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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26
Discoveries on Mercury.

Some very interesting discoveries
have lately been made on the planet
mercury by Schiaparelli, the great
Italian astronomer Such remarkably
acute eyesight has this man that he is
able TO discover spots on the planet
where other astronomers see only a
blank surface. By watching and
studying these spots during a period of
several years, Schiaparelli was able to
determine the time of rotation of the
planet on its axis and the angle which
its equator makes with the plane of
its orbit. Schroeder a hundred years
ago, noticed a bunting Of the horns
of the planet when crescent, and from
these observations Herchel computed
that the planet revolved once in
t~wenty-four hours. Schiaparelli's OBJ
servations show this TO be entirely
wrong, for he observed the spots re-
peatedly on the same day without see
ing any signs Of rotation. However,
from day TO day he noticed a slight
change in the position Of the spots,
and finally found that the planet re-
volved on its axis in the same time
that it rotated around the sun, i. e., in
about lightweight days. 1t, there
fore, always turns the same surface
toward the sun, just as our moon does
toward the earth. New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26

At O'Clock yesterday morning the
scholars were pouring into the Cot
tage Grove school, which is located
on Thirty-fifth street, near Cottage
Grove avenue. Just before the hand
met the even hour there came the
banging of gongs in the street. An
alarm Of fire had been turned in and
the hose cart, engine and marshal's
wagon tore by the school house. The
tide turned. The scholars who were
going in swung around and started on
a run after the fire apparatus. Teach
ers rushed to the windows and called a
halt, but in vain. Nothing could stem
the tide. The principal rushed out to
the door and welded the big bell Wig
orously, but evidently he was not in it,
as he received no attention. Every
m was on the run in the wake of the
iiremen. II was a false alarm, as it
usually is in that neighborhood, and,
after seeing the boysin blue rake down
their fires, the scholars strolled back
to the school house. There were too
many delinquents TO discipline and
they took their seats without a word
of correction. AT recess the largest
m in the school yard was the boy
who had talked toa friend on the hose
cart. That was my friend. Jerry
Quinn" he said, loftily; and his
friends envied him greatly. C Chicago
Herald
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26
A God That Ara.

The joss who lives in 16 Mott street,
New York, lisa fine looking fellow, with
a mustache and chin whiskers like
lunches of horse hair. His people,
once every week, supply the table in
front of the shrine where he hangs
with all the delicacies of the season.
Until two months ago joss was sup
posed TO stay his appetite by inhaling
the aroma of the feast and the smoke
of the incense. Every Sunday the
stale visnds were replaced with fresh
food.
One Sunday when the attendant ex.
amined the table he found that half of
the roast pig had been devoured. He
almost fell on the floor with surprise
and fright. He looked out of the cor.
ner of one Of his eyes at joss. half ex
pecting to see him move; but 10: even
a blink of Joss slant eyes was notice.
able.
The food was there for Joss, and he
had a right to eat it if he wanted. But
such a thing had never been heard of
before. Week after week the food dis.
appeared and the attendant went
around among his friends and told
them the marvel.
The new mayor and high priest Of
Joss determined to make an investiga-
ton Accompanied by his secretary
and the whole Chinese police depart
ment, composed of n man, Foo Yeh,
he went 10 the temple. He searched
all the hooks and crannies of the
shrine. One or two reaches ran over
the carved gilt work, and "A big gray
whiskered rat fled across the floor aud
struggled through a hole in the cor.
ner. As the mayor turned around he
saw sticking out from under the satin
robe that covers the sacrificial table a
human foot.
''Ai va" he shouted, pointing at the
row Of toes. TO Ia loo la gay val,
yah" or words TO that effect. The pc.
lice and secretary came up, and in an
instant the curtain was withdrawn.
Under the table lay a wretched, rag.
ged heather asleep, and by his side
was the half eaten ham of "A roast pig.
What you do herel" asked jew
Shing Pom, the mayor, waking him
up. Come, go out OF here"
MY 60 out. My belong alice samee
M piece joss. What for my 60 outi"
His name was All Jim, and he show
ed fight. 1t was evident hat he was
demented. A policeman was SEN for
and All Jim was arrested. New York
Sun.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26
From Five Points-

