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air for three or four minutes after Sc,

air for three or four minutes after sew
erance. This phenomenon is we'll mark
ed in the head Of u tortoise separated
from the body. The life of the brain.
therefore, must be retained for. some
time after tho head is severed, from. the
very fact that, though being separated
from the trunk, its nutritious blood and
gases, taken from the fund stored; up i'm
the cells, are in sufficient quantity to-
carry on life, but for what exact period
is unknown.
Do the brain cells die simultaneously 2
No, because they have their own indi-
vidual cell life. Our scientific friend
also makes the very startling statement:
that in many diseases the brain cells,
although the person to all appearances:
is dead, may live for three or four hours:
after supposed death has taken place.
In the case of a healthy person being
hanged, seeming death is not instanta-
neous at all. Organic motion is arrest
ed, but real death is certainly not in
Simultaneous. The brain cells are the last
to die. and life is not really extinct I'M
I'll rlgor mortis sets in, which, in the
case of a healthy person dying sudden
ly, is p%rotracted.
Now, when it is known that an ordi-
nary cell lives after being removed from
a living body, why, then, cannot the
brain cells retain their life when the
conditions Immediately surrounding
them r much the same as during their
previous existence?
The head Of a chicken was cut off,
n after certain stimuli had been
made it opened its mouth and gasped
i've minutes after it's head had been
fecapitated from the body.
The head of a certain animal was cut
off and found susceptible to light for
many minutes after it was apparent
~ dead. A strong electric light was
held in front of the eyes and moved
alternately near to and far away from
them. The pupils Of the eyes followed
the light in its movements. expanding
and contracting. that is to say, focus
ing themselves upon the light as it
moved backward and forward. It was
proved that the animal was capable of
smelling by the use of certain pungent
odors placed ear the nasal organs
and all this because the brain cells were
yet living.
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THE Professors BABY.
Students Provided n SUR
prising Array of. Presents For 1t.

Medical Provided n Sur
prising Array Of, Presents For 1t.
"When I was a medical student in
the University of Pennsylvania" said
the doctor, ''the boys celebrated an in
teresting event in the domestic life Of
n Of the professors in a unique way.
The news that he favorite professor
was a happy fats.'r reached the students
on Thursday morning, and that after
noon and evening there were consulta-
tions held all over the university build
ings. and sundry dimes and quarters
were collected by two or three Of the
students, who constituted a sort of
finance committee. Every Friday morn
ing the professor gave a lecture to the
students in the amphitheater. The sub
ject for the lecture that week was The
Relation of the Sympathetic Nervous
System to the Nerve Centers of the
Brain, and half an hour before the
time set for the lecture every man in
the class, which numbered about $50,
was in his place waiting for the fun to
begin and glancing now and then to-
ward the three long operating tables in
the center of the room.
promptly at 10 o'clock the door
opened and the favorite professor enter
ed the amphitheater. He carefully closed
the door behind him, then with a self
conscious clearing of his throat turned
toward the class. At the first glance his
jaw fell, while every one of the $50
fiends in the seats above began to yell
at the top of his lungs. Spread out upon
the three long operating tables were
about $50 baby's toys and furnishings
Of every kind and description. There
were rattlss by the dozen, Noah's arks,
dolls of all sizes, a toy cooking stove,
a baby carriage, an embroidered flannel
petticoat, a nursing bottle lying in a
graduated glass, a pair of little blue kid
shoes and other things too numerous to
mention. After the first shock of sur
prise and embarrassment, the professor
was game. He thanked u.s., in a speech
peppered with five syllabled words, for
our thoughtfulness in thus providing
for the future needs Of his offspring,
but he observed, after a careful exami-
nation Of the various instruments of in
fantile delight spread out before him.
that we had forgotten one thing, a bot
tie of paregoric. Then he yawned in a
way suggestive of midnight vigils and
turned his attention to THE Relation of
the Sympathetic Nervous System to the
Nerve Centers of the Brain
"But he was not allowed to proceed
beyond the first sentence or two. His
attention vas drawn to the blackboard.
where some student Of artistic tenden-
cies had drawn an deliberately decorated
design in red, white and blue chalk,
is Marriage a Failuref' The poor pro-
fessor, seeing that there was no posi-
bility Of a serious lecture that morning,
entertained us for about ten minutes on
the text posted on the blackboard; then,
after inviting us all to visit the new
conner in the immediate future, he
marched off to the music of $50 voices
singing, Go to Sleep. Ny Little Pick
aninny' and Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me
q Bowwow.' New York Sun,
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Companions.

