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The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24

The study of etymology, says the Philadelphia Record, "causes no end of trouble among that class of school children whose knowledge of English is limited to words which figure in the ordinary street conversation, and many curious results have followed. The custom usually observed by the teach CTS is to require such definition of the word, then it's derivation. and finally a sentence in which the word is properly used. The word Iigament' fell to the lot of a rather difident boy, recently, in the camac Grammar School, at Thirteenth and Norris streets. He defined 1t properly as a band, but followed up the correct derivation with this remarkable sen tence: T was wakened up last night by hearing a brass ligament going down the street."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24
ENGLISH HOUSE PARTTEs.
Lady Colin Campbell Says That They are
 Terrible Bores.


 Terrible Bores.
 1 From the Cosmopolitan
 No one who will honestly examine his soul on this question will not find the answer come out unhesitatingly and pat, Country house parties are a dead ly bore" The cloud already appears, bigger than mans hand, when you arrive at the end of the railway jour ney. You have to drive, probably in a closed carriage, which is already bad enough, for some miles in company with fellow victims upon whom you have never set eyes before. You have to make conversation; dive for points of contact, It is horribly depressing! You talk about the state of the roads, the landscape Of 1t Is summer), the fine ness of the trees, the last new play, the new woman, any of the trite subjects which language was invented to avoid, and you feel your brain becoming sen sibly more pulpy every moment, till you look forward to the goal of your journey, which you regarded a short time before with chill distaste, as a ha- ven of relief. But when you reach it, you are dlscouragingly conscious that, in spite of your best efforts, your greet ing must wear forced and pinchbeck air; and after tea, during which such acquaintances as may be present greet you with an intimacy which you prob with a what-kind-of-a-pers will-this- turn-out-to-be air which stiffens your alreadyrising bristles, you are glad to gather your forces for the series of tri- als which now lie before you. You will find yourself posed at ten o'clock in the morning with the hopeless question, "Now what would you like to do?" Under pains of appearing rude and un- sociable, you cannot insist too much. To save your temper the annoyance of further discussion, you accept any pro- posal that is put forward. Such propo- sals are generically similar; their result is that you are sent off, against your will, to do nothing, in which employ ment you are to be aided by compan- ions in slavery, who probably feel the weight of the chains as much as your self and are equally engaged in the endeavor to appear as if there was nothing they liked so much On occa- sions of the. kind, have felt am almost irresistible inclination to do anything to prove that I have not lost my indi- vilual will; climb the nearest tree, for instance, or roll in the nearest flower bed; but, fortunately for my reputation, I have hitherto been able to preserve my self-control far enough to avoid such open breaches of civilized deco rum.
 But to revert to the average week. day afternoon. The marked difference between this and the morning is that you are frankly and openly constrained to do the will of your hosts and not your own. You are one of certain number of pawns in theit hands, to be moved sas they please will take, as
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24
LIGHTNING.

There is one advantage in living in city, even in such a dusty city as New Haven. One's person or property is not so apt to be struck by lightning in city as if said person or property were in a country town. The reason for this is supposed to be that the great number of wires devoted to the trans mission of man-rnade electricity in cit les carry safely to earth much cleo tricity that is made in the skies. This matter has received careful attention in Germany where official reports from nine hundred cities show that the dan ger from lightning strokes is four times greater in towns without telephone wires than in towns thus equipped.
 That the danger from lightning is not to be sniffed at Is indicated by the fact that the weather bureau records show that the number of persons killed in this country by lightning since 1891 was 7S4, yearly average of 196. A record kept at St. Louis from 1882 to 1887 reports 1,O3O fatalities, yearly average of about 200. During this period the number of persons in- jured was 2,592. The buildings struck and consumed were 7116, an average loss of $1,651 for each recorded light ming stroke The insurance companies in the past eight years have sustained losses from 3,516 fires caused by light ndng, involving loss of more than $12, 100000. Of the trees struck 54 per cent. were oak, 22 per cent. elm, and 15 per cent. pine. The most of the dam age from lightning was on flat land.
 As summer draws nigh 1t will be cheering to feel that those who live in New Haven are not likely to be struck by lightning, It is not, how ever, cheering to feel that they are cer- tain to be struck by dust.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24

