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The Arizona sentinel., 1890-01-11
PITH AND POINT.

He is very weak man whom money
can lure away from himself.-Advance
Thought.
1t may be wise to think twice before
speaking, but it is a sign that you are
getting old.
Comparison, more than reality,
makes men happy, and makes them
REHABILITATION.
-Frankness consists in repeating all
the disagreeabIe things one has ever
heard about ones friends.-Judge.
We are apt to become narrOw-mind-
ed and selfish when we allow ourselves
to fret and worry because we can't work
in certain groove.
When man has done a good thing,
l1o site darr-- +n rnst hut when he has
done a bad thing. he loses no time IN
doing another.
III your heart Us larger than your
head vou injure yourself. and if your
hea l-lS---Eero- than To1r hea you in-
-lehreon szlero.
-He who attempts great things, may.
- Is tue, -@ll short Of his designs: but
certainly he who attempts but little will
not accomplish much.
Nothing is more wearing on sensi-
tive nature than to be made a sort of
safe-deposit where people can leave
their secrets.-Milwaukee Journal.
Human history is the history of the
education of conscience, of the ever-in-
creasing apprehension of the moral law,
of the widening of the circle of ethical
igation.-Selected.
All experience hath shown that
mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable, than to right
themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed.
1t is easy in the world to live after
the worlds opinion; it is easy in soli-
tude to live after our own; but the great
man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the in
dependence of solitude.-Emerson.
Method or system is not given to all
men to possess. Some men have no sys-
TEN; they are always in muddle. At
times they get hopelessly blocked and
others have to put them straight. Me-
thod implies foresight and a logical mind.
A man should think of his work and ar
range it beforehand.
AS a rule the things that are best for
us are not those that we most desire,
and the things that we most desire are
not those that would be best for US.
Therefore it is that one cause for graft
tude which we are likely to overlook, is
the things that we most desire, and that
we do have given to Us so many things
that we do not DESIRES. S. Times.
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DEATH IN CHLOROFORM.
The Most Dangerous Anesthetic Nov
Employed by Medical Men.

The Most Dangerous Anaesthetic Now
Employed by Medical Men.
A contributor to the London Lancet
states that in the medical journals for
the last ten years there are reported 12O
(if not more) cases of death under
chloroform. Many of these are very i'm
perfectly described, but in at least forty
nine cases the patients were In good
general health at the time OF admins
tration, and required an an@sthetic
merely for the performance of some
minor operation; e. g., extraction OF
teeth eleven cases of DEATH, reduction
of dislocations mine cases), eye opera
tionS, istul@ and so on. In some fifty
nine cases death occurred before the
commencement of the operation, and so
was clea~l- 1-r7 - tie ehloroioru alone.
in about twenty of the cases it. is noted
that chI5rolorm had been successfully
given ON previous occasions. iB one as
many as eight direreut times before the
fatal almlu'7.la 5u. tits evident from
the foregoing that chl0roform ls1ncer-
tain III ITS action, that not only 10 peO-
pile die while under Unloroform, but
also from it; frequently, too, even
when it is used by skillful hands.
Of course, it is possible to retort that
sit was not properly given," which may
be correct This will not alter the fact
that these accidents prove chloroform
to be powerful agent, very difficult to
administer properly; indeed, so difficult
and dangerous that it is scarcely suita
Bile for a routine an8Sthetic, when a
drug less powerful for evil can replace it.
The nauseous flavor and the sense Of
suffOcation from ether can be entirely
done away with by the use of nitrous
oxide, and its inhalation made more
agreeable than even that of chloroform,
while the patient quickly becomes un
conscious without the struggling SO COM
mon with chloroform. The writer goes
on to say: 81 have not yet found sim
gle patient who has once inhaled ether
preceded by nitrous oxide complain of
suffocation, or object to take it again on
the ground of it's unpleasantnesss.
''The readiness with which chloroform
affects the heart, the smallness of IA
tai dose, and especially the ease and |
with which such a dose can
be inhaled, almost by couple of deep
will make its safe exhibi-
ton always difficult task to invariably |
accomplish. Having had many years
[ have gradually come to |
believe chloform to be less safe an@s-
thatic than ether -
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-01-11
The Dull Senses of Criminals.

