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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-10-27
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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1892-10-27
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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

Having two American friends stop
ping with us, we brought nice Welsh
girl from Dolgelly one evening to sing
to them the national songs. Miss Madge
Roberts, a sweet, pretty young lady and
excellent singer, went over an immense
repertory of Welsh music, and Miss s.,
who is very scientific musician, made
many remarks on the peculiarities of
the Welsh scale, etc. Suddenly she ex-
claimed: 81 cannot think what music
it is that know that these Welsh tunes
so much resemble. Stay, it is Basquev'
I and she proceeded to hum three or four
typical Basque songs. Miss Roberts
and all of us instantly recognized the
similarity of these with the Welsh, es-
pecially the Oldest Welsh, songs which
she had been singing.
Miss S. was very much surprised when
| told her that Professor Boyd Dawkins
believed in the original identity of the
Basque and pre-Celtic Welsh, theory
of which she was quite ignorant, so that
her testimony to the similarity of the
national music was entirely spontaneous.
am not musical, and my opinion is
of no value, but there does appear to me
to be in the old Welsh music, as in a
great deal of the Welsh character, dis
tinctly non-Aryan spritelike character
irreducible to the order so dear to the
, Saxon soul. The music goes on for q
few bars with even, exaggerated EN-
phasis on time as in a soldiers march
then suddenly, as if tired Of it, bounds
off among the bushes, hop, skip ant
jump and never comes backl-Londoi
+. Academy
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

A useful patrol wagon has been de-
vised for electric railroaders. 1t is con-
structed very much like police wagon,
but has a square tower rising out Of it
which is mounted by a ladder. The
tower is raised or lowered by means Of a
crank and pulley, and when elevated to
its full extent it is fifteen feet high. The
consequence is that the lineman can
drive under the wire to be repaired and
be Immediately placed by the raising of
the tower on a level with his work. The
patrol wagon is great improvement on
the old method of repairing, without its
risks.-Exchange
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

The tomb of Saint Ehenne de Muret,
canonized in 1888, in the Abbey Of
Grandmond, was so great an offender
on account of the number Of miracles
that the religious were completely worn
out by the rush of votaries. The prior
devised, however, a very simple but eff
fective remedy for this grievance. Be-
taking himself to the tomb, he spake as
follows: Servant of God, you preached
to us the delights of solitude and yet
you assemble in our retreat as many
people as if it were a market or fair.
We are sufficiently persuaded Of your
sanctity not to be curious about your
miracles. If, then, you will not leave
off working them, we protest and declare
on high, in virtue of the obedience we
have promised you, that we will I'M
earth your bones and throw them into
the river" AS might be expected, the
threat was sufficient, and Saint Etienne
de Muret did no more miracles.-All the
Year Round.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

Jacques Jasmin, a barber and poet or
France, began life in extreme poverty.
That the pathetic events of such child
hood must have sunk into his soul may
be guessed from one incident which, in
after years, he set down in his "Recol-
lections." His grandfather, when too
old and infirm to solicit aims quietly
made arrangements to be carried to an
almshouse in order that he might no
longer burden the family. Jasmin says:
| was then ten years old. | was play
ing in the square with my companions,
glrded with wooden sword, and was
king, but suddenly dreadful spectacle
disturbed my royalty. L saw an old
man in an armchair borne along by sew
eral persons Fhe bearers approached,
and | recognized my own grandfather
In my grief saw only him.
ran up to him in tears, threw myself
on his neck and kissed him. He re-
turned my embrace and wept.
"Oh, grandfather" said |, "where are
you going? Why are you leaving our
homer"
"My child" said he, Il am going to
the almshouse, where all the Jasmins
die"
He again embraced me, closed his
eyes and was carried away. We fol
/ lowed him for some time under the
trees, and then | abandoned my play
and returned home, full of sorrow.
In five days the dear old man quietly
breathed his last His wallet was hung
up ON its usual nail in the room, but i
was never used again. One of the bread
winners had departed, and the family
was poorer than ever. On that Mon
day | knew and felt for the first tint
that we were very poor Fortune CAM
to me years after, but for some Of thos
loved she came too late.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03
Vegetable Hedgehogs.

