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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-16
A DIVERS PERIL.
Nearly Drow ned in His Suit at the Bot.
tom Of tie Schuylkiu.
philadelphia Times Jan. 4 }

SoD1 Va Ih~S
philadelphia Times Jan. ~
John Wolter, 8 young German diver,
in the employ of his brother. Herman
Woiter, who carries on the submarine
diving business at 106 South Delaware
avenue, narrowly escaped death yester-
day morning while repairing the bottom
Of vessel in the Skuylkil River.
The bark Jennie Sweeney, loaded with
lumber, from Pensacola, Fla, ran on the
Bran6ywine Shoals, this side of Cape
.Ranlopen, on her voyage up and stove
In her bottom. When the vessel reached
her wharf in the Schuylkill, near the
Chestnut street bridge, she was badly
water-logged, and diver was sent for
to repair the damages.
John Wolter put on his diving suit
and went down, taking with him a can
vas patch 20 feet square. All went well
for about half an hour, when suddenly
the man in charge of the lifeline. by
which signals are exchanged between
the diver anu those In charge Of the air
pump, discovered that something was
wrong. He could get no answer from
the diver and the line was slack.
An alarm was given and the three men
on the boat pulled up the slack and drew
up the diver. The rope had become
entangled about the mans feet and ne
came to the surface feet first.
Wolter in his diving suit weighs over
400 pounds and the three men We're un-
sble to pull HIM out of the water.
They shouted with all their might for
help, but before it arrived Voter hac
gone to the bottom again b, ad fast. Two
men came and the sn&ocst4ng man WIS
once more pulled up, but the mems
united eforts could not get him on the
scow and for the second time the diver
went down.
The cries of the men who were nearly
crazed as the sight of the man drowning
before their eyes at last brought num-
ber of hands from the sswmiA of Frank.
lin &. Smith, and Wolter was hauled
upon the. deck Of the seow. The hamlet
was qoickE 1Rscrewed and the suit cut
of. VOTERS face had turned black snd
washorribly swollen. and he was thought
to be dead.
Whisky was poured down his throat
and he was vigorously rubbed. After
the expiration Of fifteen minutes there
were signs q returning life and shortly
afterwards themsnso opened his eyes and
spoke. He was at once put to bed on
the vessel and cared for.
Wolter can tell but little about his
terrible experience; he says that he was
mailing the canvas patch over the holes
IN the vessels bottom when he became
aware that his supply of air was shut of
aRd some water entered his helmet. He
was then about seventy five feet from
the sr pump on the scow. He started
to walk toward 1t an got about half way
when he became unconscious.
The cause of the accident was careless
ness In adjusting the air hose to the
back OF the helmet, from which it be-
caEng 6esached.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-16

The place of MIR. Killirgsworth near
Dumbarton, was visited by q huge wild
cat one night last week. The monster car
ried off turkey hen and was pursued by
Mr.. 4. with his two hounds and captured
near the old Patterson mills after being
shct. His cats majesty weighed cabs and
measured from foot to foot II feet.-Barn-
well Sentinel.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-16
Getting mellow every night is no way TO
reach ripe old are

y grizzly bear ihat weighed seventeen
hundred pounds was killed at Big Horn
Basin, Wyoming Territory, short time
ago. One hundred and nine shots were
fred from nine rifles before the brute was
killed.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-16
AcrcIone q. Reading. Pa.

READING, Pa, Jan. "a cyclone pas
sed over this city this afternoon, doing con-
sinerable danage and causing heavy loss of
life. 8 silk mill, in which Two hundred
and fifty girls were employed, was blown
down just before the hour for quitting
work: Everything is it confusion. About
the same time there was an explosion and
frein the same neighborhood, by which
eight men were burned to day.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-16

It's noticeable that the large majority of
vicious horses are handled by bad-tempered
men,
Truth is plant that grasps Inc soil and
seeks the sun. From firm foundation 1t
rises higher and higher.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-01-16

Kentuckians raised enough sunfower
seeds this summer to supply the wants of
the whole Uuited States.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05

