The Kansas Commonwealth du lieu suivant : Cherryvale, Kansas • 8

A REMARKABLE 6TORY. It Don nss. A curious paper by an English organist on "Melody in 8peech asserts that a cow moos in a perfect fifth end octave or tenth a dog barks in a fifth or fourth: a donkey brays in a perfect octave; a horse neighs in a descent on the chromatic scale. Each person has his fundamental key.Jn which he generally speaks, but which he often transposes in sympathy with other voices, or when he is excited. This is DOE DOWN.

DOWN. THEY GOI TT 8c, 5c, it down fine. New York loc, 10, A Man Said to Be Blown Op by Dynamite Within Him. The following most remarkable story is furnished The Huntsville Me cury by one of its reliable correspondents, and presents a case that will puzzle scientists no little A strange occurrence took place in Blount county, yesterdav which I will not attempt to explain, But give you the facts as they are. A party of Birmingham capitalists, largely interested in the minerals of the region, and some prominent rail road officials were here on a tour of inspection, with the view of opening some beds of iron ore and selecting the most practicable route for the extension of the new railway that leads up this valley.

This, indeed, seems to have been the true battle grounds of the gods with "Pelion piled upon Ossa," or the utter confusion of the geologists, who cannot account for red iron ore in one side of a mountain, brown on the other, with veins of coal immediately underlying the top on both sides, so it was determined to leave them out of the party and carry along a practical man familiar with the formations peculiar to this valley for all geological information necessary in making an approximate estimate of the amount of solid and loose rock to be encountered on the extension. Accordingly an old foreman, Mr. Merts, who had had large experience in railroading, in the west was selected. He was an intelligent, sober and industrious man, who regularly once a month sent the greater part of his earnings to his wife anu children in Kansas. He gave his opinions only after the most careful examinations, and the gentlemen had implicit confidence as Chamois In the Alp.

Wonderful tales are told of tlio amazing leaps which the startled chamois will make, From twenty to thirty feet are affirmed by the hunters to be not an uncommon jump downward, the animal managing to break its fall by throwing itseifforward diagonally, and striking its feet several times against the side of the precipice before landing at the bottom, often on a spot a few feet square. Hence, to kill any number, even in the best stocked districts, it is necessary to hunt the animal by surrounding an area where they are known to be feeding by a circle of beaters. As the cordon gradually tightens, the alarmed chamois, seeing danger to windward, fly in the opposite direction, where the sportsmen are posted on the chance of getting a passing shot London Standard. A Kew Kind of Orphjuu. The strange circumstance of a man finding his at the Ohio diem and Hulors' Orphan homo, where their mother had procured their admission, happened here recently.

A man named Kcattagv claiming to be a stucco plasterer from Neyport, came here and found his three children a girl, 14 years old, and two boys, youngerat the home. He demanded that they be turned over to him, as he was able to support them and they were not entitled to be there any way, as they were Kentucky children. But the board would not release them, as they said they did not want to go with him. Keating claims his wife got the children placed in the home fraudulently, and has employed Hon. John Little to get them out for him.

Orphans with father and mother both living are a new variety. Xenia ifj.) Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer. Th Growth of Children. The rule of growth is that a child should increase two pounds in weight for every inch in height between three and four feet, and two and a half pounds for every inch between four and five feet A remarkable fact is that the boys at the public schools and young men at the universities, and entering the public service, here called the upper classes, average about three inches taller, ana from 6ix pounds to twenty pounds heavier, than boys in the board schools and young apprentices and workmen.

Two causes may be assigned for this: first, heredity; and secondly, favorable surroundings. Deficient and impropertfood, town air, laborious work at early ages, all stunt the growth. Every one knows how a change from close town to free country life, with plenty of exerciso, stimulates' growth. A good rule for predicting future height is that if five feet is passed between 10 and 11 years of age, the child will be tall; if between 13 and 14 years, of medium stature; if not till 15 years of age, he will be short London Rede la.w-'-w- 3c, 1c. JUST THINK OF IT.

If you have a friend tlmt has 100 children, you eun get each one of thoin a present at And have money left. Did you over see Bueh a time when goods were no cheap and money so plenty? COfflE AND SEE US! find we will make you happy. SANTA CLAUS a great riond to the boys and girls, and he is to make HIS HEADQUARTERS THIS YEAR AT THE FAIR. He will make each little boy and girl a present on CHRISTMAS DAY, Italian emigration. Many writers, treating the Gubjcct of Italian emigration, assume that it presents cfuite abnormal proportions.

