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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-01-14
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While so.as choice fruit and other
products are canned in Franco. the
bulk Of the worlds supply comes from
this country.
The beak Of the musquito is a tool.
box, where lie Aeeps five surgical in
strunents-a lance, a spear, q needle,
saw and q pump.
The speed of the fastest railway is
not much more than half that Of the
golden eagles fight. The bird often
makes IA" miles an hour.
At Washington, c. H., q single ele-
plant pushed out of the mire a wagon
which the combined strength of four
teen horses had failed to move.
The smallest bear eve seen is a
stuffed ornament in the parlor of Mark
Remission, at Phillips, Me. 1t is 3
inches high and 6 inches in length.
Electrical headlights on steam loco
motives arc now used extensively.
The Philadelphia and Reading engines
are being fitted up with these and it is
reported that many Western roads
have recently placed lage orders.
An exhibition called the magic
Maze Of Mirrors" has sprung up in
London. AS the visitor entezs the
door he sees a crowd reckoning him
from a hundred different angles-an
efe t produced by one stuffed image.
Mr.. Peet, a rather difident Cali
fornia man, was unable to prevent
himself being introduced one evening
to a fascinating young lady who, mis-
understanding his name. constantly
addressed him as Mr.. Peters, much to
the g%entleman's distress. Finally sum-
moning courage, he bashfully but
earnestly demonstrated: ION, don't
call me Peters-call me Pect." "Ah,
but l don't know you well enough. Mr..
Peters," said the young lady. blush
ing, as she playfully withdrew part
way behind her fan.
This is how = New York widow got
ahead of the 1nlnan steamship co,n-
p-ny. She owned q narrow strip Of
land which the company wished, and.
of course. she asked IN outrageous
price for it. A compromise was finally
reached. She offered to deed the land
il the company would in return agree
to give her and her two daughters, rs
long as she lived, free passage upon
the steamers of the line. AS she was
an elderly lady the company agreed to
it. This was in 1889. Ever since then
the lady and her daughters have lived
aboard the company's steamers, aqd
as they run vessels to nearly I'LL the
principal ports of the world she trav.
els wherever she wishsA
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-01-14
THOUGHTS AND THINGS.

Country house furniture now includes
a bamboo arrangement for elevating
the feet and legs of the tired lord Of
h manor
The consumption If coffee in France
has increased within thirty years from
one-half pound to three and one-half
pounds per head annually.
A block Of carbon fourteen inches
square represents the amount of that
material that goes to make up the con-
stitution of a man of average weight.
A change of street lines in Bayonne,
N. j., has resulted in the award of q
strip of ground seven inches long by
two inches wide at its widest part to q
widow in that town.
A member Of the City Council Of
Paris has introduced a proposition to
have lessons of history AMI biography
impressed upon the public mind by
having them printed on the enameled
signs ut the which low merely
give the names of the streets.
AS an example of the extent to
which tipping prevails on the continent
J v II SooAAAS ~ AC0lA Cudt pOTtcCS
in Swiss hotels are not only paid no
wages but themselves pay = rental to
the innkeepers. They make their liv-
ing, and q good one, exclusively from
the tips given them by guests.
The newest great city of Europe is
budapest. the capital and metropolis
of Hungary. In Kossuth's day, less
than half a century ago, the combined
population Of Buda and Pesth, lying
on opposite sides of the Danube, was
about one hundred thousand. The
consolidated municipality now has q
population Of fully half q million.
Insects have recently destroyed
whole forests in Powhatan county,
Va, and among other trees the fam
GUS Pope's pine, a noted landmark in
the old Dominion. It stood for years
on IN eminence from which it was
visible for twenty miles or more
around, and lowered high above all
surrounding trees. In old times Col.
Pope, a local patriot, put q liberty cap
stamped like that on our copper cent
pieces on the tree, and every year
when Fourth of July came around he
celebrated the anniversary by holding
q barbecue at the foot Of the pine.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-01-14
CURIOUS cULLINGs.

