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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-23
Waterbury Women! Hold Their Own Against ths World !

No wonder we are all crazy about them Just think of it Ten hundred and twenty-six babies born in Waterbury in the year of our Lord, 1888. We have taken upon ourselves the pleasant task of furnishing them with BABY CARRIAGES, the price and style of which will force everybody to come here for fifty miles around. We have bought out whole factory. Listen to the song of the children:
 Little Sally Waters,
 Sitting in the sun,
 Crying and weeping
 To have little run.
 She wants Baby Carriage,
 Such as we have got in stock,
 20 GRAND ST is the place
 For the Babies on our block" We have stocked up for the spring trade ill every department and we cannot be undersold.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-23

Entered as second class matter at the Water bury Postoffice.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-10-25
CHRISTIAN 4. KNAPP.
FIRE INSURANCE,
BLOOMSBURY.

Home of N. y; Merchants, Of Newark, N.
J. ) Clinton, N. Y. Peoples N. Y. Reading
Pa German American fns. Co., New York.
Greenwich Insurance Co., New York Jersey
City Fire las. Co, Jersey City, N. J.
These old corporations are well seasoned by
age and FIRE TESTED and have never yet had h
loss settled by any court Of law. Their assets
are all invested in SOLID SECURITIES, are liable
to the hazard OF FIRE only.
end paid as soon as determined, by CHRIST
{AK F. KNAPP, SPECIAL AGENT AND AD-
sUsTEE, BLooHsBURG, PA.
Yhe people OF Columbia county should pat
fonhe The agency where losses, if any, are set
tied and paid by one OF their own citizens.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-10-25
SPECIAL PREMIUMS.

Best home made cake, Miss Mary AK
man. ,...,, ....,., ,"Pyles Pearline.'
Best piece hand made fancy work, Mrs.
X. Kitchen, en,....,,,.,...,"Pyles Pearline.n
Best roll, jar or tub bu tier, Agnes
kitehen,,.;- ,"Pyles Pearline."
Best loaf bread, Mrs, A. j. Maus,
"Pyles PeaFline.n %
The display made OF stuffed birds and ami
mails by Charles IL, Eldon, TaXidermist, of
Williamsport was the &c ntre of attraction
and deserves special men tiOn. The than ks
OF the Society are eNtende TO Mr. EldOn for
his addition To our exhibit ion.
NJ. p. LUfL, Secretary.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-10-25
Award List.

Premiums awarded at the thirty-nitA annual
Fair, of the Columbia County Agricultural So
18th, l9th. 1889.
GLASS 1.
CARR ,aK AND LIGHT DRAUGHT HoRsEs, hAExs
AND COLTS.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
Too Modest To BE Honest.

care you the editor of the paper?"
al am. What can do for you?"
"Well, l just thought I'd step up and
see how you are. My wife and l are
going TO Cape May tomorrow.
"lndeed?"
Eyes; but / wouldn't have anything
said about it in print, OF course. My
name is Simpkins Az ,riah Simpkins.
"Glad TO meet you, Mr.. Simpkins,
I'm sure"
Now, don't go to putin any thing
into the paper about our going away.
We start at o'clock, and | reckon
we'll be gone pretty near a month.
need the rest, and Mrs. Simpkins was
getting kind OF run down. OF course
know how anxious you newspaper men
always are for an item. bot we're plain
people, and don't want any notorie ty.
My wife always likes to see 'Simpkins'
spelt without a 'p,' but the old-fash-
toned way is good enough for me.
VOL. know an editors time is valuable,
so I'll say good day. II come ac. Jss
any murders or anything while I'm
gone I'll let you know about them
Washington Critic.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
Race Diseases. Whites and Blacks.

As the result of extended observa-
tons, including thousands of cases, 36
per cent being negroes and mulat-
toes, Dr. L. McLane Tiffany OF Balti-
more finds some marked differences in
the diseases OF whites and blacks.
Thus, spinal carries Is more frequently
located in the dorsal region OF the
negro, and q cured case OF Potts
disease in the middle-aged negro is
very rare; discoloratiOns are most fire.
quent in the white, as is also lateral
curvature OF the spine; keloid is char
enthusiastically more frequent in the
negro, likewise lipoma; sebaceous cyst.
SO per cent. among whites, and, although
DR.. Tiffany has never seon an
epithelioma of the lip or any part OF the
face in u negro, oSteo-sarcoma is often
met with in the race. In hospital cases
the negroes bear operations better as a
rule than the whites, but their re lction
after accidents is not so good as that of
the latter. DR.. Tiffany concludes that
surgical affections pursue different
courses in the white and colored races
under identical hygenic surrounding;
that surgical diseases involving the lynn
phatic, system especially tubercular
are more fatal in negroes than in whites;
that congenital deformities are more
rare in negroes than in whites; and
that surgical differences observed be-
tween negroes and whites are due to
racial peculiarities.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
A -Four Legged Smuggler.


