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Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
AtmosnherIe EIeetrIoltY.

A study of the electric phenomena produced by solar radiation was pre- tented at meeting of the French Aee iemy recently by NJ Albert Nodon. Numerotis observations made at the lab- oratories of the Sorbonne and the Col ,ege de France show that on meeting an insulated metallic or carbon conductor the solar rays communicate to it Q posi- tive electric charge; that the amplitude of this charge increases with the in- sensity of the rays and decreases with the hygroaetric state of the air, the phenomenon attaining it's maximum yalue,in Paris about p. m. in summer, when the atmosphere is pure and dry; lastly, that the effects cease during the transit of clouds across the face of the sun. If these results can be extended to non-metalio bodies, then solar radia- tion may be regarded as one of the causes of the electrization of the clouds St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
.nnrllera aa nleoaers.

Among the many explanations and legends about the barber's pole is the one that it is a relic of the time when cupping and bleeding and general SUI, gical work were parts of his business. It is not generally known that several barbers even now will bleed man as well as shave him. In St. Louis there are at least four or five knights of the razor who also bleed and cup patrons and even draw their teeth. Since bleeding went out of fashion in the medical profession, this almost aban. doned feature of the barber's business has come into greater prominence. Some old fashioned people believe in bleeding as a cure for disease and as q specific in fever cases, and when a sur. geon is obstinate a surgical barber is visited or summoned. Recently, too, there have been more among the younger generation who have express. ed faith in bleeding. Leeches arc used much more than they were ten years ago. Interview in St Louis Globe. Democrat.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
3 D,R sf Re,..

Sunday School Supetintendent- Can any of you tell me why Sunday is the day of rest2
 Little Dick (holding up his handD- l kin. It's cause we get up early and hurry through breakfas' sos to dress in time fer Sunday school, sos we won't be late, and then skip inter church fore the bell stops ringin' and then go home to dinner and get fixed up for afternoon service, and then get supper an go to bed so pa and ma can get ready for evening service. That's all we do" "- New York Weekly.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
Artificial snono.a.

A new sponge industry is being de veloped on the coast of Dalmatia as an outcome of experiments by Professor Oscar Schmidt, of Styria. Professor Schmidt planted in favorable spots very small cuttings of live sponge, and in three years was rewarded with fine crop of large sponges. The ex- pense was small the total cost of 1, 000 sponges being not more than 225 francs. New York Telegram.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
A nrnra Glrl nnll 1 nrnlI...

Roaring Branch has young lady of nerve. The other evening, while en toying visit with some friends, a correspondent asserts mouse came from under the sofa where she was sitting and found shelter in her skirt, where he soon made his presence known by becoming too ambitious. Did she scream or faint2 No; she did nothing of the kind. Just firmly frightened her hand over portion of her clothing and quietly left the room. When she removed her hand dead mouse fell to the ground. -Wellsboro Gazette.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
A Slight arisapprehenslor

Bobby Gazzam (to Mir. Sumway, who Is spending the eyening)-Won't you show me your fiddle, some time, pleasel
 Sumway- Fiddle, Bobbyi I have no fiddle.
 Bobby Gazzam--Oh, yes you have. Pop says you've played second fiddle ever since you got married. .-Lippin- cott's Magazine.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
Saturday, December 3, 1892.

It is estimated that over 1000 women in tho United States net as postmasters The largest number for any one State, 463, is in Pennsylvania, and 460 in Virginia. North Carolina stand with 322. Only five other States have over 200 eaeh--256 in Ohio, 243 in Now York, PIG in Georgia, 21O il. Texas and 209 in Kentucky Alaska has only one, and Rhode Island and Oklahoma have 10 each.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
Making Mumm,es.

