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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11
POPULAR SCIENCE.

A thimble will hold over 100, ,0C0 Of
the smallest screws made.
The monster water wheel at the CAL
amet and Hecla copper mine, Lake
Superior region, weighs 200 tons.
The pneumatic guns of the vcsuvius
throw shells weighing 4S0 pounds all
lae way from three-quarters Of mile
10 mile and three-eighths.
The venom Of poisonous reptiles.
insects, ETC.. kills by changing the
shape of the blood corpuscles so as to
make it impossible for them to circu-
ate. This, of course, causes blood
poisoning.
A method of treating the most stub
born and refractory cases of mslaris,
suggested by an Italian physician, NJ.
Xibilia, consists in the hypodermic in
lection OF quinine until it produces an
,hscess. The theory of this treatment
Is that an nbscess draws to ii all the
infectious germs in the system and
,naihilates them by neLns of its sup
Duration. An artificial abscess would
thus naturally serve to drain from the
blood the organisms which cause ms.
laria. -
The cred spot" on the disk OF Jup:.
ter, which has been visible on che
southern hemisphere of the p.anet
since 1870, has perhaps attracte1 more
attention than any modern astronomi-
cal oddity, unless, says the st. ouis
Republic, we give the palm to tn, So
called "canals of Mars" The first
hint Of. the tinted markings on the
giants face were, we believe, given by
Professor T.. ). Holden ms early as
1875, but Professor l.. T.. Barnard ap-
pears to be the champion spot
Under" and observer. He has found
that Jupiters great red spot rotates in
nine hours, aity-ive minutes and
thirty five seconds. Near the equator
Of the planet, however, is a white spot,
which is equally as interesting to the
astronomers as the red one, of which
so much has been said and written.
This pale blemish is n puzzler. 1t 10
shaped like comets tail, and it makes
its regular rotations in nine hourS
lifty-ive minutes and twenty seconda
What causes that fifteen seconds diff.
ference in the period of rotation be-
tween the two spots is an enigma to
oil observers.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11

tschment OF this strange armJ OF Ia
borers which does the Kitchen work"
for the hotel de elephant, or Whatever
the feeding place of these big fellows
may be called. Some may he seen
carrying hay for the stables, but by
far the most interesting sight is the
preparation Of the food This is COM
posed OF grass, bran and molasses, and is
mixed in a large vat. While some are
carrying these different components of
this highly de.ectable elephantine
boarding house hash. others are en-
gagged in mixing it with pestles which
they dexterousiy manipulate with their
trunks. The narrator observed one OF
the elephants suddenly stop in his
work with the pestle and refuse 20
WELD his mixing stick any further.
One of tae two big boss elephants was
called to the scene, and, picking M
the recalcitrant's pestle. beat him with
it over the back and hips until he re-
turned 20 his work
Only about ten men are employed
in directing the work of the entire
herd OF elephants Those who have
seen this novel mill at Moulmein in
operation all agree in giving it the
credit af being the greatest exhibition
of trained animals in the world.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11
Norwegian Superstition.

The simple faith of the Norwegian
peasants Is thet the seeing or not see-
ing beings of the other world isa mere
question of strong or weak nerves.
Only, reversing the generally ac-
copied belief, it is the Northman of
strong nerves who has power to see
the unseen, says All the Year Round.
And he who sees it fears it not. 'If
you have the grit, says my informant,
"you may see dozens and scores of
forms pass your door, but You know
not what it is to feel alarm"
"rhere's ghost on every ship"
says the same authority. ''My own
uncle, who saw the unseen plain from
his childhood, was married to woman
who could not believe in spirits. He
had fishing smack Of his own, and
saw strange things of nights. One
night he asked her to go out with him,
and she went. II L see anything
will call for you, he said, and she
agreed to it. In the dark middle OF
the night he could see three men come
walking on tn water toward the lit
tie vessel He went ana called his
wife, saying:
"'Look out now do you see nothing?
"'No, said the wife. Il see nothing
but the water and lhe darkness
"'Well. said he, there are thre
men there, plain to be seen, and nov
I'll so and get up the nets, for storm
is surely coming.
ssr,yn oiclocls Was the wontol hon
for getting up the nets, but wait, h
would not, in spite OF all that his wifi
could say to him.
"When two o'clock came the nets @
all the other fishermen were lost, an
their boats nearly wrecked in sudde
great storm that rose, but my uncl
> was we'll out OF it, and anchored j
, safety, because he could read the sign
they were all blind to-"
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11
One Of Inssia's Queer sects.

