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Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

A London paper tells of a dog which, having run away from it's new master, travelled fifty miles over an unknown country to it's old home, arrived there the day after starting.
 An officer who bought for trife an old desk in Montreal was led by marks on the cover to make an investigation, that proved the article one of such historic interest that the English gov ernment has given him one thousand dollars for it.
 A big poplar tree was felled at Utica, Ind, recently, and as it struck the ground large limb broke of, in the heart of which was found the antlers of 8 deer, . cows horn and number of rsur1ous shells. The mystery is how they got there.
 A prominent ranchero of the Upper Platte valley, Wy. T., lately issued an odd challenge to the betting fraternity of the universe. He will wager his place and stock against S1OOO0 that in any stated hunting season within three years he will. unaided, kill fifty grizzly bears in the Elk Mountain and Medicine Bow ranges.
 A family in Henry County, Ga., con- sists of three mothers, three sons, two grandmothers, three grandsons, one great-grandmother, one daughter-in- law, one husband, one granddaughter in-law, two brothers, one daughter, two great-grandsons, one wife, two widows, one grandmother-in-law, and there are only six in the family.
 A Murfreesboro (Tenn.) woman went into the post-ofice and demanded letter. When told that there was none she said she knew there was, and made the clerk look four or five times. When she became finally convinced she left the office in great rage, saying that she was going to make that old colored fortune-teiier refund the money she had paid her.
 -Parisians have lately been enter tained by remarkable artist who dis plays wonderful skill in her peculiar form of painting. With plates of va rious colored sand before her, she takes the sand in her right hand and causes it to fall in beautiful designs upon table. A bunch of grapes is pictured with violet sand, leaf with green sand, the stalks with brown sand, and relief and shadows by other sands; when the work is brushed away bouquet of roses and other objects are represented with the same dexterity and delicacy.
 The most polite nation in diplomat ic intercourse is Belgium. When the Belgian authorities addressed letter to this Government asking if the United States still claimed as citizens all chil- dren of alien parents born here, the com munication closed with: 'I should be grateful if your Excellency would have the great kindness to furnish me with this document and give me the infor- nation desired. Thanking your Excel lency in advance, I embrace," etc. Wishing to know what were the regula- tions of the United States in regard to peddling, the Belgian Minister con cluded with: 'I have the honor to have recourse to your Excellency's good of fees, begging you to be pleased to ac- quaint me with the laws and regula- tions which are in force in the United States regarding peddling. avail my aalf n etc
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CURE FOR HOARSENEsS.
The Treatment Prescribed for c Self WiIled Singer by the Great Frederick.

The Treatment Prescribed for . Self
 Willed Singer by the Great Frederick.
 There is a story told of the manner in which Frederick the Great dealt with primadonna of the period who was in- clined to dissppoint the public with lit- tie reason. The great artist seemed to catch cold, which had the effect of rem dering her hoarse, and consequently un- able to sing when anybody or any thing displeased her. One day certain opera was to be performed at Berlin before the King himself. At the appointed hour the manager came forward and said: Ladies and gentlemen, we grieve to inform ye1 that our prima donna has . sore shroat, and that the representation announced can not, therefore, take place." The stolid Teutonic audience seemed no whit surprised and was mov- ing out tranquilly when the King rose and commanded the musicians to keep their places. The audience sat down again and waited patiently on events.
 In less than quarter of an hour the manager reappeared and spoke as fol- lows: "Ladies and gentlemen, have the most unfeigned pleasure in inform ing you that our prima donna is com pletely cured of her sore throat and will have the honor to sing before you to- night" Surely enough the famous singer soon appeared, and never had she sung better. Her triumph was com plete. The Kings prescription had been very simple one. The prima donna, having dismissed the unhappy manager, was sitting comfortably before the fire in her own room, actually pleased with having spoiled the pleas ure of several hundreds of persons, when the door was violently thrown open and there entered an officer, fol- lowed by four dragons. ''Mademoi- selle," quoth the officer, ''the King, my master, has sent me to ask after your health" 1.-The King is very good. I have bad sore throat" ''His Majesty knows it, and has charged me to take you at once to the military hospital, where you will be cured in few days" Mademoiselle turned pale. "You are jesting," she simpered; but Prussian officers, she was informed, never tested. The Lieutenant gave the orders to the men, who seized mademoiselle and car ried her out.
 A coach was in attendance, the lady was deposited therein, the officer took his place beside her and of they went, the dragoons riding alongside. In 6 few seconds, Stay" said the lady, 1T think I feel better" ''The King is anxious, mademOiselle, that you should feel quite restored, and even that you should sing tonight" 'I will try" murmured the prisoner. Back to the theater!" cried the officer to the coach man. Arrived there, mademoiselle be- gan to think she had yielded too easily. '1 will sing, since his Majesty commands me-" she said, but heaven knows how" ''You will siEg," returned the officer, Hike the great artist you are" 'I shall sing like an artist with bad cold" T think not" And why?" Because a couple of dragons will be in attendance, and at the least couac they have orders to carry you of again to the military hospital" The hoarseness was now completely gone Chronological Journal.
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MARvELS OF HYPNoTISM.
Experiments Which Are Railing to tn
 Ordinary Comprehension.

