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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14
New York Stock Exchange.

NEW YoRK, Dec 13-rhe stock market to-
day was irregular but while fluctuations were
wide during the two hours trading the nel re-
suits to leave ev rything only fiacuonally
changed from last nights prices.
Government bonds, dull, steady.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14
a Last Resort.

You had narrow escape on the
lakes, understand
Yes, indeed The coal ran out, and
the captain had to split up the ships log
to keep the fires going "-Munsey's
Weekly
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Chico 70 Wheat.

CHICAGO Dec BIN wheat there was only a
light business transacted; opening q shade
stronger, cased on is@1i adv irc, ruled weak
unGer lal of, rims declined Is rule steady:
ctCssd about thc same yesteri3y IL jcipts
4!5,C00; shipments 1900.
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In Volapulxia: 1890.

"Well, Jacob, are you studying En-
glish this term"
mo. sir We finished English last
term We are now reading McAllister. F"
New York Sun.
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SOLE AGENCY FOR

DR.. Jaeger's sanitary wooden underwear. OF
which we carry complete line. Send fol-
catalogue. BAsT-TERRY MER. Co.,
y Hatters and Furnishers, JAP Main ST.
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enue, near Twenty fifth street. Preaching
at 80 p. 10. Sunday school at 12:l5.
Young peoples meeting at 6:45 p. m. a
cordial welcome to all.
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COMMERCIAL.
Weekly Bank Statement.

NEW YORK, Dec lS-The weekly bank state
ment shows a reserve increase OF S},U3I0O
The banks now hold S607 90 in excess Of The
legal requrimentS.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14

Boston, Dec 1}-Atchison Topeka &
Santa Fe, 307s Burlington S344 Mexican Cen
tral, common, 191} san Diego, 15ll.
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LIVERPOOL. Dec .-Wheat-Steady: new
winter IS. I'D; new spring, Is. I'd.
Corn--trm; spot and December, 5s. Sd.
January, new, 5s. y ID
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FOR CHAPPED HANDS. ROUGH AND SORE

use Eureka Cream Nothing finer or bet
ter for this climate No carbolic acid. no
camphor, no drugs. Only % cts. at drug
oi2ts
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Petroleum.
Mininy Sthcks.

NEW YORK. Dec 1S.-Pe5roleum closed dull
spot Pennsylvania closed at cay.
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MERIT WINS.

Christmas fruits, best aud cheapest at G
w. Davis, agent, Market Row
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MARKET REPORT.

WHOLESALE BUYING PRrcrsA
Retail about Is per Cent higha-
Co,rected Doiiv By The Ison,es FsrtgrrdIH7 Co.
:. Gnd IS T. seco,.d sou1t Srss:.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-14
Bar Silver.
London Money Market.

NEW YORK. Dec. ls.-Bar silver, l.oi.
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James G. Mcdonald & Co., candies.
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Judge James A. Miner transacted the fol
lowing business yesterday:
United States VS.. Henry ]. Newman
snntancnd To in, rnriS nnrnnnt in the nenifen-
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
Exact CODyists.

The Chinese are essentially initiative
If they once learn to do piece of work,
they are sure to perform it again in ex-
actly the same manner. even if that
manner could be vastly improved. A
teacher in Chinese Sunday school owns
to being equally amused and provoked
at the patient exactitude with which her
grown up "boys" follow her instructions.
One day, when a faithful but back
ward pupil had some difficulty in read
ing the sentence. "He laughed aloud, =
she said, somewhat impatiently, point
ing to the verb, Now listen to me
laughed"
Once more the dociie scholar attempted
the difficult task of pronunciation, and
this time he read, with i'll concealed
pride in his success. "He now listen to
me laughed aloud"
On another occasion the same pupil
came to word which he could not pro-
nounce, and as the teacher was busy at
the moment, she said: ''Spell itr'
He was SO slow in doing it, however
that she laSKed over his shoulder, and
saId, encouragingly, MAN"
That was enough for the initiative
Chinaman, and he slowly read aloud the
whole phrase, "a great and spell it man
Youths Companion.
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Looking for His SO.

