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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-12-08

Mrs. observation-disclosures would
only staHd shoulder to shoulder they
would soon win the SUFFRAGE"
Mr.. Gutfy-''But, madam. that i.
something they could not DO, with the
present style Of sleeves. Harper :
HaZar.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-12-08
Our Democratic Congress.

" hen Il VIII ADJOURN SHE Gle by lIiiIItsl-
ton, and ii is not likely that any voter
otto Law viii ever behold another Dem
o rate congress in this country. Two
wears Of such rule a Mr.. Cleveland and
his strikers have given Us is quite
enough to satisfy the most ardent
champion ''ior a change" In the two
years they have run Things not Il dollar
of the national debt Las been paid, but
on the contrary the debt has been in
creased one huudre,. millions Of dollars,
and tie end i not vet. Every industry
of the country hJ, been paralyzed or
destroyed rogt and branch, and tens
Of thousands Of wage Farmers, who two
wears a4o were etrnng from 500 10
$500 per day and were comfortably
housed and clothed and would have
been happy and contented had the
dema-ogue politicians and the walking
delegates Of labor unions been crcmated
before they got III their il, tarious work,
are now idle, ragged, homeless some OF
them, and justly discouraged and dis
cDntentc,l.
Wlo can won Ter that su"h an admin
i4ilalion should be turned down" 10y
the sweeping cyclone of pubic indigna-
ton VIXEN the opportunity came ~ il
did in November. But people must
not expect too much after the decision
o. November. The new congress viii
not come into p9WOr until next March,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-12-08

u. +. ROBERT~. superior Wis.
Attorney for plaintiff and mortgages.
Dec. SIS 2.2-29 Jan 5-I2.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05
MOntana's Paint Mine.

1t is not generally known that we
have in this locality, very near the
"Geyser," paint mine. We might
say it was a quarry, there is so much
of it. One of our enterprising citi.
zens, Mr.. Joseph Blessing, recently
took a wagon and shovel and loaded
up with two colors there are three OF
four colors to be had) and brought it
home, pounded it up with an old ham.
mer, mixing it mp with linseed oil, and
put it on his picket fence. He now
has one of the handsomest fences in
the State-the upper part rich old
gold and the lower beautiful ma
room.
The mine seems to be simply mex
haustible. This mine and the "Gey-
ser" which is near it, were discovered,
or, rather, located, about eighteen
years ago by that veteran old-timeI
and prince of good fellows, Naylor
Thompson, whom everybody knows
and likes. 1t was shown to him IN
the first place by a friendly Indian
chief, who took liking to Naylor and
assured him (Naylor) that it was the
source of supply for all the Indians
west of the Mississippi River and has
been for centuries.
Those were the days when Nayloi
could draw his chair up to table and
sit down without knocking the table
over-he was very active. Well the
Indians came thousands of miles for
this paint and used it to decorate their
persons when on the warpath; trails
led from the mine in all directions,
showing that it had been natural
centre of meeting for the red men,
Just the same as the well-known pipe
stone quarry of southwestern Mime
sofa. Townsend Messenger.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05
Some New Facts About Seals.

A. B. Alexander, an official con-
nected with the United States Fish
Commission, has lately returned from
Alaska, where he put in the summer
studying the seals from scientific
point of view.
81 find the catch this year will be
considerably less than last year." he
said last night, "but about up to the
usual average, for it must be remem-
bered that last year must be an excep-
tionally good year. The Indians say
that every four years there is a good
catch and every twenty years phen.
omenal one. This is undoubtedly
true as far as the run every four years
is concerned, but the subject has not
been studied long enough to say
whether they are correct in regard to
the twenty-year theory.
"This has been an off year as far as
the investigation of the fisheries by the
Albatross is concerned, as she was
pressed into service to assist in patrol
ling Behring Sea, and so 1 spent the
best part of the summer studying seal
life from the deck of pelagic sealer.
We did not have particularly good
luck, and though seals were fairly
plentiful the weather was so bolster
GUS that the boats could not be low
cred. 1 examined the stomachs of a
number of those caught to get an idea
of the seals favorite diet, but as seals
have very strong digestive organs and
digest their food very quickly, it is
somewhat difficult to speak with any
degree of certainty. However, ]
found number of jaws of the squid,
which are hard and indigestible, in the
stomachs examined so it is fair to pre-
sumo that they are fond of that very
repulsive looking fish. Cod and half
but are also the prey of the seals, as
we'll as number of other smaller fish.
1t is moot question as to what depth
seals can reach, some claiming that
they can reach profound depths, while
others claim that they have only the
power to dive short distance.
"On the Fairweather grounds of
Cape st. Elias, where the water is al
least 100 fathoms deep, 1 have seer
them come up with red Goldfish in
their mouths, but though the fish are
a ground fish, 1 cannot guarantee that
they were captured on the bottom. =
Seattle Telegraph.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05