For really gentle, girlish grace and
refinement would you be apt to look
in the neighborhood Of the VIGOROUSLY
rough and tough Five Points. Hardly.
Yet here is a c~uriously contradictory
case. A professional gambler, and
ward politician, "a nan of inflooence"
in that quarter, had pretty daughter.
She vas literally reared in the slums,
and, although she went away for edu-
cation, her social connections were
with people congenial to her repre-
hensible sire. A year ago she made
her debut as an actress. Her father
had long been a butt for printed ridi-
cule, and 80. when she was announced
to act at a Bowery theatre matinee, fun
vas anticipated. But she acquitted
herself SO respectfully that nobody
laughed at her, and the affair was not
noticed by the press. Well, / went
last night TO see q beautiful and elab-
crate production of Shakespearian
comedy in a fashionable Broadway
theatre. and there was the Five Points
girl enacting a dainty and difficult
character in the incest, neatest man
ner imaginable. Every word that she
uttered and every movement that she
made was an expression of ideal gen.
tility. She was just the sort of girl
of whom you would say, in case you
believed any Of the nonsense about
high born estheticism, here is a daugh-
ter of well bred generations.-Miss
Lookabout's New York Letter in Bos-
ton Herald.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26
His Residence.

Sentiment and poetry are good in
their place, but the best of things r
sometimes misapplied. Good rhetoric
may be very poor history.
"Where did George Washington
live, after he retired from public lifea'
asked the teacher.
No one seemed to know.
WAS ii at Washington or Mount
Vernon suggested she.
Still there was no reply.
Come children" she insisted,
''Some Of you must know
II know, teacherl' piped up the
smallest scholar. He lived in the
hearts Of his countrymen. "-Harper's
Young People.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26
A RINGER ON HIM.
A Pretty Tough Yarn Of Did Times on
the Great Lakes.

A Pretty Tough Yarn Of Old Times on
the Great Lakes.
Talking of life p~reservers, said the
truthful mariner. AS he knocked the
ashes out of his pipe, you remember
the old steamer Roustabout that used
to run from Buffalo 10 Chicagol /
was mate on her the year before she
was lost. We were about sixty miles
out of Chicago when Mike Lana
gan, who was doing something Oh the
mast fell, struck his head on the roof
of the cabin. and bounced clean out
into the lake. Well, the captain he
see him fall, and he stopped and back
ed that old Roustabout quickr'n you
could say Scat Mike went down
like a plummet, for he was knocked
insensiblc, and l know'd there was no
use to hcave a life preservcr for him,
SO just hurried up the boysin getting
the boat down. although didn't ex-
pect it nd do much good. We had Jim
King on board. Passenger from Chi
cago. You remember Jim King. don't
your
Cant say that | do" remarked a
bystander.
well, Jim was the champion quot
thrower in those days. He's dead
now, poor fellow, but Jim was a boss
on throwing quoits. ! tell you quoits
Yer a great game in them days.
Every village had a quot club and the
boys on the farms used to throw boss
shoes. 1t was something like base
ball in these times. although | never
could see as much fun in baseball as l
could in a good game of quoits."
'Oh, come Off" cried the impatient
listener. What did Jim do, or did
he do anythingl Did the man drownl"
"Now, don't be fly. Who's tellin'
this yarnt"
well. you don't seem to be-"
$50 on! Go on" said the crowd.
well, you know, i'm quoits a
ringer was when you put the quot
around the stake. Ii counted double.
Well, Jim he picks up the round life
preserver-it's like IA great big quot,
you know-and AS the cap'n came run
ming aft, Jim sings out: 'Cap'n, I'll bet
you IS Ill make a ringer on that man
if he comes up within the length of
this line
Bet you SEQ you can't said the
cap'n:
Take you, said Jim, and just at
tibet mint up hobs Mikes head about
sixty feet astern. Jim threw it, and
I'll be burned if that life preserver
didn't 60 plump over on Mikes head
clear down on his shoulders, and there
it stuck. We got down a boat and
when We got TO Mike he hadn't come
70 yet, and didn't for some time after.
He'd been a goner il it hadn't bin fur
that ringer, although it took the skin
often his nose"
did the captain pay the S20f"
PAY in You jist bet he did. And
Jim he handed it over to Mike, and
Mike blew it all in when we got to
Detroit. New York Dispatch.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26
Human Hair Imbedded In a Tree,

