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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29

other "boy'-for in Ireland male con-
tinues to be boy until he is the head
Of a family-plays the game. 1t is held,
fairies. There is scarcely "A village in
all Ireland where you can not find some
veracious old gentleman or dame will
ing to tell of the games they have seen
the good people all dressed in green
playing on some green hillside in the
gray of the evening or in the moon
light.
But, folklore aside, it Is certain that
the game is as ancient as any that can
be named, and that it was played before
the beginning of the Christian era.
Hurting as a game is simple enough.
The Irish used to call it barre, as they
called the goal-keeper culbdir, and the
hurly or stick used in the game was
called canaan. To the average Amerl-
can unused to the game IL seems at first
to partake of some of the qualities OF
football, hockey, lacrosse and polo. 1t
is exciting, too, for it IS game that
calls forth great activity, and when
played by two full teams there are
ABOUT twice as many men engaged as
there are in a matched game of foot
Dali, and when these get mixed up in
melee over the small ball used the thing
Is likely to become exciting. There are
opportunities for some pretty rough
play, too. In the game of football the
most the hot-.headed players can DO
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29
AN IDEAL STEAMSHIP.
Designed to Cross the Atlantic In Three and
a Half DAYS.

Half Days.
Drawings and propositions for new
style of fast ocean steamship appear in
the American Mail and Export Journal.
Civil Engineer B. Schieldrop, the author
of the proposed new greyhound, claims
that it will be able to raise the record OF
one to thirty-four knots an hour. This
would admit of voyages between Queens
town and Sandy Hook in three days and
thirteen hours.
Mr.. Schieldrop claims that in the
fundamental principles upon which the
modern transatlantic steamers are built
and operated no real advance has been
made since the Savannah crossed in
1919. He thinks that the trouble has
been that the same boat has been "a
mail conveyance, hotel, barn and a
warehouse" all in one. He proposed to
build, upon special model, a vessel for
tirst-class passengers and speed, which
will possess the maximum of speed and
space with the minimum of weight and
displacement By removing cargo space
of the vessel now in use he proposes to
tighten the structure of the hull and
still keep it submerged to the same wa
ter line This would give the hull a
shallow and broad upper part and a mar
row and deep lower part. 1t might be
described as combination of the center
board type in the upper and an English
cutter in the lower part.
AS regards stability the new vessel
MI II hot no
and the center-board type. He claims
that on account of it's fullness above
the water line his plan will insure dry
deck both amidships and at the eXtrem-
tiles. The upper deck will be devoted to
a spacious library, ladies' cabin, smok-
ing saloon and music room. The main
deck will be taken up by dining sa-
loon, an elegant after cabin and several
high-priced staterooms. The dining sa-
loon will seat $50 person comfortably.
The entire lower deck will be divided
into state rooms of different dimensions.
Ali of the modern cOnveniences will
be at hand, and cleanliness, it is
claimed, can be more thoroughly Sc
cured than if steerage passengers and
freight were carried. The entire vessel
will be lighted by electricity and each
apartment will be placed in connection
with central system of ventilation,
which will supply pure air in such guam
titles as may be required and cold or
hot, as the season may call for. Mr..
Schieldrop says that his method would
be thoroughly American, as it would be
in reality a fast limited express transit
with Pullman accommodations Y.
Times
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29

when they get excited is to slug with
their fists. In hurting each player is
armed with a stick three feet or more
long with a curve on one end, which is
usually sort of knob. The possibili-
ties that these hold forth to players who
40 not care to control their temper can
be readily understood.
Hurting when played by two full
teams engages forty-two men. 1t may,
however be played by as few as four
teen men on side, but should be played
by no fewer. When two teams com
plete face each other they are not unlike
football teams in formation. Besides
goal-keeper, each has half-bacl1s, right
point covers, left-point covers. wing
men, centers ana rushers. Sometimes,
too, the tactics used are not unlike
those of the football men. The rush
ing and tackling are much the same
and the famous wedge movement of the
Princeton football team has often before
now been brought into play on the hurl-
ing field. The main qualifications for a
player are activity, pluck, quickness Of
sight and good Judgment Of distance.
When played by full teams the hurl-
ing ground should be 1876 yards long by
$40 yards wide. The ground should be
clearly marked off as in football. AT
each end of the field stand two goal
posts and there is a cross-bar ten and
one-half feet from the ground. The OBJ
iect of the game is to drive the ball be-
tween these posts and under the cross
bar. This counts goal. If driven
over the cross-bar it counts but point.
The same count is made if the ball goes
over the goal line within twenty-one
feet of either goal-post.
The arrangement of the men is no
altogether like that of the football
team. The goal-keepnrs stand near t.
and in front of the goal, and two men
govern the points" Four others arc
posted a few yards in advance as
pickets. In the center of the field
seven players are ranged in straight
line. like a football rush line. Tn
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29

A FINANCIAL WRECK,
In Spite of an Able Argument He Was i
Off the Train.

