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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
TagliOni.

There was u dancer of whom it is i'm
possible not to speak, not, indeed, to tell
stories of her, for 1 know none, but to give
her tho first place which belongs to her in
dance history-Taglioni! Nature did not
most certainly intend that she should
dance, although she belonged to a family
of dancers, for as a child she was a most
wretched object-pale, crooked, wasted
but will and work made Of her a wonder.
Her debut was at Vienna. Her success,
however, was won in Paris, and Paris
claims her as its own. She appeared there
In 1897, but it was not till 1880 that, in
"Le Dieu ct la Bayadere," she took her
real place. In 1882 came "La Sylphide,"
a still greater triumph, in which even the
physical defects of Taglioni, especially her
phenomenal thinness, seemed almost to
add to the effect she produced.
She made d~iaphanousness the fashion:
''toutes les femmes essayerent de Sc vapor-
User, a paide de jupes de tulle, de NOUS
seine, ct de tarlatanc; lie blanc fut presquo
la seule couleur adoptee." The dance of
Taglioni was a revelation of new possible
tiles. It did not look human. She foated.
When she scared into the air, there seemed
to be no reason why she should come
down again. Her bounds were the flights
Of a bird.
She has had no successor. Stage dane
Ing has become a%crobatic. It is no longer
the dream of grace which she made of it.
AS she ceased in 1887 to dance in Paris, in
consequence, I think, of some dispute with
the management, it was in London thai
I saw her. She was not only %extraordi-
nary, but incredible. There was no believ-
ing that such aerial movements could be
performed by a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MAGAZINE.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
The "Father of IenrnsY.N

The gccko belongs to a family of thick
tongued lizards, which are widely distrib-
uted over the tropical and s%ubtropical
countries of Europe and Asia, and in all
countries where he is known he is thor
oughly despised. Because of his repulsiye
appearance he is called 'the father of lep-
rosy Down to times comparatively mod
ern it was firmly believed that contact
ether directly or indirectly with the little
reptile was sure to communicate leprosy.
The Investigations Of modern biologists
ave proved that the little animal is unde-
serving of his lame Of "father of leprosy,"
and that he is indeed q most harmless and
useful creature. Since the old belief in
the ability of this reptile to communicate
leprosy to any human flesh which might
come in contact with his warty, sore look
ing skin was exploded, he has retained his
Objectionable name solely on account of
the bad appearance he makes. His skin is
one mass of scaly and tuberculous excres-
oences that cover his body from the tin of
his tail to the end Of his nose. Every
quarter inch section Of this repulsive look
ing body has a general resemblance to the
~thickened, callous protuberances that an
pear on the human body in cases of lep-
rosy. On this account and no other the
harmless little gecko was given the name
OF being the progenitor of tho worst form
OF dlsease.-St. Louis Republic.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
Ancestors.

The search after ancestors inaugurated
by the Daughters of the Revolution and
Colonial Danes has developed strange re-
la%tionships. A very high and mighty per-
sonage, in tracing out the various descend
ants Of a famous Revolutionary general,
whose collateral descendant she was proud
to declare herself, found that the direct
descent ended in q poor charwoman whom
she had been in the habit of employing by
the day. 1t wa a lucky find for the latter,
for her large hearted and generous connec-
ton, exemplifying the old adage that
blood is thicker than water, proved a YER
liable Lady Bountiful to the family. She
educated the children, found a promising
opening for the son and pensioned off her
poor relation, whom the many reverses Of
health and fortune had quite broken down.
1t was a great good to arise from what
many deem a useless fad.
Mrs. AS experience was still less salts
factory. Formerly a believer in the direct
transmission of character, she has changed
her ideas, since she found in her pedigree
a declared criminal, proving that in Amer
lea it is not safe to place too much reliance
on ones ancestors.-New York Tribune.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
shooting stars- OF Meteors.

