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The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
TENEMENT LIFE.
It's Bright as Well as It's Dark
Side.

To many persons, living in tene-
ment house is synonymous with liy-
ing in the slums, yet nothing is farther
from the truth. 1t would be an easy
matter form to take q stranger into
dozen or more homes so poor, dirty
and wretched that he would not for
get the sight for days, and he would
be thoroughly convinced that q home
cannot exist in a tenement house;
but could take that same person to
an equal number ofhomes in the same
section of the city, and sometimes in
the same house, which would turn him
into joyful optimist, and forever
satisfy him that the state of things is
not by any means as bad as it might
be. To the casual observer the tene-
ment houses in many portions of
New York present a remarkable de-
gree of uniformity. The great brick
building with their network of iron
fire-escapes in front, their numerous
clothes-lines running from every win
dow IN the rear, the well-known stairs,
the dark halls the numerous odors,
pleasant and otherwise, coming from
a score of different kitchens presided
over by housewives of various ma
tlonalities-these are all similar; but
the moment you enter the room, how
ever, you will find every variety Of
homes, many of them poor, neglected,
wretched, and dirty; Others clean,
thrifty, and attractive; indeed, as
great variety as exists in the inter
Tor of homes in an ordinary town.
There are homes where the first floor
is bare and dirty, the furniture brok-
en- and scanty, the table greasy, the
bedlinen yellow, the air foul and heavy,
the children pale, frowsy and sticky,
so that you squirm when the baby
wants to kiss you; but there is also
another and brighter side. There are
at the same time thousands of cheer
tul, happy homes in the tenement
houses
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
UNCLE SAM IN A JACKPOT,

How an Illinois Congressman Sc
cured Backing for His Four Deu-
ces.
"The luckiest man in apoker game"
remarked q Washington man in re-
miniscent mood, as he drew three
cards. twas q certain congressman
from Illinois. Hewas backed in Jack
pot by the United States.
owe were having a nice little game
of So limit. There is often a smart
pile OF money in q 50 limit. Around
the hotel table were four of us, and
this was the only congressman who
had sand enough and money enough
to sit out the game. There was anight
session and an exciting time in the
house of representatives, and the oth4
ers had dropped out one by one on
the score of public duty.
"Well, it was getting on toward 2
o'clock in the morning, and we had a
lovely pot and everybody stayed in.
The pot was opened on four deuces and
the man stood pat. That was this
same congressman. There was moth
ing less than d good pair out, and
everybody seemed to have improved
ishand in the draw. The betting was
lively. just then a servant rushed in
and said there was a call of the house
and the sergeant arms was at the
door
"I'd play this hand out ifthe whole
United States was at.the door," said
the statesman.
"'Keep him out a minute, Jim.'
. "'Lock the door,
"But the big foot of the sergeant-at-
arms was thrust in the crack of the
inner door as Jim was going out to
bar the outer one.
"'Im sorry, gentlemen, but"
"'Tm not, interrupted the member.
I'll 60 as soon as I rake in this Jack
pot. In the meantime let me have g.
fifty
"The sergeant-at-arms produced his
order book and the fifty soon went to
swell the pile. I'll draw on one for n
hundred pretty soon came from the
plucky 1llinoisan. One of us laid
down his hand at this aud another
began to look nervous. There were
several l. O. Us. in pile already and
l was down to my last dollar and had
to call. l had king full and-well, the
Illinois congressman and his four
deuces and the sergeant-at-arms and
the United States treasury and that
jackpot, with about $500 in it, all
went off together"
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
The Acme of Bliss,

Once upon time good old broth
er, who, rest his soul! has long since
gone to his reward, in a meeting was
dilating upon the wonderful glories Of
the New Jerusalem. Streets paved
with gold, angels with features OF
snowy whiteness, "cherrybims" and
"Sarahphims" he described with great
minuteness i'll the beautiful forms with
which the eye Of faith pictured them to
his simple mind as he anticipated the
delights Of the heavenly city. Finally,
when his descriptive powers were
exhausted and he had scared in the
ether of Imagination till his weary
pinions would bear him no longer, he
returned to earth, summing up all in
the homely smile: "Why, Brethren!
TO be a Christian and get to glory is
better'n being President of the United
States. Syracuse Standard.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
SNAKES IN IRELAND
Results OF an Attempt to Introduce
OphIciIans Into the Green Isle,

