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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
Testing Dryness of Walls.

A curious device for testing the dry
hess of a wall is described in Wiener
Bauindustrle Zeitung. The apparatus
for the purpose consists simply in
small sheets of gelatine, which are
made by taking the sheet gelatine at
commerce, selecting the thinnest
pieces, soaking them for quarter of
an hour in water until they are quite
soft, spreading them out fat on a
creased sheet of glass, and stretching
them with the fingers until the folds
and creases are smoothed out and the
whole made as thin and uniform as
possible. The sheets are then thorough
ly dried in the air, the edges, which
are rough. and uneven, are trimmed oft,
and the whole cut into pieces about
two inches wide and four inches long,
for use in testing. If kept fiat in a
dry place these gelatine strips are very
sensitive to moist air. If wall Is
suspected of being damp. - strip is
moved slowly over 1t near its surface,
but not touching it. If any damp spots
exist, they are shown by the curling
of the gelatine as it passes near them.
Although every Que takes some inter-
est in knowing whether his house is
dry or not, this simple test is likely to
be of more practical use to fresco
painters and paper hangers than to
any one else. Both of these, to avoid
disappointment and loss. need to know
with certainty whether the walls and
ceilings on which their art is to be ex-
ercised are dry or not, "a their papers
and colors viii often change on damp
Plastering. In the case of a wall of
masonry, particularly, plastered on the
brickwork, it is difficult to tell by ordf-
nary inspection whether the moisture
has dried out or net aad the gelatine
sheets may give the desired informa-
zion with such certainty and precision
rs to be of great service.-Amerieaa
Architect.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
Ebh and Flow of Gas.

Perhaps nowhere in any gas belt
is there So great popularity
as exists In the flow of gas
at Montpelier, Ind, Six hours out OF
twentyfour the gas runs down to a
minimum, and six hours out of the
day the gas reaches maximum.
When the supply is at low ebb the
valves are turned wide open ta get o
sufficient supply, When the gus is
at highest the smallest turn of the
key Is enough to supply the demand.
That the movements are constant
with the ocean tides is evident, but
whether or not the same influences
are the cause can only be q matter oi
conjecture. Cincinnati Enquirer.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
their faith. With them, as with most

their faith. With them, as with most
persons of that temper, Imprisonment
only stiffened their resolution. The
struggle has gone On for years, but re-
Gently the Peculiar People triumphed,
the enemy hauled down his flag, and
capitulated at discretion-or in other
words British jury formally
placed on record its conviction
that it was useless to censure
the Peculiar People any longer" The
mother questioned by the coroner said:
1--WE believe in warm water and fam
nels but nothing else" The child was
subject to rickets, had been i'll from
birth, and died when eleven months old
from convulsions. The post-mortem
doctor thought he might have done
something for the case if he had been
called, but the jury vindicated the right
of the Peculiar People to their own
religious and medical notions. The
Pail Mall Gazette comments thus:
when once people are stubborn
enough to convince the ordinary man
that it is no use torturing them, then
the landmarks of liberty are enlarged.
Almost all our liberties have been won
in this fashion. The scientific frontier
between the authority of the state and
the rights of the individual is perpet-
ually in dispute, and it is only when
the individual defes the state to do its
worst, and proves that he is willing 10
take the consequence, and then do it
again, and to keep on doing it again
until the state gets tired of sending
him TO prison, that the individuals 5
claim to consideration gains any recog-
milton. Every such victory gained by
men who put a conscience to their work
is an encouragement to all who care
for individual liberty as against ever
encroaching authority, to pluck up
courage to push still further forward
the boundary line of freedom"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
Distinguished Dead of 1888.

