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Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1889-01-26
T0An Whom Il May Concern

THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT MY WIFE.
Jenny Carroll, has left my bed and board
against my will and consent. and I shall be no
longer responsible for any bills contracted by
her in my name or upon my account.
FRANK CAROLI.
Eureka, Nevada. Dec. 30. 1883. d22
Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1889-01-26

1t fs hereby ordered that the foregoing notice
Of application for 9 patent be published for the
period of ten consecutive weeks In the Eureka
SEMINAL. a weekly newspaper published ct Eu.
reka, Em eka county, Nevada.
n2ll0w D. II. HALL, Register.
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Why 1900 is Not a Leap Year.

The following explains why the year
19Ju will not lie counted among leap
wears: The year is 3Gj days, 5 hours and
~ minutes long; II minutes are taken
every year to make the year 36ht days
long, and every fourth year we have AMI
extra day. This was Julins Cusar's ar
rangemeut.
Where do these | minutes come from?|
They come from the future and are paid
by emitting leap year every 100 years.
But if leap year is omitted regularly
every 1O,th year, in the course of sOO|
wears it is found that the II miuutes|
taken each year VIII not only have been
pa!d back, but that whole day will
have been given up. So Pope Gregory
MIL. who improved on Ca sar's calen-l
dar in ljS?. decrced that every cen.l
turial year divisible by four should be al
leap year after all. so we borrow II
m nutcs each year, more than paying our
borrowings lack by emitting three leapI
years, in three centurial years and square
matters by having u leap year in the
fourth cenlurial year.
Pope Gregory's arrangement is so ex.
act and the borrowing and paying back
balances so close that we borrow moreI
than we pay back to the extent of only
one day in 1886 years.
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A Lecture on Night.Wrappers.

When the air is cold and the weather
inclement it is the general custom toJ
wear garments of extra thickness and
warmth, and to SIT round roaring fires.
But, on going to bed, what takes place2
In ninety-nine cases out of one hundred
people will pass from the warm living.
rooms into chilly bed,r rooms. AS if theI
sudden change from extreme heat-forI
there can be little doubt that what with
fires, gas and insufficient ventilation,
people are in the habit of breathing an |
atmosphere the temperature OF which Is |
considerably higher than it should hy.l
chemically be- to excessive cold is mott
sufficiently absurd, they proceed to di-I |
vest themselves of their several warm
garments, to garb themselves in thinI
linen mic ghtshirts, and to consign their
heated bodies to the cooling influence Of
unsympathetic sheets. Conventionality
has habituated one to tie custom; but
really serious contemplation of it can.
not fail to make an utter absurdlty OF
the custom clearly apparent.
The Chinese, from whom many useful
lessons have been learnt by more civilized
QaClOQS, Cdu Sfo uS O HiInhAS ou eAtAS
subject. John Chinaman sleeps in the
same kind of clothes as he wears in the
DAYTIME, the easy and flowing garments
to which he is addicted allowing of this
without causing inconvenience. West
ern nations are not favored in the latter
respect; but still it would be quite pos
sible to replace the airy nightshirt at
present in vogue by some garment which,
as regards warmth, was equivalent to
the several distinct articles of clothing
constituting the working dress worn by
day. jewellers in foreign countries in
variably sleep in flannel garments, and
the backwoodsman wraps himself in q
stout woolen blanket and deties the ele-
ments. They are sensible. Thehuman
frame should. undoubtedly, be clothed
in wooden garments, for wool is bad
conductor of heat. Enyeloped in flannel
the body maintains normal tempera-
ture. which is of the greatest importance.
No sooner does the temperature fall than
the action OF the various functions be-
comes impaired; the nervts get out OF
gear, and the whole system suffers dis
Organization. - Washington Star.
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10 with q bottle and pan. Once he

