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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-09-03

A DMINlsTRATOR S SALE OF REAL
~ ESTATE
by virtue of n renewed Order of the Or
phans Court of the State Of Delaware, IN
and for New Castle County. made on the
twenty ninth day OF July. a H.. 1891, will
be exposed TO sale Mt Public Ecndue
ON SATURDAY,
the 9th day OF September. 1891.
at O'Clock =. M,
at the Court House. In Wilmington, the
Following desJ ribcd Real Estate late Of
Edmund Hannah, deceased, TO wit:
No .l.-All thnt certain farm, or tract of
land situate In New Castle HID, County of
New Castle and State Of Delaware con.
tanning one hundred and eight acres
bounded by the rond leading from French
town Turnpike 10 the Ehristiana road,
by lands OF John iIiddle, by land of Geo.
Whitfield and land OF John Janvior do.
caesed.
No. IA lot Of ground at the intcrsec-
Ition Of the said Turnpikel with the road
Heading from New Castle to i'hristiaun,
lad5oinlng lands of Trustees OF the New
Castle Common. containing about one
half acre ut a al. Attendance will he
given aud terms made know by JAMES
N. HANNAH. or by his Attolne;.
Attest Ghas II. NJ wlIurt ~. Clerk o. g.
Join IL. RODNEY, Attorney. sI-2t
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-09-03

While the citizens of Wilmington
We're snrpris d, and were talking of
the death of Ferd Fullmer, news
reached them from the Clayton House
that death had his Iicti1n in the person
OF llr. &. Elton Buck, who died about
B o'clock in the evening OF lnryngitis.
Or. Buck and his family have Tor
II year pnSt been boarders at the Clay
ton House. having sold his residence.
lie was, however, building new resi-.
dence at Fourteenth and Rodney
streets into which lie expected to re.
move when finished. Dr. Bucks vito
and two sons had heen away summer.
in2 ut the Warm Springs. He wrote
TO them on Saturday not with view
to BRING them home, but their stay he.
Ing over thpy voluntarily came homo
on Monday. DR.. Buck htd been com.
planning OF being ill about n week but
he was not confined to his room.
On Monday evening hD was down
stairs talking choerfully with friends
iii the par.or. Yesterday morning,
MIR. Bucks family physician, Dr,
Draper, being called away from the
city, Dr, Bullock was called in, and in
tho evening, being no better lie was
called again aud Mus with MIR Buck
when he died. Mr.. Bucks wifa was
Miss Sophia Stratton, sister OF Judge
Strntton of New Jersey, and his SONS
names are Charles aud Albert; the first
IL bout Ia years of age, and VASE o.
10 enter Yale College.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-09-03
SHARP eco.
Fourth and Market SITS.

We are closing out our
Blazers in cream, light grey,
black and white, and blue
and white plaids and stripes
and light and dark browns.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13
The Hunters Badge.

There is an old custom in Scotland,
according to which any one who has
killed stag, a salmon, seal and an
eagle, has right to wear Gf he pays for
it) the hunters badge, which consists Of
a small gold watch charm in the shape
of shield with the heads of the above
embossed in the four corners.
This is all very we'll as far as the stag
and salmon are concerned and perhaps
also the seal, although it seems rather a
shame the seals, which are growing rare
in Scotland. But inasmuch as the badge
calls for the destruction Of eagles it is a
great mistake, rs eagles arc almost ex-
tinct in Scotland, owing to the senseles;
practice of killing them down on all
possible occasions; and why it should be
an honor to shoot with a shotgun big
slow-hying bird does not seem very clear,
the usual way being to watch the eagles
nes; and shoot it as 1t comes to feed its
young.
The eagle ought to be omitted, aud a
list OF all the game birds Of Scotland
substituted, so as to make the holder OF
the badge an all-round hunter.
There is more recent badge called
the ''stalker's badge" which is for any
one who has ''stalked" (still huntcd a
stag over a certain size Of horns, entirely
by himself. This requires some doing.
The usual Scotch aud English deer
shooters have a man to guide them,
which, OF course, is not allowed when
qualifying for the badge.
II there was a "hunter's ba1ge' started
for America. given to any one who has
killed certain Of the big game CT America
in stortsmanike way, it might educate
men up to taking care of the game, spare
females, etc, as any one who shoots big
game in a sportsmanlidc manner would
be able to wear the ba1ge, which need
not be expensive, as it could be of
bronze; and if he met any member of
shooting club who had not got badge
on, he would know what class of shooter
he was, and might shame the unsports-
manlike shooter into mending bis ways.
- EnrLsf nn1 .Skrcn.n
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13
A Queer Custom at Windsor.

