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Western Maryland Railroad.

On and after Sunday, Nov. %, 1885, Passenger
Trains viii leave Hilen Station daily, as follows:
800 A. M.-Fast Mail for Shenandoah Valley
and Southern and Southwestern points. Also,
Glyndon, Westminster, New Windsor, Union
Bridge Rocky Ridge, MechanicstOwn, Blue Ridge,
Blue Mountain, Hagerstown, and except Sunday,
Emmittsburg, Frederick, Chambersburg, Waynes
boro and points on 3. & c. Y. r. r.
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connections; also GlyndoD, Westminster, New
Windsor, Union Bridge, Mechanicstown, Blue
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Through carr and Martinsburg.
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Emmittsburg, Waynesboro, Chambersburg, Ship
pensburg, Hagerstown, Williamsport and inter-
mediate stations. Also Mines and points north
on s. V. r. Il.
9.55 A. M-Accom. for Union Bridge and in
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and points on II. j. II. & G. R. R., through cars,)
Mt. Holly Springs and Carlisle, Pa.
2.20 P. INSTRUMENTATION for Glyndon (Reis
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400 P. M.-Express for Arlington, Mt. Hope,
Pikesville Owings's Mills, st. Georges, Glyndon,
Glenn Falls, Finksburg, Patapsco, Westminster,
Medford, New Windsor, Linwood, Union Bridge
and principal stations west. Also Hanover, Get
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Through cars Frederick, Through carr Emmitts-
burg, Waynesboro, Chambersburg, Shippensburg,
points on Shenandoah Valley Railroad and con-
nections.
5I5P M-Accommodation for Glyndon.
6.25 P. M.-Accommodaton for Union Bridge.
SUNDAYS ONLY.
9.I5 A. M.-Aecommodaton for Union Bridge.
2.2O P. M.-Accommodation for Union Bridge
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Pleasant Trips Upon Cyclones.

Hdrpers Wee6tey.
The cyclone as vehicle has rarely met with
structures from the Western press. On the con-
trary, nearly every newspaper of the Western
country has repeatedly contained accounts of the
most delightful journeys and excursions perform
ed upon cyclones by children, barns cattle, brick
yards, astonished farmers, and all manner of per-
sons and things. Lately, however, there have
been occasional murmurs against the cyclone, and
the Omaha Bee says: ga twelve year-old Dakota
girl, taken up into the air by a cyclone, carried
out of sight, and brought easily down in field
quarter of a mile away, describes her sensation
while in transit that of being rapidly and con-
stantly pricked by thousands of needles. Since
her experience she has been affected similar to
person with st. Vitus's Dance" If the idea be-
comes prevalent in the West that cyclone travel
ling is associated with unpleasant consequences
it is probable that some other means of convey
ance will be favored by the people, and that one
ofthe most interesting ofthe tornados occupations
will be gone.
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Railroad Time Tables.
Northern Central RaIl way.

TAKING EFFECT NOV. 10, 1889.
Trains leave Baltimore, city time, as follows
7.3O A. M.-Mail Train, daily, except Sunday,
for Williamsport, Lock Haven, Elmira, Watkins,
Rochester and Niagara Falls; also, connects for
Pittsburg and the West.
1915 A. M.-Chicago Limited, daily, for Pitts
burg, Cincinnati and Chicago.
I0.45 A. M.-Fast Line, daily, for Indianapolis
St. Louis and Cincinnati, and except Saturdays,
for Chicago and Detroit also connects, except Sun
days, for Lock Haven, Elmira and Watkins.
4.3O P. M.-Harrisburg Passenger, daily, excep
Sunday.
SIS P. M.-Chicago and Cincinnati Express,
daily, for Pittsburg, Cincinnati and Chicago with
through seepers to Chicago; except Saturdays
for Toledo. Also connects for Cleveland and St.
Louis with through sleeper Pittsburg to Cleveland
11.2O P. H.-Mai Express West, daily; also
connects, except Saturdays, for Erie, Buffalo and
Niagara Falls.
Parkton Accommodation, 1915 A. NJ, $3.50,
and $50 P. M. daily, except Sunday. On Sun
day only, 900 A. NJ, 1.30 ?. M.
Cockeysville Accom-, 500, 200 A. NJ, IL M,
2.3O, $50, 500, 1000 and 11.30 P. M. Sunday,
900 A. NJ, and 1.30 and 1000 P. NJ.
For Hanover and Gettysburg, 7.3O A. M.
For Green Spring Branch, $50 A. NJ, 80 and
5.30P. M.
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Rather Uncomfortable for the Ladies'.

