davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-29
CANAAN VALLEY.

Is it spring Rain, mud, mosquitoes and butterflies are plenty.
 They have resumed operations at the Cleveland gold mine.
 Mrs Abel Stevens has been in Great Barr1ngton the past week, caring for her daughter, Mrs Atw pod, who has been sick for some time. There has been no school the past week, as the teacher has been sick with La Grippe.
 There are very many on the sick list at the present time. 1 The "Laiies Aid Society" will meet at Mrs Norman Granger's on Wednesday of next week.
 Frederick E. Hurlburt, of Litchield, who was ejected from train of the Rome & Ogdensburg road while hold ing a stop-over ticket, recently received a verdict for S250. The railroad ap. pealed, but has now settled the case, paying S2OO and the costs of the trial
 News About Town,
 It is the current report about town that Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs is making some remarkable cures with people who are troubled with Coughs, Sore Throats Asthma. Bronchitis and Consumption. Any druggist will give you trial bottle free ol cost. It is guaranteed to relieve and cure The Large Bottles are Soc and SLIGO.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-29
Hosiery! Hosiery!

We are now showing very complete line of Hosiery in SILK, LESLIE and the celebra- ted "ELECTRIC" Fast Black, a line of goods that We nill FULLY WARRANT as abso- lutely fast dye and in prices from 1Scts- upwards. Our line plain colors and Fancy Hosiery is the Most Complete in the City, and we have some special ties in the way of Infants Wear in Silk, Merino and fast black Cotton, not generally kept in cities of this size
 In Merino and Cashmere Hosiery we have complete lines for Gentlemen, Ladies and Children, from very low priced up to the very finest {: also special lines of "out sizes' suitable for very feshy people. We claim that we have the MOST COMPLETE HOSIERY STOCK in Poughkeepsle and at popular prices. We solicit an examination, feeling sure that we shall make sales.
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-29


 The excursion to Bridgeport last Thursday was largely patronized, few going to trade and good many going simply because it was cheap. But it is question whether they got the worth of their money or not, for as is always the case, anything that is cheap is qnite liable to be run on the cheap plan. and the railroad company evidently had to economize In order to get out whole, and hitched on two cars at Falls Village which had no fire in them, and the other cars being more than full the passengers focked into the refrigerator cars and sat down, supposiug of course the fires would soon warm them up, but they were doomed to disappoint- ment, and the farther they rode the colder they got, but most of thtSn pre- ferred to stay and shiver and take the chances of cathing the grip" to stand ing up in a warm car, where even standing room was at premium. Per haps it is asking too much of the rail road company to expect them to fun nish warm cars for Sl excursion, but it would be no more than right for them to announce "no fires in the cars' on their handbills and thus give their pat rons an opportunity to prepare them selves with soap stones, pocket stoves, buffalo robes and other things that are warmth"
 The New York World of Sunday, Jan. 2eth, contained an illustrated "write up" of Norwalk's newspaper men, and among the portraits we notice one of the former editor of the NEWS, Mr Joha Rodemeyer, Jr. but while we
Connecticut western news., 1890-01-29

Arrive from Southneld, Mill River and Cla ton at 9.10 A. II. Close at ?. II.
 J. B. HARDENBIRaH, P. N.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
At the Picture Dealers.

1t was in a picture Dealers Some poo
pie are irreverent enough to call such
places art stores. Well, perhaps, most
of them might be called curiosity shops,
but still tart store does not seem to be
a happy combination of names. How
that word ''store'' has risen in dignity of
late years! 1t is the gradual spead of
democratic ideas, which unfortunately
seem to lower the highest as well as ele-
vate the lowest. Perhaps it would be
more accurate to say they made COM
mon level between high and low. High
art as it was known is disappearing any
way. The only high art nowadays is
making money, and that is why picture
dealing is higher artistic profession
than picture painting. The errand boy
OF the establishment was making himself
useful around the place. Several ladies
had strolled in to look at the pictures,
without any intention of buying, which
perhaps disguised the errand boy. A
picture of the Magdalen stood on an
easel
'.Ah!" said one of the ladies, going up
to it and viewing it critically, THAT is
Mary Magdalen, isn't it9'
81 don't know if it is Mary Magdalen,' -
said the boy.
The proprietor happened to be standing
close by.
''Don't you know that is Mary Mag
dalen?"
'Well, Magdalen's 'nough, amt it? 1t
don't matter whether it's Susie or Jennie
or Imogene Magdalen, does it? How
should / know all those women's first
names?''-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Underwear of Pure Wool.

