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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-04

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-04
,ur THOUGHT NHEyE~ ltii TO GREAT
ANTE.


chief Justice Fuller viii feel Lonesome Tor awhile,
lni hr know, he can return 10 Chicago whenever No
wearics OF IA" burden. As long a. ntin Knows lnro
/, a chicago 10 which he can come le can stand .
good deal elsewhere.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-03-04

The Klng is dcad-long live the KING
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
Banking for Chinese.

One Of the largest of Boston's banking
houses makes a speciality of deposit ac-
counts with tho Chinese of the city, who
all place their money in this establish
ment's hands. The aggregate of such de-
posits made by the gentry of the flowcry
land is at any one time very large, while
the personal accounts of the fantan
gamblers, who are the rich men of the
celestial colony here, run far up into the
thousands of dollars. An importantly part
of the business done with them consists
in selling drafts for money sent to Asia.
Much trouble was found at first in
keeping accounts with these pig tailed
capitalists, owing to the curious fact that
each Chinaman, as a rule, has several
names, which are employed in such a
manner as to be n trif1e confusing. lie
always has at least three, and sometimes
more. He has IL name as u boy. When
he gets to be q man he takes a new one.
Upon going into business he adopts a
third. No one of these three seems to he
used in connection with tho others, and.
inasmuch as a fresh designation is &C.
copied every time he goes into a new
laundry enterprise, the paying teller finds
some difficulty now and then in securing
a satisfactory Identification. When a
laundry is sold out, too, the proprietor's
business name goes with it to the pur-
chaser, and thus transfers of personal
titles are constantly taking place, occa-
sioning no end of confusion. But bank
ing for Cinnamon is an occupation all by
itself, and must be acquired by special
s~tudy.-Washington Star.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
An Old Xessal.

The schooner Polly, employed in the
coasting trade between Penobscot ports
and Massachusetts,, is probably the old
est vessel ia tho American registry,
having been built somewhere along the
Penobscot in 1880. She is a little, stub
toed. rollypoly craft, deep and square on
the bilgc, like a miniature old fashioned
ship, and she can easily be distinguished
among 100 coasters by a strong list to star
board, which nobody has ever been able to
take out of her. She was originally built
as a sloop, and carried a big squaresail,
fore and aft topsail and jib. She meas
ures but forty-three tons, but she was a
great West Indiaman in her time, and
carried any amount of sugar and rum
into Boston.
During the war Of 1912 the Polly was
seized by the British, but she was recov-
cred after that dispute was settled, hav.
ing suffered little damage at the hands
of tho Johnnies. Last spring, while
beating into Portland in a snow storm,
she was run into by an outbound fisher.
man and a hole was stove in her port
side. The crew 1.-TWO men) Jumped
aboard the fisherman, and the Polly,
slowed around by the force Of the col.
lision, filled away on tho other tack and
stood out to sea, heeling enough to star.
board to bring tho leak out Of water.
She was found next day by a tug all
right and towed back to Portland. She
has been new topped once or twice, i.
perfectly sound, and bids fair with gooc
luck to live another century.-Bostor
| Letter.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
Miatakin. a Hoxaltx

One night at a reception at Mrs. Ron
aids while l was perched upon a sofa
watching the brilliant assemblage, 1 fell
into conversation with a pleasant gentle
man seated beside me, who was very
curious about America and American
life. told him a great deal about
America, and said that Americans in
England would not at ono know how to
address people properly. las for me"
l said, II am as green as a gooseberry on
this subject; even if l supposed you were
one of the nobility l should not know
how to address YOU" A few moments
afterward Mrs. Ronalds said to me: "Mr.
Wilder, that's a good thing you've been
saying to the Duke of Teck; you've made
an impression upon his highness." l re-
piled: "Why, l haven't met tho Duke of
Teck; the only gentleman I've been talk
ing to is standing yer there" WELL"
says Mrs. Ronalds, THAT is the Duke of
Teck." Gracious! l am a little enough
fellow by nature, but just then you
might have put me in a pint cup.-Mar-
shall p. Wilder's Book.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
SteambORtlng.

