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Cold and Electricity,

That extreme cold paralyzes every
vital function is of course O piece Of
everyday knowledge. But 1t has
been left to Professor Pictet, who
has been conducting some expert
ments on this subject. to discover
that at a temperature of $50 degreea
below the centigrade zero there is no
chemical action between nitric or
sulphuric acid and potash. between
oxygen and potassium, though, un.
der ordinary circumstances, the af-
finity of the latter metal for oxygen
is so great that it will burn If thrown
into water, owing to its combination
with the oxygen IN that fluid. But
if the electric spark Is played on bod
les which have thus lost the power
of chemical affinity, some new and
curious combinations result, The
latest investigations, the conclusions
of which, however, have been theo-
retically presaged for some years
past, may require us to reconsider the
question Of the temperature of outer
space and the possibility of an at
mosphere composed OF gases in COM
bination existing there.
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M. ]


The other day o man Of gentle
manly appearance called at a house
In a we'll known suburb Of provin'
cial town. In answer to his knock
the housemaid came to the door.
us Mr.. P int" said the gentle
man.
"Hes just gone out, SIR"
"Is Mrs. P at homer
mo, sir. She went out with mas
ter"
Dear me. how unfortunatel !
wanted particularly to see one Of
them. Can leave a notel"
"Oh, yes, sir. Come In. please"
replied the girl, ushering the visitor
into the dining room. But instead
of leaving him aloneshe rang for an
other servant, whom she desired TO-
bring writing materials.
The gentleman wrote his note, en-
closed it in an envelope, addressed 1t
and left it on the table.
This being done, he departed with
profusion Of thanks to the maid.
who escorted him to- the door,
On returning home Mr.. P found
the note awaiting him. It ran thuS.
"Your servant is no fool"
This compliment was fully jush'
fed by a paragraph in the next days
paper, giving an account Of the
plumber of neighboring mansion by
a similar visitor.-New York Advef-
tioor
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Church Directory.

Reformed Church-Rev. G. A, Whhmofe
ras or. Weekly Lectures Tuesday eVenlEs
\, S,ceting of Ladies' Aid Society every secOna
Wednesday evening. Regular services
y pointment from the pulpit.
Lutheran Church-Rev. J. II. Barb, pas
or SERVICES. Sunday 10 A. NJ and ESQ L.
NJ. Sunday School, 2. T. prayer Me''-
ing, Wednesday, G.45 I.
United Brethren Church-Rev w. L.
Martin, Pastor. Regular Services ny APP
appointment from the pulpit.
GLASS Meeting every two weeks at lO a: III.
PRAYER Meeting every Thursday evening
Sunday School 2 Pm.
Mile Society every econd ana Fo"f'"
Wednesday evenings
Missionary Meetings by regular appoint
nent.
Moravian Church: Rev NJ. F. Oerter, Pas-
tor. Sunday School every Sunuay,' a; ILL.,
Preaching services will be held every olner
Sunday rs heretofore. alternating morning
and evening at 10 ard 7:3O respectively
Nethodist Episcopal Church - Rev.
Henry Mann Pastor. Services every aiI,r
nate unday at 10 A. NJ. and 7.3O +.
Sunday school at 9 A. NJ. rayer Meeting
every "Wednesday evening at 73O I. M.
ST. Stephens Church, Protestant Er's"o-
nal. Rev. r. Whtlnghnm, Pastor Ger
vices every Sunday at>10:30 II. M, except on
5th Sunday in the month, then NJ n'Sh''
Lvrping Prayer, Fridays, at z,
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Aluminium Paint.

It Is stated that aluminium, when
reduced to powder and mixed with a
solution in water Of gum lac, gives a
metallic paint which covers well and
may be shaded with aniline colors
dissolved in water, The solution Of
gum lac is made by bringing to boil
Ing point a mixture of gum lac and
bolax and ON alkali such as soda or
ammoniac, The solution must con.
tain at least from Is TOGO per cent
of gum lac. Aniline colors are add
ed to produce the shade desired, and
aluminium Is added in sufficient
quantity to produce paint suffi-
GENTLY fluid for application with a
brush. The color is brilliant, very
durable and impermeable and may
be applied to metals paper, wood
and wooden materials, 1t may be
rendered supple by the addition of a
small quantity Of glycerin.
Louis Globe Democrat,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14

