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Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-08-16

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Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-08-16
Public Speaking.

Frost, Ark, Aug. 10, 1892.
Daily Texarkana Democrat. (Texarkana, Ark.) 1890-1894, 1892-08-16

C.E, SwrNDELL, Ticket Agent.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
1.-THE CORAL POLYP.

They Build at the Rate of One Inch in y---,-Is Six Months.
 The coral animal can be tanned. I be- lieve am the first person in the world who ever accomplished the result, says George L.. Bancroft. Here is a piece I found on Florida reef. was anxious to learn how fast the coral grows, so placed it in water where could visit it every week and note the change. When I first visited the specimen the polyps would dart into their cells. After several visits they became so bold as to remain outside, and finally our acquaintance ripencd until they would do their work while 1 remained a watcher. I have stood by the hour watching the little fellows at work. They taught me that the claim of sci entific men that the coral does not grow more than one inch in one hun Tired years is the sheerest nonsense. My pets builded an inch in six months. How do they work? Well, that is 3 rather difficult question to answer. The little animal is a sack; that is, his stom- ach is the biggest part of him. He is a compound animal, and increases by germination, young polyps springing from the original polyp. The upper surface is arrayed with tentacles, and the body is separated by number of partitions that extend from the stomach to the outer skin. Between these walls the carbonate of lime is deposited.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14

QUAINT PASSPORT.
The Far-East Town That Was the Scene
 of Recent International Episode.


 of Recent International Episode.
 Eastport, the scene of the recent seizure of American fishing boats by 2 dominion cruiser, is not, as is popularly supposed, the most easterly town in the United States, as part of Lubec $ extends about a mile farther toward the sunrise, but it is far enough east to be commonly known as ''the jumping of place." and it is an old and interest ing town. Passport, says the New York Sun, occupies the whole of Moose mainland by bridge twelve hundred feet in length and separated from the queens dominions' by picturesque Pes- samaquoddy bay. Moose island is about two miles wide by five miles long, and Passport village is situated at its south eastern extremity upon harbor which is open the year round, never having been closed by ice. Passport has sui fered more from disastrous fires than any other town in Maine, having been practically wiped out three times within the past half century. In 1889 the busi- ness section was swept away by the flames, and this was repeated in 1864, when two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of property was burned up. Again, in 1886, the town was visited by a confagration which destroyed one hundred and sixty-two buildings, causing loss of eight hun dred thousand dollars. The people, however, soon rebuilt their town, this time in a more substantial manner than before, when nearly all the buildings were of wood. Passport is to-day a handsome town of something over five thousand inhabitants, the greater part of whom are connected in one way or another with the fishing industry, and all of whom seem toprosper better than the average of mankind. This is the great center of that interesting indus try whose product is little fishes billed in ile"--the sardine business. Here, an nually, millions of small herring are boiled, spiced and packed in oil in little tin boxes covered all over with artistic French inscriptions-andt they are just as good as any sardines, if you only want to think so, and ninety-nine peo- pie in one hundred don't know the diff ference. If fine scenery could be boxed up and sold like little herring Passport would soon be as rich as New York. The whole place seems designed by nature for summer residence, and when Gen. Butler was down there he declared that if the people who built Bar Harbor could have seen Passport first the great resort of the nabobs would have been located at Passama- quoddy instead of on Frenchman's bay.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
ECONOMY IN CIGARS.
A Business Mans Method of CurtaIling
 Expenses.

