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The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-10
4 Bear CHM bling a Tree.

Even professional taxidermists some
times make plumbers in their work. A
funny instance of lack of thought by an
animal stutfer is to be seen III Il show
window of IA Broadway cloakmaker.
where there is a dead polar bear in the
act of climbing a tree.
Thousands of persons pass that bear
every day, and it is safe to say that not
one in a million ever sees how untrue to
nature it is for a polar bear to climb a
tree.
There aren't any trees i'll the polar re-
gions where the white bear comes from.
Perhaps the bears would learn TO climb
them if there were.-New York Herald.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-10
Schools and the French ARMY.

The total expenditure for normal
schools in France was, in 1872, near
$I1, 900. 900; at present it is upward Of
SO, 900. 900, or an increase of l27 per
cent. The French republic has spent
and is still spending untold millions
upon the army and navy. But on ac-
count of that it does not forget the
school. And without a doubt the re-
publican school will outlive the repub-
lican army and be a blessing to all gen
rrations to come, for knowledge makes
Us free.-Chicago Herald.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-10
~PHOTCaRAPHING ASTEROIDS.

How Photography Has Come to the Aid
Of the Enthusiastic Astronomer
The Boston Scientific society has held
a meeting Of unusual interest, at which
s. &. Chandler, the eminent astronomer,
gave the first public presentation Of the
remarkable work now being done by
Max Wolf at Heidelberg.
He said: The position Of asteroids in
astronomical science is a peculiar, and
| might say practically a useless one, so
far as tangible results from their dis
cOvery are concerned. The discovery of
q new comet Is a matter of great impor-
lance, and the increase in their number
contributes much to the knowledge Of
the science, but with asteroids, they
must be found in large numbers before
they become Of especial significance,
and in that event it has always been a
debated question whether the immense
amount Of labor required in keeping
track Of them and performing the neces-
sary computation is really worth the
while when the actual results obtained
are so small.
There are known TO exist by the thou
sands and tens Of thousands down to
the size of an ordinary rock, and to col
late and preserve the knowledge OBJ
tanned Of them as fast as discovered has
been d difficulty we'll nigh insurmounta-
BILE.
But the development Of photography
in connection with telescOpy has seemed
to open up an opportunity for accom-
plishing something III this line. If GER
tain whole strips of the heavens could
be tracked and "a record kept of the OBJ
s~ervatiCns, a long step would be taken
in solving this problem. ApropOs Of
this matter, young Max Wolf, Of Heidel-
berg, has been making some very unique
discoveries.
He uses Il small telescope Of G-inch
aperture, and has devised a piece Of
mechanism by which he can not only
follow the heavens for a number of
hours together, but can put away the
plate, take it the next night and con-
tinue the record cOn~secutively from the
point where he left off. This continual
exposure Of the same glass night after
night has hitherto been regarded as i'm
possible, and Wolf was scotfed at when
III attempted H. "a Tx huo OuCCCCuCb
nevertheless. BY this process he has
been enabled to discover asteroids by
observing their motions.
Moreover, he does not use clockwOrk.
His plates are exposed, and he keeps his
instrument fixed for hours together on a
given point by means Of Il subsidiary
telescope. In this way he has discOv-
cred seven new asteroids and found be-
tween thirty and forty old ones, and
thinks also that he has discovered a new
comet, though that has not been fully
demonstrated as yet.
He has also discovered the tracks OF
meteors and has found a succession OF
variations of their light by means OF
duplicate impressions with different tel
escapes, recording five or six distinct
oscillations in brightness. His duplicate
impressions agree perfectly. Wolf i
now trying to find the companion Of AL
gOl."-BOstOn Advertiser.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-10

