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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-06-29
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FELCHvILLE.
Winchester G oddard isIagain sick.

Winchester,G oddard isIagain sick.
O. S. Holden was in South Royalton
the last of the week.
Mrs, Kate Benjamin of Windsor is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Sarah Wardner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oren Coolidge of Keene,
N. H., are with his parents for short
visit.
Miss Maud Kendall returned home
Saturday from Barre, where she attended
the graduation.
Mrs. viii Engram and Miss Marion of
Rutland arrived at his parents, Saturday
for short visit.
Mrs. Rist and Miss Minnie, with Fred
Whitaker, passed last week in Holyoke,
Mass, with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brown and son
of Woodstock visited her father, Dexter
Gates, the first of the week.
Miss May Watkins is at home from
Rutland for the vacation, accompanied
by her cousin, Miss Daniels.
Mrs. Jane Shedd, with Miss Lottie and
Master Willie, have taken a carriage
drive to Lebanon, N. H., also White Riv-
er Junction.
Mrs. Mckenzie with her father, Mr..
Washburn of Woodstock, were the
guests over Sunday of her brother, OAR
win Washburn.
DR.. Ripley Clark of Windsor was
called here last week to counsel with DR..
Morgan in the case of Mrs. G. III. Shedd,
who was suffering from an attack of grip.
At the present writing she is fast conva-
lescing.
Rev. Leslie Moore, former pastor of
the Universalist church, with his wife, is
stopping at the Valley house. 1t is a
great pleasure to welcome him in our
midst once more before commencing his
labors at Claremont, N. H., where he has
accepted a call. We wish him success in
his new field of labor.
Our little quiet village has decided to
make little demonstration for Fourth
of July. A basket picnic will be held in
Hammond's grove near the village. Sing
ing and speaking will compose part of
the program, also band and base ball
game, and the horribles will be out in all
their unique uniforms, with fire works in
the evening. A general invitation is ex-
tended to ALL
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-06-29
The Libby Prison War Museum.

OF the many attractions outside of the
Worlds fair in Chicago, there are but
few in which there is so much interest
centered as there is in the Libby Prison
War Museum. In 1889 this celebrated
prison was removed from Richmond to
Chicago and converted into war muse
UNI. The pro ject was undertaken by a
syndicate of the best known business
men of the city whose enterprise was
conceived in commercial spirit, but has
ect such as this was never before heard
Of. TO move brick and stone building
the size of Libby more than thousand
miles, across rivers and mountains, was
an enterprise that many of the best
known contractors in the west refused
to undertake at any price. But the move
was made with success. Then the fam
Gus old structure was filled with war
material that represents the work of a
lifetime and the expenditure of half
million dollars. The great collection is
conceded to be second to none ia the
country and includes much of the most
valuable material that the greatest civil
war the world has ever known has left
to posteiity. The collection includes
thousands and thousands of relics of
every description, many of which form
important links in the history of the
nation. The old building itself is fraught
with interesting memories and the story
Of the celebrated tunnel escape of Feb
ruary 8, 1864, never fails to interest the
visitors. One hundred and nine Union
officers made their escape through that
tunnel, which formed one of the most
thrilling events in the history of the
war
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-06-29
JAMAICA.

M. FL. johnson has been in Boston the
past week.
Mrs. Clara Henkley of Brattleboro is
here visiting friends.
Mrs Harry Sherwin is in Coleraine,
Mass, visiting friends.
Rosa Amsden goes to Poultney next
week to work in hotel.
Leon Wardwell and wife have gone to
Winchester, N. H., to live.
Willie Howe of Worcester, Mass,
passed few days with friends here last
week.
Mrs. Walter Reed goes this week to
Saxton's River, to pass a few weeks with
friends.
Mrs. Aldrich of Westmoreland. n. H.,
is in town, passing a few days with her
daughter, Mrs. Willis Taft.
Miss Cora Frost arrived home Saturday
from Northampton, Mass, where she has
been living since the first of March.
Mrs. Huntington of South Londonderry
made short visit with her parents here,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ransel Frost, this week.
Miss Maud Howard and her brother
Bonnie, who have been passing some time
Leon Wardwell and Gusta Wood were
married Tuesday evening at the bride 8
home here, Rev. S. l.. Vincent officiat-
ing.
Miss Emma Clark, who has been living
with her aunt, Mrs. Harry Morse, in New
York city since last fall, has returned
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wight of North Hatfield
are here to pass a week or two at Mrs.
Nights parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. l..
Howard's.
Mrs. Della Bradley has left her school
and gone to Gardner, Mass, to take care
of her husband, Madison Bradley, who
is quite sick.
The w. r. C. had an ice cream and
strawberry festival Friday evening. 1t
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-06-29
The Guns of the vesuvius."
From st. Nicholas.l

