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Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
sunp at the Holy Sepu1cher.

Recently the Duke of Norfolk wrote from the holy land to inform her majesty of an interesting and unique incident in connection with the visit of the English pilgrims to Pales- tine. On St. George's day, for the first time since the age of the Cru sades, Pontifical high mass was sung at the silver altar in front of the Holy Sepulcher by an English prelate, the Hon. and Right Rev. William Cliff ford, bishop of Clifton, and his lord ship also preached, after which the anthem, "Domine Salvam fac Regi- nam Nostraln"-in other words, "God Save the Queen''-was sung by the pilgrims. This was the first instance that the queen or other British sover- eign had been publicly prayed for in that place probably since the time of Richard Cmur-de-Lion, and certainly the first since the Reformation.-Ex- change.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
A wa.herxoman Princess.

Pope Sextus V was, as all the world knows, of the very humblest origin. He had been goatherd and one of his sisters was washerwoman. When, however, he became supreme pontif he brought his kinswoman, the laun- dress, to Rome, made her princess and installed her in magnificent palace. The next day the statue of Pasquin was found to be endued with shirt, the cleanliness of which left much to be desired. The inimitable Marforio asked, in a placard which was read with universal grin, the why and the wherefore of the grimy undergarment, and the next morning Pasquin replied that he could not get his linen washed because his washerwoman had become a princess. London Telegraph.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
A Dinner That Cost s1oo pia.s.

Talking about dinners reminds me of that dinner we gave sharon in 1876 at the Palace hotel, just before he went to Washington as United States sena- tor. When say that we gave him a dinner l mean that Judge Tom Sun derland and Johnnie Skae gave the dinner, but it was I who suggested it to Sunderland. Sunderland called up to Leland, who was running the Pal ace then, and said: .'sLeland, get us up the best and highest toned dinner you can. Never mind the expense 1; we must give Sharon send of, SO that he can go to Washington like a Roman senator to his triumph. He may not be a Demosthenes or Cicero, but he's big man all the same. So take carte blanche and give us feast worthy of Lucullus when he used to discount all other disciples of gas tronomy."
 Mine host Leland took the order for thirty, and charged $1OO plate. It was 8 gorgeous feast. Who were there2 Well, as select crew as ever manned ship. Gen. John E. Miller presided. The menu was engraved on silver plates-solid silver-and five minutes after the feast began there wasn't menu in sight. Some fellows had two or three slowed away in their pockets. I'm sorry to say that a ma jority of the guests have passed away. Interview in San Francisco Chroni. c1e
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
A Now voltaio Battery.

A novel form of voltaic battery is made by an Italian inventor in this simple manner: A conical cast iron bowl, partly filled with strong nitric acid, is fixed in stand, and in it is placed similar bowl of porous earth enware partly filled with dilute sul- phuric acid. Then follows a second iron conc with second earthenware one, and so on in series, each vessel containing its respective acid. By this arrangement the inner surface of each iron vessel is exposed to nitric acid and becomes passive, acting the part of the platinum or carbon of the ordi
 nary cell; while the outer surface is attacked by the dilute sulphuric acid and takes the place of zinc. No con nections are necessary. Apile of thirty or forty of these elements gives strong current, which diminishes to about one-half in five hours.-New York Telegram.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
The Ghost Discovered,

MT. and Mrs. George L. Paetz, of h. dianopolis, were almost ready for sew eral weeks to believe that ghost was lowering over their peaceful home. A month ago queer noise was heard in their sitting room. At first it was sup posed to be in the natural gas stove, but when they would listen it would escape them and go into another part of the room. At times the ghost moaned like a person in great pain, and at other times it would roar like great blaming mill or steamboat.
 Plumber after plumber was sent for, natural gas inspectors were consulted, but no one was able to locate the strange noise. Mir. and Mrs. Paetz were about ready to give up the haunt ed house, when John Keen, the pie ture frame dealer, undertook to find out whence came the sound.
 Examining the walls of the room in Mir. Paetz's house, Mir. Keen found near the stove burnt spot in the wall paper. In the center of the spot was cracked place, hardly perceptible to the eye. When hand was held over the spot the noise ceased The vibra- tions of the air through this crevice had caused the noise ana almost driven Mir. and Mrs. Pactz to believe in ghosts.
 The hole was plastercd up and the family are happy again.-Indianapolis News.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
Raising Goose Eggs.

