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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-09-25

WARRENTON-Trains Nos. 90, so 81 and
and SO connect daily to and from Warrenton.
FRANKLIN D1VISION-Daily,e excerpts Sunday.
Leave Roe a:3o BIT. 500 a: M, arrive franklin
100 p. M, arrive Rocky Mt 1920 p. N.
GORDoNSVILLE-Trains leave Orange for
Gordonsville 2:30 a. M. and 1855 a. IN. daily.
9:15 p. m. daily except Sunday, and 500 a. m.
daily except Sunday. Returning, leave Gordons-
vile for Orange 1000 q. m, $50 p. H. daily,
except Sunday and Monday, and 43O D. III
Mondays only.
WASHINGTON AND OHIO DIVISION.
ALL TRAINS DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Leave Alexandrjs from depot at 900 g. m.
and Loo and ADO D. NJ; arrive st Round Hi
11:30 g. IN. and 4:25 and 7:20 p. m
Returning, trains leave Round Hill 6:15 a NJ
and 1880 and o.O5 p. M, arriving st Aloxan-
dris at 1928 q. N. and 2:54 aud 1926 D. M.
The eco q. m. train from Alexsndria connects
at Round Hill with stage for Blue Bidge Berry.
vile and Winchester, and st Loesbuce with stapea
for Aide and Middloburg.
Tho 900 q. NJ train and 445 p m. train from
Alexandria connect at Vienna with stages for
Fairfax Court House.
SLEEPING CAE SERVICE.
On trains Nos. 80 and 81 Pullman Buffet Sleep.
ers between Now York and Atlanta, and At.
lanta and New Orleans.
Ou Uleiho A'oo' % anu % [ uIlman buuct v oS-
thule Sloepors between Washington and New
Orleans, and Washington and Birmingham, via
Danville and Washington and Hot Springs via
Salisbury.
On trains Nos. 56 and 81 Pullman yestibule
Seepers between Washington and Cincinnati and
Louisville.
On trains Nos. 90 and 90 Pullman Buffet
Shoppers between Washington and Memphis
On trains Nos. % and 90 Pullman Buffet
Seepers between Washington and Rome, Ga,
via Lynchburg and Bristol.
Through tickets on sale at tho principal stations
to all points. For rates or information apply to
any agent Of the Company, or to
c. N. BORUM, D. P. a., Lynchburg, Va.
JAMES L. TAYLOR, G. P. a, Washington, DC
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RAILROADS.
oICKMoND AND DANvILLE RAILROAD.
D.
vIgaINIk MIDLAND DIVISION.

SCHEDULE, III EFFECT
July 13 1890
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

and nights were only about six hours in
length. just little over.
But must hurry on. Here we are
near Chicago, and must tell you the
| end.
II crossed the Rockies, passed over
the great valley and had brief trip
over Lake Michigan. began to Won
der whether the machine was wound up
to 60 on Decentralization, in short, l
was started on a car of perpetual mo-
ton. I had not long to wonder; as
came to Kalamazoo there was a sudden
stoppage of the outward movement.
There followed brief tluttering of the
| wings, a restful descent, and the Won
derful machine alighted within the in.
closure with which its inventor had con.
cealed it. Every thing had been calcu-
lated with an accuracy which would
have gratified even Jules Verne.
THE door of the machine opened, and
there stood old man Brunton.
"I have to apologize to you, Mr..
Gerar,' he said, for emitting to tell you
that there are condensed beef and milk
in the virvector.'
"'You old villain, is this dream, or
are you wizard? I asked.
II was not sure yet whether I was
dreaming or awake.
"'Neither,' was his quiet reply. You
have gone round the world. I wish
| mine had been such fortunate lot.
You are lucky man, Mr. Gerar.'
Tom, am I dreaming still?'' said
my friend to me.
The train was wheeling into the de-
pot There was nothing now very sus.
picious about the appearance of my
! friend.
Lam going to make money out of this
when the worlds fair comes to Chicago,
fom," said my friend, as we parted.
''Brunton is so grateful for my going
that he is willing to go snacks with
me-"
haven't seen Jim Gerar since, and
don't know whether he was insane that
night or not. know Brunton, and he
is very peculiar man. But ean it be
possible that Jim Gera1's story was
true? Or was it insanity? The time of
the worlds fair will Chicago
Nou9.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

