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A Ghn.IlN Di.coNerN.

PoRTLASD, Maine, July D.-Charles
Thompson's wife and sous OF Great Che
beaguc island. report that yesterday while
berrying in Goose island near Chebeague,
they came across the remains of the
bodies 81 two children. Dn rock were
four hands and four feet recently cut OH
A large fire had been built near 10y and
IN the charred wood were the bones. as IL
the children's bodies had been burned.
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Dnkotu Democrats,

GRAND Forks, July 30.-ln the state
democratic convention this evening a per-
manent organization was perfected.
There was fierce fight over the nomina-
tons and at late hour the convention is
still ia session. Captain Burk IL Fargo
was nominated for governor, Roger Allen
for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and y. II. John
son for congress, the present incumbent,
Hansbrough being knocked out.
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A Bit OF Ru.-iaa Tyranny.

From In. New York sun.
The curious instance Of n man having
to serve two terms in lhe. ARMY n reported
Ia the Listok of Minsk. A man of the
name Of Levin was To present himself for
military service in lss5, hut he did not ap-
pear, and the local authorities did not
know where To look for him. Accordingly
he was stricken from the list of that body.
But two years later he was found in
Odessa, aud singulnrly enough he had his
regular passport, and has never tried to
conceal his whereabouts. He is "a mar
ried man and has three children. When
the police discovered him and brought
INN 10 his native city. tile military author
III, OF the place, acting under a senator
ial law. put him in the army
and deprived him OF the privileges that
arJ granted To married soldiers, be-
cause he had absented himself at
the first call. Levin, however, proved TO
be good soldier. He passed the military
school with credit, and was made a sub
officer for excellent service and good be-
hnyior. His term expired this year. Now
the local authorities put in claim that he
must serve new term as a citizen of their
government, since his name had been
stricken from the rolls IN 1885 as an alb
sentec. The term which he had served
did not count, since he had been put in
the army by order of the military authori-
ties and not In the regular order as "A citi-
zen. He was accordingly initiated as n
new recruit with all the formalities of the
law, his previous attainments as good
soldier counting for naught. Levin must
now begin again from the very bottom of
the ladder, since his present enlistment is
under n law from which there is no ap-
| peal,
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WIN Try Another Trip.

TACOMA, Wash. July .D.-George Fran
els Train has made arrangements with
the Tacoma Le,iysr to make AN attempt
To beat the record for trip around the
world, He will leave Tacoma August Z
on the steamship China, and he calculates
he can make the circuit Of the globe in 81
lays.
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The Test of a Joke.

From the American Grocer.
Editor ito funny mani: "I'm afraid we
can't use any more of your paragraphs,
Mr.. Nelson; they fail To even raise .
smile lately.
Funny Man: well. you see, I'm not
concerned with that phase of the ques-
ton. They raise dollar apiece for me,
and that's quite satisfactory"
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THE GRAND OLD MAN.
He Makes Characteristic speech Buoy
ant With Hope.

NJ NHWFFN " HNHHfd'tFFfrtI0 NIbttfH 1UUy
ant With Hope.
LONDON, July Gladstone, speaking
at the National Liberal club tonight, said
there never had been n more distinct
proof that the national heart and mind
are with the liberals than has been af-
fortled since the assembling of
the present parliament. Regarding
the mission of General Simmons
to the Roman court. he saiu il
appeared TO he 10 induce the pope to prop
up the laboriDg and failing anti-lrish
party. Every one regarded the matter
with misgiving and suspicion, with doubt
and indignation and even with disgust.
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Disa.trous Hail storms.

CAssELToN, n. d., July 3.-The most
disastrous hail storm OF the season swept
over the southern part of the country to-
day. Strips of country four miles wide
and ten to twelve miles miles long were
almost entirely devastated of crops. A
dispatch from WI eatland re ports terrible
damage i'm that vicinity, the crops en- 5,OOl
acres of land being almost entirely ruined.
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Annual sal. at rair,i.w.

New IoRR, July 3o.-The sale of Charles
Reed a Sons Fairview stud for 1889 Of
~ colts and 81 illlies took place tonight,
the receipts aggregating nearly $4,000.
The bay iilly 10y imported Pickwick
brought =, 100 and other good prices were
paid.
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An Editor shot.

