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The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04
The aim of the University Settle

The aim of the University Settle ment Society of New York is to aid the citizens of q neighborhood, without infringing on their self-re- spect," and no patronizing airs are assumed, Recently an exhibition of pictures, representing a value of over S100,000, was held at No. B Allen Street, as a means of educa- ting public taste.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04
Isaac E. Blake and Walter n

Isaac E. Blake and Walter T. Crosby, of Denver, spent several days here last week. They were here for the purpose of buying lumber for the building of smell ter at Needles. The smelter will be built by Denver Capitalists and work has already commenced Coconino Sun.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

Charles Hit of Columbus, Ind, bought flaming machine for s22 from a stranger, giving a written order for same. He has been called upon to pay for 90 machines, cost ing S1,9S0. It was a lightning-rod trick.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

It is said that every woman who had an opportunity to speak to General Lew Wallace at the Minne- apolis Convention made some men, ton of the chariot race in Ben Hur.D
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

On June 18th, the School Board of St. Paul, Minn., abolished the distinction of sex in the matter of salaries, and will hereafter pay wo- men the same as men for doing the same work.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

Foster promises that wave oi cooler and more pleasant weather will move eastward, crossing the western mountains about the End, the great central valleys about the 4th, and the Eastern States about the 9th.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

At the Pratt mines (Alabama) Constable Kah was shot through the heart by negro prisoner, but before he fell dead he fired four shots at the fleeing negro, one en- tering his heart. Both are dead.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

The New York, New Haven and Hartford is reported to be arrang- ing to substitute electricity for steam on it's freight and passenger engines between New York and New Haven.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

The foundry and locomotive es- tablishment at Dunkirk, N. Y, is conducted by Mrs. Horatio Brooks, a Maine woman.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

It is said that only five passengers were killed on all the railways of Great Britain and Ireland during the whole of last year.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04
Queer Stories of Lucky Miners.

AsAOAy De 5 A few of the many stories tha ' are told of miners luck will enabl
 the reader to understand how ant why the heads of whole communi f ties, says Harper's Magazine, may
 be turned in mining regions.
 | Jim Whitlatch, the discoverer o
 the Whitlatch Union mine, near
 Helena, Mont, lead typical west
 ern miners life. The mine in ques
 tion is now owned in England, and
 has produced $20,OOO,O00 in gold.
 Whitlatch had sold the property for
 $1 100000, he went to New York to
 make as much money as Wander
 bllt." He was rare treat to Wall
 street, which fattened on him and
 in one year let him go with only the clothes on his back. He returned to Montana, began prospecting, again and discovered a mine for which he got $250,00O. He went to Chicago to rival Potter Palmer in wealth, and returned just as he did from New York-"fiat strapped" as he would have expressed it, He met still another fortune and went to San Francisco, where he died a poor man.
 Another Lewis and Clark county mine. The Drum Lumon, provides another story. It was discovered by an Irish immigrant. Although he owned 1t he could not get sack of flour on credit. He sold it to an English syndicate for $1 ,50O,O0O. But he remains one of the wealthy men of Helena.
 There is an ex-state senator in Beaver Head county who owns very rich mine, the one yielding S700 to the ton net. He is a Cali fornia '49er, who came prospector to Montana, and since discovering his mine has lived upon it in a par ticular way. He has no faith in banks. He says his money is safest in the ground. When he has spent what money he has, he takes wagon load of ore. ships it to Oma- Ia, sells it, and lives on the returns lntil he needs another wagon load.
 There is queer story concerning he Spotted Horse mine, in Fergus county. It was found by P. A. who sold it to Coy. Houses and A. NJ. Holder for $5OO,- 100 three years ago. They paid arge sum down in cash and the ther payments were to come out l f the ground. The ore was in ( each of which was easily t Whatever was taken ut went to McAdow, who got about ( 100000. When the purchasers I bandoned it, on the advice of ex- erts, and Meadow got hold it, he V ound the vein, over which rails had a cen laid for a mining car. He has r aken out s50O,O00 and it is still a ood mine. q
 One of, these children of luck V anne to Helena, with money. pick " d out wife who was a poor | hired hotel and in 4 ited the town to the wedding. The | of champagne that flowed lat night was fabulous, and it is lid that the whole town reeled to ' ed that night. o
 II
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