La Casas describes the Peruvian burial rites as follows: 'The dead arc wrapped in the skin of the llama, then clothed and deposited in a sitting pos tlIre. The doors of the tombs, which are all toward the east, are then closed with stone or clay. At the end of a year, when the body beconfes dry, the doors are again opened. There is no bad odor, because the skins in which the body are placed are sewn up very closely, and from the cold they soon become mummies. n-Sci. ence.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03

Secretary Tracy of the Navy Depart meat has granted a three years leave of absence to Lieut. Pesry, who will head another expedition to the Arctic Regions. Peary's expedition win have for it's object the determination of the northern coast line of Greenland An effort will be made to ascertain how much land lies north of Greenland, and the explorer will, if possible. proceed oyer the frozen surface Of the Polar Sea as far north as possible.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03

was troubled with severe cold and cough and on the recommendation of Messrs. Wegman < Wirs, druggists of this place, purchased bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and in two days was completely cured. l most sincerely recommend this valua- ble remedy to any of my friends who gre suffering with q cold. -C. I. Hook cit, Assistant Cashier Clinton County National Bank, Wilmington, Ohio. 50 cent bottles for sale by H. 0. Hitch coch. drngglst.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
Ihe Clnss In spellIng.

The first class in 'spellin'n was a fair sample of similar classes of the old ungraded seiiool, comprising about forty, nearly all sturdy young men and blooming damsels, old enough to vote in town meeting. Occasionally Q bright boy or girl would be pro. noted to the first class for superior ability to handle the long, hard words. Here's the way the children of that period were taught to spell and pro. nounce.
 lncomprehensibility."
 "l-n in, com com, incoru, pre- pre-, incompre, hen hen, incomprehen. si si, incomprehensi, b-i-l bil io~~~1pre- hensibil, 1, incomprehe hcomp.ehcnsibilitya nsl.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
One Mora nnne.
..- You are the only daurhter9

He- You are the only daughterq
 She Yes.
 He--I should think your father would be willing to set the fellow who marTies you up in businessl
 She Well, don't know. Pa has made that offer six times now, and nothing evercame of t any time; but, George, if you want mo i. might do to see the old man about it. -EDosl.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
rho rhonophorc
lFrom the chiesgn piapatch.l

tFrou the Chicago Dispatch.)
 To be told that telegraph wire which is bnsily transmitting long message can at the same time be made to convey half dozen other messages in opposite directions sounds like a fairy tale, but that tho thing has been done, and is daily heinz done, is at tested upon the most respectable scien- tifc authority. The discovery which renders these astonishing results possi- ble is due to c, Langdon-Dayies, who has been for some years engaged in rendering it practically workable, and in adapting it alike to telephonic and telegraphic use.
 It ia difficult to convey to the lay mind an accurate comprehension of a process so exceedingly technical; but it may briefly be said that Mir. Langdon- Davies in the 'phonophore" utilizes, not the electric current, but the noise eaused by induction. TEe signals are transmitted by berries of induced elOc- trlc impulses, aRd the success of the system is found in the ability of the inductiye force to pass through insula- tioHs which electric currents can not penetrate. A wire may be blown down and in contact with the earth, yet so as il is not broken it will carry pho Rophoric message
 By means of the phoAophore mes oages cap bs transmitted with extraor- dinary rapidity, and there is practically no limit to the number of messages that can be sent simultaneously upon the same wire, And, as we have hinted, Mir. Langdon Davies system is as use ful telophonically as it is telegraph taliy. A wire which is conveying cleo. tric signals can at the same time be used for telephonic conversation with, out either the message or the converse. tion suffering in the least.
 For some considerable time past ex- perinents in both directions have been proceeding with most gratifying results, which are vouohed for by such high high authorities as Prof. Sylvanus Thompson, Conrad Cooke and Latimer Clark Three of the principal railway companies have already adopted the phonophore, and it must be obvious, even to the unScieHtifc mind, that pho nophoric telegraphy and telephony, which is go vastly increasing the cleo. trician's power over the wires, has be- fore it Q great future,
 The phonophoye, indeed, increase almost to infnity the number of words that can be transmitted in a given time. It is obvious, therefore, that it opens great possibilities in the way of cheap sning the cost of telsgrams. So long as the ndAber of words that could be carried hy wire in an hour was rigid fly limited it was hopeless to look for any substantial reduction in the cost of telsgraphing, but the phonophore at once increases tine capacity and speed  of every wire to which it may be fitted.
 Montana eIeetsd 2 stato of Mail e
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03

