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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-12

LEAGUE.
New ofl; 8. Cleveland 9 (arst game).
New-hofk !, Cleveland ] Second game).
Boston >. Cincinnati 3.
Brooklyn ., PittsbuFc g.
Phllad 1lghia q Chirarn 1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-12

m, sept. iI.-Although the Cincinnatis batted
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-12
DETAILS OF THE RAJ

first RACEA sweepstakes for three-year.olds and VI
ward Of clio each, with $1,000 added OF which $3.50
the second ana 500 to the Ard. Special weights
One mile.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
Experieuce of Human sandwich

I am sandwich" You don't recog-
nize me in my present plain and rather
dirty attire, but if | should sling on the
great advertising boards that cover me,
front and back, and carry handsful of
bills, YOU would know me once as
familiar person you met on Olive street
or Broadway many times a day. The
name of sandwich" must have been an
inspiration of some funny man, and it
describes us exactly, a piece of flesh,
doubtful as to eye and condition, between
two boards as hard as any rusk or biscuit
the lunch counter patron ever drove
wedge into We are the professional
perambulating advertising mediums of
very many respectable concerns. The
boards are painted on both sides, and it is
only q matter of adjustment of the ropes
over our shoulder which displays to the
pedestrian world either the merits of
''Peter's Purgative Pellets" and DR.
Files Painless Corn Lifting Jack" or
''The Evening Star-All the News Before
it Happens" and Smiths Corrugated
Shirt Fronts"
Ours is an humble calling, you will say,
but it has it's pleasant side. If we have
small salaries we also have small respon-
sibilities. Our days are passed in pacing
the most frequent streets. The advertis-
ing boards shield us from bad weather
and hide any rents in our garments. We
see everything that is going on, and often
wonder that the reporters get so little
that is interesting. Few people stop us
to engage our attention, and so we are
generally wrapt up in our own medita-
tions. You wouldn't believe it, but some
of the Sandwiches" are pretty well edu-
Gated They purchase books at the second
hand stalls and contrive to keep posted on
current events by reading the newspapers.
| once knew sandwich" who was a col
lege graduate. That was in New York
You see his rich father had cast him
off and the son was trying to humble the
governors" pride. SO every morning
when the old gentleman would come out
of his residence to take his carriage for
downtown, his son would appear before
him wearing the advertisement of a corn
doctor, with hideous bunion covered
foot in the middle and would try to hand
him an advertising dodger. Once, on
Broadway, New York, l met very tall
young negro, very foppishly dressed, with
a cane, diamond, tall hat and an immense
standing white collar. Half block fur
ther down the street l met his exact
counterpart, and half a block further an
other Just like him. Every body was as
tonished and turned about to look after
the third fellow, if he had not before
looked after the other two. Imagine the
general surprise when on the back of each
tall Africans shirt collar was seen printed
in plain black letters, use Jenkins
Soap. -" Sandwich" in Globe Democrat.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
The Contagion Of Yawning.

"Did you ever notice how contagious
yawning is?' said a round faced young
man waiting for Harlem train the other
afternoon at the Park place station of
the Sixth Avenue Elevated road. you
can make any man yawn if you go about
it properly, continued the young man.
Il have to travel up and down to Harlem
a good deal, and amuse myself that way.
Women yawn oftener than men, and fat
men oftener than lean men. The best
time to make them yawn is early in the
morning and late at night. Then all they
want is a hint and off they go. One night
last week | sat next to an old gentleman.
He got on at Chambers street and rode up
to Forty-second street. / made him yawn
twenty-seven times. Then | was tired,
but the old fellow had gone into the
habit and thought he would split his
jaws, he kept them so far apart.
The young man had hardly seated him
self in the car before he turned around
and stared straight at a workingman OPP
posite, who of course, looked at him.
Then the young man leaned his head lazily
against the window, closed his eyes,
opened his mouth very wide and began to
yawn with great deiiberation and an air
of utter WEAKNESS. The man in the blue
overalls became interested and stared in
tently at the wide open mouth and the
closed eyes The young man put up his
hand in affectation of covering his mouth,
and then, as if it was no use to try to
check an overpowering impulse, he drew
his hand away, threw his head still fur
Their back and uttered that sound peculiar
to the hearty yawner-ho- homo. A mo-
ment later the man in the blue overalls
gave evidence of twitching of the jaws,
a spasm shot across his cheeks and then
his mouth opened and he yawned so wide
that it appeared as though he were going
to divide and the top of his head would
go on up into space. The worlIingmau
was now started. and all the way up he
kept yawning every few moments. Then
the young man turned his attention to an
old lady opposite with equal success. II
| New York World.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
How a Lithocraph Is Made.

