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Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1891-01-30

Tho woman who has an ugly foot and
who wishes to conceal such defect should
invariably wear boot that is laced
rather than buttoned one. The boot
that laces is also recommended to those
who have tender feet, as 1t may be
made to ft each day, the elasticity Of
the laces being vastly superior to the
stiffness OF the buttoned article. Many
women knowing this are in the habit Of
buying them, but frank and honest
salesman confesses to the fact that
women who have outgrown their girlish
slenderness-to put Ii mildly-always
purchase laced boots. He says: 1--WE
always try 10 persuade stout woman
to wear them home, because II they are
sent home she will find it so difficult to
lace them up that nine times out OF ten
she will send them back rather than en-
dure the discomfort. This, of course.
she may not do II she has worn them out
Of the shopr
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1891-01-30
H1sBoRoUGH SIERRA COUNTY NJ FRIDAY JANUARY 80

here on the sidewalk like u couple OF
fools. We might be half way there by
this time IL there was any get up and
get In in me- The sun is hot enough to
set a cake OF ice on fire."
We start of, but my friend exper-
fences some inconvenience in climbing
the elevated stairs ut City Hall.
Climatic Eote-Certain elimes do not
agree with stout people, and climbing
the stairs is one OF them.
We are ON the train which is crowded
almost as much AS Harlem Hat. The
heat is sitting. Waddles insists that it
is Ave degrees hotter than 1t is on the
street, and he means his sad fate at hav-
ing yielded to my seductive wiles.
On board OF the ferry-boat, which Is
also crowded, Waddles insists that it is
five degrees hotter than on the car,
which would run tho temperature up to
100 degrees. lie is like a coal: tho red
der he gets the hotter he gets. 1es
As is always the case in the afternoon,
there is funeral on the boat, as half a
dozen or more cemeteries are located
near Long Island City. Waddles COM
pares the ferry-boat to that of old Cha
ron ferrying passengers across the river
Styx, and wants TO know why l didn't
take him to the morgue at once. We
90 into the cabin. which Waddles says
is five degrees hotter than outside,
which brings the temperature up to ITO,
At last we are in the car but the train
will not leave for ten minutes. Waddles
is more irritable than ever. He threat
ems to brain me II ever again say Man
haitian Beach to him. He aims savage
blow at the newsboy who offers to sell
him an evening paper. There is mur-
derous CLEAN in his eye. He Is proiane
because we have to wait so long. ] tell
him that find 1t very natural that he
should want to reduce his weight. lie
shifts the air and says | am bufoon.
Tie train has started at last. We are
already beyond the suburbs of Long Is
land City. All at once an expression OF
anguish comes over dhe faces OF the pas
,engers. Waddles holds his nose with
one hand and shakes his fist at me with
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1891-01-30

was. only wish ] was an angel, then
all the clothes | would have to wear
would be pair of wings which could
flop, and keep myself cool"
"You would be nice-looking angel,
weighing upwards OF 200 pounds in your
stocking feet. However, you can fly
from the heat of the city. Suppose in.
vite you to go to Manhattan Beach and
cool of, would you accept?"
"suppose you try me" replied the fa'
man.
"Try you? Do you take me for tai
low chandler"
Waddles refuses to smile and says
isChestnuts."
Scientific Note.--Extreme heat Is not
only productive OF crime, but 1t also
blunts the sense of humor, particularly
IL the sufferer be fat man.
"Well," ask, after a pause, will yop
no with me to the beach, and have al
ice time of it?"
Waddles did not give me plump re
fusal, but said: "All right Let us g
before 1t gets anv botter, and not stand
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1891-01-30
RICH MEMS MAscoTs.

They Represent Many Things from .
Copper Cent to Steam Tug.
Erastus Wiman believes that there Is
luck in keeping q Newfoundland dog
around the house.
FIRST cable laid between America and
Europe. To Mr.. Field it is invaluable
Pierre Lorillard is a firm believer in
the efficacy Of the horseshoe. There
are dozen or more rusty horseshoes
around his establishment.
Henry Willard cherishes with studi-
Gus care the golden spike with which
the last rail that marked the compile.
ton OF the Northern Pacific railroad
was finished.
Jay Gould has a mascot. He has
clung to 1t for seventeen years. 1t Is o
pedwiper made OF blue velvet. 1t Is
always upon Mr.. Gould's desk and he
locks it in a special compartment when
he leaves the office.
A conspicuous object In the office Of
Russell Sage is an ancient 81 bill in q
glass frame. Mr.. Sage proudly informs
his friends who gaze at 1t curiously that
it is his lucky dollar, the first dollar he
ever made.
Washington f. Connor carries an old
copper cent Of the coinage Of 1881.
When he plays cribbage or billiards he
pulls the ancient coin out and looks at
it. He generally wins after going
through that performance.
John II. Starin has mammoth mas
cot 1t Is the tug William II. Wander
bilt, one OF the largest and handsomest
boats of its kind in the world. Mr.. Starin
believes there is luck in having boat
named after Mr.. Vanderbilt.
George Gould carries his mascot in =
locket which bangles from his watch
chain. 1t is miniature painting in oil
OF his charming wife, nee Miss Edith
Kingdom. Young Mr.. Gould has q
strong belief in Its power to ward of
danger.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1891-01-30
SHE WON HER CASE.
An Independent Bridget who sasd fer
Breach Of Promise.

