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The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18
All Pockets Suited.

oung girl (at fortune teller's) -
"na'' am going to marry a poor Ia
0Orer and live in a shantyl It's Outrage
GUS My friend Sarah had her FORUM
'Old here and you said she was to marry
. prince and live in three castles. Huh,
mere Your quarter.
foF'une-te!ier with dignity)-Your
N.'nu Sarah got a fifty-cent fortune,
miss.
The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18

Experiments are, it is stated, being
made on the Prussian railways with
axle boxes in which the bearing surface
consists of sheets of vegetable parch-
ment set on edge, and strongly COM
pressed together. The fabrication of
these bearings is said to be very perfect,
as, owing to the capillary attraction be-
tween tho different sheets, the whole
becomes thoroughly saturated with oil.
The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18
A Radical Cure For EpiIeptic I'll

To The EditOr:-Please inform your read
ers that | have positive remedy for the
above named disease which warrant to cure
the worst cases. SO strong is my faith in its
virtues that will send free a sample bottle
and valuable treatise to any sufferer who will
send me his o and Express address. Resp'y,
H. G. ROOT, NJ. c., 1S3 Pearl St, New York
The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18
HUMOROUS.

Used up-Balloons.
Chop-sticks handles.
A military outbreak-Camp fever.
A city full of watchmen-Geneva.
Above all other animals-The giraffe.
Vienna bred-The Emperor of Aus
tria.
Mountain climbers have high old
times.
The counter-sign-"No goods ex-
changed"
A favorite toast in Algiers-The Dey
we celebrate.
The great difficulty about common
sense is that it is so tremendously scarce
that it amt common.
A burglar may not be, properly speak
ing, man of iron nerve, but he is of ne
cessity man of steal nerve.
The artist who puts up gilt signs may
not be much of a correspondent, but he
turns out some brilliant letters.
"What is man of f-war9" said teach
er to his class. "a cruiser" was the
prompt reply. "What makes it go2"
"It's crew, sir" "Who go with it2"
ats crew, sir"
Very Stout Lady Gmpatiently, to
driver of bob tail car)-Will you ever
make this car go? Driver (despairingly)
i am afraid not, madam, as long as
you make the cargo.
Apprentice - Professor, what's the
matter with maxim gold and gettin richl
Watchmaker-Oh, nothing, but you'll
have to pay the market price for the
material to make it with, you know
Young Husband: don't see what |
am going to do. have been advertis-
ing for servant for a week, and haven't
received single application. Exper-
fenced Mother-in law: Try advertising
for a girl.
Miss Beacon (of Boston-"You
Western girls are dreadful slangy. Do
you know, heard Chicago girl say,
the other day that she would get there
with both feet" Miss Dearborn
"les; we are somewhat given to that
sort of thing. Is it true that Boston
girls are-ah-as deficient of beauty as
they are said to be?' Miss Beacon
1--WE may not be handsome; but in the
matter of culture we arrive at our desti-
nation with both of our pedal extremi-
ties"
The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18

'Oh, my back!" Is a common exclamation.
and expresses q world Of misery and suffering.
1t Is singular this pain arfses from such ved.
wasting affections, colds, rheumatism, dys-
psepsia, overwork and nervous debility are
chief causes. When thus ailing seek prompt
Bitters. II builds up from the foundation by
making the blood rich and pure. Leading
physicians and ministers use and recommend
it. II has cured many, and if you are q suffer.
er, try it
The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18
The Song of the Year.

1hC oVuS VI tuC ICuks
The lilacs are out,
The thrush is about
The first Of the year
Loves sweet and Loves herei
On thorns that we know
The rose is a-grow-
Loves sweet, and Loves hera
The heart of the yearl
No bird in the air,
No bough but is bare
The gray of the year
Loves sweet, and Loves herel
The word that is last,
The flakes falling fast
Loves sweet, and Loves here
The end Of the year,
-Lizette w. Reese in Wide A,udke.
The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18
Children Crv forIt.

II a child will take medicine with pleasure
you may know that il is not in any way often
sive TO the taste. Children like Hamburg Figs
and it is no longer necessary to disgust them
with castor-oil. % cents. Dose one Fig. Mack
Drug Co., NY.
The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18
Gntorrh Cured.

