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Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
An Interesting Exhibit.

One of the most interesting exhibits in the Department of Mines and Min ing will be the Analytical Laboratory in the southeast corner of the gallery in the Mixing Building. The determi- nation of ores of commerce the com position of alloys and metals and com plete analysis of all commercial prod ucts will form the exhibit, which is to continue throughout the entire length of the Fair. The latest yolumetric and grayimetric system of analysis and also fire assaying will be employed. The object of the laboratory will be a prac- tical exhibit of the analytical methods used in inorganic chemistry Work will be done for the entire Fair; and should not enough material be had from exhibitors, work will be taken in from the outside. All experiments will be made as interesting as possible, and the determination of rarer metals will receive goodly portion of the chem ists' time. The title of Chemist and Assayor to the Fair belongs to Mr. J. s. Cory, prominent chemist of Chica- go, the position being purely honorary. Mr. Cory is a graduate of Sheffield Scientific School, Yale College, and spsAt three years in Germany under Fresenius of WiesbadeA, Mir. Emil Furste, graduate of Berlin, will be assistant chemist Several colleges will send young mon to act as assistants, arrangements having been made for two men each month. Exhibitors will do well should they give their patron age to this most interesting branch of the Fair. As perfect an analysis of products of any kind will be made as is possible. Mir. Cory, whose office is in the Unity Building, Chicago, will be pleased to answer any question put to him concerning the Fair Laboratory.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
oI xondar how long t will he. ! said

'T wonder how long it will be" said Frederick c. Balderson, who is at the Southern, "before the last elephant falls victim to the ivory hunter The tale of the last buffalo in Anierica has been told SO often and so many mex have claimed to have fired tho last shot that the subject has got rather tedious, but there is no doubt that in the life time of most of us the elephant will practically cease to exist In some years as many as 100, 900 of these huge creatures are shot simply in order to obtain the ivory from their tusks, and if this goes oR for teB years there will be very few elephants left anywhere. Some sections have already been en- tirsly depopulated, and it is doubtful whether there are l,000,0 GOO elephants in existence all the world over. Nature does not fill mp the gaps left by the hunters to any appreciable exteat, be- cause an elephant does notmature until it is 30 years of age, and no one ever heard of any one of them having large family. Probably when the elephant exists no more vigorous efforts will be made to psrpetuate it, but in the mean time the old story will be repeated and nothing will be done to prevent what appears to be inevitable. Globe -Dem- ocrat.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
MANAGING ENGLISH FARMS.
The Rcsults of an Intelligent and Capabl
 Land Owner in England,

The Rcsults of an Intelligent and Capable
 Land Owner in England.
 Mir, ". J. Harris gives most helpful and interesting account of the Halwill manor estate. This was poor land and much of it was untouched for long peri- ods, being treated as summer run for cattle. The investor, Mr. Harris, was tempted at first to do what at that time was generally done by landlords-con- solidate farms, pull down old cottages and in fact generally reduce the avail able population and labor on the land.
 Several farms fell in soon after Mir Harris purchase of the estate, but he was "converted" by observing that, where the landlord or the farming ten- ant had allowed the cottagers to culti- vate the land immediately around them, the value of the land had been doubled by the laborer without indeed any guar. antee of perm lnent residence,
 Instead of destroying, the new landlord built and repaired, and having farms on his hands was enabled to cut off certain fields and allot them to cottagers. Small farms grew up and the larger ones were reduced. Thus land was let that other wise would not have been--moorland in- closures, for instance--anditwa it was on these that the value of the system made itself at once apparent.
 Land not valued at more than five shillings per acre in it's rough state be- came, when meadow land, worth from thirty to fifty shillings, and as the cot tages were in demand the population increased, and farmers knowing that labor could always be obtained took the large farms, reduced though they were. Wages have risen from ten and eleven shillings to twelve and fourteen shillings per week.
 Mir Harris says he made the mistake of working his vacant farms with bail ifs, thinking, IS the land was in low condition, he might do it better than q tenant. But, as he says, it is thc laborer who knows best and who succeeds, pro yiied ne has not more land than he can manage, One of tllcsc small holders now has fifty acres and gives occasional cm- ploymoat
 One secret Of the small farmers sue cess is that one man works Ju his farm for no wages at all, and that is the farm CT himself. The small farmers help each other, and they seldom let crop stand too late or get belIindhand, as is the fash. ion with some misguided men, who un- dCIlnau their large farms and depend on outside labor for chronic emergencies The harm that q large landowner can dc ly farming mean!y is incalculable.- London Saturday Review
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
AmauOns From Dahomsny |.

