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prepared for the m arket, at lia - t $--> a
yURD & DAVENPORT.
:n. head, and the profits of the contractor
A» it is im pssible to catch onto a sin
were consequently very large.
O u r W in te r Stock
gle item of news this week, I will present
We have
you with some pen pictures of people I
O f B oot s and Shoes
T lie C o lo r o f In d ia n a .
Just Received
know. I)o you recognize them ?
The color of th e Indian race varies An immense line of D ry Goods, lia s arriv ed . Fine assortment f(n.
(— ) This is E . If. D. who dashes •
both ladies and gentlemen.
1 much individually, as does th a t of our ' Fancy Goods, L adies’ Hoods,
about driving oxen, building saw -mills
not fail to ask lor our famous
own Caucassian race, and it also varies
Fascinators, In fan ts’ Hoods and
and w hat not.
much w ith the different tribes. It is safe
Ja c k and J ill children school
Sacks. Come early for bargains
(.) This is O. L. B., who, when he gets
shoe—all sizes.
to describe them in general term s as
—before supply is exhausted.
angry, ulwavs makes a long pause before
brown. Some tribes are of a decidedly
lie speaks.
light shade of brown, while others
( ;j This is J . L. F ., who stops ju st
are so dark—the California coast tribes,
long enough to make sure it is a bear, (
for instance—as to almost suggest th e
Then be turns and niim away—
Numerous individuals have
For a
lie ’ll “ w rap” a tiear some other day.
J negro
Groceries,
(:) This is M. F. I1., who fails to been notjced by travelers in some Indian
HURD & nftUENPüRT.
C rneeries, Groceries^
Few Days
“ grasp th e situ a tio n ,” until he is fol tribes, as the M andau, Zuni and others,
W e w ill close out our entire line
lowed by convincing proof th a t the po who are so light t bat the idea of th eir Fresh stock always on band.
descent from European people gained cur
of S traw Goods. Those desir-
tatoes are not dug.
(,) Here is <1. II., who can pause but rency. It was chiefly this fact th a t lent
Well Selected
ing a ’w ay down bargain will
it m om ent—he is so busy getting moved weight to the theory propounded less Stock of Hats. In this line we ex
call a t once. These goods will
than one hundred years ago th a t colonies
go a t h a lf price.
and so on.
cel all competitors.
(!) Why, my s ta r s ! T hat m ust have of Welch had been planted in the wilds
of America. A h we know now, however,
been a “ sh rie k ” from B. F. W.
(?) This will represent the policy of these light colored Indians are simply of
th e new adm inistration.
a natural brown, or are albinos. Of th e
(“ ” ] This is “ (i. M .” who is fond of latter class perhaps those at Zuni are the liglit company’s m ains. The hotel is
quoting old saws.
best know.
i now fitted up regularly with an electric
[W.] Here is a young man who always
ioven.
A S n a k e W illi a H aliy's H ead .
represents one point of th e compass.
It is pointed out by a scientist th a t th e
( ’«] This is Mrs. V., who possesses the
Jo n ath an Baker, while working on bis world’s most precious gems are com
best husband and the finest ranch in Or farm at Coalton, Ohio, one day recently,
posed of the commonest substances, th e
egon.
beard a strange hissing sound coming diamon 1, for instance, being pure car-
[-] This is (J’s. ami M ’s., w hoalthougb ! fro|n u ,og pi,(,
W ondering w hat it
bon—that is to say, charcoal devoid of
two d istinct families, seem to be always could be, be removed th e logs one by
I impurities.
connected.
one. After several bad been removed
The little village of Brem en, T h u r
[tj Here is J . E. W., who always lias lie was horrified to see a mighty serp en t,
ingia, boasts of the sm allest electric
a good story to tell by way of ex p lan a
with a head resem bling th a t of a babe,
light installation. A single arch lam p in
tion.
spring up. Back from the low forehead
j the church is operated, when needed, by
I A. it B.] These are th e poor tired
coursed an abundance of soft h air, and j a little dynamo driven by the water-
editors who have hint quite enough and
beneath the w rinkled brow peered eyes
! wheel of the village mill.
w ant to (piit this foolishness.
of evil.
Now, whim I meet a friend who tu rn s
Kush Valley, U tah , has a mine of n a t
From its lips darted a forked tongue,
hi" head the other way as I pass by, 1
as the m onster, fully eight feet long, and ural shoe blacking. An analysis of th e
shall take it ns a sign th at he bus recog
us thick us a m an 's th ig h , tried to spring peculiar stuff reveals the fact th a t it is
nized bis portrait.
upon th e farm er.
M r. Baker called a composed of sixteen per cent of carbon,
Please read Mrs. Miller instead of
friend, Joseph M cCartney, who v.us eighteen per cent of bitumen and the re-
“ Mrs. W ilkes” in last week’s Tsiltcoos
working near. Both took their axes, and ' m ainder album en, almost pure.
item s.
(.¡All. M aker .
one struck the m onster a blow on the
C U R IO U S F A C T S .
buck of its head, while the other tackled
Tu K e e p (In n a F r o m K iih I lu g .
HURD & DAVENPORT.
its hoily.
The brute w rithed and hissed in hor-
rusting is to have a ring of zinc soldered rfbk, agonVt aI|(| the
¡t emitte(J
round th e barrel, or, if it is not conven was perfectly aw fill. It made an effort
ient to dn this, to have a long strip of to strike with its powerful tail, but the
•zinc aoldcred out of sight underneath the men kept d e a r of it until the snake was
barrel. The galvanic action which isex- dispatched by repeated blows.
cited ls*tween the zinc and the iron ef
The best wav to preserve a gun from
England is as large as Iowa.
