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Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

the upper one little longer. A sim
liar style has the elbow sleeve divid-
ed into four puffs, each one narrower
than the one above it, A style which
the dressmaker claims is eminently
fitted for wash gowns, and which the
laundress vehemently declares is not,
is shown, The sleeve is full to the
elbow and tight below. Narrow dou-
Bile ruffles OF the material, edged with
lace, run from shoulder to wrist,
leaving only the narrowest stripe Of
the original puff visible Still less
to the laundress' liking is the other
sleeve Of the batch. 1t consists Of a
soft puff to elbow and a cape of ruffles
not more than an inch wide from
the shoulder seam half way to the
elbow. In gown with sleeves like
those a girls shoulders seem about
the size of n British generals, and
her waist correspondingly small, so
that sleeves like those hold sway de-
spite laundlesseS.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21
The Oyster Garden of Aroachon

The great oyster garden at Area
chOn. France, is basin on the Bay
of Biscay, connected with the At
lantic only by very narrow opening,
and is sixty-eight miles in circumfer-
ence and protected from winds by the
pine-clad heights that surround it.
The waters are salt enough, and yet
not too strong, the bottom is of the
gravelly sand favorable to oyster
breeding, and the rise and fall Of the
tides are such that the basin is com
pletely covered at high tide and the
beds are largely uncovered at low
water. The oyster has always been
an inhabitant of this spot. The stock
had become nearly exhausted forty
years ago, but has been recruited by
individual enterprise under the en-
enlargement of the government.
There are now twelve thousand five
hundred acres of oyster beds in the
basin. Several thousand men and
women are employed to attend them,
and the average annual sale of oysters
ny UIlS plluClpnl HlLh 10 ONOA OWO
hundred millions. AS the majority
are not sold under two years old, and
these only for relaying, it is computed
that there are usually five hundred
million oysters of various ages upon
these beds. The beds having been
artificially made, the whole process of
oyster-breeding can be witnessed
there. They are laid out in parks,
each park embracing twenty or more
beds. and between the parks, as be-
tween the sections of the beds, are
waterways for the passage of boats.
The beds are made of sand and gray
ell, upon foundations of wooden piles,
and raised above the level OF the
basin bottom, but not to such an eX-
tent as to expose them at other than
low tides. A barrier of "switches"or
nets protects the beds from fishes
Sets of earthenware tiles are arranged
for the recel ton of the young oysters
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21
A Color thermometer.

A decided novelty in thermome.
tiers has been invented by a clever
chemist. 1t is in the form Of a SEN
sitlve paint, which, at the ordinary
temperature, is bright yellow; but,
if submitted to heat, gradually
changes color until at two hundre3
and twenty degrees Fahrenheit it
shows brilliant red. On being
cooled it returns to its pristine hue,
but remains as sensitive as ever. II
this be so, the paint would he in
valuable in hospitals, for example,
where the slightest variation in tenn
perature would be indicated in such
a way as to strike the most careless
nurse. In ordinary dwelling houses,
also, it would have its advantages p
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21
Survival OF q strnnpe Cnstom.

On July Is Of this year, as on July
l3 Of every year since the thirteenth
century, the inhabitants Of the PROV
iuce Of Baretous, In France, including
the mayors of three communes, per-
formed curious ceremony in expia-
tlon of a crime their ancestors
committed more than FIVE hundred
years ago. In those early days the
people Of Baretous fell upon the peo-
pie Of Roncal, in Spain, just across
the border, and massacred thousands
of men, women and children. To-day
their descendants humiliate them
selves before the Roncalese as a token
OF sorrow and regret.
Punctually at 8 o'clock In the
morning the ceremony began. The
Baretous dignitaries, escorted by an
armed detachment, stood at the
frontier, A peasant, bearing a red
pennant as symbol of Justice, was
at their side. At the stroke of the
hour the French mayors advanced,
wearing their Scarfs Of office and
preceded by a peasant carrying a
lance, with a white pennon as flag
of truce. Behind these followed the
peasantry of Baretous, some leading
three white heifers.
"Do you wish peace?" cried the
Spanish mayor of lsaba.
Eyes" replied the Frenchmen.
They laid their lance on the bound
airy stone, The Spaniards planted
theirs on French soil, thea laid it
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21
nlscnyernd hy NInrshnlI.

