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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-07-18

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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-07-18

ARTIFrcE is weak; it is the work of mere
man, in the imbecility and self-distrust Of
his mimic understanding.-Hare.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-07-18

WE initiate only what we believe and ad.
mire.-Willmott.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-07-18

IpLESEss is only the refuge of weak
minds, and the holiday of fools.-Chester-
field
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-07-18

The Homo of the Stark Brothers' Nur-
scries-One of the biggest Institutions
In the worid-Its Trade Extends to
Nearly Every Civilized Nation on Earth.
The Forrest City times., 1896-08-14
jam med Fingers.

Few people have escaped jammed
fingers, and as the pain caused when
the finger is jammed in a door is ex-
cruciating in the extreme for the first
few minutes, it is we'll to know of some
means of relief. The finger should be
plunged into water as hot as can pos
sibly be borne. This application of hot
water causes the nail to expand and
soften, and the blood pouring out be-
meath it has more room to flow; thus
the pain is lessened. The finger should
then be wrapped in a breadand-water
poultice. A jammed finger should
never be neglected, as it may lead to
modification of the bone if it has been
badly crushed, and amputation of the
finger must follow. damned toes are
usually caused through the falling Of
heavy weights and should be treated
i'll the same way as jammed finger
st. Louis Republic.
The Forrest City times., 1896-08-14

member thee, but for thy death for
loves sweet sake. Sleep well. Chonita!
Radiant. beautiful as herself. there
grows on the grave of Chonita the pas.
sion flower. Never dropping. never
fading, year by year it climbs higher
under the cloudless skies. 'Tis the sou,
of the maiden, which, not pure enough
to enter Heaven, was yet, by virtue OF
her love and faith, saved from eternal
punishment. The sun and the south
wind kiss it lovingly, and it's beauty is
unsurpassed. But some day the bios.
SONS will wither and fall to the ground,
Then will the soul of Chonita enter
Heaven. and her sins be forgiven her.
Leslie's illustrated Monthly.
The Forrest City times., 1896-08-14
SOME PlURAIS.

wen begin with a box. and the piuro, is
boxes.
But the plural of OK should be oxen no,
oxes; NV
iheh one fowl is goose. but two are
called geese.
Yet the plural of mouse shouId ,ayar ha
meese 'e
iou may find lone mouse or whole nest
of mice,
But the plural of house is houses. not
III the plural of man is always called men
Why shouldn't the plural of nan he cai,aS
pen?
kline, y.
But a bow IL repeated is never cauaa
bine,
And the plural OF vow is vows, never vine.
II speak of foot and you show me your
feet, '
ana l give you boot. would pair be
II one is a tooth. and whole set are teeth.
why shouldn't the plural of booth be
called beeth?
II the singular's this and the plural is
these
Should the plural of kiss ever be nick
named keese?
Then one may be that and three would be
those,
iet hat In the plural would never be hose.
And the plural Of cat is cats. not cose.
we speak of q brother, and also of
brethren
But though we say mother. we never say
methren
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his
and him,
But imagine the feminine she. shis and
shin.
30 the English. l think you all will agree.
~ the queerest language you ever did see
Commonwealth.
The Forrest City times., 1896-08-14
HE WAS A TRAMP.
Told u Familiar Story, hut 1t Was One
of Genuine Sorrow.


of Genuine Sorrow.
just across the way from the depot
was the town graveyard, and sitting on
baggage truck on the platform was
ragged, lonesome man, whom anyone
would have spotted at once for tramp
There were dozen of us walking up
and down as we waited for the train,
but for a quarter of an hour the tran,p
sat with his head in his hands end had
nothing to say to anyone. Then a pas
senger, who was evidently on good
terms with himself, walked up to the
man and said:
Dead broke, of course, old man?"
"Yes, dead broke" replied the mar
on the truck, as he looked up.
Haven't had anything to eat in tive
or three days, eh?"
Not since yesterday morning"
willing to work, but your health
won't permit, take it, as is the case
with all the rest of emp"
my health amt overly good" re-
piled the tramp after bit.
mo, of course not!" laughed the
man. Perhaps you are also worrying
about your family? Don't you want to
raise dollar to get home in time 20
see your wife die?'
Come along you-come along,
gents" said the tramp, as he rose mp
and climbed the graveyard fence.
Half a dozen of us followed him, and
as we reached the fence and looked
over he pointed to three graves which
were so new that the grass had not yet
taken root, and said:
There's the family-wife and two
children A week ago was hundred
miles away, but l got to thinking about
these graves and couldn't stay AWAY.
This morning l finished my walk, and
| was waiting for the train to no be-
fore | came up here. Yes, I'm dead
broke and hungry and in poor health
and tramp, and there's the reason of
it. When they died it broke me up"
One by one we went back to the plat
form. The tramp came last of all, and
he was going away without looking at
us when the man who had chaffed him
put the money we had raised in his
hand, added a five-dollar bill from his
own pocket and kindly said:
Take 1t, old man, and better luck
go with you. I'm sorry I spoke as !
did. IN. Y Mercury.
The Forrest City times., 1896-08-14
THE PASSION FLOWER.
BY b. II. DE LUNA.