the chill struck me. l pressed on the
button, and the downward motion com.
menced. When I reached desirable
elevation, where I would not come in
contact with the peaks, and would also
escape the penetrating cold of the
higher atmospheric strata, I turned
The button again to the right, and found
that now had full control of my strange
air-ship. Despite the danger surround.
ing me an indescribable exhilaratiou
took possession of me. The world be.
low me was asleep. The Kalamazoo
mailman was not mad after all. But
why had he chosen me to take this aerial
voyage? Perhaps it had been an acct.
dent Perhaps
but what is that? The great At.
lantic, as I live. Soon I would be above
it, Yes, here it is below me already.
At least two thousand miles of water
we're ahead of me. Would my propell-
ing force carry me beyond it, or would l
fall into its depths and never more ue
heard of? Faith in my Kalama zoo
lunatie began to rise within me. I had
passed above two ocean steamers, and
had seen innumerable crafts near the
coast
aAh! What strange impulse is this?
I had read Of the wonders of the .vasty
Deep Now I could see them. If the
fish were as reliable as the bird. I
hesitated, but at last my hand touched
tina other button. Down like a fash
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
PI1H AND POINT.

1T Is the man who is too full for ut
tcrance who never knows when he's
oaded.-Boston Post.
There may be pleasures in being
poor, hut it takes a very rich man to see
decentralization Globe.
He is possibly happy who feels he
s always right but his happiness 10
such as need not be coveted
Repentance Is often matter Of
circumstances; bad liver is sometimes
mistaken for remorse.-Philaddphia
Press
No man is so good that he is willing
people should believe that he is alto
yether ignorant of wickedness-somer7
vile Journal.
When goodness is too obtrusive 1t
IS not seen at its best There can be a
variety in goodness as in all things else.
The time for reasoning is before We
have approached near enough to the
forbidden fruit to look at and admire it
IN. Y. Ledger.
Investigate man closely who
.alks good deal about a lack of oppor-
unity, and you will find a shoemaker
who wants to become president of .
bank.
The principal point of good breed
| ing is to suit our behavior to three sew
sral degrees of men-our superiors, our
equals and those below us--Swift-
Many current questions are per
picking, but society would sink into
low level if there were nothing to try
l. Difficulties bring us our best bless
:ngs.-United Presbyterian.
They who are most weary OF life,
md vet are most unwilling to die, are
such who have lived to no purpose; who
| have rather breathed than lived--Clar-
endon.
Nature loves truth so we'll that it
hardly ever admits of flourishing. Con-
,eit is to nature what paint is to beauty
it is not only needless, but impairs
what it would improve.
| The censure of our tellow-men,
which we are so prone to esteem proof
If our superior wisdom, is too often only
The evidence of the conceit that would
magnify self, and of the malignity or
envy that would detract from others
T. Edwards
A bad habit broken away from is =
good days work The earlier habit
IS formed the stronger the hold it has
Private personal habits are more diff
cult to get rid of and have a more de-
noralizing effect than public ones
III -ou can not be happy one way,
>--.other, and this facility of dis
position wants but little aid from phi
!osophy. for health and good humor ara
almost the whole affair. Many run
about after felicity, like an absent
minded man hunting for his hat while
t is in his hand or on his head-Sharp-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
HENRIK iBSEN'S HOME.
Where the Author of ''Doll's House
Lives amt Writes.

Where the Author of q 'Doll's House"
Lives anu Writes.
Ibsen's home in Munich is in the so
called Hemmeter house, No. 80 Maxi
milan street, corner of Canal street
from which one enters the building. In
little court on the ground floor stands
fountain bearing candelabrum, which
lights the staircase. The dramatist oc
cupies fat on the second floor, plainly
furnished, according to the American
standard of domestic elegance and lux
ury, but very neat and comfortable The
walls of the modest parlor are covered
with old portraits of Dutch and
Italian masters and modern paint.
ings, among them the original
sketch of the Swedish artist Gronvold's
picture "Out of Work." which at
tracted SO great attention at the Munich
Interna tional Art Exhibition in 1888, on
account of the power and feeling with
which it portrayed the miseries of ou1
proletariat
Adjoining the parlor is Ibsen's study,
. small room with single window and
q plain table standing in front of it, on
which lies the manuscript of the work
he happens to have in hand. But in
composing he does not confine himself
to this comparatively contracted space,
but wanders about through several
rooms, in conversation, as it we're, with
the several persons of the play, stop
ping only to jot down his thoughts and
taking an occasional puff at his pipe,
but he never smokes at any other time.
He rises in summer about seven
o'clock, and proportionately later in
winter, and is often an hour and half
dressing. This time, however, is not
devoted exclusively to his toilet, for
while he is apparently pottering about
and putting on his clothes, he is really
working out plots and providing the
creations of his imagination with the
vesture essential to their proper pre-
sentation to the public.
He takes a very light breakfast, a
half cup of black coffee and bit OF
bread, and begins his work punctually
at nine and continues until one. He
then takes walk before dinner, does
his reading in the afternoon, SUBS early
and goes early to bed. Even on Jour
neys he endeavors to adhere to this
order at the Iday as closely as circum-
stances permit. He prefers summer ia
winter for work, and IS rule gives his
dramas their final shape during the
warm and more genial season.-Book
Buysr.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
AN EFFECTIVE MEDICINE.
Butter-Milk One ~ the Most Reliable Do
naeatic Remedies.

