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The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14

Mr.. William ]. Free, of $40 Four. and
a-half street, has hen which is almost
too proud to acknowledge the acquaint-
ance of the proprietor of the house. This
has only been the case for short time.
This hen formerly was meek enough, but
to be the mother of chicken the like of
which no other hen in Baltimore or any
other place could produce, overturned
her ideas of modest stiffness and humil
ity.
This hen, the property of Mr.. Free, al
though she now holds herself aloof from
most hens, has among newly hatched
brood a little chicken which has the let
ters 80 K" plainly marked in black
on the top of its head in down, with a
distinct space between them. The chick.
en- is what is called "part game;" the
balance is just plain chicken. 1t is
brown, with light colored wings.
The mother sat for three weeks on tl,ir-
teen eggs, triumphantly Matched out ev-
cry one, and, of course, feels that liberal
principles have been abundantly reward
ed in having a chicken with its head all
20 OK."-Baltimore Herald.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
Ciearettea In societx.

CHOW I didn't really see these with my
own eyes and touch them with my own
fingers" said a charming woman, "but
tho some one who did told me. 1t was
at a dove luncheon, the last course had
disappeared, and the ladies sat over their
coffee. Then the walters brought the
tiniest packages you ever saw of Turkish
cigarettes. The cigarettes were of the
finest Turkish leaf, perfumed, and the
outer wrapping of each one was of pale
rose colored satin. They were altogether
too pretty to smoke. But did they
smoke themY was not there, you re-
member; but don't half the women in
New York smoke cigarette once in
while, and do you suppose they could re-
sist tho particular temptation of these
dear little rose colored things? DON'T"
New York Evening Sun.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
Rising and Falling in Church.

A well known Indiana member Of
congress had as a visitor recently con-
stituent from the backwoods who was
not very well acquainted with the inte-
rior of the house of divine worship, but
who had thoroughly determined that he
would see everything there was to be
seen at tho national capital during his
stay here. Sunday morning, therefore,
he announced that he was going to
church.
Now, the Indiana member was not
much of a churchgoer himself. In fact,
he usually devotes his Sunday mornings
to his correspondence, which has fallen
behind in the course Of the week. He
allowed his constituent to wander off by
himself to find place of worship. About
1o'clock the Indiana man returned. His
host asked him where he had been. He
responded in matter of fact sort of
way that he had been to we'll known
Episcopal church in the neighborhood,
which he named.
"How did you get along?" said the
host. "Didn't you feel bit stranger"
"Oh, nc" said the Indiana man solemn
ly. 81 felt all right. riz and fell with
them every timc."-Washington Letter
in New York Tribune.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
After Nearly Thirty Years.

The Georgia papers are fertile in won
derful stories. One of the latest is to the
effect that early in 1851 young farmer
of Bullock erected house for himself
and bride. The kitchen was n log one,
with one of the old fashioned hard clay
floors. He had built over gopher hole,
and of course the hole was filled UP and
the owner was forgotten. The farmer
went off to the war. and when he came
back he found some charred timbers
which Sherman had left. The house was
rebuilt and the dirt floor was still a feat
ure. Last week the wife was sitting by
u window, and happening to look down
upon the kitchen floor was astonishcd
to see signs of disturbance underneath.
The other members Of tho family were
called, and they witnessed his gophership
emerging from his long sleep of twenty
nine years.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
Denounced us Usurers.

Fortunately the dignified rcpose of the
Bank Of England is not often interrupted
by the arrival of gentleman who de-
nounces the assembled cashiers as ''usur-
ers and thieves" Such an individual
did yesterday enter tho bank, and, be-
sides uttering the above atrocious senti-
ments with regard to the business there
in transacted, distributed various PAM
phlets bearing upon "the infamous ma
tional sin called interest" Anybody who
gave or took interest ought to bo denied
Christian burial, according to this COM
pendulum of theologico- financial knowl-
edge. There are a good many sane peo-
pie who disapprove of usury, including
Mr.. Ruskin and most of the philosophio
Socialists, but they do not carry their
theories into practice in the manner of
the impulsive gentleman who bestowed
a "piece of his mind" on the astonished
Bank of England officials.-London Tel
egraph,
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
Highly Educated Seal.