Various patterns of filters are in use, very few of which are of any value whatever They act only as a strain CT to remove the coarser impurities, but have no effect upon the micro scopic bacteria, or matters held in SO lution, which are the most dangerous. A flannel bag is exactly as good filter as these expensive devices, and pos. sesses the additional advantages of be, ing easily cleaned or renewed The most effective filters arc those in which a disk of porous stone or earth enware forms the tiltering material, but it is best to make sure of the orig.
 "isupply of water rather than to
 Q purify it by any such uncertain
 Aods Popular Science Monthly.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
Hang Up Your watch.

When not carried in the pocket a watch should always hang by its ring in the same position as it is worn. As a rule watches will run with a differ ent rate when laid down. Only high grade watches are adjusted to posi- tions and will show only few sec onds difference in twenty-four hours, while common watches may be out of time several minutes in one night. = Jewellers Weekly.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
The Exception That Proves tho Rule.

Did you ever know any one to gel rich through the smoking habitY" "Yes l did, Knew two men," Who were they?"
 George Smith and Harry Bright. |" "Who are they2"
 The largest cigarette manufactur CTS in the country Harper's Bazar.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03

Montana elected State of Maii e girl Attorney General of that State at the Inst election. This is the first and only Indy that was ever elected to such an office in the United States. The lady was not only elected, but secured a majority over all three of her com pstitors.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
Knights of Pythias.

Regular meeting of Pinal Mountain Lodge No. II, Tuesday night of each week at Ma sonic Hall All btothers in good standing are cordially invited
 THos. ". CuRaow, c. c. ". \. WENTHorf K. k. S
Arizona silver belt., 1892-12-03
SHIL0H'S CON S U M p ITO N
 CURE.
CHA ENtAMrMENr. No. 3.

I, o, 0. F. meets on the second and fourth Fridays in each month. Visiting brethren in good standing cordially invited to attend.
 E. c. FOX, c. P. H. II. McNELLY, Scribe.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
GERMANS STARVING.
Those Living in Russia Along the Volgs
Have Nothing Given Them and
Are Bound to StarVe.

LONDON, March S.-A special correspond
ent of Reuters telegraph company, who is
visiting the famine-stricken portions of
Russia, sends a letter from Saratoff dated
February % descriptive of German colonists
on the Volga. He says the German colon
lists on the Volga number about 100000.
Their condition is really worse than
that of the Russian peasants in
the other districts, lnasmuch as the
former have no natural protectors
or guardians. The estate owners, to whom
the Russian peasant formerly belonged,
still take q sort of patriarchial inter-
est in them, helping them when in
distress. But the German colonists
have no one to whom they can look except
few wealthy employers of labor. The
colonists have feeling that they are being
left alone to die and no hand
stretched out TO save them. Even
government aid, scant in all
conscience has been melted out more
grudgingly and in smaller quantities to
them than to others. The Red Cross soci-
ETY. passed them by altogether. This is
how it comes about that while the inhab-
itants of the Russian village SaIssoH are,
fed the Germans are starving.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
WHEAT RROSPECB.
sReports from the Chief Wheat States as
to the Condition of
the Crop.

