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Griggs courier., 1893-09-29
DOUBLE TRAGEDY At PErosxEy.

A Michigan Man Fatally Shoots His Wife
and Is Himself Killed by q Boarder.
PETOsKEY, Mich, Sept 26.-Saturday
afternoon Abe Wilsey shot and fatally
wounded his wife and was in turn shot
aud instantly killed by Swede named
Henry Six. The tragedy occurred at
kegomic, where the Wilseys kept a
boarding house. The couple had
never lived happily together since
their marriage seven years ago.
They separated three weeks ago, Will
sey leaving his wife to run the house.
He returned Saturday afternoon and
called his wife into room and tried to
persuade her to live with him again.
She refused positively, and Wilsey
drew revolver. AS she fled shrleking
all taking effect. One grazed the head,
one entered the arm at the elbow,
third took effect in the side and the
last passed through the right leg.
Henry Six, boarder, rushed into
the room and claims that Will
sey pointed his revolver at him.
Wilsey had previously threatened
Silks life. Six lodged behind the
door, and. reaching his arm around,
fred four shots. When help arrived
Wilsey lay on his face in a pool of
blood. One ball had gone clear through
the body and another struck him
squarely in the forehead. The woman
said Wilsey had shot himself, but Six
frankly admitted that he fired the fatal
shots. He has not yet been arrested.
The woman is still alive, but cannot
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29
August
Flower

I have been troubled with dyspep.
sia, but after a fair trial of august.
Flower, am freed from the vexatious
trouble-J. B. Young, Daughters
College, Harrodsburg, KY. I had
headache one year steady. One bottle
of August Flower cured me. It was
positively worth one hundred dollars
to me-. w. Smith, Pm. and Gen.
Merchant, Townsend, Ont. I have
used it myself for constipation and
dyspepsia and it cured me, It is the
best seller I ever handled-C. Rugh,
Druggist, Mechanicsburg, Pa. o
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29
ARTIFICIAL PEARLS,
Tho Ingenious Method Of Production Em
plOyed by the Chinese.

The Ingenious Method of Production EN-.
pioyed by the Chinese.
The processes by which the Chinese
produce artificial pearls are as remark.
able as they are ingenious This busi.
ness constitutes quite an important in.
dustry. 1t is confined to two villages
in the northern part of the province OF
Chihkiang, which is silk-prodrcing
region. In the months of May and
June large quantities of mussels are
brought in baskets from a lake thirty
miles distant, and the biggest of the
mollusks are selected for the operation
that is to be performed.
Into the shell of each mussel is intro.
duced number OF small objects which
it is intended that the bivafve shall
coat with the pearly substance it Sc
cretes. Sometimes little pills of earth
are used. Such pellets are made OF
mud, taken from the bottom of water
courses. dried and powdered with the
juice of camphor-tree seeds. In the
same way are employed diminutive
images, usually of Buddha, but often
of fishes. They are made of lead, cast
very thin by pouring the molten metal
upon board which is carved with the
impressions.
To place these nuclei inside of the
mussels is process of no little delicacy.
The shell is usually opened with a
small instrument of mother-of-pearl.
and the mantle of the animal is gently
lifted. At the same time the images or
pills are laid in two rows beneath the
mantle. The shell is then permitted to
close. Finally, the mollusks are de.
posted in canals or pools, five or six
inches apart, at depths of from two to
five feet in lots of five thousand to fiftv
thousand.
In November the mussels are collect
ed and opened. The animals are re.
moved from the shells and the pellets
or images are detached BY a sharp
knife. by this time they are fastened
tightly to the inner surface of the
shells and have become covered with n
coating of nacre. The next process is
to cut away the matrices of earth or
lead about which the artificial pearls
have formed. Into the cavity thus
made in each one is poured melted vel
low resin, and the orifice is sartfully Gov.
cred over by piece of mother-of. pearl.
The pearls formed about the earthen
pellets are fat on the bottom and in
shape are somewhat more than hemi.
spheres. They have much of the luster
and beauty of the real gems, and are
sold at a rate SO cheap as to be procura-
BILE by all who care to possess them.
They are employed to considera bic
extent by jewelers., who set them in
tiaras and various ornaments of female
attire. Those made from images are
as ornaments and amulets
On the caps Of children. A few shells
are sent to market with the pearls ad.
herring, for sale to the curious or super.
stitious.-Washington Star.
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29
WEIGHING GOLD IN AFRICA


