RAILROAD TIMETABLES
LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD.
November 14, 1897.
ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
LEAVE FREELAND.
6 05. 8 45, 935 urn, 1 35, 2 30, 3 10, 5 25, 707 p n
for Drifton, Jeddo, Foundry, H/le Drook an
Lumber Yard.
6 05, 8 45, Si Ma m, 135.3 10, (525 pin Blackl)iu
inoud) for Weatheriy, Mauch ('hunk, Allen
town, Easton. Philadelphia and New York.
7 07 p in for Wcatherly, Mauch Chunk, Allen
town, Easton and intermediate stations.
9 35 a m, 2 30, 5 25 and 7 0T p in, for Ilazle
ton, Delano, Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, Ash
land, Mr carmel, Bhainokin and Pottsville.
7 28, 10 51, 1154 a in, 5 24 p in, tor Sandy Run.
White Haven ami Wilkesbarre.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
8 38, 10 51 a m for Sandy Run, White Haven
and Wiikesbarro.
1U43 a in and 138 pin for Jeddo, Foundry,
lla/.le Brook, Stockton and Ha/.leton.
10 43 a in for llazieton, Delano, Mahano>
City, Shenandoah, Alt. Carmel, Stiamokln aim
Pottsville.
1 38 p in for Wcatherly. Mauch Chunk. Allen
town, Easton, Philadelphia and New York.
ARRIVE AT FREELAND.
7 28, 9 25, 10 51, 11 54 a m, 12 58, 2 20, 3 61.
624 and 6 01 p m, from Lumber Yard, Hazle
Book. Foundry, Jeddo ami Drifton.
7 28, 9 25, 10 51, 11 54 am, 12 58, 2 20, 3 51, 524 j
p m, from Hoztcton.
9 25, 10 51 a m, 12 58, 6 01, p m, from Phila
delphia, New York, Easton, Allentown, Mauch !
Chunk aud Wcatherly.
935 a m, 2 30, 70? pin, from Wilkesbarre, j
White Haven and Sandy Run.
7 28, 9 25, 10 51 a in, 2 20, 5 24 p in, from Delano. ■
Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, Ashland, Mt. Car
mel, Shumokin and Pottsville.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
8 38, 10 51 a in and 12 55 p m, from Hazleton. I
Stockton. Lumber Yard, ilazle Brook, Foun- !
dry, Jeddo and Drifton.
10 61 a ni, 12 55 pin, from Philadelphia, New j
York. Easton, Allentown, and Mauch Chunk. [
I>1 am, from I'mtsville, Shamokin, Mt. j
Carmel Ashland, Shcnamloah, Mananoy City !
and Delano.
10 ui a ra, from Wilkesbarre, White Ilaven j
and Sandy Run.
For further information inquire of Ticket i
Agents.
CHAS. S. LEE, Gen'l Puss. Agent,
Phila., Pa.
HO L LIN 11. WILBUR, General Superintendent.
A. W. NONNEMACHER, Ass't G. P. A.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
DELAWARE, SUSQUEHANNA ANI
-L SCHUYLKILL RAILROAD.
Time table in effect April 18, 1897.
Trains leave Drifton for Jeddo, Eckley, Hazlo
Brook. Stockton. Reaver Meadow Road, Roan
and Hazleton Junction at 5 30, 600 a m, daily
except Sunday; and 7 Oil a in, 2 ilrt p ni, Sunday.
Trains leave Drifton for Harwoou. Cranberry, i
Toinliicken and Derlnger at 5 30, 6 00 a in, daily
except Sunday; and 7 03 u in, 2 38 p in. Sun- j
day.
Trains leave Drifton for Oneida Junction. ;
liarwood ltoad, Humboldt Koud, Oneida and <
Sheppton at 600 a m, daily except Sun
day; and 7 03 a in, 2 3b p m, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Harwood, ;
Cranberry, Toinliicken and Derlnger at 635 a
ra, daily except Sunday; and 8 53 a m, 4 22 p m,
Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Oneida ,
Junction, Harwood Road, Humboldt Road.