up with q bottle and pan. Once he
stumbled in his haste, but quickly re-
covering himself, he came on to the
deck. The silent figure had paused and
turned toward the voice. 1t moves to-
ward it, and then with wild cry
springs forward. The light from the
ships lantern falls on Old Toms face,
haggard and blanched and excited; on
the face of the other, too-young and
hearty, but sad and white with passion.
And in the yellow glow the two men
know each other.
With a grand sweep of the hand the
stranger has dashed from the old mans
hand the bottle, and it lies smashed
upon the timbers, while the young,
manly face is thrust into the others and
voice cries in his ears: Course it! Let
it lie there 1t was that robbed me o.
my wife. It was that drove me away
into the world wanderer in search OF
her. Curse the stuff! 1t was the cause
of ALL" and the heavily shodden foot
comes down on the splintered glass till
it crackles beneath it. Old Tom has
started back aghast at the young mans
vehemence, but in that moment rises to
his lips cry that sweeps enmity and
passion away:
"My God, Ned, it was for her! She
is dying"
The strong hand of the young seaman
is on the others arm, and the face is
even whittier as he demands:
"What do you mean? She is dying.
Where2 Speak, mani Tell me at once"
There, in that boat. Yes. that old
hulk of canawler," he adds, in response
to the others inquiring glance. "Thats
what we've ccme to now"
The young man turns and is at the
vessels side before Old Tom can call
out: "Where are you going' You will
kill her. Didn't I tell you she is dying
dying of want"
From the Others breast comes groan,
deep, prolonged one, and he says in an
altered tone:
LEAD me to her. God will not rob
mo of her now. Come along"
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The two pass over the wharf and 60
down into the cabin of the old boat,
from which the dim light is shining, and
there, awakened from her swoon, but
still dazed and frightened. is the girl of
the young mans love, the wife of his
thoug ghts, lying like blighted flower.
The father was the first to descend,
and he turned at the entrance to restrain
his companion.
"a moment, Ned. Wait a moment.
The surprise is too sudden"
The young man drew back into the
shadow while the other lifted up the
woman and seated her by the berth. "l
am better, father" she said, and laid her
head wearily beside the sleeping child.
But old Toms actions soon attracted her.
He was smiling, actually smiling, and
rubbing his hands with infinite compla-
cency. She said nothing but looked at
him inquiringly.
Its good nights Christmas Eve, "
he blurted out. "l've always heerd so.
Amt you, Libbie2 Sandy Claws brings
things t chil'ren, and friends come to-
gether and news comes O. people that
amt been round for ever 50 long. Don't
they, ehf"
She looked at him more intently than
ever, and there was an eager, appealing
look in her eyes.
"No one knows when luck may change.
Do they'" the man continued.
"Fathcr, you have heard something.
Tell me, is it about him2'
"'Bout Ned2 Well, yes, have. Now,
don't take on, Libbie. You'll be quiet
and easy, like a COOL GAL"
1T is about him. You have seen him.
You have net HIM. He has come for me
at last"
She turned toward the cabin door and
was stretching her hand toward it when
she was clasped to the breast of her hus-
band and his voice repeated: Sat last. |"
There were tears and carcsses and e1-
plantations. Ned had come back from
his wandcrings as mate of the Zig bark
with promise of soon having the COM
rand of vessel for himself. In the Joy
of the moment all the ma: dsh;ps and pri.
vaations of the past were forgotten, and
as the bluff seaman cuddled his own
child, whose acquaintance he then made
for the first time, he said to the happy
mother:
'Didn't I tell you, Libbie. whenever
YOU looked at your wedding ring to re-
member me, and be sure would keep my
word"
She glanced at the tiny circlet and
her eyes caught sight of Tom sitting
with bended head, and the tears stream
ing down his cheeks. And as she
pressed her lips to the tr.nket she said:
"God bless that ring! Ithas brought
US JOY and happiness on Christmas Eve"
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Christmas HunOr.

The muss that children are anxious to
get into hristmus.
AS the Christmas tree is bent, so is the
youthful heart made glad.
Christmas is the anniversary of dys-
pepsia's fowlest conspiracy against COM
fort.
Hose more despiscd by little children
than the man who takes no stockln'
Santa CLAUSE
The man who takes unto himself a
wife on Christmas eve will he sure to
have we'll filled stockings.
1t is said that child born on Christ
mas will always hate turkey and goose,
and lean toward Goldfish and bacon.
The small boy now puts in eight hours
day fattening his nose against the win
dows of confectionery and toy stores.
SIS Eriss Kingle alive, papa!"
The small boy said.
"Ah! yes, and kickln2.''
Said the family head.
Christmas is rapidly coming this way,
and the young man with a No: foot
will, as usual, be presented with pair
of No. slippers.
Listen to the sleigh bells jingle:
See tia merry snowflakes mingle!
How It ma les the life blood tingle.
A royal welcome to old kriSs Kringle!
If you really desire to perpetrate a
practical joke upon your printer this
year, send him the amount CT your sub.
scription on Christmas.
A young man who gave his girl $75
gold watch last hr:stmas, married her
during the sun mer and now he thinks
the present was 'time" well spent.
What time the holidays roll round.
The bad boy, still in frocks.
Led by the ear, to his ma draws near,
And getteth his Christmas box.
"Mamma, said the little one, "do
YOU know what you are going to give
me for Christmas" "Why, yes" said
the mother, "of course know" "Well,
for mercy's sake don't tell me-" re-
sponded the puss with great vehemence.
AT TIE EDITORS TABLE.
Ye Christmas tide now ebheth low
Yule.log and carols, chimes,
Ye holly and We mistietoe
And all ye merrle times
Have gone. perchance to come no more;
Yet ut our christmas feasts,
With turkey, goose and other beasts,
We still bring i'll ye bore.
The Benedict Before Christmas.
With bundle
See him trundle
Down the sire t with body bent!
Eyes from sockets
Start lik> rockets!
IN his pockets
He can't find single cent.
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lofty buildings the radiance of electricity

