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The Penn's Grove record., 1882-03-25
Three Recent Earthquakes.

Three earthquakes occurred In Eu-
rope in 1882. That of Agram, though
It suficed to damage, more or less,
every building in the town, having
left scarcely a chimney standing, caused
but slight loss oflife. The town stands
in the fiat alluvial valley of the Save,
a likely spot. Near the town crevices
were opened in the grouni, one of
them three miles long. The shock
was felt to the north at Vienna and at
Debreczln, and to the south as far as
Istris.
Few places in Europe have been so
haunted by subteIranean movements
| fram the earliest time as the isle of
Ischia. Homer, Pindar, and Virgil,
have in turn celebrated its throes,
which they attributed to the struggles
of the giant Typh@us, whom Jupiter
had imprisoned by clapping the noun
tain marine (now Ipomeo) upon his
hodv. lust as he secured another revo-
lutionary Titan, Enceladus, under
4,tna. Desiring to relieve himself
from the restraint of his uneasy couch,
,durum cubile' as Virgil stiles it, WE
NAV suppose the giant to have been
the author of the commotion of March
Ia.t. which shook all the south side o.
the island. Reverting to the sobel
history of Ischia. we have continued
records of cbnvulsions from the day
of Strabo and P)iny EDWARDS. Indeed
not until A. ID. 1900 did Ipomeo. tn,
crest and center of the island, t.
nour forth lava and ashes, though
now rambling among extinct volca
noes. The island has not escape,
without a shock occurring Rearl.
every year; but few have attained tn
severity OF that of March 4, 1881, whicl
|. concentrated its violence on the tow
|. of Case Micciola, shaking down grea
: narts af its houses I'VE the heads c
, the inhabitants, with great loss
. life. So sudden was the catastrophe
that the body of q cobbier was dug on
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A Few Words About Adver-
Using Schemes.

Business men are bored to death
with every conceivable scheme for
advertising. The number of snide
schemes by which they are plucked
of money for which they see no re-
turn is astonishing. Young, middle
aged and elderly men are every day
after business men to get their cards
for a hotel register that ever CONNER
cial travellers do not read, or to give
their card, costing only S. or $40 for
some gorgeous frame to be hung in
the postoffice or placed in a hotel, or
for q programme that nobody reads,
or a new paper, TO be sent to every
body free, like q poster, and only
worth as much, or to the genius who
gets up q card with a bit of sandpaper
on it to he posted in saloons or on ci-
gar counters, or catch penny cards
with a dozen firms represented. The
demand upon business men is constant
to patronize these schemes, and hun
dreds Of dollars are paid annually
without the reas enable hope being
INDUCED in by the men who pay the
bills that these cards and signs We
do their business any real good.
The advertisers of the United States,
men and firms who have expended
tens of thousands of d ,llars In expert
menting ~ to the best and cheapest
method of reaching the eye and ear of
tha public, have always settled down
30 the conclusion that this method is
through regular newspapers. Adver-
Using pays, bat giving away to every
applicant VINO has q cheap catch
penny scheme does not pay. A new
paper goes to 8 regular reading con-
s~tituency, and every paper averages
about eight readers to each subscriber,
and the highest rates any publisher
will ask will be cheaper to the adver-
tiser than the snide schemes alluded
to above. Papers that are given away
have no more character or value than
a hand bill. The place to make known
business advantages Is through the
columns OF a generally circulated and
regularly published newspaper.
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Quips.

