Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1901 — Page 7

A VERY CURIOUS BIRD. fhr One T.nng Mark Twain Sprang t pun the Scientlate. Mark Twain's father was an ornithol. ogist. He had several friends who nore also enthusiasts on the subject et jjirds. Whenever any one of them dig. covered a rare avis It was the custom to have a consultation. Mark had been B witness of several of these bird inquests and bad noted the delight the old men took in discussing a new found specimen One day it occurred to him to provide the Hannibal ornithologists with a real circus in the form of a bird. He killed a erow and also a barnyard rooster. Plucking out the tail feathers of both the crow and the rooster, lie substituted the rooster's tail feathers for those of the crow, producing a unique effect. When lie had the specimen nicely prepared, he went to his father and, handing it to him, said: ■ Here, father, is a very curious bird I shot. I thought you would be interested in it.” The old gentleman gazed upon the specimen with astonishment. That evening the ornithologists of Hannibal were assembled in Mr. Clemens' parlor. The rare specimen was put before them. The discussion was long and learned. The opinions expressed were various. One thought the bird was an offshoot of the bird of paradise family; others had equally ridiculous no-

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NO. I.—ICO acre farm, three and one-half miles from Decatur, on new stone road: close to church; one mile from school house. Ninety-five acres cleared; all under good fence: all black land, well tilled. Good frame house of seven rooms, large frame barn and all necessary out-buildings. Good cherry orchard of seventy trees: plum orcharch of twenty-three trees: apple orchard of one hundred trees: all young, thrifty trees bearing select fruit. Good driven well and steel wind pump: also dug well with iron force pump; both excellent water This farm is a bargain at SSO 00 per acre. NO. 2. -40 acre farm, four miles south of Decatur. one-fourth mile from stone road, close to church and school. Thirty-seven and one half acres cleared: two and onehalf acre* small timber; all black land and well tiled, except one small field. Well fenced. One story plank house of three rooms and summer kitchen, fair condition; log barn with sheds on three sides; cribs, granary and other out-brildings. Good driven well and steel wind mill, water tank, etc. Good bearing orchard. Price. 150,00 per acre. No 3.—♦’O acre farm, three and one-half miles southeast of Decatur, on stone road. All cleared and well fenced: all black land: good frame house of seven rooms, in good repair: large frame barn in good shape, granaries, cribs and other necessary buildings. Fine young orchard of about two hundred apple, cherry and plum trees, fine and thrifty and bearing select fruit. Land all well tiled and very productive; good dug well, splendid water, with iron force pump. One mile from school and near to church. Cheap at S&3.UO per acre. No. 4.—100 acre farm, three miles southeast ot Decatur, on gravel road. Eighty-five acres cleared and fenced into six fields: good fences: balance timber land; oak. walnut and other timber, doll black, sandy, river bottom loam, very pioductive House of seven rooms, one and one half story solid frame, well built and in good shape; also frame house of six rooms.one story. In good condition. Frame bank barn. 32.\Vi feet; stable under whole barn, and all in fine shape; cribs, granaries and other out-bulld-ings. Driven well with iron force pump, can not be pumped dry; first-class water; also dug well of good water Orchard of tine fruit; thrifty trees. This is a fine farm and has been well eared for and is a bargain. Price. #4,700 W. No. s.—Good 40 acre farm in Lorain county, übiu.four miles south of Grafton Station, and four miles southwest of Belden Station, in good neighborhood, near to school and church. House of eight rooms In good repair; good barn, horse barn, granary cribs and other necessary out-buildings. Two good, never failing wells, good cistern; orchard of bearing trees—apples, pears, peaches, small fruits, etc Land all cleared and ail under good cultivation. Ten acres creek bottom and balance fair clay soil, all in g*K>d condition. A desirable small farm. Cheap at $1,650.00; one-third cash balance in payments to suit purchaser, at 6 per cent, interest. No 6. -*0 acrei of good unbroken prairie land in Kidder county. North Dakota, situated four miles from Dawson, on Northern Pacific railroad, and twelve miles from Steele, the county seat of Kidder county. Church ami school near to land. This land will make a fine home for the right party. If you are in want of a cheap home and a good farm it will pa' to investigate thia offer. Will exchange lor small house and . lot In Decatur. Is very cheap at $560,00. No. 7. -HO acre farm, three and one-half miles east ot Decatur, on a good road, onehalf mile from school, one mile from church, part black land and balance sandy clay loam. seventy acres cleared, balance in small timber and woods pasture, fences fairly good. One and one-half story frame house of five nx>rn*, and aummer kitchen, all in good repair, rooms nicely papered and all in good shape. Burn 46x66 feet, solid oak frame »et on atone pillars and with slate touf. first clasa In every particular, good granary, corn cribs and other out-buildings built apart from barn, good driven well with Iron pump, never falling. barrel ceturiiled cistern, good soft water for drinking or washing purpose*. Two orchards ot nice thrifty young bearing trees, apples, pears, etc: fine grape arlior. excellent grapes. About fifty acres of this farm Is how *ell set down to grass. This Is a fine farm in an excellent neighborhood and Is a bargain you should not miss at |4® 00 per acre. No. 8. ho acre farm on good gravel road running from Union City to Fort Recovery, Ohio, three-quarters of a mile from school, near to church, and good neighborhood. Bixty-five acres cleared and fifteen acres in