How the Natives Of the Dark Continent
Mako Purchases and Sales.
Money used by natives in Occidental
Soudan consists of small univalve
white shells called cauries, derived
from the Maldives and Laouedives
islands, and also from Zanzibar. For
several centuries past ships have
brought to the mouth of the Niger, or
to the Guinea coast, as far as Liberia,
entire cargoes of these shells, the value
OF which runs from twelve cents to
forty cents per thousand, according to
the part of Africa. Cauries are only
used in countries where gold is scarce.
In the whole area between Kong.
Bondonkau and the sea cauries are not
used; natives settle their purchases
with gold dust or nuggets.
To weigh the gold they use as cur
rency they employ small copper scales.
Weights .are extremely varied in
shapes and sizes. Most of them
are in brass. The weights ex.
hibiting human figures. animals, tools.
ludlcrous scenes, etc, as reproduced
here, are modelled with wax and cast in
brass through the cire perdue process.
Africans may have learned this process
from Europeans who visited their coun-
try, but their art exhibits native
character thoroughly sui generis. These
black artists have evidently reproduced
what they saw or imagined, and they
have done it in style of their own;
their works are peculiarly humorous
and fancitul.
Each native, who has pair of scales,
has also special weights which he alone
understands how to use. He knows,
for instance, that a giraffe weighs one
or two mitlsals of gold; that such a
weight in the shape of bird repre-
sents one-half or one-third mitkal of
gold, etc.
There are no uniform sets of weights;
consequently each native is obliged to
have his own series. When the pur-
chaser has weighed the gold he must
give for certain merchandise, the ven.
dor weighs it in his turn to see whether
it is correct. The unity of weight in
the whole Soudan is the barifiri, which
corresponds to eighteen grammes.
Each barifiri is worth fourteen mitkals.
Admitting the value of gold in Europe
to be three francs per gramme, we find
that barifiri is equal to fifty-four
francs worth of gold, and mitlsal
thirteen francs, fifty centimes. Each
mitkal is divided into twenty-seven
banans (the banan is bomboy seed);
each banan is worth fifty cent;maS
mitkal of gold may also he weighed
with fifty-four grains of vegetable
coral; these tiny grains, red like coral
with a black spot, are the fruit of u
kind of convolvulus. There are special
weights to weigh one-half mitkal, one.
third or two-third mitlial. The small.
est weight is called pouassaba; it is
formed of one and half grains OF
rice, not decorticated. Gold powder is
carried in quilts stopped up with a
wooden cork wrapped in a piece Of
linen.-Jewelers Circular.
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29
HOLLANDS LITTLE QUEEN.
Routine OF the Lives Of tho Queen Regent
and Her Daughter.

queen kSeRent
and Her Daughter.
Although Queen Emma, who is re.
gent of Holland during the minority OF
Queen Wilhelmina, was a native OF
Waldeck- Vyrmont, she is now a true
Dutchwoman. When she was the bride.
elect of King William III. learned
professor was sent to teach her the Ian.
guage of the country of which she was
to be queen. The young princess
thought she would surprise her fature
subjects, and applied herself with such
industry that when the prime minister
came to see her three months later she
conversed with him in Dutch.
When the king, who was sixty-two
years old, brought his young bride
to The Hague, she acted like q
delighted child. She danced about
the palace. laughed just as much as
she wanted to-which was good deal
and had a good time generally. The
courtiers were not accustomed to such
artless gayety, and neither was the
king. Consequently, he led his young
wife up to the picture of his mother, a
severe dame, who, as he assured Queen
Emma. never danced" "A queen
SHOULD never laugh in public" he said.
The piece of advice had the desired
effect. and to-day there is not more
dignified queen in all Europe. When
the queen regent and her little daugh-
ter drive together the mother replies
to the cheers of the people with sta te-
ly bow, but Queen Wilhelmina smiles
and answers each salute with special
inclination of the head. She often turns
in the carriage and bows to some
one she fears she has neglected. One
day she returned from the park so tired
from skating that she forgot to re-
spond to the salute of the sentry at the
palace door. At the vcstibule. how
ever, she remembered, and went back
to the foot of the steps for special
recognition of the soldier.
The little queen has been we'll trained
for her duties. She is proud of belong
ing to the great house of Orange, and
when her father was alive his most eff
fectual rebuke was: my daughter,
your conduct is not that of a princess
of the house of Orange" Her mother
has trained her especially to be brave.
Once, when they were driving. the
horses ran away and the coachman
was thrown out; but Queen Emma inn
mediately ordered fresh horses to be
brought and the drive continued, lest
her daughter should learn the mean
ing of the word fear.
Always in April Queen Wilhelmina
and her mother go to the castle of Loo
and remain until late in the autumn.
Here the little queen leads serious,
regular life She rises every morning
1t seven o'clock, but always finds that
her mother was up still earlier. She
speaks both French and English fluent
y and makes rapid progress in music.
She possesses Bible, illustrated with
are engrsvings, and this her mother
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29
FoRElcN GOSSIP.

