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New-York tribune., 1886-01-17
FOR KINDNESS TO THE HTLTON CASTLE CREW
President John z Townsend. OF the Mari-

President John i. IOWhsehu, Oh inc AaIl-
time Exchange, yesterday presented TO Captain Ma
thanic Kecncy, Of the fishing smack Stephen Woosey.
$685. contributed by members Of the Exchange TO show
their appreciation OF his rescuIng and bringing into port
Captain Colvn and his from the wrecked steamer
HyltOn Castle. Mr.. Townsend told Of the hall ir zen
condition OF the when picked up by the WOOlscy,
then referred 10 the Kindness OF Captain kceney and
his 10 the shipwrecked acamcu. Captain Kecncy,
who was received with che crs. thanked the members,
and added that lie had done only what any American
seaman would have done Captain COlvln declined 10
speak, saying that II necessary, he could face gale IN
open boat With the thermometer at zero, but that ho
could not face audience.
New-York tribune., 1886-01-17
ORANGE TREES HURr BY THE CoLp.

AKRON, Ohio, Jan. 10 Especial. The Akron
Orange Company, composed Of prominent capitalists OF
this city, received information from Florida this
ing that almost its entire property. 40 OF orange
trees, had been ruined by the cold weather The COM
pauy has 800, 900 invested In the business
New-York tribune., 1886-01-17
EEw-JERsEY TOWNS.

MoSTc1AIR.-Therc has been moro movement In real
estate matters during the last ak months an ever be-
foro tho history OF ths place 6ilec July over sixty
New-York tribune., 1886-01-17

Cassian Giet Arthur Master O. f. Merrman. Robert Os
biston, John Peacock Whitfield RUSSELL William Stockton
Henry stockton and e. y. sudbury
New-York tribune., 1886-01-17
BEUS From TIE SUBURBS.
NEWARK.s
IERsEY CITY.

Tho detectves IN charge OF the Iorrs0n murder ease
claim they have found the murdererA OF tho widow
Garrity and Will soon arrost thetI.
New-York tribune., 1886-01-17
s1rPFERINC FROM GALES AT SEA.

The schooner Geraldine, from Georgetown,
Prince Edwards Island, reports heavy weather on the
In ono of tho gales had her boat stove and
New-York tribune., 1886-01-17
MIRINE INTELLIGENOE.

MINIATURE ALdAVAc
rses 7l7 sets s58 Noon sets 4l4Moon's az, 4. IL
HIGH WATER TO-DAY.
Aa.--Sanfv Hook. s.47 fsani 5Oi Iel Gste. 663
RH.-saDdy Hook. 5:l7 GOv is.nf J:l9 Hell SsgA 1903
New-York tribune., 1886-01-17
ALLOWED TO USE sNowsnoEs IN rnE PARK

ALLOWED TO USE oNONSHOAS IN THE IAkh.
Secretary Burns read a letter from j. L.
Learned managing editor OF The Erenag Post at the
meeting of Park Board yesterday requesting per
NIT to cross the lawns and meadows OF Central Park
snowshoes He said that he had obtained permit last
year, buttOO late to use it.
don't sec any objection TO letting The Egening Post
cross the pnrk on shOwshOes," observed MT Borden.
NO" continued Mr.. Crtmmins, as IL is u family pa
per- the peuissOn Will have political significance"
The permit granted.
The company Is licensed TO sleghs I'm Central
Park FOR public asked 70 bO permitted to drive four
horses TO each sleigh. It was thought by the Board
that I'm the crowded condition OF tho park four horses
attached to tho seighs would make the turnouts
dangerous IL determined not to permit any four
horse slelghs Central Park and an order
issued TO the Park police to carry out this rule.
New-York tribune., 1886-01-17
NATTONAL CAPITAL TOPICS.
PROPOSED LEGISLATION FOR DEBTORS
,,,p PROSPECT OF THE PASSAGE OF NATIONAL
BANKRUPTCY BILL

