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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-10-21
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Gifts are too often made as 6 duty, not a the expression of any genuine feeling,of regard Ar amusing exam. pie ofthis happened on the occasion of a fashionable city wedding Young Mr. Jerome Vernon had been invited to be usher at the marriage of Mir. Bell and Miss Everett As soon as the in vitation came his mother said, ''Now you must send Miss Everett present at oncs and go to call on her"
 You pick me out something for her. VIII you. mammaf' said young Mir. Vernon.
 His mother did 60 that very morn- ing. She ordered a rare vase sent to Miss Everett. and put her sons card in it When he called at o'clock he was shown the gifts already cent to Mis Everett and directly began especially sdiniring this vase, not observing his own card with 1t
 Again and again he returned to this vase praising its color and outlines, and saying at last that he thought 1t the prettiest of all her gifts, while Miss Everett gazed at him curiously.
 When he met his mother at the din ner table he described to her this vase, end said he hoped she would get Miss Everett something as handsome as that for his gift to her.
 'Why. l sent her thati" exclaimed Mrs. Vernon. and the laughter that fol- lowed Jerome's exclamation and expla- nation was lively for an hour
 What can l doi l can't do any thing. can't tell her didn't know it was my present." said Jerome, his face red with merriment ard modification.
 There was nothing to be done but to let Miss Everett think one of her ushes either great joker or a stupid boaster, and Jerome Vernon has always hoped that she took his praise as u piece of modest, airy chaff intended to prevent her from expressing her gratitude Youths Companion.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-10-21
A.tiqui,y of the Apple,

Even the 1000 kinds of apples now recognized make a trifling list compared to the apples of the past No one knows where the apple was originally Indigenous It Is common with garden authors to write that .by the skill of the pomologist the delicious apple has been developed from the wild crab. |" It Is just as likely, from American ex- perience. that the wild crab of the Old World is the degenerate escape from cultivated trees We know that the ancient Greeks cultivated 1t, but as the root of the word Is the same in all, even the most barbaric tongues, there is lit- tie doubt of 1t being cultivated long before the dawn of modern civiliza- ton.
 Remains of what must have been very fine specimens of apples are found in the mud under spots where the lake dwellers of Switzerland had their cab ins long before 1t was safe for human beings to found towns and villages on land That it travelled with the white man from his early Asiatic home is much more likely than that nature, unaided by man, spread It all over the woods and wilds of Northern Europe. Thomas Meehan in Philadelphia ledger.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-10-21
Juss the Same,

An old negro who describes himself as mos CT hundred" is devotedty at tached to the people who once owned him. and with whom he still lives He declares that he may be free. but that nothing can shake his belief tint, in some way. he does belong to hb Dc. loved mistress Though she has mar. ried and brought up children of her own, shs Is still Miss Carrie" tn his eyes. and one of his pet theories is that she looks exactly as she did years ago, when she and her little bondman were children together.
 One day he was looking on. at . dance. and declared proudly to one of the younger members of the family;
 Miss Carrie could dance better than that when she was young."
 Do you remember how she hooked af ballf' some one asked.
 "Oh. yes honey" he said, Miss Carrie looked jes' as pretty as a rose; she wus jes' beautiful"
 Well. isn't she beautiful nowr
 ''Go long. honey. can yo' see how yo' mar looksi She looks jes' lak she always did. New Orleans Picayune
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-10-21
His Fee . Ciothespin.

Dominic Johnson, whom old Brook lynites will recollect. was taken in" once. A wouldbe Benedict wrote to him to engage his services in tying the matrimonial knot, and hinted that he was saving a roll of five dollar gold pieces with which to fee the doctor.
 'An evening or two later" said the clergyman. in telling the story, ''he honored me with O call. He was ac- companied by one of the prettiest little women l ever saw l performed the ceremony, and he insisted upon my kissing the bride. He made an ofRcious display of a long thin roll we'll wrapped in tinfoil. and as l bowed him out he slid it slyly into my side pocket When Ireturned to my library examined the roll and found"--.
 ''Whatr
 "A clothespin surrounded with ten penny nails! A month or two after ward he wrote to me from St. Louis saying that he had charged me the wedding fee was to have received for kissing his bride"
 There Is halter awaiting that knave," concluded the clergyman warmly. land never read of a hang ing that do not wonder If he isn't the victim travelling to glory under an allaa "-New York World.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-10-21
rh. u.sful Coco.nu, Shell.

