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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-03-14

THE expenditures authorized by the
ffty-first congress will exceed those of
any "peace" congress since the founda-
ton of the government. The total ap-
propriations made by the tiftieth con-
gress were during the first session $685.
337, 1916, and during the second session
$422, 500, s4s, or An aggregate Of ss17 $685.
$50. while the appropriations for the first
session Of the ifty-Arst congress were
$460,827,687, and those of the second ses-
sion will probably bring the total appro-
p%riations for the congress to q $1,OOO,-
100000. The surplus left by the demo-
cratic administration has gone glimmer-
ing.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-03-14
SATRDAY. MARCH "A. 1891.
THE UNIVERSITY QUESTION.

The Helena journal strikes the
nail on the head when it says: There is
no single subject of more Importance
to the people Of Montana than that
Of deciding upon the location of the
state educational institutions. and AZ
to whether they shall be scattered
over the country or consolidated in
one great State University.
Senator Gibson Of Cascade county
struck the key note on this question
during the late session Of the Gen
eral Assembly. when he opposed all
efforts to obtain snap decisions Is to
the location Of some branches Of the
University. and made a plea in favor
of submitting the matter to the peo-
pie after they have had time to fully
consider it.
Great Falls, Missoula, Bohemian, or
some other place possessing the req
uisite advantages might be decided
upon. The exact spot upon which
the University shall be situated is of
very little Importance as compared
with the necessity and advantage of
it being put all together at the best
place that can be found.
Perhaps for centrality, altitude and
general suitability no better place
than Great Falls exists in the state. On
the river bank above the city is as
glorious a site for a university as
could be found in the world. There
is a broad and beautiful sweep of the
river there suited to rowing and all
aquatic sports in which students de-
light, and which are so beneficial in
their development. Who a imagine
a university without IA river near
by?
Missoula could provide IA site al
most equally attractive and desirable.
but it would be better to select a
place where there is now no human
habitation than to permit political
wrangling and ~see-sawing to subject
the State to the sickening experience
of Oregon. where these institutions
were divided up like other political
trophies. The question should be
discussed by all the newspapers of the
State amiably, intelligently and IAN
didly. We must first agree as to the
necessity of keeping the institutions
together. and then the site can lie
decided by a vote of the people, like
that which will take place regarding
the location of the State Capital.
In Sundays journal will be given
a number of very instructive and in
teresting opinions of the ministers of
Helena on this important subject. !
The views of these gentlemen should
be read by everyone who feels any in
terest in the future of Montana.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-03-14
THE BOND QUESTION.

Another election for the bridge bonds!
This is what the people Of Great Falls
are talking about today. Paris Gibson
appeared fefcre the commissioners this
morning ana stated what the bill en-
abling counties to incur indebtedness was
passed, but no restrictive clause was In
cOrporated; hence Cascade county can
neither build nor purchase . bridge with
out again voting bonds. One man OK.
claims, This is craftsmanship on the
half-shell" another points out the extra
expense, and other the delay. All these
features are bad enough and it seems
that here wal Q laundering oversight
which will not easily find excuse at the
hands OF the taxpayers of the county
Leader.
We quote the above extract simply to
show to what limit prejudice may so.
The bill to enable counties to incur Ger
tain Indebtedness was carefully drawn
up after consultation with the best law.
yers of the state and it covers the ground
completely. The bill could not have
been made to render valid the bond cleo.
tion Of last fall, because that would have
been special legislation, which is strictly
prohibited by the constitution. Mr.. Glib.
sons bill covers the ground a. fully as it
was possible to make il, and we have no
doubt the people Of the county will be
only too glad to vote again in favor of is.
suing bonds for necessary public I'M
provements. As might be expected, the
observations Of the Leader are uncalled
for and unjust.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-03-14

lT pains us exceedingly to note the
fact that the Leader is not pleased with
the management of the banquet Wednes-
day evening in honor OF Senator Paris
Gibson. Everybody in the least inter
ested is happy over the event, and the fact
that the esteemed Leader is making a
"kick' goes fully to show that they
ought to be.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
QUICK CHICKEN BRoILINe.
Prince RlsmRrck's Old Chef Wins al
odd Wager I'm berlin.

