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The St. Johns herald., 1894-05-17
LANGUAGE MADE BY WOMEN
Their Influence Much Greater Than Is
 Ordinarily Thought.

Their Influence Much Greater Than Is
 Ordinarily Thought.
 The influence of woman on the lan- guage of each generation is much greater than that of men, says Max Muller in Science of Language.
 We very properly call our language in Germany our mother tongue, with all its peculiarities, faults, idioms, ac- cents. Cicero said:
 Ut makes a great difference whom we hear at home every day and with whom we speak as boys, and how our fathers, our tutors and our mothers speak. We read the letters of Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, and it is clear from them that her sons were brought up mot in the lap, but, so to say, in the very breath and speech of their mother"
 But this is not all. Dante ascribes the frs attempts at using the vulgar tongue in Italy for literary compost tions to he silent influence of ladies who did not understand the Latin lan- guage.
 Now this vulgar Italian, before it became the literary language of Italy, held very much the same position there as the so-called Prakrit dialects in h. dia; and these Prakrit dialects first as- stunned literary position in the Sans krit plays where female characters, both high and low, are introduced as Prakrit, instead of the Sansbrit em- ployed by kings, noblemen and priests.
 Here, then, we see the language of women, or, if not of women exclusive ly, at all events of women and domes- tic servants, gradually entering into the literary idiom, and in later times even supplanting it altogether; for it is from the Prakrit, and not from the literary Sanskrit, that the modern vernaculars of India branched off in course of time.
 Through a thousand smaller chan nels the idioms of women everywhere find admission into the domestic con- versation of the whole family and into the public speeches of their assem- plies. The greater the ascendency of the female element in society the greater the influence of their language on the language of a family or clan, village or town.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-05-17
CLUMSY DANGERS.
The Kaiser Forced to Bar Them at Im- IT rerial Entertainments.

 The Kaiser Forced to Bar Them at Inn 4 '.r rerial Entertainments.
 Clumsiness in dancing has for long time been regarded as a most unpar. donable sln at the various royal and imperial courts of Europe, where the highly-polished and parquetted floors of the palaces and the spurs which form part and parcel of every full dress uniform render waltzing mat ter of some danger. At Berlin acci- dents of this character are said by Vogue to have been so frequent until a year ago that shortly after Christmas Emperor William summoned the gen. eral commanding the various troops stationed in and around Berlin and in structed him to direct those officers who were not able to dance properly to abstain from attempting to do so at imperial entertainments. Since then young officers are put through their paces by their seniors and are obliged to display certain proficiency in pas souls around the messroom billiard table before being allowed to dance at court. On one occasion-a court ball at Berlin-a young cavalry subaltern incurred the anger of the late Prince Frederick Charles by tripping up his partner. The prince assailed the young officer so bitterly that the late Emperor Frederick, then only crown prince, was obliged to intervene. At the Viennese court, a young secretary of the Roumanian legation once fell so unfortunately while dancing with one of the archduchesses that he came down in sitting position on her face, causing her Hapsburg nose to bleed. It is scarcely necessary to add that he left Vienna the next day, and, a week later, obtained his transfer to another post. The duke of Aosta, nephew of King Humbert of Italy, broke his ankle last winter while waltzing at ball given at Rome by the popular Mme le Glait, the wife of the Belgian minister at Washington, and, a few weeks before the tragedy at Meyerling, the now widowed Crown Princess Stephanie had a nasty fall, due to the gaucherie of cavalry off cer with whom she was waltzing. Elm peror Francis Joseph was much an- noyed, and so, too, was the late Crown Prince Rudolph who spoke his mind in no measured terms to the culprit. Far more polite was Emperor Ma poleon H., when at Tuileries ball, a middle-aged officer and his fair part ner came to grief. As the mortified lancer scrambled to his feet, the em- peror kindly extended hand to help him and, turning to the lady remarked: Madam, this is the second time that have seen the colonel fall; the first time it was on the battle field of Ma penta,"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-05-17
HURTING UP LURES.
Why Verdicts in District Courts Are Ren
 dered Without Delay.

