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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-12-14

FROM WATER WORKS FUND
Ell gilbert, sec SS5 10
The bill of Lester HancS to the amount of
2,2l5 by virtue of late arrest, etc. was upon
motion referred to city attorney.
The committee on claims and accounts re-
ported favorably on accounts as above pre-
sented, unanimous consent being given same
were allowed and clerk instructed to draw or
derS for the same.
The street commissioners report for one week.
was presented, accepted and ordered placed on
file.
Mayor decided that under rule the bill of Fred
Edwards for S26 stenographers fees should lay
over till next meeting.
The following receipts were received and
placed on file.
Received of s. A. Crane SS7.Os for Washington
school sidewalk. W. T.. HALL. Troas.
Received of S. A. Crane &37.0S for Washington
school side walk. w. T.. HALL, Treas.
Aid H. g. Frieseke presented the following
petitson for license which was upon motion
granted. Ayes 8, nays0
To the Common Council:--
We the undersigned apply for license TO do
plumbing in the City OF owosso in the water
works and sewerage.
Owosso Plumbing and Timing Co,
JAMESON & TUNE.
We would Recommend that the above license
be granted OwOSSo WATER BOARD.
T.. Il. GlDBERr, Sec'yo'
The matter of improving the condition N
hremans room was referred to committee 70
fire dept.
Upon motion council adjourned fortwo weeks.
o. l.. SPRAGUE.
City Clerk.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-12-14
TIE Times,
owosso. MICH. DEC. IA, 1894.

For rheumatism l have found nothing
equal to Chsmberlain's Pain Balm. 1t re-
iieves the pain as soon as applied. j. w.
Young, West Liberty, w. Va. The prompt
relief it affords is alone worth many times
the cost 80 cents. It's continued use will
effect permanent cure. For sale by John
sun Il Henderson, druggists.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-12-14
BE Your Own Doctor.

IT won't cost you one half as much. DO
not delay. Send three 2-cent stamps for
postage, and we will send you DIR. Kauf-
mann's great work, fine colored plates from
life, ON disease, its causes and home cure.
Address A. L. Ordwry IL Co., Boston, Mass.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-12-14

r. +. Anthony, ex-postmaster OF Promise
City, Iowa, says: II bought one bottle of
Mystic Cure for Rheumatism and two
doses Of it did mc more good than all the
medicines l ever took" Sold by johnson IL
Henderson, druggists, Owosso.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-12-14

English SPAWN Liniment removes all
Hard. Soft Calloused Jumps and Blemisbes
from horses, Blood Spavins, Curbs, Splints,
Sweeney, Ring-Bone, Stiles, Sprains, all
Swollen Threats. Coughs, etc. Save $50 by
use of one bottle. Warranted the most
wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. Sold
by johnson 4 Henderson. druggists, Owes
so.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-12-14

DIR. BALLS MAGIC FEVER DROPS, for
sale by all druggists. Ask for circulars.
Price SIC. A. Il. Ball, NJ. ID. Corunna
Mich
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-12-14

vitality necessary to in
SIRE thcir health. The
pHoumogastric nerve, as
shown here, may be said
10 I've the most important
OF the entire nerve sys-
tcn, as IL supplies the
l,oart lungs, stomach,
bowels, etc, with tho
nerve force necessary TO
keep them active and
healthy. AS will be seen
by tho cutthe long nerve
descending from 3 h @
base Of tho brain and
dominating in the bow
Cis Is the Dneumogas trio,
While the numerous lit
lie branches supply the
h0art, lungs and stom-'
ach with necessary vi
tality. When tho brain
becomes in any way dis
c1aered by irrltability
or exhaustion, tho nerve
!Deco which IL supplies
l95scned, and the or
Gems receiving the di-
linlshed supply arc con-
Frtrfs#ntaflx NC. l-A-aI
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-12-14

Tube Rose -four is the best and highest
grade manufactured. Sold bye. c. Duff
sole agent.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-12-14
Y. M. c. A. Building.

The annual report of the Building Com
mittee Of the Owosso Y. NJ. @. A.. presented
by chairman c. 4 Rigley at the anniversary
meeting Sunday evening was as follows:
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-18
IsLAM.s GREAT WOMEN.
Moslem Women Who Compare Favorably
with Europeans.


