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Year: 1879

The following is what a menagerie
man said to Max Adler, while riding on
| the cars:


1--WE got the finest elephant out of
Asiai Perfectly amiable and good
humored. He killed his keeper two
years ago, but that was the mans own
fault. The keeper was green and not
perfectly familiar with elephants, and
appeared to have an idea that both ends
| of the animal were exactly alike; so he
would persist In trying to lead the ele-
phant around by the tail, and act as if
It was a matter of indifference whether
the animal picked up his hay with his
trunk or his tail. So, one day, when the
man was trying to persuade the elephant
to drink by holding the end of his tail
in bucket of water, the elephant put
out his hind leg, and kicked him inte
immortal chaosl Some people, you
know, never do get sense. There's no
money in the business any more, though.
The losses are too heavy. had boa
constructor that stood me four hundred
dollars, and he did well enough for
awhile. But one day he got loose, and
when we found him he was standing on
his head out by the railroad, with his
tail in the air. tried to coax him to
come down, but he remained perfectly
quiet, and when came to examine him
found that he had swallowed the top
of telegraph pole, and had eat his way
down until his nose touched the ground.
He was dead. What killed him / don't
know. It may have been electric shocks,
or it may have been dyspepsia. How
somever, he was corpse, and there
were four hundred dollars gone.


'DThe monkeys seem to amuse the
people most. like a monkey myself
Do you know 1 believe it's a positive
loss to human beings that they haven't
got tails like monkeys Why, monkey
can take hold of anything with his tail
Just like you can with your hand. It's
really third hand. Now, s'posin' you
had such tail? If you had to hang on
to the platform of crowded horse-car
with your hands, you could hold your
umbrella with your tail. If you were
walking up and down the room at night
with the baby, you could carry him in
your arms and give him a spoonful of
paregoric with your tail. If you wanted
to take your family out for an airing you
could grab child with each hand and
pull the baby-eoach with your tail.
tell you, sir, it's dead loss to you, that
you're not built like monkey. Free
hold, is it? All! I must get out here.
Come round and see my show, won't
you? Good morning"


And Mr. Pottle disappeared through
the doorway of the car.
Year: 1879

Walking along the street with the
point of an umbrella sticking out be-
hind. under the arm or over the shoulder.
By suddenly stopping to speak to a
friend, or other cause, a person walking
in the rear had his brain penetrated
through the eye, in the streets, and died
a few days ago.


To carry a long pencil in the outside
or vest pocket. Not long since a clerk in
New York fell and the long pencil
pierced an important artery that had to
be cut down from his shoulder, to pre-
vent his bleeding to death, and even
then he had a three months illness;


To take exercise or walkfor the health,
when every step is a drag, and instinct
urges repoSe.


10 guzzle down a glass Of water, on
getting up in the morning, without any
feeIing of thirst, under the health-giv-
inc nature of its washing out qualities.


10 sit down to q table and force"
yourself to eat, when thore is not only
no appetite but decided aversion to
food.


To take q glass of soda, or toddy, or
sangaree, or mint drops, on summer
day, under the belief that it is safer and
better than glass Of water,
Year: 1879


We bought him box for books and ttbnss.
And bags for his ball and his bat;
And he looked the brightest and best Of kings
Under his new straw hat
We handed him into a railway train


With troop Of his young compeers,
And we felt as though it were dust and ran
We're filling cur eyes with tears
We looked in his innocent face 0 see


The sign Of a sorrowfuI heart;
But he only shouldered his bat with gIeA
And wondered when they would start.
Twas not that he loved not as heretofore,
For the boy was tender and kind;
But his was world that was all befora,
And ours was world behind.
Twas not his iuttering heart was cold.
For the child was loyal and true;
And the parents lose the love that IS cid
And the children the love thas Is new.
And we came to know that love Is a aowsls
Which only groweth down:
And we scarcely spoke for the space Of an h6al
As we drove back through the town
Year: 1879

THE indigent sick of other Counties and of Califo rnia are warned not to come to Yuma with an expectation of being sup ported at public expense. Our Super visors have determined that this County is not more than able to maintain it's own indigent sick; they are about right.
Year: 1879

PHGNI& has been designated by Judge Porter as the place for holding terms of the United States court in and for the Second Judicial District of Arizona. This is very proper change, in view of ac- comodatlon to the pubic and of economy to the government; Phoenix being very central point in the District.
Year: 1879