The Old Believers, 0: Men OF the
Ancient Faith. are n Russian sect, so
called because they cling tenaciously
to the old service books, the old ver-
sions of the Bible, the old hymn
book, the old prayer book and all the
customs that were in vogue in the
Russian church previous to the re.
forms effected by the Patriarch Neon
in the seventeenth century. They use
the old Slavonic alphabet in their lit
urgical books; they make the sign of
the cross in different manner to that
customary in the parent church. The
professions in their churches walk
from right to left instead of from left
to right, as Neon ordered. They think
il unlawful to eat certain kinds of food,
including hare and potatoes, and they
prove from the Old Testament that it
is unlawful TO cut their boards. They
never celebrate the eucharist, and
only administer baptism at the APP
proach of death Some of them are
fanatics, and delare all temporal and
civil government to be Christian;
teach the community of goods, eXtol
suicide aud voluntarily barn them
selves alive rather than be forced into
compliance with the rites and cere-
monies of the National church They
are chiefly found among the peasants,
and their poverty may he one of the
causes Of their possessing no places of
public worship and meeting in each
others houses instead. They were per-
secuted under Peter l. who laid double
taxes on them, but his successors, es-
pecially Catharine III. and Alexander
l., adopted milder policy with the
hope of winning them back to the
Eastern church. -Br rooklyn Eagle.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11
Freak Among Fowls.

A dispatch published in the st.
Louis Globe-Democrat tells how Mrs.
Dr. Beach, of Olath, Kan, found a
two-cent piece in the yolk Of an egg
which she had bought in one of the
stores. How the coin got there is, of
course, mystery, but if the same
fowl could bo induced to lay the
same kind of egg right along. il
wonld be good speciinen to breed
from. Tho strain might in tir-
duoe o rival 10 the famous
laid the golden egg. &C"
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11
Car Loads Of Human Hair.

Eight cars loaded with human hair
arrived in Paris recently. consigned to
dealers in that merchandise. The hair
came from India and China, whence
thousands of pounds are annually sent
to England and France. This traffic,
a foreign medical journal says, is the
cause of the introduction of many dis
eases to Europe. The hair is cut from
persons after death in China, and al
though it is disinfeoted upon arrival
in France, it often carries the germs
OF disease. Asiatic hair, owing in part
to its cosrseness, can be purchased
cheaply, it selling often Nh low as
twenty cents q kilogram. The hair Of
Europeans, however, averages about
e20 for the saIae amount. --Chicsgo
Herald
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11
The Judges Gallantry.

A Judge, riding in the cars recently,
from single glance ut the counte-
nance of lady by his side imagined
he knew her, and ventured to remark
that the day was pleasant. She only
answered;
"Yes !"
''Why DO you wear a veil?"
'Lest l attract attention"
''It is the province of gentlemen to
admire. replied the gallant man OF
law.
''Not when they are married" !"
''But am MT"
''Indeed!"
"Oh, no! I'm bachelor !"
The lady quietly removed her veil,
disclosing TO the astonished magistrate
the face of his mot her -in-law Boston
Courier.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11
A Fortunate Tumble.

Among the passengers on the Penu-
sylvania day express this morning was
James Peterson, wealthy gold miner
from Southern Nevada. He is en-
route for Portland, Me-, to visit hiD
relatives and friends. Mr.. Peterso'
went west ten years ago with the j.
tention of starting n cattle ranch.
had some money, but lost it in spec,
lations IN Texas, and finally drifted into
the mining regions. He worked as q
miner in Colorado, Utah and Cali
fornia, but got nothing but the wages
paid him by the operators, and at last
decided to return to his home. Be-
fore starting, however, he concluded
30 visit the placer mining region OF
Southern Nevada. While out prospect
ing one day he tumbled over piece of
rock and fell heavily to tho ground.
He was stunned for n few minutes,
and while sitting there nursing his
bruises Ire saw bright looking object
near the stone over which he had
stumbled. He picked it up, examined
it and was overioyed to find it was a
gold nugget. It was about the size of
q marble, but was sufficient to con
vince him that he had made great
discovery. He then searched over tho
ground in the vicinity and found q
half-dozen nuggets OF various sizes.
He took his bearings, hastened to the
camp, and returned and staked out
claim. He has since made thousands
OF dollars out of that claim, and now
has stock in several valuable mines be-
ing operated in that section. Pitts
burg Press.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11
A Clever Rusp.

