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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
Guard for Street Railway Cars.


The advent of the cable and electric car
into street railway traffic, with their higher
speed of travel, has nccessitated greater
care being taken against accidents to the
public. Among other things it has been
found that the guard hitherto employed
does not hang low enough to prevent a
PROSTATE person from being caught and
dragged over the pavement. An improved
guard has been invented, which is suspend
ed close to the track by means of vertical
arms depending from the car bottom. The
point of the guard has n small junction
wheel %journaled SO as to engage the road
bed or cable track.
The guard frame is pressed downward
by bow springs bearing on each of it's in
clined bars. Directly below each bar Of
the guard is journaled a roller which forms
the bottom of the guard, and these rollers
coming down to within an nch of the track
will not allow space for a person to get be-
meath. Should a car run against a pros
trate person the acute inclination will
brush him aside, the roller allowing of a
rotary motion, SO that the subject of the
accident is rolled off with the least chance
of being bruised, which would not be pos
sible in the guards formerly used.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
ISefriEentOrS.

There has been great improvement in re-
frigerators since they were first intro
duced. The old fashioned ice box lined
with charcoal or some other n%on-conductor
of heat was formerly all we had for keep
ing ice. BY improved methods n great
deal of the time and material has been
saved in the manufacture Of refrigerators,
and a thoroughly trustworthy one may
now be purchased for ten dollars and up
ward. An ice box or ice chest, when the
ice is in the same compartment rs the food,
is not so expensive, and it keeps the food
colder, but there is greater waste of ice,
and it is a great deal more trouble to keep
clean. 81
Some of the best refrigerators are fur
nished with shelves of slate, and still
others are made with the entire compart-
ments where the food is kept lined with
stoneware. These are considerably more
expensive than Il zinc lined refrigerator.
The smallest Of those made with stone
ware compartments cost $25. 1t seems as
if the food kept in them would he more
wholesome than that kept in IL zinc lined
refrigerator, which is so apt to nave a close,
stuffy odor, no matter how often it is
washed.-New York Tribune.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
Derivation of Two Flowers Names.

A tuberose is not a rose, although the
majority of English speaking people say it
is, because they give the word only two
syllables-tube-rose. The tuber-ose is the
Polyanthes tuberosa, q Towering, dubious
plant, belonging to the East Indies. It has
knots. or tubers, connected into a bunch,
as in the potato.
Nor has our dandelion any connection
with a fop or q lion. To call a dandelion
akin in any way to the fop is as pertinent
as the translation certain English garden
ers give to the we'll known rose-the rose
des quatre saisons-the rose of the four
seasons. which they call the "Rose of the
Quarter Sessions" as though it had some
connection with the bench and the bar and
the administration Of justice. The word
dandelion is from the French dent de lion,
the lions tooth, and in Greek the flower is
the leontoden. also lions tooth, from the
shape of its petals, which are fancied to be
like the teeth of lions.-Harper's Young
People.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
Paying to See Himself Perform.

The following amusing incident hap
pened to Mr.. j. w. Turner, proprietor of
the Turner Opera company, while at the
Grand Theatre, Birmingham. Being rather
late arriving at the theater n evening he
proceeded to the front entrance to save
time in going round to the stage door. AS
he was passing the ticket office he was
pulled up rather sharply by the collector
with:
"Where's your ticket?"
81 haven't got one." was the meek reply;
''I'm MI. j. w. Turner"
"You don't say SOP" was the sarcastic
rejoinder. "I've had your sort here be-
fore; but you're not coming in without a
ticket"
All his efforts to prove his identity were
fruitless, so, seeing that further argument
was useless, he was on the point of paying
for admission when he was instantly rec
ognized by one of the officials, who, taking
in the situation at a glance, came and ex-
planned matters to the thunderstruck tick
ct collector, who wa profuse with apollo
gies. Mr.. Turner laughed heartily at the
idea of paying to see himself perform
London Tit-Bits.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
A Bean Bakers Rare Coins.