:
There was queer, shrewd Irish girl,
who was engaged to q certain well-to-do
youth, says the Boston Transcript His
father had thriftily got some property
together, which the son would inherit.
The youth knew very little; he had lost
one eye, and, as Bridget said Of him, he
was emphatically mot much to look at"
but his ''expictash'ns" made him at
tractive Presently Bridget was in great
distress. She came to her employer,
who happened to be a lawyer,in o raging
state of mind. The young man had
Tilted her, and she was going to sue him
for breach Of promisei
Her account of the matter was curl
GUS mixture Of humor, indignation, and
craftiness. She would sue him for dam
ages, but 1t was plain that her object
was TO force him to marry her. Sure"
said she, IAN why mightn'tI have the
money as we'll as the sisters and coosins
af hima" would you marry him now?"
asked her employer. "Sure, an that l
wud Amt he as noice little spalpeen
as ye'd seen in days runnin'?"
The employer tried to ascertain
whether the boy had any pretext for
iilting her. What had she done to Of
fend him2 Bridget lowered her voice
confidentially. "Ithinl, she said, "that
it's all about bit Of conversation that
we had Sure, now, Bridget said he TO
me one noight, as we sat in the kitchen,
'wud ye marry me II had no money?
What do ye take me forP' saysI. Sure
and l wuddent then. There's nobody
wud marry the likes O. ye but for tho
money ye haver An wild that, sorr, he
riz up sudden like an he wint away.
Twas the thrut told i'm, but sure he's
foine little lad, sorr, an I'd marry him
the day, I'm that fond OF him-wid the
money!
Her lawyer was convinced that Bridget
had good case, and advised her TO
bring suit. She did 80, and her exami-
nation in court was a scene long to be
remembered. With one breath she
scorched the defendant and with the
next she praised and cajoled him.
"Sure, he's not beauty" she ad-
mitted to tho court, "he's only the one
aye, but it's awful becomin' to him, yer
amer"
Bridget won her case; the youth, re-
lenting before such tact, changed his
character of defendant for that OF BRIDE
groom, and all the SISTERS aud cousins'
came to the wedding.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1891-01-30

The total original capital OF the eighty
seven British breweries which have been
converted into joint stock companies is
ESQ, 500, 900 A list Of the last dividends
paid by these companies in no case
shows distribution Of less than 5 per
cent, while and 10 per cent. are quite
common, and in three or four cases Is
and 20 per cent. have been reached
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1891-01-30

Sounding in the Black sea shows that
beyond depth Of six hundred feet the
water is so impregnated with sulphur
cited hydrogen gas, emanating from de-
caying animals and vegetable matter,
that living organisms arc not found
there.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1891-01-30

