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The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20

A gentleman in New York, the owner
of one of the finest collections of butter
flies in tho country, has made an expert
ment which proves conclusively that
butterflies are endowed not only with
bright colors, but with marvelously
acute senses. Out of his collection, COM
prising almost every known variety, he
chose two butterflies which were only
two or three days old, and had never had
their freedom.
Ono of these he attached securely by a
thread to tho fence in the rear of his
house in the upper part of New York.
He marked the other 80 that he could
identify it, and placing it in small box
carried it down town to one of the ferries,
across the river to Hoboken, and some
distance into the city of Hoboken.
Here it was turned loose. When the
experimenter reached his house, several
hours later, he found the two butterflies
side by side on his back fence. The but
terfy which was but just born, and had
never before had its liberty, had Travelled
several miles, crossed wide river and
promptly found it's way back to its mate
in ono Of those back yards of New York
which arc almost indistinguishably alike
in their ugliness.
This seemed most extraordinary feat
to one of party of gentlemen to whom
the story was told by the experimenter,
and he asked a we'll known naturalist
whether it could be believed. The nat
uralist answered that the sense of smell,
WHICH was undoubtedly in this case the
butterfy's guide, was in many animals
80 wonderfully acute that to him the
case did not seem remarkable, much less
unbelieyable.-Youth's Companion.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
Difficulties of Running n Show.

II can tell you good story" said a
local professor. "a friend of mine was
running snide spiritualistic show up in
New Hampshire. He had man under
the stage to make the raps. This man
was tongued tied. and only now and
then could say anything when occasion
required. The show was free the first
night, but cost a quarter the second
night. The house was packed. My
friend stood on the stage and called for
the spirit Of Capt. Kidd and Pirate
Gibbs. They answered at first and then
they failed to materalize. Something
had gone wrong. is the spirit Of John
Slade hereT said the medium. Silence
followed. The audience could hear a
pin drop. Then it was broken by a
sepulchral voice from the hollow cav
ems of the stage, saying, I can't do a
thing, capn, this fish lines gone and
broke. Lewiston journal.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
Dust to Dust.

A thousand years hence-so says q
member Of the Academy of Sciences
nearly all the stone buildings now stand
ing in Europe will hAve crumbled to
dust. So perishable is the material of
which they are constructed that the
process Of decay is already evident in
many conspicuous edifices. The same
thing is going on in this country. Neither
marble nor our favorite brown stone can
Withstand the action of the elements.
Even the Capitol at Washington is ufl-
dergoing disintegration.
It may not be important that an ordi-
nary dwelling house should last thou
sand years. For sanitary reasons 1t is,
perhaps, just as well that people should
have to build their houses over again
once every two or three centuries. But
it is not agreeable to think that the Cap
itol and all tho great churches in the
country will have disappeared by the
year of grace 2s9O.-New York Ledger.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
Food for "A Lifetime.

A curious calculation of the amount
of food consumed in lifetime of seventy
years has recently been made by NJ.
Soyer, a French savant, now chef of the
Reform club of London. Among other
things NJ. Soyer says that the average
epicure of three score and ten will have
consumed 80 oxen, 200 sheep, 100 calves,
200 lambs, so pigs, 1900 fowls, 1000
fish of different kinds, 10000 oysters,
5,475 pounds of vegetables, 248 pounds
Of butter, $4,000 eggs and tons Of
bread, besides several hogsheads of wine,
tea, coffee, etc. This enormous amount
of food will weigh but little short of 40
tons.-St. Louis Republic.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
Killed for a Lamb.

Lawyer J. F. Haskell, of Lowell, has a
4-year-old son who is as bright as half a
dozen silver dollars and who has an au-
dacious sense of humor that may be
worth money to him when he gets into
politics. One of his latest experiments is
the talk of the family just now.
eff I put this tin soldier and horse into
that bowl of milk mamma'll lick me for
it, you see if she don't" he said recently
to q visitor, and the visitor seeming In
credulous he dumped the toys into the
milk.
Mamma as promptly clicked" him for
doing 1t.
"By gosh," he said delightedly, as he
returned to the visitor from the scene of
castigation, his amusement subordinat-
ing the sense Of pain, "she licked me for
the soldier, but they didn't find the
horse. Boston Globe.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
To Keep Baby Quiet.

