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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-05-21

Proposals for Supplies-Mint ofthe
United Seates. Superintendents offies
Carson City, Nevada, May l3tn., lS9oc.,
sealed prop ,sa!s will be received hy the
Undersigned until IL O'Clock tnoon). -
the 10th. day of June. 1890, for furnish
ing such supplies as may be required
from ii ne to time by this Mint during
the tive We months ending June 30th..
1891. em bracing aciis AMI other che MI
calls, wO ,d, charcoal, salt borax, soap,
gloves, cotton cloth. dry goods, metals.
hardware and other necessary sup
plies.
Schedules AMI blank forms for pro-
posa g ui b inform alton as 70 The uan-
tity of each article that will probably be
REQUIRED, will b. furnished on apDlica-
ton. Proposals will be conside ed sep
arately on each article, and upon com.
parisOp of the pr es and samples OF
articles furnished, and will be accepted
as to he whole or q part, as may he
deemed for the best interest offhe tlov.
ernment. the right TO reject any or all
proposals being reserved.
heauisiiI0p will oe made on the par
ties whose bid NAV b5 accepted, and
the articles must be furnished as re-
quired vii out delay.
/. Proposals, to receive consideration.
must be accom- paniei by sufficient
bond VIII b one or more sureffes, and bv
samples or such desceip' Ion of the arti.
cles as will clearly designate tte kind
and quality. PROPOSALS sh Duid be ad-
dressed to the undersigned aud encle ed
with a copy OF this a6 Vertisenent In y
sea ed en- ve}ope, en- 'orse .'Propos1is
for SuDy ies.n The bids will be opaned
AID registered at the hour named In the
presence OF the bidders and officers OF
The Mint.
SC WRIaHr,
Sup u. $. Mint,
mis- I'd Carson City. Nevada.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-05-21
ELECTION NOTICE!

NOTICE is hereby given that in
accordance with Section of an Act
approved March 2. 1855, Statutes of
1885, page 52) an election will be held
on
Saturday, the 2ath day of May
Submitting to the qualified electors OF
School District No. 1, the question,
whether a tax shall be raised to fur
nish additional school facilities for
said district.
1t is proposed to raise the sum of
81, 500 to be expended in placing the
Central School building in complete
repair; also to build and add thereto
two new class rooms; also to purchase
the blocks of land in the rear of and
adjoining said Central School building
property
The ballots will contain the words :
"Tax' Yes. or "Tax No" The POLLING
place will be at the Curry Engine
House and polls will be open from Sa.
IN. to E p. m.s
By order of Board of School Trus-
tees, Ormsby Co. school District Mol
w T. HANFoRD, Clerk.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-05-21

Cnas. Brady, Somerville, Mass. who
refers to DIR. J.J. Wood, druggi It of that
city, certifies TO wonderful cure ofru2-
ming sores on the neck which had been
treated dy hospital physicians without
cure, and which yielded completely to
the CUTIcURA REMEDIYS.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-05-21

Secretary and Treasurer.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-05-21

Treasury Department, Washington, d. O..
April 20. 1890. Sealed proposals viii be re.
oeived until 2 o'clock P. ~ Tuesday Msy 20,
1900. n manufacturing and acing in posi-
tisu IN com etc working order in the u. :.
baildings in the places hereinafter named,
standard furniture. viz; Augusta, Ca. Abing-
ten. Va, Carson City, Nevada, Houston, !,
Texas, Huntsville. Ala, and San Antonis,
Texas. Specifications, Drawings, and ank
forms of propo'al will be orwarded to ma nu-
facturers ON app ication to the Department.
Tae right to reject any aud all bids, and
vaive defacts. is re esu d. Partial bids will
not be considered. Proposals should be ad-
dressed 10 the Seer tn OF the T easury, and
eodors ed: "Propo -als for furniture for o. s.
soldiLgs Accordance of proposals 10 de-
yeodent upon zpprop -iation by O5ngress. W.
WINDOW. Secretary
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-05-21
TO Rem L.

A FIVE ROOM HARD FUR
"A nished house and shcd on King
Street west Of Judge Edw ards Office. Gas
water. etc. Apply to William Musgrove
No20
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-05-21
CUTICURA ABROAD

Through home-returned Nor~ eigian
/ have learned to know your cUTICURA.
which has in a short time cured me of an
Eczema that my physicians medicines
could not heal. CHR. HELTZEN.
BERaEn, NORWAY. AqenturJOTretDtny
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-05-21
CEMETERY WATER.

