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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-09-07
HEIR TO AUsTRlA'S THRONE.
Though Dying OF Consumption, He Is
mn Imposing Figure.

Though Dying OF Consumption, He Is
nh Imposing Figure.
An interesting figure in the jubilee
procession of London; was that OF
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir
TO the .Austro-IIungarian throne. It's
only Fa-'few months ago that this prince
was supposed to be in the very last
stages of quick consumption. His
death was nfomentdriltteXp and
50 certain was it thougbt-to be that his
brother. hated alike by the emperor
and the people of the empire, was Off
cially recognized as the future ruler.
As n,'last resort Ferdinand went to
Egypt there the climate seems to
have: Worked something not much less
thun"a. miracle, for as he rode through
the streets of London there were few
among the scores OF princes who bore
themselves more vigorously than he or
looked more likely to attain old age.
Ferdinand, who was born in 1863, is one
Of the RICHEST men in Europe, as he in
heritcd, while still n child. all the inn
mensc wealth of the Este branch Of the
Hapsburg family. His father was that
most confirmed of ultramontanes,
Archdnlir Karl Ludwig, who died last
year, and his mother was daughter
Of "Romba," Of Naples. Thus he can
hardly be said to have started life under
the best Of auspices. 'IIewas only eirht
years CID when his mother died, yet hi
father straightway handed him over
the care of tho .JcSuits. with strict in
functions that he should be brought Il
untainted by this wicked nineteenth
century.
Once his own master, q reaction Sc
in, and he rushed into every kind IF dis
sipation. Still, even in those days, hi
career compared very favorahly wit.
that Of his brother Otto, and the prOpl,
who have had most opportunities
judge maintain that he has always heru
more sinned against than siuninE. j.,
Is by nature, they declare, both intel.
gent and kindly, and his faults are IT,.
Inevitable result of the way he Wa
brought up. lie became heir to q.
throne by the tragic death of Prince
Rudolph, and tie old emperor ut one
took him in hand, spending many hcur'
Of every day in imprcssing upOn hin
the responsibilities of his new statidr
Undertthis- tutelage he sobered dow
completely, and was fast becoming POP
ular with both Austrians and Magyar,
when his health failed, THIS Hecess,;
lated an attempt to reform Otto in
similar way, btit sVeFtifnahd's recover,
has made 10 Unnecessary to continu
what seemed to be an almost hopeles
tnsk,-N. Y. Times. "!tE1.' y.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-09-07

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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-09-07
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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18
LITTLE KENTUCKY.
II May Some Day BE Claimed as a Part OF
Tennessee,

Little Kentucky, as it might be dub
bed very appropriately, is located oppo-
site Island No. 10, where Kentucky and
Tennessee meet. The river, by gradual
ly cutting out the Kentucky bank, had
worn off a narrow strip Of land, until
one bright morning several people who
lived on this side of the line woke up
TO find themselves on the other side. In
other words, the swift current had
washed away the neck of earth which
made the extreme southwestern corner
Of this state part of the commonwealth
of Kentucky. The section of territory
thus separated from its parent, as It
were, is ten miles long and five miles
wide--quite good mouthful to take IN
at one bite, even for the greedy Missis-
sippi.
Every we'll posted river man and ev-
cry person who is acquainted with the
geography and topography OF this state
will understand how such thing could
happen. Right at the state line the river
| forms loop about ten miles long. The
loop extends up into Fulton county.
The swift stream has simply drawn this
moose tight and formed an island out OF
what was formerly peninsula. Hick-
man is the closest town of any size to
the place where all this landmaking oc'
CURED. Darnell, little hamlet over IL
Obion county, Tenn, is quite near the
spot.
The boundary line between Kentucky
and Tennessee has always been rather
complicated down about Island No. ~
owing to the peculiar bend in the Mis-
sissippi mentioned above. The lakes
bayous and sloughs which bisect tina
corner of Fulton county in all direction
also serve to mix matters. The bitin
off of such large strip OF soil will adj
to the general confusion, and the ques
ton may arise as to whether Little Ken
lucky will hereafter belong to the &c
J main of the Volunteer State or still
a part and parcel of the dark an
bloody ground. -Paducah News.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18
peop,e who Eat Hair.

