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Mower County transcript., 1890-07-09
A PROMISING SPANIEL.

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Stngs Theoretically.
An ambitious and energetic young
spaniel is Leo, the pet of the police at
the Prince Street station. He is about
two years old and recognizes Sergeant
McNamara as his master, although he
yields friendly obedience to all the
other officers attached to the station.
This is the dog who captured a booty
laden thief on Wooster street few
evenings ago and held on to him until
a petrolman, who couldn't run as fast as
Leo, came up and took the prisoner in.
Leo couldn't put on the handouts, and
tho man got the formal credit of the
arrest
Leo is not patrol dog, and this is his
first exploit as neophyte on the force.
His education is being looked after by
Frank Moratti, an employe at the sta
tion-house, and after time the dog
may be promoted to a regular situation
on the staff.
Leo has two specialties now besides
the catching of thieves. He opens the
door of the station by himself when he
is outside and wants to come in. He
does it by starting on dead run from
across the street and leaping violently
against the door, 1t opens inward, being
held in place by strong spring. 1t
yields readily to Leo's spring, and the
dog lands in sprawling heap on the
floor. Leo hasn't yet got it out of his
head that he can open the door by the
same process when he wants to 60 out.
Consequently he now and then starts
from the farther side of tho main office,
runs full tilt against the door, bumps
his shoulders, and falls back upon the
floor discounted.
His best accomplishment, however, is
his singing. In training the dogs voice
Prof. Moratti has brought to bear all
his native knowledge of the Italian
method. The results are plainly seen in
Leo's style. There is none of your
phlegmatic German defamation in his
work, but an earnest, inspiring and
melodic howl, varied here and there bY
short staccato yelps on very high notes.
Leo realizes the merit of his perform
ance SO keenly that Of late he has posi-
lively refused to sing unless there is an
audience present. Then he springsin
chair and sits down, and Prof. Moratti
sits in another chair beside him. When
the reporter was present the professor
played Fritz" Emmet's 'Cuckoo" song
on a harmonica, and Leo put in canine
obligato. He put his head straight u
in the air and howled. All the frisk'
ness of his private life departed; his
tail did not wag nor his body vibrate
with the Joy Of young life. His only
motion was an expressive swaying Of
the nose and an occasional closing OF
the eyes as he reached for some es-
pecially effective note. An unresponsive
spectator would have said that Leo was
unhappy but Moratti declares that on
such occasions the dogs attitude simply
indicates intense emotional earnest
ness. At any rate it is pretty good sing
Ing for dog.-N. Y. Sun.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-09
PENNY PHOTOGRAPHS.
The Latest Fad In tho Ubiquitous Auto.
matlc Delivery Machine.

The Latest Fad In tho Ubiquitous Auto
matlc Delivery Machine.
The latest fad in the penny automatic
delivery box will be placed before the
long-enduring public in this city short
ly in the shape of portrait-making
machine. The machine is unique af-
fair and one that will probably be great
ly patronized. The machine is in the
form OF large square box mounted on
a hollow pedestal. On the front center
is small lens, surmounted by mir
ror, and a slot for the penny is in the
top left-hand corner.
The person to be photographed takes
his stand in front of the lens, with his
back to post or rail fixed at distance
of three feet from the machine, and ad-
justs himself so that his full face shall
be reflected in the mirror. With his
left hand he drops a penny in' the slot
and remains motionless for five seconds,
when the sound of bell announces
that the impression is complete. In
forty seconds more the finished photo
graph, on a metal plate, drops through
the delivery hole on to small shelf
and the process is complete. The i'm
pressions resemble those of the cheap
glass position photographs, only that
tin-plate is substituted for glass.
The mechanism is at present a secret,
but the principle appears to be that OF
rotary arm, which carries the plate
through series Of chemical baths till
the impression is developed and fixed.
The machine, it is thought, will give
good satisfaction to all of those who are
in the habit of dropping cent into the
slot machines. A company will place
the machine upon the market in this
country and Europe at about the same
time. Between these machines and
the amateur photogra pliers, which are
swarming the country in numbers, the
professionals will be badly pressed for
work.-Philadelphia Times.
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-09
4 WELL-KNOWN TEST.

tiveness of gunpowder, but, unlike it,
does not explode on the application of
heat. A red-hot coal dropped into it
will not explode it. 1t will freeze. 1t
is yellow and greasy"
'You don't mean to say so," said the
officer, interrupting me in disagreeable
tones in the middle of a choice extract
from one of my lectures. ''Why, but
you haven't told me how it goes of. If
the fire won't burst it, what in-(hem)
-will?"
told him if it were pressed, or any
thing fell on it, itwould explode.
'fPlace it under The csusher of cider
mill, strike it with hammer, let a
weight fall on it from height"
''Yes," said the man, '.and that rouses
its yolcaner, does it?"
II suppose, professor, that ERE can
would make mighty big noise If allowed
TO explode here all at once?" ,s.,.
sit would blow the entire building to
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-09