I still have faith in a revival of the
steamboat business on tho Mississippi.
but it will not take place until a better
class of boats arc adopted. What is
needed arc boats of smaller dimensions
that can make good time. The heavy
steamboats, have done more to kill the
steamboat traffic than all other influences
combined. They can carry heavy car
goes, but they are too slow. and in
seasons of low water they cannot run at
all. If a system of lighter boats that
would run on any ordinary stage of
water, and built with reference to speed.
was adopted, it would result in an in
creased river traffic, both in freight and
passenger departments. Thirty years
ago the heavy passenger boats were
withdrawn from the upper Ohio river.
between Pittsburg and Cincinnati. Later,
lighter boats were adopted, and now
there is more passenger business be-
tween those points than there was willie
the large boats were being operated.
The passenger traffic is mostly way bust
ness, but on an ordinary trip now from
Cincinnati t Pittsburg a boat usually
handles from 400 to 500 passengers.
There is also a vast difference in the ex-
pense OF operating large and small steam
boats. mississippi River Captain.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
Tho Blessing Of Childhood.

Blessed be childhood. which brings
down something of heaven into the midst
ct our rough carthliness. These 80, 900
daily births. of which statistics tell us,
represent as it were an elusion of limo
and freshness, struggling not only
against the death of the race. but against
human corruption and the universal gan
creme of sin. All the good and whole
some feeling which is intertwined with
childhood and the cradle is one of the
secrets OF the p%rovidential government
of the world. Suppress this lite giving
dew m human society would be scorched
and devastated by selfish passion Sup
posing that humanity had been composed
of a thousand millions of immortal be-
ings. whose number could neither in
crease nor diminish. where should we
DO and what should we be! a thousand
times more learned, no doubt. but a
thousand times evil. There would
have been n vast accumulation of science,
but all the virtues engendered by suffer-
ing and ~dcvotion-that is to say, by the
family and society-would have no exist
n ce And for this there would be no
compensation. Blessed be childhood for
the good that it does, and for the good
which it brings about calelessly and I'M
consciously by simply making us love it
and letting itself be loved. What little
OF paradise we see still on earth is due to
ITS presence among us. Without father
hood. without motherhood, l think that
love itself would o be enough t pre-
vent men from %devouring each other
men, that is to say, such as human pas
sions have made them. The angels have
no need of birth and death as founda-
tions for their life, because their life is
heavenly.-Amiel's Journal. translated
by Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
Saprlxtii Morbleul

1t is curious that we are quito unable
to realize the enormity Of some of the
commonest continental oaths. We car,
OF course. to a certain extent, appraise
such terms as Sacre, Sapristi and Nor
bleu (euphemistic for Mort Dieu), but
on the other hand, We wholly fail to ap-
preciate the swearing value of Mile ton
nerres and Tausend Donnerwetter. Even
though these latter be regarded as an in
vocation of Thor, the god of thunder and
suinme heat. We cannot see ANYTHING
YER, dreadful or j%uratory in them An
glicized they become perfectly harmless.
and would indeed be welcomed in the
room of some of our own more opprobri-
GUS idioms. Thunder" or ever Thunder
and lightning!" we consider a very tenn
perate exclamation: SO. too, thought the
author of the tragic story of the bag
mans Dog" which may he consulted
with advantage on this head.
Applying the Johnsonian maxim OF
'claret for boys, port for men, and
brandy for heroes" we should certainly
DO inclined to class either or both Of
them with the %claret, nay. even with the
yet milder variety of Gladstonian clarct,
a vintage happily unknown t o the learned
doctor. To our insular minds they con-
vey absolutely no idea of improperly.
We might go about Donnerwcttering for
a month together, and not feel one atom
the better for it, or the worse; while u
character for propriety and decent speech
would not be one whit damaged, what
ever might be thought of our sanity,
The German soul. however. is conscious
of a distinct sense of relief after IL judi
cious indulgence in the same pastime.
Hence we are confronted by the strange
paradox that what is q round oath in
n country is not ever a smart e%jacula-
ton in the next.-Macmillan's Magazine.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
Strategy and Tactics.

