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A Wallc In th Winter Grees
Tka warm flr wood is dark mad low
Within Sheltered rsJley deep;
When oer the hilta the Difcbt wind blew.
They rook tta happy tribes to sleep.
,1k thousand ttay tracks are made
Upon itaarpetaort and white.
And through its thick and fragrant shads
Brisk bird wings glanco in sodden flight.
Bare (easts are spread and months are fed
Where seeds and buds are scattered wide,
-Aad many a warm and coxy bed
la heaped where dreaming sleepers hid.
Sometimes a golden sunbeam strays
Within to light the green and white;
BomotimeH as night the full moon's rays
Fill these dim aisles with silver light.
But we ara Interlopers here!
Our steps are strange, our to Usee new.
The dwellers shy look forth in fear
And Tanish with a swift adieu.
Portland Transcript.
BUeetrleal Reporting.
Electric Power describes a new sys
tem of reporting baseball and other
games by means of an, ingenious elec
trical apparatus. - The special object of
he apparatus is to enable a foil report
jot games to be made in sight of a large
-somber of people and at the same time
dispense with one or more of the
assistants now required in reporting
match, games. This deTioe is intended
not only to indicate the progress of dis
tant games, bat actually to be used at
the opposite end of the ball field from
the grand stand, in order to enlighten
the spectators on many points on which
they are liable to be momentarily in
doubt. Spectators coining in late are
often miable to ascertain the number of
innings played, the striker at the bat,
the number of balls and strikes called,
etc, and even those already on the
ground sometimes find it difficult to de
termine whether the umpire has called
a strike or a bulL All these weighty
issues, upon which the baseball enthusi
ast expends such intense solicitude, can
now be clearly and reliably recorded,
and all anxiety and uncertainty can be
removed by a glance at the exhibition
board placed in sight of the spectators,
the indicators on which are electrically
controlled and operated by an experi
enced person located close to the diamond.-
Eclipses In 1891.
This year's eclipses will be somewhat
"beyond the average. On the evening of
Hay 23 the moon will rise in eclipse at
five minutes to 8, but the shadow will
-for the greater part have already passed
way, and it is only in eastern countries
and at the antipodes that her face that
evening will be seen wholly obscured.
It will be otherwise with the total
eclipse of our satellite, which will begin
at thirty-five minutes past 10 on Nov. 15
next. This, as the almanacs tell us, will
be "entirely visible at Greenwich,''
whither, no doubt, the legendary cock
ney will once more betake himself in
time to witness the phenomenon.
There will be two solar eclipses one
annular, and visible in this country as ;i
partial eclipse on the upper limb, begin
ring at two minutes past 5 on June 6; the
other a partial eclipse on Dec. 1, which
will be visible chiefly in the South Pacific.
Besides these there will be, on May 10, a
transit of Mercury over the sun's disk,
which will be only partially visible in
this part of the globe. Science Notes.
i, Odd Journey of a Tree.
A stately elm tree is being moved sev
eral miles to Graceland cemetery, and
since it began its travels, which are
about half over, it has killed one man
and slightly injured several others. The
tree grew about three miles from Groese
Point, and is destined to adorn a. lot
where a Mr. Lathrop is buried. It was
dug up about a month ago, the earth
around its roots boxed up, and it was
placed in a standing position upon a plat
form moving upon rollers. The plat
form is pulled along by horses. During
the process of changing the supports the
other day a laborer was crushed to
death under a falling beam. It is esti
mated that when placed in the cemetery
the tree will have cost not less than
12,500.--Chicago Tribune.
To Protect Lamp Chimneys.
The season is jnst on us when lamp
chimneys break in spite of all precau
tions, and cause people to use bad lan
guage who are usually above such weak
ness. The usual remedy or preventive
recommended is to chip a fragment out
ef the glass to allow for expansion. Nine
times out of ten the glass is cracked by
the process and destruction expedited.
If the chimney is washed in coal oil and
ever even wiped with a damp cloth it
will be practically indestructible, and
will smoke jet black before it will crack.
