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Milford chronicle., 1889-03-29

Children's scalps are often badly affected
with dandruf. A correspondent advises the
following remedy: One ounce dour Of sui
phur and one quart rain water. shake sew
eral times and let stand over night, or for
several hours Strain the clear liquid, which
use as an ordinary hair dressing. Before
using give the hair good brushing with
Milford chronicle., 1889-03-29

stops to let of passengers from Philadelphia
and Wilmington.
stops TO take on passengers for Wilmington
and Philadelphia.
NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRAINS
Leave Wilmington at 500 a. m. and 2.55 D. m.
Leave New Castle lt 6.85 a. m. and 3.35 p m.
Express tram leaving Harrington at 50 a NJ
and arriving at > "A y m, runs through sohd, to
and from Baltimore, via Porters and Newark.
BRANCH ROADS,
DELAwARB, MARYLAND & VIRGINIA r. R.
Leave Harrington for Lewes Hos m. and A.
p. m. Returning, trains leave Lewes for Bauing
ton 35 a. IN. and IS p. m. Leave Franklin Us
a. m.
For Berlin leaves Harrington II 05 m. Re-
turning leaves Berlin o. n. m.
QUEEN ANNE & KENT X. R--Leave Townsend
for Centreville aRd way stations $50 a. m. and
7.44 p. weekdays.
DEL. & CHESAPEAKE r. R-Leave Clayton for
Oxford and way stations at 1905 a. m. and 5,li p
m. weekdays.
CAMBRIDaE & SEAFORD r. R.-Leave Seaford
for Cambridge and intermediate stations at l1.50
q. m. week. days.
CHAS e. PUGH, General Manager.
J.R. WOOD. General Passenger Agent
Milford chronicle., 1889-03-29
Notice.

The undersigned begs to inform
his old patrons and the public gem
orally that he is still in the lumber
business, at the old stand, formerly
occupied by the late firm OF Barber
& Minors, where you will find a
complete stock of all kinds of build
ing materials, such as Framing, Ma
ryland and White Pine siding, Hem
lock barn, and White Pine of vari-
Gus grades. Flooring, shingles, lath,
doors, blinds and sash of all kinds;
all of which am offering at lowest
prices. Please give me a call before
buying elsewhere; Yours &c,
GEO. P. MINORS.
Milford chronicle., 1889-03-29
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

When Baby was sick, we gave her castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for castosia,
When she became Miss, she clung 70 carssria.
When ahehad children. she then caaaoria.
Milford chronicle., 1889-03-29

bfbTHBr cure guaranteed by Dr. } Mayer ssl
hbt bibh Arch street Phila Pa Ease AZ once No
opera ion or business delay Thousands cured send
for circulars. 9l1y
Milford chronicle., 1889-03-29

Hack leaves Smyrna about q hour before the
Boat starts. Fare to Philadelphia, 75 CTS.
Fare for Round Trip, Si25. No charge for con-
veyance to and from Rothwell's Landing.
Freight received at Philadelphia on Tuesdays.
Thursdays and Saturdays
Milford chronicle., 1889-03-29
His Last Trip.

Out in Englewood there was a young boy
tho son of a preacher-wAo agreed some
time ago to give a certain amount toward
the building of a new church. He started in
bravelY by saving al Of alS PENNIES, and he
earned considerable by doing odd jobs around
the town. As time wore on he found that
he was not reaching his promised mark, 50
no resolved to add to his little storo by selling
papers To this plan his mother reluctantly
consented, though she did not quite like the
idea Of his running about the trains at the
station After a time his mother asked him
to give up this practice, and one morning he
told her he had just about enough money,
and would make his final trip that day. II
was his final trip, indeed, for he slipped be-
tween the cars and was brought home q
mangled corpse.-Chicago Herald.
The Handsomest Lady in Milford,
remarked to a friend the other day that she
knew Kemp's Balsom for the Throat and
Lungs was superior remedy, as it stopped
her cough instantly when other cough rene
dies had no effect whatever So to prove
this and convince you of its merit any drug
eist will give you Sample Bottle Free.
Sarge size soc and S.
Milford chronicle., 1889-03-29
P. w. & B. Railroad
DELAWARE nINIGION

On and after December 10th. 1888. (Sundays ex-
cepted) trains will be run as follows.
GOING SOUTH. AN. A.M.P.m.P.M
Milford chronicle., 1889-03-29

boy the burning deck. "Say father again he 1ed
Whence all he fed; my patience clean gone!"
amid booming shots replied
i box and. calling, said the flames rolled
Say say may Then burst of thundersound-
non this box and waltz" boy oh where he?
ad then permit Upon high did he bound,
}-yno on that he Then hoated
a box of SOAR
And buoyanty j bore
That gallant child, who neer lost hope
Safe the sandy shore.
A WORD OF WARNING.
there are many white soaps represented good the kOy'"
.ey NOT countert the peculiar and remarkable qualities
genuine Ask for Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting it
Copyright lss5 by Pocter& Gamb
Milford chronicle., 1889-03-29
MARCH.

