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Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
After Nearly Thirty Years.

The Georgia pn pers IRE fertile in won
derful stories. One Of the latest is to
the effect that, early in 1851 a young
farmer OF b ullock erected house for
himself and bride. The kitchen was
a log one, with one of the old fashion,
ed hard clay floors. He had built
over u gopher hole, and Of course the
hole was filed up and the owner was
forgotten. The farmer went of to
the war, and when he came back he
found some charred timbers which
Sherman had left. The house was
rebuilt and the dirt floor was still q
feature. Recently the wife was sit
ting by window, and happening to
look down upon the kitchen floor
was astonished to see signs of dis
turbance underneath. The other
members of the family were called,
and they witnessed his gophership
emerging from his long sleep OF TWEEN
V-nine years.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
The Eccentric Boy at School

Iho eccentric Boy at school,
The eccentric boy at a public
school is unable to take kick kind.
ly; he resents having his hat knock
ed into the gutter. or being asked
why his tie is like II telescope, or
being made the victim of BOBBY
traps; and the ability to take these
little attentions with good temper is
half the battle with new boy at
great school who wishes to lead a
happy existence. The average
schoolboy, of course, does not mind
these things, and, being neither I,
positive Ounce nor genius, gets
through his school days fairly we'll
and neither needs nor desires the ex.
ceptional treatment which ought tc
lie given to exceptional youths
London Telegraph.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
The Chicken Crop.

Government statistics show that
$3.50, 600, 900 are required to repre-
sent the annual expenditure for the
chicken crop ofthe United States, and
that 100000 dozen Of eggs,
worth $2.677, 900, are imported ia
this country per year. Show me q
wheat crop result that can touch
those figures.
The, expenditure in, this country
each year tor spoultry and eggs viii
amount to a much larger sum thar
that which comes to the credit o
either the wheat crop, the cotton croI
or the dairy roduct.-Intsrview Il
New York Star.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
ACCIDENT.

In hammock slowly swinging,
Where the tirefiies are winging,
Underneath the trees,
Sit n youth and maiden slender,
And with conversation tender
Warm the evening breeze
He is telling her of his passion
Urging her in lover fashion
To become his wife.
She is listening, coy. unwilling;
But she doesn't miss a thrilling
Word, you bet your life!
So when tertain of his bliss, her
Lover forward bends to kiss her,
And will not desist-
With his arm around her stealing,
And his brown eyes so appealing,
How can che resist?
But he misses the sweet token:
For before the words are spoken
That will seal his bliss,
Snap! the hammock rope is parted
And the lovers hearted,
Feel too mad to kiss.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

tor my going that he is willing to so
snacEs wi; h me-"
ha vent seen jim Gerar since, and
don't know whether he was insane
that night or not. | know Brunton
and he is a very peculiar man. But
can it be possible that Jim Gerar's
story was true? Or was it insanity?
The time OF the worlds fair will tell.
Chicago News.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
IN % HOURS.

A Drummer's Lively Trip Around the
World.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03
CHAPTER L

AM not dream
ing. 1 have
gone round the
world in twen-
ty-eight hours.
l have no de-
sire to repeat
the trip which l
havejust ended,
ana which was
not voluntary
journey on my
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-07-03

petual motion. l had not long to
wonder, as | came to Kalamazoo
there was q sudden stOppage
of the onward movement. There
followed q brief futtering o. the
wings, a restful descent, and the won
deriul machine alighted within the
Enclosure with which it's inventor
had concealed it. Everything had
been calculated with an accuracy
which would have gratified even
Jules Verne.
!. 1.-The door OF the machine opened,
and there stood old man Brunto1.
60 i have to apologize to you, Mr..
Gerar,' he said, for emitting to tell
you that there nre condensed leei
and milk in the virvector."
You old william. is this drea a,
or are you a wixard?' l asked.
II was not sure vet whether | was
dreaming or awake.
Neither was his quiet reply
You have gone round the world.
wish mine had been such q fortunate
lot. You are lucky man, Mr.
Gerar.'
"Tom, am dreaming still?" said
my friend to me.
The train was wheeling into tn,
depot. There was nothing now very
suspicious about the appearance o
my friend.
'.Inm going to make money out o
this when the worlds fair comes t.
Chicago, Tom" said my friend, a
wa parted. "Brunton % 90 grate'u
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-11-06
4 Horses Generosity.

