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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1900-04-12

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ionship, as it gives her back her health.
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opium, cocaf other narcotics
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Toss. .sna

The queerest placer claim in the world, according 10 the Cheyenne Fri. bane. is near Fillmore, Wye, where a raneher named s. \. Aggers has etaked out placer claim covering twenty acres in order to protect a fossil which he has found. The fossil is that of huge snake. 135 feet of which are eoiled in stone on top Of the ground. The folds Of the snake range from twelve to eighteen inches in thickness. Mr. Aggers has been be- gfeged with visitors anxious to see the monster fossil. He intends to collect the pieces and ship them to the Ma tionaI Museum at Washington in the spring, and for the purpose of pro- teeting lis find he etaked out the claim, the fossil being near the center Of the trlef.
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COURT DRESS.
Costume Prescribed for Diplomats al
 the Russian Capital.

Quite ripple of excitement in American diplomatic eirU.es was caused by circular issued under the personal instructions of the emperor by the Russian minister of foreign affairs. and which reopens the mueh-diseussed question Of court dress for American diplomatic representatives abroad The circular formally notifies all for eign embassies and legations at St. Petersburg that the court costume of q dark-blue evening coat with a vel vet collar and brass buttons, white Of blue waisteoat and blue trousers, is prescribed for all persons not other wise entitled to wear uniforms who attend court ceremonies The Russian circular explicitly states that the new regulations apply te all distinguished foreigners and accredited representa-, lives in Russia Of such countries as have not adopted for their diplomatic officers specific uniforms or costumes. tt is stated by those in a position ta know that similar measures are likely 10 be taken at the court of Berlin, Co.,
 
 penhagen, The Hague and Brussels It is well known that the plain black evening dress worn by official repre- sentatiges of the United States is not recognized at St. Petersburg as suit able for occasions of ceremony, and is looked upon by the court chamberlains very much as those assembled at a dinner party in New York would re- gard q guest attffed in tweed and kniekerboekers. During all informal exchange of views. which preceded tho issuance of the Russian circular, al ready forwarded to the state depart ment at Washington, Mir. Tower, the ambassador at St Petersburg. eara- estly requested the Russian authorities 10 adopt as plain 2 style fer diplomatic off1eefs as was consistent with the re- quifements. in order to make it ae= cord with American views on the sub 1eet. The Russian government ae= eeRted the suggestion, and prescribed q court costume of cloth instead of velvet. as was originally contemplated. Paris correspondence in New York Tribune.
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BLOW TO THE DIME NOVEL.
No Detective of the seeret-servlee Bu.
 rean Dissnises Himself.

No Detective of the seetet-serVlee Bu.
 rean Diseuises Himself.
 No such things as dfsgafses are used by men of the seeret=serViee= =bu- feau. said Chief Wfll1ie of that or ganization to a Washington Star man, The boy who reads the fo-eent lit eratune describing the many lightning changes and disguises made by alleged sleuths of the government and other services imagines these stories to be true, and the impressions he receives remain with him for long time. AS matter of fact. no detective is known, and I do not know of such thing as a disguise for a seeret-serv- ice case ever worked by an operator of the bureau in which false faces or other articles of this kind have ever been used. do not know of a reput- able detective in any city or state who uses disguises. They are not effective, and the best-informed men in the run nlng down of criminals believe that they do harm and quickly expose the man who is attempting to operate a case. The men of the secret-serviee of the government frequently clothe themselves to suit the vicinity and the people among whom they are at work. For instance. if a man is at work in an agricultural vicinity and among people who would suspect the attire of Well=dressed person. he does not Wear the best clothes or linen which has been finished by a Ghinaman or steam laundry. His attire is in keep Ing with his situation and eireum- stances. He may let his beard grow long and become careless in keeping his clothes dusted. If he is at work in city among Italians, for instance, he deports himself in such way as to keep from advertising himself as a detective Of the government. If he did not he would be unable to acquire in- formation rem the class of people who We're perpetrating the violations of the laws of the United States. Everything depends on the necessities of the case, but under no circumstances would we permit an operator of the bureau to bother with such cheap articles as wigs false faces. mustaehes and the like"
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 letters Travels.

kokomo tInd.1 Special to t21e New York World Miss Alice Chisnell Of this city was surprised the other day 10 receive letter that had been mailed to Ter ia June 1882, by q California friend who died i've years ago. The letter had heen misdireeted. and has been meaadeFing around the country for ten years seeking proper .destina- tion. It was sent several times to the dead-letter offee. covered by addresses and #fostmafks and forwarded again .n fresh envelopes. It reached the owner yellow from age and with news that was somewhat stale. The letter con tained money order for S that time has outlawed. The department will replace it with duplicate.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-17
 LION LOOSE
Tn an Express Car and Devoured a
 Cargo of Poultry.


