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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16

for their becoming fitting schools for the
college. Plans for the erection of a
poultry house we're submitted by Pro
lessor Sheppard. They will be consid.
cred at a later date.
Ransom County Gazette: Editor Fred
Falley of the Wahpeton Globe, served on
the United States grand jury at Devils
Lake recently, and this is how he talks: II
received many compliments upon my ex-
cellent department, promptness, fairness
and intelligence as a juror in the United
States court. Two coon horse thieves
thanked me for acquitting them, and a
boot. logger was SC overjoyed upon being
set at liberty hat he offered me a bottle
OF red liquor to bring home to my friends,
but suspecting it to be of the Mayville
variety of goods, declined it, with thanks,
for hygienic reasons. Prior engagements
prevented the acceptance of an invitation
to dinner in honor of Judge Thomas,
Tracy Bangs and Marshal Cronan, by
Red Thunder, Little She'll and Stink
Gut"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16

Hoods Pills for the liver and bowels,
act easily, yet promptly and effectively.
ARGUS: The weekly Argus, remember,
costs but so cents a year-less Than l cent a
copy-and has tfty-six columns of reading
matter. A 50.cent bottle OF Hoff's Herman
Liniment is given as a premium to each
weekly subscriber.
Wonder if the Argus couldn't find
come good American liniment to substi-
tute for the German?
The following notice from the Hunter
Herald shows that a new day is dawning:
Notice! AS my husband and I have sepa-
rated, do not charge anything gotten by him
to me-, as l will not pay it. and take no mort
cages on any personal property without
my signature. and all mortgages on my
property on record are void. as I have not
signed them and all the property is in my
name. Mrs. Carrie BOles.
Grand Forks Herald: A desperate
hobo held q map up on DeMers avenue
bridge last week. He first asked for
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16

signed to correct extravaganza anc
abuses in the expenditure of public
funds; the Interpretation and construc.
ton of similar provisions has been uni.
form throughout this country; a strict
and literal construction has been
adopted by the courts, and tie court
have held that while the acts them
selves did not contain words that would
create an immediate and present indebt-
edness, it it contained words that would
create a contingent liability, something
that would ripen into a debt on the hap
pening of a contingency, such legislation
is void.
The city of Bismarck is now and has
been every since the adoption of the
constitution in debt to an amount in ex-
cess of five per cent of it's assessed valu-
alton: at the present time the debt is
$sS333,34O.43 owe this five per cent limita-
ton; can it then be said that the mayor
and council may at this time enter into q
contract for lighting the streets that will
not be Vulnerable to the constitutional
inhibition?
Therefore the ordinance repeating the
ordinance in question was in full force
and effect. At the time the Alternative
writ issued the mayor has shown good
canse in law that the peremptory writ
should not issue.
These positions are sustained by a
great number of decision from various
courts.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16
Tile Dawn of Better DAYS

Ed. TRIBUNE: Nothing has so in
vigorated me and filled me with renewed
hope and ambition as the events trans
plring IN the capital city this year. Fol-
lowing the completion Of the capitol
building come good crops, good prices
for stock, good prospects for a military
post and increased business activity.
The houses about town have been re-.
paired and painted, the trees and shrub
berry have been especially favored with
plenty of moisture, and a general hope
full feeling prevails among all classes.
And now [ notice the poles are being
placed for an electric light system. I
am pleased that at last the citizens oil
Bismarck can have some of the luxuries
and benefits of modern civilization. So
we are to have light? Who will not re-
joice that with decaying walks and a de-
pleted city treasury, the belated traveller
can at least have light?
The capital city without light!
What a lack of enterprise-what a de-
privation all these years! Who does not
remember how proud we we're when Bis
marck boosted the first electric light
plant and the best telephone exchange
in the northwest? Let us hope we are
now entering the dawn of another bright
era. Why opposition to this enterprise?
Let us progress. Let us have light
those who want it-and those who don't
want it can bask in the light paid for by
others. Juno.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16
Deafness Cannot be Cured.