Disting gu'shed Dead of 1888.
January 9-Prof, Bonamy Price.
January SO-Prof. Asa Gray.
January 21-Mrs. Eliza B. Garfield,
mother of President Garfield.
February 15-D. R. Lock petroleum
V. Nasby.)
February 24-W. W. Corcoran, of
Washington.
March A. Bronson Alcott.
March 6--Miss Louisa NJ. Alcott.
March S-Gen. D. H. Strother (Porte
Crayon.)
March 9-Emperor William of Ger
many.
March 12-Henry Bergh.
March 23-Chief Justice Waite.
March 27-F. o. c. barley, artist.
April 4-Ex-Attorney General Brew
ster.
April Gen. Q. A. Gilmore. i
April 15-Matthew Arnold.
April 1S-Roscoe ConklanS,
June S-Rev. DR.. James Freeman
Clarke.
June 14-Mary N. Prescott.
June la-Emperor Frederick of Ger
many.
June 2O-Dr. C. H. Zukertort, chess
champion.
June 29-F. II, 7. Bellew, artist.
July 19--Rev E. P. Roe, novelist.
July S0-Bartley Campbell, play
wright,
July S1-Dr. Robert Morris, Masonic
laureate,
August 15-Gen. Philip 81. Sharidan.
August 20-Seth Green, fishoHlturist.
August 24-Mrs. Anna SeSt,fn, singer.
September 6-John Lester Wallack.
actor.
SeptembeG l2-Richard A. Proctor,
astronomer.
September 2l-William Warren>
actor.
September 24-Ex- Marshal Bazaine,
OF France.
October 16--'Long John" Went
worth. of Chicago.
October 2S-Mrs. Allen Ewing Sher-
man, wife of Gen. w. T. Sherman.
November Cdr. David Hostetter, of
New York.
November 25-Commodore Cicero
Price, U. S. N,
December Rear Admiral Simpson.
u. s. ".
December 4-Gen. r, B. Ayres.
December 10-Rear Admiral LeRov,
U. S. N,
December 30-Mrs Gen. Schofield.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
A Serious Joke.

A young physician went to visit his
cousin, an army officer, out upon the
great plains. The officer was given
to practical jokes, and the young
doctor, being a genuine "tenderfoot, -
was promising subject. One morn
ing the host gravely proposed an
elephant hunt. "What," said the
doctor, "do you have elephants out
here?"
''Plenty of them," replied the host:
Preparations were at once begun,
and by nine o'clock a party of young
sters, ripe for the fun, were after ele-
plants. When about five or six nniles
from the post, the doctor was sent
through a thicket of "wait- a-bit"
thorns, of which he knew nothing.
Anticipating rare sport at his plight
Oh his return, the host sat on his
horse waiting, when he heard shot,
and was startled by loud cries for
help.
He gallpped through the glades,
and arrived at q small prairie open
ing of an acre Or two in extent,
around which the doctor was franti-
cally urging his pony, while pnly-a
few yards behind was a huge wild
Texas bull in full charge.
All the manliness Of the host was
aroused by this real and unexpected
danger of his friend, and without a
moments hesitation, he dashed in
and fired a pistol shot. In an in
slant the bull turned upon him. His
large American horse was unequal to
the emergency, and in turning was
met full in the side by the horns Of
the beast. 49, v
Both horse and rider were lifted for
one instant into the air, and then
came down in heap together. The
horse was dead without struggle,
one horn being completely through
his body, the other caught in the
bones of the chest. One leg of the
rider was between the horns of the
bull, pinned fast between his head
and the body of the horse.
When heaped together, the horses
body was on the bulls head, fasten-
ing into the ground, and most fortu-
nately preventing any movement, and
the rider, his leg fast, was lying on
the bulls back. ','
The whole hunting party was soon
assembled. They were afraid to
shoot the bull, lest his struggles
might further injure the man pinned
to him. AT last his iugular vein was
opened, and he slowly bled to death.
His horns were then cut off, the horse
lifted, and the now nearly dead man
carried on a litter back to the post.
Though no bones were broken, he
paid the full penalty of his-jeke, not
only with the loss of a fine horse, but
with several weeks ofsevere suffering.
1t was his last elephant hunt.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
The New York car.Drirer,s Strike . Failure.

The Sixth avenue cars are running on
schedule time. The strikers are quiet along
this route. Thirteen of the horseshoers thai
went out with the men returned to work.
Numerous applications from the old hands
were reported. While one of the street cars
was driving through Twenty second street at
noon striker jumped on the rear platform,
knocked the conductor down aud severely
beat BIN. He was arrested. The crowd of
strikers in the neighborhood of the Second
Avenue stables became so large that the
police dispersed them. No disturbances
were reported on the East Side surface
roads: A large force of police, filing
FIVE patrol wagons, escorted Q car
over the Belt Line road Monday the 4th inst,
the first since the strike. At several points
along the road the officers were pelted with
stones and missiles of all descriptions, but
no serious damage was done. DISTINCTIONS
were met with, but they were very small ones
and easily removed. At Twenty-eighth street
the strikers made vigorous attack ON
the officers and the latter were compelled
TO leave their wagon and scatter them. No
one was seriously hurt. The officials of the
company posted anotice that no applications
from the old hands would be regarded after
Monday morning, and their places filed by
new men. Some 200 drivers and conductors
came from Boston and smaller number
from Philadelphia. They found employment
pm the various lines More are expected from
the same PLACES on Monday.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
THE PECULIAR PEOPLE.
They Establish Their Right to Live
and Die Without Medical Ad-