The cocoanut shell, after being drisd and scraped, forms the Indian hookah, which is used by all classes for smoking tobacco. In Malaysia, the shell, under the name of parut, Is used for chil. dren's games It Is taken between the two feet and sent as far backward as possible by twist of the foot. The cocoanut shell also furnishes drinking goblets, which carved exteriorly and mounted in silver are a great orna- ment Small articles. as baskets, ladies' spoons and other such domestic articleA are made of it Beads for rosaries are also turned from the shell -Chambers' Journal
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-10-21
A Navy Omcers' Club.

Few people in Brooklyn are aware that there Is an excellent club in opera ton at the navy yard. It is called the Officers' club. and only ofilcers of the army and navy are eligible for member ship. The clubhouse is situated near the York street gate. is an unpretentious brick building. painted yellow. like all the rest of the houses at the navy yard, and not much for looks on the outside. The interior, however, Is exceedingly comfortable and homelike There is a restaurant attached to the club. and an excellent dinner Is served there to the cfiicers at fifty cents head The other meals are a la carte.
 A number of naval men have bache- lor apartments In the building. and a jolly time they have of 1t there. The late Lieutenant Paul. who was William Waldorf Astor's brother-in-law, lived at the club while he was stationed at the navy yard. and made himself very pop ular there. Brooklyn Eagie
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-10-21
Tn. Tomato No. Very old.

The tomato got no such early start in the world as did its homespun cousin, the potato. To be sure, it was carried to England fin 1896. but never thought of as being eatable then, and was culti- vated only for It's ornamental appear ance and possibly for medicinal pur- posea Both there and on the Cont nent 1t was known as the love apple, the name which it still bears in France and Italy. Old John Parkinson tells us in his quaint way, as early as 1929. ''In hot countries where they natural iy grove. they are much eaten of the people to cool and quench the heate and thirst of their hot stomaches- [" Yet 1t !s only within fifty years that they have come into general use.-Bos- ton Transcript
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-10-21
Men Who Have Travelled.

In the matter of mere distance GOV cred the records of the worlds famous travellers do not make much of show beside those of some railroad men, An old railroad man named Layton, now a sleeping car superintendent at Indian apolis. has kept a record of his jour neyings since 1868, and the total l. g. SSS. .246 miles ConductorS. g. Boone, late of the Reading, has covered 2.s47,. 900 miles. and another Reading con- ductor has ridden something over l. b97. :. 700 milea Even these figures would probably be far surpassed by the records of some of the old captains of the ocean stesmships. New York Sun
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-10-21
NOTHING GREEN ABOUT Hlnc.
4 Rural Traveller Who Was Up e sA, Tricks of the City Buuco Afnn.

Rural Traveller Who Was Up e sAs
 Tricks of the City BuneS Man.
 He was an elderly man, probAbly fifty. His whiskers grew in a little tuft like Uncle Sam's. straight out from the point of his chin; his linen duster was evidently the same he had purchased to attend the state fair several years ago. He came out of the front end of the depot, gaxed around in 6 bewildered fashion, up and down and across the street. and half a dozen cabmen rushed for him headlong.
 Cab. siri Cab, siri This wayi-
 Any part of the city, air; nice cabi"
 ''Take you to good hotel, dr, for . quarterT
 One had his grip. the other the um- brella and a third had him pinioned by the ample folds of his duster. Just then well dressed man who had been watching the occurrence approached. and waving the cabmen aside said. Where do you want to go, sirf'
 He recovered his grip. umbrella and breath first glanced up aa the man, grinned a sardonic. rural, spamodic grin, and as he gripped his belongings and backed of remarked sarcastically:
 That's none of your darned bud nesa You'd like ter know whar como from, too, wouldn't yet An ef my folks Is all well. an how the crops aret Mebbe you know somebody down in our town an use to play on my farm when yer was boyi Speak out ain't l righti Ant my name Smith an don't remember Hiram Johnson an his boy Dick that run off to Californyi An don't recognize youi Yes I guess l do. an of you don't git right out'n hyar tarnal quick I'll call the perlice. l will ] know yer didos l ant been in h. dianapolis five times fer nothin an don't take the papers jest fer the crop reports. You git now, quick"
 But l assure you, sir. you are mis- taken don't know you and don't want to. only thought"-
 Thought I'd like to cash a check, or play lottery, or buy green gooda ehi Whar's yer pardneri Ant 1t pretty near time fer him ter show upT'
 "I tell you, sir. you are mistaken. l am in the employ of this railway, and just thought l might save you some trouble with those cabmen. Now 20 on, and fl you do get buncoed, why don't say 1t wasn't your own fault" and the irate young man retired up stairs to the companys offices.
 The agriculturist winked the other eye in admiration of his own shrewd. ness, and calling a cabman, said: Young man. you take me to the - building; that's whar the Universal h. vestment company Is aint iti They advertise to pay $100 In six months on $i a week put in, an begosh, I'm goin ter buy some sharea Ther better'p county bonds. Chicago Timea
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-20
WHAT CAN THEY DOe

