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The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28

THE DIVORCE icformers should at once turn their attention to South Da- kota. The laws in that state were cer- tainIy loose enough before, but now the term of residence necessary to move in the matter of severing matrimonial ties has been reduced from six months to three. This is the strongest move that any state has yet made in the di. rection ot making marriage a farce.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28

SENATOR FAULKNER, who has charge of the New Mexico and Arizona admis- sion bills, says he hopes to secure a special day for their hearing before the adjournment of congress. but he is very dubious of securing any favorable legislation at this session.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28

A SYNDICATE of eastern capitalists wlo are interested in the silver qucs- tion, have apparently become tired of the procrastination of congress. They have started in business on their own hook and at last accounts had succeeded in free coinage output of q million of dollars, on which they netted profit of S500,000 The new issue is of the standard weight and purity and will be coined as long as tl,e producers can eyade the secyet seyyjco dstsctiyeS
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28

Ex-GovERNoR ROBERT E. PATTIsoN, of Pennsylvania, was candidate for mayor of Philadelphia on the demo- cratic ticket at the recent election The fact of his being defeated by $500 shows that the republican landslide of last fall has not yet abated.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28

FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the freedman, orator and statesman, passed from this life last Thursday. His life showed what might be accomplished by his race in this country. The only mistake of his career was his marriage to a white woman.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28
New AItlIinary.

Babbitt Bros. are going to add to their dry goods department this spring fine stock of millinery goods. Ev- erything will be fresh aud new. All styles will be up to date. Grand open- ing about April 1sk
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28

Gov. LEVI P. MORTON, of New York, did patriotic act Washington's birth day by signing the Lawson bill, which prohibits the display of any flag or em- blcm of any foreign country upon any state, county or municipal building unless by special proclamation of the proper official upon occasions that warrant it, such as the visit of dis tinguished foreigner, etc. This is an emInently proper move which should be emulated by all states and teirito- ries. Old Glory is the flag for Amer ica, and all true Americans will resent the flying of foreign flags in it's place.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28
OREGON, Idaho and Delaware

OREGON, Idaho and Delaware are having hard time electing senators Dolph and HiggiuS, candidates for re- election Tn Oregon and Delaware re- spectively. are losing ground and will no doubt both be defeated, while Shoup, candidate for reelection in Idaho, may pull through.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28

THE WHOLE tendency of our modern legislation is to too much law-making. If two-thirds of the more trivial matters brought before the legislature were pigeon-holed in committee it would be far better thing for the territory.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28

WE are glad to note that the terri torial assembly protted by the action of the Flagstaff city council and passed an act forbiddiug brazpn women to frequent saloons and public resorts.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA has escaped the cold wave and the fruit growers in that section who see small fortune in sight are not wasting sympathy upon their unfortunate fellows of Florida.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28

IT would hardly be amiss for the present congress to pass law making the day of it's adjournment a special day of thanksgiving.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28

THE best reform is honest Republi- canism. It has practicality as we'll as pretty theories in it.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28

THE legislature of New Mexico has appointed committee to investigate the methods by which the Albu- querque National Bank was desig- mated as a depository Of territorial funds. The methods of this bank were peculiar and the president is now serving term in the New Mexico plisou. But this does not return the money of duped dcpositors.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28
BORN.

JENSEN-ln Flagstaff, on Saturday. Febru- ary p, 1895. to the wife of George II. r. Jen. sen, a daughter.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-02-28
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2S, 1895.
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Advertising rates given upon application Address all communications and make ali remittances to c. NJ FUNSTON, Flagstaff, Arizona. ..s,
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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24
THE 3ICYCLE DISEASE.
lore Virulent at Washington Than
Anywhere Else.

