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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1892-11-25
Worst Form of Eczema

We think Hoods sarfaparlla Is the most valu
BILE medicine on the market for blood aud tklr
diseases. Our two children suffered terribly with the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
-cheapen,ne Plate.Glass.

In few things is the progress of in
vention more readily discernible by
those whose memory can reach, say a
distance of twenty-five years. than in
the production and use of plate
glass. The time was, and it seems
but a matter of yesterday, when the
name of plate-glass was indicative of
luxury and means. AS a feature of
business structures, it implied ample
capital, metropolitan situation, and a
voluminous trade; and none but the
very rich thought of indulging in such
costly splendor in their homes.
Since then, the case has bravely
changed, and invention and competi-
tion have been at work, until now. al
most ATTY n may 1evel in plate.glass
that likes. And as If this were not
enough, a Western manufacturer of
twenty years experience in this line,
has found a way of making plate
glass by perpendicular rolling, with
out grinding or polishing, which he
claims will produce a perfect article
at less than one-flfth of the present
cost. Evidently the nineteenth CEN
fury has not quite closed its record Of
Industrial achievements.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
House. Made of Paper.

A new use has been found for paper
in the production of building material.
which is said to possess all the better
qualities of hard flne-grained wood,
without being affected in form and
dimensions by the temperature and
humidity of the atmosphere. In the
preparation of this material any
quality of paper may be used, al
though manila is preferred. During
the process of manufacture there is
added to the paper pulp a solution
consisting n part of starch, one
part of gum-arabic, one part of BIZ
chromate Of potash, and four parts of
benzine to forty-four quarts of pulp.
The paper ma lie from this combina-
tion is coated with a cement made of
linseed oil and glue. and is then kept
under heat and pressure for about
n week. SO that the boards made
may become thoroughly cured and
seasoned. 1t is stated that these
paper boards are capable of being
worked up the same as ordinary woods
of commerce for all purposes for
which the latter are used. During
the process of manufacture the pulp
may be colored to represent any de-
sired kind of wood. and may be readi-
ly grained in imitation of oak.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
THE COLUMBUS BELL.

for the fourth time, and he in turn
donated it to a religious brotherhood,
by whom the beginning of the great
Cathedral of Cartagena, on the Span
ish main, was made. Here the bell
performed its mission until Cartagena
was sacked by buccaneers in 1897. In
the division of spells the bell fell to a
French ship, the La Rochelle, and
for a time served to call the piratical
crew to duty. Toward the end Of
1897 the La Rochelle was wrecked off
the Island of San Andreas, but the
bell, with a few Of the crew, was
saved. Here the bell remained until
Capt. Elias A. Newall discovered it's
strange history, and it was by him
procured and presented to the little
church in Halcyville in 1885.
The bell weighs 60 pounds and
stands IL inches high. Its top diam
eter is 8 inches and the diameter at
the mouth l42 inches. Its tone is
very clear and the quality of the ma.
terial superior to that used now.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

A Pretty story of the Great soldier Told
by Ono of German Papers.

A Pretty Story Of the Great soldier Told
by Onc Of tho German Papers.
A pretty story of the late Emperor
Frederick is told in one of the Ger
man papers. Some years ago, shortly
before the death of the old Emperor
OF Germany, a tall, handsome GENTLE
man jumped into a third-class carriage
Of a local railway at Berlin, just as
the train was leaving the station.
An old flower seller, with a basket of
newly-cut hyacinths, was the only
other occupant of the compartment.
He asked the old dame to sell him a
bunch, and, Modified by his suave
manner, she chose the freshest and
largest, and handed it to him. Its
price was a penny, but as the gentle
man had no coppers and the old
woman no change. not having sold
any of her goods yet, she was paid
with a mark piece. which, as she said
at once, was Il thing that had never
been heard of before in a third-class
carriage.
Presently the stranger and the
flower seller We're deep in CONVERSE
tion, and it turned out that the poor
woman vas the only %breadwinner of IL
family of four. Her son was crippled.
her granddaughter a little school
girl, and her husband had for some
months past been out of work. since
u new railway official had dismissed
him as being too old to do much
work. The stranger then suggested
that she should apply, on her hus-
bands behalf. to the railway authori-
ties. THAT is no good whatever, Z"
she replied. as she wiped her tears
with her apron. "If you haven't the
Pope for your cousin nowadays, you
can't get anybody to listen to you"
"Try the Emperor" the stranger went
on. "tAlas.." she sighed, "if the old
gentleman was allowed to see the
petitions that are sent, it might do
some good, but he does not get to
know about us poor people,"
well. then, let your husband write
to the crown prince" "Yes." she
said, che might do that" and she
would tell him SO us soon as she had
sold her flowers. BY this time the
train had got to the terminus. The
old dame bundled out her basket and
noticed with establishment that the
officials and the crowd on the plat.
form looked at her carriage and salut-
ed and cheered. "What's up?" she
asked. why, the crown prince was
in the same compartment with YOU"
Then the flower seller held her head
high and told every syllable of what
had happened to the delighted crowd.
Her flowers were sold before five min
utes were over, and a fortnight after
ward her husband was at work again
again in his old place.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