Parisians are interested in singularly
learned seal that has just made his debut
at the Fernando circus. 1t came from
Russia when quite young, having been
sent to a fishmonger in Orleans. Instead
of killing him and selling him in pieces
to his customers, the fishmonger took
compassion on the queer little animal
and made household pet of him.
AT the end of six years Phopho, as the
seal is called, grew to be q big fat fellow.
He always came when he was called and
cheerfully gave his paw, or, rather, his
fipper, to everybody that he was intro
duced to. In addition to this evidence
of good breeding, he displayed remark
able talents and skillfully performed feats
that would make an imperfectly edu-
Gated terrier ashamed of himself. On
fine days the seal tramps along at a lively
flipfap gate a portion of the distance
between his boarding house and tho Fer
nando circus. where he is exhibited. On
wet days, strange enough, he insists on
being taken in a carriage. He has hor-
ror Of rain.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
A Lucky Isricklayer,

A recent recipient at the court of Con-
stantinople of the Turkish Medal for Art
and of the Order of the Mejidiell is the
mason who put up a Russian stove in the
sultan's palace. 1t appears that the sui
tan was struck with the stove at the Rus
sian consulatea at Constantinoplc, and had
a similar structure of bricks and tiles Or
dered from Odessa. The Russian laborer
who was sent with it to put it up was
simple moujik, but the sultan was so de-
lighted with the mans skill in bricklay-
ing-an art unknown in Turkey as ap.
piled to the building of tlreplaces-that,
besides money present of $3.50, he con-
ferred the above distinctions on the peas
ant.-New York World.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
A Cheap Compromise.

In crossing Union square the other day
lady dropped her handkerchief, and a
gamin of 10, who noticed the fact, ran
after her and restored it.
Thanks, child, thanks!'' she replied,
as she received the dainty fabric from
his grimy hand. "Now, then, what can
1 do for your
"Nuthink," lie replied.
"Oh, but I must reward your action in
some way. How shall I do it?'
"Well, mum, if you are bound to do
it, please give me hundred dollars in
stead of presenting me with mansion
on Fifth avenue. Taxes is high, and
dad is out of work, and we don't want
no dead horse to carry these hard times. "
She made it ten cents and another vote
of thanks, and he seemed perfectly salts
fied.-New York Sun,
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
The Snake Was Hungry.

Capt. T. ]. Tucker, who lives just
north of this city, is telling aremarkable
snake story among his friends around
town. 1t seems that the captain was
fishing in Lake Ivanhoe and had been
lucky enough to catch pretty good
sized trout. Thinking he would clean it
before returning homo he sat down on
the bank Of the lake, and as he was
washing the fish, with his hand in the
water, lie suddenly felt something pull
ing at one of his fingers. Imagine his
surprise and CONSERVATION when, upon
looking down at his finger, he saw a
large moccasin snake had hold of it.
With sudden jerk he pulled his finger
out of his snakeship's mouth, the only
harm done being that considerable skin
was scraped off in the act.-Orlando
Record.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
INSPIRATION.

He was peasant tolling mid the sheaves
From dew to dew among the waning grain
What time he went afleld in early morn,
The stars shone above the morning mists;
And when at eve he reached his cottage door,
He heard the plovers calling to the night.
One day, while meath his measured rhythmic
stroke
Fell swath on swath of precious golden grain,
She came across the fields-a vision rare
The princess good and pure and beautiful,
Who, smiling on him as she passed him by,
Knew not that she had filed his heart with love
And soul with music. Yet from that day forth
His fellow workers heard his sweet sad songs
Ana wondered at their comrade as he sang.
Soon far beyond the humble rustic town
His master music touched the hearts Of men,
Until the world had claimed him as her own,
And wreathed him poet with the laurel crown.
One day he found his wandering steps astray
Where he had seen the vision of his soul
"If she," he thought 'had been a peasant
maid,
And prince had seen her toiling there,
How happy now would be these weary days."
At this he threw himself upon the sheaves
Until the Inning shadows eastward thrown
Had blended with the gently deep'mng gloom
Until across the misty starlit meads
He heard the plovers calling to the night.
-Sanborn Cove Tcnney in Harper'a
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
Musk from Microbes.

