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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-23

The suggestion is made by residents
Of the West Side that if it be the pur-
pose of tie directors of the Lacka-
wanna hospital to enlarge that much
crowded institution of mercy, no better
plan could be pursued than to remove
the site from the central city altogether
TO some one Of the many high, health
iul and picturesque spots on the Hyde
Park side Of the river. 1t is contended
that inasmuch as many of its eases
come from that portion Of the city,
now necessitating long carriage Of
patients in ambulances, always y pain
full operation, such a location would
bring the hospital nearest to its chief
constituency and also permit the hos
pital, through the greater availability
Of land on the West Side, to have su-
perior facilities Mt less cost than could
be obtained anywhere near its present
site.
1t is indisputable that the hospital
needs to be radically enlarged and inn
proved. The question of adding on
additions to parent building little
fitted for the purposes to which it is
devoted, instead of rebuilding entirely,
will, wo suspect, be answered ratherin
accordance with the resources avail
able than according to the wishes of
the hospital directors. In q crowded
business portion of city like our own,
an emergency hospital is almost ne
cessity. Persons almost daily receive
injuries in the streets which would be
much aggravated were it necessary to
carry the patients to remote place of
treatment. Therefore, if an arrange
ment could be made whereby the pres
cnt building at Franklin avenue and
Mulberry street could be maintained
as an emergency and supplementary
hospital, and an entirely new and ade-
quate one be erected, endowed and
equipped on the West Side, we feel
sure that it would be the ideal solution
to this whole problem.
And what is to prevent? In the
first place it should be understood that
the state owes to this community q
miners hospital worthy of the name.
The LaclIawanna hospital has done
nobIy with the means at its command;
but ii has not been, and nobody will
pretend that it has been, the kind of
hospital suited TO the necessities of the
third largest community OF the conf
mon4ealth and Of the first largest COM
munity in the anthracite mining re-
gion. The state has made liberal
provision for hospitals at Pittston,
Wilkes-Barre and Carbondale; and it
simply cannot refuse, after proper
presentation Of the case, to make at
least equal, if not proportionate, ap,
propriations in behalf Of the metropo-
lis Of the hard coal fields. Here is q
chance for Representative Farr. The
achievement by him of an onacted'law
approptiating say $4,000 for n state
hospital at Round Woods, would be 4
filling climax to his many services in
behalf Of the laboring classes; nor
would such measure perish by veto
at the hands of Governor Hastings.
Meanwhile, the Lackawanna hos.
pilal could doubtless be sustained by
private benc1icence as an admirable
adjunct institution bridging the chasn
between the semi.privato Moses Taylor
hospital ON tie East Side and the de-
sired new state hospital on the West.
STrlAR A u1nliooto cubiaoiOU XJoII
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-23

Number two is of Port Jeryis deriva-
tion and simply knocks Peter Sweeney
speeches.. While Sanford Drake, far.
mer living near Narrowsburg, was picking
huckleberries on the mountains near that
place, Tuesday morning, he discovered a
den Of rattlesnakts, and before he was
fairly aware of his dangerous position the
reptiles surrounded him. Seizing pole
Farmer Drake welded 1t with all his
might. while the snakes approached from
every direction, ready for battle. After
killing twenty-five his weapon gave out,
but he found another pole and this lasted
until every snake had vanished. When the
farmer had completed his, work he re
turned home and told his brother OF the
affair and together the two went to the
den, where count showed that Drake had
killed fifty three rattlers, the smallest
measuring four feet and three inches in
length aud five inches in circumference.
The rattles were cut from the snakes and
preserved as mementos. There were 874
of them. We pause to respire.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-23

Two bad Hazletonians, John Minim and
Joseph Zoumiscki, absconded to New
York with sum of money belonging to
their landlord, one Wastalenti. When
caught and searched, the men had moth
ing; but Constable Boyle, lynx-eyed Of
ficer from Luzerne, grew suspicious at the
peculiar appearance Of Zoumiscki's boot
heels. lie took the boot heels TO shoema-
ker, who tore them open and found Sl20 in
each heel. he money was in $50 bills and
one 500 bill, and was neatly folded in
squares, fitting snugly into the cavity
which had b5en cut into the heel. This is
interesting as shedding light upon the nor
nal dimensions of the Luzerne county
foot.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-23

THE NEW minister to Russia, Clifton
r.. Breckinridge, once fought against
his government, later prolited by the
assassination of political opponents in
his own congressional district, and
latest won renown as an obedient
Grover Cleveland cuckoo. 1t will
scarcely be denied that he has earned
his reward.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-23

