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The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
Tho Walk of tho Farmer,

1t is we'll known that country folk,
from being so constantly on their feet,
arc usually blessed with understandings
of moro generous proportions than those
of their city cousins, who, tempted by
tho facilities for rapid transit, too often
deny themselves sufficient exercise. This
applies more particularly to the men.
have seen some country bred 1naidens
with the neatest, slenderest and most
dapper little feet in tho world. But then
they don't plow from dawn to sunset.
Asa rule, however, n countryman can
be detected in q city by the size of his
extrelnities.
Following the plow, too, naturally in
duces Il jerkiness of gait-a peculiar I'M
certainty about tho body's motion, which
only u long residence in city can en-
tirely remove. In the man from the
districts where the land is still very
rough these marks of his calling are ac-
centuated. Where tho land is full of
burnt stumps and rocks plowing requires
considerable strength and moro skill,
and tho continual bracing up of the
plow in the burrows has a tendency to
make tho farmer get into the habit Of
walking with his legs wide apart, as
in this position he obtains greater con-
troll over the plow and maintains his
equilibrium.-Detroit Free Press.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
An afr,,,n A,vent,re.

Benjamin Wolfe, who is visiting
Springfield, Mass, has passed through
adventures enough to fill book. At
the age of 19 he enlisted in the English
army-having run away from home
and he accompanied detachment to
India. Thence he went to Afghanistan,
where in 1890 he figured in the famous
march from Herat to Kandahar-a dis
tance of 1900 miles-made in six weeks
by Gen. Roberts Later he was promi-
nent in organizing the first dramatic
company of English soldiers, and was
general manager of its first production.
which was made at Sabather.
He has, as souvenir of the event, a
curious programme, issued by the SOL
diery, on which is printed the curious
injunction. Gentlemen are requested
to fetch their seats" At ono time, while
on duty just outside of Sabather, Wolfe
was assaulted by five Afghans and was
left on the ground for dead. He was
discovered by his comrades, however,
and cared for. lie still bsers the marks
of the knife wounds on .As sa.,k. The
4th of August, 1890, he started to return
to India and rode 1000 miles on horse
back, as his path lay along the Himalaya
mountains. Philadelphia Ledger.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
Girl Queens of Eurone.

During the present century three girl
queens have, before the advent Of Queen
Wilhelmina, almost simultaneously as
cended the throne of European ma
ton: Maria da Gloria of Portugal, Is;.-
bella of Spain and Victoria of En-
gland. The two first had the mis-
fortune of attaining to the regal power
while still mere children. There las
been a wide difference between tho his
tories of the spoiled daughter of Spain
and the headstrong Portuguese damsel
and that Of the grand anfconscientiou
maiden of IS who was called upon to
reign over Great Britain. By her close
affiliations, through her sister, the Ouch
ess of Albany, to the English court,
Queen Emma will probably profit by the
example set by the Duchess of Kent in
the education of her daughter.-Cor.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
Tint Balloon Expeditinn.

A correspondent asks, "What time is
the balloon expedition to start for tho
north pole?"
There is some doubt now felt as to
whether it will start at all. The men
who intended to 60 arc Frelfehmen, but
tho French Aeronautic society, which
has been considering the matter, think
that no good could possibly be accom-
plished, even if the voyagers were able to
pass over the pole and get back alive.
The present programme is that they will
send up pilot balloons ncxt summer from
Spitzbergen, and if these show the direc-
ton and force of winds to be favorable
to the scheme the expedition will start in
the summer of 1S92.-St. Louis Globe
Qelpocrat
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
Not to BE Bought.

The results of using big words in con-
vcrsation with people who do not under
stand them are often laughable. In Bos-
ton there is a lady of literary aspirations
who talks even with her servants in a
sort of literary way. The other day az
Irish servant girl employed in this lady's
house entered a neighboring grocer's
shop and asked:
::Do ye kape anny-anny delub-fwhat
in the world is it, annyhow?-anny de-
liberation, is it, now? Do ye sell amy Of
that"
"Any WHAT" exclaimed the grocer.
"Anny dcliberation, say"
"No, we don't"
"More's thepity, thin. Sure, my misth-
ress told me to wash the cut glass dishes
wild deliberation, and thin she wint away,
and niver dhrop af the shtoof can I
foind in the house!'-Youth's Compan-
inn
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
The Age of wo,nan,s Rights.

