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The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13

SuAOA0kOs
Talking about that apology for a
smoke the Pittsburg stogie reminds me
of q peculiar experience I had with that
article some years ago." said an old time
cigar drummer at the Continental hotel.
II was travelling for a Philadelphia
house that made a fine line of goods
only, and had met only with Indifferent
success. Twas looking forward to Pitts
burg as a kind of Ell Dorado, and i'm
agined sales of great magnitude in the
Smoky City.
81 arrived in the evening and immedi-
ately started out to interview the trade.
About the first place I struck was a pros
porous looking cigar store, but I noticed
that among the stock the stogie seemed
to predominant. I~presented my card to
the proprietor, talked up my stock and
firm to him in great shape, but did not
seem to DO making any great Roadway.
The proprietor assured me that he was
full up, but said he would look owe my
samples tho following morningif Iwould
step IN. While I was talking to him and
endeavoring to prolong the conversation,
a gentleman walked in who Immediately
impressed me as being one'o of the solid
men Of the town. He had that unmis-
taxable sleek and well fed Dir of for
tunes favorite. Walking up to the
counter he selected four stogies and
lighted one, laid down q five cent piece
and walked out.
"'Do you know who that isT asked
the nronrietor Of mo Trnnliod in tho
negative. why, that's Phipps, Andrew
C%arnegie's partner was tho astounding
assertion. 1 was completely fabber-
gasted. That was the mutest and yet
the most convincing argument I ever
had to withstand. Without u word /
closed up my grips and took the next
train out of town. had come to the
very natural conclusion that if men
worth $780, 0 1000 took their smokes at
four for five I did not stand much show
with the plebeian smokers. "-Philadel-
phia Enquirer.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
How to Water a Horse.

Feed tho horse regularly, giving him
an even quantity. Do not water him on
top of his dinner till he is full as a bar
rel and then drive him off at q smart
gait whilo his insides are churned into a
malt house pressure, ready by eferves-
enc to burst. Give q horse sparingly
of water on the road. Many ladies seem
to think it "fun to see him drink" at a
wayside trough till he is ready to drop.
Be careful of tho wayside "gift of hu-
manity," the stone trough. If the horse
has been a long time on tho road, it is
kind to allow him to dip his lips in the
cooling water and swallow two or three
mouthfuls, but no more, unless you wish
to founder" him, that is, make him un-
sound in his forelegs for life. You may
even kill him, if the water comes from a
very cold spring. Do the watering most
ly at home is my rule. - New York
Weekly.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction.

A we'll known novelist Of this city was
telling how he finds his plots. 81 have
found nearly all of them in real life by
intercourse with people in all sorts Of
society. There are nc plots to DO drawn
from the imagination that are equal in
interest to those that can be learned by
knowing the actual experiences of many
of our men and women. Here in New
York you a hear of plenty of lovelorn
damsels and bold SWANS; you can find
heroes and heroines a-plenty; you can
hear of marvellous adventures; you can
find people whose career has been ro-
mantle; you can hear of intrigues and
their denouement; you a meet charac-
tiers who would shine on the printed
page; you can easily find in the actual
experience of your acquaintance all the
material needed for tragical tales or
humorous yarns. Why, the best plot ]
ever wrote up was not of my invention,
but was in the story of her own life
given me by my cook."-New York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
He Was Not Anxious to Learn.

Professor Albert Boehm, of this city, is
an enthusiastic naturalist. He has a large
collection of birds and animals, and
makes d practice Of exhibiting them at
fairs. The professor was at the Winona
fair, and had his museum in q tent on
the grounds. One day a gentleman
stepped in by the tent and looked at a
couple of coons which were tiedtoa stake
near the entrance. He did not know
what the animals were and asked the
professor, who told him they were coons,
and said: "If you will give me ten cents
and come inside the tent, when you come
out you will know more about natural
history than any of your normal profess
sors." The offer was a good one, but the
gentleman refused and turned away.
Professor Boehm asked o bystander who
it was, and was told, "Professor-, of
the -Winona normal school. LA Crosse
Trea1er.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
FOUND DESERTED ON A STONE.
A Touching Story of the Child of the Au
thor of .,Joln Halifax. Gcntlcman.n

