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Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
BABIES OF rHE YEAR.
Their Cradles Would Form a Iiue Around ....... the World,


 Could the infants of Ia year be ranged in cradles, says statistician, the cra- dies would extend round the globe. The same writer looks at the matter in q more picturesque light He imagincs tho babies being carried past given point in their mothers arms, one by. ono, and the procession being kept up night and day until the last hour in tho twelve months had passed by,
 A sufficiently liberal rate is allowed, .buteyeu in the going past at the rate of twenty q minute, twelve hundred an hour, during the entire year, the re ' viewer at his post would only have seen the sixth part of the infantile host
 In other words, the babe that had to be carried when the tramp began, would be able towalk when but mere fraction of it's comrades had reached the re- viewers post, and when the years srp. ply of babies was drawing to a close there would be a rear guard, not of in fants, but of romping six-year-old boys and girls, This will be rather q start ling calculation to the many who do not dabble in figures
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
SHORT BURROWS.

MusF people enjoy the music of in- terest-bearing notes,
 HE who is behind with his work Lust always be driven to it.,
 TIE toe of your boot is not good thing to caress your COW with.
 THE early morning song of the robin has no charms for the indolent man.
 TIE best cooking school for tho daughter is the kitchen, where the mother is skilled in the culinary art
 TIE corner grocery seems to have 4 corner on q good many lazy farmers whose hedges need trimming -Ameri can Scrictllturist
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
JOINTS AND CARTILAGE.
One of the Wonders of Nature In th
 Uuman Body,


 one of the Wonders of Nature In the
 Human Body
 Why do joints work SD easily and never give us any paing Tn a fresh joint its appearance in life cun be readily studied. In the ball and socket joint, says the London Hospital. the round end of the bone, as well as thc cup. are covered or lined with smooth substance called "cartilagc,2 or ',Rris. tie" kept moist Rnd smooth with syuoyia. Cartilage contains no nerves. and has no feeling; if ig had, we should have pain when we moved The bones are kept in place at the joints by very strong bands or fragments, in hinge joints number of these bands arc fastened aboycand below, but in balEan. socket joints they also surround the joint, forming a cap, in which Enc joint moves freely. In disease this smooth cartilage gets worn away. and the ouds of bone rub together like those of a skeleton; the pain is great, because thc bones have nerves. though the ear tilagc has none. A bone without car. tilage is iilse a dccaycd tooth with an exposed nerve, In healthy tooth the nerve is well covered and gives nc pain. and in a ncnlthy panc Inc nerves arc there, but they are only felt when the cartilage is worn away.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
beath by Electricity.

The Digest gives an account of some experiments on the effect of aitprnat. ing electric currents on animal organ isrns, described in a paper read before q recent medical congrcSsat Rome. It. ally, and which corroborate the views of p' p'Asonval, referred to recently. Tie current uscd was an alternating one, and it was found that animals sub iectcd to from fifteen hundred to two thousand volts were not easily killed, and that death resulted mostly from asphyxia caused by the sudden stop page of respiration, Frequently breath ing started again spontaneously, and the animal recovered completely In no case was there any physiological change noted, though in few there were mechanical lesions, in themselves cause for death This further confirm ntiou of D'Arsonvals formula, "A man shocked by electricity should be treat- ed as if drowned, !" renders it still more important that the electrician should make himself acquainted with the prop. CT means of resuscitation from the ef- fects of electric shock,
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
The Gon,I Thnt Remnin..