A two-foot rule-Keep your feet dry.
Tombstone, Ari., is growing so rap
idly that they soon expect to be big
enough TO change its name to Sarco-
phagus.
First passenger ~ travel third
class on principle" Second affable
ditto-"Do you, now? Well, 1 do it
from want of principal"
The dying words of a Delaware
woman were: "Henry, when you
marry again remember that it only
takes a cupful OF sugar to sweeten a
quart of gooseberries.o
In a trial before a Justice at Dodge
City, Kan, a witness who was being
bullyragged by a cross-examininY
lawyer called on the Court for protec-
ton. The Justice handed him q pis-
toll. II have no further questions"
said the lawyer.
An Irish servant. girl, a year over,
was given macaroni by her mistress
| to prepare for the table. Noticing her
surprise, the lady said, Didn't you
| cook macaroni at your last place? ?"
Cook 1t? We used them things to
light the gas with"
Capt. Percival, a Cape Cod mariner
of the old school, was once awakened
in his bunk by a ship-mate with the
announcement that the vessel was go
ing to eternity. We'll" replied the
Captain, "I've got ten friends over
there to one in this world, let her go.'i
And he turned over and went TO sleep
again.
A trunkman lost something on the
sidewalk, and, procuring a lantern,
began poking about in the snow in
search of 1t. "And phwat are yex
looking aftker ?" asked an Irishman
who was passing. "Well. Pat" replied
the searcher, ave lost my character
and am trying to find it" Begorra.
thin" said the Irishman, "but yes
must be q fule TO look for so small =
thing as yer character wild such q dim
loight as that"
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from the ruins, with his last between
his knees, and that of a woman, with
the stocking abe was knitting upor
her hand. The part of the Island ex'
ciusively affected, consists Of enor.
mously thick beds of clay, similar &c
those over which the CRmpanian
earthquake wreaked its ravages.
What spec ally distinguishes Ischis
is the development of internal heat in
those parts where the earthquake pre-
vailed. Nowhere within 30 limited q
space are there 80 many, or such in
tensely hot mineral springs, whose
waters are IN part used for the cure Of
msisoies, while the rest goes to scald
pigs and wash clothes. Indeed, In
this part of the Islam | there seems to
be no cold water whatever. The soil
Is hot, the dry sand on the sea-shore
Is hot, and the earth breathes out
from its creyices, jets Of intensely hot
air, which is used medically for stufe
or air baths. Such copious emapations
of hs at, gas, and scalding water, indi-
eating as they do a direct opening or
communication with the interior of
the earth, favorable to the discharge
of electric energy, all combined to
characterize Ischia as a very hot-bed
of the earthquake.
The rich and lovely island Of Chic,
the scene of the thirdgrest earthquake,
which began April 8, 1891, though
standing upon the belt OF subterranean
commotion we have mentioned, had
not been subject in recent times to
very serious tremors. 1t does not
appear in DIR. Schmi6t's Catalogue
before 1859. The shock Of the Bird was
repeated on the 18th of April, with
such tremendous force, as to overthrow
what had been spared or the 3rd.
The ground swayed and rocked under
1t, shufhing the ruined walls to and
fro, throwing them on the side oppo-
site to that in which they first fell.
Indeed, there are instances of a second
shock ~uncovering and, releasing those
buried under fallen houses at first,
and allowing them to escape from
their prison. Not until the Goth did
the surface quiet down. In that time
some 1000 persons persisted from
. ,OO0 to 10000 were more or less
manned, and from 80, 900 to 40, 900 rem
dered houseless. Out of $50 shocks
between the Bird and 10Th, the intelli-
gent correspondent of the Daily Meas
tells US, forty were capable of over
q well-buils house, but vi
brations continued until June 10th,
when a shock threw down q Turkish
minaret and q tottering wall. In the
town of Chic the old fortress is utterly
Frustrated, bat viewed from the streets,
many houses present their usual ap-
p~earapce, the fronts standing although
the interior Is down. The scene of
this fearful and distressing catastro-
phe, was the s. E. corner of the island,
consisting, rs usual, of modern allu-
vial and slightly coherent deposits.
Here the devastation Of forty-two, out
of a total of seventy-five villages oc-
CARED. The central strip, or back
bone of the island, of old limestone,
and slate, scarcely suffered
at all. The physical aspect of the
country is unaltered, and, though the
opposite coasts-Smyna, Mytilene,
affected, the statement that
the sea-bed between was raised Is
simply unfounded, London Quarterly
Review.
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Science and Utility.

If brooms are wetted in boiling sud'
once a week, they will become very
tough, will not cut a carpet, last much
longer, and always sweep like a new
broom.
Paint, to last long, should be put on
early in winter or spring, when 1t 10
cold and no dust flying. Paint put
on in cold weather forms . body or
coat upon the surface OF the wood that
becomes hard and resists weather, or
an edged tosl even like slate.
Artificial states. Boil four gallons
water, and add, when boiling, four
pounds and u and One-half ounces
borax, and then one pound gum lac,
In small portions. Then add two
ounces lam p black, eight ounces sill
cate of soda solution (syrupY), n
pound nine ounces silica. When this
mixture is of convenient thickness 1t
is applied On thick paper.
Chlorofor Il Is an excellent medium
for the removal OF stains Of paint from
clothes, etc. 1t is found that portions
of dry white paint, which resisted the
action ofether, bensole and busulphide
of carbon, are at once dissolved by
chloroform. II the paint Is fresh, tur-
pentine or alcohol will remove it.
The latest reported improvement
in telegraphy Is q mechanical device
whereby a type writer at one point
connected by wire with a similar in
strument at another point, writes out
any message sent over it without the
Intervention of the usual telegraph
operator. A person who can use q
can send his own mes
Les Mondes reports that M. Dufour-
Get has in the exposed court Of hts
house two bars of iron planted in the
to each of which is fixed a con-
ductor of coated wire terminating in
a telephone receiver. He consults
the apparatus twice or thrice every
day, and it never fails through its in
iications of earth currents to give
of the approach of a storm
Twelve to fifteen hours before it sctu-
Ally arrives.
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War Scenes.
Exciting Adventure Of Correspondents with
the German Army.