A queer custom which prevails at no
other court than that of Great Britain is
the solemn announcement at the begin
ming of each course of the name Of the
cook who has prepared the dishes served.
This announcement is made in audible
tone, for the benefit Of Her Majesty, by
one of the clerks-in- waiting OF the
kitchens. The origin of this custom
dates back to the reign Of George II,
whose chef having been temporarily in
clpacieted by sickness was forced to
abandon his duties to his principal mar
milton, young fellow by the name OF
Weston. So successfully did he fulfill the
task intrustei to him that he became a
great fayorite Of the kings, who pro-
NOTED him to the rank of chef. This,
of course, created great jealousy among
his former comrades, and every effect
was made to oust him from royal favor
by rendering him responsible for all the
culinary failures that appeared on the
kings table. Greatly distressed by so
much injustice and fearing to lose his
exalted position, Weston complained to
the king, who Immediately gave orders
that thcnceforth, whenever dish was
placed before him, the name Of the cook
responsible for its success or failure
should be called out in a loud tone OF
voicc.-NcD York Recorder.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13

of cotton texture, fifty inches long by
seventy centims. broad. During the
campaign of the year many experiments
were made with q view to ascertain the
most serviceable and destructive form of
trap. In the early days the screens were
placed in position to receive the advanc-
ing column, with openings measuring
about five yards wide and semi-circular
trench dug across. The trench was
filled with brushwood, which was b urnt
down to glowing embers. This mode Of
destruction answered fairly we'll where
firewood was plentiful and easily pro-
cured, but as the trenches required re-
filling from time to time with fuel, the
men at work and the clouds of smoke
were apt to scare the locusts and turn
the columns. Destruction by fire was
therefore abandoned in favor of traps
lined with zinc, which worked with con-
siderable success. The locusts entering
these traps were able to crawl up the
carthcn sides, but on reaching the pro-
truding rim of zinc, they lost their grasp
and fell back into the pit.
The experiments made with "huile
lourde," liquor for asphyxiating the
locusts, were found most successful.
"Huilc lourde" is cresote oil, product
obtained by distilling ccal tar, and is
sometimes called "soft OIL" The oil is
useful for the destruction Of young
locusts collected in small patches, which
do not call for the employment OF
screens. It then suffices to sprinkle the
locusts with the liquid in the morning
or evening when then are clustered to-
gether. -Np York Tribune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13
Sniders and Raaflas Galore.

The Natural History Museum in New
York City, in all probability, soon will
have a wonderful collection of spiders
and beetles. 1t has just been offered,
under certain conditions, the largest
known collection of these insects col
lection which numbers fully 10, 900 diff
fereut specimens collected in all parts Of
the world, which forms a most interest
ing and instru ,tiye exhibit. It well
may be that, seeing that the collector
made the acquisition of these insects his
life work and devoted practically the
whole of his time to the enterprise. -
Boston Transcript.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13
Nitru.Glycsrine Can't Be AnrihiIated.

In manufacturing nitro -glycerine one
OF the processes is to strain it through
felt, usually through the crowns OF old
felt hats, they having been found moi
only the most convenient and effective
for the purpose, but also preferable for
economy. This felt is burned up after
using. At one OF the factories in the
northern oil field once an employe re.
solved to test the life of nitro glycerine,
and he took a hat-crown that had been
used as strainer, washed it thoroughly,
and then put it through course Of
treatment with alkalis. He laid the felt
away on a shelf. 1t lay there two years,
and one day the man happened to think
of it and took it down. He had no idea
that there could possibly remain in the
felt the slightest suspicion OF danger,
and. to show that the stud had been an-
initiated, he put the felt on the iron arm
on the timers bench, aud struck it with
a hammer. Tie result was a surprise to
that factory. An explosion followed
that broke both arms of the workman,
stunned three other mer, hurled the
heavy iron arm through twofoot wall,
and wrecked the timing shop. Nitro
glycerine cant be annihilated. Boston
TrquscriDt.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13
Laruest Lscamotiye in Tho World.

