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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
Fast CoIoYs.

The new shades of brown if not
fast colors will be poor property, when
you buy our RELIABLE kind you
find the COLOR reliable as well as
the workmanship. We have full lines
of all the new browns so fashionable
this Fall, we carry them in double and
single breasted sack suits Double and
single cutaway frock suits. Now is the
time to buy while the assortment is
complete. Later vo will find it hard
work to get fitted for they are going
fast. Double breasted sack suits are
having a big run this season we have
them in cheviots and woosteds all
sizes, and all prices. Double breasted
fancy vests 80 to 40 breast s. to Sc
each they are beauties.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
NEW ENGLAND BREVITIEs.

u w. Fitzpatrick, an old newspaper
man, is dead at Birmingham, Conn.
The trouble with the prisoners at Deer
Island, Mass, is settled, aid all have
returned to work.
Rev. S. Williams, of Chaplin, Conn,
the Oldest pastor in that State in point
of service, celebrated his golden we'd
ding yesterday.
Ansel Carpenter of PawtucKet, con-
temporary of Samuel Slater, and an
early manufacturer of print goods, is
dead at Providence, R. l.
The schooner Albert Woodbury., of
Beverly, Mass, Mass, which sailed the
latter part of August for the Cape shore,
codfishing, has not returned and is be-
lieved to have been lost.
There is great rush for tickets to the
joint debate in Music Hall, Boston, to-
night, between Henry Cabot Lodge and
Gov. Russell on the administration of
the latter. Ten dollars a seat was re-
peatedly offered yesterday, but none
was to be had.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
The Bridge Gave WAY.

HAGERsTowN, Md, Oct. 23-A span
of the bridge now in course of construc-
ticn over the Potomac River at Hancock,
Md, gave way in the evening and pre-
cipitated two representatives of the Gro
ton Bridge Company of Ohio, named
Smith and Stone, and a Mr.. Blakell of
this city, 80 feet into the river below.
The water in the river was compare
lively shallow and Mr.. Stone, who came
down head first, was instantly killed.
Mr.. Smith fell on his side and received
probably fatal injuries. Mr.. Blakeall
was lucky enough to strike the water
feet first and received only severe bruises
about the legs.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
NEW JERSEY BRIEFS.

James Van Havenberg found male
infant wrapped in blanket on his door
step in Paterson last night.
Barnum Wetherhold, a sailor on the
steamship St. Oswald at Jersey City,
fell overheard yesterday morning and
was drowned.
Further testimony was taken at Cam
den yesterday in the case of the appeal of
the negro Lingo, accused of the murder
of Mrs. Miller.
Mrs. Annie Elmer of Newark commit
ted suicide yesterday by swallowing pari s
green. Quarrels with her husband made
her Respondent.
Freight traffic on the New Jersey Cen,
trail road was stopped all night Wednes-
day by disastrous freight wreck at
Bound Brook. Passengers were trans
ferred. y
The Union Coun ty grand jury yester-
day brought In presentment against
the Standard Oil Company, directing
them to remove the %, 900 gallon tank
erected in Eliz abethport
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23

The Leaders punched Together
body's Race as Yet.

The Leaders punched Together-No
body's Race as Yet.
New YORK, Oct. 23.-Now that the
bicyclists in the great race in Madi
son Square Garden are on the home
stretch, interest in the contest is re-
doubled. 1t is still any body's race.
Martin, Ashinger, Lamb and Schock,
the four leaders, are all we'll past the
1,O0O-mile mark and will all finish
closely together Martin still leads by
few miles, but SO close are the others
behind him, that should he rest but an
hour more than his rivals they would ap-
proach dan gerously near.
Lamb, tn : ,Englishman, seems to be
the freshest man in the race, and by
many is regarded as the dangerous dark
horse The race closes tomorrow night.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
Submitted to the Presby teries.