lofty buildings the radiance of electricity
showed in the fog, blue and pallid, as
death lights at some internal orgie.
$50 this IS Christmas Eve. eh3" NUT
tered Old Tom with snort that was
half groan. "Christmas Eve, and nary
a bite in the locker nor nickel in the
pocket! It's blasted hard-blasted hard
for man that's seen better days" :.
He crunched the pipestem between his
teeth and made another round OF the
deck, but stopped when he had reached
the old place again.
"There's some as 'ud say twas mis-
fortin did it. And some rs 'ud croak
bout ill-luck. 'Twusn't neither. Twas
rum. Kum and me own mulishness. IF
dadn't driv that boy away, he'd be- now
maxim a good livin' for her, no matter
what wus about, and she wouldn't be
in there dyin'-dyin' for bite to eat"
As he spoke he glanced at the little
pokcy hole in the cabin, where a faint
light glimmered, and turned again to the
dark line Of the water front.
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CURIOUS FACTS.

Portsmouth, Ohio, is to have c@orn' @
fair sl
England built her first steamboat IN.
1915. 2,5
Every mineral abouuds in Kansas e4
cept borax.
The Emperor of Austria pays twd
cents apiece for his cigars.
The first male Chinese baby born IN
Boston. has just made its advent.
The word "asthoree," occurring 10
Irish songs, is simply d term OF endear
ment.
The penny or denarius of the New
Testament was worth 1875 cents or on1
money.
In the population of the world Chins
stands first, the British Empire second
and Russia third.
Charles Mitchell, of Indiana, has gone
crazy over trying to find a pesch-treeI
which would bear fruit in the winter.
Fireworks are said to have been known
to the Chinese in remote ages. They
were invented in Europe, at Florence,(
about 1860.
Whenever twins are born in Hartford,
Conn.,, q certain lady of that city vlsltS
the mother and gives each baby hand
some present.
Charles Jackson, a Virginian, has spen
thirty.two years looking for buried
treasure, and is not discouraged yet. H9|
says all things come to him who waits.
Among the students at Princeton Col
lege, New Jersey, is one seventy .twd
years old. lie is studying for the minis
try, and expects to graduate this term
In st. raurs, Lonoon, rnere u
whispering gallery. A voice uttered
most feebly at one side of the gallery
heard distinctly at the opposite side,
great distance off. IL
The largest continuous sleeping.car'
service in the world is that on the Santa
Fe system. which runs through sleepers
from San Diego, Cal, to Chicago, dis
tance of 2311 miles. 3,
Egyptian topaz. brought up from the'
ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeil
shows the same ineXtinguishable color
to-day, after it has been buried hundreds
and hundreds of years.
When the doctors can't save a native
of China, the Ling Hoop, or prayer mani3
is called in. For one fourth of cent hs,
will pray half an hour, and if the victim
doesn't rally with that he is left to go on
with his dying.
A citizen of New Ulm, Mimi, owns al
horse which he considers an unerring1
weather prophet. He can always tell,
when storm is coming by watching the
animals eyes, which change from very
light color to dark blue twenty-four]
hours before a change in the weather.
The white potato comes from Peru and
Chill, where it grows wild even now. #
was introduced into England by Sir
Walter Raleigh in 1886 and into Ireland
about 200 years later. 1t is called Irish
because it is q staple article OF food
there now; perhaps because if it isn't
Irish, it ought to be.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Happy New Year! Happy New Year!
List to the words floating so clear
Cottage and palace. in mansion 50 grand,
Every sweet home throughout our fair land
No hearthstone so humble but hath its own
share
Happy good wishes, glad New Year
prayer.
Happy New Year! Happy New Year!
Hark, tits an omen of fu ure cheer
Sad sorrow. fair joy, OF last year have flown,
New Year is coming with hopes of its own:
It may bring US happiro =, lasting and sure
1t may bring us anguish, hard to endure.
Happy New Year! Happy New Year!
Gladly, brightly. welcome you here;
Greet you with pleasure, right royalty too,
Bringing our dear hopes and wishes to you.
We may not look forward to view our or,
way
Gods Hand will direct US from day unto
day.
-1faru Currier Parsons.
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The next he knew it was morning.
The sun was just sending his first beam
of light into tie room. Pussy had
jumped into the bed. and Teddy took
her into his arms. Then Teddy rubbed
his eyes, and looked very sharp in the
place where that little beam was shin
ing on the floor. For there, sitting
straight up, with legs and arms sticking
straig ght ont, was the funniest little man
you ever saw.
1t took Teddy full minute to make
up his mind whether it was real little
man or only a make believe one. Then
he rolled out of bed and caught the
funny fellow by the coat.
By this time he had looked him all
over, another beam of light was peeping
in at the window, lighting up all the
dark corners of the room. And then
such a lot of things as Teddy saw I can
not begin to tell you.
You may be sure he was glad that he
went to sleep in time for Santa Claus to
come. For you know he never comes
until little boys are fast asleep. Re-
member this on Christmas Eve.-5reas-
ure Troge.
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branches wave with lovely fruit for
young and old.
Teddy's Merry Christmas.