Ishould like to tell mothers of a SIM
pie thing that has kept my baby quiet
many hours, and given me considerable
rest.
We all know that the little things
want to be nursed much more often than
is good for them, or at least such is the
case with my 3-months-old baby. 1
bought black rubber nipple (any kind
will do, but the small black ones are the
besD for a nursing bottle, cut a small
rubber band in two and drew one end
through the hole In the nipple, put
little cotton batting in, and then u cork
in large end to keep air out When baby
is well fed and comfortable otherwise,
but still wants the comfort of something
in his mouth, just give him this. It is
perfectly harmless, as used one of the
same kind for my girl, who is now 6
years old. call it my blessing" and
indeed it is when take him out riding or
on street cars.-Cor. Ladies' Home Jour
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
A Bloody Riot Recalled.

Nineteen Yeas ago today" said In
spector Byrnes-'I shall never forget
that days duty. Twas ordered over to
the Orangemen's headquarters from my
precinct at daybreak-I was captain of
the Twenty-first then-and took every
one of my men along except old Sergt.
Davenport and q doornan. We expect
ed trouble, and l had lot of hand gre
nades heaped by the second story win
dows in tho old station house in Thirty
fifth street, told the sergeant to lock the
doors and pelt any mob that would try
to enter. Old Dave was Us good as an
army when it came to sticking. He just
sat on that pile of hand grenades and
waited.
"He had a good long wait, if we
didn't. Those who walked in that
bloody procession from the Eighth ave-
nue. headquarters of the Orangemen to
the old Haymarket in the Bowery will
be apt to remember it to their dying
day. I can hear the crowd yell now
when the militiamen began to shoot
right and left. From tho rear, from the
housetops, it rained brickbats and hot
lead. A hundred must have been killed
before the end Of that march Of terror
and death.
"It was 8 o'clock the next morning
before we got back to our station. It
was as dark and still us the grave. AS
We hammered ON the door and yelled
window in the second story was slowly
and cautiously opened and old Dave
said:
Who is there?
"Open the door, yelled the tired
men. Open it or We'll burst it in.'
"You will, eh!" came from upstairs in
shrill tones, and In the window appeared
the old sergeant, fighting mad, with a
hand grenade in each fist and an armful
in reserve, as q boy carries snowballs.
''Stand back therel or there will bemur-
der. Back, I say"
We had come all the long and bloody
way, fighting every inch of it, without a
thought of showing the white feather.
Every mothers son of us would have
been killed twice over rather than turn
tail. But we ran then. Before old Dave,
with his ar1nful of hand grenades, the
army that had saved city from sack
ing scattered and fled. The sergeant
was left to hold the fort alone until we
coaxed him from shelter into compre-
hending that we were not the enemy.
Then he came down and let us in.-New
York Telegram.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
AMMONIA AND SUICIDES.
Ono OF the Most Certain Agents for Caus.
ing Death by Slow Poisoning.

