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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-11-06
Alliance Meetings.

Alliance Meetings.
MADISON, Mimi, Oct. 4th, 81.
EDITOR GREAT West:
Please publish the following an
nouncements in your valuable paper.
l shall speak at the following places:
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1891-11-06
ABSOLUTELY PURE

find a sub-treasury advocte.
Whenever you find a man who is
not partisan time-server you find
a sub-treasury advocate.
Reader, to which gang do you be-
long?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09
"A POIyneSian Legend.

Tura, coming from over seas, found
himself in land named Otea, and
leaving his canoe, journeyed inland.
Travelling through the dense forest,
he saw fairies sitting in the flowers OF
the climbing plants and swinging on
the llianas which trailed from the
high boughs across the vistas of the
wood. These fairies were curiously-
shaped beings, having small heads and
large bodies, while their hands aud
feet were attached to limbs so short
that they seemed as if extruding from
their bodies Tura had brought with
him the sticks wherewith fire is pro-
duced by friction, and he proceeded to
kindle a fire and to cook some food,
much to the establishment of the
fairies, who had always consumed their
food in it's natural state. TUra fell in
love with one of the fairy women and
married her. His wife reciprocated
his affection and they lived happily
together; but one day when the elfn
spouse was combiog out her husbands
hair, she suddenly cried out, ooh,
Tura, what is this white hair among
the black ones ?" He told her that it
was sign of age and approaching
decay, the forerunner of death. Then
his wife wept bitterly and refused to
be comforted. It is touching story,
the sudden surprise and grief of this
child of the immortals on her discovery
of that which to us poor sons of clay is
so common and obtrusive fact. The
old legend has given rise to proven
bal saying, 1.-The weeds of Tura," as a
Synonymous expression for gray hair.
-LOR0nGnS MG0Gzine.
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. question regardiNe the hTsJOTy!
Probably not one in a thousand. ard
vot few Questions, studiously followed
y ,n wonrd lead to more interesting de-
yejonmcnts, as / have good reason to
To trace these rocks back to nature
rconires a Journey of nearly 500 miles
northwest from Chicago, to what is
i,nnwn as CHE Apostle Islands" region.
These islands, twenty in number, lie
at the mouth Of Chcquamcgon Bay, on
tbe south shore Of Lake Superior, and
form one of the most picturesque and
historic groups belonging to the Amori-
can continent
II wonld he hardly possible for anyone
to thread the channels between these
islands, or skirt the shores Of Chequamc-
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div cliffs, or opening into deep coves
or caverns: sometimes piled in massive
confusion far ont from the shore. as
though scattered by the angry hand of
the ALMIGHTY. and often rising in soil
tarv cedar TONED pillars from the face
of the "Fathcr of Waters, " so far from
the adjacent shore that a small steamer
easily slips in between them.
In several places. esvcciallv on the
outer isIa, Dis of the grouD, these soil
tary rocks are connected with the shore
bv natural stone BRIDGES fcstoone5 with
ciinging MOSES, that look like fairy
arches flung out from the neighboring
Shor, to please natures most fanciful
mood
Rnt ,ybon Iooi. Arassjy +bo rroo+
,>,,,,r,1,s+ ND rnnI,,rist sa;,od $500
thosn rnnl,S On his fn,no,S nooi i|,r
t',,e ~, r,,a+ I,I.os r,, - ~ ~
800, 10 Inol,oJ nron thnn, ,,,ith l,o Wv.
+h.S, ronrfst,s nIc and rncorr,niznd -,
th"n, tbo ~oId rod sonGs[Ipn " +6n oIdost
S+nnn Known ~ scion - NJ which Inab
ayi1l 49,, S,,.,+,I, rranIl,rri'4 la1 ,it4 >
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~, ''''' -, I l'''iilo
= ~ NC'''o " - VI u.s. -, ~ ZIG Us VI
ASaSsI@' u I"c! lIuN'It" uIednlilS upon
the fantastic rock formations OF Sand,
Eastwood Hermit ana PrcsQue Isles,
was one of fearful grandeur, and one
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09

