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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-02-03

It IL in commerce that IAnglicisme
naturally wins its greatest victories. In
his Montreal Office H. Jean Baptiste
employs a secretaire prive-not particu-
ll-r, like his Parsian cousir-and, to
make matters worse, this official must
nowadays be q typewriteur Tor type
writeuse, as the case may be, who in
creases the decentralization of his native
tongue with his '.lettres typewritees. I"
OF course, the French Canadian mer-
chant has to count his money in dollars
and cents like his neighbors, and cent
or centin long ago displaced. sou. The
obvious Anglicism ohelin has gone out
of fashion with the English shilling,
and is only used Ito represent 90 oents)
by the old market women and their con.
teraporaries; and piastre Is not yet trans
lated into dollar" but escomte has al
ready become discount, and diff "encs
has become balance, regardless Of the
fact that balance. like baume. is q
French word with quite different
mea~aing. Contemporary Review.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-02-03

A cultivated reader Of history Is do
INVESTIGATED in all families. He dimes
with Persoles and sups with Titan
Willmott-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-02-03
Duluth South Shore
g. Atlantic Railway.

FINEST SERVICE OUT OF DULUTH, NEW
BUFFET DINING CARS LATEST
MODEL.
WAGNER PALACE SLEEPING CARS FOR
CANADA BOSTON AND NEW YORK
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-02-03

XNyANTED-SEvERA FAITHFUL MEN
w or women to travel for responsible ga
tabllshcd house in Minnesota. salary S7oo.
payable SO weekly and expenses. Position
permanent. Reference. Enclose seif-ad- -
dressed stamped envelope. Thu National
Stur B,illtling, Chicago.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-02-03
Kind On,er.

Impoliteness may sometimes perhaps
be answered properly with impertinence
A struggling author went to an editor
with q manuscript.
"Oh." exclaimed the editor, don {
bother ne now. I've other fish to fry. I"
well, I'll fry your fish for you, !"
said the author. while You read my
manuscript "
30 the editor had to read it.-Youth's
COMPANION
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-02-03

Ocean steamship tickets for sale.
500 Pacific line for Pacific coast points.
T. H. LARKK,
Commercial Agent,
426 Spalding House Block.
Duluth.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-02-03
Not to Her Thinking.

The summer girl, accompanied by her
mother, descended from the train ut tho
Springs station and looked about her.
Then che beckoned to . man driving
two seated wagon.
Sorry, miss" he responded, but
I'm engaged.
A shadow Of disappointment fell over
the face of the girl.
"Mommer, she exclaimed. this 10
no place for u.s. The men are so scarce
that even the hack drivers are engaged "
At the station beyond, tho outlook
was less disheartening Truth
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-30
We Answer

Crib. second: Miller, third. and Hays.
fourth Time 1888
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SARA r Hunt Time Is -
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Boys DISQUALIFICATION xc1. Bird. sec-
oa1. Lehman. third. Tine 1s5s -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-30
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
4 GENUINE GOLDEN ANN1vEnsARY.
CALIFORNIA; Arranging fer n Celebration or the
Discovery or Gold There.