Talking of the Jaeger system, DR.. r.
G. Rutherford said: 1.-The spread of DR..
Jaeger's sanitary ideas in this country
has been little short of miraculous. Of
course, years ago, the theory had been
advanced by others that the most health
full raiment was that woven from animal
fiber, but Jaeger was the first to enthusi-
astically work out this theory in its pracd-
cal details. myself, for two years, have
worn nothing, save collars and cuffs, that
is not of pure wooden material, and I
have derived appreciate benefit from it.
The main reliance of the system is on
the indisputable fact that it is the prop
erty Of animal fibers to exhale and diff
fuse all excretions of the body with
which they may become impregnated,
while cotton, linen or silken fabrics re-
tain them for an indefinite period. Un-
derwear of absolutely unadulterated wool
needs to be washed but seldom. Simply
hanging it in an air current sufices to
render it pure and sweet. On the other
hand, if you leave clean and newly
washed linen or cotton garments in q
drawer they will absorb the almost i'm
perceptible odors of the atmosphere. and
in short time need what the house
keepers call a good airing before they
can be used. THE Epoch.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31

/ visited an eating house in Berlin
which for primitiveness is rather ahead
Of anything else have seen in the world.
The dining table consisted of a log in
which eighteen cavities appeared at regu-
Lar intervals. Each cavity was of about
the size of large soup bowl, and fast
ened near every one was big iron spo' n
attached to the log by an iron chain.
The method of dining was neither COM
phcated nor prolonged. A table d'hote
dinner, consisting of one course, which,
by the way, was the only dinner served
IN the house. cost five pfennigs-about
one cent and quarter of our coin. The
diner enters and planks down his money
before taking his seat. Then he chooses
one of the broad cavities, seizes the iron
spoon and waits for the waiter. That
functionary is usually sort of Pooh
Bah, combining in himself the duties of
cashier, proprietor, head waiter and
bOuncer in chief.
After the guest is seated the waiter
walks up to him bearing two steaming
cans and asks, shortly: ssThick or clear
soup9" The diner usually, after shifting
the fumes of the cans and giving the
matter weighty consideration, makes his
decision, and then the factotum fills up
the nearest cavity with soup, turns on
his heel and washes his hands of all fur
Their consideration. / did not gain the
impression from casual inspection that
the waiter had ever washed his hands in
any other than fgurative sense. The
diner scoops the soup out Of the hole in
the log with his iron spoon, and, having
thus dined wisely and we'll, is promptly
ordered out by the bouncer in chief.
There is no lingering over an after din
ner cigar, nuts, raisins, fruit or coffee.
The expedition of the meal is its most
striking characteristic, except, perhaps,
its simplicsty.-Blakely Hall in New
| York Sun.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
A Glance at the Camel.

A camel's hind legs will reach any
where-over his head, round his chest,
and on to his hump; even when lying
down an evil disposed animal will shoot
out his legs and bring you to sitting
posture. His neck is of the same pill
ancy. He will chew the root of his tail,
nip you in the calf, or lay the top of his
head on his hump. He also bellows and
roars at you, whatever you are doing
saddling him, feeding him, mounting
him, unsaddling him. To the uninitiated
a camel going for one with his mouth
open and gurgling horribly is q terrify-
ing spectacle; but do not mind him, it is
only his way. heard of one or two
men having leg broken from kick at
various times, but it was the exception
and not the rule, for camel is really a
very docile animal, and learns to behave
himself in most trying positions with
equanimity, though fear it IS only the
result of want of brains.-Count Glei-
oh
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Making the Ewes Bright.

