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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-08-13
The Short Line.

Charles Wilson, the murderer OF
Mamie Walsh, ended his miserable
life by hanging himself in the Ore
gon City Jail. He removed the ban
dages from his broken arm, fastened
around his neck to the bars of his
cage and threw himself in such a
manner that strangulation ensued
Immediately. 1t was but a few min
utes before he was discovered and
the alarm was immediately given,
but life was extinct when the officers
reached him.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1892-08-13
First Case of the Kind on Record.

Mrs. McSwat- There goes that
unhappy inebriate again! Poor
Chumlow! Have you any idea what
drove him to drink.
Mr.. McSwat-Yesmy dear. Thirst.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
An Electrical Sunrise.

A Twenty-third street theater has
brought ont an electrical sunrise. A
curved screen. part of which is made of
game, so that the light may shine
through, extends around the stage. and
behind it is an elaborate system of in
candescent lamps. The controlling APP
paratus is so graduated that fifty differ
emit degrees of light and shade can be
produced, thus causing the sunrise to
grow imperceptibly. Another use Of
the electric current made at the same
place is in representing the explosion of
q bomb.
A paper shell contains just enough
powder to explode and make fash
This is fired by electricity, while at the
same moment another circnit controlled
by the same key sets off gun behind
the scenes, which furnishes the neces.
sary noise.-New York World
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
AROUND THE THRONES.

The Princess of Wales fits and makes
gowns for herself and family.
There are fourteen great gates to the
Escurial. the palace of Spanish kings,
and the building is lighted by lilo outer
and 1.51S inner windows.
No nihilist will ever get chance at
the car of Russia with a razor, at least
in the guise of barber. The sutocrat
has his whiskers carefully trimmed. but
with scissors.
Emperor William has given $4,000
marks to aid the publication of an elab-
crate literary souvenir of the 4OOth an
niversary Of the discovery of America.
The work will be edited by the Berlin
Geographical Society
The Shah of Persia has more than OBS, :
600. 600 worth of ornaments. gems and
precious stones in one strong room. 20 by
Ia feet. There are scabbards in this
treasury said to be worth 81 900. OOO
each. When leaving home the Shah,
is said. locks up his iewelry and travels
Tin paste.
Tip-O-Tip. son of the late Zulu King
Cetewayo. is in this country and aims to
secure an education here before return
ing to his own people To pay his ex-
penses in college he is giving small en-.
tertainments of native songs, chants,
translations of the English to the Zulu
tongue and in answering questions.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
How Opium La Gathered.

1t is sort of garden cultivation, the
poppy plants being grown in little
squares or beds intersected by tiny wa
ter channels for irrigation wherever this
Is possible. The growth of the plants ie
carefully tended. and at length the time
comes when they burst out into flower,
and the fields look like sheet of silver
as the white petals of the flowers glisten
in the morning dew.
These beautiful petals are the first
produce of the crop, for the women and
children of the cultivators' families
come forth and pick them off one by
one and carefully dry them, so that they
may serve afterwsrd as the covering of
the manufactured cakes of opium. Then
the peoples, with their bare capsule
heads, remain standing in the open
field until it is considered that they are
ripe for lancing. The cultivators then
come forth in the evening. and. with az
implement not unlike the knives of a
cupping instrument, they scarify the
capsule on its sides with deep missions,
80 that the juice may exude.
In the early morning the cultvators
reappear with a scraping knife and their
earthenware pots. and they scrape of
the exuded juice and collect it in their
pots. And this is crude opium. Black.
woods Magazine.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09

The Rich brothers, who are known
throughout Maine as the crazy evangel-
lists Of Piscataquis county, have been
landed IN Bangor Jail. On May 90 they
broke mp religious meeting at Sanger
vile because the exposition of the Cos
pei on that occasion was not according
to their ideas, and day or two, later at
q funeral, when the officiating clergy
man remarked that the deceased was
good woman and was then in heaven,
one of the brothers jumped up and de-
clared that she had gone in an entirely
different direction. That was the last
straw, and the evangelists will suffer
sixty days of 1Dartyrdom in a place
where more attention is paid to the
making of brooms than to theology
New York Sun
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
ODDS AND ENDS.

