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Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1891-08-06
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When Alexander Pope visited the
Orient nearly two centuries ago, he OBJ
tanned a slip Of one of the willows be-
side the waters OF Babylon, whereon
the children Of Israel hung their harps
In the days Of captivity. Planting the
wand upon his return TO England, he
secured thrifty tree in time. From
this latter Martha Washington pro-
cured o twig which IL Is said she
brought to Arlington Heights, with tho
same result. And now tree grown
from q slip taken from hers has Just
been planted in the Indiana state-housc
grounds.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1891-08-06
Old Z S'OLD|||IlERCURED
Of Eczema by One ST cutirura, after
using many Medicines Without
Relief.

medicines, bought one-half dozen bottles
Sarsaparilla and one-half dozen bottles Sarsa.
parilla for eczema or prurigo. Nothing ga,
me relief; and having served a numbeyh
me @ to h the s soldiers' % Home @ at %ashinrtolg. wasn't tg.'
went there. and there came across yil
valuable CUTIOURA REMEDIES. | bougb,,
box OF CUrICuRA. a cake of CUTICBRA S''S'
aud bottle ofCuTICUliA REsoLvENT, s;e
tons 10 a letter, feel and look rs well iOr
newborn baby by healthy mother -,
not exaggerate II one bit when say !"
have been worth to me their weight in goi-
G. FRED BLUM,
No. 622 Penn. Ave-, N. W., Washington, d. &
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1891-08-06
Cuticura Resolvent

The new blood and skin purifier. and 70
est and best OF humor remedies, cleanses tt
blood OF all injurious andpolsonous ele*
ments and thus removes the cause, Will
CUTIcuRA, the great skin cure, and OUTicU
RA SOAP, an exquisite Skin Purifier an,
Beautifier, clear the skin of every trace O
disease. Hence the CUTICURA RENEDtE
cure every disease and humor of the Skin
scalp, and blood, with loss OF bair, from
pimples to scrofula.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1891-08-06

Sold everywhere Price CUrIcURA, SOC
SOAP, 25.; REs0LvENT, 81. Prepared BY tht
POTTER Drug AND CHEMICAL CORPORATION
Bost0n.
ez-Send for "How to Cure Skin Diseases
ais
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
A Little Absent-NIinded.

An elderly lady, accompanied by a
young woman, apparently her daugh-
ter, who was seated in one of the cross
seats of Sixth aveuue F'L" train one
afternoon suddenly became very nerv-
ous,sa the New York Telegram. After
a few minutes Of fidgeting she whispered
in the young woman's ear and both
looked upon the floor as if searching for
something. Finally the young lady
arose and spoke to the guard. He re-
turned with her and they raised the
seats and looked underneath, but with
no apparent success. A gentleman in
quired the cause Of the ladies' search.
1--WE lost my pocketbook, containing
quite a large sum Of money" said the
elderly lady. "Why, my dear madam,
you have a poc]xetbook in your left
hand, and it has been there ever since
you entered the car, he replied. The
look he received would have crushed an
ordinary man. She thanked him stit1y
and settled down to a period of deep
thought.
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
EASILY DISPOSED OF.
The Panther Wanted to Get Out and I'll
Was Accommodated.

The Panther Wanted to Get Out and He
Was Accommodated.
Deputy marshals who work in the
Indian country lead q hard life. Ac-
c,nn1nodations arc not always to be
had Tom Smith recently told re-
porter Of the Fort Worth Gazette of an
adventure he had one night lately.
Night overlook him near an old
cabin, but, as the Indian custom of
br1ying the dead in their houses and
then moving away flashed upon him, he
decided to sleep under tree at some
little distance and thus avoid a possible
interview with an aboriginal spook. In
the night a rain set in and he got UP
and went into the cabin and shut the
door to keep out the rain and water.
He wrapped his blanket around him
and lay down. Presently he heard a
growing and whining, but he paid no
attention to it. The growls and whines
grew fierce and louder, but he lay
quiet, trying to go asleep. The ami
NAL ran around the walls, scratching
and yelling in q way to make one feel
very uncomfortable and make such a
thing as sleep impossible. It was a
tiger. Finally Smith concluded that
the beast was not going to be quiet and
let him rest, so he got up and opened
the door and let it out. Then he lay
down and slept without further dis
turbance until morning.
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
Reversing in Dancing.