How many are there who gre raIu. ing themselves by what they have, and not by what they are. What they may have Dc talent, or money, or position. it matters not what, but it is not their very selves, True worth cannot be separated from mans real self
 Money. position, even intellect, may go: but the sterling, i, C., the moral, worth will remain Asultan of Mo. rocco Is said to have discovered that one of his vizicrb was becoming toe powerful. He therefore summoned him to tea, and complimcatcd him on his great wealth. The vizicr becoming vain, boastcd of the number of his houses, wives and slaves. ard thc sultan rcbukcd him saying that he was too rich To show the maucxact. ly what he was worth, his majesty had him taken by inc soldiers to the slave market where he was put up for sale and received only one bid of eight pence. Allhis property was 1lso taken from him The price which we put upon ourselves and our fellow men put upon us are two very different things.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
wANrgo ro UsE pLATINUM.
Interesting Experiment. In Coinage Made
 hN Inc I,nssian GnNnrnmnnt

hAANAN0AAhk taNhNAlAhruN NoAhfkf hNAS
 by the Russian Government,
 "Oncc upon Q time, said Mir. c. c. Baker, Jr, of Now York, who is con nected with the only platinum refining plant in the United States, Russia concluded to try the experiment of using platinum as a money metal, says tue Washington Post. There is really little of that article found anywhere else on the globe except in the Ural mountains, in the ezar's dominions, and having monopoly of tho precious stuff, the idea If using it as coin seemed plausible But it didn't prove Q glittering success, and have never seen any coin made of platinum by that government dated later than lsf4,
 Here Is one of the samples of the Russian experiment. said Mr Baker, taking from his pocket piece about the size of silver quarter, Y bore the date 1880 and had some Russian characters on it signitying it to be of tho value of six rubleS, or about S4, 75 in American money
 "I gave Sll for it. however, said Mir Baker, and its intrinsic value is worth nearly that amount Of course, no other nation would go in with Russia and take platinum for money, seeing that no other country produced any of 1t to speak of, which may be tip to some of our silver friends. Platinum is lower than it was two years ago, be- ing worth now SlO,5U an ounce though while back it was worth ST. an ounce, At its present price it is just about half as valuable as gold. IL is the heaviest of metals, it, specific gray. fly exceeding that of gold about per cent, and so ductilc that il can be drawn into Q thread l-lOOO of m inch iu diuu,eteY. .@
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
UNCLE SAM. JUNK DEALER,
He Has Price List of che old Trumpery
 Ho Disposes Of

He Has n Prict, List of che old Truinpery
 Ho Disposes Of,
 Uncle sam is Q sort nf secondhand dealer and runs good-sized junk shop on his own hook. Not only that, says the New York Advertiser. but he sends out circulars Co these of inquiring turn of mind, with descriptions and price lists of his wares, inst as q secondhand book dealer or postage stamp or coin collector would do, .
 If q grand army post should conclude to featoon the rafters of its armory with old muSllets and antique scab- baIdg it will find Uncle Sam right on hand, for, though he has disposed of all his heavy arms, he has innumcrable old pistols, muslzcts, bayonets and sabors which he is not averSc to dis posing of at a fair price. and he will promptly forward Q printed price list showing the comparative newness or. antiquity of his secondhand wares and warrantine the articles to be exactly as represented and to i'll the bill pre- eisely for decorative purposes, And they are offered very cheap. too, One can buy an old sword bloOd-stained and full of memories of furious charges and wcll-sustaincd assaults, for twcn- ty-hye cents, q horse pistol for dime or Spencer breech-loader for seven dollars, other articles varying to suit
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
A sARgwo SOVEREIGN.
An Emperor Who FiuanelOred to some
 Purposo.

aAn emperor W no 1T AAAitAnGkNENN Ao o0Alt
 PurPoso.
 Among other expedients to raise money, Ivan resigned the crown in favor of Tarter kahn, who was bap- tised under the numc of Simeon. Ivan, says the Gentleman's Magazine feigned Co withdraw himself from public af- fairs, but in reality he held on to them, and made the new ear call in all the charters formerly granted to tho mon- asterics and AiShopries, and all the charters were cancelled This curious interregnum, or by whatever name it should be designated. lasted nearly Q year, and then Ivan declared he did not like the now regime, and, disnissing the baptiscd henthcn, again took up the seepter which, as matter of fact, he had never really discarded He is- sued fresh charters Co the monasterics, ont was careful to keep back several fine slices of the revenues cxtorting from some of them fifty thousand and from some others one hundred thou. sand rubles annually We shall see, as Ivan's character is unfoldcd, thAt this spoiiatior of the monastCrics was not the only thing in which he rccem- bled our own merry monarch, Henry VIII He would send his agents iutC the various provinces there to buy mp at low prices the whole of some par tienlar coEnmodity for which the prov ince was noted After retaining the monopoly foI awhile he would sell for q high rate and even compel merchants 70 buy at the prices he named He followed a similaf course with foreign imports creating monopoly and for bidding others to sell their stocks un- til he had disposed of his own. By these meaus he cleared two hundred thousand rublcs year
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
HE MAS A BUSY MAN. .
Bat some How ot Other He Didn't Pro.
 per In Life.