Oneida and Sheppton at 6 32, 11 10 a m, 4 41 p m, |
daily except Sunday; and 737 a in, 3 11 p in,
Sunday.
Trains leave Deringer for Tomhicken, Cran
berry, Harwood, Hazleton Junction and Roan
at 2 25, 5 lUprn, daily except Sunday; and 9 37
a ni, 5 07 p m. Sunday.
Trains leave Sheppton for Oneida, Humboldt ;
Road, Harwood Road, Oneida Junction, Hazle- i
ton Junction and Roan at 7 11 am, 12 40, 522 >
p in, daily except Sunday; and bli a m, 3 44
p m, Sunday.
Trains leave Sheppton for Beaver Meadow '
Road, Stockton, lla/.le Brook, Eckley, Jeddo i
and Drifton at 5 22 p m, daily, except Suuday;
and 8 11 a in, 3 44 p in, Sunday.
Trains leave Hazleton Junction for Beaver :
Meadow Road, Stockton, Hazle Brook, Eckley,
Jeddo and Drifton at 5 45, 626 p in, daily,
except Sunday; and 1010 am,540 pm. Sunday.
All trains connect at Hazleton Junction with
electric cars for Hazleton, Jeanesville, Auden
ried and other points on the Traction Com
pany's line.
Trains leaving Drifton at 5 30, 6 00 a m make
connection at Deringer with P. R. R. trains for
Wilkesbarre, Sunbury, llarrisburg and points
west.
For tlie accommodation of passengers at way
Stations between Hazleton Junction and Der
inger, a train will leave the former point at
350 p m, daily, except Suuday, arriving at
Deringer at 5 00 p in.
LUTHER C. SMITH, Superintendent. !
DePIERRO - BROS.
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Freeland, Pa.
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Gibson, Dougherty, Kaufer Club,
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Mumm'n Extra Dry Champagne,
Hennessy Brandy, Blackberry,
Gins, Wines, Clarets, Cordials, Etc
Imported and Domestic Cigars,
OYSTERS IN EVERY STYLE,
Ham and Schweitzer Cheese Sandwiches,
Sardines, Etc.
MEALS AT - ALL - HOURS.
Ballentine and Hazleton beer on tap.
Baths, Hot or Cold, 25 Cents.
P. F. MeNULTY,
Funeral Director
and Embalmer.
Prepared to Attend Calls
Day or Night.
South Centre street, Freeland.
G. HORACK,
Baker & Confectioner.
Wholesale and Retail,
CENTRE STEEET, FREELAND.
PLEASURE CALENDAR.
January 22. —"The Midnight Mistake."
a four-act drama, by the Juvenile
Dramatic T'ompanv. at Vannes' opera
house.
January 22. Lecture. 'From the Cider-
Barrel to the Drunkard's Grave. by
Captain Branston at St. Paul's P. M.
church. Admission, 25 cents.
January 2!t. — Dancing school at Yannes'
opera house, 7.30 to 11.30 p. in. Ad
mission, 25 cents.
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A Friend <>r the 'POSSIIIII.
The head of Hon. .J. ('. F. McCook, of
Chattahoochee, is level on the 'possum
measure, says the Columbia (Ga.)
Ledger. We, too. are •* 'poesumists,"
but no pessimists, and we tremble with
wrath and sadness at the present "slo
ration" erf this king of meats, and pray
for the time to come when the law wi'.l
cloak him with better constitutional
franchise and privilege at the festive
persimmon tree —a longer lease on life
and liberty, as in case of the dove and
quail. "Equal rights to 'brer' 'possum
and no special rights to the bird."
Let the 'possum family increase and
develop, and Christian religion and the
democracy of our fathers do the same
thing. The 'possum favors the most
distinguished writer, William Shake
speare, the world ever produced, and
this fact alone ought to be sufficient
for our civilian to honor in some degree
him and his whole family. The "last,
loveliest and the best" plea for this
"brer" is, he is bashful, timid, unas
suming and sweet like the winsome
girl, and God bless yotir soul, we are
" 'possum rights" folks over here in
Rnssell, a world without end. Free
'possums at the rate of sixteen in ths
future to one of the awful past, is our
platform and sentiments.
