davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The state chronicle., 1891-08-04

The incest and most choice line
of cologne in the city. Knives and
razors, of the best quality at lowest
prices. Ladies' and gents purses.
An elegant line of cigars, smoking
tobacco and pipes always on hand.
VIII be pleased to see you always at
KING & MCGEE's.
The state chronicle., 1891-08-04

NJ Sun: WILLIE, aged fourteen wears.
WI has left home without nv nermisSior
be is blsck boy, stout. and shows the
white OF his eyes very plainly. and is well
grown tor his age. hereby forbid anv
person to harbor or employ him. Any in.
formation concerning him will be thank.
fully received Address,
me- ISABELLA ARMSTRONG.
Flint, N. c., Aug. 1, 1891.
The state chronicle., 1891-08-04

Abbot's East India Corn Paint
removes quickly all ,orns, bunions
and warts without pain.
The state chronicle., 1891-08-04

Index to New Advertisements.
Green Park Hotel-Elegant.
John II. Clewell-Salem Female
Academy.
T. H. Street-County Bonds for
Sale.
The state chronicle., 1891-08-04
Wanted.

A position to teach music, either
city or country.
Address B..
Care STATE CHRONICLE,
ju 24-1Ot. Raleigh, n. c.
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-16

sv0pFexs-@ Moisture intense iiekfna
ard srngng gsost st hght, ssarse ~
scratching. u sao~esf n esatnus
tanserz ferss. whseh eftsn hiasa sHa
ulcsrate. bessosaiEK sefs zsfs. s~sFef =
taxr~nsF sssspe sse .tshas srd hsergi,
iaz. beale airsfal:1u. SD Is pssst fasss
- ssar~s iass tnrssrs. A ftaeaisss. ~
- aas.l. fof e ssHss. ia. s#ssns 5
SON, Pkaa8slEa,A
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-16
"Go 70 Chicago via c. 4 W. NJ


Allow myself 20 suffer sgsin what
have suffered for the last year. That
vie disease, Dyspepsia. gave me no
comfort. I could not eat nor enjoy
snvthing. The doctors Amounted 20
nothing. nothing seemed 81 relieve NE
until used bottle eE sulphur bltters.
Four bottles made me Neii.--Je-epa
Eatcheider, Master Of Schooner G.. A.
r.Aar
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-16

IL isvsrv important IN this age OF
vastmatsrisl progress that a remedy be
pleasing 10 the taste and to the eye,
easily taken, acceptable 10 the stomach
and healthy IN It's nature and effects.
Possessing these qualities. Syrup of Figs
il the one perfect laxative and most
gentle diuretic known.
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-16

No matter II you have attended Mel
son. Matter Il Co.'S clearsnce sale you
should see their display this week.
New goods are being put on the floor
each day and the prices sstonish every
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-16
s,s H-saa~s-

LOSES Red Clover Pills cure sex
Headache, bys3sep~s. Indigestion ard
Constipation. &c pee hox. 5 h8ses sef
81. far saie ~ al druggists
Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-04-16

This week we shall open . new stock
Of parasols.
Vorer. HERPoLsHFlwER a Co.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1891-10-17
Sc vende

! Tratado de calcnlo diferencial & integral nor
Laurent, 6 tomos: Curse complete de matem9.
ticas por Oh. comberousse, tomos. tuna : otra
obra en- frances). 4 Ensenanza primaria en- Ia Ex-
men. Para informea On las oacinas de- La Co.
- -
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1891-10-17
Glasses 9 ! de Dibujo y Pintura
PARA ! SENORITAS

Dirijidas por don Francisco Vilarrasa. ca !.
lle dc San francisco ndmero go, baios.
PRECIOS % mensuales las de pintr1ra. :
$2-60 las dc tiihnjo. De 8 Is s. de la tarde,
tres dsaS poI seLf
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24
Presidential Possibilities.

