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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-27
REFUSING sa1.nno EoR 4 SrlLLInN.

st. Louis, Feb. OR. c. Pate has received a letter
from Eugene Lee, the wcll-knoWn turfman of Yarncl-
town. Ky, Offering him $4,000 for his stallion
Counsellor. 1r. Pate has declined the offer. and
SAYS that the horse cannot be bought for less than
$40 600
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-27
FOR THE BRACE MEMORIAL FIND

Brown Brothers & Co. have received the fo,iovt,o
contributions to the Brace Memorial FUND.-: pryIouslv
acknowledged, $40, 1920; samuel r. Carter. $50: & p
Ayery. $50; th3 loy. J. w. Brown, $50; w. ID. FuIs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-27

HER HOUSE FROM II WIRES.
Elizabeth II. Hume has secured a temporary Injunction
Prom Judge Ingraham, in the supreme Court, Chambers.
restraining the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph
Corr,nv from maintaining a pole at Parkave. and
scyentv.ninth.st, or from strlnging wires upon it in front
Of her house Of that place.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-27
BOSTON COUNCILLORS WANT SALARIES.

Boston. Feb. 26.-Thc Boston Common Council made
a plea yesterday before the legislative Committee
on Cities to become n salaricd body. Six hundred
dollars u year Is the amount asked for.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-27
BUFFALO LITHIA WATER.

SMALLER PARTICLES AND A QUANTITY OF BRICK DUST DEPOSIT, Dr. p
ratnd
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

: In the house of lady in the Kurfur~
stenstrasse, Berlin, an Englishman took
a furnished room and agreed to pay SO
marks a month for it At the end of
that time he asked for the bill, when to
his surprise he found the 80 marks had
risen to so for his apartment. Among
other peculiar items in the bill were:
For using the carpet, marks; for use
of knife and fork, 4 marks; for putting
the room in order, 10 marks; for use OF
a chair on the occasion of a visit of your
brother, 4 marks" The ledger con-
sidered this reckoning preposterous and
refused to pay, so the lady detained his
box which contained a large sum of
money. The Englishman sought the
aid of the law in revising the bill of thA
speculative hostess News
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

1t is doubtful if the most strenuous
opponent of corporal punishment would
feel that the chastisement meditated by
Brer Tompkins, the father of thirteen
children, was severe enough to do any
harm.
He was seen one afternoon by his
pastor, with long fshing-rod in his
hand, vending his way homeward from
neighbours.
WHAT CALCULATED the minister, in
great surprise. rs you go'n' tishin' at
yo' age, Mr. Tompkins? I'm really
s'prised"
mo, I yaint gwine fshin' sab"
protested Mr.. Tompllins. 81 know
'twouldn't be seemly, sab; but yo' sar-
mon las Sunday mawnin' on sparin' de
rod med sech preston on me- sab, dat
done borrer dis rod OBJ Mr.. Willis, an
Use gwine t stan nah whole thuteen
chillen in row, sab, and jes' mex one
good job OBJ hit, SOS dey won't Spite;
an ken return de rod wild a clar con-
science, sahr'-Youths Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