The Baldwin Locomotive WORKS arc
about to begin work on five engines ioI
the Erie Railroad that will be the largest
ever constructed in the world. TneJ
will weigh $4,000 pounds, Or eighty
eight tons, and will be used for hauling
heavy freight over the mountains.
There has just been completed at the
works the largest compound locomotive
ever built. 1t is for the fast freight SER
vice of the New York, Lake Erie and
Western Railroad. The Baldwin Com
pany urged the road to try one OF the
compound engines, aud built the engine
mentioned as a sample, along with forty
four single expansion engines. The lat
ter are now being given careful test as
to their capabilities aud economy of run
ning. When the compound engine has
had week or ten days breaking in a
careful test will be made OF its workings,
for comparison with those OF the single
expansion type.
The ordinary engines have cylinders
twenty-one by twenty-six inches. The
compound engine in question has high
pressure cylinders fourteen by twenty'six
inches, and low pressure cylinders
twenty-four by twenty-six inches. The
big compound engine is in other respects
similar to ordinary engines. 1t has three
pairs of driving wheels, slxty-two inches
in diameter. The weight of the engine
III working order is i35, 900 pounds, ex-
elusive of the tender. The weight on the
driving wheels, whichi is the measure OF the
power Of the engine, is l07, ,OOJ pounds.
The boilers are OF the Wooten type,
and the fire boxes are Ia inches long by
ninety.six inches wide. The engine IS
6fty.six feet long and sixteen feet high.
II is expected that this engine cta be
run at saving of from thrty.liye to
forty per cent. over the same size single
expansion engine. The Baldwin Com
pany is now building ten engines OF
similar type for the Reading Railroad,
Eve for the Pennsylvania and two for the
Lehigh Valley. Record.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13
South and West.

WILLIAM Cox and his son OF WapeIIa,
ILL.,, attempted to deepen an ID well n
were overcome by gas and died.
SIX persons, including the captain, y .re
drowned when the British ship s, -atlblanc
from Honolulu. vent ashore twenty-five
miles north OF Astoria. Oregon.
Ex-Governor ALBERT s. MARKS. Of
Nashville. Tenn, diel few days ago. He
was born in Davies County, KY, on Octo-
Der 10, 1886
TIE Republicans won a sweeping NUM-
cipal victory in Chicago III.
FOUR stockmen were killed ami an engineer
injured in a collision between two sections OF
a stock train few miles south Of Waco,
Texas.
The Bank Of Caledonia. Mimi, has been
robbed. About 5000 in CASH was secured.
besides notes and papers. The burglars stole
horses and carriage belonging TO Asa
Duprague, the head Of the bank, and fed.
The oldest man on eartb," Hiram Lester.
was married few nights ago in the Opera
House at Atlanta. Ca, a fee Of twenty-five
cents being charged to all who witnessed the
ceremony. Hiram is l24 years Old. and his
bride. Mrs. Mary Mosely. is eigbty.one. The
old man fell in love with the old woman.
who was matron Of the Poor House when he
was sent there ten years ago. He fell into
the hands of fakirs who hit upol the scheme
Of having them married in the Opera House,
they sharing in the profits.
INFORMATION has been received Of the
laundering Off the Delaware capes several
days ago OF the>rosrss rnpnorvs~iu Da ia.
Brown, which were in y OF the tug b. W.
Morse from Norfolk, VI -Four men on the
Brown and one on the phon were lost.
The dry goods frmf Weiss Bros, OF
Galveston. Texas, hanade an assign.
ment. 1t is said thathe liabilities VIII
amount to three-quarteDf a million OF dol
lars.
ABE WAYMAS, coloi. was hanged at
Trenton, Ca, for taennrjer Oh prison
guards at Cole City. Galast July.
A son of Mrs. EmiIyA. Beardsley. OF
Dixon ILL.,, needed an vercoat and sne
stole one. When she waarrested she broxe
a goblet and committed u'cide by cutting
her throat with the piece
The Bank of Florence, Ma, failed iew
mornings ago to open its ,ors. The omcsfs
refused to make a statennt
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13