Exciting Adventure Of a Correspondent with
the German Army.
I arrived at a farmhouse In q wood
where a general of brigade and his
staff had established themselves,
whom / happened to know. While
chatting with them on the chances Of
q skirmish before nightfall, and on the
proximity of the enemy, a young off,
GER came in saying that from q point
he had just left he could look right
down into a part of the French posi-
ton. This point he described to me
as occupied by half a dozen men who
had crept as far to the front as possible
and were now hiding behind an old
ruined wall and watching the enemy
unobserved. AS he was going back
there, I offered to accompany him,
and we crepi through the brushwood,
and then made a quick run across q
piece of open woods to a most pictur-
esqne fragment of ruin, which domi-
mated the valley some 300 or 400 feet
below, in which IS situated the village
of F~reteval, then occupied, as we'll as
the heights behind, by the French
army. Peeping through the chinks Of
the ruin I could see a French regi-
ment marching along a road beneath
US, within very comfortable rifie-shot,
apparently unaware of our proximity.
I remained here jotting down notes
for nearly an hour, and then, hearing
some firing at a distance, determined
to return to the carriage in order to 60
and see what it was, This / could
either do by keeping in the woods all
the time, which involved a long run,
or by crossing an open plowed field,
which was a saving Of half the dis
lance. As everything seemed quiet
where / was / determined on this lat
ter course, and was laboring through
the soft land. ankle deep in mud,
when bang came a round shot, appa-
rently aimed at ME, and buried itself
about twenty yards in the real To
say that 1 took to my heels is a figure
of speech I had no heels. l had two
mountains of mud clinging to my feet,
which rendered running almost i'm
possible. However, / did my best
aud in the agony Of my effort
sprawled headlong on my face at the
very moment when another shot, bet
ter aimed, covered me with dirt. Fol
at least ten minutes more was my soil
tary figure a target for the miserabl,
French battery. / ceased to wondel
that the French lost battles when the,
/. could waste valuable ammunition il
, this ridiculous way. / heard shout
of laughter proceed from q Germai
regiment hidden in the wood 70
= which I was making, as they saw m.
frantic Efforts to increase my speed q
. each wills ling, shriesing ball warne'
nae not to daily. Once they actual
e expended q shell upon me, but
4 cracked in the air q Kindred fee
B above me. At last, painting wit
a fatigue, I scramble, into the WOOD
and I must say that | was most SYN
d ~pathetieally and kindly received b
e the Germans as a return for the ANUS
ment / had afforded them -Btac
woods Maoazine.
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impariiality. But his kindliness was
not the result of mere unobservant and
uneritical good nature. He kept his
eyes open, as 'sual, to all the main
sociological factors, and rightly re-
marks that many Englishmen set
down much to American political
institutions which is really due to
American circumstances abundant
land, free elbsw room, and constant
European immigration, often of the
poorest and most Ignorant class.
On the other hand when he crosses
the border at Niagara, he sees the
weak points Of the colonial system on
the north Of the great lakes keenly
and acutely. "You and / would hear
more In good society here lin Canadal
in one week" he writes to Leonard
Horner, (which we should consider
narrow-minded and prejucieed and
ungenerous to foreigners, in matters
OF politics, religion and political
economy, than we heard in nine
months in the United States for they
have here all the Kleinstadterie OF q
colony and the enmity of the borderer
added to everything that you might
disapprove of which they bring from
home" This is less true now than 1t
was then, but there is still much truth
in 1t; and 1t Is painful to think that
we have condemned Canada TO such .
poor and petty mock-national exist
n for forty years, longer, since Lyeu
wrote, merely for the sake of u W
meaningless imperial claim, which
nobody yer seriously means to assert,
but which everybody pretends to be-
lieve is vastly important.
The interesting thing to note here,
however, is the fact that Lyell should
have come to so definite and just =
after only a few weeks So
journ In new country. 1t is one Of
the many proofs of his keen practical
penetration which lie scattered over
every page of his memoirs and jour-
mails. Perhaps the chief visible result
of this first American trip was the
of 8 close friendship with
Ticknor, of Boston, member OF
the well-known publishing frm-to
ofhis letters are henceforth
addressed. They are among the most
interesting he ever wrote, containing
expressions of broad, general opinions,
would hardly be needed In
to European friends. Some
Of them are very characteristic at oncs
Of his wide tolerance and his marked
tendency toward Cancellation and
compromise. For example, he writes
once: 1.-THE time may be nearer than
some think when we shall have all
sects endowed, which / trust will
happen, instead of none being so.
But at all events, / abhor the political
lisaffection created in ireland, Scot
land and England by the exclusive
privileges of Church Of England sscen-
1t is really the power which
Is oppressive here. and not the mon
nor the aristocracy. Perhaps
feel it too sensitively as a scientific
man, since our Puseyites have ex-
clu ded physical science from Oxford.
They are wise in their generation.
The abject Difference to authority sd-
consoientiously by them can
never survive = sound philosophical
education"
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Equal to the Occasion.

