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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-11-07
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was paralyzed by mosquito bite. IL
is a wonder the bite did not paralyze
the mosquito. Siftings.
1t may be true, as stated, that there
is honor among thieves; but it is SO
successfully hidden that it does nobody
any good-not even the thieves.
Smartte. Hullo, Sharppel How's
Christian Science gettin' along?
Sharppe.-Oh, I've given up Chris
tian Science, an gone back to plain
bunco.
Thompson is practical. When Jones
said to him sympathetically, al fear
Smith is losing his grip" Thompson
said promptly, "Why doesn't he buy
a trunk?"
"Who are the brilliantly-dressed
military men on the opposite side of
the room?" she asked at the ball
"Those are some OF our glittering
generalitics," replied her editorial es-
cort.
Watermelon seeds are found in an
Egyptian tomb that are 5000 years
old. There was no doubt about their
being watermelon seeds, because the
mummy was all doubled up.-Texas
Siftings.
81 should like to know" remarked
Jones as he left the courtroom, "what
earthly use there is in sentencing such
fellows TO imprisonment for life.
They make it point never to serve
out half their terms"
Affective just been reading news
paper discussion on "When women
should marry" Miss Elder. When do
you think girl should marry?
Miss Elder COMPATIBILITY Just as
soon as she has a proposal Munsey's
Weekly.
Brown.-De Grow looks very poor
ly, don't he? He has not many years
to live, | fear.
Jones.-He won't live six months,
and you can bet on it. I've said so
for the last three years, and l know
what Pm talking about.-The Epoch.
"Do you know who her grandfather
was? Have You ascertained anything
in regard to her pedigree? Those are
things you ought to know about the
women you are to make your wife,"
"Oh, hang her grandfatherI"
"My boy, that's just what they did,
Stranger .'What is the meaning of
this vast crowd; something unusual
happening"
Boston man-fsI don't know, sir.
have just arrived on the ground my
self. 1t may be that symphony con-
cert is just over, or it may DO that Mr..
Sullivan is drunk again."
The little daughter of laboring-
man had been taken to a toy-shop that
she might select doll.
''rhere's nice one Lucy" said the
mother.
ono; it's too handsomely dressed
for me. want to be my dolls man.
ma, not it's servant"
GLOW are your" said young man
efiusiyely to young theatrical mana
ger. "You are looking finely. /
haven't seen you in such apparent good
health for long time"
"Yes?" said the manager. elbow
many passes would you like to have
for to-nightp"-Merchant Traveller.
First Brooklyn man (on street cary.
You haven't lived in Brooklyn long,
have you?
Second Brooklyn man.-No, only a
few weeks. How did you know?
First Brooklyn mani noticed that
when You said you lived in Brooklyn
you blushed.-New York Weekly.
Mr.. BluderheAd Ito fond mother and
remarkable children
yours areI Where did they get so
much beauty and cleverness?"
And Blunderhead can't understand
why the parents of the remarkable
are so cool to him. Most
people love to have their children
praised.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-11-07

Commander Goodrich, q. s. N. in cbarr,
Of the naval station and war college. New
port, r, l., has been granted years leave to
engage in private business.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-08

w cc-TJN-c-'l,=I'- ne. said. This win Keep
us going until tomorrow. Go out" he con.
tinued, addressing Frank, land distribute
the money Do it without any fuss, just as
you would had it come from next door"
Frank emptied the bags on a large table in
view of all present, showing glittering
streams of bright gold and large bundles of
crisp notes, neatly folded and securely tied
Half an hour more whispered one of the
clerks, land we should have been cleared
out"
The sight of so much money treasured the
timid; the crowd, composed almost altogether
of small depositors, gradually melted away;
and when at length, after vainly waiting for
further claims, Mr. Grubb ordered the doors
to be closed, there were still sevs.al thousands
of pounds in the bank co!Ters The crisis was
past. The branches had met all demands:
and WHEN the bank doors were opened next
morning, several heavy CASES, bearing the
seals of the Bank of England, were being un.
packed, and Grubb's bank was saved.
1t was some hours after Franks return that
Mr.. Ebenezer first referred TO the cause of
his absence.
Run home and dress, jackson, my boy"
he said. II shall call for you and take you
home to dinner. We want to hear your
story"
Frank obtained immediate promotion; but
his reward did not end there He had won
Marys affection before his adventure, and
that event secured her fathers consent to
their union. He is now virtually at the head
Of the bank, Mr.. Ebenezer, the only surviving
partner. having unbOunded faith in the So
gacity of his son-in-law.-An the Year Round
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-08
The German "Nixy."