1t is said that three fourths of the en-
lire manufacturing capital of the United
States is based on patents.
France has had thirty eight elnhaaea-
doris to England since 1914, while in the
same period the queen has had but eight
representatives at Paris
More than fourth Of the gold end
more than a third of the silver prodnced
throughout the world in the yer 1891
was mined in the United States.
A mob Of seventy five women psoyas1t-
ed wedding in town in Kentucky NJ
Gently. for the reason that tbs hriAsas
husband had been dead but two wzaA
The next lord mayor OF Lcndnn wGIl
be Roman Catholic and he vilI ~
point . Catholic priest as his chaua1r
y VIII DO the first instance OF : RorIa
Catholic holding the latter posisicna incs
the Reformation. q
The st1eets OF London are, clsaued -.
tween 9 in the evening and 3 IS tha
morning. Many Of tbs casl;a =
are washed daily by means az : g.. "a
the ccnrtz md Alleys inhabited - fine
poorer clases are cleaned once ASy.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
A Tragic kindergarten Episode.

A certain kindergarten is blessed with
the attendance Of very original youth
named Richard. he is a very honest
little boy and highly respected by his
parents. but the other afternoon when
he came home he acknowledged frankly
to his mother that punishment had
been inflicted upon him at the kinder
garten.
"Why, what have you done?'
"Well, you see" he answered, John
ny and got tired of being good. and we
made up our minds that we would Just
get our heads together and holler ont
the very naughtiest word we could
think Of, both together"
The mother was inexpressibiy shocked.
Johnny was another very nice and well
bred boy. But she managed to ask:
"Wen, what did you say?'
1--WE just screamed out 'Bedbu e. aa
loud as we couldT
Probably this tragic episode has never
had its duplicate in the history of kinder
gardening. Boston Transcript.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09


When the United States practice shin
Constellation sailed on the cadets sum-
mer voyage Monday afternoon it had
aboard number of homing pigeons.
to be used as means of communication
between the ship and points ashore. The
birds will be liberated at intervals. and
are expected to bring official messages
from the practice vessel to the naval
academy, where loft or cote has re-
Gently been established
If the experiment should prove sue
cessful the government will probably
find it profitable to the navy to encour-
age the homing pigeon service with the
small appropriation needed to carry out
the plans of the projectors of the enter
prise. At present the facilities for
training birds at the naval academy are
limited, no government appropriation
being available. At Fortress Monroe,
the first stopping place of the ship. it is
possible several trained birds from Bal
timore, Philadelphia and New York will
be taken aboard and later dispatched
with information from the cruising
grounds The headquarters at Wash
ington will also be posted of the where
abouts of the vessel through winged
messengers from that city. A loft of
birds to accompany the ship will no
doubt be sufficiently trained toward the
close of the voyage to be useful in con-
veying messages ashore. - Annapolis
Cor. Baltimore Sun.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09


Z is stated that one Of the most effect
i've means Of protecting ship in these
days of torpedoes (the grouping to-
gether OF q number Of stationary search
lights, each Illuminating its own section
% that the ship is surrounded by an nm
broken circle of light is to be adopted
in the new American warships This
has been suggested by very pronounced
defect in the usual search light practice.
In order to afford sufficient time for a
careful examination of the waters sur
face at points removed from the ship.
the beam of light must be revolved very
slowly, and hence during a great por-
ton of the time any particular section
of the water is left in darkness AZ il
takes only FIVE minutes for a torpedo
beat to run distance of two miles, il
viii be seen that the conditions are AL
in favor of the attacking force. Before
the revolution of the search light is com
pleted there is plenty of time for the tor
pedo boat to run up and discharge mel
deadly weapons. York Telegram
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09