 Cumberland (Md.) Special to New York Journal: Terrifying growls is sued from an express car of a train that passed through here the other day bound for Philadelphia. 4 lion was in possession. freed from his cage, slaugh- tering chickens by wholesale. Con- ductor and brakemen kept as far away as their duties would permit. Half a dozen Hagenbeck's men were gathered in the caboose, gloomily wondering what they could do to restore the mon- ster to confinement When the train stopped here for water they were at their wits end. Many of the inhabit- ants foeked to the station to listen, at safe distance, to the pandemonium that ragged in the express car. There was continuous futtesing and sereaming-the hysterieal distress of q barnyard-punetHate by one crash after another as the big brute destroyed the poultry crates around him, amid vibrant roars that sent the crowd staggering backward No one dared to enter the car. The animal trainers in the eaboese were only too thankful to be divided from their charge by stout wooden walls. Accustomed as they were to subdue wild beasts, they real. ized that this lion, which had glutted himself on living prey, would rend any man who approached him. Through a grating in the side of the ear they could see him from time to time, his mHzzle stained with blood and bristl- ing with feathers. All about him lay the mutilated bodies of birds he had seized without. dexouring them.=The survivors flew hither and thfther fran tieally. sometimes hitting the roof and dropping back again to the floor. None of those responsible for the lions safe keeping could imagine how he had broken Tom his cage. but 1t was easy to conceive he had been maddened by the hezs aid darkness and iolting of railway travelling, aggravated as it must have been by the sound and smell of life in the crates all about him. It was agreed that the only thing to do was to continue the journey to Phfla- delphia with all possible speed, and there take steps at leisure to either capture or kill the b1oodthirsty animal. And 50 the train fumbled en with the lion in possession.
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snakes Have No Fascinating l ever.

Naturalists are not at all agreed up- on the point as to whether snakes are able to faseinate their prey. Certainly they do not possess the power to the extent that popular belief would have it. Stories of the weird and mystic influence of a serpent's eve fail fiat in the face of scientific accuracy, What can be said of snakes. however, is that their very appearances =paralyzes the victim. It cannot move for fright, for its faculties are temporarily suspended. There is no fascination about this, however. 1t is fright and fright alone.
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= n,snose of Stale Bread.

Mrs Grimes-How in the world do vou get rid of all your stale bread? | have to throw lots of mine away. Mrs. smarte--There is no need for you to do that. Why not do as l do? l Just hide it away from the children. Mrs. Grimes-"Hide it away from the chil- drenq What then2 Mrs smarte- Then the children find it and eat up every morsel of ft.-Boston Transcript.
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EYEGLASSES AND WHY.
Increase In the Number of Persons
 Mha MeaE speetneIes.

Increase tn the Number of Persons
 Who =Near speetaeles.
 The question is often asked, partic- hlarly hy those who can recall the eas- toms and experiences of twenty-five years ago Why do SO many persons nowadays wear glasses ?'3ZT The answer is easy saxs IipRiaeottss. The in= crease in the number of speetaeles s7ofn is not to be regarded as an evi- denee Of modern degeneration of the eyes. but rather that long=felt neees- sity has been met For it should be remembered that within the past quar- ter of I century much has been learned about the value of glasses, and the 1ange of their application aud useful Eess has been enormously extended. Of course the eyes need more help HOW than formerly as the amount Of work they are required to do is much greater than at any previous period in the worlds history. The sewing ma chine and many otker inventions of it's e5ass save the labor Of the hands only to add to that required of the eyes. New empleyments, new amusements, and new fashions are continually being introduced to increase the exaeaons laid upon those sensitive and delicate organs. The steady decrease of f11it- eraey, together with the general cheap hess of literature and a spread of 3 taste for t, the enormous circulation of novel. magazine aid newspaper. the eEer-inereasing use Of artificial illBmt- nation, all combine to oyertax the eyes and to weaken or possibly destroy the sight unless the required aid and pro- lection be supplied through every means at our disposal Thus 1t hap pens thai the sometime luxury of prop eflJ adapted glasses has come to be rec ognized and understood by very many of the present generation as one Of the feal necessities oe their lives.
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PACKING AMERICAN sARDINEs
How an Interesting and Important Ins
 dustry Is Conducted.