AEIM l. i LIN Wv "A LIN
At the annual meeting. of the Board
of Directors of the "Cemetery water
works." April II, 1890 it was
RESOLVED, That all persons wishing
water for irrigation, the present season
will be required to pay for the same on
or before May 1, 1890, for the season
of five months, from May Ist to Octo-
Der.
The Superintendent will not water
any lot except in compliance with this
resolution.
M A. MURPHY
President.
A. M. McCABE,
Secretary and Treasurer.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-05-21
futiCuTa

a feeling of gratitude impeis me te
acknowledge the great merits of your
CuTIcURA, and / cordially recommend il
to the public as very valuable remedy.
III N POWERS. BRIDsEpoRr, CoSN
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-05-21
Know ITS VALUE

All of your CUTICURA REMED give
very good satisfaction. The CUTIcURA
1 especially rs. .orlmend for the dis
seases for which itir used. Iknow from
experience its value. DIR. H. j. PRATT.
MOnsallO. Wis.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1890-05-21
CURED RY CUTICURA

MY skin disease, which resisted sew
eral popular remedies and other reme-
dies advised by physicians, has peen
cured by your CuTIcURA ai KEMED. Es' E
pectations and IA pidly effected cure.
JIG. C.ARENTRUE,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
BUFFALOeS AS PETS.
The Monarch of the Plains Is Not Intel
gent But Very Afectlonate.

The Monarch of the Plains Is Not Intelli-
gent But Very Anectlonste.
Mr. Hornaday, according to the Pitts
burgh Dispatch, places the buffalo very
low, indeed, in the standard of mental
capacity, and makes this stupidity the
cause of his determination. But if the
monarch of the plains lacked intellect,
he certainly did not want for affection.
The manner in which the bull buffalo
protected the calves Sf the herd is a
glorious example of paternal instinct.
An army surgeon related the following
instance to Mr.. Hornaday: He was in
the camp one evening whom his atten-
ton was attracted by the curious action
of a little knot of six or eight buffaloes.
Approaching sufficiently near to see
clearly, he discovered that this little
knot was made up of bulls, standing in
a close circle, with heads outward,
while in a concentric circle at some
twelve or fifteen PAGES distant sat at
least a dozen large gray wolves Except
ing man, the most dangerous enemy OF
the buffalo, The doctor determined to
watch the performance. After few
moments the knot broke up, and still
keeping in compact mass, started on a
trot for the main herd, some half mile
off. TO his very great aston shment,
the doctor now saw that the central and
controlling figure of this mass was a
poor little calf, so newly born as scarcely
to be able to walk. After going fifty OF
a hundred PAGES the calf laid down, the
bulls disposed themselves in a circle as
before, and the wolves who had trotted
along on each side of their retreating
supper, sat down and licked their chops
again, and though the doctor d not sec
the finale, it being late and the camr
distant, ne had no doubt that the noble
fathers did their whole duty to Their
offspring, and carried it safely to the
herd. The buffalo, if taken wher
young, submits with surprising readi
ness to the restraints of captivity. Mr.
Hornaday declares buffalo calves make
excellent pets.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
DURABLE TIMBER.
Eight valuable suggestions Based on
Prof. RANKINGS Experience.

Eight valuable suggestions Based on
Prof. RANKINGS Experience.
Professor Rankine says: There are
certain appearances which are charac-
teristic of strong and durable timber to
what class soever it belongs. l. In the
same species of timber that specimen
will in general be strongest and most
durable which has grown the slowest,
as shown by the narrowness of the an
nual rings. g The cellular tissue, as
seen in the medullary rays when v1sl-
ble) should be hard and compact. D.
The vascular or fbrous tissue should
adhere firmly together and should show
no wooliness at a freshly-cut surface
nor should it clog the teeth of the saw
with loose fbers. 4. If the wood ls
coIored. darkness of color is in general
a sign of strength and durability. >. The
freshly cut surface of the wood should be
firm and shining, and should have some
what of a translucent appearance. a dull
chalky appearance is a sign of bad tim
Der. 8. In wood of a given species, the
heavier specimens are in general the
stronger and the most lasting. 7. Among
resinous woods, those which nave least
resin in their pores, and among non
resinous woods, those which have least
sap or gum in them, are in general the
strongest and most lasting. s. 1t is
stated by some authors in tfr-wood that
which has the most sap wood, and in
hard wood that which has the least, is
the most durable-but the universally
of this law is doubtful. Timber should
be free from such blemishes as cletts or
cracks radiating from the center; cup
shakes" or cracks which partially separ-
ate one annual layer from another; V
''up-sets, . where the fibers have been
crippled by compression; V ''ringalls,"
or wounds in the layer of the wood
which have been covered and concealed
by the growth of subsequent layers over
them.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
A MISSIONARIES LIFE.
Heroic Work of an American Woman il
the Wiids of Africa.

