davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
Against the Wheel.

More than 5000 people in Toronto,
Canada. have organized themselves in
to an association called the "Pedes-
trian Protective Association for Con-
serving the Rights of Non Bicycle
Riders" While the number of bicycle
riders in the Canadian city counts up
into the tens of thousands, the riding
craze is nevertheless confined to the
more juvenile members of the COM
munity. Asphalt pavements are little
known in Toronto, and, as the gran
lite blocks Of which the roadways are
composed form but an unattractive
course to the rider OF wheel, the
granolithic sidewalks are monopolized
by the cyclists. with the result that
they have become a public nuisance
There exists certain ordinances re-
stricting the use of the sidewalks to
pedestrians. but it has been futile for
a few policemen to cope with the law
breaking thousands of bicyclists. A
mass meeting was held in the city hall
the other day at which indignation
speeches were made by the mayor and
other prominent citizens. With much
enthusiasm the proposition to form the
protective association was acted upon,
and more than five thousand citizens
have enrolled themselves Another
large meeting of non bicycle riders will
be held to act upon the report of a
committee appointed to inquire into the
best method OF abating the nuisance.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
CRIBEINC AT HARVARD.


stfuctors.
The faculty of Harvard university
has announced its intention to separate
the college students handing in writ
ten work not their own, and to post
their names on the college bulletin
board, says Harper's Weekly. The Of
Tense thus to be dealt with is Familiarity
known as "cribbing" The Harvard
faculty has determined and announced
that 1t is dishonorable and merits pub
lie expulsion. The conclusion thus
reached Is somewhat revolutionary and
the action taken has only been taken
with reluctance and after solemn
thought and full discussion. In
old times at Harvard, as in most
other colleges where what is
known as the honor system" in eX-
aminations does not prevail, cribbing
was not regarded as dshonorable,
though its expediency has always been
freely questioned, even by the patrons
OF the practice. 1t used to be the GUS
tom, when written examinations were
held, to garrison the examination
rooms with proctors. who patrolled the
asles and made it their business to
restrain as far as possible the propens-
ity of the examined to cheat. The re-
suit was that IL was regarded as a
fair game to beat the examiners and
students of honorable character often
used what furtve aids they might to
exc out their hating scholarship. On
" when the examinations were in some
degree competitive, as where students
were trying for high rank or for schol-
arships, was crbbing felt to involve dis
honor. But conditions are declared to
have changed at Harvard. The rela-
tons between instructors and students
are more familiar than they used to be
and the majority of the students ara
believed to take their work more seri-
ously than they once did and to look
upon their instructors more as foun
tains of information and less as hind
rance to ease. The faculty feels that
there are certain childish things that
ought to be put away from Harvard
forever, and cribbing is one of them.
Hence this severe penalty for an Of
Tense which, 1t seems, Is still very
prevalent among the more frivolous
undergraduates.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Vaccination has just been introduced
in Afghanistan, by the advice Of Miss
Hamilton. an English physician. who Is
in attendance upon the ameer.
The latest novelty is folding coffin,
which permits the corpse to be raised TO
a sitting position, so that 1t may be
thus viewed by the mourners.
A wealthy gentleman In Paris. whose
wife could not resist the desire to
gamble. has secured legal separation
from her. In six months she had lost
$4,000 francs.
A valuable cow In Alderman (Mi,.s)
became suddenly Ill and died. The
body was opened. and in the stomach
were found about half the works of
an alarm clock.
The wild tribes of the Caucasus, Rus
STA. teach their children the use of the
dagger as soon as the youngsters are
able to walk. They are first taught to
stab water without making a splash.
Madame Christine Missions present
home is in Madrid. and her dining
room is papered with the numerous
hotel bills she has collected during her
various tours in all parts Of the world.
The mails between the New York
city and the Brooklyn postoffices will,
after March 1, be dispatched through
pneumatic tubes. The time occupied
in transmission will be three minutes.
An umbrella. to be used over q lap
dog. is the latest wrinkle. 1t Is at
tached to a frame which Is securely
belted around the little darling's body.
Now, with couple Of pairs of over.
shoes, he can defy the rain.
The midnight music of cats so an
noyed Jerome Summers Of Weaverville.
N. ". that he hurried out barefooted
with his pistol to shoot them. In the
yard he stepped on a rusty nail. which
caused lock-jaw. and in ten days he
died.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
TWO BICYCLE STORIES.
How the Queen Was Told Some Plat