The gardens are tangled, the ruins are
old and gray, hardly one stone standing
above another. The bells are, silent and
covered with moss. Even the grave
stones which mark the resting places
of the dead are dull and dark; the
names being almost illegible. All is
quiet, all is sad, all is deserted, save in
one place, where, climbing on broken
arch glows in unwonted luxuriance
the warm brilliance of the passion
flower. thing of life amidst the uni
versal DEATH a thing of beauty amidst
the desolation. Quivering in the wind,
burning in the sunshine, whispering in
the moonlight. 1t springs from grave
apart from all the rest, a grave scarcely
recognizable as such, save for the fallen
stone, upon which can be family traced
one word-a word which once drove the
city mad, a name which lives in song and
story, the name "Chonita."
The people shake their heads over the
tale even now, and in the soft moon
light evenings the dark-eyed maids
lightly touching their guitars. sing
with tender pathos of Chonita. Chon-
tia, the wondrous dancer, the beauti-
full, the gay.
Never were eyes so dark and tender,
never were lips so red, never was siren
more bewitching. With her dainty feet
she danced into the hearts of all who
saw her. The whole city went mad.
Men died with her name on their lips.
Still she laughed and danced. Cruel?
Heartless? Yes. But, ah! the most
beautiful thing on earth.
The young maids hated her, for their
lovers forgot them after one look into
her dark eyes. The mothers cursed her,
for love of her meant death to their
sons. The priests feared her, for, to
them, she was the very incarnation of
evil; the devil who tempted their dis
ciples to sin. Yet what cared Chonita?
Tears. prayers, curses, alike fell un-
needed on her rosy ears. One smile
from her lips and she set at naught
all priestly teachings. One glance from
her ewes and the teachers themselves
could not resist her.
Dance on little feet! Over the hearts
of men, anywhere, everywhere. In all
of Mexico there is but one Chonita, and
life is short Dance on, dance on. the
waves are not more light. Soon Will
all be over. The music, the passionat"
pleadings, the cry from thousand
sdoring hearts: "Brava! brava! Chou
itai Chonita!" Soon the curtain drops,
the lights are out, all is silent. Not for
thy beauty, thy wondrous grace, thy
cruelty. do they remember thee. Nor
these the burden of the songs the dark
eyed maidens sing-ah, no, Chonital
One day there came to the city n
.tranger. Americana" the people
called him, and he was tall and fair and
handsome. He, too, saw Chonita, anu
after one glance at her radiant beauty,
ba too. loved her. That was nothing.
Was she not the idol of them all? But
the moment that she looked into has
ewes. her heart awoke and so she learned
what love was.
Night after night she danced, each
time more wonderfully than the last.
All, how they loved her, adored her.
Rut she heard no longer their shouts
of praise, she cared not for the lights,
the music. She danced but for his eyes,
his love. Alas, Chonital
The Forrest City times., 1896-08-14
A Pretty Tea Cloth.

A tea-cloth yard square is made
from pale blue linen ornamentcd by
lace braid in cream white.
These braids are laid on the stamped
design and sewed down along the
edges. The design itself is wide band
III conventional figures that extend di-
agonally across the cloth in leaves and
flowers. The same design is used in
the corners. Each side the band
there is appliqued a wide band of Tor
chon lace in a beautifully open pat
tern. The same lace is used as a frill
round the cloth. The design would
be pretty for bedroom stand-cover il
worked on pale green or canary-colored
linen.-N. Y. Post.
The Forrest City times., 1896-08-14

The Spanish province of Puerto
Rico last year imported from the United
States 11s,617 barrels of -four, valued at
$685., $40.
The Forrest City times., 1896-08-14
Steel and Stone.