At a banquet given in Rochester two
Of the expected guests were unable to
be present. The order of seating hap.
pened to. be such that a particularly
jovial and companionable gentleman
sat with one of the vacant chairs on
each side of him. The empty chairs
and first course Of oysters were left in
place for some time in case the expected
guests arrived. The solitary gentleman
therefore could move neither to the
right mol to the left. but amiably
Beamed throughout the repast, SEEM
ingly none the worse for his enforced
isolation. After the banquet some one
innocently asked him:
"How did you enjoy yourself, old
Ghspf"
.<First rate" he replied briskly
0euxh. ST sat next to a couple Of fel-
lows wv weren't there."-Rochester
Heral,.
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HE A A BAD 8
Asa II Made Hin Poor Insuranc
Risk In Kentucky

And It Made Hin . Poor Insurance
Risk In Kentucky.
The managerof . life insurance COM
pany had the floor. <,
"Life insurance companies" he was
saying. "are as particular about the
people they already have on their lists
as they are about getting them on III
the beginning. They are rich. of course,
but they are no more anxious to take
in a man who will die of disease within
the first year OF two than they are to
take in a perfectly healthy man and
have him hazard his life by taking per-
sonal risks in dangerous pursuits or ~
travel in unhealthy countries.
81 remember q funny instance that
occurred once while I was living in
New England. One of our $40, 900 men
had a way of calling a man a liar in the
most careless and indiscriminate man
ner and with only the merest or no
p%rovocation. One day he was in our
Office and casually mentioned the fact
that he was going to make a trip to
Kentucky.
'Whenr' inquired the manager
alertly.
Next week.
'On business or pleasure3'
Going to buy a pair of horses
p 'Um-er-er!' hesitated the man
ager. Before you start I wish you
would stop in and see me-
What for? Want me to buy a
horse for youP'
No; I want to arrange about your
policy
"'what do you want to arrange
about it? Isn't it all rightr
Eyes, as long as you stay in this
country. But if you go down to Ken
lucky we'll have to advance the rate
until you come back
We'll, what in - began the
policy holder holly. when the manager
interrupted him.
Don't fly the track, my dear fell
low he said gently. its all right here
and the rate is satisfactory to us; but.
by Jove, we can't give you the same
rate and let you go to Kentucky and
call men liars like you do in this sec
ton. Not much! We haven't got $780,
900 policies to give away like that, and
you oughtn't to expect it. '"-Wash-
ington Star.
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The Business of n Theater.

A prosperous theater in the city of
New York may in a favorable season
do a business of more than $3.50, 900
and keep in employment $50 persons.
There are 81 theaters, including the va
riety houses, in active Operation in the
boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx,
while the borough Of Brooklyn adds a
score or more. Everything which affects
business in general affects the theater
Immediately.
A man will reduce his expenditures
Cor tickets to placessf amusement long
before he thinks of cutting down his
supply of cigars, for the cigar belongs
to that class Of luxuries which subtly
become n~ecessaries, while the theater
habit, as any observant manager will
tell you, requires constant cultivation.
The management of a theater is there
fore an occupation requiring business
sagacity in a greater degree than it
calls for artistic taste.-W. J. Hender-
ION in Scribner's.
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AN HONEST ARTIST.
He Would Not Paint = Lie Even Fo
NauOleOn.