,,n PROSPECT OF THE PASSAGE OF A NATIONAL
BANKRUPTCY BILL
PROSPECTS, OF BANKRUPTCY LEGISLATION.
W,su,yGroy JAM 16 (SpecidD.-The sub
,ni,tee OF the House Judiciary Committee will hold
a.,Ip0 early next week TO consider the subject Of
Ns,,onal bankruptcy legislation The members Of the
shccmn,tteo who favor such legislation Messrs.
r,,,,ns of Massachusetts,; Culberson, Of Texas end
p.-tsr Of New-York Colonel Hepburn, OF Iowa. is op-
co,ed TO it. and the exact position OF Mr. Bennett of
North Carolina is doubtful, although Colonel Hepburn
tho opinion that Mr.. Bennett will favor some
hind Of bill. The indications are that Chairman
trucker and four five other members OF the committee
,,u support bl Substantially like the one reported
t,voraby by the Judiciary Committee Of the last House.
cotton upon which defeated by tho efforts OF MI
Randall reinforced by the arbitrary power which, as
chs,rmau of the Appropriations Committee, he then
possessed.
,,o for Mr. Randall and minority OF the members 10
rvent action this session and the prospect Ia fair that
q bankruptcy bill Will be passed. The opposition OF
ossd legislation s: frst thatit win lead large
increase Of litigation IN the United states courts invov
ing heavy expense 10 gants anu second tnat the law
may be instrument OF oppression by impatient
or unjust creditors.
DISCOURAGED FREE-TRADE STATESMEN.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (SpecidD There is
no immediate prospect nat tariff bill will be reported
20 the House. Chairman Morrison has listened 70 nu
merous suggestions by j. 4. Moore bat he is nOnoon
initial and of his nearest friends say that he has
not yet made mp his mind whether to bring in another
"horizontal" bill, measure in accordance
with the Presidents recommendation 10 re
duce the duties the necessarios OF
life which into general consumption. or measure
general revision There Is sOme reason TO believe that
Mr. Hewits earnest advocacy Of free raw materials
mas made little impression upon Colonel Morrison and
other ireetrade members of tie cOmluttee Mr.. Mills
appears to think that Mr Hewitt is uoi certain as TO
what he wants. The Texas statesman faVorS general
bill, but lie said to-day that " the tariff Is bg
subject and IL Will take the committee some time to pre-
mare which will satisfy all tho conflicting interests
involved He spoke in rather discouraging tone, and
IL is apparent free-tIade members generally that
there is much less enthusiasm in favor OF reform and
less confidence in its than there TWO years
New-York tribune., 1886-01-17
TRYING TO SKATE IN A SNOW BANK.
MANY SCHOOL CHIIDnrN OF THg PONDS ~ cFNTRA

MANY SCHOOL CHILDREN ON THE PONDS ~ CENTRAL
PARK QUEER TYPES or SKATERS.
Several thousand pairs of skates yesterday
cut the surface Of the lake m Central Park into coudl
ton that resomblcd snow than ice. Half an inch
Of h- mixture covered the real tee but still the enthu
satc skaters pouehed ther about the surface Of
tLo pond l. being school holiday the number OF snail
boys the pond largely in OF that OF any
class of the human species An interesting philo
sophca investigation might be made determine the
question why tAe email boy is always seized
with IA Wild desire TO play "shluny" or tag"
a. soon he gets on a piece OF ice. What
ever tho reason, tie l-ct IS unquestloned. Yesterday
games OF tag both of tho everlasting variety and OF
the Other kind known tag" In a.Aouris
ius condition. The soft offered gooi holding ground
for tho skates OF the dodger. but It treachorous.
when 70 dd givc way the unfortunate youth would
sweep broH3 pathway across the pond, and when lie
arose with his sleeves full of and clothing well
whitowashed with the same material he was lucky IL
there three four PROSTATE forms strewn
aloug his pathway, engaged I'm auathematizing small
boys general and those who play tag in particular
All types Of skaters represented There was the
young man who can do the edge and Is anxious
that tho whole world shall behold the grace
with which he circles to right aud left There
was the other young man who can't /" 90 the Dutch
ro but magues he can and Gets 60 badly mixed up IN
the attempt taut IL takes TWO policemen to unrave him
aud lead him To secluded bench. There was the young
woman who skates "a, II she was stepping on something
that ought and her friend whose skae
OF 10 oycTy stroke aud who Is never happy except when
George Is kneolug tho snow blowing his fingers and
putting on the refractory skate again There the
who anbles about with his arms stretched forth In
appealing attitude, and will never learn TO skate Il he
lives a hundred years. These. with the little mdgets
who persisted IN getting IA everybodys way. or in dane
about the hole with danger sign stuck IN II, made
up the bulk OF the crowd.
on Conservatory Lake, conSecraed to curling. the ice
smooth and black The sport was well patronized
ON the pond at the south end Of the Park large mum
ber OF women and children were crcAng about p9shlng
sleds with infants IN them aud making the moSI oi their
icy opportunities.
New-York tribune., 1886-01-17
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVELLERS

5y City of Richmond 1nman from Liverpool: (:
S oaelnsrass DE- AIaad Potter. W, SSost the Rev.
New-York tribune., 1886-01-17

Ncw-York viii have new Central Park Gar
den next summer. The Manhattan skating Rink.
which covers the entire block bounded bv Fifty
ninth-,t, Eiphti-aye., Boulevard ana Sixticth-st.
during the summer by an orchestra Of sixty
musicians under the direction of 4. NoucndOrf. The
large hail. with ground floor of about $4,000
square feet will b. converted INTO palm house
with rustic arbors, fountains flower beds, otc.,
while the gallery which y largo cnon2h 10 seat
about 800 people, VIII bo decorated with flowers,
ferns and shrubs.
New-York tribune., 1886-01-17

~ theannual ballot the Ccrclc I'Ialcais d. rllar
inouio tomorrow might tleie Will Joe fancy dancing
contests. Partisan novelties ard surprises. display
OF French costumes. taboius malchc.. comic im
tatiou5 and c;.rIysiturc-, all in the Academy o
Nusic and Irving and Nilsson liall.I There viii h
thrce frchcstras and prcia'y Engaged merry
makers Ia create grote,quc fun. Tho decoration.
arc 20 be Internal Ioual. the supper "a oiric and
concert Will mcccdc thc regular opening OF Ia,
ball which IS announced for q O'Clock, The bOXc,
and II great number of tickets have been sold, midi
catIng lhe pIesence OF largo number OF peOple.
New-York tribune., 1886-01-17
aOREIoN sTEANARs DUA "a TAIs PORI
SHIPPING VEVS

Liverpool Guon
ld. Antwerp .icd star
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-05-06
A GOOD RULE.
And One Which Should Be Unanimously
Applied to Human Conduct.

And One Which Should Be Unanimously
Applied to Human Conduct.
1t is good rule of conduct in our in
tercourse with and treatment of others
never to say or do or omit any thing
which, in the event of their death,
would afterward give us, as survivors,
occasion for regret. The temper of
mind which this event would awaken
toward them is the proper temper to
maintain toward them while living.
The wisdom of the temper does not de-
pend upon the law of God and the re-
lations which men sustain to each
other. Conduct, whether of omission
or commission, that is inconsistent
with the law of love, has no fitting
place or time in this or in any other
world. If the rule we have suggested
were the universal rule of conduct, our
lives on earth would be much happier,
and very many pungent regrets would
have no existence. Here are two per-
sons-husband and wife, for example
living together for long series of
years in the most intimate of all earthly
relations, and so living toward each
other in every thing said and done, as
well as in every thing not said or done,
that, in the event of the death of either,
the survivor sees nothing in his or her
conduct to regret. Will not this be an
immense comfort to that survivor
amid the SORROWS of bereavement? Let
the supposition be the exact opposite,
and if the survivor has the heart of
human being. p,Slgent regrets for mis-
conduct, when it is too late to correct
it, and too late to make even an apol-
ogy for it, and to express ones sorrow
to the injured party now dead, will be
felt. The better way is so to live in
our treatment Of others that we shall
create no occasion for such regrets.
This will make our lives Christlike
Christ had no occasion to make apol-
ogies to anybody, or to take back any
thing He ever said or did. His wisdom
always came in season, and in the APP
propriate form; and if we would make
our lives happy, and make the lives of
others happy. we must cultivate His
temper and initiate His pure and sweet
example. We should scatter smiles
along every path we tread, and not
frowns and curses to affiict and distress
Others. There is nothing wiser and
better in the world than genuine good
feeling.-N. Y. Independent.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-05-06
Purifying Water by Aeration.