Congressman Cannon of Illinois denies the rumor that he is to be substituted for Hon. Dick Yates for Congressmen at large. The Dam vile Press contradicts the denial and says it has seen letters to sub- stantiate them.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04
In Doubtful Districts.

l A comparison of few election
 returns of 1888 with the registra.
 tion provisions of the Lodge Force
 Bill throws needed light on the pur-
 poses of that revolutionary and dis
 honest measure. It will be seen that
 the Republican plan of taking
 charge of Congressional elections is
 we'll adapted to nullify the votes of
 white men in the States along the
 north bank of the Ohio river as we'll
 as in the South.
 In 1888 Governor Fifer's plurality
 over General Palmer was 12, JAY. In
 1880 the negro population of Illi-
 nois was 46,3SS. It had increased
 by 1888, especially in the southern counties. Assuming, as the Repub- licans claim on general principles, that the negroes all voted the Re publican ticket that year, the negro vote in the State more than made Pliers plurality. Harrison's plu- rality in Illinois was 22,195, three fourths of which were made up of negro votes. Under the Force bill 1 plan of conducting elections there would be no trouble at all in colo nizing and voting in the Ohio river counties enough negroes from Ken lucky, Tennessee and Mississippi 10 offset and overcome revolt of many thousand white Republican 
 In Indiana Harrison's plurality vas only 2,34S and the negro popu- ation in 1880 39,228. So that every Tote in the little plurality was cast y negro, without making allow lnce for colonization, and Dudley's ,, Blocks of-Fiye frauds. Indiana is he closest of the three Ohio river States, and the Force bill plan of making Republican votes might be made 10 work wonders there.
 In Ohio Harrison's plurality in SSS was 19,599, and the negro pop llation in 1880 was 79,9O0, showing l is plurality to be due almost if not i .uite wholly to negro votes. With s he Lodge plan of admitting fraud e lent voters to registration the \ 'hite voters of Ohio would hot soon e permitted to pull their State out z f the Republican column, though :, hey should revolt from the Repub- V VI can party by thousands. Y
 The Lodge bill provides penalties D or excluding lawful voters from '' egistration, but there is a signif- mt absence of penalty for admit b ng fraudulent voters to the lists. if
 The Republican party's resources ol dishonesty and trickery were ex- u austed in framing this bill, the ir eneral ideas and principles of tr hich were indorsed by the Minne- polls convention.-St. Louis Re- lblic. ~ ~
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

Ex-Senator Sabln and other wealthy men of Minnesota are charged with conspircy to obtain wrongfully $1,OOO,OOO worth of pine land.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls, is now in Vienna, having turned back from his trip to St. Petersburg on account of cholera.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

Chili has paid s75,OO0 in gold in reparation of the Baltimore out rage. It will be given to the fami- lies of the killed and the surviving sufferers
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

President Harrison has nomi- hated George Shiras, Jr., of Penn sylvania to the Supreme Bench of the United States.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

The Peoples party are having a eampmeeting near Bonham, Tex. Jerry Simpson and other speakers are expected.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

Ore of wonderful wealth and vast extent has been found in places near Cripple Greek, Colo.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-08-04

At Xenia, Ohio, last week, Gil bert Palmer, aged nineteen, com mitted suicide.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-03
THE DURATION OF LIFE.
Certain Causes Which Tend to Abridge That
of the Average Being.

Certain Causes Which Tend to Abridge That
of the Average Being.
Philadelphia Times.l
The duration of life depends neither on
climate nor food nor race nor any external
condition, but on the natural constitution
and intrinsic vigor of our organs. One hun
dred years is the natural life of man. The
curtailment below this normal term is the
result of those errors and excesses in the
manner of living which impair the organs
and produce premature decay. From the
time of Noah to the days of Joshua and
Moses the record is one of successive and
gradual decrease in longevity. Joshua
waxed old and stricken in years some time
before his death at ITO.
The whole of lite teens with incidents
which must need effect, more or less, its
duration. In manufacturing and CONNER
cial country particularly, where population
is more crowded, and where art and labor
in their every branch are strained to the
utmost reacn of human exertion, life be-
comes subject to influences which act DOW
erfully upon it, and tend to shorten its
duration.
Some particular occupations abridge life
bv bodily confinement and the privation of
good air. When there is free current of
pure air the functions o. the body and mind
are kept in healthy action by moderate
exercise, not by strained tension, and the
pursuits in life are of moral tendency and
effect, lite may be prolonged to advanced
years. But when We indulge in vicious
habits, which create pain and trouble, life
ebbs away often imperceptibly, and we do
not notice its decline until the fatal regress:
"As brooks make rivers, rivers run to
seas.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-03