A story is told at Police Station OF
a small gray kitten, which belongs
there. Three prisoners were brought in
one night and locked up. Two Of them
were women and one was man. The
cellroom is large apartment. the iron
pens placed in the center, with open
ings facing the four walls. The wo-
men were on one side and the men on
the other. Soon after they had been
locked up the women triod to relieve
their feelings by preparing to smoke
cigarettes, but they had no matches.
The man, on the other hand. had
matches, but no tobacco. While de-
batting what to do, the kitten came in
the woman's apartment and warm
friendship Immediately sprang up be-
tween them. Then came the idea OF
turning their new found friend to some
practical use. The women took some
tobacco and. tying IL in small bundle,
fastened it to the kittens neck, and the
man on the other side called the little
animal, which Immediately ran to him
with its burden. which was removed,
and some OF his matches were placed
about its neck and a call from the wo.
men brought ID back to them. Buffalo
Express.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
The Charter Oak.

Much of Hartford clusters around the
Charter Oak, although that famous
tree is now only a memory, revered by
the townspeople. Thirty-two years
ago it was blown down in a storm and
its remains were made into many pre-
cious relics. Our old friend MARK
Twain who lives in Hartford, and
therefore knows much of the matter,
says he has seen all conceivable arti-
Giles made out of this precious timber.
there being, among others, "a walking
stick, dog collar, needle case, three
legged STOOL boot-jack, dinner table,
ten-pin alley, toothpick, and enough
Charter Oak TO build a plank road
from Hartford TO Great Salt Lake
City This ancient tree concealed
the original royal character OF the col
ony, when, in 1857 the tyrannical
Gov, Andres demanded its surrender.
While the subject was being discussed
in the Legislature the lights were put
out, and in the darkness bold colo
mist seized it, and, running out hid
abe precious document in the hollow of
the oak. A marble slab now marks
the place on Charter Oak Hilln
where the tree stood, alongside
Charter Oak place" and Charter
Oak avenue lie DIS up to it. The fine
statue surrounding the capitol dome,
and representing the female genius of
Connecticut which overloolls the city
with outstretched hand. is browning
the municipality with wreath of Char
ter Oak leaves. The oak leaf is re-
peated in many ways in the gorgeous
decoration within and upon the capi-
toll building, and also upon many
structures throughout the city. The
name of the Charter Oak" is given to
bank, life insurance company and
many other institutions of the solid
community, who are blessed with
his honorcd memory.-Philadelphia
Ledger.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
Summer Quip,.
THE LINK.

THE LINK.
The dude from being human
But narrowly escapes;
For though he doesn't ape nature
He's one Of natures apes.
Press.
ESPECIALLY SHEARS.
Most of us kick when times are close
And trade is in lull,
But the scissors-grinder makes the most
When everything Is dull.
-World-Herald.
NO, NEVER
Shall strangers in the northern land
Defy the sign OF star and stripel
Shall England pluck with ruthless hand
Our sealskin sacques before they're ripoi
Washington Capital.
CALL UP YOUR FoRTITUDE.
We can stand the heat OF summer
In the city's crowded streets,
Can endure the bumptious drummer
And the story he repeats.
But one thought our fond hope dishes,
And our peace is gone, alack!
For, with tales OF strings OF fishes,
Now the liars coming back.
-Eoston Budget.
HAIL TO THE RAIN.
Day after day the rain came down,
The skies were of "a leaden hue,
And not single one In town
Asked, Is this hot enough for youl
The days were wet but they were cool,
There was no wrangling DER base ball.
And people said this life Is full
OF compensations, after all
Boston Courier.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
A Book CanyaSser.

