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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-05-25

THERE WIS introduced in the New
jersey legislature the other day a pecu
liar hill, making it unlawful "tO trans
NIT 10y will, descent, or otherwise, prop
erty worth more than 81 200, 900, all
above that sum To eScheat to the state
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-05-25

CHAIRMAN JAMES A. STRANAHAN, Of
the Democratic state committee has is
sued the official call for the state con
vention to he held at Harrisburg on
Wednesday, June p, at IL O'Clock A. NJ
To nominate state officers
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-05-25

The new Kansas ballot law requires
that the lower limbs of the voter as
hign up as his knees shall be visible
from the outside while the voter is in
the booth preparing his ticket, the low
er part of the booth having been left
open for that purpose. A Boston pa
per detects in this provision a subtle
scheme against woman suffrage.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-05-25

AFTER warming his grandmother, Mrs
Peter MuIdoon. 50 that she escaped from
the burning house. 5-year-old Willie
Ford, of Niagara Falls, y. Y. himself
persisted in the flames
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-05-25

In 1916 ice was half an inch thick in
May, frost and ice were common in
June and also in July and August.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-05-25
MEAT MARKET,

Having purchased the good will
and business of David ID. Pryce. of
EbcnSburg. in the butchcring bus
mess, i take this met thod of inform
ing the people of Ebensburg and
vicinity that will carry on 4 Meat
Market at the old stand. and invite
the same generous patronage of
the public that was extended 10
my predecessor. Intending To bny
and sell for cash. vii at all times
keep on hand the best quality of
Meat and give my customers the
benefit of the lowest prices.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-05-25

IHE senate naval committee has re-
ported bill for the construction of -
torpedo boats.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-05-25

II the order of things in the 9. O. p,
after Delemater follows Hastings
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-05-25
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ON SHOES
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-05-25
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1894-05-25

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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14

near together. Another artistic plan, with two windows quite close together, is to use one long curtain at each win dow, the two long ends hanging on the outside, the short inside ends drawn to- gether at the top between the two poles and fastened there in graceful folds. One long piece of stuff is often thus used in place of two separate curtains.
 A New York girl has unique portiere hanging between her sleeping room and bath-a piece of sailcloth on which is roughly painted the figure of mermaid in the ocean. The curtain is tied by small loops of rope to a stout fishing pole fastened across the door, and on the bracket above are some large, exquisite ly polished conchshells and starfsh.
 Many single doors are using only one curtain, the material bought by the yard and the fringe sewed on. No rings are used. The rod is put on inside the door, ways, with space above sufficient to per init the portieres to be thrown over the pole once or twice, according to the width of doorway, one end reaching tc the floor. the other quite short. The fabric can be wound so loosely over the pole that the 'sagging" i'll the center will form graceful curves.
 Double dOorways of course have two curtains, and many are hung ill the way mentioned coming from the ceiling. The most of them, however, are put on movable cranes fastened inside the doorways. These cranes are fastened like brackets in either side of the door, way and lack several inches of touching each other. They swing in and out with the portieres on them with the greatest convenience to pasSers
 Among the most popular materials for doorway curtains i'll drawing rooms are the French empire brocades i'll blue. pink or yellow, with lace curtains of fine handiwork hung over one side.
 High i'll favor are the heavy red French tapestries, used with bands of white cream lace, inserting stitched on the cur tains. forming a border. This color gen erally matches Turkish or French deco rations and can be used with an empire curtain of pink on the other side of the folding door, done last week in a new
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14
PuniCe Stone.

Pumice stone is porous feldspathic scoria from volcanoes. The pores are linear and so fine as often to be barely visible except by means of magnifyins glass. Its specific gravity is 2.2 to 2.4 water being the unit-but by reason of it's spongy texture pieces are often buoyant enough to float on water. It consists chiefly of silica, with some times F per cent of lumina, 6 per cent of soda and per cent of potash. It is of grayish shades of color. passing into yellow and brown. The chief source from which it is obtained for commer- cial purposes is Campo Bianco, one of the Lipari islands, where it forms hill nearly 1000 feet high. In the arts pumice Is largely employed, mostly in pulverized state, as a polishing mate rial for ivory, wood, glass, marbles, etc. It is also used in lump for grinding and smoothing metallic surfaces, leather, etc.. and in the preparation of parch ments, etc. Quantities of the pulver ized pumice are used in making fancy soaps. Brooklyn Eagle.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14
Know When They Are Hungry.

