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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26
RucKl,N,s ARNIcA sALvE,

The best salye in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
JOSEPH Z. BENNETT. 29ly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26
Too FarIy to pecide,

Jones-Why, how do you do, Smith?
heard you got bad scald last week.
SMITH don't know whether did or
not. You see. l got married and haven't
had time 10 decide whether it's bad
scald or not.-Arcols Record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26
Ills DECKER

Judge; Mr.. Pinelands (from Jersey)
Il reck'n I've found e at last. This is
the produce exchange bmldin', amt il?
Messenger-Ees
Mr.. Pinelands-Good Here's four
dozen eggs. an you can hustle an git
me yallar neck-han' kerchief with red
spots. hand of chewin' -terbacker, an
a small bladder of snuff fer mother.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria-
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gavethem Castoria.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26

The best and surest dye to color the
beard broaOn or black, as may be desired,
is Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers.
II never fails.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26
Rheumatism Cured in a Day,

"Mystic Cure for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in l to days,
Its action upon the system is remark
able and mysterious. 1t removes at once
the cause and the disease Immediately
disappear. The first dose greatly ben
efts. Is cents. Sold by Stone &
Hassell, Druggists, Lancaster, 48ly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26

Chicago Post: A live wire created
great CONSERVATION in Philadelphia the
other day, as any live thing usually does
in the Quaker City.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26
Rare California Views.

Enclose stamp for catalogue. Sam
pie of views will be sent upon receipt Of
twenty-five cents.
California Art Gallery, Santa Rosa,
Cal. 4Sly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26

Boston Courier: In Sad Plight
Belated passenger when does the
next train goP" Ticket agent-"It's
just gone. ;"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26

New Orleans Picayune: Cheerfulness
has been called the bright weather of
the heart. People who have it are
always welcome.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26
IMPLEMENTS USED BY GOLD BEArER

that the beating Is done on is about 8
feet in height, the Top surface being
ground down perfectly smooth, so as to
prevent the blows of the hammer from
cutting the under side of the mold
Scientific American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
HOW TO THROW THE LAsSo.

Hats TO Boys Who Are Anxious to Be-
come Experts.
There is no reason in the world why
any American boy with common outdoor
pluck may not become an expert with
the lasso il he desires. IT is beautiful
and useful accomplishment and noble
training to eye and hand, and wish all
my young countrymen were asclever at it
as my Indian friend, Francisco, who has
kindly come over 10 let me photograph
him in the positions desired to make my
description perfectly clear.
The standard lasso is forty feet long
and three-eighths-to one-half an inch in
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26

Elmira Gazette: The man who would
shine in society must first learn to dance
begin at the foot. as it were.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26

St. Joseph News: Six hundred fathers
have named their babies after Chauncey
M. Depew. But for while they will
be chiefly before-dinner speakers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26

five or six feet high is the best. Begin
at distance of twelve or fifteen feet,
which may be increased as you gain pro-
flciency to the range of your rope
thirty-fve feet.
Taking your position, whip out the
rope, reeve the handend through the
houda, and run it up till the moose is
about seven feet long. Then take the
hand-end in your left hand and coil the
rope carefully TO it until you are within
six feet of the moose. Take the rope
foot on each side of the houda together
in your right hand-as Francisco is
doing in figure No. thus making a
temporary extra loop to prevent the
houda from slipping forward and shut
ting the moose.
Now you are ready to ''aim." Stand
with your right foot a little forward,
lift the right arm till the fist easily
clears the head-about as in swinging
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26

st. Joseph News: The first deviled
ham known was the one that resulted
from the evil spirit entering into the
swine
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26
To Farmers!

Horse Bills and Sale Bills, Of every
kind, printed at the Herald office on short
notice and at reasonable prices.
A free notice Of all bills printed given
in the Herald.
Our facilities for doing all kinds Of
Job Work are UNSURPASSED
If you cannot come in write out what
you want, state price you wish to pay,
send by mail, and we will put in shape
and guarantee satisfactory job.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26

At Druggists and Dealers, or sent by mail on
receipt OF p cts. % Packages 800 in stamps.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-26

Ca.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24
Catching Terrapin.