A Touching Story of the Child of the Au-
thor of John Halifax, Gentleman"
Every woman in the land has bowed
down before "John Halifax, Gentle
man," but how many know much of the
life of tho om whose brain child he
was? There is in it a little romance that
I am sure many will like to hear. Mar
ried tc a gentleman who was Il cripple,
Mrs. Muloch Craik lived an idyllic life
ut a beautiful country homo Il few miles
from a county town. She heard one day,
quite incidentally, that :. baby had been
found ON q stone ut the cross roads, that
it had been taken to the town hall, and
that all the gentry about wcro going to
look ut it because it was such Il sweet
little child. So, following tho example
of her neighbors, she went too. Looking
up into tho sweet, sympathetic face of
the famed aathoress, the little baby
smiled and put out it's wee hands.
Dinah MULCH Craik could not resist
this, and SO she determined to take the
child for her very own. Quickly it was
wrapped up, and it became her baby.
Devoted to it, she was yet determined us
it grew older it should never have its
heart hurt by being told the story of its
birth and adoption; so as soon as the lit
tie girl was able to understand, it was
lovingly whispered to her that she had
been found on the large stone which
stood in the center of tho hall, and
which always was decorated with flow
ers, and that God had put her there that
hor ,,o+hor ,,,;,rlt E,,1 l,ar Ae coo, 81,
she grew old enough it became her
daily duty to cut the flowers and ar
range them to make beautiful this great
rock that had been dug up from the
cross roads and brought there.
To her it represented the place where
the hands of the angels had rested when
they laid her down. Curiously enough,
tho child became very proud of the way
in which she had reached the dear
mother who cared for her as lovingly and
as tenderly as if she were really her own
flesh and blood. Her birthday was the
day on which she was found, and when
the tenth came around and a child's
party was given her she was heard ask
ing n little girl, GLOW old are your
The other one answered, Il was born
nine years ago." "Ohy" answered the
baby, "you wero born like other chill
dren, but 1 am better than that; l was
found just where God had placed me-"
The childish pride was as amusing as it
was pathetic.
The years have gone by, the eyes of
tho good mother are closed forever to the
sights of this world, but the child she
cared for lives in tho great town of Lon
don and remembers. aud when the
mother of "John Halifax, Gentleman"
and of this girl stands before Almighty
God, don't you think that he will say,
Gas We have done it unto tho least of
these, so l will unto you."-Ladies'
Home Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
Amended Articles.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that application Vi! H.
made 10 TIE Secretary of tile State Of North Ia
kc,a for a charter for IL corporation TO he lllowE
as The Odd Fellows iuilding ard Loan Asssr e..
tinl of America. under the provisions of .Ast5tr
sixteen of chapter three OF the Civil Code III tic
complied laws of said State as amended ay iEc
laws of 1889.
Tie character and objects of sad Association
are as follows:
II is to be composed Of Odd Follows aul o
members of tile Degree of Rebckah, u the ind
pendent order of Odd Fellows. The authorized
capital stock of said Association to he SEA o. Ga.
din led into 10000 sllares OF orc hundred dollars
each PEI value.
Tie object of said associat Oh is 10 enrbie Odd
Fellows, Rebekahs and trustees of lodges of said
order 10 procure title 10 homes and lodge room
buildings, through the loan of innds of said 1850
citation, as the same are collected from time 10
tim as payments upon the said shares of stock.
in accordance with the articles Of incorporation
and bylaws of said association.
signed by A Z. NUGENT,
Icc294t c. f. MERRY.
CHAS. R.LANALL.EY.
JOHN PURCELL.
l.. F. LONG.
DUNCAN MCDONALD,
JAMES G. CAMPBELL,
AM. PACKARD,
a. II. GRAY.
ELMER Z. TURNER.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13