A parrot is said to bave lived in tho
Geological gardens, Regent park.
London. for fifty-two years without .
drop of water.
Upon examination Of the human
skin with the latest improved micro
scopes 1t is found to be covered with
minute scales, overlapping each other
exactly like those Of q fish.
Most Of the immigrants to this our
try during the past year came from
Germany, the Fatherland furnishing
1885, 10 Ireland sent 60, 900 and Italy
q few more than that number.
Japanese jugglers are deft smokers.
Several Of them will sit before q cur
tain and from the tobacco smoke
which issues from their mouths will
form n succession of readable letters.
A few years ago there were but two
or three advanced schools in this VI
try that were open to students of both
sexes. There are now said to be 2O4 Of
the 1865 colleges which are co.educa-
+ional.
A Miss Bliss OF Worcester. Mass,
has come into the possession of a for
tune estimated ut several million dol
lars by the will of a Hartford gentle
man to whom she was engaged to be
married.
The microscope exhibits 1000 mus
c)es in q common caterpillar, 1000 mir
rors in the eye of a drone bee, besides
proving that the large eye of a dragon
fly is only a collection of 2s,OOO pol
;shcd lenses.
Some boys in Murray county, Ca,
claim that they saw q blacksnake run
Mt full speed down asteep hill and jump
ten feet high and capture a sapsucker
which was drilling a hole in the bark
Of a pine tree with its sharp beals.
A committee of the Manchester, N.
H Central church is going to set aside
of its horse sheds for the use Of
bicycles. Quite a number of the con
grcgation ride to and from church on
cycles on Sunday, as we'll as during
the week.
Cabbage has always been said to be
a cure for intoxication. The Egyp-
tians ate boiled cabbage before their
other food if they intended to drink
wine after dinner, and some of the
remedies sold as a preventive of intox-
ication on the continent contain cab
bage seed.
The following note from an indig-
nant mother was recently received by
a master in one of the London board
schools: II must complain about the
wicked things you teach my boy-sin-
full things. You light a candle, put q
tumbler over it. and make it go out
without blowing 1t out"
The corner upon which the recently
erected Chicago Inter Ocean building
stands, has been sold for $3.50 a square
foot. The lot is only 20 by 40 feet, but it
has brought $500, 600. At this rate an
acre land in that neighborhood would
cost nearly Sill, Doc, 900. The handsome
building is not included in the sale.
The lot is leased by the Inter Ocean
company for ninety-nine years.
There is a wonderful piece of mech
anism in the United States govern
ment mint in the shape of the scales
for weighing the gold coin. Two
pieces of paper of equal weight have
been placed upon the balances and on
one being removed and an autograph
in lead pencil inscribed on it, and the
sheet replaced on the scales, the sec.
ond piece has been found to outweigh
the other.
Evening journal., 1893-05-29

AS matter of fact, every body has the
right and the privilege of controlling its
own membership. Amy social or politi-
cal organization may receive or reject
such persons as it pleases. We do not
question either the right or the privi.
legs, and we do not object to the exer-
else of sither, or both. But the recent
rejection Of Mr.. SeligmAn by the Union
League, political club Of New York,
because he is jew; and the still more
recent rejection of "Lotta," Miss Crab
tree; Of Mrs. Dillon. Mrs. Wakeman and
Miss Croly, the daughter of Jennie
June, for no reason expressed, by
the Sorosis, feminine watcher
may call 1t, serve to show the
growth Of snobbish intolerance
in this country. We have no sympathy
with either side Of either controversy
the outs Of the Union League who wish
to be in are as disagreeable to us as the
priggish political "blockheads" who are
In. We have as little admiration for the
shrieking termagents OF the Sorosis,
who are already in. as for those misguided
or notoIiety hunting women who
wish TO get in. In one case there is a
womanly cult which does not add to
womanly dignity or womanly refinement
in the other case there is political cult
which is neither statesmanly nor schol-
arly. They are both snobbish, vulgar,
intolerant. In their several ways each
represents the revival of Puritanism-
one in the ignorance and bigotry of
politics. the other in the ignorance and
bigotry of femininity. Neither one is in
harmony with the advancing civilization,
broader culture, higher intelligence,
greater refinement, sweeter amiability
and mutual respect which the frequent
and easy intercourse of this age inspires
and requires.
Evening journal., 1893-05-29