The "Nixy" of Germany has by some been
supposed traceable to "Old Nick" but this is
not probable, since st. Nicholas has been the
patron saint of sailors for many centuries.
1t was during the time of the crusades that a
vessel on the way to the Holy Land was in
great peril and st. Nicholas assuaged tenn
pest by his prayers. Since then he has been
supposed to be the protector of mariners,
even as Neptune was in ancient times, and in
most Roman Catholic countries you will find,
in seaport towns, churches dedicated to st.
Nicholas, to which sailors resort to return
thanks for preservation at sea and to make
votive offerings.
The German Nixy was, no doubt, later
form of the old Morse water god, Mike. You
meet with him again, in another form, in
Neckan, the soulless
The Milky" along the Baltic coast was
once, however, much feared by the fisher
men, 1t was the same spirit which appears
as the kelpie in Scotland-a water demon
which caused sudden floods to carry away
the unwary and then devour them.
There was a river goddess in Germany.
whose temple stood at Magdeburg, of whom
a legend exists that she also once visited
earth and went to market in a Christian cos
tune, where she was detected by continual
dripping of water from the corner of her
apron. Generally speaking, however, the
Mikes may be described as thu descendants
Of the naiads of ancient times, and as some
what resembling the Russian Rusalkas, of
which the peasantry live in much dread.
A Russian peasant, it is said, is so afraid of
the water spirits that ne will not battle with
out a cross round his neck, nor ford stream
on horseback without signing a cross on the
water with scythe or knife. In some parts
these water spirits are supposed to be the
transformed souls of Pharaoh and his host
and the number is always being increased by
the souls OF those who drown themselves
All the Year Round
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-08
Awaiting Orders.

a Pittsburgcr has an Office boy who is GER
tainly prodigy in his lack of that razor like
sharpness the juvenile American usually has
This boy has a habit of leaving the water
in the basin wherein he washes his hands, and
his employer has told him time and again to
break himself Of it. All to no purpose, for
his employer found the basin filed with soap
suddy water once more. He called to the
Office boy and said: THE only thing for you
to do is to practice filling and emptying this
basin for an hour or So"
Then he went out, and when he came back
he found that boy of his laboriously filling
the basin with water and then as carefully
withdrawing the plug to allow the water to
escape. The boy said he'd been at this task
ever since he had been told to do it.
Since that the employer of this phenom-
email boy has been hard at work devising new
and extraordinary tasks for the latter to per-
form, such as sending him out to walk four
times around the block or to see if the moon
has risen at o'clock in the afternoon, or to
buy unreasonable fruits in the market, and
so on.
You might think man who has an office
boy would have more sensible business for
him to do, but l must tell you that this man
is waiting for certain machinery before he
can go to work, and he simply hired the boy
to help him wait.-Pittsburg Dispatch
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-08

sGz.ineIPCils m.lrs> ~.-Jy consisted OF S
series of mill stones, one lying above another
and two constituting a mill. the motive
power was water buffalo, the ugliest species
of COW that God ever made end the driver
was a half naked coolie 4 dozen of these
buffalocs and coolies and two dozen stones
made up the big establishment we visited,
and it is in this way that greater part of
Canton's flour is ground. The r,ldest of ma
chinery only is permitted in China The
people will not allow steamboats, TO 60 on the
rivers in the interior, except in those places
laid down in the treaties, and the small cargo
boats which do the trade Of the canals have
paddle wheels which are turned by gangs of
men, and the other boats are moved by oars
and sails Any one in travelling through
China can perceive the ignorance of the PEG
pie as to labor saving appliances and the
learned DR. Mcgowan, who has lived in
China for nearly half century and to whom
| am indebted for many of the figures and
facts of this letter, tells me that a free press
would do more than anything else to bring
the country to an acceptance of the best
things in our western civilization. Frank G.
CARPENTER.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-08
The First Person Singular.