Weather forecasts in Great Britain
show more accurate every year, and
the meteorological council announce
with pride that "a per cent. of those
given last year were successful. Three
years ago nearly II per cent. of the
storm warnings were not fulfilled;
but now the rate has fallen to z per
cent.
Some of the flower badges of ma
tions are as follows: Athens, violet:
Canada. sugar maple; Egypt, lotus;
England, rose: France, fleu-de-lis
(lily); Florence, gigiio Qily); Germany,
cornfower; Ireland, shamrock leaf;
Italy, lily; Prussia, linden; Saxony,
mignonette; Scotland, thistle; Spain,
pomegranate; Wales, .leek leaf.
lin 1890 there were in Canada 1918
post offices, which handled 94.OOO, 600
letters, 10, 900. 600 cards, 10, 600. 600 papers
and 16, ,O00, 600 books and parcels. News
papers sent from the office of publica-
ton are carried free. Their number is
estimated at 10000, 600. Canada has a
system of postal savings banks, with
s.2S4 depositors and s21,990,65s de-
posits.
According to NJ. Hamelin, famous
traveller and orchid hunter, the market
price of a perfect specimen of the egg
of the gigantic fossil bird epyornis is
81, 900. 1t is several times as large as
that of an ostrich, but is not otherwise
beautiful. Naturally it is exceedingly
rare, but Mr.. Hamelin nevertheless
promises to put one or two on the Eu-
ropean market.
AT Hatfield house, the residence of
Lard Salisbury, in the James II. pic
ture gallery there is preserved the gar
den hat worn by Queen Elizabeth and
pair of her majesty's sillSen hose.
The room is also remarka BILE for beau
tiful alabaster sculptures. and it is the
rule for every royal visitor to leave be-
hind photograph, to which is added
an autograph of the donor.
A modern postal system is soon to
be established in China. The imperial
government has approved a plan, drawn
up by Sir Robert Hart, under which
the native postal organization will en-
tirely disappear ana will be replaced
by an imperial post Office, with
branches throughout the country. un-
der the management of qualified for
eigners. When the reform is complet-
ed China will ask for admission into
the postal union.
The Chinese dragon is still n prac-
tical obstruction to railway building
The Tartar general in command at
Monkden, the capital of Manchuria.
when survey was made for railroad
ty the town, had the local sages inves-
tigate the matter. They reported that
the vertebrB of the dragon which en-
circles the holy city of Monkden would
be broken if the long nails of the rail-
way sleepers were driven into the
ground. Upon the strength of that
the general ordered the engineers to
carry the line away from the city and
over a very marshy route. When the
matter was brought to Ii Hong Chang
he commended the general for his in
terest in the dragon, but still expressed
an opinion that the Monkden route
was the best for both dragon and coun-
try. The affair would have to be re-
ported to the emperor. Whereupon the
general had line laid down few
hundred feet from the former one, and
the sages pronounced it all right.
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29
Ives the Winner.

CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-Frank c. Ives
won the international billiard match
at central music hall Saturday night.
When the final game began the Ameri-
can champion had to make 999. against
1, ,235 to be made by John Roberts, Jr.,
the English champion. Saturday
nights score was: Ives, 999; Roberts,
53s. Ives total score, 5000; Roberts
total score, 5.3o3. Ives grand average.
1s 312-316: Roberts grand average,
II s0-310. BY his victory Ives won the
stake of $1,000 and the gate receipts.
He will meet Roberts again in New
York on October 2.
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29
AN AGED COUPLE KILLED.
Murdered by an Unknown AssaiIant In
Pennsylvania.