Artificial musk appears to be thing
of the near future. The announcement
is made that at the laboratory of the
Gesundheitsamt in Berlin a Japanese
physician named Kitisato, pupil of
Koch, has isolated microbc from an
infusion of hay which has the property
of producing a powerful odor of musk
The microbe can be cultivated in any
part of the nutrient media, but thrives
best on the potato and rice preparation.
The cultures are at first reddish in color,
afterwards becoming rust or tile colored.
When the cultures are exhausted with
alcohol the latter possesses the color of
tincture of musk.-NIontreal Star.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
Wasn't Losing His Memory.

Scene-Scotch railway station. Ticket
collector, in making his collection, finds
an old gentleman fumbling in his pockets
for his ticket.
Ticket Collector-Tickets, please.
Old Gentleman-1'm just lookin' for it.
Ticket Collector-Well, Ill look in again
in few minutes See and have it tready
then.
Ticketcollector returns shortly; but the
old gentleman is still hunting for it.
Ticket Collector (suddenly)-Why, you
have it in your mouth, man!
Old Gentleman (giving him tho ticket
oh, SO hae! Here you are!
Another gentleman in the carriage, as
the train moves on, to first gentleman
I'm afraid your losing your memory, sir
Old Gentlcman-Nae fear O that; nae
fear O that! The ticket was a fornicht
ould, and 1 wis jist sookin' the date aff't!
Tableau.-Argonaut.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14

1t is nothing more or less than the fig
ure of a general made of ginger bread
which Clavette buys every year at the
Place du Trone. When he gets home he
hangs his purchase on a nail. You know
the effect of the atmosphere on ginger
bread. The slightest moisture renders it
soft; in dry weather, on the contrary, it
grows hard and tough. Every morning
on going out Clavette asks his servant:
"What does the general say?"
The man forthwith applies his thumb
to the figure and replies:
"The general feels fabby about the
chest; you'd better take your umbrella. :"
On the other hand when the symptoms
are ''hard and unyielding" our worthy
colleague sallies forth in his new hat
Almanach de PAlelier.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
Recent Tornado Losses on Ono pav.

AAecehI Aorhauo LOSSES on One DAY.
The returns of the fatalities by the re-
cent group of tornadoes are not yet all in.
1t is probable, indeed, that some persons
were killed in the thinlv settled regions
of northwestern Kentucky whose names
will never be known. 1t is possible, how
ever, to make pretty accurate estimate
of the loss of life. In Louisville the num-
Der of those killed outright and receiving
fatal injuries will not be far from 1870.
In other parts of Kentucky 2O7 persons
were killed, the largest fatalities being
as follows: Clay, SO; Glasgow, 80; Black
ford, 90; Pooltown, II; Kuttawa, 12;
Eddyville, IL; Dixon, 8; Sebree, 8; Ma
rion, z, and Bremen, 6. In twelve other
towns 81 persons were killed, the total
for Kentucky being 327.
In Illinois SO persons We're killed, the
largest fatalities being as follows: Shiloh,
18; Little Prairie, 0: Grand Tower, z;
Mount Vernon, 5; Vienna, d; Poplar
Ridge, a; Metropolis, 8, and Carbondale,
8. In Indiana 90 wero killed, 1S at Green
River and at Evansville. In Tennessee
0 were killed, 8 at Gallatin and at Ro-
CANA. The total is Ala, but it is probable
that in round numbers 500 lives were
lost 1t is almost impossible to make an
accurate estimate of the value of proper
ty destroyed, but 1t may be generally
stated as follows: Kentucky, $4,000, 900;
Illinois, 100000; Indiana, 1926, 900; Ten
nessee, $780, ,000.-Chicago Tribune.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
"Ketcled" Up with Them.

