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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18

II a stem Of the Phy,ot1eco slectr,co I.
broken. the hand receives a shock like
that given by an induction coil The
magnetic needle is affected at the dis.
lance OF SIX metres. The energy Of the
action has Its maximum about two p m
and declines during the night. 1t Is
especially increased during storms.
NeitLer birds nor insects settle upon
the pant
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18

We are reader to pardon those who
laugh at our gravity than those who do
not laugh at our jokes.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18

By means Of the new and ingenious
little instrument known as the hyalop.
bototype, or hot pen. drawings can be
made on glass or CLASSY substances with
AWAY composition. which Is solid and
somewhat hard at ordinary temperatures
The pen Is so coatriveI that 1t can be
heated either by gas or by an electric
current. and the waxy material flows
easily from the heated pen. setting 90
quickly on tho glass that c:o5s.hatching
can be doue more rapidly than wi b or.
binary pen and lux, without risk of
blocking up the angles, corrections. too.
can be made with the greatest ease by
means OF pcn-knife, Which leaves the
surface afterward intact. After the
drawing has been made. the plate Is
etched by 6uorlc acid. and when com.
plete. 1t can be either electrotyped.
stereotyped used direct. or applied to
any purpose for which engraved sur.
faces are required
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-06-18

Brass cannot be tempered in the man.
ner ID which steel is tempered Hence
the only method to make brass spring
IS TO COMP esq the metal either by rolls
or by hammerng. If the springs are
TO be fat, hammer them out to shape
from soft wire or sheet trass somewhat
thicker than the finished spring Is to be.
Ii the brass shows q tendency to crack
in hammering 1t must be annealed,
which must be done by heating to q
light red and plunSing INTO water. In
hammerIng. use light hammer. but do
not spare tie blows.
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17
Resuming Work at sedaiia.

SEDArIA, Mo, April l2.-This morning
will witness = larger force of first-class
mechanics at work in the Pacific and Mis-
soari, Kansas & Texas shops than has
been the case at any time since the strike
Telegrams were received yesterday from
party of nine mschnists from Pennsyl-
vania saying they will arrive on the morn
ing train. Several strikers who are not
Objectionable will also report for duty
and the outlook is most promising. The
organization Of vigilance committee re-
ferred 70 In previous dispatches
Is now said, on the best Of authority, to
have been completed. 1t numbers seven.
ty'fse Of Sedslia's most resoluts wen.
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17
A SPIDER SHOWER.
A Remarkable Phenomenon Witnessed In
September, 1875.

september, 1910.
On the morning of the shower there
had been some electrical disturbance.
There had been one loud peal of thun-
der but no rain. About ten a. m. no.
ticed small spiders running over my
coat-sleeves, and had to brush of sew
cral trails of gossamer-web. Looking
round, found that brick walls, houses,
branches of trees. etc, had these webs
dangling from them, and that other
goSsamer-webs were continually falling
from above, and adding to the accumu-
laton. BY midday, long fence was
feAooned from point to point of its tri-
angular railtops with ribbon-lke lad
der Of gossamcr; and this was growing
broader and broader as the tiny crea-
lures kept running along this ladder.
each increasing the breadth by adding
its own contribution of another silken
thread. All along this ladder the little
strangers were running in an excited
and hurried manner, as II they had lost
their way, and got into a strange coun-
try. Some. in travelling over their inn
provised road made mistakes and got
into bordering webs Of the garden spi-
ders, where they were speedily de-
voured.
About one p. IN. the clouds cleared
of, the sun flone out, and | noticed
that some of the spiders had begun to
re-ascend into the atmosphere. Fixing
nv ewes upon one of them | observed
that AS it left the gossamer pathway, it
selected clean spot on the iron railing
and gathering its limbs closely together
it projected from its spnnerets several
threads which expanded outwards, and
stretched upward fDm nine to twelve
inches. Then this parachute seemed to
show buoyant tendency, and suddenly
the tiny creature left hold Of the iron
rail. or was lifted off it, and quickly
"vanished into thin air.' Possibly the
real home Of gossamer spiders may be
in the blue ether, where in the wonder
ful economy of nature they may have
their appointed work to do. Or 1t may
be that these Liliputian roamers through
space, like the migratory birds, have
their appointed periods for going in one
direction and returning in another.
Who knows? He only who made them
and us. and whose ordained ministers
are, humanity speaking. infinite in their
number and variety Chambers Jour
nal
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17
Miscellaneous Items.

