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VOLUME 4.
REYNOLDSV1LLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1895.
NUMBEH 22.
THE 80UL.
Brxty, mind nnd onl
ThoM re the rarthlr trinity.
Two pnrta of It lira flnltat
The othor purt ! Inflnlt.
The body nnd ths mind
Btnp In the rT.
The eonl sncs onwnrd,
Wot ft man hnprd It,
To fit the human body
And tho mortal mind,
But as God made It,
Bo It Knee to him V
Unchanged.
W. J. Lampton In Mew York Ban.
A NEW WAY TO PURIFY WATER.
Chemicals Hold to Be flnperlor to Either
Boiling or Filtering.
According to Dr. Dnpont, ft physician
of Paris, writing in Los Annnles d'Hy
glene Fubliquo, a safe nnd effective
method of pirifying water by chemical
action hat been discovered. Dr. Dnpont
notei thnt hitherto the methods of puri
fying drinking wntor have been by ni
tration and by the action of heat. Fil
tration it the oldest and leant effeotiTS
method. Even flltrntion through poroni
porcelain, the most effective substance
known, cannot always be trusted, espe
cially after the apparatus1 has been long
in uso. Dr. Dnpont doe not assort that
boiling fails to destroy noxions germs,
bat he says that it often leaves in the
water organ lo matter that might be
dangerous to health, and that boiling
makes water less digestible by robbing
it of its gases. Be instances a coso in
which water from the Koine was fonnd
after boiling to contain more microbes
than before.
M. Qiror, director of the municipal
laboratory of Paris, and Dr. Bordos, a
pupil of Professor Brouardol, have re
oeutly presented to the Academy of
Sciences, through tho chemist Friodol,
oommnnication on the purification of
water by chemical action. The chemic
als used are permanganate of lime and
blnoxido of manganese. Tho permanga
nate of lime, coming in contact with or
ganio matter and micro organisms, de
stroys them and decomposes itself into
oxygen, oxide of niangnueee and lime.
Then, to carry off tho surplus of per
manganate and complete the purifica
tion, tho water is poured over binoxide
of manganese. Oxygen in the nascent
state is thus freed, and it burns np nny
remaining germs. There remain then in
the apparatus inferior oxides of mnnga
' nese, which hasten to reoxidizo them
selves and furnish again a certain qunu
tity of binoxide of manganese. Tho wa
ter, as thus finally purified, contains a
little limo iu tho form of a bicarbonate
and traces of oxygenated water.
A very small quantity of permanga
nate of limo is used in this process.
Not more than 1.8 grnins troy to
about a quart of water taken from tho
feoine at a point near Paris resulted in
the production of perfoctly pure water
as wholesome as spring water. Dr. Dn
pont says that if tho process can be mado
successful on a largo scale tho question
of purifying wator is sottled. Water
containing 100,000 colonics of microbes
per cubit centimoter can thus be puri
fied, and ioo placed iu water with per
manganate of limo is also quickly ster
ilized. Attacked by a Minim,
- A correspondent, writing from Moon
noma, Muskoka, to tho Montreal Wit
ness, gives an interesting account of an
adventure with a moose. Whilo making
"N toboggan trail through a pine forest
e came npon a moose yard, and on
poking round saw ono of the "giants of
-the forest" about 50 yards distant.
Alter a moment, he writes, the moose
turned and walked behind a bill, whiob,
though not high, was steep. I ran to
the top with all speed, hoping to got a
view of the lordly creature as he made
his way through tho bosh. 1 could not
see him at first, but on looking down
the steep inoline there he was, and ten
yards away.
He turned to make off, but striking
bis ribs against the projecting limb of a
small hemlock he was thrown down
and round the tree, and as he rose he
faoed me. It was now my turn to run,
for the moose charged at me with erect
ed mane, expressing his rage by fierce
bellow.
In turning I stumbled, the ground
being very uneven, and his feet nearly
came down on me as I dodged among
some trees. I tried to strike with my
hatchet, the only weapon I bad, but did
not succeed in injuring my pursuer.