WE learn that Mr. James Stewart has already begun to send horses over onto the mail route between Ehrenberg and Mineral Park, in anticipation of the ser vice there being performed by Gilmer Salisbury & Go. We hope the new line will receive Stewards supervision, as he is one of the most efficient and popular stage men on the Coast.
Year: 1879

AT the miners meeting lately held in Silver District, it was unanimously ex- pressed as the sense of the meeting, that no liquor sheuld be allowed to be sold at the mines, nor at any point nearer than the Colorado River.
Year: 1879

TOMATO CATsUP.-Wash bushel of
ripe tomatoes, cut them in pieces and re-
move all green portions as they injUre
the color. Cook until soft, then strain
through a sieve pressing well to obtain the
pulp. For this quantity, allow half an
ounce of cayenne pepper, one ounce
ground cinnamon and a scant teacupful
of salt. Stir these into the catsup. The
balance Of the spices being dark would
injure the color if put in loose and
ground. To avoid this, bruise an ounce
each of cloves, allspice, mace, celery
seed, and half as much black pepper /;
tie them securely in a thin muslin bag,
and when the strained tomatoes have
boiled an hour and a half add the spices
and boil as much longer. Last of all
put in a quart of good cider-vinegar,
boil for half an hour and turn into a
stone jar TO cool. Next day put in half
a pint of brandy or pure spirits, mix
thoroughly and bottle, putting a strip of
horseTadish root in each. Use new corks
to fit the bottles, soak them in hot water,
then pound in as tight as possible, and
cut the top of the cork off even with the
bottle. Make a cement by melting to-
gether two ounces of resin and one each
of beeswax and gum-shellac. Lnvert
each bottle into the hot cement and
when cold dip again keep in a COO, dark
place.
Year: 1879

He who hath music in his soul, but
can not express it through lack of tech
nical skill with instruments devised to
stimulate the concord of sweet sounds,
need no longer despair. Inventive
genius has solved the problem without
forcing him to be content with the mo-
notOnOus hand-organ or the mechanical
music-bOX. The automatic organ, as it
is called, involves the necessity on the
part of the player of using the feet upon
the treadles, but the manipulations of
the keys by the fingers is dispensed with
by the peculiar process Of having the
music play itself. In place of ordinary
notes printed on a few pages, the roll of
music is yards in length and the notes
are perforatiOns varying in size and
place according to the time and pitch.
By an arrangement of wheels this roll is
unwound and drawn over the openings
above the reeds by the same motion of
the pedals which forces the air through
the latter; and as the perforatiOns pass
over the reeds the musical sounds are
allowed to escape in harmony, just as
they do when the keys are pressed in an
ordinary organ.


When the tune is played, an ingenious
contrivance permits the machinery to be
reversed and the sheet of music to be
removed in readiness for another per-
formance. 1t can then be readily re-
moved and another put in its place. Ac-
cording to the scope of the instrument
the style of the music performed may be
varied from a - Stabat Mater " to airs
from 8 Pinafore." The cost of the rolls
is only slightly in advance of ordinary
sheet-music; while large sized instru-
ment can be had for about the same as
the cheapest ordinary parlor organ
This invention is a realization of the
fancy of music reeled out by the yard
NelO York Tribune
Year: 1879

There was once a perfectly modern girl,


In perfectly modern ways,
Who saw perfection in every thing


That happened to meet her gaze.
Such perfectly lovely things she saw,


And perfectly awful too,
That none would have dared to doubt he


word,


So perfectly, perfectly true.
The weather, she said, in summer time,


Was perfectly, awfully warm;
The winter was perfect, too, when there cam
Some perfectly terrible storm.
She went to a perfectly horTid school,


In perfectly horfd town;
And the perfectly hOrrid teachers there
Did things up perfectly brown.
Her lessons we're perfectly fearfully long,
But never were perfectly said;
And when she failed, as often she did
Her face grew perfectly red.
The church she attended was perfectly mar
With perfectly heavenly spire;
And perfect crowds go there to hear
perfectly stunning choir.
The latest style is perfectly sweet