rammed the Tennessee, the admiral was in the port mizzen-rigging, where, Watson says, 1T secured him with my own hands to prevent his being thrown out of the rigging by the shock of the collision"
 John Hazard Knowles was born at South County Rhode Island, August 10, 1884. At the time of his death he had just completed his enlistment having been continuously in the navy since May 15, 1855. He served on the Constel- lation, Brooklyn, Donegal and Phlox, and on the Hartford during the whole war, participating in all her engage ments. Since 1868 he had been attached to the Naval Academy. He was proud of the fact that he was a ''true-born American of old Roger Williams stock," !" and that he hoisted the first Rear-Ad- miral's flag in the United States navy, June, 1862.
 He had "a fine record in the service, and was a good specimen of the linen behind the guns"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24
LINrNG UP.

Some interesting signs of the times
 have made themselves manifest in the
 South since President Cleveland's stir
 ring letter on the silver question. It
 has been generally supposed that the
 South was very sdlvery. Many of the prominent southern politicians are silver men. In Kentucky a legislature is to be
 chosen this year which will elect a
 United States Senator, and Blackburn, whose term is about expiring, announces that he will make his canvass on the free-coinage platform. Senator Harris of Tennessee is out in an interview de- claring for "the utilization and the re- mobilization of silver to its position as money metal" etc. And Senator Pugh of Alabama has written 8 long letter to the same effect How correctly these astute gentlemen have measured the sentiment of their States remains to be seen, but 1t is already evident that their views concerning silver are not going to be unanimously approved by their constituents. Most of the leading news papers of the South have already de- clared against free coinage, and a move ment is on foot all over the South for g. sound-money convention to be held at Memphis on the 2Sd of May. The first steps for this meeting were taken by the commercial organizations of Mem phis, the Cotton Exchange, Merchants and Lumber Exchanges, the Manufact- urers' Association, and the Young Mems League, which held a. joint meet ing and adopted a. call for "a conven- ton to be composed of delegates to be chosen by the people of the Southern States who believe in the necessity of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24

sound and stable currency and better banking facilities in order to fully re- store and in the future to maintain pros- perity among the people," Many letters have been received from southern cities and towns promising hearty co-opera- ton, and there is said to be no doubt of the success of the convention.
 A similar lining up process is going on all over the country and will con- tinue to go on until 1t is complete. The issue is a plain and a pressing one. It cannot be shirked and 1t ought not to ha
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24

and under little jacket it completes a half-season street costume without the pearls, With the pearls 1t may go with any one of the pretty elaborations of short zouave jackets of which the white shirt will seem a part. By sub stituting bands of emerald and jet for the pearls, the garment may be worn with a skirt of emerald silk lined with white and enriched with jet. Then when all Is said and done, this same shirt waist can take dip into the wash tub and run the round successfully again.
 Not so many uses can be claimed for the garment sketehed here, though it is more ornate and elaborate. Made of sapphire blue silk, with a fitted back of bias stuff, 1t has vest or cream white mousseline de soie, banded twice with golden galoon. A sapphire blue satin ribbon Is used as belt and is finished with big bows at the sides and rhine stone buttons in front. There is a sep arate fichu collar of cream moire made with a sailor collar In back and edged all around with frill of dotted chiffon Rosettes of the same are placed at the sides of the collar.
 Many undeniably correct dresses have their skirts and sleeves to match, the rest of the bodice not even harmonizing with skirt and sleeves. Chiffon still reigns, though it Is no longer the newest thing. It is most often seen made into tiny pleats. FLORETTE.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24

