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Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23
MATRIMONIAL NEWS

Queer Extracts from an Old Copy of tho
.'Gentleman's Magazine."
Marriage notices century or two ago
were much more interesting than they
are now. 1t was not mere announce
ment of the date of the wedding and
names of the contracting parties that
the people looked for. They expected
to be informed as to the many details
which are now received for the more in
innate friends of the families of the
newly-married couple. The Gentle
mans Magazine contains number of
these notices Under date of March Is,
1885, it gives this item of matrimonial
news: 'John Parry, Esq, of Carmar-
thenshire, to daughter of Walter Lloyd,
Esq, member for that county; fortuue
of s 600 pounds sterling" That is to say,
the bride brought with her dowry Of
$40, ,OOO Another notice printed few
wears earlier goes still further into de-
tails. 1t reads: Married, the Bev. Mr.,
Roger Waina, of York, about 28 years of
age, to a Lincolnshire lady, upward of
80. with whom he is to have 5000 pounds
sterling in money, 800 pounds sterling
per annum and q ooach-ana-four during
life only" Evidently the blushing bride
OF eighty summers was willing to pay
high price for husband. Probably Rev.
MI. Waina was worth it, or he would
not have allowed himself to be restrict
ed to the use of coach-and-four tdur-
ing life only" The same magazine in
March, 1885, announced the marriage
Of ..The Earl Of Antrim Of Ireland to
Miss Betty Pennefeather, . celebrated
beauty and toast Of that kingdom" It
is to be surmised that Miss panne-
feathers beauty WAS her only fortune,
otherwise some mention would have
hsen made Of it-Chicago News
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Statistics of Cremation.

At Woking the number of cremations
ia steadily increasing. N three years
from 1854 to 1887 the annual average was
8. In 1888 there were 26 In 1889 the
number increased to 46, the total nuns
Der at the end Of the year having been
exactly 100. This year there have been
several every week. In France, at the
new crematorium in Paris, there were
IS ordinary cremations in 1889, but the
number Of stillborn children and the
bodies from the hospitals and anatomi-
cal schools is 90 large that incineration
is continually going on both night and
day. The journal d'Hygiene says that
the total number was nearly 600 in tho
year. At Rome the numbers were 1l0
in 1886, 155 in 1887 and 2O3 in 1888 At
Milan and other Italian towns the NUM-
bers are rapidly increasing, as they arc
In Germany and the United States. 50
James Gazette.
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bewaRe OF The bull

would have been . large. man to-day,
with whiskers, had he not been am
bilious to turn over new leaves. He
turned Leaf after leaf, each revealing
such hidden treasure that he got excited
and let his thoughts wander. He didn't
know for many days what planted him
over IN the middle Of the adjoining corn.
held' His friends knew 1t was the
"bul." There are other instances. A
man travelling in a fur country received
IN important letter from home. He
read two pages and chuckled with un-
comfortable merriment, the happiest
man on earth. I'm q father, Q proud,
happy father. Hooray!" hs shouted be-
fore he could 20 on. But his chin sank
clean into his neck when he turned over
. new leaf and read: There are three
Of them; three bouncing girls, all rosy
and doing splendidly."
A small boy listened so attentively
to his teachers remarks on the subject
OF turning new leaves that she compli-
mentod him and said she hoped he
would profit by her suggestions. He
went to his seat and turned over four
new leaves Of vulgar fractions, and said
to himself: 'l'll take 1t easy now till
the class catch up" but when he under
took to explain his case at class time,
1t didn't work. The rest Of the fellows
played shinny that night after school.
on the ice. He didn't. Another boy
was In the tip-top Of cherry tree, we'll
out toward the end Of slender limb.
He was turning leaf after leaf in search
Of fruit pretty we'll picked before hand.
He was about to come down, "but flrst,"
said he, "1'll turn over one more new
leaf" he reached away out beyond
any former attempt, and with the tip
end Of his finger nail managed to turn
one more leaf. Nothing but his grand
fathers grind-stone prevented his fall
ing to the ground. He struck that, and
telt the shock for many day.
These are but q few Of the many in
stances that 60 to prove, what has been
often asserted, that the best of rules
have their exceptions. In turning over
new leaves look out for snakes.-Detroit
Eron praSs
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STARVATION FOLLY.
The Self-Starving Crank II Probably tn
Most Stupid of idiots.