I have recommended this remedy to cus
tomers for years, and have never heard
f its failing. Interview in St. Lotus
Qlobe-De mocrat.
Outrage Reported at Lewiston.
A man who signed himself "Citizen,"
and who is a way off on spelling, writes
the Lewiston city marshal that he has
been hit by two snowballs thus far this
season, which he thinks were malicious
ly aimed at him by some bad boys. He
notifies the ci i y marshal that this throw
ing of snowballs at him must cease at
once, or there will be trouble in the An
droscoggin valley in the very near fut
ure. Lewiston Journal.
Will Pay His Respects.
Napoleon McDaniel, a noted train robber,-
recently convicted at Texarkana,
Tex., and sentenced to life imprisonment
in the penitentiary, has escaped from jail.
Two eminent criminal lawyers who un
successfully defended him are now living
in daily dread, having received a mes
sage from McDaniel that he intends to
kill them "because they did not do
their best in his defense." Philadelphia
Ledger.
Paw's Innocence.
Old Gentleman There goes ' young
Broxhall. -His father was a very emi
. Bent man, but I see no hope for the son.
He appears to have inherited none of
Ihe elements of greatness. -
Young Gent Why, Paw! It isn't a
-week since he was acknowledged the
champion football kicker of the clawss.
Good News.
Almas Opening Safes.
As a matter of fact you cant open a
safe lock by listening to the click of the
tumbler. They do not click. They are
immovable in their places and do not
drop. Consequently, when I read of an
inexperienced plumber boy who opens
combinations at will it fatigues me.
Now I have the reputation of being able
to open almost any safe, but if the safe
is locked I cant do it. I can go to the
safe, as it stands unlocked, and can gen
tly turn the combination until the re
sistance warns me that I have reacted a
tumbler. I note the number and pro
ceed in like manner with all the tum
blers. Then the owner can lock his
safe, and I being in possession of this
combination can unlock it without diffi
culty. Had I been placed before' the same
safe while locked, I might turn until
doomsday without success. Now the
various makers invariably send out their
safes set on certain numbers. I, know
ing these numbers, can unlock any one
of them before the owner has adopted
his own peculiar combination. My safes
go out each with a separate number, of
which I keep a careful record, so that I
can open them in case I am called upon
to do so. . I have a safe now which is
locked, and the combination lost.
I am just as unable to open that
safe as you, although I know every de
tail in the lock's construction. There it
stands until I see fit to drill it open. A
safe with two tumblers is susceptible of
10,000 changes; ; with three tumblers,
1,000,000 changes; with four, 100,000,
000, and so on in regular permutation.
But give me as a clew one number of
the combination employing two tum
blers, and I will have to make but 100
combinations from 1 to 100 in order to
open the safe in from two to five min
utes' time. The only absolutely burglar
peoot safe is the one employing a screw
door with a time lock attachment on the
inside. Interview in St. Louis Globe
Democrat. Facts and Fancies.
When we attempt to show how far
matter can be divided the brain refuses
to grasp the infinity. A pin's head is a
small object, but it is gigantic compared
to some animals of which millions would
occupy a space no larger than the head
of a pin. - These tiny must con
tain organs and veins, etc, and those
veins are full of blood globules. Pro
fessor Tyndall informs us that a drop of
blood contains 3,000,000 red globules.
So these mfinitesimally small n-Tiimplq
must have millions of globules in their
blood also. Thus we see to what an ex
tent, far beyond our senses' power to
grasp, matter can be divided.
But . there is something even ' more
astonishing than this. It is stated that
there are more animals in the milt of a
single codfish than there are men in the
world, and that one grain of sand is
larger than 4,000,000 of these animals,
each of which must be possessed of life
germs of an equal amount, which would
grow up as it grew to maturity. This
carries us back again, and
Imagination's utmost stretch
In wonder dies away.
Or take other interesting facts: One
hundred threads of the silkworm must
be placed side by side to make up the
thickness of a line about one twenty-fifth
of an inch, and metals can be drawn out
to such exceeding fineness that 1,200 of
the fine wires will occupy only the space
of 100 silk worms' threads. Montreal
Star.
