.-Chfcago
NeUs.
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-16
SAFER THAN INSANITY.
Boston Paper Calls san-Strokc the Legal
Amulet Of Our Day.

sA'"usSs rs OuS huy'
The plea of insanity rs defense In
criminal actions is becoming pretty
threadbare, but a device by which the
same effects are secured seems to be
working admirably. Nowadays it is
the fashion to claim that the criminal
in any action, whether it be theft,
biackmail. murder or what not, is the
victim of sun-stroke. Apparently n
sun-stroke Is the most convenient thing
Il person can possibly have. 1t allows
him to continue his ordinary course OF
life uninterruptedly, but confers upon
him the privilege Of doing any thing
his vagrant fancy may suggest, quite
unhampered by moral or legal rcstric-
tions.
| The lrishman who described "child
! of fancy" Us child who did whatever
| he fancied was not very far out of the
man who has been so fortunate rs to
have sunstroke That lucky acci-
dent places him above responsibility.
A man in Western city amused him
self recently by firing II revolver into
n crowd, wounding three persons, one
of them fatally. A physicians certih-
cate was produced, stating that, owing
to the effect of II sunstroke received in
India, the prisoner was Mt times irre-
sponsible for his actions. OF course
here was nothing to be said after
that, and even the idea Of shutting the
man up seemed to his intelligent and
impartial judges superhuous precau-
ton. He was allowed TO go ut large
on the strength Of his lucid intervals,
the Inference being that the Official:
themselves were not troubled by any
: thing Of that sort
, II would not be difficult to multipl,
instances, although it is hardly neces
: sary; whoever has thought Of the mat
ter must have recognized the con
vincing nature of the argument from
, sunstroke when properly applied t.
the average jury. TO one who has an,
inclination toward disregard Of tn,
. laws of sunstroke would seem to be o
I the greatest possible benefit. 1t is
3 thing, moreover sS easy to have, s.
: difficult to disprove. and so admirabl
q flexible in its effects, that it woul
I seem a matter of the most obviou
. policy for whoever is likely ever {
e find himself at variance with authorit
C to provide himself with certiiicat
d of sunstrokc at once. Boston Courie,
Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1889-02-16
EXCUSE ME-"
No Excuse Is Better Than q Good
One,

Luke Sharp Gives = Rising Young Man
some Sound Advice. and Tells =
story In support Of
His Theory.
, 1889-03-28
A Mishap to ..Cockney.,,

Jack Sterling Uockney), the Wyoming
lightweight pugilist, who left this city
with the Smith Davis combination of
sluggers, has been disabled by a rather
uncommon accident He and Fogarty
were sparring pretty earnestly, when the
latter neglected to duck one of Jacks
swinging rights, which have developed
into pretty dangerous visitors. Fogarty's
back was near a window when Cockney
landed and he started for the ground, hes
Itating for a moment to secure the sash.
Cockney rushed to the rescue of his an
tagonist and in assisting the latter back
to the hall cut a frightful cash in. his
wrist with a piece of the broken glass.
Cockney is to have a benefit at Ogden
Friday night.
, 1889-03-28
WORDS BUBBLE FORTH.
An Eloquent Preacher who is La
boring at ST. Marks.
The Practical Standpoint From
Which He Discourses.
Crowds of People FIocking to
Hear Him Talk.

