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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-04-12

There are many preparations in
vogue to kill cattle lice, but when
occasion required we have always
used strong decoction of tobacco
with success, the liquid to be rubbed
in along the backs and about the
horns of the animals.
Long hours on the farm are not
always the most profitable. A very
successful farmer says, "Show me
a man who works from fifteen to
eighteen hours day on his farm and
| will show you man who is invari-
ably behind with his work and out of
sympathy with his business.
Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30
SHE TENDED STILL.
What a Revenue Onlcer Discovered In the
North Carolina Mountains.

- !ttI q lStNCuue OHicrr uncovered Ine
North Carolina Mountains.
For many years Eph Honeycutt, Of
Mission, Stanley county, has conducted
brandy distillcry, and had a reputa-
tiou throughout that country for max
iug the best brandy to be had, says the
Charlotte News The distillery was
always conducted in an orderly way,
which is not the case with all of them
The other day q revenue officer went
down TO the still to mark up the bran
dy, and 10, and behold n woman was
attending to things. The officer in
quired of the woman as to Hopeycutt's
whereabouts.
lies not here; does not stay here,
replied the woman.
well, who runs the still?"
why, do, of course. l have been
attending to it for these many days
and can make just as good brandy as
Eph IIoueycutt can"
"Wcll, who are you, and who doei
this distillery belong to?" asked the
officer in establishment.
"The whole thing, including myself
belongs to Eph Honeycutt, Tor am his
wife. l attend to things for him, be
cause he has the farm and other mat
ters to look after"
And then she went around K
'chunk" up the fire and squeezed tn,
flannel strainer in the doubling keg'
to see If the "sinslipgs" were stroui
enough -
Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30
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Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30
BRUIN WAS KNOWING AND BOLD
1t Was Against Orders to Shoot, So He
Raidcd the Soldiers Camp Nightly.

1t Was Against Orders to Shoot, So He
Raidcd the Soldiers Camp Nightly.
"Whcn | was in Yellowstone Park
this summer" said Wyoming Valley
man, zone of the gam akeepers told me
about a bear that worried camp OF
government soldiers almost to despera-
;jon for several weeks. Late one night
bear waddlcd into camp, ripped open
tent, put the soldiers to flight, got
what he wanted to eat, and went away.
The next night the bear came around
again smashed down tent and stole a
smoked ham. Under the park rules
the soldiers were prohibited from fir
iur at the thicvish brute, as well Us
from iabbing n bayoAet into him, and
the only thing they could do when the
boar appeared and went to helping
himself to rations was to get out Of his
way. Night after night the bold beast
made a raid on the camp and ruined
tent OF two My Informant said that
the bear acted as if he knew that the
soldiers darcnt fire at him, and thai
On each visit he became more saucJ
and destructive than before. Wher
the bears raids had become unbeara
hlr the cOmmandant sent the facts Il
the secretary of the interior and asked
what to do. Word came back to shoe
the bear, and that night, when bruil
strobe boldly into camp, the soldier
pat an end to his career by riddlinl
Kim with bullets"
Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30
DlNvD WELL WITHOUT COST.

Hi" Trick ~ Winch u M"ncyIess Scamp
SWjndicd IL Washington Restaurateur.
an uup rinciplcd scamp recently
played Il game upon Il Washington
rcstauratcur that for originality and
effectiveness has not been matched in
any of the timchonored stories of
Bean Hickman or any other "eaters
of dinners, you foot the bills" He was
q we'll dressed, gentlcmanly-appear-
ing pcrsou-any other would not have
secured much attention in the cafe
which he work ed-and he ordered q
dinner that proclaimed him an epicure,
if a scoundrel. lie commenced, says
the Post, by tipping the waiter lib
orally, which alone would proclaim
him one accustomed to secure the best
of attention; and as for wines, he
would have none but the best vintages,
which he picked with the taste of n
connoisscur. The dinner was prepared
TO the kings taste and appeared to
please him until the last course. At
that point he uttered an exclamation
| of horror, and beckoncd Srantically to
the waiter. That functionary not be-
ing sufficient to vent his wrath upon,
lie summoned the head waiter, and
eventually the proprietor. Then he
pointed out the cause of trouble-a
dead fly In the dessert. Words could
not express his well-feigned disgust,
Or the regret of the proprietor at this
unfortunate occurrence. The cook was
| called up and roasted" more effect
nally than he ever did his meats, and
the rcstauratcur offered every amend in
his power But the guest professed tc
be almost overcome with nausea, and
could not cat any more-he had proba
bly, had all he wanted. Of course the
proprietor could not think of charging
for such on unfortunate meal, and
was only too thankful that the matter
should escape the attention of the
other guests But when the disgustet
guest had gone a bystander, who hat
watched the occurrence, remarked tx
the proprietor: "Why, didn't you Sc,
him put that fly in the dessert?" Ant
the subsequent conversation was unfi
for publication.
Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30
POWERFUL WAVES.
The Effect OF a Gale Over the Great Sal
lake,

