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The Arizona sentinel., 1889-10-19
LIGHT ON A MYSTERY.

Information Calculated to Relieve the
Minds of Many Householders.
One often wonders why such large
number of idlers always surrounds
every excavation or new building in
the central part of the city, but an ex-
PLANTATION given by one yesterday sheds
some light on the mystery. A man
who sat on block of stone carefully
watching the work on the nine-story
building attracted the attention of one
of the bosses, who said:
81 have seen you around here most
of the time for the last two months"
Yes
''Are you drawing wages?"
''Oh, no."
''Is it relative of yours who is
building?"
NO"
''Going to rent it when fnished?"
No"
Getting points in architectureP"
mo"
"Well, then, what brings you here?"
''Well, I'll tell you. 1t struck me
that you were not making that front
door wide enough by an inch and
half, and I've been sitting around to
see whether was wrong or you meant
to change it."
THAT door is all right, sir. and
won't be changed"
'Is it? Then there's no longer any
need of my presence, and I'll move uE
street and see if they carry the walls
of that new store up plumb. DE
troit Free Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-10-19
PITH AND POINT.


Choose the course you adopt with
deliberation; but when you have
adopted it, then persevere in it with
frmness.
Power is so characteristically calm
that calmness itself has the aspect
of power, and forbearance implies
strength.
Little disputes before marriage
are great ones after it; as northerly
winds, which are warm in summer,
blow keen and cold in winter. IN. Y.
Ledger.
1t will be recollected that one Of
Sir Walter Scott'S sayings was, that
Whatever might be said about luck,
it is skill that leads to fortune"
"A communist is one who has yearn-
ings for an equal division of unequal
earnings. Idler or burglar, he is will
ing to fork out his penny and pocket
your shilling.
The art of putting the right men
in the right places is first in the
science of government; but that of
finding places for the discontented is
the most cult.-Talleyrand.
pay as you CO." is a motto that
is in no way related to the phrase "go
as you please" This truth is often
brought out with great emphasis.
Merchant Traveller
mility is to make a right esti-
mate of ones self 1t is no humility
for man to think less of himself than
he ought, though it might rather puz-
zle him to do that.-Spurgeon.
1t is the glorious prerogative of
the empire of knowledge that what it
gains it never loses. On the contrary,
it increases by the multiple of its own
power; all its ends become means; all
its attainments help to new conquests.
Church Union.
We can not afford to suspect every
body because certain persons have de-
ceived us. There are such things as
honor and integrity in the world, and
it is for us, intelligently and reasona-
bly,, to look for them and find them.
When men cease to trust each other
the foundations of society will be dis
turbed.-United Presbyterian.
There is not very much fun in this
world, but you always expect some to-
morrow. We don't cling to life so
much because we are having such
good time, but because we hope to
have. ''Man never is, but always to
be blest." Nobody living doubts for
moment that he deserves to be blessed.
A fellow who has been born with E
gold spoon in his mouth and on whom
fortune has waited with absolute SER
Witty all his life, resents trouble, an
illness or loss of money with intensi-
ty. 1t does not seem fair. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-10-19
Told by a Montana Man.

No white man ever saw buffalo
west of the Rockies. The Indians of
the Northwest have a legend to ac-
count for this. Many moons ago, they
say, some Indians were hunting buffalo
on the other side of the range-they
were plentiful over there then. An
old medicine man told them where to
find big herd which, he said, was
led by red bull calf. The Great
Spirit would give them all the buffalo
they desired, but the red calf must not
be killed. If it was killed the Great
Spirit would punish them severely.
The braves started out, found the buff
faloes and slaughtered them by the
hundreds. When they looked among
the carcasses the body of the red calf
was found. 1t was never known who
killed it, but they say the buffaloes all
disappeared and were never again seen
on that side of the Rockies. st. Louis
Globe-Democrat
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-10-19

vantage would be equaI1zed; both sides
would have to modify existing tactical
arrangements. Surprise would be a
factor of the greatest Importance in the
use of artillery and still more of in
fantry; the latter could find footing
anywhere and remain unnoticed for
long time while keeping up fire, the
smoke alone betraying their where
abouts Hearing. it is stated, will not
be able to take the place of sight in
judging of the direction from which
firing with smokeless powder proceeds,
Colonel Seibert having recently shown
that the apparent direction differs
much from the true one on account of
the disturbing influence of the projec-
tile on the sound waves produced in
firing. IN. Y. Times.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-10-19
STAND-ALONE SILKS.