When we get down to talking shooting
stars, we begin to brush around in the
realm of something which all know some
thing about-at least, a great deal more
than we do about supposed fiery lakes in.
such gigantic worlds as Jupiter. While we
may think that we known all about shoot
Ing stars, the following will show that
there are bypaths In every branch Of
knowledge which even the wisest among
the common herd know but very little
about.
For an instance, Flammarion has an
nounced that the visible number Of shoot
ing stars which go sizzling through the
upper strata Of our atmosphere every "a
hours is not less than Z, 500, 600, and that
the telescope meteors increase this mum.
Der to 400, 600, 0O0! Professor Hardness,
making calculations on the same subject,
estimates the average weight Of these so
called burning stars to be only one
grain. Herschel says that their average
height above the earth is something like
7S miles and that they disappear as soon
as they strike the donse portions of our 1T
mosphere.-St. Louis Republic.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
woman,s Trust In Mans Honesty.

Surely woman's ingenuity is %unequaled.
Witness the way she takes care of her key
at the summer hotel or boarding house.
When a man takes up his abode at such d
place, he Tugs his key around with him or
leaves it at the office, and in almost any
event he as likely as not loses it. But
woman has discovered a new and sure way
of disposing of the article. She doesn't
lumber up her pockets with it, neither
does she leave it at the office, and rarely
indeed does she lose it. Her almost in
variable habit is to thrust it under the
strip Of mating covering the entry before
her chamber door, where it is supposed to
repose in peace and safety. This, too, not.
w~ithstanding the fact that the little hump
it produces in the carpet is by no means
invisible to tho naked eye. Nor is it with.
out significance to the average understand
ing. What is more, there is a similar lit
tie hump before each neighboring bedroom
door, SO that a glance down the entry re-
veals a whole double row Of such humps.
They speak volumes Of not only the in
genuity Of woman, but Of her sublime
faith in human nature.-Chicago Chron-
iCle.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
THE EVILS OF ovEREATlNG.
Unless Neutralized by Exercise High Feed
ing Is Extremely armfu

Unless Neutralized by Exercise High Feed.
ing Is Extremely Harmful.
l assert chat it is the duty Of the good
housewife to keep down the appetite of
her husband, writes the Rev. f. S. Root
In The Ladies' Homo journal. Particular
~ is this necessary in the cases of well to
do professional n business men. In the
families OF. mechanics earning low wages
such a warming is almost wholly unncces-
sary, but it may be said of most men in
good circumstances that they eat too freely
OF rich food. If men would begin careful
and systematic physical culture in early
youth and continue the practice through
life, good health would be the result.
Beyond the age of 40-at a period when
so many are physically lazy-the superior
value of exercise is apparent, but ordina-
rily this is just the time when the hygiene
of athletics Is neglected. There is no rea.
son why a punching bag, rowing machine,
pulley weights and other apparatus should
be RELOCATED to college boys and clerks.
But, having done a good deal of work in
his time, it is almost impossible to per-
suade a business or professional man turn
Ing 40 to give any sort of attention to
physical culture If such training has been
previously neglected.
Hence l say 1t is the duty of a woma
to keep from her husband all rich COM
pounds that will ultimately ruin his diges-
ton. High feeding is occasionally neu-
tralized by hard exercise, but in the alb
sence of the latter it is mischievous in the
extreme. If your husband will stand the
treatment, begin by switching off from
the heavy breakfast of steak, hot rolls, po-
tatoes, etc., and set before him eggs on
toast, oatmeal and coffee.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
A o WITH A MORAL.
She Patched Her Chum's Quarrel at the
Cost of Her Friendship.

