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INSUW NTS AND REAl EiTATK AQtfTT,
Office 1 .oom No. 2, Columbian Building,
llt.OUMSr.URG, PA.
JyJ U. FUNK,
ATTOr.NCY-AT-LAW,
Office tn fnt's Bjililing, near Court Home,
M.OOMSBUKC, VA.
OHN M. CLARK,
lie
J. E. BITTEKBENDEE, ?reP'ltori
BLOOMSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1889.
YOL. 24, NO. 46.
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AND
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W. MILLER,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Office In Brower's building, 2d floor, roomNo i.
BLOOMSBURG, TA.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Office cor. Centre & Main Sts., Clark's building,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
ST Can be consulted in German.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Office, Second floor, Columbian Building,
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V. WHITE,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Office in Wirt's Building, 2nd floor, Main St
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
AND
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Office in First National Bank Building, 2d floor,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
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(DISTRICT ATTORNEY,)
Office over DenUer's Shoe store, Front room,
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Office, Columbian Building, 2 floor, front room,
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Office orr Rawlingi' Meat Market,
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w,
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The pionlo at Allen's Corners was
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haps, on aoccunt of a tremondous
thunder-storm, accompanied by a toi-nado-liko
gust of wind and jagged
streaks of blue lightning, tbat seemed
to bury themselves in the ground.
Horses and vehicle) wore brought hur
riedly to tho odgo of tho platform! tho
young people dispersed like a flock of
sheep in various direotions.
"1 don't care,'1 said Frank Warren,
speaking between bis set teeth. "I
wasn't having such a particularly pleas
ant time. Matty Vatl was behaving
very badly.1'
"It doesn't make much difference to
me." said Misa Vail, with a tosi of bor
curly head. "'I've danced all I wanted
to, and Frank Warren has been glar
ing at me like a Bluebeard tho whole
time. Suoh impudence, indeed! And
mo not regularly engaged to him, alter
all! Ono thing is quite certain, I never
shall be. nowl And as for riding all
iho wav home to Daisyvillo with him pencd'
to-night, 1 won't do it. There's that "Las. night coming homo from the
little girl from tho city; I'll just put picnic."
her in my place. Her shoes are dread- "As it happened she catuo home
ful'ytbin.Jand si o has nouin brella. She'll with me."
be glad ol a chance to ride. And I'll Sam Pratt rubbed his hands glee
fully.
"All that was a joke, old fellow,''
said he. "You brought homo the lit
tle New York school teacher, who
boards at Ma'am Dunkloy's ! Malty
Vail managed all that. You don't
mean to say you never found it out!
I tell you, Mat and I had a good
laugh over it going home."
Frank Warren set his teeth tightly
together. That girl who could enjoy
"a good laugh'' with Sam Pratt over
suoh a practical joko as this was rap
idly losing casto in his estimation.
"1 congratulate you, ' said no, some
what bitterly.
"Know you'd be pleased, old fel
low.'' said Sain, smiling broadly. "But
ing accents.)
"There can't bo a doubt about it.
"Then, of course, there's an end of
this matter,'' said Matilda, with a littlo
quiver in her voice.
"But you toll mo just what he
said?"
"No ; I certainly shall not betray
his confidence."'
"Confidence, indeodl" flashed oat
Mattv Vail. "A pretty confidence 1
but do tell mo just for tho joko of tho
matter."
Matilda was silent. To her it was
no joko.
"I'd bavo you know that I have had
a proposal, too," added Matty brush
ing out her luxuriant blondo tresses.
"That ridiculous Pratt. Of course, I
only put him off. I do think all meu
aro crazy I'1
Matty Howitl made no answer, but
she shed a few silent bitter tears after
sho was in bed. Tho sensation of be
ing engaged was very pleasant. It
was a pity that it had been ko brief I
"As good as engaged to Matty Vail,
aro you! said Mr. Warren, who had
met Sam Pratt at tho poat-ofuce next
day. "May I ask when this hap
Smokoless Powders-
RAl'IM.Y COMING INTO USE 1I0TU
BMAI.t. ARMS AND AllTII.LKKY.
