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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

The balloon ascension and parachute
leap advertised here for Monday evening
by Professor George Baldwin, was a to-
tai failure.
Geo. Watson came over from Crystal
Falls on Saturday, spent Sunday with
his wife and returned on Monday.-Re-
public Sun.
Pat. Moloney's Irish Comedy Co,
which is said Co I've "a first class show,
will play at the opera house next FRI
day evening.
s. ID. Hollister. Jr., is remodeling the
second story Of his superior avenue
building and will have nice living apart
ments therein.
Mrs. John Cassidy returned to herhome
AT Watcrsmeet Monday, after visit oi
three weeks with her parents, Mr.. ara
Mrs. Pat. Behan.
Lewis < Co. = Inter-Ocoan circus have
nitched their tents ON the ball grounds
They showed last night TO a big audience
and gave satisfaction.
A runaway team caused considerable
excitement, on Crystal auenne, last We'd
nesday. The carriage was badly dam
aged but no one was hurt.
Work ON the electric light plant was
commenced this week and the superin-
tondent in charge says the lights will be
hplow not later than August 10.
Mrs. julius Meislcr and daughter Ida
went TO Florence ON Saturday last 70
witness the balloon ascension. They alSe
spent rhefollowing day visiting relatives
Miss Edna Collctte. very cstimabl'
young lady, who resides at Green Bay, =
now enjoying horreIiat the Fortune chair
% hikes, tho guest OF the Mcsdan'es AT
kinsou and Himrod.
phil. J. McKcnnn, the bright young ecll
tor Of the Escanaba Mirror, Is fhe lathe
Of bouncing badly boy, and n conse
auence genial Phil. could not Way nor
than day with the press gant
supt. $. +. Beattie, Of the lorenc
Iron River Co., Florence, accdppanie
bv his vile, attended the banqtW g'ye'
the editors Of the Upper Pen'nfuln
Northern Wisconsin Press AssoVpuo
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Andrew Uren, Thomas Wills, George
Kitchen, Frank Waters, Ben. Moyle,
John Guerns and John Bowdon, who are
members OF the order Sons OF St George,
of this city, are in attendance nc the
grand celebration in 1ronwood to-day.
This is the orders second annual meet
and nothing other than high old time
will prevail The gentlemen representing
the lodge Of this city will return to-mor-
row evening.
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An Unfortunate Family.

One Of the twin girls OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Clash. and aged eight months died
ON Tuesday The interment occurred the
following day and the funeral services
were held in the Catholic church. The
other twin has also been dangerously il
this week. Brain fever is what they botl
struggled with. This is the second dealt
in the family within five weeks. The par
ents have the sympathy OF all.
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at the Lockwood house Wednesday even
ing.
Robt. F. Peak, the well known timer
for w. J. Moore 4 Co, has just turned
out "a fine piece OF work Tor J. r. Clancy.
II is a large Masonic emblem and IL to be
placed on the imposing front OF The Fair
building, in which are the Mason's lodge
rooms.
Thore were n large number OF people
from this place who visited Florence last
Saturday TO see the balloon ascension.
The exhibition there asagrand success,
and the people who made the trip to the
neighboring town felt well repaid Tor the
journey.
Masons and carpenters are going on
with the work OF completing A. Lust
fields great store building. The masons
nre placing brick and stone on the front
and the carpenters are finishing the inter
ior of the second story, which will be
when completed, the finest Masonic Tenn
ple the upper country can boast Of
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Bill Nye writes to the bald-headed man
who asks for his advice on hair restora-
tives, as follows; Take your hair restor-
ative money and buy town lot IN
growing town that supports irs home
paper and advertises, and go ahead, and
you will be fixed, and the man who Is fixed
don't care whether he has any hair or
not"
The diamond drill., 1890-07-26

The scandinavian benevolent society
now holds it's weekly meetings Sunday
instead OF Saturday as heretofore. This
insures a larger attendance and the soci-
ETY. is growing stronger at each meeting.
5 ince it's organization the lodge has done
much good and in several eases has ad.
ministered help 70 the needy. The names
OF the officers OF Den Skandinaviska
Help och Enighets Foreningen al Ameri-
ka are:
John Fisher, president.
Olol II. Olson, vice president.
DIR. Aug. Engstrom, chaplain.
Alfred BesgstrOm, secretary.
Charles Larson. cashier.
Frank Peterson, iinnnce secretary.
John HalIstrom, vice secretary.
.I0on Peterson, marshal.
j.. T. Smith, vice marshal.
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Ball Club at Last.