When great NAH overworks the big peri
sonal pIOnoun |, people are ready enough to
laugh Mt him and charge him with having an
exaggerated sense of his own Importance
But the use or misuse of the first person sin.
gular is no test. Washington, modest man,
used it twenty times in his first inaugural ad-
dress of 1900 words and Lincoln, another
modest man, used it forty-three times in his
first inaugural of 3,5SS words Arthur, who
was not modest, but was always on dress pa.
rade, used the big | only once in brief ad.
dress OF 81 words. Cleveland used it five times
in his l,6S3 words, and our new president
used it fifteen times in speaking ASS words
This much abused pronoun is all right It
is in better taste to use it when it is needed
than it is to dodge around it in a dreary mass
of circumlocutory phrases. When a man is
afraid to speak of himself in the first person
singular it shows q weakness in his make
up. Every man has the Ego in his mind,
whether it is on his lips or not. After all, il
is the man himself. There is no use in hiding
it. Let it come o.t.-A.lanta Constitution.
A. shor. Account of Icebergs.
An iceberg is the sea end Of a glacier OF
frozen river. The glacier is being continu-
ously pushed into the sea from the weight
above and finally great masses become de-
tached. Sometimes these masses break up
into comparatively small pieces, and are
called drift ice; if they form fat sur
faces it is called field or foe ice,
and, when they are piled up, they
are called icebergs, that is, ice noun
tains. There are more icebergs in summer
than in winter In winter the lower polar
regions are a mass of ice, and it is not until the
sun begins to exert his influence that the
southern movement of the ice begins
In March the mid-Atlantic. is warm and
the polar sea cold; the winds, in consequence,
blow from the north to the south, and impel
the floating ice and bergs in the same direc-
ton Drift and foe ice soon melt in the
warm current which flows over the Banks of
Nc"truniiaui but icebergs being so thick
iuut Gown Is low Us latitude 10 In crossing
the ocean from here to England, the track of
the ocean steamship carries them diagonaly
Crr',SS tie iceberg tracks, and there is danger
OF collision during a fog in daytime or the
sp'd sighting an iceberg dead ahead half
Till. cou!I not stop or back in time to avoid
Il crash Therefore, nearly all steamers take
u southerly course from March TO August, or
until the iceberg season is considered over. A
Correspondent in Golden DAYS tells the story
o! Il German ship chat went to pieces on an
iceberg in latitude 30 dcgs. tThe crew took
refuge on the ice, built hut out of wreck
age and spent eight months drifting around,
until they were picked up in latitude Il degs..
about 80 miles south.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-08

The only medicines sold by druggists, under
apOsitive guarantee from their manufact-
urers, that they will do just what is claimed
for them-that is, benefit or cure in all cases
of diseases for which they are recommended,
or the money paid for them will be promptly
refunded-are DIR. Pierce's wOrld-famed spe-
cities, manufactured by Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, of Buffalo, n. Y.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery curef
all diseases arising from torpid or derangec
liver, or from impure blood, as Dyspepsia, or
Indigestion, Pimples, Blotches, Eruptions,
Salt-rheum, letter, Erysipelas, and Scrofu-
lous Sores and Swellings. Consumption, or
Lung-scrofula, is also cured by this won
derful remedy, if taken in time.
DIR. PierCe's FavOrite Prescription is the
world-famed remedy for all those chronic
weaknesses and distressing arrangements so
common to American women. 1t is most
potent, invigorating, restorative tonic, or
strength giver, imparting tone and vigOr to
the whole system, AS a soothing nervine it
is unequaled. See guarantee printed on the
bottle wrapper and faithfully carried out
for many years.
Copyright, 1888, by WORLDS DIS. MED. ASSN.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-08
Science Against Grit.

Eminent experts in naval warfare have
come to the conclusion that in the future the
nation which puts most science into its ships
and their ornaments and handles them the
most scientifically will have an immense adj
vantage in sea fights over less scientific ri
walls 1t is said that the French seem TO be
drawing ahead of other people in these mat
tiers, but the Americans and English are still
ready TO trust largely to native grit and for.
titude for the triumph of their respective
countrymen on the sea and oil along shore
New Work Telegram.
The Romance of Bride Brook.
1t is not generally known that the settle
ment of New London was commenced under
he authority of Massachusetts. John Win
throp its founder, bore a commission from
the government of that colony. 1t was first
called THE Plantation of Nameaug," and its
bounds extended on the west to small
stream two miles west of Mantle now Man
tic Bay, which was called by the Indians
Sunkipaug 1t issues from a pond of the
same name and falls into the sound between
Black Point and Giants Neck
During the first winter after the settle
ment-the winter of l6i6-at a time when
the whole country was covered with n deep
snow, the incident that caused the naming of
this stream and lake Bride Brook and Lake
occurred. Application was made to Mr..
Winthrop to go to Saybrook and unite a
young couple in marriage, there being in that
place no person duly authorized to officiate
on such an occasiOn but he had been com
missioned by Massachusetts, and could not le
gally fasten the nuptial knot in SaybroOk,
which was under the jurisdiction of Con
uecticut He proposed therefore to meet
them half way on the brink of the little
stream that was his western boundary. The
proposition was accepted, and there Win
thrOp, accompanied by party from his plan
ta:ion, met the bridal train from Saybrook
and the rite was performed In conclusion
Winthrop gave the name of Bride Brook to
the stream, by which it has ever since been
known The pond is also called Bride Lake.
The annals of history can furnish but few
incidents more striking than the Bride Brook
marriage All the accessories of the scene
are picturesque and impressive. The little
company stood in the midst of dreary waste
of snow, far from any human habitation az
this time excepting the huts of savages. An
Gent forests and immense solitudes were
around them, beyond which in shadowy
magnificence, vast and indefinite, lay the un,
We might perchance add to these features
the stalwart forms of natives, a tribe of whom
dwelt not far from the place, darting among
the trees or looking on at q distance.-The
Sound Breeze.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-08
How to Become President.

