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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-15

FHE
Thursday svesing. Mr.. j. s. Duncan, of
the firm Of Phillips 81 Duncan, was married
TO Miss Matte Bragg, = niece of the late
Gsnsrar.BroIso Bragg. Attendants, Mr.. Ev-
erstt Duncan and Miss Hollis Nunnelss.
The bride il ons of the most Oh arpsilg l,kies
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-15

MATTERS BY MAIL.
K0RICH.
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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16
Woman in a New Role.

WOMEN, it seems, are employed as
"spotters on the New York Central
Railroad, and are provided with note
books and ingenious little mirrors by
which, with their backs turned to the
conductor, they can see just how many
passengers on coach give up tickets or
money for fares. The wells and wraps
worn by them readily conceal their
movements and dissrm suspicion. A
few days ago, one of these spies got on
train going out of Utica. She took
one of the front seats in a coach and
was seen to keep her hand to her face
and peer into the little box which con-
tanned two mirrors set at angles, 50 as
TO reflect all movements made behind
her. The honest conductor passed
through the coach, collected tickets and
received money, giving, as he always
does, punched duplex ticket, as q re-
ceipt for the fare. After he had left the
coach, the woman responded to the flirt-
atiOns of drummer who had noted her
performances and wished to have some
fun. The woman received his atten-
tons cheerfuly, and made room for him
TO divide her seat with him. The drum
mer was persistent in his attentions, and
succeeded in inducing her TO leave the
train with him at one of the stations.
Before he did this, he succeeded in re-
versing her jacket pocket so that the
little mirror, notebook, her instructions
in her trade, schedule of fares and other
articles of her trade, fell on the coach
seat. The train passed on and the
"spotter" did not miss her g kit " until
it was too late. The train boys captured
the articles.-NeiC York Tribune.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16
FOREIaN GOSSIP.


THE ox-Empress Eugonio has been
visiting the Quoen at Windsor. On ar
irving there the Princess Beatrice and
Prince Leopold met her at the railway
station. Lord BeaoOnsfeld Joined the
party.
Sm II. HAvELOcK, who was left half
a million sterling by his fathers cous-
ms on condition Of changing his name
70 Allen, has accepted the bequest and
is about 10 obtain q royal license 70 as
sumo the name Of Havelock-Allea.
THE Earl Of Dysart attained his ma
ioritY on the Sd OF March. His grand
father, who died last year, left estates
worth 10000 year and more than
El,OOO,OO0 in personal property for the
young mans benefit. The late Earl was
eccentric, almost 10 insanity.
STRANGE as It may seem, one Of the
most charming and successful balls given
in Paris during the season was that Of
the Japanese Ambassador. The repre-
sentative Of the Tycoon did the honors
Of the Embassy 10 perfection, and
showed admirable good taste.
THE Princess de c., nt Paris, tho
other day, on tho occasion Of her
twenty-second birthday, gave a dog
feast. Each Of the guests was to bring
his or her fayorite dog, and beside the
masters cover a silver platter was laid
for his dog. Each four-footed guest had
a foOtman 20 wait upon him.
The Order Of Vladimir is, after the
Cross Of Sc. George, the most coveted
decoration Of Russia, carrying with It,
as it does, many privileges, among them
the rank Of noble in the higher grade
Of the hereditary nobility, and the edu-
cation Of the bearers children at the
expense Of the State.
In 1873 the Corporation Of London
erected, on the exact spot where Peter
worked as a carpenter while in England,
a large board bearing the words, "Here
worked as a ship carpenter Peter, Gar
Of all the Russias, afterWard Peter the
Great" It IS curious that the Russians
should not have erected some more
enduring monument on the spot in
memory Of their greatest and, with all
his crimes, most revered monarch.
IT gives the Austrian Empress great
pleasure to see her children ride well.
Her only son, the young Arehduke Ru-
dolph, is one Of the best and boldest
riders in Austria or Hungary. A for
eign potentste lately complimented him
on his horsemanship. 1" How could l be
bad riderPi'he SAID ''am not Huga-
rian and the son Of my mOther?" His
father, the Kaiser, is also an excellent
horseman. Their youngest daughter,
the charming little Archduchess Valeria,
gratiiies her mother also by the Won
drous progress she has made in the rid
ing school, though only twelve years Of
age.
A DUEL between a son Of NJ. Wad-
dington, the ex-Premier Of France, and
another young man, growing out of an
article in a country paper deemed by the
former offensive 10 himself, was fought
on the 21st of January on the Belgian
frontier. The distance was thirty feet,
with the option Of advancing ten feet,
two balls to be exchanged. M. Wad-
dington slightly wounded his adversary
at the first shot. The second did no
harm, and the seconds declared the
combatants courageous fellows and
honor satisfied.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16
An Empress's Expenses.