per in Life.
 Yes, suppose you may call Eben a successful man, He does good busi. ness, but m my mind he isn't prosper ous So said Mrs. Tracy to her sister who had congratulated her on the pur. chase by her husband of mill which he was thought to have bought at s bargain,
 z Nell,n returned her sister, it seems to me everything he touches comes out just right He's the busiest man in town
 That's just it, retored Ms. Tracy Hes busy and he succeeds in his do- ings, but that isn't prospering as l understand it, You sec she con- tinued, "wben we We're first married he leased the little woolicn mill down on the stream, and we got along first rate. He wasn't overbusy, and we used to ride round together every after noon and have lots of company and good times
 But he began to make money and buy more wool, and more mills to take care of it and more storehouses tJ put it in, until if takes about all his time to ge, from one mill to the other Sometimes ! see him on Sunday, but he is generally busy resting up to sturt again, ile's about as much slave as if he was chained in galley
 "Yes, but he does make money, said one
 Well, perhaps SO hut it all goes to buy more wool. If anybody bankers for lots of wool in this world, that's one thing. Eben has any amount of wool, but when it comes to getting the real solid goodness out of life and en- toying it, he's forgotten how tn du it. Really, as l look mt if, Eben is the most uHprosperous man in town "a- Youths Ip,nTa apfnti
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
SOME ODDITIES IN ETIQUETTE,
What Is Considered Proper and Improper ln Different Conntriea,

tn DiHtrent Souhtrtem In Holland lady is expected 10 ie. tire precipitately If she should enter a store or restaurant where men nfp con gregated She waits until they have transacted their business and departed, Ladies seldom rise in Spain to receive male visitor, and they rarely accom- pany him to the door. For Spaniard to give . lady even his wife--his arm while out walking is looked upon as s violation of proprietys
 No Turk will ever enter a sitting room with dirty shoes. The upper classes wear tight-ftting shoes with goloshes over them, The latter, which receive all the dirt ahd dust, are left outside the door The Turk never washes in dirty water, Water is poured over his hands, so that when polluted it runs away,
 In Syria the people never take off their hats or t,rbans when entering the house or visiting a friend, but they always leave their shoes at the door, There are no nuts or Bcrapers outside, and the floors inside are covered with expensive rugs, kept very clean in Moslem houses and used to kneel upon while praying
 In Persia among the oristocracy a visitor sends notice an hour or two be- fore calling, and gives days notice H the visit is one of great importance. He is met by servants before hcreaches the house and other considerationsare
  The left and not the right Is consid, cred the position of honor,
 In Sweden, if yop address the poor. est person on the street, you must lift your hat. The same courtesy is insist eduPou if you pass lady on the stair way, To enter a reading room or a bnnls with ones hat on is regarded as iruuDlits
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
nApoLtoN As 1 aoRssmAN
s3a Changed HIS Aiount Frequently and
 t.tistch on White CAargerS