1t is no use asking me for the secrets
of making the eyes bright. know them,
but they are dangerous, and as modera-
ton in the use of any Domestic is un-
known to women who adopt such things,
they had better remain secret. The only
harmless things for the purpose are the
juice of the herb euphrasy or eyebright
dropped in the eye, or spoonful of roast
coffee chewed for the juice alone. This
brightens the eyes for an evening, and is
useful to keep watchers wide awake
nights. But it must not be used often
or it affects the heart. Pure blood and
thorough circulation, with unobstructed
functions, will secure glowing eyes of a
dark shade of their natural color, chang
ing gooseberry eyes to luminous dark
gray. Walking mile briskly against
the wind is good exercise to darken and
brighten the eyes, whose beauty all de-
pend on right circulation of the blood,
which in turn depends on more things
than can be mentioned here. Shirley
Dare's Letter.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Properties of Nitro-Glycerine.

So sensitive is nitro-glycerine to con-
cussion and percussion, that if it be
dropped only few feet or struck even a
slight blow it will explode. An example
of this wonderful property of the stuff
occurred few years ago in Panama,
when the sudden ignition Of a quantity
of it converted wharf and warehouse
into mass of unrecog izable fragments,
inflicted damage to the extent of about a
million dollars and suddenly ended a
number of lives.
Careful investigations soon demon
strated that the change which converts q
harmless substance like glycerine into
such tremendous explosive is made by
the substitution of molecules of nitrogen
and oxygen for atoms of hydrogen in the
original compound. When this is done
with great care and the process is carried
through the last stage, the resultant iq-
uid is nothing more than a vast mass of
gas held together by the weakest and
most unstable bonds.-New York Mail
and Express.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Newspaper Enterprise in China.

Consul Hughes sends home from
Shanghai some interesting notes on news
paper enterprise in China. In addition
to religious and illustrated periodicals
there are two daily newspapers Shen
Pao and HUI Pao-published in Chinese
at Shanghai. The Shen Pao has a daily
circulation averaging $4,000 to $4,000
copies. During the Franco Chinese war,
its articles being written by patriotic
Chinese to suit the popular taste, the cir
culation increased to IS. 900 copies daily.
Cheap as the paper is Qess than half
penny, it is often sold after perusal.
sometimes changing hands more than
once during the day, and it is then
bought by Chinese postoffice employees,
who send it to the interior where steam
ers cannot reach. The circulation of
the HUI Pao is also stated to be consider
able, especially in this province. Both
these newspapers, although owned by
foreigners, are, we are assured, bona
fide organs of educated Chinese public
opinion. In international questions they
do not always take the foreign side, but
their influence, Mr.. Hughes tells us. is
on the whole exerted in favor of progress
and Observation-Disclosures News.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Value of Old Books.

The moral of all this is that every one
who has any old hooks, papers or PAM
phlets which he doesn't want should give
them to library instead of the paper
mill or the fire, and that every library
should have top drawer, as that insti-
tuition is known to all mothers of families,
in which to deposit nliscellanies of too
little apparent value to catalogue. Sew
enty-6ve dollars have been paid for a
quack almanac, badly wanted for some
purpose. And the prices paid for many
old books of perhaps not very much
greater intrinsic value are-well, Brad
ford's Almanac of half dozen vacant
pages fetches over $780, 1t was the first
issue of the press in Pennsylvania. The
Bay Psalm Book, printed in 1910, in
Cambridge, fetches over $1,000, by vir-
tue of being the first book printed in the,
now, United States. The late Henry
Stevens once bought $4,000 library to
get a copy Of this. While, if we go
back little further, we may find MI.
Quaritch. the London bookseller, giving
$40, 900 for book printed by Schoeffer,
the second printer, because it is a fine
and rare specimen of early Typography.
That is about 81, 900 year for the priv
ilege Of owning a booki These be the
things Of which enthusiastic librarians
dream, Philadelphia Times.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
"SchOOl Treats" of England.