WASTE and peculation are tradition
al in the Imperial household of Russia.
have read that the expenses
of the Empress Marie Feoder-
Ovna at Cannes were paid for at the
rate of 5000 a month. Probably this
covered the bills of the butcher, baker
and grocer. 1t did not cover those of
the wax chandler vino furnished the
Imperial villa and chapel, of the livery
stables, of the gas company, of the
bouquetieres, and of the telegraph com
pany. Wax candles were perpetually
burning in the room in which mass was
daily said. They were of the most ex-
pensive quality, and were sold TO the
Chaplains of Her Imperial Majesty for
triple the price paid by the Catholic
priest of the neighboring church.
Flowers were profusely supplied to the
villa by gardner, and when they had
been few hours in the daytime in the
vases, they were resold-5ut not to the
profit of the Imperial exchequer-to the
bOuquetiere who supplies the demi-
monde of Cannes. When the journey
back to st. Petersburg was decided
upon, the clerk of the buttery ordered
fifteen days provisions for Her Majesty
and retinue to be stored in the Imperial
train. The overplus will be the per-
quisite of some officer. Champagne
cups was en- permanence in the saloon
carriages in which the Grand Dukes
and gentlemen in attendance travelled.
Lunch was not taken at any of the
stations at which the train halted
London Truth.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16
SCIENCE AND INDusTRY.

Willow bnskst-making is 70 be car
ried on extensively near Olympia, on
Puget Sound, and several acres of land
viii be planted with willows.
THREE million acres Of fan wheat
have been sOwnin California, the early
and abundant rains enabling farmers TO
put IN a fun crop, which Is said 70 be a
very unusual thing.
The ship-builders and iron-wort-
ers In the Mediterranean ship-yards have
recently been compelled TO discharge
their employees owing 70 an absolute
lack Of orders for new vessels.
PRESIDENT WARREN DE Ia ROE, Of
the British Chemical Association, says
that Hannay's crystal contains ninety
seven per cent. Of carbon, and Is 10 al
intents and purposes diamond.
THE Agricultural Society Of South
Carolina affirm, in their report, that that
State can make more money in wheat,
hay and oats, than in cotton, and that it
can even produce as much grain to the
acre as can the West.
A FIRM in Reading, Pa, which uses
the yeiks Of thousands Of eggs in tan
ming kid, has put in operation steam
egg-beater, having a capacity Of 10000
eggs. The tank, made Of cedar, Is 2 ~
feet in height, and contains two revolv-
ing rakes, bevel wheels and pinions,
running in opposite directions.
DIR. KAsMAN finds that zinc, intro
duced into steam-boilers for preventing
incrustatiOn, effects the purpose where
the waters are scientific; but where the
waters contain carbonates Of lime, mac
nesia and iron, zinc does not prevent
incrustation. The zinc first becomes
brittle and porous, and is then rapidly
reduced to powder.
WHEN the st. Gothard tunnel was
completed, a medal was presented 10 all
the men engaged in the work. The
medal, which was struck at Geneva, has
on one side the arms Of Germania,
Italia, and Helvetia, with the motto
VtTtbus Units, and on the other side an
inscription in German and Italian" To
the men Of the Gothard Tunnel"
The paper trade is a good deal inter-
ested IN a new kind Of paper, made
from palmetto fiber. It can be washed
with soap and water as one would wash
a piece Of linen cloth, then rubbed,
wTung out and dried, and still remain
intact. The paper resembles parchment
in color. OF course it is not so strong,
but it is tough, though Of uneven thick
ness. 1t is claimed that the paper can
manufactured in the South at very
cheap rate.
PITTsBURG is one Of the blackest of
cities, by reason of the smoke from its
manufactures, but a plan is beingtes
that promises TO make It clean. The
plan proposed Is to wash the smoke,
and the way Of doing it is thus de-
scribed: "The washing is done by
passing the smoke through the spray
caused by paddle-wheels revolving in q
tank Of water holding soda ash in solu-
ton. The tank and wheels are placed
ia the tlue, between the furnace and the
chimney, and the wheels being made to
revolve in the direction of the chimney,
the draft is increased" The smoke
after being thus treated will not soil a
white handkerchief
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16
Animal Longevity.