Butter Milk One IT the Most Reliable Do
uaeatfc Remedies.
With the rapid growth of reconstruct
i've medicine comes opportunity the re-
introduction of old and well-known do
nestle remedies, among which butter
milk demands respectable place. A
young lady patient OF the writer's (Dr.
Landry. in Popular Science News) was
suffering from severe consumptive
cough. None OF the usual anti-spas-
modes, expectorants, ETC., seemed to
do any good, simply because her stom-
ach was too weak to bear enough medi-
cine to effect the purpose. Finally
suggested to her mother the use of butter
milk. 1t was adopted at once. Her first
rights experience was one of COM
parative freedom from cough and
pain, and a pleasant slumber for several
hours. 1t was continued for a long time
with unvarying relief of all her dis
tcessing symptoms and an almost per-
feet freedom from cough for several
hours after each draught of the hot
buttermilk. Lingering at one time for
weeks from an attack of congestive
fever, dosed with calomel and quinine
almost beyond endurance, the writer
began to desire but,er-milk to drink.
The physician didn't believed in HUI
moring the whims of patients" as he
expressed it; besides, he commended that
single drink of the obnoxious fluid
might pro duce death, as acids and Gallo
mel were incompatible jewellers in the
same stomach.
But was good persuader, and my
mother was susceptible subject The
butter-milk, 'fresh' from the churn, was
procured and drank. No evil resulted;
instead came perspira ton and speedy
recovery. Many years afterward had
missed my usual noon meal. It was
about two or three p. m.-dinner, of
course, was over-when l reached a
farmhouse. weak, tired, hungry and
tall out of condition for active work.
Dinner was suggested by the house
wife. mo, indeed!'' said I, mot this
time; am nearly home. But if you
have any butter-milk I will take a
drink of that to stay my
stomach A good. kind-hearted wom-
an, she soon brought up pitcher
of butter-milk from the cool spring.
house, while I examined my patients
and prescribed for them. Perhaps a
pint was drunk during the stay of near
ly an hour. For months indigestion
had held his unfriendly grasp on my
stomach. From that notable day for
ward his reign was broken, my stomach
healed, and could ride all day, if nee
essary, without feeling so woe-begone
from the lack OF food as hefo:e drinking
of the butrer-milk. There are people,
however, who can not use milk of any
kind, nor butter: but to others it proves
to be both food and medicine.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