The packing of small herrings, or, as they are often called, American sardines.s is a8 important industry in Maine In that state there are fifty factories. which give employment to a large number of hands during four or five months of the year. The an- nuaE output is estimated to be of ar average value of $3.ooo,0oo, and about half this amount finds it's way into Che pockets of the factory employees in the form of wages. The fish are caught in sefnes scattered all along the coast for a distance of about hundret miles, After the fish are taken in sail boats to the factories they are thrown into strong brine, where they remain for some time. They are then laid op iron crates and conveyed to an i'm mense oven, where the crates are laid on revolving shelves. After twenty minutes, cooking the fish are ready for packing. There are two methods of packing, one in oil, the other in mus tard. The ground mustard is mixed with vinegar: for oil packing cotton, seed oil is used About a gill of oil is put into can, and then the baked fish from the ovens are carefully packed into it and the cover snapped on. The pans then go to the sealer, who sits in front of little furnace in which his soldering iron is plunged. Seizing the can, he runs the heated iron around the cover, holding the so1- der just in front of it, and seals the can so rapidly that the eye can hardly follow his movements. The sealed cans are thrown into a bath of boiling water, in which they remain for two hours. If any of them leak, the tops will bulge out, and these go back to be resealed. After the cans are cleaned with sawdust they are packed into eases and put on the market as genuine American sardines in pure olive oil
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s2o, 900 PAID FOR A BIBLE.
Psalterium. Printed in Gutenberg's shoh
 Worth Even More.


 Fabulous sums are paid for copies of the earliest printed Bibles on account of their rarity. Yet it is known that many more were manufactured than have ever come to light, and every now and then we hear of another copy hav- ing been found in some garret= or eel lar amid the rubbish. The famous "Mazarin Bible" has been sold for more than $20,0o0, and this is called cheap, as it is one of the finest speel- mems of the printers art ever pro- duced. and. most interesting of all, was set up and published by Gutenberg in 1455, after three years of continuous labor He printed only 100 copies, but efghty-fVe of these have never been found 1t is called the Mazarin be- cause the first copy to be discovered in modern times was in the library of Cardinal Mazarin. But there is an. other part of the Bible, called the "Psalterium, because it contains the Psalms only, which commands even a higher price, having been sold for S25,= 000 for but six copies are known to be in existence. It was printed by John Faust and Peter Seboeffer on pareh ment in Gutenberg's shop. and is the first printed book bearing the year and day of it's publication on the title page. This inscription reads, "1457, on the eve of Ascension Of course, all of the earliest Bibles were printed in Latin The first complete Latin Bible with date appeared in 1462, and is valued at $7,0oo. After that time many editions of the Bible appeared n all 1anguages-German. English. French and =Greek-and in 1514-1517 was the arst polyglot Bible, one in which che Bible appeared in various languages side by side. The most valuable Bi. b1es all date from the fifteenth or six teenth eenturtes.. After that no special value is attached to them.
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woman,s Rig Its ip Taraev=

The Turkish woman is narriae.a 1,la a1 the age of 9 years and by Turkish law at that age, if married, she is tom. netent to manage her property and dis pose ef ene-thifd of her fortune. The law allows her to abandon her hus- bands house for just cause and will protect her in So doing. She cannot be compelled to labor for She support of her husband.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-17
Experiments with Wlreiss, Telegraph,

Experiments with Wireless relegrapils
 Experiments are reported with wire less telegraphy during ten days be- tween Chamonix and the Yallet oB- servatory. on Mont Blanc the straight distance was seven and five one-hun- dredths miles and the difference in height two miles. After descrip> ton of the transmitting and receiving stations. the results are summed #up= as follows: The experiments were made every day during eleven hours. The signals were satisfactory only for distance between the osei1ator spheres equal to eight ene=hunaredths of an inch. The absence of water in liquid form did not interfere. neither did the Intervention Of clouds. Although at moaoheric electricity aetuated the ap- narstHs several times. it did not maks communication impossible.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-05-17
ltis I'm possible
 to Get Away

from the fact that in 1900 VI hile other butchers changed their
 shops. And the name of other meat firms
 Hops, Peddlers haul their stuff thro, mud
 aud slop. Still tEe people know That to the old reliable They ye always got to go, To get the meat that is desirable.
 CITY MEAT MARKET
 2l0 West Second, R. P. Holmes, Prop.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-11-12
NEW PUBLICATIONS
The Century Magazine

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Besides great program of illustrated articles,
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-11-12
AUCTION SALES.
By 4 F. .grox. Auctioneer

