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The Dickinson press., 1891-04-04

Aft White. who is visiting in Dick
inson for a period Of about 80 days,
expects to be chief engineer for an
electric street railway in Salt Lake
City, Utah, on his return.
The Dickinson press., 1891-04-04

The best stock of lumber ever
handled in Dickinson is that which
Walton " Davis have put i'll this
spring.
The Dickinson press., 1891-04-04

Wanted: An attorney. admitted
to practice i'm New York State. of
several years experiences; would like
TO correspond with Il lawyer in North
Dakota with the view of forming a
co%partnership for the practice of law
III the latter State. Address Nj. care
.nftiiis office. Dickinson, n. ID. marl4.
The Dickinson press., 1891-04-04

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The Dickinson press., 1891-04-04

l.. III. Rudicelle. Western Union
Il went east Friday for IL visit.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-04
THE FOREIGN SUIToR.
Why He Is Attractive to the American
Girl.

One reason why American girls wish
to marry abroad is that foreigners have
as rule, certain enamel of manner
which is very attractive to women.
The hand-kissing, the fiattery. the
deferential manner, all these are the
most agreeable beginnings of an ac-
quaintance. 1t is, to an idle girl.
great pleasure to find q man who has
all his day to devote to her. The Eu-
ropean man has made study of how
to amuse himself all day long, and no
doubt he has picked up education and
much that is agreeable along with this
effort to get rid of time. The Amerl-
can man has had no such difficulty in
disposing of the golden hours; he has
worked hard to make his living; he
has had terrific struggle for it. and
his love-making has been a thing apart,
an interlude in the busy life. He has
had no time to enamel himself with
foreign manners. and to an idle and
selfish girl he is far less agreeable than
a man who can take her to picture
galleries, to races. to the Bois, to dine,
who knows all about dress-makers,
their prices, their degrees of style, and
their costumes. A European man is
gazette, newspaper amongst other
things, and he is full of delightful
auecdote. He knows all the gossip
about the Prince of Wales, about Lady
Agatha, and the Duchess of Nowhere;
he is selfish in everything else. but he
is not selfish in this. He does try to
make himself amusing and agreeable,
and to do him justice he generally sue
ceeds. If he goes to theatre or opera
with party Of ladies, he knows the
history-and it is apt to be piquant
one of every prima donna, every
tenor. every basso. He remembers
what happened at Nice two winters
ago. and he has an amusing story
about the Grand Duchess of Pimper-
nickel. We all know that there is no
more fascinating reading for the idle
and cultivated than stories in which
titles abound. And perhaps, when
treated with the genius of 'Ouida,
they are very good reading for any
body who has nothing else to do
John Sherwood, IN Harper'S Bdzar.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-04
The California Horse.

In reading the accounts of early days
in California 1 am struck with the en-
durance of hardship, exposure. and
wounds by the natives and the adven-
turers, the rancheros, horseman, herds
men, the descendants of soldiers, and
the Indians. their insensibility to
fatigue, and their agility and strength.
This is ascribed to the climate; and
what is true of man is true of the
native horse His only rival in strength.
endurance, speed, and intelligence is
the Arabian. 1t was long supposed
that this was racial, and that but for
the smallneSs of the size of the native
horse, crossing with it would improve
the breed of the Eastern and Kentucky
racers. But there was reluctance to
cross the finely proportioned Eastern
horse with his diminutive Western
brother The importation and breed
ing of thorough-breds on this coast has
led to the discovery that the desirable
qualities of the California horse were
not racial but climatic. The Eastern
horse has been found to improve in
size, compactness of muscle, in strength
of limb, in wind, with a marked in
crease in power of endurance. The
traveller here notices the fine horses
and their excellent condition, and the
power and endurance of those that
have considerable age. The records
made on Eastern race-courses by horses
from California breeding farms have
already attracted attention. 1t is also
remarked that the eastern horse is
usually improved greatly by sojourn
of season or two on this coast, and
the plan of bringing Eastern race
horses here for the winter is already
adopted. Charles Dudley Warner, sf'
| HGTper's Ma0Gzine.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-04
England's Crown Jewels.