have often thought that the publ
cation of my experience in big city,
trying to make u living, would benefit
young women who are anxious to get
away from country homes. Both my
brother and had every reason to ex-
pect that we would be successful when
we came TO st. Louis from New
Orleans. My brother was drowned,
my landlady went TO Chicago and
would you believe it'll had hard
enough time to find another boarding
house, even though Ipawned my watch
and my bracelets, and offered TO pay
in advance. After got into home
on Washington avenue it was struggle,
struggle, struggle for three months,
with a little help from the Woman's
Exchange, to pay my room rent and
buy two meals day. | am well enough
satisfied with the employment | have
now. l canvass for Bulwers works
and an encyclopedia. get 81 for each
Bulwer order take and So for each en-
cyclopedia, and | don't have any trouble
about collecting the money. That is
done by man. | don't go about my
work in haphazard fashion, and 50 [
am fairly lucky. | never approach u
gentleman until | know at least his
name, ard if he is busy when / call |
give him Il card and ask him to let me
call again. / count upon making be-
tween $50 and $40 n week. / have new
er had to suffer extreme rudeness but
once, and, it may seem strange to you,
the person who was uncivil to me was
a woman. She was stenographer in
a lawyers office. / came in when she
was alone, said | would wait for him
and sat down. She looked me over
carefully, went TO her typewriter,
wrote on slip very cruel remark.
laid it on desk before my eyes and
went out of the room. | was so indig-
nant and hurt that went away; but l
got angry and went back at lunch time,
when that young lady was out nd sold
that lawyer Bulwer. / was awfully
tempted TO tell him about his stenog ra-
pher, but / didn't. Nellie Blalock, in
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
Preserving His Reputation.

II suppose you have heard of the
elopement"
mo. Who are the parties?'
George Emely and Susie Patton"
why they have been engaged for
several months and had already gain
cd the consent of their parents"
That's all right, but they have
cloped Just the same and what is more
the father of the girl pat up the job
and gave the girl 800 on the eve Of
her departure.
II don't understand il.
"Plain enough. The marriage was
to take place In month and 1t was to
be swell affair, but the father of the
girl net with some reverses and found
it impossible to pay the expenses of a
grand wedding, so he got them To
elope, thereby saving the expense OF n
wedding and getting sufficient gratui-
tous advertising To help him out In his
business. Carl Pretzel's WeeklT
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
The Great File Invention.

When l lived in Chicago queer
chap invented a cheap way to make
files. A bit of hot steel went into his
machine and the file was made at a
single blow and fell into a tank of
strong mineral water to cool. Then a
bare armed workman thrust in his
hand and felt around and brought it up
for inspection. The files thus made
were little imperfect, but were good
ones, and he explained that the ma
chine was small experimental one
and could not OF course, do perfect
work as a large and powerful machine
would. Capitalists went around and
examined the machine and saw him
heat the steel in Il hand forge and put
it in the machine and saw the red hot
file come out and drop into the water,
and they tried the file with their own
hands on iron which they had brought
from home and found il excellent. The
only secret was the chemical water
into which the files dropped and which
gave them edge. A company was
formed and money was paid in freely
to enable the inventor to make set OF
large machines, and when that was
done he disappeared. 1t was a fraud.
He had bought good files and defaced
them little. and stocked his tank
with them. His machine stamped the
bit OF steel into the file sharpers, and
it dropped into the water with the files,
and his workman. who W. in collision,
felt around and brought up file in
stead OF the steel. Argus.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
QUEER FREAK OF NATURE.
A Maryland Hin Sinking Into the
Earth Out OF Sight.


A curious freak OF nature is reported
in the lower end OF Dorchester county.
says letter from Cambridge. Md.
An old resident named Alfred James
was in town last week, and in speak
ing OF the affair said: Il have been
living on the strip of land that makes
out between the Wicomico and Nanti-
coke rivers for the hast fifty years and
have never seen anything like this
land-sink before. About two months
ago we noticed that place about sixty
feet square, where there had been
hill ever since / could remember, had
begun to sink down, and ever since
then ii has been getting lower and
lower every week AT first we did
not notice it very much, but now every
one on the place seems to be afraid 30
60 near the spot, and. in fact, 1t is
dangerous 10 go too near. The place
has now sunk about twelve feet below
the level of the earth, ard is filled
with water. The land around the hole
is sort of crusty, and will break up
like stone.
1--WE can assign no reason Tor III eX-
cept that there is an undertido that
gets in somewhere and is eating away
the land. This is the second strange
thing that has been discovered there
in the last forty we rs. About 1852,
while making an excavation at this
place about forty yards from where
the land-sink is, some men discovered
an Indian canoe containing the skele-
tons Of four men about twenty feet be-
low the earth. In the canoe were
found several Indian pipes and bows
and arrows. The boat was of very fine
workmanship and handsomely carved.
1t is supposed that the skeletons were
those of Indians, as the Nanticoke
tribe used to stay along the Wicomico
and Nenticolss rivers. | tell you we
have queer place down here now,
and if :ae land keeps on sinking you
will see us all getting away"
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
Two Pha,es.