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only n way to cure deafness.
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inhamed con-
ton of the mucous Inning of the Eusta-
chan Tube. When this tube is infamed
you have a rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing, and when it is entirely closed,
deafness is the result, and unless the in
famation can be taken out and this
tube restored to it's normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine
cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inf1amed condi-
ton Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of deafness Caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Sold by druggists, 75c. Send for
circulars; free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16

While Billings county does not COM
pare very we'll with some of our Red
river valley counties in point of agri:
culture (only reporting AZ acres Of
wheat and two acres of oats for 1894,
still its assessed valuation on horses for
1895 was s84,340; cattle, s440,35O; sheep,
S2O,235. The estimated value Of cattle
and sheep shipped to market last year
was s750,O0O.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16

Don't buy your Irvine until you see
Nicholson, and examine his Buckeye
Standard and Manila Irvine.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16
Catarrh
Hoodsa D:llc easyto buy, easy to take.
AAVON AAAS easy in effect. 25c.

money. His victim replied that he had
done. "Well," he said, "you can at least
give me a chew of tobacco" And with
these words he seized his victim by the
throat. Mr.. Footpad received the toe of
the other mans boot in his bread basket,
which doubled him up. He Immediately
started for the Minnesota side without
even getting a chew.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16
Normal School Matters

OOard OF directors OF state normal
schools, in session Monday at the office
OF the state superintendent, and did not
adjourn until $50 p. m. too late for a
complete report of proceedings in Tues
day evenings TRIBUNE.
The bill of w. H. B. Eisenhuth for
Sl2O.83, claimed as salary due him and
unpaid by the populist administration,
was on recommendation of the attorney
general allowed at 500, up to the date
of the election Of the present secretary.
Eisenhuth's charge of S18.1 Il for expenses
incurred in bringing the record book to
Bismarck, was allowed on the advice of
the attorney general.
w. {. Paulson, treasurer of the May
vile board, presented two certificates of
deposit of $3.50 each ($4,30O) to the
credit of the board, pay able in account
OF teachers. In behalf of the board,
President Thomas Harrison reported the
following recommendations of faculty
for the ensuing year:
j. T. Perigo, president Salary -. s $500
Electa A. Sylvester. ... .......... 700
oyVer $50
w. u. Johnson. $50
u. T.. willard. ........ .......... 800
This report was adopted and the
faculty appointments confirmed, Presi-
lent Harrison also made a report of the
last commencement exercises, including
the names of fifteen graduates, together
with certified statements If their stand
lug IN all branches of study throughout
the course and report of final examina-
tions as prescribed by law, and conduct
ed by State Superintendent Emma F.
Bates, Governor Allin and Senator Hans.
brough. On motion the report was &C.
copied and a resolution adopted that
the board of directors by it's president
and secretary, and in injunction with
the faculty of the state normal school'at
Mayville issue diplomas to tie persons
named in the report of said school, in
conformity with section 81, chapter 80,
laws of 1891.
F. P. Wright, president of the Valley
City board, presented a report recon-
mending the appointment of a faculty
headed by Geo. A. MacFarland at a SAL
airy of $4,000 and a%geregatine $500.
This report was received and an agree
ment reached that action thereon be de-
ferred until Sept. 6, in order to give the
Valley City board time to secure the
necessary cash guarantee.
A report of Valley City graduates was
also received and a resolution adopted
authorizing the state superintendent to
complete and perfect their diplomas as
soon as the requirements of law in rela-
ton thereto are complied with, and ex-
animation papers submitted to the state
superintendent, representing the board
of directors.
A resolution was adopted appointing
a committee consisting of Supt. Bates,
the principals Of the normal schools:
Prof. Kennedy, principal of the normal
department of the state university, and
Hon. Frank P. Allen to prepare a course
OF study for normal schools.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16

To THE ED1ToR-Please inform your read,
ers that I have a positive remedy for the
above named disease. By its timely use
thousands of hopeless cases have been per-
manently cured. I shall be glad to send
two bottles ofmyremedyf free to any Of your
readers who have consumption if they will
sendme their express and post ofice address.
Respectfully, T. A. Slocum, NJ. c.,
No. 1888 Pearl Street. New York.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16

