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Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-30

An admission fee of 25 cents is now charged visitors to the Worlds Fair grounds. As many as lOO,0 900 people have visited the grounds in single day lately. It is estimated that the number of psol le who will from now nntil May 1, 1893, visit the grounds will average 10000 daily. In the 375 days before the opening day this would give the exposition company Q revenue of S947, 300.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-30

The superintendent of the press ser vice of the Western Union says that ten years ago that company handled in a year a total of 2S, 900, GOO words oi special dispatches to newspapers, near ly all of them for fifty daily papers, while last year an aggregate of 26O, 900, . 900 were sent to more than 800 news papers, and there IS no knowing when this service will stop growing.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-30
How tho Butterny k Protected.

Until lately it was not recognized that the brilliant coloriAg on the wings of some kinds of butterflies was a bitter tasting pigment, which to a certain extent protects those species from being eaten by their foes Frogs will try to eat sulphur butterflies, and after tasting them will promptly reject them The brilliant colors may be produced in order to advertise the nauseous taste, as well as to aid the butterfly in at tracting a mate Of it's own kind. We may be equally ignorant of the latent social powers of birds London Standard
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-30
Rsrsaues of England and tn, United sta.,..

The Telegraph has been asked to ex- plain the sources from which the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland derives it's revenue. The principal sources are nine in number, and m 1890 they yielded in round numbers the following income: Customs, S1O0,- 900, 900; excise, Sl2O, ,OOO, GOO: stamps. S65, GOO, 900; income aud property tax. $50, 900, 900; post office, S45, 0O0, OOO; telegraph, SlO, 1000, 900; miscellaneous, including land tax, house duty, crown lands, etc, S45, 900, 900; total, S45o,- 100000 The customs are collected chiefly from tobacco, which furnishes nearly half; tea which yioldB little over fifth, and spirits, which yield nearly all the remainder, about s2, 900, 900 being made up from few chemi- calls, certain fruits and cocoa. In all nineteen articles are named in the Brit ish customs tariff About 75 per cent of the customs revenue being paid by the consumers of beer, spirits and to- bacco, it is clear that the Englishman who dOes rot drink beer or spirits or smoke IS practically exempt from GUS toms taxation, save what he pays upon his tea, It will be observed that near ly half of the whole revenue is collected either from duties on spirits, beer and tobacco, or excise on beer and spirits It was this fact that gave point to the criticism of financial statement made few years ago, wherein the chancellor of the sxchequer congratulated the country upon a very large surplus The opposition, pointing ont that the suplus was due to a great increase in excise, dubbed the statement 'the drunken budget The total revenue averages about S12 per head of the population, of which the customs revs. nus iS $2. D per head.
 A comparison of these amounts with the revenue of this country may be in- testing. We derived from customs last year s2l9, 622, ,2O5, from internal reve- nue sl45, 9S6, 24O, from sales of public lands S4, 4,O29, 535, from miscellaneous sources S23, ,374, 457, a total of S392.- 6l2,447. This, on an estimated popu- lation of 65, 900, 900, was little over S6 per head, or half the per capita tax ation in England for national purposes, of which amount about S3 40 per head IS derived from the customs. A com parison of national taxation between the two countries Is not of much ser vice unless in comparing it we keep in mind the fact that there is nothing in Great Britain and Ireland correspond ing to our State taxes, which amount to about sl35, ,OOO, 900 year. These swell the per capita taxation in this country to sS, as compared with SIP in the United Kingdoul, disregarding in both cases the county and municipal charges. For State purposes we pay in direct tax equal to S2Os a head; in the United Kingdom the direct tax for State purposes is equal to S2.75 head. Statisti0s are not available for careful comparison of She municipal and county taxation of the two coun- tries, there being so great a divergence between the systems of local govern ment that it is almost impossible to ind common basis for comparison. so3itle Te'ograrh
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-30

A City of Mexico dispatch says; The decline in the price of silver is working serious iuiury to business generally. Foreign merchants in Mexico and Cen tral America are carrying ou an active crusade in opposition to the proposed reciprocity arrangement with the Uni ted States.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-30
Tbp l,rieat. B,r,,.

