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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-19
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-19

Receipts bread.uffs interior points In
las, ihre. cipherr 1000 omitted -four DDls grain husr
as follows
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
OIL WELLS IN JAPAN.
The Petroleum Industry Is o Thing OF H
cont DaeS.

Tho Petroleum Industry Is Thing Of H.
cont Date.
Although Japan is one Of the Oldest
countries in the world. it has Just be-
gun to produce petroleum in large
quaint titles. Two expert drillers of oil
wells in Pennsylvania have been in
japan for year sinking wells for the
japanese government. Oddly enough,
these wclls are drilled under the waters
of the Japan sea, On the northern
coast of the empire. For at least
twelve hundred years the Japanese
have known of the existence Of Pc
trolcum along the shore, but the ma
tive wells were dug by hand, and the
oil slowly filed the bottoms, when it
was scooped up in buckets, a few gal
Ions at time. Now the Japsnese gov
ernment is talking Of pipe lines and
railroads for distributing the products
of the wells which the Americans are
digging. Labor is very cheap in Japan,
and natives work for seven yam q
month, and board themselves, yam
being about seventy-six cents. They
are not organized. and have no such
things as labor unions, and strikes are
Unknown. They have no set time for
a days work, which is practically dur
ing daylight. they frequently begin
ming work at the wells at four o'clock
in the morning. In consequence, dig
ging wells in Japan is net expensive.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
MILK CARTS IN FRANCE.
Thsv Ars Always Draw. By Dogs s.<

Thsu Ars Always Drawn By Dogs I'D
No msttcs how much ON American
has heard Of foreign milk corts drawn
by dogs, and often by dogs and women,
10 always seems odd 10 see such q
strange team, says Harpsrs Young
People. The dogs have pretty harness.
es. and draw bright green carts, but
they LODI really unhappy, as II they
had no pleasure in their work, They
trot along with their tongues out of
their mouths, and when they meet an
other dog they cannot even stop to
bow 10 him. An American child would
say: Poor doggie!" 1t is said that
some countries have made laws prohib-
iting dogs from working as milk-car>
riers, and In few years dog milkmen
may be a sight Of the past. 1t is queer
that there are SO many kinds Of milk
cans in the world. In America milk is
carried In glass bottles and in small
round tin cans In England q pretty
tin milk-pan Is used. furnished with q
brass handle and wide brass hinge to
the cover. The hnndsomest milk-cans
In the world are the great brass cans
which are seen ia the little European
milk carts. They glitter like gold. and
the froth of the white milk makes pearl
rims upon the well-flled cans. 1t is ne
wonder that American artists take
those cans home to snine in dark oos-
ners of their studios.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
THE COLoRs OF euoYs.

Each One Bears q MersAgs 70 the P.astng
6nl;or.
When you enter any harbor In the
world where the channel Is marked by
buoys you will find that those on your
right, as you pass in, are painted red,
and those on your left black. If you
should see one painted tn rcd and
black horizontal bands the ship should
run as CLOSE to it as possible. because
that indicates the center Of a nasrow
channel
Buoys with red and black vertical
stripes always mark the end Of sLits
and the sutor and inner ends Of Tsx-
tensive reefs where there is q channel
On each side. When red and black
checkers ore painted on a buoy It
marks either a rock in the open sea or
an obstruction In the harbor Of small
extent, with channel all around.
II there arc two such Instructions
and q channel between them the buoy
on the right of you will have red and
white checkers and the one on your
left will have black and white checkorA
Whom . wreck obstructs the channel
. green buoy will be placed on the sea
aide Of the wreck. with the word
''wreok' plainly painted ON 1t In white
letters, provided there Is clear ohan-
mel all around It; otherwise, an even
number win DO painted in white above
tho word wreck" whom the buoy n
on the right side of the channel and %
odd number d tho buoy is On the left.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
Swiss Matchmaker.

