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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-26
UNITED STATES.

Iowa and Minnesota have been
troubled with fierce forest fires lately.
Chicago is To have the largest tele-
scope in the world 1t is Il gift from
Charles I. Ierkcs of that city:
The ship Hawaiian Isles arrived at
San Francisco, Oct. l3, with nine of
her crew afflicted with scurvy.
The last batch of immigrants held
down in New York harbor since the
outbreak of the cholera landed at Ell
lis island, Oct H.
General j. b. Price, the famous
Confederate officer, and prominent
citizen of Missouri, died Oct. II in
Denver, (Colo), at the home of his
son, j. b. Price. His death resulted
from Il cancer in the eye
Two large digestors in the Bangor
Pulp and Paper Companys mill at
Orondo, exploded Oct. II. Richard
Zeith was killed outright. William
Eddy died soon after being taken
from the ruins. Six others were in
jured,
Minister Egan had an hours con
ference with the President at Wash
ington, Oct, II. The President eX-
pressed deep qualification at the fair
and honorable settlement of the re
cent differences between the two
countries.
The annual meeting of the stock
~ Af "a | nj
held in New York, Oct y, Thirty
Directors were elected, the only new
names being Henry b. Hyde and W,
Murray Crane to fill the vacancies
caused by the death of Sidney Dillon
and Cyrus W. Field,
The Sixty second Annual Confer
ence of the Mormon Church in Salt
Lake City has closed. The reports
from the various states in Utah Ida
ho, Wyoming, Colorado Arizona and
New Mexico showed a total member
ship of over two hundred thousand.
1t was decided to dedicate the new
temple April 1, 1893. This building
was commenced forty years ago and
cost -, 500, 900.
The blacksmith, Allard of Lewis,
who claims to have discovered the Sc
cret of tempering copper, has tenn
peredea piece of aluminium. The test
was made at the demand of New
York firm. 1t took the Canadian in
ventor only thirty minutes to temper
the piece of aluminium, which was
originally as soft as lead Able La
Flamme, the renowned scientist of
Laval University, examined the tenn
pered metal, and gave Allard a GER
tifcate to the effect that the alumi-
mum was tempered as hard as steel
could be.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-26
W oman S World.


Now you have selected your mate
rial be guided in making yodr gown
by your figure. If there are peculi-
arities, try to hide them. If you are
very thin or very stout, do not make
your gown SO tight and plain that it
will bring to light every angle or
every pertuberance.
If you are narrow chested, trim
your waist with rut1lcs of material
(when it is light enough to be SO
used, silk or lace, reaching from the
shoulders, where they are five or six
inches deep, to the waist line to
which they are graduated and meet
in a point. Or make very full point
to your waist, shirring, on laying it
in pleats. If you have sloping shoul-
ders, wear turned-oyer collars, with
ruflles or lace around them when for
dressy gowns, and for morning or
business gowns let the collars be
deeper, almost like the sailor collar,
or wear deep, full rutfles of chiffon
around the throat Another trim
ming that is becoming in such cases
is the ruffle around the arm-size, lay
ing fiat upon the shoulder, or a
slightly bristling effect. 1t is put on
before the sleeve is sewed in. Or
have ribbon draped around the arm
size, ending in bows on the shoulder.
When yon have decided ON a color,
try the different shades until you
find one that is becoming, which you
are sure to do with so many tints. 1t
is not necessary to hold them up to
your face; place your hand ON them
and you will see Immediately if ii
whitens and clears, or apparently
brings out blotches or rcdness of the
skin or makes it appear sallow.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-26
Woman's Laughter.

Women very generally neglect a
powerful weapon of offense and de-
fense placed at their command by
nature. A woman's laugh, if intelli-
gently and skiL.ully used, can wither
a man in his tracks or elevate him to
the seventh heaven of happiness, says
the Brandon Banner.
Several causes have contributed to
the decadence of woman's laughter.
The chief one, perhaps, is the modern
habit of dressing. Full, free laughter
depends upon a perfect development
and exercise of the respiratory mus
cles. Confined, as these are, by steel
and whalebone, laughter becomes an
impossibility.
With loss of the art of laughing
comes a loss of the sense of humor.
When the expression of any of the
senses becomes difficult the sense it.
self dwindles. Don't mistake giggling
for laughter.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-26
FEMALE DOCTORS QUEER FIX.
Assigned by Mistake To the Same State
room with Two Male Travellers.