There is nothing to justify this assumption. When the kingdom of Italy was denmtely constituted in to their accuracy. The party reached a perpendicular bluff about fifteen feet high, when Mr. Merts climbed down in. Remember, the hour is from 8 to 1:2 a.

ul'ter dinner he will return to his homo iu 1 So bring1 along the old men to rend tho signs, living the girls and we will have a g.jud time. You re truly, S. M. PEARSON 1861, without the territory around the city of Rome, the population amounted, according to The Almanach de Gotha, to 21,728,529. The some authority gives the number of persons then actually under the dominion of the pope as so that the people of Italy numbered, in that year, all told, 22,418,529.

The total area of tho kingdom is 114,410 square miles. Emigration began to assume noticeable proportions about tho year 1875, and the total number of emigrants registered in the thirteen years, 1875-1887, was 1,708,435. Of these, 800,000, of nearly, half, passed into European cbuntries, the rest going beyond sea. In 1871 the population of the kingdom was found to be 26,801,154. In 1881 it had increased to 28,459,628, and at the end of 1886 it amounted to 29,943,607.

The average yearly emigration, therefore, was less, than half of tho natural increase in population, for it must be remembered that there is no immigration into Italy. How do those figures compare with those for Great Britain and Ireland? Tho population of the United Kingdom was, in 1878, KANSAS. CHERRYVALE, to a ledge about six feet from the top and with his hammer was investigating the character of stones and their probable thickness. The gentlemen above heard several blows from his hammer, tlien apparently a quantity of loose rocks falling and immediately a terrific explosion. They were all considerably shocked, but not other wise hurt, and at once went to the edge of the precipice, Where they detected the strong odor of dynamite, out to their consternation could see nothing of Mr.

Merts. After a careful search some small pieces of hisclothing were found hanging in a tree about thirty feet from the ground, but that was all. The question for the scientists to settle is what caused the explosion. A number of people from Birmingham have visited the place, but I have heard only one plausible theory, and that was advanced by Mr. Schultz, a scientist.

It is known positively that Mr. Merts had no dynamite with him, and Mr. Schultz says the only possible way to account for the explosion is that he hod constantly, for a uumber of years, been handling dynamite and nitroglycerine, and that so much had been taken into his system by absorption that it was only necessary for him to receive a slight jar to set it off, whifih was done when he struck the ground on falling from tho ledge. Whether his story is true or not I DECLARE FOR PEFFER Sliawnee County Sub-Alliance is in RAILROAD TIME TABLE. Santa Fe Route.

NOKTII BOUND. Arrive. Depart. Passenger rluily .10:10 a in 10:15 a Passenger daily 11 Freight daily 4:00 pm 4:30 pm Cherry vale Sloline Accom. arrives 10:50 a A Novel Device.

A device has been invented which enables the engineer when in his cab, to turn a switch, which can be closed again from the rear of the train. It is operated in connection with the "central throw" switch, and consists in a Sshoe," which is dropped from forward and rear trucks. This strikes a crank, which is overthrown, and the switch closed or opened, as the case may be. A switch left open carelessly may thus be closed by the locomotive while at high speed, or a train side tracked quickly in case of danger. Houston rost.

What Cicaretleg Are Blade of. For some time past The Chicago Journal and The Evening News have been waging vigorous warfare against cigarettes. The Journal has printed a series of articles showing the large number of cigarettes that were sold by small shopkeepers to the public school pupils, and has had interviews with the principals of the various schools and with physicians, showing the extent and injury of the cigarette practice among young boys. Tho News has been investigating the composition and effect of cigarettes generally. With this end in view a number of packages of each brand commonly used were purchased and stripped of the boxes, cards and every distinguishing mark.

Each kind was put into a Sasteboard box, the lid of which was iscribed with a letter. These were taken for analvsis to Professor Dela- WEST BOUND. Arrive. Passenger daily 4:25 pm Passenger daily freight daily Depart. 4:30 pm 1:35 a 9:05 a Cherry vale Moline Accom.

departs 572, and in 1887, 37,091,564 The area is 120,832 square miles. For the ten years, 1878-1887, the number of emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland was 3.095,868, or only 855,000 less than the whole registered increase of population for tho same period. This apparently stationary condition is partly explained by the fact that there is a steady reduction in Ireland, amounting, in ten years, to more than persons but the evidence is overwhelming that the emigration from the United Kingdom is not only ac- 11 1 i 1 1 4:35 Favor of the Farmer Eilitor for Senator. At the regular meeting last week of the Elevation alliance, Mission townships the following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, The leading papers advocating the principles of the republican party have asserted during the campaign just closed that the people's party was too cowardly to say anything for or- against prohibition; therefore, 1. That Elevation alliance, No.

1345, which endorsed the people's party movement, and now in session, this the eleventh day of November, 1890, do most emphatically assert our devotion and allegiance to the cause of prohibition. 2. That we are in favor of enforcing every law on the statute books of Kansas, and more especially the law known as the Murray temperance law. 3. That can't say, but give the facts as they happened, and they can be substantiated by a number of citizens in this vicinity and Birmingham, who will inform you if there is any mew lighf on the subject COFFEYV1LLE BRANCH.