In the shoal water along the coast
south of Cape Henlopen, terrapin are
caught in various ways. Dredges
dragged along in the wake of sailing
vessel pick them up. Nets stretched
across some narrow arm of river or bay
entangle the feet of any stray terrapin
in their meshes; but these require the
constant attendance of the fisherman to
save the catch from drowning. In the
winter, in the deeper water, the terrapin
rise from their muddy quarters on mild
sunny days and crawl along the bottom.
They are then taken by tongs, their
whereabouts being often betrayed by
bubbles.
Turtles will rise at any noise, and usu-
ally the fisherman only claps his hands,
though each hunter has his own way of
attracting the terrapin. One hunter
whom | saw uttered a queer cultural
noise that seemed to rise from his boots.
Whatever the noise, all turtles within
hearing-whether terrapin or snapper"
will put their heads above water. Both
are welcome and are quickly sold to the
marketmen. The snapper slowly appears
and disappears, leaving scarcely rip
pie; and the hunter cautiously approach
ing usually takes him by the tail. The
terrapin, on the contrary, is quick, and
will descend in an oblique direction, SO
that hand-net is needed unless he hap
pens to come up near by. If he is near
enough the man jumps for him. The
time for hunting is the still hour at
either sunrise or sunset st. Nicholas.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24

In one of our large establishments
connected with the iron industry
there occurred recently an apparent
discrepancy in the accounts involving
matter of 5000 pounds of scrap iron.
The clerks of the department were
set to work to unravel the tangled
skein, and after they had expended
two whole days in the search they
were compelled to give up the task
and pronounce it beyond their compre-
hension. Thus matters stood for
several days.
Several days later the office-boy de-
cidcd to keep himself in practice in
addition by footing up a column of
figures on a sheet which was lying on
desk beside him in the scrap-iron
department. Bending his energies to
the task he got along swimmingly
with the units, tens, and hundreds
columns, but when he came to the
fourth column he could not make it
agree with the footings set down.
Again and again he tried it and with
the same results, 900 less. Going
over the figures one by one his atten-
tion was drawn to queer looking
one. A fly spcck was beside it in such
position as TO make it appear like a
four, and as such it had been counted
by each of the clerks in the depart
ment. The boy had earned his pro-
motion, and he got it.-Philadelphia
Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24
An Enormous Woman.

A funeral and burial took place at
Newton, Ill.,, some days ago which at
tracted more than the usual amount of
attention on account of the size of the
person who had died. Miss Rosella
Kibler died at the house of her father,
John G. kibler, prominent Jasper
county farmer At the time of her death
she was nineteen years of age and
weighed 50S pounds, being without doubt
one of the largest persons known consid-
ering her age. She is supposed to have
died of pneumonia, probably coupled
with fatty degeneration. Her growth
had been most marked during the last
five years.
Being very modest girl her size was
a source of worry and anxiety to her, SO
much so that three or four years previous
to her death she could not be induced to
accompany her parents to the neighbor-
ing village where they did their market
ing.
Some idea of her size may be formed
from the fact that when living she was
unable to pass through an ordinary door
without turning sideways. When she
died it was necessary to have q coffin
specially constructed. The coffin as con-
structed measured six feet in length,
three feet in width and twenty -one inches
in depth, and when the coffin was re-
moved from the house it was necessary
TO take out the side of the room. The
strength of ten men, with the assistance
of handspikes and skids, was required to
load the remains into wagon New
ton Qll.) Advocate.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24
Grabbing in the Hudson.

