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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-09
Belgian King a speoulator.

The king of Belgium is born specu- lator. From his parents he inherited three-quarters of million sterling. With this capital he began to specu- late, and showed his masterly skill as a financier in his dealings in Panama canal stock By judicious buying and selling he is estimated to have made four millions. Then he was seized with the Congo Free State hobby, which ob- tained such mastery over him that his financial acumen was overpowered, and he sank his private fortune in it. Whether it will ever return good value for the money remains to be seen.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-09
PLAGUE IN RUSSIA
Gives Rise to Some Curious Preparations
 Against Its Spread.


 I saw the other day a curious device attached to the meoring rope or cable of a steamer which was loading at this port writes Consul Heenan from Odessa Russia. The cable was run through a piece of iron pipe about foot in length, and welded on the end was fange or funnel, which looked like the end of trumpet, with the wide end facing the vessel. The iron pipe was stuffed with oakum to pre- vent it from slipping, and also to pre- vent rats from passing through it. This novel construction was quite close to the ship. On inquiring what purpose this device served, l was in- formed that the Russian authorities Furnished these appliances and obliged all ships to use them whenever they came from port infected with the plague, in order to prevent the rats on the ship from coming ashore. It is generally conceded that the plague has been carried and spread by rats which have left ships coming from in- feeted ports. It is known that rats make use of the cable to come on shore, and this iron pipe, with it's funneI- shaped arrangement, was employed to prevent such visits, if possible. These devices are attached to each cable by which the ship is moored. In addition to this precaution, the master of the ship is obliged to take down his load ing stages every night and erect them again the following morning, in order to prevent the rats from coming on shore during the night. do not know whether this device is known to our sanitary authorities, and send this description of it in the hope that it may be of service.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-09
snmething New In Spain.

Until year ago such a thing as an electric car was unknown in Spain. The cars in few principal towns that could boast of having tramways of any kind were drawn through the streets at a jog-trot pace by horses, or, more frequently, mules. Within the last few months, however, foreign enterprise has been the means of inaugurating electric traction in the streets of Ma drid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, and San Sebastian, and the lead thus taken by the principal tramway companies In the chief cities of Spain is likely to be quickly followed by others.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-09
A Clean Coal Mine.

The Ghilian coal mines, opened in 1855, seem to be nice places to work in. The seam of coal runs from the shore under the waters of the Pacific ocean, and the tunnels are so clean that you could walk through them in dress suit without making yourself dirty. They are lighted by electricity, and you can have ride for mile under the ocean on an electric car at speed of twenty miles an hour. The mines form quite a cataeomb of well-lighted passages under the water. The out put of coal is now 1000 tons a day, and 75O miners are employed in them.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-09
VICTIM OF HIS OWN JOKE.
Some Buzzard Eggs Which Reached .
 Wrong Destination

This is q true story of Sheriff Brookshire of Williamson county, Tex as, and what came of his efforts to play practical joke on his wife. Sher- lii Brookshire is full of good nature and the love of fun is his predominant characteristic. To get the laugh on a friend is to him the next best thing to rounding up band of horse thieves lie Is owner of a good-sized ranch, and While working out in pasture near his home some time since came across Duzzard's nest, in which reposed four as handsome snow-white eggs as the eye of man ever looked upon. The dis covery of these eggs immediately set him to thinking of little game that he would play upon his faithful spouse
 Wrapping them up with care he bore them to his house, intending to tell Mrs. Brookshire that he had been pre- sented with some uncommonly fine egs from fancy breed of chickens, and that 1t was the proper thing to put them under one of her setting hens Immediately. He knew how fond she was of having choice specimens of the feathered tribe, and shook with laugh ter as he pictured her disgust when these young buzzards should be matched out. Revolving these merry thoughts, he went into the kitchen to make the presentation. It happened that his wife was not there and he placed them on table, intending to call her attention to them later Just at this time he was called out of his domicile on very important business, and the matter was of consequence enough to drive all thoughts of the joke out of his head. He stayed away a couple of hours and when he reached home supper was ready Being rather hungry from his tramp in the pasture, the sheriff sat down to the table and ate with good relish the viands before him. Suddenly the recollection of bis find flashed across his mind. My dear,' said he, "when 1 left the house awhile ago put some eggs on the ta- ble wonder. Did you get them?9 T certainly did, and you have just eaten them for your supper" quoth Mrs. Brookshire. Why, what on earth ails your" as the sheriff clapped both hands about the middle of his corpor- osity and rushed for the open air. She thought, maybe, that he had been sud- denly seized with fit of some kind, and followed to render assistance. It took him several hours to recover, but he has utterly renouneed practical jok- g.-Washfngton Post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-09
PRESIDENTS REQUISITES.
France Far from Liberal with Her Chici
 Executive.