Very few men there are at present engaged in a salaried position who do not indulge in one or two side issues for the purpose of swelling their in- comes. Billy King, the city passenger agent of the Burlington road, for in stance, has engaged in an outside ven ture which will doubtless bring him in good money. He had read good deal about ostrich farms in California and of the vast profits accruing therefrom, and he decided to go into a similar business on a small scale. According ly he has purchased flock of geese and small plot of ground on which to keep them. He has also engaged a man to attend to the flock, and he is putting goose eggs on the market. Peo pie may think that there is no money in goose eggs, but from every one to whom MT. King has told about his goose eggs there has come hearty re- sponse Goose eggs appear to be in greater demand than geese, and it looks very much as though MT. King would be obliged to enlarge the little goose farm he has. People laugh at such an industry, but there is money in it, Chicago Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
Treasures in Cabs.

It is not long since Paris bank clerk left papers representing some 200, ,O0O francs in a cab, and was lucky enough to find them several hours after lying untouched on the seat. A provincial banker who took cab on the boulevards one afternoon drove to the Northern station, and was equally absentminded, but was not SO fortu- nate. After dismissing the cab at the station and taking a ticket he remem- bered that he had left on the seat portfolio containing bank notes and papers to the value of 8O,000 francs.
 He rushed to the station entrance, only to find the cab gone, and thence to the stand from which he had taken it. The particular vehicle he longed to set eyes upon had not yet returned. The distracted banker confded his troubles to the policeman on duty at the stand, and was advised to await there the return of the cab. At the end of an hour two cabs drove up to the stand, and the banker recognized his driver The latter told the police man that after leaving the railway station he had driven two ladies to the Palais de IIndustrie. As they quilted the cab they remarked to the Jehu that there was portfolio on the seat. There was-but it was empty.-Pall Mall Ga zntte
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
Shaved by q Convict.
They were speaking of shaving.

They were speaking of shaving.
 'It was up at Folsom, and Judge Murphy had gone up there at Gen. McComb's invitation to see how the prison was run," said a newspaper man. "He arrived on Saturday night. and next morning after breakfast the warden asked him if he didn't want to be shaved, adding that there was an excellent barber connected with the establishment. The judge said that was just exactly what he did want, and he was shown the way to the shop. A very quiet young negro was there, with white coat over his con vict shirt, and the judge knew before he had been in the chair a minute that he was in the hands of an expert The first time over was through, and the judge came out of nice little doze and lay watching the fellow. Pretty soon the judge said:
 Haven't seen you beforef
 1T guess so, said the fellow, wet ting the judges face for the second time.'
 "'Where was it2'
 In your court, judge
 " Is that so2 What-what was it about9'
 We'll, judge, I'll tell you, said the fellow. He was then coming down over the judges chin and was sweeping down toward his throat. My name is Williams, and you sent me up here for life for killing my wo- man on Bush street.
 'As he said this the fellow laid the cold edge of the razor against the judges Adams apple, and the judge closed his eyes. He knew there wasn't another person but themselves in tho room, and for an instant he had the wild inclination to jump up and yell out for help. Then he thought better of it, and said as placidly as he could
 'Ah, yes, I remember; very sad case. We'll, l hope you're rolling up your credits, Williams
 'Flsttv good, replied ths cpnytr1
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
SLEEPING IN THE WOODS.
Beautiful Pen Picture of Night by "Ad
 rond0Ck'' Murray.