Ignatius Donnelly sometimes tells this
anecdote from the platform: An old
farmer in the south was taking his first
trip on railway train. The equipment
was poor and the road was rough and in
bad condition, SO that the train made poor
time. Suddenly the engine whistled.
"What's the matter" asked the farmer,
anxiously. "Oh," said a fellow pas
senger, "there are some COWS Oh the
track and they are whistling to scare
them off" The train ran along slowly
few miles farther, when the whistle
sounded again. The farmer suddenly
started and then exclaimed: "Blowed if
we haven't ketched up with them COWS
again."
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
improved Sounding Machine.

The old method of "heaving the lead"
was cumbrous and often unreliable
process, which occupied considerable
time, and could only be performed when
the vessel was brought to or going at a
very moderate speed. With Sir William
Thomson's improved sounding machine
the depth can be accurately found with
little trouble and without altering the
speed of the vessel. A line of soundinrs
can be taken with great ease and the
ships place be made known by compari-
son with the chart long before she comes
near to any dangerous position. For
steamships going at a great speed, and
especially when nearing land, the use of
this machine is absolutely indispensable.
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
Harvesting Niagara.

1t is proposed to utilize the power of
Niagara Falls by constructing raceway
and tunnel, the construction of the latter
to be on the basis of probable capacity
OF 100000 horse power. The plan is
practically the same as the one suggested
by the late Augustus Porter in 1847. Tho
contract was signed Tuesday between
the Niagara Falls Power company and
the Cataract Construction company of
New York. The Niagara Falls Power
company is capitalized at 50, 900, 900. The
contract calls for completion of the
work by Jan. 1, 1892, and involves an
expenditure of $4,000, ,00o.-New York
Press
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
THE BOY At EIGHTEEN.
Tho Things He Should Know. Because ol
the Great Advantages Ho Has,

the Great Advantages He Has,
A Ayouth of eighteen, who is to have
the best chances, should know how to
study, and how to do it with enthusi-
asm also, because he has learned the les
son at least five years before.
Enthusiasm, guided and controlled by
knowledged as to the use of the powers,
is the true life of living man, alive
with the spiritual forces. Everything
else is in sleep, or is dead.
l make my starting point, and my
guiding thought, the thought that he
should learn how to study, and should
gain enthusiasm, at the beginning.
In the first place, as think, the study
of language may be most hopefully and
successfully started in these earliest
years. The boy moves joyously where
the man finds only labor and weariness
The children of our households today
may gain the same thing that we gained
at five and twenty, and far more than
we gained, when they are ten or twelve;
and tho progress is like the joyful song
of their childhood, when they are led
along the rational method. They grow
up into French or German, as it were,
as they grow up into English, and talk,
and read, and sing in these languages
just as they do in their own. Why
should they not breathe enthusiasm with
every breath of their learning? 1t was
with great price, indeed, that we OBJ
tained this freedom. But they were free
born.
Let me say here that, in my Judgment,
every boy who has the best chances
ought to have the mastery of the French
or German language u should say of
both) before he is 19 years of age-a
mastery kindred to that which he has of
English. He should, also, have such a
knowledge Of Greek and Latin as will
mean power in and over those languages,
and will enable him to read them will,
ease and with satisfaction as lie enters
upon his college course. The man who
knows the ancient languages as he ought
to know them, will never contend against
their holding a place in the education of
all widely educated and roundly edu-
Gated men.
The boy who has the best chances
ought, in the years between twelve and
eighteen, to be set forward OH his course
in history and the beginnings, at least,
of the literature of his own language.
My feeling is that the boys who have
the best chances should know something
of music, and should, at least, see the
opening Of the door toward art studies.
The opinion is now well established,
suppose, that all persons can be instruct.
ed in vocal music with a measure of sue.
cess. l believe that the same thing can
be accomplished in the line of instru-
mental music.
That the mathematical studies should
be pursued dencrgetically before the youth
has reached tho age of which VIC are
speaking, l may add, is admitted by all.
The men of the former generations and
the men of our day agree at this point
President Dwight in The Forum.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
Changing the oxus' Course.