WATERFOWL, N. Y, Oct 23-The
New York Synod yesterday decided to
submit to the Presbyteries the PROPOSE
ton as to whether the synodical aid
work shall be separated from that of the
Home Mission Board and conducted by
the synod alone. Final action is there
fore deferred until next year The synod
decided to meet in the Fourth Presby-
terrain Church at Albany next year. The
resolution passed in 1890 against open
ing the Worlds Fair on Sundays was
reaffirmed.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
An Old baseball PLAYER Dead.

WASHINGTON, Oct. %. - Edward NJ
Daley, formerly Captain of the National
BASEBALL Club is dead. Daley formerly
resided in Providence, R. l., and was
prominently known as a professional
ball player. He began the season just
closed with the Louisville Club as pitcher,
but his arm failed him and he joined the
Nationals as Captain and right-fielder.
His health, however, was not good and
he retired from the diamond and opened
saloon. which he managed until his
death
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
HE EMBEZZLED 100000.
The Aged Teller of a New Orleans Bank
Defaulter.

The Aged Teller of New Orleans Bank
a Defaulter.
CHICAGO, Oct 23.-A special dispatch
from New Orleans says: Eugene F.
Garcin, paying teller of the Louisiana
State Bank, this city, is defaulter for
$3.50, 900. His populations have been
going on for fifteen years.
When the bank examiner came around
he simply counted the sealed packages
of notes, according to the amounts
ticketed thereon. Some of these bogus
packages recently got into possession Of
local banks.
Garcin, who is member of an old
Creole family, is about 10 years old and
has been connected with the bank for
many years.
1t is suspected that he lost the money
at private games of cards. The bank is
entirely solvent, and the loss is simply
charged up to profit and loss. Mr.. Gar
Gin is at his home and has not yet been
arrested. He says the defalcation is due
to errors.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
Will Shut on Gas December 1.

DAYTON, O., Oct. 23.-The Nat ional
Gas Company, which has for two years
been furnishing this city with gas, have
notified their patrons to be prepared to
have gas shut off December 1. This &C
ton is because citizens insist that the
company shall continue to furnish gas at
the contract price of 10 cents per 1000
cubic feet. The company demands an
advance to % cents. Much litigation
will be the immediate result.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
The Heap VIII Affirmed.

WILLMANT1c, Conn, Oct. 23.-Coun-
sci in the Eunice R. Heap will contest
agreed to take&he case from the jury
and give it to Judge Hall to decide, who
then passed decree affirming the will
and codicil. By the settlement F. Nc
Call Cushman pays $40, 900 to the Rich
mond heirs. Other legacies amount to
about 81, 400, and Cushman will receive
about SIS, 900 after expenses are paid.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
Gift to the Smithsonian Institute

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-The board CT di-
rectors of the Smithsonian Institute On
kins of Seatauket, N. Y. Half of the
amount is to be used without restriction.
the income of the other half to be ap-
piled to the increase and diffusion of
knowl edge in regard to the properties of
atmosp heric air and its relation to the
physical and intellectual welfare of man
kind
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
The Boss Was an Extortioner.

CONCORD, N. H.. Oct. 23.-Serious
trouble is looked for among the italian
laborers on the water works here Fifty
of them struck Tuesday against the ex-
tortionate charges of the Italian boss
for food. Twenty-seven of them were
won over by the boss and desire to re-
turn to work, but the others will not al
low it and threaten vengeance.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
Rain Makers Off for Mexico.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, Oct. 23.-The
me mbers of the Government Rainfall
Expedition, headed by John I. Ellis,
left for the City of Mexico this morn
ing. The party intends to confer with
Mexican officials in regard to rain-mak
ing experiments in that country.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
The Conspirators Arrested.

STERLING, N. J., Oct. 23.-Herbert
Gray Torrey, his son Gray Torrey; Clark
son B. Moffett, justice of the peace;
his sons, Fred and Frank Moffett, and
five other boys of this place, have been
arrested, charged with being concerned
in the attempt to drive Rev. A. G. Dill
from this town.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
Wants tho Fair open Sundays.

