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The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Daniel Hall has moved from $. W, Somers's house to the Wheeler tenement, part of which is occupied by Charles Ha wiley.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

John l.. Sanford, who has been sick with grip and complications for three weeks, is still bedridden, though gaining.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Much interest is felt in flying machines just now; inventors are working on all sorts of theories. The Cosmopolitan magazine has thought it of enough i'm portance to begin, at it's own expense, Il series of experiments to solve the prob lem. It has enlisted services of Thom- as A. Edison and of Prof King of Phila- delphia, well known aeronaut. Pri- xes amounting to $500 have been offered by the magazine for the three best essays on the subject. Many people believe that safe and reliable air navigation is to be attained in the near future and all agree us to the benefits to commerce and civilization when 1t does come.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Edward Lynch of Chestnut hill, Gray's Plain district, is working at the black smith shop of F, J. Kelly in Sandy Hook.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

The thermometer fell below zero, Sun day morning. It touched zero, Wednes- day morning.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

The mother of s. c. I4athrop has been sick at her daughters in New Milford, where she went for visit during the holidays, with grip and pneumonia. MT Lathrop's sister has also been prostrated by grip.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

The average or abstract Japanese fe- male comes, all things considered, ,neareSt of her sex, as regards natural gifts, to what We understand by an angelical dis position.-[Si Sir Edwin Arnold.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

R. Arnulda of Newtown, L. l., died, last week Wednesday, and his funeral, Friday, was attended by many friends, among whom was G. r. Taylor, Mir Ar nulda was 8 frequent visitor here.-
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

The savings bank at New Britain has adopted the stamp system of extending it's work-a plan familiar in Germany and England, but not as yet in the United States. The bank establishes agencies and puts out stamps of small denomina- tion, such as five cents, which are bought by children and others and pasted on a card provided for the purpose that holds $l worth of stamps. When the card is full, it may be taken to the bank and the dollar is entered on the depositor's book in the regular way and begins to draw interest.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Cotton has not seen so low prices since 10 years before the war and the business depression thus aggravated in the South is a factor to be counted in
 when forecasting the industrial outlook,
 Is well as the great crops and profitable
 markets of the Northwest. The govern lnent's final statement of the cereal crop yield of the year puts the wheat harvest at the unprecedented figures of ell ,7sO,- 900 bushels, which compare favorably with 5l2, ,765 ,000 bushels for 1884, the largest previous yield recorded; the corn crop at 2,060, 154, 900 bushels, which is ex- ceeded only by the crop of 1889; and the oat crop at 73S, S,394, ,000 bushels. The
 three crops together exceed the totals for any previous year and, in value, they will largely exceed any year of record.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Born, Monday, 18th, daughter to Nil and Mrs Homer c. Clark of Zoar.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Lawyer c. H. Northrop attended court, last week, having divorce suit on hand at the Superior court. He reports 12 di- vorces granted that day. George Tobey of the Newtown creamery was divorced from Bertha l. Tobey on a charge of adul- tery. Mir Tobey was married in Shef- field, Mass, April l, 1884 and, after a daughter had been born, Mir and Mrs Tobey drew up il written contract, MT Tobey renouncing claim on his wife's property and they separated. This was in September, 1887. Mrs Tobey took the little girl with her. Supposing herself free, she married man named Whit beck, now living in New Hartford, by whom she has had one child. MT Tobey sued for divorce, with Mir Northrop as counsel, on the ground of his wife's adultery. Judge Robinson granted the divorce, holding that the second marriage was void and that the child born of that wedlOck was illegitimate.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Mrs Maggie Casey of Sandy Hook has been very sick, but was reported better.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

The only people who do not appear to appreciate the Japanese women are the Japanese men.-[ Sir Edwin Arnold.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Japanese religion has been well defined as "a mixture of fun and fear,' but the women are, all the same, sincerely pious. -T Sir Edwin Arnold.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Trinity Guild, Saturday afternoon, 23d, with Miss Grace Camp of South Center.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