Prince Rismarck's Old Chef Wins an
odd Wager I'm Berlin.
Prince Bismarck's old chef, who is now
head cook in big Berlin restaurant, re-
Gently won a novel bet, and gave a sur
prising exhibition of his mastery of the
culinary art He had wagered $25 that
he could kill, clean, cook, and serve
chicken, all in six minutes.
The wager was decided at night in the
cafe Of the restaurant in the presence of
big crowd. The cook appeared at 0
O'Clock on an improvised platform, upon
which stood gas cooking stove He
held live chicken high above his head,
and the fowl cackled loudly. One blow
of keen carver severed the head from
the neck, and the cook began to pick the
feathers with great swiftness. 1t took
just one minute to get rid of every
feather In less than another minute
the expert had opened and cleaned the
fowl and had placed it upon broiler on
the gas stove.
The cook busted himself at the broiler,
seasoning the fowl as it cooked. It
lacked just a second of the sixth minute
when he stepped from the platform and
served the chicken to the nearest guest,
to great applause.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31

His hands measure 131a inches around
the knuckles when closed His chest
measure is A aud his waist Al inches
He has always enjoyed excellent
health and Possesses an appetite which
would alarm most pc lple, AS 1t calls
for about what would satisfy three or
binary eboring me-, 1t each meal He
lifts $50 pounds with ease, is OF hap
ny d spo,itiun and Il great fayori e
with the b Us If the town. When an
gered he is q trrror lie is the son Of
Ex-Mnyor Wi'tig, Il leading citizen,
aud Elizabeth Wlttig, both Of whom
are large per ons The father is 6
feet 3 inches in height ana weighs over
22O ounds; the mother is Fl medium
height and weighs 200 pounds.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
Not DYING Out.

The generally received idea that the
Indian races are dying out is not accepted
by a correspondent of the Eastport (Me.)
Sentinel, who says the Passamaquoddy
tribe now numbers more than four times
as many individuals as it did century
ago, when the place at Sybaik pleasant
Point was set apart for their occupancy.
Nor is there any evidence that physically
they are deteriorating. In recent ath-
letic contest Of picked young men of
Washington county, this correspondent
noticed that the man who held undis-
puted precedence as a specimen of physi-
cal development, whose strike was like
the blow of a catapult, and whose home
ward spring and rush had the speed of a
race horse, was Passamaquoddy In
dian,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
HILLS TENOR AND MY BASS,

Bill was short and dapper, while was thin
and tall
had fowin' whiskers, but Bill had none at
all;
Clothes would never seem to set so nice on
me as him
Folks used to laugh and say was too power
full slim.
But Bills clothes fit him like the paper on the
WALL
And we were the sparkin'est beaus in all the
place,
When Bill sung tenor and sung bass
Cyrus Bakers oldest girl was a member of the
choir
Eyes as black as Kelsey's cat, and cheeks as
red as tirel
She had the best sopranner voice 1 think l
ever heard
Sung Coronation, Burlington, and
"Chiny" like bird;
Never done better than with Bill a-standin'
nigh err
A-holdin of her hymn book so she wouldn't
lose the place,
When Bill sung tenor and sung bass
Then there was Prudence Hubbard, so cosy
like and fat
She sung alto and wore pee-wee hat;
Beaued her around one winter, and first
thing knew.
One evenin' on the portico up and called
her Pruel
But, sakes alivel she didn't mind little thing
like that
On all the works of Providence she set a
cheerful face,
When Bill was singin' tenor and was singin'
bass.
Bill, nevermore we two shall share the fun we
used to then,
Nor know the comfort and the peace we had
together when
We lived in Massachusetts, in the good old
courtin' days
And lifted up our voices in psalms and hymns
of praise
Oh, how wish could live those happy times
againl
For life, as we boys knew it, had a sweet,
peculiar grace
When you was singin' tenor and was singin
bass.
The music folks have nowadays amt what il
used to be,
Because there amt no singers now on earth
like Bill and me;
Why, Lemuel Bangs who used to go tc
Springfield twice year.
Admitted that for singin' Bill and me had
not peer
When Bill went soarin' up to A and dropped
down to Dl
The old bull-hddle Beza Dimmit played
warn't In the race
Longside of Bills high tenor and my sonor
ious bass
Bill moved to Californy in the spring of a.
And we folks that used to know him never
know him any more;
Then Cyrus Bakers Oldest girl-she kind o
pinned spell,
And, hankerin' after sympathy, it NATURAL!
befell
That she married Deacon Pitkin's boy whC
KEEP the general store;
And so the years-the changeful years-havO
ratified on apace
Since Bill sung tenor and sung bass.
As was settin by the stove this evenin' afte
tea,
I noticed wife KEEP hitchin' close and closer Vi
to me,
And, as she patched the gingham frock on
gran child wore to-day,
heerd her gin sigh that seemed to com
from fur away
Couldn't help inquirin' what the trouble Nigh
be;
"Was thinkin' of the time, says Prue q
breshin' at her face,
When Bill sung tenor and you sung bass
Eugene Field, In Chicago Daily News.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
A Wonderful pslotn Rainbow.