] That Mr. Blaine has reached, anC
 is at this moment enjoying, the
 high-water mark of his popularity
 cannot be denied, The Americans
 are forgiving and an appreciative
 people; and whatever condemns
 ton they passed upon the Speaker
 of the House of Representatives, they have condoned to the Secre-
 tary of State. It is safe to say that
 if the Plumed Knight should again
 be a candidate for President we should hear very little about the
 Mulligan letters. Other matters
 have taken possession of the pub lie mind and the campaign would have to be fought on public, and not on personal issues. All the same, MT. Blaine will never be Pres ident. More than any other living statesman, he resembles Clay; the mantle of Clay seems, indeed, to have fallen upon him, and it car ries with it the doom that pursued Clay throughout his career. If MT. Blaine is ever nominated again, he will be beaten. If he is ever nom- mated, and has any show of elec- ton, he will die before the day of election. If he is ever elected he will die between the day of election and the day of inauguration. There is reason to believe that he under stands this, and that, when the time comes, he will refuse to allow his name to go before the convention, leaving Mir. Harrison in sole posses sion of the field and, if anybody | that Mir. Harrison will prove a weak candidate, or will be easily beaten, he does not know the elements we shall have to tackle next year. We think that we can win the next Presidential battle, but it will require all'our resources, in- cluding a large modicum of pru- dence.-Courier- Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

While workmen were excavating for new gates just above the Mar seilles GIL dam eight miles east of Ottawa, a short time since, they dis covered a stone roadway, Some fifty feet of a well-made pavement of slabs was uncovered, each stone being some twelve feet long, from one to three feet wide and over two inches in thickness, with break here and there filled in with cob blestones, which were also laid in regular courses. The roadway. so far as uncovered, is almost perfect. It is of the uniform width of about twelve feet, and is laid upon foun- dation of gravel and broken sand stone. The depth at which it ap- pears is from four to six feet. It is thought to have been built by the Aztecs or Tezeunons, who were driven from this region by the In dians,
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24
The Seven Golden Cities.

The "Seven Golden Cities" one
 of the most popular legends of the
 latter part of the Dark Ages" were said to be situated on an island
 west of the African Coast, The is
 land is represented as abounding in gold, with magnificent houses and temples, "the high tower of which shown at a great distance. :" The legend also relates that at the time of the conquest of Spain and Portugal by the Moors, when the inhabitants fled in every direction to escape slavery, sever Bishops, followed by great number of peo- pie, took to ships and put boldly out on the high seas. After tossing about for some time they landed upon unknown island, the famous spot which Tn alter years became the seat of the "Seven Golden Cities" "This island," Heylyn says, twas exactly in midocean." After all had landed safely the wise old Bishops burned the ships to prevent their followers from desert ing, and founded the cities which have become so famous in song and story. This mysterious island was often sought by the early navi- gators Those who went in search of it and never returned were pop ularly believed to have been detain- ed by its inhabitants.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

Word was brought to the line last Sunday that a band of Apaches were raiding through Sonora, near Milpillas, about forty miles from San Pedro, toward Nogales, Lieut.. Cortez of the Mexican army, with company of cavalry started in pursuit. He made hard ride and came upon deserted camp, around which he found the head oi IA deer. The evidence of a near prox unity of the Indians were appar- ent. He made all haste to follow up the trail and came upon them sitting around another camp fire conversing with a lot of cowboys. There were sixteen Indians, but they were Pagagoes who had been on hunt. Tine Lieut.. returned to his starting place, not forgetting to take back three deer heads as a trophy of his chase. Lieut.. Cortez says that he does not believe there is an Apache in Sonora.-Prospec- tor.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24
Little Curious Things.

The first vessel launched by th'
 early American colonists was tht
 Blessing Bay, launched in Massa-
 chusetts Bay, July 4, 1881. The term "tabby cat'' is derived from Atab, a famous street is Bag dad, inhabited by the manufactur. ers of silken stuffs called atabi, ol tafety. This stuff is woven with waved markings of watered silk resembling ';tabby" cats coat.
 As far as is known at the present time there are but nine words which end is "dous." They are Tremen- dous, amphibodous, hazardous, apodous, pteropodous, cephalodous gasteropodous, stupendous and gas tropodous.
 The greatest cold on record was at Jakontask, Siberia, January 25, 1929, when tested spirit thermom- eters ran down to 73 degrees below the zero point of Fahrenheit.
 It has been estimated that Is, ,000 cubic feet of water passes over Mi agara Falls every minute. Allow ing 629 pounds to the cubic foot, the water which flows over the falls every hour weighs not less than 32-, tons.
 Naturalists have enumerated 657 different species of reptiles. of this number 490 are as harmless as rabbits.
 Coal tar, formerly considered waste and regular nuisance to gasworkers, is now utilized as one of the most valuable color-pro- ducers. Chemists have extracted from it sixteen shades of blue, six teen of yellow, twelve of orange, nine of violet, besides shades of other colors too numerous to men, ton.
 There are only three places in the world where women possess all the privileges of voting which are accorded to men, viz: : Iceland, Patcairn Islands and the Isle of Man.
 A watch beats 157, ,6SO,OOO times in year. In the same length of it's wheels travel 3,55of miles.
 In England locomotives have neither bells, headlights nor "cow-
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24
UnSer Fritz, the Fifty Ton Hammer.