81 Patched Her Chum's Quarrel at the
Cost of Her Friendship.
81 hear that you and Charley lave been
quarreling of late, " said the girl with tho
hair Topped over her ears.
"We have" said the girl with the DIM
pie in her chin, ''and it was all his fault
too. I have just finished a letter telling
him that it is all over"
"You surely wouldn't throw him over
with all the money he has, said the girl
with her hair Topped over her ears. cit
wouldn't be half rs easy to get him back
as If he had none. And, then, he spends it
just as freely as he would if he were quite
DOOR,
1T don't care, . flashed the girl with the
dimple in her chin. II hate him. He
he is awfully quarrelsome, and he would
die before he would ever confess that he
was in the wrong"
"Well, so would you, wouldn't youp'
ST? Of course 1 would, but that is q very
different matter. Why, he would probably
remind mo of it next time-men have no
tact. Besides he actually gave Lulu a
bunch of flowers yesterday"
swell, he was something of q firt be-
fore"-
II don't see how you come to know
anything about it. But TIN sure I don't
care how much he f1irts after this-provid-
ed he can find anybody to firt with"
"Oh, some girls will flirt with just any
body to keep in practice. There is Lulu
but you say you don't care any morc@'
"Of purse I don't. She is welcome to
what I have refused"
sob, she won't believe that. He will
tell her.
"I'm sure 1 don't care what he tells
her!"
"Of course not. If you did, I would not
tell you that I saw them out driving to-
gether this afternoon"
"Care indced-not I! Did they-were
they having a very nice timer"
"They seemed to be-. By the way, I
never noticed before that his nose was
quite crooked, did you?"
"Crooked, indeed! It is perfectly
straight. You ought to wear glasses, even
If they are not becoming"
eyes, he is an awful flirt. I believe he
would make eyes at any girl who would
let him. Why, there was Nellie, who''-
"He is not a firt. 1t is not his fault if
the girls will run after him!'
"Humph! I don't know about that.
Besides, as you say, he has an awful tenn
per, and it is just as well"-
II don't see what you know about his
temper. 1 consider it very good, and I
ought to know"
"And then his stubbornness is a great
fault. You are quite right, after all, to
throw him over, and I don't doubt that
Lulu-why, what are you doing?''
II am tearing up the horrid letter 1
wrote him. II have been treating him
badly Of late, and I shall tell him that our
quarrels are all my own fault, SO there!
And I hope you are satisfied, now that you
have tried to make mischief between us
and failed!"
"Well, I've done my duty" sighed the
girl with her hair Topped over her cars us
she went out. "but I have certainly lost
my chance of being bridesmaid. Chi.
ago Timcs-Hcrald.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
ROBBERS AIDED BY A HORSE.
A Trained Animal That Carried the Vic
tim to the Camp of the Rascaly.

A Trained Animal That Carried the VIC
tim to the Camp of the Rascals.
"When I was in Nebraska, near the
Snake river, north of the Great Sand hill.
In 1885," said a Lewiston citizen, eve had
four camps, situated about18 miles apart,
and to go from Thorne's camp to Dun
ham camp it was necessary to go through
q long piece Of pine woods. For a number
Of months every one who had gone
through the woods alone never came back.
One day it was necessary that I should 90
through with a lot of money and no es-
oort, and I set out Oh a horse that I got
from a stable keeper near Thorne's camp.
when l had nearly reached the woods,
five miles out, my horse was taken ill and
refused to go on. Clearly to my medical
eye it had been poisoned slightly by some
one. Soon what looked like a hunter came
along Oh a horse and offered to swap, TAX
ing mine back to the stable if I would
leave his near Durham camp with a trap
per. l ought to have seen through this,
but did not. I got IN to the powerful
horse of the stranger and started through
the five miles of woods. Half way through,
without any apparent reason, the horse
broke into a trot, q gallop, and finally a
ruin, and dashing off tho trail through the
woods picked his way among trees as nice
~ as if he had gone that way 100 times.
Pull as I would at the bride, he paid no
attention, but ran the faster. When he
had leaped a brook and landed on the sane
beyond, the marks of footprints alarmed
me and slipped off at the risk of my life.
He ran on up a rayine and I hid, fearing
that it was a trap, as it afterward proved.
In Il little while three men armed with
rifles came back on the trail, one riding
the horse, now as calm as a lamb. I pick
ed my way to the road and got out to the
camp.
"Two weeks later 10 of us followed a
man who hired a horse at the Same place
I did. 1t was taken ill, and the Same trap
per came along on the same horse. When
the horse dashed into The woods, as he
had been trained to do, 10 of us dashed
after him and finally arrived at q noun
tain camp Of tho robbers. We took evory
man-sevcno Of thcm-and, well, law was
not we'll supported out there then, and no
court sat nearer than 200 miles. We didn't
carry the rascals away from their own
campfire. The trained horse met the fate
Of it's owners. Lewiston Journal.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
Growth of Keats Fame.