Every body who visits the town goes
to see the crown jewels. They are in
a stone chamber in the Wakefield tow
er, under Il heavy cage of iron and at
tended by "beefeaters." Here is the
crown of Queen Victoria, set with sew
eral thousand diamonds, having in it
the ruby which Henry Y. wore in his
helmet at the battle of Agineourt-a
very pretty crown, but not comfort
able enough. it would seem, to make
one desire to wear it every day.
Here is the royal scepter, of gold set
with precious stones. And the great
gold saltcellar used at coronation ban
quets, and marking rank according to
the position of the guests above or be-
low the salt. And the collar of the
Order of the Garter, and a whole jew
ehy store of other sparkling and shin
ing things which. suppose, have their
due share in the government of the
English Empire.
The Norman chapel and the armory
are in the White Tower. The White
Tower is black. Six hundred years
ago they whitewashed the old walls,
and the name they gave it then has
staid by it. But it is black enough,
with walls of flint. A great, square,
solid building. with turrets at the four
corners.
You can see the chapel which the
Conqueror had set among the sleeping
rooms and the fifty rooms of his strong
house. There is an upper gallery,
where he sat with his family in stately
seclusion when he came to church. =
London Letter.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-04
Tricks in Smuggling.

One of the smartest bits of snug
Cling know of occurred when one of
the largest and handsomest diamond
rings in the country-owned at present
by one of our leading families-was
brought in duty free. says the New York
World. Here is the scheme: Among
the steerage passengers was re-
notwithstanding workman with Il
large Dutch pipe. Just as he ap-
preached Castle Garden ne wrapped
the diamond in a thin piece of paper,
put it in the bowl of his pipe, then
filled it with tobacco.
When he landed, and while the in
spectors were sitting his few worldly
possessions, the immigrant was making
various futile attempts to light his pipe.
but Just when about to do so he would
make some remark to the inspectors
and the match would 60 out. In a
short time he was in an East Side
hotel luggage and all, whence he was
soon transferred to one of the citys
aristocratic abodes.
The latest diamond trick is this: Cut
the buttons of your overcoat, place un-
set stones inside the top of the button.
cover with cloth, and sew them on
afresh. The scheme pays well for the
trouble and goes triumphantly.
| have known case where pair OF
hollow heels on lady's shoes contained
more wealth than Il modern shoe store.
The shoes were worn simply to come
| ashore with.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-04
Causes of Death.

Shakespeare says: Men have died
and worms have eaten them, but not
for love-" Some one else says very
few men die of age. Death is the re-
suit of disappointment, personal, men
tai, or bodily toll or accident. We
often see the strong man cut down
suddenly and the invalid living his
four score years and ten. The fact is
that the strong man uses up his
strength and the weak one nurses the
little given him. The passions certain
" shorten life. and sometimes sudden
ly end it. s'Choked" with passion is
very often not an exaggeration. The
lower animals which live temperate
lives have their prescribed term of
years. The horse lives % years. the OK
Is or 20, the hog 10 or II. the rab-
bit 8 or 9, the guinea-pig 6 or z. The
numbers all bear proportion to the
time the animal takes to grow its full
size. Man is the only animal that
fails to come up to the average. He
ought to live 100 years according to
the physiological law, for 5 times 20
are 100, but he scarcely reaches the
period of four times the growing
period. To sum it all up, man is the
most hard working and laborious OF
animals also the most irregular and
Incorporate. He is irritable and often
wears out, and is consumed by the fire
of his own reflections.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-04
Every bridegroom a Shoemaker.

