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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-04-27

The growth of electric Traction in this
country is one of the most marvellous
Developments Of the century. A leading
streec railway journal draws attention To
the fact that in the last five years the
mileage of street railways operated by
electricity has increased from fifty miles
TO over SIX thousand miles, which is "A
greater mileage than tina: of all the other
street railways in the country operated
by animal and other forms OF motive
power. OF this large total nearly ole.
third was built in 1892. No estimate
has yet been given of the aggregate IN
crease in value OF suburban property
that has been improved by the running
of new electric lines, but the amount
must be enormous, as large proportion
of late installations has been in suburban
districts, particularly in the east. In
July, 1890, the street railway mileage
OF the country was 1850 miles; at the
present time it reaches total OF IL ,G5j
miles,or an increase of 5000 miles in the
last two and half years. During 1892
there was an additional increase of 1865
miles. Some Of these lines have been
introduced in the most crowded parts of
large cities, where it is admitted that
cable traction would be more economical.
The reason for this lies probably in the
fact that it would be far less economical
90 change from electric to cable power
simply for the short distances than to re-
tain the system already in operr ton.
CITE HALL-They say that Bust
man ran away with another woman
because his wife never did anything
right and constantly irritated anC
annoyed him. Temple Court-That
can't be the reason. Why, the oohcI
woman was his typewriter. Truth.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-04-27

It is a rather striking fact, thinks the
New Orleans Picayune, that all the mem.
bers OF President Clcveland's Cabinet are
of Scotch or English ancestry. Colonel
Lamonts name Is the only one that sug-
gests a different origin, and his ancestors
were Scotch.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-04-27
LIVES LOST BY anoss NEGLIGENCE.

HzELToN-The coroner's Jury appointed
to enquire into the Laurel Hill disaster. by
which three miners were drowned, rendered
the following verdict: That the said VIM
Trembath. Richard J Williams and Thomas
Hodseson came to their death through the
gross negligence of the operators-A. Pardee
e n
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-04-27

1t is estimated that 1t would take an
annual emigration of fifty thousand He.
brews from Russia merely to keep down
the natural increase Of population, IL
calculated at only one per cent. year.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-04-27
Two MINERS INSTANTLY Kt,trp.

WtsufNoTuS Dell ID Buler aud James
EWilburnwere killed andWiliiam Hart and
man named Carson seriously. IL not fn'al-
ly hurt by a fall OF slate at the Champion
mines, near Woods Run Saturday. Coroner
johnson of this county. held an inq uest.
The verdict was accidental death. caused by
the miners own carelessness.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-04-27

The total amount OF deposits January
1st, 1898, in the savings banks of tie
State OF New York was $40, Asa, ,662.
Tho number of open accounts was l.
5g3,SO4.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-04-27

HARRIsBURG-Governo Pattison has ap-
pointed DR.. y. G.. Schaefier. principal Of the
State Normal school at Ku,ztown, Superin.
tendent of Public Instruction, to succeed
Dr. D. J. Waller, Jr., whose term expired
April l.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-04-27

The Methodist orphanage in Phila.
delphia last year received $50, ,719.15, of
which sum over $50, 900 have been put
into tho endowment fund. ---
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-04-27

GrEENsBuRG. 2.ycar old child ofJacob
Burke, OF Shafton. got hold of quantity of
lye which It's mother was using in making
SOAP and drank purtion of IL. dying in
great agony a short time after
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-04-27

The droughtin Mexico has not broken, and
the crops will be total failure again this
year. The supply OF water from the Nazos
River gave out last September.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-05-25

A person crossing the ocean in the
first cabin may as well count in addi-
ton to his passage money the follow
ing items. independent of cigars and
wine: Chief steward, So: table steward,
$3.50; room steward, $3.50: stewardess,
$3.50; smoking room steward, 81. 50;
bathroom steward, $3.50: deck steward,
81. so; boots. Sl.25. Incidental stewards
and stewardesses whom one may have
forgotten in the above may be put
down at - more making in all about
$50 or s25 in gratuities. OF course this
can be reduced one-half and a fellow
not be considered too mean to live. but
to get below $40 would certainly bring
down on his head the contempt of the
whole crew, from captain to the stokers.
buffalo Commercial.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-05-25