Pigeons must have the credit of pos sessing some intelligence. A curious and very interesting sight may be seen each day, Sundays excepted, at one of the windows of the office of Henry w. Williams, in the Rialto building, oppo- site the postotfice. For the past few years some 80 or 40 pigeons haVo been there regularly fed at II o'clock. A bushel of cracked grain is purchased at time for the purpose. The birds gath CT on the west side of the postUftice and watch for the window to open. They know perfectly we'll when that hour ar rives. If there should chance to be any delay in opening the window, they will often fly over to the other windows of the same office and tap on the glass to remind the clerks who may be sitting there that it is time for their breakfast. The minute the window opens they land on and about the sill and push and crowd and stand on each others backs and sometimes fight, so eager gre they to pick up the grain which is spread all about the outside. They soon become quite tame and readily eat out of the hand. Boston Transcript.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14

10 be sheriff at Portland is regarGed as the goal toward which all the boys in Maine should aspire. It is as good as being president of the United States and is less exposed to assassination. Those who cannot be sheriff hope some day to marry into his family and inherit his cigar trade.
 At Augusta had a strange experience. was given a very comfortable room at the hotel, and having lost considerable sleep for several nights, sitting up with college boys and so forth, read brief chapter from very interesting book re- specting the Worlds fair and retired.
 Soon there came from the adjoining room low whistle. l regarded it as a signal and answered it as matter of mere sport, as it were. The reply came back along with low gurgle like that of baby elephant dying in a kettle of mush.
 It was a snore.
 Following this came quick detoaa- tion, like the explosion of a paper bag under cloud. Then there was a snatch of song without words and nocturne in something or other.
 It was musical snore punctuated with the vail of damned soul. I sat up in bed, and the materialized ghost of my departed hair rose like new aspara- gus on the old site.
 If this were to be my last letter to my friends all the way from Edinburgh to the City of Mexico and this statement were to face me at the bar of judgment, I should still say that never heard any thing like that snore since He'll Gate was blown out in New York city.
 Eight years ago at Herkimer. in the state of New York, cruel woman who had promised to love, honor and obey her husband stole up behind him while he was reading the Heavenly Twins" or some other work, and split open his head with an ax while he was in the midst of an unthought think. Had she truly loved him she would not have done this. But she did, and then quar- tered him. He hadn't had a dollar for years that he could call his own, but in death he had four quarters on his per son after his loving wife got through with him.
 After cutting him up like the brother of Ali Baba she consumed him in the cook stove It took several days, and even then his artificial teeth were easily recognized by those who knew him.
 Discovery followed, and so instead of nice second husband she stood in the early spring on an elevated platform at the Herkimer jail, with barred head, to give her wretched life to the state in part payment for the naughty act for which she had been tried.
 As she shot into eternity she gave a shriek that interfered with my rest for over year. I never heard anything like it till this night at Augusta. It un-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14
THE EDUCATOR.

The photograph is now used in schools for teaching purposes.
 The University of Michigan has over 50 of its own graduates upon it's faculty.
 Wesleyan has purchased the mathematic- al models in the German university ex- hibit at the Worlds fair
 The usual curious mistakes are shown in the examination papers for Oxford this year. One candidate described "primogeni- ture" as plant with only one flower.
 Dean Wayland of the Yale law school says there is no truth in the report that Mir Edward J. Phelps intends to resign his pro- fessorship of equity and international law
 George Martin Lane has resigned the Pope prQfessorship of Latin at Harvard, to take effect Sept 1. Mir. Lane has been full professor of Latin for 43 years. His resig- nation has been accepted and Professor Lane elected Pope professor of Latin emer- itus from Sept l.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14

AN inferior court in South Dakota which had declared a brewing plant to be a nui- sance. and had ordered it's abatement together with the destruction of some so .O0O worth of property. has been re- strained in its ruthless course of virtue by the supreme court of the state, which finds that a brewery is not nuisance. The flnatical zeal which would destroy private pro t,erty in the name Of the law and morality differs little in its effects from that which would resort to violent methods for the accomplishment of its end The two. alike essentially attend to the subver- sion of the civil power. and they need to be constantly held in check by it's strong hand
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14
THE RElNCARNATlON THEORY.
A Beautiful Explanation That Was Painful
 In Its Einal Application.


