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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-07-06
An old Bever.~.

Next to our grape wine it is believed that Japanese sake, or rice wine, is the oldest alcoholic beverage known to man. it's use in Japan dating back over 2,000 years
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-07-06
IrVinO BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL
 FOR YOUNG LADIES.

Twenty-frst year. Twenty -fv. ,....-- y' SeminAry' Coilege. Propar&iory ano Narmsl Sonsery1torE of music with eleven P, ,os.ss,-s ments. N AhsFu ,,ttiIllArT and Kindergarten deuartu.n. fo, Si sarriage will call Next ssascn ,.;li Ss..l.ond ss.l aonday, August a. For iiIostrsts.i
 h6s' ,t Ep. R CHURCH, A. M.. Pripc;r.I
 hSo talenciA St-, San Franeiseo' iAa'
Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-07-06
Letter List.

The following is list of letters remaining in the Prescott postoffice Tor the week ending June 3l. 1898.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13
Took Two TclcphOncs.

eve used to have the best fellow In our employ that ever kneW,' declared the head of one of the biggest telephone exchanges in the country. Ill fact, he was too good for Us to be able To keep him, and now he's promoter making barrels of money. He could place more telephones than any other half dozen men in our employ, and I'll give you just one sample of his shrewdness.
 There was wealthy old French man with large interests that we want ed as a patron. After all the rest of our solicitors had called upon him we sent our best man. He learned that the FrcnchmIn thought the telephone | great invention and a great money saver. but he could not be made 10 un- derstand that they were adapted to any other language than English. He had to converse in French with many of his business friends and employees.
 'All the others had tried 10 convert him, but Oily Slick as we had dub bed him, took the other tack and hu- mored the old gentleman. He at once uNSuItu Hllu lli'll Nt llditl r Ltlltl lt- ceivers and transmittcrS, and imme- diately put up q temporary line to show that he was not misreprcsenting goods. When French was sent and received over the wire, the result delighted the man of wealth, and Oily actually sold two sets of telephones for q dozen places where they could be made use full Tn the old mans business, charging S5 apiece more for the French than for the English. Ii was six months before he discovered that he had a superflu- ous lot of telephones on hand. Then he laughed as heartily as any one and tried to hire Oily to go on the road" Detroit Free Press.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13
Joke on a Phrenologist.

The jokes that practical jokers play upon wise men are sometimes as funny as they are elaborate A ease in point Is said 10 have occurred some years ago in England when Il humor-loying indi- yidual who rejoiced in the possession of q fine vegetable garden found there in one evening q large turnlp. II so happened that this particular turnip was maryelously like in its shape to Il mans head, and bore very decided resemblance, too. to the features of q man. The joker. percelying fine chance to make point. and struck by the curious resemblance of the turnip, had q east made of il. and sent the east to q phrenologiSt, requesting him to eX- anime its bumps and to make q report.
 After sitting in judgment upon the cast for some time, the phrenologist. so the story goes. reported that while he could not judge accurately from the cast. it was his opinion that it WAS the head of a person of acute mind and deep research: that he had the organ of quick perception and also of perseYer- ance well developed, and that there were signs that he was also a person of extreme credulity. This opinion was sent by mail, and the phrenologist eX- pressed, in closing. the hope that at some time he might have the privilege of examining the head itself.
 The reply was sent that the owner would gladly comply with this request, but that unfortunately he could not do so, since the original had been eaten by himself and his family several weeks before with their mutton at dinner
 What the phrenologist thought of the reply is not stated.-IIarper's Round Table.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13

sound Is run-n-n-n, run-n-n4n. run-n.fi- n, and that Is just what the prospector does the second time he hears tiff there Is any second time.
 The first concert Is his last some times, for nervous temperament can not endure an attack of the pests. and though q miner should not have nerves, some miners do have them and ind them sadly in the way in time of trouble. The mosquito posters such a man until he sinks from exhaustion, never to rise again.
 The Yukon mosquitoes drive the moose, deer and caribou up the noun tains to the SHOW line, where these ani- mals would prefer not to be In berry time. They kill dogs, and even the big brown bear, that Is often miscalled q grizzly. has succumbed to them.
 Although the Alaska summer is short, two broods of mosquitoes hatch out each year, and are ready for busi- ness from one to ten seconds after they leave the water h rains q good deal along the Yukon, and rain Is Welconl- tu, Tor II ulINeS lnp LlosqulioeS 10 coy CT, but after the rain they are worse than ever.
 Dr. Armond Raoul late bacteriolo- gist of the St. Louis Board of Health, claims to have discovered q virus that Is death to mosquitoes. He is going ID Alaska 10 start q plague among the pests by inoculating some choice speci- mems of them and turning them loose to spread the fatal disease. which, he declares, is highly contagious to i'll diptera.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13
Snub Not at All.