the cold and the waves, wherever eX-
posed, on the shores OF the islands where
the storms beat fiercest. The new Gov
eminent breakWater now being con
structcd in the Chequamegon Bay is
being filled with this lasting stone, and
the stone for the famous high bridge
over White River built by the Wisconsin
Central Railroad Company over eighteen
years ago was taken from the same
grounds.
This stone was quarried in midwintcr
and hauled on sleds over the ice to White
River and put into the piers on piles
sawed off below the water, where it was
exposed and subjected to both water and
ice and the freezing and thaWing of the
severe Lake Superior winters for all
these years, and is apparently as sound
as the day it was put into the piers.
When the stone is first quarried it is so
soft as to be easily whitfield with a pen
knife, and contains a considerable
amount Of water, or quarry sap" as it
is termed.
These conditions make it possible not
only to quarry the stone with great ease,
but also to saw it into any desired shape
or size, by means of immense gang"
saws, made of strips of soft iron, onto
which are fed streams of water, sand,
and chilled shot.
The quarrying is done by means of
"channeling" engines, which run on
portable tracks and run a set of three
drills on each side. As the engine is
moved along it leaves two parallel
grooves about four feet apart and from
four to eight feet deep in the bed of
stone beneath it. Then the tracks are
laid crossing these grooves at right
angles, and the engines make the cross
cuts.
The last act in lifting these mammoth
blocks from the ancient bed in which
they have repoSed for uncounted cent
uries is completed when wedges are
driven into them, at depth correspond
ing to the desired thickness of the block,
splitting it from the underlying strata.
The strong arm of ponderous steam
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09
Consumption Among Birds.

There is birds home and hospital
on Oxford street where people can
take their pets to be nursed and cared
for, says writer in the Pail MoU BIZ l.
get The proprietor says birds suffer
chiefly from consumption and asthma
diseases brought on by the birds be-
ing placed in draughty windows. Con-
sumption is helped on by the birds be-
ing Unfortunately fed on all sorts Of
things that are unsuitab as food.
Birds are very fond of luxuries, and
the more you give them the more they
will eat. When bird goes off into a
consumption it is always eating. He
pointed to one and said: "He is in
consumption, and he will be like a ball
of down to morrow-all puffed out.
Physic will sometimes arrest the dis
ease.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09
Electrical Copies Of the Dead

According to La Nature, DR.. Variot
paints the skin with a concentrated
solution of nitrate of silver, and re-
duces this with vapors of white phos-
phorus dissolved in sulphide of carbon
the skin being thus rendered dark and
shiny. The body is then ready for the
electric bath, which is served by q
thermo-electric battery, giving a regu-
lar adherent deposit of copper if the
current is properly regulated. With a
layer of onehalf to three-fourths nm.
the envelope is solid enough to resist
pressure or shock. DR.. Nariot further
incinerates the metallic mummy, leav-
ing holes for the escape Of gases. The
corpse disappears, and a faithful image
or statue remains.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09