JACKSON, Miss. July 30.-State Senator
Joe W. Cutrer to-day shot and fatally
wounded Freeland Crew. editor Of the
Neic Codhomidh at Friars Point. No par
ticulars can be obtained except that Crew
had been assaulting Cutrer in his paper.
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ON THE DIAMOND.
IlrOtherhoo,l Games.

AT Pittsburg 3, New York 10,
first game.
At Pittsburg -Pittsburg 8, New York II.
second game.
At Cleveland-Clcvela .. Boston 4.
At Chicago-C Chicago D. Brooklyn q.
At BuiraIo-Buiialo 3, Philadelphia L..
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bankers for The Trust.

New YORK, July O.-Oiiicials of the
sugar trust announced to-day that Kid
den, Peabody q Co. had been selected as
bankers for the organization committee
and the firm had been added TO the COM
niittec.
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LONDON, July lU.-lt is the intention Of
the opposition 10 put numerous questions
to the government relative to the Behring
sea dispute when the vote for the foreign
office comes up.
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At Syracuse-Syracusc 1, 81. Louis 6.
At Rochester-Louisville game post
poned on account of rain.
Al Observation-Disclosures &, Toledo z.
At New York - Brooklyn ., Column
bus II.
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Missionaries la Russia.

ST. PErERsBUHC, July D.-Au ukase
has been issued forbidding further action
10y Protestant missionaries especially in
western Russia.
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Harrison win ~. There.

BosTuN, July D.-Presidcnt Harrison
has definitely promised the Grand Army
of the Republic committee to bc here
August L..
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l,,.. i,,iI Combination.

LOUISVILLE, KY. July O.-The repor
is current here that arrangements are be
ing made TO combine the Players Leagu,
aud the American Association.
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Paris Pointer.

PARIS, July D.-The postoilice officials
discovered to-day that l27,DcO francs had
been stolen from registered mail bag In
transit.
General Saussier, military governor Of
Paris, is dying.
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U.ip,op Chicago ou,.

SPRINGFIELD, July 30.-The senate this
afternoon refused 10 concur in one Of the
house amendments providing that any I'M
debtedness created shall be paid by Chi
cago alone. This will be reported back
Ia the house tomorrow.
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KANSAS Cry, July 3O.-Captain Phelan
said this afternoon that he was the man
who made the offer of 1900 men to Guate-
mala but lac had received no reply yet.
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Arknn.as nemncrui..

LITTLE Rock, Ark, July 3o.-The dem
ocratic convention for the second Arkan-
sas district to-day nominated Clifton and
Breckenridge for congress by acclaina-
ton. This is the district in which the
CLAYTON contest occurred.
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The I,oil.r I,ur-t.

GREESsBrRG, Ind, July 3O.-This morn
ing at sand Creek, a stone quarry, a
boiler exploded killing two men and in
Turing five others.
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Il.
At pittsburg-Pttsburg 5, New York
IA.
Al Cincinnati-Cincinnati o, Boston ?.
At ChicaRo-Chicago {, Philadelphia 8.
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After the War,

BUESos AYREs, July SO.-The city
quiet. Business is reyiving.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-06-20
The Japanese Fire BOX.

The hibachi is fire box, of which The
simplest form is that of square, or cir
cular, or oblong receptacle Of wood,
lined with sheet copper. Into this a
quantity of lime dust or sifted ashes is
put, ana on the top of that little pile of
lighted charcoal, which burns slowly
and steadily upon the fine ashes, giving
out heat, but not a vestige of smoke.
This is the primitive and plainest form
of the fire box" such as will be seen in
use for common purposes at railway sta
tions, in kuruma sheds, in wayside tea
houses and restaurants and in unpreten-
tious shops. But Japanese skill and
taste love to lavish themselves on this
central piece of domestic furniture, and
you see hibachis, accordingly, of all
FERNS and materials. Some are made of
hammered copper, or brass, or iron, with
patterns delicately and beautifully beaten
out Of the FURNISHED metal. Some l have
seen in great houses contrived from the
root of vast tree, the gnarled and knot
ted timber being laboriously followed
out and lined with copper, and the ex-
terror carefully polished to bring forth
the beauty of the grain.-Cor. London
Telegraph.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-06-20
Eisenbahns in the Air.

