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The record-union., 1896-09-15
Death of a San Diego Citizen.

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 14.-John N.
Young, one of the best known residents
of the county, died last night of con-
sumption, aged 81. He came to the
coast in 1859, and for the following ten
years was in the shipping business at
San Francisco coming to San Diego in
1869. He was wealthy and popular.
The record-union., 1896-09-15
Write to HaineS.

w. H. Haines of Macdonald, Fayette
County, West Virginia, wishes any late
member of Company A, Sixth California
Infantry Volunteers, to write to him.
He was q member Of that company and
regiment.
The record-union., 1896-09-15
Fined a Fiver.

Patsey Davy, who did some reckless
shooting in a saloon at Twentieth and
G streets, pleaded guilty yesterday to
having discharged firearms and was
fined So by Justice Davis.
The record-union., 1896-09-15
Guardian of CoIoma rIonument.

Philip Teuscher was yesterday COM
missioned Guardian of the Coloma mon
ument by Governor Budd.
The record-union., 1896-09-15
Notary Public.

J. n. Turner was commissioned No
tary Public for San Francisco by the
Governor yesterday
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-23
a Powerful Burning Glass.

The most powerful sunglass ever con-
structed in France was that made un-
der the supervision of the savant NJ
de Villette. This glass generated heat
sufficient to melt "a copper coin of the
size of our silver 20 cent piece in : .
seconds.
George Parker of Fleet street, Lon
don, made a glass much more powerful
than that which resulted from the
Frenchman 5 efforts Parker's was three
feet III diameter and so powerful that it
was actually used to melt substances
which were too refractory for the fur
naceS. The best authorities ON heat say
that It had a power of 1866, 362 degrees
L. This is best understood when it is
known that it only takes temperature
of ?, 1Sa degrees tomelt cast iron so that
1t will flow like water. st. Louis Re
public
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-23

Edinburgh can almost he reckoned as
one of the best mooching towns in Great
Britain, and if / We're beggar casting
about for life residence / think I
should select this beautiful city. and
that from my own personal experience
There is something deliciously credulous
in the true citizen. and the university
makes it a specially good place for
clothes. Our first meal in the town we
found at a ''refuge" in High street We
paid penny apiece for quart of good
thick Soup and half loaf of bread 1t
was the largest quantity of food have
ever had for SO little money. but it
should be remembered that it was a
charity.
Cheap restaurant living, in both Scot
land and England is moro Of theory
than n reality. For twopence l have had
II dinner at n Herberge in Germany that
l could not get in Great Britain for FIVE.
and for 10 cents have had table 4 'hote
with four courses in Chicago that |
could not get in London far 4 shilling.
Two Tramps In England. bv Josiah
Flynt ia Century
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-23
Football In Africa.

Englishmen are proverbial for taking
their games with them into whatever
part OF the world they go. Golf, as we
know, is played in the shadow of the
pyramids and in the very heart of the
Himalayas. but football in the middle
of darkest Africa is something of an in
novation. Yet football is rapidly be-
coming popular on the shores of Lake
Nyassa, and at Kotakota, which a few
years ago was notorious as the greatest
depot for slaves on the western shore of
the lake, mixed teams of black and
white meet every Saturday with as
much regularity as do our home teams.
though the local chronicler omits to say
whether Rugby or Association has won
the sutfgages of the Nyassa teams. One
startling feature of the game is that the
black players decline to hamper them
selves with boots and find apparently
no inconvenience in playing with bare
feet. London Cor. Manchester Guard
ian
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-23
PUTTING up A STOVE.
A Version Of the Operation That Rarely
Happens In Real Life.