 iasis,cd on White cnargers.
 Napoleon was 9 most cruel hotsoman, and ehaDHeyi iits mount lrcquently dur ing battle, ~ Waterloo, however, he rode ohtg thc famous "AInrengon An- other celebrated, war horse of the great CorSican WAS 'Austerlitz.r Napoleon always insisted that his horses should l'e white Of gray. Twelve were killed under him. lie was once carried quite within tho enemys lines, when he mar fowIy escaped capture, by a mad ehaSger. Napoleons runaway, 1t is only fair to confess, was caused by . terrible wound that goaded the poor stecd to uncomfortable madness, Men lose their heads from pain; why may aot horseq
 For dumb combatant of unqualified savagery We must go to the camp of those masters of warfare-the French of Napoleon's day, says the Chicago Herald. One of the emperor's aides, Capt. de Marhot, owned D mare named
 Lizette,r noted in peace or war for vieiousness under certain provoeation.
 Once, with her master on her back, sie was surrounded by Russians. A huge grenadier madea lunge at Marbot with his bayonet, but Lizette dis patched him with tigerish ferocity, using only her teeth. Afterward she backed off, clearing with her iron heels a space among the Russians pressing on her Hanks, then wheeled, dragging down to death beneath her hoofs an ofifsef us she did so, and darting through the astonished crowd to u place of safety. In that brief encoun- ter she killed two Russians outright md crippled several others with her heels, and it all came from cruel bay onet thrust that aroused all the poor rreatnre's latent frensN.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
PARTY GLOVES.
Chicago Girls Give Them to Men fo
 Razor StropS

Chicago Girls Give Them t0 Men for
 Razor strops.
 Did you ever wonder what becomes of all the long party gloves that girls adore and spend small fortunes fOr?" asked the girl who occasionally knows thing Or"two
 Powder rags. of course, grunted the moody girl.
 Nothing of the sort That shows that you don't ''ccp up with the fin de secle procession, said the first speaker. You want to give 'cm to your best young man for razor strops,. The idea is just tpD perfectly lovely.
 "Whcu the blessed angel wants to sharpen his razor he fasteus the top of the glove to a hook on his dresser, takes tic frayed-nut fingers in his left huud and sharPens away. And all the time he is thinking vf various inc. dents that happened when a dear little hand was inside that glow, and glove and hand were sandwiehed iB between his two hands, and be was saying sweet thing and she was trying tO dig hole in the floor with the toe of her satin slipper, and oA, think its all just too dear, and I'm going io send all my white gloves off to Charlie right away
 The moody girl looked djsguStcI She said: We'll, I'm glad don keep up with your tin ac sIecic procession. IL needs a good roofing out ot idiotio fad5 and a big dose of eomIuou sense. AuI between you and me and this button hook don't believe that man wonld use glove for .azor StToy any moro than lIl ever usca all those silly necklie cases that you girls make out of bilk and ribbons and things e. Chicago Record.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
Tnxcs In Grrmant.

Instead of paying taxes as ordinary lncrtals the citizens of Klingenberg-on-
 e-Main, Germany, received each three hundred marks from the income rom several factories owned by the town. The division was made after the expenses of administration had been paid by money from the same source. That's one place where the politicians don't get it all.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
A WISE RoelN
The Little Blrd Got n Drink in a Very
 Clever Manner.


 Clever Manner.
 That was charming object iesson which was noticed in the yard at the -Hickorie8, mp Windsor avenue in Hartford and t was m instruc- tive lesson in helping oneself as we'll Midway between the house and barn is located q large cask as a drink, ing place for the horses
 Usually, of course this tub is nearly full but at the time referred to the water lacked quite little of reaching the top. Along came robin, spiuping over the ground like mad, only stop ping for moment, as is his wont to listen Reaching the tub hc quickly yanlted to the edge. 4 look of disap. pointment was visible when he archcd his pretty neck so that one eye could lool, down at the water It was too far away and the bird trotted around quite i'll at case. The faucet was leak. ing jast trifconly drop ut a time drop, drop drop and the robins eye finally caught the crystals and the lit- tic fellow almost shouted for joy as he danced around to that side of the tub, Placing himself directly underneath the outlet. he threw back his head opened his beak, and thereafter each drop landed in his parched throat. More than dozen drops disappeared down the narrow channel; then the robin bowed his head just q little, 70 that the cooling drops landed on the Cop oft, and triGkled down on either side, Then t flew away to aneighbor- tug tree. as content and happy as if Tt peace with all tho world.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
snall Fay for Men Who Are Likely s'


