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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-25

FASHION in hair dyeing has, it seems, declared
at last against the auburn and bright gold
tresses with which we have been lately familiar.
These tlnts, as well as the pale ''bleached''
straw hue, are no longer to be worn and a
much darker shade, called in the secret circles
of the trade itself by the unpoetical term
mahogany" is the latest degree. 1t is pro
duced by subtle mixture in which henna plays
q leading part; but the dyeing process is long
and tedious. However, that cannot much mat
ter to the ladies who once embark upon hair
dyeing, since they have continually to submit
themselves to its repetition as fresh hair grows
The prophets of these mysteries assure us that
the time Is coming when a natural brown
will be the favorite tone. If it be true, there
fore, that real blonde hair is becoming extinct
this will insure fashion to every one.
AMONG the odds and ends of gossip about the
young women of the comic opera stage, who
always iucte such a large share of public eos-
sip, Is the remarkable fondnesS WITH which
Nine. DArville caresses herself She is not
particularly affectionate with her stags lovers
but there is something odd in her manner Of
gently patting her hands, rubbing her arms. or
tapping her shoulders while she sings and talks
The gestures are unQuestionably natural The
least affection in that direction would be
unpleasant. Mme. D'Arville's admiration
for her plump proportions is palpably IN
consciously expressed. Miss Halton's manner
of gazing at her feet and following the emotions
OF her mechanically waved hands is in sharp
contrast TO the naturalness OF the prima donna
OF the company. 1t is rather odd, too that
the woman whose eyes are most widely talked
about in New York just now has no eyes at all
worth spee King Of Marie Tempest has the
smallest eyes on the stage, and the least notice
able, yet their expression is so remarkable. and
she blinks with such consummate novelty and
skill, that her success is largely owing to the
very features which she might least expect to
boast ABOUT.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-25

For 10 years to como no man, woman, or
child will write the current date without using
thef1gure 9;for nineteen year. during that period
two nipeS must be written OF the people now
living it Is safe 60 say that not one will ever
write the date of his or her own time without
using a g.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-25

A BARNEvALD Done county. Wis., man
swallowed large darning needle and went to
doctor to have it removed. The doctor made
him sneeze. and on the third attempt the needle
appeared and stuck itself into pin cushion on
the Doctors table.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-13

a picture. needn't tell you what it is.
You don't let anybody see it, and you are
so stingy with it that you wont even look
at it yourself. only in the quiet evening
when you sit alone in your cells and the
memory of earlier days comes rushing upon
you i'm tide you cannot resist 1t is pict-
ure of home. l don't want to make you
feel blue and don't want to suggest I'M
pleasant things to you. but do you ever con-
trast that picture of your old home with
your present surroundings? If so, and the
picture is the pleasantest to look upon,
would like to have you keep that picture
before you. and just as soon as freedom
comes to you, 60 back to that home. or if
it is swept away by misfortunes, possibly
by your own act, build another one. You
can't bring back the innocence of childhood,
but you can establish an innocence of man.
hood. Try it, do it, and you will see how
quickly things will come your way.
Let me say that | hope to meet each one
of you. or at least many of you in the outer
world where the cut of the garments is
slightly different and where votes are worth
a dollar and half piece. and if ever do
and l don't show you that l am willing to
date my acquaintance from the moment of
your exit from that dOOr-blOw me up with
dynamite. If the irony of fate should ever
decree that our positions are reversed.
hope that you will kindly remember that as
bad as this is [ might. by little study.
have made it worse. If can sign a petit
ton or prOmssOry note or anything of that
kind for any of you. will be glad to lend
you my name. and hope you can do more
with it than ever did.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-13
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.
Peculiar Views Oh the Subject Enter.
tanned by a Humanitarian.