NORTH. Passenger daily, arrive 10:05 a freight daily arrive 4:00 SOUTH. Passengardally, depart 3:55 pm freight daily 11:00 a Train Sol arrives at Kansas City 5:35 p.m. making close connection with No. 6, limited, "the handsomest train in the world," running solid between Kansas City and Chicago, with palace sleeping cars, chair cars and dining cars arriving at Chicago 8:50 a.

m. No. 20, carries Pullman sleeping cars and coaches arriving at Kansas City a. connecting with Chicago express arriving at Chicago 7:20 a. connecting with trains for all points norm and east No.

203 carries Pullman sleeper to Wellington and poaches to Pan Handle, connects at Wintleld with train for points in the Oklahoma country and Indian Territory, Galvestou uud intermediate parts in Texas. A. H. Harding, Agent. many, DUi relatively, vasiiy greater than that from Italy.

The British population increased at the rate of 830,000 a year; tho Italian, for the ten years, 1871-1881, at the rate of and for the five years, 1882-1886, at the rate of 296,000 a year. So far as a growing population implies national vitality, Italy is surely holding her ground. Frank Leslie's fontoine, a well known chemist. He found that the cigarettes he tested wcro generally made of tobacco "imperfectly fermented," which means that an unusually large amount of nicotine was present in them. He found that nearly all had an unnatural proportion of insoluble ash, that several kinds were steeped in an injurious substanco, ruid were impregnated with dirt in varying proportions.

New York -c-. K. C. Ft. S.

G. Ry. Cherryvale Division. EAST. Passenger No.

403 8:15 a. m. Freight No, 31-1 1:15 p. m. WEST.

No. 401 0:50 p. m. Freight No. 313 10:45 n.

in. G. IV. Holmes, Agent. People Who Eat Qnlnlne.

You would be astonished at the number of people who have acquired the quinine habit. They are far more numerous than the opium eaters and carry their pills in their pocket all the time. They imagine the existence of some physical wrong and take quinine as regularly as they eat, in the belief that it is a cure r.ll. The facts are it stimulates the stomach, but. not to any perceptible degree, yet hundreds are every day getting from it the same satisfaction they would from a drink of whisky.

Interview in Chicago Times. we are opppsed to original packages in any form, and think it poor law when any citizen from any America as a Perfumer. America is going to the front so rapidly in every direction that it is hard to keep a line on her progress. A prominent dealer up town is authority for the statement that this country now leads the world in the manufacture of perfumes, an industry in which the French hxve long excelled. "American perfumes," he said, "can be bought in London, Paris, Hong A Largo Uock Fish.

A nineteen and one-half pound rock fish was one of the most interesting Peruvian Whistling Jugs. The silvadors or musical jugs found among tho burial places of Peru are most ingenious specimens of handiwork. A silvio in the William S. Vaux collection at Philadelphia consists of two vases, whoso bodies are joined ono to the other, with a hole or opening between them. The neck of one of these vases is closed, with the exception of a small opening in which a clay pipe is inserted leading to tho body of the whistle.

When a liquid other state can sell an article that no citizen of Kansas can. 4. That it be known that this alliance sent her quota of delegates to the last temperance union, and also the prohibition convention on July 16, last. 5. That this alliance endorses the candidacy of Judge W.

A. Peffer as Uuited States senator to succeed John J. Ingalls after March 41891. If you want your watches, clocks and jewelry well repaired and warranted, take them to G. Butler, and coveted objects to be seen in Al bany streets recently.

It was caught on a fall trap in Muckalce creek, about i I m. l- St. L. S. F.

"Frisco Line." WEST. No, 1 Colorado Express 12:30 a No. 5 California Express 10:45 am No. 3 California and Colorudo Ex. 11 a No.

37 Freight 12:43 No. 33 Through Freight 2:05 a in No. 31 Local Freight 4:50 No. 35 California Fast Freight 7:55 EAST. No.

2 St. Louis Express 8:09 am No. 4 St. Louis Mail 2:43 pm No. Atlantic Express 0:20 No, 30 Local Freight 8:05 am No.

3ii Through Freight 7:55 No. 34 Through Freight 3:0 No. 32 Stock Express Trains 32 and 35 will not carry passengers. FU1SCO LINK CONNECTIONS. Train No.

1 connects at ilurrton, with A. T. At F. R. li.

for points in Coloradj, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, ashiugton and California, has reclining chair car and Pullman sleeper to Burrtou, Kas. Train No. 1 connects at t. Loul3 with all railway lines to the east, north and southeast, has reeliuing chair car and Pullman sleeper to tH. Louis.

