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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

BUFFALo Bill, Amelie Rives-C hanler,
Belva Ann Lockwood and Whitelaw Reid
formed an interesting group at a recent re-
ception in Paris.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

MRS FREDERICK STEVENS that was now
the Duchesse de Dino, is a New Yorker still
10 the tune Of ten real golden millions OF her
own, and now, one may say, the Duke S, too.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

IT is positively hurtful to use ointment for
skin diseases. Use Glenn's Sulphur Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, 80 certs.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

IT will pay TO shake of a large proportion
of ths fruit from trees that are overloaded.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

ASK your druggist for ''Tansill's Punch
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-08-01

A more pleasant physic
You never will ind
Than Pierce's small ''Pellets,
The Purgative kind.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
DIR. FOoTE IN SALT LAKE CITY.

DR.. f. B. F'oote, ST., author of "Plain
Home Talk Medical Common Sense"
Science in Story" etc, of 100 Lexington
avenue, New York, who has given his I'M
divided attention for over thirty-tive years
to the treatment of difficult and supposed
incurable chronic diseases, is at the Spen-
Ger house (north wing, No. 252 First East
street, between Second and Third South
streets, Salt Lake city. The doctor is
here more with view to rest and change
of climate for brief season than for pro
fessional business, but having in Utah and
ne;ghboring states and territories hun
dreds of patients and correspondents, he
will for limited time devote the hours
from 9 until y M, and from until 1 p. NJ
on Monday, Wednesdays and Saturdays to
receiving the calls of the sick, or those who
may desire his advice. DR.. Foote is too
well known to the citizens of Utah and the
public generally to require the publication
of testimonials but if any one wishes en-
dorsemeuts Of this nature they will be lib
orally supplied at the DOCTORS room. No
charge for consultation not exceeding
twenty minutes. Inralids at distance
may consult by letter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
ASSOCIATED WITH DRINKING,

and all of the eastern nations are FOND of
games of chance. The Chinese are the
greatest gamblers in the world. The man
who works for5 cents day and who has
cent set aside for mis- supper will go to a
cook stand and invest that cent upon the
little lottery which the man runs in con
nection with it. If he wins he may get two
dinners, if he loses he goes without. At
Tien Tsin every peddler of cakes and
boiled bread has bamboo tube as big
around as a tumbler, and in this there are
a number of sticks about the length of Il
knitting needle, and of the size of a slate
pencil. On the ends of some of these sticks
are numbers, while others are blank. The
numbers are on the ends of the sticks
which are stuck into the tube, and the pur-
chase pays so much a draw. If he pulls
out stick with a number on it, he has the
number of cakes represented by it, if not,
he gets nothing. A common game at
Chinese dinners is the guessing the number
of fingers which one man thrustS out
quickly before the eyes Of his neighbors.
Ii the guess is wrong the guesscr has to
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10

intoxicant For unnumbered centuries
the yellow faced Chinaman has frightened
his almond eye with samshu. And 1t IS now
1900 years ago since saki, the national
brandy of Japan, was invented. Both
samshu and saki are rice brandy, and 1t is
said that Z per cent. of the entire rice crop
of Japan is turned into this liquor 1t pays
over two million dollars year in revenue
taxes, and its brewers have to pay license
and percentage on the amount of their
sales. No Japanese dinGer is complete
without saki, and IL is customary Tor a
party to use but one cup, taking drink
and then rinsing out the cup in a bowl OF
water kept for the purpose. aud handing it
to his next neighbor. The liquor is served
hot. 1t contains about 10 per cent. OF al
cohol, and its properties are such that II
quickly mounts to the head. The Amos,
the race of hairy savages vino inhabit the
north Of Japan, are
NATION OF DEUNKARDs.
They believe that drink came from
the gods, and think that Il man Is very close
TO heaven when he Is under its influence
In Japan proper | saw much drinking but
very little drunkenness, and during my
whole year in Asia, mixing with all classes
of the people, and going into all sorts OF
slums, saw fewer drunken men than
have seen on a single Saturday night in
Presbyterian Glasgow or IN Eplscopalian
London. If the Monaghan or the Indian
drinks to the same excess as does his
Caucasian brother, he does it in secret.
And as to drunken women, l saw not
single one in my whole Asiatic tour. The
only approach to it was in the imitation of
drunkenness by two pretty Japanese geisha
girls on a miniature stage at Nillko. This
was at picnic given by Mr.. Charles Flint,
the eastern manager of the Waterbury
Watch company, at which he had engaged
these girls to sing to and play for the
guests.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
TAKE A DRINK OF sAMsEU.