Congressman John +. Andrew of
Massachusetts, has somewhat exalted
idea of the influence of dozen or SO
Democratic Congressman on the election
of Speaker of the House, as indicated by
his flippant declaration that 'no Demo-
crat will be elected who lends his in
fuence to the passage of a free coinage
bill"
OF course not. The Speaker will be
elected first, and lend his influence
afterward.
With Democratic majority of 40
that little handful of Eastern Democrats
will be in tha situation of the boy who
tickled the heels of the mule. But
their pretty protests will avail nothing,
and are probably made to save their
reputation at home. Free coinage is the
Democratic doctrine just the same, and
they are Democrats.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-20
THE COVE LANDS.

A great deal of fuss. Mas been made
abont the proposed purchase by the city
of land from the railroad company at 81
a foot and its sale to the company of
other land at $l.25 a foot.
The matter hardly seems worth so
much stir. When a man pays SEQ for an
overcoat when he could get one for s., il
is usually assumed that he does SO be
cause he thinks the SEQ overcoat is worth
four times more. The case of the cove
lanes is precisely similar. Instead of
placing the new station on the present
site the railroad people will use the filled
in cove lands, so lately nuisance, and
now backing up against all ont doors, so
10 speak. The city buys the site of the
present depot for 81 foot-and it is
worth it, whether to make park or
plaza or 10 sell 10 private persons
or for combination of these purposes.
II You put real estate expert from
Kalamazoo or Cracow ON the spot, he'd
say in five minutes that the front lands
are worth more than three times as
much rs the back lands. It's simple
common sense.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-20
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The Ladies' Social Assembly, X. of l..
Olneyville, held an interesting meeting
last evening at 1855 High street
Journeymen Tailors' Protective Union
holds it's regular meeting tonight at %
Weybosset street.
The Knights of Labor now have twenty
eight local assemblies in Rhode Island,
four of which were formed within the last
three months. During the same period
the number of members added has
been 800.
At the Arlington g. Sims engine works
i'm this city l59 engines are in course of
construction. OF these two of $50 horse
power each, are for the Edison Lamp
Works, Newark, y. j.; two, of go horse
power each, for the Gas and Electric
Works, Waltham, Mass; one of 500 horse
power for the Electric Light Co. Mt Brook
line, Mass; two of 500 horse power for the
Edison Co. nj Easton, Mass, and one Of
$50 horse power for the Electric Light Co.,
Springfield, Mass.
Painters and Decorators Union No
1916 held an interesting meeting last night
mt % Exchange Place, with about seventy
members present. Five new members
were initiated. Arrangements for the
ball to be held Thursday evening, Nov
l2. i'm old Infantry Hall, 81 Dorrance
street have been completed, and tickets
are now i'm the hands of the members. A
discussion took place i'm regard To the best
ing day locally, and some plan of action
will probably be decided upon and put in
operation i'm the near future.
The Diamond Machine Company of this
city is supplying nearly all the grinding
and polishing machinery 90 be used in the
technical departments OF the Leland stan
ford University Palo Alto, Cal.
The Journeymen Horseshoers held an
interesting meeting last night in Slade
building, corner Washington and Eddy
streets. There was fall attendance of
members. and the report of the committee
on the ball to be held Friday evening
Nov. l3. i'm Meagher Guards Armory was
that all arrangements had been perfected
and the tickets were ready for distribu-
tion.
Carpenters work but nine hours day
i'm $50 towns and cities I'm this country.
This result was accomplished through the
agency of the union.
In New York il6 labor organizations,
comprising ~ igi members employed I'm
different occupations, reduced their hours
Of labor in ley0
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-20
AS I WAS SAYING.