NEWTON, Pa. Sept. 26.-Samuel
Rightly, a cripple, aged "a years, and his
wife, two years younger. who lived
alone on their farm. were foully mur-
dered Saturday night. Their house was
then set on fire to cover up the crime.
A neighbor discovered the fire and ex-
tinguished it. discovering the couple
dead. They were evidently killed by
a hatchet. Nothing is known as to the
motives of the murderer. as the old
people were known to have no money.
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29

reads and explains TO her every day:
After luncheon she drives her ponies,
sometimes four andsometimes six, sails
her boat. or feeds her pigeons, which
will accept food from no other hand
than hers. In winter she prefers the
royal residence called the House in the
Wood. because there is a pond there,
on which she skates every day.-N. Y.
Sun,
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29
Early Snowfall in England

LONDON, Sept. ga severe snow
storm has swept over northern Eng
land. following an unnatural spell of
warm weather. Dispatches from Italy
say that the Apennines are covered
with snow. Meteorologists predict
that these early SHOWS are an indica-
ton that Europe will have an unusally
hard winter.
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29

THE amateur photographer has habit oi
taking almost anything except hint-Som'
erville Journal
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29

Albert BrRcH, West Toledo Ohio, says:
"Halps Catarrh Cure saved my life." Write
him for particulars. Sold by Druggists. S5c,
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29

How MY THROAT HrRTs why don't you
use Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tart
Pixies To0tnache Drops Cure in one minute.
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29

ALI people have q history, but the wise
ones are not in tho autobiography business.
Milwaukee Journal
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29
Highest Of all in Leavening Power-Latest u Govt Report
Re-! e! Bssi9g BsM5sg'
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

A WOMAN in Ohio has Just received her de-
gree as an electrical engineer. She ought,
by mere force Of instinct, to know how to
manage the sparks baltimore American.
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29

VIZ ought to keep peace with China a.
long as we have . pacific ocean between U.s.
Troy Press.
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29

When Nature
Needs assistance it may be best to render
1t promptly, but one should remember to use
even the most perfect remedies only when
needed. The best and most simple aud gen
tie remedy 10 the Syrup Of Figs, manufac-
tured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29

"WHY does Suagsby keep his hair cut 90
shorts" because he's getting bald. and he
won't have it long."-PhiladeIphi Record.
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29
AN ESCAPE

from tainted blood If the liver is reused to
vigorous action, the blood purified and the
system braced up with DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. Languor and loss Of
appetite, with or without Indigestion, warn
you that graver ills are close behind. The
:" Discovery" will sharpen tho appetite, i'm
prove digestion and restore health. A pos
Tive cure for "Iiver Complaint" J" Indiges-
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29
Lost-An Appetitel

Lost-An Appetitel
II you have lost your appetite II win re-
turn to you il you apply to druggist or gem
eral dealer who sells Hostetters Stomach
Bitters. When you are in possession Of this
helpful tonic, you have restorer Of appe-
over, 1t restores digestion as well as an
petite, and regulates the bowels, liver and
kidneys, and protects you from malaria and
rheumatism,
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29

WHEN q speaker has q whole train Of
thought it takes hlm some time 70 unload
Cleveland PlaiLdealer.
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29

SLERPY CIrIzEN-.What do you want in
my houser Burglar presenting gun)-"I
want money" Sleepy Citizen-''Good Lordi
Plaindealer.
BEEcHAA's Pills will, in future, for tho.
United States, be covered with y quickly
soluble, pleasant coating. Is cents . box.
Tan running mad dog presents . case o.
rahid transit.
Griggs courier., 1893-09-29

tion, Dyspepsia, aud Bill
iOuSne6S.
Mr.. ]. p. MCApAMs, Of
ElO,. College, N. C.,writes !:
"A few OF my symptoms
were, Heart burn and
fullness after eating,
sometimes pain In my
bowels, headache, poor
appetite and bad taste
: in my mouth. At night
/ was fcverish, with hot
fiushes over skin. After
taking DIR. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery ]
was relieved Of all these
symptoms and I feel per-
j. fectfy well today"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-13
Liberal Way of Advertising.

Make as many small English words as
possible from letters contained in C-E-
L-E-R-Y P-I-L-L-S, without
using letter in any one word more times
than it appears in celery Pills" To
the person sending largest list will be
given beautiful matched pair of cream
white ponies, gold mounted harness and
phaeton trip to the Worlds fair and
return for second largest list received; a
fine upright piano for third; pneumatic
bicycle for fourth; fine gold watch for
fifth; pair diamond earrings for sixth;
parlor organ for seventh; elegant harp
for eighth; black silk dress pattern for
ninth; music box, drum and bells for
tenth largest list; also 100 other valuable
prizes for first 100 persons sending list
of not less than sixty words made from
letters contained in celery Pills.
Ridges celery Pills" are what you re-
quire if troubled with nervousness, in
somnia, loss of appetite, weakness, dys-
pepsia, stomach trouble, headache. indi-
gestion, etc. Send thirteen 2-cent stamps
with list of words and try for one of our
handsome prizes and receive free sam
Pile package, with full particulars and
list of those in your state who have won
prizes to introduce this great nerve and
stomach remedy, all delivered in U. S.
free. Enclose thirteen U. S. &c stamps
with list of words promptly to Rudge
Celery Pill Co., Montreal, Que, and you
are sure of irst-cass prize for your
trouble. Il
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-13
The New Immigration Law.