While workmen were engaged in
telling a huge old hickory tree ON the
property of Mrs. j. II. Ogden, in
Springfield, Pa, they came upon a
lock Of hair deeply imbedded in its
trunk. An auger hole had been bored
into the heart of the gigantic hickory
and the curly lock placed therein. The
hole had then been plugged up. This
strange find is considered a relic of su-
perstition. Old residents take it to be
the last remnant of one Of Black
Jake's' spells, who employed this Gu
rious remedy 10 cure fits. The old ne
gro lived in Darby about seventy years
ago, and his numerous queer whims
have been often told. A series Of
poems by Halliday jackson some years
ago pictured his mysterious healings.
Washington Star.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26

Buenos Ayres seems 10 have the
largest rocking stone" yet discovered.
Il q situated on the slope Of the noun
tain Of Tandil, in the southern part OF
the province, and measures 90 feet
long by IS feet broad and - feet high.
In bulk Ia 5000 cubic feet, and Il
weighs ut least IS tons. Nevertheless,
Il IL NO touchily poised that a single
person can get It rocking. Whom The
wind blows from the southeast the
Stone, which 10 pyramidal in form,
sWays TO and fro on IL foundatzon
Nks the branches Of q trse.-Nsw
,York Telegram.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26
How 10 Enjoy Winter Baths,

Probably nothing is 50 neglected
during winter time as bathing. There
is a natural dislike TO bathing when
one gets chilled afterward. This could
be avoided, writes a doctor in The
London Lancet, il bathrooms were
heated all the time, not just when one
wants TO battle, but continually dur
ing the day and evening. The trouble
Of starting a fire often deters one from
taking a bath. The bathrooms should
be heated very warm, not merely
enough TO take the ''chill off the air"
but enough TO prevent the bather re-
ceiving a chill after his bath, and 10
permit him to battle without hurry
ing.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26

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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26

'In Scotland" said 4 dentist, who il
q native Of the land Of the heather,
''thers are many people who do not
know who or what dentist Ia. But
canned fruits are being introduced
there, and 40 destructive are they upon
the teeth that many more people will
require the services OF q dentisf."-De-
tro1t Free Press.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26
Famed for 20 Years
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commissioner

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which msy be presented a. our counters.
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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26

Ny disease (psorissis, FIRST broke gu on my left
cheek, spreading across my nose, and almost
covering my face. II ran lotto my eyes, an, the
physician was afraid ! would lose my ~eyesight al
together, 10 spread all over my head, and my
hair al fell out, uni ] was entirely bald headed;
Il then broke out on my AIMS and shoulders, until
my arrs we're Just one sore. IL covered my en-
tire body, my face. head and shoulders being the
worst. The white scsbs Eel constantly from my
head. shoulders and arms; the skin would thicker
and be We y red and itchy. aud would crack ana
bleed ~ scratched. Amer spending ma " hundreds
Of dollars, ! was pronounced 1 durable. heard
Of the Cuticura Remedies. and after using two
pottles Cuticura Resolyent, ! could see n
change; and amer ] had taken four bottles, | was
al most cured; and wnen I had used six bottles Of
,Euticura Resolyent an one box Of Cutlcura,
and one cake of Cuticuras soap, ] was cured Of
the dreadful dlsosse from which had sui red for
i've years. / thought the disease would ic We a
very deep scar. but the Uuticura " smedies
cured Il without ny scars. cannot express with
q pen what I suffered before using the Cuticura
Remedies. They ssyed my life, aud ] feel 1t my
duty 10 recommend III. m, Ny hair IL restored %
good a. ever, and 20 IL my eyesight ] know Of
othen who have received great benefit from their
use.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26
Scaly Skin Diseases.

