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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-02-10

eastern par, Of the city, and will |
make extensive improvements on the /
premises.
The Santa Fee railroad company IS /!
boring a new WelI near the old depot 7.
in order to get soft water. The well
will lie sunk deep enough to get ueioW
lhe aikali strata.
Samuel Pructor pleaded guilty to
tile chuTge of selling Intoxicating liquor
before Justice Dyer Tuesday, and was
given the usual penalty-SIOO inc and
thirty days in Jail.
The county commissioners held a.
short meeting last Saturday. The
letting Of the janitOr work in the court
house was postponed to the next regu-
lar meeting in April,
Krlwinuiug Lodge, X. of P, will
give az dance at Fiohr's opera house oE
The night Of Washington birthday,
February 22ud. Invitations will be
issued in n few days.
Messrs Baldwin and Nicol, of Dick
inson county, will bring car load Of
heavy brood mares here next Tuesday
for sale. Their .'ad.'' appears in
another column Oh this page.
Several candidates for the omcs of
postmaster of this city are circulating
petitions for their appointment. Joe
Bishop, DR.. Pearson, and Jake Schmidt
are tile only ones that have made their
appearance.
Remember that Spiegle & Son have
the most complete line of white shirts
and collars in town, aud any one wish
ing fiyst-class laundry work will leave
it at their store not later than Tuesday
of each week
Mrs. c. II. Seamans is still seriously
i'll. DR.. h. Hooper, of Kansas City,
the family physician of Mrs. Seaman's
parents, visited Ier last Saturday and
/ consulted with DR.. Mosher, who is the
attending physician.
john Yost, of Cassopolis, Michigan,
VITO sometime ago purchased the stock
of goods forrHeEly owned by C. A.
Read was ia the city last week. Tie
bulk Of the goods were shipped 10 his
place of business ia Michigan last
Monday.
We will make our last cut on dress
| flauHels, next Saturday, to 20 per cent
/ from regular selling price, winch, as
| sou have all beer! convinced, WAS 10
/ per cent lower than elsewhere. Ladies',
you should avail yourselves OF this
/ opportunity SPIEGLE & SON.
John AZ. Cain. Of Atehison. Kansas,
one Of the most prOnineut millsrs ia
the state, came here Wednesday for
| the purpose of examining the Kinsiey
Roller Mill and also the land owned
| by Col. J. N. Lewis, in Wayne town.
ship, with view TO buying both pro-
peTties.
At a meeting Of Sunhorger Alliance
| last Saturday, the following officers
were elected for the ensueiug year;
}. I. BreisfOTd, president; ID. Heath,
| vies-pFesidenti Floyd WeiImsu. secre-
tary; John smith, treasurer; J. k.
Miller, lecturer; I. Force. assistant
/ lecturer; +. Sturdsvant, door keeper.
/ EESG w Goiu5ciiAltub "HA fanny
arrived home from Greenfield, Indiana,
I Tuesday night, where they have been
visiting the parents of Mrs. Gold
| schmidt for several weeks. Fred SAYS
/ the SNOW WAS three feet deep on the
level nearly All the time lac was there.
lie is on deck again at the tin shop on
| Marsh avenue.
Rev. J. A. Walker, pastor Of the
81. E. church, OF this city, requests as
to correct n statement that appeared
/ in last weeks Lferct1y to the effect
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-02-10

L. B. Noble vas in town Wednesday.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26

"Castoria is the best remedy for children OF
which am acquainted. hope the day is not
far distant when mothers will consider the real
interest of their children, and use Castoria in
stead of the variousquack nostrums which are
destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium,
morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful
agents down their Threats, thereby sending
them to premature graves"
DIR. ]. f. KIEcHELoE,
Conway, Ark.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26
Eject Of a Sentimental Song.

