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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05
TIFF SLEEPING SALOON.
joan Bills Curious Version of an Ameri-
can Idea.

Betvec. The British conception of a
saloon and that in vogue on this side
of the Atlantic there is this in common
that both are entered by "A side door
after nichtlau. There the rcsemb-
lance ceases. John Bulls saloon is
an exhibit in the Transportation build
irg. wherein il is fall as difficult TO
lool. upon the wine when it is red as it
ought 10 be in Evanston CT Bangor.
John Bull saloon is as dry Us his
comic papers. lie lables it sleeping
saloon TO distinguish it from all-nirht
places where we never sleep. 1t oc-
cuPios position in the rear q the
London ~ Northwestern Railway COM
pany's highly vanished trainlet. in
geniously constructed % defeat the
ends OF the trafickcr in popcorn, five
q bag"
tn, British sleeping saloon is our
great ZrandEothers' Pullman ear. II
is the great American sleeper as it
would have been had It been invented
before the war. Entering b. it the
British passenger finds himself in di-
mi-Utive closet where he is permitted
to smoke lis pipe. Two rigid-baclsed
chairs would elbow each other for
standing room il they had any elbows
The man in charge says: Ills is what
man as 20 put up with in T"hicago."
as lie opens the door. Six bcrths are
slowed away on either side of the
smoking saloon. The berth saloons
are divided into compartment saloons,
four compartments comprising the en-
tire carrie &c. Two of the coilpart-
ments contain four brrths devoid ~
any evidences Of curtains in front.
Tbs remaining couple are of scmi-sc-
elusive character. containing two
bcrthS each, aud being intended for
roommates or elderly married couples.
The ear is probab bly, half the length OF
the ordinary Pullman. and is destitute
of even the adornrCnt Of the harmless
necessary darby With Che appetite for
I quarters.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05
UNDERGROUND AvA.ANcses,
-EvIdeus es 81 subserra.nean ConyrIsiona

-Evider&es Of Subtefrans'n Con'risi 'n7
AnuIc - -.''...... ''a ''f ia.
'C.c ...... .... u, yrncrlv
-.citing the wonder e. -rrplc living in
the vicinity OF The, U<ad and sand
mountsrns. south Il russevville, Cen
ter COUNTY. Pa. hici has not been
noticed Tor five YEAR. has made its pre-.
'ence Known rain. For twelve years At
irregular intervals. thc jewellers III that
part Of Center county had been dis
turbeh by loud and mysterious noises
which came from the Trpund between
the two mountains n2mcI. In the
spring of 1855 these noises were heard
daily, with increased volume, for
week The noises, according u the
Chicago Herald, were sometimes like
the rumble of distant thul~cr and then
like the .dcadcned crash of thaaGcr
near in the air close ~. On the sev-
enth ay of this protracted disturbance
bene tn these two mountaDs resi-
lcyt of Tusseyville was climbing
PES Head mountain, when the
ruHlGing began in the mountain cp-
pcsite. At first it was deep and low,
and it increased ii violence until ii be-
came as the tuInult Of 4 mass Of rock
rolling down d mountain side. The
person who heard tine su,.nlS said that
they convinced him that they were
caused by a subtcrrancan avalanche,
as it BEGAN at the very top OF the
mouGtsin. Increasing in violence and
speed as il went down. and terminal
ing IN terrible crash at the bottom.
After that daythe Thick Head noises
ceased, and were not heard again until
n week ago, when they began just IS
they had terminated in , similar sub
terrancan land u rock slide. except
that this time the hidden avalanche o.
Cured somewhere in the depth 81
Thick-Head mountain, instead OF IN
Sand mountain. In Potter COUNTY, Pa,
between Roulette AMI Burcvillc. Is n
hill in which rumhlinrS OF the same
nature are heard at irregular inter
walls. This elevation is called Thunder
hill. and it rises from the south hank
of the Allegheny river. The noises
that occur in this hill sometimes make
the earth trcmnlc for lon@ distance
around, and they have been heard for
a mile away. The theory OF local saw
- ants is that strong vein OF natural gas
underlies the hin, and that when the
great retort is disturbed by some un'
foreground convulsion it rises in It's
might and tumbics rocks and things
aroupd in the conarc, of the hill until
everything huns. still no one has con
fidenee enough in this theory TO hand
out the money that is being asked foi
to send drill down into the alleged
gas sauldron, let out its treasure and
make everybody in that bailiwicll rich
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05
AT hHs BOTTOM OF THE SEA.
No Trace of Wrcc.Snge in the Deepest of
the Oceans Depth.