Beautiful Pen Picture of . Night by "Adi-
 rondaclk'' Murray.
 Imagine your bed chamber of odor- ous bark, and your bed of pungent boughs. Your couch made under murmuring trees and within few yards of the lazily moving water, whose motions caress rather than chafe the shore Stretched your full length on such couch, spread in such a place, the process of falling asleep becomes an experience. You lie and watch yourself to observe the gradual de- you feel yourself passing away.
 Slowly and easily as an ebbing tide you begin to pass into the dim and in sensible realm beyond the line of feel ing. At last a moment comes in which you know you are passing over the very verge of consciousness. You are aware you are about to fall asleep. Your chees but partially interprets the cool pressure of the night wind 1; your ears drowsily surrender the lin gering murmur of beach and pine :; your eyes droop their lids little by lit tie; your nose slightly senses the odor of the piny air, as you mechanically draw it in; the chest falls as it passes as mechanically out, and then-you are asleep.
 The hours pass, and still you sleep on. The body, in obedience to some , occult law of force within the insensi- ble frame, still keeps up its respira- tions; but you are somewhere-s1eep- ing. At last the pine above you, in the deep hush which precedes the com ing of dawn, stills it's monotone, and silence weaves its airy web amid the motionless stems. The water falls asleep. The looms head is under it's spotted wing, and the owl becomes mute The deer has left the shore, and lies curved in it's messy bed. The rats no longer draw their tiny wake across the creek, and the frogs have ceased their croaking. All is quiet. In the profound quiet, and unconscious of it all, the sleeper sleeps. What sleep such sleeping isl and what ministry Is being ministered unto mind and body through the cool, pure air, pun gent with gummy odors and strong with the smell of the sod and the root lace mold of the underlying earth l. Murray's "Lake Champlain and Its Shores"
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
Poisoning from Flour.

Poisoning from flour is of interest to all who eat In 1887 upward of a hundred persons ill French town were attacked by a collie of great sever- ity The water supply and various articles of food were examined for the cause, when it was found sixty pa tients had eaten flour from particular mill, where the grain was carried to the mill stones by an elevator with buckets of tin plate containing good deal of lead. The flour which passed through these buckets had not less than five ounces of metal which had rubbed off into the grain, and persons who ate this flour suffered severely, while those who used flour from an other elevator were not attacked Cor. Washington Star.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
Safety of Letters.

Not long ago sent letter inclos- ing $5 to relative and it was pur- Joined. So wrote second note, also inclosing $5, and on the upper left hand corner 1 printed in bold characters: Notice to postotice agents and road agents, this contains $5 The last one to the same place contained the same sum and was stolen by one of the above" The letter went through in double quick time in perfect safety New York Letter.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
A Mean Husband.

Mrs. Smallpay (wife of clerk T saw Mrs. Smallpursc with forty dol lar dress on today, and here I'm wear ing twenty dollar one. You and Mir. Smallpurse are clerks in the same store, too, and get the same salary I'd just like to know what you do with all your money.
 Mir. Smallpay-You ought to know about as we'll as any one what be- comes of It. As for that dress, sup pose you know that Mrs. Smallpurse does her own work, while you have a four dollar servant.
 Mrs. Smallpay-Huh! I'd like to know whata paltry four dollars has to do with forty dollar dress.
 MT. Sma}lpay-Four dollars week for ten weeks is-
 Mrs Smallpay Griumphantly)-She has only been here nine weeks-so there now New York Weekly.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
A airi,s rre.ence of Mind.

A man had caught hls foot in sonne unexplained way at tho aide of an d. vator shaft. The elevator he&vi1y loaded with merchandise, was coming down from above. While he was mak- ing every possible effort to loosen his foot a little girl employed in the estab- lishment hastily caught up knife that lay near by, cut his shoe faces and pulled him back just as the floor of the elevator touched his shoe-New York Evening Sun.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
Can Count 1so Descendants.

