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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-08-18
WIN Cost You . Dollar.

CHICAGO, Aug. 1S.-The executive
committee has officially fixed the value
of the half.dollar souvenir coins at one
dollar aa.b
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-08-18

THE number Of cigars. cigarettes and
eheroots smoked IN this country last
year is placed at about T,442, 600 by a
recent goxernment renort
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25

eaw you ever q place In your wander
incs quite so beautiful. one-half 80 COM
Portable. one tenth 80 welcome and one
uundrodih part 80 dear as this plain
looking house, with the dusty door steps,
the close barred shutters, an area lawn
not six feet wide, and a lovely garden
In the back yard paved with bricks?
The very dog, delighted to get home,
makes % rush for his kennel, a thousand
laughs 20 the minute In his vibrant tail.
With nervous eagerness he 1uttcrs hero
and there. investigating dismantled
caches Of half remembered bones, while
now and then q yelp Of indignant re-
monstrance announces the discovery
thst much despised and intensely hated
cats have had the outrageous effrontcry
TO invade his domain during his alb
sence. In the greater house, with much
the same disnay, the good wife, fool
ishly seeking for things she does not
wish to end, proclaims the invasion OF
the moths. What q nervous tension in
every heart as the good man, trying
with most stupid transparency to veil
his own eagerness under q clumsy as
sumption Of deliber5t ton, unlocks the
front doori
Everybody says, "Oh, pa, we could
have had it open fifty times" SO could
he If he wasn't so eager TO get in.
When Il Is opened Just wide enough f0r
n person to squeeze through at a time
the entire family make a rush 10 march
In nbronet Tba borqoho1d No,vo fbro,,yI
the long deserted rooms like a living
torrent, a torrent and a half, or two tor
rents Vainly does the commander-in.
chief %endeavor, by word Of command
and clutch of hand, to restrain the
household troops. They will be a well
disciplined garrison in a day or two;
just now they are ruthless invaders. II
is her natural desire to have the first
look in every room, TO make tho first
orderly investigation in every quarter.
Robert j. BGrdetto in Ladies' Home
Journal,
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25


"There is no such thing as waste
paper" said the junk dealer to a re
porter. Hardly a scrap Of white paper
is wasted. Every bit of it that is thrown
away is carefully gathered up and finds
its way eventually to the mill again to
be made over. The notebook in youl
hand may furnish material for the pages
on which you will write a letter six
months hence, and perhaps a year later
you viii unknowingly find it incorpo-
rated in a summer novel with yellow
covers. Thus the stock Of paper that
supplies the world is used over and over
again indefinitely through the medium
of the s~cayengers, the dealers in junk
and the factories, which are continually
engaged in transforming the discarded
material into fresh and clean sheets.
Brown paper. however, is different.
Because it is composed of nothing more
valuable than straw it is mostly thrown
away and never used again. / would
not pay you twenty-five cents for a ton
of it. A few years ago old newspapers
were worth four cents a pound, being
made Of rags. Now they are manu-
featured out Of wood pulp and straw,
and their market value is only a quarter
Of a cent a pound. Office paper, such
as old bills and such scraps, are worth
the same price as newspapers, while
what we call "ofice sweepings," com
posed largely Of envelopes, are quoted
at fifteen cents a hundredweight."-
Washington Star.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25

Eccentricity, and nothing else, distin
guishes the will proved in 1874 Of Henry
Trigg, Of Storage, of the county OF
Hartford, grocer, who directed that his
body should be committed to the west
end Of his hovel, to be decently laid
there upon a floor erected by his execu.
tors; and only sixty years ago, it is said,
the bones of Mr.. Trigg still remained
unburied in the rafters at the west end
of his howell aforesaid. A provision,
quite as bizarre, was made in the will OF
the philosophic Jeremy Bentham, WHO
enjoined his executors to embalm his
corpse and dress it in the clothes which
he was accustomed TO wear in his life.
time, in order that he might form the
text Of n lecture to be delivered annu-
ally at a literary institute held at a
school Of anatomy in Windmill street,
Haymarket.
On the occasion Of one Of the lectures
on Jeremy Eentham's mummy the ven
cradle philosophers head fell of and
came to irrcmediable grief, whereupon
an artificial head was modelled in wax
by Miss Margaret Gillies, the distin-
guished miniature painter, but the
mummy with the wax head has long
since faded out Of the public ken.-Lon.
don Telegraph.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25
A ninerenoe of onInIon.