The cry of a wounded hare resembles
th a t of a child in distress.
The first mill built in Oregon was
erected in 1817 by the Hudson Bay Com
pany.
The sills, which were of oak and
are yet sound, have been converted into
lum ber, and will be used in the finis hing
of a residence.
will driv e th e sap back into the flowers,
causing th em to become fresh. Then
cut aw ay th e th ird of the stein which has
been h e ate d , and place the flowers in
cold w ater.
E ig h t m illion eig h t hundred and three
th o u san d bales of cotton were used bv
th e w orld la st y ear.
New South W ales is a great stock rais
ing c o u n try . T he num ber of miles of
fencing ia 1,690,000, built at an average
cost of $209 per m ile. There are 32,000
dam s used for stock purposes, at an aver
age cost of $415, 33,000 water tanks,each
costing $965; an d 3744 wells, averaging
$1145.
T h is to ta l expenditure exceeds
$4,000,000 for improvements in stock
raising.
How’s This!
W e offer O ne H undred Dollars reward
for any ease of C atarrh that cannot be
cured by H a ll’s C atarrh Cure.
F . J . C heney & Co., Toledo,0.
W e, th e undersigned have known L
J . C heney for th e last 15 years, and be
lieve him perfectly honorable in all bus
iness tran sactio n s and financially able to
carry ou t an y obligations made by tbeir
firm. W est & T kvax , W holesale Drug
gists, Toiedo, O. W alding , K issax a
M arvin , W holesale Druggists, Toledo, <
H a ll’s C a ta rrh Cure is taken internal
ly, acting d irectly upon the blood an;1
mucous surfaces of th e system. Tesu-
; m onials sen t free. Price 75c. perl’0' ,;
I »Sold by all D ruggists.
I
fectually prevents the oxidation of e ith
P O P U LA R S C IE N C E .
er m etal, mid us long as the zinc remains
Moisture is a promoter of decay in
in contact with the iron not a particle of fruit.
A woman in Kennebunk, Me., has
FO R S A L E .
rust will apiH'ar on either the inside or
made pets of live field crickets. Each
A fine farm of 160 acres situated on
Four-tilths of the engines now in the
outside of the b u i l d .
has a nam e and seems to know it when ■ th e Lakes South from Florence. Tin*
world have been constructed during the
spoken. They are peculiarly sensitive to j ranch is m ostly ald er and vine maple
last twent v-tive years.
H o w Henil H o r s e s XX e r e I t l l l i e i l .
music, anil are always chirping when bottom lan d , h aving nearly a mile We
Electric baby carriages are seen in the sound of a musical instrum ent is : Montage. T en acres under cultivation
Among other arm y contractors of high
j and 5 m ore slash ed ; a good orchard j01’
and low degree at or about W ashington Paris. The nurse holds a cord, and the heard.
come in to b e a rin g ; 5 rooms in a frame
during the war was one who had pur- buttery underneath furnishes the motive
Among
th
e
most
rem
arkable
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n
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bouse th a t is ceiled and papered- good
power.
chitxod, as the highest bidder, the dead
tions at the recent paper exhibition at out-buildings, and stock of all kinds 1
The search-light on Mount Washing
borne« of the Army of the Potomac, for
Berlin was a set of pajier teeth made by be sold w ith th e place at reasonable pn
which he had paid $1.76 each, delivered ton, New H am pshire, is so brilliant that a Lubec dentist in 1878. They have been ces if desired. Price of farm, $2000, em
at his establishm ent. Tin" averaged in ' lH‘''l ’b‘ at the I abvau House, seven miles
half cash and reasonable time given o
in constant use for more than thirteen
balance.
A pply for further particular*
the w inter about fifty a dav, and were a " a-v ' C1UI read big print by its rays,
years, and show absolutely no wear
at th is office.
tb u s disjoined of : First, the shoes were
-Yt Sterling, Scotland, Professor Den- w hatever.
pulled nil, then the hoofs were cut off, ton. of tbe Department of Agriculture
Flowers may tie kept fresh for a long
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
th en th e m anes and tails were sheared. has plowed and reaped bv electric pow-
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tim e by putting a pinch of soda into the ! K E
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CHURCH,Hore'
T be a n im ili was then skinned, the ear- er " ith a distinct gain in sjH»ed and w ater in which they are held. They 1 sch o o U O o ’c ^ ’m '.m " iS c lu n g .
eass was boiled th a t th e tallow might lx* economy.
should not lie gathered while the sun O t‘lv>ck a. in. an d 7 p. hi .
of
e x tra c te d , th e le s t of the bones were
A whole table d ’hote dinner nt the
. i , , . , , , . in tbe
sold fot knife handles, and th e remain- W indsor Hotel, Ottawa, Canada w is re
morning, or alter the sun has been down Everybody is welcome to all
<ler to l e ground for fertilizers. The cently cocked by electricitv The f1H„i for nil lio n r
r I
n . ,
Pastor requests C h ristian s to max •
tor an hour. To rev u e wilted flowers selves know n.
A. R obins «*. P«1* '
to tal results a e r e th a t these d illi rent the coffee and even the ¡w were all pi
plunge the steins to about one-third of
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par!« of th e dead nag were xx orti*, when parevi by th e current from an electric th e ir length into boiling w ater. This
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