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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-08-18

How 20 Get the Proper Measurements
a. Measurement for band is the largest part of the
abdomen. The numbers |. ,. >. on the band in
dicata where m aasuranents ShOald be taken.
Tne bands Dst SD el-h for any length mp to
81 inches bat FOR larger than - inches add 10
ceats extra for caea additional inci. Thus to-
inch costs $50, and the pills may be bought for
$3.50 bottle, or three b9etles FOR Si.oJ enough
for one treatment.
SOLD BY DRUGG 1878
lou can buy tha pals and bands direct from
our stores. or 10y mail or express.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-08-18

Fulmodstone, Norfolk, England,
which has 333 inhabitants. must be a
healthy spot. for in 1891 there was not
a single death IN the parish.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-08-18

A writer in the Boston transcript
has figured up that heaven contains
l,S)0,0D.0o0 souls. against a popula-
tion in hell of 10. go OoD,00).
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
city Girls voter Their uorso.

w. w. Hall, young farmer near
Montpelier, enjoyed himself hugely a
few days back in watching @ couple of
city girls attempt to water their horses
at the trough at his place. The horses
were checked up, and of course could
not get their noses down to the water.
This seemed to surprise the young ladies
at first, but finally realizing the trouble
they both got out of the buggy, and 60
ing behind lifted up on tho hind axle
and after raising the hind wheels clear
Off the ground peeped around the sides
OF the vehicle to see the horses drink.
Finding that the horses didn't seem to
know enough to stick their heads down
at the same time they raised the hind
wheels one girl remained behind to hold
the buggy up and the other went to the
horses heads and tried to pull their
noses down to the water.
After laughing till he shook several
boards off the side of the blacksmith
shop from where he watched the girls
lift on the buggy and pull on the horses
heads TILL they were red in the face and
almost ready to cry, Will went to their
assistance and unchecked the horses.
The young ladies gazed at first in be-
wilderment, and then with kind of
don't-you-ever-tell look ut each other
calmly tucked the robe around them,
leaned back in their seats, and. after wait
ing for their horses to drink, drove off.
leaving Will to sit down on the corner of
the trough and ruminate over the city
gal and her way Of doing things.-Mo-
desto Herald.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
Finest Carpets In the wor,a.

Imcan to make pilgrimage to Fon-
tainbleau in order to see two wonderful
carpets which have been transferred to
the palace by the presidents orders, and
which are said to be the most superb
articles of the kind in tho world. They
were ordered by Napoleon III at the
Gobelin mandatory in 1868. They are
of colossal dimensions, ono being nearly
thirty feet square, while the other Is
eleven yards long and ten yards wide.
1t took ten years to complete them,
and once finished their extraordinary
size caused them to be packed away in
the storehouse of Les Gobelins, whence
they were not extracted even to be ex-
hibited at the exhibitions of 1873 and
1889 They are the finest articles of the
kind that'have been produced for the
French government since Louis XIV or
dered "ninetythree carpets for cere-
monies and festivals" to be manufac-
tured at La Savonnerie for the great
bathrooms and reception rooms of the
Louvre and of Versailles.
The smaller of the two, which has q
yellow ground, is set down in the in
vcntory as being worth $4,000, the
larger, the ground of which is black,
being estimated at 0,OOO, though the
real value of each is stated to be at
least double.-Paris Letter.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
Breadcru,nbs in noqueror. cheese,

The demand for Roquefort cheese has
become so great that trickery now plays
part In the ripening process. The
peasants have learned that time is
money" and they have found that bread
crumbs mixed with the curd cause those
green streaks Of moldiness which de-
note that the cheese is fit for the mar
ket, to appear much more readily than
was formerly the case, when it was lef;
to do the best it could for itself Will,
the aid of subterranean atmosphere
This is not exactly cheating; it is com
mercial enterprise, the result of com.
petition and other circumstances tee
strong for poor human nature. hi
cheesemaking breadcrumbs are found
to be cheap substitute for time, and il
Is said that those who have taken to beer
brewing in this region have found that
box, which here is the commonest of
shrubs, Is cheap substitute for hons.
The notion that brass pins are stuck into
Roquefort cheese to make it turn green
is founded on fiction. Temple Bar.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
How Sir Gnvan Dufry Looked.

