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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-12-03

CEs;kiren's cIoaks in all styles and
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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1891-12-03
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Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
A BASKETBALL Dog.

a Scotch collie dog on Lookout
Mountain, Tenn, has been taught to
play baseball with his master, stall
wart negro.
1T is strictly game between pitcher
and catcher and two balls are used.
AS catcher, the dog shows not only
remarkable agility and skill, but a
study of his movements forces tho
conviction that by closely observing
all the motions of the pitcher; he 10
able to calculate for position, distance,
and style Of ball, and thus almost in.
fallibly to catch the sphere, If it is fairly
pitched.
His activity, enthusiasm, strict at
tention to the game, and steadincss of
nerve before noisy crowd of admir-
ers, are remarkable. The game is a
silent one. The pitcher does not
speak, and the dog uttcrs no sound.
A slight motion of hand or head by
the pitcher indicates to the agile
catcher what style Of ball is to be
pitched; and the dog quickly takes
his position and attitude accordingly.
This baseball club of two members
play two styles OF the game, which
may be respectively called 'walklng"
and stationary" games. In the one
the pitcher moves onward at Il mod.
crate walk, tho catcher being long
distance In advance, and sharply alert
as the first Of the two balls Is pitched.
AT long distance he has time to
gauge the speed, height and line of
the ball; and it is Il very high or badly
pitched ball that does not stop with Il
thud between his firm jaws.
lie cannot throw the ball back; and
to carry II all tho way would make
the game too slow to suit his active
temperament. He has learned the
speed Of the pitchers walk, and swiftly
running back certain distance,
drops the ball and gets again atcatch-
ing distance rs the pitcher sends ball
number two and stops topick up num-
her one, which has been deposited
where 1t will be convenient for him.
In the stationary game the pitcher
stands still, and the catcher regulates
his distance by motions of the pitchers
hand, which Indicate the style OF
pitching he Is to cxpcct,-a "hot-
liner" long, short, high or low, or one
which he Is to catch on the single
bound. He is equally successful ut
all, and seldom misses.
This dog Is about two years old, and
has been playing on system nearly II
| year. A younger brother of this
saguc'ous dog Is nearly always present
1T the game, but will not learn the
art, and shows no interest In it,
Youths Communion
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
If Our Grains Werc Lost.

The whole group of relatives of the
lost cereals would be passed in strict re-
view. Size of grain, strength and vigor
and Elasticity of stock, adaptability to
different surroundings, and hexibility in
variation would be examined with scrupu-
lous care.
But the range of experiment would,
under the circumstances, extend far be.
yond the relatives of our present cereals.
1t would embrace an examination of the
other grasses which are even now Guilt
waited for their grains, but which are SO
little known, outside of their own limit,
that it is surprise to hear about them.
For example, the millets, great and
small, would be investigated. These
grains, so little known here, form an i'm
portant crop IN certain parts of tho East.
One of the leading authorities on the
subject states that the millcts constitute
"a more important crop" III India ''than
either rice or wheat, and are grown more
extensively, being raised from Madras in
the south to Rajputana in the north.
They occupy about lightly three per cent
of the food grain area in Bombay and
Sindc, forty-onc per cent. in the Punjab,
thirty-ninc per cent. in the central
provinces, Sin all about thirty million
acres"
Having chosen proper subjects for cx.
pcrimenting, the cultivators would make
use of certain well-known principles. BY
simple selection Of the more desirable
seeds, strains would be kept as races, or
attempts would be made to intensity
wished-fcr characters. BY skilful hybri-
dizing of the first, second, and higher
orders, tendencies to wider variation
would be obtained and the process of
selection considerably expedited. -Popu.
lar Science Monthly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
A Collection of Crowns.

A collection of crowns is kept at the
royal palace (the Kremlin) at Moscow,
Russia. These relics of departed great
ness-they nearly all come from coun-
tries which have been subjugated by the
tyrannical Russians-arc kept in what is
known as the "Throne Room" of the
Krcmlin. Here are shown the crowns
of Poland, Kazan, Georgia, Astrakhan
and Persia, besides the thrones and other
royal insignia too numerous to mention.
Besides the crowns of conquered nations
those of almost all the Cars may be
seen in that vast treasure house. The
most curious one of the lot is the double
crown made for Peter the Great and his
half-witted brother; the most costly that
of the Empress Catherine, which con-
tains 1886 diamonds of the first water. =
So. Louis Republic.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
Ones Vocabulary.