How the Queen Was Told Some Plais
Truths.
A well-known monarch, who, for OBJ
vious reasons. We will call the king o.
Ruritania. does not approve OF ladiei
cycling, says the &c ltlewoman. Hii
daughter greatly enjoys the healthy
exercise of spinning along the roads
of her fathers dominion. She was in
the habit Of rising early and going out
before breakfast. Unfortunately hel
royal papa met her and her suite ono
morning and he was so angry that az
the suite were we'll scolded and the
princess herself was kept in the palace
for three weeks and was not permitted
to attend any Of the court festivities for
the following month. The queen Of Ru-
ritania agrees with her royoal husband
in his dislike for cycling. and very strin-
gent court rules have been advertised,
closing many paths and thoroughfares
to the ever-whirling wheel. One day
her majesty was walking out with her
dogs when cyclist came along one Of
the shady alleys near the palace. The
indignant queen stopped the cyclist
and informed him that bicycles were
not permitted near the royal abode
The cyclist, who must have been an
ill-bred churl, then proceeded to expos
tulate. garnishing his language with
sundry words such as in England are
usually represented by the fourth let
ter OF the alphabet and dash. The
beWildered queen started in astonish-
ment, and her lady-in- waiting, coming
up OPPORTUNITY (for she had fingered
behind to gather some flowers at her
maJesty's requesD asked the rude BIZ
cyciist If he knew he was addressing
the sovereign lady of his country The
abashed cyclist was so overwhelmed
at this information that he said not a
word but mounted his bicycle and fled
away, and, report says. never stayed
his wheel till he reached-let us say
the capital of the adjoining kingdom.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
REFLECTIONS IN A CHAPEL.
Large Brass Cross Which Serves as
Mirror.

serves n
Mirror.
Recently the governor of one of our
county prisons was greatly perplexed
by the discovery that the female GRIM
inals in his charge managed in some
mysterious manner to ascertain the
presence of every individual man on
the other side of the impervious divid-
ing barrier which separates the male
from the female worshipers in the Jail
chapel. says the London Hospital
One Of the women inadvertently made
an exclamation. showing that she had
suddenly become aware that her hus-
band was within the same walls. al
though his presence ought, according
to the rules. to have been completely
unknown to her. None of the officers
could account for an unpermitted
knowledge which was found to be
shared by all other women. At last a
very careful examination of the chapel
gave an explanation of the mystery.
Although strictly divided, as we have
said. both the male and the female
prisoners faced the altar in their seats
and over it had been fixed very large
brass cross against the wall, so highly
polished as to form very good mirror
and in its clear surface the women saw
the reflection OF every man as he passed
to his place and had enjoyed the spec
tacle with IMMUNITY till the wife's affec.
ton overcame her discretion. TIL.
brass cross instantaneously disaI.
peared.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
SAVED BY HIS DOG.
Intelligent Canine bug His Master
of u Cavern.

Intelligent Canine Dug His Master Out
of IL Cavern.
Henry Miller came as near losing his
life near Greggs. Ill.,. this fall as man
could and still escape, and it was only
owing to the sagacity of his dog that
he ecaped death, says an exchange.
Miller went out one morning in
search OF nuts, taking his dog with
him. When he alighted from the train
he proceeded to walnut grove two
miles south of Greggs.
After filling his sack he espied a
woodchuck on neighboring side hill
and, shooting at it, ran it into it's hole.
Leaving his dog on guard he went to
the house of Jacob Meyer, a mile dis
tant, and borrowed shovel with
which to dig the animal from it's bur-
row.
Miller soon dug deep pit in the side
of the HILL when suddenly a portion
OF the overhanging bank gave way and
buried him under half ton Of gravel.
Fortunately his face was not COW
cred and he was able to breathe. but
he was so weighted down it was i'm
possible to move muscle. He shouted
for aid until he was hoarse and was
about to give up in despair when he
thought of his dog. Calling the faith
full beast, he babe him dig. The dog
seemed to comprehend and scratched
gravel so zealously that at the end of
half an hour Miller was able to move
one arm and soon succeeded in escap-
ing from his position
He was so thoroughly frightened he
took the first train back to the city.
Before leaving he refused an offer of
$50 for the dog.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
Enormous Evaporation Figures,

