4V",t A SINGIN RIVER.- V* PONY EXPRESS DAYS. eighteen. He rode over a route that VALUABLE TOBACCO ad to I if WM E A S Si 1* lay (just along the eastern slope of the New York Sun. l&k</ Fis^j Whic a Musi as S A a Don' S he Bes Rockies. was considered one dl Fast Mail Aoro33 tbs Plains in^Auts- ad opened a restaurant in Kf% a ti S a in of a a Cigars But Thin do the bravest of all the brave lot I Bellnm TimesA A Buffalo, a after two or three weeks Ifef A hundrea miles east of 2M ew Orleans, The leaf of the Vuelta Abajo distrrcfc, v,/ „t -»-«—. "V- ^-4 ,% Mississippi coast, is the town he called at a a to get the cash says the Pittsburg Dispatch, is Open for Eemarks. Custom grinding solicited. Wili|§?* Old Colonel Majors Kacalls One of the Prominent f^ E a a a Soula or Scran ton, at more valuable than the leaf of the f^What a darling world it would be if on a small check received from gftme Features of the West When Railroads grind wheat for (one eigth) or ex-gi» ,£ of the Pasea/?oula river. Partido district and by experts and everybody were as polite as a candidate!—Courier one in Philadelphia. and Telegraphs Were Practically Unknown For 200 years the Paseagoula has been change 34 fts. flour, 5 8s. shorts and 8|J connoisseurs the former is without the Journal, S a to be identified, sir," said —Famous Trip3. noted for giving forth strange musical Bs. bran for one bushel of wheat. Flour k\ possibility of dispute conceded the Women, like poker players, raise the teller, as he shoved it back. sounds near its mouth at the gulf. palm for flavor and aroma yet fully 70 and feed sold at low rates and delivered the blind to see what the neighbors A peculiar charm attaches itself to •'But I am Blank, of the newrestau« Charles E. Chidsey writes of them iu per cent of the cigars imported into a New Ulm free of expense. Jf£ have got.—Lawrence American. anything which relates to the west in a around the corner." the Popular Science Monthly." the United States are made of Partido Never tell a man he is in the heyday ante-bellum times. I was not the A N & E N I N He says in 1875 an old fisherman at "Must be identified." tobacco and the national taste is undoubtedly of his career. The hayday is frequently same west as now the sun is just as Scran ton called him one evening to for it. This is the more ''This is payable to me or order, when man goes to seed.—Commercial bright, may be, and the grass and trees ATJG. QTJEHSE, W G0^t0 the rivep bank and "hear the curious, as in buying cigars at retail it and I've indorsed it," protested the Advertiser. as green, and the waters as clear, but simply means that the bulk of our restauranter. $f spirits singing under the water." From The Waterbury clocks are about the when the iron wheel of progress swept smokers pay the same price for the & the bosom of the waters came a mur&/*-, "Can't help it sir. Kules of the only organizations going that are not over her sandy plains and scaled her HARNESS MAKER second grade of Havana tobacco as bank. inuring sound, first rising in crescendo, striking for eight hours a day.—Pittsburg mountain tops there was a change. I they would if they bought the first The an went out a brought 6J'mS a fl a diminuendo. Again, Dispatch. is indefinable, for all that, but still —and Dealer in— grade, the price of Partido cigars in some one back to identify him, and some years after, he was leaning idly One of the reasons lately assigned one likes to read of the stirring times Whips, Collars, and all other the money was handed over. Three Cuba being only a little more than half |A over an old wharf on the edge of the for giving the ballot to woman is that of the days of border hardships and articles usually kept days later the teller dropped in for a that charged for the same sized cigar T.iscagoula, when he suddenly heard a she always returns a borrowed umbrella. excitements, and of the gradual giving in a first (dass harness lunch at the new restaurant had from a fine Vuelta factory. sound like the rushing and roaring of —Boston Herald. away of nature to the hand of humanity. taken a seat and given his order, shop. Among the curious points not generally a mighty wind. supposed it was Debt may be said to be a peculiar A man of middle age may look ^vlien the proprietor apDroached him New harnesses made to order and re known regarding the Vuelta leaf is tfche wind from a storm that could be institution from the fact that the more and said: back within nis memory and see the pairing promptly attended to. the peculiar fact that is the only tobacco •seen on the gulf. But a lady with him you contract it the greater it gets.