It is difficult to imagine people eating
hair, but there are many, especially
girls and young women, who do SO, as
experience proves. Doctors conducting
post mortem examinations have been
surprised to find large quantity OF
hair in the stomach Of the deceased per-
son. ..t,
Ini Not long ago an English medical
man found as much as four pounds OF
hair in the stomach Of woman about
80 years old, and similar cases have
been officially reported from various
parts Of the world. ..r ~
DIR. Swain lately performed an oper,
alton for tumor. when, to his astonish-
ment, the cause Of complaint was q
mass of hair weighing between four
and five pounds.
In this case the patient confessed that
she had contracted habit Of biting Oh
the ends of her hair, just as some bite
their finger nails. Parsons Weekly.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18
A Brave Chinese Omcer.

Huang Tsu-Lien, who was a returned
American student, was killed before the
surrender of Wei -Hai- Wei. He was first
lieutenant of the Peiyang cruiser Isl
Yuen, having succeeded the late Shen
Shou Oh 'ang, another returned Amerl-
can student, who was killed while COM
manding the Isl Yuen in the first naval
action of the late war at the mouth OF
the Yashan river, Korea, July 20, 1894,
owing to the cowardice of his subse-
quently decapitated captain, Fong Peh-
KEN. During the fighting at Wei-Hai-
Wei Lieutenant Huang Tsu-Lien was
badly wounded and was therefore ad-
yised to leave his. ship and 60 to Che
flu for treatment. This he resolutely
refused to do, declaring that Ibis duty
to the emperor demanded his remaining
at his post. After having had his
wounds hastily dressed, the late lieu
tenant went ON with his duties on
board, although be had to be supported
by an attendant in doing SO. Shortly
afterward shot struck his thigh, but
he still refused to retire, remaining
with his guns. A few minutes after
ward she'll from the enemy's batteries
almost annihilated the gallant officer
| -Blackwood' s Magazine. sf1e
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18
Freemau's sensitiveness.

One incident of Freeman's early life
preserved by Mr.. Stephens is thorough
lv characteristic. Before he was OF age
he was in love, and as soon as he reach
ed 81 he offered marriage and was ac-
cepted. Some opposition from Freeman
own kinsfolk seemed the only hindrance
to happy union. But another was
created by the sensitiveness OF Free
mans own conscience. HE had ex-
pectations Of sufficient income, but 1T
was partly derived from coal mines, and
the shocking disclosures recently made
respecting the treatment OF golfers
made him doubt whether he could con-
scientiously draw an income from that
branch of industry until the system was
reformed" There we see the same tenn
per at work which in later days made
4 Freeman throw up pleasant and lucra-
tive connection with The Saturday Re
view because he disapproved of its for
eipn politics. His standard of right and
wrong might sometimes be perverse,
his judgments hastily formed, but sell
dom has any man lived to whom the
call of duty, once made clear, was more
absolutely imperative, in defiance OF any
pleas Of convenience or OF usage. his
action was always in purpose the EN-
bodiinent of George Eliot's fine lines:
Nay, falter not. IT'S an assured good
To seek the noblest; tits your only good
Now YOU have seen it, for that higher vision
Poisons all meaner choice for evermore'
Quarterly Review.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18
An imperfect Gold Coin.

Superintendent Beach OF the street
cleaning department some time since
found a So gold coin ON curbstone'
and it proved to be curiosity worth
as much as two ordinary 80 pieces, on
account of its having been miss
struck''-that is, it had not been placed
souarely in the die, and the milling on
one side was some distance from the
edge. while ON the other side there was
none. On mentioning the fact to an EN-
ployee in the San Francisco mint ho
was told that the coin was counterfeit
and that it was practically impossible
that a coin SO disfigured could have
been issued from any government mint.
When the coin was produced, the min,
employee, after putting it to all sorts Oh
tests, had to admit that it was genu
inc coin, struck at the Philadeiphi,a
mint. where every coin passes through
the hands of four persons who examine
il for defects, and he said he would not
have believed it possible for such a COLI
10 escape them had he not seen It,
Portland Oregonian.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18
SWEET JASMINE.
How This Fragrant Flower Became the
symbol of Marriage.

