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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-27
MURDERED BY A WOMAN,
A Girl Shoots Il Man Because He
leased Her

Louisa Epperson, daughter of wealth.
farmer, of Barkersville Mo- shot and killed
Julius Hofer, Il young man employed by her
father, as he sat at the family table eating
his dinner. Hofer had been in the habit of
teasing the girl about her admirers, and at
the breakfast table HOfer made some remarks
he repeated the remark she would shoot him.
HOfer promised to refrain, but at dinner be-
gan again on the same subject. The girl
without a word, arose, left the table, walked
deliberately into another room, picked up a
3S-calibre revolver, and returning to the
dinng-rOOm, shot HOfer in the right side OF
the head, over the ear, and he fell to the floor
dead. The murderess is described as an uu-
usually attractive girl about nineteen years
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-12-27
A Kentucky Industry.

The happy and fortunate breeders of
fast horses in Kentucky can now trace
the interesting history of their industry
back through full century. The first
racing meeting was held hundred years
ago. Now Kentucky horses are famed
the world over. The industry mas been
faithfully fostered, with magnificent re-
suits. The Kentucky horse is not an &C
cident or the product of few years.
Frederick (Nd.l Meas.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-28
Time to Reform the Calendar,

An ingenious Yankee, with an eye to
adjusting himself to his environment,
has moved a reorganization of the cal
endar. Winter, he contends, should
begin on january and include March;
spring should commence with April
and include June; July, August and
September should constitute summer,
and the fall, beginning with October,
should not end till after Christmas.
His new calendar would play the mis-
chief with traditions, but it would
come nearer to actual experience than
does the present Anticipated European
article. The procession OF the equi-
noxes is too slow altogether for the
American climate. Facts are on the
side of reform, and if the weather does
not speedily repent and bring forth
fruits more meet for repentance than
rank grass and dropsical potatoes, the
newly-established Department of Ag.
riculture will be called ON to revise the
calendar. Brooklyn Citizen. -.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-28
Emigration from GERMANY,

A Berlin journal publishes synopsis
of German emigration since 1881. The
total for that period is 1853, 297 per-
sons. Of these emigrants, the destina-
ton of no fewer than 1,619,S16 was
the United States, 33,443 went to Bra
zil, $500 to other parts of South
America, Is. 341 to Australia, 4,7SO to
British North America, 4,047 to Africa
and kO66 to Asia. There remain I'M
accounted for 1865 emigrants sailing
from French ports, though it is be-
lieved that nearly all of these went to
the United States. The year of highest
emigration was in 1881, when goo, 900
Germans left their fatherland. The
lowest number of emigrants during
any year of the period is found in
1S77-viz.: 22.89S. Brazil received
most Of her Germans long ago, nearly
1900 going to that Empire in 1928.
latterly the tide has run much more
strongly to other parts of South Amer
lea, 1,723 going there in 1888, for ex-
ample, while only 1929 went to Brazil.
The total emigration in 1886 amounted
to SO, 218, a lower figure than for the
preceding seven years In 1887 it was
104, $50; in 1888, 90, 1893; but in the lat
ter year the returns from Havre wer>
missing. Times.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-28
Bound to Give Satisfac ton.

