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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-27
HE HAD NEVER SEEN A s,,..
The Low Down Way In Which
Played 1t on Anoth ma

Ane Low Down Way In Which On. ~.
Played 1t on Another.
There are some people who have
lar hobby. They pride themselves ~ pecui'
ing aoie 70 come within year or two :.
guessing PERSONS exact age '"o OF
One OF these gentlemen has ceased e,,,.-
vent to this proclivity of his The r.u
ner OF his being cured of it has ,u uiaa'
mined his faith in humanity alec y
that is only detail. He is a docto, ous
on this occasion he was himself nrac., .us
on A friend of his brought it ahon. 'ceo
this way: They were sitting toeethe, ~
doctor and his friend-in the hotel 49,, .ne
Said the friend: How deceptive q naus
looks are! Now I'll venture m COZ
couldn't say how many summers thu, !ou
over there has SEEM" and he pointed =.
man who Was sitting some ten wards 80
looking steadfastly to the ceiling
"Pshaw" said the doctor. AZ sar ho,-
do you really think can't come viii.
two years of it?'' 'nin
Il say that you can't come within ,uo
years OF telling the correct number of en-
mers he has seen"
well, never bet, but | Certainly foo,
like doing it in this case. say he has ss so,
thirty-6ve summers"
"All right. Now for proof to tie cor
trary. | happen to know him."
And the friend piloted the medical ,on
tleman over to where the subject Of hi.
guess was still gazing ceilingward.
Robinson, old man." said the friend in
a soft sort Of tone, chow many summe-a
have you seen-Or winterss''
"1-why, none at all, you know, none .,
ALL" He spoke in the piteous monoton.
that sometimes distinguishes the blind al
have seen-no summers. But if Won mean
how old am"-he smiled family, tbint.
ing he was correcting his friends metapbor
-"why, am thirty-two."
The friend thanked him; the doctor pazed
again at the vacant though lifelike ewes
and said, as he walked away, 1T was a
small sort Of trick, p
But YOU didn't come very near to the
correct number of summers he had SEEM
But the doctor only walked away mood.
lily, muttering something about hating
practical jokes. And he has become very
chary about venturing to guess any ones
age.-Chicago Tribune.
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4 Broken IDOL.

One tiny hand Supports her dainty lad,
Vita rapt attention bent to better hear
The preachers words: the while soft lust err
Shed
From the stained window throws a golden
spear
OF haloWcd l:,:ht thai, cast athwart her hair,
\ rcvcr,'Iit halo gently place, there.
Throughout the sermon f,lancro swift steal
At her bowed heal, bco'eAIin:, silent prayer,
Forgetting for her sake my future veal
To kneel before an earthly IDOL, fair.
But now. alas. her action strikes me dumb.
Her appraised hand couceals her chewing gum.
New York Herald.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-27

Across the Deep. to the Far West,
On steamboats,. cars and stage-coaches. Ho letters
stomach Bitters is carried as the most important
item in the materia medca Of the travelling public
1t deprves vitlated. bracHish water of its hurtfu
ropertjcs and execrabe flavor, counteracts the
per icious effects upon the stomach of bad or indi-
gcstibc food, remedies cramps, heartburn and
wi upon the stomach. 1t is fine defense against
malaia disorders nuliies the effects of excessive
heat cold aud damp, relieves sick headache, and is
an incompatible cure for costiveness and bilious
ness The fatigue OF travel often tells most di>as
trously upon invalds and convalescents, Oc; aston
ally to such an extent to jeopardlze life. Per-
sons in feeble health, apprehensve OF bad effect =
from travel WILL if provided with the bitters. be
far less'ikely to have their fears realized.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-27