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
ID from George W, Leach and wife TO the
undersigned, trustee. ds cd the 9Th day OF
December, 1897, duly recorded in deed book
No. AS, page 1872, of the land records OF the
city of Alexandria, Virginia, and st the re-
quest Of the party secured thereby, defau {
having been made In the payment Of the
amount secured by said trust, the undersign-
ed, trustee, will Offer for sale at public aue-
tion, in front of the Market Building iu the
city OF Alexandria, Virginia, at IL o'clock
noon. on
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER Is, 1900.
the following property to wit:
ALL THAT LOT OF GROUND with the
FRAME DWELLING thereon in the city Of
Alexandra, Virginia bounded and described
rs follows: Begi ming at point on the east
side of Columbus street twenty-seven (27)
feet north of Wilkes street, running thence
north parallel to Columbus street twelve (12)
feet more or less running thence east parsl.
lei to Wilkes street SIXTY (60) feet thence
running south parallel to Columbus street
twelve (12) feet. more or lGss; thence run
ming west sixty (6O) feet to the point OF be-
ginning.
Terms of saie Cash. Conveysncing and
revenue stamps at the cost OF the purchaser.
EUGENE B. TAYLOR,
noy1 ts Trustee.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-11-12
SOMETHING new FOR GIRLS& BOYS

During the past year st. Nicholas Msga'
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Increased the circulation. One OF these is
"NATURE AND SCIENCE"
The editor of "Nsture and scienee" gives
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ia An orQanizato on OF those who read tho
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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-11-12
GUERILLA EMMERSON.

Capt. s. P. Emmerson, formerly OF Dal
las, died 10 Denver. Col, on Tuesday last
Capt. Emmerson was one OF the mosl
note characters produced on the south
ern side BY the war between the states
A native Of Kentucky, he had strone 8
southern ordinations, and when the
war came on he raised and commanded
al "irregular" Confederate foi ce COM
monty known as guerrillas.
Many of the exploits OF Emmerson's
command were as daring aud sensa-
tional AS those OF Quantrell, Morgan
or Mosby. 10 one oil bis raids he was
captured and imprisoned in Kentucky
but made a bold escape by cutting
through the prison roof. He was soon
10 action again, and 10 1868 or 1864 had
command OF the force OF about one
hundred men tnat rode into Chicago
with tho intention OF causing an up
rising that should pture or destroy
the city. In this hope Emmerson was
disappointed. He escaped capture,as be
often related, by stealing horse and
riding beyond the lines of danger. De
turned the horse loose and "hoped II
got back to its owner" as he always
expressed it.
Capt. Emmerson was friend o!
Erans James in war days, and also OF
City Marshal Pulliam of Ardmore, l. Il.
These men have often spoken highly OF
him as man and soldier, Capt. EN-
nerson lived for many years on his Dal
las county farm, near afRichardson. He was
an old bachelor and inclined to reti-
ceUce on the subj ct of the Civil War,
particularly in regard to his owD part
10 it. He never got over grief for the
Lost Cause" Before going to Denver,
when his health failed him, he called
90 Mrs. KaIe Csbell Currie. OF Dallas,
former ationsl president of the Daugh'
tets OF the Confederacy, and now at The
nead of the local chapter OF The order
He said to her:
"Wnen the Southern Confederacy
perlshed lost what stood to me in my
affections the same as do wife, child.
REQ and family ties TO olher men
When l am dead, which will be sooD,
[ ask that you see that / am buried
among my own kind of people. l de-
SIRE that q plsin suit of Confederate
grey be my burial garments / want
none but former Confederate SOL
diers to. act as psllbearers and to
place me in the grave. desire the
Confederate flag to be spread upon my
coffin. desire that plain monument
surmounted by d life-sze Confederate
colder, be erected over the center q
my grave, and that on the monument
shall be carved this epitaph only
Here lies a man who believed In the
traditions and teachings OF the old
SOUTH 10 my will shall make pro-
visions for my burial expenses"
Mrs. Currie promised Capt. Elm.
merson that she would do as he had
requested. When notified last Tues
| day of his death she made the arrange
ments for his funeral. The body was
met at the railway station on it's al
rival from Denver by squad OF forme
Confederate soldiers, who bore 1t 10 th'
residence of Judge E. S. Lauderdale
from whence the funeral took place
lhe grave was in the middle OF th'
burial lot owned by the Daughters o
the Coufederacy, Camp Sterling Price
United Confederate Veterans, attended
10 body, and cir old batIle-scarre'
| Confederate flag was spread over to
coffln.-[St. Louis Republic.