The most recent applications of the
blowpipe principle, however, are the
three air-guns of the United States " tor
pedo cruiser" Cor, as she is also called,
the "pneumatic cruiser'o "Vesuvius."
This vessel of war is 251 feet 8 inches
long, 26 feet inches wide, draws 8 feet
of water, and has displacement of 1875
tons; she is of 1894 horsepower and she
darts over the waves at speed of %
miles per hour. She is too beautiful and
fast craft to be called a bio wpipe
gunboat"; but that is exactly what she
is, because of the blowguns which stick
up through the deck at the bow. Most
of these guns lie at an angle slanting
back and downward to where the air.
compressors lie close to the heel.
Into the somewhat bottle-shaped steel
TASKS air has been forced until it is COM
pressed under strain of 5000 pounds to
the square inch by engines especially
constructed for that purpose. The shells,
or bombs, or darts fired from the guns
are made partly of iron, of brass, and
of copper. They are 10 feet long, 10
inches wide, and while some are of uni
form width, others give up half their
length to thin spindle or tail having
metal fans at the end, and looking some
what like huge, clumsy arrow. These
darts are kept in three barrel-like "re-
volvers,' and as there are five darts in
each, the Vesuvius cal throw projectiles
in rapid succession.
When a gun is to be loaded, about 20
feet of its lower end drops down by
means of hinge, and from the revolver
directly in front of it one Of the bombs
is pushed back into the lowered end,
which is then pulled up again in line
with the rest of the tube. When all is
ready, lever in the coming tower is
moved, enough air is admitted from one
of the reservoirs, and away goes the
dart flying through the air to distance
of one and half miles.
The operation, which seems so simple,
does not look very formidable as method
Of warfare; but that dart whirled away
by the blowpipe is in reality the most
deadly weapon known to war, afloat or
ashore, for in the head Of the missile
is stored 500 pounds of guncotton, than
which no more terrible explosive is
known that can be so used. The name
guncotton sounds innocent enough, and
the material is nothing more than the
cotton waste, with which you have often
seen engineers cleaning their engines,
soaked in nitric and sulphuric acids, and
washed clear again. A pound of this
will burn quietly, but when it is struck
or detonated," it explodes with force
sufficient to blow up good-sizcd house.
If upon an anvil is laid piece of paper
with one or more letters cut out, and a
pound of guncotton is exploded on it,
the letters or figures cut in the paper
will be stamped into the metal one quar-
ter of an inch deep. just think of such
force, and then imagine 500 pounds Of
guncotton exploding on a ship or fort!
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-06-29
WOUR CASH
Y OPPORTUNITY
For Eighteen Days.