This IS about man who put up a
stove.
It is unnecessary perhaps to go far
ther with it. You know in advance just
how he swcre and tore and spoiled the
carpet, and the pipe didn't fit and he
skinned his knuckles and cut his finger
and spilled SCOT down the back of his
neck and finally went up town and got
six men to finish the job.
johnson said johnson IS wife at
dinner yesterday, 81 want you to come
home early this afternoon. want that
sitting room stove up and going by Sun
day.
''All right, my dear, - said Johnson.
''I'll be home at 4. .
So that afternoon Johnson's wife sent
the children over to visit ON the other
side of town and stuffed rags in all the
cracks to deaden sound. After fervent
prayer that all the neighbors would be
out of town for few hours that after
noon she was ready for johnson.
He arrived promptly.
The stove is out in the wood shed, ="
said his wife.
The stove was not very large, and
the occasion, with the help of Mrs. John
son, who had taken care to have his old
clothes and gloves handy, he got the
stove to the back porch without much
difficulty.
at must be blackened, said Mrs.
Johnson as she mixed the backing. 1t
blackened to beautiful finish with very
little rubbing, and johnson whistled at
his work.
Then he tackled down the oilcloth
mat and the zinc and kept ON whistling.
He took the stove in carefully and
put it in the right place.
There was plenty of the old stovepipe,
and while he cleaned it in the alley
with stick Mrs Johnson sat ON the
back porch and listened to him whistle.
The first joint went ON all right, and
the damper staid in place. The next
joint fitted so well that johnson almost
stopped whistling in sheer admiration
for it, and so did the next one. The ell
bow fitted admirably, and the collar and
last joint went on like top. The seam
was on the right side all the way up.
There was not even a speck of SCOT on
the papers Mrs. Johnson had spread on
the carpet.
In ten minutes more johnson had a
lovely fire in the stove and was in his
business suit again spick and span read
ing the paper while his wife got supper.
1t was just here that there was a saw
age nudge i'll Johnson s left ribs and he
heard his wife tell him to wake up, and
hustle out now, for it had been daylight
for half an hour. Topeka State Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-23
BUILT THE WRONG WAY.
Why the Quaker's Chester Hogs Took No
Prizes In Georgia.

ErfzeS IN Georgia.
81 never shall forget an incident
which occurred at the first fair | ever
attended in Georgia, said retired
Cincinnati meat packer. ''It was at
Macon. and / think they called it state
fair. At any rate it was big thing for
the town in those days. They had some
fine stock on exhibition, and Pennsyl-
vanian had sent down about 20 of the
finest looking hogs you ever saw. They
were mostly Chester Whites, and if I
recollect Alright they were exhibited by
Thomas Wood, a great hog and cattle
fancier of 20 and 80 years ago He it
was who introduced that famous breed
of hogs, the Chester White, and he
made a great deal of money out of his
fancy stock. He was Friend-a Qua
ker, you know-who used the plain Ian
guage and wore broad brimmed hat.
He was smart old gentleman, honest
and prosperous. He sent his hogs from
state fair to state fair, and they took so
many prizes and blue ribbons that each
hog looked like a boy who had spent all
his money making a collection of badges.
When the Macon judges made their
awards, they gave blue ribbons very lib
orally to the razor backs, but not one of
the fat sleek Pennsylvania hogs got a
prize The owner of the exhibit did not
understand it, so he hunted up one of
the judges and said in the language of
the Friends
know thee to be an honest man.
and donot question thy fairness in the
award, but to crafty my own curiosity
/ would be glad to have thee tell me
why thee gave all the prizes to the ma
tive stock and what fault thee found in
mine?
My friend, the committee admired
your hogs greatly. the Judge replied.
They are certainly handsome, and
have no doubt that in your section they
are the best breed to raise, but they are
not suited for this country. They are so
short legged and fat that niger could
catch them i'll two minutes. What we
require III neg in the south is legs and
wind. We give our prizes for speed. :"
Atlanta Constitution.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-23
Brevet Rank.

The story is told of a soldier of the
Army of the Potomac who had his own
ideas as to his financial value, as we'll
as the method by which that value could
be realized
He was white man and was detailed
for service as a teamster in train
which was driven for the most part by
negroes. The negroes We're hired at the
rate OF s25 per month, but the white
soldier received no more than his regu-
lar pay Of SIC
He appeared somewhat dissatisfied
with this arrangement and made an an
plication to his captain.
i should ike, he said gravely, ito
De appointed negro by brevet. and be
assigned to duty in accordance with my
btevet rank Youth s Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-23
MEN WORSE TrA AN APES.
Reyclting Customs of Some of the African
Cannibai Tsibes.