In 1890, when Keats went to Rome to
find a grave beside tho old Aurelian wall,
he left behind III England scarcely a dozen
people who believed in his genius, and
who felt that he would be, according to
his own wish and prophecy, "among the
English poets after his DEATH" Moreover,
these few people were personal friends who
had felt the charm of his magnetic SINGER
ity and whose sympathies had been stirred
by the many attractive as we'll as pathetic
phases in his career. But as the years
passed the name of Keats began to be
beard more n more; the poetry he had
written began to interest and charm an
ever widening circle of readers, appealing
with special power to minds of the highest
order.
Not only was admiration shown for the
rare product of Keats genius, but the per-
sonal tradition of the poet began to excite
attention. Lord Houghton, having met
Charles Armitage Brown in 1888 at Wal
ter Savage Landor's villa at Fiesole and
received from him the invaluable records
which Brown had cherished in the hope Of
some time being himself the b%iographer
of Keats, felt not only inspired to write
his famous ''Life Of Keats" published in
1848, but was convinced that his book,
containing as it did so many Of the poets
remarkable letters, would receive a warm
welcome. He had his wish. Every student
of literature welcomed it for it's authentic
records of a poet every day growing dearer,
and every lover of Keats welcomed it, as it
corrected many current misconceptions
and showed Keats to be-what he truly
was-not only a rare poet, but a man of
strenuous character, clear Judgment, dig
nifty and power.-"Keats In Hampstead, =
by Kenyon West, in Century.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
Blistering q Corpse.

One of the so called '%sunfailing tests Of
death" which have been introduced into
France, Germany and Holland during the
past few years is known among the under
takers as 'sthe blistering precaution,'' and
consists Of producing a blister on the
hands, feet and some other exposed por-
ton Of the body of the supposed corpse.
The test is said to be infallible for this
reason: If the blister produced by the APP
plication of lighted candle or redhot iron,
or fire in any form, is shown to contain
water or a waterish fluid upon being
opened, there is still life in the body, and
q burial under such circumstances would
not be advisable. On the other hand,
should the blister be empty or contain
steam only. the sorrowing friends may
rest assured that the vital spark has flown,
and that there is no danger that the corpse
is being "buried alive. st. Louis Re-
public.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
THE BANK WON THE BETS.
Yet When the Game Was Closed the Bank.
er Was Broke.

Yet When the Game Was Closed the Bank.
er Was Broke.
cold Duke Dodge was a fairly sudden
man; kept pretty well up with the process
sions," said an old timer. "He turned fare
bank or whatever was She handiest way at
the time to make a living, SO it wasn't
manual labor. One day I met Old Duke
at Rock Island as I was coming back from
Iowa.
"'Got any money, son?' said Duke. He
always called me son.
"sAbout $3.50, I replied.
"tLend it to me, and I'll open a game
for 'em here, said Duke. This town Is O
sucker in the lump, and it's crazy to play
faro bank
$50 old Duke made up a bank roll OF
$500. He had cards and a deal box and
easily improviseda layout and was ready
tor action. For chips he went over to a
dry goods store and bought a box Of those
wooden button molds that they make over.
A0at buttons with.
"Then old Duke Dodge turned loose.
The natives came a-running, and the way
they set In against the game reminded you
Of a lot of turkeys around a peck of corn.
"The bank won from the jump, and
Duke was chuckling. AS nearly as you
oOuAu guess U1Ac Sulu0 WAS 14UV anoAQ al
the end Of an hour.
"AI at one Duke noticed an awful
thing. He called my attention to it. This
was the horrible phenomenon: While the
3ank had won every big bet-for Duke
was a mighty careful dealer-and two.
thirds OF the others, and while he had, as
he found on counting up, full twice as
many button molds as Duke ever did buy
to begin with, there was still over $500
worth of button molds in the hands of the
Rock Island populace clamoring for &C.
ton. 1t was worse than a miracle; it was
a robbery.
"And Duke had to make EN- good: had
to cash every button mold of 'em. 1t broke
him flat, but the town would have killed
him if he'd renigged. There the game
had won for an hour, and yet he wa a
bankrupt when he got through settling.
Those thieves had simply gono over to
the same store Duke did and bought out
the balance of the stock Of button molds
and stood 'em against the game. They
even tried to play a stack of pants buttons
on the ace open-one man did-but Duke
saw it in time and barred pants buttons.
"'Jf I'd gone on and won another hour,
son. said Duke to me as we walked down
the railroad track after the game, I'D
owed $4,000. It's fortunate my luck
wasn't any better. Washington Post
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
SUNSET.