The results of experiments made
thus far in the publication of water by
aeration have attracted much notice.
This method is well known to be based
on the discovery that the action of air
in purifying water is greatly increased
by mixing the air and water under
pressure. A Paramount philadelphia
turbine engine was converted into an
air-pump, which delivered twenty per
cent, by volume, of free air into the
water main. this being the proportion
found necessary to surcharge the water.
a Abyss showed that the quantity of
fri oxygen in the aerated water was
sefenteen per cent. greater than before
aefation. while the quantity of carbonic
acid was fifty-three per cent. greater,
and that OF the total dissolved gases
was sixteen per cent. greater.-Boston
Transcript.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-05-06
A WELCOME CRAZE.
The Harmless Way In which Fashionable
Fsmininity Employs Itself at Present.

The Harmless Way In which FaAhjonASl
Fsmininity Employs Itself at Present,
There are crazes and crazes. We
are initiative creatures, and when a
craze comes our way we welcome it
and fondle it and rejoice in it and 60
the whole length of it with significant
unanimity. The coarse passion for
poker that has for months turned the
heads of half the population shows
here and there hopeful sign of sub
sidence, and many of our women
poker-fiends have, happily, opened
their eyes to the demOralizing influence
of the poker table. The general bent
of woman's mind is toward refinement.
and the glad alacrity with which the
mass of women have dropped other
crazes and taken to their hearts the
delights OF tissue-paper flower making
is something that ought to be cele-
brated. Take a walk through ten or
through ten times ten streets and have
an eye on the windows you pass. 1t
makes no difference whether it be cot
tage or mansion that you observe-in
every window from which the curtains
are drawn you shall see tissue-paper
flowers. The fiery poppy abounds; the
SNOWFALL flOurisheS; the rose of June
peeps out at you; the hydrangea
riots in clusters; you catch glimpses of
water-lilies suspended from chandeliers
or playing their pretty part on some
modest window sill; and you somehow
feel that never was a more rational
scheme devised to employ a leisure
hour. For few cents and no appren-
ticeship of labor, no pupilage in art, the
little child, the grandma of the circle,
and even the turbulent boys, may pro-
ducc these pretty floral tic.ions and so
contribute to the adornment of the
rooms in which we live. Unlike
some other crazes to which We have
given our devotion there is in this no
feverish and unhealthful excitement,
no pickering, no dispute, no loss of
temper; and when we have devoted an
evening to it we see some happy and
pleasing results. The product is before
us in forms of airy beauty so like
creations self that they have many
times deceived the eyes of those not in
the secret of their birth.
Welcome the tissue-paper craze. 1t
is an economical amusement-in one
sense an art 1t appeals to the finest
sensibilities; it teaches dizziness of hand
it contributes to the eyes education in
color; it stimulates love for nature in
her loveliest manifestations, and it en-
ables us to crafty our friends with
pretty and acceptable tokens of esteem
without burdensOme cost-DetrOit
Free Press,
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-05-06
CHINESE SEOVElS.
Celestials Competing with American Hard
ware Manufacturers.

