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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
A WORD FOR THE GRUMB1ER
He is Really Not Bad-Hearted and Hi
GrumbliDg is a Habit.
Chambers's Journal.


Chambers's Journal.
A man may be so confirmed grumbler that
he may be universally voted bore and a per-
son of eXecrably bad temper, while in reality
he is no worse off in that respect than many of
his neighbors He grumbles more as matter
of habit than anything else, and plays, as it
were, with his temper, AS rule he does not
lose his self-control; he has nothing of that
cruel love of wounding other peoples feelings
which is the essence of really bad temper;
he simply fumes and fuses about because he
likes it, Occasionally, under load of unusual
aggrayations, self-control gives away, and the
grumbling, changes to yeritable storm, but as
rule the croaker remains satisfied with max
ing himself passiYely disagreeable How dis
agreeable he is he probably has little idea. 1t
is his nature to find fault and look at the
seamy side of things, and he has never set
himself to counteract the natural bent of his
mind. Yet he may be a very lovable kind of a
man; his peevishness may be tiresome, but
those who live with him know that it is mere
habit habit which, from long indulgence,
has come to be second nature, and they bear
with him patiently, more patiently, perhaps,
than he deserves. Nothing, indeed, is more
surprising than the fact that not only
habitually discontented people, but irritable,
angry bullying fellows, may, and often do,
retain the love of their fellow-creatures
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
A CHANCE FOR A NEW STANLEY
The UnexpIOred Region of Terra del
FuegO and Its Savage Inhabitants.

The UnexpIOred Region of Terra del
FuegO and It's Savage Inhabitants.
San Francisco Call.
little knot of merchants and captains
were discussing Stanley the other day in the
Merchants Exchange, when an old salt re-
marked that there were parts of the New
World OF which less was known than of the
Dark Continent. "You can count on the fingers
of one hand all the men who have ever gone
far into the interior of Patagonia and Terra
del Fuego,' he said. FThc natives are as
wild as any to be found on the earth to-day,
and God help the crew unfortunate enough
to be cast ashore on their desolate coast The
Chilian government has sent several expedi-
tions to explore the interior, but none OF them
ever penetrated far. The interior is barred
by ranges of lofty mountains covered by a
tangle of brush that cat could not get
through; treacherous bogs and morasses fiji
the valleys, and, worse than all, the fierce
tribes OF Warlike natives of immense stature
disputed every foot of their march, and the
expeditions, without exception, have all been
failures.
"Strange as it may seem a woman was the
first and, as far as l can learn, the only white
person that ever penetrated the interior and
lived to tell the story. She was the wife of an
American captain whose ship was driven
ashore. With several Of the crew she escaped
the perils of the deep, but as soon as they
touched dry land all, with the exception of the
woman, were at once killed by the natives.
AIIeI INC luassdcTe lne unfortunate lady was
carried far into the interior and closely guarded
by the chief into whose hands she had fallen.
For twelve years she was compelled to live
with the tribe, and during that time saw much
of the country She described it as covered
by ranges of high mountains and as truly
land of fire, large number of volcanoes being
visible. 1t was not until after she had borne
Two children TO the savage chief who claimed
her as his wife that she was allowed to visit the
coast on the annual trip of the tribesmen.
Then, fortunately for her, she was seen and
rescued by passing steamer, which took her
to England, whence she was sent to her home,
where she had long been mourned as dead
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
BY ALBERT PIXIES BEIR.
Masons Mourning Their Most ulustrious
Brother.

Brother.
The week Just passed has taken from the
Masonic fraternity one of the most iilustrious
Masons in the world, Gen. Albert Pike, Ven
erable Grand Commander of TIE Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite for the sor thern iuris-
diction of the United States. His fame as
one of the brightest Masonic lights of this
century is not confined to the limits of the
United States, but everywhere in the civilized
world where Masonry is known his name
is mentioned with veneration. Soldier,
statesman, author, poet, he gave to Masonry,
his life's work, the benefit of a magnificent
genius, and his works will live long after him.
Albert Pike was born in Boston, Mass, De-
cemher g. 1909. He was initiated into Masonry
in July, 1850, passed July, 1850, and raised in
August, 1850, in Western Star Lodge No. /, at
Little Rock, Ark He received the Royal
Arch degree November 30, 1850. in Union
Chapter No. 9, of the same city, and was
knighted February 8, 1858, in Wash
ington Eucsmpment No 1, of Wash
ington, d. G. He received the degrees
of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite at
Charleston, s. c., from Albert &. Mackay, as
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
Production of Iron Ore in 1890

