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Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17
KeyIess Postofice Box Locks.

The combination keyless lock for post
Office letter boxes is constructed on the
simplest plan that has ever been devised
for a lock. 1t has no tumblers, and there
fore no intricate movement liable to get
out of order. 1t has two dials, and all that
it is necessary to remember in order to
open the lock is two letters of the alpha
bet, so that a child capable of being trust
ed to go for the mail can open the box as
readily as n grown person, For instance,
if the combination was set on the letters
A L all that is required is to turn one of
the dials to a and the other to 7 and the
box can be opened.
Over 5000 combinations are possible, so
that every box may be set on "A different
combination. In case person should hap
pen to forget the combination, which is
not very probable, since he has only to re-
member two simple letters, the box can be
opened by the postmaster touching spring
on the inside, and as soon as the door is
opened the renter Immediately sees the
two letters forming his combination, Amy
number of persons that may be desired can
have access to the box, and n new renter
can always feel secure, for the reason that
by changing his combination, which is
very easily effected in few seconds by any
one, there is no possibility of former
renter having key to the box and access
to his mail.
There being no tumblers or anything to
indicate from the outside how the combi-
nation is set, the lock is absolutely proof
against being opened by any one who does
not know the combination. Both dials
must be set properly before the box can be
opened, and there is no possible way of dis
covering the combination unless both dials
are set correct.-New York Telegram.
Personal joys or sorrows should not be
made the subject of conversation. The lat
ter should be especially avoided.
Russell Sage, the largest individual
loaner of money in New York perhaps, is
said to have rule never to loan more
than 100000 on any given day.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17
Conrtlng ON a streot Car.

\ trim looking young woman got aboard
an up town surface car night or two ago.
The car was by no means filed, but she
didn't try to get a seat, and she didn't even
enter the door, but stood on the rear plat
formaud leaned against the rail, II was a
chilly night, and she and the conductor
had the platform to themselves. The other
passengers looked ont in some surprise Mt
the sight, and beheld the pair enter into
conversation. That it was not their first
meeting 10y any means was us evident as
ANYTHING well could be. They talked long
and earnestly, and rs block after block was
Travelled they got closer and closer to one
another There is always more or less jolt
ing about a street cars movements, and
pretty soon the young woman was bracng
herself against the brake handle. Then
in minute or two the conductor was seen
to turn the handle so that it would give
her better support.
His arm moved with the iron, and TO the
most near sighted man in the car it was
very quickly apparent that the arm was
doing % vast deal more in the way OF sup
mort thnn fell TO the lot Of the brake han
die The car meanwhile was rapidly APP
preaching the street at which one Of the
passengers desired to alight. He hadn't il
In his heart TO disturb the pair, and so he
started 10 leave the car by the front door.
The driver looked at him with a wink and
then spoke, as il to the world in general
and nobody in particular: Jacks in
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17
Unione Advertising.

Bishop Talbot told story in Boston the
other day showing that at least one Har-
ward man didn't leave his wits behind him
when he left college. The bishop, it seems,
arrived one day in q small mining town in
his diocese-Wyoming - where he had
promised to hold a service. Walking up
the street he noticed some green handbills
flying about, took one up and read as fol-
lows; "Bishop Talbot breaches tonight at
-. Let hi | have big crowd. Please
leave your guns with the usher"
The bishop was not easily scared, but
thought the last sentence little odd. On
inquiry he learned that one of the young
men in town, a Harvard man, by the way,
who knew the bishop, and wanted to raise
n good crowd to greet him, had issued the
handbills, knowing that many who would
not come to hear bishop preach would
come at a hint of disturbance of any kind,
New York World.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17

CHICAGO, Feb. 1G.-The work of grad
ing in jackson park in preparation for
the worlds fair is at a standstil. Late
Thursday a lot Of idle worEmen finding
that they were unable to induce the
Italians who We're ut work to strike for
an advance in wages attacked them and
drove them out Of the park with kicks
and cuffs
Friday morning the crowd of oilers
gathered in the park 80 the number Of
seven hundred or more, aud maintained
such threatening attitude toward the
Italians that the contractors thought it
best not to attempt to resume operations.
Some union carpenters engaged in build
ing Offices aud stables were not mOlested.
The contractors say they will wait till
they secure telephone connections with
the police department whom they viii
resume work, and II interfered with,
will demand protection.
A committee has Leon appointed by
the joint committees representing all OF
the organizations Of union labor in Chi
cago to confer with the worlds fair
with view to securing a recognition of
union labor in the Won; to be done on
the fair buildings II their claims are
not recognized they threaten to turn the
antaaonism of the solid labor element
againN the enterprise.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17
TSailrond Project.