Abjah Stone WIS n Vermont farmer
who lad a great fondnc-- E. ,orses.
He often said that ''tLaou. 10 dIsTe-
spect I human bein'-. il iii ggDoar's ef
some hoses Lcl foil ~ l"Uca -eTse IS
tn common run o lns.- Iii CONVEX
sation was tiugcj ly i. i.'i {. and he
drew many an lin -~a.3au e.. ~ his rav-
orite animals. On r-a occasion this
habit Of his was the cause If much con-
fusion 10 Il youu- L.an h whom Mr..
ttone was talking.
The young man was 4 professional
musician who had been spending part
of the summer at a ncShboring farm
house. and had had the audacity TO fall
in love with Mr.. Stones pretty daughter
Jenny. He was listening TO the farmers
various reasons for opposing MS suit
one summer evening, just before his re-
turn 10 the city.
For i thing said Abijah Stone,
''you like all kinds o new tangled mu-
sic, an WANT I be playin it all tn whole
durn time; o my Jenny, she'd ruther
hear Home, Sweet Home or somethin
o that gen'ral style"
All" said the pianist, Llandly but
firmly, Il should educate your daugh-
ter's musical taste, Mr.. Stone. should
lead her gradually from simple melodies
up to the great Wagner"
WAS hat piece you played t tn con
cert in Taown hall by Mr.. Wagner
interrupted Abijah.
1T was" replied the pianist, with a
glow Of reminiscent pride in his late per
fOrmance.
well, then" said Mr.. Stone, with a
peculiar expression at the corners of his
mouth, you might lead my Jenny up t
him, young man, but I'm inclined t
think she'd be apt t balk b'fore you got
her there!,'-Youth's Companion.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-10
No Safe Deposit Vaults Needed.

There is no trouble about living in the
polar regions except lack Of food sup
ply. No danger exists that the provi-
sions once placed would be disturbed.
Among the people who dwell in those
frozen regions a cache is sacred. Moth
ing short of starvation will compel d
native TO interfere with one, and even
in such a case he leaves payment behind
for what he takes. Snow shoes and ex-
ira clothing are hung up in the open all
in summer and are a. safe as the accou,
terments which city persons hang up
at their uncle's during the warm season.
Chicago Herald.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-10
Guarding Against Sparks.

a new arc lamp has a wire gauze pro
tector upon the top OF it, the object
being to prevent the escape OF the dan
gerous sparks which occasionally fly
from the carbon poles and are the caust
of fires. The gauze is fine and does not
interfere with the diffusion OF the light
nor with the placing of the carbons.-
New York Journal.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-10
Bombay's Water Works.

The Tansa water works for the supply
If Bombay were only completed after
verv great physical difficulties had been
overcome. The work involved the con-
struction of a masonry dam two miles
long TO form a lake of nearly six square
miles in area. There are ifty-two miles
Of duets, twenty-seven miles of iron
mains, four miles of tunnel and nearly
a mile of iron girder bridges.-New York
Times.
The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-06-10

Many readers will be Is much sur
prised as | was in learning that at the
battle of Leipsic the Russians brought
into the field numbers of Baskir Tartars
who were armed only with bows and ar
rows. SO we read in General Marbots
Memoirs" written by himself. The
general was himself wounded by an ar
row in the battle. Notes and Queries.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
How a Great Mine Was Discovered.

A walk over the mountain to Friedens-
vile, Pa, one spring day when the farmers
were blowing their fields, brought the late
DR.. Roepper, well known to mineralogists,
to where a team was dragging pillow near
the road. A talk with the driver brought
out the fact that his farm was cursed with
more than the usual amount of stones. and
sample was tossed over the fence to the
doctor as evidence. 1t was recognized as
mass of quartz carrying calamine-a sill
cate of zinc. The fence was climbed and
the two followed the pillow forward and
back across a field covered with similar
masses.
Had the doctor been sharper he would
have bought the farm and died a rich
man. As he was only an honest lover of
nature he said few words to the plow-
man that transformed an exhausted Penn
sylvania farm into the seat of the Ueber-
roth mine; that set in operation the extern
sive zinc works of Bethlehem, Pa, and
built the 'President"-a pump that could
raise 1900 gallons of water per minute.
This chance shot at fortune is but one Of
many, and dozen volumes would Ill suf-
fee to note the salient points of the record.
If so much can be done haphazard it is
evident that systematic training in eco
nomic geology will furnish a means for
livelihood, as well as an aid in the consid-
Grafton of economic questions in mining
Engineering Magazine.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
The Annotating Fiend.

