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The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
HAPPENINGS OF THE DAY.

THE first paper published in the In.
dian territory recently made its ap.
p%earance.
ONE steamship laden with gin, an.
other with sugar and a third with
lemons arrived at Montreal one day
last week.
Mrs. JENNIE NORTHERN, of Princeton,
Ky, died a few days ago from an at
tack of measles. She was one hundred
and ten years old, and leaves a daugh-
ter who is ninety years old.
A DEMERARA paper reports the death
in that colony of Mr.. William Mayors
at the authenticated age of ono hun
dred and twenty-six years. Six chill
dren, fifty-two grandchildren and ff-
teen great-grandchildren survive him.
A SYNDICATE of English capitalists
are reported to have secured a large
tract of land near Manumuskin. Cum
berland county, y. j., and will start a
fashionable winter resort, to be known
as Ariel-in-the-Pines.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
AFFAIRS OF

EGYPT has over 1000 obelisks.
THE average wages of workingmen
in Spain are 40 cents a day.
EUROPEAN goldsmiths make up S24,-
ooO,O 900 into gold plate and jewelry an
nually.
PoMPEY's pillar at Alexandria was
neither erected by Pompey nor to his
memory.
THE Jamaica obeah practice, recent
ly the subject of legislation, is identi-
cal with the southern voodoo.
Mosr of the transportation in Ha-
vana, Cuba, is furnished by Little
horses hitched to a victoria. There
are 5000 of those rigs in that city, and
but one horse 4 line.
UNDER a new electoral law which
has passed the lower house in Belgium
and is now before the senate. Every
Belgian aged twenty-five is to be en-
titled to one vote irrespective of prop
erty qualifications, but if he be mar-
ried he will have two votes.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

Sent safely. with your address, to Geo. H.
Heafford, Gcaeral Passenger Agent Chlca-
GO. Milwaukee 4 St Paul Ry., Chicago, Ill,
WIFI fetcn 10 You by mail, without delay, a
portfolio containing a highly cOlored, cor
Grounds and Buildings done by the famous
artist, Charles Grahaml, together with nu-
merOus other beautiful photographic and
half-tone views of unsurpassed lake and
river scenery in Wisconsin. Iowa, Mime
sofa and Michigan. The ''Quarter''-oth-
crwise twenty-five cents in silver or U. S.
postage stamps just covers the Coz: Of the
portfolio. We pay for sending it TO YOU.
The supply Is limited; therefore. send
address at once, or not later than July Is,
leq2
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
LEFT r o THE WARS.

The oldest living graduate Of West
Point academy is Gen. George s.
Greene, of New York city, who is nine
ty-three years old.
THE silver pommel from the saddle
used by Gen. Van Dorm in the Mexican
war has been forwarded as a contribu-
ton to the liberty bell by Capt. Frank
A. Lumsden, of Mobile, who is a SON.
ia-law of Gen. Van Dorm.
THOMAS ALLEN, of Tyler county, W.
Va, who is in his one hundred and
third year, has seen q great deal of
military service. He fought under
Wellington against Napoleon, and in
the Mexican wal under Gen. Scott, and
also in the late civil war.
Col. T. E. DAWSON, of Grand Forks,
n. D., owns the first military order is
sued by Gen. Grant. 1t Is a simple doc
ument, is No. l, dated July Q, 1861, ap-
pointing Mr.. Dawson quartermaster
and commissary of the Twenty-first
Illinois 1t is sign ed Col. Z. S. Grant,
Springfield, Ill. Mr.. Dawson has re-
fused three thousand dollars for it.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
Wanted Light on the Subject.

A native of Troon. on the coast OF
Ayrshire, Scotland, when the contract for
lighting the first three steamers fitted
for electric light at the Troon shipyard
was completed, formed one of a social
party gathered to treat the electricians
who had made the installation and 9TH
erwise celebrate the event. In a burst
of candor and comradeship he was over
heard saying to n of the wiremen:
Man, Peter. efter workin' wi you on
they boats, l believe l could put in the
electric LIGHT myself, but there's only
ane thing that bates me- AYE, what
is that?' said his interested companion,
willing to help him if it lay in his power.
Its this. man; I dinna ken hoo you get
the lie along the wiresl" - Electrical
Review.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