Fort WAYNE, Ind, Feb. lit is
stated on excellent authority that it has
been decided to double the track on the
Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago
road between this city and Chicago. The
traffic now is 50 heavy that the facilities
for carrying the same are inadequate,
and the increase expected through the
worlds fair makes the improvement a
necessity Work will probably begin
this spring.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17
NERVOUS DISEASES.

AS every class of Nervous Diseases able
with the Nevne Tonic which isy pleasant and harmless
its effects upon the youngest child the Oldest and delicate ndvd
ua Neents of all the ailments to which the human family heir
dependent exhaustion and impaired digestion. When there
sufficient supply Of food in the blood general of debility Of
the ban spinal and is the result Starved like
arvd muscles become strong when the right kind of food supplied and
thousand weaknesses and ailments disappear the AS the
,eous system must supply all the by which the vital forces of the
Body carried on is the first 10 suffer for of perfect nutrition
Ordinary food does contain sufficient quantity Of the Kind Of numen
repair the present mode of living and labor imposes
the For this necessary that food be
supplied This production of South American Continent has been
found the essential elements which
formed This accounts for its magic ali forms Of
deraDpe
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17

disease wnile sftung at MS desk reading
late Friday night. He came to Mime
sota la 1850, and two years later became
publisher Of The Minnesotian, which
was in 1859 consolidated with The
Times He WAS lat'r on the staff Of The
Press, and for eighteen years collector
OF the port OF st. Paul
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17
RnlIdera sirike.

NEW York, Feb. 16.-A general strike
was inaugurated Saturday morning on
the Columbus building in course Of cree
ton at the corner OF Broadway and
Morey street,, all of the men employed
there going out on account of the archi-
tect employing non-union men in place
of the striking no Sc smiths. Two hun
bred and fifty mon are out.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17
CONGRESS.
siHlN.scHnndn ax.

In the senate the copyright bill YVES dis
cussed and Senator sherman amendment
adopted.
In the house tile legislative bill was the
order, the time being occupied 10y a con
trovetsy. in which Cannon Butterworth,
Grosvcner ind Lodge participated, ovI
civil service appropriations.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17

Steady Spread OF the Strike in
the Coke Region.
Armed Miners Compel Their
FelloW-Workmen to Stop.

Several Hundred of the Men who pit-
teriy Opposed the Strike at First 60
Out--Hungarian strikers Restlcss-Tho
Miners National Convention Decides
Upon scale--Othor labor News.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17
In the house number of relief bills


PARSONS, Ky Feb, 16.-James
Stovey, of this city has received letters
patent from Washington for his inyen-
ton of an artificial egg The artificial
is said to resemble the natural product
in all particulars. The inventor says
that he can manufacture at least one
carload per dav. at a cost of three cents
per dozen, with machinery that will
cost only $500.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17

luck, he safd. Pretty girl hes got, ana
a good one 1t looks queer to see her out
there with him, but it's about her only
chance to see him with the hours we have
and they've been married only a month :"
New York Times.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17

UCHIH OF NJ WIW NNWNIIHF0T IH7'
ST. PAUL, MINI, Feb. t7-Geo w.
Moore, the oldest newspaper man in
Minnesota. and for thirty years a lead
ing Republican, died suddenly Of heart
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17
MURDER N AN ENolNE cAe.
End Of ihe Famou, Bheaehouse Case ia

IN Assault und llattcr, Yoralot.
VAN WEEf, O, Feb. 11-After being
out thirty-siS hours, the jury in the
Rhodehouse murder case returned q
verdict at 1890 Sunday night of assault
and battery. It is compromise ver-
dict, and both sides viii likely be con-
Aapf
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17

Nervousness and
Nervous Prostitution,
Nervous Headache and
Sick Headache,
Female Weakness,
All Diseases of Women,
Nervous Chills,
Paralysis,
Nervous Paroxysms and
Nervous Choking
Hot Flashes,
PaIpitatlon Of the Heart,
Mental Dependency
Sleeplessness,
st. Vitus's Dance,
Nervousness Of Females,
Nervousness Of Old Age,
Neuralgia,
Pains in the Heart,
Pains in the Back,
Failing Health.
ALI these and many other co
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17
CRAwToRDsvILIE, IND, Aug. 90, 'SS