Poets and rhetoricians have in their usual
free and easy way exaggerated the material
prosperity of ancient Ireland. Much Of the
splendor attributed TO Keltic kings and bish-
ops and bards fades under the cold light of
historical research. But this very research
has put beyond all doubt that beneath the
exaggerations of rhetoric and song there lay
a solid substratum of truth. Thus the publi-
cation by parliamentary commission of the
immense and previously almost uuexplored
mass of legal Institutes known as the "Brehon
Laws" has verified the fact that at u time
when Britons were almost naked savages the
Irish Kelts were clad In woolens and linens OF
their own manufacture
The Brehon laws abound with references
not only to woolen and linen goods, but to
carding, weaving, dyeing and the other pro-
ceSses of their manufacture. Again, in the
remarkable metrical account of the rights of
the monarchs Of Ireland and of the proyin-
cal kings, attributed to q contemporary of
St. Patrick, and known as the Book OF
Rights we find that tribute was paid to q
large extent in cloalls, tunics, mantles and
other articles of wooden and linen manufac-
ture, some white, some brown, some trimmed
with purple, some with fur and some with
gold. We can see for ourselves something Of
what was dose In the more durable mate
TlaIS leAlue IdDrlcs, except OF Tue cO'trseSt
kind, perish in far less time than 1900 years
But metal work, If good in material and de-
sign, survives. Accordingly we have abund-
ant specimens of such work come down to us
from the Ka.tk, period.
Many of these are rough, but many are rich
In material, good in design, and exquisitely
skillful in workmanship, Some were found
deep below the surface Of our bogs where
probably they were dropped in flight and got
gradually covered with peat In the slow lapse
Of centuries Others were found in stone
chambers made for their reception, and for
| gotten for more than thousand years Vast
quantities of the gold work were consigned to
| the crucible. Some goldsmiths estimate that
| they purchased and melted down as much az
| $4,000 worth Of ancient Kettle gold work
found from time to time in Ireland. But,
| fortunately, much also has been preserved
There is quite magnificent collection OF
works In gold, silver and bronze in the Mu
scum of the Royal Irish academy in Dublin
Besides these there are many fine specimens
In Trinity college, Dublin, and in the British
museum, London, -Harper's Magazine.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
Connuest of the Smoker,


The following littlo incident is worth
noting as arising out of great change
in national custom.
Scene--A railway carriage, occupied
by an enormous man smoking cigar,
with which he makes the atmosphere re-
semblo the Strand in November fog,
and thin. nervous person, with bag
of sandwiches. Says the latter: ~ beg
your pardon, sir, but will it incommode
you If | venture TO eaty The former,
with gracious wave of the cloud giving
weed: mot at all"
Twenty or thirty years ago this would
have looked like burlesquc. Then the
smoker had only bare liberation afford
ed him. He was not allowed to indulge
his favorite propensity even on the plat
form of railway station, but was
warned off by placards, which may still
be seen at some stations. The accom-
mediation provided for him was poor
and scanty, and woe betide him if he
ventured to take any liberties in prohib-
tied places. Now he has things all his
own way. To his supreme will and
pleasure the misguided persons who do
not smoke must conform, and wherever
friends meet arrangements are made for
his convenience, while even those strong
minded ladies who assert their rights
to attend public dinners and other
functions heroically endure rather than
protest against the once detested fumes.
This is nice for the smoker, who would
go to few dinners If deprived of what
Prince Bismarck has called the delicious
seventh course. London Globe.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
BLOOMSBURY, Pa FRIDAY JULY s. 1889

gave him, "fhis yere kentry would 10
better off IL thar wasn't so much yarnin'
an mo- common sense. We can't all be
rich and big. Somebody has got to be
pore an backwards. II each one Of us
was found to be rich--if we was yearnin'
fur silks and satins and fine hosses,
somebody would hev' to be pulled down
to help us git up. Thar'd be jist so
much mo- fussing. An s'posen we got
rich--what of itg'
"They say it's nice to DO rich,' re-
piled.
"Waal, mebbe It's, but don't banker.
We've got meat an meal an sugar an
tea, and it seems to me we ortcr be
purity well satisfied"
"But there must be something beyond
some ambition to he gratified. You
are not going to live this way to the day
of your deathr
"No, stranger, hain't. My ambishun
is to git this grist to mill an home agin,
and I'm sort o calkerlatin' to leave my
squat in the fall an cum down yere long
side o Tom, so our wives kin make soft
soap in the same kettle an use one wash
board betwixt 'em. M Quad in Detroit
Free Press
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
He Saved the ship.