A clergyman, after years Of suffering from
that loa:hSume disease. Catarrh. and vainly
irving every known remedy, at last found q
prescription which completely cured and saved
him from death. Any sufferer from thi~ dread.
envelope to !'rof. J. 4. Lawrence. 50 Ha.. O.
St " Y. will receive the reel free Of ci. arge
The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18

Thirty years ago there were near one
hundred lightning-rcd factories in the
United States. Now there are but four,
yet they turn out as many rods as came
from their so numerous predecessors.
The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18

THs Mothers Friend, used before confne-
ment, lessons pain and makes labor COM
paratively easy. Sold by all druggists.
The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18

Best, easiest to use and cheapest Pisos
Remedy for Catarrh. By Druggists, so cts
The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18

If afflicted with sore eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Ihompsons Eye Water. Druggists sell at
pc per bottle
The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18

An internatlonaI exnIultlon or hostage
stamps is to be opened at Amsrsrdam.
To give additional interest to the llow
there will be sketches of the various
costumes worn by postmen in different
countries
The weekly messenger., 1889-05-18

A st. Louis taxidermist who recently
preserved a large bald eagle, says the
muscles of the breast were of great size
and formed nearly one-fourth of the
weight of the entire bird.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-10
The Wheel.

The Streator sports have invented a
scheme to beat the little "wheel" at the
races, when the black and the red and the
green and the star are displayed in all their
native gorgeousness.
As every one knows, there are three
black and three red spaces on the betting
table and in the center in green space is q
star. The black and red pay two for one
to the winner and the green FIVE for one
Every time one loses dollar on the red or
black, says this valuable pointer of the Ind.
Times, he must double his money each time
until he wins again, but on the green this is
not necessary as by adding the sum Of the
original investment each time, one may
keep even by winning at every fifth turn Of
the wheel. The Strestor pointer which is
based on this idea, is developed in the fol-
lowing table:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-10

the foul asss. Mshsr was in the box and
Porter back Of the plate. Makers delivery
was terrific and Porter showed an aversion
to taking the sphere of the bat, but never g.
theless Madden. Hook and Fredsnbure
whscksd the air and Ssslsy. who had won
first on balls was retired with bis side.
For the Students Wheeler smashed the
ball out into Main street and made homo
run; Porter went out on short ay to Rich.
ardson and Maher, who had secured two
Dagger scored with Fullerton on the lstter's
home run hit in the potato patch. Then
webey struck out and Ford and Kelly, who
had made base hits scored on Sheehsns
homo run fly, which nearly scrsped the eye
brows of the sun. Buffers strike out wound
up the inning.
By this time, the opening Of the second,
the crowd on Lynch's lawn was guying the
Lawyers numerically and 1t seemed patent
that the Students could only loose the game
oy becoming stupefed at the fearful playing
OF their opponents. When Lardin struck
out the Lawyers looked glum but whep
Cullen and Shay scored on Dinneen's high
ny to Kelly and the latter slid home in safe.
ty, they smiled in digni6ed way even
though Richardson and Fredenburg pound.
ed the atmosphere thrice uusuccessfully.
When they took the field Shay seemed to be
doing better work, for he managed to retire
the Students with but two additional tallys
to their credit, the score standing nine to
three.
The third inning was uneventful, honors
being about even, the Lawyers gaining three
and the Students four talleys. The batter,
les were in better shape and the ielders Of
the Lawyers had awakened, so to speak.
Maher fell to pieces in the fourth and the
Lawyers pounded him for seven runs before
he could pull himself togther. Madden
Hook, Seeley. and Beaubien, who had taken
the place Of Fredenb burg, Lardin and Cullen,
scored before Shay struck out. Richardson
was caught out by Maher and Hook went
dewn on short fly to Wheeler. This tied
the score and the Lawyers howled them.
selves hoarse with joy.
When umpire Sapp called play for the
last half of the fourth Capt. Wheeler frown.
ed heavily upon his men and cracked the
ball for one bag. Porter, Ford and Sheehan
went out but in meantime Kelley had scored,
deciding the game in the Students favor. n
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-10
The Sunday school Picnic