A young married woman in New
York who is doctor of medicine and
is slowly building up nice practice
often finds it convenient to drop the
title and be Introduced to new ac-
quaintanceS as Miss R, instead of
DIR. Theodore R. SO many other
wise sensible people have prejudice
against female doctors that she likes
to establish herself in their respect
and good graces by her natural charms
of manner, looks and brains before she
springs" her profession on them.
Often, too, she finds 1t more useful
when writing to people she does not
know to sign herself DR.. R instead
of DR.. Theodore R, and once. ac-
cording to the Press, this latter habit
got her into an awkward situation,
though more frequently it worked ad-
Nantageously.
1t is her custom to spend her sum-
mer vacation in quiet Maine town.
which is most easily reached by boat
from Boston. This time she tele-
graphed ahead to the Boston steam
ship line: Keep me berth for to-
morrow night and signed it DIR.
R. She WAS pretty we'll known
to the officers and agents of the line
and had no doubt that that was enough
to secure it. Reaching Boston by
rail, she hurried down to the boat
without going to the agents office.
Once on board, she greeted the stew
ard rs an old friend and went straight
to her cabin and began to make her
self comfortable. The boat had not
got well under way before there came
Il knocking at her door, and when she
opened il big, fat man peered in and
then started back with an angry look
on his face.
This is my cabin he said
excuse me, sir 1t is mine"
"Here is my check and key with the
proper number on it,"
"Mne bears the same" .##.
There must be some blunder,
madam
There must be- but the bunder is
not mine, sir"
at must be, madam. 1t is not like
ly that two gentlemen would be mis-
takenly assigned to your stateroom."
"Are there two gentlemen assigned
here?"
"Yes, madam. The upper berth has
been taken by myself and the lower
by Dr. R, of New York"
Then it dawned upon DR.. Theodore
R that she was not as we'll known
to the agents as she thought. They
had supposed DR.. R to be man,
and had assigned her to a stateroom
with another man. This all flashed
throuuh her mind in a tw;nk1;np
Then she said, Excuse me, sir. This
is evidently my mistake" and gather
ing her things up with swoop she
marched out into the saloon and sat
there all night, sooner than make pub
lic the laughable predicament into
which she had placed herself.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-26
WORK FROM FORCE OF HABIT.
Millionaires Reach a Stage Where They
Find 1t Hard to Remain Idle.

"Why do YOU work so hard when
you already have more money than
you can spendp" Brooklyn million
aire was asked the other day.
Habit, suppose" said the million
aire as frankly as he had been ques-
toned. Then he leaned back in his
chair and thought. Finally he repeat
ed, with the air of a man who had
looked over the ground and had come
to conclusions: yes, it's nothing
but habit, but | can't conveniently
break off money-making now. Pri-
marily we all set out to make money
for two reasons. Firstly. we want to
secure existence; secondly, we desire
to secure pleasures and luXuries. But
while working for these purposes men
become acquainted with great prof.
ects, and problems, and schemes, and
industries, and if they are earnest men
who have more than a selfish interest
in the business world about them, they
soon become absorbed in those things.
| don't think so meanly of our rich
men as to imagine that they cling to
business on account of the money it.
brings them, after they have already
acquired more money than they could
spend. But there is pleasure and
excitement in holding the rudder of
great enterprise and sending it boldly
ahead in all kinds of weather. Does
the old sailor love the sea because of
the dollars he has made as wages or
the dollars he expects to make? Not
he. He loves it because his life's work
has been identified with it. My work
has become my pleasure now, and |
could not bear to leave it long. This
is like big machine here, and it is a
great and constant pleasure to see how
smoothly it runs and to put my hand
down and adjust it when necessary"
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-26
Something Worth Knowing.

Miss Parloa says if you want a fly
paper that is not poisonous, put one
pound of quassia wood in saucepan
with two quarts of water. Let it
soak over night and in the morning
boil until there is but one pint of liq-
uid left Soak sheets of blotting pa
per in this and then dry them. Set
away for use. Put small pieces of
the paper in "a saucer with little
water and place where the flies will
taste the liquid.
Chamois skins that have been used
for cleaning silver, brass, etc, can
be made as soft and clean as new as
follows: Put six teaspoonfuls of
household ammonia into bowl with
a quart of tepid water. Let the
chamois skin soak in this water for
one hour. Work it about with a
spoon, pressing out as much of the
dirt as possible, then lift it into a
large basin of tepid water and rub
well with the hands. Rinse in fresh
waters until clean, then dry in the
shade. When dry rub between the
hands. Chamois jackets may be
washed in the same manner except
ing that there should be two qnarts
of water and six tablespoonfuls of
ammonia
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-26
Care of Lamps.
ammonia.