An audience that filed St. Marks
Episcopal church listened with deep at
tention for a full hour last evening TO an
address by the Rev. Percy Weber of
Boston, one OF the church missionaries.
Mr.. Weber is a man of medium
height, with a well rounded and rather
heavy figure and smooth shaver face.
His voice is deep and resonant, with a
melodious tone to it that is scarcely
marred by a drawing information with
which his sentences are sometimes con-
cluded. For one whole hour he spoke
without a pause for IN appropriate word
the words to fit the ideas seeming to
bubble forth without an effort. His
language was singularly apt and his illus
t~rations were like the few bold strokes of
a painter that wildly suggest a picture
to the minds eye. The speaker is a born
preacher. From the moment he opens
his mouth he has his audience with him.
His first few words show that it is as nat
ural for him to speak as it is for him to
breathe.
His oratory shows the CLERICAL school in
which he received his training, but he
has risen above and cast aside any me
chanicAl simulations of eloquence. His
of his thought and add force to the ex-
preston. His mind is quick and alert.
He starts out from the basis of practical
everyday life. His whole lecture is within
the reach of every hearer. 1t stimulates
and satisfies intellectual craving while it
g~ratifes spiritual longing. Back of his
talk is an intense earnestness,a deep faith
which no doubt can shake, an abiding
confidence in the future coupled with an
evident personal experience which places
him in close relations with his hearers.
The burthen of his discourse last eyeu-
ing was the elements of character. The
real man was not the simple outward con-
fguration of the human being but that
inward self which gave stability to the
structure-in a word character. Simple
strength of character was not all that
was requiredi 1t must be beautiful also
beautifully strong and strongly beautiful.
He pictured Christ's character as the
greatest human model.
His lecture was neither doctrinal nor
dogmatic. No matter how widely d.
vergent might be the theological views of
those who were present they could listen
to hun with profit, for his aim apparently
is to preach principles which will elevate
people in every day lite, rather than isms,
which are the dry bones instead of the
essence of religion.
No one who has heard him once but
will desire to hear him again. He
breaches regularly at 7:45 o'clock every
evening in St. Marks church to
audiences which nightly grow larger.
, 1889-03-28
A BIG LAND DEAL.
A Purchase of22O, 200 Acres in Carbon
County.

John Hess, the realty dealer, passed
west yesterday en- route to Carbon, where
he expects to close one OF the largest land
deals ever made in the west. He repre-
sents j. z. Osgood of Denver in the pur-
chase of 900. 900 acres OF Carbon county
coal lands. Coe & Carter are to part
with this immense tract for 81 an acre.
j.. q. Osgood is the owner of coal
mines in Colorado and Iowa and is quite
wealthy. He has Joined Burlington off
Gals in several enterprises and it is sus-
pected that men identified with that rail-
way are interested in the Carbon county
purchase. This is of gratifying signif-
canoe, indicating the Burlington purposes
tapping a Wyoming region of great and
varied resources.
, 1889-03-28
HOME
A Business That Has Greatly Grown
in -Four Years.

An illustration of how a business may
body but the owner of it thoroughly ap-
preciating the fact is well shown in the
case of Mr.. Frank BOehm, who is now
moving into new and larger quarters.
Four years ago Mr.. Boehm started mod
estly into the cigar manufacturing bust
ness in a little shop on Seventeenth
street, which was scarcely larger than a
dry goods box.
At that time Frank Boehm was the
Cheyenne Cigar factory and the Chey-
enne Cigar factory was Frank Boehm.
Gradually the fame Of his work began to
extend. Cigars bearing his brand began
to creep into various city establishments
because there was a public demand for
them, Enlarged quarters soon became a
necessity and the factory was therefore re-
moved to the stone building
adjoining Germania Hall. No longer
able to meet the demand for
his cigars unaided he was obliged to en-
ploy assistants. The business steadily
grew until now it has again outgrown its
old quarters and has been removed to one
of the handsome. and commodious store
rooms of the Masonic block, on Six.
tenth street. He has already placed
$1,000 worth of wrappers and filters be-
sides a large stock of manufactured goods
in his new establishment. With added
facility he now intends to branch out and
will hereafter keep on hand a full and
complete stock of smokers articles.
Mr.. Boehm has heretofore confined his
efforts almost exclusively to supplying the
city trade. With his greatly increased
facilities he may extend his business to
other towns and in a few years build up
an enormous trade. His success so far
has been remarkable but it has been en-
tirely due to his own energy and presever-
ance. Everybody who knows him will
hope to see him continue to prosper. This
is a home industry hat deserves patron
age. =
The new establishment will be opened
this evening.
, 1889-03-28

The city evening paper yesterday an
nounced hat Bishop Burke had pur-
chased two blocks on the South side and
that a cathedral ard school to cost $780,
600 would be erected thereon.
1T is simply absurd, said Bishop
Burke when addressed on the subject.
In the conversation which followed the
bishop said that he had thought of pur-
chasing a block corner OF Eighth street
and Warren avenue, but thought the
price to large. 1t is proposed to next
sized school on the South side.
Some of the heavy owners of South
side property would make a good invest
ment by presenting the diocese with a
block or two in a suitable location.
, 1889-03-28
row TALK.
Cosby Little Paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.