ADvIcEs from Yokohama, Jaoan, say
that by tue violent storm OF September
ffty-two lives were lost and thirty-seven
hundred houses damaged. Seven hundred
AMI eighty vessels were sunk. Great dam
age was done TO crons. The loss 10 property
is estimated at 81 100000
A DISPATCH from Rio Janerio, the capital
Of Brazil. brings news Of what seems 70 bs
little less than another revolution. Con yress
has been dissolved and martial law has been
proclaimedat Rio Janeiro and throughout
the provinces. The dispatch also announces
that dictatorship has been established in
Brazil
President FoSsEcA has proclaimed HIM
self Dictator OF Brazil. Troops patrol the
streets of Rio Janeiro. Many persons were
killed in tie riots. There IS a disposition In
certain districts 10 start an uprising.
TYPaus has killed 2oO) OF the Russisn
troops on the Pruth.
FIVE railway employees aud five esh
soldiers were killed ami thirty-one soniers
and four natives injured in railroa, ~;ci-
dent between Bombay AMI Nagpur, inaia,H
caused by the breaking OF tre on ire
driving wheel OF ths locomotive.
The Liberal party in Chill won sweep
ing victory in the recent elections. lhe
Liberal electors met in caucus several days
ago and noninatei for President OF Chill
for the ensuing five years Admiral Jorge
Monst The nomination is equivalent to an
election. Admiral Montt was a pronounced
opponent OF President Basmsceta.
The British steamer Lux was burnei at
ssa few days ago. of Negropont in the
-Egean Sea The total number OF persons
who perisaed by the disaster is placed at
twenty.
Tar polling in Cork, Ireland, for suc-
cessor 70 Parnell in the House ot Commons.
resulted in the probable election OF Mr..
Flavin, the Mccarthyit, candidate.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13
A Chicken With Three Bills.

A cirious freak Of nature is reported
by tts Snohomish (Cal.) Eye in the
shape of a chicken with three eyes and
three bills, all well developed. 1t was
incubated at the farm of F. Boyer, four
miles east of Shohomish, one day last
week. Two OF the eyes and one bill
were in their natural positions, while the
third eye was located in the centre Of
the forehead. over the natural bill. Two
of the bills were under tho natural eHes.
The freak lived but short time, md
was not preserved By the lessee Of fhe
farm, who considered it Of no value;
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13
Raised as a Girl.

II is said that the eccentric Queen
Natalic's more eccentric sister, the Prin-
cess Ghika, entertains an absolute
avcrsiol to boys and is very fond Of
girls. Very much to her disgust, her
only child is boy. Sac endeavors to
assua5e her disappointment by dressing
and treating him exactly as though he
we're girl. Though now more than ten
years old, he wears long, flowing curls
and feminine costume, low-neeked and
short.sleeved frOcks, and is called by a
girls same, very much to his disgust
---PicayRns.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13
Washington.

A STATEMENT preparet exc the Treasury
Department shows that there was a net in
crease in circulation during October Of s33, :
SiO.125 and net increase OF 81. lS2, 403 in
the money aud bullion in the Treasury dur
ing the same period.
NOTICES of intention to contest the right
to the seats of six members elect TO the House
of Representatives in the Fifty-second Con-
gress have been fled with the clerk Of the
House
DR.. MoTT SMITH, of Hawaii has arrived
in Washington. and will represent Hawaiian
interests there until duly accredited Minis
ter is appointed.
THE Navy Department has concluded TO
use nicke-steel in the manufacture or ali
armor hereafter for vessels OF war.
SECRETARY PROCTOR formally resigned
his place in the Cabinet before leaving
Washington for Vermont few days ago.
Hehas been appointed by Governor Page 70
serve the remainder of Mr.. Edmundss term
in the Senate.
TIE War Department is advised that
Second Lieutenant J. V. Dodge, Fourth
Infantry. is in Jail at Hannibal. Mo. charged
with grand larceny and burglary. Lieufen-
ant Dodge has been in the army since 1857.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13
FUN.

Two counter -irritants "A mustard
plaster aud woman shopping. Life.
It doesn't follow that versifer always
produces fervid results.-B0ston Courier.
The man who lives in the public eye
must expect sometimes to be under the
ash.-PueF.
When man is out Of spirits it doesn't
follow that he has given up the ghost
Boston Courier.
When a powder magazine blows up it
can, we suppose, be called flash litera-
ture. -Ttras Sittiags.
We tip the scales to learn our weight
and tip the waiter to avoid wait
BingIa@for Rcss@Iica".
care the ChickwaI giyls in society,""
"Um-yes, they're in socicN but they're
not really fashionable. They afs>too red
and healthy. - Cheap Tribune. ~
"Do you know what Biggars said
about you last night!" mo; but | bet
500 can lick him with one hand tied
behind me. "-Iadianapolis Journal.
"I'm afraid Bilkley has lost his reputa.
ton at last" "He is not advertising
his loss, IS hel" "No. His acquaint.
ances are attending to that. Indian
apolis Journal.
If you wish to ascertain if a dog is
thoroughbred or a cur, kick him. If he
proves to be we'll bred, self respecting
dog, you will need new pair of trousers.
Boston Journal.
"My client can clear himself, feel
sure, if your honor will only give him
time, >" pleaded the lawyer. And the
kindhearted judge gave him twenty
years.-SmerriM Journal.
Brave Youth swimming to the rescue)
-"Courage, miss Try and" Strug-
Cling Young Woman (from Boston, re-
bukingly)-"You should (gurgle) say
'try to!"- Micago Tribune.
Gent-"I should like to have my
photo taken, but | want 1t to be nice
looking" Photographer fear,
sir; it shall be so handsome that you
won't know it yourself. Der Sctan.
There are no plums on last years tree,
No birds in last years nests;
But rve-hurrah found dollars three
In one Of last years vests.
--Harpe''s Baz@.
Bullfuch (argumentary) - "Now, !
like Mabel Gnterruptingly)-
'.what you like Mr.. Bullfnch, is neither
here northerc.' Bulldnch (suggestiveIy)
Pardon me, but it's here. .'-Bost0n
Courier.
81 am glad Mortimer is to marry
wife with no false pride and with some
practical knowledge of housekeeping"
HAS Miss Van Duckats any Of that"
"Why, yes. The papers says she looked
very handsome sweeping up the avenue
Yesterday. ."--Ne,o York Herald.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13
CURIOUS FACTS.