Everybody, from tho Scdate Statesman
Down to the Noisy Messenger Boy,
Rides n Wheel - Even Book
Agents Push the Pedals.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24
AN OUTING.

and closets, and altogether has a very
attractive appearance, within and with.
out. 1t is popular place, for mem.
bers have the usual club privilege OF
bringing their friends as guests, and
many happy hours are spent beneath
the hospitable roof, and in the cheer
full homelike rooms.
The membership is not now composed
exclusively of wheelmen, although the
large majority of active members are
experts at cycling and have their own
wheels. They have card parties, dances,
musical entertainments and public re-
ceptions. Their lady friends assist them
upon public occasions with piano re.
citals, songs, solos,, duets, quartettes,
and in serving refreshments. Altogether
the club is a credit, not only to itself,
but to the wheelmen Of the entire
country.
Bicycles are also used nowadays by
number of newspaper correspond.
ents. One of the pioneers in journal.
istic wheeling was William Eleroy
Curtis. He and Perry Heath, now
proprietor of Cincinnati paper, used
tandem cycle, and spent considerable
time together in their work. They made
a great team, and are both successful
business men. j. A. Truesdell, former,
ly representing ST. Paul daily, and G..
P. Austin, founder of the Press News
association, were early newspaper
wheelers. But to-day fully score OF
diligent correspondents of prominent
newspapers traverse the city, going
from department to department, and
ultimately to the capitol, on their fleet
flyers.
Insurance agents, and even book
agents, use wheels in this city, and
many prominent business men have
taken to this mode of travelling from
their homes to their stores. Apparently
the bicycles have come into our civili-
zation to stay, and seem to be be-
coming as necessary as telegraph wires
and telephones. SMITH ID. Fry.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24
ARIzoNAs ROAD RUNNER.
Bird with Tireless Logs and Deadly
Hatred of RattlesnalScs.

Bird with Tlreiess Logs and n Deadly
Hatred OF RattlesnalScs.
"There's bird down in my coun-
try" said Maj. Ransom, of Arizona, to
Denver reporter, (which we call the
road runner. 1t is an interesting
fellow, this bird, with long legs that
never give out and which devour dis
tance with an appetite that never
seems appeased. Generally two road
runners go together-for company's
sake, no doubt. They seem to be
great gossipers and do vast sight of
talking to each other. They will chase
ahead of your horse rs you ride along
the trail, and keep up the stride for
miles and miles and hours and hours
with steady side-to-side motion much
like the gait of a packing horse. Why
they run along ahead of one in this in
sane fashion can only be guessed at.
1t would seem to be for fun and exer-
else.
"They are gifted with n great deal of
sagacious malevolence toward the
rattlesnalxes, with which crawling
brood the runner has deadly feud. I
suppose the rattlesnake pounces upon
the road runners eggs and makes
omelets of them; or gobbles up their
young on a spring chicken theory.
Whatever the cause of hate, however,
! the road runner is the deadly enemy of
the rattlesnake. They wreall ven-
geance on it in this way: They espy a
rattlesnake asleep in the sun.
Mum is the countersign with your
roo 4 ,.,,ppar. ba r,avar saws n 1vord Ha
and his fellow road runner go about in
discreet silence and collect the dried,
dead joints of the fat cactus, which
| abounds in the southwestern deserts.
They build corral about the DOING
serpent with them.
"These pieces of cactus bristle with
thorns as sharp and keen as needles.
When they have their snake corraled
| the two road runners arouse it with
yells and the Tapping of their little
jimcrow wings. They revile it and
scold it and appear toapply all kinds of
hard epithets to it. The snake gets
frightened and it's rattles buzz. But
they don't come near it. They stand at
safe distance and rail at it. At last
the snake tries to crawl away, but can't
cross the cactus fence which the road
runners have built. The spines prick
the snake and it draws back. Mean
while the road runners keep up their
derisive racket. With each prick of the
cactus the rattlesnake's wrath in-
creases. AT last, in desperate, brain
less fury it begins to bite itself. Its
poison is as deadly to itself as to every
body else, and in short time it dies.
Great, then, is the mad triumph of the
road runners, which taunt it until its
last gasp and exult over the corpse like
savages. After the snake is surely dead
they walk off with airs of cockney sat-
isfaction, and, as it were, arm in arm.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24

