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Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-08-16

"N people, ana
Aunt Furbay Lows penchant for match
making is the source of great deal of
amusement for all her friends. Be-
fore she married Uncle 81 she was the
widow Furbay, the lamcnted Furbay
having died at the age of fifty, leaving
his widow to arrange a match for her
self, "a thing that she was fully capable
of doing, as was proven by the fact
that she was led TO the altar by Uncle
81 in considerably less than a year after
Mr.. Furbay had "gonc over" to quote
the somewhat non-committal language
of the pastor who ministered TO the
| spiritual wants of the mem bers OF the
| little country church of VIII ich he had
| been member. In view of the fact
that Uncle 81 had been u widower for
nearly ten years before he fell victim
TO Cupids arrows and the charms Of
| Aunt Furbay, there were those in the
neighborhood who meanly intimated
that in this case the lady had done the
counting, but that does not interfere
with the fact that they were IA good old
couple to visit, and, if the story were n
true one, it has not the remotest con-
nection with the one have to tell.
1t was last fall that / went, accord
ing TO promise, to visit Uncle 81 and
| his companion. had written them
when was coming, and as the little
river steamer bumped up against the
wharfboat at Ripley, l saw my old
friend on the lookout. That portion of
his face that was not hidden by his
full beard, and the twinkling of his
bright gray eyes, assured me that my
welcome was a cordial one, and In a
few minutes we were spinning up the
road toward his home. Uncle 81 asked
me SO many questions about myself
that had no time to inquire about his
| people further than TO get the assur-
ance that Aunt Furbay was sort o.
middlin'," which was Uncle Sis way of
saying that she was In perfect health.
l cid ask about about John Furbay,
| Aunt Furbays son, and Uncle 81 told
me he was married, in very matter of
fact way, and when | asked to whom,
] received the very indefinite informa-
ton that his bride had been gal up
our way" From the scantiness of the
information given me ! suspected there
was something unpleasant connected
with his marriage, and dropped the
subject without further remark than
TO express surprise, when did not feel
the least symptoms of that emotion.
AS we drove up to the gate in front
OF Uncle Sis home, Aunt Furbay came
down to meet us and tell me was as
''welcome as the flowers in May and
ask me more questions than / could
have answered in week, but as she
did not pause for an answer to any of
them added TO my reputation with
her of being being a sensible young
man who never tries to cut person off
when they're talkin'." Uncle 81 went
on TO take care of the team and fol-
lowed Aunt Furbay into the house and
was shown into the sacred and solemn
gloom of the spare room" which was
only opened to the most welcome
guests. ] soon escaped from the prison
like order that prevailed and wandered
down TO the kitchen. Here found a
blooming lassie whom had never met
before. ] supposed she was the hired
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cut. The little
white lines are
the nerves which
convey tho nerve
force from / n @
nerve centers TO
every part OF the
body, Just as the
electric current Is
conveyed along
he telegraph
wires to g very
station, large or
small. Ordinary
physicians fail 10
regard this fact;
instead OF treat
ing the nerve CEN
tiers for the cause
OF the disorders
arising therefrom
they tire at the
part affected.
| Franklin Miles,
NJ. d., LII. b., the
highly celebrated
specialist and
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-08-16

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girl and probably the daughter of some
neighbor who had a surplus of daugh-
tiers. She blushed prettily as walked
into the room. spoke to her in the
idiotic manner that Is in vogue when
two are obliged to speak without
formal introduction, and stepped out
on the porch where | could see the
grand old hills that doomed up in the
purpling shades of the coming evening.
could not help specializing about
John Furbay's marriage, and concluded
that one of Aunt Furbays matchmak-
ing efforts had miscarried.
Presently Uncle 81 and Aunt Furbay
came in and while she and the girl
had seen were putting the finishing
touches to the supper table, which had
been waiting my coming, Uncle 81 came
out on the porch TO tell me that hh TO.
bacco crop was Of excellent quality
and much heavier than usual. In
short time we were called TO supper,
and Aunt Furbay introduced me TO the
youdg lady by saying: "This is Meta. 4"
After supper Uncle 81 and ] went
back to the porch and he lighted his
corncob pipe, while 7 drew deep
brsaths of the cool breeze from the
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Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-08-16