is aware, IL refused the wife il1es
at him az II she was tiger. A female
never ferociously insists upon going to
watering place in January. The Sc
poy rebellion broke out in summer. And
does anybody suppose that the recent
riot OF the striking cloak-makers on
Broadway would have occurred II the
thermometer had been forty degrees be-
low zero?
However, | made practical expert
ment one day last week with my friend
Waddles who has an Office on lower
Broadway Ordinarily, If tho weather
is cool, Waddles Is pleasant, consider
ate, and even kind-hearted man, TO
whom it is perfectly safe to apply for
temporary loan, but when it Is hot
Waddles is person to be shunned.
Incidentally, l may remark that
Waddles is very portly. In fact 1t is a
base fattery to merely call him stout.
Two such men would make mass meet
ing " all flesh is really grass Waddles
might be advantageously rented out as
a COW pasture. He Is good fellow, and
gentleman, when the weather is cool,
but ho is death on buggy springs, There
is no occasion for his friends to make ?
great deal OF him. lie is that already,
and more.
The day on which made my expert.
uent with WaddlcS was a scorchor anc
no mistake. 1t was weather to whiol
the English apply the adjective heastly
and very correctly, too, as it Is then tina,
the dog star RACES Verify it was one OF
those days when humidity is cheaper
than ice drinks, and the atmosphere
seems to stick closer than brother,
when the mercury scars up and takes
more degrees than Scottish rite Mason.
1t seems as If broaths were sold at auc-
ton and everybody was able to outbid
YOU. However it was not quite as hot
as it is in Chicago, where, II the people
are not ready to die, they are at least
pretty we'll acclimated il they are as
bad as the New York editors make out.
Waddles was in his shirt sleeves, fan
ming himself when called, and remarked
that the weather was positively hot, too
hot in fact to go skating.
positively hot howled Waddles; it
is most superlatively hot 1t is hot,
hotter, hottest, Hottentot, HottenDtter,
Hottentottest, hot as an oven, hot as
two ovens, hot rs Beecher once said II
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1891-01-30
-------------------
ghs Not Merely Looked So.

Young Mr. Dolley Ito Miss Amy
Miss Mabel looks as sober as judge.
Miss Mabel (frigidly)--I en- sober. sir.
-Munsey's Weekly.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1891-01-30
AT THE BEACH.
5ufferin7s Of q Fat Man from ttls
Heat.
Iwritten for This Paperl

7 is a fact that
warm weather
b as 6 r tainly
much TO do with
cri me. 1t has
always been one
of my pet theo-
ries that heat,
il not the actual
cause OF crime,
certainly is an
q C tive element
in its develop
ment In July
wives insist on
z o ng to the
most expensive
watering places
and. as the av-
erage husband
The Arizona sentinel., 1891-05-30
- EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Coconino Sun beams out of the remains of the Flagstaff Champion.
 The citizens of Tucson will give a reception to Governor J. N. Irwin next Tuesday evening, June 2d, at the San Xagier Hotel in that city.
 J. L. Wilson has bought J. O.. Dunbar's interest in. the Phoenix Gazette. Bro. Dunbar has been a live writer and made tho Gazette a lively paper
 The Road-runner or Chaparel Cock, is one of the most deadly foes of the rattie.snake, never allowing one of them to escape. The bird should never be killed.
 The Gopher, King and Rubber snakes should never be killed. They are the deadly foe of gopirersr rats, mice and also the rattle snake which they fight conquer aud swallow.
The Arizona sentinel., 1891-05-30
"WH xT 1zEGEFT BE BONE

Our esteemed friend, the Times in its last issue, read the "riot act to the taxpayers of Yuma, in re- lation to the reorganization of the city government.
 It says: "The lots which the town of Yuma owns cost nothing, being the gift of the United States Government. If their disposal was judiciously handled it would be the making of the town. What is the use of letting this capital lie idle when it might aid in making the town rich? No good reason exists for the present state of affairs. The only reason is the fear held by 8 half dozen property owners who are afraid they might lose money if anything was done with the unsold lots. Such sel- fshness should not be tolerated." '"
 The above statement as to the cost of the lots is untrue. The lands and surveys cost something over $es3o0, which was a tax levied upon the property, and paid by those who obtained titles to their lots from the city government.
 The irsinuations against our tax payers are unjust, and come with bad grace from oul neighbor, the Times, which does not rank among our property owners.
 The SENTINEL is opposed to the reorganization of the city govern ment at the present time, for the reason. that the people cannot stand the expense that would be entailed upon them for such luxury.
 It is plain that this whole scheme Is being worked up for the sole benefit of those who own no prop erty, and pay no taxes, but who wifi claim the right to hold, all of the offices and receive all of the emoluments there from.
The Arizona sentinel., 1891-05-30

lT is strange, but it Is true, that people will buy strawberries at 35c. to 75c per box, when they can be grown in every garden in Yuma with but little attention and care. and the very people who today sleep until away into the warm hours of the fore noon, if they would arise with the lark, go into the garden, tako the hoe and work an honr every day, they could have the finest strawberries grown on the coast, and all that they and their families could eat, from March till December. The Old Lang worth's Prolific Is an excellent variety, hardy and great producers. The Sharpless. grow very large, but are not as good, unless allowed to remain on the vines until fully ripe. The Monarch of the West, is the best berry for Arizona. Large, hardy. great producers and bear 10 months Tn the year. The Princess, Eureka, Parker Earle, Wilson's Best. War fields Nos. l and }, Owning, Bubachs, especially the No. 5, Haviland, Gin derella and many others stand the drouth and heat well. Wilson's Al. bany, is great favorite. It is large and very rich. Let every family in town raise their own strawberries.
The Arizona sentinel., 1891-05-30
GOOD YUMA INDIANS.

