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Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-10-09
A Characteristic Chinese Incident.

there Is u SINAI Iainlly Named Cnang,
consisting of a mother and a son Of
eleven summers, living in a place north
of Picking called THE Old Tiger Cave"
The old lady was suddenly struck down
with some severe and incurable mala-
dy one day and grew worse from day
to day. They were too poor to call in
doctors TO give her proper treatment,
and her faithful son. who had constant
ly attended on her. seeing his mothers
eve Illness and their abject poverty
and helplessness. took a knife and
sliced Off n big piece of fesh from his
thigh. and after invoking the blessing
of heaven boiled and gave it TO her as
medicine and food
Heaven was SO much pleased with
such a child. full Of flial piety, that it
granted his earnest prayers, and his
mother, from the day when the human
flesh medicine was administered. rapid.
ly recovered. and was up in ten days.
When that medicine was given to her
the boy did not inform her Of its com,
position until she was well. when a big
wound. from which the mixture was
made. was shown her. II is alleged
that the boy suffered no pain or incon-
venience from the wound, for heaven
must have relieved him from the other.
wise great pain and bleeding for this
SO noble a fflial act, which is not to be
found everywhere.
When it was made known to the
public he was held up as an example Of
true and genuine filial piety which was
taught 10y our Great Sage. The official
Of that district will memorable the
throne to erect n tablet or an arch for
his noble and brave deed In rescuing
his mother from death by endangering
his " life. Chinese Times.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-10-09
A Knowing Dog.

4 gentleman living in this city tells
this for IA true story; have a little dog
that stays in the house at night. This
morning he came to my room about
the time ! usually get up. but although
wide awake did not stir. The little
fellow tried to attract attention by roll.
ing on the floor in front of the bed, and
by so doing spread wide apart the folds
Of the mosquito net, whether purpose
ly or accidentally ] do not know, but
this Is what followed: He got up and
faced me for a moment, but as | did
not seem to be awake he quietly took
up one fold Of the net with his teeth,
and carrying It past the other as far as
It would go let it fall to its place, and
then softly went down stairs. The dog
had never been taught anything Of the
kind, and II he did not reason what
shall we call itf-St. Augustine F1a.)
News.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-10-09
Cactus Juice . Good Medicine.

As a New Yorker, whose very red
nose is not unknown on Broadway,
turned into the Fifth Avenue hotel
one afternoon he passed William Coop
er, the Mexican business man. IF he
only knew IT," said Cooper Of the gen.
tleman with the nose, "a diet Of cactus
juice. fresh from the plant night and
morning. would bleach his complexion
to a beautiful purity. Americans do
not appreciate the value Of the cactus
until they have lived in Mexico for
soune time. The fruit, tunas, is deli
cious. and the juice the best blood puri-
fer, | believe. TO be found In the vege.
table kingdom. People who live where
the cactus grows do not need any med
icine. New York Letter.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-10-09
A G0ipeideDce,

Those who are Interested In coin.
cidences will find this quite remark
able. Our beloved friend. the Rev.
Gideon N. Draper, died on the sth
day VI December, 1889, when on a visit
10 bis son In Yokohama, Japan. The
day wa Sunday. His father, Gideon
Draper, ST.. died on the saine day Of
the same month and the same day Of
the week In 1861. The grandson Of the
last named. who writes US the facts
from japan, tells Us that this coin
ddence Of the days Of the week and
the days Of the month, he believes, oc-
our only ono in twenty eight years.
Christian Advocate.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-10-09
short bat Sweet.

links Why, Binks, what's become
Of you vstchi
Binks-Sat In the train next too man
who asked me ten times In one hour II
I had the time.
Jlnks- Welt
Binks Gave him the watch. Jew
elesy' Circular.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10
WIND AND FLOOD.