CALIFORNIA; position at the head Of the gold
producing States Of tho country has been some.
what jeoparded of late by tho large gold product
Of Colorado. and, although California remains
the Gold State" IL has no monopoly of the gold
product. Recently attention has been turned
from 1t TO tho Klondike fields, to the manifest
dissatisfaction of many old Californians who
persist in declaring that the rich gold folds of
other days on the Pacific are not yet fully ex-
hausted. California has produced moro than
$500, OO0,o 900 of gold since the frat discovery Of
1t in 1s4s. Tho exact date of this discovery has
been fixed officially as Jan. 10. and some Cali
fornians arc now preparing to celebrate
the hftieth anniversary of that day on
Jan. 10, 1898. 1t is intended to erect
a monument designed to perpetuato and
further extend the distinction OF California as a
earlier memories of the Argonauts who poured
into California In the. winter OF 40 and tho
spFTins S of ,'S S, sdter the nS, f g Of ~ Gslifornia,s gold 4
sspbtstsnees produce n the state e. Is possible.
ties. and individuals. and for the artistic fea.
lures Of the monnument it is proposed to raise q
The mineral wealth OF. California. though
chiefly. 10 not wholly in gold, The silver product
or the state, though not as large as that OF No
vad1 or Colorado, is considerable. and Californi,
p%rodgses moro than one.quarter Of the whole
ss large az in come other States. In tho product
of copper California is fourth among the States
and Territories. but 1t 10 not to be supposed
State will be made unduly prominent
at the January anniversary. In calling atten-
producing line II 10 hoped by some Of those in
charge OF the details to create q new boom for
lanRnished somewhat of late and are now men,
acSd by rivalry on tho Pacific further north.
The monument for which tho foundation will
be laid on Jan. 10 will not be the only feature Of
the proposed observance of this anniversary. for
there 10 also In view the establishment OF a per-
manent museum of minerals, designed to show
not only what California has done in this line,
but what, also, II is likely to be able to do In tho
future. Though gold was discovered In Calf
fornia In le4s, such were the delays In getting
there and the difficulties Of communication that
the rush did not begin until ono year later.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21

showing how he had led a double life. and how
he had forgery after forgery. When
all had been read he was asked If the allega-
tions were true.
He replied that they were true. And then he
told the story In detail, which is given here in
general. There was not n word OF truth in any
OF the representations he had ever made. Tho
Baron of many names and with royal, privileges
was a myth. Tho man described by Reavis
had never existed. And the woman, his bride,
who stunned Fifth avenue in this city, and
whose appearance always brought men and
women to their feet, wherever she appeared In
an heiress were concerned. She was the daugh.
ter Of o Missouri post trader and q Digger In
dian squaw. She had been found by this man
Miguel .Peralta, tho broken gambler of No
gales, who put q bullet into, his head the other
day. She had been coached by him. She had
been schooled by Rcavis until she played her
part well. She drops out Of this story as mys-
teriously as she came into 1t.
trial as a forEer, was taken from the court
room to O cell in the Jail at Santa F6.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21

a Fable Without . Neral. but Maybe None tn,
Worse. Therefore.

Worse. Therefore.
In his travels in Arabia the learned Abu Zofr
met q man who had but one arm and ono log.
He questioned him thus:
Friend. l pray thee relate to me tho reason
why thou hast but one q. \ and ono leg. An
railroads had been invented, l should know
that thou hadst been q brakeman; but as they
have not been devised yet-praise be to Allah
therefore, know that other reasons than rail-
roads must exist for thy condition.
To whom the man replied: "Yea. verify. my
master, l will tell thee. Thou knowest how
that tho Prophet Mohammed-ma may his name
be exalted-desiring to rise ono morn found
that his favorite cat was asleep on the skirt of
his gown; and rather than disturb her, cut on
the skirt thereofi'
II know It," replied tho sage Abu Zofr; "at
least ! have read, the story, " 10 corrected him
sell, therefore is he called Abu Zofr tho Sage.
onc.armed man; but my cat would never sleep
on the skirt of my garment. once she slept on
my leg; and to move without disturbing her i
was compelled to cut off my foot; Again she
might move"
u perceive that she has not yet slept on thy
mead. said the sage Abu Zofr. .
M%oh Johann @dy ' !nos Win ssSeii siee 1hf th tG,,ow Hs e e
Lel out, ! slept on her head;, and when she
would move, that / might not be disturbed, 1t
vas needful that her head should be cut of.
SINCE which have had no cat"
erlly,' said the sage; come thou with mo
70 basdad; there Is a vacancy In the Presidency
OF inc society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
true believers, which Allah hath kept for thee
20 nni tor verify, thou knowest when cruelty to
Thereppon the man went with ABB Zotr; and
heTO SnoOth The tale
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
his PRECIOUS Bo,pKs.
A Comedy in . Downtown Orunoe That 10
stu q Mystery To tho Chier Actor.