They Establish Their Right to Live
and Die Without Medical Ad-
Vice.
England has a curious sect known as
the Peculiar People, and their peculiar
itF consists In regarding the employ
ment OF physicians as a sin. In case
OF sickness they depend upon the prayer
of faith, amounting with oil and prob.
ably hygienic measures so far as they
understand them, When the death of
child occurs among these people it
has been customary for the government
to step in and prosecute the parents on
the charge of neglect. The Pail Mall
Gazette says of these prosecutions:
when iuries were flest called upon to
sit in Judgment upon the victims of the
prayer and amounting oil mode of treat
ment, they promptly returned verdicts
of manslaughter and the Peculiar Peo-
pie were castinto prison as martyrs for
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
The Newest in Slanr.

The novelty in slang fer the new
year is the word "skate," as applied to
drinking. When a man was tipsy last
year the rule was TO say that "he had q
jag on" but hereafter the phrase is to
be "Aes got skate" Presumably the
idea at the bottom of the new slang
word is that tipsy man rolls from side
to side of the pavement like person
skating. But however that may be,
skate is what goes now.-New York
Sun.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14

A heavy gale prevailed all over Nebraska
on Monday Feb. starting at 2 O'Clock IN
the morning at Alliance, and reaching Lin.
coin about 8 O'Clock a. IN. Considerable
damage was done in the western part of the
state, ,buil ldings being unroa ed and trees blown
down. At Arapahoe, d number of small build
ings were blown down. but injuring no one,
At Hastings the central school house was al
most totally wrecked, four persons being so
besides large number slightly injured. ono
OF the scholars in the Hasting sch hool building
was killed outright; one other rinjured so that
he will probably die, and the teacher, Miss
Aldrich fatally injured. The storm was
widespread, but reports so far received con.
fine the serious damage to the places mem
TONED.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
VISITED BY SOCIALISTS.
Premier F1oquet and Other French
Officials Receive Calls From Social
istic Revolutionary Societies.


PARIS, Feb. 1O.-Delegates from the Socialist
revolutionary societies met at the labor ex-
change to-day and then proceeded to the resi-
dences of Premier Floquet, NJ. Meline, president
Of the chamber of deputies, and NJ. Leroyer
president of the senate, leaving at each house a
copy of the resolutions adopted by the work
mems congress at Bordeaux. The resolutions de-
mand reduction of the daily working hours
the fixing OF minimum rates of wages to CORE.
spond with the minimum expenses of workmer
in each locality, the prohibition of man
ual labor by piece worS, etc. Extensive
police precautions had been taken in the
neighborhood of the Elysee palace and the Palais
du Bourbon for fear of an anarchist riot. The
services of the police were not required, how
ever, as no disturbance Of any kind occurred
The delegates declared their intention to wait
upon M. Floquet and the presidents of the par.
liamentary bodies ON Feb. "a to receive their re.
plies. Similar deputations called upon the pre-
fects of Lyons, Bordeaux and Marseilles and
presented their demands. In reply the prefectG
said that the government was already consider.
ing many of these demands, while others had ne
substantial foundation. The workmen. they
said, must not expect everything to be settled
by Feb. ~. Finally they begged the deputa-
tions to exercise their influence to avert dis
order.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
Three Ways.

If I'd pronounce the name Alright
think I'd have to state,
Could not exactly say just how,
Unless called it Hay ii,
If he'd pronounce the name Alright
l think he'd have to state, he
Could not exactly say just how
Unless he called it Hay ii,
If any one would call it right,
Although it may seem f1ighty,
He'll have to take tho native way
And safely call it Hay ii.
Post.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
FROM FOREIGN FIELDS.
Murder of q Landlord by a Black
BurgIar-Rome Rioters Secure Much
Plunder-Fate of the French Min.
iSfrv in Dnuht


LONDON, Feb. 1O.-Mr. Kent. the landlord OF
the Gloucester hotel at Swansea, was killed by
burglar early this morning He retired with
his wife at late hour last night after locking
all the DOORS including those of his own bed
room Early this morning the wife heard a
match struck in the room and saw a negro in the
act of lighting candle. She awoke her hus-
band, and he Immediately grappled
with the intruder while the wife took
pistol from under the pillow AS it was toe
dark to take aim, she lighted a candle. She
then aimed and fired. and the negro fell,
wounded in the thigh. Cursing the woman he
crept under the bed, but as she was unlocking
the door he emerged. and seizing mrl or threw
it at her. 1t missed her, but extinguished The
light, and the negro succeeded in escaping.
When she relighted the candle she discovered
that her husbands threat and stomach had been
cut with razor Kent lived long enough to de-
scribe the murderer An alarm was raised. and
about noon the negro was discovered at dry
dock. He is seaman named Tom Allen. He
was badly wounded and covered with blood.
Allen confessed, and said that his motive was
robbery. He concealed himself in the room be-.
fore the house was closed on Saturday night.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
THE MARKETS.
CHICAGO.

