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The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06
Improving by Age.

The effect of age upon values af- lords room for curious study. One is ashUmed to be seen reading pa per of yesterday or novel of last year. AS to newspapers of eighty or ninety years ago, the case is al- together different; the possession of one of them is supposed to con- fer a certain distinction upon the owner-so much so, in fact, that interruptions persons have thought it worth while to issue fraudulent reprints of old newspapers, along with other counterfeit antiquities" thrown on the market. As to books the eagerness with which early specimens of the art of printing are sought is we'll known; and, in general, any very old book is thought a desirable acquisition for it's age alone, however worthless 1t may be in other respects. This fact was strikingly illustrated this week at the sale in New York of the old books belonging to the Barlow col lection. A letter from Christopher Columbus, tanslated into Latin, by Alexander De Cosco consisting of four leaves, thirty four lines to the page, published in 1493, was sold for S2,900, to go into the public li brary of Boston. The Latin is said to be of quality that would have paralyzed Cicero, and the matter of the letter is easily accessible else where. The mechanical execution is rude and unattractive. The high price was paid simply because the work is rare and nearly four hun dred years old. Other Books brought $2,2OO, $2,OOO, $1,6 $50, and so on.- Louisville Courier Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06
Novel Theory of Ocean Currents.

4 very ingenious theory of ocean currents has been recently ad- vanced by Mir. R. G. NJ. Browne in the London Naut1cal Magazine. He seeks to account for these great 'rivers in the sea- by the varying t!de-producing effects of the suns and moons attraction and the local variation of terrestrial gravity through the earth's diurnalrotation combined with the advance in it's orbit. Owing to it's annual journey around the sun a solar tidal wade travels round the earth once year in such a way that it's vertex is al- ways at that part of the globe over which the sun is most nearly yer tical. A lunar tidal wave, due to the moons monthly revolution, also travels round the globe once a month, putin a circle crossing the path of the former wave at an an- gle of about five degrees. MT Browne therefore, argues that the water 'heaped up" in these waves must flow obliquely out continuously in the direction in which the power of terrestrial gravity increases, and hence must eventually "take the form of current" The theory is apparently insufficient to explain some phenomena of ocean currents. If it fails to account fully for the genesis of the warm Gulf Streams and Kuro Siwos and their counter balancing polar currents, it throws new light upon some of their hith- erto unexplained variations of ve- locity and direction and other ap- parent Vagarles. It proves, at least that these mighty currents are greatly affected, if not originated, by the gravitating force of the sun, moon, and earth exerted on the oceans surface waters. For this reason the theory bears very deci- dedly upon practice navigation, showing seamen what change in velocity and direction marine cur rents undergo at different periods in the progress of the great annual solar and monthly lunar tidal waves travelling around the globe.-New York Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06

Mr. Thos. Driscoll has gone to the range to look after after his cat tie interests-Mr c. w. Hole, of the Fl Paso, commercial agent of the Southern Pacific Railroad, ar rived here yesterday to confer with cattlemen in regard to making special rates on large shipments to the North. A large number of Ari- zona cattle were taken to Montana and Idaho last Spring, and it is said the enterprise was success, and the feeders all done well in the North ern climate. The reporter learned this morning that Mir. Holt and Mir. Boyce. both Montana cattlemen, are expected here this week to make large purchases.-Tucson Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06

Immigration in 1889.-The i'm migration to this country during
 the year just closed is likely to be about 100000 smaller than it was during 18S8,when it was a little more than half a million. There has been pretty steady decline since 1882,
 when the tide reached it's highest point, bringing into the country in
 that year about 720,000 aliens. Germany continues to send the largest number coming from any single country, nearly 100000. Eng land, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales combined send about 10000. From Norway and Sweden the tide
 is still strong, as it has been for
 many years, about 45,000 coming
 this year. The total for 1889 will
 complete the record for seventy years, during which accurate statis- tics have been compiled. These will show that the United States
 has received from foreign countries since 1920 an aggregate of about 15,00O,O00 of people, of whom
 Great Britain has sent about 6,OOO,- 1000 Germany about 100000, Nor way and Sweden about 8OO,OOO, and France about 350,0OO. Ire land alone has sent nearly 3,5OO,- 000.-New York Evening Post.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06
Town Life and Disease.

