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The morning call., 1891-01-18

Speaking of journey around the world.
did you ever hear of anybody undertaking
to make it en- foot? Well, it was undertaken
more than century ago by arfEngiish Cor
winter Of 1856 he started from London with
the design OF walking around the globe or
around as much Of it as possible. He de-
signed to traverse Europe and Asia on foot
and then be ferried across Behring Straits
to the American Shore whence he would
continue his journey to the Atlantic Ocean
somewhere between New York and Labra-
dor. He was an American by birth and had
no muneya very common condition of
Americans in London at the present day
Sir Joseph Banks and others raised a sub
scription for him to the amount of ESQ, and
with this quantity of cash In bis pocket he
started He walked to ST. Petersburg by
way of Hamburg and Copenhagen, going
The morning call., 1891-01-18

When Lord Thanet was imprisoned In
the tower for the 0'Conror riot three of his
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11
Care Of the Body.

The body demands in an unmlstak.
able manner that it be exercised. All
dietetic needs of our bodies announce
themselves in a versatile language of
their own, and who has learned TO in
terpret that language nor willfully dis
regard its first appeal may avoid all
digestive disorders by quietly following
the law Of his instincts, which teach all
well regulated beings the necessity for
clearing the system Of one burden be
fore it assumes another.
All normal things are good, vi
Is abnormal, is an axiom which has
been almost reversed in the principle Of
our orthodox health theories, for many
of our physical educators still hold to
the error of their spiritual colleagues,
who consider ~depravity and wretched-
ness as the normal condition of man.
Life once corrupted can be cleansed
again i'm a spiritual manner Why can
not organic and material functions
be reiuveuated in the same way f--Jen-
uess-Aliler Magazine.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11

The little children Of the rich in thin
city are in a bad way. 4 kind OF
creeping paralysis has come upon them,
numbing the first instincts Of childish
minds. They have drunk too deep Of
the privileges Of the world They are
already blase. They have seen too
much. When Barnum's show was here
a little boy-one Of those unfortunate
children Of the rich-sat solemnly by
the side Of his father throughout the
entire performance. His boyish heart
ed father cheered like a boy and looked
with wide eyes of interest on every per
Torrance that was offered. Finally
his eight-year-old son raised his eye
YEARLY to his father and said: do
you think it's goodl Why, l don't see
any wonders here at all"
Poor little chapl Can you fancy a
child out Of Wonderland at eight yearsI
Could anything be more drearyi Here
were-even If he didn't find them won
derful-at least as wonderful things in
the way Of animal creation as the Gre
ator has yet been able to think up foS
this planet, and as wonderful things in
the way Of animal performance as an
imals, including the human ones, ars
yet capable Of, and yet this forlon lit.
tie child didn't see any wonders at
all New York Evening Sun.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11

The table walters In some Of the res
tauEants and hotels Of this city haW
adopted a custom which has been in
vogue for a long time among their con-
freres in Paris, which astounded a New
Yorker who was made aware of it while
at one of the restaurants of Paris not
long ago The elegantly dressed waiter
who brought him the dainty viands
told the New Yorker that the walters
there put into one box all the fees
which they procure each day from their
customers. and that the sum total in
this treasury Is evenly divided among
them at night. But, the New Yorker
asked, 'can you always trust all your
eonfreres that they will deal fairly in
this business and deposit all the fees
they procurer' I'VE trust in each
others honor" was the reply, and we
tave never had any misunderstanding
On the subject New York Sun
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11
or LANDING NETS
a Sarcastic Isaac Walton Describes Ms
ExPerieoee with Them