The Union Pacific dispatchers here
leave for Laramie Friday.
Geo. II. Boswell has Just filed his bond
as justice of the peace for IVA precinct
Pat Foy, who is to start a variety
theater at Ogden, passed west yesterday.
On his farm southeast of the city Hon.
G. T. Organ will plant twenty acres of
corn and some wheat.
Neil Mcconnell has made final pay
ment to the government for 100 acres OF
land in Laramie county.
Col. A. T. Babbitt has filed for record
his United States desert patent for 200
acres of land in this county.
Fresh smelts, German carp. herring,
dressed perch. picscarel, white fish, front
and pike at Standard Cash Market.
Frank P. Slower and wife have sold Sec
ton %, township 10 north, of range G2
west to Frank B. Hudson for 50, 100.
Mr.. Goodelr's BIfty, the 3 year old
footing flly by Belvoir, has been entered
for several races on the Montana circuit.
There were twenty-three passengers
aboard the west bound Golden Gate
special last night. The train was on
time.
A United States patent recorded yes
terdAy gives Donald Mcconnell title to 1871
acres of land in section |, township "a
north of range GA west.
, 1889-03-28
With n Rig Capital.

The Wyoming Standard Oil company
has been Incorporated with a capital
stock of 50, 500, 900. These Omaha gen
tlemen arc the present directors Charles
G. Spotswood, f. w, Lambert, +. b.
Hall, L. D. Kennedy, D. M. Stuart.
The company purposes operating in Car
bon county.
A provision in the articles of iacorpo-
ration .stipulates that the indebtedness of
the company shall not at any time exceed
5000.
, 1889-03-28

Work has been commenced on the resi-
dence to be built for Territorial Engineer
Mead on Warren avenue.
Ellen Peterson is building a residence
on the south side. Casper RACER, engl-
neer at the shops, is doing the same.
Peter Juesen, Saml. Powell and Henry
UIrich are making additions to their
south side homes.
, 1889-03-28

What on earth is the reason people
will not, can not, or do not see any differ
ence in nhcap nostrums put up by Cheap
John houses or irresponsible parties at
enormous profits, rather than take a med
icine of world wide reputation and one
that is giving universal satisfaction at
equal price, No medicine in the world is
giving such unparalleled satisfaction for
purifying the blood as Beggs' Blood Pu-
riier and Blood Maker, and every bottle
that does not do its work will cost yeu
nothing. For sale by W. N. Hunt, drag
gist.
Job printing at the Leader office,
, 1889-03-28
The Union Pacific Extensions.

The surveyors have finished locating
the extension of the Cheyenne & North
ern to Fisher, thirty-two miles from
Wendover on the Northwestern and the
Carbon Cutoff branch which is to tap coal
fields north of Medicine Bow.
Bids for grading on the I'VE extensions
will be opened at Omaha April 6 and
operations will nmenc Immediately
after that date. Work will be rushed, as
the season is already well advanced.
, 1889-03-28

A great amount of political engineer
ing will be done by friends of candidates
to secure for their man the first place on
the ticket, and the best man will proba-
bly, secure the coveted place. Then if
Endorsed by the majority of the people,
the election is assured. Electric Bitters
has been put to the front, its merits passed
upon, has been Endorsed, and unanimous
" given the first place, mons remedies
peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure
of all diseases of kidneys, liver and stom-
ach. Electric Bitters, being guaranteed,
is a safe investment. Price soc. and 81
per bottle at DR.. w. N. Hunts drug
store.
, 1889-03-28

Bishop Sharp, president of the Utah
Northern, passed west in his special car
yesterday.
Master Mechanic Gushing, Storekeeper
Stafford and Chief Baggage Agent Tray
nor passed east.
Chief Engineer Bogue will be here to-
day to consult with Contractor Sharp.
, 1889-03-28