After the photographer has carefully
studied the original drawing before him
and laid out his plan he makes careful
tracing of it on transparent gelatine, on
which he indicates every line or shade or
graduation, and this tracing is carefully
transferred to previously prepared stone
and serves as a key to the entire work
and for all the color stones.
The work on stone is drawn with a
greasy black chemically prepared crayon,
which, by the way, has to be sharpened
backward, or from the point up, as its
very brittle nature will not allow of its
being sharpened in the ordinary way.
The greasy crayon penetrates the stone,
which is then subjected to a solution OF
gum arabic and nitric acid, after which it
is carefully washed off with water. The
black drawing, however, still shows, but
is now easily washed from the face of the
stone with turpentine, leaving the sur
face, to all appearances, as clean as when
the stone first came into the artists hands.
1t is then dampened with water. The
printer passes his roller, charged with
color, oyer the surface, and this adheres
only where the stone is dry or in other
words, where the grease of the crayon is
and this color is transferred from the
stone to the paper.
The same process is employed for the
application of each successive color, lsor-
tions of the picture being drawn on'sev-
eral different stones to obtain what may
be called the composite tints, while others
are only drawn on a single stone, when
the color in the picture is to be one OF
those directly employed. - New York
Mail and Express.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
Pleasantly Expressed.

A humorous writer thus describes how
he got out of bad scrape at the police
court; The next morning the magistrate
sent for me. went to him, and he re-
ceived me cordially, said he lad heard
of the wonderful things l had accom-
plished by knocking down five persons
and assaulting six others, and was proud
of me, for ! was promising young man.
Then he offered a toast, Guilty or not
guilty? responded in a brief but elo-
quent speech, setting forth the impor-
lance Of the occasion that had brought
us together. After the usual ceremonies
l was requested to lend the city forty
shillings.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
A Peculiar Love Charm.

In the south of france they make a
very peculiar love charm in very pecu-
liar way. Under certain ceremonies which
do not understand very well the young
woman catches and boxes up frog in a
box with lot of little holes bored in the
wood The casket is then buried in an
ant hill and left there for two weeks
The ants of course attack the prisoner
and eat up all his flesh and all that is left
is the creatures bones. Among these is
a shield shaped bone about as large as
ones thumb nail, upon one end of which
is little hook The girl takes this bone
and has it blessed surreptitiously by the
priest without his knowledge-that is,
she exposes it during the benediction at
the mass-and then she hooks it on the
clothing of her sweetheart that is to be.
was gravely assured that the charm,
when properly prepared with all due cere-
mony and care, had never been known to
fail.-Chicago News.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
THE KOOTENAI HERALD
Issued Every Saturday By
S. D. TAYLOR, Proprietor.
QUIET cHUcKLEs.

The "drop letter" boxes in England must
get pretty well filed up with hs.-Boston
Bulletin.
Our pocketbook is now in such feeble
condition that it cannot stand loan
Orange Observer.
Gallup and Hurry are the partners in
New York firm. They missed it in not en-
tering the six day walking match.-Lowell
Courier.
OF course one idea of the Bakers union is
to prevent any unnecessary loafing. This
seems strange -Pittsburg Chronicle
To get a good grip in society a man should
have a claw hammer coat.-New Orleans
Picayune.
The telephone girls may fairly boast of
being connected with the best people Of the
city-by wire--Boston Transcript.
HypnotisIn is all the rage in Europe. A
young lady of Madrid was hypnotized so that
she ate a raw potato with relish, thinking it
was preserved fruit. Hypnotism ought to be
popular with those who want to reduce their
board bills Boston Post
A young lady in Nebraska resigned her
position as postmistress a few days ago in
order to acquire husband. 1t seems that
leap year is not a dead letter after ALL
Nebraska State Journal.
An anti-chap toilet cream is advertised
II will never become popular The girls are
too fond of the chaps.-Piitsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
Copy for the Editor.

