davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-12
Mem Uubliratlous.

Mem f)ubliraiions.
''''~''"'>>S~>..
A NOVEL IN OUTLINE,
WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED By
HOWARD PYLE
Entitled SAILORS AND LANpsMEN. Nils four -.
CHRISTMAS NUMBER
HARPERs WEEKLY.
WHICH CONTAINS ALTOGETHER
80 pages Of handsome illustrations and entertaining ~
ing matter with Illuminated Cover by
EDWARD PENFIELD. -
Other prominent features
rrIuRI.ow's CHRISTMAS STORY. By John KenA,~
Pangs: CHONITAs SLIPPER. Story Of Queer CHI
RADIO Santa Claus by n. 6 McCielland; THE REV
SETH. a Dramatic Story Of timely interest BY R.h
Gregory Prelat and drawings BY Reinhart. Remlngts
Caul Hyde Newell and Mora
Now Ready $500 Year.
Published by HARPER & BROTHERS. Mr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-12
WEST SIDE REPUBLICAN CLUB DINNER

The West Side Republican Club will celebrate the
Republican victory OF November with dinner
on Friday evening at the Hotel Majestic. Seventy
second-st. and Central Park West The special
guests OF the evening will be Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge Judgeelect Albert Haght. William l..
Strong. Congressman L. f. Quigs General Wager
Swayne Clarence Lexow. job f. Hedges Congress
man-elect r. c. Shannon. william Brookfeld. AS
scmbIyman Judson Lawson. J. Sloat Fassett, Ed
ward Lauterbach. the Rev. DR.. j. Balloon Shaw
Cor pressmen elect benjamin l.. Fairchd and
PhfiIp y. Low. Dr. Julius Sachs and W. VI. X.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-12
jCUI HE DIDN'T act.


"Meckly is the only grocer In town that hasn't
put up the price Of sugar How does II happen?'
Probably lacks the sand"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-12
HARLEM REpugLIcAN cLun ELEcrIoN.

The Harlem Republican Club elected the following
ticket last night TO for the ensuing year:
President Andrew NJ. CnderhDl first vice president
Lincoln A. Stuart; second vice president. John H.
Cook: corresponding secretary, Charles a. He;fers
recording secretary. Walter Watkins treasurer.
Loren w. Fuller: Executive Commttee-Henry C.
Robinson. John Carr Frederick NJ Patrick. W. G.
Hands and W. r. Purdy. In a list OF sixteen new
members admitted last night Congressman
Ouigg p. W. Reinhard. Elias Goodman, Collin III
Woodward Guy T. Manning. John u. Taylor and
Robert j. Wright.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-12

EPILEPSY.
rs, nublished full account ~ N. mode II treatment
q, tho Williamson Santarium New London, Conn., WITH
recorded Address as above with stamp TOT no
copy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-12

DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES IN BROOKLYN
Primary elections held by both the regular
and the reform Democrats in all the election dis
tricts in Brooklyn last evening. At the Reform. or
Shepard, primaries there open enrolment OF
voters and every not already enrolled who de-
sired TO vote simply had to have his name put on
the roll. At each primary officers Of election dis
trict associations and delegates to the County Cen
eral Committees were elected There contests
in some of the wards but the general results will
not be known until the in the several districts
is compared The County General Committees will
meet early next month for the choice OF officers.
1t Is probable that Charles J. Patterson will sue
coed Edward VI. Shepard chairman OF the Re-
form Committee. The chief aspirants for the like
place in the regular organization are James d.
Bel, the present chairman; William c. Beecher
and Bernard J. York.
In the Tenth Ward last evening the contest was
sharp between the interests represented by Alder
man John J. McGarry and Assemblyman John A.
Uennessey, both of the regular Democratic faction
Warrants were secured early in the day for num-
her OF voters said be illegally enrolled. 1t was
believed late last night that McGarry had won.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-12
School Aaennes.