The fact that the two great bodies Of
Presbyterians now in session in this
country appoint committees and send
delegations to urge President Cleveland
to exert his power TO annul law that
President Harrison, an elder in their
church signed, is significant. One Of the
members of the committee, referring to
the Geary Exclusion act, says that the
representatives of the church in China
are in danger from an outbreak in that
country in response TO the working Of
the Geary law, IL it were carried into
effect. That the storm would spread
into Korea and Japan, and all the
missionaries in those lands were sit.
ting under the shadow of q
black cloud. Did President Harrison
know that or clre for it2 How came
he, Presbyterian having two or three
Presbyterian elders in his Cabinet tc
sign such bili DID he sign it in igno
rance, from carele ssness, or for political
purposesl He signed it and 1t is a bad
act; those facts are not disputed. Il
| President Harrison was mistaken wheT
he signed the Geary act could he moi
have been mistaken also in signing tn,
Disability Prusisn bill, in sending thl
war message against Chilli, in urging tn,
Force bill, in sanctioning the Sherman
silver bill and in signing the McKinle,
bill All Of these acts are upol
the same plane. They all represen
the same kind of political igno
rance, defiance of the people an
travesty upon justice. Unfortunatel
the country is not done with Presl
dent Harrison and-with his political
religious and prosperity enhancin
cult. We are still living under tn
law that he and his party enacted
They are nearly all baneful law
Evening journal., 1893-05-29
A MESS.

The appointment of Roman Tammany
has been treated with silence by the
papers generally. or course the EVEN
ING JOURNAL appeared promptly with
the reasons which Influenced Governor
Reynolds to make the appointment.
together with a statement in answer to
the charge, the charge. mind you, that
Mr.. Tsmmany was a Republican, that he
had been Republican but had repudi-
ated the party because Of the Mckinley
bill and the Force bill. The Georgetown
Republican however says:
The appointment was surprise
TO every one Governor Reynolds is not in
the habit of appointing Republicans to
any Office at his disposal and Mr. Tam.
many has always been cassed as q Re.
publican-been admitted to the party
counsels-was Republican election
officer at the last election, and has always
posed as a Republican Of the blackest
kinda bred and born Republican. Has
he sold his birthright for a mess of pot
tagei
Those statements are diffuse and ex.
sggerated as the result, perhaps of heat
that is unaocountabls aud confusing.
The writer seems to think he is offended
without knowing, or being able, If he
does know, TO tell why. It is incompre-
hensible why the editor should take on
So" because Governor Reynolds sus-
pended his 'habit" and appointed "a
bred and born Republican" "a bread and
butter Republican, perhaps, he nsans) to
an Office for which he is in every way
competent" and concerning whom the
editor assures us, I'VE are.not disposed to
write anything that would hamper him
in the discharge Of his official duties
OF course. the lack of logical coher-
ence in these various statements renders
any attempt to reply, difficult, If not
futile. II Mr. Tammany is a man
worthy of trust and confidence; is com.
petent for the position, and has the
kindly congratulations of the editor, we
cannot conceive why he should object to
this alleged break, Of Governor Reynolds,
in what he would naturally consider a
bad habit of not appointing Republi.
cans TO any office at his disposal. "
Surely the governor could not appoint a
man to an Office which was not at his
disposal. When he does appoint a Re.
publican to an Office, which is at his dis.
posal. the editor ought to be happy; he
ought not to say that the man has 'sold
his birthright for a mess Of pottage"
The fact is, the editor has mess on his
mind seemingly, and got his editorials
and himself, too, inte a mess.
Governor Reynolds, for the reasons
of fitness already mentioned in the
EVENING JOURNAL, has selected and ap-
pointed a competent and experienced
man to an important and responsible
Office 1t really does not matter what
his politics are, provided the appointee is
not an offensive partisan, and will not
neglect his duties.
If the appointment should have the
effect of weakening the lines of the party
which rushed the Mckinley bill through
Congress by dishonest pleas and unjust
practices, then the country will be al
the better for that, and the editor shoulC
not be serry; for even he knows thA'
the Mckinley bill was dishonest though
he is not brave enough to scknowledg'
il as Tammany has done.
Evening journal., 1893-05-29
lF THEY WERE ANeELs,

What the EVENING JOURNAL would
like to teach or preach; what it is deter
mined to advocate are optimism and
altruism. In all Of the efforts we have
made to comment on and cIiticise men
and things, We have always been re-
strained from malice or anger by a sweet
hopefulness for the best, and inspired to
offer a cheerful assistance TO those with
whom accident or choice brings us into
contact.
Having those great and noble princi-
pies, those goals for all that is true and
beautiful and good in life in view; hav.
ing in Emersonian phrase, hitched oui
wagon to a star, the EVENING JOURNAL
has attempted, in one case, to put 4
mans lifetime Of industry, respect
ability and success, against the circum
Evening journal., 1893-05-29

which opens the Museum on Sunday and
say: The results show that thus far
there has been loss of 4o6 annual mem.
bers, with the $4,000 we were annually
receiving from them. We have lost the
favor and sympathy of an important por-
tion of the public. We know Of large
beouests that have been revoked on
account of our opening on Sunday, and
finally we shall be indebted on account
of Sunday expenses for this year between
four and five thousand dollars. '
Those statements, II true and Just,
will deprive the advocates for the open
ing of the museum of the basis Of their
argument 1t is not parallel case tc
the Worlds Fair, for the reason, chiefly
that the custom of Sunday closing pre-
walls in New York, and does not prevail
in Chicago any more than it prevails
in Paris. Still it is more potent fact
than any of the Sabbatarians have used
If 1t be a fact.
Evening journal., 1893-05-29