donkeys of all sorts to be found in
Egypt. The little kittenish, fluffy
beast of few weeks old takes the
cake for charm and good spirits, es-
pecially if he be white one, with black
points. Perhaps the most curious dom
key was one that would always sing
when requested. He was dubbed the
Musical Moke." But the adjective
was questionable, and he sang the same
tune on all occasions, sometimes accom-
panied by the banjo, sometimes having
to read from notes which he would
hardly recognize, and certainly the joke
contained in them could never have en-
tared his asinine head.
But he did his best, and none of us
can do more. He may not have en-
joyed it, but doubt if donlSeys can
ever be said to enjoy anything; they
take life from philosophical point of
view, bearing the ficks and half-pence
with tie same placid equanimity and
patience.-London Daily Graphic.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24

FEET above the canal. There were two
jogs or offsets in the coping, which
made the achievement more difficult
and dangerous. The bridge is the
longest single span of arched ma
sonry in the world, and the height
above the ravine is such as to make
any man or woman dizzy. A single
error in manipulating the handles
would have resulted in certain death
on the one hand, or dangerous and
crippling tumble on the other. 1t has
never been attempted since; and Mr..
Robinson was glad enough to get back
upon safe ground without mishap.
He would not try it again.
There are several clubs of wheelmen
here, but the Capital Bicycle club is
the oldest of its kind in this country,
having been formed in front of the
capital in 1879. Its organization,
growth and prosperity are evidences OF
the great interest in wheeling. Its
membership is limited to men, and il
has become of late good deal of
social organization. 1t has more than
one hundred active resident members.
These are chiefly young professional
men and men of good positions in the
various departments. There are also
about forty-eight nonresident mem.
bers, and a number of honorary mem.
bers Some men of prominence are at
tached to this club, and when they
have regular outings they are accom-
panied by lady friends and present a
gala spectacle on the streets. avenues
and country roads. Quite number of
congressman take to the wheel when
in Washington, and many of them ave
warm personal friends of the members
of the capital club and their lady
friends. Jerry Simpson, of Kansas,
far-famed as the socliless statesman, is
one of the most enthusiastic OF cyclers.
This club of wheel-pushers long since
erected n homelile building on Fif-
teenth street and fitted it up very
neatly. The total cost was S20,00 The
building is three-story structure, OF
modern architecture, and is entirely oc-
cupied by the club. The moving-in took
place in September, 1856. On the low.
er floor are the wheel room, the repair
shop and the buffet. On the second
floor are the parlor, the room for the
club meetings and for smoking, and the
library and committee rooms. The club
possesses an excellent collection of BIZ
cycle literature, including complete
files of every leading wheelmens pub
lication. On the third floor are the
billiard room and some living rooms
for the use of officers and members.
Above these is an attic. The parlor is
hung with pictures presented by local
artists and with engravings. The
building is supplied with bathrooms
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24
How a French Bank Is Guarded.

The treasures of the Bank of France
are said to be better guarded than those
of any other bank in the world. At the
close of business hours every day,
when the money is put into the vaults
in the cellar, masons at once wall up
the doors with hydraulic mortar.
Water is then turned on and kept run
ming until the cellar is flooded. A
burglar would have to work in a div
ing suit, and break down cement
wall before he could even start to loot
the vaults. When the officers arrive
the next morning, the water is drawn
off, the masonry is torn down, and the
vaults opened.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24
Plg-Iron Tramp for Tramps.

At a meeting of the Pennsylvania
board of prison inspectors in Lancaster
steps were taken which, it believes,
will put an end to the tramp nuisance.
Lancaster county appears to be their
favorite resort, as they have hitherto
been too well looked after, even in
Jail. The board directed the prison
keeper to purchase two tons of pig iron,
and every tramp committed for a
longer period than twenty-four hours
will be compelled to take five hours
active exercise carrying this iron from
one end of the prison yard to the other
All refusing to do so will be put upon
half rations.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
CROSS LITTLE SUE.