The ladies at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, have
recently been in Mysteries over visit from Wild
Hog, the celebrated Cheyenne chief, who, they
feared, was contemplating an attack upon the
fort in case the trouble with the Cheyennes in
Indian Territory was not adjusted. There are
only forty eight soldiers at the fort, pending the
arrival of the Ninth Cavalry, and Wild Hog was
the chief of the band ofone hundred Indians who
in 1879 massacred the guards and fifteen other
soldiers, and were slaughtered in the buttes back
Of the fort. He is now at the head of another
band in the neghborhood, who cherish very
active feeling of revenge. Whenever their squaws
come near the fort they shrek loudly and tear
their hair in token of their hostility.
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PATRICK M. QUINN,
DEALER IN
FOREIGN WINES 8. BRANDY,
Cor. High and HilIen Sfs.,
BALTIMORE, MD. SEES

This old-established house being exclusively in
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Maryland Central Railway.
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Taking Effect November 10, 1855

DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY.
Trains leave North Avenue Station as follows:
500 A. M. and 400 P. NJ, for Towson, Belair and
Delta.
90 A. NJ, for Towson and Belair.
1915 A. NJ. and 2.l5 P. NJ, for Towson and Loeb
Raven.
$50 P. NJ, for Towson, Belair and Forest Hill.
Arrive at North Avenue Station at
$50 A. M. from Forest Hill $40 A. NJ AID sos
P. NJ. from Delta, LAS A. M. and 3.4S P. NJ.
from Loeb Raven, 1.30 P. M. from Belair.
Daily except Sunday passenger coach will be
attached to the freight train leaving North Avenue
Station at $50 A. NJ. for Delta. Returning leave
Delta at 1920 P. NJ, arrive at North Avenue Sta
ton at $40 P. NJ.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
Leave North Avenue for Delta at 9.15 A. NJ,
and 800 p. NJ; and arrive at North Avenue from
Delta at 955 A. NJ, and 5.55 P. NJ.
All trains stop at all stations to receive and de-
liver passengers. CHAS. A. ROE,
Acting General Passenger Agent.
]. C. WRENSHALL, Receiver.
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An epitome of everything that is attractive and
desirable in Juvenile literature.-Boston Courier
A weekly feast of good things to the boys and
girls in every family which it visits.-Brooklyn
Union.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Helmholtz declared that should he receive an
optical instrument of mans making with so many
defects as the eye, he would be justified in return
ing it to the manufacturers; and it may be furth-
er said that the artificial eye of science-the
Photographic cameras able to see farther, to
see more, and to see quicker, than the human
gan of vision.
From tests made by DR.. Fischer, the German
chemist, it appears that in ordinary domestic
stoves not more than twenty per cent. of the fuel
consumed is utilizedin warming the rooms, where
as with burning stoves eighty percent.or more
of the possible effect is obtained.
Since 1859 the number of lightning strokes in
Saxony has been found to increase regularly, the
annual number rising in % years from 81 to 1S9.
due to the destruction of the forests.
An example of rapid stalactite formation ap-
pears at Quebec. St. Johns Gate in the city wall
was rebuilt in 1867 of greyish limestone, and
the constant dripping of water from the crevices
already formed regular stalactite deposits foot
and a half in length and three-fourths of an inch
in diameter.
From the Clifford bequest the French Govern
ment realizes about 81, 100000 to be used for the
good of science. 1t is probable that the various
projects suggested for expanding the money will
be submitted to the Academy of Sciences before
action is taken.
The change of dough to bread is declared by a
French investigator, Aime Girard, to be a trans
formation due to alcoholic fermentation.
At an annual examination in botany the Lon
don Society of Apothecaries gives regularly a
gold and a silver medal to the young women TAX
ing first and second rank. 8
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AN IMPORTANT WORK.

A new map of the solar spectrum has been COM
pleted by Thollon after four years of incessant
labor at the Observatory of Nice. The chart COM
prises about one-third of the prismatic spectrum,
is about forty feet long, and includes 1920 lines,
or double the number in the best previous work.
Changes in these lines of the spectrum tell GER
tainly of changes in the sun, and it has been the
authors aim to make future changes apparent by
providing an accurate record of the present state
of the solar spectrum.
The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-12-12

The Lake Noeris of Herodatus, usually regard
ed as a myth, was a wonderful artificial inland
sea about sixty miles south of the pyramids of
of Gizeh. 1t was $50 miles in circumference, and
was created by leading the waters of the Nile into
a vast depression. Believing the marvellous story
of the Greek chronicler, an American explorer,
Mr.. Cope Whitehouse, has sought the ancient
lake, and has discovered its supposed site in an
immense hollow in the desert which descends more
than 200 feet below a-level. 1t is now proposed
to flor refll-this hollow by means of an easily
made passage from the river, and thus give fertl-
ity to a large area and relieve the Lower Nile
country from its disastrous foundations.
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Spiders have been found by DIR. C. Keller, of
Zurich, to be voracious destroyers of plant-pr
ing insects, and he contends that they play moro
effective part in the preservation of forests than
all the insect-eating birds together. The value
of the service rendered by spiders has been shown
by observations on coniferous trees, few broad
leaved trees and apple trees.
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Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
A BOTANICAL ANOMALY.