Sixty-seven subjects of King Behan- gin, ruler of Dahomey, arrived on the Midway Plaisance, Worlds Fair, May 3rd, to populate the Dahomean village They were from the cities and bush re- gioAs along the slave coast of the Gulf of Guinea, in West Africa. The new arrivals formed the strangest procession that has yet moved down the plaisance Black as the shades of night every one of them, they shivered from the cold. raw air, and groaned under their heavy trunks, which they balanced on their heads with as much skill as the South ern negroes tote" smaller bundles The women earned the heaviest loads, and that was the only way in which tho sexes could be distinguished. A 3-year-old boy, unprotected from the cold, bawled lustily from bag hung at his mothers belt, and drew the attsn- tien of Turks, Arabs, Japanese, Irish and German villagers away from all other business. There were two chil. dren and twenty women in the party, among the latter being seven of the brayest of the warriors of King Behan- zin. They were Amazons, hideous with battle scars, and with the lines of cru city and determination on their faces. Adaiemos, who enjoys the distinction of being guide or general for Gen. Dodds, who represents the French Government in Dahomey, was the leader of the party, but, like the rest, he was unable to speak or utter word of any language save the guttural of his own land.
 Three Africans, who have mastered French, act as interpreters, but none of them can talk English The Daho- means have been en route for two months, and reached their camp worn out. A number of them were suffer- ing from the cold, although through an interpreter they said the Chicago eli mate was much better than that of Par IS, where they were on exhibition for a week. They squatted about in the un- finished houses in their camp, and de- voured canned corn beef with relish. The Amazoas vent to sleep under whatever covering they could find, while the other women were put tc 1Rort
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
Ligc nIniher,s rnnl,lnr.

An enterprising baker adycrtises "mince pies like mother used to make. l" There is something queer about the idea lhat one's mother could cook better than any other woman who ever lived, Each generation of men, when they reach mid de life, lauds mothers cooking, and compares it with his wifes cooking to her disadvantage When that mans boy gets q wife of his own he tells her what 8 good cook his mother was, and so it goes generation after generation Now, according to this theory, the art of cooking has been steadily deteriorat- ing, but of course this is not true. Won der if boys appetite has not something to do with the idea that his mother was the best cook the world ever saw2-St Louis Republic.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
odd pcath of Q nen Rineer.

A young man named George Vaughan, one of the ringers at the parish church at Presteign, Radnorshire, lost his life on Monday under unusual circum- stances. The church bells had been left after ringing for evening service on the previous day, in 8 position known as "set, and Vaughan went to the belfry about o'clock in the afternoon to cor. rect some small faalt with the gear He was not seen during the remainder of the day, but when some of the ringers went to the balIry in the evening they found Vaughan dead His body was astride q beam among the bells
 It IS supposed that in tbe course of bis work be dislo9se5 one of the bells, caus- ing it to swing over. and that to save himself he had clatched the wheel of another and caused that to fall also One of thela had evidently struck him ol the head k.llirs him instantly Sey- cral persorH recall noticing the sudden striking Of one CT two of tae bells about 3 o'clock London Standard
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
A Gallant Of tl,e Old school.

