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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17
nemnrl.nhIe Memory.

On a farm ten miles from Madison, Ind,
there lives a man, "a youth to fortune ana
TO fame unknown" but nevertheless Po6
sessed of extraordinary powers. From hirf
81 Chicago exchange gets the following SUB
stantial facts:
James Norville was born in 1887, at sid
nev. n s. w. His mother was born at
Jerusalem and his father at Tangier,
Africa Altar early age he boarded a tram
inc ship-the Aspinwall, at Greenwich
where he remained for three years, during
which time he was taught to read and write
English and German. This was all the
schooling he ever had except short course
in a night school at Alexandria, Africa
Later on in his eventful career he spent
seventeen years on the Peninsular and Orr
entail line as midshipman, sailing from
Liverpool via Queenstown TO Calcutta
When on the Indian ocean, during the
darkest night, he could calculate the DIS
lance which a storm had driven his snip,
and the latitude in which he was sailing
within five seconds of the exact position.
His travelling has been extensive ana nis
experience most varied de was with the
Twenty-second Highlanders at the rescue
of Lucknow, and was on the ship Croco-
ollie at the siege of Sebastopol. lie passed
through our CIVIL war, SSINihS, ~ ViS
Missouri cavalry. He carries two ming
balls in his body, and part of his skull
was shot away, paralysis resulting there
from and causing the lid of one eye to be
useless.
Mr.. Norville is also an able linguist, be-
ing acquainted with Arab, Turkish, Per
sian. Sanscrit and Hebrew, and speaks Ger
man, Italian, French and Spanish At one
time he taught the children of the English
soldiers at Allahghad, and while there
learned Sanscrit from the priests.
The most wonderful thing relative 60
this man is his wonderful memory. lie
can recte the Koran and the Talmud YER
batim and also Green's History of Eng
land" and Frost's History of the United
States" He is a very ordinary looking
man, of whom his neighbors know but
little, nor are they able to become familiar
with him.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17
oaprices of Coin Collectors.

1.-THE vagaries and caprices of the col
lector cannot be explained, replied the
connoisseur. why a man should pre-
fer the scarce American dollar of 1904
at $500 (which is the market value of "a
good specimen) to the beautiful Hgina
coin, the oldest and most artistic product
of the Greek mint. a fine copy of which
may be had for So. is as difficult ques
ton to answer as why the handsome and
talented Montague Brown married the
unprepossessing Miss Dobbs.
''There is always a lively demand for
the scarcest coins, continued the col
lector. land it seldom concerns the eathu-
siast whether they are beautiful or not.
1t is well nigh impossible to begin now
and make a complete collection Of our
American coins. To do il one would
have to possess, beside a knowledge of
American numismatics, the patience of
job and a purse as long as a Wander
bits. New York Evening Sun.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17

Serenely reposing on the shelves of the.
Paris National museum are some of the
most remarkable literary curiosities in the
world those of the British museum not ex.
cepted Among this collection is an odd
little volume entitled The Passion OF
Christ" book neither written nor printed
Every letter of the text is cut in the leaf,
and as the alternate leaves are Of blue
paper it is as easily read as the best print.
The labor required and the patience neces-
sary to cut each letter may be imagined
The work is so perfect that it seems almost
as though done by machinery, yet every
letter was cut by hand At present the
book belongs to the family of the Prince de
Ligne, but is kept in the museum for more
absolute safety.-St. Louis Republic.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17
Chenn Eating in Mashingtop.

We serve for 81 week two meals a day
for one person, breakfast and dinner, or,
for 81 "A week, we serve one person with
dinners only. But our provision is on SO
liberal scale that our customers, as rule,
order their meals sent on IA basis of one
meal for two persons, or at all events not
more than two meals for three persons
No objection is entertained by us to feed
ing as many people on IA single portion
meal as care To share it, We deliver the
given quantity of food and there our part
ends. We take care to make the allow
ance always plentiful and you can see for
yourself THAT no plan could well be 50 cheap
for young couple, say just beginning
housekeeping as to pay 81 a week for their
dinners and breakfasts in this way.
Certainly they could not provide salts
factory meals for themselves on that
amount, even if the cost of provisions only
was in question: and it must be remem-
bered that this saves the necessity of "a
servant, 50 far as kitchen work is con
cerned, and the considerable item of fuel is
also saved But all these advantages,
take it, are as nothing compared with the
saving of wear and tear upon the house
wife. The time ought to arrive when all
the cooking for every one will be done in
great establishments and the meals sent
out.-lnterview in Washington Star
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17