Watches were made In Geneva -
early as 1900, and now that watchmah-
ing has become a national industry In
switzerland schools for the perfection
Of this profession have been esta blishsd
there. The principal one of these Is
L'Ecole Municipale d'Iiorloserie In
Geneva. A boy enters this school at the
age of fourteen and works ten hours
for eleven months Seven hours out
Of every week, however, are given to
various studies. The second class re-
quires stay of five or six mont this;
the third six or seven months: the
fourth six months; the ffth-when the
work is growing very complicated
eight months: the sixth thirteen
months and the seventh and last class
about one year, making about five years
in all. At the end of the five years each
boy has made twelve watches. which
are his own property.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
AN ANCIENT CHURCH.
D Was Erected IN the Days Of Gso4a
Washington.

D Was Erected IN the Days Of George
Washington
There still stands in Fairfax county.
Va, q church Cor which George Wash
ington drew the plans. The rector has
recently written this description of the
old building:
THE Pohick church. for which
George Washington Grew plans, is still
standing firmly on its foundations.
The solid walls. eiTit teen inches thick.
are so well constructed that they will
defy for many generations. we trnst.
the inroa3s of time. The exterior OF
the i,Irch presents the same appear
ance il = yghen :. III; iytou drove up
to it re rulariy on Sa iays In his fn.
nous coach. The Interior suffered Sc
verely during tac late war. All the
woodwork was DESTROYED except the
cornicc, which IS the D" IT, interior worl,
still existing from Was .iNftons time
The roof vas left 4 rulnous condi-
ton after tae war. b'1t ths old tirnbers
are still there. well protected by a GOV.
ering OF good shin -les About eighteen
year. ago the clarel was put in good
reDair, though not restored to it,
original interior apDecrance. through
the k:rdness Of q tlcman thon liv-
ing in New York city. Much needs to
be done to restore the church to its
former antique interior. but it is com
Portable and properly cared for"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
THE BLACK COUNTRY.
Some OF tho Strange superstItions Prsva-
lent In Egypt.

Some Of tho Strange Superstltions Prsva-
lent In Egypt.
Good housewives mark their bread
loaves with a cross, and housemaids in
sure brisk kindling of a newly-lit
fire by making the same sacred sign
over the CRATE. AS to fortune-telling.
the Black country has for at least half
o century been happy hunting
ground for the black-tressed and dark
eyed sibyls who disguise their real
calling from all but likely customers
by the pretense of hawking hand-cut
clothes-pegs, skewers, etc. And, more
audacious still, in several towns are
resident magicians, who rulo planets
and reveal secrets for a consideration.
And when q woman misses an orns-
ment or other valuable, she hies to .
wizard, or else to q wise woman" TO
learn who is the thief. One of these
star students was so successful in I'M
raveling hidden secrets that his skill
was attributed to his dealings with
the Evil One, and. as he had a more
than local reputation, he was known
far and wide as 1.-The Dudley Devil. I"
While Satan is endowed by the popu-
lar imagination with ubiquity
scarcely less than omnipresent, he is
supposed specially to haunt the shafts
and subterranean workings of disused
mines. And, though practically omnip-
otent, he is invoked by the following
absurd spell: A crust of bread and
cheese placed inside a hat, with q
crossed knife and fork always an
ominous sign), and over this the rec
itation of the Lords Prayer back
wards You will to this day find pee-
Pile who are prepared to make oath
that when as boys they had tried this
spell on q pit-bank on dark nights,
and had been brave enough TO peep
down the shaft, they had seen the
very form Of the Evil One ghring at
them from the depths below. Nor WIS
this idea of personal visible devil
eonfinea to the ignorant, profane and
careless. With the devout and serious
the conception acquired a still more
somber and tragic character. Satan
became to them not merely the in
spirer of foul thoughts and the sug-
gester of sinful actions, but . real
physical antagonist aftsr the style Of
Apollyon in Bunyan's allegory.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
An OoliyiRg Diplomat.