her in closet, and guess she whipped
her.
All the folks but Aunt Grace and
Uncle Jack tried to help Aunt Martha
get the gravy off her dress. They
both started to go out of the room.
Uncle Jack went into the hall, Aunt
Grace intended to go to the sitting
room, but she made mistake and
went into the china closet. The doors
are close together She shut the door
and couldn't open it and had to go out
the other door that opens under the
stairs in the hall. Uncle Jack was in
the hall and they went into the parlor
together, and shut the door right in
my face as | was going in too.
went back to the dining-room and
told how rude they were, and they all
looked at each other and seemed
pleased, all but Uncle Thomas and
Aunt Martha.
No one ate any more dinner and
everybody wanted loot to come down
stairs. So papa went up and got her.
| never saw such looking child. Her
face was red and tear-stained. And
when mamma picked her up SO quickly
she dropped a spoonful of cranberry
jelly that she was eating on her pink
cashmere dress and made big spot on
the front of it, and she had kicked the
closet door till the toes of her new
shoes were all white. But declare, if
wasn't surprised when everyone Rugged
and kissed her and called her little
darling.
After a long while Aunt Grace and
Uncle Jack came out of the parlor. He
held out his hands to loot and she flew
at him and got her arms around his
neck and Rugged and kissed him until
he could hardly breathe. Then she
peeped into his face and said:
Uncle Jack, how funny you look
just Ike sheep"
Never mind my looks, loot" I've
said, were going to have that we'd
ding right off and you've made the
match"
"Why Uncle Jack" loot said, chow
'dic'lous you talk. People don't make
matches, they buy EN- at the store, -
Bessie G. Hart, in Detroit Free Press
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every winter and they think they
know everything.
Mamma said she was going to invite
Aunt Grace TO spend Thanksgiving
with us. She said she would have a
real old-fashioned Thanksgiving din
ner such rs they used to have when
they were little girls and lived in YER
mont. told mamma shouldn't think
she would have anything old-fashioned
for Aunt Grace when she was soEich
and aristocratic. But mamma was
determined to have her own way and
wouldn't listen to me-
was disappointed when saw Aunt
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were passing the pudding around
plum-pudding at the wedding?" The
minute she said that, l knew what was
coming, and thought / should die.
what wedding?" asked mamma.
"Why, when Aunt Grace and Uncle
Jack get married. s'pose that will be
the next thing we will have to see to.
l didn't know they tended to be mar
ried til l heard Minnie tell Kittie last
night. Aunt Grace, what makes you
and Uncle Jack look so funny? Oh
dear! l hope you amt got mad at each
other again and changed your mind
bout having the wedding. | shall be
so 'spointed if we don't have it.
Kitty says people jump over the broom
stick when they get married, and L
want to see Aunt Grace jump | never
saw a fat woman jump, but l know
should just Joy it. Won't she look aw-
full queer, Uncle JACKIE"
Mamma told loot to stop two or
three times but she didn't pay any at
tention to her but went right on. Papa
laughed so he couldn't say anything.
Everyone laughed but Aunt Grace and
Uncle Jack, and mamma and me. l
never saw mamma so angry before.
She got up from the table and took
loot in her arms to carry her out of
the room. loot screamed and kicked
and one of her feet hit Uncle Thomas
on the head and knocked his glasses
off. They struck goblet as they fell
and broke. lie tried to catch them
and tipped over dish of gravy on the
tablecloth, and lot of it ran down in
Aunt Martha's lap on her new silk
dress.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

wife, the woman of fashion, the school
teacher, the hard working minister, all
want to keep out of the ruts. The body
may be enslaved, but the mind is free.
There is true pleasure and satisfaction
in following plan of daily reading in
history, literature and science.
THE SYSTEM
is definite and practical, not vague adj
vice to read something. A course is
outlined; certain books are required;
the time is apportioned by the week
and month; a monthly magazine gives
notes, outlines of reading and other
aids; a membership book, sent to each
member, contains suggestions and re-
view charts. The work of the Circle is
supervised by well-known men like DIR.
Lyman Abbott, Bishop Henry w. War
rem and DR.. L. E. Hale. The plan is
offered to the people of the United
States and other lands. All who have
the ambition and perseverance to read
forty minutes or an hour day for ten
months in the year are urged to join.
The total expense for books, magazine
and membership is only seventy-fve
cents per month.
PARENTS SEPARATED FROM CHILDREN
by distance are to be pitied, but they
are even more wretched when there is
q separation in tastes and sympathieS
under the home roof. How many ia
theirs and mothers have felt that their
children in school and college were
growing away from them! They could
not talk about the same things; they
lived in different worlds. Chautauqua
has been boon in hundreds of homes
where such divergence was becoming
evident. A letter of inquiry addressed
to Office Of Chautauqua, Draacer 1G4 But:
fdlo, NJ Y, will secure the detailed in
formation about the circle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20
On this THANKSGIVING dav we ,