IBEDISOH A HUMAN FIEND?
the wizard's I.ATK8T INVENTION is UtA-
UOMCAI, IK ITS l'OSSinlLITIES.
rro with Harrv Dix or Sim Pratt 1"
I r r. -J !.- TVI1-..
"Ull. Jll.au crieu m.:oa umuu,
Matty's chief confidante and bosom
friend, "what will ho say
'What ho pleases when no nuas
it out."
So, when Mr. Warren's handsome
black horso was led up, shying and
rearing in the uncertain glimmer of
tho lanterns and tho flash of lightning,
Matilda Howitt found hcrselt, sno
scarcel" knew b jw, in tho seat beside
tho handsome'young farmer, ono sat
qj'lto eilent, wondenug if it was irn-
pioper to ride homo wun a genuemun
to whom she haa never oeen lonuuuy
introduced, and trembling, ever and
anon, at tho storm and her unwonteit
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M,
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Graduate of the Philadelphia Dental College,
having opened a dental olhce tn lockakd-i
jJOILDINO, corner 01 main auuvouwcucci,
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It prepared to receive all patients requiring pro
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Alter quality, and in proportion to
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cnmnanionBhin. and the wild speed of they tell mo tho school-teacher takes it
"Black Douglas," aa he flow along the I terribly hard. Cried all night. Went
liitnh.dark. drinnina roads ' homo before dayliiiht on foot, all the
"Aro you frightened?" Mr. Warren
asked, in a low voice, whon they had
gone a littlo way.
"N-ot much!" faltered Matilda; and
then she trembled more than ever, as
an arm crept, Blowly but surely, around
her waist. Bat what was she to do?
There was no back, to tho seat aod
there was danger of her being jerked
oot, in ono of these sudden curves.
"Don t be afraid, sootr.ea warren.
1"You know you aro safe with mo in
spite of everythingl"
"Y-c-es, murmurea aiaumn iiuwjlu
"Mattyl"
She was silent. This crowing inti
macy was beginning to bb appalling.
"Mattyl aocompaniea wun a geuuu
pressure of the encircling arm. "Djn't
be cross with me, Matty. You know
how much I lovo you, my own onei
"Ob, gracious mel ' tnoagni juibs
Howitt, "what will ho bo saying
next?"
"You will promise to bo ray wito,
Matty? It may seem Budden, but
Whoa, you villain!"
it or 'lilanic jjoogiass nau givou a
way to the swamp. Thought that you
were dead in lovo with her. Didn't
liko tho idea of its being a put up
job."
Frank Warren turned upon him
with a sudden flash in his eyes.
"And who told you," said ho "that
it was a put up job?"
"Eh?" Sam's gooseberry colored
orbs dilated with surprise. -'You
don't tell me "
Frank Warrco went straight to tho
Widow DunMoy.s, and asked for Mis
Howitt. Mattv came to him with
cheeks unnaturally red, and a restlesi
sparkle in her dark gray eycB.
"I I am very sorry." she becan.
"Sorry for what? Not that I asked
vou to bo rav wife. I hope" sa'd tlu
vouncr man cheerily.
Sho was not as pretty as Matty Vail,
be thought, but she was dainty and
delicate, like a . violet blossoming in
tho shade.
"But vou didn't mean it?" sho fal
tered.
"I am not in tho habit of saying
what 1 don t mean. I am here to con
While tho tremendous charges of
groat bodies of cavalry undoubtedly
formed a loiding feature of tho lato
German maneuvers, suggesting how
much is expected of mounted troops in
t'lu future, yet upon tho wholo 'the
most important rotilt effected was tho
demonstration of tho great offootivo.
nessof the so called smokoless and noiso
less powder. It is not too much to say
that tho final maneuvers at Hanover,
in which the Tenth corps, using smoke
lees cartridges, defeated tho seventh
corps, provided with tho ordinary black
powder, Bhows that tho new compound
iti a necessity for warfare horoaftor.