The school treats are one of the nice
ways rich people in England take to
spend their money. All the teachers and
scholars in a London parish school are
invited to the country seat of the giver
of the treat, and every effort is made to
render the holiday pleasant and men,
orable one for the children. I was en-
gagged to assist in entertaining nearly a
thousand boys and girls at school treat
given by Col. North, the South Ameri-
can. He had special train, and the
children came in the care of their teach
ers and were accompanied by the curate
of the parish. A generous lunch was
provided, and it was nice to see the
hostess and bevy of pretty young
women, with big white housekeeping
aprons on, busily employed in spreading
butter, making sandwiches or cutting up
big masses of wholesome cake.
The affair lasted from 10 a. m. to D.
M. There were all sorts of games and
the never to be omitted Punch and Judy
show. Air balloons were sent up and
every child received toy of some sort.
The country band supplied music, and it
was great fun to see the importance of
the bandmaster as he fused about with
an air of great importance. Her lady
ship, the hostess, was treated like a
queen by him and everybody else. Some
time during the afternoon all the
children were grouped for photograph,
and then they marched off for tea in a
big tent. The curate said grace and the
good things soon disappeared. | found
these children very easy to amuse, and
they invariably laughed in the right
place, which cannot always be said of
older people.-New York Herald Inter-
view
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Ashes of the Dead.

have German friend, an artist,
whose father was for many years one of
the best known professors of his speciality
in this city He had shop in central
district and sold philosophical instru-
ments of a special class, in whose con-
struction and application he was an ex-
pert. He died couple of years ago.
recently called on my friend and spent
the evening with him and his widowed
mother. A portion of our conversation
turned upon the dead professor, and sew
eral times | noticed that the widow or
the son in abiding to papa" as they
called him, with tender affection, mo-
toned toward simple terra Gotta urn,
locked behind the glass door of a hand
some cabinet in the corner of the wall.
| learned later that the urn held the ashes
Of the dead man, who had been cremated
by his own request, and that it was the
intention of the mother to have her own
ashes mingled with his when the time
should come, and both buried together.
Alfred Tumble in Pittsburg Bulletin.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Take Time to Rest.

There are many ways to travel, but if
you desire to travel for pleasure and rest,
let me commend to you sailing yacht
as pleasant means of locomotion; and
if you want to get away from the world S
giddy unrest, from cares Of business and
from all the worries and petty annoy
ances that make life in the city a daily
round of wearying toll, 1 say to you go
and do as we are doing.
Cannot spare the time" you say?
All, well, then go on, my friend, and
worry and toll, and get worn and weary
and exhausted, and one day you will
''spare the time;" ay, as far as this
worlds work is concerned, you will spare
not only time, but eternity, too, and by
the time you should have died, if you had
lived natural life, temperate in labor and
indulgent in rest, the world will be whirl-
ing around as smoothly as if you had
never been. and you will, long before,
have been in your grave and forgotten.
When the Lord made men he did not in
tend that they should be gray haired,
physical wrecks at 40, as so many are
He doubtless intended that they should
not only work, but rest. j. Annoy
Knox.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Japanese Fruga1ity.

Some remarkable statements are
made by Professor Rein, scientist
who has been investigating the mate
rial resources of Japan. They reveal
a national frugality and economy of a
marvellous type. The area of Japan is
less than that of California Its cult
waited land is less than one-tenth of its
total acreage, yet its products support
about 3S, 100000 In Japan $3.50 per-
sons subsist from each square mile of
titled land A people existing in such
circumstances must, from necessity of
preservation, be provident, painstak-
ing, hard working, ingenious and fru-
gal. The Japs appear to deserve all
these adjectives. Agriculture with
them is literally market gardening,
because the soil is required to produce
more than any other place in the
wOrld.-Once Week.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Charge of a Tiger.

As general rule tiger will endeavor
to avoid an encounter with line Of ele-
plants; on rare occasions it will await
their approach, and charge home when
within few PAGES, but on still rarer &C.
casions it will advance to the attack from
some distance, mouth open, lips curling
upward, ears down, tail on end, every
hair on its body and head bristling with
fury.
Whoever has had the fortune to wit
ness such a charge will never forget the
magnificent sight, nor the terrific sounds
which accompanied the onward bounds
of the enraged monster. filling the air
around, and drowning the voices of all
other living creatures in its awful depth
and volume.
A large tiger viewed under such cir
cumstances: when his head and body are
greatly swelled out, and his appearance
rendered most terrific by the bristling of
his hair, is very different creature from
the lstless, fiat sided beast of menageries
and geological gardens. D.
Baker
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Postage Stamps Good Until Used.