From data at hand correspondent OF
Science estimated the vocabulary of a
citizen of the United States with com
mon school education and of ordinary
intelligence and reading at about 10, 900
words, and that of we'll read college
graduate, and OF those who have pur.
sued university course, at from 30,
upward to perhaps 100000. Ones vo-
cabulary is usually nearly complete at
thirty years of age. If but two words
arc learned each day the vocabulary at
that age would be only 10000. Records
show that young children acquire new
words more rapidly than that.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
A Remarkable Traveller.

An umbrella left the Pacific Express
Office ut San Antonio, Texas, on a recent
morning, which is on peculiar tour and
is covered over with tags, and the
charges on it would bankrupt the owner
if she ever gets it and pays for it. 1t is
said to have been left by widow on a
train, and when shc discovered its loss
telcgraphed to have it forwarded to her
by express, but up to the present time it
has not overtakcn her, and has been on
its way almost constantly for the past
six months. 1t is plastered all over with
express tags, aud has travelled from Yer
mont to San Francisco, from the City of
Mexico to Alaska, and nearly all over
the American Continent, while the last
shipping tag is directed to Mrs. Blank,
care E. Tuthill, ESQ.,, agent Canadian
and American Express Company,
Niagara Falls. On tho back of this tag
is subscribed: "The widow is said to
have gone to Niagara Falls. Drag the
Falls for her and deliver the parasol. -
Ne,o Orleans Picdyune.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
Pleturesane Peopla orGreece.

The national costume of the Greeks is
both pretty and picturesque. The men
wear tight pantaloons, stockings to the
knees, and n short futed dress or kilt
about the hips, all made of color and
texture to suit tho wearer's taste, but
mainly light and white at this season.
Their hats are every possible variety and
color, and their shoes are generally red
or yellow and turned up at the toes like
our old style of skates, with red blue,
yellow or black tuft on the point. The
female dress cannot be satisfactorily de-
scribed. It consists of whatever strikes
the wearer's fancy, and there are just
about as many styles as there are women,
the short dress and polychromatic shawl,
with no hat, being most prevalent.
PiHsburg leader.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
Tho Realm Of Fire.

From an article-"Thc Manufacture
of Steel"-by w. L. Durfcc, in the
Popular Scionce Monthly, we take the fol-
lowing:
The general aspect of the interior of
converting-h house at night is at once
startling and grandly impressive. Here
heat, flame and liquid metal are ever
present; locomotives whistle and puff,
dragging with clatter and cang hugo
ladies of molten iron; the lurid light,
flashing and flaming, that Eliminates the
scene, throws shadows so intensely black
that they suggest the "blac1 fire" of
Milton. for in such place it is impos-
sible for shadow to be cool; half
naked, muscular men, bcgrimed with
sweat and dust, fit about; clouds OF
steam arise from attempts to cool i'll
some degree the roasting earth of the
floor; converters roar, vibratc and omit
flames mingled with splashes of metal
from their white-hot throats; at inter-
walls tho scorching air Is filed with
rain of coruscating burning iron, ingot
molds lift mouths parched with thirst
that can only be appeased for q short
time by streams of liquid steel that run
gurgling into them; the stalwart cranes
rise, swing and fall, loading scores of
tons of red-hot steel upon cars of iron,
all these conditions and circumstances
combine to make an igneous total most
suggestive of the realms of Pluto than any
other in the whole range of the metal
turgic arts.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
An Astonishing Mistake.