Cactuses are the hedgehogs of the
vegetable world their motto is memo
me impune lacessit." Many a time in the
West Indies have pushed my hand for
a second into bit of tangled bush, as
the negroes call it, to seize some rare
flower or some beautiful insect and been
punished for twenty-four hours after
ward by the stings of the almost invisi-
BILE and glasslike little cactus needles
The reason for this bellicose disposition
on the part of the cactuses is tolerably
easy one to guess. Fodder is rare in the
desert. The starving herbivores that
find themselves from time TO time be-
lated on the confines of such thirsty re-
gions would seize with avidity upon any
succulent plant which offered them food
and drink at once in their last extremity.
In the ceaseless war between herbi'
wore and plant, which is waged every
day and all day long the whole world
over with far greater persistence than
the war between carnivore and prey
only those species of plant can survive
in such exposed situations which harper
to develop spines, thorns or prickles al
a means of defense against the mouths
of hungry and desperate assailants.-
Grant Allen in Macmillan's Magazine.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03
THE LAST DECADE.

When murky clouds that pail a summer day
Do ere its close, dissolve and drift away.
What joyous smiles break DER the sunlit plain,
How stirs the dormant pulse of life againl
And in the afterglow Of fading light
There breathes promise of a morrow bright
So at this century's eventde-whose years
kVain he pes have wrought to merge in darken-
isg fears
Doth man rejoice; for from rifted west
Assuring rays beam cross his weary quest,
Dull, leaden skies now change to gladdening
hues;
The waiting heart its cherished song renews;
That song divinel-not less its power than
when
Twas first heard-"Peace on earth, good Will
to men,"
Gilbert S. Fletcher in New Nation.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

A woman whose eyesight has passed
almost beyond the failing point finds
such relief in using the ridged tablets
upon which paper is laid that she says
all nearly blind persons should do like
wise. "They have made letter writing
a pleasure, she says, where before it
was pain. put pin in where leave
off, and can begin right again after
any interruption.-New York Times
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03
The Father Of Modern Jurisprudence.

Inc o.
Louis TX was practically the founder
of modern jurisprudence. About the
year 1241 he noticed the abuses which
were caused in France by men taking
into their own hands the work of re-
dressing their own wrongs, and pub
lished a proclamation establishing the
quarantine du roi. This forbade private
redress for wrongs for the space of forty
days after the injury was committed.
During that time the injured person
must seek redress and satisfaction in the
kings court, and if his wrong were not
righted at the end Of forty days he
might then take its rectification into his
own hands.
This proclamation made justice speedy
and tolerably sure, although of course
its administration was in a rough and
ready way, and unless the records are at
fault some law Of this kind prevailed in
Louisiana at the time when Missouri
was a part of the French kings posses
ns.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

Seventeen years ago young man in
Chicago found a pocketbook containing
several thousand dollars. Now, having
made nearly million dollars clear from
this find, he advertises for the loser and
expresses his willingness to pay for the
pocketbook and restore the amount OF
the contents. philadelphia Ledger
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03
sh.k..peare.s Autograph worth sIoo. 900

THE most valuable autograph in the
world is that of Shakespeare" said a
dealer. There are only three genuine
autographs of Shakespeare in existence,
and those are altogether out of the mar
ket. Bring me genuine Shakespeare
and I'll undertake to pay you $4,000,
yes, 800 600, for it within a year. 1t
might not sell Immediately for a very
large sum, but it would be sure to do 50
as soon as collectors were satisfied as to
its genuineness and became properly ex-
cited about it."-Collector.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03
When You Are in Doubt About Diamond.

Put your finger behind the stone and
look at it through the diamond as
through a magnifying glass. II the
stone is genuine you will be unable to
distinguish the grain of the skin, but
with false stone this will be plainly
visible. Furthermore, looking through
real diamond the setting is never visi-
BILE, whereas it is with false stone
New York Herald.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03
How New York APPEAR to a Foreigner.

