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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
Beauty, Not Brains.

A wife whose husband has bullying
brain and a homely face used to try to
make things pleasant at home by ex-
pressing her admiration of his talents
and giving him the pet name Of brains.
Her delicate flattery did not seem to
have much influence upon him, though
she kept it up for q whole year after
their marriage. One time, not long
ago, when she was in happy frame,
or melting mood, or meditative state,
she expressed her admiration of his
comely countenance, and at last went
rs far as to say she would give him
the pet name OF Beauty" He smiled
as she repeated the word with a full
consciousness that she had touched
his weak point. And now, whatever
be his mood ofmind or the vicissitudes
of life, that word dispels all other
thought and the twain are happy
From the Chicago Journal.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
Relief for rheumatism.

"This information" said we'll
known physician to me, "may save
many lives; at any rate it will prove
an invaluable boon to people suffer-
ing from rheumatism in any shape or
form. Rheumatism, as probably
nearly everybody knows, is caused by
acidity of the blood. 1t should never
be neglected. This remedy, as | know
by long practice, is very efficatious
and it is as simple as it is powerful.
Here it is" he added, "When n
rheumatic twinge is experienced the
patient should proceed to drugstore
and buy fifteen or twenty-five cents
worth of oil of gaulteria Toll OF winter
green), put ten drops on n lump of
sugar, place it in the mouth, permit
it to dissolve slowly and swallow it.
This should be repeated at inter-
walls of two hours until the last vestige
OF the malady has disappeared. In
the meantime take dose or two of
Rochelle salts.
THAT" said the physician, "is all
there is to it, but ii taken as h We
prescribed it will save suffering hui
manity many dollars in doctors bills,
to say nothing of pains, aches and
swellings. No. l charge nothing for
this advice. 1t is simply given for the
benefit of mankind.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
Flowers.

Flowers seem intended for the solace
of ordinary humanity; children love
them; quiet, tender, contented ordin-
airy people love them as they grow;
luxurious and disorderly people re-
joice in them gathered. They are the
cottager's treasure; crdin the crowd
ed town, mark as with little broken
fragment of rainbow, the windows of
the worker in whose heart rests the
covenant of peace, Passionate or re-
ligious minds contemplate them with
fond, feverish intensity; the affection
is seen severely calm in the works of
many religious painters, and mixed
with more open and true country SEN
timents in those OF our own pre-Ra-
phaelites. To the child and the girl,
the peasant and the manufacturing
operatives, to the grisette and the nun,
the lover and the monk, they are
precious always.-John Ruskin.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
AN INVOLUNTARY CHASE.
How a Maine Soldier Got a Dinner
Of Roast Goose.

How Maine Soldier Got a Dinner
Of Roast Goose.
A man who was caught in the act
OF skinning neighbours sheep cover
ed his embarrassment by declaring
that no sheep could bite him and live.
The logic of this, says the Youths
Companion is equaled by that of the
Yankee soldier, who once had mar
row escape from an enraged gander.
The man of certain Maine regiment,
which was in the enemy's country in
1862, considered the order con forag-
ing" an additional and uncalled for
hardship. One afternoon about dusk
n soldier was seen beating a rapid re-
treat from the rear of farmhouse
near by, closely pursued by agander,
with wings Outspread, whose feet
seemed scarcely to touch the ground,
and from whose beak issued q sue
cession of angry screams. The fugitive
was not treasured by the cries of the
gander's owner, "Hold on, man, hold
on! He won't hurt you'll"
Call off your gander! Call him Off"
shouted the fleeing soldier.
Neither man nor gander stopped
until inside the camp lines, when the
soldiers friends relieved him of his
fierce pursuer with the aid OF the butt
of a musket.
odd that gander think he could
chase me like that and live?" the sol
dier exclaimed, as he surveyed the
outstretched bird; but he said moth
ing of the baited hook, with the cod,
line attached, which might have
thrown light on the unfortunate
gander's strange actions.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
Women Don't Steal a Busy Mans
Time.

