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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-18
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The convention called to consider the
ways and means for improving the roads
in this State met in Richmond this
morning.
Secret fy of the Commonwealth
Lawless yesterday announced the ap-
pointment of Mr.. A. NJ. Tyler to the
position of Assistant Librarian.
Cards are out for the marriage of Miss
Alice B. Ashton, daughter of Judge G.
II. Ashton, of King George, to MIR. W..
Il. Barksdale. The ceremony will take
place at St. Johns Church, King George
c. H, November 1st, at o'clock.
The republicans held q rally at Fred
ericksburg last night. The principal
soeeches were made by Mr.. James ].
Mcdonald, republican candidate for
Congress in that district, Hon. James
D. Brady, Hon. James B. Sener and
Secretary Mckee, of the national re-
publican committee.
Mr.. William R. Cooper, prominent
citizen of Burks Garden, Tazewell coun-
W, died at the residence of his mother
in-law, Mrs. Anne Lawson, yesterday.
Mr.. Cooper was apparently III good
health Tuesday aftrrnoon and was pre-
pairing to enter hack to go to Burks
Garden to attend reception to be
given at the residence of his brother-in-
law, Mr.. r. NJ. Lawson last night. He
was stricken down with apoplexy as he
was leaving the house.
News has been received of the death
from typhoid fever at Thoroughfare
yesterday of Mrs. Annie Dulany Hen
ry, daughter of Mr.. Bladen Dulany,
and wife of William Writ Henry,
jr., son of Hon. William Writ Henry.
Mr.. Henry was married to Miss Du-
lany on July 10th. The young couple
went Immediately to Duluth, where
they spent the summer, and returned
about q month ago to Virginia, stop
ping for visit to Mr. Dulany, in Eau
quier county, and being on their way
to Charlotte county, where they ex-
pccted to settle permanently at Red
Hill, the old Henry homestead.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
Said to Cure Cancer.

Some years ago the state depart
hent at Washington received
through the minister from Ecuador
to the United States specimens of a
plant known as cundurango, found
in the province of Loya, in Ecuador
TO which marvellous qualities in cur
ing cancer we're ascribed. The ply
sicians in South America expert
mented on this substance and re-
ported most wonderful cures. It's
virtues are said to have been discov-
cred by accident. An Indian had
been suffering fearfully for a long
time from internal cancer and his
wife undertook to relieve him by
shortening his life by poison. For
this purpose she selected the cundu-
range, making a decoction of the
bark. TO her establishment the first
dose appeared to benefit the patient,
and by the continuance of this rem
edy he was completely cured in a
short time
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
ODD AND AGED TWIN SISTERS
Worked Sixty Years In One Mil ana Never
n Rode on Train. IL

Worked Sixty Years In One Mill and Never
Rode on Train. 4
At Peterboro, n. HI, live Elvira
and Elmira Fife, who claim TO be and
probably are the oldest twins living
in that state. They are SO years old
At the age of IA they entered the
employ of q local manufacturing
company and for sixty years they re-
manned on it's pay roll, the maximum
wages earned being ninety-nine
cents per day and the minimum sew
enty-one cents for three days labor.
A Boston journal reporter recently
visited them.
SIS it true you have never ridden
on a railroad train?" queried he.
1T is, g" was the reply; ''and, what
is MORE" said both in one voice, "we
never will. Although the. Boston
and Maine railroad has run cars
within ten rods of our door since
they built the road into this tow
we have never yet entered a car. We
came pretty near it at one time A
few years ago some of the towns
people wished us to take a ride in
oAAS SUA ~ s"AAA VO SC1u0 ~ u0dr IL
that we went to the depot, but
backed out before we got aboard.''
Nor have these ladies ever en-
tered theater, and very rarely did
they enter society, and in all their
lives they have been separated but
seventy hours at one interval, and
when Elvira was taken i'll and it was
for few days tn ought she could not
recover Elmira was nearly crazy and
threatened to commit suicide if her
sister was taken away.
81 don't wish to live if the old wo-
man Gas they always call each
other) is taken away"
The strong resem blance between
them is still as noticeable as ever.
One great popularity about these
women IS that although living in the
same house and eating from the same
table, they have always lived sepa-
rately; that is, each has cooked her
own meal. If one had boiled din
ner the ouher had a boiled dinner,
and it was not cooked in the same
pot, either. If one had turkey the
other would buy a little larger one,
and so in everything they We'd with
each other to see who could live the
BEST
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
FINANCIAL DEFINITIONS
What Various People Can and Do Do in
the Pecuniary Line.