AT recent meeting Of Odell Post @.
A. R., Of Brooklyn, resolution of
sympathy with Farnham Post, In It's
condemnation Of dishonest pensions,
and Of disapproval of the harsh treat.
ment Farnham Post has received, was
not suppressed till a strong sentiment
had been displayed in its favor. We
are free TO say that we do not expect
any powerful or determined effort from
the Grand Army to promote honest
pensions. The indications are that no
matter for what admirable purposes the
Grand Army was formed, its existence
now is retained for the sole purpose Of
putting small mon In high places and
for getting pensions. With almost a
million active and able bodied pensioners
as the result Of less than four-years'
field operations Of an army which never
counted more than 630, 900 men in the
field at one time, procured principally
through the efforts Of the Grand
Army Posts, there is not a bright
pro spect that they will object now.
In iact the majority OF them are pension
drawers and the strongest Of them
have applications in for increased PEN
sions. But there are ten or twelve mil
lion other men who are willing to be
taxed for honest pensions for worthy,
honorable and disabled soldiers only.
These men will be heard from when the
abuse ceases to be tolerable. The senti
ment Of the people is setting against
this wholesale pension fraud and the
Grand Army, by opposing just condem-
nations and refusing to make any effort
to separate the worthy from the I'M
worthy pensioners, is augmenting that
sentiment. This is a humiliating, a
disgraceful position for the Grand Army
to be in, but let the members not make
the mistake Of doubling the truth OF
what we have said.
Evening journal., 1893-05-29
MANANIAKER,s.
Philadelphia, Monday, May 20, 1888.
The weather to-day is likely
to be cloudy.

Since the apple blossoms
came we have passed out to
you almost 10000 yards of
standard Dress Silks at special
prices.
Probably nothing ever like it
in the history of Columbian
retailing-because Silks are
always Silks.
The admiral of the Silk fleet
is not yet through with his
brilliant manoeuvring.
A Ship-of-the-Line arrives
to-day with 1000 yards
fine Japanese Silk, white print
ings on thirty ground-shades,
including
browns blues
heliotropes greens
garnets grays
old rose black
Told of around town at 81.
We say 65 cents.
5000 more yards of the 23-
inch Wash Silks at soc instead
Of 90 and 75c.
We put the Atalanta at the
head of the Bicycle line; as
good as the best and 1880
cheaper-$I2o instead of $I5o
for either Roadster, light
Roadster or Ladies'.
But the other Bicycles are
here-any of them, from little
ones for the lad, up.
Keystone, 20 in Wheels cushion tires
$1S; "a in, $21; 26 in, $24
Keystone, 24in wheels, cushion tires
$24; 26 in, $27.
Pet, 90 in. wheels, cushion tires
and parallel bearings $50.
Boys Junior, "a in. wheels, cushion
tires, cone bearings, $25.
No. 1 Cinch, diamone frame, "a in
wheels, cushion tires, ball bearings
S35; No. ?, pneumatic tires, $50.
No. 1 Combination Junior, "a in
wheels. cushion tires, ball bear
ings, $685. No. 3, 2G in., $40; No. 4
pneumatic tires $50.
No. 1, Rob Roy, diamond frames q
in. wheels, cushion tires, ball bear
ings, $50; No 2, pneumatic tires
S65
Juno, Ladies', % in wheels, bal
bearings, cushion tires, $75 pneu
matte tires, 800.
No. 2 Crescent, 30 in. wheels, bal
bearings, pneumatic tires, 800.
Credenda, pneumatic tires, S115.
Victor Flyer, $3.50.
Victor model ID" Roadster, pneu
matte, $3.50.
Victoria, pneumatic, $3.50.
Easement, northeast Of centre.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Evening journal., 1893-05-29

would be better off in the country. They
would be relatively better paid, subject
to less temptation, their children would
grow up to be better citizens, to be more
useful to society, a greater credit to
themselves. These are plain, blunt
truths, but they should be recognized
and acted upon, and if they are, few
years hence there will be no question Of
this kind to vex any section Of the
country.
What are they going to do about it;
put themselves back under the leader
ship that brings them into the condition
of contempt and danger2
Evening journal., 1893-05-29