Some Italian observers have been re-
Gently testing the senses of criminals,
and they find these duller than in the
average of people. Signor Ottolenghi,
in Turin, found last year, a less acute
sense of smell in criminals, and he now
affirms the same for taste, which he
--ayed by applying bitter and swoe. srr-
stances (strvchnine and sacchrine) in
dilute solution to- the tongue. He finds,
also. the taste of the Labitual criminal
less acute than thatof the casual offend
er, and slightly more acute taste in
male than in female criminals. Expert
ments with regard to hearing were made
by Signor Gradenigo (alsO il Turin,
and of eighty-two criminals he found
fifty-five Tor 67.3 per cent? to have less
than the normal acutenesS, the greatest
inferiority being in the oldest In fe-
male criminals the relations were some
what better: fifteen out of twenty-eight
had hearing under the average. The
limits of variations in acuteness also
appeared to be much wider in criminals
than in normal persons. Ear disease
was common. Signor Gradenigo attrib-
utes these things to bad hygienic con-
ditions of life and vicious habits.-Pal
Mo11 Gazatto
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-01-11
Some of the Causes of Leprosy.

Now that leprosy is being so much
discussed in various parts of the world
it may not be uninteresting to cite a few
of the chief causes set down in the old
Hindoo medical works as inducing lep-
rosy: o. Sleeping in the day time; (2.)
eating when the appetite is not keen;
(3) gluttony; (D eating too much OF
new rice, curd, fish, salt, acids, treacle,
and cakes; (5) drinking cold water when
fatigued or suffering from fear; (6) ex-
cessiye physical exertion after meals;
(O exposing ones self for any lofg
time to the sun after breakfast or noon
meal; (S) drinking liquors; (9) insult
ing Brahmin. 1t would be interesting
to find out in how many cases leproSy
has had its origin in the insult offered
to a Brahmin.-India Colonies.
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-01-11
How Diamonds Are Split.

The diamond has grade of cleavage
plane, the same as most mineral or
crystalline substances, and hence it is
possible to split or divide one into two
or more parts. Sometimes large piece
is removed at once from gem by split
ting, but it is a process attended with
much risk. To accomplish this matter
the stone is carefully studied and its
line of cleavage ascertained; it is placed
in hardened celuent, in the proper posi-
ton, and the sharp edge of a steel
chisel, resembling a razor, is carefully
adjusted SO that the division will be at
the points desired, and sharp rap with
a hammer is given it. Perhaps no more
costly blow may be struck in any
mechanical WORK than this, for in ma
nipulating large diamond, if it is un-
skillfully given gem of several thous-
and dollars value NAV be spoiled.~
Memphis Scimetar,
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upper end so as to bring the point out as
near as possible to where it went in.
Don't try to pull the hook back over the
barb.
Thirst can be abated by the eating of
acid fruits or plants. The chewing of
twigs, barks or leaves of trees and
shrubs will also afford temporary relief.
Snow and ice aggravate the thirst by
chilling and closing the salivary glands.
Learn to shoot without shutting your
eyes when you pull the trigger. Begin
ners will find it hard to do this, but it
must be done.
In sighting either shotgun or rifle the
left eye should be closed, except in the
case of left-handed persons; then the
right eye should be closed. Some men
keep both eyes open, but the majority
of shooters and all the crack shots close
the left eye.
An extra pair of socks are handy on
one-day outing trip. Then, with your
shoes nicely dried at any lady hosts
fire, you will be in comfort for the next
morning on your way home.
Avoid sleeping in close rooms. Keep
the apartment well ventilated. Let in
fresh air, but keep out of the draught.
When out shooting carry a small
square of chamois skin saturated with
pure oil. Then you are prepared to we'll
grease your gun in case of rain-storm.
Nature
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-01-11
SOME TALL CHIMNEYS.
Towering SmOke-Stacks That Rival the
Worlds Highest Spires.

The tallest chimney in the United
States is claimed by Kearney, near
Newark, n. j., it being 335 feet high, 2S
feet in diameter at the base, and con-
tanning no less than 1857, 900 bricks.
Enormous as some of the American
smOke-stacks are, they are but pigmies
besides those in the ''old country"
Scotch and English chimneys, it seems,
are famous for their cloud-reaching
peculiarities. At the Dobson & Barlow
Mills, Bolton, England, there is an
octagon stack 36919 feet in height and
over 33 feet in diameter at the base.
Glasgow, Scotland, is famous for it's
tall chimneys. Tenant & Co. have one
which runs up 35515 feet, with base
of 80 feet, while the great Townshend
stack, in the same city, towers
468 feet into the air from the founda-
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-01-11
Ynrietx in Domestic Life.