It was found' that tho Tenth corps al
most held tho Soveuth at its moroy,
sineo it could manouvor alike in front
and 011 tho flank of its opponent with
out allowing tho latter to properly
judge of the firing distauccs from sound
or smoke, both being so Blight.
To a limited extent tho action of
smokeless powder has become known
through experiments with the now ro-
pt'anug arras, ami aiso wuu artuiery.
Earlier in tho year, during tho maneu
vers of tho artillery brigado of the
guards iu East Prussia, two regiments,
ono consisting of eleven and the other
of eight batteries, practiced all day
long with tho nearly smokeless powder
firing projectiles of different caliber.
It produced at each shot "a ball of
black smoko about threo feet in diame
ter, which quickly disappeared." Tho
accounts show that the powdor loft so
littlo refuse iu tho bore that, instead of
cleaning it out after every Bhot. it was
only necessary to pass a rag through it
now and then.
In Italy recent experiments with the
Biuio or eqviuaionv powuer Biioweu
praotically tho same results. Tho now
German powders made by tho united
Ithino and Westphalian factories are
also highly satisfactory in point of in
itial velocity and moderate pressures.
The first eeneral information obtain-
id in regard to the smokeless powders
was in connection with tho Looel ritlo,
tho new small caliber repoatiug arm of
the Freuoh, which created such an ex
citement a few years ago, and practic
ally dictated reconstruction to small
arms throughout Europe. At that time
neither tho Austrian Maunlichor ritlo
nor the German repeater used smoke
less powder It is understood, of
course, that tho words "smokoless" and
noiseless ' aro used in a comparative
sense, as there is soma noise ami somo
sraoko in nearly all these powders. It
has been saul, howevor, that the report
of a single Lebel rifle can not be heard
at a distanco of more than twenty
or thirty yards; that it may bo said to
mako no smoko, and that tho recoil is
of no consequonco whatever. Tho
powder is said to bo a secret compound
From th Sew l'ork Pren.
Thomas Edison tho phenomenal in
ventor has readied a critical stago in
his careor, and it would bo a strango
sarcasm of fato if his latost invention
should mako him positively abhorrent orders datod tho
STATE TREASURER W. B. HART
DEAD.
Stato Treasurer William U. Hart,
dloii at his homo in Harri9burg last
Saturday morning, from paralysis. '
Mr. Hart was i;orn lUarcn 10, 101a,
in Montgomery county, Fa., and re
ceived a common sohool education, ho
commenced to earn his own living at
tho age of 14, working as n larm lianas
at the ago of 17, ho was apprenticed to
tho bricklaying business nt Wilton no
servod for about two and ono-half
years, when tho call for threo years'
troops having been made, ho enisled,
as a privato fii company F, Fifty-first
Pennsylvania volunteers, participating
in all tho battles in which his com
mand was engaged during his three
years' term ofonlistment. On tho 1st
of February, 1CG5, ho received tho ap
pointment of Ahsistant Adjutant-General
of volunteerd, with tho rank of
captain, and served under Gonral
Hartranft until tho close of tho wa.,
beinc mustered out ot service as a vol
unteer officer tinder war department
19th of September,
to tho crowing generation- Oyer in MHCSi in February, 1807, ho was nu-
liis laboratory at Llowllyn Park U this pointed to a clerkship in tho Btato
invention. It has boon tried and troasury department, and In 1871, sua
found perfect, and it is a phonographic ceeded lion. Thomas Nicholson, as
clock which, instead of chiming tho Cashier, holding that position until
hours calls them out at overy quarter 1878, when tho election of Amos C.