A Chinaman In an Art Gallery.
YOU Can tell ' the new Phinamnn in
New York by bis headgear. He wears
a iittie oiacK skuii cap or silk, whereas
his fellow Chinaman of long residence
in the country invariably wears a low
crowned, black felt hat, with a medium
brim, which is manufactured somewhere
in Connecticut especially for the Chinese
American trade and sold at a. dollar
apiece. It is curious to notice the be
wildered air or tne newly arrived China
man as he goes about the city under the
escort of two or three of his conntrv.
men. I saw a group of four Chinamen
in an art gallery tne other day, and im
mediately discerned that one was a new
comer. The other three were' showing
him the sights.
The pictures in the gallery were all
imported, and I noticed that the new
Chinaman was constantly looking at the
figures in the pictures and then looking
around at the people in the gallery,
seemingly trying to compare the details
of garments. Of course they were total
ly different, and his companions went
through a vast amount of talk to explain
to him that we do not make many pict
ures in this country compared with
what we buy abroad. One of them with
whom I struck up a conversation said to
me, "Him not belly well undelstand
why Melican man no makee himself on
painting." ,It was something of a poser.
New York Press.
Hours for Eating: in England.
In England, down to the days of
"Good Queen Bess," it was the custom
to hospitably entertain all strangers and
visitors at any hour of the day with free
fare bread, beef and beer. This was
observed at every table in the land, from
that of the freeholder to the baron's and
abbey's. At a later day the upper classes
became more luxurious in their tastes
and habits. As a consequence the hours
for meals were very much modified and
have remained so until this day.
Breakfast is now usually taken be
tween 9 and 10 a. m., and the present
usage for dinner among the wealthier
classes is from 6 to 8 p. m. A luncheon
a rather substantial meal, by the way,
consisting of cold game, roast beef and
the like is often indulged in between
breakfast and dinner. The meal denom
inated supper in this country is a com
paratively unknown quantity in Eng
land, that known as tea forming in real
ity a part of dinner. Louis T. Peale in
Detroit Free Press.
Foolish KxtraTsganee.
Mr. De Style My dear, I have en
gaged a box at the opera to-night.
Mrs. De Style The ideal You know
Pm so hoarse that I can't speak above a
whisper. New York Weekly.
A Prime for a Model Husband's WUa.r '
The $100 prize has been awarded to
Mrs. C. K. Hood, of Brooklyn.
The thousands of letters which were
received in the contest were - carefully
read; and the judges, consisting of Mrs.
Roger A. Pryor, Mrs. Chauncey M. De
pew and Mrs. William C. Whitney, after
careful' examination', unanimously de
cided in favor of the following:-
"Free from all manly (?) vices, per
sonally clean and orderly, into our ut
most' privacy he -; brings ' the tender
courtesies of a gentleman.1 Our home
making - is a delightful partnership, one
supplementing the other '; with every as
sistance,' he always considerate of the
woman's responsibilities, but leaving at
his office thj annoyances of a business
man. In sickness or health there is al
ways the ' responsive ' throb ' of a single
interest. Perfect-love casteth out fear,
and 'our freedom of speech and action
leaves no occasion' for any petty tricks
of deception alas! so common.
"Above this is his higb. ideal of woman
that helps me produce something better
thaO before recognized ' in myself. : Re
ceptive' to' my aspirations, no new
thought or culture is attempted but
meets his approval and encouragement,
while a noble spiritual atmosphere lifts
my daily life from a common routine
into a loving pleasure. Taking my face
in his hands he has lovingly said,
' Would I had wealth that I could place
you a queen among women V With such
a king for a husband, am I not walking
in a queen's garden?"
Neither of the judges knew the name
of the writer of either letter, and the
prize was awarded wholly upon merit.
New York World.
Sirs. Palmer, President.
In electing Mrs. Potter Palmer presi
dent of the lady managers of the Chicago
World's fair the right person was put in
the right place.