On a Sixth avenue train the other even ing an old man sat literally packed among women. As the train approached the Twenty-third street station he began to button up his coat preparatory to leav- ing the car, He looked about grimly among the clustered women till he caught sight of an elderly man stand ing with them. Reaching out at arms length with his cane among the fur bellows and feathers, he managed to touch his fellow man on the elbow The other understood at once, and wedged his way back to the waiting seat. When he was safely there the old man got up, and, glaring deiiantiy at the baffled fair ones, picked his way rheunatically out of the train, New York Times
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
oid Time "Re,iewIng. %

The first age of the great modern re views and magazines was an age of kicks and rough horseplay Party mrit ran high under the regency, and literary critinsm. so far from being the "disin. tcresed' affair wlish Matthew Arnold demands, was ayowedly run upon polit. ical lines. Libel suits and challenges raincd upon magazine editors. Jeffrey and Moore went through inc forms of q duel The Chal3ee manuscript had to b suppressed in the second edition. anu cost Mir Blaclwood q thousand pound, as 1t was. AggTieyed persons lay in wait for editors iu inc street.
 Thus one Mr Douglas. of Glasgow, ,whc had been roughly handled in "Maga, came to Edinburgh and hors3whipped Blackwood, and was in turn beaten by BlaeEwcoi. who hai rc-enforced himself meanwhile with cudgel and with the Et;rick Shepherd III. 4. Beers iu Cen turv.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
rr..lurnt l.lInL.. .nIale.

The cod ze hoy Wbp took lrt in the commencement dances at The Pageant Of the Year ara laualday at their un- successful attempt 10 salute President Eliot during tbe performance They knew Che seat which Harvar3's president was Co occupy aud % they arranged among themselves io give salute to him aS they Eippaa out in ,3e.l inimita- ole exit The dance was completed in due form, and they praacsl ont amid applause. When hey reached the proper spot all saluied and disappeared behind the scenes, proud over the compliment which they had paid President Eliot. Judge their dismay when they learned Chat he was not in his seat then, and Chat he did not come in until several dances later! But 10 d5ubg the person who was iuci thought !, YgTy nice. -- Boston Transcript
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
People Who to the Telephone.

"Philadelphia,' said Dr. Plush, of the Bell company, runs higher than any other city in the number of it's telephone calls. The service is increasing with each year, and with each year is arriy- ing nearer and nearer perfection. Up to the present year we were frequently put to considerable trouble and expense in repairing our lines after stormy weather, Now, however, it is different. We began to put our lines under ground in October, 1891, and have almost com pleted the work. Storms and high winds can do us but little harm now No, we keep no record of the number and yari- ety of swear words uttered by impatient subscribers, but l can safely say that they are fewer now than in former years. Philadelphia Record
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
Cnre fnr snake Rite.

Another treatment for snake bite ia added to the long list of remedies that have come from many countries. It is said that the natives of Australia have comparatively little fear of snake bites. They keep always at hand piece of string made of human hair. The string is tied tightly three or four inches above the bite, small circle an eighth of ali inch deep is cut around the two fang punrtures with knife, and the largest vein below the bite is slit to allow the blood to run out. The last stage of this heroic treatment is the turning on of s stream of water to the affected part and the rubbing down steadily of the limb for about twenty minutes. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
The Nowspaper.

Tho newspaper is essentially com
 mereial enterprise-the preparation and putting upon the market of something to sell. It isof the same nature as an ordi. nary merchants, The rule in every well regulated shop is that the eclerks shall not discuss religion, politics or any disputed topic with the customers. Where the editorial department of a newspaper eu- ters into the enterprise the commodity offered for sale is opinions and a con stitucncy is therefore presumed to bc in the market which is willing to pay for seeing the opinions in print But the fact is that 10 paper limits it's sohcita- tion of jrado to any special constituency
 Itsoicits advertisements from all classes, 1t prints news for nll classes. and in ya- rious other ways appeals to all classes
 Editorials which please only oae class and displease many others are draw
 back to tAe paper, without being an ad
 vantage to the reader Boston Review
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
An Aneedote of Dorothea DiE.