If were asked, says Hudson River
steamboat captain, what the favorite
style of fishing was around the city,
wouldn't stop long to say, Grabbing" !"
| get so tired of seeing people "crab-
bing," | wish they'd all die off or invent
some new shellfish that was as easy to
catch. As | go up and down the Hud-
son every day, when the tides right, /
see an unbroken line of ''crabbers." |
should say the daily catch must average
u great many hundred bushels. Where
the crabs all come from i can't imagine.
And this fifty miles of "crabbers' amt,
as rule, those that are catching them
for sale; they're just residents on the
banks that come down to get few for
little salad they're going to make.
Every Sunday thousands of people come
from the city, swarm into the boats, and
station themselves out in FIVE or six feet
of water, and fish for crabs all day, or as
long as they'll take the bait. 1t isn't
very dangerous sport; any child can do
it, and | suppose that's what makes it so
popular. Most of the boats are provided
with five or six lines, with a piece of
meat on the end of each, which lies on
the bottom. They pull up one after the
other round and round, till they happen
to find crab on the end of one. Then
they net him, and throw the line over
board, and then go on. Sixty crabs are
a good mornings catch.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24
The Home of the Sardine.

The sardine is little fish that runs in
schools of myriads at certain seasons
along the coasts of France, Spain and
Italy. No one knows where it comes
from or just why it frequents those shores
periodically; but there is no doubt that
it is very good to eat, especially pre-
served in olive oil. The business Of pre-
pairing it in this way is an important in
dustry in the countries mentioned, and
great were the lamentations few years
ago when for while it exhibited dis
position to alter its habits and sheer off
to sea after passing the Straits of Gibralter
on its way north, without giving the
fishermen of the Bay of Biscay, oh! so
much as a chance to make it captive
for the pot. However, there are many
kinds of sardines which have done this
original species the compliment to assume
its name. Norway puts up small herring
as 'sardines." So does Japan, export
ing large quantities. Germany does an
immense export business in "Russian
sardines," which are simply herring
cooked and packed with spices. Before
the Franco -Prussian war great quantities
of these Russian sardines were sold in
this country. That tremendous conflict
interrupted the supply, and dealers on
this side of the water bethought them
selves that there was similar fish,
plentiful beyond numbers, in the New
England waters which might be u suitable
substitute. From the demand thus un-
expectedly originated arose the present.
Washington Star.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24
Remarkable Longevity.

An aged Cossack named Michael Cav
rylovitch Khlebnikoff, from the village
of Yessentook, Russia, was met recently
in the "Yar" restaurant of Vladikaukas
City He has no daughters, but rejoices
in family of seven sons, thirty grand
sons and seven at-grandsons, who are
all living and in good health. They live
in ideal harmony under the same roof,
the numerous progeny obeying, without
question, the commands of their aged
relative, who governs the entire family
like patriarch. According to his state
ment Khlebnikof has wife still living
ut the age of eighty eight. TO all in
quiries concerning his own age he invar-
iably answers: "Oh, SO many years have
passed away | cannot remember" But
he declares that when Catharine the
Great died lin 1866 he was fifteen years
old, so that he must now be 10 years of
age. He still enjoys vigorous health,
having never had one days sickness
during his long life.-[New York Re-
cordcr.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24
MEXICANS ALL GAMBLE.
1t Is the Ruling Craze and Even
Children Indulge in Ii.