The cold man" was in his shirt sleeves,
smoking a short pipe and trying to read
a paper. The "old woman" was looking
at herself in a broken mirror and giving
every evidence OF self satisfaction.
mike" she asked at last, 'd'ye think
/ look like a leddyT'
"Not n bit" he replied shortly.
"Well, there's others thinks different, 4"
she replied. Il got a letter today from
one o. them habit makers"
"You don't need any. You've got
enough now"
"Well, I'm thankin heaven they're not
as bad as yours, and there's none o them
swell people would look the likes Of you
up nm send you a nice printed letter with
pictures Of yachting dresses an all like
that. How'd ye think I'd look, Mike,
ia ono o. them tailor made skirtsy'
mo worse than 20 do now. How'd
20 get the letter.
"In the mail"
with your name in writin on the ont
sideY'
That's how Il was. How'd 20 s'pose
they got the namef
IL don't s'pose." he said, taking the
pipe out Of his mouth and Strengthening
mp. IL don't s'pose at all. I've been
Rgurin what ron did with the two dol.
lars ] gave You way back, an now, Mary
Ann, / / know you gave IL to that fellie
that was round here 10 put your name
Ia the blue Book, SOS You could DO In
swell conn ny an get circlars tellin you
how you can get a middlin fair dress 10
'yssh windies 10 for 800. Thenext time
/ give you wodollarsitn 10 City cents"
ST. Paul Pioneer Press.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25

No less an authority than the presi-
dent of the Institute Of Civil Engineers
has declared that the sulphurous vapor
produced during the combustion Of coal
is most beneficial to the inhabitants Of
London, disagreeable as it undoubtedly
is.
AS many as $50 tons Of sulphur are
thrown into the air in n winters day,
and the enormous amount of sulphurous
acid generated from it deodorizes and
disinfects the air, destroying disagree
able smells emanating from refuse heaps
and sewers and killing the disease germs
which find their way into the atmos-
phere.
There may be a good deal of truth in
this view, but there is undoubtedly an
other side to the question. 1t is an old
comparison that a doctor and his drugs
bear a relationship to the patient and
the disease like that of a policeman to-
ward a householder attacked by a gar
roter. The policeman lays about with
his truncheor; sometimes he hits the
householder, sometimes the garroteri
and the good or i'll which results from
his interference will depend upon which
party happens to get the most and the
heaviest blows.
This simile is admirably suited to sui
phurous acid in London fogs, for al
though it may be beneficial to the Lon
don householders by destroying mi
crobes it certainly frequently does then
harm by attacking their lungs and
bringing on bronchitis and asthma
which sometimes prove rapidly fatal, t.
say nothing of the minor discomforts o
a disagreeabls taste, filthy smell, stuffec
nose, husky throat, smarting eyes an'
Observation-Disclosures Lancet.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25


"Talk about adding insult to injury"
uaid Luvrum, rs with the aid Of a heavy
cane he hobbled 10 his favorite seat in
the Founders club the other afternoon,
something happened to me last night
that capped the climax In that direction
50 far as my experience goes. ! dined
some friends Of mine from out Of town
last evening. They were old college
chums, you know, and as we had not
met for years we fingered long ove the
table, and the loving cup was passed
steadily around until my friends had TO
leave for a midnight train. It was a
very hot night. was very much be-
fuddled, and, as is my custom on such
rare occasions, / turned my feet Turkish
bathward. / went down into the hot
room. A strong desire came upon me to
jump into the big cold plunge there
without waiting for the usual scrubbing
by the attendant.
1T has been my habit to forego the
use Of the stairs leading down into the
plunge, and to simply get up on the
marble railing and fall off backward
into the cooling waters. SO up Oh the
marble railing l stepped and threw my
self off. There was not a solitary drop
Of water in that plunge. The attendants
had emptied it for the purpose Of clean
ing it. Down / went full six feet, and
landed squarely on my back on the mar
BILE bottom. No, | did not break my
back and fracture my skull, though it is
a wonder that l did not.
80 much for the injury. Now let mo
tell you about the insult. AS / lay there
on my back partially stunned an attend
ant came, and shaking me roughly by
the shoulder said, Say, if you do that
again you will be put outr If l did it
again l would be put out! Wonder if
he thought | did it for funY-New York
Times.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25
nc LIterary FermenL In France.