Some genius has discovered that the letter
A the leading letter in the alphabet is to be
found in the names of every one of our presi-
dents Of the United States of America, to
wit:
George " A shington,
John A dams, g.
Thorn A Jefferson,
James II a Olson,
John =. a dams,
Andrew A ackson, We
Martin Y A Buren,, -
William H. H A rrison, --
John A. Tyler,
j A mes K. Polk,
Zachary T A ylor,
Mill A I'd Fillmore,
FIR A nklin Pierce,
J A mes Buchanan,
Abr A ham Lincoln,
A ndrew johnson,
Z. S. CIR A Mt,
Rutherford B. II A yes,
James A. G A rfeld,
Chester A. A rthur,
Grover Cleyel A nd,
Benjamin II A rrisou.
Journal
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-08

l have pursued my studies of labor in Can.
ton largely IL company with Consul Sey.
mour, and went yesterday to see the -four.
ing mills w.h!iGG E. .n.re c.mpete- With. gu
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-05-08
sCHuCAARp. DRUGGIST.
DEPARTURE

" SCRUCAARD. DRUGGIST,
1 san Pedro and Acequia Streets
Drugs, Chemicals, Medicines. Toiiet Articles
Soaps Cbamuls Skins. Sponges. Brushes Per
fumery, etc. Physicians pr script'ons care
fully com pounded. 81
Daily Republican., 1889-10-04
The State Fair.
,respondence Of the Rel ublican.

toTesponuence OIL the htl uDHcan.
Dover, Del, Oct. 3.-From an early
hour this morning the streets OF Dover
are thronged with carriages and people.
Proceeding to the fair ground there are
Thousands Of horses aud carriages cover
iug several acres. The multitude thronged
the grounds and the buildings. They in.
tend TO put in a full day OF It and get
their moneys worth. Quietness and
good order prevails.
The trains from both north and south
heavily loaded with fair passengers, and
the railroads. resources so severely taxed
that trains are often delayed, aud much
Inconvenience arises from the uncertainty
Of traln time. The fair people are more
Than satisfied Of all this, for It suits them
To have great crowd. His exeellency OF
grand heart and admirable gallantry,
Hon. Benjamin 4. Biggs, Governor of the
State of Delaware, is attending the fair
to day, having arrived by tho south
bound train az ll.I5 8. m.
There are Is policemen from Philadel-
phia employed. Persons disordcrly or
drunk are put outside the fair grounds.
a few were put out this forenoon. There
aie some dark characters that are ex-
peeted TO need the club or Dover Jail be.
fore the day is over.
Bed cases requiring trial aye handed
over to the Dover police. The Philadel.
phia police are not sworn In here They
conduct themselves according to their
usual custom at home. They saw the
people OF Delaware are the most orderly
and well-behaved they have ever seen
that II would take a hundred policemen
In Philadelphia for crowd OF This size.
Daily Republican., 1889-10-04
Sclf-Prai,e

1t Is the motive which is the real test OF
the character OF selt-praise. II 1t lie used
only Ia the cause Of justice and truth, IN
righteous self-vindica ion, or in the In.
terests of others, it is JustiiiRble, aud not
10 he avoided through mistaken modesty
But u, rs IN the great majority of cases,
u is the suggestion Of egotism, the bnb.
bling forth of an excessive self-compla-
csney, the elliott to force praise from other
lips and Ia insiSt upon bning held In
higher esteem than the character and
conduct will OF Themselves create then
let II be Stunned as an insidious and fatal
stlinul lant, the appetite Tor which will
grow by what it feeds on, aud which vii
final ly poison the springs of action
weaken the powers, AMI destroy that eelf
respect and Independence which lie a
the root oil all manly character aud life.
Daily Republican., 1889-10-04
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 4,isse.
THE desire on the part of SON