Fan tan is the greatest Chinese game of
chance. 1t is played everywhere and it is
usually run by stock companies IN houses
called tan koon. These houses have two
rooms, in one of which cash or copper coins
alone are played for, and III the other of
which silver and gold are used. 4 fan tan
table has four numbers on it, l, 2, 8 and 4,
aud it takes three men to manage the game.
At the head sits the croupier who has a
great pile of copper cash, each with little
square hole in its middle, and each as big
around as red cent. He gathers up u
double handful of these and puts them I'M
der a tin basin. The gamblers who stand
around the table then put their money on
one of the four numbers, and as they do 80
the shrotf or cashier of the game takes an
account of them and looks to see that the
money is not counterfeit. \ third man
connected with the game is also present to
pay over the money to the winners. As
soon as the game is ready the basin is taken
off and the croupier, by poking an ivory
rod into the hole of the cash, draws away
four at time. The number last left at the
last drawing decides the winning or the
losing. If the money comes out even and
four cash are left the money Of wins. And
if three or two are left those putting their
money on 4 save the amount OF their stake.
All on number l lose. 1t is in the same
ratio on the other numbers, and the gam
bier has one chance of winning, two Of not
losing anything, and one chance Of losing
This is
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
THERE ARE FEW HORSES

in China, and there is little horse racing
among the natives The Chinese have not
yet learned to gamble with the baseball
nine, but they make up for the lack of these
two great features OF American chance by
betting on cock fights, bird fights and
cricket fights. This fighting Of crickets is
one Of the institutions Of China, and crick-
cts are caught, fed and trained for fighting.
There is a fixed diet for them, and part of
their food consists of honey and boiled
chestnuts. If they get sick they are fed
with a diet of mosquitoes, and they are
groomed and trained like horses Before
being caught they are weighed, and there
is fixed regulation as to their sizes. Each
cricket has its record pasted up on the
doors of the house in which the fight is to
take place, and the owner of the cricket
which wins gets 10 per cent. of all the bets.
A good fighting cricket is very valuable,
and its fame goes abroad the land. 1t viii
bring big sum, and when it dies. accord
ing to Archdeacon Grey, it is buried III
silver coffin.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10

A new idea embraced in Ely's Cream
Balm. Catarrh is cured by cleansing and
healing, not by drying up. 1t is not a
liquid or snun, but is easily applied into the
nostrils. It's effect is magical and a
treatment will cure the worst
cases prica h0c
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
0NE sPECIEs On ~ AZ.

Another is where the gambler, if he wins,
gets three times the amount OF his stakes,
butif any of the other three numbers win
he loses. There are as many other kinds
Of games played Oh these fan tan boards as
are played on the roulette table, and the
chances arc in al cases with those who run
the game. Even in paying the winnings, :
per cent. is usually taken out to defray the
expense Of the proprietOrs, and the pro
fessionals, as usual. make the money.
China has its policy game, which is not
much different from That known in Amer
lea, and great deal Of gambling goes on
by means of cards. All sorts Of lmes of
chance are against the law, but they are
winked at by the officials, who, in some
cases, get alargo part OF their revenue from
the gambling houses. At the treaty ports
there is probably more playing than in the
interior, and it IS not uncommon for a man
to lose a concubine ut the gaming table
AL over China the fruit stands viii sell you
fruit on the chance that you can guess the
number of seeds contained in an orange
If You guess right you get five times your
stake, if not, you pay for the orange and
give five times the amount you have bet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10

