The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 18, 1889, Page 5

OF GENERAL INTEREST. —A Cadiz (O.) cat tried to kill a three-foot blacksnake. She didn’t succeed, but was choked to death in the attempt. —It is stated by one of the guides at the capitol, in Washington, that fife teen brides an hour is the average number of visits to the statuary hall each day of the year. —There is a man in Schenevus, N. An Appeal for Aid. The following letters explain themselves. Those of our citizens who are blessed with plenty should emember substantially the suffer- ngs of aformer neighbor away up \ drouth stricken Dakota: D. Autey, Esq: Dear str—Mr. Moses Martin, for qumber of years lived in Bates|Y-, getting rich from adog. He owns inty, near Virginia, and was un a canine which he has sold several times, but it always returns home, no matter how far it is carried. —A farmer of Pleasants County, W. Va, being greatly annoyed by rats in his barn, filled a half-hogshead with water, put chaff over the top, scattered meal on it, and in the morning fished out over 200 dead rats. —An Illinois woman has invented a dish-washing machine. As it never insists upon having its Sunday out, with Thursday afternoon for shopping and cousinly visits, it is likely to have a general demand among _ house- keepers. —The following advertisement ap- peared ina recent number of the Lon- don Tablet: ‘“fo parents—Unruly girls and boys of age visited and pun- ished at their homes by a thorough disciplinarian a tomed to adminis- tercorporal punis Ail bad hab- its cured by one or two attendances. Fee, five shillings for two visits. Ad- dress ‘Birch.’” —A fire that broke out in a shaft of acoal mine at Birmingham, Ala., im- prisoned a miner and sixteen mules. The miner was reached about ten days afterward and was found to be dead. Eighteen days after the fire the mules, which were much further back in the mine, were reached and all but one of the sixteen were alive, although too weak to stand. —Dwellers in Florida who are fortu- nate enough to possess pet sand-hill cranes have discovered that they are alert night watchers. No tramp or thief can approach the house without hearing aclear bugle note of alarm. The cackling of a goose saved Rome and the cry of asand-hill crane per- forms the same service for the Florida hen-roost and smoke-house. —Among the modern ‘Mysteries of Paris,” says the London Figaro, is a shop devoted to the sale of tea. At the retail counter a real live Prince may be seen any day weighing up packets of the leaf which cheers but does not inebriate. This Prince is the son of an European General, whose name is well known throughout the continent, and who is related to some of the most aristocratic of the families of Paris. —The highest structure of masonry in the world is said to be the National Museum recently completed at Turin. It was originally designed for a syna- gogue, but it proved ill adapted to that purpose, and was sold to the city. It was then converted into a museum as a monument to the memory of Vic- tor Emanuel. On top of the dome rises a spire nearly as high as the whole of the rest of the building. The gilt statue on the top of this spire stand: $ feet from the ground. —A couple of good-natured French- men got into a quarrel and challenged each other to fight. The morning of the duel they and their seconds horable and prosperous farmer. Ip iuclined to the upinion that if htetter was published many of lis aCaintauces here would assist him. IW send him some hojothers will. money and Yours truly, Wa. E. Warren. Sr. sry, Miner Co.,S. D. Dec. 1°89. Mr."y. E. Wartos. Dear rriexp—I, with a gre deal of reluctauce, am sorry $2 8830 you that I and my people are in destitute condition from the great outh that swept over the two Ditas. In our county we raised qnparatively nothing to live on till Wean raise another crop. No grain to2}], aud wheat is the staple we have depend on to bring us money. ‘e had to dispose of our stock at Vy low prices; we had to keep our wk stock, but many of us do not low how we are going to feed it thr¢zh the winter, they are grazing on he prairie yet, having had but ver, little snow. Should we have 2] winter it would be greatly in oufavor, if the reverse, there would I great suffering, per- haps death, a we live in a latitude where the meriry runs down to 40 degrees below zere, with frequent visitations of bzzards, We are in a far worse conition than we were in Missouri and Kansas in “74 aud 75, when the contry was