The directory of the new Little Rock
Board of Trade elected James A. Fones,
president; w. II. Wright, vice president;
r. II. Farquhar, secretary, and p. X.
Roots, treasurer.
Reports from several parts of the State
Indicate that farmers are preparing to
plant more grain than usual, the idea
seeming to prevail that cotton is not so
much of king as he has been repre-
seuted.
Governor Hughes has commuted the
death sentence of James Mccoy, of Pope
County, to twenty years in the peniteni-
tiary. He was convicted November Is,
1885, of being one of the assassns Of an
man named William McAllister, on Janu-
AIRY 20, 1874, and was sentenced TO be
hanged.
The people of Arkansas are not so Joy.
Gus over the telegraph cable which was
some time since laid across the river from
that place as they were, an attempt on the
part Of a citizen to have message trans
mitted over it developing the fact that il
was only for use for railroad purposes.
An old man named Gosling demonstra
allowing himself to be feeced out Of
hundred dollars by sharpers at Little Rock
a few days since. They played the freight
bill racket, Thomas Hayman, one of the
sharpers, was arrested and a portion Of
the money recovered.
More severe weather is predicted.
Governor Hughes has pardoned VIM.
Bostick, of Prairie County. He was sent
to the penitentiary two years for man
slaughter. His time was nearly out, aud
strong petitions were sent TO the Governor
asking for the pardon. He is sixty-six
years old. and had good record.
4 fire broke out in the cotton near the
compress, in Little Rock few DAYS ago,
but by the promptness of the fire depart
ment il was extinguished, and only fifteen
or twenty bales were damaged. IL is due
entirely to the efficiency of the fire depart-
ment that there was not hundred thou
sand-dollar fire.
Farmers are busy plowing and prepar.
ing the land for another crop.
Sheriff J. II. Wolf. of Baxter County,
placed Francis Davis in the penitentiary a
few days ago. He was convicted of grand
larceny and sentenced to three years i'm.
prisonment
Sheriff Z. II. Speers of Conway County
recently lodged two convicts in the peni-
tentiary, Chas. I. Ware for five years and
Jordan Barnes, five years, both conxjcted
OF horse stealing.
A fire at Hope few days ago complete
ly destroyed the furniture house Of Murrie
= Duiiie, the drlg store Of ]. T. Barr and
s hardware establishment Of H. 7. Fos.
eg.
Too much cold rain Tor the good Of ths
.saea crop
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Tnr Department of Agriculture reports
that the official statistics for April show
reduction of winter wheat area of 100000
acres from the breadth seeded two years
ago.
A YOUNG man named An1rcw Jones, a
Knight of Labor was fatally shot at East
st. Louis on the 10th. This is the eighth
person killed at that place since the strike
began.
Mr.. JosEPH PULITZER, editor OF the
New York World. on the 10th forwarded
to the Secretary of State his resignation
as Representative in Congress from the
Ninth District of New York,
Tue total imports of general merchan-
disc at the port Of New y rk during The
week endine on the 10th were valued at
S1,iSl ,j0G exclusive Of dry good
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN foWDERLY
states that the ruuor that he is preparing
a statement to the public or the Knights
regarding the Southwestern troubles is
without foundation.
FULLY 1900 workingmeu met at Chi
cago ON the night OF the l0;h for the pur'
pose of discussing the eight hour move
ment.
FoUR men were killed and several in-
jured by a falling wall at Lawrence,
Mass, on the 10th.
4 MEETING of citizens of Okolona, Miss,
passed resolutions condemning the recent
killing at Carrollton, Miss.
TuE Senate on the l2th, ly vote Of 81
to = decided against considering condrma-
lions in open session.
THADDEUS FNRBANKs, the celebrated
scale manufacturer, died at st. Johnsburg,
W., on the 18th, sged 20.
WATER VALLEY and Duck Hill. Miss,
will not impose the corporation tax on
commercial travellers.
SEEAroR JACKSON of Tennessee, was on
the 18th appointed and confirmed as Judge
Of the sixth judicial district.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the mlnts during the week ending ON
the 10th was Sl63SsS.
A MAN named John Wagner, confined in
jail at Eau Claire, Wis, committed sui.
eide on the 18th from n fear of being
lynched.
THr net gold coin aud bullion in the Y.
$. treasury April lst was Sla3, 32a, ,S5>. an
increase of 81 ~, ,aG5 since July 3ist
The time OF meeting of the Mississippi
Press Association has been changed from
the l2th TO the 18th Of May.
mrs. THOMAS BRowS, Of Georgetown,
Tenn, died Oh TIE lath of heart disease.
The shock broke her husbands heart.
The two were buried In one grave.
FokTY.Two freight cars were huraed nt
East St. Louis on the 10th. representing a
loss Of $4,000. exclusive Of the contents Of
tie cars, All the rsrs we,s loaded.
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17
It Is So Different Now.