The last the perfectest out;
The books she reads arc perfectly good
(Just here we raise a doubt.
ride she took was perfectly grand,
On perfectly gorgeous day,
With Il perfectly nObby friend of hers
Who happened TO pass that way.
The perfectly elegant falls she'd seen
when on her way to the lake;
And the graphic description she gave us all
was simply "A modern mistake.
The perfectly splendid foam dashed up
In a perfectly killing style;
And the perfectly terrible waves came down
In perfectly lovely pile.
might go ON with this ''perfectly" poem
- ANA write TO the end of time,
But fearing to wear your patience out
WIZ bring 70 nn end my rhyme.
Year: 1879

The wOrthlessness or waste of money
to those who misunderstood its use Is
witnessed often enough in the case Of
many who should know better. An ex-
ample of real ignorance-and
singIlarly forcibIe one-is the following,
related by an officer of the Bank of
England to London correspondent:


poor little Hungarian widow, living
in a garret at LimehOuse with her deaf
and dumb son, was overtaken by the
hard times, and fell i'll. This was at
the end of the year. The neighbOTs
wanted to fetch the relieving officer and
the parish doctor, but the old creature,
who hardly knew a word of English,
made If known that she wanted no aid
Of any kind. At last she became in
sensible, and then the other dodgers and
the landlord entered her room. They
found it wretchedly furnished, but plas-
tered all over with coiored prints and
engravings. Looking over these, one Of
the intruders saw a hundred-pOund note
posted between "A cut from the London
Illustrated Ne5Cs and a business card.
Doubling his eyes, he drew the attention
Of others to it, and the doctor, who had
been sent for, coming in at the time, the
fact was made known TO all An at
tempt was made to detach the precious
engraving from the wainscOt, but to no
purpose, and by direction of the med:-
cal man, the piece Of panel was cut out,
taken to the Bank of England, and
cashed on the nail, when the doctor ex-
planned that the proceeds would be lodg-
ed to the credit Of the old lady, who, with
her son, was made more comfortable
than she had ever been. 1t seems she
picked up the note two years ago, and
seeing in it only a picture. fixed it
on the wall of her room, where it re-
manned an Unsuspected treasure until
discovered
Year: 1879

In consequence of the large amount
of money seeking profitable Investment,
the mania for specializing in railroad
and mining stocks and in cultures" in
cotton and provisions is almost epidem-
ic. Now and then a fortunate man hits
the market just right and secures hand
some return, but in the majority of cases
the inexperienced speculator finds his
margin exhausted and his money lost.
Most of this speculation is pure gam
bling, with the chances less in favor OF
the player than in lottery investments.
And in addition to the risk or loss the
business is demoralizing, as is striking
ly shown by recent disclosures at Fall
River. Those fortunate people with
money to invest are wisest who are con-
tent with the small but sure returns OF
good bonds and mortgages, or who buy
desirable real estate ut the present low
rates.-Hargord Colrdnt.
Year: 1879

thorax is easy. The chief objection to
this position are that it creates a tend
ency to cramp and cold in the arms, and
sometimes seems to cause headache dur
ing sleep, and dreams. These small
matters often make or mar comfort in
sleeping EnqZish journal.
Year: 1879

a SERIES of experiments conducted by
a chemist in behalf of the New York
Board of Health, with an intent to dis
cover what is the best disinfectant for
ordinary use, has resulted in the an
nouncement that ''under every variety
of circumstances carbolic acid is the
most reliable disinfectant in the mar
ket A"
Year: 1879

Does the light OF the moon affect the
growth of plants9 Does it make any
difference in the growth Of plant what
time in the moon it is planted: I'm
donbtcdly it does.


Light is great promoter Of growth,
and, the more brilliant the light, the
stronger and more vigorous the growth.
oil the other conditions being favorable.
1t is q fact. also, with certain plants.
that when young they require. like
young animals. considerable time for
rest and sleep. To have this slcop is
to give them ultimate strength and
visor, which is essential - their subse-
quent complete development.


To illustrate: The seeds Of certain
vines and other plants sown in the
new Of the moon will vegetate. aud the
plants srs likely to appear above the
ground. near the old Of the moon, at q
time when the moon's radiance is so
brilliant that they are compelled to
grow under the strong light. Upon
the rising of the SUI. the growth il
still forced forward, and the tender
plant, in its infancy. gets no rest.


The seed sown in the old OF tho moon
will bring forth the plant in the new OF
the moon. or during the dark nights;
at which time it obtains the needed
rest and sleep. in the darkness. which
is essential to its future productiveness.


