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The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-01-21

" " q a Brazilian has patented an artificial
tooth, which is hollow and has valve
1n In one side through which the air IS
e exhausted q to- cause the tooth to grip
the Jaw after the tooth has been fitted
to the gum. sS==S
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-01-21
The Spanish FLAG.

Fit emblem of the Spanish hordes,
T whose plight E, = i i
Is due to each vain glorious fellow
Who shouts Of battles won, but in the
fight #.3 ...5E.. :#@ 5@s.3S z.3ts 81
Shows, like his flag, a streak OF yel-
III # low. 4 .2545 .$ *.s .s& =. "A,
S+ $$.3'fs.s FL. u @ Judge.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-10
COLD STORAGE HOUSE.
Expense for Either Labor
or Materials.

A combined fruit and vegetable
cellar and milk room was a feature Of
Knoll farm many years. An excavation
seven feet deep and ten feet square was
made, and then framework of timbers
six inches square erected over the ex-
cavation; this frame was sixteen feet
long, ten feet wide, six feet of the length
being designed for an entry or store
room. The frame supported walls COM
posed of two-inch oak boards. The cell
ing Of the inner room or cellar proper
was one-inch oak, and above this saw
dust was spread several inches in
depth. The partition wall separating
entry and cellar proper was double and
the hollow space also filed with saw
dust
A heavy storm-proof door closed the
entrance TO the inner room. The tiers
of bins occupied the north and south
sides which were usually reserved for
fruits, the intervening space being util-
lied by boxes and barrels for vege.
tables. The entry was provided with
door and two windows. The lower
half of the window can be provided
with lattice work. thus doing away with
the necessity of screens during the
summer, when, the contents of the eel
lar gone and liberal use of white
wash made, the inner room can be
utilized as a milk room during the
summer months. The floors of the
rooms were of sandstone. No drainage
was necessary. The natural advantages
were suitable, the building being placed
on ground having a steep decline Of
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JEWISH PHILANTHRoPIsTs.
Some Are Exceedingly Generous I'm
Their BenefactiOns-Hebr
Mendicants Rare.

A Jewish mendicant is rare spec
tacle in New York, and the appeal of
any Jewish fraternity to their Chris
tan brothers almost unknown. The
Jews look after their own poor. 1t is
part of their religion-charity accord
ing to their creed being nothing more
than justice-the rich looking after
the INDECENT, as the strong of the
Anglo-Saxon race look after the weak,
without question and without demur
or boasting. The almost phenomenal
generosity of Baron and Baroness de
Hirsch. which in New York alone has
resulted in the gift of many millions
to our poor, has not perhaps been
equaled in numbers by any of our citi-
zens, though proportionately to their
means no Jews of wealth have failed
to reach their standard.
1t is the fashion among so-called hui
morists to ridicule the love of getting,
among the Hebrew shopkeepers, maxi
ing it seem characteristic of the race,
and ignoring altogether the generos-
ity of the better class, who even in this
country and at this day give their
tithes according to Old Testament in
junction, beginning to do so as boys
earning their first salaries, and all this
as naturally and as much as a matter
of course as the rest of us pay our car
fares. More than that, the best of them
make no distinction between the needy
Christian and the needy jew when
trouble arises, thus proving brother
hood Of man of which the rest of us
only talk in apostrophes.-Ha Ba-
zar
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SAVING OFF THE F1GUREHEAD