The majority of sailors on the At lantic ocean religiously believe that the frigatc bird can start at daybreals with the trade winds from the coast of Africa and roost the same night upon the American coast. Oruitholo- gists say that under favorable condi. tions the frigate bird will make goo miles an hour St Louis Republic.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-30

The largest number of patents, in proportion to population, are taken out by the people of Connecticut, among whom, in curious confirmation of their proyerbial shrewdness in devising Yankee notions, one citizen in every seven hundred Is an inventor.
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-30

President Eliot of Harvard, sticks to the Mormops, and writes to the Boston Journal that the United States Govern .ment is violating toward them "ono of the most fundamental and precious principles of American liberty"
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-30

Be successful, if you want your as- ssrtions to be regarded as truths The statements of the unsuccessful man are only regarded as excuses,
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-30

The National Silver Committee has issued call for bi-metalic conven- tion to meet in Washington May 26th,
Arizona silver belt., 1892-04-30

Bergen. Norway, boasts a paper church large enough to seat l0uo persons The building is rendered waterproof by solution of quick
 lime, curdled milk and whites of
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
PERSECuTED HIS BARBER.
lie Wanted n Dollars Worth of SurseI
With Each Shave.


With Each Shave.
"Hum!" said the irritated barber.
cts easy enough to kick Didn't /
slice all the hair off your face? What
more do you expect for fifteen cents?"
"The stubble has been removed" re-
monstrated the customer, but with it
a large amount of my cuticle."
well, what of it?" demanded the
barber. Didn't dab alum on the cash
in your carp"
''You did," the exacting customer
confessed, but you cut the tip off my
nose"
''And I pasted it on with court
plaster"
"True enough, but you severed one of
my eyebrows and lost it on the floor.
81 kept the razor out of your eye,
didn't l."
"You did"
"And only gashed your neck in four
places?"
quite right"
''I'm afraid you're a kicker. My ad-
vice to you is to grow beard or buy n
safety razor and not come around in
sulting union BARRIERS You're one Of
those fellows that want dollars worth
of surgery with each shave and then
kick because you weren't chloroformed." "
| N. Y. Herald.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
THE SIOUX.
An Old Indian Fighter Says They Fear
Neither Man Nor Devil.

An Old Indian Fighter Says They Fear
Neither Man Nor Devil.
81 have had good many scrimmages
with Indians of various tribes, but the
widest and woolliest of the whole cop
per-colored breed are the Sioux" said
Mai. Dan Allen, one of the original
'pathfinders" of the traclSless west.
"Most Indians are born sneaks and
towards, who do their fighting from
cover, but the Sioux fear neither God,
man nor the devil and would fight Ma
poleons old guard in an open field. A
bluff won't work on them worth cent,
and when they tackle you you can just
make up your mind to do some killing
or lose your scalp.
81 was out in the southwestern part
of what is now South Dakota q few
years ago with Il hunting party, when
we encountered lot of bucks on the
warpath. There We're twenty of them,
while my party only numbered half a
dozen. But the redskins had the old
fashioned muzzle-loaders, while we
were armed with Winchesters. There
wasn't rock or tree for miles, and we
had to Just stand up to the rack and
take our fodder. One of the party was
mining engineer who had been
prospecting for pay rock and had with
him several pounds of dynamite and an
electric battery. He was q Yankee,
one of those quick witted people that
| would find way out of perdition
| though all Miltons terrors guarded the
| exit. He concealed the explosive in the
grass, attached his wire, and we re-
| treated slowly about 400 yards and
| stopped The redskins didn't waste any
time maneuvering; they came and saw
and expected to conquer in short order.
On they came, straight as the crow flies,
and we lay down in the grass with rifles
cooked. / tell you il was an interesting
moment for u.s. If the battery failed tc
do its duty we were gone to man
But it didn't The "blue-belly' hat
dropped his hat near his Vesuvius Sc
that he could tell just when to touch
the button. AS the foremost horse
reached the hat he turned on the cur
rent There was an explosion tina
made the very groand reel, and the All
for forty rods was full of horse hesl
and fragments of noble red men, sad
dies and rifles, blankets and bucl1skin
'Now's our time, boys. 1 called, and W.
ran forward and began pumping tn
lead into the terrified savages as fast n
we could pull trigger. The remnan
of the party took fight, and am know
among the Sioux to this day as tn
thunder maker The title does not be
long to me, but it is mighty good capita
out in their country. st Louis Globe
|
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
puNcENr PARAGRAPHS.