With some difficulty I at last got into
the deep snow, where my snowshoes
were of more use to ma
The moose still pursued me, roaring
at intervals, and one who has not heard
moose roar can form but little idea of
the terrible bellowing. After several
attempts to strike me with his front
. feet be balked and stood about 80
yards away pawing and roaring. I
seized this opportunity to climb a tree,
and soon after the animal turned and
made off.
Of all the adventures I have had in
the bush aud they number a few the
one I have just related cam the nearest
to being my death.
Wo Hmtm Vor the Unmarried.
An unmarried man or woman of mar
riageable age is something that is rarely
seen la the Fiji islands. The reason of
this is not far to seek. The .natives be
lieve that if a person dies while in an
unmarried state his or her soul is
doomed to wander about through end
lsss ages of eternity in an intermediate
r-ion between heaven and hades. At
'. eai of each moon they are allowed
1 1 Ixik into heaven, but are never per-
to enter. fit. Louis Republic,
A NEW JERSEY POKER 8TORY.
Vrar Straight Flnahee Reenlt In an Equal j
DMnlon of tho Stakes.
A straight flush in the great Ameri
can game of draw poker is such a rarity j
that tho person Holding It Is regarded as
one of the most fortunate and blessed of
mortals. Devotees of thnt game will
peruse the following story with incredu
lity, bnt its absolute authenticity can
be verified by at least ten thoroughly
reliable witnesses: A party of four play
ers entered n place not a thousand miles
from Summit one night not long ago
and prepared to enjoy a fow hours of
recreation at their favorito game. An
other game iu progress at the time was
full, so tho four players were obliged to
start at an adjoining tnhlo.
The "jack pot" came around, each of
the four plnyers filled in, and tho game
proceeded. Tho cards, regulation pock,
63 curds, were cut by the player to the
right of tho denier and dealt out in tho
regular manner. The Ikst pluyer to the
lf.ftof the dealer opened the "jack pot,"
and each succeeding player in turn
raised. The limit was 10 cents, and the
players are usually light bettors, so
that tho raising and livi'y chipping in
before the druw orented considerable
surprise. When the dealer prepared to
servo tho cards for.the draw, each of the
players stood "pat," and the betting
again started.
Whon each of the players hod chipped
in f 10, it was decided to stop tho bet
ting, as that amount had never before
been wagered on a game in the place,
and nono of the players could afford to
risk a greater amount When the hands
wero shown, somo of the players almost
succumbed to heart disease, for tliero
lay four straight flushes, ono of each
suit and all running from four to eight.
The pot was divided, and the cards
wero carefully put awny iu a case to bo
preserved ns a reminder of tho greatest
poker hnuds ever held in this section
and probably in the United States.
Summit (N. J. ) Record.
OLD "JIM CROW."
How Htoe Introduced This fnlqne Char
acter to tho Stage.
In tho early twenties Thomas Dart
mouth Rico first entered upon his theat
rical coroer by "doing little uegrcbits,"
between tho acts of plays, says the
writer in tho Boston Herald. Whilo in
Lonisvillo tho theator at which ho per
formed looked out back upon on old
stable yard, nronud which there was
constantly lonngiug an old, decrepit
slave named Jim Crow, who was so
frightfully deformed as to appear inhu
man. His left shoulder sloped off from
tho neck in a way thnt wonld indicate
that tho bono had been inverted. His
lower limbs wero dreadfully distorted,
tho left knee being a huge bony knot
lnrgcr than his head, which caused him
to move about with a pitiful, yet ludi
crous, hobble.
This forlorn durky was in tho habit
of crtxmiug a queer old tune, and desig
nated tho closo of each verse by taking
a pocnlinrstep "rockin de hecL " Rico
closely watched this unconsoinns per
former, and conceived tho idea of pro
ducing a similar stage character, which,
he felt assured, would "tako" wonder
fully. Accordingly, ho mado up precise
ly as tho original and appeared upon a
Lonisvillo stngo singing a score of hu
morous verses to tho air slightly
changed and quickened of the poor,
WTOtchod oripplo. The audience received
this innovation with bursts of npplanso,
enooring him a dozen times tiie first
night Aud thns "Jim Crow" jumped
into fanio and immortality.