CHICAGO, ILL, March S.-The Farmers
Review has the following winter wheat
crop summary:
In Illinois one-half of the correspondents
report good condition, about So per cent
report the condition fair, and 10 per cent
report 1t poor.
In Indiana 50 per cent of the correspond
ents report it good, 10 per cent fair and the
others poor.
The condition in Ohio is not so good. Only
20 per cent of the correspondents report 1t
good, So per cent fair and "a per cent poor.
Two-thirds of the correspondents of Mich
igan report the condition good, 80 per cent
fair and the rest poor.
In Kentucky 50 per cent Of the CORE
spondeuts give the condition as good, SO
per cent fair and u per cent poor.
In Missouri the outlook for the crop is
not nearly so good as it was this time last
year. One-third of the correspondents re-
port it good, oue-ffth fair and the rest
poor.
In Kansas 40 per cent of the correspond
ents report the condition good, 20 per cent
as fair, and the remainder poor.
In Iowa 60 per cent of the correspondents
report 1t good, 30 per cent fair and the
others poor.
In Wisconsin one-half of the correspond
ents report the condition good, 42 per cent
fair and the rest poor.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
Men Who Annoy Women.

The annoyance that women suffer in New
York from men is something intolerable.
The male flirt has come to be recognized as
an institution of the big town. De flour
isheS everyWhere-in the downtown bush
ness streets. on upper Broadway, IN the
shopping districts, and particularly at the
theaters on matinee days. He is entirely
without conscience. He is well dressed of
course, and his cheek is as hard as stone
Image He hesitates at nothing and no
woman is safe from his insults. A walk on
upper Broadway on any afternoon will show
this species Of loafer in his true colors; he
mhesitatingly approaches, speaks TO, and
smirlzs and smiles at respectable women
Sometimes, Us was the case recently, he
meets his match. The thrashing that was
recently given by the irate father of a
young girl who was approached by q well
dressed loEfer is going TO do much to
remedy the evil; and the fact that the
father thought enough of his daughter
to appear in a police court the next
morning and urge the punishment of the
rascal shows that if a determined effort IS
made to suppress the nuisance the law VIII
do its share of the punishment. Keeping a
man in the police station over night, and
Then threatening him with six months i'm
prisonmeut, is very wholesome treatment
of q great evil; and there will be little difi-
Guilty in eradicatiag il if few fathers and
brothers make up their mind that the time
has come when something must be done.
II used TO be tbs boast Of New York
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
Russell sage and His Millions.

saw Sussel Sage on the street the other
day, looking very much like a down East
farmer in his Sunday clothes. He was
moving along toward his Office with shift
less gait, apparently unconcerned about
what was going on around him. His expe-
rience with the bomb thrower does not
seem to have unsettled him very much. He
was badly frightened, of course, and he was
seriously i'll for few days after the catas-
trophe. Now, however, he Is as well as
could be expected of man of his age; and
it is noticeable that ne, too, like Mr.. Gould,
is a more constant attendant at church than
for some years. Mr.. Sage does not devote
as much time to Wall street matters as he
did. He is as sharp as any Yankee in
seeming dollar, but he is taking life a lit
tie easier nowadays than he has at any time
in his career. 1t is not known that he is
doing much in the way of giving money to
charity, but Mrs. Sage devotes considerable
time to relieving the wants of the needy
and attending the meetings of charitable
organizations Mr.. Sage Is the one rich
man in New York from whom nothing is
expected in the way of charitable requests
when he dies. 1t is believed that his enor-
nous fortune will be left to his family-and
yet perhaps he has a surprise in store for
his felloW-men. 1t would be curious if he
should leave million doll6@s to some great
organization that would perpetuate his
name and take from it the stigma of mean
ness
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17

women that they could go out at any hour
OF the day or night without male escort
OF chaperon. This is no longer true No
woman who goes cut alone is safe from in
suit. She must expect, Of course, TO be
ogIet, and meet the smirks of so-called
gentlemen - but that she should be ap-
preached while in store, or a car. or
while walking along on a crowded
street, spoken to and otherwise in
suited in broad daylight, is a serious
matter that demands the attention of
some one who is prepared 10 mete out stern
chastisement 1t is a noticeable fact that
young girls are now placed in charge of
chaperons by their mothers whenever they
be a necessity, and the daughters of
wealthy families find it necessary to have
the protection of some elder female when
they take their walks abroad. The masher
has had things his own way too long.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
The Last of the 400.