Ofthe ugliness, confusedness and shah
biness of New York nothing new can be
said; but full justice is done to the Cen
trail park, which in another generation
will be the most beautiful public resort
in the world 1t would, however, be al
together unfair to judge of America by
New York; no other town in the Union
can vie with it in dirt, Inconvenience
and meanness of appearance.-London
Spectator.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

Poet-They tell me I've got TO die.
Editor (weeping-Yes, John.
Poet-We can't take anything with us
into the next world, can WEI
Edi.or-No, John.
Poet Csadly|-Then I'll have to leave
all that unpublished MSi
Editor = Don't worry about that,
John, I'll see that it's buried with you.
Kate Fields Washington.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

The officers OF the Bear tried to make
a net of an arctic cub bear which they
had caught. 1t would brook no famil-
iarity Of any kind, but would walk up
and down the deck, looking straight
ahead and growing and gnawing at
everything. New York News.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

In taking down the stove, if any SCOT
should fall upon the carpet or rug
cover quickly with dry salt before
sweeping, and not a mark will be left
New York Journal
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

An acre planted with sunhowers yields
1000 pounds of seeds, from which $50
pounds Of oil may be obtained. Ten
million quarts of this oil is produced by
Russian mills annually.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

The Hindoo makes his toes work at
the loom, using them in his weaving OPP
erations with almost az much dexterity
as he does his fingers.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

Very striking to stranger is the
Englishmans fashion Of covering his
face with his tall hat as soon az he has
taken his seat in his pew in church.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

A race Of wild dogs is said to exist in
Newfoundland, keeping near the coast
and subsisting on what the sea casts to
the shore.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

A white headed vulture which was
caught in i7Oo died in the aviary at
Schonbrun, near Vienna, in 1924.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

Being impermeable to air. newspapers
form excellent envelopes for vessels con-
tanning ice and fresh liquors.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-05-03

4 The Largest Safest Harbor the Pacific Coast
@H The Area of adjacent Agricultural Land HILL
Hi The Magnificent Forests of Timber in the Vorlo M
%I The Finest Natural ToWnste and Water Front HILL
4 Immense Veins of the Best Coal in the West N~
H Mountains of First-cass Iron Ore NaI
N4 Silver, Lead and Gold Ores U@
of Sandstone for Building N4i
HILL Lime in Immense Quantities III
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-08
An Attractive Power.

Professor Snithe was once featuring
in a provincial town on natural philOSo-
ply, and in the course of his expert
ments he introduced a most powerful
magnet, with which he attracted 4
FLOCK Of steel from a distance of two
feet.
Can any of you conceive a greater
attractive power?" demanded the lectur-
er, with an air of triumph
Yes. sir; 1 cam" answered a voice
from the audience.
Not a natural terrestrial object?"
Yes, indeed, sir
The lecturer. somewhat nettled, chal-
Ienged the man who had spoken to
name the article.
Then up rose old Timothy Tinkle.
Said he: Il will give you the facts.
professor, and you can judge for your
self. When I was young man there
was a little piece O natural lagnet,
done up in calico and dimity, as was
called Betsy Marian. She could draw
ME fourteen miles every Sunday, over
plowed land, just as natural as you'd sit
down to your breakfast. There wasn't
nc resistin' her. That ere magnet O.
yourn is pretty good, but it isn't anyth-
ing to Betsy Marian" Selected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-08
How We Fall Asleep.

Scientific investigators assert that in
beginning to sleep the senses do not
unitedly fall into Slumber, but drop off
one after another. The sight ceases i'll
consequence of the protection of the
eyelids to receive impressions first, while
all other senses preserve their SenSi-
bility entire. The sense of taste is the
next which loses its susceptibility to i'm
preston, and the sense Of smelling. The
hearing is next in order, and last of all
comes the sense of touch. Furthermore,
the senses are brought to sleep with
different degrees of profOundness. The
sense Of touch sleeps the most lightly
and is the most easily awakened; the
next is the sight, and the taste and
circumstance deserves notice; certain
muscles and parts of the body begin to
sleep before others. Sleep COM
mences at the eXtremities, beginning
with the feet and legs and creeping
toward the center of nervous action,
explains the American Analyst The
necessity of keeping the feet warm and
perfectly still as preliminary of sleep
is well known. From these eXplana-
tons it will not appear surprising that
there should be an imperfect kind #
mental action which produces the phe-
nomena of dreaming.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-08
SAVED BY A KITTEN.
Only Poor, yellow Pussy, but it kept
Leroir from Suicide