Sunset, and from the western hills a bridge
OF stone gray cloud o'erspans the dying day,
And grapples with a long, dark verdant ridge
That rises from an emerald vapor bay.
Der this expallsc three doves i'll graceful flight
Seek the cool shadows as they landward soar,
Enrcd by the outstretched arms Of one in white
Who stands in waiting on that other shore.
With eyes liked on the mansions of the Lc I'd
That crown the hanging gardens sloping face;
Forgotten is the loosened silver cord
OF him who rouscs, turns oward tho scene
The jasper castles on that distant crest
Then slips across tho bridge and treads the
green
With his beloved in that isle of rest.
Randall N. Saunders in Good Housekeeping.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
A SURPRISING YANKEE WOMAN.
Weighs Three Hundred Pounds, Works
Big Farm and Is Il Terror to Tramps.

Weighs Three hundred Pounds, Works 81
Big Farm and Is Il Terror to Tranps.
"In northern New England 1 recently
met q fat woman" said a New Yorker,
"who ought to inspire all victims of adj
pose tissue. I was driving with a nativo
when she came along the road. She was
positively enormous and would have looked
unpleasantly big had it not been for her
pleasant, frank face. She nodded to my
companion, who returned the salutatior
with moro Difference than 1 had observed
in his manner toward any one else. After
we had passed her he said that she was the
wealthiest woman in the mountains.
"'You wouldn't think so to sec the way
she works, he added, for she does about
as much as any two men around here. She
has the biggest and finest farm within 20
miles, and she works it all herself. OF
course she has some one to help her in
haying time. but she does her own plow-
ing and seeding and can toss more lay
than any nan 1 ever saw. Fat? Well, She
is a pretty big Shc weighs nearly
800, but she don't mind that, and it don't
interfere with her getting around either.
You just try walking with her and see if
you can keep up with her. 1 can't. l
bought some hay from her, and when l
went to got it she told mt she would pack
1t in the wagon if I would throw it up to
her. Well, she kept mo working until l
thought my arms would break. and the
way she stamped down that hay was /;
caution. 1t was all I could do to get it
out again, it was packed SO hard. You
saw her walking now. Well, that's what
she calls taking a constitutional after her
work. She will cover ten miles easy.
mind you, she has not got to work,
and she is not stingy either Her sister is
travelling all the time. She goes to Europe,
to the seashore and everywhere. She's
away now. They are both Of them well
educated and very liberal to the poor. No
one has to ask twice at that house, but
tramps have to be mighty polite. Several
OF them who tried the other thing with
this one found themselves out in the road
so quick they didn't know what had struck
them. She says she works for the love of
it, and when she has to quit she will give
up living
From inquiries that I made afterw;lrd
l learned that this woman was a lady in
every sense of tho word, well hammered.
genial and q good convcrsationalist. Her
marvellous strength and abundant animal
spirits impelled her to do hard work for
the pleasure of it,'-NGw York SIM
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
An UnWashed Model.

"This is n Of my models" Mr.. Brown,
the child painter, said one day to the writ
or, pointing to a ragged urchin, who
looked as if he had walked out Of the
frame of one Of the artists pictures to take
a rest in the armchair in which he was so
comfortably curled up. .tThis is Pete.
The little rascal never took a bath in his
life. When his hands and feet show in o
picture, he has to be washed up a little, as
they are even too dirty to be picturesque
Pete grinned as If he was pleased with the
distinction Of being an absolute stranger
to the bath. But he probably does wash
his face and hands occasionally. His face
was bright. enough to deserve not to be
hidden by dirt..----'H'The Child Painter, j.
g. Brown" by John ]. q Beckett, in St.
Nicholas.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-12-27
Distinctively American Embroidery Design,

OF the many styles that afford a gcner-
Gus amount and great variety of pretty
designs for embroidery work the colonial
is one OF the most attractive, owing in a
great measure to it's dainty simplicity.
The colonial style is one of distinctly
American origin-a purely American crea-
tlon-and for that reason is our own, and
one which we. take pride in employing
when decora 3kpg and furnishing our
homes. 1t waAl8airst used in the architec-
ture Of houses and churches erected during
the latter years of the last century and.
the early years Of this, and was at the
height of its great popularity during
Washington's administration, which was
known as the colonial period. That the
colonial is a very popular style at this
time Is shown by the general interest tax
en- in it. 1t is much easier to find furni-
ture, draperies and wall papers in a vari-
ETY. OF designs in the colonial than in any
other style.-Ladies' Home journal.