Why verdicts in District Courts Are Ren-
 dered Without Delay.
 Give jury of six or twelve restful men comfortable, we'll lighted and cool room, plenty of tobacco and ice water, and there IS nothing by which the judge or the counsel on either side can guage the time of deliberation. Under such circumstances, says the Newark Sunday Call, juries have been known to remain out twelve hours on case involving one dollar and forty nine cents, and then come in with a disagreement. There is such thing, however, as forcing speedy verdict by making the retiring room uncom- fortable. Freezing the jury is said to have been practiced with success in Minnesota, where the counsel for the defense 'saw" the janitor, and it is just possible that windows have been nailed down to stew jury into hasty action in warmer climates.
 No such precaution is necessary in the new quarters of the district courts in this city. The jury-room is a mar row apartment, situated directly over the boiler room, with one window opening upon a narrow and breath. less alley, fianked by the dead wall of the next building. It has not been in- sinuated that any lawyer has encour- aged the engineer to put on extra steam when jury was deliberating over case, but it is said that of late no jury has taken more than five minutes to fry the fat out of any case which has required discussion in this room.
 It is used by both courts, and is the only apartment accessible. Of course, the doors must be shut when the jury is deliberating, and then the window does not admit the smallest of the zephyrs which may by accident have found a playground in the alleyway.
 It is said that one lawyer announced his intention of appealing case be- cause the jury found verdict four minutes after the doors were closed. One of the jurors says, however, that there was a heated discussion over the case during the short time the jury was out.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-05-17
ALL SORTS OF SERMONS.
Bishop of Wakefield's Classification o
 Pulpit ElOquence.

k1tsnOp OI "8Keuelu6 Cl8SS10caClOn O1
 Pulpit Eloquence.
 One does not look to prelate for frank fun, but the bishop of Wake field, unasked, has vouchsafed some genuine humor on the subject of preaching, says London Black and White. He has clearly made study of the art, and he divides the modern sermon into seven species. Thus we have:
 ''The Sesquipedalian-Big words hid. ing little thoughts
 ''The WishyWashy-No explanation required.
 ''The Pyrotechnic - Blazing with brilliant metaphors and illustrations, and finishing with faint odor of gun powder.
 'The necdotic-Teeming with sto- ries-some of them good enough once, but gone bad by keeping.
 ''The Flowery-In which rhyme is of more importance than reason.
 ''The Mellifuous-With calm, un- broken flow.
 "The Paregoric-Against which the powers of wakefulness fail; like roll of ribbon, so much alike at all points that yard can be cut off anywhere" |" Who does not know each and all of these? This is form of pastoral which congregations, as rule, do not disap- prove.
 In connection with this severe epis- copal utterance there is story on the other side going the ecclesiastical round. A clergyman prepared to preach few Sundays since, and gave out as his text: "The devil, like roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour" In the same breath, before beginning his dis course, he continued: My friends, you will probably have heard that the bishop of Manchester has announced his intention of visiting every church n his diocese, and consequently we may very shortly expect to see him among us."
The St. Johns herald., 1894-05-17
THE sTREET-cAR sPoTTER.
He Keeps Tab on the Conductor by Means
 Of Silent Pocket Register.

Of Silent Pocket Register.
 For several months conductors have been watching men who habitually stand on rear platforms, says the In- dianapolis News. That is the spot ter's position. Professional spotters never give themselves away" by counting the passengers. The spotter carrys small noiseless register in one of the pockets of his overcoat. He is most likely to appear on a car that is to carry a big load. He takes his place on the rear platform and always appears to be the most unconcerned man on the car. The first thing he does is to glance at the register in the front of the car. He makes mental note of the number of fares that have been rung up. Every time passenger gets on he presses the button of the little register in his pocket. He never appears to be watching the persons who are getting in the car, but he must be careful not to miss one. He rides on the platform until the fares of all the persons who have got on the car since he took his position have been col
 