He was sitting in Franklin square with
a soiled newspaper in his hand and with
look Of profound thought shining
through the earthworks on his unwashed
face. The policeman eyed him suspi-
ciously as he came by.
"Good morning." he said.
"Ught' grunted the policeman.
81 was thinking" he continued, not
observing the slight to his salutation,
"that this is good place for me-"
''There might be worse" said the Of
icer.
81 have been reading in this paper,
which recently inclosed my breakfast,
that there are seven hundred million of
dollars in circulation in this country-a
little upwards of so per head, you will
observe, for each man, woman and child
of the population"
"Well:' queried the policeman, as the
reader appeared to sink into an abstract
ed condition.
"Well," he resumed, 81 was wonder
ing which of the persons have seen
walk by here this morning had my SO,
and whether / had better attempt to Sc
cure it by diplomacy, or brave results
and go after it with club. Possibly you
could throw some light on the subject;
or possibly, you are the one who has it,
and would be willing to save trouble by
advancing ten cents on it. Say will you
do that
But the policeman was not to be thus
beguiled and arrested him as a vag.-
Washington Star.
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Sweet Revenge,

"When much younger than I am
now" said an old newspaper man, 81
sold sewing machines. You may rest as
sured was a trifle fresh, and suffered
therefor, as the following adventure will
show: Near the close of hot August
day | was driving through the village of
G. to the town where l made my
headquarters. Suddenly big black
cloud appeared in the sky, and when my
played out horse had covered half mile
the rain came dancing down. had two
machines on and no blanket. To save
myself and machines from getting
drenched drove for the only house
within a radius of a mile.
81 was sorry sight when reached
that old country mansion half hidden by
tall naples. Jumping out, l knocked at
the door and explained that would like
to leave my machines temporarily, in
order to save them from the storm. Be-
fore made the request discovered that
the young lady who responded to my
knock was one with whom, much against
her will, I had left a machine on trial a
month or two before, and had only taken
it back after repeated protestations on
her part that she did not want it. You
understand, we used to get a machine
into a house by representing that we
would leave it on trial.
"But once we got into the house we in
sisted on its being bought, and used every
persuasive art to accomplish that result
Frequently this was very embarrassing
to the lady of the house, and she never
forgave US for the annoyance of leaving
the machine for weeks and asking her
every other day if she wouldn't buy,
when she had emphatically declared she
would not. Now was the turn of the
young lady in the old fashioned house
to get square. And although the rain
had nearly washed the machines out of
the wagon, she slammed the door in my
face and then sat by the window enjoy
ing my discontinue to her hearts con-
tent. As l prepared to drive away l
turned my head and beheld her pretty
face bubbling over with smiles. When
reached N was sight to behold.
But the experience cured my freshness. -
Boston Globe.
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Easily Explained.

''Mr. Phorex," said the young man,
with much feeling, you must permit
me to express my gratitude as well as
my sp-sEiSaA~ that you have nermitted
Miss Daisy to look with favor upon my
suit In the bitterness that exists be-
tween the two cities l could not have
complained if you had told me that you
did not relish the idea just at tl,ls time
of having a St Paul man. and a poor
man at that, for son-in-law."
1T is all right Philip" said the great
-four merchant. kindly. Make your
mind easy on that score. When found
that Daisy was determined to have you
| went TO a census enumerator and had
you enrolled as a resident of Minneapo-
lS."-Chirago Tribune.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
Crime Is Scientific.

There is one thing which business men
may as well understand. As fast as sci
ence inVents appliances for the safety
of money or valuables, just as fast does
crime invent schemes to circumvent.
Crime is more of a science today than it
ever was. You may remember the bur
glar proof safe that was put in at Salem,
Ills. 1t was the latest. The inventors
not only claimed for it that it could not
be opened in the usual way. but they
claimed that it was so constructed as to
Withstand any explosive which might be
piled up about it and touched of. This
claim seemed to invite test by the scien-
tific craftsman, for one morning pieces
of this safe were found all around the
building. 1t had been blown into atoms.
Safe burglary-''safe cracking--is go
ing on the same as ever. Crime is sci
entific.-W. A. Pinkerton in Chicago
Tribune
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
Sensation at a Wedding.