infested with grasshopper. We are getting some relief throvh our railroads and various otherchannels. Have ben getting coal § one-half rates by paying the mingprice, those that could not pay it is fee, it is compel- ling us to substitutefuel with cow chips. Now if ya put confi- dence in my statemet (I have lived m your county vearlyl6 years and you must know somthing of my reputation) and can catribute some- thing inthe shape of clothing or overshoes for men, Wouen or chil- dren, the freight woul’ not be as much as the articles ve worth, it would be thankfully recived. We need corn for our stock it would cost too mnch to send it from your county, but if you could send us money it would bethankfuly receiv- ed. 1f you and your friends can so- licit your town I will be greatly at. obliged, and send it to me, St. tramped through the woods to the Marys, Miner county. S. D. I and fatal spot, when one of the duelists, 5 ~* the challenging party, tripped and fell. His second helped him to his feet. ‘I hope you are not hurt?” said the other nry wife and two youngeit girls are sadly in need of clothing. Resp. yours, Moses Maxrrry. duelist. ‘‘I’monot much hurt; I only P. S. I raised no corn,itdried up| bumped my nose on the ground.” before it came out in tasel; oats| ‘Does it bleed?” “Yes, a little.” dried up; did not raise a lushel of barley; did not make aaything; wheat did not make anything only on corn stalk land, which made a late yield. Some farmers that had sown from 100 to 160 acres did not thresh a bushel. I put in 160 acres and harvested 10 acres that was fall plowing, and threshed 170 bushels, which is aliI raised. I have my bread and some seed, all the hay we got was grass that grew «ne and two years ago, the short buffalo grass on the prairies at this time is as good feed as the hay we harvest- “Heaven be praised! Blood flows, and my honor is vindicated. Give me your hand, old boy!” —Since its first Shes the Thirteen Club of New York has gone on ridi- euling minor superstitions with all its might, and if it has not succeeded in hurting the superstitions, the super- stitions do not seem to have hurt the club. Among the other achievements of which the club is proud is the al- leged rehabilitation of Friday—a day whose reputation has been of the worst from time immemorial. It pub lished some time ago a list of notable events, by no means baneful ones, which happened on Friday. For in- stance, the club’s archivist professes to have discovered that on Friday, August 21, 1492, Christopher Colum- bus sailed for America. On Friday, October 12, 1192, he first discovered land. On Friday, December 22, 1620, the Mayflower landed the pilgrims on Plymouth Rock. Bismarck, Gladstone and a host of great men were born on Friday. And so on through a long list. We Want To sell a lot of Reckiug chairs for Christmas presents, and of course, want To make Money on them. Thes goods were bought so low and our expenses are so small that we find it 0 trouble to sell at a reaoonable profit aud make Prices Lower than any competition. sell our whole stock At Cost that is, at whet it will cost our cus- tomers, which is about what such yoods cost our competitors. If you wut to make sensible presents, see us JEWETT & HiCKMAN, Butler, Mo. O. H. F. S. The Meanest Man in Maine. A man who owes us over two years’ subscription put his paper back in the post-office last week, marked ‘‘Re- fused.” We have heard of many mean men. There is a man who used the wart on his neck for a collar button, the one who pastured a goat on his grandmotber’s grave, the one who stole coppers from a dead man’s eyes, the one who get rich by giving his We propose! without supper and then stealing the fused,” and then stick it back into the post-office is entitled to the first pre- mium. Now, if this man don’t settle his account with this office inside of three weeks we shall tell who he is and where he lives, and invite him to go down the grand circuit of cattle fairs to be exhibited as the meanest FAOLIDAY GOODS, five children a nickel each to go to bed | nickel after the children were asleep; |», but for downright meanness the man | who will take a paper for years, never | pay any thing for it, mark it ‘‘Re-| Pass op. gush-wMarey (le) Adrers 3 HEADQUARTERS FOR ib {the house of a prominent family jt perforated with holes larger here. A young domestic was terri- those which s musket bullet wou bly frightened and desired to go to make, speared with most ace Buried | Alive- WOODPECKER STORES. Madisor, Wis.. Dee. 13.