The Self-starving Crank II Probably tho
Most stupid Of idiots.
The self-starving crank is probably
che most stupid of all the host of nui-
sances idiotic Of natures bounties. The
National Druggist expresses some very
sensible views respecting the utter use-
lessness, either to the world at large or
10 the individual concerned, of this fad
of experimental abstinence from food.
An English doctor, named Allenson, has
recently attracted considerable atten-
hon by living for q month ON diet OF
cooked wheat meal and water. Our CO.
temporary relates how the doctor, in a
sort of manifesto to his fellow-vegeta-
rians, tells how much weight and
strength Of grip he had gained; how his
sye-sight had improved and brain
cleared under a regimen which had
,ost him under two pence day, and his
statements are now being copied in
the medical and secular press of
The world as though they were
something new and valuable. The
fact is, they are neither one nor the
other. The American Indians, more
especially the Creeks, Cherokees and
Choctaws, had long ago shown that q
man could suhsist for q considerable
period, and travel vast distances, ON q
daily diet of few ounces Of parched
corn-meal and water ad nbitum. Long
before these the accidental experiences
of shipwrecked sailors, or men lost in
wildernesses, imprisoned in mines, etc.,
had proven the same thing. We have
yet to learn, however, that these men
were any wiser or happier, or that they
attained any greater longevity by their
abstemiousness, voluntary or enforced.
The fact is, the problem Of nutrition is
not how little we can subsist upon, but
how to get the greatest enjoyment con-
sistent with sound health and length of
days out of the bill of fare which our
purses enable us to provide. THE graft
fication of the sense of taste within
proper limits is as laudable an ambition
as that Of the acquisition of knowledge
or any other of the admitted ends and
aims of existence.
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PITH AND POINT.

"A grain Of common sense may 30 of
moro value than scruple Of con.
science.
Many man says he would die for
. woman just because he thinks he
knows she wouldn't want him to.-Som-
erville Journal.
- man is like chicken; he will
lonve plate Of meat to run after an-
other chicken with , bone In Its mouth.
--Achison Globe.
Popularity is like the brightness Of
q fallen star, the feeting splendor OF .
rainbow, the bubble that IL sure to
burst by its very indation.-Chatfeld.
s II am q man OF peace; God knows
how love peace; but hope / shall
never be such coward as TO mistake
oppression for peace.-Kossuth.
He who complains that the world -
hollow and beartless, uDconsciously con-
fesses his own lack of sympathy. while
ho who believes that people a. . whole
are kindly and human is certain to have
the milk. of human kindness in his owD
nature.-N. Y. Ledger. =
The fruits are often gathered long
time after the sowing and planting; tho
man who looks for them too soon 10 un-
reasonable, and makes himself uncom-
Portable. II we only know they Arc
sure and will come in their proper sea-
son, we should be satisfied. United
Presbyterian.
Compliments, which We think aHo
deserved, we accept only a. debts, with
indifference; but those which conscience
informs us we do not merit, we receive
with the same gratitude that we DO
tsvors given away.-Goldsmith.
Before An adiction Is digested, con-
ISOLATION ever comes too soon; and after
it is digested it comes too late; there 10
but one mark between these, as fine al
most as hair, for comforter to take
aim at.-Sterne.
When Alexander was asked how be
had conquered the world, he replied:
"By not delaying" A good suggestion
for any practical worker in the world.
1t is from the habit Of putting of. that
so many good things that are thought
OF, are left undone.
1t is great thing for any one to
fill his place in the world. 1t matters
less where ones place is than that it b
filled wherever it is. The lowest place
we'll filed is more creditable to him
who occupies it than would be the high
est poorly filled. And, indeed, no place
in the world can be SO high or good a.
the place to which God assigns one.-
Advance.
| Our after-life is largely nodded by
our bringing up. But our training is
not to be offered as an excuse for our
conscious wrong-doing. II know it
isn't right, but that's the way l was
brought up" says one. But ''let me not
quarrel with my up-bringing," says
Carlyle. Let US not seek refuge from
blame in the defective work of our
parents What we are, we are. Good
or evil, what we do, let US dos s.
Times.
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FLIES IN WINTER.
A Mlniater Throws Some Light n tAs
Hablta of tho Household Po7t.