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tlous as to its ancestry. But there was one who refused to be swerved by the peculiarity of the bird's tall from the judgment that it was of the crow famL . • "U hy. just look here." ]».. said, liftlug the bird by its tail feathers. He got no further. The feathers came out. There was a quick closing of a door. Mr. Clemens started to leave the room. Gentlemen,' he said, "please excuse me a few moments. 1 will see Samuel first and explain later.” Sonp.nd. Desarrt. The tribes on the coast of British Co lumbla hold a festival in the autumn the crowning Item of which is the par taking of a few spoonfuls of a bowl oi soapsuds. They gather in the dingy huts, whlct are hung with the staple food—driet salmon. For light they stick into tin ground, head downward, a silvery fist about five inches long, set fire to th* tail, and they have a torch, for the fist burns steadily. After eating of various unsavory foods there conies the great treat. Tbit is a bowl of a frothy, soapy mixture obtained by crushing in a not overclenr manner the sapoliti, or soap berries and squeezing out the juice. This is as much like soapsuds as it is possible t< conceive. The natives sip it frop spoons of black wood, neatly carved of which they think a eront <u.u>

timber—maple, oak, etc. Land well tiled, fences in tairly good repair. Frame house, one and one-halt stories, six nice rooms anil cedar, all in good shape Frame barn, shed aed on three sides for stables, two good wells, never tailing, ard good cisiern-al-wax s plenty of waler. Good beat in nr orchard of all varieties of fruit. This farm lies nine miles from Union City and six and onehalt miles from Fort Recovery. and one mile from postoffice with daily mall. This is a splendid chance to buy a good farm, and will not be in the market long at the price at which it Is now quoted. Price, |3,uUU 00. NO. 9. -Forty acre farm, seven miles from Decatur, three miles from Monroe, one mile from stone ma t. under contract, soon to be built. Land all cleared and under good fence: all well tiled; tine black soil, except very little, which ts sandy loam, all very productive. Good frame Louse of five rooms, hall and buttry. in good repair: new barn, built well of excellent water; tine young orchard of about sixty trees apple, pear, plum and small fruits in plenty: tine grape arbor of excellent grapes. This farm lies three miles from post office and railroad station; a good grain and stock market, nnd is a very desirable farm for a home. Price. 62.IUU.UU—Sl.OOiMO cash, balance in two equal annual payments, at six per .ent. interest ; or will trade for good residence property in Elwood, Andeison or Marion. NO 100. \ fine residence property in Decatur. Indiana, six squares from business center. on a stone street: corner lot *<lxl32 feet, lies high and dry. tine maple shade trees next to streets; bearing apple and pear trees and grape vines in good bearing condition One and one-halt story frame bo jse of ten rooms, well built and in good repair, piped for gas. well of good water with iron pump, under roof, good dry cellar, good barn with stable room for six horses; also a large building which has been used for a carpen ter shop, can be arranged lor dwelling bouse with small outlay. A very desirable residence property. Price. 12.0j0.U0, one-half cash, balance in one and two years at six per cent. NO 101.—Five room house on Ninth street, north of Monroe. Decatur, lot 66x132 feet: house in good repair, except needs painting outside, well finished inside, gas piped for two stoves, good well of splendid water, good cistern, forty-five fruit trees on lot. apple, pear, plum and peach trees, grape arbor, currant and gooseberry bushes. '1 his prop erty will makeafine home for the right man. Price, luuu.uu. NO 102.- Residence property on north Eleventh street. Decatur. House of tour rooms, neat aud in good repair. lot 66x1% feet; nicely situated, with apple, pear, cherry, piurn and peach trees, bearing and in good thrifty condition: raspberrv an 1 currant bushes, grape arbor, strawberries, etc. House piped for gas and water piped into lot; good tank cistern. A fine location and cheap at 1680.00, NO 103.- Residence property.— One and onehalt story frame house of eleven rooms, two large clothes rooms, buttry and chinacloset, rooms all newly papered, and all in good condition, a large dry cellar, house piped for gas. fine drilled well. Iron force pump splendid water, elghty-flve barrel tank cistern with pump in kitchen.good large wood bouse and summer kitchen. also coal house. This desirable residence Is situated on a line, large lot. on a brick street in Decatur, inside of the'railroads less than three squares from the business center of citv. The lot contains apple, pear, cherry and plum trees all excellent fruit, and is nicely situated in a good neighborhood. Price. |1,«0.«>. NO. 104. -Residence nroperty in elty of Decatur. H,ouse of five rooms, two clothes room, and fine large buttry. nsitns newly papered and painted last spring, bouse Is pl|xd for ga. and city water, also has fine drilled well of splendid water, new titty barrel tank cittern put in one j ear ago, good large summer kitchen piped fortius, good barn and oui-ouildiugs. this residence Is iltuated on a goo* I alley lot on Indian, street, one-half square west of Fifth street and one-half square from Third Ward school building; lot Is iWxtX! feet with maple shade tree* next to street, also next to alley back of summer kitchen. 10 good neighborhood a...1 cheap at 1800.00. NO. |QS.~Oood resident* property on south Mntb street. Decatur. One and one halt story frame house, six rooms and summer klUmen: house newly uaperw! and in good condition: piped for gas; good tank cistern; aiH.ut thlrt v bearing fruit trees- apple, pear, cherry. This will make you u nice home and nan be bought on easy terms. Price, 11.0.0.00.

