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Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11
KING OF ALL TREES.
A sequoia Gigantia One Hundred and

A Sequoia Gigantia One Hundred and
Seventy-Six Feet Around. f
Fred w. Clough, a well-known en-
gineer of the Comstock, has been spend
ing some weeks in the wilds of the Sier-
ras, about the head-waters of the Ka-
weah river, Tulare County, Cal. He was
accompanied in his wanderings by
Westley Warren, an old CONS tocker,
who now resides in Tulare valley.
About the head-waters of the Kaweah
they got into an unexplored and almost
impenetrable region. In one place they
were obliged to cut trail for nearly a
mile in order to get through the chapar-
raj that blockaded the mountain pass.
Mr. Clough says that on the trip they
discovered tree of sequoia species,
which he believes to-be much the largest
on the continent of America. Mr.. War
rem, who has seen the big trees of Mari
posa, those of the Big Tree Grove in Cal
ayeras County, and all the big trees-of
theGoas Range, says there is in no place
in California a treesthat approaches in
size that on the Kaweah. ss2Ek
Ishe-men had with them no rule, tape
line nor measure Of any kind, but Mr..
Warren measured the. tree with his rife,
which was four feet in length. He
found it to be forty-four lengths, Of his
gun in circumference at a point as high
above the ground as he could reac h.
The top Of the tree has been broken off,
but tits still of immense height. This
monster tree stands in a small basin
near the Kaweah, and is surrou nded on
all sides by a wall OF huge. rugged
rocks. There is so much brush IN the
vicinity that the little valley in which
the big tree stands is almost inaccessi-
ble.-Amador (Cal. } Sentinel.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11
some wonderful Echoes.

Every one is familiar with the phe.
nonienas of echoes. In cave in the
Pantheon S the guide, by striking the
flap ofhis coat, makes noise equal to 4
twelve-pound cannon's report. The 81 n
gularity is noticed, in q alesser degree, in
the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky I. In
the cave of Smellin, near yiborg, in Fin
land, cat or dog thrown. in 4Millamahea
screaming echo, lasting some minutes
Pliny tells of cave in Dalma alta where
stone tossed in would raise perfect
storm. FingaPs Cave, on the Isle OF
Staffa,- has an abnormally- developed
echo.-St. Louis Republic.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

An enrapement is a very fragile thing.
II can not be dropped without pfeaKlpg IL
-rerre Haute Express.
THE late Wi1kie Collins seemed to
care nothing for the opinions Of. critics,
and never kept a scrap-book.
ANNA KATHERINE GREEN, the so-called
American Gaboriau, has been writing
tales and verses since she was eleven
years old.
MARY COUPON DUFFEE, the authoress,
now nearly fifty years old, lives with
her aged mother in a ruined frame cot
tage perched on the very summit Of g
picturesque mountain near Blount
Springs, Ala.
THE Marquis of Lorne's first novelette,
is in course of publication in England.
Its title is ga Canadian Love Story
ard its hero young Canadian, who falls
in love with the daughter Of an Indian
chief.
GEORGE SAND made 1,000,0 900 francs
by her literary labors and gave it all
away except 90, 600, which she invested
in order, as she said, that In case she
fell sick her herb tea would not cost her
children any thing. asA
john e.. WHITTIER, the best beloved
Of all American poets, lately passed his
eighty-second birthday at his home
in Amesbury, warmed by the love
of millions who are the better for his
having lived.
AMONG the papers of the late Mr.,
Matthew Arnold a large number OF
poems have been found, many of which
are Of such excellence and finish that,
in the opinion Of his literary executors,
they ought to be given to the world.
GEORGE EBEEs, the rival Of Rider
Haggard in Egyptian romancing, is
fifty-two years old. He is professor of
ssEg gyptology" in the University Of
Leipzig, and he took tc writing novels
because a severe illness incapacitated
him for better work. So his biogra.
pliers put it.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11
THE CEYLON BUFFALO.
A Queer Looking Animal That Likes !.
WalloM in Mud.