Most editors dislike pencil copy. It is,
hard to read and bothers desk editor andl
compositors alike. News paper - paper
like that on which newspapers are printed
should never be used for anything but
newspaper copy. If it is used, the sheets
should never be larger than commercial
note size.
Editors may not complain of pencil
copy, but they prefer pen and ink copy
every time. OF course, if writer has
regular and assured position, he may con-
suit only his own convenience and disre-
gard the wishes of those who handle his
copy but if he is sending his matter to
an uncertain market the heater and hand
somer he makes it, the more likely it is TO
sell.-"W. ii. IL. in The Writer.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
Honest Indignation.

at say, Bill, - said a hard worked burglar
TO a genteelly dressed cut throat, ''did you
hear the latest.n
"No, what is it!"
"Why, they are getting up an arms trust,
so that we win be obliged to pay higher
prices for pistols, knives and other neces-
saries of life. It's an outraged"
$50 it is, and if this thing is allowed to go
on, our business III be ruined"
II say, Bill 'sposing we strike"
agreed, and we won't burgle another
house nor cut another throat until the manu-
facturers come to terms. Well teach 'em
how to take bread out of honest mems
mouths Boston Transcript.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
A Prisoner,s Little joke.

''I had funny experience once" said a
young farmer "When a boy, l confess,
was pretty green. l lived with my father
upon a farm near Columbus, and used to
haul wood into the city and sell it for him.
One day had entered town with my Gus
tomary load, when, as / passed a large
building, some one poked his head partly out
of a window and asked if the wood was FOR
sale replied in the affirmative. We'll,
throw it over this fence came back from the
upper window.
1.-THE house was surrounded by a high wall,
but managed to pitch it over and then went
around to the front gate for my pay. /
conld not get in; l hammered and called in
vain, when some passer by, attracted by
my frantic efforts to gain an entrance, in
quired what was the matter and informed
me that the building was the Jail. One Of
the prisoners had played joke upon me. 1
could not get my money or the wood back
and returned home with empty wagon and
pockets Atlanta Constitution.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
Fastidious Speech.

How many people are there who
pronounce any proportion of their
words correctly, not merely by reason
of clipping and mounting, but by ig-
norance of good usage2 We find them
everywhere, and they lay the accent
on the first instead of on the second
syllable of acclimate, for example
they pronounce the second syllable of
acoustics, coo, instead of COW; they
do not put the accent on the last syl-
liable of adept, as they should do; they
leave the u sound out of buoy; thev
pronounce duke with the sound of 90
instead of with the simple long u, EN-
phasize the first instead of the second
syllable of enervate. and sound the t in
often.
They are astonished to know that
precedence has the accent on the sec
ond syllable, and placard on the last;
that quay is called key; that sough is
suf; that the instead of the sound
is to be given in sacrifice, and the re-
verse in rise; that subtitle and subtle
are two different words; that the last
syllable of tortoise is pronounced 'tis'
instead of ''tus;" that it should be used
and not ust, and that it is not the
ZOO" but the geological garden.
where one goes. 1t is quite time we
think. when we hear one of these talk
ers, for some of the fancy work and
fancy studies of the day to be dropped
and little hard work on the diction
airy put in their place -Harper's Bazaar
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
An Era of Elegant Phrase.

What has happened to the English
tongue? Is not its simple vigor good
enough to serve the needs of the pres
ent generation2 What has become Of
all the undertakes, that they should
be supplanted by funeral directors~
Are the BARRIERS extinct, that their bust
ness should be usurped by ''tonsorial
artists and is there no occupation left
in the world for the useful and respect
able night shirt that the ''slumber robe"
should be marked down to cost in every
shop window Greenfield Republican.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
He was Doing Well.