The question as to the employment
Of silver for currency makes interest
ing some facts in relation to gold, the
other metal used for he same pur-
rose. There is an enormous amount
of gold produced annually, the out
put last year being Sl3S,Sl6,627
Australia furnishes more Of this than
any country, and we come next with
S33, 100000 worth, which is 1870, 800
less than the production OF Austral-
nsia, The most acceptable theory as
to It's hiding places is that gold in
the days when earth was young ex-
listed 10 certain rocks in a finely d.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

lWho first discovered rocks mingled
gold at Suffers Mill, with quartz and
California other minerals.
These are the gold veins and drifts
so frequently described in the mining
nomenclature Of to-day, And 1t is
from this source that the bulk of the
worlds gold is mined at present.
Where these veins have been acted
upon by the evading and disintegrat-
ing forces Of nature the rocky crust
has been broken down and the golden
atoms again concentrated in beds Of
clay or gravel. These are what miners
term "placers."
1t was in the days Of the famous
placer mining that the romance and
story of American and gold mining
lay. 1t was the mining of the forty
Miners" as pictured by the graphic
pens Of Bret Hart and joaquin Miller.
In placer mining 1t was every man
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21
A Flattery.

A famous French glutton, who was
conspicuously overeating at dinner
some years ago, excused himself from
time to time by quoting the poet
Bolleau's well-known line;
"In eating well, l praise the food. )"
"Ah, sir" said one of the guests,
significantly, you carry praise to the
point of fattery."
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21
The We'll of Frozen Air.

Near Dayton, Ore, there is a well
locally known as the "well Of frozen
air." In drilling it a stratum of
frozen clay and gravel was encount-
cred at a depth of tlfty-flve feet.
After passing through five feet of
this, numerous cavities were en-
cOuntered from which cold air came
with sharp gusts. The escape of the
air from the we'll may be heard a
distance of nearly 200 yards, and it
is so frIgid that is not possible for
any one to hold his hand over the
opening for more than few minutes
without having it frozen stiff. Ac-
cOrding to an exchange a bucketful
of water set near the mouth Of the
well will freeze through during one
nights time. 1t is needlessly TO add
that work on the we'll was abandoned
as soon as these frigid blasts found
vent through the opening made by
the drill.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

planum, or smoothing-iron, bending
the back and swaying the body lightly
to and fro, in unison with the mo-
tion of the implement in the hand.
AS the majority of young women are
probably unacquainted with the i'm
plements used in these exercises any
Of the ladies whose names are men
toned above will cheerfully supply
all necessary information.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

vlded and pow
dered condition.
The rock cover
ed vast areas,
by the slow
processes Of ma
lures great lab
oratory the au-
rlferOus atoms
concen ira ted
along planes Of
fracture, the
cracks and hs-
sures in the bed
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21
LATEST THING I'M pELsARTE.
A Practical system OF Physical Training
for American Women.


for American Women.
AS physical training is engaging
the attention and consuming the
time OF young women everywhere
Mrs, Bridget Mcguire, Fraulein
Gretchen Schmidt, Frue Johanna
Blornson, Mrs Dinah Johnseng and
others who stand high in the profession
which these ladies adorn have organ
lied school and prepared a course
of lectures for the purpose of intro
ducing their system Of physical cul-
ture. They are also about to pub.
lsh a book, "The International Sys-
TEN Of Physical Culture Explained"
the advance sheets of which, accord
ing to the New York Sun, are already
out Below we give the principal
exercises peculiar to this system;
/. Take a scopg (the high Latin
name for broom) in the hands, which
should be held at half reach reversed
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

grasp, allo wi ng
the bushy portion
OF the scope to rest
upon the floor and
holding firmly to
the upper end Of
the handle. Bend
the body slightly
forward, give the
arms a horizontal
movement, lift the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

"WHAT city has the largest float
ing populations" inquired the teacher.
"Cork!" answered the bright little
boy at the foot OF the class. Chicago
Trihnne.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

dip into a paste COM
posed of amylon and
aqua pura, that is to
say, pure water, and
allow it to become al.
most dry. Spread on
a smooth surface and
pass quickly over it a
we'll haatpd ferrum
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

EVERY woman admires a man who
can swim and looks with horror at a
boy who wants to learn how. -Atchi
son Globe.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21
THE YELLOW METAL.
FACTS ABOUT BRIGHT AND SHIN
ING GOLD.

