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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
SAVED BY HIS HORSE.
Very Peculiar Escape of n Man from .
Break In the Ice.

Very Peculiar Escape OF n Man from .
Break In the Ice.
The story comes up from below the
city, says the Lewiston (Me.) Journal,
about a man who attempted to cross
the Androscoggiu 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 to put off haul
ing il, but the thought that perhaps
there would lot be another chance to
haul it made him go across. When he
started bacl; he thought he wouldn't so
in the same track where he had hauled
the rest, 50 he went a little above.
The ice began to crack slowly when
he got to the middle. Caicl, Is flash
he unfastened the two tugs ana one
holdbac,s. Then he struck tho horse
violently with the whip. AT the same
time the sled load of wood went
through with cras,!. Tie commenced
to sink with it. but when the horse had
been struck he jumped ahead and,
breaking the off ho,;iback, jerlicd TIE
man of the load ard dragged him to
the shore with the reins. There ne
stopped and the man got up.
When he looked bacl; the top Of the
wood and the shafts could be seen sticl1-
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
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
ZONE SYSTEM IN HUNGARY.
Oniciai Figures show 1t Ii . Complets
Success.

Three wears aro the Hungarian gov
ern1nent adopted the gore system OF
rates for railroad fares. The principle
involved a large reduction in rates, es-
pecially to long-distance travellers With
Buda .Pesth as q center, the circumfer-
ence of the FIRST zone was about one hum
dred miles away. the second two hum
dred. and so on to the extreme limits OF
Hungary. Only ! slight reduction in rates
was made in the first zone, much larger
In the second. and increasingly larger
in the outer zones. The gross reduction
was in the neighborhoCd of sixty per
cent. Hungary was an ideal place for
trying the plan, as all roads run to
Buda-Pesth and the city itself was prac-
tically in the center of the country.
Railroad men everywhere declared the
plan foredoomed to failure, even where
the conditions were as favorable as in
Hungary.
The first official figures on the sys-
tenn have been published. Commenting
on them. Transport says:
Excellent results have, according to
the official figures just published, been
shown by the working of the zone sys-
tenn on the railways of Hungary. The
eyes of Europe have been turned with a
good deal of curiosity and interest to
this, the most daring and systematic
method Of discrimination in favor of the
long distance as against the short dis
lance trav eler in the world. The vari-
GUS zones or circles within which GER
tain fares are charged are fixed by reg
ulation, TIE principle adopted being the
greater the distance from the capital
the less the proportional rate per mile
Travelled. The system has been greatly
appreciated by the people living in the
more distant parts of the country, as
the result shows. For some years be-
fore the introduction of the system the
number of travellers averaged 6,000, 900
annually. In the first year Of the zone
tariff the number rose to 10000, 900; the
second years returns showed that 49,
0O0,O had used the railways, while
during the third year the number of
travellers totaled 2s, 0Jo,0cO. 1t is salts
factory to note a corresponding rise in
the receipts, advancing from 9,7o5, 000
gulden during the last year of the old
system to 2S,30o, 900 gulden during the
year just closed"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
ALLIGATOR SHOOTING.
An Exciting Sport Which Is Pursued In
Darkness.

