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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12
COPPER BR1ne IN SHOES.
How Man Restore. ..nseIf to a Healthy
Condition.

How Man Restore. -.nSelf to Healthy
Condition.
'Do you see the large copper brads in
the sole of my shoe?" asked gentleman
as he held up to view the sole of one of
his shoes. On being answered in the
affirmative he said: ITO these simple
brads alone l attribute my present good
health. For years L was an invalid.
subject to dyspepsia, neuralgia. head
ache and other innumerable pains, and
travelled the country over in search OF
health. In travelling out West among
the Indian tribes | was struck with
their remarkable health, and especially
their exemption from the maladies that
the strongest and healthiest went bare
footed altogether. | sought an expla-
nation of the matter and by continued
observation and study was finally led to
the conclusion that these aches and pains
to which civilized man is heir is owing
TO the manner in which we inSolate
our bodies from Mother Earth. Science
is every day more clearly demonstrating
that electricity is the vitalizing con-
stituent of our bodies and that this
globe of ours is a mighty battery, con-
tinually generating and discharging
electricity Now, L reasoned, if this
was correct the secret of the Indians
health was in his bare feet, which ex-
posed his whole body to the vitalizing
influence of the electrical earth cur
rents; while my i'll health was attributed
to my feet being isolated from these
currents. Acting on the hypothesis !
sought to restore the broken connection
by inserting these brads in the soles OF
my shoes, and the result, | must say
was astonishing. My feet, which
formerly were nearly always cold, soon
became warm and moist; my health
commenced shortly to improve, and in
a few months | was entirely relieved of
all my pains, and have ever since en-
ioyed good health. 1t is a very simple
thing and easily tested, and l feel sure
would benefit any one afflicted as was"
ST. Louis Republic.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12
ERIcssoN's PURPOSE.
He Had Three Aims Which Governed
All His Inventions.

He Had Three Aims Which Governed
All His Inventions.
Setting aside minor inventions, three
distinct purposes are apparent in Erics-
sons labors, first, to improve the steam
engine and extend the scope of its APP
plication; next, to discover some
more economical and efficient method
for changing the mode of motion
we call heat into the mode of mo-
ton we call power; third, to force
the great maritime nations into declar-
ing the ocean neutral ground, by max
ing naval warfare too destructive pas
time to be INDUCED in, and equalizing
the conditions of the struggle between
the greater and the lesser states. On
the accomplishment of this last purpose
depended, in Ericsson's Judgment, the
future of his native Sweden. Too weak
to hold her own in a contest with any
great power, under existing conditions,
her only sure hope of defense is in neu-
tralizing the dominating factors Of pum-
bers and wealth by the efforts Of genius
stimulated by patriotism. Love Of
country was with Ericsson asupreme
passion. In this controlling sentiment,
in the traits of character derived from
his sturdy Morse ancestry, and in the
training and experience acquired during
the twenty-three years spent in his
Scandinavian home, we find the secret
of that exceptional development of spe-
cialized faculties which has placed him
in the very front rank of constructive
ngineers--Scribner's Magazine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12
NOVELTIES IN JEweLRY.
Beautiful Things In Gold and Silver Pro
duced BY American Workmen.

