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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-18

y. L. N. T.--COMFORTABLE SITTING
room. Prompt calls. Steam heat and
electric lights. q South Main. Beds
Csc and soc.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-18
FURNISHED ROOMS.

TWO NICE FURNISHED ROOMS
with bath 402 n. Montana corner of
Copper.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11
PROFIT BY ODD BITS.
Change Left by Customers Helps Out
the Cashiers Salary.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
Odd bits of change thoughtlessly left
by customers form no inconSiderable
part of the income of cashiers in certain
business establishments, notably restau-
rants, saloons, cigar stores and similar
places, where, during many hours of each
day, there is a steady rush of patrons.
ct get SIS a week salary said CASH
Ter, "and 1 always count on an additional
So, or so cents per day, through forgotten
change. | do not consider that l am do
ing anything dishonest, either, because /
always make anceffort to attract the GUS
toner's attention to the fact that he is
leaving his change behind. Nine cases
out of ten 1 succeed, even if 1 have to
send waiter to follow the man clear. out
into the street. = But there are enough Of
the tenth cases to make my receipts foot
up all of the sum weekly have named
The majority of them are people in a
hurry to catch a train or car or to keep
an appointment, and they haven't the
time to return even if they did discover
their loss a square or so away. The
next day they don't care, or at least a
majority of them do not, to speak about
such small matter, the overlooked sell
dom being more than or 10 cents, and
am just so much ahead. The proprietor
get it? Certainly not It doesn't belong
to him, and just SO the money in the
cash drawer balances with the register
he is satisfied"
The presiding geniuses. of theatrical box
offices are also occasionally in pocket
through the carelessness Of ticket pur-
chasers, but with box office transactions
the change, If any, is usually in such
large amounts that their opportunities
are fewer and farther between.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11
Noticc-New Trains to Oshkosh and
Fond du Lac

Leave Minneapolis 6:25 D. M. ST Pan,
6:55 p. m, via North Western Line.
ST. P, M & O. Ry., going via Merrii
Ian and Marshfleld, and arrive Wausau
London 5:25 a.. M, Appleton Junction,
500 a. M, Oshkosh GEO an, Fond dl1
Lac 7:30 a. m, Manitowcc 8:15 a M. She
boygan 900 a. m.
Through sleeping cars and chair cars
to Fond du Lac.
Tickets and information at S95 Robert
street, St Paul, Ais Nicollet avenue Min
neapolis.
"All orators are dumb when beauty
pleadeth" from Haynes photograph.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11
A BUG THAT ATE UP a CHURCH

While workmen were repairing the roof
of Winchester cathedral in England a
few weeks ago they found a curious lit
tie insect 1t was a wood grub that bores
it way through oak.
So busy had this worm been that it
had completely honeycombed the beams
and rafters of the old cathedral. They
crumble to pieces at the least jar.
Sirex gigas is the scientific name for
this creature that burrows in old build
ings. 1t does it's mischief in its infancy;
that is, while in the grub or worm stage
of growth. 1t then wraps itself up in
a mummy-like chrysalis and finally
energies into winged insect which looks
much like wasp. 1t is then one and
three-quarters. inches long. 1t has
sharp apger ordrill with which it bores
holes Into wood and deposits its eggs
there
The sirex insect seeks wood that has
been softened and mellowed by age.
When the eggs hatch into grubs they be-
gin their work of boring. They fatten
ana grow and keep charging their holes
till they have followed out comfortable
chambers in which to take their long
sleep In the chrysalis state.
The old roof of the Winchester cathe-
dral IN tie south OF England had evil
IDENTITY been the home of the s1rex family
for centuries.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11
Paris Slaughter Houses.