fights among them The Burmese have
their gambling games. You will find card
playing and dice-throwing going on in
nearly every part of India, and, in short,
doubt whether there is a place in the world
in which games of chance are not played
for money That same attribute of human
nature which makes poker popular through
out the United States, seems to be found in
every human skin, whether its color be vel
low, black or brown, and it takes the best
of civilized laws and the most rigid of re
ligious influences to keep it in check. 1t
existed long before the sons of Lot played
the quiet game of draw for the best of the
lands about Sodom, and il will probably be
carried on to the very edge of the great
millennium. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
We want mothers to know that Group
can be prevented. There is no question
about this, as it has been done in thousands
of cases. and you may depend upon it that
when. a child lakes the Group, it is wholly
owing to the negligence of its parents.
True Group never appears without due and
timely warning; few hours, or day or
two before the attack, the child becomes
hoarse. This hoarseness is the first indica-
ton of Group, and is sure sign that Group
is to follow, unless promptly and properly
treated. The free use of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy as directed with each
bottle, under the heading, ITO prevent
Group will dispel all symptoms of the
disease. For sale by the Z. G. M. l. Drug
Department.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10

MRs. W1SsLow's Soothing SYRUP should
always be used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gumes, allays
all pain, cures wind collie. and is the best
remedy for DiarrnGa Twenty-Five cents
bottle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
Alvina tn AInthprs

Try Angel Bros. new lumber yard, Stat
road. Telephone 43S.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10

is low tub which is placed on a table
Alter the insects are weighed and groomed
they are put into this tub and tickled with
straws until they rush at each other with
loud chirrups and fight to the death. They
are as brave as fighting cocks, aud they
wrestle, bite and tear each other till one or
the other dies Quail fights are common
all over China, and they are carried on
much as cock-hghting is in New Orleans
The quails fight fercely, but the spectators
must be very quiet in order that the fight
ing birds be not frightened. In most cases
the bird is purposely made deaf while
training, and this is done by blowing into
the birds ear with tube. Pigeon fighting
also furnishes much opportunity for
Chinese betting, and cock-fghting is COM
mon IN some parts Of the country.
THE sIAMEsE ARE INvETERATE GAMBLERS,
and there are more gambling houses than
there are stores in Bangkok The Chinese
own the most of these houses, and the bust
ness is allowed to go on on account Of the
big revenue which it pays to the govern
ment. Shells are still used to some extent
as money in Siam and India, and a great
deal of this gambling is done with corrie
shells, which are about the size of a lima
bean, and which, in Siam, take the place of
cash. Singapore and POnang are noted for
their gambling houses, aud all over the
west Pacific you will find great quantities
Of lottery tickets for sale. The Manila
lottery there takes the place of the Louis
lana lottery in America, and its drawings
are participated in by both foreigners and
natives. There are lotteries in Egypt,
Greece and Turkey, and Cairo has nu1ner-
Gus gambling houses, at which the games
are played on the same plan of those at
Monte Carlo, but not with the same hon
esty.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-10
ruE aREHl,s ARE FoNn ns GA,rnr1Ye

and, though they are in the main respect
able and upright on their own land, they
have very bad reputation in Egypt. and a
great part Of the criminal notes of the
Alexandria newspapers are made up of the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-09
An Electric Shock

STEUBENvILLE. o Aug. ga. G. Davids
superintendent of the Steubenville Electric
Railway, had curious experience yester-
day with direct Edison current. The
electric railway is provided with the Sprague
system Of motors. The trolley wire broke
and one end f,ll to the street. The electri-
clan being absent Davis undertook to repair
the damage himself by using insulated tools.
The pliers were dull and he had some dit.
6culy In cutting the wire, but suddenly it
parted and he received the full force of the
900 volt current. It knocked him to the
ground and rendered him unconscious. He
was soon revived and beyond considerable
nervous prostration is uninjured
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-09
@SlsSs5
ASs0cTATED PRESS DIgpATCHEs
The Elixir of Life