John F. Cuff, the Danbury newsdealer, is president of the Yale Kent club.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

have discovered that if sufficient ele- vation be obtained to overcome the cur vature of the earths surface and to re- duce to the minimum the earth's ab- sorption, electric tplegraphing or signal ing betW cen distant points can be car ried on by induction without the use of wires connecting such distant points. This discovery is especially applicable to telegraphing across bodies of water, avoiding the use of submarine cables, or for communicating between vessels at sea or between vessels at sea and points on land, but it is also applicable to elec- tric communication between distant points on land, it being necessary, how ever, on land (with the exception of communication over open prarie) to in crease the elevation in order to reduce to the minimum the misunderstanding effect of houses, trees and elevations in the land itself. At sea, from an eleva- tiOn of 100 feet, l can communicate elec- trically a great distance and since this elevation, or one sufficiently high, can be had by utilizing the masts of ships, signals can be sent and received be- tween ships separated considerable distance and, by repeating the signals from ship 10 ship, communication can be established between points any distance apart or across the largest seas and even Ocean~.- Thomas A. Edison.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Botsford H. Peet has been rushed with work, like all of his craft during the past 10 days and shod 65 horses, last week.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

John Heating and Richard Quinn were initiated by the tiremen, Monday night.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

It is telegraphed from San Francisco that J. Malcolm Forbes of Boston agreed to pay Senator Leland Stanford $l50, ,000 for AriOn, the mighty son of Electioneer. Arion will rank as the highest priced trOtting horse in the world; Axtell brought $l05,O0 Arion is the most re- markable trotting horse the world has ever seen. His feat of lowering Sunol's two-year-old record of 2.1S to 2.10 3-4 stands as the most wonderful trOtting performance in the annals of the turf. Marvin, who drove Arion in his work against time, recently predicted that the great colt would go mile in less than OG during the coming season. Mir Forbes has q fine breeding establishment in which are a number of the most choicely bred mares in the country, in- cluding the great Nancy Hanks.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Mrs Silas Fairchild is still poorly from the bad fall she had about month ago.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Catharine Lewis tainted one night in .sOlf- yette,'' but it didn't cause a ripple in the play. Twas only cough and they had bottle Of Dr Bulls cough syrup hand, of course.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22
ROXBURY.
LONG HILL.

Died, l2th, Mrs Jane Delivan, 80.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Waste no money Buy Salvation Oil. It kills all pain, Price twenty five cents a bottle.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Miss Jessie Frisco has been quite sick for a few days, as well as Baby Everetts.
The Newtown bee., 1892-01-22

Kerosene oil at Warner, Taylor S Curtis's that will burn a clear flame to the bottom of the lamp
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-01
10000 Miles in Scnrcl, OF n Car.

One Of the best Jobs in car tracing
ever done in this country was completed
about three weeks ago'hy u car tracer of
the New York Central. That roa I had
lost a car. and sent out the tracer to look
it up. lie followed it West to Pittsburm.
then to Cincinnati, then to Chicago, and
from there 10 St. Louis. Here he lost
track OF it, but after some search found
it had been in IN accident aud had been
rcpaintcd. BY some oversight the mum
Der had been changed, but taking the
new number. he chased the car to Kansas
City, where he found it had been loaded
aud sent OH to Galveston 70 Galveston
he went, and thcrc found that, after tax
ing fresh load, the car had gone to San
Francisco. lie went after it,, but on
reaching San Francisco found the car
had gone back to Galveston.
BY this time his blood was up, aud he
made up his mind to iiui that car if it
took the balance of bis natural life. So
he went back to Galveston, aud, to make
long story short, followed that car to
New Orleans, to Mobile, to Atlanta, to
half Il dozen places in Florida. then back
to New Orleans, 10 Galveston again, and
thence to Kansas City, and from there to
Chicago. He mad now been on the hunt
for over three months, sut had got SO
close to the runaway that just rs he came
into Chicago by one roa3 the car Lett it
,sG sGtYe%g %gss saeothcr en its way to Buffalo Its
,hea he ascertaiued thethass- -.,1iat=and
raphed on to have the car held, ansIei
,ok the next train. for the East. Attn
'utfaIo he came up with the car and n,
,ught his first sight Of it. He had
'avccd aImos. constantly for over thir-
zen weeks, trascrSiny II distance OF 10,- h
% or ~, 900 miles L9uts G!ods.
Ieu0cruk.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-01
The Shoe Violin.