What Various People Can and Do Do in
the Pecuniary Line.
The poet I'ennyson could take a
worthless sheet of paper and by
writing poem on it make it worth
$685. 00O-that's genius, says the
Young Lutheran
Vanderbilt can write few word $.
on sheet of paper and make it
worth SIS, 900, 000-that's capital.
The United States can take an
ounce and a quarter OF gold and
stamp upon it an "eagle bird" and
make it worth S20-that's money.
The mechanic can take material
worth IS and make it into a watch
worth $1OO-that's skill
The merchant can take an article
worth seventy-fve cents and sells it
for $1-that's business.
A lady can purchase a very com
Portable bonnet for $3.75 but she
prefers one that costs $27-that's
foolishness.
The ditch digger works ten hours
day and shovels three or four tons
of earth for $2-that' labor.
The editor of this paper can write
a check for $4,000, 900, but it
wouldn't be worth dime-that's
rough.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
lends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet-
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; efectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
HUMORS OF THE DAY.

= Shesed-It's odd about a mountain,
isn't it? Hesed-What is? Shesed-
That it never wears it's spurs on it's
foot
Little Dick-Let's hurry before
mamma gets back. Little Dot-She
won't be through for ever so long.
She's gettin' the baby's picture taken
by the instan taneous process.
A man saw an advertisement in a
dime novel which read: "a sewing
machine for fifty cents" He for
varded the fifty cents and received
two needles and an awl.
Editor-I want an article written
on ''How to Make Poultry Pay" Con-
tributor-Well, you'd better ask the
man who does the fishing stories,
then; he's the best liar on the staff.
Kittie-Don't you think it must
have been awful to live in the garden
of Eden? Teacher.-Why? "Cause
there wasn't anybody to invite to pic
mes, and they had such good place
for them
Burglar Bill-These gipsies don't
know anything. One of 'em told
Cory Gus that he'd die on the gallows.
Dynamite Dan-Well, didn't he? Bur-
glar Bill-Naw. He died of old age
while waitin' fer new trial.
Boatman-Yes, need boy about
my boatyard. Now, suppose I was
away and some stranger would come
here to hire a sailboat What ques-
tions would you ask him? Boy-Td
ask him if he knew how to swim.
Boa do
But this is rhyme, sir,'' said the
long haired caller in establishment,
land not blank verse; II spoke Of
it as blank verse, SIR" replied the ed
tor, handing the manuscript back,
Ito save your feelings. It wasn't the
word 1 really had in my mind"
A man was being tried for hog steal
ing in a Southwest Georgia justice
court. He had an accomplish in the
theft, to whom the judge said: ''You
knew this fellow stole that hog?" II
did, your HONOR ''And yet you
helped him eat it?' II did, your hon
Or; but he was a sickly man, an if
he'd ha' eat that whole hog, he'd a
died certain!
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
NEVADA's MUSICAL MOUNTAIN
Sweet Sounds, Like the Thinking OF
Bells Made by Some Mysterious
ARancv