A well-l1nown business man walked into cigar store the other morning, says the Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat, and took out two coins! One was a doEar and the other Q half dollar. He laid them both down on the case and pointed to box of imported cigars, saying: "Give me a dollars worth of those" The clerk handed them out and the buyer laid the six that he want ed in a row along the case. Then he said to the clerk: "Give me half dol lars worth of any good five-cent cigar" The clerk did as he was bid and the fve-centers were laid along in a row also. The gentleman then took the row of imported cigars and cut the ends off of them all. Then he mixed the five-centers and the twenty-centers up together and put them all into his capacious vest pockets.
 A friend who was standing near, and who had watched the operation with good deal of curiosity. said: ''Wherc- fore?" Simply this, my boy" replied the man addressed. ''I am in business where have to give away a good many cigars. am man who likes a good cigar. cannot afford to give away the kind of cigars smoke myself, so buy days supply and cut the ends off. Then I buy some cheap ones. When it is necessary for me to give away cigar pull out handful and offer one to the person, whoever he may be. He thinks that the ones with the ends cut off have had in my mouth and takes one of the cheap ones, whereby save a good many dollars in the course of year and also keep myself on good terms with the people to whom it is necessary to give cigarS''
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY.
Instances Illustrative of the Ignorance oi
 Foreigners Concerning It.

Instances Illustrative of the Ignorance Of
 Foreigners Concerning It.
 The confusion which foreigners make of our geography is well illustrated by a German poem which appeared several years ago, says the Youths Companion. The poet, with utter unconeern about To- cations and distances, makes such anus ing blunders that its literary value is entirely lost. The argument is some thing as follows:
 Under palm tree on the shore of Lake Erie the hero is devoured by an alligator The heroine, hearing of his fate, rushes from her home in the Ever glades of Florida on the banks of Lake Superior, captures the alligator, ex- tracts the hero's body and burics it with magnificent pomp in Greenwood, in the city Of New York in the state of St. Louis.
 Another German, who really wished to know the geography of this country, fell into the mistake so common with Europeans of not appreciating the rather large scale on which nature has 1ealt with us in the matter of area of and and water.
 Near Concord, Mass, is Walden pond, 5he little body of water near which Thoreau lived alone in a hut for about TWO years. His most famous book is entitled ''Walden." It purports to be m account of his life in the hut, and ranks with the masterpieces of Ameri- gan literature.
 Not long ago a German professor, en- gagged in studies of America, received from Washington a large map of the continent. Soon afterward, in writing to an eminent American professor and historian, tho German scholar said he lad looked all over the map without 6nding Walden pond. This seemed to him an amnzinr omission.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
HANGING IN CHAINS.
An Obsolete Method of Executing Grim
 inals.


 inals.
 One of the last instances of an order being made for hanging in chains is that of chimney sweep, who in 1927 murdered a man on the highway on the east side of Brigg. The culprit was tried by MT. Justice Best, at Lincoln assizes At this time, says the Athcnae- nm, what used to be called the new law courts were building, so the Dean and chapter lent their chapter house for the purposes of an assize court. The trial asted all day. The poor wrctch's body never underwent the proposed in- dignity The inhabitants of Brigg took fright-thought, it has been suggested, hat the gibbet standing so near the highway would terrify people and hinder them from coming to market; they petitioned against the judges order being carried out, and the authorities remitted the horror. MT. Hartshorne believes, and we have no doubt cor rectly, that the last person hung in chains was a man named Cook, who suffered for the murder of MT. Paas. This occurred at Leicester in 1884, the very year that the custom was put an end to by statute.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
BLANK SHOTS.
Young Lady's Experience with Pho
 tograph Camera.

A good story is told of one of Omaha's society young ladies who recently re- turned from summers outing in the mountains of New York, says the Omaha World-Herald. Before leaving home she purchased a kodak, which she proudly exhibited to admiring friends, promising each one of them a photo graph of some mountain scene. The young lady's friends anxiously awaited her return, being eager to see the views she had promised them. Upon her arrival at home her friends called upon her and asked for their views. ''I have just sent the negatives down to have them developed by Q photographer, she said. ''It is much more pleasant than developing them myself.
 Down town a photographer was wrestling with the machine with the agony of despair. Do what he would no picture would de- velop. At last he sent for the young lady and she came to the studio.
 Are you sure you understand how to use kodak?" asked the photographer, after explaining his inability to pro- duce picture.
 Certainly do," was the reply. ''I read the instructions until committed them to memory"
 "Well, how did you set about to take picture?" asked the still doubting artist.
 'Oh. I pulled that little string and pressed the button, just as the instruc- tions read"
 'What did you do with that little leather cup over the lens?" asked the photographer.
 The young lady looked, blushed and fled from the studio. She had actually spent month taking snap shots in the Adirondacks without uncovering the | lonS
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
The Charitable Poor.

