FULTON COUNTY NEWS. LOCAL MISCELLANY. We are Marching on. It is no crime to bo rich. This is the mad month of March The breezy talker is sometimes all wind. Charity is sometimes a matter of publicity. ' The sharper a man is the hard er it is to flatter him. The Republican State conven tion will bo held on May 27. The burglar takes things for granted, or any other old way, Lending money and borrowing trouble are often synonymous. Worry over money matters kills the rich ns well as the poor. Few men have more of any. thing than they want, except faults. Even the strong arm of the law cannot arrest the flight of time. Even the thermometer has been known to take a drop too much. Lent is pretty slow, consider ing the fact that it is a fast sea son. If it wasn't for curiosity there would be no monkeying with the buzz saw. The busiest man is usually the happiest. And he is also the healthiest. Grip is very prevalent in this community. Some of the cases are serious. You Cin always tell a man of loud taste by his manner of eat ing a plate of soup. The old saying that two heads are better than one doesn't apply to the head of the house. The trouble with the fellow who knows it all is that ho isn't satis fied to keep it to himself. A flyer in the stock market often convinces a man that riches take unto themselves wings. Hicks promises all sorts of bad weather for this month. Read his predictions in another col umn. Some artists seem to paint for money, some for glory, and others just out of pure cussedness. It depends on what you do after you are out of bed whether early rising is beneficial or not. The world would be better off if some people never got up. It may bo said that March came in like a lion. There was a stiff, cold wind and an occasional flurry of snow. Toward night the wind subsided but the air re mained biting. The public sale season is now on in earnest. It commenced early in February and will con tinue until the end of March. The greater number of sales is held in March. When The Spuing Comes Back. When the Spring comes back, When the Spring comes back, When the willow buds Are swelling, When the lusty frogs Are yelling, And unto each other telling Thut the raccoon's on their tracks; When the grass Blades shoot From each rain Soaked root, When there's water In the puddles And the steer no Longer huddles . By the wind-swept fodder-stack O it's nice and warm And lazy When the air is sort O' hazy, And you see the bloomin' daisy When the Spring Comes Back. When the Spring comes back, When the Spring comes back, When you hear the plow- Man saying Swear words at his Team dismaying While his work they are delaying Keeping trace and clevis slack; When the young Lambs bleat And their swift, Swift leet Go careering Over ditches With the drollest Hops and bitches Such a foolish little pack ! O I'm glad as glad And gladder; For the shiftling shine And shad dor Tuko mo straight up Jacob's ladder . , When the Spring Comes Back. S, ,W. Clllilan, Baltimore Amrl. kkains sipi:Rst:ii:n. can. Mcrchaut Wanted. A man with some cash, who thoroughly understands mer chandising, to open a general Htoie m Saltillo, Pa. Apply in person at once. Februarv 9ft 4 t .Machines Thnf Display Alino-t Human Intelligence and Make No .Mis takes. At the bank of England, says Ciuimmer's Journal, they never by any chance get sovereigns that are overweight. All they have to do therein weighing their coins is to distinguish between those that are of full weight and those that have been in circula tiou long enough to wear away any appreciable quantity of the gold of which they are made. The new coins at the mint, how ever, are sometimes a trifle over weight, while sometimes, of course, they are under; so it is necessary to sort them out into three categories light, heavy audgood. This delicate business is done, with unerring precision by a long row of clever little ma chines. Into these machines single piles of shining new coins are put; and, quite automatically, the me chanism takes each coin, puts it it into the scale, and in a fraction over two seconds at the rate of twenty-five a minute weighs it. If the coin is light the machine shoots it into the proper recep tacle; if heavy, into another, and if It is of correct weight within a margin or "remedy," as they call it at the mint represented by a speck of gold worth less than a halfpenny, it is pushed into a third receptacle. The work of hundreds and thousands of clerks has, within the past few years been taken over by a small machine, in up pearance very much like a type writer, by which columns of mon ey in small or large items, up to 1,000,000 if necessary, are in stantly added up with none of the risk of error to which even the most practiced accountants are liable. The clerical staffs of many of the great insurance companies have of late years been consider ably reduced by