The snake season having set in, we pro-
ceed to harvest our winnowings. Our
first one bears Hazleton date mark On
Monday Peter Sweeney took his moving
machine into the field to make hay. He
made ono round of the field when he saw
about three feet of live blacksnake above
the uncut hay gliding across the meadow at
rapid speed At times 1t would 70 down,
then appear again, and finally Mr.. Swee-
ney lost sight OF it. When on the fourth
round of the field the knives of. the machine
struck something. In an instant there
was n whir and the head and portion Of
the reptile raised in the air nearly FIVE feet
Though somewhat frightened Mr.. Sweeney
stopped the team, went back aud found
The snake cut in three pieces. He placed
the parts together and found that the
monster measured feet 10 inches In length
and was about three inches thick.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-23

In Chicago Sam Small says he saw
marching body of men $4,000 strong,
carrying a banner Inscribed; "Our Chill
dren Cry for Bread" And they marched
straight to a picnic ground and drank
], 400 kegs of beer.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-23

PRESIDENT DOLE, at Honolulu, is q
flrst-claas example of what grit, brain
and backbone will do for good man.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-23

This is how Colonel Cockerill lets fly
his goshawk at Britisher of our day:
"rhat dreadful and diseased cad, Rud-
yard Kipling, has just printed in Lon
don journal poetic nightmare which he
calls "A Spectacle for tue Compassion Of
the Civilized World" 1t is aimed at the
American Spirit and is based on the recent
labor disturbance in and around Chicago
The indications are that the feeble Eng
lish mind of Mr.. Kipling has fetched loose
from its moorings and is now drifting
tempest-tossej. The poor cadger has long
nourished q hatred Of our fair republic.
His hostility took the form few years
ago of marrying one Of our daug ghtors.
Since that his blackguRrd hatred has been
intensified if anything. But he is not the
only blackguard son.in.law that Liberty
has--nnd we look toward England as wo
make this remark" Methinks, even from
Scranton, | Can see England quail before
the colonel's stony glare
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-23

WE VIOLATE no confidence in saying
that sugar will continue for some
months to be, as Mr.. Cleveland con-
fesses, "a delicate subject"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-23

Few funnier things have happened than
the entrance of j. Bennett Smith, Of
Sassafras club renown, into the Luzerne
congressional fight; but the joke would be
to a nomination on the harmony plea
His battle cry, in any event, is catchy
enough to win. "Smiths good enough.
Let it 60 at that"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-23
QUEER THINGS
SEEN AND HEARD

1t is. perhaps, merely coincidence that
William Franz, who is flower fancier OF
long standing should place In the bou-
quets with which he occasionally favors
friends, liberal proportion of forget-me-
nots,
People Of the West Side have. it is said,
not forgotten the promised viaduct; but
we are not prepared 10 say that the people
of the central city may not, at this rate,
soon forget all about those promised
bridges
The rise of the equine into social favor
hereabouts. thanks to the influence Of
those weekly Driving park matinees, is
causing many prescient Scrantonians to
look forward to the pleNsurable possibility
Of winter horse show, a la Madison
Square garden.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-22
COL. BREcKINRlDaE's CANVASS.
Samples of The Work Kentucky Wome
are Doing Against Him.

A Pittsburg, Pa, gentleman who has Just
returned from Kentucky was in Lexington
when Col W. G. P. Breckenridge made his
speech there. He relates some significant
incidents of the campaign.
A Lexington man went home the day of
the Forthcoming speech with Breckip-
ridge button IN his coat lapel, and told his
wife that he had decided to support him
She replied:
''As the head of the family recognize your
right to pl ce your political influence where
ever you please and as loyal wife 1 shall
do what I can for the success of your can
didate I am going to the f1orsit's to get a
bunch of the finest white flowers can find
shall meet the train the Colonel arrives on
invite him into my carriage and ride nm
with him..
The citizen looked at his wife in amaze.
ment. He knew that she was quite capable
of carrying out her programme, and he
knew he must prevent it. She agreed to re-
l1nquish her plan when he took off the
Breckenridge button and promised to oppose
the Colonel.
Another Lexington man met some ladies
On the street and joined them in their walk
He wore Breckenridge button. One of the
ladies said to him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-22
FACTS ABOUT A WATCH.
Ssrews So Min ate 1t Is Impossible to Dis
tinguish Taem From Dust