That the poor are good to one another is the silent testimony of the race of oeggars. Many of the cross streets up own through which throngs of work ng people pass to and from their work, says the New York Sun, are infested with teggars in the early morning and evening hours. and to an incredible ex- ,ent. These birds of prey, who are for he most part bloated, ragged women whose tatters are redolent of whisky, place themselves close to the stoop of some respectable dwelling house, and, .rouching against the rail, hold out a yrimy hand which suggests rather than lsks gift. Young girls going to their work are moved to compassion, and nen feel a superstitious repugnance to passing an old woman in want, and so ;hese sodden, hopeless waifs of hurnani- y find it profitable to haunt the places
 through which the tide of daily labor sbbs and flows most swiftly. In the natter of charity, the practical diff ierence seems to be that the rich sub scribe to charitable societies, the poor give to those poorer than themselves. But the poor give from their poverty.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
A Cnnntess Cook.

Like most wives of great men, Countess von Moltke was devoted to her brave husbands comfort. During their travels in Italy the lady went into the kitchen and prepared with her own hands all the food eaten by the old hero, who would rather face the cannon's mouth than an Italian meal. He was fond of exhibiting to his friends what he called his wifc's Italian costume-a gray linen blouse and skirt and an inn nense cotton apron-in which the good frau spent most of her time in the Roman kitchens, while the American wife would have been viewing the churches of the Eternal city.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
PUT DOWN AS A HosIER.

Amusing Incident Apropos of James
 Whitcomb Riley's Reputation Abroad. | James Whitcomb Riley went abroad recently, and on the vessel coming back volunteered for the regular ships con cert for the benefit of destitute mar iners, says the New York Commercial Advertiser. He read number of his poems, which were rapturously re- ceived by everybody present with the exception of two very stolid English men in the front row. The following conversation ensued between them later on in the smoking room:
 ''I say, Arthur, what was that chaps name who read the verses?"
 ''Aw, that's Wilcox Riley-he's quite
 clever tradesman."
 Bless me, who'd "a thought it! heard he was a literary chap and all that sort of thing"
 ''No, I'm told he's hosier."
 "You don't say so? Really, now, what a pity it is that man like him should be tied down to a shop"
 And this is what it is to be the UooSier poet.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
A Miraculous Transaction.

Matching the stories of valuable and unappreciated oil paintings sold for a song is one concerning miraculous transaction in Sevres china. Early in the past century a gentleman presented a reverend friend with two vases as a wedding present. These vases stood for more than forty years on cabinet in a Somersetshire reetory, without attract ing any particular notice, until a sale took place after the owners death. at which they were bought for two guin- eas by tradesman in Bath. Within a week they resold for six hundred guin- eas to a Bond street dealer, who speed fly disposed of them to the late Lord Derby for four thousand guineas.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
Too Enphatic.

During a session of the house of com mons the members wear their hats, which they remove when rising to ipeak or to make a motion. This GUS om is occasionally the cause of com cal scene, like the one reported in Sir William Fraser's "Disraeli and his Day." William Ewart, the member for Liverpool, was making an effective peech, and on the bench just below Jim sat Joseph Hume, a radical, whose aspect was that of intense solemnity. Ie wore hat with broad briIn and Q ong nap, which apparently was too arge for his large head. Ewart, while emphasizing his last sentence, brought lis right fist down with crushing vio- ence upon Hume's hat, which instantly descended below Hume's chin and ob- icured his heavy features. The house, which had been listening with interest, 'oared with laughter, and the orator sat Town abashed by the incident that had poiled the effect of his speech.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
Nick-Names of Authors.

