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The National tribune., 1892-03-24
Ladies' Watches.
Special Offer 10. 6, Ladies' Size

A genuine Waltham, with 7-jewel move
ment, compensation balance and safety
pinion, stem wind and set, in rolled gold
plated case that will look like gold for
long time, if proper care is used. Fully
engraved. A guaranteed timekeeper, hunt
ing case.
We offer this watchwith THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE one year 10 new subscribers or
renewals for $3.50
For sale at .aAs. ITO
The National tribune., 1892-03-24
SOLID GOLD LADIES, BUTTON,

We have secured for the ladies solid ,A&Alkn.
gold front collar button set with beautiful Sll$cf1
diamond cut brilliant as shown In the cut esESW
we send this little beauty as a premium free saaEaa
10 any present subscriber who will send us EsSEI1
x0 new subscribers. Fer sale for 10 centa
The National tribune., 1892-03-24
Pocket SpsIIeF and
nofnnu of the English
Uuulul Language

containing over %, 600
words. This work gives
the correct orthography
end definition Of al the
words IN common use.
The Illustration gives a
fair idea of the shape OF
the work b-iPg especially
made TO iit The pocket
and bound In O. style
which makes il durable
ard elsgant. This Speller
and definerisnot reprint,
but has been carefully
prepared by competent
hands TO meet the gener-
al want for a book OF
this kind, and for the
space it occupies has 10
superior in the publish
ing world; containing 320
The National tribune., 1892-03-24

No. 800 is solid gold locket,
in the front of which sparkles
a handsome genuine diamond.
This is equally suitable for ladies'
or mems wear. Such q lOcket
sells at the jewellers for from $40
to $15. We send it to any sub
scriber by registered mail for
$4.s1
The National tribune., 1892-03-24
Special Offer No. 7, Ladies' Size.


Same works as in Special Offer No. 6, but
in gold-filled case guaranteed by the
makers to wear 15 years, fully en-
graved, hunting case. This makes splendid
watch to present to anyone.
With The NATIONAL TRIBUNE one year
to new subscribers or renewals for $16O5
For sale at. 1880
Special Offer No. 8, Ladies Size.
Same works as in Special Offer No. 6, but
in 14-carat gOld-filled hunting case,
guaranteed to wear 20 years. This is a
beauty, and like the case in special offer No.
Z, it is made by rolling two plates of solid
gold over sheet of fine metal for the pur-
pose of stifrening the gold and making it
protect the works better. -
We offer this Watch with The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE one year to new subscribers or
1sa'%Ia' For sale at It. ..'...is3.44:. 1850 1880
The National tribune., 1892-03-24
Ryeelsior Webster

vare9, d0lDIc column, II Weighs 1I2 oiinccs, 81
6x 2lb inches, bound in elegant American Russ
LcatEes and iudcxed.
Sent. possI aid. on rr-eipt cf so cents.
The National tribune., 1892-03-24

Washington return-during the National Encampme
The National tribune., 1892-03-24
LADIES, GoLD CUFF BUTTON.

This is q little beauty. Its shown full size a4zz
IN the cut IL is of heavy rolled gold.
We send pair as premium for only two Sx3A
new subscribers. For sale for 20 cents. An AIA
other bargain. fE$14x
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
Appreciation.

The Rev. DR.. Cuyler was seventy
years old few days ago, and received
gratifying tokens of regard from many
friends. The drawing-room and study
were fragrant with roses and flowers,
and were bower of beauty, says the
Brooklyn Eagle.
II occurred to some one to bring a
faithful servant who had been knitted
by interest, association and affection
with the life of the household through
years of tender and trusting service, up
to the drawing-room to see the evil
dences of the loving remembrance in
which the good man was held
She examined the gifts with great
interest, and expressed her delight in
these glowing words to Mrs Cuyler:
81 tell you, ma'am. the doctor couldn't
have had more flowers sent to him If he
was eead.f
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
miscellaneous Items.

The choir of the Mormon temple at
salt Lake is 800 strong.
A Chicago doctor has written book
on 1.-THE Irregularities of Teeth. "
What makes trouble is the irregularity
of the tongue.
The English House of Lords now re-
joices in new appropriate title-the
House of Landlords,
al think I'll give the country the
shake" remarked the malaria as it
prepared for business.
The suspicion is gaining that the
correspondents who are writing mp the
decollete style of dressing among the
Washington ladies are sad "neels-ro-
mancers,
bridgeport has a Methodist church
that has opera chairs instead Of pews
The drop curtain has not yet been
painted.
Phe church is sometimes SO crowded
that the people in the rear seats can :
reach the mourners bench, but thc
deacon never fails TO worm hiruself
through with the contribution box,
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
Total Eolinses Of the sun.