LIKE to visit
Uncle ST Low
and his good
wife, Aunt Fur
bay Low, for
both of them
are jolly old
n
Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-08-16

out, 1Or sne UnOuBnJ SlBnb OF ner an
her mother before her, and she was 81
tickled to think that John was not
goin' to marry her that she felt pretty
tol'able liberal toward her.
II listened to mother SO much that
swow got interested in the business
an most of the time ! was a-workin
some scheme or mother TO help hei
along"
Just then Aunt Furbay came out on
the porch and Uncle 81 settled back on
his chair and began to stroke his whisls'
crs in meditative manner.
You'd better finish the story I've
been tellin' Harry" he said to her, al
she bestowed herself in q capacious
rocker.
what was you a.tellin' him?" quer
led Aunt Furbay.
~ wns jest a-tellin' him about how
you made some matches among the
young folks an got John married off, ,
was the answer
Nov Simon Peter Low" said Aun,
Furbay, 'if you amt the biggest borr
idiot 1 ever see. You can't never keeI
your mouth shet about anything, an
you go an blab everything you know
the first chance you get.
"Imight as well tell you the straight
of it," she continued, turning TO me
''for know pap can't never tell thing
jest as 1t lis. How much did he tel
your
II jest explained to him how John
fell in love with Miss Herbert an Phi
Hunt with the hired girl" interposcd
Uncle 81, chuckling as IL he had pcrpc-
trated joke.
"Oh," shifted Aunt Furbay, ''you did
did you? I'll tell the rest of IL then"
They amt much to TELL" she be
gan, ignoring Uncle 81 and addressing
me, only one day the young folks
went off over to the Kentucky side tc
spend the day a-philanderin' through
the country. At the last mint the
hired girl didn't want to go and John
took her to task for wantin' to spoil the
fun, an they had-a long talk out or
this very porch, and finally she cried
an John he said he wouldn't 20 less
she did, and then she got ready, an
afore she started she come an kissed
me as IL she didn't never expect TO see
me agin, an I felt real sorry 70 see her
feelin' so blue over the trip.
III had a sort o queer feelin' all day
that something was a-goin' to happen,
an was skeered o. my life for the
youngsters, an you may BE- sure fell
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-09

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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-09

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DIPLOMACY DOES NOT PAY.

Some of Englands Most Distinguished d
Ambassadors Can't Save Money.
So great is Lord Dufferin's poverty
that during the time which intervened
between his vice-royalty of India and
his appointment as ambassador at st.
Petersburg, both he and Lady Dufferin
were forced for the sake of economy to
live at Paris under the name of Mr.. and
Mrs. Temple on the fifth floor of the
Hotel Windsor on the Rue de Rivoli.
The economies which this charming
couple were then forced to exercise,
were painful and even pitiful sight
to those who, like myself, had had the
privilege Of enjoying their gracious hos
pitality at Rideau hall. Ottawa
Lord Dufferin's case, may add, is
not the exception, but rather the rule
in the English government service, and
the most of the holders of lucrative
posts quit Office in debt. Among the
many instances thereof / need only cite
those of Lord Augustus Lotus, who be.
came bankrupt after retiring from
fifty years of diplomatic service, and
the late earl of Granville and Of Lord
Lytton, who have left their families in
a very impoverished condition, although
during their entire lifetime they had
held one or another of the highest Offices
in the gift of the crown.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-09

The Baltimore American says that
the indignation of the passengers on q
Western Maryland train was aroused
the other day by the unusual spectacle
of richly clad boy of five or six years,
whose legs and feet were perfectly
bare, although the day was cold one.
The child was accompanied by his
mother and sister, who were evidently
people of wealth and refinement. On
inquiry it was learned that the boy was
the son of prominent physician, who
had lost several children with throat
diseases, until he hit on the idea of
turning his children out barefooted.
The experiment proved to be a perfect
success. The barefooted boy was the
picture of health. At the union station
in Baltimore he ran around on the cold
bricks totally unaware of any discom-
fort People are constantly shocked
and amazed at seeing the children of
this gentleman going about barefooted,
winter and summer, but inasmuch as it
saves their lives, in his opinion, he is In
different to criticism.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-02-09
DRIVEN OUT BY THE FIRE.
Thousands Of Snakes Forced to Move b,
Mountain Fires in Pennsyivania.