A battle does not consist, as manyi i'm
agine. in a grand advance of victorious
lines of attack, sweeping everything be-
fore them, or the helter-skelter flight of
the unfortunate defeated. The historian
must so present it in his descriptions,
the artist in his paintings. Even the
writer of an official account must limit
himself to the presentation of such mo
ments as demand special treatment, or
to such episodes as involve important
and instructive tactical movements. All
those events which are less striking,
which pass more quietly, but which,
nevertheless, contribute to the final re-
suit, annot be reproduced without too
much expansion. Those incidents which
no account of the battle, official or III
official. takes any note of, the thou
sand and n events observed only by the
participants, the innumerable cases in
which the direction and control of af-
fairs glide out of the hands of the officers
these are the little drops of water that
make the mighty ocean of battle and de.
termine victory or defeat.-United Ser.
vica
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
Man Changes Little,

Horace's rustic waited for the river to
run down. If he could have waited long
enough he might have seen its last drop
roll by. But human nature is always
the same. If n of those who died when
the world was young should return to it
now he would not know its cities and
their customs; but he would know its
children and their ways, its mothers and
their hopes, its lovers and their vows.
lie would not know the old PHILOSOPHERS
by their new names, or the old sciences
under the modern developments; but he
would know the human heart and its
ideals as he would know the midnight
sky and its consultations.
We are told that ours will one day be
n dead planet moving with other dead
planets around a cold and darkencd sur.
That will not matter if love is immortal
a wandering angel, curious of such
things, would find amid the ruins of nj
civilization here and there an infants
toy, a marriage ring, a sc%ulptured cross.
"Thesc are tokens" he would say, "of
eternity, not of time. They can teach
us nothing new in heaven."-New Or.
leans Picayune.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
Paper Pencils.

One of the difficulties which have stood
in the way of the substitution of paper
pulp for wood in the manufacture of pen-
ellis has been the toughness of the paper
covering, and its consequent resistance
to the action of a knife. BY q new pro.
cess which has been patented, the mole
cular cohesion of the paper is modified
in such a n that it can be cut as
easily as cedar wood. The paper is first
of all made into tubes, and a quantity of
them are placed in a frame at the lower
end of a cylinder. The substance which
is to be used as a marking material is
placed in the cylinder while in a plastic
condition, and sufficient pressure is then
applied to force it into the hollow centers
of the paper tubes. After the compile
ton of the process the pencils are grad
ually dried at increasing temperatures
during a period of six days, and they
are then plunged into a vessel of molten
paraf6ne wax, which has the effect of
modifying the texture Of paper pulp as
described. - Manufactures and Indus
tries.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
Jack Dempsey Ouieted Him

In u crowded car on Geary street
IL rather understood man trod on a
big mans toe. He Immediately apollo.
glzed, but the big man would accept no
excuse and grumbled and growled. and,
as the smaller man made no attempt to
resent it. he gradually reused himself to
= tar, ms heat
.N'iio are you. slrrah?" he demanded.
"A"tn2 his fist in the other mans face.
"h" Til" devil are you that goes
round stamping your big feet on every
me within reach? Who arc you
My name is Jack Dempsey" quietly
answered the other. looking up
Inc ols mans jaw fairly dropped and
he hastily left the car. mumbling apollo.
get'cally The small man was not the
noted fighter but he scared the bully
just as much as if he was.-San Fran
cisco Examiner.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
Tho Benevolent Foreigner,

Mrs. Micawber, in"David Copperield,"
when about to sail with her Away impc-
cunious husband for Australia, announces
that she wishes that husband to take his
stand upon the vessels prov and firmly
say: This country l have come to con
qucr! Have you honors? Have you
riches? Have you posts of profitable Pc
c%uniary cmolumcnt? Let them be brought
forward. They are mine" Fiction is
always behind reality, and no fancicd
Micawber ever carried his %cffrontcry so
far as many instances, we'll authentic.
atcd, in actual life. When, for instance,
the Hungarian general, Klapka, had been
invited by some agent of Mr.. Stewards
to serve in our army during the civil
war, he wrote to Gen. Mcclellan, giving
his terms. Those terms were that he
should be paid $780, 900 in cash; that his
annual salary should be So5, 900; that he
shonld serve as Gen. McClellan's chief of
staff for a short time, until familiar with
English, and should then take McClel-
Inns place at the head of the American
army. There was nothing unexampled
about this. Wemeek and patient Ameri-
cans are constantly in the position of be-
ing lectured on hammer by foreigners so
ill bred that, were they Americans, they
would never have a second invitation
into we'll bred company; on pr%onuncia-
ton and language by persons unable to
make themselves heard before an audi
ence; on the graces of literature and art
by orators who cannot ever dispose of
their own arms and legs without the
greatest discomfort. Long suffering as
we are by nature, Americans have had
so much put upon them in these ways
that the revenge taken in Europe by
Barnum and Buffalo Bill seems hardly
too severe an international retribution.-
L. w. II. in Harper's Bazaar.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07

