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Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-30
How 1t Happened.

II Cobwigger-I thought you said that
safe of yours was burglar proof!
NJ Bfown-So it Is. 80
Sj Cobwlgger = Then how did. the
thieves steal what you had in III!
4. Brown-Why, they carried Oh Inc
safe. Sun. .'.'.,... 9,.s e., 2
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-30

THERE is talk or pneumatic tire
trust A trust cannot subsist on
wind.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-30

1T is paradoxical, but the man who
thinks most of himself is the most
liable to give himself away.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1893-03-30
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
SERIOUS SUBJECTS CAREFULLY
CONSIDERED.

Scholarly Exposition OF the Lesson--
Thoughts worthy Of Calm Hshection--
Half an Hours study OF the Scriptures
Time Well Spent.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1893-11-24
Curious Rocks In Mashonaland.

A characteristic feature of Mashona-
land, the kopje. is frequently mention
ed in the dispatches reporting the en-
gagements with the Matabele. Some
description of these curious elevations
is given in a letter to Professor Geikie,
from Mr.. j. 3. Don, formerly one of
his pupils. A uniform granite forma-
tion is, he says, by far the most promi-
nent geological peculiarly OF Mashona-
land and indeed of most of the interior
of South Africa. Sometimes it rises
into mountains, but usually the general
level is only broken by low kOpjes, and
in those parts where the bed rock and
surface are fattest the kopjes present
the most singular appearance. The
whole country seems dotted with huge
curbstones. and in whichever direction
you look they gradually close in the
view, as the trunks of trees would in
forest. Some of these curbstones are
800 feet or more high, sheer all round
and apparently of smaller diameter
than height. Sometimes the original
mass has been so broken up as TO form
the most marvellous steeplelike struc-
lures springlng out Of the rich foliage
that grows in ali the crevices. Native
huts are built on these kopjes in almost
inaccessible positions. News.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1893-11-24
They Never VIII.

A woman stood at the corner of Baker
and Twelfth streets and waved her par
asol for the car to stop.
The driver nodded his head
She waved parasol in one hand and
a shopping bag in the other.
The driver nodded and pointed and
stopped the car on the other side of the
street.
She came lilnping over the pavement
with swapping eyes and flushed face,
and as she put her foot on the lower
step she exclaimed:
Are you all blind and deaf on this
carr
The conductor rang two bells and
made no answer, and when she had taken
a seat inside passenger asked:
why didn' you explain that she was
on the wrong side of the street for the
car coming down."
MY dear man, it would have been
breath thrown away" he replied.
THAT woman lives around here and
has been riding on this line for five
years. I've explained and explained,
and so has every other conductor, but
what good has it done? Not one woman
in 20 will ever get it through her head
that car can't stop in the center of a
crossing and block a street, and so we
must put up with her sass and look
for our relief beyond the stars. De
troit Free Press.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1893-11-24
A SAILOR BOYS FORTUNE.
From Beggary In California to Snug Com
petence In England.

Thomas Stone, an 1S-year-old English
sailor, who has been living hand to
mouth existence in Oakland for several
months, has fallen heir to the estate Of
his father, valued at over $50, 900.
1t was an early hour on a stormy
morning last March when a bedraggled
and wornout young man applied at the
home of Michael Rigney, 215 Seventh
street, for meal. He told straight
forward story about deserting his ship
in the bay the day before and said he
had slept under the Eighth street bridge
all night Mr.. Rigney took compassion
sn the desolate sailor and supplied him
with food and warm clothing. As
Stone proved willing to work and there
was good deal of labor to be perform
ed about the place, Mr.. Rigney permit
ted him to remain, and since then he
has made the Rigney home his head
quarters.
During his leisure hours Stone spent
his time instructing young son of the
Rigneys in the trade of boat building.
In lot adjoining the house he estab-
lished miniature shipyard, with era
die, blocks and ways, and there he built
a full size steam launch, which lacks
nothing but an engine to make it COM
plete. The tale the stranger told was
about as follows: Five years ago he was
a schoolboy in England and had pen
chant for reading tales of adventure
His reading made him so long for travel
that he ran away and went to sea-
When he came home, his father took
him to Liverpool and bound him over
to a sea captain for a voyage to and
from Australia. He was signed for two
years, but long before the voyage had
been finished the boy dreams had been
dispelled, and he had determined to de-
sert. When the vessel reached San
Francisco on the homeward voyage, he
accordingly got ashore and staid there
He was pennileSS, hence his application
for charity at the home of the Rigneys.
During the voyage from England to
Australia the sailors father died, leav-
ing him fortune of more than e32,-
000.. But the news to this effect came
only very recently.
Young Stone wrote from Oakland to
his father several times, but received
no response, 50 when Walter Seawell,
an Oakland contractor, left for visit
to England few months ago, he was
commissioned by the young man to hunt
up his father and see why he failed to
respond to the communications address
ed to him. Mr. Seawell found that the
elder Stone was dead and notified the
son of this fact and of the further fact
that he was no longer poor. The news
has since been confirmed by the British
consul of San Francisco, who advanced
young Stone the necessary coin to en-
able him to return to his English home.
San Francisco Examiner.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1893-11-24
Elevators In New York.