BACKED boots more industriously than
ever, and boarded his pennies with all
the greed of miser. When he finally
counted them and found there We're
enough to buy a fife. it was the con-
summation of the first step in his ca
reer. From that on he assembled by
regular stages, the first of which was
hanging about Bowery concert hall
and cultivating the acquaintance of the
musicians there, and the last of which
was first violin at the ALEXANDRIA.
When the overture was over and the
curtain lifted, Minis leaned back in his
chair, closed his eyes and kept only
wide awake enough to know when any
musical accompaniment was needed.
That part of the show did not interest
him No matter how many pretty
girls were waving their shapely feet
above the footlights, Minis thought it
very foolish that the audience should
prefer that to the numbers of the or
chestra.
But he was not permitted to rest long
In peace. There was roar from the
audience, half of applause and half of
derision, and he opened his eyes to look
about for the cause.
On the stage was the usual thing-a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-05-25
SLOW-5URNlNG BUILDINGS.
Comparative Danger in Pitch Pine and
Spruce Soft Pine.

Spruce or Soft Pine.
Nothing is more common, after a
fire in so-called. ow-burning'
building. like the Ames and other
buildings lately destroyed in Boston,
than to hear such sneering remarks as
THAT was what the architects call
fire-proof building. l wonder why they
cannot learn something about their
business The fact is, that architects,
who know better than anyone else. fire
engineers excepted, what sort of build
ings are fire-proof, never have admitted
that a construction of wooden beams
and planks was tire-proof, or anything
except. under certain circumsta noes,
slowburning. and the ridiculous claim
that a building with light wooden
floors vanished on the under side, is
tire-Yroof simply because it has an inch
more thickness of boarding over it than
one of the usual kind, is. so far as we
know, made only by owners and real
estate agents. Even insurance men,
who. as we think, have set an exagger-
ated value on the virtues of two-inch
planks. do not seem to have had any
substantial basis for their opinion.
1t was reported few days ago that
all policies of insurance in Boston on
buildings having floor beams of pitch
pine were to be cancelled on account of
the particularly intlammabl nature of
that timber. 1t is not likely that any
such proceeding, which would deprive
of insurance nearly all the so-callod
''slowburning' buildings in the city.
was ever really contemplated. but the
report certainly indicates that some
insurance man had been seized with
the notion that a building with pitch
pine beams and floors was more com
bustible than one with spruce or white
pine timbers.
Architects. of course, do not need to
be told that the contrary is the case
While pitch is undoubtedly an infam-
mable material the timber containing
it is so dense and heavy as to be l<indled
with far more difficulty than the light
spruce or soft pine. When exposed to
great heat cubic foot of pitch pine.
which weighs about fifty pounds, will
burn with more intensity than a cubic
foot of spruce. which w&ghs only
thirty, just as fifty pounds of coal will
produce more heat than thirty pounds;
but the same rule applies to the extra
thickness of floors SO much favored by
underwriters, and it is not at all evil
dent why an additional 60 per cent. of
intlammable material spread on top CT
floor should be good thing. while
an addition of go per cent. to the weight
of the timbers supporting it should be
so bad a thing that the under writer's
should refuse to insure buildings so
treated.-AmeTicanA Architect.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-05-25