Tho century's closing decade may
bring to woman far wider and fuller
entry into her domain. It is but a little
over four dccades-less than forty-two
years ago-since tho meeting of the first
woman's rights convention. The women
who did the pioneer work, making not
only that convention but all that has
followed it of right and justice to wo1n-
en- n possibility, are some of them still
with us. Those of them who have "gone
over to the majority" went thither with
in the full memory of a generation now
living and working. The names of Lu-
cretia Mott, Of Angelina and Sarah
Grimkc, of Frances D. Gage, of Abby
Kelly Foster, of Sojourner Truth, born
q slave and rightfully coming to wear
the title of the "Libyan Sibyl," were but
few years ago answered to on earth by
their possessors. Today they may be
well written on every woman's golden
roll of remembrance of the dead Susan
E. Dickinson in Scranton Truth.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
a Rarr Case.

1 found Capt. Miller, of tho navy
yard, wrcsthed in smiles when l saw
him in his Office at the Lyceum.
II have just had an amusing expert
ence," he remarked. II am accustomed
to being run down by politicians who
want places for their protegcs and H.
place seekers themselves. But toda,
for the first timo in my life, have been
waited Oh by a man who wished to no.i-
fly me that he had given UP his job. lie
is from the Sixth Assembly district, New
York, and was employed in the co.,-
structioa department at $50 II day. He
was appointed about three months ago.
"In rendering his resignation he sud
he could do better in private employ
ment at s1.25 than as u government
workman at twice that amount. What
with political assessments, entertaining
his party friends. purchase of tickets of
one kind and another, and other pulls on
his purse, he found little of his wages,
left for falnily expenses. l. of course, ac-
cepted his resignation, at the same time
jocularly informing him that he ought to
be exhibited in a dino museum. New
York Star
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
Abstract Numbers.

1t is not easy for children to conceive
of numbers apart FROM sensible objects.
For this reason our elementary books in
arithmetic present pictures of the articles
named. Tho child learns to add and
subtract simply by counting. Such a
practice has its place in instruction, but
is apt to be encouraged too far The re-
suit is tho ridiculous habit of counting
ones fingers in the work of arithmetic.
The Wallachian peasant is said to per-
form all multiplications above four times
four by this method. 1t is evident from
the word which VIC use for the several
figures, digit, that they originally repro
sented SO many fingers.
The circumstance affords u reason for
the decimal system of counting. The
highest number that could DO expressI
by n show Of fingers was ten. We know
that an early system of counting was by
fives, or by the single hand. Perhaps
our duodecinal system of counting by
twelve, or the dozen, grew ont of the
practice of counting tho two hands to-
gethcr with tho ten fingers.
Liz eGofe, or twenty, was pr1mltlve
asscnblage of fingers and toes. 1t came
into use at a time when people went
barefoot. Tho French uso this method
in forming their tens; four twenties is
French for eighty. Tho word "score"
camo from the practice of notching a
stick when one had counted to twenty.
In tho Maya dialects of Central America
the word for twenty is tho samo as for
man, 1t represented his value in mathe-
matical calculations.-Youths' Compan-
ion
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
Portraits Of Christ.

There is no portrait of Christ which
can bo pronounced authentic. Tho Jews
wero forbidden by their law to make
ikenesses, and so art, US we understand
the word, scarcely had among them an
existence. There are, however, two por-
traits which have the merit of extreme
antiquity, and were both probably made
at some time in the First century. The
one is cut on an emerald, the work pur-
porting to have been done by command
Of the Emperor Tiberius. Tho jewel was
preserved i'll the treasury of CONSTANT
nople, but in some way fell into the
hands of the Turks before that city was
taken by them, and about 1883 was
given by the sultan to Pope Innocent
VIII rs a ransom for tho sultans bro.
ther.
Tho other portrait is on q fine bras,
medal discovered in Anglesea, Wales, in
the year 1909. The workmanship is that
of the First century, and Hebrew i'll
scription on the reverse declares the por-
trait to he that of the prophet Jesus.
The two portraits hear u close resem-
blance, but it is altogether probable that
both are ideal, and that each followed
the description of Christ given In the
well known but not we'll authenticated
letter of PuLlius Leutulus. Tho napkin
portrait called St. Veronica's is much
more modern, and is probably copy of
the emerald likcness-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
Texas Again to tho roro.