Peculiar Views on the Subject Enter
tanned by a Humanitarian.
1t may now be asked what form of pun
ishment should be substituted for the death
penalty. 1t is not necessary to my pur-
pose in writing this article that 1 should
touch that subject at all. This article is
written mainly for the purpose of protest
ing against the crime of capital punish
ment. and not for the purpose of explaining
what can or should be substituted for it.
1t will not. however, be out of place to say
that the most natural substitute for the
death penalty. under our form of govern
ment, would be Imprisonment for a term
sufficiently long to demonstrate that the
offender might be safely allowed to go free.
1t is just as vicious, of course. to imprisOn
a man for revenge as to hang him for re-
venge. There is therefore no sound reason
why murderer should be punished at ALL
1t is right that he should be apprehended
and confined until it is determined whether
lie is of such nature or disposition as to be
likely to commit more murders. But if this
view of the case is too nearly in accordance
with humane considerations to suit this
cruel and blOOdthrsty age. then the obvious
mode of punishment to substitute for judi
cial killing is Imprisonment at hard labor
for life. This is far too cruel punishment
to visit upon any one for any crime done
under the impulse of passion. but among
people who so frequently say, changing is
too good for him." and who are so given to
lynchings. it is as much of modification of
our present practice as we would expect to
get.
1t has been observed that most of the
murders occur among the poor people, and
upon the top floors of tenement-houses;
that is to say. among the poorest of the
poor. The connection between poverty and
the crime of murder. like the connection
between poverty and all other crime, is de-
monstrably close. If we could cure the
social disease of poverty the seeds of crime
would be destroyed The people rarely
think of this They think it is our business
to punish crime. but it is our best business
to prevent it. Our present organization of
society manufactures criminals faster than
we can possibly take care of them. Poverty
degrades men; it rObs them of leisure which
is absolutely necessary for the develop
ment of mind and the domination of pas
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-13
Observations.

For The Mirror
Observations.
People judge the world by their expert
ence OF it.
No logic can cope with feeling and pref
udice.
If poverty is the mother of crime, want
of sense is the father.
All that is human must retrograde, if it
does not advance.
No man lives without jostling and being
jOstled; giving and receiving Offense.
We 90, and fancy that everybody is think
ing of us. But he is not; he is like us-he
is thinking of himself.
Society is like a large piece of frozen
water; and skating well is the great art OF
social life.
A little more taffy and less epitaphy
would 60 long way in making life more
bearable to many burdened soul.
Our minds are like certain vehicles
when they have little to carry, they make
much noise about it; but when heavily
loaded, they run quietly.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-13

sions; it keeps the people hungry and fierce;
it imbrutes them; it makes Ishmaels of
them-their hand is against society as the
hand of society is against them. Plant a
generation OF paupers and you will reap a
crop of criminals.-Arena.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-13

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to
be delivered from temptation unless he has
himself honestly and firmly determined to
do the best he can to keep out of it.
RuSkin.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-13

People who are always ready to tell you
what they think about you are not gener
ally SO ready to listen when you tell them
just what you think about them in return.
SOmerville Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-18
FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS.

When one is fatigued and foot-sore
from much walking it is very refreshing
80 battle the feet in warm water and rub
them with extract OF arnica. Home
stead.
1t is convenient to have an IRON
holder attached by long string to the
band of the apron when cooking; it
saves burned fingers or scorched aprons.
and is always at hand.-Good House.
keeping.
If you want a lovely odor in your
rooms, break off branches of the Norway
spruce and arrange them in large jug
well filled with water. In few days
tender, pale green branches feather out,
soft and cool to the touch, and giving
the delightful health-giving odor.-
Scientific American.
-Pie-plant Sauce, baked: Cut into
small pieces after washing and leave the
skin on Lay in an earthen pudding
dish, sprinkling lavishly with sugar
during the process. Cover and bake in
moderate oven. Cooked this way it
requires no water, and is nicer than
when stewed in the ordinary way.-The
Household.
Baked Whitefish: Clean the fish,
cut it open in the back, remove the
backbone and lay it in a buttered drip
ping-pan, the skin side down. Season
with salt and pepper as for the table,
dot it with bits of butter, drop little
lemon juice over it, pour in half tea
cupful water at the side, but not over
the fish, and bake in hot oven twenty
to thirty minutes according to size.-
Orange Judd Farmer.
Orange Marmalade: Wash and wipe
the oranges, peel and put the peeling in
a kettle with little water, boil several
hours cut the oranges and squeeze the
juice and pulp in a kettle; drain the
water from the peel, and pound it fine,
put with the juice, to which add pound
of sugar for every pint of juice; boil one
hour. when it should be thick and solid.
Put in little cups anu cover with paper.
Ladies' Home journal.
"A Good Dressing for Sandwiches:
One-half pound of nice butter, two
tablespoonfuls Of prepared mustard, two
tablespoonfuls of salad oil, a little cay:
rub the butter to a cream; add the other
ingredients and mix thoroughly; add
the last thing teaspoonful of lemon
juice, if DESIRED set away to cool; spread
the bread with this dressing and add the
ham chopped fine.-Boston Herald.
Quite handsome and serviceable rug
can be easily made by knitting in coarse
tapestry wool strips from four to siz
inches wide, choosing the softer tones
of color that will harmonic side by
side. Wood browns, old reds, old blues,
olives, and ecrus are handsome. Make
some strips to go at ends, and some fol-
sides, fitting them so as to form oblongs
Overcast or crochet them altogether tc
form your rug; then finish all around by
a wide band of dark brown or black
astrakhan cloth. One can even utilize
in this way astrakhan that has seen
some service as trimming. - Yankee
Blade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-18
CONVERSATIONS.