Experiments Which Are Railing to the
 Ordinary Comprehension.
 The end I have ever held before my eyes, then, and which I hope l have never lost from view, is this: To stud the hypnotic phenomena according to :; strictly scientific method and for thi purpose to employ processes purel physical and which can always be con pared with one another, so that the r suits obtained by me may be rigorousl tested by all observers who shall u. the same procss5es under the same cor ditiOns. Take one example from amor q thousand. 1 present to a woman ? ticnt in the hypnotic state blank lc, of paper and say to her: Here is n portrait; what do you think of it? Is a good Ekeness?'' After -a-r.-A',,c-,-- hcsite tI5-l s1o answers: ''Aes, incecd your photograph; will you give it | me?" To impress deeply in. the minC of the subject tlis imaginary portrait point with pJ finger toward one of tn four sides of ta3 square leaf of paper and tell her th2t my profile looks in that direction; 1 describe my clothing. The imlre being now fixed in her mind I t Ike lhat leaf Of paper and mix it with Q score Of other leaves precisely like it. I then hand the whole pack to the pa tiont, bidGing har go over them and let me know whether she finds among these any thing she has seen before. She be- Cins to look at the leaves one after an other, and as soon as her eyes tall upon the one first shown to her q had made upon 1t a maril that she could not discern) forthwith she exclaims: "Look, yonr portrait!' What is moro curious still, if I turn the leaf upsid down, as soon as hel ey-5 rest upon |. she turns 1t over, saFing that my phO- tograph is on the obver5e. then con vay to her the order that she shall con tinue to see the portrait on the blani paper even after the hypnosis has passed. Then l awaken. her and again hand to her the pack Of papers, requesting h 'I to look over them. She handles then just as before when she was bypnOtized- and utters the same exclamation: ''Look, your portraiJ.' If now 1 tell her that she may retire, she returns to her domitory. and hor first care will be to show to her companions the photograph have given her. Of course. her com panious, not having received the sug- gostion. will see only blank leaf of pa per without any trace whatever of portrait, and will laugh at our subject and treat her as @ visionary Further more, this sUgge3tion, this hallucina- tion, will, if l wish, continue several days; all have to do is to express the wish, to the patient before awakening her.
 The foregoing experiment has been m de hundreds 5f times by me and by others, and ,ha fact c n eGsily be suli strntl4ted; taejr obiectivtg- IS as com plete as could he EisLei in rescarohe of this kind. bvnua-lsTn is direotl amenable tc 1lr means of invest. a5ion and must ns n- 2u ila8gral part e the known Goaain of science; to that goal our efforts on l5 to be directed.- Dr. J. Nj. Cha-co., ia Forum.
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Tho Irish Lea.ler at Home

