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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-04
To BE Recoined with the New Designs.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2.-The Director of
the Mint will inauRurate the new year by
the issue of the new silver coins, half dol
lars, quarter dollars and dimes. bearing
the new designs. The mint at Philadelphia
started on the coinage of these pieces to-
day, and the mints at San Francisco and
New Orleans will start as soon as the dies
reach them. The silver used in this coin
age will consist of the uncurrent silver
coins now in the treasury awaiting recoin-
age. and the coinage will be continued
until the balance of the approximation
available for recOlnaRe, now about So, 600
has'been exhausted. The director hopes to
recoin at least 100000 of the unonrrent
coins in the treasury into the new CONS
under existing appropriations, and when 1t
is exhausted Congress will be urged to
make deficiency appropriation to con-
tinue this coinage. The new pieces will
be transferred from the mint to the treas
ury at Washington and the different SUBJ
treasures as rapidly as coined. so that
they may be distributed in all parts of the
couatry and the public get acquainted
with them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-04

MARCY has the best stock of jewelry.
MARCY heads the jewelry trade this year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-04
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL

paper gives miscellaneous literature the
editions often twenty pages
nety of
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05
A Lawyer IIumorist.

The late Mr.. Edward Kent Karslake was
an admirable lawyer, and might have made
great name II he had taken to his work
seriously. But this was just what he was
unable to do. His love Of humor was al
most greater than his desire to achieve a
forensic victory. This failing somewhat
irritated the judges, who also grew i'm
patient ut his classical illusions. which lie
introduced into the dullest and most tech
nical cases with a cleverness which even
they were wont to acknowledge. In open
ing case before the late Vice Chancellor
Hall he said:
This, my lord, is short cause" which
the judge fully appreciated Mt the end of
Mr.. Karslake's two days speech. Like
his brother. Sir John karslake, he was n
very tall man, and related how reporter,
describing the attorney generals appear
ance, innocently wrote, 'Sir John Kara
lake then rose mt great length to reply."-
London Tit-I}its.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05
Antiquity OF Death Masks.

Although there is no mention of death
masks in the works of Homer, or in any of
the later classics, recent explorers have
satisfied themselves that in the early
burials Of all nations it was the custom to
cover the heads and bodies of the dead
with sheets OF gold SO pliable that they
took the impress Of the form, and not in.
frequently, when in the course of centuries
the embalmed flesh had shriveled or fallen
away, the gold retained the exact cast of
the features. Schliemann found n number
of bodies covered with large masks OF
gold plate in repousse work." several OF
which have been reproduced by means OF
engraving in his "Mycene," and he asserts
that there can be no doubt whatever that
each one Of these represents the likeness OF
the deceased person whose face it covered.
Laurence II luton in Harper's.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05

were Hawthorne, Longfellow, Cilley, Alb
bolt, Little Cheever and several other dis
tin0uished men. OF his children but one.
a son, survives.
In 1880 he located in Augusta as law
yer, editing for some time Democratic
paper called the Maine Patriot. In 1885 he
was elected county attorney, which office
he hold four years. He was delegate to
the Baltimore convention In 1874 and after
wards took the stump for Mr.. Polk, doing
effective work throughout the campaign
He was elected a United States senator In
1916.
While in the United States senate his
seat was next to that Of Jefferson Davis.
Mr.. Bradbury speaks of him as n remark
able man. and while there they Were fast
friends.
In 1883 Mr.. Davis WINS making tour Of
the north for his health and was the guest
of Mr.. Bradbury for several days
II littlo thought what would happen in
few years." says Mr.. Bradbury 1.-THE
State Agricultural society was holding n
fair in this city at the time, and by request
of many of the members Mr. Davis deliv-
cred an address ut the statehouse. It was
mastery production. full of patriotic
sentiment. and Mr.. Davis received the
thanks Of the whole society"
OF the great men in the senate with Mr..
bradbury only four, Alpheus Felch. Of
Michigan; George w. Jones. of Iowa; Rob
ert G. Winthrop, Of Massachusetts. and
Hamilton Fish. Of New York, are alive
today. Fetch was native of Maine, and
he and Mr.. Bradbury began the study Of
Virgil together at the Limerick academy
In 1910, and both entered the senate at the
came TINA
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05

