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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-01-18

The news of Mr.. BIaine's death quickly
became known, and many friends called
during the evening to express their sym
pathy. The President aud Mrs. Harri-
son called very soon after MIR. Blaine's
death, and Vice President and Mrs Nor
ton Game soon afterwards. Justices Har-
Ian and Gray of the Supreme Court, most
of the members of the Maine delegation,
Representative Hit and many others
well known in official and social life also
called.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-01-18
FOR SALE,

Two and a-hali story FRAME HOUSE, con-
tanning q rooms, on Main street, West Elkton.
The lot is 10 X 200 ieet Apply to
MRS. MARTHA A. TAYLOR.
or G. Ii. SMITH, Clerk to Commissioners.
Dec2l-5w Elkton Md.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-01-18
SKETCH OF THE DECEASED.

Walker Blaine was born in Augusta,
Me-, May s, 1855. He first came to Wash
ington to live in 1867, five years after his
fathers election to Congress. He was
graduated from Yale in 1876, and from
the Columbia Law School in New York
two years later. He then went to St.
Paul, Mimi. where for two years he Was
in the law Office of Cushmau X. Davis,
at present Senator from Minnesota. He
came to Washington in 1881 and was APP
pointed Third Assistant Secretary of
State.
In the winter of 1881 50 lie went to
South America with MIR. Trescot on a
special mission to use the good offices Of
the United States to bring about settle
menJ of the troubles between Chill ana
Peru. He was the charge d'atfaires in
Bolivia for several months. Late in the
year 1882 he was appointed assistant
counsel OF the Court of Alabama Claims,
which office he held until 1885. He lived
in Chicago from 1886 to 1885, returning
to this city January l, 1889. He assisted
his father in the work which devolved
upon him when he became Secretary Of
State. and on March IL last was nomina-
ted by President Harrison examiner of
claims in the State Department, and as
such was legal adviser of the department
and confidential representative of the
Secretary.
Mr.. Walker Blaine had assisted his
father greatly throughout his political
career, and was most closely and init
mately associated with him in all his
plans, enjoying not only the great atfec-
ton of his father but his complete conf
dence as we'll.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-01-18
JANUARY SALE
Mrs. L. H. Litzenberg's

All of my lowest priced La
dies Jackets are sold, too late
to buy another big lot, so the
So coats must be reduced to
take the place of the lower
grade, the 81 also reduced.
The good So long Coat right
down to $3.50, Just a. few of
my elegant seal plus jackets
left, they can be bought low.
Plenty of remnants in fine
cloth, cashmere and other
wool goods, almost as cheap
as calico, don't tail to see them.
Hamburg remnants on the
counters this week.
All Millinery at half price.
Mrs. Litzenberg,
ELKTON, ND.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-01-18

Book News for January is
as bright and interesting as
ever. There is an excellent
article about Robert Brewing
accompanied by a plate por-
trait of the poet taken just be-
fore his last illness. SC copy,
soc a year.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-01-18
John WANAMAKER.
iaew advertisements

Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets.
and City-hail SQUARE.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-01-18

At noon the ballot was taken in each
house for United States Senator. The
Hon. Ephraim X. Wilson, Democrat, re-
ceived in the Senate Is votes to q votes
for Mr.. Thomas s. Hodson, Republican,
and the House voted so for Mr.. Wilson
and % for Mr.. HodsOn.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-01-18

LSselY shields the ignorant voter
from humiliation and prevents his pos
sible disiranchisement.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20
Going the Wrong Way.