There are in Paris three great slaughte
houses, where 100000 head of cattle ar
killed annually.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11

Bristol, Conn, is about to furnish a
curious case in court of a young woman
who brings suit for damages for the loss
of her beauty.
Miss Nellie M Evans claims $4,000
from w. w. Horton on this singular
charge.
A year ago Miss Evans was one of the
prettiest girls In Bristol. Now her cheeks
are sallow and shrunken and her mouth
and chin have the angular line of great
age.
The cause of this pitiful change, Miss
Evans says, is the powerful and insidi-
Gus poison medicines given to her by
DR.. Horton. Her story sounds almost
like the tales of slow poison and the
black art practiced at medieval royal
courts.
Miss Evenas for seven years worked
in the Office of the Bristol Press, setting
type and writing society notes. She had
a large and desirable acquaintance as
her newspaper work brought her in con-
tact with all of BristoPs leading citizens.
Here is her account of her year of suf-
fering and lost beauty:
81 have been the victim of cruel nesli-
gence, ignorance, or call 1t what you
may.
ut happende a year ago, almost I
was living with Mrs. Emma ]. Newcomb,
at No. lis High street Bristol
81 did not feel well sand DR.. Horton
was called in. He had attended me be-
fore, though only In small way, as
have never until now been sick much
He left some powders and said my di-
gestive organs were out of order
Here is the queer part. Those pow
ders were calomel or mercury, and not
necessary for treating my case accord
ing to his diagnosis of my Illness
81 took some of the powders In a
few days my teeth troubled me. They
appeared to be loose, and 1 spoke to DIR.
Horton about them, telling him thought
it must be the medicine. He continued
to prescribe the powders, though and
declared 1 must take them.
Il continued to4take the powders for
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11

week, as the doctor ordered. Meanwhile
my teeth got so 1 could not bear to touch
them.
MY whole body felt infamed, and
when 1 was brought here to my BROTH
er's ten days later my body had turned
greenish hue.
MY hair continued to fall out. and nv
teeth-they ached terribly! DIR. Deitch-
man was called in. He is a graduate
of Berlin university, and at once said
my condition was due to overdoses Of
calomel
why, I could not hold my hand
steady, for 1 shook as though with the
palsy Blotches appeared in my skin,
with pains in my limbs, and Thanksgiv-
Ing day 1 was terribly swollen.
After time 1 Went to the home Of
my sister, Mrs. E. N. Tolles, of No. 81
Field street, Waterbury. There DR.. c,
w. S. Frost, who was called in, said it
was case of too much calomeI. and
appeared Mortified that any. doctor could
have been guilty of such treatment
The same opinion was expressed by
the doctors. and nurses at the Massa-
chusetts General hospital, at Boston,
where l afterward went. One physician
and leading one, too; 1 can't give his
name now-came many miles to see me,
and was very outspoken in his denuncia-
ton of the physician who had prescribed
calomel, as Dr. Horton did.
Il hope to get better, but dear me, it
Will be such long time! Just think OF
what / have gone through They used
to work over me in Boston for hours at
time. l was numb to all feeling, and
often 1 was unconscious for hours.
II had to have stimulants. L often
wonder how l lived at all. My nerve
centers were all affected, bones and body
were numb.
us 1t to be wondered at that I think
1 should seek redress through the courts
FOR all l have suffered?
THE statement of DR.. Horton in some
of the papers that l was suffering from
lead poisoning due to typesetting is nom
sense. He knows different. If he does
not, he ought to-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11
POINTS,.

Notice-New Trains to Oshkosh and
Fond du Lac.
Leave Minneapolis e:25 p. M, St. Paul
$50 p. m. via Northwestern Line-C..
Ian and Marshfield, and arrive Wausau
2.40 a. m. Clintonville 1850 a. M, New
London 5:25 q. M, Appleton Junction,
500 a. M, Oshkosh $50 a. M, Fond dli
Lac 7:30 a. m, Manitowoc SIS a. M, She
boygan 900 a. IA.
Through sleeping cars and chair cars
to Fond du Lac.
Tickets and Information at 395 Robert
street, st. Paul, 413 Nicollet avenue, Min
neapolfS
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11
HE HAD BEEN IN HARD LUCK

other Three Players In the Game
Readily Saw the Superiority of
the Hand-Value of "a Pair of Re-
volvers When Presented at the
Right Time.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11

Filipino soldiers who would precede the
populace. The cost was seven lives and
a weeks delay in prosecuting the cam
paign. Meanwhile the rebels had be-
come more active along our line, both
in the direction of Malalos and to the
south. Frederick Palmer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11

Italian Economics.
Street refuse in Italy is sold by public
auction. r-r
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11
WHISTLED And DIED
TWO NORTH DAKOTA VOLUNTEERS
WHO "SMILED AND DIED
GAMEH
ONE FOUGHT FIFTY ALONE

Held His Advance Position Before
FiIiPinOs' Trenches-His COmpan-
ions Killed or WOunded-What
Jungle Fighting Really Is-Gen.
LawtOn's Long Legs and White
Helmet the Despair of His Officers
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-11
Artificial Rubber.

