Brown County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 35, Nashville, Brown County, 23 October 1890 — Page 4

SouthernNevada is exceedingly sparse, so as to make enumeration corresponding expensive and difficult. Florida is mostly swamp, its people over by far the greater part of its territory widely scattered, and transportation being almost out of the question. Perhaps the most dramatic incident of the census occurred in the great Nevada desert. One enumerator was only able to get his blank schedules from the Supervisor by having them conveyed to him across the desert, a distance of 110 miles, by an Indian. The copper-colored messenger took with him only a flask of water. He did not arrive when he was expecteeted, and the enumerator, alarmed at the delay, set out to look for him. Starting across the dreadful waste from the opposite side, he found, after a day’s journey along the trail, the corpse of the Indian half buried in the sand. The unfortunate messenger had died of thirst. I told this story yesterday, having just heard it from the Chief of Supervisors, to the Chief of the Division of Accounts. Said he anxiously: "Did the enumerator find the schedule with the body?” My answer was affirmative, whereat the official seemed much relieved. He was indifferent as to the fate of the Indian, but most solicitous about the official records in his charge.

It’s a mighty little kammeek that won’t hold two souls with but a single thought. The Way Made Clear. One of the meet serious obstacles to success in the way of man is planted right in the middle of the road to health. Ho n to restore and to maintain a regular habit of body and digestion is too often a source of needless and, unhappily, of vain inquiry. It is not necessary to inveigh against drastic purgatives. They who have used them continuously know the consequence., A remedy which unites the action of a regulating medicine for the bowels with that of a tonic both for those organs, the liver and the stomach, Is Hostetter’s Htomach Bitters, sanctioned by the best medical authority, and receiving daily the indorsement of our fellow countrymen. With this effectual, though gentle, laxative at hand, it is possible to defy those changes of temperature productive of constipation, as well as constitutional attacks of biliousness, which beset even people naturally healthy. Malaria, dyspepsia, rheumatism and kidney troubles are remedied and prevented toy the Bitters. “I’m not tail,” said the saving Mttie man, “but I’m never short.” When medicine is given a child, parents like to feel it a safe and proper one. Such a remedy is Dr. Bull’s Worm Destroyer. “We have our hentrances and our egg sitts” is the way an English poultry dealer quoted it. Dobbins’ Electric Soap does not chap the hands, being perfectly pure. Many people afflicted with Salt Rheum have been cured by its use. Preserves and whitens clothes. Have your grocer erder it and try it now. The man who goes too often to the beer cellar has a vaulting ambition that gives him many a tumble. Looking Backward. —Lot’s wife became a fixed monument to admonish us that it. is pot always sale to look backward. Onward and upward should be our battle err, and armed with a bottie of Dr. White’s Pulmonaria we may safely defy that remorseless enemy of the human race, consumption. It cures coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis, croup, whooping cough and consumption. It is entirely harmless and pleasant to take.

White Swelling | “In 1887 my son, 7 years old, bad a white swelling 5 some on his right leg below the knaa, whists ooctr acted the muscles go that hia leg was draws up »V right angles. 1 considered him aerlppl*. Heed's Sarsaparilla woke up his appetite and soon bone came from the sore, the discharge 4e«raaegtL the swelling went down, the leg straightened iV'. acvl in a few months lie had perfect uaa of h|* »®«. He now runs everywhere, and apparently fg aS wsi5 as ever.” JOHN L. McMUBBAY, Notary PnWb;, Eavenswood, W. Va. , Hood’s Sarsaparilla' Sold by all druggists, fl; Six for 85. Prepared by C. I. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 1O0 DOSES ONE DOLLAR f SAMPLE COPY OF THE j ST. LOUIS - ■: j WEEKLY I ! / Gie-lmocral SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS, | Send Your Name at Once to GLOBE PRINTING CUtf j St. Louis, MoJ