Southern Russia and the United
States used to supply all the wheat
requirements of Europe. Today We
are feeding wheat to stock. Here arc
the reasons: The Argentine Republic
this season exported to England 40, =
900, 900 bushels more than ever be-
fore, the grain being mostly grown by
Englishmen. The Indian harvest was
not very good, but, Jumping them
together, the exports of India, Egypt,
Russia, Persia and Turkey were in
1894 as large as ever. England has
enjoyed fair harvest, and France one
80 unusually good that she requires
only 10, 900, 900 bushels instead of the
40,00), 600 she ordinarily requires.
Every one of these wheat producing
countries are increasing their wheat
areas, some to an extent most damag-
ing to American interests, as, for in
stance, that of Argentine, which now
has over 1000, 900 acres devoted to
this grain, an increase of nearly fifty
per cent over 1898.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05

According to recent statistics, there
are about 1000 women practicins
medicine on the continent of North
America, of whom 130 are homeopath
lists. The majority are ordinary prac.
titioners, but among the remainder
are seventy hospital physicians oil
surgeons, ninety-fve professors in the
schools, 610 specialists for the dis.
eases OF women, seventy alienists,
'sixty-fivo orthopedists, forty occulistg
and aurists, and, finally, thirty elec.
tro-therapeutists. In Canada there il
but one medical school exclusively de-
voted to the training of medical ladies,
but in the United States in 1898 there
were ten, one of them being a homeo'
pathic establishment.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05
Number Of Hogs In the United States.

There is no annual record kept of
the swine industry of the United
States, but on census years there is an
attempt made to get the number of
the various domestic animals raised
during those years. The statistics for
the last census have not as yet come to
hand, but those of 1880 give the num-
ber of hogs in the United States as
40, 772, 700, consequently We can safe
ly say that in round numbers there
were at least so, 900, 900 raised during
that year. When pork is low there is
always a decrease in the number OF
hogs, and when the price is high far
mers strive to increase the number of
hogs on their farms. 1t is the same
with all kinds of farm products and
this is one of the reasons why there is
such wide fluctuation in prices. The
time, however, to prepare for high
prices is when there is great depres-
sion in the markets. ts.-New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05
Lovers still.

His hair as wintry snow IA white;
Her trembling steps are slow;
His eyes have lost their merry light;
her checks their rosy glow.
Her hair has not its tints of gold
His voice no joyous thrills
And yet, though feeble, gray and old,
They're faithful lovers still
Since they were wed, on lawn and lea,
OFT did the daisies blow,
And oft across the trackless sea
Did swallows come and go;
Oft were the forest branches bare
And oft in gold arrayed;
Oft did the lilies scent the air,
The roses bloom and fade.
They've had their share of hopes and fears,
Their share OF bliss and bale,
Since first he whispered in her ears
A lovers tender tale;
Full many n thorn amid the flowers
Has lain upon their way;
They've had their dull November hours,
As well as days of May.
But firm and true through veal and woe,
Through change of time and scene,
Through winters gloom, through summers
glow,
Their faith and love have been;
Together hand in hand they pass
Serenely down life's hill,
In hopes one grave in churchyard grass
May hold them lovers still.
-MAaDALES Rock In Chambers Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05
A Petrined Woman's Value.

