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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-01-26

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The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
SHE SOLD THE HOUSE.
How the Widow Jones Was Induced to
Part With Her Home.

How the Widow Jones Was Induced to
Part With Her Home.
Yes" said an engineer of long ex-
perience to a reporter, ''railroading is
an exciting, yet an attractive life. 1t
has its aches and pains, but neverthe-
less the goodies and Sweets too, il
one may put it SO.
II remember peculiar accident that
happened to me on one of my trips not
long ago. To go back a little, will
say that one of the many sharp curves
on the road is on a fifty-foot hill that
slopes down to an old farmhouse.
This house was occupied by an old
woman known as the Widow Jones'
She had been asked many times to sell
out to the railroad, for fear that some
accident would happen to her and her
home But the widow had refused
just as often, and things went on
thus.
well, You see, one night about 10
o'clock, as we struck the curve at
good speed the engine broke from the
trail, left the track and went rolling
down the hill The fireman jumped
safely, but l was not quick enough.
The next moment found the engine
crashing through Widow Jones' house,
with myself all mixed up in the debris
picked myself up just in time to see
the widow crawl out of her bed and
make Decline from the house.
Next day | knowingly smiled as l
read in the paper the transfer, Widow
Jones to the Il. RR''
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
HIS SONG MAY FREE HIM.
A Musical Convict In Sing Sing Prison
and His Love story.

Musical Convict In Sing Sing Prison
and His Love story.
Every now and then Sing Sing prison
furnishes romance, and case in
point is the story told about Alfred
Sheridan, who is serving term for
forgery.
He was engaged to be married in the
week he was arrested for his crime,
and so devoted was his fiancee that
she expressed willingness to marry
him even behind the prison bars; but
this he would not allow.
She often goes to visit him, and as
they are both fond of music they sing
together to the delight of the prison.
ers.
She has written several pretty songs
and sent them to Sheridan. He has
also composed several songs in his
prison cell. One of his compositions,
entitled "Sweet Little Mary Ann"
was written by jotting down the notes
on piece of cardboard as he whistled
the air. He has sold it to a New York
music publisher for S25 and / 200 copies.
(. With the cash and what he expects
to realize from his 1000 copies he has
engaged lawyer to present his case
to the governor for a pardon, and as a
preliminary his sweetheart is soliciting
signers to petition to be presented tc
the governor at the same time.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
INSECT MEMORY.

A Newly Discovered Power In Our Friend
the Bundle Bee.
A valuable contribution to natural
science has been made by Prof. Ed.
ward Hotter in the discovery of re-
markable power OF memory in the
bumble-bee. The little creature has
evidently a strong sense OF locality
comparable to that of the carrier
pigeon. says the Farmers Voice. The
professor removed nest containing
numerous bumble- bees (bumbus torres.
tris) from its original location and
carried it to his residence about three
miles distant He further carefully
watched the place for some time after
having captured all the bees who had
flown to the defense OF their nest and
secured. 1t Is believed. the entire
colony. These he imprisoned for sew.
eral hours in a wide mouthed bottle
and safely reunited them in their new
home. At his house he placed the
nest with its inhabitants, near win
dow aud after the latter had been
quoted made a small entrance. I'm
mediately the bees began to fly out
and in dong so must have observed
their surroundings for in short
time they one by one returned.
The following night however.
there was severe storm, and while
the inhabitants OF other colonies OF
bees near 1T that had become &C.
customed to their surroundings were
not In the least troubled these bees
escaped and hid themselves some
where without during the storm.
Upon searching for them early the
next morning the queen was found
dead upon the ground. while fifty or
sixty workers were seen flying about
the house. From time to time one
or another-possibly those which had
flown out OF the entrance the day be-
fore-found the opening and returned
to their nest while the remainder.
after flying about for several hours.
gradually disappeared till not one
was left. AS it was supposed that
they had, in all probability, returned
to their previous nest the place was
visited in the afternoon. where al
least fifty OF them were found. They
had thus 1T will be seen. distinctly
remembered it. and after they had
sought In vain to find entrance I,
their new homo they had depended
on their wonderful sonse of locality
md rat,irned thither
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
MERELY MENTIONED.