Nothing is quite SO unimportant-,
to some people-as time. Not their
own time, but time that is the special
property of some one else. 1t is q
popularity of women more than of
men. don't know why, unless from
the fact that the majority of women
do not guage life for the hours OF which
the day is made. 1t is either that or,
else selfishness that convinces them
that no one else's time is quite as,
valuable as their own. A woman will
find you very much engaged and will
speak of it herself You politely as
sent to the fact. You can afford to be,
cordial in your greeting because of the
sense she evinces in noticing the work
piled up around you. Cordially is
the thief of time in this instance. 1t
convinces her on the spot that you
consider her of much more Importance
than any occupation in which you in
dividually are engaged. She does not
remember that she interrupted you
until the conversation lags and she
discovers that she is not being enter
tanned as well as during the first part
oft he CALL You have been uncomfort-
able from the time that she entered
because of the duties to yourself and
some one else being neglected.-From
the Chicago Herald.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
sparrow,s breakfast Table.

The lazy little English sparrows
have discovered new method of OBJ
tanning food without hustling for it,
and every morning they noisily put
the idea into execution, being observed
by many persons. When the electric
lights are turned of at daybreak the
sparrows chatter around the globes
until they are cooled. Then the both
ersome scavengers slide down into the
globes by way of the carbons and eat
the unfortunate insects attracted by
the bright glare during the nights
usually the sparrows get q good break
last of fat flies and bugs, and often as
many as half dozen birds Chamber
into one globe. --Pittsburg Times
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25

done MI that could be expected when
she allowed the strange baby to creep
on her carpet until called for.
~ told Jimmie" she laughed, shed
have two babies to take care of, in.
stead OF one"
Jimmie had disappeared into the
hall.
~ think Til take the baby home to
mamma, she's fretting about her.
said Meg, holding the baby tight.
We're very much obliged to you,
ma am, tor keeping her here"
Mrs. Smith bowed politely. She in
dictated with her forefinger where Meg
would find the baby's clothes and
wraps.
Meg dressed her and carried her
carefully downstairs, followed by a
.heerful Good morning." from Mrs.
Smith. With q light heart she tucked
Julia once more into her carriage.
Jimmie stood watching her from the
door.
"Say!" he called. Are you really
glad to get that kid back?"
Meg laughed out of her glAdness
"Why, OF counsel"
odd you feel awful bad when you
found she was gomez"
"Ofcourse," said Meg, again. "What
made you do such a stupid thing as
to wheel home the wrong baby?p
"Oh," he said grinning, 81 didn't
bring her home!" Helowered his voice.
81 was playing with Bob Price, and
sent another fellow, and he didn't
know her, you see!"
Good graciousw exclaimed Meg,
looking at Jimmie with horror.
But Jimmie was bursting with his
wrongs.
Perhaps you think you had the
hardest time OF it, but if you had to
amuse an extra baby three hours,
you'd know finding baby was worse
than losing one"
Meg was so impressed with his air of
conviction that she said not word.
Youths Companion.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
Toilets In Japan.

This is the way japanese belle
takes bath, according to a travel.
er:
The pretty little maiden lit the
stove under the bath, got down her
little bag of bran, and laid ready her
best kimono and her new obi. By
this time the water was boiling, or
nearly SO, in the cedar tub, she took
away the stove, threw some OF the
water over her, sat on the floor beside
the bath, scrubbed herself with BRAN
deluged herself with water again, and
then for two minutes in she went,
scattering the drops oil over her with
her wooden dipper.
But there was no time to waste
even over the delights of the bath;
her hair had to be redone, and this
took some time, for our musumi was
q Kyoto girl, and Kyoto girls are not
only the prettiest but the best turned
out girls in all Japan, so she was not
satisfied with her tire-woman until
her black locks shone like silk and her
couture la Fujisan was as stiff as
camelia oil could make it.
And, after her hair was done, it
took her some time to arrange her
obi-it would not come right: first it
insisted OH tying itself intosa crooked
knot instead of beautiful butterfly
bow; when the knot had been smooth
ed out and by chance it sat straight,
it was too fat and not stiff enough.
However, q Japanese girl does not
know how to lose her temper, not
even over her most irritating obi, and
at last, coaxed with showers of
laughter and SUPPLE hands, it sets as
it should; her breakfast does not take
long, and then she runs over the mats,
slips the cord of her sandals between
her big toe and number two, and
clatters down the street.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
New Varieties of Oranges.

