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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02
For Sale.

" Inc Green A. Charles residence on
sonroe street, Tallahassee. For terms
na Particulars apply to
r. A. SHINE.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02
Gloves! Gloves

THE Biarritz," best quality.
Suede Gloves; to button or lace.
The Marriotle,' superior quality.
Miss Stephenson S assoI tment Of gloves
IS unequaled.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02

ul Euf experience covers many ills, many
Nh VII ana many bills. Our ills are smaller
Ese.u we use De Wits Little Early
-'efs. Sold by NJ. Lively.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02

Peach preserves and mince meat by the
pound, at BALL BROS. l. DEMILLY's.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02

md ' n,p linen goods. felts, figured silks
Ro,k pushes and all materials Tor fancy
VA al Miss Stephenson's.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02
vIOR1DA r.. A. CHAPTER, No. 1
4. q. d. f.

Meets on the I'd and 4th Mondaysin each month
,So'clock P. M. s. A. WAUCHoPE, Secretary.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02

Go to Bal Bros. q Dtmlliy's for your
ral>ins, cnrIanis, ci;ron, ni'Dce meat, etc.,
for Christmas.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02

You don't want a torpid liver. You
don't want bad c. mplexion. You don't
want a bad breath. You don't want a
headache. Then use De Wits Little
Early Risers, the famous little pills. Sold
by NJ. Lively.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02
Al. q. Field.

The king of Minstrel men, will be here
with his powerful company January 80
Whenever AL. Field comes 10 Tallahassee
the standing room only" card is run out
early in the evening. More extended no
tees will be gwen in later issues of the
FLORIDIAN.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02

At meeting held December 9th in Lo-
cal Branch No. 1855 Order of the Iron
Hall the following officers were elected for
the next term.
Past Chief Justices-E. B. Clark P. T.
Roberts.
Csshier-Arvah Hopkins.
Accountant-Sieg. Diamond.
Adjuster-H L. Ball.
Prelate-Chas. Hopkins.
Herald-J. Burkhardt.
Watch-R. A. Rozear.
Vidette-W. F. Oldenburg.
Trustees-T. J. Roberts c. A. Bryan, L
G. Yaeger.
Local Medical Examiner-Dr. E.E
Philbrick
The above branch was established in
this place by Deputy Supreme Justice
George Vincent March 14th, 1890, with
seventeen charter members. The roll
book of member ship shows now forty
eight members, of which forty are in
good standing. The good the order has
done since established will be seen from
the following state meut of members of
this branch who have drawn sick benefits
at the rate of $25 per week:
Peter Lundquist, Jacksonville. =. $50 OC
w. II. Ere eman, city. rs OC
w. l. Winchester, Brunswick. -. 25 OC
L. G. Yaeger, city. so OC
c. G. Butler, Jacksonville. ....... 25 OC
Fritz Ledock, city, ............ 1875 OC
J. Burkhardt, city. ........... 25 OC
R. A. Rozear, city. 25 O(
P. D. Demilly, city. ........... so 0(
S. w. Costa, city ............... 80 0(
&c. A. Whitlock, city. ..... IS OF
J. \. Simon, New York. ....... % OF
Total. Observation-Disclosures $500 OF
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02
Reeves Opera.Boune.

The attraction booked for Tuesday night,
January 5, is Reeves Engl sh Opera-Bouffe
Company i'll MUnroe's Satire on Goethe's
immortal poem, Faust This company
carry actors who can act and singers who
can sing. They present an elaborate pro-
duction with grand scenic effects. You
mustn't miss seeing " Faust
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The Famous Janauschek.

And her exec llent company are booke
for January Fl. They will play the "Har-
vest Moon" II is not often that such a
high grade company comes to Tallahas-
early.
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Possible Attractions

Clair Tuttle has spoken for January 6
and : but has not yet entered into con-
tract for those dates. This company
play that great western comedy The
Mountain Princess, and it is to be hoped
they will come, for they are highly COM
mended by the press.
The Bijou Theatre company is also
down for January Is and IA. but con-
tracts are not vet Sirnel
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02

For Fine Cigars
. suu 0raverly's tobacco, call at the drug
'ors of NJ. Lively.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02

Corn shelters for So, at L. G. Yaeger's.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02

doctors: Pshaw, take Beecham's Pill
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02
BOOTS AND SHOES.