n 0ome0y In o DoWntOwn OmOo That In
Still n Mystery TO the CHIEF Actor.
Jack Spratt worked in a downto wn office and
had q good salary. but because he was in debt
Mrs. Jack declined to allow him to spend q cent
for anything save tho absolute necessaries Of
life until he had cleared himself. Spratt was
something Of a reader and liked to own good
books. An opportunity came to purchase .
set of books, which he had long coveted, for SOS.
or about a quarter Of what they were worth.
Spratt didn't have the money and knew Mrs.
Jack would frown upon any proposition to pur-
chase tho books out of the next weeks salary,
30 he made the owner Of tho books promise to
hold them for q month. and then he began sys-
tematically to hold out little bits of his salary
and to cut down his own expenses. At the end
Of the month he had tho $25 and purchased tho
books.
To take the books homo would have boon
fatal at that time. Spratt resolved to leave
them in the office until he had smoothed tho
way for their advent into the house. This he
thought he could do If he went at 1t judiciously.
So the books were left In the big box in which
they had come and put up on the top shelf in
o closet in the office.
Spratt told his friends in tho office all about
the books. and one morning a few weeks later
he came down to work with a happy smile.
Its all right. boys" he said. "I'ye told
Mrs. Spratt about the books Said / saved tho
money by walking instead of riding, eating
cheap lunches and all that. I'm going to take
them homo to night"
His friends resolved that as 1t had all been so
easy for spratt, he should have one or two diff.
culties before he got the books home. SO while
package. united it, took out the books and sub.
stituted bricks. Then they tied 1t up neatly
again: They were all laughing in their sleeves
office bending. under the weight OF his load.
th" Wait until we see Spr9tt in the morning"
Every body was waiting 10 laugh when Spratt
walked into the oflce the next morning. Tho
mP n%rn expression on his face deferred them.
"You know those booksf"' he said. well,
I Ira rak sd1 and 'eraped to get them, left them bore
and started with them last night, ~
Eyes! Yes!'' and appeared to be tremendousIy
in!! crest 4 which; in reality, they were
the scat beside me in the elevated train last
Ti6ly interested and-weil, When I got to my
One Of the clerks fell Off Of his chair with O
thump.
You don't mean stolen. do you'll" demanded
%stoleni nothing moro nor less" said spratt
sprqtt's friends left him alone then. At the
inc 0oGkS together. wrapped them up, and
around Rkfim. while the credit man an SPOKE Sa'n'f'a
Of Diniky.' Dink & Co. have listened to- y o%p ua.
. meeting held Immediately after your recital
we resolved to mako good your loss. and on be-
nsat 81 S you hS MifS 4 s sste 81 Ff book pis similar U 70 Pro he
fully, assure you"
learned the truth Nai " yet nc '0u'0 'A'' 'na nc nA'n'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
tho Richmond Dispatc

Turkeys arc so plentiful that it is nothing UNI
common TO hear OF their coming to roost at farm
houses. alongside the domestic birds. Mr.. +. NJ.
Seager, living at Travellers Repose. w, Va.
ana twenty-five miles west OF Monterey, has siA
wild ones running with his tame flock. These.
however, have u little romance connected with
turkey.
One day last spring Mr.. Yeager and his daugh-
Yer. Miss Pearl. went from their home To a
clubhouse. several miles distant. aud situated
In tho solitudes OF Cheat Mountain. Fishing
down one OF tho mountain streams for trout,
they Unexpectedly flushed q coyey, OF wild tur:
Keys, consisting of the mother bird and a nest
full Of little fellows. The old ono flew away 10 a
safe distance. while the little ones, true totheir
nature. scrambled away and hid among tho
ferns; Six OF them were made c%aptives, and IL
was decided to take them no o. but how was IL
70 be done successfully Miss Pearl dropped
them INTO the capacious aud mysterious depth
OF her bonnet, and bore them in triumph 10 the
flrmyard, wherO they were again 10 see I @
light and make heir future home, The tiny
fellows TOOK kindly 10 their new existence and
soon made fast friends OF new ncighbors. Months
have come and gone and they are now fun
grown. noble fellows, DIT 10 grace tho table OF .
king.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
NINE FEEr TALL OR so.
SpscuIAtiOns NJ to the Original owner or Bonss
Round Up In Maine.

