GilEAT rilOTOGRArHY.
A Picture of Mont E:aao Taken
from a Distance of Ect Mllsa.
fha Marrl OolroBi of rr Masrths
A truly marvelous development in
camera work is wLat ba been termed
t U photoprapliy, whereby pictures of
d'-taDt object ca be made with the
Kirae clearness and sharpDesa of dcUil
as if they were close at band, tut to
secr'e a succtss-ful picture by this
rrt.ceiS manv diSecltie bare usn
al'v to be contended with, and accord-is-
to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat it
is "comparatively seldom that the mo t
favorsUe conditions occur. The main
d Scultv U the presence in the air of
minute "particles of dust. In lar?e
towns nd evcn in thelT Eeiftb"r"
hood, the air is f iled with an incon
ceivable quantity of such particles
and the result is a frrayiirss of the at
mosphere, which, on the photegTapese
negative, blurs the outline of remote
objects. Where these conditions ob
tain it is possible to procure a good
rr!K..f only in the mornir? after a noc
turnal fhower Las cleared the air.
.ch is the a'woruen poaer of dusty
air that all attempts at taking
distance photographs in the vicinity
of Taris where much experimrct
ic was done, resulted unsatisfac
t.rilv lvond a ranre of thirty-two
hundred varus, even when the occawoa
wafc apparently propitious. In the
neiptborhood of the a and of the
mountains whrre the air is much
purer. photoprapUs ctn be made at
much preaU-r distances; but here a
fcinpie obstacle presnt itself in the
rneiual density of the various strata
o' air. K'jH-cia'Jv in hot weather, cer
tain beds of air. heated by the rays of
the tun. will be actuated by an up
ward m ovement and this imparts a
trviublitir appearance to the land
scape. The prence of rivers or
mtrshf s or land much exposed to the
s,.!ar ravs. is lively to gnve rise to v,r
tlcai currents of vap-.r of preat absorp
tive power. A?ain the humil vapors
of the atmosphere clothe far distance
Q l.ini-hhaze. which confuses the
lines of the picture and obscures the
'.:-. -ts of Y.zht and shale. This is rem-e.'i.-d
by employicz orthochromatic
j. i.scs aiid a yellow plass to neutralize
the blue tint. The camera must le
aV-.Iut. Iv still, the mot minute vibra
tion Win's multiplied indefinitely and
o-,,.:;- hopeless confusion in the neg
ative. It will thus be s-en that t?lepnotor
rapVv is both a dluicuit and a deli-cuu-
process. A most remarkable illus
tration of its po ssibilities has been
achieved by M. lkjisj-'unas. of Geneva,
in a photograph of Mont lilacc. taken
at a cN'ance of eiht and one-half
miles. The proof has been published
bv M. Fourtier, who ahso shows in
order to surest more stronp-ly the
w. .uJerful nature of the achievement,
the size the picture would be if
ta",cn by au ordinary object plass.
The latter measures nine and one
sixteenth inches by three-eighths
inches a-'- the telephr.tofrraph is five
tn2 three-fourths inches by three and
three-fourth inches. The lines of the
ma-sive, far-off mountain stand out in
bold relief, and the details of the in
terviewinr country are distinctly
shown, buch a picture, however, is
net made without almost unlimited
pains and perseverance. It cost M.
lioNsonnas four month of experi
menting before he could determine on
tiie txvt place and the best time at
which to take it. For the benefit of
l Ve w ho may have to tread wearily
over the same ground, he tells the
ii.n that obtained at the event
ful moment. It was sis o'clock in the
evening, about twenty minutes before
the sun sank benind the mountains.
From experience he found that this
ws the most favorable moment to ob
tain a harmonious proof, and the dis
tinctness of outline and details in the
clouds was greatly increased from the
fact that they were tincred first with
pale yellow and then with oracje.
A COUNTRY WITHOUT SILVER.
la Italy Private lirma Iwrae Token to
feoppty the Drmind.
It is a strange story which comes
fom Italy by way of the London
Globe. So great is the scarcity of
moa.-v that a private firm at Milan,
Messers Gavazzi i Co.. has taken to
coining on its own account, and as the
credit of the house is unimpeachable
the metal tokens for of course that is
what they really are are freely ac
cepted by the shopkeepers.
Italy presents a remarkable excep
tion to most other nations in the mat
ter of currency. A bile they are com
plaining everywhere else of the super
abundance of silver, the preciousmetal
i actually at a premium in King Hum
bert's dominions.
Chanp-e for a fire-franc piece can only
be obtained on payment of a penny on
the transaction.
The reversion to tokens carries us
back almost to the middle ages. There
w as a period in the history of England
when such "promises to pay" con
stituted almost the only circulating
medium. They were made of lead,
t in. and even leather, and passed as
readily from band to hand as coins
stamped with the royal image and
superscription.
It is stated that in the middle of the
seventeenth century as many as
twenty thousand different kinds of
tokens were in circulation in Knland.
Messrs. Gavazzi's coinage will pass
freely where the issuers are known
and trusted, but will not be looked at
twenty miles from the Lombard capi
tal. The extraordinary action of the
Milan firm has been taken, perhaps
not only in the interest of its clients"
convenience, but as a means of putting
iressure upon the government- Right
ly or wrongly, it is contended that
ooething might be done by the au
thorities to relieve a scarcity which
avuioocu almost to a peneral calamity.
Besnaaat of a Faaseua tadtaa Tribe.
A meeting of the surviving members
of the iCarragansett tribe of Indians
has jast been called. There are about
or.e hundred persons to answer. Ail
the New England tribes who, with
those of New York state, were the
noblest of the red men on the conti
nent, are fast dwindling away, and
only a few pure-blooded breves and
Kjuaws yet survive. These illustrious
nations in New England are the l'enob
txsAt of Maine, the Mohegans and IV
quodm of Connecticut and the Narra
pansetts of Iibixie. I.sland. The Penub
soots retain their tribal organization
intact at Indian island, in the I'enoi
jieot river, in the woods near old
Town; the Mohegans at Mohegan vil
lage, on the river bank of the Tham I
river, in the woods three miles south
f Nmieu; the Peuods along the
ragh hills of North istonir.gton and
I-dyard. and the shores of Lantern
liill pond, in southeastern Connecticut,
and the Najragansetts at Charlestown.
on the shore of the open ocean ip
Ilhode Island.
lti Am1cu Moo.