Most people would rather not handle
snakes, but those who do find a certain
fascination in the pastime. Sometimes
it also serves a useful purpose, a<s in-the
case of a Kansas City man, who habitu
ally carries two or three snakes with
him in various pockets-of his dress. One
day he went to a county flair and a pick
pocket tried to rob him. The-rogue hap
pened to get his hand into a pocket
where reposed a bull snake, and the way
he screamed brought all the police on
the ground to the scene, and the pick
pocket was igTiomindously captured.
A Kansas City man took refuge in a
blacksmith's shop during a violent
windstorm. The shop blew down and
injured him and. he sued the owner for
damages. The defendant's attorney
argued that the Lord was responsible
for the hurricane and his client ought
not to be blamed. The court decided
that the Almighty had nothing to do
with the insecurity of the building and
was not a party to the suit, and that
the owner must pay $1,200 damages for
injuries inflicted.
It is reported thut a young lady of
Shoholah, Pa., walked through the
woods one day recently wearing a hat
ornamented with feathers from a
pheasant's tail. Some hunters saw the
feathers aud fired at thein. They were
poor shots, luckily for Miss Lavigne.
Most of the pellets were stopped by her
corsets, but. she was severely wounded
nevertheless. This should serve as a
warning to young ladies who are fond
of bird plumage in their hats.
The other day, says the Indianapolis
Sentinel, a South side teacher was dis
coursing to her pupils about the evils
of becoming addicted to slang, when
she paused and asked them to give her
an example of a slang phrase. The
school went into convulsions when a
youngster in knee pants yelled prompt *
You re not so hot. There are
other babies on the pile." The teacher
did not call for any more examples.
Davis Cullen, of Sticklersville, Del.,
I who for nearly ten years has been treat
j ed for consumption by the doctors, in
a coughing fit the other day brought
up a tooth which he swallowed almost
ten years ago. It had stuck in liis wind
pipe then. The physicians now say that
it got down into Ms lungs and that it
i is the tooth which has caused what they
• treated as consumption.
A town council in Ohio has passed
an ordinance providing that no girl
shall linger near the railway station i
less ah ►has in her possession a railway
ticket, the object being to prevent flirta
tions with commercial travelers. The
railway expenses of drummers in Ohio
are bound to be higher from this time
forward.
A man with the habit of talking to
himself got very angry at himself in
Portland, Me., and while walking on
the street began calling himself nil
sorts of names half audibly. He let out
one of them just as n stranger came up,
and the stranger, not knowing his fail
ing, let drive and blackened his eye for
hiui.
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; NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Weduetday, Jan. 12.
In the United States senate Mr. Fair
hanks of Indiana made a speech in fa
vor of the immigration bill. In execu
tive session Mr. Davis, chairman of the
committee on foreign relations, opened
the debate on the Hawaiian annexation
treaty. In the house the debate on civil
service reform was closed, and the ap
propriation bill was passed without
change. Secretary Long recommend
ed an appropriation for repairs at An-
I napolis to be added to the naval ex
penditures bill The two branches of
the Ohio legislature balloted separately
for United States senator. In the sen
ate Hanna received 17 votes and in the
house 56. thus giving him one more than
a majority of both houses—Reports from
; Oklahoma tell of an uprising oT Semi
i nole Indians. Twenty-five whites were
i reported to have been killed Joseph
G. Cramer, % member of several New
: York clubs, whose sanity was inquired
into by a sheriff's jury a short time ago. i
shot himself in a Morrlstown (N. J.)
hotel I>r. Herman P. Faust, formerly
a Hebrew ra >bi, was ordained a Pre
| byterian minister in the Allen Street
! Presbyterian church. New York A
1 motion was made before Judge L&oomhe
; by counsel for the Leavenworth, To- I
peka and Southwestern railway to stay
| the sale of $16,000,000 Union Pacific se- !
! curlties. Decision was reserved Mrs. I
; Eugenia Butler was killed by a fall j
from a fifth story window in New York.