Mrs. Schoeppenstedt was reading the
paper the other evening, when all of a
sudden she burst out crying.
"Well, well, Welt" exclaimed Schoep-
penstedt, petulantly. Whats the
matter nowP'
"Oh, d-d-dear,n sobbed Mrs s.. tu-
multuously, "th-there's an article in
the p-paper here (sob) th-that says a
G-german chemist has (sob) d-discoy-
cred an extract from (sob) c-c-coal-tar
that is (sob) 230 t-times sweeter than
sh sh-sugar!' and the good lady al
most went into Mysteries with grief.
well" said Schoeppcnstedt, sar-
castically, II don't see any thing in
that statement that is peculiarly liable
TO excite feminine emotion
mo, d-dear," returned Mrs. Schoep-
penstcdt, trying to calm herself little,
"b-but il d-did 80 remind me (sob) OF
the w-way you used to t-talk (sob) b-be-
fore we were unmarried. - SomerUile
Journal
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17
EXPENSIVE SPORT.
How an Innocent Agriculturist's Wife n.
creases Her Pin-Money.


Occasionally a mighty Nimrod from
the city comes out to hunt game in NV
neiphborhood, "said Greenfield farmer
"a few days ago saw swell of a chan
edging up through my sugar bush "a
the wheat field. He had on long-legpea
boots, and was toggled and belted and
strapped out in regular hunter fashion
He looked just too purity for any thing
He carried darling of a gun, and bs
went dodging around as if he expected
to start up Bengal tiger from behind
every stump. / took short cut to thu
barn and turned the old peacock loose
The old bird understood what was
wanted of him. He pulled down his
eve at me and started for the back lots
followed down along the fence, and
pretty soon | saw that swell hunter
break cover from the woods. He was
after quail, and he soon sighted the pea.
cock. The bird had his tail famed ont
and his head up, and could be seen hall
a mile away. Nimrod got his gun of
his shoulder and began to creep up, and
by and by he bazed away. l saw the
whole charge of shot tear into the
ground yards away from the old bird,
but he knew his business. Down he
fell, wings and legs Topping. and pretty
soon he expired. The young man with
the darling of gun reached him about
the same time did.
.' Beautiful shot, says he.
"I reckon, says |, but what are you
hunting?"
"Grousc, says he, and this is the
finest one ever saw
"Grouse, you numbskull, but you
have killed my peacock!
"Well, the usual results followed
His chin began to quiver, the cold sweat
started out, and he wanted to know how
much would take TO let him off. |
sent him to the house to see the old
woman. She has got way Of wiping
her eyes and choking her voice over the
death of that peacock which always
brings in five dollars extra. She let
this young swell off for ten dollars,
which is the usual price, and as he
started down the highway for Detroit
the old bird got up and marched back
to the barn with a chuckle that set every
hen to laughing. That's five times
we've played it on the swell Nimrods
within six months, and | expect more
fun this summer than horse can
draw. .n-Detr0u Free Press.
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17
Receptlon OF the Chlnese Embassy.

SAN FRANCISCO, April l2.-Port Col.
lector Hagar, Surveyor Tinnen and Su-
perintendent Lawton of the Mint, called
on the Chinese embassy at the Palace Ho-
tel The Chinese minister was assured
that there was no intention on the part Of
the Government officers to treat his Gov
eminent or himself with discourtesy on
obtain identification of his official charac-
ter. Superintendent Lawton extended
an invitation to the Minister TO visit and
examine the workings of the mint, which
was accepted.
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17