Judge Hunt decided yesterday that
one-half of petrified woman is worth
$1,000. The petrified woman in con-
troversy was owned jointly by Max
Gutter and Richard V. Doggett. They
formed partnership for the purpose
of exhibiting her ladyship to the pub
lie and of reaping thereby harvest Of
dimes and nickels. 1t was in Novem-
Der, 1893, that the manager of a Mar
ket street museum offered $40 week
to secure the lady's presence as an
added attraction for his place of amuse.
ment.
Her petrifed ladyship, however,
never appeared on exhibition. The
cause was explained by Gutter in
suit wherein he alleged that his part
ner had taken the aforesaid petrified
lady by force and violence and con-
verted her to his (Doggett's) own use.
Gutter demanded compensation for
his loss, which he estimated at S2, 900,
He proceeded on the assumption that
a genuine petrified woman should be
worth at least $4,000. Making due
allowance for the enthusiasm of the
Snowman Judge Hunt fixed the value
of her ladyship at s2, 900. A little bit
of calculation showed that one-half the
lady would be worth 1000, for which
amount Gutter was awarded judgment.
There was nothing in the evidence
to show which particular half of the
petrified beauty was claimed by each
or either owner. Doggett, however,
made good and sure of his one-half by
taking both. On the other hand
Gutter now declares that he will pur-
sue his one-half until he gets the 81, 900
awarded him by the court San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05

discovered that the change meant
change and the coming of fair wealth.
er. These weather signals never failed.
When the weather was settled the
whistle was silent The whistle got
out of order some years ago, and for
that reason, was never repaired, but
the coming and going currents of air
still prophesy the coming of their re.
spective "spell of weather" with un-
varying infallibility. New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05
Your Voice Tuned to Suit.

Experiments have been made by the
Prussian throat specialist, DR.. San
dras, upon the notifications effected
upon the voice by various kinds of in
halations. 1t appears that the voice
can be raised or lowered at will by in
haling brandy, rum, curacao, tar,
ehloroform, petroleum, etc.
The inhalations are made to suit a
tenor, soprano or bass voice, who can
thus write around to their medical adj
wiser for an extra note OF two when.
ever they are going to sing at an opera
or concert. t',
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05

An aluminum-copper torpedo boat
has just been constructed in England.
The proportion of copper is but six
per cent, this giving the vessel a vast
increase of strength. The boat weighs
but half as much as one made of steel,
though the plates are twenty-five pei
cent thicker than they wonld be il
made of that material. The alloy is
very tough and breaks only at pres
surc of $4,000 pounds. The craft
steams at twenty and one-half knots,
whereas a similar boat of steel would
show but seventeen. "The alloy will
be the ship building material of the
future" predicts the st. Louis Star.
Savings.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05

"There were $500 worth, my DEAR"
said the Duchess, slipping her hand
through Kitties arm and leading her
from the station.
The matter was never referred to
again except on the evening of the
day on which Kittie Marioram prom
ised to become the wife of Lord Fer
die Bellnirs.
81 owe you big debt of gratitude,
auntie, DEAR" said Kittie, kneeling at
the Duchess's feet. 81 feel 1 can
never repay you.
"You have done so today, my
child" cried the Duchess, parting her
golden curls and kissing her forehead.
London Society.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05
A Well as a Barometer.

There is curious we'll on the Flint
farm, in the town of Great Valley,
Cattaraugus county NY. 1t is natural
barometer. Nobody ever passes that
farm, winter or summer, if the weather
is settled, without asking something
like this:
"Does the we'll threaten change q"
For everyone knows that if there is
bad weather coming the well will let
them know it, sure as sure can be.
They call the we'll up there the
"whistling we'll" although it doesn't
whistle now, But that isn't any fault
of the we'll. This we'll was dug about
fifty years ago by the father of Col.
Flint, who now occupies the farm.
He put it down forty-five feet, but
found no water, a strong current of air
came from the well at times. The
opening was covered with a big fiat
stone, and for amusement hole was
drilled in the stone and big tin whis-
tie fitted into it, This whistle had two
tones-one when the air rushed up
from the we'll, and different one
when the counter current sucked the
air back into the mysterious depths.
1t wasn't long before the discovery
was made that within forty-eight hours
after the outrushing current from the
we'll started the whistle to shrieking a
storm invariably followed. When the
tone of the whistle was changed by
the reversing of the current. it was
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05

Over 100000 was spent by the
British government for cavalry re.
mounts In 1898. The army veterinary
department cost s135, 900 per annum
and 50, 800 is expended for fodder.
The British establishment has an
average of IA, 1859 horses and the In
dian IL, SCI. The household cavalry
averages $40, cavalry of the line IL,
229, royal horse artillery 1856, field
artillery, Oils, royal engineers 391,
infantry transports, etc, 1913; army
service corps 1,269 and 1876 horses un-
attached.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05
The Mule Has More Sense Than the
Horse.