Sweet Sounds, Like the T1nkrfne, of
Bells Made by Some Mysteriou.
Agency.
In tn old Truckee mining district,
down on the Truckee river, near Pyra-
mid Lake, is situated Nevada's must
ca l mountain. This mountain was
first discovered by the white settlers
in 1868, at which time there was some
excitement in regard to mines found in
it's neighborhood. The discoveries
were party Of prospectors from, the
COmstock.
They had pitched their tent at the
foot of the mountain, and for few
evenings thought themselves bewitch-
ed. Each evening, little after dark,
when the air was calm. and all was
quiet, a mysterious concert began.
Out from the face of the big mountain
were waited soft strains that seemed
to cause the whole atmosphere to quiv-
er as they foated over the camp The
music then appeared to pass over un-
til it was far, far away, and almost
lost in the distance, when, beginning
with atinkling as of many little silver
bells, there would be fresh gush of
sweet notes from the mountain
During the daylight hours little of
the mysterious music was heard, and
it was soon settled that it was caused
by the wind. A spring near which the,
explorers had pitched their tent afford
ed the only good camping grounds in
the neighborhood, and as each new
party of prospectors arrived at the spot
the wonder grew.
Some Pluto Indians who came along
and camped at the spring were found
to be acquainted with the peculiar mu-
steal character of the mountain. They
called IT the "singing mountain"
Some of the men collected in the
camp became more interested in the
mountain than in prospecting, and
gave most of their time to an investi-
cation Of the mystery Of the musical
sounds heard to proceed from it. They
found that the whole surface of the
mountain was covered with thin fakes
of hard crystalline rock. There were
great beds of these flakes. The investi-
gators concluded that the musical
sounds heard proceeded from this loose
material, huge drifts of which seemed
to be gradually working their way
down the steep face Of the mountain
At all events the strains heard at the
foot of the mountain in the evenings
stiffness seemed to be produced by the
uniting and blending Of the myriads
Of bell-like tinklings proceeded from
the immense beds Of slaty debris creep
ing glacier-like down the slope
This solution Of the mystery of the
musical mountain is the only one
worthy Of notice. AS no mines of val
ue were found the district was soon
deserted and has since seldom been
visited. Therefore few except the old
time prospectors knew much about the
singing mountain. "-Virginia Enter
prise.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
Up to His Knees in s.1aunrvdor

VI to His Knees in <.uMpcwder.
powder, in the very bowels Of a maya
zine, with a naked light! My hair lit
orally stood on end. I felt the skin Of
my head lifting my bonnet off my scalp.
My knees knocked together, and despite
the chilly night air, a cold perspiration
bust out all over Inc and ran down my
+; &c and legs.
Il had neither cloth nor handkerchief
ir my pocket, and there was not mo-
M Mt to be lost. Already the overhang-
ing wick of the Indian lamp was
threatening to shed it's smouldering red
tip into the magazine at my feet.
Quick as thought put my left hand
under the housekeeping flame, and
clasped it with a grasp Of determina-
ton: Holding it firmly I turned slowly
to the door, and walked out with my
knees knocking one against the other.
Il felt not the slightest pain from
g.;spjng the burning wick till was in
the open air; but when I opened nv
hand / felt the smart acutely enough.
l poured the oil out of the lamp into
the burnt hand, and, kneeling down,
thanked God for having saved myself
and all the men lying around me from
destruction.
'"Then [ got up and staggered rather
than walked to the place where Capt.
Dawson was sleeping and, and shaking
him awake, told him of my discovery
and the fright I hadagot
Bah, Corporal MITCHELL! was all his
answer. You have woke up out of
your sleep and have got frightened at a
shadow for my heart was still thump-
ing against my ribs and my voice was
trembling"
The upshot Of the matter was that,
on seeing the corporal's burnt hand and
the powder nearly half an inch thick
sticking to his feet and damp CATERS,
the captain was almost as badly scared
as Mitchell himself The sleeping men
were aroused, the fire was put out as
eXpeditously as possible, and a sentry
was posted at the door of the mosque
to prevent any one from entering.
AS may be supposed, Corporal Mitch
ell found it hard to get to sleep, and he
gives truly horrible picture of what
passed around him. The frightful
scenes through which the men had re-
Gently passed had produced a terrible
effect upon their nervous systems.
Zone man." says he, would COM
mence muttering something inaudible,
ard then break out into fierce battle.
cry Of 'Cawnpore, you bloody muir.
derer' Another would shout charge!
Give them the bayonet!' And a third,
Keep together, boys, don't fire! For
ward, forward! If we are to die, let
us die like men! Then I would hear
one mutterirg, oh, mother, forgive me,
and I'll never leave you again. while
his comrade would half-raise up, wave
his hand, and call, There they are!
Fire low, give then, the bayonet! Re.
member Cawnpore!
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
IMPROVING ON NATURE
From Japan Comes New Method 81
Making Furs Ready to Wear.