I'aEkucsss
Mr.. Kirk Munroe describes in the
Cosmopolitan a canoe trip in company
with two young Seminole Indians, Mic
cochee and Kowilka, who were engaged
in their regular occupation of hunting
alligators for their hides. The canoe
was dugout, made by Miccochee him
self out of huge cyprus log. The trio
made camp late in the afternoon, and
after awhile Mr.. Munroe discovered
what be had not before suspected-tl,at
the hunting was to be done ut night.
Darkness had hardly fallen before
the believing of alligators was heard
a sound much like the roar of an angry
bull Miccochee listened with evident
satisfaction. "Allapatta plenty. Me
catch 'em, UncahT'
We had killed five of the monsters
when we turned our prov up stream.
rIiccochee welded his push pole from
the stern. Kowika sat in the middle of
the canoe. while |, with jack light on
my head and ride in hand, occupied the
position of honor in the bow.
The alligators had ceased their NUT
tcrings and had begun to think that
we had killed or frightened them al.
Just then | was startled by slight
motion on the bank but a few yards
away. At the same instant two Goals
OF fire cleaned through the blackness.
What could they be? | was about to
speak, when a sharp mist" from be-
hind told me that the moment for
action had come. Taking hasty aim
at one of the lurid Goals, fred.
The report of the rifle was followed
by such a wild rush into the water, such
whirling and splashing, such showers
of spray and bloody foam that it was
as if small cyclone had been dropped
from the heavens into that quiet spot.
Little kowika screamed in his excite
n,ent, bat Miccochee only expressed his
displeasure at my bad shot by mutter-
ing: "Ho-le-wa-gus! Heap bad!'
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
AT THE COTTON OF THE SEA.
No Trace of Wreekage in the Deepest of
the Oceans Depth.

NO Trace OF nTeCklSt Inc DetPcot VI
the Oceans Depth.
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
oceans floor. OF al the vessels lost in
mid-oceGn; of al the human beings
marine animals that have pcrished; Of
all the clay. sand and gravel let fail by
disSOlving iccbcrSs. of all the va
rious substances driftol from every
shore By shifting currents. no trace
remains. but in their place water from
one thousand g. twenty-five hundred
fathons in dcpti covers the uniform
depot of thick, birish, tenacious
slim ca'lcI globi -er;na ooze, says the
Co5nopol;t&n Magazine.
A BIT of this under powerful lens
is declared to be rcvcla, Ion of beauty
not readily forgotten. The .oozc is
composed almost entirely OF the dain-
tiest, most del;cately beautiful shells
Imaginable. 1T depths greater than
twenty-five hundred fatkoms the bot
tom o; the sca-conSists mainly OF prod
uct arising from exposure, for almost
incalcuiablo periods, to the chemical
action of sea water, OF pumicc and
other volcanic matters.
This finally results in the formation
of red clay deposits that are considered
characteristic of the pro&ouadest
depths OF the ocean. Carbonate OF
lime, which in the form of shells of
foraminifera makes up SO large part
of the globigcrina ooze, is here almost
entirely absent.
Soda water is very nearly a universal
solvent, and before any shell, large or
snail, reaches the bottom OF these ire
mendous abysms it is chemically eaten
up. 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 to that depth is
very nearly one ton to the square inch.
or more than one hundred times that
sustained at the sea level, and at the
greatest depth the pressure is SO in
creased that it would seea nothing
could withstand it; in fact, heavy
metal cylinders let down with the
sounding apparatus are sometimes, on
being drawn W again to the surface,
found bent and collapsed; strongly
made glass vessels which the metal in
closed are shattered into fragments.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
THE SLEEPING SALOON.
John BulIs Curious Version Of An Amerr
can Idea.

John Bulrs Curious Version OF An Amerr
can Idea.
Between the British conception Oh .
saloon and that in vogue on this side
of the Atlantic there is this In common
that both are entered by side door
after nightfall. There the resemb-
lance ceases. John Bulls saloon Is
an exhibit in the Transportation build
inc. wherein it is full as difficult to
look upon the wine when it is red as IL
ourht to be in Evanston or Bangor
John Bulls saloon is as dry as his
comic papers. He tables it sleeping
saloon to distinguish it from all-night
places where we never sleep. 1t oc-
cupies a position in the rear OF the
London & Northwestern Railway COM
pany's highly vanished trainlet, in
geniously constructed to defeat the
ends of the trafickcr in popcorn, i've
. bag"
The British sleeping saloon is our
great-grandmothers' Pullman car. 1t
is the great American sleeper" as it
would have been had it been invented
before the war. Entering by it the
British passenger finds himself in di-
minutive closet where he is permitted
to smoke his pipe. Two rigid-backed
chairs would elbow each other for
standing room if they had any elbows.
The man in charge says: "'Ilis is what
a man as to put NJ with in Tchicago,"
as he opens the door. Six berths are
slowed away on either side of the
smoking saloon. The berth saloons
are divided into compartment saloons,
four compartments comprising the en-
tire carriage. Two of the compart-
ments contain four berths devoid OF
any evidences of curtains in front.
Tbs remaining couple are of serli-se-
elusive character, containing two
berths each, and being intended for
roommates or elderly married couples
The car is probably half the length OF
the ordinary Pullman. and is destitute
of even the adornmcnt of the harmless
necessary darby with the appetite for
quarters.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
Engineering Skill.