Every year there must be two eclipses
Of the sun, and there may be five.
These are partial eclipses, however, ex-
cept in the comparatively rare case in
which the moon passes nearly centrally
over the suns disk and produces a total
obscuration of his light. Since the in
vention of the spectroscope, in 1860,
there have been barely a score of total
eclipses, and number of these could
not be observed because the belt of
totality fell at the earth's polar regions
or upon the oceans. The belt of
totality is narrow strip-never more
than l7O miles wide-where the point
Of the moons shadow falls upon the
earth. Total eclipses rarely recur,
therefore, at the same point of the
earth. At London, for example, there
has been no total eclipse since the year
ll40 except that of Ills, and there will
be none during the next century.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
NOVELTIES,

The deepest depth of the sea is re-
ported to be at point twenty-three
miles north of New Guinea, where sur
roundings showed a depth of e6,s50
feet.
The fiat pieces of iron shaped like a
letter S and frequently seen ON the
walls of old brick buildings, serving as
girders, are said to have been old-time
symbols of the sun,
There was no coffin in baltimore large
enough to contain the remains of Col.
Pickett Nelson, the colored giant who
died recently, and one had to be made
to order. AS completed il measured
feet O inches in length and was 9 feet
4 inches wide ut the shoulders. 1t was
feet deep.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
Seven Years without a birth day.

A Scottish clergyman who died nearly
thirty years ago, Mr.. Leishman Of
Kinross. used to tell that he had once
been seven years without a birthday.
The statement puzzled most who heard
it. They could not see that, if he had
been born on the Goth of February, he
would have no birthday except in a
leap-year. But leap-year comes once
in four years, and this accounts for a
gap of three years only; their first
thought would therefore naturally be
that the old man, who in fact was fond
of harmless Jest, was somehow jest
ing about the seven. There was, how
ever, no joke or trick in hls assertion.
At the present time there can be very
few, if there are any, who have this
tale to tell of themselves, for one
who can tell it must have been born on
the 29th of February at least ninety-six
years age. But similar line of miss
ing dates is now soon to return; and in
deed there are some readers of this
page who will have only one birthday
to celebrate for nearly twenty years to
come.
The solution of the puzzle is to be
found in the fact, which does not ap'
pear to be very widely known, that the
year 1900 was not leap-year and 1900
will not be. The February of the
present year had twenty-nine days; but
in the seven years intervening between
1896 and 1904, as well as in the thre'
between 1892 and 1896, that montl
will have only twenty-eight.-The Rev
| George Macarthur. in April st. Nicholas
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16

w@xy NTy and scarcely interesting study
oa greehand, model perspective, geo.
SaakTiemi and anatomical drawing. Eight
Samu year Of hard work In this school
wnse not unattended with evidence OF
Mnccess Ia the shape Of honorary re-
wards In 1878 Miss c. NJ. Wood-as
she shen Washed the sahseribers
meh0saxnhip and the national prize for
wasNF-cNlor painting, kensington.
For the succeeding three years
ahe held the cloth-workers scholar
ahin. sn 1850 the national gold
medal Gor painting aud the Princess Of
NaiaS scholarship, and the next year
tie prizes for anatomical studies, and
che agAo passed the advanced art eN-
Asm1naki0n ia anatomy, kenalngton.
About his time she decided 10 devote
her tlme 10 oil rather than water col
orr, which hitherto she had painted al.
m0at eseiusiycly, aud her first picture
waA study 81 Oranges" which APP
pemrnA ii Birmingham ia the spring Of
1sSa, she wo. X. broad in trehtmentde-
plotting q common round market basket
sssnea OF ils side la shadow and the
oranges rolling out into q focus of
strong light Later on ia the same
year were also cxhibIted,A at the Society
III Hrssish Artists In Suffolk street.
ssrhriatmns Roses" and AZ the Royal
Scottish academy a clcverly treated
wrnup 81 "Pclargoniums. And now
followed IN regular succession nj most
ofahaehief galleries numerous pictures,
down 10 thc present time. In 1853 q
painting OF still.lite I, Laws Grave
Atuav WAS bought by the Fine Art
society IL dcnburg whc the work APP
pnaxed h the Royal Scottish Academy
exhibition. The subject WAS 4 numbei
"a old law books. with their worn and
torn calf backs full 81 those varied
mellow eoiors so dear 10 the artist,
mgna. a chief point in the composition
was onc OF the lnrgcr volumes lying
open. Showing portrait engraving o
a weIl-known lawyer In his ruiiie o
loHg age. There may now bc men
tloned one leading painting in each o
this anccceding years AS an indication
III Mrs Nright's manner % art, leaving
xasv many others that appeared In va
xloua galaries unuoticcd. In 1883,
study 81 Flowers and Books" was n
tho Manchester City Art Gallery; Il
1854, Lcgni Law" nj the institute o
Oils. piccadilly; and in 1856 and the FOL
lowing seasons. "Ancmone Japonica'
and Bachelors buttons" were In tn
same aociety's rooms. In the year iss
waa produced "Azalca;" 1855, Rose
and Mcadowswcct;" 1859, STUDY o
Wood pigeon;" 1890. Elm Hues Of Gold;
while last year "Thistlc.down" mad
Eta appearance in the Royal Academy
Dr. Mary Fulton Is an Indiana lad.
who has recently returned 70 that Cit
from Canton, China, where she spcn
seven years in medical missionary work
She has brother, DIR. A. A. Fulton, Il
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
MI,r I.nnn Yenre