in a voico full of clearness. It may bo Noycs, democrat, caused a change iu
fitted with any set to suit tho purpose that department; ho was unanimously
for which it is intended. To a report- Dominated in the republican conven
er it was exhibited yesterday. ti0n of 1877 for tho oflico of state
Tho inventor was cheery and play- treasurer, brt suffered defeat with tho
fill as ho always is. "Tho clock," said rC8t 0f the ticket; in 1887, ho was
ho, "is an improvement, and if it wero again unanimously nominated by tho
only on tho market now it might savo g,mo party for tho samo office, nnd
you reporters a good deal of worri- wag elected; ho has beeu secretary of
ment. For instauco, say yoa aro at a tho Huntingdon reformatory eommis
politioal meeting with a dozen speakers 8i0n and secretary and treasurer of tho
carded. Thoy aro to havo each a half Commonwealth guarantee, trust and
hoar. You know what a fiction that is. safo deposit company sinco their rcs-
But now, if you had a clock like this, pectivo organizations.
seo how it would work," and hero Mr,
Edison placed a sot within it. He
pointed tho hand to tho quarter of an
hour and a voico came ringing out :
"This speaker is half through." At
tho half hour tho clock blurted out.
"Tho audionco will please not onoore.
Tho gentleman now gives way to another."
Tho only fear I havo" contiuued
THE TILDEH WILL DEOIRION.
The annulment of tho provision of
Samuel J. Tildon's will creating a
trust estate is a crave public misfor
tune. It defeats a roblo project tho
creation of a great amply endowed frco
library. It strengthens tho nuuiio con
viction that tho wit of a mm is not
Mr. Edison, "is tho young unmarried equal to tho task of framing a will dis-
folks may not relish it. You aro mar
ried ? No 1 Well, I don't give this out
as a bribe, but when yeu get entangl
ed in tho preliminaries, como to me
and I will give you one that you may
present to tho family into which you
aspire to be admitted. It w'll'bo a fib"
ber. I'm a littlo in doubt about the
popularity of the parlor clook with tho
younger people.
Mr. Edison has good reason to fear.
A moro tauntalizinc ornament to a
pair of ardent lovers than a matri
monial parlor phonographto ciook
can not be imagined. Fancy, for in
stance, a Sunday evening in a cozy
parlor with two hearts beating as ono
startled by hearing a voioo from the
mantle; "Good night, a fond good
night. In another hour it will be mid
night." Then dolefully at a quarter
past and each succeding quarter comes
out its hoareo croakincs, until 11.55,
when it blurts out:
"In five minutes moro it will be to
morrow," and overy teu minutes subse
quently the air is filled with its maud
lings, suoh as "Ah 1 how still the
hour." "Mable, I am watching tbee,
ha, ha 1" "Metliinks I hear the spirit
of thy mamma upon tho stairs."
"Please don't hood mo ; it is my mis
fortune tbat I must warn you that the
hour is half-past 12." "Did I hear
you ask me to get tbat hat?" "Will
posing of a greai estate which is cer
tain to stana tuo aisaaiia 01 uisjapuiui
ed heirs. If a lawyer of tho reputation
and ability of James C. Carter cau not
draw suoh a will under tho inspiration
and direction of such an astute, learned
and experienced counselor as Samuel
J. Tilden who then can bo depended
on to discharge succcsfully that most
important duty?
Tho grounds on which tho trust pro
vision is declared invalid make tho
breaking of tho will cspec'. illy regret
able. Mr. Tilden had seen over and
over again the folly and wasto which
result from having a dead baud laid
with too iullexiblo a grasp on a living
changing entity, a great estate. Ho
had reflectod on tho unwisdom of
obliging executors and trustees to ful
fill instructions and executo projects
which tho thrifty donor would never
havo carried out himself with the
changed conditions and bettor knowl
edge under which his representatives
aro called to act. Perceiving this, Mr.
Tilden attempted in his will to confer
upon his executors some of tho samo
ditcretion which ho would himself
havo employed in carrying out tho de
signs which ho was obliged by doatb
to entrust to others.
