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and points north
NEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRAINS
leave Wilmington :?.J6 night, and $50 p. m
daily. and II % a. m. 6.i5 .. N. week days
leave TewCastle Il $50 a. m and 1914 p. m.dsilJ
andl ", and IKE p. M. week days.
NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA AND NOR
FOLK II. X.
Leave Philadelphia. Old Point Express. II, p.
m daily. Baltimore 6.45 =. IN. Wilmington l2Ol
A n stopping at Dover aud selmar regularly, ana
81 Middetown, Clayton, Wyoming, Feiton, har-
Fihgt0n, BrldgeUlle, Seaioru ana Laurel 70 ieaVe
;lassengers from Wilmington and points north. or
lake on passengers for pOiA d south or Deinar.
N0rth-bUund trains leave DelInar lea M, dally
Dover $50 o. IN. regularly, arriving Wilmington
4lba IN Baltimore D. 40 d. me-, and Philadelphia
$40 Il m and leaves Denar al 2.SO p M, week
days arriving at Wilmington 500 p. IN, Philade!-
phia 5.j3 p m, baltimore 500 p H., stopping at
princiDal intermediate stations.
The 1.U5 a. m. tram also stops al SeafOrd Bridge
Vile Harrington, FELTON,, WyOinlng, CLAYTON ana
MiddletUwn 10 leave passengers from polAls soutH
OF Delnar or take on passengers from " lliulhst9h
aRd poiRts ROrth. AlsS stops GU signal az laurel
BRANCH ROADS.
v,s,AwARE MARYLAND 4 VtRgININ II. R.
leave Harrington for franklin and way stations
loss . ~, week days, 90 p m. Tuesdays Thurs
days and SaJurdAys, Returning train leaves
FRANKLIN 6.5J n. m, week days, s.O0 - m-' tues
days Thursdays aud Saturdays.
Leave Harrington tor Georgetown aud Lewes a
1O3S a. m. SIS p. III. Returning, leaves Lewes
7.4On. N, $50 p. n.
For Rerlin, leave Harrington ls55 q. M and
g35 D. m. Returning, ieaye Berlin 7.O2 a. m, s53
p. m. week days
QUEEN ANNE q KENT Il. R--Leaye Townsend
for CentreWlle and way stations 30 d. N. and |
5.35 p. m. week-daYs. Re urnlng' leave Center
gile 2 30 a. M, and } W D, Week days
DEL. 4 CHESAPEAKE X. R.-Leaye Clayton for
oxford aud way stations at IL n. and BOB : |
Sd. weekdays. returning, leave oxford J.5d a. N /
aud $40 y. IN. weekdays,
CAMBRmeE & SEAFoRD X. R.-l.eaTe Ssafor.
for cambridge ana intermediate stations at il.sJ /
a. H. week days. and On Tuesdays, Thursdays,and |
Saturdays III p. m. ReturHing' leave Cambridge /
d .sOa n. and on Tuesdays, THURSDAY, and sat
nrdaYs 3UU p. ia
CHAS. E. PU3H, General Manager.
J. r. WOOD. General Passenger Agent
d. NJ. 81 V. BRANCH.
Como NORTH so1HG SOUTH
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There are now 05,0o7 postoffices 10 the
countryside highest number ever reached.
New York woman at the opera wore q
necklace Of five and ten dollar gold pieces.
Worry is a fruitful source Of misery ami
the prime cause Of premature breaxdowns
The combined debts Of all the nations in
sne world aieount TO more than $4,000.
A farmer in Dallas county, Ala, makes
delicious wine from the juice Of water
melons
Coalbrookdale bridge, England, is the
first cast iron bridge ever built. It was con
ssisetea in lss9
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India ser - two dollars a month.
eutenants do not always make
good captains
Pope, like William III, was fond of land
scaps gardening
Only the quiekening Of conscience can
hasten repentaace.
To take out tar rub repeatedly with
spirits Of t0rpentine
a man says woman Is a creature with
long hair and short ideas
Milford chronicle., 1892-05-27

The readers Of the CHRONICLE will Be
pleased to learn that there is at least ps +.
dreaded disease that science has been abi
TO cure IN all its stages. and that is catari
Halls catarrh Cure is the only positive ca'
now known to the medical fraternity. 81
tarTh being.a constitutional disease, requ :
a constitutional treatment Halls cataii 4
Cure is taken Internally acting difectlyn 1
the blood and mucous surfaces Of thes
TEN, thereby destroying the foundation Of 8
disease, and giving the patient strength ~
building up the constitution aud assist, q
nature Ia doing It's work. The propriets-s
have so much faith in its curative pow.
that they Offer One Hundred Dollars for a..,-
's'se that It fails 10 cure. Send for list oftes-
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w. g. B. Railroad
DELAWARE DIVISION.