An experiment was recently made in
Vienna in order to test the relative re-
sistance, under pressure, OF the hardest
steel and the hardest stone. Small
cubes of corundum and of the finest
steel were subjected to the test. The
corundum broke under the weight of
six tons, but the steel resisted up TO
AZ tons. The steel split up with a noise
like the report of gun, breaking into
a powder and sending sparks in every
direction. which bored their way into
the ma, hine like shot.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
The Forrest City times., 1896-08-14

The American orchard owner last
year exported Sls,711 barrels of appies
and received 81, ,954. .318 for them.
The Forrest City times., 1896-08-14

1t cost Oxford university $1,000 to
go to the high court of justice and have
the title "Ford's Professor of English
Literature" changed to "Ford's Lee
turer."
Arizona republican., 1896-02-06
HER REASON.

It Explained Why George Was Not to
 Squeeze Her Hand.
 "George!' It wasn't what she said so much as the way in which she said it.
 She took the word and drew it out until it was long, tremulous flament of sweetness.
 Yet there was tinge of reproof in her tone.
 ''George!''
 She said it only once in reality, but it is customary with story writers to say George" twice under these cir cumstances.
 ''What is it?"
 ''You have been squeezing my hand with great regularity and emphasis for some time"
 ''I know it," he replied, with the frankness that was characteristic of his manly nature.
 ''Please don't do it any more," and her voice dropped almost to a whisper. 'No more?" This sounded like heart throbs of anguish, and his form shook with emotion.
 "Why not?" s'Because'-she faltered. ssGo on.''
 ''Because have got blister on my little finger. r."-Tit-Bits.
Arizona republican., 1896-02-06
VICTORIOUS JAPAN.

IT was the custom, years ago, for the Japanese ladies to gild their teeth.
 TERRA GOTTA sleepers are in use on Japan railroads. The increased cost is compensated for by the greater resist ance to decay.
 MIME. HIssA OHYAMA, wife of the Jap anese minister at Vienna, has joined the Roman Catholic church, with her husbands consent.
 JAPANESE politeness translates into queer English. How is your honor able wife?" one gentleman will ask T thank you, honorable sir, my dirty fool of wife is well" is the answer.
 THE Japanese are now getting used to glass. At first the glass in railway car windows had to be smeared with streaks of white paint to keep passen- gers from poking their heads through it.
 GEN. SIR GARNET WoLsELEY says that one secret of the superiority of Japan's military system is that the profession of arms is held in high regard, while in China the lowest classes only are re- cruited into the army, and soldiers are rather looked down upon.
Arizona republican., 1896-02-06
LACK OF ORDER.
The Chinese Deficient in Military System
 and Discipline.

The Chinese Deficient in Military System
 and Discipline.
 The Chinese are an untidy race, whose cities in their native country are frightfully unclean, and whose special quarters in our cities are apt to afford anxiety to boards of health. The Jap anese, on the contrary, are extremely cleanly, orderly and neat; and one of the stories told of Chinese soldiers in the present war tends to show that this difference has played no small part in determining victory or defeat.
 The Japanese are armed with mod ern weapons, of which they take ex- cellent care, and which they handle with skill and efficiency. A lady writ ing from China says that the Chinese troops are provided with curious va riety of European arms, obsolete. ancient and new; and that cartridges for perhaps twenty different makes are all served out together.
 In Manchuria she actually saw cart ridges piled carelessly on the ground, ''not in boxes, but lying in great heaps like potatoes-long and short, fat and thin, all mixed together, and soldiers fitting them to their guns, trying them, and throwing away those which were too large or too smallp'
 No wonder the Chinamen do not stand before the Japanese. As soon as the cartridges each man happens to carry are exhausted he can only de- pend on one chance in twenty of get ting any more that he can use. He sell dom waits that chance; he runs, and throws his useless rife promptly away that he may run the aster.-London Spectator.
Arizona republican., 1896-02-06
A Sheep-Killing Parrot.