lights dance, for the patrons of the AL
hambra theater liked plenty of go" in
their music, as in everything connected
with the entertainment for which they
paid twenty-five cents per head. As
the music ceased the gaudy curtain
rolled up and revealed n brIlliantly-set
stage scene - brilliant with papier-
mache and tinsel and the many make
believes OF the mimic world.
There was n crowded house, and the
mixed assemblage gave good opportu-
nifty for the study of types. But among
the hundreds were just two of whom |
want to tell you.
Minis was first violin in the Alhambra
orchestra. There was tradition to
the effect that his name had once been
Mines, but because some one had said
that he was 'mimsey-looking the
name had forthwith been contracted as
above.
Minis was two hundred years old.
Maybe YOU think / do not mean this,
but let us see
Minis was a street gamin. The ur-
chin's earliest recollections were of the
crowded thoroughfares about Park row.
of his terror of the big policemen and
of cold and hunger. His father was
thief-his mother as bad. His fathers
father died upon the gallows, while his
maternal grandfather had taken up his
permanent residence at Sing Sing. |
have not troubled to trace his genoa
logical tree further, but make no doubt
would find that for two hundred years
the conditions of heredity and environ
ment had been such as to concentrate
and eliminate in poor little Minis every
wicked and wretched trait to which hui
manity is subject.
His face told you all this 1t was the
face of little old man, and it had been
SO always. l cannot think that Minis
had ever been baby, soft and dimpled
and playful. 1t is not in nature that
baby should have grown into such an
effigy of manhood.
Minis had not been long in this
world until he had assimilated perfect
ly all the knowledge of good and evil
which his progenitors had been indus
triously accommodating for him through
so many generations; and it does not
require much perspicacity to guess in
which branch of this knowledge he had
the greater inheritance.
Now you may think from this that
Minis was pretty bad; but he was rot,
because he possessed one saving grace.
One day, while he was yet a very
small lad, Minis heard band playing
in the street. Possibly he had heard
music before, but only with the outer
ear. 1t had never reached and touched
that micro-organism which we term
the soul.
Minis followed the band long way
up Broadway, past the City hall and
into one of the grand avenues which he
only knew as uptown" The band
marched fast, and poor Minis little
feet grew very tired, until they would
carry him no farther. Then he sat
down upon the curling and cried.
But he arose from the curb with the
seeds of ambition firmly implanted
within him. He would be musician.
Henceforth Minis sold papers and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-05-25
He Forgot His Name.

At one time Disraeli, leaning on Mr..
Torrens' arm, passing the corner of
that famous eminence," st. James'-st.,
came upon bishop, who took off his
hat and bowed very low. Disraeli
looked hard at Mr.. Torrens, as if curl
Gus to know what he thought of the
egregious obeisance, and then said: Il
made him a bishop. but 1 forget Ills
name. The Academy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-05-25

The prisoner before the police court
bar had been there before many time.
I'D like to know said the Judge,
why you get here SO often?"
Its the only place in town where l
can get credit, your honor" was the
ambiguous reply
"Wen, you haven't much credit here,
can tell you"
Maybe so, your honor, but just the
same I'm always charged with some
thing when | come" and the court gave
him ten DAYS extra Detroit Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-05-25

Minis They grew so wild that the
orchestra player had to go and stand
upon the stage beside Monte and bow
his acknowledgements. And this was
something that an orchestra player at
the Alhambra had never done before.
AS the curtain fell slowly and shut
them out from the people. Minis heard
Monte give long sigh. He turned
toward her and saw a look in her face
that made him say, impulsively:
What is it, dear?"
Perhaps there was more potency than
he knew in the little word. Perhaps
his voice expressed more than the word
itself. However it was. l am certain
that no immodest or unmaidenly
thought prompted Monte as she threw
her arms around Minis neck and let her
head fall upon his shoulder, like a tired
child. And neither knew that the cur
tain had gone down just far enough to
shield their heads from the audience,
until renewed shouts and laughter and
braves told how well the closing act of
their little drama had been received.
In the years that followed old Time
PLAYED some queer tricks. For Monte
undid much of the evil that had been
done to Minis. and the joy that she
brought into his life welled up and
shone out through his face, making it
younger. While Monte. as even the
prettiest girls will. grew gradually
older, until it came to pass that there
was not SO much disparity between
their faces as would make one look
twice
Whenever l see Minis now l cannot
help question which is the stronger po-
tentiality in shaping a mans life, the
influence of heredity or of environ
ment?-James Knapp Reeve, in n, Y.
Ledger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-05-25