 France, which assumes the respon- sibility of furnishing the president with his household needs, is not par tieularly lavish in this respect. The highest representative of the republic receives free his heat, light, kitchen utensils, linen. porcelain and glass ware and a certain sum of money to defray expenses of wear and tear. He is entitled to eight damask table cloths, one dozen each of spoons, knives and forks. For company there are added three more sets of about eighty pieces. Then there is a special service of no pieces. These, however, are @5 ! 5nly on special occasions. The : of bed clothing would not saIs4e sor an American housewife. He receives four towels for himself and six fer his family; these are not changed more than once in eight days unless he makes special requisition for more. He is also the lucky possessor of 120 dozen dinner napkins and thirty dozen for tea service. His household retinue consists of one housekeeper, one chef, five cooks. four ushers, eight laekeys, six clerks, one oYerseer and one coachman. The president has to provide his own private equipages, as he is entitled only to three vehicles, one for travelling, one to receive guests in and one for his messengers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-09
RAILROAD SPIKE AND ITS LUCK
Fortunes Opportunity Develops Out of
 Mans Craze for whittlirg.

NfaZe TOT h h1CIllE
 Opportunity frequently develops from the most trivial of circumstances. A striking instance of this truism is manifested in the case of man for merly bereft of the good things of life and now riding the crest of financial prosperity. It all arose from his craze for whittling.- Sitting one day in the smoker of Pullman attached to a western train, he picked up pi ce of wood and began idly fashioning it into shape. Perhaps because of the jour- hey, and perhaps, too, from the shape of the wood, it began to assume the form of railroad spike, the kind used in fastening the iron rails to the wood en ties. When the spike was complet- ed the car was still travelling on it's for ward way, so to add to his occupation and make it pass the time away the owner of the inventive penknife be- gan to tunnel the wooden spike on each of its four sides until finished it looked like symmetrical implement with edges resembling the petals of a flower. Why don't you patent that spike?" quietly asked prominent rail- road official of the party as he watched the development of the stick of wood. Don't know. I'm sure. Never thought of it. Guess it isn't worth much any way" replied the whittier laughingly. But the idea clung to his memeory even if at the time he had smiled it away as incredible. A year later a friend met him in New York bearing on his person unmistakable signs of the dawn of good fortune. Yes he answered. agreeingly, q owe it all to that wooden spike. I took that mans advice when I reached New York, had the thing patented and few weeks later a railroad company paid me $t00,00G for the patent. Queer luck, wasn't it?'
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-09
How to Lay Bricks.

Estimates are based by the 1000 bricks laid in wall. It is customary to deduct for doors, windows, arches, etc, but not for fues, ends of joists, girders, window frames, sills or lin- tels. In general way, four and one- half inch wall will require seven bricks to the square foot; fourteen for a nine-inch wall. etc Tunnel and arch brickwork is measured by the eu- bic yard. It requires thirty-eight bricks, eight and one-quarter by four by two, with points one-third to one fourth inch wide, to lay one square yard if laid flat If placed on edge, 1t will take seyenty-three, while if on end, 149 Ornamental work, such as eornices and beads, is produced by causing courses of bricks to project beyond the place of the rest. In laying walls, the first principle to be observed, in order to gain the greatest resistance. is to have the bricks of successive courses overlap each other, so that the joint between the two is overlaid by the middle of a brick What is known as the old English bond and which gives the greatest strength consists in arranging the bricks in alternate courses of stretchers and headers, the former being bricks laid longitudinally with the wall and the other transverse ly. The headers serve to bind the sey- era1 courses together.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-09
 Scotland's Gypsy King.