Nothing was more attractive than
the wedding cavalcade on its way from
the brides house to the Mission church.
The horses were more richly capari-
soned than for any other ceremony,
and the brides nearest relative or FAM
lily representative carried her before
him. she sitting on the saddle with her
white satin shoe in loop of golden or
silver braid. while he sat on the bear
skin covered d1aqaIerG behind. The
groom and his friends mingled with
the brides party, all on the best horses
that could be obtained, and they rode
gaily from the ranch house to the Mis-
sion, sometimes fifteen or twenty miles
away. In April and May, when the
land was covered with wild-fewers,
the light-hearted troop rode along the
edge of the uplands, between hill and
valley. crossing the streams, and some
of the young horsemen, anxious to
show their skill, would perform all the
feats for which the Spanish-Califor-
mans were famous. After the wed.
ding. when they returned to lead in
the feasting, the bride was carried on
the horse of the groomsman. One of
the customs which was always observed
at the wedding was to wind a silken
tasseled string or silken sash fringed
with gold, about the necks of the bride
and groom, binding them together as
they knelt before the altar for the
blessing of the priest. A charming
custom among the middle aud lower
classes was the making of the satin
shoes by the groom for the bride. A
few weeks before the wedding he asked
his betrothed for the measurement of
her foot, and made the shoes with his
own hands; the groomsman brought
them to her on the wedding-day.-1he
Ce1ltuTg,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-04
The Bears of Alaska.

To the bear hunter the wilds of
Alaska offer paradise that can be
found in no other country on the globe,
as is attested by the yearly shipments
of choice hides, which reach an enOr-
nous amount. The most choice of
these are the black bear, which roam
the woods by hundreds. and prime
skins of which bring from $24 up to as
high as 800 each in the market. Dur
ing the excursion season tourists from
all parts of the globe make thriving
trade for Alaska merchants in the bear
skin line. There are five distinct
species of bear in Alaska-the black,
brown, or cinnamon, and cross. which
inhabit all portions of southeastern
Alaska and the upper portion of the
Yukon country. Further north, in the
st. Elias alps is the home of the st.
Elias grizzly, which in size ferocity,
and color much resembles the grizzlies
of the Sierra Nevadas, and still further
north along the lower reaches of the
Yukon and the ice-ields of the Arctic
Ocean is the white polar bear. As
brave and sl1illful in hunting bear as
the Alaska Indian is, he seldom hunts
the st. Elias grizzly, both for the
reason that there is little profit in the
hides, and the ferocity of the beast
makes hunting them most hazardous
undertaking. Their mode, however,
of killing them is by shooting into
them from heavily charged smooth
bore musket heavy slug of either
lead, copper, or iron, then awaiting
their charge, which never fails to follow
the shot, with a long, heavy, and
strongly made spear, resting the butt
of the weapon on the ground and
planting the foot firmly against it.
The point of the spear rests at an
angle to pierce the bear in the
breast, and the bears own weight
when it strikes the spear in its mad
charge is calculated to drive the
weapon through him or pierce him
deep enough to cause death. AS will be
readily seen. if at this critical momen
the hunters courage should fail him,
or by a miscalculation the spear failed
to impale the charging beast, the hunt
er would be knocked senseless ano
Immediately torn into shreds. This
mode of bear hunting may have its ad-
vantages, but there is none but the
Alaska Indian who has the nerve ant
courage to try the experiment.
| Letter.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-04
Married Life in Tibet.

Among the 1lbetanS man marrle5
only one wife whom he purchases
from her parents, a belle often costing
as much as ten ponies and thirty yaks.
The price to be paid for the wife is ar
ranged by relative or friend who acts
as go-between, and the anly marriage
ceremony is grand spree lasting as
long us the bridegroom can afford to
keep it up.
The life of a Tibetan woman in this
part of the country cannot be deemed
hard one. She makes the tea, it is
true, but with that the housekeeping
ends; for no one ever dreams of clean
ing the kettle afterwards, and every
one has to mix his own tsamba and
lick his bowl clean when he has finished.
Every four or five years she may have
to sew new sheepskin gown for her
self or for some one of her family, but
certainly not oftener. She cannot herd
the cattle or sheep; men must do that
as there is danger from marauders. She
passes her time spinning yarn, weaving
coarse kind of cloth out of which
bags are made, turning a prayer
wheel, notwithstanding too voracious
vermin.
Her toilet requires rearranging only
four or five times a year-when she
visits Kumbum or some other fair; she
never washes herself or her garments,
and her children cannot outgrow their
clothes: they have only to let out a
little the folds of the gown, their uni
que garment, tucked up around the
waist, and it will fit them until they
are grown up.-1he Century.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-04
The Land of the Pine and the Palm.

