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Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-06-12
TO Preserve

The richness, color, and beauty of the
hair, the greatest care is necessary,
much harm being done by the use of
worthless dressings. To be sure of hay
ing tirst-class article, ask your drug
gst or perfumer for Ayers Hair Vigor.
1t is absolutely superior to any other
preparation of the kind. 1t restores the
original color and fullness to hair which
has become thin, faded, or gray. 1t
keeps the scalp cool, moist, and free
from dandruff. 1t heals itching humors,
prevents badness, and imparts to
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-06-12

Each glass contains enough pure
pepsin to dissolve 1000 grains albu-
besides being the most delicious
drink ever offered. SMITH Drug Co.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-06-12
Sale of Privileges.

Parties desiring refreshment privi-
leges at Pleasant lake, on the occasion
OF the Switchmen's Picnic, on July 4,
can obtain same by applying at once
to the undersigned:
MCDOWELL MAYS,
WILLIAM KELLEY, Com
61tf FRANK NEPHEW.
Qninn Habit cnrad by DR.. Milna' NerYln0.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-06-12

Louis, Hebron, the reliable money
lender, lends money on all collaterals'
Business strictly confidential. If
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-06-12
u S Z:

Ayers Hair Vigor, and now my hair is
growing rapidly and is restored to its
original color" Mrs. Annie Collins,
Dighton, Mass.
~ have used Ayers Hair Yigor for
nearly five years, and my hair is moist,
glossy, and in an excellent state Of pres
ervation. ] am forty years old, and
nave ridden the plains for twenty-five
years. ."-Wm, Henry OFT, alias "Mus-
tang Bill" Newcastle, Wyo.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-06-12
I'll 8: HAIR

a silken texture and lasting fragrance.
No toilet can be considered complete
without this most popular and elegant
of all hair-dressings.
'My hair began turning gray and fall
ing out when | was about % years of
age. l have lately been using Ayers
Hair Vigor, and it is causing a new
growth of hair of the natural color. p
r. j. Lowry, Jones Prairie, Texas.
/ cover year ago had a severe fever,
and when recovered, my hair began to
fall out, and what little remained turned
gray. 1 tried various remedies, but
without success, till at last began to
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-06-12
Phospho-P Peptine.

Opium Habit cured by DR.. Miles Norvine.
Daily Texarkana Democrat., 1893-06-12
Ayers
H air Vigor

Prepared by Dr.J. G. Ayers Co., Lowell, M:@r1,
Sold by Druggists Everywhere.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15
A Costly Walk.

1t has been left to a ST. Louis bust
ness man to construct gravel walk,
neither long nor strikingly beautiful,
that is modern if comparatively hum
BILE rival of the glistening highways of
fiction and fable, for it represents
Sl5, 900 hard cash.
Edward p, Kinsella, Vice-president
of the Hanleykinsella Coffee Com
pany, is the proud possessor of this
unique walk 1t is composed of sew
eral tons of Brazilian pebbles that
came to him in an ordinary business
way during the past few years
This firm are heavy importers of
Brazilian coffee. Before the berries
are ready to be roasted for the market
the sacks are opened and the contents
carefully examined for twigs, leaves
and other impurities, the latter gen
orally taking the shape of small peb-
bles about the size of coffee berry.
These came with such regularity and
in such quantities that long ago the
idea they were accidentally in the sacks
was abandoned, and the conclusion re-
luctantly reached that they were pur-
posely placed in the bags to make
weight The daily discoveries of these
Brazilian pebbles will fill an ordinary
water bucket. The importers pay for
coffee. Two years ago Mr.. Kinsella
concluded to utilize this apparent evi.
dence of dishonesty of the far away
coffee packer, and had the accumula-
tion of pebbles carted out to his hand.
some residence, on the West Pine street
boulevard, No. 1923, where they were
used to make Il handsome garden walk.
The pebbles represent weight that in
coffee would be worth $15, 900. The
gravel path is each month being added
to, and 1t is but u question of time
when Mr.. Kinsella will have the most
expensive piece of garden path in the
world. st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15
Origin of the Word "TrOlley.1