New York contains 1900 elevators at
present, including those in private
houses and others where the traffic is
comparatively small. If you assume,
however, merely TO dazzle the fancy.
that 8. 900 OF these are in busy build
ings, then you find that the elevators
of New York could carry up and down
per day 5000 times 10000 people, or
not far from the entire population OF
the United States. Again, by beau
tiful law Of averages, you find that 90
miles is a fair daily run for q New
York elevator. or.-Boston Globe.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1893-11-24
The Strike.

There are strikes in the human
body as well as in the body polite.
Overworked organs strike-become
inflamed-and chronic disease is the
result. Attend to that weakness.
c. B. Davis, NJ. D., gives profess
sional advice and full diagnosis of
your case FREE OF CHARGE.
Hours 10 to 3, 6 to s; office I3o
Friendship Street.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1893-11-24

A college student is reported as say
ing that on the whole he rather enjoys
his studies They furnish needed re-
Taxation from his athletic work.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1893-11-24
THE PARKS OF PARIS.
FOREST OF TREES AND FLOWERS IN
PROPULSION.

An Immense Perspective Unequaled in
Any Other City In the World-The
Champs Elysees, the Loveliest Thorough
fare In Paris-Wonderfu Gardens.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-04-09
TEMPE ECHOES.

Gregory hotel John Whitlow, Flor
ence q. Newman, FL Paso.
VIM. Breckenridge is in town from
Tucson shaking hands with his numer-
GUS friends.
Miss Victoria Shaw, one OF our
promising young teachers, is visiting in
Phoenix at present.
The competent road overseer of Dis.
trict No. 3, Boon Lewis, spent yesterday
in Phoenix on business.
Tempe hotel arrivals NJ. Young, Phe-
nix; G.. +. Sturgeon, st. Johns bury,
Utah; Frank A. Miles, Phoenix; S. M.
Bailey, Phoenix.
Messrs Heavenrich and Price were
shooting up the dust near the Hole in
the Rock yesterday. Game is reported
to he scarce in that neighborhood just
at present, but tn y amused themselves
by shooting the whiskers of gigantic
cactus.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-04-09
A Narrow Escape.

While Mrs. w. A. Daggs and her lit
tie uirl Oracle were waiting for the
Tempe train at the Phoenix depot Fri
day night. Miss Oracle had a narrow
escape from death by straying from her
mother just "a the train approached,
but was gallantly rescued by Hardy
Atkinson catching her mp and defying
the iron monster. Hardy was always
noted for his pluck and should receive
a medal for his bravery.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-04-09

also the music ~ Miss Taylor. MIR.
Will Mnllen's recitation reflects great
credit upon that gentleman as an elo-
cutionist. Space will not permit us to
enumera,e the various we'll rendered
selections, but it is cafe to cav the
event will not he coon forgotten, as the
proceeds are devoted to a good cause.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-04-09
The I, O. @. r. Entertainment.