1t seems strange sometimes to meet
people vino believe that the world has
reached its highest state of develop
ment. The trouble with such people
Is that they are not capable of COM
pretending anything greater. The
Riverside Phoenix seems to stand in
this light regarding the orange indus
try when it advises it's readers not to
experiment with new varieties of
oranges, claiming that the varieties
now grown will be hard to improve up
on and that they had better leave well
enough alone. Such advice hundred
years ago might have been more ex-
cusable, but in this age when horticul-
ture is making such gigantic strides, it
borders upon the absurd. Even while
the article referred to was being writ
ten, O new variety of orange came to
the surface, the "Joppa," which bids
fair to soon supplant some OF our
standard sorts. In ten years nearly
all of our orchards may be rebudded
to more delicious and profitable sorts
and the time will probably come when
we will have oranges ripening every
month in the year. True horticul-
turists believe in the possibilities of a
kindly nature, place no limit upon the
future excellence of varieties of fruit.
In planting orange-groves or decidu-
Gus orchards, a few standard sorts
should be chosen, but at the same
time little not so well known. Hor-
ticulture is progressive science, and
to stand still is practically to take a
backward step.-California Fruit
Grower.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
HOW MEG LOST THE BABY.

One morning Mrs. Sackett put Julia
carefully into her carriage. She tuck
ed her up with rugs, nfghans and
shawls. Meg often wondered how the
baby could breathe; but Julia was
fat and hearty, and Meg knew that
she grew heavier. So it must have
agreed with her.
keep where it's pleasant and sun
ny, and take good care of her." said
Mrs. Sackett.
She said this every day. Meg took
ms much care of Julia as any we'll
meaning but careless girl OF fourteen
does baby. At the crossing she
thumped the carriage down into one
gutter, and banged it up out OF the
other. The baby was used to this,
and only opened her eyes wide and
gasped on arriving on the other side.
Meg was just turning the corner
when she heard her mothers voice.
"Me-e egl"
"Yes'm!'
"Stop at Hurd's and send home
three pounds OF brown sugar and
half-pound OF tea!'
"Yes'm"
Meg thrust her elbows through the
handle of the baby carriage, and
crocheted as she walked Crocheting
tides was Meg's favorite pastime.
She always had tidy under way.
Hurd's was corner grocery store,
with door opening on each OF the
two streets. Meg wheeled the car
riage close to the show window, and
fastened the wheel with a stone so
that it couldn't roll off.
Julia sat still, and gazed with at
tention at the resplendcnt advertise
ments of jerks soap and Tompkin's
ginger, although she must haveknown
these placards by heart. Babies have
to endure SO much which they do not
understand that it rs not surprising
that they become philosophers.
Hurd's was crowded, as it always
was in the morning, but Meg did not
object to waiting. She chatted with
Katie Allen and Lou French, and
even drew out her tidy and did two
rows before the salesman had time to
attend to her.
Then she ordered sugar and tea with
as grand an air MS that worn by Mrs.
Ponsonby, who resided" in a four
story brown-stone house on n stylish
avenue, while Meg lived in "third
fiat"
"Wait for mel' said Katie Allen.
T've got to go to the butchers"
"AI' right" answered Meg.
She waited and when Katie started,
she walked with her, talking briskly,
down the street almost n block before
she suddenly cried: "Ohl forgot the
baby"
"What baby?" asked Katie.
"Why, had our baby with me and
I've gone and left the carriage out
siue the store!"
"There wasn't any baby at the door
when we came out, (" replied Kate.
Sure enough" said Meg, "there
wasn't.
Shegazed in bewiderment at Katie's
round yes, md then cried
"Oh, know! came in at the other
, door; That itl She's round on Har-
rison Street"
The girls ran laughingly back, and
turned the corner. There was no baby
nor carriage thereY
They stared ut each other, and
Katie would have laughed but that
Meg looked so solemn.
Perhaps you didn't bring herl"
Eyes, ] did ! left her just here. I
know did"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
The Asteroids,