1t may not be generally known
that when exposed to severe cold a
feeling of warmth is readily created
by repeatedly filling the lungs to
their utmost extent in the following
manner: Throw the shoulders we'll
back and hold head well up. In
tlate the lungs slowly, the air en-
te1ing entirely through the nose.
When the lungs arc completely
filled, hold the breath for 10 seconds
or longer and then expel it quickly
through the mouth. After repeat
ing the exercise while one is chilly a
feeling of warmth will be felt over
the entire body, even in the feet and
hands. 1t is worth while practieing
this exercise many times each day
and especially when in the open air.
Medical Journal.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14
The Tower Of Pisa.

The famous leaning tower of Pisa
Is campanile or bell tower, Tho
building, which is cylindrical In
form, is 1917 feet high and so feet In
diameter, made entirely OF white
marble. 1t Is called the leaning tow
er from the fact that 1t inclines some
80 feet from the perpendicular, and
it is not generally known that this
inclination, which gives the tower
such a remarkable appearance, was
not intentional. At the time 1t was
about half done the error in meas
urement was perceived. It was
guarded against by the use Of extra
braces in the further construction OF
the building and an adaptation OF
tho stone In the highest portion.
There are seven bells on the top Of
the tower, the largest OF which
weighs 1000 pounds, and these are
so placed as to counteract as far as
possible the leaning Of the tower IT.
self,-Fire and Water.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14
Burial ArmOr and Shrouds.

The custom which still prevails Of
sewing up a corpse in flannel origi-
mated doubtless in the act of parlia-
ment, 1s and 10 Charles II, which was
passed for the encouragement of the
woolen trade and required all bodies
to be buried in woolen shrouds. Two
amending statutes were passed-1G7s
and 16s0-requiring at the funeral an
affidavit to be delivered to the priest
stating that the requirements Of the
law had been carried out; otherwise
penalties were incurred. These acts
were repealed by "a George III, al
though long before that time the
penalties for noncompliance with
the law had ceased to be enforced.
During the operation of the acts for
burying In woolen the law was some
times evaded by covering the corpse
with hay or flowers, notification Of
which is sometimes met with i'll the
parish registers.
Burial in armor was not at all un-
common in the middle ages, and was
considered a most honorable form Of
burial Sir Walter Scott in THE Lay
of the Last Minstrel" thus refers to 1T;
seemu all on fire that chapel proud,
Where Rosln's chiefs uncotlin'd lie,
Each baron for a sable shrord
Sheathed in his iron panoply.
Westminster Gazette,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14
Brain Filters.

Some Australian gold veins are l3O
feet wide.
A voyage round the world, travelling
frstclass. costs something over $4,000.
Worn out billiard balls are usually
cut up into dice.
The unexpIored area Of Canada is es-
timated at 100000 square miles.
In China, when a pupil is reciting
his lesson, he turns his back to his teach
er.
Vegetaransc claim that hair rgrows less
luxuriantly on the heads ofsmeat-eat-
ers.
For every four shlllngs spent in Brit,
ain on drink only halfpenny is expen
ded on education.
Returns show that l6 persons in 1000
who are confined in lunatic asylums
have been made insane by love affairs.
A check for G5 ,333 $50 on the bank
of England in payment for the Kimber-
ley diamond mines is said to be the
largest ever drawn.
A nightlngale's song can be heard at
the distance of one mile.
More people speak the English Ian
glage than any other by $4,000, 900.
Giraftes are almost priceless since the
Dervishes have occupied the Upper Nile,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14
Away Ahead of job.

1 heard an amusing story Of Sir
Henry Hawkins from legal frienda
week or two ago, but cannot vouch
for the absolute truth Of 1t. Sir
Henry was presiding over long, to-
dious and uninteresting trial, and was
listening, apparently with absorbed
attention, to long, tedious and anin'
teresting speech from counsel learn
ed in the law. Presently he made a
pencil memorandum. folded it and
sent it by the usher to the Q, G. In
question. This gentleman, on un.
folding the paper, found these words;
Patience Competition-Gold Medal,
Sir Henry Hawkins. Honorable Men
ton, job" His peroration was wound
up with as little delay as possible
Sketch.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14
Unfeal(xed Authorizations