A stunning and decidedly sensational
wedding occurred in Odessa the other
day. Marc Pogorezky led his blushing
bride to the altar. While the Russian
priest, or pope, as he is called. was pre-
pairing to perform the ceremony. Marc
went out to get drink, saying that he
would return in few moments. In his
absence, however, a handsome young
stranger approached the bride and of
fered himself as a substitute. She i'm
mediately accepted him, and the pope,
who was half drunk, never noticed the
change. The ceremony was performed.
Just then Marc reappeared, refreshed
and ready for matrimony. But when
he found out what had happened he
proceeded at once to paint the church
red. He thrashed the bridegroom.
slapped the bride, knocked down the
father-in-law, punched the pope, and
kicked the mother-in-law. He was ar
rested; but as the case involves ques-
ton of ecclesiastical law, it was referred
to the Gar, the head of the church.
Chicago Herald
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How He Got Even.

A half witted fellow was travelling by rail-
way for the first time. Having seated him.
self, he did not see the use OF keeping bit OF
cardboard. 50 be threw his ticket out of tho
window Of the carriage. Consequently, at
the station where the tickets were looked at,
be had to pay. At his journeys end he had
10 acknowledge that he had been done A
few weeks later some men in a railway car
riage saw this same man laughing immoder-
ately TO himself IN a corner Of the compart-
ment. They inquired the reason of his ner-
riment. He replied by telling them what he
had suffered on his first railway journey.
But concluded he, riumphantly, I've
done EN- this tlme=
We'll. what have you doneF asked his
companions.
why" replied he, "rve taken return
ticket, and / amt a-going back againf -Cak
cutta Times
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19

A young baby should spend most of
its time in sleep Never allow it to be
wakened for any purpose whatever. a
child's nerves receive a shock every
time it is reused from sleep, which is
most injurious to it Admiring friends
should be made to wait until ii Is
awake to kiss and play with it After
it is nursed at night put it back IN its
crib, and if it IS comfortable it win soon
fan asleep. 1t should never sleep in
the bed with an older person Place
the crib with its head to the light, so as
to protect the eyes from the glare a
light canopy serves to ward off draughts.
Curtains cut off the supply of fresh air,
and, except mosquito netting IN sum
mer, should not be used Until child
is years old it should spend part OF
each day IN sleep. taking long NAP
morning and aftemoon--Ladies Home
Journal
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
AN ALeiNo ABORIGINAL.
What Search Expedition In Australis
Brought to Light.

What Search Expedition In Australia
Brought to Light.
1 To discover some trace of the lost ex-
plorer, DIR. Ludwig Leichardt, has been
for forty years the dream of the Aus
tralian bushman and latter-day path
, finder, and when Mr.. Alexander Nc
Phee. manager of the Ninety-Mile
Beach station, on the western coast Of
Australia, heard from tribe of blacks,
who had travelled far to attend a cor
roborae at Lagrange Bay. that a white
man was living with one of the tribes
In the interior, he set out on a two hun
dred and fifty miles bush ride to find
him. The white man turned out to be
Jun Gun, an Albino aboriginal, and not
as was fondly hoped, . relic of LEIGH
ardts lost expedition.
Still. Jun Gun was curiosity, and a.
such was brought to Melbourne and ex-
hibited. The late Mr.. Carr, author of
The Australian Race" in which an
effort is made to trace the genealogy Of
the Australian aboriginal back to the
South African black, had declared that
an Albino had never been known among
the Australian natives, and Jun Guns
appearance was the refutation of that
statement Although his complexion
is darker than that of many a sun
burned bushman. his features are UNI
questionably those of the better-look-
ing type of aboriginal His breast and
/. head are covered with the scars of bat
tie, and Jun Gun has clearly held his
own as one of the warriors of his tribe.
He has long, wavy hair of golden yell
low, and full sandy beard. His eyes
are unquestionablY those of an Aibino,
and his whole body is covered with
white hair nearly half an inch long.
If the discovery of Jun Gun does
nothing more, it promises to stimulate
effort TO discover some trace of the in
trepid and long-lost Leichardt At diff
ferent times it has been stated that the
iron cart tires of the wagons of the lost
explorers had been seen or reminis-
cences of the party discovered in hero
glyphics upon tree trunks Mr.. McPhee,
in his search for Jun Gun. heard ru-
mors which have further excited pub bile
curiosity and .the end will probably be
a search expedition fitted out under the
auspices of the Geographical Society
No one but an Australian can under
the memory of these old-time explorers.
They are heroes of the Victoria Cross -
London Graphic.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19