They Will BE In High Favor with Those
Who Can Afford Them.
AS if to somewhat mitigate the ultra
flatness of the effect of the unpro-
tuberant, tournureless back draperies,
magnificent thick silks are imported,
of the "stand-alone" quality of our
grandmothers' time. Luxury will
manifest itself the coming winter in
superb silks and pompadour brocodes
called centennial" brocades this
year-and in the sumptuous silk and
metal embroideries with which plain
silks will be enriched. This lavish
use of rare and beautiful embroidery
dates back to the first empire, when
hardly any really elegant coats
were seen, except military ones,
laden with gold embroidery,
and when the masculine dress
coat rivaled those adopted by women,
both in richness of quality and decora-
tion. One of the modern forms of this
elegant garment is the centennial"
an almost literal reproduction of the
centennial" coat that was revived two
years ago. The square-cut fronts are
bordered with gold and silver passe-
menterie, and the vest is of silk or
satin, nearly covered with the embroi-
derry, and fastened with very expensive
gold buttons of large size. There are
deep flaps at each side also richly dec
Grated with gimp and buttons, and
there is a jabot or duchesse or point
applique lace, with deep frills to COR
respond in the close, richly-trimmed
sleeves, the jabot falling in graduated
curves from the neck to point below
the waist Chicago Times
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-10-19

While tearing down an old Chin
ney in Nyack, N. Y, lately, the work
men were astonished to find imbedded
in the mortar toad in a somewhat in
active condition, but still alive. 1t had
been confined in that spot, hidden from
light and air for fully forty years. Halt
an hour after he had been brought out
he hoped around in as lively a man.
ner as if he had been born the present
YEAR
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-10-19
VOLUME XVIII.
A WoMAN'S Way.
They sat together side by side,

They sat together side by side,
Absorbed in Cupids mission;
''Dear John, please tell, she softly cried
"What was my pas decisiong'
'Alasw said he, 81 greatly fear''
(His voice began to quaver),
'My suit is not regarded, DEAR
(He heaved a sigh, with favor"
"Your pa says he can't see at all''
(He sadly smoothed her tresses),
'How ], with such an income small,
Can even buy your dresses"
Il think" she answered (and her eye
To his in trust was carried),
81 might lay in good supply
Before" ishe blushed) we're married" 4"
Tom Mason, in Ladies' Wear Review.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-10-19

An immense glass bubble or globe
which has been exhibited at the Paris
exposition is over five feet in diameter,
with a capacity of 1850 imperial
quarts, and weighs forty-eight and a
half pounds. 1t is as pure as crystal,
and without blemish. and is a work
of the French glass-blowers said to
have never been eQualed.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-10-19
j. W. DORRINGTON, Proprietor.
YOUTHS DEPARTMENT.
"MOLLT MISCHIEF"

"MOLLT MISCHIEF"
Our little Moll1e Mischief
(Her proper name is Rose)
Is always busy as bee,
And every body knows
The bees are full of business
The livelOng summer day,
And so is Molly Mischief,
But in quite different way.
Her little rosy fingers,
So pretty in their place,
Are often tied together
Behind her in disgrace.
Because, II mamma leaves a thing
For only half a minute,
They, like f1uttering butterflies
Are sure to settle in it.
One Sunday, after meeting,
She vanished from our sight,
But no one saw the going
OF our little wandering sprite.
We ran around to seek her
Among the girls and boys,
And found her IN the organ loft,
A-hunting for re noise"
And once, when we forbade her
To pick the currants red,
We heard her in the bushes,
And this is what she said:
% title lonesome babies,
Is you afwaid to stay?
Come to your own, dear muzzer,
I'll hide you safe away"
We my little readers
guess the hiding-pLdce.
aps it something had to do
l the stains upon her face.
drs. j. M. Dana, in Youths Com panion.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-10-19