Proved Her Nationality. Recently a bent old lady entered one of the Salina street stores and upon be Ing asked what she wished to see made reply in what the clerk judged to be an unknown language. A second Inquiry proving no more satisfactory, the clerk excused herself and went in search of one of her colleagues who is of German descent. “Oh, Miss L.,” she entreated, “won’t you come over to my counter for a minute? There’s a poor old German lady there, ami I can't understand a word she says." Miss L. followed and, pausing before the stool on which the would be customer was seated, inquired in het sweetest tones: “Are you a German?” The “poor old German lady” raised her handkerchief to her lips and evidently extricated something from het mouth. Then, bending a look of the utmost scorn upon the clerk, she exclaimed lu a rich and unmistakable brogue: “Garman, is it? Indade an I'm not But I've got a new set of false tathe, bad scran to thim! Au now, if ye plase, will wan of yez wait on me?”— Syracuse Herald. Entertaining Squirrels. Alive in his native woods the squirrel is an amusing little fellow, and he will entertain you by the hour it you will let him. You probably become first aware of his presence by his dropping things on your head. Then he plays hide and seek with you ns he zigzags up a tree. While he pauses for thought, or possibly to wash his face, another squirrel conies scudding along the branches of a neighboring tree, and away they go, one chasing the other, jumping from branch tip to branch tip, racing up and down the trunk and making the bark fly. Sometimes one loses ids footing and falls headlong 20 or 30 feet to the ground, landing there with a force that makes him bounce. You think every grain of sense must be knocked out of the small body, but be only blinks a bit, and, after a moment spent perhaps in letting the stars set that must have suddenly risen before his eyes, he streaks it up the nearest tree after the other fellow. Long after they have disappeared from sight you hear them chattering together up among the leaves like two watchmen's rattles.— Philadelphia Record. Her Opinion of AnparnKU*. It seems that asparagus is not grown in the tropics—at least it was not grown at Rio de Janeiro when a certain American gentleman, who bad lived several years in the Brazilian capital, went with bis wife and 8 year-old daughter to visit friends living near Buenos Ayres, a part of the continent where the climate is better adapted to the fruits and vegetables of the temperate regions. At the first dinner after their arrival the visitors were treated to some fresh asparagus. The little 8-year-old daughter was likewise served with the asparagus, but she evidently did not think much of It as an article of food. Her mother tried for some time to coax her to eat It. Finally the little girl, taken between the rudeness of whispering at the table and the rudeness of not eating her food, leaned over and. with a choking voice and quivering lip, whispered to her mother: "Mamma, it is not nice. It's raw at one end and rotten at the other." An Bngll.h Explanation. This is the way a prominent English paper explains It: The president of the United States, who receives a salary of £IO,OOO a year, must pay for all the food consumed at the White House, and the expenses of getting up an elaborate state dinner are not small. Cigars and wines the president buys, and they must be of the best. He has Ao maintain his own equipage. The government. however, allows him a valet: also a clerk, who opens all his letters. All other personal servants must be engaged by the master and mistress of the White House. Scandinavian English. Sir Herbert Maxwell gives In his "Memories of the Months” the following copy of a beguiling advertisement set forth by a Scandinavian who could “spik Inglis” and who had a shrewd idea of luring tourists to his salmon river: Look Her! Salmon! The honorable travelers are averted to, that undersigned, who lives in FJorde pr. Vol den Romsdals county, Norway, short or long time, hires out a good Salmonriver. Good lodging finda Pidkik Maas. A Combination Tree. A pine tree and a birch tree hav« grown so close together lu Woolwich, Me., that one trunk serves for both, sending forth pine branches on one side ami birch on the other. The union seems a happy one In spite of the fad that the two trees are as widely sep arated by the botanists as two well can be, and the gnarled branches ol the pine embrace the birch In a most affectionate manner. They Were Discovered. When they went Into the hotel, he was determined to do nothing to betray the fact that they were newly married. He took up the pen for his first regia tratlon under the new conditions and with an old m irried man look and ■weep of indiffeiei vv wrote, “Mr. and Mrs. Mary Tompkins.” “Will you have the bridal chamber Mr. Tompkins?” ailed the clerk.—New York Herald. Sorry He i'pokr. Guest (Indignantly) — Walter, then ■re feathers In the soup! Walter (Inspecting It)—Why, so then are. 1 thought 1 was giving you gravy ■v di). It's chicken broth, sir; costs six pence more. (Changes figures on th* bill.)—Exchange.

