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HOSPITAL is ovERCaoWoED.
Seven Patients Were Brought to 1t Yes
telday

te,day.
The Lackawanna hospital is crowded
TO overfiowing; there were seven pa-
tents brought there yesterday, but the
officials were only able to accom-
modate four, owing to the crowded
condition.
The cases brought in yesterday were
not Of a serious nature at all, except
that of William Mahady. OF Archibald.
He had been repairing the porch of his
house and in some uuaccountable way
slipped off and seriously injured his
spine. He was brought to the hospital
where his condition was said last night
to be rather critical.
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Music Boxes Exclusively.

Best made. Play any desired number Of
tunes Gautschi & Sons, manufacturers
1880 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Won.
derful orchestral organs only So and $40.
Specially; Old music boxes carefully re-
paired and improved with new tunes. ~
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Mrs. W. F. Hallstead lodge, Division So
q. p A., to B. of l.. H., will run an eXcur-
siCn to Bnghamton, Thursday July 10 H..
Tickets, 81 25 children, 80 cents. Tram
will leave D., l.. & w, depot at 0 o'clock
a. m,, Thursday, July 10. ~
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$40 600 snhnnl Hnnsn No OF

e. l.. Walter, architect, bids to be opened
this month"; be built on Columbia avenue.
Lots for sale on this avenue at low prices
for brief period.
~ ARTHUR FRoTHINGHAM.
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DR.. ALIENS PROTEST
Says The Chickens About Mulberry Street Do
Not Sing in the Same Key.
FULL TEXT OF HIS COMPLAINT

It Proves That the Doctor Has Mu-
sical Ear-Can Find No Solution for
the Problem-Recommends That
Council Take Some Action Concern
ing the Wykoff Pave on Penn Avenue.
Other Board Of Health Business.
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DIR. c. C. LAUBACH, dentist, Gas and
Water company building, Wyoming ave-
nue.. Latest improvements. Eight years in
Scranton. -
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ABscsss CAUSED HIS DEATH.

George Lutz, of o'Connor Court, Died
After an Operation.
George Lutz, young man II years
OF age, died yesterday at his home in
OConnor court, Dodgetown, after an
operation had been performed for the
purpose of removing an abcess from
his side.
The funeral of Mr. Lutz will take
place tomorrow afternoon at . o'clock,
1nterment will be made in Hyde Park
Catholic cemetery.
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Buy The Weber
and get the best. At Guernsey Bros.

REAL FAITH never grows weak by hav'
ing to wait. Sufferers taking Hoods Sar.
saparila for chronic complaints should be
patient and the result will be satisfactory
Hoods Cures
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The $40, 900 school house to be built on
Columbia avenue will be the handsomest
school building in the city, excepting
tchool No. !. :"
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-14

HooD's PILLS act easily yet promptly
and efficiently, on the liver and bowels. 25c
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Case OF Love and WAR
Two Elements Are Very Badly Mixed Up al
Providence.
ATKINSON WAS Determined

He Resorted to Vigorous Measures
to Prevent the Marriage of His
Stepdaughter to William Ace-Lat-
Ter Disiked His Treatment and Had
the Stepfather Arrested and Was
Himself Arrested in Turn.
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Lawn Razors, Refrigerators, Ice Cream
Freezers.
have now on hand and will sell at cost
price;
10 Lawn Ra2ors,
- Refrigerators,
Il Ice Cream Freezers.
Come and get one before they are all
gone. THos. +. LEONARD,
~ sos LackawAnna ave.
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Cor laoama}5 Is4oI St IvJgg9lng Isnu'a
The sun., 1894-01-25
FLEEING FROM FOREST FIRE
The Experience of Visitor 20 a
Lumber Camp I'm Northern NIichi-


The Experience of a Visitor 20 a
Lumber Camp in Northern Michi-
gan.
'eThe most exciting experience / ever
had" said I. e. Spencer to writer for
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat was in
forest fire near Manistee, Mich. l
had visited small lumber camp and
retired to rest in one of the hunks pro-
vided for the choppers. I was awak-
ened by a strong light from the north,
and going outside of the wooden shanty
1t seemed to me that the entire world
was on fire. 1t cracked and snapped,
danced and jumped as If the demon of
fire was holding high carnival and
celebrating the end of the world. From
every side could be heard sounds like
the firing of cannon and the shrieks OF
dying human beings. 1t was the fall
ing of the boughs and the signing of
the wind, but / never heard SO horrible
q sound, nor witnessed so weird and
terrible a sight Hastily awakening the
other men in the camp l mounted
horse and fled from the flames. But
the horse could not keep pace with the
progress of the fire. The lurid heavens
looked as though they were at molten
heat; the air was sitting; the smoke
almost suffocated me, while falling
leaves and boughs burned my horse,
and the sickening odor Of burning flesh
added to the horror. Within two or
three hours l was in an opening, where
l was no longer in danger, but my
horse was badly injured, while my
clothing was full of holes where embers
had struck me. will take my chances
with cyclones or earthquakes, but not
with burning forest again"
The sun., 1894-01-25
Tears mt the Thenter.