It is becauso of this discretion (hat
tho dovioo to found a library is declar
ed void. Says Judgo Van isrunt:
of gun cotton and collodion, and ita ' k-ndl rommber me in your prav. "Ho (Tilden) seems to have had abso
nvm.t iiYinnaiiiii la nnrhfirtfl tllfl nnlv I J . ... - . 1 I 1... .1 :.. 1. 1 ,. . t .... f ,,.1, 1 ..1
tremendous sideways jump, and re quir- firm ray last night's words. Will
ed all bis master's will and energy to confirm yours, Miss Howitt?
subdue him; and by tho time they had "But I hnow bo littlo of you,
reached tho Vail farm bouse, Matilda Warren."
Howitt found herself engaged, by im- "That's a disability which can oasi
plicalion, to a young man she never ly be remedied by time. Won't you
had seen beforo in hor life until that trust me, Matty?' and ho held out
you
Mr.
his
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SHO IU ' peil our, ami r'iu quuiiwy iu-
to tho house. Mrs. Vail met her in
tho hall.
"Where's Matty?" she cried- "Who
are you?"
"I'm Matilda liowiu.' sam mo gin.
"I'm hero because he left me. 1 1
don't quite know; but tho horso behav
ed so badly, and the placo where I
board is threo miles beyond the
swamp. Please, cau't I stay all
night?
"Why of course," said Mrs. Vail.
"Ynn'ro tho citv school-ma am ain t
you, that boards to Widow Dunkley's?
Como in, and sit down and dry your
clothes Dreadful shower, ain't it ? I
homer
hand
And sho decided to trust him.
The village bollo was discomfited be
yond measure when she heard that her
practical joko had turned into reality.
For, in her secret heart, sho had loved
Frank Warren as union as it was in
her to lovo anybody.
"Engaged to you, indeed sho cried
to Sam Pratt, with blazing oyos.
"How dare you to say such a thing?
I would't marry you if thero wasn't an
other man in tho world!"
And Mr. Pratt doparted, inconsol
able. As for Mr. Warren, ho nover had
cause to repent his sudden resolve.
Matilda Howitt mado him tho best of
gentle little wives,
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.In uUli nnr Mattv was safe at
All this was very unconventional. -'Although it was rather unconven
But, then, thought littlo M'ibs Howitt, tional, that wooing of yours, Frank,"
country life is unconventional, ln Mew said she. "Now wasn t it!
York it woulu have lancn a mourn, ut 1 Yell, rather so, 1 must aumit.
the very '.least, for a young man to ga;j tjje youug husband. "However,
Matty, alls well that onus wen, you
know."
And Mattv Vail's practioal joke has
ended in a fine prospect of her being
oxact composition is perhaps the only
secret now remaining in regard to the
Lebei rifle.
The Germans becan with tho uso of
the DuttinboferHonii-Htuokoless powder
and have also mado imitations of tho
Fiench powder as nearly as it can bo
touud out. The itussians navo tried a
new powder, mado by tho Ochtenski
factory, in imitation of tho Duttinhofer
and its manufacturers insist that it is
superior to tho latter in ballistic proper
ties; that it has a littlo higher initial
velocity, weight lor weight, with less
pressure on tho bore. This may be the
reason why tho Russians havo come to
tho uao of tho small caliber, which
could only have tho requited efficiency
with 0110 01 tho new compounds, as
otherwise the bore would foul too rap
idly.
The English also havo obtained a
smokeless and noiseless powder, inven
ted by the well known artillerist,
Capt. Noble, of the Elswick works, at
Newcastle upon-Tyne. A British mili
tary authority says that its uso has al
most been decuieu upon, both lor
small arms and for machine and quick
firing guns.
It speaks of tho power as "a curious,
grayish looking materiel, in long
threads or a whipcordliko form pre
sumably from tho shape it assumes
under hydraulic pressure, its action
is most startling.
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o -- . .... . . .
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ant iumn when she remembered that ...