Between $1,000 and 10000 immi-
grants arrive at New York weekly.
AS many as 5000 have landed in sin
gle day.
Pasco county, Florida. boasts of .hav-
ing the oldest soldier in the United
States. His name is Jonathan Pratt,
and he is claimed to be lO3 years old.
Miss Elizabeth More, who is de-
scribed as pretty young lady,. has
built with her own hands a neat little
cottage at Edgworth, Pa, aided by
girl friend.
The famous Treadwell mine in
Alaska, which has yielded more than
So, 600, 600 in gold bullion, was pur-
chased by the man for whom it was
named for $780,
II am as happy as though l was go
queer sentences of note left by Vito
Miraglio, who committed suicide at
Philadelphia by shooting himself.
Prof. Josef Well of Newark, n. j.,
recently bought a picture for 500,
which proves to be genuine Rubens
and companion to one now in the
Royal academy, Munich, valued at
1925, 900.
The Royal Sovereign of the British
navy is the most powerful war ship
afioat. Besides her heavy armament
she has several rapid firing guns to
keep off torpedo boats. They. are
worked with wonderful quickness.
While workmen were excavating a
trench for new gas pipes at Norwich,
Conn, recently, a humming bird, in
its swift fight from the trees over
head, came in contact with the up
raised pick of one of the workmen and
fell dead at his feet.
Rev. L. NJ. Fitzpatrick Of Opelika,
Ala, who is an editor and a bishop of
the African Methodist church, says
that state contains many colored men
who have made large fortunes, and
that the colored people Of Alabama
are worth at least SIS, O00, 900.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
$4,000 Not Enough.

II is scarcely possible to credit ones senses
In making retrospect Of the past decade,
even In this age of progress, to grasp the full
measure OF the strides made by the typewriter
as one Of the factors of orr business develop
ment. Something Of an idea Of what is being
done Is, however, obtained when IL Is taken
into consideration that the extent of flooring
devoted to the manufacture of the Remington
typewriter at Iion, n. T., ut present is 1875 900
square feet.
The press quite generally throughout the
country has taken notice lately of the fact
that the sales OF the Remington typewriter
average machine every five minutes. The
Remington people already find their factory
insufficient for their requirements and are
about constructing an addition; and the adj
dition alone, we are informed, win be larger
than any other typewriter factory in the world.
The success OF the Remington typewriter Is
phenomenal, unprecedented, and unparalleled
In this day Of brilliant enterprises.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
GRAINS OF GOLD.

Fear not a lasting teacher of duty.
Be at peace with mankind, but at war
with their vices.
No man can be free unless he is
strictly governed by himself.
Men are more civilized by their pleas
ures than by their occupations.
Be always at leisure to do good;
never make business an excuse to de-
cline offices of humanity.
He who is pulled up with the first
gale of prosperity will bend beneath
the first blast of adversely.
The very thing that men think they
have got the most of, they have got
the least of, and that is judgment.
When you are in danger from ex-
ternal enemies, look out. When the
peril is from your own unbridled pas
sions, look in.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
|. CALIFORNIA RAILROAD.
Hun by Three Men and with Grades Of
SIX Feet to the 100.


Hun by Three Men and with Grades Of
SIX Feet to the 100.
A curious little railroad train goes
crawling up and down the mountain
from Tres Pinos to Burt's limekiln in
the Gavilan range, San Benito county.
California, every day. 1t is probably
the strangcst railroad that was ever
seen. The train moves on curious
single track and Is drawn by an engine
set low on 1t. Both the engine wheels
and those that support the cars have a
single, pivot-like piece of steel that
sets in the slot track, for it must be
borne in mind that the track has slot
in 1t not unlike that seen on cable
track. In addition to this each wheel
has a fiange on each side of 1t so that
1t cannot get off the track, no matter
how abrupt the curves. The road as
completed is now nine miles long. but
when pushed through as intended 1t
will be fourteen miles in length. Three
men run it. These consist of an engi-
neer, fireman and brakeman. In one
place there is an sO0-foot grade mount
ed at the rate of six feet to the 100. yet
the engine puffs right along with three
loaded cars, not in the least bothered
in any way. There is one grade a
quarter of mile long, in which an
average of four feet is gained to the
100. One curious thing about it is that
the wheels are in a sense rollers. They
reach from one side to the other. The
fanges hold them on, assisted by the
pivot, past which each side of the
wheel comes down.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
pEsuLroav REApINo.


Lake Michigan boasts of gospel
ship that makes tour each year to the
lake villages and cities N
The death is announced at Lyons OF
Pravaz, the inventor of the Pravaz
syringe, the familiar instrument for
the sub-cutaneous injection OF NOR
phine.
In America. as in France, the aver
age size of families has been steadily
decreasing for the last half century.
The average is now 4.94 where In 1850
1t was $50.
A farm in Pithole, Pa, which was
bought some years ago during the oil
excitement by Chicago spectators for
81, 500, 900, was sold recently at tax
sale for 500.
Philip Belts of Newportville, Pa,
has cactus plant in his house which
grew SO fast last winter that he can
not take it out of doors, as 1t rs too
tall to go through the doors.
There is in Ireland, or has been,
class of professional mourners who at
tend funerals and wakes for pay, and
wall until the welxin rings. These
people are called keeners, and when in
full blast are said to be keening.
1t is claimed that the deepest lake in
America Is in the Cascade mountains
about seventy-five miles northeast of
Jacksonville, Ore 1t is called tn e
Great Sunk lake. and averages 1000
feet down to the water on all sides. 1t
is about fifteen miles long and four and
one-half wide
London has firm of opticians
whose speciality is the sale of specta-
cles for horses. The object of the
spectacle is to promote high stepping
The snake story of the season comes
from Rome, Ga. A snake was seen
near there recently lying asleep by the
roadside. A man stabbed it with his
umbrella, audit Immediately stretched
out 1.-TWO long wings like a goose, and
sailed away across the field"
One of the most interesting sights
along the Rio Grande is to see regi-
ment of Mexican soldiers taking a
compulsory bath. 1t is only under
compulsion that the rank and file Of
the army ever do battle, and when the
ceremony is in progress one-half of tho
regiment enters the water, while the
other half stands guard on bank. rifle
in hand, to shoot down any man who
deserts.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13