In the early centuries of Islam,
almost until the extinction of the Sara
senic empire in the east, says the
Nineteenth Century. women continued
to occupy as exalted a position as in
modern society. iZobeida, the wife of
Horun, plays conspicuous part in the
history of the age, and, by her virtues,
as well as by her accomplishments,
leaves an honored name to posterity.
Humieda, the wife of Fraul1, Medenite
citizen, left for many years the sole
guardian of her minor son, educates
him to become one of the most distin-
guished juris-consuls of the day.
Sukinah or Sakina, the daughter of
Hussian and the granddaughter of. Ali,
was the most brilliant, most accom-
plished, and most virtuous woman of
her time---''la dame des danes de son
temps, Ia plus belle, la plus gracieuse,
la plus brilliante de qualities" as Perron
calls her. Herself no mean scholar,
she priced the converse of learned and
pions people. Buran, the wife of the
Caliph Mamun; Ummul-Fazi, Mamun's
sister, married to the eighth imam of
the house. of Ali; Umm-i-Habil, Mamun's
daughter, were all famous for their
scholarship.
LII OIAC HlGn CeACUTy O1 Gle heR1rd, Un6
Sheilxha Shuhda, designated Fakhrun-
nissa (''the glory of women''), lectured
publicly at the Musjid-i-Jama of Bag
dad to a large audience on literature,
rhetoric and poetry, says a writer in
the Nineteenth Century. She occupies
in the annals of Islam position of
equality with the most distinguished
ulemas. What would have befallen
this 1adv had She AOrriSbad. oroopo tho
Acknowledgements of st. Cyril can be
judged by the fate of Hypatia. Posi-
bly, she would have been torn to pieces
by enthusiastic Christians, but she
would to certainty have been burned
as a witch. Dzat-ul- Hemma, corrupted
into Dzemma, s'the lion heart,'' the
heroine of many battles, fought side by
side with the bravest knights.
It is calumny, therefore, to say that
the Islamic system has lowered the
status of women. The teacher who, in
an age when no country, no system, no
community gave any right to women,
maiden or married, mother or wife
who, in a country where the birth of
daughter was considered calamity,
secured to the sex rights which are only
unwillingly and under pressure being
conceded to them by the civilized ma
tions of the nineteenth century-de-
serve the gratitude of humanity. If
Mohammed had done nothing more his
claim to be a benefactor of mankind
would have been indisputable. Even
under the laws as they stand at present
in the pages Of the legists the legal po-
sition of Moslem females may be said
to compare favorably with that Of Euro
pean women.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-18
Man-Eating wild Men.

In the celebrated ''Travailes'' of Ed
ward Webb (159O) are dozens of stories
that would make Joe Mulhatton turn
green with envy. One of the most cele-
brated of these is his story of the wild
men of Prester John, which is as fol-
lows: "In the court of Prester John
there is a wilde man, and another in
the high street of Constantinople, whose
allowance is every day quarter of raw
mutton; and when any man dyeth for
some notorious offence, then they are
allowed every day quarter of mans
flesh. These wilde men are chained
fast to post every day, the one in
Prester Johns court, the other in the
high street of Constantinople, each of
them having manten about their
shoulders, and all over their bodies
they have wonderful long hafre. They
are chained by the neck lest they speed
lily devour all that cometh within their
reach.''
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-18
WHAT IS REAL LACE3
a Question Put to tho Appraisers of the
Now York Custom House.