Never in his life did Teddy have
such hard time going to sleep as on
that last night before Christmas. The
more mamma sang to him and told him
stories, the more his eyes would not
shut.
"Why, Iam>afraid Santa Clause won't
have a chance to come here tonight"
his mother said, as the clock struck nine.
"Oh, dear! I will 60 to sleep this
minute" and Teddy put his hands over
his eyes to hold them shut.
"AGsmma, what did you tell Santa you
wanted him to bring to you" The hands
came down, and the eyes flew wide open
again.
"Oh, never mind; I'm too sleepy to
think" and mamma put her head down
on the pillow beside her wide-awake
boy, and kept as still as if she were
asleep.
Teddy patted her cheek, pinched her
nose, and felt of her closed eyelids for a
minute or two: then he put his face down
close to hers, and-and--
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A VISION OF DECEMBER.

Along of that time when the forests are
On the moor, within the sound Of the belfries'
appear
Twelve mystical spirits, the months OF the
Set the chimes a-ringinc!
With laughter and song they dance in their
Zest;
And deep in the circle their footsteps have
Sits hoary December, his beard on his
breast.
Set the chimes a-ringing!
Hs thinks not Of them, and his mind is
away;
For he is too old. too old to be gay
Like hearty October or lily-crowned May.
Set the chimes a-ringing!
And dreaming, still dreaming, he murmurs
and seeks
Fair memories forgotten, the tears on his
But when the bells burst, he remembers and
speaks:
Set the chimes a-r,ngin1!
1n the watch of this night, in the Orient
land,
Thro' the pass of the hills which a glory DER
Spanned,
led in the Light Of the World by the
hand.'
Set the chimes a-ringing!
1hey hear him, they heed him, that reverend
one,
And the words be hath spoken shine out like
the sun;
Now the wild chant is hushed and the frolic
is done.
Set the chimes a-ringing!
Then sudden for praise and for joy that they
owe,
They, kissing his feet, kneel them down in
the snow;
And all for the sake Of the Child that We
know.
Set the chimes a-ringin9!
For the star of our hope in the gateways Of
morn,
For the lover of love and the scorner Of
scorn,
For the King that is come for the Christ that
is born.
Set the chimes n-ringinJ'
Louise imogen Quincy.
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He saw figure pacing up and down
in the dark. and the yellow light for
ward showed q couple of seamen who
had risen from coil of rope. lie turned
toward them, and with hands stretched
entreatingly, he called out:
"For Gods sake, mates, let me have q
drop of grog, or somethin'. Me gal,
me daughters dyin' over on the boat
there, and l'vc nothin' to bring her too.
A drop O. somethin' and o bite to
strengthen her, ef you're men,"
The figure in the dark stopped, and n
voice asked: "What's all this hubbub
aboutT
"please, SIR" said one of the sailors,
ga mans come aboard to say woman's
sick in a boat lynn off there, and he
wants somcthin' to help her out"
"Scnd, him to the steward" said the
voice, and the form melted in the dark
ness aft.
Up and down, up and down it went
over the smooth deck-a manly figure,
but with stopping head and a solemn,
thoughtful face. Once or twice the lat
ter turned to the big city, and the eyes
roamed over the black profile of the
buildings and the tall brick phantoms
far off in the air as though they would
pierce to the heart of that throbbing hive
and pluck from it some secret hidden
there. A glimpse of the moon showed
overhead for moment, and the spars
and ropes stood out clearer, but soon 1t
was yelled, and the figure went on in the
dark up and down, up and down as be.
fore.
"God bless you. mates, for this nights
work. God bless you"
The words stole out into the air from
the open companionwsy, and Old Tom
Saunders, who had uttered them. came
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A Leather Turtle.