IT MUST be that every farmer real
ICES the money value OF good roads.
I'm the western wheat region" Is q
statement in tho tenth census report
according to the estimates received.
1t costs the ordinary farmer more 10
carry bushels Of wheat mile chan it
does the ordinary railroad to carry n
ton consequently when we get west
OF Lake Michigan it rarely pays to
grow wheat more than twenty miles
from rail or water transportation. !"
Having been convinced OF the enor-
nous odds against him ir his compc-
tition with the rest OF the world. tho
farmer is helpless In the effort to
eaualize the conditions, so far as
reaching market is concerned. He
must turn his roads over to some one
who knows what they luck and can
supply it. The highway engineer is
Q necessity OF the future
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
For Your Russell Shoes.

Here is a line of information that is
worth dollars to the man who is con-
tinually having his russell shoes rubbed
with various creams and dressings,
and that will bring comfort to the
man who dislikes the sticky polishes
in use and whose shoes perforce pres
ent suburban road appearance.
Just wash off your shoes every morn
ing with damp cloth and rub them
vigorously with soft, clean, dry brush.
They will take on surprising polish,
without trace of sickness, and will
soon assume a shiny dark color, like
that on a well seasoned meerschaum
pipe.--New York Herald.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
Brief Notes.

According to law of nature, when
a body is cooled it becomes heavier
than when it is hot. There is one cx-
ception to the rule, however, and that
is in the case of water.
The latest within for the owners of
dogs is to make them wear shoes in the
house for the purpose of protecting the
polished floors. They are made Of
channels, with leather soles.
Black snow lately fell in the Canton
of Geneva, Switzerland-a phenomenon
which was once thought to presage
black plague and other calamities, but
is now known to be due to fungus
in the snow.
The only town in Africa that has the
honor of being named for an American
president is Monrovia OF Liberia. 1t
was founded in 1899, during the presi-
dency of James Monroe. and was
named in his honor.
There died recently in Hungary two
ladies who served in 1s4s in the rev.
dictionary army and fought in several
of the fiercest battles dressed In mill
tary uniform. One of them was sew
eral times promoted, and under the
name of Karl attained the rank of
first lieutenant of hussars. At this
point, however, an artillery major
stopped her military career by marry
ing her. The other fought under the
name of Joseph, and was decorate
for valor in the field. She married
long after the campaign. An Hum
garian paper, referring to the two
cases, says that about dozen women
fought in 1s4s in the insurrectionary
rauka
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13

CASES are growing more frequent
OF intoxication produced by cocaine.
1t is not necessary that the drug shall
be taken frequently; experience OF
dentists and surgeons shows that
often single application will
produce all the mischievous effects OF
a single dose OF chloroform, alcohol
or opium. Medicine was too eager to
avail itself OF the power OF the new
alkaloid to suppress local pain While
insensibility to the knife or tho acid
was thus easily produced the dele
terious influence OF the preparation
on the general nervous system was
not appreciated nor adequate warning
given to test its qualities on indivi-
duals before using il in operations.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13

STUDENTS OF history and even those
whose reading or study is confined to
the happenings OF the day must have
noticed that any great crisis in the
affairs OF country is sure to bring
forth a man who is able to grapple
with it. Even In circumstances that
are not critical but merely conditional
there seems to be an eternal appllca-
ton OF the same truth What the
occasion calls for is made manifest
According to degree OF Importance a
Cesar a Napoleon or a plain John
Smith rises above the horizon OF
events and makes himself for the time
being the polar star by which the
course OF things is guided and the
ship OF progress steered.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
Is Marriage n Failure?

A careful woman dwells in Canter-
bury, N. II. She has had lamp chin
ney in constant use for years,
and it is still without a flaw. Another
careful woman has her home in Port
Richmond, Staten Island. She was
married sixteen years ago, and began
her married life with two rows of pins.
She has thirty-seven of them yet, and
would be happy If she could find the
three missing pins.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
Meanest Man ON Record.