DR.. McVean arrived in the city last
night after tour of the country. The
doctor resides at Armour, S. OAK, and
has much to tell about that region. "a
few days ago." he said, "the people,
among the number myself, witnessed one
of the most remarkable phenomena seen
in that or any other portion of the United
States. The phenomena consisted of the
appearance of the northern lights under
remarkable circumstances. The lights
formed a regular rainbow and appeared
at night. The bow extended the whole
length of the horizon, and was 80 feet
wide. Everything was seen on the broad
prairie just as if it had been lit up by
electricity. The old settlers claim that
such thing was noticed in 1862, but not
since. st Louis obe-Democrat.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
Millions Saved by Rarbed Wire.

The saddest thing ! saw in a journey
to the West was the old fashioned rail
fence in Pennsylvania, Ohio, eastern
Indiana, and southern Michigan. How
cruel of fate not to permit the wire fence
TO be invented 200 years before it was.
Probably enough labor and timber have
been wasted in the building of old
sworn" fences in the past to pay off so
national debts like ours. 1t makes one
almost weep to think of the backs that
have been broken, of the hands worn out,
the energies sapped, the boys kept from
school-in telling trees, splitting logs,
driving posts, laying rails for those thou
sands of miles of rail fencel When our
Western farmer wants a fence now he
buys a few posts and a lot of barbed
wire. Three men can put up half mile
of fence in day. A rod of fence costs
complete--labor, costs, and all-25 cents.
A mile of fence costs $50. If the farmer
had plenty of growing timber of his own
he could not hire man to cut out the
posts alone for that money, to say moth
ing of the rails. Augusta Chron-
| icle.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
Artesian Wells of Memphis.

Memphis formerly obtained its supply
of water from the Wolf River, tribu-
tary of the Mississippi. AS the supply
was very unsatisfactory in quality, twas
determined to try the experiment of
driving artesian wells to supply the city
with water. To that end AZ wells were
driven, 80 of them being eight inches in
diameter, and 10 inches, the depth OF
them ranging from 900 to 4SO feet
The wells are situated at different
points, varying in distance from 20 to
/ .25O feet. The wells are tapped about
70 feet below the surface, the water flow
ing into a brick connection tunnel.
There are four 10000, 900 gallon pump;
driven by compound condensing engines
of the vertical type.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
MANAGED CRABS.
Curious Shell Fish Found in Islands
of Japan.

of Japan.
One of the most singular looking crea-
lures that ever walked the earth or Swan
the waters under the earth" is the world
famous manfaced craBof Japan, says the
st. Louis Republic.
Its body is hardly an inchin length, yet
the head is fitted with a face which
is the perfect counterpart of that of a
Chinese coolie; veritable missing link,
with eyes, nose, and mouth all clearly
defined.
The curious and uncanny creature, be-
sides the likeness it bears to a human
being in the matter of facial features, is
provided with two legs, which seem to
grow from the top Of It's head aud hang
down over the sides of its face.
Besides these legs two "feelers," eacl1
about an inch in length, grow from the
"chin" of the animal, looking fol
all the world like a coloners forkef
beard. These manfaced crabs fairly
swarm in the inland seas of Japan.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
TnE LovERs QuARREL.