DIR. y is an eloquent preacher
but he belongs to the o~ld-fashioned
school. and finds it difficult to adapt
himself to the modern fashion of short
~discourses. 1t is a standing joke in his
family that after writing n sermon he
has cut it up into a series of ~discourses.
On one occasion ne received a note from
Il well-known clerical brother. asking il
he would deliver a sermon upon
some especial church festival. The
doctor replied that he had lust com.
pleted a sermon upon the golden cali
which seemed to him appropriate. The
answer of the committee. as sent bv
telegram from the brother clergyman.
who knew DIR. " intimately, apG
was acquainted at once with his pecul.
~iarities and with his ability to take a
joke, read as follows:
Golden calf just what is wanted. A
forequarter is all that will be needed"
Free Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

What may be food for a plant may
easily be poison to an animal; and the
farmer who hangs the empty fertilizer
bags oil the pasture fence so that the
cows may suck them will be apt to find
this remark to be too true, and to his
sorrow and abasement for his thought
~lessness. In the mixed manures it is
muriate of potash that is the most vir-
ulent. but there is nothing in any of
the ingredients of the fertilizers that is
in any way good for animals. The safe
way is to urn the bags inside put and
wash them or soak them in a barrel of
water, and use the liquid for the gar
den or the window plants.-Mirror and
Farmer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
FIGS. | AND

nealed wire. twist the ends together,
and wind around the end of n pole in
the manner shown in Fig. >. Soak the
ball with kerosene. apply the match,
and hold. for about ten seconds, directly
underneath the nest, and it will be COM
pletely destroyed. This, of course,
should be done in the morning, before
the caterpillars leave the nest, or after
four o'clock in the afternoon, when they
are usually all at home. Once filling
the ball will at least destroy fifty nests.
The same method is equally effective
with the tussock moths. which are so
destructive to ornamental lawn and
many street shade trees. American
ApricultnriSt.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

Very pretty and extremely odd scrap
bags are made of n combination of linen
and silk in any light shade. A six-incb
square of cardboard is covered with
linen. as are likewise two other pieces,
twelve by six inches. These last are
painted in a delicate floral design and
sewed to opposite sides of the smaller
piece. The other sides have very full
silk gathered at the top with a shirr.
string and loops of ribbon. =. Detroit
Free Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
PEOPLE.

THE prince of Wales is always gloved.
WHEN the wife and daughters of the
Chinese minister to England were pre-
sented to Queen Victoria, they we're
allowed to remain seated after their
presentation, as their small feet unfit
ted them for long standing.
Mrs. BLAINE will 20 to Bar I!arbo.
soon and some time later sail for Eu-
rope, with her youngest daughter. Sht
will probably stay abroad a year,
spending most of the time in England,
where she will take a house.
Mr.. RUsKIN has often visited Mr..
Gladstone at H~awarden, notwitbstand,
ing their difference in politics. Mr..
Ruskin used to say that he and Carlyla
were the only genuine tories left in
England.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
W, |. Douglas Shoes are made 10 all tho
atast SfyIps.
German
Syrup"

My acquaintance with Boschee's
German Syrupwas made about four
teen years ago. 1 contracted a cold
which resulted in a hoarseness and
cough which disabled me from fill.
ing my pulpit for a number of Sab
baths. After trying a physician,
without obtaining relief L saw the
advertisement of your remedy and
obtained a bottle. Ireceived quick
and permanent help. 1 never hest
tate to tell my experience. Rev. W.
H. Haggerty, Martinsville, NJ. q
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
The Brirhtcn,nr influence O, WON,

\ gentleman who recently went far
into the Maine woods to look after his
lands IN coming to a lumberman's
camp thirty miles from nowhere was
struck with establishment and held up
his team involuntarily at the edge of
the opening. The cause was the strains
Of a parlor organ. played in an artistic
manner, which came from the camp.
His surprise was not lessened opsmeet-
ing at the ca%mp-door the Organist and
cook. a handsome young lady. as neat
and tidy as a new pin. who looked after
the house for her father and his crew.
She had taken her organ into the woods
t" "bcguile the drowsy hours and
make things more homelike. As might
he expected the gentleman found hat
camp way ahead" of those not enliv-
cncd by wOman's smile and CHEEKY
presence and he thought he never
knew before how much there is in an
organ. It's the new order of things in
camp-life in the Maine woods.-Kenne-
bee Journal.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