According toprivate Information from
Merv the construction of the large dam
changing the course fthe Oxus, known
under the ancient name of Sultan Bend,
is being pushed forward with great en-
ergy. Among the people there great ex-
citement prevails, as there seems to be no
doubt that large tracts of country will be
ruined as soon as the waters of the Amoo
Daria are diverted to the large territories
which have now for three years belonged
to the czar himself The water of the
river will not be sufficient for the terri
tories now cultivated by the natives and
for the large imperial estates.-Cor. Lon
don News.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
War Against the swallowtall in Japan.

A newspaper and governmental cam
paign against dress suits is in progress In
Japan. Of late years the orthodox even
ing dress of the men of the Caucasian
world had gained great popularity in the
high society of the japanese empire, and
it had become customary to write on all
invitation cards the word "Enbizukucha-
kuyo," that is, sWear your dress suit"
Some of the old fashioned japanese who
were in the swim long before the customs
of Caucasian society penetrated to the
interior, began short time ago to object
to this sort of thing. The Choya,
Japanese periodical, took up their cause.
1t argued at considerable length that the
Japanese figure was too dumpy and the
Japanese legs too short to look well I'M
der swallowtails. These arguments seem
to have had great weight with the gov
ernment, for it has decided to recall the
order requiring all persons present at the
opening of the parliament next summer
to wear dress suits.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
"A Home Without a Newspaper.

"What is home without a newspaper
A home without a newspaper is no home
at all. 1t is a kind Of dreary den-a rem
devious of bedbugs and feas, where the
inhabitants live in blissful ignorance of
what the world is doing. It is inhabited
by class who do not know who is pres
ident, or what he is president of-who
never find out that thing has happened
until long after every one else has for
gotten it. The children grow up in rags
and dirt, while the wife generally finds
consolation in darning socks and lug
ging pipe loaded with long, green to-
bacco, and the man generally lives be-
cause he can't die and he is too lazy to
kill himself. He goes out on election
days, and does not know who he is yot-
ing for, but just takes the ticket bearing
the name his great-great-grandfather
voted for.-E1change.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
He Missed the Remedy.

A New York tailor spent S., 900 in ex-
perimenting on a remedy for trousers
which bag at the knees, and then hung
himself because he could not find it.
He was hardly dead before surgeon
took up the subject and discovered the
long sought remedy. All you have to
do is to have your kneepans pressed
backward so that they won't strain the
cloth.-Detroit Free Press.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
Given by Eight Hundred cabblcs.

Nobody can accuse the Glasgow "cab-
bies'' of ingratitude. Mr.. John Burns has
worked indefatigably for thirty years to
promote their welfare, and 800 of them
have joined forces to present him with
an Illuminated address inclosed in sill
yer gilt casket. The movement was
quite spontaneous on the part of the do
nors, and the chairman of the Cunard
company was not let into the secret till
the last moment.-London World.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14

There is displayed in the window of
the Baltimore and Ohio Express COM
pany at Rome, Ga, faille franchise silk
dress that is, or was, valued at $500. The
dress was expressed to New Orleans and
was to be worn by bride at fashion
able marriage. The express messenger
through some oversight allowed it to be
damaged slightly, and was compelled by
the company to pay for it.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
Rarity of the Cormorant.

1t seems rather strange that, while
skins and eggs of the great aux are so
highly valued, the public rarely hear of
Pallas' cormorant, the extinction of
which in the North Pacific corresponds to
that of the great aux in the North Allan
tic. Only four specimens of Pallas' COR
morant are known to exist in museums;
no one possesses its eggs; and no bones
were found or preserved until Mr.. Leon
hard Stejneger, of the Smithsonian insti-
tuition, was SO fortunate some years ago
as to rescue few of them. Yet this bir
was the largest and handsomest of it's
tribe.-New York Ledger.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-06-14
Lime for a Refrigerator.

1t is stated that the unpleasant smell
which not infrequently makes refriger-
ator disagreeable can, if the smell arises
from dampness, be remedied and pre-
vented by placing some fresh qulckllme
on plate inside the refrigerator. The
lime, which absorbs one-third its weight
of moisture, not only dries the air, but
increases in no small measure the effect
Of the GOODNESS of the ice.-Montreal Star.