On this Thanksgiving day we may
take up the utterance of the Psalmist:
Let everything that hath breath
praise the Lord" The blessings we
have received and our unworthiness of
the least of all of them ought to cause
every tongue to break forth in CRATE
full alteration. God declares: "Whoso
offereth praise glorifieth Me- Chris
tan Inquirer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

house is clingin
A last years nest that is lone and still,
Though erst it was flied with singing.
Then fleet were the children's pattering fee
And their thrilling, childish laughter;
And merry voices were sweet o sweet
Ringing from floor to rafter.
The beautiful darlings, one by one,
From the nests safe shelter flying,
Went forth in the sheen Of the morning sun
Their flutterin- pinions trying;
But oft as the Gaping time is Ger
And the boar frost crisp5 the stubble,
They haste to the little home once more
From the great worlds toll and trouble.
And the mother herself is at the pane,
With u hand the dim eyes shading,
And the flush of girlhood tints again
The cheek that is thin and fading.
For her boys and girls are coming home,
The mother kiss their guerdon,
AS they came ere yet they learned to roam,
Or bow to the task and burden.
Over the doors worn sill they troop,
The skies of youth above them,
The blessings of God on the happy group,
Who have mother left to love them.
They well may smile in the face of care,
To whom such grace is given
a mothers faith and . mothers prayer
Holding them close to Heaven.
For as she clasps her bearded son,
With heart that's trimming over,
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ing time, this year, because when she
married Uncle Henry she went away
with him to live in England. He died
about year ago and left her all his
money, and last summer she came to
New York to live. Mamma and papa
went to see her, but they wouldn't
take me, and think it was very I'M
kind of them, for I'm her namesake.
Toot says I'm her middle namesake.
My first name, you know, is Minnie,
Oh! don't l wish Aunt Grace would
adopt me and take me to the city to
live with her just hate the country,
and country people are horrid. They
haven't any style at all Jimmy Lane
calls them ''hayseeds." Jimmy and his
sister Lille go to the city to live
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bhe tenderly blending two IN one +
Hcr boy and her boyish loverl
And half of her soul is reft away,
So Irvine the dead and the living,
Sn the little home wherein to-day
Her children keep Thanksgiving.
There are tiny hands that pull her gown,
And small heads bright and golden;
The childish laugh, and the childish frown,
And the dmpled fingers foden,
That bring again to the mother breast
The spell of the sunny weather,
Whom she husned her brood in the crowded
nest,
And all were glad together.
A truce to the Earring notes of life,
The cries of pain and passion;
Over this lull in the eager strife,
Love hovers, Eden-fashon.
in the wee brown house were lessons taught
OF strong and sturdy living,
And ever where honest hands have wrought,
God hears the true thanksgiving.
Margaret e. Sangster, in the Home Make-.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20
HEADINGS ABOUT AMERICA.
fourteenth Year of the Chautauqua Circle
--Home Readings for EverybOdy-HO
Parents Keep Up with Their Children.

Fhrents heep Up WIFI IHUIT NHIIureH'
BUFFALO, N. Y, Nov. 1.-The Office
of the Chautauqua Literary and Scien-
tific Circle in this city is a busy place.
Thousands Of new members are being
enrolled. The American readings for
the coming winter are especially OF
tractive. Nearly two hundred thousand
readers have Joined the Circle since it
was established in 1878
ANYONE MAY JOIN
who feels the need of some systematic
mental work. Young and old, rich and
poor, enjoy comradcship in this wide
sweeping circle. The isolated cowboy,
the busy city shop-girl, the farmers
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

In the discussion of the Thanks
giving question the turkey would like
to remain on the fence. ~
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