Don't snub boy because he wears shabby clothes. When Edison, the in ventor of the telephone. first entered Boston he wore d pair of yellow linen breaches in the depth of winter.
 Don't snub q boy because his home is plain and unpretending. Lincolns $ early home was log cabin.
 Don't snub Il boy because of the lg- norance of his parents. Shakespeare, the worlds poet, was the son of man who was unable to write his own name.
 Don't snub boy because he chooses a humble trade. The author of "Pilgrim's Progress" was a tinker.
 Don't snub boy because of his phys ical disability. Milton was blind.
 Don't snub boy because of his dull ness In lessons. Uogarth. the cele- brated painter and engrayer, was q stupid boy at his books.
 Don't snub anyone; not alone be cause some day they may outstrip you in the race of life. but because il is neither kind, nor right, nor Christian.- Great Thoughts.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13
LOCKED IN A SULPHUR ROOM.
Imprisoned for Four Hours n Man
 Dies of His Injuries.

Edgar Allen poe'S description of tho sulfcrngs of q person under the effcc,s of slow suffOcation has been verified to some extent by an incident which has just been inquired into at the Leeds City coroner's court. A blanket stoycr. named Plckard, employed by local firm of manufacturers. had himself locked into sulphur room, and lighted the stoves in the belief that he could leave by another door, which was usd. ally open.
 No sooner had he done so than he re- membcrcd that this door had been lock ed on the outside earlier in the day by his own order. The man who had shut him in was deaf, and had gone away dlsregarding his knocks and cries; and he was thereupOn overcome by panic. He could easily have cNtinguished the sulphur stoves, and might have rema!n- ed in the room without danger till re lcved, but such was the state of his mind that instead of doing so he still spent his time in Cndcavorng 10 attract attention.
 hN NhlI'Iul ANlilNN N'bli lllit'i Nlif place. but even then 1t did not occur 10 him that he could put out the stoves hy means of one of the blankets ill the room. He next tried to reach an aper- turc above the door by means of q rope and plank, but it was only Il slnall one, about four inches or six inches in width, and was covered on the outside by strip of wood.
 Then he became quite exhausted, and fell against one of the doors. which had resisted his utmost strength. There was air enough coming in beneath the sill to keep him alive and conscious; and in that plight expecting death and clinging to lifc he lay for four hours. In the end hlS whereabouts was discov- cred by his son and q watchman.
 Pickard could see the flicker of the watchmau'S lamp under the door. and knocking with the little strength re maiuing to him. was released. He died however. eleven days latrraS the result of sulphur poisoning.
 II iS related that after being released from his terrible Imprisonment he rt- m, mhcrcd he had not lighted the stoves in the other bleaching houses. and actu- ally went into each of them and cohh- plcted his days Work.-Loudon Mail.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13