1t is worth a fortune and farm to
stand in Battery park and watch the
open mouthed immigrants as they first
emerge from the barge office and catch
their first sight of the trains on the ele-
waited railroads slowly putting around the
corner of State street.
The first thing that they do is to utter
an exclamation, each in the language Of
his or her birth, and then they stand still
and look with wonder upon this strange
sight, so familiar to you and me, of rail-
roads in the air, or rather railroads on
stills, TRANQUILITY doing business that
seems fated to end in destruction and
fall.
The wonder does not last, however, for
the strangers come to America expecting
to see sights foreign and curious. If
New Workers were accustomed to go
about their business on their heads
suppose these fellows would only stare a
few moments and then take it as a mat
ter of course. New York Herald.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-06-20
history and Mystery of the Comb.

1t would be curious to know what
mystic meaning our forefathers attached
to the simple act of combing the hair.
We learn from old church history that
the hair of the priest or bishop was
combed several times during services by
one of the inferior clergy. The comb is
mentioned as one of the essentials for use
during Il high mass when sung by a
bishop; mass combs of precious metals
are reckoned among the costly posses
sions of most European cathedrals. Be-
sides those made of gold and silver, the
poorer churches have them of ivory,
while in some the more common kinds
are used.
Among those especially known to his
tory are those of st. Neot, st. Dunstan
and Malachias. That belonging to ST.
Thomas, the martyr Of Canterbury, is
still kept in the church of st. Sepulcher,
Thetford; that of St Cuthbert, "the wo-
man hater," Mt Durham cathedral. From
sundry references in old legends to the
use of the comb in divinations, and from
its appearanceinc combination with pagan
emblems on rudely sculptured stones in
various parts of Scotland, it seems prob
able that this was one of the objects of
pagan veneration which early Christian
teachers deemed prudent to adopt, in
vesting it with some new significance
st. Louis Republic.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-06-20
philnsonlnr of Dining.

One of the old Greek philosophers was
once approached with the question as to
the hour of the day at which one should
take his dinner. The answer was char
acteristic. "If you are rich, said the
wise man, 'you will dine whenever you
please; if you are poor, whenever you
have anything to eat" This same phil
osophy seems to be accepted by the
Turks of the present time, Judging by
what Mr.. Barllley says of the practice
of this people
There is peculiarity about Turkish
cooking. Wherever you are, and at
whatever time of the day you ask,
"When will dinner be ready?' the answer
is always the same. ''In ten minutes" :"
and yet have had all sorts Of dishes on
the table at the same time. don't know
how it is managed, but think it is an
improvement on our English plan of hav-
ing to keep TO fixed hour. If no order
is given dinner is served as a matter of
course at suadown, and this habit is
usual among all classes.
We were somewhat surprised one day
at Chanthe, our Greek cook, asking,
"Please, sare, what time you eat your
dinner today" We answered, when
we are hungry"
"VeTa good, sare, COS me get one booful
dinner-ros' bif, sare. One buffalo he
fall over cliff last night and break him
neck"-Youth's Companion.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-06-20
BLACK SILKS.

VI every sort at very low prices. Every
piece was bought before the advance in
the price of silk. The same qualities
where anything like complete variety is
found will cost 25 per cent. more than
our silks cost you. Where will YOU buv ,
Black Surahs 45 cents yard, 80 cents,
TO cents and upward. A special "A inch
Surah at Sl.OO yard worth S1.25.
Gros Grains at 60 cents and inward
A "A inch Gros Grain at 95 cents a yrt
that cannot possibly be sold, if perfect for
cent less, except at loss. 1t is worth
every penny of one dollar and fifteen
cents. Equally good bargain in Black
Gros Gram Silks at S1.0O and 81. 25.
Black Faille Francaisse at s. cents and
upward, and the best "a inch Faiue ever
sold at S1.00, S1.25 and S1.5O ward.
27 inch Black India Silks at 75 cent,
S1.OO, S1.15 to $3.50 yard.
All other Silks and Dress Goods in
largest quantities at lowest prices
samples cheerfullY sent upon request to
any address.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-06-20