The fact that the prevailing epi- demic of influenza prevails in towns I serves to remind us of the insani- tary influences of town life. There are sanitary influences as well there is shelter from cold winds and tempests often disastrous to the ill nourished in the country, and food is nearer at hand to the multitude. The prevalence of germs, bad odOrs, and other self-evident sources of grave disease in cities is well known. It is rather the less constantly rec ognized unhealthy habits of towns folk that are mostly at fault when the fairly fed and well-to do are smitten with colds and influenza. Diet is abundant, but taken irregu- larly. The townsman, as a rule, is not a good breakfa fast eater, and he dimes too late and too heavily. He IS much addicted to taking al cohol, tea, or coffee between meals. He is late riser and goes to bed late, so that a large fraction of his day" is spent at night in artificial light. He seldom takes enough ex- ercise, for the "constitutionaP is intolerable to men of a certain tenn perament, and others have no time for that form of physical exertion. A hurried race to catch a train or omnibus is not hygienic. He is gre garious, and his natural flocklng i'm stinct makes him overlook, both in his pleasures as we'll as his duties, the fact that he works or plays with his fellow-man in ill-ventilated or overcrowded rooms. Above all, he is out of training, as he finds out during the first days of a holiday. Many explorers and fighting men have noted that they catch cold readily in towns after bearing cold and damp with impunity in the country. The cockney tourist, on the other hand, is often astonished to discover how he can bear a wet ting or a draught at the seaside or in the fields. All the surroundings of the townsman predispose him to attacks of disease like the present epidemic. He can at least rise ear ly and take exercise, and will soon find that such habits will be to his advantage.-British Medical Jour nal
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06

The cattle interests in Arizona look brighter at present than they have for several years past. The severe cold in the north has caused a frightful loss of cattle, and in Ne vada and Wyoming it is estimated that the stockmen will not come out in the spring with one-half the cattle they had in the fall. All this has tendency to increase the price of beef cattle and the southern ranges will reap the benefit. It has been q good year for cattle in Ari- zona and New Mexico, and if prices go up much higher, stockmen will sell down to the lowest possible margin, and the eaten out ranges will have a chance to get a new start. The last reports from Kan sas City gives the price of dressed beef at 84 cents. Several parties in Graham county have made sales of cattle recently, but most of the stockmen are holding off for higher prices Silver Belt.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06
Railroad Aid Bonds.

Washington D. c. Feb. 15.-At- torney General Miller has given an opinion that the Secretary of the Treasury has full power under sec- tion 5 of the act of March 3, 1887 amendatory of the Thurman act, to sell the Government 5-per-cent bond composing so much of the sinking fund under the Thurman act as ap- pertained to the Union Pacinc Rail- road Company when the act of 1887 was passed, and to reinvest the pro- ceeds in the first mortgage bond of any or all of the railroads mention ed in the act of March 8, 1887, be- ing those roads that have received aid from the Government in bonds.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06
\ Scotch Colony.

It was stated recently on good authority that the townsite located on the Sonora line, about fifteen mile from Bisbee, would soon ma terialize into living, acting, throb- ping town of about 150 families. The colony will be brought out from Scotland by the Copper com pany. Itis said the railroad is to be built from Bisbee into the Son. ora coal fields, and it will pass through this townsite. The com pany have already sent the tools and machinery for the sinking of artesian wells, and as the location is in the Sulpher Springs valley there is more than an even chance that water will be struck. Profes- sor Douglass and his son are now in Bisbee, and the latter will have the management of the new town site. This is certainly goods news, as the Scotch, as people, are of all others the most desirable as cit izens. They will engage principal ly in the business of agriculture, and Cochise county will have cause to rejoice Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06
Beauty and Crime.

