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ing that it was a difficult country to
travel through; from this the term has
been carelessly shortened and translated
into the present misnomer.
Brooklyn, city in New York-Corrpution
of the Dutch name of Breuckelen. from a
village in the province of Utrecht Hol-
land The name signifies broken up land,
or marshy land.
Buncombe. county in North Carolina
and several places in the Southern States
named for Colonel Edward Buncombe
of the Continental army.
Catskill. creek, mountains. and town in
Greece county. New York-The mountains
We're called the Gatsbergs by the Dutch.
from the number Of wildcats found in
them. ana the creek. which flows from
the mountains, Katerskiu. 'tomcats'
creek
Chicago. city and river in niinois-The
origin OF the word is from the Indian. be-
ing derivation Of elision and French
annexation from the word Chi-kaug-ong.
Col Samuel 4. Starrow used the name
I'm letter to Gen. Jacob Brown in 1876.
as follows: The river Chicago (or in the
English, Wild Onion Riverl" School
craft in 1890 said: IT'S banks stated
10 produce abundanuv the wild spe-
cies of cepa or leek" Bishop Rara<a
gives: Fran Chaig. or Sikag. skunk"
a kind of wildcat" John Turner defines
skunk as she-gahg: onion. she-gau-ga-
winzhe, 'skunk-weed." When the word
frst appeared the country was inhabited
by tribe Of Miamis, In whose dialect
the word for skunk was Sc kayv-lwaw.
1t Is siad that the wildcat. or skunk
was named from the plant.
Communipaw, village in Bergen county.
New Jersey-named for the original
grantee. Michael PAW. director Of the
Dutch West India Company. The word
Is compound Of the Commune OF. PAW
Hiram, town in Oxford county. Maine
named for Hiram. king Of Tyre.
lie Mars. city in Plymouth. county. Ia.
The name IS composed Of the initials
81 the first woman who ACCOMPANIED
lis founder on his irst visit To the spot.
Manhattan. an island in New York
An Indian word. said by some authorities
% mean little island; others think ii
means the people Of the Whirlpool. re-
terring 10 Hu Gate. and another au-
taoriy gives its origin as from the word
Manna-ha-ta place q drunkenness. =
since Nerrazni landed upoa the lower
extremity Of Manhattan Island. and gave
TIE Indians liquor. or which they became
drunk
Massachusetts,, one Of the thirteen or
isinal siates-an Indlan word. meaning
AK or near the sreat hills. According
% other authorities. 'the hnl IN the
shape Of an arrowhead. great hns
moath the blue his.
Nauvoo, city 81 Hancock comfy. H..
-named in obedience 10 a revelation.
race n Joseph Smith. one Of as Mormon
founders.
Newport News. city in Warwick coun-
y. Nirgiaia-named for Captain Christie
pher Newport and Capt sor Sir wilMam)
Newee.
Ninety-six, town In Greenwood county.
South Cagollna-Sc named because II vas
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whether their new settlement on the VII
lamette should be named Portland or
Boston. The namesake has since greatly
oUtgrown in population the old Portland
on the Atlantic coast.
Denver possesses the distinction of hav
ing been named for a man who lived to
see it become u great city. Gen. Denver
died about ten years ago. when the town
named in his honor had reached a popu-
lation of nearly 10000
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-07
JOKE ON ELDER DUMAS
Labourchere Took His Cersassion
Friend and Rugged Her.

Mr.. LabOurchere tells a story IN Truth
OF the elder Dumas Years ago." he
says, Il used to know him very well, and
once I had the honor Of being presented
by him as his son. 1t happened in this
way: 1 was passing through Genoa. ana
went into a restaurant. I found Dumas
there. who welcomed me. BY his side sat
a girl dressed as a Circassian boy. whom
he introduced 10 me as Emile. / am. in
travelling, always oharitahly inclined and
I therefore suppose that Emile may have
been his granddaughter. Anyhow, Emile
and he had just landed from q yacht.
