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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-23

waiter never smiles, but the negro
waiter fairly beams on the hungry GUS
toner. And with what more than
Oriental reverence does he help You out
of your seat-if he has been remembered
with quarter. The air with which a
colored head waiter tells an under
strapper to ''remove de DEBRIS" instead
of requesting him to "take away the
dirty Dishes" is simply grand, being
delivered with a dramatic effort superior
to that of Tom Keene when in Richard
Ill. he says: "Off with his headl So
much for Buckingham"
To write about waters and not to say
something about tho tipping nuisance
would be very serious mistake. "To
tip or not to tip" that is the question,
and it is always decided in the affirm
ative. Tipping is an imported custom.
OF the $4,000, 900 Americans spend in
Europe most Of it goes for tips. The
man who dimes at restaurant, or at q
hotel, and who undertakes to break up
the tipping system is apt to be broken
up himself. At such fashionable resorts
as Saratoga and Newport it takes con-
siderable sum of money to accelerate
the speed of waiter. After his Itch
ing palm has been fabricated with a
dollar, thirty minutes frequently roll
away into eternity before the order is
filed 1t is dreadful to think how much
time II would take him II the dollar had
beea omitted entirely.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-23
HURRICANES AT WAR.
Titanic Combats Waged Between Fierce
West Indian Tempests.

Titanic Combats Waged Between Fieroe
West Indian Tempests.
We all remember Virgil's vivid de-
scription of the Cave of the Winds
where King Eolus sat on lofty throne
of rock, and with the waving of his
potent scepter calmed the fury of the
imprisoned tempests, roaring impa.
tiently around and round to find place
of escape from their confinement. until
at the command of Juno he let Eurus
and Notus and Africus and Equilo--the
southeast wind, the south wind, the
southwest wind, and the north wind
loose to roll up the sea from its very
bottom, and overwhelm the ships OF
Eneas.
This personification of the winds was
universal in ancient times, and curiously
enough, the modern science of meteoro-
logy seems to furnish some justification
for it. There actually is a kind of in
dividuality in winds and storms and
sometimes they contend with one an
other in manner that would naturally
induce lively imagination to liken
them to struggling giants of the air.
A striking instance of the aversion
occasionally manifested between two
great circling storms was furnished
at the end of last summer by the terri
BILE hurricane which devastated the isl.
and of Martinique on the 2Sth of August
and another hurricane which, having
on the day before passed Bermuda,
spent its fury in the middle of the At
lantic Ocean.
The ordinary course of West India
hurricane Is toward the northeast, up
along the United States coast. but it
was noticed that the Martinique storm
abandoned the usual track, and moved
off in an uncertain manner toward the
northwest, finally dying away in the
Gulf of Mexico without getting out into
the Atlantic.
This extraordinary conduct and ig.
nominious ending of hurricane that
had started with almost unexampled
strength and fierceness is now ex-
planned by the fact that, in attempting
to move along the regular course toward
the northeast, it came into collision, so
to speak, with the other hurricane, that
had passed east of Bermuda and was
just crossing the usual track of the
West India tempests
Forming two great eddies in the at
mosphere, these storms, with their fly
ing clouds and canopies of streaming
vapor, repelled one another and the
result was that the Martinique hurri-
cane. as If baffied and weakened by the
Bermuda storm-giant retreated into
the Gulf of Mexico, and there ended its
career.
What word-picture Of such a battle
royal in the atmosphere Virgil would
have given us!-Youth's Companion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-23