Charles Stewart Parnell, when at home, conforms to local style in dress. His brooches are tied at the knee with ribbon wildly green in hue. Stout, brown worsted stockings, a little the worse for wear, cover his shapely limbs, ending in pair of brogues that have not recently been submitted to the backing brush A waistcoat left un- buttoned displays blue cotton shirt; q high collar, such as Mr. Gladstone wears in holiday time, is loosely tied with a kerchief, green, but not so decidedly patriotic in tone as the ribbons that knot the brooches at the knee. A high hat with exceedingly small brim is rakishly set on one side Of his head, and you do not fail to notice the ''cuddy" stuck in the rusty band that confines the base of the crown and has braved many storms in the lovely Wicklow mountains.-Baltimo Sun
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A BIG SNAKE STORY.

How tho Crlho Ot St. Lucia Swallows SoTpents Larger Than Itsei!. No part of the West Indies is so rich 1T
 snake stories as St. Lucia Froude tell:
 how this fer d. lance hunts his humaI
 prey by creeping along garden path un
 tilthe guilelcss tourist falls foul of him
 when in the tl..sh of the eye the fierc
 beast has stabbed him with fangs tha never do loss than kill Col 4ridge, [ nephew of tine p ct, who visited the
 i5l.nd i'll 1335, giy95 the gentle reader [ sh idiCy hv aJ ytaE tha5nOt even on horse back is the .au45ly-y9 traveller safe f.Or a savage u-n--er known as the woo
 slave. Whosc aiye is a5 deadly IS that c Froudcs uJ-te, and whose instincts are
 no lass desperate. Nei.hec of these gentlemeu L3d seen any snake in St ! Lucia: no more have I. But it vii l never do to leave the island withoU
 something or this subject more author itaJiye .han tAe yarn of an engineer sergeant.
 1 therefore take pleasure in assurinr
 prospective travellers to this place tha iii l844 St. Lucia Was pronounced to b
 .'infes ei 5y countless reptiles" an, this frou che pen Cf one who had re sided .I :rzaan years in the place, NJ. Green. H.o his snake story differs ma teriall7 from those of both Froude anj Co.l..l.e in yla5 ne appears to kno' nc le- 5er Ga lance nor wood slave, tells oi p un.1uitous yellow serpent hN of nj
 cured if prol- o5iy cttonded to, and fro whs5 lea rIcl in C.sJrics J an disros'
 to back .ha statement Of the thlrtGe year ---ie.=,-J.- s against those Of u two gentlemen n first quoted, though u one Dc ( l-a1cclll and .-o ether the SC ot i;4sho4, Fms yellow serpent, hoI ever, has 2a cE-ny called the cribC
 MO is 95 n Q 2r@~assiye and powerful a-G Lack, ais .eLIOWslip at $ ght an M -a-, pccrorati0n- Mir. Breen say
 ji.. 1as ' How serpent in these com
 | t- -S..a-y comes of second best, anC taa. 5le o-ibo is so clever that when h. is through with the fight he rolls abou oIl l.2o leaves of a plant called pie p.@-e, which operation notonly counDer
 a. ,s aly evil effects from the other .b.ie, bat acts as a tonic for more fight e
 t. sano kind, 50 that ultimately th
 eliio is sure to gain the victory, whig he slgnaiizes by swallowing his victil
 whole. commencing with the head.
 Some -ines the c-ibo is called upon
 sw'll1w an adversary longer and bigg,
 taaa himself, an operation that mic discourage one less fruitful in resourc G'a work is accomplished in this w 1 I-5 cr.bo swallows as much as the cu
 contents as his skin permits, whereUp
 be gees to sleep until time nerves ! for q second ort. He then sucks [ what is noco uI to keep himself
 tended, and t1oreupon once more see
 rest and sleep p-repea.ing these or
 tions until tIe apparently-impo
 task is acc0mpishod-namely: sUa.to
 ing more than himself.-Leeds (Lu= Mercury.
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IS CRIME A DlSEASE7
The Best Treatment for Those AGicts
 with Criminal Symptoms.