In southern Europe the peasants al
ways eat trait in its natural shape and
never think of treating it to doses of
tngar, salt or other seasoning. Around
Naples and in Malaga the people bite
a b4e ia the orange, suck out the juice
and then throw the orange awav.
isorae American people often do the
same, but the American must try bis
Land at improving nature, so he put." a
lr.mpof sup-ar in it- An orange planter
thinks snch a thjryr a dese-ration-
A ttabbora savaga.
Samory, the great Mohammedan
chief of interior Africa, is about the
last semi-sava?e of the dark country
to yield to civilization and the force of
arms. The Trench have gradually
lriven him into closer quarters and
now the Lritish are con J ucting ruidn
against bis warriors. Samory is the
crc2it bandit king in the world.
THE ANCHOR NURSE.
A M W tx TwwtJ T Ac n. It
Don Very Fto IUt.
T see that Ives made g-.vat run at
billiards the other day." said the old
man as be chafed his cue, "and that
l.e did it with the anchor nurse. Now
the paners are talking about that an
chor nurse as if it was s new thing. I
saw an anchor nurse used way back in
72, and the fellow who used it bad
used it before, too."
Pressed for the story by a BafTalj Ex
press writer, the old man said: "I was
in hard luck that winter and was act
ing as room keeper for a friend of
mine. One day a fellow came into the
room and got into a game. He proved
to be a very good player, and for a
week or two he came up regnlarly and
laid out the local expert to the queen's
taste. Then a match was made be
tween hira and the best player in town
for one hundred dollars. It was to be
five hundred points up, straight bil
liards. "The night for the match came and
the room was cro-.vded. They began
to play, and dubbed along until each
one of them had fifty or so buttons.
Then the stranger got the balls against
the rail and held them in one spot- He
ran out the game, making, to be exact,
four hundred and forty-seven billiards
The last shot be made was a hard drive,
from the lower end of the table and it
broke the balls up. He was loudly ap
piauded, and there were many com
ments on his skin in keeping the balls
anchored as he did. He got the money
and went away.
"Next day w e were talking over the
game, and or.e man said be didn't be
lieve any man could make so many
points off two balls without moving
them. He talked so much that we ex
amined the table. Then we got on to
the anchor nurse."
"Hid he have a hole punched in the
clothT" a--ked a listener.
"No," said the old man. "he didn't."
"All on the square, was it?"
"Well, not exactly. You see be car
ried a small bottle of liquid glue with
him. and he put a gob of it on the table
next the cushion when we didn't see
him." The old man picked up his cue
and made a carom. "There was a
man," he said, "who bad the anchor
nurse down about as fine as any of
them."
THE PRESIDENT'S SIGNATURE.
Ooa Hai Get SI.3VO a Tear far Wrltior
Urover Cleveland's Kama.
Much of the president's business con
sists in signing his name, which must
be attached to all appointments com
missions, promotions and a thousand
and one other documents, ho exact
i7 is this part of his duty that he can
not perform the whole of it, says the
s-t. Louis Gl be-Dcmocrat. One em
ploye of the government gets twelve
hundred dollars a year for writing Mr.
Cleveland's name on land warrants.
He docs nothing else but that.
There are other officials in facie
Sam's employ, by the way, who do
n. .thing else, practically, but sign their
own names. This is almost the sole
duty of the register of the treasury,
who is kept bard at work signing docu
ments from nine a. m. to four p. m.
every day. The assistant treasurer of
the Vnited States is another slave to
bis ov. n signature, which he is perjiet
ually engaged in affixing to warrants
f .r money.
Mr. Cleveland's messages to congress
are all written in autograph originally.
He does all his writing with his own
hand. Such documents be produces on
foolscap with pen and ink, turning off
sheet after sheet with scarcely a cor
rection. An interpolation is rare in
his manuscript. In this fashion his
most finished speeches are evolved.
The literary method pursued by Presi
dent Harrison was wholly different.
lie found it very hard to write with a
pen. and so be would keep by biia
pad of paper and a soft lead pencil.
With these he would jot down notes
from time to time during leisure mo
ments and from the memoranda thus
made he would afterward dictate to
the stenographer. The messages sent
to congress are careful copies cf the
original. Senator Edmunds while pre
siding officer pro tern, of the u',ip.f
house, refused to receive a typewritten
message from the president. II
claimed that the law required a "mes
sage in writing." and that the type
script was not written in the proper
sense. This ruling established a prec
edent which has been followed ever
since.
NOW A DESERTED VILLAGE.
Virginia City, Xr, Once Gay and Fraa.
pernoa, Kapidly FaUloz to Kaiaa.
"A poet could write on 'The De
serted Village' w ith Virginia City as a
subject and surpass Goldsmith's im
mortal production on the same topic,"
said a resident of San Francisco to a
St. Louis Globe-Democrat man. '"The
Crst time that I was ever there the
population of Virginia City was greater
than tuat of the entire state cow.
Everything ran wide open. Magnificeut
hotels and opera halls, palatial resi
dences stores that would have done
credit to New York, millionaires who
spent money freely, maintaining a so
ciety that for brilliancy and paycty
could not be equaled in the I'nited
States. I was there a short time ago.
The hotels and opera bouses are closed,
the residences empty, the stores re
moved to other and more propcrous
places. Dwellings that cost hundreds
of thousands of dollars are given over
to the bats, and the broken panes of
glass, the shutters hanging unon a sin
gle hinge or nagging in the wind give
a grew some sense of loneliness. In
years to come it wi!l afford magnificent
spectacles of ruins, and even now in
some sections of the town there is a
sense to the beholder of being in acity
of the past. Millions were made end
lost, and the history of Virginia City
would be one of the most thriving sto
ries ever written."
WHY THE PRIEST TREM2LED.
AsalatanJ C'hanteC to lilm Iuring- Service
Thit Ue Had Drawn a I'rize.
An interesting incident has jut oc
curreu in Lima. 1 eru, nwakemn
equally human sympathy and faaticai
fury. A Dominican father celebrating
mass in La Merced, having reached
the most imposing part of the cere
mony, when the Gloria was resounding
through the lofty arches of the oldest
temple on the continent, was seized
with violent trembling and would have
fallen but for the service of an as
sistant.