Philarete Chasles relates in his me.
moirs how one afternoon, as he was at
work in his newspaper office, a young
nan with a military air, looking rs bold
as if he were going to the wars, knocked
imperiously at the door, walked in, sat
down and said, without further pre-.
amble:
Monsieur, | am Hugo"
Then, after handing TO Chasles the
famous yellow covered book with the
password "Hierro" on the title page, he
asked him if he was on his side or not.
and continued:
Monsieur, not only are we going to
change poetry, which needs a funda
mental revolution, but grammar also.
What do you think about our prosodyi
French prosody must be completely over.
hauled"
Soft isin France, where neither centu
ries mol years count, but only minutes
and seconds, the shock of %contraries and
the violence of reaction. The French
must always be fighting about some
thing-even for Boileau against Ron.
sard, and for Nonotte against Voltaire.
Printers ink must smell of powder,
otherwise lie seems insipid and thought
without any SAVIOR. Victor Hugo's visit
to Chasles is typical.-Theodore Child
in Harper's.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25
A Bee Six Feet from Grip to Tip

Wouldn't you like to see a honey bee
as large or larger than the average maa:
There is just such a creature in the speci-
men room of the University of Pcnnsyl-
vania at Philadelphia. 1t is the LARGEST
insect of its class ever seen in this or
any other country. Its wings are as
broad as those of an eagle and its honey
bag Of twenty pounds capacity. Its legs
are also large and well formed, remind
ing one Of the crooked supporters Of Il
piano stool of ye olden times. The
proboscis, which is attached to a head
the bigness Of a candy bucket, is over a
foot in length and as big around as a
broom handle. l know that you are
wondering where he ever found clover
heads large enough to work on, and who
provided a half a million of similar sized
specimens with q hive in which to store
their tons of honey, but there is no use
exciting your curiosity further-he never
gathered honey; never improved each
shining hour" in fact, he never had
hours to improved
He is made of papier mache, and is SO
constructed that every part OF his body
can be disarticulated for study. This.
the giant of the honey bees, was the
work of an ingenious French a~rti6cer,
who spends his time making gigantic
worms, gnats, bees, flies, etc., for the
benefit of students who are studying
entomology, "wormology' and kindred
sciences.-St. Louis Republic.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25

A novel wager on tho result Of tho
coming election was made in ST. Au-
gustine, Fla, a few days ago. The
parties to the agreement are an ex-
mayor aud a real estate agent. In case
Of Cleveland's election the ex-mayor Is
to push the real estate agent in a wheel
barrow on the sea wall from the fort to
Central basin, and in case OF Harrison's
election the real estate agent Is TO do
likewise TO the ex-mayor. The date Of
the performance will be fixed 90 as to
allow the throng8 Of visitors next winter
10 witness II. The two gentlemen are
70 DO attached by q rope, 81 that Ia case
Of q mishap II a goes over tho wall
tbe other must follow Chicago Herald
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25

Mr.. W. L. Powell, treasurer of the
Pennsylvania fish commission, sends an
account Of the depletion of Maiden creek
by fishermen, who catch bushels Of
yearling black bass with small hooks.
A veteran angler fshed this stream re-
Gently with q fly rod, and in the course
Of a day took sixty bass ranging from
AZ to G inches in length. All Of
them were lip hooked and were lib
Grated alive. The creek was full Of
ycarling bass during July, and news
paper accounts mentioned their capture
by the bushel by means of hooks so
small as to be readily swallowed by the
fish. The absence of big bass even in
moderate numbers is notorious, but in
the light Of this information it is readily
explained.-Fores and Stream.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25
The IrI.h rerrIer Now In ravor.