The Iron ReVieW is responsible for the
authority of the production of iron ore in
1890:
Competent authority estimates the total
production of iron ore in the United States in
1890 at about 17,3OO,OOO tons of 2,24O pounds.
OF this amount the Lake Superior mines fur
nished 1898, l46 tons, or so per cent.
The imports of iron ore in the first ten
months of 1890 amounted to 1864, ,643 tons,
valued at 81 ,567, ,535, and for the whole year is
estimated at 2,S00,00 tons. These ores came
chiefly from Cuba and Spain.
The total exports of iron ore from Canada
S39,SS7 OF this quantity Ontario produced
9,ll6 tons and British Columbia 4 ,545 tons.
The total output last year was "a 1sl tons.
valued at $151, GAO, and of this quantity NoYia
Scotia produced 54, l6l tons. The London
derry mines in NOYia Scotia, had an out of
A,6l9 tons, OF about half the total Canadian
product
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LATIMER 81 SLOAN,
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PETERSBURG, IND, Dec. 10, 1889.
Or. Bergen, Citw
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We cheerfully recommend this medicine to
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avenue.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
WOMAN'S BEST FRIEND

Is that which affords her the surest and
quickest relief from those diseases to which
she is subjected by reason of her sex. TING
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once no woman will be without. One dollar
a bottle.
GRANDFATHER'S REMEDIES CO,
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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05
IN LOCAL STOCKS.
LAST WEEKS TRANSACTIONS WERE
NOT HEAVY.

a Curious Fact About Gas Stock-Quo-
tations still Low on Graphophone--
Largo Quantities Absorbed Here of
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-04-05

We have secured for Signor de B. Spiridon,
Artist, of Rome, Italy, the elegant parlors of
the Wormley Hotel, corner of Fifteenth and H
streets, to display his extraordinary collection
OF OH Paintings, embracing the following
celebrated artists:
MlLLET, MEISSONIER
DELACROIX, FROMENTIN,
TROYON, COROT,
DlAZ, ROUSSEAU,
DAuBlGNY, HENNER,
FORTUNY, PILLS.
Etc, Etc.
ALSO COLLECTION OF WATER
COLORS, TOGETHER WITH STUDIES.
EFFECTS, AND ARTICLES OF VIRTU
FROM THE TIME OF THE FIRST EMPIRE
TO THE RENAISSANCE.
The exhibition of this fine collection will
take place on
MONDAY AND TUESDAY,
APRIL SIXTH AND SEVENTH, 1891,
In the Wormley Hotel Parlors, corner of HI
ana Fifteenth streets northwest, from A. M
until L. NJ, the sale to take place on
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, and FRIDAY,
at ii A. M. and p. M. each day.
4 e., IA
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-12-07
Moorish Tradition as to Locusts.


Referring to the plague of locusts in
Morocco, the British consul at Mogador
quotes a tradition as to them which
was told to him by Berber fisherman.
It runs as follows: SIN the interior OF
Sahara are people called Jeraiduja or
Iocusts owners, who have control over
the locusts, and they used to receive
yearly presents from the sultan of Mo-
rocco and they kept the locusts back.
Every year a certain monster came to
that place and it died there, and these
people used to burn the carcass and
then all was well.
''But if it was not burned, owing to
the men not being in a good humor,
then it putrefied and bred millions of
maggots and they became locusts.
And lately some of these men came to
the sultan and said, Have not people
been complaining of locustsP And
the sultan replied that they had.
We'll, said the Jeraiduja, we are the
locusts; why have you not given us our
customary largessY"
Another version was that the locusts
came out of certain cave or pit in the
Sahara, over which some holy people
had control. The same idea of po-
tency of the intercession of holy men
has frequently been noticed in causes
assigned by Moorish fishermen for the
periodical falling off or improvement
in the supply of various important
kinds of sea fish. Manchester Guardian.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-12-07
Improved Fruits of the Future.

1t seems probable that the list of
seedless fruits will be materially length
sned, provided our experimental horti-
eulturists make use of the material at
their command. The common fruits
which have very few or no seeds are
the banana, pineapple and certain
oranges Others mentioned by Mr..
Darwin as well known are the bread
fruit, pOmegranate, azarole or Neapol-
itan medlar and date palms.
In commenting upon these fruits, Mr..
Darwin says that most horticulturists
''Ioolz at the great size and anomalous
development of the fruit as the cause
and sterility as the result" but he
holds the opposite view as more proba-
ble-that is, that the sterility, coming
about gradually, leaves free for other
growth the abundant supply of build
ing material which the forming seed
would otherwise have.
He admits, however, that there is
an antagonism between the two forms
of reproduction, by seeds and by buds.
when either is carried to an extreme
degree, which is independent of any in
cipient sterility. Professor G. L. Good
ale in Popular Science Monthly.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-12-07

A good story is told of one of our
former citizens, who is not very partic-
ular about paying his bills. One of his
creditors presented bill of long stand
ing, but met with the usual inability of
meeting the same, pleading poverty,
etc. How is this?" said the creditor
you don't look as if you were as poor
as all that, for your face looks like the
full moon and your whole personal APP
pearance looks more like sirloins and
roasts than poverty" "Oh," said the
poor debtor, gently stroking his princi-
pal extremity, this l owe to my last
boarding house keeper" The creditor
smiled and left. American.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-12-07
Two ENGLISH Words in Ireland.