That Long Islanders arc not wholly
devoid of humor, which has been
charged against them, is clearly
demonstrated by recent occurrence
at Riverhead, tho Suffolk county
seat.
It seems that the local debating So
ciety had under consideration the
old topic, "Whether there is greater
pleasure derived from anticipation
than from realizationl' This weighty
subject was discussed ut length and
was finally carried in favor of antici-
patton by heavy majority.
Now, it happens that a favorite
dish of Riverheaders is rabbit stew,
and that one of the losing faction,
Nate Downs, Is esteemed as the best
concocter of rabbit stew on the east
ern end of Long Island.
Not long after the famous debate,
Nate invited the whole company to
visit his house and partake of the fa-
vorite dish. Anticipation ran high,
and at the appointed hour the club
assembled en- masse, but elias for re-
alizationl there was no rabbit stew,
only the usual paraphernalia Of
serving it-dishes, knives, etc.
Nate had sought by this practical
method to force the society to recon-
slider it's hasty decision and was en-
inently successful. The company
left, very angry, but with the settled
conviction that 80 far as rabbit stew
was concerned realization would be
more satisfactory than anticipation.
New York Herald.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14
Can Plants See?

The mysteries of vegetable life are
not all yet explored. An Indian
hotanist has made experimentation
induce him to say that some plants
can see. Whether the inference can
be accepted OF not, these experiments
go to show that the plants made an
effort to reach supports placed at q
little distance and grew toward the
supports wherever placed. The plant
was convolvulus, and when pole
was placed near it and in such a way
that the tendrils would have to turn
away from the light to reach 1t,
they invariably did so and within Q
few hours twined about 1t. That
certain plants have the sense Of
touch is we'll known. Medical TimeA
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14
The Sea Horse.

One little animal Il suppose 1t is
fsh) figures a good deal in my work
the sea horse. Dried specimens
give you a poor idea Of the things
alive. went into ecstacies over
them. The first l saw at our old
aquarium, where they could be seen
and watched to great advantage.
They move their little tails like an
elephants trunk, and their inquiring
eyes, each moving independently of
the other, suggest that they know an
awful lot about the mystery of the
sea. They have formed a basis on
which l have constructed several
marine animals suitable for q mer-
maid and sea nymphs to ride and
play with. Scribner's Magazine.
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before aud After.

As an instance Of the surprising In
crease in value that picture &C.
ouires after an artist has become ia
nous, the following is interesting:
A dealer once went to the studio Of
David Cox and purchased a painting
off his easel for E10. A few days
afterward the old man went to him
and said:
"You are young and have a wife
and children. I think have charged
you too much for that picture, and !
have brought you back e."
Not many years after that same
painting was sold for 450 guineas.--
London Tit Bits
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14
THE WORL D OF LABOR.

Berliners cat horsehesh.
Mongolia has no hotels.
We export oleomargarlne.
Trees are felled by steam.
Krupp employs 10000 men.
Morocco hasn't newspaper.
An aux 8 eggssold tor $1,000.
New York has 1900 lawyers.
India has a 5000 foot wire span.
New York has 3,723 policeman.
Coal costs ST. 80 ton in Japan.
There are $4,000 species of fish.
Japan has cotton splning mill.
New York boasts guinea pig farm.
ELECTRICITY propels an inyalld's char.
Pennsylvania has 1873 daily papers.
France has AN automatic lighthouse.
Paris has storage battery street cars.
Paris has many female bootblacks.
Uncle Sam has ll5 medical colleges.
Great Britain has 725 blast furnaces.
Uncle Sam has 5000 postmistresses.
Buchanan, Mich, has a skunk farm
California is sending strawberries
East.
Artificial marble is made from lime
stone.
London omnibuses are electrically
lighted.
Buffalo has co operative cremation
society.
Virginia raises 100000 bushels Of
peanuts.
In Jerusalem blacksmlths get 81 90
week.
John Bull has $4,000 miles of turn
pike roads.
Potatoes are 81 bushel at Carson
willie, Mich.
Sir Charles Russle was a newspaper
reporter.
St.Petcrsburg has a l, 1000 ton bronze
statue.
India exports almost all the world S
supply Of opium.
Virginia has the worlds greatest
manganese mines.
Austrian police are required to un-
derstand telegraphy.
Women gardeners are IN great de-
maad in England and Germany.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14
My heart leaps up when behold