steamer was plowing her way
through the wide waters of the river
Nolga, going in the direction Of the
Caspian Sea. Late in the evening q
young man approached the captain and
asked that he might be put on shore
ut the next village they passed. The
captain complied and the steamer con-
tinued on her course.
Later i'll the c ening another pas
genger ran to the captain and said:
my valise has been stolen from my
cabin. 1t contained $1,000.
The captain cautioned the passenger
60 keep silent and to tell no one of his
loss
% tho ." =. sss and "
. assem-
gers, IL any, .s tne yes.sl
had turned in a large circle and was
now returning up stream and travelling
back over the same course. A flag of
different Nationality was hoisted and
canvas was thrown over the bnl7
warks SO US to conceal the vessels
name.
A shrill whistle announced the ap-
proach to village. A boat was rowed
out from the wharf and the vessel was
signalled to stop. A man came on
board carrying valise. 1t wes the
same man who, thinking himself safe
on the other vessel, fell into the hands
of his former captain He could hard
ly believe il possible, but was con-
vinced when the steamer resumed her
rightful course and he was landed at
station where he is likely to make
long stay. New York Herald.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11
Calamities Which Have Invaded Paris.

Paris has undergone atrocious suf-
fari- ~ famine. pestil-
ence, and calamItIes of all
Normans, after burning one aif OF
Paris, allowed tire remainder to be
ransomed with an enormous sum of
mouey. In one of the famines by
which Paris in its early days was so
often visited people cast lots ms to
which should be eaten. The taxes
were so excessive that many pretended
to be lepers in order to profit by the
exemption accorded in such cases.
But it was sometimes not well to be
leper, real or pretended; for it was
proclaimed one day to the sound of
the horn and trumpet that lepers
throughout the kingdom should be ex-
terminated. ''ln consequence of a
mixture of herbs and human blood
with which, rolling it up in linen
cloth and tying II to n stone, they
poison the wells and rivers" In the
centre of the so-called "towns"-Paris
in general, that is to say, as distinct
from the city-wa ''la Maubee" (de-
rived, according to Victor Hugo, from
mauvaise fumesl, where Jews innumer-
able were roasted over pitch and green
wood, to punish what II chronicler of
the time terms their "anthropomancy, "
and what the Counselor de rAncre
further describes as '-the marvellous
cruelty they have always shown toward
Christians, their mode of life, their
synagogue, so displeasing to God,
their uncleanliness and their stencil. :"
Old and New Paris.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11
THE FLIGHT OF THE HEAnf.

The hca-, sonrs up like bird
From nest OF care;
Up, up, TO larger say,
To n softer air
No eye can measure i,s flight
And no hand can tame
II mounts in beauty AMI ligat,
In music and flame.
Or all tho changes OF Timo
There is none like this
Tho heart solrs up like a bird
AZ the stroke OF bliss.
Tho hear, sonrs up like bird,
But its wings soon tire
Enough OF rapture and song,
The cloud and the nre
Its look. the look OF n king
OF slave. its birth,
The poor, tired, impo,ent thing
Sinks back to tho earth.
hn1 the mother spreads her lap,
And she mlls its pain
ooh, thou who sighed for the sun
Art thou mine again"
Dora Read Goodalc, In Independent.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11
STUPID JACQUES.