 Landlord Allan is always looking for a good thing and always recognizes it when he sees it. This he found in . Washington paper, and the local appli- cation makes it the more interesting:
 If there IS d good story born in Wash ington, it is two to one shot that its cradle will lie in the back p"rlor of John Chamb berlin's. Dr. Edward Bed Toe came over from Philadelphia one night and sat therein entertaining choice group of friends with tales of the far east. In the edge of the group sat a man from Pennsylvania, who had come over from. Pottsville- on some govern ment contracting business. He was all ears and eagerness. His name was Strauss. Finally the restraint became too intense, and he broke loose.
 "Toctor, said he, 'what is dot new relichun ! heers off about China? My wife has got it ferry bad, und I don't understand it.
 Tell me the name," said Bcdloe ''Is it Mohammedanism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Taoism, Confucianism or what?"
 "Oh. it is no isms, but der name is like tramp's migrashun of der soul, am it?''
 "Oh, you doubtless mean transmit grafton of the soul.
 "Yah, dot s it. You dell mo about dot"
 "Certainly. Transmigration of the soul is very pretty poetic doctrine of metempsychosis which our friends of the Theosophical society have borrowed from the far east'--
 "Here, here, toctol! Tell me vot dot means, so l can understand what you vos talking aboud.'
 All right, l will ccll you in plain language. Take yourself, for instance. You live to the allotted age of three score years and ton, and then you pass away. Your soul goes into the body of bird-a canary, we'll say-and from your gilded cage you fill a lady's bou doir with the melody, living a life of luxury and fed from the dainty fingers of beauty '--
 "Oh, dot is beautiful, beautiful! l like dot!'
 And then you die again, and your soul goes into a lovely flower in gar den, and you fill all the air with fra grance and delight the eye with your cX- quisite color and delicacy of petals - "Ah, dot Is fine! l like dot relirhun. v "As I was saying when you inter- rupted me, you live the life of a flower, until one day donkey gets into the garden, and attracted by your loveli ness he eats you, and your soul passes into the donkey''--
 Yah, yah.
 "When some former acquaintance comes along, strokes your long ears and says: Why, Strauss, is it you? How little you have changed! "-Pottsyille (Pa.) Republican.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14

hinged my mind for a week. and 1 could not eat or sleep. Perhaps it was my sur prise that she did not expect to go direct ly to Abraham's bosom, where there must be an awful nest of murderers by this time worrying the life out of poor Lazarus, but this shriek of lost soul that day gave my brain a jolt that it will never fully recover from.
 I was therefore surprised when this man with his bugle played a bar of The Campbells Are Coming" never knew 8 snorer with such a register as this one. He would give a little moan like new puppy that has missed the maternal font by three-quarters of an inch, and then he would render the mush kettle gurgle and the Balaklava groan, winding up with the Herkimer squeal of the damned soul whose tail has been caught in the door.
 have never put in such a night since Twas born. The glad snort of the 2-year- old colt came now and then, followed by the twitter of swallows and the cries of the wounded at the surprise and capture of Marco Bozzaris. Then the folding bed would creak, and I would imagine that it had closed upon the sufferer, for stifled snort would come from the bedclothcs. and death would seem to have come mercifully to lay his cold hand on the strong man in his agony.
 was just going to the door of the room to save the mans life when across the hall came a commercial traveller who sells hand sleds for the Maine Manufac- fnrinCr To n hiS rnha Ho nuit and wore high hat to keep the cold air from striking his nude head. Kicking the door rudely with big shoe which he carried in his hand, he said, 'There, d-n you, you're dead, and I'm glad of it, but if you ever dare to move hand or foot again, you low lived stiff. I'll come 1S,000 miles to murder you in the most sickening manner I can think of."
 Then he shook the door violently, threw some coal through the transom and went back to bed again.
 In the morning got up pale and hag- gard. Slowly dressed myself and went down to breakfast. As l passed the desk said to the clerk, Who was that thrice accursed brute who slept in No. 9 last night?"
 "Why do you askT'
 Because he is dead. Died in his sins with a newborn snort on his cowardly lips. Died with room full of echoes and throttled groans. That's why ask"
 "Ah," said he, looking at little draw CT with a string of labels on it, you are wrong, guess, about that. That room was occupied this week by Viola Mur- kins, the prima donna of the Singed Cat Opera company, so called because the girls who sing in it are so much better than they look"
 And it was so.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14
BILL ME IN MAINE.
HE SAYS HE GAN MAKE A COTTON
 MILL LIKE THE ONE HE SAW.

But, Alas! He Has No Time-He Describes the Gin Palace and Gives a Narrowing Experience In Augusta, Where He Lis tens to a Snore-WhO the Guilty One Was.
 [Copyright, 1894, by Edgar w. Nye.l
 WAY DOWN IN MAINE. We are travelling through the Pine Tree State and enjoying the sweet and fesinous air of calm winter, while the glad plunk of the skater as he skates in- to an airhole is heard on every hand, and the tinkle of myriads of sleighbells ech- oes through the spruce forests and the fir trimmed hills.
 Maine is glorious state. She is very largely given over to manufactures and looks upon tariff reduction at the pres
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14

be fed on choice cuts of butchers meat while the miners children starve. Rabbit coursing and dog racing are equally patron ized. the larger whippets being used for the rabbit chasing The casual observer might we'll be excused for confounding large whippet with small greyhound.
 The dogs are handicapped according to their weight and sometimes according to their past performances. They are held on their respective marks at the start by trainers and are released at the crack of the pistol. At the end of the course their owners are stationed. and these worthies incite the dogs to show their best speed by calling to them and frantically waving handkerchiefs, coats and stuffed rabbits
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14
LATEST DRAPERIES.
PLEASING STYLES AND RANCHES IN
 CURTAINS AND PORTIERES.