That the hight of the moon has thus
. very percept,blc and important in
fiueuce upon tho growth Of plants when
very young and tender. is fact that
thousands have verified. though few
understand the philosophy OF the sams ..
-From Hlrs Manual Of Social and
Business Forms.
Year: 1879

TRIBUNE OFFICE Nov. 4, I n. m.-The downward
movement I'm the barometer ended yesterday morning,
and WAS followed the evening by rise, After sun
day midnight the skies cleared. but before a. H. they
were again overcast and light rain soon began TO fall
Partly cloudy weather during the greater part OF the
day was followed Dy clear weather. The Temperature
ranged between 80 and 40 the average being 47s'
lower than on sunday The amount of moisture IN the
air has been diminished slightly. Gold weather gen
orally prevailed throughout the country Yesterday with
snow from Michigan eastward along the Lake line.


To-day clear Ir and slightly warmer weather may
be expected IN this CITY and vIclnlty.
Year: 1879

just at this season, says recent letter
from St. John, N. F., we are favored
with the visits of another fish more i'm
portant to us by far than the salmon, as
it forms the chief bait in carrying on
our great cod fishery, on which so many
thousands here are dependent. The
caplin are now around our coast and in
our bays and harbors in countless
myriads. True to the day almost, shoals
of these beautiful little fish, about seven
or eight inches in length, appear each
season, in numbers beyond all calcula-
ton. Every bay, harbor and creek
around coast not less than 1900 miles
in extent literally swarms with them.
They come in close on the shore in
many places where there is sandy or
shingly beach, and a fisherman stands
on the beach with a casting net in his
hand, and in short time a glittering
pile of these little silvery fish is landed,
enough to fill half n dozen barrels.
They form the finest bait for the capture
OF cod, and they are used in enormous
quantities for manure by the farmers
who come for them with carts to the
beach, and mix them with bog and
earth. After standing for q year, this
becomes a rich fertilizing compost, very
stimulating to crops, but leaving little
substance in the soil beyond the ma
terials with which the calpin were
mixed.
Year: 1879

How long it took to I'll The tender !
The engine Stood hot and smoking by the
water-tank. and the water came ont n a
slender stream, while the poor mother
stood looking on. fearful and impatient.


"Good-byei I'll put up the pipe
Heaven help ye!-the up grade"


The rest was lost, for the engine shot
ahead on and on out over the open
prairie. The water-tank seemed to sink
down into the earth, and the shining
rails stretched longer and longer out be-
hind.


An! w hat was thatg A cloud OF steam
on the horizon, Tar ahead. The engineer
took out his time-book and studied it
carefully.


Freight No. 6. bound west. stoppine
on the tWo-mile siding"


How swiftly Freight No. 6 rose above
the grass and grew big along the wav i
Listen! A whistle. The engineer whis-
fled in renlv and shut off steam Their
engine quickly slowed down and they
could see men leaning out from the
other engine as if to speak to them.


It's ten minutes back. Running
slow on main ne-road-clear-"


Thank Heaven!" said the woman.
The engineer said nothing; but at that
instant the engine gave great leap and
shot ahead, at the rate of fifty miles an
hour. up the easy grade How long the
minutes seemed, ana yet each meant al
most mlie'


All! A speck-a black dot on the
horizon! The carp Yes. 1t was the
car. 1t grew bigger and bigger. Now
Year: 1879

In the year 164n died in the town of
Greene, Me-, an oldmai1 t1afned Thomas,
who had thrilling wolf story of his
own to tell, though the experience was
too early for his memory, he being at
the time baby in arms. Mr.. George j..
Varney relates the adventure in the
Lewiston Journal. Mrs. Thomas was a
fisherman's wife who lived in the town
of Brunswick, Me-, where Bowdoin CoI-
lege now stands. AT one time when her
husband was in port. but could not come
home, she started on foot to Harpswell,
Il distance of ten miles, to see him, car
rying her Youngest child in her arms.
Returning with a load of fish on her
back as well as the burden of her babe,
she heard wolf howl in the forest, and
terror quickcned her pace, though she
was already fain to sink with fatigue


She was midway of the five miles of
unbfokeh woods when the howl of the
wolf again smote her ear, and this time
other voices, one after another, Joined in.
The pack had gathered on her trail


She must climb tree, one would say
but she did not. She did not even
throw away her fish.


The wolves gained upon her moment
by moment, the great gray wolves of the
North, that stand as high as a man
when they rear. 1t was a mile and a
half to the nearest house when she first
caught glimpse Of the approaching
demons.