being the more usual hospitable device for the pleasing of guests, that of being driven to places of interest. This, to begin with, entails a hap-hazard group ing of the pawns which may turn out quite contrary to their taste Even the morning experiences are better; for if, during them, you find yourself chafed beyond endurance, you can always, as a last resort, invent some plausible eX- cuse for leaving your companions and making your way to the house to sooth your nerves a little in welcome solitude, But 1t is quite impossible for you to stop the carriage and insist upon getting out.
 The drive back may be preceded by a redistribution of the pawns. Unless, however, you have extraordinary luck, this will produce no amelioration of your lot. and you will reach the live o'cock tea table tired out, nerves ex- hausted, depressed.
 Dinner time, which follows, Is per- haps the least trying portion of your country-house social experience. It Is not better, and, on the whole, 1t IS prop- ably not worse than the usual dinner party. True, there Is often imported into the conversation an undue admix- ture of horsy and doggy talk; ana nor unfrequently, also, there is dispropor~ tionate discussion. among county peo- ole who may be present, of people and questions of merely county or local im- portance, in which it is really beyond the power of visitors from other parts of the country to beat up any interest. StilI. the dinner, and the after dinner, is less trying than the rest of the day,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24
The Early Rising Delusion.

The popular notion that early rising is good for all classes, usually ex- pressed in the jingling proverb, "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise" is prob ably an error caught by the cultivated from the common people, and main tained partly because they thought 1t must be true, but chiefly because they were anxious to be rid of the noise and
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24

For some time the Russian govern ment has been trying ito trace the origin of the counterfeit notes which have been freely circulated in St. Peters burg and elsewhere. The authorities felt certain that they were engraved abroad, and sharp lookout was kept on the custom-houses for long time without result. Finally large consign- ment of pencils was sent through the eustom-house. On the German iron tier they were inspected and passed in the regular way. An official hap pened to drop one. This was after ward picked up by another employee. On the next day the finder undertook to sharpen it, when he discovered that it had no lead, but banknote had been carefully rolled and inserted where the lead should be. The pencils had been dispatched from England.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24
Advertising Rates.

Situations, Wants Rents and other smeil ad- verttsements One Cent 8 Word each iIser- ton. Five cents e word for full week Cseven bmes},
 Display Advertisements-Per inch, ono i1s sertion, 1.20, each subsequent insertion, 90 cents; one week, So.20; one mouth, Sl0; one year, $40.
 Obituary noticea, in prose or verse. lh cents per line. Notices of Births, Marriages. Deaths and Funerals 50 cents each. Local notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to their own tiOnablel, and their contracts do not include Wante, To Let, For Sale, etc.
 Dtscounts-On two Inches or more. one month and over, l0per cent; on four inches or more one month and over. l5 per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24

A citizen of Vienna who died lately left a diary of all his expenses from seventeen to seventy. Tn that time he smoked 62S,713 cigars, of which 43,639 were given to him; the rest cost $12, BOO. He wore eighty-five pairs of trou- sers and seventy-four coats and vests, but only sixty-two pairs of socks For drink, the record is for fifteen years only; he had 2S,78e glasses of beer and 36,OS1 other drinks, which cost him s5,14o, besides $1,O3O for tips.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24

The French camps in Madagascar will be surrounded with electrical currents so arranged that the approach of any one will be automatically signalled, even if the sentinels are asleep.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24

Italy is thinking of reducing the cost of her universities by suppressing the smaller ones. The cost of each student to the State, after deducting the fees they pay, is as follows in the different universities: Naples $4S, Turin $69, Bol- ogna $92, Pavia. $94, Palermo $102, Genoa $1os, Padua $11O, Catania $12S, Rome $40, Modena $2O4. Messina $2O6, Pisa $2OS, sassari $2O9, Parma $262 Cagliari $269, Siena $272. Naples has 5000 stu dents and Siena less than 200. There is much local opposition to the reduction, but it is difficult to defend the existence of separate universities at places as near to each other as are Messina and Catania, Pisa and Siena, Parma, Mode ma and Bologna, or the two universities for the island of Sardinia
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24
Notice.

wecannot accept anonymous or return re- jeoted communications. In all cases the name Of the writer will be required. not for publtoa- t1on. but as a Ruarante rood faith.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24

And now they say that "all the worlds wheel, and all the men and women on it merely wheelers."
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24
FASHION NOTES.
Of All Around UsefuIness.