California is the land of the Pine and
the Palm. The tree of the Sierras.
native, vigorous, gigantic, and the
tree of the Desert, exotic, supple,
poetic, both flourish within the nine
degrees of latitude. These two, the
widely separated lovers of Heine's
song. symbolic the capacities of the
State, and although the sugar-pine is
Indigenous, and the date-palm, which
will never be more than an ornament
in this hospitable soil, was planted by
the Franciscan fathers, who estab-
lished a chain of missions from San
Diego to Monterey over a century ago,
they should both be the distinction of
one commonwealth. which, in its seven
hundred miles of indented sea-coast.
can boast the climates of all countries
and the products of all zones.
If this State of mountains and val
leys were divided by an east and west
line, following the general course of
the Sierra Madre range. and cutting
off the eight lower counties. suppose
there would be conceit enough in
either section to maintain that it only
is the Paradise of the earth, but both
are necessary to make the unique and
contradictory California which fas-
cinates and bewilders the traveller.
He is told that the inhabitants of San
Francisco 60 away from the draught
of the Golden Gate in the summer to
get warm, and yet the earliest luscious
cherries and apricots which he finds in
the far south market of San Diego
come from the northern Santa Clara
Valley. The truth would seem to be
that in an hours ride in any part of
the State one can change his climate
totally at any time of the year, and
this not merely by changing his eleva-
ton. but by getting in or out of the
range of the sea or the desert currents
of air which follow the valleys
Charles Dudley Warner, in Harper's
| Maqdziae.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-04
How a Bullet Behaves.

Howard Carr, a local authority on
shooting, and gentleman well in
formed on all matters of detail pertain
ing to the bulls eye, gave an Examiner
reporter some interesting information
on the queer actions of bullet after
being discharged from the muzzle of
gun.
"A bullet" he declared, ''sighted
for 1000 yards, has three separate and
distinct motions, and in cases where
the stubby and blunt express lead is
used it has four. The first is its veloc-
ity or straight motion of journey; the
second is the rotary notion caused by
the bore of the gun, which makes it
plough through the air, and the third
is the trajectory motion, or drift, at
tributable to the attraction of gravity,
which forces the bullet sideways.
When the express bullet is used it fol-
lows line similar to the edge of a
corkscrew. The latter is ascribable
the ball, which is constantly lowering.
Il had this illustrated. by placing
sheets of paper forty yards apart on a
level, and the course of the bullet
could be seen by collecting the papers
"A ball has a very large drop when
travelling any great distance. For in
stance, take 1000 yards. The bullet,
if keeping the course it originally
started out to follow, would land a
distance of over 255 feet above the
bull's-eye. But it starts to drop i'm
mediately after leaving the muzzle of
the gun, and at between $50 and 600
yards the ball is over sixty feet above
the line of the bulrs-eye, and a consid-
cradle distance below the line of
sight. At 200 yards it has decreased
in proportion, and the aim is only
forty inches above the bull's-eye, but
at 800 yards it is over sixteen feet.
1T takes about three seconds for a
ball to travel 1000 yards with an or
dinary charge of powder behind it.
The first second it travels 1000 feet
In the next second it travels only
three-quarters of that distance, and in
the third second it travels only one
half as much as it did when leaving
the muZzle.
Il made the claim here a short time
ago that a ball made more revolutions
Chat is, its rotary motion increased in
proportion to the distance it traveled)
as it approached the target than it did
in the 100 yards Immediately after
leaving the muzzle, and | will explain.
The friction of the atmosphere does
not lessen the rotary motion as fast in
proportion to the distance it has trav-
eled as it does through the atmosphere
consequently, while in the last 100
yards the ball is only travelling at a
rate Just one-half of its original speed,
the rotary motion is just as great, and,
having more time, makes more revo-
lutions. San Francisco Examiner.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-04
Came Back for Revenge.