The camanba is certainly wonderful
tree, according to report made to the
state department by Consul Burke, Of
Bahia. 1t grows in the northern states
of Brazil near the Amazon river Every
part of it-root, rootlet, branch and trunk
lis available; it is Indispensable for the
natives in building and roofing their huts,
making fences, etc, while the articles
made FROM it supply them with food,
light and medicine. 1t is a species of
palm tree and grows in dry, sandy soil.
The bulb (the size depending upon the size
of the tree) is strongly farinaceous, and
when dried and ground produces kind
of farischa used for food by the natives,
while the rootlets of the bulb are used
for medicine, possessing strong cathar-
tic property.
The trunk, while the tree is young,
contains soft oleaginous substance,
something like marrow; this is good food
for cattle, sheep, goats and hogs. After
the tree attains a growth of several years
the trunk becomes very hard and can
then be used for building purposes. The
lower part of the branches, which grow
to a length of to 10 or 10 feet, are chiefly
used for fences. They are wide and fiat
at the bottom and tapering toward the
top, with short, hard and very sharp
thorns at the edges, in appearance not
unlike the mouth of asaw fish. The fence
made from this material is very strong.
The leafy part of the branch. when
cut and sun dried, gives an emulation
which appears on the fan like leaf or
blade 1t is tenacious substance pos
sessing properties very similar to bees
wax. This wax is extensively used for
making candles. The leGf or blade has
a fiber from which hats, mats, baskets,
rope, brooms, busters, etc., are made.
When the emulation is scraped from the
blades of palm the branches are used for
roofing huts and small houses and for
protecting brick walls from the fierce
rays of the sun, as well as from the rain.
The fruit of the tree is sweet and palata-
BILE. The kernel or seed is pounded to
powder and used in infusion in place of
coffee.-Chicago Herald.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-06-20
An Amateur.

1t was Saturday evening, and the FAM
ily, as they were accustomed ON that
day, sat down to meal of baked beans.
The Frenchman, who was a guest, was
asked by the hostess: "Are you fond of
baked beans, Monsieur du Crapaud?
"Ah," said the Frenchman, with a
shrug of his shoulders, an inclination Of
his head to one side and raising of his
eyebrows, Il do eat ze baked beans, but
am not amateur of zeml"
All the family looked puzzled by this
remark, and little Tommy, who sat at
the foot of the table, could not restrain
his curiosity.
"Oh, Monsieur du Crapaud!" he ex-
claimed, docs that mean that you are a
professional baked bean eater?"
Tommy had heard the word amateur"
used simply to mark the difference be-
tween those who followed any sport or
occupation for pleasure and those who
followed it to make livelihood out of
it. To him amateur" had no other
meaning; and if M. du Crapaud was not
an amateur Of baked beans he must
be a professional.
The Frenchman, on the contrary, used
the word as meaning lover of an art or
anything else whatsoever, or one having
special knowledge of it. To be an anna
teur with him signified very much the
same thing as what is ordinarily ex-
pressed by the other French word con-
noisseur. If he had said that he "was
not connoisseur of, baked BEANS" he
would not have been understood by
Tommy, perhaps, but he would not have
been so radically misunderstood. -
Youths Companion.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-06-20
90 FISHES FEEL PAIN.
A Fisherman Believes That They Are Not
Sensible to Pain.