That the noble horse has "a friendly
feeling in his bosom for his equine
brothers and sisters there is rot the
slightest doubt.
Two venerable looking horses were
standing at the noon hour in Third ave
nue.. near Twenty-third street. One
was attached to grocery wagon and
stood vis-a-vis TO the other. which was
hitched to an express wagon. The first
one was contentedly munching oats
from bag fastened to his head, and
the other rubbed his nose wistfully
against the bag, as much as to say, Il
want some.
The grocery horse sympathized at
once. and raising bis head high he
"nosed" up some e: tie oats to the
e...a,. T., 49,: L.; TIE c:pIT'S'
!n....., Ibid tx. l..c,:, OF WI HI:
to..-;:a. t.us dividing ms lCnc!.eon
/ geyes;a persons saw tie incid"rt anc
( laughed heartily at the generosity o
the grocery horse and the eager appre
/ citation Of it shown by the other ami
ral. New York Telegram.
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there were fully repaid for STAYING
for his speech was not excelled dur
inc the evening. He confined HIM
self to county politics. Common,
cino with the time he first entered
tbe office he briefly recapitulated
the hopeless condition of affairs into
which the republican rule had drag
red the county. told about there
3 ONLY being three bridges in the
county. mentioned how the county
script was manipulated by specula-
tors and sold at 20 and 30 per cent
discount, how the school fund was
manipulated, and then pointed to
the record of the present adminlstra-
ton and appealed to the voters to
choose between the two governments
One robbed the treasury, let the
roads become almost impossible, the
bridges rot down, county scrip de-
nreciste from 20 to 80 cent below
bar the school fund be manipulated
SO that teachers could not cash an
order, the public buildings go to
rack and become the resort of bats
This was the Radical party. What
did the Democrats do. Look at the
magnificent court house and ltt
beautiful grounds neatly and sub
stantially enclosed, well kept lawn
tos+of,,liy GET ont in eyergreens, thu
building freshly painted, neatly kept
, the offices and records in apple-ple
t order. money to the credit of ever,
3 fund, county scrip at par, goo'
+ schools, competent and well pal'
i, teachers, bridges everywhere they ar
needed, and still the taxes lowe
4 than they we're then, from the ratl
then of SO cents on the 500 to 1
:. cents now on the 800.
r Who that has witnessed thes
changes wrought by the Democrat
party for the better, who brougt
J. order out of chaos, prosperity OIL
C of bankruptcy, can hesitate to go
l. work to perpetuate the party !
n power that wrought them, and to d
: feat, to crush ANONYMOUSLY mi
% the ground any effort of this part
g HYDRA headed octapuses that ha'
n once and would perhaps again, Sc
n the life blood of the county by ia
s. ping the till of her treasury.
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NOTICE IN PROBATE.
THE STATE OF TEXAS.

To THE SHERIFF OR ANY CONSTABLE OF
WASHINGTON COUNTY GREETING: You are
hereby commanded to cause 10 be publish
ed in the BRENNAN Banner, newspaper
published in Washington county for three
successive weeks, the follow ng:
TIVE STATE OF TEXAS, to all persons IN
terested in the welfare of Franz, kaslle, john
and Paul Las: minors, Ewald Seidel, guar
dian. has fled in the County Court of Wash
ington county, an application to resign as
Guardian OF the estate of Franz, John, Paul
and Rosalie Laza, minors which will be
heard at the next term of the County Court
of said county, commencing on the 2nd NJ en-
day in November, 1890, at the courthouse
thereof, in the City of Brenham, at which
time all persons interested in SAID minors
welfare may appear and contest said apph-
cation,if they see proper.
HEREIN FAN Nor, under penalty OF me
law, and of this writ make due 7eturn. Is
sued 22nd day of October, 1880.
WITNESS, j. NJ, Byrnes, Clerk o
s, \ said Court. and the seal thereof, a
oeai Office, 1.-THE City of Brenham' ZzH
J. NJ. BYRNEs,
Clerk of County Court, Washington County
BY A. NJ. KRUG, Deputy.
HEREBY CERTIFY that the above an
foregoing is a true and correct copy OF tn
original citation, now in my hands .u
NE DEvER, Sheriff.
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The CHOICE oF A MAN.