A USVEH HEAD. Xhe Adrantage of Presence of Mind in an Emergency. Daring the late strike on the New York Central Railroad, the militia were ordered to be in readiness in case of a riot, but they were not called out. In an interview, Gov. Hill said the troops were not to be called upon except in case of an emergency. Iho emergency had not arisen, therefore they could not be ordered eut. He remarked that this was the first great strike with which he had had experience, and ho did not propose to loose his head; the only point at which there had then been serious trouble was at Syracuse, and there a deputy sheriff had lost his head and precipitated an encounter. The strike continued several weeks and there was riotous action at various points along the road, but the civil authorities were able to cope with it without calling on the militia. The text of a man’s real ability comes when an emergency arises which makes a hasty call on bis good judgement and dis«> cretion. The man who retains his presence of mind, maintains his equipoise and exercises sound discretion at such critical junctures, is to be relied on and wili be put to the front. Men with level heads have the staying qualities which do not falter in the face of danger. Otis A. Cole, of Kingsman, O., June 10, 1890, writes: “In the fall of 1888 I was feeling very ill. I consulted a doctor and he said I had Bright’s disease of the kidneys and that he would not stand in my shoes for the State of Ohio.” But ho did not loose courage or give up; he says: “Isaw the testimonial of Mr. John Coleman, 100 Gregory St., New Haven. Conn., and I wrote to him. In due time I received an answer, stating that the testimonial that he gave was genuine and not overdrawn in any particular. I took a good many bottles of Warner’s Safe Cure; have not taken any for one year.” Gov. Hill is accounted a very successful iman; he is cool and calculating and belongs , to the class that do not lose their heads when emergencies arise.

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"Well! Well!" That’s the way you feel after one or two of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets have done their work. You feel well, instead of bilious and constipated; your sick headache, dizziness and indigestion are gone. It’s done mildly and easily, too. You don’t have to feel worse before you feel better. That is the trouble with the huge, old-fashioned pill. These are small, sugar-coated, easiest to take. One little Pellet’s a laxative, three to four are cathartic. They regulate and cleanse the liver, stomach and bowels—quickly, but thoroughly. They’re the cheapest pill, sold by druggists, because you only pay for the good you get They’re guaranteed to give satisfaction, every time, or your money is returned. That’s the peculiar plan all Dr. Pierce’s medicines are sold on. Can you ask more ?

CENSUS ABSURDITIES. Funny Things Found In Mr. Porter’s Collection of Statistics. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The census is a thing periodical. It occurs once in ten years and is produc tivw of all sorts of absurdities. Supt. Robert P Porter, incidentally to his contract, will have collected, before his duty is completed, a mass of fun that would compose in itself a whole library as a humorous appendix to his voluminous reports. The element of the ludicrous enters largely into the results ashieved by the census. Take, for instance, the division of vital statistics. Some of the schedules sent in by enumerators were filled out in a manner quite remarkable. According to the returns, one individual, resident in Akron, O., was an infant 6 months old, by trade a carpenter, and died last May of old age. A woman, living in Louisville, Ky., was 94 years of age. a hod carrier by occupation, and died from illness consequent upon teething. Still another person was reported as having died from childbirth, "tiford feeber” supervening, after pursuing the occupation of a car driver until the croup carried him off at the early age of 6. The diseases to which people had succumbed, according to the returns,were quite remarkable. One unfortunate had lost her life from “chronic invitation”—meaning inflammation, presumably—but the favorite complaint seemed to be “chronic,” whatever that may have signified. This one or that one died of "chronic” and nothing else.