To the inquiry why the leap.year
are so called, there appears to be no
satisfactory answer, What connection,
Il may be asked and has been asked,
was the year or the added day sup
posed 20 have with leap or with leap.
ingq Were these years regarded as
coming with leaps or bounds, as con-
trasted with the steps or PAGES of other
years? Did days or years leap over
something. or were they themselves
somehow leaped over2 All this seems
matter for coniecturci and there Is
nothing left for us but TO fall back on
1.-THE Century Dictionary's" statement
"Thc exact reason of the name is up'
known
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
under ballot Reform.

The fact that all the so-called doubt
full" States. whose vote Is decisive in the
election, are 20 cast their ballots in
absolute secrecy. free from all cspion-
age and intimidation, is ono of momeu-
tous Importance. The first and newt
able effect will be 70 lessen enormously
the part which money will play in the
contest. Every State in which money
has heretofore been used freely has
adopted the new system. II votes be
bought In those States hereafter, the
purchasers cannot follow the men whom
they have bought to the polls to see
II they keep their bad bargain. The
result will be the same in those States
ms il has been everywhere else under
similar conditions namely, very few
votes will be bought.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
DIR. HERBERT VAUGHN
THE MAN WHO WILL SUCCEED
CARDINAL MANNING.
ne Belongs TO One Of the Aristocratic
Catholic Families Of England and Is
the Editor of Two Newspapers-A
Social Lion.

The Rt Rev. DIR. Herbert Vaughn,
who has been designated to succeed the
late Cardinal Manning as Archbishop
of Westminster, is a member of one of
the aristocratic old Roman Catholic
families of England. the Vaughns Of
Courtfeld, who are connected with the
Herberts and others of like social in
fuence. He was born at Gloucester in
1882 and educated at Stonyhurst college
and at Rome. He was the founder and
is still the president of St Joseph's
Foreign Missionary college at Mill Hill,
near London, whose special mission is
among the negro population of America,
and DIR. Vaughn visited this
country in 1871 with detachment Of
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
Grass Tmentr.rlye Foot Long.

Profs. Waldron and McArdle of the
North Dakota Agricultural college are
collecting grasses for State exhibit Mt
the worlds fair. Among the spcci-
mems secured along the shores of
Devils lake was q species of slough
grass which had attained the UMPIRE
cedented length of twenty-five feet
The samples were so long that they
wound them up in coils, They also
found what seems to bc u new variety
of wheat growing wild ON the prairies
this season, very much higher than the
cultivated kind.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16