A Minister Throws Some Light ~a tAs
Habits of the Household Po7G
'Where do the fies go in Writer time?
is question often asked, " said . min
lister the other uay. Il have no doubt
many of them find outrof-the-way places
10 lurk in till warm weather comes
again, and many of them are nearer as
all the time than we perhaps suppose
l remember once, when on visit in che
country, going to the house of q well-to-
do farmer, where l was put to bed IL the
spare room,' as the guest chamber is
generally called-a room that in many
farm-houses is never used, opened or
aired more than once in twelvemonth;
its bed-clothes in winter time Are cold
and damp even as the grave; its whole
appearance is inexpressibly neat and
chilling, and the visiting preacher near
ly always catches had cold in it. /
learned from experience to 60 to bed in
these rooms with nearly all my clothes
on, and, after having parted with most
of the warmth of my body in partially
taking the chill of this particular bed,
I began to doze.
II dreamed after awhile that heard
the kissing sound Of snake, which
seemed to come nearer and nearer till
felt sure it was in the bed with me. I
awoke in cold perspiration, but still
the kissing continued, and certainly
proceeded from the ped, saoNgh it now
seemed not 80 AiAoh nAe Tie noise made
by snake as that made by bumble-beee.
Rather alarmed now leaped from the
bed, lighted my lamp, and tore of tie
quilts. Nothing out Of the way was vs.
ible, and yet the buzzing continued. /
pulled up the edge OF the big feather
bed, which lay upon straw mattress,
and there, to my surprise, saw hun
dreds of sluggish flies, which had
crawled in there to hibernate when cold
weather came and had been thawed out
by the heat of my body and the extra
warmth that had crept into the room by
the door being opened into the hallway
of the house. Not wishing to wake sny
body pulled the feather bed out into
the hall and slept ON it there for the
rest of the night. opened the wineow
of the room and closed the door on my
strange bed-fellows and the frosty At
.mosphere soon made short work Of
them."-N. Y. Tribune. ,
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a pEPRAvED TRIBE.
The IIanikin MnnelOtts Of Africs an
Their Evil Ways.

The Nanikin 1Ianel0tta Of Africs and
Their Evil Ways.
Nelson had . curious account to give
Of tho dwarfs Of the Congo forest. He
describes them - the ugliost and most
depraved specimens Of humanity he
ever heard OF. 'yrhey struck me o. the
dark and forbidding features OF . bad
nightmare" !" he said, ''rather than actu-
al human beings when we first saw
them. Q, they're o bad lot can tell
you. Sometimes we struck . district
whore they seemed triae loss wild OF
more confident, and they used to come
In swarms to the camp. They, OF
course, had never seen white man be-
fore. 9.sfsz
1.-THE most disagreeable thing about
them was their guilty, sneaking i'm.
preston. They arc cannibals, of course,
and 1t always seemed to me that they
came into our camp for the purpose Of
feasting their eyes on us, as pack OF
hungry dogs might gaze longingly at q
leg Of mutton. They could never look
us In the face. have felt their bale
full gaze on me as sat at my
tent door, and the moment that I
looked oil eyes would instantly
be dropped. But have detected them
sizing up the others, and fairly licking
their chops. 1t used to make my flesh
creep. They used to pay more atten.
ton to Jephson than any of US. We
were none Of us overburdened with
Drawn in those days, but Jephson Is OF
plumber build than any OF the others,
hence his popularity with these impish
cannibals. They admired Jephson be.
cause they saw at glance that he
would cut up into more steaks and bet
ter rib-roasts than we others.
II tell you what" continued the gal
liant Captain, ''somebody ought to call
the attention Of the missionary socie-
ties to these depraved manikins. It
would be Christian and civilized act
to send out to these benighted beings
twenty or thirty plump, rosy-cheeked
young missionaries and few bottles OF
Worcestershire sauce. There is no such
field for missionary usefulness In all
Africa as in the Congo forest. Afri-
cans, l know, are as general thing un-
grateful and unappreciative, but as-
sure you there Is positive demand for
missionaries among these dwarfs, and l
will guarantee that every one sent will
be duly appreciated, with or without
the Worcestershire sauce."-Thomas
| Stevens.
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THE COLD-AiR CURE.
Views Of . Writer Who Has Unbounded
Faith In It.

