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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-01
SATURDAY.
DEC. 1st, 1894.
THE SPEAKING WATCH.
New Application of One of Edi-
sons Inventions.
1t Announces the Hours, Half and Quar-
ter Hours Distinctly Enough to BE
Heard by the Wearer Wher-
ever lie May BE.

The restless, fortune-hunting man of
the world is so busy nowadays that he
can hardly find time to take his watch
out of his pocket to see what time it is.
NJ. Swan, a matchmaker of Geneva,
Switzerland, has found a remedy, says
the Chicago Inter Ocean. He has late
ly patented theological continuance
which speaks the hours, half and quar-
ter hours distinctly enough to be heard
by the wearer from the upper vest pock-
ct. While the busy man works away
at his books, at his trade, or while he
is deeply engrossed in his commercial
negotiations, the little ticker near his
heart articulates audible reminders of
the rapid feetings of time. With dis
tinct piping voice it utters such phrases
as: 1T is six o'clock" at is half-past
six" 1T is a quarter-past siX."
The world has been surprised of late
with many wonderful pieces of mech
anism in the watch industry. In Chi
cago one Theological expert, Mr.. Pot
ter, has in his possession some mar
velous movements which repeat the
hours, half and quarter hours, and the
minutes with scrupulous eXactness.
Among these valuable curiosities is
one watch, for instance, which is not
only a minute repeater, but combines
with it also what is called split-sec'
ond horse timer, and a miniature per
petual calendar, which shows also the
different faces of the moon. On one OF
the dials it takes the hand four years
to go around. 1t has five hand settlers
and forty-six ruby jewels. This time
piece will cost the purchaser $1,10O
Mr.. Potter also displays what is known
as pedometer, which is self-wind
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-01
Some Women Who Work.

In New York there are now twenty
or more trained mattresses, who earn
four hundred dollars a year and up
ward. The first woman janitor began
her work about two years ago. She
took care of an apartment house.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-07-06
CURIOUS PLANT PROPAGATION
How Branches Are Removed from the
Parent Stem.

branches removed
Parent Stem.
Some very curious processes for
propagation are practiced at the pub
lie gardens. One consists in cutting
with a knife ring around a branch
of plant. One might imagine, saws
the Washington Star. that the inten-
ton was to kill the branch, but such
is by no means the object in view.
The cut having been made, piece of
wet moss is wrapped and tied around
the branch at that point. Beneath this
protection the sap eXudes from the
wound, and little rootlets are devel-
oped After few days the branch is
cut away from the parent stem, being
then itself a complete plant, with
roots, all ready to put in a pot.
Inns plan is adopted with plants of
slow growth, because one plant NAV
tnus be split up into half a dozen or
more OF good size, instead of WAITING
Ior Seeding or little slip to develop.
modification of the same process
consists in placing small pot full
OF earth around the cut place on the
branch, fastening it in position When
roots have developed the branch is cut
on just below the pot, and new plant
is produced. If the gardener chooses
10 take the trouble he can make a SEN
arate plant out of every bud on a tree
IN TACT, an eminent botanist has said
mat every tree is village, each bnd
being an individual.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-07-06
A FISH STORY.
Who Says II Spells Your Luck to Let q
Fish Get Away?

