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Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-11-05
Aptinuitr Of che water rump.

The water pump of today is but an
Improvement on Grecian invention
which first came into, use during the
1eisa of PtoleFies Philadelphos and
Erersetes, 2SS to 221 B. G. The nanes
which is very similar in all languages. -
ceiived from the Greek word pempo, to
send OF throw. The most ancient de-
scription we have of water pump Is
~ Hero. of Alexandra. There is 10 Su-
thentic account of tie general use Of the
pump in Germany previous 10 the Begin
Ling of the Sixteenth century. At about
that time the endless chain and bucket
works foT raising water fron mines be-
gan 70 be replaced by pumps.
II the Seventeenth century rotating
pumps, like the Pappenham engine, vita
two pistons, and the Prince Rupert. with
one. were first used. Pumps with plunger
pistons were invented by Morland, az
Englishman, in 1914; the double acting
pump, by De la Hire, the French acade-
mician.-New York Telegram
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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.
MILITARY PIGEONS.

Since the success OF the carrier
pigeon service during the siege of
Paris IN 1S70-71, European govern
ments have given considerable atten-
ton to the rearing and training of
pigeons. In France, according to
Lieut.. Col. De Rochas, most of the
fortresses now contain dovecotes,
and Al departments have private So
cieties for pigeon-traiping, the total
number of trained pigeons in the
country being about 100000, and
Paris alone having 5000 trained and
10000 unframed pigeons. In Ger
many there are about 20 military
pigeon stations, and in 1888 there
were rs private societies with ST.
240 carrier pigeons. In Italy there
are dovecotes at 90 military stations.
Spain has a very complete system of
pigeon service, devecotes having
been established at Is stations, the
greatest distance between any two
designed to communicate directly
being from Madrid to Malaga, 240
miles In Portugal there are IA
stations; in Russia, S stations, that
at Brest-Litowsk having 1000 pig
cons; in Switzerland, 4 stations in
Austria, 2 stations and several pro-
tected ones, considerable govern
ment encouragement being given
also to private trainers. Sweden
has one station Denmark, a private
society in u sections Belgium,
many private trainers, with an esti-
mated total of more than 100000
pigeons. holland has a regular
pigeon postal service between Java
and Sumatra and England, num-
Der of cotes in garrisoned cities.
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The Lady Factotum.

The "lady factotum'' is what our Eng
fish neighbors call those engaged in the
vocation of visiting housekeeper" This
is an employment which has been highly
recommended, and which a number of
ladies in this country as well as in Eng
land have adopted. Such person visits
ladies who from i'll health or some other
reason are unable to perform their do
nestle duties. She oversees the servants,
inspects the stores and possibly under
takes shopping, marketing and the writ
ing of notes, and she performs other
offices which are of too confidential and
responsible nature for the ordinary
servant to undertake
If she is woman of energy, tact and
health she car accomplish great deal
by visiting a number of families for
about an hour day. She may go so
far as to employ assistants in marketing
and shopping, whose work she is able to
oversee with intelligence. She is paid
for this work on even better scale than
a visiting governness, and if she is an
able, efficient woman in the items of in
specting stores and furnishing food at
down town prices, she can easily save q
family half her liberal remuneration.
The institution of such vocation is
great relief to many overburdened or
i'll or incapable housewives, and presents
an excellent and lucrative field to women
of efficiency and refinement. It is a
place such as an elder sister might take,
md such indeed as many elder and un-
married sisters do take for no remuner2-
ton beyond love and affection. New
York Tribune.
Strange Facts about Accidents
The collection of large groups of facts
about accidents winch has been made
necessary by the development of acct
dent insurance has made contribution
20 one department of social science that
is by no means uninteresting. For in
stance, it is a curious fact that man il
much more likely to lose his left hand
than his right hand, or his left eye than
his right eye; statistics show, too, that
when man insures himself against ac-
cidents he thereby greatly diminishes
the risk Of accident-and thisis probably
explained in this way: When aman's at
tention is called to danger he fixes his
mind on it, and thereby consciously or
uncoDsciously makes unusual effort to
avert il. 1t therefore happens that a
man is more likely to be victim of an
accident Of a kind that he never thought
of than of the kind against which he in
sures himself.
A man, for instance, who handles
sharp tools will insure himself againss
an accident from the use of them, and
the first thing he knows he viii be draw
ing pay from an insurance company for
an INJURY done by getting ciDder 10 his
eye.-Forum.
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Much Needed Sympathy.