CINCINNATI, Aug. 9-Dr. Robert Long
fellow conducted series of experiments
yesterday with Brown Sequard'S discovery.
Tests were made ON q dozen subjects. The
frat two patients were Thos Album 55
years old and Fielder Weir oolored OK.
slave, 70 years Of age. The latter was bent
aud crippled with the rheum atism and AL
burn had been famed by erysipelss. The
liquid was injected 10 the arms and legs
When both subjects returned In the evening
they could walk with ease. and to show his
regeneration Weir kicked with b,th feet as
high as his head, ran about the room and
danced. The exhilarating effect on the
white man was equally as noticeable. Dr..
Longfellow reports this morning that In all
tina persons he administ sred the huld
yesterday the effects we're similar except
one. That was In the case of man 35
years old, In full health and in no need of q
tonic. He experienced slight sickness.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 8, 1889.

Especial Correspondence Of the Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Aug 8, 1889.
Col. L. g. Estes. of North Carolina, car.
petbagger, who was rewarded for leading
off some OF the delegates from his State at
the last national republican convention
from Sherman, first to Alger and then to
Harrison. by giving himlthe place of post.
Office Inspector for this, Ithe Maryland ano
Virginia district, has been tried and found
wanting, aud beea removed, and his Office
given to a man from Wisconsin. This isthe
place for which Mr.. Brown Allen, of Viz
ginis, was an applicant.
All applicants for places under Mr. Nc.
Caull, collector of internal revenue for the
Lynchburg district, will be interested IN the
statement that the commissioners of internal
revenue will recommend no others than
those selected by Mr.. MeCaull, and that the
Secretary of the Treasury will appoint only
thoss recommended by. the commissioner.
Senator Barbour, of Virginia sa he is
in con slant receipt of letters asking him to
retain his position as chairman of the Viz.
ainis democratic committe. and telling him
Cha convention will force that position upon
him and that he cannot afford to decline it.
BE says this is very complimentary, and be
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-09
Miners on a Raid

P1TTsBURe, Pa. Aug. 9.-Dlspatches ftom
the ConnellsvilIe coke region report gang
of 400 drunken Hungarian coke workers ou
raid. They do not seem to understand
that the strike was settled in their favor,
and this morning started out to close up tbs
works In operation. They first marched to
Moorswood and drove the men out and then
went to the Alice works where they a!so
forced the men to quit work. They ara still
on the warpatb. Considerable damage was
done at Moorewood aud Alice, but no one
was seriously hurt.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-09
Railroad Accident.

SOUTH BETHLEHEM, Ps.. Aug While
cabooae containing Conductor Otto San
ders, Brakeman Mark Chrsman and VIM
Garren was lying on siding of the Lehigh
Valley R. r at Penn Haven junction at 4
o'clock this morning, an engine dashed into
it, wrscking the oaboose to spllnters, killing
Garren and fatally iriuring Christmar. En.
gineer Bennett, of the engine, was asleep
and failed to notice the signals. Garren
was unmarried and lived ct Mauch Chunk.
Christman has wife and three children.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-09
An Influx of Chinese.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.-The Chinese
are swarming in by every Hong Kong
steamer bound for Mexico. No less than
sixty came week ago and sixteen arrived
last night, all destined for Mazatlan and
Panama. They are reshIppsd here without
landing. but once in Mexico there ls no
difficulty in smuggling them over the south
ern border. It is much cheaper to run
coolies into California by Mexico than by
British Columbia, as the Dominion govern.
ment collects head tax of $50 whereas
Mexico welcomes them
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-09

A SCENE IN PARLIAMENT.-Int the British
House of Commons last night, during the
debate on the Irish estimat Mr.. Balfour
referred to two resident magistrates refus.
Ing to subscribe for race meeting because
Ted Harrington, member of the committee,
had denounced the police as towards, liars
and uniformed boodhounds. Mr.. Harring.
ton challenged Mr.. Balfour to give his au-
thority, and started across the floor, appar-
euilg with the intention of assaulting Mr..
Balfour. He was followed and pulled back,
when tremendous uproar ensued. The
chairman's calls for order were drowned in
Irish yells. Amid moments pause, Tim
Healy accused Mr.. Ba'four of using an In
sultiDg gesture toward Mr.. Harrington, aud
told MIR. Balfour to keep quiet or they
would make him. The tumult continued a
quarter of an hour, the chairman warning
the Parnelites to control their feelings.
When order was restored Mr. Balfour denied
that he had used an insulting GESTURE, and
Mr.. Harrington apologizsd for his hasty ao-
ton. Mr.. Ba four was then allowed to pro.
coed with his speech
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-09