one side is an immense chimney.
built outside the walls, the Fireplace
being about ten feet wide and six feet
high. The rooms are small and dark.
owing to the deeply recessed and
small windows, and the ceilings are
scarcely seven feet high. The house
has been somewhat modernized, the
assures in the walls being no longer
visible. and the fireplace has been
boarded over. the house being the
Stone House Farm headquarters, hut
it remains one of the most interest
ing relics of a past generation to be
found in this country.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
A MONUMENT TO OUR DEAD.
SHAFT to BE Erected 10 the Victims Of the
CHILEAN Outrage.

Shaft to BE Erected TO the Victims OF the
CHILEAN Outrage.
On October 16 last, says the Utica
Globe. an event occurred in the streets
of Valparaiso that led to critical dip
lomatic relations between the United
States and Chilli. 1t was the shame
full attack made by Gillian sailors,
and for that matter by Gillian police,
upon a portion Of the crew of the
United States cruiser Baltimore. One
Of the crew, G. w. Riggin, was stab
bed and shot, Instantly dying, while
another attache of the vessel, Will
lam Turnbull, was SO injured that he
died nine days later. AS q perpetual
tton of the memory Of their shipmates
and also as a record of the deed, the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

tIldO DOuy. fTcSl.
dent Barrios, in 1876, appointed Lain
fiesta Minister of the Interior, and
later Minister of War, from both of
which positions he resigned to retire
to private life. He was reappointed
Minister of the Interior in 1889. Dur
ing the eventful period following April
2, 1885, he and his companions in the
Cabinet maintained energetically the
constitution, and on April 5, when
General Barrundia endeavored to Sc
cure the Presidency by a coup d'etat,
he was foiled by the active interven-
tion of Lain1esta.
Mr.. Lainflesta is very popular in
Guatemala, and has published a vol
ume of poems and other works that
have gained for him a high placein the
literary world. He will be inaugura
ted March 4.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA.
o,o0o, 900 Persons Almost Starving
Taxes the Primo Cause of the Disaster.


The famine now ravaging in Russia
extends to eighteen provinces. the
area of which is equal to that of
France, Belgium and Switzerland to-
gether, and the population of which
is about forty millions. In six prov
inces the famine is partial, in the
other twelve complete. The official
paper, the Journal of Finance, has
announced that twill take IS. 600, 900
bushels to keep the population alive
until the next crop. 1t seems strange
that all the facts concerning the inn
pending famine were known to the
government in June and July. for the
zemtvas, or district assemblies, had
made complete reports at that time
of the failure of the crop, and in the
light of the latest events it is seer
that their figures were correct, their
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
strychnlne for sn.k, Rite.

A curious instance of one poison
killing another is reported from
Yackandandah, Victoria, where
strychnine cured a snake bite. A
solution of nitrate of strychnine in
$40 parts of water, mixed with a
little %glycerine, was prepared and
twenty minims injected hypodermic-
ally at intervals of ten or twenty
minutes with good results.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

The greatest curse in the world is
jealousy. Nine out of ten domestic
troubles originate in it. More than
half the murders in the world arc
committed through its influence. 1t
is a guest that no man or woman who
ever entertained, could afterward
get rid of. Institutes should be
opened to cure those afflicted with it,
for 1T ruins more homes than drink.
1t is the shadow that follows love.
and the happier and more blessed
the love makes you, the darker and
more cursed the cloud of jealousy will
leave you.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
1T BELONGED TO COLUMBUS.
A BELL as Old as the Discovery of the
New World.

A Bell as Old as the Discovery of the
New World.
The African NJ. E. Church, OF Ha-
leyville, Cumberland County, n. j..
has perhaps the oldest bell on the
continent and one with a most re-
markahle history.
In 1892, after Isabella and Ferdi-
nand wrested Granada. one of the
richest cities in Spain, from the
Moors, the celebrated mosque of the
Alhambra was turned into a Chris
tian temple and several bells were
cast and placed there to call the
faithful to prayers. In 1902 Isabella
presented one of these bells to Column
bus upon his departure for America
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

temperature is raised to dull red heat.
and the platinum, being reduced,
covers the glass tube with IL brilliant
metallic coating. Connecting the tube
thus mctallically coated to the mega
tive pole of a battery of suitable ener-
gy, 1T. is placed in a bath of sulphate
copper. A ring of copper is deposited
upon the platinum, and strongly adj
heres thereto If the operation has
been properly carried out.
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1t is impossible to save her. There
were 395 people ON board when she
struck.
GUArEMALA's NEW PRESIDENT,
A Ma of Ability and Literary Attain
lnents.

