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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
A nIt of Corrssnandsnns.

A remarkable correspondence has been
published, ending in true Irish fashion.
1t begins; "Mr. Thompson presents his
compliments to Mr.. Simpson, and begs
TO request that he will keep his Dogs
from trespassing on his grounds"
"Mr. Simpson presents his compli-
ments to Mr.. Thompson, and begs to
suggest that in future he should not
spell dogs with two gees"
"Mr. Thompson's respects to Mr..
Simpson, and will feel obliged If he will
add the letter 'e 10 the last word in the
note just received, so as to represent
Mr.. Simpson and lady"
"Mr. Simpson returns Mr. Thompson's
note unopened, the impertinence it con-
tains being only equaled by its vulgar
ity."-London Tit-Bits.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12

of her architecture. Suddenly each
builder seemed bent on outdoing his
neighbor in cyclopean construction.
High buildings were experiments. In
four years-after many doubts-thoy
succeeded. The Auditorium was pro-
jected by Ferdinand Peck, and its dedi-
cation by the president of the United
States and Adelina Patti discovered to
all observers gathering of persons of
vast wealth. No city could be other
than metropolitan whose inhabitants
could afford to rent over fifty opera
boxes at $500 for o season of three
weeks.
Meantime the Boulevard, which was
once Michigan avenue, stretched south
ward for fifty blocks lined with houses
nearly every one of which was us hand
some and commodious as the Vanderbilt
mansions on Fifth avenue in New York.
The Lake Shore drive on the north was
COPIED with marble breakwater, and
the towers and keeps of Potter Palmer's
Middle Ages castle rose conspicuously
among 500 other houses whose magnif-
cence was gainsaid by nobody. The
Duke of MARLBOROUGH came to Chicago,
and had the grace to say that he thought
Michigan boulevard was the finest resi-
dence thotoughfare he had seen in the
world.
With one more epoch of architecture
we are arrived at the gates of 1898 and
the Worlds Columbian exposition. 1t
was discovered by the inventors that if
steel house were built il would require
but a comparatively small foundation.
Thus the Tacoma building rose to six
teen, stories with no outside walls.
When 1t came to that, terra Gotta cast
ings were strung ON iron joists. In this
way the cellar, of the Tacoma building
could be made to bring large rental
each year. Marshall Field had ex-
pended 800, 900 on the foundations of
the Woman's temple, at Monroe and La
Sale. These pyramids of stone COM
pletely filed the excavation to street
grade. 1t would cost many thousands
of dollars 10 take them out. But out
they came, and the enormous Woman's
temple-the dream of Mrs. Carse and
Miss Willard-thus preserved its neither
regions to increase the revenue of its
landlord.
. We are thus at 1892 On every hand,
scorning the regular roof lines of 1879,
rise buildings just twice as high, the
sixteen stories of today being each very
low and not higher together than ten
stories Of the old days. Iron and tile,
marble and plate glass, red cherry and
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
A Storage Bnttery Loco,n1

A storage battery locomotivA
put into operation in Wurtem1
ming from some paper mills al
burg to the station on u
railroad, about ga mild
This locomotive, which
sengers as well as freigt
eight tons and carries 1O01
gelatinous storage battery, v,
ply current to the motor.
weigh two tons. The line had
heavy grades. The locomoa
on an average four trips dali
a load of twenty tons betwee
points in twenty minutes.
do the work.-New York Tele<
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12

Frederick the Great
presents to all musical
players. He played the
bly, well himself, and M
sometimes led to acts tha9
appointment to his brothef
famous hutist once visit
and asked permission to ph{
hoping that Frederick won
appreciation of his skill
BILE gift.
Frederick received hi
and listened attentively Y
a difficult piece.
"You play very well,
l am very glad to have h;
of such ability. | will "a
OF my satisfaction" y
SO saying he left the,r6d|
stefan waited, guessing at
nature of the proof"
Presently the king retur
own flute and played th
which had just been execpi(
Then he babe his visitor go1
ing: u
81 have had the pleasure
you, and it was only fair Tho,
hear me. youths Compaf
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12