The Best Treatment for Those Afflicted
 with Criminal Symptoms.
 In recent times the idea has become very prevalent among certain class of sentimentalists that crime is not an in- dication of innate depravity, but symptom of mental and physical disease, or an inheritance from some criminal ancestor, and, there fore, the much-abused murderer or rob Der is not bad man, but only an un- fortunate one, deserving of pity and care rather than punishment A sick man, they say, ought not to be impris- oned, and one who is staggering under a load of homicidal tendencies be- queathed to him by his grandfather is not worthy of death, even if he does oc- casionally send some of his less unfortu- nate fellow-beings into the next world. A man physically and mentally sound is less likely to commit criminal acts than one with diseased body or abnormal mental action, and the history of the notorious Jukes family proves beyond question, that from a single criminal ancestor may spring long line of de- oCCAOdAIo, d may O4 "AOA UAAA DO enemies to the welfare of society. But granting that tendency to crime may be inherited, it must originate some where, and if mans ancestor may have been spontaneous criminal, as it were, another man of the present day may also be laying up, on his own responsi- bility, heritage of crime for his unborn descendants. If the abnormal tenden- cies can be eradicated, and the criminal made useful member of society, every effort should be made to that end; but, if crime is a disease, it seems-at least in it's more serious manifestations-to be an incurable one. The percentage of reformed criminals is discouragingly small, and that of those convicted for subsequent offenses disproportionately large. The best treatment of such per sons IS a perplexing question, but the right of self-preservation is paramount to every other consideration, and the morbid unwholesome sympathy shown by an increasing class of people toward those who are so much out of harmony with their social environment, will only result in great injury to the orderly and law-abiding classes of society, without causing any decrease of crime or confer ring any permanent benefit upon the criminals themselves.-Popular Science News.
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"A L!IT4


 -''Ka, inc, wlla4 ;er 2c.ii' -'l Yv bes' fur r.,st?" Only i,s' s2-,1.s:2' g little hair restorer on 1t. De wool's fallin' out. "-Ti3ne.
 -Physician-"Whv, man. you sent word you had the grip" Paa.ont-'I know, doctor but I d:Ir't think you'd take time to visit fellow who only had a common every day broken leg."-Phil- adelphia Inquirer.
 -Smarty wonder how the moon manages to sustain her social status among the heavenly bodies when she gets full so often" Tarty-'Ch, the stars all wink at her delinquencies. .''- Drake's Magazine.
 -Ponsonby-'I understand that Dig bys wife is deaf and d44--s''.''-F51.ss ---es-rI5iG 50? I WOndY=-if she converSeS with her fngers?' Ponsonhy-''Guess so. Digby is about the balde5t man ever saw."-Burlingto Free Press.
 -Employer-''Willia Mrs. Sprig- gins complains that she received only one of the bundles she had put up here last night" William-''That's funny, sir. I wrote Mrs. Spriggins on one bundle and put ditto on each of the others"
 -Bride-"Are there many tunnels on this railroad, Charles, dear?" Bride groom-'Quite number, dearest. selected it on purpose. If I remember rightly we are coming to one in a few moments" Brakeman (entering)-'Se- lect your partners for the tunnel, please. ."-America.
 Stern Parent-"You can not have my daughter unless you love her as your life" Lover-'Oh, sir, I'll die if she isn't mine." Stern Parent-"What, sir? You would take your life?" Lover No, would hardly do that" Stern Parent - "Then you can't take my daughter. ."-Munsey's Weekly.
 -Stranger-"Where does that new dentist have his office% Policeman You mean the one who pulls teeth without pain?" Stranger-"Yes." Pc Eceman-"Go right around the corner. You will have no trouble finding his office. You can hear his patients yell half block away."-Texas Siftings.
 -JOnn-- Cldfd, l N0 ROI all mpOr- tant question to ask you" Clara-'I know what it is. You want me to be your wife. I dreamed it. Well, take me-" John (rather nonplussed) )-"You dreamed it2" Clara-"Yes, I dreamed last night that you asked me what am asking you, and that you took me in your arms and kissed me after said you" What could John do?-Boston Courier
 -Musician-'1 am getting up bene- fit concert, and have been travelling around selling tickets all the morning. l have done all the work myself, per suaded people to take part without pay, hired the hall, sold tickets, now I want you to print the programmes" Printer -''Yes, sir. What shall we call the affair."" Musician-'How would it do to say: "A spontaneous testimonial rendered to MT. Strummer by his many friends?''-Exchange.
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15