An example of ''English as she is
spoke" in Ireland is the word ALLOW"
which, in the north at any rate, is uni
versally applied so as not only to per
plex but often to greatly irritate the
Saxon visitor "AIlow" means lad
wise, - and so the phrase, Il don't allow
you to do that" SO far from being in
any sense a prohibition, is merely an
expression conveying the individuality
of the proposed action in the opinion
of the speaker.
Street" again, is a word that may
be cited as having gained a fresh mean
ing from its sojourn in the Green
Isle" 1t has not lost its old meaning;
it is still used to denote a road lined
with houses, or row of houses; but
you will also hear a street spoken of
when houses are few and far between.
Then it denotes the space before the
door of a house, or more probably the
space between the back or kitchen door
and the farm buildings So, when on
calling at a country house or cottage
you are told the owner is cup the
street." you infer, not that he has gone
to the neighboring town, perhaps miles
away, but that he is somewhere close
at hand, most likely in the back yard.
London Tit-Bits.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-12-07
GETTING HELP.
Terrible Mistake Made by "a Fond and
Loving Mother i'm Training Child.

Terrible Mistake Made by Fona and
Loving Mother i'm Training Child.
Margaret Page+ was n young girl of
no especial mental force, nor, on the
other hand, of any decided stupidity,
who was blessed, if one may SO regard
it in this case, with a mother of excep-
tionaI ability. The mother had written
many brilliant literary papers.
Margaret's father was dead. When
the child went to school her mother be-
ran to perform her tasks for her As
the time went by, therefore, the girl be
came more and more dependent upon
her mother Through the failure to
develop her own powers she seemed to
be able to do nothing on her own ac-
count
All this of course left Margaret very
lily grounded in all her studies, and re-
fected upon her standing in her ex-
aminations, so that she made slow
progress. At last the mother ashamed
to see her lag behind, took her out of
school and made II weak pretense of in
structing her at home
Margaret was pretty and amiable,
and when she had become eighteen
years old her hand was asked in mar
riage by worthy young man.
The mother gave a conditional con-
sent, and as the young man lived at
some distance, a correspondence was
begun, of course under the eye of the
mother
1t was then that the mother realized
how defective her daughters educa-
ton had been She was unable to
write a creditable letter. Her mes
sages, as she showed them to her moth
er, were ill thought, ilt expressed, even
i'll spelled.
''This will never do" said the moth
er. She began to write her daughters
responses to the letters of the young
man to whom she was betrOthed. Her
own wit and felicity of expression char
acterized them. and the young man
was charmed Once embarked upon
such a course of deceit, the mother
dared not make a confession. The
young man himself was an excellent
writer, and his letters spurred the
mother to her most brilliant efforts as
a correspondent.
After this charming correspondence
the young people were married. Neither
the mother nor the daughter dared con-
fess the fraud. Neither had meant
much at the beginning, but both had
gone very deep into course of decep-
ton
The young husband was soon aston
ished to find that his wife was an igno-
rant person, incapable of writing even
a sensible letter. He questioned her
sharply and she confessed her fault.
Mamma always does things for me, "
she said helplessly.
The husband found his wife also in.
capable of caring for household. She
presently sent for her mother to come
and live with her, though the husband,
having had so forcible II lesson as to
her deceitfulness, could only regard her
with suspicion and dislike.
The marriage was an unhappy one.
The whole lives of two young people
had been utterly spoiled by this tend
ency on the part of mother to spare
her child unpleasant tasks and deprive
her of the nourishng, inspiring wear
and tear of self help.-Youth's Com
panion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-12-07
Where to Preach Simplicity.