To the Great South american Medicine Co.:
DEAR GENTS Il desire to say to yon that I
have suffered for many years with very seri-
GUS disease of the stomach and nerves. tried
every medicine l could hear of but nothing
done me any appreciate good until was adj
Vised to try your Great South American Nervine
Tonic and Stomach and Liver Cure, and since
using several bottles of it must say that am
surprised at its wonderful powers to cure the
stomach and general nervous system. Ii every
would not be able to supply the demand
J. A. HARDEE,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17
GU Z: S

Broken Constitution,
Debility of Old Age,
Indigestion and Dyspepsia,
Heartburn and Sour Stomacns
Weight and Tenderness in Stomach,
Loss of Appetite,
Frightful Dreams,
Dizziness and Ringing in the Ears,
Weakness Of Extremities and
Painting,
Impure ana Impoverished Blood,
Boils and Carbuncles,
Scrofula,
Scrofulous Swelling and Ulcers,
Consumption of the Lungs,
Catarrh of the Lungs,
Bronchitis and Chronic Cough,
Liver Complaint,
Chronic Diarrhea,
Delicate and Scrofulous Children,
Summer Complaint of Infants.
cured by this wonderful Nervine Tonic.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-17
a SWORN CURE FOR ST. Y

CRAwFoRDsvILLE, IND, May 10 1856.
My daughter, twelve years old, had been Of
giicted for several months with Chorea or Sc.
Vitus's Dance. She was reduced TO a skeleton,
could not walk, could not talk, could not swal-
like an infant. Doctor and noighbors gave her
up. commenced giving her the South Ameri-
can Nervine Tonic; the effects were very sur
Drjsing, In three days she was rid Of the ner-
Vousness, and rapidly improved. -Four bottles
cured her completely. / think the South
American Neryine the gTandcst remedy ever
discovered, and would recommend it to every
one. MRS. W. l5s ENSAlNGEdsa
Slate Of indiana, leo.
Montgomery County, ZOO
Subscribed and sworn to before me this May
80, 1887. CHAs. M. TRAVIS, Notary Public.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
Key to the P9zzler.

No. 160-An Enigma: An eggshell.
No. 101.-A Scene in English History:
The picture suggests the pretty story told
about King Alfred, who took refuge in the
hut of a swineherd, whose wife, not know
ing who he was, set him to watch the cakes
that were baking On the hearth. The king,
being more interested in mending his bow
and arrows, let the cakes burn, whezenpon
the dame scolded him sound4y:
There, don't yoa SEQ tho cakes on fret
Then wherefore turn them nox
You're glad enough to ee& them
VIXEN they are piping hot
No. 1O2.-A Jeweled Ornament:
ORAL
PEAR L
AG A TIE
s ToKE
roP Az
No. N3.-A Cube: From 1 to 2, chateau;
9 to 4, umpires; to 8, caldron; 8 to 4 na-
tons; to 6, evident; 8 to 8, tedious; 5to Z,
eastern; to s, notions; to 5, cede; 9 to s,
unit, to s, sips; 8 to z, noon.
No. 104.-A Money Problem: $50
No. 105.-Connected Syi1ables:
Where as
As ter
Ter race
Ra Ger
Ger emory.
No. D6.-Charade: Seauaanship.
No. D!.-A Nest of Birds: 1. Kildeer.
2. Meadow lark. 8. Parrot 4. Spoonbiil.
S. Snowbunting 6. Loon. q. Whp-poor-
will. 8. Kingfsher. Q. Tyre bird. 10.
Curiew. IL Sandpiper.
No. lea.-Haddsn Articles: 1. Desk. 9.
Paper. g Pm 4. Ink. s. Blot+er.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
A Finger Nail Sixteen Fee. Long.