He Would Not Paint = Lie Even For
. Napoleon.
There was no love lost between the
Emperor Louis Napoleon and his cousin,
Prince Napoleon. whom the Parisians
called "Plon Plon." The prince used to
make abusive speeches against the en-
peror. which people were only too ready
to repeat to him. "Let him alone"
Louis Napoleon would reply. "He is
too well known. No one would turn me
ont to place him on the throne"
The emperor was correct, for no one
eaid a good word about ''Plon Plon."
He was commonly believed to have
shown the white feather in the Crimea
and never exposed himself where the
lead was falling. An English lady, who
in her young days mingled with French
society. tells in her "Foreign Courts
and Foreign Homes a story as discred-
table to Prince Napoleon as it is hon
orable to a French artist.
While the artist was painting the
historical picture of the battle of the
Alma. which the emperor had ordered,
Prince Napoleon called at the painters
studio to make known to him the facts.
On leaving he said he wished the prom
inent figure in the battle to be himself
mounted on his white charger. He sent
the horse to the artist so that he could
paint its exact portrait. When the pic
ture was finished and invitations were
sent out for q ''private view," the
white charger was seen, a prominent
figure in the battle, but without a rider.
On hearing Of this terrible omission
the prince sent an aid-de-camp to ask
the reason. The honest artist said the
horse should remain if the prince wish
ed, but no rider would be on it. ''Tell
the prince I have never yet painted a
lie." The hint was taken. The prince
ordered the horse to be rubbed out.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-01

Oh, not alone the eager south
Alone the stendfast north
. eaw with wet eyes beneath spring skies
q: Our nag Of stars 60 forth,
OH not nlono the elder cast,
Nor the young hearted west,
Smiled high with pride where side BY stde
Tho nations children pressedl
But north and south and east and west
The mountain and the plain,
n prairie and the desert,
Yielded their flower again.
East and west and south and north
The flower Of the land, az.
Hearing the mothers call, went forth
To stand at her right hand.
We b many hands in labor,
hut one arm for the right;
One blood to shed, one heart tillNdead,
One good sword for the fight;
We be many tongued and minded,
But one mind and one tongue
when once wide sent through . continent
The nations word has rungi
Then northern tongues cling "Dix31'
Beneath the ancient flag.
And the southerner dies to rebaptise ~
His own the ''Yankee rag!"
Brothers-to keep for freedoms sake
The nag Of stars unfurled
Beneath the stars Of ~heavcn-to make
The starlight Of the world!
.Grace Ellerly Charming In Youths Com
pAujou, %
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A S S IN

How Hobo Served Up = Dish Of
Roast Chicken.
1.-THE first time l ran away from
home I learned a trick or two that was
worth the WHILE" said a we'll known
business man. II started out on several
unauthorized tours of adventure before
I reached years of discretiopA but the
first is most wildly impressed upon my
memory. Three of US kids caught a
freight train and got some go OF 70
miles away from home before the first
nightfall. Then we didn't know where
to spend the night. Several attempts to
quarter ourselves in empty box cars on
the side track of a little village only
resulted in our being chased away and
threatened with arrest. so we went to
the outskirts Of the place and built a
fire On the bank of a little creek. Here
we made ourselves as comfortable as
possible and one or two Of us had actu-
ally dozed off for short maps when a
regular hobo. a good specimen Of the
real article. happened along and wanted
to know if we had anything to eat. OF
course we hadn't.
"'Well, he said. If you fellers'M
ketch a chicken I'll show you a trick
that'n be useful to you 't@& p%
ut didn't take us long to catch the
chicken and bring it back. The veteran
member of the -nomadio fraternity
wrung its neck. jerked off its head,
cleaned it and going down to the creek
wadded it up. feathers. feet and all, in
a big ball of yellow clay. This he rolled
into the fire and scraped the burning
embers up around it. The clay soon
hardened, and we could see it emong
the wood Goals gradually becoming a
bright cherry red. When it did %. the
cook rolled it out again. let it cool a
little and then broke it open with a
stone. The feathers had stuck to the
baked clay and a clean, inviting chick
en- was ready to be served. All the
moisture that in ordinary baking is lost
had been kept in by the bricklike in
closure, and tho morsel that fell to my
lot was the juiciest and sweetest I have
ever eaten.'-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-01