The finest coin collection in all Boston is
that of Parmelee, a baker up on East
Chester Park. He bakes nothing but beans
Boston baked beans-and all the money
he makes he puts into old coins. His col
lection is wor III between $4,000 and $4,000.
He had a complete set of American silver
dollars-the only set in Boston to my
knowledge. What makes this set hard to
fill is the scarcity of dollars of 1904. There
are only some thirteen or fourteen of these
in existence, and they are worth 500 apiece.
Idon't believe there are any floating around
the country undiscovered. The dealers
know where every one of these dozen and
odd coins are, and can't be imposed upon
by a counterfeit, for the great value of
this particular coin has caused it to be
counterfeited, or, rather, to be initiated by
taking dollars of 1901 date and fixing them
over.-Interview in st. Louis Globe Demo-
Graf.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
Thoroughly Fair Minded.

Some time ago one Of St. Pan1s pfomt
neut-dealers in musical instruments gave
IN opening, embracing an attractive enter
tsinmcnt, to the public. The succeeding
day q young man, denominated h circus
patois rs a "Reub,' walked leisurely into
he.establishment and said:
Got my ice cream on draughtW
'sThis is not a ~refrcshment bazar," 70
piled a salesman softly.
II knowed that, but yer had some in
here yesterday"
ooh, yes, that was an opening day, and
We did entertain a large number of our
friends with cream. You should have been
around"
II warn't, though, but I kinder reck-
one you might have some left over.
Couldn't yer to give away some
if q man was to buy a musical instru-
ment?" and the youth picked up a forty
dollar guitar, thrummcd it carclessly, at
the same time resting his basiiisk eye on a
$50 upright piano.
IL think we could: Charlie, see if there
isn't some cream in the back room for this
gentleman. Please walk right in, sir"
The prospective customer walked in as
directed and was handed a nut brown
chocolate ice.
eyer give some cake. too, yesterday, I
understand"
A plate of macaroons, jelly cake and
lady's fingers was promptly placed beside
him, after which he demanded a glass OF
ice water. The repast over, he re-entercd
the salcsroom, wiping his mouth on the
back of Il big hand.
"Wall, Pm through" he said.
eyes, sir; now what can ! do for your"
"Of course don't propose to eat your
cream under false prctenses. You've toted
squar with me an lll tote squar with
you. You may give me one of them nickel
apiece kazoos l seed in Their windcr." st.
Paul Globe.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
Points of Interest.

This fact stands out in the midst OF
the disastrous experience of numerous
sheep raisers in the past half dozen
years: The price Of wool has been like
the Indians description Of the white
man, "mighty onsartain," but more and
more mutton has been consumed every
wear. The inhabitants of the United
States are becoming a sheep eating peo-
pie, and you can depend on that. When
wool does not pay, therefore, you can be
sure that good fat mutton always will.
In western Colorado mutton brings a
better price per pound than beef.
The hogs of Maine, Rhode Island and
Connecticut bring the highest price per
head of those of any of the states.
The yea 1890 has added more than a
Thousand new trotters to the $3.50 list in
America.
A movement is now on foot to cross
the American trotting horse with En-
plish hackneys. I'll is expected that from
This cross an animal will result which
will possess the speed of the trotter n
the strength and size Of the hackney.
It is hoped to produce a superior car
rage horse from the cross.
Big hogs are raised in South Dakota in
spite of the belief that swine thrive best
in a warmer climate. A farmer near
Sioux Falls lately sold seventy-fve hogs
that averaged 1875 pounds apiece. But
how old were they?
If the sheep is healthy and growing.
putting on flesh instead Of shrinking,
the mutton will not have a woolly flavor.
It is the sheep that is on the down grade
that produces woolly mutton.-Field
and Farm.
Easter, farmers should think how it
would seem to go out among their herds
some morning and find that from fifty
to a hundred Of their best and latest
cattle have been killed or stolen during
the night. This is what the redskins
have been at in some localities.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18

There is a tradition that Hannibal was
born in Malta. This famous and historic
island was the chief stronghold in the
Mediterranean of the Carthaginiuns of old,
as it is now of the English. There and tn
the neigLboring island of Coco there still
remain extensive ruins Of Carthag3nian (or
Phnenician) temples and an abundance OF
0D1thaoinian Graves
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
Two Relatives.