Every dog has his day, and the Irish
terrier at length has his. He is now an
the vogue in London, and one can only
wonder why he was solong about "com-
ing in" for with his beautiful eyes and
pretty head he is beyond question one
Of the wisest of the canine tribe. He is
an ''all round dog, ready for a romp
with the children or a rat hunt. He
takes to the water like a duck. is "all
there in a wild fowling expedition,
flushing and retrieving beautifully, and,
as any man will tell you from Kill to
Connaught, he is ga darlint wild the rab-
bits He ought to be proud Of himself
today, for his market value ranges from
ten to twenty pounds.-Pall Mall Ga
Zctta.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25

The United States Investor has
decided to offer $1,000 in prizes
for essays of not more than one
column each respecting American
cities and towns.
We take pleasure in announcing
hat the following distinguished
gentlemen have consented to act
as judges to award these prizes:
Hon. H. c. Lodge, of Mass, Hon.
Chas. Z. Crisp, of Georgia. Hon.
j. G. Burrows, of Michigan.
The prizes will be subdivided
Us follows:
For the best essay respecting
any American city or town, $500;
for the second best essay respect
ing any American city or town,
$500; for the third best essay re-
specting any American city or
town, $500.
Each essay is to deal with the
merits of the city or town chosen
as its subject, either as a desirable
place of residence; as affording
opportunities for investment; as a
place Of peculiar location; as n
place of unusual rapid growth; as
a place in which an unusually large
amount of capital and labor is en-
ployed in any particular industry;
as a place possessed Of great I'M
developed resources, such as water
power, coGl and iron, etc, which
is peculiar because it has long es-
capped attention; or as possessing
great historical interest; or as pos
sessing any other claim to unique
interest or special distinction.
In awarding the prizes, the
judges will consider the literary
merits of the essays, as well as
the merits of the town or city
described. They will not, however,
go outside the essay itself for in
formation or evidence that the
town or city possesses any special
interest. Any claims which even
a well known city may have to
distinction within the intent upon
which these prizes are offered
must rest wholly upon what is said
by the essnyist within the space
of the column allotted 10 him.
This condition. together with the
consideration OF literary merit
will give the essayists even chances.
All the essays which are intended
for competition should DO marked
~ such and forwarded to either Of
the Offices Of the United States
Investor, 10 Pearl street, Boston.
a35 Broadway, New York; 24l
Chestnut street. Philadelphia.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25
1mnn.Inr on a nnra u.na.

The average barber Is a pretty cheeky
person, but 1t is seldom that he has tho
assurance 20 deliberately make use Of g
customers head and face, to say nothing
OF time. to further his selfish ends. A
good natured man on whose Eparsely
fringod head a silk sltullcap sits with
appropriate grace took his seat in a Jar
bcr's chair the other day Tor "a hair
trim and a shave" There were four
BARRIERS at work in the shop and Just
four customers. The artist in whose
care the good natured man found him
self did his work In a very satisfactory
manner. He handled the scissors deity
and proved TO be a thorough master
Of a keen edged razor. After the bay
rum, the powder and the brilliantine
had been successfully administered the
barber unpinned the small sheet in
which he had wrapped his customer,
and was just on the point Of removing
II when his eye caught sight Of a mar
in the doorway Of the shop. The new
conner YVES one of those puffy, red faced
persons such ns no barber likes to touch.
This cheeky barber therefore pressed
significantly on the shoulder of his good
natured customer, repinned the sheet,
took out his scissors and azo and dill.
gently went through the motions OF
trimming the hair and beard. Then Ia.
applied more bay rum and powder aud
fused about until one Of the other
chairs was vacated and the red faced
,,ou had ocfuallv foIror Doooeoe;or 80 a.
Then with much ceremony and a loud
call for Brush heref' he dismissed hi.
good natured customer with a smile AMI
just the suggestion of a wink.-NeN
York Times.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25

a IAN
Captain John Thompson, master of
the steamboat Cumberland, I~nternation-
al line, relates a remarkable incident Of
Names early contributions to the Pa
cifc coast. Shortly following the gold
fever Of 1s49, in the years 1901, the
steamship S. b. Wheeler, a sidewhcel
wooden craft Of medium tonnage, was
built at Eastport. Farther up the st.
Croix, where the towns Of Calais, Ne.
and st. Stephens, N. b., stood on oppo-
site sides of the river, was built the bark
Fannie. The Fannie was constructed
with a detachable stern, this part being
secured by screwbolts, and after COM
plGtion the hull was lowed to E~astport,
Thompson forming one Of the crew Of
tow.
At Eastport the stern was removed
and the craft sunk. While submerged
the steamboat was hoated in; then the
Fannie was raised, the stern secured, her
hold freed from water, the steamboat
steadied by ballast and freight, the
masts of the bark stepped, two Of them
passing directly through the steamboat.
her rigging and sails supplied, and out
of the Passamaquoddy she sailed around
the Horn to San Francisco. Passage
rates to California were high in those
days, and the cabin of the steamboat
afforded extra facilities.
The Fannie arrived safely in CGlifor-
mia, where the same plan of subnerging
liberated the steamboat, and for many
years it ran on the Sacramento river, the
first steamboat in California waters
Republican journal.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25
nromednrv LIy. Presorrers.