!. MFpIc.N Ann FOREIGN TEACHERS Aun.Sss
n supplies Professors, Teachers Tutors ,nn,v to
Gc 10 collie ,es schools and Families AIps, souare.
' Mrs M J. YOU NG-FULTON. y uhlo" S---
GFNcy Miriam Coyriere supplies tutors sppon,mends
"A teachers governesses etc. IN al! dsps cor 2oth6
schools to parents $50 oth-ave.. pooH = - ------
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-12
Geatbers.

n ENGLIsHMAN (oxfcrd and Dublin, ,u positsos
n three years private tutor 10 my SON. ues",d
n. teacher or secretary. Can highly reconmen, l.
FRANK A. OTIS The Locusts. belpo..- -
GERMAN HANOvERIAN. FORMER IE liz. rhtidren
4 hest local conversational classes.
adults private lessons highest references , sI,hs
Apply by letter. FRAULElN HlSCHE' III We" -
II RIVATE INSTRUCTION BY an esper,sem,,'c ,,y ref.
i pupjis fitted for college business nEnus once
crences Address Yale Graduate, Box ~ Irou"e -
VUVUTOR-A Everett Stone graduate OF s exner,enes
j and Columbia College Law school: So sal hth-ave.
IN coaching students for college examnotons ~ -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-12
panrina Afaoer,es.

U>ERNANpo.s ACADEMY. lG. East oS , ",Icfeu q
Il 81. priyats lessons any hour ~. c,ass
pupils convenience. Extra select private s-s-------
m GEORGE DoDwoRrH 40 a., FIFTH AvENTr
class and private lessons Mems class e0o'H
eember Sd new. The Amsterdam
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-12
EPILEPSY.

% E. l7th ST.. Union Square tNor'hl. New.York
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
KING COTTON AT HOME.
Brilliant Appearance of a Field of Cotton
 in june.

Brilliant Appearance of a Field of Cotton
 in june.
 A field of cotton in June is like a great, brilliant flower bed. According to the Blue and Gray, it's bloom resem- bles the hollyhock, and has the re- markable peculiarity of changing it's color from hour to hour. When it first opens it is pale straw color; in few hours it is pure white; later it is faintly pink, and next morning rose color. The flower is succeeded by a triangular pod, containing in three cells the seeds in three locks of white down which burst forth when the pod opens. The length and tho fineness of this fiber, or staple" as it is called, determines the grade of the cotton. The "sea island or long stapled cot ton is grown on the upland. The best cotton in the world is grown on Edisto island, south of Charleston; the staple of this is nearly two inches long.
 Seen under Q microscope, the cotton fibers are ribbon shaped, and not straight like fax, but twisted some thing like corkscrew. The best sea island cotton is in beautiful spiral springs that lend themselves readily to spinning. This cotton is used only in the manufacture of the most delicate fabrics; in England, single pound of it has been wrought into one thousand and tTenty-six miles of thread.
 It was at first thought that compress sion would injurc the staple of the cotton; that the fiber would be broken of short, or the spiral screw, so ncces- sary to good spinning, be crushed fat. But it was demonstrated by expert ment that, so far from injuring the staple, it seemed to preserve it. and since then the great desire of the cot ton shippers has been to get machine to compress the cotton as much as pos Cih1a
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
KEYS IN THE EAST.
Their Great Bulk Corresponds to In-
 tricacy of the Locks.

Their Great Bulk Corresponds to In-
 tricacy of thc Locks.
 In the History of Nineveh, and Its Places. by Joseph Bonomi, we find a description of. perhaps, the oldest lock ever discovered, says Hardware. It was used in securing the gate of the apartment in one of the palaces of khorsabnad In describing this ancient piece of hardware-if such terms may be applied to wooden locks he says: At the end of the chamber. just behind the first bulls, was former ly strong wooden gate, of one leaf, which was fastened by large wooden lock, like those still used in the east, of which the key is as rnnch as a man can conveniently carry. and by bar which moved into a square hole in the wall. It is to key of this description that the prophet probably alludes. And the key of the house of David will 1 lay upon his shoulder;' and it is remarkable that the word for key in this passage of Scripture, 'Inuftah,' is the same in use all over the east at the present time. The key of an ordinary street door is commonly thirteen or fourteen inches long; :nd the key of the gate of a public building or of street, or a quarter of town, is two feet or more in length. The iron pegs at one end of the piece of wood core spond to so many holes in the wooden bar or bolt of the lock, which, when the door or gate is shut, cannot be opened until the key has been in- serted, and the impediment to the drawing back of the bolt removed by raising up so many iron pins that fall down into holes in the bar or bolt cor responding to the peg in the key"
 This description, and others of Q cor robatory character, prove that this form of lock and key was in use in Egypt four CT five thousand years, during which extended period of time it does not appear to have undergone any successful changes.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
Photoeraphing 9 Train,