Investigation shows that while the
service was proceeding an altar boy
had conveyed a piece of news to the
a v-istant and be. profiting by the noise
of the Gloria, bad chanted, so as to be
heard by the father, "You have drawn
the twenty thousand dollars" being
the quarterly grand prize of the na
tion;.! lottery.
The poor friar had been in great pov
erty and suddenly saw himself pro
vided with the means of supporting
the mother of bii children, a joy too
great for his simple human soul. Tin
assistant has been sentenced to "se-clu.-ioa"
for three months and the friar
to one month. The woman has already
been made comfortable by the friends
of the priest, who have taken charge
of his fortune to save it from the ra
pacity of bis superiors
M m f-ectoua uetjc
The oldest Christian fan which is in
existence dates from thesnth century,
having belonged to Queen Theodeliii
da, a princess who possessed. a nail of
the holy cross, which afterward was
set in the iron crownof Lombardy. This
is preserved in the castle of Monza,
near Milan, and shown to the tourist
as a relic. This is an interesting speci
men of a folded fan, as it is made in
two leaves which shut on each other
by means of a spring. It isgilded and
ornamented with pearls and rubies
snd bears traces of a Latin prayer.
The handle is of solid gold, inlaid with
gems. The young girls of Milan go to
Monza on a certain day in the year
simply to touch this magical fan, as it
is supposed to brin; about a speedy and
Lappy marriage.
Two Valuable Friend.
L A pbyeician cannot be always bad.
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Braise and
Borne occur often and sometime when
least expected. Keep bandy the friend
of maty households and the destroyer
of all pain, the famous Red Flag Oil, 25
cents.
2. Many a piecious life could be Raved
that is being racked to death with that
terrible cough. Secure a good night'i
rest by invesiinjt 25 cents for a bottle of
Pan-Tina, the great remedy for coegbs.
colds and coneamption. Pan-Tima sold
at G. W. Eenfoid e Drug Store.
lira. A. "Wasn't it too bad about Mr.
Poore? Jast as everybody thought he
was recoverine he received an apopletic
shock." Mrs. B. "Mercy ! How did it
happen r Mrs. A. "Nobody knows.
He was found unconscious with his doc
tor's bill in his hand." Button Houu
bucklen s Arnica Save.
The best Salve in the world for Cut,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rbeam, Fever
Sorts, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil
blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles, or no pay re
quired. It is guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction, or money refunded. Price
25 cents per box. For sale by J. X. Sny
der.
"Yoa oaght to be ashamed, Arthur ;
yon 'annoyed your aunt so much that she
has left us." "I don't care; I only like
distant relatives, anyhow."
A Leader.
Since its fret introduction. Electric
Bitters has gained rapidly in popular fa
vor, until now it is clearly in the lead
among pure medicinal tonics and altera
tives, containing nothing which permits
its use as a beverage or intoxicant, it is
recognized as the best and purest medi
cine for all ailments of Stomach, Liver or
Kidneys. It will cure Sick Headache,
Indigestion, Constipation, and drive Ma
laria from the system. Satisfaction
guaranteed with each bottle or the mon
ey will be refunded.
Price only 50c. per bottle. Sold by J.
N. Snyder, Drngg'sL
" Well, the widow sued the editor."
"Get anything?"
"One hundred dollars. But she didn't
have it long."
" Why ?"
" The editor married her."
Guaranteed Cure.
We authorize our advertised druggist
to sell Dr. King's New Discovery for Con
sumption, Coughs and Colds, npon this
condition : If you are afflicted with a
cough, cold, or any lung, throat or chest
trouble, and will use this remedy as di
rected, giving it a fair trial, and experi
ence no benefit, you may return the bot
tle and have your money refunded. We
could not make this offer did we not
know that Ir. King's ew Discovery
could be relied on. It never disappoints.
Trial bottle free at J. N". Snyder's drug
store ; large size 50c and f 1.
A good many men are like cheap the
atrical bills. A very little monev caus
es them to be stuck up. Buffalo Courur.
Don't Quarrel
With people for groaning when they suf
fer with Rheumatism or Neuralgia; the
pain is simply terrible ; no ancient tort
ure was more painful ; but people ought
to be blamed if having Rheumatism or
Neuralgia and won't use Red Flag Oil ;
ii has cured hundreds of sufferers and
costs only 2-5 cents at G. W. Benford's
Drug Stoie.
Doctor Well, Johnny, don't you feel
better since I gave you the medicine?
Johnny Yes; forgot all about being
sick.
Doctor That's what I thought; and
it wasn't hard to take, was it?
Johnny I guess so, for it took two of
us boys to hold Fido when we gave it to
him.
A Hard Fight.
The combined forces of the weather
during the winter season are exerted to
destroy health. Coughs and Colds at
tack ns, which, if neglected, result in
Pneumonia and Consumption ; these dis
eases usually result eeriously. Send for
Pan-Tina, the great Cough and Consump
tion Cure, and save doctor bills Pan
Tina sold at G. W. Benford's Drug Store.
"There are times hen he is very
gloomy." "I den't wonder; be calls
himself a self made man."
Straight from the East
A Sultan of Turkey once naid ,
An he groaned at the pain in hit head,
"Oh, my favorite wife,
I am nek of lhi life.
And I wth very much I were dead."
But hi wife, who wan wise, answered "Fie !
If you will Pierce Pelleta but try.
You'll be well in a week
Au1 then yoa ill f peak
Of tbes Pel leu with prj jus u high."
Dr. Pierce's Pellets cost only 25 cents
and they are guaranteed to cure all the
troubles which spring fixwn constipation,
indigestion, and bilious attacks. U you
have any of these troubles, why don't
yoa follow the example of the Sultan of
Turkey ?
$00 Reward for an incurable case of
chronic Nasal Catarrh offered by the
manufacturers of Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Fmedy. 50 cents ; by druggists.
Air Resitance.
A correspondent of the New York Sun
inquires which of two solid iron spheres
weighing one and five pounds respective
ly will reach the ground first if released
simultaneously from a height of 1000
feet, and is answered "The five pounder.'
The paragraph is headed "Gravitation."