went, and L soon realized that I was
encircled by the waters Of the Atlantic.
Downward, still downward, and began
to fear that might reach the bottom
or be dashed upon o submarine peak.
turned the button which had trans.
formed my bird into fish. Its descent
was at once checked. Suddenly there
was jar Instinctively looked to.
ward a sort of window which had been
constructed of sheets Of isinglass in
the stern, There was similar window
at the bow, defended by rubber points
to deaden the effects Of . blow, il 1t
should come. Behind saw q moving
monster, whose back the keel Of my Ash
had grazed. had studied zoology as q
matter OF course, but the books had
never told me Of creature like that OF
which got a glimpse. 1t was in some
respects like q huge serpent. but it
must have measured two hundred feet
In length. began to think that
ought to rise nearer the surface.
touched the button, and was soon with.
in fifty or sixty feet of the water level.
I did not wish to 60 higher, because in
my fearful speed il should be struck
by an ocean steamer would 60 to the
bottom, and Brunton's fish would be my
coffin.
what is that? I had read of tho
octopus. I had imagined all sorts OF
marine monsters, but any thing like
what I saw ahead of me now l never
| could have conceived. 1t seemed to be
coming toward me, but in this I was
deceived. 1t was resting in the water,
holding in its terrible claws a porpoise
and two sharks. My brief glance
showed me crab OF such dimensions,
Tom. that you would not believe me il
tried to describe it to you.
II was in quandary. I feared that
there were rocks below the crab, and
dared not descend. discovered that
was ignorant of how to turn to the right
or left. was going as straight east as
an arrow, and, if l could go entirely
around the globe, must again land in
Kalamazoo, or pass over it.
The sight of this Notwithstanding
animal terrified me. I must get out OF
its way, somehow, and tho only means
saw of doing so was to ascend to the
surface, resume my bird-shape, and rise
into the air. Here it was that came
! near ending my journey. In my excite
ment just as approached the surface
of the water, I touched the bird button
l was q moment too soon. The fish
covering reiterated, and the wings made
a effort to clear themselves of the
| water. There was moments struggle
in the singular vehicle. 1t shook il,
every-I was about to say-plank, but
every part of its rubber incasement is
better. At last the wings rose, the
| water was cleared, and ahead of me
saw the shores of Europe. was just in
time.
II don't wish to tire you, Tom, with
this strange narrative. II is enough tc
say that crossed the Eastern cont
nent, took swim under the Paci fic--
though was very careful there-and
finally saw the Rocky mountains ahead
of me. One strange thing to which
just refer, was the fact that my days
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
POSTAL STATISTICS.

Facts That VIII Interest You Whether
You Expect Letter or Not.
The heaviest mail carried over any
mail route in the United States is be-
tween New York and Philadelphia The
average daily weight of the mail car
led over this route last year was ao1.-
sl3 pounds
For trains carrying the mails the best
time is made on the Lehigh Valley rail-
,oad between Easton, Pa, and Metu-
chen Station, n. j., distance $40
niles. The average time of all mail
rains is 10 miles an hour.
The longest continuous run made by
postal clerks is from Omaha to Ogden,
\ distance of 1.0S5 80 miles
The greatest number of clerks on any
railway post-office line is 551-on the
New York and Chicago
There are s,257 letter carriers, and
they delivered last year 1,7os, a62, 1856
pieces of mail matter.
Total number of clerks in the rail-
way mail service is ), AS The number
If casualties last year was 1913. There
we're ninety-eight clerks killed and
ainety-fve seriously injured
The total number of pieces OF matter
sent to the dead-letver Office was 6,479,-
,es
The sale of postage stamps of oil
Kinds amounted to So, e21, 7S+1z.
The weight of the mails dispatched to
foreign countries was all, $50 pounds.
IF this amount 3,151, sos was sent to
transatlantic countries. Great Britain.
leading the list, received 1,549, $50,
Germany comes next, having received
i44,673 pounds, while France is third
with $50, 400 to her credit
At the close of the last fiscal year
here were 59,sSS postmasters in the
SIS, 16s, 900, an average salary OF $40
each.
The number of clerks employed in
oostofices was 1909. They received for
their services $5,9l9,50l, OR an average
If $75S each.
The number of clerks in the railway
nail service was 5, $40 who were paid an
Aggregate sum of S., 234, 967, an average
If 1928 each.
The total sum paid by the Govern
ment for the transportation of the
mails, including railroad, steamboat
and star-route service, and also compen-
sation for the use of postal-cars, was
s25, 732, 545, So
The total sum paid for the transpor-
tation of foreign mails was $521, 3Sa o..
The largest sum paid single steam
ship line was S1sS, 1888. 10 to the North
German Lloyd. The Cunard Line was
second, having received s1oo, 312. So
There were 10, Sa4, 24o pieces of matter
sent in the registered mails, and 399S
complaints were made of delinqueneies
in the service. OF this latter number
1915 cases were reported as losses, but
subsequently, the letters or parcels were
received by the persons addressed In
1, O99 cases it was aseertained that there
was no just ground for complaint the
irregularity arising from improper adj
dress of the sender, from the failure of
the sender to inclose the sum intended
to have been remitted, and many other
similar causes. There were 56S cases
in which the investigation resulted in
the restoration of the amount lost to
the proper owners, making a total OF
1888 cases in which no loss was sus-
tanned, leaving us cases in which it was
not possible to make recovery. Boston
Herald
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
BRUNTON'S MACHINE.
4 Chicago Drummer's Trip Around
the World in 28 Hours