Another Mississippi Levee Breaks, Sub.
merging Many Plantations Fieroo
Gale Adds to tho Hardships Of tho In.
hAbltante Of Arkansas City.
ARKANSAS CITY, Ark, April 6.-News
has reached here Of bad break in. the
levee just above Catfish Point, Miss.
The break occurred at / o'clock Friday
morning. and was q complete surprise,
ss the river was falling and the levee
was thought to be safe. The 1evee was
about fifteen feet high and was con-
structed principally of sand. The
crevasse is nearly 900 feet wide and very
deep. 1t is rapidly widening, and there
is NO telling how much wider it will
become before the ends can be fastened.
Catfish Point is on q big bend in the
river, Mound Landing being about ten
miles below and Bolivar Landing about
the same distance above. The entire
bend is in cultivation. and the principal
plantations are the Miller, the Connolly,
the Martin, the Edmunds and the
Ousley places. The break occurred be-
tween the Miller and the Connolly
places. Every plantation is flooded, and
the depth of the water will not fall
short of twelve to fifteen feet. The
water will back up to Bolivar Landing,
will help to increase the depths there
and will make matters worse below
Mound Landing.
The break is said to be by far
the worst that has yet occurred on
the Mississippi side. A tremendous
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10
FACTS ABOUT FLAGS.

To ''srR1KE the flag" is to lower the
National colors in token of submission.
The yellow flag shows vessel to be in
quarantine or is the sign Of contagious
disease.
DIPPING the flag is lowering it slightly
and then hosting it again to salute q
vessel or fort.
FLAG Of truce is white flag, dis
played to an enemy to indicate desire
for parley or consultation.
A FLAG at half-mast means mourning.
Fishing and other vessels return with a
flag at half-mast to announce the loss or
death of some of them.
FLAGS are used as the symbol Of rank
and command, the officers using them
being called flag officers. Such flags are
square, to distinguish them from other
banners.
IF the President of the United States
goes afloat the American flag is carried
in the bows of his barge or hoisted at
the main of the vessel on board of which
he Is.
The red flag is sign of defiance and
is often used by revolutionists.s In our
service it Is mark Of danger and shows
. vessel to be receiving Or disohargtug
her powdss. --------, +,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AT Vienna 10000 builders employees
and 800 bakers apprentices were on a
strike on the 1st.
PRINCE B1sMARcK's 18th birthday was
celebrated throughout Germany on
the 1st.
MEN1Co's Congress was opened on the
I'd. President Diaz in his message said
that the finances of the Republic were
flourishing and the affairs of the country
generally were in satisfactory condi-
ton.
THE Cosipuriachic reduction works
near Chihuahua, Mex, owned by New
York company. were recently destroyed
by fire at loss of So, 600, 900.
AT Szegedin, Hungary, man was
hanged on the I'd for the murder of
eight women.
On the Sd the State Treasurer of the
canton of Ticino, Switzerland, was ar
rested on the charge of embezzling !, 900, .
600 francs.
A DISPUTE in restaurant at Debrec-
Yin, Hungary, caused forty challenges
to duels to be issued on the Sd.
Two WOMEN and negro girl were
burned to death in fire on the Sd
which destroyed the Chamber of Com
MERGE at Santiago de Cuba.
In Russia all the universities were
ordered closed on the 4th owing to dis
order among the studenta
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10
WEST AND SOUTH

In Chicago 1000 journeymen plumbers
struck on the 1st for an advance in
wages to 1878 per day.
THROUGH q boiler explosion At the
stave mills of J. H. Hussing & Co., al
Hutsouville, ILL.,, on tho 1st five lives
were lost.
THREE little sons of r. B. Bankers.
vile and three boys of r. R. Wommacls
lost their lives on the LIST by the caving
ing in of sand bank near Vernon, Tex.
In Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska
and Illinois ON the list license carried in
q majority Of the towns where it was an
issue in the municipal election.
The death of General T. c. Anderson,
q member of the famous Louisiana re.
turning board of 1875, occurred on the
I'd at New Orleans, aged 70 years.
In the West the number of hogl
packed during the winter season, No
vember l to March /, was 6,663, 500,
against S. 49,, $50 during the same period
q year ago. -. !:
In . quarrel over the latter's farm
near Grand Haven, Mich, Michael Mill.
man shot and killed his wife on the I'd.
REPUBLICANS of Iowa who are op.
posed to prohibition met in convention
In Des Moines on the I'd and adopted
resolutions asking the 0eneral ~.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10
FROM WASHINGTON.