Most persons who use the word "trol-
ley probably do not know the origin
of this term, or why this name was
given to that apparatus by which the
electricity is conveyed from an aerial
wire. Twenty years ago, the word was
used to designate ga form of truck
which can be tilted, for carrying rail
road materials or the like" This is
the only definition of the word in
Websters Dictionary of the edition of
1S48. In the edition of 1892 of the
same work, three other definitions are
added. l. ga narrow cart that is
pushed by hand or drawn by an ami
NAL" 1t is noted that this meaning
of the word is in use in England, not
in the United States. q ga truck
from which the load is suspended on
some kinds of cranes. This meaning
is technical, according to Webster, and
employed only in speaking of machin-
cry. B. '(Electric railway.) A truck
which travels along the fixed conduc-
tors. and forms means of connection
between them and railway car" 1t
is easy to see how the primitive form
of the electric trolley, which travels
upon the wires, came to receive its
name from the resemblance to other
types of trolley and the name, having
been Immediately given to it's prim-
tive form, was naturally retained when
the method of connection was changed
from a little truck moving on wire,
to mast having at its end wheel
pressing on the lower service of thu
wire.- Detroit Free Press.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15
Fooled Him Twice.

The examinations at certain
"prep." school were in progress. The
boys were working busily over their
papers and the grim old professor was
watching sharply from his desk. Pres
emily he noticed that one of the stu.
dents, prominent ne'er dowell, was
consulting his watch with considera-
BILE frequency. The professor studied
him. In five minutes he had looked
at the timepiece three times This
was enough for the guardian. Ho
called the student to his desk and de-
manded the watch. 1t was given him
and he opened it. Across the face was
piece of paper bearing the legend
Fooled" But the worthy professor
was not to be so easily deceived He
gave the student sharp, knowing
glance, turned the timepiece over and
opened the back cover 1t opened
with considerable difficulty, and, be-
hold, there was another slip of paper
bearing the Information, "fooled
again. boston Budget.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15
A Rattler's Bite.

l send you recipe for the bite of a
rattlesnake that I will warrant to cure
i'll ninetynine cases out of every hun
dred. l have known it tried for forty
years in Illinois and have used it on
several animals that were bitten by
rattlesnakes since coming to Florida,
and have never known it to fail in a
single instance.
Thoroughly soak the wound and the
swelled part with pure hogs lard, and
let the patient drink one half pint of
this melted lard. In severe cases re-
peat it in half an hour and give all
the sweet milk that patient can drink.
This kills the poison almost immedi-
ately, and the swelling will disappear
in few days. A horse or COW must
be drenched with n much larger dose,
but dogs will eagerly eat lard and
drink milk, even when their heads are
so swollen that their eyes are closed
and the yellow saliva is running from
their mouths. Don't call in doctor
if bitten by a rattler las they are more
dangerous than the snake), but use the
above remedy, and l will warrant
cure. Jacksonville Times Union.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

A lump of ni,kel weighing 1900
pounds is worth half as many dollars.
The python lays eggs and hatche4
them by developing high degree OF
heat.
1t is said that people eat twenty per
cent. more bread when the weather is
cold than when it is mild.
Paris now gets its water supply front
six great springs. 1t travels through
eighty-three miles of aqueducts.
The Mediterranean has been com,
monty supposed to be a sea without
tides; but, as Il matter of fact, at
Venice there is tide in the spring OF
from one to two feet.
The cave animals of North America,
according to Professor A. S. Packard,
of Brown University, comprise 172
species of blind creatures, nearly all
of which are mostly white in color.
The campus at Yale College is now
lighted by electric light. This is said
to be the first time in the history of
the college that lights of any kind
have been displayed on the campus.
The pain caused by the bite of q
mosquito is caused by q fluid poison
injected by the insect into the wound
in order to make the blood thin enough
to flow through the mosquitoes throat
In calculating 'exact time" at the
National Observatory at Washington,
the astronomers do not, as is generally
supposed, use the sun as basis of
their calculations. Such deductions
are made only from the relative posi-
tion of the ''fxed stars"
The largest sun spot ever noted by
astronomers appeared in the fall of
1867. 1t was $50, 600 miles long and
100, ZOO miles wide. Four hundred
planets the size of the earth, could
have been laid side by side in that
''spot' without touching each other.
A disease known as peach fever is
common among the employees in the
fruit packing and canning establish
ments of Maryland and Delaware. The
more experienced workers seem to be-
come proof against the irritant after
some years in the business. There is
no evidence to show that the disorder
is contagious,
Neither the turtle, tortoise nor tead
is provided with teeth. There is be-
lief that turtle can bite off a finger,
but the turtle can do nothing of the
kind. Its jaws are very strong and
the horny membrane that runs around
the jaw, where, in other animals teeth
are found, is so hard and tough that
the turtle can crush the bones of the
hand to pulp, but as for biting off
finger, the feat is an impossibility.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15
RETROSPECT.

