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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-01-22
OGDEN.
Suit by Ogden City.

City Attorney r. II. Whipple has
brought suit % ,aiust Daniel humuB
county tn1 collector, 10 compel MIN Go
ray iut1 tue city treasury tho sum of
$3.50 go. Mr.. HhmvT retained THE
amount Of the aAes collected iu
1888 until tue city would allow him "A
credit oi 81 uu each tax sale oertih cntu
made " tue oily Ul sale for 1893 tax,
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-01-22

MI ~. n. Taylor, manager OF the
Denver branch OF the Ovrrman wheel
Company, DO here with the coming
wheels, for the ensuing year The
latest model 0f tho well known Victor
make DO q dandy aud uvury wheulmau
that has Inspected it returns the yor-
ilct that 20 ls Bs near perfection ns can
be-. Drop iulJ JruHen'F, 90 H. First
south street, and view them before you
make your final selection,
Or. Prices Cream BakinE Powder
Worlds fair Highest Medal and Diploma.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
Doing More Than he Promised.

A story is told of Pittsbucg oil
producer who was putting down well,
some years ago, in a territory that had
never been tested for oil. He was
keeping the fact a profound secret, in
order that, in case he got gcoa we'll,
he might without difficulty secure all
the leases he desired in the vicinity.
He was on the ground himself, watch
ing with great interest the indications.
Everything pointed to success. Two
days before the we'll was expected to
come in, he was called home. An1-
ious about the result, he arranged with
his contractor to telegraph him as soon
as the drill reached the sand. He
knew, however, that secrets will some
times leak out of telegraph Office.
and so he told the drilier that the
sentence, "Pine trees grow tall, would
mean that he had struck oil. The
drilter promised to do as he was Or
dered. The mingled satisfaction and
vexation of the producer may be imag-
ined when two days later, he received
the following telegram: '.Pine trees
grow tall. She's squirting clean over
the derrick !"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
Origin of Street Lighting.

The custom OF lighting the streets
dates back to remote antiquity. In
the cities OF Greece the streets were
lighted after fashion by means OF
very old fashioned lamps suspended
or set in sockets in prominent posi-
tions. Similar plans were followed
in Rome and in the Egyptian cities,
and relics of these have been found
which date back to the fourth CEN
tury before Christ. The lamps used
were for the most part primitive in
form. Many of them were made OF
skulls of animals or of sea shells OF
convenient size and shape,
The general principal of these
lamps was copied in the stone cups
and boxes used in later years. The
lights at best were very inadequate,
and it was customary for those who
yentured on the streets at night to
carry blazing torches. Crime OF all
sorts flourished under such q system.
1t was not uncommon in ancient
Rome to find number Of dead and
mangled bodies lying about the
streets every morning.
The lamps used in this period were
exquisitely decorated, but for several
centuries not single Improvement
was made to increase the light. The
lamps were made usually Of bronze
and covered with figures in bas relief
taken from mythology or from sub
jects Of daily life.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
corns on Horses Feet.

A common cause for lameness
among horses is COINS, and they may
be growing for several months before
they give evidences Of their existence.
Horseshoers closely watch the feet
of the horses they shoe for evidences
of these disturbers, and are often
able to get rid OF them before they
have done much injury. Corns on a
horses hoofs usually form just above
the heel and where the hair joins the
hoof. They then grow down into the
hoof as the hoof itself grows, and
about the first knowledge the horse
shoer has of their existence is when
he pares the hoof and uncovers the
corn.
1t is often the case that they have
festered while in the hoof, and when
an incision is made large sized hole
is found. In some establishments
ointment is used for the cure of
corns, but in others it is considered
best to protect them from gravel and
stones, and permit them to grow out
with the hoof and be cut off with it.
The shoes on Arabian horses, which
are required to go long distances in
the hot sand, are solid pieces OF iron.
an opening being left only for the
frog. They are fastened to the hoof
with unsightly looking nails, and
altogether are cumbersome affairs,
yet they serve the purpose of protec-
tion to the hoof.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
yagaries Among the Rose Bushes.