The Kings OF Wurtemberg date from
1905.
Almanacs date back to the year 100
A. d.
The United States collects $639 and
spends S461 every minute of the night
End day.
When an East Indian Lascar is mar
ried the brides mother puts ring on
one ofshis great toes.
The new shipyard building by the
Cramps in Philadelphia, Penn, is to be
the greatest in the world.
Three tunnels arc being constructed
under the harbor of Glasgow, Scotland, 4,
for foot passengers and tssiirsr
A man has been arrested in Prussia for
saying thai the crazy King of Bavaria
was the most useful monarch in Europe,
because he spends his time peeling po'
tatoes.
Years ago the castles of the Old World
were shown on dinner plates, and when
Lafayette visited the United States the
incidents of his visits were pictured on
tcapots and sugar bowls.
. Professor II. w. S. Cleveland, of
Minneapolis, Mimi, has an autograph
letter of Benjamin Franklin, informing
the postmaster in Boston that he should
not exempt governors from paying post
age.
Rattlesnakes are said to have natural
antipathy to white ash leaves. Some
naturalists assert ths. rattlesnakc
placed in circle of half ash leaves and
half hot Goals will cross the Goals rather
than encounter the leaves.
A farmer of Murray County, Ga,
sixty.fve years old, boasts that himself
and several members Of his family have
never worn anything bat homemade
clothing. The wool was raisel, woven
dyed and made up at home.
A huge toadstalI has appeared every
fall for the last ten years on low branch
of an elm tree near Wodeck Park, Ber-
lin. 1t stands about twenty-five inches
hiah and has cap almost two feet in
diameter. Two years ago a policeman
picked it, cooked it, and ate it, and
suffered no bad results from the meal.
An Iowa butter dealer gives this direc-
tion for distinguishing between butter
and oleomargarnc:s Cut piece OF the
questioned butter in halves. If ever it
saw inside churn there will be watery
exudations right in the track of the
knife, but if it is combination OF pre-
pared and disguised fat, there will be
smooth, greasy surface only.
The smallest known species Of hogs
are quartered at the London Geological
Gardens. They came from the southern
part of Australia, aud arc known as "thc
pigmy hogs of the Antipodes." They
are we'll formed, frisky aud good natured,
and about the size of a musk rat. They
are real hogs and are not to be con-
founded with guinea pigs, which are
species of rodent.
Dogs in native or wild state never
bark; they simply wine, howl and
prowl; the noise which we call barking
is found only among those that are do
mesticated. Columbus found that to be
the case with the dogs he first brought
to America and left at large, for on his
return he tells us that they had lost
their propensity to bark. Scientific men
say that barking is really an effort on the
part of the dog to speak.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13
DREAM AND DEFD

What OF the deed without the o.ea,n? A
song
Reft of its music, and a senseiess rose.
Except the heart outsoar the hand, the
thropg
win bless thee little for thy labor throes.
The dream without the deel! Dawn's fairy
gold,
Paied, ere it wake the hills, to misty gray
Except the hand obey the heart, behold,
The grieved angel turns his face away.
-Katharine Lee Bates, in Lippincott.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13

Editor of Organ Coarse and abu.
sive remarks That's good phrase.
BY the way, Mr.. Blower is on the other
side, isa't hcl" City Editor-"Oh no,
he's one of our speakers" Editor-"sol
Let me see. think you'd better change
that to 'kcen and incisiyc. '"-BoStoa
Transript.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-11-13

Two hundred and thirty miles have
been ridden on a bicycle without dis
mounting.