zle, ready for work by the time the water
is turned on. After being used at fire
the hose should be suspended upon hooks
along the side of the house in order that it
may dry out and prevent it from rotting
An engine or hosehouse should be central
ly located and easily accessible from all
directions, and should be substantially
constructed building, although they are
too often mere sheds, with inefficient &C
commodat!on and totally devoid of COM
fort
Here Ia a hosehouse which was erected
in village OF 1900 inhabitants 1t is of
good size, with pretty front, and would
become nm ornament to any rural village.
In the first story is ample room for two
hose carts, with plenty of wall space for
drying out the hose when required. A side
staircase in the rear leads to the assembly
room above, with an entrance ON the side
street, sheltered by neat hood, rs shown
In the second story Is large assembly
room, suitable for n meeting place for the
company, or for entertainments when de-
sired. The assembly room has strongly
constructed floor, calculated to support
$50 pounds per square foot The side walls
and ceilings Of the assembly room are
sheathed with yellow pine.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05
Big Oxen.

The largest OK in this country that we
have seen any record of was what was
known as tho centennial OK. He was ex-
hibited at the centennial in Philadelphia
IN 1876. He was bred by Samuel Barley,
OF Somerset county, Pa, and was the lar.
gest specimen Of the bovine the world has
ever seen. He weighed 1900 pounds the
day he arrived in Philadelphia. He was
OF mixed stock, being Shorthorn, native,
scrub and Ayrshire, the Shorthorn pre-
dominating. After the close of the exhi-
bition the giant OK was butchered and ex-
hibited AS show beef Mt Philadelphia dur
ing the holidays of 1915.
A Shorthorn steer weighing a. 100 pounds
was slaughtered at Detroit in 1874. A. N.
Meal, of Moberly, No., formerly owned the
largest COW in the world. Mr.. Meal dis
poied Of her in 1883, the Cole Circus COM
pany being the purchaser. She weighed
the day Of sale 3.208 pounds. Mr.. John
Pratt, OF Chase county, Kan, was the
owner Of COW weighing $500 pounds.
She was of the common scrub stock and
stood nineteen hands high. brooklyn Ea-
gle.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05

that of New York city the sun giving
much less heat than on the earth) they
must have the climate OF Labrador till
their March, and then advance to mid
summer heat by the LIST of June.
The Martians have some advantages.
however. AS the planet has n diameter of
but 400 miles and is not SO dense as the
earth, gravity is very much less, and SO n
man of our ordinary strength could there
easily jump sixteen feet high and crack
his heels together dozen times before
coming down. But the greatest curiosities
of Mars are the canals Of Schiaparelli-so
called from the Italian astronomer who
discovered and mapped them. If the dark
parts of Mars are water, rs he thinks, then
the land lies chiefly in broad equatorial
belt around the planet. In short, only the
forrid zone contains any land of conse-
quence, and this is as it should be, human:
ly speaking. for only in that zone of so
cold planet could life at all like ours be
carried on
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05
PEEPS AT A PLANET. :
HOW ASTRONOMERS AREsTRyINe TO
( GET ACQUAINTED WITH MARS.