SEC. IL. III any equity III IIlls
state where the county commits
sioners shall decide to levy a tax fol-
the purpose Of keeping in repair the
public roads and bridges, as pro
vided for in section, II of this act,
no person residing in said county
shall be required to work upon the
roads and bridges in said county,
but shall be exemp, from road
duty.
Sec. 20. In all counties Of this
state the county commissioner OF
each district shall be the superinten-
dent Of roads and bridges in his dis.
trict, and shall inspect and report
all the work done upon said roads
and bridges; which report shall be
made to the county commissioners,
hereinbefore provided; and where
said roads and bridges are repaired
and maintained by contract, no
money shall be paid by the county
commissioners upon any contract un-
til report has been made by the
county commissioner as road super
intendent of the district where the
contract is let.
SEC. 81. That all laws and parts
of laws in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed.
That tired feeling now 50 often heard Of
is entirely overcome by Hoods Sarsaparil-
la, which gives mental and bodily
strength.
Every Indian worships tobacco.
Give the Sioux a sufficiency of
beef and tobacco and there will
be no more war between them
and the United States. They do
not get any tobacco from the gov
eminent in these days, so they sell
what little else they do have and
with the proceeds procure cigar
rettes and tobacco 1t used to be
thai the red man was satisfied with
dried red willow bark, but he has
been civilized very materially, and
now insists on the best brands of
the most thoroughly cultivated and
manufactured weed. Some of the
older fellows still mix the willow
with their smoke-they prefer the
nnick-Kinnick-but the younger
men take the tobacco straight.
Their love for ci garrettes amounts
almost to a passion, and yet the In
dian is master of the situation. He
can smoke enough cigarettes to kill
every dude on the face of the earth,
60 on the war path for couple of
months and starve, and yet turn up
with physique that seems uninjured.
The suggestion that unlimited ciga-
rettes were cheaper than soldiers
thus falls to the ground and be
come valueless.-W ashlngton Star.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-27
The Great Question.

Father-lf you paid more attention to
cooking and less to dress my dear, YOU
would make Il much better wife.
Dau ;5hter-It~, father. But who wou Id
marry me?-Cioa.i Review.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-27
The Cause Or 1t.
Continent

a ha! slip up the choir made
''his morning" SAID old Warden Taps
Can You explain 10 nc the cause
OF such a general collapse:'
"'fhe orglnist WAS Off his base"
The tenor said, with show of zeal,
And therefore it may be assumed
We slipped up on the organ peal"
Boston Courier.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-27
4 Rise in the ord

james, don't see YOU waiting on table
any more"
NO, sab; Use been promoted. Use entry
clerk now"
You an entry clerk. never knew you
were bookkeeper."
oh, amt. jes' keep my eye on tie
umbrellas, hats and thing, dc i:oa'tlerS
leave in the eutry. "-kate Fields WASH
ingtOn.
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He Wondered Why.

"Oh. sing me White Wings please" said
Chappie Featherbrain one day
While calling on some ladies, ''for it carries
me quite away"
He ever after wondered, as some mortals SOME
times do,
hostess, dol"
Chicago Herald.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-27
The Finishing Touch.

ASsstant-Yes; just finished it.
Bulder--All right. Now measure it and
see if it in accordance with the architect s
plans.-New York Weekly.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-27
An Ice Cream Vanilla.

Ned-Wetl. Hiss Nevarre said yes to he
at last.
Ted isurpriSad)-No
Ned-l'es; size took vanilla. New York
Continent
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Wild Extravaganza.

Young Closefist-Oh, Miss Mabel, l am
so extravaSantly fond of you.
Mabel-Yes, | remember the glass of
lemonade you once bought me.-Boston
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Merit Measured nv NucccAs.

The wonderful popularity of Swift :
S. 'iiic S. S. s. is The natural result OF
he tests to which the public has put il.
The merits OF the medicine have remained
the same, but the knowledge OF the people
with respect TO its remarkable curative
properties has increased until now there is
q demand for it wherever the English Ian
guage is spoken. s. S. s. was first off red
as specific for contagious bl, Cd poison
For that it was, and is, truly a specific
But it is now regarded, wherever its virtues
are known, as true specific for all forms
OF blood disease. Whole columns could be
filled with testimonials to this effect.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-27
How Three Were Made One.

Cannibal Maid and her Hottentot Blade
They met in a rocky defile;
\ gay eagle plume vas his only costume,
The lady was wrapt in a-smile
Together they strOlied, and his passion he told
In pleading and tremulous tone,
While softly they trod on the blossom strewn
sod,
And spooned in the twilight alone
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1t is quite the fashion now to take De
Wits Little Early Risers for liver, stoM-
ach and bowel disorders. They are small
pills, but mighty good ones. N. Lively
ellis the m.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-28
GRIPPE EPIDEMIC.
Chicago and Pittsburgh Ravaged
by the Disease.
An Appalling Death Rate in the Former
City During the Past Two Wceks-Hos-
pitfalls Crowded with the Victims
While Undertalters, Physicians
and Drugglsts are Overworked.