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. A looom, : ‘ive has 6,000 pieces. Brea4 is mixed by electricity. Massachusetts has a labor ticket. Omaha ttlegraphers are organizing. The United States have 75,000 typewriters. The State of Ohio has eata’"’ - free labor bureaus. A Chicago coldnetorage build three storie mderground. New Yoi. has a woman a woman butc. \r and a woman blacksmith. Irish & E ish is a Buffalo firm. Irish is Engli j,nd English is an Irishman. Furniture-Torkers in a New York shop refuse ttrdo without beer in working hours. A San Francisco Chinaman has a telegraph office, electric-light plant and complete electrical outfit. In England one man in five hundred gets a college education, and in America ope ii every two hundred. The Grand Division of Railroad Conductors hiis paid off an indebtedness of |11,8(0 in a year, and has a large balance n its treasury. Telephones .re being introduced in hospitals bo ©n ble patients to talk with their friends ’About danger of communicating di- , es. An electric u per points out that in Europe broi , has in a great measure supersede Iron and copper in electrical applfi^ces. A rather extraordinary project for power distribution is at present under consideration ii Saxony, Germany. It is proposed to’establish near the city of Dresden an mmense electric central station to fvrnish high tension currents for lighting and power to 168 small towns and villages in the territory circumscribed by the towns Meissen, Friedberg, ?irna, Schandan, Sebnitz and Radebe -g. To make pape • transparent for copying drawings ph,ce the sheet of paper over the drawing to be copied and lightly rub with a ball of cotton saturated with pure Wzine. The tracing can then be readily made, owing to the resulting transparency, and the benzine on 'evaporating leaves the paper as opaque as b- fore and without any trace of odor. Absolute purity of the benzine, howev . is necessary to secure good resul . Baker's are no r using the electric motor as a bread mixer, and are thus enabled to do in four or five minutes an amount of work 'hat would otherwise require hours of and labor. A writer in a medical paf ?r says he has frequently obtains; t- ( nuch relief from facial neuralgia an incandescent lamp to Fnpart affected. He suggests that th Pimp could also be used advantage©; in poulticing. It could be laid ov .p, flaxseed or other form of poultice and constant heat could be thus seeded.

A CYCLONE INTERFERES. All aorta of difficulties were encountered by enumerators, some of them of a very surprising nature. For instance, the house of one such appointee in Dakota was blown sky-high by a cyclone and the proprietor reported that he saw his schedules, duly filled out, blown into five different counties. The greater part of the Fourth Supervisor’s District of Louisiana was under water during the whole time prescribed by law for the taking of the census. But the census had to be taken, though the enumerators were obliged to go in boats. No questions naked by the census agents elicited such funny answers as did the queries regarding mortgages. One man said that he had mortgaged his property for the purpose of getting an education in biblical prophecies. Another pledged his house and lot to get $800 for marriage expenses. Still another had as his object in view the purchase of twenty gallons of whisky. A citizen of South Carolina had hypothecated his estate to pay his subscription for a preacher. In Maryland was found a man who had borrowed the amount necessary to pay for a substitute in the war, and he had only been able since then to pay the interest and keep on renewing the mortgage. Another person, in Ohio, had mortgaged his land for the purpose of obtaining money to pay for a divorce. A resident of Illinois had been put in a hole by a suit of $10, 000, instituted by an irate husband, the charge being alienation of the affections of his wife. The accused indorses his schedule with the remark: "Borrowed $1,000 to settle, but I have the woman.” A Texan secured a loan of $800 “to pay the expense of raising a family of eleven children.”

THE POINT. tt . From a Catholla Arehbishop down to the \ Poorest of the Poor Iff all testify, not only to the virtees of _ 1 ST. JACOBS OIL, 7 he (treat Remedy For Pain, but to its superiority over all other remedies, expressed thus; It dares Promptly, Permanently; which means strictly, that the pain-stricken seek a prompt relief with no return of the pam, mid this, they say, St. Jacobs Oil will' give. This is its excellence. 3 EWS ’ S3 per eeot. L XiT 1 3E3 Powdered and Perfumed. LPATENTED] The Strongest and Purest LYE made. Will make the best perfumed Soap in 20 minutes without boiling. It is the best for disinfecting sinks, closets, washing bottles, drains, barrels, prints, etc. PENN. ©ALT M'F'Q CO. Gen. Agts., Phila., Pa.

SOME FUNNY LETTERS. Among the funniest things are the letters which have been received by Mr. Porter, requesting employment from the Census Bureau. One arrived only the other day from Oroville, Col., saying: “Can you inform me how I can got on to enforce the Lobster Law! I haf been on the police force here five years and last week we was discharge by a rum Bord we was put in by a temperans Bord and now the rum Bord is goin' to have its own way this year.” A gentleman resident in Scottsville, N.Y. writes: “If you hear anything observe to my character from this vicinity you need not believe that it is so; as I am not an idiot or any of those other mean names I have been called, can read and write and have good health, I do not mean to have my name or character injured, as I am agent for various articles. Please write and tell me if the census taker or any one else in this neighborhood has made any nasty remarks about me. P. S. —Do not send this back, but keep it to refer to.”