howled with delight. Middlesex was
wild with joy, but from the navy de-
partment in Washington came a storm
of vindictive protest. Try as the au-
thorities would, however, no trace was
found of the man who did the deed.
Excitement had not yet subsidized when
Capt Dewey decided for some reason
that it would be good thing to present
the head to jackson himself, and, ac-
cordingly, set off for Washington with
it. In Philadelphia he met Wiley T..
Mangum and John Tyler, who had been
appointed by the president to investi-
gate the affairs of the United States
bank He knew them both, and the
story was too good to keep; so he told
them. Continuing then to Washington,
he arrived there in February, and for
two months tried to see the president.
President jackson was seriously iii
with hemorrhages of the lungs, and
could not see Dewey. Vice President
Van Buren, had known Dewey's father
who was an artillery captain, and he
received the sailor cordially. To him
Dewey told the story, and Van Buren,
enjoyed the joke of it most cordially
He advised Dewey to take the figure
head of Jackson and give it to the Sec
rotary of the navy. On this advice
Dewey acted, but Secretary Dickinson
did not regard the matter as joke.
On the contrary he was angry and
threatened to have Dewey arrested.
But Dewey quietly said:
you can have me arrested on no
charge save that of trespass, and
should be tried in Middlesex county.
where the offense was committed. Any
Middlesex jury would give me damages,
and applause, too"
That settled it. Dewey was not ar
rested The figurehead was accepted
and remained in the Dickinson family.
1t is now in Brooklyn. Capt. Dewey be-
came known throughout the entire
country as "the figurehead man." He
was banqueted by wings in Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York. Boston and
wherever he went. And now he has
gone beyond the vale. He was the first
popular Dewey in America.
SMITH D. FRY
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reached the shelter boards which
Rad been placed under the spirit the
day before. There was still danger in
the execution of the plan, for the Co
lumbus' ships light and that on the
Independence were thrown on the fig
urehead as precaution against any
such attempt.
Lying down, however, on his back,
hidden by the shelter boards, Capt.
Dewey could STILL by reaching out and
up with one hand, reach the neck OF the
figure with his saw. In this cramped
position he worked three hours on the
sticky southern pine, and finally got
the head off, not the entire head, for
huge collar of the old fashion reached
well up ON the back of the jackson
head, and the portion sawed off was on
a plane with the mouth and ears. This
was, however, enough for the intended
purpose. Then, after surmounting the
difficulties of the return, such as find
ing his boat nearly full of water and the
tide so low that he had TO wade quite a
way through mud to the shore, the
adventuresome sailor reached land in
safety.
One can now but family imagine the
tremendous cry which went up on the
discovery of the Disagreement. Wings
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in order to keep afioat the Constitu-
ton at all the ship would have TO be re-
built Accordingly she was locked at
Charlestown in the first dry dock
erected in the country, and rebuilt on
her own lines. Only the keel and keel
son of the old ship remained.
The commandment of the navy yard
was then Commodore Elliot, and ardent
federalist and a great admirer of Jack
son. In the rebuilding, therefore, the
former figurehead of the Constitution,
one of an allegorical character, was re
placed by one modelled in likeness to
President jackson. This was done in
spite of vehement protest by Commo-
dore Hull, who had charge of the un-
docking, but who was powerless before
the approval of the change by Mahlon
Dickinson, secretary of the navy, and
as good federalist, if not better,
than Elliot.
As soon, however, as the public knew
of the change, which was as soon as the
new Constitution was launched in 1894,
there was almost as loud a protest as
that in 1880 upon the report of the in
tended destruction of the old ship.
Feeling ran especially high in New Eng
land and was increased in force by the
contemptuousa action of Commodore FL
lot in anchoring the Constitution in
Charlestown harbor, with the nose of
the ship facing west and not 25 feet
from the Charlestown bridge.
However gallant and brave an officer
T-I1. l., all nd
bravery have never been successfully
questioned he was no diplomat
Everyone in Boston knew that the uni
versal position of anchored ships was
pointing northeast, on account of the
northeast winds. The Columbus and
the Independence. two other warships,
anchored in the harbor in the custom
airy way, bore mute testimony TO this
well-known fact, and higher and high
er ran the feeling of the Middlesex
county men against the daily insult to
their political faith. 1t was, too. dam
gerous time TO trifle with mems De-
liefs, for the romantic revival was still
at high tide and ideals were the main
spring of action.
1t was under these circumstances
that Capt. Dewey, then hardy young
sailor of 2S years, determined to avenge
the fancied insult. Consulting but one
other. who took no part in the deed it
self, Capt. Dewey chose one stormy
night. when the rain beat in torrents
and the lightning and thunder were
continuous. to steal out with small
saw in one of the boats belonging TO
"BilIy" White, who then kept num-
Der of skiffs and saiTboats near the
Charlestown bridge. Muffiing his oars
with pieces of old shirts. ne rowed
quietly ont into the shadow thrown by
the black hulk of the Constitution.
Gliding up to the side of the vessel. he
stopped near the war ropes amidsfips,
and. securing his boat. nimbly climbed
up on the ships deck. There was no
sentinel outside, the rain had driven
him to shelter, and Capt. Dewey safely
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COLD STORAGE HOUSE.