One of tho strangest incidents on
record occurred in q Connecticut Court
room on Thursday. A man was on trial
for his life. The jury came in with a
verdict, and when the clerk asked the
foreman to render it he responded
"Guilty." The prisoner, who was OK.
pecting different result, dropped from
his standing position as if shot. Anothc,
juror pulled the foreman's coat, cjaculat
ing: "Good God, mol" Upon which
the foreman, suddenly realizing his mis-.
take, shouted: "Hold on! mean mol
guilty" Then the case was set right,
but we doubt if human records furnish a
parallel to q mistake so strange mada
under circumstances SO solemn. Boston
Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
Tho Artificial Production of Foods

Chemists distinguish between various
kinds of sugars. TO one class belongs
cane sugar, which is formed in the sugar
cane, sorghum, beet and maple, and
which we use ut the Table to another
class belong tho glucoscs, of which the
fruit-sugar that occurs in grapes and
other fruits, and the glucose which is
manufactured on large scale from the
starch of corn, are samples. Some time
since, Professor Fischer of Wurzburg,
Germany, succeeded in the synthesis o.
several sugars closely allied to fruit.
sugar. The news has just come that he
has found way to transform glucose
into sugar of the type of canc-sugar.
We have long known how to convert
starch and cnnc-sugar to glucose; the
process is one of changing more com.
pick compound to simpler one. But
the possibility of reversing the process
was long doubted. Yet just this is what
Professor Fischer has now accomplished.
Still more remarkable, was going to
say-but the time for calling such things
remarkable seems to be past-is the nc.
count which has come to hand within u
few days of the preparation of an albu.
minoid compound by synthesis. How
carbohydrates and fats may be prepared
artificially we have come to understand.
But the albuminoid compounds contain
more chemical elements and are far NOR,
complex; they are indeed the highly
organized material of vegetable and ami.
ma! life. That these substances could
be made in the laboratory has been hard
to believe. Yet Professor Schutzenbergct
of Paris has just reported to the French
Academy of Science the synthesis of L
compound similar to the peptono into
which the albuminoids of our food arc
transformed in the process of digestion.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
Meat sEsEsng in the United States.

Mcst manufactured product fo,
which aslsgHc amount OF raw material il
reqaircd The manufacture of meat Is
process of transforming the vegetable
protein, fats, carbohydrates of grass and
grain into the animal protein and fat oil
beef, pork, and mutton. The same
principle applies in the production OF
milk, eggs, and other. animal foods. In
the most economical feeding of animals
1T takes number of pounds of hay OF
corn to make pound of beef or pork. In
other words, let the farmer make animal
protein and fat FROM vegetable materials
in the best way he eau, and still he must
consume large quantity of solid-pro-
duct to produce small amount of ami
NAL food. Hence animal foods are
costlier than vegetable. This is the
simple explanation of the fact chat in
most parts of the world meat is the food
of only the well-to-do while the poor live
almost entirely on vegetable food. Thus
ordinary people in Europe cat but little
meat, and in India and China they have
none at all. 1t is hard enough for them
to get the nutrimont they need in vcge-
table forms. Meats they cannot afford.
But meat making in the United States
to-day is far more wasteful than it need
be, on account of the excessive fatncss
of our meats. This comes about very
naturally. We have great excess of
soil product in the valleys of the Ohio
and tho Mississippi and ON the ranches
of the West. at present tho pork maker
and the rauchman convert large portion
of this into very fat meat. The pork
producers of the growing States
select the breeds of swirc which, as they
say, 'will take the most corn to market, i"
and have thus got into the way of grow
ing animals that are little else than
masses of fat. The bccf-growers of the
western ranches, and those in the East
as we'll, produce excessively fat meat.
Part of the fat is trimmed out of the
meat by the butcher, part is left on our
plates ut the table to go to the soap-man
or garbage barrel, aud part is eaten. I'm
fortunately very many of us cat much
moro than fat, both in meat and buffers
than is needed for nourishmcnt aud thuf
do injury to our health Century.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
aH 6acA

every cent you've paid for it, if is
doesn't benefit or cure you. AIMED
icino that promises this is one that
promises to help you. N
But there's only one medicine Of
its kind that can and does promise it.
It's DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery. It's the guaranteed remedy
for all Blood, Skin and Scalp Dis
eases, from common blotch or
eruption to tho worst scrofula. I.
oleanses, purifcs, and cnriches the
blood, invigorates the system, and
cures Salt-rhoum, letter, Eczema,
Erysipelas and all manner of blood
taints from whatever cause. Great
Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under
its benign influence.
It's tho best blood-purificr, and it's
tho cheapest, no matter how many
doses arc offered for dollar-for
you pay only for the good you got.
Nothing else ia "just as good" as
tho Discovery" 1t may be better
for the dealer. But no wants
money and you want help.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
Sheridan's Condition Powders