Fisherman Believes That They Are Not
Sensible to Pain.
A writer in Forest and Stream says:
have read many articles on tho subject
Of whether fish, when caught on the
hook, feel any pain or whether their
struggles Were merely the result of find
ing themselves fast. fish great deal
in the summer months for trout, bass
and pickerel and have done so for years.
have studied the matter very carefully
and have made up my mind from vari-
GUS incidents that have come under my
observation that fish are not sensitive to
pain as are warm blooded animals. ]
will cite two instances that show to me
plainly that | must be right in my con-
clusions on this subject.
Last October, while fishing for pickerel
on Lake Cary, Wyoming county, Pa, in
company witha companion, among other
fish that we caught was pickerel that
would weigh nearly, if not quite, three
pounds. My friend pulled it up and as
it came on to the top saw about twelve
feet of very coarse brown line hanging
to it. Upon inspecting it more closely /
found that the fish had in its side very
strong and coarse hook, to which the
piece of line was attached. The wound
must have been made very short time
previous to our catching the fish, for it
was bleeding quite freely and looked
very fresh, and if the fish could feel pain
it would certainly have deferred it from
taking our hook so soon after such an in
jury. There was only one other party
fishing on the lake that day, as it was
cold and windy, and that pickerel must
have received his injury from them and
have come nearly across the lake to us,
dragging that piece of heavy line with
him.
The other instance occurred in this
way: was fishing with skipping bait"
most of your readers know what this is:
a piece of pork rind or pickerel belly
and had with me friend who, though
he coald handle brigade under heavy
fire, was not up to the trick of catching
fish that way. was having fairly good
sport, but he got impatient, and finally,
when he had good strike, he jerked so
hard as to break his line, and away went
the fish, and he at once proposed to go
home, but told him in joke if he would
wait five or ten minutes l would catch
that fish and get back his hook. So we
sat down and had a short smoke. Isoon
comm5 rcel to cast my hook near where
he los, 49,. fish. had a strike, and to
our mu.r.l surprise out came the gen
erals fsh, With his hook well fastened in
its month. Now, don't think the fish
would have taken the bait so soon again
had it been in any pain from the hook.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-06-20
The Value of Sincerity.

Though a man must be sincere in or
der to be great, he need not be great in
order to be sincere Whatever may be
the size of our brain, the strength of our
powers, the talents of any kind with
which we are gifted, sincerity of heart,
or Of belief, or of life, is possible to us
all. 1t is of itself a kind of greatness
which, in spite of many other draw
backs, will make itself felt. The hon
est, upright man, who lives openly, fear
lessly and truly, protesting only what he
feels, upholding only what he believes
in, pretending nothing, Disgusting moth
ing, deceiving no one. claims uncon-
sciously respect and honor that we can
not give to any degree of power or abil-
ity welded with duplicity or cunning.
If we could correctly divide the world
into the sincere and the insincere, we
should have much truer estimate of
real worth than we generally obtain
New York Ledger.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-06-20
An Extraordinary Irisbman,

Dion Boucicault, who is as clever as
he is erTatic, is now in his 6Sth year,
though he says that he has lived at least
ten centuries. 1t is thirty-seven years
since he came to this country, and dur
ing that period has, it is said, become a
citizen of the United States four times,
returning after each naturalization to
Great Britain to renew his loyalty to the
queen. Up to date the number of pieces
he has written, translated and adapted
for the stage is about 1S0 Although it
has been customary to speak of him as
an inimitable plagialist, he has done a
great deal of original work, notably in
such dramas as London Assurance" F"
''Old Heads and Young Hearts," "The
Octoroon," "Arrah nah Pcgue," "The
Rapparee" and The Sh2ushraun." On
the other hand, for him to call himself
the author Of Used Up" Louis XI, :"
''The Corsican Brothers" Faust and
Marguerite" when the originals are so
well known. is degree of astonishing
impudence tha: might be styled Bouci-
caultisIn.
1t usel to be asked, when it was men
toned that Boucicault bad written a
new play, Whose play has he written?"
and not without modicum of justice.
If he borrows literally, if he appropriates
wholesale, it is not because he lacks in
vention and ingenuity, of which he has
abundance, but because he wants to
make money, He has gained half a
dozen fortunes, and lost them all.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-06-20

II don't know" said Willie Wishing
ton, "whethah I'm popular with the
young lady on whom l called lawst
night oh not"
why" inquired the friend 10 whom
he was speaking.
81 had been there an ouah, when she
said: Well, Mr.. Washington, we have
had delightful evening, haven't weT"
"That was encouraging"
"Ya-a-s, but it happened that I had
the toothache, you know, and hadn't said
fouah wohds the whole evening, don't
you know. ."-Washington Post.