yon,ve YOUR choice, dear, and taken your stand
wealth end fame might be won; in your hand
The world would have laid its richest prize
But YOU turned from the world Do you now DE-
spise 100,
What it could have given! You are not great
Rut moor and unknown; it is now too late
All! but l know what Won might nave zone
Have stained your soul ere the stake was VOL
IIoya lied and cheated, and felt no shame,
In the eager race for riches and fame
Though none may know it save you and l.
You let the world and its pomp go by.
hold, my darling, you're greater now
Unknown, unnoticed, than if your brow
We're bound with laurel and bay, Tor you
Have fought the fight, and tried AID true
You smile as you weigh the gam ana Tue cU ~,
Nv love vou'ye l.ept, and the world you've lost.
HI wv Academy
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Quicksilver Statistics.

Comparatively little is known of the
quicksilver production Of this and other
countries During the year 1889 there
we're %, AGA TASKS, or 2, 024, 1876 pounds
of quicksilver produced in California
About 20 TASKS, less than $1,000 in
value, were produced in Oregon. There
are II productive mines in Califor-
MIA, with SO furnaces. The. productive
mines and active furnaces employed
937 operatives, of whom 416 were en-,
gagged on surface work and 521 were
employed underground. The number
of tons of cinnabar ore mined in pro-
ducing the quicksilver was IS, ia tons.
The average cost of producing a
flask Of quicksilver was $3S.31. The
total capital invested in the active es
adjustments in this country is stated al
81. O31. III. of which $3.50, 470i in mines
and real estate, 1929, 800 in furnaces
houses and other surface improve
ments, and 1924, O75 in quicksilver I'm
sold. The production of quicksilve
throughout the world for the past tel
wears is 1,O93, Gil TASKS, of which tn
United States produced 4o7,6 75, a
against 6S5, 936 produced by Spain
Austria and Italy.-New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
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Death of Mrs. Bloombargh.

At 2 p. M, Friday, Mrs. u. Bloom
bargh, mother-in-law of Mr.. Mike
Jacobs, breathed her last. Her
death was not without premonition
as for a week or more the family
have known that there was no hope
for her recovery and that death was
only question of few days and
might be expected at any moment,
nevertheless the gloom of sadness
falls heavily upon the household,
and the sympathy OF the community
is extended to the bereaved rela-
tives and friends.
Mrs. Bloombargh was in hel
6sth year and had been a resident
of this city since 1870, now twenty
wears ago, during which time she
has made many friends who deplort
her death.
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In Germany the telephone subscrib-
ers are estimated to number 3l.325; in
France, 8, 4S7; in Great Britain, O.426;
in Russia, 1855; in Italy, 9,1S3; in
Austro-Hungary, 1920; in Spain, 2,210;
in Portugal, $50; in Switzerland. $50;
in Belgium, 1874; in the Netherlands,
. S72; in Denmark, 1887; il Sweden,
2, S64; in Norway. $3.50. The Berlin
Boersen Courier estimates the number
of subscribers in America at 1,OO0, OOO
and in all the world at ], 200, 600.
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What becomes Of all the old photo
graphs of faces beautiful and not so
bear.iful2 Those t:emorials OF one
dead. deatiliess hour" when we put on
our best looks. so as TO let people at
distance, both as to time and space,
know what kind of people we are2 Is
there graveyard for photographer
The o!dtime album was the cemetery
for many. but that has gone out OF
fashion to great extent. and the dead
photograph. like the unburied Greek
of old, has to wander for manv years
before it gets a final resting place in
some rubbish heaps. New York Trib-
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rarnntula. in New England.