' It is believed that she was either
I thrown out by her hushand William or
jumped to avoid death by his knife.
The man is under arrest Captain
Keadlng, a wealthy German-American.
I died in Berlin, leaving $200,000 for rela
-1 tives in the United States.
Thumriny, Jan. 13.
| A tornado swept Fort Smith. Ark.. '
- killing 60 persons and injuring more i
than twice thut number. The property !
loss is estimated at $1,000,000 In the
United States senate Mr. Davis finished
his argument for annexation of Hawaii,
and Mr. Allen fPop.) of Nebraska spoke
against ratification of the treaty. In
the house an urgent deficiency bill was
■ passed, containing an Item of $50,000 for
repairs on dry-lock No. 3, at the Brook- i
lyn navy yard Marcus A. Ilanna was
! elected senator for both the short and I
| long terms by the Ohio legislature in
j joint assembly, receiving 73 votes
President McKinley transferred Edwin
H Conger, now minister to Brazil, to
the Chinese mission, and nominated
Charles Page Bryan for minister to
Brazil Secretary Long informed the
contractors for drydock No. 3 at the
Brooklyn navy yard that they and their
bondsmen would be held responsible for
! any loss sustained by the government
j Indictments for participation in the
' recent conspiracy to assassinate Dr.
Moraes, the president of Brazil, have i
been found against high officials in
Brazil, including the vice president
Amhoyna. the capital of the most im
portant island in the Moluccas group,
j was destroyed by an earthquake, 50
people being killed and 200 injured \
Mrs. McCusker was acquitted by a
1 Camden (N. J.) jury of murdering her
husband A young man of Atlanta is
believed to have deserted his borne in a
fit of disappointment because his young
wife gave birth to a girl instead of a
hoy Two Republican tickets were j
nominated in the municipal contest in
Philadelphia. Senator Penrose's fac
tion is understood to have the passive
j indorsement of Senator Quay Ad
miral Walker, president of the Nlca- i
ragua canal commission, asked for an
additional appropriation of SIOO,OOO
; Colonel C. T. Ladson, a lawyer of At
lanta, was accused of bribery during
the trial of a case at Augusta by Major I
j Gumming, opposing counsel, who pro- j
! duced a letter alleged to have been j
written by Ladson offering money to a
witness.
Friday, Jan. 14.
In the United States senate Messrs.
Frye, Morgan and Stewart spoke in fa- i
! vor of ratifying the Hawaiian annexa- j
j tion treaty. In the open session the
immigration bill was taken up In the
house consideration of the agricultural !
| appropriation bill was finished, the do- j
I bate at one time relating to the elec- j
I tion of Senator Hanna It was an
nounced in Stockholm that Professor
Nordenskjold has heard that Andres's
I balloon has been seen in British Colum-
I Ma and wants a closer investigation
made Premier Mellne announced in
I the French chamber of deputies that
! M. Zola would be prosecuted for his
j open letter in the Dreyfus case to Pres
ident Faure, in which he accused army
i officers of perjury Richard Arthur
Prince, the assassin of William Terriss,
the actor, was found guilty in London,
but not responsible for the crime on
account of insanity The rush to the
Klondike has begun. The steamer City
i of Seattle left Victoria. B. C., for Alas
| ka ports, having on hoard over 600 pas
sengers Mrs. Inez de Roque. wife of
i General Ponce de Roque, commander
j of the insurgent forces of Matanzas.
arrived in New York and told the usual
story of Spanish cruelty. She spent
j 17 months in prison and has now been
i deported Sanford B. Dole, president
of the Hawaiian Republic, according to
a dispatch from Honolulu, dated Jan.
6, was to leave two days later for
Washington to work for the ratification
j of the Hawaiian treaty. J. .O. Carter,
an antiannexationist. left Honolulu for
Washington .Tan. 6 Four members of
the crew of the United States cruiser
, Marblehead were injured by an explo
j sion at Port Tampa, Fla. Vice Chan-
I eel lor Reed of New Jersey rpfused to set
| aside the divorce obtained by Frank A.