—About a How the Busy Birds Secare Provisions onth ago diptheria appeared in Stee oe eee ing of bark, I obse! In st f : recs RES e p ,her home in the country but the PPS*sien as & os under the gu ance of nd compass, and m attending physician would not per- ofthe ema f most neatly with aon mit her. A-young child died, and E in the season I rema e i E this, with the horror of the disease, the holes in most all the soft timbe AS heretofore we are acknow ledged Raien the cant ue ue P but, imagining they were caused by < cause the girl to take to her bed and wood ingots’ T ala not stp tated i Sees ‘ sects, a s + - she apparently died ina few heurs ine or inquire; but now findin; ee ace phar ters, N oO he DUNE nh southw est jand was at once buried by the au studded with acorns firmly fixed | thorities. A few days ago her par- which I knew could not have be Missouri? carries as laree and as exten- sive a line of ° ‘fi Holiday Goods + do, # it bh As w nd we guaruiteed prices to be the LOWEST. You are standing in your own light to buy without secing our line and getting Pp. Prices. Our departments coniplete and are snsists of ALBUWS, TUYS, JUVNILE BOOKS, DOLLS, STANDARD POEMS, Christmas Cards, Gold Pens, Cups and Saucers, China Sets, Fine Wooden Toys, Piush and Leather Toilet Sets, SCRAP ALBUMS, Valocipees, Bicycles,” Rocking Horses, CHILDRENS WAGONS, {8 a e f ¢ r i And many other lines too numerous to mention. Your Patronage is solicited. Respectfully, GEO. W. WEAVER. FOR wOLiDAY PR Either v in s North Side Sqare. and see ie I undersell all Competitors. EE Come ents obtained permission | the body to the country and upon given me by Captain S the above all ot! sehvo! teacher pl her parents reside Sunday she visited at gaat Hill, going out to see ily. body was discovered in the barn. No disease and restoring li ficient time to thoro poison it never fai gists. la while walking in the the shooting, but it issuppos the shot came ‘ who did not know of the prese:e the child.—Nevada Mail. Gold, Silver, or Plated Ware, Franz Bernhardt the Jewler driven there by the wind, I sought fe an explanation, which was practic: ‘s point pening the casket they were horri- outa flock of woodpeckers busily ed to find the body noisily employed in the provident ts 3 of securing their winter's provision for itappears that the sagacious bing is not all the time thriftlessly en; in “tapping the hollow beach tree’) = for the mere idle purpose of empty _ sound, but spends its summer in picking those holes, in which lays its store of food for the win where the elements can neither nor place it beyond their reach, and is considered a sure omen that | snowy period is approaching wi ih ACs | these birds commence stowing a “Sha arp, @ handsome | their acorns, which otherwise m! Greenwood, Mo.,; be covered by its fall. I frequently paused from my ch to remove was lying on s face. the Lair wrenched from her ead and the flesh Lterally torn from face aud hands. satment of rheumatism and ¢ troubles Hibbard’s Rheu- rup stands first and toremest ts. Read their medica: dlearn of the great medie | remedies which enter | tion. Sold by all drug- 44cieye amphiet, al value of Miss Belle at nicided Wednesday night by hang: | { i 2 as t | ping to watch them in my neighbo sper 5 ey. : 2 | ‘ ng herself with a halter, fish the hood, with the acorns in their b' rafters of abarn at her boarding | half clawing, half flying round | tree, and admired the adroitness wit | which they tried at the different holeg until they found one of its exact ¢ ber, when, inserting the pointed they tapped it home most artistic: with their beaks, and flew down another. But their natural instinet & | even more remarkable in the choice @ the nuts, which you will inv: A few moments later her dead | find sound; whereas it is a matter g impossibility, in selecting them roasting, to pick up a batch that not have half of them unfit for the most safe and polished-looking fi quently containing a large grub erated within. Even the wily Indi with all his craft and experience, unable to arrive at any thing like unerring selection, while in a bag full that we took from the bark: our log, there was not one containht the slightest germ of decay. never encroach on their packed until all on the surface are co’ when they resort to those in the b and ace. She wa years of ag t Armourdale. nd returned to her home sick. The suicide, she told the amily at her boardi a ii vening of her x place she was ghboring fam- ause Was