The evenings of great numbers of fam
lies are monOtOnous humdrumS. They
involve the assemblage of the same peO-
pie, the same surroundings, the same
paterfamilias yawning over his paper,
and the same querulOus mamma over
laden with family cares. Fresh people
with fresh thoughts, fresh atmosphere,
any thing to stir up and agitate the pool
of domestic stagnation, are sadly needed
and sadly scarce. There needs to be also
a constant succession of such fresh peO-
pie to bring about these results. The
world is full of men and women, and in
better ego ed life it would he the
business after the days work was done,
to entertain each other. and give each
other fresh life AS it is now, hundreds
if not thousands of our households are
little better than cells for the incarcer-
alton of each family Thousands are
thus worn out premaJurely from utter
lack OF domestic recreation. There might
be written over the graves of hundreds
of thousands, "Bored to death by the
stagnation of domestic life. Farm and
Fireside.
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thought had outlived romance, and /
promised to marry an old man who only
wants a lady at the head of his house.
Oh! why did you not come to me one
day earlier?"
Silence fell. DR.. Emory heard them
rise and go away. In minute more a
little boy rushed up to the sand mound
and poked it with his spade.
Here's dead man." he said-'a
drownGed man."
mo; it's tipsy man." replied Billy.
"Let's pile sand on him.
This they proceeded to do, until Billy
deserted uncle beckoning," and they
departed on the run.
After the last train had gone city
ward, an elderly gentleman took sand
wich and some ale at the hotel before
getting on his gig. He emptied great
deal of sand out of his nnnlyn+r - not
fec lhe Wgi-ars- and seemed to- ae. tine
cashier said, sin O. temper" 1t was DIR
Emory. He drove straight home, and
SAD down AT lis 6csl
r.-lz Heaven. 7 can appear to have
J'e best of her DE said spitefuliv.
't'Hr .lo next time 7 propose ta @ woman
-|.. moi" -nfT har that -..-..r nee g. rl-.. -,
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"At least, she said, with a degree of
bitterness, Il matched him with his
romance is out of the question between
two like ns.' Matched him, and went
further"
The bell tin1led in the hall Just as
supper time was over that evening, and
in few moments a servant came to
call Miss Dwight.
''It's gentleman; he don't know ochO
he wants, she said. ''Some one who
knows all about the place, he told me- .
And Dora went into the parlor, bare
looking room, long, and with white
walls, panel carpet, library table, a
horse-hair sofa, and six chairs, and the
portrait of the founder of the home
over the mantel-piece. There stood un-
der this portrait, with his elbow on the
marble itself, gentleman. Dark-eyed,
dark-haired, with face that was not so
much handsome as delightful
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-01-11

An American who spent ninety-two
days in France says he only saw two
pies in that whole country, and these
were in Paris and had no upper crust
Detroit Free Press.
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-01-11

Now 10 O,,I VlEIC. You can take back
your offer, DR.. Emory. Every thing can
be as it was before. I'll tear up your
letter; l am content that all shall re-
main as 1T is.
But, then, D" he answered, 81 am not.
After all, all you say is only true 1
can face the music, 1 hope. My answer
is this: Marry me, and l will make a
will, leaving you every thing, on our
wedding day"
That would be unjust" she said. SIT
would be a will to be contested. Leave
me home and an income" She named
the sum sufficient to keep it up.
THAT is moderate-sensible. And you
will say yes" he said. II promise, of
course, l shall make it better than that,
still leaving my sons no cause for COM
plant; but it is not my fault that we
are not more romantic
LET the romance come afterward, if
it can" said Miss Dwight
After this, they walked about the
garden for awhile, and the day of the
wedding was set, leaving time to find a
new matron for the establishment. Miss
Dwight was certainly, as domestics say.
"bettering herself" but she was not
elated.
In fact, a little regret stole into her
heart as she walked about the place
where she had been so independent, so
respected; and wondered whether she
should be hapnv in the future,
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This was after the new matron arrived
and was being drilled in her duties by
Miss Dwight, who calmly said before
every one:
''You see I'm to be married shortly -
Once he even demonstrated, saying:
''Do you know, poor Nellie never
talked like that; nor my dear Maria.
''Of course not, said Miss Dwight.
''But you remarked in your offer to me
that (of course) you and 1 had done with
romance long ago"
DR.. Emory tried to laugh, but he was
not happy.
That afternoon he took a long, long
ride to the sea-shore, and stabling his
horse at the hotel walked down to the
beach. ''The season" was over. The
caterers expected only little chance
custom. 1t was a day when driving
clouds made it cool enough to be pleas
ant. There he sat down behind big
mound of sand and watched the sea and
thought of Maria, aid how he used so
often to kiss the back of her neck be-
cause the two little curls looked so cum
ming, and how she thought him hand
some; how dear they were to each other.
How long his reverie had lasted he
did not know, when merry voices sound
ed in his ear.
A mans tones, those of two little
boys, and a wOman's. Surely he knew
the last speaker. He peeped from un-
der his big Panama hat, and saw Dora.
She had brought the EllWood bows down
for holiday, at their uncle's request,
and he had come also. DR.. Emory
guessed who the gentleman was, for he
had had the case of these boys laid be-
fore him, and was looking for two
orphans to fill their places when they
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-01-11

