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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-01-22
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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-01-22
What is your position?''
Huge Salt Works,

The salt works at Saltair. Utah,
cover 900 acres. The watts are fifteen
feet above the surface Of the lake and
are filed by means Of a huge rope
driven at a high speed. which lifts
the brine in a steady stream at the
rate of 10000 gallons a minute.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-01-22

A groceryman In this town received
an order that read In this way: "Dere
sir: Pies send me pounds Of COTE and
some te. My wife had boy last night,
also ten pounds of cheese and q rat
trap. He waved 8 pounds, and o hatch
ct and nails.n ~ Winchester (Ky.)
Democrat.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-01-22

Wickwire: "There never were so
many chances as now to get good in
come out OF small fortune" Yabsley:
"What I'd like is to get good fortune
cat Of q small income.n
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-01-22

"How IS it, Muller, that here of late
you take such fearfully big steps going
to business? 1t wasn't always So"
mo, but you see since my family be-
came SO large it's necessary to econo-
mize in all directions. The longer the
step of course the more 1 save in shoe
leather."-Fliegende Blatter.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-01-22

De Fer: ~ feel like q new man this
morning. Waite (anxiously): "Ah!
Do you feel anything like the kind of q
man that would be apt to pay debt Of
$5?u He paid 1t.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-01-22
Had some Feeling.

Il hope you can appreciate my
position, SIR" said q stranger who
had asked q citizen for cents the
other day.
What is your position?'
Il have been free lunching at q
place over here all the fall without
buying single glass Of beer. l want
to continue all winter, but my con-
science upbraids me. feel that I
ought to sort OF split the seasons in
two by buying at least one glass"
His position was appreciated. and
he got the nickel.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
Water That Flows Into the Earth.

wv $50 ia Eur
There is an interesting instance of
water flowing inland from the sea. tits
found on the island of Cephalonia, in the
Ionian sea, west of Greece. The phe-
nomenon occurs on the southwest side
of the island, near the small town and
port of Argostoli. Two streams flow at
a short distance from one, straight from
the sea for q few yards, and then follow
different courses. One turns at right
angles and runs for some ways parallel
with the shore and close to it. Then it
turns again toward the sea, and run
ming, of course, deeper and deeper.
doubles completely under itself, thus
forming a loop, and finally passes out of
sight deep down in q landward direction.
In its course it turns two flour mills,
which will give an idea of the strength
of the current. There is no tide in the
sea here, and the flow of the salt water
brook is perfectly steady and continuous.
The other stream disappears in the
ground in q similar way.
This curious phenomenon has not at
tracted much attention because Argos
toll is not on one of the regular tourist
routes. No one knows what becomes of
this water, but it probably flows to some
subterranean reservoir, and it may have
something to do with tho earthquakes
that occur in that neighborhood once in
g long while, or possibly it feeds some
distant volcano, for, as is we'll known,
the most generally accepted theory of
the cause of volcanic eruptions is that
they are due to steam generated from
water admitted through cracks in the
earth's crust or in some other way
Goldwaite's Magazine.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
The Eo.e Of Sharon NOT a Rose.

The ncl coronaria commonly
grows wild about Smyrna and in Asia
Minor, spreading far and wide as the
most beautiful of spring blossoms, grow
ing on chalk soil along the edges of
shrubbery. We cannot wonder that it
was already in ancient times a favorite
of the inhabitants and excited in poetic
minds sensations such as can only be e1-
cited by surprising beauty. 81 am the
rose of Sharon and the lily of the val
leys," sings the first verse of hesecond
chapter of Solomon's song, and there al
be no doubt today what is heremeant by
the rose of Sharon.
1t was an American, Fske P. Brewer,
who decided this question, Narcissus
Tazetta, which likewise grows in Pales-
tine, having previously been considered
the Biblical flower. This gentleman, ac-
cording to the Edinburgh Review of
1886, while travelling in the year 1859
from Jafa to Ranleh, came upon a place
where a considerable expanse of ground
was half covered with brilliant red
flowers. At the sight of them some of
his native companions Immediately ex-
claimed, Roses of Sharon" and when
he inquired about the name he was told
that the anemone was there universally
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
Plain Living,