Best Roller st. Louis Flour, $500 q
Barrel.
Fancy Half Patent Flour, $3.50 a
Barrel.
Crocker's Best Flour, $500 Barrel.
Pillsbury's Best Flour, $500 a Barrel.
Is pounds Granulated Sugar, $1.O0.
Choice Cucumber Pickles 1Oc quart,
soc a gallon.
Headquarters for Rockingham Cheese;
it is the BEST
Try 8 pounds Old Homestead Java
Coffee for $1.00, or pounds Broken
Kernel Java Coffee for $1.00.
We sell only Chase & Sanborn's Teas
and Coffees.
pounds Green Jap Tea for $1.0O.
Compare it with what you are buying at
soc pound.
Choice Pie Peaches 15c can.
pounds Evaporated Apples 25c.
A full Oak Stock, Nickel or Davis
Rubber Trimmed Harness 5000.
A Genuine Rubber Trimmed Harness
$3.50. A soc Horsewhip 25c.
A $4,000 Grand Oil Stove for $500.
For SIS. so, Cultivator that is good
enough for anybody.
$3.50 buys Grindstone all complete.
See them.
A S. 90 Lawn Mower for $4.75.
A 5000 Lawn Mower for $3.50.
3 pairs Ladies' Black or Tan Hose Csc.
2 pairs Gents Fast Black Half Hose
for Csc.
10 Webs, sc inch Wego Cotton, at
5 SC a yard, by the web.
Heavy, 40 inch Cotton 3-sc yard,
by the web.
% pieces u Lie Ginghams at 1oc
yard.
pieces 25c Summer Dress Fabrics
at 17c yard.
One lot Ladies' and Gents SOC Sum-
mer Underwear at 35c.
$1.00 Chenille Table Spre ads at SIC.
New patterns in Floor Oil Cloth at 35c
a square yard.
A Woven Hammock for $1.37.
Mems $1,000 Wool Suits 800.
Boys $500 Knee Pant Suits $3.50.
Mems All Wool So so Pants at $1.S7.
Mems $1.00 Dress and Work Shirts
at SIC.
A fine line of Footwear for all at
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-06-29
In Boston, of Course.

JOHNNY wonder why 1 can't make
my kite fly?
Elder Sister-Perhaps the caudal APP
pendage is disproportionat to the super
fetal area.
JOHNNY don't think that's it. / be-
lieve there isn't weight enough on the
tail.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-06-29

was well attended, considering the 60
ing. All had good time.
Wallace Rawson aged 10 years, died at
Jacksonville, of malignant diphtheria,
Monday, June 10, and his sister Minnie,
aged II years, died Of the same disease
Wednesday, June 81. Their parents have
the sympathy of the whole community.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-06-29
For Over Fifty Years

USE DANA'S SARSAPARILLA, IT'S
1.-THE KIND THAT CURES"
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1893-06-29

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Send 10 cents for subscription to lively
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-02-18
A Strange Friendship.

The rhinoceros is neither very safe
nor pleasant companion for man or
beast. When provoked he charges
with terrible fury upon anything that
happens to be in his way, trampIing it
under foot and tearing it in pieces wit h
his great horn. The natives, however.
who live in the country where he is
found, hunt him for his flesh, whirj
they eat for his horns, whici, they
form into drinking cups and varioH
other articles, and for his hide, whr',
is So impenetrable that nothing can II"
found of which to make shields Tia d
will so well protect their naked boGiei
from the arrows and spears OF their
enemies.
He has, however, one friend--a lovely
little brown bird that, instead of hviu
i'll trees, as other birds do, selects th
back of the rhinoceros for her home,
and except to build her nest-which no
one has ever succeeded in finding IN
while rearing her young. never quits
it.
\ strange pair of friends, indeed
The great ugly beast never molests his
little companion, but allows her TO ri e
upon his back wherever he goes and
even to probe and prick into his heavy
skin; and when he lies down he will
turn on one side, and then on the other,
to enable the bird to search for the in
sects that disturb his repose.
In return for this accommodation the
little creature keeps faithful watch
over her huge friend. AS the rhiuoce-
ros can not see very well with his small
and deep-set eyes, partly on account of
their position in his strangely shapcl
head, and partly because his great horn
is i'll the way, it is not difficult to APP
proach him. But the birds sight is
very keen, and, flying away at the first
approach of danger, she awakens the
shortsighted brute's attention by shnll
cry of warning. If the rhinoceros hap.
pens to be asleep when the hunters
draw near the bird pulls at the ear of
her unconscious friend and shrieks into
i until she aucceeds in awaking him
ana making him aware of his danger.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-02-18
RURAL HUMORISTS.
How Young Man Played 1t High an
Unsuspecting Editor.