Next to the sneak thieves who infest
public libraries the worst nuisance libra
rian has to encounter is undoubtedly the
reader with pencil. It is sight to watch
the abandon with which the individual
makes annotations or other markings upon
property which. is in no sense his The
man who would step up to another's house
and draw chalk marks on his doorstep
would be promptly held for trespass or
malicious mischief. There is very little
difference in the case of the vandal who de-
faces the public's books, except that le-
nient popular sentiment permits him to
go free.
In all well regulated libraries nowadays,
however, alert attendants exercise keen
supervision over the reader with pencil
The moment the pencil is lifted from its
vest pocket home the attendant edges up,
and if marginal hieroglyphic is attempt
ed the offending reader is politely request
ed to desist. The second offense draws
down a less polite rebuke, and the third
time is out-that is, the malefactor is
bounced" The habit undoubtedly arises
from sheer thoughtlessness, but it is very
annoying one, and the individual reader
who falls into it when perusing his own
books is likely to get into trouble should
he borrow from fastidious friends or visit
well regulated public libraries. - Troy
Times
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
A Geographical Question.

He was the art critic, and he had just
sent out an unusually brilliant account of
recent exhibition of paintings to the desk
editor, who, not having made much of a
study of art, was naturally unfamiliar
with the language of the studio, but was
preparing towrestle with his difficult task
He was new at the work and it was beset
with pitfalls. Heading the list was this
enigmatical sentence, "a Landscape in
Sep:a."
Landscape in Sepia" shouted the scribe,
addressing the sporting editor, who was
busily engaged in describing spirited set
to between two favorite lghtweigbts
where the deuce is Sepiaf"
Don't know" answered the sporting
editor thoughtfully. "Never heard of the
place. Sepia can't be in the United States
or I must have heard of 1t surely. 1t must
be In Syria somewhere"
81 don't believe the place exists at ALL"
snapped the puzzled genius of the desk.
81 think"-
A heavy fall in the adjoining room broke
of the conversation here, and hurried
investigation revealed the art critic In
strong commissions on the floor. He had
heard the entire conversation, and was
conveyed to his lodging place in an ambu-
lance.-Geoffrey Cuthbert Strange in Har-
per'S
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
Shooting a Bear.

In the History of Athens County, Ohio"
Joseph Bobo relates an adventure In which
his father took leading part He and one
of his neighbors, Mr.. Shidler, found q
hole in the rocks which they thought might
conceal bear. Mr.. Bobo lighted torch
and started in to explore, while Shidler
stood outside ready to shoot If bruin tried
to escape.
Father went into the cave about twenty
five feet and was on the point of giving up
the search when suddenly bear, which
had been crouching behind a rock, rose up
and struck the torch with his paw. This
torch fell to the floor and was extinguished.
Father didn't wait for ceremony, but
got out of the cave as quickly as possible,
and told Shidler what had happened. All
remained quiet, and after waiting awhile
father lighted another torch and went in
again to shoot the bear. He proceeded
cautiously, and the moment his eyes fell
on the bear he fired, but only wounded the
animal
Bruin uttered tremendous growl, and
father saw him coming. Quick as thought
father threw down the torch and lay fat
on his face. The bear rushed for the mouth
of the cave, clawing viciously at fathers
head and body as he passed over him; but
Shidler was ready for the brute, and when
he showed himself at the hole gave him
an ounce of lead that settled him.
Fathers wounds, though not serious,
were bad enough to leave scars for the rest
of his life. The bear weighed 800 pounds.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
Weighed in the Balance.

Goslin-Congwatulate me, deah fellaw.
Hunker-What's the occasion, my boy?
Goslin-I'm engaged, doncher know.
Hunker-Then congratulate you most
sincerely. May ask the lady's namel
Goslin- Mabel-e Miss Swayback.
She's worth her weight in gold, deah boy.
Hunker-Is that allf
Goslin-Whatevah do you meanf
Hunker-How heavy is shei
Goslin-Oh, know that exactly. We
were both weighed the other day, doncher
know, and Mabel-er, mean Miss Sway
back - weighed pwecisely ninety-fve
pounds.
Hunker-Then let US see. Gold is worth
$685. an ounce, but for this purpose we
will assume that is worth twenty dollars.
Goslin Gnterrupting)-Wha do you
meanP
Hunker-I'm just making a simple cal
lculation. In ninety-fve pounds avoirdu-
Ipois there are !, $50 ounces. These at twenty
dollars per ounce would make Miss Sway
hack worth a few hundred over $4,000.
Goslin-My deah sir, you are pawsitively
Insulting, and I shall call
Hunker-Not at all. You said she was
worth her weight in gold, and wanted to
compare her worth with that of my
fiancee. Now Miss Scadds is worth $780,
900 in stocks, and-why, Goslin's gone.
hope he isn't cross.-Philadelph Press.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
A Frost Bitten Nose.