''At way station the other day. said traveller, ''I saw an amateur photographer photograph the train. dare say this has been done a million times before, but I had never happened to see it. When the photographer was through, he waved his hand as he might have done to a single sitter to let him know that he could get up and stretch his legs. In this case the en- gineer was practically the sitter, and when the photographer waved his hand he opened the throttle and snaked the train out of that big open air studio almost before the photog- rapher had had time to turn around. 5
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
TREES THAT GIVE MILK.
South American Natives Do Their Milking
 Without Using Their Hands.

Without Using Their Hands.
 Dr. Spruce, tho renowned South American traveller, mentions a tree, Q member of the dog bane family, the juice of which is used as milk, says Chambers Journal On the bark be. ing wounded tho milk flows abundant ly, and is of the consistency of cow's milk, of the pnrest white, and sweet to the taste. The Indian mode of talk ing it is to apply the mouth directly to the wound, and thus receive the 1aiIk as it flows. Dr. Spruce says he has often partaken of it without experienc- ing any i'll effects.
 In Guiana, the natives employ the milk from tree belonging to the same family as the b.st named; in the yer nacular it is known as hyahya, and to botanists as TaberEacmontana utilis (so named after Jacobus Theodorus TabernaenOntanus, Q German physi- elan and botanist). The milk has the same flavor as sweet cows milk, but is rather sticky on account of it's contain ing some caOutchouc.
 In Para, a lofty tree, belonging to the star apple family, attaining a height of one hundred feet, is used in similar manner to the others men, toned. Incisions are made in the bark, and the milky juice flows out copious- ly, about the consistency of thick cream, and if it were not for it's taste, which is somewhat peculiar, could be hardly distinguished from it.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
nrackerei Fisheries in Kerry.

A Kerry cores pondent of United Ire land writes: Dingle, on the extreme western coast of Kerry, is now the center of very active operations in the naclscrel fishery industry. Large takes of mackerel have been taken off the coast, and the recent trade whic h has sprung up in the caring of mack erel during the autumn season for the American market has brought employ ment and money to the doors of the the Kerry peasant and shoplkeeper. Dingle is, in fact, hive of industry at the present moment, owing to the cur ing and packing of mackerel for the American market. Every man, woman and child is employed, and thousands of cases are dispatched weekly to Liv- erpool and Glasgow for conveyance to American ports. The mackerel are found off the coast in great shoals, and a fleet of boats is engaged in capturing them, landing the fish in Dingle, where they are cured and prepared.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
Pressure sustained by Divers.

A veteran submarine diver, in relat- ing some anecdotes concerning the bottom of the sea and it's inhabitants, gives some interesting figures as to the amount of pressure the body of the diver is subjected to. At a depth of only one hundred feet the pressure is forty-four pounds to each square inch of the divers surface. The ordinary human frame has about twelve square feet of surface, which would make the pressure at the depth mentioned above not less than thirty-eight tons. This enormous weight is not all pressing downward, but inwards from all direc- tions.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
A GREAT BEAR HUNTER.
Five Hundred of the Animals slaiR b,
 Gen. EEada Hannctcn.