1t is commonly thought that mule
is a stupider creature than the horse,
but have never found person who
was well acquainted with both animals
who hesitated to place the mongrel in
the intellectual grade above the pure
blood animal. There is, it is true, a
decided difference in the mental quail
tiles of the two creatures. The mule
is relatively undemonstrative, his
emotions being sufficiently expressed
by an occasional bray-a mode of ut
terance which he has inherited from
the humber side of his house in O
singularly unchanged way. Even in
the best humor he appears sullen, and
lacks those playful capers which give
such expression to the well-bred horse
particularly in its youthful state. 1t
is evident, however that it discrimi-
mates men and things more clearly than
does the horse. In going over diff
cult ground it studies its surface and
picks its way so as to secure footing
in an almost infallible manner. Even
when loaded with apack it will con-
slider the incumbrance and not so Of
ten try to pass where the burden will
become entangled with fixed objects.
--Scrihnar
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05

British sailors discharged in foreign
ports are protected against land sharks
by recent arrangement made by the
Board of Trade. On the arrival of a
vessel an agent of the board appears,
who finds out what men wish to re-
turn home and the sums due them; he
then provides them with money for
travelling expences and warrents OF
the board for the rest of their wages,
payable in England.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05
Thirty Miles In the Earth.

Rev. Osm md Fisher, in a very re-
liable work entitled "Physics of the
Earth's Crust, says that "the rate of
increase in temperature MS the distance
lbeneath the surface is augmented is,
'on the whole, an equable one and may
be taken to average about a degree
for each tifty-one feet" Figuring on
this statement as the most reliable,
we find that Mt depth of thirty miles
below the surface oil known metals
und rocks are in a state of white hot
fusion. New York Advertiser.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05
DlPEITIIERIA CURE.
European D1otors Discover O REM
edy for the Disease.
Dlphtheria Bacteria Rendered
Harmless by incubation.

Even every child early learns about
"bein' vax'nated" against dread ILL
ness known as smallpox. And per-
haps some of you have heard about a
similar process being lately discover
ed as a remedy for the other fatal
contagious disease, diphtheria. The
German and French physicians have
been investigating the theory for
years. until fnallya "serum" has been
prepared and used in the Hospital des
Enfants Malades, in Paris, by DIR.
Roux with good results. Under the
influence of the new treatment the
diphtheria mortality in this hospital
was reduced from fifty to twenty-six
per cent, DR.. Gibier, of the Pasteur
Institute, of New York, is now at
work preparing the 'serum" and is
only awaiting an opportunity to there
demonstrate its efficacy by actual adj
ministration to the little diphtheria
patients.
The preparation of the ''serum" is
long and tedious process, but the es-
sential points can be briefly told. You
must first know that diphtheria is now
found to be caused by microbe. This
microbe, which, in scientific works,
has long name, throws out q poison
which produces in the patient all the
peculiar symptoms of the disease.
Strange as it may seem, the first step
in the preparation of the healing "se-
rum is to make a culture, or colony,
of these deadly organisms. A portion
of the membrane, or diseased tissue,
is obtained from bad case of diphthe.
ria, and the germs found in it are
transferred to vessel containing
boullion, or kind of beef soup. The
microbes are found to thrive in this
broth, and they are left for several
months to multiply and generate their
poison. At the end of this time the
broth is filtered, after which it is
ready for injection. An animal is Sc.
lected and prepared for the operation.
The horse is found to be the best for
the purpose. With large syringe
a definite quantity of the poisonous
broth of ascertained strength is in
ected into the horses jugular vein.
The first dose must be small. It il
said that the horse experiences no pain
and no other symptoms than slight
feverishness are produced. The in
lection is repeated daily for six weeks.
1t is then found that the blood serum
of the horse, when drawn off and sep
arated from the blood clot, is q sue
cessful treatment for the poisonous
toxine of the diphtheria microbes, the
horse serum being injected into the
blood of a human patient.
Hence the name giving the curing
substance is anti-toxine. The theory
of the antagonizing power of tn,
serum is based on the fact that tn,
blood gradually acquires the power o
resisting certain poisons. The cell
of the blood learn by experience tc
make secretion which will resist thu
action of the poison. 1t is a mattel
of cellular memory. The diphtherii
microbe poison is strong enough il
many cases. where the system is un
prepared, to kill. The anti-toxine i
just strong enough to warn the cells o
danger and them how to fortify them
selves against the enemy.-Washing-
ton Pathfinder.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05