There are many curious and inter-
esting features in all floral culture, and
none more so than the complete
changes of both color and habit, by
planting in close contiguity, or in
changing from one soil and locality to
another, we're different conditions
prevail.
A lovely blush rose of most upcoml-
mon beauty and fullness of petals was
|eremoyed to home not five miles dis
tant, and when it blsomed it ewa's
ouly a half double and 'iust CON-
mon red rose" Its owner was much
disappointed and most positive that
blush rose had not been sent Not
daunted, she tried again, and this
time she sow the rose taken from the
parent clump, yet lo,when it bloomed
next summer it was still again almost
single, and only common red rose.
The blush rose had grown in g. poor,
limerick soil, and was transplanted
into rich black loamy soil. No other
reason was discovered.
White roses have become tinted
and colored ones have paled by being
too closely set, one against the other.
Interlacing of the roots and mlngllng
of the pollen was the apparent cause
of the changes.
The most curious accidental change
on REGARD is that Of row OF half
double, old-fashioned red cluster
roses set alternately with half dousle
common white cluster roses After 8
while there was q period OF neither
doing well, and many absolutely died
OF, Those left were carefully nur-
tured and responded to enriched soil
and good cultivation by sending forth
large, full very double roses, but
only one bud on each long stem and
OF a very delicate shade of pink, and
strangest of all, the wonder of won
ders, they were thornless. Where
sad the thorns gone, and why? Here
was a change from half double to
double; from the habit of the old
fashioned cluster to the new style OF
long single stems, and no thorns.
Surely nature is skillful manipula-
tor and full of unaccountable yagaries.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
0uear Advertising Scheme.

One of the most clever schemes in
advertising ever perpetr ated was one
which q Chicago theatrical house
worked. The management announced
through the papers that it would give
a free admission and seat to every boy
who would bring an empty barrel to
the rear entrance of the theatre. The
next morning the street was packed
with boys carrying barrels, which in
itself would have been good adver-
tisement, but the clever management
had something behind ell this. A bill
poster was on hand and as each boy
presented his barrell show bill was
pasted upon it and it was returned to
the boy with theatre ticket and in
structions to take the barrel back to
the place where he found it. In this
way advertising matter was distributed
all over the city, and it made great
hit.-New York Sun.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02

The habit of moving is still strong
in the American people, or it may be
that it is in the climate, for natives
and newcomers possess it alike. Many
of the changes made, doubtless, are
in a process Of betterment, but many
others appear to be just for changes
sake. The other week aparty of Ken
tricky and West Virginia farmers
passed through Kansas City on their
way to settle in Kansas. Very likely,
suggests the New York Sun, they
passed on their journey West large
party of farmers from Kansas, Ne
braska and Illinois, who started re-
Gently to and new homes in Virginia
and Georgia. And in the same week
some families in Russell County, Kan
sas, were preparing to join colony
Of ex-Kansans in Wyoming. Such
migrations from one State to another
are constantly in progress, and usually
they are in the nature of simple
interchange ofiinhabitants.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
Force of the Human Jaw.

DR.. j. V. Black, dentist of jack
sonville, Fla, has made some expert
ments as to the force exerted by the
human jaw in chewing food. He says
that the amount of pressure recorded
in a single bite varies from 30 to 27O
pounds. This maximum record, it is
interesting TO note, was made by g
physician. The crushing force neces'
sary to masticate ordinary beefstak,
DR.. Black says, is only 40 to Al
pounds. He says that usually good
deal more force is applied than is nec-
essury, w., fran sixty to 80 pounds,
aud he laments somewhat this waste
OF energy.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
Name to Conjure With.