The precincts of the fair grounds will
TEEN with temporary hotels, and the
sleeping cars will be utilized. Rapid
transit will carry thousands to their far
off homes over night, and other hun
dreds Of thousands will enter Jackson
park to leave it at night for home, see
ing Chicago not at all There need be
little apprehension of trouble on the
score of accommodation for Chicago is
a vast city, with over sixty square miles
of improved real estate. 1t isafact that
the Democratic national convention of
1902 was not especially noticeable in the
city streets. The scene ON the main
streets at the noon hour, when the great
office buildings empty their tenants for
lunch, Is one not to be forgotten by per-
sons Injured to solitary surroundings.
Thoroug hfares.
The visitor will wish TO know what
streets are important ones in Chicago.
He will be confused by the bridges, for
he can always look two ways and see
bridge. All the streets of the central
section of Chicago are crowded with
people. but the great thoroughfares for
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
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Mhl4 lMhH n IN RAEIiallIAi5
NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY.


On the night of Oct. 8 and the whole
day of Oct. 0, 1871, this marvellous city
burned. The loss was reckoned in the
hundreds of millions. Chicago had
been, 1t was no more. Chicago was
like dream. These tidings-the most
frightening that the world had heard
In modern times of peace-came upon
the western states with paralyzing
force. s9rF0is 100 u \
For days men went dazed about their
business, Without Chicago, what would
they do? What would life be worth?
Where would the news come from?-for
nothing ever seemed to happen outside
Of Chicago. Withal, there was Joy that
this confagration'was the greatest that
ever vast II FULFILLED the fond expecta-
lions of the west. They told you sol
these farmers, thrashing in their barns.
Chicago Rebuilt.
The city of Chicago was mainly re-
built in the year 1872 For a decade
later there was a uniformity in the lines
of FIVE story business blocks that gave to
the city solemn and mighty appearance.
With the invention of the water ele-
vator, buildings might profitably go
higher than six stories. The Montauk
block, ON Monroe street, near Dearborn,
ventured skyward ten stories, and there
were citizens who avoided Monroe street
until the autumnal gales proved that ten
story buildings would stand. The year
1884 saw the completion OF group of
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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12

There are two ways OF preparing tea
in Cashmere. The first is to put the tea
In pot with cold water and boil it for
half an hour, when more cold water is
added, after which 1t is boiled for
another half hour. Milk is then added
and 1t is ready for drinking. The second
Is to place the tea in pot with little
soda and water, and boil 1t for half an
hour as before. Milk. salt and butter
are then added, after which it is boiled
for another half hour. when it is ready.
Philadelphia Ledger
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
Ventilation by windous.

It is always proper to resort to window
ventilation II no other means Of ventila-
ton is attainable. Lower the windows
from,the top; II possible open one win
dow from the bottom, but choose win
dow the opening of which will not create
a draft. Heated air rises and will escape
through the lowered windows, while the
fresh air will enter through the raised
windows. York Sun.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
the stranger may thus be named:
North Side-Clark street

NOrUn Olue-ClarK street.
II West Side--Directly west, Madison
street; going northwest, Milwaukee ave.
nue.; going southwest, Blue Island ave.
nue..
South Side-State street, for the stock
yards; for the fair, Wabash avenue; for
carriages, Michigan boulevard.
Thirty years ago Lake street was all
in all. Twenty years ago Clark street
was supreme. Now State street possesses
the most valuable front feet and cor
ners. The crowd at Christmastide is
like the gatherings in Fourteenth street,
New York city-perhapsm more numerous.
-. Chicago has not yet reached the Baron
Haussmann stage. Her streets are near
ly all at right angles. To relieve this evil
condition of things there are but four or
five diagonal streets, and but two that
pierce the heart of the city. Along
these - namely, Milwaukee and Blue
Island avenues-livo the vast foreign
populations that have so steadily swelled
Chicago's census.
This lack of direct communication will
fall upon visitors to the Worlds fair rs
their most serious burden, for it will
often double the cost of their street car
fares. Chicago is i'll reality three cities,
as effectively as Brooklyn, Jersey City
and New York. With the exception of
the new railroad, which is to go south
ward from the Douglas park region to
jackson park, all other roads lead down
town first and thence to the fair. At
the same time the announcement situa-
ton of the West Side hotel, restaurant
and boarding house keepers will moder-
ate their views of tho travellers necessi-
ties, and he will obtain measurable
abatement of high prices.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
GREAT CHICAGO!
Manifold Attractions of This
Most Marvellous of Cities.
HOW TO SEE THE WORLDS FAIR