revival has of late been allowed, ana
It's observance appears TO give much
satisfaction 10 thousands OF deyotees.
These people worship the demoness
Mariamman. said TO be the spirit OF a
Pariah woman who formerly was at
tackled by smallpox and was left TO die
without assistance. She has now be-
come the patron of smallpox and
cholera and Is believed TO have the
power 10 send or Withhold rain, and hook
swinging is thought 20 be means OF
propitiating her, 50 as to influence her
20 send rain in abundance.
In 1867 this practice was revived,
after having been prohibited for many
years, but upon representation 10 Lord
Napier at that time he again prohibited
Il. and now, after twenty-fonr years.
the people, having learned that the
present powers that be would do no
more that discourage IL, have revived
ii again with great eclat
A recent observance OF this .heathen-
ish custom is described by an American
missionary who witnessed IL.
A young man was selected to perform
the act Ii is said that previous TO the
insertion Of the hooks into the middle
OF the back the muscles and skin are
rendered inscnsible by slapping and
pinching. However that may be. there
Is m doubt thnt arrack was given to
the man at the time. lie was brought
10 the police station with the hooks in
serted back 10 back, one each side OF
the spine. The hooks were not large,
and the flesh taken up by them seemed
very little. The wonderful strength
Of the muscles of the back was shown
10y this performance.
The car consisted OF rough plat
form on wheels, supporting a great
frame about ten feet in length and
breadth. and fifteen feet in height, the
platform itself being six feet from the
ground. Up through the middle of the
great frame rose stout circular beam
OF great strength three feet above the
frame, and on the top of this beam was
pivoted the pole, sixty feet in length,
from which the man hung thirty-tiye
feet from the ground.
Promptly at o'clock the hooks were
inserted, within some building, and the
man came rushing along the street, es'
corted by constablcs and others, who
beat back the crowd and kept up Wig.
orous tanning, urging the man to leeT
dancing. After the short stay Mt thC
police station they made u grand rusl
for the car, which stood on nj
adjacent street, and there the
end of the sweep was lowered to re
ceiye It's victim. Soon Il was carried NJ
J again with the man attached. AS he
went mp he clapped his feet and hand:
together in measured way, and this
he kept up during the whole perform
auce. His ankles had iinglcs on then
! that could be heard as they beat to
gether with steady ''ching, ching"
Before carrying him mp to the great
5 est height the pole was held horizon
: tally, and the man was carried aroun,
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
A Dog Aims seeker.

One of the most persistent beggars in
Portland, Me-, is collie dog which is
very fond OF doughnuts. The collie, in
company with its mistress, visited a
bakery one day last fall and, perceiv-
ing some doughnuts in showcase, he
sat down and pleaded, by means of
short, sharp barlss, for n treat. The
clerk generously fed the smart dog,
but now he wishes that he hand't, for
every day since the collie has appeared
TO beg for more doughnuts. If the
shop door is closed he win wait outside
until some one opens il, ana then dodge
in 10 get his regular free lunch.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
20 ANCIENT LANGUAGES.
becoming Too Burdensome for Modern
Scholars.

Becoming Too Burdensome for Modern
Scholars.
The present state of linguistic educa-
ton gives the most unsatisfactory re-
suits Languages are first very labo-
riously and very inperfectly learned
and then generally abandoned in after
life. Even the learned themselves
rarely pursue them unless they have
some special reason for doing so con-
nected with their professional business.
Modern languages are neglected almost
as much as the ancient when they are
not wanted for business purposes or
travel An Oxford man who is ripe
Italian scholar tells me that young
ladies in England invariably give up
their Italian after leaving school, as
young men throw aside their Latin.
University degrees are evidence Of past
labor, but not of interest affec-
ton, or facility. Lord Dufferin
said that although he had
taken a degree he could not really
read Greek until he had learned it over
again for himself, and in his own way.
An English judge who had taken his
degree at Cambridge told me that he
could not make out Greek in mature
life, even with the help of the lexicon.
/; A fellow of the French university, a
prizeman specially for Latin in a
severe competitive examination, told
me that he should never think of read
ing Latin for his pleasure-he did not
know it well enough. An English pro-
fessor, reputed TO be one of the best
Latin scholars in his own country. gave
up Latin and Greek entirely when he
turned his attention to modern Ian
guages. The principal of French
college once confessed 10 me that he
never read Latin or Greek, which were
taught in the place by the specialist
masters under him. All these were what
are called LEARNED men" certainly
educated men. What, therefore, are
we to expect from the half-educated2
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
GERMAN EMIGRATION.
Proposition to Direct the Current from