Inc EHeCt OF Gale over the Great SAIL
Lake.
A correspondent of the Youths Com
panion recently witnessed a most con-
vincing proof of the weight of salt
laden waters of the Great Salt lake.
A strong gale of wind was blowing
over the lake and driving it's surface
into low, whitc-capped ridges, while
along the shore the foam lay like fat
banks of new-fallcn snow. If 1t had
passed across lake of fresh water of
equal extent that wind would unques-
tionably have produced such an agita-
ton of its surface that navigation in
small boats would have been difficult
if not highly perilous.
But the waters of the Great Salt
lake, although driven into ridges as
just remarked, showed n curious re-
sistance to the wind and the waves,
rising to only q slight elevation, moved
along with an appearance of lethargy
that the eye could not but notice.
Yet there was an immense momen,
tum stored up in those low, heavy
slowmoving waves. Venturlng into
tIlC water Nv )OluG Nllclc INC ucPol
did not exceed four feet the observer
found that it was impossible to stan6
against them. Their sheer weight
swept him rcsistlessly along.
The curious buoyance of the water
containing twenty-five per cent. o
salt in solution, increased the helpless
ness of tho bather. lie was not sub
merged, as sometimes occurs in tn,
Atlantic breakers, but was lifted ant
carried like cork.
1t would probably have been impos
sible to dive through an oncominG
wave after the manner practiced b.
bathers along the Atlantic coast. Il
the Great Salt lake people are no
drowned through sinking, but stran
| glcd while still anoat. The bite
water may enter tho air passages wit
fatal effect, but the body continues t
float until it reaches the shore or
| picked up.
Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30
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Paper can be made ont Of almost
anything that can be pounded to pulp.
Over fifty kinds of bark are employed,
while old sacking or bagging makes
good article. Paper is made out Of
banana skins, from bean stalks, pea
vines, cocoanut fiber, clover aud timo-
thy hay, straw, frcsh-watCr weeds, sea
weeds and more than one hundred diff
fcrent kinds Of grass. Paper has been
made from hair, fur ard wool, from as
hc~toe, which furnishes an article in
daatructiblc by fire; from hop plants,
from huslls of any and every kind of
grain Leaves make a good, strong
paper, while the huslls and stems OF
Indian corn have also been tried, and
Utmost every kind of moss can be made
into paper. There are patents for
making paper from sawdust and shav-
i1gS, from thiStlcS and thistlc-iOwu,
from tobacco stalks and tan bark. 1t
is said that there are over two thou
sand patents in this country covering
the manufacture of paper. No matter
what the substance, the process is sub
stantially the same; the material is
ground to a pulp, then spread thinly
over Il frame and allowed to dry, the
subsequent treatment depending on
the kind of paper to be made.
Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30
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Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30

Copvrirhted translations from the French
and German will he a notable feature
The publishers have already arranged Tor
the publication in serial form. to begin
January I. of the thrilling narrative: M
nettr Andrcy-a Picture of Life during the
Reign of Terror" by Paul Perret. the noted
French novelist; and, also in serial form, Oi
a very rare and curious work,
Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30
FOREIGN PERIODICAL LITERATURE,
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and represerting every department of knowl
edge and progress: the best articles py the
Ablest Living Writers.
Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30
A LITERARY CURIOSITY,

Entitled "Thc Dean Of killeraine." by the
Abbc Prcvost and THE Numidian,n by the
famous German romanclst, Ernest Ecksteln
author of "Aphrodite," "Quintus Claudius.
etc, etc etc.
Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30
A GLANCE INTO THE NEW YEAR.