Among the remarkable birds of New Zealand is the greenish-gray nocturnal parrot of the genus Strigons, which lives in burrows and resembles an owl; and still a more singular parrot, the Nestor notabilis, which the English have come to regard as dangerous nuisance. The English, as is we'll known, introduced sheep farming into New Zealand, as well as into Australia. Now these parrots have acquired the habit of perching upon the backs of the sheep and excavating holes therein with their formidable bills in order to extract the kidneys. The fact is so much the more curious in that it can not be attributed to an innate instinct, since previous to the arrival of the English these birds had never seen a sheep, nor even any animal of analo- gous conformation, the fauna of New Zealand including scarcely a single mammal. We know, moreover, that in entire Oceanica there are no other mammals except marsupials. There is here, then, on the part of these birds an act of intelligence and even of cal culation, so much the more curious in that it is certainly complicated with a phenomenon of language or analogous communication. It is true that the birds are parrots, but the fact is none the less worthy. of remark. Revue Eranoaica
Arizona republican., 1896-02-06

The Worlds Fair Tesfs showed nO baking powder SO pure or so great in Eeave ening power as the Royal.
Arizona republican., 1896-02-06
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, COUNTY OF MARICOPA. City of Phoenix,


 City of Phoenix,
 In compliance with ordinance number 195 of the City of Phoenix entitled an ordinance icon corning the levy assessment and collection of city taxes for the fiscal year 1895 and 1S96," hereby give public notice that unless the delinquent taxes for the fiscal year 1S95-1S96 under levy and assessment of property in the said city of Phoenix by authority of said ordi- nance and herein above set forth together with penalty and costs as added thereto by virtue of said ordinance are paid on or before the day between the hours of 10 m. and D. m. , begipnine at the said hour of 10 8. m. at the City Hall in the city of Phoenix sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the real and person al property upon which said taxes are lien, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy such taxes, penalty and costs Of all property then remaining upon the foregoing lists upon which said taxes. penalties and costs are then unpaid. L. J. WOOD, City Assessor and Tax Collector for the city | of Phoenix, A.
Arizona republican., 1896-02-06
Phoenix, amount four dollars penalty six cents, costs one dollar, total

pOhdlty blA CVAtcJ COets OAC
 dollar, total ........
 Utley Alice T., lots 6-s block 8, lots2
 4-6, block S9, part Of lots 2-4
 6. block v, City of Phoenix,
 improvements on same, amount one hundred and
 seventy one dollars and thirty-three cents, penalty two dollars and ffty.seven cents. costs one dollar, total. Ulman, Mary B., lots 4-5-6, block 6,
 lots 1-2@3-4-5-6. block /
 Churchill addition to City of
 Phoenix, amount twenty-four dollars and twenty six cents, penalty thirty-six cents,costs one dollar. total. - Valley Street R. R. Co.,, street railroad, poles, wires and franchises
 amount eighty-nine dollars
 penalty one dollar and thirty cents, costs one dollar, total Wells, Ed w., lot Il block 79, City of Phoenix, amount torty-four dollars and fifty cents, penalty sixty y-six cents, costs one dollar, total. ... Walker, Ssllie F., lot g, block 95, City of | PnPn1X, amount seven dol J lars and twelve cents, pen { atty twelve cents, costs one | dollar, total. l............ Williams, A. G., lot 6, block 4, Churchill
 addition to City of Phenix, amount eleven dollars and ffty-seven cents. penalty l eighteen cents, costs one dol
 lar, total ....,......... ...... Wolf, c. G., lot 8, block 33. Churchill ad-
 dition to City of Ph9nix,
 amount one dollar and thirty
 four cents, penalty two cents,
 costs one dollar, total ...... Yu1e, Geo., lots 6, 8, 10, block 2S, inn
 provements, City of Phoenix,
 amount fifteen dollars and
 thirteen cents. penalty
 twenry-four cents, costs one
 dollar. total. ......... ......
Arizona republican., 1896-02-06

Porter, H. M., lots S--9-10-11-12 block
 65. lots 5-7-9-11 block 66 City of Phoenix, amount sixty-seven dsllars and six
 ty-tour cents, penalty one dollar and two cents, costs one dollar, total
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-29
of the district are feeling very proud
of their patriotic effort.