a Sarcastic Isaac Walton Describes Ms
E~xPerieoee with Them
Anglers will hear with tempered en-
thusiasm that a new landing net has
been invented. The im~pOssibility of
doing either with OF without a landing
net reminds the learned Of what the
Roman sage remarked about wives
With no landing net how are you to
secure a fish. either where the banks
are steep and grassy or where you have
To wade far out from the beach1 The
first problem occurs in the Test and most
southern streams; the second In large
waters like the Tweed and Eden. In the
former case you bring your trout &c
submission, but how are you to lay
hands on him2 The moral victory il
yours. You have beguiled and dom.
mated a subtle and spirited opponent.
But the base world refuses to credit
the triumph unless you have the trout
to show. Generally you bring him TO
the edge of the bank and then try, very
gingerly, TO lift him by the gut. Then
he gives a plunge, the hook leaves its
hold and of he goes. The plan Of lead
ing him into a ditch and walking half q
mile to the head of the ditch. where he
may be stranded, is tedious aud undig
niied
In wading far out from the beach il
is laborious and unsafe To wade all the
way back, but it is very difficult 70
grip "a trout in midstream. Northern
anglers. therefore. use landing nets
nearly half as long as the rod. which
they carry in the left hand. "a WEAKNESS
10 the flesh, though a staff and com
fort in wIliug.
The southern mas invented many
lodges. There are telescope net han
dies, which should shoot ous 70 the
requisite length If everything goes we'll
There are nets with hinges and springs
~hich rust. and refuse az critical mo
ments to open or shut. Then the ma
chine has 90 be carried suspended tc
something and when you most need il
It is said you cannot unhitch il. There
you stand. the rod in one hand. and
fighting for dear life with your landing
net. OR the wretched thing gets un-
hiUched when not wanted and tails on
the long grass. which you do not dis
cOver TIL you most need It's assistance.
y landing net is always ia the way
when not wanted. and out Of the Nv
when most in demand. The new ne
lis suspended from the shoulder by
the web band" of the creel. but a creai
is as great "a burden as a landing net
and is usually empty. He-e are tie
plain, simple directions for "a .. Catch
hold Of the handle with your left hand.
pulling ii up at right angles ~ YOU.
with the net held closely between the
left arm and body then. with thumb
and forefnger lsJil using the left
hand, undo the catch. pull. turn
and push and it is free" Verify.
this does hot read like an a task for
a ervou man. flustered by that rare
event, the hooking of a large trout
Perhaps the best plan. after all. is the
northern n ot carrying a simple land
ing net in the hand, or let Us loose the
trout when we have established our
moral superiority, and discard inpedi-
menta.-London Saturday Review.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11

Colonel Ingersoll tells this story: A
few years ago a fellow from Massachu-
sets vas down in South Carolina. and
as he walked along the street, after he
had been there some time, there was an
old fellow mailing a sign upon his house,
'For Sail, and this Massachusetts, fel-
low looked at the old man and said
That isn't the way to spell sale" And
the old fellow, with a great deal of con
tempt turned TO him and said:
How long have you lived in Charles.
toni"
well" he says, Il have been here
about a year"
"Wel, young man" said the Charies
tonian. 81 was born here; | guess ]
know how TO spell sale"
There is nothing 50 beautiful as con
ndence in the place where you reside
Helena Independent
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11

anxious TO claim the property, and The
superintendent placed the ~pasteboards
in the breast pocket Of his Prince Al
bert coat.
Later in the day he was walking
along the street with the pastor of the
church. His brow becoming heated he
drew forth his handkerchief from the
inside pocket Of his Prince Albert and
the cards 1uttered to the pavement.
As the pastor had not been at Sun
day school and knew nothing Of the
previous occurrence it was necessary
for the superintendent to enter into
an exhaustive explanation -Pittsburg
acknowledgement
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11
small rahI.s for Dinner.

An idea from Paris that one OF tive
New York hosteSses here recently intro
duced is that of serving a dinner al
snail tables IN len Of one long oue. L
IS perhaps rather a relief from the mo
noJony Of q long table, which in the
ease Of a large dinner ought never e.
DC, but it is doubtful If after the nov
city has worn of il will be liked tn,
seats of honor will always be at tho
hostess table, and heqTtburnings and
i~ealoU--s are sure TO arise among thos,
who find their places at the less favored
ones As only persons with large din
ing rooms 10 undertake large dinners,
it is common for the two parallel lines
10 be broken by different arrangement
which sull keep al the guests At a com
mon board Her Point 81 View il
New York Times.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11
Growth % Dark Cennr..