| in succession, cutting the vine loose from
! the branch vines and tendrils that held it,
and at last had it tree; a long, strong nat
ural rope fully 30 feet in length. The two
boys tested its strength by both putting
their weight on it at once, and hanging from
;; it. It held staunch and safe to its native
tree. Joe lowered the vine to the bottom
of the Devils Rut, and went down upon it
into the rsyine hand over hand.
His intentions were'to fasten the Wild
cats carcass to the vine and have Sam haul
it up, but while Sam was waiting for the
signal to pull away he heard Joe shouting
something else.
"Hello, .Sam," Joe's voice came mp from
the Rut. "Drop down here with the gus!
Tha's hole full O. more wildcats"
Sam couldn't drop down with the guns, 50
he tied them to long grapevine and low
cred them to the bottom. Then he dropped
himself down Joe's grapevine andioined Joe
in the Rut.
''Look in yendsrp' said Joe, pointing to q
big hole in the rocks.
Sam looked and saw four balls of fire, all
in row.
Counting Chicks Before the Matching.
each pair O. them balls o. fire." said
Joe, is ''two dollars fer bounty and two dol
lars fer hide. That's tootems four is eight,
auu tulS Iellcr layln over mere Is tOOtems
two is four, maxim twelve, 'cordin' to Daboll.
You take the two balls on the nigh side,
Sam, an I'll take the two on the off side.
When I say three, let her bim!'
1t seemed a good while to Sam before
Joe said three, but when the word came he
'let her bim," according to directions
Both guns went off at once, and the four
balls of fire disappeared. But something
else came in sight. Two wildcats bounded
out Of the hole over the bodies of the two
Joe and Sam had shot, and while the report
of the guns was still bowling along the mar
row passage in booming echoes, and before
the boys had time to be surprised, they
found themselves mixed up on the rocky bot
tom of the DEVILS Rut with wildcats,
grapevines, guns and stones in such a way
that the impress of it on their minds will be
fresh and vivid long after the impressions
made on their bodies have healed up and
disappeared.
Neither Joe nor Sam can recall Just how
they managed to bring the end about, but
the appearance Of the wildcats heads con-
veys the impression that it was accom-
plished principally by the use of the butts
Of guns. At any rate, when the rush and
whirl and yelling was all over, the boys
found themselves sitting on the bottom OF
the But, without much clothing on to speak
of, and scarcely a spot four inches square
from their shoulders down that didn't have
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-03

The subject of long distance ocean towing
has been receiving much consideration at
the hands of American shipowners. A pro-
posal has already been made to employ her
metically sealed steel barges for ocean trans
portation, these barges being towed by
specially designed tugs and towing appa-
ratus. It is believed by many shipowners
in this country that we are nearing the
time when the towing steamship will be
largely employed to drag freight barges
across the Atlantic. The possibilities in
this direction have been suggestively
indicated by some noteworthy feats
of towing done recently by the United
States tug steamer Saturn, which is
about 1900 tons, and is fitted with very
powerful engines The chief difficulty in
ocean towing is the failure of the tow rope
or steel hawser or its fastenings. Neither
MANILA rope nor steel wire rope can with
stand the sudden strains caused by the
motion of the towboat and her consort in
heavy seawav, the great want being elas-
ticity. To overcome this difficulty the
Saturn has been fitted with a-togfr
paratus invented by an American engineer.
It is balancing cable drum, which is so
geared up that the normal pressure of the
engine cylinders, situated on either side Of
the drum, will balance the normal strain on
the cable or hawser; but if the strain on the
hawser is increased the drum revoives att,
and the hawser pays out, running in again
when the strain is relieved.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-03
Loss of Lite at Sea.