How This Fragrant Flower Became the
symbol of Marriage.
Long before orange blossoms became
associated with weddings the fragrant
jasmine was commonly used for the
decoration Of bride. A very pretty leg
end Of ancient Tuscany tells how this
little blossom became the symbol Of
love. A traveller, returning from the
warm countries Of Asia, brought home
with him a rare tropical plant-the Jas
mine-which was unknown in Tuscany.
He gave small slip to a certain duke,
who set it among his most treasured
plants, where it rooted and thrived un-
der the care of the gardener and soon
grew to be a good sized plant The
duke was so proud of his rare possession
that he gave strict orders to his garden
er to guard the plant carefully and ON
no account to give even a slip-not
flower-to any person.
The gardener was good young man,
and he would have been faithful to his
charge had he not happened to fall in
love with the sweetest peasant maid in
all Tuscany. The maid was poor and
her lover was not much richer, so they
were unable to marry On the birthday
of tho peasant the gardener, having
nothing else TO give the maid of his
choice, presented her with bouquet OF
! flowers, and among the other clippings
in the bunch there was one from the
duke S cherished jasmine bush. Nothing
could be too good for the gardener 8
maiden, so in this one instance he re-
Taxed his care Of the shrub. The girl,
admiring the fresh buds Of the sprig,
wished to preserve it, and SO placed it
in the ground, where it rooted and re-
manned fresh and green all winter, thus
symbolizing her love for the gardener,
and in the following spring it grew and
was covered with blossoms. The little
bush fourished and the flowers multi.
piled SO under the maiden's care that
she was able to sell many of the sprig'
for considerable sum, thus spreading
the unknown flower abroad; and in ,
short time. with spray of the precious
love token on her breast she was wed
ded to the happy gardener.
To this day the Tuscan girls preserv
the remembrance of the gardener gif
to his sweetheart by wearing nosega.
of sweet jasmine Oh their wedding day
and they have proverb which says
young girl wearing such sprig is ric
enough to make the fortune of poo
husband. Philadelphia Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18
IMPURE FOODS.
Tine OF the Many Things We Eat That
Are Adulterated.


A recent report of the dairy food com
missioner OF Pennsylvania names SO
many food products which are adulter-
ated as to raise query as to what is
not adul;erated. Among the many i'm
pure things sold are allspice, which Of
ten is mainly composed Of ground and
roasted cocoanut shells; baking powder;
beef, wine and iron prepared as a tonic;
butter, buckwheat -four, candy, catchup,
cider, cheese, cinnamon, cloves-the
latter made almost entirely from ground
cocoanut shells, the odor and taste of
cloves being scarcely perceptible; coffee
consisting chiefly of coffee screenings
or damaged coffee, but sold at high
price as pure article; fresh Java"
made from wheat and barley hulls,
roasted with sugar and containing no
coffee; Goldfish not Goldfish at all-mere-
iy cheap dried fish; cream of tartar
adulterated with flour; flaxseed adul-
terated with starch fruit cutters,
such as apple butter, peach butter, etc. ,
very seldom pure, being adulterated
with starch waste and salicylic acid
the same is true of grated pineapples
ginger adulterated with ash, rice bulls,
rice flour and cayenne pepper; lard
maple strip, made from commercial
! glucose thinned with about 20 per cent
of water mixed spices; orange juice
lemon oil, lemon phosphate, molasses
mustard, olive oil, pepper, vinegar, va
nilla extract, all kinds Of preserves, ex
tract of strawberries and tea.
To add to the deception few apple
seeds are scattered through the so callet
fruit jams, or timothy or other seed
are added to the mixture to represen
raspberry, strawberry, etc. The produc
tion of artificial colors is PARTICULAR.
common in CONNECTIONS. Indigo, tuner
ic, annotto, logwood and cochineal ar
used in great quantities, and are proba
bly, not harmful; arsenic, copper an
leads are very deleterious, but are nc
now used as much as in former times
before sanitary officials made such pei
sistent attacks on them. Milk and mil
products are often colored. Annotto
very commonly used by dairymen
give rich yellow color. In itself al
MOTTO is probably harmless. but 1T pre-
duces deceptive results. New Yor
| Post
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18
THE WILD GEESE.