"Gambling is the ruling passion in
Mexico" said Charles +. Hughes, of the
City of Mexico, who was Palmer House
guest, while on his way to New York,
says the Chicago News.
EVERY one, from children ten and
twelve years of age TO old men and
women, indulge in it. Every member of
every class of society tries to win the
favor of the tickle goddess Fortune, for
gambling is not looked upon by Mexicans
as most glaring vice, as it is by North
erners. The former are more lenient in
the matter of public morals.
"Each saloon has various games of
chance, but the whir of the wheel and
the click Of the ball one notes after pas
sing various Jealous guards in the re-
sorts of your city are seldom heard
there.
"Monte is the national Mexican game,
as faro and poker are the American, and
rouge ct noir and baccarat the French.
Monte tables are run within sight of
the passers by; of course these of which
now speak are the public games, where
in all who wish may participate.
" Private games of monte are quite
common in some of the houses of the
wealthiest citizens of the balmy country.
Poker is also very popular game, and
the stakes are frequently very high.
" At one home to which | am often in
vited there are four admirers of the game,
and each one is shrewd and calculating
player. This quartet is composed of
father, mother, son and daughter.
"Of course, the stakes for which they
play are only enough to make it inter
esting, but the fact remains that the
parents encourage more or less the youth
full members of the family in the fasci-
mating pastime.
But instead of looking at the matter in
the light of more rigid disciplinarian,
the father, ell-to-do-merchant often
speaks of the clever way in which his
daughter-or his son, as the case may be
- called his bluff, and his wife proudly
exhibits dazzling pair of diamond ear
rings she won from him with ten high
flush.
Z" In alleys, upon the street corners, in
old buildings and in every accessible
place, street boys and girls can be found
playing with some device for gambling.
To take gambling from Mexicans would
mean to deprive them of their most fas-
cinating pastime."
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24
Apples Baked ON the Tree.

1t was hot Sunday. Few people in
Chicago will dispute the statement, but
that it was sufficiently hot to bake apples
on the tree few may reasonably ques-
ton. j. H. Hammill, who resides on q
farm at 95th street and Western avenue,
said yesterday:
"We reside just west of the slope of
Blue Island Ridge, and have all the dis
comfort of the warm prairie winds with
out any comforts of the lake breeze The
hired man, with others, went to the or
chard on DR.. Kellogg's farm in the after
noon to seek shelter from the heat. They
noticed that many apples facing the sun
were baked, and, filling their pockets,
brought them to the house. The apples
were baked about one-third through and
had precisely the same flavor as those
baked in an oven"
MIR. Hammill produced several of the
apples for the edification of the reporter.
One-third of the surface is baked, and
when cut the favor is like that of an ap-
pie baked in an oven. The apples were
not much more than half matured, some
portions of the interior being quite
green Chicago Tribune.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24
Queer Swedish Money.

There was some queer money on exhi-
bition to-day in the Office of the collector
of internal revenue. 1t was received by
Chief Deputy Londergren as present
from his sister, who lives at Stockholm,
Sweden. The money was coined in 1888
in the reign of Frederick of Sweden, and
for over one hundred and fifty years has
been out of circulation. 1t consists of
"a daler," or 81 piece, containing six
pounds of copper, and "half- -daler"
coin of the same metal weighing about
thirteen ounces. The money of which
those pieces are samples has a curious
history. During the days of the great
Charles XII. of Sweden the country was
entirely drained of its gold and silver by
long wars. When warrior Charles was
killed in siege in Norway the circula-
ting medium of the country was copper
coins about the size of an old-fashioned
American copper cent. Those coins,
devised by Baron Goertz, the finance
minister under Charles, were sort of
farmers alliance circulating medium
and were stamped "good for one silver
dollar" The people refused to believe
that little piece of copper was worth
dollar in silver, and after the death of
Charles they beheaded Goertz for bad
financiering. The small copper coins
were abolished and in the absence of
gold and silver coins containing the full
value in copper were struck off. The
"four-daler" piece is simply piece of
rough copper, eight inches square, and
about one-third of an inch thick, and
contains six pounds of copper. On each
corner and in the center are stamped the
arms of Sweden and the initials of Fred
erick, one of the Successors of Charles
[Chicago Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24
German
Syrup"
Group
We have selected two or

We have selected two or
Group, three lines from letters
freshly received from pa
rents who have given German Syrup
to their children in the emergencies
of Group. You will credit these,
because they come from good, sub
stantial people, happy in finding
what so many families lack-a med
icine containing no evil drug, which
mother can administer with con-
fidence to the little ones in their
most critical hours, safe and sure
that it will carry them through.
ED. L. WILLIS, of Mrs. JAs.W. KIRK,
Alma, Neb give it Daughters College,
to my children when Harrodsburg, Ky.
troubled with Group have depended upon
and never saw any it in attacks of Group
pre- eparation act like with my little daugh-
It. 1t is simply mi ter, and find it an in
raculous. valuable remedy.
Fully one-half of our customers
are mothers who use Boschee's Ger
man Syrup among their children.
A medicine to be successful with the
little folks must be a treatment for
the sudden and terrible foes of child
hood, whooping cough, Group, diph-
liberia and the dangerous infamma-
tons of delicate throats and lungs. q
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24