and like myself. were passing the day
ar Genoa. Dumas proposed that We
should take a carriage and go 70 see
show villa in the neighborhood. Emile,
Dumas (for some reason without hat
and I therefore started on this expedi-
ton.
when we reached the villa. We were
told that It vas not open 70 the public
on that day. Inform your master. said
Dumas to the servant that Alexander
Dumas is at the door. The servant re-
turned and told Us We could enter We
were ushered into dinins-room. where
an Italian vas breakfastlng surrounded
by a very fine family Dumas vas some
phat taken aback for d moment. but
introduced Emile ard me vaguely as mes
enfants As We were asked n SIT doWa
t. the breakfast Ee made ourselves 81
home after the meal WIS over the
owner offered 20 show Us the garden
He and Dumas vsl&ea first. Emile and
7 wandered about hand in hand 10 de-
rote our h-otherly and sisferiy affection.
The Circassain in q playful mood. and
1t her mood Dumas was II q 5eal-
Gus dIspcsition-which sometimes grand
fathers are he had one eye % ne
beauties x the gaTsez. ard anothar 70
his children 70 carry cue the 51ks.
Emile ard embraced each ether What
axe you doing said Dumas. ! replied
that vas embracing ny sister As ~
could not wel object 10 tbs thInk
mat for once I had the better q me
ladys eminent gran5fafher.- James
Gazette.
At ne oia-fashio7es suns and rsHtau-
rants IN Sweden i IS customary - charge
less for women than nsn- "a shs ths-
CRY thas they O. net sas = much Al
sarae hotels in Sweden uiau ard a
wife are charged a. ons ard oae-hzIf per
sons Z they occurv TIE sane roo-
husband ard ~sse nay 1rzvel a. one ard
ous-h halt persons ~ railway. and also -
the past routes, furnishing the1T sxa ear 4
rlzza
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Bee nning tomorrow Morning. scot 5. atlOa.m.

beg ming Tomorrow Morning, Sept ). at 10 a NJ
Every lady who viii bring our Corset Depart
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or American Beauty Corsets at s1.00 viii in return
be presented. free OF charge. with corset q
make in any style. size color desired. All ask
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she buys one Of these corsets and we VIII give you
one pair OF F c. American Beauty Corsets free.
This unprecedented offer is made 10 rcpularizs F.
c. and American Beauty Corsets. for which
sole agents in Wichita
This offer viii be Withdrawn September g. 70
viding the ten dozen have not been given away be-
fore said date.
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Ten Dozen of F. c. and
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Given Away Absolutely Free to the Ladies of Wichita
II order to introduce to our customers the
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have made special arrangements with the
Kalamazoo Corset CO. to give away ten dozen
Il heir F. c. and American Beauty corsets
absolutely free Of charge. See conditions in
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-08-21

day find the suns rays uncomfortab1y
warm Mosquitoes firt about, and add
their touch to summer conditions, and
butterflies fit here ana there. There
are birds innumerable. Several kinds
of berries grow in the valleys, buckle
berries are very abundant. In the
gardens the Europeans grow lettuce,
cabbages and turnips, and once in
awhile potatoes, very small in size, are
produced. The trees do not grow to
any height at all, the highest met by
one explorer being white birch ris-
ing Il feet.
The Greenland soil is dry and stony,
though there are plains of suceulent
grass and moss. Incoming ships
bring earth from other countries as
ballast, and this earth has been turned
to account for gardens and yards.
Though game is getting less and less
plentiful, the people depend largely
on hunting and fishing; bears, wolves,
deer and foxes, whales, seals and sal
mon Supplying their wants. There are
some domesticated creatures; many
dogs, cows, sheep, oxen, goats and
pigs.
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and it is more than probable that IL
was not until within the last three
years that any of these animals ever
saw q white man.
Far up in the northwest, in the great
stretch of country lying just to the
southeast of Lake Athabasca, coun-
try that is practically unpeopled, even
the Indians finding the bleak hills and
lakes uninyiting as place OF resi-
dence. lives this herd of wild buffalOes
There they wander over hundreds of
miles of territory. They have, within
the past three years, during which time
account has been taken of their wan
behring's, travelled so far east as to
reach the eastern point of Black lake
and, crossing the Black river between
that lake and Hatchet lake, Travelled
off to the northwest again towards
Great Slave lake.