1t often happens that a dog with
out teeth barlts the most Rams Horn.
Many "A wise man has picked up
good suggestion where some fool
dropped it t-Galveston News
When a man is not doing well he
imagines that he could do better il he
could move and pay more rent.-Atchi.
son Globe.
lis he quiclS-tempered?" "Quick'
tempered? Why, his temper breaks
three records every day."-Buffalo Ex'
press.
"a sneeze amt got much business
enterprise" said Tommy; 'every ones
got to stutter in the nose n minute fore
it goes off."-Boston Courier.
"A tie game may show the parties
are we'll matched when it comes to
baseball, but it doesn't always show 1t
in marriage. e.--Philadelphia Times
--He--"I never can understand you;
but suppose that's natural" She
"WhyP" He-"Well, suppose its inn
possible for a pretty girl to be plain. -
N. Y Press.
Young Mrs. Fitts-"Are these pool
rooms some sort of bathing arrange
ment, dearP' Mr.. Fitts-"No o they only
clean fellows pockets. s."-Indianapolis
Journal.
-Gus-'Tt don't pay to get tight,
Jim" Jim--"No; / wish it did. I'd
have made enough money last night to
get tight on again. Smith, Gray &c
CO. IS Monthly.
-"Did you ever go TO a military
ballP" asked a lisping maid of one
legged veteran. mo, my DEAR"
growled the old soldier, 81 once had
military ball come to me."-Tit-Bits.
No Yell; No Trade.-First Office
Boy-"That dentist in Room 4s don't
seem to do much business" Second
Office Boy-"Why?' First Office Boy
81 never hear anybody yelling in there"
Yankee Blade.
in England.-Mrs. T-'Didn't
hear you call your husband Harvest
Moon?" Mrs. Kofiie-"Yes." Mrs T.
-"What do you call him that for?''
Mrs. Koffie-"Because he was ten nights
full in September. detroit Free Press.
-"Did you read in the paper" said
the mikman, "about person who put
paris green in family's milk?'
Maybe" said the cook, they got tired
of seein' their milk blue. Washington
Star.
Brother Bylins is eloquent in
prayer" said one member of the con-
gregation to another, but don't think
he is very liberal when the contribution
box passes" mo; his offerings to the
Lord are confined almost entirely to
suggestions"
Does the public at large know that
! in the Hub there is a club called the
Wintergreen, of women, all confessedly
cover thirty?" (Here let it be said in
parentheses that the members ere
largely women over siXty.l Boston
Post
why didn't you congratulate
2 young Jenkins on his marriage?" 81
could not conscientiously do that
A don't know his wife" "Well, you
: might have wished her JOY" 81 could
not reasonably do that do know Jen
l1ins. IN. Y. Herald.
Young Mr.. Southside - "Hullo
d Uncle Reuben. You got in town last
night hear Didn't blow the gas out
: at the hotel, did you?" Uncle Reuben
e mo, nevvy, I'm no hayseed, 1 reckon
=, l left the blame gas burnin'. n'."-ChicagC
r News Record.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
Low WHITES oE kEnrucxN.
The Inhnbitants OF the Cumberland Moau-
tnfns at Home.