Two Boulevardiers meet. "Allow
NE to condole with you, my dear Con
tran. l have just heard of your apnt's
death. 1t is terrible loss for you"
Right you are. She has cut NE OF
with shIling. lie Cslen6rieE.
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Cotton Seed Wanted,

The Brennan Compress, Oil and
Manufacturing Company will pay,
for the next thirty days, $3.50 per
ton for cotton seed delivered at
their mill.
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-Chas. Chawn, a ore armed boy
about Is years old was arrested last
week at Runge, charged with the
theft of a horse.
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For Sale Chean.

Lot on Church street; also a five
room residence, corner Baber and
Jefferson streets.
MRS. NJ. J. MAsHIK.
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STATE NEWS.

building.
Sherman is in need of better
water supply.
Stock in Leon county are on
short water rations.
The Fair at Seguin which
closed Saturday was a success.
Small game and fat turkeys
abound in the vicinity of Quanah.
The Mcleod hotel at Dallas has
been closed for lack of patronage.
w. A. Lancaster had his foot
run over by train at Midland Fri
day.
Emma, the county seat of Cros-
by county, is soon to have an artesian
well.
The candy factory of A. N. Gal
lowsy at Temple was burned Sunday
night.
The storage house of the Green
vile ice company was burned Friday
night. 1
The hogs in Shelby county are
getting fat on the large crop Of
acorns.
There is a demand for more
residences at Garrison, Nacogdoches
county.
There are few gins left in
Lamar county, most of them having
burned.
The Brazos Pilot has notice of
seven marriages, three Of which were
widows,
Apples raised this year in Hunt
county are said to be of most excel
lent quality.
The residence of Mrs. I. Rior-
dan was burned Friday night at
Colorado.
-Walton's cotton gin at Eulogy,
twelve miles north of Morgan was
burned Friday.
A new town has been started
near the center of Floyd county
called Herman.
The scarcity of water in Navar-
70 county is creating much distress
among the cattle.
-Prospectors are said to be COM
ing into Crosby county and bringing
money with them.
"A majority of the country
schools in Brown county begin last
Monday, November 2.
The prospect for a TOP crop of
cotton on sandy land in Milan
county is very good.
The gin of Dr.. J. P. Poyner,
near Palestine, was burned W.T. 60
bales of cotton Friday.
-R. G. Phanstill's barn at ''sreen-I
vile was burned Friday. 1t was
full of hay. Loss $500.
Lumber is being hauled to var
ious points in Borden county for
the building of residences.
"A Hunt county farmer has a
yellow yam potato vine in bloom,
which is a rare occurrence.
The cotton crop adjacent to
Belden is said to be turning out bet
ter than any year since 1870.
Corn is SO abundant in Gray
son county that it is selling in Van
Alstyne at 3S cents a bushel.
The Red river valley immigra-
ton association with headquarters at
Quannah, has been organized.
There is call for sealed bids
for carrying the United States mail
between Waxahachie and Boz.
Two hundred and forty bales of
cotton burned on the Central train
at Ledbetter Saturday evening.
The granite for the jetties at
Galveston is to be furnished from
the quarries near Marble Falls.
Gordon, Palo Pinto county, |
lacks good college building. There
is also a demand there for wells.
In Grimes county the fall gar
dens are producing fine crops of !
snap beans and other vegetables.
Five hundred head of stock are
to be fattened at the Rockdale oil
mills on hulls and cotton seed meal. |
The Hall County Herald states
that a number of prospectors have
visited Memphis during the last ten
days
n gin belonging to Pierce Il
Gerron, at Rockford, was burned
Friday night, together with a lot of
cotton.
-Rockdale coal is being shipped
L 4 L r
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Kiber's Celebrated Cough Drops
cured me of a severe cough.
GEO. STUR9Es, Dallas.
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CHASED BY MAD DOGS.
HAlReREADTH ESCAPE OF A CLUB
MAN AND HIS BEST GIRL.