The injury to Lieut.. Peary, the
leader of the North Greenland eXpcdi-
ton, was caused by a peculiar accident
The steamer Kite struck a large ice-hoe,
and as the wheel was torn out of the
helmsman's hand it flew around with
swift revolution and struck one of the
lieutenants legs, fracturing both bones
Lieutenant Peary' is not disheartened,
however, and he hopes to be able by
about May l, when daylight again glim-
mers in the arctic regions, to start out
IN snow shoes and go father north than
any other explorer has travelled.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20
CERAMIC ART.
The Secret of the China Workers Jeal-
ously Guarded.


ously Guarded.
China producers were, says n Liver
pool daily paper, frequently the victims
of the high value set upon their services
The Prussian king forcibly annexed"
gifted wor1men; the French authorities
were equally tyrannical in forbidding
their china workers to quit their fac
the secrets of the SevreS manufacture
was obliged, should he ever wish to
quit his employment to give six months
notice of his intention to resign his
post, and leave was not always granted
him to do this. Absconding workmcn
were liable to be pursued and impris-
oned. In 1872 two workers at the
Sevres factory were sent to prison for
conniving at the escape of a fellow Ia
borer, who had fled to work at the
manufacto:y at Journal Every china
factory jealousy guarded the secrets of
it's manufactures, and vigorously
checked any attempt of its worlIncn to
carry their knowledge to rival markets.
In France the manufacture of certain de-
scriptions of china was restricted by
law to certain factories. 1t is doubtless
owing to this jealousy that china of
various kinds bears such distinctive
marks of its origin, not alone in its sub
stance, but in the description and color
of it's ornaments Even the uninitiatcd
could distinguish the productions of
Dresden, or Bow, or Chelsea from those
of Sevres or Palissy ware, or Limoges.
There is kind of fancy cloth work
seldom seen in England), which is
made by the German china workers in
their leisure hours in which they eX-
act thy reproduce in colored cloth the
stiff roses and the peculiar flowers COM
mon in all Dresden flower pieces, faith
fully adheri ing to their ancient models
in cloth as in clay. China is, in truth,
an exquisite production, and one for
which it is easier to understand the col
lecting mania than for some other OBJ
iects Early endowed with legendary
virtues, it was believed that the first
introduced into Europe from China pos
sessed the gift of breaking if poison was
poured into it. Countless tales of inter-
est and romance have gathered round
china ware in all ages, and the writer
on porcelain may find materials for
many novel in the course of his re-
searches. POTTERY Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

IT is natural for kitten to act de newer.
ly.-Pittsburgh Chroncle-Telegraph
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

THE zoologist finds topic of absorbing
interest in the Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

PEOPLE who give themselves away are
often dear at the price.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

THE whistlng buoy is of much more value
than the Whistling girl
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

The clock tells the time by its own dial
ect.-Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

TIE dyer can easily hue to the line
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

WHEN q giraffe gets sore throat it must
expect long sickness.-Yonbers States
man.
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WHEN n man has apartments in a hotel,
his favorite song should be Home, Suite
Home ''-Tcxas Siftings
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

TIE crack shots of the country do not
lead an aimless life.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

TIE family tree caunot be depended ON
for board.
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Unkind.

Mrs. Credo-You may smoke if you
like, Mr.. Pundit.
Mr.. Pundit-Thank you; but never
smoke. 1t Injuries the brain.
Mrs. Credo-I know. But l always
thought you smoked.
The Farmer and the Government.
That great magazine The Century,
published by The Century Co., of New
York City, is going to Guido its own I'M
rivaled record in its programme for the
coming year. Among its features is a
series of articles on what the Govern
ment is doing and ought to do for the
farmer, including "The Farmers Dis
content" Cooperation" the Work.
ings of the Department of Agriculture,
etc. A novel of America and India by
Rudyard Kipling, written with young
American author, is one of four novels
which it will print, and the greatest
American writers will furnish its short
stories. The famous Spaniard, Emilio
CASTELAR,, will contribute a new Life OF
Columbus, to be magniicently illustra-
ted; there will be articles on the Worlds
Fair, by special arrangement with the
managers; the humorist BILL Nye" il
to contribute a unique series, and diff
ferent phases of New York life will be
treated in splendid illustrated articles.
The first of these New York articles is
''rhe Bowery" in the November Cen
fury.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