the Wilds of Africa.
In this place, one Of the most uncivil-
lied parts of West Africa, an American
lady is living without white companions
instructing the natives and cheerfully
performing all the duties that devolve
upon her as "A missionary. She is Miss
Martha Kah. of Cheyenne County. Neb.,
and she is the only representative left
of the missionary party esta blished here
by Bishop VIM. Taylor.
Several men were in the party when
it came to Africa, but the trying climate
proved too much for them. The super
intendent of the station, Mr.. Steele, was
compelled by i'll health to return to
America last year, and then Mr.. Sortore,
of Missouri, and Miss Kah were all who
were left. In April, 1889, Mr.. Sortore
died with African fever and Miss Kah
is now alone, and is far too busy to be
greatly disheartened by the sad events
that have robbed her of all her com
paniOns.
Miss Kah superintendent the house
keeping while the others were with her.
and now She is obliged, in addition, to
Keep JIG oCHooi SOIuS' anu W uIreCL INC
labors on the plantation. She teaches
school five days evory week if not pre-
vented by sickness. The plantation was
opened by Mr.. Sortore, and on it is
raised considerable manioc, bananas
and coco. 1t is necessary to keep up the
plantation, for Miss Kah, in addition to
her missionary work, must support her
self; the theory of the Taylor missions
being that the missionaries all support
themselves.
1t is marvellous how economically Hiss
Kah and her recent comrades lived in
this savage part of the world; and yet
they have always been prepared to en-
terrain Hospitality any traveller who
comes Mandy French Congo
. Letter
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
AMONG THE FURNACES.
The Hard Life Led by the Firemen on tn
Racing Steamers.

The Hard Life Led by the Firemen on the
Racing Steamers.
It is a hot. calm day in the middle of
summer, the sea rolling in long, smooth,
oilv swells There is light breeze
right astern, but the ship is steam1ng
as fast as the wind. and the sails hang
listlessly from the yards and flap against
the masts and ropes. AS one descends
the engine-room ladder the air feels
close and deadly heavy and brings on
dull headache The engineer on watch
is dragging himself round as If his
limbs were of lead, and even the
engines do not seem to be going ahead
with their usual energy. As we pass
through the tunnel which connects the
engine room with the stoke hole the
sitting atmosphere nearly drives us
back. There is not a breath of air COM
ing down the ventilators, and the heat
is so great that one has sensation as OF
lump of lead in the ears, and ones
voice sounds thick and far away.
The firemen are stripped to the waist
and the engineer has very little more on,
being only distinguishable by the gilt
band and badge on his cap as he moves
about from one furnace to another,
directing the firemen or regulating the
water in the boilers.
In spite of the heat the fires burn
dull. for they can get no air. and the
firemen, urged on-one might say driven
by the engineer, ARE doing all they
know with rake and shovel to keep up
steam. the perspiration running in
streams down their coal-begrimed bodies
and leaving them striped like zebras.
Each man in turn falls back exhausted
and is succeeded by another, who lays
hold of the heavy ''slice, and works the
fire through and through: but all to no
purpose, for in spite of all they can dc
the steam will not rise. In technical
language, ''she is steaming stiff. and.
unless the W nd changes, or gets strong
err will continue to do so.
To keep on at this work without
drinking is impossible, and the firemen
consume an incredible amount of water:
but. in spite of all the praise bestowed
upon this beverage by teetOtallers. il
has its dangers when drank to excess.
especially in high temperature. and
presently one of the men. who has been
INDUCING too freely, is seized with
cramps in the stomach and has to bt
carried on deck. leaving the rest tearing
away at the obstinate fires.-ContempO
rary Review.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
HOOSIER SRREWDNESS.