A Slight Deficit. A weather stained, creaking wagon drew up in front of a photographer’s establishment in a Georgia town. Beneath Its body a lean hound camo to a standstill. A man clad In jeans trousers, homespun shirt and guiltless of coat or vest emerged from the vehicle's anterior extremity. Settling his soft slouch hat on the back of his head, he adjusted his lone gallus and gave the lines to the wife and baby within. Behind those, from the dome of canvas beyond, peered, big eyed and solemn, numerous editions of the lord and master. Entering the shop, the stranger paused before a ease of sample photographs and, pointing to one, said, "Mister, what d’yer charge fer takln picters like that?” “Three dollars a dozen,” replied the clerk. Thrusting Ids hands into his pockets, he turned thoughtfully toward the wagonful of offspring. “Waal, I reckon I'll have ter wait a bit.” he said softly to himself. “I ain’t got but ’leven."— Harper's Magazine. One I’nsnenger Too Many. A good story is going the rounds of the offices of the Metropolitan Street Railway company concerning the wonderful presence of mind displayed recently by a new conductor on one of the company's trolley cars. This particular ear was bowling along up Broadway recently when it was hailed and boarded by a company inspector. The official hurriedly counted the passengers in the ear and found that there were nine. Thon he cast bis eye up to the register and found that there had been only eight fares rung up. He disclosed his identity to the new conductor and called attention to the discrepancy. Slowly and painfully the new hand counted over his passengers and then scanned his register. “Begorra, an you’re roight, sir,” he said and promptly stopped the car. “Say,” he demanded, addressing the passeugers in an authoritative manner, “wan o’ youse fellows'll hov to git off the car-r.”—New York Times. Cleaning OH Paintings. An art journal suggests raw potatoes to clean oil paintings. Have a few potatoes nt hand, each cut in halves. The fresh surface Is dampened slightly with cold water and used to rub the canvas. As the potatoes show soil the surface Is sliced off and the rubbing continued. This process will create a little lather, which should be wiped off as fast as it accumulates with a clean, damp sponge. When the whole canvas is cleaned, it should be washed over lightly wljh clean water from which the chill has been taken and finally the water carefully wiped off with an old clean silk handkerchief. Raw potatoes to clean paintings are frequently in hearsay evidence, but this description of the process may be of value. It is suggested byway of reasonable caution that the experiment should be tried first upon a canvas of trifling value and upon one corner of that. The Collection. While lecturing his congregation rather strongly on a recent Sunday about slack attendance and small collections a minister of a church in an English city used the following eloquent nnd forcible sentence: “Yes. brethren, our collection of a little over £3 last Sunday included no fewer than 500 halfpennies. We all know about the widow’s mite, and 1 am sure we are very glad to receive It; but I don't think there are 500 widows in this congregation!" Wltnesa My Hand. In the early days only a few scholars. priests and clerks knew how to write. It was then customary to sign a document by smearing the hand with Ink and Impressing It upon the paper, accompanied by the words. "Witness my hand.” Afterward the seal was Introduced as a substitute for the hand mark and was used with the words above quoted, the two forming the signature. This l.i the origin of the expression as used in modern documents. Juat m nnd. Educated Egyptian—You have no wonderful hieroglyphics in your country. sir: no mysterious inscriptions, no undecipherable relics of an uncient literature whose secrets the wise men of the world have tried for ages to discover. Tourist—No. we haven’t any of those things, but (brightening itp> we've got our “railway guides.”—London Fun. The only two great European capitals that never have been occupied by a foreign foe are London and St. Peters burg.

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