the oCcHn 3 Ibcpsn.
An extraordinary circumstance that
has been noticed with interest and
that always creates surprise when first
learned is the entire absence Of foreign
matter in the deepest part of the
>ocean's floor. OF all the vessels lost in
fgnid-occan, of Oil the human lcings
that have been drowned: of AL the
nsrine animals that nave persisted; OF
all thsclay. sand and gravel let fall by
di4R&m~ iceberg, of all the va
rio plbstances drif;el from every
shcN by shifting currents, no trace
remains, but IN their place water from
one. Thousand t. twenty-five hundred
fathoms in depth cover the Uniform
deposit Of thick. bllish, tenacious
slime called globirorina ooze, says the
Cosmopolitan Mag'azine.
A bit of this under n powerful lens
is declared TO be n revelation of beauty
not readily forgotten. The ooze is
composed almost entirely of the dain-
test, most delicatcly beautiful shells
imaginable. NJ depths greater than
twenty-five hundred fathous the bot
tor of the sea consists mainly of prod
uct arising from exposure. for almost
incalculable periods, 20 the chemical
action of sea water, OF pumlce and
other volcanic matters.
This finally results in the formation
ofred clay deposits thatar considered
characteristic of the prOi)undest
depths of the ocean Carbonate Of
lime. which in the form OF shells Of
forarninifera makes up 81 llrye l part
of the globigerina ooze, is here almost
entirely absent.
Soda water is very nearly universal
solvent. and before any shell. large or
small, reaches the bottom of these tra-
mendous abysms it is chemically eaten
ND, literally dissolvcd-a result which
the enormous pressure of the water
must materially hasten.
At one thousand fathoms the weight
OF the water pressure on all sides Of
an object immersed II that depth Ii
vett nearly one ton - the square inch
or more than one hulIrcl times that
sustained at the sea level. and at the
greatest depth the pressure * 50 in
creased that it woIll secm nothing
could withstand it; in fact. heavy
metal cylinders let down with the
sounding apparatus are sometimes. on
beingFdrawn up AGAIN to the surface
found bent and collapsed; strongly
made Class vessels which the metal IN
closed are shattered into fragments.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05
VETERANS PASSING AWAY.
In Forty Years There WEI he Few sur
viyors of the Civll War.

In Forty Years There WEI BE Few sur
vfy0rs of the CivIl War.
Interesting in connection with the de-
partmcnt cncampment is the report of
the medical director. Dr.. j. Il. Hayes.
in part as follows, says the Washington
Post:
''Our annual death rate equals 2.75
per cent. Of the whole number in the
Grand Army Republic in this depart
ment This is equivalent TO death rate
Of twcnty-seven in "a Thousand. larger
death rate than usually pertains to any
given number of people. Our band Of
nearly 4C00 is being rapidly mustered
ont. and if we apply the simple rules of
arithmetic, and provided that we re-
cruit no more. in The year 1850 not one
Of oar 1000 would DC alive to tell the
story of the past.
I'VE are dying faster than any other
class of orr population. because out OF
the +.0OG in our organization more than
onc-half are daily suffering from loss of
limbs, from wounds, injuries and diSa-
Lilitics contracted during the war. Re
sllltS of priSon-lifc and tie exposure and
deprivation incident thereto now cause
mere suffering than the bullet. Iossot
o limb shorteus the life, but the rheu-
matism and Scur:y contracted in prison
also yearly call for their premature VIC
tins. Premature aging of all the or
Cans, diminished vital resistance - all
disturbing causes. and more especially
diseases Of the heart, now 80 alarming
y present with many surviving com
radcs. arc mainly due to the rhcuna-
t;sn and srurvy Of prison lie.
Il have never seen survivor from
the prison ut Andcrsorville. Ga, that
did not have disease of heort in some
form or other. -, taking orr little
band of 1000 to-day, in about forty
years all who have lost limbs or been
seriously wounded or suffered the hard
ships and horrors of prison life will
have passed away"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05
SAVED BY HIS HORSE.
Very Peculiar Escape of n Man from
Freak in the lee.