Results of an Attempt to Introduce
Ophldians Into the Green Isle.
In 1881 James Cleveland, an Irish
gentleman, being curious to ascertain
whether the climate or soil in Ireland
was naturally destructive to the
serpent tribe, purchased half dozen
OF the common harmless English
snakes (natrix torquata) in Convent
Garden market i'll London. Bringing
them to Ireland he turned them out
in his garden st Rathgael, in the
county of Down, and in a week after
ward one of them was killed at
Milecross, about three miles distant.
The persons into whose hands this
strange monster fell had not the
slightest suspicion that it was O.
snake, but considering it curious
kind OF eel, they took it to Dr. J. l..
Drummond, celebrated Irish
naturalist, who at once pronounced
the animal to be reptile and not O.
fish. The idea of a "rale livingsarpint"
having been killed within q short
distance of the very burial place of
St. Patrick caused ON extraordinary
sensation OF alarm among the country
people. The most absurd rumors
were freely circulated and credited.
One far-seeing clergyman preached q
sermon, i'll which he cited this I'M
fortunate snake as q token OF the
| immediate commencement of the
millennium, while another saw in it
type of the approach of cholera
morbus.
Old prophecies were raked up, and
| all parties and sects for once united in
believing that the snake foreshadowed
'"The beginning of the end" though
they were widely differed as to what
that end would be. Some more
practical-mindod persons, however,
subscribed o considerable sum of
money, which they offered in rewards
for the destruction of any other snake
that might be found in the district,
| and three more of the snakes were
not long afterward killed within
few miles Of the garden where they
| were liberated. The remaining two
snakes were never clearly accounted
for. The writer, who resided in that
part Of the country at the time, we'll
remembers the wild rumors among
the more ilIiterate classes on the ap-
pearance of those snakes, and the
bitter feeling OF angry indignation ex-
pressed by educated persons against
the-very fortunately then unknown
person who mad dared to bring
them to Ireland.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
--sHf.r =--r-r. --
MiSCalCuIatiOn.

The Boston Globe prints a story
which reminds one of the old saying
about the shoemaker and his last.
A Yarmouth captain had small
coasting schooner lying in port, and
decided to give q lesson to painters in
general by himself painting the vessels
name on her bows. He could not
reach high enough from the float, and
did not care to put out a swinging
stage, so he reached down over the
side to do the lettering.
After finishing the job on one bow,
he went ashore to view his handiwork,
and this is what met his gaze
.TIDDVN
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
An Audience Of One.

1t is said that one night, at the Paris
Odeon, the audience consisted OF one
single, lone man. The management
decided to give no performance, and
the solitary auditor was offered his
money back. He refused it, and in
sisted upon his rights that the play
should go on. The law was on his
side, and The company was compelled
to act. All the artistes decided to
do their worst, which caused the au-
dience to exercise his right to hiss,
md he aid SO with such yigor that
the manager saw his way out OF the
difficulty. He had the man arrested
and elected for disturbing the perfor-
nance, and then closed the doors.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
Long Word.

MIR. Whymper, in a paper upon
Greenland in an old number of the
Alpine Journal, characterizes the Es-
kimo language as "sententious."
A single word, he says, is made to
convey an idea which in English,
would require full sentence. OF such
words he offers one example-a word
meaning, "You must try much to get
O. good knife" Here it is;
Savecenearreatoresooaratlarom a r
onatetok.
Mr.. Whymper does not indicate how
this precious polysyllable is to be pro
nounced, and we must leave our read
ers to exercise their own discretion up
on that point.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
In Sleep.

1t is said that the late,Mr. Sturgeon
had the bad habit of waiting until
late in the week to compose his SER
mon. One Saturday night, says Lon
don Tit-Bits, he shut himself into his
study, chose his text and began to
work out his ideas, but the wheels OF
thought drove so hard that he strove
in vain. The sermon would not
come.
Desparing of success that night, he
went to bed. On awakening, how
ever, he was confronted by the awful
ness OF the occasion, state of things
which only those can realize who have
been similarly situated. He had his
text, but not d line Of thought.
Church time was near, and in dispair
he appealed to his wife.
s'What is your text" asked she.
He told her, and she at once pro-
ceeded to put the'discourse before him
in all it's divisions of firstly, secondly,
and SO on.
you've hit it exactly" cried the
preacher in astonishment. "Where
did you get it,"
"Why," said she, "yon sat up in
bed, in the middle of the night, and
went through it yourself"
JAMES l. HAMILTON has been sentenced
to die by electricity at Sing Sing in the
week beginning Aug 20 for the murder OF
his wife.
In Livingstone, Ga, J. T. Stevens, a
wealthy merchant. was shot and killed by
his clerk, l.. c. Wilkinson. The latter was
fatally shot by Stevens. The latter was too
Intimate with Stevens wife.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
The OnIy One Ever Printed.