given. “Rheum by strikin Hibbard’s heumatism © Syrup cures at the seat ot the kidneys and iver toa healihy action. If taken asut hly eradicate such Soid by all drug 44-1-yr. A little daughter of Mr. Leveridg: n Barton county, had herarm badly of shot Sunday at hei reerated by a load garden parent’s home. The thuinb wa» | and peck them of their contents wil shot off and several of the finger: | out removing the shell from the hol mutilated It is not kuown who did | —N. Y. Ledger. —_—_—_~ oe ——— WILD YOUNG BRITONS. A Manitoba Refuge For the Fast Sous Nobility. There is one of the strangest ft in the world up here in Manitoba. principal crop is an annual growth young Englishmen, sons of we parents, who have interrupted the® in their diligent work of sowie thick and early crop of wild oats, have sent them out to the colony have their moral and physical he built up and a little industry and g ful knowledge instilled into them the same time. The owners of farm, two brothers, charge the for their board and instruct them farming for nothing, but the they manage to get out of the fellows is worth a good deal than the time spent in teaching though occasionally a horse is fe dered or a piece of farm mach broken. It is remarkable, though, how young sprigs of nobility, many them, take to the hard work of @ farm. They have true British about them, and the managers hb sense enough to have the drud and dirty work done by hired The boys ride the horse rakes, the mowing machines, learn to thresher, plow, ete.. and all of f take kindly to the care of live the horses especially, though a pensity to race the latter at every 0] portunity has to be guarded i The “‘instincts of gentlemen” do seem to desert them either, for # will never sit down to eat in clothes they have worked in and ti 9 refuse to eat with the farm hands bring the smell of stables to the Bathing, shaving and dressing for t evening take up a good deal of thi time—indeed, ‘‘waste it.” real would say—but the boys insist on f They also cling to their cigare Many of them get to like the life, from 2 tre — ESENTS Samkere {abil | Washingtor, Dee. 13.—The house , last week for the D. H. | committee on elections organized | Mitchell, who Cains a ance of | this morning. Chester A. Rowell $1,331.16 on wood ande yn fur nish- | of Illinois, son cf the chairman, A sub D commits in 1875, | was ele ected clerk. ed to the goveriunei and also a imexsme pre ding for | te> umnine (au. selbctcdmeonsicts theneyment obi alle D. W. | jing of the ch n hy Messrs. Bout ‘or extia Lous services | aoa Cooper: paud O'Ferrall. g the ramen! du rendered th go This sub «will be charged | Price raid. eevotion of Kan- sas to the ly equal -d by its } with the arrangement of the seven- i ¢ tothe appro-| ten conteste 1 election cases 1 ow unswetv pTiations. | awaiting sett! | Phe effect of u requaled me orders and endation Sold by « always on hand. ‘ griping pains that they stay longer than their rents insist on, but nearly all gladly when the term of their b ment is over. The farm owners m 2 good thing out of it —Winnipeg ter. Killed mn a Wreck St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 13 —An acci- dent occurred to-night on the Wa- bash railroad near the town of Gra- ham, fourteen miles w est « of of here in which three men wer. —_———s eo —A citizen of Irwinton, Ga, adream that some one had four badly injured. his kitchen to rob the house. He The men were on the cugine of a] from his slumber, as he im Wabash Western freigiit tiiau auc | took his gun from the rack, and, | were coming into the t wn of Fur | going to the back door, fired a¢ geson. A flat car . tel th | robber, who was making his e track and in the ¢ e vine | from the kitchen over the b and tender were throw: the | leaving blood on the floor and b track and the kK ter. After this he returned to his-b and brakeman were billed. of repose, and on rising next mo jured imen were on the fat thinking of his dream, he went to saved themselves by. spot where he imagined the man f his escape the night before, and, his surprise, a lot of biood was on the floor and banister at the place where he had dreamed of the shooting. ——~-s__ —‘“Why is it that when some are ¢ lepressed, the first thing they to takea drink?” -‘Because,” a real estate man, “‘no doubt they to fill up the depression. —W: Cavital ved and ent oD. woe th These pills pounded and use of pills. adults and + We guarar cure of Sick Dyspepsia, Bi petizer, they excer lis i n ed any other prepara- ise-t-yr