To the ordinary housekeeping youth
plain living is usually the every day
diet to which he has always been accus-
toned, with little regard to its fitness or
wholesomcness. With a royal contempt
for divergent tastes, he is apt to give a
domestic version of the old saying, .'Or~
thodoxy is my doxy, so heterodoxy must
be yours" What suits him should suit
every one. The same spirit animated
DR.. johnson when he gave his famous
definition of 'oats" as sin England, food
for horses, in Scotland for men," But
the whirligig of time has so twisted af-
fairs around that the food at which the
great photographer sneered little more
than a hundred years ago is now an ar.
ticle of daily diet in thousands of En-.
glish homes. The plainest of plain liv-
ing it is to us nowadays, but the high
thinking of the Seventeenth and Eigh-
teenth centuries was cultivated on q very
different aliment. Yet who is prepared
to say that greater intellects have ever
been known in the English nation than
were produced in the days of FOSTERING.
wine bibbing and high living, when
such minds were developed as those Of
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Dryden, Add.
son, Swift, Pope aud countless others
whom time fails even to mention?-
Christine Terhune Herrick.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
How Old Ii Punch2

On landing at one of the sugar fac
tories we found that there was n fair GO
ing on under an avenue of tamarisks
close by. The dealers sat under the
trees with their wares before them, fruit
and vegetables in one quarter, cotton
and c~alicoes in another, native wooden
stuffs, robes, rugs, cloth, ETC., in a third;
there was also a cattle fair, sheep, buff
faloes, ca1nels and donkeys. There were
al fresco coffee stalls and a booth, with
in which the sounds of very noisy music
could be heard, the drum predominating.
We entered, and were much amused on
finding that it was an Arab Punch and
Judy show, but Punch Wore a turban
and Judy a yashmak.
The former perpetrated u series of
enormities, and ended by tearing off
Judy's veil during a family squabble;
after this he became a perfect d%esperado,
and on the mamou (chief magistrate of
the DISTRICT, got up in the official tar
boosh and blue frock coat, arriving, at
tended by q retinue of cawasses armed
with sticks, he knocked that redoubtable
parsonage head over heels, amid the vo-
ciferous applause of the assembled falla-
heen. Punch pasha's popularity was
now at its height, and much sympathy
was felt for him when his career termi-
mated by his being hanged on the pole
of a shadoof. 1t was really q very clever
and lively performance.
l turned to the inspector of the factory,
who was with me, and said, II suppose
they have borrowed this from Europe"
Borrowed it from Europe!" he en-
claimed. "Why, it was performed in
the east before Europe was thought of"
So then old Punch is, after all, but a de-
generate version of an Egyptian play
Stuart's EGYPT After the War"
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
Uncivil Railway Porters.

All English railway companies are
very particular about civility being
shown to the public, with perhaps one
exception, known to most railway men;
but even that company has now i'm
proved in this respect, as well as in many
others. A baldheaded director of this
company wa travelling with some stran-
gers, and at one of the stations one of
them asked the name of the place. A
porter pointed to the name board, re-
marking, Cant you read?" The direc-
tor was somewhat vexed, but said moth
ing. At the next station another of the
passengers asked if they changed there
for A.. "Sit still, and don't bother;
this amt a junction." the porter replied.
The director, who was much surprised
at the incivility Of the porters, told the
strangers who he was, and expressed re-
greet that they had been so spoken to. 81
will see, however," he said, "if they will
speak in the same way to me-" At tho
next station he put his head out of the
window, but could get no ones attention
till the train was moving off, when q
porter came up and shouted to him,
"Keep your bald head in, old buffer, or
you'll catch cold" He fumed with rage,
but the strangers seemed to enjoy his
defeat.
There was trouble at those three sta
tions the next day, and three faces were
seen no more on those platforms.-Cham-
bers' Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
An Indian. Challenpe,

Two tribes Of Indians in the upper
part of California had as boundary be-
tween their districts a low ridge where
the streams headed. Ifyou should.go to
where n of these streams, Potterriver,
rises you would see still standing.;a tall
pile of stones beside a never failing
spring. On n side of-this cairn was the
territory of the Pomo indians, and on the
other the land of the Chumaia. These
tribes were enemies, and were often OF
wal. When the Chumaia wished to
challenge the others to battle they took
three little sticks, cut notches round
their ends and in the middle, tied them
at the ends into a faggot and laid it on
this cairn. If the Pomos accepted the
challenge they tied a string around the
middle of the three sticks and left them
in their place. Then agents of both
tribes met on neutral ground and ar
ranged the time and place of battle,
which took place accordingly.-St. Mich
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
NEW ENGLAND CITY NOTES.