The Marietta (O.) Register tells of a somewhat remarkable family in that vicinity. Joseph Burke, freeman from Prince William county, Va, came with his family in 1854 to New port, where he died three weeks after ward, leaving a wife and twelve chil- dren. The widow still survives, and most of her children. A recent census of the family, including children, grandchildren and greatgrandchil- dren, gives an aggregate of 1S0 souls. Mrs. Hannah Burke, now aged 87, is probably the most motherly woman in Ohio
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02

down to nls ankle. lnen taking a stick, he dipped it into the poison and touched the descending blood at the ankle. It immediately began to sizzle, as if it were cooking the blood, and the poison followed the blood right up the leg, sizzling it's way, until the h. dian scraped the blood off with the knife. He assured our informant that had he allowed it to reach the mouth of the wound he would have been dead Banning Herald
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
Expose Your Cows.

An Indiana COW which gave two quarts of milk per day was struck by lightning while in the pasture and had a horn knocked of. Since that date her yield has been eight quarts, with not the slightest trace of brimstone. if you have an old COW stand her ouE
 Dettoit Erso pro6R
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
Never Forr.ve It.

'sThat man is evidently your enemy. How comes it9''
 ''He was formerly my warm friend"
 "And you did some act which cost you his regardf'
 ''Yes, he was once about to engage in @ piece of folly that would have re- suited in his ruin, when imprudently interfered and saved m."-Chicago Times.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02

barber, and the razor slid softly up from the judges throat and was put back in Its case A few more minutes and the judge had quilted the chair and left the room, smiling and thank full, but when he rejoined the warden and party they told him he looked as though he had seen ghost. San Francisco Chronicle.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
Men Have Hobbies.

A New York doctor says that you can make man believe that his liver is out of order when you can't make him believe that there is hereafter for his soul. The human liver is dosed ninety-nine times where it needs it but once.--Detroit Free Press.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
A Big Lie or None.

A Press dispatch from West Virginia tells about hailstones which split great rocks, reduced saw logs to shavings and dug holes twenty feet deep in the earth. That's right This half way lying is all nonsense. Tell whopper or stick to the truth. Detroit Free Press.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
Unanswerable.

MT. Blnkins-You know the old pro- verb, "The best is the cheapest2"
 Mrs. Blinkins-Oh, you are mistaken. The best is the dearest. I know, for I've asked the prices. York Weekly.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
Poor John.

''Is your husband particular about what he eats2'
 s'Indeed he is. John is 8 full fledged epitAph. n--Harper's Baxar.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
H. l.. Ross, Dentist,

CUNNIN0S' BLOCK, MAIN SrRrrr. CANAAN, CONN.
 Successor to Dr J. D. Clemans.) Satisfaction given in the most difdcclt operations. Gas administered for the pain. less extraction of teeth.
 OFFICE HoURsL8 to 12 a. m., to p. m. @Telephone in Of1ce.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
FRANCIS BISSELl, General Insurance

Effected in the strongest Mutual and Stock Companies Also represents the Fitchburg Mutual, surplus $106 900. Covers against damage by lightning. Discounts 20 per ct. on one year policy; 40 per ct. on two years; 60 per ct. on five years. Call on or address me It BANTAM, CONN.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02
pr. Herbert "A. Church,

Physician and Sur con. ga. m., IA 50 to 2 p. m., 2 to Sp. m. ~Telephone in Office.
 CANAAN CONN.
Connecticut western news., 1890-07-02

uV1WU1 AIuIU T uIOIVIAN AND OUNunVN' Oflce J. K. Shepards Residence,
 Opposite tho park, Norfolk, Ct. Residence on Maple Avenue. Houls - to 8. m., 1 30 to 2:S0 and to s: 50 p. m.
 Chronic Diseases 8 Specially.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-03-21
Gro BE CONTINUED. J
Eaa.thared Pets