The morning comes with bitter winds that
blow
Along the street swirling mass of snow;
But evening brings, from low riffs upward
rolled
The radiant glory of the sunsets gold.
One finds the day with weary labor long
While close at hand he hears an idler's song
That leaves an echo, but his work remains,
To greet new peoples rushing down the plains.
sturdy ship, in seas that wildly toss,
Where northern tempests surge the waves
across,
Makes desperate battle till the night is done,
And finds at morn the long sought haven won.
When autumn's heavy footsteps lingering pass
Above the fallen leaves and withered grass,
Beneath the rustling garments, trailing slow,
The buds Of violets to perfection grow
Swift as the thought that sweeps the star-spent
skies,
Deaths arrow to it's work unerring flies
And finds that Love, with prescience as fleet,
On the chill lips has laid his message sweet.
No wearing toll no hours Of bitter pain,
Come to the world unknowing Joy or gain;
And life, with all its weary waste, will prove
The pathway leading to a radiant love.
Thomas S. Collier, in Springfield (Mass.) Re
publican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-18
OBJECTS OF EATING. ~,
How the Body OBTAINS Its Supplies Of
Warmth and Strength.

How the Body OBTAINS Its Supplies Of
Warmth and Strength.
We eat for warmth and strength;
hence almost all articles of food have
both these elements; have carbon to
warm. and nitrogen to strengthen, to
give power to work. Butter, sugar and
oils are almost all carbon. Meats, flesh
of all kinds abound in nitrogen. Food
which has most nitrogen is most "nu-
tritious." Butter has SO per cent of
carbon and no nitrogen; an egg has no
carbon and 20 per cent of nitrogen.
Milk contains two parts of warmth and
ono of strength. Bread contains one
part of nitrogen and eight of carbon. 1t
is thus seen that in reference to eating,
carbon-which is charcoal fuel-and
warmth are one and the same thing;
while nitrogen-which is in effect
saltpetre-gives flesh or muscle, which
are one and the same thing in substance
with strength. 1t is seen that most ar
ticles of food have more carbon or
warmth than nitrogen or strength,
showing that it takes more to keep us
warm than to keep us strong. A seden-
bdIy pCIoOh AL IOuHu HuIn-
bers, about one pound Of food
day, while handwriting man
requires two pounds; thus two
pounds of food gives out power enough
as steam in an engine gives out
power-to raise man of average weight
eleven miles high. But calling the two
pounds 5000 grains, only 300 grains of
it are nitrogen, the remainder carbon;
that is, sixteen times more of warmth
is required than of strength-producing
food. One practical result is, that as
the world becomes more thickly popu-
lated, the necessity increases of econo-
MIXING food; of adapting it to various
needs of the sex, occupation and season.
Persons living indoors should not eat
more than half as much as those who
work hard. Less warming food should
be eaten in hot weather than in cold. If
we eat an excess of warming food in hot
weather we have to work it out the
system at great expenditure of
strength; and until it is worked off we
feel full and feverish and oppressed; on
the other hand, in winter we require an
additional quantity of warming food.
hence our instincts lead us to eat
heartily of pork and buckwheat cakes
and butter and molasses, which are al
most purely carbGn. In warm weather
we need cooling food and Providence
sends us in profusion the fruits and ber-
ries and the green things, which have
no carbon at all; and while our appetite
for them is ravenous, the very idea of
fatty food is nauseating. Christian at
Work.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-18
A BOSTON EPISODE.
The Sad Experience of Man Who Was
Civil to Woman.