The story comes MP from below the
city. says the Lewiston Mc.) Journal,
about man who attempted to cross
the AndrOscoggin on the ice and was
swamped, together with his team. He
had been hauling wood across the river
for several days, and had just one more
load to haul.
As the water was up on the face of
the ice he first thought 10 put OFF haul
ing it, but the thought that perhaps
there would not be another chance to
haul it made him 90 across. When he
started back he thought he wouldn't go
in the same track where he had hauled
the rest, - he went ii little above.
The ice began 10 crack slowly when
he got 10 the middle. Quick rs fash
he unfastencd the two tugs and one
holdback. Then he struck the horse
violently with the whip. At the same
time the sled load Of Wood went
through with n crash. He commenced
to sink with It. but when the horse had
been struck he jumped ahead and,
breaking the off holdbacll, jcrlied the
man Off the load and dragged him TO
the shore with the reins. There he
stopped and the man got mp.
When he looked back the top of the
wood and the shafts could dc seen stick
ing out of the hole in the ice. He says
that he had rather lose the wood than
go near the hole again. 1t is frozen in
rntv
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05
ENGAGEMENTS in Germany.

When a maiden is betrothcd in Ger
many she is called bride by her sweet
heart, who addresses her thus until II
becomes time TO call her wife. Imme-
diateiy upon betrothal the lovers ex-
change rings, which, If the course of
true love runs smooth, are to be worn
ever afterward until death parts them.
The woman wears her bctrothal ring
on the third finger Of her left hand un-
I'll she is married, and then il is trans
ferred to the third finger of her right
hand. The husband continues TO wear
the ring just as the wife wore hers
when she was bride, so that one can
tell easily at a glance if man be or be
not mortgaged as TO his affections. A
Young German matron on being told Of
the careless American custom of allow
ing the man to go unfettered exclaimed:
''Oh. how dreadful. How unjust 10 the
young wivesl How could | expose my
Wilhelm-so young-only twenty-five
% the temptations of the world, if he
were not 70 wear 2 marriage ring. The
girls would make love 10 him. would
not live il America fox .hs world"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05
TITS HER NOSE THAT SUFFERS.
While Man Goes Along Trying 10
Warm His Ears.


speaking of cold weather, have
discovered that the cold affects men and
women differently" says a writer in
the New York Herald. II mean that
despite the fact that both sexes are of
the human kind they have not the
same vulnerable points for Jack Frost
to nip.
"You may have noticed as have,
that a woman when outdoors in a cold
day goes along apparently comforta bic
except for her nose. She covers it with
her mittened or glovcd hand. or if she is
very nice she holds her handkerchief up
in front of it.
at is the tip of her nose that the cold
takes hold of and won't let go. Her
cheeks and her chin never seem to suffer,
but her nose always gets red and cold
and frostbitten.
IL believe that physicians say The
vulnerabilitv of the feminine nose is
caused by corsetS, or rather by the
/ lacing which the wearing of corsets i'm
plies. At any rate it forces the blood
to the nose and makes red noses rs we'll
as tender noses.
; ''And the only moral can see In it ia
that if the girls would shed their corsetS
they might not in course of time be
forced To the undignified proceeding OF
holding on to their noses.
Now, with man it touches him on
the cars. There's where a man feels the
cold first. It's his ears that Jingle when
the mercury slips down toward the zero
notch; it's lis ears that freeze when he
stays out in the winter weather long
enough"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05
HIS MOTHER,S EiDLE.
The Cook on Which President Cleveland
Tosk the oath Of Office.