A curious question has just been set
tied by the board of appraisers of the
custom house of New York, says an ex-
change. The question is as to what
constitutes lace-in what the distin-
gushing mark of lace, as different from
other thin fabrics, consists. 1t arose
from a large importation of dress goods
in what is called nets or drapery
laces. If these were true laces they
were subject to higher duty than if
they were simply thin fabrics. 1t was
claimed by the importers that true laces
are edgings in narrow widths, used for
flouncings and ornamentation, but that
wide nets when sold by the yard and
sewn up into gowns are not laces but
dress goods, like silk or any other
fabric. Thus the question arose as to
all those diaphanous fabrics of which
evening gowns are made-are those lace
or are they not lace? What constitutes
lace, anyway, the material of which it
is woven, the way in which it is woven
or the decoration? A great deal of patient
cropping about after information was
necessary before these be wildered men
could find their way in the clear light
of the knowledge of those things in
which women live land move and
have their being. But they did
get into it at last, and this is
the decision they set down, by the light
of which any woman. will be able to
tell at once whether she has true lace
in her possession or not. The one char
acteristic of lace that distinguishes it
from all other fabrics lies not in the
material of which it is made, because
that NAV bo silk or linen or cotton
Neither does it lie in the decorations that
are wrought upon it, because the same
needlework is often put upon other
fabrics. But the one characteristic of
lace-the real laceness, SO to speak
lies in the way in which the net itself
is woven. ''The hexagonal mesh,' says
the report of the authorities, sis the
essential feature, as it is the distin-
gushing characteristic of lace, the
process Of its formation being akin to
knitting, as it is the antithesis of weav-
ing. The presence of the hexagonal
mesh in textile fabric is conclusive of
the fact that it is Lace
Clearly this gives a woman exact data
from which to build up her knowledge
of laces. The heXagonal structure or
lace mesh is what makes lace, whether
the fabric is wide or narrow, finished
or unfinished at the edge. This makes
lace of all the nets used for gowns or
trimmings, if they have the open-worlz
structure. Chiffon is not lace, but fish
net and Brussels net are. Tulle is lace,
but the shccrcst null is not. The face
yeilings are properly lace wells, except
the grenadines, which are not, no matter
how heavily they may be edged.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-18
THREE KINDS OF RuRIEs.

The Oriental Is MostTValuable and Is of
ArteriaI Blood Color.
There are three kinds of rubies-the
oriental ruby, the spinel ruby and the
balas ruby. The first is the only true
one, according to the jewelers. Review.
The latter differ considerably in COM
parison from the first. The true is
composed almost exclusively of alum
ina. In the latter are onlv seven-tenths
VI alumlna, the remainder being chiefly
magnesia. The color, moreover, is due
partially to the oxide of chromium, a
substance of which the genuine ruby
has not trace. In commerce the balas
ruby has much inferior value to the
spinel. This is generally of vivid
poppy-red color; the balas is of violet
rose, although Pegu has furnished white
and white violet spinels, and Suder-
mania even blush gray ones. 1t can be
seen at once, therefore, how extremely
erroneous would be classification of
gems by color or general appearance
alone. The primitive form of the spinel
ruby is like that of the diamond, eight
sided, which distinguishes it at once
from the oriental stone. The color of
the genuine ruby is that of arterial
blood, or pigeons blood, as it is called.
It is extremely hard and after the sap
phire is the hardest'of the corundums,
which renders it difficult to understand
why the earth SO rarely gives it up.
Its tint is as beautiful by artificial light
as by day, and its powers of refraction
so great that ancient belief credited it
with power of emitting light. The an
clients even supposed that it would shine
through clothing with undiminished
power.
The largest ruby known is one men
toned by Chardin as having been en-
graved with the name of Sheik Sephy.
Another noble ruby is in possession of
the shah of Persia. Its weight is put
at one hundred and seventy-five karats.
A third. belonging to the king of
Usapar, was cut into a hemispherica1
form, and in 1858 was bought for thir-
teen thousand eight hundred and sixty
six dollars. A ruby possessed by Gus
tavus Adolphus, and presented to the
czarina at the time of his journey to St.
Petersburg, was the size of a small
hens egg.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-18
OFFICES ODDLY WON.

The Applicants Attracted Notice by Doing
Eccentric Things.
%'People sometimes obtain work from
Uncle Sam. in peculiar ways,' says the
San Francisco Argonaut. ''Not. so very
long ago a poetess of fashion in a fan
western state became an office-secker
adopting a novel method of pursuing
her object. She appealed to a United
States senator. bombarding him with
poetry by mail. Once a week regularly
he received from her long letter in the
shape of a poem. Sometimes. he got
two a week. The poetry was probably
the worst that any poetess of passion
has ever produced.
SAT first he paid no attention to it
but at length it began to prey upon his
mind. When this sort of thing hac
gone on for five or six months he be-
came desperate. So finally he wrote to
her, saying: Your poems have proved
to me that you are unfit for any public
Office. Nevertheless, if you will cease
writing and sending them to me L viii
get you job And he did. 1t is re
corded that a man, appointed sixth
auditor of the treasury, subject to ex
animation, was asked to state the dis,
tance of the moon from the earth. His
written answer was simply: Not nea,
enough to affect the functions of .
sixth auditor He passed.
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LIFE ON THE MOON.