Only Poor, yellow Pussy, but it Kept
Lemon from Suicide.
Short Stories; In the atelier of GER
tain French paper there seems to be
I congress of yellow cats, or, rather the
same cat in portraits innumerable 4
pair of him crown, like an aTTnOral bear
ing, the doorway; he plays with falling
petals Of tea roses; he sleeps while a
sparrow eyes him as6ance; he sits, grave
as a sphinx; even Il procession of him
forms the fTieZe Of the chimney piece,
and he peeps between purple and gol-
den pansies On the Sevres tea service in
the corner cOnSecrated to Madame.
Eight years ago Maurice LenOir dWeIB
in garnet, earning his bread by copying
pictures, nourishing his soul with dreams
Of q great classic canvas of his own.
| Needless to recount the disillusions, pti-
yatiOns, rebuffS or the nervous reac-
! tons of the days when he received a
few francs. The unrelieved pressure of
poverty, the unremitting blows of i'll
| luck-tap, tap, tap, like q PAYERS mallet
became upbearable. The thin blood Of
1
, creating visions of suicide.
One evening he bought poison. Re
! entering his room something brushed
past his feet. He lighted a candle and
began to write a few lines, merely to
save trouble at the inquest. Suddenly
there sprang upon the table a little vel
low kitten; it rubbed caressingly against
TNJviI ,f+ he
surplus nine-fold lives of nObOdy's cat
1t was thin and faInished, its wet fur
frayed by the jaws of some dog.
Zone may be tired Of life" said
Maurice, but one does not leave a
guest hungry"
With bred and milk, all he had, he fed
the kitten; then warmed it within the
breast of his coat, where it caressed
with it's tongue the hand that held it,
then pu1red itself to sleep.
Maurice reflected: Suicide is the ref
uge of one who has no longer hopes,
ties of affection or responsibilities. In
receiving this kitten / have assumed q
duty. To place this little creature for
warmth upon my heart, and then turn
that warmth to ice would be betrayal
At least I will live until tomorrow"
In the morning the little cat appeared
so pretty Maurice painted, and was able
to sell, its portrait. Another was Or
dered, and another
M. Lenoir's pussies became the fash
ion. He deferred his dream of classic
canvas and painted only cats, in all pos
lures and colors, yellow, black, white.
gray, and tabby. He studied cats; he
OWNED, under their masks or drowsin-
ess or caprice, the subtle charm and
wisdom adored in old Egypt
The yellow kitten that saved his life
also made his fortune. And M. LenOir
proved not ungrateful; the yellow cat,
now patriarch of tribe, has his cushion
and his cup in the atelier, and wears a
golden collar inscribed, ITO My Bene-
factor"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-08
story of one black Friday in his exist