you did. Then why must you write
to him before you Sleep"
Il wasn't kind to him. l wanted to
say l was sorry"
And ask him to come back, ! sup
poser Harry said.
NO; but he proposed in such a queer
way, and was so angry, didn't think
till afterwards that perhaps he really
did care very much, and-but / won't
tell you any more"
Il wonder if could propose to suit
you,' Harry laughed: II wouldn't care
to have Wills luck"
He put his hand in his pocket. and
drew on Il little morocco case, and
threw it into her lap.
I'm not going to say anything unless
you'll put that on"
Grace opened the case. laughing.
This was the way Will had begun, but
some way it did not seem the same at
all.
y diamond sparkled from the
blu silk lining. This was not the same,
either. She put it on and held out her
hand TO him.
Wasn't that a e wayof doing ito"
he asked, proudly. You see if you had
wanted to refuse me you could Just
have handed back the ring and that
would have been all there was 10 it.
But now" There was an eloquent
pause.
"Wha would you have done if | had
given back the ring??" Grace asked,
perfectly happy.
"Oh, | should have thrown the IN
lucky thing into the ocean and taken
the next train to Boston"
why, that's exactly what Will did,
Grace said, looking at him quickly.
What. Iou don't mean it,"
lie did not tell her that VIII had been
reading the same novelette, that he had.
in which the proposal ended as Wills
haddone: and so she always thought the
similarity of her two proposals a most
remarkable cOincideEce.-Boston Globe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

The mistress of a New Jersey coun,
try home has a custom which should
commend itself to other country home
owncrs. For the last nine
she has held afternoon parties, the
guests being eight poor mothers from
New York with their children. They
are brought from the station in car
riages and spend the hours Of their
visits about the grounds. Some of the
women who have been reached by this
gracious hospitality had not been in
the country for twenty years before
Chicago Tribune.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

The Butchers Blunder.-"I don't
believe that steak weighs two pounds"
said old Nipper. surveying the meat
just sent home from the butcher. I'll
weigh it and make Chopson deduct for
the shortage" We'll" said he. after
doing so, its two pounds and a
half, by jingo!' You will have to pay
Chopson for another half pound" said
Mrs. Nipper. Not that's his mis-
take."-BostOn Commercial Bulletin.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

"change of life; women approaching
confinement; nursing mothers ; and ev-
cry woman who is rundown y or over
worked, it is a medicine that builds up,
strengthens, and regulates, no matter
what the condition Of the system.
Its IN invigorating, restorative tonic,
a soothing and bracing nervine, and the
only guaranteed remedy for "female
complaints" and weaknesses. In bear
ing-down sensations, periodical pains
liberation, Inflammation, and every kin
dred ailment, if it ever fails to benefit or
cure you have your money back.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

Do You know what makes coffee deli
cious! Good quality and freshness. The
best grade, if not newly roasted, will yield
a poor drink. MAIL POUCH coffee pos
sesses the quality, and, besides, is roasted
and packed fresh srery day, in one-pound
sealed packages only. by HANLEY & KIN
sELLA COFFEE AND SPICE Co., st. Louis.
Get it at your grocer's.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

At a meeting Of the Iowa Road I'm.
provement association, a few days ago,
one speaker said he had made a careful
computation from such data as he had
been able TO obtain of the cost of bad
roads, and he found they tax what is
understood to be agricultural products
fully sl35, 900. 900 annually. He thought
it q moderate estimate to put the 9TH
er contributions to bad roads by the re-
naming traffic of the country at an
equal amount, making Il total Of s27O,-
600, 900
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

and impeding the forward movement OF the
vehicle.
Road making Or repairing consists in
blowing up the surface of the thorough
fare and keeping up the loose earth in
the middle. there to be again cut into
ruts and worn into hollows by passing
teams.
The idea of building roads as they are
mace in Europe. even in the most thick
" settled localities, seems never to have
entered the minds of those who have
most to do with the use of the high
ways. 1t is a safe assertion that it re-
quires from four to eight horses to haul
the same amount of grain or other COM
modify that is being hauled in Europe
by one or. at the most, two animals.
The reason for this is demonstrated in
the accompanying illustrations In
Europe the roads are carefully built.
with Il foundation of heavy tone and a
surface of small fragments, which are
rolled until they become hard and
smooth.
Over this a heavy load can be hauled
with the greatest east. there being no
giving of the surface beneath the pres
sure. With an ordinary earth road,
such as universally prevails in this state,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