It is the custom in European, if not in all American prisons, 10 shave the head and face of crimi- nals in order to have the full force of the moral expression furnished by the contour of the one and the outlines of the other A prOfusion of hair may disguise the head whose shape often reveals a degree of turpitude. A luxuriant nous tache may hide a mouth about which turks the evidence of the basest instincts. It is after having consulted thousands of heads and faces in many prisons where the worst criminals are confined that the moralists form their conclusions NJ. Tarde, a French author, formu- lates the result of his studies in a book which he calls Comparative Criminality." The following para graph is from his work By it's straight forehead and nose, by it's mouth regularly and gracefully curved, by its chin never too prom inent, and its small ear close to the head, the classical head forms d perfect contrast with that of the criminal whose ugliness is his chief characteristic" Professor Garofalo, of Naples, expresses a similar idea in different fashion: "The wicked expression of the face, the evil mien which is by common consent called patibulary, is very common in pris- ons. It is rare to find a criminal with regular features and gentle ex pression. Extreme ugliness, ugli- ness that is repulsive, is extremely common among the women" The Russian author Dostoievsky, who for political reasons has passed some years among the worst crimi- nals, talks in the same strain in one of his novels: "Sirotkin was the only one of the convicts who could rosAlly- loo called handcono.-A As to his companions of the same class (those condemned for life ], all were horrible to look at. Their faces were simply hideous and disgust ing" Tarde adds that of 275 pho tographs of criminals of the worst class submitted to his inspection not ore could be called good look ing. The repulsive faces were in great majority, and a great part were monstrous. As to Naples, where the men are unusually hand some, and the women-for the gen eral reason that as you go south the physical differences of exterior be- tween the sexes become less and less strongly marked-are generally plain, the task was more difficult. There is probably proportionately @ greater number of handsome con- victs in the south of Italy than in the northern countries. Yet the rule, remains the same. Any one who sees fit to observe, if he has the time, the criminals in courts and prisons, no matter in what country, will find the rule eff uni versal application.-San Francisco Chronicle.
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The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06

A we'll known sporting man who is considerably of dog fancier was seen leading a diminutive spaniel pup by string, the other evening. An offer of $25 for the dog was promptly rejected. When asked how much he would take for the animal he replied: "Not less than $250. The darn brute swallowed my wife's earrings a few hours ago and I'm not going to lose sight of him if I know it."-Butte Miner.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06

s. P: Behan returned yesterday from an official visit to Flagstaff, to inspect the branch jail. He says he found the stucture in very de- lapidated and insecure condition, and will recommend to the board to sell the lot and building and buy another lot south of the railroad, and build new branch jail.- Journal Miner.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06

Cattle on GIla county ranges are reported in good connition and the calf crop will be large--Judge F. W. Westmeyer has added to his stock of cattle by the purchase of 150 head ofE. Fuller--Stockmen state that rain is greatly needed. The range has been injured by the warm dry winds which have pre- vailed for several weeks.-Globe Silver Belt.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06

Thirty-one recruits, as rare as beefsteak fresh from the butcher shop, passed through for Whipple Barracks, Arizona, on this morn ing's train. They were recuited in New York. and were as frolicksume as young colt on green pasture with their halterS ofI.-Las Vegas Optic.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06
Opening the Sioux Lands.

The opening or the SlOuX resef vation to settlement must be sci down as an important landmark ir the development of the country Public domain really suited to the purposes of agriculture is fast dis appearing. We are not far from the vanishing point. Some of the Sioux land is suited only to grazing, but great deal of it is excellent farm land, and would have been taken up long ago, probably, had it not been hedged about by treaty re- strictions. It is a broken prairie, the western part being really the best. The Indians still retain a portion of the reservation, but the amount actually added to the pub lie domain is at least 0,000,000 acres, or nearly one-quarter the size of Illinois, and considerably larger than the entire State of Vermont. This land is due west from the best part ot Wisconsin, Michigan and New York. The climate is good, and the soil is, much of it, excel lent. It was from time immemo- rial the winter home of vast herds of buffalo. This latter fact tells the story of the soil and its natural productiveness. It is comparable to Nebraska as a home for farmers. The Indians have retained the best part of the reservation, perhaps, namely. the strip about sixty miles wide and 200 miles long, lying be- tween the Missouri and Cheyenne and the White river and the Ne braska State line, but that was only fair. The report of the Sioux Com mission gives the Indian popula- ton of Dakota as 31,000, of whom 25,O00 wear citizens clothes, 10000 undertake manual labor in civilized pursuits, and 6,000 are engaged in agriculture. The Sioux may yet become good citizens and merge in the general population. On the reservation itself the population last year was 24,000, where they raised 90,000 bushels of wheat and 100,- 900 bushels of corn. But the best part of it is that about one fourth of them can read the English lan- guage, and there are over fifty day schools and twenty-five boarding schoois utnorg them. It is esti- mated that fully 100000 people will settle on the newly opened lands of the reservation during the present year. According to the law regu- lating settlement the ordinary tim Der culture and pre-emption laws do not apply to these lands. They must be taken up under the home stead act, with the additional pro- viso that besides the usual resi- dence and fees the settler must pay for the land, before he can make his title complete, $125 per acre, the fund thus raised to be used to re- imburse the Sioux for parting with the land.-Chicago Inter-Ocean
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06