A Man of Ability and Literary Attain-
ments.
The recent election in the republic
of Guatemala has raised to the Presi-
DENTAL chair a man of much ability
and great literary attainments-Fran-
cisco Laintlesta.
The successor to President Barillas
will be remembered best as the Qua
temalan Minister at Washington dur
ing Mr.. Clevcland's administration.
He was born in Salania, Guatemala,
in 1887. and after preliminary educa-
tion studied law. From his youth he
was an ardent defender of liberal
principles, and Travelled extensively
in this country. studying our system
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Hut IL Can,t Re Proxed.

If a we'll would be dug to the
depth of forty-six miles, the density
of the air at the bottom would be as
great as that of quicksilver. BY the
same law a cubic inch of air taken
1000 miles above the earth's surface
would expand sufficiently to fill q
sphere 1900, 600, 900 miles in diam
efpr.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Ballroom Shoes.

The shoes worn with ball dresses OF
any full evening toilet are now made
of the same material as the dress,
with a ribbon rosette or pompon, and
the points embroidered in beads, or
fine mordore kid, with the points en-
broidered with the same colored silk,
and metal beads.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
A Frenchman's Ingenuity.

A Frenchman has invented a new
and ingenious FRACTIONAL machine.
Mercury is forced by means of a
pump through the pores of a piece of
chamois, and electricity in consider.
able quantities is generated by the
friction.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Abduction In Ancient Times.

Abduction vas by no means UNI
common in the early ages. The.
daughter of the king of Argus was
abducted by Il Phenician, and the
Greeks carried off Europa from Tyre
and Medea from Colchis.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
HeaYY RAlies.

At a recent family reunion in Mis-
souri,, two unusually fat babies were
proudly exhibited by their fond par
rents. The eldest, aged five years,
weighs lO7 pounds. and the Youngest,
aged two and one-half years, weighs
ninety-three pounds.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
DO You Notice It:

A man weighs less when the ba-
rometer is high, notwithstanding the
fact that the atmospheric pressure on
him is mt than when the barometer
is low. AS the pressure of air on an
ordinary-sized man is about fifteen
tons, the rise of the mercury from 90
to 81 inches adds about one ton to the
load he has to carrv.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Great Snakes.

The Japanese believe in serpents
500 feet long, and large enough to
swallow an elephant: foxes with eight
legs, monkeys with four ears. fishes
with ten heads attached to one body,
the flesh of which is good for boils.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
THE Elder.


People Were Imperiled.
The steamer Elder, of the North
German Lloyd line, which went
ashore on the Atherfield rocks, on the
west of the Isle of Wight, two weeks
ago, is still on the rocks, not having
yet broken mp. All the cargo has
been removed, including the SO, 6OO,-
600 In silver bullion. The Elder, an
iron screw steamer, was built at Glas-
Cow in 1889, and measures $50 feet in
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Good WAY

When the japanese hitch a horse
in the street they accomplish it by
tying his forelegs together.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
American Corn I'm Europe

At Dresden they are baking an
American corn bread that is finding
much favor and is much cheaper than
their ordinary bread. A pound costs
q trifle over 3 cents.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
A Grand Tomb.

The grandest tomb in the world is.
without doubt, the Tai Mahal, or
Crown of Empires, at Agra. 1t is an
octagonal building of the purest white
marble. the interior being decorated
with inlaid work of precious stones.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

details accurate. Their requests for
immediate aid were lost in a tangle
of red tape, and in consequence half
of the provinces we're left without
seed, and in the other half the stary-
ing peasantry were compelled to util-
lie the seed grain for food.
Taxes are the prime cause of the
terrific disaster that has come over
Russia. What would Americans saw
to a tax of As to IS per cent. on pro-
duction, paid under the lashes of the
knout to the Russian Government.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Am Island.

In recent years a number of expe-
ditions, scientific and commercial,
have touched at Nova Zembla, but
the island is still little known, and
even the greater part of it's coast
line is not yet accurately laid down
on the maps.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Better than ~Telegraphy.

Recently between Tewkesbury and
Cheltenham, in three minutes, 700
words were sent to a newspaper office
and correctly received over a tele-
phone wire.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Britain's Crown In Pawn.