Revealing Customs of Some of the African.
Cannibai Tsibes.
The cannlbahsm of the black secret
society known as the Human Leopards
in the country near Sierra Leone brings
forcibly before as the difference between
the east African and west African hab-
its of eating human flesh. The Sherbo
cannibals waylaid and killed their viz
Tins and afterward Toasted on their
flesh. The cannibalism of the east coast
is of a very different kind. The flesh ee
the old people-the grandfather and
grandmother Of a family-is dried and
mixed with condiments, and a portion
of this is offered, with a dim sort of
sacramental meaning. to travellers who
become guests of the family. To refuse
it would be a deadly insult. To accept
it is a passport to the privileged position
of &riend of the house Many of our
travellers in east Africa have eaten thus
sacramentally of the ancestors of some
dark skinned potentate
The cannibalism of the west coast is
of more horrible kind, connected with
fetichism, the worst developments of
which are peculiar TO that country. But
there is a hideously genuine appetite for
fresh human flesh still existing among
the negroes of west Africa. This canni-
balism manifests itself in refinement
of gluttony which has its mild analogy
in the tastes of Europeans. Young boys
are bought from the dark interior, kept
in pens, fattened upon bananas and fin
ally killed and baked. To these Thyes-
team feasts come not only tbs savage
chiefs of the interior, but also. it is
whispered, black merchants from the
coast. Men who appear at their places
of business in English territory in broad
cloth and tall hats, who ape the man
ners of their white masters, are said to
disappear annually into the interior,
where, we are told. they might be seen
in naked savagery taAng part in the
banquets on plump boys, in which they
delight.
Be this as it may, somehow the native
of the west coast and its Hinterland is
unlike the East or South African native
in the deep lying savagery and the ex-
traordinary facility for returning to it
which are his leading and very unpleas-
ant characteristics. The subject claims
the attention of the anthropologist, and
certainly suggests curious reason for
questioning the relationship of the black
man and the ape or the gorilla, seeing
that the race of monkeys seems to be
singularly free from anything like can
nibalism. London Saturday Review.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-23


the
the most intensely exciting the history
THE NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE leading am
American citizen, regardless
Also
of the World agricultural
market which
number,
ond domestic with their
Of household interest The New York Weekly Tribune ideal family
weekly publication
country issued 1.-THE office OF daily Large changes being made
tending
interest to the women and young people Of the household
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-23
Windproof.

a farmer Ill the Kansas cyclone dis
trict was building stone wall He was
putting it there TO stay, building it
feet across the base and ( feet high. A
stranger came riding by, and seeing the
care the farmer was taking said TO him,
'You seem 10 be mighty careful about
that wall . Yep, =" replied the farmer,
"I'm er building her to stay. : . Tain I
no use, replied the stranger, It'll
blow over just the same WAL, let
her blow over, she'll be foot higher If
she does, " replied the farmer. contin,
ming his work. San Francisco Argo-
naut.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-23
HOLES IN THE CANVAS.
An Important Discovery Increasing the
Efficacy of Sails.

Efficacy of Sails.
An Italian sea captain, Clio Batta
Vasallo of Genoa, has made very inter
esting innovation i'll the use of sails of
ordinary sailing vessels. He claims that
the force of wind cannot fully take eff
feet in a sail, since the air in front Of it
cannot properly circulate in the inflated
part and remains stationary Immediate
ly in front of part of the sail proper. He
avoids this stagnation of air, as he calls
it, by the application Of number of
small holes in that part of the sail where
the depression is deepest when it is fill
ed. These holes are REINFORCED like a
buttonhole, so that they will not tear out
Trials made in various weather have
resulted as follows: With a light wind
boat with ordinary sails made 4
knots, while the new sail increased the
speed to 5 ID knots In fresh breeze the
respective speeds were and 80 knots,
and i'll strong wind they were s and 10
knots an hour. 1t stands to reason that
the doing away with a layer of air
which cannot escape past the sides of
sail must increase the efficiency Of the
sailboat Where the wind formerly
struck a cushion of air which acted like
spring mattress, decreasing the actual
pressure of the wind against the canvas,
this current of air now strikes the sail
direct and of course has greater eff
cheney Vasallo has received much en-
enlargement from practical sailors as
well as theoretical scientists. -Phila-
delphia Record
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-23
Hungary Water.