The entertainment given under the
auspices OF the Good Temp'ars at the
Methodist church LAST night drew
very fair attendance and was well rem
dered. the violin melody by Mr.. Van
Horn ELECTED much applause, as did
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-04-09

The Tempe column is open for news
and any happening coming TO your
knowledge if reported to the office will
be cheeriully published.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-04-09

Try the Tempe hotel. Four stages
leave the house everv day fJr Phoenix
and Mesa. Fare 90 cents. Sunday din
ners speciality.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-04-09

Give your wife rest and go TO the
Tempe hotel for a SUNDAY dinner.
Turkey and ice cream every Sunday.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-04-09

Tempe hotel has first class accomoda-
tions for guests. Special rates by the
week or month.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-04-09

The Tempe hotel is making special
rates to families wanting board for the
summer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-26
PEcULlARlTIEs OF THRusHEs.
How to Identify the Hermit Thrush and
Ills Cousin the sNeerie.,' n

How to Identity the Hermit Thrush and
His Cousin the sVeerie." q
Many think the hermit thrush is
without a pier as a singer He is
slightly larger than our bluebird with
a brown back, red dish on the tail and
arrow-shaped spots sprinllled over his
breast. lie is very like the Wilson
thrush. or ''veerie." as he is sometimes
called, but You can distinguish him by
his size, the hermit being seven and
fifteen-hundredth inches long, aud the
Wilson seven and half inches. The
latter is also more tawney on the back,
and the breast spots are fainter In
habits they are quite different. the her
nit living in high, dry woods, and the
veerie choosing lonely swamps near
some pool.
All our thrushes are fine songsters,
the wood thrush being the largest and
having the loudest voice.
In California there is the least hermit,
a very small thrush, and through the
middle and North Atlantic states there
arc the olive back and grey-eheelSed
thrushes. This last is very rare.
Every spring, in the widest part of
NtllAidL park. itttlI tue DiOCh GstluSts
number of the hermit thrushes spend
few days on their northward fight to
return in large numbers when October
arrives. During their stay in New
York they are quite fearless and some-
times even stray into the back yards o,
houses. We know of two that Were
caught in open cellars last fall, and are
a pleasure TO their owners.
As cage bird their usual diet Of
mocking bird food should have grated
carrot mixed with it tUoor three times
week This food must indeed be
given to every soft-bill bird. Beside
this, give one or two meal worms
day, flies and grubs, with now and
then small piece of raw beefsteak.
When wild, thrushes live principally
upon worms. Their song consists of a
few pure and beautiful notes, delivered
with slight pauses between them-a
hymn ethereal and passionless from n
birds throat-at times so filled with
ventriloquial power that the notes
sound far away. As we write, cur
hermit-thlush is singing in this man
ner close beside us, but if we trusted
to our hearing we would heliere him
to be in a remote part of the house.
Harper's Young People.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-26

Il tell yo' wat. dat boy OBJ Pompey's
am a sly little picayune." remarked
Uncle Cesar. darkly. ''Iow's dat?'
inquired the person addressed
1t am jess dis way, continued
Uncle Caesar. Il see dat boy down in a
secluded corner OBJ de Souf meetin'
EosSe hoSS sheds dis mawnin'. lie was
standin' wild his back TO me. but lxno "
his back jess like | do his face. an
suspicioned by he way he was stoopin'
down an maxim his jaws 90. dat ne
was gagged on a watermi,iion.-
''Sho. now" calculated the listener.
y crope up benin him an put my
han. sof, ON his shoulder. an AK him:
Glib me a taste a dat watermillion,
'Gustus2' an dat boy turn like he was
shot. an'-W'a do yo' pro'nostigate?"
i glib il up" said the listener
IVY. il want 'Gustus. true's vo's a
born nicgah, Twas boy jess de size
an COMBINATIONS ob 'Gustus an he had
a big slice ob watermil,iOn. sure huff.
but 'twa'n't 'Gustus- An datS wat l
mean bout his bcin' sly little plea
yuue. rink ob him maxim fool oh
me ca Youths Companion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-26
HOSPITALITY OVERCOME.
But why should the Guest Chamber Have
SO Formal an Air2