Clarence Carr has organized base ball
club. Arrangements have been made
with the Florence club and in all proba-
hility they will have "a nice game Tor to-
morrow. The Florence boys are 60
arrive here by teams and play in the
afternoon.
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CITY AND SUBURBS.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED IN AND
ABOUT A BUSY CITY.

THE SCANDINAVIAN SOCIETY AND irs Nfw
OFFICERS. THE LODGE DOING MUCH
oooD--MEMnEKs or THE LocALI.oDoE
SONS or ST. GEORGE N RoNwooD--A
CHILD DIES OF BRAIN FEvER-suGGEs-
TIVE REMARKS TO "BALDIEs" s"-IocAL
LORE IN LuAfPs
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Teachers desiring 10 be examined Tor
state certificates, as provided by Section
15. OF the Public Acts OF 1889, are in-
formed that an examination will be held
at Bay View. commencing at 2 o'clock,
D. m, Monday, August ] i, and continu-
ing for five days. Persons desiring 70
take this examination eau ascertain iull
particulars by addressing any mcmbcro ol
the state Board ~ Education, or
JOSEPH EsrABRocg, Lansing.
scc'y State Board OF Education
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A New Food Product,

Professor w. Rehnstrom, dairy instruc-
tor and agricultural engineer of Sweden,
has invented new food product which
he calls lactoserin. Skim milk is curdled
in the same way as commonly used in
cheese making, only that a larger guam
tity of rennet is used and at higher
temperature, SO as to make the precipita-
ton complete. To the whey thus OBJ
tanned is added an equal quantity OF
skim milk, and the bulk, through a sim
pie process of evaporation, is transformed
into solid cakes, which are afterwards
cut or ground and more or Jess roasted
to suit whatever purpose intended.-New
Orleans Picayune.
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season when Old Tip got on his ear and
wanted to smash things, his keeper
would say:
4 wish we could run the old man
into river somewhere and give him
another round or two with raft
''But the proprietors of the show
didn't wish for any thing of that kind.
1t took all the profits of the show for a
town or two to pay for Old Tips wreck
ing of the two RATS, and / don't know
how much for damage claimed by the
panic-Stricken crew. / left the show
that season, but, if I remember correct
ly, Old Tip subsequently succeeded in
killing that same keeper, and then was
killed himself. But he was great old
elephant, all the same."-N. Y. Sun.
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then concluded to risk the bridge. Tip
po seemed to divine his keepers inten-
ton, and then his contrary spirit came
uppermost. He Immediately made a
rush for the river and started for the
Pennsylvania shore at such a rate
that he almost drowned the keeper with
the water he splashed upon him. He
was mad all through. The bottom of
the river was rough and stony and
the uncertain footing added to Old
Tips fury. The river was at what thew
called rafting freshet The elephant
had got about half way across the
stream. trumpeting savagely and
deluging himself and all around him
with showers of water, when suddenly
raft hove in sight above the ford. 1t
bore Immediately down with its unsus-
pecting crew toward Tippo Sahib and
his mounted escort The ugly brute
saw the strengthening object ap-
preaching and he stopped and gazed at
1t with angry surprise. Tippo had
travelled bit in his day and seen a
great many curious things. but he had
never seen raft before He was in a
fighting mood and seemed to think that
raft OF logs was about the thing for
him to tackle just then. Waving his
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COMPLETE SELF-CONTROL.
One of the Fundamental Qualities in An
Large and High Success.