1t is quite philosophical to advocate
plain habits of living, plain clothes and
simple desires as productive of the
greatest satisfaction in life, but to a
man born when this century was about
to reach the half mile post; 10 a man
who has lived in this country all his
life in brief, to an American of today,
the argument is good deal of a bore.
One day among the shop windows OF
any city in the United States, or an
hour amid the noise and jingle of any
busy street in any city between the
two oceans, will convince any fair
minded man that the place to preach
the simple, humble doctrine is away
out on some prairie, or in the midst of
some grand old forest, where nature
has the best end of things.-Detroit
Free Press.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-12-07

1t is not often that bishop is called
on to give his assistance in carrying on
prize fight, but such was the actual
experience of the Bishop of Bedford
The other evening the bishop was adj
dressing a meeting in the east end of
London, and related the following
Renaissance of the time when he was
rector of Spitalfields. On one occa-
sion there happened to be a fight going
on just outside the church door, and
as the rector was observed passing by,
he was called on to give his assistance
as referee. The question the combat
ants wanted settled was whether one
of the pugilists was capable or incapa-
BILE of sustaining another round.
''Since [ was appointed referee" said
the bishop, 81 was bound to speak the
truth, and gave it as my opinion that
one of the parties, with rather varie-
gated countenance, was capable of
another round. They were, therefore,
just squaring up to finish the bout,
when the police happily appeared upon
the scene, and [ was relieved of my
functions. | have never assisted at a
street fight since London Tit-Bits.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-12-07
HIGH Priced Cnrks.

Champagne corks of the finest quail
ity cost about a cent apiece wholesale.
To the eye of the ordinary observer
they do not greatly differ in quality
from other corkS, but as a matter of
fact they are in a great many ways pc
culiar The great champagne houses
often engage the whole output of cork
cutting ablishments in Spain and
Portugal These corks must be of the
best bark, and the most skillful cutters
are employed in their manufacture,
while the same is true of all corks used
with the finer wines There has been
a marked advance in the manufacture
of corks within the last twenty-five
years, but champagne corks are made
Just as they were when the first cham
payne was bottled.
Less than a generation ago the idea
of a cork cutting machine was secuted.
Now most of the corks used for ordi-
nary purposes are made by machinery,
and they are turned out by the million
at such prices that the hand cork cut
tiers of this country have been almost
entirely driven out of business.-New
York Sun.
The youngest pupil in a school at
Homer, Mich, is the teachers aunt.
The recent census of Paris shows that
4,507 citizens of the United States reside
there.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-12-07
ALL SORTS.
1t is not often that a long sermon does n
Lord much good.

1t is not often that long serm on does the
Lord much good.
PuEsl PILES ITCHING lmEs.--Symptoms
Moisture intense itching and singing; most at
tumors form, which often bleed and ulcerate be
coming very sore. Swaync's Ointment stops the
itching and bleeding, heals ulceration and In most
cases removes the tnmors At drugei~tS, OF hy
mail, for so cts. Dr. Swaync & Son. Philadelphia
Christ does not want our admiration. lie
wants our love.
DR.. Woods Norway Pine Syrup was used for
years as prescription by a successful physi-
clan. 1t is in all respects the best cough medi-
cine made to-day. Sold by all dealers a
guarantee of satisfaction.
Our real treasures the prince OF evil can
never touch.
1 was troubled with catarrh for seven years
| previous to commencing the use Of Ely's
Cream Balm. 1t has done for me what other
so-caIIed cures have failed to do-cured me.
The effect of the Balm seemed magical Clar-
ence L. Huff, Biddeford, Me.
! After trying many remedies for catarrh dur
! ing past twelve years, tried 'Ely's Cream
Balm with complete success. It is over one
year since 1 stopped using IL and have had no
return of catarrh. recommend it to all my
friends Milton T. Palm Reading, Pa.
Dressing conspicuously is a confession Of
|
Deans Rheumatic Pills absolutely cure rheu-
matism & neuralgia. Entirely vegetable. Safe.
Gods children never killed by the devil 5
lion.
HANDSOME VERSUS HoMELY.-Who is that
fine looking lady that we just passed, Clara2
Why that is Mrs Snow. Well, there, what a
| change; when 1 her last, her skin was SO
| sallow and muddy looking, it's no wonder ]
didn't know her. What has produced that
| lovely complexion? heard that she took Sui
! phur Bitters, the great Blood Purifier, and
| now would not be without them.
Unbelief is only another name for self
| conceit.
! What are you using for your cold? Try john
sans Anodyne Liniment, its wonderful.
mule never finds out that his ears are
| ong.
81 use Ayers Cherry Pectoral freely in my
| practice and recommend it in case of Whoop-
ing Cough among children, having found il
more certain to cure that troublesome disease
| than any other medicine l know of."-So says
DIR. Bartlett, of Concord, Mass.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-12-07
Amber in the Time of Homer.

The earliest notice of amber we find
occurs in the Odyssey of Homer, where
''the gold necklace hung with bits of
amber" is mentioned in the list of
jewels offered by the Phenician traders
to the queen of Syria. In one of the
Greek fables accounting for the origin
of amber it related that the sisters of
Phaeton, called the Helidae, on seeing
their brother hurled by the lightning of
Jove into the Eridanus, were trans
formed by the plying gods into poplar
trees, and the tears they shed were
dropped as amber on the shores of the
river.-PhiIadelph Times