, Magowan in Oklahoma Eight men
i were arrested in Syracuse, charged by
! New York Central railroad detectives
with conspiring to sell passage tickets
; illegally.
Saturday, Jan. 15.
The nomination of Attorney General
McKenna to be associate Justice of the
| supreme court was considered in execu
| tive session of the United States senate,
and action was postponed for one week.
In the open session Mr. Hoar proposed
j a constitutional amendment changing
inauguration day to April 30. In the
house the agricultural appropriation
bill was passed A poll of the senate
shows $1 senators opposed to the Ha-
I walian annexation treaty, 55 in favor of
it and 3 in doubt. Sixty-one affirma
tive votes will be required to ratify the
convention. A long debate is antlci
! patetl President McKinley requested
j congress to appropriate $473,151.26 *o
pa> the Bering sea award to British
subjects The president appointed E.
A. Hartshorn assistant appraiserofmer
i chandlse in the district of New York
I Robert S. Taylor of Indiana and John
W. Fries of North Carolina, members
of the monetary commission, appeared
before the house banking and currency
committee to urge the neoi of better
banking facilities in the south and
west A. C. Burrage, a Boston law
yer. received from William Rockefeller
a check for $700,000 fees and commis
sions for the sale of the Standard Oil's
gas property in Boston. The Standard
paid S1.&00.000 in all in fees Governor
Lowndes of Maryland expressed confi
dence that Judge McComas would be
elected United States senator The
vice president and Mrs. 1-lobart gave a
dinner in honor of the president and
Mrs. McKinley Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
Leslie were in a Are which
burned out a West street hotel, New
York The New York legislature ad
journed until Monday evening. The
senate received several appointments
from the governor, including those of
Dr. S. Case Jones. Dr. Daniel M. Lewis
and Owen Caesidy to succeed them
selves as members of the state board of
health A decree was issued in Ha
vana forbidding the publication of ca
ble dispatches unless they had bee?!
submitted to censorship For love of
a chorus girl Sir Charles Cunninghams
committed suicide in London Anti-
Zola demonstrations on the part of the
students took place in Paris A docu
ment said to emanate flora the pope
has been published in Rome favoring
an Italian republic Crisham &
Winch? carriage dealers in St. Paul,
have failed, with assets of $4.00(1. Last
October they were rated at $70,000. Mr.
Winch is accused of concealing person
al property worth $50,000 The Ken
tucky Trust company's vice president
has disappeared from Louisville, leav
ing the company's affairs in a bad con
dition.
Monday, Jan. 17.
Ex-Congressman Benjamin Butter
worth, commissioner of patents, died
at Thomasvillc, (la. Logan Carlisle,
a son of ex-Secretary of the Treasury
Carlisle, died suddenly in New York
The Right Hon. Charles Pelham Vil
liers, known as the "father of the house
of commons," died in London Gener
al William Booth of the Salvation Ar
my and his son. Commander Ballington
Booth of the Volunteers of America,
met at the Windsor hotel. New
York, and agreed to refrain from con
troversy in future Mrs. T. F. Lane.
daughter of former Senator Blackburn
of Kentucky, was seriously wounded in
her apartments in Washington by a re
volver in her hands. The shooting was
said to lie accidental Horatio W.
Southworth, former president of the
Garfleld Water company, was arrested
in New York on the charge of perjury
made by Albert G. Duysters of Ruther
ford, N. J., formerly treasurer of the
same company, and was sent to New
Jersey, having waived the formalities
of extradition on counsel's advice
The battleships Texas and Massachu
setts sailed south to join the fleet at
Hampton Roads. In the gulf sea drills
headquarters will be at Key West in
older to keep in telegraphic touch with
Washington Ex-Queen Liliuokalnni
is in Washington, where interest in the
question of annexation is now attract
ing much attention The mutilated
bddy of Percy Lockyar, 5 years old,
was found in a creek near Philadel
phia. Samuel D. Henderson. 16. is
charged with his murder A mother
less child. 16 months old, journeyed
alone on the Hamburg-American line
steamship Auguste Victoria from
Genoa and was received in New York
b> his grandmother. Mrs. Ashbridge,
of Philadelphia The Hoi land-Amer
ican line steamship Werkendam* bound
for Rotterdam, parted from her tow in
the North river, New York, and before
she could be recovered crashed into a
freight station adjoining the Pavonia
ferry, Jersey City, demolishing a sec
tion of the building and knocking a
rack of a ferry slip from its fasten
ings Arrangements are being made
for the launching of the new Japanese
warship at the Cramps' yard in Phila
delphia on Thursday The Interna
tional Navigation company has organ
ized a company to run steamships be
tween the Pacific,' coast and Alaska
Ben All, or "Frenehy," who was con
victed of the "Shakespeare" murder,
assaulted and probably fatally injured
a fellow convict wi the Matteawan (N.