More than 400 tents are now ready
for occupancy at Camp Mason. Those
furnished by the government were
placed on the grounds early in the
week, and yesterday eighty-five belong
ing to the state Adventists were erect
ed on the grounds south of Selby ave-
nue. The first campers to reach the
spot were from La Crosse, Wls.-three
old soldiers representing Wilson Col
Inns Post No. 10. The veterans came
overland, covering the 40 miles in
three and one-half days. They
brought a tent for sleeping quarters,
but their cooking utensils and large
circular tent for the use of the post
came by rail and was erected yeSter-
day. The post will send 100 men, and
other posts from the same city will be
represented by at least 100 veterans.
Besides there will be a couple of score
representatives of the Womans Re-
lief corps and all these will be quar-
tered in the eight large tents that are
to be pitched at the corner of Dayton
avenue and Milton street
The veterans who constitute the adj
vance guard of the La Crosse posts
are Sapt c. w. Wiles, George Rogers
and A. B. Morris. They are jolly trio
and have had the best of times since
their arrival Thursday morning. All
and were entertained and entertainers
for and by scores of visitors who were
anxious to make the acquaintance of
the first arrivals. They have gaso-
line range and cook and sleep in the
big A tent they brought with them in
their wagon.
The arrangements for the watering
of the camp are not yet complete and
the residents of the neIghborhood have
iaiv with of n w
shall show the three early birds the
most attention. They appreciate this
attention, too, and are making the
most of It, for next week when the
crowds are in camp the La Crosse men
will be swallowed up in the noise and
dust and turmoil of the occasion.
Headquarters for the Minnesota as
ISOLATION of naval veterans have been
established at IA East Sixth street,
where free sleeping quarters will be
provided for all members. The parade
of the association will occur Tuesday
morning at TO- J. F. R. Foss, captain
commanding, has been appointed q
special aide to represent Rear Admiral
Cyrus Sears, commander of the ma
tional association. Members of the as
ISOLATION are requested to report at
headquarters at o'clock the morning
of the parade. The Third Regiment
United States Infantry band will act
as escort in the parade.
The women Of st. James Catholic
church, will conduct a G.. A r. restau-
rant at the new store room, No. % East
Sixth street. Meals and refreshments
will be served at all times during the
week.
Young women coming to the city as
strangers, without their friends or par
ents, can find safe quarters at the
rooms of the Young Women's Friendly
association, 435 Jackson street, corner
of Seventh, at reasonable rates.
The Bethel has been deliberately dec
GRATED for next week and presents a
very gay appearance.
There will be an important meeting
of the First Minnesota regiment as
ISOLATION at headquarters, Eighth and
Wabasha streets, tomorrow afternoon
at 2 o'clock. All members are request
ed to be present.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-29
LOCAL NEWS NOTES.

Aeker Post No. q will hold an adjourned
meeting this evening. Several recruits will
be mustered in.
The Third United States infantry band,
of Fort Smelling closes it's present engage
ment at Lake Como this evening.
The case OF Patrolman Ahern, charged with
assault and battery. was continued in the
police court yesterday to Sept. II.
The state. examining board will meet Sept.
3 to examine applicants for state teaching
certificates. There is an unusually large
number of applicants.
Charles E. Walters. of Council Bluffs, state
examiner of building and loan associations
for Iowa, was a caller at the Office of State
Public Examiner Kenyon yesterday.
The master horseshoers. at a meeting last
night, decided to close their shops Wednesday
on account of the big parade. Delegates were
selected to attend the state convention at
Faribaut, Sept. Is.
The st. Paul Marine band serenaded the
hotels last night. The band, which was or
gained last month, consists of thirty-eight
members, all of whom are under twenty
years of age. c. E. easier is the director.
John Mazda, a farmer from Little Canada.
had runaway yesterday morning at Sew
enth and Broadway. He lost control of his
team. and before it was stopped a wagon be-
longing to Mrs. Seger, of 452 Minnesota
street. was badly wrecked. Mazda and his
rig escaped any injury.
Rev. j. Med. Kerr of Toronto will nraacb
in the Central Park Methodist church to-
morrow morning, and Commander Burlington
Booth, of the American Volunteers, on Sun
day evening. The services which Mr. Kerr
has conducted in this church during the
week have grown in interest, and may be
continued next week
Morris Self, of 1853 East Isabel street. ar
rested On complaint of his wife charead
with non-support, had trial In the police
court yesterday. The testimony of Mrs. Self
was somewhat at variance with that of her
books and figures to prove his statements
Judge Orr said that in the eyes of the law
Self had been supporting his family, and
ordered his discharge.
the members OF the Church of the Immacu-
late Conception have made ARRANGEMENTS 10
end the festivities of carnival week by trim
down the Mississippi river to the vicinity OF
Hastings, on Monday, Sept Z Labor day).
Boat Will leave Minlehaha Falls at 9:30
m, passing st. Paul, Merrimack Island. Lone
Rock. Grey Cloud, Pine Bend and Nininger.
Those having the arrangements in hand have
spared no pains to make the trip most en-
joyable one