VIM. Wilson has sold to Edward B.
Hendrie a sixth interest in the noted
Michigan copper mine in the Rawhide
Buttes mining district. This is one of
the best copper mines in the territory and
Mr.. nendrie, who is a Denver man, has
secured a bargain.
, 1889-03-28

Contractor Sharp yesterday returned
from Fort Collins where he ordered
stone for the shop foundations. Materiel
will commence to arrive mex week. Mr..
Peterson, the local contractor is to fur
nish some Iron Mountain stone for the
abnn,
, 1889-03-28
Mhipped n

Two young men of the south side were
yesterday a~rraigned before Judge Carroll
charged with beating Mrs. McKeever.
They will be given a hearing to-day. Con
stable Smith made the arrest.
, 1889-03-28

The Union Pacific has added another
round to its ladder of popularity by plac-
inS a buffet service for its sleeping car
patrons in the Pullman sleepers run on
the regular overland trains.
, 1889-03-28

Frank Whitney, once city marshal OF
Cheyenne and for many wears a freighter
between this city and the Black Hills, is
now a member of the Montana %lcGisla-
ture. All old. timers remember Mr..
Whitney, who was one of the %iolliest and
best natured men alive.
, 1889-03-28
For tine watch repairing.
David Miller, Idelman Block.

Nasal catarrh. the forerunner of deaf
ness and consumption, radically cured by
DIR. IL. j. Smiths new treatment. See
his advertisement in another column.
, 1889-03-28

What in the world is the reason you will
cough and keep coughing and still keep try
ing inferior medicines when Beggs' Cher
ry Cough Syrup will positively relieve your
cough at once2 This is no advertising
scheme, but an actual fact, and we guaran-
tee it. For sale by W. N. Hunt, drug
gist.
, 1889-03-28

A fresh lot of f. A. Kennedy's fancy
crackers and cakes at f. s. Johnston 4
Bro.
, 1889-03-28

For good hack service call telephone No. 9.
, 1889-03-28

Fresh oysters received daily at the
Saddle Rock.
, 1889-03-28

& Historical Dept; Cheyenne, Hyo.
, 1889-03-28
FOR HENT.

DOR RENT-Dyer's hotel bar and BIZ
L lard room, all furnished. Apply at
OVERS hotel.
, 1889-03-28
WANTED.

WANTED-A girl to do general house
w work. Inquire at corner Twenty
third and Van Lehman streets.
, 1889-03-28

WANTED-Cook or nurse girl to work
W at Fort Russell. Apply at this office.
, 1889-03-28

TOR RENT-Furnished rooms with or
l. without board. Rooms for light house
keeping. MRS. A. CURLEY, POOP,
Eddy street.
, 1889-03-28

DOR SALE-Hotel furnished, lease
L on building. Address c. +. HALL,
Cheyenne, Wyo.
, 1889-03-28
FOR SALE.

DOR SALE--Some good residence and
L business property for sale cheap. Also a
ranch and stock. JAS. NJ. NEWMAN,
$40 West Seventeenth street.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-02-04
rhe Fallibility OF Human Judgment.