the employment mechanical calculators. The fa vorite one appears to be a compact little affair, about the size of a musical box, known as an "arith mometer," which is the work of a German firm in Alsace-Lor raine. By it may be formed almost in stantaneously the most portent ous sums in addition, subtraction multiplication by one or two fac tors, division, squaring and cub ing. It Is required, for instance, to multiply 531,975 by 924. The first factor is set by touching lit tle knobs representing 531,975. To multiply by the other factor you turn a handle four times, push along a slide one place and turn the handle twice, then push the slide another place onward and turn the handle nine times. The long multiplication is now done without the possibility of error so far as the machine is con cerned, and the dial shows 491, 544,900. In the same mechanical way may be done all the other arithmetical processes. CORNSTALK PAPER. American farmers and newspa per men, says the St Paul Pio neer Press, are very likely to be come joint beneficiaries of a great scehme of co-operation in making the most of the corn crop. Not of the grain merely, but of the whole plant, stalk, leaves, pith, tassels, husks, cobs and kernels. After a long course of experimen tation, carried on at Kankaee, III, under the encouragement of the National Agricultural Depart ment, it is found that high grade paper can be profitably manufac tured, in different varieties, from various parts of the plant. One kind is made from the hard shell of the stalk, another from the pith and a third from the husk. "From the pith is turned out the finest grade of oil paper, almost equal to linen paper," so it is claimed by experts at the department. A machine has been invented, and is now beiug manufactnred, which will take the cornstalk, with the ear still on it, husk the ear, separ ate the husk from the stalk, and then remove the shell from the pith. Sending this machine into the fields, the paper manufactures will propose to farmers to buy their corn crops as they stand in the fields. If the farmers wish the corn after it has been husked, it will be passed back to them; otherwise it will be marked by the owner of the machine, who will convert every remaining part of the plant into some form of manufacture. FOR THE LITTLE ONES. felrdt of the Sea That Arc Careless In Their Nesting. Nearly nil sea bird3 are far more careless in their nesting than their cousins who live inland. The terns, the ekiia, the puffins, the blnck throated diver and the guillemot reully mnko no nests at all. Tha puffins, however, usually borrow a rabbit burrow and are not particu lur whether its original owners have done with it or not. If they inter fere or even try to pass, a peck from the puflirfs great parrot Bhnped bill is enough to warn them against try ing to experiment the second time. The auks are birds of the north ern seas and are perhaps the finest divers of nil the feathered tril'cs. Their short wings look in fact far more like fins than wings, and, un like gulls, the auks catch their prey beneath the water. The link's selec tion of a spot to lay her eggs is very strange. She chooses a bare, bro ken ledge of hard rock overhanging the waves. It looks as though it were a feat to balance eggs in such a place, nnd the marvel is that the first gale does not send them rolling over the crags. But an auk's eggs nre so shaped ns to prevent such a calamity. They nre much larger at one end than at the other, nnd so in stead of rolling straight ahead like a hall they turn around in a circle when started nnd so keep their places upon the rocks. School For Dogs. A school for dogs has been open ed in the city of Paris. The object of the school is not to teaeli letters, but politeness. The school is fur nished with chairs, tables and rugs. The pupils are trained to welcome visitors by jumping up, wagging the tail and giving a low bark. When the visitor leaves, the doiz accom panies him to the door and bows his farewell by bending his head to the floor, lie is also trained to pick up a handkerchief, glove or fan that has dropped and return it to its owner, lie is taught further to walk with proud and prancing steps when out with his mistress. - Comfortable and Shaky. A little boy was put to bed on a winter's night in a cold room. Un dressing and getting into bed made him shiver; but, remembering that there were boys who did not even have a bed to sleep on, he expressed his gratitude by declaring: "I'm so nice and comfortable and shaky that I can feel my teeth shake." A Paper Top. Who can make a top that will set itself in motion ? Nobody ? We will show you how it is done. Take a cork, a sewing needle and a square piece of writing paper. Place the cork on the table and fasten the nee dle in it, point up, find the center of the piece of paper by drawing the diagonal lines and