Beautiful Things In Gold and Silver Pro-
duced by American Workmen.
An exceedingly pretty scarf pin repre-
sents bright gold wind mill with a
platinum band around the roof and with
the sails studded alternately with dia-
monds and rubies.
Etched pansies with the centers in re-
lief form pretty decoration for a coffee
service.
Delicate and attractive is bonbon
box of open laeework in gold, which al
lows the contents to be seen from the
exterior of the box.
Cat-tails entwined with grasses OF va
riegated gold constitute a lace pin that
shows the result of artistic design and
skilled workmanship.
An oxidized silver horse shoe nail
twisted to knot, in the center of which
rests tourmaline within bright gold
claws forms a unique scarf pin.
The pieces of tea service produced
recently are ornamented around the top
with band of etching, while the re-
mainder is but series of deep indenta-
tons.
broker-each of different colored gold,
form scarf pin that will command at
tention from lovers of the unique.
Ragged edges and ancient looks make
the most recent silver fruit dish con-
spicuous. Two apples on branch, with
leaves, rise in relief from the bottom Of
the gilt interior of the dish.
Gold and platinum leaves resting
around the edge of a comma of alternate
diamonds and sapphires, with varie-
gated gold pansies, make hairpin that
can not fail to be received with favor.
Moonstone cuff links, representing or
binary mother-of-pearl shirt buttons, are
an innovation. Gold threads crossing the
buttons, their ends being inserted in
the four holes usually seen in buttons,
add to the effect.
A moonstone Cupid bowling roguishly
in the curve of a crescent of brilliants
deserves more than passing notice as
lace pin. Around the throat of the little
god necklace of rose diamonds and
small rubies is shown, terminating in a
star of similar stones.
Somewhat massive, yet very artistic,
is an elaborate silver cake dish of Amer
lean workmanship, Three hippopotami
plunging among tall water grasses and
held under control by a small figure
representing an Egyptian boy constitute
the group at one end of the piece. The
dish proper is formed in imitation of
Red Sea fishing boat.-Jewelefs'
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12
Something New in Hats.

An entirely new thing will be the leg
horn and lace combinations. The crown
will be made of Leghorn and the brim
of lace, or vice versa. OF late years
Leghorn has been worn considerably by
misses and children, but by the addition
of lace braid it is sure to meet with gen.
eral favor for ladies' goods. There IS
one thing certain, lace straw VIII take
the lead and many cocoanut tree will
be sacrificed. Their fate seems sealed
One day bearing fruit the next cut
down and its inner fbers made into
braid, and this in turn shaped into hat
to adorn the head of some pretty society
belle.-Chicago Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12
A GIRLS INFLUENCE.
How Feminine Beauty Is Utilized In the
Pulling of Teeth.
when mans afraid,
Is a charming sight to see"

wv men mans afraid.
A beauti III maid
Is charming sight to see"
That is what you heard the maiden
sing In The Mikado." She was telling
about capital punishment which she
had witnessed and her declaration that
the doomed man just before losing his
head gazed upon her pretty face for
courage was always taken as a Gilbert
fantasy. But the idea is actually put
into practical use in the largest New
York establishments where teeth are
extracted under laughinggas. have
been there two or three times and have
watched this feature of the business
with amused interest. Now. as you NAV
readily know, laughing-gas renders the
patient oblivious but not insensible. He
feels all that is done to him and often
makes a lot of fuss about it, but upon
awakening he can recall nothing that
has happened. 1t is when the mans
afraid that the beautiful maid" is
placed before him as charming sight
to see." In other words, while the
strong-armed dentist stands at one
side of the victims chair with
the gas-bag ready for him to
breathe out of, girl wi an amiable.
pretty face takes a position close to the
opposite arm. She gazes sympathet-
ically yet smilingly into his face. She
isn't cOquettish about it. 1t NAV be de-
scribed as sort of cousinly smile-that
is, somewhere between a sisterly grin
and an ogle, with no tie of consanguin-
ity in it. As the man breathes in the
gas and loses his senses the last fading
vision is that of the girls encouraging
face. The practical value of this device
lies in the fact-and l have this on the
authority of the boss of the place-that
a goodly proportion of the patients
would become obstreperous and violent
while under the influence of the gas but
for the effect of the girls presence.
That may seem like nonsense, but in
practice it proves to be good sense.
When the man awakens he finds his
guardian angel is still there, and he de-
parts feeling, | suppose, that she has
taken a deep and poignant interest in
his particular case.-N. Y. Cor. Boston
Herald.
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rOED Or SAM HOUSTON.


