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The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
Ss Good of Him.

"There, my love-" said the young husband, as he placed a large bundle on the tahae, Eve bought you pair ot sleeves"
 "oh, you darling!" exclaimed the de- lighted wife. Il am so happy! Any thing will do for dress. "-N. '. Press
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
Making a Sure Thing of It.

She shrank away coyly at his ap- proach.
 Are we aIone?" she faltered, in ap- prehension.
 "I don't know" he answered. "You might sing a few selections and make sure"
 He rose and would have led her to tho piano but for the cold stare she gave him.-Detroit Tribune.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
Completely Worn Out.

"It's no use arguing, ny dear, | am going to give up my pew in chuwh' |. can't stand that new man any ionger'
 But, John"
 But nothing, Maria. haven slepS wink for the last three Sunday mQFe ings. "--Brooklyn Lifa.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
More Than He Could stand.

Justice-Why did you assault this man who did not give you the slightest provocation?
 Prisoner-I had plenty of provoca- ton, may it please your honor.
 What was it?"
 "He exasperated me by going around with happy expression on his face, while have to scratch gravel to get money to pay my house rent."-Texas Siftings.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
Time Is Money..

Shears the Tailor-Mr Checkerly, think you ought to pay something oA account.
 Checlerly-Aw, verwy well; time IS money, ye know, so just cwedit me wFsh a wequest flaw another thirty days eS' tension!-Harper's Bazaar.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
An Accomplished Iowa Lady.

Alice French, "Octave Thanet," the story-writer, said recently that she took great comfort in the fact that she could, if necessary, earn her living either as typewriter and stenog- rapher or as a photographer or, best of all, as a cook.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
Buys Himself on.

MT. Newlywed-Here's the two dol lars for your fee, sir; and now I sup pose you will want to kiss the bride.
 Mnyor-Er-I say, suppose you keep the two dollars and we'll call it square. Judge.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
A Shy Man.

Banker - Well, our cashier has skipped.
 Mrs. B.-What, that modest, unas- suming gentleman? Why, thought he was positively shy.
 Banker-He was shy-ffty thousand dollars shy.-Detroit Free Press.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
Statistics Again.

Mrs. Strougmind - The fact that many companies refuse to insure wom- en is an outrage l heard to-day of a. town in which there were sixty-two widows and only fourteen widowers- What does that prove?
 Mir. S.-That seems to prove that most of the widowers have run away from the widows.-N. Y. Weekly.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
Good Reason.

''What warrant have you for thinking that Shakespeare was a brolSerP"
 ''Oh, none, only the fact that he has furnished so many stock quotations."-- Indianapolis Journal
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
Not by Comparison.

Jess-So you think my French is bad, eh?
 Bess-Yes, pretty bad. Jess-You ought to hear my German. IN. Y, World.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
Teacher's Proposal.

"You may tell US, Tommy, some of the ways in.which the element of fire confers benefit on the human race
 Tommy (who,knows something of his fathers business, methods)-When. the amount of the insurance exceeds the value of the stock on hand. -DemOrests Magazine.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
One Way.

"Do you have much trouble with your help, Mrs. Penguin?" asked Mrs Waglum.
 Not bit" said Mrs. Penguin.
 Why, how do you avoid it?" said Mrs. Waglum, in astonishment.
 II don't keep any," said Mrs. Pen- guin.-N. Y. Sum-.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
What PhysIcians Say.

The heart bowed down by weight Of woe The eyes that weep, the lips that quiver, Arc often largely due, we know, To torpid liver.
 -Washtngton Star.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
IQ,H
1llcemanlCome down out Q, tnat,

Policeman-Come down out O that, young feller.
 Reporter-But I'm a reporter and want to get description of the fire
 Policeman-To the deuce wid you. You can't stay there. You kin find out all about the foire from the papers in the marnin'.-Texas Siftings.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
Not a Parallel Case.

Boy-Us boys is getting up fife and drum corps, and we called to see if you would subscribe.
 Mir. Lovepeace-Hum!
 Boy (encouragingiy)-Mr. Gadd, your neighbor, gave us dollar.
 MT. Lovepeace-Yes;b but he is going to move away next veek.-Good News.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
An Invitation.