Governor Andrew Shuman en-
tered the smoking car on Chicago and
Northwestern train the other afternoon,
saws the Chicago Tribune, and took q
seat facing toward the engine. The seat
ahead of him was turned over. Mr..
Shuman was smoking good cigar ana
had an evening paper in his hand. As
he settled back an Irishman, with q
CLAW pipe ia his mouth, entered the car.
His breath was redolent with bad
whisky and red eye tobacco. =.
Good ayenin', Misther Shuman,
said the Irishman, as he sat down on
the seat opposite.
"How are you, Pat9' said Mr.. Shu-
man.
aNoicely, tank YOU" was the reply.
Pat had probably hoed the garden
for Governor Shuman at some time,
and he was presuming on old acquaint-
ance. He leaned over, blew little
bad breath and worse tobacco smoke
in Governor Shuman's face, and
asked:
Flows t'ings in Evanston, sor9"
"Very nicely" replied Governor
Shuman, trying 10 open the "ihuo" W
get breath of fresh air.
Pat leaned over again and allowed
another Whit of red eye to circulate
around Governor Shuman's head as he
said:
aOi am glad to hear it, sor. Now,
Old like to ak you
But Governor Shuman was des
aWhere are You going, PatG' he
asked abruptly.
Evanston, sor," was the reply.
aEvanstonl" exclaimed Governor
shuman. "Why, you're going tn.
wrong way. Can't you see you're faced
toward Chicago? Turn the seat over.
The Irishman gave start, turned
around and looked toward the engine
and then glanced out of the window.
aBe hivens, you're roight" he ex
claimed. @Oi'm faced the wrong way
Thank you Misther Shuman."
He turned his seat over and Cover
nor Shuman buried his head In hi
paper and enjoyed the rest of the trip
In fact, he was seen to smile once o
| t~~sco
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20
How Old vanderbilt Was Caught.

al was coming down the Hudson one
night" said General Spinola, "in COM
pany with Cornelius Vanderbilt, Thur
low Weed, Dean Richmond and George
Law, when Weed proposed q game OF
poker and / was asked to come in.
hesitated, for had only about "a, 900
in my pocket and knew it was to be
q game without limit. / mentioned
the state of my finances to Law, but he
told me to take hand, and said he
would back me to any amount. i am
willing to lose $50, 900 or $4,000 to-
night, he said, and tomorrow Twill tell
YOU my reason So the game started
and staid in, hugging the shore pref
ty close, and getting startled every
once in a while when some one went
81 900 blind. When we quit at day
break had won about 81, 900, but Law
had lost ten times that amount. The
next day / met him. j viii tell you,
Frank, he said, why lost that money.
I wanted Vanderbilt to think was
sucker, and so played like one. The
result was that to-day l sold him lot
of steamboats, for nearly 5000, 900 more
than 1 expected to get from him:
Don't you think the money was well
invested ?"-NetC York World.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20


tributed by members Of the theatrical
profession and given Wednesday after
noon at the Broadway Theater. MIS-
Blaine will get about four thousand dol
lars out of the occasion.
The talk of modish New York is large
ly about the participation by the peiies
and beaus in amateur burlesque tneatri-
calls. Several such entertainments have
employed the more famously pretty girls
of The Astor-Vanderbilt clique. A trav-
esty of opera, a realization of some nur-
sery stories, and series OF comic tad
leaux have had marked success. Moth
ing but public opinion keeps the young
amateur actors in the fashionable world
from appearing on the stage IN Renu-
inc. old-fashioned Lydia thompson
STYLE of burlesque opera. Recently SONS
of the bellies were seen at q theater In
mild piece of frolicsome nonsense that
had all the elements OF burlesque, but
was burdened with wholly unnecessary
weight of clothes.
at is perfect nonsense to give bur-
lesaue in long skirts, said the prize
beauty of the two past seasons. II 1
thought people would ever get over u
would dress my part as it demands. De-
string to be we'll up in her part In re-
cent Durle6Que CuhIlbaDio PoaA
one of the pretty girls engaged the SER
vices Of handsome prima donna, whose
acquaintance she had formed some time
previous, and had herself drilled sys-
tematicaily for the approaching show.
! The actress taught her innumerabie little
touches of stage coquetry, and for reward
received plenty of champagne and kisses.
| The two became jolly friends, and the
| society girl even went so far as to visit
the other in her dressing room. One
! Saturday afternoon the maiden, by the
help of the dresser, arrayed herself In
| full stage costume, and awaited the re-
turn of the actress, who was engaged In q
stage scene. As she posed in self admit
| ration of herself in the glass the sound Oh
footsteps was heard outside the dress
ing room. Suddenly the door flew open
and the manager of the theater stood in
the doorway. The girl in the tights
screamed and stood in the center OF the
floor, the most miserable and Inundated
! of beings.
"Oh. / beg your pardon" said the man
aper. Il knew Miss - was on the
stage or / would have knocked. But
what are you doing here? Are you one
of the chorusf@
This last question brought out another
scream, and the maid was compelled to
explain matters to the manager, who re-
tired amid profuse apologies. But he
sent word to the young lady through the
prima donna that she could appear at his
theater in statuesque parts whenever she
saw fit to do so.-Nelo York letter to Chs-
| cd1o Ledger.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20
The Greedy Spider.