FISH UeC away.
''As soon as it gets little warmer"
said the deacon. who had come up from
Broome county for few days, I'm
going to make trip to my favorlte
fishing ground in the Susquehanna,
just below Binghampton," quotes the
New York Journal.
Zone year ago 1 was fishing there
one day with my soma young man
who thinks he can catch more fish than
l, but who cannOt-when / got whop-
ping big bite-that is, it was fair bite.
The fish dove underneath some snags
in the river, and l lost him and also my
hooks and nearly all my line.
THE next day tried the same place
again. Pretty soon l had bite, the
funniest feeling bite l ever met. l
pulled up till my hook was out OF the
water and there was no fish, but the
bite was there. / couldn't believe my
nerves. pulled up some more. Now,
what do you suppose found?'
why, of course you found you had
caught the fish that got away with
your line the day before"
'.There!' said the deacon, triumph
antly. Il thought you would say
that And you are right, too. But
that is nothing. My fish, a fine perch,
had got free from the snag and by his
peculiar method of wabbling the other
hook along had done just the right
thing to attract the attention of a
monster black bass. 1 remembered
that bass very well. / had fished for
him many time, but the perch was a
better fisherman than l, for he caught
him and never had even fairly hooked
him, although he had often taken my
bait.
well, those two fish, when they
saw how it was, must have fixed it up
between them to put up a job on some
body else. L almost think they DELHI
erately worked a morsel of angleworm
from one of the hooks out on to the
yard line between them, and then
tloatcd around with the line stretched
taut until they got bite, for, when 1
pulled up, there was my perch on one
hook, my old friend, the bass, Hopping
on the other hook, and between them,
squirming and twisting and making a
bustling big gimlet of himself, was an
eel. as large as my arm. He had shut
his teeth SO tight on the line that he
couldn't let go. Yes, sir, there they
were, all three of 'em. Now, what do
you think of that?"
''Wonderful, wonderful! How much
did the eel weigh?'
"Why, he had ought to have weighed
three pounds. should think
Ought to have weighed Didn't you
weigh HIM."
well, no. You see, just as 1 got
those three fish almost up to the pier
was fishing from, the line bro lle and
they all went 'slup' back into the water.
That 5 one of the reasons why am GO
ing to fish there again this year. l
hope to find out how many fish the
three have caught by this time
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-07-06
A ROOMY HOTEL.
cheap Fare and Always Open f.. Cros+
r,n. of Every Dissertation.

c"e"P rare and Always Qpen f.. Cros+
r,>, of Every Dissertation.
1he lmpecunious bohemians of Lon.
uon, When too poor to pay for NIGHTS
looglng' sleep in what they poa4icallv
name the Hotel of the Beautiful star.
or the Hotel de la Belle Etoile. rs II IS
caiiea by those who speak French.s-s
IL is large hotel. and the lodYers
can choose from among several cham
oers' such as the park and the Thames
enoahkment. and always find elbow
room and plenty of water.
Eight or ten years ago Mr. Christie
Mu,ray-he tells the story in 'sThe
MAKING OF Novelist"-was sitting in
s sHe Savage club in company with four
olstlngulshed men OF letters.
one OF them was the editor of a Lon
oon daily, Who said: Il do not sup
pose tnat an, man in my present po-
si.ion mas ex. tSrienced in London the
pliva'ions NEW when + first came
mere. l Wen hungry for three DAYS.
twenty years 'ack. and for three nights
slept I'M the park
You cap tat, Christie.'' said one of
the party. -
-Four nights on the embanlxment
rour days hungry" he answered. His
neignoor, poet, chimed in. laconical-
ly: Five y al
All OF the party had slept in that
notei which is always open for every
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-07-06
VaShOn College


ANiCG SchoOl1OHt the CoI1Ilg CTBCLh Sexes.
IT'S ATTRACTIONSFme New Buildings Scenery
Grounds and Good Water; No,
Nearer than Tacoma, eight N III
GRADUATING COURSESSX
Departments. A Full Corps of Able Instructors
EXPENSES LOWER than Any Other College
And any information desired he President
PROF A. JONES, QUARTERMASTER, WASH.
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EXPENSES ABROAD.
All Things Considered, living Costs a
Much in Europe az Here

All Things COHsitle red, living Costs as
Much in Europe as Here.
Railway fares, unless one travels in
slow trains and miscra0ly in third
class cars, are more expensive il Eu-
rope than in the United les. aud
the accommodation is inferior. writes
4. b. Loomis in Lippincott's. For a
sleeping-car berth from Paris to Nice
one pays eighteen dollars; in America
one may travel from New York to Chi
cago, greater distance, in sleeping
car for five dollars.
Life in good European hotels costs as
much as it does in good hotels in
America, but travellers may be indie
pendent and get cheap accommodate
ton in third-class hotels, if they like;
they will be badly lodged and fed.
Open-air music, beer, wines and COM
mon cigars cost less in Europe than in
America, but good theaters, a first
class opera and excellent cigars are
quite as expensive abroad as at home.
Servants wages are lower here, but
experience proves that one good Amer
lean servant does the work of two Eu-
ropeans, and does it more simply and
neatly.
Street-car fares are about the same
in Europe as in America. Many medi-
cines, such as quinine, for instance,
are very much dearer.
The real difference in favor of Eu-
rope is that one may, if one chooses,
adjust the standard of living to ones
income. Economy is respected in Eu-
rope and is considered respectable,
whereas in America this is not always
the case. In Europe, even people OF
considerable means may live simply
and economic in way that ct home
would excite unpleasant comment.
Here it is accepted as matter of
course
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-07-06
THEY SWORE OFF.
But the Young Mans VIII Was Weak al
He Learned "A i,esson