captain" reported the officer, as he came
up from below, pale with fear, "tho water Is
gaining on us. We must tighten the ship"
With the presence of mind that distin-
gulshes the true hero from the craven In the
hour of peril, the captain instantly called all
hands on deck.
"Mcn,n he said, and his deep voice rang
out, clear and strong, over the wild waste Of
waters that threatened to ingulf the stately
vessel, throw those things overboardp
The sailors went to work with the energy
Of despair. In less than an hour they had
thrown over the side of the vessel the private
baggage Of travelling actress and three
fashionable canes belonging to a London
dude, and the gallant ship, with her leak now
high above water, bounded on her course like
thing Of life. Her commander had saved
her.-Chicago Tribune
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
Artists Canvas.

Canvas, regarded from an artists point
OF view, is the principal material upon
which oil paintings are made. Two kinds
are prepared for this purpose, of which
the best is called ticking. Before it is
put into the artists hands it is usually
primed or grounded of neutral gray or
other tint. Certain sizes of canvas being
In greater request than others are kept
ready stretched on frames. Those used
for portraits are known by the names of
kit cat, which measures 2S or 20 inches
by SO; three-quarters, 25x80 inches; half
length, 40x50 inches; Bishops hall
length, "A or 45x56 inches; Bishops
whole length, 5sx04 inches.-New York
Telegram.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05

nAte Asuiss Nue IOuitTy
The following rules, If systematically
carried out, will insure successful poul-
try raising:
In buying fowls or eggs go to some
trustworthy breeder who has his reputa-
ton at stake. Culls are not cheap at any
price.
Do not breed too many kinds Of fowls
at the same time, Until your experience
and accommodations warrant it conhne
yourselves to one or two well known va
rieties.
Introduce new blood into your stock
every year or 30, by either buying a
cockerel or setting of eggs from some re-
liable breeder.
Let old and young birds have as wide
a range as possible, and do not crowd too
many in a house. If you do you will
have disease,
Construct your house good and warm
so as to avoid damp floors and afford a
flood of sunshine. Sunshine is better
than medicine. Give plenty of fresh ali
at all times. Above all things keep the
house clean.
Clean roosts and bottom of laying
nests, and whitewash often enough L
keep all sweet and clean.
Provide busting and scratching place
where you can bury wheat and corn and
thus induce the fowls to take the need
| full exercise.
Give plenty of fresh water daily, anC
never allow the fowls to go thirsty.
Feed them systematically twice day
scatter the food SO they can't eat too fas
or without proper exercise, Do not fec
more than they will eat up clean, or they
will get tired of that kind of feed
Give them variety of both dry ant
cooked feedi mixture of cooked mea
and vegetables is an excellent thing 70
their morning meal.
Give soft feed in the morning and thu
whole grain at night, except a ittl
wheat or cracked corn placed in tn
scratching places to give them exerois'
during tbs day.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05

my friend" he said, as he entered
shoemaker shop on Gratiot avenue, ~
should like to sing you n song"
"How much you charger?
"Not red cent"
"Vhas it nice song?'
Every nice. / am sure you will be
pleased with it."
"Vhell, go ahead"
The man drew long breath ind start
ed off. 1t was an awful noise. 1t was
intended to lift the shoemaker right off
his bench. 1t did so, and after the first
verse he said:
"Maype you haf some object?
Il have, my dear sir. While l don't
charge anything for singing, do charge
twenty-five cents to stop"
81 see; vhell, vhas going down to
Springwells for dis afternoon. While
doan' sharge you to come in, l make you
pay feefty cent to get out"
And he stepped out and locked the
door, and for two hours the itinerant
talked with an inquiring public through
a broken pane of glass, and freely ac-
knowledged that there were better
games than his.--Detroit Free Press.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05

Architectural Upholsterer-And how
do you think of having the library fur
nished, Mr.. Gasbuhm? Mr. Gasbuhm-
Why, l want pool table in it, and a
sideboard, of course; couple of card
tables and lay out for the chess club,
and what little whimwhams and frenzies
you want to make 1t look we'll A. H.
And about the book shelves; will you
Mr.. G.-Oh, shoot tho book shelves; put
the books in the boys rooms they're
going to school; l don't want books stuck
under my nose when I'm busy enjoying
myself. in Brooklyn Eagle.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
First Fiddle TO Somehodx.