The wild geese, flying in the night. behold
Our sunken towns lie underneath sea
Which buoys them on its pillows.
Liberty
They have but such as those frail banks OF ola
That crossed unsounded mains to search our
void.
To them the night unspeakable Is free;
They have the moon and stars for company;
To them no foe but the remorseless cold,
And froth of polar currents darting past,
That have been nigh the worlds end lair OF
storms.
Enormous pillows float their fragile forms.
Yes, those frail beings, tossing ON the vast
OF wild revolving winds, feel no dismayl
IT'S we who dread the thunder, and not they
james H. Morse in Scribner's Magazine.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18
Nruooaf CONVENT PRISON.

where Austrian Female Murderers Leave
the World and Start Life Afresh.
The women in the Neudorf Convent
prison were all SO kindly in their ways,
SO peaceful and good humored. they
differed so completely from our precon--
ceived ideas Of criminals, that we were
puzzled TO imagine what could have
brought them into prison. We had never
q doubt but that their offenses were or
the most trivial nature, and we said So
The superior gave us one of her odd.
humorous smiles.
"Did you notice that woman in the
corridor?'' she asked. "She is Marie
Schneider. ~
That insignificant looking little wom-
an, who had stood aside with gentle
deprecative smile to allow us to pass,
Marie Schneider Why, in any other
place one would have set her down at
once as the Woodworking wife of a
struggling curate, so thoroughly re-
spectacle did she look And she is Marie
Schneider, European celebrity with
more murders on her conscience than
she has fingers ON her hands
"And you let her stay bere?"
"We have nowhere else TO put her, -
| the inspector, who had joined us, re-
| piled "and we don't hang women in.
| Austria.
Nor is she, as we soon found, the on
| ly notoriety in the place. One Of thea
prisoners is delicate looking girl, with
large brown eyes and golden bair--a
| type of beauty almost peculiar to Aus
! TRANS. She has low, cooling voice and.
| singularly sweet, innocent expression.
"What on earth can that girl have
done to be sent here?' l whispered.
"Done?" the inspector replied grim
| ly. "Set a house on fire in the hope OF
killing man with his wife and five.
children.
The girl must have had extraordi-
narily sharp ears, for, although we
were standing at some distance away
she heard what he said, and she gave'
him a glance such as hope never to
see again in my life 1t was absolutely
diabolic; had there been a knife within
reach the man would have died on the
spot. Yet only moment before she had
been looking up into my face with a
smile an angel might have envied-
Several of the prisoners are in the con-
vent for killing their own children
some for killing or trying to kill their
husbands others for stealing or embez-
cling; others again for no more serious
crime than begging. There are all de-
grees of guilt there, in fact, and all
ages, from girls of 6 to women OF near
" so. And they all live together ON
; terms of perfect equality, for there are
no distinctions of rank there-no one is
better or worse than her neighbor-
When the convent door closes behind
them, they have done, for the time be
ing, not only with the outside world
but with their own past. They start lif'
afresh, as it were. -Cornhill Magazine
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18

In certain manufacturing town I'm
Yorkshire it was common thing nos
many years ago for skilled workmen to-
save sufficient money wherewith tor
build houses for themselves. tG
A great deal of rivalry existed among
these men as to who should have then
best house, with sometimes curious
architectural results. A and Bwere two
rivals. A having built a house, B,
whose turn soon afterward came, deter
mined to "best" him. So he called in q
we'll known architect to prepare plans
Asked what aspect he would like to-
his house, B, scratching his head, in
quired: Aspect What's that9 Has a
got one?'' tl
"Why, of course" said the architect
HE couldn't possibly -ae
"Then put me ON two'' was this
prompt and emphatic reply. Strand
Magazine. Irf
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18
Mr.. Gratebar on Fishing.