But to our tale. Minerva Bryde
Was Of our college halls the pride
She thought in Greek.
In Sanscrit she could write play.
The calculus she solved all day
Ere she could speak.
The dons Of Cambridge owned that she
Could wax 'em on philosopher;
And as for science,
Old fossils who could bones compare.
But who had lost in thought their hair.
Sought an alliance
The fair Minerva, Queen Of Hearts,
One day was capped Master of Arts.
She knew them all
Logic, divinity and law,
Zoology, doxology; but, pshawi
She beat old Sol.
Now many suitors sought to win
Minerva with their vapid chin
And polished cheek.
She bowed not on the Appian Way
To any man who could not say
NIce cream" in Greek.
For she was lovelier than the dawn,
And 1.-the Of figure as fawn.
Out Of his mind
One fellow wrote song;
His quantities, poor wretch, were wrona
She cut him blind.
But, ali. lovely youth there came,
A very Paris, and his game
Was, with a ball,
Played by the Greeks in Athens when
The gods were young. OF all the men
He had the call.
A champion he, whose mighty bat
Had laid full many Hoosier fat
His aim was true
When at a rival head, Rudolph,
With eye unerring, as in golf,
The baseball threw.
One eve he came. Torn were his clothes,
And on patch he wore his nose,
Arm in a sling.
Minerva" cried the youth. with glee,
"We'ye busted EN- HoorahI' and she
Said 'sTing-a-lng."
She was the belle. All, it was sweet
She babe him kneel down at her feet,
And crowned him then.
"My best and bravest, Sec Of Arts,
The Master gives thee hers" No carts.
Hic !acet penna-pen.
New York Journa
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THE FUGITIvE'S CHOICE
4 Hunted Negro Prefers Suicide to Deatl
BY the Rope.

a Hunted Negro Prefers Suicide to Death
BY the Rope.
1t was down on the Great Jackson
Route. A freight train had met with
an accident, and so our train going south
was of-time and had to run in on q sid.
ing and wait for the lightning express
coming up from New Orleana Many of
us were strolling about, picking black
one suddenly shouted:
Every body keep quiet and listeni
Harkl"
1t was the deep, far-away bay of .
hound, and after half minute we real.
lied that 1t was coming nearer.
THE dogs are running deerr' shout
cd one of the men, land il we string out
we may get shotr'
Fifteen or twenty men, each with q
revolver, strung out along the track,
and just then we heard the iron rails
coming. Two minutes later we heard
her whistle. There were three or four
dogs in the chase, and as they drew
nearer it was evident that the game
would cross the track below the bridge.
We ran down to tt though no one cared
to risk the crossing. We were hardly
there when a coal black negro, n,sae-
headed and in rags. leaped orr "a -
brush on the track and Stood FACING
rs The dogs had soIaels.ow lost him
snd were baying In the thicket forty
rods q. -~-~~
/ What his crime was we could not say.
He was powerful big fellow. and as he
stood there. arms folded across his heav-
ing breast his face had terrible look.
He was only pistol-shot away, but NO
one raised weapon On the contrary,
one of the crowd shouted to him:
'Of the track or you'll be killed."
He turned and saw the express thun-
dering down the level stretch and then
faced us again The engineer blew an
alarm. but he stood there like . rock.
The train was running over that stretch
as pigeon f:es. sparks of fire flashing
from the rails and great cloud of dust
whirling behind 1t, and the speed could
not even be checked. The black man
looked neither to the right nor to the
left The dogs were coming nearer, bus
they were too late. Those who did not
turn their faces aside saw the pilot fling
him fifty feet high, and as the body fell
1t splashed into the creek at our feet
and there, only half hidden by the shall.
low waters-bruised, broken, dead II
had scarcely struck the water when five
or six dogs broke from the thicket and
crossed the tracks and close upon them
were three or four men But they had
arrived too late. The hunted man had
taken his choice of how he would die
Detroit Free Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
HARD MAN TO CATCH.

