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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25
"5id Burns. y

Here is a queer pervcrsion Oflanguage,
long current among boys and now get
ting into print. We clip it from Buff
fa!o paper: according to the dcscrip'
ton left with the detectives, Mr.. Blank
is about hve feet five inches in height
and Of slight build, and weighs about
1870 pounds. He has red hair, red
moustache and side burns, and feir com
nlexion.n @Sidc-burns' are what the
English call whiskcrs and the Americans
sjdc.whiskes. They were worn in now'
ing and picturesque style during the war
by General Burnside, and came to nc
called after him, first Burnside whiskers,
then simply Burnsides. The transition
to ..side-burns' was easy.--BafTalo IN.
W Courie,. =.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25
Easy Cure for Warts.

Did you ever have a wart on your
fingers and spend time and energy and
money too, for that matter, in the vain
effort to get rid of it3 Did you burn
yourself with caustic, stab yourself with
needles and anoint yourself copiously
with that sticky, gummy milkweed
juice, only to find the wart harder and
blacker and more aggressive than everg
Now suppose you try amounting them
copiously with oil of cinnamon9 It's
easier and cleaner and less objectionable
generally than any of the other remedies
and will simply make them disappear;
and what is more it will prevent their
coming back, which is greatly to the
polnt.-American Dairyman.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25
POPULAR SCIENCE.


A ton of coal yields nearly 10, 900 feet
of gas.
The mean annual temperature of the
globe is fifty degrees Fahrenheit.
Much Of the paper for books is made
now Of wood pulp treated with powerful
acids.
1t is estimated the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company uses zoo, 900 tons of coal
a year under its boilers.
A smoke consuming locomotive, from
which not single puff of smoke cs-
apes, has been successfully tested in Illi-
nois.
When a belt gets saturated with waste
oil, an application of ground chalk will
soon absorb the oil and make the belt
workable.
Recent Investigations go to show that
the average speed cf the transmission of
earthquake shocks is nearly 5000 feet
per second.
II is claimed that il steel rod be
given number of raps on solid sub
stance while held in a more or less verti.
Gle position, the rod will become mag
netic
Smeaton ascertained by experiment
that in a cana! four miles in length the
the water was kept up four feet higher
at one end than the other merely by the
action of the wind along the cana.
Blood travels from the heart through
the arteries ordinarily at the rate of
about twelve inches per second; its
speed through the capillaries is at the
rate of three one huudre1ths of an inch
per second.
Two marked improvements have re-
Gently been made in the use Of gas f-r
lighthouse illumination. One is pro.
cess of enriching gas made from ordinary
cooking coal by the addition of hydro.
carbon and heated air, the other is the
new dioptric lens.
There is an insect found in raw sugar.
Out of seventy-two samples of raw sugars
| recently examined in London, England,
sixty contained tde sugar insect,
but the examiner found no specimens Of
that parasite in the samples of refine
sugar which he viewed.
Tho Edgar Thomson steel WORKS claim
to have broken tho record for making
steel rails. In twenty four hours they
succeeded in turning out 1897 American
tons of rails, or 2S2 American tons more
than the previous record, held By the
South Chicago Rolling Mill.
DIR. Peters has discovered enormous
saltpeter beds in Africa, between Mount
Kilima Marc aud the volcano Dongo
Ngai, and at the same time containing
bromine, chlorine and sulphuretted by
drogen gas. The whole great territory
between Kilima Marc and Donjo Ngli
is said to be one great saltpeter bed.
The pressure that can be produced by
electrolytic generation Of gas in closet
space has recently been tested by a
French scientist. The highest pressure
heretofore realized was $50 pounds to
the square inch. In this instance the
pressure obtained was between IL, 00C
and IS, 900 to the square inch, when the
manometer cracked without any explo
sion. The liquid used was twenty Eve
per cent. solution of soda. The elec
trodes were of iron, aud the current !
amperes.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25

Won.