At Yetholm, in Scotland, man
 named Faa was crowned king Of the gypsies in succession to his late
 mother. who was known as Queen Esther. The crown of tin and tinsel was placed on his head by the village blacksmith, whose family Is said to possess the hereditary right of crown ing the gypsy sovereigns. The king rode in carriage drawn by six asses.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-09
.rrnnow Guards.

Windows without guards, especially In nurseries or chambers or playrooms occupied by small children, are sources ot terrible accidents. In fact, they are invitations to fractured skulls and sud- den death. All windows to which chil- dren have access should be protected by proper fastenings inside and proper Iron guards on tue outside.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-04-09
A Great Lake.

Tn his article on Climbs in the An des in 1S98.' in the Alpine Journal, Sir Martin Conway tells us that Lake Tlti- caca is fourteen times as large as the lake of Geneva and lies at an altitude of 12. 500 feet above the level of the sea A mountain railway finds it's way up to this great lake, and the passengers are transferred to steam boat if they wish to cross Titicaca.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-05-17
SUNNY WOMEN,

Who has not known the woman whose
disposition is described by that one word
Sunny" There's always laugh lurk-
ing on her lips. Her checks are ever
ready to dilrple in smiles Her 'louse-
hold influence is as Frightening and
stimulating as the sunshine. Nothing
can be crueler than to have this sunshine
blotted o;lt by disease But this is a
common cruelty. The young wife who
was the sunshine of the home becomes
its shadow. Every young wife should
know the value of DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription in the protection and pres
ervation of the health. 1t promotes
regularity, dries the drains which enfee-
bic body and mind, and cures infa1nma-
ton, liberation and female weakness
1t nourishes the nervous system and
gives to the body the balance and buoy
ancy of perfect health. It is strictly
temperance medicine.
II can say thatyour medicine cured me- ;"
writes Mrs. Maud Pearce, of Stoutsville, Fair
field Co. Ohio. II had suffered about twelve
years from female weakness and I had almost
given up, thinking there was no cure for me-
Then heard about DR.. Pierce's medicine and
thought would try it, and can say that seven
bottles of your Favorite Prescription made me
we'll l am now able to do my own housework
took about twelve bottles in all of DR.. Pierce's
medicines. Took some Of the Golden Medical
Discovery Favorite Prescription and some Of
the Pleasant Pellets.'r
DR.. Pierce's Pellets cure constipation.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-05-17

Gen. Merritt still bears on his right
ever received, a slight flesh wound
made by a stray bullet early in the
civil war.
Gen. Miles seal ring, which is shown
in all his half-length portraits upon
the third iinger of his left hand, is of
black onyx stone bearing in mono
gram the initials n. A. NJ.
Col. George 3. NJ. Harvey, who is at
the head of q syndicate which has
bought the street railway system of
Havana for $1.472,OOO is an old jour
nalist.
President McKiniey's wedding pres
ent to Mrs. Henry Harrington Scott
born Sampson. was the original Of her
fathers now celebrated telegram an
nouncing the destruction of Cervera' s
fleet.
Horatio Garland Tuttle, Of Macon
Mo-, is an uncle of Vice President Ho
bart, and, though II years old, attends
regularly to his business. His grand
father was lieutenant under Gen. Gates
during the revolution and one of tho
Boston tea party.
Dr. Seward Webb. who was men
toned as possible successor to the
seat made vacant by Senator Morrill,:
death. is an expert chess player ans
recently played and won five game:
at the same time against five Other
players.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-05-17
BRIGGS HUUgH
Carson City, Nevada
GILBERT BRIGGS. PROPRIE

This old established hotel, known from Maine to Ore
gon and from Georgia the Gulf has recently naugur
system Of electricity throughout the entire build
ing whereby every is lighted by ncandescent lights
At the present time this is the only hotel in Carson that is
lighted exclusively by electricity Frst-class through
Best 81 day house the Coast Free bus to and
the trains Meals 25 cents lodging rs and 30 cents
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-05-17
a Great Liniment.

