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.
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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
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.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.
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When You Come to
Chambersburg
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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.
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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:
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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,
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i-i Burnt Cabins, Pa.
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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.
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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.
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I I am also handling Hand
f made Buggies and Wagons.
I W. II. Evans,
g' Ilustontown, Pa.
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BAKERY
D. E. Little, Puoprietou.
Fresh Bread, Rolls, Cakes,
Doughnuts, and Pretzels on
hand all the time.
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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.
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