Ono OF the Most Certain Agents for Caus-
ing Death by Slow Poisoning.
OF the number Of those seeking suicide
by swallowing some form of poison,
probably there are few who have sought
to kill themselves by means Of ammonia.
Nevertheless ammonia, although it is
the active agent in most of the salts
sold to women for their gilt decorated
and perfumed scent bottles, is poisonous
when taken internally in a concentrated
form. To attest this there have been
recently in New York several cases, the
most recent being that of Herman Haro-
witz, of which Deputy Coroner. Jenkins
said that death took place In compare
lively short time after the ammonia was
taken. In another case, that of child,
DR.. jenkins SAID death resulted in five
minutes after swallowing the ammonia
solution.
There are on record also cases of slow
poisoning from ammonia administered
with intent to commit murder. Further
more, the appearance of worlmen in
guano factories, where ammonia is set
free by grinding guano, has been noted,
and in every case there is an unmistaka-
bic system Of poisoning. This is discol-
oration of the skin Of the face, which
assumes a blotched, dirty appearance.
First to take on this appearance is the
skin Of the nose and forehead. Autop-
sizes of those who die from ammonia poi
soning reveal dark hue on the mucous
membrane lining the stomach and intes-
tines.
AS an agent for causing death by slow
poisoning ammonia is one of the most
certain and most difficult of detection,
owing toits volatile nature. This quality
has led physicians to believe that some
of the mysterious deaths that have taken
place In the history of modern and
medieval crime are due to ammonia.
It is known now that months have
elapsed between the first symptoms of
sickness and the death of person from
ammonia poisoning. On the other hand,
death has resulted in four minutes from
the time large draught of ammonia
has been swallowed. It has been found
in cases of gradual absorption of am
monia in the human system that there
is general elimination of healthy oxi-
dation of the blood and consequent
lowering Of the bodily strength. In the
cases Of immediate poisoning death
comes with frightful agony, as in the
case of Harowitz. Blood gushed from
his nose and mouth.
Statistics in England put ammonia
thirteenth in frequency in the list of
poisons. Alexander Winter Blyth, med
ical officer of health i'll the St. Maryle-
bone district, London. cites thirty cases
of poisoning by ammonia swallowed for
the purpose Of committing suicide, or ad-
mihistered with the purpose of commit
ting murder, or absorbed nnconsciously
in food. OF the suicidal cases six were
fatal. Of twenty accidental cases twelve
were fatal. OF cases of murder with
ammonia DR.. Blyth notes two, both of
them children.-New York Sun.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
DO YOU REMEMBER.
Do you remember when tho leaves wcro fadne.
Dropping like the golden rain
CYour azure eyes knew naught Of sorroM's shad.

no you remember when tho leaves wcro fadAI,
Dropping like the golden rain
CYour azure eyes knew naught Of sorrows shad.
Nor any tinge of pain),
We walked beneath the trees; the moon wxs
shining
Mid fieecy clouds above,
Just showing us their inner. silver lining:
Do you remember, lover
Do you remember when the birds were calling
Sadly from naked boughs,
And softly, silently tho turf was falling
On burrows made by plows:
And when tho plumage OF the angels ulItened
Both field and river shore.
Ifelt your fingers round my own were frightened
AS If to part no more? ID
And just to think the year is not yet vanished,
And We are far apart,
Like two lost souls from Loves sweet Eden han.
ished,
Sent forth with pierced heart!
Perhaps tho past Is scarcely worth regretting
And Lethc comes to all;
Perhaps there is pleasure in forgetting
Scenes past beyond recall.
And should it come to this, will YOU remember
When autumn comes apace,
And leaves are falling through q drear November
Like tears on NATURES face,
Tho good old, tender days when earth seemed
resting
Beneath your sunny smile,
In quiet peacefulness its joy attesting,
And sorrows slept awhile.
Yet should the future bring to you repining
a craving for the past,
Remember always clouds have silver lining
And even love may last;
That from the tossing seas the ships come sailing
Laden with precious freight,
All careless Of the winter winds loud wailipp-
Not lost, but only late"
-Exchanee
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
Lunacy in Berlin.

The number of llnatics in the asylums
of the city of Berlin, which was 1852 in
1929, amounted to 1888 in 1889. This
shows a very large increase in the num-
Der of insane persons relatively to the
growth of the population. In the period
referred to the increase in the popula-
ton was 22.49 per cent, while the in
crease in the number of lunatics was
1910 per cent. The number of insane
persons in confinement in the whole
German empire rose between Jan. 1,
1881, and the same date in 1885, from
1920 to 1850, being an increase of
s4.5 in the five years, as against an in
crease of SO per cent. in the general
population in the same period.-Chicago
Herald
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
Governmental Paper.

Authorities in the treasury depart
ment say that the greatest difficulty
counterfeiters meet with in the imita-
ton of United States paper money is
found In the peculiar paper used by the
government, which has silk fibers run
ming through 1t. You can pull these
silk fibers out of one of Uncle Sans
notes without injuring it; but If you
split counterfeit in two you will find
any silk fibers that may be in it simply
laid between two films of paper, and
they will not pull out at all. The max
ing of this paper is government secret,
and is conducted at Dalton, Mass, under
the eye of treasury experts.
ton Star.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
How to Display an Advertisement.