They are practically all that re-
mains of the great droyes of these ami
mails that at one time roamed the
western plains from the gulf to far
beyond the Canadian line. Advancing
civilization has driven them from our
western plains, and the same has been
true of the Canadian plains. Valuable
as they were to the Indians they have
seemed to find no place in the economy
of Anglo-SaXon civilization. few
years ago the bones of thousands of
them were bleaching on the broad
prairies. To-day numbers of the whit
ened skulls may be seen from the car
windows as one travels through Cam
II 4 /
these skulls mark the last yestige of
a departing> animal species. But the
species, has not entirely departed, nor
does it seem likely to in the near flu
ture. Instead it is returning, and in
time thousands of them may again in
habit the northern country that is as
yet unsettled.
1t was three years ago last spring
that this herd in Canada was discoy-
cred. It's existence was probably
known before that to the few Indians
who inhabit the bad lands of the
north, but officials of the government
were not aware until then that any of
the buffaloes in an entirely wild state
remained within the boundaries of
their country. 1t was a government
surveying party who discovered them.
AS soon as possible the fact of their
existence was reported to the Ottawa
government, and the commanding of
ficer of the northwest mounted police
was ordered to send detail in the
northwest to locate and protect them.
The detail has followed them in all
their wanderings since then. There
has been absolutely no effort made to
interfere with them in any way; the
detail is not there for that purpose,
but only to protect them from the
Indians and trappers who visit the ter
ritory in which they are living. There
is a heavy fine for killing any of them,
and the police are there to enforce
the law. During the three years since
the detail located them they have in.
creased from the 35 that were found
at that time to more than 100 at the
present time, or rather at the begin.
ming of this last spring when the last
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vessels at anchor-cruisers, warships,
monitors, dispatch and torpedo boats.
The old wooden sheds have long been
gone; now the building of two great
battleships is to be begun at the
yard. They are to be among the
most powerful afoat, with four 12-
inch guns and 20 more of seven and
eight inch caliber-the kind of guns
that did the work at Santiago.
There are some old-fashioned 16-
inch guns lying about the yard for
visitors to look at. They are made
of cast iron, should judge, and are
about 20 feet long. The new 12-inch
rifle is so long that it takes two fiat
freight cars to carry it. 1t will shoot
a mile for every inch of it's caliber.
The navy yard used to be in poll
itics. Zone more dash and the navy
yard IS ours" was the burlesque cam
paign cry. What change for the
better have secretaries of both par
Whitney, Tracy, Long, Moody
made! To-day the yard prepares for
a $10,000,000 task without exciting
much enthusiasm among politicians.
More worlmen will be needed, but
the choosing will not be left to them
From a nest of sinecures and store
yard of rotting hulks the yard has
become a great, well-managed fac
tory. OWEN LANGDON.
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Many Things That Keep New York
Talking These Hot Days.

brown, remarkably bearded, often
rather stopped in the shoulder. Their
keen eyes have at the corners the
squirting wrinkles of the lifelong
plainsman.
/ think the Beers had pretty good
time in New York. They were
cheered everywhere and had only to
ask for what they wanted. They were
very friendly with, the British sol
diers set to guard them, though they
were closely wafched, for no less
than 26 got away from the tiny coral
island where they were guarded, four
of them on one ship. When they be-
gan arriving here they brought an as
tonishing collection of carved gourds,
whitfield puzzles and other toys with
which they had relieved the tedium
of imprisonment. These they sold
at good prices on rising market.
Many of them fully intend to return
to this country and take up farms.
If they do, it viii not be the first
time that America has profted by UNI
wise quarrels in the old world to
gain a valuable new element of pop
ulation.
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Nss.1zsz2zNA, ROM Greenland's icy noun
tains to the Filipino's coral
WY strand is that soon to be the
I'm AN song of Uncle Sam in re-
go counting the extent of his
A& domain? Rumor is ahoat
that the aforementioned territory has
been offered for sale to the United
States, and that some day it may be-
come one of our possessions.