He was a stamp fiend, young and pre-
cocious. The plain American stamp had
no interest for him. Flo was making a
collection of foreign ones, and so when
they sent him down to the postofice for
a package he did not pay much atten-
ton, but brought it home and handed it
over, and skipped out to play tag. Next
day they showed him a new sister who
had arrived. He looked at her with
some curiosity.
"Say, where did she come FROM"
"Oh, from heaven"
"From heaven! l know. That was
the package 1 brought from the postoffce
yesterday, and ] never lnowed anything
about it,"
eyes"
"Golly! why didn't you save me the
stamps?'-San Francisco Chronicle,
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
December. 1890
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Observation-Disclosures
HOW -zERou WAS ADOPTED.
Fahrenheit Discovered. as He Thought
the Extreme of Cold and Named It.

Fahrenheit Discovered. as He Thought,
the Extreme of Cold and Named 1t.
Zero" is the part of every thermom-
eter that is most watched and dreaded
in this changeable climate of ours. The
word is from the Spanish, and means
empty, hence nothing. 1t was first used
on a thermometer in 1909 by a Prussian
merchant named Fahrenheit.
From a boy he was u close observer of
nature, and when only 10 years old, in
the remarkably cold winter of 1909, he
experimental by putting sno and salt
together and noticed that it produced a
degree of cold equal to tho coolest day
Of the year.
And that day was the coolest day that
the Oldest inhabitant could remember.
Gabriel was tho more struck with the
coincidence of his little scientific discov-
cry, and hastily concluded that he had
found the lowest degree of temperature
known in the world, either natural or
artificial.
Ho called the degree zero, and con-
structed o thermometer, or rude weather
glass, with a scale graduating up from
zero to boiling point, which he num-
bered 212, and the freezing point 80, be-
cause, as he thought, mercury contracted
the thirty-second of its volume on being
cooled down from the temperature Of
freezing water to zero, and expanded
one hundred and eightieth on being
heated from the freezing to the boiling
point.
Time showed that the arrangement
instead of being truly scientific was as
arbitrary as the division of the Bible
into verses and chapters; and these two
points no more represented the real ex-
tremes of temperature than from "Dan
to Beersheba" expressed the exact ex-
tremes of Palestine.
But F~ahrenheit's thermometer had
been widely adopted, with its incon-
venient scale, and none thought of any
better until his name became an au-
thority, for Fahrenheit finally aban-
doned trade and gave himself up to sci
n Then habit made people cling to
the established scale, as habit made the
English cling to the old system of cum
OAOUo A4dSG1oAiuA AiSA4CJ.
The three countries which use Fallren-
heit are England, Holland and America.
Russia and Germany use Banners Their
mo1neter, in which the boiling point is
counted SO dogs. above the freezing
point. France uses the centigrade ther-
mometcr, so called because it makes
the boiling point 100 degs. from freezing
point.
On many accounts the centigrade sys-
TEN is the best, and the triumph of con
venience will be attained when zero is
made the freezing point, and when the
boiling point is put 100 or 1000 dogs.
from it, and I'LL the Subdivisions are
fixed d%ecimally.
If Fahrenheit had done this at first, or
even if he had made it ono of his many
improvements after the public adopted
his error, the luck of opportunity, which
was really his, would have secured to
his invention the patronage of tho world.
New York World.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
Much Virtue in Gulf Water.