One of the most embarrassing things
court stenographer can be subjected to some
times is to be suddenly asked to read a lot of
cross questioned testimony over which there
has arisen a dispute and the answers and
questions of which, together with the inter-
jected remarks Of wrangling counsel, have
been taken down at lightning speed. Under
such circumstances ones writing is little more
than a scroll, and to decipher and read it
quickly at a moments notice is by no means
easy. The most important thing in this, as
in ali kinds of reporting, is to keep cool and
collected head. ! have seen some pitiable
cases of first class stenographers who were
so ratified on being asked TO read what they
had written, that the request had to be with
drawn out of charity to them.-Globe-Dem
GRAFT
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17

Those timid beings who are haunted
by apprehensions of being buried alive,
and who make testamentary provisions
against such contingency, may now
take courage. for science has supplied an
infallible means of determining whether
or not the vital spark has quilted the
mortal frame. Electricity enables us TO
distinguish with absolute certainty he
tween life and death. for two or three
hours after the stoppage Of the heart, the
whole of the muscles of the body have
completely lost their electric excitability.
When stimulated by electricity they no
longer contract. If, then. when Farad-
ism is applied TO the muscles of the
limbs and trunk, say five or six hours
after supposed death, there can be no
eontractile response, it may be certified
with certainty that death has occurred,
for no faint. nor trance. nor coma. how
ever deep. can prevent the manifestation
of electric muscular contractility. Here
there is no possibility of mistake, as there
certainly was when the old tests were
employed. New York Commercial
Advertiser
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17
How to Make Candied violets.

The dainties known as preserved VIC
let's" for which the feminine folk pay ex-
Orbitant prices, are easily and simply made.
Boil one pound of loaf sugar in as much
water as it win absorb until, when dropped
into cold water, it becomes hard and brit
tie. Throw the violets (which should be of
the large double variety and without stems)
into the sirup, a few at a time, and keep
them in until the sugar boils again. Stir
the sugar round the edge of the pan until
it is white and grainy; then gently stir the
flowers about until the sugar leaves them.
Drain them on fine white cloth and set
them on sieve to dry in a slightly warm
oven, turning them carefully now and
again and watching them lest they cool ere
they dry.
Preserved violets are considered rare
delicacy, and they are certainly in appear
ance as dainty as could be imagined; but
they are more indigestible than boiled cab
bage, mince pie, Welsh rarebit or any of
the heroic viands.-Chicago News.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17
How Large Was Ancient Rome9

After carefully examining all the data
we have, all the statements and various
ancient writers who allude to it, and all
the facts which seem to bear on the q1es-
ton, | am convinced that in estimating the
population DIT 100000 am rather under
stating than overstating it. 1t is muc2al
more probable that it was larger than that
it was smaller De Quincy also estimates
the inhabitants of Rome at 100000. l
will only cite one fact, and then leave the
question. The Circus Maximus was con-
structed to hold 1000, or, according to
Victor, at later period probably, $4,000
spectators. Taking the smaller number,
then, it would be | in 10 of all the inhab-
itants if there were 100000.
But as one-half the population was com
posed of slaves, who must be struck out Of
the spectators, when the circus was built
there would be accommodation then for
in of the total population, excluding
slaves Reducing again the number one
half by striking out the women, there
would be room for in 4. Again, striking
out the young children and the old men
/ and the sick and impotent, You would
have accommodation for nearly the whole
population. Is it possible to believe that
the Romans constructed a circus to hold
the entire population of Rome capable of
going to it?-for such must have been the
case were there only 4, 600, 600 of inhabitants
Blu. suppose there were only 100000 in
habitants, it is plain from the mere figures
that it would never have been possible to
half fill the circus. Blackwoods Maya
| zine
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17

The case went against her, and she had
TO pay costs into the bargain.
"Well, " she snapped to the court, ''Pn
never take the advice of older heads
again"
''Of whom did you take advice2" he
inquired.
''Of my old grandmother. She is o
woman of very few words and is sup
posed to have lots of hard sense. l re-
lated the case to her and made up my
mind beforehand to do juSt what she
said.
And what did the old lady adviser
''She heard me clear through, then she
took of her specs, wiped 'em and put
them on again. The she says, says she;
Law" Detroit Free Press.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17
Deoadence Of Poetry.

The question is, whether the spirit Of
the age is susceptible of poetic representa-
ton or Interpretation. If it be 50 the
fault evidently lies at the door of the
poets; they are not up to their work If,
on the other hand, life as we know it
cannot be made into poetry. then the
sooner we recognize the fact, and cease
to string unavailing rhymes together the
better for all concerned. Julian Haw-
thorne in American Magazine.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17
vnlne nf snlnhnrlo Acid.