An average OF five feet of water is
estimated to fall annually over the
whole of the earth's surface. Assum-
ing that condensation takes place at
All average height of 1900 feet, the
force of evaporation necessary to sup
ply moisture for such a prodigious
rainfall must be equal to the lifting
OF 3?2 900. 900 pounds Of water 1000
feet every minute, day and night,
during the entire year. To supply
this enormous amount of moisture q
stratum of the entire ocean surface
OF the glboe not less than ~ feet
thick must be taken up by the clouds
and returned to earth once each 3s5
days.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25

Among the literary curiositis, =,
which Boston is justly the proul n.y.
SCISSOR is the following iawbre,I..
framed and hung in the old Nv,
church in that city: "Wutappesi,tns
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This wo..
SO far as known, has never been NJ.
nounced b. q white man, but o.nn1
in Eliot's Indian bible, and is fors,
in Marks gospel. first chapter .ni
fortieth verse, and according to th,.
means "kneeling down to Him. !,
the brave red man had thrown such
chunks of wisdom at the forefatber
instead of dull arrow heads and w,n
side stones, probably American Nj,
tory would have been written in ,
different kew.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
LoUIslANA's UNSTABLE SOIL.
\ Man with . Paddle Dug = Channel
Four Miles Wide.

4 Man with . Paddle Dug = Channel
Four Miles Wide.
Az II well known. the Mississippi
river 10 very erratic stream, and the
nature Of the soil at and near Its mouth
ct New Orleans Is such that the force
of the water continually changes the
channels, opening new ones and clos
ing the old. An important channel
owes its origin to the work of one
man. 1t ia known as Morrison's cut
of In St. Mary's parish. 1t was once
solid land. but some forty years ago
= man named Morrison, finding that
he had to 60 long way around to
reach st. Bernard bay, jumped ashore.
and, with paddle. made a ditch
through which he was able to float his
boat. When he returned two weeks at
ter by the same route he found that
the waters Of Bayou Sale and st. Ber-
nard bay had taken the new channel
and that the ditch was 200 feet wide. 1t
Is four miles wide to-day and the land
he cut of has been gradually washed
away until 1t now consists only of a
string of small islands. Morrison's
cutoff is NOW the route for numerous
vessels running along the coast Of
South Louisiana. 1t was made in the
course of few hours with an ordin-
airy perogue paddle and by one man,
but would probably have cost the
United States thousands OF dollars IL it
had been undertaken as an engineer
ing enterprise and II the gulf waters
had not done the work.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
The over OF i,ahal

Early English building was don.
with what would now ba called vo,n
small stones, and the unwillingnsss
or inability of the worl1men to rais.
and deal with heavy masses is in.
dictated in a scuipturcd Representa-.
ton of the building of Babel nrs,
served in the Chapter house of Sails.
bury. Workmen are there shown in
the act of walking up the ladder,
carving stones on their backs
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
Tho Largest Barrel.

The celebrated heidelberg tun"
looks like small cask when com
pared with u huge barrel that was
made last summer for the use OF tn G
Halle aux WINS" Paris establish
ment, known as the largest liquor EN-.
porium in the world. This huge
French wine cask has a capacity of
IS, ITO gallons and measures twenty
three feet in height.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
Beware Of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury

as mercury. will surely destroy the sense
OF smell and completely derange the whole
system when entering it through the mu-
cous surfaces. such articles should never
be used except on prescriptions from rep
utaole physicians. as the damage they
Will 90 Is ten fold to the good you can
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney 4
Co.: Toledo o., contains no mercury, and
Is taken internally. acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces OF the sys-
tenn, In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be
sure you get the genuine. 1t is taken In
ternaily and made in Toledo. o., by II. !
Cheney 60; Testimonials free -
Sold by all Druggists. price 75c per bottle.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25