 is the mental registration of the num- Der of fares indicated by the register in the car. If he has another test to make before making his report, he will probably stop under the first electric light, write down on the blank fur nished him the number of fares regis tered when he got on the car and the number registered when he got off. He subtracts one from the other, and has before him the number of fares the conductor should have registered. Then he looks at his indicator, and if there is dis crepancy between his count and the count the conductor registers he re- ports the fact to the company.
 A conductor who is discharged is never accused of having stolen money from the company. The charge is Jim properly collecting fares" It is not often that a conductor is discharged the first time it is reported to the com pany that he is improperly collecting fares" The test is applied to him ire quently, and if it is found that he is habitually not ringing up fares for all the persons who take passage on his car he is dismissed. Conductors be- lieve that the means employed by spotters are unfair. They say that it is often impossible for any man to get all the fares on car; that it is an easy matter to get all the fares when car is not crowded, but when fifty or sixty persons board car bound up town it is next to impossible to collect without an error. Often persons will get off the car before the conductor has reached them, and, hampcred as he is by the crowd, they say, he cannot prevent this. Then persons are getting on and off, exchanging seats and doing other things that mystify the conductor as he pushes his way through the crowd in search of the niclzels that are due the company.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-05-17
THE YANKEE BIRD.
Facts About the Origin Of the
 Christmas Turkey.
Our Barnyard GobbIer Is Not the Direct Descendant of American Stock, But Relative Imported
 from Mexico.

Among the luxuries belonging to the high conditions of civilization exhi- bited by the Mexican nation at the time of the Spanish conquest was the possession by MontezUma of one of the most extensive geological gardens on record, says the Washington Star. 1t embraced nearly all of the animals of that country. with others brought at great cost from distances. It is stated by historians that turkeys called by the Spanish adventurers "a kind of pcacock"-were furnished in large numbers as food to the beasts of prey in the emperor's mcnagerie.
 At that time the bird had been do- mesticated and reared ill Mexico for hundreds of years. It was carried by the Spaniards to the West Indies, whence it was taken to Europe early in the sixteenth century. Before long it became in Europe highly appreciated for its flavor. Being known to be of foreign origin. a report gained ground that the fowl had been obtained from Turkey, that being a region little known in western Europe. In this way it obtained the name by which it has since been designated.
 People coming to the United States from Europe brought this Mexican fowl to the United States, and the progeny of the stock thus imported and fetched back to the continent whence it was originally derived fur nishes Yankee tables to-day. In fact, the contemporary turkey of the barn. yard did not belong here originally. It is not derived from the wild turkey of the United States, which is quite another species, with dark meat on the breast and other differences plain ly distinguishable. On the other hand, the wild Mexican turkey has white meat on the breast and resembles our tame turkey in all other points.
 There are two species of wild turkey in North America. One is confined to the eastern and southern parts of the United States, while the other is native to the Rocky mountains, parts of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and extends along eastern Mexico southward. Biologists were long time finding this out, being puzzled meanwhile to account for the marked difference in color and habits between the wild and domestic birds of the country. That dark-meated fowl should acquire white meat through do- lnestication would seem indeed surpris- ing.
 In its wild state the Mexican turkey derives nourishment from plants and insects, scratching with its feet for food. It is very shy. The birds live in families like wild geese, keeping sen tinels on the watch when the flock is feeding. They arc so heavy that they are not fond of taking flight, but the swiftest dog cannot overtake them in running. The female lays from three to twelve roundish, red-spotted eggs, and hatches them out in thirty days. In Yucatan and northern Guatemala this bird is replaced by third species, less in size, but more striking in ap- pearance, the tail having spots some what like the 'eyes" in the tail of peacock
The St. Johns herald., 1894-05-17
SUFFICIENT UNTO HERSELF.
The Young Woman Had No Need of As
 distance of Any Kind.