On and after January 18th, 1892 Sundays
exeeDled) trains will leave as follows.
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Aud how much sufTt red Is eF..sa
70 describe. Thst-tJathsmne disease.
eauarrh, caused tie ahove, aud tile
ioctors said lhey could rot relieve me
| paid hundreds Of dollars. for whiah
received no benefit. git more goal
from two bottles OF Sulphur Bitter
than from ihenopsy paid 10 doctors.
shall continue Tie Sulphur Bitters
as 1 have great faith that they win
cure me.-S. ~ Day, n Hano0ey 81.
Boston,
Milford chronicle., 1892-05-27

The best sslve in the worId TOT Ouss. DrsS.s
sa,ss. Uleers sali Rteaas. Fever sor.s, Tettei.
Osapped Hands Chilblniss, Corns, snd all s.aa
emotions. and positively cures Piles. or DO pay
required. Il Is guaranteed to give periecs satis
faction, OF money refunded. Price Is cts. ia
COX For saie 0p G. W. MARsHALt Druggist.
Milford chronicle., 1892-05-27

You Sabbath school teachers ought to
have more vi the dramatic element 10
your Instructions by graphic Scripture
scene, by anecdote, by descriptive gesture,
by impersonetion, urge your classes to
right action We want in all our schools
ind colleges and prayer meetings, and IN
all our attempts at reform, and in all cur
churches, 70 have less OF the style didactic
and more Of the style dramatic.
Fifty essays about the sorrows Of the
poor could not affect nie az .yttle drama
Of accident and suffering ! saw one slip
perry morning in the streets of Philadel
phia- Just ahead Of me WAS a lad, wrelchptl
in apparel, his linhapputated 81 Tie knee.
from the paN3r Of the boys check the am
putation not long before He had a pack
age Of broken food under his arm food Be
bad begged suppose. % the doors AZ
be passed on over tho slippery pavement
cautiously and carefully. steadiel bin (
antil his erutch slipped and he fell. !
helped him up rs well as ] could, gathered I
up the fragments Of the package as well rs
/ could, put them under one arm and the /
crutch under the other arm. but when \
saw the blood run down bis pale cheek
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princely fortune from the profits of his sew
eral inventions, and Is now at work upon
what he calls kite of war, and which he
believes will solve the problem Of aerial
navigation.
The First Sleeping Car.
No single thing has contributed more to
the comfort of modern life than the Pull
man car. Its inventor, George NJ. Pullman,
worked out the details of his invention
while merchant in Colorado, in 1859. In
1864 he carried his idea to Chicago, aud en-
ployed a master car builder of the Alton
road at a salary of 500 per month to su-
perintend the construction OF model car.
The inventor was determined that it should
be the handsomest car in all respects that
had ever been made in the country. He
came on to New York and here happened
to meet the artist who had just decorated
the house OF Samuel j. Tilden. He at once
closed with this artist, took him West, and
set him at work decorating the car.
When the "Pioneer" was finished it had
cost the extraordinary sum of $4,000, a
large price even now for a sleeping car. 1t
was wonder to everybody. II was just as
Mr.. Pullman had expected. The beauty of
the finish and the marvellous innovation he
had made were advertised far and near by
the newspapers and by railroad men, and
some of the latter began to believe that the
ideas of the inventor, after all, were prac-
ticable The 'Pioneer" was in process of
building for a whole year. The assassins-
tion OF Lincoln occurring at this time, it
was suggested that the "Pioneer" be used
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Lauth one day In examining some steel,
which 1t was supposed had been spoiled in
the rolling, discovered, greatly to his sur
| prise that it was OF a superior quality and
finish. He began quiet investigation, and
| as a result perfected what is known az the
| cold-rolIed process. The invention yielded
the inventor and those who were interested
with him millions of dollars.