Some very curious and interesting
consequences flow from the minuteness
of these little worlds if we choose to
amuse ourselves with supposition that
they might bear inhabitants. Let us
take, for instance, an asteroid having
diameter of ten miles. Suppose, for
the sake OF simplicity, thati it's density
is the same as that of the earth.
Then it's surface attraction will be to
that of the earth in. the same ratio
as their diameters, or as 10 to 5000,
or to 800. A person who weighs
$50 pounds on the earth would weigh
only ounces on the asteroid. A
stone thrown with % velocity of so
feet in n second would pass out into
space never to return. An inhabitant
OF such n globe possessing the same
proportional activity as one dwelling
upon the earth could attain height
OF three-quarters of 4 mile without I'M
convenience, so far rs the weight of
his own body and limbs was concerned!
-Chautaquan.
The Latest In Electric Lighting.
Day by day the uses of the electric
light increase. The latest fancy is ON
armchair appliance whereby one may
sink back among the cushions, touch
button, and proceed to read by MS
dainty and clear q light as could be
wished. Those who nightly oil their
fingers in manipulating kerosene lamps
will appreciate the advantages of the
illumination consequent upon the
magic touch. The supply wire is in
the back OF the armchair.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
A Curious Experiment.

Several years ago curious expert
ment was tried by an engineer. He
took a large funnel fitted with O stop
cock, and screwed the pipe into the
top OF boiler containing steam of
about forty pounds pressure. He
then filled up the funnel with cold wa
ter and opened the stop cock. 1t
would naturally nave been predicted
that the steam would have blown all
the water out of the funnel. 1t did
nothing of the kind On the contrary,
the water rushed into the boiler. As
a result of this and several other ex-
periments, boiler feeder was design
ed and patented, and worked with
tolerable success. 1t was found, how
ever, that it was not certain in its
action, and the injector coming into
high favor at the time, the inventor
spent no more money on his ingen-
ious idea. The thrush of water was
due to the fact that the steam con-
densed in the long pipe of the funnel,
and water-hammer action then drove
the water into the boiler. Practically
just. below the cold water there was a
vacuum into which the water was driv-
en- by it's own weight and pressure OF
the air.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
New Cycle Wheels.

A New castle inventor has made a
new departure in the field OF cycling
inventions. He has applied for a
patent to construct cycle wheels with
out spokes. In place of the ordinary
spokes he uses two discs OF equal
diameter, made of very thin shee.
steel. The peripheries OF these discs
are fastened by rivets to the rim, and
through holes in the ceiitre of both
discs the axle passes. The discs are
drawn drum tight by means of ''lat-
eraP' tension. The inventor says
these discs will be made of steel so
thin that there will be no increase of
weight over spoke wheels, and that
the enormous tension which will be
obtained in every part of the wheel
will render it simply impossible for
the wheel to become untrue. The adj
vantages claimed for the invention
are that it will reduce atmospheric re-
sistance to a minimum, wheel so
constructed cutting the air like n
knife; and, while the rider will obtain
a wheel rs light as n spoke wheel, he
will possess in addition one having
enormous tensile strength and the
rightly of rock.-Court journal.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
Keep off the grass.

From the San Francisco Examiner.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25

proposal comes from Cincinnati. Mr..
McGregor. OF that city, is reported to
have succeeded with aluminium. This
metal is generally used for electrodes
for vacuum tubes, but platinum is
adopted to make the connections
through the glass. Anyone trying to
seal aluminium into glass will find
that skin forms on its surface, and
the glass cracks OH cooling. The low
melting point OF the aluminium also
gives rise to difficulties. Aluminium
has not only " strong affinity Tor
oxygen and other acid radicles, but
the metal itself absorbs silicon with
avidity. No doubt it thus attacks
the glass, and forms a skin OF silicatc
OF alumina, while the metal itself abb
serbs the silicon. We are therefore,
q little sceptical as to the use OF
aluminium for leading wires.-lndus-
tries.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-07-25
Mechanical Evolution.