Il don't see how that humpbacked
man can be so v-enturesome."
But he isn't humpbacked at all.
That's only one of these life preservel
bathing quits. That part of the jersey
1nder the arms and across tho back can
be inflated and acts as n drowning pre-.
ye%ntive."
And so it was, but the wearer seemed
completely deformed, and it is not likely
that that style Of suit will eve become
popular, since those who are good swim.
mers scorn such assistance, and those
who are not don't go out far enough 10
feel the need Of it. Still every once in a
while one Of these suits appears, and oc-
casionally n young woman with q regu.
lar life preserver strapped over sEoul.
ders and under arms goes into the water.
One such was seen recently, and as she
did not go ont above her knees in the
surf the reason Of its wearing was not
very apparent. II made her look so con-
spicuous that in many ways it was a life
preserver with a young woman instead
Of a young woman with a life preserver.
Cor. Philadelphia Press.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25

presumption and homestead laws
and kindred acts.

presumption and homestead laws
and kindred acts.
We pledge ourselves to the pros
ecution and punishment Of crimi-
nails. public and private, without
regard TO their political faith or
position.
We admit with pain and regret
that the action Of the men who
for years have controlled the re-
publican party have not been such
as to command public confidence,
and the principal object which we
have in view is to remove the con-
troll Of the party organization from
all sinister influences.
We believe that with respect to
corporations, railway and others,
doing business in New Mexico, a
jealous supervision should be
exercised, and that their influence
inthe affairs of the territory should
be steadily resisted, without seek
ing TO deprive them Of the enjoy
ment of any lawful right which
they may have acquired. We in
sist that they shall have no greater
privilege than the citizen enjoys
a his individual capacity.
~le favor such Legislation by
congress as shall secure protection
to the Industries of our country,
and especially to the wool, stock
and mining industries.
Again r~eafirming our devotion
to the grand and undying princi-
pies upon which the republican
party is founded, disclaimlng
aught but an unselfsh desire to
promote those principles, and to
secure an administration in har-
mony Herewith, we appeal to the
people of New Mexico to support
us in securing the accomplishment
of the purposes herein announced,
and to that end we call upon them
to support by their votes and in
auence Colonel William L. Ryner-
son, whom we present as a dele
gate to the F%orty-ninth congress,
and as the embodiment of the
principles and purposes herein
announced, confident of the JUS
tice of the position we have rs
sumed, relying upon the intelli-
gence and honeaty of our people
and upon their desire to enamel
pate themselves from the DONNA
ton of a corrupt and selfish
combination, we confidently ex.
pect them to rally to our support
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25
Some striking Facial similar,tie..

Professor Gallon, illustrating the
strong likeness which often exists be-
tween members of the same family, re-
ports the following facts:
zone boy sometimes spoke to himself
in a looking glass, thinking that he was
talking to his brother. A little girl
whose mother and aunt We're twins
often called her aunt mother and her
mother 'auntie,' so much alike were
those ladies'"
'Op one occasion when ! returned
from foreign service" says a British
officer, my father turned to me and
said, i thought you were in London
thinking l was my brother; yet he had
not seen me for nearly four years.
London Tit-Bits.
Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-10-25
More Than one Kind.

An Englishman at the Hotel Athe-
nmum asked a bell boy to bring him
some good gum. A stick Of the boys
favorite article was procured, the boy
assuring our English friend that it was
unsurpassed. To the bell boys aston
ishment, the purchaser began TO rub a
piece of manuscript with the gum. After
a few seconds Of vain rubbing he asked
how we use gum in America. IL took
some time to convince him that in Amer
lea an eraser is not 50 gum."-Chautau-
qua Herald.