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gentle pressure arouna uer waist. 11 Blta of rnn.
this was love
Hut there tho current of her retleo- iPa TTntWITnvn
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unique
Mattv Vail herself "Martha Alula
was her chrUteued name in the com
pany of Mr. Sam Pratt, a dashing
oivalier of another village.
"It's not late," said Sam. "Cau't I
como in? Just for a little while."
"Nonsense Sam," said tho belle.
"Oh, now. Mattyl''
"Nonsense,,! say." And Miss Vail
shut tho door in Mr. Pratt's face with
a laugh.
"He's not half bo pleasant as Frank,
after all," said Matty to herself; and
then followed an interview with her
nnnxnectcd truest.
"How niool" cried Matty. "Wo
can
over.
wet
tea for us. We had a lovely Buppor
in the woods.
"Oh!" cried Matilda Howitt, clasp
ing Miss Vail'a hand." I've so inuoh to
tell you 1
Matty's 6yes sparkled.
"What did ho Bay ?"
'Til tell you after tho lamp is put
out," said Miss Howitt hanging down
her bead.
"You don't mean
"Yes, I do," whispored Miss Howitt.
"Ho loally and actually did pro-
pose 1"
"Nonsense!" Bald Matty Vail, bitiug
ber lip. "You must havo misunder
stood him."
"Misunderstood, indeed!" retorted
Miss Howitt. "I'm sure ho Bpoko
plain enough."
"But you wouldn't accept a man
who was caught in suoh a trap as
that?"
"A trap?'1 Btammcred Miss Howitt
"Yes of couro. He thought it wau
me."
"Do you BUppoao lo did?" (in falter-
ers ?'' "Look out 1 I hear a fooutnp.
Ha, hal I was only fooling thee I" "I'll
soon have to call father to go to his
office.
And bo the clook jabbers on most
exasporatincly. Of course the words
are set to suit tho oircumstancee. If
tho wooer bo a favored person, of
course tho language will bo much dif
ferent, the tono of tho clock will be
sweet and simpering, and tho words
coy and captivating.
A NATURAL- MEDIUM.
ltESIAUKAllI.E JIESMBKIO l'OWEIt DEVEL
OPED BY A YOUNG MAN IN INDIANA.
From Vie IwltanapoUs Journal.
A few weoks ago Professor Ken
nedy, a travelling mesmerist, spent a
luto confidonce in his executors (which
is to bo regretted) and thereforo tho
exclusion of that necessary defitencss
for executorial or trust discretion cau
not bo substituted under our system
of law." It would seem reasonable
that if Tilden was willing to trust the
judgement of his executors rather than
speak from his coffin witli orders tbat
in the light of events nuknown to him
not bo wise, tho Court might properly
respect that confidenco and carry out
tho laudable purposos of the trust.
In dissenting from his associatoa,
Judge Daniels holds that tho laws of
New York do not abridgo tho atuhor
ity of a testator to vest in his execu
tors a discretionary power over his
estate. It is very greatly to bo hoped
that tho Court of Appeals will adopt
this view rather than that of the ma-
few days hero and give a nmrbcr jority of tho court below and not allow
of exhibitions rt Green's Opera Hmiso. the Tilden trust to fail becauso tho
Among those who attended was Ular- wiso donor preferred that it should
enco N. Checver, the Union ticket bo controlled by tho enlightened judg-
agent of Vincennes, Ind. Mr. Choever ment of tho living rather than by tho
became very much interested in tho
art and resolved to investigate. Pro
fessor Kennedy gave this subject a few
lessons, moro in a joko than seriously.
But Mr. Cheevoi', bent upon a trial,
made an attempt to exert a mebinerio
influence on a subject, and Bucoeeded
so well that he begged tho Professor
to wako ud tho subject whom he had
. . nnn 1 I . 1 - .
ji ow yams raugo put Bound to sleep, sinco that epi-
inflexible and
dead. Ex.
fallible orders of tho
A New Submarine Boat.
THE ItECENT INVENTION OF THE
ron WAlt AT SEA.