- .>~Acscopic Investigation Leads to the Be-
:. lief That Our Satellite Is Inhabited.
1t does not seem improbable that in
the course of events the earth and the
moon may become more intimately ac-
quainted. A few years ago scientists
held the theory that the moon was a
dead planet, without atmosphere, and
consequently uninhabited. This theory
has recently been entirely controverted.
The work began by Prof. Holden at the
Lick observatory upon Mount Hamilton
has been steadily continued, and the
photographs taken by him and his as
sistants have revealed certain facts hith-
erto unknown.
Photographic observations show a
perfect map of the moon, and upon the
summit of one of the highest mountains
is a white spot which has the appear
arce of glacier, proving the presence of
atmosphere and making the theory of
the habitablenesS of the moon tenable.
1t is claimed by Prof Holden that by a
continuous series of photographs he is
able to detect any changes upon the
surface of the moon, and that q build
ing fifty feet in height would cast an
appreciable shadow, says the Chicago
Graphic.
T If the moon is inhabited the fact will
certainly be discovered sooner or later,
but the question of the establishment
of communication is still unsolved, al
though in the face of the scientific
acnlevements of the last century we
will not predict that it is unsolvable.
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. EDUCATION AND LEARNING.
A Leading English Educator Points Out
the Difference Between Them.

a Leading English Educator Points Out
the Difference Between Them.
people have peculiar notion of
what constitutes an education" said
Prof. John Cochran, one of Great Brit
aims leading educators, who is making
a tour of the United States, to Globe
Democrat man. Il have seen many an
educated man who couldn't tell an adj
verb from a proverb, green root from
an ellipsis. And 1 have seen men who
had taken all the varsity degrees so
profoundly ignorant that a Digger In
dian might pity them. Too many men
forget that a school, whether it be the
log cabin affair of the American wilder
ness, with its three Rs and bundle of
birch rods, or the proudest continental
university, but furnishes him with tools
with which to dig for knowledge On his
own behalf-but puts him in the way of
securing an education. A man does not
learn Greek, Latin, French or German
for the sake of knowing those Ian
guages, but to secure the key to the
casket in which is locked the wisdom of
Socrates, the eloquence of Cicero, the
reflections of Montesquieu and the phil
osophy of Kant. If the key is never ap-
piled, if the treasure is not appropri-
stIcO, h hHOW1eQRe OF UnCS0 Ian 8udR6S is as
worthless, so far as learning is con-
cerned, as the gun of Mark Twain's
Arab protector. which was never load
ed. A gentleman was recently bemoan-
ing to me that he was uneducated;
questioned him, and found that he had
read and digested everything in the
English language worth knowing.
Shakespeare and the Bible, Milton and
Adam Smith, Browning and Herbert
Spencer were as familiar to him as the
face of his wife. He was a mining en-
gineer, and knew more about geology
than half thu professors of that science.
He was a prosperous merchant, CONVEX
SAINT with the laws of trade; banker,
who had made a practical study of
finance; a politician, who had studied
men and measures SO accurately that he
became the recognized leader of great
party. But he had never attended
school-had never stood up and par
roted a lesson to professor, and there
fore believed himself ignorant / said
to him: My dear sir, you are one of the
best educated men 1 ever met. 1 wish
that you would open a school for teach-
ers and impart to our public educators a
portion of your knowledge. y They
would be then better able to earn their
salaries.'n ~
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-18
FAST SKATING in HOLLAND.
The Dutchman Doesn't Look Handsome,
But He Goes a Lively Gait.