Where II IL Found aud How II IL Gotten
Out of the Ground-Dlfferent Methods OF
Mining Employed Historic sutters Mill,
California.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

covered with zinc. Then take some
sort of cloth, souse in the water and
rub briskly on the board. A little soap
will lessen the friction and render the
exercise somewhat more gentle.
5. Take cloth, treated as above,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

place 0bIiQueIy in It,
so that the lower
edge shall rest in the
bottom of the basin
and the upper one
lean against the OPP
posite side, a CORFU
gatedpiece of wood
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

scop9 slightly and move one foot be-
fore the other. Repeat these move
ments until the scope has been
brought in contact with every por-
tion Of the floor.
,. Holding vertically in the hands
a long pole to which bundle Of
feathers has been attached, bend the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

UNDERSTAND Jigson is financially
interested in the concern he is with. "
~Yes; they owe him six months sal
ary."-Westfield Union.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21
SOME NEW SLEEVES.


AullNNt NlhiNNi " fNAAhpH NiAu NHTIOuh
other styles.
Here are some Of the sleeves chosen
by the fashionable women to disguise
the contour Of the arm. The par
tlcularly plain and ungraceful sleeve
is the new gigot 1t is cut in one
piece and gathered down the front
seam. Much pretter and adapted
to soft stuYs is the sleeve, which con-
slsts OF two big pulfs to the elbow,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

b body backward
from the waist,
t brow tine head
well back and ele-
vate the arms I'M
til t h Q feathers
rest lightly against
the ceiling or walls,
Move t he arm S
b Jack and forth,
carefully holding
the pole in posi-
tion. In a similar
exercise, more fire.
ouently practiCed,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

OF keeping quiet one never repents,
OF talking he always does.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

for himself. The miner prospected
until he found what he thought
was pay dirt. Then he staked
his claim and set up his
cradle" a rough wooden box into
which he shovcled the goldhecked
gravel. Upon this he poured water
and rocked his cradle until the water
had run out at the little sideways
at the ends, carrying with it the en-
numbering soil, and leaving the CLINT
ing yellow dust and tiny nuggets be-
hind. These were gathered by hand
and deposited in the buckskin pouch
that formed the sole safe deposit
company of the "forty-niner" and his
kind. 1t was a hard life, but full Of
the fascination Of danger and the
greater fascination Of chance,
The Modern Method.
The days Of individual alluvial dig
ging are practically at an end, The
miner does not now prospect for him.
self, but works for syndicate or
a company of capitalists, which car
ries on business on a gigantic
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

.. Kneeling upon
the floor and grasp
ing a wet cloth in
the hands, bend the
back till the cloth
touches the floor.
Press the hands
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

down firmly, throw the weight upon
the arms, bending them at the ell
bows as the motion Of the hands re-
quires, and pass the cloth briskly
over the surface Of the floor.
4. Fill a large basin with water and
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21
ON SILVER AND GOLD.