The San Francisco News Letter is away of. In its last issue, in. an ar, ticle on "Indians as Soldiers" it said: "Here the Indians are good, faithful and honest workers. with, perhaps the exception of the Yuma Indians, who are to day the worst of our peace. able Indians. They are the only In. dians who have an a6horance sf hard work"
 We would like to know where the intelligent @ writer learned all this. The facts are thess: The Yuma In. dlans are among the very best, if not the best of all of the peaceable tribes They are self-supporting and have been. for years. It Is true that the United States Government did give them 5000 after the food, but not a pound of the provisions and supplies, bought with the 5000, has been given to one of them, except, the sged and infrm, the widows wits families, and the sick. Outside of this, they have worked for and gained their own liv- ing, even after having lost nearly all of their supply of corn, beans. dried meat, squashes, etc. Hundreds of them have been employed in town, on ranches, on the various water ditches and canals, and on the railroad. and in every case they have done hard, difficult, and the worst work with perfect satisfaction to theis employers. Their fields and gardens today, arc a credit to them, and some of them would put blush on the checks of some of the so-caIled ranchcrs who live even in California.
The Arizona sentinel., 1891-05-30
DECISION OF THE U. q
 SUPREME COUET-

Secretary N. o. Murphy today re- ceived the following telegram from
 Washington relative to the Jeff Will son case by which it was sought tc determine the collateral proposition of the "Lost Laws" The telegram reads:
 Hon. N, o. Murphy.
 Relief to Jeff Wilson denied. Trial jury had jurisdiction, twelve jurors concurring in finding indictment suf- fcieut. Validity of grand jury act undetermined, the same being B col lateral matter.
 TAe decision practically says that the indictment of Jeff Wilson under the "Lost Laws" was good, twelve men having agreed to the indictment and no objection having been raised at the timo of trlal; furthermore the "colla- teral matter or validity of the "Lost Laws" or laws passed after sixty days session of the Legislature and neither or vetoed by the Governor, remain undetermined further than the above case goes under its peculiar conditions, and the Supreme Court practically refuses to upset laws, pas sed by the people, or to.determine the validity and rights of the legislature under the circumstances. If laws have been constructed. under such as attended the Eff. teenth Legislature they are good un- less upset by proper procedure in tho urts.-Herald.
The Arizona sentinel., 1891-05-30

MEMORIAL day has como again. Year by year, each seemingly shorter than those gone before, it returns tc remind us of those gone on just in the advance guard, the great army oi which laid down taeir lives in the cause of their country. Thousands have gathered today from sea to sea, and from shore to shore, ard scatter. ed beautiful flowers over the graves of the patriotic dead. It should be 30. These memories of the past, planted in the hearts of the rising generations, will secure loyalty to, and protect the old flag. Each re- turning year, reduces the numbers of the rank and file of the old soldiers, and very soon, the sons and daugh- ters of the old veterans will only be left to remember the honored dead on each returning Memorial day.
The Arizona sentinel., 1891-05-30

THE Phoenix Republican, one ofthe
 best dailies in the Territory has entered upon it's second year with most fiattering prospects for the success which is crowning the we'll
 directed efforts of Bro. Vail, who is bound to- give it's readers a good
The Arizona sentinel., 1891-05-30

IT IS true, that Yuma needs . new school house. It must have one. But that a $l0,000 school house should be built at this time, just after she has passed through the experience of the last few months, is simply pre- posterous. The property owners, and tax payers ought to have 8 word to say in this matter, as most of them are parents and have the best inter- ests of their children at heart; rather than to leave it to those who own no property, pay no taxes, and who really arc only sojournsrs in the town. A good comfortable school building, that will accommodate all of our pupils, for the next three to i've years can be built for S5,000.
The Arizona sentinel., 1891-05-30

IN consultation with the tax-pay- CTS in Yuma we find this to be the feeling relative to the 400 lots own ed by the town They are willing to give one-half, or 700of them to any good responsible company which will put up a good hotel on the mesa and cottages around or near the same The other 700 lots to be sold to pay off the old indebtedness of the incor- poration If there should be sur plus, this to be devoted to the school fund They are also wiling in con- nection with the above to grant said company the right to furnish the town with water for term of years provided the rates shall not exceed those of the the railroad company.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1891-10-28
no DEATH :,
|HfIN DEv0U8EO'
t. Fate OF d
f;nia Girl.
kED HIS SKULL