The Inhabitants OF the Cumberland MoNu-
taIns at Home.
In Mr.. James Lane Aliens interest
ing book, "The Blue-Grass Region of
Kentucky" one chapter is devoted to
the inhabitants of the Cumberland
mountains. They are strictly poor, for
the most part AS the author expresses
it, "They appear TO have no sense of ac-
emulation" "In some regions the
great problem of life is to raise two
dollars and half during the year for
county taxes" Agricultural methods
are primitive. The plow is a bull
tongue"--little more than a sharpened
stick with a metal rim. Formerly the
digging of Sang" ginseng, was one OF
the principal occupations. Much of 1t
was shipped TO China. The crop is now
nearly exhausted, although in some Of
the wilder regions whole families may
still be seen ''out sangin'."
The people took it into the towns in
bags selling it at a dollar and ten
cents-perhaps dollar and a half-a
pound. This was mainly the labor of
work barefooted, amid briars and chest
nut burs, copperheads and rattlesnakes.
Indeed, the women prefer to go bare
| footed, finding shoes trouble and con
straint.
1t was sad day for the people when
the sang" grew scarce. A few years
| ago one of the counties was nearly de-
| populated in consequence of great ex-
odus into Arkansas, whence had come
the news that "sang" was plentiful.
The dwellings-often mere cabins
with single room-are built of rough
hewn logs, chinlied or daubed, though
not always. One mountaineer called
into court to testify as to the household
goods of defendant neighbor, gave ir
as the inventory: A string of pumpkins
a skillet without handle, and "a wilc
Bill" A wild Bill is a bed made by
boring auger-holes in a log, driving
sticks into these, and overlaying then
with hickory bark and sedge-grass-;
favorite couch.
The low chimneys, made usually o
laths daubed, are so low that the say
ing, inelegant but true, is current, tina
you may sit by the fire inside and spi
out over the top. The cracks in tn
walls are often large enough to give in
gress and egress tochild or dog.
Naturally there is little desire TO
education. The mountain schools hav
sometimes less than half dozen pupil
for the few months they are in session
A gentleman who wanted coal banl
opened, engaged for the work ma
passing along the road. Some days late
he learned that his workman was
school-teacher who in consideration c
the seventy-five cents day, had di:
missed his academy.
: Many of the people, alilred by rumor
from the west, have migrated thithel
but nearly all come back, from love {
, the mountains and indisposition to COP
with the rush and vigor and enterpris
I of frontier life Theirs they say, is
/ good lazy mans home. Con
| DaniOn
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
TWO SETS OF MANNERS.
That Put on for Company Should be Used
All the Time.

All the time.
If we only had on our company man
ners all the time, how delightful we
would be, for, deny it though we may,
we certainly have one set OF ways for
everyday use and another when strang-
ers are present The frown fades into
a smile when our next door neighbor
suddenly enters during a heated argu-
ment. The features that we set in
obstinate and unbending resolution re-
lax before the eyes of the casual caller,
and the voice, snappish and sharp, be-
comes tuneful and lovely when out
siders appear upon the domestic hori-
zon. How well child understands
this universal hypocrisy and beseeches
for favors in the presence of others,
knowing full well no reproof or curt re-
fusal will take place at such a time,
while the same knowing small one
would not dare to ask for cake or a
penny if mamma did not have company
in the parlor.
Do we not, we children of larger
growth, asks the Philadelphia Times
know of pleasant words and endearing
terms used only between husband anc
wife when they wish to impress out
siders with the felicity of the relation!
which assume very different phase a!
soon as the door closes and there is nj
one around to see the averted gaze ant
| Indifferent air which mark their natura
behavior? Why can't we wear our com
pany manners with our everyday gowns
instead of hanging them away out o
sight only to be brought forth on occa
sions of ceremony along with our bes
bib and tucker?
Wouldn't lie be richer and sweeter i
more of the little courtesies were showl
when there are no eyes to behold then
save those that are sure to brighten a
the unusual demonstration? Is ther
anyone in the world as sweet and tru
and devoted as the home folks, yet ar
there any in the whole wide worl
treated with the scant courtesy thes
dear ones receive? Bring the compan
manners into the intimacies of hom
life and see how much brighter an
sweeter will seem the world at larg
for the knowledge that you are givin
| your best to those who deserve t mos.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
oHlLpHoop,s DAYS.