But the Young Mans VIII Was Weak and
He Learned a Lesson.
A pr ointment young man of the CITY
mas been an inveterate cigarette
smoker for several years past, and he
INDUCED in the habit to such an OK
tent that it was injuring his health.
says the Indianapolis Sentinel. lie has
girl of whom he thinks all the vo~li
and it's case of vice versa. TN
young lady has very good coInple.,
ION, but has an inordinate love for the
use OF powder, which habit the yo;lnc
man detests as heartily as she does his
cigarette habit. They finally agreed
that each would swear off-the one
from using powder and the other from
smoking cigarettes.
ltwas hard work for the vounp man
put every time he hungered for wad
OF nicotine his mind pictured the form
Oh ms 1alr one parading down the street
win her face looking like a pan OF
dough, and he desisted. This went on
1or several weeks and each was re-
marking upon how much better the
other was looking; but the old crav;,o
Tor the coffin nail came upon the vo;lpg
man once moro, and one day last week
lie oro&c over. He thought no oEc
would ever find it out. But he was
seen the news was carried to the girl.
ana she prepared to get even.
1hey were to go to the theater and
Inc young man called with the cab.
ne young lady was at. the door. her
race closely muffled, and in her hand
the bouquet that cost him five. Arrived
al the opera house, they were enter
ing the door when the youno man
turned to speak to the fair one bv his
size. Oh! that face She had smeared
1t with powder unit, it had been neccs-
sary to cut eye holes. It was fripbtfnl
He stopped. ''Are You going in Look
ing like that?"
Just as you say" was the quiet re-
Spouse.
We'll, say no. am. not travelling
with freaks now We'll 90 bacI,
home ~
And they did. 1t cost him ten there
were two vacant seats at the onera
house, but the young man has not
smoked any cigarettes since.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-07-06
PED MANS JlG-WATER,
The Beer Permitted by the Supreme
Court VIII Probably he Stiffened.

The Beer Permitted by the Supreme
Court VIII Probably he Stiffened.
That the supreme court of the United
States knows a great deal about law,
and very little about Indians. is the
way George Burt. late of Winnebago,
Dakota county, Nebraska, sums up the
recent decision that lager beer is not a
spirituOus liquor and that traders may
sell it to the Indians without being
held liable for violating the law which
has been on the statute books for so
man. Years. Burt has been away from
the III ian country for five years. but
his el:htcen years experience on the
frontier enables him to speak as one
with authority.
i haze been knocking about the
tentic: Ill precinct now for four
yca1s. Tad he to a reporter for the
New York nail and Express and
hare Il pretty fair idea Of the effect of
LACE. on the white man, and know
how to make comparison with
the effect on an Injun. Be-
twixt you, me and the lamp
post, I've got 20 scruples agin sel,in'
anything 20 the noble rcd man, as IN
call hirn here in the east, and Nd
just Is liei let him have quar- q rat
pizen Us plug hat, providin' he had
the price. But that isn't the idee-
what mean is that the gowns of the
supreme court is longer than their
heads guess they don't know how
many bars they've let down on the
pasture lot. Never saw Cherokee
full of jig-water, did you? Well, 1
have. and Of all the whooping, howl
ing, rip-snortin', cut-and-come-again
terrors, drunken Injun wins every
time. He is just plumb crazy, that's
all. and would as quick cut his
squaw's throat as he would anybody's
who happened to be handy. Now,
this lettin 'em drink lager is all wrong
Know why? Well, what's to prevent
doctorin' it up with little alcohol or
whisky? If it comes out of beer keg
| suppose it's all right, and just as soon
as Mister Injun knows he can get bit
ter frewater that will make drunk
come quick, he will take to beer. AS
it is now, he won't touch it, cause it
amt strong enough. Say, would just
like to see the whole supreme court out
OF the reservation when the agency
store starts in selling doctored lager,
cause that's the game as sure as guns
iron-Tll bet there would be some fun.
You can just bet a hatful of dollars
that when they got back to Washing
ton that law would be wiped out
quicker'n spider jumps fly"
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-07-06
Peppermint Farn,s.