Some one gives the following as nick names of certain authors: Emerson The Sphinx. Schiller-The Republican Poet. Goethe-The Poet of Pantheism. Shelley-The Eternal Child. Keats The Resurrectionized Greek. Byron The Poet of Passion. Moore-The But terny. Jeremy-The Shakespeare of Divines. Coleridge-The Insulated Son of Reverie. Bunyan-Sponsor of the People. Shakespeare-The Myriad Minded. Ben Jonson-The Divine Bully of the Old English Parnassus. Spenser-The Poets Poet. Chaucer- The We'll of English Undefled, or the Morning Star of English Poetry. Caed- mon-The Milton of the Forefathers.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
Great Plece of NIasonrr.

,, The distinction is now said to belong to Bombay of possessing the greatest piece of solid masonry construction that the world has seen in modern times. l. appears that for years past the water supply of Bombay depended upon works known to be defective, involving the possibility of a water famine in that great eastern seaport, and in view of this consultation of eminent engineers was held under the direction of the government, with the result that a large dam was determined on to inclose the watershed of the valley which drains into the sea south of Bombay. This gigantic structure, designed and accomplished by the superior engineer ing skill of T. c. Glover, is two miles long, HIS feet in height and 103 feet wide at the base, with a roadway on the top 24 feet wide, the stoneworl1 alone costing 2,O00, ,0G0. The lake of water which this dam imprisons is some eight square miles in area, and so miles of pipe perform the service. Twelve thousand Hindoos were specially trained by Frgineer Glover for employment on ans uan.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
STONE FORESTS.
Petrifed Trees Still Standing in Various
 Parts of the World.

Stone forests are found in variou' parts of the world. In many cases thc!z
 are hardened by some peculiarity of tho atmosphere, and are found standilc
 just as they were when clothed witl
 green foliage, thousands of years ago. The Little Colorado river in Arizona. says the St. Louis Republic, has lon.
 been famous as locality for such finds
 at one place more than one thousand
 five hundred cords of solid stone tree trunks, sections, limbs and logs were found by the government surveyors. Most of them were silicifed; many seven to ten feet in diameter and from twenty to eighty feet in height. Geolo- gists say that the petrified trees of the Little Colorado were once covered with marl over one thousand feet in depth. Some of the trees have been changed to jasper, and have assumed various huee; others resemble opal, and, when broken open, the core is often found lined with crystals of the most beautiful tints. Louisiana and Ohio are also noted local ities for petrifed trees. In the former state, several years ago, in turning up the ground, an ancient forest was uD- earthed, and, in succession, two others below the first. Scientists, judging from the state of the trees, say that at least fifty thousand years elapsed be- tween the growth of the first and the last forest. In some parts of the island of Antiqua, one of the British lecward group, there are some remarkable eX- amples of stone forests. In Van Die mans Land similar forests are known to exist. Some of these are only partly silicifed, while others are changed to chalcedony hard enough to cut glass.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
Virginia Daisies.

Before the war there was no such flower as the daisy in Virginia. The hardy flower was curiosity. Now the fields just around Richmond are white with them. This is especially so of the late battlefelds about the Chickahomi- ny river and wherever the federals had cncampments. An investigation shows that the seeds of the prolific daisy were brought there in the bales of hay brought by the union soldiers in Vir- ginia when they were camped near the city. An old battery west of Richmond Is the spot from which the daisy began to spread.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
College Bred.

A freshman in college in the city vas anxious to mail letter. Having been told to drop it into the red box at hc corner, he hurried out of the build ng and ran down the street. He saw a ed box, but could find no opening in which to put his letter. He searched Or any possible direction on the box, md noticed, in large letters: "Ring wice." He rang twice, says the San Francisco Argonaut, and waited to sec what would happen, expecting door O fly open into which he could drop ihe letter Suddenly an open buggy dashed up and a man in blue uniform jumped out. "Where is it?" he de- handed. "Here it is, thank you," said he freshman; please mail it at once" :" The fire captain looked at the letter and then at the students retreating figure. Then he dropped the letter into ;he box across the street, reported the alarm false and went back to the sta ion
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
=NoLlsHMAN AND AMERICAN
Their Differing Views Regarding the
 Presence of NOtab.es.