A Snake That Is Found In Many Places.
The common snake, which bears the
scientific name of Tropidonotus natrix.
is one species of a genus CTropidonotus)
which extends over Europe and North
America, and from northern Asia to
north Australia, there being seventeen
or eighteen Indian species alone. Our
common snake may serve as an example
of the largest family into which serpents
are divided-the family Colubrida of
which there are upward of 1855 species in
India alone. This family contains most
of the harmless snakes. and it is also il.
Illustrated by small snake. Coronel]a
austriaca. which some years ago was
discovered to be an inhabitant of Dorset
shire and Hampshire. The Coronella
feeds exclusively on lizards. slow worms
and small snakes. Though harmless. it
will bite.-<Quarterly Review.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09

lsrS IT.. u u u, lras s.a is
q teyrok ~ many seofil tllas ~
told d lninefx luck WIN enable the
reader y understand how and why the
heads OF whole communities may be
turned in mining regions. Jim Whit
latch, the discoverer Of the Whitlatch-
Union mine, near Helena. led typical
western miners life. The mine in uueS-
lion u now owned in England and has
produced go ,OOO. 900 in gold. After Jim
Whitlatch had sold the property for
81, 5O0, 900 he went to New York ITO
make as much money as Vanderbilt !"
He was rare treat to Wall street, which
fattened on him. and in one year let him
go with only the clothes on his back.
He returned to Montana, began ''pros-
pecting" again and discovered a mine
for which he got $3.50. 900. he went to
Chicago to rival Mr.. Potter Palmer in
wealth and returned just as he did from
New York-''flat strapped, as he would
have expressed it. He made still an
other fortune and went to San Francisco,
where he died poor man.
Another Lewis and Clarke county
mine-the Drum Lummon-provides an
other such story. 1t was discovered by
an Irish immigrant named Thomas
Cruise. Although he owned it, he could
not get a sack Of -four on credit. He
sold it to an English syndicate for
$1,000, 600. But he remains one of the
wealthy men of Helena.-Julian Ralph
in Harper's.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09

6enasor Manderson plsys : struas
game Of chess.
Carlyle's two brothers reside On farms
near Grand Rapids, Mich.
Joseph Arch, the pioneer in the aeri-
cultural laborers' movementin Enrland.
Is only sixty-six. but Is said to be- unite
broken down.
Roch and Ruhm, two American ca
diets, carried off first honors in naval ar
chitecture at the last commencement of
the University of Glasgow.
Mr.. Gladstone is very much attached
to a little black Pomeranian dog. Pete
by name, which was given him some
years ago by friend IN Germany.
The largest child ever born. it is said,
was the son of Bates, the Kentucky
Giant" and his wife, the Nova Scotia
Giantess." This infant Hercules weighed
2S1 pounds.
Roscoe Conkling's fine portrait, by
Cuyler Ten Eyck. has been placed in the
vice presidents room at the Canitol in
Washington, and obtains as much praise
as attention from visitors.
Frederick l.. Ames is said to be the
richest man in New England. and there
is no man in any part Of the country
who gets more comfort out of his home
or takes greater pride in its surround
ings than he does.
A gentleman whom scarcely any one
recognized had the privilege of the floor
of the senate chamber on the day of
Senator Barbour's funeral he looked
about sixty years of age. He proved to
be the ex-senator from Iowa, Mr.. Jones,
who has reached his ninetieth year.
The late historian Freeman had a
great liking for architectural sketches,
and at his death had accumulated
large collection of drawings made by
himself of notable buildings in England
aud on the Continent. But he cared
for paintings, and never on his
journeys through Europe went into
picture gallery.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
THE NEWEST Novel ~IeS.

In receptacles of all sorts the shell
takes the lead
Column clocks are for boudoirs and
Louis XVI rooms.
Lamps of glass are six feet high and
mounted in brass.
Three swans-blue, pink and white
with linked necks. form a new table Or
nament for flowers.
A great deal is done in faience with
appliQues of metals. There are flower
ornaments or grotesquerie.
Small articles, as vases, cups, bowls
covered with flowers with spread petals
such as daisies have been brought over
The English gold ornamented glass is
having great vogue. The German glass
is much more finely ornamented. The
contours in the English glass are bolder.
Onyx clocks in the shape Of green por-
ticoes, with round columns supporting
pediments, are exquisite. Some clocks
have the pillars and pilaSters covered
with gilt and colored tracery.
There are numerous displays Of o<ua-
mental glass. The Webb cameo glass
is striking. but has many successful
limitations in cheaper glasses which
would deceive all but the cognoscenti
There are new mechanical clocks.
One represents the engine of a ferry
boat, another pile driver with the fig
ure of man. The materials are silver
and bronze. and the workmanship is ex-
quisite. Jewellers Circular.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
FlOOAD Help Fishermen.