An ImpoMlbla Sacrlfloe,
A Hungarian paper says that Frauds
Deak, the Hungarian statesman, used
to got rid of troublesome visitors by
telling thorn the following story : "Onoe,
whon in Paris, Kapoloon and I paid a
visit to a hospital for old soldiors. Here
he perceived among the rest a man who
had lost ono of his arms, and he entered
into conversation with him. ' Whore did
you lose your arm?' asked the emperor.
'At Austoilits, your majesty.' 'Then
no doubt you curse the emperor and
your country every time you look at
your mutilated limb?' 'No indeed,' pro
tested the veteran, 'for the emperor and
my native land I would readily sacrifice
my other arm if needs be. ' 'I can hardly
believe that,' the emperor remarked
and passed on. But the soldier, anxious
to prove that he was in earnest, imme
diately drew a saber from its sheath and
lopped off his other arm. "
Here Deak would pause and fix a
penetrating look on his visitor. "Well,
what have yon to say of such a man
and such an action?" "A most sublime
act of self sacrifice I A truly noble char
acter 1" This was the style of reply in
variably given. "But the story has one
flaw," he would gravely add. "What
is that, pray?" "It is simply imprac
ticable. How could a one armed man
contrive to cut off his only remaining
arm?"
A Small Bnalnow Building.
The distinction of being the smallest
business establishment in this city is
claimed for a diminutive Georgia pine
building at 86 East Houston street,
where is located a candy, fruit and soda
wator business. The structure is fitted
tightly between two towering brick
walls aud covers an alleyway surface
whiob had not hitherto been considered
susceptible of utilization. The cost of
the tiny place was 1 160, and it rents
for $300 year. , Its actual measure
ments are 5 foot 4 Inches front, 15 feet
deep and 9 foet high. New York Herald.
A VERY DANIEL INDEED.
tt Tea Haven't the Money, Yon Can't Pay,
lieelded tho Polleeman
A policeman accomplished a dolicate
piece of diplomacy tho other afternoon
at Cathedral parkway and Columbus
avenue. Excavations are in progress
there for a new building, and a gang of
Italian laborers are doing the work un
der tho eye of a boss of their own
nationality. As the writer approached
the snot a young Italian laborer was
angrily exchanging words with the
foreman. He carriod his coat on one
nrm and over tho opposite shoulder was
slung his shovel, which ho removed and
shook in the intensity of his gesticula
tion. Suddenly he saw a policeman near
by, and he mado n dash for tho bluecoat
and naked for his assistance.
The officer came along with the Ital
ian, and tho two Joined the foreman.
The policeman, who was an Irishman
somo 40 years old, woro a magisterial
air, looked patronizingly and kindly
upon tho two Italians, who spoke good
English, and then he listened gravely
to their tnlo of woe. The boss had dis
charged tho yonng follow on the spot,
alleging thnt ho did not do his work
satisfactorily. The young man wanted
his wages up to date. The policeman
thought that this was only fair nnd so
told tho foreman.
"Bnt I haven't the contractor's
money," exclaimed tho foremau. "Lot
him go to tho office. His ttuio is thoro,
and ho'll get his money. "
Tho policeman looked as wiso as an
owl, nnd then turning to tho yonng
Italian ho thns delivered judgment:
"Tho best thing you can do is to go to
the office and get your money. If he
(pointing to the foreman) can discharge
yon on tho spot, you ought to got your
money on tho spot But, you see, the
foreman hain't got it."
Tho policomnu gave his thumb a jerk
toward the street, the young Italian took
tho hint and with a sorrowful but re
signed air started on his mission to the
ollleo.
"I think my viow of tho justico of
the situation was right," said tho offi
cer a moment later, "but how could tho
fellow get his money from a man who
didn't have it? Anyhow, I saved a rum
pus." So ho did. Now York Tribune.
The Sight of Illrds.
