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Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-30
JOHN G. WOoLLEY.

Catarrh in the head is undoubtedly dis
ease of the blood, and as such only a reliable
blood purifier can effect perfect and perma-
nent cure. Hoods Sarsaparilla is the best
blood purifier, and it has cured many very Sc
we're cases of catarrh. Catarrh oftentimes
leads to consumption. Take Hoods Sarsa-
parilla before it is too late.
Hoods Pills do not purge, pain or grippe, but
act promptly, easily and efficiently. % cts.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-30
JUST FOR FUN.
Clothes lines-Crinolines.

Clothes lines-Crinolines
Religion is dangerous thing to
firt with.
A tender passion = Swearing at
Tough Steak.
The phoenix is bird Of mythology !;
SO is the tOmahawk.
The popularity of common sense is
that it is uncommon.
Dean's Rheumatic Pills absolutely cure
Rheumatism & Neuralgia. Entirely vegeta
BILE. Safe.
With the ambitious cornet player
practice makes him a perfect nuis
ance.
According to the Congressional ma
jority the most mischievous boy on
record is 'sSherman's Bill.''
When a simpleton wants to get
we'll, he buys something to "take:"
a philosopher gets something t5o do"
It is rather tough to ask tramp to
chop wood fifty cents worth in ex-
change for ten cents worth OF cold
victuals.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-30

no Bonnets In the Paris Opera House.
1t Will seem strange to the American
woman, with her Declaration Of hide
pendence traditions, to hear that the di-
rector OF the French opera has assumed
the authority to make hard and fast
rule With respect to ladies' bonnets. Even
small bonnets are forbidden altogether
Tor the occupants of the pit stalls on
Saturday, that being the only night when
ladles are admitted to this part of the
house. Formerly the stalls at the French
theater were invariably reserved for men
only, but one after another their rules
nave relaxed, until the only one where it
Is retained absolutely is the Theater
Francalse. Ever since the question of
bonnets has been constantly mooted, but
hltherto without any actual result, it be-
ing SO much against the habit for ladies
20 appear Ill evening dress in such places
tnat no one under the rank Of an opera
director could have ventured on their
adopting it.-Paris Journal
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-30
All Free.

ALL FREE-Those who have used DR.. Kings
New Discovery know its value, and those who
have not, have the opportunity to try it
Free. Call the advertised Druggist and
get q Trial Bottle, Free. Send your name and
address to III. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicago, and
get a sample box of DR.. Kings New Life Pills
Free, as well as a copy of Guide to Health
and Household Instructor, Free. All of which
is guaranteed to do you good and cost you
nothing: Fl. c. Pierce's, Drug Store.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-30
ALL SORTS.

Knocked out-The door.
Tapley's Bread Winner''outwears all other
shoes.
Goes to biazes-Soft coal.
Deans Rheumatic Pills absoiutely cure
rheumatism & neuralgia entirely vegeta-
BILE. Safe.
After dinner sit while,
Lanes Family Medicine Moves the Bowels
Most people need to use it Each day.
After supper walk a mile.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-30

From french meteorological records
and public documents extended over
more than six centuries, Dom D. De-
mondin has found that sudden varia-
tions of temperature occur at fixed
times during the latter half of each
January. There is depression about
the 18th of the month and an eleva-
ton toward the Esd and 29th, the tenn
perature continuing low during the
intervening days.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-30
Children Cry for
Pitchers CastoFia.

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-30

Of the {, 546 murderers in the United
States in 1890, lob were professional
men, 80 were officials, 693 were farm
ers, 20 were lumberers, 212 miners, 10
fishermen, 173 commercial men, clerks
and the like; $50 were railroad men,
LOSS were artisans, $50 were engaged
in personal service, walters, porters,
servants and the like; 1882 were un-
skilled laborers, and 81 are classed as
miscellaneous. At the time of the
homicide $3.50 were employed, 1925
were unemployed and 4e7 were I'M
known.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25
"NOTS" IN UNITED STATES HISTORY.