< rural New Jersey member who had announced in the house that the wants and sufferiugs of the insane of tho state '.were all humbug, went to the parlor of Dorothea Dix to silence her with his arguments. but was constrained by Der gentle force to listen to hers. At the end of an hour and half he moved into the middle of thc room and thus deliy- cred himself "Na'am, l bid you good night do not want, for my part, to hear anything more; the others can stay if they want to: am convinced; you've conquered me out and out: l shall vote for the hospital. If you'll come to the house and talk there as you've donehere, 10 man that isn't brute can stand you, and so, when a mans convinced, that's enough. The Lord bless your There upon he took his departure Mary S. Robinson in Century.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
SPECIAL OFFER TO SUBSCRIBERS
The Weekly Globe Democrat,

The farmer, the merchant or the pro. fessional man who has not the time to read large daily newspaper, will find in THE WEEKLY GLoBE-DEMocRAT, consisting of ten pages, a paper chat exactly suits him--brimful of the best news of the day, sufficiently condensed to meet his needs. Though strictly Republican in principles, it is never so partisan as to suppress any important news necessary to a correct knowledge of current events. Once a reader, all ways a render. Price, $1.o0 per year. Any persC n sending us three dollars for three yearly subscriptions to the Weekly, will receive one copy free for a year A free sample copy may be had by writing for il. Subscriptions received by all postInasters or news. dealers throughout the United States, or directly by
 'IoRE rnI>TtNG cO- s' Louis, Mo,
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
spcIlbonna.

The eighty-tive teachers in tine public schools of Lockport had 3 spelling eon- test tho other day. 10 tho great delight of their pupils, because some of the teach CTS did uot altogether cover themselves with glory Cf the eiEtty-hye only five spelled "Reusselaer' correctly, and "A per cent. of the whole number misspelled acknowledgment" All of the follow ing words were wrongly spelled by more than half of the teachers. and several of them by more than fifty: "Suporsede. !" ''resuscitaiNe, excellence" benefit ed,' business, medal" "mainte- nance, 'milliner, 'pretentious, gas eous and "conccdc." The name Gene see" is said to have caught q good many victims. Boston Journal
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
uhr ,lnn I.oscs rni,h.

Ez-Judge Henry E. Rowland is cred tied with thc following:
 It is the gross and palpabie subter. fuges, deceits and evasions that are ab- horrent to our natures in dealing with the outside world like that in a prohibi- tion town in Maine, where a lank and rel uosed countrynan called into 9ru ; store end placing Q demiiohn ou tho counter said to the clerk. II want . gal. lon of rum. haDys sick, or the eau ti0us sparring for an advantage sug- gestcd by tho answer of the rector of a country parish who was revising his sermon one Sunday morning and was waited upon in his study by his organ ist. who asked what ne should play "I don't know" said the rector, absent mindedly; what kind of a hand have you got2'- New York World.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
Great snort for Women.

l have followed many a fascinating sport, but if womankird desires a pas time that will intoxicate her brain with healthy excitement, that will give her carnline cheeks and make her heart grow young once again, let me recommend to to her, from q most delightful experi- ence, the inimitable outdoor sport of ice boating, and let lie also tell her that she has not lived and therefore is not ready to die unless she has had at least one trip on a stretch of crystal at mile min ute.--E. Pauline Johnson in Outing.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
The EnrrnttAn Pnrt.

Aunt Hetty-What in creation is tho use of these new fangled individual forks and spoons?
 City Niece Ca follower of fals)-Don't you think its rather nice to have things which no one else uses? Forks and spoons go into peoples mouths, you know.
 Aunt Hetty-y Yes but, land sakes, they all 50 into the same dishwater = New York Weekly,
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
snocess of Electric Plants.

The question, "Is light or darkness conducive to the growth of an electric plantg was recently discussed by de batting society in western college Some stated that light was, because if no lamps were lit there would be nc profits, while others said that darkness was, because if there was no darkness there would be no need of lights. The debate finally terminated in draw New York Press.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
Yrmcn nnh nnr.- rlc.