An absent minded in this town
started down street the other day and slip
ped and fell fat. In recovering herself she
got turned around and started back home.
She is q cousin to a woman who started to
prepared the evening meal recently, when
she sneezed, and upon recovering, thought
she was "doing up'' the supper dishes.
She put everything away nicely and sat
down for a quiet evening. -Fairlield (Me.)
journal
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
Dreary as q Nightmare.

"I've got a horse" said the horse dealer
e%loquently, "that for gentleness can't be
beat"
"Gentle, is he? Sure he wouldn't throw
me2"
"Throw you! Why, sir, that beast never
threw anything in its life."
''Then l don't want him."
"Why not?"
"a horse that never threw a shadow is
too ethereal for me. Pm a heavyweight
mysclf."-St. Joseph News.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18

Allowing for the BLASTING overs until an
other year of the plush cape, the white
dress, flannel skirt, and the tricot dress,
there is margin enough left to pay the
dressmaker for one cutting and basting,
and to buy dress Innings, elastic for hose
supporters. thread, sewing silk, darmins
cotton and worsted for a small amoun of
fancy work, rs we'll as the half dozen
~handkerchiefs and the few ribbons, which
exc out my friends successful dressing at
60 q year.-Edith Miniter in Boston Globe
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
The WoOlly West.

The Big Timber Pioneer takes pride
in recounting the following facts to the
credit of it's town and county in general:
One million six hundred thousand pounds
of wool shipped from Big Timber the
past season, valued at 1Scents per pound;
%, 900 mutton sheep shipped, valued at
s.. 10 per head: L 10000 stock sheep sold to
Dakota parties at an average Of $3.50
per head; nine cars of cattle shipped at a
value of $3S5 per head.-Montana Live
Stock Journal.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
A Little Girls Idea.

Gentleman Visitor ito best girls little
won't you let me kiss you?
Little Sister Qoftily)-No; / don't allow
all the gentlemen to kiss me us sister does.
There's q great difference in people. you
know.-West Shore.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
Blind Men Are Piano Tuners.

All the pianos owned by the city of Bos-
ton are tuned by blind men. The South
Boston institution has a contract with the
school board to keep all the pianos in the
public schools Of the city in tune and re-
pair. There are $50 and upward Of them,
many of the number expensive concert
grands. The blind tuners from the insti-
tuition have taken care of them for thirteen
years aud given perfect satisfaction .-Bos-
ton Record.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
Royal J%ocularity,

Lord Salisbury-Have you ever calcu-
lated, your highness, the number Of UNI
brellas you have used since you ascended
the throne?
Queen victoria-I suppose nc more than
other folks.
Lord Salisbury-I was thinking you did.
You know we have had fifty years of con-
tinuous reign.
And Lord Tweedledum and the Marquis
Of Bareacres burst out in a loud haw-haw.
Jewellers Circular.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
REARING
What Veteran English Breeder Has -
Saw About 1t.

Say About 1t.
John Handley, of Greenhead, West
moreland, who is n of the most sue
cessful breeders and exhibitors in Eng
land today, gives in The Breeders Ga
zette his views on breeding as follows:
If l were starting a new herd of Short
horns l should buy the best looking
females that l could lay hold of, COM
bining milking and beef producing quail
tiles, making doubly sure they were of a
good, sound constitutional family. We
breeders must endeavor to produce a
good milking Shorthorn, and when dry
a cow that will quickly get fat. 1 be-
lieve we have Shorthorns in this district
that combine, as a rule, the milking and
feeding properties in a way that no
other breed of cattle in the world can
equal.
As to the selection of a male Short
horn as a sire for stock purposes gener-
ally, l am always particular to try to
obtain an animal with the best individ-
ual merit; I always hesitate to use a bull
unless he is descended from a good milk
ing family. His dam ought to have a
good sized and nicely shaped udder, and
his grandam also. During the last ten
or fifteen years I have used bulls de-
scended from the champion Royal En-
glish blood. If any person asks me
what | would prefer to use as a sire I
should reply a Champion Of England
bull descended from a first class family
on both male and female side. may
state that I have had the pleasure Of u.s.
ing in the Greenhead herd of Shorthorns
something like ten Royal and Highland
of Scotland first and champion prize
winners during the last ten years. My
motto in buying a male animal for herd
purposes is, buy the best animal I can
lay hold of descended from good milk
and beef producing parents, giving fash
ionable and line breeding only a second
ary consideration.
In breeding Shorthorns of the present
day, when fashion and line breeding are
fast dying out of date, it is good looking
and strong constitutional and robust
animals that breeders must try and
breed to make Shorthorn breeding pay.
It is my humble opinion that fashionable
OF line breeding and the craze that some
people got for blood and fashion was the
greatest curse that ever occurred in
Shorthorn breeding.
The sires that have generally been
used at Greenhead have had a strong adj
mixture of Booth blood. From no one
herd in Great Britain of late years, I be-
lieve, have descended more Royal and
Highland winners than the herd of the
late William Linton, of Sheriff Hutton,
W. York, who generally usedpure Booth
sires and who was the breeder of Sir
Arthur Ingram and Beau Benedict, used
at Greenhead and Englewood Bank, two
of the most impressive sires of late years,
and from which more Royal and High
land winners have descended than al
most any other two bulls. If you have
good sires and good dams I think people
are bound to breed something good,
either for the show yard or the sale
ring.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
True -Independence.