Views Of Writer Who Has Unbounded
Faith In It.
A good many people are afraid OF cold
air, especially at night, shutting them
selves in close bedrooms, where their
systems are poisoned and their constitu-
tions gradually undermined by breath
ing the bad air. And even hot or warm
air that is pure, air in a room that has
ventilation as we'll IS heat is debilitat-
ing where broathed all night Pull
monary complaints are inevitably and
exclusively caused by foul indoor
air, and cured by pure, especially by
cold, pure, outdoor air. The remedial
influence of fresh air is so m.ch in
creased by low temperature that
'>colds'' are, in fact, far more durable in
midwinter than in midsummer. I
was shot through the lungs in Mexico,
and have ever since been susceptible to
the contagion of ''catarrh factory" IS
a friend Of mine calls the unventilated
school-rooms and meeting-houses of our
country towns. In warm weather
avoid such man-traps as would the pit
of gas-well, but in winter risk their
infection in the assurance that its in
fluence can be counteracted by an extra
dose of ice air.
On returning from q crowded lecture
hall, sitting sick-room, stuffy omni-
bus, ETC., remove my bed to the draft
side of the house, and open window to
the full extent Of its mechanism, taking
care to 60 to sleep facing the draft. 1
have often awakened in the morning
with my head grizzled with hoar
FROST but without the slightest vestige
of the catarrh which had announced its
approach the night before. Cold is an
antiseptic and q powerful digestive
stimulant- The hospitals Of the future
will be ice-houses- Dyspepsia, catarrh
and fevers of all kinds can be frozen out
of the system, not by letting the patient
shiver in the snow-bank, but by giving
extra allowance of warm bed-clothing
with the additional luxury of breathing
ice-cold air, which, under such circum.
stances, becomes as preferable to Aot
miasma as cold spring water to warn
ditch water. have also found that the
best brain work can be done in cole
room, and that stove heat has tenden
cy to stultify like narcotic beverage
Warm wraps make fires tolerably dis
pensable.-Herald of Health.
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THE SMlTHERS' BABY.

A Record Of tho Bright Sayings Of an
Infant Phenomenon.
Here are the latest bright sayings OF
Smithers' boy:
"Willie," said Smithers ut the break
fast table, aren't you going to school
to-day?''
"Of torse not. To-day's Satiddy."
For once Smithers had to acknowledge
the boy had the best of him, for it ,oas
Saturday.
When Willie got down on his knees
the other night to say his prayers, for
some reason or another he would not re-
peat snow Lay Me-"
''Come, Willie" said Mamma, ''say
Now Lay Me-"
mo, Mamma" returned the little
one, Il tan't tell a lie. I'll say: Now l
Kneel Me-"
Mamma was so convulsed that she
had to hide her head under the pillow
to keep from laughing.
Ill.
"Papa," said Willie the other morn
ing as his eye caught sight of his IA
theirs bald head, why don't you wear a
mat on your roof?" 1t was said so cum
ningly that Papa had not the heart to
beat the child for the impudence of it.
w.
Willie's little cousin, Sarah, visited
him lasl week but he would not play
with her.
"Don't you like sallie, Willie?"
asked Grandma.
"No," said Willie, with scornful
glance at little Sarah's dress. "She
looks like spider-legged pen wiper"
Poor little Sallie cried heart-broken
at this, but Grandma was so amused she
swallowed one of her teeth.
The pastor of our church dined with
US on Sunday. and Willie electrified us
all by asking him for button.
.'Why, Willie, / haven't any button. {"
.'Yes you have" said Willie, II put
one in the plate this morning, and Pop
says he knows you pocket the church
collections" T. 1s'' N0. e.:
The effect on ''Pop" may be readily
imag:led. -S..
Willie has q great way about him Of
making people who ask him silly ques-
tions see how silly they are. The othor
day friend Of the family while calling
noticed the little fellow standing in the
doorway Of the parlor. t'# gov sa.* W
Why" she said, lis this Willie?" =
Now, as Willie is an only child there
was but one answer, but Willie seeing
the absurdity Of the question promptly
replied: 54i
mo; I'm John Wanamaker." s
L 1t is not often that such quickness O.
repartee IS found in child of Willie's
age.
These are all Mr.. Smithers has sent
MS lately. Others will be printed g.
/ thev .o.-e slcrs.--1r--
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however II might be scarredl Find herr
motherl Let me tell her how my love
has grown deeper ana stronger since we
parted. =, Il.
Mrs. Creighton was rising, when the
servant enterod with : note. E s.:.. .,*s
..Miss Laura left It, ma am, !" she said.
ITO you, Maxi" his mother said. "she
has gone home, poor child.
But the note was 3 farewell 1t was
thus Laura wrote: & & .-as g.. s. 4.
''The woman, you loved, Max, Is dead.
She died to you whom hideous mask
was drawn over the face you loved 80
we'll. There is no beautiful Laura to
welcome you home. and the disagured
girl who loves you too we'll to become an
object Of disgust to you bids you mourn
her a. dead. Heaven bless you, Max,
now and ever" &E|% d,
She was not at Mrs. Hilton's, and
Max could find no clew to her hiding
place. Never In her beauty had he
loved her a. he knew he loved her now,
when she had fed from him. A deeper,
nobler manhood in his heart made him
bitterly ashamed Of the stress he had
placed SO long upon mere beauty-the
artists outpouring over the lovely face
that had led Laura to believe 1t was
that alone he loved.
A year passed away and Mrs. Crcigh.
ton was again in feeble health. Her
physician recommended mountain air,
house was secured for the summer in q
itt1a will 20 ~ Dan nov1 90 nio roov oua
Of the large seminaries. Here she was
gaining health and strength when Max
came to pass few weeks with her.
They were at church ono sunny Sum
day morning, and were lingering in the
porch after the others Of the congrega-
ton had departed, when Max asked:
WHO leads the choir here, mother?"
1.-THE organist. She is q lady teach
ing music in the seminary on the hill. 1"
"Does not her voice remind you Of
Laura's9"
"Yes. have tried to see her face,
but she comes very early and I have
never met her leaving the church."
1T may be Laura! How can l find
out?"
"You can not forget herl' his mother
said, sadly.
Forget herl Never! It is the one
hore Of my life to find her, If only to
tell how she has misiudged mo. I must
see her once. She must learn how
love her; understand that the distigured
tace is dearer to me than any beauty
can ever be-that every scar upon its
loveliness is mute record Of the
sacrifice made for my mother. Can I
never show her my heart? Win my
Laura never come to mo again?"
II am here. MAXI said low, sweet
voice beside him.
He started as the speaker swept aside
heavy vail, and the SCARED, dishgured
face was fully revealed. The large, soft
eyes had regainod all their beauty, and
the hideous redness had all faded from
ber complexion; but the deep scars were
there for life, and the beauty of the fair
face would never return to 1t.
Max never thought of what was gone.
He only realized that La:ra was restored
to him, he only felt that death alone
could ever part them again.
Only few days later the little church
was the scene Of q quiet wedding; and
in the happy years that followed, Max
Creighton's wife never doubted that II
was Laura he loved and not Laura's face
Evening World.
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I uRNlNo NEW LEAVES.