Psoriasis s years, covering face. head, aud
entire body with white scabs. skin red,
itchy. and bleeding. Hai~ nil gone
spent hundreds of dollars. Pronounced
ibcurabir. Cured by Cuticura Remedies.
Cured bv CufiCura.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-03-26
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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-01-03

MORGAN CITY, La, Dec. PA
committee of colUred citizens, headed
BY F. NJ. Tucker, met this evening at
the court house in the Interest of law
and order. Mayor Wise and Council
men Shannon, Alter, Lehman and Mills
were present, and to them, in their Of
fetal capacity, the committee presented
petition signed by large number
of the respectable eolored men of the
town, praying that protection be given
them by the aforesaid mayor, council
and white citizens Of the town of Nor
gan City, La. Upon motion to that
effect resolution was passed, asking
the mayor to appoint a Committee of
twenty white citizens, whose duty it
shall be 10 secure the required enforce
ment of the law, and to promptly put
down all regulating or kindred viola
tiOns OF the laws of the State. Mayor
Wise will announce the names of the
gentlemen composing the committee
tomorrow. A large number of lead
ing merchants and citizens were pres.
ent, and the object of the meeting was
aPplauded, and assistance guaranteed
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-01-03
EQIaIEz E-Rl ) 90 80 ! oY.

u
a short time since, we directed at
laution 10 4 call from the polsae jury
1f Gaddo for q convention 10 Be held
il Baton Rouge on the 9th DAY 81
February, 1890, to Be eompoaed oi
the different parish assessors, and one
delegate from each parish, selected
hy The respective police iaFies q
egnalize assessments. We are nov
ii receipt of letter from ]. n. Eos
teE, president ofPolioe jury Of Daado.
fixing the day Of the convention on
she 28th Of January.
We heartily endorse this plan for
eqaalizing assessments throughout
rnral Louisiana.
The EcHo has called attention to
this important matter several times IN
the past, and has recommended Just
such q plan. Senator C. P. Hampton
Of Calcasien, being impressed with the
Practicability of the plans suggested
by the Echo introduced q joint reso-
lntion al the LAST session of our state
Legislature, setting forth about the
same plan Of operation which, how
ever, dad not become law.
Every citizen of the state should
pay the same proportion of taxation
on property of same real value. All
the assessors, together with the and
of an equal number of delegates dis
interested in commissions ought to be
able 10 agree upon a fair and equit-
able basis of assessment, and the
police juries by maintaining them
will make the equalization effective.
We would recommend, not to our
own police jury alone, but TO those Of
the entire state, to make the appoint
ment of one of their best and fairest
minded citizens, who will attend this
meeting, not as representative only
of the parish from which be is selected,
but as one desiring and competent to
do his duty 10 every part of the state
in fixing a uniform value on all prop |
erty to be assessed; and we feel safe in |
saying that the effort will be crowned !
with success.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-01-03

The United States Mutual Accident
Association of the city of New York,
the large t, cheapest and most success
full Association in the world is pre-
pared to substantlate the following
statistics:
Ist That every thirteenth man that
dies between the ages of l8 and G5
years, dies from the effect of an acct
dent.
2nd. That every seventh man be-
tween said ages will, every scar, re-
ceive disabling Injuries from the eff-cts
of accidents-aDdt that the money value
OF his time will be affected by the
same
Bird, That every man is "a times
more liable to receive injuries than his
property is liable to be destroyed by
fire-and where is there good busi-
ness man who has a good dwelling
store or other persishable property
who does not have it insured against
fire ? Yet, Accident Insurance is "a
times better than Fire Insurance.
4th. That no iudicious man, in the
face of these facts, who has life
policy, and will be sure to Join the
United States Mutual Accident Asso.
citation.
9th. That the commercial traveller,
who travels all the time, is as good il
not better risk than the lawyer, doc.
tor clergyman, merchant, editor, book.
keeper, clerk or any other professional
or business man who stays at home
yet more than twenty thousand Icom.
mereial tourists are members of the
United States Mutual Accident Asso.
citation Of the city of New York.
Members and good local agents are
wanted everywhere for this Association,
and should apply to /. I'll. billiard,
| General Southern Agent, Lock Box
645, New Orleans, La. or Harry @.
Bladder, Local Agent.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-01-03
Rather startling.