The way 20 pronounce Mpwapwa-
take mouthfuI of hot coffee and try t9
sag ''pepa" without swallowing it.
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waded along the euge Vi Une waver Inc
elder people seemed as happy as they,
and how young! At last they sat down
very near to DR.. Emory, with their backs
to his sand burrow, and he saw mans
brown hand drop upon little white one
and hold it tight. Without showing
himself he could not see their faces.
''Do you know why l asked you to
come here?" said the owner of the brown
hand.
"To mind the children, as Sally says, 5"
replied the owner of the white hand.
''No, to tell you something" said
Brown Hand. Darling little woman
prettiest and sweetest of all created
beings, l have loved you from the first
moment L met you. Do you think you
would mind marrying a man who has
his fortune yet to make? Could you be
poor with him, and yet be happy? You
see, am poor, but l adore you, and I'm
selfish enough to ask you to do just that
for my sake, if you can try to love me-
The white hand futtered. A soft voice
trembled.
81 should not have to try it," she
soDbed 'It seems to come of ITSELF and
as for poverty I'd rather beg with you
than live without you and have
millions. Oh! don't look happy, don't
look happy, dear, when we both
must be so miserable. I'm en-
gagged ny wedding day is set,
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The Ameer's military commander OF
Herat is John Hinton. a patiVs Of Fay
stte County, Pa,
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5r experiences still.
had come to Miss Dwig


The moment had come to Miss Dwight.
She had waited thirty years for it, and
now she did not know what it meant
But an unconscious smile came to her
lips, light to her soft blue eyes, a flush
to her smooth cheek She looked pref
tier than she could have dreamed posi-
BILE of at that moment.
The stranger told his business. He
had recently come from Paris, where he
had been occupied in certain affairs for
ten years. Meanwhile, his brother had
died, having recently lost his wife. He
understood, to his astonishment, that
his little nephews were in the Home.
''Of course, wish to take charge of
Them" he said. 81 am bachelor, but
can arrange for their care. They need
not live on charity"
at is not clarity" said Miss Dwight
'Dr. Ellwood gave largely to the Home
in his lifetime. The children are con-
sidered little ladies and gentlemen.
They are well educated; taught the
usages of good society. They will have
a collegiate course when they leave this
place. Most of the girls become teach
ers, L think. The boys choose their
profession. There would be at least no
need of haste in removing them"
They talked together awhile. She
gathered that he was what might be
called a poor man.
He fingered after the boys had come
and gone. He came on the morrow, and
again and again. The Ostensible motive
was to see his nephews, but he also de-
sired to see Miss Dwight.
= Meanwhile, DR.. Emory called every
afternoon and consulted with Dora as to
the new parlor Garnet and the china
The Arizona sentinel., 1890-01-11
. MODERN ART CRITICISM
What Newspaper Man Heard and Saw In
Gotham Gallery.