Something had been done or spoken.
Or perchanee, some promise broken
Little matter what IL wasi
Fate designed 1t, and behind it
La concealed, sufficient cause.
Sullenly the heavens lowered,
Augrily the shadows glowered
Der the thirsting, sunburnt plain;
Aud the glouting wind went fiouting
Through the dry and dropping rain.
Hoarse, ill-humored voices mumbled;
Louder, louder rolled and rumbled;
Shrieking winds in fury rose;
Binding flashes, deaf'ning crashes,
Told the frenzy Of the foes.
Harkl That bitter-sweet atoningl
Madison is turned to moaning,
And the loud contentious cease.
Love is calling, tears are falling
Tears, the harbingers Of peace.
Now the freshened field is laughing;
Now the thirsty plain is quafiing
Natures sweet catholicon;
Earth is brighter, hearts are lighter,
Since the storm is come and gone.
Willis B. Hawkins
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
Guaranteed Cure for La Grippe.

We authorize our adve1 tsed drug
gist TO sell you Dr.. Kings New Discov.
cry for Consumption, Coughs aud
Colds upon this condition: IT, you are
atll c'ed with la grippe and will use
this remedy according to directions
giving it fair trial, and experience nc
benefit, You may return the bottle and
have your money refunded We make
this offer because of the wonderful
success Of DR.. Kings New Discovery
during last seasons epidemic Have
heard Of no case in which it failed
Try it. Trial bottles free at McFar
land & Cos drug store. Large size sc
cents and 81.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
Caught In the Act,

The Teacher-There is one of my
brightest boys sitting over there on that
rock writing, while his companions are
wasting their time in idle play. No
doubt he is writing his lessons out for to-
morrow. Here, Jimmys let me see what
you are writing.
Jimmy-No'm; I don't want to.
"Ah, see his modestyl Come, want
to read it,"
This is what she read:
"Please excuse my son, James, from
school to-day, as he is needed at ho---"
Boston News,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
THE CHILDREN OF DICKENS.
Nothing In Their Careers TO Show the
Heredity of Genius.

va
The second son of Dickens was Francis
Geoffry Dickens. And some of us who
have mixed the newspaper life of Lon
don aud Chicago and Calcutta knew him
well, for one must write the sad past
tense. Dear Frank Dickens was born in
the year 1841-he was the fourth child.
In his note book the novelist wrote: "A
plump and merry little chap, this second
son of mine.
Poor little chapl
He caught the Fleet street fever and
went ink mad; he caught the Dahooley
4 fever and flashed and feshed and blooded
his sword in India; he fought Louis Riel
in Canada-aye, and captured Big Bear; ;
he came to Chicago and gambled away
lis money in Clark street gambling
house; he died one windy sleety night in
grim, little Illinois town-Moline.
| There he is buried.
But his brother Henry did well won
the second scholarship at Trinity Hall at
the age of 20 and was goth wrangler in a
| IAN year, when Olo WldhS leIs were over
40. He is now a successful barrister,
with a wife and five children.
And the daughters of Dickens? Tho
oldest is unmarried; the other is Mrs.
"Kittie" Perugini, a deservedly well
known portrait painter Mrs. Exit
ties fame-if one must be fairly accurate
is a wee, small affair, but then she has
done something; she has painted the por-
trait of that baronet of baccarat, Sir Will
liam Gordon Cumming.
Mr.. Junior Charles Dickens has three
daughters. Two of them run a tyne
writing establishments off Covent Garden
the third, Mary, is playing small parts in
stock company touring the provinces.
No-genius is not hereditary.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
Killed in Kentucky.

JUNCTION CITY, December 20 John
Paul, of Mckinney, Lincoln county,
was killed in Helenwood, Tenn, Sat
urday, 10y j. r Pc nberton, a tough
character Of that place, In his dying
statement Paul charged Pemberton
with cold blooded murder and pro
tested that he was killed without pro-
vocation. Paul was buried at Nc
Kinney today,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
Rest In the Rarber,a Chair,

There is one place in which even in the
midst Of the busiest day the most hur-
ried men rest. and that is in the BARRIERS
chair. No matter what cares and per-
plexities, what schemes and anxieties fill
the mind the moment the soft fingers Of
the barber begin to pass over the face
there comes lull in the turmoil of the
brain, and for blessed quarter of an
hour there is quiet in the cerebral cells.
Boston Courier.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
Mrs. Il. Il. WelIman.