depth and bring up cylindrical score"
of the stone.
Those who have this engine in charge
are often required to take it, on scow
towed by a tug, to the most distant
islands in the group and camp for days,
cutting roadways for the passage of
their engine into the ancient forests of
pines and brches that have apparently
been undisturbed by the woodlands axe
from the formation of the islands.
1t was my good fortune to make such
trip to Pressure Isle pronounced
"Presk- eel") on the tug which was to re-
lieve a prospecting party which had been
encamped in small tent on the island
for as many days as they were provis-
Toned for; but had any accident pro-
longed their SojOurn there, it would not
have been a difficult matter for them to
have supported life, for limited time,
on the wild cranberries and wintergreen
berries which grow so luXuriantly on
that island.
Although the life Of these prOSpectors
is attended with much hard labor and
more or less peril, it has rare cOmpenSa-
tiOns in its intimacy with Nature in her
wild and lonely splendor. To stand upon
some commanding cliff of Pressure Isle
and watch the changing tintS of Lake
Superior sunset playing upon the iri-
descent waters, or sit around a glowing
campfire at night, when high wind is
booming the sea into the deep caverns of
the shore with the rear and recoil of a
hundred CannOns, would stir the soul of
a dulard and cast, a glamour over a life
Of the COmmOnest toll.
TO one who has looked upon the prim-
tive beauty of these islands, it is a cheer
ing thought to keep in mind that their
soitudes will probably remain for many
years unbroken by the Whir of the
quarry "channeler," because The quarries
on the main shore have only been in
operation for about three years and may
be said to be only fairly opened, the
greater portion of their area being as
yet untouched; although their depth of
valuable stone is several hundred feet,
they are quarried at present to a depth of
only forty feet, and the single quarry
mentioned has now standing in the block
about $500, 600 worth of stone.
But this will quickly disappear, as its
market reaches from Kansas City to
Boston, and from Winnipeg to Philadel-
phia. The facts which enable the Lake
Superior broWnstone to compete in the
East with stone Quarricd there are its
low cost of quarrying, its facility for
shipment by both lake and railway, its
richness of color, and its remarkable en-,
during qualities.
But hereafter, when / look upon
front of Superior brown-stone, its com
mercial and architectural features will
quickly fade from my mind and | shall
see only the wild caves and cliffs of the
Apostle Islands, with their rich setting
of autumn foliage, green waters and blue
distances shroudcd in the smoky haze of
Indian summer. FORREST CRISSEY.
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about him, except his new Office. Since
taking up his residence in the capital
he has substituted gold-rim glasses for
plain wire rims. His hair seems in
clined to be independent, and stands
on end, each particular hair apparently
fighting for more rom. The distance
between the hair line and the dark eyes
is scarcely equal to the average measure
ment The facial angle is suggestive OF
a town marshal or a rider of buck1ng
bronco. The mustache looks downward,
and instead of arresting progress IN it's
downward course by the timely in
reference of q barber, Jerry surren-
ders it to the mercy Of cigar "snlpe"
and the incisors in the immediate vi
cinity. He has an emphatic malaria
complexion. The points of his shout
ders press forward and downward,
even more so than the average farmer
as he follows his cultivator on bright
spring morning. He does not move as
if he was trying to stop herd of cat
tie on the stampede; it is decidedly
town marshal walk with a record of
"two DRINKS per month" He wears a
number nine shoe without apologizing
to any one. The stripes in his "pants"
are very distinct, and run perpendicu-
larly instead of longitudinally. His
present stock of pants" shows broad,
yellowish stripe alternating with a
chestnut sorrel section. His coat and
vest came off the same shelf. Every
thing fits like paper on the wall when
the floor above has been visited by the
fire department.
When a caller sends his card up to
Jerry he always comes down to see
what the trouble is about. He has
been somewhat embarrassed since the
last campaign by the receipt of over
300 pairs of socks. His dynamite
strength in the political quarry was
due to his disregard Of socks.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09

The holder, as shown in the illustra-
ton, is constructed to fasten in a
small socket, which is screwed to one
of the front panels of the carriage.
The slant of the holder throws the
flowers forward, thus protect
ing them from being crushed,
and their fading is prevented by free
ING them from contact with q hot
hand. The holders are made in silver
and electro plate, combining useful
ness with decorative effect.
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derrick is a WAYS ready TO grapple each

derrick is ways ready TO grapple each
block and hoist it from the bottom of the
quarry onto small cars for the saw-mill,
or dock, or load it into freight cars and
lake vessels for shipment in the rough.
To perform this labor requires u iarge
amount of machinery and the labor of
from two to three hundred men.
At the one quarry at Houghton Point
are not less than twelve channeling ma
chimes, beside the two large engines
which drive the gang-Saws and the en-
gines which operate the numerous der
ricks.
One of the most curious machines in
use in the hrown-stone business is the
testing drill, operated by small upright
engine. This drill will bore to almost any
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09
CARRIAGE BoUoUET-HOLDER.
1t Is Great Convenience for Ladies on
Their Way to Entertainments.

It has always been a great incon-
venience for ladies to have to carry
their bouquets in their hands when sit
ting in carriage on the way to balls
or evening parties. A patented ar
rangement of carriage bouquet-holder
entirely relieves them of this ordeal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09
sOcKIEsS STATESMAN SIMP-
SON.
A Graphic Picture of Kansas New Con
gresham.