The question of whether Chinese finger
nails will come into general use as articles
of jewelry is one which interests shell and
precious stone dealers. The Chinese Judge
their gentlemen as Americans do their
idlers-by their long finger nails. A re-
porter has seen among the heirlooms of a
heavy weight merchant in Chinatown a
nail which attained the great length of
thirteen inches. and the Chinaman's grand
father was reported by the merchant to
have raised one eighteen inches long on the
index finger of his left hand. The mer-
chant at That time said there was nothing
wonderful about that, as he knew q Chi
nese priest who had a nail on the little
finger of his left hand which was sixteen
iees and some inches in length, and the
priest was then but 6s years of age.-San
Francisco Letter.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24

large families of children. The woman
who shirks maternity will not be fair and
fat if she lives to be forty On the con-
trary, she will most probably be as
weakened and dried up when she reaches
that age as any of those unfortunate single
women whom the world calls old maids.
How to be fair. fat and forty may be
generally summed up by the words ''elim-
nation and nutrition" That is, women
desiring TO attain to fair, fat and forty
should be careful throughout life TO have
all the eliminatory functions of nature by
which the waste products of the system are
gotten rid of properly performed, and to
have themselves always well nourished
Exercise, bathing. judieious and regular
habits of eating, fasting and sleeping; mod
Grafton in the use Of sweets and an album
dance of pure fresh air would all be in
Guided in the proper observance Of elimi-
nation and nutrition, because they are es-
sential to them. Yours truly,
E c. DUDLEY
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
GREAT GERMAN SPECIALIST TALKS.

DIR. f. Winckel professor of gynRcology
and director of the Royal University Clinic
for women in Munich. gives his ideas on
the subject under consideration as follows
DEAR DOCToR-If our women would live
to be fair, fat and forty, they must first of
all become better informed in all that per-
tains to hygiene and the laws of life. With
out practical knowledge of these laws they
cannot observe them as they must do if they
would live to be fair, fat and forty In
stead of so-called accomplishment" and
''rudimentary branches" that they arc
taught in school, girls should be taught to
know themselves and the great laws that
govern their being, that they may not
through ignorance trifie with those laws
and thus entail upon themselves years of
misery and Indebtedness. Then our women
may live TO be fair, fat and forty Yours
truly, +. WINCKEL.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24

Thought He Had No Show

A girl was one of pair who had reached
the gate. How soon the gate is reached
when it marks the end of walk with your
grill She fingered. She was a girl of
sense, and she knew Brown wanted to get
it off his mind. Brown made a move
nearer and slipped his hand along the fence
till it came in contact with hers, then he
started, turned up his coat collar and
seemed about to depart
What did you say" she asked, heading
him off
Yes oh, yes - certainly" gulped
Brown, but he turned down his coat collar
and leaned against the gate. Silence.
He shufied his feet. Then he slipped his
hand along the fence till it came in contact
with hers. Whereat ne started violently,
and she said, "Wells" He turned up his
coat collar and appeared about to depart,
but she said, "Wells" again.
'Yes-oh, yes!' he assented; adding,
after moments thought and with much
frmness, Certainly"
She waited a while. Then she slipped
her hand along the fence till it came in
contact with his. Whereat he started vio-
lently, slipped his hand away, but turned
down his coat collar and leaned against the
gate
She owned to herself that he wasn't
worth it. Then she wheedled. "You were
talking about getting married"
He wasn't, but he said. Certainly" with
some fortitude, and shufled his feet. ST.
lence.
He slipped his hand along the fence till
it came in contact with hers, whereat he
started violently and turned up his coat
collar.
And I was thinking" she began, and
paused. He turned down his coat collar
and leaned against the gate. She slipped
her hand toward his along the fence Then
she lost her patience and shouted, What
an idiot you arel"
Certainly" he cried, jumping in tho
air. Then he turned up his coat collar
and fled.
An hour elapsed The moon had risen.
A dark form crept to the gate, turned
down its coat collar, and, leaning against
the gate, said, "1f she give me- a chance I'd
tell her."
Then the figure sighed, slipped its hand
along the fence, started violently, turned
up its coat collar and went away.-New
York Sun. s...
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
10. 1oo.-In Grandmother,s Garden.

l. The peep O. day. 2. A crustacean. and
the cause of much .discord. s. Apeilo's
favorite. 4. Bu1om Elizabeth. S. Saga
cious. 6. Precise, and pretty flower. Z.
An animal slides. s. A compartment m a
theater. 9. A royal plume. 10. A great
dandy. II. Remember me- z. A weapon,
and to coin. Is. Wise men followed ne.
IA. a wise man, and a stamp. Is. A con-
veyance and great community Of men
16. What Hamlet said was ''out of joint
It. a ferocious beast, and the emblem Of
innocence.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
No. 11s.-After the Menaserie.