language of the sermons of that time
how unrcstraincd the preacher was.
Latimer, when he was preaching, scat
tered denunciations, cpithets, invective,
and sarcasm about him in a way which
n modern audience would not appre-
ciate. He attacks the judges for unfair
ness, for taking of bribcs; the citizens
of London for their sclishness, their
greedy extravaganza; their brother"
he cries, ''shall die in the streets of cold,
he shall lie sick at their door, and perish
for hunser!" The ladies before him are
reproved for their vanity, laying out
their hair in tussocks and tufts" and for
the general people he has such epithets
as you velvet coats, you upskips. you
hodipoles, you doddypecks."
The preachers of that time could, more.
over, employ that dangerous weapon,
humor, which a modern preacher had
best avoid. The people then were used
to humor and understood it. Latimer
was preaching once on the want of in.
terest shown in church services, and
blaming the clergy for it, he said: "a
nciShbor met a gentlewoman of London,
and said: Mistress, whittier gocst thou9
Marry said she, Il am going to St.
Thomas of Acres, to the INC Icould
not sleep last night. and l am going now
thither; never failed of good sleep
there" Sometimes his humor is holder
still. Preaching one day of Elias stop.
ping the rain, he suddenly stopped and
said: ~ think there be some Elias about
at this time which stoppcth the rain; we
have not had rain a good while. Tenn
pie Bar.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
Needn't Look Like ar Undertaken

There are people in this world so good
that they make you tired, You meet
them most often in good places. and they
are quite apt to keep people away from
the good places instead of drawing them
there. The good Bishop Middleton. who
had studied the thing carefully, has said:
"Virtue itself ofends when coupled with
forbidding manners" Virtue ought not
to do that. and such a coupling makes it
all the worse for virtue. There is no rca-
son why a virtuous young man should
look like an undertaken. and why asinful
chap should be fascinating. Things arc
wrong this way. The good young man
should be charming with wit and wisdom,
and unconsciously lie will mark his way
in the world with sweetness and light
and gladness, and let virtue have a better
time than sin can ever have.-New Or
leans Picayune.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
The Wav of the Negro,

The ignorant, pleasure loving. happy
go-luchy negro of Washington is as care
fully discriminating with reference to
the payment of bills as the insolvent
merchant who is making Il list of pre-.
ferrrd creditors. The grocer or butcher
who trusts him is often likely to want for
his money until the ink OH the account
book becomes pale and illcgiblc, but the
professional man-the doctor OF the law.
yer-always gets his money. He looks
upon a doctor with Il kind of supersti.
tious respect. The simplicity of his
mind makes him an uncanny being who
brings about wonderful results bv means
thai can be little short of supernatural.
li''w'll bring his last fifty cents to a
doctor whom he has employed and force
II upon him. whether he wants it or not
Take it. boss says he; iii be hoo.
dooed if you don't take it, The LAWYER
is also regarded with awe because of his
mysterious connection with the powers
OF the law. and in most cases has little
trouble in collecting his fees. Washing
ton Critic.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
Never FORGET

That We take no mote of time" but
of its loss.
That they who criticise most are often
most open to criticism.
That idleness and happiness may never
60 hand in hand together.
That the chronic kicker does not al
ways monopolize the kicking business.
That it is better to be buried and not
dead. than to be dead and not buried.
That fitness of things does not consist
in having your boots we'll blacked while
sitting for your picture. and ut the same
time leaving your hair unbrushed.
That it is the height Of folly as we'll as
the height of fashion, to never care to
go to church or the theatre. unless it is
presumed that there will be such a
crowd that you can only get in with
diHculty.-Good Housekeeping.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
U r FOR INSOMNIA.