"o0
Edwin johnson has work at Dickin.
son.
Seeding is nearly completed in this
locality.
Mrs. E. B. Partridge is improving
in health.
H. 5. Wilkins will dip his sheep
this week.
John Hayden had business in Dick.
inson, Tuesday.
Fred Griswold is helping Frank
Gibbs for a few days.
Frank Heffron transacted business
in Dickinson this week.
Robbie Keene takes to herding with
the Zest of an old plainsman.
A. p. Folsom has many calls for
potatoes, and his stock will soon be
exhausted.
Mr.. Giles has located a ranch at the
mouth of Coal Bank creek on the
Cannon Ball.
The burnt district is now a beauti-
full sight, being covered with a carpet
of vivid green.
Geo. Harkins and wife stopped in
town Tuesday night. He says the
grass is in fine condition on the Cedar.
The Cannon Ball country will soon
be o~yerstocked with cattle and sheep
if they keep coming in, as they have
of late.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
A Sure Way of Killing Owls.

Frost Bunker, of the Dead river re-
gion, is a guide who, it is said, is u sue
cessful rival to James A. Smith, of Phil
lips-a Rangely guide-in story telling.
Frost is intimately acquainted with
"John Smith," who is well known in all
parts of the country. He says he was
with John on a hunting trip once on a
time, when they came upon a man who
had fred at an owl (perched in a big
tree) about IL dozen times without suc
cess. AS they approached the stranger
offered John a five dollar bill if he would
secure the owl. John cooked his rifle
and walked around the tree.
The owl turned his head in the same
direction as far rs John walked. John
kept on going around the tree, the owl
turning his head all the while. Just as
John completed the tenth circuit the
owls head was twisted off and he fell to
the ground dead. John said small owls
couldn't be killed that way because their
feet would fly up in turning.-Phillips
Me.) Photograph.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
An Old limo Editor.

A legal friend reminds me of old
Colonel Rogers, who published the Bos-
ton Journal before the war. He was
terribly conservative, and his paper was
delivered almost entirely to annual sub
scribers, although few copies were on
sale at the book stores. One day when
the colonel came down town he was hor-
ritied to see a boy with some Journals
under his arm shouting out, journal,
4 cents; Journal" Dazed for a minute,
he called the boy into a doorway and
asked, GLOW many Journals have you
there? Told, he took out his purse and
paid for them all, and ordered the boy
to run home and never to buy any Jour
nails again. He was so scandalized by
the occurrence that he said he felt al
most ashamed to meet his business ac-
qu%aintances for weeks. Times changed
when the war broke out, and the Jour
nal went on the street like other papers.
Boston Letter.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
Salaries of Old English Actors,

Kean never spent more than two or
three Thousand pounds upon q revival,
and this was considered marvellous in
those days. Messrs. Irving and Wilson
Barrett have more than doubled such
sums. Again, salaries were incompara-
bly, smaller. For some time John Ryder,
who played second to Kean, received
only three pounds ten shillings a week
until, discovering that another actor Of
about equal position was in the receipt
of eight pounds, he threatened to break
his engagement unless his salary was at
once doubled, a request which was COM
piled with. Now such an actor would
command from thirty to fifty pounds a
week. On the other hand, Kean raised
the ballet girls from a shilling a night,
their old pay, out of which they had to
find shoes and stockings, to a guinea y
week, and found them everything
London Tit-Bits.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
Some Priaon nora.