was reported to have said that he would show the black Senator when he got aboard of the boat that he would have to keep his place on that boat, and if he put on any airs because he hap pencl to be Senator the captain would teach him his manners.
 As soon aS Bruce boarded the steam boat he sought the captain and he said to him, ''Captain LatherS. l am going to Washington, and d part of the way as passenger on your steamboat. My name iS Bruce and possibly you may have heard of me. What l wanted to say is that l know perfectly well what the feeling of many people who arc travellers regarding persons of my color Is. They cannot help it, and cannot help It, and l am going to give them no occasion for apy annoyance while am a passenger on your boat. l simply ask that you sec to it that l am made as comfortable as possible, and I as sure you that you will have no reason for complaint"
 The bluff captain stepped back a pace or two, lOpktHl Bruce over, ana then held out his hand and said, with great emphasis, By --, you shall sit at my table; you shall sit on my right hand on the entire trip, and if any man objects he will have to fight me And on that entire trip of some three days the captain made Bruce his guest.
 One of the impressive sights of Washington during the incumbency of Senator Bruce was to see him and his colleague, the arlstocratic Lamar, walk ing daily together up the avenue to the Capitol. Lamar, the scholar, the orator the fine type of southern chiyalry and cultivation. had the highest respect for Bruce and preferred his compani"nShip In the daily walks to and from the Cap ltol to that of any other senator.
 After his retirement from the Senate, In 1881, Bruce was appointed register of the Treasurer by President Garfield, and six months before his death Presi- dent Mckinley reappointed him to the same office.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13
NEWS FOR ASTRONOMERS.
An Instrument Which Will Bring the
 Moon Within Pistol shot.

Herr Johann Mayer, royal and im- perial first lieutenant ill the G3d regl- ment of Austro Hungarian infantry, claims that he has invented an lnstrL- ment which will bring the stars with in a few hundred yards of the earth and the moon within pistol-shot.
 Briefly summed up. Herr Mayors telescope consists of a huge paraooiia mirror in whose focus he suspends q small convex paraholic mirror which throws the rays received by the lars@ mirror upon the lens of the microscope connected with the apparatus. This combination of the large and small mirror Is shown in tie drawing. The original feature which Herr Mayer claims for his apparatus is, of course the use of the enormous parabolic mir
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13
BORN A SLAVE.
He Won His Way to n Comm andin r
 Position in American Life.

The career of Blanche K. Bruce, who died recently in Washington, was one of the most remarkable in our history. Although he was born and lived to the age of 20 years n slave, he died in his second term as register of the Treasury, after having served full term as Uni ted States Senator and he honestly ac- qulred a comfortable fortune and a strong influence in the politics and poli- cles of the country.
 Bruce, who was born a slave In Vir- ginia, In 1911, removed with his mas ter to Missouri a little before the war and in 1861 joined tine Union forces. After the war he located in Mississippi, where he prOspcred and where in 1874, he was elected to the United States Senate.
 In thls connection a good story is told. It was announced that the Sena- tor would go to Washington from his Mississippi home by one of the Misss- sippi steamboats, at least as far as St. Louls on his way. The captain, a man by the name of Lathcrs, was q typical Mississippi steamboat captain, and he
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13

guns. Meanwhile the Eighth HuSsarS and the heavy brigade came to our res cue and helped Us cover our retreat.
 "A wretched lot We were when we returned. They made heroes of the survivors. but the dead and dying were left where they fell. There were cor of us when We followed Capt. Nolan in the charge. Of these 19S came back, and some of these received wounds from which they died shortly after ward. I myself received two cuts in the hand and another just above the end of my sock. But these were light wounds, and I escaped much better than most of the men. There were not more than dozen men who came through that charge unscathed.
 Ryan fought until the armistice of September, 1856, when he returned to England. He then came to this coun- try, and after eighteen years residence in New York went to Chicago.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13
Matters of Money.

Titles are now merely n matter of money-that Is, on the continent. Some of the minor orders can be obtained for $500. The Austrian order of the Iron Crown Is just little expensive. It costs $15O0O. But you can be baron or a count in some of the minor Ger man states for 5000. One hundred dollars will secure the title of court dentist, which is almost as cheap as the title of colonel in America.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13

ncr. It can be taken off at will. the wire being intact, and enables one to tell the time no matter how dark the surroundings. When not in use it hangs on the chain. Being incaScd in q gold or silver reflector, it looks quite pre-. Scntable.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13

Museum of Natural History. has in vestlgated the mosquito and recognizes some thirty kinds in North America. of which the variety found along the Yu
 kon Is the most pestiferous. These swarm in long columns resembling the smoke rising from a campfire. One can hear their buzzing a hundred feet away. It Is not sweet music. The
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13
Great Chinese Fridge.

Spanning an inlet of the Yellow Sea near Sangang, China, Is d bridge five and a quarter miles long, with 300 piers of masonry, and having its road way sixty-four feet above the water This work is said to have been accom- plished by Chinese engineers 500 years ago
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13
Seal of the Treasury.