The valueol the crown of England.
exclusive of the cost of the metal, is
f1OO, 600. 1t has been four times in
pawn; once for e2, 600 only. \.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

Melbourne, Australia, which was
founded less than fifty years ago, has
now a population of $780, 900 and is
the fifth city in size in the British
Empire.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
A VERY L U
tt Is Said to BE the olde.. in III. United.
States, and Stands In Guilfcrd. Conn.

States, and Stands In Guilfcrd, Conn.
What is probably the Oldest house
In the United States stands in a good
state Of preservation in the pleasant
village of Guilford, Conn. Besides
its antiquity, says Frank Leslie's, the
structure is extremely interesting
from its novel construction. Gull
ford-then called Observation-Disclosures
settled in 1889 by a party from Eng
land, headed by the Rev. Henry Whit
field. and the stone house was bulls
in that year, SO that it is now over
two hundred and flfty-two years old.
The walls are of stone, some four feet
in thickness, and plastered inside and
out, narrow assures being left in
them through which muskets were
pointed at the redskins. The timbers
and tioor-boards are of massive oak,
hewn out with primitive tools. On
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
A Monkeys Umbrella.

To protect itself from the rain the
orang-outang crooks his arms over it's
head. The hair IN the orang's upper
arm points downward. while on the
lower arm it points upward, the ap-
parent purpose being to shed the rain
like Il thatch.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

A CINCINNATI engineer crawled into
q fiue of an engine the other day to clean
1t, an act he was in the habit of doing.
The cold water at the bottom chilled him
so that he could not extricate himself.
Twelve hours later he managed by great
effort to get out more dead than alive.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Good Combination.

Strawberries and mosquitoes are
said to be plentiful in the neighbor-
hood of Mount st. Elias, the region
of perpetual ice and snow. Along
the edge of the glacier is a strip Of
luxurious vegetation, where straw
berry vines cover the ground for
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

of public schools
and seeking to Sc
cure A m
teachers for t h
of Guate-
mala. He was a
member of the Ma
Assembly
from 1873 to 1883,
and was for several
terms President of
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
It Would Seem So.

II an S and an 1 and an o and a U,
With an X at the end, spell Su;
And an f and a Y and an E spell I,
Pray what is u speller to do?
Then, II also an S and an / and q
And an II, E, d spell eide,
There's nothing much left for q speller to dc
But to go n commit siouxeyesighed.
-Pearson's Weekly.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
An Old Pensioner.

India has a priest who is drawing
a pension and is in his one hundred
and flfty-sec0nd year.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25


Mr.. Aldrich is an
Indiana man, just
a little over forty
years old, and was
graduated from
Ann Arbor. He
practiced first in
Fort Wayne, Ind.,
and came to Chi
cago six years ago,
where ho hoe nj.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
STRAIGHT Shot.

A railroad in the Argentine Repub.
lie has n stretch of 21l miles with
out a curve or a bridge.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
G. II. ALpRlcA.

The Chicago Man Appointed to Be So
HECTOR General.
The new Solicitor General to sue
coed Mr.. Taft, who has been made a
Judge of the Federal Court of Ap-
peals. is C. FL. Aldrich. of Chicann
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

officers and men of the Baltimore nave
resolved to erect a monument in the
British cemetery at Valparaiso.
Standing ten feet high, the base and
O will be of pure white marble.
A bronze railing of nautical design
will surround the monument.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

ready made a reputation for ability
and t~horoughness in his profession.
He attracted the attention of the
President by his arguments for the
Government in the Pacific Railroad
telegraph cases. Both State and
Federal Judges in Illinois speak of
Mr.. Aldrich in high terms Of COM
mendatiOn.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

length, with a beam of AZ feet. She
has compound engines and was built
with " air-tight bulkheads. At
the time she struck Capt. Heincke
commanded her. She was valued at
about 500, 900 and was fully insured.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Now There Are 1, 400

A century ago there we're only
fourteen newspapers in London.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
Wording eA.s and Porcelain to Met.l..

e-O y QQ0l8lHs
NJ. C%ailletet, according to the Lon
don Electrical Engineer, has commu-
nicated to the Societe de Physique a
method Of Welding glass and porcelain
with metals, which may prove cx-
tremely useful for instruments of re-
search or for any metallic fitting,
such as taps, communicating tubes,
conducting wires, etc., SO as to avoid
all leakage, even under high pressure.
The process OF welding is very sim
pie. A portion of the tube to be
welded is covered with a very thin
coat Of platinum. To obtain this de-
posit it is sufficient to paint, by
means of a small brush, the slightly
warmed glass with completely neu-
trail chloride Of platinum, mixed with
essential oil of camomile. The es-
sence is made to evaporate slowly,
and when the white and colored va
Dors have ceased to be given of, the
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25

THE Eternal City must be a Rome.
antic spot during the carnival .-Bing-
hamton Republican.