We Americans are proud, and justly
so, of our reputation for hospitality.
but there is sometimes too much of the
good thing, and we are often tempted
into an exaggeration Of this virtue.
Inmany well-meaning hostesses there
seems to exist fear that their guests
may find some stray moments during
the day for which no entertainment has
been provided. The unfortunate guests
are kept busy every minute being en-
tertained" until physically and mental
~ they are exhausted.
Not few people object to making
visits, and simply for the reason that
they are never left to themselves, never
have any time to occupy as they
choose.
English hostesses are much more
sensible in this respect. In England q
guest in country house has a good
part of the day to dispose of as he or
she may fancy; and as a result pleas
ant, homelike feeling much to be de-
sired pervades the atmosphere of the
house.
Neither host nor hostess appears to
., 'aboring to provide perpetual enter
tainment for their guests, and the lat
ter have plenty of time to write their
letters, read their books and enjoy
like peaceful amusements.
In a town house "a masculine visitor
receives "a night key as pleasant in
timation he is to go and come as he
likes.
But, English or American, why is
it that a spare room has always such q
stiff and formal air?
The few pictures that generally
adorn its walls are hung With painful
regularity, set pieces of bric-a-brac
pose in solemn state upon the mantel
and often the only intellectual pro-
vision made for the occupant consists
of an old magazine or two.
A few more pictures hung in less
conventional way, a half-dOzen photo
graphs scattered here and there. a lit
tie bookcase, containing a score or
more of volumes suitab c for filling an
occasional spare hour; a sofa with two
or three tempting pillows-these are
not much. but yet sufficient to make
the spare room so much more attrac-
tive and add to it a home-like luxury.
N. Y. Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-26
HORSES IN EGYPT.
Their NoticeabIe Uniformity ms to Type
and Quality.

Their Noticea5 BILE Uniformity ms to Type
and Quality.
The horse came into Egypt with the
ITyl1sos or shepherd kings less than 1900
years i. C. Previous to that time asses
were the only specimens of the genus
equus. No horse figures on the early
monuments of Egypt. The modern
horse of Egypt is more recent impor-
tation-also from the shepherd kings
of to-day, the pastoral princes of the
desert. This animal has very uni
form type Iou see them of all sizes
from the polo pony to the heavy car
riage-horse, but the type remains. If
mixed, the strong Arabian blood pre-
dominates in the look of the offspring
In other countries horses vary both in
size and kind. You have everything
from Shelly to a Percheron, each dis
tinct in type as well rs size. In Egypt
the type is constant. The head is small.
the face intelligent and kind, but not
generally as fine and bony as one an
ticipates. The perfect head is as rare
as the perfect horse. The neck is rath-
er short and full in front, with good
crest and fairly fine throttle: by no
means as clean as the thorodghbred's,
but more prettily cut. The crest is
full. the withers low, but shoulder
sloping, the barrel round and we'll
coupled to a nearly-perfect haunch
Looked at from front or rear, the horse
has not as much breadth as we like,
but one sees far fewer weedy-lUolfing
horses than west of the desert. The
legs and feet are as good as can be-
Even the old brolSen-down hacks have
no wind@alls. Nor does one often see
lame horse. Infinite stress is
laid on good legs. As the
Arab legs are uniformly good,
whenever horse shows blem-
ishes or strains in them he is consid-
cred unsafe to buy. With us a horse
with few windpuffs is by no means to
be condemned. They rarely interfere,
but overreach when taught to trot, as
they now are by the English, or for
the Anglom MACS by the Arabs. The
foot is neither too much like the mules
nor too fat IT is round. rather high,
and with naturally good frog. The
horror of our climate. scratches, is not
often seen in the dry air OF Egypt, but
the practice of hobbling often scores
the fetlocks permanently. The shoe
of the Arab horse in Egypt is the plate
with small hole in the middle--a
bungling apology for shoe. In Cairo
the European shoe is gaining i'm use;
among the Arabs the old plate still
preEails.--Col. L. A. Dodge, in Harper's
Magazine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-26
PICTURESQUE SCENES.
The Summer Villages OF Native Alaskan
Salmon Fishers.