Mrs. Carlyle, in her Journal" thus
describes Sir Charles Gavan Duffy as he
looked in 1874 during visit he paid to
''the sage of Chelsea" "Mr Duffy quite
took my husbands fancy, and mine also
to certain extent. With the coarsest
Of human faces, decidedly as like a
horses as q mans, heis one of the people
that should get to think beautiful"
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy himself tolls
this story: An artist named Cromley
painted his portrait and bestowed on
him a dreamy poetic face which might
have passed for Shelley's. The portrait
was shown to Daniel O'Connell by the
artist in presence of Duffy. "Isnot that
very like Duffy" said Crowley. HIM"
said O'Connell, looking from the por-
trait to the original, II wish Duffy was
very like that" London Star
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
Tho NIoznrt.an svstem.

The all pervading principle Of the Mo.
zartlan system was n conciseness of con-
struction and an unmistakable geogra-
ply of tonality. Before Mozart, melodic
figures, subjects and keys, with all other
theoretical addenda Mt the disposal of
the creative musician, were confused.
Mere bits of tune and jingle, with a bril-
liant passage here and there, constitute
movement, or even a composition.
Haydn had brought much chaotic and
irregular theoretical lore into clear and
definite shape, but Mozart simplified
matters still more Introducing the
keenest outlines, the most beautiful fig.
ures, together with clear and lucid
teachings, he defined tho formal con.
struction of the movement, section, re.
peat, etc., until now the musician or
student can set out with his principal
subject or theme, and having no misgiv.
ings concerning the dogmas of subsidiary
subject. complimentary keys and the
like.
Schooled In Mozart's principles of con-
struction, the student could pilot him.
self safely through the intricacies of the
most advanced symphony, and It is for
his labors and the pattern he set in this
direction that the world of music de-
lights TODD honor to the name of Mozart.
-Blackwood's Magazine.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
Tho Coinoident Curse of Gold.

The goldseekers of both America and
Australia have O singular but we'll
grounded superstition that the discover
ers of hidden treasures are sure to meet
with violent deaths. The original pro-
prletors Of between thirty-fv and forty
of the most prosperous gold and silver
mines in this country are known to have
come to just such ends. Out of the
forty or less twelve wore shot or stabbed
to death in saloon or other broils, five
committed suicide, three were engulfed
by landslides, five turned murderers or
robbers and were caught and executed
in various ways, one fell into boiling
spring and had the flesh literally stewed
from his bones, while the others have
disappeared and no ono knows what ever
became of them.
George Fl. Fryer, once the millionaire
proprietor of the Fryer Hill mine, COM
mitted suicide in Denver after spending
the last nickel between himself and star
walton. The discoverer of the great Stan
dard mine. in California, was caught and
swallowed up i'll an avalanche; Colonel
Story was killed by Indians; William
Fairweather, of the famous Alder
Gulch mine, died with the "frenzied
horrors" after continuous two years
debauch. Farrell of Meadow Lake"
died with a terrible disease in San
Francisco hospital. The owner of that
great mine. the Homestake, became a
highwayman and was shot while robbing
stage coach. John Homer tried the
same route that Fryer went. Dough
nut Bill. 'Ninemile Clarke" "Old Eu-
reka" and many others were killed in
saloons.-St. Louis Republic.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
MARE seRENITArIs

There all is waste and wild and dark and
drear,
Tho deepest silence-still in death;
NO flying wing, no winding call-the cor
Hears not the slightest breath
All, oil Is wild; no sunshine falls. Alone,
The very mountains Seem to sleep.
No pine trees rock In wavy breeze No moan
Comes from that silance Of tho deep
From Tycho's broad chaotic waste to where
Gassendi's crater spreads.
There lurfd, darksome mountains catch the
glare
Eternal DOR their heods.
Wherearo the souls that once those wales did
fill
That poured their hearts above
Once gushing stream, now dried up, wasted
rill,
Once music soft as lover
Oh, that deserted world abovei who knows
What hand hath made 1t sop
What epic strain could sweep in song its woea,
Divine what cause hnth laid II lowY
Oh, nay, tits not for human art to soar
That vast chaotic dcepl
When time and place and art shall DO no
more,
Twill rouse from mystic sleep.
e. L. O'Loughlin in Godey's Lady's Book.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
How the Mosquito Does 1t.