That il is not really light, but may be
some power usually co-existent with
light. which gives the tendency TO go
upward, is demonstrated by growth in
cellars or dark places. In the total
absence Of light growth is still upward.
Recently, In England, there have been
made some curious observations on
growth in coal mines. Posts driven in
the earth often sprout and grow as If
they were rooted trees planted. Some
Of these posts, used as props in English
smines, a thousand feet below the sur
face, have sprouted, yet, though In
thorough darkness, the shoots have
gone up as perfectly in an upright po-
ntion as il IL full sunlight In the open
ground Thomas Meehan in Philadel.
ohia Ledger.
The shortest Sermon Ever Acted.
As 70 preaching, arguing and inter
preting Scripture in the pulpit. the &c
Sentricities Of ministers are endless.
We need not have to such
stories as that Of Lorenzo Dow, who
performed the shortest sermon on
record" Els subject wa ''BacksIid-
ing" and what might be called tbs
body of the sermon consisted in his
climbing up smooth Hapling with great
pains and difficulty and the sliding
down again. An immense
Of people had assembled to hear him,
and great was their establishment Al
witnessing this performance. The only
words uttered by the preacher on the
occasion were, Hold on there, Dow;
bold on" Then he aid down again,
put on his hat and left-St Louis
Globe Democrat
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11

Thsater GOer Cooking over diasram)
Il win take this seat
Boz BoOkkeePer-One Of the pillars
b directly in front Of that seat, sir.
Theater Goer-So / observed. ! pre-
fer a pillar to a high hak-New York
Weekly.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11

A shopkeeper recommended a dlk
dress material TO one Of bis fair custom
en "Iet me advise you 20 take a
dozen yards Of this silk. 1t is everlast-
hg se4, AID yOu can afteru-r make
Il into an undezskhL Bht
taE.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11

In LONDON. n evening, ! was look
6g for the Alhambra Not knowing
sxActly in which direction to go. | stop
ped TO inquire Of a passerby. when. sud
denly. tine name Of the theater escaped
me entirely. So l was Obliged to ask,
'D0you know where that large tbeater
= lent begins with an AR The
nan replied at once, "oh. you mean
- 'Aymarkst Er."-Cor. San Fran
$50 Argonaut
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11

Do you shave yourself all the timer"
asked the barber.
"No. l stop occasionally for meals"
said Jimpian savagely.-New Yon
Truth.
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11
A aesa Man.. pn.nma.

The superintendent Of a Pittsburg
Sunday school was told by the librarian
. few sabbaths ago that two or three
playing cards had been found in one Of
fhe books returned
Taking the painted pasteboards in
his hand the good man delivered to the
school a lecture bearing on the subject
and closed byholding MP the c'rds and
remarking:
The scholar who left these IN his
book may step forward and get them"
singular a. il may seem, no We
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11

Caller-Has your mistress gone QUIT
New Servant-No, but she amt a.
home.-New York Epoch
Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-11
kUIHlRG LIKE It'll

HING IKE I'll
HOod Is thicker than water,
and must be kept pure to
Insure good health.
sWur's SPECIFIC is natures usmsSy
for this purpose.
IL never to fails eliminate the impu
ties and build up the general hea,A
There is only one sw1ft's Specific.
and there is nothing like It.
Be sure and get the genuine.
Treatise on Blood and skin DEssa.s
mailed free.
The Swift Specific Co.. atlanta. 9.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
LOWER PRICES NEEDED.
Coke and Ore Men Hold the Key to the Pig
Iron Situation.