On farm. Early It morning, just
as the birds have begun to twitteg in
the locust trees, "a lusty voice shouts:
John, oh, John"
A sleepy boy turns over in bod.
''Ho, Johnm
"Yes. SIR"
"Git up now, and feed your horses
Daylight long ago"
How delightfully."- somnolent the
morning air is-the very bloom OF
sweet drowsiness.
John, if you don't get right out
this minute I'll come in there after
YOU"
John knows what this declaration
means, but how harsh and rasp ing is
the thought of breaking the golden
doze! He puts one leg in his trousers,
and, with the silken strand OF a dream
still in his mind, he sinks back upon
the pillow.
II am coming" he exclaims. He
hears his fathers footsteps. He
mutters as he starts toward the stable:
II don't believe in people working
themselves to death. Hope there'll
come a time when | can lie in bed as
long as | want to. This thing of
snatching fellow out of bed at such
an hour is all wrong. The hogs and
the dogs are all asleep, but I've got to
poke around here and feed the stock.
Wish | were manor a dog. don't
care much which"
The years pass on. The trees in the
orchard have grown old. 1t is early
morning on the farm. A man gets out
of bed and looks at the clock.
What time is it, John?" his wife
asks.
"Only three o'clock. 1t does seems
as if day will never come. and that
bottom field of corn has been literally
run away with by the grass. Heigho,
it does seem that we can't get time 10
do anything
He goes back to bed and vainly
attempts TO sleep. Rheumatic pains
are sending dispatches up and down
his legs. An hour passes. A cock
crows and birds begin to twitter in the
locust trees.
well, it's time we are stirring.
Jim, oh! jim"
Yes, sir" comes drowsy answer.
Come, get up now and feed your
horses"
Ten minutes pass. No Jim.
"Confound that boy, he's as lazy as
dog. Jim, Jim!'
yes SIR
Hustle OFT of there now or III
come after YOU
Ten mIGutes pass. III go in there
and take a strap to that lazy rascal"
lie starts; Jim comes out. You ought
20 be ashamed of yourself, wanting to
lie in bed this time OF day. When |
was a boy you couldn't have kept me
in bed at this hour"
jim starts towards the table muttor-
ing as he goes. Hope the time will
come when | can sleep as long as |
want TO. Wish | was man, or Il dog,
/ don't care much which"
All, Lord how we do forget. The
lesson we learn is that everything
comes too late. In youth we smell the
ripe fruit. and we long to eat it; at !eEt
it falls within our grasp, and 10! our
teeth are bad and our taste is gore.-
Arkansaw Traveller.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
The Onecn As a Sneaker.

An impressive incident OF the recent
royal wedding in England was the I'M
expected appearance of the queen for
the first time in the capacity OF speak
err. 1t had been originally arranged
that only two toasts should be proposed
those of THE Bride and Bride
groom" and "The Queen'-and that
these, according to custom, should be
given by the lord steward (the earl of
Mount-Edgcumbe), standing on her
majesty's right Almost at the last
moment it was decided to add third
toast-this coming between the other
two and being in honor of the king of
the Greeks. But wher the guests were
wa ting for the first to be given they
were startled almost out of their de-
corus bearing by the altogether unex-
pected appearance OF the queen as its
proposer. THE Official Court Circu
lar" has summarized the interesting
incident, but only tells an inquisitive
public that her majesty proposed the
toast with every wish for the welded
pairs happiness; but 1t would have
been far more interesting il it had
given the text of the words employed.
The circumstance is the more note
worthy as showing how thoroughly the
queen sympathized with the union.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
TO GID HIS coAr-oF-ARMs.
Prince HAITI feldt to Marry an
American Helress, daughter OF
Mr.. Huntington.