several feet, the cellar or inner room
being entirely underground while the
front opened upon level ground. TIL
entry was useful as a place of storage
for pork and vinegar barrels.
A separate house for the storage of
fruit and vegetables is preferable to
using the house cellar, as in a separate
building the temperature can be kept
under better control. If a superiority
of loose or cobbie stones abounds, as is
the case on many farms, an excellent
plan would be to build an outside cellar
of them, laying them in cement Such
a cellar would last a lifetime, as there
is nothing perishable except the roof.
The temperature of building of stone
is more equable than any other. But
once in a period of 16 years were the
contents of the cellar above described
injured by frost, and then the cellars
all over the land were entered by the
frost king. Mrs. A. G. Mcpherson, in
Farm and Home.
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pITH AND POINT.


TO the good, evil is working for good;
TO the evil, good is working for evil.
Rams Horn.
or the two, big heart brings more
joy than large bank account.-L. A.
w. Bulletin.
When a circus is in town, a man who
has little children is regarded as very
lucky.-Atchison Globe.
Footman-"Excuse me, baron, but
haven't received any wages for four
months" Baron -"All right excuse
you!"-Unsere Gessellschaft.
.'Yes, your honor, this is the lady who
claims that the dog bit her" well.
where is the dog who claims to have bit
ten the lady o." Philadelphia Inquirer.
Par Value. Bramble-'.I lost piece
of paper yesterday that was worth $50
to me-" Thorne-''Is that so? What
was it?" Bramble-A $50 bill. IN. Y.
Journal.
Mr.. Crimsonbeak-" Longfellow said
that in this world a man must either be
anvil or hammer" Mrs. Crimsonbeak
"0h, | don't know. How about the
bellows?' Yonkers Statesman.
you know, after al" said the young
father, "a baby does brighten up the
house." Single Skeptic-'I dare say;
I've noticed the gas burning late In
your room recently. Answers.
How would you define luck?" was
asked of the man who has made more
money than he knows what to do with.
at is the product of a reasonable
amount of ability, backed by tenacity."
Detroit Free Press.
Il suppose" said the village deacon
to the minister, that your constant
prayer is that you may ever remain
poor and humble ~ Not exactly" re-
piled the minister. Il pray that l may
remain humble, but my congregation
attends to the other part of 1.-THE
Rival.
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A RED-HAIRED CLUB.
j., of Auburn Locks Organize
Society All of Their own.

A club of "red headed ladies and gen.
tlemen" has been formed at Trenton,
n. j. 1t is called the Cerise club, cerise
being the French for cherry. and cher
nv being the tint that the members con-
sidered most beautiful for the locks.
Thomas Holmes, the originator of the
club, says that for long time the red
haired people of Trenton have lacked
cohesion. They tacitly admitted that
the color of their hair was a misfortune,
and they lived out their lives more or
less in solitude, worrying about the
matter.
But Mr.. Holmes says the time has
come when they mean to hold up their
heads, red hair and all, proudly in the
community.
They will begin, they declare, with
red-haired beauty show, at which the
prettiest members of the club will be
placed on view, to prove to the COM
munity the artistic qualities of their
locks.
At the first meeting of the club a
joint debate viii take place on THE
Lie About the Unpopularity of the
Blonde
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-10
"SwIPES" CAME BACK.
The Remarkable Return of Dog 10
His Master from Denver to
st. Louis.