One or the Fundamental Qualities In ANY
Large and High Success.
There are few qualities which lie so
directly within the reach of every man
and woman, because so Immediately the
result of education, as self-control; and
yet there are few qualities which are
so generally lacking. Every body has
certain amount of self-con troll, but
there are many people who compensate
themselves for the repression of their
energies on one side by giving them
full play on another. Self-control means
the entire mastery of ones nature;
means always having in hand all ones
powers; means sitting on the box and
driving instead of being driven. The
absence of self-control is seen in many
small ways: In the unconscious rising
of the tones of voice in earnest talking;
in purely nervous gesticulation and
restlessness; in the inability to drop a
subject when we have gotten
through with it; in irritability,
and that subdued violence shown,
not in outbursts of temper, but in
little gusts of passion escaping here and
there. These are small things in them
selves, but many of them are exceeding
ly irri tating and disagreeable, and they
all involve really serious result-a
loss of nervous force. The heightened
tone of the voice, the incessant gesticu-
lation, the physical res uessness. are not
only unpleasant, but they involve just
so much needless expenditure of force
of which few of us possess a super
abundance. Complete self-control is one
of the fundamental qualities in any
large and high success; for complete
Self-cOntrOl means that one has ones
self comp letely in hand and is able to
address ones self exclusively to what
ever is necessary to be done at the mo-
ment. 1t is great mistake to infer
power from any kind of violence or rest
lessness. True power is allied with
composure. with calmness, with self-re-
straint; and real power is manifested
in restraint and composure and not
in violence of speech or action.
A man of nervous organization re-
Gently said that he had gained
immense benefit by simply watching
the modulations of his voice and per-
SA0oOhViJ IOoiooiho ohO W
run into high tones. He had found not
only relief for the vocal chords, but
steadiness and calmness of thought and
feeling which made him conscious of
the great blunder of wasting nervous
strength by suffering the vocal chords
to sympathize with an excited condition
rather than keeping them under steady
control. This is one illustration of the
possibility of overcoming the common
forms of nervousness. To "let ones
self go" is not only to lose force at a
particular point but to invite reaction
along the whole line of physical express
sion, and so to continually stir up and
agitate, instead of continually restrain
ing and calming. There are a great
many people who lay these minor faults
on the shoulders of nervous tempera-
ment, and who do not know that nerv-
GUS temperament under control, is
tremendous force, and that it is just as
susceptible of being governed by the
will as the grosser appetites or passions.
Christian Union.
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THE SCENE OF THE AGONY.
A Visit to Sorrowful Gethsemane in tn,
Nineteenth Century.

A visit to sorrowful Gethsemane in the
Nineteenth Century.
On the very lowest slope of the
Mount of Olives, deep down and un-
seen beyond the inclosing wall of the
temple area, lies the garden which is so
associated with the sacred story-Geth-
semane, the scene of the agony. Al
most opposite to it, on the other side
of the road which traverses the narrow
valley, is what is now called the Golden
Gate, supposed to have been the beau
tiful gate of the temple. 1t would be
the natural and nearest way by which
to reach that sacred retirement. By
this gate no doubt the betrayer and
his stealthy band would follow the
steps of the Lord to his favorite haunt,
stealing down under the twilight skies
to where the shade of the pale olives
sheltered his prayers and mysterious
anguish, and the troubled doing of
the disciples sleeping for sorrow, T"
confused by the strange, uncompre-
hended tide of events which was draw
ing their feet toward something they
knew not what. And by this path
again, no doubt, they led their prisoner
back, avoiding the peopled way, hurry
ing him into the stronghold of his enc
mics.
1t is said that there exists Moslem
tradition that by this gate the Messiah
is to ride into the holy place. taking
back his kingdom, and consequently
the precaution has been taken-a
curiously Intellectual one, considering
the greatness of the event-of building
up the gate. There is something even
in this superstition which is grateful to
the imaginative mind And the sim
gularly touching juxtaposition of the
temple gate and the garden gate is still
more memorable. Gethsemane itself,
a site about which there is no manner
of doubt, is now a garden of flowers,
protected by trim palings-a modern
garden, orderly and well cared for,
which gives a certain shock to the
mind, but rather for the first moment
than permanently. -Blackwood's Maya
zine.
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A Glorious State for Postum.

eyes, sir, it is fact, I and John Crane
were sitting by lightwood fire reading,
when / heard noise in the corner, and
on looking around saw an old 'possum
on the table eating our bacon. Yes, we
killed three the other night; have to club
EN- to keep 'em out of the house. There
must be hundreds of 'em on the island"
Thus spoke Mr.. Lewis Milan, who is
truck farming on Cranes Island, out in
Lake Hamilton. Georgia, in all her
primeval glory, sinks into nothingness
as a 'possum state when compared to
Florida.-Haines City Headlight.
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OUR GAME OF LIFE.