II was the busiest hour on 'Change,
and two of the best-known business
men of the city stood on the curb
ing in front of the Board of Trade
Building. / saw that they were ear
nestly discussing some matter which
| approached them / fully expected To
hear that some crisis had been reached in
the market, or that some momentous
deal was about to be consummated.
When j was abreast of them one, with a
deep sigh of resignation, exclaimed in tones
fraught with despair: well, II you
really think / ought to take your dog
passed on, and the sweet and solemn
thought came TO me that things are not
always as they seem.
He was member of New York swell
dom and an intimate friend of McAllis-
ter. He was also something of an Anglo
maniac, and having met with "A recent be-
reavement he adopted the fad OF wearing
a broad band of Grape on the left arm,
midway the shoulder and the elbow, and
all the local people gazed and wondered.
In the Rhode Island village where the
New Yorker was temporarily solourning,
was a little English photographer, who
knew what that black band meant. A
few few, days later our photographic friend ,ielht
tweed suit, just like 'his nibs," and
wearing u black arm-band Of greater
width and expression of still greater
grief. Touch q by the spectacle and
moved to ascertain the relative depth Of
the grief and the band, asked our friend
If he was in mourning.
"Yes, " he slowly murmured."
" A near friend ?"
Yes, dear one"
:" How old, might i ask ?"
Three months"
Supposing it had been an adult, for the
lands sake how wide would that band
have had to be
There's nothing like tame A little
2-year-old- -East-sider received a hideous-
ly homely rag doll, last Saturday, and
ment of mama when the tot christened
the flat-faced doll Emma Juch
Where the band which runs the NEWS
paper wetting machine crosses, just above
ones head, the friction generates cleo
tricity rapidly. Ones wetted finger
touched lightly to the broad leather belt
calls cal, forth tip Of blue light, like the st;
Elmo fire. If one stands under the crossed
belt with his hat removed, he feels the
strangest sensation, as his hair literally
stands up attracted by the mysterious
electric power.
Signs of autumn multiply. Upon Bene-
fit street as one climbs the long hill to the
north there hangs athwart the street leafy
branch of vivid red and another of bright
yellow. The effect against the dusty
green of the faded summer foliage is
startling in the extreme.
The finest walks within the city itself
are upon College Hill. The very steep
ness of the grades, of which many people
complain, makes the walking more exhil-
Grating TO n vigorous body, while the
muscles and lungs derive much more ben
eft from climbing than from level ground.
considerable hill, il is found that the lung
capacity and chest measurement of the
students considerably increase during the
first year.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-20

The Treasury department is Preparing
n Con ncing Statement.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.-The pamphlet
which is 60 be published this week by the
Treasury Department TO illustrate the
workings of the new tariff law will be a
complete refutation of the walls of the
calamity howlers.
IL will show an increase in the foreign
commerce i'm eleven months ending
August 81. of S1i, 16S, ,639 over the cores
ponding period last year. The increase in
exports is double the increase of imports.
II will show that the value of imports
free of duty has enormously increased.
Under this head come sugar, coffee, rub
Der crude, chemicals, hides and skins, etc.
Dutiablo imports have meanwhile de-
creased, as was intended.
There has been large reduction in the
customs revenue, at the rate of 4l ,S96, ,425
per annum, in spite OF the increased value
OF imports. The customs dues have been
only S2.dO per capita.
The increase Of exports Is, in round num-
bers. S50.0OO.OO0. The total exceeds the
exports OF any previous year. This table
shows where the increase comes:
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-20
THE OFFICE BOYS OBSERVATIONS