A Graphic Picture OF Kansas New Con-
gresham.
Jerry Simpson, the Congressional
curiosity from Kansas, is now one of
the leading attractions of Washington,
SAYS a Kansan who recently visited
him. The sockless pride of the West
is about five feet ten inches high.
When he stands erect he looks as if he
were leaning against q post. This is
supposed to come of his habit of lean
ing against posts around his town,
where, through ward politics, he was
town marshal for some years before his
elevation to Congress. The handshake
of Jerry discloses that while he may
be intended for farmer representa-
tive, he is not of the class of farmers
who report in person for labor in the
fields. His hands are the softest thing
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09
A WONDERFUL discovery has been at

A WONDERFUL discovery has been at
tracing the attention of scientists. A
beam of sunlight is made to pass
through prism, so as to produce the
solar spectrum or rainbow. A disk,
having Sits or openings cut in it, is
made to revolve and the colored light
of the rainbow is made to break
through it and fall on silk, wool, or
other material contained il glass YES
sci. AS the colored light falls upon it
sounds will be given by the different
parts of the spectrum, and there will
be silence in other parts. IT the vessel
contains red worsted and the green
light flashes upon it loud sounds will
be given. Only feeble sounds will
be heard when the red ard blue parts
of the rainbow ia ! upon the vessel, and
other colors make no sound at all.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09

OW many OF ChOSc
who roll along Michi-
gan avenue, Chicago,
sweeping in, through
the windows of their
handsome carriages, a
vision of the long line
of br0wnstOne palaces,
which have made that
avenue famous, ever
IsDcnd a moments
thought on the beauty
of those stones, aside
from their architec-
tural setting, or raise
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theory than that they became detached
from some glacier, which had brought
them in its icy embrace from the far
north There is, 1 understand, only one
place in the United States, other than
this region. where the "old' red sand
stone" lies close to the surface, covered
with only a thin layer of soil; that is at
POtSdam, New York.
The POtSdam stone however, is too
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09
Couldn't Risk 1t.

NO sir" said the coal dealer, whose
patronage was solicited for little
manly art contest. "I like sport. bnt
l can't risk my business. The last
occasion OF that kind | attended some
BODY got confused and introduced me 40
the champion lightweight" Woshinc-
tom Post. "S
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09

SHE is like harp the winds play
upon; mark her we'll She shall tell
you what she dreams unwittingly, for
her face is mask nothing but veil,
and under it you shall see her heart
beat
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09

IT is said that one eighth of the wine
produced in California last year came
from single vineyard owned by Sena-
tor Stanford
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09

broken to be proftably worked, while
the Lake Superior stone has the COM
mercial advantage of being covered with
but slight "stripping" of earth easily
and cheapIy removable.
How enduring this stone is may be in
ferred from the hardihood with which it
has withstood for centuries the action of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09

The population of Toxic, the capital
of Japan, is rapidly increasing, while
that of other cities and towns In the
empire is decreasing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09
BLOCK OF BROWN STONE
WHERE 1T IS FOUND AND HOW
OUARRIED.

r,,o wonderful Age and Interesting HIS
tory of This Ar.stocratio Arohlt tee RAJ
DESCRIPTION h. Visitor to the Lake
SuDerior Quarries'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-04-09

AT recent sale, an inch-square chip
from Washington's coffin brought 81,
and Ben Franklin's silver watch sold
for s., 100.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-03-26