From Japan Comes q New Method 81
Making Furs Ready to Wear.
A Japanese gentleman has per-
fected a new process for furs. cailed
the Notwithstanding process, by
which the ordinary skin is entirely
removed, the fur alone remaining,
each individual hair being attached
to flexible fabric. The advantages
claimed for this process are that
the furs are much softer and more
pllable than ordinary skins, that
they are entirely free from any un-
pleasant odor, and so far from being
Injured from being wetted they can
be washed in hot water and dried
like blankets. It is also said that the
FUR will not come out by use, as the
hairs hold much closer than when
implanted in the original skin. All
KINDS OF fur can thus be transferred
from the skin on which they grew on
to close and durable fabric.
The method of this transfer is at
first sight rather difficult to grasp,
says the New York Advertiser. It is
obvious that each Individual hair
cannot be transferred singly, but
that the whole must be done at once.
Ihe nature of the process, however,
may be very easily Indicated. The
original skin, from whatever animal
it may have been obtained, is placed
with the fur downwa~ds, in contact
with an adhesive surface, to which
the hairs become so strongly at
tached that the skin may be laid
hold OF and absolutely torn or
stripped away, leaving the fur at
tached to the cement, and so per-
fectly is this accomplished that the
skins themselves are capable of being
utilized for leather
The next step OF the process is the
covering of the roots with another
adhesive material, by which they
are cemented to close woven fabric.
Thus it will be seen that the ex
ternal portion of the fur is tightly
held by the first cement to which it
was attached, while the roots of the
hairs are closely cemented to the
fabric which has been placed upon
them. In the process of manufac-
ture all that is now necessary is 10
loosen the attachment of the hairs
to the cement on which they were
first placed, when the whole of the
fur in its original position is OBJ
tanned, only cemented to the flexible
fabric in lieu of the original skin.
The result is undoubtedly most
successful. 1t is difficult to imagine
a softer fur than that which is OBJ
tanned.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
A War N q RNEI.
The Hair-Rnising Experiences % :
British Soldier.

e ~
The Hair-Rnisins Experiences 81 :
British Soldier.
Mr.. Forbes Mitchell, author Of ''Rem-
iniscenses Of the Great Mutiny,' found
himself without an overcoat after one
Of the battles at Lucknow, and being
unable to sleep for the cold, got up in
the night, went into room Of the Shah
Nujeef, where his regiment was en-.
camped, took lighted lamp from its
shelf, and, shading it with his hand,
walked to the door Of the great domed
tomb, or mosque, hoping to find a coat
which some sepoy in his hurried de-
parture had left behind him. He peered
inside, and then, holding the lamp high
over bis head, walked in till he was
near the center Of the vault.
, Here he felt his progress INSTRUCTED
by a black heap four or five feet high,
which felt to his feet as if he were
walking in loose sand. He lowered the
lamp, and saw instantly that he was up
to his ankles in loose gunpowder!
About forty hundred weight of it lay in
a heap before mis- nose, while glance
to the left ST. owed twenty or thirty bar
rels also full Of powder, and another
glarce to the left revealed more than
a hundred eight-inch shells, all loaded
with fuses fixed, and spare fuses, slow
matches and port fires lying in pro-
fusion beside the shells.
II took in my danger at a glance" he
writes. Here was up to my knees IL
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
OF Different Types.

The drummer for q Chicago house
handling New England trade, who
had not seen his good old mother for
a long time recently spent Sunday
with her, and when he started away
she laid her hand tenderly on his
head
''Good-bye, my boy" she said:
''put your trust in Providence and
you will come out all right
"Pshaw, mamma he replied '.you
don't know that country. Provi-
dence is the hardest town to work
in the whole of New England" and
the good lady was greatly shocked
until they had come. to mutual
understanding as to what each one
was thinking about.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
A Reminder of the Past.