There are two places in the United
States where the cultivation of the
peppermint plant is one of the leading
industries The older of these places
Is in Wayne county, New York, but for
a quarter of century the business has
been well-known one in st. Joseph
county, Michigan. In the latter place
u farm of about four hundred acres is
planted with the mint each year and
alternated with clover to keep up the
strength of the soil. The cultivation
of the crop requires more than ordi-
nary care. From the time the mint
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-07-06

: -. T''c,'T- =" f,ALYZED.
y ;,c;.'f.5:': < ,...:le'i>n OF :'",ar .ro.n a
M --ecra.
! @c'a'.*..i" ",:"'veis has 7:+vlv been
,,l@d.A i = =; -, o: The IA IN wa
&c" +run2 ~ @arei wu!l . ,'ecaa,
~ ;-i'. ;.+rrre';-.r. is the t:~,p:. T. the
',-Nll t'>;'' r. ...'',ol shcv / . l.: 1T.
az: y = 'S;..>i' ';.vad - -. H.
-. l.t,'r l,...,i-.Cr the re:.a! ,.,l aa,,.i:,
;''.: ...",'" cac:ot wo:,C~~ t,,at pill
,';''. w." |.;,'; the water arc ire
Grc:'''r ;,!r2"';e,l Nv cholera.
!AH % 'i>"-: c::asni~ Cd says the
l-n"l'Hf '..!:.:n. which v-a.4 i:rrt,ct-
:ca;i< " = IN bottles FORT years
600 t. j.. .,.o!.1r. Burton during his
vi@i; /" H,t,>G il the disguise of g der
win, contained sixty-nire grains of
chlorine II t. ~alion. Water which
contains 80 little as nine grains of
c-!:CriH" to H. Gallon is ordinarily re-
Tari",' rs scarcely tit for human con-
aalnpticc.
borrower. IN Che case OF the Zem-Zem
well. Il i believed that the chlorine
or'"it2t@" fro'a Tie custom of pouring
II" water over the pilgrims and allow
ln@ it 10 run back into the we'll. The
sacF2d water was found TO possess an
extraordinary degree of hardness"
three times as great as that of average
water. 1t also held twenty times as
much ammonia compounds as drinking
water should contain.
40 bacteria were discovered. bat this
is accounted fer by the fact that the
water had remained for SO long q time
sealed up il entire darkness. Forty
wears OF such confinement had COM
pletely sterilizcd it. but the chemical
impurities remained.
The Portland daily press., 1894-08-11
Excursion to the White Mountains

To the Editor of the PRESS:
am glad to notice by advertisement this
morning that the Maine Central offer an
excursion.to the Mountains at a very
low rate of fare next Tuesday, the 18th
inst. This gives an opportunity to those
who could not in conscience patronize
Sunday trains to enjoy one of these very
enjoyable days outing, 1t is very liberal
on the part of Manager Tucker to give
the public such a fine excursion for
so little money. Let the train be well
patronized. H.
Portland, August 10.
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in daily circle of suffering, because she
thought there was no relief
Her suffering was caused by female
weakness in its worst forms. She had pain
in her back and loins, great fatigue from
walking, leucorrhea, local Inflammation,
and frequent desire to urinate.
All this time relief was close at hand,
and she had only to accept it with the
same faith that has saved thousands of
others. Every druggist had it.
Lydia b. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound cured her of all weakness and dis
ease, and she is now different woman.
This woman is Mrs. Walter Wilcox, of 1856
West Street, who advises all women who
suffer so from female weaknesses to try it
and be cured 1t cures kidney trouble
in either sex, expels tumors, removes
backache, and invigorates the system.
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Real Estate Transfers

The following transfers of lea estate
have been recorded with the Registry of
Deeds:
Portland-Sarah E. Harrington to Everett
H. Berry.
Read.
Westbrook-sarah H. Maybury to VIM.
johnson. 5 1000.
Harpswell-Lydia skowfield to May S.
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TIME Maine Central Railroad Comnanv will
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he was lost.
He had been
tramping all
night within a
, stones throw
of his home.
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woman inPhil-
adelphia who
lived for years
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MUNICIPAL COURT.
BEFORE JUDGE GoULI

DEE OhE JUDUt GOULD.
Friday-John Cooney. Vagabond: thirty
days in the county Jail.
Thomas A. Webb and Edward ] Cadv
Search and seizure; fined 500 and costs
Both paid.
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Mrs. Wilcox Suffered Years Thinking
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