CHICAGO, March 25.-The grippe epi-
demic is unabated in this city and the
mortality continues appalling. Up to
midnight Monday the deaths for two
weeks aggregated 1, $40, or thirty-five per
thousand, which is unprecedented in the
history of Chicago. Nearly all died
from climatic complaints. Drug stores
have been compelled to increase their
force of clerks Undertakers are
crowded with work and many funerals
are taking place as early as a. m. and
as late as twilight. The hospitals of
the Alexian Brothers, the German
Brothers, the Augustana hospital, st.
Joseph's hospital and the Presbyterian
hospital, which usually take only acci-
dents or paid patients, have opened
their doors to the victims of the grippe
and are crowded.
Eight physicians of the German hos
pital were taken down and seventytwo
nurses of the Illinois training school for
nurses who have been ministering to
| the sick have succumbed since Satur-
day, and some are in critical condi-
ton. At the Womens and Children's
hospital, out of u staff of forty physi
clans, nurses and attendants, all but
five are unfit for duty. The physicians
are in hopes that the disease will wear
itself out but all say that until there is
change in the weather no great i'm
provement can be predicted.
PITTSBURGH, March 25.-The grippe
continues to spread desolation through
the homes of this city and its suburbs.
Physicians, hospitals and funeral direc-
tors are taxed as they probably never
have been before At the Pittsburgh
department of health Tuesday after
noon the record showed 442 deaths dur
ing the month of March, the larger pro-
portion due to the ravages of the grippe.
In Allegheny City there have been 149
deaths All the leading hotel bars and
many saloons are dispensing quinine
with their liquors. Many of the most
prominent citizens are among the suf.
ferers. The ailment is almost as preva-
lent in the outlying towns as in the city
One Sewickley physi clan reports hav
ing 110 cases. The health office book;
show that the death average for the
past few months far exceeds that of tho
corresponding period in previous years
At the home of the Little Sisters of the
Poor in this city four of the inmates
!, , died from the effects of grippe within
the past twenty four hours. There arr
in the institution over 100 patients il
Z charge of eleven sisters.
NEW YORK, March 25.-Dr. Edison, o
the health board, said yesterday tha
the outlook for the spread of grippe wa
decidedly favorable. DR.. w. h. Sulli
van, one of the recognized authorities O
4 grippe, called at the health department
/. and stated that the spread of the diseas
= is favored by the present humid atmos
. phere and alternating warm and col
|
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-28
BATTLE With ROBBERS.
Desperate Struggle in Cattle Car BE
tween Three Rufians and Two Indiani

Desperate Struggle in n Cattle Car Be-
tween Three Rufians and Two Indiani-
ans.
CHICAGO, March 24.-John Wilson and
Henry Matthews, two respectable citi'
zens of La Porte, Ind, were seized by
three burly ruffians while they were
walking to their homes few miles out
side that city, about dus k Sunday even.
ing, and thrown into an empty cattle
car which was on it's way to Chicago at
tached to the regular cattle train. The
train had stopped, but started as soon
as the daring deed was committed. The
ruffians threw the me to the floor OF
the car and robbed them Of their valua-
bles, which they only succeeded in TAX
ing after desperate struggle. The rob
bers sprang upon their victims, and over
and over they rolled, each man fighting
for supremacy.
The men, who were big and strong,
fought desperately for their lives, but
the three robbers were too much for
them. After battle of nearly half an
hour the nearly exhausted men were
hurled from the rapidly moving train
and left lying bruised bleeding and un-
conscious by the roadside. Two hours
afterward they were found and con-
veyed to neighboring house. AS soon
as their story was learned the Chicago
police were notified but so far no ar
rests have been made. The wounded
men were taken to their homes. They
are both seriously injured, but not ia,
tallv
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-28
THE FEDERAL LIQUOR TAX.
Gen. .NettIeton Announces Change in the
Form of the stamp.