The Wonder of the West Has Become
the Wonder of the worId-Her Char.
acteristics-Her History In a Nutshell.
Her Three "sides," North, West and
south-Her Few Statues, Her Many
Hotels, Theaters, Churches, Clubs, sa-
looms and Depots.
copyright, 1902, by American Press Associa-
toni
1t is the common remark Of these days
that the growth of Chicago has no par
allel in history. Fifty-fve years ago
there we're 1900 Chicagoans. When
the war began there were 100000.
When the great fire came there were
100000. Now the school census shows
100000, and the gain since it was
known the Worlds Columbian EXPOSE
ton would be held at Chicago has been
not less than COO, 900 souls.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12

The effect of gravitation
the sea waters upon the sho
nents is one of the most,i6I
well as the most curious ID
sidered, facts in coDEectit
oceans history. Thus ,sth{
are all situated at tops Of a.
mountains of water, and to Il
lantic or any other ocean u
to first go down the sloping 81
the valley and then climb {
tain of water on the other sid
safely reaches a harbor.
In this connection the inter-
culation has been made thu
ocean on the Atlantic the DEF
about three-fourths of a MILE
level Of the water at coast lin
ship in travelling from San Ft
Yokohama, Japan, must eros.
at least a mile in depth. st.
public. s
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
The Indires,Ibie banana.

Next to pork, says physician, "the
banana Is the most indigestible thing q
person can eat, and II you will notice
you viii see them touched very sparingly
by people with weak stomachs. II you
can digest them. however. and don't
mind the offensive odor. they are very
nourishing and one can make meal on
them that Is In every way equal to a
substantial lunch Of bread and meat
New York Tribune.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
Charities, Etc.


The state of Illinois and the city OF
Chicago are well off in hospitals and
charities. The Cook County hospital
and its surrounding structures form the
most notable group of therapeutic and
educational buildings in the country.
Beginning with the Cook County and
Presbyterian hospitals we may reckon
not less than thirty important Chicago
institutions of this noble character.
The public library has 1870, 900 volumes,
and is strong in periodicals, costumes
and Egyptology.
The Newberry library, now forming,
has an endowment of $4,000, 900. 1t will
stand on North State street, on Wash
ington square.
The Crerar library will have similar
endowment, and will bar out novels, cs-
pecially French ones.
The Art institute is rapidly rising on
the lake front in place Of tho Interstate
Exposition building.
There are seventeen converts Of Cath
olic nuns in the city.
There are 4GJ churches and 3l7 church
buildings, with steeples, bells or stained
windows.
There are $500 manufacturing estab-
hshments, and some of them employ
5000 men each.
Clubs.
Climbs are an important feature of Chi
cage high life.
First comes the Commercial club,
which Is nm inner circle Of the Chicago
dub. 1t has sixty members, and TO OBJ
tain admission is the ambition OF every
man who is growing enormously
wealthy.
The Calumet club has a great house at
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12

Turtle eggs are an acquired tast
most people, although they ara d g.
with bears. They have a rough
yolk and white like any 9th ~
but You can cook them for ys H. -
the white part will remain lquids 81
tice curious dimple in the side CT eax
one. II you squeeze 1t out the dimpl<
appears on the other side, and you caz
never get hold Of turtle egg s,1lkK
hasn't got dimple in it.-Intorview IA
Washington Star.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12