An artificial rubber, as good as the real
thing, is now made of glue and glycerine
mixed with a sulphur oil, such as
The daily sentinel., 1899-01-07
RAG cARPETNcS
Tag - 1Aese-Latest Wey -
Joining str1ps-

There il an age OF progression in rag
carpets, as in the more elaborate works
of life. One may even go into the noun
tains and learn many new things.
There the old women who for years
have been carpet. weavers, no longer
sew these wooden and cotton strips to-
an ingenious method of slip-knotting
two ends together.
Cut the rags in strips about one-half
inch broad. Snip near each end of
each strip a little slit or opening large
enough for . rag strip to slip through.
Place the Sits of two strips to be joined
one over the other; take the opposite
end Of one of them and pass it through
both Sits pull the loop together gently
and firmly: then it holds as thread never
can. The mountaineers of Maryland
use this plan in preference to the old
time style with satisfaction.
Extremely pretty rugs for the bath
room are made by having balls of white
cotton strips woven upon blue thread.
These rugs should be three yards in
length. and have. fringe Of the blue
thread at each end.
my "oSA ~sSfAys anu ~ NSi PiCtty
and quite repay the trouble Of cutting
up all the old bits of white cotton, which
would otherwise descend to the ragbag.
But all these simple fashions are
not to be mentioned in connection
with the beautiful "catalon" made by
the weavers in Quebec. They manu-
facture the most beautiful and artistic
carpets or hangings out Of cotton
scraps. and it is well to know, now that
there is so much travel into the queens
dominion in summer, that the Quebec
weavers will work up for trifling
price any quantity of colored cotton
into beautiful designs. II is not neces-
sary either that the cotton goods shall
be prepared into strips for them. as
there is no additional charge for cut
ting and piecing out the balls. Quebec
also makes a speciality of silk portieres,
and its workers take the utmost pains
In their combination OF colors. Rag car
peting has been called native American
tapestry. and sometimes in out-of-the-
way cornrs one comes upon an unex-
pected display of native taste.-Har-
per's Baxar.
Fish of Many vaPAstiee.
The waters Of North America sre
stocked with 1900 different varieties Of
fish.
The daily sentinel., 1899-01-07
FEATHERS OF GREAT PRICE.
RARo RfoAAeR fPOa DfFAs-10v04oS ~
Al9Tettes worth Over YfvS
M1lliOa Refs.

Many curious things go through the
appraisers' storea. and some of the
most interesting through the Fifth di-
vision, where millinery goods are ex-
amined aud appraised All sorts Of
birds and feathers are examined by this
division. Within a few days several
large boxes were examined, each con-
tanning something like 500 stuffed par
oquets- A box was opened this week
in which it was estimated there were
nearly 1000 Japanese swallow These
little birds are caught by the japanese
in immense numbers by means of nets
Their plumage i. very plain. but their
wings, which are extraordinarily long.
make them especially valuable TO mil
liners. The birds when imported are
rudely stuffed with cotton, and each
one is made mp into little roll. ABOUT
the AEze and shape of an ordinary cigar.
Before being used they are twisted into
various shapes and dyed. the wings
spread and new feathers added, and
they are made INTO gay and fancy
birds.
The most valuable kind OF fes.her
goods that passes through the apprais-
er's hands is undoubtedly the aigrette.
This feather is worth more than its
weight in gold. The aigrette is OBJ
tanned from = bird called the egret,
found in China, Japan, Egypt and South
America, and sometimes in Florida.
Some OF these feathers come directly
from South America, where, along the
upper waters Of the Amazon, the In
dians shoot the birds with blow tubes
and small arrows. But Paris is the
market Of the world for aigrettes, just
as London is for ostrich plumes, and
the greatest part of the imports come
directly from the French capital. With
In the past two months aigretfes to the
value Of $40. 900 have been imported.
There are two varieties of aigrette.
the long and the short, and their value
is in inverse proportion to their size.
The short variety, which is obtained
from a smaller bird, is extremely deli
cate and fine. and is worth from sea
TO s25 per ounce. Only a few feathers
in each bird are valuable. and It is es-
timated that 50 or 60 birds would have
to be killed to obtain an ounce of the
shorter aigrette. The long aigrette il
worth not much more than half as
much.
These feathers are looked after as
carefully by the appraisers as are pre-
cious stones. They are imported in SOL
dered tin boxes, and are locked up
and guarded until they are examined.
They are invoiced in the Brazilian unit
OF value, reis. which is very small, SO
that figures giving the value of the
imports are often s,artlingly large.
One Importation Of these feathers was
recently invoiced to the value of $685.
600 reis, an amount which in American
gold is equal to about $10O.-N. Y. Ms4
and Express.
The daily sentinel., 1899-01-07
enc Man works Eight Weeks Over the
DIAsult Pass and Ii Compelled
to Give II Cp and
raPA hack.