Out skating in the cold they'd been- My lips are numb," said she;. If you're inclined to doubt this,fact Just feel of them and see."
 -Brooklyn Life
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
Poker In Golden Gutch.

The leveled pistol barrels frown He fully understood; The tenderfoot flung three kings down And sighed: Ace high is good"
 N r. Recorder.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
JOCKEYS BRAINS vs. sTATEsMENs BRAINS.

Senator Sherman, middle weight statesman, earns 5000 q year. Sims. middle weight Jockey, earns s25.OOO aYear.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-28
TIE COPPER KNEW BETTER.

Washington Star
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-11-02
PLANET COLLISIONS.
should Starr Knock Together the r..
Would BE Indcscrfbab1o-


Professor Ledger Of London NJ.
series OF Gresham astronomy lectures I'M
knocks In Their Relation to Astro, ~
my" has been completed, in his last d;s.
course pointed ont that the universe
instead of being fixed. is alive with mo
ton, each star with its attendant nlan.
cts hurrying through space. If star worn
to knock against star the intense heat
and fierce fire generated by the enor.
nous velocity and vast momentum N
the two masses would be such as to mass
human conception.
1t may be that the sun was formed h,
tho collision Of two stars. The effect -
two such bodies attracting each Other
and meeting would be to reduce tber,
10 violently agitated gaseous mass
which would oscillate, first inward. pro.
ducing inconceivable heat, and then ont
ward again. ultimately assuming the
condition of the sun. The general re-
suit would be that the two bodies would
revolve around their common center ~
gravity-that is to say, around each 9th
er-creating double star. Lord Kel.
win has calculated that if 80. 600. 0O0
solid globes, each of the mass of the
moon, should be scattered over spher.
ical surface 100 times the radius of the
earth orbit, they would come together
and be raised to a temperature Of
100, 900 degrees. They would oscillate
outward and inward, reaching to less
distance each time, and ultimately sot-
Ting down into a sphere.
The nebul9 we see around us NAV.
Professor Ledger suggests, have been
produced by the knocking together of
two great bodies rather than by the az
gregation of many smaller ones. The
collision of two huge suns would thus
lead to rejuvenescence and the formation
Of new systems. Phenomena Indicating
that something very much in the nature
Of collision had occurred are the ont
bursts of temporary stars such as those
observed by Tycho Brahe in 1912. by
Kepler in 1904 and those of lS4S. 1866.
1876, 1885 and 1892, the last being the
new star Auriga, which declined through
ten ma2nitudes. or became 100, 900
times less bright in two months. The
great increase in the light of a comet as
it approaches the sun may be due to
tidal disturbance in the bodies forming
it, causing them to knock against each
other, and thus generate heat and light.
In the same way the twinkling of the
stars may be caused by the knocks of
the molecules of the atmosphere on the
ether, whose undulations carry their
light to us. The excessively great and
the exceedingly small are all interde-
pendent, aud the past present and prob
able future of nebulous bodies all hinge
on the relations they bear to the knocks
of the molecules Of their gases, while
the knocks of immense bodies depend
ultimately ON the knocks of their constit-
uent atoms.
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wnITrIER's soYHoon.
The Quaker Poet HAD but scanf Instrno-
tion In His Youth

In his boyhood Whittier had scant in
struction. for the district school was
open only few weeks IN winter. He
had bat few books; there were scarcely
80 in the house. Tho one book he read
and read again until he bad it by heart
almost was the Bible, and the Bible was
always the book which exerted the
strongest literary influence upon him.
But when he was IA teacher came
who lent him books Of travel and opened
new world to him. II was this teach
er who brought TO the Whittiers one
evening volume Of Bnrns and read
nlond some Of the poems. after explain
ing tho Scottish dialect.
Whittier begged 10 borrow tho book,
which was almost the first poetry no
had ever read. IL was this volume Of
Burns which set Whittier 10 making
verses himself. serving both ~ the in
spiration and the model Of his earlier
poetic efforts The Scottish poet, with
his homely pictures Of a life az bare and
as hardy rs that Of New England then.
first revealed to the American poet what
poetry really was and how il might be
made out Of the actual facts Of his own
life
That book Of Burns poems had an
even stronger influence ON Whittier than
the odd volume Of The Spectator which
foil into tho hands Of Franklin had on
the American author whose boyhood il
most like Whitticr's. Franklin also was
born in humble and Woodworking fam
lily, doing early his share Of the labor
and having but meager education, al
though always longing for learning It
Is true that Irving and Cooper and Bry-
ant did not graduate from college, but
they could have done 40 had they perso-
yered. and Emerson and Longfellow
and Hawthorne did get as much Of the
higher education as was then possible
in America But neither Franklin nor
Whittier ever had the chance; it was M
much as they could do to pick up the
morcst elements Of an education. Pro
fessor Brander Matthews in ST. Nicho-
las
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-11-02
ourNImRoos OLD MIN.
Tho Petaiums Pot Hunter Tells n Story OF
Wondrous Chase.