The Montana Statue of Justice at tho
Worlds Fair.
The silver statue of Justice in the
Montana exhibit of the Mines and
Mining Building of the Columbian
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-09-21

a shorter pole is used and the feath-
ers are allowed to pass over the diff
ferent objects in the room. But this,
while excellent for the arms and
does not call into play the
of the spine, neck and chest.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-20

or late Senator Irby of South Caro- :
lima has been getting considerable no
toriety of kind that few men occupy
ing place in the highest legislative
body in the country would care for.
The number of Confederate war
claims he has presented and asked to
have paid out of the national treasury
has turned the eyes of thinking people
upon him and they are even yet won
dering when his unrighteous raid will
end.
But he has now another claim on
public attention. He went to Columbia,
S. c., yesterday and after roundly abus-
ing colored cabman drew revolver
and threatened to shoot him. The dis
patch CONSIDERABLY SAYS that friends
interposed and he was led away "to a
resting place."
No doubt he needed a rest. Vinous
fumes had mounted to his brain and
aroused the old southern hatred to the
colored man. What might have been
the result had there been no friends
present to interfere may be easily
imagined especially when, as the dis
patch says, the senator's condition was
such that he will be compelled to appear
before the police court to answer a
charge of drunkenness.
A truly elevating spectacle this-a
senator of the greatest nation on the
globe arrested as drunken brawler
and bully.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-20
FOR THE CHILDREN.


The childhood Of Daniel Webster did NOT
show the man. He was crying baby and
q pale, weak, sickly boy, the slimmest child
In the family. but at manhood he had a
large, stately frame, massive head and an
iron constitution. The change had been ef
fected by working on his fathers farm, In
dulging In outdoor sports and living fru-
gal. temperate life.
So robust and large was his body and 80
impressive was his walk that the coal heav.
ers Of London paused in their work to stare
at him as he passed them.
Sydney Smith hkened him to "a steam
engine in trousers" adding. "Heis a living
lie, because no man ON earth could be as
great as he looked"
Carlyle called him "a parliamentary Her
cules" whom zone would incline at sight
to back against the world"
Perhaps the greatest physical compli.
ment he ever received was that paid to his
mountain of head. When Thorwaldsen,
the Danish sculptor, saw Webster's bust in
Powers studio In Rome, he exclaimed.
"Oh, design for Jupiter, ! seer'
With difficulty he was made to believe
that it was the head of an American
Youths Companion.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-20

White people in New Orleans. that
sanctum sanctorum Of Southern
chivalry, turned out the other day to
hunt down negro who had shot and
killed, justice Of the peace. They did
not succeed in finding their quarry, and
SO they hanged three colored men and
kicked another to death. fr>
The excuse was that it was supposed
the men who were killed knew where
the man the chivalrous whites wanted
to kill had hidden.
It is, of course, unjust to suggest that
these Southerners are mere wanton,
blood thirsty murderers, who killed
simply to satisfy their blood-hunger.
The South protests with great vigor
against such assumptions. 1t pains the
high-toned blue bloods to have 1t insinu-
ated that some hundreds or thousands
of them occasionally sally out and hang
anywhere from one to a half dozen
"niggers" for any purpose but to ad-
vance the general cause OF the uplift-
ing of the human race, and the par
ticular purpose of promoting good feel
ing and racial amnesty in their own
neighborhood.
: 1t is the misfortune of the North that
it cannot perceive the ethical value of
hanging, when it is applied by Southern
whites to their darker skinned men and
brethren. In our cold and calculating
way we assume that human life has a
certain value, and that the rule of
nature that causes its surrender in due
time and under fixed and unalterable
conditions ought to be respected. 1t is
not considered to be the infallible in
sigma Of perfect gentleman to carry a
hempen cord in ones pocket to aid in
the passage to glory of q neighbor.
Doubtless the Northern sense Of honor
has not been cultivated to such a perfec-
tion as impels Southrons to insist upon
hanging somebody when a crime is
committed as the first preliminary to
seeking the criminal. We are slow to
wrath when hanging is the game.
Way down South, however, 1t is diff
ferent. When a crazy or vicious brute
kills somebody nothing will cool the
boiling blood of your genuine son of
Dixie but to gaze upward at the soles Of
the feet Of dangling corpse.
This is the intense. chiyalrous, highly
civilized Southern way Of expressing
allegiance to the doctrine that one Jesus
brought into the world nearly 1900 years
ago.
It is not easy to reconcile, but it is
Southern, and this is a time when South
ern ideas, principles and men are DOM
inant, and the cold, unfeeling North
will have to get along as best it can, and
be satisfied with reading daily about the
hilarious hangings down South.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-20