1t is difficult to fix any rule, since each
case requires different treatment. In
every instance q "catch line'' or a "catch
word" is desirable, which will arrest the
attention at a glance.
The fewer words used the better in
purely displayed advertisements. Avoid
lengthy descriptions of articles; people
seldom read them.
Use plain type, easily read. The test
of an advertisement is its legibility.
Fancy letters and intricate designs arc
waste of time and space. Puzzles, in
verted words, lines set on angles OF
lengthwise in columns never accomplish
what is expected of them. Leave
margin Of blank space on top, ddes and
bottom of your advertisement, and It
will always add to its effectiveness.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
Bismarck.s ravorite Flower.

Prince Bismarcks fondness for heather
is not new fancy. With him the heather
is, moro truly than the primrose was to
Lord Beaconsfeld, "his favorite flower"
Nearly thirty years ago, when minister
to Paris, he made n trip to the south of
France, visiting among other places
Chanbord. Writing to his wife from
Bordeaux, under date July 27, 1852, Bis
marck says: "From inclosed specimens
of heather you will no longer he able to
see how purple this plant am so fond
of blooms there-the only flower in the
royal garden, and swallows almost the
only living creatures in the castle. For
sparrowsitis too lonely."-London News.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
LIKED TIE CITY OF CHURCHES.
A Brooklyn Man Who Had Only Ono
Cloud In oil His Sunshine.


Cloud In oil His Sunshine.
"Why do like Brooklyn better than
New York? I'll tell you," said former
dweller on Manhattan Island, who is
now living in the City of Churches, to
reporter. II moved over here in the
first place because rents were lower. 1t
was not more than week after we were
settled when we received a pleasant call
from people living in our block, and an
invitation to mako our church home in
common with them i'll the Trinity Pres
byterian church, at Marcy and Jefferson
avenues. Inside of month we had an
agreeable circle of acquaintance, and
were ourselves ready to extend well
como to newcomers.
"Show Inc n neighborhood in New
York where u family moving in is treat
ed in that way, unless it be near a mis-
sion church. In New York the churches
hire missionary who makes a bust
ness Of visiting, and whose visits arc
purely business calls. In Brooklyn the
people do the visiting in person, and do
it in friendly way. In New York every
body is too busy and too conservative to
think Of his neighbor, unless it be to
gossip about him, but in Brooklyn the
people take time to make themselves
agreeable to their neighbors.
"Another thing that is little in itself,
but counts for good deal in tho long
run, is the attention one receives on the
elevated trains. The guards arc more
accommodating and seem to know more
in Brooklyn. It puts mo in q better
humor all day when, in tho morning, as
1 go to my business, SEQ an intelligent
guard on the train who is q gentleman
in acts as we'll as looks. Idon't intend
to be unreasonable, but can't SEQ why
u guard In New York cannot be ac-
quainted with distances and localities as
well us IL Brooklyn guard.
Gone thing has bothered me, however,
ever since I came here, and that is, why
the conductors on the surface cars are
obliged to ring up the fares when pas
senger gets on the car. Ihavc seen many
conductor who rang up fares, and had
the passenger discover that he was on
tho wrong car and jump off before the
fare was collected. But that is tho only
thing that has troubled me since have
been living here. New York Tribune.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
Appearances Arc Deceptive.