Oppenheimer-Couldn't I sell yor
some lead bencils to-dayp NJ
Merchant-No; I don't want any
pencils. &@ t' T.
Oppenheimer - Nrst-class bencils,
tree for five cent. " "'>'ss4...., 80 Z
Merchant-It doesn't make any dit.
ference what kind of pencils get
people always borrow and steal 'em.
OppenheimerY You want TO buy some
OF desc; dere SO poor nobody Vouldn'l
steal 'em. America.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-28
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Spaniards have caught the
bicycle fever, and there is great de-
mand for cycles"
Lake Biwa, in Japan, is the largest
sheet Of fresh water in that country.
having an area Of 800 square miles.
Queen Victoria during the last
twenty-five years has received AT
agricultural prizes On her Winds or
farm stock.
The Princess Imperial of Brazil
has organized corps of negro troops
whose Office 1t is to act as an Inn perial
guard. @
Some forty miles from Barcelona
there is an actual mountain of very
pure salt, which is hewn out in the
open air, like stone from quarry.
The proceedings of the Japanese
Parliament are reported verbatim by
means OF a stenographic system orig
inal in Japan. The characters are
written in perpendicular rows from
right to left.
Belgium. of all nations, has the
greatest density of population, the
largest diversity of occupation, the
most uniform distribution of wealth,
and the minimum of pauperism.
There is every probability that
Japan will soon become entirely indie.
pendent of other countries as regards
its coal supply, vast coal fields having
been recently discovered on the islands
of Kinsio and Yesso.
In the Prussian army recruits are
regarded as narrow-chested, the cir.
conference of whose chests is less thar
half the length of their bodies. When
such narrow-chested men are not wild
ened by drill, they are weeded out al
physically incapable, or likely soon
to be.
"A Russian officer with the same
powers as an American constable car
make or forbid a holiday in village
forbid work on a certain day, order
every house to be searched, seize and
hold all cattle for inspection, and il
fine play autocrat with higher hani
than any man in Germany, France OF
England.
"A swindler in Vienna, who had
borrowed large sums of money and
had collected a great deal of jewelry
which was unpaid for, knew he coult
not get away from the city by train
50 he advertised balloon ascension
and parachute performance. He GO
the balloon made on credit also, and
in company with his wife, not only
went up. but went off. His capture
was as curious as his escape. Tha
evening a pigeon came to Vienna bear
ing dispatch from a correspondent
to the Carrier Pigeon Club announcing
the descent of the balloon, and tn.
man was soon caught.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-28
BRITISH INVESTMENTS.

Why John Bulls Surplus Capital Is Com
ing to the United States.
The amount of money which has
within the last year or two come into
this country from England in the way
of investment is simply prodigious.
In a few instances, such as the English
purchases of breweries, the opera
tions have been carried on in a
manner that has attracted public at
tention; but we should say that this
was the exception, and that in the vast
majority of cases the investments made
have been personal ones and have
been made without attracting atten-
ton except in the immediate locality.
For long time past both English cap
ital and, Englishmen have gone to the
West, the one to find investments in
improved agricultural properties or in
cattle ranches and the other 10 enter
into American life as farmers, cattle
raisers and sometimes in mercantile
pursuits. But of late the set of the
tide seems to have been southwark,
and, according to recent reports,
English capital and Englishmen
are to be found, one in large
amounts and the other in considerable
numbers, in Southwestern Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and in
other parts of that great central Sec
ton OF our Southern country. which, if
climate, accessibility and natural re-
sources count for any thing, is destined
to be the manufacturing center of the
United States, this being only another
form of saying the future workshop
of the world. These foreign investors
have been drawn to this section by the
inducements held out and by the many
opportunities of obtaining there larger
returns upon investments than can be
hoped for in the Old World. Since the
conversion of the English three per
cents under the national-debt CONVEX
sion act of 1888, those who were hold
ers of consols have been compelled to
content themselves with only p
per cent, and as in many instances
their incomes and outgoes have
been fixed quantities, this has
implied the necessity of foregoing ao-
eustomed methods of life. Such in
vestors have been compelled to look
elsewhere for revenue-bearing invest
ments, and have found in the United
States industrial fields for the employ
ment of their money that they could
not find elsewhere. More than this.
there is a growing belief in England
that the United States is destined to be
the great country of the future; that
army-ridden Europe is indulging in
slow suicide, and that it is on this side
of the Atlantic that the industrial
future of the world is to be found. So
thinking, it is but natural that those
who have spare funds should seek to
place them here rather than keep them
ct home, and that young Englishmen
Of intelligence and spirit, finding the
chances of life contracted in their own
densely-peopled country, should con-
clude that it was we'll for them to
throw in their lot with their kinsmen
in the New World. Chicago Journal.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-28