If one were dancing for show or dane
ing for pleasure in solitude, says the
Saturday Review, reversing would be a
variation Of the proceedings with good
deal to DC said for it. As things are,
however, reversing in respectable ball
rooms causes collisions or perils of col
lisions nine times out Of ten, and so few
couples can reverse with complete sue
cess that in the tenth instance those
who reverse invariably produce the i'm
preston that they are showing off at the
: expense of their less artful neighbors
(Which impression is usually correctly.
There cannot be complete success in re-
versing without continual recollection
of the fact that reversing couple is
like ship on the starboard tack, and
Is bound to get so far out of the way
Of every couple not reversing as to allow
them to hold their course unimpeded.
Therefore, under existing circum-
stances, and at all places where mora
than three or four couples are gathered
together, reversing is sin and should
not be practiced in public.
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
O11p ssPeer2r0.H

The fashionable in America do not
seem to be making a deep impression
upon their countrymen. This is much
to be regretted, says the Saturday
Evening Herald, as several very well
dressed people have asserted more than
once that an aristocracy is indispens-
able to high state Of civilization; and
when a statement of this kind is made
by a person who has attained prom
inence in fashionable society life wants
to believe it if it is a possible thing.
Fashionable people are better dressed
than the literary or scientific classes,
and their utterances> should have
weight, but the ridicule which has SO
relentlessly attached itself to them in
their diminutive past shows healthy
signs of maintaining it's grip for an in
definite period to come. Once in awhile
some sober-minded person discusses Sc
riously upon them and prevents our
forgetting what Il solid modification
they arc to the better class of Amer
leans,
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
DIFFERENCE IN GOLD.
Experts Can Tell Where Piece Come
From by the Color.

Experts Can Tell Where Piece Comes
From by the Color.
t'Most people suppose" says an as
sayer in the New York Tribune, ''that
all gold is alike when refined, but this
is not the case. An experienced man
can tell at glance from what part Of
the world q gold piece comes and
in some cases from what part of a par
ticular gold district the metal was OBJ
tanned. The Australian gold, for in
stance, is distinctly redder than the
Californian, and this difference in color
is always perceptible, even when the
gold is one thousand fine. Again, the
gold obtained from the placers is yell
lower than that which is taken directly
from quartz. Why this should be the
case is one Of the mysteries of metal
lurgy, for the placer gold all comes
from the veins. The Ural gold is the
reddest found anywhere. Few people
know the real color of gold, as it is sell
dom seen unless heavily alloyed, which
renders it redder than when pure. The
purest coins ever made were the fifty
dollar gold pieces that used to be COM
mon in California. Their coinage was
abandoned for two reasons-frst, be-
cause the loss by abrasion was SO great
and, secondly, because the interior
would be bored out and lead substi-
tuted, the difference in weight being
too small to be readily noticed in so
large piece. These octagonal coins
were the most valuable ever struck
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
Eussy Men.

Men are often more fussy and par
ticular about insignificant things than
women. There are thousands Of men
in New York who go miles out of their
way to get shaved. know men, says
a writer in the New York Herald, who
come down on the elevated, and who
get off at some intermediate point to
patronize a favorite barber. They have
done so for years. The array of private
cups in any shop illustrates the
strength of this shaving habit. When a
busy business man will sit half an hour in
one of these shops and tumble the fash
papers while he waits for his particular
tonsorial artist to be at liberty, it
strengthens the conviction that he is
weaker than woman. The man who
doesn't learn to shave himself while his
beard is young is laying up a life Of
slavery to public BARRIERS In the course
of an ordinarily long lifetime he will
spend about three years sitting around
q barber shop and year or two more
going and coming.
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
CoWARDlCE OF CROWDS.
Courage Is Not the Thing Lacking, but
Presence of Mind.