Their Differing Views Regarding the
 Presence of NOtabIes.
 My father was once travelling in Europe and fell in with an English banker and his family" says a St. Louis Globe-Democrat gossiper. ''The banker was a man of wealth, uni yersity graduate, fine scholar and in every way a refined, polished gentle nan. One morning while stepping at l Swiss hotel my father came down to breakfast and found his friend i'll a ligh state of nervous excitement. He ;ould not eat anything, was fidgeting his chair and was evidently so much disturbed that my father asked what vas the matter. Do you see that gen. leman at the end of the table?' said he Englisman, in an awe-strucll whis- Der; that IS the earl of Tyrone.' But what is the matter with you?' was the eply. Come, now,' said the English nan, you can't pretend that when so sreat a man as that is at the same able with you you feel just as if some nobody was thcre?' I don't know about hat said my father. Do you sec that nan on the other side of the table? That is ex-President Pierce, but can at my breakfast perfectly calmly, even he is here The Englishman started, gasped and said nothing more, evident regarding the Americans as variety If the human species entirely outside of Ill ordinary rules"
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
Examination of a King.

The official report on the recent eX- animation in scholarship of King Alex lndcr, of Servia, is published in the Roumanian Lloyd newspaper. ''Iis majesty, King Alexander" it says, passed the annual examinations be- tween June 1 and June 20 in the follow ing subjects: 1, theology, taught by Archimandrit Fermilyan; 2, geometry md algebra, taught by Prof. Sveta ;toikovics; 3, philosophy and chemis- try, by Prof. $. Wrosevics; f, military history, by Prof Maj. Wlajics; 5, his tory of Servia, by Prof. l.. Kovacsevics; }, tactics, by Prof. Maj. Pavlovic5; :, universal history, by Prof. Lovcsevics; 3, Latin, Prof. Gjorgjevics; 9, German, Prof. Rcsuer; French, Prof. Margot; English, Prof. Redics. His majesty ,tood the examination in all subjects exccllently. There were present dur ng the examina tions the royal regents, lis holiness, the metropolitan, the min istcrs of war, worship and instruction, the minister president, the president of the state council and the undersigned governor, MiskovicS."
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
Struck the Wrong One.

A woman in Helena, Mont, was struck by lightning the other day. It )anged her against the wall, jammed ler into Q cupboard and knocked her enseless, leaving on her skin the exact ,attern of tree that grew in the front ard. She was not seriously hurt, and -hen asked what she thought at the
 me, said she supposed her husband
 $ enforcing his usual method of dis
 owing with her housekeeping. The ,.Itning always hits the wrong fellow.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
COLOR-BLINONESS.
A Queer Phase of This Disease Developed
 in Railroader.

in Railroader.
 An English engineer, forty years of age, was recently dismissed from his situation because he was unable to correctly distinguish colors. Dr. M. Reich, who examined the man, and who afterward published the results of his examinations in Russian paper, found sight, focus and sensation of light nor nal, and discovered no disease by the ophthalmoscope, yet the patient could distinguish no colors when of a dark shade, and only yellow and blue when of light shade. The patient assured pr. Reich that he had been able to dis anguish colors correctly and with con- idence up to the summer of 1889. He said that through over-eXertion and in ,ufficiency of sleep he had then suffered rom violent headache for two weeks, md that afterward he saw everything IS if it were red. The latter symptom lad continued for three months, after which time he had lost all sensation ot color. In the beginning of May, 1890, le presented himself again, declaring hat he had perfectly regaincd the power to distinguish colors. A thorough examination, says the New York Ledger, completely confirmed the as- ,urance given by the patient, who was consequently again fit for service. Lr. Reich believes that ''erythropsy" is due O central mischief. The case seems to ihow that sensation of color is per icctly independent of the physiological ,,,4,o+iOD
The St. Johns herald., 1892-07-14
BULL & STONE.

Post office: Taylor Arizona Territory N -s.s. 7s Range: Lower Show Low. Horse Brand J s left shoulder.