The Uvalde Reflector says that party
out hunting in that county had along a
liver colored setter dog, which found a
snake of the rattler species, and that the
snake swallowed the dog. The hunters
killed the snake with Gatling gun, cut
him open with a butchers cleaver, and
that tho dog jumped out all right, except
losing his bark; that the snake was two
feet thick and thirty-six feet long, and
had ninety-two rattles and button, and
the editor says it sounds little improb-
able, and it may be. But out on the
San Antonio river, in 1858, Col. Rip
Ford, Bill Pitts and others killed rat
tier with an acre of burnt woods and
four live Indians in it, and no ono then
thought it improbable-New Birming-
ham (Tex) Times.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
Military Reservation in Early Kansas.


All along the outer margin of tho res
ervation were grouped the camps of en-
igrants; not many Of them, but enough
to present curious and picturesque
sight. There were few tents, but
most of the emigrants slept in or under
their wagons. There wero no women
or children in these camps, and the
hardy men had been so we'll seasoned by
their past experiences, journeying to
this far western partof the territory that
they did not mind the exposure of Sleep
ing on the ground and under tho open
skies. Soldiers from the fort, off duty
and curious to hear the news from the
outer world, came loumging around the
camps and chatted with the emigrants
in that cool, superior manner that marks
the private soldier when he meets civil
ian ON an equal footing away from the
haunts of men.
The boys regarded these uniformed
military servants Of the government of
the United States with great respect, and
even with some awe. These, they thought
to themselves, were tho men who were
there to fight Indians, to protect tho bor-
der, and to keep back the rising tide of
wild hostilities that might, if it were not
for them, sweep down upon the feeble
territory and even inundate the whole
western country.-Noah Brooks in st.
Nicholas.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28

crossing, and was just getting under way
for Meares Bluff when Engineer Lewis
saw dark object ahead on tho track.
he at first thought it was man, but, as
it did not move, he seized the whistle
cord and gave the cattle alarm. The
object grew bigger, but remained motion
less, and the engineer threw on the brakes.
The train slowed up abruptly, and as it
drew near the object the engineer saw
something that astonished him.
There, just in front of him, was a big
buck deer with q fine spread of antlers.
The buck was standing in the center of
the track staring directly into the head
light, and just behind him, standing
across the track and looking at the engine
over the bucks shoulders, was beauti-
full doe. The engine got within ten feet
Of them when its nearness threw the rays
of the headlight over them, and the mo-
ment that occurred they bounded from
the track and disappeared in the dark
ness. The engineer was almost unstrung
by the novel experience, and he and the
fireman talked deer all the way to Char
lotte. Had he known what the objects
ahead of him were he could have put on
steam and bagged big mess of venison.
Charlotte IN. C.) News.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
strnnEe Lapae of Memory.

Gases of forgetfulncss on matters of
interest arc on record. While DIR. Priest
ley was preparing his work entitled "Har-
mony of the Gospels" he had taken great
pains to inform himself on u subject
which had been under discussion rcla-
tive to the Jewish Passover. lie wrote
out the result of his researches and laid
the paper away. His attention and time
being taken with something else, some
little time elapsed before the subject oc-
CURED to his mind again. Then the same
time and pains were given to the subject
that had been given to it before, and
the results were again put on paper
and laid aside. So completely had he
forgotten that he had copied the same
paragraphs and reflections before, that
it was only when he had found the papers
on which he had transcribed them that
it was recalled to his recollection. This
same author had frequently read his own
published writings and did not recognize
theln.-Boston Herald.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
A Telephone I'm Every Room.