1t is an old-fashion notion
that medicine has to taste
bad to do any good.
SCOTS Emulsion is cod
liver oil with its hsh-fat taste
nothing IS lost but the
taste.
This is more than a mat
ter of comfort. Agreeable
taste is always a help to di-
wsestion. A sickening taste
6 always a hindrance.
Where is only harm in taking
cod-liver oil unless you digest
it. Avoid the taste.
SCOTT s. BowNn. Chemists. II, South s,h Avenue.
New York.
Your druggis, keeps SCOTS Emulsion Of cod.live
oii-all druggists everywhere do. 81.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Real love never works for pay.
Darkness is tho stars best friend.
What time Of day is it when love stops
work2
Uhbelicf is only another name for self
conceit.
Whenever the pig eats it helps the
butcher.
A mule never fluids out that his ears
are long.
The safest place during the battle is
1t the front.
Dressing conspicuously is q confession
If inferiority.
To become wise is to find out how lit
Vic you know.
Philosophy lights no candle in tho
aight of death.
The trial that you bear patiently is tho
>nc that helps you.
Did you ever see boy who didn't think
the clock ran too slow.
A kind word will go farther and strike
harder than cannon ball.
Don't try to kill fly on your neigh
boris head with u hammer.
Seeking happiness simply to have it is
very bad kind of sellshness.
People who ride hobbies never pay
much attention to the scenery.
People who look down are always try
Ing to pull somebody else down.
The man who can rojoicc in the midst
of his trials can rejoice everywhere.
If it were not for hunger some men
would never do an honest days work.
A principle is something that we
ought to be willing to live and die for.
Man must have more than the world
before he eau get any real good out of
it.
While the pcaoocl1 has his plumagc
spread, he forgets that he has black
feet.
The man is most needed who will
cheerfully do things that somebody else
is willing to do.
1t means something to full rather than
disobcy, and so failure may sometimes
be the highest proof that the heart is
true. indianapolis (Ind.) Rams Horn
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
iNrRY-MrNTRY.

Willie and Bess Georgia and May
Once, as these children wero hard at play,
An old man, hoary and tottering came
and watched them playing their pretty
game.
Hc seemed to wonder, while standing there,
What tho meaning thereof could be-
Aha but the old man seemed to share
or the little children's innocent glee
As they circled around with laugh and shout
And told this rhymea at counting out;
"lntry-mintry, cutrey-corn,
Apple seed and appl, thorn;
Wire, brier, Timber, look,
Twelve geese in flock;
Some few east, some flew west,
Some flow over the cuckoo's nestr
Willie and Bess, Georgia aud May
All, the mirth of that summon day!
Twas Father Time who had como to share
Tho innocent joy Of those children ther9
He learned betimes tho game they played
And into their sport with them won't he
How could tho children have been afraid,
Since little they rocked whom no might
be.
They laughed to hear old Father Tina
Mumbling that curious nonsensc rhvmO
or "Intry- mintry, cutrey-corn,
Apple seod and apple thorn
Wire. brier, Timber, lock,
Twelve geese In tlocS;
Some flew east, some flew west,
Some flew over tho cucSoo's nest
Willie and Dess, Georgia and May,
And joy of summer-whorc are they.
The grim old man still standeth near
Grooming tho song of n far-olr year,
And into the winter como alone,
Cheered by that mournful requiem,
Soothod by the dolorous monotone
That shall count me of as it counted
them.
Tho solemn voice Of old Father limo
Chanting the homcly nursery rhyme
Ho learned Of tho children summer
morn
When, with 'applc seed and apple
thorn"
Lifo was full of tho dulcet cheer
That bringeth the grace ancnr-
Tho sound of tho little ones hard at
play
Willie und Bessie, Georgia and May.
Eugene Field, in Chicago Ncws.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
Where Cast Iron Beats Wrouyl,t

1t has been found by experiment that
as regards chemical composition the sus-
ccptibiiity of iron to become brittle by
picking and rusting is least in cast iron
and silicon steel and highest in wrought
iron and, according to Badeckcr, in
high carbon steel. Combined carbon
appears to increase the action and silicon
to diminish it. The influence of manga
nose in either direction has not yet been
determined Chicago Neps.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
Sewed Up His Pockets.