They were in the parlor, occupying one
chair with but single thought. They had
discussed the tariff, the Irish question, the
sleighing, the opera, the weather and other
important topics till the conversation was
about tagged out After long pause;
"Duckyl"
"Whatty!n
"Do you think l am making any progress
in courtings"
'Well, / should say you were holding your
own
Tableau.-Springfeld Union.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29

The men are called at o'clock in the
morning, and, after hasty breakfast of
bacon and coffee, some are detailed by the
foreman to ride out and drive all the cattle
they can find within certain radius into
camp, while the others keep them in a
herd, when they are driven in. AS soon
as they are all in, the representatives of
each ''outfit, " in turn, ride through them
and cut out every animal with their brand
upon it and herd them apart. Occasion
ally COW breaks away from the herd and
a rider starts after her at full speed, and
after an exciting chase drives her back
again.
When the cutting out is completed
each outfit" begins to brand its calves.
A rider ropes calf by the hind leg,
throws it and drags it toward the fire;
one man then holds it by the hind legs.
while another sits on its shoulder and it
is branded on its side and has its ear
notched. This is an exciting scene as the
calves are bleating, the men shouting,
roping and wrestling with them and the
fires are blazing Sometimes when they
rope a vigorous young steer they have
great difficulty in holding him and it re-
quires FIVE or six men to do so. The night
is divided into watches of t%o hours
length and the men take turns in keeping
the cattle in herd. 1t is the most ex-
citing part of the cattle business, but ii
is a very hard life, as man is in the
saddle all day and only gets few hours
sleep.-W. Lynn Wilson in Detroit Free
Press.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29

In the list of deaths from poisoning in
Great Britain-511 in single year
ninety five, or over one-siXth, were caused
by lead The people of all civilized coun-
tries are in need of special caution con
corning the use of lead. Lead pipes, lead
faucets, lead solder, and in many other
forms, lead is a subtle and terrible dan
ger Thousands suffer from lead poison
ing who do not die thereby 1t should
never be used when by corrosion it can
become an element in food or drink. The
symptoms are so easily laid to other
causes that it can do serious mischief be-
fore it's presence is suspected. Its use in
red precipitate as a solder on pipes is
specially dangerous. Next to lead, the
cases of poison most numerous were from
opium, then from carbolic acid. Bella
donna and alcohol, aconite, chlorodyne
and hydrochloric acid follow in the list
with nearly equal pace. For suicidal pur-
pose carbolic acid was used in forty-two
cases, morphine opium and laudanum in
forty-one. The fashion in suicide is very
variable.-Globe-D Democrat.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
A Rattlesnake.s Fancs.

You ofteShear of rendering a rattle
snake harmless by pulling out its fangs.
Then, again, you read of cases where a
serpent so treated has bitten persons
fatally. The reason for this is that a
poisonous snake is deprived only tenn
porarily of its venomous powers by the
extraction of the two incisors in the
upper jaw at the bases of which are
the poison glands OF course you
know that the fangs are hollow, so that
when the animal strikes the venom
gushes through them into the flesh of
the person struck. Now, by drawing
the two teeth the snake may be rend-
cred harmless for few weeks, but after
a short time the two teeth just behind
the original fangs move up and take
their places, making connections with
the poison glands and thus becoming
poison fangs as good and effective as
the old nes.-Interview in Washing
ton Star
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
SUNSET IN TIE zoo

The cold gray fog Of the winter day
Held sea and land ia thrall;
Silent the vessels at anchor lay:
A spell was over all.
The narrow lines of each vessel bound
The limit Of their sphere;
Beyond was naught but world of sound
A world of doubt and fear.
From the yards the sails bedraggled hung,
Bordered by drops Of dew;
Feathery mists from the halyards flung
Like ghostly pennons flew;
While the masthead pierced the misty
gray
And vanished at the spars.
The ratlines seen but a step away
Were narrow prison bars.
But sudden a golden glamour stole.
As through tiny seam;
1t spread till the glory lit the whole.
And lightcned beam to beam.
No shadow fell from the ray of light;
The wind and sea were still;
Twas then that the red sun sank from
sight
Behind the distant hill.
We saw it not as the golden ray
Gave place to tints of rose;
And the mists, no longer cold and gray.
About us seemed to close.
They closer grew as the rose light died.
The mists took on their frown,
And the gloom that came from either
side
Told that the sun was down.
-Flavel Scott Mines in Harper's Weekly
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
An Apt Reply.