a DoiANiCAL ANOMALis
So universal is the cylindrical form of thestems
of grasses that reports concerning square-stem-
med bamboo of China and Japan have been gen.
orally discredited. Very recently, however, such
plant has been proven to exist, and specimens
of the stems have been secured by few English
botanists, some of them being now in the Kew
Museum. Unlike other bamboos of its locality,
the square bamboo, it appears, sprouts in the au-
tumn, and attains its full height of ten to fourteen
feet the following spring. When young the stems
are quite round, their most perfectly square shape
being attained at the age of several years. The
Chinese take great interest in the plant, and at
tribute the form of its stem to supernatural powers
The species has been named by Fenzi Bambusa
qGadrangalaris.
ELECTRICITY DIRECT FROM HEAT.
By means of a novel battery in which the WE'LL
known phenomenon of the passage of hydrogen
gas through heated platinum generates power
full current of electricity. Mr.. j. A. Kendall, of
North Ormsby, England, seems to have taken
step toward the production of electric power from
the combustion of coal or other fuel without the
expensive and wasteful Intervention of a steam
engine. The working of the new generator re-
quires only supply of fuel and little water,
and the inventor estimates that ton of coke used
in heating the battery, including the hydrogen
producer, will give at least three times the elecri
cal energy that would be yielded by the same fuel
in running steam engine and dynamo.
ESSENTIAL FOOD OF PLANTS.
While it is positively known that plants require
carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen as con-
stituents of their food there are several other ee-
ments found in plants whose essential character
is.not so certainly established. Some recent ex-
periments, according to Mr.. T. Jameson, an Eng
fish chemist, furnish proof that sulphur is not an
essential, that even lime and magnesia are of
doubtful necessity, but that phosphorus and po
tassium are Indispensable. Iron and chlorine
occur in plants bat have little claim to be regard
ed as essentials.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-02-26
The great hobby of the Democratic

The great hobby of the Democratic
politicians, in devising means Of polit-
ical success, seems to be the temper
ance question. Not that "a solitary
politician of them desires any temper
ance reform, but that they desire to
make show of favoring the liquor
interest, in order to gain the favor of
that element in the State. A great
deal of agonizing has been engaged in
by the members Of the Legislature
during the past few days regarding
the proposition to submit Constitu-
tional Amendment to the voters OF
the State at the election next fall.
This Amendment. as at first proposed,
was to favor straight-out license. The
Republicans resolved to vote as body
against submitting this, which action
would defeat the Democracy at the
outset. Then it was proposed to sub
NIT two Amendments, one favoring
local-optlon. The whole business on
the part of the Democratic members
fell into series of schemes for get
ting the Republicans on record in
some manner which would injure the
party, and nothing was accomplished
The Democrats should be told that
the temperance question is loaded.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-02-26

A man has invented a steam whis-
tie which gives three tones in a single
''bell' or tube. That man is an
enemy to the public peace, and de-
serves nothing good at the hand of
his fellow man. If every impreca-
tion heaped upon his head during the
next twenty years could take the
form Of single clover-leaf, he would
be buried beneath heap Of garbage
from which all the strong arms Of all
the strong men of earth could not
extricate him during the same length
Of time. And his wickedness is not
confined to this world, for his seeming
mechanical triumph is calculated to
make men worse, to create sin, and to
drag down souls. The minister, OF
Sabbath morning, the good woman
who may be suffering from nervous
headache, and the pious citizen at all
times, will so far forget themselves as
to secretly wish that somebody would
come along who was wicked enough
to ''cuss" that Internal whistl., in a
manner which would do the subject
Justice. That inventor is a public
enemy
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-02-26
CHESNUTS OLD STAND,

On last Friday B.ttalion Of Gren-
adler Guards took their departure from
London for Suakim, to take part in
the war along the Nile 1t is refresh
ing to know that the Prince of Wales
made them speech before their de-
parture, and that the Queen wrote the
officers an autograph letter. The
Prince told the brave boys that he dis
tinctly remembered the departure of
the same command, thirty-one years
ago, to go to the Crimea, and how we'll
the men discharged their duties. Then
the Prince ''shook hands with the Of
ficers, and the men loudly cheered
him." The Queen assured the officers
of ''her good wishes and her prayers. :"
The scenes at the railway station were
very affecting, as the families Of the
soldiers took leave Of those whom they
might never again see on earth. Now
why is all this ? Why is it that the
Queen is praying for the officers, wives
are weeping for the soldiers, and the
Prince is bestowing fattery upon the
brave boys in the ranks ? Why was
the intrepid Gordon slain Why did
the brave Gen. Stewart die of wounds
received in battle P Why is Gen.
Wolseley-considered the head and
front of English military skill-now
in the Nile country, preparing to
escape. while the infuriated troops of
the Mahdi are sweeping on toward him
by the tens of thousands Z? In short,
what are the armed forces of England
doing there, anyhow