Initial handkerchiefs, embroidered linen.
% cents.
Silk handkerchiels.
Embroidered handkerchiets
Hemsttched handkerchiefs.
All kinds Of handkerchiets,
at Miss STEPHENsoN's
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02
McCabe q Young's ,Iinstrels.

Are well-known in Tallahassee. They
have been here before and always played
to good houses. They will appear at
Munros opera house Monday night,
January + Several new features have
been added this season and the company
is much stronger than ever before. The
attraction
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-02

EL0R1DA Supreme Court Reports Vols II ana
4 H. original print, address, Erastus w Clarf
Tallahassee Fla
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
Knit ing by Electricity.

There is apparently no limit to the
applications of electricity as a motive
power in the manufacturing arts, the
current now being employed success
fully in the textile industries The
electric motor which has been devised
for use in knitting mills is diminutive in
size, and yet it possesses ample power
to operate a single knitting machine.
The object is to make each machine
perfectly Independent in its operation.
The advantages of this arrangement
are that a number of machines may be
run by one operative, each being
stopped at will, or all together, as the
case requires; besides which the cur
rent is very economical in small fac
tories that are not able to employ
steam power. Electricity has not yet
been introduced for the operation of
large or heavy machinery IN textile
mills
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
NILE. JACQUOT.
4 Wonderful Parrot Which Initiates AMI
mails and Composes Music.

\ Wonderful Parrot Which Initiates AMI
mails and Composes Music.
The most accomplished parrot in the
world is the property of NJ. A. Nicaise,
OF Paris, member of the Anthropo-
logical society, who has had it in his
possession for twenty-three years. It
is female parrot of Gabon origin, with
feathers of an ashen-gray color, but a
bright red tail. Mile. Jacquot, by which
name this wonderful bird is known, is
an old maid 4s years of age.
In her youth Mile. J. learned to imi-
tate sparrows, street arabs and hawk
ers. During the Franco-Prussian war
she YVES sent for safe keeping to the
country, where she was installed in
the home of farmer
There her repertory was greatly en-
larged, embracing every sound of ma
ture-the piping of the quail, the cry
Of the owl, the chatter of the magpie,
the clucking of the hen and the
ROSTERS manifestations.
But in one thing Mile. J. acquired
particular excellence, and that was in
the phonetic reproduction of the kill
ling of pigs, at which she must GER
tainly have assisted.
But what is still more wonderful,
this parrot is a singer and composer OF
no mean skill. She improvises the
most perfect tunes, which she whistles
necessarily in almost every possible
variation, but never repeating the
same, and she finishes every piece ex-
actly on the key in which it was begun.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
A SHOWER OF EELS.

An Alabama Village Visited BY q Curious
Meteorological Phenomenon.
Coalburg, a small Georgia hamlet,
recently reported a curious shower.
Toward evening the village seemed
covered with a dense cloud, so black
as to threaten a storm, but it was to
be seen that there was neither wind
nor heavy rain.
This cloud continued to hover about
the town until nearly.11 o'clock that
night, when it began to shower lightly
and something in the sound of the rain
striking the people as strange, they
went out to see what was falling,
when it was seen that the ground was
covered with what was at first taken
to be snakes, which caused great alarm
until several of the creatures were
caught by more inqasisitive or courag-
eous spirits, when it was seen that
they We're young cells. The largest
seen was nearly foot in length, but
the majority of them were only few
inches.
Old fishermen of the vicinity declare
that the cells We're of a species not to
be found in this country except on the
Southern Pacific coast, though plenti-
full in Mexico and Central America. 1t
appeared that there were none of the
creatures to be found more than few
hundred feet beyond the limits of the
hamlet, but witnesses declare that
even within that limited circuit there
must have fallen millions of them. The
people have been much annoyed since
by the heaps of dead cells, which rem
der the town almost uninhabitable, but
the farmers are using them as fertil-
izar
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24