The stock farmer has the most indie.
pendent life in the world. says The West
ern Agriculturist. His stock and grass
grows day and night, rain or shine, with
out a host of hands to feed and pay off.
He is more independent of the bad sea-
sons than the grain grower, who loses a
crop when the season is bad. True,
there is nothing now to brag of in prices
of stock, but still it is better than any
other business on the farm, and if we
have high grade stock we get the top Of
the markets that pay well even in these
times,
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
She Knew Her Bic.

Can we not meet alone on Sunday" he
whispered eagerly as lie rose to 20.
"No,' said the bankers daughter sadly;
mot very well. Sunday is not a legal day
for meeting a loan. If / can help you any
other day''--
But the darkness had swallowed him up.
st. Joseph News.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18
Help Wanted.

Ambitious Youth see you advertise
for q pushing young man. I would ike
the position.
Grocer-AIl right. Here are forty or
fifty orders to deliver. You will find the
push cart at the back d~oor.-Good News.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-04-18

Ruskin is a very small man physically,
and a person beholding him for tne nTsS
time is sure to be disappointed IN MN. he
has xiisNeet and fascinating smile very
Aght blue eyes.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-08
BABY CURED OF ECZEMA
Mothers and: minister's Testimony. Head
Mass of Putrefaction. Doctor
Fails. Cured in Quick Time
by Cuticura.

deem It my duty to inform you of the Won
derful cure OF eczema which CUTICTRA RENE
DIES brought upon our little baby, three months
ola When about two and one half months old,
the whole Of its little head became one mass OF
putrefaction, over which we became very much
alarmed. as the medicine prescribed by our
physician only seemed to aggravate and In,
crease the intense pain the little thing seemed
to be in. We were utterly at o loss to know what
to do, as the physician seemed TO have exhaust
ed all efforts 10 give relief. But through the
recommendation Of Rev. j. G. Ahern, pastor OF
the Brooks Circuit NJ. f. Church Society, we
were induced to try the CUTIcURA Remedies,
and after few days application, we were as.
tonished as well as delighted over the result.
We continued the use OF the medicine according
to directions, and after few weeks, the little
fellow was entirely cured with no traces OF the
disease left Many thanks for this wonderful
cure MRS JOHN HOLSTEIN,
Onitnan. Ga.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-08
The Fire Committee.

The Council Committee on Fire De-
partment met last night, and accepted
the invitation of the Trades and Labor
Committee to take part in the parade
the goth inst. The entire department
will turn out.
Chief Healy called the attention of
the committee to the plug at the Nc
Lure House corner, and said telegraph
pole stood too close to it to permit the
opening Of the plug quickly with a
wrench in case of emergency. From
this the committee fell into a discussion
Of the advisability of providing hand
wheels with which to open plugs in
stead Of wrenches, and the chief was
instructed TO ascertain the cost Of such
wheels.
Mr.. Horstman was appointed sub
committee to supervise the making of a
sewer connection at the Eight ward
hose house.
MessrS. Happy and Otto, and the
Chief, were appointed subcommittee
to hurry up work at the Vigilant engine
house.
The Clerk reported that the engines
had been insured for three years, for
$500.
Mr.. Marsh made application for some
chairs, blinds and wall paper for the
Island house.
1t was announced that the bids for the
new work at the Atlantic would close
this evening.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-08
SMALL TALK.
Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
Pithily Told.