For Eureka Springs, Fort Smith, Paris and points in Arkansas, Indian Territo Kong, liio de Janeiro5 biam, Australia, and even the Philippine and Sandwich Islands. It is a great mistake to suppose that the use of perfumes i3 vulgar. Coarse, rank odora are, but they are not perfumery. There is magnetism in a fine perfume. From tho most ancient times perfumes have been held in high esteem.

Solomon says 'Ointment and perfumo rejoice tho IIippocratest Criton and other ancient physicians prescribed perfumes as medicines, and it is' affirmed that when the cholera has raged in Paris and London those employed in perfumery factories escaped the disease. The Egyptians poured sweet scented oils on the heads of newly arrived guests. Tho Persians, is poured into the open necked vase, six mnes aoove. me cuy. mo.

rows fish is one of the finest of the finny tribe, and, while very game, i3 rarely captured, though they abound in these waters. Several years ago Dr. Todd, Mr. Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law, then a residentof this city, lauded a sixty pound rock fish with a rod and line at Bower's Mill creek, in Baker county. -f Albany News.

tne air is compressed into the oilier, and in escaping through the narrow opening is forced into the whistle, the stand, east Knickerbockers old side, Cherryvale. Frisco Line. Vibrations producing sounds. Many of these sounds represent the notesof birds; one in tho Clay collection of Philadelphia, imitates tho robin some other member of the thrush tribe peculiar to Peru. The closed neck of Greeks and Romans used perfumes as offerings to tho gods.

Tho Greek athletes anointed their bodies with scented oils daily. Tho Athenians perfumed their wineSi-ith roses, violets and so forth. TheCatholics used perfumed tapers and incense in their churches as early as tho year 964. Charlemagne used perfumery, as also did Philip Augustus in 1190. Elizabeth, queen of Hungary, in 1370, patronized the perfumer, while Cath HOLIDAY EXCURSION.

The Frisco Line win sell tickets at rate of one and one-third fare for round trip, to all stations within a distance of 200 miles, during holidays. Tickets will be on sale Dec. 24th, 25th and 31st, 1890. Good to return on until January 5th, 1891. The above excursion rate will not apply when the cne and one-third rate would make a less rate than 50 cents.

Claiborne, Agent. ry and Texas, has Pullman sleeper to Eureka springs and day coaches to Paris, Texas. Train No. 3 connects at llurrton, with fast train A. T.

S. F. R. U. for points iu Colorado.

Train No. 4 connects at Ht Louis with all railway lines to the east, north and southeast, has Pullmau sleeper, Monett to St. Louis, connects at Paris, fexa. with A. C.

d. F. Ry. and Tex. Pac.

Ky. for points in Texas, has Pullman sleeper Monett to Dallas. Tex. Train No. 5 Connects at Rurrton with A.

T. F. R. R- for points in Colorado, New and Old Mexico, Arizona and California. Has Pullman 6leeper St.

Louis to City of Mexico via. Burrton, ElPaso and Mexican Central Railway Burrton and tourist second class Bloeper to Los Angeles, via. Albuquerque and Barstow, and reclining chair car to Rurrton, through Pullman sleepers, Burrton to Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Denver, Los Angeles, San Diigo and San Francisco, Cal. Train No. connects at St.

Louis with all railway lines to the east, north and southeast. Has reclining chair car, Pullman sleeper arnl tourist second class sleeper to St. Louis. Through tickets on sale to all points. For further particulars call on or address C.

H. CLAIBORNE, Agent, Cherryvale- this doublo vase is modeled into a representation of a lird'3 head, which is thrush liko in character. Another waiter vase in tho same collection, representing a imitates tho disgusting liabit which this animal possesses of ejecting its saliva when enraged. The hissing sound which accompanies this action is admirably imitated. A black tube of earthen Ware ornamented with a grotesque Lead in low relief, to which short arms arc attached pressing a three tubed syrinx to its lips, deserves special mention, as itEuereests the evolution At Rover's Grave.

The pet dog of rfrs. Samuel Wilmot died Monday, plrnigingthe household into deep sorrow. Some heartless individual had administered a dose of poison. Tho funeral occurred this morning and attended by the family and a few friends. The casket was lined with white satin and covered outside with purple velvet The remains looked perfectly natural and peaceful.

Tho interment was in tho family's private lot. vThe members of the family stood weeping around the graife, while what remained of Rover was laid at rest Some of the floral offerings were expensive and unique, one being a do; kennel of roses tipped with spray or dogfennel. Bridgeport (Conn.) Cor, New York Evening World. erine de Medici when she visited France took with her a famous Floret tine Derfumer who tauerht the French nearly all that they know today about perfumery. In jmsrland tne taste for of this instrument from, single tuber! Butler, the jeweler, makes complicated watch repairing a perfumery was chronicled in Shake- n.n.

Van. Vrvl llinnn to more complicated forms. iho Clay Worker..