Wallow in Mud.
The horns of the Ceylon buffalo a1e
very capricious in their development.
In some they are short and stubby. curry
ing back at considerable angle; in
others they extend back with only a
slight curve, running almost parallel
with the neck. Others again extend
from the head at right angles, curve
gracefully upward and grow to enormous
proportions of length and thickness, fire.
quently measuring six feet from tip to
tip, with circumference of fifteen
inches at the base. ...s.e.-.-. -ylsf
In other varieties they fall below the
neck in crumpled loops, as though they
had undergone repeated dislocations be-
tween calfhood and buffalohood. This
is noticeably the character of the horns
of those seen in Bombay, where, even
in the public squares of the city, herds
of domesticated milch buffaloes may be
seen taking shelter from the monday
sun under the wide-spreading branches
of the banyan tree. The soft mud of the
paddy-feld is his favorite wallow, and
his service in the cultivation of these
fields is almost Indispensable, as when
the ordinary draught-bullock (Bos Indi-
cus) would be smothered in mud the
buffalo is in all the exhilaration of his
favorite bath, even when drawing the
rude wooden plow and half submerged in
liquid soil. Leslie's Popular Monthly.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11
iE 8f4R
A Miniature Glacier,

If the observer will closely note the
conditions of the surface of hillside
after the snow has gone away he will
often see that the stems of the plants
are bent downward and that small
stones have been slipped from their
original bedding places and carried a
little way on their glacial journey.
Although this mode Of glaciation which
the ordinary winters bring about. is
triding compared to that of the age of
winter of the glacial time. the analogy
between the actions in the two cases
is as perfect as that which exists be-
tween the brook coursing through tho
meadow and the majestic Mississippi. = =
Prof. n S. Shaler,lin Chautauquan. : j 4
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Consumption Surely Cured.

To THE EDTToR:-Please inform your
readers that l have a positive remedy for
the above named disease. BY its timely
use thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. shall be glad to send
two bottles Of my remedy FREE to any of
your readers who have consumption if they
will send me their express and post-office
address. Respectfully, T. A. SLoCUM, NJ. c.,
ISL Pearl street. New York.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11
HAcKETT, ARKANSAS, Aug. 20, 1887.
rT uATJENprRCEp

DIR. A. Il. SHALLENBERGER,
Rochester, Pa. Dear SRI wish
YOU to send me bottle Of your Antidote for
Malaria, which see advertised in the Meth
odist advocate, Chattanooga, Tenn, and
which | can not get here. Fifteen years
ago my mother had third-day chills, and
after trying the doctors and other medi-
cines without relief, friend recommended
your Antidote she tried it, and one dose
effected permanent cure. Truly yours,
- j. S. EDWARDS,
Pastor NJ E. Church
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11
Syrup of Figs.

Produced from the laxative and nutritious
juice of California figs, combined with the
medicinal virtues of plants known to be
most beneficial to the human system, acts
gently, on the kidneys, liver and bowels, eff
fectually cleansing the system, dispelling
colds and headaches, and curing habitual
constipation
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11
WHEN the summers rose has faded
What shall make it fair again?
When the face with pain is shaded
What shall drive away the pain?
Never shall blossom brighten
I,I;nttaJ V tho frost

After bighted by the frost,
But the load of pain may tighten,
And we need not count as lost
all the pleasure of life when the wife an6
mother, upon whom the happiness of home
so largely depends, is afflicted with the del
icate diseases peculiar to women. 1t is ter
rible to contemplate the misery existing in
our midst because Of the prevalence OF
these diseases. 1t is high time that all
women should know that there is only one
sure remedy for all female complaints, anc
that is Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription.
Do not allow ill-health to fasten itself upon
you. Ward it off by the use of this stand
ard remedy But if it has already crept in
put it to rout You can do it, by the use Of
the 'Favoritc Prescription" 1t is guar
anteed to give satisfaction in every case, ol
money paid for it will be returned.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

A GOOD many people publicly thank the
Lord for their prosperity, who would be
very mad if somebody should suggest that
they were not mainly responsible for it
hemselves.-Somervill Journal
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

Bronchitis is cured by frequent small
doses of Piso's Cure for Consumption.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

A CoUGH, CoLD, OR SORE THROAT should
not be neglected. BRowN's BRONCHIAL
TRoCHEs are simple remedy, and give
prompt relief. 25 cts. box.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11
CATARRH.
Catarrhal Deafness-Hay Fever-A New
Home Treatment.