The roses were not just so sweet, perhaps.
As we thought they would surely be,
And the blossoms were not so pearly white
As of yore, on the orchard tree
But the summer has gone for all of that
And with sad reluctant heart
We stand at rich autumns open door
And watch its form depart.
The skies were not just so blue, perhaps,
As we hoped they would surely be,
And the waters were rough that washed our
boat,
Instead of the old calm sea;
But the summer has gone for all of that,
And the golden rod is here;
We can see the CLEAN of its golden sheen
In the hand of the aging year.
The rest was not quite so real, perhaps,
As we hoped it might prove to be,
For instead of leisure came work sometimes,
And the days dragged YEARLY;
But the summer has gone for all of that,
The holiday time is DER,
And busy hands in the harvest field
Have garnered their golden store.
The summer was not such a dream, perhaps,
OF bliss as we thought 'twould be,
And the beautiful things we planned to do
Went amiss for You and me
Yet still it is gone for all of that,
And we lift our wistful eyes
TO the land where beyond the winter SHOWS
Another summer lies.
Kathleen r. Wheeler, in Lippincott's.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15
A Puzzling Fact About Woods.

The problem has puzzled many why
two pieces of wood sawn from the same
lsection of tree should possess very va
ried characteristics when used in diff
ferent positions. For example, gate
post will be found to decay much faster
If the butt end of the tree is uppermo' 4.
than would be the case if the top were
placed i'll this position. The reason is
that the moisture of the atmosphere
will premeate the pores of the wood
much more rapidly the way the trees
grow than it would if in the opposite
direction. Microscopical examination
proves that the pores invite the ascent
of moisture, while they repel its de-
scent. Take the familiar case of
wooden bucket. Many may have no
ticed that some of the slaves appear to
be entirely saturated, while others are
apparently quite dry This arises from
the same cause the dry slaves are in
the same position in which the tree
grew, while the saturated ones are re-
versed. Chicago Herald
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15
4 RaWhide Cannon.

Syracuse man named La Tulip,
has invented q cannon known as the
La Tulip rawhide gun, of which great
made by its inventor, was tested at
Onondaga Valley. 1t weighs in the
neighborhood of 400 pounds, while the
cannon OF the same calibre in use by
the army weighs nearly 1900. It's pc
culiarity lies in its lightness and the
easy manner in which it can be trans
ported. Across the breech it measures
about fourteen inches, and tapers to
about six at the muzzle. A forged
steel cone forming the barrelruns to the
full length, and is only three-quarters
of an inch in thickness Then comes
layer after layer OF the finest rawhide
compressed until it has the strength
of steel. In fact, its toughness and
staying powers are said to exceed steel.
The rawhide is put on in strips coiled
around and around, and is several inches
III thickness. On top of this lie two
coils of steel wire wound To its strong
est tension and then filed smooth. The
cap placed at the breech can be easily
removed for inspection of the rawhide
filling. The tests were pronounced
successful, and further trials will be
had. A five-inch bore will be con-
structed as soon as possible, and when
mounted upon a movable carriage it
will then demonstrate whether it can
be used effectively. The fve-inch
cannon will be smooth bore and used
to discharge dynamite cartridges, a
trial of which will be made. Freder-
ick La Tulip, the inventor, has been
worker of rawhide for twelve years and
is conversant with it in every detail =
Rome IN. " Sentinel.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15
LAPORTE, PA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15 1898.