The ordinary spider, tanned and
taught to COME for its food, which is
not difficult or troublesome to do, will
consume an immense amount of food
in twenty-four hours, amounting, in the
aggregate, to trihe over six times its
own weight. At the same rate of con-
sumption, person of average weight,
say one hundred and fifty pounds,
would take for his food as follows:
Breakfast, a dressed beef, ten gal
Ions of tea.
Dinner, twenty dressed sheep, five
barrels of potatoes.
Supper, fifty loaves of bread, bar
rel of butter.
Lunch, two hundred pounds of cake,
a barrel of wine.
And even then would wake at mid
night feeling as though he had not
eaten square meal for week. Hap
PLY, though, men are not spiders.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20
Where GenIus DIdn,t Work.

He was just plain tramp, unadulter-
ated with soap, and he carried over mis-
shoulder q wooden snow-shovel several
sizes too big for him. He pulled the
bell in q business-like way and when
she opened the door he said:
aAre you Christian ?"
@Ye-es" Tin surprised.
@And do you believe that honest, ear
nest endeavor should be rewarded 2
sYe-es.s
Heretofore I've had large and lucra-
tive practice in my profession, but this
wear the elements are against me. i
know there's no snow on the premises,
but it's going to rain this afternoon,
and rain hard. Now I'll come back and
shovel the rain off your sidewalk for a
quarter if you'll give me ten cents ad-
vance money. Is it go?"
~Yes, it's . CO." she said, as she
slammed the door in his face.
~And they say that genius and tact
win every time, he sighed, as h5shuf'
fed down the stoop.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20

the most perfect photograph possible.
They worked on the machine for over
two months. Every part OF the IN
strument capable of it is plated with
gold and silver, and the parts are mn
ished to the utmost possible limit. At
tached to the machine is Watermelon
of improved construction that has been
one of the recent triumphs OF the great
inventor, and that runs the machine
steadily and noiselessly with mini
mum consumption of water. The case
is of rare inlaid woods, and is a marvel
of painstaking workmanship.
The photograph, if not the most use
fuI. is certainly the most wonderful OF
all the wizards wonderful inventions.
When it was first exhibited at the New
York Academy of Sciences, few years
ago, murmur of admiration was
heard, which was succeeded by re-
heated applause. Some of the skep-
tical members started the rumor that
the Academy had been mystified by a
clever yentriloquist, and repeated ex-
periments were required to convince
these incredulous persons that no chi
canery was used, and that the talking
machine" could bereadily manipulated
by anyone. -.
Edison's birthplace is Milan, Ohio
While yet boy in his teens, telegraphy
took great hold upon him, and having
one day snatched q station masters
child from in front of an approaching
train, the grateful father taught him
telepraphy, and from that time he be-
came a systematic student His ready
ingenuity suggested all sorts of adapt
atoms. One day the ice jam broke the
cable between Port Huron and Sarnla
ION the Canada side); the river at that
point being mile and half in width,
! all communication by telegraph was
cut off. Young Edison seized the
valve of an engine that controls the
whistle, which he footed into long and
short notes, like the dots and dashes In
teleQraphy. Hello, Sarnia, do you
get me !" he footed; no answer. "Hel,
10. Sarnia. do you hear what / sayY'
A third and fourth time the message
was sent over, and finally came the an
swer from an engine on the other side.
the connection had been made, ano
communication easily carried on until
the cable was repaired.
Edison's many inventions are legion
but his photograph, megaphone. the
ouadrupfex and duplex systems OF tel
eqraphy, his telephone-which alone
netted him over one hundred Thousand
dollars-the electric railway and In
candescent electric light, are but few
of the best known of his most wonder
fuI and valuable inventions.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20
Presence of Mind in a younsster.