Tho Boss Results Are Expected from tho
statien Established at Arequipa. Poru.
by Harvard University-somo OF tho
Facts Thought to 10 Established.
Venus is nearest to us Of any Of the pri-
mary planets, but Mars is by far tho most
interesting. The problems connected with
the last were SO numerous that there was
general disappointment when tho recent
reports came in from observatones in the
northern hemisphere. But 1t now appears
that discoveries Of the greatest importance
have boon made in the southern hemis-
phere, and the most satisfactory observa-
tions in tho whole list have been by Pro
lessor William Horny Pickering, Of Har-
ward college, at Arequipa, Peru
BY raro combination OF good Judgment
in locating his observatory, and good for
tune in having favorable weather during
the entire opposition Of Mars, no has sue
ceeded in definitely settling tho disputed
questions as to snow and ice ON the planet
and obtaining important data as to the curl
GUS straits or canals on its surface. Ho has
seen the snow increase on the south pole of
Mars during 'cold snap" and decrease
when the clouds rolled by and the sun
shone direct on the pole. He has located
the parallel mountain ranges and tho In
tervening valley down which the water
flows from tho antarctic SHOWS, and has
located and mapped out those equatorial
mountains on tho SUBMITS Of which snow
occasionally falls.
To say that astronomers wait his full
report with Impotence would DO putting
1t mildly and the results will doubtless
give Harvard the pre-eminence among col
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05
THR AREoUIpA OBSERVATORY.

leRes and Professor Pickering high place
among the worlds great astronomers He
1s very young man, born in 1858, native
or Boston. and brother of Professor Henry
G. Pickering. director OF the Harvard OBJ
servatory and PROTECTOR of the Peruvian
enterprise. Six years ago he was made as.
sistant professor Of astronomy at Harvard
and made such rapid advances in the do
tails Of practical work that he was selected
for the South American station.
In December, 1890, he went to Peru and
has since remained there. Professor S. 1.
Bailey had previously selected the Are
quipa station, which is 5000 feet above
sea level, 100 miles from the coast and two
miles from the city of Arequipa, which
hns $4,000 inhabitants. Professor Bailey
was at work fitting up the observatory
during the civil war In Peru, and looked
down from his station on some of the bat
ties below. In that latitude Mars passes
almost directly overhead during the time
or his closest approach to the earth, and,
what Is Of fur more Importance. the at.
mosphere Is phenomenally clear Hence
the truly gratifying results
Venus at her nearest approach is but lit
tie over 81 ,0OO, 900 miles from the earth, but
as her orbit Is within that of the earth she
ia at that time In line with tho sun. or
nearly so, and cannot be closely studied.
Mars goes around tho sun in Il fraction less
than 6S7 days. and tho earth in a little over
865, from which 1t follows that they must
often be in proximity on the same side of
the sun, but as both have eccentric orbits
there Is great variation in their distance.
their nearest being about IS. 900, 900 and
their greatest about 81 100000. AS the con-
ditions for observation are most favorable
whom Mars is farthest from the sun, 1t fol.
blt ha fnu 10
tion are quito rare. and in apholion the
chances for good view are estimated to
be ~ times as good rs when both arc in
perihelion
The British astronomers labor under
peculiar difficulties, rs they see Mars, so
far to the south Of them when he Is nearest
the earth that his image is distorted by
the vision through so much air as the set
ting sun Is. Nevertheless both they and
the French have secured some very fino
views. and Flammarion's views OF Mars
nre held In high repute. Three Of them
are presented herewith The central one
shows the appearance Of the planet at his
average distance from the earth, that on
the right Mt his nearest and the other at
the greatest distance at which he ia visible.
Observe that 1t is the south pole OF Mars
that is toward us at the nearest approach,
as owing to the planets inclination to tho
plane OF his orbit he is, as it were, tilted
away from u.s. Around the south polo Is a
veritable antarctic region, and as in our
own polar regions the snow line moves
southwark and retedes according to the
changes of the seasons. But here Is the
important difference: AS the earth's In
clination to her orbit is but 23lS dogs. and
that OF Mars is % degs., it results that the
seasons advance and recede much more
rapidly in Mars. Thus if any people live
on the latitude Of Mars corresponding to
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05

A particularly novel theory is advanced
by n writer who expresses the opinion that
steel is liable to be changed by the action
OF time. unaided by any external, mechan-
ical or chemical influence, and in support
OF his view that time alone appears to be
sufficient to produce these changes he
cites several examples OF failures which
have occurred within his own experience,
some fiat steel plates cracking spontane-
ously and others on being tested by drop.
ping. Mention is made of numerous boiler
plates that cracked after the boilers had
been at work for years, and weeks after
the steam pressure had been reduced and
the water run out, and this, too, in face Of
the fact of every boiler being tested to dou-
bic its working pressure when new.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05
MRS. BARD.
I'd. MRS. HAMILTON.