Hiram No!!!!
Mrs. Upthar Thought your Cousin
Ben promised t' take you 'rouud the
citv?
Hiram So he did; four times. Ho's
drivin' a belt-line car Puck,
Binks Yes, Johnny, you may ask
mo ono more question.
Johnny Well, what is a pony call
od when it is crown up?
Binks A schooner, rav bov. N, Y.
Sun.
Country Kdttor 1 would like very
much to see somo of your loug-taileu
coals,
Clothing Dealer Something fasti
oseT
caro a cent about that
My wife has put a dark bluo skylight
in my light dove-colorod Sunday pants,
and I wan. a coat long enough to con.
ceal the evidonco of ray being an edit
or and having to feed myself to a cane
bottomed chair seven days in tho week.
Texas Sifiings.
Do Pish Suffer Fain.
From tin Xaturaltst.
Them is a widespread notiou that
fish suffer very little pain in coinparis.
on with tho higher vertebrates. But
it is nrobablo thai uslt uuer pain to a
much greater degreo than it suits tho
angler to behove. "A fly fisherman of
thirty five yeare' experience" sayB the
sentienoy in fish depends very much on
whero ho is hooked, If tho hook is
struck into a horny part, no pain stoma
to be felt; If it is fixed in the part
of tho mouth corresponding in man to
that between tho outer gum and tho
cheek, he is quito suro that tho fish
feels very acuto pain, for, unless killed
first, it quivers horribly whon tho hook
is removed.
not a sound is hf ard when a volley is
fired with it, and only a faint haze
arises, which is almost imperceptible,
while a shower of bullets is been to
fall upon tho targets, an effect produc
ed seemingly without a cause." Care-
tul experiments will no undo with it
at Lydd. In their quick firing guns
tho ilritish at Shoeburyness havo used
the Chilworth smokeless powder with
great eileot, obtaining a yery high ini
tial velocity.
ln rapid tiro cannon, as in magazine
small arms, tho valuo of smokeless
powders is obvious, becauso tho pecu
liar advantages of theso weapons might
otherwiso bo largely counterbalanced
by smoke.
Of all tho now powders Schultzo's is
perhaps tho best known. Noarly or
quito all appear to depend ou tho
union of nitrous compounds of somo
sort with other substances. Somo
will not keep iu all climates, and some
givo out an unondurablo odor. Their
introduction will perhaps call for some
new studies in tactics, as certain move
monts now depending on tho cover of
Biuoko can not hereafter rely on this
protecting raantlo. But just at pres
ent the tactical considerations seem to
bo less important to our own country
than tho proouring of jiowdors as effi
cient as the new ones whioh aro finding
tayor in Europe. wammyton bpto-ial.
Bode, which was a Btartling revolution
to Mr. Choever, ho has been experi
menting upon numbers of his friends,
many of whom ho has gotten under
control and managed as he pleased.
A few days ago his friends announc
ed that ho would givo a test of bis
mesmerio ability. Accordingly a largo
number of the friends of Mr. Cheovcr
gathered in tho dining-rooms of
Union Depot Hotel, and tho ticket
agent was called in to givo an illustra
tion.of his power. Mr. Cheevcr at once
succeeded even in startling himself.
By tho simple passing ot his hand
over the fivo heads of tln subjects tho
somnambulistic staic would tako hold
of them and Mr. Choevcr's power was
manifest. Ho would havo them pay
ing tributo to an imaginary President
Harrison in tho palm of bis hand, sing
ing songs thoy never heard btfore,
picking strawbeirics out of au imagin
ary strawberry patch, and smacking
their lips as they conceived thoy tasted
tho luscious fruit. After causing them
to perform numerous antics, bo gather
ed his subjects in a row and had them
sing in a ludicrous, chaotic manner the
old Methodist hymn "Shall Wo
Gather at tho River."
Mr. Cheover's first experience in
mesmerism wes marvelous, and bo
came out of tho ordoal with only n
Blight hoadacho and a littlo nervousness.