GEN, ,NettIeton Announces n Change in the
Form of the Stamp.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Acting Sec
retary Nettleton, of the treasury de-
partment, makes public the following
circular letter to the internal revenue
collectors throughout the country:
WASHINGTON D. G, March 81, 1891
SIR: Letters are frequently received at the
department stating that In many parts OF the
permit or license from the United States fol
carrying on their business; that in many cases
where local law prohibits public drinking places
the law is openly violated by persons who
claim 20 do business under AZ least the moral
sanction OF o federal license" and that this
fact together with the belief common among
many good citizens that the United States gov
ernment does in fact issue such licenses, great
ly retards the enforcement of wholesome re
strictive laws and promotes disorder,
1t should be unnecessary to state that the
United States government does not issue
license or permit of any nature to any person In
any state to carry on the business of retail liquor
dealer and II is difficult to understand how any
Intelligent citizen can be imposed u on by the
opposite claim. Congress having levied reve'
nue. stamp tax OF $25 per annum on the business
OF retail liquor dealers, the commissioner of in
ternal revenue endeavors to collect this tax,
wherever and by whomsoever the business Is
carried on, but no semblance II permission, ex'
press or implied, is given by the United States
government in its revenue laws or otherwise to
begin or continue such business in any place
contrary 10 Slhte OF lOC'Ai ltB slbbiOu.
II was to make clear this purpose Of carefully
respecting state laws and police regulations
prohibiting or restricting the liquor trafhc thai
congress enacted Section s2i3 OF the Revised
Statutes In order that this purpose rs thu,
embodied In law may be authoritatively au
nounced wherever the tax is collected o change
has been made in the form of the United Statei
stamp issued to retail dealers as evidence thai
they have paid such tax. The now form, which
will go into use July next reads rs follows:
limited States stamp for special tax; interna
revenue. Received from - the sum of -
dollars for special tax on the business of retail
liquor dealer at - for the period represented
by the coupon or coupons hereto attached"
And across the face OF the stamp is insc ribet
the following statement, embracing the sub
stance Of Section 3!43 OF the Revised Statutes
This stamp is simply receipt for tax du
the government and does not exempt the holde
from any penalty or punishment provided 10
by the law OF any state for carrying on the sat
business within such state and does not au
thorlze the commencement nor the continuanc
| of such business contrary 10 the laws of suc
! state or in places prohibited by municipal la'
| see Section 32i3 Revised Statutes Unite
| States"
1t is believed that this action will leave n
| ground for further misrepresentation.
| A. B. NETrLEToN, Acting Secretary.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-28
plrH AND POINT.

1t is hard for man to face the world
when he is fat on his back
No gift can make rich those that
are poor in wisdom. Ward Howe.
He Ought to Be.-Is the man who
is always on the fence opposed to barbed
wire?-Ram's Horn.
You can't tell how valuable girls
affections are worth until you are sued
for blighting n set of them.
The sunlight comes for rich and
poor alike; the blizzard is mostly for
poor folk.-MilwaulSee Sentinel.
The chiropodist's lot is not happy
one. He begins at the foot and never
gets any higher er-Yonkers Statesman.
Experience has established the fact
that lawsuits are more wearing on a
man than any other.-Boston Courier.
Argument is often introduced to
establish falsehood. 1t takes few words
to make truth convincing. .-Atchison
Globe.
-Flattery merely consists of having
ones secret opinion of ones self eX-
pressed in the language of Others. Troy
Times
This is the tyrants chain. Anxiety is
form of cowardice, embittering life
Charming.
Speaking of hydropathetic cures it
strikes us that well-water ought to be
good for sick people. Re-
publican.
Now it is my nature to accept every
offer that means wider outlook from
higher point of observation.-Fran
L. Willard.
If a man wants companionship he
should go skating. There he has
grand chance to fall in with friend
Yonkers Statesman.
Love is a devouring fame" the
poet says. It's "a pity it doesn't burn up
most of the love letters that are written,
too.-Somerville Journal.
One of the most amusing and harm
less of distractions that man is heir to
is the fancying what he would do if he
were somebody else.-St. Joseph News.
Energy will do anything that can
be done in this world; and no talents,
no circumstances, no opportunities, will
make two-legged animal a man with
out it.-Goethe.
The man who complains about the
old minister who preached so long that
he always missed his dinner, and the
new because the sermon is so short that
he can not get nap, would be hard to
please in any community.-B
American.
-One of the secrets of achievements
is to keep ones self in the mood and at
mosphere in which imagination and
heart work as one harmonious and con
tinuous energy. There is an element
of inspiration in all great work, which
is never wholly at command; with the
, greatest, as with the humber men, il
GIBBS and flows No man who'll
ly commands these affluent moods, these
creative impulses; but some men learr
the secret of appropriating them, OF
keeping them within their range
, Hamilton Wright Mabie.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-28
ROASTED TO DEATH.
Tive Victims of an Explosion in an OIL Re-
fnery ut Constable Hook, n. j.