The best way of treating a wick is
to brush off the charred part and
thus allow it to trim itself. If the
scissors are used, it is apt to be un-
even, until the flame has burnt it
even.
If lamp is properly brushed out
with a stiff little brush, like paint
ers brush, which may be kept for
the purpose, there is no need of
washing the burner. All that is
necessary is to wipe the burner out
in every part with a soft flannel or
cotton cloth, which should also be
kept for the purpose. This keeps
the burner bright and free from sur
plus oil and dust.
A few drops of alcohol will do more
to remove the dust and smoke from
the inside of the lamp chimney and
leave it crystal bright than a quart
of water.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-26
WINES,
Lager Beer on Draught.

This cOmmodious saloon Will be conducted as
popular establishment. A fine card and read.
ing room adds to the attractions of the place.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-26

"Perplexed Preserver . asks if
there is no other way of sealing jelly
tumblers than by putting on papers
dipped in brandy If+jefly is made
properly, allowed to cool before it is
sealed and kept in ii dry cool place it
will keep well by pasting on cover
of writing or gummed paper. Cut
the paper in circle, slash it to fit
the top of the tumbler and paste
down smoothly. Brushing the COW
ers with the white of an egg, cover
ing the jelly with melted parrafiine or
branded paper, are unnecessary and
troublesome precautions.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-10-26

Is stocked with the finest brands OF standard
Whiskles and Wines. All kinds of Mineral Wat
ers and Temperance Drinks.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-07-21
EXPLOSIVES IN WARFARE.
Terrsbas Asents for the Destruction I
Human Life,

Terrible Aseats for the Destruction Of
Human Life, -r
High explosives. hitherto untried in
either military or naval contests. viii
play large and important part IN the
warfare OF the future. The most power
full at present known is explosive
gelatine," being fifteen times as strong
as gunpowder. II is made by dissolving
gun-cotton in nitroglycerine, the prepa-
ration having the consistency of honey.
Unfortunately It Is very unsafe stuff to
use In battle, because a bullet striking
1t will set it of by concussion. No ex-
plosive is good for fighting purposes
that can be touched of by shock or
otherwise than by the actual contact
of fire. A novel kind Of bomb is filed
with what the inventor calls ''hellofiteL I"
The two chemical ingredients, binitro-
benzole and nitric acid. are in separate
glass vessels, which are broken when
the shot is fired, their contents being
mixed together by the rapid revolution
of the shell and exploded by q time
fuse. Wonderful accounts are given of
the havoc created by the bursting Of
projectiles of this description. Up to
the present time no method of throw
ing high-power explosives from guns by
means Of gunpowder has been proved
successful, although one scientific
gentleman has wasted three hundred
Thousand dollars of Uncle Sans money
IN experiments which only resulted in
bursting many valuable cannon. How
ever, trials that are being conducted
under government auspices with new
mixture termed 'ermensite" seem like
ly to solve this problem. Until now
pneumatic guns have been found avail.
able for such purposes.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-07-21
Highest market price paid for good
milling wheat at Model City Mills.
EVANS & M'GUIRE.
Niagara Falls Excursion, July %.

The G. Fl. & d., whose magnificent ex-
cursions to Niagara Falls, Toronto aud
the Thousand Islands are always the
banner excursions of the summer season,
will run another from Cincinnati, Thurs
day, July %. The excursion will so via
Detroit and the Michigan Central, "The
Niagara Falls Route" The rates from
Cincinnati to Niagara Falls and return
will be $500, and from Dayton $3.50.
Toronto and return will be dollar high
err, and to Thousand Islands and return
$500 higher. Tickets will be good for
five days from Niagara Falls and ten
days from Thousand Islands. Stop over
will be allowed and extension granted at
Toledo for two days, to visit Putin Bay
and the mammoth Hotel Victory. Make
your arrangements to spend your vaca-
ton about this time and join the G. H.
d ID. excursion. There will be plenty os
sleeping cars and coaches for all. For
further particulars address any c. Fl. &
d. agent, or E. 0. Mccormick, G. P. &
I. Agent, Cincinnati, o.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-07-21
Notice to Contractors School
House Letting.