At Reinickendorf. village near
Berlin, 1t to reported consumptive
sanitarium is to be erected on q novel
plan, utilizing the supposed therapeu-
tic influence Of association with certain
animals. A large cylindrical building
Will be occupied in the upper part BY
the patients while the ground floor
Will be given up to the accommodation
OF large numbers Of milch COWS, the
calculations from which will be- con-
Quoted TO the apartments above. A
whey and buttermilk diet will also be
contributed by the under boarders.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-28
NEW-FASHiONED SlNG,N.

80 - 10 j
Afore Sue went ter town ter school
she sung ez nat'ral ez bird;
she didn't MARBLE then by rule,
But when her pipin' voice heard
IA quit work jest ter hev tune;
The men about the place did, too: -
But scnce she came from school last June
She don't sing like she use ter do.
In singin' I'm q tarnal Ounce,
Somehow can't stick ter IN air: :
But when lot sings all ter once
growl u few words here an there.
But Sue, n baby, tired O play,
Inter her mothers arms 'ud creep,
An in her drowsy little way
She'd kind o. sing herself to sleep.
liked her HYMN tunes mighty we'll;
Her hymns in central struck me right,
Like Dennis an old "Silver Street,"
And there was One-my favorite.
Now how was it that tune began.
only recollect one bit
"Her brow was like the snowdrop an
Her throat was like the swan's''-that's it.
An then there was song about
"Endearin' young charms" an ez how
II she should lose them charms, no doubt,
The Teller d love her jest ez now.
An one about u gal whose beau
Was not Well fixed an went away;
1nen eZ her fathers funds was low,
She took chup named robin Gray"
An now all day she caterwauls
Four hours or so an never fails
at lots o monkey-shines She calls
Her eXercsn' an her scales.
The same consists o prancn' roun'
With whirligigs and curlykews
An caperln' up an dwindlin' doun
With no more tune then squeaky shoes
An if so be her ma Observes:
Yer pa would like ter hear yc sing,''
she then begins ter rack my nerves
With some consumed Eyetalian thing.
These songs that's writ in furrin tongues
Are mighty high. toned tunes may be;
They may be good ter test the lungs
But words jest makes song fer me.
don't enjoy her singin' much,
Is'pose my taste is kinder rough,
AN all the things she's larned is such
Gymnastic hyfalutin' stuff.
Them hymn tunes now she says is queer;
amt no doubt but what that's true;
But still visit she'd let US hear
The old songs like she use ter do.
Harry B. Smith, in America.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-08-28

According to the Indian Mail, the
Madras Museum now possesses the
skeleton of the largest elephant ever
killed in India This elephant was
the source of great terror to the in
habitants of South Areot by whom it
was killed and buried. The museum
authorities dispatched ataxidermist to
the spot to exhume the bones and
transfer them to Madras. The skele-
ton is exactly ten feet six inches in
height, being eight inches higher than
the highest hitherto measured.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-11-09
THE COCKROACH.
An UnweIcOme Importation from the
Sunny Lands of Asia.

An UnwelcOme Importation from the
Sunny Lands of Asia.
Comparatively few people know that
this familiar of the kitchen is not by
any means native of these chimes.
1t is an importation from the warm
and sunny lands of Asia, brought over,
perhaps, something like two centuries
ago. The first arrivals must have
reached this country as stowaways on
board ship, and finding themselves in
congenial surroundings. they multi
piled apace. Now they seem almost
everywhere, but for long time after
they swarmed in the kitchens of town
houses they were unknown in the
country. No doubt if they had been
natives of a similar climate they would
have quickly reached even remote viii
lagos, but they fortuna ely have deli
cate constitutions aid can not stand
exposure to cold. Many people must
have noticed that it is only in hot
summer weather that they are seen
far away from the warmth of the
kitchen fire. 1t is this need for high
temperature which causes them to
concentrate where it is most constant
ly maintained. Cool larders and pam
tries are comparatively secure against
their attacks. in spite of the fact that
they would find better fare therein
than the crumbs and particles upon
the kitchen floor. Their common de-
scription as horrible black beetles"
is curious misnomer. They are not
black, nor are they beetles; the only
part of the description which is at all
applicable to them is the epithet ''hor.
rible, " with which few vii! quarrel
N. V. Ledger,
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-11-09
QUEEN VICTORIA'S EYES.
They Are Quick in Detecting EvIdenc
of Feminine Frivolity.