Will be landed in Philadelphia in good
season for Market.
FIySt-claSS accommodation for sfonk Of
all Kinds.
Bags Furnished And Grain Carried At
Lowest Rates.
Passenger Accommodations frst-class
Ladies Saloon, Gentlemen's Saloon
and Private State Rooms
Milford chronicle., 1889-03-29

Tt Is Not Necessary to believe That the
World Is Only 6.OOO Years OId-Joshua's
Command to the sun and Moon-The
Whale Swallowing Jonah.
Milford chronicle., 1889-03-29
AZ Georgetown tTains connect Win l7ains TO ahu
from Franklin City.
Going South read up
South.

n ! UIT-TII II ~ = ITII0I17T
I. N. Mills, superintendent,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-22
What Killed President Harrison.
baltimore Herald

There's President Harrison, who died so
soon after he got into the White House
They all say he died from excitement,
nervous prostration, and all that. But the
man who waited on him said he died from
too much dinner.
He had been in the White House but
& few days when he told the waiter he
had brought from Indiana to get him
what he called regular old-fashioned
North Bend dinner. That was Mr.. Harri-
sons home in Indiana, and his order meant
cabbage, picked pork, fresh roast pork,
peas, cucumbers, and sweet potatoes, with
corn-meal fritters for dessert
THAT was on a day that Mr.. Webster
had long talk with him. Mr.. Webster
was IN his Cabinet, and he said: 'Harri-
son, If these office seekers don't kill YOU
that dinner will Well, sir, he never saw
q well moment after that dinner. He had
indigestion, headaches, and swimming in
his head, and they say his mind wasn't
right till b. died 1t might have been
something else, but [ believe it was that
Ainner that caused his death"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-22
CUTTING GLASS.
How the vitreous Article May Be Gu,
with q Pair of Scissors.

with q Pair of Scissors.
Pittsburgh Dispatchl
Many persons may not be awar> that
glass can be cut under water with greatest
ease, to almost any shape, by simply using
a pair Of shears or strong scissors. In
order to insure success two points must be
attended to-first and most important, the
glass must be kept quite level in the water
while the scissors are applied; and ser-
ondly, to avoid risk, it is better to begin
the cutting by taking off small pieces at the
corners and along the edges, and to reduce
the shape gradually to that required, for
If any attempt is made to cut the glass to
the shape as we would cut piece of card
board it will be most likely to break just
where it is not wanted. Some kinds of
glass cut much better than others; the
softer glass is the best for this purpose.
The scissors need not depend on the state
of the edge presented to the glass. When
the operation goes on well the glass breaks
away from the scissors in small pieces in
a straight line with the blades. This
method of cutting glass has often been Of
service when diamond has not been at
hand, for cutting ovals and segments, and
though the edges are not as smooth as
might be desired for some purposes, it will
answer in many cases. The two hints
given above, if strictly folio W ed, will al.
WAYS insure success.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-22