A small boy writes to his sister. Fill
the blanks with names of animals:
- SISTER, cannot go to sleep till have
written you, us 1 lpronised 1 have
lighted my and begin. Jack and I went
down to the beach after the show te take a
swim Jack will - the surface and float, but 1
like to move round l thought it wotld be
fun to - him under the surface and did so e
number Of times. The last time his - csrght
on something and held him down until it
frightened me, but he soon released himself
and said he - me under and hold Inc there L
| tried it again We saw at work and
tried 70 x out what ke was searching for, bot
did not succeed He pulled up something
from the bottom that looked like - OF q chain,
but do not know what it was.
1 can't fly my - tomorrow, for it is broken
and l cannot buy - ono for l gave my
money to buy an - Of rock candy. Yours with
a true JOHNNY.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24

DR. Thomas Opie professor of gyracol-
ogy in the college of physicians and sur
geons, Baltimore, justly attacks some evils
of modern society. which are directly mimi
cal TO the attainment by our women OF that
enviable condition, fair, fat and forty
COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, I
BALTIMORE. MD, May 10, 1881.
DEAR DocToR:-There is but little chance
for our young women to ever be fair. fat
and forty. so long as they continue to be
impressed by the pernicious Cry of higher
and still higher education for women, just
when they are merging from glrlhood to
wornanhood, say between the ages of four
teen and seventeen. This is the age of all
others at which the unnatural strain and
nervous excitement of hard study should
be avoided by every girl who hopes to be
fair, fat and forty.
But not only does modern civilization
demand that girl shall be subjected to
the close confinement and rigorous study of
the modern school, but it also forces her
into the unhealthy audtoriums and bail
rooms, inseparable from fashionable diver
SionS.
Our so-called civilization is principally
responsible for defeating Gods intention
that every woman should live TO be fair,
fat and forty. 1t grossly outrages and
violates natures plan that wOman-and
men too-should live an out door life by day
anu rest dI hight II Is GtSpOUSLUlt
for the wicked habit of women and children
spending their lives in houses and densely
crowded towns and cities. We seem TO be
growing steadily wiser and weaker, and
and until we correct that those OF our
women who attain TO fair, fat and forty,
must be the exception and not the rule.
The woman who desires to be fair, fat
and forty, should marry, for science con
firms natural laws in the view that mar
riage is or rather ought TO be a scoaservator
OF health and a promoter of longevity. 1t
seems to be a law of nature that women
should undergo the physiological changes
incident to maternity once in three years,
during that period of her life in which it is
possible for her to do SO. and if she does
not. she is liable to have fbroid tumors.
The woman who hopes to be fair. fat and
forty, should nourish her own infaHt At her
own breast as nature which is simply the
good will of God expressed in facts, in
tended she should. No mother should re-
pudiate nature and substitute art in the
form OF nursing bottle
The woman who lives TO be fair, fat and
forty by observing natures laws, should
live far beyond that period and pass out of
life at last as unconscious of her death as
her birth, for the cycle of life completed
the living being simply sleeps, into death of
when nature has her way. Thanks TO our
advanced civilization" we cannot have this
true cuthanasia i'll its most perfect form,
but we can approximate it much more
nearly than we do. Fraternally and Sill
cerely yours, THOMAS OPIE.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-24
np wrr11.NF .surox,s v1rws

W
DIR. William Z. Ashton, demonstration OF
obstetrics and diseases of women in Jeffer-
son medical college, Philadelphia, thus ex-
presses himself:
S3s SOUTH FIFTEENTH STREET.
PHILADELPHIA, May 9, 1891. (
Dear Doctor.
should divide the life of the woman anx-
ious to live to be fair, fat and forty, into
four periods, namely: Approaching woman
hood. prior to marriage, married life and
old age. In all of these periods she should
be careful TO avoid everything that a little
careful consideration would show her to be
detrimental to health, and she should be
particular to observe all rules that common
sense dictate as conducive to her physical,
mental and moral well-being. To clothing
especially she should give attention, being
careful to regulate it in everything in ac-
cordance with the dictates of health and
not of fashion. Very truly yours.
WILLIAM Z. ASHTON.