Lawyer-Of course don't =
his defense is, madam, but I'd
him for breach of promise an
we come out. The proof Of ~
is the eating, as they say.
Aggrieved Fair One (pensivs. q
nesslike)-The proof Of the puld
is these here love letters.--k31
Bits. ~
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
w. C. t. U. booming sud

Mrs. Lizzie Hill Mills, presid
Orange county Gal w. Q. T. u
1--WE are booming suffrage. q
w. Q. 7. y. meets every week.
given this last month entirely to
and will give the coming one
same topic. We are taking
United States constitution an
laws. We send out written in,
to those who are not members
union, and people are getting
and enthusiastic"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
Mower PoultIce cine Ex.

1t is the prevailing custom ar.
norant people to put poultice n
famed eye, thing which should
under any circumstances DO done
sad to see the vast number of men
en- and children made blind for
this one thing.-Jenness Miller
trated.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12

Do not draw a check unless "
the money in bank or in your p.
to deposit. Don't test the <tnra
generosity Of your bank byprosel
or allowing to be presented your 4
for larger sum than your balance
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
TIE LAST pEsI
When the time comes Tot
Tn.,.nn....... ~. ......... III. q.

When the time comes for
Tomorrow or some Other
II God should bid me maxi
what wOnldst thouf' |
"Ob, God, thy world was 4
Yet give me 20 forget u d
Nor vex me more with thN
Aud things that might a
II loved and toiled, throg.1
Lived certain years and
Now grant me in that land
Where all things arc :
"For others, Lord, the
The loves reknit. the
For me, the death Of N
In everlasting calm.
-fo1I
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12

Mr.. Stanford has endowed tho
Stanford Junior university. SI5l
really a sort of home school a.
children, with property and z
amounting to about $40. 100000. +
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
OIL for Heavy Machinery.

For lubricating the journals Of heavy
machinery, either rape oil or sperm oil
Is the best to use In mixture with min
eral oil, as they have the least effect on
brass and iron. which two metals gem
orally constitute the bearing surfaces Of
an engine. Age of Steel. -.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
The DeIIghts of a Hopeymoo,

She-Look herel This is the 4
handkerchief | have wet through
bitter tears!
He very coolly)-Nothing but US
expense! That's how the Washing
runs up.-Popolo Romano. -
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
Professional Pride.

why do you children wear such
dreadfully long hair?'
Glow are folks to know that our father
Is an artistf-Ulk.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12

What shall it profit man ii he gail
the whole world and then has the dy]
pepsia so bad that he can't enjoy any
the good things it contains? lie Nop !
have dyspepsia il he takes De wa.
Little Early Risers. Il
For sale by Short & HIaynqs, cAoSerp9
and Beard 4 Beeler, 2a'ji>Hhpss, W,
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
Amusements.

Although Chicago has not escaped the
murrain of variety acting which afflicts
the stage, her theaters are as good. as
any, and one of her managers, Mr.. Nc
Wicker, probably ranks at the head of
his profession in America. OF late years
theaters have succeeded on streets two
miles from the center of town. Thirty
theaters give daily performances, of
which the principal ones, outside'of the
Auditorium mot usually OPEN, are Nc
Vicker's, the Grand opera house, Hoo
ley's, the Chicago opera house, the Co
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
THE UNITY BUILDING,