Sho has been n school trustee for many
years in her district, but has never held
political office At the Laramie county
convention, to which she was n delegate
she was unanimously elected delegate to
tho state con-cntion ut Rock Springs, the
remainder Of the delegation consisting OF
fifteen men. There was Il triangular con
test in the convention, and thirty-nine bal
lots were cast before candidate for gov
ernor was named. On the thirty sixth bal
lot, TO vary the monotony, gallant dele
gate nominated Mrs. Bard for governor.
There was great applause, and county after
county cast solid votes for her. Forty-eight
votes only were required to elect, and it was
suddenly discovered that Of this number
Mrs. Bard had thirty-six There was "a
hurried consultation, and the rest of the
delegates united on man, much to the
relief Of Mrs. Bard
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05
LITTLE HoMER's SLATE.

A&er dear old grandma died,
Hunting through an oaken Ghost
In tho attic We espied
What repaid our childish quest
Twas homely littlo slate,
Seemingly Of ancient date.
On its quaint and battered faoe
Was the picture Of u cart,
Drawn with all that awkward graoe
Which botokens childish art;
But what meant this legend, pray,
Honor drew this yesterday"
Mother rccolleoted then
What tho years were fam to hide,
She was but baby when
Little Homer lived and died;
Forty years, SO mother said,
Little Homer had been dead.
This one secret through those years
Grandma kept from all apart,
Hallowed by her lonely tears
And tho breaking of her heart,
While each year that sped away
Seemed to her but yesterday.
So the homcly little slate
Grandma's baby's fingers pressed,
10 memory consecrate,
Lfeth in tho oakcn chest,
Whore, unwilling VIC should know,
Grandma put it years ago.
Eugene Ficld In Chicago News-R Record
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05

The good results of such departments
have extended beyond the limits of cities
until nearly every town and village in the
country has nude some attempt in the d.
rection of organizing fire department..
In small towns and villages these organ.
izations are usually the results of individ.
ual enterprise on the part of some one who
starts subscription among the business
men for the purpose of raising money &c
purchase the necessary apparatus and para
phernalia On nccount of expense, in small
village steam fire engine is out of the
question, but it is always possible to pur.
chase 800 feet of hose and handpump,
hose cart and reel.
When there is system Of waterworks,
with sufficient head to force the water to
the tops of the buildings, very efficient
work can be done in extinguishing fires by
means OF the hose. Upon the sound of the
alarm OF fire the active members of the
hose company Immediately assemble at the
hosehouse, and haul the hose and cart to
the scene of the fire, and while two men
are attaching the hose to the hydrant tho
others reel off the hose and put on the noz.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05
rho PHI onograph I'm n ucncoop.

M. du Haudray, following the method OF
Professor Carriers studies Of the Sirnian
language, has carried his phonograph into
the hencoop. He places it in one henhouse
where the family" are ut home, and when
the receiver has been cackled into for half
an hour it is taken away and made to re-
peat all the gossip in n neighboring hen.
coop. The results of the experiments are
said to be marvelous.-New York Journal.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05

The porcupine climbs the tree as readily
as squirrel would, provided you don't
slip up and cut his tail off while he is going
up. Somehow or other he can't climb the
tree without his tail, nor he won't come
down without it. If you catch one of these
porcupines climbing tree and chop his
tail off he will stop right where he is, and
Will stay there until he starves to death,
unless he is taken away.-Philadelphi
Times
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05


