The Lebanon express., November 29, 1889, Image 4

ad.
' - Tuesdsjr
Ms town
moneys
';: .ggregate
ne should
with that
' could got.
gusted at hav-
nio rubers of
he would have
. "O'Grndy didn't
last week in the
called him & thief.
,i and Instead of ed
ges like a gentleman
.Areata of personal vio-
on. Mr. O'Grady! We'll
i It lively for you. And.
while on this subject, we
irve that of all the corrupt.
knavkh, drunken public
. x convened in a room to-
jr town council caps the oil
'let week we shall beg-in a war
.nitration on these vipers, and
or don't By it won't be our fault.
.oxeltt. We learn that Mr,
M baields, of umaha. has pur
ited' a lot on Apache avenue and
tends to build and open a hardware
4ore. Thin will be a novelty. Not
that we haven't a hardware stgre In
awn, but the idea of a man opening a
v,ore here instead of a saloon will
-ike our people queerly. .The saloon
'jsrest needn't be alarmed, however.
"rk8f of at least six new ones which
will open this fall to help control the
political campaign.
It Cas't be Dost Now. For a year
or more sftr we struck this town we
Suld be kicked and cuffed with per-
ct impunity, even oy a low-down
Sian. We were knocked flown.
itd up and down the 6treet. a no
d our uoe pulled out of shape twe
three times per week, and we never
juni oi resisung. t e were a icnuer
jt of the tenderfootedest sort, and it
was a question whether we should pull
'through or not Let Borne one attempt
to tweak our nose to-day! The offer ol
a hundred dollars in ,caah wouldn't
"tempt a man in town to try it on. We
pe no loujrr a tenderfoot. The man
I ho seta out to Ift" us now has got
beat chain lightning. Every chap
Vbo haa i iata us for the last ten
aonths hu- bad to be carried off on a
shutter, anj'.two of them, ai the town
"fecord
he da;-
um.-.-
sleep peacefully 'among
j 15. It Is tfJL known all
w.;s 4.TB held a mortgage fot
?. months on the entire out
, jfcpoi-ary. It covers-every
j4 own worthless carcass,
feclosed any mmuteJThi
we are often asked why
jkke possession when that
5
:h ou I;'jrniilimn refers to us in
k endearing terms as "Jackass,"'
r." hypocrite" and so forth; We
o over one day last week calculat
to turn him out on the sand hills,
he fell. o weeping and melted us.
e it seems hard for a man to be
"k" by- his own property, we haven't
heart to kick away the barrel,
t, bii.-i.ii.s. he runs Buch an abject
Wy fr a weekly nswspaper, that
'Kicker leceives hosts of compli
by emt jmrison. We are not go
J 'be ii.can with him not utiles
i 'tJ iiHuIng us and tries to publish
wi; Jepartmest. As will be
w :M our subscribers we add
i late rtment to the Kicker this
iitijr iicfjf forecasting the weather.
tIr, lofjanged a signal office on
I own building, and shall
it-sa our ms nour'y. We have
y if N' a map of the United
Una have arranged a pro
die by which we exjMjet nine-
t of our predictions to be verified.
r
been a long-felt want in this
and the enterprise of the
': will no doubt be duly appre-
.all start out at a slow pace and
nis'oing until the harness fit
Jiir first prediction: "Clearer,
.'.cloudy, cooi; may rain and may
u sui-t of a feeler, and we dc
;lse any of our readers to give
thing excursion or a Sunday
picnic on account of it We
time to get used to the hang of
'njr, and after we have we will
t n to beat the government out
t or Wfftr one shirt ail winter.
r"; reas.
Sre," said the juryman, "I'm
; t -jjpd have haJ more erperi
s matters than you have
f wo years old and have
he jury nine terms, and
Si never agin. I've got
i: A
'iay to yer, Jedge. We've
(,notce of how yer man
's, you iMria1 aew to thisbus-
e iilre yer. . We
'erand we've vot
've talked
ed to stand
,y 0r
:' r
word them lawyers
y. Je?-3, yer
the
at
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HAPPY tfARRH
. Huunu ror Firt; ,.,,-
Mrs. Gladstone's cart 'A wife and
mother has been pointed'.. for years
as a model. The dependence of hus
band and wife on euoh other in all cir
cumstances has been noted. The
statesman has found in h'l spouse a
true helpmate, who sympathized with
all his aspirations, with ooafidonce In
all his movements of his long life of
political activity, has looked to the
future to bring him success in all his
projects and vindication of his motives.