This answer, though correct, Is mislead
ing, especially in connection with the
beading. Gravitation will cause a body
weighing five ounces to fall as last as
one weighing five pounds If it were not
for the resistance of the air a feather
would fall as fast as a bullet. The only
reason the five pound ball would reach
the ground first is because it has less
cross section per unit of weight, not be
cause it is heaviest Wt.
"I have been cured of nervous troubles
and catarrh by Hood's Sarsaparilla." J.
W. Tospon, Livansville, P.
All Sorts.
A man is like a gas jet. The more he
blows the lese light be gives out
Woman may be the weaker vessel, but
us always the husband that's broke.
The Republican party opens factories;
the Democratic party free sup houses.
A chiropodist aays: "People don't
even have corns under this administra
tion." A tooth pick factory is said to have
tupended. So many people are living
on soup that toothpicks are a drug on
the market.
rjealioe "How is your new beau ?"
Grace" Oh, he promises welL"
Rosaline (warningly) - Get Lim to
wrii,"
EXILES FII01I ECSSIA.
Remarkable Buocoas of the Men
nonltea la Kansas.
A Seif-Sutalniaa- a4 ladepeiMieat Peepl
Hba Hart XatklBf ta ! With
taa OataUla World Ssa la
Coaamaerclal Way.
Quick as are Americans to criticise
the manners and customs of Russia,
and inferior as the subjects of the ezar
are frequently considered, the settler
on the western prairies might well
learn a lesson cf the Russians who have
their unique settlements among them.
The Mennonites, exiled from southern
Russia because of their religion, mado
as systematic an exodus as did the Is
raelites of old, says a Kansas corre
spondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
They sent out their agents to
spy out the land, and purchased one
hundred thousand acres of the Santa
Fe and Kansas Pacific railways for
homes Then the people packed up
their household goods and came to
America. On the depot platforms they
landed, wearing sheepskin coats the
woolly side out, and black kerchiefs
over their heads They carried iron
teakettles and regarded the gazing
Americans with as much curiosity as
they themselves attracted. They built
their villages of yellow limestone, the
bouses having queer hip roofs gTeen
blinds and double doors like those seen
in a millT Curious ovens in which
prairie hay or straw could be burned
overcame the lack of fuel, and a street
looked for all the world as though it
had dropped out of au illustration in a
Siberian sketch. Such names as "Cath
erine stadt," "Leberthal" and "Pfeif
fer" grace their towns and no man not
of Mennonite persuasion is allowed in
side the limits as a resident, though
risitors are cordially welcomed.
The Menonnites number several
thousand, but they are never heard of
in politics. They are busy tilling their
one hundred thousand acres raising
stock, planting orchards and piling up
wealth. The wide-awake westerner,
standing on the street corner explain
ing the "contraction of the currency"
to a knot of listeners, sees a half-dozen
odd-looking wagons come toiling up
the road. They are loaded with wheat
and solemn-faced Mennonnites, who
guide the soberer teams pocket the
payment and trudge homeward. The
orators hold forth in the country
schoolhouse, and the eager real estate
agent plats additions to the towns but
the Mennonites pay no attention to
either. They keep on selling wheat
and corn and cattle until they have
become the richest class of farmers
probably, their number considered,
that Kansas affords. They take few
papers they do not vote, they core
nothing whether the government is re
publican or democratic in its manage
ment. They are as isolated as though
they were upon a sea island, except as
they bring their produce to the station.
It is noticeable that nearly all the
lands are in the much discussed "arid
belt," ret the Mennonites never a.-k
aid or seed wheat. They prosper every
year, and their homes are veritable
storehouses of garden and field prod
ucts To step into them is like a visit
to the land of Volga. Curious furni
ture, strange garb and peculiar hab
its impress one with the feeling that
he is in another land and another age.
The bouses are for the most part sur
rounded by stone walls and old coun
try fashions in fencing barns, and im
plements are everywhere apparent.
They have their own minister, their
own church and their own schools.
When a "higher" education is desired
(and some of the young people are as
forward in their ambition for learning
as American youth) there is plenty of
money in the village bank to send
them to Europe or to some eastern col
lege to acquire it. During the last
year, when common complaint of hard
times went cp from the dwellers on
the plains when seed wheat has been
sent by the thousand bushels to Amer
ican settlers, the Russians have con
tinued to thrive. Their old-fashioned
vehicles have come regularly to the
railroads and car-load after car-load
of wheat has been sent east. Lumber
dealers in the towns where they do
their buying say that there has been
no diminution in their purchases and
that by far the larger portion of their
yards' sales have gone to their Kussian
customers There is an important les
son in their success. They have shown
by their works what industry and fru
gality can accomplish npon the prai
ries and what can be done with the
right kind of effort. Still it is doubt
ful if the American settler could bring
himself and his family to the grind in
economy of European peasant life
which the Mennonites have trans
planted in their settlements.
RICH AMERICAN BONDHOLDERS.
The Xamea of These Favorite of Fortona
Kept Seeret by the Treaaury.
The millionaire is commonly repre
sented as engaged in clipping coupons
from bonds. This is an egregious
error, says the Washington Star. Rich
men, as a rule, do not hold coupon
bonds The reason is quite obvious.
Such bonds are not safe property. They
are always payable to bearer .like treas
ury notes. If lost the government will
not replace them. Accordingly, for
the sake of security, people are con
stantly exchanging them lor regis
tered bonds. Thus the sum total of
coupon bonds outstanding, which is
now about J70.0K,0', is all the time
diminishing. They are mostly in the
bands of small holders With the reg
istered bonds it is quite different.
They are rich men's property par ex
cellence. At present about ?JOO,000,000
worth of them are held by private in
dividuals. Of this great sum 37,000,-
000, or not far from one-half,
are owned by 1,000 persons
whose holdings average SsO.oJo. The
names of these fortunate individuals
are kept 6ecret by the treasury.
Some of the fortunes possessed in this
shape are enormous Some of the
greatest belong to the Vanderbilts
Old William II. Vanderbilt bad 543,000,.
P.Qjg registered bonds at one time.
Opium Smoking la China.