 Mr. Theodore Roosevelt. in his Wi derness Hunter speaks of Gen. Nade Hampton, Of South Carolina, as u man who, with horse and hound, h2 been the mightiest hunter America f7,. ever seen" His special game has be- bear and deer, but he las also had t, fortune to kill some sixteen cougar5- the panther of the east, the nountai lion of the west, and the lion and pc1-i. of South America. Of black beers, c. cording to Mr. Roosevelt, he has proa ably killed more than any other ma: living in the United States. Thirty c forty of these he has killed with tlls knife.
 His plan was, when he found tha the dogs had the bear at bay, to wal up close and cheer them on. The. would instantly seize the bear in body, and he would then rush in an( stab it behind the shoulder, reaehin over so as to indict the wound on tn. opposite side from that where he stood
 He escaped scathless from all thes. encounters save one, in which he va rather severely torn in the forearm Many other hunters have used tht knife, but perhaps none 50 frequently
 Gen. Hampton always hunted wit large packs of hounds, managed some times by himself and sometimes by hi negro hunters. He occasionally too, out forty dogs at Q time. He found that all his dogs together could no: kill big, lat bear, but they occasion ally killed thrce-year-olds, or lean and poor bears.
 During the course Of his life he has himself killed, or been in at the death of, five hundred bears, of which at least two-thtrds have fallen by his OWE lands. In the years just before the war he had on one occasion, in dissis- sippi, killed sixty-eight bears in five months. Once he killed four bears in day; at another time three, and ire quently two.
 The two largest bears he himself killed weighed respectively four hun dred and eight and four hundred and ten pounds. Most of his hunting for bears was done in northern Mississippi, where he had plantation.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
WONDERFUL FEATs OF MEMORY.
Some Minds Have a Facility for Retain
 iag Certain Glasses of Facts.

iag Certain Glasses of Facts.
 Among those who have performed great feats of memory Cassell's Family Magazine mentions Dr. Fuller, author of the ''Wcrthies of England." He could repeat another mans. sermon after hearing it once, and could repeat five hundred words in an unknown language after hearing them twice. He one day undertook to walk from Temple Bar to the farthest end of Cheapside and to repeat on his return every sign on either side of the way in the order of their occurrence, and he did it easily Iu such feats as this the eye plays a chief part; yet blind people also have good memories. Rev. E. J. Johns, chaplain of the blind asy- luIn, London, testified that a large number of pupils learn the Psalter and that one young man was there who could repeat not only the whole of the one hundred and fifty of the prayer book Psalms and large number of metrical psalms and hymns as well as a considerable amount of modern poetry, including GoldsrnithS ''De- ItcSI i11Stt5C. Dub IlAS SFIcIc OI Nil- tons ''ParadiEe Lost" with marginal notes and biography. Lord Macau- lay on one occasion repeated to him. self tie whole of Paradise Lost" while crossing the Irish channel. At another time, waiting in a Cambridge cofec-house for q post chaise, he he picked up a country newspaper containing two political pieces-one the ''P factions of an Exile and the other Parody on 9 Welsh Ballad looked them once through, never gave them 8 further thought for forty years, and then repeated them without the change of a single word. Macaulay's mind, some one has said, was like dredging net, which took in all that it encountered. both good and bad, nor ever seemed to feel the burden. Very much unlike dredging net, and more like q straincr. are the minds of some other persons who carefully select what they will retain or have natu- ral facility for remembering special classes of facts-Ceorge Bidder for fig ures. Sir " Scott for verses. Mezzo- fanti for languages.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
Sealing Wax Still Used in France.

In France sealing wax has by no means gone out of use as a conse- quence of the introduction of gummed envelopes. There is even a sort of code or language of sealing wax among fa shionable people. White sealing wax is chosen for communica- tions relating to weddings, black for obituaries, violet for expressions of sympathy, chocolate for invitations to dinner, red for business, ruby for en- gagged lovers letters, green for letters from lovers who live in hopes, and brown for rcfusals of offers of mar riage, while blue denotes constancy, yellow jealousy, pale green reproaches, and pink is used by young girls and gray between friends.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
FREE MAIL DELIVERY.
Curious Result of an Experiment by the
 Postal Authorities.

CuE1OuS IscSuiI OI HI Uy tAc
 Postal Authorities.
 The difference between city and country ways have been illustrated in a curious manner by an experiment of the post office department, says the New Yorl, Evening Post. Under the last administration about fifty villages and small towns, ranging in population from eight hundred to four thousand inhabitants, were picked out for a trial of the system of distributing mail matter by carrier, as in large cities. At first general satisfaction was manifested. and the receipts of many of the offices for awhile showed an increase, indicating that the con- venience ustinulated correspondence, but as the novelty wore off the resi- dents very generally tired of the change and returned to the old prac- tice of going to the office themselves for their mail A majority of the peo- pie would apparently rather have their letters lie in the office until they call for them and thus have an excuse for frequent visits to the center of local activity than have their mail delivered every day at their houses. The carrier in such places is really Q foe to social activity, as going to the post office" has always been recognized means of mixing with men, and it's occasional inconvenience is preferable to the loss of what i5 often only a pretext for making break in the monOtony of a retired life. Tn view of the evidence that there is not "a long-felt want" to be met by this system of free delivery in small communities, and of the fact that it's general adoption would in- volvc an annual expense of at least ten million dollars, the first assistant post master general wisely advises a sus- pension of the experiment..
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
IMPROVING TIE EYES.
Country Life Said to Be the Fest Antidote
 for Pcor2esS of Vision.