The East river flowing between New
York and Brooklyn, is not a river,
but sea strait connecting Long Island
sound and the ocean.
Manhattan is not the Indian name
of New York Island, but is directly
traceable to Spanish original-monas,
drunkenness :" monadus, manadus,
manatoes, "the place of drunkenness. /"
Manhattan is but the Indian form of
the word.
The Declaration of independence
was not signed on July 4th by the rep
resentatives whose names have become
historic. 1t was given to the world on
Monday, the 9th of July, 1776, with
but two signatures John Hancock,
president of the congress, and Charles
Thomson, secretary. The signatures of
forty-five delegates were affixed to q
copy of the original paper on Tuesday,
the End of August, 1776.
There was not a bearded face
among all the signers of the declara-
tion. GAIL the signers," say the record,
"had smooth faces"
The word "God" does not appear in
the constitution of the United States,
nor is there any reference to creed or
Three delegates to the convention
Would not sign the constitution. These
were Elbridge Gerry, of Massachu-
sets; George Mason and Edward j.
Randolph, of Virginia. Gerry feared
a civil war, Mason a monarchy, and
Randolph objected to the powers con-
ferred on the president.
Benedict Arnold was not the first or
only traitor during the Revolution.
His predecessor in that "Judas" office
was DR.. Benjamin Church, of Reyn-
ham, Mass, arrested, tried and i'm
prisoned at Cambridge, Mass, in 1775.
He had been an active member of the
provincial congress, and was trusted
as an ardent patriot. He was released
from prison in 1776 because of failing
health, embarked for the West Indies,
and he and the vessel in which he sail
ed were never afterward heard of.
The following States have not
State motto: Indiana, Mississippi, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, North Caro-
lima and Texas.
The dollar sign (s) is not mono
gram of "U. ST." but dates from the
DAYS when the transfer was made
from Spanish to American dollars, and
accounts were kept equally in dollars
and reals. Thus: One dollar eight
reals, (American and Spanish paral-
lei accounts) Later the eight was
placed between the cancellation
marks [S], then the perpendicular
line crossed the 8, and finally the 8
shaded into an S, and combined with
the cancellation line evolved the pres
ent sign (@.
Friday is not an "unlucky" day for
the United States at least forty great
events in United States history fell on
Friday.
The American Indian is not CYAN
ishing race'. There is very nearly as
large an Indian population in the
United States today as at the time OF
Columbus.-Selected.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25
who will doubtless carry information to

who will doubtless carry information to
the enemies of your country"
Souri, made no reply. She stood look
ing at the officer with her big black
eyes. Fortunately for her, he had q
daughter about her age.
Meanwhile some Tennesseeans who
hailed from Jasper had been sent for,
and they came in to have look at the
prisoners. Several of them recognized
both Souri, and Jakey, and told the mar
shall that they were what they pretended.
This and their youth, together with
the fact that the provost marshal was
not a harsh man, saved them from pun
ishlnent. There was a great deal of feel
ing against renegade" east Tennessee
ans, and had they been men they would
have been taken back to the "black
hole" at the Jail and kept there till it
was found necessary to move them from
the approaching enemy. AS it was, the
marshal directed that they be taken into
another room till he could hear from
headquarters regarding them. He knew
the Triggs and the "black hole" and
feared to let them go back to them.
The officers at headquarters were too
busy to medd!e with such a case. The
provost marshal's communication was
returned with the following indarsamant:
Respectfully referred back to the provost
marshal with authority TO do with these pris-
oners as he thinks for the best interests OF the
service. The SPY having escaped 1t does not
appear that there is any reason to hold them.
The brother and sister were brought
in again to hear what was to be their
fate. Souri, was aware Of the enormity
of her offense and expected a severe pun
ishment. She had determined to beg the
officer to send Jakey back to his parents,
then he might punish her as he liked.
Suppose let you and your little
brother 20 home," said the marshal,
twill you 60 there and keep out of any
interference in matters that concern the
Confederacy hereafter"
"rll 20 home," said Souri,.
"WeIl, reckon you'd better co." re-
piled the officer. Then to the guard:
"Send the corporal here"
"Take these children" he said to that
person when he arrived, "to the other
side of the river and turn them adrlft,
and see that they don't get back here"
Souri's heart jumped into her throat
for Joy. Turning her expressive eyes on
the officer, she said, "Thank YOU"
"Mr. Ossifer," said Jakey, 81 thank
y fur gimmen me back my gun"
A smile broke over the faces of those
present.
The next day the brother and sister
arrived at home, and great was the re-
joicing in the Slack family.
l
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25