The national council Of women was In
some respects the most important meet.
ing the sex has yet held in America. II
represented ifiy.ninc Of tho loading
s,cictics OF women In the country.
rong the letters. rad ut the assembly
was one from tho poet Whittier. who.
warmly commended the aims Of the
council. =
What these aims are In particular viii
be seen from the resolutions passed. by
the governing boari Of the council just
before Is final adjournment. Some Of
the objects arr 20 moderate AID sensible.
as TO commend themselves to the most
conservative individual
The codncil will contribute u block Of
STONE 10 the monument for the grave Of
Washingionn mother. Mary Washing
ton. and It commond. to the favor Of
women's clubs generally the objects OF
the Mary Washington apcicty.
II heartily encourages tho movement
against the slaughter Of birds for mill.
neu' orn,mcniaiion. aud comments tho
example oi the Princess ~ Wales Ia this
respect 20 American women.
The ladies want the preachers Of tho
Methodist church to vote In favor Of lay
approximation for woinon ut tho general
conference. Thoy also ~; that women
b. placed on the Sunday school lesson
committee and on all committees for r.
vising the crccda Of any u the churches
Tho council will present memorial
10 the United States government asking
that tho wng Of men and women en-.
ploycs Of the same rank be- equalized
Throughout the departments; and, fur
thor. TINT efficiency and not sex shall DO
considered WHEN promotions and ap-
polutmcnis aro made.
The council urges, moreover, tho cmi.
mont fitness Of women to BE- placed on
the managing board Of tho national liz
vorcc reform league. Bat 90 far NJ that
Is concerned, why do not the ladies start
u national divorce reform lcague Of their
own Such society would attract tho
eyes Of tho world toits deliberations and
could accomplish moro in fomc ways
thnn league II men could.
one Of tho most interesting measures
passed by tho council was tho appoint.
ment Of committee u women 10 report
suggestions for business dre.s for WON.
On which shall meet the requirements Of
health, comfor, aud good taste. Tho
committee are To rciort within year.
But suppose suitable business dress
were devised. would the womcn wear II,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-03-26


Near Tripoll the Moslcms have ercctcd
n large, high building. with snow white
dome, near the pond and tree Of tho
sacred fish. This architectural oddly
Is known by the whole Nioslem sect ms
''rhc Palace Of tho Sacred Fish" Tho
fish. which arr kept IN small clear
pool at thu rear Of the building, arc
very common looking specimens Of tho
ilnny tribe, much resembling dacc or
club. Tho old shoik who has charge
Of the place has much faith In his sacred
fish. lilo says they arc all Mosloms,
and that thcy arc inhabited by tho souls
of departed saints. one, n large blacl.
fish, the shclls Of the plscatorial saints,
rs Il were, seldom shows himself, but
the Others may be counted by tho thos-
sand. Tho old she'll. says that during
the Crimcan war many OF tho Older
fishes went oil under tho sen TO scbas-
topol 10 fight tho Russians, and that
hundreds Of them came back wounded.
The people In and around Tripoli
think that any one who would DO so In.
dlscrcot as TO eat one OF these sacred
fish would die a sudden and awful
death. This belief has been rife for
year,. As long ago rs 1856 DIR. Jcssup,
tho American consul at ''ripoli, hearing
the story, caught some and had them
cooked. lilo ate them, .but said that
they wcrocoane and unpalatnblo other
wise not hurtiul.-St Louis Republic.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-03-26

A man told the following recently TO
Illustrate tho folly, as well ~ tho wrong,
of telling big stories. A young man,
whose home Is not In New York city,
and not In any other large city, came to
New York "a year ago. He has a great
opinion Of himself, aud likes TO tell
"big stories" A friend whose lot IL
was TO entertain the young man entered
into a conspiracy with another man TO
tell the stranger 80 many and such big
stories about themselves that ho could
not get chance to say anything about
himself, and would be- silent Ia ninnlo.
mcnt and admiration. This reprehen.
siblc scheme worked" beautifully, and
the visitor apparently left New York
for homo with wonderful respect for
his two friends, who had seen 80 much
OF the world, had adventures 80 thrill.
Ing and yet spoke OF them In an lndif
fcrcnt fashion, MS II they were n matter
OF course
Now for the moral. Tho young man
came to New York short while ago ON
another visit, and this time Il was no
who entertained the two conspirntors
with tales wonderful and marvellous.
Nor were these tales now 10 tho two
friends. But they had been much i'm.
proved upon with many feelings. They
were longer and bigger and moro OK.
citing. The two culprlts wce struck
dumb at hearing their own lies retold
them by the one for whom they had
been specially manufactured.
II was evident that tho young man
had forgotten whoncc he got them, aud
from repeating them to his friends had
come 10 believe In the truth Of them.
for he ran on for hours retailing every
single lie that had been told him. IIe
ended by inviting his two friends to no.
company him IN some Of his bear hunt.
Ing trips, yachting excursions or cxcur-
slons into the wild west. They sat back
IN wonder, listened TO II all, and con.
fessed that their punishment was Just.
New York Tribune.