Under the Belgian law unmarried
men over 25 have one vote, married
men and widowers with families have
two votes, and priests and others of
position and education have three
votes. There are severe penalties for
those who fail to vote.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05

The new inheritance tax law OF Eng
land has had the effect of making many
people give their bequests before they
die
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05
willing TO Try.

Duke de Cay-Do you love an old
ruin?
Miss Catchum-Oh, your Grace,
this Is so---er think / could learn. -.
Detroit Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05

In France 14s,0O0 families have
claimed exemption from certain taxes
recently voted by the government, on
account of having seven or more chill
drcn.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05

British Honduras is entering largely
upon the cultivation of the henequen,
or MANILA plant, from which the best
quality of rope Is manufactured
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-12-05

Chicago has twenty-five general ana
sixteen special hospitals, with 3,409
haIe
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-06-28
He kent His Nerve,

There's a lawyer in one of the interior
towns who has not grown rich at his pro
fession, yet he is by no means a fool. Some
time ago he happened upon a client who
represented a rich corporation in the east
and the client wanted some papers made
out very promptly. The lawyer took the
job with snap, for business was dull, and
he was not long in completing it,
Now let him finish his own story.
I'm day or two my man came back, !"
he 'pys, "and was very we'll satisfied with
what had done. So well satisfied, in fact,
that began to wonder if | hadn't better
put up my fee. Twenty-Five dollars was
plenty for all did, but thought might
get more, and was debating whether to
make it fifty or seventy-dve dollars when
he pulled out a whacking big roll of money
with hundred dollar bills on the outside.
That settled it.
"'Well, Mr.. c. he said, beginning
TO skin off the bills slowly, how much do
we owe youT and he counted, 'one, two,
three, four is that enoughT he asked,
with his thumb on the turn.
WAS it enoughS And Twas going to ask
only fifty dollars, but | didn't lose my
nerve.
WELL, says carelessly, suppose you
skin off another one, and, by thunder, he
did, and | chucked that $500 fee in my
pocket and never let on but what 500 fees
were merely incidentals in my business"
Exchange.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-06-28
SprinpA Below Salt Water,

At Bahrin, in the center of the most tor
rid part of Il very torrid belt, rs though it
were natures intention to make the place
as unhearable as possible, water from wells
is something unknown.
Great shafts have been sunk to depth
of 100, 200, 800 and even 500 feet, but always
with the same result-no water. This Sc
rious drawback notwithstanding, a COM
paratively numerous population contrive
to live there, thanks to copious springs
which burst forth from the bottom of the
water from these springs is obtained in a
most novel and curious manner.
Machadores, whose sole occupation is
that of furnishing the people of Bahrin
with the life giving fluid, repair to that
portion of the gulf where the springs are
situated and bring away with them hun
dreds of skin bags full of the water each
day. The water of the gulf at the place
where the springs burst forth is nearly 20O
feet deep, but these machadores divers
manage to fill their goatskin sacks by div
ing to the bottom and holding the mouths
of the bags over the fountain jets; this,
too, without allowing the salt water of the
gulf to mix with it.
The source of these submarine fountains
is thought to be in the hills of Osmond, 40(
or 500 miles away. Being situated at the
bottom of the gulf, it is a mystery how
they were ever discovered, but the fact re
! mains that they have been known since the
dawn of history, philadelphia Press