Long had waited, oft thought was fated'
Never the heart Of my darling TO move,
And others came wooing, with riches pur-
suing.
The while had nothing but riches OF love.
sought her, told her, and love made me
bolder;
vowed that for her even life I'd resign;
She smiling relentei and then she consente1,
This jewel of heaven at last to be nina
The angels they found us, in heaven they
bound u,
By true lovers knots which death cannot
part,
For love is supernal. undying, eterna';
A fountain of life is true love in the heart.
And when youth forsakes us, and age over
takes US
And paints his grim pictures of change AMI
decay
Wen gather the roses where true lovo re-
poses,
And drink Of loves fountain which flows on
for aye.
Oh, how enraptured, at last have captured
My souls brightest dream in my beautiful
bride;
A dear little wife, partner for life,
In whom e'er TO trust, in whose heart to
confde.
- Golden News.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25

Professor Samuel A. King, of Philadel-
phia, proposes to cross the Atlantic in a bal
loon this summer, and says he has sufficient
capital pledged to make the experiment
or the start. The expense will be from
$40, COG to s25, 600. It is his idea that the
balloon should bo hydrogen one with
a capacity Of 400, 900 cubic feet. Two
cars are to be attached to his balloon,
the upper one to carry passengers and
food, and the lower one to be used as a
kitchen. The attempt to strike favor
able current Of air is to be made, accord
to the Professors programme, in
August He has made 300 ascensions.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25

u the people Of Argentina would turn
their attention TO agriculture instead OF
to revolutions, there seems to be no rea-
son, the New Orleans Picayune is con
vine d. why that country should not be
rich and prosperous. The Bureau of
American Republics has letter from a
settler in Diamaute, Entire Rios, Argen-
tina, which says that over eighty reaping
machines and forty-fve threshing ma
chimes were received in that locality last
year, while the cost of the twine used
for binding wheat amounted to 5000
and estimates that this year $3.50, 600
worth Of twine will be used. He says
that the settlers this year will need 600,-
600 bags. Within the last two months
Diamante has purchased $5S2, 900 worth
ot aszs, s ssss sssass gssx Fssss Fssss =; 49, .
Of wheat during the past season has
averaged almost ton an acre, aud is of
superior quality.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25

Chicago ciergymen have denounced
the custom of wearing heavy black
mourning for the dead Their action j.,
well taken, maintains the Chicago Times.
"Aside from the folly of couventionaliz.
ing sorrow it has always been a stumbling
block in the path o. the unregenerate tc
see people hiding the light Of day from
their faces because relatives have entered
into everlasting life and become part o.
the heavenly choir.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25
Squirrels are Fond Of nrannas

"When We see oranges falling from
palmetto trees, says the Halifax (Fla.) J
Journal, "we might think they had
taken to producing that fruit, but a
closer inspection will show us a disap-
pointed squirrel, looking longingly after
the mandarin or tangerine it had
dropped. It is an amusing sight to
see one Of these little fellows hold an
orange and disrobe it of its covering,
preparatory to q feast.n
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25
Whose FACE Was lt2

One of the most remarkable as well as
the most interesting relics Of prehistoric
man ever found in America was discov-
cred by James Cormack and Daniel
Rees, two hundred feet beneath the sur
face of the ground, at Angus, Dallas
County, Iowa, when the famous Coal
Town shaft was being sunk. The relic
in question was a perfect human face,
composed of indurated clay. 1t was
something more than half the usual size
of the human face, with a nose and fore
head of the general contour known to
the anthropologist as "the Aztec type"
Everything, even to deep indentation
across the cheek and a mole at the side
of the nose, goes to prove that the find
was not simply baked clay image, but
that it had been fashioned from plaster
cast or death mask of some human being
that had once lived aud breathed. Mr..
Rees, one of the discoverers of the curios-
ity, was experimenting the opening of
the mines at the time. He is an honor
able gentleman, and his word is consid-
cred good wherever he is known. He
says that the mysterious specimen was
found imbedded in stratum of clay or
shale Just above the coal, which in that
part of Iowa lies from 200 to 22O feet
beneath the surface. Taken altogether,
it is believed to be the earliest trace of
prehistoric man yet found in America.
The discovery is enough to make ones
flesh tingle with mystery when he asks
himself the question Whose face was
it?-St. Louis Republic.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25

The distinguished physician who
asserted that if he were given full charge
oil any intending suicides he could in.
duce most Of them to change their
minds by the liberal use Of baths, food,
medicine, good clothing aud whoIeso me
advice was, in the opinion Of the San
Francisco Chronicle, not far wrong.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25