OFF the Train.
On a Michigan Central train going
west the other day the conductor came
to passenger who had no ticket and
who owned to also being dead broke.
"How did you pass the gates at De-
troit?" was asked.
Bought ticket to the last station
back here"
''Well, you'll have to get off,"
Before you make up your mind let
me show you some figures. Here they
are. This train is now on time. You
must stop dead still to put me off, To
stop, start and get under the same head
way will consume four minutes. See?
tits all figured out by statistician."
'Ticket or money!
"The extra fuel consumed is placed at
o. cents, and you must report to the
train dispatcher at cost of IS cents.
The delay to seventy-five passengers is
put at $25. The stopping and starting
and extra strain to make up four min
utes damages the train $3.50 worth.
Now, then, l only want to go thirty
miles further"
Cant do it, s1r!' replied the conduct
or, and he pulled the bell-rope. halted
the train, and escorted the impecunious
passenger to the steps.
"All right old chappie" said the lat
ter, as he dropped into the ditch. 1.-THE
railroads of this country don't pay two
per cent. and it's no wonder. When
you'll spend $50 to save 80 cents it's a
wonder any stockholder ever smells a
dividend at all. Go ahead with your old
caravan-the poor-house isn't over six
miles down the track!'e
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29
Locations of the CapitaI.

The capital of the United States has
been located at different times at the
following places: At Philadelphia from
September 5, 1774, until December, 1776;
at Baltimore from December 20, 1776, to
March, 1777; at Philadelphia from
March 4, 1777, to September, 1777; at
Lancaster, Pa, from September 81,
1777, to September, 80, INT; at York,
Pa, from September, 80, 1777, to July,
177s; at Philadelphia from July 2, ITS,
to June 80, 1888; at Princeton, N. j.,
from June 80, 1888, to November 90,
1888; at Annapolis Md, from Novem-
Der, 1888, to November, 1884; Trenton,
N. j., from November, 1884, to January,
1855; New York from January II, 1885,
to 1890, when the seat of government
was changed to Philadelphia, where it
remained until 1900, since which time
it has been at Westinghouse Louis
Republic.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29
THE TooTHsoME OYSTER.
He Is One of Americas Oldest Settlers and
Has Always Been Appreciated.

He Is One of Americas Oldest Settlers and
Has Always Been Appreciated.
The oyster is one of Americas old set
tiers. His family antedates that of our
most aristocratic Puritan stock. That
oysters were eaten during the revolution
is proved by the story that is recorded
of Benjamin Franklin.
When he was travelling in cold weather
and saw no vacant place at the tavern
fire where he could warm himself, the
genius whose statue adorns Printing
House square cried out the order, 'Half
a peck of oysters in the shell for my
horse!' Upon this all the fireplace
crowd rushed out to see horse eat
oysters. Very soon the hostler returned
and said:
'Why, sir, your horse won't eat the
oysters"
won't hep" said Franklin, now COM
fortably seated by the freside. "Well,
then, bring them in and cook them and
I'll eat them myself"
The archives of the States bordering
on the Atlantic on whose coasts oysters
abound are full of papers and documents
about legislative and even military strife
in regard to oysters. Indeed" says
Mr.. Parkinson, the then editor of the
Caterer, ''it is not going too far to say
that oysters have kept the people of the
several colonies and States in perpetual
stew ever since they were first settled. {"
The ancient Romans ate oysters raw
with a seasoning of vinegar, garum, oil,
wine, honey mixed with eggs, and pep
per and alisander. They also minced
them with mussels and sea hedgehogs,
stewed them with pine almonds and
various condiments and ate them scald-
ing hot. A celebrated Roman epicure
built fish pond, where he kept oysters
and fed them on paste of cooked wine
and honey.
The Greeks understood the serving of
raw oysters better than modern Ameri-
cans. They were opened by slave at
the very table in view of all the guests.
Since the fourteenth amendment this
method is not practicable here, but it
served the purpose of allowing them to
be eaten, as nearly as possible, alive,
Wilhelm spite of Thackeray, who in
Jest scared an oyster eater half to death
by exclaiming, "Why, man, you've swal-
lowed it aliver-is astronomical con-
sideration of the first mportance.-N. Y.
Herald.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29
FOOLISH sUPERSTITIoNs.
A Little Insect That Has Caused Many
Stout Heart to Tremble.