Mr.. Whitehead is a tinsmith in
Weaverville. His wife's name is Ann,
and Ann and the tinsmith have never
got along very well together. Mrs.
Martin and Mrs. Whitehead, so the
story goes, became quite chummy. There
was piano in the tinsmiths house, and
Mrs Martin was in the habit of playing
1.-THE Old Oaken Bucket" The man of
solder rather liked it at first. But when
Mrs. Martin continued to thrum out the
same tune day after day it got kind of
tiresome. He demonstrated with Ann,
but the wife told him to mind his pots
and kettles and not to NEEDLE with
music.
One day the tinsmith lost all patience
and went up stairs, and after dancing a
jig on the keys wound up by smashing
the instrument all to pieces, ending the
performance by remarking, ''To -
with your old Oaken Bucket. '"-San
Francisco Examiner.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26
Louisville Dog That swsars.

A Louisville railroad man has dog
that distinguishes the days of the week
and different railroad trains. On days
when Midget's owner makes his regular
trips the dog accompanies him to the
station, but never attempts to board the
train-just stays on the platform, an in
terested spectator, and wags his tail
cheerfully as the train moves out. On
other days and other trains-suburba
trains to Falkland or Pewee Valley
he hops aboard without hesitation, evil
IDENTIFY aware that the ride in prospect is
one that he may share. Midget swea- 5.
too; swears like pirate.
The family understand him, but they
report that his language is too terrible
to be repeated. When things don't 20
to suit him, he retires under bed or
sofa and lies there rolling off oaths of
fearful description for hours. A young
man who was attentive to Midget's
young mistress unintentiona, tended
him, but the dog got even. He actually
broke off the match. He knew the regu-
lar nights on which the youth appeared,
and at an early hour would ensconce
himself under the parlor sofa, from
which coign of vantage he would growl
forth such volleys of personal and pro-
fame remarks that the prospective lover
became intimidated and ceased his at
tentions. In recognition of these serv-
ices Midget's master gave him beauti
full silver collar-Louisville Courier
Io11rna1
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26
stealing Ideas.

It must be surprising to the uninitiated
to see how soon fashions become general
lied in Paris. A creation, a new fash
ion, is hardly out of an exclusive house
of the Rue de la Paix-hardly out of the
workrooms, it might be said-when you
see it copied in the show windows Of the
Louvre and the Bon Marche, where it
can be bought for less than one-fourth
of the price asked by the great couturiers.
At first the rulers Of dress thought that
some of their workpeople were bribed to
give points, but they soon discovered that
the pilfering of ideas took place in the
showrooms instead of the worlrooms.
The Louvre and the Bon Marche engaged
handsome, distinguished looking young
women, dressed them as if they had $780,
600 a year and were accustomed from
infancy to having and wearing the best,
gave them a private carriage and had
them go to the great costumers to order
garments "just come out"
These afterward served as the models
of things which the week after you
might buy by the dozens. The large
shops resort to this means to obtain nov
elites not only in the beginning of the
season, but all the year round, and the
couturiers have no way of avoiding the
sales, for their showrooms are open to
all who wish to purchase and give or
ders. To be sure these couturiers make
most of their creations for authentic
princesses and duchesses, but here also
the shops get the best of them.-Cor.
New York Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26

The Florida chameleon, which also is
frequently brought home by the tourist,
is bright and intelligent creature. He
requires almost unlimited sunshine to
bask in, and flies, which he catches on
the end of his long tongue, to eat. A
fernery is comfortable place for him.
This fellow, it is said, has temper, and
if not well treated or if leased he will
show fight, though he can hardly do
much harm. The genuine chameleon,
after whom the Florida lizard is named,
is one of the quaintest and oldest of
pets, but he is native of the old world
and rarely seen in our country.
Another American of the family, often
sent from the west and south to pet
lovers, is called the horned toad, though
he is no toad, but lizard. He is said to
be an interesting pet and capable of be-
ing taught. All the small members of
this race live on insects and need to be
kept in very warm quarters. Olive
Thorne Miller in Harper's Bazaar.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26
INC Boomerang y Not New.