Courage Is Not the Thing Lacking, but
Presence of Mind.
The Spectator has paper called the
':Cowardice of Crowds The writer is
deeply impressed with the very strange
story of the poor woman who had a
lamp thrown at her and was burned to
death, while little crowd Of people
looked on and did nothing, writes
Walter Besant. One poor woman alone
attempted to put out the flames. 1t is a
horrible story, but I should not have
made it the peg for a paper on coward
ice, because think that cowardice had
nothing whatever to do with it. Why
cowardice? There was no courage
it around the burning drapery of the
unfortunate woman. Presence of mind
was lacking, if you please, but not
courage. Presence of mind, which
means readiness to act for the best in a
sudden emergency, will prove to be
wanting more and more as we de-
part more and more from the print
tive condition of man, which is one Of
being always hunted for food by wild
beasts always hunting for food, and al
ways fighting. In that condition man
is full of resource; contrives thousand
stratagems, and meets a thousand dam
gers. Remove from him the habit OF
hunting and the necessity of fighting.
Make his life assured and easy, and he
will infallibly lose the readiness and the
resource-in other words, the presence
of mind-of the savage. This, in fact,
we have done. In moments of unu-
sual, unexpected dangers, we are par
alyzed. This is my reading Of the con-
duct of the crowd which looked on
while woman's clothes famed up and
burned her to death,
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
ZEN WHO FORGET.

Humorous Instances Of Abaent -Mindedncss
of Great Men.
John E. Cough used to be taken with
unexpected spells Of forgetfulness when
addressing on audience. AS is we'll
known, he rehcarsed his early lectures
in q, cabbage field. On one occasion,
says the Evening Wisconsin, he stood
up before fashionable audience and
could not recall one word of his lecture.
He repeated the preliminary address,
but there he stuck. At last he ex-
claimed, despairingly: "Oh, for my be-
loved cabbage heads!"
came, and rs he recalled with vivid ef~
feet his lost illustration he said, thank
fully:
ST sm s1ad you avs not cabbage heads
now!''
The failing memory Of age is termed
in medical diction amentia. Emerson
suffered from it when he could not re-
remher the name of an umbrella but
asked his daughter for ''that thing you
hold up when it rains" lie attended
the funeral of Longfellow and at the
grave he paused and said: "He was a
beautiful spirit whom we have just
buried hero, but cannot remember the
Name"
When grandfather goes around lock-
ing everywhere for his glasses, which
are reposing safely on his benevolent
old forehead, then memory is playing
him a trick and he laughs at it with
that philosophy which is the alchemy of
age.
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
CHINESE. DRUGS.
Some of the Disgusting Substances Useo
by Monaghan Physicians.

Some of the Disgusting Substances Useo
by Mongolian Physicians.
A Chinese druggist will freely display
the most nauseous and disgusting sub"
stances as medicine; often he will keep
a live deer there in a pen against the
time when it will be pounded whole in
a mortar, coram populo, to convince
customers that his drugs are genuine.
Medicines are gulped down by the
quart, She prescriber holding that If
one ingredient does not do it's work an
other may. Their virtues, neverthe-
less, are many and mysterious.
A. missionary doctor, says Temple Bar,
was we'll acquainted with a native prac-
titioner, a man of considerable intelli-
gence and repute. Him he broughtto his
home one day and showed with natsral
pride his three fair-haired little grls.
The native fastened to compliment his
foreign friend: 'STheir complexion
are indeed beautiful, but, if 1 may SAY
so, their hair is perhaps hardly dark
enough" He produced d bottle. "a
dose of this taken internally Jhree
times day would make a wonderful
Improvement. He went on with more
embarrassment: "There is another
thing about them that I hardly like
to MENTION His friend reassured him.
s.Well, if you will allow me to say, they
are all girls. Now, I have at home
some pills that are perfectly infallible.
Let them take these pills regularly for
a month or so, and 1 promise they will
develop into three as fine boys as father
could wish for.'' ,
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
FARMING in GUATEMALA.
Something About the People and Climate
of the Country.