A mosquitoes bill is an elaborate con-
trivance and consists of two sharp saws
and lance inclosed in n sheath which
Is also employed as q pump. The saws
are bony, but flexible, and the teeth are
near the end which is pointed. The
lance is perhaps the most perfect instru-
ment known in the world of minute
things. 1t is first thrust into the flesh
and the opening is enlarged by tho saws,
which play beside it until the sheath can
be inserted. The saving is what causes
irritation when mosquito is biting
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
where Women Do MS They please.

The independence of Burmese women is
remarkable. They manage their own
aiairs' have stalls In the bazaar, with
wh1ch no one interferes. marry when they
choose and divorce their husbands "a soon
as they please. No jealous wells cover
their faces; no melancholy seclusion pre-
vents them from mixing with the male
sex. They first dance and laugh with MS
many admirers as they choose, and last of
NIL they smoke-not dainty cigarettes on
the sly, taking Whit while they read the
latest French novel, as their European sis
tiers do; no. but cigars-cigars longer than
men use in Europe; cigars foot long and
two inches in circumference, the price
about two cents. and they smoke them all
lay
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
Swallows at Sea-

Two days after leaving Port Said,
Egypt, we had some very unsettled
weather. Looking southwark / OBJ
served what appeared to be small
black cloud rising and coming steadily
toward our steamer. When / looked
again few minutes lster.. instead Of
seeing the cloud h sawssome hundreds
of swallows. sGhey flew around our
steamer several times, as though unde-
cided whether to stay until the storm
passed. At last, just before dark, sew
eral Of them alighted on the stayrim Of
our main funnel, which was soon one
black mass of BIRDS Tho rain came
down in torrents, and it was pitiful to
see those frail creatures struggling with
the wind and rain.
Those Of them that could not find O.
roosting place soon commenced to fall
ON deck quite helpless. picked up all
those that fell on the bridgedeck and
lodged them in the chartroom. Those
birds that fell on the foredeck >.were
sheltered in the forecastle by the crew.
The next day came in bright and clear,
with light westerly breeze, and all the
swallows took fight just at sunrise, fly
ing In northwesterly direction. The
captive birds Were soon set free, and
they followed in the wake of the others.
may say that all the birds we had were
able to fly except one, and it died during
the day. Several dead ones were found
on the decks at daylight. These birds
had beautiful 'plumage, and fancy they
looked rather smaller than tho swallows
l have seen in England. The captive
birds had golden brown feathers just
above and below the beak, and white
breast; back. black feathers with q
blush tinge; wings and tail brown, and
four white spots across,-New Castle
Chronicle
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01

HON. j. II. BLoUNT. TINT mon of rr;I
liant talents. but strangely cratic, acquire
power. The fact that Mr. Blount soon
proved himself u safe and cautious though
progressive legislator, had much to do
with the firm hold he soon secured ON his
constituents
He began his congressional career In the
Forty-thir congress, was successfully
elected to the Forty-fourth, Forty-ffth.
Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth.
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty
second, and with the close of the Fifty
second-neXt Maich-his public life will
close by his own act. 1t was tacitly under
stood in the Sixth Georgia district in 1890
that Mr.. Blount would make that his last
race for congress, and his opponents limited
that he wanted to go higher-to be gov
ernor and then United States senator Be
that as 1t may, he declared that ten sue
cesslve elections to congress more than
gratiied his ambition
Many amusing stories are told of Mr..
Biount's talents in eicctioneering. He did
not exactly know every voter in his dis
trict, but he did know every man of local
influence, and knew his tastes and pecul-
iaritics. The storyiof his buying n lot of
beaver traps at n job lot sale and sending
them to II trnppcr constituent is nm old one
among Georginns, and il is scarcely neces-
sary to add that every man of, 'trap,jer"
tendencies voted for him on all possible
occasions
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
An Indian KNOW Notb,na