Thousands Of Snakes Forced to Move by
Mountain Fires in Pennsyivanis.
One of the interesting features of re-
cent forest fires caused by long-contin-
ued drought in the mountains Of east
ern Pennsylvania has been the reveal
ing and dislodging of undreamed-of
numbers of snakes which infest the
mountain Businesses. Thousands of
rattlers, copperheads, vipers, black
snakes and other sorts, ranging from
one foot to seven feet long, have been
driven from their haunts and forced to
flee for life before the advancing flames.
One day recently surveying party,
while at work on Second mountain,
near Lorberry, were compelled to drop
their instruments and run precipitately
down the mountain side because of an
oncoming host of snakes The woods on
the mountains opposite were blazing
furiously and a correspondent of the
New York Times says, the reptiles in
fright came swarming over on Second
mountain for refuge. On they moved in
countless numbers, like vast army, all
kinds intermingled, and swept down
upon the surveyors without warming
The men stood their ground in aston
ishment for time, but soon seeing the
host steadily multiply as it drew near,
they incontinently abandoned camp and
ran away in terror, closely followed in
their fight by the snalsy multitude.
At the foot of the mountain is a road,
and there the corps halted to await de-
velopments. Standing there they saw
thousands of snakes glide down
through the grass and across the road,
disappearing in the tangled brush on
the lower side. AS the corps were about
leaving they witnessed a quick and de.
! cisive combat between a giant black
snake and rattler en- route to the
brush
The rattler was five and one-half feet
long and the blacksnake fully sever
feet. The rattler was cutting across
the road diagonally just as the black
snake went across straight from the
same side. In moment they collidet
and then clinched. The blacksnak,
with sudden twist of his body caught
the rattler tightly in his coils. Their
he gave another twist and the gam,
was up for the rattler. The blacksnak'
quickly uncoiled himself and dartet
into the bushes. On examination o
the dead rattler it was found that hi
body was crushed into a pulp. In flf
teen minutes more the procession o
squirming, wriggling, gliding reptile
had passed and the surveyors were abl
to return to the mountain and secur
their instruments.
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NICKEL AND ITS USES.
Tho Many Advantages of AZ Alloy o
Nickel and Steel.

Tho Many Advantages of Al Alloy OF
Nickel and steel.
For long time natures hints were
neglected or disregarded, but in 1888
patents were taken out in England and
France by different individuals for the
preparation of nickel Steel says the
Popular Science Monthly.
Tests Of this alloy have been made by
competent authorities and the effect Of
the addition of small percentages Of
nickel to steel is seen in greatly re-
duced tendency to oxidization and in
creased strength. As an example Of the
superiority Of this nickel steel the fol-
lowing results of one of the tests may
be given: A steel containing four and
seven-tenths per cent. of nickel
showed an ultimate strength of thirty
per cent. and elastic limit Of sixty to
seventy per cent. higher than those OF
mild steel, with a nearly equal ductility,
and the valuable quality added of less
liability to corrosion." The authority
who obtained these remarkable results
adds: '"Think for a moment Of this in
connection with the erection of the
Forth bridge or of the Eiffel tower. If
the engineers of those stupendous
structures had had at their disposal a
metal of forty tons strength and TWEEN
ty-eight tons elastic limit instead OF
thirty tons strength and seventeen tons
elastic limit in the one case, and say
twenty-five tons strength and fourteen
to sixteen tons elastic limit in the
other, how many difficulties would have
been reduced in magnitude as tn.
weight of materials was reduced! Tht
Forth bridge would have become ever
more light and airy and the tower
more netlike and graceful than they
are at present" And Sir Frederick
Abel, in his presidential address at th'
Leeds meeting of the British associa
ton, remarked: ''It has been showr
by Riley that particular variety O
nickel steel presents to the engines
the means of nearly doubling boile,
pressures without increasing weight o.
dimensions"
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DEPARTED GLORY.
A Formerly Great Mining Town
That Is Now Deserted.
Where Thousands of Miners Once Dug
Out Fortunes There Arc Now Only
Few Chinese Making
Bare Living.