WORCESTER, Mass, Oct. 23.-At the
Universalist Conference, Rev. F. A.
Winkleman, of Illinois, submitted
resolution favoring the opening of the
Worlds Fair on Sunday, on the ground
that the working people would be bene-
flied
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
Tonnage BiIl Endorsed.

BATH, Me-, Get. GA resolution was
adopted by the American Shipping and
Industrial League yesterday endorsing
the Tonnage bill and recommending that
farmers. mechanics and labor I'm ions
support only such repres as are
favorable to the measure.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
Cracked His Head With a Bolt.

ALTOONA, Pa, Oct. esd. Donohoe,
machnist, struck John Kelly on the
head with heavy iron bolt, during
quarrel yesterday morning, fracturing
his skull. Kelly's recovery is doubtful.
Donohue has escaped.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
Sir Edwin Arnold Here.

New YORK, Oct. 23.-Sir Edwin Ar
mold, the we'll known English writer,
was one of the passengers on the City of
New York, which arrived yesterday. He
has come over to deliver a course of
lectures in America, the first of which
will be given at Carnegie Music Hall on
Nov d
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23

GETTYSBURG, Pa, Oct 23-The Fifth
Maryland Light Infantry, Baltimore's
crack organization, visited the battle
field re yesterday and left for home at
. o'clock last night, having spent an ex-
ceedinGly cold day on the field.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
Alien Contract Laborers Returned,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.-Immigrant In
spector A. G. Malloy, at Ell Paso, Texas,
:elegraphed Immigrant Commissio Toner
Owen yesterday that he returned nine
:een alien contract laborers to Mexico,
whence they had come to Ell Paso to
work on a railroad.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
y Desperate Bandit Wiped Out.

HAVANA, Oct. %. - Palenzuela, the
noto IS bandit, was overtaken in the
WOO Is near Colon yesterday by soldiers
anti SHOT to death. He made a desper-
ate light and killed several of his pur-
suers before being shot.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-23
Ordnance Company Chartered.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Oct. 23.-The Hurst
Ordnance Company, organized to manu-
facture rapid-firing guns, reinforced cart
ridges, ETC., was chartered here yester-
day, with . capital stock Of 81, 900, 900.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-07-02
A WONDERFUL LENS.
One That Would Magnify Seven Thousand
Five Hundred Times.

Five Hundred Times.
Il. Il. Tolles, of Boston, Mass, was
the greatest maker of microscope
lenses the world has ever produced. lie
once made an object glass that mag.
nified seven Thousand five hundred
times. 1t was the first and only one
ever constructed, and was made as the
result of a long controversy with other
microScopists in regard to the possibili.
ty of resolving what was known as
Nobert's nineteenth band. Nobert was
a Frenchman who 10y mechanical APP,
pliances ruled on glass parallel lines
at the rate of about one hundred thou.
sand to the inch. No microscopic lens
then made was sufficiently powerful 10
count these lines. Mr.. Tolles, as a re.
suit of st, tements made during the con
troversy, started to make an objective
that would magnify seven thousand
five hundred times. This he accom-,
plished about 1874
The objective is one seventy-fifth oi
an inch in diameter and is about as
large as the hole made in = sheet OF
paper by the point OF a very fine
needle. This lens was afierward sold
for six hundred dollars To Maj. Wood.
ward, in the government employ al
Washington, but his bill was not al.
lowed by the auditor and the lens was
taken off his hands by DIR. Hartman.
In turn he sold il to DIR. Ephraim Cut.
ter, of broadway and Fifty-ifth street,
New York, in whose possession il
now is.
Detectives that magnify five thousand
times are rare. and it is a powerful
microscope that magnifies even two
thousand five hundred times. These
are necessary in meteorological re.
search and in testing blood corpusc.es
to determine. for instance, whether
they are human or not. A newspaper
recently contained a statement that a
Boston physician examined the tubercle
bacillus with powerful glass that
magnified nine hundred times One
cannot see the consumption bacillus
with an objective that magnifies less
than one thousand two hundred times.
Jewellers Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-07-02
BASEBALL CRANKS.