The Chickasaw Nation has elected Jonas
Wolfe for governor of the tribe. Wolfe is
a full blood Indian and belongs to the
ultra Know Nothing faction of Chickasaw
politicians. He does not speak word of
English, and is bitterly opposed to legisle-
ton having a tendency to advance his pee
pie to the white mans plane.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
To Soil mt Double Price.

support of the Worlds Columbian expo
sition are to be sold at the rate of one dol
lar for ench of the coins The board of
directors has decided to sell the souvenirs
direct to the pu bic instead of placing the
entire issue in the hanus of some syndicate.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
Politics and presents.

A recent English bridegroom gave to
the bridesmaids Mt his wedding brooches
upon which were inscribed the number
1888" This. it seems, was the majority
by which he secured political prefer
ment. If Americans should take to
mixing politics with social events some
curious results might DO evolved. New
York Times.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01

Blount is but fifty-five years old, but has
served continuously in the house for ten
terms.
Henry Laurens Dawes was born Oct. 80,
1916, in Cummington, Mass, was gradu-
ated&t Yale In 1880, and after working
some time as teacher and editor was adj
mitted to the bar in 184o He served in
the legislature from 1913 to 1850, was thon
elected to the state senate, was member
OF the state constitutional convention of
1853, and was elected to congress In 1885,
Entering tho Thirty-seventh congress as a
new member at the age Of forty-one he
rose so rapidly that he soon took rank as
one of tho leaders Of the house.
His record for tho next sixteen years is
an important part of the history of the
country. 1t would be difficult to name
any grent fiscal economic or humanitarian
legislation of the nine congresses from
1857 to 1875 which does not bear the marks
OF his workmanship. He was the author
OF many tariff measures, and as chairman
or the committee on ways and means
shaped all legislation of that kind for
many years. He declined a reelection to
the Forty-fourth congress and was i'm
medately chosen to succeed Charles Sum
ner in the senate, that statesman's unex-
pired term having been filled by William
B. Washburn.
vi A'AohSh Z, 1919, MI. OdWCS 2nueU
eighteen years continuous service In the
house and took his seat in the senate,
where his eighteen years of continuous
service nre soon to end. Among the many
great works for which he is noted his
thorough reform of the system Of dealing
with the Indians has perhaps received the
highest praise He was appointed on a
special committee to investigate the dis
turbances in the Indian territory, and his
report thereon ut once took rank as a polit-
ical and governmental classic He drew
up and secured the passage of bills allot-
ting lands in severalty to Indians, securing
the treaty rights and educational and
property interests of the Sioux and max
ing the Indians amenable to the general
criminal laws. The whole existing system
of Indian education is the result of laws
drafted by Senator Dawes
He has withnl done something in litera-
ture and applied science, and in conjunc-
ton with Professor Cleveland Able in
1869 he began the work which resulted In
the present weather bulletin" In short,
1t is but simple justice to say that among
the working Legislators of this age Sena-
tor Dawes has no superior, though he is
not specially noted rs an orator. His
daughter. Anne, has also gained some rep
utntion as n writer.
James III. Blount was born in Georgia.
Sept. l2, 1887, and little was known of him
outside the city OF his observation-disclosures
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01

Saratoga, Kan, has q 100000 opera
house, but only the music of insects is
ever heard there; there is not resident
in the town. 1t also has sec, 900 school
house, but merry little voices never echo
there.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01

Portland has what is clairned to be
the largest derrick ever erected in
Maine. The mast is 81 feet in length
and % inches i'll diameter; the boom is
6O feet long and Is inches in diameter.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01

till he was elected
to congress in 1872.
1t was an cru of
political chaos in
the south. All
sorts Of schemes
of relief were sug-
gested, and the
voters in n sort of
desperation were
calling for any
new leader who
offered himself.
At such times it
too often happens
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01
TO RETIRE FROM CONGRESS.
Two Distinguished Men Who Have Had
EnohghN OF p u6ftc Iife.