The Young Woman Had No Need of As
 distance of Any Kind.
 The kind-heartcd old gentleman watched the young woman seated next to him in the elevated train with in- terest, says the New York World. She held a magazine in her hands with the leaves uncut. She looked through the table of contents and raised the cor ners of the leaves so as to get a glimpse of various illustrations. The old gen. tleman drew out his pocketknife hesi- tatipgly. He opened it still more hesi- tatingly. The young woman seemed entirely oblivious of his acts and evi- dent intentions, but their fellow pas scngers were able to arouse great deal of interest in the proceeding. Finally, just as the old gentleman reached forward, extending his knife, the young woman dexterously drew out hatpin and began cutting the leaves of her magazine. The old gen. tleman leaned back and delivered him. self of a confidential aside to the man next to him:
 ''I have heard. he said, ''that women can do anything with their hairpins and hatpins, but at any rate they'd need knife to sharpen pencils"
 And at that moment the provoking young woman drew pencil from her reticule. Lit tho wool off the top of it, and made a note on the article she was reading. The car giggled and the old gentleman began to read his paper with an injured air.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-05-17
Fish as a Fertilizer.

It was novel object lesson on the effects of stimulants that a New Yorker sojourning in Maine last summer dis covered. Beside the house where he boarded was field that had once been cultivated, but now was as barren as Sahara. What is the matter with the land that nothing will grow on it?'' he asked the fisherman, his host. "Fish did it." was the laconic answer. ''How?' 'Why, it was manured with fish. You know farmers near the sea- shore use porgies, dogfsh, and other fish worthless to eat to fertilize the land. And don't the fish just make the crops grow for few seasons! Look
 at that patch now. For years it yielded the finest corn, potatoes and garden sass you ever heard of. You see the fish acts on land just as alco- hol acts on man. 1t stimulates it up to the highest notch, and as long as there is any productive power left in the soil it goes into the crops. But there came the time when that field gave out all at once, and all the fish you could heap on it wouldn't make it bear so much as weeds or grass. The only thing is to let it lie fallow until the soil gains strength by rest. Farm CTS round the seashore have found out that though fish fertilizers give them tempting crops to start with, they must be handled as carefully as man ought to handle rum or brandy,
The St. Johns herald., 1894-05-17
POINTS ON SNAILS.

Nothing Meteoric But Much That Is In-
 teresting In Their Career.
 The Smithsonian institution has hit upon something extraordinary in snails. The creatures may be slow, but they hold the record over all other animals for prolonged vitality under adverse conditions, says the Provi- dence Journal. Stories of toads dug out of rocks in which they had been imprisoned for ages are apocryphal; but recent discovery has established the credit of this humble mollusk as No. in the tenacity of life.
 Only the other day a specimen from an island off the coast of Lower Cali fornia, inclosed in drawer with part of the molluscan collection, was found to be alive. 1t had no food or water for more than six years When placed in the box with moist earth it pro- truded its feet, began to move about, and seemed to be as we'll as ever. Some time ago few snails of differ ent species, gathered in Mexico, reached the Smithsonian institution md were placed in box. They re- mained undisturbed for two years and three months, at the end of which time they were put into a jar of glass with some chickweed and small quantity of tepid water. Pretty soon they walked up and appeared quite ac- tive.
 Pond snails, which are sometimes found alive in logs of mahogany from Honduras, possess equal endurance. Specimens carried from Egypt to Paris, packed in sawdust, have arrived uninjured. Other kinds have been ex- perimented with by shutting them up in pill boxes and dry bags for years, but they have survived. The limit of their vitality is yet to be ascertained.
 Land snails in cold climates bury themselves in the ground or under dead leaves in winter; in tropical re- gions they become torpid during the hot season. When about to start in on period of sleep they seal up their shells with a closa-ftting door, which sometimes is a shield of thin, tran sparent mucus, and in other cases an opaque membrance as thicl: as visit ing card. Behind this the animal con structs other walls, which serve like so many partitions to protect it against prolonged cold or dryness.
 It is believed that just as the seeds of plants are distributed by winds, so likewise the eggs of snails are scattered abroad on the breezes, thus dissemi- mating their species. They are very prolific animals. Some of the great land snails of the tropics, which live on trees and weigh pound apiece. lay eggs that look strikingly like those of pigeons, being quite as large. The eggs are deposited among decaying vegetation, the heat of decomposition hatehinR them. -
The St. Johns herald., 1894-05-17
A Maine Uusk,ng Bee.