The term evolution is nowadays
employed to denote a slow, progress
sive unfolding or growth, and de-
scribes in very complete way the
history of all important machines
and processes in industrial develop
ment. This evolution is not an ideal
matter. On the contrary, it is u
business one that must be taken in
to account the same as taxes or an
expense account. Every improve
ment of any Importance comes down
so q standard OF common prac tice"
through course of evolution.
At the present time we are busy
with steam expansion, double, triple
and quadruple engines with high boil
err pressure. II one looks back for
half a century, the evolution OF this
matter assumes q tolerably regular
sequence, not so much of discovery as
adoption. 1t is quarter ofa century
since Perkins began his experiments
with high-pressure steam. Wolf, much
farther back, introduced the second
cylinder. Sixty years ago regular COM
pound engines We're made and fitted
into steamers in Holland. The draw
ings ofthese engines nave recently been
reproduced in England.
The advocate., 1891-10-21

border tier of counties, and then would
be perfectly sure of beating St. John ON the
FIRST ballot.
I asked: Do you feel so perfectly sure
about it9
He answered: Yes, do. Here is Jim Leg
ate; I suppose you know him, and he will
bear me out in my assertion.
He then introduced me TO Mr.. Legate in
whose presence he repeated what he had
just told me.
then said: AS matter of course, 10 is of
greatest Importance TO have Kansas re-
opened TO the legitimate liquor traffic. It
stands US liquor dealers in hand to use all
efforts to enable US to do legitimate trade
in Kansas. You well know we have largely
contributed money for your benefit, but we
do not feel like giving more on mere idle
talk. II you feel sure Of receiving the
nomination for governor with an additional
expense not to exceed $1,000, think you
ought to be able to raise it among your per-
Sonal and political friends in Kansas; but
while have no authority to speak for any
one except my house, il you Will 30 require
| viii give you written guarantee to reim-
burse you or your friends for at least 81, 600
of the $1,000 so additionally expended, after
you have received the nomination, but do
not think that any one Of US felt like spend
ing any more money on idle promises.
johnson said: This would be hard matter
to do.
then replied: II you folks feel 30 sure Of
your nomination, with the promises you
made while in Kansas City, almost feel
like ! could guarantee you the entire $4,000.
Let US hear from you.
left Topeka the same day.
B. 8. FLERsHRIM.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
llth day of October, A. d. 1884.
[sEA1.l A. e. WHITE,
Notary Public.
Commission expires, July %, 1885.
Confirmation Of the conversation
which took place between Capt. j. B.
johnson and my partner, Mr.. Fler-
sheim, when Capt johnson was in
troduced to us by Mr. L. Blackman
Of Topeka:
AFFIDAVIT OF SOL. BLOCK.
STATE OF MISSOURI,
COUNTY OF JACKSON. "''
Sol Block, Of Kansas City, being duly
sworn states: am member Of the firm OF
Fersheim q Co. was present at the con-
verSa6iOn which took place between Capt.
J. B. johnson and my partner, Mr.. Fler-
sheim, when Capt. johnson was introduced
to US By Mr.. L. Blackman, of Topeka.
heard the conversation and have read the
foregoing affidavit, and the statements Of
Mr.. Flersheim referring to said converse
tion with Mr.. ]. B. Johnson, at which was
present, are true in substance and in fact.
further state that l was present at the
Gordon house at Topeka, referred to in the
affidavits Of C. r. Jones, Lew Head, L.
Blackman and G. @. Perrin, and their state
mentS regarding the Same are substantially
correct. Sol BLOCK,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
11th day Of October, A. D. 1884.
(sEAL. A. Z. WHITE.
Notary Public.
Commission expires July 25, 1886.
Lew Head was assured by Jones
and Blackman that they had q con-
Versation with Capt. j. B. johnson,
and that Mr.. johnson was willing TO
make any arrangements to open the
state to the legitimate liquor traffic.