In the United States the visible sup
ply of wheat and corn on the 31st ult
was, respectively, 27,114.093 and 20, 204,-
Csc bushels.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st showed the total debt to be
81, 500, S62, 544: cash in the Treasury,
32,615, $40; debt less cash in Treasury,
81. 02s, 1871, 672; decrease during March,
81. 3S9, S57; decrease since June 80,
1889, $53, 4SS, 949.
SMUGGLING frauds in the glove trade
in the country to the extent of $1,000,
600 had, it was said on the 4th, been dis
covered by United States officials.
In the United States there were 2O6
business failures during the seven days
ended on the 4th, against 1S9 the pre-
vious seven days. The Total of failures
in the United States from January l to
date is 1886, against 8, 500 in 1889.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

REPORT says that within the past
four weeks two hundred icebergs have
been seen floating in the Atlantic ocean.
No one but a mariner can realize the
menace which these monsters are to
navigation. Every winter vessels sail
from port and no tidings are ever heard
of them again. Until the sea will have
yielded up its final secrets, no one can
estimate how large a proportion of
catastrophes has been due to collisions
with these pitiless foaters.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

For years and years it was the prac-
tice Of the flippant Photographer to have
the most acute fun over some reference
to the fact that our ex-Minister to En-
gland, the late General Schenck, was an
authority on poker, alleging that, while
discharging his august ministerial
duties, he had issued a book on that
seductive game All this annoyed Gen
eral Schenck greatly. What he really
did was this: In response to the request
OF lady, whose guest he was, he ex-
planned the game and wrote out the
rules for playing which she privately
printed for the use of herself and her
friends
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10
Covered with Boiling Pitcl

Mrs. NJ. Pierro was burned to death
at Duluth the other morning as the re.
suit of peculiar accident. She was
boiling pitch and threw some water
Into the kettle to cool it. In some way
the kettle was upset and the unfortu.
nate woman was covered with it's con
tents, which caught fire, and she was
burned to a crisp.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

OHIO and one or two other States
have tried the parole or ticket-of-leave
plan to some extent with results that
are in the main very encouraging. New
Jersey is about to experiment in that
direction. The prisons in that State
are overlooking and this plan will fur
nish relief. 1t is claimed that under its
operation much larger per cent of the
convicts become good citizens and a
much better opportunity is afforded
them to get out of the bad ruts
and become useful members of So
ciety. Resides, the State is relieved
OF good deal of expense by this
method.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

The plan is favored by some Of the
papers and likely to be adopted by the
Board of Education in Boston to give
teachers who have served nine years
continuously years vacation ON half
pay. 1t is claimed that constant service
in the schools skaters the nerves and q
period of recuperation is needed. The
usual Western expedient of matrimony
for the lady teachers is not available in
the East on account of tho surplus.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

THE rapid increase in the wealth.
business and prosperity of the United
states during the last ten years is SIM
ply marvellous. The total wealth of the
country is now 81, 45s, 600, 600, equal to
nearly ST. per head. This is an in
crease In ten years of SIS, 600, ooo, 900 or
forty-two per cent England's wealth in
1885 Is given as $50, 900, 0O0, 900, giving an
average wealth per head of 81, 545. The
average in Scotland is s1,215 per head
and in Ireland 1855. The total wealth of
France Is estimated at $50, 600, 600, 600.
England exacts in taxes $40 per head
Of population, while each individual in
the United States pays but $12.5o
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10
Lease of q Valuable Mine.