4 Little Insect That Has Caused Many
Stout Heart to Tremble.
Mankind have in all ages been prone
to the most lamentable superstitions.
The enlightened nations of antiquity
were no more exempted from them than
the most ignorant.
The Jews, as we are repeatedly in
formed in Scripture, could with diff
Guilty be restrained from idolatrous and
superstitious practices and confined to
the worship and service of the only true
God.
This remarkable tendency of the He
brew nation was in all likelihood caused
by their sojourn for the space of four
hundred years among the Egyptians,
whose whole system of religion was
mass of idolatrous observance. They
had a number of ideal gods to whom
they erected temples of prOdigious size
and architectural splendor; they also
offered worship to various animals, as
the OK or bull thence the golden calf of
the Hebrews) to which they gave the
name of Apis; the dog, the wolf, the
hawk, the ibis or stork, the cat and
other creatures; they likewise paid
alteration to the Nile, personifying it in
the crocodile, to which temples were
erected, and set apart for its service.
The Egyptians, Notwithstanding their
learning, also believed in dreams, lucky
and unlucky days, Omens, charms and
magic In word, they were grossly
superstitious, and seem to have had but
feeble conception, if any, of the laws
which regulate the ordinary phenomena
of nature.
There is a flood of scientific light
abroakiR. the world, but there are, new
ertlleleAs. n1any dark places where SUI
persfifsdil i,fSofiw housands and tens
of tiisssaissfs ri pa5fls helieYe that the
noise whiSh q suFall slse sis6 makes in
boring its way rte ,i. siia, :.za
the timbers of old houses, ia Bretzlo1s*
tory of death.
The ''death-watch," one Of the moss
insignificant of insects, has caused many
a stout heart to tremble at the sound
made by the artrition between its neck
and body in the act of tunneling. 1t is
a sly creature, and the factthat it does
it's ticking" chiefly in the night, gives
it mysterious interest for the ignorant
If YOU capture adeath-watch it invariably
plays 'possum ''-feigning insensibility
so pertinaciousiy that it is said the APP
plication of fire will not induce the little
hypocrite to betray the slightest indica-
ton of vitality 1t has bad habit OF
destroying woodwork, and that we be-
heve is the only evil that can be said OF
the little creature. 1t is not an uncom-
mon thing, in old houses, to hear three
or four of the genus at work at once
their labors having about as much to
do with the fate of the inmates as with
the revolution of the globe upon It's
axis.-N. Y Ledger.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29

No Exercise Produces as Good Results
Does Running.

Does Running.
Exercises Of strength lead rapidly to
an increase in the size of the thorax. 1t
is the same with exercises OF speed
when they need very energetic move
ments. No exercise develops the chest
as rapidly as does running, unless it be
wrestling.
Mountaineers all have large chests,
and the Indians who live on the plateaus
of the Cordillera in the Andes have
been noted for the extraordinary size of
their chests. This great development
in mountaineers is due to two causes
which act in the same direction; fire.
ouent ascent of steep inclines, and con-
slant residence of great heights at which
the air is rarefied. The climbing of these
slopes needs a great quantity of work,
which causes increase of the respiratory
need; respiration in raretied atmos-
phere obliges a man to take deeper
breaths in order to supplement, by the
quantity of air breathed, the sutiiclency
of its vivifying properties.
Singers. with no other exercise but
singing, acquire great respiratory power
and a remarkable increase in the dlmen-
sions of their chests.
Numerous observations prove that 1T
is enough voluntarily to take certain
number Of deep breaths every day, to
produce, in short time, an increase in
the circumference of the chest which
NAV amount toAtwo or three centimeters.
-Fernand Lagrange, NJ. D., in Popular
Science Monthly.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29