After Bernard Lauth, George Westing-
house il probably the best known Of Pitts
burg inventors Fame and fortune came to
Mr.. Westinghouse through the invention of
the airbrake. Westinghouse was born in
the central part of this State and after re-
ceiving common school education served
an apprenticeship in his fathers machine
shop. One day he heard that splendid op-
portunities awaited bright and energetic
young men at Pittsburg, and set out for
that city. On the way the train in which
he was riding was wrecked and a number of
the passengers were killed. Inquiring the
cause of the accident, he was told told that
it had resulted from failure of the brakes
to work properly. This set him to think
Ing, and he resolved to construct brake
that would respond instantly to the de-
mands made upon it. After two or three
years of labor and investigation he COM
pleted the now famous Westinghouse air
brake.
The Most Famous Of AL
A hundred electrical inventions have
made Thomas Alva Edison the most cele-
brated inventor of his time. His phono-
graph is the wonder of the world, and one
of the few inventions which enyious and
disappointed rivals have not charged Edi-
son with having stolen. In fact, even his
bitterest competitors for tame, all of whom
appear to harbor the idea that it is their
due to detract from his reputation for
genius and honesty, as a rule concede that
Edison did really invent the photograph.
How he came to invent it is a most inter-
esting story. Here it is as it was told to
me by well-known electrician not long
ago
''Many years ago." said my informant,
when Edison was still at MenIo Park and
working night and day for fame he devoted
months to perfecting the telephone, and un-
doubtedly did more than any. other in
ventor to make it practical by introducing
the carbon plate into the transmitter.
While experimenting on diaphragms for
the telephone Edison had constructed a
number of small sheepskln drum heads to
test their value as diaphragms as compared
with metal and other substances To some
of these sheepskin diaphragms he had at
tached small metal needle, which was in
tended to project toward the magnet and
assist in conveying the vibration
caused by the human voice. The
sheepskin diaphragms did not fulfil
Edison's expectations and he discarded
them. and, as usual with appliances he de-
cides to be useless, they were thrown aside
to be removed with other rubbish. His
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wealthy merchant of Cincinnati, to Wash
ington to persuade the Government to in
troduce them. He took them to Baltimore,
where he left u, and went with the other
TO Washington. The Chief of the Ord
nance Department at the time was an old
fogy. He received him coldly, told him
be had no faith in his gun, and that he be-
lieyed fint-lock muskets were, on the
whole, the best weapons for warfare In
short, he would have nothing to do with
him. NV partner then left Washington and
returned to Baltimore. Ben Butler was
there with his troops He had heard of
the guns, and he asked to see them work.
"As soon as be had done so he said he
would buy them on his own responsibility
and did SO, giving his voucher for Sf2, 900
for them. My partner had this cashed, but
Et this time there was a great fall in pork,
and $4,000 hogs which he had packed in
Chicago with the expectation of a rise had
to be sold. In a word, the break in the
market ruined him, and nv money went
with him So, for the first 20 guns L had
made at great cost to myself, 1 received
nothing. Ben Butler took the guns he had
bought with him to the battle of Peters
burg and fired them himself upon the rebels
They created great CONSERVATION and slaugh-
ter and the news of them went all
over the world Now they are used
bv all the leading Governments of Europe
and also in Asia and Africa They en-
abled the Prussians to conquer Austria
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TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION

BY Order of the Consignors Who Want
Their Goods Turned Into Cash at Once
The Remaining Overcoats and suits
Saved From the Eft. Wayne Wreck VIII
Be Sold at Public Auction to the High
est Bidder at 3O5 Smithfield Street
Sale Starts Monday Morning at O'Clock
Having failed to dispose of all the goods
saved from the Ft. Wayne wreck, as was our
intention, we have orders from the con-
signors of the fine clothing stock to give the
Pittsburg public sale, the equal of which
has never been known in the history of this
city. Commencing Monday morning at 9
O'Clock the goods that e still have on hand
will be sold at public auction to the highest
bidder. 1t has never been the good fortune OF
the people of Pittsburg and the surrounding
country to have a sale of this kind, SO we
invite special attention of the enterprising
community to this auction sale of fine suits.
overcoats and pants as a golden opportunity
and q sale that should receive the attention
of everybody who wants to buy clothing.
Commencing Monday morning at 305 Smith
field street this great auction sale will start
promptly at O'Clock and continue
is disposed Of The public will finu
this without exception the largest
and handsomeSt stock of clothing ever sold
at auction and better assorted stock than
can be found at any retail house in this
vicinity. The stock consists OF mems suits
OF the finest imported and American
worStedS, cheVlots, meltonS anu casSimereS
in square cuts, sacks and cutaways, also
Prince AIDerts and 5000 oyercoats and ul-
sters of the finest chinchilas Irish frieze,
fur beaver, Montagnacs, chevIots, Carr's
melton, in all the most fashionable styles
manufactured all to be sold at public auc-
tion to the highest biader, commencing
Monday morning at O'clock ut 305 Smith
field street. In order that every purchaser
shall be satisfied we will have q number OF
experienced clothing men On hand to see
that every article you buy fits perfectly.