Frank Trims. the Potaluma pot
hunter. had tho floor. and tho crowd
breathlessly awaited thrilling story Of
the chase.
"You want n story OF tho chase eh?"
repeated Trims. "Well, I'll tell You
about the greatest bit OF chasin / ever
did in my life. wuz out huntin one
day fer quail with my ole mnzzle loadin
shotgun, when three quail jumped up
out OF bush right ahead Of me. One
flew to the right, one to the left and
tho other straight ahead, but got 'em
all three.
"Killod three quail going in different
directions with muzzlo loading shot
guny' repeated ono of his listeners in
crcdulously.
yep; that's what done.
Your gun must have had three bar
rcls then. -
mop; only two.
How did you do it?"
"Well l killed the ono that went to
tho right with the right barrel then,
quick as fash, killed the ono that
went 20 the left with the other barrel /;
then | took after the one that went
straight ahead and knocked tho stuflin
out Of IL with the ramrod
IL wouldn't believe that if told it
myself" declared ono Of the assem-
blage.
Huh That amt nothin. | killed
six quail with one barrel once, and they
wuz all flyin in different directions. 4"
run 'om all DOWN."
Mop; never moved out o. my tracks.
When they all started out o. the same
bunch Of grass. | held the gun away over
to the right, and rs IL went Off l sweep
1t aroun TO the left. The result was that
| slung shot in every direction. same as
you can sling water outen pan, and u
little Of tho shot ketched ev'ry one. -
San Francisco Post
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4 MANS LAUGH NEVER CHANGES,
How tho Pact Was Illustrated by an To-
cidcut In Chicago.


II tho Bertillion system OF identified.
ton had n photographic record Of the
laughs Of criminals IL would probably
be rs near perfect M an Identification
system can be Tho fact that man comes
into the world wailing has been regard.
cd as a sort Of prophecy OF the truth
that as rnle tho sorrows Of life out.
number the joys when all the returns
are IN. but AN optimist might see an
opposite Significance in the fact that n
mans laugh remains the same through
all the changing years. When the cares
Of manhood succeed 10 tho happy 20
lnci.y days Of bOyhood. this laugh Of his
may be called into use. M it were. very
little, but when II IL put into operation
IL Is the same old laugh. and every boy.
hood fricnd would know 10 instantly.
An old soldier who fought through
the war with Fred Hnrtwick who drives
n mail collectors wagon on tho North
Side, happened TO be in Chicago for a
week not long since He heard that Mr.
Hartwick was on its postmastcr's staff
and went 10 the federal building TO find
him. HetOok his station ut n point past
which all the carriers filed TO report for
duty. and az Hartwick came along some
one pointed him out
Without disclosing his own identity
tho veteran approached and began ask.
ing Hartwick II he remembered various
incidents IN the history Of their rogi.
mcnt during the war. OF course he did
and very soon fell into conversation, or.
ganizlng q kind of campfire meeting
between themselves Ono member OF
the regiment was in business In New
Orleans, nuothor was In bank down
In tho state. several wero farming, ono
was the local manager for one OF tho
big commercial agencies in one OF tho
largo cities, and 80 on.
Several times Hartwick asked his old
companion at arms his name, but the
latter only smiled and went ON with tho
conversation. Finally. when IL became
necessary for them 20 separate. Ms Hart
wick was obliged TO 90 ons on his run.
tho man laughed outright as no said;
WELL Fred, | never thought you'd
forgot me after what we went through
together
The minute he laughed, " said Mr.
Harlwick, in relating tho incident, 81
knew just who he was and all nbou,
him, but hudn' Z seen him for 80 years,
and he had changed 80 | couldn't have
told him from Adam. His laugh had
grown older. too. Of course. bat IL was
the snmo old laugh. chicago Trib.
ulC.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-11-02