mosaic and acres of Mexican onyx. The
Auditorium has the largest theater In
the world. A tower some twenty stories
high is always open to sightseers at a
fee Of twenty-five cents. The Auditorium
all in all is the principal ''lion" in Chi
cago proper.
The Masonic temple is, so far as il
known in Chicago, the largest and most
novel structure on earth. 1t covers the
quarter of city block. 1t is intended
to be city in ITSELF with ten stories of
stores, seven stories of offices, three
stories of lodgerooms and a roof garden
twenty-one stories from the ground.
The pillars in the rotunda are eighteen
feet in circumference. The rotunda
itself terrifes the spectator. Calcutta
tons of the economies gained by the use
of this building are the favorite pas
times of its tenants, and it cannot be
doubted that the advertising advantages
of doing business there will soon show
themselves in the most surprising man.
ner. The Masonic temple is at State
and Randolph streets.
The Woman's temple, at La Sale and
Monroe, is perhaps the next largest pile,
and its success is wholly assured as
business venture.
The Chamber of Commerce block, the
Tacoma, the Rookery, the Pullman, the
Home, the Germania, the Ashland, the
Royal Insurance, the MOnadnock, the
Unity, the Phenix, the Rialto and
dozen other vast, steeplelike structures
will demand a share of attention. Those
buildings best repay visit which, like
the Masonic temple the Royal, the c.,
b. and Q. and the Chamber of Commerce
lat Washington and La Salle), offer a
central view of their entire interior.
You may stand at an upper balustrade
in these houses and look sheer to the
floor. The wainsCoting, ceiling, walls
and pavement are often masses of orna-
mental variegated stone.
The store warehouse of Marshall Field
stands at Fifth avenue and Adams.
Richardson, the architect, is said to
have charged 100000 for the plans.
The building is remarkable for the large
size of its blocks of dark granite. !,
gives darkish look to the entire vicin-
ity. This is the largest dry goods bust
ness in the world.
..t Amusements.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12
MASONIC TEMPLE.

lumbia, the Eden Musee, the Academy
of Music. the Haymarket, the Criterion,
Havlin's and the Olympic. Central
Music hall is usually open with good
card, and panoramas of the fire, Mag
ara and Gettysburg are permanent at
fractions, Moonlight excursions on the
lake and cable rides on the grip car are
favorite pastimes.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1892-10-12

cago. Here science and art have united,
with wondrous profusion of means, to
delight the eye and bring comfort to the
occupant In the Auditorium, for IN
stance, are 50,O00,0O0 pieces of Roman
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-09

pour into our great thoroughfares to keep
them pure and manage the traffic of the
world. Multitudes of such are constantly
making their departure from home
Tomorrow morning all of the thorough
fares leading toward the great cities of our
land, on steamboat and rail car, there will
be young adventurous for the first speed
ing away from their homes in order to try
their fortune in town The Lord stretch
forth his arm for the deliverance of these
Daniels away down in Babylon. Wher-
ever your lot may be cast, in far inland
town or in some great seaport, maintain in
your absence the same principles of morals
and religion which may have been instilled
by parental solicitude.
And while you may feel in your heart
and life the advantages of early religious
culture, forget not those to whom you are
chiefly indebted, and pray that as age
comes upon them and the night of death
begins to fall on their pathway, the hope
of heaven may beam through the darkness,
lustrous and steady as the evening star
The Lord forbid that by our conduct we
should ever bring disgrace on fathers
name or prove recreant to the love of
mother. The poet did not exaggerate
when he exclaimed:
How sharper than a serpents tooth, it Is,
To have a thankless child.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-05-09
The Cowboy of Today.

The first cowboys ever saw greatly dis
appointed me by their appearance. All
that | have seen since that time have dis
appointed me equally. If / were to write
a play in which there was a cowboy char
acter / would dress him up in fringed
leather breeches and buckskin coat, a
big drab Spanish hat as stiff as board
and as big as the top of washtub, in
dainty boots and bead worked gloves;
his pistols should be of mother-of- pearl,
and none but the best Cheyenne saddle
should he sit on--for of such is the cow
bow of the flash literature which has i'm
mortalized him; and if the true cowboy
does not know enough to live up to his
own china l would ignore the fact. And
yet these first cowboys l saw in Montana
were a very ordinary looking lot of young
depot loungers, peculiar only because they
wore big fiat brimmed hats and because
they had a long line of bronchos fettered to
hitching rail near by.-Julian Ralph in
Harper's Weekly.