undergoes silent spasms Of suppressed
merriment. The funny man believes he
is, what he has often suspected, nat
ural born comedian, so when the BAN
quet and the flow of wit is over, the
hilarious party cheerfully shells out q
much larger coin than he otherwise
would have done. We must, however.
take into consideration that it is no
part of the walters professional duty to
encourage the growth of humor, and II
he goes out of his way to do so it Is only
proper and fair that he should receive
some compensation for his snickers and
chuckles.
There is not the slightest prospect
that the. tipping system will ever be
abolished. The custom is as i'm
movable as the rock of Gibraltar. OF
course, anybody can refuse to tip a
waiter, but the next time the customer
dimes at that hostelry he will wait a
long time before he gets anything ft to
eat.
A New York gentleman of my ac-
quaintance objected vigorously to con-
ciliating waiter. He refused to shell
out single additional nickel to the
waiter of the hotel where he boarded
and in short time he began to ex-
perience the pangs Of hunger 1t was a
very fashionable hotel, and the exas.
perated guest went to see the proprie-
tor about it. He said to mime host"
This is an internal outrage. pay
very liberal price for my room and
board, but in addition to what pay
you I am mulcted-yes, sir, actually
mulcted-into paying more money to
your waiter. If do not do it cannot
get anything fit to eat"
The urbane proprietor replied: my
dear sir, am in the same boat with
you. am just as much serf to these
white-aproned banditti as you are
own this hotel and all thereunto be-
longing, but have to tip the waiter my.
self. Time and again have made every
effort to break up the tipping system.
and have failed ignominiously. AS you
say, it is an internal outrage, but we
hotel men are unable to abate the nuis-
ance. If you will devise any scheme by
which this bribing of waters can be
abolished, I'll board you free for the
rest Of your natural life. AS things are
now have to submitto the humiliation
of having to plank down my coin
at my own plate on my own dinner
table and in my own house every day."
There is, however. one waiter who
should always be tipped. refer to the
one who pours cup of hot coffee out
side the patrons neck. He ought to be
tipped upside-down.
While there may be some truth in the
saying that all things come to him who
waits, it is also fact that unless you
tip the waiter literally he is apt to be
slow in coming with the things. There
is absolutely no exception to this rule.
ALEX e. SWEET.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-23
A Sidewalk OF Pins.

Ansonia, Conn.,, will have almost a
unique pavement if one of her citizens
carries his ideas into execution. He is
president of brass pin company, and
intends rebuilding the sidewalk in
front Of his home with pins. He has at
the company's shops some twenty bar
rels of old and imperfect pins, the ac-
cumulatlon Of years, and these he will
utilize. Concerning the value and dur
ability Of this kind of sidewalk materi-
al, on the corner of Broad and Pine
streets, some years ago, several barrels
of pin scraps were placed. The neces-
sary factor in this style of sidewalks,
corrosion, accomplished the rest, and
now there exists walk of solid iron.
The hardness of the walk was tested
recently, when the telephone man at
tempted to set pole on that corner.
by dint of much hard warls, drilling and
blasting with dynamite, they succeeded
in penetrating three or four inches OF
pins and corrosion and set the pole. The
walk will last forever after once being
laid, and neither travel por storms will
effect it.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-23
pJNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

-Jess-"George says my voice is OF
well-seasoned timber" Bcss - "How
could he tclls-by the cracks in it?"-
N. Y. World.
--He-"My dear friend, have you read
my last novel?" She-"Yes," He
''How did you like it?" She--"I laid
down the volume with intense pleas
ure."-N. Y. Truth.
Charlie (who has been blowing the
cornet for an hour)-"Ned, do you
think there is any music in me?" Ned
II don't lsnow-there ought to be. I
didn't hear any come out"-Tid- Bits.
Are you pretty we'll acquainted
with your mother tongue, my boy?"
asked the school teacher OF the new
scholar. "Yes SIR" answered the lad,
timidly, ''ma jaws me good deal, sir"
The Critic.
His Alleged Mind. d.-Husband-"I'v
changed my mind about that sealslSin
sacque, Mrs. Briggs" Wife-"Im glad
you've changed it, Mr.. Briggs You've
needed new one for the last ten
years "-Broolslyn Eagle.
Mrs. Newman-"That stupid grocer
is always making mistakes. got some
bread this afternoon, and he charged it
on the bill as wood" Mr. Newman wig
orously saving at the loaf. )-"Well, he
wasn't far wrong, after all"-Harper's
Bazaar
No" exclaimed the lady from the
West, "I'd have you to know that was
not born in Chicago" MOP" was the
reply of her dear friend. II ought to
have known better. Chicago is a new
place, comparatively speaking."-
ton Transcript.
Worse than an Inquisition. " oung
Wife-"I don't like that cooking school
teacher at all. She has neither patience
nor consideration. She's actually cru.
| ell Great snakes! She
doesn't really make you eat the things,
does she?"-N. Y. Weekly.
The Old Masters.-De Brush-"I
| always feel like standing with bowed
head in the presence of the old masters"
Bond-"That's just the way l. used to
feel In fact after an interview with
some of 'em, sitting was out of the
question. IN. Y. Herald.
Now, said little Freddy, 81 know
what the clergyman means when he
speaks of the lay members" What is
it?" asked his aunt, while the parson
smiled approvingly. ~ heard him tell
pa that there were lot of tiresome old
hens in the congregation. ."-Demorest
Magazine.
Papa, Adolphus has proposed to
mel" What! Adolphus, that silly
fellow? Surely you are not going to
marry him? First he came out as
painter; then he tried to invent flying
machine; after that he was confined in
lunatic asylum, and now he actually
makes you an offer of marriager'-
Comic.
Time for Repentance. - Wife -
John, dear, 1 wish particularly that
you would come with me to church this
morning" Husband-"Why this So
licitude regarding my spiritual well
fare?" Wife gently -" because 1
overheard you putting up the hall stove
last evening. Pittsburgh Bulletin.
I'D like to be where the grass always
grows lsnee-deep," she sighed in poetic
spasm. I'D like to be able to see,
every day, the clovers shaking their
heads at the bees that have kissed them
and flown away" 20, would you?" re-
turned the practical young New Yorker.
well, your fathers railroad man;
why don't you ask him to get you pass
to Philadelphia Washington Star.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-23
TEACHING A HORSE TRICKS.
= French Teacher says That 1t Is Hard
Work, because UnnaturaI.