A Yarn Which Goes to Prove That Bark
ing Dogs Do Bite sometimeE-StIII
Some Savage Brutes Don't Waste Much
Time in Barking When Out for Blood.
No one had spoken at the club for
about an hour when raconteur rose to
the occasion. Laying aside his pipe with
look of regret he began:
ITS a popular saying that barking
dogs don't bite. Like other popular say
ings this is a fallacy and misleading.
Barking dogs do not bite while they are
barking, but there is only one species of
canine that sneakB up to you and takes
hold without saying a word. That is
the Scotch collie, which inherits it's habit
Of silent biting from sheep nipping an
cestry."
"Story! story" called out the pres
ident.
"Story? God bless you'll 1 have none
to tell, SIR" quoted the raconteur, re-
membering his classics; "this is only
memory of two dogs, accursed brutes,
that lived with an unfriendly man on a
hill, over which the postroad was laid.
This man, who was Cain bmong his
fellows, kept two savage mastiffs, who
not only barled but bit whenever it was
possible. Twas counting my first wife
up there in the Cumberland mountains
in British North America where this
happened, and had to pass the house
regularly. drove blooded mare that
went like bird, and the dogs were no
match for her, but it was very annoying
to have them follow me down the hill
for mile or more barking and yelping
like demons. They would bark at the
stage coaches and run long distances
after them, but the passengers were safe
inside and the driver and those on the
outside were too high for them to reach.
But l heard frequent stories of their at
lacking men, and being beaten off with
sticks and stones. asked why they
were not killed and my answer was
always the same, shrug of the should
erfNklnd the remark: You don't know
the kind of man their owner is 1t
seemed that he lived alone with his
dogs, and people feared him SO much
they dare not go to him to complain
or call in the provincial laws to help
them.
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LUNCH.
Just Received.

Ouf1b ASSSCANOus
Imp'd Magdeburger Dill Pickles,
Sour Kraut,
Cabbage,
Potatoes.
Onions,
Apples,
Celery,
Cranberries,
Horse Radish,
Cheese, all kind
1000 Kegs Holland Herring,
500 Kegs Domestic Herring,
Smoked Herring,
Anchovies,
Mackerel, &c
F. KRENTZLIN.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-24

A recent issue of the Harpers Weekly
devOtes considerable space to the Brown
University and University of Pennsylvania
mines, which, it says, have shown such UNI
usual strength in the game that they de-
serve especial mention, but adds that lit is
to be regretted that they do not follow the
example of other college mines and have
none on the team but bona fida amateurs"
This in regard to Brown is from the closing
paragraph of the article: "The fortune of
the team, indeed, seems to be in the pos
session of two pitchers of equal merit, one
(SeXton) of the catapult style, and the 9th
er [Woodcock) of the strategic.
One of the most entertaining writers on
amateur sports is Casper W. Whitney,
whose articles have attracted attention all
over the country In speaking in Harper's
Weekly of Meetings. election as captain
of the Yale foot ball and base ball teams he
says: "McClung, having his choice, will
choose the foot ball captaincy, and it is al
ready believed that he will resign the base
ball honOrs to Murphy. Should he do this,
and Murphy's election be confirmed by the
nine, it will be a triumph for boy who has
had very little of the social advantages en-
joyed by his companions. But Murphy is
a born ball-player, quiet and earnest in his
of any men intrusted to his care
Quoth the Boston Herald, "SeXton of
Brown University is playing with Woon-
socket under the name of Gleason. So
much for college amateurism.'
Northampton Gazette: zone of the best
things of the game was the machine-like
Ginning of 'Dennie,' the visiting captain.
1t was as good as a circus. How he could
play ball and work that jaw with such I'M
RENTING vigor is a mystery"
Three of the Brattleboro team were
formerly pitchers of note and would have
ranked near the top of the list If their
arms had not gone back on them Stuart
was one of the Amherst college pitchers,
Stearns was one of the best twirlers ever at
Andover, and Cain won more than local
renown at Pittsfield before he went to HO-
ly Cross.
North Adams has organized club with
Spaulding and HOLSTER of Williams col
lege as the pitchers.
The South Royalston team contained
five pitchers-CarmOdy of FOrdham col
lege, Sexton of Brown University, j. Sulli-
van of the Lovells, Burns of ClaremOnt,
who was once with Worcester and other
professional aggregatiOns, and Toby Lyons.
The latter was considered a wonder two or
three years ago, when he was with the
Loyells, and be afterwards did yalient ser
vice for Syracuse in the international
league. He now has ''glass' arm.
Individually the present club is the
strongest which ever represented Brattle-
boro, but it is not making as good a show
ing as that of last year, owing to lack of
proper team work.
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BrattleborOs ,, Northampton o.