There lives at the big penitentiary on
Church street a family Of dogs which are
as interesting as any dogs in the state.
Some of them belong to the officials con-
nected with the prison and some belong
to the prison itself, but they all live and
eat together in perfect harmony. The
most prominent, perhaps, is the large
Newfoundland, Nellie, the property Of
F. II. Grass. She possesses almost hui
man intelligence, and thereseems hardly
a limit to her capacity for learning. She
will go errands, steal q hat off the head
OF the wearer or preach to you. She is
the mother of four curly, clumsy little
babies, whose frolicsome gambols she
watches with grave dignity.
Nellie loves her babies very much; in
fact she loves any kind of u child, and
will play with n by the hour. Her
master has a little four-year-oldg girl, and
when Nellie is there to see her they al
ways have a big romp. One of their
games is hide and seek. The little girl
goes and hides while Nellie is held with
hero eyes covered. When the time to
commence looking arrives Nellie scours
tho whole place and never fails to find
the little one. When found she gently
takes her by the arm and leads her to her
mother.
Another interesting dog living at the
prison is the great Danish mastif
DANTE" He is a glorious old fellow,
just such a dog as was the friend of
Little Lord Fauntleroy, and looks fero-
cious enough to eat up a man; but he
wouldn't, for he is sweet tempered and
amiable. He does not get a chance to
see many people except the convicts, but
he is very fond of children, and when
they come into the prison yard he fol-
lows them around, and will not leave
them as long as they stay in the yard.
There is also a fine greyhound, sew
eral hunting dogs and a saucy little
spaniel that takes liberties with the big
fellows. On pretty days they will have
a romp, and it is q funny thing to see
the greyhound jump clean over the whole
crowd when they run him too Close
Nashville American.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
Red Tape.


a distinguished general in command
of one of the military districts of the
United Kingdom gave Instructions to
an officer serving under him, who had
special qualifications for the work, to
prepare a scheme of defense for one of
the most important ports under his COM
mand. This officer, whose zeal was
above suspicion, prepared a very elab-
crate report, entering into the most
minute details, which he forwarded ac-
cording to his orders. He heard nothing
further about it for several months, until
at length it wa returned, when he
eagerly looked to see what remarks the
general had made upon his work. To
his disgust he found nothing until he
arrived at the last page of the report,
where was written, "You should have
used a wider margin"-Vanity Fair.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
The PIANO.
In Small Rooms 1t Is Now Made q Thing
Of Deauty and an ArtIstic Joy.

In Small Rooms It Is o Made q Thing
of Beauty AMI an Artistic Joy.
The magic skill Of modern decorators
has vanquished tho formidable aggres-
siveness even of the parlor piano. For
merly pianos were most obstinately,
hopelessly angular objects in a pretty
parlor, positively refusing to lend them
selves to any scheme of decoration. But
even a piano has possibilities, and since
these possibilities have been discovered
and realized the piano is the keynote of
tho whole decorative scheme. OF course
in all city parlors an upright piano is
used, and instead Of being set back
against the wall like a child in disgrace,
it is now turned out into the room al
most at right angles, which is decidedly
nor agreeable to the performer. The
back of the instrument is then draped
with some beautiful material, hanging
like a curtain to the floor.
Sometimes a plain piece of Roman
shecting is used, a silken damask or
P%ompadour velvet, with the main color
in harmony with the room. Some
ladies introduce a small picture or bit of
embroidery in ono upper corner, around
which the drapery is hung gracefully, or
clever necdlewolnen cmbroider the
whole drapery in quaint, odd designs.
A scarf of silk harmonizing with the
hanging at the back falls over the top of
the piano, and there arc candelabra or
som light pieces of bric-a-brac that will
not rattle when the instrument is in use.
Such are the possibilities of a piano as
an object of decorative art, but wonder
full indeed are its possibilities in another
direction.
Placed lear a bay window, it shuts in
tho contest lovers nest imaginable.
Soft cushioned window seats that have
room for just two-intuitive seats they
might be called-are hidden thus away
completely from the cold, cruel world.
Smokers retreats with little couches
may be hidden in the shadow of such a
piano when rich hangings fall from a
corner window. Or a delightful tea cor
ner is made with q screen for a doorway,
and soft divans and dim lights inside.
Miss Georgia Cayvan has such a tea cor
ner in her artistic little house in Harlem.
The back of the piano is hung with a
soft shade of yellow, brocaded with dull
green leaves and flowers. Against this
the little tea table is placed, with its
dainty belongings, and q low chair be-
side it where the hostess presides.
A yellow cushioned divan extends en-
tirely around this corner, lighted by the
soft radiance of a lamp with a pale green
shade, and piled high with a bakers
dozen of pillows-large and small and
medium-with bright silken covers
New York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
Substance and Form in Literary Judgment