. French Teacher says That 1t Is Hard
Work, Because Unnatural.
The greatest living trainer of per-
forming horses is the Frenchman Loyal.
He makes no secret of his methods,
which have often been ublished-latest
n that curious and entertaining book
oy LIE Roux and GARNER, "Acrobats
Ind Mountebanks."
The horse. in the opinion of this ex-
2erienced man, is one of the dullest ami
mails created; it has but one fault-mem-
Dry. 1t must be forced to learn it's
ricks, which are imprinted on it's men,
Dry by the whip if it resist, and by
presents of carrots if it obey. These
are associated in it's mind with certain
words or gestures, and it goes through
;he list from fear of punishment on one
1and, and in hope of reward on the
,ther.
This is certainly different behavior
rom the lively interest taken by hnrses
n racing, fox hunting and cattle herd
ng, the active obedience and selt-ds-
:ipline of war chargers or the steeds
lsed by firemen; but in these and SIM
lar instances the animal, naturally
with his fellows, is doing what seems
natural to him, and his eXertions have
IN object and result that he can COM
prehend.
The feats of the circus, on the con-
.rary, depend for their popularity large
y in forcing the animal to do what is
contrary to nature, such as strutting
about on his hind legs, poising himself
on pedestals where there is scarcely
room for his feet, lying down to be
tramped upon by his master or mistress,
balancing upon narrow pathway in
imitation of an equilibrist, and other
things-the more out of the way the
better in the estimation of the populace
in which horse can take no Interest.
and must lose that self-respect and
pride which are SO manifest in him un-
der under better circumstances. While
these feats are astonishing. they are
rarely graceful or agreeable to the
better taste.
Any horse. according to M Loyal can
be trained by judicious force; yet GER
tain breeds, as the Arabian horses and
those from Old Prussia are easier to
teach than any others, and the age is
of great importance. The best educa-
tion is received between the fifth aud
seventh years of the animals life; De-
fore that the horse is too eXcitable;
afterward, likely to be stin. -Frank
Leslie's Monthly.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-23

they were both bleeding pretty freely
when the bear at last gave one of those
sweeping blows with his powerful
paw that sent the panther against
the rocky wall 1t lay there, stunned.
and in an instant the bear was upon it,
The crunching of the panthers neck
bones beneath his glistening teeth told
who had conquered. The conqueror
stood for several moments. licking his
wounds After little he walked un-
easily about the cave several times,
and sat uneasily on my perch, can
tell you He even lay down on the
sandy floor, and knew he must be suf-
fering considerably. Hunger seemed
to overbalance his suffering, however.
for he presently dragged the body of
the panther down the cave and into
one of the other departments. After
waiting long time took off my fan
mel shirt, tore it into stout strips and
made rope of it, and fastening it
about the spur of rock easily swung
myself down and slipped out of the
cave. Not twenty feet away, up
the hillside, / found my horse
grazing. He had skinned his knees a
little in falling, but was otherwise
unhurt. The fire had divided just back
Of where he fell, as those prairie fires
will sometimes, you know, and had
left him untouched, and suppose he
scrambled out afterwards. Oh, yes,
got my gun from the saddle, and went
back to the mouth o. the cave and
gave one halloo! Tho bear catae rush.
ing out, and left him lying there as
dead as a herring. Cor. St Louis
be-Democrat.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-23
Regularly graduated walters abound