The telephone is put to a new use in
tho great hotel at Tampa, which Mill
ionaire Plan has just built to rival those
of Millionaire Flager at st. Augustine.
Instead of an electric press button every
room will have telephone connected
with the Office. Guests will be able to
communicate not only with the Office,
but with their friends in other rooms Mt
will. The great orchestrion which was
one of tho marvels of the Paris exposi-
tion is to bo placed in tho largo music
room of the hotel. 1t has been arranged
that any guest in his room can, by merely
telephoning to tho Office, be connected
with the orchestrion and have the music
transmitted to him in full volume. In
fact, he can put in actual practice one
of the most wonderful of Bellamys con-
ceptions, and every night, if he likes, 20
to sleep listening to the finest of har-
1nonics.-New York Sun.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28

ers have abandoned the practice of send
ing solicitors to the newspaper Offices,
but instead mail the particulars of their
plans and such other matter as they wish
to have published.
This material is treated differently bv
the dramatic editors, according to the
usages of the various Offices. The situa-
ton is sometimes puzzle to the press
agents of the travelling companies that
come into town. The majority of these
energetic gentlemen intermit their la
bors largely upon being informed that
they are likely to do more harm than
good, but the minority do not take a va
cation so lazily. One of these workers
has this week poetizcd his usually prosa-
ic efforts. He has sent to each important
journal an original and exclusive poem
in praise Of an actress who employs him.
The verses are smoothly rhymed and
metred and they extol the lady's beauty
and ability with all the enthusiasm of a
knight of old exuberant over his lady
love. None of these cffusions, however,
has yet gained publication.-NewY York
Cor Washington Star.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
Tale of n Cat,

A gentleman was passing near Hough-
ton square just after Il recent storm and
discovered a cat ensconccd on tho
stringer of a wooden fence in a shelter
ing angle. He called tho attention of q
neighbor toit, and together, thinking that
perhaps the cat was frozen to death, they
proceeded to stir it up Tho cat got up,
and in attempting to jump off the fence,
hung suspended like an icicle by the end
of its caudal appendage, which was
frozen to the fence. The animal had
crawled in for shelter from the storm,
the heat of the body melting the snow,
and then chilling enough to freeze tho
tail to the fence Asit hung suspended
the gentleman began to look around for
warm water, or some other means of
thawing it out, but before they sue
ceeded the weight of the body caused it
to break its hold, and the cat was re-
leased from its strange predicament.-
Lynn Mass.) Bee.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
As She Is Spoke in India,

Native English in Indi;, still furnishes
much amusement to the European trav-
eler. When the governor of Madras
lately made a tour one admirer wrote to
excuse his non-appearance at the rail-
way station as he ''had the pleasure of a
scorpion in his left Leg" but promised to
"bring my invaluable Lutte to play be-
fore your excellency as an indulgent
son." A railway official lamented that
a panther invaded his platform, but he
"met the attack by shutting himself in
his Office and ringing the station bell" !"
while another complained that his
poiutslnen had been fighting, as the ag-
gressor ''threw stone at Ram Buksh,
which fortunately hit Ram Buksh's
wife," He added that "unless both these
men are scattered in different directions
by opposing trains there will be murder
and suicide, including to myself" On
visiting local hospital the governor
was presented with a petition against
the surgeon in charge, who, said the
complainants, "had a string loose over
his subordinates, and will never secure
heaven. Quite the contrary will surely
be his fate. London Graphic.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
Bad Luck at the Funeral.

The funeral of tho late Ephraim Gels
singer, of near Blue Church, Upper
Saucon township. was held with con-
siderable difficulty. At the home of
the deceased's parents, about two miles
from the church, elaborate preparations
wero made oil day Tuesday for the din
ner which was to be served at the con-
clusion of tho obsequies. A calf was
killed and set aside to await the roasting
process. When tho hour arrived for this
on Wednesday the natrons having tho
affair i'll charge were greatly surprised to
find that during tho night some person
had stolen the calf, together with other
of the funeral meats.
The excitement created by this an
nosancement had scarcely subsided ere
ono of tho horses attached to the hearso
of Undertaken Thomas Schaffer, of Lime
port, while being driven into tho yard,
stepped into a hole from which a post
had been removed and broke his leg.
Tho poor animal had to be shot on the
spot. Tho hearso was also caught by q
wash line and dismantled of its plumes
Allentown P;.) Chronicle.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
A Large Cargo of Sugar.