tinguish Them Frem Dust.
The watch carried by the average man Is
composed of SO pieces, and its manufacture
embraces more than 1900 distinct and
separate operations. Some of the smaller
screws are SO minute that the unaided eye
cannot distinguish them from steel filings
or specks of dirt. Under powerful mag
nifying glass perfect screw is revealed
The slit in the head is two one thousandths
of an inch wide. It takes S0S, 900 of these
screws to weigh pound, and pound is
worth 81, 585.
The hairspring is strip of the finest
steel, about 9L inches long, one one hum
dredth inch wide and twenty seven ten
thousandths inch thick 1t is coiled up in
spiral form and finely tempered The proc
ess of tempering these springs was long
held as secret by the few fortunate ones
possessing it and even now is not general
~ known. Their manufacture requires
great skill and care. The strip is gauged
to twenty thousandths of an inch, but
no measuring instrument has yet been de-
vised capable of fine enough gauging to de-
termine beforehand by the size of the strip
what the strength of the finished spring
will be. A twenty -thousandth part of
OH 4lCn SiIAOIoiiC6 LII tuo tulCkI0SS OIL bIlo
stop makes Q difference in the running of
a watch OF. about six minutes an hour.
The vale of these springs, when finished
and placed in watches, is enormous in pro-
portion to the material from which they
are made. A comparison will give good
idea. A ton of steel made up into hair
springs when inwatches isworth more than
1919 times the value of the same weight
in pure gold. Hairspring wire weighs one
twentieth of a grain to an inch. One mile
of wire weighs less than half pound.
The balance gives five vibrations every
second, 800 every minute, 5000 every
hour, 432, 900 every day and 1877, $780, 900
every year.
At each vibration it rotates about ~
times, which makes 1877, 100, 900 revolutions
every year. In order that we may better
understand the stupendous amount of Ia
Dor performed by these tiny works, let us
make pertinent comparison. Take, for
illustration, locomotive with six foot
driving wheels. Let it's wheels be run un-
til they have given the same number of
revolutions that watch does in one year,
and they will have covered distance equal
to % complete circuits of the earth. All
this a watch does without other attention
than winding once every "a hours New
York Commercial Advertiser.
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The Baby Was christened.

A San Franciscan, travelling through
Central America with his wife and young
babe, rented furnished apartments in
Guatemala and engaged a servant to act
as nurse and general housemaid She had
been in their service less than week
when she inquired Of the father if the babe
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'sWe SHOULD be delighted with YOUR COM
pany, but we cannG be seen in public with
a man wearing thai button; neither can we
receive such mai at our home''
The button PROMPTLY came off.
These are samples of the work the women
of Kentucky:are dong against the reelection
of Col. Breckinridg.
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S'andlsh.
A sILvlR WEDDING.

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the 25th anniversary of their marriage
on the 18th. The occasion was very
enjoyable one tt those present. The
bridegroom aud hide, as we'll as the
guests. who numbered about one hun
dred, were in thebest of spirits and left
su bstantial evideice of their friendship.
The month of MAJ has been an eventful
one in the life of Comlade Gust;n. He
was married and moved where he now
lives on the 17th.I the month of Maybe
participated in the battles of Balls
Bluff, Bermuda Hundred and Cold Har-
Dor. Charles A. Warren Post, 6. A. R.,
and the Women's Relief Corps, of which
Mr.. and Mrs. Guitin are mem bers, were
present by specia invitation, and all
were entertained light royalty. Singing
and speaking Occupied the first part
of the evening, after which bountlful
collation. was served and prayer made
by the Rev. Mr.. Multon. The company
dispersed at late hour, with the best
wishes for their host and hostess.
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MANI TOWNS.
Items of Interest Gathered by CORES
pondent of the Press.
Bath

Daniel Barter, IN old fisherman living
with his wife abolrd the small schooner
Tempest, was drowned Sunday morning.
The schooner lay at the gas house wharf.
and about S o'dock Sunday morning
tae old man stared ashore for pail of
water, Not returning search was made
and the pail was found ON the cap.log
OF the wharf. Tie alarm was given land
the body recoveed by graphing. De-
ceased was about65 years old.
The Bath CycleClub have arranged for
series of races at the Bath driving
park on Memorial Day. There are 9
events for prizes. including mile and half
mile races open Q the State, an event
for the championship of the city and
$50 or Sd minute trotting events for
horse owned in tire country. Entries are
to close May 2sth,
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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-11-14
HINTS FOR HORsEMEN.

In case of fire in stables, put a
saddle on your horse and yon can
lead him out without difficulty.
Just before driving, light feed
of oats should be given instead of n
heavier feed of a more bulky grain.
The power and longevity of the
horse are in exact ratio to the intel
ligent care and feeding he receives
Horses, recovering or suffering
fromsdebilitating diseases are read
lily overcome by heat and should
not be put to exhaustive work.
The horse was used as food by
tie early Saxon settlers of Briton,
but as civilization advanced horse
flesh became Questionable.
In training colt the safest rule
is to teach him one thing at time
and be sure that it is learned thor
oughly before attempting some.
thing else.
BY using a bit that hurts you
will teach u colt to dread the bit
and shrink from it. This should
never be. He should be taught to
drive well up on the bit and yield
| a quick obedience to it.