The curious fault is found with the
mastless ships of the navy that they
afford the crews no opportunity for
exercise-the seaman having nothing
to climb; they feel cooped up, and are
showing spirit Of discomfort. 1t is
questionable whether such tame de-
vices as horizontal bars and other
mere gymnastic appliances would
avail to restore the spirits of the men.
The Darwinians may seize upon this
fact as additional proof of the Simian
descent of the human species. Phila-
delphia Record.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24

are Killed every season and their skins
sent to Europe to be made into the best
qualities of patent leather.
Some OF these seals are caught in
strong nets, and sometimes, when found
on the ice at sufficient distance from the
water, they can be killed with clubs, but
most of them are shot with the heavy seal
guns, with which the native hunters be-
come very expert.
The ringed seal is the one that the
Esquimaux depend on most for their sup
ply of food and clothing, and authorities
state that as many as 10000 are killed
annually in the far North. Its flesh is
said to be more palatable than any of
the others New York Recorder.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24
Nothing can be said

N0Nany can oe S0s0
in favor of the best medicine in the
world that may not be said of the
most worthless. In one case, it's
true; in the other, it isn't;-but how
can you distinguish?
Judge by what is done. There's
only one blood-purifer that's guar
anteed. It's DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery-and this is what
is done with it; if it doesn't benefit
or cure, in every case, you get your
money back. Isn't it likely to be
the best?
All the year round, as well at one
time as another, it cleanses and pur-
ifes the system. All blood-poisons
must go. For Dyspepsia, Bilious
ness, Scrofula, Salt-rheum, letter,
Erysipelas, or any blood-taint or dis
order, it is an unequaled remedy.
It's the cheapest, too. With this,
you pay only for the good you get.
And nothing else is "just as good"
1t may be better-for the dealer.
But he isn't the one that's to be
helped.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-09-24

A curious SCI IS of st4. les estab-
fishes the value of the refuse of the
Paris streets. The figures seem a..
credible, and show that the rag-pick.
ers discharge duty of primary i'm
portance. Working at night, busy
under the gas lights with hook and
panier, the value of what they collect
is estimated at 92, 900 each day. AS
suredly one half the world does not
know how the other half lives. OF
course the conditions Of Paris life are
exceptional. Population is very close,
the tall houses are crammed with in
habitants, there are gardens as with
us-there are but the houses and the
streets. The Parisians have way Of
emptying all kinds of lumber and re-
fuse intg the streets, and then the
rag-pickers gather in their harvest.
A use is found for everything, and
metamorphosis never ceases. All the
details are interesting, though some
are rather disturbing. Rags, Of
course, go to make paper: broken
glass is pounded and serves as coat
ing for sand or emery paper; bones
after the process Of cleaning and cut
ting down, serve to make nail brushes,
tooth brushes, and fancy buttons; lit
tie wisps Of women's hair are care
fully unraveled, and do duty for false
hair by and by. Mems hair collected
outside the BARRIERS serves for filters
through which syrups are strained;
bits of sponge are:cut up and used for
spirit lamps; bits of bread if dirty are
toasted and grated, and sold to the
restaurants for spreading on hams or
outlets; sometimes they are carbonized
and made into tooth powder. Sar-
dine boxes are cut up into tin soldiers
or into sockets for candlesticks. A
silk hat has whole chapter of adj
ventures in store for it. All this
work employees regiment of rag
pickers numbering close on 20, 900,
and each earning from twenty pence
to half crown day. With all the
wonders of our great cities we have
nothing quite like this.