A certain St. Louis merchant who
related engaged TO be married to a lady
living in Denver had large, handsome
Dandie Dnmond setter, named, for that
inscrutable reason by which many men
will degrade some of the noblegt OF
beasts with belittling titles, ''Swipes."
The lady of his future heart and home,
having seen and formed an ardent at
tachment for the dog on visit TO St
Louis, the merchant, in the goodness of
his heart and the warmth of his affec.
ton, determined to take her the dog as
present, perhaps that the faithful ami
NAL might keep him in her mind until
such time as his affairs would allow him
TO bring her to the home he had bought
in his native city. He therefore boxed
up "Swipes" and put him on train
bound for Denver.
He waited two days in great anxiety
for some acknowledgment of the gift,
but no word came. Three days passed,
and four, and finally a week rolled by
without word of thanks from his lady
love. The merchant then grew wroth
and sat down to write such letter as
would speedily bring my lady to her
senses. As he was arranging his pens
and papers for the mighty struggle,
however, he heard a faint scratching
on his door, and, arising, admitted the
dog himself. Swipes was lean and dirty
and sheepish-looking generally. He APP
preached his master with the general
air of a setter who expects to be
whipped, and, crouching himself at his
feet, looked tearfully up into his face.
The merchant felt his heart go out to
his former pet. He stopped and gave
him pat, at which, after the manner
of his kind, the dog went wild with
JOY. Swipes had had adventures, the
merchant saw, but he had never
reached the lady off in Denver.
Investigation proved that his sur
misses had been correct. The express
company, on being charged with non
delivery, traced the dog and his box TO
that driver who had been ordered to
convey him TO the tagged destination
The driver, after considerable cross
questioning, admitted he had forged
the receipt check and that Swlpes had
never been delivered. He had broken
out of the box in the middle of the city
and leaped Oft the wagon into the
crowd, disappearing almost instantly.
The driver had never heard of him
again. How the dog got back to st.
Louis is a mystery, but he got there.
His master. in the joy of recovering
him at all, concluded to wait until after
theceremony to share him with the lady
at Denver, much The more so because
he firmly believes that if Swipes were
to be conveyed to the north pole he
would manage to get back to the man
whom his dumb dog love deems the
finest thing a-going. 1t is not every
day, the merchant knows, that such
constancy is to be found.-C Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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potntoe. pr,ed L,,.e rrul,.

A plan has been adopted in France Of
selling potatoes peeled, sliced and dried
like certain fruits. This method OBJ
viates decay and termination of the
tuber, and occupying less space, trans
port will be cheaper and less difficult
The potatoes are peeled by machinery.
next carefully washed, sliced in rounds
and left for 20 minutes in a strong solu-
ton of kitchen salt. Later the cuttings
are left to drain, placed in the drying
apparatus on hurdle shelves and sub
mitted to a temperature of about 1874
degrees Fahrenheit. Before using the
slices have TO be stepped from II to Is
hours in water, when they viii become
as fresh and as lavory as new potatoes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-10
THERE IS A LIMIT.
The Fourth Gentleman Severely
Strained the Bounds of
Human Credulity.

1ou may not believe it, gentlemen, re-
marked one of an after.dinner group engaged
IN smoking cigars in front OF a totel, but
have used fountain pen constantly for four
years, and have never had the least trouble
with it"
That IS indeed remarkable rejoined an
other. Nevertheless am the father OF six
children and have never had to walk the
floor by night with single one OF them"
There was silence, lasting minute or
so. Then another spoke up: Il don't doubt
il in the least, said he, for can testify to
something stranger still. | have bright
little four-year-old boy at my house, and We
never repeated any Of his smart sayings to
my most intimate friends"
Gentlemen observed fourth, after a
protraeted and somewhat painful pause, Il
am fond OF hearing young women practice
their scales on the piano after have retired
to rest. II lulls me to sleep"
One or two other members n the group
made more or less feeble attempts 70 say
something, but falteringly gave it up. 1t
seemed to be generally felt that the extreme
limit of human credulity had been reached
London Telegraph.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-10
Mou.er BuIIets i'm Remingtons.

Capt. Frank L. Eastman, who has re-
Gently returned from the Philippines,
has presented to the ordnance depart
ment an interesting device by which
the Filipinos utilized old Remington
cartridge shells to enable them to fire
Mauser bullets from Remington rifles.
Capt. Eastman says that many of the
insurgents are supplied with Reming-
ton rifles, but they have nothing but
Mauser ammunition. Large quantities
of empty Remington shells are to be OBJ
tanned, however, and to make the Maus-
err cartridge fit the Remington life they
cut a hole in the head of the exploded
Remington shell and insert the car
fridge so that the latter has an outer
Jacket which fits without trouble in
their guns. In measure this accounts
for the inaccurate firing of the Fill.
pinos. The bullet is too small to take
the rifiing of the Remington gun, so
that it is impossible to fire them with
any degree of accuracy. The bullet
frequently fattens out in its passage,
and when it does strike makes a very
ugly, jagged wound. At other times
it expands so that it jams the gun and
makes it useless.-N. Y. Sun.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-08-10
A LADYLIKE DETECTIVE.
The Clever Way I'm Which a New
York "FIy Cop, Trapped
Woman Hotel Thief.