CAN YOU FIND THE WORD? There is n ;
inch display advertisement in this paper,
this week, which has no two words alike
except one word. The same is trne of each
new one appearing each week, from The
DR.. Harter Medicine Co. This house
places q Crescent" on everything they
make and publish. Look for It, send then
the name ofthe word and they will return
you BOOK, BEAUTIFUL LITHodRAPHs or SAM
PIES FREE
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
sure cure for Bad Bows.

An Armenian woman was arrested
at Angora few days ago charged
with having poisoned her son Artin. q
young man about 80 years OF age.
At the examination the woman made
full avowals, declaring that she had
taken the life OF Ter son because she
could no longer stand his misconduct.
The woman was afterward subjected
to a medical inspection, the physician
declaring that she was not suffering
from mental arrangement -Leyant
Herald.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
The Skill and Know edge

Essential to the production of the most per-
feet and popular laxative remedy known,
have enabled the California Fig Syrup Co.
to achieve a great success in the reputation
of its remedy Syrup Of Figs, as it is con-
coded to be the universal laxative. For sale
by all druggists.
Sad drowning accidents occur at Sleepy
Eye, MINI.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21

In the tolls of dy spepsia after imposing on the
stomach for years, how shall the sufferer restore
his much abused digestion? BY a resort to Hos
letters stomach Bitters, coupled with an aband-
Onment of eatables and drinkables calcuat ted to
Nothing like the Bitters for co nquering maleria.
bilious and kidney trouble, rheumatism and
liver disorder
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
Genulne.

1t is we'll for a dealer to know some
thing OF the nature and origin of the
articles in which he deals.
Ii a grocer in a Western city had
known more OF the science Of botany
he would hardly have put the follow
ing placard upon a quantity of maple
sugar which he exposed for sale:
GENUINE MAPLE SUGAR
FROM THE
PUREsT JUICE OF THE CANE.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21

Duluth men make sale of four hundred
million feet of standing timber-the largest
transfer of the kind ever made in the
Northwest
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21

For IMPURITIES OF THE BLOOD TAKE AL
lens Iron Tonic Bitters. Allgenuine bear
the signature off. P. Allen, Druggist, st.
Paul, Mimi.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21

The storm was the seVerost 81 the season,
and a lar "a amount Of water fell all through
this section,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21

Joseph L. Forepaugh, wealthy st
Paul man commits suicide,
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
Caught at Last

A Litchfield man and his son are killed
by foul air in an old we'll.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21

James McMullin & Co.'S big saw mill
Minneapolis, burns, Loss, SIS, GOO.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
Notary Public

Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Send for testimonials, free.
+, J. CHENEY L CO, Toledo, o.
RS- Sold by Druggists, TIC.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, ..

H
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he is TIT
senior partner OF the firm of F j. CHENEY & Co.
doing business in the City OF Toledo, County ant
State Aforesaid, and that said firm will pay tn,
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each ant
every case Of CATARRH that cannot be cured by
the use of HALLS CATARRH CURE
FRANK J. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A ID. 1886
~ A. w. GLEASON,
{srAr} Notary Public
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21

PUREsT JUICE OF THE CANE.
The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1892-07-21

Whereas. it appears from sworn testimony
that gigantic frauds are perpetrated upon the
grain growers of Minnesota under our present
system OF grain inspecting and warehousing
therefore,
Resolved, That we demand that the trans
portation companies shall provide suitable ship
ping and warehousing facilities at every station
on heir lines, also that the state shall erect
terminal elevators Mt Minneapolis, st. Paul and
Duluth for public storage oil grain,
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-01-27
Our New Rallroad.

Last night about thirteen graders in the employ of J. H. Ward, who has secured sub-contract from Barney Lantry & Sons on the north and south railroad of Arizona, left for Ash Fork, where q camp will at once be established and active work commenced. Before the Messrs. Lantry left the city they purchased from our wholesale merchants slp- plies amounting to several thous- ands of dollars, and to-day a car load of groceries and forage each, which were purchased from Gross, Black we'll & Co.,, and l.. E. Putney, were shipped to them at Ash Fork. The promoters of the new road, at the head of which is D. B. Robinson, formerly general manager of the Atlantic X Pacific, but now filling like position on the San Antonio X Aransas Pass road in Texas, have gone at business in the right way and the the road is an assured fact. 1t will almost cross the sister territory, that is for at least 150 miles from north to south, and will penetrate some of the wealthiest and most i'm portant mining camps. At Ash Fork, where the new road taps the Atlantic < Pacific, will spring up in a short time from a small, insignifi- cant village, as now, to bristling, active city of several thousand, and the trade of that section, augmented and greatly enlarged by the new en- terprise. will of necessity seek the markets of Albuquerque. Phenix, Prescott and other cities and towns of Arizona will also be benefited by the building of the north and south railroad. Albuquerque Citizen.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-01-27
A Rocking ssene.