WHO TOLD THE BIRDS ?-Most sail
ors believe that "rats desert sinking
ship'-that is, refuse to 60 upon the
last voyage which vessel makes.
Sailors suppose that the rats know in
stinctively when disaster is about to
occur, and they are induced with great
difficulty to ship on vessel which
has no rats aboard.
A curious story comes from Ham
burg to the effect that few days be-
fore the recent cholera epidemic broke
out all the birds took flight from the
city. 1t was then recalled that in 1884, !,
when the cholera was raging in Mar
seilles and Toulon, all the birds de-
serted those cities and took refuge H
Tyres, which remained entirely flee
from cholera during the whole sum-
mer of 1884. All the sparrows in
Prezemsyl, a town of Galicia, suddenly
departed two days before the appear
ance of the pest, and not bird re-
turned until the end of November,
when the cholera had disappeared.
"a little bird told me" is COM
mon expression, but the important
question seems to be, "Who told the
birds?"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25

Jehovah not to visit the punishment o.
his sin upon all those unfortunate
people,"
In the course of his narrative Mr.
Moody related number of interesting
incidents to show how they had to try
to divert the overstrained minds of the
people from the one brooding thought
that oppressed them. He said he told
them about all the stories he knew dur
ing those long days and nights, and
strange as it my seem, laughter and
merriment were often heard around
his table. 1t was a hard thing to do,
but one must learn to bear the burdens
of others on such occasions. One lady,
to whom Mr.. Moody used to read the
scriptures, always wanted to have
something about Paul's shipwreck,
and, however he might divert her
mind for o while, she always swung
back again to the shipwreck.
At the conclusion of his thrilling
story, Mr.. Moody read the two Pslams
referred to, with new and deeper ap-
prehension of their preciousness and
power. This unique Sundays service,
shared by Mr.. Moody's friends and
neighbors, and about seven hundred
#Hd fa6tts s8eYp eYpd VI teaehers ie Of his schools,
Observer,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25
TUE T1pEIEss STORMY PETREL.-

THE TIRELEss STORMY PETREL.-
During a recent trip across the Allan
tic the passengers on steamer had q
vivid illustration of the endurance OF
the stormy petrol. Shortly after the
ship left the Irish coast, two or three
of these birds were sighted at the
stern of the ship. One had been caught
at some previous time, and its captor
tied a bit of red flannel or ribbon
around its neck and let it 60. The bit
of red made the bird very conspicuous,
and it could be easily identified. That
bird, with others that could not be so
easil y distinguished, followed the ship
clear across the ocean. Rarely, during
the daytime at least, was it out Of
sight, and if for an hour or two was
lost to view while feeding on the refuse
cast overheard, it soon reappeared, and
the last seen of it was within few miles
of Sandy Hook, when it disappeared,
perhaps to follow some outward bound
steamer back to Ireland. When the
fact is considered that the ship, day and
night went an average speed of nearly
twenty miles an hour, the feat per-
formed by the daring ocean traveller
can better be appreciated. When or
how it rested is inexplicable. ~
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25

which caught my eye, and l swung
myself down by the bushes and red
frs until l reached him.
"He seemed to be suffocating, and I
united the red handkerchief, and drop
ped little brandy on his lips. Then
he struggled convulsively to reach a
black cord suspended round his throat.
Upon that cord, madam, hung your
ring.
"My story is finished. The dying
man held the ring toward me, and
gasping the one word 'Battista, he fell
back dead. Madam, it took me four
years to find Battista, but I found her
at last, widow, living in poverty.
She told me it had been q heirloom in
in her husbands family, and had been
stolen from her four years previously.
This tailed with the date of the acci-
dent, and, convinced of the truth of
her story, restored to her the ring.
] can only account for its being again
on sale by thinking she must have fall
len into extreme penury and sold it..
Madam" continued my friend solemn
ly, "will you permit me to wear the
ring until l return ?"
l granted his request, and never
again saw the man nor the ring, but 1
er is now in prison, and tt6aT the ring
is in another pawnshop.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25
CHA TT { f FAN66G 4.
BY F. A. mitchell, LATE U. S. A.
Copyright 1892 by American Press Association
SYNOPSIS.