The meanest man on record lives in
Bedfordshire, England. He sold his
son-in-law one half of a cow, and then
he refused to divide the milk, main
tanning that he had sold only the front
half. The son-in-law was also re-
quired to provide the feed the COW
consumed, and compelled to carry
water to her three times day. Re-
Gently the cow tossed the old man, and
now he is suing his son-in-law for
damages.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
aAzon .NsrsAD OF srILE.rro,


M M
italian Imnisraats TsIks LsssonA From
Their DARK hfsthsr. ~
Newly arrived Italians are begin
Aing 70 discard the stiletto for the
raxoE and In several recent Italian
Arrays the latter weapon was used IN
stead Of the former. The Italian has
learned lesson OF the negro and the
reason for the adoption OF the razor a.
{ weapon 10 curiously similar In the
saso OF both. In the days when >
slaveholding South was periodically
In fear OF servile insurrection. there
was strong effort made to disarm
the slaveA 1t was pretty successful
20 far as firearms and ordinary Often
sive weapons went but tho negro
could not reasonably be deprived OF
20 useful necessary and apparently
Innocent an instrument 40 the razor.
so he adapted that to offensive uses
by learning to turn the blade we'll
back into the hands In reverse direc-
ton from the position of the blade
when it is closed to grasp the handle
and the back OF the blade In tho
closed palm. and thus to present q
long cutting edge TO the enemy. A
razor thus welded does not readily
lnfiict very deep wound. and this
may account for the fact that while
negro cutting ARRAYS are attended
with great loss OF blood they seldom
result fatally.
The public prejudice against tho
stiletto and the effort OF the courts to
enforce against bearers OF that in
strument the law forbidding the
carrying OF concealed deadly weapons
have led the Italians to get educated
Ia American ways to adopt the razor
rs a weapon OF offence says tho New
York Sun and doubtless to use 1t
negro fashion. since it Is dangerous
instrument to its master II welded In
any other way. The habit Of carry
ing the razor or some other cutting
weapon In the boot is still not uncom-
mon with negroes In the country.
whore long boots are yet worn.
Sometimes pocket Is made just in
side the leg OF the boot and to reach
for a razor" means simply to stoop q
tittio anu uTdW iOrtu inc WedpOH.
Another favorite weapon with the
negro OF the South Is knife with a
sort OF spring that makes blade and
handle temporarily one Sometimes
this Is managed by means Of a notch
in the blade to which Is fitted little
metallic peg In the handle. Notch
and peg are brought together by
merely shaking the knife with hard
sudden jerk, such as one gives to rid
q pen OF superfiuous ink.
The Southern negro carried his
razor much less with thought of in
surrection than as a weapon OF offence
or defence against private enemies OF
his own race or against the dreaded
.stoodents. The enslaved negro
had natural horror of being seized
by medical students and murdered
in order that his body might adorn
the dissecting table This super.
stitious fear was once strong upon the
negroes OF Maryland. and perhaps
still has some hold among them
"Stoodents git cher" was an effective
threat with negro mothers in manag.
ing pickaninnies and what was Q
vague terror to children was a solemn
fear TO parents. The belief in such Q
danger may have come to the negro
through some distorted rumor o.
Burke crimes In Edinburgh.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13
superstition Sticks.

The superstitious gossip concerning
the red house in Washington that was
occupied by Mr.. Blaine and the sinister
influence of its walls and floors on its
inmates is an apparent contradiction
to the skeptical and scientific spirit Of
the last decade of the century. 1t 10
hard for man to rid himself Of inner
tied fantastical thoughts and beliefs.
The opal is still summed. Astrologers
ply their trade here in Boston, and
shrewd men of business consult them.
A physician of repute in this town
bows to the opinion of Paracelsus that
a doctor without the knowledge of
stars can neither understand the cause
or cure of any disease, not so much as
toothache; except he see the peculiar
geniture of the party affected" With
in the last twelve months a well-known
citizen who dreaded Friday and
thought the number thirteen peculiar
to ill-lucls, died on 18th day that hap
pened to be Friday, and the conjunc-
ton excited comment. Ladders, UNI
brellas. the new moon, salt, mirrors,
are still associate l with the mysterious
powers of darkness. Boston Journal
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-13

PRACTITIONERS are growing at last TO
doubt the prudence OF the indiscrimi-
nate employment OF cocaine Other
anasthetics. longer known to the pro-
fession and more thoroughly tested,
accomplish all that has been claimed
for or accomplished by cocaine. 1t is
to take its place shortly with the
many other novelties that have been
potent for short periods have failed
OF permanent good and been reject
ed. When taken for other than sur
gical considerations 1t has proved u
vicious poison. 1t ought to be SO
classified.