John Paulson, Of Minneapolis, ha.
with others leased the Diamond Iron
Company's mining property. He pays
$50, 900 as q bonus for the lease and .
royalty OF forty cents per ton of ore
mined. The Duluth & Winnipeg rail
road will build spur track and extern
sive ore docks at West Superior. The
result will be to open the West Yer
million range to development and in
crease the Duluth output of Bessemel
ore.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

THERE are to-day royal and imperial
orders in the world, with prodigious
assortment Of collars, crosses, stars and
other fancy insignia, laid up for the
tickling Of human ambition. The old
est is st. Andrews Order, first insti-
tuted in England in 1877, disused after
ward and re-established in l54O
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

HlSs LARKIxs vas bilious ana feeble and sack.
And y seemed - II nothing would ever relieve
Her liver was G oeged with impurities thick,
And her stomach was constantly burning With
fever. -
Ofthe create. M. D. sha bought supply,
And !irections for taking pursued TO the letter.
And soon. very soon. Miss Larkns was better.
The g. NJ. D. she took was DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, the great rem
edy for bronchial, throat and lung diseases,
sick headache, scrofula, dyspepsia and all
diseases that have origin in impure blood
and lisordered liver: -
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

ONE of the industries of New York is
tho insurance of babies. The sum
paid is usually five cents q week on
each child. The system is productive
of good in SO far that it assures very
poor people against being put to ex.
tremes in the event of death in the
family. On the other hand, the pos
sible and even probable abuses are OBJ
vious, for it gives heartless parents =
direct personal interest in the death of
one who is entirely at their mercy.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

Rev. Dr.. PARKuURsr, of New York
says ne knows man, and offers to give
his name, whose life mbition has been
to amass fortune of millions. Until
he had reached the goal he promised
himself neither rest nor enjoyment nor
oenevolence. A few days ago he was
appealed to on behalf of most worthy
OBJECT He gave her just twenty
nVe cents, and in reply to the express
sion OF establishment such a contribu-
ton from millionaire could not fail to
bring forth, he said: "You don't know
now 1t hurts me to give away that
twenty-five cents. I've nearly reached
my twenty-million-do dollar mark"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

DURING tho late snow blockade six
hundred passengers at Reno, New, to
amuse themselves, issued a handsome
little paper entitled THE Snowbound,
q Souvenir of the Sierra" 1t contains
very handsome illustrations of the place,
and recites the efforts made to pass the
two weeks of waiting.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10
Born on tho Train.

On the Wisconsin Central train which
arrived at st. Paul the other morning
an infant was born just after the train
left Milwaukee. The mother was Mrs
George Richards, of Cottage Grove, and
was en- route from England. Her hus.
band was at the depot to meet her, and
an hour after was so excited that he
could not say as to whether the addition
to his family was boy or girl. Mother
and child were doing we'll at the city
hospital. The baby would be named
Waupaca.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

The widow of Jefferson Davis, since
his death, signs her name Nv. jefferson
Davis" Many persons doubtless sup
poses he has added the name Jefferson to
her Christian name, Varina. But this is
not the proper explanation. v. is the
abbrevlation of veuve, the French for
widow, and it is the custom of Louisiana,
and perhaps in other parts of the South,
for widows to place that letter before
the Christian names of their husbands.
V. Jefferson Davis simply means the
widow of Jefferson Davis,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

ACCORDING to a recent official return
the length of the telegraph lines on the
globe is at present about 600, 900 miles,
or twenty-six times its circumference at
the equator. The length of wire is
1,6ss,SSo miles, or eighty times the
length OF the equator Europe has
telegraph lines measuring 232, go miles;
America, 176, 264; Asia, 50, S75; Australia,
o. o55, and Africa 1878 These are the
land lines. There are, besides, $50 sub
marine cables of total length of ia
7Ol nautical miles.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10
MANY WERE SHOT.