The presence of tarantula in town
is frequently noted by the press, but
few people realize that the tarantula is
a New England as well as a tropical
product and that it is running wild in
the fields of Connecticut. 1t mot like
the great, red, bird killing spider of Cey-
Ion. but it is one of the largest native
spiders to be found in this latitude
Norwich Bulletin.
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Al Austrian physician, pr Terc. rs
It. that Il person stuilc by bees &C
a::::~s:, thereby rs,,;:;ive immunity
.....i - ron equa"er- q sn'.,'e'.''rni
,.',,-s. L. ,.:,,:'r ~ct,s '.,a; IL" y. Us
Z. tie zee si.Es ;.c,s ike u v'.ccinal IL
oculation against its own poison The
immunity lasts six months. sometimes
less, probably according to the num-
Der of stings inflicted on person
Persons suffering from acute rheu-
nlatism require larger number OF bee
stings to feel the usual effect OF the
! poison. but as SOON as by incubation
of a sufficient amount of virus they
have acquired immunity against its
effect they villas long as this I'M
munity lasts-be free FROM rheumatic
attacks. New York Journal.
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L. NJ. VINCENT, a horse drover that
has been here for the past few days
started to leave without paying his
board Friday, but MIR. A: Penning-
On with the assistance OF Constable
Boyd succeeding in making him
change his mind. He either had to
be detained or pay, and he chose
the latter.
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That Settled 1t.

i may add, said the solicitor, to
the man who seemed about to subscribe,
that we are about to commence a
series of African sketches to run a
year.
Don't want itw exclaimed the other
with emphasis. -Munsey's Weekly.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1890-03-20

species, and that his proienitors have probably
become extinct. Pawakof, as quoted by Wright,
speaking of T.. przewalskii, a Central Asian form,
more nearly akin" says Poliakof, ito the do
INVESTIGATED horse than any variety of wild ass
existing in Asia" makes the following state
ment with respect to the origin of this animal's
relations to man: The congenors of Equus pre-
waiskii, occupying an enormous extent OF terri
tory in Europe and Asia, as we are led TO infer
from their fossil remains, may have been still
more varied and multiform and the first to be
tanned were probably those on the outskirts OF
the great barren steppes, inhabiting we'll
watered and billy tracts near one or the other
OF those land-locked water basins, the earliest
abodcs of primcval man. In such regions in
Siberia fossil remains of the stone period have
been discovered by me and other explorers,
whilst tho outlying mountains of tho Tian
Shan and Pamirs will doubtless afford many
more. The prmeval horse indigenous in these
localities may have been more easily brought
under subsection than its fellows In the steppcs
and may have presented some such relationship
to our Equus przewalskii rs exists between tho
kiang and diiggatai and kulan. After do.
scendng with man from the more favored billy
region, they may have together entered the
plains, where human activity appears to have
been of moro recent date, probably in tho
bronze and iron period. But however this
may have becn Equus przcwalskii is tho sole
wild species having close affinity with the horse
tour domesticated Equus caballus)."
ITO be cOHiiiUcdO
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structure of the feet Most unguates walk on
the points Of their toes; but regarding the
horse aud OK as possessing characteristic forms
Of those lOcOmOtor organs represented IN All
species of the respective aggregates alluded TO,
horses rest the weight of the body on the third
toe alone. and cattle upon the third and fourth
toes. Hence the geological distinction between
Perissodactyla or lmparidigitata the odd-toed'
eqnine-stepping animals and the Arliodactyis
or Paridigitata, who walk like oxen, on an even
number Of toes
Both the boof itself which is q development
al modification Of the skin-pads on the feet OF
cats and dogs as well rs the structure II IN
closes. are direct evidences OF the action OF
natural selection IN species making. The fossil
history Of the odd-toed unEulates comprising
our present horses. rhinoceroscs and tapirs-ls
comnaratively complete. and especially is this
the case with the palRontology of EquidT
among whom the original pigmy horse OF
America has been fonnd IN the unreconstructed
tertiary Of Kansas. This was fiye-ioed ana
NAL. according TO Huxley. aud it is claimed by
Cope that in the Coryphodon he has discovered
the ancestral form from which both the odd
and even-toed groups originated. The condi-
tions under which those anatomical traits upon
which the present classification rests. were as
sumed. are more or less speculative IN charac-
ter, but there is no doubt concerning the biolog-
ical processes involved in the evolution OF The
structures themselves They were but results
OF adjustment to conditions of life which,
in the one instance, separated the bones into
two groups. as a necessary mechanical conse-
Quence Of situation and habit, and IN the other
permitted what Kowalevsky has shown to be a
higher form Of locomotion, TO develop tin accord
ance with an unchangng law natural varia-
fion favorable 10 the species intos conformation
better adapted 10 the necessities OF the creatures
among whom it originally occurred, while the
abandonment Of pTehensile acts by these
changing limbs was coordinate with their in
creased specialization as organs Of lOcomotion,
and also contributed toward their ditierentia-
ton. SO far the subject can be stated without
technical details, aud, in addition, il may be
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Mnry MasIlInglon kose.