i've travelled the earth from pole to pole,
From desert sands TO the oceans roll;
But far und near. where'er roam,
find no place like my ohildhood's home.
My bedroom under the roof so high,
Where the swallows built meath the caves
close by,
And It's store Of treasures to boyhood dear
The big wasp's nest and the beetles queer,
The chair made out OF n drygoods box,
And snugly lined with the skin Of the fox
shot in the chicken yard one night
And that row of books-a feast to the sight
From Mother Goose and Old Dog Tray
10 Robinson Crusoe cast away
And the cows down under the barnyard shed
Patiently waiting for me-to be fed
And the river lined with the birches tall.
Where we sailed our raft to an island small
Where grand discoveries Oft were made
And plans for future greatness laid;
nBut turn my thoughts with long-drawn
sigh
'Good.by, old home-good-byl good-byl
I've Travelled the earth from pole to pole,
From desert sands TO tho oceans roll;
But far and near, where'er 1 roam,
find no place like my ohidhoods home.
Clifton S. Wady, in Golden Days.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
BIRD SUPERSTITION.
The Cuckoo Recognized as an Author
on the Future.

The Cuckoo Recognized as an Authority
on the Future.
In Wright's selection of Latin stories
there is an account of woman de-
scribed as lying on her deathb d, when
priest that she might confess her sins,
to whom her mother replied: "Why? If
am ill to-day, tomorrow or next day l
shall be we'll" But the daughter, see
ing she became worse, brought in sew
eral of her neighbors, who urged the
same thing, to whom she said ''What
do you talk about? or what do you fear?
| shall not die these twelve years;
nave heard the cuckoo who told me so. "
At length she became speechless and
was at the point of death.
Then her daughter sent for the
priest, who came, bringing what
what was necessary to perform the last
duties, and approaching her, he asked
If she had anything to confess? All
she said was "Kuckuc, "(cucl1oo.) Again
the priest offered her the sacrament
and asked her if she believed the Lord
was her Saviour, and she replied
"Kuckuc," so the priest went away, and
shortly afterward she died.
| In celebrated French romance OF
the thirteenth century, published by
Neon, NJ. Renart and his wife hear
the cuclxoos notes early in the morning
as they lie awake, talking and planning
what they will do and be in the future
that lies before them. M. Renart thinks
he would like to know how many years
will be given him in which to enjoy life,
so he implore the cuckoo to tell him
Cuckoo, tell me truth, how many years
have to live? l wish very much tc
know, cuckoo" The cuckoo answered.
promptly thirteen times. Then NJ
| Renart turns to his wife and embraces
her. "Did you hear?" he asks "Sir,
said Nine. Emengart, being a dutifu
wife, and very respectful to her lord an'
master, 'Sir, ! heard gladly, and de
mand YOU will kiss me-" Dame" saiC
he "I am quite,rejoiced. AL the Yea
Round.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1892-11-12
His Dog retrieved the Bomb.

A rather reckless Biddef I'd (Me.)
man, with no respect for law or gospel,
is said to have devised a scheme for
catching trout by the Wholesale, which
did not work as well as he thought. He
thought that a bomb exploded in the
brook would bring all the fish in it to
the surface, so that he would only have
to pick them up. He provided himself
with bomb powerful enough to blast
a schooner out of water and went to Is
local brook in which there were said to
be lots of trout. He fixed the fuse, ig-
nited it, and threw the bomb . into the
brook. AS he did so his dog jumped in
after it, seized it in his mouth, got back
TO shore, and started after his master,
who was Logging it across the field as
fast as he could in the realization of his
danger. The man had the good luck to
get over fence, which bothered the
dog, and moment later, hearing an
explosion, he looked around to see his
dog going abyward. journal.