Speaking of the remarkable feats OF
marine engineers, the Marine Journal
recalls the achievement of Richard
Peck, who at one time had charge OF
the single engine of the old City of Vera
Cruz coming up from Havana South
of Hatteras the piston rod went to
smash, breaking into three pieces. But
Peck, after twenty-four hours of con-
tinuous labor, actually mended that
piston so that it was strong and true
enough to do its part with the rest OF
the machinery, and he brought his ship
into New York harbor steaming six
knots This was deed which, in tho
opinion of the Boston Journal, quite
eclipses even the recent notable per-
formanceof Engineer Tomlinson. OF tho
Cmbrta-
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
A STRANGE FRIENDSHIP.
Disksns' Account OF q CobbIer's Love To-
Els Dog.

OaCkenB' Account OF Cobblers Love Tor
Els Dog.
my fathers lovo for dogs led him
into q strange friendship during our
stay ct Beulogne." writes the IA
nous authors daughter in Ladies'
Home Journal. There lived in a cot
tage on the street which led from
our house to the town a cobbler who
used to sit at his window working all
dry with bis dog-a Pomeranian-on
the table beside him. The cobbler, in
whom my father became very much in
xerested because of the intelligence OF
his poodle, was taken ill and for many
months was unable to work. My father
writes: The cobble- has been i'll these
trsny months The little dog sits at
the door so unhappy and anxious to
help That every day expect to see him
BEGINNING pair of top boots Another
time father writes in telling the history
of this little animal: A eobelcr at
Boulogne, who had the incest of little
dogs TINT always sat in his sunny win
dow watching him at his work, asked
ME II would bring the dog home as he
couldn't afford TO ray the. tax for him
The cobbler and the dog being both my
particular friends complied. The coo
bier parted with the dog heartbrolSen.
When the dog got home here my man,
like an idiot as he is. tied him up and
then united him. The moment the cato
vas open. the dog ION the very day at
ter bis ariivsD ran out. Next day
<ieorgy and saw him lying all covered
with mud. dead, outside the neighbor-
ing church. How am l ever to tell the
cobbler? He is too poor to come to
Eng :and, so feel that must lie to him
for life. and say that the dog is fat and
happy"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
EVERY SEVEN YEARS.
A Curious Belief in Rerard to Physical
Regeneration.

Curious Bf;tcl IN iseFaru Co fnyBIc8i
Regeneration.
1t is surprising how many people be-
lieve that the entire body of a man is
renewed every seven years exactly,
says the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat.
This used to &c taught in books. and,
although not orthodox now, is still ac-
copied as gospel by many. To show
its inaccuracy one has only to hit q
nail on his finger hard enough, for in
that case the injured object will come
off and be replaced by an entirely new
nail.
If this process occupied seven years
such an accident would be very tire
some affair, but. as any mechanic will
tell you, it occupies few weeks. The
growth is more rapid IN summer than
winter, but never taking more than
four months. So far as the nails are
concerned. then, the renewal process
is repeated about twenty-one times
during the regulation seven years, and
the theory is thus destroyed, even II no
other proof Of its falsity were forth
coming.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
Hired Guests.