UoCnam Gallery.
Miss Daisy Chane-My! but isn't that
dog natural? And so like my dear,
lovely TatterS, too!
Mr. Softe Toane Qanguidly, and with
covert sneer)-I believe those blacks
and whites of Won Skoon's are considerd
natural. Nowadays a man must fairly
saturate himself with realism before he
can get any one to look at his pictures.
This fellow Won Skoon has been i'm
bibing Millais for the last two wears
and with bitter irony now, suppose,
he will become quite popular.
Miss Chane Ito whom modern art jar
gon is an unknown tongue)-Mercy mel
Eve always heard that artists and poets
and people Ike that drank terribly, but
/ never knew it was as bad as that.
But what's that picture over there? I
can quite make it out but it looks like
a thunder storm.
Mr. Ioane-Ah, Miss Chane; in the
presence of that man we artists stand
reverentiy, hat in hand. He has alb
sorbed nature, and now he absolutely
eXudes 1T upon every canvas he touches.
Islands in attitude suggestive of rapt
attention and silently describes an arc
in the air with his right thumb after
fashion common among artists and con-
noisseurs.) How tender and subtle! See
how the shadows on the hills are
handled, and how strong that figure of
a woman is in the background. How
splendidly she is drawn! You can almost
see her move. To me the whole effect
is as mystic and wonderful as-as-
Miss Chane-But the catalogue says
that this picture is Thunder Storm in
Hay Field" and that's haystack and
not woman in the middle of it. knew
it was haystack the minute / set eyes
on it.
Mr.. Softe Toane with a superior,
compassionate smile)-Really, Miss
Chane, you must be careful not to let
your taste for realism, or as you would
call it in your Philistine way, what is
natural, blind you to the ideal side of
art. Now here is something which I
fear will please you.
Miss Chane (delightedly)-Why, it's
a newsboy, and he's had his face all
nicely washed, too. He looks as if his
mother had fixed him up on purpose to
have his photograph taken. 1 wish
the little boys in my Sunday-school
class could all see that picture.
Mr.. Toane with a sigh of despair)-
All, my poor little Philistine? 1 fear
your case is hopeless. You represent
the misguided spirit of the age, always
seeking the real and the practical, and
missing the subtlety and suggestiveness
of high art.
Miss Chane (bluntly)-I don't under
stand all that, but l like that picture so
we'll because the bows SO clean / think
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FUNNY YANKEEISMS.
CHARACTERISTICS OF New England Life and
Speech CIeverly Illustrated.

characteristics OF New England Life and
Speech CIeverIy Illustrated.
Clarence Deming contributes to the
Christian Union some characteristics of
rural New England life and speech taken
from a notebook of twenty-five years
standing. When, many years ago, 1
asked rustic citizen of the town, after
MS first visit to New York, his opinion
Of the great city, his reply was: "Waal,
[ never! Why, there on Broadway it
/ alters seemed 8 though meetin's just
/ out.''
/ The note book abounds in miScel
/ laneous Yankeeisms CLEANED from the
whimsical characters to be found in
every back town of Yankeedom. Among
TIE oldest of this odd species was Mr..
D., rugged and antique resident OF
q Western Connecticut village. While
driving his cows 20 pasture Mr.. D.
used to address them i'm most emphatic
terms. One day, while the animals were
in uncommonly froiicsom1 mood
overheard to say. Fal scatter, vIIl
We, Blast We, if there warn'u but one OF
We ye'd scatterr' On a night dark
as Erebus, Mr.. D. rushed out ex-
citedly on boys pilfering his favorite
pear tree, exclaiming: II see ye!
know ye! Where be ye! Who are
YEP" His profanity was often most
voluble and redundant; but it never
reached loftier climax than on an oc-
casion when he missed the blackboard of
his wagon after five-mile drive, and,
on going back for it, found that he had
been using it as seat. One of his near
neighbors was a good old dame, the
Mrs. MalaprOp of the village, who once
remarked at our dinner table: 81 know
a person who calls the cornish of roof
the tarnish." She was matched by one
of my old Yankee friends, now gone to
his reward, who corrected an acquaint-
ance reading aloud an account of Presi-
dent Lincoln's funeral, saying that the
word corpse" was French, and ought to
be pronounced score" 1t was not long
before, at local sword presentation,
during the civil war, | heard one of the
orators exhort the ladies not to forget
the soldiers in the hospitals as we'll as
on the field. ''For," added he, ''there's
more VnaV IS not Steven On Vne nelo oI
oa''i0 'n%n "naS 10 Hilleo py jail A'
cour: III 'n"t mag l was pIeSenU d" lion
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