An amusing anecdote la told in illus
tration of this wifely, unswerving
faith. After the late general election,
when the appeal to the country had
resulted adversely to Mr. Gladstone's
Irish policy, Mrs. Gladstone was found
somewhat depressed by a visitor at
Ilawarden Castle, while the grand old
man was serenely at work in his study
up stairs. -
"Never mind." said the visitor, sym
pathetically. "There is One above who
will bring things right, in His own
good time." '
'Tea, Indeed." replied the good
lady, "lie will bring things right; but
he will forget all about his lunch if I
don't call him down.n .
Mrs. Gladstone nursed all her chil
dren herself. She looked after them
from infancy, and cared tor them in
every way as if she had uot been the
lady of the castle, who was abre to
command any amount of assistance
that she might require. With their
little ones Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone
have always been the most tender and
affectionate of parents. When out of
office Mr. Gladstone taught his elder
children Italian. The girls wore edu
cated at home by governesses, English,
French and German. The boys all
went to Eton and afterward to Oxford.
Blessed herself with a perfect constitu
tion and unbroken health, Mrs. Glad
stone has watched over her husband
ith the skill of a nurse and the vig
ilance of a guardian angel. She knows
the limits of her own skill to a hair's
breadth, and the moment they are
passed she calls in the doctor. Nor is it
only in the maladies of the body in which
she has displayed Invaluable qualities.
She has certainly kept Mr. Gladstone
shielded from all the minor worries of
life..
Mr. Gladstone is fully sensible of
what he owes to his wife, nor has he
made any secret of the fact that his
continuance in public service was de
pendent upon the health of his partner
in life. Bad she broken down and be
come an invalid he would have retired
from the service of his country. It
would have been impossible, he felt, to
carry on the work of the Government,
and, at the same time, to have attended
to his duty to his wife, nor could he
have stood the strain if she, who had
been throughout as a ministering spirit,
instead of aiding him, had become a
tax upon his vitality. The self-denial
of Mrs. Gladstone is beyond all praise.
It no doubt seems very dazzling and
imposing to be the wife of a prime i
minister, or even the wife of the leader
of the opposition, but the wife herself
has a somewhat bard time of it The
absorption of a prime minister in the
work of the nation leaves him very lit
tle time for domestic intercourse. Mrs.
Gladstone has been known to remark
that when Mr. Gladstone was in office
in London, during the season, it was
quite a treat to her to be invited to a
friend's house to dinner together with
her husband. She always then tried to
get seated next to mm, "when, sue
said, "it is at least possible for me to
have conversation with my husband;
otherwise I see nothing of him." Loo
don Letter.
THE FIRST MATCH.
A KemloiMonm Which appeals Strongly
to the Mm of the ttiiliculona.
A few days ago a gentleman, who is
now something over sixty yeaas of age,
said to me: "I well remember the
time when I first saw a match. I
was then a boy, and was working in
the barn with my father, when a young
man, the son of a neighbor, came in
with a box in his baud and said he
could now light a tire without
borrowing coals or striking a spark
with the flint Opening the box he
took out one of the matches, which
was three or four inches long and had
a yellow looking substance on one end.
This end he dipped into a small bottle
which came in the box with the
matches and contained sulphuric acid.
When the match was put into
the acid it instantly burnt into
ablaze. Although young Grant had
paid fourteen shillings ($1.75) for
his box, which held but fifty
matches, he was quite ready to use up
one or more of the costly fire-makers
in showing father how the wonderful
invention worked. But father,' having
a wholesome fear of fire, and looking
with some suspicion on any new de
parture from established ways, begged
Grant if he would fool with that stuff
to go outmde, for he didn't want his
barn burned down, adding, 'it may be
Jim to Ht;o that co off. but it ain't going
; do twybudy any go-id to Lave fire
T:.nd? us v-:iry flj thai.!' " The old tren-
i-.miuu wtu U)itaeu. Ills sou has
:ived to see the time when fire can he
made much more easily, and it does
people good by saving time and temper
while the number of fires from the use
of matches ts comparatively few, Fi?
hundred" "parlor'' matches can be
bought for live cents; between forty
and fifty million matches are made
e"ory day in the United States, and
still the country is not yet destroyed
by fire in spite of the ease with which
we can make fire, Christian Ad t
A MONSTER
CROTALUS.