New Stori s. Copyrighted Translations.
As heret ofore. The Living Age will present
in convenient form complete compilation
of the Worlds chacest literature encyclope-
die in its scope. character. comprehensive
ness and completeness; selected from the vast
and varied field Of
Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30
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SLEEPING GAR SERVICE.

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.MISCELLAN-Lj9E<

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Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30
FOX SALE.

DOARDING- Byduv or week Plea ant
- rooms. single or insult. neatly ard
comfortably furnished. Crate or t.rnttCt
heat. hot and Cplu W otCr. With t:tthS on
two floors. ON electric car line vC nj tutcs
walk from the Sul;trc. Terms III uodyra- e.
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Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30

Maharajah nhuIcep singh, lac Iudi;.n
prince who diei recently in England,
always chose to consider himself a
deeply injured man at the hands Of
that coun:ry, though he had lived
there for many years and drew the
comfortable allow Of forty thou
sand pounds u year from the govern
mcut He formally claimed the Koh-
i-noYr from Queen Victoria, and wrote
famous letters denouncing the English
people. lie lived at ElvedOn IIall for
a time, upon which he spent enormous
sums of money, and made the estate
into great game preserve, where he
would amuse himself by making the
biggest bags" on record.
Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30

INOR RI:NT On bingham II. iGh's aud
L within two mi cs of AShe willie ~ nine
room house AMI 20 acres of well ruuurcd
land. WI rent Chcln TO any one who " i'll
take good care of the place
! \ MI no -I IL.
Gcc26dtf Arundel FLA <. AshcvIll2.
Asheville daily citizen., 1893-12-30

The reputation that the Weekly Herald has e
home newspaper in the land will be materially aC
pains expense will be spared to make it in ever
ing and in tructive of all weekly publications.
1t will be improved in MANY ways
A number of new fea lures and departments "
all fields of con mporaneous human interest will
by accomplished writers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-15
A Salutary Lesson.

General Walstein was intrepid in the
field of battle, but he was singularly
superstitious, as the following story will
show:
He was at Gross Meseritch, in Mo-
ravia, in 1926, and completely absorbed
in laying the plan of the ensuing cam
paign his custom was to pass part of the
night in consulting the stars. One of
these nights, being at the window, lost
in contemplation, he felt himself very
violently struck on the back. He
turned around instantly, and knowing
that he was alone and his chamber door
locked, this warrior, bold as he was in
battle, was seized with fright. He did
not doubt that this blow was sign
from Heaven to warn him of impend-
ing danger. He fell into deep melan~
cholly, nor could any of his friends OBJ
tain his secret from him.
His confessor, Capuchin, under
took to discover it, and had art enough
to induce one of the pages of the gen.
eral to acknowledge that he, being in
tent or playing one of his comrades a
trick, had hid himself in the apartment
to which Walstein had retired, and mis-.
taking him for his friend, had struck
him with all his might but on having
found his error while his master was
examining the room he jumped out of
the window.
The confessor pledged his word and
honor to the page that no evil should
befall him on this account and he
thought himself happy in being able to
quiet the trepidations of the great gen.
eral. But what was his despair when
he heard Walsten order the immediate
hanging of this mistaken youth. His
orders were absolute. The gibbet was
ready, the page delivered to the execu-
toner in the presence of the general.
The principal officers of the army were
seized with indignation, and the lower
classes exclaimed against such barbarity.
The miserable confessor threw himself
repeatedly at the feet Of this memorable
commander. The page had mounted
the ladder, when suddenly the general
cried out, Stop" Then, with a voice
like thunder, he said to the page:
We'll, young man, have you now ex-
perienced what the terrors of death are?
have served you as you have served
me. Now we are quits.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-15
THE ANIMATED SKULL.
A Deaths Head That Pirouetted to tn
Sound of Clock.