"Seven-tenths cf the people of China
are opium smokers and two million
die annually from its effects said a
Chinese missionary recently, who has
spent twentv-two years of bis life in
the flowery kingdom. "This habit is
rapidly growing," he went on, "and it
is confined to no class or sect, bat men
and women, officials and coolies use it
alike. As soon as opium smoking be
comes a confirmed habit with a Chinese
coolie he knows that he has about ten
years to live. That seems to be the
average. I consider it easier to reform
a sot in the gutter, one of your lowest
type of drunkards than an opiiur
snuuror
I'iereing Armor flatea.
Armor plating has not been discuyed
so much recently as it was two years
ago. when it was decided that the'llar
veyized and nickel plating were the
met t invulnerable yet discovered. Rut
no fooner is such a question "settled"
than the experiments are resumed to
End guns to send projectilescapablc of
penetrating the "heaviest and best.
The Russians bave now declared the
problem is solved by piercing the Har
vey and Tressider surface-hardened
armor by means of a shell baring
wrought-iron cap. and this it is said,
has been done without the shell break
ing up
Proposed Ship Chaaaet la Traaee.
The proposition for a great shipway
through France, oetween the English
channel and the Mediterranean, came
before the chember of deputies again
recently. The plans submitted at
tracted much attention and were re
ported as "favorably considered." Na
poleon III. was vastly interested it
this magnificent project and favorable
to it, but the national exchequer was
never in a condition to warrant his be
ginning the word. The project turns
up ev-ry once in awhile, and it is pre
dicted that it w ill surely be accomp
lished and at no distant d.
TALE OF AN UNSIGNED CHECK.
Taa Amount Was 34.0 aaal II Was
Caeheal by a Saw Tork Buk.
The story of a check passing through
a number of channels without anyone
discovering that it was not s'gned was
related to a Boston Globe reporter a
fev days ago. It appears that a cer
tain Hostonian, while in New York,
found it necessary to pay the Union
Trust company, of that city, thirty-four
thousand dollars which he did by giv
ing it a check on one of the Roston
banks The check wa- accepted and
was deposited in that company's bank
for collection. Tho following day it
was presented at the Boston bank,
when it was discovered that there was
to name signed to it to show by whom
the check had been issued, as it was
written on one of the blank forms of
checks of that institution. It looked
ns if there was nothing to be done but
return the check to New York, when
the cashier thought he recognized the
handwriting, and going to the tele
phone called up the party who be be
lieved had issued the check.
"Were you in New York last w-cek?"
asked the cashier. "Yes" said the
man at the other end of the telephone
"WelL" continued the cashier, "did
yon give the Union Trust company a
cheek for thirty-four thousand dol
lars?" "Yes," was the reply; "what's the
matter? Have you not charged it up
to my account?"
"1 would have done so," said the
cashier, "but there is no name signed
to it."
'"Great Scott!" was the answer; "can
you hold that check until 1 get np
there?"
The check was held, and in a few
minutes a man cam3 in all out of
breath and affixed his signature.
EUROPE'S NEXT EIG WAR.
ButU and Frame to H Arrayed Atlm!
Germaar, Austria and Italy.
This war of giants will have Eussia
and France on the one side, Germany,
Austria and Italy on the other. To
make this evident, says Klackwood's
Magazine, we have only to look at the
actual position of the troops during
peace in each of these countries As
an indication of where the danger lies
and the direction which the contest
will ultimately take, the disposition of
the Kussian army is by far the most
important factor. Russia, owing to
the immense extent of her empire and
the comparatively small number of her
railways in proportion to those of any
other European state, is quite unable
to concentrate pox-, er.'ul armies for of
fensive purposes on any point of her
dominions with any approach to the
rapidity with which this can be done
in France, Germany, Italy, or even
Austria. She is consequently obliged
to mass upon her frontier during peace
those forces which she intends at once
to throw into action during war. The
sore sign, therefore, of where she in
tends to striue her blow when the in
evitable contest ensues is to be looked
for in the present actual distribution
of her army. This is by no means to
the same extent the case with the
other great powers. France and Ger
many, especially, bavo a perfect sys
tem of railways laid out with a dis
tinct strategic purpose. Every prep
aration for a speedy concentration of
their whole forces by these means on
any point of their frontiers ever likely
to be threatened, either for offensive
or defensive reasons has been so thor
oughly made that their troops can be
left during peace in a far more dis
persed state and much further back
than is possible with Russia.
CATNIP MADE HER CRAZY.
The ClilUisJ Feline Jtsver Forfeta the
Smell of Her Favorite Herb.
A young married man with a young
baby at home recently bought a pack
age of catnip, says the Cincinnati Com
mercial. He put it in his overcoat
pocket and stopped in at a well-known
resort to get sometning stronger than
catnip tea for himself. In a short
time he noticed that the big pet eat of
the establishment was manifesting re
markably anxious symptoms.
All at once he thought of the catnip.
Here was a cat brought up in a city,
and which had never before sniffed the
fragrant herb which is so much a
medk-ine for felines in distress So be
opened the package, gave a few leaves
to the cat, and the crowd was soon en
joying an unusual performance, Tho
cat was in raptures and rolled about
in such a crazy fashion that the bar
keeper was suspicious. He declared
that "them fellows has given the cat
poison." Thereupon he gave the cat a
dish of mill: as an antidote, and
couldn't get it through bis dull head
that an herb called catnip was a spe
cific medicine for cats of all climes
English Interest la Fireworks.
The people of London are very much
interested in the whistling fireworks
which have long ceased to be regarded
over here as a pyrotechnic mr.rvcL
The popular notion among the I'ritocs
is that gas generated by the combus
tion of the liery composition actually
blows a whistle, but this supposition
is erroneous. So far as can lie deter
mined by the pyrotechnists themselves
the screaming noise is due to the vis
lent combustion of the picrate of pot
ash with which the little tubes of the
fireworks are stuffed. Experiments
have been made with other materials
but picrate of potash is the only com
bustible substance discoverable that
will give anything more than a faint
imitation of a whistle.
CRIME 'IN GREAT BRITAIN.
It Is Derreaauc. Bat the Debtor Lists
Are Largely Increasing.