A ttorantoa (Pa.) Man's Lucky
Eaeape
' From RU fup.
Mr. A. C Drinker, of this city, has
been an enthusiastic student of natural
htatory since he was a small boy in
the beech woods of Clifton fifty years
ago. "I have bad three vsry narrow
escapes from being bitten by poison-
ous snakes., said Mr. Drinker the
other evening, "and in each case it
was a different variety of reptile that
came near giving me a dose. One af
ternoon in August a good many years
ago, I was tramping along near the
Burnt bridge with my rifle on my
shouldor, when I happened to see an
Immense blackberry bush, loaded down
with dead ripe berries. It was up the
bank a little w ay, and I stood my gun
up by a stump and went to the bush.
The body of the bush was as thick as
a good sized cone, and it lay within a
few inches of the ground. I carefully
reached my fingers around it and
started to pull the bush toward me
slowly, when I felt something pushing
and pulling on it It startled me a
good bit and I let go of the bush and
watched. Something kept on shaking
it but what it was I couldn't to!L I
was bound to find out though, and
after a little, I poked the leaves away
with a stick and got at the mystery.
The power that moved the bush was a
big rattlesnake. His fangs were fast
in the thick stem, half an inch from
where my fingers were when he struck
at me, and he bad bunted and pulled
till there wasn't a berry left on the
bush. I didn't hear the least noise
while I had my fingers on the bush,
and I was certain that the old fellow
didn't make his rattles buzz before hs
struck 4
"I wanted to have a little fun with
him before I pounded the life out of
him, and so I let him hang there and
hunted up a tough dead hemlock limb.
Then I went back and gently touched
the snake on the head with the stkk,
pulling the bushes apart so that he
could see me. That set him to rat
tling and wriggling to the top of his
strength, and I never saw a madder
creature than he was while I teased
him. Ills eyes blinked and his mouth
was as red as fire. After awhile I
pried him loose and put the end of my
club where he could strike at it' He
was a good fighter, and he drove his
fangs at the stick five or six times,
hitting it within a sixteenth of an inch
of the same spot each time. By and
by the rattler got tired of fichting the
club, and with his head and tail up be
made for me.
"Just as he reached out his head
flattened, his mouth opened to its
widest extent and the fanes in his"
fiery upper jaw gleamed. Then I gave
him a bat with the club that paralyzed
him. killing him with another blow,
lie had thirteen rattles and a button
and was five feet long. I brought him
borne and dissected him, and my sister
has the rattles yet The poison sacks
at the roots of his fangs were not
larger than small peas, in each one
there was a small drop of fluid that
looked a good deal like glycerine.
There were four distinct growths of
fangs on each side, one back of the
other, so that when he shed one set
there was another set to take its place.
l ne poison is ejectea ynrougn a very
fine hole at the point of the fang, a
hole no larger than that in the needle
of a hypodermic syringe. I have dis
sected many a rattler since then, but
I have never caught a finer one than
he was.' Scranton (Pa) Cor. N. Y.
Sun.
SALLY IN OUR
ALLEY,
Popular and
The Keal Heroine nf.Tbat
Homolr honf.
I know Sally and her lover so long!
I have studied them so often! I know
them so well! They are very little
changed now, except, perhaps, in cos
tume, from what they were in the day
when Henry Carey first cast eyes on
them and made them immortal by his
song. Of course I knew them. I can
see them every Sunday; tbey are the
same Sally and the same lover still,
for Henry Carey made them immortal
I wish I could make them and their
lives and their loving companionship
quite clear to readers who do not know
London and its streets and its Sunday
aspect Sally is a short girl; her lover
is an undersized man. The lives of
such a class in London make under
sized men and women. She is a pretty
little girl kideed, though not so pretty
as her lover thinks her; and we ought
all to be glad of this, for if he did not
idealize her where would be his lovef
What sort of a lover would that be
who only saw in his sweetheart just
such charms as you and I can sue in
ber? Ho gazes tenderly, fondly, info
her upturned face, as if it were the
tuoe ot an augo. u tanotueaij us
Is a pretty girl, with small features,
and ripe red lips and daik brown hair,
crisp and curly, and white teeth. Her
hands? Well, yes; a little large, per
haps, and when she takes off her
gloves which she wilf, not often do
when she is out for a walk with her
lover on the Sunday one can see that
the hands are not of the very whitest
and the tips of some of the fingers
show the tattoo-marks ot the needle
for it does not need to be told that
Sally is a seamstress of some humble
order. I hardly know (of any thing
that speaks to me with, keener pathos
inan that needle-piercd finger wltb
its marks that will never go off. It
tell somehow of long working hours.