English society Is raising a national
lament because men no longer dance
Hostesses have for a 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
lished similar to such institutions in
Paris and Berlin. Hired guests. armed
with guarantees of fitness and respecta
bility. woald appear at the proper hour,
warranted to dance every number or
the card and not give more THAI three
dances to one young woman. Some
such plan seems to be the only hope Ut
saving the at 81 dancing in England
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
HIS MOTHERS EiBLe.
The Book on Which President Cleveland
Took the Oath of Office.

The Book on which PRESIDENT Cleveinno
Took the Oath of Office.
Among the relics stored away in the
clerks Office of the supreme court of the
United States, writes Washington cor
respondent of the Philadelphia Times,
is handsome rorocco-covered Bible of
large octave size. 1t is the Bible that
was purchased eight years ago to ad-
minister the oath of Office to President
Cleveland at his Inauguration on March
T. 1t had been the invariable custom
before the Inauguration of Mr.. Cleve-
land to purchase a Bible fer use at the
inauguration ceremony and to present
this interesting memento afterward 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 committee of ar
rangements of the senate thai he wished
to take the oath on the Bible given to
him by his mother when, as young
man, he started ont in the world to
make his fortune. The committee nat
urally respected this sentiment OF the
president-elect and so Mr.. Cleveland
took the oath on his mothers Bible. 1t
was small book, morocco bound and
gilt-edged. So far as is known here.
Mr. Cleveland still has the book, and in
the belief that it will be used at the
coming ceremony the clerk of the su-
preme court has not purchased .
Bible to be used on that occasion. 1t
was planned four J-ea-s ago to use the
Bible purchased in 1888 u. the ceremony
of 1850: but after considering the mat
ter the clerk determined to purchase
another Bible for DIR. Harrison.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
MODERN ATHENS.
It II Raising ITS Standards to Those Of
Classical Greece.

It Il Raising It's Standards to Those Of
Classical Greece.
81 once had a chat with the late
Prof. Sophocles, the famous native
Greek professor of Harvard, on the
subject of the pronunciation of our
language as taught in America" said
the Greek consul, MIR. ID. T. Timayen-
sis, recently, to a reporter for the Bos-
ton Herald. 81 asked him why he taught
q pronunciation which he knew was
not right.
ut doesn't make any difference
what pronunciation we teach he 70
piled, because these boys will neve,
know anything anyway.
THE Germans have been the most
conscientious and thorough students Of
the ancient Greek language" contin.
ued the consul. 1T is but fair to say.
however, that very learned Greek
lady, who has been in this country
studying your institutions. says that
she found a class of girls in Wellesley
college who were better versed in
Greek classics than the girls In on,
own schools in Athens. should say
they must be very good, then, for .
great revival in Greek classical study
has taken place within few years.
The spoken language is conforming
more and more closely to classical
standards Foreign words that have
crept into the language are being cas-,
aside. noticed the increased purity
of the language when I returned "a
Greece and met some of my university
classmates. They were following elias
steal Greek so closely that thought o,
first it was a joke or an affectation. blu,
soon saw that the set were ali talk.
ing that way"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
Thought He Had Lost His Pen.,cu.

In small@village in Maine there
lives an old soldier who has for many
years received a pension from the gov
eminent. which. with his small earn.
ings by occasional joys, makes him
comfortable. One day, while at work
in the house Of a neighbor. he slipped
at the top of fight of stairs and fell
to the bottom The lady Of the house
heard the noise, and hurried TO learn
the cause. why, Ambrose" she said.
us that your Did you fall down
stairs?" Eyes, marin, l did," answered
the old man, land for about q couple
Of minutes thought I'd Lost my PEN
siUa."
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
IT IS HER NOSE THAT SUFFERS.
While . Man Goes Along Trying to
Warm His Ears.