Coke and Ore Men Hold the Key to the Pig
Iron Situation.
j. f. Lewis, of New York, a manufac-
turer of mining machinery, has been at the
Duquesne for the last week. Mr. Lewis has
been looking into the iron and coke sltua-
tion while here. Yesterday he said: 1.-THE
coke operators and ore men have made
past, and now they should make some con-
cessions to help them. They hold the
key to the situation. 1 was sur
prised in coming up the river a
few davs ago to see SO many barges here
loaded with Southern iron, but this material
is not responsible for the depression in the
market, as many claim. When all things
are considered matters are about even. The
Southern ores won't yield more than 40 per
cent iron, and three tons will Just about
make ton of iron. They don't begin to get
as much out of their furnaces as they put in.
1.-The price of ore in the North is entirely
too high, the same thing is true of coke, and
the rates from the region to the valleys are
exorbitant Indeed, 1 was astonished when
at New Castle heard that the roads charged
81 35 TO haul ton OF coke. The rate
on ore Is n cent per ton per mile.
This is reasonable enough. A rate of
three-fourth cent per mile for q ton of coke
is sufficient. This would be rate OF 81 12.
Last year was a great one for the ore men,
but much of what was mined is still on the
docks. find that the consumers have good
supplies of ore on hand. They expected
big boom in the business and bought
heavily. Lower prices for coke and ore are
needed to revive the pig iron trade"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
CUT DOWN TOO SOON.
Bull White Tires of the MOn0t0ny CT
q Central Station Cell and
HANGS HIMSELF WITH HIS SHIRT.
He Left the Workhouse Prematurely and
Was Arrested Again.
TIE RESULT OF STRIKING A DETECTIVE

William or "Bull' White, as be is better
known by a large circle of acquaintances to
whom he has endeared himself by his
winning ways and his utter disregard for
the conventionalities of polite society. is in
trouble again. A month ago Mr.. White
proved that his stomach's capacity was
greater than that of his head, but owing to
the fact that police officer was called in
as referee, he was declared to be drunk and
disorderly. Mr.. White resented the impu-
tation and resisted the officer. He was
finally overcome and locked MP.
Then Mr.. White wept and threatened to
commit suicide. "Where," he asked, "are
the thousands of my friends whose hearts
1 have warmed with the glow of generous
deed we'll performed by borrowing the small
sum of 10 cents from them. 1t is true that
warmed my yitals at the same time-with
bad whisky-but the other man posed as a
philanthropist, and surely that was worth
more than 10 cents. Why do not these
friends come 10 my assistance now?"
Echo did not answer, it doesn't linger
around the Central station, but drunken
man in another cell yelled for ''water," and
III
back on this mundane sphere, to use we'll
worn figure of speech, and went to sleep.
When Phsbus peeped over Gazzam's
Hill the next morning he saw Bull White
standing undaunted before Cadi Gripp, but
hid his face behind a vagrant cloud as he
heard the awful sentence 40 days."
Bull White went to Host Warmers hand
some hostelry on the Allegheny river, and
made no plaint until he discovered that bell
boys were not provided to carry ice water to
guests rooms in the dead hours of night
Mr.. White was indignant, and he exclaimed: !:
LAS an American citizen, demand ice
water or freedom" No ice water being
produced, Mr.. White sought freedom, and
found it three weeks ago.
Bull White came to the city. His thirst
for ice water-''on the outside'-was slaked
until yesterday. Then the cold, commercial
nineteenth-century spirit, which demands
collateral, chilled Mr.. White, and he sought
City Hall. He knew Detective Robinson,
the mildest-mannered man who ever
'pinched bloke, >" and depended on getting
the price from him. Robinson was struck
by an idea and White simultaneously. He
thought that Bull might be wanted as an
escaped prisoner, and therefore arrested him.
Was White daunted? Oh, no. He offered
to engage, upon any terms. with detectives
Robinson and Bendel in mortal combat
They would not combat.
Mr.. White was placed in cell, but be-
came tired of the monotony. To vary it he
carefully disrobed, and after taking off his
shirt he split it down the middle, tore it
into strips, and woye rope out of it. He
tied one end to his cell door, made a moose
in the other end, with which he encircled
his neck, the channel of rivers of rum, and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11