— heavy, slow freighters measuring their a to be identified, sir." NEW MLM, MINN in the world, so far as it is known, of said: "That is not the* storm you hear, Binghamton Leader. "How! W a squeaky way across the plains the which a cigar can be lit, allowed to go jfout the mysterious music." a to be identified before you "I'm going to show Miss Ann Teek Santa Fe trail winds serpent-like, from Empire Mill Co. out, remain out for several hours and can a et anything here, sir." a a re are times when fisher- anew wrinkle," remarked Fangle to the banics. of the Missouri to the lonely then be relit with no preceptable loss of "Identified? I don't understand ~me%arc on the water at night when his wife. "I wouldn't if I were you, Spanish settlement in New Mexico. you," protested the teller. fragrance or added rankness of flavor. EOLLER MILL. music can be he ird distinctly in dear, she has so many wrinkles now. One by oae he sees the relics of earlier ''Plain as day, sir. Bule of the It has been repeatedly asserted that £vV sounds inexpressibly sweet and «plainjll —West Shore. days slip out of ex.i^teice toward the house at all bank officials have to this is the case with any fine cigar, tive, like an aeolian harp. A sudden Heard in the nursery: Willie— betting of the sun, the railroad and the be identified. Better go out and find but this is an error. Neither Partido, 24 Rollers and 4 Burrs. «pl«ish or noise will cause it to cease, "Aunt Jenny says she has a crick in telegraph pushing their way from the some responsible a who knows Remedios, Yara, Manila nor outcommon J* 'P but when silence supervenes it begins her back."—'Gracious! I beats all east, and the pioneer glories of the you. domestic leaf can be $&l$L -again, soft and murmurous, great west are over. how some people do perspire, doesn't "Hange if I do!" growled the teller, We take pleasure in informing he lit a second time without suffering Wha causes ic? It is a pity to destroy it?"—Washington Pos and he reached for his at and One of the last and at the same time jubhc that we are now ready for bus* A a decrease of quality and an obnoxious coat and banged the door hard as he a romantic mystery, but the Rev. Mr. Choker—"Has your congregation the most prominent of these features ness. The best madhinery and all the went out. increase of flavor, which to say the music is probably made by thousands raised your salary lately, of the west before the railroads came, ateBt improvements in he manufacture least of it is not pleasant. The reason of fishes of a kind called the "drum," Brother Thirdly?" Brother Thirdly was the pony express, by whose means of flour enable us to compete with •IQ for this is to be found in the composition from the power to produce this sound. (from the country)—"No, sir, it seldom it W it messages were carried from Missouri „he best mills in the country. of the leaf. The Vuelta is a n't I is made by the sudden passage of air raises more th in half of it any river to the Pacific coast in less than We are constantly baying preside over the senate is one of dryer, duller looking leaf as a rule, from one compartment of the fish's Wheat, ten days. How remarkable Jt all seems given year."—Munsey's Weekly. the least profitable and least interesting Bye, and the Partido a brighter glossier a bladder to another. None the less now 9 Te days from the Missouri Slathers—"If that bounty on sugar occupations a public an can Ccrn, leaf, and more elastic, these qualities wonderful, for all that, is the soft goes through congress it'll be worth a to the Golden Gate on pony back. have, especially when he has he Oat89 making it more attractive to the eye, aeolian strain that rises of a summer million dollars to me." Smithers— But it is remarkable after all. No right to vote, but only to sit as a Buckwheat, and are due to an increased proportion .night from the moonlit waters of Pascafljoula. it is ten seconds, but for ponies, over "Do you own a beet farm in Kansas?" figure head—a symbol of authority &c, Jbc. of gummy matter and juice. mountains, plains, through storms and "Beet farm? Thunder, no! I've got The dignity of the position, of course, A the Highest Market Prices. Something About Bee Stings. a cranberry marsh in Michigan." sun, the work "was wonderful. One of makes it one at most any American Horses in Battle. A correspondent wished to know of 1 —Chicago Tribune. the founders of the ponv express system citizen would be glad to occupy, We sell all