A TORTOISE which died in the Bishop
of Petersborough's garden in 1921, was
more than two hundred and twenty
years of age, and one belonging to Arch
bishop Laud died at the age of 12S
years. AS to fishes, the pike has been
said to live for two hundred and sixty
seven years, and the carp for two hun
dred years. 1t is hardly probable that
the gigantic salamander may live for a
greatly prolonged period, and frogs and
toads are probably long-liyed animals,
small rs is their relative size. A toad
has been kept for thirty-six years with
out showing signs of age, and then died
through an accident. Whales have
been supposed to live from three to four
hundred years. The life of an elephant
is said to extend beyond one hundred
years, but of this there seems as vet to
be no certain evidence. Birds, as Great
ures at once so active and warm-blood-
ed (and thus COMPRISING, as it were,
much life into a small period J, might be
expected TO be short lived. Yet parrots
have been known to live for upward Of
a acentury, and pelicans, geese, and crows
may exceed the period commonly allOt-
ted to man. But, however commonly
three score years and ten may be the
term of human life, man can certainly
both live and retain his intellectual fac
ulties more or less beyond one hundred
years. Yet a horse is generally old at
thirty, and is not known TO have ever at
tanned twice that age The life of sheep
is about fifteen years duration, and
that of a dog from fifteen to twenty, al
though allied animals are much longer
lived. Thus the lion called Pompey,
which died in the Tower of London, in
1850, had lived there no less than sew
enty years. Extremely varied, then, is
the duration Of the life Of individual or
ganisms. Not less varied are the Tela-
tons TO time of the lives of races and OF
different groups of animals and plants.
Species, genera, families, orders, and
classes OF animals and plants differ ex-
trenely as to their period OF duration,
some of each Of these groups appear.
ing to have been but short-liyed
compared with other divisions of similar
rank.-St. g. Miuart, in Contemporary
ReUieiO.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16
LOVES MESSAGE.


To THEE, dear Ruth gone first to that far
'rwiSt which and ours Deaths mounting
vapors roll
Faith senas this message, ponned by Loves
From soul 20 vanished soul
Yea, sends to you such sweet, ondoarlng
As yet would close you in our homo.lifo
Make visible the long. curved flight Of birds 4;
Make the brooks soft tones clear;
And yet would keep from you our infinite
when tic brown earth fell on your funeral
That sun warmed dust whore heaps the drift
ing snow
In the Wild winter hours.
Would picture you this sad, stin life We lead.
with patient toll, I'm these gray, cloistered
As thread BY thread tho bending wcavors
Tho canvas Of their looms.
Tears atll these tears; in dark hours such
we feel anew the anguish Of our loss.
Help us, o Lord teach MS to kneel and kiss,
Huinblyi this heavy cross.
Hush, now the faint and far.oa chapel
Ring softly, bells Ruth loved that tender
air
OF "Home, Sweet Home,') tho listening larlss
and lines
Tremble to that clear prayer.
Then, when the glens with evening vapors
MI
The moist field scents stream through the
open doors,
And colored lights flood over from the hills
Across the painted floors;
Then phantom steps come up the narrow
stairs,
And unseen hands touch light the yellow
keys
To summon mutely with their low. hymned
prayers
The household to It's knees.
"The soul is as a start" those sweet psalms
say;
With llnerayod gold our bending skies arc
fair;
Oh, sweet white soul tell us, with tears, what
way
To look now you are there
-Afiliie ". Carpenter bl Christian Union,
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16

AMELIA RADCLIFFE, otherwise known
as the Countess of Derwentwater, has
just died in England. She spent nearly
all her life in eccentric endeavors to
maintain her claim to that title and the
estates. The claim when carefully in
vestigated was found to be wholly
groundless. She took up her quar- -
several years ago in the ruins of the OH
castle at Diston, whence she was forci-
bly, elected Then she entered n dis
traint for rent on one Of the farms of
the estate, and sold the live stock at
auction, for which the Admiralty, who
had possession, recovered 81, 800 dam
ages. She was at last adiudieated a
bankrupt and was committed for a
time to Newcastle Jail.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16

THERE is now in Japan a surplus Of
rice valued at S25, 900 600, which can
not DO handled on account OF the ex'
elusive navigation laws of the Empire.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-04-16