Some very interesting facts OF crime
are revealed by q Scotch sheriff. He
knew OF one woman who, between tho
years 1874 and 1865, was committed to
prison 1877 times for being drunk, and
when drunk her invariable practice was
to smash windows. A man when drunk
stole nothing but Bibles, and was trans
ported for his seventh theft. Another
man stole nothing but spades; woman
stole nothing but shoes; another noth'
ing but shawls, but the queerest thief
was one who stole tubs, and was sent Il
penal servitude for his seventh tub
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-09
THE CONGO COUNTRY.
1 Clear Idea of Its Geographical Feat
ures and Its Inhabitants.

Clear Idea of Its Geographical Feat
ures and Its Inhabitants.
In his "Tropical Africa" Henry
Drummond says: ''There is absolutely
no law in Central Africa. You can kill
any body, and any body can kill you.
and no one will ask any que stions." He
has an impressive way of placing Africa
before the reader, as if its whole area
could be seen spread out within the
range of vision. He shows that Africa.
on each side of it's triangular shape, is
pierced by q great river-the Nile on
the north, the Congo on the west, and
the Zambesi on the east. There are
great lakes in East Central Africa. $50
and $50 miles long. While Central
Africa has no roads, an immense net
work of trails is spread over the
whole region. "Probably no coun-
try in the world, civilized or unciv-
llized, is better supplied with paths
than this unmapped continent Every
village is connected with some other
village, every tribe with the next tribe,
every state with it's neighbor, and,
therefore, with all the rest" In gen.
eral way these trails are very direct,
though they 60 around all such obstruc-
tions as fallen tree. The native tracks
are all the same all over Africa, ''never
over foot in width, beaten as hard as
adamant, and rutted beneath the level
of the forest bed by centuries of native
traffic. If stone is in the way, gen
erations after generations of men have
passed that stone, and it still waits for
a man with an altruistic idea" Through
these little detours the distance between
two points is usually increased fourth
or half.
Speaking of the native, Mr.. Drum
mond says: He is apparently quite
happy; he has practically no wants.
One stick pointed makes him spear;
two sticks rubbed together make him a
fire; fifty sticks tied together make him
house; the bark he peels from them
makes his clothes; the fruit which
hangs on them forms his food. 1t is
perfectly astonishing, when one thinks
of it, what Nature can do for the animal
man. to see with what small capital
after all a human being can get through
the world. I saw an African buried.
According to the customs of his tribe,
his entire earthly possessions-and he
was an average commoner-wereb buried
with him. Into the grave, after the
body, was lowered tho dead mans pipe,
then rough knife, then mud bowl,
and last his bow and arrows
the bow-string cut through the
middle, touching symbol that its
work was done. This was all. -Four
items, as an auctioneer would say,
were the whole belongings for half
century Of this human being. No man
knows what . man is till he has seen
what man can be without and be
withal man. That is to say, no man
knows how great man is till he has seen
how small he has once been. The
African is often blamed for being lazy.
but 1t is . misuse of words. He does
not need to work; with so bountiful
nature round him, it would be
gratuitous to work. And his Incidence.
therefore, as it is called, is as much .
part of himself as his nat nose. and as
little blsmeworthy IS slowness in
tortoise. The fact is, Africa is ration
Of the unemployed" - Philadelphia
Press
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-09
a VICIOUS LOCOMOTIVE.