The Dutchman Doesn't Look Handsome,
But He Goes a Lively Gait.
The average Dutchman of the south,
though he can skate very well, looks
rather foolish on the ice. His short legs
and wide breeches are admirable ad-
juncts to his nose, his thin, cooked
beard and the 1umpishness of his ex-
preston, says Chambers Journal. To
be sure, this breadth makes him look
important, but if he were less muscu-
lar it would be sad hindrance to him
in battling with the wind, which in win
ter is apt to make skating in one di-
rection something of trial. The Fries
lander, however, is taller, better pro-
portioned and in all respects a hand
some fellow. The yellow beard he some
times wears seems to put him at once
on a footing of affinity with the other
members of that respectable Anglo
Saxon family to which we ourselves be-
long quite as much as his provincial
speech and his blue eyes. He is a most
masterful creature when once he has
put on those quaint, old-fashioned
skates of his, and thinks nothing of
making score of miles from one vii
lage to another before you and ] are
out of bed. AS for the cold, what cares
he for it? He knows he must RELY on
that lusty circulation of his to keep
him from being benumbed, though he
clothe ever 50 lightly, and seems more
regardful for his head-which seal
skin cap takes care of-than of his
well-shapcd body. a Fricsland canal
an winter is as lively as anything can
be. The ice may not be very good or
of unquestionable strength, but no
sooner are the boats penned in. and the
broken pieces of ice sufficiently welded
to allow him to skate between them
than the sport begins. 1t is a
feat of honor to be the first
in the district to cross the canal
when the wintry season is in its youth.
The name of the bold lad is remem-
bered for a week or two, and have nc
doubt his pluck stands him in good
stead in the esteem of the cherry
checked damsels of his province, whose
eyes dance past one SO brightly when
the ice festival is in full swing and
journeying is all done on skates.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-18
HALF FARE FOR PREACHERS.
Western Railroads Are Glad to Encourage
Humanizing Gentle men of the Cloth.

Western Railroads Are Glad to Encourage
Humanizing Gentle men of the Cloth.
''We are only too glad to give the
preachers "a half-rate," remarked a
western railroad official to ST. Louis
Chronicle reporter. 'sThe eastern roads
don't do it, but every road in the west
does. No consideration Of sentiment
prompts us to it, either, / can assure
you. 1t is strictly in the line of bust
ness. We have found out that where
there are the most preachers there are
also the most people of industry and
productive thrift. There are vast
stretches of waste places in the west,
which; when built up by the kind of
people who encourage the growth of a
wholesome religious sentiment, will
add immeasurablv to our revenue. For
that reason 1 had rather give pass to
the humblest preacher than half-rate
to the superb Ingersoll. 1 have noticed
that as the preacher has pushed his
way westward the frontier has receded,
until now there is none of it left. He
is now taking the byways and the
paths and the wilderness is disappear
ing and the barren prairies are bios
soming with crops. So you see that,
from a business standpoint, it pays us
to encourage him to travel about by
allowing him half-rate fare. tits diff
ferent with the eastern roads. All of
their territory is developed to its fullest
capacity, and they can't hope for in
creased productiveness through the
preachers ministrations. Therefore,
they treat him like all other tpassen-
gers, and don't give him a half rate
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-18
robaeco Cnew1nE waa....!.

Saws tobacconist in the Boston Sat
urday Evening Gazette: ''For long
time the old American habit of tobacco
chewing has been on the decline. Near
" half the men used to chew years ago,
but very few if them do it now. The
calls for plug of chewing tobacco
lasted all day long, but you will wait
an hour now before you hear such a
call. 1t was not only the wOrEiae5;Ta
who indulged in the habit bat also the
swells and the business people. The
Southerners were nearly all ch w ers
and so We're the Westerpcy0 llat the
quid has gone out of fashion nere.'
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TIE WEA KESP SPOT

AL0 " A&<1AAAOA AOA " L
in your whole system, perhaps, is
the liver. If that doesn't do its
work of purifying the blood, more
troubles come from it than you can
Eemember.
DIR. Pieroe's Golden Medical Dis
sovery acts upon this weak spot as
nothing else can. 1t rouses 1t up
to healthy, natural action. By
thoroughly purifying the blood, it
reaches, builds up, and invigorates
every part of the system.
For all diseases that depend on
the liver or the blood Dyspepsia,
Indigestion, Biliousness every form
of Scrofula, even Consumption (or
Lung-scrofula) in its earlier stages ;
and the most stubborn Skin and
Scalp Diseases, the " Discovery ="
is the only remedy SO unfailing
and effective that it can be guar
: 0sateed.
If it doesn't benefit or cure, you
have your money back.
On these terms, it's an insult to
your intelligence to have something
else offered as "just as good"
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-06-18
Antlquity Of the seanur.

One of the earliest and most annoy
ng of insects is that midnight ma.
lauder, the bedbug. An English nat
1ralist has discovered proofs that this
domestic pest was quite common in the
armies of the world at least one llun
ared and twenty years before the Chris
sian era, and that he was ever n ses
rover, as the fleets of that day had then
5imbers stocked with this breed of noe
;urnal providers
The CHRoN1cIE is prepared to do al
kinds of job printing.