Sufferers are not generally aware that
are due to the presence Of living parasites
In the lining membrane of the nose and
eusUachian tubes. Microscopic research
however, has proved this to be a fact, and
the result of this discovery is that simple
remedy has been formulated whereby
Catarrh, Hay Fever and Catarrhal Deafness:
are permanently cured in from one to three
simple applications made at home by the
patient once in two weeks.
N. B.-This treatment is not snuff or ar
ointment; both have been discarded BY
reputable physicians as injurious. A pamph
LET explaining this new treatment is sent OF
receipt of three cents in stamps to pay
postage by A. H. Dixon & Son, cor. of Johr
and King Street, Toronto, Canada.-Chris
tan Advocate.
Sufferers from Catarrhal troubles should
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

PAIN from indigestion, dyspepsia and toe
hearty eating is relieved at once by taking
one of Carter's Little Liver Pills Immediate
ly after dinner. Don't forget this.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

A CONTEMPORARY defines an optimist as
a woman who has a new winter cloak and
bonnet, and pessimist as woman who
has neither
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

ELEPHANTS have been known to live to the
age of 400 years. Moral-Young man don't
be in too much of hurry to see the elephant
He'll keep.-Boston Transcript.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

DON'T swear you know a thing is true
because you believe It. You wouldn't kpoW
you were living if your wife didn't pull
YOUR hair sometimes. Texas Siftings.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

PERHAPS one strong objection to women
as walters is that they can not even be
spoken to without a preliminary tip.-Bal-
tfmore American
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

THE man whopreaches without advancing
= new idea or making an old one clearer is
misfit and ought to be Jumped off to the
auctioneer. r.-MilWaukee Journal
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

WHEN lightning strikes it admits of-no
| arbitration. Burlington Free Press
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

TIGHT shoes may be classed as articles OF
hard wear ~
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

WHEN you truly and devotedly love a
girl who is as rich as she is pretty, it's hard
to take no for an answer.-Epoch-
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

POCKET pin-cushion free to smokers Of
''Tansilrs Punch" sc. Cigar.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

ARE as small as homeopathic pellets, and
them. Carter's Little Liver Pills. Try them
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

IT takes good deal of sand to perpetrate
some sugar frauds.-Hutchinson (Kan.l
News.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

A GRAND JURY never goes behind the re-
turns in finding its counts.-N 0. Picayune.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

BEST place to hold the Worlds Fair
right around the waist-Boston Herald.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

THE girls give little thought to the affairs
of state, but when the subject is bachelors
they know how to reduce the SURPLUS
Rinphamton Herald
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

For biliousness, sick headache, Indigestion,
and constipation, take DR.. Pierce's Pellets.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

Sausage Potatoes. Take. large, fine
potatoes, scrub, wipe dry, but do not
peel. Cut off the tops, and, with a scoop,
cut out round piece like a quarter
dollar from the potato. Insert into this
small, ightly-fried sausage. Put on
the tops of the potatoes, set them in a
3 deep pan with the cut end uppermost.
Bake in a quick oven for half an hour
Serve in the pan, wrapping and pinning
napkin around the Sides - 7 F
-Mulligatawny Soup = Take cold
chicken, turkey, beef or veal and put in
a soup-kettle with a gallon of water
Cut fine four stalks of celery, two
onions and one carrot; fry in butter and
put in the soup, Stir four ounces of
flour in the skillet from which the veg
etables were taken until brown, add to
the soup. Let cook gently for four
hours, season with salt and pepper
strain and return to the pot, add the
meat, free of bones, with teacup of
rice. Simmer half an hour longer and
serve. y a.
-Beefsteak Rolls.-Cut steak from
the round in halt lengthwise, thatis
split it and then cut each half into
strips as wide as your hand; rub an
onion over the inside of these strips.
Butter thin slices of bread and stick
into each one Glove, add some pepper,
salt and celery seed or some bits Of
chopped celery. Roll the strips Of meat
each around its slice of rolled up bread.
Dredge them we'll in flour and fry light
1y. Then put them in a saucepan with
water to cover them, and let them stew
slowly for two hours. Remove the
threads when serving. The gravy should
be plenty and good. e =. II ~ ~ -#
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11
His Proud Soul Touched.