Celestials Competing with American Hard
ware Manufacturers.
"You may say" said aleading Front
street merchant to areporter, ''that the
American hardware trade is tlourishino
like green bay tree. The value OF
what is strictly known as hardware in
this country last year amounted to
nearly S60,0O0,000, of which nearly
half was made in Connecticut. If you
include some firearms, agricultural
implements, cut nails and ornamental,
iron work, which | consider hardware,
though many do not, the total value
of the American production will reach
500, 100000. English, French and
German manufacturers send us about
S2,000,O00 of hardware yearly. We
have, however, lost one source of rev.
enue, and it makes a funny story.
The Chinese have got ahead of us. Up
to last year we had a monopoly of sup
plying the Chinese with iron shovcls.
Owing to our facilities for Transports
ton, we could undersell our English
brethren. Now the Chinese are max
NY tHelI ON III SIlONtlS duI uutitf-ScillID
Us. The manufacture is carried on at
place called Chefoo, near Shanghai
and hundreds of men and boys are en-
gagged in the business. What do you
think the Chinese make the shovelS
from? Old boiler tubes, immense piles
of which are to be seen in the Chinese
back courts. The old tubes are cut in
to short cylinders just the length of the
shovel, ripped open, heated, flattened
out and hammered into shape. The
shovels arc taken into the interior of
the country on the backs of mules, and
our advices state that nearly every
Chinese cottager within radius of
from two to three hundred miles
around Shanghai, is supplied with
one. The Chinese makers sell their
shovels at from 25 to 40 cents
each. according to size and quality.
However the supply of old boiler tubes
may become exhausted, and then we
Yankees will have 4 clear corner on the
Celestial shovel-makers. IN Y. Mail
and Express.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-05-06
MEXICAN PYRAMIDS.
The Marvellous Ruins Near the Village of
Papantia, Mexico.

The Marvellous Ruins Near the Village OF
PapantIa, Mexico.
The pyramid of Papantla is not built
of brick or of clay mixed with whin-
stone, as are most of those in Mexico,
but of immense blocks of porphyry, in
the seams of which mortar may still
be distinguished. The base of the
pyramid is an exact square, each side
eighty-two feet long. with perpendic-
ular height of sixty feet. Like all
Mexican teocallis or places of human
sacrifice, it is composed of successive
stages, great stairway leading to the
truncated summit. Hieroglyphics and
strange figures frogs and
crocodiles-are carved in relief on the
faced stones of each story, while the
square inches in every terrace, three
hundred and sixty-siX in number, have
given rise to a conjecture that they
may have had some connection with
the ancient Toltec calendar. The
twelve additional inches that appear in
the stair toward the east, perhaps stood
for the twelve useless days at the
end of their cycle.
This edifice is remarkable, not so
much for size as for perfect symmetry,
the polish of the stones and the regu-
larity of their cut. In his great work
on New Spain, Baron Humboldt refers
to the analogy of the brick monuments
Of Mexico to the temple of Belus, at
Babylon, and the pyramids near SAX
hara in Egypt. Says he: There are in
AZ II ,,S CT. S,,
the forests of Papantla. at small ele-
walton above the sea, and in the plains
of Cholula and Tctihuacan at elevations
surprising those of our passes in the
Alps. We are surprised to see in re-
gions most remote from one another,
and under climates of the greatest di-
versity, man following the same model
in his cdifces, his ornaments, his hab-
its and even in the form of his political
institutions!"- Boston Transcript.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-05-06
ENGAGEMENT RINGS,
Styles Which Are Considered Appropriate
at the Present Time.