The popcorn man who does business
at the corner of Clark and Center streets
met with a ludicrous mishap Sunday
evening, just at the hour when the
streets were crowded with those who
had spent the afternoon in the park.
This vender Of corn has occupied this
place for years, and knows in which
direction every car will turn as well
as the switchman who turns the
Lincoln avenue cars up Centre street.
Those who have watched street car rs
1t rounds curve have noticed how the
front platform runs ahead, as though
tho car was going to continue in the
same direction, and then gives sudden
lurch and whirls around the curve.
At the corner Of Center and Clark the
appearance to those who do not happen
to know the cars is that all north bound
trains continue up Clark street. AS the
cars near the corner it is the custom of
this popcorn man to board all the trains
i'll the endeavor to dispose of his but
tered grain. Sunday evening as the
north bound grip came laundering up
Clark street Mr.. Popcorn man placed
himself, with his arms full of merchan-
disc, right In the center of the Clark
street track. As the train came nearer
aud nearer he never moved. Omit came,
and stranger in the crowd which
thronged the entrance of the park be-
came desperate.
Dashing in front of the grip car he
wildly seized tho astonishod ,,o,,co,.,, ,,,,,,
by tho neck and twirled him to what ho
thought n place of safety. The popcorn
flew like a million grasshoppers, and the
old man swore like trooper. Anybody
who has heard the heartless laugh of a
street crowd can get an idea of the roar
Of merriment that went up as the situa-
ton dawned upon the bystanders. But
the most amusing thing of the whole af-
fair was the look of blank nmazement of
that we'll meaning gentleman as he be-
held the front car, with its two trailers,
turn up Lincoln Chicago News
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
A Fastening for Barn Doors.

To make a secure fastening for the
large double doors of the barn bolt a
narrow bar of iron to one of the doors
at its middle point. Notch the ends of
the bars, one on the lower and one on
the upper side, to fit over iron hooks
that are bolted to the door, one bending
upward, the other downward. The bar
moves in the arc of circle when the
doors are fastened or unfastened This
makes secure fastening for large doors
which are liable to be blown open if held
only by small hook on the inside of
the same.-New York Independent.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
1nEratitude of nenuhllcs.

For presuming to issue military
emancipation proclamation, and thus
break the back of slavery and rebellion
with one blow, Gen. Fremont was sup
pressed. The country that finally adopt
ed his policy after an untold loss of blood
and treasure neglected to accord him
either credit or reward until it was we'll
nigh too late. 1t is an impressive in
stance of the ingratitudo of republics
Boston Globe.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
Objected to the Licker.

Apropos of the present necessity for
the separation of families by the often
continued absence Of the husband on
the road, l know little anecdote of q
youngster who had seen so little of his
father that he did not know him, and
when, one Sunday morning, this same
little fellow, being obstreperous, was
severely reprimanded by his impatient
father, he went bowling to his mother
with the wall, II amt goin' to git licked
by that old duffer who spends Sunday
here" Toledo Journal.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
Due to Cnralessnesx.

At the battle of Bull Run Governor
Alger met a breathless soldier fleeing
with the rest Of the army toward Wash
ington. The soldier had wound on
his face. "That's bad wound, my
man." said the governor us the soldier
halted; "where did You get it?" SCOT
it at tho Bull Run fight yesterday"
"But how could you get hit in the face
at Bull Rnn?' "Well, sir" said the
man half arologetically, II got careless
and looked bacls:'-San Francisco Argo-
naut.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
Weighing Machine for Milk Sellers.

WBIBhthg m8cnih6 1oF MIX Sellers.
A very convenient weighing machine
for milk sellers is now coming into use.
There is loose platform on the machine,
and this is connected to tipping hoist
by which the railway churn can be
raised and Its contents discharged into
the refrigerator. The machine Is of a
self registering type. The can is placed
on it and the weight on the ticket; the
milk is then emptied and the can re-
turned for the tare to be taken and i'm
pressed on the ticket. There is thus no
chance of mistakes occurring, while the
operation is very expeditious.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1890-09-20
Growth of Yacht Agencies.

Nothing shows the growth of yacht
ing in America more than the growth
of the yacht agency. If man wants
to buy, sell or charter yacht he goes to
a yacht agency. In large New York
agency list can be found of every
yacht for sale or for charter in the
United States and England. Every de-
tail concerning them is also there on
record. Besides this there is a list of
the yachts which the proprietor of the
agency has on hand for sale or charter.
This is not all. Crews, sailing masters,
and all sorts of appliances for yachts are
furnished by the agency. From small
beginnings tho yacht agencies have be-
come large and we'll paying business en-
terprises. York Tribune.