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Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29
ON THE ARCTIC CIRCLE.

Adventures of EnElishmau In tb~s
 Frozen Regions of North Ameriea- s~
 Washburton Pike, an English ex- plorer, has returned from the Arctic circle. Leaving Calgary in June, 1889, Mr. Pike proceeded to Athabasca Land ing, and from there to Fort Resolu- tion, on Slave river. Here he secured the services of two Indian guides and helpers and started for the barren lands in search of musk OK, caribou and other large game He had very suc- cessful hunt, killing about forty musk ox and as many caribou as they were in position to handle. On that trip MT. Pike went as far north as Fish river, this being the river on which Franklin's first expedition to the north pole was lost. He experienced many adventures The party was lost for fourteen days and endured terrible sufferings. They started to cross the Yukon range of mountains to the Pa cif1c coast. After journeying for some twelve days they found that instead of being, as they supposed, on Mcleod river, they were on what afterward turned out to be the Nation. Here the guides admitted they were lost, and nothing remained for the party to do but retrace their steps, which they did with but enough provisions for @ few days. In two days they were out of food, and, to make a long story short, they starved for fourteen days.
 MT. Pike absolutely refuses to say anything of their tortures during the time, but many facts were gleaned from those who saw them on their re- turn to the rapids, and were compelled to feed them as they would baby. As an example of the terrible state of affairs, some hundreds of miles were tramped with bare feet on Ice, and their frozen condition when rescued was simply terrible, while some of tho party were so reduced from cold and hunger as to be totally helpless
 When asked to describe the barren lands MT. Pike said that it was an im- mense tract of barren rock on which grew kind of moss and shrub, on which deer that run by thousands feed and appear to be very fond of it.
 There are numerous lakes among rocky bluffs whose waters freeze in the cold season to the depth of from seven to nine feet He reports temperatures as low as 60 degs. in the winter, but the summer months, July and August, he says, are very hot Six months during the year the sun never shines on these barren parts.
 MT. Pike reports moose very scarce, but says there are large numbers of musk OK and thousands of caribou deer, the latter taking to the woods in win ter. MT. Pike is the only white man who has ever trod the path of the Franklin sufferers on the Fish river. Travel during this trip was almost en- tirely done on foot, dog trains being used for the carrying of provisions and wood. The currency is in skins. A skin is valued at fifty cents. Philadelphia Press.
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29
The English m ans Breakfast.

An American should always under stand what is meant by breakfast in London. He will probably take break fast in his lodgings, or, if he lives in a hotel, in the coffee room at fixed charge. There are two distinct classes of breakfast, the light and the sub stantial, with prices to match. The first is one cup of coffee, one boiled egg and three slices of toast; the latter is one small chop, one egg, penny loaf of bread, buttered muffin and coffee. The principal dish of this lat ter menu is varied in lodging houses from day to day, the chop becoming sausage on Tuesday, ham on Wednes- day, fried sole on Thursday, and then the lonely chop again, with the subse- quent rotation kept up ad intinitum.-
 London Cor. Chicago Herald. st.
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29
May 2.

973-Otho the Great, German emperor died; born SIP; his reign of thirty-six years was continuation of bloody wars, in most of which he triumphed. 1O79-Martyrdom of St. Stanislaus, bishop of Cracow. 1811-Richard Cumberland, English dramatist, died. 1s6s-Battle of West Point, va; Federal loss 190. ls64"Battle Day." battles or skirmishes on every part of the opposing lines from Rapidan to Mississippi. 1870 General Goicura, leader of Cuban insur- gents, condemned and garroted. 1S75-Steamer Schiller wrecked off Scilly isles and 311 lives lost. 1sss-Thomas Eggleston died near Grifnths- vile, w. Va, aged Ill years; he had smoked Virginia tobacco every day for ninety years. 1s90-Germans under Major Wissmann capt ured Kilwa in East Africa, driving out the Arabs. 18e0-ames Nasmyth, inventor of the steam hammer, died in London, aged 92. lsoO-Dr. Joseph Cummings, president of the Northwestern University, died in Evans ton. uls, aged 73.
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29
EDiE AND l.