The recent high water at Marion, o.,
and vicinity has afforded the fish in the
bigger streams good opportunity to
ascend the smaller. and they are found
in abundance, and with little effort can
be caught with hook or hand. Catfish
Of all sizes are found almost as numer-
Gus as the English sparrow and are
caught with ease: also carp weighing
five and six pounds are found in the
Milestone river in that county. Along
the smaller streams and in bitches 5ss-
ketfuls of various kinds are reported to
have been caught
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
The First False Hair.

In very early days. as now. the hair
was sometimes thin and it had to be
eked ont in various ways to make he
lieve that nature had been spendthrift
to all alike. About the first description
extant of woman's hair speaks of plated
locks" known rs Gretchen braids" to
as. To make these braids seem longer.
silk the color Of the hair was braided in
Then they they took to putting the
braids in cases Of silk. elongating them
with all sorts of stuff till they looked
like umbrellas in covers. The Chinese
pigtail is a modification of this style
Washington Star.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09

Cholera intantum has lost It's terrors
since the introduction of Cbamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy.
When that remedy is used and the treat
ment as directed with each bottle is
followed cure is certain. Mr.. A. W..
Walter, prominent merchant at Walters
hcrg, H., says: at cured my baby boy of
cholera infantum after several other
remedies had failed. The child was so low
hat he seemed almost beyond the aid of
human hands or reach of any medicine"
% and so cent bottles for sale by NJ
Lively Druggist.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
A Tiny T,nep,ece.

NJ Morquet, friar Of the Florentine
order In Paris, has constructed perfect
watch ouiy quarter Of an inch in d.
ameter. Besides the two hands seen ON
al watches il has q third which marks
the seconds, besides a microscopic dial
which indicates the days, weeks, months
and years. It also contains an alarm.
and on It's front lid is an ingeniously cut
figure OF st. Francis. On the back cover
by aid OF powerful glass. you can dis
kinctiy read two verses of the tie De-
f1p. Philadelphia Press
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
lIE Col oRs 81

Simple Object Lesson That Proved In
teresting TO Child.
rs It not true, grandpa, that water
has no COLOR
Yes, dear child. it is blue, but so lit
lie 80 that You cannot see it."
Can you see that it is blue!"
mo. but still it is blue. Look Al
this.n
took little ultramarine on the end
of the brush and mixed it with water.
Does it look blue t1ow?"
No; 1 see nothing"
g "Nor l. But you saw how put lit.
tie blue color in it with the brush"
Eyes, but there was not enough of it.
Put more in"
silently took the glass and set it on
. piece Of white paper in the bright sun
shine. "Now look from above down
into it."
ut is blue" said the little one, clap
ping her hands, "but only very little. .
s.Look at it from the other side, where
the sun is shining into it. Is it not a lit
tie bit red, like the bell flowers which
you picked yesterday"
THAT is wonderful" said the little
one. cit is blue from above, little bit
red IN the sun, and when we look at it
from this side of the room we see moth
ing!"
'Think about it little The glass is
as broad as my finger is long. But it is
at least three times as high as my finger
When you look at it from the side, you
see only a fingers length of water; but
when You look down into it, you see
through three fingers length of water
three times as much. You sec it blue
from the side, and three times as blue
from above, don't your
els that really true?" said the little
one, as she measured with her finger.
She nodded that she was satisfied.
SHOW imagine that the water is as
deep as the height of the church steeple,
and deeper-that it reaches from here
up into Salvan and down to Vernayaz.
Then you would see the water from
above it all blue"
"Is the lake, then, really 80 deep?'
"Yes, and deeper"
will not continue the conversation
any longer. 1t went on with various
simple experiments, beginning with diff
ferently colored stones, which let drop
into the water, and then placed on the
white, then with setting the glass with
its weakly blush contents on differently
colored papers. and ended with my try
ing to make the children perceive how
the colors changed when they were seen
through the whole depth of the glass. l
will not say that the little ones were
brought to full comprehension of the
matter, but they stuck fast to the asser-
ton that water is blue, of an infinitely
weak blue, and that the blue color can
not be seen till one looks into a certain
depth OF it.-Carl Vogt in Popular Sci
ance Monthly.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
Punished By the Cxar.