Tommy was . little rogue, whom
his mother had hard work to manage.
Their house In the country was raised
a few feet from the ground, and
Tommy, to escape from a well dessrv-
ed whipping, al from his mother and
crept under the house. Presently the
father came home, and hearing where
the boy had taken refuge, erept under
TO bring him out. AS he approached
ON his hands and knees, Tommy
asked, as she after you, too ?"
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JAMES W. LAUGRLlN, Editor and Publisher
THE sHADowED CROSS.

In welded love our lives had twined
One year one careless, golden year
And then he died, my darling died,
And, for the joy that hsrbored there,
NY heart was filed with dark despair.
l traced the haunts he loved the best
In dear, lost ~days-alas SO brief
And mem'ry $ breathings, OBOE so sweet.
But famed the furnace ofmyg grief;
They brought no tears to my relief.
At early dawn l sought his grave,
Mid qualnt-carved stones o'ergrown Wild
moss. &
n 10 upon the haliowed mound
In seeming emblem ofmy loss
There fell the shadow OF a cross.
And kneeiing here in fearless woe,
Methouet heard my darling say:
"oh love | thy grfefa shadow is,
Which, as a dream shall pass away,
Where shadows melt in cloudiess day!
Then found my anguish emf IN tears,
Strange tears OF h~eav'n-born peace, that
shed
yound my soul a holy calm,
And when | rose thus comiorted,
The shadow from the had fed,
----
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EVERY day of my life makes me
feel more and more how seldom a fact
is accurately stated how almost in
variably when a story has passed
through the mind of a third person it
becomes, so far as regards the impress
sion that 1t makes in further repeti-
ton, little better than a falsehood I;
and this, too, though the narrator be
the most truth-seeking person In exis-
tence.
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In this idle moment the only
thought thinkable Ia the solemn idea
that the nose on q ministers face II
about the center Of gravity.
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The Bad and worthless.

are never initiated or counterteited. This il
especially true of family medicine, and it is
positive proof that the remedy initiated is of the
highest value. As soon as it had been tested
and proved by the whole world that Hop Bit
ters was the purest, best and most valuable fam
lily medicine on earth, many limitations sprung
up and began to steal the notices in which the
press and people Of the country had expressed
the merits of II. B., and in every way trying to
induce suffering invalids to use their stuff in
stead, expecting to make money on the credit
and good name of HI. B. Many others started
nostrums put up in similar style to n. B., with
variously devised names in which the word
"Hop'' or 'Hops'' were used in way to in
dnce people to believe they were the same as
Hop Bitters. ALI such pretended remedies OF
cures, ne matter what their style or name is,
and especially those with tho word 'sHop'' OF
Hops In their name or in any way connected
with them or their name, are limitations OF
counterfeits. Beware of them. Touch none OF
them. Use nothing but genuine Hop Bitters
with bunch or cluster of green Hops on the
white label. Trust nothing else Druggists and
dealers are warned against dealing in limitations
or counterfeits.
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TO YOUNG AND MIDDLE AGED MEN
A Sure Cure.