FOUL play-The sport of chickens,
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-04-13

youth looks at 'em pretty hard, but
getting mad In earnest II you don't
notice them at all.
"Ah girls Amt what they used to be
when'I was young, and the fellows are
worse still, When went courting, for
instance, never thought OF staying
till after ten o'clock, and only went
twice a week. Now they go seven
nights In week, and cry because there
amt eight. Then they write touching
notes to each other during the day:
" Dear George, do you love me as
much now as you did at quarter past
twelve last nightp Say you do dear,
and IL will give me courage to go down
to dinner and tackle them cold beans
left over from yesterday
Well, well, suppose they enjoy
themselves, and 1t amt for us old folks,
whose hearts are a little callous by long
wear, to interfere. Let them get togeth-
er and court If they like it-and think
they do. l was forty-seven when 1
courted my present wife, but It seemed
just as nice to sit on cricket at her feet
and let her smooth my hair as 1t did
thirty years ago.
AS l said before, my wife is very
smart woman, but she could not be any
thing else and be Baxter. She used to
give lectures on woman's rights, and in
one place where she lectured big col
lege conferred the title l.. l.. ID. on her.
But she would not take it,
mo, Gentlemen she said, "give it
to the poor.'
She was always just so charitable. She
gave my boys permission to go barefoot
all winter, and insisted it SO much in
her kind way that they couldn't re-
fuse.
She fairly dotes on my children, and
I've seen her many time go to their
trowsers pockets and take out pennies,
after they had got to sleep, and put them
in the bureau drawer for fear they
might loose them.
started out to tell your about my
wife's bridal tour, but the fact is l never
could find out much about IL myself
believe she had good time. She came
back improved in health, and 1 found
out before she had been in the house
twenty-four hours, that she gained in
strength also. don't say how found
1t out--I simply say found it out. In
conclusion l would say to all young
men: Marry your second wife first, and
keep out of debt by all means, even if
you have to borrow the money to do it.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-04-13
rHE r1MEs NEW BLOOMFIELD, Pa. ApR1L la, 1850.


He accepted the fiat, but she never
knew all the watchful care he exercised.
Devotlng herself to life Of toll, she was
more to Mrs. Stanhope than her own
child had ever been. Mr.. Vaughan
died suddenly, and Woodea, with Its
large income, was bestowed upon Edith,
who still remained Miss Vaughan.
Frances lived through the dreary
years until she was of age, when she
came into possession of her own small
fortune. Henceforth the days were
frightened by little more ease and
comfort. And her husband seemed
after while to evince sort of interest
in her that appeared akin to tenderness.
She had said that God would give her
strength to do her duty, but she shrank
from the issue with terrible dread.
She had learned so much more of herself
as well as him, and coming to a higher
standard, understood love at its best
estate.
She was mercifully spared the trial of
decision Ross Stanhope died after
few days illness, so brief, indeed, that
his mother was not summoned until it
was too late. And so Frances received
back her freedom.
Months after this, Evan Murray sat
in her little parlor, using all his efforts
to convince her that it was not too late
to begin life under happier auspices. 1t
was summer again-five years since she
had dared fate, and lost.
{" am not worthy" she said, again.
My darling, are all these years of
patient self-denial to go for nothing
To-day you are better and nobler than
when first loved you; the very woman
that L saw in the child's soul SO long
ago. L think she belongs to me by
virtue of patient waiting"
And glancing up, the eyes of Frances
Stanhope said what the lips could never
unsay, that there had been but one love
to her life, and the old troubled dream
was laid away in its grave.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-04-13
Useful and interesting.

THERE are $3.50 languages.
Il Two persons die every second.
The average human life is thirty-one
years.
Slow rivers flow four miles per hour.
Rapid rivers flow seven miles per
hour.
A moderate wind blows seven miles
per hour
A storm moves thlrty-six miles per
hour.
A hurricane moves eighty miles per
hour.
A rifle ball moves 1000 miles per
hour.
Sound moves 743 miles per hour.
Light moves 10000 miles per hour.
Electricity moves 2SS,OOO miles per
hour.
The first steamboat piled the Hudson
in 1907.
The first iron steamship was built
in 1880.
The first lucifer match was made in
1920.
The first horse railroad was built in
1867.
Gold was discovered in California in
1S4s.
The first use of locomotive in this
country was in 1929.
The first printing press in the United
States was introduced in 1929.
The first almanac was printed by Geo.
Won Purbach in 1860.
Until 1776 cotton spinning was per-
formed by the hand-spinning wheel.
The first steam engine on this conti-
nent was brought from England in
1853.
Measure 200 feet on each side and you
will have square acre, within an inch.
A square mile contains $40 acres.
A mile is $3.50 feet or 1,760 yards
in length.
A fathom is six feet.
A league is three miles.
A Sabbath-day' y's journeyis is 1,155 yards
this is eighteen yards less than two
thirds of q mile.)
A days journey Is thirty-three and
one-eighth miles.
A cubit is two feet.
A great cubit is eleven feet.
A hand = horse measure is four
inches.
A palm is three inches.
| A span is ten and yen-eighth inches.
| A pace Is three feet.
A barrel of -four weighs 1875 pounds.
A barrel Of pork weighs 200 pounds.
A firkin Of butter weighs S4 pounds.
| A tub of butter weighs 60 pounds.
The following are sold by weight pei
bushel.
| Wheat, beans and clover seed, sixty
! pounds per bushel.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-04-13
BLOOMFIELD ACADEMY.