That there are all sorts and oondi.
tionq of women in society was shown
In the case of a visitor. who. while
spending portion of the season in
Washi2rton. attended n large oficia
reception at whicl I've dipiorlot'
corps wcs well i,r2 e-tc., Aftci
gain rsptly at the 1uee- T. - wiz,
bat without which the hoTe&n RIMS
tse never op?ears in pablo this lad
surprised fir. fc by a roG:est that l.
Hemove ais headgaer for hsr more mi
ats in oecIiua. Tais novel demal
waa II o1ce compiled with By the nil
is.sr, w.lo yraveiy stood by while Il
curious one turned a1d twisted til,
wire hat over ana 0!er "a her suprem
satisiac. Ion.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09

The Russian is q very religious man.
Whenever he leaves his cottage or en-
tnrs it he will bow before the image o;
a saint that invariably has its place il
q corner at the window and before
whioh a lamp is constantly kept burn
ing. Never viii he touch any food or
drink until he has made the sign of the
holy cross: that taxes tae place of pray
or and is not done without thinking Of
the Crostoc.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
DESERTED VILLAGES,
Boom Towns Of the West That
Are Now Desolate.
The Rise and Fall OF Mining Camps
Which Once Had Thousands OF Poo
pIo. But Are Now the Abodes OF
Owls and Snakes.

II Oliver Goldsmith were alive to
make tour of the far western states
and of some sections of the south, he
could find many a deserted village there
that was once the liveliest if not, like
his beloved Auburn. the loveliest of the
plain. In Kansas alone. according to
the New York World, where 1t would
appear that towns as well as individuals
have felt the disastrous results of
phlebotomy, there are fully twenty such
abandoned villages. and in Nevada,
California, Georgia and Alabama they
are numerous. Once thriving mining
camps like Bodie and White Pine that
grew great in night; boom towns such
as Fargo Springs, that sprang up rs
quickly as If q magician had called
them into being, and prosperous and
substantial cities like Sumner, in early
days the most important town and
prospective metropolis of Kansas
scores of these decayed municipalities
now lie abandoned and desolate, their
houses empty of human tenants and
rotting away, their streets thick with
rank growth of weeds, and only q few
old timers, or in some cases only a soil
tary postmaster. left to tell men of the
present generation of their former
hustle and prosperity. In various in
stances, as at Petersburg, in Georgia,
nothing but mounds of earth and q
populous cemetery remain to testify to
the towns departed glory.
Especially mournful has been the
fate of those abandoned towns whose
only inhabitants to-day are the animals
and reptiles that have left prairie and
sand hills to take refuge in the deserted
dwellings Time has played one Of his
most fantastic tricks with human for
tune in permitting owls to fit about
under the rafters that echoed all the
night through to the boisterous revelry
of owl clubs, and snakes to squirm I'M
der the very tables at which barkeepers
dealt out biting red eye in exchange for
gold dust; while wolves prowl through
the forsaken lair Of the tiger. 1t is like
plunging into an atmosphere Of gloom
to visit these blighted cities, for on
every side stand mute reminders Of the
feverish activity of the past to intensity
the sad stiffness of the present.
Perhaps the most striking of accounts
OF ruined boom towns are those which
relate the untoward fate of Pierce City
and Kit Carson. Less than q genera
ton ago Pierce City, with its lawless
population of twenty thousand miners
and gamblers, was one of the most
notable settlements between Denver
and the coast. Its inhabitants to-day
are handful Of Cinnamon, while Kit
Carson has only one hundred left Of the
seven thousand restless souls, who
twenty years ago sought gold by day
and revelry by night
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09

The Boston Budget has. story Of .
colored man who went into fish
market in Richmond to buy dinner for
his master. After looking about for q
few minutes. he stopped before a pile
Of shad.
Apparently his suspicious were
aroused He took up one of the fish and
held 1t under his nose.
"What do you mean by smelling Of
that fish?" asked the dealer. indig-
Lantly.
Didn't smell de fish nohow," an
swered the negro. only speakin' to
him"
Indeed! And what did he say?"
II jes' AK him for dc news at de mouf
oS de ribbcr. an he says he done clean
forgot. for he amt seen no water for TO-
weeks. bats al he said"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
BIG HAiLSTONES IN TEXAS.