of the Country.
We could not get along without the
Indians, says a Guatemala planter.
They do all the work commonly ex-
pected of peasants. They raise wheat,
coffee, rice, and, in short, do the hus-
bandry. The country would fall fat
without them. They make excellent
hands OH the plantation. I have be-.
tween one thousand five hundred and
two thousand of them on my estates,
and find that they are far more man
ageable than the whites, more docile.
When I first began hiring them they
would work for eighteen cents day,
but now there has been stronger de-
nnand for them and they are getting
thirty-seven cents. These Indians seem
to hold their own pretty well and are
not dying out as in this country. Be-
sides the Indians there is a race Of
half breeds who are rather more in
clined to commerce. The climate of
Guatemala is far better than most peo-
pie imagine. On the coast and in the
estates lie on the slope three thousand
feet above the sea level, and the table
lands where the wheat is grown lie
from five thousand to ten thousand feet
above the level. At my place the
climate is neutrality-suspicious. spring.
We can raise two crops OF wheat a
year in many parts Of Guatemala, and
the soil is wonderfully rich. The prin-
cipal exports are coffee and sugar, but
excellent rice is grown there, mostly
for home consumption. A curious
thing about the rice is that it can be
grown without flooding Or irrigation.
In other parts of the world one Of these
two processes is necessary. But have
planted it on a hillside and it bears fine,
full grains, equal to the best from the
Carolinas.
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
GUATEMALA MOONLIGHT.
A Common Thing for q Senorita to Read
in a Hammock at Midnight.

A Common Thing for Sen0r1f3 60 fs080
in q Hammock at Midnight.
Reading novels at midnight by the
1ipht of the moon is not known OF in
the United States, says the Chicago
Tribune. but according 70 the English
wife of Signor Gregorio Revuelto, OF
Guatemala, it is no uncommon thing to
see q senorita reclining in hammock
with book in her hand on her faith
er's veranda in the Costa Cuca district,
Guatemala, between twelve and one
o'clock in the morning.
'sThere are no moonlight nights In
this country or in England like we have
in Guatemala said the Spanish plant
er's wife recently. "The moon at
certain periods of the month is SO
bright that it is as light outdoors as
during the day. English and Ameri-
can poets write about the sub
lime August moon, etc. They should
see a moon in Guatemala during the
time it is full They would then have
something to go into ecstacies about.
eft is too hot during the day in Costa
Cuca to be out for pleasure, and all our
little excursions around the country
are arranged to take place at night,
when the moon is bright. For instance,
when few friends desire to take a
horseback ride around the country, the
pleasure is never arranged to take
place during the daytime. The night
is always selected, and the moon fur
nishes the light. Pic1ics, boat rides
and all pleasure excursions take place
when it is known the moon will furnish
the light. l do not exaggerate when I
say that it is NO uncommon thing to, see
a young woman reading novel early
in the morning by moonlight - \
Sig. Revuelto does not speak much
English, but could speak enough to in
form all callers that the coffee crop this
yearwill be an immense one in Guate"
mala, and the cost of the article GER
tainly ought to be cheaper this fall.
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
The Flannel Shirt.

1t is often asked in connection with
the great popularity OF the summer
flannel shirt how it is that flannel will
blow both hot and cold, or keep Il man
warm in winter and cool in summer.
The reason really is that flannel is a
poor conductor, and hence: when the
body is covered with it variations in
atmospheric temperature are less felt.
A good illustration of this can be found
in desert and parched countries, par"
ticrlarly Africa, where it is often neces~
sary for the white man to wear heavy
wooden clothing to protect his body
from the sun and heat. The heat and
annoyance from perspiration are ter
rible under such conditions, but they
are preferable to the agony caused by
wearing light clothing. Flannel really
keeps the heat out in summer just as it
keeps it in during winter, and by wear
ing it all the year round the te1npera-
ture of the body is kept very nearly uni
form.
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
OVER THE FENCE.
The Predicament of Russian and His
American Sweetheart.