flow Young Man Played 1t High an
Unsuspecting Editor.
You can't most always tell about
these young men who do newspaper
work remarked a New York editor to
q party of journalists, according to the
Detroit Free Press.
If had heard that they hadn't very
good business ideas, however bright
they might be in other respects and |
was little careless perhaps. Anyway,
once when | wanted the services of ono
TO tone up my paper | called for speci-
men stuff, and from one chap in
nearby country town I received such
excellent work that T invited him to
come in and see me. He came and 7
found him an ideal humorist, and as
guileless as he was ideal. ] wanted
column week aud he agreed to furn-
ish it at $25 a column, with IS off for
each joke that was not copied by some
of my illustrious and esteemed cotem-
poraries. or he would do it for SIS
straight. snapped up the SO propo-
sitlon, for [ was sure that out of dozen
or fifteen jokes and verses and gags a
week certainly not more than half could
i've good enough to catch on all around.
He had an idea that he was great
humorist, and l had an idea for bust.
ness, aud also to teach him that hui
rnility which doth so become u jon al-
ist ] signed contract for year on
these terms and he went to work. The
first week he sent i'll ten squihs of vari-
ous lengths and they were good, but |
calculated not more than half would &C
the rounds and | would be even.
Within week thereafter | received the
ro,lunk Banner or some such paper
with the entire column copied and, of
course, L whacked up the $25. The
next week the Banner copied the whole
lot again, and l put up my S25 as be-
fore. Well, to make a long story short,
that Podunk Banner, week after week,
opied every squib, and at last / wrote
to the Ban"er to find out who its editor
vas. when, 10 and behold he was the
father law of my humorist, and that
guileless funny man was having fun
with me in a way that L despised 1t
~as too late, however, to kick, and us
he wrote good stuff hadn't any occa-
sion to- only did swear at myself every
now and then for not having accepted
his proposition of $15 week straight,
and left to somebody else to teach hui
mility to great American humorist.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-02-18

things just creeping from beneath
large log that was half buried in the
sandy soil jumped upon the log, SO
the insect could not crawl up my leg,
and then dropped my baited thread.
He immediately accepted the challenge
and hastily caught at the flannel.
Il half lost my balance just then,
and l jostled the log to retain my posi-
ton. The happening came near being
serious for me, as two of the most
ferocious-looking fellows rushed out,
and all three attacked the flannel and
before l had the one entangled, they
started upward at a most alarming rate
Of speed. In some manner or other |
was able to retain my presence of mind,
and with a cane knocked the upper
most to the ground.
The remaining two were fighting
most viciously, and, as | gradually let
out the thread, became entangled, and
by the time the third was at the writh-
ing little mass, they were safe from
working any harm.
The third made another attack, and
| soon held trio of squirming, writh-
ing tarantulas; and then dropping them
in can, saturated my handkerchief
in chloroform, and in half an hour had
these three, which are the finest spe,
mems of the insect 1 have yet seen.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-02-18
Easy When You Know How.

IN bet you fifty dollars that 1 can
get drops of champagne out of an
empty champagne bottle
The man who made the remark was
New Orleans man, one of group of
loungers in an uptown hotel. Several
looked up from their papers, and one
asked:
What's that @
II say can get fifty drops of cham
pagne out of bottle you have drained.
I'll bet any one fifty dollars that I can
do it"
Il don't believe it, said another.
Want to take me up? I'll bet five
hundred dollars to your five that I can
do il" and he took out large roll of
greenbacks
Tell us how it's done, and if We are
convinced that your offer is fair one
several of us will put up twenty dollars
against your hundred and furnish the
champagne to boot, said q stout man
who had become interested in the dis
cussion.
Il can't tell you how it's done" an
swered the stranger. This is one of
the things more easily proved than ex-
planned. Where's the wine q
Some one ordered champagne. The
bottle was SOON emptied, and passed
around for inspection.
Now" remarked the New Orleans
man, turn the bottle upside down for
fifteen minutes till You are satisfied that
there is not drop in it, and then
will show you q simple little trick. "
The bottle was duly turned up and
left for a few minutes to drain, The
group surveyed the man critically, as if
expecting that they would be treated to
legerdemain performance
Now, gentleman, said the stranger
you will see that what is apparently
impossible will turn out to be very
simple matter
Then tearing q strip about nine
inches long from newspaper he insert
ed 1t in the npturnel bottle. The
paper soon got damp, aud gradually
drop after drop of wine oozed from tho
end of it.
The members of the group looked as
II they ought to have known this before,
and yet as if they half believed they
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-02-18