THE desire on the part Of some
newspapers. especially In New York,
TO secure sensations" has caused two
suicides, and two men, one old and
the other young, whose personal af-
fairs were paraded before the world,
took their own lives. One Of these men
was at one time superintendent of
Bloomingdale Asylum, and q hiahly
respected citizen. The other was a
young man, a clerk, who some time
ago contracted secret marriage.
Neither OF these men were charged
with any crime and no public good
was served by tie exposure Of their
private affairs. But the sensation"
was needed, and the enterprising re-
porter wrote it up, outraging private
rights, and probably confidence. Such
publications are no part of the duty Of
the true journalist, and while they
may cause few extra papers to be
sold and interest those OF morbid ten
dercy, this is overbalanced thousand
times by the injury they infllct upon
others.
Daily Republican., 1889-10-04
wANAMAKER's.
money. These authors, and
many more:


money. These authors, and
many more
George Sand CherbulIez
Edmund About Gustave Droz
Erckman Chatrisn Lamartine
Henry Greville Daudet
Alexander Dumas Octave Feuillet
jules Claretie Gaboriau
Thirteenth street side.
Why not hemstitched Mus.
lin for Pillow Cases? Here
it is, bleached. Don't seem
possible that three rows OF
work a har dps breadth from
the edge can lend so much
Of beauty and finish ! The
like was never seen in this
country before; but then you
expect such things first
at Wanamaker's.
If you care for plain Pill
low Casing, here's a n e W
wrinkle-Seamiess. Woven
with a genuine muslin weave
in Just the shape that a
stocking leg is knit. G u t
whatever length you want
hem one end and sew up the
other and there you have
it.
Northeast of Centre.
300 pairs rich Cut Glass
Colognes, Stevens & w il.
liams make. For three quar-
ters the regular price. A
hint is enough. II you know
the choicest goods,
Second floor. third gallery.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Daily Republican., 1889-10-04
IerOuev Remnn,led IN pr,an,

CAMDEN, n. d., Oct 4.-Judge Gar.
risen yesterday raudered "A decision in
the habeas corlus proceedings In the Le-
coney case. The following is a copy OF
the order: con the 81 day Of 0 .tGber
the Testimony Of certain witnesses was
TAX, n In the presence OF the prosecutor
aud the defendant and his counsel. /
will not comment upon the testimony.
The order which will make Is that the
prisoner hc remanded TO the custody OF
the shcrd TO await the action OF tie
Gruud Jury"
County Physician Iszard made an ex.
animation of the accused murderer ye.s-
terday, and pronounced him free from
any specific sinent although he found
him in a lcYeIish condition.
Daily Republican., 1889-10-04
Inltch sinl.s .Inrnra

The following list Of petit jurors were
drawn yesterday to serve 10 tie United
States District Court, Tor the term which
will commence ia this city, October l5;
New Castle County Wilmington hur-
dred, German d. Line In, Charles E
Heebuer, james Murray, Joseph II.
Jones, James IL. Beegs, James Milla,
Samuel L. Fell, Caleb +. johnson, Char
les j. Ii. Beckett, Seth II. Fesster, Frank
G. Carpenter, Cornelius tipps aud Char.
les E. Duhelli Braadywinc, Thomas 6.
Bird; Christiana, Robert Lindall, Johu
i. Lyman; New Castle, William Herbert
Samuel Silver; Mil Creek, Henry White.
man; White Clay Creek, stephen X.
Choate; st. Georges, Daniel Corbil; Pen.
eader, Curtis Il. Ellison.
Kent County-Duck Creek, James c.
Robinson Milford, Joseph II. Truit;
hispillion, Ell Harrington; North Muir
dJrkill, James Virdon, 4. p. Mi film
South Murdsrkil, John j. Conner.
Sussex County-Broakiln, David H.
Adkins; Georgetown, W. J. Thorough,
good, Charles J. Pepper; Seaiord, Jere
miah Long; Lewes and Kehoboth, DAME
w. Brereton, Hiram II. Burton; North
west Fork, Cornelius T. SWAIN Nanti
coke, James Butler.