The boomerang, the Australian natives
weapon of offense and defense, referred
to in all reference works as an instru-
ment unknown until after the discovery
of Australia, was doubtless known be-
fore the time of Christ Pliny the elder,
a contemporary Of our Saviour, writes
as follows in his Natural History" re-
specting an instrument made of the wood
of the aquifolia:
eff staff made of this wood, when
thrown at an animal, from want OF
strength in the person throwing, falls
short of the mark, it will come back to
ward the thrower of its own accord, SC
remarkable are the properties of that
tree"
1t is altogether probable that the
learned Phny did not consider the shape
of the "staff" and referred its peculiari-
ties to the nature of the wood of which
it was made.--St Louis Republic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26
Life Guns For Firemen.

Had the fire department been equipped
with apparatus for throwing ropes to
great heights or distances, such as are
carried by all life saving stations, many
lives could have been saved from the
flames at the cold storage fire. Every
man who escaped alive did so by finn
sy rope. With proper gun or cannon
a rope or numbers of them could have
been shot up over the tower and made
fast by the imprisoned men. The ropes
can be rendered noncombustible. No
new or expensive machinery would be
required. At the life saving station at
Jackson park could have been found
huge guns with endless coils Of lifeline
attached. The guns fire heavy spear,
which carries the lifeline out to wrecks,
helpless boats and drowning men. TWEEN
ty such lifelines could have been fired up
and over the burning tower. Every shot
of the gun would have saved the life Of
brave fireman.
With the high buildings In the bust
ness center such apparatus would be
most valuable and could be carried on
every hose cart. Individuals imprisoned
in the tenth story, cut off from all es-
cape, could be saved. A lance could be
shot into the window and the rope made
fast. Nothing would be easier. If the
gun, the lance and the rope are good to
save lives at sea, why not use fireproof
ropes to save men from death by fre?-
Chicago Globe.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26
Police on the Wheel.

The proposal to mount a pSx3 Of the
park police on bicycles is timely though
tardy. Already the worlds armies have
organize dtheir bicycle service, and 1t
can hardly be commended that this mode
of locomotion Is more appropriate there
than in the police service or likely to be
SO useful. In the event of the wheels
adoption by the police authority the
public may assume that the men will be
required to sit it properly. They will
not offend the eye by contributing to
the monkey on a gridiron exhibition.
In fact, their martial appearance could
be expected to contribute by its example
to diminish that depressing practice.
It is certain that the seat of the mounted
police has stimulated perception Of the
ridiculous In equestrians bobbing from
the saddle like cockney tailors out for a
holiday.
The extension of the use of the wheel
is among the interesting phenomena OF
the day. The French postal service has
adopted it extensively in rural service.
Even the stolid Briton has proposed the
reform. In England, however, the mag
nltude of the mail offers some difficult
ties. Its growing extension in the col
onies is marked. The export of bicycles
now cuts respectable figure in board
of trade returns. During the past year
the value has nearly doubled.-New
York Evening Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26

One of the biggest newspaper cheats"
in 20 years was achieved by La
Nacion, little newspaper published in
the Argentine Republic. This news
paper published the news of the accident
to the Victoria a day ahead Of every
other paper in the world, and the news
of the disaster was known in Buenos
Ayres before it was in London. The
dispatch to the British government an
nouncing the disaster lay IL hours
unopened in the admiralty Office. Mean
while the news had been stolen off the
wires and sent by friend of the Argen-
tine paper to La Nacion, which was
able to publish it in advance of all its
contemporaries. Such at any rate is
the story Of the cheat as it is related
here in newspaper row. 1t is safe to
say that any of the leading American
newspapers would have given thousands
of dollars to have obtained exclusive
intelligence of the Victoria disaster, en-
abling 1t to beat the world with the
news. La Nacion's cheat" seems to
have been case not of enterprise, but
of good luck.-New York Letter.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26
chinese Pirates successful.