rest, for want OF better Fairgrounds,
and the truckman has abandoned the
fight; and where they crowd thickest
Fairgrounds Of their own are being
fitted UP for them in school and park.
thereafter no school house shall be
constructed in the city of New York
without an open playground attached
to or used in connection with the
same. says one Of the briefest but
most beneflcent laws ever enacted by
the people of the state of New York
1t Is all there is OF it, but it stands for
good deal. No child of New York.
poor or rich, shall hereafter be de-
spoiled OF his birthright-a chance to
play; and as for the streets. does any
one imagine that New Workers will
ever be persuaded to barter away their
clean and noiseless pavements and
pure air for the whirling dust-clouds,
the summer stenches, and the winter
slOughs of Old seasoned with no mat
ter what mess Of political pottage? If
so, he is grieyously mistaken. Colonel
Warning has shown us that the streets
OF New York can be cleaned and any
future city government no matter how
corrupt or despotic, will have to reck-
on with him. And right well the en-
envy knows it; he may not refrain from
picking our pockets in future but he
will at least have to do 1t with due re-
gard to me decencies of life,
Mulberry Bend is gone. and in it's
place have come grass and flowers and
sunshine. Across the Bowery. where
$4,000 human beings were shown to
live out Of sight and reach OF a green
spot four OF the most crowded blocks
have been seized for demolition, to
make room for the two small parks de-
manded by the Tenement House Com
mission. Bone Alley, redolent with filth
ana squalor and wretchedness, is to 20,
and the children of that teeming neigh
borhood are to have veritable little
Coney Island, with sandhills and shells,
established at their very doors Who
can doubt the influence it will have
upon young lives heretofore framed in
cutters?
l question whether the greatest
wrong done the children Of the poor
In the past has not been the esthetic
starvation OF their lives rather than
the physical injury. Against the lat
ter provision has been made by strin-
gent tenement house laws, by the Wig
Orous warfare upon child labor by the
extension OF the laws protection to
stores as to factories and by the re-
striction OF the sweat-shop evil. In the
park to be laid out by the Schiff foun-
tain. In the shadow of the Hebrew In
stitute--one of the nobiest of charities
IA great public bath is to rise upon the
site of the present rO0keries, harbinger
,Of others to come. All about new
school houses are going up. on plan
of structural perfection and architectu-
raj excellence at which earlier school
boards would have stood aghast The
first battle for the schools has been
fought and won. and though there be
campaigning ahead without stint on
that score. the day is in sight when
every child who asks shall find seat
provided for him in the public school.
and when that scandal of the age. the
mixing OF truants and thieves in Jail,
shall have finally ceased. even as it Is
now forbidden by law.-"Light in Dark
Places" by Jacob A. Riis, In the Gen.
tury
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
Won WANTA EARM,nd

YOU WANT A FARM and We b,
miles west of Houston. at Cbes,asssMa
the best tract in Texas. La,d y.
prairie and well drained, abn.el
rainfall, good soil. low prices ana aesai
terms Don't fail to post von. sasy
Write and receive "Fertjls IN
Lands" FREE and informa,ion N
cheap excursions and FREE FAIR y
dress, Southern Texas Colon;,..Aa'
Co. John Linderholm, Mgr. ,,o
Rialto Bldg. Chicago Au
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
Largest Baby Ever Eorn.

The largest baby at time of birth Of
Ghich the medicos of the world have
any record first saw the light of dav
at Macon. Ga, during the summer Of
1890. The child was the offspring Of
the Lemons, it's father, Will Lennon,
being well-known painter of tina.
burg. When the child was "a hours
old it weighed but one and one-halt
ounces less than forty pounds.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
NO-TC-EAC FOR FIFTY CENTS.

NO-TC-EAC FOR FIFTY CEN .
Millions of men who are daily "lotacc
Splitting and Smoking Their Lives away
will be CAD to learn that the makers of No
BAG, the famous guaranteed tobacco
habit cure. that has freed over 100000 to-
Lacco users i'll the ast lev Tears, nave put
on the market titty-cent a'kn. OF their
great remedy This will give every to &C
co user chance to test Mol oEacs power
to control the desire for tobacco III every
form and at the same time e benefited by
No-To-Pac's nerve stren2 thening qualities.
Every tot ac o user should procure fifty
cent iox at once from his druggist or Or
der it by mail. You will lie surprised to
see how easily and quickly the desire for
tobacco disappears. Any reader can OBJ
tain a sample and booklet Tree by addl ess-
I'M the Sterling Remedy Co.. Chicago or
New York and mentioning this paper.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
THE POWER OF CHILDREN
They Made y Man SEQ All tho "ooo :"
a Mother In Law.