No Danger. Nose, yo' don't
mean ter tell yo' ole woman dat yo'se
gwine ter sot up wild cawpse tonight?
Yo must be gwine 'stracted." Yes
Polly; Use gwine ter sot up wild a
cawpse. But yo' needn't be Uneasy; hits
a dead one'-Time.
Never had corn in my life said
one travelling man to another. SIS that
so? I've had one for three years" ut
must be disagreeable. 81 don't find 1t
So" ''You don't mean to say that you
like it, No, but it grows on you IN
time Merchant Traveller.
Miss Spinster Ito widower's SOM
Chow would you like me for your
mamma, Harry? / would be affection
ate and tender to you" Master Harry
ssGuess you couldn't be tender to me. !"
Miss Spinster-''Why, dear?" Master
Harry Cause heard pa say you were
no spring chicken. "-Kearney Enter
prise.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29
UP IN a BALLOON.
A Popular Theory Which Is Not Based on
Scientific Facts.

4 Popular Theory Which Is Not Based on
Scientific Facts.
The observations made during night
ascensions. or those which were contin-
ued into the night, on temperatures at
different heights, give results different
from the theories previously held on
the subject. An increase of the temper
allure with the height was noticed after
sunset. The rate of decline of tempera-
ture with elevation when near the earth
was subject to variation as the sky was
clear or cloudy. From an elevation of
three miles cirrus clouds were seen APP
parently as far ahov the observers as
they seem when viewed from the earth.
and that under such conditions that it
was hard to believe that their presence
was due to moisture. The audibility of
sounds from the earth depended Consid-
erably on the amount of moisture in the
air. The noise of a railway train
could be heard in clouds at four
miles high, but not when the clouds
were far below The discharge of gun
was heard at 10, 900 feet; the barking of
a dog at two miles; but the shouting of
a multitude at not more than 1000 feet
Many differences in the results of OBJ
servations were supposed to depend upon
atmospheric conditions, while these
vary with the time of day and the season
of the year; SO that great many OBJ
servations would be required to deter
mine the true laws. Having followed
up one of the observations recorded
above with a captive balloon and by
other means, Mr.. Glaisher declared to
the Meteorological Society in 1870 that
the theory that the temperature is al
ways lower at higher elevations is not
truc.-Popular Science Monthly.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29
THE HUMAN FAMILY.
How 1t Is d stributed Over the Earth's
Surface.

How 1t Is ID stributed Over the Earth S
Surface.
The human family living to-day on
earth consists of about 1,450, 600, 600 in
iividuals: not less, probably more.
These are distributed over the earth's
surface so that now there is no consider
able part where man is not found. In
Asia. where he was first planted, there
are now approximately about 500, 00O 600,
densely crowded; on an average about
1870 to the square mile. In Europe there
are 355, 900 000, averaging 100 to the
square mile-not so crowded, but every
where dense and at all points over
populated In Africa there are 210, 000,-
0O0 In America, North and South
there are ITO, 00O,O 900, relatively thinly
scattered and recent In the islands,
large and small, probably 1O,OOO,0OO.
The extremes of the white and black
are as five to three; the remaining 7OO,-
600 coo intermediate brown and tawny.
OF the race, 500, 900, 900 are well clothed,
that is. wear garments of some kind to
cover their nakedneSS; 100000, 900 are
semi-clothed, covering inferior parts OF
their body; 100000, 900 are practically
naked. OF the race OO,0O0, 600 live in
houses partly furnished with the APP
pointments of civilization; 100000, 900
in huts or caves with no furnishings;
26O. 900, 600 have nothing that can be
called home, are barbarous and savage.
The range is from the topmost round
the Anglo-Saxon civilization, which is
the highest known-down to naked saw
agery. The portion of the race lying
below the line of human condition is at
the very least three-ffths of the whole
500. 900, O0O. philadelphia Record.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29
ANTICLlMAx.
a city street, and suddenly
- n,,,a u,;ntar wind

walked a city street, and suddenly
saw a tiny lad The winter wind
Howled ftfully, and all the air above
The clear cut outline of the buildings tan
seemed full OF knives that cut against the race:
An awful night among the unhoused poor!
The boy was tattered; both his hands were
thrust
FOR show OF warmth within his pocket holes,
Where pockets had not been for many day.
One trouser-leg was long enough to hide
The naked flesh, but one, in mockery
A world too short, tho he was monstrous small,
Left bare and red his knee-a cruel thingi
Then swelled my selfish heart with tenderness
And pity for the waif; to think of one
So Young. so seeming helpless, homeless, too,
Breasting the night, a-shiver with the coldl
Gaining little, soon passed him by
nv fingers reaching for a silver coin
To make him happier il only for
An hour, when-I marveled as heard
His mouth was puckered up in CHEEKY wise,
And in the very teeth Of fortunes frown
He whistled loud scrap OF some gay tunei
And must know that all my ready tears
Fell on a mood more merry than mine own.
Richard f. Burton-i n Harpers Magazine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29
HE woRLn,s MAIL.
Interesting Statistics Regarding the Wor
One Xear-