A boy living near Nassau City was
out fire hunting few nights ago, when
he planted his foot on something soft
and slippery, and at once awoke the
warning notes of rattlesnake. BY
the Pickering glare of his torch he saw
that he had trod upon the reptile, but,
fortunately, had planted his foot on
its neck, just back of the head, and,
though it folded its Shiny coils around
his ankle and struck out with its fangs
with lghtning-like rapidity, it was I'M
able to turn its head to do mischief
The lad had presence of mind enough
to keep his foot firmly planted upon it,
neck, while with the ak in his hand he
severed the head from the body
Fernandi1lG Ne,cs.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20

The child begotten by the matri-
monial alliance of science and religion
is now declared Legitimate.
ATHIcK plate of brass may be cut by
making a mark on its surface with
solution of mercury and nitric acid.
AwAsP's nest contains fifteen thou
sand cells. How this insect determines
the number 1 will not explain.
In one hundred years ordinary turf
grows thirty inches. By this we may
approximate the age of peat.
ALL have noticed the caterpillar that
infests the willow tree. Each lndi-
vidual has over four thousand mus
Giles.
THE drug called capsicum by the
druggist, pepper by the grocer, is OBJ
tanned from sixty species OF the same
tree.
AWAY on the top Of some mountain
ranges various temperatures are found.
The Peak of Teneriffe has five zones
of vegetation.
Color blindness affects greater
proportion of our population than most
people imagine. Five per cent. OF
Americans are color blind.
EAGLES are long-lved birds. Awarty
old chap has been an heirloom in New
Albany, Indiana, family for nearly
hundred years.
CoLD follows heat at extraordinary
depths. In a silver mine in Norway
over three hundred feet deep the bot
tom is covered with snow.
EGYPTIAN architecture becomes more
marvellous as time passes. A temple and
an altar have been discovered buried
far beneath the surface in front OF the
great Sphinx.
IT is not generally known, but true
nevertheless, that gas is produced by
striking a piece of iron with hammer
and if the blows, however light. are
continued long enough, the iron, now
ever large and tough, VIII eventually
crystallize and break.
TIE rates of transporting heav,
freight. merchandise, and the like, hav'
changed. Less than half centur,
AGO the railroads of Great Britain mad
a very careful estimate, and 1t costJus
. penny a ton per mile for carrying
coal. This, with the price OF Enghsl
labor and mechanics, seems high.
| NEW ALBANY, Ind.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20
Teacher Was Cornered.

In one Of the city schools a teacher,
with all the patience and powers Of per-
suasion she could command, was en-
deavoringto instruct class about right
angle triangle. After several attempts
sbe called the scholars to account for
inattention, with the remark that what
she was saying seemed to go in at one
ear and out the other. Again she re-
peated her description, following it by
asking. who can tell what right angle
triangle is? Up went hand, and the
bright boy to whomit belonged shouted
@Something which goes in at one ear
and out the other. Worcester Spy.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20
Religious Runners in Russia.

When Russian is converted and feels
called upon to turn from his evil ways,
as often as not he joins sect called the
runners Cbegoonee,) and, taking up his
bed. walks about the country for the re-
mainder of his natural life and seems
to thoroughly enjoy it. No conscien-
tious member of this peripatetic and pro-
gressive persuasion can pitch his tent
for long anywhere on this transitory
earth. A day and night is the usual
thing; a week is exceptional; a months
halt would be evidence of lamentable
backsliding, while still longer soiourn
would leave no doubt that the impious
loiterer had committed the INCAPABLE
sin, writes correspondent. For once a
man has been received into the ranks
Of the begoonee he can no longer be
fastened as nail in sure place, but
is straightway fugitive and vaga-
bondi n the earth, and can take nothing
for life's journey, save staff only; no
scrip, no bread, no money in his purse,
and only suspicion of spirits in his ca
pacious bottle.-Ne,o York Journal
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20
A Pack of Playing Cards.

What history is represented in a
pack of playing cards. They contain
a spot for each day in the year, card
for each week in the year, picture for
each month in the year, suit for each
season of the year, numerical color
for each minute in an hour, and value,
in whist, for each degree of the circle.
A hand in an ordinary game of whist
would not be repeated in l54, Alb years.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20
Tn a catalogue Of Mexican meteorite

In catalogueof Mexican meteorites
prepared by NJ. Antonio del Castillo,
one mass is mentioned which was
broken up and fell in widely dispersed
fragments, portions being found in
three places at the angles of triangle
whose two longer sides were some
fifty-five miles and thirty-five miles.
In one of these places two plates were
discovered about $50 yards apart, hav-
ing evidently formed one huge plate,
weighing more than eighty tons, which
broke near the ground.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20