In the grand orchestra of life everybody
Is anxious to play first fiddle. Nay, almost
everybody does play IT. for although the
first fiddle absolute may take precedence
of all the rest. yet every second fiddle is
first fiddle to somebody. As "Aeas have
smaller feas to bite EN-, and 50 on ad in
fnitum," so every man who tickles su-
perior has an inferior to tickle him. If 1t
were not for this pleasant arrangement
we should have no social harmony, and It
Is only when this system Of relations Is
disturbed that we experience discords and
crashes.--New York Ledger.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
A wlsH.

From din and strife Of town afar,
In sumner I would hnd home
Set In the green fields like star,
That burnsin heavens sapphire dome;
And like the placid sweep Of sky
Around that Jewel Of the night
I'd have the clover meadows lie,
wherin the bees should find delight
winding silver brook to play
The pebbly music Of Its mirth,
To mirror heavens milky way,
And be its echo on the earth.
For clouds be mine the fringed trees,
In whose leaf arches birds might bide,
And hang their cradles In the breeze
And rock their young upon its tide
Ny paths, paved by the sun and shade,
Swept by the wind and washed by dew,
Should be mosaics deftly laid.
Forever fresh, forever new.
Such be my summer home, where time
SO softly, unrecorded, goes,
That life seems like melodious rhyme
Set In the worlds majestic prose
And as the star-night overpast- f.
Dies In the da~n's dew scented breath
Lord, be II mine, to flnd at last
Day on the morning side OF death.
-Trank Denpster Sherman in Youths Com
panion
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05

Old Gent-Let me see. Yes, met your
nephew five years ago, and if you must know
the truth, I was disguised with him-such
vain, couceited, insufferable puppy never
saw in my life.
Old Neighbor-Oh, he's changed complete
ly now. He's the most modest man you could
find in days journey-he doesn't believe
he knows anything.
"You don't say sol Well, now think of
1t, when met him he was college sopho-
more"
"Yes, and now he's graduate and trying
to earn his own living. New York Weekly.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
Waterproof WhItemash.

A waterproof whitewasil is I'll use III
Germany. The powder from three parts
silicious rock Quartz, three parts brok-
en- marble and sandstone, two parts of
burned porcelain clay and two parts fresh
ly slaked lime, still warm, is mixed to-
gether. This forms silicate if often
wetted, and becomes aftera while almost
like stone. 1t is applied quite thickly to
a wall or other surface and allowed to
dry one day. The next day it is covered
frequently with water, which makes it
waterproof.-New York Mail and Ex-
press.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
Humanity Triumphant.

81 would like to rent the large room on
the second floor of your livery stable for the
purpose of instructing brass band just or
ganizing,"
"As the proprietor of the stable should
be glad to let you have the room, sir, but as
member of the Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Animals it is my duty 10 tell
you that If you don't get out of here in just
ten seconds by the watch will have you
kicked out, you heartless wretchp-Chicago
Tribune,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
A PRIZE PLAN.

To Cost Sc, 900. rs Estimated In "Carpcs-
try and Building"
This plan is from Carpentry and Building,
a useful monthly published in New York. II
was furnished by George w. +. Field, 40
Virgins block, Cincinnati, o., and took the
flrst prize in the nineteenth competition insti-
tuted by Carpentry and Building. The plans
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
opert at a Rehearsal.

w s. Gilbert, the librettist, is a tall
man, with gray hair and close cut whis-
kers. He is Q great stage manager, At
o rehearsal OF one of his operas he devotes
his whole energies TO having everything
go of as he thinks 1t should. lie never
smiles, even when a whole chorus Is
laughing at the quaint conceits OF his
verses. Though extremely dlgnifed, he
does not hesitate TO go through the drollest
contortions of body or the most free and
easy dance step 70 Illustrate bis ideas TO
those who aro 70 interpret them.-New
York World.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05

The tired looking little school ma'am had
been obliged to give up. She had to remain
away from her duties and summon physi-
clan "Your liver is out Of order,n said he,
gravely. "Out of orderl" she repeated In
mechanical tone "Stay after school for If
teen minutes and lose your recess for the re-
mainder Of the week. Merchant Traveller. 4
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
How He Made 1t.

she-Who's that finely dressed gentleman
with tho immense diamond stud In his shirt
bosoml
He-Thati Oh, that's one of the fellows
who sold Washington medals on the street In
New York during tho centennial
ton Free Press.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
He Wanted a Show.