kinds of An officer of experience, writing on the Practical Farmer whether a bee can lives in Kanbas City at a ripe but "Sir," said an apprentice to his master, it is seldom the desire of either the the behavior of horoes in battle, says"When JPLOUR, live and do work after it has stung a "when a very clever and very stupid active old age, prominent in business vice president or the president pro it comes to battle a horse 8JBCOJRTS, person, leaving its sting or if it dies, person are together in one room, and as bright as in the days of his tem. to occupy the chair at all times seems to know everything that is going BKAN, Ae.» as ih generally believed by many persons youth. Colonel Alexander Majors is and the clever one goes away, who is during the session. Fo instance, if on but he does his duty nobly KT LOW RATES. who keep bees. Up to within the seventy. there left?" Why, of course, the stupid a speech is to be delivered by some and seems to be in his element. past ten years nearly everyone believed one." "Then good-bye, sir," said It was in 1858 Senator Gvvyn, of California gentleman who prolongs the interest enters into the spirit of the battle like Special Attention given to that a bee which had stung anyone the apprentice and went Sonntagsblatt conceived the idea of transmitting of his topic in diluted quantities a human being. He shows no fear of 0-u3t,o:na "W"orlc must surely die, for in leaving the the mails across the plains on many hours, the presiding death, and it is singular that if his •sting, as the honey bee nearly always swiftly running ponies. was officer has nothing to do but to sit mate is shot down he will turn to look The Old Canteen. A extra stone for giinding feed. -does in stinging an animal, a part of laughed at by his colleagues, however, in the chair and to appear to pay at him and seem pleased. A horse in There are bonds of all sorts in this world -the intestines was supposed to be left but nothing daunted, sought Steam Cornsheller. attention and to keep himself from of ours, my battery was once struck by a piece with the sting, poison sac, etc., from Colonel Russell of Leavenworth, who Wood taken for cash or in exchange going to sleep. Fetters of friendship and ties of flowers. of shell which split his skull so that which it was argued that the bee could spent a great deal of his time in And true lover•' kDots, I ween IngaJts,itis said, used to stick pins ^inpii^e ]VTill a one side was loose. The driver turned not live. This seemed so reasonable, But for a bond I think few ara strong as Washington, and the two worked out in his legs now and then on such occasions him loose, but he walked up by the this, CAtm PURCHASES says the editor, that I formerly believed a plan for the eKpress Assistance when he felt himself getting side of the gun and watched the firing, Held by a good grip mstead of a kiss: that the idea which prevailed drowsy. I is customary, however, from the government was secured, and and CHEAP SALES. v\ have drank from the same canteen. and when a shot was fired would look when &»y thing particularly dreary was true till one day after bee had in 1859 the ponies started. away in the direction of the enemy as is to occupy the senate, for the presiding It was sometimes water and somatimes slung me, leaving its sting, it came to "They ran across the country for if to see the effect of the shot. When officer to call upon some member milk, the attack again and again, with all nine months," said Colonel Majors a a shell would burst near by he would And sometimes "apple-jack fine as silk." to act as his substitude in the the fury and vengence possible for a few days ago, "never missing schedule Contractor and Builder, But whatever the bdverage has been calmly turn and look at it. When he chair. The older men understand bee to work itself up to, getting in time at either of the terminal We shared it together in bane or bliss, very well at they are being made a saw his own team going back for ammunition my hair and singing away as only an points. The given time from St. And I warm to you, fnead,when I think of convenience of when called to preside he ran back to his own place this: Special attention given to mason Joseph to Sacramento was ten days, angry bee can sing, which will make in this way, and they are usually and galloped back to the caisson with We have drank from the same canteen. and through sunshine and storm, flattered by the distinction, but the the cold chills run up and down the the rest When the lieutenant pushed work in the city and country. The rich and exalted sit down to dine, new senator is a to be a ready victim back of the most hardened individual. snow, mud, sand and rocks, th hardy him aside to put in another horse, he spark1 New Ulm. Minn. And they quaff to eaca other in mg for the sacrifice.