IT is not considered an offense for
switchman to flag at his work
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

A MAN may think he's only skeptical
when he's really GNolish.-Colulnbus Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

TIE hotel waiter can always point out the
Typical gucst.-Boston Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

A LIVE electric wire is in dead earnest.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

AN eye for an cye-The glass variety.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-11-20

watch me gobble," remarked the
fat Thanksgiving turkey cock, as he
strutted by the small boy.
That's all right" replied the small
boy; but wait till next Thursday. and
feel me gobble Puck.
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A HELPING hand-one with money in it.
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oAnsMEN should be in row bust health.
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HEADsTRoNG-The goat
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treated in splendid illustrated articles
The first of these New York articles is
'The Bowery" in the November Cen
fury.
HEADsTRoNG-Thc goat
AN eye for an cye-The glass variety
A HELPING hand--One with money in it.
It's wise hen that knows her own set.
A FALL opening-An uncovered coal hole
A LIVE electric wire is in dead earnest.
OARsMEN should be in row-bust health.
TIE family tree caunot be depended ON
for board.
TIE dyer can easily hue to the line
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
IT is not considered an ofTense for a
switchman to flag at his work.
THE hotel waiter can always point out the
tip pical gucSt.-Boston Gazette.
TIE crack shots of the country do not
lead an aimless life.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The clock tells the time by its own dial
ect.-Detroit Free Press.
THE whistling buoy is of much more value
than the whistling girl
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-28
TRANSFORMING A NATION.

A scheme for transplanting the entire
population of Iceland to Alaska, and
there establishing a colony under the
government of the United States, if car
ried out, would be a novel thing in the
history of nations, and yet there
is abundant good reason why the
people of that bleak little island
should be willing to abandon the
home of their ancestors and seek to bet
ter their fortunes in Alaska. The popu-
lation of Iceland is steadily diminishing.
At it's most favorable period it dld not
exceed 100000; at the present time II is
Il little more than $4,000. There are no
cities of any size, the largest having a
population Of about Lace.
The island is of volcanic formation,
much of it being a wilderness covered
with lava beds. There are a few narrow
valleys of bottom land filed with bog
and mud, which may be cultivated in
favorable seasons, which Of late years
nave been unfrequent. The climate Of
Iceland has changed greatly since its
first settlement. Formerly the lce-drifts
from Greenland we're carried upon it's
shores at intervals of a few years, but
for the last fifteen years these Ice packs
have come every year without intermls-
sion, surrounding two-thirds Of the
island with a compact mass of ice, which
remains from three to five months.
These drifts, coming in April or May,
remain until the end of July, checking
the growth of vegetation, and in many
years destroying the crops entirely. The
island is almost treeless, and such trees
as live in the sterile soil rarely attain u
height of more than ten or twelve feet.
With the exception of the fisheries, there
is little inducement for any population
to remain on the island, and when the
fisheries have failed or the European
markets have been glutted, the people
have been reduced to extreme want.
of starvation on the island.
In the last two centuries volcanic
eruptions have rapidly desolated the
land and made the lot of the Icelander
as unenviable as that of any inhabitant
of the earth. Alaska, which to the peo-
pie of the United States seems a bleak,
uninhabitable country, would be a verit-
able paradise to the Ic%elanders and there
is little doubt that they would greatly
better their condition by removal, yet a
people who have a history going back a
thousand years must have traditions
that they tenderly cherish and it is
doubtful if the older residents of the
island would consent to abandon it to
60 to more favored regions to live, so
strong are the ties Of association. The
1%celanders are a good, hardy stock and
should they cast their lot with the peo-
pie Of the United States they would be
most welcome.