Cash quotations were as folio ws: Flour
fTmer but not quotably higher No. 2,
spring wheat. $1.01; No o. spring wheat,
8O@92c; No. 2, red, $1.01. No. 2, corn,
345s@34a4c No. 2, oats, 24a4c. No. 2, rye.
461ac No. 2, barley, nominal. No. /, fax
seed, $1.59@1.60. Prime timothy see d,
$1.50. Mess pork (per bbll 81 / ,371aD11 so.
Lard (per loo lbs). $6.87R, Sh art rib sides
lloose), so 05@615. Dry.saltsd shoulders
lboxed. $5.5OM6: short clear sides (boxed),
S6 625@63TR Whisky--DistilIers finished
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
The Same.

saw her the first time
In the year 81,
was struck by her style,
And her mouth full of gum.
Five years later
saw her again,
With her husband.
She looked just as fair,
While he, poor man,
Looked exceedingly glum
At his pretty young wife,
Who was still chewing gum,
The same chewing gum
OF the year 81,
will swear.
Boston Globe.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14

That's tine wallet you have, Henry.n
Yes. Mwife gave it to me for Christmas
Indeed! Anything in ita Yes; the bill for
the walletn-Harper's Basar.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14

Real estate has declined materi Any as
Shenandoah, Pa. Several acres have drop
ped about forty feet-into an abandoned
mine. Rochester Post.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14

goods, per gal, $1.O3. Sugars unchanged
fine 2O@22c.; fine dairy, 2O@22c.; good to
choice, 1S@20c.; eggs, 13@131&c.
NEW YORK.
Wheat.-N. 2 red 9534@97c; elevator, 97h,
M971Rc, afloat; No. 3 red, S94@9Oc; No.
red, $1.O53@1. .06.; No. white. 9SRW9oc.
Corn, No. 2 43A@439s; No. 2 white, 45Hs@'
Ace; No. 3, 4O@41c.; Oats, No. white 33A-
@34c. mixed western, 29@32c.; white western
3+@4Oc.; No. 2 Chicago 32c. Hay, shipping,
66c.: good to choice, 10000; Eggs, western
Ice; Butter, western dairy. l3@2Oc.; West
ern, creamery, 16@29c.; Elgins, 3lr. Cheese
Western. 1Oh@11hc.
MINNEAPOLIS
Wheat, No. /, hard, Feb $1.l6 March
$1.17; May, $1.22; Track, $117; No. l
Northern, Feb, LOG; March, $1.OG; May,
81 .0S12; Track, 81 1.OS@$l 90; No. 2, North
ern, Feb. 95c; March, 96c; May 99c, Track. 90
@99r. Flour Patents. sacks to local dealers
$6.1O@6.2O; patents to ship, sacks, car lots,
$5.90@6; in barrels, $6.05@6;15 delivered
ut New England points, $6.S0@6.9 95; deliver
ed at New York points. $6.7O@6.S5 deliver
ed at Philadelphia and Baltimore, $6.G5@-
$2.5O@4 10; red dog, sacks, S1.43@'
Bran, 80; shorts, $S. $500. Corn, 27@2Sc.
Oats, 22@2Sc Barley, stained and frosted
24@25c.; Flax $1.54 Chicago, 81 so; Hay
wild, $35O@5.5O: timothy, $7.5O@S.25
Feed, $11.5O@12.5O.
ST PAUL.
Prices on incoming trains only: Wheat
No. l hard, $117; No. l Northern, 81 OF
No. 3 Northern, 9Sc Corn-No. old. SOC
No. 3 sample, 29c. Oats-No. mixed, 24c
No. ? white, PC; May, 3312c; No. B. 23c
Rye-No. 2. 47c. Barley-No. 55c; No. 3
4O@52c. Ground Feed-$12. Corn Meal
No. i upland prairie, $3.50; No. l, 81
timothy, 81 Dressed Hogs-$5.25. Timo
thy Seed-$1 40. Glover Seed $3.50. Fla,
Seed-$1 so. Eggs-1 121ac ice house, &c
Flour-Patents, $6.25@G.4O; straights
$3.50; bakers, $4.7 5; rye, $3@3.50: buck
wheat, $3.50.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14

goods, per gal, $103. Sugars unchanged
Butter, fancy creamery, 27@29c.; choice to
fine 2O@22c.; fine dairy, 2O@22c; good to
choice 1S@2Oc; eggs, 13@131@c.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-06-27
A Work OF Real Merit.