Are You BILIOUS? SOME PEOPLE ALWAYS ARE AND NEARLY EVERYBODY IS OCCASIONALLY. TAKE DR. WHITE’S DANDELION ALTERATIVE. It is the best remedy for diseases of the Liver and Kidneys. Is purifies the [illegible] feeling of [illegible] you so often experience. It will cure your headache, restore your lost appetite, and make you feel vigorous enough to take anything within your reach. Very large bottle for $1, and every bottle warranted. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS One cf the most important organs of the human body is the LIVER. When it fails to properly perform its functions the entire system becomes deranged. The BRAIN, KIDNEYS, STOMACH, BOWELS, all refuse to perform their work. DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY DISEASE, etc., are the results, unless something is done to assist Nature in throwing off the impurities caused by the inaction of a TORPID LIVER. This assistance so necessary will be found in Prickly Ash Bitters ! It acts directly on the LIVER, STOMACH and KIDNEYS, and by its mild and cathartic effect and general tonic qualities restores these organs to a sound, healthy condition, and cures all diseases arising from these causes. It PURIFIES THE BLOOD, tones up the system, and restores perfect health. If your druggist does not keep it ask him to order it for you. Send 2c stamp for copy of “THE HORSE TRAINER,” published by us. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS CO., Sole Proprietors, ST, LOUIS, MO.

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS. The average temperature of Sitka, Alaska, in winter is 48 d egrees above zero. In forty years the mercury has alien below zero but four times. The population of London can be best estimated by the not generally known fact that it Is greater than that of Norway and Sweden combined. A young lady has been arested at San Francisco for “disturbing the peace.” She lives on the floor above a doctor’s office and plays the piano incessantly. There is a colored man living in Arkansas City who is the father of thirtysix children. He has been married twice, and each wife bore twins six times. A man who plants an apple tree may not know that more than 250 species of fungi are lying in wait to destroy the fruit. Let us be thankful for the off years. Wardens and keepers, say as a rule, twenty-year prisoners don’t survive their terms, and that as a rule, also, they are the best behaved men in their charge. Life in the little German village] of Stroneck, in the Hartz mountains, is almost entirely given up to chess playing. Even the children in the schools are proficient in the ancient and royal game. It is stated by a pharmaceutical conference that the growth of the patent medicine mania has been tremendous in Jo «.«d tb"t the 1 " 1 is much more 'cr'eaulous than the last.

Of a Southern clergyman of the African persuasion asks for pay and signs himself, “Your friend, Rev. R Wright, hope we may meet in glory where we part no more.” Another man in Greenville, S. C., thinks he can do a gob as senses taker as well as the actual appointee, who “was drunk July A and the 5 and 6 too. A lifelong Republican of the Afro-American type offers his services from Jackson Springs, N. C., but the man who dististinguishes himself above all others in conciseness is Mr. Michael McGrath, of Calais. O., who writes: “Mr. Robert P. Porter, Dear Sir: We are friends. This is all I can write to you. Respectfully, Michael McGrath.” The special agents who have in charge the investigation of the oyster industry find their task especially arduous. In order to discover how many oysters are captured in this country in a year the census is obliged to ascertain exactly how many of these interesting bivalves are taken up per annum by each person engaged in the business. To accomplish this is not so easy. For example, take the case of an agent who tackled a sample negro oysterman about ninety miles south of here, on the Potomac. Said he:

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The division which devotes its attention to debt and taxation, has had its feelings much hurt by the responses given to the inquiries of its agents and circulars. Of the latter it sent out vast numbers to all sorts of officials in every town in the Union, asking who were the chief men in the communities addressed, how much the people were taxed for, and so on. Most of the responses were courteous, but many were quite otherwise. One person applied to returned the schedule with the indorsement, “Go to hell!” Another says, “Life is too short,” A third remarks, ‘ ‘My wife taxed me for twins last month.” “The chief man in authority in this place, ” says a fourth, “is a woman, and her official designation is Ann Jane Smith.” A fifth replies from a small town in .Nebraska; * -Most of the people out here live with their wives and pay taxes when the Sheriff compels them.” Very many of the schedules, particularly where mortgages and debts are concerned, are filled in with unpleasant epithets .71110 -II! <11 mil Ullia.lt).- ; ~ amnonties, : and with records of unfortunate experiencss recorded by enumerators, i “This person kicked me out of his house,” is a comment not so very infrequent on a schedule sent in by this or that enumerator. 1 ‘A dog was sat on me here; badly bitten; doctor’s bill! $2,” is another plaintive form of re- I port. One Ohio enumerator refers to j a ‘ ‘man more brute than human chases ! cows and other animals kept in a cage. ” i This refers to a maniac who has to be j caged to prevent him from pursuing the chase like a wild beast. In many | instances people refused to give their ! names. Two women in one household \ in the Tennessee Mountains signed: themselves “Have-it-all, ” and “Get-it- j all.” On one debt and tax schedule is j indorsed by an official who returns it, j simply, “Rats, rats, rats!”

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William Rackard, who lives near Bayminette, in Baldwin county, Alas bama, is the smallest man in America. He is twenty-one years of age and weighs only forty-nine pounds. He is three feet high and perfectly formed. The plans for making Paris a seaport have been deposited at the Hotel de Ville. The proposed canal from Rouen to Paris is to be 110 miles long and about twenty feet deep, to cost 135,000,000 francs. It is proposed to substitute the car-rier-swallow for the carrier-pigeon in foreign military affairs. The swallow flies higher and more swiftly than the pigeon, and does not interrupt its flight to look for food while on the wing. Deafness Can’fc Bo Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have n rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed. Deafness is the result, and unless the inflamation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will.give One Hundred Dollarsfor any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that we can not cure by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F, J. CHB1SEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold hy druggists, 75 cents. When a person is out of order at a town meeting’ he need not call upon a doctor. The chairman can easily effect a remedy. “Great exertions don’t always end in great results.” Don’t work so hard. Use SAPOLIO and save half the labor. Sapolio is a solid cake of Scouring Soap. Try it. A srbat mistake perhaps was made when Dr. Sherman named his great remedy Prickly Ash Bitters ; but it is presumed that at that time all remedies for the blood, etc., were called Bitters. Had he called it Prickly Ash “Regulator,” “Curative,” or almost anything but Bitters, It undoubtedly v onld have superseded all other preparations of similar character. The name Bitters is misleading; it is purely a medicine, and cannot be used as a beverage. Beeeham’s Pills cure Slck-Headache.

Trente, in Aus ria, claims to have the cheapest publi \ supply of electric light in Europe. ' >e station is owned by the municipa’ has at its dis 1 - posal a large . ,, t r e force from a waterfall under e edent conditions. ; The light is ftmu . co private’conj sumers at the r. of 60 kreutzers j (about 20 cents) year per candle | power, no regulation being made as j to the number of hours. To put the ! electric light within the reach of the | poorer inhabitants, the house wiring, | done by the town, nay be paid for in annual payments. The station also supplies motive power. STEEL IS TBKIR FOOD. The Queer Little Worms That Ate the Railway Tracks. American Manufacturer. A worm that feed or ; common steel was first brought iito general notice i by an article in the Cologne Gazette | in June, 1887. | For some time proceeding the publi- : cation of the account mentioned the ! greatest consternation existed among I the eng;„ w jrg -saip jyed on the railway ; at Hagen by accidents which always ; oocured at the sarae place, indicating | that some terrible defect must exist either in the meter sal or the coastrac- | tioa of the rails. I The Government became interested and sent a Commission to maintain a constant watch r.t the spot where the accidents, one of them attended by loss of life, had occured. It was not however, until after six months had elapsed that the surface of the rails appeared to be corroded, as if by acid, to the extent of over 100 yards. The rail was taken up and broken, where upon it was iound to be literally honeycombed by thin, thread-like gray worms. The worm is said to be two centimeters in length, and about the bigness of a common knitting needle. It is of a light color, and on the head, it carries two little sacs or glands filled with a most powerful corrosive secretion, which is ejected every ten minutes when the litt e demon is lying undisturbed. The liquid when squirted upon iron, renders that metal soft and spongy and the color of rust, when it is easily and greedily[devoured by the little insect. < ‘There is no exaggeration,” says the official report, * ‘in the assertion that the creature is one of the most voracious, for it has devoured thirty-six kilogrammes of rails in a fortnight,”