'Densil," said Miss Lepington the
next morning at breakfast, 81 am GO
ing to discontinue teaching. Yester-
day was the last day of school"
Mr.. Densil Smith looked up with his
egg spoon half way to his mouth.
''Have your pupils been dropping
OFF," he inquired.
eyes. One of the dearest ever had
left yesterday"
"Why, that's too bad. But think of
the rest of them" said Mr.. Smith sym
pathetically. "Don't leave them sud
denly this way"
''Thank you for your kind interest,
Densil. But I assure you there is no
alternative. Let us change the SUBJ
iect. Have you heard that Miss AL
ford and Mr.. Mackenzie are engaged
to be married? have been thinking
of what / shall give them for a wedding
present, and have finally definitely de-
cided upon the school-house. 1 have
no further need of 1t"
And that is how Constance and I
came to set up housekeeping in Han
over street. .-Munsey's Magazine.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

The report from South Africa that
the British recently slaughtered the
Natabeles like sheep is probably well
founded, says the San Francisco Chron-
ical. The English have never been
noted for their tender regard of the
aborigine. The pioneers of South
Africa, like those of Australia, regard
the natives as hindrance to the develop
nent of the country, and any pretext
which can be used to Justify killing or
driving them out of u district is eagerly
welcomed.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

The zone system of railroad rates
which rs so successfully operated in
Hungary, has made deep impression
upon James l.. Cowles, well known in
railroad circles. He says, Distance
costs practically nothing in the
transportation of freight or of pas
senSers, and, therefore, distance
should be disregarded in the dis
elimination of rates. The rate now
charged for the shortest distance for
any particular service is the rate that
should be adopted for all distances.
When once train starts from Boston
To san Francisco, there isn't II man
living that can tell the difference in
cost of running that train, whether n
passenger leaves the train Mt the first
station out OF Boston or goes through
from the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast."
Mr.. Cowles further says that there is
not ten dollars difference between
running train from Chicago to New
NorA, iull Of passengers OF empty.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

Many lakes have been formed along
the banks of the South Canadian River
IN Oklahoma, some of which are many
square miles in extent. They are
caused, explains the New York Post,
by the sand blowing ont of the river
until a high embankment is formed
along the shores, and behind the bank
are formed the lakes.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

The st. Louis Star Sayings thinks
that zone of the most gratifying
signs of the times is the operation of
the law requiring all navy ships to be
built at home, from materials of
domestic production; American ships
in American bottoms and the estab-
Iishment of ship yards capable of
turning ont vessels of war of the high
est speed and capacity. 1t is q grow
ing enterprise and gives employment
to thousands OF American Iaborers.
and soon We may anticipate that in
stead OF going to other countries for
ide.s and methods IN ship armor and
ga construction we shall have the
teIgners coming to us to learn"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

America holds the record in MANY
natural wonders and artificial
triumphs, boasts the Washington Star.
The largest lake in the world (Su-
perioTl, the longest river (Missouri),
the largest park tYellowstone), the
finest cave (the Mammoth), the
greatest waterfall tNiagara) and the
only natural bridge lin Virginia) are
all to be found within the borders of
the United States. and here the big
gest fortunes are made, the most ener-
getic commercial enterprises under.
taken, the largest deals are effected,
and the most wonderful inventions
are perfected, while the country
produces a greater amount of raw
material than any other.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

An elderly gentleman of wide travel
and close observation remarked re-
Gently, after reading the story in the
New York Times of cruel murder,
that he had long been of the opinion
that the greatest calamity that has be-
fallen the human race in modern times
was the invention of the revolver. 1t
is too easily carried, and too handy.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15
Action of Cold and Heat.