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. Il mean that
despite the fact that both sexes are of
tho human kind they have not the
came vulnerable points for Jack Frost
70 nip.
"You may have noticed as I have,
that q woman when outdoors in cold
day goes along apparently comfortable
except for her nose. She covers itwith
her mittened or gloved hand, or if she is
very nice she holds her handkerchief up
In front of IL. uusJfr
1T 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
yulnerability of the feminine nose Is
caused by comets, or rather by the
iacing which the wearing of corsets i'm
plies At any rate it forces the blood
to the nose and makes red noses as well
~ tender noses.
"And the only moral I can see in it Is
that II the girls would shed their corsets
they might not in course of time be
forced to The ondignified proceeding of
holding on to their noses.
snow. with man it touches him on
the cara. There's where a man feels the
cold lrst. It's his ears THAI Jingle when
the mercury slips down toward the zero
notch; it's his ears that freeze when he
Atays out in the winter weather long
enough"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29
THE
.:-TENSAS GAZETTE

"A weekly newspaper pub
lished at
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-06-29

Reaching every home
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medium for
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
EDITORIAL SUGGESTIONS.

The farmer cannot truthfully say
I've nothing to do" while there is a
single load of manure in the stable
yard.
About the only sure way to get some
thing for nothing is to grow more
bushels from the same area, or get
more meat for the same amount of
tel cons an
Peas for ploughing under in the fall
Aould be soWn as soon as possible. Be
GIN between now and the first of July
otyou will not reap the full benefit. 1t
WILL pay if properly done.
Nyou are a member of the Alliance
attend the meetings, read Alliance
a'eraturo and show your neighbors
mat you are more than a mere mem
01 In name. Be an active member.
dave you planted good corn crop?
Anot, it can yet be planted. Bette r
raise more corn and meat than you
A7ed t0r home use. 1t will hardly be
aaeIephanton your hands, even though
!Ou cannot sell it for a good price.
Less taxes and a more just system of
Imposing them is a crying need of the
uI-s Students of the problem are
sUIlng more and more to favor the
.'Ilo"lnS, as the simplest and most
't1"aole system, and also as least in
S'm.Vfln6 with the principle of local
@f government.
I1e quicker a pig can be matur d to
I' 0eSirsd size and fattened and sold,
Ss ~ greater is the profit Imagine in
1'' connection farmer who has q $50
ry0Ioer nicely butchered 30 sell every
n ,'A at the nearest N :rket town.
m3 ~UuI1 It Lot go a long way toward
tA'l6 Eblngs easy on that particular
,a'n' This is only one item in farm
7u7 cement, remember
c 1"e farmers Of the United States are
5ai. ,1'I7o 10 carry burdens beyond
hoI ., endurance, and they but show
~ r.u1seLYe5 to be worthy the basic class
Vi, sEe%t nation when they begin to
Of f95'Ously protest against the injustice
f,rnS 1slli' Inc plane of living, off the
ht ls Is nigh in this country. Salaries
and 55,aoners' S1' preachers, judges, public
oaFa:', ::','A"ay officials and other salaried
connt r'@7 are higher than in any other
Dai5 i1'Ey and ultimately all must be
sprio,1y W our fundamental industry
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
THEY WOULD BE LOST.

The blessings of more government
full legal tender money can be partly
imagined when the fact is considered
that it would Immediately cause to dis
appear the millions of tramps and beg,
gars. And it wouldn't kill them either.
You couldn't find them though. They
would be lost in the busy hum OF IN
dustry. Some of them act as If they
don't want to get lost this way, out
they would get mighty lonely, and give
up their profession in a short time
Missouri World.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-05-22
SOME FOOL EDITORS.

AS long as few farmers have some
thing to sell, some editors are fools
enough to say that times are good
and 1.-The farmer is prospering. 1t is
not the amount one has to sell that
makes him prosperous" but what he
gets for it. They don't seem to think
it costs a farmer anything to produce
corn, wheat, cotton, etc. Every man
has labor to sell, hence he is prosper
GUS, even if he does not average from
SIS to $12 a month for Hickory Mer
cuT2y