We each take turns upon an earthly field
Stand twixt the pitcher Life and catcher Death,
Within our hands the club of Destiny
Beneath our eager feet the diamond Ilopel
High or low ball? Shall the grim catcner'
Death,
Laugh at our whiZZing of the bat through spaco'
And Fate, the umpire, call us out on strikes
Before the first base of our youth is gained!
Or shall we touch the goal and laugh to scorn
The quick in-hurling OF the well sent ballY
Suppose we gain the first; a brother comes
And in his hand now lies our veal or woel
Should he by lucky chance, so WELD the pat
That the good bal shall soar DER fielders' heads
And lose itself midst mustard plant and dock
'Twere most miraculousl And we are wise
II, now, we watch with cool, unbllnklng eyes
The nearest short-stop, Necessity.
Home runs
But few of US NAV hope for; II we creep
From base to base and watch each wary chance
We're doing pretty toleraby well
To score on singles event Lucky we,
II liners fly not swift to fielders' hands
And send us to our durance on the grass
Where near by, Captain Cunning coaches men
The odds are great against us; for the ball
In taking downward curves escapes our sweep
And falls too often in the catcher's hands;
Or spite of all our efforts, is foul,
And we're caught out!
We ever start to play
The short nine innings of our little lives
With visions OF great BALLOT many flies
Lost in the ether blue of sunny skies,
And wake to sea daisy-cutter jump
Low toward the waiting fielder, circumstance
Oftimes the bats too heavy for our hands,
Or far too light for our great, Jealous strength;
And though the diamond lures US ever on
The dust we make in scrambling for each base
Fills our poor eyes and blinds us to our fate.
And when we stand erect and see again
The Grand Stand of this vast, terrestrial sphere.
Lo! one fine ball is safe within the hands
OF stern REORGANIZATION at our backs,
And our grim umpire, Fate, calls loudly
Out
Eva Best, in Detroit Free Press.
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Old Age at Last.

Well known phrases are sometimes SO
sad, SO mysterious in the minds of little
people who are making their first ac-
quaintance with grief. A child whose
dear grandpa had been taken suddenly
i'll was one morning asked by neighbor
if he were any worse.
II saw the doctor hurrying over to
your house little while ago." said the
good but thoughtless woman, ssand
thought your grandpa might be worse. !"
HE isn't that, said the little thing,
her lips quivering. Hes dead.''
dear, dear meI' cried the neighbor.
81 didn't know he was SO sick"
mamma said he had a cold last night, :"
explained the little mourner, ''and the
doctor said-oh. don't know just what,
but it was cold, and then old age set
in, and grandpa died"
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The Significance Of That Letter to n.
poleon's Meteoric Career.