Persons having old postage stamps
sometimes think they are rendered
worthless by the issue of new ones
This is not so. The only obsolete
stamps are those of the issues of 1S47
and 1851, very few of which are now
in existence in the north, and these
are generally worth more than their
face value for collectors. The issues
of 1861, 1869 and 1870 are as good in
the payment of postage as the new is
sues. The reason the issues of 1S47
and 1851 are not accepted is because
large amounts of these were outstand
ing in the south at the time of the re-
bellion, and the present holders of
them probably secured them without
rendering an equivalent to Uncle Sam.
Hartford Courant.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
The Ingenuity of womanlind.,

A story was told the other day that
admirably exempli6ed the ingenuity of
womankind. 1t was told by a well known
dock man as he was taking trip around
Grand Island the other afternoon. ssTbev
had no end of trouble in irving to keen
cups for drinking purposes at the water
coolers on the Periwinkle last summer. y
said he. 1.-THE captain was in despair
He had tried claiming the cups, but the
women even broke the chains. Finally
the engineer hit upon a bright and
novel plan. 4 tell you what to do he
said. Just prick hole through the bot
tom of each cup. That will make them
leak so that it will be impossible to carry
them to the upper deck The captain
was delighted, and Immediately ordered
a lot of new cups, which were carefully
bored. Then the engineer made himself
ready to smile at the passengers discom-
future. The first person that tried carry
ing water upstairs was a small bow. who
tested every cup and finally gave up the
attempt.
''The engineer chuckled and Rugged
himself in diabolical glee at the sue
cess of his scheme, but a school girl
fooled him just the same. She came
down humming an air from .Erminie.
filled up the first cup she got hold of and
started. The engineers delight was get
ting beyond bounds when he saw the
water streaming along the floor. The
girl saw it, too, and stopped short.
She sized up the leak and then, going
back to the cooler, deliberately refilled
the cup, put her finger over the leak and
carried the cup of water up stairs in tri-
umph. That was the maddest engineer
l ever saw, but instead of getting angry
l roared when he told me of it, and said
Score one for the girl. Bless the dear
things, anyhow. No matter how hard
or how often man may try to fool them,
it is the girl who comes out ahead. Say
what you are mind to, they get there
every time. buffalo News.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
Millions of Wooden Tootbn;c,zs.

The American is great consumer of
toothpicks. He not only picks his teeth
in private, but he does it in public, and
perhaps finishes by chewing up the
wooden implement. To supply the mil
hons of toothpicks used every year, in
genious machines of great productive
power have been invented. Like all
other businesses, the toothpicB business
has its combination, but a Maine inventor
has set out to break it with a machine
that makes COCO, Coo picks day. And
he is making new machine that
will produce 100000 day. Green,
clear, straight grained birch and maple
wood is used, and after steaming for sew
eral hours it is easily cut into veneers, OF
thin strips Of wood with the grain run
ming across. These veneers are pliable
and wound up on large spools, 100 feet
on each, and from the spools they are
fed into the pick machine, WHICH cuts
them into picks with wonderful rapidity.
Good Housekeeping.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-10-31
King Leopold and Queen Victoria.

King Leopold of Belgium speaks
and writes English with ease and ac-
curacy. He never lets Sunday pass
without writing an autograph letter
to his friend and ally, Queen Victoria.
Whenever he travels he takes with
him his confidential English attend
ant, Mr.. Charles Murray, who has
been in his service nearly a quarter
of century Although the king of
the Belgians has aged perceptibly dur
ing the past ten years, he has never
lost the equanimity of temper which
made him SO popular in his youth.
The king is now IS years of age, but
his health is good and he expects to
live many years more.-New York
World.