She had for the last two miles walked
at her utmost speed; it was now time to
run. Yet she still held firmly her babe
and her fish.


"A quarter of mile more, and swiftly
as she had passed it, the wolves were
within few yards. She could see their
white teeth and hear their laboring
breath above her own. She loosened
and threw down a single fish, and ran
on. The pack discovered rare game,
and fought together for its possession.


BY the time it was eaten the courage
Gus woman had got quarter Of mile in
advance; !; but the pack were soon at her
heels again. Another fish checked
them, and their snarls and yells, as they
again fought each other tor bite of the
savory fresh Goldfish, hurried the labori-
ous flight of the weary woman.


Her babe. annoyed by the shaking it
received from the rapid pace. at length
cried lnstily, calling the wolves to re-
newed pursuit. In vain the poor mother
tried to soothe her infant, but another
fish was followed by fresh hight and
precious delay of the pack.


Again and again this action was re-
peated, until at length the barking Of
two huge dogs alarmed the wolves, while
the almost exhausted mother ran past
the friendly brutes to the door OF the
farmhouse, thrown open to receive her.


The great dogs were trained to their
duty, and no sooner was the fugitive in
the house than they also retired in good
order to the same safe stronghold, leav-
ing the foiled wolves to rage outside,
and to fall before the guns that were
speedily brought to bear upon them.


The weary mother found safety and
rest, but whether she saved any of her
fish tradition does not relate.
Year: 1879

A lady thus writes to the Phlladelphia
Times: noticed in your to-day's issue
that one of our own fair sex is in a great
predicament because her son is unable
to raise mustache. My own husband
was in the same unpleasant situation
but by using the following remedy his
mustache commenced to grow vigorous
ly. coming out nice and full. 1t Is be-
cause that | am in sympathy with the
men that write this letter:


Take a teaspoonful of bay rum, one
drachm of turpentine, one drachm of
glycerine, and put in an ounce bottle
and fill up with common lard. Apply
as hot as can possibly be borne without
calding.
Year: 1879

We know not what it Is, dear,


This sleep so deep and still,
The folded hands, the awful calm
The cheek so pale and still
The lids that viii not lift again,


Though we may call and call
The strange white solitude OF peace
That settles over all.
We know not what it means, dear,
This desolate heart pain
This dread to take our daily way,
And walk in it again;
We know not to what other sphere
The loved who leave us go,
Nor why we're lett to wonder still,
Nor why we do not know. e5
But this we know; our loved and dead
If they should come this day,
Should come and ask us, q What is life :"
Not one of us could say.
Lille is mystery as deep ~
As ever death can be-; eE
Yet, oh, how sweet it is to US,
This life we live and see.
Then might they say these vanished ones
And blessed is the thought,
" So death is sweet to us, beloved
Though we may tell you naught.
We may not tell it to the quick tef
This mystery OF death
Ye may not tell us if ye would,
The emystery of breath"
The child who enters life comes not
With knowledge or intent,
So those who enter death must go
As little children sent.
Nothing is known; out / believe
That God is overhead,
And as life is to the living,


So death is to the dead.


San Francisco Call.
Year: 1879

Almost every day some strayling is
pick up by the New York police and con-
signed for temporary shelter to the
motherly arms of Matron Webb, at po-
lice headquarters. And almost as often
as waif is rescued from the street it is
reclaimed by parent, brother, sister,
relative or friend. So rare is it that
lost child is not sought for that when it
occurs the matron is at loss how to dis
pose of the charge. Occasionally child
is found whose appearance indicates its
descent from wealthy and refined people.
In such instances, while it receives the
same care and attention as other waits,
extra effort is made to discover those to
whom it belongs. Advertisements are
put in the papers, and every conceivable
method is taken advantage of to expose
the fact that child awaits its natural
protectors. This failing. the lost one,
ike all others, goes to charitable insti-
tuition.
Year: 1879

ATLANTA, July 22.-Samuel G.. Gras-
ty, railroad and commercial traveller
Of this city. last evening shot a MIR.
Real and his son at Opelika. They at
tackled him in his room at the hotel for
alleged improper intimacy with Miss
Read. Grasty was badly cut on the
head and hands. The elder Read was
shot in the eve and abdomen and the
younger under the right jaw. The
elder Read will die. Grasty is under ar
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