Well, if it is ever to come into our
hands we want to know something
about it.
Greenland was discovered by the
Norsemen in the year 876. About a
hundred years later it was colonized
by Eric the Red, who, to attract to it's
shores immigrants from Iceland, gave
it the alluring name Of Greenland. =
Christianity was introduced in Eric's
time by his son Left, converted to that
religion when on a visit to Norway.
The records of the bishops throw a
little light on the history of Green
land from Eric's time down to the mid
die of the fourteenth century, after
which there is a blank for some time.
Greenland was rediscovered in 1885 by
John Davis, who had been sent out by
the British government in search of a
northwest passage. TWAS recolonized
by the Danes in 1921.
Greenland is big island, ''as long as
the United States is wide;" it lies
northeast of North America, and ex-
tends from latitude so degrees north
to latitude SO degrees 80 minutes
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of high rank. He rode to foxhounds
with George Gould. He maintains a
pack of hounds in Newport this sum-
mer. His son, Robert 7. Collier, has
Just married Sara Van Allen, Mrs. AS
tors granddaughter, and Mrs. Aston
is said to be delighted at the girls
choice of an American husband.
Was Mr.. Van Allen equally pleased?
He takes it well. Before the mar
rage a-week before, in fact-he was
denying the engagement. Then at
the bachelor dinner of Peter Mar
tin, who married Lily Oelrichs, young
Collier set all doubt at rest by an
nouncing the engagement and forth
coming wedding.
Mr.. Van Allen is the man who, when
his hopes of representing America in
a diplomatic capacity were blasted
years ago, for fully a decade trans
formed his allegiance to England
In the Boer war he tried to provide
at his own cost an ambulance corps
for the British troops, but was as
little appreciated in this as in his
offer of diplomatic services to our
own government. 1t was before this
time that Mr.. Van Allen made the
important discovery that america is
not fit place for genleman"-I for.
get the precise words. In marrying
an American gentleman his daughter
seems to indicate disagreement
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In summer, inland valleys and noun
tainside are clothed in living green;
moss-green, green of grass, and leaf
of shrub. Flowers blaze among the
gray rocks; old acquaintance, prim-
roses, buttercups and dandelions.
Beautiful coIors play about the ice-
cap. but, of course, it is devoid of life.
Intrepid explorers have given it a
feeting glimpse of humanity. Peary
travelled it for couple hundred miles,
and Nansen marched clear across the
island Cor perhaps it would better be
spoken of as continent).
The beauty of Greenland neither
artist nor writer can adequately pic
ture. The glittering mountains rise
sheer from the fiords to a height of
1000, 5000 and 5000 feet, glaciers upon
their sides. Out of the fiords pass to
the sea majestic icebergs. But all is
not frozen white in this northland,
there is a perfect riot of color when
the midnight sun works his alchemy.
An artist, one in love with Greenland,
as all artists that visit it must be,
in the New England Magazine writes:
''At times the bergs look as blue as
topaz, with arches, caverns and vein
ings of indigo; again they are tinged
emerald green; and at sunset they are
shrouded in the pink of the Alpine
glow.
Since for two-thirds of the year
Greenland is engirdled in ice, enc
x,o,,Id think she would he ola n ind ead
to welcome travellers to her shores in
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the Hall a Light Hop Loo over the
fence" and grasp the reins, of
power?
Devery has all the cynical spirit of
Tweed's what are you going to do
about it? He has a gift of rough
epigram and of personal power over
rough men. He has no other qualiti-
cation for eadership-neither educa-
ton, no moral scruples nor decent
reputation. 1t was he whose man
agement of the Police force to exact
tribute from every meanest vice drew
from Bishop Potter a memorable let
ter written in vitriol, which would
have driven a less squeamish man out
of the city. He has fortune and
doesn't care who knows how he
got it.
How can such a man gain power?