Probably you never heard of it before,
but the water of the Gulf stream is con-
fidently believed by certain old people on
Staten Island to be u sovereign remedy
for disorders of the stomach. They drink
half a glassful after each meal, smack
their lips, and i'll about three days they
get well. So they say. So pilots and
other seafaring men who get out to the
Gulf stream are frequently importuned
to bring in jugs of the gulf water for
the invalids. There lisa saloon keeper
down there whose faith in this sort of
thing is unlimited, and he has been be-
sicgins for about three years a certain
pilot of his acquaintance to bring HMM
some of tho water. But the pilot always
forgot.
Tho other day, however, he tickled the
old man almost to death by bringing
him three jugs of the precious liquid.
The saloon keeper began to brace up at
once, and three days later he chased the
pilot half way around tho island to over
whelm him with gratitude.
$50 it did you good, did it," says the
pilot.
"GoodT' says the old man. "Why,
bless you, my boy, it has added ten years
to my life. I feel like ayoungster again.
I'll bet l can beat you in Il foot race
right here"
And the pilot did not smile nor jibo
nor jeer. But when tho flood tide had
been running about an hour that even
ing he went softly down to the end of
Stapleton pier, drew out q tin bucket
and dipped up about a gallon of the
limpid stream. And the next morning
ttle saloon keeper was overjoyed to get
two more jugs of Gulf stream water
from lis thoughtful friend.
cts kind of q shabby trick" says the
pilot alphabetically, "but as long as
there are buckets handy around Staple
ton I guess Uncle Josh needn't go with
out Gulf stream water."-New York
Herald,
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
A CHEAP NEWSPAPER PLANT.
Twenty Dollars Purchased an Office and
Good Will in Wyoming.

Twenty Dollars Purchased an ONCE and
Good Will in Wyoming.
bought a newspaper for $20?"
"That's what I said," replied q tall,
lame man with Il G. A. r. button.
young Smidgely Went out to Nebraska
i'll 1877, about the time Bill Nye started
his Boomerang in Laramie, Wy, and
bought out the Lone Tree Courier, good
will. office fixtures, plantand everything,
for SEQ. He sold the same paper i'll two
years for $6.aa5O."
Great 1inancicr"
Yes; Il judicious combination of
finance and journalistic instinct. Smidge-
ly arrived in Lone Tree with only $25,
AMI put up ut IL hotel where the two men
or rather boys-who owned the paper
boarded. Ono of them was u printer
the younger one; the other was a stock
man up on the Loup river who didn't
know IN en- quad from a tripenny lath
nail. The price asked for The Courier
was 81, 400. Smidgcly looked tho office
over, said he'd take it, paid the boys $50
down, pulled off his coat and went to
work. There was of course q mortgage
on tho outfit. never saw a country pa
per in that state without one. One note
of 500 was due the next week. Smidge-
ly got out a rattling good paper-it was
u weekly. Tho first issue showed up
signs of improvement, and then he went
down and introduced himself to the
county treasurer.
Before ho left he got that official to
promise to use his influence with the
county commissioners in getting the tax
list to publish, and finally succeeded in
borrowing $500 on the promise of a good
bonus on the tax list fat. The list am
to 81, 100, all clear money by the way,
and then Smidgely got the county COM
m%issioners topublish tho official proceed
ings of the board-something that had
never been done beforehand this at 40
cents an inch, he fatted up to be worth
at least $50 n week-all net gain. The
whole town fell dead in love with
Smidgely, advertising rolled in, they
elected him justice of the peace, sent
him to the legislature and doomed him
for all there was in sight. Well, when
the nan came along, as 1 said, Smidgely
sold out for $G,250, went to Denver and
sunk tho whole in some mining specula-
ton. Every word of this story is true,
and it shows the possibilities which arc
always looming up in young states for
young. cnterprising men. st. Paul Pho
necr Press.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
Long ~I,caYerS.

An Irish priest at Ammergau told the
following story of his bishop: His lo"'-
ship and a chaplain came to see :
Passion play. They would fain have
had a room each, but this was not posi-
bic. They knelt down separately to say
their prayers by their little cots, and
presently it crossed the mind of the
chaplain that it would not be well to
make his prisons shorter than tho bish-
ops, and he glanced over his shoulder to
see if his lordship was about to make an
end.
The bishop, presumably anxious not
to scandalize his chaplain by the short
ness of his prayers, also glanced over his
shoulder and waited. The process was
repeated several limos. Both suppl.
cants were very fred, and in time both
fell asleep. They were found in the
morning on their knees still and sleep
ing.-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13

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The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
a Queer Find.