A Paris newspaper recently announced.
the sale of one of the most clrious vio-
Inns in tue world. 1t formerly belonged
to Paganini, the great violnist, and at
first sight merely presents the appear
ance of misshapen wooden shoe. Its
history is curious, and not without in
tercst.
During the winter Of 1888 Paganini
was living in Rue de In Victoria. One
day a large box was brought there by
the Normandy diligence, .on opening
which he found two inner boxes, and,
wrapped carefully in the folds Of tissue
paper, u wooden shoe and q letter,
stating that the writer, having heard
much of the wonderful genius Go the
violinist, begged, as proof of his de-
votiOn to music, that Paganini would
play in public on the oddly constructed
instrument incioscd.
At first Paganni felt this to be an i'm
pertinent satire, and mentioned the facts,
with some show of temper, to his friend,
the Chevalicr de Baridc. The latter
took the shoe to violin maker, who
converted it into remarkably sweet
toned instrument, and Paganini was
pressed to try the shoe violin in pub
lie.
He not only did so, but performed
upon it some Of his most difficult fanta-
sias, which facts, in the handwriting of
violinist, are now recorded on the violin
itself. .-Nt1o York Telegram.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-01
THE CRANK CAME.
DE Walked Into Louisville Bank.
But Did Not Wait for the Money.

LouIsyILLR, KY, Especial. THE
crank mania has struck Louisville. The
very same man depicted by Chauncey M.
Depew at the annual dinner of the New
England Society suddenly appeared in
this city, He was without dynamite
but he made his demand. About 10 40
o'clock, tall. good looking stranger
entered the Office OF President yeech. of
the Farmers and Droyers' Bauk. The
greaGafter dinner orator remarked that
the Crank is the most prominent feature
of Our civilization, aud when this one
stated, i'll not over-gentle voice: "I
want you to give me money, and that
pretty damu quickm he was decidedly
the most prominent feature about the
Farmers and Drovcrs' Bank. The hair
OF President Yeech stood on ends, real
iEing what kind of man he had to deal
with. The banker said: every we'll,
sir, we haven't much OH hand, but l can
send out and get you some" The bank
er did send out, not for million or so
OF dollars, but for a policeman. In the
meantime the stranger became tired of
waiting and left inpeace, no one Offering
TO have him remain
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-01
TO Remove Warts,

These eXcresccuces may be removed
by the following treatment: If they are
long and have thich neck, they may be
strangulated by tying IA strong waxcd
thread around this, and leave It until
the wart drops oil; then apply mixture
of equal parts of nitric acid and wafer to
the spot lor a few days. If there is a
raw sore left, apply some powdered sui
phatc of copper to 1t. II the wart is fiat
and spreading, apply pure nitrlc acid to
1t on the end of a bruised piece tof stick,
until the wart is corroied away, and
and then apply tire- powdered copper
sulphate until the sore is healed. Or
"a stick of lunar caustic may be used, by
xnb5iug it on the wart, first moistcncd
with watcr;two or three times daily. 49,
AeD IO7k Times.
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People on Wheels.

It is interesting to observe how the
habit Of moving about increases with
the facilities for gratifying it. When
street railways were first introduced they
were intended to accommodate the linn
tied number Of business men who lived
half mile or mile from the couuting-
rooms aud women who lived such dis
tance from the retail stores, and slow
going horse.car was fully equal to the
easy task of dragging the limited number
OF persons about. But the Insignificant
enterprise has grown into proportions
that its projectors were not able to con-
ceive at the beginning. The horse car
roads alone of New York City carried
last year 162, 900, 900 passengers. This
is 80, 900, 900 more than they carried in
the year 1876. when the first elevated
railroad was built, so that the elevated
roads which, it was thought, would de-
stroy the business of the horse. cars have
not had any such effect. 1t might be
thought that, with 1862, 200, 200 passeu-
gers carried ON the surface roads, there
would be none left for the elevated ways,
and their cars would run empty. And
yet the elevated roads have had all they
could do also. They carried last year
2O1, 900, 900 passengers, making total
of 1863, 900, 900 for both systems. This
is 240 times the population of the me-
tropolis. So that there were 240 trips
for every inhabitant. The per capiIa
number of trips in 1sS0>Ias 1zTA. d
this rate it will be only Vow ye,rs bs. a y
fore the city will eEipitRRss%h tRs nhsunmsn. @ +
o5 @ EStB RePSSlBS On wheels. I WS ~ Iouis
Y. Suui,,u.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-01