When Mr. Johns Hopkins died rt Baili
more at the end oi 1873, ho ef. to the uoi-
ve.sty aud hospital which he had founded
six years before, what was regarded as q
magnificent endowment. According to the
estimate which he had made himself and
which WAS made by ali the leading fnsn.
ciers of Baltimore, it amounted to more than
So, 600 900 in the soundest of securities, for
there were included in the bequest II 500
shares of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stock,
and that stock was looked upon by the
whole community as the safest and best Of
Investments. Aet was then selling at near
~ 200, and yielded net annual income OF
Sl75000, the ys!ue of thi7 part OF the en-.
doWmeut alone was set down 10y oil Balti.
more as about IS 100000. Hence came The
chief resources of the institution. Yet now,
only fifteen years after MIR. JohDe Hopkins
death, tho university is iu SO great financial
difficulties that its friends are trying to raise
money for its support. Instead Of paying
S175,000 year, tho Baltimore and Ohio
stock pays nothing at all lOstead Of hay
ing been good Investment, it was very
bad one and yet ne was msn noted for
his business shrewdness, and nobody in Bal
timore, except Mr. Garrett himself, knew
more about the road and its condition.
Whatever doubts he may have had as to
other investments, he had none rs TO this !;
and therefore when he founded q great
university 10 perpetuate his name,
he left to it bic Baltimore and
Ohio shares, iu the condolences that
its financial prosperity was permanently Sc
cured. Yet at that time the railroad was
not in condition to justify any such faith
in ita future. The elder Garrett had great
reputation in Baltimore as railroad man,
and he was allowed to be dcspotio in the af
fairs of the company; but when the actual
state of those affairs was exposed after his
death, it was found that the road had suf-
fered seriously under his uudisputed mana.
cement. The directors and the people of
Baltimore had taken him at bis own esti-
mate OF himself and risked their money in
proof of their creduity They bought and
held the stock at high prices, and those who
had most faith in 1t were men like Mr..
Johns Hopkins, who were in association
with MIR. Garrett in the direction of the
road. In the whole history Of e1dowments
there is nothing more remarkable than the
outcome of Mr.. Johns Hopkins credulty
with regard to this. Yet he was man of
extraordinary sagacty in the general man.
agement of his business affairs, and because
of it succeeded in accumulatiDg one of the
great American fortunes. He was close
listed, unsentimental person, wary and sus-
picious, and yet he trusted the bulk OF bis
estate to the management OF man as 20
whose abilities he was utterly deceived. lie
banked on his faith in Mr.. Garrett, and even
went so far as to make dependent on that
faith the very existence of the university
which he founded to carry his name down
to posterity. No more striking proof of the
falllbility of human judgement could be fur.
nished.-N Y. Sun
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-02-04

THE JACKSON STATUE.-Tbe model, in
clay, of the proposed statue in bronze, to
be erected to the memory Of General Stone
wall Jackson, at Lexington, as heretofore
stated. has been accepted by the jackson
Memorial Association.
The model, which was designed By
Edward V. Valentine, the distinguished
Virginia sculptor, who designed and execu
ted the recumbent figure of General Robert
E. Lee In the mausoleum of Washington
and Lee University, is two feet high, and
represents Jackson at the first battle of
Fredericksburg, December 18th, 1862. He
is shown with barred head looking in the
distance straight before him. In his right
band be holds field glass, and rests en- his
sword in his left hand. The coat is button
ed close up to the throat, belted ct the
waist, with large loose trousers tucked in
high cavalry boots A peculiar poaition of
the shoulders gives to the model a life like
cast that has won general opinion of its
trueness to life.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-02-04
By E. T. Lucas, Auctioneer.

RY VIRTUE Of deed of trust executed by Lee
~ Makely and wife on the 10th day OF June,
1SSS, and recorded in deed book No. 20. page
19S, one of the land records for the city of Alex
andris, Va, and by the direction of the Board of
Directors of the Mechanics Bnilding Association
No. 2 of Alexandria, Va. the undersigned, trus-
tees, will sell at public auction in front Of the
Royal street entrance of the Market Building, at
II O'Clock noon on SATURDAY February 10th,
1883, the following property, to wit:
ALL THAT TENEMENT AND LOT OF
GROUND, in the city of Alexandria Va, bound
ed as follows: Beginning at point on the weGt
side of Henry street one hundred and ten feet
north OF Gibbon street. and at tho middle OF an
alley three feet four inches wide, snd running
thence west parallel to Gbbon street ninety two
feet; thence south parallel TO Henry street twen-
ty.one feet inch; thence east parallel to Glib.
bon street ninety two feet to Henry street, and
thence south ON Henry street twenty -one feet ono
inch to the place of beginning at the centre OF tho
said alley which shall be kept open for the use of
the two lots OF which this lot is one and sIl ap.
purtenances to the same belonging
Terms of Sale Cash
J. D. X. LUHT,
E;E, F; GoRBElT, Trustees,
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