balance it on the needle after bending two opposite corners of the paper, one upward, the other down. Now we nre ready for the trick. Hold your hand close to the paper as shown in the figure. , WABMTH WILl. TUBX II. Before long the paper will set itself in motion and will stop as soon as you remove your hand. This sim ple mechanical effect is produced by the warmth of the hand catching the corner of the paper that we have bent downward, which sets the pa per top in motion. New York Tribune. Tht Goldfish's Hop. Said a sparkling goldnah to a trout A they swam In the water blue: "I often wlah that my golden scales Were or quite a different hue. "I used to wonder, when I was young. Why nhes were not alike; Why the shad and the whale were not the wme, And the salmon and smelt and pike. "But now I am glad we are aa we are. For if we were all the eame I would not aaplre to a different form Or a vastly different name. "But still I have hopes that I may grow To a whale aa the years roll by; I do not knew how they act or live. But certainly I could try," "My friend," said the trout, with a sol emu air, "Just listen to what I say; Tou'd better become a good goldfish Than a very poor whale some day." -Marguerite M. Hlllery lag. 141 in St Nicholas. Store and Property For Sale. Property alone, or property and goods together. Reason for selling is that I have a position on the road. Can give txssession April 1. All necessary out-buildings, and a never failing spring of water at door. Building prac tically new. D. Edwakd Foke, Knobsville, Pa. 000000000000 000000000 co Ollfi When You Come to Chambersburg 1 A Just go up Main street till you come to Queen street. Right at Bloom Bros. ' corner turn to the west half, a block and you will come to a modern 3-story cream , colored brick building. Step inside and you will find the nicest rooms, and the largest stock of good furni ture and its belongings, to bo seen in the Cumberland Valley. You will find many articles here that you do not see in other stores. There has been a furniture store on this spot for 75 years and yet there are many of the younger people and some others who dou 't know it. That is the rea son we are telling you about it. About a block farther, on the bank of the Conococheague, whose water drives the machinery, you will find our facto ry ; where with skilled mechanics and seasoned lumber we can make almost anything you may require. C.COME TO OUR STORE aud look around Much to see that is interesting even if you don't want to buy. We want you to know what it is aud where it is. Open till 8 o'clock in the evening now Saturday till nine. H. SIERER & CO., Furniture Makers on Queen Street, Chambersbure. Fa. ooxxxxxxxxxxx oooooooooo 6-.. n 58 The World moves and so does the machinery in the Willow Grove Woollen Mills AT BUKNT CaMNS, Pa. The proprietor has had over 50 years experience, and is confident that he can please all who may entrust him with their work. Manufacture of Carpet and Wool Carding a speciality. Wool Batting for Haps none better. Carpet Chain always in stock. I will take in wool and work at the following places : Booth Brothers, Dublin Mills; A. N. Witter's, Waterfall; W. L. Berkstresser. Orchard Grove: W. R. Sneer. Saluvia: 0. U"".' Lynch's store at Crystal Springs; Jackson's store at Akers -5 ville, P. J. Barton's, Hustontown, and Huston's store at 3 Clear Kidge. jp I will make monthly visits to these places during the season, aud will receive work and return it. c-n Thankful for past favors, and soliciting a continuance J! of the same, I am, respectfully, TT Tl TtT7TimTr TT .-1 11. EL. X1C1VX CiluCiL,, i-i Burnt Cabins, Pa. of even the c-xcoxxxxxxx ooo X- SPRING AHEAD o o I Daffodils and Roses! O OUR EASTER LINE of DRESS GOODS and TRIM Q MINGS rival the flowers in their beauty. PERFECTION O in Styje Color and Choice being as usual to our SHIRT WAIST SPECIALTIES. T. J. WIENER, X Hancock, Md. xxxoooooooo FULTON COUNTY NEWS is the people's paper $1.00 a Tear in Advance. t YOU NEED A BUGGY X I HOW DOES THIS STRIKE YOU? ! i I A Bran New Falling Top I I Buggy with Pull Leather Trimming, Spring Cushion and Back, Thousand Mile Axle, A Grade Wheels, Pat ent Shaft Couplers and Fine ly Finished throughout for X ONLY $50. f Large Stock to select I rom. I I am also handling Hand f made Buggies and Wagons. I W. II. Evans, g' Ilustontown, Pa. a WCONNELLSBURG BAKERY D. E. Little, Puoprietou. Fresh Bread, Rolls, Cakes, Doughnuts, and Pretzels on hand all the time. f "iirrj fj Free Delivery in town on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thurs days, and Saturdays. For Parties, Weddings, A a we are prepared on a couple of days notice to furnish all kinds of cakes Ac. Your Patronage Solicited. D. E. LITTLE. v' 0 CD 08 (J) CD 3- 55' Sen p trie CO CTQ CD r o Zc o tn rr m in $ W4 0 0 to
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