The Counterfeiter Who Copies Uncle
Sans Notes with a Pen.
The most remarkable counterfeiter at
present living. so Washington Star
reporter was informed, has been keep
ing the United States Secret Service in
such condition of evaporation for a
long time past that no trouble or ex-
pense would be considered excessive for
the accomplishment of his capture.
And this, although he produces on an
average not more than two bogus notes
in year. The remarkable thing about
these limitations are that they are
executed entirely with a pen Once in
six months, almost as regularly as clock
work, one OF them turns up at the treas
ury here, to the disgust of the Govern
ment detectives, whose utmost efforts
can not discover SO much Us a clew to
follow. The strangest point about the
matter is that the work of producing
the bills in this fashion, merely con-
sidered as question of labor, remunera-
tive or otherwise, can not possibly pay.
They are always either fifties or TWEEN
ties, and to make one must require
pretty constant toll for quite half a
year. The last one. which was received
few days ago, was double X.
Funny enough they come each time
from different city, and the SUPPOSE
ton is that the forger leaves town for
another locality Immediately upon
passing one. He gets rid of the note he
has just completed, which may remain
in circulation for some time before
reaching bank. and departs long be-
fore the police agents have chance to
arrive upon the scene. The most
plausible theory seems TO be that he is a
monomaniac of means, who gratifies
morbid taste in this astonishing way.
His imitation bills are so perfectly done
that no one short of professional ex-
pert would hesitate to take them for
good money. From the vignettes to
the signatures the work is performed
with an accuracy that bears
scrutiny with a powerful magnify
ing glass. In all likelihood the
reason why the notes are not made of
larger denominations is that they would
be proportionately more difficult to pass
One can imagine that this eccentric
counterfeiter INDUCES in the employ
ment simply for the qualification of his
vanity. It is not improbable that he
himself has been shown the frame at
the treasury building in which two
specimens Of his handiwork are shown
by po., ), attandznts TO visitors as the
most extraordinary @sssnaples of forgeries
in the government collection Anyway
he goes on turning out the bills az regu-
lar intervals of six months, thus occa-
sioning periodical spasms of exaspera-
ton in the Secret-Service bureau
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
ExnerimRufal.

A little miss of 5 from Unadilla, on a visit
at a house in this town last week, spent a
good deal of her time in talking to pet cat.
''Why, DEAR" said her hostess after a little
while, don't you know the kitty can't talkf'
"Oh," was the prompt reply, 81 know they
can't in Unadilla, but / didn't know but
what they might In Oneonta
N. " Herald
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
A Well Intended Suggest on.

II shall have to spank you" said an Allie
ghany mother to her 3-year-old daughter.
"You have been bad little girl"
Suiting the action to the work, as they say
in novels, the child was placed in the proper
spankorial position, when she squirmed
around to get view Of the maternal eye,
and observed:
$50 it light, mamma"
The spanking was postponed.-Pittsburg
Chronicle
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19

We hear more about the shamrock
than we know about it. James o. G..
Duffy, in American Notes and Queries,
says that in Ireland only one shamrock
is known 1t is an indigenous species
of clover. which trails along the ground
among the grass in meadows The
trefoil leaves are not more than one
fourth the size of the smallest clover /
have seen in America, and are pure
green in color. without any of the brown
shading of white and pink cloyers- The
creeping stem is hard and ibrous and Is
difficult to dislodge from the earth st.
Patrick's Day the true shamrock has to
be searched out from among the grass,
for. though comparatively plentiful 1T
that season, it grows close to the
ground Later it bears a tiny whitley
brown" blossom. The information that
shamrakh is the Arabic word for trefoil
is new to me, and may be of service to
those interested in the origin of the
Irish race. The word could have been
introduced by the Milesians, or IL may
furnish an argument in support of the
contention that one of the lost ten tribes
of Israel settled in Ireland, which has
been revived By the publication Of re-
cent book.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-19
A Youthful Punsfer.

Ny little niece, aged 4, recently heard me
remark to her mother that / intended IN
few days to go to Little Rock-the state
capital-on some business She Immediately
ran to me and said: ''Oh, Uncle H, when
you dit to Little Yock won't you buy me
little yoeking chairr-Boston Globe.