One man was making unkind re.
uarlss about his mother in. law, AID
tho other man was taking it all In.
After while he put in his oar.
You haven't any children have
youo" he inquired. 49,.
NO" was the reply; whats tha'
got to do with it?
more than you Il ever know TIL you
have some"
~ fail to see it..
Yes. so did I, at first and taikeo
inst "a Won do. Then, when the
Youngsters came and began to gro"
mn and to learn who grandma was
to look to her as their best friend;
tho one to shield them when they
needed the parental spanking; the
one to give them pennies when their
parents thought they should not nave
them: the one who came and watched
by them when they were Sick; the
one who was always good to them'
the one grandma OF all the world TO
the innocent, mischievous. all-pervad-
ing kids, blamed if / didn't forget
utterly that she was my mother-ln-
law, and got to calling her grand
ma lust as the little ones did. ana
thinking about her just as they did,
and finally. when the gray-haired old
angel went to her rest. l grleved
with the children and as sincerely as
any OF them.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
Killed by = Fighting Editor,

Jules Soule, Mississippi newspaper
man, has died in the hospital in New
Orleans. as the result Of bullet wound
inflicted by John H. Miller. editor of
the Biloxi (Miss) Herald. The trouble
grew cut Of a. newspaper controversy.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25

Tramps are causing good deal q
t. ouble in certain localities in western
Kansas. They open newly made graves
and exchange clothing with the
corpses. The dead bodies, after being
attired in the old clothes. are placed
back in their graves to await Gabriers
signal.-Exchange
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
1867 BUS. POTATOES PER ACRE

1867 BUS. POTATOES PER ACRE.
Don't believe it, nor did the editor
until he saw Salzer's great farm seed
catalogue. It's wonderful what an ar
ray of facts and figures and new
things and big yields and great testi-
monials it contains.
to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse.
Wis, for catalogue and IL rare farm
seed samples, worth SO. to get start.
" n
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
DlamAl La Very Superxtiti0un.

~ have known some people," said
Weary Watkins. that was SO super
stitious that they wouldn't begin a Job
Of work on Friday"
II wouldn't myself" commented Dis
NAL Dawson. "Ner on Saturday. Ner
Sunday. Ner Monday. Ner Tuesday
Ner Wednesday. Ner Thursday"
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
Killed While Telling a Tree.

On Files creek. w. Va, while G. W.
Daniels and Vincent Louk were cutting
a tree, a splinter rebounded as the
trunk broke from the stump, striking
Louk, and killing him instantly. He
was 20, and had been married six
months.-Exchange.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
IT Was Gin.

WAS it whisky that brought you
here?" asked the prison visitor. u
think. lady. from the way the copper
smelled." answered Dismal Dawson,
that it ives gin. Jour.
nal.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
Rich Rng Picker.

A dirty old bag arrested in New York
q few days ago had $4,000 concealed in
her excuse for a dress. She said she
got the money from the sale of rags
wicked out Of garbage boxes.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
Cheap Lands and Homes

Are to be had on the Frisco Line in
Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas The
best route from st. Louis to Texas and
all points west and southwest For
maps, time tables. pamphlets. etc call
upon or address any agent of the com.
pany, or. ID. Wishart, Gen1 Passenger
Agent, St Louis. Mo-
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
Merchants Hotel. Omaha.

CORNRR FIFTEENTH AND FARNAMsTs
Street cars pass the door to and from
both depots; in business center of CITY
Headquarters for state and local trade
Rates SO and So per day.
PAXTON & DAVENPORT. Pron's
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
just Like q Woman.

Mrs. Cleveland has gone through the
house which the president recently
purchased at Princeton and has decided
that It leeds more closets.-Ex.
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25
SlOW-POke Camels.

Seven miles an hour is the camel's
limit nor can it maintain this rate
over two hours. Its Usual speed Is i've
miles an hour
Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-25

WHEN bilious or costive, eat Cascaret
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed, l0c, g5c.