There were not less than fifteen hundred
people in Allen Park on Tuesday and had it
not been for the disinclination of the c., B.
& Q. road to grant excursion rates the crowd
would have been doubled. Five hundred
Sunday school scholars were at the depot in
Mendoza and the superintendent offered to
buy FIVE hundred tickets in bunch bu. the
road would not reduce its rate half cent.
Esrlville, Grand Ridge and Streator would
have sent q thousand had not the same
treatment been accorded them which Men
dots received.
As it was, less than two hundred Sunday
school children from outside points were
present but the large number from town
made the aggregate Of children quite large.
The big folks were out too, but they were
mostly ladies and business men. The girls
we're there, especially the sweet voiced
teachers in attendance on the institute.
Several of them were looking for the F. T.
man with the object of bustling" him but
he travelled incog. The toilets of the dear
girls were simply without number as far as
variety goes, for they were linens, cottons,
silks, satins, plushes, cashmeres, Henriettas,
satines, and choice collection Of fabrics
and fancies not down in the dealers cats-
logues.
Hentrich's band escorted the Sunday
schools to the park from Washington Park
and the morning program was speedily fin
ished. The addresses Of the speakers could
not be heard more than fifty feet on account
of the conversational turn of mind evinced
by the audience but those who occupied
seats in the immediate vicinity Of the stand
were able to hear fairly we'll. The Baptist
orchestra furnished music for numerous
hymns, in which MIR. Priohsrd led. During
the day addresses and short talks were
given BY Gen. Hayes, Rev. Day, Rev. Pen
hallegon, Rev. Gregg, Rev. Holmes and
other we'll known church and Sunday school
men.
Inv Uduu ulbCUuioCu OOu0Cit huoiS lawn
the stand at the west end Of the park and
this, mingled with the sharp notes Of the
City of Ottawa, formerly known as the Belle
of Ottawa, filed the air with sound and
gave tone to the surroundings. The boat
was kept busy all day and reaped fine har'
vest Of nickels, young and old mingling
together on her decks while she steamed up
and down the river.
The day, although not the great success
which its promoters hoped for, was splen.
did outing for the hundreds who crossed the
bridge and its repetition, later in the season
might work benefit to the spirits of the chill
dren upon whom Tuesday had an exhiler-
ating effect.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-10
A Baso Ball Game.

1t would have knocked you down to have
seen the game of ball between the lawyers
and the law students, for il was bssely con-
oeived and most fearfully executed. The
Lawyers seemed to have been frightened by
their defeat at the hands of the teachers in
attendance on the institute. and attempted
to cast an anchor to the sheet BY seeur-
ing Shay, Of Strestor, to twirl the sphere
and Duncan, Richardson, Fredingburg and
Hook to support their boys and strengthen
the field. The sole guy rope thrown out BY
the students was Shsahan, Q good short stop
who has been playing with the glass blow
ers.
TIE students won the toss and hung out
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-10

The Hon. Elmer Baldwin has broken
loose In the Republican again on the subs
iect of Free Trade and Protection. With
cash wheat at 761ac, corn 36c and oats 201 I
cents In Chicago and with $4,000 miners
and families within 25 miles of him beg
cling for bread, when coal Is protected u
by tax of 75c ton, ~ cents more thar
the miners are paid as wages, 1t may be
family remarked that the Honorable MIR
Baldwin exhibits gall that Is worthy 9
better cause He chooses an especially
inoportune time to plead for the monopo
lists In this district.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-10