\ Man who Was Prepared For All Sorts Of
Contingencies.
There are several champion mean
men in this country" said the circus
agent, but my champion mean man
lives in a town in Indiana. If any other
State can match him I'll let one thou
sand orphans into our show for nothing"
Give US the particulars, remarked
one of the group.
''Well. when our advertising car got
along there last season the men wanted
one side of a cooper shop to display some
of our finest PICTURES. The owner wanted
twenty-five dollars in cash and ten free
ckets for the privilege. but we refused
to be robbed. He finally came down to
twenty dollars, then to fifteen dollars
and we offered him ten dollars He
said he would take an hour to think it
over. and at the end of that time | went
. to get his answer.
What do you estimate the tickets
worth?' he asked.
Fifty cents apiece
'''And can sell minep
"'If you wish
w ell, you see how 1t is. My wife Is
very sick and liable to die. If she lives
we can use two of the tickets to go tc
the circus. If she dies | can use one
but I'll have to give the other to my
sister-in-law for helping at the funeral
That's just what | have agreed to do
Make It $3.50 and ten tickets, and yor
can have the shop
AS business is business, agreed u
his terms, but never ached harder il
my life to give anybody good licking.
N. Y. Sun.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
THE PRESIDENTS ROOM.
Visitors Are Allowed to Stay Five Minutes
in the Apartment.

visitors Are Allowed to Stay Five Minutes
in the Apartment.
You would be surprised" said the
guard in the Presid nt's room at the
capitol. ''to know how often sitors
come in here, and. after looking around
at the general effect of the furn shings
and decorations, which you observe, are
red. ask:
And where can we find the Blue
Room we have heard 50 much about?'
"Ihey have mixed up the capitol and
the White House in their minds, OF
course. Constantly people inquire of me
where the Presidents living quarters
are-whether at this end of the capitol
or at the other"
Are people permitted to come into
the Presidents room, sit down, and stay
as long as they like" asked the reporter
Most emphatIcally not. The room
would be used as sort of club by the
loungers of the capitol if we permitted
anv thing of that sort. The time al
lowed people to stay is five minutes. l!
V sitors overstay that limit they are po-
litelv requested TO leave. Why, | have
bring lunch, evidently with the inten
tIon or eating il uron tire center tabfv
or Of pick nicking on the sofas. Such
persons are apt to think it an outrage
that they should not be allowed 50
trifiing an accommodation. This is the
most conforta bic room in the capitoi
and it is not surprising that people
should want 10 take Il rest here incident
ally 10 the fatigue of sightseeing. We
have 10 devote our attention chiefly to
depressing VS. tors OF The sort speak OF
and to looking out TOR vandals, who
want to cat the tassels off the chairs for
mementoes, to take shces out OF the
sofas for the same purpose or to snip
pieces of the curta rs TO remember the
Pre-. idents room by. Women frequently
come in here and, taking off their bon
nets. pr;nk to the full five m nutes al
lowed them before the long mirrors. =
Washington Star
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
ELEVATOR SICKNESS.
How 1t May BE Avoided During Rapid
Ascent Descent.

Ascent Descent.
A great many people are unable to
ride on elevator cars on account of the
feeling that their hearts and souls are
being pulled out of them when the ma
chine starts to drop. People with heart
affection are frequently forbidden by
their physicians to ride in the cars, and
it is disagreeable to thousands who ride,
in spite of it, to save time and legs in
the big buildings Of the city.
A well-known lawyer, who has a very
level head at most times. admits that
his head feels empty when the elevator
starts down, but claims to have discov-
cred very simple mechanical trick by
which he avoids the all-gone feeling.
He is willing to have it suggested to his
fellow mortals anonymously.
81 take long breath, he said. 'just
as 1 step on the elevator, and hold it
with tight pressure. Then, just as
the elevator begins to sink, l let it out
exactly with the motion of the car. The
quicker the car starts the quicker and
harder press out the air, and | don't
feel as if my soul had flown out; in fact,
can avoid the least disagreeable SEN
sation."
Another gentleman who tried the ex-
pertinent vouched for the results in his
case. Don't imagine that you have to
blow so that every body else in the car
can hear you" he said. 'All you need
to do is to hold the breath tightly and
let it go noiselessly out the nose. |
think the sensation is due to the sudden
change of pressure of blood in the heart
and head, and the compression of air in
the breathing organs offsets that press
ure by reaction when the car starts. y
I Philadelphia INQUIRER.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
pRimE OF woMANRoon.
Feminine Charms Not Things Exclusivel,
of Youth.