—Cor. Philadelphia As this bee apparently had no thought racers pushed on to the west, or back looked at the other one sorrowfully •wine, Telegraph. to the east, with the speed of a railroad The North Star Lung and Throat Balsam of dying, it was caught and caged with while he was being harnessed up, and From glasses in crystal and green, is a sure cure for coughs and colds. train. If the ponies lost ti me two or three others and kept a week or But I guess, as their go.dan potations they when he seemed to realize that there A on so to see what would become of the through bad weather over one part of sip, was no further use for him he day down the route they picked it up on another. They the warmth of our friendly matter. At the end of,the week it was When Henry George first began to RIEMK E & mmm, and died. The lieutenaut strongly asserted grip, On a journey of 2,000 miles some of speak in public in California he was apparently just as lively and healthy that tie died of a broken heart." W ho drank from the same canteen. inclined to be long-winded. once as any of the rest, when all of the bees the weather was bound to be good. —Court Journal. Carpenters, delivered the better a of a 17-col. We have shared our blankets and tents to were set at liberty. The most noteworthy piece of work um oration at a of July celebration. gether performed by the ponies," continued Do Alligators Swallow Stonesl Builders and Contractors. And have marched and fought in all kinds He began his oration late The Fascination of Smoking. Colonel Majors, "was in the delivering f?# The Indians on the banks of the of weather, in the afternoon. After liehad spoken *'After all, the fascination of a cigar of one of President Buchanan's NhW ULM, MINN. Orinoco river, South. America, assert And hungry and full we have been for an hour or so the gallery began lies in the fact that a man can see the messages in a few hours over eight Had days of battle and days of rest, ihat an alligrator, previous to going in to manifest unmistakble signs of impatience. Designs and plans made to order and «moke curve in the air," remarked an days. The pony was off like the wind. But this memory I cling to and lovo the search of prey, always swallows a The orator deemed it timely estimates on all work furnished and best: Indianapolis tobacconist. "Did you Nearly two hundred of the little fellows large stone that it may acquire additional to skip a hundred pages and conclude We have drank from the same canteen contracts faithfully executed. ever stop to think that you seldom see were required to do the work, and it weight to aid it in dragging its with the peroration. This was a blind man smoking? There is only was done to the queen's taste. And when wounded I lay oa the outer prey under water. Bolivar, the, traveler, deftly done, and then, getting fresh slope. one in this city that I know of who has wind, he began THE FIGURE 9 related this to a companion, who The pony express company employed With my blood flowing fast and but httl3 iormed the .habit, and that is Luke Thefigure9 in our dates will make a long stayNo was somewhat inclined to disbelieve about six hundred of the hardy little hope "A thousand years hence who will man or woman now living will ever date a Walpole. it. To- prove that there was really animals indigenous to the west. Post Upon wtiich my faint spirit could lean fight for liberty?" document without using the figure 9 It stands "And then you hear men say: A something in the stories related by the Oh, then I renember, you crawied to my houses were maintained every ten in the third place in 1890, where it will remain ten ''A thousand years hence who -v\ ill cigar is such a comfort to me when I'm side Indians, Bolivar shot several while in years and then move up to s,ecoud place in 1900, miles, at which several of the ponies write for liberty?" alone, for 'it keeps me company.' And, bleeding so fast it seemad both must where it will rest for one hundred years. the presence of his friend, and in all were always kept. The run for each "A thousand years hence who will have died, V, Well, itj isn't the cigar that occupies There is another "9" which has also come to stay of them rocks were found weighing animal was ten miles without a rest, speak for liberty?" When