Prince HAITI feldt to Marry an
American HeIress, a daughter OF
Mr.. Huntington.
Another impecunious foreigner has
captured an American heiress, says q
London dispatch to the New York
World. Miss Huntington. the daugh-
ter of Coils p. Huntington, OF Union
Pacific fame, is engaged to be married
to Prince Hatzfeldt
Prince Hatzfeldt is cousin to Count
Hatzfeldt, the German ambassador in
Loodon, who is likewise married to an
American gill, Miss Moulton. The
countess is, however, now separated
from her husband and resides in Paris.
Prince Hatzfeldt, who is engaged TO
marry Miss Huntington. used TO be one
OF the secretaries OF legation here.
He has been well-known figure at
most Of the fashionable watering places
on the continent, and has cultivated
the acquaintance OF numerous rich
American girls at Monte Carlo, Baden,
Hamburg, and other foreign resorts.
Some of the princes friends estimate
his debts to amount to 1908, 900 francs,
which he, of course, expects TO have
paid off when he is married.
Prince Francis of Hatzfeldt- Widen
burg was born June ID, 1853, and has
figured somewhat prominently in sew
eral gambling episodes OF the most I'M
savory nature. One of these, which
occurred couple of years ago, attract
ed much attention at the time
and led TO the princes temporary
eclipse. Although his father and moth
err are extremely popular both at Ber-
lin and Vienna he himself is regarded
as declasse. and as the black sheep
of his family ne is no longer in the
diplomatic service or in the army.
The Hatzfeldt family is famous on
the continent for the number of its APP
peals TO the divorce court no less than
six divorces having taken place during
the present generation. The most not
able OF these was that of the lovely
and blonde Princess Elizabeth HAITI
feldt, who married Prince Carolath-
Beuthen, and deserted her husband
and her children 10 elope with Count
Herbert Bismarck in 1880. The coup
lie fled to Venice, where the unfortu-
nate princess was abandoned by her
lover, who returned TO Berlin in couse-
quence OF pressing summons from
his father, the chancellor. The prime
ess, left without means of subsistence.
found her way to Cans, where, after
being subjected to the most intolera-
BILE privations and indignities, she was
finally rescued from absolute want by
some charitable relatives.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10

A series OF crimes of a most revolt
ing character, which for a long time
puzzled the French police, were finally
traced to the hand of aobleman. Be-
fore his execution he made full con-
fession, in the course OF which he said
that the idea of committing them first
occurred to him while reading the life
of Nero, in which the atrocious crimes
of that emperor and his times were
vividly described. What the history
of Nero did for the Frenchman the
sensational press OF to-day is doing for
the general public. 1t is too axiomat-
lie to need demonstration that the sem
bational reports OF crimes is calculated
to incite crime. The telegraph wire
had scarcely ceased to pulsate with the
quadruple hanging and history
of the crimes OF wife murder
ers in New York not long since, 1hen
I'VE other brutes in that city attempt
ed to kill their wives. Investigation
showed that they had already read the
reports OF the execution and for some
time had fingered around the collins
of the executed men. So every crime
of sufficient magnitude to attract gen.
eral attention is succeeded by series of
smaller crimes which are more or less
successful limitations OF the first. With
all these facts incontrovertible, the
papers which go into the home circle
to be read and re-read by the boys
and girls upon whose plastic minds
impressions are so easily made, should
not contain all the narrowing details
of the blood-curdling crimes so fire.
quently committed. Grimes and hor-
rors must be duly chronicled, but it
does not add to their value as moral
lessons to give every detail. To be
sure, there is certain element in HUI
man nature that delights in the horri-
bic; it is equally true that there are
papers OF no very high standard of
morality which willingly supply men,
tai pabulum for the depraved and
vicious. Let the home paper be pure
in tone and sentiment.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10
The Change IL Makes.

Merchant Tailor-''Good morning,
Mr.. Truepay. What can | do for you
this morning"
Mr.. Truepay-T want suit of
clothes"
Eyes, sir. John, the tape and book,
please"
'Oh, don't want a suit to measure.
l want a ready-made suit"
"Ehp Ready -made?"
Eyes. "a a cheap one"
Certainly, certainly. Right this
way, please. 1 hadn't heard OF your
marriage. New York Weekly.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-10

Great Britain still leads the world
rs the great iron and steel producing
country, although the United States is
a close second in the race for suprem-
Acy. For the year 1888 England pro-
duced seven million, nine hundred
thousand tons of pig iron, while the
production of this country amounted
TO six million, five hundred thousand
tons. The prospects are favorable to
the time when the United States will
equal the output OF Great Britain, es-
pecially since the cheapness by which
steel can be produced by modern
methods in America has in turn slim
ulated the production of steel-making
pig iron.