Copper and sulphuric acid make the
blue vitriol of commences; iron and suit
phuric acid make the green vitriol; mar
BILE dust and sulphuric acid make the
sparkling, exhilarating gas that bubbles
and froths through soda water while
starch, or sawdust. or old wooden rags
and sulphuric acid will make sugar or
gyrup.-Chicago Times.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17
Their Husbands Fought King George

AHoIF tIusDHHuH Fuusit Mig Ut"TEt.
The last of the Revolutionary soldiers
passed away some years ago, but there still
remain on the pension rolls the names of a
few widows of the gallant terans. Nancy
Raines, of Carter Furnace, Tenn, aged 100
and Ann Maria Young, of E'iston, Pa, aged
10l. are the oldest on the list. They must
have been very young when they married,
even to have secured husbands under fifty
years of age. In this connection there is a
chance for some ingenious mathematician
to figure out the time when death will close
forever the pension books of the civil war
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17
LESSONS TAUGHT BY FLOWERS.

Hyacinths, roses and violets bring
Laden with beauty and fragrance OF spring
Clasp 70 thy soul the sweet lessons the, teach
Greater than any that mortals may preach.
Softly the carol chimes ont from the bell,
Life wakes anew IN the forest ana dell
Fair. but az transient music rs sweet
Heavens eternal. though eartn may De ieet
Clearly the anthem rings ont from the bell,
Jesus our fears and our sorrows can quell.
"Dust undo DUST" but behold at the tomb
Ever the fair Rose OF Sharon III bloom
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17

A home for training young women as
companion help" has been in existence
for two years at Zeals, near Bath. The
teaching there includes hOusework, cook
ing, baking, dairy, laundry and needle
work, etc. The terms for board, lodging
and instruction are ten shillings a week
1t is proposed to teach young girls in
tending to enligrate. New York Telegram.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17
His Figure.

A German dealer in rare old violins, who
has gone out of business, says that the man
who pays over SO for any sort of violin gets
stuck. We had put the figure at fifty cents,
which is about the true value, also, of the
many $500 dogs in this country.
Free Press.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17
Tho Nirhtincnle,s Song

The nightingale. it is said, has sixteen
different beginnings and closes, with
many intermediate notes. while other
birds have but four or five changes. -
Once a Week.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17

The devil gets in some Of his finest work
when he really persuades an egotist that he is
standing by principle when he is only exc
plotting vanity and cussedness
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17
Returning Home.

First Actor-How did you come down from
Albany, Haml
Second Actor-By rail
First Actor-By rail, eh; how far can you
walk on the rail, Hami-The Epoch.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17

A thirty-two foot spruce log was recently
sawed into boards in Puget Sound mill, and
made {, 400 feet of lumber without knot
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17

JEFF Davis expenses at Beauvoir are very
heavy, so many people come to visit him.
The old man finds it very difficult to make
both ends meet.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17

In California they are beginning to talk OF
engaging in the cultivation of the cork oak.
Owing to the wine industry, there is a great
demand for cork in that state.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17

Mary Anderson has nearly concluded he
riding lessons in London. She viii shortly
take her daily canters in Rotten Row at the
fashionable hour.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-17

Societies for the advancement Of dress re-
form for women now exist in England,
Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-05-26

Senator Allison, chairman of the SEN
ate committee on appropriations, and
one of the very best authorities on pub
lie business. gave the calamity waller of
the Mills stripe Touchdown blow
when, in defense OF the amendments at
tached to the naval appropriation bill
by the Senate committee, he told the
Senate that instead of being bankrupt
at the close OF the present fiscal year the
U. S. Treasury would have after meeting
all legal demands surplus of SOS, O0O,-
900. Referring to the charge so often
made by democrats of the extravaganza
of the fixed appropriations under laws
enacted by republicans. Senator Allison
asked the democratic Senator's to name
what laws they would like to repeal so
as to reduce the fixed appropriation
Senator West replied that the democrats
would like to repeal the postal subsidy
and the sugar bounty laws. Mr.. Allison
smiled, as we'll he might, when he saw
that he had so neatly trapped the demo-
Gratis, and turning to Mr.. West said:
1.-THE repeal of those two laws would
saye about $s,OOO,oOO, so the country
is asked to elect democratic President
and democratic Senate in order that
the sugar bounty and the postal subsidy
laws may be repealed"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-05-26

THEY are having decidedly interesting
times politically at Duluth. H. c.
Kendall is an avowed candidate for Con-
gress, and is backed by the kid clement
the political hustlers. But the older
heads dc not approve of the state, and
have taken steps to sponge it off and re-
write it. A meeting was held on Tues
day night, and Col. Graves was brought
to the front as a candidate more accept
able. And the war is on. The result
will be that Duluth will not be able to
unite upon any candidate, and Judge
Searle will walk away from convention
hall with the capital prize in his pocket
providing he will accept it. That is as
it should be.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-05-26
school Notes.