Y.) State hospital.
TuanriA3-, .lan. 18.
In the United States senate the Lodge
bill in restriction of immigration was
passed by a vote of 46 to '2B. Mr. Wol
cott made a speech reviewing his recent
trip to Europe in Uehalf of international
bimetallism. Mr. Hanna took the oath
of office as senator. In the house three
District of Columbia bills were passed
and the army appropriation bill was
considered. Mr. McClellan of New York
delivered the principal speech, in which
he severely criticised the army organi
zation. saying that it was obsolete and
ineffective Anarchists broke up an
anti-Dreyfus meeting In Paris. The
routed students then paraded the streets
and were charged by troops. The cabi
net threatened to resign if the chamber
of deputies discussed Dreyfus' alleged
confession Sir Michael Hicks-Beach.
chancellor of the exchequer, said in a
public speech that England would go
to war if necessary to maintain hei
commercial rights In China Presi
dent Dole of Hawaii arrived at San
Francisco and will start for Washing
ton In three or four days. He was not
received by any government official
Postmaster General Gary and the de
partment officials are trying to find
some nay of averting the proposed re
Auction of mail facilities in the large
cities J. H. Matthews, a grocer at
426 Columbus avenue. New York, killed
his wife and two children and eommlt
led suicide. He left a letter explaining
that he committed the crime because
his wife had made him promise to take
them with him when he died. Mrs. Mat
thews wrote that they felt it their right
to take the children with them By
the bursting .if a compressed air pipe
in Ringler's brewery, in East Ninety
first street. New York. Carl Hoening,
the chief engineer, was killed and
Adolph Schenken severely injured A
reduction of from 6 to 12 per cent in
| wages caused strikes in many of the
New England cotton mills. All the
mills at New Bedford, Mass., and sev
| oral at Biddeford. Me., were shut dow
j The state department at Washin
ton received information that Unit
States Consul William W. Ashby had
been drowned at Colon. Colombia
The New York state legislature reas
sembled. Two Cuban belligerency reso
lutions were introduced in the assem
bly. Assemblyman Weeks presented a
resolution for the investigation of the
canal question It was stated in Chi
cago that Joseph Lelter controls 15 000,-
000 bushels of the visible supply of
wheat, which is now only 37,000,000
bushels
GOSSIP OF CYCLEDOM.
A soft tire is almost as treacherous as
quickflund. It goes back on oue when
everything-seems all right. Coasting a
rough hill, turniug sharply a corner
or out of a car track will wrench it off
frequently and sometimes punctures it.
County road commissioners in Penn
sylvania are allowed to devote one
tenth of theioad taxes for the construe
tion of paths for tJie exclusive use of
wheelmen. They are not compelled by
the luw to make these paths, but the
wheelmen see to that.
In London, when a scorcher Ls arrest
ed. if he is riding- a very high-geared
machine,thatcountsaaevidence against
him. The authorities over tiher* are
wise enough to know that no rider care*
for an 80 or 90 gear, unless he want* to
scorch.
Arthur Zimmerman, who was cham
pion for 1592, 1893 aud 1894, will reenter
, the lists next year. He has signed a
contract with the management of the
Princess Park track in Paris to ride iu
competition races and record trials from
Mardh 1 to September 30,1898.