dollars per year. The other necessary hell
would DO trimmer. One man could trim
ono hundred lights. The oarbons for tn,
lamps, first quality, would cost ten dollar.
per thousand. Il would require three car
bons for fifteen hour run. The avsrsg,
run would be ten hours, which would max,
the carbons cost about four hundred dollar,
per year. The ordinary engine to run tn.
plant would consume six pounds Of coal pc,
hour, but where canal or river is near by
the compound condensing boiler could read
lily be used. 1t would cost more ct first but
its consumption Of coal would be but from
two and half to three pounds per hour
The inoandescent lights were not favorite
with his company as street light, they pro.
ferring to have them placed in residences
and stores. The light received was not AZ
great according to hsrse power, as that 70.
ceived from the arc. The incandesoent
would give but ten sixteen candle power
lamps to the horse power and was only used
in small places and suburbs. Cities which
had tried the incandescent light had now
thrown it aside and were using the arc.
Mr.. Randolph, Of the Excelsior Company,
corroborated Mr.. Stuart in every particular
and said that he would gladly furnish the
carbons for one hundred lights for one year
for four hundred dollars. Upon Mr.. Porter s
saying that he had proposition in his
pocket from company that would furnish a
seventy'fve light plant with engine and
boiler complete, the whole to be in good
running order, for S1l 800, Mr.. Stuart said
that his figures, if bids were asked for, could
be quickly ascertained, but that he would
not give his lowest figure in the presence of
a representative Of q competing company.
Mr.. Armstrong then addressed the coun-
ell, arguing that plant according to the
estimates Of the experts, would cost from
twenty to twenty-five thousand dollars.
Mr. Alshuler grew wrathful. He said
that "this man Armstrong don't favor arc
lights any more than that horse out there"
Mr. Alshuler talked real saucy.
The vote discovered the Illinois Valley
Co.'s Heisler light defeated by eight to four,
Messrs. Armstrong, Lunney, Dinneen and
Fuchs only voting in the affirmative.
Col. Hit presented plat Of "Hitt's Add.
to Ottawa" having plated his south side
property. On account of similarity Of the
street names to those of north side streets
the matter was referred.
Adjourned.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-10
STUDENTS.
LAWYERS,
OTHER BALL GAMES,

OTHER BALL GAMES.
The lawyers suffered their second defeat
at the hands of the Clerks at the East side
grounds on Wednesday. They had secured
the Richardson battery and smiled in anti
cipation Of paralyzing the clerks who placed
Hook and Lindemsn as their battery. In
the first inning the lawyers battsd Hook in
manner fearful to behold, while the clerks
managed to secure but two runs off Richard
son, The second inning was uneventfuf but
the clerks fell on Richardson in the third
and squared things. The game closed with
the fifth inning, when the score stood twenty,
one to twenty in favor of the clerks. The
game was particularly poor and abounded in
plays Of the rankest variety. This
game ended the play on Mr. Lynch's grounds
as the crowd almost ruined his fine lawn by
tramping the grass and flowers in a most
reckless manner.
The printers and cigar makers are booked
for game on the afternoon of the seven.
teenth.
The Undine Hose Company nine and the
Glover Club nine played game on the north
side grounds Sunday. The Undine boys
won by score of eleven to six.
A game is proposed between the fat men
and the thin men. It would draw and
might be held Driving Park for the benefit
of the starving miners. There is an abund-
snce of material especially for heavy
weight nine.
There is good material and plenty of op-
portunity for game between the dry goods
salesman and the clothing salesman.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-10
THE BLACK DIAMOND AFFAIR.

For week or two past the big city dai
lies, In their wonted striving after the
sensational, have been trying to magnify
into the in portance Of serious compiled
tlon with England, II not a threatening wal
cloud. the comparatively trivial Incident OF
the seizure by an American cutter OF a Ca
madam vessel engaged In the Illicit business
of seal poaching in the Behring Sea.
The incident occurred July 18th, wher
the U. s. Revenue Cutter Richard Rush
Capt. Shepard-oyertook the British
schooner Black Diamond In Behring Sc,
and ordered her to heave TO. The Captain
of the B. ID. refused. Whereupon Capt
Shepard ran out his guns, which brought
the schooner to, aud she was boarded sn(
asked for her papers. These were refused
to be delivered up, upon which Capt. Shep
ard broke open the ships strong box ant
secured them. A further search of the
vessel disclosed 1903 seal skins which had
been taken In Behring Sea, which were
and Capt. Shepard Their
placed on-commissioned officer In
charge of the schooner with orders to take
her to Sltka to await further Instructions
himself proceeding with the Rush In the
line of his business TO scour the sea fol
other poachers.
But the Capt. Of the Black Diamond
though he had formally surrendered his
vessel, as soon as the Rush was out OF
sight, instead of allowing his vessel to be
taken to sitka, broke his parole and took
her to Victoria British Columbia, the port
from which he had sailed.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-10
AMT R'o'D
AMOUNT IN

This scheme may win; but the best pointer
for beating the wheel is, don't tampsr with
q safe rule Of behavior never to attempt to
beat Q man ct his own game.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-10

Joliet Is one Of the "boom towns" of Ii.
linois; and II her "boom" Is In proportion
to her tax levy, $2s5 900, she is to be con.
graduated.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-10

A Driving Park Association has beer
formed at Elgin with capital stock Of
5000.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-10

Joliet and Peoria or the mouth Of the river
must pronounce the ditch satisfactory oe,
fore any water may be turned Into It; ~
all damages TO be paid for before use OF
the ditch; q all present water power
rights to be preserved to the present own.
ers
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-05-09
Adoring % Flower.