short time ago the Meadow City cranks
gave vent to their feelings in an article in
the Springfield Republican, which read
something like this:
the Northamptons at the new driving park. Such
"A team will be paid n good guarantee
This want was filled last Saturday, : to
0, and the Northamptons felt so woe-begone
that their leading paper surrounded its ac-
count of the game with mourning rules,
under the heading Ellsworth did not do
it. but the Brattleboros did with their little
Ratchet" In a nutshell this was the story
of the game: Bowers had the NOrthamp-
tons at his mercy while Ellsworth was hit
freely. The game was played in drizzling
rain, which put an end to the slaughter at
the end of the seventh inning. Murphy
welded the ash with telling effect. In the
first inning Mahoney was given first base
on called balls. Stuart advanced him with
a hit and then stole second, and then Cain,
Sullivan and O'Neill hit for singles, Fitz-
maurice sacrificed, Murphy lined out the
ball for two bags, and this streak of bat
ting aided by an error by Jones, resulted
in five runs. The two scores in the fourth
were made on Murphy's single, Bowers's
three-bagger and Leahy's sacrifice. About
80 people went down to witness the game
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-24

South Royalton, flushed with victory u
to y over Northampton the day before,
took close and exciting game from Brat
tleDOro on Wednesday. Victory should
have perched on Brattleboro banners. More
than once men were left on bases when
single hit would have turned the tide, and
misunderstanding was the cause of one
OF the visitors scores. ROyalston scored
in the second on two-baggers by Sexton
and j. Sullivan, and in the third, when
Carmodv was hit by pitched ball, and
made the circuit of the bases on a passed
ball and o. Herns hit Brattleboro's scores
were in the third, when Murphy was given
his base on balls, stole second and came
home on Sullivan's hit; and in the sixth
when errors by j. Sullivan and O'Hem
allowed Hickey to cross the plate. In the
second with three men on bases Mahoney
famed the ethereal. In the eighth Ma
honey was given first on called balls, and
Stuart hit to j. Sullivan who threw wild
to first. Mahoney should have scored. but
he fell twice before he reached third
Stearns then went out on a fly to Burns,
and Murphy on one to Lyons, on which
MahOney made no attempt to score. Sui
Ivan was given first on called balls and
the bases were full. All was expectancy,
but O'Neill hit an easy one to first base
In the ninth Garvey replaced Lyons i'm left
field. The first time that he came to bat
he lined the ball over centre field fence. and
before it was returned he was on third
base. Mullen hit sharp single to right,
Garvey scored and the game was over
Stuart as usual did yeoman's service and
brilliant plays were made by y. Sullivan,
Murphy and Mullen. A double play by
Leahy and Stearns was also noteworthy
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-24
nrnttleboros Q. PlainvlIIes 4.

Tuesdays game with the Plainville, Ct,
club was devoid of interest. The wooden
nutmeg representatives were not Sin it, at
any stage, and it was not necessary for the
home players to exert themselves. Bowers
pitched for six innings and then gave way
to Hare. Fitzmaurice, who received for
Bowers for the first time, proved to be a
reliable change catcher. In the first inning
Bowers was presented with a bouquet
Steams, the Amherst second baseman, made
his debut here, and his excellent all around
work made good impression. Hickey APP
peared for the first time since he was dis
abled. Murphy, who was suffering from
an injured hand, umpired satisfactorily.
The batting of Sullivan, O'Neill and
Hickey was notably good.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-24
WINNING AND LOSING.
THE WEEKS BASE BALL RECORD.
Northamptons O. BratIeboros 4.