on the sth an unknown schooner went
ashore during the storm at South West
Harlor, Me-, and her entire crew is sup
posed 10 have been drowned.
ON the 9Th one Wilson, at Flint, Mich,
killed his little daughter by pouring creo-
sote down her throat because her mother
maltreated her.
on the 9th W. ID. Carpenter, who lost his
situation in the Burlington a Missouri
railway headquarters at Omaha about one
week previously died from the effects OF
morphine, supposed to have been taken
with suicidal intent. This made the fourth
suicide from morphine in Omaha in five
days to date.
ON the 9th In riot at Lyons, France, one
woman was shot dead, several wounded,
and the sub-prefect and three OF his gen
darmes were wounded.
OK the night of the ssh In quarrel at
Suterville, Pa, George Sheaffer, a ferry
man, struck Martin Suter, the owner Of a
rival ferry, on the head with a large piece
Of limestone, crushing his skull and in
ficting fatal wound. Sheafrer fed, but
was captured after chase Of five miles.
The affair grew out of Il lawsuit which
was decided against Sheafrer.
On the 9th Mrs. W. McCarroll, registered
from Grayson County, Va, was found
dead in her bed at the Hattie House, Knox
vile, Tenn. Her son, occupying con-
Meeting room, was almost dead when
found, but may recover. Gas was turned
on in both apartments, and il is supposed
thoy blew II out before retiring.
A PAINTER named Charles +. Oliver,
aged thirty years, and benedict of only
q few weeks, fell from a house where he
was working at indianapolis, Ind, on the
9th, to the ground below, twenty-five feet,
crushing his skull with fatal effect. He
had Just recovered from a severe Illness,
and his fall is attributed TO weakness aris-
ing therefrom.
OK the 10th Henry Miller, a guard, was
murdered in tho Indian Territory by a
Cherokee prisoner named Big Chevy.
LATEST returns from Laredo, Tex, show
that seventeen were killed and nine
wounded in the recent street fight in that
city.
on the 10th Charles Archibald was MUIR
dered in his home at Chareton, la. Patrick
Kelly is under arrest for the crime,
On the 10th Ella Butts was held for MUIR
der in the second degree at Avoca, Neb.,
for the killing of her infant, which she
threw into a hog-pen.
On the 1lth G. j. Hood, r. II. Quimby
and Sam Qumby, surveyors, were drowned
while crossing the New river at Sunny
side, W. Va.
OS the night OF the 10th at Holyoke,
Mass, fire damaged the shop Of the Holy
oke Paper Company about $4,000. Thos.
Hayward, Waterman, was smothered to
death.
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17
iAnother STRIKE Threatened.

KANSAS City, April l2.-Fifteen sta
tion men on the Missouri Pacific above
Wyandotte quit work yesterday, pre-
sumably on account of threats made by
the strikers. The report comes from Ar
gentine, across the Kaw river, that two
Knights of Labor employed in the At.
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe yards there
were discharged yesterday. The Official
explanation OF the reason of the dis.
charge, 1t is said, was not satisfactory to
the men, and they threatened to strike.
No action of that sort, however, had
taken place up to late hour last night.
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17
A Result of the Eight-Hour Agitation.

WASHINGTON, April l2.--There is not
very bright outlook in the building
line this spring, owing to the threatened
strike Tor shorter hours by the carpenters
and contractors, and builders are not
very anxious for new work until the
labor question is satisfactorily solved.
A visit was paid by reporter Saturday
TO the leading architects and builders of
the district, as well as those who
make specially Of dealing in
real estate, and IL was the
universal opinion that business
would be retarded materially In the build.
Ing line unless some settlement was
speedily consumated.
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