we drank from the same canteen. It is unlike thefigure9 in our dates the respect his time, but the fantastic designs that according to the size of the "gator and it was run, too. Not a step of the The pause at the last liberty-inspiring —Miles O'Re.lly. that it has already moved up to first place where the smoke -assumes. -Let a smoker One immense fellow, over seventeen way was walked or trotted. For ten interrogatory was broken by a it will permanently remain It is called the "No shut his eyes and he will throw his 9" High Arm Wheeler !L Wilson Sewing Machine. feet long, had a stone in his stomach miles the rider urged his carrier and Exploring Northern Mexico. voice in the gallery, which a thus cigar away.' No, the consolation that The "No 9" was endorsed for first place bv tho large as, one man could lift through the theater. his horse fairly flew over the familiar "After completing my lecture tour— experts of Europe at the Pario Exposition of 18S9, a cigar brings is morja through the W Will? Henry George!" ground,, whether it was mountain or going as far west as San Francisco—I where, after a severe contest with the leading machines isight.than^tK-e taste." There was an explosion of laughter. of the world, it wa» awarded the only prairie, plain or desert Each rider An Explanation. am off," said Dr. Carl Lumholtz the Grand Prize given to familj sewing machines, all Tiio merriment spread to the stage, rode three horses without resting, and Two «younsr men graduated from a other day, "on an entirely new scientific others on exhibit having received lower awards Penny Photographs. and in the midst of it Henr George there was one fellow, a loose, easygoing, well-known medical school, and both of gold medals, etc. The French Government expedition to northern Mexico, folded his papers and "silently stole The latest I$,d in the penny autopiaticL albo recognized its superiority by the decoration of went into practice in New York. One dare-devil, who always rode under the auspices of the New York Mr Nathaniel Wheeler, President of the company, a a delivery box, says the Philadel|rhia sixty miles at that breakneck speed was a bright fellow and hard worker Geographical Society. The exploring with the Cross of the Legion of Honor. Tun$s» will be placed before the and a modest man, the other a man of without resting. At the post house party will comprise fourteen men, including The "No 9" is not an old machine Improved it in a W long-»anduriag public in this city shortin upon, but is an entirely new machine, and the the man in charge stood in front of the showy parts and not given to overwork. four American scientists. Grand Prize at Paris was awarded it as the grandest ij the shape of a portrait-making The latter soon secured a handsome door holding the pony that was to They will cover botany, zoology, advance in sewing machine mechanism of the 'machine. 'The machine is a unique TJnadilla pays ten cents for a woodchucks' carry the approaching rider. With a age. Those who buy it can rest assured, therefore, practice. The other got little practice, mineralogy and archaeology. My work of having the very latest and best. one that 'will probably be greatlv tail with a view of exterminatin rush the expressman came. There and, when making a call upon his classmate, will be to study the natives. We shall ^patronized. The machine is in the these animals, which at certain was a cloud of dust a jump, an instantaneous remarked: "How is it J., that also thoroughly investigate the ruins seasons of the year do the farmers form of a Jattge square box, mounted change of the small, light you, who never worked in school, who and cliff dwellings. The territory much damage. The boys however, on a hollow pedestal. On the front saddle-bags carried, and in ten seconds often came to me for assistance over covered will embrace southern set traps catch the wood chucks cut center is a small lens, surmoun ted by from the moment of his arrival tho knotty matters, which I rendered [and Arizona and the region far to tho off their tails, and let the animals go a mirror, anu a slot for the penny is rider was on the rearing little amimal J. admitted alUas stated], have a large southward. This is a country that, I at they a rear their young. In the top left-hand corner. that was so anxious to be off. Away practice, while I am not yet earning a am given to understand, has never yet Some of the farmers say at unless The person to be photographed living?" "Come to the window and I they went with a plunge and a shout to been