Say, they was an awful time here yester-
day, Iettin' out the eight pages. Forms
was late / know what forms is now it's
them steel things what holds the type--and
the foreman was that cross he'd turn milk
sour to look at It, The political man
pranced around like as If the floor wus hot
an the telegraph editor was rakin' the
buildin' with fine tooth comb for the
proofreader cause somethin r other was
wrong Oh, we had "a sweet time But
things seem TO be goin' better to-day, an
perhaps they'll use some more of my edi-
tor'als, but | dunno. | seen the East
Providence man lookin' 'em over with the
city editor an laughn' at 'em fit to split.
They must have been real good.
Ny But don't the papers gol Mr..
Hanrahan he got 1900 Saturday an that
was the most papers he ever ordered :
but he had to send 900 more but
that wasn't nothin' last night He
thought he wouldn't need so many cause
il was two cents, but then he sent back
for more an then for more and for more
again, SOS they just KEEP u sendin' in
papers. An Mr.. Linn, too, he sent back
after more. an all the newsboys was lug
gin them off in heaps, cause the prize
contest is most up. dino what they do
with 'em all. wouldn't buy the blamed
old thing Wish could run IL Just about
n week. I'd show 'em something. Only
decent things in the paper is my little
pieces an the almanac an things on the
Latest page.
Lots of ladies comes i'm an says nice
things about the paper. cause IL prints a
woman's page Don't see why IL don't
print an office boys page. They's most
as many boys rs women in Providence.
Id run page for 'em IL they'd only be
kind Of civil about IT,
the OFFICE Boy.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-20

officials who are anxiously waiting for
the mantle of public approval to fall
upon them again, would remember that
all mortals are fallible, that it is even
possible that their own record will not
bear the closest scrutiny, and that
to the persons of those who
continually throw mud" at 9TH
ers must, of necessity, cling some
stains of their own weapons
1t would also be well for such gentle
men to remember that the critic cannot
always escape criticism himself, and in
many instances he may find that the ex-
posure of his own acts will strike home
much more forcibly than his criticism
of others. The keenest arrow of accu-
sation, impelled by the force of assumed
virtue, harms only the bowman when
that assumption of virtue is laid bare.
The men who mount to success in this
life over the undeserved disgrace which
they have put upon others are very few
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-20
PULSE OF THE PRESS.

Without Tammany and its corruption,
Democratic victories in New York and the
nation are impossible. - Philadelphia
Press
Cleveland is trying To play his cards to
win both ways. BY indorsing the New
York ticket he has put himself in posi-
tion TO ride the Tiger if Tammany wins
Kansas City Journal.
If the Tiger wins that will be the last of
Mr.. Cleveland.-New York Recorder.
The calamity campaign in Massachu-
setts is making very slow headway, and
its advocates, as usual with IA losing case,
are becoming abusive. New York Press.
Col Weber, who has been abroad inves-
tigating the causes that make so many
foreigners emigrate TO this country, finds
that low wages on the other side have
more to do with il than a. sything else.
This will do for the Democra liC calamity
howlers, who ire sure that the wages of
native workmen are being decreased all
ths time, TO think about. Boston Press.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-10-20

The race for fame does not always 90 to
the swift. The fastest man in his class in
Harvard twenty years ago Is now in a
Wisconsin poorhouse.
One occupation of the Car, aside from
keeping his eye peeled for Nihilists, is the
collection of birds eyes, and postage
stamps. He is said to be an authority on
these two points.
The society people" of Virginia City,
New, gave "shabby genteel" party the
other night. Carefully patched and pol
ished shoes. threadbare coats and all sorts
of garments that had seen better days
were worn.
Mr.. Flower, n Democratic newspaper OBJ
serves, confines himsel only to cold
matters of fact. Certainly and one of
the coolest matters of fact that will ever
come under his consideration will be his
failure TO secure election in November.
Porcelain manufacturers in Limoges
find that petroleum and residuum oils are
far superior to any other fuel. The dis
covery promises to also, cheaper the cost
of making china abroad fully 25 per cent
Hollanders are rivaling Connecticut
Yankees in the matter of clever imita-
tions. They make artificial almonds OF
glucose stepped in nitrobenzole to give the
needed odor. Wooden nutmegs are not in
cluded in the category of clever things any
longer.
The directors of one of the principal
railway companies in Great Britain are
considering the proposal for the entire re-
moval of the class system.
The prospective Worlds Fair has stimu-
lated enthusiasm in artistic circles. They
are soon TO have "A Louver in that city, and
next year ambitious natives predict u
genuine Champs Eliza that will make
Paris pale with envy.