Do not hang your bird merely where
his cage looks pretty, advises a writer
in Our Dumb Animals. Nor must YOU
fly to the other extreme, and place him
in glare of sunlight, even in win err.
Birds suffer and die from this cause.
The best way is to give him his choice
put him in the sun and shade part of
his cage, so that he may do as he likes.
You will notice that he oftentsits in
the shade
Remember and take care about
placing him in draft, or too close to
even a closed window. except on warm
summer days. 1t is as great mis-
take to put him where he will be sub
ject to the dry burning heat of fur
mace or stove. Do not hang his cage
too high or too low, but let him
breathe the pure air which you
breath yourself.
From November till June wrap his
cage nightly in warm shawl or draw
over it IL thick flannel cover, and
never place the cage on the floor, as |
saw advised not long ago.
Your birds need variety as well as
you, bird-store men and bird-book
writer's to the contrary, notwithstand-
ing. Give him every day, besides his
seed and fresh water, bit of green
food, lettuce, sorrel, chickweed, plan
tain (leaf or ends) or "a slice of ban
ana or apple, and fasten the delicacy
so that it cannot fall to the floor. A
dainty bird will not touch it if it falls.
Also, now and then, perhaps three
times week, give him snip or two
of raw beef the size OF a pin head,
larger if he is mocking bird. He
may look askance at first, and turn
his wise black eyes upon it with Curl
osity, but will soon relish it, and
eagerly snatch it from your finger, and
it takes the place of the insects he
would add to his bill of fare If he were
free!
In fact, try TO keep in mind that the
little fellow has likes and dislikes,
pain and discomfort, happiness and
pleasure, much as you have yourself,
and you will be well repaid by his
brightness and vivacity.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-03-21
GONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE"

How often do we hear the above said of
some poor pilgrim DER life's thorny path,
whose tottering step, pallid face, unnatural
glitter Oh the eye and hacking cough, and
its accompanying involuntary pressure of
the hand over the lungs, the seat of the
dread disease consumption-that causes the
remarks Too frequently, alas and in the
interests of such unfortunates this is pen
ned, to assure them that their steps need
tend no longer towards that narrow recep-
tacle that awaits all-that is, until life's
allotted space is covered-from any such
cause, for the scientific researches of DR..
R. v. Pierce, of the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y, re-
sulting in his Golden Medical Discovery, y
have wrested from Nature remedy which
never fails to cure this scourge of our race
(which is really nothing more nor less than
Scrofula of the Lungs), if taken in time and
given fair trial
For Scrofula in all its myriad forms.
whether affecting the lung tissues or other
organs or parts, DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery is a sovereign remedy, and
the only one that is sold by druggists,
under positive guarantee from its manu-
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-03-21

facturers, that it will benefit or cure, il
taken in time and given a fair trial, or
money paid for it will be refunded. En-
larged glands, tumois or "bunches,n are
dissipated by its use old sores or ulcers
healed white swellings," hip Joint disease,
and kindred ailments, permanently cured.
It's a medicine, not a beverage a concen-
trated vegetable extract, without sugar or
syrup in its makeup Don't beget drunk
ards. As peculiar and marvellous in cura-
tive properties as in its composition. It's
mission is to cure, not palliate.
Golden Medical Discovery invigorates
and strengthens the liver and lungs, sharp
ems the appetite, improves digestion, purifies
the blood, cleanses the system, and builds up
both flesh and strength when reduced by
wasting diseases 1t leads all other med
icines in amount of sales. There's nothing
like it for the diseases for which it is rec
commended, so don't be fooled into accepting
any substitute, said to be "just as good
Its an insult to your intelligence when un-
principled dealers try to palm off something
else upon you, Just to make a little better
profit! An honest dealer supplies what
his customers want, without questioning
their intelligence. WORLDS DIsPENsARY
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Proprietors, Buff
falo, N. Y.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1890-03-21

The well known experiment of max
ing sounds by holding tube over jet
OF burning gas usually hydrogen is
often omitted In chemistry classes be-
cause no suitable tubing IS at hand. A
fact not noted in any text book have
seen. and unknown to all teachers that
have consulted. has been brought to light
In my classes, viz: II bottle will serve in
place OF a tube. a philosophers can
de properly burning will Yield fine
sound if capped by wide mouthed hot
tie, as quinine bottle or large test
tube. or course, this is according to the
principles of acoustics, but it seems
strange that no text book gives it. |
should like to know II this fact is known
TO any one else-T. Berry Smith in
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