scientifically explored. We confidently the bounty business is stopped the be lost a moment later in a cloud of Hake's his $tand In front of the lens, will explain to you the whole case. Of expect to make many important town will be overrun it chukes." ±s' with his back to a post or nail fixed at every hundred persons you see passing flying dust The ponies entered into discoveries during the two years An effort will be made at the next the spirit of their wor£ quite as fully a distance of three feet from the mai&g up street eighty at least are fools. I which we shall devote exclusively to meeting of he town board to repeal am doctoring the eighty, while you are as the men bestride them. They never chine, and adjusts himself so that his the expedition."—New York Tribune. the ordinance granting the bounty, faltered, whether the night was dark attending to the twenty wise men." face shall be reflected in the mirror.* -Albany Journal or the road uncertain. It was always Wit his left hand he drops a penny Jack's Luck. a plunge ahead as if on a ride where in the slot and remains motionless for Explaining a Mystery. He Got His $15,000 Off the Cape of Good Hope they life and death were concerned. In his five seconds, when the sound of a bell Mr. William H. Shape, the gentleman who Philadelphia Times: Th reason found a rock the other day which had "Roughing I Mark Twain tells of recently, won $ 15,000 ID the drawing of The announces that the impression is complete. why there are no George Washingtons only twelve feet of water over it, and Louisiana State Lottery Company, was a his first and last sight of the pony express In forty seconds more the finished in the present generation is very simple. which a thousand vessels must have visitor to our sanctum on Tuesday. Mr. from a stage coach window. The photograph, on a metal plate, George was willing to chop down Shape informed as that he had received the run within a few feet or rods of in humorist pays a high rate tribute to the money last Saturday, a draft for the amount drops through the delivery on^ to a whole tree, while the men nowadays total ignorance of their danger. I having been sent lam through Adams Express plucky little horses and the daring a small shelf and the process is complete. don't even want to split the kindling was located, curiously enough, by a agency in Circleville, and the Second fellows who rode them, closing thus: The impressions resemble those WHEELER & WILSON M»PO CO.,I wood. National bank ol that place received and boat which had been lowered to pick a "So sudden is it all, and so like a ashetl the draft. Mr Shupe stated that the 185 and 187 Wabash A C, Chicago* I of the cheap glass position photographs, %&&i man up. Sailors' luck is the best luck. flash of unreal fancy, that but for the Lottery Company v, as very prompt in seeding For Sale hy z,. only that tin-plate is substi- ^S,J May and December. fc| the money and looked after its transportation flake of white foam left quivering and iC!H. HORNBURG, &.0OL groom: "My dear, TfaVe with as keen an interest as he would -IllSi Don't Bite. 4 1 &M*M perishing after a vision had flashed by hrowlf. For all of which he feels thank ul. New Dim, Minn. bought the palace you most admired, The Sanitary News says that the A Case in Which Zt Does. S«f and disappeared we might have doubted He has been investing The Louisiana the horses you most liked, and all the universal habit among women of biting 11 1 ED. PAULSEN, whether we had seen any actual Merchant Traveler: "Faith." remarks State Lottery Company for twnty-fire jewelry you took a fancy to. Is there off the thread with which they are man or horse at all, maybe." months past, and previous to drawing the a thoughtful exchange given to Licensed Auctioneers^, nothing else I can buy for you?" sewing is prolific of sore throat and $15,000 he was nearly a hundred dollars „roverbs, "never goes home with an ahead of that institution. HVheld the onetwentieth Young bride: "No, indeed, my 1—love William Cody, "Buffalo Bill," had blood-poisoning. Every woman should basket." Just let the editor of of ticket ?o. 21,?,03. which drew don't get anything more for me-p&Buy LINDEN, BROWN CO., MINN. 2 his first experience on the plains as a have a butcher knife lying handy on the Bret capital prize of $«?,0Q,00O.-'Adriphl esteemed contemporary buy a something for yourself, my dear«.|^Buy pony express rider at the age of her lap when she sews, "f (Ohio) News, Ma 1 6 Correspondence promptly atteaded. %x* 4ltorv ticket. 'S1" a cemetery lotJl ..