The great ffty-ton hammer in
 the Krupp Gun Work at Essen,
 Germany, gained it's name and the
 inscription it bears, "Fritz, let fly !"
 in the following manner: In 1877,
 when old Emperor William visited
 the gun works this great steam trip
 hammer was the first thing to at- tract his attention. Krupp then introduced the veteran Emperor to the machinist, Fritz, who, he said, handled the giant hammer with wonderful precision; that he was SO expert with it as to drop the ham, mer without injuring an object placed in the centre of the block. The Emperor at once put his dia- mond-studded watch on the spot indicated and beckoned to the ma- chinist to set the hammer in motion. Fritz hesitated out of consideration of the precious object, but Krupp and the Emperor both urged him on by saying: "Fritz, let fy!" h. stantly the hammer was dropped, coming so closely to the watch that a sheet of writing paper could not be inserted between, but the jewel was uninjured. The Emperor gave 1t to Fritz as souvenir; Krupp added 1000 marks to the present.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24
An Experiment That Didn't Work.

We sometimes learn more from !, our mistakes than from our success
 es. If you are skeptical about il
 ask Leroy Ikenberry of Richmond
 Basin, whose post office address is
 Globe, Gila county, Arizona. One
 balmy night about the hour of half
 past ten, perhaps eleven, he smelt
 something prodigally rich in sweet
 perfume, and just awakening with
 start from pleasant1 dreams, he
 rubbed his eyes and scratched an
 ear, and realizing that Ikenberry
 was himself again, held his nose
 and. taxed his mind how to dissipate
 the stiflng sm ell. He discovered
 by the light of candle dimly burn ing that the unpleasant odor pro- ceeded from polecat which, during the silent watches of the night, Paul
 Pry like, had intruded within Le- roy's domicile. How to cause it's surrender of possession was the question. He threw boot at it and then another; his hat followed, and as a dernier resort he shied his bible, on the fly-leaf of which is inscribed, Leroy Ikenberry, 1890, age 31. The cat not seemingly dis turbed by the assault, like mem- Der of the old guard at Waterloo, held it's position. Without exciting its suspicion of what next was com ing, Leroy thought of fire and no sooner thought of than he tried the experiment, lit newspaper and followed up the smell discovered l the intruder ensconsed in a corner i of the cabin, and in a moment | there was diversified smell of hair and of what was smelt before, while the rueful cat gave no indications of mysteries, or brea:hed a sigh for the loss of the adornment of its tail which hitherto, by a switch, filled the air with aromatic perfume. And | not willing to give it up so, Leroy concluded in his minds eye, to try giant powder and did so with no other effect than rendering his house Cwreck, as if a Kansas cyclone had struck it, thus making it undesirable as winter quarters, even for the cat, which, according to Bud Woodson, still holds posses sion in conjunction with the scent, which hangs round it still.-Silver Rolf
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

All birds seem 10 have aninstinc- tive knowledge that if they once surrender to the force of the wind and allow themselves to drift like leaves, there are unknown dangers in store for them. They will hard ly ever do so except to escape pur- suit, and then only tor a few min- utes, when their pace is so marvel ously rapid that, in the case:of land birds, few minutes is sufficient to carry them out of the district they know into others from which they will perhaps never be able to find their way back to the fields which are their native home.-Science.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24
Remarkable Rivers.