Tno Si8nSncanC0 OF Ihat Letter to Ma
poleon's Meteoric Career.
The first onewh discovered Napoleon's
genius was Marbeuf in the College
Militaire. The battle of Marengo was
the first won by Gen. Bonaparte; upon
this Melas yielded his place in italy to
him. Later, one of his best generals was
Mortier, whose opposite, Napoleon's be-
trayer, was Moreau. Murat was the first
victim of his political Strategy. Maria
Louisa shared the time of his highest
fortune; Moscow became the scene of his
fall and Metternich vanquished him on
the battlefield of diplomacy.
Six of his generals (Massena, Mortier
Marmont, Macdonald, Murat and Mon.
cey) and twenty-six division generals had
the initial ''M' to their names. Maret
Duke of Bassano, was his truest adherer
Montalivet was his minister and his first
chancellor was Montesquieu. His last
residence in France was Malmaison. The
captains name who took him to st. He
lena was Maitland, and his companions
there were Montholon and his servant
Marchand.
The wife of Napoleon III was Mon
TITO and his most intimate friend was
Morny. The greatest triumph for him
and his army during the Crimean war
was the taking of Malatoff and Mamelon.
The names Montebello and Magenta
appear in the foreground in Italian war
Later it is MacMahon, who played one of
the most important roles during the
FrancO-German war and who was ap-
pointed Duke of Magenta by Napoleon.
Then we come to the epoch when Ma
poleon entered Maitland and shortly
after drove the Austrians out of Mari
ano. His greatest enemy was Mazzini.
After the battle of Solferino on the Min
clio, Napoleon closed the gates of Man.
tua. Then followed the sad affair of
Mexico and Emperor Macmillan.
In the year 1870 Metz was one of the
aims of the French operations. but being
driven back over the Moselle the DESTINY
of Napoleon found fatal conclusion at
Sedan, on the Moselle. Then followed
the capitula.ion of Metz, but all his dis
aster was brought about by the wisdom
of one of the greatest strategists of our
times and the German fatherland, Moltke
From the German.
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biggest and ugliest elephants ever ex-
hibited in this county. At the time l
speak of this elephant was travelling
with the Van Ambufgh show, which was
celebrated one fifteen or twenty years
chronic kicker, and stood no fooling
from any one. His trainer had to be
constantly on his guard, for the elephant
had disposed of one or two gentlemen
whose confidence in their pluck and
ability to handle Tippo had led them to
take charge of him, and he was plainly
keeping his eye out for an opportunity
to add another one to his score. Old
Tip never passed day without doing
something to keep up his record as a
pachyderm of strong individuality of
character, and the incident l am going
to relate was one sufficient in itself
alone to mark this elephant as beast
with ideas of his own and will mighty
enough to carry them into execution, no
matter what the consequences might be
to himself or to others.
"We had been giving a day and
nights show at Port Jervis, and the
next day were to astonish the natives
of Pike County, Pa, by pitching our
tents at Milford, the county seat, seven
miles below Port Jervis. To getto Mil
ford we had to cross the Delaware river
at Port Jervis. At that time the bridge
across the stream there was reported to
be in a. decidedly shaky and dangerous
condition; in fact, it fell down two or
three days after we were in Port Jervis,
and the managers of the show concluded
not to trust ponderous Old Tip on the
structure. The river was fordable a
quarter of a mile or so below the bridge,
and the elephant was taken to that spot
to wade across. The time was early in
the morning, and when Tippo Sahib got
to the river bank he made the grand
kick Of his life and refused to go any
further. He swung his trunk around
viclously and threateningly, tapped his
big ears, kinked his tail and roared and
worked himself into first-class rage.
His keeper coaxed and prodded and prod
ded and coaxed the old man killer for
more than an hour without succeeding
In inducing him to advance step, and
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The Patent Bed Spring.

Our patent spring bed has been remodeled
The one for two in bed is SO arranged that
the part the wife lies on can be set by the
husband unknown to the former, and it
springs her out of bed and stands her I'D on
the floor at any hour for which it is set. 1t
then remains turned up on one edge so she
can't get back again, at least on her side of
the bed, and she won't come back on his side,
for she's too alfred mad to come near him.
So the result is that she is compelled to dress
and go down stairs to see to breakfast. and
the old man will get rest. Oh, it's daisy
Hyde Park Journal
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Postal Savings Banks.

Postal savings banks are means by
which the government offers through
the postoffice depository for savings
To every citizen of the country, no mat
ter where he may reside, provided he is
within reach of some postoffice which
is depository, the government extends
the opportunity to lay by his savings In
small sums, allows interest thereon, and
pledges its credit as security for their
repayment on demand of the depositor
or his representative.
They are not intended to interfere
with or be a substitute for existing saw
ings institutions, which for the most
part deal with much larger sums and
are found only in the larger centers OF
population, and chiefly in New Eng
land and the Middle Atlantic states;
but to extend a privilege similar to that
which private institutions afford to the
very large class of small wage earners
many of whom live entirely out of
reach of such institutions-on the prin-
ciple that if saving and place where
what is saved can be kept in safety are
good for some people they are good for
all, and that the government, being Sc
curity, if anything in the country can
be, and having already its posts" es-
tablished all over the land, should be
the agent to furnish such facilities to
it's Deople.-Youth's Communion.
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Awkward Left Hands.

How awkward most people are with
their left hands. There is no reason, at
least no necessity, for this, but it is true
It is partly due to heredity, and partly
to habit and practice, but it could be
overcome. The left arm and hand might
be cultivated to the same degree of dex-
terity, which literally means right hand
edness, as the right arm and hand, but
it involves trouble, time and patience,
and therefore is neglected. The left arm
has good reason to complain of this in
justice. Journal.
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Effect of Sucking a Lemon.

A boy sucking lemon will break up
whole brass band with the exception of
the drummer and the man who operates
the cymbals. There may be few other
exceptions, but very seldom will there be
found man who can so resist the incli-
nation of his lips and tongue to shrink,
vince and quicker when the taste of
lemon juice is brought wildly into his
imagination that he can then control
these organs sufficiently to play wind
instrument.-NewH Haven Palladium.