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LSATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1901.

pnvenes.
ican County Com
oom No. at
the purpose of
rraybill, of East
chairman with-
ion was adopted
ere is not more
Wednesday even-
te for holding the
on, was fixed for
the committee
ict, the polling
muel Landis’ to
9
uy
lislide,
ured one mile
ly night at 11.30
rock rolled on
ger train of emp-
rock and was
‘he pilot on the
had to be re-
wrecking crew
took some time.
were run on the
Elizabethtown.
wreck,
Us.
, the latest addi-
km, has reached
romise of being
local fraternity.
rye on the young-
presenting
He
and
eis
LL ppearance,
efore him,
here.— Lancaster
f Baseball.
ler to one of the
rs says:
big Methodist
le on Monday
veen two teams
campers, who
ubes’ and the
mer won by a
Zberly.
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FACTS OF EVA
KIND.
A gallon of water “weighs ten
pounds.
Twenty-six English bishops rank as
peers.
England has, on an average, 66 gales
a year.
Cork weighs 15 pounds per cubic
foot, gold 1,135 pounds.
Horses killed for food
field on an avexage 450
meat each.
Taking water ras 100, ice weighs 93
bulk for bulk, Hirwood 55, and oak-
wood 117,
In the past 400 years Russia has
produced 1,050 tons of gold and 2,400
tons of silver.
In England 945 people die yearly
leaving estates over £20,090, in Scot-
land 125, and in Ireland 59.
The Egyptian Soudan has 12 prov-
inces, with an area of 1,000,000 square
miles and 10,500,000 pecple.
Bronchial diseases cause the death
yearly of 225 men out of 1,000,000 in
the United Kingdom, and of 220 wom-
en.
The United Kingdom gets, on an
average, 33 inches of rain in a year,
Europe generally 26 inches, and North
America 40 inches.
France holds the record as a user of
gold. She has coined 2,300 tons in the
last 40 years, against 1,400 used by the
English mint.
Within the past 70 years the death
rate of soldiers on garrison duty: in
English towns had fallen from 16 per
1,000 a year to six per 1,000.
An iron ship’s hull is 40 per cent,
lighter than one of the same size built
of wood, and a steel shiip 15 per cent.
lighter than one of irom.
There are only 18 stars of the first
magnitude. The lights from these
takes about three years to reach the
earth. There are 53 of second magni-
tude.
The ruby is the heaviest of precious
stones. Next come the garnet, topaz
and diamond, in the order named.
The diamond three and one-half
times heavier than water.
AIENTIFIC INTEREST.
Fra ice
of
in
pounds
is
ra borealis lasted for a
d in August, 1859.
n noticed that hailstorms
image in thickly-wooded
country.
thunder-cloud rarely
miles. Seven miles is
ight for any cloud.
ates-—Indiana, Maine,
Washington—require
hses of tubergnlgids.
are ffiade of tl
takes 17,000
the sub-
ak. t
yound of
1 forty-eight Brit-
the southwest in
aly 96 from the
he temperature
th is six de-
1]
ace,

CASSEL FOR CONGRESS.
Choice For the Place Decides to Become
a Candidate.
Ag the readers of the BULLETIN
Know; this paper advocated Hon. H,
Burd Cassel, of Marietta, as a succes-
sor to Brosius, in an editurial article
1n our issue of June 22. Mr. Cassel
has decided to become a candidate,
and in another column will be found
his announcement.
H. Burd Cassel was born in Mari-
elts, this county, October 19, 1855,
and is, therefore, emphatically one of
our own people. His father, the late
Abram N. Cassel, was one of the most
prominent citizens of the county,
dying a few years ago at the age of
eighty-five years, after a long and
successful business career. He not
only filled many stations of publie
trust, but served several terms in the
State Legislature with prominence.
H. Burd Cassel, after passing through
the public schools of Marietta, finish-
ed lis education at the Columbia
Classical institute. At an early age
he became interested in the lumber
business with his father, becoming
sole peoprietor of the same upon the
latter's death, and which he still con-
tinues. Like his father, he has always
been a stanpnch Republican, and be.
came interested in politics at an early
age, His first political office was as a
member of the County Committee,
in 1881, the year in which Judge
Livingston was renominated without
a contest. He subsequently became
Chairman of the County Committee,
in 1893, without opposition, that be"
ing the first time in years that a Chair.
man was eleeted by acclamation, He
was sent as a delegate to the National
Convention held in St. Louis in 1896,
and in 1898 he was nominated aud
elected to the Lower House of the
State Legislature, where his father
had served fifty-nine years before.
He was re-elected in 1900, and is now
a member of that body. He has
served his constituents with marked
ability and success, and his appoint.
ment to important commitees, that of
the Judiciary General, Ways and
Means, Public Buildings, and others,
ndicates in what esteem his abilities
were held,
Mr. Cassel has always been an im.
portant factor in the civil life of his
community, and, dl
where he *int
~tiliatiopndi
terian failpr
and a Suit
in which vw
He was for!S
County Su
and was §
County
Young
Asa b
og Diz
The Tw¥
From the Mount Joy §
In another col
the announcemen
Cassel of Marietta)
erintendent M. J.
who are aspiring
nomination for
this district. Th
will be held Sa
Both candidates
Mount Joy. Mr.
branch lumber an
for years, whi
Brecht was princ
Orphan echool, t
place, wheu he wg
superintendent,
member of sever
our town.
The late Abram
Hon, H. Burd C
cf Mount Joy (
manhood, and i
only a few miles f}
be geen the old
by his Mennonite
ago, as the (Germ
stone in the builc
We venture th
part of the coun
interest attach
as in Mount Jo,
has many stay
8 likely to be
Special Excursi
The Penusyly
ny will run speci
falo on account
Expoeition. froy
adjoining territo
August 15, 21,
17, and £6. Rou
going only ou tr
phia at 8.30 a. ml
w., Sunbury 12.4
1.50 p. m.. Lock
on loeal trains
and good to ret
within seven d
excursion, will k
from Philadelpt
burg. $9 80 fron
Altoona, $9.00 f
from Reading, §
and proportiong
points. These
in Pullman par
either directicy