An English paper gives some suggestive
figures tn support of its statement, that be-
yond the noble service done by legislation
for the protection of sailors from the prao-
tices resorted to in the past by rapacious
ship owners, the decrease in the an nual loss
of life at sea is in a great measure, due to
improvement in the design of sailing ships,
which are now better able to Withstand
great storms, and the adoption of steel,
which minimizes the danger OF stranding.
The proportion OF lives lost to the total ton
mage entering and clearing English ports
has decreased from 4. II per 100, 900 tons in
1881 to 2 06 In 1890. This represents q de-
crease according to tonnage Of about one
half In the case of steamers the increase Of
traffic was equal to 43.6 per cent, and yet
there was decrease in the number OF lives
lost of % per cent
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-03

industriously planting potatoes in back
when 13-year-old Joe Crane came along
'Plantin' Eaters? said Joe.
| Sam said he was
"What do you git fer ,doin' it?" asked
Joe.
"Don't git nothin' fer doin' it," replied
Sam. Fer not doin' it git licked"
Then there was a silence for a moment or
so. By and by Joe said: 'It's too wet to
plant Eaters. They'll rot.
"Don't seem to strike my pap that way, Z"
said Sam, and he planted along. Silence for
a SPELL Then Joe said: "Tha's a wild cat
up here piece, SAM"
Temptation Worse Than Adams.
"Go 'wayr' exclaimed Sam, Strengthening
up and leaning on his hoe, ''where 'bouts?"
"Jist beyond the laurel patch, nigh the
edge of tine DEVILS Rut." replied Joe.
Sam pondered in silence for minute with
his chin on his hoe, and then, sighing deep
ly, resumed his planting. Joe broke the
silence again.
"Can't you sneak your pap's gun7" said
he. "I've snuck my pap's."
eyes, I kin sneak it easy enough" said
Sam, leaning on his hoe with one hand and
scratching his head with tine other. ''But
pap'll lick me like tarnation fer knockin'
off plantin'."
'Tha's two dollars bounty jist fer the
wild cats ears" insinuated Joe. can the
hides wuth 50 more"
'That's SOP said Sam shaking his head
dolefully. "Durn the 'tatersP'
'There's a circus over to town next
week." said Joe, can faint fur yit till the
Fourth of July. s'pose your pap'l give
yon 50, O. course, to take 'em in"
'Not by jngfull, he won't!" exclaimed
Sam, dropping his hoe. "Whsre'l meet
you, Joe?"
'.By the rock spring." replied Joe. 81
got pap's gun hid up there"
And Joe went back to the woods, while
Sam took circuitous route for home as his
father was plowing on the direct route. In
less than quarter of an hour he and Joe
loaded their guns at the rock spring, and
marched for the place where the wild cat
was alleged to be lurking.
1t Wasn't a Wild Goose Chase.
That there was wild cat in the vicinity,
and big one, was we'll known. Some said
there were two. One had been seen several
times, at any rate and a number of lambs
had been carried off, and poultry yards had
been thinned out in a way that denoted the
methods of the wild cat So there was no
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-03
THE PRINCE OF TURNIPS
A Story From Grimms Fairy Tales Illus
trating a Good Moral.

A Story From Grimm's Fairy Tales Illus
trating a Good Moral.
There were two brothers who were both
soldiers; the one was rich, the other poor.
The poor man thought he would try to
better himself; so, pulling off his red coat,
he became gardener, and dug his ground
well, and sowed turnipa
When the seed came up there was one
plant bigger than all the rest; and it kept
getting larger, and seemed as if it would
never cease growing: so that it might have
been called the prince of turnips, for there
was never such one seen before, and never
will be again. At last it was so big that it
filled cart, and two oxen could hardly
draw it; and the gardener knew not what
in the world to do with it, nor whether it
would be blessing or curse to him.
One day he said to himself, sWhat shall
do with it7 If sell it, it will bring no
more than another; aud for eating the little
turnips are better than this The best thing,
perhaps, is to carry it and give it to the
king as a mark of respect"
Then he yoked his oxen, and drew the
turnip to the court, and gave it to the king.
II have seen manv strange things, but such
a monster as this never saw. Where did
you get the seed? or is it only your good
luck? If SO, you are true child of fort
une"
ooh, nor' answered the gardener, IT am
no child of fortune. I am poor soldier who
never could get enough to live upon; so
laid aside nv red coat, and set to work, till
ing the ground. have brother who is
rich, and Your Majesty knows him well,
and all the world knows him; but because I
am poor, everybody forgets me-"
The King then took pity on him, and
said: "You shall be poor no longer. will
give you so much that you shall be even
richer than your brother"
Then he gave him gold and land and
focks, and made him so rich that his
brothers fortune could not at all be COM
pared with his.
When the brother heard of all this, and
how a turnip had made the gardener rich,
he envied him sorely, and bethought him
self how he could contrive to get the same
good fortune for himself However, he de-
termined to manage more cleverly than his
brother, and got together a rich present Of
gold and fine horses for the King, and
thought he must have much larger gift in
return; for if his brother had received so
much for only a turnip,- what must his pres
ent be worth.
The King took the gift very graciously,
and said he knew not what to give in re-
turn more valuable and wonderful than the
great turnip; so the soldier was forced to
put it into q cart and drag it home with
him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-03