We have several times this season re-
ferred editorially to the large movement
of sugar to eastern markets by sea FROM
this port, and On several occasions have
recorded unrn'nlnonly large exports on
single days. Yesterday all previous rec
oi!:s were broken. as not only the largest
;inS'" cargo ever known was cleared,
but the ass.s,.:,., gate exports were phenom-
enal Tho ;tet':i:s',in Conelnaugh was
cleared r.. :, 80 :'.'>lsistin5 of 1850
barrels ami ~ h:; %: Lo'is::lul sugar.
This IL IN i:iilc:i K, car s,uf sugar, and
is all intended io. cl5terl rciac1ies.
f'e a:s::;,f'::'.;,t" exports of s:,gar. all for
c;.t!s'::, post. f"r the day were not far
fro:n 3o.n;' llrra.s. The actual figures
Being 81 $50 barr.is, 30 hoGsheads and
800 bags.-New Orleans Picaynne
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
Electric Snow swecpcrs.

The companies manufacturing snow
plows and sweepers are said to be just
now overwhelmed with orders. The
value of these appliances in dealing with
large quantities of snow has been SO
thoroughly demonstrated that improve
ments on even the latest machines are
being brought out almost daily. A new
snow plow for electric street railways
differs In many respects from the old
fashioned cylindrical shaped broom,
revolving beneath the body of truck
and throwing the snow and dirt in all
directions. It consists of an ordinary
car truck equipped with two motors, ono
of which propels the car while the
other revolves two sets Of shovels. The
snow on tho rails is picked up by cir
cular box, from which the revolving
shovels take it up and throw it out
through spout. This snow plow can
be operated equally we'll by night or by
day, and is said not to interfere with the
regular traffic upon the streets.-New
York Telegram.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28

What One BOY Accomplished by l:ca:'inS.
l knew u boy, a scrap Of Il l;:,i, who
almost needed high chairto bring him
up to the general level Of tho diany
table, who liked to read the encyclopedia.
He was always hunting round i'll the big
books of tho cncyclopedia-books abont
his own side-for what he wanted to
know. He dug in it us another boy
would dig in the woods for sassafras
root. It appeared that he was interested
in natural history and natural phc-
nomena. He asked questions of these
books, exactly as he would ask . living
authority, and kept at it till ho got an
swers. He knew how to read. Soon
that boy was an authority on earth
quakes. Hc liked to have the converse
ton at table turn on earthquakes, for
then he seemed to be the tallest person
ut the table. l suppose there was no
earthquake anywhere of any importance
but that he could tell whore it occurred
and what damage it did, how many
houses it buried, and how many people
it killed, and what shape it left tho
country IL nau Snaken.
From that he went on to try to dis
cover what caused these disturbances,
and this led him into other investiga-
tions, and ut last into tho study of
electricity. practical us we'll us the
oretical. Ie examined machines and
invented machines, and kept on read
ing, and presently he was .an expert in
electricity. He knew how to put in
wires and signals and bells, and to do
a number of practical and useful things,
and almost before he was able to cnter
the high school he had great deal of
work 10 do i'll tho city and three or four
men under him. These men under him
had not read rs much about electricity
as he had.-Charles Dudley Warner in
st. Nicholas.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1891-02-28
A Rheumatic superstition,

Rheumatism is caused by tho deer OF
by tho measuring worm, the idea being
suggested in the latter case by the man
ner in which the measuring worm arches
his body in walking, which is supposed
to be like the contortions of q rheumatic
patient. On no account must the patient
eat q squirrel or touch cat, since the
manner in which these creatures arch
the back indicates an affinity with the
disease. Nor must he cat tho legs of any
animal, since, as every one knows, the
limbs are most frequently affected with
rheumatism, and by eating the legs of
an animal the "diseaso spirit residing
there might be taken in.-Youth's Com
panion,