They tell good story in Dalton of
q recent revival meeting in one of the
rural districts of Whitfield County.
In the middle of the services the
preacher said:
"Will Brother Smith please lead in
prayer?"
Seven men arose and began praying
at once.
This embarrassed the preacher, and
he said, hurriedly:
''I mean Brother John Smith"
At this announcement one sat down
and five more got up and began pray
ing>s The preacher saw his mistake,
said nothing and let the eleven pray it
out among themselves. Atlanta Con-
stitution.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
Birds that are Odd In Various Ways.

Birds that are qua In various Wayss
A canary bird carried in closed
cage from Charlottenburg, near Ber-
lin, to London escaped in the last
named city, and found its way back
to it's German home inside of two
days and one night:
w. F. Williams, of Six-mile Ranch,
near Buffalo, Wyoming, captured a
specimen of the blackbird family that
was pure creamy white and had pink
eyes. :.
A representative of an unknown
species of bird has been captured at
Woodlawn, Cal. It IS without
feathers, the body covering being
blacx, stiff, bristly hairs. 1t has a
.ood-red beak and green feet.
The British cuckoo and the Ameri-
can COW blackbird are the only two
known species of the bird family that
never build nests. They deposit their
eggs in nests made by other birds.
The crow can make speed of twen-
ty-five miles per hour, one hour with
another for whole day. The spar
row hawk can beat brother crow about
six to one, and the humming bird can
cover a distance of 275 miles in the
space of sixty seconds.
Professor Orton says that the con-
dor scars higher than any other
species of the feathered tribe. He
further says that it spends nine-tenths
of its life at height of over three
miles above the sea level.
The only species OF 5srnivo1ous
parrot known lives nesc The great
sheep folds in Australia, and is so
fierce that it will attack live sheep
and cut their throats with ita st>ong
beak. New York Advertiser.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02

panion in his voyages, but on one 90.
casion it was decided that the do"
must be left at home. The eve of the
Captains departure had come. The
dog lay doing before the fire, and
gave no sign of interest when his mas
ter said in ordinary tones, ''We must
shut up Jack in the barn tonight, or
he will try to follow me in the morn
ing"
Presently Jack barked to be let out
and no one thought any more about
him until bedtime, when he was to be
made prisoner. Then no Jack was to
be found. In vain were whistling,
calling, coaxing, and scolding, and at
last the puzzled master gave up the
search.
The next morning the Captain
started before dawn on his long tramp
to the neighboring port There his
sailors were waiting to row him to his
vessel, which was one of large fleet
lying In the harbor at some distance
from the shore. AS they threw near
his own vessel the Captain was aston
ished to see the familiar head OF Jack
watching his approach with evident
interest, and probably with varied
emotions.
The dogs appearance had been as
great mystery to the sailors during
the night as it was now to the Captain.
Shortly after midnight they had been
startled by whining and scratching
at the vessels side, and had been de-
lighted to find their friend Jack beg
ging to be taken from the water to the
deck.
There is no reason to doubt that the
creature had fully understood his
masters purpose, and determined to
forestall it. How he accomplished his
long tramp to the port, swan across
the harbor, and, in the darkness,
selected his masters vessel from the
large fleet of similar craft, leave it
to some master of canine psychology
to explain. I simply state the facts
as know them to have occurred
Youths Companion.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02

The Superior Court at Cincinnati,
Ohio, has decided that railroad is
not obliged to carry passenger who
makes business of conveying mer-
chandise between stations to supply
customers. One A. J. Smith had
built up quite business as purchas-
ing agent for persons living along the
line of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad, and was in the
habit Of carrying his purchases on the
train rs he rode back and forth. The
railroad had a contract with an ex-
press company, agreeing to give to DO
one beside the express company the
privilege Of carrying merchandise on
its passenger trains. In accordance
with this contract Smith was forbid
den the privilege of carrying his
bundles on the trains, the company
refusing to carry him as passenger
with his usual load of satchels and
bundles. Smith saed the railroad,
claiming that as he had Communication
ticket he was entitled to passage on
the trains of the railroad from whose
agents he purchased it, no matter how
D.
many bundles he carried. The court
decided sgainst him on the ground
that the railroad only undertook to
carry personal baggage on its passen-
ger trains for passengers, and that
personal baggage only included wear
ing apparel and personal effects, and
not general merchandise;
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
Russian Thistle aHoeing Bees"