The horrors of the SkaguAy trail have
only half been told. A mum Der OF men
have recently returned from the White
known a. the Black pass) with stories
1T to sicken the stoutest heart and sub
duo the hottest courage. One man, =.
J. Rickard, OF Seattle, bright and IN
telligent young fellow. with plenty OF
pluck and perseverance, used his very
best efforts TO get over the trail, but has
returned TO a more friendly land for the
winter, and will make another trial in
the spring. He will then go by another
route He has had all Of the Skaguay
trail that he wants. To begin with, the
trail was never ready for travel, and
tho promoters" who are responsible
for all the waste OF time and money
should be prosecuted. Richard arrived
at Skaguay on the Islander, which de-
posted it's passengers on August l, and
80 was among the earliest comers. He
had On ordinary miners outfit, weign-
ing 200 pounds. two horses and 600.
He considered himself fairly well
equipped. He helped the others cor
duroy the trail and bridge the rivers.
by the time this necessary work had
been done crowds of wayfnrers had
arrived, and soon the trail was worse
thnn ever.
In eight weeks of the hardest work
he had ever done Rickard managed to
get his goods TO the summit of the last
hill. Then his money was gone. his
horses exhausted, and he had the choice
OF winterinF in the timber by the lakes.
while his food zupply diminished. or of
--ninrninn In Cnlifnruin md enrnIng
The daily sentinel., 1899-01-07

more money to again attempt the trip
northwart. He figured that II he
camped the winter. as so many are
counting upon doing. he would have an
early start in the spring, but would by
that time have only two months pro-
visions left at the outside. and he vas
already perniless. Ricknrd spent his
money FOR food and shoes fer hif horscs.
He Saye the difficulty Of feeding horses
on the Skaguay trail j. enormous. II
was necessary - 20 all the way back
to Skaguay for hay. and by the time II
was BROUGHT back 10 the hungry ami
mails wat7c for II tine athrr animals
met on The Troll. by each i1kire pass
ing nip. hrd reduced the ci'9r ity about
so per cpr' The horse arf fond Of
birch leaves. but they 1e contract
mud fever. ard. as they oF- T' sf.cient-
~ fed and not sheltered = al thcyso oon
become worthless. Not p r-~- ire lost
on the trail y j. supposed r'tce really
die from laeli Of care. ''--rc- are a
good dc~' tc''er on the i' "gy trail
than burros. although - -. hing
of all would bc m OK. v'.'-h IS very
good for muddy travelling g. can carry
big load. The burros f1l;en up arc
almost failure. They arc good over
the rocks. but no good n, all in the
ewamp, which forms abou, two-thirds
of the distance.
Richard reports the packer. have lost
money on account Of the mortality
among the horses. They would start
cut with 20 and return with II. The
most trying place below tho summit has
been fittingly named Dead Horse gulch
Instead OF one short, steep hill MS at
the Chilknt. there are five long hills,
and Rickard thinks it IL harder than the
Chilkat itself.
Hundreds of disappointed men at
Skaguay in September were making
herculean efforts to reach the timber
that lies beyond the summit with their
goods, there to spend the winter and
get very early start down the river
in the spring. They must make haste,
for snow had already fallenon the sum-
init, and they must make their camp
and build their log huts before snow
flies. otherwise they cannot procure the
moss with which 70 wedge the chinks of
their houses.
It takes strong back and weak
mind to become n successful packer.
Rickard says. r. also SAYS that. though
quiet and orderly. the Skaguay country
is the mennest in the world II rains
there all the time except when it stops
long enough to snow.-Mabel C. Craft.
in Leslie's Weo'-'-
MV11tori.
Nearly every one has had more or
less ancestors, and n mathematical!y y
inclined gcnealogist has figured that
even a fellow that couldn't join any
thing but church has had during The
last 25 generations no less than 1870
sG2 ancestors. of whom 2,73s, ,432 were
living at the same time 25 generations
back. Calling the average lifetime of
a generation % Ia yenrs. that would
take us back to the year of the Norman
conquest. 1000. Each Of us had AT the
time of TINT historic event something
like 22.000,OO0 of ancestors roaming
about the various principalities and
jungles of Europe, Asia and Africa, not
to mention the South Sea islands and
Australia, and OF these II is reason-
able certainty that nt least one partici-
pated in the battle of Senlac. either un-
der Duke William or King Harold
Rochester Herald.
The daily sentinel., 1899-01-07