Tho Cook on Which president Cleveland
Tosk the oath Of Office.
Among the relies stored away in the
clerks office of the supreme court of the
United States. writes Washington cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Times.
is handsome morocco-coverCd Bible of
LARGE octave size. 1t is the Bible that
was purchased eight years ago to adj
minister the oath of Office TO President
Clcvcland at his Inauguration on March
4. 1t had been the invaiiablc custom
before the inauguration of Mr.. Cicve-
land to purchase Bible for use at the
inauguration ceremony and to present
this interesting memento attcrvard TO
some member Of the presidents family.
Following this custom, the clerk pur-
chased Bible to use in the Inaugural
ton Of President Cleveland, but Mr..
Cleveland notified The com2ittee Of ar
rau-eincnts 90 the senate tha. he wished
TO take the oath on the Bible given t.
him 10y his mother when, as young
man. ne started out in The world TO
make his fortune. The committee mt
urailv respected this sentiment of the
prcsident-cicct and so Mr.. Cleveland
took the oath on his mothers Bible. 1t
was a small book. morocco bound and
gut-cdgcd. So far as is known here,
MIR. Cleveland still has the book, and in
the belief that It will he used AZ tho
coming ceremony the clerk OF the su-
prcme court has not purchased a
bible to he used on that occasion. It
YVES planned four years ago to use the
Bible purchased IL iss5 at the ceremony
OF 1889: but after considering the mat
Ter the clerl; determined u purchase
another Bible for Mr.. II arrison.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05
EVERY SEVEN YEARS.
A Curious Belief In Regard e. Physical
Re-encrsi ION.

It il surprising how many people be-
iieye that the entire body Of a man IS
renewed every seven years exactly,
SAYS the st. Louis Globc-Democrat.
This USED 10 be taught in books. and.
although not orthodox now. Is still ac-
eepted as gospel by many. To show
it's inaccuracy one las only to hit a
nail on his finger hard enough. for IN
that case the iniurts OBJECT VIII come
off and be replaced by an entirely new
nail.
If this process occupied seven years
such an accident wO4ld be a very tire
some affair. but. as any mechanic VIII
tell you. vccupics0 few weeks. The
..rowth tssnCrc rao.l in summer than
u,;nter. tut -v-.r akin more than
four months. 80 far Is the nails are
concerned. then, the renewal process
a. repeated about tyraty-one times
during the REGULATION seven years. and
the theory Is thus destroyed. evoa if no
nsher proof of its sslsity we're forth
. 6omIn0, $500 49,. - 49, '-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05

English society Is raising national
lament because men no longer dance
Hostesscs lave for 4 long time been at
their wits end to secure partners for
young women at balls and dancing par
ties. Now the situation is worse than
ever and remedies are being eagerly
sought. The suggestion IS publicly dis
cussed that a dancing agency be estab
lshcd similar to such institutions in
Paris and Berlin. Hired guests armed
with guarantees o. fitness and respecta
bility, would appear at the proper hour
warranted to dance every number or
the card and not give more than three
dances TO one young woman. Some
such plan seems to be the only hope OF
saving the art Of dancing IN England
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05
Shell Mounds of florida.

a ships officer who has spent much
Cine on the st. Johns river, Florida,
thinks that he has solved the problem
as to the origin Of the shell mounds
that occur along that stream. The
river twists about in an extraordinary
way, 50 that in many places a view
along the water extends for only a few
rods, but lac finds that 4 tall object or
the smoke Of fire shown from the top
of one Of these mounds could be seen
from those next below and above, and
he believes that these emincnccs were
Indian signal stations, by means of
which the natives We're able to an
n0uncc the approach Of a hostile force
along the river. rs the Greeks signalec
the news of the fan OF Troy 90 their
home cities by lights on the mountain
tops, that were repeated from peak to
peak
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05

In small village in Maine there
lives an old soldier who has for many
years received pension from the gov
eminent, which with his small earn
ings 10y occasional joys, melIes him
comfortable. enc day. while at work
in the house OF neighho-, he slipped
at TIE top of a Fight % stairs and fell
to the bottom. -'he lady Of the house
heard the noise, and hurried 20 Team
the cause. "Nuy. Ambrose She saiG
sis that you? Did yoa fall down,
stairs?' Yes. marin. ! d;d answered
the old man. and for ahout comp,
OF minutes thought IL l..t 10y pen.
sion"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-10-05

A good cat story, says the London
correspondent of the Yorkshire Post,
comes from Bombay. In August 4
Liverpool resident proceeding to Bonn
bay took ont with him a cat which
he intended to present to friend
in India. Some days after the arrival
of the steamer in Bombay pussy WAS
missed, and, though she was searched
for high ard low, she was nowhere to
be found. Her owner had quite given
her up for lost when he received in
teliigence from England that the cat
had made her appearance at her old
Liverpool home on the 25th of October
as calm and collected as though trip
to India and back was quite in the or
binary course of her life. The facts are
vouched for by Il Bombay paper, and
there is no reason to doubt their sub
stantial accuracy.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-07-21
MESl AND SOUTH.