The "bicycle lift" is the latest imag
inary disease attributed to cycling. It
is alleged to he due to involuntary con
traction of the leg muscles, resembling
the equine "string halt." No doctor
ever reported a case of the kind, but the
story goes well with the yarns about
the bicycle face, eye, hand, foot and
back.
It is the general opinion that city au
thorities will soon enforce the use of
brakes on all wheels, and therefore in
ventors arc at work again. At least
three varieties of brakes hare been put
out which operate by a lever roller com
ing in contact with the chain when the
rider back pedals, the lever driving a
spoon against the tire. Another style
operates by pressing a button on the
grip, thus raising a lever attached to
a friction band on the crank axle.
IN THE OLD WORLD.
Licabt, on the south ooast of Sicily,
at the mouth of the Salso, the ancient
Himera, is about to build a large com
mercial harbor iu the expectation of
drawing the trade from the east that
now goes to Naples and Brindisi, as it ia
on the direct route from Port Said to
Giberaltar.
Venders, the frontier station on the
Belgian-German frontier, where trav
i el era are subjected to the annoyance of
the custom house inspection, happens
to be the birthplace of Vieuxtcraps, the
violinist. The town is going to set a
bronze statue to its one distinguished
' son.
Burma grows a hard wood called
Pyinkadoe which, the British have
found, makes excellent railroad sleek
ens. The wily Burmese, however, who
se.il the wood, having discovered that,
the British engineers know lit.tle about
it, have taken to dying cheap wood s
| reddish color and palming it off for
I Pynkadoe.
j A tapestry map of Warwickshire,
Shakespeare's county, 24 feet by 18. and
! made in 1598, is now on exhibition in
London, where it had been ve.ut to be rt
j paired. It its one of five made by Flem
ish weavers imported iuto England, and
i is the largest and mort minute topo
graphical record of the time. It once be
longed to Horace Waipole, but is new
the property of the York museum.
FLORAL HINTS.
You will find cow manure, old and
rotted, the best fertilizer for roses.
Sword ferns need a soil of leaf mold,
with a little salt mixed in. Keep them
' in shade, water well and provide good
1 drainage.
1 A wetem exposure for plant* is not
desirable one; u soot hern one is'best.
An eastern one is quite as good for
many kinds of plants, but have your
plant windows face south when pos-
I sible.
After flowering and us oon as the
foliage ripens let the roil in which
your freealas have grown become dry
! and remain so. I)o not disturb the
j roots in mny way until it is time to start
| the plants into growth again. Keep the
pots in a dry. frostproof room.
Do not allow yourself to be imposed
upon by ignorant persons who tell you
that to turn a plant in the window will
prevent its flowering. It Is absolutely
necessary that plants should be turned
fromfiime to tilme in order to make them
I shapely, and turning them in no way in
! terfeires with their flowering.
The violet is not an easy plant for
the amateur florist to atiteuipt to grow
ler profit. As conditions differ so under
which it must be grown I would advise
nil who care to atiteuipt its culture to
j visit their local florist and learn from
hiiujDibout the soil, method of planting.
I protection, and so forth, needed in that
particularlocnlity.—Ladies' Home Jour
' nnl.
SOME SHORT PERSONALITIES.
The queen of Rouiuania lias received
the honorary degree of doctor of philos
ophy from the University of Buda-Pesth
by permission of Emperor Francis Jo
! seph.
i Mr. Septimus Winner, the composer
of tlie popular song. "Listen to the
Mocking Bird" (written in 1855), cele
brated his golden wedding Novem
. ber 25.
! The prince of Wales has iulierited
from his mother the faculty of really
interesting himself, not feigning inter
est. in whatever is brought before his
notice. It is said by those intimate
■ with the queen that she never allows
I herself to look bored. Whoever may
! be introduced to her has her very best
I attention for the time being.
Verdi visits frequently the home for
j Aged musicians who were connected in
any way with the stage, now build
j jng in Milan. To this home Verdi pro
; poses to devote the greater part of his
; fortune. The building will cost over
$100.( 00. There wi!J l>e room for about
100 persons. By his will a yearly in
| come of about Jf 1,000 will be left to the
asylum.
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