Hoods Pills for the liver and bowels,
act easily, yet promptly and effectively.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16
F. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O.
State Normal Matters,


The state normal school board, which
consists of the directors of the two nor
NAL schools at Mayville and Valley City,
the governor and superintendent of pub
lie instruction, held a meeting Monday in
the Office of the latter official. One of
the matters to come before them was the
transfer of the books and records of the
old board by the former secretary, W. H.
b. Eisenhuth. Eisenhuth was appointed
secretary of the old board..,on May 81,
1893, ard claims that his appointment
was for two years. In April last, w. G.
Baker was appointed his successor, but
Eisenhuth has refused to turn over the
records, except at a meeting of the board.
This occurred and Eisenhuth was
on hand and turned over the records.
He also presented two bills, one for 500
for the last years salary, he having been
already paid 500, and S1S for expenses
incurred in attending the present meet
ing to turn over the records. The bills
have been referred to the attorney gen.
eral, who, it is understood, believes the
state liable for the salary bill, but has
not yet determined as to the bill for OK.
penses.
The trustees of the Mayville school
presented to the board certificates of de.
posit in the sum of $4,000 to be applied
to the payment of salaries of the faculty
for the coming two.year term, and asked
the board to approve the faculty as SO.
lected by the directors of the school.
This has not yet been done, but as there
is no objection, the faculty will doubtless
be approved. The Valley City normal
board have not yet been able to raise
funds upon their subscriptions.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-16
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria-
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria,
Lost

Lost
One bay pony, weighs between 700 and
800 pounds, I years old, branded On left
shoulder N T and on right shoulder M.
EMIL LABoN,
Custer Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-20

With an atomic value of 1919, argon might
find place between fiuorine and sodium
in the periodic sequence of the elements;
but II 1t be a monatomic gas, its atomic
weight must be doubled. and its position
would lie between potassium and calcium.
Any conclusion on this point must await
the result of further and other lines of re-
search.
The ascertained constantants of argon,
not previously given in this brief note may
be thus summarized: 1t dissolves in water
under the ordinary pressure and at a tenn
perature Of IA degrees c., in the proportion
1877 degrees, and its freezing point, 1896 de-
grees under the ordinary atmospheric pres
sure. The critical temperature, under a
pressure of 80 atmospheres, is -l21 degrees.
The density of liquid argon proved to be
about Is at its boiling point. Solid argon
is crystalline, and. like the liquid, colorless.
The detection and isolation of this con-
stituent Of the atmosphere must rank with
the very greatest discoveries in chemical
science which have ever been made. In its
inception and its conduct this research Of
Lord Rayleigh and Prof. Ramsay affords
an example of the highest and rarest type
of investigation. The difficulty of the work
may be gauSed in some measure by the fact
forms a hundred and twentieth part of it's
volume had eluded the severe scrutiny to
which air has been subjected during many
years by many expert experimenters. 1t in
deed rebounds to the credit of Cavendish
that, with the very imperfect apparatus and
methods at his command more than a CEN
fury ago, he should have come SO near to
discovery which will render forever mem
orable the years 1894 and 1895.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-20
IMMORTALITY OF JOKES.
Mark Twain Thinks HumOr IL the
Great Thing.