looked like little black bali. Some COM
pared it to dumb bell, the neck being the
middle, the body ono ball and the head the
other.
At the funeral in the Shiloh Methodist
Church, the armless and legless child was
carried into the church as the only
mourner, by the colored minister's wife,
and at least 1900 people crowded IN the
church and about it to see the remarkable
sight
The coIored baby, which is called Absa-
lom Peter Johnson is remarkably bright
and intelligent. Though only six months
old it has voice like q E'1ongshoreman's,
and can be heard crying for milk six and
eight blocks Its voice is as strong and
well developed as that OF a man. 1t Is
thought that if it can be iput on wood.
en- legs and fitted with wooden arms when
it grows up it will make great actor,
though it may always be criticised as q
"wooden actor"
weeks old rs father was caught stealing
turkeys and was given three days to leave
the State. He disappeared and has not
since been heard Of; and the general safe
ty Of chicken roosts here produces the inn
preston that he has left the State.
The child has no guardian or protector,
and the people are puzzled to know what
to do with it. Some of the colored people
propose to rattle it off at the church fair
next week in the African Methodist
Church. Mrs. Calvin Sim pson, the wife OF
the colored member of the Legislature
from this county, offers to keep "a table"
for the baby. A colored mechanic here
has made chair for the baby to sit in
while being ratified off.
1t looks night as if the colored church
fair would come off without this rattle, for
it was learned this afternoon that circus
agent had come into town to buy all til .
chances. Letters have been received from
half dozen circus proprietors, besides
half dozen Geographic dispatches from
Barnum, Bailey & Hutchinson's show at
Bridgeport, Conn. Three or four side
shows have offered to adopt this baby.
The feeling in San Antonio is strong
against having the child adopt a circus
or seven years old, the colored people say,
it will be big enough to judge for itself.
The colored Methodist shepherd has
taken a great interest in the baby. He
says that If it has no legs and arms it can
lean on religion, and that the Methodist
Church will be sufficient for 1t to stand on.
A mechanical engineer looked at the
child to-day and said that It would be pos
sible to make IL walk and feed itself, Tor
he said that it could be provided with
wooden legs and arms, fastened on by an
ingenious mechanical arrangement and
connecting with the neck by system Of
elastic bands and springs so that by the
movement Of the neck the legs could be
made to go and the arms to perform their
functions.
At present the child moves across the
floor by rolling like ball. 1t is not be.
lieved that he should go rolling through
life, and an effort will be made when he
gets larger to procure some device which
will partly supply the place of his legs and
arms. 1t is thought that if wooden legs
could be made for him he could get along
without arms, because he could learn to
eat with his toes.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-22
A Man to Whom All Eggs Are Bad.
ATLANTA Constitutions


There is gentleman living in Hamilton
to whose system egg is poison. A sip of
coffee settled with egg unsettles his stom-
ach and makes him sick. The presence of
egg in anything he eats nauseates him and
less than the twentieth part of one egg has
made him sick for days. To handle broken
eggs biissers his fingers, and to
eat single egg, he thinks, would kill him,
and his friends who have noticed closely
the effect eggs have on his system agree
with him. His is constitutional antip-
athy to egg, and he would decide in favor
Of the arsenic if forced to decide between
an equal quantity OF it or egg. He is q
man of robust constitution and his case Is
uost singular
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-22
WITHOUT LEGS OR ARMS.
Entry Into Social Life of 3 Child Thai
Can Neither Fight Nor Run.
lSan Antonio fTex.l Special

This city is marveling over the birth OF
. colored baby that has neither legs nor
arms. The child is six months old, bu {
nothing concerning its singular lack of all
the members Of motion that belong TO the
human body was known until yesterday.
Its mother died suddenly of heart disease.
Neighbors came in to perform the last
kind offices for the dead. When they
lifted the child out of the cradle they dis
covered that it had no legs and NO arms.
Their astonishment was great. Tae news
spread through the town, and thousands
OF peonla CANA to saA tia infant which
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-22

Wedding and Party Invitations. en-
graved or printed. at the Wichita EAGLE
a.. -
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-22
DIRECTORS:
81. Loui. san Francisco rran servic.

The Frisco line are now running il their
palace chair cars and Pullman palsce
sleeping cars from Wichita 10 St Louis,
without change. The Frisco is the only
line running two solid trains between
these points without change of any class.
Morning train now leaves Wichita at lc.i0
a N. and evening train At 1000 p. Ia w.
D. Murdoch, passenger and ticket agent.
l22 North Main street Union depot and
Douglas avenue station S7-ff
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-12