The landsman tourist or commercial tray
eler, speedily begins, and not only begins,
but continues. TO feel the extreme of human
misery during his transit across the EN-
pestuOus AtlantI But If. with wise pres
cience, he has provided himself with a sup
ply of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, his
pangs are promptly mitigated, and then
cease ere the good ship again drops her
anchor. This is worth knowing, and thou
sands of our yachtsmcn, summer voyagers,
tourists and business men do know 1t.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

showing wagon wheel sustained at single point
OF contact on hard, smooth surface OF compact
macadam or tcl.ord road.
however. the wheels of a loaded vehicle
press the surface downward, the result
being that the load is constantly being
hauled up hill. and from two to four
times Is much power is expended as is
necessary.
1t is safe to say that the farmers of
California have, in the forty years dur
ing which they have been raising wheat
and hauling it long distances to market,
expended as much for extra horseficsh,
feed, repairs. etc, as would have suf-
feed to have built scientifically con-
structed roads wherever the bulk of
transportation is done.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

81 DON'T see why you call him greedy
when he gave you his nice large apple TO
divide That's just it. OF course l had
to give him the biggest piece. then."-Ex-
change,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

A WALNUT street girl returned from tho
millincr's and told her mother that most OF
the bonnets were intensely covctaole."-
Philadelphia Record.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

DEAD men tell no tales" they say, but
some OF The latest novels leave the impress
sion that they were post-mortem Efforts
Washington News.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

WE are informed by the Gardeners Mag
azIne that fish are Matched under hens IN
China We should think. il only for the
sake of consistency, that ducks would be
emploved for tins purpnse.-Puck.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

DR.. CRosBr's SWEDISH REMEDY never fails
to afford instant relief and cures where
nothing else will. SdmDle free By mail. COL
uss Bros. MEDICINE Co, ST. Louis, No.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

How SAD 1t makes = man 10 observe q
five dollar hat on j seven cent head--Texa.
Siftlngs.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

BEECHAMs PILLS act like magic on the
liver and other vital organs. One dose re-
lieves sick headache in ~ minutes.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

If there is such :: thing as the well of
English undcti!cd" the modern dialect short
story should he gwen = thorough washing
and rIaSIng III It.-Pucs.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

FARMER lin pawn shop. surprised at the
diversity)-"'Pon my sculr' D~reiballstein
How much you want on r!'- Kate
Fields Washington.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

"Have You a good cOokI" ''She's very
good; goes to church four lines n week.
She can't cook. though.'-Tid-Biis
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
A Certain Cure for Asthma.

some Of the new carriage-wraps for ladies'
make the wearers look like p:sno- lamps
Boston Times.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

WHEN a barber's razor slips it is ant TO be
followed by some cutting remarks.-Roches-
ter Democrat.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

GLESS's Sulphur Soap is a genuine rem
edy for skin diseases.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye, 50 cents.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, i,

LTIA- VVINTF,
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm Of F. J. Che
My Il Co, doing business in the City of
Toledo. County and State aforesaid. and
tina said firm Will pay the SUI of One HCS-
DREp DoILAES for each and every case of
CNTARRH thai, cannot be cu.ed by the use of
Halls CATAERH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
E,rnrn IN hnfnrn me and subscribed In nv
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
HELP rs WANTED

by the women who
are ailing and suf-
fering, or weak and
exhausted. And, to
every such woman,
help is guaranteed
by Doctor Pierce's
Favorite Prescrip-
ton. For young
girls just entering
womanhood; wo-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

Notary Public.
nails Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
directly en- the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonials,
F. !. CHENEY q Co, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. I5c.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
Is It Like This

your package ofwashing compound
that you call "Pearline? Look at
the front of the package, and see. 1t
will be for your own good and your
own protection, quite as much as ours.
The popularity of Pearline has led to
the calling of anything in the shape
of powder, which is used for washing
or cleaning, by that name.
If you find you are using the gen.
uine, we will guarantee that you are
well pleased. If you have any COM
plants to make, we will guarantee
not Pearline, but some worthless or
it. Many grocers send these imita-
ordered-more profit to them-sure
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03
A. ". GLEASON.

Sworn to before me and subscribed IN II
presence, this 6thday of December, AID IS
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1893-06-03

that what you have is nc
dangerous imitation of it.
tons when Pearline is O.
loss to you. Send them |
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