No. 2 Linn St.. GAINESVILLE, Wis. unCer
date of June Is, writes the following ::
Kenyon & Thomas, Sirs-l was COZ
fined to my bed four months with II
hammation of the right ovary, had 4"
good physician aud tried almost every
thing but got very little help until l
tried your DR., Hale's Household ONT
ment about tout months ago. 1t has
done wonders for me. can do quit
goo days work. | have every rea-
son to believe that it will entirely cure
me- / am also using your DR.. Hal e
Household Tea with good results. Sir
cerely yours, Mrs, H E. Wellm IN
This great medicine is for sale at Me
Earlahd & Cos drug store.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
4 HEFTY YOUNGSTER.
Only Seventeen hut he Stands Six
Feet Four.

CUMBERLAND, Md. Dec. 29.-Wil-
liam w. Wlttig, the biggest boy n Ma
ryland, celeb 'ated his seventeenth
birthday anniv rsary at his home in
Froslburg, Allegheny county today.
Throughout the county he is looked
on as a giant. He was born in Balti-
more. With his parents he removed
to Frostburg in March, 1876 For the
past two years he has been growing at
the rate of one half an inch per month
Fl hei. bit is six feet, four and one
half inches, and weighs 1856 pounds
He wears No ~ hat and No l shoe,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31

Bunting-One of Larkin's sons was &C.
cidentally shot in the lumber region yes
terday.
Mrs. Bunting GIT seems to me that tho
Larkin boys are pretty well scattered. 1t
was only last week that one of them was
badly hurt in the oil regions. Brooklyn
Life
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31

He-Will you drive me this EVENING"
The moon will be just full.
She-Delighted, I'm sure.
"Would you prefer to have me bring q
span or single team8"
"Why-er-I-er-isn't a single team
much easier to drive f"-Somerville
Journal
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-12-31
"OUR BOB"
Makes his First Appearance Before a
Magnificent Audience.

MIKES HIS FlTsU AppCuIuhCo boiViO
Magnificent Audience.
Ex-Governor Taylor opened his
great southern lecture tour in Jobe's
opera house last night under most aus
picious circumstances. The 'ccasion
had been looked forward to with great
interest, and none were disappointed.
Al the hour for opening, the opera
house was crowded to its utmost ca
pacity with the representative intelli-
gence and culture of the city and sur
rounding country. Delegations came
in from all the surrounding towns,
anxious to hear the magnetic orator,
whose wit and humor had charmed
and delighted them many times in the
hard fought battles with his shrewd
competitors in the political world.
That Mr. Taylor is one of natures
most congenia humorists, was eyin9ed
n the outset of his political career.
But in those contests his ability for the
lecture fed was not fully appreciated,
lie impressed the people with his clev-
er Jokes as II comedian. They saw him
as a clown in the political circu-, where
the ridiculous often counts for more
than profound argument.
But in "Ihe Fiddle and the Bow,
Mr.. Taylor is seen in Il different light
He shows himself to be master ofmort
than TIVE comedians fun. Every
phrase If his magnanimous character
bIazes rut ~ his wonderful picture O
human life. Wit, humor and pathos
are blended like so many lights and
shadows, coming and going in rythmi.
cal succession across the great arena
of human action He is not alone SUI
perb in his splendid and pleasing ora
tony, in the beauty aud grace OF his
rhetoric, and in the music of MS poet
ical tenor, but is equally SO in his mer
its as an actor. His facial expression
and manner on the stage impressed
his au fence that the invisible gods OIL
genius had Amounted him for the stage
before his Young intellect Was capable
of measuring objective things.
THE LECTURE.
Mr.. Taylor was introduced by Hon,
Robert Burrow, one of his old political
associates.
The lecture was a magnificent por-
trayal of the various human expert
ences. Boththe funny and the serious
sides of life were pictured, and through
the whole the melody OF the sweetes
music ran. He pictured the many
scenes of rural fe-the old country
singing master, courtshjp and marriag,
the song of the disappointed lover
country school life, the cid field schoo
exhibition, the old fashioned quilting
etc.
Realistic speculation, with its disap
ointments and encouragement
was most humorously portray
ed. Political life and tn
| discussions and a thousand othe
phases OF human life were tolc
II most interesting manner.
he lecturer made some of the mos
ho,rt 'ful and sublime flights OF Ora
torv i 'as ever been our pleasure t
boar Fl, discussion of music, villa
4 g md i,s Influence on human life il
it's yarious mo des and forms, was
leading fe .tnre If the lecture.
That he left his audience delighte
with his graceful, CHI armlng picture c
human life, under the lights an
shades of pathos and oumoi' musl
and poetry, there is every Svloshce'