There are some encouraging features
in the report of tho commissioners of
prisons in England and Wales which
has just been printed in London. The
statistics and diagrams which exhibit
the fluctuations of crime during a long
series of years demonstrate that "their
general conrse and tendency for many
years past has been in the direction of
diminution;" "that this diminution has
taken place particularly in those
classes of crime which are committed
by habitual criminals viz: Offenses
against property with violence, forg
ery, and offenses against the currency,
and offenses against property without
violenoe (which camprise the great
bulk of crimes committed); also that
this diminution was concurrent ia
point of time with the development of
various measures intended to bring it
about and that it occurred in spite of
the great increase in population, which
might have reasonably accounted for
an increase of crime." It is also
pointed out that the number of first
convictions has fallen gradually from
103,910 in 13 to OS.HUO in lsy-i, which
shows that the criminal ranks are not
being died up by fresh recruits. It is
further shown that the diminution in
the younger part of the prison popula
tion is four and five times as great as
in the older portion, which proves that
the youcprr part of the community is
not supplying criminals to take the
place of the olJer and more incorrigi
ble. It U also demonstrated that
there is no such coincidence between
the variations in the amount of crims
and in the amount of drunkenness as
to establish that connection between
the two which some temperance advo
cates too hastily assert. The com
missioners point out, however, that,
while crime has thus decreased and
the criminal population of the prisons
bas diminished, the debtors bave in
creased largely and continuously; the
number committed in ISTS-'f J was 0,
CGl. and in l9i-'?3 it had gradually
risen till it reached 10,o:L
A Queer Creator.
The West Indian migratory crab ia
the only creatnre that is born ia the
sea, matures in fresh waters aud passes
its adult life on land. Once a year
these creature3 migrate in thousands
from the uplands of Jamaica, deposit
their larvai ia the sea, then migrate to
the rivers and streams pass through
a fresh ivutc-r stage, after which they
follow their parents to land uatil the
time comes for them to retun. to tho
tea to lij their cJS.
TRK SVAU.LST IS TBS BZST.
There are a doaen weii
known liver pi. is but
only oue no tf-uw
ti,-t rt can be guaran
teed to give satislac
tion, or Ue money be
refunded. IT. rVrce's
Pleasant Pellets are
smaller, but better than
the huge, cl'l-fashienMt
..ill r.A riffiiirinftl
agents are refined and
concentrated.
Fverv one
suffers, at
some time or
stipaticn,
Indigestion,
ions and Skk
relieved and
if vou take
These Pel-
oser,
from Con-
Hour Htomart
Biliousness,
Bd-
evrvd of thuae troubles,
"PP. P.n
leu are easy to take, acd
.i m ' k . f itKnnl clww-k.
act in a nat-
BKTb tum ' .
Uie 5 I Li,-, rB C52JJ J J , ' .
tbey are" pot up ia Iittie glass viais. They're
the'rtxaipest, becauie puarantewi U five sat
isfaction. Keniemlr, tbst It. IVree's Pelleta
are finunnt to tats iMatanl in action, per
fect in eSxt. Kct-p tha in mind and you uiv
the problem of good beaJLh and goud living.
Jacob D. Swank,
vr.ttcli maker and Jeweler,
Krxt door west of Lutheran Church
Somerset, Pa.
I am now prepared to sup
ply the public with clocks, watches
and jewelry of all descriptions,
cheap &s the cheapest.
REPAIRING A 8PECIALTY.
All work guaranteed. Look at
my stock before making your pmr
chases. JORDAN & HINCHMAN.:
We ire now ready with nnr new and large
in voire of line Confectionery (.Joods, popu
lar braoiis cf B. st uns and Cakes, fancy
good' of a:l styi'-s. and everythine else
pertaining lo a ri rst cla.- l oue to till or
ders promptly, and to supply resident fam
ilies to any ex:ent. (Joinis aiways fresb.
and always offered at lowest ficures. Call
and see one of the finest assortments ever
carried.
JOEBAS 4 EDiCMi
270-272 Main Street,
Johnstown, Pa.
GOOD LIQUORS !
and Cheap Liqucrs
By railing at the OM Ralls" TJaaor Store.
5o.309 JIaiB St., and 10C Clinton St,
Johnstown. 3?a.,
all kin 1 of the Choktest Liquors tn market can
be had. To my old customer this U a well
known fart, and to all "thers convincing' proof
will be (riven. Don't forget that I keep eu hand
ihe greatest variety of Li'i'ior, the choicest
brand and at the lowest prices.
P. S. FISHER.
HARDWARE I
HARDWARE I
I am now prepare! to an omniO1ates tb pub
lic aiiy ami f-Terythinjr in the H an i are
Hue ty the addition rcvt-ntlT n.a)e to my former
larve iiotk. J ail kinds of artu-it-t in jsr
late an1 nij priors ch.t!U-nge oomt?:.ti,D. Jf
you aot a (t'ln, a rt-Totver. a kaiie. a aat. a
(Timlet, an amrrf. a birTi !. a t-air of ate, hiox
e. i'rt!ws, ntuts btp? h riorse blanket, or
anything tia; in ii-aX J w are at loweat price c.l
on me.
Herman Bantley,
Clinton St., Johnstown, Pa
A. H. HUSTON.
Undertaker and tmbalmer.
A. GOOD HEAESE
aixi I hint pertaininc to fumerais turn wed
Somerset, Pa.
'91-ly
Xothlns On Earth Will
LIKE
Sheridan's Condition Towderl
KEEPS YOUR CHICKENS
Strong and Healthy ; Pravcota all Diaeaac
Coo d for Moulting Hems.
TtfiarNnluTHTraT. HUr-iT c-crrtri-a. Tnr;ai
t:t rudU tenth ( m orvt a iay. No other uof-furth a
rr-.njr Mn ilv a mUt in. "On Lanr cavn n--1 mm
fv- MndBs m'f to m- vrnt Rmi'i." cm? -vudk-r.
llyuuran'trtlurndtoHt, Jaak airsa.
Si;p for r. ta m umpa. Brparki gl. I-arjfr 1 1-4 b.
no. t.j atsail. gl -s- Sit unrf cm., f uprn prrpaxi.
Sm:e ooj.vof The B-tH Poolio prrrai frve.
J mj-ta-l cm var prpre t ana iauyv cab gl j.
Cores thonsanda annually of LdverCom
plaints, llilionsness. Jaundice, Dyspha
sia, Const i pat im. Malaria. Jfore Ills
miiU from an Vnheairhy Li vert han any
otbrcnsa. Why fh(Tt when von csa
becired t Pr. Panforl's Li vr Invigor
aiAr f rl'-M .i f-m iiv rnliirih.