Sister aaI brother fer many & year.
 Edie and l; Sharing bright weather and facing the drear,
 Edie and l. Keen is our love as a sword free from rust, Time welds the closer our absolute trust, So shall it be till we both are but dust,
 Edie andI Just to know this that we never shall change,
 Edie and l; Never grow formal and distant and strange,
 Edie and L Lovers may fade like . comets brief flame, friendship is often but friendship fn name Come what come may ve are always the same
 Edie and l. Brother and sister and heart within heart, Edie and [; Chaos nor death cannot drive US apart,
 Edie and L Steadfast as those who have died for a creed, True to each other In word and in deed, Never to fan in the hour of need,
 Bdie and l.
 Ernest McGaney in Chicago Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29
TIMELY ANNIVERSARIES.
Current Selections from HistO-
 rvs Broad Page.

May 3. A6a-Nicholas Machiaveln, Italian casuist, dip 1omAtist and statesman. born. 164s-Dean Humphrey Prideaux, theological writer, born.
 l679-James Sharp, archbishop of St. Andrews. Scotland, murdered by Calvinist fanatics. 1742-Manasseh Cutler, founder of the Massa- chusetts colony at Marietta, O., born at Killingly, Conn.,; died 1823 175O-William Windham, British statesman, born. ls45-Thomas Hood, poet. died in London. l851-Three-f -fourths of San Francisco burned. 1861-President Lincoln issued second call for troops 1S6EFour cavalry fghts-at Cedar Bluffs, Colo; Bolivar, Tenn; Red Clay, Ga, and Baton Rouge, La.
 1s90-James Burnie Beck, senator from Ken lucky, died in Washington; born 1922 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 1890-Extensive strike in American cities of carpenters and allied trades for an eight hour day; they secured it in many places.
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29
FlOtsam and JetsAm.

A whale sixty-eight feet long, and dead from the thrusts of a sword fish, tloated ashore on the South Caro lima coast the other day. and the two parties of negroes who found it fought for four hours as to which should take possession. Then some white men came along and gobbled the prize. Detroit Free Press ...... .... .-
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29
A Glad Father,a Gift.

. Harbor Master Charles Lawrence, who Is also president of>the schoolship Saratoga, got a cable from Jamaica the other day telling in code cipher of the ships arrival with all we'll on board. He gave it out to the newspapers, but one man up the state he thought need ed special notice, and he sent him telegram telling him of his sons safe arrival. The man up the state was 90 delighted to hear from his boy that he telegraphed Captain Lawrence, "Please cable Captain Green, of the Saratoga, asking him to place twenty-five dollars to my sons account, and charge ex- penses to me-" ,ffi.
 Captain Lawrence got out a chart showing the cable lines of the world and having table of tolls to any place reached by submarine telegraph. He knew that $1. 35 per word was the rate on Captain Greens message from Ja- maica, and writing out message of in- struction to Captain Green, pursuant to the fond fathers request, found that the twenty-five dollars presented by cable would cost the man up the state nearly nineteen dollars to send. So he autographed to the boys parents: Ut will cost nineteen dollars to send the order. You had better write to next port. "-Philadelphia Press
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29

The highest chimney in the world, that at Halsbruckner Hutte, near Frei- burg, Saxony, has been finished It is 460 feet high. Its diameter at base is B feet and 16 feet at the top, the inner diameter being 8 feet. It is built of clay stone.
 Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has a passion for attiring himself in fashion able and elaborate clothes of silk. Some of his costumes are so showy and delicate that they would excite the envy of 8 woman a4e
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29
May g.

 N6O-Nicholas Ludwig Zinzeodorf, count, founder of "Moravian brethren" died at Herrnhut, in Lusatia; born May 28, 1700; in 174s he established at Shekomeco, Pa, the famous Indian mission. He6-Thomas Arthur Lally, baron of Tollen- daily Qreland), French-Irish patriot and soldier, executed at Paris on false testi- mony; truth discovered and proceedings reversed in IT'S. 1sO0-John Brown, abolitionist, born at Tor rington, Conn.,; hanged at Charleston, Va, Dec. 2, 1859. lsO5-Frederick Schiller. German poet, died; born 1759. l810-John Brougham, actor and dramatist, born in Dublin. lS46- Battle of Resaca de Ia Palma; 2,O00 Ameri- cans under General Zachary Taylor de- feated 6, 900 Mexicans under General Arista. is50-Nicholas Francis Gay Lussao, chemist, died.
 las2Battles at New Kent Court House, va., and Pennington, Miss. lae4"Tho Bloody Day;'' ten considerable bat tles fought, including Dalton, Ga; JarTctt's Station {on Weldon railroad), Va; Swift Greek Arrowfeld church, Va, and Cloyd's Mountain, etc., Va. but excluding Spottsylvania, where there was pauss; Major General John Sedgwick killed by . sharpshooter.
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29