. As is well known, Mrs. Palmer was a
Miss Honore, a member of a distin
guished southern family and a sister of
the beautiful wife of Col. Fred Grant,
the eldest son of Gen. Grant, and our
present minister to Austria. Mrs. Palm
er's husband, who is a millionaire, built
the Palmer house, of Chicago. The
Palmers live in one of the north side
palaces of Chicago, facing the lake.
Their house is a copy of an English
castle, and is considered one of the finest
residences in America. Mrs. Palmer
makes annual trips to Europe, and has
purchased some of the finest and rarest
tapestries, statuary and bric-a-brac, to
say nothing of valuable paintings.
Mrs. Palmer is even more beautiful
than her sister, Mrs. Grant. She has
dark hair and eyes, is tall-and slight,
with an air of elegance that is most at
tractive. . She talks with remarkable
grace and ease. She seems to under
stand parliamentary rules thoroughly,
for she presides with great ability and
dignity. Epoch.
"A 'Bloat Remarkable Woman.
" One of 'the most remarkable women
that America has nrnAtirA wnia -rtio
Miss Emma Willard. "For many years
nary in- Troy, N. Y.,"she was a noted
writer,' the author of 'several popular his
tories,' and enjoyed the warm friendship
of a number of eminent ' men and wo
men, including several presidents, from
the time of Monroe . up to the beginning
of the War of the Rebellion. She died
in 1870, and a number of. her former
pupils and friends have set about the
work of collecting $15,000 for the pur
pose of erecting a monument to her
memorv. It will bn tha firsf. nr.Kiij
statue erected in America for the honor
or woman's work in the elevation of her
sex. The nresidnnt of th tuuvkfinn
having the matter in charge is Mrs. C.
U. jua&arinnr, wire or tne well Known
editor of The Trnv "Knrtham T!n
j vuu&Ht
and the corresponding secretary is Mrs,
TIT n - n 1
w imam e. jvenneay. i nese, as well as
the treasurer, Mr. Francis M. Mann, Jr.,
reside in Troy. Frank Leslie's News
paper.
. The Gas Company Pays Damages.
In the case of Gertrude M. McNeal
against the Boston Gas Light company,
which has been on trial in the second
session of the superior court, and in
which the plaintiff claimed $30,000 for
personal injuries, a jury awarded her
damages in the sum of $9,000. Miss Mc
Neal was employed in a store, and an em
ploye of the company, in testing a me
ter, left a trap door open, through which
Miss McNeal fell. Her injuries are of a
permanent nature, as testified to by sev
eral well known physicians, and the
defense, while not attempting to contra
dict that evidence, claimed that the sur
roundings of the plaintiff were not of
that quiet nature which a person in her
condition ought to have. Before the
trial began an offer of $7,000 was made
by the defendant in settlement. Boston
Journal.
Equal to the Occasion.
A woman who was passing up Gratiot
avenue the other day. lost a fur collar off
her neck without seeming to notice- the
fact, and a boy ran after her and
shouted: ' ;.
"Hey, lady, you have dropped your
muskrat collar I" . . .
He held it out to her, and three or
four pedestrians came to a halt. She
was equal to the occasion. Drawing
herself up, and assuming all the dignity
of a queen, she waved the boy aside and
said:.
"Thank you, little boy, but some poor
woman probably dropped it. My seal
skin collar is safe at home!" Detroit
Free Press.
Women Take Up Timber Claims.
- No less than 150 young women, it is
said, have taken up timber claims in
western Washington during the past six
months, and in eastern -. Washington
probably 100 others have located lands.
The lands that can now be had are main
ly in outlying sections somewhat remote
from railways, and can be reached only
with some difficulty. As new wagon
roads and railroads are being pushed all
the time, however, the opportunities are
still good. Philadelphia Ledger.
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Abstracters,
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Insurance Agents.
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Parties Looking for Homes in
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In Connection With his Fruit Stand
and Will Serve
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and Fresh Oysters.
Convenient to the Passenger
Depot.
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Also a .
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