Yoi ii Buruuir w ill nirm'tor.
TA I ORTATS A PtTEXT? Fop
p-orr. anwT and mil boo?t ofMnroa. writ to
Ml NX V bare bd Dearly fT reaiV
iprHTc In the rtnt bain-ssw Orfnmnnfa
ti'ira fxnctlv ermdntiaJ. A llaa4toli of la
forms! k-tj cnacerriiuc Pa tr at an1 bow to cb
tain t!Hra aent fn-. AImi wlo-gupo! mwhaiv
ftcai and Kieutiftc bofcn Hnt rv.
PrntfTUa t&fcea tbmacb A. ana ft Co. IWHra
trThpoAi nut ice ib .h it tib r American, arnl
tho ar bmatrbl win it bernmthe public witlw
out ot to tu rnvntnr. Thi wtDd!d pap-r.
tMmed wfi)T, exactly t Must rat et. baa bv far th
larrft nrculatw .a cm an acMmtitVc worir. in tix
Wi'f'd. a Trar. tanipi nrH tent fr.
Emld:r. kitiua. tn.mhly, f.' Tr. !ncT
enrta. J. centa, rverr namNr contains txaa- i
tifal plat, id ookr, and pbotnerapba of d-
fcooM. w:tb plana, enabling bander to show to
1&! Ait dvilirn aott crturar a, Addma
ML' CO hkW a'Okla, 41 itOAiTAY
IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS.
The cream of the coon try papers U fbaavl
In Bemington'i County Scat Lists, fihrevi
advertisers thjX themselves of ttfM fcsU,
erjry of which can be tad of jmingtoq
Broit, of Xev Tort k rhiaburj.
BUGGIES at I Prlca
CilUS a HAAAi.-" ams
I.T. p PVO-.. t W.HJIIM
tvA rtjufi-H. ft 4 PRk'ra sn4
:t Kos-1 Ctrl tour at fao.
8&
(Ed
Bvn HtnMS. SI S tor? and v
:"K.nnrj " M.:t MiM' am
Jlurssa Saddla, (laCat s Flwa.
r. . BTfcfcV aCtlTCa.
t s U lawnass av.UaclawaU. Oh
ya 3
YOU. CAN FIND
.s it rii rs m t tb A l'crtivnr Bureau cj
RE2H1TGT02T EROS.
wu will cabUkt tt aafwrusuia at Waatf maw
T NVC HrLTM THT UVt tiJT t I O0
COPYRIGHTS. V
IB .-"
CONDENStO TIME TABLES.
Baltimore and Ohio BaHroad.
Somerset and Cambria Branch
NOKTHWXID.
Jbfautovn M-S Erpm. Rorkwood : a. ra.,
Somerset 10. stotowa tii, Hoovanmla
:. Johnstown. W.
JoluuOmr H tS Erpmui Hock wood II Vi a. m..
eoiMtM 1:14. miwiosi 1:4a, Houversviiia
1:7. Johnstown i-iO p. to.
JbtaaW dcrmmoJatirm Rorkwood ?0 p. m.,
ctomerert 1(3 p. m., Ptoyesrrwn 7:11 p. m-,
HooversTiltc '.M. p. m., JoBiutown & 15 p. m.
SaaaVr
Bockwood V2J& a. av
bomerstrl, 1:1a.
SOCTHWARD.
Mail Johnstown 10 a. ra Hooversville 8:2
Stnyeatowa &s0, Somcnet 11, Koctwood
JUji' tm JosnMoww p. bl. Hwvenrv!ll 4-1,
stoyestowa sJo, eouenet 6 01, Uuckwoul
5.i.
:fTv. Only Johnstown a. m., Hoowrv;ll
16 a. m., Hioywtown a. m, tonieratt
a. m.. Roc owl lii.a a. m.
i
faivfay mmsii'iMsw Somerset S01 p. at.
Kockwou4 iui p m.,
Dailr.
"OEXXSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
9CHECn.E IS EFFECT SOW 19, 1A
rarrcNN standard time
COXDKSSKD 9CHXDT Li.
Trains arrive and depart from taw station at
Johnstown as (ollcwt :
WESTWARD.
fmathwestern ExpresB.
Wwtern Express-... .
Johnstown Acvommcdaiion..
. t a. m
. t.vis. m
. t a. m
, 10 s. m
Accommodation
PmcS F-iprvm.-
J4 a. m
3 a. n
...&.! a m
Way Paawngrr.
JonnMown Accommodation s ..w I
Fast Lina... P-
EASTWARD.
Keystone Express..
. 5Va. m
. 9 0a.ia
. .'4 a. m
, 10:13 a. m.
. 11:10 s. m
. liJ p. m
. i it p. m
Stra Shore Expre.
Itaama Accomnv-lAU-jn
Main Line Expre . ,
Day ExpreS
Aitonua Accommodation..
Malt Exprtvs -Jobn'ioa
n ccoininodadon.
t p. m
7 16 p. m
10.J0 p.ai
Phi ls-ielpbiii.
tast Line...
F'W rates, maps. Ae.. fro to Ticket Ajrent or s-1-dres
Thw. E. , F. A. W. 110 Flilh Ave
nue. FitLHhurirh, ra.
a M. FkKVDT. J. R. WOOD.
tieu '1 Manager. Oen'l Im. Agt
It is to Your Interest
TO BUT YOUR
Drugs and Medicines
OF
J. K. SHYDEB.
CCCBISOB TO
Biesegker k Snyder.
Nine bat the purest and best kept in stock,
and wkeu Drags become inert by stand
ing, as certain of them do, we de
stroy them, ra:ber than im
pose on oar customers.
Yoa can depend on having your
PRESCRIPTIONS & FAMILY RECEIPTS
filled with care. Oar prices are as low as
any other f rst-cl&aa bouse and on
many articles much lower.
The people of this county seem to know
this, and have given as a large share of their
patronaze, and we shall still continue to give
them the very best goods for their money.
Do not forget that we make a specialty
FITTING- TRUSSES.
We guarantee satisfaction, and, if yon have
had trouble in this direction,
give us a calL
SPECTACLES AND EYE-GLASSES
in great variety ; A full set of Test Lenses.