Tears have often been shed over the partiality of the red ear at the husk- ing, although nobody up to date has questioned that kissing should go by favor; but we see by the report of a Vassalboro husking bee, in the Water vile Mail says the Lewiston Journal, that for once the old rule was set aside and the ideas of some of our socialistic friends as to flare and fare alike got in their work, for mo matter how re- served in manners or how faStidious and how short the acquaintance every woman was smacked and it was hard
 to tell which acted the worse, the boys or that portion of the assembly made
 up of the older men, the married men, the bald-headed men or old bachelors. /"
The St. Johns herald., 1894-05-17
E DOLLARS
 10 PER DAY 20 Easily Made.

We want many men, women, boys, and girls to work for us few hours daily, right in and around their own homes The business is easy, pleasant, strictly honorable. aud pays better than any other offered agents. You have clear field and no competition. Experience and special ability un- necessary. No capital required. We equip you with everything that you need, treat you well, and help you to earn ten times ordinary wages. Women do as we'll as men, and boys and girls make good pay. Any one, anywhere, can do me work All succeed who follow our plain ana sim- pie directions. Earnest work will surely Dring you a great deal of money Everything is new and in great demand. Write for our pamphlet circular, and receive full information. No harm done if you conclude not to go on with the business.
 GEORGE STINsoN & O.,
 Box 483,
 PORTLAND, MAINE.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-05-17
THE MONARCH SALOON. Commercial Street, St. Johns, Arizona.
 J. T. CLAYBROOK, Proprietor
 SDEHTAT DTTT ES
J. T. CLAYBROOK, Proprietor.
SPECIAL RULES.

l. Wild and irregular drinkers will keep out of the way of regular customers Cash orders take precedence all others, and will be repeated back with "O K by operator behind the bar.
 9 Over due drinkers expected to take side track til pay arrives, when they will their regular rights, by settlement.
 3. Any failure to comply with the above, will suspension.
 prAll grievances made satisfactory and new time card issued at The Monarch.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-10-04
The Size of Heaven.

The sixteenth verse of the twenty
first chapter of Revelation gives the
measurement of the New Jerusalem
as follows:
And he measured the city with a
reed, IL, 900 furlongs. The length and
the breadth and the height of it are
equal"
Taking that for a basis, some stat
istician has made the following cal
culation:
Twelve thousand furlongs, 1920
900 feet, which. being cubed, is 94S,-
OSs, 600, 600, 600, 600, 600, 600, 600 cubic
feet. Half of this we will reserve for
the throne of God and the court of
heaven, half the remainder for
streets, leaving a balance of 124, 1885,
272, 600, 600, 600, 600 cubic feet. Divide
this last by 1906, the cubic feet in a
room 16 feet square, and you will find
that there is still enough left for 80
321, s43, $50, 600, 900 roomsi
I'VE will now suppose thar the
world always did and always will
contain $50, 900, 900 of inhabitants,
and that q generation lasts 33t years,
Hakin9 in all 2b7Q-00QDoc for eseA
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-10-04
Costly Eeuces.


The huge iron fence about the resi-
dence of Cornelius Vanderbilt on
Fifth avenue, which is said to have
cost $40, 600, is a handsome piece of
iron work, but it is not the only i'm
posing railing of the kind in New
York. One of the biggest and hand
soonest incioses the Havemeyer resi-
dence on the corner of Thirty-eighth
street and Madison avenue. In some
places it is 20 feet in height, and it is
strong enough to resist a regiment.
Another costly railing is that which
surrounds the Vanderbilt residence
ON Fifth avenue. a block above the
cathedral. 1t is low but beautifully
wrought in bronze, which is SO ex-
pensive that its ornaments two or
three years ago tempted thieves, who
twisted off festoons and sold them
for old junk.
The longest and one of the strong
est fences in the neighborhood is
that at the Sailors Snug Harbor, on
Staten Island, which probably cost
more than Mr.. Va~nderbilt's. 1t is set
in cut granite, is more than a mile in
length and weighs hundreds of tons.
There was Il good deal of discussion
in this city 10 years ago when Mrs.
Langtry built a brick wall in front of
her house on West Twenty-third
street. The wall is still there in
spite of the opposition it excited, and
there two iron gates in it, one
marked In" and the other Out" in
the English fashion.-New York
World.