One day while proceeding up
canyon in the Ration mountains, says
the Kansas City Star, large silver
tipped bear and her cub leaped out
and made rush up the sloping side of
the valley. There were three in our
party and every Winchester began to
cub tumbled dead at the first fire. l
call him cub, but the truth is he was
more than half as large as his mother
and weighed 240 pounds. The old
lady did not show any injury, and the
moment the young one tumbled she
turned and came back squarely in the
teeth of the rifles, and, seizing her
dead cub in her mouth as a cat does a
kitten, raised it fairly clear of the
ground and cantered up the hill-no
easy matter, as, aside from the 240
pounds of limp and dragging weight,
she had to force her anxious, loving
way through oak brush, which in many
instances might have detained a steer.
She got fairly away. albeit we fired
several shots after the cub fell.
We had just reloaded the magazines
of our Winchesters, and were COM
muning as to taking the trail of the old
bear, which showed wide and clear in
broken bushes and disturbed oak
leaves and pine needles, when looking
up we beheld our game coming back
straight for us. She meant business,
too. Her red and streaming tongue
lolled out of her half-open mouth, and
her eyes partially closed in rage would
have seemed quizzieal in expression
were it not for the ferocity which leap
ed and flashed in their depths like
sheet lightning behind some cloud
screen. She came straight to us, and
we settled her troubles at the first fire.
We found the cub up on the divide.
She had carried it at least sixty rods
with two bullet holes in her shaggy
hide, as we found when we skinned
her.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-04

One of the most singular facts about
the growth of London is its regularity.
1t may be roughly taken that every
month about 1000 houses are added to
London. In August of this year 766, 577
houses had to be supplied by the watcr
companies with water; in September
that number had increased to 766, 797.
In August of last year 754, 464 houses
had to be supplied, or II, 113 below the
number in the same month of this year.
In September. 1890, the companies had
to supply 1896 houses more than in
Septem6 Der of 1889. This extension is
not confined to any one portion of the
capital, but preference is still being
shown for the north and northwest
suburbs. Mall Gazette.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-02-04
Color And Cowardice.

Colonel Mosby has a peppery temper
and it was my misfortune to excite it
on the occasion of our first meeting,
says writer in the Los Angeles EG-
press. Our talk after time turned on
the subject of courage. and | repeated
the old story of General Custer and the
recruit. Custer is said to have been
one of those rare men who are born
without the sense of fear. and never lost
color in any moment of peril. His
troops were standing under fire. not
permitted to return it.
Say" said the quaking recruit to
the veteran next him, "when are we
going to get the order to retreat?''
well" the old soldier said, there
Custer on his horse just before you.
Keep your eye on him and the moment
you see him turn pale you must cut
and run"
Fudge snapped Colonel Mosby. ''a
man who turns pale has no business
going into battle"
why not?"
Because he's a coward, SIR"
Then | treated him to the other
chestnut about the duke of Wellington,
who pointed to ghastly-faced young
officer marching past with head uE
toward the field of Waterloo and said
There goes brave man. He knows
his danger, but goes to meet it."
also stated the fact that had seen meu
in mining camps go into shooting
scrapes white as sheets, but neverthe.
less fight coolly and like the very
deuce.
.''Pah!' was all Mosby said, and Civ.
ing me look which might have meant
that he suspected the color of my own
liver, he wheeled and left me. But he
came back presently and talked ol
other things to show that he forgayC
me.