1t has been a long time since the
detective force of the city had man
who was able to go about in the garb
of woman and obtain evidence against
persons which could not be got in or
binary ways. But now the force has
one, and, as a result of that fact, Eliz-
abeth Barry was held in Yorlville court
on charge of having robbed the Hotel
Brunswick, Twenty-seyenth street and
Fourth avenue.
For some time Henry Crozier, the pro-
prietor of the hotel, has had complaints
from guests that their rooms have been
entered and articles of value stolen. He
complained TO the police, and Detec-
tives Van Delft and O'Rourke were as
signed to the case. A popularity OF
the thefts, the detectives discovered,
was the fact that the articles stolen
as a rule were from the rooms OF
women. Their suspicious rested on the
Barry woman, who was "A quiet, unas-
suming employe in whom every one had
confidence.
On Friday Van Delft went to the
hotel and engaged room. He was
made up as woman, wearing large
hat and an expensive gown, with gloves
and boots to match. After being shown
to a room, O'Rourke was placed in a
room adjoining it and hole was made
through the door that O'Rourke might
watch the interior of the room of the
bogus woman.
When Van Delft went to the dining
room in the hotel he left pocketbook
containing a marked bill on the dresser.
From his position in the other room
the other detective watched the room.
In short time he saw the Barry woman
come in, look around and then take the
poclketbook. She went direct to her
room and put the pocketbook contain
ing the marked bill in her trunk. She
was arrested a little later.
In court yesterday she confessed that
she had robbed the room, and a dozen
or more articles found in her trunks
were identified as having been stolen
from the hotel She broke down and
cried and looked at the detective who
had dressed in women's clothes.
''Was it you that rented that room?"
she asked.
"Yes," replied the detective; II was
the woman"
I'D never have believed it; you were
so IadyIike and NICE said the sobbing
prisoner, who was held for trial.-N.
Press
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NOT ACQUAINTED WITH THEM.
Men Dead Fifty Years Elected to Office
by Benighted Aldermen II
New York.

A New York alderman INDUCED in little
fun at the expense of his associates the other
day, and through his influence that honor
able body elected two men, eminent men,
dead these so years, to the position of com
missioner of deeds. The names of the dead
thus honored are: Noah Webster, le1icog.
rapher, and Lindley Murray, grammarian.
The world says the trick was worked this
way:
A slip of paper containing these names,
with Brooklyn addresses, was circulated at
the meeting of the board. Alderman Dixie
approached Alderman Bridges and said:
"Say, Jim, I've done favors for you. Here
are a couple of men who want to be made
commissioners OF deeds. That fellow Lind.
ley Murray told me he was friend OF yours.
Alderman Bridges looked at the slip and
replied
Il don't know tine. gent, and amt going
to present his name
Alderman Dooley, another member from
Brooklyn, was persuaded to sign the applica-
ton, and in less than ten minutes the
formal vote electing Lindley Murray and
Noah Webster commissioners of deeds was
passed-American.
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IDEA FROM NEVADA.
Traction Engine Combined with
Road Roller Might Prove a
Profitable Investment.

! send herewith a sketch of 13-ton
traction engine, capable of doing the
work of so horses for less than it would
cost to feed the animals. 1t is to be en-
ployed at Elko, New, in transporting
ore and merchandise to and from that
town and Tuscarora, {. distance of So
miles.
The motor will haul several three
wheeled wagons, which will carry from
seven to ten tons each. These wagons
are so made as to turn sharp corners
with ease. A third wheel, smaller than
the two main ones, is placed under the
front of the vehicle in such fashion as to
permit of complete turn being made
in the length of the wagon.
An increase in the amount of ore
transported and a revolution in Nevada
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have received
from the use of
Lydia L. Pink
hams Vegeta-
bic Compound.
Soon after the
birth ofmy first
child. L COM