“How many oysters do you catch in a year?” “Dimno, boss.” “Don’t j‘ou know how many bvttVw elsP” “No, boss.” “Well, what did you sell them for?” “What they were worth, boas.” “But what were they worth?” “Whatever I could get for them, boss.” ‘ ‘Come, now, what did you get for them? Give me some idea.” ‘ ‘Hain, t got no idea, boss. ” * ‘Well, what was paid you for them ?” “Enough to pay all my debts, boss.” “How much did you owe?” “Owed everybody, boss.” That was all the agent was able to elicit from this subject, who was a fair specimen of oysterman. To get the facts as to his case, it was necessary to go around to every on© whom he had dealt with during the year and make an estimate accordingly.

FISH STORIES. The fisheries division of the census came across all sorts of funny things. Among other things; it desired to know the value of the carp which have been introduced into this country and the profit represented by them. One man to whom a schedule was submitted wrote back that the carp in his pond had been worth $1,000 to him in the past six months. His wife had been sick, and he had fed her during that period exclusively upon carp, to which diet he attributed her recovery. She was worth to him, he said, at least $1,000; therefore, he estimated his gain on the investment at that sum. Some of the fish schedules ran astray in the mails, and a response from arid West Kansas was received saying: “We have no fish here, as we have not yet succeeded in finding a variety that could live on prairie grass.” Another man replied that he owned no carp, but that, having heard that there were so many pretty young women in the Census Office at Washington, he would be glad if Supt. Porter would place him in correspondence with three or four of them. The taking of the census in some parts of the country was attended with extraordinary difficulties. Geographical hinderances rendered it most hard in Eastern Oregon, Southern Utah, Southern Nevada and Florida. In Eastern Oregan there is such lack of mail facilities that many enumerators were more than 200 miles from any railway, so that the schedules had to be transported by stage and horseback. The population of Southern Utah and

Monkey and Parrot Fight. While going along Third avenue, Brooklyn, a reporter for the New York World witnessed a fight of a novel and exciting nature. It took place in front of one of a row of tenement houses in the neighborhood of Thirtieth street. The combatants were a parrot and a monkey. The object of contention was a crust of bread which was lying on a neighboring window sill. Polly spied it first and quickly fiew to get it, hut the monkey with a sadden leap landed with both front paws on Polly’s back. Then ensued a fight which for science would have put many a pugilist to shame, A great crowd had assembled in the meantime and the small odds offered were in favor of the parrot. The fight lasted but one round, but it was a fierce one from start to finis h. As soon as the monkey landed, the parrot by a dextrous movement extricated himself and delivered two blows in rapid succession with his beak on the monkey’s nose. With a howl of rage the monkey closed with his opponent, and for thirty seconds the air was filled with feathers and small bunches of hair. The scrap was rudely terminated by the loud swish of a broom in the hands of a woman. Both combatants were knocked off their pins, and the parrot flew to a neighboring tree, while the monkey dropped to the awning of the store below. The crust of bread, or prize, fell to the street and was quickly grabbed up by one of the urchins standing around. Polly afterward flew back to the window sill minus her fcaih

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At a double wedding in Pay son, Ai’iz., the two couples and two hum dred and fifty spectators were all on horseback. The brother of one of the brides announced that his wedding present would be as many cattle as the brides and their husbands could find and brand that day before sundown. Eighteen head were captured and branded by each married .pair. The grooms at this unique wedding were Thomas Beach and Charles Cole, noted cowboys, and their brides were Maggie Meadows and Julia Hale. A colored chiropodist, who calls himself Prof. E. James, and boastingly proclaims that he “has removed eori.s and bunions from the crowned heads of Europe,” iow ventures into the realms of proj vecy. In the last few days he has be ;a reading the lauguage of the stars, and boldly asserts that the heavenly bodies unerringly proclaim that this world is to be knocked into smithereens on the 2It t of August, 3.891 *

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