ClVll To u woman
The Rev. f. Z. Hale writes in the
New England Magazine: This time,
Miss Reader, we will not try spinner;
there are no spinners in front of the
Vendome. Let us take the more de-
corous and slower horse-car. And will
you tell me, Miss Reader, how the ladies
behave whom you meet in horse-cars in
Fort Wrangel? There is rather curl
Gus observation made as to the breeding
of Boston women. Just read these lines,
which received yesterday from one of
the most charming women whom ] have
the pleasure of knowing: my expert
ences with Boston women to whom |
have been introduced have been very
charming in most cases; but my expert
ences in shops, cars and streets have
been otherwise, and would fill volume.
/ have been stranger in New York,
San Francisco and Boston, and have
lived in the three cities. In the first
two l have asked for information, and
offered small courtesies to total Stran-
gers-women-with the pleasantest re-
suits, in no case meeting with discour-
tesy. But my Boston experience has
taught me never to ask question, or
try to help well-dressed woman, even
when l know her to belong to one of
the best families. ,"
l have these lines in my pocket, as
you see, and ] read them to you because
the last time was on this line an inter-
esting thing happened. A young woman,
a little over-dressed, if you please,
stopped the car that she might leave it.
She dropped the parcel she had been
down town to buy. l saw it fall and
touched her and told her that she had
dropped her parcel. But, unfortunately,
had never been presented to her; we
had not danced together at Papanti's,
nor were we members of the same club.
She, therefore, looked at me with the
vigorous manner to which our friend
alludes in the letter, good deal
as if had struck her in the face, and in
this way expressed her Indignation that
any man should have addressed her who
had not the honor of her acquaintance.
I am, however, siXty-eight years old,
and stand such things better than a
boy does. So said very pleasantly,
'You have dropped your parcel, and it
is under your feet" Again she resented
the insult with look-not with a word,
observe-and swung out of the car, drag
ging the parcel after her by her dress,
so that it fell in the mud in the street
There the next horse that came along
trod upon it, suppose, and l suppose
what is left of it is there now. | am
free to say think it was good enough
for hnr
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-18

A short time ago family living on
State street extension hired green
servant. She was told by her mistress
to wash the second-story windows. She
had seen the way in which that labor
was performed by the neighboring serv-
ants, and was all right as far as washing
the outside of the windows was con-
cerned. When that part of the job had
been finished, it occurred to her that
the proper thing was to wash the inside
in the same way. What was the sur
prise and edification of the passers by
to see pair of generously proportional
neither limbs, clad in brilliantly striped
hosiery, dangling from the outside of
the window, with the owner blissfully
unconscious of the sensation she was
creating. The lady of the house saw
the crowd collecting and went out to
see what was the matter. Looking up
ward the queer spectacle met her gaze.
Shocked and Mortified she rushed in
doors and called the domestic to the
lower household ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Conn., Farmer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-18
BACK TO THE SENDER.
World Letters Will Not Be
Forwarded Through the Mails.

Around-the-World Letters Will Not Be
Forwarded Through the Mails.
In some form or another the question
is constantly being presented to the
Post-Ofice Department by enterprising
citizens who want to crafty their curl
osity by ascertaining how long it would
take a letter to go around the world in
the regular mail channels. A short
time ago a citizen of Bloomington, ILL.,,
started letter of this character on its
journey, with the request written on the
outside that postmasters would please
hurry it along. 1t got as far as San
Francisco and the postmaster there,
being aware of the clause in the postal
regulations-which, by the way, has
been there since 1Ss0-prohibiting the
carrying il the mails of postal cards
or letters addressed to go around the
world, forwarded the letter to this city.
The acting uperintendent of the for
eign mails Office, N. NJ. Brooks, prompt
ly had the letter returned to the sender,
and he informed the postmaster at San
Francisco, as he has thousands of others
since the year 1880, that in consequence
of objections raised by the British and
Hong Kong post departments, through
whose services this class of correspond
ence would necessarily pass, it has been
found necessary to discontinue forward
ing such mail matter. Under the rules
of the postal union such matter can go
around the world for one postage, and
these governments concluded that the
pay was not large enough for the work
done to engage in experiments for the
qualification of idle curiosity.
Before this regulation was put in
force, however, several around-the-
world letters were received at the for
eign mails Office which had made the
trip in about eighty Washington
Star
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-07-18
Remarkable Cause of Death.

The Sumterville (Fla.) Times tells a
remarkable story in connection with
the phosphate excitement. 1t says that
several persons have been drowned in
the Withlacooche river while diving
for hidden treasures. "a colored man
named Abrams is the last victim, and
his case was a very peculiar one. A
party was sounding the bottom of the
Withlacooche for phosphate, and when
an extraordinary bone or tooth was dis
covered Abrams would dive down and
bring it up At last he saw very large
bone and dived for it, but remained at
the bottom. Waiting a few moments
and seeing his body at the bottom, gras-
pling-hooks were obtained by his COM
rades and his body was brought to the
surface. AS he came up huge horn or
tusk was seen sticking out of his head.
Upon examination it was found that in
diving he had struck head first a huge
elephants tusk that was standing on
the rivers bed in an upright position.
1t had pierced his brain, causing instant
death. The tusk was over four feet
long"