In this modern day of government
schools ready-made clothing, and two
dollars a-day wages. almost the only
picturesquencss left to native life is
during the salmon runs Families aud
tribes betalSe themselves TO their hered-
itary fishing-grounds TO catch and
dry their salmon for winter use, and
isolated summer camps break the for
ested shore-line with fine effect. A
row of black canoes on the beach. a
cluster of bark or matted tents, with
frames of drying salmon overhanging
The camp-fires, are set between some
clear still green water foreground and
an abrupt screen of greenest menzie
or merton spruces. The racks of fish
give touches of high color to the scene,
as the furt ler north they are caught
the redder tne Pacific salmon are; and
in LYNN CO nal some of these camps
look as if decorated with red bunting.
All is salmon that comes to the Tlingit,
and he makes no distinction between
king, red, silver, humpbaclS. or dog sal
mon, rather preferring. on the whole.
the coarse, rank flesh of the last,
which no white man wants; hence
he RACES at the eannery's waste and
the destruction of his chief food sup
ply. Since the corrupting rtouch of
trade has even reached their salmon
streams, the natives now make per-
inanent summer villages beside the
canneries The men work for the com
pany, and the women and children do
little independent fishing, but more
regularly follow the cannerv scows and
fill their canoes with rejected salmon.
as Gamers use only about third of all
fish seined. Thus, in midsummer.
ALASKA villages are as empty of their
first families as any eastern city. and
the tourists see closed houses, and not
a third of the regular inhabitants.
Census enumerators work zealously.
but vainly, in attempting to count the
natives when they are scattered in re-
hottest hooks all over the archipelago,
half of them padding their canoes
from one place to another and as likely
to be counted twice as not at all during
the summer.
The white mans feheries are more
prosaie, less fragrant, and never pie
turesque in themselves. One finds the
canneries in the furthest hooks and
inches of the archipelago, each with
finer landscape setting than the last.
There Is always a mountain back
ground and a clear brawling stream
coming from the dense forest.-IIar-
per's Weekly
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1893-10-26
WIT AND WISDOM.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to
enlarge. -Barthol
There's always room at the top for
larger potatoes Blizzard.
There are but three classes of men,
the retrograde, the stationary and the
progressive. -Lavator.
Soy, PhaliIn. what's ventrilo-
ouist?' lies lad phat stands on one
side av tn room an talks TO himself
from tn other"
Labor is discovered TO be the grand
conqueror. enriching and building up
nations more surely than the proudest
battles.-Carlyle.
"A really great man is known by
three signs-generosity in the design,
humanity in the execution, moderation
in success.-B Bismarck.
Reflect upon your present bless
ings, of which every man has many;
not on your past misfortunes, OF which
all men have some Dickens.
There is one safe way of avoiding
fatal mistakes in Distinguishing be-
tween mushrooms and toaustools. Eat
parsnips. City Journal.
Little Charlie-Papa, do angels see
what's going on in the world? Papa
] suppose so; they're often pictured as
weeping Cleveland Plaindealer
Sir Edwin-Shall we take the high
road home, dear-I mean Lady Ange-
lima? Lady Angelina-No. ] should
prefer the bridal path, l think
Judy.
Hardalee-We had fine sunrise this
morning, Van. Did you see it? Van
Tank Sunrise? Why, old man, | am
always in bed before sunrise.-N. y.
Ledger.
-Principal-You had defect in the
cash account yesterday. Has the error
been discovered? Clerl-The error,
YES, but not the cash.-Boston Home
Journal.
True knowledge will make us hum
bic, modest, and kind to others. 1t
will not puff us up. and it win not lead
us to overlook the real happiness of
others. barnes.
-Clara-You must have refused
Harry Sparlxer last night. Maude-
How did you know? Clara-He told
me this morning he had just had mar
row escape N. Y. Herald.
1T is common thing for women to
saw that men are all alike But when
two men happen to fall in love with
the same woman a difference very
soon exists between them.-Boston
Transcript.
gg-Munniworth was always a
farsighted man, and his ventures were
almost invariably successful. Figg-But
what good is he to society? He will give
money for the heather, thousands OF
miles away, but he can never see the
suffe ring right at home. Fogg-I said
he was a farsighted man.-Boston
Transcript.
Literature certainly runs in the
Greensmith family. The two daughters
write poetry that nobody will print,
the sons writes plays that nobody will
act, and the mother writes novels that
nobody will read" And what does
the father write?" oh, he writes
checks that nobody will cash."-Press
and Printer