American Sweetheart.
Perhaps one of the happiest OF the
long list of marriages between Ameri-
can girls and foreigners is that of the
eldest daughter of Gen. Edward Beale,
now the wife of Mr.. Bakh1netieff, Of
Russia, secretary of legation at Athens.
Twelve or thirteen years ago, as an at
tache of the Russian legation, the young
foreigner met and at once fell desper-
ately in love with Miss Beale. The
young people carried on their loyernak-
ing under the cover of friendly dark
ness in Lafayette square, Washington.
One night the Waterman went his
rounds, as usual, says the Pittsburgh
Dispatch, and, thinking the square to
be empty, carefully locked the gates
and departed to his home. Uncon-
scious of this fact the lovers reused
from their absorbing conversation and
prepared to leave the square. Their
CONSERVATION at finding themselves i'm
prisoned was nowise improved by the
discovery that not soul seemed to be
stirring on the streets who could come
to their rescue.
There was no help for it. The only
way out of the difficulty was to climb
the massive iron spike fence. With
great difficulty the young lady climbed
to the top, when, to her horror, just as
her feet sought to secure a resting
place in the descent, the gruff voice of
a policeman shouted menacingly in
their ears.
Rapidly giving instructions in French
to Miss Beale to proceed with all speed
possible and run for home while he en-
gagged the intruder in conflict, Mr..
Bakhmetief successfully tusseled with
the fellow until, happy in the know
ledge that his instructions had been
carried out, he gave himself into the
custody of the officers, knowing that,
as a member of a foreign legation, he
would be liberated Immediately upon
arrival at headquarters.
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
Measuring with the Eve.

Measuring objects with the naked eye
is one of the most difficult tasks man
can set himself, and don't wonder that
it worries SO many youngsters at West
Point. The other day, at Sportsman's
park, there were ten men in the presi-
dents box with me, and offered to set
up the cigars if any one of them could
give the measurements of the big sign
I had just erected on the opposite fence,
in front Of the house whose owner had
been making money by renting out
seats on the roof The two worst shots
were 50x30 and 12x8, the actual meas
urement being 22x15. There wasn't q
man in the crowd who came within two
feet of either measurement, and if we
had canvassed the grand stand doubt
if anyone would have got much nearer.
Except with an expert, measuring OBJ
jects or distances with the eye is pure
guess york.
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
Emancipation Marriage.

'That was an emancipation mar
riage,'' observed an official Of San An
tonic, Tex, recently, as a newly mar
ried couple left his Office. ''Do you
know continued the dignitary, ''that
the approach of emancipation day is
marked by number of colored mar
riages? Well, it is the case. have
found it so every year that have been
in office. Emancipation day itself, in
my experience, has never gone by with
out couple of marriages. Two years
ago two colored couples were married
on the 10th of June; while last year on
that day made happy in this manner
six colored people,
The Irish standard., 1891-07-18
A LOST RIVER.
Nhe Singular disappearance OF Large
Stream.

Mhe Singular -Jisappearance OF Large
Stream.
The Southern Pacific RAILROAD Com
pany has lost river, and in conse~
quencc has bridge whose occupation
is gene, says the Los Angeles Herald.
The Whitewater river has flowed
from the Sierre Madre mountains across
the sands of the region Just this side of
Seven Palms as long as anyone can re-
member. The station Of Whitewater was
located where the river crosses the rail-
way and was supplied with water from
it's current
During recent heavy rains the White
water rose in it's might and devastated
the whole country round about, wash
ing out the bridge and the roadbod and
playing the mischief generally. Soon
the rains and the river stopped stimuli
taneously, and the river has not been
found since. 1t appeared to become
ashamed Of itself for doing SO much
harm, and has apparently skunk away
in disgust and sorrow. It is entirely
gone. At no point does it Cross the rail
road, as it would have to do were it still
in existence in some new course. The
railroad company, in order to secure
water for it's station at Whitewater, has
been obliged to build q pipe line way
no to the mountains at considerable ex-
pensc.
All last summer, during the hottest,
lriest weather, the river ran placidly
along--in fact it has never failed until
after Its flag" OF last winter. Now it
forms one Of the mysteries of that mys-
FERROUS region, tlle Colorado river des-
ert, and perhaps is flowing by the Peg
leg mine, and possibly ripping beside
the treasure-laden Spanish galleon,
which lies somewhere in that region.
buried in sand.