The Shanghai papers contain a report
obtained from native advices from Can
ton of serious conflict between some
piratical craft and gunboats at a place
midway between Shaochow and Canton.
1t appears that while three gunboats be-
longing to the customs were escorting
two boats laden with sycee valued at
10000 teals, belonging to the Hollow
Likin customs, on their way to Canton,
they were attacked by numerous feet
of pirates numbering, it is reported, over
600 men, and after desperate fight, dur
ing which the government men lost near
ly go in killed and wounded, the pirates
made away with their booty. The reason
given for the inability of the gunboats
to protect their convoy was that they
were all aground at the point where they
had anchored for the night, and the
pirates, being in shallow bottomed boats,
Unanswered effectually around the gun
boats, which, being completely raked
fore and aft, were compelled at last to
strike their colors, and there was gen.
eral cry of sauve qui peut, leaving the
pirates on the neld.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26

Professor Alfonso Carpentieri, the
famous gynecologist of the University
of Naples, became suddenly insane q
few days ago, He imagined that he was
dying from starvation and thirst, and
entering a restaurant, drank four cups
of coffee, bottle of wine, bottle OF
cognac, and ate 10 sandwiches and
more than dozen eggs. When the
proprietor declined to serve anything
else, the professor sprang ON the table
and cried, with the voice of Stentor
Eggs, eggs! Give me eggs and keep me
from starvingw When he began to
break chairs and tables, he was over
powered and placed in a hospital. He
is one of the most famous physicians in
Italy.-Chicago Times.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26
HOW CATS OFTEN SPREAD DISEASE.
Mothers Should Teach Children Not to
Handle Strange Animals.

Mothers Should Teach Children Not to
Handle Strange Animals.
Since I have spoken in defense of the
dog, let me say something more with
relation to that other favorite household
COMPANION of mantle cat. would
call your attention to the fact that the
cat is beast far more useful to mankind
than the dog. Without the latter we
could get along, but if we had no cats
we should have a continual plague of
rats and mice, which would overrun the
cities and devour the crops and small
live stock Of the farmers.
At the same time You may set it down
an indisputable truth that the domestic
cat is prolific source of great variety
Of diseases. 1t breeds them and dis
seminates them-skin troubles partic-
ular1y. 1t carries about with it the con-
tagion of diphtheria, one of the most fa-
tai of humaa complaints, and it is seri-
ously suspected of helping to sow the
germs of consumption. A trouble akin
to ringworm which attacks the scalp and
causes the hair to fall out is frequently
conveyed by cats. Likewise it is with
scarlet fever, which, when it is in a
house, is always likely to be scattered
abroad by the pet pussies of the estab-
lishment.
The way of it is this: When tnere is
sickness in house, old cloths are apt to
be used for various purposes. These are
commonly thrown afterward into some
out of the way place, like the corner of
closet. Suppose that there is tabby
about that is on the point of bringing
into the world litter of kittens. Fe-
male cats are constantly having kittens,
as you know, being among the most pro-
life of animals. She searches for Sc
questered nook for her accouchement
and is likely to make her bed Of just
such lot of old rags as have described.
AS natural consequence, not only is
the mother cat infected as to her fur
with the contagious disease, but all of
her kittens are likewise. The latter are
fondled by the children. Pathogenic
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26

Signor Balsamello, the inventor of the
Balla Nautica, the submarine vessel with
which several successful experiments
were performed lately at Civita Vecchia
in the presence of a commission appoint
ed by the Italian government, declares
that by the aid of his invention he car
float her majesty's ship Victoria at 8
cost of less than 100000. He says that
with the Balla Nautica he can make ar.
rangements for raising weights far ex
ceeding that of the sunken ironclad. The
preparations and placing of grapnels and
chains around the Victoria would take q
month and would be performed by the
crew Of the submarine ship, which has
already descended to and been maneu-
vered successfully at depths beyond that
in which the Victoria lies The bring.
ing of the ship to the surface would take
two days.-St. James Gazette.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26

The kangaroo pest has always been q
great nuisance to the Australian squat
ters, for on an average these animals
consume as much grass as a sheep. 1t
is stated that on sheep run of $1,000 to
sc, 900 acres 10000 kangaroos were kill
ed annually for six years, and yet their
numbers remained very formidable in
the locality. In the colony Of South
Australia hundreds of thousands Of kan
garoos are slaughtered annually for theiI
skins and the bonus offered by the au-
thorities The number of these marsu-
pals in New South w ales in 1889 was es-
timaaed to be over 4, 900, 900. and yet about
500, 900 kangaroos and 100000 wallabies
were destroyed in the colony that year.
A bonus of 16 cents for each kangaroo
killed is offered in Australia; hence the
colonists are gradually DISCRIMINATING
these native animals. Over 500, 900 skins
are annually shipped to England and a
large number to North America to be
converted into leather. Science Gossip.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26
Reunited After Twenty-one Years.