We take pleasure in calling attention
to Grams Unrivaled Atlas of the World,
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revised and enlarged. 1t now contains
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heretofore.
We have examined it with some care
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yet so clear and legible.
That this edition is quite recent is
evidenced by the maps OF the new
States OF North and South Dakota.
Another sttractive feature is found in
the maps of twenty-five of the large
cities of the continent. Besides these
the work contains history and historical
maps, diagrams, illustrations and statis-
tics conveniently arranged for ready ref.
erence. The atlas is the best we have
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las necessity in every intelligent house
hold. Grants Unrivaled Atlas is Just
what we want, 80 we ourselves have
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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-06-27
Prohibition Meeting.

The Prohibition League, which has
been holding regular meetings on Satur-
day evening OF each week for some time,
will meet as usual in the building oc.
cupied by DR.. Rudisill's Office. The
widest liberty Of discussion is allowed.
We would be pleased to have both
Democrats and Republicans attend and
defend their parties, for we want to dis.
cuss the liquor question from all posi-.
BILE standpoints. The ladies are cordial
ly invited to participate in the exer-
cises. The program for Saturday night,
June Goth, commencing at o'clock is as
follows:
Song, reading by Miss Naylor, sholt
speech by DR.. Rudisill, song by Rev. r.
R. Lackey, essay by Miss Georgia Selph,
few remarks by Jonah Langley, short
speech by Rev. r. R. Lackey, song On
Prohibition, question box and discussion
of contents, song.
BY order committee.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-06-27
Report of Soldiers Relief Committee,

The Soldiers and Sailors Relief Com.
mission of Highland county at their reg.
ular meeting held May 25th, 1889, ap.
pointed the following persons as Town.
ship Comnittee to look after and report
the names of persons in their respective
townships who are in need and entitled
to relief under the laws of Ohio. We
desire that the Township Committee, as
soon as is practicable, who have not done
so, meet and take the personal applica.
ton of those desiring relief and return
the same to H. H. Maddox, Secretary OF
this Commission, together with the pro.
portionate amount each should receive,
and other information that they think
would aid the Commission in making
fair and equitable distribution of funds
provided in such cases.
Madison Township-T. NJ. Elliott, ].
M. Hughey, j. H. Wickersham.
Brushcreek Township-James Pence,
Jacob w. Stultz, James Bellison.
Fairfield Tow nship-A. T. Chance, F.
Dooley, Chas. Abbott.
Dodson Township -Thos. Montgom.
cry, John A. Bering, James Henderson.
Union Township-D. w. Mccoy, Jos.
Siddons, j. W. Oldaker.
Penn Towhship-F. M. Thomas, Ja-
cob Hudson, Randolph Holmes.
Clay Township-Andrew Beltz, Chas.
Moberley, A. d. Puckett.
Salem Township-W. A. Bailey, ]. B.
Faris, David Workman.
Jackson Township-M. A. Garrett, T.
M. Cooper, ]. j. Butler.
Marshall Township-George w. Muir
ply, John Martin, John Stultz.
Concord Township-Henry Redkey,
Milton Easter.
Whiteoak Township-Chas. P. Hens.
ley, Peter Runslew.
Washington Township-Geo. w. Mil
ler, Samuel Starner, T. NJ. Cunningham
New Market Township-John Nor
row, Jarrett Johnson, j. H. Purdy.
Liberty Township-No appointment
Hamer Township-No appointment
The committee in Concord and White
oak will please recommend one person
in their respective townships to make
up the number required by law.
H. II. MADDOX, Sec'y.
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The Fourth at Greenfield.

The Fourth of July will be celebrat.
ed in grand style here, at the Fair
Grounds. All are cordially invited to
attend, and good time is anticipated.
The following programme has been ar
ranged:
Match race, 3 minute trot, four to
start, purse, $50.
Texas pony trace, running, J mile
heats, purse, $25.
Wheelbarrow race, purse, $5.
Greasy pig chase, purse. pig or SIS.
Four.in hand. driven against time, 2
minutes, 80 seconds, purse, $50.
Bicycle and safety wheel race; lst
prize, bicycle lantern, I'd prize, bicycle
alarm.
Music will be furnished by the Green.
field Band, and Hunters Band, Of Chill.
licothe, will give a platform dance after.
noon and evening. Grand display Of
fireworks at night.