LONDON, [Cablegram. The Duke of
Cambridge is credited with endowing
The Princess Victoria Mary with e5, coo
yearly. 1t has been decided that the
dresses to be worn by the bridamaids of
the Princess will be of white and silver,
trimmed with May bloom They will
wear wreathes, but their toilettes will
lave no trains. The corporation of the
:ity of Lcndon will present the Princess
with silver dinner service and a dia
nond necklace, and the Duke of Bue.
claugh will give her diamond bracelet.
Members of the nobility ars vieiug with
each other in the costliness of their gifts
OF jewelry and plate to the young couple.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-01
Yucatan's Deadly Spider.

sailor on Il coasting vessel which
plies between Galveston, Texas, land ports
on the Gulf has some very interesting
specimens which hc secured while on the
coast of Tucatan. Among them is
large jar filed with enormous spiders,
which he says are looked upon with
greatest fear by the Indians of the central
portion of that country, and which are
undoubtedly the largest ever seen.
The body Of the spider is fully five
inches in diameter and the legs are short
and thick, being especially adapted to
running and climbing. They are about
two inches long and as big around as an
ordinary led pencil. The animal is of a
grayisb brown color, but is most pecu-
liarly marked by deep red bands which
cross it: body, extending clear around
diagonally from shoulder to hip, cross
ing each other al the middle of the back
and the centre of the belly.
The head IS so large that the details
can readily be seen, and even the dead
ones had such ferocious aspect that
they caused n feeling Of fear. The color
ing is peculiarly adapted to tn. country,
for the bSdy is like the earth, while the
red bands are like many of the creeping
vines which abound among the rocks of
the interior.
The tietcencss Of the insect and the
marking on the back have induced the
indians to name it the Devils Soldier"
and they say that it is undoubtedly the
worst foe to man in that whole country,
making it almost impossible for any one
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-01
iT6s ND wv tss&SiIRirg %&itail 81 specific

heats by the use-O Joula' law a. :. lily
been successful in liqTds which were
good conductors. A new method has
been adopted for such measurement by
means of Il glass spiral filed with mer.
curry
An automatic cut-out Ithat replaces
new fuse when one is burnt out is being
introduced by firm Of electricians. A
rotating drum with the sever-wires on
its surface is SO arranged as to turn
around aud insert new fuse when
burn out occurs.
A maritime laboratory of biology ani
zoology will be opened next year at B,r-
gen, Norway. Situated in re zion
where the marine fauna is particularly
rich and interesting, it is destined to
rendered great service to science. It
has been decided to allow the free use OF
the establishment to foreign savants.
A new life-belt has been patente in
in Germany. 1t is in the ordinary form,
but Is made from reindeer hair covered
with canvas, and is ;,f,ssss lighter than
the belt of cork. Its weight is only two
pounds, while it will support twenty two
pounds of iron in the water. lis buoyancy
is not affected by prolonged immersion.
a new idea to give an oriinrry room
the appearance. of par9uetry border is tc
cover the floor with wallpaper, forming
design representing wood parquetry
This is altcrward vanished and the floor
will then so closely resemble iulaid wood
that .ouiy connoisseurs will detect tiiu
difference. An oriental rug throw in
the center of the floor will complete the
door decoration.
The magnificent glacial scratches and
groovings in the limestone at Kelley's
Island, near Sandusky, Ohio, have been
preserved from destruction aud perpstu-
ally dedicated to the puhle by the cor
poratiou owning the qY5 I1escs
,truction would have,5s - IA = y =
loss to geological siencsSs
In the neig5orhood 81 Schaffnausen.
close by ne three rocks know as the
"Schwczsbild," Dr.. Ruesch has dis
covered IN extensive human settlement
bclonSB to the Stone Age. 1t is in
rocky the about thirteen metres high
and thif-seven metres long, aud is the
first %ot 1t period which has been dis
covered Switzerland aud which is not
, connectioi with cavern.
Dr., Miteherlich has invented stuff
iade from the fbers of wood. Thin
cards, with the knots taken out, are
reated wilha solution of sulphuric acid
4 hollow boiler. Not only the hard
natter, which is the cause Of the brittle
ess of wood fibers, is eliminated by this
reatment, but the fiber itself is chemi-
ally Transformed. It is bleached, and
ecomes silky as well as strong and elastic.
is then treated in the same manner as
ny other goods, that is, combined, spun
nd finally woven into stuffs of exceeding
nencss aud different varieties.
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to utter imperfectly about twenty mono-
syllables. s.-NeD York Tribune.
A Shrewd Trick of Letter Thtcycs.