Did you ever hear tell OF girl named Sue,
who pouts and frets the whole day through,
Whose face has the look OF u thunder cloud,
Whose voice In whining, and GROSS, and loudf
She's q smail-sized girl, with sweet little
brother,
The dearest papa. and n fond, loving mother
To love and mako glad; but more than nll
these
She loves her ili-temper, and 1t tries to please
Sometimes her poor mother is quito In de-
spair,
And the father and brother her feelings both
share,
And the home wears q gloom; when instead
tho whole place
Should be frightened by Susls's bright laugh
ter and face
Now, children dear children, don't look cross
and pout,
Keep that side within and the bright side
without,
Be cheerful and merry on your face wear q
smile,
And the whole world will love you, az 1t does
every sweet child.
Nellie Burns, in Housekeeper.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24
Special washington Letter.

Some day somebody will write bool,
IN the development of the Bicycle; or
Every Man His Own Horse" 1t is just
within the memory of men who are
now getting gray and bald that two
wheeled vehicle was introduced and
became popular in this country. 1t
was heavy machine, and both wheels
we're of the same size. They were
made of wood, with iron tires, like the
front wheels of buggy. Everybody
wondered that men could sit astride OF
wo wheels and propel them without
hlling off; and the men who pedaled
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24
DONKEYS IN EGYPT.
How One of Them Earned the Sobriquet of
Musical NIoke.-

The Egypt of the Pharaohs might
still be a land of plenty for the agricul-
turist and heaven of research for the
archaeologist and Egyptologist, but it
could never be the happy hunting
ground of the average tourist without
the assistance of the meek but hard
working ass! Weread and hear SO much
ofhim nowadays that he will surely soon
be of as much Importance as the work.
man. But who cares to say a word for
his prototype and ever-faithful COM
panson, the Egyptian donkey?
Who does all the work, from carrying
a lordly pasha on his violet velvet sad.
die, to creeping home at sunset so
laden with berseem (clover) that moth
ing is visible but his head and his tail,
with a full-grown man and child
pcrched on top of the load? There are
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24

line One of the liveliest of these soli-
tary adventures is thus described by
his biographer:
Jack started at one o'clock in the
morning, and blessed with good
moon made capital time, so that he
reached the crest of the range by day
light. The snow was in excellent con-
dition, just soft enough to make his
twelve-foot Norwegian shoes bite well.
All the lower branches of the pines were
covered, and in the gulches the snow
must have been twenty feet deep.
On the crest the wind had swept the
ridges clear, and Jack had to carry his
shoes for half mile or so, till he came
to long valley. Here he fastened
them on again, and started downward;
slowly at first, then faster and faster
as the grade grew deeper.
Suddenly, at the top of his speed, he
found himself in the air, and came
down with force that nearly stunned
him. He had struck sheet of ice, his
shoes had lost their hold, and down he
had gone on his back.
Both shoes came off. He clutched at
them instinctively, but caught only
one. The other was instantly beyond
reach, sliding down the mountain side.
As Jack watched it disappear he felt
sick. If the shoe was gone, he might
reckon on his fingers the number of
or five miles of snow, from ten to thir-
ty feet thick, between him and his
destination. To wade through it was
impossible.
Before him We're twenty miles of
mountain and valley to the nearest
camp. To stay where he was meant to
be frozen to death in a few hours. He
must recover that shoe, or he was lost.
1t would of course slide down the
steepest grade, and would pass into the
lower valley by the way of a rocky
gorge, which Jack could see from
where he stood, and which was break
neck place, with mountains of snow in
and around it, whence it would be inn
possible to climb, should the search be
unsuccessful.
Any chance was worth trying in so
desperate case, and Jack thought
that, as the shoe he still had would
naturally follow its mate if placed on
the same grade, his best plan was to
lie down upon it, start sliding, and trust
to its being stopped by whatever had
arrested it's fellow.
OF course, the odds were that the
first shoe had gone over a precipice, or
splintered on point of rock, and that
the same fate would overtake the sec
ond, together with its burden; but, if a
man must die, quick death is better
than slow torture, and Jack decided to
risk his fate. He found the spot where
the accident had happened, put the re-
along it, rounding his chest as much as
possible, and steering with his elbows.
Down they went, sometimes sliding
along smoothly, sometimes blowing
through the soft drift, on and on, it
seemed to the anxious traveller, inter-
minably. He kept a sharp lookout for
any trace of the lost shoe, and also for
any CHASTITY header that might be in
front of him,
At last he came to turn in the gully,
and could scarcely believe his eyes.
There was the lost shoe sticking out OF
drift in front! Slowly and anxiously
he extricated it, fearing to find that the
toe had struck rock and splintered.
No, it was all right; and in moment
more he was safe, and sweeping down
into the timber.
|
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24
JACKS GREAT SLIDE.