Word now comes that Western Kansas
is filing up again, in spite of the severe
lessow3 of the droughts of 1889 and
1890, with new class Of settlers who
are taking up the abandoned farms or
buying them ''for song" The new
comcrs are from the eastern part of the
State and fro :. Missouri, and bring with
them the means the lack of which proved
the ruin of their predecessors. They
are prepared for season or two of
drought. "The experience of the Men
nonites and other Russians in Kansas,
says the Kansas City Times" furnishes
conclusive proof that farming, taking
one year with another, may be as profit
ably and successfully carried on in what
was once known on the map as the
Great American Desert as in any other
section of the United States. These
people began to settle in Kansas as early
As 1878. Some located as far west as
Ellis County, which was then on the
frontier, and farming there was regarded
rs doubtful experiment. But they
we're skilled in agriculture, and, patient,
frugal aud possessed of little means,
wore prepared to take the bad with the
GOOD. They suffered crop failures in
the beginning just as the Western set
Tiers suffered in 1889 aud 1890. But
from the abundance in their grrnerles
and their store Of money saved from
prosperous seasons, they were able to live
and look hopefully forward to another
nl.nting time. They have thus pros
nsred and grown rich"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25
IdfnIte var:ety osthe Feather Trlhr.

The infinite variety Of the feather
tribe of Brazil, with their gorgeous COL
cred feathers, offers no end Of matertll
from which the factories established at
Rio dc Janeiro, Bahia and Pernambuco
are producing the most wonderful re-
suits The greater number of these
flowers, as we'll as the feather fans, are
exported to Europe and the United
States, and as these products are free of
ex port duty, and are frequently earned
in quantities in the luggage of travellers
we are unable 70 give the exact amount
Of the value Of this important industry
but it cannot amount to less than S4OO,.
600 annuaIlS.-Pubic Opinion.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25
Hon Skin For MalIs.

''Hog skin leather" says hide and
Leather, lis becoming fashionable for
wall paper in the homes 81 the fioh. THIS
may sound odd, but it is true neverthe-
less. Few people know what beautiful
leather may be manufactured under skill
full management from the skin of hog,
which closely resembles human skin. p.
II. Martin, of Cincinnati, an authority of
hog skins, said: Hog skins are shaved
down and turned into soft, velvety
leather, which is embossed or stamped
artistically, and owing to its peculiar
grain, very pleasing and rich effect is
produced. The skins are tanned in bark
liquors IN about six weeks. They are
considerably used for saddle seats, horse
collars and other harness feathers. Some
OF the skins we obtain are immense. l
remember one that weighed 1873 pounds,
aud measured 81 feet from head to
tail. Another was 140 pounds and con-
tanned seventy-on square feet of leather
when finished. Here is a piece 1t
inches thick. 1t is a decided curiosity.
As regards prices, We get $12 a dozen
skins for hog skin collar leather, and $40
to $50 dozen for seating,'"
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25

The recent display Of the aurora borea-
us IN Minnesota was rarely beautiful.
One writer, in describing it, says: "The
northern Heavens were robed in green
last evening until the stars we're obscured.
Wave after wave of quivcring lights
swept up from the horizon like folds Of
fleecy lace until 10 the very zenith the
sky was shut out by the shifting shadows,
and the earth seemed hemmed closely
-,
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25

A movement is on foot to raise a
memorial to John Walker, the inventor
Of friction matches. Walker, who died
in 1869, was chemist aud druggist
carrying on business in the High street
at Stockton, England. lie tooz an
especial delight in studying the proper
ties Of phosphorus, and eventually in
vented the friction match, which he sold
in boxes Of fifty at twenty FIVE cents per
boy as far back as lS21.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25

Inc savings banks in New Hampshire
nave greater proportion OF deposits in
proportion to population than in any
other State Of the Union.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25
A STUDY IN PINK.
BY JOHANNA sTAArz.