Here is the way a Texas justice concludes marriage ceremony :: "Them that this court has joined together let no man put asunder, and suffer little children to come unto them-so help me God.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06

The report of Royal A. Johnson, will do much to destroy the stand ing of the bogus land grants in Ari- zona and New Mexico.-Gazette.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06

MT. J. c. Waterman yesterday shipped carload of beef steers from this place, purchased from parties on the San Pedro, that were as fine a lot as could be gathered. Their average weight was 1915 pounds, and the largest tipped the scales at 1915. There is no beef in the West that equals that produced in this Territory-Tucson Citizen.
The St. Johns herald., 1890-03-06

The Apache Indian question is getting good shaking upin Wash iIgton as well as throughout the country.-Star.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-03
TRIBUTES PAID TO WOMEN.

Confucius--W Woman is the masterpiece.
Voltaire-W Women teach us repose, civility
and dignity.
Ruskin-Shakespeare has no heroes, he has
only heroines.
John Quincy Adams-All that l am my
mother made me.
Whittier-If woman lost Eden, such as she
alone can restore it.
Gladstone Woman is the most perfect
when the most womanly.
E. S. Barrett-W oman is last at the cross
and earliest at the grave
Sandal handsome woman is a jewel; a
good woman is treasure
Damartne-There is woman at the
beginning of all great things.
N. p. WILTSHIRE sweetest thing in life is
the unclouded welcome of a wife.
Beecher-Women are a new race, re-creat-
cd since the world received Christianity.
Luther-Heaven has nothing more tender
than a woman's heart when 1t is the abode Of
pity.
Shakespeare-For where is any author in
the world who teaches such beauty as a
woman's eyesl
Margaret Fuller Ossoli-Woman is born
for love, and it is impossible to turn her
from seeking it.-Montreal Star.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-03

Castoria is DR. Sam1 Pitchers old quick
Infants and Children's Complaints
Paregoro Narcotic
lions Mothers
digestion wntone
10 Broohyn NY.
THE CEsrAuR oMPS Murray St, New York
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-03
SALES OF SHEEP
RECORDED IN THE VERMONT MERINO
sHEEP-RREEOERs' ASSOCIATION.