 l814-Steamer Nassau begins to run-hfst steam ferry between New York and Brook lyn.
 1829-Louis Moreau Gottschalk, famous plan ist, born in New Orleans; died 1889. 1846-Battle of Palo Alto; American loss, nine killed and forty-seven wounded (artillery f1ght).
 1862-Cavalry battle at Glendale, near Corinth, Miss.
 1884-Battle at Spottsylvania court house, Vir- ginia, begins; continues with but slight in- termissions until the 16th; Federal losses usually estimated at 3o, 1000; end of the long fight at Alexandria, La. l888-Professor Leone Levi. eminent economist, died in London; born 1921. 1890 -Ghenango county poorhouse at Preston, NY. burned, with sixteen inmates.
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29
A Dead Shot and Man of Peace.

E. E. Stanley, who recently died at Milledgeville, it is said, had the reputa- tion of having killed two men in duels on the same day. He was a very old man, and the duels were fought sixty years ago. At the time of the duels he lived on the line between this state and Alabama He. got into a controversy with man named Halton and was challenged. He killed Halton, and Oh the same day Halton's second chai- lenged him, and the second duel took place a few hours after the first one
 Stanley was again successful. He was g peacefully. dispnsed, man. Atlanta Constitution. ,ss5,sl.., ..g
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29

the Rapidan; he telegraphs Sherman to move; battle at Bermuda Hundreds.
 18&-General Dick Taylor at Citronelle, Ala, surren- dered the last Confederate army east of the Missis- ssippi to General Canby; 2,73 men and officers pa- rolled; at the same time Commodore Farrand sur rendered to Rear Admiral
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29

May 6. 16N-Charles, Duke of Bourbon, killed. 1705-Emperor Leopold died. 1706-Francis Xavier de Lavalle Montmorenci, first Catholic bishop of Canada, died at Quebec; born 1923. 1758+Andres. Massena, Bonaparte's general, etc., born.
 1S3tFirst appearance of New York Herald, one cent paper; J. G. Bennett manager, Anderson & Smith publishers. 1859-Baron Alexander von Humboldt died. la61-Secession of Arkansas. 1s64-Battle for Richmond and Petersburg rail- road by Tenth and Eighteenth corps, Army of the James; battles of the Wilderness, Va, and Rocky Face, Ga, in progress.
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29
May 5.

May 5. 4s2Justinian, most renowned of Byzantine Roman emperors, born; died 685. 1812 Capture of Oswego, N. Y., by the British. 187-George Washington Julian, statesman, original abolitionist." born near Center vile, Ind.
 1S1-Napoleon Bonaparte died at St. Helena. 184O-Rev. Dr. Lant Carpenter, theologian, died. 1862Bloody battle at Williamsburg, Va. 186EThe dreadful Battle of the Wilderness began; on the same day the contest at Rocky Face Ridge, Ga, began; there were also three cavalry battles and three gun boat battles at widely separated points; 8 important battles. 1S75-Heinrich George August Ewald, philolo- gist, theologian, historian and reformer, died; born in 1903.
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29
May 8.

166S-Alain Rene le Sage, French novelist, born: died 1747; he wrote "Gu Bias. :" 17N-Beilby Porteus, eminent prelate and author of Christian Evidences" :" born in York, England; died 1908.
 1794-Antoine Lavoisier, fa- nous chemist, guillot1ned at Paris because he had
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29

Thatcher the so called ''navy'' in the Tom bigbee river. 1S73-75 lives lost by the breaking of a bridge at Jackeor T1s
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29

1858-Minnesota admitted to the Union. 1864-Gcneral movement of all Federal armies;
 General Grants army Potomac) crosses
Connecticut western news., 1891-04-29
May 4.