They Are Quick in Detecting Evidences
of Feminine FrivoIity.
Every forward" was the criticism
said to have been made by the Queen
of England on the occasion of the pre-
sentation of one of our most beautiful
American girls. Said distinguished
English gentleman, few years ago:
"Her Majesty seems to tend very
strictly to the matter in hand, but
there is not trick of manner or de-
tail of dress that escapes her notice.
Her intuitions are so keen, and the val
ue that she sets on mOdesty is so
great, her interest in the young so
sincere, that she has become a famous
reader of character. The Queen de-
tests flint, and she can detetect one
of these specimens almost at a glance
Neither velvet nor satin nor precious
stones can cast sufficient glamor over
a tendency of this kind to hide it from
these truly motherly eyes.
1t is said that one day when Her Maj
esty was present in her carriage at a
military review, the Princess Royal,
then about fourteen, seemed disposed
to be little familiar and, possibly,
slightly coquettish, in thoughtless,
girlish fashion, with the young officers
of the guard. The Queen tried to
catch her daughters eye, but the gay
uniforms were too attractive. and the
little Princess paid no attention to the
silent endeavors of her mother. At
last, in a spirit of fun, she capped the
climax of misdemeanors by dropping
her handkerchief over the side of the
carriage, ana the Queen saw that it
was not an accident. Immediately two
or three gentleman sprang from their
horses to return it to her, but the hand
of royalty waved them off.
Thank you, but it is not necessary, "
said Her Majesty. Leave it just
where it lies," and then turning to her
daughter, she said: Now 1 must ask
you to get down and pick up Jour
handkerchief.
But, mamma"
The little Princess face was scarlet,
and her lip quivered with shame.
Eyes, Immediately, said the Queen.
The royal footman had opened the
door and stood waiting by the side of
the carriage. and the poor mortified
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-11-09
SOUND FARM PHILOSOPHY.
Bits of Wholesome Advice Which AR
Worth Reading Twice.

Bits of Wholesome Advice Which Are
Worth Reading Twice.
Before you enlarge production,
cheaper its cost.
The moon is never right while the
seed-bed is cloddy.
Country roads are too often paved
with good intentions.
No man ever reaped foul wheat from
clean ground and clean seed.
When prices are low is just the time
to improve your farm animals.
A cross may be better than full
blood for feeding, but never for breed
ing.
Fortunes favorites are the men
whose thoughts make ways for their
actions.
If there we're more drains on the
farm there would be fewer druggists
in the village.
Make easy and short the way to the
butcher of the animal that has learned
to break fences.
There is some sentiment about hav-
ing an Ice mouse on the farm, but
there is at least as much financial wis
dom.
Pay cash, if you have to borrow
money to do it. The banker will
charge you less than the merchant for
credit.
Good farming consists as much in
overcoming adverse circumstances as
an improving fully favorable Oppor-
tunities.
On an average, the man with the
fewest clods in the field in the fall has
the most wheat in the field the next
ummer.
Let the hogs clean up the waste ap-
pies and peaches under the trees, and
there will be fewer waste fruits next
year. There will also be better hogs
this year.
You can not increase your products
without increasing your expenses; but
production increases at a faster rate
than expenses increase. Herein is the
greater profit of good farming
American Agriculturist.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-11-09
FROM FOREIGN FIELDS.