HE Pink nurse, Zie
called her. And that
settled it. After that
it was no longer
Annie Durrant, but
tour pink nurse
with the whole fam
lily, and it even came
to pass that she was
known throughout
the whole village as
+" Brig g's pink
nurse. " And the name
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25

,so value Of agricultural implements
,-,ited States is about s4OO, 600,
y 'ao. ~ L. va,us Of farm, about $40, 900,
Soo' ooo ooo, or twenty-five times as nueh'
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25

A,,ono the greatest preachers Dwight
,r,o5v and Edwin II. Chaplin were
,osnates. while Jonathan Edwards
~ BeeeAers we're college bred.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25

me French Congo country in Africa
. nVe times the size OF France, and is
oeieyed to contain a population Of g..
600, 900.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25
How Was II Done7

The following has been submitted for
publication in this department; A cham
bermaid is said to have put twelve COM
mercial travellers into eleven bedrooms,
and yet to have given each man sep
arate apartment. Here we have the
eleven rooms:
1234I56I7tS 10 IL
"Now," said she, "lf you two gentle
men will go into bedroom No. l and
wait few minutes I'll find spare room
for one Of you as soon as l have sht wn
the others their rooms" Having thus
slowed the first two in No. 1, she put
the third in No. 2, the fourth in No. 3,
the fifth in No. 4, the sixth in 10. 5,
the seventh in No. s, the eighth in No.
Z, the ninth in No. s, the tenth in No.
and the eleventh in No. 10. Having
completed the task she went back to
room No. 1, where you will remember
she had left the twelfth gentleman along
with the first, and said; ~ have now
furnished each of the others with
room, and have room to spare; if you
please, step into room No. IL and you
will find it empty" How was it done9
st. Louis Republic.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1892-03-25

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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-03
GEN. JACRSON's FUNERAL.
Buried Yesterday at West Point with Mil.
tnry Hoa0rs.

Yesterday morning the body of Brevet-Gen.
Richard H. Jackson. Colonel OF the
Fourth Artillery. who died on Monday Nov.
%. at Atlanta. reached Jersey City. Tho Gov
eminent boat Gen Meigs took the body on
board and steamed to Governors Island.
where most of the officers stationed there
boarded her At ] o 30 o clock the funeral party
started up the Hudson. reaching West Point
at 300 in the afternoon. The funeral followed
.immeniatey;, The pail bearers , we're Gen Gen.
giles. Col John NJ. Wilson. Superintendent Of
ihe United states Military AAcsdemyji CGl
William L. IIaskn. while the whole corps Of
cadets acted as an escort.
Gen Jackson WAS buried beside his only
son. who died while cadet at West Point in
iSSa. Three voeys were fred over the
grave. and the Academy band played military
Gen. Jackson was the officer in charge on
Governors Island while Gen. Hancock was
stationed there. and latcr during the time Gf
Gen, Scuote!d.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-03
CRAIG NO LONGER 4 POLICEMAN.
81 900 More for Detective Carey's Widow
Police Transfers.

Policeman Joseph !. Craig. who was charged
with stealing Sl31 from IeddIe- Mulhearn
and ACQUITTED in the General Sessions was
ing of the Police Board Craig was tried on
two charges before Commissioner McCave on
Wednesday. His peculiar actions on the stand
convinced his counse! and others that he wa g
not exactly sane. Commissioner McClave said
that he was dangerous man to be allowed ut
large with n revolver.
The Board allowed ex-Sergeant Nathaniel D.
Bush $500 on claim Of $1,000 for archi-
tecturai work. Eusf drafted the plans for the
new station house IN East J. ith street.
Tho following IUhcemen were retired on
pensions OF 900 y"nr: Edward Scanlon of
Fast Twenty "ond street. Nathan Lemlein
and Michael Lee of the steamboat SQUAD
James Morgan Of Old slip Louis SnliG of H.
bridge street, and James Mctool uf W est Thir-
tieth street.
Transfr.-ra,ro'mcn James Mcfarland Fast Sixty
seventh streci 10 ta-r higniy-Ichth street: John j.
McliL Ens i@Gth street 4" last seventh street
Mathew / Me- Hul-v mon Narhr; 10 E.iridg- street
NirnT,as Int" Ellrtgr street I" rIon Market James
CONWAY lnion Na'ket 70 kIdrIdge street. Matthew
Kennedy. W"st SiNtN eighth stree, /" West Iiir,y-
street; James Iasfnr.; hnSSnrds, 70 ia sip; r.
n,d Irp "Ts syttt to ian
street, Peter Moran, steamboat squad to Madison
ttre"i: " i ,ncuriremN, hr!nnccv street to High
RIl!ge: l"IlN M'Co'1 West sN!e'Ahh street |" East
lnSth street.
The trustees ot the Riot Relief Fund gave
81 Geo to the widow 81 Detective Carey. who
was killed Nv James Blanchard alias Wheeler.
These Serceants applied to lie put on the civil
service list for eIainination for Captainship.:
Ha,ton. Donohuo. I"oiy. tofey Pickett. and
Mo(iann. Their names were referred to the
Superintendent FOR II report.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-03
Sale Of the Deakin Collection.