Do you see this letter, torn here in the
middle of this side2 What do you sup
pose did it'll Done by the string that is
used to tie up the bundle ofletters in the
mail bag2 That is what almost every one
thinks, bat it isn't the fact. 1t is dont
by postoffice thieves. 1 got that
straight from the postmaster of u large
city not very far from here. 1t is
shrewd trick to deceive the man who re-
ceives the letter. He knows that after
the letters have been collected at the
office they are put through the stamping
machine, which cancels the stamp and
prints the postmark at the same time.
Then they are sorted out according to
their destination, and all these going to
the same place are tied in one bundle.
They have u peculiar way Of tying
them, used at all postotficcs. They use
rather fine string, and it is put around
the bundle twice, once aro'1nd the side,
and once around the end The letters
are not all Of the same size. Some are
longer than Others, and some are iu
square envelopes, while others arc in the
old-fashioned long envelopes. This be.
ing so, it follows that il the string is
drawn tight, as it must be to hold the
letters together, some OF the larger let
ters will he cut on the side or end by the
string. The postoflice thieves know this
as wei! as any one else, and So when they
wish to find oueif there is any money in
an envelope they Simply tear it little
on the side u. he end. Almost auy
postmaster considers it favor if u man
getting such letter will take it to him.
They always make an cndeavor to trace
such lettts, and then watch if other let.
tiers come over the same route are torn
,i!n iin the same way. You can usually tell
,t, aE Of n tTs tGnljcttcr was really torn by the
nr or by hand:t2n, tHa!r the string wilt
II aud fray the edges .>---:eAore is gHtwst n
the letter itself.-S. LoQsa Cub tn
lOcyuf -,
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-01
Qneer Atmosnller1o Freaks.

Professor Leonhardt Webbcr, in his
atmospheric experiments with kites AND
balloons, has found that the atmosphere
is negatively electrified up to height OF
about 100 yards, beyond which it is posl
itivcly electrified in degree increasing
very rapidly with the distance from the
earth. The negative electrifcation OF
the lower strata of tho earth Is attributed
TO the presence Of germs and dust partis
Vcles. .---,St. Luais RspDJIie. : =
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-01
An Example of WilI.Power

John l.. Wooders on, The clever actor
who has been long associated with
Stuart Robson. and who was best man at
the latter's Wedding, afforded peculiar
illustration OF VII. power. he hasaa
natural impediment in his speech, and in
private conversation it is very marked.
But when he stepsbefore the foot-lights
the excitement of the occasion, the force.
full knowledge that it will. not do-ta
stammer, loosens the letters from his
tongue and he is as glib as Robson him
self.--a. Loais RepaJlic.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-01

The proportion of travellers killed in
railroad accidents in the different coun-
tries IS as follows In France, one to
every "a, 600, 900; England, one to cvery
u 200, 900; Germany, one to every o.
00o, 700; Belgium, one to every 6, $50, 600;
United States, one to every 2, SEQ. 600
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-01

John McCullum, of Pittsburgh, Pcnn.,
has recently returned from his eighth
rowing trip in skiff down the Ohio and
Mississippi to New Orleans.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-01-01

'--cs up and made every effort to kill it
out have considered it curse. But it is
now moro than likely that it will he look.
ed upon as an article of value to the
owners of the land where it grows. It's
berries have been found to contain rare
medicical qualities; the root is said to
contain large percentage of tannin, and
some works have been started to convert
the leaves into fibre. A factory has
been put up at jacksonville to work up
these leaves into fibre which, it is claim
ed, will make the best of rope and mat
ting, and is used for making hats, mat
tresses and upholstery. y.-Florida Cores
pondent New York Tribune.