A~Ao
Santa Anna.
General Sam Houston was hand
some and graceful man." said Judge
Thomas Berry, of Gallatin. He was dis
cussing the characteristics of celebrate
Tennesseeans with whom he had been
intimately acquainted.
He was proud of his fine personal
appearance, too" the aged speaker con-
tinued, land there is told of him story
which, if true, will serve to illustrate
his youthful vanity. When a young
man, so the story runs, Houston was in
Nashville one day, and was posing on
prominent street corner, when two or
three giddy young ladies passed by.
They were attracted by the handsome
man in his snowy uniform, and after
passing him turned their heads to get
another glance.
6 Il wonder who that man is, one of
them exclaimed to heIFtompanions.
81 am, ladies, Lieutenant Houston,
of the United States army said the
young soldier, as he made step for
ward, and lifted his cap as he addressed
them.
General Houston told me once how
he captured General Santa Anna. Just
after the battle of san Jacinto two of
HOuston's men, who were searching for
prisoners, scared up a deer, which ran
through the tall grass. The frightened
animal passed near to a Mexican, who
was concealed in the heritage, and who
jumped up in evident alarm. The two
Immediately secured the stranger, who
asserted that he was a common soldier.
"'You are not said one of his cap
tors; look at your embroidered vest.
You are an officer
1.-THE Mexican, in his embarrassment.
ran his fingers into his jacket pocket
and drew out an elegant gold snuff-box.
This more than ever caused the Ameri-
cans to believe him an officer He offered
them large sum of money to release
him, but they refused, and started with
him to Houstons tent. AS they passed
a large group of Mexican prisoners,
these men cried out that Santa Anna
was captured.
1.-The Mexican General, thus exposed,
urged his captors to take him at once to
General Houston's tent. He remem-
bered the affair of the Alamo, and was
afraid that he would be summarily dealt
with by the Texan soldiers who began
to crowd around. Santa Anna was, by
General Houston's order, transferred to
Washington, and from there, after he
had made treaty acknowledging the
independence of Texas, sent to Mexico
''The action of General Houston in
bringing on the battle of San Jacinto
was daring. He had the bridge across
Buffalo bayou destroyed during the
night, so that all escape for the Mexican
army was cut off. The morning of the
battle General Houston said that g was
awakened by the sun shsning in his
face, and thought he beheld the sun of
Austerlitz. The Mexicans were en-
camped east of his position. Houston
waited until the sun had crossed the
heavens and was shining in the faces
of the Mexicans before he made move
ment to assault their position.
1.-THE ease-loving people about the
hour of one in the afternoon began to
take their usual siestas, in which un-
fortunate pleasure they were engaged
when Houston attacked them. Mash
vile American.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12
ms CREDIT WAS GOOD.

-rra. a winter night, and the hour was ia'e
snJ the snow lay cold and white,
NJ, she saw him as far as the garden gate
D To 1 saw TO him there Good night
-Ao NOM looked down with smiiing eye
nv Ia enc bright stars winked in glee;
,hav saYv her blush. and they heard hef sign
,Eor rImid and shy was she).
rp, they never needed the stars or moon
T,he youth and the maiden fair;
They reach the gate, and trifing boon
The lover requested there.
~what is the boon?" asked the charming
miss,
I'M musical voice and low,
at is that you'll give me a sweethearfs KISS
Nv darling before / CO."
aob. no." she said, as the lashes fell
o'er the eyes of fathomless blue;
4sYou've wooed me long and love you well
But can't give a kiss to YOU"
IThen loan me a kiss, my sweet one, pray
And YOU never will know regrets"
myes WILL" she said, "for my parents say
You are prompt in paying your debts"
Boston Courier.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12
SHOOTING A DECOY.
A Clever Trick That Was Played on JOk-
ing Sportsman.