Or. Benton's liniment, which affects
man and beast alike, is the grandest cura-
tive liniment ever manufactured in the
world. You have but to use it once and
you will never use anyOther. If
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-05-17

FRENCH TANSY WATERS, the
worlds famols remedy for irregular
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Waters are the only reliable female rem
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sist on genuine; in red wrappers with
crown trade mark. Price -. For sale by
Al leading druggists, or sent by us direct
on receipt of price. La France Drug Co.,
importers, 3O6 Turk ST., San Francisco.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-05-17

Wanted-By young man, place
to work. Leave word in this office.
can, just received at Geo. A. Tyrrell's.
Mesa free press., 1900-08-24
Largest Gold Shipment.

Seattle (Wash. h.).-Late advices from
the north state that single shipment
of $1,000,000 in treasure will soon be
made from Dawson to this city. Ac-
cording to the plans of D. c. Jackson,
superintendent of the Alaska Express,
which has the shipment in charge, the
gold will arrive here in about ten days.
The treasure is consigned to the To-
cal assay office from the Canadian
Bank of Commerce of Dawson, which
corporation purchased it from miners
in small lots. The shipments will per-
haps be the largest or one of the larg-
est single shipments of the season.
Another $1,000000 in treasure left
Dawson July 20 on a doWn-river
steamer, and should arrive here on one
of the next boats from St. Michael. Of
this shipment, $850,0O0 belongs to the
same bank as is making the above
shipment.
Mesa free press., 1900-08-24
Friends of HaIdermans are Confident.

Phoenix (AriZ. .)-Encouraged by the
interference of President Mckinley In
the case of Thomas and William Hal
derman, sentenced to hang at Tomb
stone, the friends of the brothers are
pushing the advantage, and by virtue
of the combined weight of the int1u-
ence of Texas's most prominent cit1-
zens, believe Communication of sentence
will be granted. The case is under con-
sideration by Governor Murphy, and
little doubt is felt here that he will
but the sentence to life Imprisonment.
In criminal history there is no paral-
lei to this instance, wherein the great
est strength of an entire State, regard
less of party affiliations, has been
thrown to save criminals sentenced in
another commonwealth. Today let
ter was received from e. H. r. Green,
chairman of the Texas Republican
State Central Committee, begging the
Governor for leniency for the Halder-
mans. Congressman Hanley, the only
Republican Congressman from Texas,
is hard at work for them. Governor
Sayers and Judge Fly of the Court of
Appeals, both Democrats, and a dozen
of others of both parties, are laboring
together to the common end.
1t was reported today that Presi-
dent Mckinley is investigating further,
and is likely to follow his reprieve
with request for communication.
Mesa free press., 1900-08-24
HOODS PILLS cure constipation Price 25 cen s

A literary autobiography of William
Dean Howells, bearing the title of
MY Acquaintance Among Authors:
A Personal Retrospect Of American Lit
erature," is to be run as serial before
being brought out in book form.
Elizabeth Robbins, the American
actress who gained a reputation in
England as an interpreter of characters
In Ibsen's plays, and whose first novel,
1.-The Open Question:" excited consid-
cradle comment last year, will publish
her second work of fiction in the au-
tumn.
Maurice Hewlett, whose "Forest
Lovers" is now two years old, and who
has In the interval produced no sus-
tanned romance, is well on his way to
complete a new book, of which the
title Is already announced, Richard
Yea and Nay" This imperious Rich
ard Is Richard Occur de Lion, of whom
Scott, to name one only, has made such
fine use in romance.
miss Johnston typewrites her own
stories," writes Annie Kendrick Walk
er in the New York Times Saturday
Review after an interview with Miss
Mary Johnston, the author Of ITO
Have and To Hold," which is now
past it's 2O0th thousand. "She spent
last summer at fashionable resort in
the Alleghenies, and the click of her
typewriter was frequently heard far
into the summers night, as she was at
work on the concluding chapters of
10 Have and to Hold then running
serially in the Atlantic Monthly"
Everybody knows the tragic tale of
the burning of the manuscript Of Car
lyle's "French Revolution" by John
Milps housemaid. Carlyle, who took
so tragically the growing of cocks and
other minor distractions of life, bore
this supreme trial with the heroism he
worshiped in others. 1t is indeed hard
to say whether for Mill or for CARLYLE
the trial were the more severe. Mill
looked so scared when he came to
break the news of the catastrophe that
at the sight Of his face Mrs. CARLYLE
was frightened. Cunninghame Ora.
ham has now been through this fiery
ordeal. The manuscript of Thirteen
Stories" he had written perished in the
Ballantyne fire in the winter. Like
Carlyle, undaunted, he set to work to
reWrite them, and the book will be the
next published product Of his uncon-
Ventlonal (his too self-consciously un-
conventionaD pen.
Mesa free press., 1900-08-24
CATARRH