The subterranean rivers of the
 world, of which the one in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky is us-
 ually reckoned as the most unique,
 are generally set down in lists of
 natural curiosities as being the greatest wonders in the line of wa terways; but such lists. however, are not always reliable. To the mind of "Ye Curious Man" there are other rivers which have a suffi- cient element of the marvellous to admit them into categor1es of the wonderful. Algeria. Spain and h. dia, for instances, each has rivers within their borders which are com posed-not of water. but of ink. That in Algeria is water until after the union of two of it's principal tributaries, one of which flows through country strongly impreg- hated with iron; the other comes from a peat bog The chemical ac- tion ofthe iron on the gallic acid from the peat makes a beautiful writing fluid.
 The Webbe Shebeyli, an African river is one of the wonders of the Dark Continent. Although it is a large, flowing river (almost as large as our own MIssouri), and flows for hundreds of miles through fertile country, 1t never reaches the sea. About thirty miles before it's waters get to the point where they should | mingle with those of the Indian Ocean the whole stream sinks out ] of sight into the sands of desert.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

A prospector in Montana found strange mineral that takes fire and consumes itself when exposed to the air. When taken from the ground it has much the appearance of iron ore and is quite as heavy. The first that was taken out was piled up near the shaft one evening, and the next morning was found to be smoking. It continued to grow hotter until it arrived at almast a white heat remaining in that condi- tion several days, after which it gradually cooled off. It was then found to be but half it's first weight, and resembled much the fragments of meteors tEat are found on the surface.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

The convention of Texas cattle
 men, held on a recent date, says the Fort Worth Journal, has laid the
 foundation of great and useful work, work that if properly fol- lowed up will do much towards building up this industry in Texas. Besides other committees appoint ed for important duties, a commit tee of ten was appointed to confer with the stockmen of the state as to the feasibility of organizing a permanent assoclation of the stock men of Texas. The discussions and proceedings prove that the cat tlemen of Texas realize fully the al- tered conditions under which stock raising must be conducted in the future, if it is to continue a source of profit. The days of the long horn are about numbered. The market demands less horn and more fat. The attention of stock-raisers will be directed to the breeding up of their cattle, better feed and better care. What is said of Texas in this respect is equally true of Arizona. and if our cattle men would combine or associate themselves in proper way they could do much for their own re- lief.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

A singular case of escape from hydrophobia is noted in the entire recovery of John Wilkins, of Fen ton, who was bitten several weeks ago by mad dog. A COW, bitten by the same dog, went mad and died on the ninth day after receiv- ing the bite. MT. Wilkins refused the aid of the maidstone, but had the wound on his leg cauterized immediately. He says that he has never felt any i'll effect, but has avoided the use of water as much as possible.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24
Arizona Booked For Statehood.

Washington = Marcus Aurelius Smith, the delegate from Arizona, is worthy of the name he bears. His cheerfulness of disposition is fa- nous. Arizona is bound to be a state before this congress goes out of existence" he sad to-day. "Why not?" he argued, and then without waiting for a reply he added: "One of our counties is worth all of Ida ho and Wyoming put together. Even far famed southern California Is inferior in many respects, We raise better grapes than can be raised in California and we make better wine. Any kind of fruit grows as it can grow in no other part of even this highly favored land, and our oranges and lemons beat the world. A great many south ern Californians have purchased land in our territory-the territory which as state will soon be known as the Italy of America the place where the one-lunged and plethor- ic-pursed of earth may live and pros per. Before this Websterian head of mine is entirely denuded of it's hirsute glory, I expect to see every body moving towards Arizona.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

The hot-water boxes are to be taken out of the French railway carriages and warmth is to come from boxes filled with acetate of soda. The boxes are filled with soda in a solid state, which is lique- fled by being plunged into hot wa ter. As it solidiies, which takes five or six hours, it steadily gives out heat.-N.Y. Sun.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24
Frances Line of Forts.