Chang Fan Moar, the interpreter at- tached to the Chinese legation at Wash ington, is described as a gigantic blonde Chinaman, with profile as regular as Greek statue. He comes from the north of China, where, owing to the severity of the sumptuary laws, the race is kept intact as to its unusual size and peculiar attributes.
Tombstone epitaph., 1890-03-15

General Jackson, according to . New Orleans antiquarian, appeared on the battlefield at Chalmette logged out in queer style. He wore full suit of regimentals save and excepting the chapeau bras. Instead of that he wore silk hat of the ''stovepipe" or "chin- usy-pot" style.
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CoBNfY OFFICERS

Suycrvisors-b. ;. COFFMAN, LnII:niah d. JOHN MoNTGoAERY ana 1. WHITE, Nil oerS.
 Snert-I. oLAU1HreK. Under ; ,;rl1-l. A HAIIUCk
 r,-,,ure IA. P. lL LLlsTkk Rc ,ri.. N. r. BRADLEY
 jistucf ,ttu n W. i iILNEL, r!oDat .dsc-L- K. ii ISh. -terk .Jo,.ic, CoIrt-t fl .-hA nu;yeyo il ]. hH@E
 tSSeSSD \ LILLIAN
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Mercury.

Referring to the return from the honeymoon of a couple living in vicinity, West Grove, Pa, paper S. hey were given a serenade that w hilarious if not u1becoming. MQ, ider was drunk and damage done."
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uNIrAp srArEs eEtlCtRs

United States MarsnAi-W k. MEADE. United >tatrs Att prney-H. R FFui T.
 rUCsDt LAND OFSt,k ReSIsIer-HERBERr BROWN 2ecelver-C. R DRAKE.
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HENRY G. HOWE.

TINTED STATES DEPUTY MINERAL Surveyor. Tombstone, Arizona MembeT of the Amer an Institute of Mining Engineers Attention given to the care of mines for non ssident owners and corporations. The best ol stszeass givsR CaEyssPoaasnse solicited.
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A Ll pFfis Eas

,iay.G l1AkLE5 N. IHOA ,s
 : lie Ji -olue--D. Vi. G ,1E
 Ire retSdser-OLLivEk lkEvnIiAh
 CIIy Attorney-G. " SwAIN.
 / Ldltor anu KeroIdcr-\AI HAmkk - tIIy ,sesSor-J. L. WLIshk. = (JuncilInen--riISI Watd |. b skNOUL. on Narl, 1 AMPBEi-L; :.rd Na.u, iC- LIrPEKr; rouIth Ward, JoHN rKIADr ii.LD
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CUSTOMS OFFICtR.

rucson-l B. HAaBLEToN rO uDstone-l. ii, CARPENTER. Nogale,-J. M WILSON.
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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERRITORIAL OFtICkI

Governu!-LEwIs WoLtLLY. Secretary-N. Q. MUkFHY. AudItor-IHoHAS HUGHES. Attorney Geueral--CLARk CHURCHILL Surveyor General-RoYAL A. JOHN; ON. Treasurer-I. '. l. SMITH. Super1utendent ot Pubic InsIructIon-G. N CHENEY.
 Delegate to Congress-M. A. SMITH. SuptT1ntenden. of Territorial PrIsUn- Ii BkHAN.
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DISTRICT tOuRT