The Managed Husband II Worthless.
Helen Watterson Moody believes that
the husband who can be managed is
not worth managing, "'and there is no
better principle" che adds. in The La
dies Home Journal. ''for both husband
and wife to adopt in adjusting them
selves to the new relation than that Of
trying to do each by the other what
men are accustomed to call the square
thing.' Many a woman understands
managing a husband better than she
docs doing the square thing by him,
and many a man understands and prac-
tices doing the square thing by other
men who4would be affronted if he were
to be told that, Judged by his own bust
ness standards, he habitually dealt un-
fairly with his own wife"
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The Overture to "Tank Ready"
A man who writes theatrical gossip
Tor a London paper gravely declares
that he knows a manager who was
greatly concerned lest the music for a
tank play he was putting on should be
inappropriate. The director of the or
chestra suggested several suitable num-
bers from .'Lurline'' and s'The Lily of
Killarney" and so on But the manager
could not be satisfied. He wanted some
thing that should have direct relevance
to the great water illusion. At last his
conductor, in despair, suggested in a
gr1mly humorous moment the overtur
to "Tancredi." ;
1.-The very thing" said the manaf er
"Why didn't you think of that Def ore
big letters the overture to sTani
Readvl'"
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Thousands are Trying It.

1HousHHuB are IFy1hH Its
In order to prove the great merit of
Ely's Cream Balm. the most effective cure
for Catarrh and Cold in Head, we have pre-
pared q generous trial size for 10 cents.
Get il ST your druggist or send 10 ceats to
ELY BROS, So Warren t;s:, II. y. City.
IsuGercd from cata-ra of the wor' kind
ever s!:lae n boy, E.l l never hoped for
euro, Int Ely'.s Cream Balm seems to do
even that. Many acluaint:nccs Lave us"l
it with excel eat results.-lscar Ostru,a,
Is Warren Ave, Chicago, Ill.
Ny's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and centaius No cocaine,
mercury nor any injurious drug. Prizes,
so cents. At druggists or by mail.
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Proud of Her Work.

He looked with forced admiration at
the slippers-forced because he already
had half a dozen pairs.
"You don't mean to tell ME that
they are all your W work? What a
talented little wife I'm going to havel''
And she smiled. though the plain
truth was that she had bought the up
pers, paid a man to sole them and then
managed to sew the bows on crooked
after her mother had made them. Yet
she was very proud and really wonder
ed how she had managed to accomplish
80 much.-Detroit journal.
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Quite Emersonian.

Quite EnaeFSOnt0n.
Cripple Creek as great on etiquette.
A man out there met a little girl with
whose family he is very intimate and
said:
.Hello, Edith How are your,
The little miss drew hersef upand
replied:
"I'ze very well. but I amt no tela'
| phone. "-BoSton Globe. =,
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The first British recognition Of Besse.
mer's work came FROM the Institute OF
Civil Engineers, which awarded him .
gold Telford medal for G paper on his
steel process read before Tin 1853.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-01
SausaRe Links.

eyes" said the yellow dog. 81 be-
lieve after death we enter into another
sphere of action. l think I'll be a golf
player"
"How do you figure that out3"
queried the black and tan.
"Oh, I'll be in the links. '-Philadel-
phia North American.
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Vessels Of 1000 tons carry. seven
anchors, four Of a maximum weight OF
10 tons, with about 800 fathoms o. ca
bic.
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Raising Ducks Without Water.

Ducks don't need water to thrive.
There are many duck raising plants in
this country where thousands of the
fowls are bred each year for market and
where there is not even a puddle for
them to founder in. One of these farms
Is credited with an output Of 20, 900
aaeks a year.
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Untimely Nap.
"What time did the hotel catch fret"
midnight"
Everybody get out safelyf"
"An except the night Waterman. We
couldn't wake him up in time. Dos
ton Traveller.
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The Danger of 1t.
Tbe man with too many, irons in the
Are Is sure to take one by the hot end.
Dallas News
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on the first railways a candle stuck
IN a station house window meant
STOP Its absence was a signal to 20
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A SCENE OF