He had in his campaign one argu-
ment: 'How many of youse fellows
has got jobs from Sheehan or Good
VIM" He made not one single APP
peal to any motive save the place
hunters self-interest, not one refer
ence to any question of public policy.
The character of the opposition
helped him. Goodwin, the deposed
Tammany district leader, is thin
Tipped, cold, steely-eyed, scheming
chap, with the name of being treach-
erous. Sheehan, as the leader of the
minority, who went into fusion to
elect Lowe mayor, could hardly ex-
pect to carry the primary.
But offer all the reasons, invent all
the excuses, you can. Here is the
fact: The one man who in the pow
er and in the proved willingness to do
evil is perhaps the worst in New
York, and who is known to be what
he is, is elected without one pledge
of public policy leader of great
party in a district as big as an or
binary city. What do you make of
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The News Condense Il.

Lightning killed seven head of cattle
owned by f. w. Meyers, of Rockville.
Anthrax, fatal disease, was discoy-
cred among cattle in La Crosse, and Is
cows have died and others are dying
like flies. Hundreds of people have
been exposed by drinking the contain
mated milk, which has been distrib-
uted by various milkmen whose cows
have, been affected.
John Schock, aged 70 years, of Me-
nasha, was leading his cow to pasture
when a street car frightened the COW.
The animal jumped and pulled him
under a wagon. He got up and walked
a mile to pasture the cow, but he was
fatally injured and died in short
time.
A rich vein Of gold, silver, palladium
and iridium, assaying $143.50 ton, has
been uncovered at the Holmes mine,
three miles east of Mellen, at a depth
of SO feet.
The republicans have renominated
James e. Davidson for congress in the
Eighth ristrict and Edward S. Minor
in the Ninth district.
The secretary of the treasury has
purchased for site for the federal
building at Superior the property at
the corner of Tower avenue and Four
teenth streets for $33,750.
Between $4,000 and 10000 tons of
cabbages will be harvested in Outa-
game county by the last of this
month.
Bank Examiner NJ. c. Bergh author
lied the establishment of two new pri-
vate banks, one being at Warrens and
the other at Rib Lake, and both have
begun business
The New Richmond Roller Mills
company, of which Senator 0. w
Mosher is president, has granted IFS
employees ten per cent. increase in
wages.
George Zeisler, one of the most
prominent brewers and pioneers Of
Wisconsin, died at La Crosse of heart
failure, aged N.
Fire Marshal Cape, Of the Racine
fire department had a narrow escape
from death while making a run to a
fire. While crossing the tracks of the
Northwestern railway the gates
dropped and struck Marshal Cape on
the head, knocking him to the bottom
of the buggy.
Mrs. Gilbert Halverson, aged So
years, died Of apoplexy caused by ex-
citement from seeing drove of horses
rush through hergarden in Beloit.
The factory for the manufacture Of
the famous Vudor woven wooden
porch curtains and screens will doubt
less be moved from Worcester, Mass,
to GAINESVILLE.
At a citizens mass meeting it was
decided to hold a street fair in Barron
in September under the auspices of the
Business Mems association.
Edward Holstein died in Oconomo-
voc of consumption. He had made all
preparations for his funeral during
his illness.
A branch of Dowie's Zion is to be
opened in Sheboygan in short time
by Eugene Euyck and other elders.
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north The coast is deeply indented
with fiords, the interior is a plateau
covered with an ice-cap. Greenland's
highest mountain rises to the height
of 10000 feet. The island has an es-
timated area of $4,000 square miles,
and a population of not much more
than 10000.
Most of the settlements are on the
west shore, between latitude 60 de-
grees and 70 degrees, a thousand miles
from the frozen Greenland of our mag
nation, the Greenland that our early
explorers made known to us. The
folks at these settlements are Eskimos.
Danes and half-breeds. The interior
of the country is uninhabited; is given
over to ice, not surface ice, but ice
thousands of feet thick.
In summer the temperature at the
settlement is quite high, averaging s.
degrees, and not often falling below so
degrees. The inhabitants, who do not
discard their thick garments, at mid