May 4. 18B-Louis XIII of France died. l782c John James Audubon, or nithologist, born on a plan tation in Louisiana; died 1851.
 1796-William H. Prescott, his torian, born at Salem, Mass; died 1859. 184SSir Robert Kerr Porter, traveller and artist. died.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-11-26
Hints About Boots and shoes

A man who dresses well will never
wear boots that turn up at the toes.
The fiat sole is more comfortable and
it looks better.
Nature never intended that man
should walk altogether on his heels.
But the heel and the ball of the foot
should touch the ground nearly at the
same time. This does not mean in
the ballet sense of the term, but in
the natural order of locomotion.
The Indian in his pliable moccasin
puts his foot on the grass as nearly as
possible in the same manner as the
bather walks on the shore, or as the
barefooted farmers boy trudges on the
highway. And one of the causes Of
this walking too much on the heel is
the attempt to walk too erect, soldier
fashion as it were. The result is that
instead of leaning slightly, very
slightly, forward, as nature intended,
some men walk as if they had ram
rod running through them from the
crown of their heads to the soles OF
their boots. But no man ever yet
walked gracefully who walked in this
fashion.
1t may do very well for the parade
ground, but it is too artificial to be
graceful. 1t throws the walker toe
far back on his heel, instead of for
ward on the fat of his foot, as nature
intended. And a man can walk with
his ''chest expanded and his shoulders
thrown back' and lean forward and
bring his foot fair and square on the
ground at the same time.
1t is not necessary to be a "dude''
to desire to look presentable and to
have shapely limbs and feet. And
with a little practice any one can
make his feet look smaller than they
are. 1t is simply a question of an
giles. If you watch man walking
before you in the street, and if he
turns out his toes at an angle of for
ty-fYe degrees that mans feet will
look larger than if he turned out his
toes at lesser angle, or if, better
still, he kept his toes pointed straight
in the direction in which he is going.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-11-26

upon her silken hair and wondering.
sweet eyes2
Why did Mrs. Crecy, watching them.
utter the swift. eager prayer in her
heart. @Oh. God protect the incocent?"
Thew were remembering the rapt gaze
OF Richard Accrington-the passionate
admiration, the stiied sigh with which
he had watched little Loveday through
her fairy dance.
Richard Accrington was the son of q
decayed gentleman Of good birth; he
had made his own way in the world, en-
tered the army as ensign in the days Of
/ his homage. poverty and love; was Tilted
by Laura Paget daughted of ruined
baronet and vowed to climb fortunes
ladder, and wiring her heart some day,
served abroad with brilliant gallantrys
and come home a colonel and lion,
The first time they met after her per-
hdy, he chose a day, they say. when
there WAS a grand muster of London's
proudest in madam's splendid drawing
rooms (they had parted with passionate
kisses in the parlors of her fathers tum
ble-down mansion) and he STROBE through
the. throng, his uniform and glittering
medals opening path for him wherever
he would go, and a buzz OF admiration
following his Internal beauty and dis
tinguished celebrity.
So he stood before her, who had VOW
ed by her maiden love to be true to him
forever, and he answered her stricken
gaze with smile as cruel as the grave.
Frn NJ
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-11-26

his noble MANHOOD We fought hand to
hand at Vicksburg, and he fell. Can
you forgive me as l trust God has done.
for having made widow and an orphan?
You are silent. Oh, If you will but say,
4 forgive you this will, indeed, be a
Thanksgiving Day to me, for your words
will lift dreadful burden from my
heart. I shall feel more than ever the
love and goodness of God, and my soul
will go out in Thanksgiving to him for
having answered the prayer which has
been hourly upon my lips since you'll rst
crossed my threshold"
AS Rena listened her heart went out
in love and pity to the man who had
been to her a second father She for
gave him freely In the name OF him who
was the divine forgiven OF injuries.
II have nothing to forgive, she said,
when she could trust herself to speak,
her whole soul glowing IN her magniti-
cent eyes and throbbing in her sweet,
low voice. %You were not a murderer,
but brave soldier, doing your duty as
my father was doing his. II you have
deprived me of him you have filed his
place, and you are as dear to me as is
his memory
A smile of unutterable Thanksgiving
and joy Illuminated the countenance Of
the dying man.
God bless you This is indeed a
THANKSGIVING Day." he said, turning to
his wife. who also stood beside him.
Then, with one last, cOnvulsive effort he
Joined the hands of the two women he
loved best In all the world, and the sun
light which just then streamed in
through the easement, fell upon the face
of the dead.
When Colonel Warresby's viii wa
read it was found TO contain q beQuest
OF $50, 900 to Rena Mention, accom-
panied By a direction that she should
always make her home with his wife and
ehildred as beloved daughter.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-11-26