NOrthRmptOns q, BrottlebOrOs 4.
Northampton stock was above par and
Brattleboro stock proportionately low last
Friday as the result on the home grounds
of the third contest in the series. The
game was virtually won in the first inning,
when the visitors secured three scores on
hits by Tenney, Mahaney and Richmond,
assisted by Mahoney's error and a wild
pitch. The two runs in the fourth by
Northampton were on Smiths hit, Ma
haney's sacrifice, Sulivans error which
gave Richmond life, O'Rourke's hit and
two wild pitches. Jones scored in the sew
cnth. He cracked out a single, went to
second as nobody covered that bag when
Leahy threw to cut him off, and came home
on Tenney's hit. Our boys first scored in
the fifth on Mahoney's single and Stuart's
three Dagger. In the seventh the game
was made interesting when Bratteboro Sc
cured three more scores, mainly on Hare
base on balls, singles by Leahy and Maho-
ney, and Stuart's three Dagger. Our play
ers showed their hitting qualities by lining
out WoodcOck in a way to which he was
stranger when member of the Brattleboro
nine, but his team gave him good support
Plays of the star order were made by Sui
Ivan and Murphy.
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James Collopy jumped his contract at
Manchester, " H., last week and has gone
to jamestown, \. y, where he played last
year. The Manchester club is moribund
and Herbert Few, a jamestown capitalist
used his influence in inducing Collopy to
leave.
f. Spencer Baldwin, whose work i'm the
box aided so much in bringing the cham
pionship to Brattleboro last year, has been
in town this week, and mpired Wednes-
days game.
Hickey shows marked improvement over
last year. He is one of the most reliable
men on the team. His throwing is some
thing wonderful. as he can put the ball ac-
curately to the plate from over the fence.
a distance of over 100 yards.
Martin Barrett, the Plainville first base
man, was the Brattleboro catcher in 1883.
at the time when Foley was phenomenal
pitcher. He participated in the celebrated
3-2 eleven inning game with Dartmouth.
and in the struggle with the Bostons. when
Whitney and Burlington were the twirlers.
Stuart played with BrattleborO in this
game. After leaving here Barrett signed
with the BostOns, playing on the league
team and the Boston Reserves, then i'm the
Massachusetts state league. Afterward he
was with Manchester and other profession
al organizations. For two or three seasons
he has suffered from weak arm.
Several college players, including Pitcher
Howe of Harvard, are located at Newport,
y. II. The game between Newport and
Claremont last Saturday was broken up at
the end of the third inning. a wrangle
arising is regard to the umpire.
The Northamptons will be here to-mor-
row and Monday, and the Lebanons later
in the week.
A nine of young players STYLED the
Actves were beaten at Hnsdale last
Saturday.
The Brattleboros are at Westfield, Mass,
today.
Kelley and Henry, the new Northampton
players, are from the dsbanded Salem club
of the New England league. 1t is now
stated that Ellsworth, Jones, O'Rourke
and other players who were reported to
have been released are still at Northamp-
ton practicing.
The Greenfield team will play no more
games at home at present, as $50 in
excess of the receipts has already been
spent.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-24

Make two cakes, one with
Cleveland's baking powder {;
the second with any other.
Note the difference.
The Cleveland cake is fine
grained, keeps its natural
flavor and moisture "the
other" is coarse grained, as
if the sugar was too coarse,
soon dries out and becomes
husky.
Cleveland's leavens best
because its strength is pro-
duCed by cream of tartar
and soda only, not by am.
monia or alum.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-24

Earned nuns, Northampton I, BrattIebOrO 3.
Stolen bases Tenney, Carr Mahaney, Eagan,
Jones. Twohase hits, WOodcock, Sullivan Stuart.
Threeb base hit, Stuart. Base ON balls, Hare.
Struck out, Tenney, Smith, Eagau, Mahoney,
O'Neill, Fitzmaurice, Murphy Hare Passed ball,
Leahy. Wild pitches, Hare, 3. Time of game,
hours Is minutes. Umpires O'Donnell and
Turner.
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Earned NOrthamptons 4; Brattleboros /.
Stolen bases-Carr, Jones Two-base hit Carr.
Threebase hits-Tenney Cain. First base on balls
-Tenney. Carr, Smith. O'ROurke, Murphy Stearns,
Sullivan %, Bowers. Struck out Murphy. Bow
ers, Carr. Henry. Sexton Jones. Hit by pitched
ball-Sullivan, Tenney. Double play-renney,
Jones and O'ROurke. Passed balls-Leahy. I'm
pires-O Brian and Ketchum Time-2h. 20m.
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Noethamptons :, BrattIeboro. ,.

Over 1000 people saw Northampton de-
feat Brattleboro at Northampton yesterday.
Sexton pitched strongly, and Bowers was
very effective until the sixth inning.
Leahy. Murphy, Stearns and Cain played
well for Brattleboro
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-24
BRATTLEDORos

Earned nns-SOuth ROyulstOns 9 TwO.base
hits-Sexton, J. Sullivan. Three base hit Garvey.
Stolen baSes-Nlurphy. Hare %. Sexton. Double
by Burns ~. by Hare 90. Hit by pitched balls -
Carmody, Leahy. Struck out-O 'TIern. j. Sulli-
van, Lyons o. Mahoney a. Hickey. Leahy. Pass
ed balls-Kelley. Leahy % Wild pitches Burns
o. Time-2h., Ism. EMPIRES Baldwin and
Hedges
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Earned -Brattleboros /. Stolen bases
Stuart, Tenney. Two-base hit, Murphy Three
base hit-Bowers. First base on balls-E. Ma
honey Struck out-Suvan, Fitzmaurice Ten
ney, Smith, Ellsworth, Richmond O'Rourke.
Double pay-Spooner, Jones, O'Rourke. Wild
ptches-Bowers. Time-1h., 45m. Empires.
O'Brien and Freligh.