Birds nro commonly croditod with an
extraordinary range of vision. Circum
stances lend aid to tho development of
tiio mental faotors in their coso. The
usual diiitmico at which terrestrial
species uno their eyes is limited by tho
ground horizon. But iu tho case of tho
Boaring birds,' such as vultures aud
oagles, tho horizon, tho natural limit of
sight, is enormously extended.
Maegillivray early noted that though
birds of prey have orbits of great sizo
tho eyeball of tho common buzzard be
ing 1 '(( inches iu diameter they do
not, as a rule, soar whon Booking their
Ttey.
The eaglo when hunting flies low,
just as do tho sparrow hawk and tho
henharrier. Yet tho vultures and con
dors, birds which admittedly do soar
when seeking food, huva been proved to
find can-ion by sight. A carcass was
covcrod with ciuivus and somo offal
placed upon it. The vultures saw this,
descended and ale it aud then cut on tho
covered portion within a few inches of
a putrid carcass. Whon a hole was inndo
in tho covering, they saw and attacked
tho food below. But tho rapid congre
gation of vultures from a dlstunco to a
carcass is probably duo to their watoh
iug their neighbors, ouch of which is
surveying a limited area. Charles Dar
win pointed out that in a lovol country
tho hoiglit of sky commonly noticed by
a mountod man is not moro than 1 S
degrees ubove the horizon, uud a vulture
on the wing at the height of botwoeu
8,000 aud 4,000 foet would probably be
two miles distant and invisible Those
which descend rapidly and appear to
have come from beyond the range of
human sight wore perhaps hovering
vertically over the huuter when he
killed his game. London Spectator.
Ths Primitive Gun,
As soon as the forces of the explosive
gases developed by the burning of pow
der became known the old style weap
ons disappeared, and firearms took their
places. The first of the kind was a small
gun barrel fastened to a long pole and
fixed with a alow match. Shot stones,
balls of load, iron bolts and fireballs to
set buildings on fire were propelled with
this apparatus. Only a short distance
could be showith these primitive guns.
The old aud olumsy sioge maohines
whioh threw heavy stones by means of
a spring rope were changed into siege
guns. Iron Age.
Poultry and Egga,
The poultry and ogg orop of tho Unit
ed States is estimated to be worth 350,
000,000 annually. Startling as these
figures may appear, it seems still more
remarkable that, besides the above, we
Import between 60,000,000 and 100,
000,000 dozen eggs each year.
UnhapplneM.
Tboy who have never known prosper
ity can hardly be said to be unhappy i it
is from the remembrance of joys we
have lost that the arrows of affliction
are pointed Einilo Zola.
Without a theory it is impossible to
know what we say when we speuk and
what we do when we act. Boyer-Col-lard.
Iu 177S hailstones said to weigh SO
ounces foil at Murcia, in Spain.
The Oarao off Scotland.
Among the reasons why the nine of
diamonds has been called the eilul of
Scotland, I think that the following has
not been given t
"Diamonds, nine of, called tho curse
of Scotland, from a Scotch member of
parliament, part of whose family arms
is the nine of diamonds, voting for the
introduction of the malt tax into Scot
land." "Chronology) or, the Histo
rian's Companion," Fourth Edition, by
Thomas Tegg, Loudon, 1830, pago 008
(Addenda).
Could tho arms of Daniel Campbell
f Shawfield, member of Glasgow, con
tain tho nine lozenges? His house was
destroyed by a mob in 1727 because he
Was suspected of "having given govern
ment the information on the habits and
statistics of Scotland necessary for the
preparation of the jnnlt tax, as well as
of having exposed a system of evasion
of duties in the Scots tobacco trado. "
See "The History of Scotland," by John
Hill Burton.
In the index to the "History," Camp
bell of Shuwfleld'a Christian name is
given as David.
There is a George Campbell men
tioned as having caused the nine of
diamonds to be called tho enrso of Scot
land because he stole nlno diamonds out
of the royal orown in the reign of Mary
Stuart, in oonseqnenne of which all
Scotland was taxed. Notes aud Queries.
The Sale off Sllka, Tlnrma.