sides. that he Is willing to do all in reason
for the party which has been 80 kind to him,
but that he has definitely determined to
hold the position no longer, and that moth.
ing can induce him to change that determi-
nation.
The fact that Mr.. Harrison, while at Deer
Park, sent for Judge Brown, of Michigan,
and kept him there two days is now said to
Indicate that the Judge, and not Secretary
Noble, will be appointed Associate Justice
of the q. S. Supreme Court. to fill the va.
cancy oocasioned by the death of Justice
Matthews The fact that the Virginia Cir
cult is not represented on the Supreme
Bench never seems to have suggested to
Mr.. Harrison the idea of the seemliness of
appointing man from that circuit, though
there Is some excellent material in 1t.
E1.Congressman Goode, of Virginia, was
at the Capitol to day. He says he is prac
ticing law here now, and that he has been
away from Virginia 30 long that he has lost
the right to vote there. He takes great in
tsrest, however, in the success of the demo-
cratic party of his State. and hopes the com
ing convention will nominate ticket that
will win. He says he thinks q resolution on
the tariff question might be framed that
would be satisfactory to all the democrats in
the State. Mr.. Goode says he would not be
surprised if Mr.. Venable were the nominee
of the convention.
The Harrison Administration has devised
a new "wripkle" in furtherance of the idea
that this s personal government. II Ia
that whenever the President sball take
trip he shall be accompanied by an army of
fcer, as his personal aid.
It's reported here that Secretary Blaine
has had forwarded to him from the State
Department several blank consular com mis-
sions, and that be will avail himself of the
opportunity afforded while the President is
his quest to have them filled and signed.
This is hardly credible, but it really seems
as if nothing is too strange to occur nova
days.
Some republicans from the S.h Virginia
district here to day say there are men in
their party there who complain of MIR. Ag.
new because he will not urge the removal OF
some women postmssters in that district and
the appointment of working republicans in
their places, and that when he ia remon
strated with, his reply is that women are
neithse working nor voting politicians. and
that fighting them is not part of his politics
No changes in the 4th cl-ss postofiices of Vir'
gina were made to-day. Among the callers opor
Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson was Mr.
Park Aguew, of Alexandria, who presented the
application of Nj s. G. Coous for the post Office
at Warrenton Springs now held by Mr.. Murray
Forbes.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-09
ALEX ANDRIA-.
Friday EVENING, AUGUST 9.

A MEMBER Of the French legation having
lost some money in faro bank at Long
Branch has "squealed." That ne has done
so proves that he is as much out Of place In
the legation to which he Is attached as he
was when in the faro bank. B. man who,
when sober, voluntarily goes into gamb.
ling house and risks his money on the turn
of card, knows that he must either win or
loss-his hope always being that the former
will be the case. 1t often is, and when &c,
there is never any "squealing.' More fire..
quentiy it is otherwise. But then, the
right sort of men pocket their loes and say
nothing about it. 1t is only the mean spirit-
ed and unprincipled who "fqueal." They
never dream of returning the gamblers
money when they win. but would havet them
return theirs, 30 that they may risk it again
some where else.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-08-09

Elk SECRETARY BAYARD cannot now even
get the democracy OF his own State to ac-
cent him for their leader. A few years ago
the democracy of all the States would have
gladly followed him. In an evil hour for
him, however, he became member of Mr..
Cleyelaud's Cabinet, caught the big head,
and declared that if party work were to be
paid for with Office. democratic institutions
would fail of their purpose. Some one man
may be better than many other men In his
party but no man can be better than all the
other men In bis party. And those politicians
silly enough to think otherwise, In country
OF Unrestricted suffrage, will come to grief,
as has been the case with MIR. Cleveland as
well az with Mr.. Bavard.