Clever Trick That Was Played on JOk-
ing Sportsman.
I am reminded of a rather good yarn
have been promising for some time to
spin. The joke is on a first-class all
around sportsman, and jolly good fell
low he is, too, ready for any thing from
an early morning start and wait on the
bay for chance at the ducks to an all-day
tramp in the backwoods after the willy
fox. He is a practical joker as we'll as
a sportsman, and is always ready to
work off "rig" on the boys, so we were
all unusually hilarious when at last he
had to succumb and own himself out
witted. He had gotten the best of me
on several occasions, and many minute
had I given to concocting plans for get
ting even.
At last my chance came, and in this
way: Out on a cunning trip l had the
good fortune to shoot a superb fresh
water shell-drake, and when l went
home 1 said nothing to Lucien, but be-
gan to perfect scheme that took shape
in my mind almost as soon as my bird
dropped. Lucien lived on the banks of
d pOuu III w Hull uuChS hOuAO NOW anu
then light, and he always had his gun
ready. l carefully skinned my bird,
stretched the skin over wooden decoy
in as life-like manner as possible, and
then began to think how best to make
it seem alive. My device was merely to
fasten one end of line to the decoy I'M
der the breast and lead it through a
ring in stone sunk to the bottom of
the pond and from there to some bushes
up on high bank
AL being arranged took my position,
and one of the men went to the shop
just below the dam and told Lu to hurry
Up and get his gun to shoot the queer
looking bird that had just lit there. Lu
was at first suspicious, but finally went
up to take look. The bird was moving
around, ducking, etc., in such evident
life and spirits that Lucien was, for
once at least, completely taken in. He
lodged down behind the dam, crept care
fully to his cabin, got his gun, and as
stealthily crept back. Reaching the
right spot, up he came, looked over to
reconnoiter, and being entirely con-
WINGED banged away. How the feathers
did fly! and how we all shouted, and
how disguised Lu looked, will leave 70
your imagination.-Fo and Stream.
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unacceptable. Their legs get so brittle
as to break off by their own weight. So
the only way to do is to keep them in
spirits. which is just as satisfactory a
plan from the scientific point of view.
In that manner a great number can
be kept in small compass. You see,
my 1000 specimens take up no more
room than little bookcase would.
And, at moments no,.-e, l can find by
the label any variety I am looking for,
pull out the little frame that holds the
row OF bottles containing the repre-
sentatives of that variety and exhibit
them in orderly arrangement. If it is
desired to examine any particular speci-
men closely she is spilled out upon a
little saucer and subjected to scrutiny
under the magnifying glass"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12
THEIR FIRST QUARREL.
1t Was Cansed bE Counting Chickens BE
fore Trey Were Matched.

1t Was Cansed by Counting Chickens Be
fore TsIey Were Hatched.
Mr.. ew1ywed-Fanny, Uncle Toms
will is to be read tomorrow, and as
always was favorite nephew of the old
gentleman's l am sure to come in for
something.
Mrs. Newlywed-Oh how nice, Will!
Then we can give up this horrid fat and
build sweet little Queen Anne house in
the country, and"
"You mean brick house uptown"
mo, dear, Queen Anne cottage, with
gables and"
Queen nothing, petl 1 couldn't bear
to live in a cottage, you know. What
we want is"
Nothing of the sort. Will! I want
cottage, and can't live in an uptown,
stuffy-"
"Stuffy, Ell? I'd like to know what can
be more stuffy than little, squeezed-up,
one-story-"
''Will, you mean thing! You are so
unreasonable, and"
Unreasonable, is it? I'd have you I'M
derstand, Frances, that am very rea-
sonable man"
mo you are not! You never do any
thing 1 want you to, and you always try
to displease me. You are"
Look here, madam, that will dol 1
took you when you were without a cent,
and you promised to obey me, and now,
when I have plan to make you happy,
you"
Happy! could never be happy with
such brute! If had only known what
you were, 1 never would have married
your
II wish you had then, for you are no
wife for young, sensible man, who
likes to be peaceful and"
Peaceful Who started all this dis
pute, should like to know?"
why, you did!'
'1didn't"
''You didr'
''You know didn't, So"
81 repeat, it is all your fault!''
80, boo-hoo! hool 1 am going home
to my mother"
60 and be-" Slams the door.
Mr.. Newlywed next evening)-Fan-
nv, Uncle Tom didn't leave me cent?
Mrs. Newlywed kissing him)-I'm SO
glad!-Lawrence (Mass.) American
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12
CALIFORNIA; POVERTY.
How 1t Was Impressed on the Mind OF
an Arizona Pioneer.