The archway of an old bridge hap
been unearthed some feet below the
level Of the ground whilst digging
the foundations for new town hall
for the Tenth district of Paris, some
distance from the river Seine 1t is
seen from a very old plan of Paris
that a small river actually passed
through this portion of the town,
joining the Seine some distance
farther on. The bridge is IN a per-
feet state of preservation, and will
be left amongst the foundations of
the town hall as an interesting SOU
venir of the olden days.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
Couldn't Stand That.

Minks-What fad is your wife fol-
lowing now?
Winks-She is organizing anti-suffrage
organizations.
"Humph! I thought she was in favor
of woman suffrage.
"She was, but I told her one day, in
a joke, that congress was going to COM
pei all women to vote.-New York
Weekly
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
The Good Old Times of Slavery.

de ole marster dat I had befo' de
wah was a generman," said Uncle
Nose to another relic Of ante-bellum
days
You bet dar was heightened gener-
mans in dose days." his friend replied.
Nov you's talkin'. member how
time an agin my ole marster kicked
me off de front steps, an a minute
afterward he had plumb forgot all
about it. Der amt no noah SIGH gem
ermans nowadays" -Ex.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04

Africa is now said to be the "center of
the worlds enterprise" The continent is
equal in area to Europe and North America
combined, and comprises nearly II OOO 600
square miles. Its greatest length is 5000
miles and its greatest breadth 1900 miles
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
An Exhibition.

Algy-What low cut dress Miss
Simpson wears tonight! declare, its
cut clear to the waist behind. She
has courage to wear it,
Freddy-Yes, she does exhibit consid-
cradle backbone.-Truth
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
No One NIourns the Loss

II the treacherous, long abiding, deceptive
symptoms Of kidney complaint. But the
return of regularity is hailed when, with
the aid Of Hostetter's stomach Bitters, the
wise disciple Of common sense who uses
the Bitters in malarial, kidney or dyspepsia
trouble, disorder Of the bowels, nervous
ness or debility.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
SLEEPI ESSNESS.

and kindred ailments, whether resulting
from over anxiety, ovezwork or study, or
from unnatural habits or excuses, are
treated as speciality, with great success, by
the Staff of Specialists attached to the
1nvalds' Hotel and Surgical Institute at
Buffalo, n. Y. Personal examinations not
always necessary. Many cases are success
fully treated at g distances.
c1uTvasa A row and wonderfully
.AD aiAA. successful treatment has
been discovered for Asthma and Hay Fever,
which can be sent by Mail or Express.
1t is not simply palliative but a radical
cure.
For pamphlets, question blanks, refer
ences and particulars, in relation to any
of the above mentioned diseases, address,
with ten cents in stamps, Worlds Dispens-
ary Medical Association, 663 Main Street,
Buffalo, N. Y.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
BY All Means.

Hazel-Sa Sandstone has asked me to
lend him SIS, and I don't know
whether to do it or not. Would you ?
Mute, earnestly-I would, old man.
He invited me to dine with him. this
evening. -Life
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04

The only reason why lie looks white II
the face is because it wears a mask.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
Another Cipher.

"Miss Cayenne seems to favor the
Baconian theory" said one amateur
actor to another
''Do you think so??'
Eyes. She told me that she her
self had observed a cipher in Shakes.
peare.
"Yes. She told me the same
thing. | asked her when she OBJ
served it, and she said it was when
I PLAYED Hamlet
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04

Hanson's Magic Corn Salve.''
Warranted to cure or money refunded. Ask your
druggist for 1t. Price Is cents.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04

If man Is selfish, getting married will
not cure him Of 1t.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04

Goes Cough Ssalsam
Is the Oldest and BEST 1t Will break up q Cold quick
er than thing else. 1t is ALWAYS reliable. Try it
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04

1t takes q strong man to hold his OWL
tongue.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04
Davis Inter-
national Cream

Davis Inter-
national Cream
S e p ar a t or,
Hand or Power.
Every farmer
that has COWS
should b ave
one. It saves
half the labor,
m Ike S one
third more but
ter. Separator
Butter brings
one-third more
money. Send
for circulars.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-08-04

There is as little mercy in stabbing with
a word as there is in doing it with
knife