Sale starts nt A. NJ. and will continue until
9 o'clock at night, 305 Smithfeld street.
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MUSICAL MATTERS
CARL sTAsNY. sOLOIST, AT THE sY1n
PHONY CONCERT.

Another Instance In Which the ArtfsA
Grand Henry E. Miller Piano pfvided3
the Honors With Q Great Pianist and
the World Renowned Boston Symphony
Orchestra.
BosroN, Oct. Is, 1se2-Director Nfkisch5
gave the symphony concert patrons ample
food for thought last evening as he pre1
sentcd programme OF three WORKS, all of'
which we're unfamiliar to local musicians
The overture to Reinecke's opera, "Man-
fred" opened the programme, and bad 81
first hearing here. It is certainly an excelf
lent composition in the modern style, WHOM
does not bear the imprint OF Wagnerlsna
tendencies, the ideas having in some ways
the characteristics OF Schumann in his clear
est and most melodious mood, while the
scoring is of the Mendelssohn style The
piano concerts Tor, more properly, fantasia
with orchestra) by Saint Saens, No. 4, In .;
minor, was the work selected by Mr.. Carl
Stasny for his first appearances here witnt
orchestra, and the remarkable success at
tending his performance just1fied his choice
OF it. In his playing Mr.. Stasny was aided
in his efforts by a fine miller Grand, and
proved himself a singularly clear ana intel-
ligent Interpreter OF this brilliant French
composer. He has clear, clean ana SYM
pathetic touch, with ample and weltcon-
trolled power, his technical attalnments are are
equal to the most intricate difficulties of the
modern school and the artistic manner IN
which he performed the piano score OF the
concerto instantly arrested attentlon ano
gave the player an audience in sympathy
with his methods. In bringing forward tne
Tschaikowsky Symphony No. s. in minor
as one of the early novelties OF the season.
on this occasion, Conductor N1kiscn sdued .
most notable work to the orchestra repor-i
toire. and one which is worthy of more than
q single hearing. The piano so mucn ao-i
mired in the symphony concerts Is one ot
the Henry F. Miller make, represented IN
Pittsburg by w. q. Whitehill, and all intondr
ing purchasers, as we'll ss the mu-ic-loving,
public in general, are cordially invited 20
WOnQer1ul
ments, shown in the elegant and artistic
display OF the Henry F. Miller pianos at vs.
c. Whitehill's music parlor, l4s Third ave.
nue., opposite the postoffice-
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though the Austrians had the larger
forces, and they shortened the war bv Ger
MANY and France so that it practically
lasted but few days The Gatling guns
are now made in Hartford. in this country,
and in Europe at Newcastle-on- the-Tyne
We sell only to Governments and the
United States uses many of nv guns They
now take part in all wars"
Origin of the Maxim Gun.
Equally curious and equally. interesting
was the origin of the Maxim gun, in rapid
itv of fire and destructive qualities the
most formidable rival Of the Gatling gun.
Hiram S. Maxim, from whose brain il
Uprang, is one of the greatest of living in
ventors, a man of splendid intellect and
suDerabundant energy. Long before he be-
came famous as a gun inventor he had
achieved distinction as an electrician, and it
Is well known that he was narrowly antici-
pated by Edison in the perfecting of the
lncandescent light. "When went South
as & soldier In the ranks many years
sgo," said Mr.. Maxim not long iinee,
and fred my first musket the N-
coil knocked me down. Ever since v
was boy had experimented With tooS
and wood in making little cannon, and
when fell down Q new ides came to me. h
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in the funeral train, and it was run from
Springfield to Chicago on the Alton road.
As had been predicted when the car was
built, it was too wide to rnn on the roads as
then constructed.
1t was necessary for the Alton road to
send along its line and cut off the platforms
that projected, and to make numerous
changes at stations so that the Car, with its
width OF an additional foot, could pass.
Thus the railroads had to make way for the
improvements that the convenience of the
travelling public demanded. Evervwhere
the beauty of the "Pioneer" was talked of,
and it was not strange that soon after, when
General Grant came home, the use of the
car was asked to convey the great hero
from Detroit to Galena The Michigan
Central Railroad was compelled to do pre-
cselv what the Alton road did-cut its
platforms and in other ways make way for
the car-and from this time on the railroads
prepared themselves for the new palace
car.