others and thus secure a majority in num-
bers as well as a majority in interest, which
had been previously secured. This has
been done before and can be done again"
NJ. A. Woodward Is Satisfied.
NJ. A. Woodward upon his return from
Harrisburg, whittier he had gone as a men,
Der Of the citizens committee, said: "We
appeared before the House Judiciary Com
mittee, not for the purpose of opposing addl-
tional legislation for Pittsburg and other
cities of the second class, but to argue in
favor of amendments to certain bills intro
duced by Senator Finn, amendments sug-
gested at a meeting of citizens held in this
city last Saturday. We argued that the
measures should be so framed as to insure
to the people fair. reasonable and just legis-
latiOn; that to pass certain bills without
such amendments as had been suggested
would not only be unfair to the taxpayers,
but would also make such acts subject to
overthrow at the hands of the Supreme
Court
"The amendments offered to the two So
called curative bills, but which are really
remedial measures to the general street law
and to the act regulating cities of the Sec
ond class, were conceded by the members of
the Judiciary Committee TO be fair and
reasonable, and have no doubt these bills
will be passed as amended by the citizens
of Pittsburg. Senator Finn acted fairly,
conceding the wisdom and necessity of
securing the passage of such bills only as
will insure the citizens of Pittsburg and
Allegheny equity and justice"
Afraid of Lack of Uniformity.
Senator Finn is opposed to the amend
ment rendering it necessary to obtain ma
jority in interest "and" number to secure an
improvement, and the proposed change
giving property holders the right of choosing
the material for paving. He said: sits re-
suit would be that the property owners
would pave the street in the cheapest man.
ner and afterwards the city would be at the
constant expense of keeping the thorough
fares in order, for when a street is once
paved the city and not the abutting prop
erty holders must keep it in order. Again,
another result would be that one square
would be paved with blocks. the next with
asphalt, and the next possibly with wooden
block. There would be no uniformity what.
ever in the paving on streets"
The Legislative Committees from the
Councils of both cities will meet at Alle-
gheny City Hail this evening to discuss
street legislation. Senator Neeb and the
Allegheny representa- tives in the LegiSla
ture will be present The Allegheny Select
Council members were appointed yesterday,
and are Arthur Kennedy, William Lowe
and w. M. Kennedy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-11
MANY ANXIOUS MINDS.
Hundreds of People on Thorns Pending
the Result of the License Hearings
Pittsburg, Allegheny and McKeesport to
BE Handed Down Possibly on Monday.

Hundreds of People on Thorns Pending
the Result of the License Hearings
Pittsburg, Allegheny and McKeesport to
Be Handed Down Possibly on Monday.
Never in the worlds history. since lot
teries were invented, was there more con-
centrated interest in the announcement of q
drawing than at present may be found in
the cities of Pittsburg, Allcg eny and Nc
keesport. People who are not applying
for license to sell booze have caught the in
lection, and the interest manifested dwarfs
that taken in the coke strike and the italian
imbroglia. The clerks jaws in the Clerk
of Courts Office ached answering questions
Yesterday. 1t was stated that the list of
successful applicants would be ready for
publication this morning; that it
would not be ready, and that it would not
be given out for publication on Sunday.
Stenographer Fullwood was given as au-
thority for the statement that the list would
be ready for publication to-day, and the
judges were variously quoted as fixing Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday Confusion
became worse confounded as time went on.
Finally Judge Magee set all conjectures at
rest by stating that the list would not be
ready for publication before Monday, and
possibly not on Tuesday.
The work of inspection is very tedious.
During portion of the time of hearing,
Judge White was in bed with the gripp and
Judge Magee, desiring that his notes on
the hearings ad interim be scrutinized by
his coadjutor, the business is necessarily
tedious. The judges keep themselves
locked up with two tipstaves on guard to
prevent Interruption. They refuse to read
their mail or allow any to be brought to
them, as they do not want to be Influenced
by pathos INDUCED in by ardent
applicants. The Judges will not
classify the cases as passed upon,
but Pittsburg, Allegheny and Nc
Keesport will come out of the hopper to-
gether, and each unlucky applicant must
search for mis- tale of woe TO suit himself. un-
less the newspaper compilers see fit to take
the duty of classification upon them
selves. The interest manifested NAV
be gathered by contemplation
of the magnitude of the interest
involved. Hundreds of leases of property
are contingent upon the result, and besides
hundreds of people, who may he bondsmen,
have an interest, the aggregate of which is
considerable, as a bondsman for successful
applicant sometimes pockets several hun
dred dollars In dead open and shut, as he
is given an indemnifying bond which makes
him secure no matter whether his protege
comes to grief or not