IT think" said Mr.. Gratebar, that
the talent for fishing. like many other
talents, is a gift. No doubt the true
fisherman, like the poet, is born, not
made. Fishing is faculty that can be
cultivated, like many others; one can
learn by rote about tackle and bats
and tides and so on, but when 1t comes
TO actual contact with the fish there
comes in the art of the fisherman. Ihe
fact is that some men can catch nsn
and some can't. / am one of those who
cannot; time and again have sat IN
boat alongside Of men catching lots OF
Ash and caught none or next to none,
But l love to 90 fishing, all the same
New York Sun. tt
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18
ODD BILLIARD FACTS.
Making a Table In a Day-The Balls Sea-
sOned In Incubators.


soned In Incubators.
A billiard table can be built in "a
hours if carte blanche is given to the
manufacturer, but he prefers to have
time to get the right effects from one
month to six. The wood needs to be sea-
soned for period of nearly seven years.
Rich, deep Spanish mahogany is used,
pollard oak, ebony and satin wood.
Tables are not always covered IN
green. Blue is sometimes used and
pure olive green. The late Prince Leo
pold was the first to make use OF the
latter color, and olive green is known
today in the billiard world as Prince
K Leopold's color. 30
The balls must be well seasoned be-
fore they are used for play. Manufac-
turers have incubators in which to store
them that they may undergo the drying
process. Some incubators will hold fully
5000 balls. When they are first made,
they are green. Solid ivory is the
only satisfactory material OF which te
make Them artificial balls" (thost
made of composition) are much heavier
and do not wear well. English makers
TO give the red balls perfect color
steep them in q decoction that is some
times described as the "guardsman Z
BATH This is extracted from the ole
coats of Tommy Atkins, and for bill
lard balls it is the finest scarlet dy'
known. New York World.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18
A Little French Lesson.

For those who have no knowledge
whatever of French the fashion maya
zines and the menu cards of restaurants
bristle with difficulties. When the
strange words are ventured upon, it is
with fear and trembling-which the re-
suit often justifies The following is IN
short list of some of the most used anoI
worst pronounced:
Chouz (shoo)-A small rosette.
Chic (sheek) is untranslatable, buu
perhaps "stylish" comes nearest 10 its
fashion book meaning. In its own home
the word is slang and considered vulgar.
French ladies do not say 'chic" any
more than we say "nobby "-whictR
word is really its equivalent.
Peignoir (payn-war)-A wrapper as'
fine as it can be made.
Saute de lit (so-de-lee) being our
bath robe.
Cerise (sir-ease) --Cherry, hence the
name Of the color.
Bandeaux (bahn- do)-- Braids OF hair
Soutache (soo-tash BRAID for trim
ming.
Riz de veau Creed -vo)-Sweetbreads-
Bouillon (boo-yon CLEAR soup.
Menu (mur- "A bill OF fare.
Roux (roo)--A mixture of butter and
-four. which, after being baked, is used
to thicken sauces.
Saute o-tay)-Lightly fried in but
ter. hyr sn J
| Hors d'euvres (hear d'urver)-Light
dishes as appetizers served after the
+, soup. -Philadelphi Ledger.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-18
declining Our Pronouns.

In a collection of the possessions OF
the late Robert Louis Stevenson there Is
a letter showing the difficulties which
even such master of English as ne ex-
perienced in writing our language
"When invent language, !" he writes.
,"there shall be a direct and indirect
pronoun differently declined, and then
writing will be some fun. InlS iue"
be illustrates as follows;
Direct-He. him, his. 1e4n So
Indirect-Tu, tum, tus. ..r-
He adds in exemplification, he
seized tum by tus throat, but tn at the
same moment caught him by his hair. .
A fellow would write hurricanes WIZ
AN infection like that. Boston Heraid.