FIrs, iu,;Icial D,str1ct-R E SLOAN.
 oeconu Judicial ilIstrict-J. Ii. kIBBtY. h,rd judiciaI DIstrlct-l. Ii. NIGHT
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sUPREME C0lRT

Chiet jusnce-IAMEs ii WRIGHT. Associate Iustlces-I. Il. KIBBtY, K. SLOAN
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R. A. V.

A STATED MEETINGS ON Til %AY third Weunesd2y of each month III Ma. .NN ,onlc H.ul Nouce of special meeunA Dy nol'ung special flag. SoJoArnIng Co" pamon Ofd,ally invited.
 4DoLPH COIN Il. F. F. L MOORE. Secreia
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WasHIssTos CAMP .o.L.P. s. OF A.

--S@s KE0ULAk MtEIINGo OI AS this amp the hi sI tfITu th zLW days oi each "a ontn, Mes u. Haii. .NouUe oI special meetings c., uU,sl n the flag. c l.. konLEk, PresIucnI.
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VIM. c. STAEHLE,

A If R IEY AND COU NSELO A A Law of ,e- Ailel street. be; eea i'oDT l ant h. Tombstone. A, lzon.
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ARlL1la l0JGE R,. 4, K. OF p.

MNA REHU LAR CONVE NTIpN E E9a every Monday even. Ls Tn Mas ,nIc IIs . SSE1 Vlsung knl5h Tn good standing at Nf2 cordially Invted
 l. w. KELsor, (. c. W. D. MoNNONILR n. oI k. anu 5.
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$oc,eI.y Notices.
n c sJLoAoa lJocs 10. s. F. & 4 Nj

ELS HE rhiRD SA N. .yAA, day n each nonth at Masonic Il .l AK Al VlSliIng Brothers n gooc StanGII. 7 " are invited to attend. Spccial m e. ngs when the dag IS hoistcd on the Hall.
 CHAs. oMlTH, w. NJ. A. L. GROW, Sec.
The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1890-09-18
CHRISTOPHER WAR.
fourteen Thousand Men Are Fighting the
Plague in Algeria.

fourteen Thousand Men Are Fighting the
Plague in Algeria.
Immense swarms Of grasshoppers have
| invaded parts of the country of Algeria
and are spelling lots of things. Two
thousand soldiers, aided by 1900
Arabs, have been employed to fight the
pest Tho roadways present the APP
pcarance of a battlefield, and extraOr-
binary efforts are being made to rid the
surrounding country of this insect enc
my.
This is not the first time that this
plague has devas tated Algeria. In 1915
the harvests of almost the entire coun-
try were destroyed by grasshoppers.
From 1747 to 1749 these insects desc
lated Algeria, extending their ravages
even to parts of Europe.
Millions on millions of tho dead
| bodies of these insects are covering at
present the great roadway leading from
Mascara to Mostaganim and filling the
| springs and rivers. The task of killing
| these masses OF grasshoppers is no
| small one. Imagine a district of one
| hundred miles in circumference, which
not long ago was covered with wheat,
| tobacco, and fig and olive trees, but
now is so densely covered with grass
hoppers that net a single green branch
or leaf can be seen. For three years a
distinguished Partisan naturalist, NJ.
Kunkel, has been studying how to ex-
| terminate these creatures. The best
| plan seems to be that of stamping the
moving, Quivering heaps with the bare
| feet Shovels and other sharp instru-
ments are used, but it has been noticed
that the elastic layers of grasshoppers
tend to rebound after pressure and only
the layers on top are crushed. Large
fires have also been lighted, but the
dense smoke arising from the flames is
only partly effective in preventing tho
descent of these all-devouring swarms
| London Letter