Lumpa SIX Irehes In Diameter said to
Have Fallen In Recent storm.
A recent hailstorm near Gay Hill oc-
CURED about 4:3o p. N. About two
p. m heavy clouds appeared in the
west, and as they slowly approached
q roaring sound was heard, such as
usually indicates q coming hailstorm.
Lightning, accompanied by distant
thunder, suggested an unusual storm.
About six miles distant from the Gal
weston News mans point of observation
the clouds divided. A light-colored
cloud passed out from the more dense
cloud toward the southeast, while the
latter continued it's course toward the
east, but far above it at a high altitude
was another cloud of pinkish cast,
which moved also toward the east. A
few minutes after the rain commenced
small hailstones fell, and each moment
larger ones fell than the preceding,
until they reached the size of small hen
eggs. After falling for about fifteen
minutes the hail and rain ceased for
probably two minutes. Then it COM
menced again to rain heavily and con-
tinued for probably ten minutes, with q
higher wind, and it was during this in
terval that the wonderfully large hail
stones fell
This remarkable hail fell in large
Jumps, ranging from three to six inches
In diameter heard of one piece eight
inches in diameter, which weighed four
pounds They were. as rule, spheri-
cal in forIr. but some were somewhat
fat, and nearly all were covered with
oval knobs They fell in small areas
about two feet apart, while in other
places only one would fall in a space
twenty feet square The average I'M
der my observation was about one
hailstone to every three feet square.
The earth was thoroughly saturated
with water, and some of the large
pieces penetrated the ground in soft
places about three inches. gathered
about bushel of the largest pieces az
ter the rain ceased and in a very little
while placed them in a sack, which I
put in a box and packed hay around
without special care. Some of the
pieces exhibited in Brennan, for the
reason that ] preferred to give ocular
demonstration in proof of the state
ment ] made in relation to the size of
the hail After forty-two hours several
Of the pieces were seven inches in cir
conference At this date (eleven days
after it fell about q quart of the hail
remains Its density is so great that I
believe it will keep should you wish
sample A most remarkable fact in
connection with these large hailstones
Is that some of them have particles of
dirt in the center The question is:
bow did they get there?
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
WHITE WINGS NO MORE.

Prospect Of Riding from Cape Horn 60
Cape Town By Continuous Rail.
1t adds something to the zest Of life
If one has a healthy and active fancy
to reflect that there are people now
living who may travel by continuous
rail from Cape Horn to tho Cape Of
Good Hope. The plan Of a pan Amer
lean" railway to connect the South
American systems. through Central
America, with the systems Of Mexico
and the United States, is already we'll
advanced. There are, says the Review
of Reviews, to be roads from the Cana
dian Pacific away up to the Peace river
and Mackenzie valleys, and it Is not
very hard to believe that these may
ultimately be extended across tho
Rockies to the Ukon valley in Alaska,
and continued finally to the narrow and
shallow Behring straits, across which .
connection would be made with the
Siberian road. Continuous rail travel
from Siberia to Constantinople will
soon have become an accomplished fact,
and the link from Constantinople to
Egypt may be expected quite conf
IDENTIFY. At the present rate of develop
ments in Africa tho construction of a
road from Egypt to tho Cape ought to
be realized within twenty-five years
The chanDel tunnel will, of course,
have been built, and electricity or Some
still more powerful motive forceowill
have superseded steam; so that the Cali
fornians and Puget sound denizens
would naturally go to London by fast
Alaskan and Siberian express. II they
chose they might return by steamship.
making the passage in two or three
days from the west coast of Ireland to
Labrador or Halifax. In view of all
that has been done in the past twenty
Eve years such further development Of
travelling facilities is easily within the
realm Of sober prediction
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
Every Man to HIS Trade,

A Yarmouth captain thought himself
q handy fellow with a paint brush He
decided to put the name of his schooner
on her bow, and as he could not reach
high enough from float and did not
wish to swing stage, he leaned over
the bow and thus did the lettering. He
went ashore. after doing the work on
one side. to view the effect from a dis
lance. and this is what his astonished
eyes beheld; = IIoDvW"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
LACE MAKING.
4 School Near Venice Where the Art Il
Taught.