After the tourist on the Canadian
Pacific railroad has passed through the
scenic wonders of the Rocky mountains
and the Sellxirk range, says Yale (B. C.)
letter, and has hung for hours above
the precipices in the Fraser river canyon,
the train suddenly shoots out into level
space in the river valley and brings up
ut station called Yale. At present
Yale is inhabited only by a handful of
white men and several hundred Chinese
and Flathead Indians, whom the trav-
eler sees upon the station platform
with their baskets of tempting fruit
Yale is dull enough to-day, but some
thousands of people once lived in the
little place, for it was the greatest
placer gold washing field on the lower
Fraser and the center of attraction in
British Columbia as long as it yielded
large quantities of placer gold dust.
The train stops long enough to enable
the tourist to become enthusiastic over
the beautiful scenery that surrounds it.
East Of the town is a mountain several
Thousand feet in height, down whose
sides in rainy weather the loveliest of
cascades foam and tumble till they
| reach the river. In front is the swift
| flowing Fraser, which here is calm and
placid in comparison with the roaring
| stream the tourist saw a little earlier as
the Fraser tumbled down it's rocky can
yon to the level country. Looking
across the river, the tourist sees far to
the southwest Mount Hope, whose top,
nine thousand feet above the sea, is
| covered with snow
In the fifth and sixth decades of this
\ century, when several thousands of
miners were panning gold dust, Yale
saw it's best days. After yielding for
years an average of fifteen dollars a
day to each man, the placer mines gave
out and then came decadence. Several
years ago the few white men in the
town believed it's old prosperity was to
return. The Queen mine was opened
in a neighboring mountain, and it was
thought that fortunes would be taken
from the gold lead discovered there.
The prospect, however, did not prove to
be what it promised, and the mine was
given up. A little gold is still found
along the river banks and among the
sands near the shore. As the train
leaves town. tourists often see a few
Chinese digging in the sand on the left
side of the river. They are satisfied
If they make an average of two dollars
day. They monopolize the left shore
but on the right bank, where the di
lapidated town lies, is German named
Edward Stout, who has been pannine
gold dust there for several years. He
uses the cradle and quicksilver process
and is well content If he secures ar
average of fifteen dollars a week H,
keeps bachelor hall, and is satisfied Il
make living. Gold washing is pos
sible only during a few months in tn
year. The Chinese work only from
July till November. At most othe
periods Of the year the water is to-
high to admit Of digging in the sand
where gold is found.
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DINNER IS AN OLD INSTITUTION
1t Has Always Enjoyed the Distinction OF
Being tho Chief Meal.

1t Has Always Enjoyed the Distinction OF
Being tho Chief Meal.
1t is believed by some that the word
dinner springs from corruption of the
word "dixheures," indicating the time
at which, in the old Norman days, this
meal was taken. The mere idea, says
the Chicago Tribune, of having dinner at
the barbarous hour of ten o'clock in the
morning would in all probability send a
modern chef into a fit, yet it was at this
early time that persons of quality, both
in England and France, partook of the
meal. Froissart mentions waiting up
on the duke of Lancaster at five o'clock
in the afternoon, after he had supped,
and during the reign of Francis I. and
Louis XII. of France fashionable peo-
pie dined at half past ten and supped at
the latest at six o'clock in the evening.
From Northumberland household
book bearing date 1912 one learns that
the family rose at six o'clock, break
tasted at seven, dined at ten, supped at
four and shut the gates at nine p. m.
Louis XIV. did not dine till twelve,
while his contemporaries, Cromwell and
Charles H., took the meal at one. In
1tVU UuC hOuI "do doNohCCS W O"os oha
in 1851 the duchess of Somerset's din
ner time was three. In 1760 Cowper
speaks of four o'clock as the then fash
ionable time. After the battle of
Waterloo six p. m. was the time at
which the beau monde took their sub
stantial meal, while at the present day
many Of the nobility do not dine until
eight or nine.
The Romans in the time of Cicero
and Augustus took breakfast from three
to four in the morning, luncheon at
twelve or one, and at about 8 o'clock
the coena or principal meal of the day,
correspol ding with our dinner. A Ro-
man din Ter at the house of a wealthy
man co, sisted chiefly of three courses.
All sort of stimulants to the appetite
were fl st served up and eggs were in
| disper sable to the first course. Among
the various dishes we may instance the
guinea hen, pheasant, nightingale and
the thrush as birds most in repute The
Roman gourmands held peacocks in
great estimation, especially their
tongues. Macrobius states that they
were first eaten by Hortensius, the
orator, and acquired such repute that a
single peacock was sold at fifty denarii
the denarius being equal to about seven
teen cents of our money.
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Oddities About Mans Weight.

Prof. Huxley declares that the proper
weight of man is 154 pounds, made up
as follows: Muscles and their appurte-
nances, SO pounds; skeleton, "a pounds;
skin, 1OH pounds; fat, 2s pounds; brain,
8 pounds; abdominal viscera, II pounds;
blood (that which would drain from the
body, pounds. The heart of such a
man should beat 70 times in a minute
and he should breathe Is times during
each minute. At that rate, in "a hours
he would vitiate 1,750 cubic feet of pure
air to the extent of per cent. In the
same length of time he should throw
off through the skin IS ounces of water,
800 grains of solid matter and 400 grains
of carbonic acid.