The first alcoholic perfume was Hun
gary water, made from rosemary bv
Elizabeth of Hungary. 1870, she having
procured the recipe from Hungarian
hermit. This perfume became popular
throughout all Europe in that and the
succeeding century.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-23

Ton are always talking about the
doings on the cali board. John. said
Mrs. Billus. What kind Of thing is a
call board What Is it made OFF,
It's made Of deal. Maria, answered
Mr.. Billus. with the manner IF man
naturally impatient at having to explain
and simplify perfectly obvious propo-
sition. Chicago Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-01-23
our Busy Day.

How many of us have sympathized at
one time or another in our lives with
the old lady who said she had so many
things to do she guessed she'd go to bed
-Somerville Journal.
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~ ANTED WASHING GENTLEMAN
" 1r Family CON furnish good refer
encos. LOUISA CoNAMAW ili wsag
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GENTs.-ECONOMY GAS BURNER
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BILLIARD, POOL, and PIGEONH0LE IA.
BLES. 5000. upwards Best grades Billiard
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TRUsTEES' SALE
L by
PUBLIC AUCTION

TRUSTEES SALE.
PUBLIC AUCTION
THREE Nrv. ATTACHED TWO
STORY FRAME HOUSES,
TWO DWELLINGS AND a STORE AND
DWELLING Combined
THE EAST SIDE OF TWENTY-FIVE
BETWEEN X AND : STREETS.
In execution Of a certain deed Of trust,
dated the .ath JlnuaIy, les2 "nu ~ 49,.
in -. h. llD IS. page 3it, I-hlle
Court. default HAVING been made IN ine
debt secured. and ieins required 80 20
Go hy the beneficiary, the unaessisnsd
trustees VIII sell, by public auction Oh 'He
" WEDNESDAY,. DECEMBER 3, 1896.
at 4 o'clort ~ H.. the abOve-named
REAL ESTATE. dcscrib-d IN aA4u ueSo'
the lots fronting tOEctne! ~ itet atlY "a.
ming back within parallel lines I'- lct,,
tho two dwellings containing five rooms
each. tho other house beinS store or seOu
size. with three addiu0ual rooms an peins
new, neat, ard atlraotlFe, t.iu ~ - .f
sirahle character and location 4ot Du1'-
TERMS: For cash as 90 so much Of the
rurcnHse-nOucv a. may DC hf,'aa ~
pay The expenses Of executing t,s ~ 80,
the delinquent taxes. tho Tataple hh"i
Of the taxes for The present year .tie
the sum OF S23fg5 now due and payaois
on account 81 Tie bond referred 90 IN aaid
deed, and as 90 the residue OF inc IuI
chase-moneF, upon slcl terms - - 49,
or credit hs TIE trustees may u't,t III
and as "ii De announced a, TINE Oh ai'''
rOprRT LECKY. JR.,
T. sIITERDING.
JB. ELAN & CO.. Auctioueers. del
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By J. y. Elan & Co.
Real Estate Auctionee.5'
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In execution Of q certain. deed Of trust,
dated the Ath Jgnuery' le;1' anu ~ Y.
in -. h. liJ IS. page 3it I-nI' JUL,
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ME COMMONWEALTH OF YIR-
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Tm COMMONWEALTH S}TiH OF yIR-
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Greeting.
We command YOU 10 summon the
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November 1896. and In the list year
q '''' =. p WINSTON. Clerk.
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