Rowan County (Ky.) Illicit Distlllers At
tempt to XIII Informers.
CINCINNATI, April "a special from
FleminEsburg says that lawlessness has
again appeared in Rowan County, KY,
growing out of tho manufacture of
illicit whisky. Revenue officers made
sweep, destroying many stills.
For giving information to them Eph
Cooper, Sim Cooper, Burt Baumgartner,
George Hogg, son of the sheriff, Hiram
Roberts and Nelson Egan have been
shot, Hogg and Roberts fatally.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

NATURE is very good. Eighty thou
sand years ago. in anticipation of the
past mild winter, she deposited thick
layers of ice in the Stevens mine ON
Mount Mcclellan in California. They
have lust been found
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

HERE is the name of Western Ten
nessee colored girl. 1t is pronounced
in . sing-song way: Cary-Ann Happy
Ann Ann Eliza-Scales Blow the Bellows
Potterfeld Rosa-Ann-Thomas There
is much in such name as that
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

CHARLES L Cross, formerly president
OF bank at Raleigh, N. c., has been
convicted of forgery and embezzlement
and sentenced to seven years penal
servitude. An old slave, who belonged
to the young mans father, made q per-
s1stent appeal to serve out the sentence
in his young massy's" place. Instances
OF the fidelity and devotion of the negro
are not rare, but seldom has there been
q more affecting case than this. The
old slaves request could not be granted.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10

TIE new German Chancellor, General
Caprivi, is an inveterate smoker and q
moderate drinker. He manifests a
marked preference for wine over beer.
which he touches very rarely and spar
iuriw
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL,
HFrY.FlRsT CONGRESS,


TUESDAY, April 1.-The Senate COM
mittee on pensions reported favorably
the bill granting pension Of 500 q
month to the widow of the late General
Hartranft. A bill was introduced regu-
lating the manufacture, sale and impor-
tation of lager-beer. In the House bills
were introduced to establish . National
banking code; providing that pensions
granted to the dependent relatives of
deceased soldiers shall take effect from
the date Of the soldiers death. Bills
were passed limiting to six years the
time within which suits may be brought
against accounting officers and their
bondsmen; Senate bill creating the Of
fees Of surveyors general In North and
South Dakota; admitting free Of duty
articles from Mexico to the st. Louis
exposition in 1890, and the Notifications
appropriation bill ga, 52l, 67S).
WEDNESDAY, April AIN the Senate
Mr.. Edmunds reported q substitute
for Mr.. Sherman's antitrust bill, on.
titled "a bill to protect trade and com.
MERGE against unlawful restraints and
monopolies." The rest of the day waa
devoted to the Montana Senatorial con
test. Mr.. Hoar presented the majority
report favoring the admission of the
Republican claimants and Mr. Gray
spoke for the minority, which recon-
mended the admission of the Democrat
ic contestants. In the House the bill
for the admission of Idaho as State
was discussed. A bill was introduced to
repeal the act making fractional silver
coin legal tender for only $40, and in
creasing the limit to $40.
THURSDAY, April 3.-The Senate spent
| most of the session in debating the
Chinese enumeration bill, which finally
went over. The Montana Senatorial
| contest was also discussed and laid over
without action. A bill was introduced
to regulate the compensation and pc,
diem Of laborers employed by the Gov
eminent. Adjourned to the 5th. In the
House a concurrent resolution was pre-
sented requesting the President to in.
vite arbitration with foreign govern
ments to settle disputes or differences.
The bill for the admission of Idaho wa.
passed by yeas 129, nays l, the Demo
Gratis refusing to vote and the Speaker
counting quorum.
FRIDAY, April 4. The Senate was
not in session. In the House q joint
resolution was introduced providing
for the election of Senators by the
qualified voters of the States. Favora
BILE reports were made on the bills t.
prevent the enlistment of aliens in the
navy; to investigate the liquor traffic
granting q pension of 500 per month t.
the widow of General Fitzpatrick; pro
viding that all publications purportine
to be issued periodically and to sub
scribers, but which are merely books
shall pay postage as third-class matter
At the evening session thirty private