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The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-01-24
OLD LANDMARKS GONE.
London Loses Two Interesting Reminders
of Dickens Days.

1t is with sadness of heart that a
lover of Dickens walks the northern
pavement of High Holborn just now.
The hand of the destroyer has lately
been heavily laid upon Furnivals inn,
where the novelist lived, and up the
stairs of which Thackeray once
walked in his unknown days, with
two or three drawings in my hand,
which, strange to say, he did not find
suitable" And to-day good portion
of Kingsgate street is open to the sky,
for the "house- breaker" has worked
his will upon that thoroughfare i'm
mortalized by the memory OF Mrs:
Camp. "Her name, as Mr.. Pecksnllf
gathered from a scrap of writing in
his hand, was Camp; her residence in
Kingsgate street, High Holborn." 1t
was thither, in a hackney cab, that
Mr.. Pecksniff was ratified in quest Of
her, for she lodged at bird fancier's,
and that bird fancier none other than
Poll Sweedlepipe, whose shaving OF
Bailey, Jr., is an historic event.
And this was "next door but one to
the celebrated mutton pie shop, and
directly opposite to the original cats
meat warehouse, the renown OF which
establishments was duly heralded on
their respective fronts" ga line ad-
dressed to Mrs. Camp, at the bird
shop, Kingsgate street, High Hol-
born, London, will meet with every
attention, l have no doubt" Thus
spoke Mr.. Pecksniff to the elder Mar
tin Chuzzlewit. Vain boast! Mrs.
Camps once dwelling may to-day
have vanished into space and have be-
come as much thing of none effect
as her own street door knocker,
which was so constructed az to wake
the street with ease, and even spread
alarms Of fire in Holborn, without
making the smallest impression on
the premises to which it was adj
dressed Westminster Gazette,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-01-24
Women in the Fine Arts.

There are III France 1850 women
authors and journalists and about 700
women artists. The provinces con-
tribute most of the writer's about
two-thirds-while Paris is represent
ed in the same proportion among the
artists. Among the writer's 1000 are
novelists, 900 are poets, $50 educa-
tional writer's and the rest writers Of
various kinds. The artists comprise
l07 sculptors, and the Others aye
painters, ranging ovor all branches OF
the pictorial art.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-01-24
ALUMINIUM FOR INDIA.
The New Metal Introduced Into Madrid
for Various Utensils.

Aluminium, which is now used IN
Great Britain for such variety OF
purposes, has recently been intro
duced into Madras, and cooking pots
and other utensils which used to be
made Of copper and brass are now be-
ing manufactured Of the white metal.
Prof. ,Chatterton, Of the Madras uni
versity, has been The handspring of
this new departure, for he caused ex-
periments to be made at the metal
working classes of the School Of Arts
at Madras, and in this way interested
the natives in the matter. As result
a small factory was established, aud
this met with such signal success that
in five months the output of manufac-
tured aluminium amounted to a ton
a month. This, be it remembered,
would be equal, bulk for bulk, to four
times as much copper. 1t is consid-
cred curious that the intense con-
servatism of the Indians should have
allowed such an innovation to sue
coed; but on one point they are OBJ
durate. The old shapes and fashions
of vessels must be rigidly adhered to
in making them of the new material,
and as these shapes vary in different
districts the point is one of some i'm
portance. Chambers Journal.