Substance and Form in Literary Judgment.
And is it not true that from the nature
of things the contemporary judgment
lays most stress on substance, and that
the 'fnal" judgment is favorable to
form? Substantially speaking, how many
historic things of immense contemporo' "
vogue seem insipid to us, whereas SCI rec.
ly anything of very great formal. merit
has been allowed to perish?
In other words. is there Acknowledgement
of universally about perfection of form
which significance of thought does not
possess? or, at any rate, is not perfection
moro nearly attainable in form than it is
in substance? And nothing is so pre-
sentative as perfection or any approach
to it.
One thing is very certain-neglect of
form involves tho sacrifice of an element
of positive attractiveness as well as Of
Tending positively by perverseness and &C.
centricity. Whether rhyme and rhythm.
cadence, purity, lawlessness, melody
are essential ornot to poetry, the aban-
d%on'nent Of the artistic quality which
they imply is obviously a loss.-Scrib-
ner'S,
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
SO called.

so called.
In truth it would not be easy other
wise to speak of a rose in Palestine, for
native roses do not exist there-at least
not where they would justify the associ-
alton of the plain of Sharon with their
lame. Wild roses are found in Pales-
tine only or Lebanon, or where, here
and there, R. centifolia is cultivated for
the production of altar, as in the Wadi-
el-Werd Rose-valley), near Hebron.
According to Ebcrs and Guthe, in their
Palestine" the translations of the
Bible often use the word rose where
there is no warrant for understanding
by it a truo rose. The roses of Persia
and Media were not introduced into
Palestine before tho Grecian period
llustrirte Garden-Zeitung.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from prac-
tice, having had placed in his hands by
an East India missionary the formula Of
a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy
and permanent cure of Consumption,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and ali
Throat and Lung Affections, also a posi-
tive and radical cure for Nervous De-
bility and all Nervous Complaints, after,
having tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, has felt it
ing fellows. Actuated by this motive
and q desire to relieve human suffering,
I will send free of charge, to all who
desire it, this recipe, i'll German, French
or English. with full directions for pre-
pairing and using. Sent by mail by adj
dressing with stamp, naming this paper.
w. A. NoyEs, s2O Powers Block, Roch-
ester N. Y.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
Laughable Newspaper Mistakes.

A Syracuse printer, in setting up a
book publishers advertisement, con-
strued one of Dickens works thus: "Bar-
ney, by Rudge, $780," Misprints are
sometimes very ludicrous in their sig
n%iicance. A country paper gives an ac-
count of an amateur concert in which a
young lady received a well deserved en-
core by the exquisite taste in which she
sang can Angels Whisker." In Dr..
Wayland's time a meeting of the Amer
lean Scientific association was held in
this city. The doctor gave a party to
the association. His friends were con-
siderably surprised the next morning to
find it reported in the newspapers that
Dr.. Wayland had given a billiard party
instead of a brilliant party.-Providence
Journal.
The Dickinson press., 1891-05-02
1t Was Not He That Worried.

"Now, sir" cried Mr.. Bagwig fero-
ciously, 'attend to me! Were you not
in difficulties a few months ago?"
"No."
CHOW, sir! Attend to my question, 1
ask you again, and pray be careful in
answering, for you are on your oath. 1
need hardly remind you. Were you not
in difficulties some months ago??"
ono; not that I know Of"
"Sir, do you pretend to tell this court
that you did not make a composition
with your creditors q few months ago?'
A bright smile of intelligence spread
over the ingenious face of the witness as
he answered:
''Oh! ah! That's what you mean, is
it? But, you see, it was my creditors
who were in difficulties, and not me."-
Green Bag.