Minor Matters of Interest Briefly and
PithIly Told.
THERE were but two cases in Police
Court yesterday, both DRINKS.
EDWARD SMITH is out in challenge to
John Muth, OF Bellaire, for a glove con-
test.
IDAB. WHITE was yesterday granted a
divorce from Andrew NJ. White by Judge
PAUL.
TIE work of hoistlng iron on the chan,
mel span of the new bridge to the 1siano
has commenced.
THE Y. p. S. G. E., Of the Third Pres
byterian Church, will meet tomorrow
evening at 1880 O'Clock.
THE work of taking up the bridge over
the old channel of Caldwells Kun on
Chapline street, will be finished IN lew
days.
THE Glenn,s Run Sunday school pic
nicked at the park Thursday. There were
seventy nine persons present ana all Spent
an enjoyable day.
GEORGE B. CALDWELL was yesterday
constituted an attorney in West virginia
| for the Electric Car Brake SAFETY AlIacn-
ment Company.
A MARRIAGE license has been issued yes
| terday, to Henry Hall native OF Wheei-
ing aged %, and George CUT, native OF
| Wheeling aged "a.
THE Faculty of the Wheeling Business
| College, whose advertisement appears III
another column, is stronger than ever ior
the ensuing term.
THE Mystic Crew Fishing Club, VINO
have been down the river for several weeks
fishing, returned last night Inc party
consists of Eighth ward boys.
Mrs. MAGpALINE HEBRANK, the estima-
BILE wife of Mr.. Anthony Hebrank, dled at
her home yesterday afternoon at nVe
O'Clock, at the advanced age OF 81 years.
Miss GRACE JONES, of Dillies Bottom,
| opposite Moundsville, will give lawn leUe
at her home next Thursday evening, Ior
the benefit of the .Moundsville Catnolic
Church. The steamer Phillips Will run
down for the accommodation OF thoSe ue-
string to attend from this city
THE Hill Fishing club, of the sixth
ward, are having good time ana caUcning
plenty Of fish at Thompson, W. va. Iney
will give a catfish lunch Sunday afternoon,
| to which all of their friends are invited.
The officers of the Pine Hill are as follows /;
President, George Laury; treasurer, VIM
Falstick: cook, Loky Myers; second COOK
Eddie Schotzinger.
NELSON SHARKS, of the Island, had
close call yesterday. He went
to the cupboard to get get "a cot dose tSe
hartshorn bottle. big gulp followed but
before swallowing it he discovered his mis-
take, and with an energy impelled by a
realization of the terrible consequences, ne
emitted the poison. He is now nursing a
mouth and throat as raw as raw can be.
A SOUTH SIDE young lady YESTERDAY,
went to a telephone in a grocery and called
up well known dry goods house to inquire
about package. The operator at the cen
trail station cut her off and refused to allow
her to use the telephone. The young lady
was very indignant. 81 suppose they
would tell me ought 10 have telephone
at my home" she said, ''when only have
occasion to 'use 1t half dozen times
q year. Mr.. has his telephone for
| his business, and If he cannot talk to his
customers, there is no use Of having tele-
phone" This complaint is frequently
made.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-08
Rasa Ball Notes.

The Howleytown Growers challenge
the North End Clippers for game Sun
day afternoon, August 9th, If accepted,
answer through this paper.
The Red Lion Specifics and the East
Liverpool club will play at Recreation
Park this afternoon. The East Liver
pool club is now in the lead in the race
for the pennant and an interesting game
is promised.
The Dutchy Combs defeated the ].
w. Kemples in a we'll contested game
on the Tunnel Green yesterday by a
score OF IS to 70. The Kemples have
been organized for three years and this
Is their first defeat. Batteries for
Combs, Combs and Hazlet; Kemples,
Marcus and Leach. Home runs, Combs,
2. Haylet -