CoEooRp, N. H., December g..
Governor Goddell today issued the
following extraordinary proclamation:
Sin view Of the various helnons crimes
which have been committed ID our
state within the last few weeks, d.
reetly traceable to the ase of intoxi
eating liquors, IN the sale of which the
criminal laws have been hagrantly
violated. RoR, therefore, I warn al
persons engaged III this illegal and
deadly traffic to desist therefrom i'm
rnediately, and / call upon the AL
torney general of the state, solicitors
and sheriffs Of counties, mayors OF
cities, and selectmen aud AT better
Officers throughout the state, and
upon all good citizens Of every party
70 unite II one supreme effort 10 closp
np and suppress every liquor saloon
of every description within onr Dor
deTs. Let no gpiltg man escape.
1he numerous decisions of 0nr III
preme court attest the oonsiitniionality
of the pFohibitory liquor laws. u /
them be vigorously enforced thai
our people may enjoy the great bene
lita which are sure 10 follow, and
cannot refrain from nrging iii
churches, temperance organizations
aud All persons who desire tbe besl
good of our commonwealth Ia Fed0nbIe
4hniF lfftskfs Il : 4, ". n i, II II II
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-01-03

Mr. j. S. Bailey, of this place, has
invented a car coupler which, he
claims, will work a revolution in the
present clumsy method of coupling
cars. He has made a model which
works perfectly. 1t is a simple con,
trvance and seems to have been
constructed on correct mechanical prin-
clples. If it will work as effectively
on long train of cara and prove to
be durable, he has undoubtedly a Tor.
tune in his grasp. He has filed the
necessary caVeat before a justice-of-the
peace to protect his Crowley
.SiqnaL.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-01-03


The Times Democrat of the 9th
inst, gives a luminous description of
a gigantic scheme originated by Capt.
Fl. G. Parson, of Virginia, being no
less than the construction of q railroad
to the heart of South America, from the
Port of Carthagena, on the Caribbean
Sea--which the Spaniards formed,
many years age, into a noble harbor,
by the expenditure Of s58, 100000
along the eastern slope of the Andes
and across the nayigable headwatera
of the Amazon and its tributaries, for
q distance of over 1000 miles, 10 a
| point where it will be connected with
roads leading 10 the chief CHILEAN and
Peruvian ports on the south Pacific
and with the ports Of Buenos Ayrei
on the south Atlantic; from Cartha
gena TO Florida, and New Orleans By
steamship lines, making the TINT
| from Lima on the Southern Pacific K
New York nine days The compan,
has been Incorporated at Richmond
Virginia, under the title Of Id,
Columbia Railway and Navigation
Company, with prospective capita
Of sl0o.oo0.0o
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1890-01-03
state News.

u
Strawberries are blooming in Calua
nieu.
Houma expects to have a foundr,
built By stock company.
Crowley boasts Of from rs 10 lOt
wagon loads Of rice daily.
Judge Cunningham. Of PINE Blnf
Arkansas, died suddenly last weei
If heart disease.
The Jennings Reporter says tina
neighborhuod has bought $4,000 worth
of frnit trees this season.
Morgan City bad rain on The 23rd
of December, tho only rain of any
consequence for four months.
Judge Irion has some imported
Dutsh belled cattle on his plantation,
said TO be the first brought into Louis
lana.
The citizens of Natchitoches are en-
desvoriBg 10 make the city more at
traetive by planting trees on the sides
of the streets.
The Jennings Cornet Band will
give fair and festival at that place
on New YEARS. Eve, and the evening
of January 2, 1890.
The poison in the Boeuf Bayou
water is now traced to a sugar re
tinery, in Rapides parish, from which
slush and refuse is drained into the
stream.
The Marksvillp Bulletin is authority
for the statement that the culored
woman appointed postmistress at
Eola, Ia, has declined to accept the
appointment.
The board of administrators of the
jackson Insane Asylum have invited
the press Of Louisiana TO visit the
asylum at the coming April session OF
the association, TO be held in Baton
Rouge.
Sam Knox committed snicide at
his home, in Caddo parish, last week.
Grief for death of his wife supposed
to be the cause. He was a Confed-
crate soldier under Gen. Jno. H.
Morgan.
A number of shooting ARRAYS are
reported among the negroes of Iberia
parish. Among others the waylaying
Of Ar. Charles AguiIIard, who was
shot and wounded near Jeanerette, by
q negro last week.
White men, strangers TO the
neighborhood, bnrglarized the Ham
nond, La, postoffice on the 23rd inst,
They were detected, but escaped,
away $3.50 IN money and a
watch, and leaving in their fight an
1vercoat and tools. On same night,
23rd inst, W. W. Pages store was
broken open, at Robeline, La, and a
ot of merchandise carried off.