The electric candle is in great request
in England for the lighting and decora-
ton u dining and other tables An in
gcnious device for lighting tho candles is
provided by placing small pads under
the tebNcloth. and taking the current
from them by means Of two pin points
In the base Of the candlcstick Tho can
dies Of course are extinguished ON being
takcn from tho table and are rclighted
when they arc replaced in the proper po-
sition They arc SO arranged that the
bulb and the glass imitation Of wax
candle can be removed. when the can
dicstick can be used Tor an ordinary can
dc. When used with shades Of colorod
silk. the electric candle makes one Of
the prettiest additions to dinner table
that is possible TO imagine. -Machinist
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-11-02
CONSERVATIVE.
The First Csc of the Word ~ an English
Political Term.

Canning, and not Croker, was the
first to use In English politics the word
conservative IN its present sense. and
too long has Ihackeray's "Mr. Wen
ham" (Disraeli's Mr.. Rigby') had the
credit which belongs to far more bril-
liant man. The general assumption has
been that the term was earliest employ
ed in The Quarterly Review for January,
1880 (No. 80, page 270), i'll an article
which has been commonly said, but upon
no specified authority, to have been
written by Croker, but its true first use
was five years and half previously
On June 8, 1924, dinner was given
10 George Hilbert, the chairman Of the
West India Merchants Of London, by the
Gembers Of that body, and several Of tho
leading ministers then serving under
Lord Liverpool. the Tory premier, were
present In the course Of the proceed
ings, says a contemporary account, IAN
observation which fell from Mr. Can
ming was that tho spirit Of the present
government, as that Of all governments
ought to be, was essentially conserya-
tive. "
This appeared in John Bull Of June
l3, 1924 tpage 1857 and the apt word was
so obviously remarked that it was itali-
cized. Years passed, and Canning had
died before the word is again to be met
in English politics. but ON March IA.
1929, Charles Greville noted in his dia-
ny that "Herries told Hyde Villiers that
their (the Tories') policy was conserva-
tive, that of the Wings subversive. and
that they never could act together. -
1.-THE Greville Memoirs, volume |, part
|, page 1872.
The word. employed by both Canning
and Herries, was thus ''in the air. be-
fore it was given in The Quarterly, and
this accords with statement made in
the course Of a correspondence on the
"Etymology of the Word Conservative"
which appeared in The Standard at the
end Of October, 1892, wherein it was
said to have been first used in 1929,
during the closing controversies upon
Roman Catholic emancipation. Notes
and Queries.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-11-02
INCAPABLE OF lMPERsoNALlTv.
An Alleged Failing That Has Deferred
woman's Emancipation.

womsns Emancipation.
The bond Of fellowship which exists
between man and man simply by virtue
Of Il common sex is entirely absent be-
tween woman and woman. 1t is, in
fact, replaced by fundamental antago-
nism. n vague eRmity which renders
the general attitude of feminine crea-
ture toward her kind essentially differ
ent from that Of the male creature in
identical relations. In individual cases
this feeling is counteracted by affection
or by sympathy but apart from person
al sentiment it remains, severing every
living woman from the rest of her sex
To n great extent this arises from wom-
ans incapacity for impersonal feeling or
abstract emotion In life's fray she
fights either for her own hand or, more
often, for some one man or woman
whom she loves, but rarely for the vel
fare of her sex at large
We're it not for this strange lack of hui
mainly in her nature, the emancipation
of woman would not have been so griev-
ously retarded. If the few women who
suffered aforetime under the restrictions
which hedged in their liberty had been
able TO count on the sympathy and CO.
operation Of all women, the time of
their subjugation would have been enor-
mously abbreviated. AS it was, the first
seekers after freedom met with more
opposition from their own sex than they
did from the other nor, indeed, do they
fare better today. Enormous changes
in their social status were effected by
an inconsiderable minority Of women
bravo enough and logical enough to inn
press the male powers that be with the
justice of their demands. But for their
courage they received no sympathy and
for their success not one word of thanks
nothing, in fact, but execration from
the huge inert feminine mass in whose
service their strength was spent. Sat
urday Review.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-11-02