Regularly graduated walters abound
In devices to increase the obligation and
the consequent tip. In summer they
leave the doors and windows open so
that the flies can come in and make
themselves at home. Then they chase
away the insects with assiduity, with
the same towel with which they wipe
everything they place before you. For
driving the flies away while you're
feasting it is not genteel to offer less
than quarter.
Observe the walters campaign plan
when he takes your bank note to the
cashier with whom he is the only
authorized channel of communication.
He sees to it that the change is made in
such way that you have no excuse for
not giving him some of it. In small
way he is Napoleon of finance.
There are numerous other devices by
which waters impose moral obliga-
tion on the customer to come down
handsomely ut the end of the repast
II n couple Of gentlemen are dining at a
New York hotel and one Of them is In a
convivial mood it is amusing to observe
how the waiter takes advantage of
this opportunity Of making HIM.
self solid with the would-be hu.
morist. No matter how aged and de-
crepid the chestnuts may be, the waiter
chuckles with counterfeited glee, and
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-23

Turner valued one of the pictures
painted by himself SO highly that he
always declared that he would be
wrapped in 1t when he was buried.
One day, he asked Chantrey, the sculp.
tor, If, as his executor, he would carry
out his wishes on that point. mo
doubt" he bluntly answered, ~ shall
bury you rolled up in your picture, If
it is one of the conditions Of your will;
and take you up the next day and un'
rol. you"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-23
NEW YORK LETTER.
The Walters of Gotham and Their
Shrewd Devices.
Tho %hlts-Aproned and swallow-Taii.
Coated Aristocrats of Hotel Life
"To Tip or Not to Tip" That
Is tho Question.
Especial New York Letter.1

HILE the aver
age waiter can
n o t compete
with the aristo-
cratic coach
man in the
items of hduteur
a n d intense
personal digni-
ty, the head
waiter Mt a
fashionable re-
sort crowds him
v g ry closely.
T h Q h g a d
waiter does not
rush frantically
around with q
tray full Of
d / s h Q s, and
q n x i e ty de-
l.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1892-01-23

The head waiter stands in the middle
OF the dining-room with his arms
folded his head thrown back, and his
eagle eye taking every movement of
the gastronomic chessboard, as it
were, There is something about him
suggestive of Napoleon at st. Helena.
He may be distinguished from the other
walters not only by his majestic pose,
but by his shirt being winter. and the
tails of his coat being longer.
1t is really hard to believe that he is,
or ever was, ever a waiter at all. There
Is something about him that is sug-
gestive Of better days. he looks like
he might be what the English call "a
decayed gentleman" Perhaps that Is
the reason guests are 80 timid in his
presence. For all they know he may
be an ex-emperor, or something of that
sort.
He does not like to be called the head
waiter. If thus addressed he rebukes
the rash man who rushes in where
angels fear to tread, by replying with
quiet sarcasm that while his vocation
may be in that line he would prefer to
be addressed by his Official appellation
which is 'dining-room superintendent" +"
In the words Of the poet in the Hotel
Mail:
''Behold his cold sarcastic smile
Like some arch agitator,
Is he 'Gillies' without guilef
oh, no! He's the bead waiter"
At the seaside and mountain health re.
sorts there is in summer great demand
for walters at very remunerative rates.
Very frequently students masquerade
as walters and lay up comfortable little
sums for an impending rainy day. In
the language of another inspired son of
the muse:
"And the college youth who waits,
Won't object to carry plates,
As he follows out the hotel patrons wishes;
But, o! bitter is his cup,
And it almost breaks him up,
When he has to wash the dirty Dishes"
Not all the walters at the seaside re-
sorts are theological students. Fre-
quently beneath the white-aproned
exterior of the supposition student
waiter beats the heart of the heavy
tragedian from a travelling combination.
For once, he carries everything before
him, although, of course, it is ON tray.
walters, and among them should be in
umerated the brisk, smart waiter just
over from, the ''old county," POLITICALLY
described:
"There is q waiter who's sharp and who's Pat
Who always has eyes on the fees
The top of the marning to you, he has changed
To the tip Of the marning TO yez.'"
But the king of walters is the south
ern darky. He is a natural-born waiter.
He is good barber, but as waiter he
is positive genius. The English
81 ;
4. !! ID :
BOUND TO HAVE HIS DUES.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09