a MurderOus Engine That Has Killed
Twenty.ssvon Men.
There is particularly vicious engine
on the East Tennessee road.
1t has killed twenly-seven men, and
engineers and firemen feel supersti.
tious dread whenever they have to take
run on tho rails with this man-killer.
II sometimes feel, said a grizzled old
stoker few days ago, "that there Is q
murdcrous spirit in that engine She
killed two men before she got on the
rails. While she was being steamed up
in the shops, plug blew out, and two
mechanics were scalded to death. Then
1t was brought South and sent out on
Its first run. She mounted the rails and
plunged down an embankment, killing
her engineer and fireman.
''Soon afterward she was fixed up and
put on the road again. She ran for q
while all right, until one night the on
gineer that was driving her saw head
light bearing down on him and tried to
reverse the lover and run back; but tho
engine acted like mule and wouldn't
aswer to the throttle. She went whirl-
ing on and crashed into the other train.
Five men were killed in the two engine
boxes.
but l can't remember half the devil
try that engine has played. Once she
seemed to 60 into the dumps while on
the road and just wouldn't be managed.
cylinders. Whenever the engineer
pulled open the throttle she would
storm down the track like a hell-cat
and it was like stopping a bucking
bronco to get her down to quiet pace.
IAN emigrant train was running
ahead, and the engineer OF the man.
killer had orders to look out for it.
After run of an hour or SO he came in
sight OF the emigrant train as it rum.
bled slowly up heavy grade; then it
disappeared over the crest and thiq
devil OF an engine went charging w
and over about a minute behind. Tho
engineer expected to see the emigrant,
away down the track, but they had slowed
up and were only few hundred yard.
ahead. Down went the engine below.
ing like mad, and as soon as the emf.
6A"Aoo ASoAN AUS ouV oACJ oVIOoAACu 6a
fast as they could. But the old hell,
cat could outrun the Flying Dutchman,
and there was no stopping her. She
rushed down, eating up the space be-
tween hcr and her prey. Eager faces
were looking out the windows of the
passenger-car ahead, and the engineer,
fireman and coaler, when they found
that they could not check the speed of
the engine, stood at the doors ready for
a leap
''They had to take it pretty soon.
Already the emigrants were leaping
from the steps and rolling down the
sides of the embankment. The engine
men waited till the last moment before
the crash, and leaped for life-but were
all killed.
IL am afraid to say how many lives
were lost as the engine tore into that
train packed with emigrants, but it
swelled the list Of the men that the old
brute had killed.
mo matter what road she is on-and
she has been on a great many-she has
kept on killing the men who stood at
her throttle. We all feel little nervous
when we have to run her, for when You
steam her up it seems to put the devil
in her."-Atlanta Constitution
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-09

IOm was very anxious to know What
would keep me up after twelve o'clock,
50 told him was about to commence
analyzing the stomach of Mrs. John
son, whose husband lay in p Jail,
just across the road from the college,
on suspicion that he was the murderer.
AS Tom was passing out Of the col
lege yard through tho gate, his head
turned, and bidding me goodnight, he
brushed against man standing with
his back to the college and his face to
the prison. The street lamp showed
me that the man was in police uniform.
Re-entering my laboratory / took
down glass jar from the shelf and sat
down behind my sink to examine it.
An hour had passed since the departure
of young Richards. I had labored hard
to discover traces of the poison in all
Johnson, tho suspected man, had been
student of mine a few years before.
thought him good-hearted, intelligent
fellow, only little wild, and really be-
gan to hope that he might prove in
nocent, when, among the maerated
food, l came upon asmall, indnitesimal,
white grain. By careful manipulation
and the use of my magnifying glass,
managed to get this upon a piece Of
smoked glass and examined it.
I was then certain I had discovered
arsenic, but to make assurance doubly
sure, l determined to apply we'll
known test for that poison.
Yes" l exclaimed, as I saw the
fatal blazon, Joe johnson is the MUIR
derer of his wife! With the evidence of
that mark to back me, no power can
save him."
''Do you really think so?" said .
calm voice behind me.
I turned quickly and discovered q
tall, lank policeman, having red, watery
eyes, standing at my office door and
staring in. His body looked as if it
had been rolled out long before his
hands, like molasses candy stick. He
had no expression at all in his face, and
els policeman's hat was so large that
it threatened to settle down on his
shoulders. His uniform reassured me,
and l addressed him with some impa-
tience.
my friend, suppose am wanted to
attend an inquest, or what Is your pur.
pose?''
Twas police surgeon as we'll as coroner.
Don't bother, professor; the man
amt dead yet, but they say he will be
before morning"
whats the matter with him?"
brain disorder; I mean something
wrong here"
l touched my forehead, and so did he,
as he said: "Ay, and thought I'd drop
in and tell you if you were going to the
station tomorrow, to take look and
see if it is post mortem or not. Besides
I wanted to see where I could always
6nd you in case Of need"
I bowed, and attributed his visit to =
feeling of curiosity. He sat on the sink,
and while his eyes wandered about like
one who felt himself called upon to say
something, he said:
Professor, there has been an acci-
dent this afternoon-terrible, too."
''What was it?''
"Nitro-glycerine explosion up in the
iron mills-.a hundred fellow mortals
busted"
''Sadv'
''Afecting, very" Here he rubbed
his mouth with the back of his hand.
Professor, what is that nitro-glycer-
ine?'
Its very dangerous article" I an
swered, happy to display my knowl-
edge. 1T has nearly twice the destruc~
Mower County transcript., 1890-07-09
THE CHEMISTS STORY.
Saved by the Curiosity of Heart
less Villain.
AM q chemist.
l am the occu-
pant Of this re-
sponsible an d
important posi-
ton in the med
ical college of

1t was about
eleven o'clock
on a 8 t orm y
evening that l
bade goodnight
to my student
Tom Richards,
at the door of
m y laboratory,
at the sOut h
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