Private Mark Maynard is sent by Gem
eral Thomas from the Union camps in
central Tennessee scouting toward Chat
tanooga and barely escapes capture by
the Confederates through the cunning OF
native girlISouri Slack. He gets suit
of citizens clothes at Slac&'s, and Jakey
Slack; q lad Of thirteen, goes with him to
help disguise his character. Souri, gives
Mark silk handkerchief as parting
memento. Mark and the boy beg supper
and lodging at the house of Mrs. Fain, a
southern woman. married to northern
man who is absent in the Union lines:
Captain Fitz Hugh, c. s. A, suitor Of
Laura Fain's, drups in and suspects that
the strangers may be Union spies, but
Laura wards off investigation, and the
travellers resume their journey undis-
turbed. Mark reaches Chattanooga, is
captured and condemned as a spy: Jakey
sends Souri's silk handkerchief home by
friendly negroes and Souri, takes hint,
hastens to Chattanooga and helps Mark
to escape jail. Mark reaches the Fains,
house and is protected by Laura.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25

THE ST. GoTHARD TUNNEL DE-
THRoNED. The great st. Gothard
tunnel, which was begun October l,
1872. and finished in 1880, is nine and
one-half miles in length and cost $780,
40 per foot throughout. At present it
is the Titan of all the worlds tunnels.
"These cannot last forever" however,
and by the end of 1895 St. Gothard
will be dethroned, the great Simplon
tunnel, now in course of construction,
coming in with the title of "largest and
longest tunnel in the world" This
new claimant for Titanic honors, is be-
ing built to supercede the famous
"Route eff the Simplon," a road over
the mountains which was constructed
by the first Napoleon. The Simplon
tunnel will be almost one-fourth long
er than the now celebrated St. Gothard,
it's total length from opening to open
ing being, according to expert calcula-
tions, twelve and one-half miles. In
short it almost exactly three miles
longer than St. Gothard. The old
"Route of the Simplon," which will be
practically abandoned when the tun-
mel is completed, is abou. thirty-eight
miles in length. At present it takes
twelve long hours to cross the simplon
route. When the tunnel is finished
less than half hour will be consumed
in making the trip.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25
IN THE ROLE OF JONAH.

Appropos to the incident related in
last Fridays Republic of the death of
Zipp, the elephant at Barboo, Wis,
from having swallowed chain weigh
ing ninety pounds, reminder was
called up and related by DR.. Hume, of
Denver, who recently registered at the
Lindell.
"Just prior to the demise of the much
lamented Phineas T. Barnum, was
touring in Connecticut and called upon
the great Snowman at Bridgeport, who
invited me to see the circus animals in
winter quarters. On arriving at the
great caravansary where the wonders
that tour the country year after year
are stored, the illustrious owner was
informed that Beta, the prize trick ele-
phant, was ailing. All the symptoms
of the poor beast pointed to the fact
that she was suffering from acute gas
tralgia, and means had been tried to
relieve her without avail.
''It was finally discovered that Beta
had by some means wrenched of an
iron bar from her stall, and as it could
not be found, it was surmised that she
had swallowedit and which accounted
for the gastric irritation of the valua-
BILE pachderm.
Mr.. Barnum saw that poor Beta
must soon succumb to the intlamma-
ton caused by such o large foreign
body, and with ready wit resolved on
a unique plan to remove it. Attached
to his large winter hotel was small
colored boy who went by the name OF
Nigger Joe. He was but little larger
than full grown 'possum, and P. T.
sent for him and explained that he
must take rubber tube in his mouth
to breathe through, and with a rope
round his waist, must 60 down into the
elephants stomach and get out that
bar of iron.
"Joe rolled his eyes and demurred,
but he knew his employer too well to
refuse. Accordingly Joe was anointed
with pound of vaseline and Beta
being safely, gagged he was gently
pushed down the esophagus head
first, a smooth stick we'll oiled landing
him at the bottom. According to in
structions the boy soon gave three tugs
at the rope to be pulled off again, and
sure enough, tightly clasped in Joe's
hand was the offending and indigesti-
BILE iron bar. 1t is needless to say that
Beta's life was saved and that Niger
Joe was handsomely rewarded for his
cure of the valuable elephants indi-
gestion.-St. Louis Republic.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25