ton, ID. &.
The average basel ball crank is al
ways an interesting specimen, but the
Washington species gets the persim-
mons. You can watch game at the
South-end or Congress-street grounds
in the stronghold of the national sport,
"the Hub" where you will witness the
roofing of thousands of bean eaters,
but you will never see the equal of the
genuine article who has for years fol-
lowed the vicissitudes of the Senators.
He didn't miss a game last week. and
for weeks past has played hundreds in
imagination on the street corners, in
which the Senators were always the
winners. AS early as three o'clock in
the afternoon he was on the bleachers,
and these were a few of his express
sions:
''Oh, sayl Catch on to the grounds.
Get on to the woods. / could paste
ball out there myself.
(After the Bostons have taken the
field.) II wonder if they think they
can play ball. They'll not be in it.
Why, those fellows are old enough TO
die. Is that man going to pitch? What
a picnic! He used to be Senator, but
the company was too fast for him"
Then his pet appears, and up goes a
veil from our crank" that can be
heard to the furtherest confines of lie
Droit park. Now the game opens, and
when the heavy hitter from Boston
lines her out for three bags, listen TO
the comment: That's all right; he let
him hit it." As the side retires with
a blank he gleefully observes;
II told you SO, now watch
our Hat See him smash it in the
face" and when Hat gets his base,
''IIe's sticlxer; oh, he can wait"
When the runner reaches third the wild
delight of the crank almost amounts TO
frenzy.
But presently his face begins TO cloud.
His pet appears TO be in danger, and as
things go from bad to worse, he greets
every play with increasing rage. With
every breath comes: "0h, he can't
play ball" THAT fellow sees double"
Hes got too many hands" ''He wants
a basket" "See him try to walk over
himself" That's dirty muff" ooh,
come, let's go home" lie swears that
is his last game, but when twentv-four
hours have rolled by he is in his accus-
toned seat, the home nine are still his
Iarlings, and all past failures forgiven
if not forgotten Washington Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-07-02
SoMNAMBULISTIC SWIMMING.
The Perilous Experience OF a New York
sIeep-MaIker.


Sleep-Walker.
A curious freak of somnambulism re-
Gently occurred near Dewitteville, n.
V, which nearly cost the sleep-wall1er,
Horace Ransome. his life. Ransome is
a young man, but has always been NOR
bi3ly afraid of venturing into the water,
but on a recent night arose from his bed
while asleep, ana made his way To a
large submerged rock about fifty feet
from the shore of Lake Chautauqua.
Ransome says that he is entirely ig-
norant of the art of swimming, never
having been in water over two feet deep
in his life, but it is said that it Is an inn
possibility for him to have reached the
spot where he was found without swim
ming. and the only conclusion to be ar
rived at is that he must have uncon-
sciously struck out on finding himself in
the lake.
Another remarkable feature Of the
affair is how the somnambulist could
have remained asleep after entering the
water. which is quite cold, but the adj
venture was too perilous to have been a
hoax. Ransome was found a short
while after dawn standing on the rock
and holding up his head to keep from
drowning, the water reaching nearly to
his chin. He was utterly Frustrated
with the shock and the exertion. and
for some days suffered intensely from
rheumatism brought on by his cold
bath.
He says his first knowledge of what
he had done was when he found himself
endeavoring TO keep his footing on the
slippery rock, and was then afraid to
try to swim to the shore. He has a
faint recollection having a dream, in
which a woman was drowning before
his eyes and of plunging in TO save her.
PHILADELPHIA Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-07-02
MEN OF THE PAST.
To Them We owe Much of the spIendor
of the Present.