of Youth.
One of the truths which this woman's
era, as one calls the present period, has
made emphatic, is that woman's charm
Il not, as the earlier novelists taught
and people generally believed, thing
exclusively of youth. No changes OF
thought wrought in the last century are
more naked than those which note the
steady advance in the period of life at
which the feminine part of humanity is
thought to reach its prime, says writer
in Dress. The heroine of the original
novel was the thirteen-year-old. ''Sweet
sixteen" and blooming eighteen" were
the favorite ages less than half CEN
fury ago.
''No woman is so charming as the
woman of thirty years, wrote wise
and witty Frenchman, and many man
of modern society has echoed his senti-
ment. In the better circles girls do not
enter society at as early an age as they
did when the big ''old maid" was affixed
to them if they didn't marry by the
time they were twenty-five. The modern
young woman is busy with her studies
and preparations for the future up to
the age of twcnty-one and later.
The age of our grandmothers, who
took the responsibility of life upon
them while they should have been chill
dren, is past. The girl who marries at
sixteen no longer exists, and the old
time fallacy that girls ara earlier ma
tured than the boys for the cares of
existence is rapidly giving way to more
progressive thought.
The average boy of sixteen or eighteen
is quite as matured as the girl of that
age. She is no more fitted at that stage
of the growth to assume the role OF
womanhood than he is of manhood. The
Spartans recognized this physiological
truth when they made law forbldd1ng
their females to marry under twenty
FIVE.
The women of prom inence in the
world to-day, the social leaders and the
society favorites, are no longer in the
freshness of their first youth. The
reigning favOrites of the present are
women who have studied life, and whose
faces oftener show lines of thought than
cheeks of bloom.
The color of blooming eighteen" no
longer comedies its crudities and So
ciety's queens are oftener women in the
thirties than girls in their twenties;
women. moreover, who have something
more fascinating than beauty, more real
than stvle. The modern woman is
learning the secret which made Mines.
de Stael and Recamier the rivals of the
youthful beauties when old age had
claimed them, or would have claimed
them had it been given chance.
The loneliness of youth is the Lowell
ness of the rosebud, but the glory of the
garden is the rose. What woman would
wish always to be eighteen? Whs
would be, as DR.. Holland expresses it,
always kitten? Who would not rather
grow into Nine. de Stael than to stay
for all time in Clarissa?- Boston Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-19
RATS IN ENGLAND.
The Right Little, Tight Little Island
Needs a Pied Piper Badly.

The Right Little, Tight Little Island
Needs Pied Piper Badly.
The plague of rats, from which more
than one of our agricultural districts are
at present suffering, threatens to assume
serious proportions. In East Lothian,
though the vermin have been destroyed
bv the thousands, and all the terriers,
steel traps and phosphorus paste in the
neighborhood are in requisition, their
numbers exhibit no appreciable diminu-
ton, while from the Fen district, in
Lincolnshire, it is reported that they
never w re so numerous or destructive.
The potato pits are invaded, the turnip
fields constitute browsing ground for
the swarm of rodents, and every granary
has been compelled to pay an unwilling
titne to the horde which has overspread
the country.
Since "Hamelin Town in Brunswick
Land" was afflicted in similar fashion
such a pest has seldom been heard Of
1t is true that for the present they have
not fought the dogs and killed the
cats, and bit the babies in their cradles,
and ate the cheese out of the watts, and
licked from the cooks own ladle,' but
they are in fair way to accom-
plish all these misdemeanors unless
their career is brought to a speedy close
Indeed the rats seem to have come to
stay. Unlike such vermin generally
they are burrowing holes by the road
side, and when we remember the amaz-
ing rapidity with which they multiply,
it is hard to say whether we should
wish the farmers of Lincolnshire and
East Lothian a severe winter or an open
one.
For though the frost might drive the
rats from the fields, it would certainly
force them to seek the shelter of the
stable and byre, while an absence of
frost would favor their increase. Mean
time the naturalist who is not an owner
or cultivator of the soil can not fail to
feel certain qualified interest in the
latest inroad, which is simply one more
attempt on the part of nature to assert
itself. 1t is a protest against the per-
severing efforts of civilization to destroy
the balance of life, since this undue in
crease of rats must be traced to the de-
struction If the birds Of prey, weasels,
stoatS and other animals which harry
them, just as the multiplication OF
weakling grouse has not professionally
been attributed to such feeble fledglings
being afforded, owing to a similar cause,
an extra chance in the struggle for OK
istence.-London Standard.