In the late Montagu Williams book, Around London" there is striking testimony to the truth of an old saying concerning women. Iii any one, said Mr. Williams, "has doubts as to the brutalities practiced on women by men, let him visit the London hospital on a Saturday night. Very terrible sights will meet his eye. Sometimes IS many as twelve or fourteen women may be seen seated in the receiving room wait ing for their bruised and bleeding faces and bodies to be attended to- In nine cases out of ten the injuries have been inflicted by brutal husbands. Thenurses tell me, however, that any remarks they may make refecting on the aggressors are received with great indignation by the wretehed sufferers. They positively will not hear a single word against tho cowardly ruffans.
 Sometimes, said nurse to me, when have told woman that her hus- band is brute, she has drawn herself up and replied: You mind your own business, miss. We find the rates and taxes, and the likes of you are paid out of em to wait on us.'
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
Tie Nun,ber Three in Daily Life.

In the nursery rhymes and tales of childhood who cannot remember the "Three Wise Men of Gotham" who took a sea voyage in a bowl, not to mention the luckless trio of blind mice whose tails were cut of by the farmers wife?
 Examples of this sort might be multi piled indefinitely, but coming down to everyday life. our meals are regulated by the rule of three, while the sick pa tient would be guilty of treason to his doctor if he refused to take his medicine three times 2 day.-New York News.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
Lcotnrlnr to Ro,nl chlldrcn

Of the first lesson given to the royal children Mr. Hart says that when the professor Sir Richard Owen) first ar- rived at Windsor castle he inquired where he should hang up his diagrams, as these lectures were to be given in the white drawing room, the walls of which were covered with white satin. The an- gwer was that he was to do exactly as he pleased The gentleman in waiting was therefore of opinion that he should pin the drawings upon the white satin hang ings but this the professor declined to do, and thereupon requested to be led to the laundry of the castle, to the blank anazernent of the official When he ar rived there he picked out the largest clotheshorse he could find, and, having procured some green baize, rigged up an impromptu stand, which showed off his diagrams to the best advantage. Lon don Globe.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13

A Frenchman who had by chance passed over narrow plank lying across q deep gorge in the dark. on viewing the spot the next day fell down dead while contemplating the dangers of the previ- ous night.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13

A hay saver. consisting of three sided device which enables the horse to insert his head into the manager, but does not permit any lateral movement of it. is a late invention.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13
Frozen Almost Solid on Car rlstforr


 When the Chicago and Alton hum. mer' drew upat Joliet Thursday after neon the passengers waiting to take the train saw a mau drop of the bumperson the front end of the baggage ear. IIclp was given him. when it was found that be was dying. lis ears. face and feet were frozen stiff. He was taken Co the hospital, where the doctors and nurses tried msuccoasfully ytorestoro him. Tae doctors say lac vas frozen almost solid His nAlne was John Bussey and be was thirty-uine years old, He got on the train at Pontiac to go 10 Dwight getting on tho front end of the baggage CIT, but the drummer does not stop until Joliet fifty-fve miles away, is reached There is no door in the front end of the bag gage car, and he had tostay outside. lie met a terrible fate, the worst blizzard of the season catching him in full force, Cor. Chicago NeWg-RecOrd
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13

There were g. ,525 visitors to the top of the Washington monument last month, of which number II ,257 lnado the ascent in the elevator and 20, 22s by the stairway, making a total of 762, ,037 persons who have visited the top since the shaft was opened to the public, October, 9, 1888.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13

The manufacture of snowshoes for army use would establish new indus try that might employ goodly number of worlunen.
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13

While Mir T. J. Richey, of Altona, Mo, was travelling in Kansas he was taken violently ill with cholera morbus. He called at a drug store to get some medicine and the druggist rocommead- ed Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoa Remedy so highly he cou- cluded to try it. The result was imme- diate relief, and few doses cured him completely. It is made for bowel com plaint and nothing else. It never fails. For sale by H. C. Hitchcock, druggist
Arizona silver belt., 1893-05-13

Using medirm.