a Deaths Head That Pirouetted to the
Sound of Clock.
1t was 1887. The firm had just pur-
chased carload of bones from the far
West, and in unloading them human
skull rolled from the lot, says writer
in the st. Louis Republic.
picked it up and took it to the office
and placed it on top of the Office clock.
There as the hours licked away into
eternity, 1 would sit and listen AMI try
to imagine what the person looked like
who owned that skull.
An ugly hole on one side opened a
field of silent inquiry as to whether it
was made by bullet and whether MUIR
der or suicide had caused death. I
never quite made up my mind about
it, but found the skull source of
pleasure in furnishing a theme for clear
ing the cobwebs from my brain when
tired of business cares.
Having occasion to visit the office one
night on my way home from the the
atre, | opened the door and stepped in.
The electric light threw fantastic shad-
ows across the floor. The only sound
within was the ticking of the clock, and
above it sat tie spectre of my departed
unknown friend
| sat down moment to think, and
as l did so the skull seemed to rise up
on legs, and in the uncanny light leered
horribly at me, while the eye sockets
looked like night burrowed holes of
darkness.
l was amazed. My tongue seemed
immovable and my limbs were para
lyzed. Before could recover my self
possession the grinning skull leaned
forward. foated gracefully to the floor
and there cut up all sorts of gruesome
capers in the shadows. could feel my
eyes fall out upon my cheeks, my hair
lift my hat from my head, while I knew
that my countenance wore the ashen
pallor of death. 1t was impossible to
get out of the room, so as weapon of
defense I seized the iron poker and
awaited in fear and trembling.
Fiend, l shrieked, upstarting,
Let this be our sign Of parting.
Grasping the poker firmly charged
upon the ghostly visitor At the same
moment the skull rolled harmlessly on
the floor toward me, while away scam
pered huge rat, leaving me weak and
perspiring.
The rat had entered the skull from
the clock shelf and in attempting to get
out his neck had become fastened in
the orifice at the base of the skull.
This pushed the CHASTITY relic to the
floor, and the rat running round and
round the room lent ghostly terrors to
my imagination until I believed the
skull was alive again. 1t was fright
full experience, and if the rat had not
escaped just when it did I should be-
lieve in ghosts to this day.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-15
Unwisa Experimenting.

We have all met the people whose
constant theme of conversation is their
own physical we'll being who eat and
drink by rule take medicine at stated
intervals, but yet are always ailing. As
soon as man Of this type has one weak
part of his system renovated, some
other part breaks down, and he has to
go to work at that. He drinks sour
beverages to thin his blood, and lies on
his back, with his head toward the
north, to make it circulate properly.
When he imagines that his liver is act
ing in reprehensible manner he slim
ulates it. Oh props it up, with a horse.
back ride before breakfast and if his
stomach does not perform its functions
with accuracy and dispatch, he foods
it with cold water before going to bed,
or irrigates it with seidlitz powder
the moment no gets up in the morning.
He is always doing or taking something
to head of some infirmity. When he
is not engaged in fortifying his system
with Graham bread or oatmeal, he is
developing some weak muscle with
dumb-bells. or trying to create an ap.
petite by saving half q cord Of wood
before the dew is off the grass. He
wears cork soles in his shoes, claiming
that they act as rheumatic insulators.
He is fond of explaining how much
phosphorus there is in corn, fat pro-
ducing qualities in cheese. and sacchar.
inc matter in wheat. He talks learn.
edly about the adulteration Of food,
tells gloomy stories OF the effect hard
boiled eggs have on the digestive or
gans OF the idiot who eats them. he
keeps himself sick trying to get we'll,
wretched in efforts to attain ease. and
goes into an early grave from the Of.
fects of trying to lengthen his days.
TO sum all up, he is social nuisance,
with the redeeming feature. that he
Furnishes himself moro than he docs
anybody else.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-04-15
A City Paved with Marble.

A city paved with marble It sounds
strangely enough, yet in the heart of
poverty stricken Ireland there is just
such city. Kilkenny, one of the Irish
parliamentary boroughs, is not only
paved with the costly stone, but many
of its houses are built with the same
material. Half mile outside the town
are the famous black marble quarries,
which turn out the choicest marble in the
British isles. From time immemorial
the civic. authorities have been accus-
toned to buy this stone, undressed, to
pave and build with. The old Norman
walls of Kilkenny were of marble
throughout, as is the cathedral of Saint
Carnice to-day. Kilkenny has two
other peculiarities. Its water is won
derfully clear and pure, while the coal
used in the city, coming as it does from
the Sliere Marge anthracite region,
emits no perceptible smoke.