In little pool in the pigeon house in
Central Park, New York, tnere lies al
specimen of the leather turtle, recently
received from Texas. He is lazy chap.
but his vampire beak shoots out now|
and then with such startling rapidity|
that the birds coming down to the edge
of the pool to drink do so with great
deal of trepidation. He IS about eigh1
teen inches long, and when he waddles
across the floor his back moves in
rhythmic waves. There is no shell nod
bones, the coveriugIto the flesh is elastic
and ductile and of the color of dark
tanned OK hide. *,
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fltering through the Shiny piles un-
derneath the pier, only the distant
swash of paddle broke upon the
monotonous creaking of chains and
cables, the same big, stiff ones that Old
Tom Saunders had seeo make fast the
newly arrived bark at nightfall. He had
been striding up and down the bare
deck of the dusky canal boat to keep
himself warm ever since the stranger
had doomed up on the other side of the
pier. He had heard screaming in the
slip beyond the whistle of the tug boat
that had brough her in, and seen the
bustling little craft steam away with
the sparks and smoke from her tunnel
leav ng luminous trail in thu dark.
From that the gloom had been thicker
about the pier and the damp mist roll
ing up from the bay had wrapped the
shipping in shroud of moisture. There
had been clatter Of voices for while
on the big bark, and he had been half
conscious of lifting lights and hoarse sea
orders; but all these had ceased long ago
and row the Dlack hull Of the new arrival
rose up in the gloom, solemn ard silent,
with ter masts slightly tilted off and a
lantern forward cleaning like dim
yellow STAR
Cid Tom Saunders paced the deck of
the dingy hulk he was on, with his pipe
gripped fast between his teeth and his
hands slowed away down IN the pockets
of his threadbare pea. jacket. The bat
tered and decayiDg boat was no shabp!er
and more e-tegone than the man.
Old Tom he was by virtue of the years
that had turned his few Struggling
locks gray and drawn all sorts of deep
furrows across his face. Familiarly Old
Tom among the wharf men, who knew
him us such ever since he had come along
on the old canal boat, brokendown
= man with favor of better times about
him. Facetiously O!d Tom. in conse :
quencc of the fondness for the tipple
of that name which, it was limited. had
dragged him down to h 8 present low
estate. Old Tom Saunders had once
been burly, and he was still big man,
but he had lost all his flesh. His face
looked like worn parchment, and had
that colorless, bleached. out appearance
which life Of constant excuses begets.
There was also that nervous twitthing
about the lips and that aimless wander
ing of the fingers which betoken a con-
atitution unstrung and shattered.
In low spirits indeed he seemed this
night of Christmas Eve rs he stopped at
the stern of the canal boat to look off
toward the big black warehouses that
shut in the river side like wall. Cpln
the air a reddish haze hung over The city
where the lights of countless lamps on
the thorougfares beneath had set the
damp atmosphere aglow, and from some
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CHRISTMAS BELLS.

heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
OF peace on earth, goodwill to men!
And thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rollel along
The unbroken song
OF peace on earth, goodwill to men!
Til ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime,
OF peace on earth, goodwill to men!
But in despair bowed my head.
''There is no peace on earth" I said;
For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
OF peace on earth, goodwill to men"
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep,
'God is not dead, nor doth He sleep!
The wrong shall fail,
The right prevail,
With reace on earth, goodwill to men,"
Henry W. Longjello,o.