In Dublin, small town in Laurens
County, Ga, there lives a blue man.
He is a Caucasian, but instead of be-
ing white, is a greenish blue, and is
known as blue Billy" His whole
skin is blue, his tongue and the roof
of his mouth are blue, and where his
eyes should be white is seen the same
ghastlY greenish-blue color
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-10-19

"A locomotive engineer, while run
ming between Wheatvale and San
Leandro, Cal, lately ran in to what ap-
peared to be a small cloud, sweeping
close to the ground. but what was in
reality a swarm of bees. The cab was
literally filled with bees in few min.
utes. but neither he nor his fireman was
stung.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-10-19

"A country doctor who owned a
smoke-house hung out sign: Con
sumption and hams cured "-~Texas
Siftings.
The Arizona sentinel., 1889-10-19
PERTAINING TO POWDER.
improvements Made to Meet Mod
ern Requirements.

Slow Burning, Quick Burning, SmOkeless,
Noiseless and other Interesting hut De-
structive Powders That Will Make
Future Warfare Dangerous.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-11-08
Tho Ex- presidont's EIdest Son.

Mr.. Alan Arthur, the eldest son Of the
OK president, is a startling contrast to his
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-11-08
Developments of Khinoplastic AR

Developments of "Rhinoplastic Art.
Among the prominent people in Europe
who are blessed with peculiar noses is the
duke of Cumberland, eldest son OF the late
king Of Hanover The duke was born alb
solutely without any nose at ALL and The one
which Is appended to h's face at present is
principally composed Of Lesh taken from
the arm while the skin is furnished by a
lapel cut from the forehead between the
two eyes and drawn down over it 1t
doesn't lock particularly well, having the
appearance qS being broken and one-sided; ;
moreover, o wlndy daysi 1t trembles and
oscilates
Perhaps, however, he may be induced to
visit the celebrated Berlin surgeon, Pro
fessor KONG, on the subject The latter
has been expounding some new develop
ments OF the "Rhinoplastico art at a surgi-
cal conferences in Berlin, and shows that
he has new method of repairing noses
however broken, smashed or twisted. His
noses are superimposed upon foundation
formed by portion Of the nasal bone and
resists the strongest winds They have the
advantage also of having the correct clas-
sical turn. indeed, ii is to be feared that
fashionable persons may think 1t worth
their while to break their noses in order to
have them remodelled. Berlin Letter.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-11-08
HELEN OF Troy.

Long years ago he bore me to h.nd be-
yond the sea-
To city fair and stately that renowned
must ever be-,
Through all ages yet to follow, for the
light shed there by me.
am Helen; where 10 Troyl
They have told me that not roof-tree nor
a wall Is standing now,
That o'crthrown is tho great altar where
ten thousand once did bow,
While on high to Aphrodite rose the SOL
emn hymn and vow.
l am Helen; where is Troyf
10 they deem thai thus the story OF my
life will pass awayi
Troy betrayed, and all who loved me slain
upon that fatal day,
Shall but make the memory OF me ever
more with men to stay.
am Helen where is Troyl
Fools to dream that time can never make
the tie OF Troy grow old
Buried now is every hero and the grass
green over the mold;
Bat of her they fought and died for every
age shall yet be told.
am Helen; where Is Troyl
Florence Peacock in London Spectator.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-11-08
MODERN JERICHO.
According to Good Authority lt Is the
Nastiest Village in the World.