We are not a bashful receive men
of the present. In comparing ourselves
with the men of the past we think we
have the best of it, and are not ashamed
to say so. Yet, considering all things,
is it quite certain that the men of long
ago were not our superiors in many inn
portant respects? With but a scant sup
ply of tools and very little labc r-saving
machinery, they turned out. in some of
the arts, much better work than we do.
Modern builders can not, or at least do
not, match the olden structures, either
in solidity or beauty. The best we can
do in the way of sculpture is to copy
the proportions, the expression, the
grace, the finish of the ancient models.
From the ashes and lava of a volcanic
eruption of many centuries ago we have
taken the models of our drawing-room
ornaments, and some of the most fash
ionable styles of furniture to-day are
the "Pompeiian" and the ''Grecian."
Our churches and other public edifices
are chiefly copies of the antique, and we
positively have no architecture that has
not been bequeathed to us by the Greeks
and Romans.
OF course, we have innumerable me-
chanical and chemical wonders, of
which the ancients never dreamed; and
have discovered and applied as motors
agencies that have revolutionized the
business of the world. More credit is
claimed by the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for
the classic peoples of the past than they
deserve, perhaps; but yet they were
wonderful men, considering their OPP
portunities. Whatever they did in "A
utilitarian or ornamental way, they did
thoroughly and faithfully. Our marvel
GUS facilities for expediting production
in every branch .of artistic labor have
this drawback-they induce us to slur
our work. We are too much in hurry.
We want to build our Romes in a day,
and that can not be done. substantially,
even with all modern helps. 1t would
be well if we took few leaves out of
the book Of the painstaking past.
Tools and machinery are not every
thing They multiply with amazing
rapidity. but they do not always per-
feet We have seen carving execuNs
by the South Sea Islanders with flints
and oyster-shells, which, with all their
lathes and edge-tools. our most accom-
plished turner's and earvers rarely equal.
There is no reason to doubt that we can
beat all the generations that have pre-
coded us at anything to which we turn
our hands, but speed is our idol; we are
quantitario ms rather than qualitarians;
and the consequence is that time will
make much shorter work of most of the
monuments of our skill in the arts than
he has been able to do with those of our
comparatively lnow-nothing heather
progenitors. The classic adage, Make
haste slowly" is not an unwise one
n. y. ledger.
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as the white pine, hickory, apple and
pea ch.
For three years past have been
studying the bird in question. Every
spring the downy woodpecllers have
visited a small white pine within a
few feet of the window before which ]
spend several hours each day. The
birds, as is their usual way, go around
the tree and cut ring of holes around
il. When the wood is reached they
suck the sap, which at this season flows
copiously. With the aid of a field glass
/ have observed their acting closely
and have seen them taking the sap and
soft bark, which of the white pine is
very sweet, and filling themselves with
it. BY shooting them and examining
the stomachs they are found filled
with the sap and soft, pulpy bark, or,
more correctly, the alburnum, but no
traces of insects are to be seen. The
same has been the case with apple
trees. peach trees and an aspen which
is growing within twenty feet of the
window, and the same with young
hickories in the woods.
The hickory seems TO be the most
favorite food with these birds of all the
forest trees. These trees are so dam
aged as to be entirely killed in few
years. The trees are girdled by annual
openings in the bark made in the same
place. The sketch sent herewith gives
an example of the damage done to
these trees. The rings gradually form
restricted grooves around the trees,
where the bark forms thick calluses
and finally the wood dies. In time the
trees perish and break off at the rings
under any usually strong wind.
The white oaks are also damaged,
but seem to resist the injury better
than the hickories. The wood under
these rings upon some large oaks be-
comes curiously distorted in the grain,
showing how the injury in young
tree remains TO the last Thick rings
of bark form over the wounded places
and when these trees are sawn into
boards some beautiful veinings are
found in the grain, waves and curls
being formed at times for a foot in
length, and the lumber cut from such
trees makes beautiful finishing stuff for
panels and other ornamental work. If
no other harm were done we could
easily forgive these birds, but three
dead apple trees and several badly in
iured ones in my orchard prove that
the sap-sucker, at some season of the
year, is beyond question an injurious
bird H. Stewart, in Country Gentle
man