PREscoTT, January 1s.-lCorres- pondence. l-0ne-fourth of a mile from my place of residence is a natu ral curiosity, in tho form of a rock ing stone, which is so nicely bal anced upon a granite foundation as to readily admit (by the application of the hand) of being oscillated to and fro, as 8 child would rock a era dle. But the most curious feature about the thing is key stone of harder material of about thirty pounds weight, which acts as full crum, and is placed so nearly under the center of gravity of the boulder as to suggest an intelligent force, as though it was placed there by a masters hand. This "plaything" is an oval, oblong mass of granite, measuring seven or eight feet through its longest diameter, and weighs perhaps ten tons. The rock ing stone with its fixtures is, of course, the result of the blind forces which have worn away the adjacent softer material and left this stone standing as remnant of the changes of the earth's surface.
 HI. o.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-01-27
Old People,.


 J. V. & is the only earxapArilla that old cs feeble people should take. e the mineral potash which is in every other sarssparilla that we know of. is under certain conditions known to bs smacisting. ]. V. s. on tho contrary Is purely vegetable and stimulates digestion and creates new blood. the very thing for old. delicate or broken down people. II builds them up and prolongs their livea A case in point;
 MrA Belcen sn estimable and elderly lady of uo Mason St. & F. was for months declining % fapidly e to seriously alarm her family. It got Q bed that she was finally afflicted with fainting spella She writes: swhile in that dangerous condition saw some of the testimonials con- cefning J.y. & and sent for . bottle. That marked the turning point Iregsined my lost flesh and strength and have not felt 90 well in years." That was two years ago and Mrs. Beiden is well and hearty to-day. and stfIl taking J. y.s.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-01-27

Terrific blizzard raging in the aaSf
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-01-27

Senator German, of Maryland, has
 been reelected.
 Cyrus w. Field is reported in a critical condition again.
 Justice Bradley, of the supreme court of the United States, is dead. The last issue of the Kansas City Sun has been suppressed. The pub lication was of the vilest kind.
 Admiral Walker, commanding the white squadron at Montevideo, has sailed with his fleet for Valparaiso.
 General Stanley, commanding the department of Texas, has wired the secretary of war that the Garza in surrection is ended.
 Walter A. Wood, well-known in ventor and manufacturer of harvest ing machines. died at his home at Hoosick Falls, New York, recently.
 Two men held up a Missouri Pa cific train at Lamar, Missouri. They were pursued and one of them kill cd and the other seriously, probably fatally, injured.
 Speaker Crisp is improving slowly. He is very weak, and it is not likely that he will be able to resume work before the week after next. His complete recovery is now thought to be simply a matter of time and pru- dence.
 A Los Angeles telegram of Jan, uary 2l, says: Pretty May Foster the teacher in the Chinese mission Sunday school, accomplished and fascinating brunette, the daughter of respectable parents, to-day mar ried Lii Ling by contract.
 Thousands of cattle are slowly starving to death in the hills of Idaho. Loss to stock raisers will be tremendous. Every blade of grass upon the ranges is under from twenty-two to sixty 1 inches of snow. The present winter | has not been equaled in severity | since 1870.
 A Fair Haven, Washington, tele- gram says: George Sleucer, a we'll known Lummi Indian, who was ar 'ested yesterday on suspicion of killing Moses Yonkins on Wednes- lay, made desperate attempt to- murder Shriff DeLorimer, and sue ,eeded in making his escape. The herif took Sleucer out to the cene of the Yonkins murder to jew the ground and endeavor to lraw out an admission of his guilt. The Indian enticed the sheriff to he edge of a bluff overlooking the ay, and seventy-ive feet high, to how him tracks. As the sheriff ap- reached the edge the Indian push d him over the precipice, The leriff caught hold of a shrub and wed his life, but the Indian es- sped.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-01-27
The committee on machine

The committee on machine com position appointed last winter by the American Newspaper Publish CTS association presented a volum- inous report to the executive com mittee of the association in session last Tuesday in New York. It re- ports that machine composition is absolutely practicable and very much cheaper than hand compost. tion. As between type-setting and type-cssting machines the later is by far the moro preferable for ordinary work.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-01-27

Garza is the editor of Fl later nacional, published at Politico Blanco. A recent issue of the paper speaks very highly of Mir. Garza and his attempt at revolution.
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-01-27
WYATT MODERN TARIFF REFORM" Is-
 cLEvELAND's POLICY,

"The radical reduction of the du- ties imposed upon raw material used in manufactures or its free inn tation is, of course, an important factor in any effort to reduce the price of these necessaries.-From President Cleveland's Free Trade Message.