A feature ot Frances preparation
 for the next war with Germany that
 has not attracted much attention
 thus far is the line of forts and in
 trenched camps guarding her east
 ern frontier. The government has
 endeavored to preserve secrecy in
 regard to them even more stren-
 uously than it has denied infOrma-
 ton about melinite and the Lebel
 rifle. In the modern system of for
 tifcation much stress is laid upon the importance of keeping the ene
 my in the dark. No longer frown- ing parapets announce t0 him the quarter whence he may expect re- sistance. The present aim Is to lure him into trap, and then now down his regiments by a hail-fire from
 hidden guns. For this purpose, rapid-fre guns will be largely used. The Maxim gun can deliver about seven hundred bullets per minute
 It can be directed by one man, who will show only his head above his screen, and will be tended by one other man completely covered. Smokeless powder being used, a reg iment would be decimated and pam ic-stricken in a moment by such a fire, and would be in full rout be- fore the location of the gun could | be discovered. To carry out such | a defense successfully, it is impor- tant, of course, to preserve the most | complete secrecy about the plans of the Notifications. Therefore only | general facts are known about the line of forts on the eastern frontier of France, The Qualifications con- s;st of great intrenched camps and huge fortresses. The largest forts -Frouard, Pont St. Vincent, Lucey, Wiley le Sec, d'Arches, Remire- mont and Giromaguy-have added to their otherwise enormous arma- ments armored towers with the heaviest cannon. Every frontier fort or intrenched camp is within gun shot of the next one, IS connected ! with the others by telegraph and is linked to the other members of the chain by double track railway. The only break in the railway con- nection is between Fort Giromaguy and Fort de Servance. Batteries occupy between the forts all the po- sitions commanding approaches. The guns of the forts vary in num- Der for each between twenty and fifty. Some, however, have as many as eighty. In several forts there is room for two thousand head of cat tie, and in all enormous quantities of provisions. The quarters of the men and officers are airy and am pie. The cannons command com pletely the slopes, which are, more over, so woven over with wires and so mined with torpedoes that the stand of an enemy there and the undermining of the walls are i'm possible,-Illustrated American.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

Rattlesnakes are said to have 9 natural antipathy to white ash leaves. Some naturalists assert that a rattlesnake placed in a circle of half ash leaves and half hot coals will cross the coals rather than en- counter the leaves.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

Seventeen mummies in the Im- perial museum of Berlin were found by a committee of acheolo- gists to be recent fabrications of Alexandrain dealers in antiquities. The museum had pald s2OO,OOO for these forgeries.-Albany Express.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

Dr. Pinal, of Paris, has found that hypnotic patients obey the Phono- graph as readily as they do a living speaker. He therefore discards the whole theary of animal magnet ism.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

A Belgium gentleman, MT. Flor eat Pauwels, is the possessor of a remarkable orchid (Oncidium div aricatum), which has a stalk near ly three yards long, which recently bore 784 flowers.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

Sara Bernhardt laments lost op- portunities for painting Indians. She considers them picturesque in every respect, and says they are splendid subjects.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

A German chemist has succeed ed in producing artificial silk, which has all the qualities of the natural article except strength, wherein it is deficient, being only two-thlrds as strong.-Scientifc American.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

A Texas farmer who has 400 acres planted with 11,O0O pecan trees calculates that in six or seven years, on the basis of an average yield of a basket for each tree he will get a net return of $50,000 from them.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

Inaiming revolver experts claim that it is perfectly useless to at tempt to follow sight line, but that more satisfactory results are obtain ed when the marksman simply looks at the object to be struck and fires.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

By the death of George Cruik- shank's widow, the British museum receives a valuable addition to it's art treasures, in a, a,collection of the artists drawings and sketches.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

Rosa Bonheur is now at..work on a painting intended to depict the last Indians and buffaloes. Her material for this work was obtained from special studies made while the Wild West Show was in Paris,
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

Out of the letters in the sentence "Let charity arouse your zeal" a St. Louisian has formed 29,059 words.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

The first iron suspension bridge in Iceland has just been opened. It is 124 yards long, ? yards wide and has six steelwire rope weighing 5! tons each.
The St. Johns herald., 1891-12-24

Last Thursday evening V. c. Will son was going east on train 19, and in going through the train he re- cognized Col. E. R. Fox, who is very we'll known in the southern part of this county. The festive Colonel, in the summer of 1888, borrowed buggy from MT. Wilson at Tombstone to drive a pair of horses he had. The next he was heard of, he and the buggy were in San Diago, Cal. Wilson at the time was joked a great deal about the transaction, but it came his time at last. So the other day as soon as he saw Fox he placed him under arrest, and was going to take him off the train here, but the Col onel went down into his pocket, paid for the buggy and went on his way reioicing-Willcox Stockman.