A frost bitten member never entirely re-
covers. There is a gentleman in this city
who, eleven years ago, had his nose severe
ly frozen when on long ride in Dakota.
He did not know there was anything the
matter with his nose until he entered a
house, and the people began to tell him
what to do for it; then he went out and
held it in a handful of snow until he
thought it was sufficiently thawed out to
be useful. But he was in too great hurry
and did not give it snow enough, and in the
course Of an hour his nose was the size of
goose egg and as red as a turkey gobbler's
proboscis.
Before he get it presentable for good so
ciety he had so much trouble with it that
he wished he had been born with no more
nose than monkey. But that was only
the beginning of his tale of VICE. Every
winter, with the first few cold days, his
nose turns red and swells. He has tried
everything on the nose, but that useful
organ has never forgotten the i'll treatment
it received, and reminds him of it with
every advent of frost.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05

A Wall street man who lives in Brook
lyn is the proud possessor of three bright
children. One of them, boy not quite
three years old, is good deal of philoso-
pher and a great stickler for accuracy.
While playing in the nursery one day little
Gordon-for that is his name-overheard
his elder sister tell the nurse that she was
going to write letter to Santa Claus and
ask him to fill her stocking from top to toe
HE tan't do it," interrupted the boy.
"Why, yes, he can, Gordon" replied the
little girl; "that is, if he is willing to-"
mo, he tant," reiterated the little fellow
dogmatically.
"Why not, Gordon2" asked the nurse
soothingly. "Tell us why you are so posi-
tive"
There was a roguish twinkle in little
Gordon's eyes as he answered, Clause he'd
have to fill 'tocking from toe to top If he
filed it at all. "-New York Times
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
Killing a Bull without a weapon

Cayetano, the famous Spanish torero,
once was strolling across meadow with a
couple of friends when their attention was
attracted by an old and Infatuated bull
which was galloping toward them with
lowered head and erect tail. Cayetano had
no weapon, not even n cane, but he seized a
dustcoat which one Of his friends was car
rying over his arm. AS soon as the bull
got close to them, Cayetano babe his COM
panions make their escape while he en-
gagged the animals attention. Using the
coat as a capa, he drove the bull crazy with
fury, stepping aside with the deftest agility
at each of the animals charges In this
manner he caused the bull to turn sharply
in the midst of its onward rushes, until
finally an ominous crack was heard and
the bull fell in heap, with its backbone
broken by the sudden wrench given by the
animals abrupt swerve.-San Francisco
Arponaut
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
The Rich Do Not Consider the Poor.

None do SO little for the very poor of
New York as its very rich. Efficient work
ers among the poor are at present generally
drawn from the poor themselves or from
the middle and professional class. No one
need wonder at this. Effectual charity
work and the requirements of modern so
ciety do not easily consort. A very small
proportion Of those who possess enormous
wealth in the city subscribe literally to it's
various charities; comparatively few can
be counted on for ready support in any
properly conducted and hopeful philan-
thropic movement, and fewer still are found
willing to fulfil the more difficult, the more
necessary duty of gaining personal knowl-
edge of the needs and wrongs of the poor
through personal study of their situation
and friendly intercourse with themselves
I say such attention, such knowledge,
are not likely to be given by the very rich.
To win fortune today implies singleness
of purpose, a concentration of all the fac
ulties of the man to the doing of one thing
The very rich man must be very busy
man If he would make large sums or keep
large sums of money.-Dr. W. S. Rains
ford in Harper's Weekly.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
Character in Writing Inks.