After separation lasting 81 years,
John. H. Morrison and his wife have
been reunited In 1865 Squire Morrison
welded Miss Fry in York county and
five years later came here to reside.
He remained here for two years, and,
meeting business reverses, went west,
leaving his wife and four daughters here,
and nothing was heard of him until last
March. when an advertisement for wife
appeared in Harrisburg paper signed
John H. Morrison. 1t was seen by one
of his daughters. She answered it.
Morrison received 617 answers to his
advertisement, but replied only to the
one written by his daughter. In the
correspondence that followed their rela-
tionship was disclosed, and when he
learned his wife was still living he made
arrangements to take her to his western
home. A letter received states that they
recognized each other on sight at the
railway station in Oklahoma.
Cor. Philadelphia Record.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26

Steel Plates Rolled So Thin That 4, 800 OF
Them Are Required to Make an Inch.
How the Effort to surpass Each Other
Started Among MetalIurgists.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26
The chicago Fairs Bad Management.

Either the blood sucking parasites at
the fair must be dispensed with, the dead
head leak stopped and expenses cut down,
or there must be default ON the bonds
which the corporation owes. The direct
ors have outstanding five millions Of
bonds and floating debt, and they have
not yet dollar to apply on the bond
payment. They have not yet paid the
floating debt by perhaps million, and
from present appearances will not until
late in August.
The fair is costing 5000, 900 month for
operating expenses. The army of dead
heads who enter its gates is steadily in
creasing. Friday more than one-third of
those in attendance went in on passes.
The deadheads ought to be cut down at
least one-half. At least half of the police
force at the fair ought to be mustered
out and taken off the payrolls. The ex-
penses of operating the fair ought not to
be over 5000, 900 per month at the very
outside. The directors must face the
music.-Chicago Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26

Is DeIng constructed of pine, blue cheese
cloth and Columbian half dollars.
The wooden base ON which the coins
are being glued is extremely inartistic
itself, but the man who made it evident
ly failed to take into consideration the
size of the half dollars, and the coins are
being cut into all sorts Of shapes and de-
faced in every conceivable manner to
make them fit and hide the lumber.
There are $40 windows in the thing,
and each window represents at least five
mutilated coins, entailing loss of ST.
700. To make all the edges and corners
of the porticoes, verandas and cornices
straight will necessitate the spelling Of
1900 more coins.
The whole thing, from the coarse iron
fence to the tin window frames, is an
eyesore, and none is quicker to recog-
nize this fact than the visitors from the
country, for whose delectation the thing
is being built. Chicago Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26
ESTABLISHED 1879

germs seem to find most favorable
breeding ground in the hair of cats. AS
result the complaint is spread, I'm
fortunately the infection is not limited
to the house. 1t is spread abroad by the
cats, which are notorious stragglers.
Thus before many days have passed
there is an epidemic of scarlet fever or
what not in the neighborhood Nobody
can imagine how it got about Little
Johnny dies Of diphtheria, and nobody
dreams that he contracted it by picking
up strange cat
Children have way of picking up
cats and holding them to their faces to
caress them. That accounts for many
cases of that very disagreeable disease
called ringworm 1t is the same way
with other skin troubles that are con-
tagious. Cats as well as dogs are liza
BILE to tuberculosis of the lungs, other
wise known as consumption. That they
communicate it to human beings is more
than suspected. w Washington Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-09-26

There are some penalties on innocent
acts essential to human safety, and the
signaler whose failure has destroyed a
train must be punished, even though,
when he pleads that he was in ''dwam, =
he is to his own mind telling the simple
and sufficient truth. Nature is even
harder on blunder than on guilt, and
though man has no right to be as stern
as nature, which, for example, executed
dynamiter at Madrid-not for his in
tention to murder, but for his careless
ness in dropping his bomb-still, there
are points upon which he must be nearly
as hard.-London Spectator.