4 School Near Venice Where the Art Il
Taught.
A school of about three hundred and
fifty Italian girls. wearing the national
costume and all industriously at work
on exquisite lace, is pleasant and in
teresting place to visit. So writes
Nine. de Boret, who visited lace
making school at Burano. an island
in the Adriatic sea a few miles from
Venice. The girls, who are from ten
to eighteen years of age, sit in great,
barely furnished. well-lighted rooms,
on low chairs, holding their lacs
frames on their knee.
They wear q short, bright-colored
petticoat, a green. red or orange fichu
crossed on the chest, silver rings in
their ears, and around the neck bead
or coral necklaces. They have dark
eyes, teeth like pearls. smiling red
lips, oval faces, fine profles. and black
hair worn knotted in the back of the
neck with a silver pin by the older
girls, or in long ringlets by the younger
ones.
They draw their needles slowly and
gracefully pdCh dud IOTNl, anu RT8Ve-
ly except when some girlish joke raises
q storm of smothered laughter.
The teachers superintend the werk
carefully, and the pupils make fine
Venetian, Brussels. Alencon and Ar
gentan point and guipure laces They
sometimes fill orders for wells worth
five thousand francs A lace drapery
which was shown Nine. de Boret repre-
sented Q vast amount of work. Seven
months had been spent in making the
foundation for it.
The price of the laces il fixed 60
cording to the time spent in making
them, the rate being a franc q day.
The more slzillful pupils add to their
income by doing lace work at home
also.
They all like the school, and though
the pay seems small for such fine work,
It secures them a comfortable living,
for Little money goes q hong way in
the island Of Burano. Queen Mar
gherita of Italy has been q generous
patron of the school
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
How Did They Get Inf

On awakening the other morning Q
farmes, who lives near Shelby. N c..
was much surprised on seeing seven
teen rabbits huddled together In a cor.
ner of the room They had entered the
house 20 ESCAPE the cold.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
Trades OF Turks.

Every Mussulrnan. however high his
rank. from the sultan down to the low.
est dervish. is compelled to have q
trade. The grandfather of the present
sultan was a toothpick maker. The
boacman. porter or groom is eligible to
the grade of pasha. The butcher of
to-day may be generalissimo of to-mor-
row. and the lowest slave may become
grand 7iy,er
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09

Reaching every home in
the parish, it is All vxccllsn
medium for
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09

Blanks ofevery description
for Magistrates, COnstables
and other Officials kept con-
stant!- on hand
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09

in principles, it will ever ad
vOcate what seems to 1T 10 TO
the best interests Of State
generally, and the Parish
particularly.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-03-09
ADVERTISERS

who desire the business Of
this section.
isE u &c Z A TIC
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-16
MORE 'WEALERS.

Colonel Vfnette of California Will Ar
rive Tomorrow With One Hundred
There are now fifteen of the Califor-
MIA commonweal army in camp at the
city park; three more arrived today, Cap
tain Cook is no longer with them, how
ever. He got tired of waiting and starv-
ing and has gone on in a company of
one. The men here received a card
today from Colonel Vinette, who is at
Dodge City and says he will be here on
either Sunday Monday with
upwards of 100 men-if he has no bad
luck.
He will gather up what recruits he can
here and with the fifteen already in
camp will start for Kansas City with the
intention of pursuing the route original
ly agreed onto Washington, via Iowa
and Chicago. His method of transpor
tation has not yet been agreed on but the
men here think they will walk to Kansas
City at least. Vinette expects to leave
Topeka with at least 125 followers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-16
MIR. RIDDLES DISCOVERY

That Nearly All Presbytsrfaas Are Anti
suHragists s-3Kethodists Are Not.
al find," said ex-Lieutenant Governor
A z. Riddle, "That nearly all the anti
woman suffragists are Presbyterians.
The teachings of the church are that
way and it is the natural result On the
other hand the ardent suffragists are
nearly all Methodists, for in that denomi-
nation the women have more to say, and
their influence is much greater"
II am satisfied with the action of the
Populist convention in putting suffrage
plank in their platform. In my county
the Populists will lose strength as
a result. There are a great many
voters who were Populists but anti
sufragists, and the action of the conven-
ton has made them ntiPopulists as
well. have talked to great many who
will refuse TO support the ticket on that
account
'The women have also made mis-
take, for there are thousands of Repub-
licans who were in favor of the amend
ment and will now vote against it 1t
will be close fight if the amendment
carries.
"The Republican ticket is giving the
best of satisfaction. | have met a great
many Republicans and all seem perfect
iy satisfied with the ticket and the action
OF the convention"