THE advocates Of the revision of the
tariff have been persistent and insistent
in warning the people the protection did
not and could not protect; that the way
to procure OF promote prosperity was to
take the shsckles and restrictions from
trade, not put more on that the way to
give the people more money was to give
them more liberty to make IL in their
own way. But Senator Sherman, the
great hnancier of the great party of
finance said the way TO give the people a
greater circulation was to borrow gold to
buy silver; hence we have the silver pur.
chase law. Our finances are suffering
from that law now. It takes nearly
fifty million dollars, money which the
Treasury never needed so much as IL
needs it now, from the Treasury every
year. II has deprecated the price of
si.ver-the evil il was expected to pre-
vent. So much for that count. The
Sherman Silver Purchase law is the law
under which we are living. It's results
on the Treasury everybody knows. Now
the Mckinley law passed to promote
prosperity and to prevent poverty is also
In operation. 1t was en- acted by the same
party with the same sort of promises of
good which have turned to evil. The
attempt to hold the Democrats response
BILE for the evils which these Republican
laws were enacted TO prevent is the effort
of man who commits self-stulli6cation
1t is an insult to intelligence. But It
goes well with the same silly pleas that
the Republican party has been urging
for ten years or more aud II shows how
dead the party is at the top. The editors
are too dead at the top to know that the
people have repudiated such twaddle.
Evening journal., 1893-05-29

stances of his death, and say in the
gospel of Burns
The mans the gowd for a'that.
In another case, when a man whose
hand and money have always been ready
to help other men-a man whose life
has been clean, wholesome and worthy
Of imitation-lost his own money, and
entailed loss upon others, the EVENING
JOURNAL has endeavored to turn the
thoughts Of his fellowmen from the one
incident of failure to a lifetime Of
achievement.
In one case the failure may have been
his fault; it may have been the fault
Of others. We have nothing to do with
that. In the other case death may have
come naturally or sinfully. We have
nothing TO do with that 1t is matter
of casuistry or curiosity, merely. For
purposes of philosophic criticism we
may know why one failed and how the
other died but neither is necessary
when we know enough to admire one
after death and to assist the other to
recover from his failure. Duty and
pleasure alike compel US to remember
one for his virtues and to forget the
faults of the other Optimism teaches
us to believe the best Of one; altruism
teaches us to do the best that can be
done to help the other and to save his
fortune.
We know that no man is perfect
hence when we find man, in whose
character or life there is still good
enough to counterbalance a great and
conspicuous evil, we love to admit all
that may be said in condemnation of his
faults, or Of his sins and, then, show
how grandly his virtues overtop
them.
What man who ever lived, but had
some fault
What man ever filled page of his
tory with achievement who did not.in-
cur the splenetic and dyspeptie condem-
nation of a detractor, a maligner; or
almost as bad, a man who was afraid
to apply the test of truth, for fear that
sin, single perhaps, might be so ex-
aggerated as to obscure a noble life.
Men are but men We must take
them, and look at them, and love them
as they are, for what they are; not as
they might be-if they were angels.
Modern intelligence and modern cul.
ture are teaching us the optimism and an
altruism of putting the prscept, "Love
one another, into practice. The Chinese,
and even less ancient Christians, taught,
but they did not practice these Godlike
qualities as we know them now. But
even Confusianism is sweeter and
nobler than the harshness, shallowness
and bigotry Of that libel on Christianity
-Puritsnism; or the bloody intol-
erance of tho medieval European re-
| ligions.
Men are not angels now; never will
be. But that is no reason why they
should not be less devilish the one to the
ether.
Evening journal., 1893-05-29

TIE Gould family will build a me
mortal Presbyterian Church to his
memory at Jay Gould's birthplace, Rox-
bury, n. Y. The present generation and
the Almighty have already formed an
opinion Of Jay, but this church may
influence the next generation.
Evening journal., 1893-05-29
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Collector Of the Port George i. Townsend
is indisposed. suffering from a severe cold.
Fletcher Payne, aged IS years, was ad-
mitted TO the pest house with the seven years
itch.
Ralph Bingham, the young orator and
elocutiOnist. assisted by his sister, Will per-
form at Epworth Church tomorrow night