ocratic side of the Senate the neul
from Paris shows that these tactlek
are as full of peril as they are 4
honor. We learn that 1.-THE debate ii
the American Senate on the Panama
Canal excites i'll will here" amI
"that a friend of De Lesseps assert.
that in 1877 the latter could not ps.
from our Minister any statement 4
} to the attitude of our government,
And Boulanger, always ready to sei,a
on any occasion to embarrass the
government, yesterday stirred'up The
owners Of the Panama stock by such
language as this: "You may rRt
assured of my support. I do not d.
sire to enter on the discussion Of
Bourse questions. but l know thatln
regard to the Panama enterprise he
Government and Chambers moraHy
entered into engagements which thew
have not fulfilled" ThereuponAe
General subscribed for twentyaye
additional shares of the canal sto.k.
These are the instant results ofh.
decision and factious oppositionon
the Democratic side of the Sense.
Considering that there is mataal
enough for French revolution inhe
inevitable bursting of the DE b.
seps bubble and that Boulangeis
ready for any desperate expedien0i
little more fooling by the Democrti
Senators will involve the grves
danger of series of French femon
STATIONS that will almost cdnpel
war, war blundered into and pre-
cipitated by a failurs ofpatrioti
steadiness and of adherence to tn
best American traditi,ns.
"Peace with honor is tie ultima
tum proposed by the Ednunds reso
luton. If the FrenG people are toll
the exact truth as tcAmerican senti
ment and policy, tley will heed gu
protest and we shall have peace. Blu
if the French denagogues and tn
desperate holders of Panama Cana
stock and bonds are led to beliey
that Southern D.mocratic statesman
ship has sunk blow the level of Tn
Monroe doctrine, they will take fear
full chances andthe American peopl
will be forced to show that they hay
not forgotten nor forsaken the doc
trine and policy that bear the. nam
OF one of the most pacific and saga
cious of their Presidents. ~. I
Nail and Express.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-12

The House committee on invalid
pensions has decided to report bill
making an increase in the amount of
the pensions allowed for amputated
limbs. The bill will also contain a
provision allowing an additional pen
sion to persons who now receive a
pension for amputed limbs. but who
are also suffering from gunshot
wounds. for which no pension is now
allowed. The amount of increase,
however, has not yet been determin.
ed upon. The committee has also
agreed to report favorably bill pro-
posing to increase the rate of pension
for total inability to perform manual
labor from $50 (the present rate) to
$50 per month /; for loss of an arm be-
low the elbow, from $50 to S36; for
loss of an arm above the elbow, from
$36 to $40, and for loss of an arm at
the shoulder, from $40 to $50.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-12
Industrial DeVelOVement.

Among the many Furnishing in.
dustries of Baltimore city are its cot
ton mills grouped mainly in the SUI
bury of Woodberry, which has a large
industrial population. In recent
years Baltimore capital has largely
turned in the direction of building up
local manufactures. The "small in.
dustries" have multiplied very great
~. and in few years they will be
of the first importance. In this line
of productive enterprise the Balti-
more San has been long a recognized
leader, and the stimulation it has
given to industrial progress is one OF
the best things in its useful and hon.
orable record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-12

Correspondingly low rates are made
flom other stations on the line.
The tickets will be good for return
trip on all regular trains until Janu-
ary Goth, inclusive.
Through Parlor Cars will be placed
on day train and Sleeping Cars on
night train. The tickets will be
available to and from Baltimore but
must be used for continuous passage
in both directions. No better time
could be chosen for a visit to the Ma
tional Capital, Congress will be in
session and the Galleries of both
Hauses, as we'll as all other public
buildings, will be open to visitors.
The long limit on the excursion
tickets allows ample time for visiting
Alexandria. Mt. Vernon, Richmond,
Old Point Comfort and other points
of interest within easy reach of Wash
ington.
For Tickets and Parlor or Sleeping
Car accommodations and illustrated
guide to points Of interest in and
around Washington. call upon or adj
dress, Agents B. o o. R. r.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-12
The Curse of the Age.

This is an age of speculation.
Thousands crowd around the stock
ticker every day thousands more
watch the grain gambling all the
pool rooms are filed with men and
youths whose faces show how often
the right horses do not win. All the
lotteries, all the policy shops. all the
gambling dens have their victims,
and the supply is undiminishingly
large. The poor sheep are sheared
and are sent poyerty-stricken to do
the best they can in the cold. cold
world; but other sheep come tumb-
ling into the pitfalls, and the gam
blers roll up their bank accounts and
drive their fast horses and wonder
why anybody complains of hard
times.
There is an element of speculation
in all departments of business. but in
its normal condition it is one ele-
ment of the many. 1t is bit of alco-
holic sauce in the food of trade. In
that state it is perfectly safe, and it
acts as tonic for business and bust
ness men.
But the trouble with too many
people is that they want to throw
away the food and get drunk on the
sauce.
Right there is where the mischief
comes in. When once they begin,
inebriation results. and reform is a
very difficult matter-so difficult that
few ever accomplish it. About the
only thing that can make the profess
sional Spectator repent is bankrupt
cy. 1t is bad medicine. but nine
spectators out of ten have to take it
without swearing by all the strength
of their moral natures that they will
never get i'll that way again. But it
is the same old story of the devil
who was sick.
Some make fortunes by specula-
ton. "Old Hutch" the prize rob
her of the Chicago board, las made
over four million dollars in less than
that many weeks ; but while think
ing of this. remember the hundreds
o: men his scheme of robbery has
impoverished In fact, speculation
is a grim architect. He builds prince
ly fortunes on the bones of those he
ruins. He drives his favOrites in a
Juggernaut over the forms of his
wretched devotees.
The mania ofspeculation is ruinous
to correct business methods. 1t un
settles a man, makes him inconstanl
and facilitating, Injuries his useful.
ness as "a straightforward worker and
destroys his steady principles and
honest purposes. Young men start
! ing out in life should avoid it as they
w Ould curse,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-12
Facts About the Presidency.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat.

ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
A good many men have been chos.
en- to the presidency who failed to Sc
cure a majority of the votes of the
people. These men were John Quin-
cy Adams, James X. Polk, Zachary
Taylor, James Buchanan, Abraham
Lincoln l1S60l, Rutherford B. Hayes,
James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland
and Benjamin Harrison. OF these.
Adams. Hayes and Harrison were
beaten at the ballot-boX by their
principal opponents. Adams was
made president by the House of Rep
resentatiyes +; and Hayes had, and
Harrison will have, a majority in
the Electoral College, Polk, Taylor.
Buchanan, Lincoln, Garfield and
Cleveland, who had majorities in the
Electoral College, led their leading
antagonists at the polls, but did not
obtain half of the popular vote.
Fourteen presidents have been elect
ed since 1924. including the one chos-
en- in that year, in the seventeen
elections held between that time and
this. Only FIVE of them, however
received a majority of the vote OF the
people. All of the fourteen. except
Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Blu
rem, William Henry Harrison,
Franklin Pierce and Ulysses S. Grant
have been minority presidents. The
individuals who suppose that Benja-
min Harrison is the only president
whose vote at the polls was exceeded
either by that of his opponents in the
aggregate or by that of anyone of
them are ignorant of American pollt.
ical history.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-12
The Publishing and Patent Offices OF
the Scientific American.


Perhaps some of our readers have
visited the extensive offices CT the
Scientific american, at 365 Broadway
New York, but many have not, and
to SUCH the following accounts may
be of interest, A correspondent who
aesently had this pleasure informs Us
that ne was greatly surprised aFA1s
magnitude of the establishment. 1t
suggested to his mind an enormous
insurance company or banking house.
AT the main Office. which is princi.
pally devoted to the patent business
forming as it does so important q
part of the establishment-may be
seen the members of the firm and
their able corps of examiners. Ready
access to the principals is afforded to
every one; and here may be seen in
venters from all parts of the country
showing their models and drawings,
and explaining their inventions. The
models left by inventors form a large
and interesting collection, and are
kept in a room by themselves. The
large corps of draughtsmen who pre-
pare the patent drawings are for the
most part experienced mechanics.
electricians, or engineers, some of
them having been connected with
the U. S. Patent Office. Most of the
correspondence Is carried ON by type
writer's, and this necessltates seper.
ate department, where a number of
experienced female type writers and
stenographers are constantly EN-.
ployed. The dark room, where the
photographs of the patent drawings
are copied. and where the photo.
graphs for the architectural depart.
mdnt are developed, is also on this
floor. On the floor above may be
found the editorial rooms, compost
tors and subscription room, aud the
engravers' department.
The Architectural Departments
cnpies the top floor. and here may b
seen the manager of this department
and also a number of draughtsmen a
work preparing the plans ahd genera
designs of the architect and Builde
edition of the Scientific american
which is published monthly, an,
has attained a widespread circuIa
ton. The printing of the papers i
carried on in seperate building. A
the entrance of the main Office, wbicI
alone occupies floor space of 6Oxle
feet. may be seen one of Prof, Dram
er's remarkable recording barome
tiers, with which instrument a com
plete record is kept of the atmos
pheric changes. This barometer wa
built especially for the iScienti6,
american and it is a remarkably fin.
and sensitive as we'll as very ex
pensive instrument.
Some idea may be had of the en-.
tent of the business done at the offic,
of the Scientific American when W.
state that over one hundred person,
are employed by Mum & Co. or
their several publications and in thei,
extensive patent departments.