A certain queen of Hanover once
upon a time when travelling stopped at
an inn called the Golden Goose" She
remained two days to rest herself and
retinue and receive such entertainment
as was needed and for the same was
charged 300 thalers.
On her departure the landlord be-
sought her with obseqious Difference to
favor him with her patronage on her
return.
IF you desire that, my dear man, :"
replied her majesty, you must not
again take me for your sign. "-Harper's
Bazaar
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
tradition Concerning wampum.

An Indian of the Onondaga reservation
in New York gave to a legislative COM
mitteeman the following tradition con-
corning the wampum: "There is a tree
set in the ground and it touches the
heavens Under that tree sits this wam-
pun. 1t sits on log. Goals of fire are
unquenchable, and the Six Nations are at
this council fire held by this tribe. To
do-da-ho, member of the Bear clan, is
the great chief here He has a descend
ant in our tribe today; his name is Frank
Logan. One of the uses of the wampum
is for a symbol in the election of officers.
The wampum bearer keeps the treaties OF
the nation. Chicago Herald.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
TWEET, SWEET.

We rambled through the meadows green.
Like children at their play,
He told me Of the wonders seen
In distant lands away;
priced the more as longer grew
The stories he would tell
/ found him good. proved him true
How could love too well
"Tweet. Sweet" from the apple tree,
A little bird sang to him and me.
We gathered flowers in the lane,
For twas the month of May,
And one year hence he'd come again
'Twould be our wedding day,
OH swiftly did the hours fly
And happy was my heart
He told me after this good by
We never more shall part"
''Tweet Sweet - from shrub and tree,
The little birds sang for him and me
The east wind rose, the sails were spread,
His ship moved out to sea;
NY sailor boy climbed the mast head
And threw a kiss TO me.
IT'S twenty years ago since then,
And once again tbs May;
The sun shines bright, the flowers bloom
My tresses all are gray.
'sTweet, Sweet, sing the birds in glee,
But never my love came back TO me.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
Washington as a Farmer.

A certain farmer and granger, about a
hundred years ago, wrote the following
farm notes-good yet: Economy in all
things is as commendable in the manager
as it is beneficial and desirable to the en-
ployer, and on a farm it shows itself in
nothing more evidently, or more essen
TALLY. than in not suffering the provender
to be wasted; but, on the contrary, in
taking care that every atom of it be used
10 TIE best advantage, and likewise in not
permitting the plows, harness and other
implements of husbandry and the gears
belonging to them to be unnecessarily eX-
posed, trodden under foot, run over by
carts and abused in other respects" That
farmer and granger's name was George
Washington. He was as good a farmer
as he was Father of his Country. Globe
Democrat
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
Manufaeture OF chinese cash.

A large number are engaged in holding,
casting and finishing the cash used as
coin all over China-Mexican dollars and
Sycee silver being used in large trans
actions. The cash are made from nalloy
of copper and zinc, nearly the same as the
well known Muntz metal; and it takes
about 600 of them to answer as change
for dollar. so minute and low do prices
rg-Ssc this country, of which | will only
giS< one instance. The fare for crossing
the ferry on the Peiho was only two cash,
or one-hfth of a cent.-Scientific American.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-29
What Arc Monds For2

'"The hardest question ever had to an
swer. said a gentleman who had just
come down from the Thousand Islands,
was put by my little boy while the traiTer
was passing through small strip of
woods. Papa, he shouted, the roaring
OF the train making it difficult to hear.
are there any lions an tigers an bears in
these woodsY No. l said. We'll, If
there amt no lions an tigers an bears in
woods, he shrieked above the din, what
do they have woods for?' Utica OBJ
server.