HE TRUSTS HIS WIFE WITH THE
RAZOR. "There is society woman
in this city who shaves her husband
three times week." said smooth
faced man at desk in the corner of the
Office. "It is so and know it. I
ought to know it, for I'm the man.
The way of it is this: Last summer
we lived in the country, and in the
evening, three times a week, l used
to come into town to get shaved. Of
course would meet somebody I knew
and often would 60 home late-some-
times, confess, in rather 'frazzled-
OUT condition. Madam didn't say
anything, but she no doubt kept up q
said: - 80 49, ae''-sAA aA,'-e4-
"Dear, 1 hate to have you go to
town to get shaved; it keeps you up
late and gives you such headaches.
Bring me out razor and I'll wager
can shave you
"Of course, hooted at the idea, but
she persisted and claimed that she was
far more intelligent than the average
barber, beside being equally talkatiye,
so finally humored her by getting
nice case of razors. Well, sir, she
shaved me like an expert. Did you
ever see a cleaner face than mine? I
pay her fancy price, of course, butt she
promises to take me to Europe some
day on her barber shops perquisites.'
"Pooh!" said the book-keeper with
the haystack beard. 'pd be afraid
to trust my wife that near me with
razor in her hand.'
"Well," retorted the smooth-faced
man, 'if I was mean to my wife, l
would be, too."
And the balance of sympathetic
Laughter was with the man whose wife
shaves him.-Chicago Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25

FEARED BEING BURIED ALIVE
The most peculiar and eccentric char
acter that ever lived in Alabama was
Thomas Banks, who died at Montgom-
ery sometime during the year 1880.
Physicians say that he would have
lived years longer than he did had it
not been for the fact that he was con-
tinually brooding over the danger of
being buried alive. He was man OF
considerable property, being rated at
about 100000, but to his way of look
ing at the matter money could not
provide against the horrors of a pre-
mature burial. Away back in the
'7O's he had mausoleum built in the
Montgomery cemetery, and directed
that he and his only brother should
be laid there together after death. In
1880 the brother died and was care
fully and tendcrly laid away i'll one of
the inches Of the mausoleum. After
this solemn event Thomas had his bed
room furniture moved to the tomb,
and ever after regularly made his
toilet there. As mentioned above
Thomas also died in 1890, and now
the two brothers lie within handy
reach of fresh air should either wake
from his drcamless sleep. The Banks
brothers were natives of North Caro-
lima, and went to Montgomery some
time about the year 1856.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25

"You came here unbidden and placed
yourself in my hands. Do you think it
proper to come and 60 at your pleasure"
Mark approached her, and bending
low took hey hand and kissed it. There
was something in the act to remind her
of the lion-after the training.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25

SHOOTING STARs.-The space be:
tween the planets of our system,
which to us appears to be empty, is
supposed to be filled with Il vast num-
ber of small bodies, moving about with
uncomfortable rapidity. Occasionally
one of these bodies comes into the at
mosphere of the earth, and then we
have Il meteor or shooting star. In the
airless regions of space there is moth
ing to interfere with their rapid motion ;
but when they enter the carth's atmos-
phere. their flight is checked. The
nearer they come to the earth, the
denser is the air. The resistance to
their progress heats them red-hot, then
white-hot, then the small metcors van
ish in vapor and the large ones plunge
into the earth.
If these mcteors could reach the
earth unobstructcd, our lives would be
in constant danger, but the air acts as
a cushion. which absorbs the great
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25

gsg" The number of murders that
marke the annals Of 1892 has alarmed
the social economists of the country.
They see clearly that there must be
some prompt and efficient measures of
reform inaugurated by our legislators
and law administrators to put an end
to the epidemic. The murders during
1892 in the United States were 6,192,
against 59O6 in 1891, 1920 in 1890 and
1867 in 1899.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25

mass of them before they reach US, and
robs the others of much of their des-
tructive force. When we 60 out in the
evening and see the stars shooting in
the sky, we may know that the earth
is visited by wandering messengers,
perhaps from some other planet. Pos
sibly they have been travelling about
the great central sun all the ages
since .sthe earth was without form and
void" and the heavenly bodies, as we
now see them, were formed out of cha
os by the word of God.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1893-01-25

eSD" Affections, by Gods grace, make
us all-round men, developing every
spiritual faculty, and they are our
helpers, and should be welcomed with
"all joy."-Spurgeon.