'sottShtfS htkstEuiHk the WOEk
of One Year.
An industrious statistician has been
collecting figures relating to the postal
business of the entire world for the year
of 1856. He develops some very sur
prising and impressive facts, in which,
however, it is exceedingly hard for the
ordinary mind 10 follow him. 1t is easy
to read, for instance, that in the year
1856 the people Of the civilized world
sent almost 5000. 900. 900 of letters. more
than 900, 600, 0CO of postal cards, nearly
100000, 600 of newspapers and moro
than 100. 900, 600 merchandise packages,
making in all nearly II, 600. 900, 600 of
mail parcels. But who can possibly
realize the meaning of such figures?
We can easily follow our statistician,
however, when he proceeds to show us
what regions of the world make the
largest use of their mail facilities in
proportion to their population.
America, with very much smaller
population than the continent of Eu-
rope, sends more than half as many mail
packages as the whole of Europe The
figures are a little upward of 1000, O0O,-
900 for Europe and almost 1900, 900, 900
for America.
Asia sends but comparatively small
number, and Africa smaller nuTnber
still-less than one mail package in
year to every seven Inhabitants of the
ointment.
How great contrast is presented by
the case of Australia, where "a letters,
cards, papers and parcels are sent on an
average to every inhabitant annually!
Australia, indeed, makes the largest use
OF its mail facilities of any continent on
the globe.
To circulate the worlds mail matter
no fewer than 100000 persons are en-
ployed, and this matter is distributed
from more than $50, 900 post-offices, Of
which about one-third are in the United
teS.-Minneapolis Journal.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29
CANADIAN ASBESTUS.
How 1t Is Mined and the Prices 1t Cor
mands In the Marriott

How 1t Is Mined and the Prices 1t Com
mands in the Market.
Mining is carried on by cutting down
the hills of notwithstanding serpentine,
much as farmer cuts down stack of
hay or straw, or by open quarrying on
the level. The rock is blasted out, and
the asbestus, separated from the contain
ing rock, is ''cobbed'-i. e., separated by
hammering from adhering foreign mat
ter. This ''cobbing' is a comparatively
easy matter in the case of the finer quail
ity, as it usually separates readily from
the gangue, but in the lower grades
much difficulty is experienced in sepa-
rating the fbrous matter from the nom
fibrous. At best there is great waste.
Much of the asbestus is in thin or mar
row veins, and is wasted, as by the pres
ent mode of operating it does not pay to
separate this from the serpentine. A
machine that will enable these narrow
veins to be utilized is a desideratum.
When ''cobbed, " the asbestus is graded
according to purity, color and length Of
fiber into three grades and bagged for
shipment. The finest quality or ''firsts"
finds ready sale at prices ranging from
$50 to $40 per ton; seconds" fetch from
$50 to so per ton; while thirds may
be valued at S13 to SIS per ton. In good
mines the yield of asbestus is from three
to five per cent. of the rock quarried,
and the cost of mining may be put down
at S25 to $50 per ton. Returns obtained
by the Geological Survey of Canada show
that for the year 1883, Canada's output
was 4,4O4 tons, valued at the mines at
$3.50, 900, and this the output of nine diff
ferent mines. Over three-fourths of the
whole was shipped to the United States;
small quantities going to Great Britain,
Germany France, Belgium and Italy,
and being used in domestic manufacture
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29
Secretary Proctor was an enthusi-
astic coon-hunter in his boyhood DAYS.

A young man may have the worst
memory on record, but he will not for
oct to remove the price mark from the
present he buys for his best girl-if the
article cost less than SO. On the other
hand. he may have the best memory in
the world. but if the present costs over
sa5 the price mark is inadvertently over
Ioolred .-Norristown Herald.