RED HIS SA I DN'
Which 1e1nnd No"
ImmiHed Suicide
ky Points,
/ United Press
wrrL DEArH. L. ,,;,,
\. Va, Oct. q, ), Miss
resides near shaws- ",
terrible death. She
! berries, and, not re-
4 was made for her.
be the searchers ran
bear, at whose feet
4 a woman could be
4. The bear was killed
Ind that bruins victim
kens. The body wa:
Hated, and every evl'
4 show that the unfor
ad been first squeezed
|then partly devoured
|ERIS's ISLE.
| Oct. 27. In a quar-
be boy fractured tn
her because of his re
| his assailant whethe
bor Of the late Mr.. Par
J.
lied HIMSELF.
bRG, W. Va, Oct, p
| a correspondent fo
philadelphia and Oh
|pers committed suicide
by shooting himse
head.
lTHY POINTS.
kiana Lottery compan
licted in Boston, undt
law.
Pcretary SPaulding h'
committee to examir
pd Spring Garden banl
|hia.
IM publishes a Shockir
flty in the Presbyteria
New York. The inst
b. investigated
mute asylum at Winn
Fned, but none Of the i
Injured.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1891-10-28
Meeting of Elisha Mitchell Scientific

Meeting of Elisha Mitchell Scientific
Society.
The Elisha Mitchell Scientific
Society held meeting at Wake
Forest College on Friday night.
The distinguished visitors were en-
tertained by the Wake Forest fac
ulty,T and report a very pleasant
occasion. The papers read were
full of interest. It is proposed to
hold these meetings alternating at
the different colleges as opportunity
offers.
The following papers were read:
l. "The Duration Of Twilight"
by Prof. Lannan, of Wake Forest
College.
2. GA Study of Several Snecies
of Sponge by Prof. H. V. Wilson,
Of the University.
3. ssRain Making Experiments y
dy Prof. L. R. Mills, of Wake
Forest College.
| 4. sThe Fertility of Fresh Water
Marl'' by Prof. w. S. Poteat
Of Wake Forest College.
5. "The Drudgery ofScience" by
Prof. F. P. Venable, Ph. D. O
the University.
6. sDescription of Hilton Bloom
| ary Forge in Ashe County b.
Prof. Hunter Z. Harris, of th'
University.
The students and villagers wer
: present and received profit ant
entertainment from the occasion.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1891-10-28
WINSTON BY WIRE.
Destructive Fire at Rural Hall--Col.
Bailey Found Dead.
Soeclal to STATE CHaoNIcLE.

Soecial to STATE ca soNICLE.
WINSTON, N. c., Oct. 81. News
reached here to-day of a destruc-
tive fire at Rural Hall. Besides
destroying a large dwelling house
and its contents, belonging to VIM.
Newsom, a purse containing seven
teen hundred dollars in greenbacks,
silver and gold was burned. 1t is a
heavy loss to Mr.. Newsom, who
is an aged and esteemed gentle
man. After the fire only four
twenty gold dollars and a few pieces
of silver which had melted and run
together, were recovered from the
ashes.
Col. VIM. Bailey, prominent
citizen of Walnut Cove, was foune
dead near his house. Heart trouble
is thought to have caused his death
A fine marble quarry has JUS
been discovered at Germanton. /
will be worked extensively by
stock company which has alread,
been organized.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1891-10-28
A Slight Fire

A Slight Fire
Vas the one which began yester-
day at noon, but it was due to the
quick and excellent work of the
firemen tnat it was not destructive.
The alarm was turned in from box
29, and the fire was at 2l8 East
Lenoir street, on the roof of one
story frame dwelling occupied by E.
G. Glenn and owned by James H.
Young. A stove pipe from a kitch-
en- adjoining the house came very
near the caves of the latter and the
sparks ignited the old shingle
There was brisk breeze and the
fire spread rapidly. Most of the
roof was destroyed, but that was all
Chief Engelhard estimates the dam
lage at $3.50.
The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1891-10-28
Fire Near Goldsboro.
special to STATE CHRONICLE.

special to STATE CHRONICLE.
GoLDsBoRo, N. c., Oct. 27. The
tile and pottery plant of Maj. H. L.
Grant, near this place, was totally
destroyed by fire Monday night.
The loss is estimated at about 81
600; no insurance. The origin Of
the fire is unknown; it originated in
the second story and all the doors
were lock ed.