There is young married woman of
my acquaintance whose first wifely cxper-
fence with the needle resulted in a CAPT.
tal joke on her. She found what ap-
peared to be two immense rips on the
inside of the tails of her husbands
frockcoat, and when he was down town
she carefully sewed them up. When
the young man came home to lunch his
wife met him, coat in hand.
'Ive just mendcd it," she SAID :;
"there were two awful rips in the tails
of it."
''Let me see," said the husband of
the industrious young woman. az didn It
know there was tear in it."
"Yes there was; right there"
s'But those are the -"
The young man caught the look of
innocent doubt ON his wife's face and
stopped.
eyes, those were fearful rips; things
were getting in them all the time"
And the young man went down to his
office and picked out the threads in or
der to get at his bank book and IL few
letters that he had in those tail pockets.
kansas City Times
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
A Tlmid Mans Exnedient,

A timid man, living alone in the out
eSirts of the city, has hit upon novel
device for soaring away burglars. Each
night upon retiring he places a huge
pair of boots outside OF every bedroom
door in the house to convey the impress
sion that every chamber is occupied by
an able-bodied man. A burglar who
happened IN would think he had struck
@ hotel.-Hartford (Conn.) Post.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
RrotcotonehY Dog.

The biggest Danish hound now Nv.
ing Is thought to belong to the Car.
1t was presented to the Czarina few
years ago by her father, the King OF
Denmark. The dog Is generally
found in the hall Leading to the Cars
private apartments, and the Emperor
places great confidence III the moral
effect Of his presence.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
Wine MotIIcrR

Uso Or. Ho1sio's Certain Group Curo tho onlv
remedy In the world that will ouro n Violent
S e OF Group Ia half mn hour No opium.
Address A. =. HoIslo, Buffalo, N. Y.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
DECEPTION.

DISIE tOtVs
This may look like poetry, but it
Only demonstrates how easily the oyo
Hay be deceived. Tho ear Ia sometimes
Deceived By tho cry OF "just as good"
BY somo druggists who, whom DR..
whites PulmonAris 10 called for,
Use their persuasive powers to
Induce you to take something else
On which they mako larger
Profit, and should yon allow their
Sophistry to overcome your better
Judgment, you uill discover the
Deception only after You havo
Used tho stuff and found It
Worthless. You will then mourn
In vain tho Ioss Of your good
Honey, for there Is 70 othcr
Cough remedy as good ns tho
Pulnonaria or that will euro
Cough IS speedily and permarsntlT.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11

The Chinese are not permitted to own gun,
or possess gunpowder.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11

Wei preserved women, whom consulting
sheir mirror sec beside their satisfied refiec-
ZION tho calm and earnest face of Lydia e.
Pinkhnm. They cen tell you why.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11

tarrh euro cured my wife Of cstarrh fifteen
years ago and ehe has had no return OF 1t. Is'n
o sure cure" Sold by Druggists, 7sc.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11

massachusetts, has woman hermit VIII.
nss l.S, 0Odollars concealed about her home
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11

FITS stoppod froo by DI. KLrNE's CHEAT
NEnvE tE8TonIn. No hts after frat days uso
MaryolouB cures. Treatise aud 81 trial bottle
sree. DIR. Kline, p3l Arch st.. Phlla.. Pc
II afflicted with snro oyes use DIR. Isnao Thomp-
ton's Eyc-watur. Druggists aoll ut 30 nor bottle
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11

Germany has $1,000 stationary engines and
10, 900 locomotives.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11

Tho Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Co. LYNN.
eaass., are giving away a beautiful illustrated
eook, Guide to Health and Etiquette." Ln-
les should send their address and stamp for
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11
a r,.c.,.r se...

~ health and strength renewed and of cas-.
and comfort follows tho uso of Syrup OF srgs.
As II acts in harmony With nature 20 eftec,ual-
cleanse tho system whom oostivo or bilious.
s. T 'alo in occ. and 81 bottles by ali leading
9uSgista.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-12-11

Kimberly Kai1irs smoke their cigars with
the lighted ends in their mouths.