CAsTINE. Me-. Nov. 19.-Allard Staples. who
conducts a blacksmith shop in this village. and
does a little hunting at odd times. went to
Western Island last Sunday for sea ducks. TAX
Ing along +. IL. Dunn to row his boat and pick
up his birds. 1t was u windy day with a bad
sea running, and soon both hunters were wet
through and glad to land and warm up. In
bunting around for some dry wood Staples went
up a gully that divides the island into two parts.
Here ON a knoll among some dead windfslls he
found some bones which he believes were once
the property of a gigantic man.
No trace OF tho head could DO found. The
skeleton appeared to DO lying on Its back. From
the beginning Of tho footprints to the top of tho
collar bone, beyond which no bones were found.
she skeleton was 2 teet . INCHES long; allowing
stables concluded that the dead man must
peNred 70 have fallen on top OF the ground
among tho trees, after which tho trees were
blown down, completely concealing the remains.
Staples has no means OF knowing how long the
Goay hHd lain where II was found. though he
opinion upon the time required 70 de0A1s
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21

SlhIou Inut tho LlClO was perfect. SOl. lnGer-
soils opinion was a. emphatic. after he had made
Then land grant companies were formed out
Pappy and The silver King Mining Company.
the schemes Of To forme street car driver Of
st Louis. He lived q life, all this while, which
you'd nave satisfied the original Peralta i
Tho Government ali this time had resisted
Santa 10. before a United States District Court.
Attornsy-GeRRs Nor. 9lnesy employed for the ns GGy.
Provost. whose ofices are in Broad street.
1t required time for the Government to pro-
pare is case. Mr.. Mallet-Prevost went abroad
Eesyis had prepared his side OF tho case for a
C9GnSTSessiSnal hearing: He had arrange ed ITO to
wife and her magnificent robes and gowns,
while he. entertained tho lobby and ingratiated
hlmseh In the favor Of such Congressman as
While in Spain Mr.. Mallet-P Provost discovered
that HeaVts had undertaken when he, was there
lie was deteoted and his hasty departure
from Madrid was attributed to his scheme 70
spain spain tR When @p' Rea rsiisp iesresd Of ,b hat f tSa css 81
would be called, in Santa re on July H. 1899.
he pu, on a bold front. He had never failed,
why should he falter nowf
1t had been expected, on the other hand, that
he sst Would not appear His lawyers, learning arr n what
ment, had withdrawn from the case. Rcqyis
was left alone. But when his name was called
he answered and took the witness stand TO tell
his story. He was q changed man. lie was
gray.haired and grizzled. His step had lost Its
elasticity, and the haunted appearance was Al
would not have been known by any OF tho old
Hoffman House crowd which used to make
room for him when his equipage stopped be-
fore that house, and he and his bride with un
ancestry dating back into centuries appeared.
He looked about him In tho courtroom and
saw that he was deserted. There was not u
friendly face to be seen. He turned "a, the
court and asked for q sontinuance gnih M
position Attog deDoAd0n Was read against him
Arizona republican., 1897-12-08
SCALPING THE SCALPERS.