The next regular term of this Institution be-
gins MARCH 10Th, 1880
Full preparation. classical or otherwise is given
Tor any eollege-male or feinae-either Tor Fresh
man or Sophomore year.
A thorough course is provided for teachers. and
me option IS given OF selecting one or two OF the
higher studies
Prof j. O. Miller will have charge OF the Pea
manship and business courses
Music, Drawing and Painting
Philosophical and Chemical apparatus for the
study OF the Natural Sciences, Literary Society,
Library.
Students are at all times under the supervision
OF the Principal and their progress and conduct
noted on their weekly reports.
Boarding, Il in ddunnce, $3.50 per week other
wise, s2.75;. Tuition from 50 cents to slOO per
week, In 0dUdnce
For further Information. address.
j. X. FLlCKINGER, A. b., Principal.
or VIM GRIER, Proprietor,
Pm. New Bloomfield, Pa.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-04-13

Corn, Rye and fax seed, so pounds per
bushel.
Buckwheat, so pounds per bushel.
Barley, 4s pounds per bushel.
Oats, S2 pounds per bushel.
Bran, s5 pounds pounds per bushel.
Timothy seed, as pounds per bushel.
Coarse salt, e5 pounds per bushel.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-04-13
Nose SINNERS Story.

WHEN L married my second wife,
w she was dreadful set about going
off on bridal tour. / told her she'd
better wait six months or a year, and
I'd try to go with her, but she said she
would rather go alone-when a woman
was travelling, a man was an out-and-
out humbug.
So gave her seventy-five cents, and
told her to go off and have good time.
/ never begrudge money where my
wife's happiness is concerned. My first
wife never could complain of not going
anywhere, for m dreadful fierce to go
off on good time myself, and always
was. don't pretend to say how many
times took her out to see the engine
squirt, and there was no end to the free
lectures / let her go to. The neighbors
used to say
&C 1t does beat all how the Skinners
do go!"
When Signor Plitz was in Skunkville,
with his wonderful canaries, he gave
my wife a supplementary ticket. not
only sold that ticket for my wife, but
gave her half the money. don't boast
of it, though; only mention it to show
much thought of my wife's happi-
ness.
don't think man ought to get
married until he can consider his wife's
happiness only second to his own.
John Wise, a neighbor of mine did
thusly, and when L got married con-
cluded to do likewise.
But the plan didn't work in the case
of my second wife. No, L should say
not. broached the matter kindly:
Matilda" said, 81 suppose you are
aware that 1 am now your lord and
MASTER"
Not much you amt"
Mrs. Skinner" replied, "you are
fearfully demoralized; you need re-or-
ganizing at once. You are cranky"
And branished my new sixty-two
cent umbrella wildly around her. She
took the umbrella away from me and
locked me in the clothes press.
L am quick to draw an inference and
the inference drew was that was not
success as re-organizer of female
women.
After this changed my tactics, and
| let her have her own way, and the
| plan workedto charm from the very
first. It's the best way of managing a
wife that I know Of OF course this is
between you and me.
So when my wife said she was bound
to go off on q bridal tour, cordially
| consented.
$50 Matilda" said /, and stay as
long as you want to, then, If you feel as
though you wanted to stay littlelonger
stay, my dear, stay.n
| She told me to stop talking and go up
stairs and get her red flannel night-cap,
and that bag of pennyroyal for her Aunt
Abigail.
My wife Is very smart woman. She
was Baxter, and the Baxter's are q
very smart family indeed. Her mothel
who is going on eighty can fry NOR,
slap-jacks now than those primped-u -uI
city girls who rattle on the piano or els,
walk the streets with their furbelov
! fixings, pretending to get mad IL +,