IN the rooms Of the American Art Associn.
ton in Twenty third street yesterday the fifth
days sale OF the DeRkin collection was held.
The articles sold were mostly antique Chinese
porcelains. cabinet objects. enamels. and
shrines. There were also antique Japanese
timepeces and objects in metal work. The
bidding was spirited. The greatest price paid
was for a fine large coisonne vase. five
ator Brown. who raid 500 for it.
Thomas T. Wnceman paid S1;75 for an egg
br"nrzes and h ron We're mu"h sought or
4 life. size crow. wrought in shakudo. went for
Sl475O Mr. Perkins paid $50 for large
renoussG. Bronze koros brought H. high as
sl20. senator Brown secured a handsome
bronze for 500. The sale ends to-day, when
japanese swords enamels. and cabinet pieces
will be offered.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-03
Notes or Foreign Happenings.

SHresciHn in ne b.1r business in Germany;
ats price three rfennigs the half litre.
The Conservatives have decided to raise a
fund 10 relieve the Right Hon. A. j. Baifour OF
the costs incurred In his successful resistance
70 NE attempt to unS|at him as NJ. =. for
last Manch, ster. The costs amount to more
than $1,000.
The Pope has refused to let the Jesuits
transfer their headauartcrs from Fiesola to
Rome. He has modified the rogramrne for
the jubilee rilgrlmagcs so that no large
bodies o, pilgrims shall arrive in Rome during
tho carnival
The accounts exhibited yesterday at n meet
ing o: the creditors Of tho London iirm o. Muir.
ristn Co.. whose affairs have been in hank
1 1sBbts' ,ar 2ns tim. showed
debts amounting to 10000. and no assets
1t is reported that Mr. Henry Labouchers
h h,. severed ms c,%%nnectton with the London
pany, amounting 20 onethird Of the carital
stock. will be divided among the rsmaininn
proprIctors. Mr.. Arnold Morley and Mr. Or.
penheim.
Mrs. Deacon has brought an action for Sian.
statement 10 the effect that Mrs, Deacon
authorize Mr. Deacon to secure divorce %,o IN in
Paris provided he abandoned the crimlna! uc-
ton against her.
A despatch to Lloyds from Hogo states that
Kan. proceeded 10 NagasaIi. where She viii
make repairs. 1t is now reported that sixty OF
the crew OF the war ship were drowned. Her
Captain, chief engineer. and fourteen others
were picked up by boats from the Eavenna.
despatch to the London Standard from
Berlin says that n draft OF the Conservative
platform the first paragraph reads: I'VE com.
bat Jewish influence in our national life. on
which It acts with disinteGratinG effect; we de-
people. and Christian teachers for Christian
pupils. We condemn excuses Of anti Semi
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-03

receive $50. 600 on his death. and that he had
city. which she would get when she was p
years old; Mr. Grouse. Dottie SAYS. would
last time she saw Mr. Grouse. she says. was
three. months ago He was sick after that.
and this. he explained in tho letters he wrote
her as usual She says she has destroyed nll
his letters After Mr.. Crouse's death nottie
heard that the relntivcS Of the dead million
aire had put detectives on her track. and she
left town for while and went to Chicago
l am not Crouse's wife. and never ed
to be- she concluded. but that money is mine
by right. and will have it. Then ]. have
good time for five years. and then I'll put a
Tho young woman has made q noise in tho
Tenderloin district. She drinks whiskey. A
year ago the police had reason to hunt her up
aud question her closely. Joe kempner. q
young man, about town. fell in love with her.
from his relatives and pawned it.