C. L. Wing, Bridport, Vt, to d. E. Grosven.
or, Bridport, VT, six rams.
Geo. W. Kellogg, Vergennes, VT, to A. j.
Mason, New Haven, VT, one ram; S. C. Ken
dali, Woodstock, Ohio, one ram.
ID. L. Robertson, Ohio, to VIM. McGourll
Ohio, one ram.
w. Staley to w. f. & II. Davis, thirty two
ewes and one ram, marked W. Staley, three
ewes marked G. Robinson and eleven marked
+. & q. X.
G. F. German, Attica, Ohio, to A. Brown one
eve.
A. Brown to ID. F. German one eve.
IL. NJ. Wing, Rochester, VT, to C. II. Kidder,
Bethel Vt five rams eleven ewes and one
eve from C. Z. Morton's flock.
j. w. Young, Middlebury, Ohio, to Outland
Bros twenty six ewes.
G. McFadden to Joseph Frank, Chicago, H.,
one ram.
S. W. Jewett, Vt, to S. James, VT, seven
rams and sixteen ewes.
r. ID. sly, Clarksfeld, Ohio, to l.. ID. Shat
tuck, Missouri, one ram.
S. f. Downey, Sycamore, Ohio, to ID. IL.
Hawtlety, Attica, Ohio, one ram marked W
V. G. & Son.
J. II. McKibbin, Albion, Iowa, to NJ. Picken
two rams.
G. +. Langurll, Stantontown, o., to j. p.
Wood, Stantontown, o., one ram 3to Jacob
Shuts one ram.
John Mead, Michigan, to Benjamin & Smith
erland, Michigan, nineteen ewes and four
rams marked j. Moore, one Sprague eve, six
q. w. Stewart ewes, one j. w. stevens eve
and ten A. f. Ellsworth ewes.
c. l.. Parish. Bridport, VT, to III. c. Burwell,
Addison, VT twelve rams.
ii. C. Burwell, Addison, VT. to c.. p. Morri-
son Il Son two ewes and four rams.
l.. S. Burwell, Addison, VT to c. P. Morri-
son & son four ewes and one ram.
d. W. Percy, North Hoosick n. Y, to A. r.
Clarke, Lebanon Springs, n. Y, one ram,
Banker.
f. Y Pierce, Chester, VT, to W. II. johnson,
Gassett's Station, VT, seven ewes; to II. C.
Farr twenty-four ewes.
ii. NJ. Foote, Middlebury, VT, to +. d. Nor
rison, Addison, VT, one ram.
NJ L. Phillips, Pittstord, VT, to John Mead,
West Rutland VT, three rams and three ewes
f. n Bissell, East Shoreham, VT, to Cook
Bros, Leicester junction, VT, one ram from
c. +. Cranes flock.
f. skinner, Greenwich, n. Y, to NJ. X. vii.
liams five ewes marked F. skinner, two
marked A. ii. Miller and five ewes marked
| c. b. Carter.
| ID. j. Wright, Shoreham, VT, to A. ii. Smith
Snoreham, VT, six ewes marked ID. j. Wright
five marked L. T. and two marked A. NJ. b.
w. H. Hawkins, Greenwich, Ohio to John
Enghinger, Hazeville, Ohio, one ram; to A. j
Thomas, Norwalk, Ohio, three rams.
Is. X. Willis, Lewis Center, Ohio, to L. Is
Ralston, Ohio, two rams and two ewes.
j. A. Miller, Lebanon, n. ii to Geo. Camp
| bells Sons three rams.
II. NJ Patterson, Hubbardsville, o., to r. b
Snow, Fisher, Ohio, one eve.
VIM. c. Bement, South Woodstock, VT, to
James Tasker. Cornish, N: H., ten ewes; to w
W. Williams and Il. Z. Whitlock, Reading
| VT, twenty four ewes and one ram; to j. K
Hoadley, Woodstock, VT, four ewes
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-01-03
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

The Duchess of Rutland is gaining ground
an orator.
Blanche Willis Howard, the novelist, has
patented a music rack and bath shoe.
Mile. Bibesco, young Roumanian, gained
in 1887 the diploma of the Paris law faculty.
Marie Van Zandt will receive $500 for
each of twelve performances at Barcelona
and Lisbon.
Mrs. Shaw, the famous whistler, has had a
photograph taken of herself in London which
is over nine feet high.
Jane Dertheridge, of Kingston, Jamaica,
has refused thrty-seven offers of marriage.
Jane has 81, 900, 600 and is an orphan.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has received the
permission of the German Emperor to have
a copy of the Sistine Madonna in the Dresden
gallery.
Miss Proctor, of Lima, O., has patented a
process by which it is claimed 10000 cubic
feet of Illuminating gas can be extracted
from one barrel of Lima oil.
Miss Susannah NJ. Dunklee, of Newton,
Mass, was the first woman to become a bank
treasurer in the United States. She has held
the position for fifteen years.
The largest land owner in the world is Mrs.
Emma Forsy the the daughter of the former
American consul at Samoa. She has plan
tation of 10000 acres and employs 500 peo-
pie.
Every Christmas Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt sends 100 dolls to the mission schools pat
ronized by the church of St. Bartholomew.
She has them dressed at her own home by a
number of poor needlewomen hired by the
day.
Mrs. Kendall, the actress, is auburn haired,
velvet eyed and vivacious hammered. She is
sister of Tom Robertson, who wrote
''Caste," and has acted in some fifty differ
emit pieces and made it pay; yet while she
was the original Galatea she can tell story
unaffectedly and even JOLLY, and she has
eight children. She has also a diamond
brooch which was given her by Queen Vic
tora; she wears three capes TO her ulster,
and has rare collection of rarer fans.