Proposition to Direct the Current from
America.
IL has been proposed TO direct the
current of German emigration 10 the
thinly populated parts OF Hungary, Po-
land, and the Balkan peninsula, andin
former times this might have been pos
slble, but at present with the national
istie tendencies of those countries 1t is
scarcely feasible. Hungary has a con-
siderable German population, but il is
ruthlessly oppressed by the govern
ment, which tries all means, fair and
foul, to Magyarize the Germans, slavs,
and Roumanians. The same is the case
with the numerous and hourishing Ger
man settlements in Russia, where their
prosperity has evoked national jeal-
ousy. and Professionals and Catholics are
prosecuted In order 70 convert them TO
the orthodox creed. aud ulSase of Oct
| !, 1890, forbids the sale of landed prop
erty to Germans AS 10 the
| Balkan states, German COM
merce Is rapidly increasing, bnt
neither servia nor Bulgaria would like
extensive German settlements. IL is
different with Anatolia and Babylonia,
once the richest OF countries, but laid
waste by Turkish misgosernment.
These sparsely peopled countries OF
immense extension would offer a most
favorable field for German emigration.
They are not TOO hot for European
laborers, and their ancient fertility
might easily be reestablished by re-
viving the system of irrigation
of which Herodotus gives evil
dence and which made Pliny call
the valley Of the Tigris fertilissimui
ager totius orientis The probability
OF success is shown by the German
Templar colony in Palestine, which By
its prosperity forms nourishing oasis
Elaborate plans for such colonization
have been published by an engineer
Pressed, for Anatolia. and by DIR
Sprengcr for Babylonia, which show
that millions % German emigrants ma!
find room there for founding new
Germany.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16

priests who came over 20 work in
Maryland. In 1872 he was consecrated
Bishop Of Stafford. in Lancashire, the
Roman Catholic diocese which includes
Manchester. He is quite well known
and influential man, and has been
especially prominent as controversial
writer. being the owner of the London
Tablet, the Roman Catholic organ in
England, and also of the Dublin Re-
view. His younger brother, DR..
Roger Bede Vaughn, who be-
longed to the Benedictine order, be-
came the Roman Catholic Archbishop Of
Sydney and was highly esteemed in
Australia. DIR. Vaughn, as his por-
trait shows, is a handsome, aristo'
cratic-looking man and will doubtless
maintain his predecessors prominence
in London society, although his asso
Citations hitherto have been much more
rigidly confined to those of his OWL
faith.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
At Antietam.

George Hess, superintendent Antie-
tam National cemetery, Company
/, Twenty eighth Pennsylvania.
Sharpsburg. Nd, would like to
have the names of all the
sick and wounded at the battle of An
tietam who lay in the hospital estab-
lished in the old Lutheran church
which stood in the graveyard on the
hill, east of Sharpsburg. Comrade Hess
would like TO hear through private cor
respondence from any surviving COM
rade who was an inmate of the above
named hospital A true cut of this
church and street view of Sharpsburg
can be had, postpaid, for - cents, sold
for the benefit of the Soldiers Memoir
ial Lutheran church, now building in
Sharpsburp.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16

Mrs ]. w. Hummer of High Bridge,
n. ", attended an oyster supper for
the benefit of the Methodist Episcopal
church. While eating the bivalves
from the half-shen her teeth suddenly
struck a hard substance. Thinking
she had bitten piece of oyster shell,
Mrs. Hummer removed the substance
from her mouth. 1t proved to be an
extraordinarily large pearl. A Phila-
delphia jeweler, who CHANGED to be
present, pronounced it to be of perfect
formation and exquisite color and said
it was worth at least s., 500,
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16
About Baskets.

A general mistake is made about bas-
lsets, most people supposing that the
white willow basket is the best Ii
looks best, but it is by no means the
strongest The white willow slips are
cut in the fall and kept green all win.
ter by packing their stubs in wet sand
or water, and when spring comes the
bark peals off with twist of the hand.
The buff baskets. on the contrary, are
made from dried willow slips, which
have been steamed and then peeled,
While not so handsome, they are much
stronger, and will wear far longer than
the white.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16

John Jordon brought large white
swan from Pendleton the other day
and tells queer story as to how he got
it, says the Portland 0regonian. While
near his house, on East Birch Creek, he
saw some eagles chasing the swan in
the air above him. The unfortunate
bird in his anxiety to escape few di-
rectly over the young mans head, and,
with quick spring, he managed to
seize and bring it down, the disap-
pointed eagles flying away.
Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-07-16

mentioned la connection with the
Presidency, Mr.. German is one OF the
old guard Democrats and has always
opposed fusion with mugumps. lie
was born in Maryland Of Irish Prcsby-
terian) parcntage. His grandfather
was closely connected with the
o'Ncills, the last king Of the Province
OF Ulster. Few men of greater ora
torical force have ever occupied seat
in the Senate than Mr. German. He
has declined 20 be con red as a
candidate for the Democra nomina'
ton.