The Slaughter That Came With the
End of the Janixaries.
On the 18th day Of June, 1925. the
whole corps Of the ~janizaries in the
capital assembled, overturned their
camp kettles (the signal of revolt) and
advanced upon the seraglio. With his
own hand the snltan unfurled the
sacred ''sanjak sheriff and called upon
the true believers to rally roupd their
dischah and caliph, and the zealoHs
Mussulman citizens rushed from all
quarters and rallied under the sacred
symbol. The ranks Of the janizaries
were raked with grape and solid shot
by ''Black He'll" "a nickname for 1bra-
him, general Of artillery and his gun
ners as they pressed through the streets,
compelling them to fall back to the
Etmeidan, where they defended thsmr
selves with extraordinary fierceness,
slaying great numbers of their assail-
ants. The artillery, supported by the
marines and the bostangi, pressed for
ward and compelled them to retreat to
their barracks, where they offered des-
perate resistance to the assault.
From every street cannon thundered
on the walls without intermission, the
building was 0 o in flames, the walls
torn and battered down by grapeshot,
and the janizaries, overwhelmed by
ruins. shot and flames, persisted in their
bnrning and blood stained barracks.
Two days the gates of the city re-
closed. and with relentless vigor
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Mrs. Watkins' Club Inheritaaes.
II don't see," said Mr.. Mulberry,
"why you women have that Mrs. Wat
kins in your literary club. The rest Of
you are bright enough. but she's as dull
as dull can be-"
''It's this way" answered MrA Mul.
berry. ''Mrs. Watkins great-@and.
mothers half sisters second cousin by
marriage could trace her descent from
Chaucer. So, you see. after all. with
such literary claims, we couldn't'vesy
well leave Mra Watkins out. liar
per's Bazar.
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A Candid s.Afor.
F"What do yen thinki Papa asked.
Jack if he respected to get any money
i9 marrying me-"
"Was Jack insulted3"
'1nsulted' he told that q good
IpreSii1kas more Of 81 70 him
.Detx ~
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Constipation, !.
Headache, ~Bllloushess,
Heartburn,
Indigestion, Dizziness,
Indicate that your Mvees
II out q order, Tho
best medicine TO q
the liver and cure all
these ills, Is found in
Hoods Pills
03--A. c~ol -. ~ ->ARoSnn do.fo~o
THE FLAG OF STARS.

Is cents. Sold by all medicine dealers.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-07-07
For sale by Z. c. Remington.

through, suit has been commenced by
MIR. Dwycr against Mr.. Sykes for a large
sum claimed as commissions on sale,
amounting to STATS. Mr.. Sykes refused
to sign the contracts and has taken the
case to the United States district court,
where it will be heard. Roderick Rose
is the plaintiffs attorney. \ portion of
the lands referred to were afterwards
sold, it is stated. by Mr.. Sykes to other
parties. The litigation over the matter
may be interesting and extended, as Mr..
Sykes claims he will not pay a farthing.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-07-07
NO DANGER
Of Any.lExtensive Damage from the
Grasshoppers in Eddy County.

Prof. Waldron of the agricultural COL
lege, retlrned Tuesday from a trip along
thea Northern branch looking up the
grasshoppers in that region. The only
place they were found "a in the vicinity
of Darlington, near where the hoppers
were tho season before. But the good
work of the state is seen in the educa-
ton of the residents in how to best
handlesthe pests this season, for the pro-
fessor said to the Alert:
sS"The farmers are we'll posted on the
grasshopper question and have had their
plows sharpened waiting for an appear
ance. They appeared in large numbers
in some 5000 acres of stubble, but when
plowed at the right time numbers, how
ever great, cannot save them. By Satur-
day night practically all of the stubble
fields in which they have Matched and
are Matching will be plowed and that
will end the matter. The Matching was
so late this year that the hoppers are
still confined to stubble fields and the
blowing has already progressed so far
that they have no chance to escape"
Samples of the hoppers brought with
him showed them to be less than half an
inch in length and unable to cross more
than a very few feet of plowed land.
Therefore their destruction is easy. MI.
Waldron says insect pests, such as hop
pers, canker-worms and aphides. gener-
ally move in waves, passing over the
country and appearing and disappearing
gradually.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-07-07

Clure think Of shearing his sheep. 60
Paul Teddy, who went to Edmunton
with Geo. Price, has returned to his
family. He gives a glowing account Of
the country and says he has fled on a
choice claim.
Howard Thomas has a very beautiful
and extensive flower garden; but evil
IDENTIFY he does not like yellow blossoms
for he is blowing them under.
County Superintendent Edick made
the school a welcome visitlast Thursday.
Henry Davis, with his team, is work
ing for Winston Bros. DR1scoLL.