A few days agoayoung woman over in
Jersey City lost one of the silve-' tips
from her pocketbook. She made a Wig
orous search in her home and along the
way of her daily travel without finding
any trace of it. -Four days afterward
she met a friend who noticed that one of
the silver corners of the p%ocketboolk was
gone. Laughing the friend put her
hand into her pocket, saying, II believe
I've just found u silver tip that will fit
your pocketbook." And it not only did
fit, but it was none other than the very
tip she had lost.-New York Evening
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
ruE OF OLD

Flaunted the skull and cross bones, their en-
sign, denantly at the masthead. Your modern
pirate, not on the high seas, but upon the high
reputation of standard remedies skulks under
has never to any degree affected Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters, although that standard inyigorant
and corrective has long been the shining mark
at which his shafts have been directed. Cheap
local bitters, composed of fiery unrectifed slim
ulants. with an infusion. or extract possibly, Of
some tonic bark. are still sometimes recommend
ed as identical with, or similar to, or possessing
virtues kindred TO those of America chosen fam
lily medicine. These perish speedily, while the
great subduer and preventive of disease pnrsues
pcpsia, nervousness, kidney troubles, constipa-
ton and rheumatic ailments, not only on this
but on many continents.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
A Sacrllcgious Robber.

A stranger entered the Church of the
Assumption, Brooklyn, one Saturday
morning, and, borrowing a rosary from
the sexton, knelt in apparent prayer.
When tho sexton, who had been out, re-
turned a few minutes later the stranger
had vanished. So had two silver chal-
ices, two silken stoles and two prayer
books. Chase was given and the fellow
was caught. Upon his person was
found the booty taken from the church,
as well as three silver coffin plates bear
ing the inscription, crest in Peace
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
The Value of Cathartics.

Paradoxical as it may seem cathartics
are remedies for diarrh9a as well as con-
stipation. That is, in the earliest stage
of diarrhea the first thing needed is to
wash out the intestinal canal. Castor oil
has peculiarities which recommend it
for this purpose. In most cases if the in
testines are properly freed and the diet
is restricted for a few days to bland
foods tho diarrhna will subside without
further treatment. If it docs not small
doses of paragoric will generally greatly
favor a cure.-Boston Herald.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
AUTOMATIC SEWING mac-:SE.

Prices reduced. Every family roc ~
have the best Automatic Scmin:.. NJ
chine in the market at reduced i,i:t'
For particulars send for or T. III.
trated Circular with samples OF -.
ing. Our illustrated Circu: ~ H.
every pat of the Machine perfect:
is worth sending for even if ..:.i T.
Machine. iSruse & Murphy hi.
455 aud 457 West 21th ST., n. y. City.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
The New Game.

The climax in golf has come in Eng
land. 1t is not simply men who work
chiefly with their brains-judges clergy
men, artists. Journalists, members Of
parliament and novelists-that have
taken to it almost en- masse, and ri
never weary Of singing its praises as the
sole perfect cure for dyspepsia, the mea-
grims and worry. Young athletes IN
abandoning cricket and football for gols,
and are competing with each other as to
who can "drive the longest ball."-Ex-
change.
The Dickinson press., 1890-12-13
Prononounced Hopeless, Yet Saved.

From q letter written by Mrs. Ada E.
Hurd, of Groton, S. D., we quote: "Was
taken with a bad cold, which settled on
my lungs, cough set in and finally ter
minated in consumption. Four doctors
gave me up saying I could not live but
q short time. gave myself up to my
Saviour, determined if 1 could not stay
with my friends on earth, 1 would meet
my absent ones above. My husband
was advised to get DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, Coughs and
Colds. l gave it a trial, took in all
eight bottles; it has cured me and,
thank God, I am now a well and hearty
woman" Trial bottles free at J. j.
Freeman's drug store, regular size 80
cents and. 81.