BY IDA ". TgorrrR.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11

IG thot you are ,
W rctched bc-
ingi Cannibl ,
Sloth -
Monsieur Pcr-
rot paused, re.
hcctiug hat
wrath was wasted
N this stupid
jacques, standing
ullcnly before
Iim.
JACQUES was the
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-11

Bright though tho sur might be
about jacques, that was but dark
day in the workshop. Everything
went wrong. Models were DISPLACED,
dust covered the tloor, and vne pupil
who volunteered his services TO clear
the room upset some fragile work of
the masters. Monsieur Perrot cried
yehemently hundred times that
morning, "Where is this jacques? I'll
belabor him soundly when he arrives y
A second day passed, and by this
time n goat-herd, arriving at the viii
lage, mentioned incidentally that
jacques had passed the night in his
chalet. The villagers learned to miss
him in the week that followed, AMI
nursed their wrath at his temerity in
thus breaking the routine OF his life.
The authorities decided that messen
ge. should he sent to bring him back
to the village; but this step wa'
rehdered unnecessary, as one day
jacques reappearea. little oaler ant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-12
Az EXPLOSION AMONG THE SHOPPEhS.

Az rNot.rsrTIvE CASH BOY AT ARNOLD CON
srADIE & CO.'S SETS OFF A CARTRIDGE WITH
PIN AND INJURIES HIMSELF SEVERELY.
Ceoree Kolb. thirteen years o.d, employed as
= cash boy In Arnold Constable & COS store
Hineteenth-st and Broadway, who lives at NO.
"a. East Sixth-st., was badly injured yesterday
afternoon By the explosion Of cartridge caused
nv the boys own carelessness. Both hands were
hadly lacerated and torn. and his race VIII prop
ahIv hear powder marks for a long time
Kob went to his luncheon at noon ana on MS
,yav hack TO his work he picked up a piahk
cartridge in the street. He took II 10 the stoie'
ard while waiting at the velvet counter ior
call began to explore the contents Oh the Cal &cai
fridge with pin. The store was filled with
woman SHOPPERS when suddenly there was an
explosion that startled every one lhere was d
rush t. the velvet counter over whlch huhs d
email cloud OF smoke and under which was the
ash boy wrthing in agony and screaming at
the top OF his voice. .. a.or,
salesman named O'D0nnell, vho was stand
ing beside the boy when the explosion occurreu'
at once picked up the wounded lad ana sent LOT
an ambulance from the New-fork hospi'al'
There IL was said that two or three nhgers on
Tho hoy's hand would have 10 be amputated III
oil probability There was some talk that the
wounds had been caused By the explosion OF u
dvnamite cartridge But investigation proved
The renort TO be false. The officer VINO reported
tho ca 50 said that the explosion mad been caused
Inv n 22-callbre blank cartridge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-12
FOREST FIRES AGAIN RAGING.

THE WIND HIGH. AND MANY MICHIGAN HAM
LET'S THREATENED.
Ishpeming Mich, Sept. 11.-Idght rains fell
Yesterday followed by high winds. Aich have
famed the forest fires again into fury. DIS
matches from Even. Sidnaw, Trout Creek and
other numbering hamets say that dangerous
fires are In close proximity, and that number
~ homcsteaders have been burned out. The
situation along the Duluth. South Shore and
Atlantic Railway Is more threatening than AT
any previous time since Marengo and Bibon
were burned, a week ago.
Constantinople. Sept. 1.-The Sultan has given
ooo r,rLieb nounds TO alleviate the distress
caused by the forest fires in the United states.
Even Mich. Sept. 1.-The forest fires are
still raging In the woods around Even and there
has been no rain \ strong wind saturday
night started big fire eight miles south OF mere
which consumed about 100000 feet OF logs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-12
4 PARTIAL ADMISSION.