My heart leaps up when I behold
A flower ever 30 rare;
So was it when my life began;
So is it now am a man;
50 let it be when I am old.
Or let me die
What man with heart would not
feel his heart leap beholding roses bloom
ing anew in his wife's cheeks? No true
man likes to see in his wife a sallow
complexion, dull eye, and all the ills
attended upon the Irregularities and
weaknesses" peculiar to this sex.
Happily these can be banished, and the
roses be ensured b. the use of DR..
Plerces Favorite Prescription. For
nursing mothers or those about to be-
come mothers 1t is a priceless boon. 1t
lessons the pains and perils Of child
birth, shortens labor, promotes the
secretions of an abundance of nourish-
ment for the child and shortens the
period Of confinement.
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The Reason Why.
ASTHMA,HAY FEVER

and kindred ailments absolutely cured
by newly discovered specific treatment
sent by mail. Pamphlet with r. frren-
ces, mailed free. Address Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association. 663 Main
Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
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I|U,\'.

What will you give me for a good
spring poem?
Fiye minutes, Skip
Miss De Flirt announces a change Of
heart.
Indeed. Whose heart is it now, |
wonder
He-Do you believe In hero worship ?
She--No, not now I'm married.
Society people rarely object to hay
ing the mumps. They are such swell
affairs. you know.
The men who run moonlight excur-
sions are busi'y engaged in getting the
electric lights on their boats in shape.
When bride has been married about
three weeks she begins to send home
for the old clothes she refused to take
With ntr.
Is my article in the soup? inquired
the good natured literature.
Not yet replied the editor; but I'm
going to boil it down pretty sooH.
Mankind would be much happier
were less time given to the borrowing
of trouble and to the searching for
things that one does not want to find.
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Waiting.

Doctor-Excuse me. Which of you
gentlemen has been waiting the
longer'
Tailor-I believe I have. 1t is
more than year since you ordered
a suit of clothes and got it, but you
haven't paid me yet.-Stockholms
Tidningen, ~,
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14

In Scotland it was for IA long time not
unusual to place on a mans tombstone
the symbols Of his trade.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14
THURM0NT frederick County, Maryland Thursday June "A, 1884,

ODD LITTLE items.
There are over 100000 telephones In
SERVICE in the U. s.
There are 23O John Smiths named in
the N. Y. City Directory.
One half the wealth Of England is in
possession of 900 persons.
A bald Eagle carried off bottle of
hair restorer from Perryville Pa.
The marriage rate in England is low.
er at present than ever before.
Spiders have been known to spin
nearly two miles of thread IN q days.
Last year the total consumption of te.
in this country was SS,l3l ,038 pounds.
The greatest geysers IN the world are
in the Yellowstone National Park.
Live fish have been safely sent by
mail from India to the British Museum.
The volcanoes Vesnylus and Etna
are never both active at the same time.
Many physicians declare that the
Sc of tobacco in moderate quantities is
beneficial.
Egypt is to build $75O.O0O 6reproof
museum TO hold the priceless relics of
antiquity.
There are oyer $4,000 bicycles rid
den IN this country every day during
the summer months.
Smokeless powder said to be superior
t +, any yet in use has been invented by
an American.
Crime in all army is punished on
scale ten times more severe than any
thing known to civil life.
The Alma women in Japan tattoo their
faces to give them the appearance of
men with whiskers.
Transparent leather is IL new produc.
ton Of foreign make, aud its secret Is
]ealously guarded.
In Scotland it was for IA long time not
unusual to place on mans tombstone
the symbols of his trade.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14

Transparent leather is IA new produc.
ton of foreign make, aud its secret Is
lealously guarded.
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Volume XIV.
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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14

The Alma women in Japan tattoo their
faces to give them the appearance of
men with whiskers.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14

Crime in all army is punished on a
scale ten times more severe than any
thing known to civil life.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14

Many physicians declare that the
use of tobacco in moderate quantities Is
beneficial.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1894-06-14