The following teachers will sever heir
relations with the school at the close of
the present term:
Misses Nutting, Wood, James and EN-
merson.
The following shows the increase in
enrolment during the three years of
Prof. Woodley's principalship:-139O,
465; 1891. 525; 1892, 500 The average
attendance the last year has been 90 per
cent.
The schoopwill close in all the grades
on Friday OF this week. The high school
will continuein session two weeks. The
baccalaureate sermon for the high school
Will be delivered on Sunday, June 5th,
at Memorial hail, by Rev. ]. F. Brown
OF Minneapolis, Graduating exercises
will be held on the evening of June 9Th.
Maryland Hoyt, D. D. will deliver the adj
dress, his subject: Laws of Success. "
There will be very few failures to pass
grades this year, and only few condi.
tons.
Prof. Woodley says that this is the
best and most satisfactory year he has
had, there having been few changes in
methods and more solid and progress.
i've work done. He speaks in the highest
terms of the efficient work OF his corps
ofteachers and compliments them highly
for their devotion and faithfulness.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-05-26
Special Excursion Rates.

The official route of the Supreme
Lodge, A. o. U. W., from St. Paul to
Helena, is via the Great Northern. Special
train leaves st. Paul June 18th, at Ga. M.
Round trip rate via this or regular train
$40, with choice of various routes return
ing. The same rate also applies to the
Mining Congress July 18th, and the Ma
tional Encampment Sons of Veterans
August 9Th, both at Helena, For par
ticulars inquire of Jas. A. Norris, agent,
who will also furnish information re-
garding the half fare rates, via the Great
Northern, from this place to Minneapo-
lis during the National Republican Con-
yention,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-05-26
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Order for Hearing and Notice of AppIica-

Order for Hearing and Notice of Applica-
tion for Appointment of Administrator.
: Coz County of s t SIS.
IN Probate Court, Special Term, May Sd,
1892.
In the matter OF the estate of Andrew Olsen
FauSkee, Deceased
On receiving and filing the petit ton of ole
Eauskee of the Town OF North Fork, Sterrns
Comfy, representing, among other things,
mat Andrew Olsen FauSkee, late OF Stearns
County, on the 9TH day of November, A. ID.
1891, at Moth Fork, Stearns County died in
testate. and being a resident OF this County
at the time of his death, leaving goods, chat
tells and estate within this County, and that
the said petitioner is q son of said deceased,
and praying that adm Illustration OF said es.
tate be to Arne Arneson granted:
1t is ordered. that said petition be heard
before this Court on the
7TH DAY OF JUNE,A. D. 1892. AT o'CLocL 4. M,
at the City of ST Cloud in said County,
Ordered further, that notice thereof be CIV
en- to the heirs OF said deceased, and to all
persons interested, by publishing this order
once in each week, for three successive
weeks prior to said day of hearing, In the
SAUK CENTRE HERALD, weekly newspaper,
printed and published at the City OF Sank
Centre in said County.
Dated at st Cloud, Minnesota, the I'd day
of May, A. d. 1892.
BY the Court:
THEo. BRUENER,
L. S.. Judge of Probate.
May st
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-05-26
Our Little Men and women.

The June number of Our Little Men and
Women contains stories, poems and pic
lures as sunny as the month itself. "a
Boy and Girl" "Toker and his Rela-
lions" Talks by Queer Folks" the
"Studie Dolls" regular features of this
little magazine, are especially clever,
while the shorter stories. poems and
iingles sparkle with real life and hint at
such fun and merriment as is the true
boy and girl diversion and sport. The
pictures are in themselves work of art.
Price $1.O0 a year; ten cents number.
D. LOTHROH COMPANY, Publishers,
Boston.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-05-26
BabYlalld.

The June Babvland is as bright and
sunny as the month foretells. With its
frontispiece, crowned by charming full
page picture at the close, and the dainty
stories and rhymes between the covers,
Baby will wear smiling face the whole
day long, and Mamma will say over
again her oft-repcated words: What
should we do without Babyland-the
Babies Magazinep'
Price so cents a year; five cents num-
Der. D. LOTHROP COMPANY, Pub
fishers, Boston.