One of the most useful garments that a woman can have is a shirt waist of white wash silk, made with enormous soft sleeves, a pleated back setting into the figure. a French bag front and a high collar. With a high collar of pearls from which will droop three pearls planned to adjust themselves to the folds of the bag-front, the waist is quite elaborate enough to serve for the theatre, or. with a white silk or broad cloth skirt, make charming house costume. With dark serge skirt
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24

The exactness with which science in vestigates the modern murder mystery is illustrated in the case of Durant, the young man in San Francisco who is charged with the killing of woman there. On her clothing have been found fragments of human hair and horse hair, which prove, on microscopic examination, to be respectively five two thousandths and twenty y-one-four thousandths of an inch in thickness. corresponding thus, it is said, with Durant's hair and that of the horse he rode on the day of the crime.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24


 Modjeska has run across a novel ad- vertisement of herself, but it Is neither pleasant nor profitable. Having been expelled from Russia recently, she IS now in Berlin. She has appealed to United States Ambassador Runyon to intervene in her behalf. She supposes that she was expelled on account of a speech, in favor of the Poles, which she made in Chicago. She entered Russia with her full company, she says, under contract to play in Warsaw, Moscow and Odessa. As required, she deposited 2,OO0 roubles surety with the Warsaw authorities and posted her bills. Then she received notice to quit Russia with in twelve hours. No reason was given, and the deposit was not returned.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-24

Chauncey M. Depew's recipe for hap piness in old age is well worth trial. It is: Keep in touch with the young. Join in their games, be partner in the dance, romp the fastest and turn the quickest in the Virginia reel or the country dance; go up to the old college and sit down and light your pipe and sing college songs; take the children to the theatre and howl with them at the roaring farce, and laugh with them at the comedy and cry with them at the tragedy; be their confidant in their love affairs, and if they are not equal to it write their love letters, and never stop writing some for yourself.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-03-16
The Missing Man.

Hon. W. P. Woods returned at noon today from a bootless search for Jas. Whalley. It appears that on Sunday last MT. Woods drove in the direction of the Union race track where he cut the footprints of a man going east. R4turn- ing to Tucson he procured pair of Whalley's shoes and again took up the trail of the missing man. The shoes and tracks were measured and were found to be identical. Of this there could be no mistake. Today accom- panied by trail CT and other parties. he continued hIs search and was rewarded Tn finding a number of letters that had been torn up by Wh8lley. About 4 miles east of here on the way to Papago stati n, the trail was abandoned and all parties re turned home. One of the destroyed letters was addressed to J. H. for J. w ] Whalley. Another received in Tucson Feb. l7, was addressed to Mrs Jane Whalley. These disclosures leave no doubt for a moment as to the direction the man has gone.
 MT. Woods is of the firm belief that Whalley is not dead but that be has skipped the country and will in due time be heard from. So confident is L e in this belief that he will devote no more time in looking for him. If mls- taken" he said, "why that is all there is about It, but you must produce the body before I take any more stock in it" The general belief is, and it grows stronger daily, that MT. Woods is right in his surmises and that Whalley has simply left the country.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-03-16
Street Railway Franchise.