CERTAIN CURE FOR PILES, oNsALE
~ 1T Steward Bros. drug store. prica3l
per box. Full directions On each box.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09
No. 779.
Application for a Patent.
Z. 8. LAND OFFICE, HALEY. Ip.Ho

| =. .. LAND OFFICE, HALEY, IpAHo.l
July "a. 1880 7
| Notice is hereby given that John d. GRAY
! Isaac |. Lewis, whose postoffice address +
hetchnm, AHuras County, State of Idaho
nave TINS day hled their application for q
patent for fifteen hundred linear feet of the
"lNDEPENDENCE,,
Lode mining claim or vein, bearing silver
ana other minerals, with surface ground
SIX hundred feet in width, situated in Min
eral Hill mining district, county of Altnras
and Stare of Idaho and designated by thu.
he!d notes and official plat on file in this
ing described as follows. to-wit:
commencing 1T the discovery point and
running thence with magnetic variation
at .eo so r n go co. w 775 feet to the "
end line OF claim; thence 200 So " 500
feet to corner No.; thence n 200 7O Z COO
leeI 70 corner No. ?; thence s ego 70, f.
oNo feet TO corner No 5; thence 700 so "
w $500 feet to corner No. !, the place of
claim 1 80. :. -
Containing COCO acres.
No conflicts.
From cor, No. 8, x sec. cor. of sec. &c on
eas re boundary. I. 4, n, K. s. E., bears
$40 SO w 9963 feet distant,
The location of this mine is recorded in
the Recorders office of Mineral Hill min
ing district and Alturas county, State of
Idaho. A'e -
The claim is situate on the Mt. ridge on
>. SIDE OF Z: fork of Wood river about four
miles from ITS confluence with main Wood
river: No known claims in the immediate
vicinity. - ~ - -1>'-''
Any and all persons claiming adversely
any portion of said Independence lode.
vein, mine or surface ground, are required
to ME their adverse claims with the Regis
ter OF the United States Land Office. at
Haley, in the county of AIturas State of
Idaho during the SIXTY days period Of
Ponhcation hereof. or they will be barred
by the virtue Of the provisions of the stat
ute.
II is hereby ordered, that the foregoing
notice of application for patent be pnt
llshed for the period Of sixty days ten con
secufive weeks in the kErCHUH KrrsroxE.
weekly newspaper published at Ketchum,
Alturas county, Idaho.
w. T. RILEY, Register.
aYNDMAN, Atty Ter Appileants.
KetcAum, Idaho.
First publication, Jnly 20. 1880. 81
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-04-09
No. $50.
Application for q Patent.
.. 8. Land Once, HALEY. idaho.

y. = Land Office, Haley, Idaho. !
March 8, 1891.
Notice is hereby given that Nicholas C.
sullivan and Erik Anderson. whose post.
office address is Ketchum, Alturas county
Idaho, have this day filed their application
tor patent for ISIS linear feet of the
STRAPPER -
mine or vein, bearing lead and silver ore
WITH surface ground six hundred feet in
width, situated in Warm Springs Greek
INNING district, County of Alturas, and
notes and official plat on file in this Office
As Lot No: s., said Lot No. IS being de-
scribed A. follows, to-wit:
oe&innlng at discovery point. thence
wv - w ri feet to q fir post marked wv.
central end Trapper lode;" thence n 90
~ W 1915 feet to corner No. /, identical
S.; thence S go 50. SO feet To- cor nu
No. 2. whence U. s. n. N. No. bears n 500
y, 6O6. feet distant; thence n 600 Is T. 500
feet to n w corner of Sullivan" lode. I'M
surveyed, and corner No. l Of Zip Top
lode, survey 927, I'LL feet to corner No. ):
thence 70 so " 600 feet to corner No. 1 !:
thence o5o q w 1873 feet to corner No
!, the place OF beginning survey of exterior
boundary of this claim, embracing an area
Of 1867 acres applied for. No conflicts.
Magnetic variation $50 90 e.
The location Of this mine is recorded In
the Recorders Office Of said Alturas county.
IN book J" OF Quarts Claims. pare
The nearest known locations are the s.Tip
Top, Sullivan" and ''Ophir'' lode claims.
"A Any and all persons claiming adversely
surface ground are required to file THAR
adverse claims with TIE Register 81 tie
United S'6ssa Land Office at Haley. in the
state OF Idaho, during the sixty DAYS pc
Rod Of publication hereof, or they win be
paired BY virtue Of the provisions of the
(tstute. W. +. RILEY, Register
e Is hereby ordered that the foregoing
hed for the period Of sixty days ten con-
secotive weeks I'm the KrrCacx X RYsroNE.
2 weekly news1aper ppbllshed ct Ketchum,
Alturas county, Idaho. -r
w r. RILEY, Register.
First publication March I, l86l.