Liye fish have been safely sent by
mail from India to the British Museum.
The advocate., 1894-01-24

farmers and was parleying with col
ored man as John approached unper-
Ceived.
'Does Kate know Pm in town
Slick ?" Sam Cotterell had asked.
"Lawd, no, Mr.. Cotterelll Miss
Kate's done gone out to you all's house
long go. Stawted yeahly dis mornin'.
Deys done been out dar an eat dinnah
by dis time" said Slick.
"HoW'd she gop Didn't walk, I
reckon" said Cotterell, with some
anxiety.
"Deed she didn't, exclaimed Slick,
with pride. ''Done went in the finest
kline of livry rig, she did. Cunnel
0Ve'ton done druv her out. )"
"Who's hep" inquired Cotterell.
"Why, de gemmen what's been laid
up wild de broke leg what Miss Kate's
been nussin. He gwine to do sumpin
purity by Miss Kate, and don't you fur
git il"
Had she had any trouble with your
folksp How'd she come to leaVe?"
asked the anxious father.
"Why, Cunnel 0ve'ton wanted to
drive out, an Doctor wouldn't let inn
go alone. So he say he drive Miss Kate
out home for drive" said the Afro
American.
WAS she going to stay all night ?"
Dunno" said Slick. "she done
say dey be back wen dey come.
Couldn'n get muffin mo- out'n her.
But, say, Mr.. Cotterell, what you want
to frow yo'sef away on dis here new
party forP You gWine to 'stToy all
Miss Kate's prospects, an she sich
bright gul, too. Don't go for to do dat.
Now, you listen to me. rs use to desc
here public fairs, an YOU
Just then hand was laid on Sam
COtterell's shoulder, and he turned
about to see John laughing heartily at
the last few words, which he had over
heard.
"Why, John, declared" exclaimed
Cotterell the elder. 81 never thought
of your bein' around here anywheres.
Coin out homer Amt lost your job,
l reckon?"
mo" said John. "This is Labor
day, you know, and we have a lay off.
j asked the boss for two days, and ] am
going to visit you till tomorrow after
noon. How's mother and all of them"
'Mother's well and all well at home"
said the old man. "I've just heard
Kate's gone out home to spend the
day, too. I'm afraid she'll be gone il
we don't hurry. I'd just come down
from committee meetin' up stairs
here when he told me-" pointing in the
direction of the retreating Afro Amer
ican.
"WhO is that niggerP" asked John
"He seems sort of fresh"
"Him?" ungrammatically asked
Sam. "0h, that's Slick Blackburn,
that works at the same place that Kate
does. He always tells Kate when
mother or mes in town, so she can
come round to the store and see us.
Folks like us can't go to her place, you
know"
Johns Ease clouded and wore an
ugly look for a moment, but, suggest
ing that they had better hasten, ne and
his father climbed into the old "Kan-
sas" wagon, and the homeward- bound
horses hurried away.
ITO be cORtiRuedl
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The advocate., 1894-01-24

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The advocate., 1894-01-24

farmers and was parleying with col
)red man as John approached unper-
lniVa6
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-28
THE SCHOOL BOARD
Elects Teachers for The Spring Term
leighton and Stone Schools Combined.

The experimenting school committee at
. meeting Tuesday, elected teachers - fol-
lows for the spring term Of 1894, to begin
Monday. April 10Th, and continuing 10
weeks; Ballard school, Mrs. Celia Perry !;
Bolton Hill school, Miss Harris; Bracket
school, Miss Jennie Lord; Church Hill
school, Miss Clara Bennett. Cony school,
Miss Carrie E. Erskine; Fletcher school,
Emma S. Dana; Hewins school, Ada G..
Ames; Hospital school. Fredrica Perry !:
Howard school, Miss Maud Chase; Howe
school, Miss Young; Jewett school, Miss
Mertie Brann; North Parish school, Mrs.
Addie C. Hanks; Spaulding school, Miss
Arda B. Warren; Stone and Leighton
schools, Miss Lillian White; Stony Brook
and Ward Road schools. Mrs. Viola M.
Mosher: Wellman school, Miss Cobb.
As there will be but two pupils in the
Leighton school, it was thought hest to
combine that school with the Stone school
for the spring term, employing some one to
carry the pupils from the Leighton school
back and forth. The same will lie done with
the Stony Brook and the Ward schools,
Mrs. Mosher teaching in the former. This
is a matter of economy, where the schools
are 80 small, and was advised by Rev. Mr..
Wyman.