AM not dream.
ing. I h av Q
gone around the
world in twen-
ty-eight hours.
I have no desire
to repeat t h Q
t RI p which l
have just ended,
and which was
not a voluntary
journey on my
part. Not true?
Yes, it is true,
thOurh I Scarce.
~ expect any
one to believe
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

pressed another button which uucoiled
tie fish covering and gave Us back the
bird.
81 The quarters inside are rather
cramped.' said this modern wizard, 'ow-
ing to the machinery, which had to be
Light as we'll as strong. 1 used rubber
ehiehy. Let US go an
Another button was touched and 2
sort OF door admitted us to the interior.
The door shut behind us and there was
darkness for a moment Then dim
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25
Liked Him 1T Times,

he lat 1880 p. m. ALI the girls tell
NE am the best young man going.
She with q yawn)-Yes, much better
then than at any other time. Detroit
Free Press
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-06-25

"A natural curiosity in the shape OF
hip bone of a mastodon, weighing perx
haps fifty pounds, was found at Alachua.
Fla, few days ago.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-06-18
Wondergul Experience In . Thunder.
storm.

The Lewiston Journal says that Charles
Nevsns, the we'll known driver and pro-
prietor OF the Poland Spring line Of coach
es, had q wonderful experience in the thun.
deYstorm and haiistorm Of q few weeks ago.
He was riding along the country road and
Fastening to evade the storm that was up.
parent from the blaekeping clouds. The
lightning was sharp aud tho thunder CON.
slant and loud. Suddenly, In the thicksst
Of the shower, there was . binding fash
and an instant report, aud with . sudden
impulse he felt the carriage aud horse and
himself thrown to one side Of the road,
tho wagon broken ald the whole turnout,
himself included, ~entanglsd in . bsrbed-
wire fenc bv the roadside, amid the storm
and the Lightning. The suddennass of the
shock and the fury of it we're at first such
- to stun him. He soon collected him.
self. and although badly shocked and
bruised ~as able to gather things together
and continue ON his way.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-06-18
cnIrNEp ron nlr 1EAIs.
y Narth Csrslina lA3st Whe Fessssssa
Wv~Aerfal DtrOogaE

! n..xA Carolina Iasss Wis fsssssssd
W.sAsssai ssrssgtns
~ Hill died .fe& days Ago d bic home,
Az milee abote Trinity colie9A, this state,
Ned 10 yearS. He Vas : most rsmaskaoie
eharac1if. ~ : Charlotte, n. G., special
Is lhe Gj66e. Democrat. HI was born IN
idiot, bat sipoe infAacy has possessed pnJ.
s:cal strssgth b aAfare dssfes. and va
we'll formed u bvefy pattieular, Win
The exception Of his head, which was
20 extremely M.shaped % to glve
him more the appearance Ut . beast than
a. Q man. when but . child be WA oftsn
% violent that Il WEI necessary 20 chain
hin to the Aoor. Notwithstanding this
unuaturnl existence, ID grew and strength.
ened day By day until his chain vas not
suNAcierl u bold him, aud two or three
times no broke lU6se and fed to the woods:
During his brief liberty he was 90 violent
10 : tlaes, and il Vas dihicult to recsptufe
and return him 70 his place Of confne-
ment. He was fastened with stronger
bonds and, with the exception OF few
days, hs remained chained to the
door In The same room for shout nifty years
He had an insatiaas esire for 4 airing to
pieces anything that hs could get, and d
times It was impossible to KEEP him
clothed. Flax wal spun into coarse, stfoi
threads and woven into cloth, which WA
doubled aud quilted and made into gar.
ments for him, but with his teeth and
talon like fingers be tore them into threads,
He has been known TO tear TO pieces q solid
stick OF hickory wood With nothing but hi
teeth and fingers. He ate IN ~ravenous'y Al
. lion, and could drink, without the slight.
est pain, boiling coffee.
On several occasions members OF The
family narrowly escaped being killed b.
him. One evening . sister started to 20
out Of doors. She passed too near him
and hs sprang st her With great force,
knocked her through the door into the
yard, 30 badly injurin2 her that II Va,
mot thought possible for her to live. Hi!
father provided for him before his death
leaving property enough to maintain I
vretehed life through al these years. 4
was stipulated in the will that be should
not be taken to 40 asylum, aud that h
should be kept on the old Homestead.