When Doing II 10 sure 90 Look Oat for
Snakes. s1#
Turning new leaves 10 not always at
tended with the happy results We 50
often read Of. The boy who WAS poking
around after hickory nuts, unmindful Of
the sign
Mower County transcript., 1890-04-23

ness; and Max, detained by business,
was comforted by thinking of the two
he loved best on earth together and re-
stored to health. But now, when the
soft spring airs were blowing. Max was
coming home. Mrs. Creighton had re-
ceived telegram from New York an
nouncing the arrival of the steamer.
The six o'clock train came putting up
to the station; and Max Creighton,
springing to the platform, ran to the
carriage in waiting, too eager to get
home to note q closely-vailed lady in
black, who took her place in the train,
and was carried forward with it.
His mother was in the drawing room,
and after long, close embrace, Max
looked for Laura.
''Where is Laura. mother?" he asked.
II can not wait to see her, to thank her
that l have not come back to find my
home desolate-to thank her that / am
not motherless." ~ :5s s..
''She will be here presently, Max. Sit
down, my SON, while I keep my promise
to her, and tell you to prepare for Z
great shock. !" go y. 59*#=E
.'She is disfgured!" he said, in . Low
voice. & .e@. T.. IS .a.s, F. z,$z.z.. Is Z
Terribly! Her face is deeply Scared
and deep red, while her eyes are
slightly drawn down on the cheek and
bloodshot. All her hair is gone, and
/ she wears close cap"
"As # ! needed to be prepared fo1
such CHANGE" Max said, with quiv.
ering voice-''as II the face Of the wom-
a to. whom ! owe my mother'a hfs
Tombstone daily prospector., 1890-12-24
TO BE TESTED AGAIN.
The Legality of the Lost Laws to be Tested in the U, s.
 Supreme Court.

The question as 10 whether or not the recent decisions of Judges Kibbey and Sloan on the legality of the acts passed after the 60-dsy consecutive session and pocketed by the Governor are good laws, is to be determined by the U. s. S.Supreme court. The manner in which it is to be tested is given by the Phenix Herald which says:
 The results from proceedings in the U. s. court this morning when the four San Carlos colored troops were \sIrsigned for the murder of theireom- ss1e, Fleming in 1889. Win NJ. Lo- we'll and O. T. Rouse, attorneys for the four prisoners, signiied thsir intention in open court, to immediately sue out a writ of habeas corpus from the Su- preme court of the United Stst,s to test the legality of grand jury com posed of l5 members under the old law in the case Of Jefferson Wilson, one of the four, who was convicted of murder at the last term of court and is now under sentence Of death il vas determined by the count and the U. $. attorney ths, it would be better to await the iecision of the U. s. supreme court on the question, which will probably result within the next thirty days, than to go on with the trial nov pending.
 The trial jury was accordingly 1is- charged.
 By this proceeding and net only the grand jury law, but the Sunday Rest statute and all acts passed after March Fist 1889 will be finally suatained ol set aside.