At Sonneberg. which is in the heart of
Germany, all the inhabitants are in the
business Of dollmaking-12,00 900 people are
all more or less dollmakers--and among
them they produce no fewer than 25, ,000, 600
dozen doll babies every year. 1t is hard to
realize what an enormous quantity that il.
After this it sounds odd 20 say that in
Sonneberg it takes so persons to make q
doll. Yet such Is the fact In Germany
labor is subdivided as much as possible, or.
in other words, dollmaker does one little
thing from years end to years end, and
thus 1t comes about that 1t takes so people
TO make doll.
Little boys, when they enter the Some
berg factories, spend a long time In paint
ing nails ON dolls fingers, for which they
are paid about Is cents week. Some girls
do nothing but fill bodies with chopped hay
or straw. Men pass their lives in painting
Dolly's lashes and brows, and others in put
ing rouge on her cheeks. So 1t is with other
parts of doll; each is done by one person.
The dolls wigs are made by girls at Mu-
Mich, and their eyes come from a little town
only a few miles from Sonneberg and are
made by men in their own homes.
Endless are the varieties of dolls. Every
Sonneberg manufacturer has about 100 de-
signs. Taste varies, and besides in ex-
porting dolla many things have to be taken
into consideration. A wax one cannot be
sent to a very hot or very cold country.
In the former it would melt, in the latter
crack. Then il doll has rubber joints
she cannot be sent long sea voyage, for
on arrival at her destination she would be
armless and legless. A sea journey also
takes the curl out of Dolly's hair and the
starch out Of her clothes Fashion, more
over, is constantly changing. A doll which
everybody buys one season is not looked at
the next.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-20
THE PENGUIN. ,

along on the feet alone, the wings hanging
down like broken arms, the body giving a
half turn at every step and the feet cross
ing each other.
Where penguins are found at all, they
are found In prodfgious numbers, as at the
Falkland islands, where their deep, re-
sonant cries add greatly to the dreary desc
lation of the place. While on land their
habit of sitting together in long rows, with
their blush backs contrasted with the
white breast, gives them ludicrous re-
semblance to an infant school of white
aproned children. The female bird Jays
only one egg, large and Of a grayish white
color. II disturbed during incubation she
will shuttle away at rapid rate, rolling
the egg along between her feet till she
reaches place of safety
The solitary young bird is covered with
fluffy gray wool and is so abundantly fed
by both parents that it soon becomes al
most too fat to move. They feed on cuttle-
fish and various crustaceans. There are
many species of this bird, the crested vari-
ETY. being really handsome, its bright,
golden topknot, which can be erected at
pleasure. giving it very conspicuous ap-
pearance. 1t abounds in dreary Patagonia
and is, like all penguins, very noisy bird.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-20
GETTING TOGETHER.

Mr.. Hugh j. Carroll OF Pawtucket is
just now engaged in getting the Demo
Gratis together. Once q year he feels
called upon to begin campaign for the
promotion of harmony in the ranks of
his party. He ~ great lover of har-
mony and will have it even If it has to be
secured by the vigorous use of club.
From the manner in which he has
started in it is judged that by the time
Mr.. Carroll ceases his labors there will
be broken heads and tattered political
regulations, but these are necessary
features Of the Carrollian harmony.
producing system.
For instance, to insure Colonel Honey's
loyalty and devotion he gently reminds
him that his assumed leadership Of the
Democratic party was costly and erratic
"and has proved diabolical in its effect"
After such friendly expression of ap-
probation as that can Colonel Honey
fail to get himself together?
But If that is not sufficient induce
ment he certainly cannot resist Mr..
Carrolrs further plea when he says of
the Newport coloners leadership. "It
has brought down on the lower house
the ridicule Of the state it has been de-
feated at every turn the highest court
in the state has decided against it; has
driven away from the party many
liberal-minded and independent men,
and the party can never succeed so long
as pedagogue and self-seeker is at the
head of it."
If Colonel Honey remains obdurate
and sulks in his tent after this affect.
ing appeal then no other conclusion can
be arrived at than that there is no
harmony in his makeup.