often until the dawn has come and
after. Tertians poor Sally had to work
1M extra hour or two' into the Sunday
morning, in order id earn her after
noon walk abroad with her faithful
lover. I take it that it is almost al
ways an afternoon walk. Sally could
not well get away before her family's
tarty dinner. fecHbner's Magazine.
A Queer ndiaa Tradition.
The Buffalo Express tells of aa In
dian s grave fdong the shore of the
Oneida Lake where at times a weird
ana supernatural light makes its ap
pearance. It is described a a ball of
fire about the size of a large orange,
and sways to and fro In - the air about
thirty feetr from the ground, confining
its irroguUr movements within a space
about one hundred feet square. Peo
ple have atuSnpted to go near enough
to solve the mystery, but it would sud
denly disappear before reaching it
very pf culiar story is told by the neigh
bors . ear the spot They claim that
many years ago the locality w as part of
an Indian reservation. A man by the
name of Belknap frequently dreamed
that thore was a crock in the Indian
cen.etery containing immense treaa
untt, and that if he went there at tho
h';ur when rraveyards yawn he could
secure it These dreams were repeated
so often that they had a strong effect
and he went there with a pick and
shovel according to Instructions, but
be failed to turn round three times
when he found the crock, as the dream
llrected. He went to pick it up, but
was stunned by a flash of lightning,
and the crock disappeared. Since that
time the spot has been haunted by this
mysterious light
Begging in the Orient
xxjrcary mrougnoui me rasi is
thriving profession. There are guilds
of beggars, besides the numerous com
munities of dervishes, who are semi
religious mendicants Many families
have beeu beggars for generations, and
are mendicants from choice. Some of
these professional beggars are actually
wealthy, iour-and-twenty years ago
the writer well remembers a case. The
Chief Boggar (the title was not con
ferred in derision) gave his daughter
in tntirriajre to a substantial farmer.
The girl's dowry "consisted of two free
hold houses, the rooms of which wore
i entirely filled with dry pieces of bread.
and the sale of these begged crusts sub
sequently realized a considerable sum.
being disposed of as food for cattle. It
must be remembered, that in the East
there is no organized charity, that most
Mussulmans are exceedingly charitable,
many giving away a fifth and some
even a third of tbeir income, Under
such circumstances it is not to bo won
dered at that the professional beggar
thrives. Good ords.
It may seem singular to you,"
says a New York florist "but I've been
keeping a record for these twenty
years past and I have found that nine
murderers out of ten are ardent admir
ers of flowers, and mt st of them prefei
daisies or lilies."
How Quicksand Is Frozen.
The remarkable achievement of
sinking a deep shaft through treach
erous grounds by means of first froez
ing ihe earth has been successfully ac
complished at the Chapln mine, in
Northern Michigan, by the Poetsch
process. The contract was to freeze.
excavate and curb up a rectangular
shaft 15xlGJ feet, and about 100 feet
deep. This was accomplished by first
putting down the freezing pipes three
feet apart, in a circle 29 feet in diam
eter, to the depth proposed to be
reached by the shaft The pipes were
connected at-the top and filled with a
solution of brine containing about 25
per cent of calcium chloride. The
brine was frozen to a point below zero
by means of an ice machine, and in
forty days a frozen wall of ice, earth
and stone was formed 10 feet thick.
The excavation in the meantime had
been going on, and seventy days from
the commencement it was completed
to the ledge 100 feet down, in spite of
some difJlculty from the percolation of
water near the bottom, which was
stopped by freezing. Except for this
ingenious method, the sinking of the
sljaft would, it seeuis. have been
prauiicaliy Impossible on account of
the great inflow of water. Evangeli.it.
THE SAMPAN'S PALOLO.
A Carlnai Worm That Come Ones a Taar
to Petit-lit Dunk Kploara.