Western farmers find that individual at.
tempts at fighting the Russian thistle avail
nothing because the plague grows again
faster than the individual farmer can find
time to hoe it down; so they I'll unite as
often as convenient to have "hoeing bees"
in designated localities. The details OF
operations are settled by the town councils,
every one in the neighborhood takes day
off to fight thistles, and in this way it is
possible to make at least some stand against
the persevering plague, and to keep some
sections fairly free for other than thistle
orone -rhicaoo Inter- Ocean,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02

dispelled by the discoveries OF Stan
ley; indeed, years before, the e1-
plorations of Schweinfurth had al
ready satisfactorily demonstrated thai
the tabled people OF Herodotus, or
others representing them, had frll
claim to recognition. Recently the
researches of the erudite traveller and
naturalist. Dybowski, in the western
equatorial forests, have put us in pos
session of many and valuable facts re-
garding these diminutiye people, the
Obongos, which help to clear away
the anecdotal from the true history OF
what must, for the moment, at least,
be considered among the most inter-
esting inhabitants of our planet. In
stature they are shown to be (prob-
ably) the smallest of all living peo-
pies; if the specimens selected for
measurement by NJ. Dybowski are at
all representative of the many, then
the average stature of the men can
not greatly exceed four and one-half
feet. In three cases the heights OBJ.
tanned were respectively four feet SIX
inches, four feet seven and one-quar-
ter inches, and four feet seven and
three-quarter inches-a stature far
below that of the Eskimo, who is in
popular (but erroneous) estimation q
true pigmy. Despite their diminutlye
frames the men are described as being
very powerful and courageous the
hunters having no fear of either wild
beast or attacking man.
A most striking feature of the peo-
pie is their light tint, the color OF
their skin being light bronze, barely
darker than the brown of the mulatto; {;
eyebrows and eyelashes are also both
fur, and the eyes have little of that
visual intensity which distinguishes
these organs among most negroes.
The greater part of the body is largely
hairy, the arms and chest being in
measure protected by short, almost
straight and nearly blonde down.
New Science Review.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02

The first trial at sea OF the Defender
was great disappointment to the ad-
vocates of aluminium as the metal of
the future, and many experts declare
against its utility. According to the
New York World, It proved SO lacking
in strength that the cleats and belay-
ing pins made out of it were SO twisted
and bent that they had to be dis
carded, and new ones of hand-wrought
steel substituted.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
The EitfeI Towers Successor.

1t has now been practically settled
that the chief sensation Of the Paris
exhibition of 1900 will consist of q
new bridge over the Seine 100 meters
broad, and with houses, theaters and
monuments on either side Of it, like
the Pont Neuf in olden days, not to
mention old London bridge. 1t will
span the Seine from thf Champs
Elysees to the Invalides.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02

General Greely's statement before
the international Geographical Con-
gress that in little more than two
centuries the drctic region has fur
nished the world with products worth
81. 200. 900, 900, viii surprise most
readers, and indicates 20 the New York
Mail and Express the possibilities of
that frozen region when human dar-
ing and ingenuity shall have per-
manently opened it to commerce.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02

Two Thousand million gallons or siA
million tons of petroleum is the an
nual output of the world; half Of this
is supplied by the United States, near
ly quarter comes from the Caspian,
26, 200, ,OC0 gallons from Galicia, 49,
600, ,0OO from Canada, and 10000
from Burmah. The working of the
wells in Burmah and Galicia is only
Just beginning, while the petroleum
basin OF the Mackenzie River isproba.
bly, the richest in the world.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
Canine Knowledge of Human Speech.