 It is satisfactory to be told by Mir. Ellis that blindness in England is ''slowly decreGsing," though Great Britain still stands in this respect be- hind two other European countries and three more come before Ireland. Shortsightedness, however, appears to be increasing everywhere, Germany having signal and sinister preemi- hence in this respect.
 A French doctor has noted the re- markable fact that wild beasts caught quite young CT born in captivity be- come shortsighted, the conclusion be- ing that the eye adapts itself to it's habitual sphere of vision, and unless ''educated'' to use AJr. Ellis term, to see objects at distance, loses the capacity of 90 doing. Even in after educated. though probably only when tLc nyopia is not considered.
 It is thus within the experience of the present writer, says the London Spectator, that his sight greatly inn proved in days gone by, when he be- came volunteer, by practice at the butts, so that while at first he could not see the target to shoot at without spectacles at three hundred-yard range, after twelve month CT so he only needed to put on spectacles at four hundred yards. But beyond that range he was never able to dispense with them.
 Country excursions are, therefore, extremely valuable as means of strengthening the sight of town-bred children, and the conductors of such excursions should take pains to direct the eyes of the children to distant ob- jeets-to the furthcst hill, church tower, or other land marl-noting, if possible, any incapacity to discern the selected object, and then selecting some nearer one for the weaker sighted.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
Cured Dy Ee.ng Poisoned.

The latest instance of crime bring ing it's own punishment comes, on the authority of Dr. Leonard Guthrie, from Italy. An Italian woman had hus- band and the husband had the dropsy. But the dropsy did not work quickly enough. The woman put toad into her husbands wine to poison him. But the poison which the toad's skin secretes has an active principle-phry- nin-which much resembles digitalis, which is the best possible remedy for dropsy pending on heart disease. So, instead of killing her husband, she re- stored him to health.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
A oNE-GuN REPUBLIC.
When It Vas Secured They Could Nor
 Safely Tire Tf

Safely Tire Ii.
 The rulers of the miniature republic of Andorra decided recently that the country should possess a cannon. KruDp, therefore. was ordered to man. ufacture one of the most modern type. The great gun arrived st it's mountain destination short time ago, and was placed on the highest point in the "country," so that the citizens could see that the valley was well protected. i day was appointed to try the can eighteen l1il0metcTs. Just as the two artillerynen of AndOrra were ready to fire it occurred to one of the prudent citizens that the shot might cause some trouble. The territory Of the republic Andorra does not extend over more than six kilometers. To direct the shot, therefore. toward the surround ing mountains would be the same as firing on France or Italy, as the bail would necessarily fall on the territory of one of these countries. A war might be the result It was then decided to shoot the ball in the air, but some one sug- gested that 1t would endanger the lives of too many people in it's descent, and possibly bore great hole in the re- public of Andorra. Good council pre- vailed and the two artillery men were commanded to unload the gun. The shot has not yet been fired, and the good republicans are uncertain what to do with the expensive gun.
The St. Johns herald., 1894-02-22
To Measure Fixed stara.

Prot. Holden communicates to San Francisco paper what he calls the very important discovery lately made at the Lick observatory by Prof. Campbell. It is an ingenious method for measur ing the dimensions of the fixed stars. In many cases the method is 90 deli cate and beset with so many difficult ties that success is doubtful; but Prof Campbell has found one star on which he has made successful observations. They are directed to the lengths of the bright lines in the spectrum, which in- ticate respectively the height to which each substance extends-not difficult in the solar spectrum; but it was en- tirely unexpected to find a bright line spectrum in the star under observation surrounded by an atmosphere of hydro gen gas of such enormous extent as to be measurable. Prof. Holden declares the discovery to be entirely unique and to open aG 7ltirely new field of knoyEl- edge,