Sealed proposals will be received at the Office
OF the Clerk of the Board Of Education of
Paint township, Highland county, Ohio. in
New Petersburg until twelve o'clock at noon
on the LIST day Of August 1892. for building q
brick school house in sub district No. 5 (Rains-
borO) VI raid ttwuship. according to plans and
specifications on file in said Office Each bid
must contain the name Of every person inter-
ested in the same and be accompanied by
sufficient guaranty Of some disinterested party
that If the bid is accepted q contract will be
entered into and the performance of it proper
~ secured. The bid for each kind Of material
called for by the specifications must be stated
separately and the price of each given. and the
price Ut labor must also be separably stated.
None but the lowest responsible bid will be ac-
cepted, and the Board may reject oil bids.
Contractors will bid with the understanding
that all the material in the old building that Is
suitable will be used in the construction of the
new.
By order Of the Board Of Education.
MARION B. WILLIAMS. Clerk.
New Petersburg, O., June 25th, 1892.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-07-21
QUEER WITCH STORIES

Some People VINO stin Believe In w1tch-
fi#Grtieaf csafs. s e-Is
What funny storaes come out OF Berlxs
county, Pa, about witches and witch
doctors, and those who enjoy them
most are the educated Berks county
people, who laugh At the superstitious
fears OF foolish and ignorant neighbors.
Not long ago the members Of family
In one Of the country districts were all
taken siclx, and the hrst thing the head
of the family did was to consult a witch
doctor, who told him the sick people
were hewitched He was told to drive
9 NAH In the sill Of his barn door, with
q single blow Of the hammer, three
mornings In succession He did this,
but It Is not stated that the sick people
got we'll The man insista. however,
that the woman who bewitched his fam
fly was killed by the nails he drove into
the sill, and as an old woman In the
neighborhood happened to give up the
ghost his superstitious neighbors agree
with him that he has killed witch. In
another township q young girl who was
in love with q country youth went to q
witch doctor for q love-powder to give
the young man that would compel him
to reciproc ate her affection She got
the powder, but In giving it secretly to
the young fellow she incautiously made
known her desire that he should marry
her, whereupon he seized his hat and
fed out into the wide, wide world, and
he hasn't been heard from since
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-07-21
TIE WORLD "A SHELL
Qussr Belief Of the savaees OF tho souti
Pacific. >. ,

~ y - = '
0nesr Belief Of the savages Of tho south
Pacific. >.
The savage islanders Of the South
PAci1lc believe that the world is.a cocoa
nut shen Of enormous dimensions at
the top of which is single aperture
communicating with the upper air,
where human, beings dwell At the
very bottom Of this imaginary shell Is q
stem gradually tapering to point,
which represents the beginning of all
things This point Is a spirit or demon
without human form, whose name is
'..Root Of All Existence" By him the
entire fabric of creation IL sustained
In the interior Of the cocoanut shell,
q its very bottom, hvesa female demon.
So marrow is the space into which she is
crowded that she Is Obliged to sit for
ever with knees and chin touching.
Her name is 1.-THE Very Beginning"
and from her are sprung numerous
spirits. They inhabit Eve different
Aoors. into which the great cocoanut Is
divided From certain Of these spirits
mankind u descended The islanders
regarding themselves as the only real
men and women, were formerly accus-
toned toregard strangers as evil spirits
In the guise of humanity, whom they
killed when they could. Offering them
"a sacrifces
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-07-21
n WORK Z III al SWEAT SHOP.