show their disapprowal, while cries OF
"Mims! Minis! The first violinr' gave
added Interpretation to their meaning.
The girl stopped, bewildered at the
outburst, and at first did not realize the
cause. But when she did her eyes
flashed angrily, and she went on, in
sistently ignoring their displeasure and
trying to drown the tumult with her
own voice, and to charm them into
good nature with her pretty ways.
In the confusion she carelessly came
too near the footlights, and. Earring the
slight gauze covering from one of them,
swept her filmy skirts above it.
A tongue of flame leaped upon her,
and there was cry of horror from the
house. The audience, panic-stricken
by the possibility of fire among all the
infiammable material of the stage,
rushed pell-mell for the doors. The
orchestra followed, tumbling over their
instruments, and in less time than it
takes me to tell it they had cleared
such a space that only two people re-
manned in the endangered portion Of
the theater. One of these was the girl,
wrapped in the winding-sheet of flame,
and the other was Minis.
Tearing his coat from him as he
sprang forward, Minis flung himself
upon the stage. The girl, terror-strick-
en-, but realizing his danger as well as
her own, began to retreat toward the
wings. Minis, seeing that in a moment
A 4. \ L . Al
to the canvas scenes, leaped upon her
and gathered the living flame into his
arms. Himself insensible to the pain
and danger or regardless of them in Us
passionate endeavor to save the girl, ne
beat the fire down with his hands. tore
her burning skirts away and at last
wrapped her, tortured and burned,
but living and conscious, in his own
garment.
Monte was not so severely inbred but
that she could appear ut the Alhambra
again in few weeks. and when her re-
turn was announced the house was
crowded.
Monte did not attempt to sing to any
one but Minis that night, but, on this
occasion, he was not the first violin.
He had spent his leisure during her re-
tirement in composing new accom-
panlment to her dance, and had asked
and obtained permission to lead the
orchestra on this eventful niEht for it's
performance.
/ say that he had spent his leisure,
for much of Minis time had lately been
taken up in haunting the florists and
the fruit shops, and bearing off their
choicest treasures to Monies room. And
when he had been admitted to her bed
side, and she, lying there so sweet and
fair, had taken his hand and kissed it,
and cried over the scars which were
there for her sake, and had thanked
him so prettily for saving her life, the
poor eX-gamin was very happily
wretched indeed.
But, as have said, she got well, and
sang and danced and made eyes at
Minis as she had never done before
And Minis, though he led the orchestra,
found opportunity to fancy there was
some special meaning in her chances
and pretty by-play. Then he would
bring himself up with a round turn and
give closer attention to the score
When she had finished, how they did
applaud! They shouted and stamped
and mingled cries of ''Nonie!" and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-05-25
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-Marie-"How can you marry him?
he has no sense Amelia-"He has
dollars. IN. Y. Herald.
Mrs. Gay-"Marv: did l see you
kissing my husband this morning?'
Mary-"At what time?''-Boston Bud
get.
-"How are you able to tell that he
is the lion of the EVENING"" Because
he has such beastly manners.-Inter
Ocean.
-Derelict in Duty.-Miss Pert
"L'homme propose, you know?" Miss
Oldmayde-"I wish he would AS a
matter of fact he doesn' .''-Somerville
Journal.
-She-'Mrs. Hoamly was telling us
the other day how her husband pro-
posed to her: and how do you sup
pose he did it?" He-"Well, should
say in the dark by mistake
-Husband-'I think shall 60 out
and catch few fish for our dinner to-
morrow" Wife-"No, Edwin, we must
economic. Buy them of the regular
dealer. Detroit Tribune.
No Time to Lose.-Travers-"I
got to rustic around and get a new
customer for my tailor" Dashaway-
"What for?" Travers-"IIis bill is
almost due. "-Clothier and Furnisher
"A natty suit of clothes does not in
variably betoken a contented mind on
the part of the wearer. He may be ex-
pecting to meet his tailor at every turn.
Boston Transcript.
Did Mrs. Dudderson cry when her
daughter married old Boohdell?" Eyes.
poor thing. 1t is tough to bring up a
daughter. and then, at the age of
twenty-one. have her cut her mother
out.-Harper's Bazaar.
-Minnie-"Why, dear, you have
misspelled two or three words in this
letter" Mamie-"I know l have.
dom want him to think l am too well
educated to be 'womanly.' Indian
apolis journal.
-"Sir?" questioned an irate female
shopper as she bounced upon a small
man who was pacing the store, ''are you
the floorwalker?" "N-n-no, ma am"
he gasped, ''I-Im o-o-only the p-p-pro-
prietor.''
-Laker-"Iwentt to the mayor to-day
and got a marriage license" Mrs.
Penns-''How very unfortunate; have
married another man" Laker-'Well,
l suppose can wait: the license won't
expire for two months yet''-N. y.
Times.
q understand how it is that fish
an brain is supposed to go together"
said Uncle Silas. after some thought.
what is the reason?' 1T takes a
heap of mental exercise ter get up the
stories they tell about ketchin' EN-. =
Washington Star.
-Larimer (who has changed his place
of residence-"The old proverb is right
which says: Three removals are as bad
as fire." Billups (who has lost gov
eminent clerkship)-''That doesn't
cover the ground. One removal is u
fire. "-Pittsburgh Chronicle.
The Suburban Grocer.-Jones-
where's those eggs l ordered? I've
been waiting for them three or four
hours. ''-Grocer-''Well, if you'll wait
that long, you can't want 'em bad"
Jones-''No don't want them bad,
but daresay that's the way I'll get
them. Yankee Blade.
Then She tainted. Miss Ainshunte
Showing Softleigh their picture gal
lery-"And this was the noblest of all
the Ainshuntes. He fell fighting for
his country at Yorktown" Softleigh
(who supposes Yorktown was in the
late Observation-Disclosures! Was
he your fatherT'-Yankee Blade.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-05-25
Couldn't Show 1t.