Il will run, dear madam Saying
this, the captain took his military cap
and cloak and went By the way he ran
down the stairs it was evident he was in
hurry.
l went back to the drawing room, where
fear reigned. Nine. DutaiIly wavered be-
tween the wish to fly and the desire to
watch over the shell. Without seeming
to do SO, / looked out into the moonlit
street.
''It would Rave been so easy to let me
take it," murmured Anatole
''Be SILENT replied Dutailly, little
surprised by the quiet courage Of this boy.
1T is better the captain should do il"
Provided, groaned madame, she does
not wait too long,"
''He will wait, dear lady," said ! gayly.
''You may count on that. For he will
never come back"
''He will never co me back?"
Certainly not. The way to the Bra,
bant honse is to take the the right-hand
street; he went to the left hand and very
quickly"
What do you mean?"
II wish to say, friend DutaiIly, that
your captain is an inposter, and | rejoice
to have dismounted the batteries Of this
boaster by the aid of this engine" Then
taking a photograph album | struck a
blow on the top of the shell, which broke
into thousand pieces-of chocolate, and
scattered on the carpet volley of sugar
plums, burnt almonds and pistachio nuts.
A shout of Laughter gree'ed the explo-
sion, and, | may say, the climax.
Three months later Anatole married
Gertrude.
And the captain was never head OF
after Romance.]
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
FLY FOR YOUR LIVESI
Startling Cry that Warned Penn
sylvanil Villag'r o.
ing Danger.
A Dam Breaks and the Flood Carrie
Destruction Along its
Course.
Much Property is Damaged, But
Happily Few Lives are
Lost.

MAHANoY CITY, Pa, June 1s.-''The
dam is broken; fly fory your ives!" This
alarm was given about 10 o'clock last
night and in less than fifteen minutes
the food had reached the town, COM
pletely flooding cellars and stores and
washing away the earth in the streets
and the Sidewalks The great body
of the water subsidized quickly, but left
in it's track scene of destruction and
pletely blocked with huge trees, tele-
graph poles, logs, stumps, wagons,
carts and parts of houses brought by
the roaring current.
When the flood had subsidized the
greatest fear among the people was
fer the miners underground, but so far
NO lives are reported lost there. 1t is
the water is knee deep in the track
through which the raging torrent sped
Its course.
Rumors are flying in all directions as
to the number OF lives lost. Two
people are reported missing. The
lower business portion of the town was
Hooded and nearly all the merchants
had portions of t. II stock ruined.
The exact cause Of the dam bursting
cannot be ascertained as yet. The
water running into town had a muddy
appearance all day, and it is alleged
that the dam was weakening then.
Others say that cloudburst had hung
over the dam all the evening, and the
bresstworks could not stand the strain
of the heavy body of water and gave
way before the mighty force.
SCRANTON, Pa, June 1s-Another
severe storm swept the city last night
Wind and lightning did great damage,
everything on the South Side being
Frustrated and portion Of school No.
7 being blown away. People were
lifted from their feet and dashed
against buildings. The Saqueit Silk
Mill was carried away in part and two
large scale houses were blown over. A
stack of the Lackawanna Wooleu Mil
was blown down and the roof of thu
button mill badly damaged. A num-
Der of houses were struck by light
ming.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
Logic of Martial Law.

"You are all blackguards!'' cried a
soldier, addressing himself to the
court martial by which he had just
been sentenced to five years imprison-
ment for having deserted his company
CHARTERED In the neighborhood Of
Orleans in France. The court imme-
diately pronounced second sentence,
and in order to impress upon the cul-
prit how much more reprehensible was
a show of disrespect to his superiors
than even a violation of his oath to
his country by DESERVING his
colors, that they made the second SEN
tence ten years of penitentiary with
hard labor. Surely Count Cavour was
right when he said: ANY blockhead
is able to govern under martial law"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
A Remarkable Watch.

A musical watch about the size OF
an egg is now exhibited in st. Peters
burg which performs religious chant
with scenic Accomplishments. Within
is a representation of Christ with the
Roman sentinels. On pressing spring
the stone rolls from the tomb, the SEN
tinels fall down, the angels appear
and the holy women enter the sepul-
cher, and the same chant which is
sung in the Greek church on Easter
eve is actually performed. The watch
was made by an ingenious Russian
peasant during the reign of Catherine
of Russia.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
SIGNS OF COMING AGE.
Moist Eye, Dry Palm and Shrinkage In
the Calf Of the Leg.