Tho wooden floor of thn stalls is raised
two to three foot, so that the buyer,
standing on tho ground, is about on a
level with tho seller, sitting in the
stalL The stall will bo almnt 8 by 10
feet, and each has nt tho back a strong
lock up cupboard or wardrobo, where
tho wares arc shut at night, hut in tho
day they will be taken out and arranged
daintily about tho girl seller. Home
made silks arc the staple silks in
chocks of pink and whito, of yellow and
orange, of indigo aud dark red. Some
are embroidered in silk, in ' silver or
in gold. Some are plain.
All are thick and rich. Nono is
glazed, and none is gaudy. There will
also bo silks from Bangkok, which are
of two colors purple shot with red,
and nraugo shot with red, both very
beautiful. All tho silks nro woven the
sizo of tho dress for men, about 28 feet
long and 20 inches broad, nnd for wom
en about 6 feet long and much blonder.
Thus thore is no cutting off tho piece.
The anas, too, which aro tho bottom
pieces for a wit 'l's dross, uro woven
the proper size. Vliero will probnbly,
too, bo piles of snowy cambric jackets
and gauzy silk handkerchiefs, bnt often
theso nresold nt soparato stalls. Black
wood's Magazine
A Railway Dimmlty.
Ill regard to tho difficulty of making
np lost timo ou railways a writer in it
foreign paper says: Thns, to tako a case,
ten miles to bo run at 00 miles an hour,
avcrago line, Bupposa the cngini.'er is a
oonplo of minutes late whon ho comes
to tills length of ton miles, which ho
generally runs iu ton minutes. If he
runs it at OS miles an hour, he is thcu
only making up ono minute in every
13 miles, uud if he runs at 70 miles
an hour ho makes np one minute
in every seven miles, no is probably
timed to make it necessary to do the
ten miles about as fast as ho can every
day, so that trying to gain oven a cou
ple of minutes in this length is ont of
the question. Again, if ho relaxes thn
speed ton miles, say, to fifty, he is los
ing time nt the rate of ono miunto iu
every five miles. Thus from a speed of
60 an incroase of ton milos only gains
one minute in every seven miles, but a
decrease of ten miles loses ono minute
in every five miles. Power.
Meaeurlng River With a Hat.
Yon will be surprised, no doubt, when
we toll yon that a man may measure
the width of a river or of any other
stream by moans of the brim of his hat,
provided the ground on his side of the
stream extends back level for some dis
tance. Here is tho way it is done :
The man stunds facing the river and
pulls down his hat brim until the edge
of it is on an exact line with the edge
of the bank on the opposite side of the
stream. Then, putting his hand under
his chin to steady it, so as to keep his
head iu the same position, he turns
slowly around and notes where the edge
of his hat brim cuts the ground on his
own side of the river.
The measure of the distance on the
level ground will be the width of the
river. Philadelphia Times.
Rabin teln and Balow.
Rubinstein was undoubtedly inaccu
rate at times, Poople who held scores
through those long programmes could
easily find that out He not only em
broidered even Beethoven, but he would
invent Bach. What he invented was
probably quite as good as what he hap
pened to forget and always extremely
interesting. Still, it was not note for
note, and that is what the dullards
gloated over. Bulow was more accu
rate, but even Bulow forgot or manu
factured a bar or two occasionally. But
these, it spots, were spots in the inn,
and certainly all Rubinstein did or left
nndoue sorve but to accentuate his in
dividuality and display his genius in
new and startling lights. Fortnightly
Review.
KutTs Clovor Root will purify your
blood, clear your complexion, regulate
your bowels and make your head clear
as a bell. 25c., 60o. and 81.00. Sold by
J. C. King & Co.
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We have just returned from the Eastern markets with
a full supply of Dress Goods. Our shelves and
counters are running over with choice styles of
both Foreign and Domestic Novelties In Fine Dross
Fabrics. Our stock oflerB the greatest possible
range for selection in newest and choicest drees
materials of tho season and latest styles of trim
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We have a large assortment of coats and capes in our
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We handle only new goods of the latest styles.
Please do not buy until you see our line. It will
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