Come in and have your eyes examined. No
charge for examination, and we are confident
we can suit yoa. Come and see na.
Respectfully,
JOHN N. SNYDER.
CURTIS K. GROVE.
SOMERSET. PA.
Brocrca, BLEiGca, carriages,
SPRING WAGOX 3, BCCK WAGONS,
A5D XASTER5 AND WESTERS WO EX
Furnished en Short Notice.
Painting Done oz Short Time.
My work Is xeade out jt Ttoreaf Vy Sawrnnf Wood,
and the Bat trtm an Sttt, ftubstaatiany
Constructed, Neatly Finished, and
Warranted to give Satisfaction.
Esjloy Osly Fsrsi-Claa Varkaea.
Repairing of All Kinds In My Line Done oa
Rhort Notice. Prices REASONABLE and
All Work Warranted.
Call and 'limine e; Stork, and Learn PiVes,
I do Wagon-work, and furnish Selves for Wind
WWa, Reaesaber the place, aud call In.
CURTIS K. GROVE,
(last of Court Bocae
SOMERSET. Tk.
190 DOLLARS
MU pejj MONTH
Sm Your Own Locality
ma.le easily and honorably, without capi
tal, during your spare hours. Any nun,
woman, ly, or iru l can do the work hand
ily, without experience. Talking un
necessary. Not hi n if like it for money
making ever offered before. Our workers
aiways prosper. No time wasted in
learning the tmiuess. Vie teach yoa in
ni:;!it how to succeed from y.e first
hour. You ran make a trial without ex
pense tn yotirnelf. We start you. funnh
everything needed to carry on the busi
ness urceifur.y, and guarantee yoa
against failure if you but follow our
simple, plain instructions. Header, if
you are in need of ready money, and
want to know all about the best paying
business before the public, send us your
address, and we will mail yon docu
ment giTing yoa all the particulars.
TRUE & CO., Cox 400,
Augusta, Maine.
THERE IS KO SUBSHTUTE fOJ EXPEFJEICE?
Their plfWP Their
Lessens .JS? Sa,es
Labor. iEpSSi Money,
I
T will paj you to examine the QL EEN CINDERELLA RAXg- I
fiire von buv. It has all the latest improvement, nn.l . ,n' 1 i J
j 4 - - - - 4 - - j " lO . f
teed to be a good Laker. It has the direct draft damper, lv ; ; )
can have a fire ia one-half the time required with the oriiiiarv "fjV I I
This 14 A toiiiaIiIa fatiirft wlien vnn want a nnl.-lr fmf.i.A.j ""I
IT has an extra large high oven,
of inflowing and outflowing air
a perfect baker, and no burning on
jiaic, w lltl.il tuctnuiiuu ui luutcuicuic iiiu tieariliCej. Jj '
pecially durable, having three separate sides, or the advantage nf '
grates in one, ana not easily warpea Ly ine action or tLe tiro.
PPrrfRFI? "Thin.m .l.-r ar:l sn.J m-:i ran, omnltk.
...
Manufactured by DeHAVE.V A CO.,
JAMES B. HOLDERBAUM, Somerset, pj j
Krissinger fe Kurtz, Berlin, Ta.
New York
Tribune
Somerset Herald
ONE
TWO JDOXJJJLRS
Address all orders
Louthefs
Main Street,
ThisHcdsl Drug Stcrs is
Favorite with
FBESH AHD
Medicines, Dye Stuffs, Sponges, Trusci
Supporters,
Perfumes, c.
TH DOCTOR GIVES PEB30XAL
Lontlier's PrescripiioDsiFafflilyBece
SRZAT CURS BMIS9 TAKZS TO OiX 0XLT IXXSB ASD flSX ARIIOJS
SPECTACLES, EYE-GLASSES,
And a Full Line of Optical Goods always on hand. From
large assortment all can be suited.
THE FfflEST BRAHDS OF CIGAES
Always on hand. It is always a pleasure to display our
to intending purchasers, whether they buy
trom us or elsewhere.
J. M. LOUTHER M. D.
MAIN STREET - - - - SOMERSET. FA
Somerset Lumber Yard
ELIAS CUNNINGHAM,
sfsjrrTACuuB sjta Duui aso Wholjsau aito Kstailsb or
LUMBER AND BUILDING MATERIALS
Hard and
OAK, POPLAR. 8IDING3. PirKKTS, MOULD F5G3,
ASH. WALXTT, . FLOOKINO, A3H, STAIR RAIL.
CHIRRY. YELLOW HXJ, SHINGLES. VOOS& BALrWEXS.
CHESTNUT. WHITE PINE. L TH. BLIXDS. SKW?i
A 8eoeral LlacofaU frades of Lumber and BulMin? Material and Rooflng 9'M t'7'"m
Also, cms furnish aaylhliig La tie Use of our busmeas to order with reasoo&
promptseas, such as Brackets, OiU-slsed work, etc
ELIAS CTJsXN'GHI.
Office and Yard Opposite S. &C. S. R. Station, Sorr.erset
IT WILL I3 AY YOU
TO Itl TOCB
Memorial Work
WM.F. SHAFFER,
SOMERSET. PEXJTA,
Msnafsctarer of and Dealer In
Xcjicr Wart Arsiihd cm Short SUU In tU C.lo
Mil 119 E31IITE 331
Aln, AgaU fortto WEITX BR0ZXI
Persona la Bee4 of MOSmrrf WORM will
Bad U to tbeir iDierwt loeatl at at soup where
a proper sbooliis wij be siren them. ,a.ik
tartum Qnanuml a Mxay Out, mtd i-klCKi
it Mr LOW. I lsTltc special auentfea to the
WriHe Bronze, Or Pyre ZIno Monumen
Introrraeed by RKV. W. A. RISQ. as a Declii-i
Improremeat ia the point of MATKWaL AS1
CoN-TRrtTJO.-J. and which la !esunl to ba
Uis Popalar wonr-nent for oar Chauvula CI
sate. AWC1VI MI A CALL.
WM. F. SHAFFEB,
B
. l-- -"-Wl CO." IV .; I J
thoroughly ventilated. T; T,, )
can be regulated at will; t;.;3 ,0 ' j
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