The awful effects of early vice, which brings Or
ganic weakness, destroying both mind and body,
symptoms before Consumption sets in are Palpita-
ton of the Heart, Timidity, Trembling, Nervous
Discharges, Dyspepsia, ETC., with those sad con-
ditiOns of mind SO much to be feared, Torgetful-
ness, Chaos of Mind, Sadness of Spirit, Ugly Imag-
lining, Dislike in Social Life and Brooding
Melancholy Married men, or those entering on
biity of the Nervous Organic Diminutlon, or other
irregularities, quickly assisted. quick cure guar
anteed No MINERALS USED.
Young people losing their health, spending time
with pretending quacks and unsuitable Treatments
forcing diseases into their body with deadly posons
causing fatal disorders to the Head, Throat Nose,
Liver and Lungs, Stomach and Bowels speedily
cured. No false modesty should prevent them call
ing at once on
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Lax Elmo and saltwater Trains.
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LEAVE ST. PAUL.
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and 8:45 pm
LEAVE ST LLwATER FOR ST. PAUL & MINNEApoLts,
1870 q m. G:43 In, 1896 p m, t415 nj, 7Hs D IN.
Daily. Except Sundays. / Except Mondays.
Tickets Sleeping Car Accommodations ana
all Information can be secured at
NO. liz N1cOllet House Block, Minneapolis,
J. CHARBONNEAU, Ticket Agent.
minneapolis depot, corner Washington 6Td Fourth
avenue north. w. p IVES Ticket AGENT
Corner Third and jackson streets, st. PAUL.
THOMPSON PETSCH, Ticket Agents..
New Union Depot, foot of Sibley street,
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WHAT MY LOVER SAID.
BIZ HORACE GREELEY, IN 1912.


By the merest chance, IN the twilight gloom,
In the orchard path he met me-
In the tall, wet grase, with it's faint perfume
And tried t, pass. but he made no room;
oh, 1 tried, but he would not let me;
So stood aud bushed till the grass grew red,
With my face bent down above it,
While he took my hand. as he Whispering said
(How the clover lifted each pink, sweet head
To listen to all that my lover eaid;
Oh! the clover in bloonl-1 love it
In the high, wet grass went the path to hide,
Aud the low, wet leaves hung over;
But could not pass upon either side,
For found myself, when vainly tried,
In the arms Of my steadfast lover.
And he held me there and he raised my head
While he closed the path before he;
And he looked down into my eyes and said
QIow the leaves bent down from the boughs oer
To listen to all that my lover said!
Oh the leaves hanging lowly DER mel
Had he moved aside little way
could surely then have passed him;
And would not have heard what he had to say
Could Only aside have cast him.
II WAS almost dark, and the moments sped,
And the searching nightwind found us;
Eut he drew me nearer and softly said
(How the pure, sweet wind grew still instead,
To listen to all that my lover said!
Oh the whispering wind around us
1 anu sure he knew, when he held me fast,
That must I've all unwilling;
Fer tried 10 go, and would have passed,
As the night was coming with it's dew at last,
And the sky with stars filling;
But he elasped me close when would have fed,
And lie made me hear his story;
And his soul came out from his lips and said
tiow the stars crept out where the white moon led,
To listen 10 all that my lover said
Oh the moon and the stars in gloryD
know tina! the grass and the leaves will not tell,
And I'm sure the wind-precous rover
viii carry his secret so safely and well,
And that no being will ever discover
One word Of the many that rapidly fell
From the eager lips of my lover,
Shall never reveal what fairy-like spell
They woye about us that night I'm the dell,
In the path through the dew-laden clover;
Nor echo the whispers that made my heart swell
AS they fell from the lips of my lover.
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We have had our dark days, since
then. What home is free from them
But other children have come to patter
about the house. Poverty has stared lis
in the face, but wealth came at last,
when we were able to bear it, and rest
ful days. look back with thankful
ness to those painful months, when l
was learning "that duty must be before
pleasure, and hsroism is the fiber of
every life. ID Country Payso,a, IL. TIE
Providence Journal.
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tIlat wn,cn mis- the eyes OF the spectator.
Medical men have paid much attention
to the anatomy of the neck and throat
in regard to the circumstances which
bring about asphyxia, suffocation or
choking, and they say that some necks
possess power Of resisting these effects
to a very remarkable degree.