No dog lover requires proof that his
canine friends understand human
speech, and he is always ready to ac-
cept new evidence in favor of theory
already held Knowing this fact, o
correspondent narrates the exploit of
q sailor dog appropriately nam ed
Jack.
His master was the Captain of fish
ing vessel sailing from Provincetown.
Jack had often been his masters com.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02

According to the Popular Health
Magazine the Toronto (Canadal courts
have decided that tuberculosis shall
be classed under the head of contagious
diseases, and children SO affected are
now debarred from attendance on the
public schools.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
THE RULING PASSION.

"what this town needs" said the
public spirited citizen, lis extern
SION"
THAT'S it, replied the street rail.
way magnate.
"0f the streets. )"
mo. OF time" Washington
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
Ills Mothers Kiss.

It was her wont when, tired OF play
he to her bosom crept,
With golden locks in disarrdy,
To kiss him as he slept.
And still her plea would be but this .
'tI shall not wake him with kissi
$50 heavenly sweet his sleeping face
So beautiful and bright,
know the angels lift the lace
To kiss my boy goodnight.
For, see! he smiles in dreams OF bliss:
How should wake him with kiss?"
So die his mother say, and when
God whispered His sweet will, )
She only moaned: "He sleeps!" and then
s, Kneeling, she kissed him still:
And weeping, murmured only this:
81 cannot wake him with klss!"
-FRANK L. STANTON, Iu Chicago Times Her
aid.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02

The fec for professional visit of a
doctor in Nottingham, England, is
one shilling equal to twenty-five
cents; and even this pitsance, the New
York Independent relates, often has
to be traded out with the small shop
keepers, who consider it an exorbitant
demand
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02

Consul General Karel, at st. Peters
burg, has sent to the State Depart
ment a report upon the iron industry
Of Russia. He says Russia is rich in
iron oreand has plenty of fuel to de-
yelop the industry, but has not yet
made great progress. Compared with
other countries she Is considerably
bab;nd
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
Good Fortune Through Sheer Luck.

Good Fortune Through Sheer Luck.
No better instance of good fortune
coming through sheer luck could be
found, perhaps, than in the experience
of prospector named Mahoney, near
Kalispell, Montana, recently. Having
nothing whatever to do one afternoon,
he, out of pure fancy, as an idle boy
would throw stones at mark, drilled
hole into projecting hunk of rock
and put in shot, intending to blow
out ton or so of it just to see things
fly. When tine blast was made he
found that he had broken into treas
uro house. There was big pocket
in the rock the sides Of which sparkled
with almost pure gold. There was
enough in sight to net Mahoney a
handsome sum, and if the mine proves
as rich as tho surrGcs showing ind.
Gates he has struck bonanza.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02

Ever since the war the proportion
.. farmer immigrants to this country
has rapidly and steadily diminished.
most of the wage-earners appearing to
come from classes that did not follow
the plow.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
AT A DISADVANTAGE.

willie" said the teacher to the
new woman's son, ''you are o nice
little boy; but you shouldn't give up
so easily. You should be more
manly"
81 can't" replied Willie. in dis.
consolation. Everybody says
don't take after mother ."-Wash-
ineton Star.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
Where Shaving is Cheap.

Two BARRIERS are fighting for supremacy
on Fort street, in Springwells, Mich. The
contest has reached the point where one
offers to shave customers free, while the
other not only shaves them Stree but gives
them cigar.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02

Governor Budd, of California, has
aroused good deal of opposition
among semi-military organizations by
his refusal to allow them to carry any
but the American flag.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02
The pigmies of Equatorial Africa

Tie PigMleS OF EIuatOrlaI AIflCa.
Whatever doubt may have existed
in the minds of naturalists as to the
existence of true pigmy races in the
wilds of Central Africa, as was first
authoritatively reported by Du
Chaillu, has, as is well known; been
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-10-02

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