How 1t Is COnQucted In ChicagO-Th0
Miserable Wages Paid.
The Chicago sweat shop is a place
where, separate from the tailoring or
clothing warehouse, sweater (mid-
dleman) assemblies journeymen tailors
and needlewomen, to work under his
supervision. He takes cheap room
outside the dear and crowded business
center, and within the ncighborhood
where the work people live. This is
rent saved to the employer and time and
travel to the employed The men can
and do work more hours than was pos
sible under the centralized system, and
their wives and children can help, es-
pecially when, as is often done, the gar
ments are taken home to Finish" Gwen
the Very young can pull out the basting
threads.) This finishing is what re-
mains undone after the machine has
done its work, and consists Of Telling
the waist and leg-end Of trousers (paid
at ~ cents pair), and in short, eli
the "felling" necessary on every gar
ment Of any kind. For this service, at
the prices paid, they cannot, according
TO Scribner, earn more than 25 cents to
40 cents day, and the work Is largely
done by italian, Polish and Bohemian
women and girls Ty
The entire number Of persons en-
ployed in these vocations may be stated
at 5000 men lot whom 800 are Jews),
and from 10000 ia $4,000 women and
children. The wages are reckoned BY
''piecework," /" and (outside the. finish
ing") run about as follows. Gifl hand
sewers, earn nothing for the Aut tmonth,
then as unskflIed workers stxey get 81
to $1.50 week, 8 q week, and Is
skilled workers, e6 q week. The first
named class constitute 80 per cent. Of
all the second 80 per cent and the last
% per cent. In the general work men
are only employed to do buttonholing
and pressing, and their earnings are
as follows: "Pressers," s. to Sf2 a week;
''underpresse1s," - to 81. Cloak oper-
ators earn Ss to e12 q week. -Four -6fths
of the sewing machines are furnished
by the '.sweatersr (middlemen); also
needles, thread and wax.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-07-21
AN ODD CREATURE.
The Laughing Jackass aud Its Peculia
Song. U-

The Laughing Jackasa and Its Peculiar
Song. .-
The great oddity at the Golden Gate
park, San Francisco, is the laughing
jackass, which has an apartment all to
himself. He doesn't look bit like q
humorist, but he looks so homely and
cocks his head In such strangely
solemn way that everybody laughs at
seeing him Some OF the park en-
ployes caught slim little snake two
feet long one afternoon and it was
thrown alive into the laughing jackass'
big cage. The bird pounced on the
snake with thrill Of Joy In his heart,
and, grabbing 1t behind the head, he
quickly thrashed the life out OF II
against the sides Of the cage, "a
Then he started IN at the snakes
head and swallowed it AL After Civ
ing a few extra swallows 81 satisfaction
, he expressed his thanks with hoarse,
loud "Ha! hal hal Ia! ha, Ia! hat" Shst
was about as musical as his physaog-
nomy Is beautiful: Superintendent Nc
Lasn was visibly touched by the on9
ly birds gratitude for. an ACT, OF kind
ness Next to snakes the laughing jack
ass likes lizards. As the park funds hard
ly warrant getting him daily supply
Of delicious reptiles be usually has TO
put up with chunks Of fresh meat and
occasional worms "A ss xga
In Australia, where laughing jaAA-
asses generally DO as they please, they
make constant war on snakea The
bird will pounce down ON one Ikea
hawk, grab it back Of the head apd
quickly rise to considerable height,
when he will let the snake drop V TIE
ground The snake will be stunned By
the fall and viii no sooner strike the
ground than the laughing boxes y
thrashing it about preparatory to ;
speedy meal The bird is there often
called the ''squatters clock,- blcauAb
at six o'clock every evening they every
where set up concert Of .Hal hat bar
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-07-21
a PIRATES POWER.
The Talented Lantte and His Control Over
His Men.


His Men.
II recently met q survivor of Pirate
Laftte's band Of freebooters," said
Thomas Haines, once lieutenant in
the United States navy, to a st. Louis
Globe Democrat reporter. He was
tough-looling specimen and must have
been well past eighty years of age, for
1t is more than sixty years since Lafitte
had his headquarters on Galveston
island and preyed upon the commerce
Of the gulf. Q The relic of those half
forgotten times was an inmate of
Jersey City charitable institution and
was not much inclined to discuss by
cones He said. however, that LATTE
was a very handsome Frenchman, more
than six feet in height, well nude and
possessed of wonderful talents as q
commander. He ruled the toughest lot
OF men ever congregated on one island
as though they were flock Of lambs.
Occasionally q lawless spirit would
rebel, however, but his days thence
forth were brief and full of trouble.
Every woman who came in contact with
LATTE fell In love with him, and he
was as safe among his female friends
In New Orleans as on Galveston island
surrounded by his armed buccaneers.
According to this survivor, a prominent
New Orleans lawyer once gave LATTE
offense and he made pilgrimage to
the city to kill him but changed his
method Of revenge and pursuaded his
enemy's handsome young wife to eloIe
with him. According to this ancient
chronicler, several well-known people
in south Texas and Louisiana are de-
scendants Of Lafitte's piratical crew and
few Of his female companions are still
living in that section.