Styles Which Are Considered Appropriate
at the Present Time.
Pearls, which are emblems of both
purity and modesty, rank next to the
diamond in favor for engagement
rings. A single pearl, of rare color
and luster, simply set, is the correct
style. A single sapphire, since this
stone has become popular, is also en-
ployed in the engagement ring, and is
considered quite appropriate. being a
moral stone. typical of charity and in
nocence. Engagement rings should
bear in plain script the initials of the
engaged people and the date. The old
form, u. S. NJ. to NJ. c. S." is no
longer used, but in its place appears,
from j. S. NJ. to NJ. c. S." the date
following. The wedding ring. from
time immemorial, has been a plain
gold one, and remains SO at the pre-
seat day. Occasionally is employed
the French alliance ring, that opens in
half, being two rings in one, but show
ing. only one ring when on the finger.
This latter ring, however, is, rs rule,
confined to the use of foreigners-the
wedding ring, like the engagement
one. bears in plain script the initials of
the contracting parties, and the date of
their marriage.-Prdirte Farmer.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-05-06
MONSTER GUNS.
How the Fifsy.Four-Ton Twelve-fnch Rides
for the Chicago Arc Made.

HOW eo0 E1kSyecOur-TOnI W61vc-1nCu Lb&U0D
for the Chicago Arc Made.
The problem of coast defense and
! armament and the manufacture of guns
for the new navy, is just now filling the
minds of all steel founders. iron melt
ers, puddlers, and ordnance scientists.
The man from West Point, and the
leather-aproned artisan of brawny
muscle who, like a salamander, can
bare his face to the molten glare are
alike aroused. How best to arm the
new cruisers; how to make the metal
that is needed for armor-plating ;
how to cast the monster sixty and
seventy ton guns and 12-inch rifles
that are to stand grim on the spar
deck of the Chicago and other cruisers
these are questions of vastly great
import.
They made fourth attempt to cast
a 54-tOn Pinch rifle for the Chicago
the other day at the South Boston Iron
Works. The difficulty with gun cast
ing is the cooling, and the patent which
krupp has on this is the basis of his
fame. However, the Boston founders
are courageous. They first made q
gun-pit of sand and clay thirty feet deep.
This takes the form of the gun
to be cast. The core, which is to
make the bore, is carefully fabricated
and suspended in the pit with mathe-
NAUTICAL nicely. Then at six o'clock of
one day the fires are started under three
furnaces filled with steel ingots, each
containing thirty-tivc tons. In about
| twenty hours this is reduced to a
molten mass. Cutters are provided
from each furnace to the gun-mol6.
At y given signal each furnace is
tapped; the white liquid runs into the
in twenty-five minutes the pit is full.
The furnaces are plugged and the
mass of metal Qifty-four tons in
weight) is left to cool. This process
takes four weeks; then, if no disturb
ance of the core has taken place, the
! latter is bored out, the gun is lifted
from its bed and the work of finishing
begins. 1t takes six months to accom-
plish this. This magnificent gun, when
complete, will be thirty feet long and
weigh fifty-four tons. 1t will fire 200
pounds of powder, throw a projectib
500 pounds in weight, have velocity
of projectile of 1860 feet per secondr
! which would cover three miles of
range, and Il muzzle energy of $4,000
tons to the square inch of impact-or
the capacity to send a solid shot
through twenty-three inches of iron
plating.
America has not yet reached the era
of hundred-ton guns. but with the fifty
four-ton fellows served by hearts of oak
the average patriot will feel pretty safe
in Chicago Herald.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-05-06
The Boy Hit Back.

A school-teacher living not many
miles out of the city does not now be-
lieve in reproving scholars for bad pen
manship, having come to this conclu-
sion last Wednesday. Each scholar
was required to present sample of his
penmanship to the instructor for in
spection. The last to hand up his
''best endeavor" was a bright little six
ycar-old who was very backward in
this particular line of instruction. As
usual his copy was very badly written,
and the teacher, calling him to his
desk, said: Now, Charlie. you have
again made the poorest showing in
this class. 1t seems that you should
be able to improve on this kind of
work; why, when l was boy at your
age l could write almost as well rs I
do now" "Yes, SIR" replied the
promising lad, 81 guess YOU could,
but may be you had a better teacher
than have. San Diego zeal. Unions