The Inventor of the Street Car.
The street car is now an indispensable
part of everyday life, but its inventor, John
Stephenson, still lives at a green old age.
respected and honored by all men. Born in
this city, IN the early part of the century,
of sturdy Scotch-Irish parentage, Stephen
sen had served MS apprenticeship and set
up in business for himself as a carriage
builder when the first street railroad COM
pany was organized in 1881 1t was known
as the New York and Harlem Railroad. its
President was John Mason, of the Chemical
National Bank, and the other officers we're
equally well-known men. John Stephenson
was employed by the company to design and
construct vehicle of an entirely original
type, calculated purely for'street car work.
Mr. Stephenson's car, the first street car
ever built, when completed was accepted by
the company and used when the road was
opened November 6, 1882.
For this car Mr. Stephenson received a
patent signnd by Andrew jackson. For 60
years Mr. Stephenson has been engaged in
the construction of street cars. His fac
tory in this city now gives employment to
500 men and turns out "a cars week. The
inventor has received scores of patents for
Improvements in the street car. With the
extension Of the street car idea from Amer
lea to other countries Stephenson's cary
have gone with It. and for many years be
has furnished cars for almost the whole
world. Even the street cars for London
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died, and the management sent in great
haste for nv father to take her place as the
star of the occasion. He was unwilling to
go, being on a professional tour. But as an
emolument of $500 was offered he post
poned his engagement and undertook to ap-
pear. So vast was the auditorium and so
great the audience that he found it ex-
tremelv difficult to make himself heard.
The physical strain upon him was so great
that when he had finished the blood flowed
from beneath his finger nails and from his
mouth for some moments after his perform
ance.
1 think, also, that great deal of my
fathers power came from suffering. While
he was q very young man he went to Paris
to make his way with his violin. There he
met with many and great disappointments,
as is the case with nearly every great artist
at some period of his life. What privations
to know. Vidocq, the great French detect
i've in Paris, said to him one day, "You
look yery sad, Young man. What is the
matter with you?" My fathers answer was
that he had everything stolen from him,
even his violin. Then Vidocq asked him if
he had five franc piece. He then told me
to go to Frascati's and to lay his wager
upon the red color, and that he would win.
He did so and won 800 francs. A lady was
about 10 draw it in when the man at the
counter said, 'fNo, it does not belong TO
you, madam, it belongs to this pale young
man, and off he went with his 800 francs
In his pocket and was happy. This sum
was Ut that time Q large one in Paris, and 1t
was Of great service to my father
The Receipt Of Sac Newa
while hs was playing In Russia tAs sad
Asws Of his fathers death cane t. him
That night the favored people Of b. Pstsrs-
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used to be furnished by him, and cars Of
his make are running to-day in almost
every civilized country
What is known as the cold-rolled process
has worked q revolution in the manufacture
of steel, but, strange to say, its invention
was largely the result Of an accident Its
inventor, Bernard Lauth, who is now living
in retirement at Howard, Pa, is native of
Germany. born in 1920 When he was
about IL years old his parents came to this
country, settling in Pittsburg, where he
found employment in rolling mill He
started at ihe lowest position in the mill
and worked his way through all the differ
ent grades to that Of boss roller.
With the money that he had saved as a
boss roller, in company with seven working
companions he built small iron works at
GAINESVILLE, O., but in 1852 returned to
Pittsburg and opened the establishment,
which has since grown into one of the great
est steel plants in the world. The firm
pame was then Jones and Lauth. Mr..
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wondered if could not put that vigorous
recoil to some use. When went to Lon
don experimental long while and my
gun is the result. The principle is simple.
The cartridges are fixed on long strip of
canvas, whicLS,asses at right angles through
the gun. press button, the trigger is re-
leased, and the first shot is fired. The recoil
Of the gun is all spent in pushing the lock-
piece back against q spring and pulling the
canvas strip SO that another cartridge falls
into its place. AS soon as the lock-
piece touches the spring it is re-
leased again. Another shot is fired
and the recoil pushes it back again, and
SO It keeps up as long as 1 hold my finger
on the button, or as long as there is single
cartridge in the strip. OF course, there are
many details of mechanism, but that is the
principle of the thing. There are 3SS rounds
on each canvas strip. and the gun fires at
the rate of ten a second, or about 500 a min
ute. The Russian army has 1000 rounds
on q strip" Mr.. Maxim has secured