For many years it was thought by
scientific men that nothing but the
real diamond would cut glass, but steel
can be made sufficiently hard to cut
glass readily, and a substance called
zabasheer, found in the joints OF the
bamboo, will, when dry, cut glass read
lily. 1t hardens into solid lump when
exposed to the air.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20

Two ways
Speaking of spiders, 1 viii relate
another little instance that is very in
teresting and appropriate in this con-
nection. Some time ago l noticed
fat old spider came to feed regularly on
a blossom in the laboratory window,
and invariably little honey bee would
appear on the blossom at the same
time. This being repeated a number
of days-nearly a week-to make sure
the same visitors came every day, the
spider and bee each were marked, and
every day the marked insects appeared
regularly; would feed often In close
proximity TO each other without mo-
hesitation or desire to intrude, each
seeming aware of, but not caring for,
the others presence; and generally
about the same time, apparently salts
fed. would go away-the spider to his
network of traps in an adjoining win
dow. and the bee to its hive. Finally
one day caught them both and ruth
lessly killed them. By means OF the
microscope, spectroscope, and chemical
ANALYSIS. found that these insects OBJ
tanned from the same flower substances
widely dissimilar. One (the SPIDER
sought the most energetic poison
known, with which to slay his material
for food-the flies; the other sought
that perfect tincture of sweetness (hon-
evl unon which to feed when the flowers
Of the harvest had passed. Each had q
desire. each sought its qualification,
each obtained it from the same flower,
obtained its fill. and went away salts
fed.
moral should adorn this story. for
the truthfulness Of which l viii vouch.
For instance, two persons, without
distinction of sex, will meet and talk
Of a third fperhaps a friend, OF least
an acquaintance of each); one VIII
have discovered all that Is pure, good
and noble. the sweets of life, as among
the attributes of the third persons
character; the other all that Is low
vile and loathsome. the bitter, poison
Gus dregs Of all human prociNltles'
Each Of these persons IS, Ike the
spider and the bic, in search OF some
thing; they find what they desire
perhaps, in the character of one OF tns
moss beautiful human flowers; eact
gets qualification and goes away satls
fed from the feast of reason, and
again, like the bee and the spider
uses the substance obtained, one fol
intellectual food Tor elevating, lnsplr
ing and ennobling fellov-kind; tn
other for blighting the affections
blasting the aspirations, and rulnlnl
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20

the prospects of others, merely that
food may be created from the loath-
someness this ruin has wrought. The
comparison does not end here by any
means. But let me ask, reader, are
you bee or a spider?
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20

SOME woods are more valuable even
than the most precious metals. Among
the aloe family of trees this is very evil
dent. The heart of one of the species
of the aloe tree, called tumbac, l
believe, that grows in tropical coun-
tries, sells in India for its weight in
gold.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20
POPULAR SCIENCE.
. yaRIETY-OF CURIOUS AND INTER
ESTING FACTS.

Cbaracteristics of Animal Life-Ths Spider
and Its Curious Ways-The Quantity of
Food We Eat-Precious Woods-History
I'm Pack of Playing Cards-Etc., Etc.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20
~ an Fnolish theater. recently,

In an English theater, recently, the
orchestra between the acts was playing
verv loudly, and two ladies in the front
row we're endeavoring to converse at the
same time. They had to raise their
voices considerably, and as the orches-
ira suddenly reached q low passage the
voice Of one Of the ladies became cruelty
distinct Just as she remarked, Il wear
silk underclothes-
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20

II y 4rH@IkJ n III -
recently celebrated
his 44th birthday at
his home at Menlo
Park, N. J. The
employees of the Ed
ison Phonograph
Works, in honor of
the occasion, made
and presented to him
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20

mtbhphOAlSoAhy -
While the great
Blaine family are
enjoying the BEN
eits wealth and
fame bring, the
helpless and de-
serted wife of Jas.
G. Blaine. Jr., is
not forgotten by
her friends among
the theatrical pro-
fession. This lit
tie woman has
suffered untold
fortunes for many
months, and had
not only been de-
nrived of the priv
ilege Of earning a
living. but had
been reduced to
actual want. This
prompted the en-