"What delicious mince pies you have,
Mrs. Nuvvo! I'd like to see your re-
ceipt,' said the guest.
They aren't paid for yet" said Mrs.
Nuvvo, ,neekly.-JUGge.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-19
HE OWNED 1T,
But His Title Was Too Ethereal
to Hold Good.
SPIRITS GAVE II TO HIM
And The Temporal Diner Took u Away
Strange kalluslnalIon Of Prom
lnenl San Francisco
Physician.

San Francisco. Match is--nr. James =
Lciilngwcll bad a very marrow escape trom
being Committed 60 che insane asslum
yesterday ui0rni1g,
Il Sook him nearly an hour 90 convince
the medical exports, DTS tiNenthM and
Windclc, that no was a ut person 20 De at
large Tho essential feature 81 nr. lenlug.
wells mental instability Nyas the tempo.
lary CONVICTION acquired through AN iul'
preston from a spirit medium, that be
owned the house, ri Huttor street As
General w NJ l.. narncs has bought and
pnid for the house, aud moreover holuH
the deed Tor it. he was naturally am Inter.
cscted attendant at the examination
nr i.ouiugwcll was Va q rcpcntcnt mood
aud was pronusc Of assurances 20 NcnorAl
Barnes that the medium had been detviVcd
by the spirits and had siyen him a wrong
WHO il this mediamyr asked General
Harness
oMrs; Flnueyiy, but understand her real
''no YOU atm lay claim 90 the houscy
'th, uOt' said The dcvOlcc uf splrituhlism
pathvucally, ~ WIN make my PREPARATIONS
u is an mistake, | have been under a
WRONG impression
"Wnl you give me deed 60 tho houseT'
asked the general, and thoso present SMILED
audlbly.
''Oh NO n IL not necessary 60 give you a
deed ann sure now that ] don't own the
house"
''pidnt YOU 20 out there into The back
yard and talk about getting the house
pamlCdl Didn't you cause this slip To pc
Inherited ga the local directory just As lt
was being publlshedF