The seal of the Treasury Department, which has been in use for thirty six years in the division of loaE.s and cur rency, begins to show signs of serious wear, and 1t will be replaced by new one.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13
TELLING TIME IN THE DARK.
Small Electric Light Which Is Carried
 on inc Watch Chain.

The electric Sca1'f-pin, which many up-to-tiatr young men have been wcar- ing, now has a rival A design similar to the pin k now hung on the watch chain. IL K charged in the same nan
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13

SvN&T,F. Ill verse. The name of this k@lG' survivor of the Light Brigade Is Jeremiah Ryan. He enlisted at Linn erick Ireland. in the Fourth Light bra goons and went with his regiment to the Crimea. where England and France were supporting Turkey against Russia
 In speaking of the battle of Bala- klaya, fought Oct 25. 1S54. Mr Ryan says: "rhe battle of Balallaya was brought OH by the Russians on Oct. 25 when they tried 10 drive Us from the heights We occupied. II Was q good hot fight. and the cavalry did most of the fighting on our side. and as l was in the cavalry l got my share. re, member the charges of the Light Bri- gade best. although lt did not seem much at the time. The Light Brigade consistedof 6oT men. They were picked from the various regiments. all young and energetic men and good lighters.
 Tn his poem TenHySou with the H. cense of q poet, makes Il appear that We all knew We We're going to certain death. As a matter of fact. We knew nothing of the kind We did not have the slightest idea what We were going to dc. Me merely ohtAed orders and had no thought tlat We were about 10 charge the whole of the Russian army. There had been q heavy fall of dense, damp SHOW. and the ground was hard. Under Capt. Nolan We charged ill two lines at quick pace. We did not know where we were going. and the enemy. being behind q hlun. were uot in sight. We had not Goae mere than l.2m yards before the whole line of the Russians opened q flood of smoke. and flame uIon Us from t!e months of thirty cannon. Then We could not have fallen back if We wanted tt Men and horses fell uu- der the fire. Oue=th!rd of Us fell to tlle front, dead or dying. Another third of the men We're wounded. The horses, well trained huddlcd together and ear rlcd us onward toward the Russians. Another battery opeuesl fire upon Us, and to the obl.lue fire of the cannon was joined q yolley of muskctry from the Russian infantry.
 VI It'll NsAi1IIN Ill u N Il N . ht' 'i tO ward the EusslaH guns. We could no. fight much. for We We're hutdlcI close together i'll solid mass for our protrc- ton. The mea in the middle of tlc ranks dared not draw their saher.,, for they could not tell fricll from fee. Those on the outside fought and cGt down the Russians in our way. Then the order Was given In return, and We retreated as best We could. Some of the horses broke with their riders and carried them baek tn our lines. Slowly We fought our way back surrounded by Russian infantry and soldiers.
 But while We were fighting to re gain our own lines the Russian gunners returned 10 their cuns and, angry that We had only jn>t ridden over them, and thinking of nothing but revenge, they fired at the mass of fighting soldiers. and this time they killed more Bus sians than Engllshmen in front of the
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13
pr. Johuson,s Walking Stick,

pr. Samuel Johnson's walking stick is exhibited in book store in Cincin- natl, and is the property of John Thorn- dick, of that city.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13
PLAGUE OF THE KLONDlkE.
Monster Mosquitoes Which Torture
 Men and Even Bears to Death.

The Yukon mosquito Is the most br'l- tai and bloodthirsty of its tribc-it kills man and beast. even the ferocious grizzly bear falling q victim to its bites.
 Prof. William Beutenmuller, of the
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13

No one treats the worries of others in an intelligent manner.
Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13