THERE is growing demand in England
for human skin leather.
MORE deaths occur in England from bron-
chitis than from any other disease.
THE residents Of Hawarden have decided
to erect statue to Mr.. Gladstone in COM
memoration of his golden wedding.
THERE is large body of English Mussul-
mans at Cape Town, the descendants Of
Malay seamen. Their language is English,
but they are provided with mollahs and
Arabic teachers from Constantinople.
THE Empress Frederick, in fultillment Of
wish of her late illustrious consort, sent,
on the anniversary of the battle of Sedan,
sums of money to great number of needy
soldiers who were wounded in that engage
ment.
THE heir to the Brazilian throne, the
Condo d. En-, in a reply to republican man.
ifesto said that when the people signitied by
their votes that the Imperial family is a
hindrance to the progress of the Nation
they would retire.
THERE is place in the Paris exhibition
plan marked Panama." and in the grounds
a little building bearing that name; but
there is no plan and no exhibit. Just as the
exhk,ition opened the Panama Company
went into the hands of the liquidators.
THE French authorities undertook to en-
ploy a German specialist to check the
spread of cholera in Tonquin, but the
French medicos preferred the disease to
the German doctor and recorded so vigor-
Gus protest that his appointment was
Cancelled.
THE Forth bridge has stirred the engi-
neering world so that Schneider & Co., the
great French iron makers, have prepared a
design for channel bridge from Dover to
Calais. The length is twenty-four miles,
and the number of piers proposed to be
built in the sea is 100.
A BALL and concert were gotten up by an
English clergyman in order to provide the
parish with hearse. This has been out
done by a ball which was held at Dingwall,
IN Rosshire, Scotland, in order to provide
an operating table for the Ross Memorial
spital in the town.
KING OTTo, of Bavaria, narrowly escaped
being killed a short time ago in his castle
of Fursteureid. While passing through
the dining-room the chandelier fell from
the ceiling and just grazed the head of his
Majesty. An attendant who stood near by
was badly wounded. The rooms of the
castle have since been examined, and,
with two exceptions, declared unsafe and
unfit for habltation. The King is ncw con-
fined to these two rooms.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-11-09

little girl was obliged to step down
and rascue her own handkerchief. This
was hard, but it was salutary, and
probably nipped in the bud the girl
first impulse toward coquetry. Amer
lean mothers would do well to follow
so meritorious and notable an exam
pie.
Her Majesty has spoken very plain
and sensible words to the British no.
bility in regard to the education and
management of their girls, and on the
subjects of Irritation and immodest
dressing she is eloquent. II had no
idea your mother observed my harm
less coquetry," said a young lady
whose mother had been spoken to by
the Queen.
Il have no doubt it was harmless, :"
replied the Princess Alice. who was the
embodiment of kindness and sympathy,
and yet who never hesitated to speak
the truth, ''but it was certainly
thoughtless and unbecoming. 1t
wouldn't be safe for one of us to be
coquettish," she added, with a smile.
'But | was not aware that Her
Majesty ever looked at me after the
first formality was over" the young
English girl responded, obviously.
The Princess smile deepened into a
laugh, as she said: Let me tell you
just one thing, my dear; the Queen of
England has not one pair of eyes. but
fifty, and those in the back of her head
are marvels. youths Companion.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1889-11-09
Edison on Electricity.

You ask me about the future of cleo
tricity. 1t is the coming motive
power. 1t will be used on all railroads
some day, but the point is to get an
economical engine. My theory is to
have immense dynamos located all
along the line of the road and have
the electricity conveyed from these
stationary engines to the locomotives
by wires through the rails. For ex-
ample, 1 would put two big engines
between New York and Philadelphia
and enough power could be furnished
TO whisk the limited at the rate of one
hundred miles per hour, -Pittsbureh
Dispatch