There was a time when to be spoken of
as u member of the 400 was the acme of
social bliss 1t was considered a
mark of distinction, and men and
women, no matter what their posi-
ton or wealth were glad to be pointed ont
They seemed to feel their own importance.
They fiourished like a green bay-tree.
They wore continually an air of 81 am bet
ter than thou" They strutted about like
peacocks on parade. They were exclusive,
selfish. tyrannical Those who were out
side the Golden Circle soon began to
laugh at the new ariStocracy, and IL was
not long before songs ridiculing
the 100 were sung in the
theaters, aud clever photographers
began TO say sharp things that tended
to lower the importance Of those who had
so recently peen pulled up with pride.
When Mr. McAlliSter made up mis- mind to
reduce the 400 to $50, the town began to
laugh, and it has not yet finished the guf-
faw. The reading out Of the band of such
men as Depew was enough to make a
wooden Indian laugh; and no one has taken
greater pleasure than Depew in getting
even with McAllister by saying sharp and
witty things about the so-called party of
aristocratS. Now 1t is no longer considered
an honor to be spoken Of as either one of
the $50 or the 100, and those who were most
anxious to be known as such a while ago
are eager to have it heralded abroad that
they have nothing to do with McAllister or
his social functions. McAllister is out in
the cold. How he ever came to have any
power or influence IN New York society is a
mystery to everybody, including himself.
To be sure he has the savoir faire of man
who has read much, Travelled
little, and knows something about
the usages of polite society He
is not a gourmet, sach as was the late
Sam Ward, nor is he a conversationalist of
the charm of dozens of other men in New
York. He has not the wealth to give great
entertainments, and he has not the per-
sOnal characteristics or presence to make
him d commanding figure in any large COM
pauy. The fact of the matteris, McAllister
bluffed his way into society, and ne Is 60
ing out of 1t now without very much glory.
The 400, so called, has been ridiculed to
death
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
The Day of the Politician.

The presidential campaign has opened I'M
usually early. The politicians of both par
ties and all factions have begun work, and
the big city is already astir with the noise
Of the impending battle. There is more
politics in New York city to the square
Inch than in any other city in this country,
not even excepting Washington, and the
men who manipulate public affairs here have
sounded the call to arms much earlier than
In previous campaigns. The corridors of the
uptown hotels Of an evening are occupied
by politicians of all faiths discussing the
situation. 1t is queer, no matter ATho
begins TO talk politics, Senator Hill3sname
Is the first one mentioned. Even yhis enc
mics, the Republicans, admit that he has
begun his campaign with marvellous vigor
and courage. The anti-HilF Democrats
quite freely concede the same, while the
Hill men jubilantly point to their
candidate as one greater even than
fiieut that Hill will cut any sort of
figure in the national convention. The
delegates from New York will of course,
present his name-for they are instructed
SO to debut whether the delegates from
other states will rally TO his cause in even
few nun berS is serious problem with Sen
RtOr Hill and his friends. 1t is belieyed.g
however. that some sort of q combination
has been made that will give Hill the votes
of the delegates from other states on the
first ballot. The anti-Hill convention TO be
held soon does not give the senator or his
friends any uneasiness. Delegates from this
convention will have no status in Chicago.
There is no question about the seating of
the entire Hill delegation. The anti-Hill
men only claim snap Judgment on them inz
stead of fraud at the primaries. Thess
primaries were regularly called, as was the
convention, and everything was done in the
most open. if yet summary, manner. The
general impression among the political
writers of the newspapers VINO have no
bias is that Hill is losing strength every
Gay He made the first quarter like race
horse, but he finds it difficult to keen up the
pace.
The Republicans seem to agree that Hill
will not be the candidate of the Democratic
party. Many of them wish he would, for
they feel that he will be an easy man to
beat. The Cleveland men are lying low and
hoping that the lightning may strike their
favorite. 1t is so with the Harrison men
also; they believe that the present occu-
pant of the White House will surely be
chosen in the convention to succeed him
self At the present writing everything
leads me to believe them right
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
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