AT Anderson. Ind, John Drake end
ed an unhappy married life by fatally
shooting his wife and blowing out his
own brains.
THE following congressional nomi-
tiUus were made: Illinois, Sixteenth
district, Gen. John l. Rinaker (rep.).
Indiana, Eighth district, NJ. C. Rankin,
(pop.). Missouri, First district, c. n.
Clark (rcp.). Kansas. Second district,
o. L. Miller (rep.). Ohio, Fourth dis
trict, Joseph White (pop). Kentucky,
Tenth district, William Beekner
(dem.l.
mated Knute Nelson for governor
in convention at st. Paul. The plat
form favors the protective tariff, in
dorscs bimctalism and urges the res
toration of silver as money, opposes
all trusts and combinations seeking to
control or unduly enhance the price of
commodities, favors the settlement of
labor troubles by arbitration, opposes
pauper immigration and favors liberal
pensions to veterans
FIRE almost entirely consumed the
village of Rowley, Ia.
In Chicago p. C. Hanford, aged SIS
years. the millionaire vice president of
the National Linseed Oil company,
shot himself in a hotel because of
financial troubles.
IS session at Minneapolis Minnesota
populists nominated 5. NJ. Owen for
governor. The platform demands the
enforcement of antitrust laws and
the enactment of new anti-monopoly
laws. and extends sympathy to organ
lied labor in its present struggle
FIRE nearly wiped out the village OF
White Bear. Minn.
A TRAIN was wrecked on a trestle
near Sacramento by strikers or their
svmpathizers and three regular
soldiers and the engineer were killed.
MARKED improvement in the general
strike situation in Chicago was noted
on the 1ath. The railroad companies
were running trains on all main lines
and branches on time, the passenger
service having been completely re-
sumed and many freight trains NOV
ing. Railway officials reported that
they had applications for wosk beyoad
the vacancies to be filed. Very little
disturbance OF ans kind was noted,
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-07-21

Ar the opening session of the Ma
tional association at Asbury Park, y
j.. 5000 educators were present.
Gen. JAZZ" Il. Fry, who was retired
in 1881, diea at his summer residence
at Newport, K. l., after a brief illness
FoR causes unknown William Wy
ant, Il wealthy farmer, aged Ii years,
shot and killed his wife at Whites
burg, Pa, and then suicidcd by blow
ing the top of his head off.
THE republicans of the Twenty
sixth Pennsylvania district renomina-
ted j. c. Sibley for congress,
FLAMES destroyed the chemical
works at Carteret, n. j., the loss being
sj0O,O00
The National Educational associa-
ton in session at Asbury Park, n. J.
elected Prof Nicholas Murray Butler,
of Columbia college, as president.
THE firm of L. ID. Alexander & Co.,
commission merchants in New York,
failed, with liabilities of S200,O00 and
assets of $4,000 less.
FRANK A. DANE, painter at New
Haven. Conn, shot Miss Mary c. Perry
because she refused to marry him and
then killed himself.
PEoHIB TTIoNIsTs in state convention
at Weirs, \. H., nominated Rev. ID. c.
Knowles, treasurer of Tilton seminary,
for governor, and DIR. Edgar L. Carr
and David Heald for congress.
An order was granted by Judge Bar
rett. of New York, admitting Erastus
Wiman to S3O,OG0 bail.
IL New York George NJ. Pullman
made public statement in which he
explained his refusal to arbitrare diti
culties with his employees. He said he
was running his shops at loss and
merely for the benefit of his men. and
because they were refused more money
they struck
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1894-07-21
FROM WASHINGTON.

ABOUT 200 new money order post
offices have been established in the
United States.
OFFICIALS estimate the cost to tie
United stat, of putting down. tne
railway strike IN the west at fully
1000, 600.
THE president, it was said. would
appoint a committee to inquire into
the railway strike and recommend
methods for settling it.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
Sss5.5+5. III. against ss52.566.0sT, the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1895 was III.
IS the United States there We're 273
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against l6i the week
previous and ga in the corresponding
time in 1898.