The car OF Russia knows how to
brace up his military officers to their
dpty. A merchant Of Charko6 VIZ !,
murdered by soldiers. and it was shown
Eaat had The officers OF the regiment
stationed in the town maintained proper
discipline the murder might have been
prevented. ASS parliament tor this they
have been ordered TO pay yearly pen-
don OF 5000 rubles 70 the widow Of the
murdered man. Toledo Blade.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09

q lfiend ~ ~ = isIIiIlIIl i1lIeed s,l(3
lon than one million peOulc haYe ionn1
jusi snch friend Ii Or. King,e Now DE.
covery for consumption, coughs and coda.
III you have never used this great cough
medicine, one trial win convince YOU thal
il has wonderful curative powers ID nj
diseases of throat, chest and lungs. Each
hottie is guaranteed to do an that l. claimed
or money will be refunded Trial bottle
free at n. Liveiy's drug store. Large bot
ties Soc. and 81 co.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
I. - Buslness Of Revolution.

The Englishman imagines that revolu-
Hon and treason are serious affairs and
must be conducted with set teeth and
grave face. Not 30 the men of the
Latin races, To them revolutions are
NE race meetings, with certain
ns,ount Of danger added. An English
han; feele aisgraced ct the idea Of recur-
zes1t fevolutiOn. Notso q Frenchman OF
= inst 4ondon Spectator.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09

Neiefibue DIET Ill Oh, Mrs.
Harddluci yo1f Little son johnny found
8 dYraxnifs bonh I'D took Is into d
81 AZ 1rl d ND rolEs IL with 90
*. e1ad ~ - slnhle md all IN
buiI din a
HI I, Et IWva-
~ ~ M D ~ % next.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09

The women pras+ P. p. p. for scroiula
general weakness and nervousness, indi.
gestior, rheumatism and female complainis
Try the great and powerful p. P. p, and
then rec Ommend II to your neighhOrs. and
you will know you lave done COED deed
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
GODEY'S FOR 1892.
YOU NEED MAGAZINE III YOUR FAMILY GET ONE mar
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GODEY'S will save you in Dress Hints
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GODEY'S will give You better reading
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magazines
G0DEY'SiwAl give you choice of IL
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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09
Have a Number Of Serial and
Sta1ies.

Ins, ga Minister'S Outiag," "a Yer
Well SPENT etc., etc.
AUGUSTA SALISBURY PRESCOTT,
we'll known from her writing for thegrest
New York papers, the World, Advertise
ete., continues to write for as and dusiae
the year will furnish series of articise
that will be well worth the price OF tn
magazine, entitled New Year Recep
tions,' IAN Afternoon Tea Jenny b
Going to be Married, Wedding Pres
ents, etc.
BELLE C. GREENE,
hose numerous sketches, The Hawkins
Family, have made her famous in this
way, will give us some new featurQl
which Owe are assared) will be m0Es
mirth-provoking than her previous -
forts.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09

THE LEGEND OF THE LANTERN.
BY Mrs Olivia LoveM Wilson.
This charming story win mn through
several numbers, and will be illustrated
Aith original photographers by VIII
Philip Hooper.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARY,
By Ada Marie Peck.
To those who have read THE Feiean
Mystery" by this author, we need say
nothing, except that it is thought to be
better tif POSSIBILITY than any of her pre-
vious efforts.
ADVICE FROM EVERYWHERE,
By Olivia Philips,
Embracing such subjects as 1.-THE Sick
ROOM Home Nursery" Children s
Nursery" '@Amusements for the Shut
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-09

Washington have met with 50 much
favor from our readers. The story i
located in The Capital, and a. the au-
there's herself resides there it Is fun Of
real incidents We predict for karioris
Lee warm reception from cur subscrib
ers, who will be sure to find her verJ
winsOme, and feel that the aatharess Il
.werked for them a ekssfy web nat II
many beauties and real mtereat woven ~
it's meshes.