Tho palolo is probably the most
curious table delicacy in the world.
It is a worm about as thick ss a strand
of yarn and from five to eight inches
long. It is caught once a year near
the Samoan Islands and is eaten by the
native Saraoana, Very early in the
morning of the first day of tho last
quarter of the November moon
hundreds of small boats full of Sa
moans put out from the shore near
Apia to the oorat reefs. Evory boat is
provided with fine nets stretched be
tween bent sticks and attached to a
short handle. At
skirmishing for
many collisions,
Samoan cursing,
the reefs a little
the best placoa
a good hit of
and any amount
of singing and shouting precede the
fishing. Then an occasional shout r-f
"Palolo! palolo!" is beard at some one
scoops in a netful of worms. Sud
denly the water begins to crawl It
seems to be boiling with tiny water
snakes. The natives th row do wn their
paddles and grasp their nets. Those
who have nonets snatch up baskets,
sieves, any thing that will hold worms
and not water, and begin to scoop In
the paloloa They work with tremen
dous energy, for they realize that the
minute the sun rises the palolo i will
be off again for another year. Buck
ets, baskets, bowls, and platters are
filled with the tiny squirming worms,
yet tho natives work on with a will
which white people have rarely given
thorn the credit for possessing. The
sun rises, and all is over. The palolos
are gone, no one knows where, and
the Sanioans put back to shore with
their catch.
In sea water the palolos can be kept
alive for hours. Without water they
die in a few minutes. Boasted palolos
are of a dark-brown color. Boiled
palolos and raw palolos are blue,
brown, light yellow or green. Many
natives eat thorn raw; others roast or
boll them. The time of year at which
the worms appear near Samoa and are
caught is probably their spawning
season, us microscopic examination
shows most of them to be full of the
tiniost eegs. Eggs and worms together
taste something like strong sea fish.
Fondness of them as a table delicacy
is usually an acquired taste. This is
not particularly strange, as several
features of their appearances are apt
to suggest very disagreeable ideas to
the civilized imagination. In the first
place, tho palolo's body is fashioned
pretty much after the plan of the tape
worm. It consists of an indefinite
number of sections. Each section
has underneath two "crawlers"
or feet and on top a black dot On the
head are two little horns and threo
feelers, not unlike tiny warts in ap
peuranco. The upper lip Is compara
tively rough and bard. Like the tape
worm, the palolo is not killed by be
ing taken apart The romoval ef sev
eral sections of the palolo Is followed
by a shrinking together of tho rest of
the body till the worm looks a thin
thread. When tbo palolo breaks itself
In two, as often happens, by its quick.
snake-like movements throuirh the
water, the same result follows. This
phenomenon has given color to the de
lusion that the pololo is a kind of self
dissolving creature, and that the almost
instantaneous disappearance of them
from the Samoan waters at sunrise
on the day of the annual catch
is the result of the general self-dissolu-tlon
of the worms. In fact, only those
sections removed from the head and
the section next to the herd of the pa
lolo die. After a short time other sec
tions grow out of the section next to
tbe head, and the palolo Is as good as
new. The female palolo does not dif
fer from the male palolo In appear
ance, and breaks herself up a the
same way and with the same results.
The mystory of the palolo's suddon
appearance near Samoa for a few
hours annually and its magical disap
pearance at sunrise are uiiexplainod.
Why the palolos come to be caught by
the dusky rnmoans only at the begin
ning of the lastquarterof the Novem
ber moon, whore they go to, how they
breed, and whore they live all this is
something that nobody knows. N. X.
Sun.
THE HEN-1'ECKED Ht'HUAND.
How 1 do pltty the man who is only
seckund lutonant In hlz family, and
iz liable at enny time to luoze even that
posishun.
He holds the sakred and responsible
offlss ov captin, and yet even the old
gray hotts kat In the kitchen dispizes
hiz orders and laffs in hiz fnoo.
When he iz out in the world he sum-
times undertakes to assert hix im
portance and dignity, but evory boddy
kan see he iz only whlssllng to keep up
hiz currajre.
Hiz children hav nogrutoraffockshun
for him thantopitty htm, and the world
enlos him even that poor tribute and
treats him with disgust
The lion-pocked husband iz the snd-
est spoktaklo I kno ov, thure ain't
onuff. ov him loft for enny one to luv or
to haU.