In the hungarian Parliamentary
session of 1641, ascertain Baron Szjel
lived in Pressburg, with two intimate
friends, George Majlath and Barthel
Szemere. One day, the baron became
enviOus of their laurels. He called
SZemere, aside and said to him: ''My
good SZemere, write me a speech. 50
''NIOst willingly, my dear friend;
about what would you like to speak?"
sit is all the same to me, if the
speech is only a nice one-wonder.
fully nice" 'TYOu will be satisfied
with me, " he answered, and next day
brought the manuscript. The baron
memorized the speech and delivered
it on the third day. The chamber
re-echoed with 'sYiYas'' and applause.
At this moment, the president rose
and asked: sis anybody here to
answer this speech?" The baron
looked sneeringly around. The men,
bers all remained silent. Then Bar
tholomaeus SZemere arose. He be-
gan: ''WOrthy gentlemen, what the
orator said is from beginning to end
Incorrect" and then he began to
show, in an able speech, the mistakes
the baron had made. f'Don't you
believe him, gentlemenm the baron
cried angrily, interrupting him sud
denly; sit was he himself who wrote
the speech for me-" Every one OF
the fifty-tWo members rolled in his
seat nearly convulsed with laughter,
and then and there the baron made a
VOW never again to speak in public.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-11-26
Too MUci .rHANksoiViNo Pc.

small boy sat on the top OF the fence.
Tor lie counted the days TIL Thanksgiving
time,
And he counted the pumpkins yellow.
And he said. as he sat In royal state
On top OF the fence so high
"A pumpkin pie most highly I rate.H
And he unused on the pleasures OF by
and by.
And now near at hand was Thanksgiving
Day.
And the kitchen was all in a whirL
And his mother was busy as busy could be.
Likewise his aunt and the servant girl.
10 take pie. this small boy intended.
For what was one pie more or less
No doubt his mother would be offended.
But who the culprit. she'd never guess
Bis chance soon came. for a neighbOr
came in
To ask for the loan OF the roIling-p pin.
And when none were looking or stand
This drescful boy ran on with a pie.
The pie was hot and burned him so,
And running so fast he stubbed his toa
That over he fell. hot pie and all.
And loudly did for his mother cali
she sadly looked at her pride and joy,
And separated pie from boy;
He cried very hard at having done wrong
But he knew he'd cry more before very
long.
Next day at dinner all wondered Why
This small boy was debarred from pie;
But his mother and he alone knew the
reason.
And he thought their remarks quite out Of
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-11-26
The French of 1t.

Mime. Geoffrin, like most French
women, had the gift of making
phrases. When Rulhiere had read
in her salon a work upon Russia,
which she feared might involve him
in difficulties, she offered him a sum
of money to burn it. The author
waxed wrOth at the insinuation i'm
piled, and broke out into an eloquent
assertion of his courage and indepen-
dence. She listened patiently, and
then, in quiet tone of voice, said:
Chow much more do you want, NJ.
Rulhiere?" She married, at the age
of fourteen, NJ. GeOffrin, a wealthy
glass-manufacturer and lieutenant
colonel of the National Guard. His
duty as husband seems to have been
to provide the funds for her social
campaigns and to watch over the
details of the nlenGge. 1t is related of
him that some person gave him a
history to read, and when he asked
for the successive volumes, regularly
palmed of upon him the first, as if it
were new. At last he was heard to
say that he thought the author 'ire-
peated- himself a little" A book
printed in double columns ne read
straight across the page, remarking
that sit seemed to be very good, but
was rather abstract" One day a
visitor inquired after the silent,
white-haired old gentleman who was
in the habit of sitting at the head of
the table. sob, he was my husband,
replied Nine. Geoffrin, t'before he
died .