Fres't Dr. Harvey L. Byrd on Wine.
DON'T DEINK NEWBEEB.
Proaidont of tho Baltimore Medical
Collego has used Speer's Port Grape
Wine very extensively in bis practico
and has written tho following lettor:
ISai.timori; mi.. April 17ta.
I havo proscribed Speor's Port Grupi
Wine with marked and deoidedly ben
eficial effeots cases ronuiring a gontly
stimulating tonic, behovoing it entirely
free from adultoratton ot auy kind,
havo no hesitation in recommending it
to tho profession and publio genorally,
as entitled to lull contidenos lor ootlt
professional and family purposos.
This statement is pordicatod upon
tho ascortainoa value ot tuts production
and not from general reputation merely.
HAUVEY L. BYlvD, M. D.
President and Professor of Obstetrics
and diso anes of Women and Child
ren, Baltimore Me lical Collego.
iVom It AntUSauUeration Journal,
No premature beor is fit for con
sumption. A beer uuder four mouths
old is as injurious at any slow poison
ovor consumed. No matter how pure
tho material is from whioh the beer is
made, it is, howover, an impure beor
until it has had four months to purify
itBolf by eliminating oertain yeast
germs, carbonio acid gas and other
foroign matter.
A well preserved old alo, it Boeras,
wonld be much bettor to uso tbau
the now beer, whero malt liquors
aro nocded, or, perhajn bettor vet for
the sick, a unit tomo or extraot of
malt or good grapo wine, until g)od
hoer is producod. In Bavaria the law
onforeoj the aging, as well as the pur
ity of boer, and for suoh lawa wo aro
always coutondmg li.ro.
Tho Goubet, the namo of the boat
built by a privato firm at tho expenso
of thu fatate, is a little boat 5.G0 rne
t es long and 1.53 metres broad. It
can bold two men. Tho body of tho
craft is cast in bronze of a single piece,
and can, therefore, bear a very high
pressure It is moved by electricity,
which in case of failure can bo replac
ed by oars. Completely armed it
weighs 0,000 kilogrammes (about 12,
OOO pounds), and can, therefrro, bo
transported easily everywhere.
Tho ekctricity, as may bo safely as
suiaed, is obtained from accumulators
m tho boat; but it seems that this pro
pelling force can also be transferred to
tho boat from land or from a ship ac
companying tho Goubet by means of a
wire, which would naturally consider
ably hamper tho movements of tho
submarine craft. The storeh of com
pressed air uro said to last for twenty
four hours, and can, by an automatio
arrangement, bo so distributed that tiio
Btato ot tho air in tho chip is constant.
Tho boat was immersed for eight hours
at a depth of ten metres with two
sailors in it, and ihoso latter experien
ced not tho slightest inconvenionco
during that period. Ai a special ad
vantage u is claimed tor tho uoat tuat
it can at a word of command Bink any
depth, greatest probably 10 metres, ro
raain there, and change its position at
will. Tho sinking and rising in tho
water, it is said, can bo cxecutod with
tho greatest regularity, which is not
the caso apparently with tno Spanish
ruibuiarino boat l'earl, anil tho otuor
French boat Gymcoto. Cologne Gas.
ette.
A TYPOUKAFMOAL EREOfi.
Talking of typographical errors, tho
Burlington, Vt. ,Free J'rcss dots not
remember of seeing of a moro horriblo
specimen of this class of blunders than
ono which appeared iu a Massachusetts
paper not long ago. At the cloio of
an extended and highly eu'ogist'o
notico ot a decoased lawyer the report
er wished to say that "the body was
taken to Hull for intorment, whero
reposed tho remains of other members
of tho family." By mistake a letter
"o ' was substituted for the "it'' iu
Hull, changing tho serse of tuo
Bontonco to mch a d gi..' slut .o
oxtra coincB of that issui 1 1 tho paper
wero ordered by tho tnmily of the dead
awyer.