Franklin Daily Herald, Volume 6, Number 53, Franklin, Johnson County, 24 August 1885 — Page 2

Franklin Daily Herald MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1885. ESKIMO PATIENCE. The number of years the Eskimo will spend in plodding away at the most simple things shows them probably to be the most patient people in the world. When we? we'e near King WilJiam's Land, I saw an Eskimo

working on a knife that, as ncarlv

as T could ascertain, had engage!

a good part of his time some six years proceeding that date. He had a flat piece of iron which

had been taken from the wreck

of one of Sir Franklin's ahipg and from this lie was endeavor

ing to make a knife blade, which

when completed; would be abou

twelve inches long. In cutting

it from this iron xlate he was

owing for a chisel an old file, which it had taken him two or

three years to sharpen by rub

bing Its edges againt stones and

rock. His cold.chisel finished,

been nearly as long cutting a

straight edge along the ragged sides of the irregular piece of iron, and when 1 discovered him

he had out-lined the width of his

knife on the plate and was cut

ting away at it. It would probably liave taken him two more

year to :ut out this piece, aud

two more to fashion the leni'e in

to usefulness. The file which he had made into a cold -chisel was

such a proof of labor and patience that it was great curiosity to trie,

and 1 gave him a butcher's knife

jf exchange for it. Thus almost the very thing he had been bo

long trying to make he now unexpectedly found in his possession. When 1 told him that our factories, or big jglooj,, could make more than he could carry if such butcher knives during the tim he had pent talking silxmt his. he expressed great sur-prise,--Liet, Kchwatka, in tit, .N'Jckolas.

A young man who thinks he can lead a reeklea profligate life until he Income a middle aged man, and then repent and make a good, steady citizen, is deluded, lie thinks that people are f'oola, destitute or memory, lie eoneiide that jj lie repents everybody wjJ forget that Jie wan a dissipated fellow, This is not the ease; people remember your bad deeds and forget your good ones, JJet-jdes it is no eay thing to break oif in middle Jjfe bad habits Unit have been formed in youth.

AN ACRE.

An exact acre can be tound by

the following table of distances

A plot of ground five yards

wide by 968 yards long contains one acre. A plot of ground fen yards wide by 484 yards long contains one acre. A plot of gaound 40 yards wide by 151 yards lone contain one acre. A plot of ground 228 feet long by 198 feet wide contains one

acre. A plot of ground 440 feet long by 99 feet wide contains an acre. A plot of ground 710 feet wide by Z feet long contains an acre. A plot of ground 240 feet long by 181$ feet wide contains one acre. One acre contains Io'O square rodg,4,850 square yards, or 43,500 square feet. One rod contains 80.24 square yards 572.15 square feet. Strange Sight at Cohoes. Auunr, N. Y., Aug. 2b Considershie excitement baa Wn caused hi Cohoe by u tmng night at th rejdeixut of Mr. Tbott. Wood, whom infitut Ahihl died on Wednendtty, Wben unhrUker prepared the body for lmrj.l, one of the jmrty present noJ iletdy dweUrd (hat the ftVtWH of a

utmn ttid chalice culd be seen mi the

white cloth that covered the child ' face. The otbem licked, and itw the figurwi. Word wtt out nW tot,l

flockM to the bow tintil it bcnm netwary to call on the police to Itwji back the crowd, The cloth vru fr-

juntly wflt with water, hut the figuri remained. The spot where the

i-.rrm and chalice were outlined were of h glistening whiter whade than thej

remainder oi me eiotii wnen it whs wet. About VI o'clock yenlerday the

ibadow dioajipeiued, Many believe

it to have been a miracle.

Coal has been discovered near Lampasas, Texas. California has an estimated colored population ol 7,500. A well of natural gas has been

discovered near Clinton, 111.

"What have you to remark about my singing?" asked an irate vocalist. ''Nothing," replied a spectator; it is not remarkable."

"Too much rain" is the complaint of the farmers in Iowa and Nebraska.

Great excitement cxinU in Washington, l'a.f by the strike of a fivebarrel oil-well. The Groonsburg News and the Press have been bought oat by a Mr. Mendenhall, and will hereafter consolidate them.