According to Good Authority lt Is the
Nastiest Village in the World.
There are no exceptions to the law
OF evolution. The history or architect
ure in the East is an illustration.
Modern Jericho, which is two miles
southeast of Elisha's fountain, Charles
Dudley Warner pronounces the nasti-
est village in the world" He saw il,
and have no reason to dissent from
his judgment The few miserable
huts swarm with Bedaween. and, !
suppose, with vermin. Tourists
familiar with the huts say that the
natives frequently get up in the night
and literally brush them from their
bodies into the fire. An old, dilapi-
dated tower, desperate necessity,
has been fixed upon as the house OF
Zaccheus. the publican. There are
few buildings in modern style about
Jericho-a Russian convent built OF
stone, three-storied structure on
which we were almost as much startled
to read the label: "The Jordan Ho-
tel. as we would be to find bush OF
roses on the summit of Mount Matter
horn, and three modest villas built by
Russians. The last are surrounded
by gardens protected against molesta-
tion by fences of dead thorn bushes
piled eight or ten feet high and filled
with flowers and fruit trees fourishing
in tropical luxuriance. Here we saw
the banana, its fruit still green; orange,
lemon and fig trees, the grape and
oleanders in full bloom. These beau
tiful spots show beyond perad-
venture what the plain might become
under cultivation. AT the beginning
OF our era the balsam of Jericho was
famous. The plain was presented by
Anthony TO Cleopatra, who sold it to
Herod. Industry and enterprise would
turn this desoate and lonely region
into fertile fields. But as long as the
Bedaween are the only population II
will remain as ii is, amournful picture
OF rich land going to waste. IN. XII
Mail and Express.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-11-08
THE ALHAMBRA sY DAYLIGHT.

A Traveller Is Disappointed in the APP
peMrance of the old Moorish Palace.
But / must confess to feeling Of disap-
pointment in the Alhambra had read so
much about 1t that my imagination was
doubtless too highly stimulated The cham.
hers and the halls and the courts seemed
small and contracted, and there was moth
ing about them to be associated with any
occupants, or TO suggest that the palace had
ever been really home. | could not real
ize it as an abode OF comfort aud luxury.
Everything was the precise reverss of what
we know Ms snug and easy. should as soon
think of sleeping in marble tomb as IN
one OF hose cnamborB. There were pretty
little inches in which to put ones shoes on
entering an apartmenE, but no place to 'le-
posit oue's outer robes When Auleika and
Fatima went 10 bed they must have shed
their clothing on the moor, for there is not
closet In the palace, and it would have
been a proclamation TO drive up clothes-peg
into those elaborate walls The marble tioors
were hard and cold, and the richly orna-
mented porcelain and plaster work OF the
walls and ceilings seemed as cherries as
icicles
Doubtless the entire absence Of my fur
nishIng had much to do with this 1t was
different in the old days With thick ricn
rugs on the floor, and with hangings of silk
anu damask, gold drapery and luxurious
cushions, and lounges and divans, and
beautiful languid women, and silent-footed
attendants, aud dusky slaves, and the odor
of incense, and the soft glow-shaded lamp,
and the rustic OF leaves, and the murmur-
ing OF running water, and the splash of
fountains, and the singing of birds, and the
low notes OF voluptuous music-all these
things are needed TO put the breath Of life
into this beautiful body.
Furthermore ] had always cherished a
vague sort OF idea that the elaborate scroll
and line work OF the walls and the rich sta
lactite pendants Of he ceilings were done in
marble or in bronze or maybe in gold and
precious stones 1t was, OF course, fool
ish notion, but still 1t is disappointment
to lind that they are simple plaster and
wood. My visions of the Alhambra were
really derived, fear, rather from the
Arabian Nights" than from any sober
reading OF reliable description Cor De-
troit free Press
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-11-08
pIrH AND POINT.