In . riot at Laredo, Tex. on the Sth,
seven men were killed and fifteen wound :
ed
NoHAMMEDAN fanatics on the island Of
Mindanao, one of the Philippines, recently
burned large amount of church proper
ty. Twelve of them were killed and many
wounded by Spanish troops.
On the night Of the 9Th the boiler OF the
British steamer Enchantress, ashore on
Frying-Pan Shoals, exploded. Three
wreckers were badly scalded, one danger
ously.
AMARRIKD woman, named Mclaughlin,
ayslinn, six miles sonth of Westport, Coun.
ty Mayo, Ireland.
MRS. JAMES G.. DoRr and family, con-
sisting Of herself and three grown children
ut Omaha, Neb., were emysteriously poi
soned on the 1th. All were taken sick ten
minutes after eating breakfast. The
mother died in great agony, but the chill
dren will recover. The food was ana
lyxed, bot no traces Of poison could be
found.
On the sth Robert @. Phillips, the wife
murderer, vas hanged at indianapolis.
ON the sth many valuable pictures were
burned and pieces OF statuary damaged
By Ore I'm the Pennsylvania Academy Of
Fine Arts at Philadelphia.
THE body of Carl Bender was found on
the 4th at the head OF Prairie Gulch, near
Townsend, M. T. He had been working in
quartz mill near Townsend, and was
paid off ON the I'd, when he started for
Radaersburg. He perished in severe
storm which ragged on the I'd and 3D..
On the morning of the sth mail car on
L. Ghsre train No. 4, with mail matter
Apln - Wess for all Important points
~ He1o1o caaght nss jsst wsst e OalE
~ car va s4deStrscksd as
G1 - - GeDss had suoh con.
\ - ~ ~ ~ coaosas WegU -.
es1gmeA Co., = ~ usklewn.
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17
A man named Hall recently sol

A man named Hall recently sold
out what he supposed was worked-out
claim. near Sonora, Tuolumne County.
Cal, to some Cinnamon for five hum
dred dollars. The Cinnamon entered
into their work with the usual energy
characteristic of that race, and the first
day unearthed a can filled with twenty
dollar pieces. An examination of the
contents developed to the Mongolians $
eyes one thousand seven hundred dollars
in real bright twenties. They at first be-
came frightened and offered to divide
their find with Mr.. Hall. but that gentle.
man refused to accept the money, ana
at the same time informed the Mongol-
ians that they had paid him all the
claim was worth. and the treasure found
belonged TO them-Sdn Francisco
Chronicle.
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17

THE strike at McClure's cos'-worss,
Fverson, Pa, has ended satisfactorily 90
the miners. The firm granted all demands
and work was resumed ON the 9th. About
one thousand men were affected.
THE National convention az Indianapolis
Of Phi Kappa Psi adjourned on the sh,
after a grand banquet, 70 meet In wash.
ington city two years hence. An executive
council Of nine were elected, with Cow
ernor Foraker Of Ohio chairman. Thirty
five Of the thiriy-scven chapters ~ the Or
der reported satisfactorily, chiefly In per
son by delegates, otherwise hN letter,
DURING the seven days ended Tho oh ths
business failures numbered for tAe United
States l7S and for Canada q, against a
total OF sii for tho preceding wcos and 81
the week previous, rae failures arr lisht
in every section ~ the country except IN
Western and Pacific States and in Cana
da.
THS oaiciai crop rrpor, trom the DEPART
ment II Agriculture estimates reduction
Of $3.50 elo acres IN the winter wheat area
from that ~ tive vcags ago.
THv differences between the Vatican
aud the PruSsian Government on the Ec-
closlastical h.u have not yet been fully
adjusted.
SKvEN members Of the crew of the ship
Frank y. Thayer, ON board which amutiny
took place in the South Atlantic Ocean in
January. have arrived in Boston.
OK the 10th public demonstration was
made against Gladstone's Irish proposals
BY the Orangemen en- of Armagh.
A LARGE number OF Germans, expelled
from Belgium for alleged completely in the
recent riots. have arrived in Prussia.
TuE Belgian government has ordered
thorough search of the residences OF all
known anarchists in Belgium for the pur-
pose of procuring evidence against them,
EFFORTS are being made to secure the In
ternational Exposition of 1892 for WASH
ington.
THE Egyptian Government is ready to
deliver at Suez samples of the petroleum
discovered in the Soudan.
A NEW law requires all nuns and priests
now teaching in the public schools Of
France to be replaced by lay teachers.
Az effort is to be made to have the Smith
sonian Institution, the National museum
and the Botanical gardens at Washington
opened on Sundays.
1T is said the Congressional appropra-
tion OF five and a half million dollars for a
library building will be barely half what
the proposed site will cost.
The Osceola times., 1886-04-17
rowderiy and o'Neilrs Arbitration Ru

WAsHNGToN, April l2.-General Mas
ter Workman Powderly writes TO Con-
gressman O'Nell to say that his views on
the Arbitration bill have been incorrectly
reported and published. He is well
pleased with the action taken 'on it by
Congress, for, aside from the merits of
the measure, II shows the growth of A
sentiment and feeling in Congress favor
able to the principle of arbitration. He
thinks Mr.. O'Neill's bill the best that
could have been passed.