Il have often wondered, said Fran
els Estey, at the st. James, in how
much human beings are guided by in
stinct. Every one knows that animals
are largely regulated by that queer in
tluence we are pleased to name instinct,
but very few people believe that 1t plays
any part in human lives. | once had
an Office cat that came to me starving
kitten. fed it for the once, and daily
it came to the Office at the time / az
rived, about nine in the morning, and
always very promptly. Once it was
stolen from me by a party of clerks
good friends of mine-aud they kept it
for three months. They told me they
had been in the habit of feeding it at
noon, and that daily at that hour ex-
actly the cat showed up with remark
able promptness. Then L became in
terested. / changed the cats meal
hour from II noon to in the afternoon,
and watched the result. Up to that
hour the cat was never to be found
At that hour, however, a scratch
ing and clawing occurred at my office
door, and my cat was always on time,
Now, how did that cat know when it
was 8 or IL OF 3 o'clock We say:
Instinct instinct. of course :; but the
question still remains unanswered.
While | was in college my room con
tanned no clock, and | did not have q
watch. My supper hour was 5, 30 p.
N, and / always left my room at five,
For while ] had to inquire of the land
lady the time Later on, as | studied
from l.30 until in my chair by the
window, queer, nervous sensation
oyercame me as the hour of five p, m
drew near. / always imagined that
was studying over my supper time. and
inva iably drew on my coat and hurried
off to my supper. | can say that in
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1893-02-18
EXTRAVAGANCE OF THE SUN.
Its Heat Being Expended at Trcm IL


Its Heat Being Expended at Trcn IL
dous Rate.
1t goes without saying that the vel.
fare of the human race is necessarily
connected with the continuance of the
suns beneticent action. 1t becomes,
therefore, of the utmost interest to in.
pure whether the suns heat can be
calculated on indefinitely. Here is, in.
Iced, Il sub ject which is literally of the
most vital importance so far as organic
lie is concerned. If the sun ever ceases
20 shine then must it be certain tn 1t
there Is term beyond which human
existence, or, indeed, organic existence
of any type whatever, can not any
longer endure on the earth. We may
say once more for all that the sun con.
tains Just a certain number of units of
heat, actual or potential, and that he is
Ut the present moment shedding that
heat around with the most appalling
extravaganza. No doubt the heat hoard
Of the sun is so tremendous that tho
consequences of his mighty profusion
TO not become speedily apparent. They
are, indeed, it must be admitted, hardly
to be discerned within the few brief
centuries that the sun has been sub
mitted to human observation.
But, writer in the FortnjghHy Re-
ci"r says, we have grounds for know
ing as certainty that the sun can not
escape from the destiny that sooner or
later overtakes the speudthrift. In his
interesting studies of this subject Prof
! nnIa CIV q
the rate at which the solar heat is being
squandered at this moment. He re-
m rrlls that the great coal fields of
Pennsylvania contain enough of the
precious mineral to supply the wants of
the United States for thousand years.
If all that tremendous accumulation OF
mel were to be extracted and burned
IN one vast confagration the total
quantity of heat that would be pro-
duced would no doubt be stupendous,
and yet, says this authority, who has
taught us so much about the sun, all
the heat developed by that terrible coal
fire would not be equal to that which
the sun pours forth in the thousandth
part of each single second. When we
reflect that this expenditure of heat has
been going on not alone for the centur-
les during which the earth has been the
bode of man. but also for those peri
odS which we can not estimate, except
by saying that they are doubtless mil
lions of years during which there has
heen life on the globe, then indeed we
oegin to comprehend how vast mast
have been the capital heat with which
the sun started on its career