Z 'sORant, the Buzz-Saw says you are a
low, coarse, ignorant transformer, a
theatrical sore-eye, nightmare, and a
public nuisance
II don't care pinch of snuff what the
papers say about me-"
"And it says you didn't draw corporal's
guard last night"
(Grinding his teeth ''Fn sue the lying
scoundrel that wrote that for 100000
before I'm day older.' Chicago Trib-
une.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11
Oregon. thn Paradise of Farmers.

oregon, inc IafsauIsc VI NHiHoio'
Mild. equitable climate, certain and abundant
crops. Best fruit, grain, grass, stock country
in the world. Full information free. Address
Oregon ImmigrationBoard,P Portland, Oregon
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

John W. Dwight, of Pennsy lvania,
owns in North Dakota farm nearly as
large as the State Of Rhode Island.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

DE Cranque-'.Here's suggestion
Tor the Worlds Fair which, if it could
be carried out, would Editor
1'James, just carry this suggestion out,
will you? And while you are about it
carry the snggestor out, too. Puck
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11

Sufferers from Catarrhal troubles should
carefully read the above.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-11
HOUSEHOLD BREvITIES.

Sweet Potato Croquets.-Roll your
potatoes and mash them fine, add but
ter, salt, pepper and little milk. Mold
into cones, dust with flour and brown in
hot fat.
5.--Popcorn Balls.-To one. gallon Of
popcorn take half pint of molasses or
sugar. put into kettle and let boil up
once; pour it over the corn; grease your
: hands with sweet butter and make into
balls. ~
Saratoga chips can be made in some
quantity and put away for future use in
paper bags, To prepare them for the
table when needed place them in a. hot
oven until heated through.-Ruraf New
Yorker. sltGGEA$C C@3
Vegetable Soup.-Put quart. of
boiling water in a Kettle, cut pone
carrot, one turnip, one sweet potato, one
Irish potato and one parsnip. Put on to
boil, and when done add cupful of
rice, stock to flavor, with salt and pep
per. Let come to a boil and serve. -
Black or shoemakers' wax Is the
best known remedy for soft corns.
Spread on firm cloth or fine leather.
The writer of this knows from expert
ence what soft corn is, and the way
cured, when all other remedies failed.
Please give thorough trial and report.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-02-12
A Mattar of ImnOrtance,

EDITOR TRIBUNE:-I desire to call
the attent ton of our business men to
u matter which seems to me OF i'm
portance to our village. There are
five lots in block two which were
purchased about twenty years ago by
a nonresident speculator. When the
town WAS young the owner would
contract leases for Il term of years.
When, however, the lots had been all
leased and built upon, the owner at
expiration OF the existing leases re-
fused to release except from year to
year, making every lessor feel uneasy
about his tenure.
By the late fire three Of these lots
have been cleared of buildings, and
if the business men OF this town will
refuse to release under the present
exacting demands of the owner, their
lots will be put upon the market for
what they are worth, and class of
buildings erected that would be q
credit to the town. No one will have
the imprudence to erect building of
value upon lot leased for term of
one year only.
On the other hand if our business
men release these lots class of
cheap, unsubstantial wooden build
ings will again be erected as the re-
suit and another holocaust in due
time will be the outcome. The aver
age business man cannot afford to
pay over per cent. for substantial
insurance. This block was worth at
least 7 per cent. to insure at the time
Of the fire, and respoL sible insurance
companies were ordering risks in this
block to be discontinued at eXpira-
ton. These lots will not remain I'M
occupied long, in my opinion, before
they will be offered for sale at rea-
sonable figure. GEO. E. DARLING.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-02-12
A Haunted House.

In times more or less remote and
even in times more or less modern,
there have been places where children
would have been less easily frighten-
ed and where even the older PORTIONS
of the community would have rested
more easily, If the belief in ghosts
could have been taken away and the
ghosts themselves annihilated.
During recent years, however, it has
not been considered safe, by enlight-
ened people, to uphold the theory that
objects, preternaturally visible, have
o place in the fears, superstitions and
calculations of men, because of the
significant smiles liable to be pro-
voked from the skeptical people of
this skepticai age. Sometimes, though,
these apparitions do appear in such
tangible form and under such impress
sive circumstances that they can not
be ignored or cast aside. Ghosts do
exist, no matter how we try to argue
them away and lift ourselves above
the Authorizations Of the past. An
instance of proof occurred very near
this village only few days ago.
A farmer, so we are told, living i'll
the town of Scott, having remained
in town few hours longer than BUSH
ness necessities required, started for
home late on a story evening. When
he had gone as far as the vacant house
a short distance west of the village,
he was suddenly startled by q sound
that seemed like the moaning Of wild
beasts In the distance, so intensified
that it could be distinctly heard above
| the roar of the blizzard. His blood
run cold. CHANGING in the direction
| indicated by Ills qu'ckened hearing,
the now thoroughly frightened man
saw fiery mist which seemed to- fill
the dilapidated building just NEIL
toned. Soon the fiery vestments
changed for those whose dazzling
whiteness outshone even the white
ness Of the snow. AS he looked, the
| form of skeleton developed,
and this soon took the form
Of man clad in the garb of
warrior with Il drawn sword in his
hand. The spectre advanced to the
door, swung the formidable weapon
as though 1t would cleave the head of
an invisible foe, turned back into the
house, pointed downward and dis p
peared. What is the meaning of all
this? Is it q warning, or has THIS
wrecked and rapidly decaylng dwell
ling been The scene of some foul wrong
which ought to be discovered and
avenged? Our readers must deter
mine.
The farmer who saw and has rela-
ted this incident admits that he was
never so thoroughly alarmed before.
and adds that hereafter lie will be at
home before dark so long as this house
stands beside the road which he must
travel.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-02-12
Stevens County Alliance.-An Interesting
Mating.