The immigration law which went into
effect on May imposes no new restric-
tions on immigration, but makes two inn
| portant changes for the better in pres
ent regulations. The first is that steam
ship companies shall be required to pre-
pare on the other side of the ocean com
plete descriptive lists of all emigrants
for delivery to the United States IN
spectors on this side upon the arrival OF
the vessel. AT present such lists are
made out by these inspectors atter the
arrival OF the immigrants Inc stealn-
ship companies can make out the re-
qulred lists easier IMAM the inspectors,
VINO Will De liaterlaliy aioed IN tnelr IN
spectioh therepy, "hle ohe inquiries IN
stltuteu ny the steamsmp companies INTO
tne characUer Oh intending emlgrants
VIII 'eiio 10 prevent the emoarkatlon OF
Uhe pronlpiteu Glasses In ado1tlon IL Is
fequlreu lnaC tne captain anu surgeon OF
the steamship snail make oath that there
are no passengers on poard excluded
from ADMISSION INTO the United states
ana tha1 the racts stated IN the hst OF
llninlgrahts are true ana correct. Inc
second chanSe III present regulations Is
W StCuTS IL ldNOIdDlt
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-13
Lifelike Death.

The current number of The Popular
Science Monthly contains paper timely
to the memorial season, and which will
be received with interest not alone by
veterans, but by men of science. Writing
of the phenomena of Death In Battle"
Mr.. George L. Kilmer deals at length
with the mooted question, "Do men
sometimes retain in death the last atti-
tudes of life2" Citing the opinions Of
Grant, Sherman and Sheridan-Grant in
the negative and Sherman and Sheridan
in the affirmative-the writer refers to
cases at Belmont, Antietam, Williams
burg and other fields Of the civil war re-
ported by army surgeons, and also from
cases in the Cri1aean and Italian wars.
Soldiers We're found dead from battle
wounds with various parts of the body
in the last attitudes of life and held 50
by a severe rigidity, the onset of which
the coming of death.
The conservative view is that death is
in all cases followed by relaxation of
muscles; hence the attitude held when
the body becomes rigid must be a new
one caused by the contractions of rigid
ity. The surgeons whose records are
given, however, found the rigidity and
the warlike attitudes upon bodies still
warm and similar appearances upon
others where death had taken place from
few hours to "a. 49 and even 60 hours
before. The cause, the writer believes,
is cheat stiffening" of the juices of the
muscles. He finds that in all cases re-
ported the circumstances of the action
favored great bodily heat combined with
excessive muscular action that would
create acid in the muscles and invite
early rigidity. He finds also an analogy
in the action of lethal currents Of cleo
tricity, which produce an instantaneous
and firm, although transient, rigidity.
Cases of rigidity in lifelike attitudes
from lightning stroke have been fire.
quently reported, but in common with
those found in the literature of the bat
tlefeld, have been attributed to the i'm
agination of descriptive writers. The
records of men who stake professional
honor upon their statements contain
cases as startling and as remarkable as
any that have been brought into play to
adorn tales of the battlefield.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-13
BUSINESS BRIEFS.

Try Fackler's home made bread and
rolls-baked fresh every morning.
Picnics supplied with ice cream, cakes,
etc, by Laubach at reasonable rates.
Tobacco is injurious! Stop it by TAX
ing Hills chloride of gold tablets. All
first-class druggists sell them.
Four ladies out of five have some
peculiar trouble. "Orange Blossom"
will cure them. Sold by w. w. Grover.
Every f:mily should have box of
Wrght's Indian Vegetable Pills, the use
of which will cure most of our ailments.
Baxter's Mandrake Bitters cure indi-
gestion, heart burn, costiveness and all
malarial diseases. Twenty-Five cents
per bottle. Sold by DIR. Schilcher.
If you are troubled with "hacking
cough" Downs Elixir will give you re-
lief at once. Warranted AS recommend
ed or money Gefunded. Sold by DR..
Schilcher.
A misstep will often make a cripple
for life. A bottle of Henry & Johnson's
Arnica and Oil Linment at hand, will
not prevent the misstep, but used i'm
mediately it will save being a cripple.
Sold by Dr. Schilcher.