John C. Iiroady, living about ten miles south-west of I?xing ton, I ml,, was shot and killed as he lay in bed. New York City gives $20,000

every year to the blind who do

not beg and are not inmates of

homes and asylums. Gen Logan's book will contain

several severe criticisms of the defective grammar of certain distinguished leaders in the civil

war.

The Missouiri Monumenfnl

Grant Association has been or3 ganized at St, Louis to raise funds to erect a monument to the departed hero in that city. The four American cities of above twenty thousand inhabitants having the highest natural si ton above the level of the sea are Leadvllle, Denver, Omaha and Atlanta, in the same order named.

A Long Island son in law recently attacked his wihVs father with an empty pistol. It is believed that fie knew it was not loaded, and that he meant mnrd r.

If tho gentleman who wrote the letter to President Cleveland has any information as to the person who struck William Patterson, he is not going to give it away.

Pulp, made made out oi the

yocea palm, is sent from Lancaster, Cal. to Londor. and there

turned into paper, upon which the nVG lnues without any pro-

Telegraph is printed.

In Montreal a man is not allowed to work at th show bii'dM'gs unless he is vaccinated, but the milkmen are allowed to con-

cautions.

"The editors onj'aaiemala eorn to accept free pusw on the railroads." That is the worst thing we; bare yet seen against the Guatemala railroads.

Jieer more dunei'tux than wb'iky

That in the verdict of the Kcientilie

American, which sets forth that the

use of beer i found to produce a jecie of degeneration of ail the organs; profound and deceptive fatty dejoiU;

j mi limbed circulation ; condition of

e,oii'iwtjoii and perversion of functional a!t)viie, local infUmationM of both liver and kidneyw, are eoiiMtantly pre

ent, A alight injury, a severe (Mild, or a nhock to the body or mind, will commonly provoke acute dmeae, ending fatHlly in a beer-drinker Journal.

A silver dollar weighs very

nearly an ounce, Jienee any let

ter not heavier than a dollar

:an go. for a single two-cent

ulamp, A five-eenl piece added

will give the ounce. If you have

not the silver dollar, five nicklon

and a tmiall copper cent will give mi onec.

The Jioston Indians used to eat clams at their funerals. They appear to have been wholly miaejuainied with beams.

The new twelvc-niiJIion-dollar

catbefral hi Moscow, has thirteen

big bolln. The geiiteman who writes communications to the press advising the disentiniiunee of all bell-ringing, will have to take a IVesh Htart,

Fut LIE!

Wmta. Tim boat iM AaMiriea. A II f runi rftfiwtiwl Wrm In lurid. All relator) ati4 jfiWvrmm Ji(riillid.

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It is noted that the proprietor of many Eastern summer roHorts are paying greater attention to sanitary improvements than ever before. That places where people go to retiew thejr health should be healthful is really quite desirable, and it Is very gratifying to learn that thin policy has begun to be pursued by thoe who conduct thejn.

free, Ma hmo nary was introduced into China by an KngliHlimim about sixty years ngo,and among the Chinese in America about fifteen years ago. The ritual hu, of course, been Inundated Into Chinese, and in China thirty two

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STEWARTS HEALIKG RTm wEfl

Cure. all open sores on Animals from any cause, sore sboufders, cuta, klcka, rope burna, eorfo'fracks, scratches, cuts from barb-wire) lance. tc. It is tho host, cheapest, most satisfactory i no grosso or smell to attract fifes:

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llkfj Jlnimonts t easily tipplled and always

Trial size-J 0 cts. At Harnessor Drugstores. tTEWART HEAL! HO POWDER CD, m.Loulsbnd Mew York. Keep your stock fngoodeondftf on by usfnjg stowarfs Stock Remdy

not Inhr

Sin Bkiiimii urn a sort)

The Mirror

is no flatterer. Would you make St tell a sweeter tale?

legieeMre, administered, but fn MairnolialJalmklheeharm-

tlux country only three are allow tt tjiat almo3t cheats; the

ed fo be eonfeijed, Th"te are i lookl'nLr-!flasi;.

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Chinese Jiee Masons )i, America.