Moist Eye, Dry Palm and Shrinkage In
the Calf Of the Leg.
"Do you know the surest indication
of old age?" asked DR.. Reed of num-
Der of friends at the Lindell hotel, ST.
Louis, recently. 1.-The surest indica-
tions in man." he continued, ''are a
moist eye, a dry palm and shrinkage
of the calf of the leg. All these indi-
cations are due to some action of the
nerves consequent upon advancing
years. In the matter of the eye, the
fifth section is interfered with, and it
is this which causes a flow of water.
The dryness of the palm is produced
by an interference with the functions
of the body, also due to the action of
the nerves, and the shrinkage of the
leg follows from similar causes. In
old age, too, you notice some men be-
come more corpulent than in the
earlier portions of their lives. With
drinking the change is often produced
by the quantity of saccharine which
they consume with their drink, and
with those who do not drink it fol-
lows from other physiological
changes. AS to the hair becoming
gray, it results, in the majority of
cases, from the partial closing of the
hair cells and the reduction of the
quantity of natural coloring matter
which the closing produces. With
women the dimness of the eye does
not come SO soon as it does in men,"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
Shifting the Battle Ground.

It is the old story-the Smiths oc-
cupied the lower and the Browns the
upper floor of house in the little city
of Coln-on-Elbe, Germany. From
morning till night the premises re-
sounded with angry voices, hurting
charges and insults to and fro between
the contending hosts of Brown and
Smith. Neither could stand the eter-
nal warfare any longer, and both
served the landlord with notice to omit.
The wagon of the Smiths was just load
ing the last pieces of furniture when
the wagons of the Browns arrived.
The Browns loaded wagon arrived
just in time at the door of the house
where the family had rented the lower
floor to see the last pieces of the
Smiths furniture taken from the wag-
on and carried up on the second floor
rented by the Smith family. Peace
had not been secured--the battle
ground had only been shifted.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
SWIFTER THAN THE EYE.
Marvellous Rapidly of Certain Animal
Motions.


Motions.
The rapidity of animal motion is
something far greater than can be de-
tected by the human eye. 1t is a fa-
vorite amusement of country boys
when they can find an owl sitting on a
stump in field, to walk around the
bird at considerable distance and see
him ''twist his head Off" AS the OBJ
server circles round the creature seems
to follow by turning his head and then
gives the impression of moving his
head continuously round in circle.
AS matter of fact, however, as soon
as the owls head is twisted sufficiently
for comfort, he turns his head sudden
ly in another direction, but so quickly
that the eye cannot detect the motion.
The sluggish toad is sometimes quick
er in his motions. The observer will
sometimes notice a toad sitting at a
distance of two or three inches from
fly. The insect vanishes, and some
times the looker-on is puzzled to tell
how or why. The toad has simply
poked out it's tongue and taken in the
fly, but the action has been so quickly
performed that the eye failed to de-
faot If
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES

heard the essays That one on
saThe MAGMA Charta and King john,
The head girl wrote, she with the wreath,
Described Lear's wandering on the eartn
Quite prettily. Another one
Explained 1.-THE spots upon the sun,
seThe Influence of Browning, and
ssThe early writings of George Sand;"
seThe Transcendental Movement: How
1t Touches German Letters now
All these sadly listened TO.
aWhat earthly good can these things do!"
asked myself: sDoes old King John
Teach you to sew patch upon
A coat?-or can the spotted sun
Say when roast is rarely done?
Do Browning's tangled poems tell
The way TO mend stocking wellt
While was wondering sadly there,
A sweet girl rose, and, declare,
She talked about the bomely things
From washtubs down to muffin ringsl
She had ten pages all on pie,
She knew the choicest way to fry
An oyster. and how best to bake
A good oldfashioned johnny Gaze.
Next day the girl was asked TO snare
The fortunes of millionaire;
She now reads BrownIng's wondrous books,
And leaves the cooking 10 her cooks.
The girl who wrote on Browning's work
Ii married To a gentle clerk
Whose incomes small. No girl have they;
She scrubs and cooks the liVelOng day
And sighs, while bending Ter the range,
When she reflects upon the change
The fall from school sublimitics
TO tattereI books Of recipes.
Springfield MASS. } Graphic.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Many were reported lost in thun.
derstorm at Scranton, Pa.
The First National and the Lincoln
National banks of Lincoln, Neb., will
be consolidated.
Gov. Boies of Iowa attended tho
commencement exercises of the State
university at Iowa City.
Joe and Dolph Cunningham, con-
tractors, shot and killed Lewis Taft
rel.
A call for campaign funds at the
Kansas Alliance State convention no.
suited in a shower of silver on the
platform.
The suburban handicap, the greatest
of American turf events, will be run at
the Sheepshead track Saturday.
A passenger and a freight train Of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway coliided at Rockford.
Representative Holman of Indiana
and Mrs. Holman cele brated the fiftieth
anniversary of their marriage at
Washington.
Foreign bankers expect large
amount of gold to go out on Saturdays
steamers, the majority of estimates
placing the amount as high as $4,000
900.
There is no pIoba bility of any Of the
regular appropriation bills being
passed before the end of the fiscal year,
and the existing laws will have to DO
extended.
The late Father Mollinger's will has
not been found yet. but later facts
show that he left an estate of over
$1,000, 900, including his sacred relics,
all of which, it is believed, has been
devised to the church.
Ed Alison, a Norwegian hardware
merchant at Mortified, Mimi, died
with oldfashioned leprosy. The corpse
was most horrible sight, the flesh
dropping off his body. The Alsons
have all died in the month of June.
Boiler-makers in session at Buffalo
resolved that they could not counte-
nance the demand of tho journeymen
for nine-hour day, and resolved fur.
Their to aid the manufacturers of Bos.
ton and Chicago to hold off against the
strikers.
At conference of Gov. Gray's
friends, held in Indianapolis, it was
decided not to present his name as .
candidate before the Chicago conven-
ton. but to ask that he be given .
cabinet position in event of the party's
success
Peter Garner, farmer living near
Abel, Iowa, was robbed Of q. 500 BY
three sharks
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
LIFE INSURANCE RISKS.
Candidates Often Rejected for Very
Trivial Causes.

Candidates Often Rejected for Very
Trivial Causes.
Some medical examiners are likely
to be too severe and to refuse risks on
what turn out to be very trivial causes,
says an old insurance man. A man
was rejected recently on the ground Of
a defective lung, for which he was re-
jected by another examiner over fifteen
years before. The mere fact of his
living fifteen years and putting on
flesh all the time would seem to dis
prove the first rejection at any rate,
but he was rejected second time,
partly because his insurance record
was not good one, rejection at any
time initiating very much against
future acceptance Some men take re-
lection very hard, indeed, and in this
particular instance the man seemed
broken-hearted, although he had lived
long enough to prove the folly of a
similar sentence of death a short time
before. 1t is not to be expected that
sound companies will accept risks
without examination, hut I think the
time is coming when mans mode Of
life and his general health and activity
will be looked upon as an equally good
criterion as the number of points that
can be scored in an examination by
physician who perhaps never saw the
applicant before in his life.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
WISCONSIN NE VS..

The Oshkosh street railway line has
been practically sold to syndicate of De-
troit men, it having purchased a con-
trolling interest in the line. The Detroi;
syndicate buys the road with the under
standing that the common council extends
tine franchise for fifty years If this is
done the company will put in electricity
at once. The price paid is said to have
been $4,000.
A isry at Viroqua awarded John c..
Johnson, county treasurer of Vernon coun
ty, 81 600 damages for injuries received
in the wreck on the st. Paul rsilroad near
Viroqua last January. Mr.. Johnson sued
for s. 900. The suit was hotiy contested,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-06-24
Horses With Sixteen Toes.

The orohippus, the ancestor of the
noble horse of to-day, is first known to
have existed in the eocene period Of
geological epochs. Some of the spe-
cies were as small as the common sill
yer fox of to-day, and all had sixteen
hoofs, four on each foot, just like the
COW brutes of the present age. After
long ages had elapsed the creature be-
came three toed representative Of
animal creation, later on he had sim
gle split hoof, or eight toes altogether.
The perfected equine of the present
may be said to walk on his middle toe
nail, the twelve others which his an
cestor, the orohippus, had having been
stevoluted" out of existence.