The city council met last night and granted John M. Ormsby the right to construct, operate and maintain on the several streets of Tucson street rail- way lIne. The franchise is for 25 years and the branch to be constructed frem the corner of Main and Messilla streets must be begun in six months and con- pleted to the depot within one year. The other branches must be completed within five years. It is the intention of the promoter of this enterprise that the first line shall be run north on Main street to Pennington to Stone avenue, to Congress, to Sixth aver ue, to Pen niLgton and thence to the Southern Pacific depot. The branch, commenc- ing at the corner of Congress and South Meyer, along Meyer to Mccormick, to Stone avenue, to Congress, interesting the Pennington street line at that point As soon as possible Mr. Ormsby expects to form a joint stock company In the same manner as the electric light com
 pany WAS formed, composed entirely of home capital, and to get as many in- terested as possible, so as to make it popular with our own people. This IS 8 move in the right direction to improve the city and it IS hoped that the enter prise will be carr,ed to an early con- pletion. A street railway can be built cheaper at this time than for many years as there is large amount of sec ond hand material to bs had Tn large cities where they are changing from cable to electric lines. Let every one join in helping thus worthy enterprise and let us have a street car line in the old Pueblo. There is no doubt but that it will be paying investment from the start besides helping the town. With the north and south railroad and street car line we will be putting on metropoli- tan airs.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-03-16
A Storm at Sea

Increases the discomfort of the voyager. But even Mhen the weather IS not tenn pestuous he is liable to sea sickness. They who traverse the gigantic wet ness'' should be provided with Hostel ter's Stomach Bitters, which quiets dis ordered stomachs with gratifying speed ard certainty. To the heartful influence of tropic, malarious or too rigorious or damp climate, as we'll as to the baneful effects of unwholeso me diet and bad wa- ger, it IS reliable sntidote. Commer- cial travellers by sea or land, mariners, miners, western pioneers, and all who have to encounter vicissitudes of cll- mate and temperature, concur iD pro- nouncing it the best safeguard. It pre- vents rheumatism and pulmonary at tacks ID consequence Of damp and cola, and it IS an efficient defense against all forms of malaria. It can be depended upon in dyspepsia, liver and kidney trouble.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-03-16
The Mineral Market.
The Heavy End of a Match.

"Mary," said Farmer Flint at the | breakfast table as he asked for a second cup of coffee. "I've made a discovery
 "Well, Cyrus, you're about the last one I'd expect of such thing, but what is it?"
 "I have found that the heavy end of a match is it's light end responded Cyrus
 with grin that it would have adorned | a skull.
 Mary looked disgusted, but with an air of triumph quickly reformed, i've got discovery too. Cyrus. It was made by Dr. R. V. Pierce. and is called a l Golden Medical Discovery It drives away bIotches and pimples, purities the ! blood, tones up the system and makes one feel braud-bew. Why, iC cured Cousin Ben who had consumption and was almost reduced to skeleton. Be- fore his wife began to use it she was a pale, sickly thing, but look at her: she's rosy-cheeked and healthy, and weighs I65 pounds. That Cyrus ls discovery that's worth mentioning" Young or middle-aged men, suffering from premature decline of power. how ever induced, speedily and radically cured. Illustrated book sent securely sealed for 10 certs in stamps. Worlds Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo NY.
Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-03-16
Wanted-An Odd Fellows Home.


 The following letter is self explana- tory.
 Ed. CITIzEN:-
 The Odd Fellows of the Territory of Arizona have decided upon the erection of a Home and Sanitarlum, at such point as may offer the most liberal and avail able inducements ID the way of build ing sit, lands to be used in the main- talnance of the institution, or funds for the erection of the buildings, any one or all of these. The institution will be permanent and will be of ever increasing importance and continuous growth and will no doubt become the home, either permanent or temporary, of large num- l b, rs of Odd Fellows, and their friends, who of necessity are obliged to seek a mllder aud more congenial climate than many other parts of the country affords. The "Home"will be 8 desirable Hd- junct to any community, as well as a source of great relief and benefit to humanity, and YOU are cordially invited to indicate to the undersigned Commit tee, through it's Chairman, what induce ments, if any, your comm nity, or sny individual member f it, IS willing to offer by way of securing it's locat on and construction ID or near your enterpris- ing city.
 EMIL MARKS, Chairman, Bisbee, Ariz. SAMUEL HILL, Pr. scott, Ariz.
 w. D. MoRToN, Sec'y, Mesa City, Ariz. Committee.