TOT and the small convex one, as well as his ability to dispense entirely with the usual telescoplc tube.-Ncw York Herald
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-27

unteers from the Republican ranks in
the south. and especially from the
negroes. for IL the Democrats here are
unht to be represented in the Congress
or the Union, they are equally unfit to
join the armies of the Union.
But to make this point would he nm
manly and undignified I'm southern men.
10 love and honor their country is one
thing, and to condemn the political party
which, Tor the time, controls the gov
eminent, Is quite another. No sane man
would quietly see his house on fire and
make no EFFORT TO save II, simply because
II happened to be occupied by his enemy.
In case OF foreign war, southern men
VIII 90 their full duty In defence Of the
country, not to display their so-called
loyalty" but on account OF their own
direct interest In the preservation of the
american Union. s. ID. DAVIES.
Richmond, Va, March ., 1893.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-27

made for, the Democratic n,r,v ~ III
ever since the war p"''s ny MN
WY, Thomas II. Bevan. common-
be- s' nrga = attorney for this county will
state senate 80 become a candidate for his
s2nial District. TO succeed lion nobn i 80
an oy now Circuit Judge. Mr.. Beyan Is
Northbssrno PEST equipped lawyers in the
whether " he Ne sls,, but II is not known
thIs isast one thing is certain. even a.
viii ba gay, and that is. that there
the s en = goodly number OF aspirants for
Mr.. w ~ nomination I'm this district.
G. me" ~ Van Hoy. of Washington ID
io In, WAS In King George several dsvs 400 D
Reachs ,aIter the interests OF somersst
svnSinn.a Mr.. Van Hoy is a member OF the
s1 na.e ,o organized for building up that hat
OF this c reSort. tie and Mr.. Il. w. PAYNE.
the DIG enterprise. spiiitS III
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-27
'oreisn War and Southern Demo-
Gratis

u 7. me Editor Of the Dispatch:
IN t, mas been often and properly said that
partisan politics should be dronne 1d"s 3 "a
r rnat an the citizens should unite without
SSSiEe, IN support OF the common cause
f fnu yer ~ Is hardly possible to refrain
ad I GtriiIicising the recent action Of the
representatives. The President se, 81
hbofget party differences and co-operste
hhearuly In defence OF the country. The
9 9'osrrninant party says: Insist upon marty
S ea,.', and Cooperate heartily 10 pre-
,ha the ascendancy of Republicanism in
Ihe country. The tendency of this latter
Polcy is 10 discourage all patriotic i'm
pulse and purpose i'm the South. whose
1 PEST element is thus denied representa-
wi III the national councils. Suppose
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-27
BONDS OWNED BY THE COMPANY.
STOCKS OWNED BY TIL
Description.

Descriptlon.
American Exchange National Bank stocl
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Phenix National Bank stock ..............
Metropolitan Trust Company stock go.
United States Mortgage and Trust Com
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United States Trust Company's stock ....
Western Union Telegraph Company
stock ......... ............ ..................
Standard Gas &c per cent? preferred stool
Standard Gas common stock ..............
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
SUCK ..s........s ''s...s.s.s MINIMUM.
Chicago. Milwaukee and ST. Paul Railway
Company's preferred stock ..............
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Com
pany's stock ............ ...........,......
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail
way Company's stock ....................,
Pennsylvania Railroad stock ..............,
The San Francisco call., 1898-04-18

Comrade Stone preferred resigned again commissioned old regiment Fourteenth York Cavalry.
 Comrade Frank W. Cushing enlisted April 20 1ss1. when only + of the first call of President Lincoln for 75ON volunteers The enistments however, so spontaneous and in such large numbers that which he belonged could find place in three months together with ordered by Governor Yates Dixon, await the further action of lS6l call 100000 this regiment the first from Illinois volunteers It numbered the Thirteenth mustered into service by Captain John Pope "aa commanding the Army of the Potomac regiment up the time of the disastrous charge Bayou Veksburg, Miss where the bullet gun of repel harpshooer ended the earthly popular commander drew
 rms regiment participated in all the wearfsome narches III Missouri and Arkansas CTs lost army that started for Little period of three months darkest Arkansas This march covered a distance of 1900
 IT. Cushing participated in all the battles suited in the equalization of Vicksburg battles of
 Lookout Mountain. Missionary Ridge golo lhs regiment left Illinois to tune N0 recruits added, muster June lS lS64 only 300 comrades ~ '
 the of c hed at oaI1as Comrade Cushing lnent conmande and notwithstanding era E r. Cnlpan received fattering the assur- at Nevada City in f 'e'i he"itS support
 Somrade Gushing has been active member of the c 11 TOT tnirty years and of NO f. vallejo when he only 9 IS member of Admiral D. D. Post No is9 0aknd he