Ihe simultaneous announcements of
senator Dawes and Congressman Blount
thae they will not accept re-election, but
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-01

will retire at the
end Of their pres
ent terms, is q sig
nifi cant event.
The men of the
war era in con-
gress are rapidly
lessening. Senator
Dawes term ends
next March, when
he will be In his
SO v en- t y-seyentb
year and at the
end Of thirty-six
years in congress.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-02-11
To HORACE:
With Pleasure.


EDITOR SIGNAL:-Will you please
answer the following questions
through your valuable paper2,
At what date will District court
again convene in Weiser?
What class is Washington County
rated in? is it first, second or third?
and oblige. a READER.
Circuit court will convene again on
June 18th next.
Washington county is in the third
class according to section 2147, OF the
revised statute, which reads: "All
counties having a valuation of one
million Isl, 600, OOO) dollars and under
two million dollars (s2, coo, 0O0). shall
belong to and be known as counties
of the third class.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-02-11
Commissioner Carter, Of

Commissioner Carter, of the
General land Office, has issued form
Of permit to be granted to persons
applying to cut timber from the
public lands. Among the stipulations
is one forbidding the cutting of more
than fifty per cent. Of the timber of
each class growing on any one acre.
Monthly statements under oatn are
required, giving descriptions of tracts
from which timber is cut, the amount
cut, and how disposed Of No trees
shall be cut and removed of less than
specified number of inches in
diameter, except for needed roadways
through timber. The person cutting
timber is required to cut, remove and
burn or otherwise dispose of the tops
and brush of trees, etc., to prevent
forest fires, and he will be held liable
for any damage owing to the spread
of any fire attributable to his neglect.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-02-11
Cattle Raining OF the Future.

The cattle business of the future
will be carried on upon farms. The
actual settler, the farmer, is gradually
gobbling up the lands heretofore de-
voted to free grass. The best soil
always produces the best grass. The
best soil is what the man with the
long handle agricultural implement
wants. Consequently range cattle
are being crowded upon land that
produces only bunch of grass here
and there, among the cactic and mes
quite shrubs, until the vital question
with the range stock raiser is, how
many head of cattle will the available
range support per bunch of grass. If
the answer is not satisfactory in a
business point of view, there is moth
ing for him to do but to vacate the
premises and let the man who can
make several punches of grass grow
where none grew before, succeed him
and succeed himself in raising
more and better beef, and likewise
milk, butter, cheese per acre, than
was done before. 1t is not the num-
Der of carcases produced and sold,
but the actual avoirdupois of meat
that feeds hungry people.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-02-11
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Happenings Over Our Glori-
Gus State

The case of Milton Kelley, ct al,
VS.. The Lower Payette Ditch Co., has
been decided by the supreme court in
favor of the Ditch Co. This case has
been in the courts about three years.
The DeLamar Company, last week,
shipped out six bars of bullion, val
ued at $14, 000 This makes twenty
eight bars shipped for the January
mill run. Nugget.
The famous Tyler-Last Chance
mining suit, which has been occu-
pying the time and attention of the
Idaho courts for the past few weeks,
came to finish, unless appealed, on
the 2S ult, the jury deciding in favor
of the Last Chance.
George Barr, man about 40 years
old, was horribly mangled by the cars
near Hope, last Wednesday morning,
while stealing ride. He fell be-
tween the cars. His left arm and legs
were cut off, and he lived cHly few
hours, and suffered the greatest
agony.
Texas Angel, attorney for the hold
ers of the Alturas county funding
bonds, has brought suit in the circuit
court, now in session at Boise city, to
recover the sum of $31, 1876 and to
establish a basis for the collection
and payment for all moneys falling
due and hereafter to become due.
The time set for filing answer is in
April, and the suit is brought against
all the people and officers of the
counties of Alturas, Logan, Bingham
and Elmore.