There was very interesting meet
ing of the Stevens County Alliance
at the court house last Saturday after
noon. WE dropped in shortly after
the meeting was called to order by
President r.. j. Hall, and found as
sembled there fully one hundred OF
the representative farmers of the
county, and we can truly say, without
any disposition to fiatter, that II more
intelligent, bright-looking set of men
we have rarely seen together.
After disposing of the unfinished
business, aud authorizing the secre-
tary to purchase record book, and
appointing the president, secretary
and treasurer u committee To revise
the constitution of the Alliance of
this county. Mr.. s. b. Smith read
well-prepared ana interesting paper
on Fertilizers and the best way to
fertiliZe our lands,n he taking the
properly taken care of, Is the best fer
tilizer to be obtained. At the close Of
the reading of this paper there was
good share of applause.
Hon. H. w. Stone, Sr., being called
for, said that he had not prepared
paper, and in place of it made most
excellent speech, giving his experience
in the matter of fertilizers, agreeing
ing with Mr. Smith rs TO the best fer
tilizer, but did not agree with him in
regard to top dressing. Mr.. Stone
was opposed to burning straw; said
that not load ough. to be burned in
Stevens county; after using il liber-
ally as bedding for stock and spread
ing it literally in the barn-yard, he
had obtained good results by spread
ing it over the pasture. Told how he
had increased the yield OF wheat on
sandy soil from three bushels to the
acre to twenty-seven bushels on the
same ground, by the use of barn-yard
manure. He said he was strongly In
favor Of sowing clover and blowing IN
o crop of it occasionally rs green dres-
sing. In Goodhue county, he said,
the farmers always sow Glover with
fheir wheat. In fact Mr.. Stone gave
much valuable information, and when
he closed WAS loudly applauded.
Then came IL general discussion and
the relating of experiences by u large
number present. We would be glad
to give synopsis of all that was said,
but space forbids. 1t was, in fact, an
experience meeting" which all, we
think, greatly enjoyed. At any rate,
we did, it being the first Alliance
meeting we ever attended in Minne-
sofa.
After the close of the above discus
sion, Mr.. Erick Olson, of Labor Echo
fame, who was present, was called on
by the president for speech. Mr..
Olson rallied himself and charged on
the railroads, Gov. Mcrrium's railroad
aud warehouse commissioners, the
elevator men, and corporations gen.
orally, in manner quite as chivalric
and reckless as that exhibited by the
renowned Don Quixote, when he
charged on the windmill, and just
about as effectively. We did not wait
to hear Mr.. Erici; Olsen, o. Labor
Echo fame, through, neither did u
good many of the farmers. 1t seemed
to be the opinion OF Il majority Of those
present that Mr.. Erick Olson, of Labor |
Echo fame, as an Alliance worker, is
not bowling success.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-02-12
Row's This.

We offer Oae Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case OF CataTrh that
cannot be cured by taking Halls Ca
tarTh Cure.
F.J.CuENEY & Co Pro- ,Toledo,O.
We the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last 10 years, and
believe him perfectly honorable III all
business transactions and financially
able to cary out any obligation made
by their firm. WEST & TRUAN,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, O..
WALDINct, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O..
E. II. VAN HOEsEN, Cashier
Toledo National Bank, Toledo, o..
Halls Catarrn Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces Of the
system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.