How 1t Was Impressed on the Mind OF
an Arizona Pioneer.
Old Judge McCorkle, of Arizona, when
he left that land of legends, pueblOs,
ella monsters and gold, took with
him large quantity of the latter. He
sold mine for something over $500, 900.
With this fortune the ''Jedge" repaired
to ''the Bay" as San Francisco is called
throughout the coast, there to spend the
rest of his days in comfort. Having a
wholesome distrust of banks, acquired
from his experience of them in Arizona,
the Judge placed his coin in the safe de-
post vaults, and has ever since lived on
his principal, drawing on the original
stock of twenty-dollar pieces there when
ever his purse runs low. When the
Judge first came to San Francisco he was
some what dazed by the rush and whirl
of even that not too densely populated
city. But with true provincial pride he
determined to conceal his feelings. 1t
was this frontier hauteur which actu-
ated his retort in the following dia-
logue: The Judge entered the break
fast-room in one Of the large hotels the
morning after his arrival in San Fran
cisco. The waiter presented to him that
long and involved document from which
Americans chart out the morning meal.
The Judge regarded it apprehensively
and said: young man, gimme some
frijoIs." BEG pardon, sir?' "You
don't speak no Spanish, hay? Well,
gimme some beans" Every sorry, sir,
but we do not serve beans at breakfast,
sir" "You don't, hay?" remarked the
Judge sarcastically; you don't give NO
beans for breakfast? Young man, and
the Judge lowered his rich alcoholic
bass to an impressive murmur, young
man, come from Arizoney, the poorest
kentry on this here yearth; but even in
Arizoney we git beans three times
davr'-San Francisco Argonaut.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12

Overheard on the street car, on the
way to Sunday-school.- ANNA, you
haven't given me my five cents yet to
send to the heathen." 81 have just
given it to the heather, myself, Tommy,
That conductor charged me full fare for
YOU. Chicago Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12

What an age is this in which we
live! Even princes must be philan-
thropic or they are looked down upon.
It is in the air; it is the correct thing; 1t
is good form; it is the popular fad. Good
will to men has become fashionable.
Now, while this is not the highest mo-
tive, it is better to have loving kindness
a matter of etiquette than not to have 1t
ut all, for it mellows ones nature, and
lifts him up to higher things. To have
1t said of lady that she lives for her
self is to make her unpopular. This
was not so a generation back.-Union
Signal.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12

Some men are d1sastrously supersti-
tious. A Burlington swain came to the
determination to propose on certain
evening. Entering the parlor in consid-
erable trepidation, he picked up book
and glanced at the title page. 1t was a
cpoy of Don't" He didn't, and on the
very next afternoon his girl consented
to be Mrs. Somebody Else.-Burlington
Free Press.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12

"A newpost-oflce in Illinois has been
named LA Grippe" 1t must have taken
great influenza to procure the selection
of that name.-Watchman.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12

Chicken pie is dangerous thing for
New Englanders in the West, because
they do not perforate the crust out
there, and a whole dinner party was
made i'll by the fatal gas that gathered
on the wish-bons Of the fewL-Boston
Transcript.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12

"A woman who worked in General
Knox's family still lives in Maine at the
age of ninetv-three.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12

In connection with the immediate
cause of George L. Fox's death it is a
strange coincidence that several Amer
lean clowns, and at least one English
pantomimist, have all died insane.
Hitherto the belief among professionals
has been that the quantity of bismuth
used in making up" particularly in
America, where the hair is cropped close
and the bismuth rubbed into the side of
the head, had a great deal to do with
the disease. But one old pantomimist
still living solemnly attests that, so far
as his experience went, the bismuth not
only left his faculties unimpaired but
had the merit of healing sores and cracks
in the skin.-Gentleman Magazine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-12

PLENTY of them. Their worst foes
are wasps. A certain family of wasps-
the sort that makes mud cells under the
caves of houses-always fills its cells
full of spides The waspof this variety
catches spider often much heavier and
bigger than itself, and first stings 1t
into insensibility. The spider thus
stung is rendered senseless, but not
dead; it is put into state of coma
which lasts for long time, so that at
the end of from one to three days the
spider is still asleep, as it were, though
living. After thus rendering the spider
helpless the wasp lays an egg on its
body; the egg matches out, and the
young larva feeds on the body OF the
spider until it is ready togo out and see
the world. This is natures way OF re-
producing that kind of wasp. In South
America monkeys eat spiders, and here
some mice do so also, as well as snakes,
turtles and birds.
There are very few collections OF
spiders in this country; the one at the
National Museum is as yet an embryo.
There are probably 5000 varieties OF
spiders in the United States. l have
got together in my collection about 1000
varieties Most spiders are soft, and
when dry they have shrunk so as 70 De