A "Reminiscences of the Old Fashioned
 Lambrequin-Many Portieres For Single
 Doors Are Draped Poles Without
 Rinys-Convenient Movable Cranes.
 The old fashioned lambrequin had its use, and a reminiscence of it is often seen in narrow piece of rich silk looped across the curtain in some fanciful way. When the window is bow, the silk is carried along all the windows from one pole to another, forming continuous up- per drapery. Decorator and Furnisher notes and illustratesthis and some other new ideas in drapery as follows: This strip of silk is also used in the case of windows
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14
Good Cause For Suspicion.

"John," exclaimed the nervous wo- man, do you think there is a burglar in the house?'
 "Certainly not. Why, 1 haven t heard a sound all night
 That just what alarms me. Any burglar who wasn t foolish would keep perfectly quiet so as not to excite our suspicious. Indeed, John, do so wish you would get up and look through the housev' Washington Star.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14
LoNDoN's DOG sPRlNTERs.
Novel Races Between Whippets Now Pop
 lar In the British Metropolis.

NOVeI Races Between W WhiEpets NOW Topu-
 lar In the British Metropolis.
 Dog racing is London's latest sporting fad, and as it does not injure the dogs, is not at all brutal and affords entertainment to the owners of the dogs and their friends it is certainly great improvement on dog fighting. The genuine racing dog is called a whippet and is the offspring of a grey hound and terrier. Inasmuch as the whippet is called the "Hitalian" in the north of England, the grey hound originally bred from was doubtless the Italian grey hound.
 Lancashire, Yorkshire and Northumber- land are the counties where whippct racing has fiourished for a long time past, the miners being liberal patrons of the sport. Indeed this is the very dog that is said to
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14
irtE HOUSEWIFE.

To remove egg stains from spoons rub with moist salt.
 Hang pictures so that the center is on Q level with the average eye
 Flour absorbs odors easily and should therefore not be kept where onions, fish, cheese or other odorous substances are.
 Towash doubtful calicoes put a teaspoon full of sugar of lead in a pailful of cold wa ter and soak the article one hour before washing.
 Creases may be taken out of silk by spreading the material on a clean ironing cloth, laying over the creases damp cloth and then soft paper, pressing with warm iron.
 The best way to ascertain whether coffee has been adulterated is to pour cold water on it. If pure, 1t will color the water very slightly. If mixed with ohiesry' thr wseaf will taks hrewnish hue.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14
"Well, I have sold it for $500"
The One Exception.

A village cure at a wedding dinner held out his glass after each dish was served, with the remark, My children, we must drink wine with this"
 At the tenth repetition of the formula, Pardon, M. le Cure" said one of the guests, 'but tell me, with what would you not drink wine?'
 '.With water, my son. ."-Argonaut.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-14
THE PRINCELING.

Empress Eugenie as she grows older
 grows fleshier. She has lost much of her
 former beauty and is fat and slow of mo- I tion.
 During her recent sojourn in Madeira the empress of Austria used to walk 15 miles daily, her lady in waiting and secre- tary accompanying her. | Queen Victoria is a colonel of dragons This may sound funny, but it is fact, her majesty being honorary colonel of a regi- ment of Prussian dragons. The Duke of Parma, father of the Prin- cess of Bulgaria, is the prince who can | boast of the most children among the princes of Europe. He has 15-viz, 10 l daughters and sons, all of whom are | living.
 When the French royalist ladies visit the | Count and Countess de Paris for three days at Stowe in England, they are required to bring six dresses-three to be worn in the daytime, at the rate of one day, and three in the corresponding evenings. Among the numerous talismans which the shah of Persia carries with him on his travels are a circle of amber which fell from heaven in Mohammed's time and renders the wearer inyulnerable, a casket of gold. which makes him invisible at will and a star which is potent to make eonspirators instantly confess their crimes
 Blotches, Old Sores. Ulcers and all ski n -ruptions cured by P. P. F.. the grea est blood purifier of the age.
 If you are troubled with Dyspepsia, Stomach Disorder, or Liver and Kidney Complaint, try P. P. F., and you will re- joice att magical workings. Females are peculiarly benefited by P. P. P. It expels disease, and gives healthy action to every organ.
 A fact worth knowing Is that blood diseases which all other medicines fail to cure yield slowly but surely to the blood clansing properties of P. P. P. [Pfiekly Ash, PekB Rect and Potass91mi