How He Recovered n snowshoe and Saved
His Life.
Jack Gladwyn Jebb, known by his
friends as Jack, was young English
man who had lost his patrimony and
had gone to Colorado to seek his for
tune in mining. Winter had set in, and
he was living in log cabin, from
which, on, snowshoes, he went along to
visit the three mines of which he had
the charge. He usually travelled at
night, partly to get an extra day at the
mine, and partly because the snow was
then in better condition, with fewer
chances of an avalanche above timber
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24
Distinguished.

Father lin disgust)-Y are always
the last boy in your class. Why don t
you make an effort and distinguish
yourself?
Son = Distinguish myself? Why,
father, everybody knows l am the
dumbest boy in school!-Puck.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24
The Gospel of Art.
Work thou

Work thou for pleasurei paint or sing OF
carve
Tho thing thou lowest, though the body starvo
Who works for glory misses oft the goal;
Who works for money coins his very soul
Work for the work S sake then, and II may be
That these things shall DO added unto thee
Kenyon Cox, IN Century.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-08-24
One Advantage Left.

"Thank goodness" exclaimed the
proprietor of the livery stable, "theJ
can't use bicycles for funerals"-Chi
cago Tribune.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1895-06-22

He-Well, what do you think Of tn,
ocean? She-It is not nearly as larg.
as | thought it would be. Why. j,
merely extends to the horizon. Truth
We wish we could feel AZ contented
as girl in a shirt waist looks.-At.
Gibson Globe.
When some people 60 to church they
always think the preacher Is shooting
straight at the people in the next pew.
Rams Horn.
He-You are very exclusive, Miss
Prinkley, are you not? She-Yes en-
joy good society, you know. 1t is my
sole enjoyment. Goodbye.
Mrs. One-How is your husband to-
day, Mrs. Tother? Mrs. Tother-Bet.
ter, thank you. He 10 always better
when he is sick than at any other time.
Detroit Free Press.
Not Selfish-Why do you and Bobby
quarrel so much? hope my Willie is
not selfish little boy. mo, mamma,
I'm not selfish, but Bobby is. He al.
ways wants to play the games I don't
want to'-Harper's Bazaar.
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1895-06-22
WON AND LOST MILLIONS,

Death In California Of q Man Who Was
Once High Roller In Europe.
l. S. SCENT. who had made and lost
millions almost in 4 day. was found
dead IN his cabin on Alamitos beach,
California. few days ago. He had
died from pneumonia.
Scenti had a checkered career. Seven
or eight years ago Paris was the scene
OF great gambling craze, which was
OF short duration. Scenti. who was
native Of Spain and man 60 years Of
age. created more excitement in gam
bling circles at the time than did Billy
Hurt. Daring his short stay in Paris be
managed to make several millions of
dollars through cards and ether gam
bling devices known only in Paris and
Monte Carlo. He lost his gainings as
easily as he won them.
Becoming Disguised with the life. he
sailed for New York with quite a snug
sum. Several years passed over his head.
and be was without anything save the
valuable jewels and trinkets which he
always carried with him. Misfortune
having overtaken him. rs it eventually
does every man Of his kind, SCENT came
to California. When be settled in the
little cabin by the sea. he decided to
live and die in obscurity. His life as a
hermit did not last long.
SCENT avoided meeting people when.
ever possible. He lived from the sale
OF his trinkets and cold them at a great
reduction. Francisco Examiner.