THE FOREST COMMISSION KNEW OF THE sIEAl-
,ncs IN ESSEX COUNTY. But DENIES
COLLISION WITH THE TREsPAssERs'
.hanv Sept II Nothing new has peen give"
90, NV the Controllers office to-day IN relation
90 tho charges made that State timber Is oelns
a.o,ar IN the Adirondacks by the colusion OF .he
80. omcals. whose duty 1t is to guard the "iate
forests 1t is learned that the statement, nnaracs
80 ON aff,dayts Of the most positive charac-
oa'' 60, nsrsons who have taken timber iro'"
.,a land. by the connivance of certain oh'c'a,s
Do @ h,ect has been referred TO the AttormeS ,S
Inc ~ the Controller to decide the pes, r,ais
oS Of procedure against 81, ,re maifeasance in Office
They ma; ;be state or for receiving pr'ves yeoed
through d rv Of the county In whlcn tne @ navst be
the oIa msre committed. or the ooverno oo,gate ate the
crimes weie,o,nt weie a commission to investigate '''
charges. M n, tho state Forest Commission ~
At the o'1h hat the COMMISSIONS ouicia ax f."nn
was statet ,respa sses had occurred d III from the
aware tchharsed in the staemen,sS that they were
Controei i.ss,,oated and disposed OF ~ Cnmmission
being inVas further stated that ane shoue was no
way ltantary IL va evidence to snow s,nte s odicials
had documen'hn ~ mart OF any OF the o.a. oesiv ex,
cousion on ns tse steaIiinss Of timber were grossly
aggerated
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-12
ONE KILLED. THE OTHER FATALLY HURI.

TWO PAINTERS FALL FROM FLlMSlLf BUILT
sCAFFOLD WHILE AT WORK IE FouRrH-AVE.
John Morris forty years old, OF Thrty-secohd-
st and Seventh-ave. and John Hamilton thirty
five years old. OF No. $50 West Forty-hrst-s'''
both colored, were fatally injured yesterday
afternoon while working at No. 45S Fourth-aVe'
They had been employed to kalsomine the rear
wall OF a feed store. and constructed riinsy
scaffold which consisted merely OF ladder
sv,unq on two loops of rope. There was no
guard-rsu whatever. The men were opposite
the third floor when the swayinS OF the LADDER
caused them to lose their balance and fali.
Norris struck the ground head foremost his
skull wes fractured and he sustained severe IN
ternal Injuries. When picked up ne was uii-
conscious Hamilton also terribly injured
H. foil on a fence and his abdomen was torn
o,en. An ambulance was summoned TO remove
the injured men to Bellevue Hospital
Norris died in the hospital at little after
o.cIock The physicians say that Hamilton cam
not possibly live.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-09-12
TO RECONCILE KING AND POPE
SIGNIFICANCE OF PREMIER CRIsPTs RE-
CENT SPEECH AND ACTIONS.
THE VATICAN AND THE oUIRINAL APPARENTLY
READY TO SETTLE THEIR DIFFER
ENCEs-THE PRIME MINISTER'S
APPEAL FOR HARMONY.

APPEAL FOR HARMONY.
London. Sept. 11.-Under the heading "Pons
Pontfcis," The Pail Mall Gazette" to-day
prints article with the object of showing
that Premier Crisp is rapidly approaching a
reconciliation between the King and the Pope.
Last Thursday, the article says. Signor Crispis
private secretary had a long interview with
Cardinal Rampoa. the secretary being the first
Italian official who has visited the Vatican since
1870. This visit. The Gazette" asserts. began
series Of negotiations. the results of which are
shown in the Pope's prompt establishment Of an
apostolic prefecture in Massowah. Immediately
following which King Humbert gave his assent
to the appointment of Cardinal Sarto the Pope's
nominee. TO the office of Patriarch of Venice.
Concerning this appointment there has been a
prolonged disagreement between the Vatican and
the Quirinal
The most significant In ,ident Of ALL however.
is the act Of Signor Crispi in going out of his
way in his speech at Naples yesterday 10 COM
pliment Cardinal Sanfelice, the Archbishop or
Naples. and to summon the Church and the
State to join their forces against the common
enemy. The presence OF Cardinal Sanfelice on
the platform. "The Gazette says. betokens the
willingness Of the Pope to come to terms.
Rome. Sept. lin addition to what has al
ready been reported. Premier Crisp in his speech
at Naples yesterday said:
Society is passing at the present moment through
a grievous crisis Never more than to-day did we
feel the of seeing the two authorities. civil
and religious. marching with one accord TO lead me
people In the way of justice and charity. From the
darkest abysses has arisen an Infamous sect which
writes on its flag mo God. No Master. United
to-day in common recognition Of memorable
period, let form in closely serred ranks to COM
bat this monster. inscrbing upon our flag the
motto "Our God. our King. and our Country Yes;
device displaying it to the people as sign of sal
vation I'm Hoe Signo Ninces