JERSEY CITY, N. j.. March 24.-An
explosion occurred Monday afternoon
In the yard of the Tidewater Oil Rein
ing Company at Constable Hook, by
which three men were burned to death
and two others fatally burned. There
are about twenty five stills in the yard,
oil of which are numbered. Running
above the chain of stills is large pipe
which is used to pump the oil from one
still into another. A gang of men were
at work raising still No. 16 by placing
block under it, when the big pipe con-
Meeting the chain of stills on top sud
denly exploded. The oil became ignited
and poured down on the men, who were
caught in between stills Nos 16 and II.
Rescuing parties were at once set to
work to get the men out, but this could
not be done until the flames were eN-
Dinguished John Hayes, aged As years,
married, and Michael HALEY, 22 years
old, married, were dead VIXEN taken
out. Foreman George Gregory was
alive when taken out, bnt was so badly
burned that he died at the hospital
shortly after. John Anderson and John
Gallagher were taken to the Bayonne
hospital The physicians at the hospital
say they can not recover.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-28
Flendlsh Eruts Captured.

ALTOONA, Pa, March 25.-on Satur-
day last, Christian Iceberg, a niddle-
aged German, went to the house of John
Smidthuber in this city, and after play
ing with the children awhile caught mp
a 5-year-old son and seated him on the
top of u red hot stove. The child's
screams brought the mother to its res
cue, but it was badly burned, pieces of
flesh sticking to the stove. Iceberg es-
capped and was not seen until Tuesday
morning, when he slipped into the house
and again caught the child and attemp'
ted TO repeat the cruel act. A neighboI
came to the rescue and Iceberg was LIZ
rested.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1891-03-28
RUSSIAN GIRLS MARRY YOUNG.
There Arc No Long EnGaGements-Ths
Daughter Is the Boss.

Daughter Is the Boss.
The daughter is great pet in Rus
ian families, perhaps because there are
generally more sons than daughters.
Take the younger members of the i'm
perial family as an example, and we
find twenty-five grand dukes and only
seven grand duchesses; and this may be
stated to be about the average proper
ton in most families. The necessity
for men in the rural districts as assist
ants in the AGRICULTURAL labors of their
fathers has given rise to saying: "One
son is no son; two sons are half son;
but three are whole son.
Notwithstanding the pride and salts
faction with which the birth of boy is
hailed, the little girl is the darling, the
object of the tenderest affection and
care of parents and brothers, not to
speak of other adoring relatives. Much
is not expected of her in the way of as
sistance in the family; she is INDUCED
as far as their means and circumstances
permit. and she takes it quietly and as
her due, but it is rarely that she does
not voluntarily and tacitly contribute
her share in helping her mother, Her
occupations are much about the same as
those of all European girls, but parish
worl, in Russia existeth not for her.
She cannot have classes at Sunday
schools, as religion is taught by priests
or deacons. sa
1t would be thought quite eXtraordi-
nary and improper were a young un-
married girl to visit the sick or poor in
I'll SC
done under the direction of mamma OF
grandmamma. She is undoubtedly fond
of pleasures, likes to be well dressed
and generally adores dancing. Music is
not the Russian girls forte, nor is sole
singing. Most of the Institutllas
though they thoroughly know the the
ory of music play like child of twelve
of course these are exceptions, but it is
seldom you find girl able to play {
quadrille or poker off-hand.
Girls marry very young in Russia ant
there are very few of those most es
timable individuals called old maids
There are no colonies for the Russians
to run away to, and statistics show tina
the births of boys much exceed those o
girls.
Long engagements are not approves
of they seldom last longer than few
months, during which time the fiance
is the mistre SIS of the house. Her gir
friends assemble to help to sew tn
dowry, the sewing afternoon general,
ending in dance after tea, when tn
bridegroom drops in with few bache
lor friends. Another wedding is thu
| often ARRANGED and so on, little by lii
tie, TILL like the fifty-cne cards in tn
game of 'old maid" they pair off, an
one, generally of the sterner sex, is lei
-,forlorn.-English Illustrated Magi
zine.