"You must stop this smoking during busi-
ness hours" said the head clerk.
whats the matterr' inquired one Of the
boys.
"The boss says he can't appreciate his five
cent cigar when you clerks are putting your
Henry Clays. THE Epoch.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
m would Make No pitference.

A lady, greatly excited, asks to see the edi-
tor Of daily paper, and Is told that 1t Is inn
possible, the editor being too busy TO speak to
any one, no matter who it may be. "oh,
that makes no difference" is her reply, ~
shall do all the talking myself Paris Figaro.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05
MIR, Buenos Ayres,

A Boston shoe manufacturer on a recent
trip in the south exhibited some samples Of
shoes TO dealer. The latter objected to the
color Of the sole. The manufacturer explained
that the soles were made from the best Bue-
nos Ayres leather. swell, Mr.. Buonos Ayres
may be good tanner, but don't fancy his
leather n-Shon and Leather RepOrter.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05

Miss Maud Howe recently met Eugene
Field and expressed her feeling in this
outburst, which he takes pleasure in re'
counting: "Mr. Field is the ,r.,st charm
ing literary man met in the west, but
he looks like convict"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1889-07-05

FRONT ELEVATION.
Ae00 feet bemlock boards at el2. ......... 80 0
<6 squares cedar shingles at 81. 1S4 %
1880 feet spruce flooring at s22.......... 500
100 feet hard pine flooring at S32....... 8G
aooO feet chestnut stock at $50. 90 o.
10 inside door frames at 81 80 ........... "a %
B inside door frames at 81. 10. ............ 10 %
outside door frames at 81 25. 5............ 40
81 doors 90 at 81, at s3.60O............. 45&
sliding doors ............. .............. 20 90
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-23
R%ICHARDTON VOTES.

RIcuAHDroN, Nov. 81, so
w. A. Mcclure has removed to
Knife River, where he has taken
charge of the telegraph office.
E. Hughes. of Antelope, who went
to Chicago q few days ago with two
a loads Of cattle, is visiting friends
in Illinois and will return home next
week.
Peter Ellison, Benz. Webb and C..
F. Torrey we're in Dickinson on Tues
day, making final proof on their
claims. They were among the first
to locate ut Richardton and the ex-
tent of their Improvements shows
that they have done their duty and
have been faithful in their labors to
ecure title to their claims. They
are each extensive farmers and stock.
men. The failure of the present sea
sons crop has not caused them to lose
faith in the country, but they will
continue to increase their herds as
circumstances permit and will SOW
their lands again to crops next year
and together with their grain, dairy
and herds of cattle make success GER
tain in the future and the failure of
a seasons crop of grain will not be
felt so hard
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-23
A Quiet Wedding.

a select coterie of friends assem-.
bled last evening to witness the we'd
ding of Mr.. J. w. Beckett of this city
with Miss Leila Scott Of Cambridge,
Ohio. Mr.. Wilson of the M. +.
church performed the ceremony.
which was of all unusually impress.
i've nature. Miss Kate Scott acted as
bridesmaid to her sister, while Mr.. G.
r.. Fenton oniciated as groomsman.
After the couple were made one the
guests partook of supper. MI. Bald
win, the groom's partner in business,
proposed the health Of the happy pair
in a natty little speech. The pres
ents were very numerous and well
chosen. Among the guests present
we noticed Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. Pit.
man, Mrs. Coburn, Miss Rose Marshall
Miss Alma Marshall, Mr.. Wilson, Mr..
c. r. Fenton, Mr.. Graham, Mr.. IIol-
neck, Mr.. II. c. Fenton, Mr.. Rodgers,
Mr.. Kershaw and Mr.. Baldwin.-Spo-
kane Falls Chronicle.