When you introduce a moral les
son let 1t be brief.
Fortune does not change the char
acter, but 1t reveals it.
1T is not good that repels or evil
that attracts, but the monotony OF good
and the variety in evil. -Atchison
Globe.
What q glorious world this would
be If people lived up to the epitaphs
on their tombstones!- Hutchinson
(Kas News.
Most mems experience is like the
stern lights Of ship which illumine
only the track it has passed.
The character OF men placed in
lower stations of life are more useful.
as being imitable by great numbers. -
Atterbury.
Every man has his chain and his
clog, only it is looser and tighter to
one man than to another And he is
more at ease who takes 1t up than he
who drags it.
Man doubles all the evils OF his
fate by pondering over them; a scratch
becomes wound, slight an injury,
a jest an insult, small peril a great
danger. and slight sickness often
ends in death by brooding apprehen-
sions.
In all thatw we do we have right to
consider the effect it will have upon
our characters, or upon the upbuild-
ing and development of our higher
natures. No man is required to do
what will belittle him. United Pres
byterian.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-11-08
The Automatic style Of Barlsoeper.

Il see another style creeping in gradually
however, sort OF Darkeeper that 1 can not
better characterize than as tho automatic.
A few OF the toniest places have got them,
and the fashion is sure to be followed. Your
automatic barkeeper is not required to
know anything but how to wait on his pa
irons in the most absolutely perfect man
ner, and to preserve the most impressive
countenanee possible and the largest posi-
BILE amount of silence in a given space Of
time lie will be- the proper caper IN few
months more. After that, as things go in
cycles / suppose the old time Jolly, hale
fellow well met sort Of barkeeper will nave
his turn again ii anybody can intolt a
way OF having him and tlro contents Of the
till, both ".--New York Sun
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-11-08

"A beegar was sitting in New
York street, holding out battered
hat. The following placard was hung
about his neck: please, good people,
help poor blind man who was once
rich, but who has been reduced from
affluence to poverty. You will never
regret it." Presently along came a
pleasant-faced man with a sharp,
shrewd eye. He looked at the poor
old beggar curiously for moment,
and then suddenly drew back his arm
as though to strike him blow in the
face. The movement was only feint,
but it served the purpose The beg
gar jumped backward about yard
and started on a run up the avenue,
winding his way in AMI out among the
passing vehicles with wonderful skill
for blind man.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-11-08
Origin Of the Square.

Pliny says that Theodorus, Greek
OF Samos, invented the square and
level, but the square figure is seen in
the represented designs of the tower
of Babel, one of the earliest important
known structures. The city of Baby
lon was perfect square, and the
bricks used in its buildings and walls
were square; So probably, We're those
in Babel. Now to form small squares
correctly and to introduce them in
endless combination into buildings, il
needed guiding instrument Of some
kind. So the square as constructive
tool came into use. Among the ruins
of Babylon, Nineveh and Petra it is
said to have been represented There
are pictures and sculptures from the
ruins Of I'hebes in Egypt showing the
square in the hands OF the artisan.
The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-11-08
House-FIies Carrying Contagion.

Since the recognition that in many
diseases the infective principle is par
ticulate, the possible means of con-
veyance of the virus from one to an
other individual have widened. At
tention has lately been recalled to the
part which may conceivably be played
in this direction by the agency of the
house-fy. The granular ophthalmia
of the shores of the Nile--a true
plague of Egypt-has been shown to
be propagated through this medium,
and, also, that the bacillus tuberculo-
sis may exist in the intestines of flies
which have been feeding on phthisieal
sputa. Indeed, it would appear that
there is hardly any direction, either in
our mode of living, eating or environ
ment, whereby we can avert the pos
sibility of the transference to our
selves OF this ubiquitous bacillus, and
life would bocome intolerable were it
not for the well-grounded belief that
phthisis is not dependent for its devel-
opment upon this microbe solely but
upon the concurrence of many condi-
tions OF almost, If not quite, as much
Importance as it's implantation in the
body. Apropos Of flies, however, it
has been stated that the lamented
Father Damien attributed his leprosy
to the incubation, through their
agency, OF an abrasion in the scalp. -
Lancet,