Recent action by the railways of business of ticket scalping very black eye by demonstrating to the public what may be lost by the people generally if the ticket brokerage op erations are suffered to continue.
 The threats of the roads to refuse passes to cattlemen accompanying shipments of cattle because SO many of these passes, or reduced rate tick cts, find their way into the hands of ticket scalpers, brought the cattle day to the front with a resolution denouncing ticket scalping. In other localities the roads are refusing to se.1 excursion or round trip tickets at low rates because of the fact that the tick ct brokers handle so many of these excursion tickets. If the congress or state legislatures do not protect the roads against those who speculate up On the roads concessions to the pub lie then the railway homogeneous in tend to withdraw these favorable rates and frequent concessions. They ap- pear to feel able to protect themselves in the last resort. There is now a concerted movement by the railroads all over the United States to break up kind of cut-throat business which is injuring the legitimate business of the railroad companies.
 Corporations are entitled to the same protection that individuals en- joy and especially so if. in protecting the corporations, the people are also being benefited. The various com munities of the country can i'll af- ford to lose excursion rates and spec ial rates, for special occasions, which they now enjoy. The public cannot afford to sacrifice the general interest to that of the few, from a selfish standpoint only, to say nothing of the questionable character and the necessary fraud and deceit of the ticket scalping business as such. Proper protection of the roads in the handling of their own tickets means greater advantages and cheaper rates to the general public. As one of our exchanges remarks, it begins to look as if the scalpers were in fair way to get scalped.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-08
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Ex-Senator Henderson of Missou. in an open letter to young men says: Keep out of public office."
 For many years the exact burial place of James Otis. one of the revo- lutionary leaders. has been shrouded in mystery. It has now been dis covered that he was inferred in the old Granary burial grounds in Bos- ton.
 Dr. Frederick J. Karn, who has for the past five years acted as vice prin- cipal of the London college of music, has been appointed principal of that institution.
 Rev. J. A. Thompson has preached for congregation in Thomasville, Ga, for thirty-nine years, and has just had his first vacation in all that time. He took ten days for it.
 Joseph Poe, the well known ex- congressman from Ohio, is almost 69 years of age, but has announced his intention of starting for Klondyke next spring, and has no fear on ac- count of his age
 The death has just occurred a. Bradford, England, of MT. Joshua Northup, said to be the oldest Meth od1st local preacher in the kingdom. He was born on March 19, 1799, and preached from 1920 to last July. Joel Goldthwait, member of a Bos- | ton firm. has completed his fiftieth year of business life, all of which has been passed on the same site in | Washington street, that city. He en- tered the employ of the firm as g salesman, November 1, 1847, and be. came it's head in 1864.
 Septimus Winner, the composer ot the popular song, 'Listen to the Mocking Bird" (written in 1855, cele brated his golden wedding last month
 F. Marion Crawford, the novelist waited over fifteen years to see his first magazine article published II the meantime he had written about { dozen two-volume novels
 G. R. Hancock and the Misses Han. cock are in Washington arranging for the presentation of a collection of swords, the property of theiq grandfather, General Winfield Scot; Hancock, to the National museum.
 Charles H. Hackley, who has mad, gifts to his home city, Muskegon Mich., amounting to about $500, 900 came to that city when he was 1: years old with ST in his pocket. Whe1 he started in business for himself h, had a capital of only $500.
 The prince of Wales has inherited from his mother the faculty of really interesting himself, not feigning in terest, in whatever is brought befor, his notice It is said lhv1 those inti mate with the queen that she neve allows herself to look bored. Who ever may be introduced to her has he very best attention for the time being Don't suffer from asthma Dr Swetnam can relieve you See him.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-08
THIS BUSY WORLD.

Alaska is twice and a half as large as Texas and eighteen times as large as New England.
 America exports more carriages and vehicles of all sorts than any other country on earth.
 It is said that since 1893 there have been forty bicycle deaths to every death from foot ball.
 Adelaide has been reached from London in twenty-seven days by the peninsular and Oriental steamer China.
 A good Arabian horse can canter in the desert for twenty -four hours in summer and forty-eight hours in win ter without drinking.
 According to the best authorities, there has never been a race of men that was ignorant of the use of fire.
 One remarkable thing about Cali fornia is the longevity enjoyed by all classes of people, murderers espec- ially.
 Not long ago a. Chicago man dis located his shoulder while in the act of striking his horse with knotted rope.
 On the occasion of a certain society marriage, Chesterfield said that mo ibody's son had married everybody's daughter
 While going over corn field at Dwight, Kan, a farmer found gold ring that his wife had lost these eleven years before.
 Ann Anlbor boarding house mist resses have been discussing a purpose to prohibit smoking in rooms rented to students.
 It is said that the man who writes the cynical Reflections of a Bache- lor'' for New York daily paper has a wife and eight children.
 It seems odd that a woman can be a cracker-jack cook for the heather at church festivals, yet always needs a hired girl to cook for her husband.
 Switzerland's agricultural products are valued at about $104, 4,000,000 a year. This constitutes about 70 per cent of what is consumed ia the country.
 The residents of Wunerwerth street, St. Louis, have petitloned to have its name changed to Magnolia avenue, which is somewhat of an improve ment.