MARK Twa1n ThlnkS HumOf IL tne
Great Thing.
From the North American Review.
WE'LL humor is the great thing, the saw
ing thing, after all. The moment 1t crops
up. all cur harnesses yield, all our irrita-
lions and resentments fit away. and
sunny spirit takes their place. 1 remem-
her exploding it's American counter-mine
once under that grand hero, Napoleon. He
was only first consul then, and was con-
sui generator the United States, Of
course; but we were very Intimate, not
withstanding the differnnceiin rank. for I
waived that. One day something offered
the opening, and he said: ia,
We'll, general. I sppposerAfe can never
get entirely dull to an American, because
whenever he can't ;btrikeii ftp any other
way to put in his ti{ne he gan always get
away with a few years trying to find out
who his grandfather wasro
1 fairly shouted. foreI had never heard
1t sound better; and then ! was back at
him quick as flash: ~
Right your excellency! But reckon
Frenchman's got his little Standby for a
dull time, too; because when' all other in
terests fail he can turn in and see If he
can't find out who his, fatheE was?
Well, you should have heard him just
whoop and cackle and carry'6n! He reach
ed up and hit me. one on the shoulder and
says: a. ,ldy
good! TGeorge. I never heard 1t said SO
good in my life before! Say 1t again.
So said 1t again, and he said his again,
and l said mine again. and then he did,
and then I did, and then he did. and we
kept on doing it, and doing it, and never
had such a good time, and he said the
same. In my opinion there isn't anything
that Is as killing as one of those dear, old
ri Iyv,nx
1t out in a kind of fresh sort of original
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-20
Gen. Dow. Old Age.

Neal Dow will be ninety-one years of age
this week. He is still active in temperance
work. Last summer he spoke for two hours
at an outdoor meeting. He also addressed
a great open air meeting in Portland, Me-,
attended temperance meeting at Water
vile, twice visited Boston, speaking on both
occasions. the last time welcoming Miss
Willard on her return to this country.
Five times this winter Gen. Dow left his
home, in Portland, at an early hour in the
morning. reached Augusta before the legis-
lature was called to order, made on each
occasion a long argument before the tenn
perance committee and returned home in
the afternoon.
One Of his neighbors writes that he has
been as active with his pen the last
twelve months as at almost any other
period of his life. and his many newspaper
articles have had the old vigorous ring. He
is still as hard a fighter as ever. and does
not decline a challenge to defend the great
measure with which his fame is so closely
identified. His newspaper letters written
during the year would make a good-sized
book.
Gen. Dow's interest in passing events is
still as keen as ever. He reads at least a
dozen of the leading newspapers of the
country. and many books, drawing the line
at novels. He has not aged in the year, his
step Is quick, his eyes have the old brilliant
lcck and he is still in the swim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-20

Louis, loses by cholera and abolitionists
5000 worth of slaves. In the same city
fc ur free negroes. not having their pass
ports, are arrested. flogged and discharged.
The, Tone of the Paper.
The Liberator in 1858 was quarter of
century old, and it gives evidence Of its
large and earnest constituency. 1t speaks
fearlessly ard aggressively in the spirit of
that editorial now famous in our literature
and familiar to every schoolboy In Amer
ica which Garrison had written twenty
five years before in the first issue of the
Liberator: Il am aware that many OBJECT
to the severity of my language but is there
not cause for severity? will be as harsh
as truth and as incorporating as Justice
On this subject I do not wish to think. or
speak, or write with moderation. No! NO!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-20