A Lady Tells How She Helped Hor Illus
band to Break tho Awful Spell.
| was much interested in the notes
from DIR. Ford's lecture in the Herald of
Health, and wish that every woman as
well as every nurse in the land could
read them Those of us who are at tho
heads of households may some time need
all the knowledge we ear get upon the
subject of insomnia. The trouble grows
more common every year, especially in
America, where we are apt to live upon
nerve" in all times of trial or excite
mcnt.
There is no doubt that personal mag.
nctism is one of the best medicines for
insomnia, the will Of the nurse subju.
eating and calming that of the patient
Two very unhappy cases have come UNI
der my w personal supervision. One
was my husband. who became so wretch
ed that he would sleep about two hours
and then get up to walk all ovcr the
place, and often for miles into the coun-
try. One night | began talking to him
when he awakened, and finding that my
voice quoted him, kept on, repeating
poetry, and finally mixing my sentences
up in a dreadful way, was so sleepy
myself. But he went to sleep, too, and
did not awaken until near morning. 1t
was remarkable, for he had no slept so
much at night for two years. That day
| learned to repeat Paris Rom, knowing
that my husband was very fond Of it.
So when he got wakrful the next night
had something to say over toIlim, and
to my delight, he fell asleep before l was
half through the poem. And SO we kept
up u midnight conversations for three
months, l telling all the fairy stories, the
Sossipy incidents, and repeating all the
poems knew. And little by little, so
soon as he began to sleep every night, he
was cured, and now a cannon fired in
the oom would hardly awaken him.
whom l spent a year. l begged her to
try the Dalsarte movements of the body
-limbering herself, and swinging about
until she began to feel drowsy. When
she would grow restless in the night,
she would arise and try the same exer-
else. 1t finally cured her, after a year
of faithful practice. Her trouble was
more physical, while my husbands was
mental. lie grew to depend upon me
like a child, and if happened to be
away from the house, he could not sleep.
So soon as a person so afflicted begins to
sleep well, the general health improves
and sleep Is more easily induced. AS
DIR. Ford says, there is a knack of put
ting one to sleep, and each daughter of
the family ought especially to learn the
secret, if possible, for so much of the
and we'll being of humanity de-
ponds upon women.-Mrs. George w.
Ogilvie in Herald of Health.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
THE OLD TIME PULPIT.
The Preacher Talked Plainly and Heare,
Made known Their Sentiment.

Ahe PREACHER Talked Plainly and Hearers
Made Known Their Sentiments.
The people did not come simply to be
taught, they came to DO interested, TO
be moved, to hear e~vildoers, even if in
high places, denounced unsparincly.
With the gradual awakening of mems
minds which came with the Sixteenth
century. the power of the pulpit increas-
ed amazingly. The nation was divided
into two schools of thought; the expo
nents of each side ~endeavored to per-
suade by means Of the pulpit, while they
coerced by means of the stake and tho
prison. "Have at them, Master Latimer,
ave at them!" cried the people who
filled st. Paul's church yard to the
preacher. as they made a passage for
him to reach the cross. They had no
idea of being listeners only-"passive
buckets to be poured into"-they in.
tended to show which way their SYM.
pathies went in the great question then
agitating England, to mark approval or
disapproval of sentiments delivered.
Thus. when shortly afterward Bishop
Bonner was preaching from the same
spot. some IL in the crowd threw a
dagger at him as emphatic mark of dis.
appreciation. 1t is easy to note in the
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
~e'%<-~-
A woman's Discovery.

"Another wonderful discovery has
been made and that too by a lady in this
county. Disease fastened its clutches
upon her and for seven years she with
stood its severest tests, but her vital or
gans were undermined and death seemed
imminent. For three months she coughed
necessarily and could not sleep. She
bought of us a bottle of DIR. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption and was so
much relieved on taking first dose that
she slept all night and with one bottle
q been miraculously cured. Hername
Is Mrs. Luther Lutz." Thus write w. c.
Hamrick 4 Co., of Shelby. N. C.-Get a
free trial bottle at j. j. Freeman's Drug
Store.
The Dickinson press., 1889-09-07
The Keeper.

stranger, just arrived at city board
ing house, whose table and boarders he
found not at all to his liking, fell into
conversation with a quiet looking lady
who sat near him in the dining o
II say, madam" said he softly. "have
you been a p%ris,uer long in this-this
menagerie!"
"H'm!" said the lady; "'prisoner' isn't
exactly the word in my case. You see,
I'm the landlady, and it's me that feeds
the animals!'-Youth's Companion.