The universally of plant worship in the
east in former times is evidenced by the
fierce dennciations found in various parts of
the Bible against the alteration of trees, but
it is somewhat surprising to find in our own
times system of flower worship still kept
up in various parts Of Persia and India. A
recent traveller in India gives the following
description Of flower worship as practiced by
the Persians in Bombay; "A true Persian, in
flowing robe of blue, and on his head sheep
skin hat-black, glossy, curly, the fleece Of
Kar-Kal-would saunter in, and stand and
mediate over every flower he saw, and al
ways as if half in vision. And when the
vision was fulfilled and the ideal flower
he was seeking found, he would spread his
mat and sit before it until the setting of the
sun, and then pray before it, and then fold
up his mat again and go home. And the
next night, and night after night, until that
particular flower faded away, he would re-
turn to it and bring his friends in ever in
creasing troops to it, and sit and play the
guitar or lutte before it, and they would alto
gether pray there, and after prayer still sit
before it slipping sherbet and talking the
most hilarious and shocking scandal late into
the moonlight, and so again and again every
evening until the flower died. Sometimes,
by way of grand finale, the whole company
would suddenly arise before the flower and
serenade it, together with an ode from Haflz,
and depart. Folk Lore of Plants.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-05-09
Tara's Hall.

1.-THE Harp that Once Through Tara's
Hall" commentaries one Of the most terrible
and far reaching curses that was ever pro-
nounced. The curse was laid in 554, or 1856
years ago, and Irish politics has felt the in
fiuence of it ever since. 1t was done in the
reign of Dermid, who was lapsing back to &C.
tive sympathy with the Druids, and who, I'M
like his predecessors since st. Patrick's con-
stitution had been instituted, violated with
impunity 'the immunities that instrument
had patented to the clergy. At last he COM
mitted most fragrant act by seizing pris-
oner at the altar of Temple Ruadan, county
of Tipperary, dragging him from the protec-
ton Of the sacred precincts and putting the
victim to death.
st. Ruadan, the patron priest, was exas-
perated, and gathering his immediate clergy.
men journeyed to Tara Marching slowly,
three times around the royal rath or kings
palace with awful solemnity, they excommu-
nicated the aggressive monarch, and chanted
amalediction against the rath SO terrible that
when, two years after, Dermid was slain by
Black Hugh Of Ulster, the place was deserted,
and has never been occupied since. 1t is said
that his favorite bard chung to the halls for
years, and that, SO thoroughly ostracized was
the place that his skeleton was found beside
his faithful but broken harp by wandering
bard who visited the spot years after having
fed from it in terrorist. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-05-09
THE TExARKANA KILLING.
Alexander Fails to Give Ball-A Question
of Ownership Settled.
Special to the Statesman.

Alexander Fails to Give Bail-A Question
of Ownership Settled,
Special to the Statesman.
TExARKANA, May 4.-Bob Alexander,
who killed Joseph Smith here yesterday,
contrary to all expectations, failed to give
ths required $1,000 bond, and is now in
jail. HIS relatives have Mt yet put in an
appearance. Smiths remains were de-
Gently inferred at the city cemetery to-
day. The expense was borne by the
brother of the deceased, who is said to be
a Wholesale merchant of Chicago, and who
telegrsphed the necessary funds.
A portion of the ruins of the Southern
college, owned by the county, and once
used for court house here, fell with
loud crash to-day about noon, creating
CONSERVATION in that vicinity. The park
around this building is used for hitching
horses, and quite a number were near the
building at the time of the catastrophe
A fine bay, ridden here by
Mr.. John Brown, was covered
by the debris of a chimney and crushed
to death. The unfortunate animal, 1t
seems, was disputed property and was
claimed by a white man and colored
man. A large army of witnesses Were
in attendance and the trial of the right OF
property was Just about to begin IN the
Justice court, when the chimney fell out
and forever settled the question OF own
ership.