Did you ever notice what an unfailing
criterion as to character the use of the diff
ferent inks are? The mandy PANTY, dead
and alive, affected and no account sort of
person is apt to use the palest kind Of writ
ing fluid. The same with the insincere and
crafty person and the scheming and selfish
seeker after personal ends and advantages.
The honest man and the reliable woman
use good, well colored ink; the genius and
the person blessed with individuality use
the blacklist ink that flows. Intellectual
people are fond of all dark inks and affect
violet good deal In all my experience I
never knew person with any decided abil-
ity or win" to use copying fluid. They
like to make good, sturdy impress of
their individuality on everything, the
paper they write a message on as we'll as
the times in which they live.
Give me your positive folks every time,
not afraid to make a distinct impress of
themselves in whatever they undertake.
Secretive people, over reticent people and
absurd players at the delicate game of poll
icy like to hide themselves behind the be.
wilderments of fine pens and the palest
sort of ink. Take the trouble to watch,
and you will see that what say is true in
the main.-Chicago Herald.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
DrapInr for a Front Door.

A new form of draping the glass panel
in the front door is deviation from the
simple muslin sash curtains. Presume
that the glass panel is fifteen inches wide.
Down the center, for a space of about six
inches wide, is silk network in mesh as
big as quarter of dollar. On each side
Of this Is length of silk drapery four or
five inches wide. This scheme is varied
by arranging the network in other forms,
in cross stripes or diagonals. Philadelphia
Upholsterer ".
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
2neti1a1.
SLUMBERING SONG

The mill goes toiling slowly around.
With steady and solemn creak,
And my little one hears in the kindly sound
The voice of the old mill speak;
While round and round those big white wings
Grimly and ghostlike creep,
My little one hears that the old mill sings,
sleep, little tulip, sleep!'
The sails are reefed and the nets are drawn,
And, over his pot of beer,
The fisher, against the morrow's dawn,
Lustiy maketh cheer;
He mocks at the winds that caper along
From the far-off clamorous deep,
But we've love their lullaby-song
OF sleep, little tulip, seepr'
Shaggy old Fritz, in slumber sound,
Means OF the stony mart
Tomorrow how proudly he'll trot you around
Hitched to our new milk cart
And you shall help me blanket the kline,
And fold the gentle sheep,
And set the herring a-soak in brine
But now, little tulip, sleep!
A Dream-One comes to button the eyes
That YEARLY droop and blink,
While the old mill buffets the frowning skies
And scowls at the stars that wink;
Over your face the misty wings
OF that beautiful Dream-One sweep.
And, rocking your cradle, she softly sings,
sleep, little tulip sleep! -
Eugene Field.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
Mexicans Had n Year with 365 Ia

Cyrus Thomas announces the discovery
of positive evidence in one of the Maya
manuscripts (the Dresden Codex) that 365
days were, in some instances at least,
counted to the year by the ancient Mexi-
cans.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
The AgS and IltGligGlcGr.
Is Published Every Friday by
FREDERICK w. BAKER,.
Terms--$i.5o A YEAR, in Advance.

Transient Neutrality-suspicious. Square, 8
insertions or less, $780, Each subsequent insertion
% cents. Longer advertisements in the same pro-
portion. A. space equal to six lines makes square
Figure-wor double price.
Obituaries and Personal Communications will
be inserted at 10 cents per line
EV Yearly Advertisements at Special Rates.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
A Soft Answer.

A pleasant faced young woman and her
husband took their seats at the hotel table
opposite dapper little dude fresh from the
center of the highest civilization. During
the meal the husband requested the little
man to hand him something, and all he re-
ceived was cold, rude stare. He was mad
in minute, and was about to make few
remarks when his wife laid her hand gent
ly on his arm.
Don't, Henry" she said reprovingly.
Don't pay any attention to it. You know
you shouldn't expect to find everything in
such a small package"
The other people at the table snorted and
the little one left the room.-Detroit Free
Press
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-02-05
Over a Thousand Miles Per Hourl

A locomotive working under pressure
of 40 to 165 pounds to the square inch OF
boiler surface may move q train at We
locity of sixty miles per hour; and, under
favorable circumstances, even greater
distance. While we are apt to think this
wonderful rate of speed, it Is slow, very
slow, when compared with the velocity of
projectile fired from a modern great
gun" Such missiles push forward through
the air at the rate of 1 1856 miles per hour,
the impelling force exerting pressure Of
5000 to 5000 pounds to each square inch.
-c4 Innia RanuhLse