doubt that one Of these destructive prowl-
ers, at least, was operating in the neighbor-
hood. Men had hunted for it and trapped
for it, but it had thus far eluded hunter and
trapper. The day Joe Crane appeared to
Sam Pomeroy in the potato field, he had
been looking for hawks nest that he be-
lieved was somewhere among the old pine
across big wild cat which ran mp tree,
crouched in the fork, and glared back at
him. He had thereupon hurried home,
"snuck" his fathers gun, and with rare
diplomacy induced Sam to "sneak" his
fathers gun, and join in a campaign against
the wild cats pelt and ears.
Joe. as arbiter of the hunt, sent Sam
through the laurel patch when they got
there, where he shrewdly suspectrd the
catamount had his refuge, while he himself
went around the patch to be ready for the
willy game if Sam routed it out Sam
started the big cat and got a shot at it.
The Game Dead bur Out of Reach.
He broke one of his hind legs, but the
wildcat bounded out of the laurels on three
legs 1t came ont near Joe, and he gave it
charge from his pap's gun, and tumbled it
heels over head. 1t fell. kicking and YELL
ing, right on the edge of the DEVILS Rut,
and its diving kicks carried it over the edge
and it fell headlong to the bottom of the
rut
The DEVILS Rut, so called, is canon on
a small scale. 1t is a seam in the rocks, not
over 10 feet wide at its widest part 80 ieet
deep and quarter of mile long. Joe and
Sam looked down into the Devils Rut, and
could see the wildcat lying there dead To
climb down the side OF the opening was an
impossibility. and it looked as if the hunt
was to be truitiess one, after all.
"We're dishedp' said Sam, "and I'm
heap worse off than nothin', fer all I'll git
now II be pap's lickinp'
But Sam was too much of pessimist. Joe
was optimistic and resourcefuL If he
hadn't have been he would have lost the
wildcats bounty and its skin, but both he
and Sam would have returned home with
more skin of their own than they did, to
say nothing of clothes.
3, 1t is a great place for Wild grapes around
and about the DEVILS Rlt The vines ex
tend from tree to tree, some of them in
continuous stretch for 80 feet OF. more. 1t
took Joe Crane no longer than two minutes
to think out plan for securing the wildcat
and all that it implied
A Rope Prepared by Nature.
He traced out vine chat had thrown it
self throug1nthe trees for 10 or 20 yards
from Its pafUht cane He climbed the trees
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-03
THE BOTTLE IMP HOAX.
This Brazen Imposition Was tho Result of
Wager Between Two NobIemeu.

This Braz.n Imposition Was tho Result of
Wager Between Two NobIemen.
The bottle imp hoax was one of the mos t
brazen impostures ever practiced on the
credulous English public of the last
century, says writer in the St. Louis Globe
Democrat. 1t was the result of wager
between the Duke of Montague and another
nobleman in the year of 1749.
In discussing the amazing gullibility of
the English, Montague declared that if an
impostor were to advertise that he would
jump into quart bottle all London would
60 to see him do it A wager was made
and an advertisement inserted in all the
papers promising that this feat would be
performed on a certain date at the Hay
market Theater. On the appointed day the
theater was packed from pit to gallery, and
thousands of persons.were turned from the
doors. The supposed magician appeared on
the stage, made the startling announcement
that if the audience would paw double
price he would enter q pint bottle instead
of the quart flask on the stage table, and
then hurriedly escaped by the stage door.
The performance ended in q riot, in
which the theater was almost wrecked and
the Duke and his companion had to leave
town until the affair was forgotten.