A leading literary light in ono Of tho
best known woman's colleges says that
there arc just three books that everybody
should know by heart-''The Arabian
Nights. Alice In Wonderland" and
Mother Goose. "A thorough knowl-
edge Of those masterpieces. " she says,
will do more toward cultivating the
imagination than any other process that
| know Of. And 1 regard imagination as
the most important of all mental facul-
ties - This is in direct and significant
opposition TO the ideas held by many
parents and teachers that fairy tales are
injurious reading for the young. New
York sun.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-11-02

The only gold and silver bound, dia-
mond incrusted book in the world was
lately enshrined in the holy Mohamme-
dan city Of an-Ruza, Persia The
book is Of course a copy of the Alkoran
and is n gift from Abd-ur- Rahman.
ameer Of Afghanistan. The covers Of this
unique volume, the sides of which are
91s by 4 inches, are Of solid gold plates
one-eighth of an inch in thickness, lined
with silver sheets of the same thickness.
The centerpiece, as well as the cor
ners, is symbolic design wrought in
diamonds, rubies and pearls. The center
figure is crescent with star between
Its points, the whole design being COM
posed of 100 small diamonds, 1877 pearls
and 1872 rubies. The diamonds on each
corner, which are almost hidden in their
golden setting, and the Grange colored
lacquer with which they are fastened,
are each worth about So, 900 The book
itself is on parchment, entirely written
by hand. 1t is valued at $l25, 000 There
are said to have been over 100, 600 visit
ors present in Isnan-Ruza the day the
holy relic was enshrined. st. Louis
Republic.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-11-02

1t ~ impossible 70 read even the least
dcgnauc books on etiquette without be-
ing oppressed with tho conviction that
heavy and binding addition has been
mario % the code Of morals In the by.
laws which have TO do with visiting
cards. invitations. conventional phrases
aud other minor but vigorous formulas
Ithas been reiterated by writers ON these
subjects that not n single rulo Of eti.
queito is arbitrary. but that all prove
their treason In tho very nature Of things.
aud that those who disregard them sim.
ply show their own lack Of insight and
incapacity to appreciate genuine refine.
mclt.
While this IL all very we'll for society
people pure and simple or those who
have other definite and absorbing work
IN Noncompliance with all the thousand
and ono triiiing points I etiquette is an
utter impossibility Tho question then
becomes. shall such persons be excluded
from society or DO allowed to enter IL ON
thoir own termsy Society might be so
conducted as 70 mako Of IL charming
and delightful recreation instead OF a
tyrannical business. and those who see
this clearly can do much toward making
it so. ---Philadelphia Press.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-11-02

M. 1zarn has communicated to the
Academy Of Sciences new method for
obtaining soap bubbles lasting a much
longer time than those obtained from
the soap water generally used. He has
recourse to resinous soap made by the
following formula: Pulverize together
~ grams of pure rosin and 10 parts
OF carbonate of potash; add 100 parts Of
water and boil until complete solution.
We obtain in this way thick solution
which may be kept in stock to be diluted
Tor use with from four to five times its
Volume Of water. 1t can be kept indefi-
nitely even when exposed to the air. The
bubbles produced are very persistent and
consequently can be made useful in the
study of phenomena relating to thin
iainine and in making photographs in
which soap bubbles play part.
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wonderful, strength OF the Beetle.

A noted entomologist who has been
writing on the wonderful feats Of
strength rs exhibited in the beetle fam
ily tells the following: II selected a
common black water beetle weighing 4. .
grains and found that he was able to
carry a load Of shot in small bag, the
whole weighing Si4 ounces, or exactly
sos times the weight Of the bug. If a
man weighing $50 could carry as much
accordingly he could shoulder As ton
locomotive and then chain train Of
cars together and take the whole lot
across the country at five mile an hour
gait.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-11-02

lmpoliteness may sometimes perhaps
be answered properly with impertinence
A struggling author went to an editor
with manuscript
"Oh. exclaimed the editor "don I
bother me now. I've other fish to fry. Z"
Well. I'll fry your fish FOR you. Z"
said the author, while you read ny
manuscript A."
So the editor had 20 read il. --Ycnth's
COMPANION.