II inflammation of this delicate pink
membrane.
The system is weakened in win
ter. The delicate lining is more
susceptible to irritation or inhamma-
ton, and thus we have pneumonia,
grip, colds, coughs, fevers, ETC., all
catarrhal conditions which may
easily be checked by one catarrh
cure-Pe-ru-na.
That's the only way out of it.
You may dose forever-you will
not be we'll until you try the true
cure and that is Pe-ru-na. You
may think your trouble is some
other disease and not catarrh. Call
it what you will, one thing is sure,
your system is affected and must be
treated, and Pe-ru-na is the only
remedy which reaches the right
place and does cure.
Mesa free press., 1900-08-24
RIGHT AND LEFT FACES.
PhysiOgnomies Which Are Stun b1inp o
Blocks to Photographers.

Physiognomies Which Are Stumbling
Blocks to Photographers.
zone Of the principal obstacles in
the way of successful portrait photog-
raphy," said an old-time local expert,
sis the asymmetry Of the average hui
man face. The features Of ninety-nine
people out Of a hundred are deniably
asymmetrical-in other words, the
right and left sides are different in
size, shape and general contour. We
don't notice this variation unless our
attention is attracted to it, but it is
there all the same, and for some rea-
son that am not able to explain it is
generally emphasized by the camera.
What say applies, of course, to full
face pictures only, for when the head
is turned slightly the deviations are
scarcely ever discernible.
Among men asymmetry often lends
great strength to a countenance. Bis
marck was a striking example of that
fact, and so was Gladstone. If you are
skeptical take a full-face picture Of
either and cover one-half of it with a
card. Then reverse the process and
examine the other side. You will be
surprised. In fact you will discover
four different men, all distinct types"
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Mesa free press., 1900-08-24
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ITEMS

Santa Barbara is to try night street
sprinkling.
Campers at Coronado have given the
place the new name of the "Contented
City,"
According to the Pomona Times
Belgian hares are running at large in
that place.
Pomona's assessment is $1,S35, 500
exclusive of personal property and
railroad, as against $1,827,334 last
year.
Of the naturalization papers issued
in the Superior Court of San Bernar-
dino since January 1, over three
fourths have come from Great Britain.
The kernels are now being taken
out of ten or twelve tons of apricot
pits daily, at Visalia. The apricot
pitting machine will soon move on to
Vacaville.
Bakersfield is just now endeavoring
to make an example of some of her
opium fiends, of whom she has large
number
Mesa free press., 1900-08-24
SUN DIALs OF ANCIENT TIMES.
How the Flight of the Honrs Was In.
d1cated to Children of the Desert.

How the Flight of the Honrs was Tn.
dicated to Children of the Desert.
1t Is probable that the earliest SIM
dial was simply the spear of some no.
mad chief stuck upright in the ground
before his tent. Among those desert
wanderers, keen to observe their sur
'roundings, it would not be a difficult
thing to notice the shadow shortened
as the sun rose higher in the sky and
that the shortened shadow always
pointed in the same direction. The
recognition would have followed very
soon that this MONDAY shadow chang
ed In its length from day to day. A
slx-foot spear would give a shadow at
MONDAY in latitude 40 degrees Of
twelve feet at one time Of the year and
OF less than two feet at another time.
This instrument, so simple, so easily
carried, so easily set up, may well have
begun the scientific study of astron-
omy, for it lent itself to measurement.
and science Is measurement, and prob
ably we see it expressed in permanent
form In the Obelisks of Egyptian solar
temples, though these no doubt were
retained merely as solar emblems ages
after their use as actual instruments
Of observations had ceased. An up
right stick, carefully plumbed, stand
ing on some level surface, may, there
fore, well make the first advance up
on the natural horizon. A knob at the
top Of the stick will be found to rem
der the shadow more easily Observed
knowledge.