orator was patterned after the old-fash-
toned weekly, now gone wholly into desue-
tude. Surrounding the first page was the
illustrated heading, which Is copied here
This was the work OF Alonzo Hartweii' tne
portrait painter, an artist long since Tor
gotten, who was at once draughtSman ana
wood engraver. The Illustration presents
a telling picture of the contrast between
slavery and freedom. and no doubt 1t &C
complished insensibly a great deal In the
cause for which 1t was made.
Business Limited.
OF advertising the Liberator had little.
and that from business men identified with
the anti-slavery movement. At the date Of
the copy received from Mr.. Grow-July 20,
1s55it had a good deal to say of the sit
uation In Kansas.
It was at the time Gov. Reeder had been
assaulted by stringfellow, the Missouri
border ruffian. All parts Of the country
Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, Illinois-seem to
be contributing to the contents Of the
Lfberator, Notices are numerous of meet
ings and conventions to be addressed by
Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Ste
phen Foster, Charles C. Burleigh and DR..
May. Among others appears call for a
woman suffrage convention, to be held at
Saratoga Springs, August Is and 16. To
this call are signed the names of Mrs.
Stanton, VIM. Hay, DR.. May, Mrs. Brown
and Susan B. Anthony, the New York
woman's rights committee. Among items
not specially connected with great re-
forms, which in some way got into the
Liberator is mentioned of Lady Fulton's ia
nous trot of twenty miles in 1856 on the
Centerville. L. l., course, for a purse of
5000. 1t is also noted that Mr.. Van Buren,,
ex-President, has just returned from Eu-
rope on the steamer Pacific.
Other Current News.
The abolition of Imprisonment for debt
in Massachusetts, Is another fact chron-
icled. There is little space given to such
news, however. Most Of the paper Is filed
with letters and comments on the great
question of the day. A colored impostor
named Marshall Is making pro-slavery
speeches in New York. He Is exposed.
Half a column scathes the people of West
Boylston, Mass, for not letting Stephen
Foster speak there. Two columns Of obit-
uary do honor to a member of the British
Anti-slavery Society. His name was Est
lin.
In St. Louis a clique of merchants have
had q rival merchant prosecuted for CIV
ing pretty yellow girl forged free papers.
and 1t Is discovered to be a conspiracy to
ruin the merchant and drive him out Of
business At Augusta, Ca, a negro brick
layer sells for 81. 200. In Cincinnati negro
militia company has been formed. also q
brass band. In Montgomery county, Md.
an attempt to kidnap a white boy and sell
him fails. In Ohio the fusionists have
nominate Salmon p. Chase for governor.
A Page county. Va, man. Soing to st.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-20
To Pronounce His Name.

William A. Jones. editor of the Syracuse
Post, recently addressed a letter to M.
Faure. president of France. asking how
his name was pronounced In English, an
thousands of Americans were DESTROYS of
the Information. A reply in French has
Ren received from NJ. Bloure chief private
secretary of President Faure. containing
the first authoritative pronunciation ever
given to the United States.
The Post prints a fac-simile of the
French letter. a translation of which is az
fellows:
presidency Of the Republic.-Paris. 18th
of February. 1S95.-Sir: In response to the
desire you express in your letter of the 7th
of this month. have the honor to inform
you that the exact pronunciation Of the
names Of the president Of the republic is
as follows:
Felix should be pronounced Eel a. in
fellow. TX as in ixion.
'Faure exactly like the word for.
Accept, sir. the expression Of my dis
tipguished consideration"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-20
THE FIRST POSTAL CAR.

Railway Post once Systems Growth
From Single Car I'm 1868.
From the Boston Globe
Charles Harper. whose face is familiar
in this city, was in charge of the first rail-
way postal car run between Boston and
New York
Back in 1851, in the month of August,
he was appointed route agent between
New Haven and New York. At that time
three compartments, the center one being
devoted to letters, papers and packages
which bore the requisite number of gov
eminent stamps.
Postal clerks were unkonwn The agent
had entire charge of the mails and did a
little sorting en- route.
Two years later the first postal car was
started In this country over the Erie road
from New York to Dunkirk. Mr.. Harper
was Its presiding genius But one man
was with him. whereas nowadays from
post Office on wheels.
The innovation came near proving a fail
ure. At one time 1t was thought best to
take on the postal car because mail could
be taken only at stations where stops were
made, and the smaller towns secured no
better service than before.
But the introduction OF Catches" by
which the bags could be caught up ali
along the line even when the train was
going at full speed, turned public opinion
IN their favor. and they were not discon-
Mr.. Harper spent four years on the Erie
road Then postal cars were put on be-
tween Boston and New York and he was
transferred to the New York and New
Haven line.
MI. Harper began his first run from
Boston to New York in the midst of a
raging November snow storm, and he has
been running ever since on similar trips
In sunshine and in rain-some twenty
seven years in ALL
He used to be in charge of the car. but
precluded his standing on his feet for Ain
hours day. he was appointed a through
messenger, his duties being to take charRe
sorting. e
He resides in Brooklyn. He leaves Bos
ton at pm. and reaches New York at 10
pm. one day, and on the next he leaves
at 10 pm -o"'0AA