Clay, Douglass,
g ass, Calhoun,
Benton and a host
Of other noted and
Is / n q u 1 8 he'd
men.
Mr.. Bradbury
was born In Par
sonsfeld, June 10.
1902, and entered
Bowdoin college
In 1922, being then
but sew en- t e @ q
years Of age. He
was graduated
from Bowdoin in
lOnE
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05

When child dies in Greenland the ma
tive parents bury living dog with it, the
dog TO be used by the child AS guide tc
the other world.
In south Greenland the color OF the hair
ribbon which n woman ties around her
mead denotes the social condition of the
whether she be maid or wife or
widow
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05

The want of ready method OF dealing
With ashes obtained from boiler fires OF
other source OF heating power SO rs to ex.
tract the unconsumed fuel called "breeze. Is
so that it could be sed over again, has long
been felt. Thousands OF tons of good fuel
are daily thrown away for want of ready
method of cleansing it from the ashes with
which it leaves the MISUNDERSTANDING
Dispatch
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05

The exterior Of the building is sheathcd
and clapboarded in the first story and
shinglcd in the second story and roof
The tripleI windows in the gables, to
gether with the bell tower and other neat
features, give the building very pretty
and picturesque appearance.
The building can be erected for about
1890 d. w. KING.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05
A VILLAGE HosEHousE.

Pretty and Picturesque In Appearance
and w IL Cost About 81, 800.
copyright. 1899, by American Press Associa-
toni
The enormous losses OF life and property
which occur yearly by fire, especially in
largo cities, have resulted in the organisa-
ton OF fully equipped local fire depart.
ments, with all the latest improvements In
the way of fire engines. trucks, trained
horses. hooks and ladders, reels and hose
carts. The dremen are paid n regular sal
airy, and the cost of maintaining the sys-
tenn becomes part of the municipal ex-
penses OF each city. The methods of cleo
trio alarms and the speed with which these
professional firemen reach fire and the
effective work they do are too familiar for
description here.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05
TWO WYOMING WOMEN.
Both Are in Politics. and One Come Nonr
Nomination.

NOminatiOn.
Mrs. l. N. Bard recently had narrow
escape from being the Democratic candi-
date for governor Of Wyoming, and Mrs.
Hamilton. Of Uinta, received the compli-
mentary vote of her own county. Mrs.
Hamilton hns not taken IN active part in
politics, though always voting. but Mrs.
Bard started in with the first women vot-
ers in 1869 and has stuck to it ut the polls,
In caucus and convention.
She is n native Of Utica, N. Y, and went
to Wyoming with her husband in 1868,
when they took up land and set up a
ranch"nbout thirty miles north of Chey-
emo, on the old Deadwood and Black Hills
route. Her husband has always been q
stalwnrt Republican and she an unwaver-
ing Democrat
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05
a Thin Ouerest,

Sunday School Superintendent-Tom
can you tell me why the lions didn't cal
Daniel when he was in their dens
TOMMY guess it must err ben, mister
cause he was like you an hadn't any mea,
On him.-Boston Courier.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05
London,s Big Smoker.

a Mr.. Goodman, of London. made a
wager that he could smoke .eighty-six
cigars down to an inch in less than twelve
hours. He did it with forty-two minutes
TO spare.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05

The mistake of thinking an artistic
fabric is necessarily expensive is fast dying
out. thanks to the more general study OF
the canons OF ART Decorator and Fur
Eisher.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05

John McDarby, of Salmon Falls. Mass.
has double teeth all around and stomach
which doesn't rebel when he chews and
swallows glass, stones and other indiges-
tibleG
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-05
WAS A SENATOR LONG AGO.
A Still Vigorous Maine Man Now Ninety
Years OF Age.

Tho Hon. James w. Bradbury, of Au.
gusta, Me, celebrated his ninetieth birth.
day recently, ana those who chilled on him
wero astonished at his erect form and
manly vigor. The present generation
knows little OF him. but be once occupied
seat in the United States senate with
such mon as Jefferson Dayis. -Wabster