This beautiful rose which was raised and
named by Geo. Washington, aud has since been
growing at Mt. Vernon and described in Mt.
Vernon Guide Book, page "a, is now first offer.
cd to the public by one of our cnterprising
Florists, John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, N. Y,
whose advertisement appears in this paper. Ii
is only one of the many charming novelties
he is introducing this year. and his Catalogue,
one Of the most beautiful and complete ever
issued, shOnld be in the hands Of every lover
Of beautiful flowers, Choice Vegetables or Rare
Fruits.
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Te1ds SUitngs.

Tramp-Is this old coat all you've got for n
poor mani
Lady-That's all but half an hour ago gave
poor man pair Of pants and "a vest.
Tramp-Humph You were in devil Of a
hurry to get rn Of 'em. You might have
waited that half an hour.
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A Nest Helpful Hook.

A little knot Of gentlemen seated IN front of
the Arlington Hotel in Washington one even
Ing were discussing literary matters.
"By the way, Senator" said one, what
book do you think has helped you mostY'
"Um-sc-wcll, guess maybe tic pocket
book"
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GENERAL

The T. s. S. Cruiser Ossipee has been con-
demucd by Il Board of Survey. The Board re-
ported that IL would take more than u per
cent. Of the amount for which vessel like the
OssIpec could be constructed 10 repair her The
Ossipec is a wooden screw steam cruiser, bark
rugged, OF 300 tons displacement, aud carries
United States at the kttery Yard in 1861, and
her last cruise was ~ the West Indies. --- Her
bert w. Ladd 'tas been renOminatcd by the Re-
pubieans Of Rhode Island for Governor Of that
Stale
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Wreck Of the Constitute,

BY maladies disrcgarded j. the dire penalty In
hcted by nature FOR refusal to MD her ia distress
Tie liver allowed 10 become cDucsted al 10 poison
the blood with instructed bic till luundice en-
sues, II capable Of tie most serious mischief
Rccly and arouse IL ut the start with Hoslcuci's
Stomach HittcFs, which also crRdlcatcs malaria
Kidney tTombIea. indigesLIon and rheumatism.
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iss Urblst Can you tel mo whore ] can get
Laurence american.
Z - ~. $50 ,ft I

Miss Urbiss Can you tell mo where can get
some cTocuscs?
Farmers Boy-Well, mum, If yer good an
spry. ye kin catch some down IN the swamI
yOnder.
Catch some Why, what do you mean 2"
Bnllfrogsp
81 didn't ask for bulIfrogsw
lyon didn't. eh? Well, if bullfrogs ain'i
croak- cusses. miss my gucss!"
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WILD BEASTS.
DenizenS of Mountain, Forest and
Plain.
HE WILD HORSE.

The Odd-toed Ungulates Comprise Horses, RhiBOee-
roses aud Tapirs-They have Thick Skins. Small
Brains and Elongated Heads-The Wild Horse
or America only Domestic Animal that has
Rrrnined its Frecdom-Their Keen Hearing and
Fleetuess Of Foot Insure Them Security-FOalS
Born in Spring and Weaned at Five and six
MOnths-Their Intelligence Is not OF High Or
der-They are Relatively Small Animals.