story of one black Friday in his exist
ence:
It's a cold world, after ALL" he said:
sometimes we're up and sometimes
down. The downest time l ever had
was back in the I0'S in Mexico. The
Peruvian was was in progress and gold
was out Of sight or only seen at a big
premium. My mania for speculation
took possession of me, and with the
remnant of Il fortune Of S21, 900, l invest
ed IN English and American gold. was
IN Mexico at the time, and intended
reaching South America with my treas
ure by the way of Panama. Travel
through Mexico to the frontier on burros
i distance of some hundreds of miles
with SD, 000,is neither safe nor DIeasant
Every bush in Mexico contains not an
officer for conscience TO fear. but 4 rob
Der. I was intimately acquainted with
President Diaz at that time, and on n
representation to him of my enternrise
and my fears for the salty of my cash.
he provided me with an escort of twen,s
one soldiers and an officer. They sun
posed the pannierS strapped to one lit
tie donkey contained nothing more than
wardrobe.
Nina. Hermann was in special charge
Of the donkey with the valuable bag
gage, and her Instructions were to watch
it as she would her chances for heaven.
We camped each night and joumeyed
by day, making one or two daily rests
for refreshments. My hopes of untold
SO
wealth during the journey were as high
as the Rocky mountains. and I could
scarcely contain my spirits Everything
went on well until we had nearly reach
ed Central America, when one day the
animal with the treasury was missed
Nine. Hermann forgot him during our
all fresco lunch, and he had scampered
off with the treasury. The cold dew
sparzles on my forehead yet when
recall that day. My heart stood still
AS for Nine. Hermann, she just tainted
nothing more. [ had to tell my secret
to the guard, and everyone started out
into the wilds of Mexico in search of
the lost donkey. Hours passed and no
tidings came of the object sought. How
l thought of Joshua and wished, like
him, l could have prolonged the day.
Then came the harassing doubts-may
be one of the Mexican soldiers would
find the donkey and forget to come back
with him and his burden. At last,
toward dark, ten miles away, the don
key was found grazing away with $21,
600 on his back. Fancy the picture
His return was a kind of Il "prodigal-
son-homeward-bound affair."" and the
professor lit Il fresh cigarette
We'll, how did you come out? Did
you win or Drop" queried a Herald
reporter.
We'll, [ multiplied the original figures
by two in Il week afterward," answered
Hermann. with quiet chuckle, "and
brought the donkey back to the United
States and pensioned him during his
life. High living and idleness killed him
The health to the memory of the dead
donkey at Hermann's request was
drunk standing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-08
BULL OF THE WOODS.
Interesting Anecdote of How Lincoln
Trusted Tough

Interesting Anecdote of How Lincoln
- Trusted Tough
Il had the distinguished honor to be
thecompanion of Abraham Lincoln in
one of his fiatboat expeditions" said
Davis G. Stephens, one Of the pioneers
of Illinois, to a Pittsburg Times man.
Furthermore, the great martyr preSi-
dent became my champion and thrashed
q man on my account and thraShed
him thoroughly. L was a boy Of Is,
rather delicate, and my father, who
loved Lincoln as a son, sent me on
trip with him, hoping that roughing it
would improve my health. We had
tied up one night at a small landing
where there was a tavern.
"a fellow who called himself the
bull Of the woods and who had sew
eral snifters of coTn-juice under his belt,
came aboard looking for trouble. Lin
coin was lying down asleep on the soft
side of a pine plank, with one brawny
arm for pillow. I was washing out
hickory shirt, and the intruder attempt
ed to souse my head into the bucket of
sOapy water.
Lincoln awOke and told him to let me
alone. He paid no attention to the awk-
ward, lOng-legged sleeper but picked up
the pail and damned it down over my
head, almost drowning me. When I got
the soap suds out of my eyes sufficiently
to see, Lincoln had him by the collar,
was holding him SO that his toes just
touched the deck, and was planting
terrific kicks under his coat-tails with
his No. IL cowhide boot.
Il visited Lincoln at the white house
shortly after the outbreak of the war.
He presented me with a captains COM
remarking: The bull of the
woods has broke loose again."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-08

The prominence of electricity in
chemical processes is again brought
forward by the announcement of the
discovery of n new electric process for
obtaining caustic soda, chlorine and
other commercial chemicals from salt
water Electro-chemical industries al
ready well established include such i'm
portant branches as the reduction of
aluminium and aluminium alloys,
bleaching, tanning and the extraction
of metals from ore. Should this new
process prove wholly successful, it is
expected to reduce the price Of these
commercial chemicals one-haf. The
water of the sea will then be the ''raw
material from which these products
are derived, end tariff discussion about
them can be stopped.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-12-08
The Two ButtOuS

Who knows why the two buttons are
worn on the back of mems coats? No
one seemed to have given the matter
thought until Chinaman asked a
missionary, who could not tell. In
vestigaton showed that they are a sur
vival Of a semi-barbaric custom and
that they were originally sewed on to
a belt at a time when every gentleman
wore sword.