The generally accepted theory of the
cooking of meat relates to the appli-
cation of heat, but DIR. Sawiczovosky
has called attention to the fact that
almost precisely the same chemical
and physical changes can be accom-
plished by exposing animal flesh to ex-
treme cold Meat subjected to de-
gree of cold equal to fifty degrees
below the zero of Fahrenheit's ther-
mometer looks and tastes exactly like
meat boiled in fresh water. ST. Louis
Republic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15
Where Poe Wrote oThp Ravens

The house where Poe wrote 1.-The
Raven" is still to be seen in New York
City, few hundred feet from the cor
ner of Eighty fourth street and the
st. Nicholas Boulevard, formerly the
old Bloomingdale road. 1t is a plain,
old-fashioned, double framed dwell
ing, two stories high, with light win
dows at either side and one at either
gable. 1t has a pointed roof, fanked
by two tall brick chimneys. Detroit
Free Press,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

THE BILL WE NEED THE MOST.
Folks at the legislature-they come from up
an down:
From old-tme human nature, clear down to
Bill an Brown:
An the last ones got his row to hoe ;but one
thing bothers still-
The absence 'mongst the bills they have
the old flve-dollar bill.
There's bills for county bridges, an bills Il =
new town sites;
An many bills for mountain stills, whero
moonlight shines o nights
But of all the bills we're after, the one that
bothers still,
Is the bill that brings the laughter-the old
hve-dollar bill
Atlanta Constitution.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

A correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun asserts that ''there is no such
thing in all this world as sewer gas"
and further, that ''there is no evil
dence whatever in fact and no ground
for believing in the theory that the
emanations from a sewer are in any
wise nnwholesome.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15
THE LAST SCHOLAR,
BY ROBERT BEVERLY HALE.

I used to be the
fashion to go to
Miss Lepington's s
school when my
mother was a girl.
Schools came into
fashion just as
crinol in es a II 4
puffy sleeves do.
| know for a num-
Der of reasons that
it was the most
fashionable girls
S ch o oil in my
mothers tim e Z:
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

The San Francisco Chronicle esti-
mates that at the present rate of con-
quest and colonization savage Africa
will be q thing of the past before the
first quarter of the twentieth century
is rounded ont.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

An European mathematician of
worldwide celebrity claims that from
a single potato careful cultivator
could raise 10, 000, 600, coo tubers with
in a period of ten years.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

An interesting find is library or
500 volumes, including seventy manu
scripts of the tenth aud eleventh. a:.,t
some with wonderful miniatures of the
fourteenth centuries, which were re-
Gently discovered il Franciscan
cloister near Rieti, Italy
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

sage complains that while it il
true that imam wants but little hero
below, the trouble is that that little
is usually in someone else's possession.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

The Swiss Government has ordered
that hereafter all slaughtered cattll
must be made insensible before thJ
knife is used
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-12-15

The public and private indebtedness
of the world is estimated to be $780,
000, 600, 000.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-28
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.

Express: If the SaloOnists are
really anxious to rest on the Sab
bath day, as some of them suggest,
why don't they do so" We have
been able to discover no law COM
polling them to keep open on Sun
day.
Express: Representative Smiths
bill to establish a jim jam, reform
atOry should be sent to join Sena-
tor Swayne's female character re-
juVenatOr. 1t is the business of the
church to see that people are sober
and VirtuOus; it is the business of
the state to punish them if they
are not so.
Sunday Chronicle: "a branch of
the 'McAlliSter 1907 met at the
Grand opera house on Thursday
night, and except you swore al
legiance to their Sunday law you
could not get in. Sweet Liberty q!
Where are we at"
Sunday Chronicle: Mr.. Haltom,
chairman pro tenn of the mass
meeting at the Opera house on
Friday night, said: "There is no
use in mincing matters. | allude
to the Sunday law in particular.
This law was not put on the statute
books for any religious purpose.
1t was put there that those who
work should have one day to rest,
and unless there was a law to en-
force a day of rest the labOring man
would have to work all the year
round"
Laboring men are you listening
to this coO-coo: Why, Mr.. HaltOm,
unfortunately the labOring men
and mechanics have had too many
idle or rest days, for years. There
are fully 1000 labOrerS and mechan-
les idle in San Antonio today,
and how many more will be added
to the list when this Sunday law
is enforced, time will tell. The
Chronicle does not like to hear
men sympathizing for the poor
laboring man, when it is nothing
but pure humbug. Try and get
law passed that will secure him
what he does earn, and then we
will mark you down as true
friend of the laboring man.