 Great md mysticaliy dreadful is the earth from mine's depth, says Me- Clure's Magazine, Man is in the inn: placabie grasp of nature. It has only to tighten slightly and he is crushed like a bug, His loudest shriek of agony would be as potent as his final moan to bring help from that fair land that lies, like heaven, over his bead. There is an insfdious silent enemy iii the gas. If the huge fanwheeI on the top of the earth should stop for brief period there is certain death, and D panic more terrible than any occurring where the sun has shone ensues down under the tons of rock If man may escape the gas, the floods, the 'squeezes" of falling rock, the cars shooting through little tunnels, the precarious elevators, the hundred perils, there usually comes to him an attack of miners asthma" that slowly racks and shakes him into the grave. Mean. while, he gets three dollars day and his laborer one dollar
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
WITTY AND WISE.

A.LucEY nlan is one who saves what he earns
 4 WISE nun k oue who has been often Aeccitcd.
 Do. q MAN more than one favor and he will expect itas regular thing.
 THFSE never was an ugly man who did not excuse his looks by thinking that no was smart.
 SOME people you like until you ind them cut, and others you do not like until vos find them out.
 SoNErINEa men do not realize that they arc lucky until years after they have had their good luck Tammany Times
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
A CUTE CHOW
ne Had supcrabpndtnce of Business SagaritY.

ns Had s supcrlbundtnce of Business
 sagacitY.
 Farmer Crowder had finished plant ing his corn, but his heart was heavy. He knew rrat the crows were whcttinr their bills to pull up the corn gs soon aS it appeared aboyo the surface.
 T tell you how tO get away with the crows, said Ncighbog Stokes.
 "IIow?'
 Get you gallon of man whisky and soak some corn init til it gets full of the stuff, and then scatter it broad east in the field The black rascals will eat 1t and get drpult, and then you can catch 'cm and pull their heads off. That beats pizen or shOOtiu'."
 In l few days Farmer Crowdcr met his friend Stokes
 "NcN h,'+'s ar0ps2' quc-iJd Stokes.
 My corn's hoiaciously ruint,' re- piled Crowder, dolcfully, T tried that ere scheme Q your'n, and it's a hum bug. I soaked She corn and scattercJ it one day, and the ncrt morniu' ] went down to the new gToun' to see how itt2Cr.sed"
 "Foand GIT drunk, chg
 Found uoihin> ] heard dickens of a fuss down nigh the branch and went tc gec what il vas, Thar was g dad-blDqtcd old crow what had gath cred fip all ths whisky corn and had it on stump and he was retniliu' it out to the others, giyin' 'cm one grain of that so1t fur three grains of my planted corn, aud dingcd if they hadn't been and clawed up that hull field by sections. Atlantu Journal.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
Guarded by Soldiers.

The Bank of Germany like most other German public 5niidings, has a military guard to protect it In a very strongly-fortided military fortress nt Spandau is kept thcgfpat wartreasure of the imperial government, part of the French indemnity, amounting to sev. csRl million pounds
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
At tI,r EIrcns.

Tho elephant had eaten a quart ot peanuts and l&id the paper bag care fully up on his L..i before reaching around and banging the royal Bengal tigers cage whaclz or two with his truuR. The tiger happened to be on watch at the moment, and he gave the elephant claw that left scratch on his trunk four inches long.
 There, take that, you old pachy, derm, he said, yiciously.
 Thanks" replied the elephant, softly, as hc stuck his nose in a trough of water to assuage the smart.
 Don't mention it," grinned the tiger.
 Do you know what you put me in m.nd of2'' inquired the elephant, IS he winlted the other eye,
 No; what?'
 The elephant tooIc his trunk out of the tank and reached it around eau tiously
 You put me in mind of turning the hose on somebody he said, with with. ering scorn, and he fired abouta barrel of muddy water all over the royal Ben. gal tigers beautiful tjger-slSin clothes Detroit Free Press.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-10-06
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