A psychologist 'has been studying the
problem Of tears at the theater. He
asks why it is that the people whom
you see crying over a pathetic situation
that they see acted before them are
generally Incapable of feeling the least
emotion in real life, and he attributes
this special flood Of tears to the excite
ment caused by the heat, the lights and
the magnetism of their neighbors at the
show. He adds that nine in ten of the
people who cry at the theater are hard
and selfish at home. The phenomenon
is similar to that often witnessed at a
melodrama when the villain or the
wicked woman is roundly Kissed by
the gallery the moment he or she ap-
pears on the stage, while the gallant
hero and the virtuous heroine come in
for round or two in their every scene,
and the home life Of so many Of these
stern applicants Of Draconian morals
is something too terrible to contemplate
with serenity.-Toston Traveller.
The sun., 1894-01-25
CARRY OIL AND MOLASSES.
The Same Tanks Use. by Vessels
Trading Between This Country and
Chin

The Same Tanks Use. by Vessels
Trading Between This Country and
Cuba.
Almost all the molasses which comes
from Cuba to the United States is, ac-
cording to the New York Tribune,
brought in the same tanks in steam
ships that are used to carry petroleum
as a return cargo. The ships tanks
are about sixteen feet deep. They are
pumped full of oil at Brooklyn or Phil
adelphia, then taken to Havana and the
oil is pumped out into the tanks of the
refining plants there. Molasses is
brought from the interior of the island
in huge hogsheads, which are emptied
into the storage tanks. A suction
pump drawing about 10000 gallons an
hour fills each ships tanks to within
about two feet of the top, that amount
of space being required for the expan-
sion of the molasses. 1t might be sup
posed that the petroleum would have
a bad effect upon the molasses, but it
has been shown that the contrary is
the case, and as nearly one-half the
importation is made into rum and the
balance refined into sugar little oil
is not of much account. The tanks are
cleaned after the molasses has been
pumped out by turning in a powerful
steam jet, which washes down the sides
and liquities whatever molasses may be
left in the bottom of the tank, and the
suction pump finishes the work. A
cargo of mOlasses. which formerly re-
quired ten or twelve days, can now be
unloaded in forty-eight hours, while the
difference in cost of handling, to say
nothing Of the saving of time, amounts
to large sum. The first attempt at
handling molasses in bulk was made by
the brig Novelty in 1877. She was
fitted with a lining, and her whole hold
was used without partitions. She made
several trips between Matanzas and
Boston, but was not successful as div
idend Garner Since the present system
of dividing vessels hold into tanks
was devised and put into practice on
steamers the profits Of the trade and
the steamship companies have largely
increased.
The sun., 1894-01-25
WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY.
Twentieth Century viii Witness
Hundreds OF Marvellous Inven'

Twentieth Century VIII Witness
Hundreds of Marvellous Inven-
tiOns.
In the nearer foreground l see a
practical method for the production OF
electricity directly from the burning OF
coal. This achieved. there necessarily
follows the universal adoption Of the
electric motor as a prime mover, the
relegatiOn Of the steam engine to the
scrap heap, and the almost immediate
realization of the airship rs means or
transportation.
Assuming the cause of chemical ath-
nifty to lie in the unlike electric charges
of the combining atoms, l see the prac"
*ical realization of electric Synthesls,
whereby wholesome food products Will
be directly formed under the potency
of electric attinitieS. l see, too, a
marked advance in Therapeutics,
whereby human life will be prolonged
and its SufferingS alleviated. DiagonSis
and prognoSis will be profoundly aided
by the exact electrical measurements OF
the various organs Of the human body
as regards their electro-mOtive force
and resistance.
The eiectro-therapist of the future
will employ electric charges and cur
rents for restoring the normal charges
and currents OF the body, as we'll as for
the stimulation Of nervous or muscular
tissues.
Back Of these achievements discern
a practical apparatus for seeing
through a wire, |. e. 4 device for look
ing into a receiver at one end Of n me-
talic wire and seeing therein faithful
reproduction of whatever optical i'm
ages are impressed on transmitter at
the other end. even though thousands
of miles interyene-PrOf Houston.
The sun., 1894-01-25
Poor SWeeteninR.

ALTERATION is a grace which may
easily be abused. Even in poetry it
should not be laid on with too heavy a
brush. Such SUGGESTIONS Of sibilants as
VIC sometimes see in second-claSs songs
should be sedulously stunned. or what
was probably an unintentional allitera-
tion, an exchange tells the story:
Got any good m'lasses, George 2"
asked a farmers wife of q grocer.
Goods ! eIep had IN the store, Mis-
Iittlefield," answered the grocer.
WAL, put me up tew gallons"
A week or so later Deacon Little
field called the grocer to account for
selling his wife poorer n GLASSES than
usual,
Its good 'nougn In InJin pnddn',"
he said, "and in brown bread; but,
George, gin We my word as dekin,
IT'S terrible tedious In tea"
The sun., 1894-01-25
BOX CAR MERCHANTS.
Arrested for Selling Fraudulent Gro
cerieN.

GeFAeHs
Several box car merchants, whose
headquarters are said tn be at Chicago,
have been arrested at West Salem,
Wis, for selling n cheap mixture of
alum and soda under the pretense that
1t was Royal Baking Powder. Similar
operations have been heard Of In other
sections of the country, and two men
recently arrested at Canton, n. Y, for
the same offense have been convicted
and sentenced to the full penalty pro-
vided by the law.
The usual method of parties engaged
In this business Is to obtain orders
from farmers for all kinds Of groceries
at prices considerably below those
charged for the same goods by local
dealers, and then to deliver bogus arti-
cles. Tempted by the prices, the farm
ers order largely various articles, per-
haps whole winters supply. These
orders are put up at Chicago, and de-
livered at different towns by the car
load. Almost every person orders
Royal Baking Powder but when the
packages are examined, ii is found that
the baking powder is not in the genu-
Inc Royal cans. This is evidence of
fraud, as the Royal is never sold other
wise than in its own red-labeled tin
cans. A subsequent examination proves
the powder to be a mixture made from
alum.
Consumers should be on their guard
against deceptions of this kind While
these purchasers thought they We're
saving ten cents Il pound on Royal they
were paying thirty-five cents for mix
ture that can be bought anywhere for
ten cents and which is dear at that.
So well Is it understood that the Royal
Baking Powder is never sold in bulk,
or otherwise than in it's own sealed
cans, that any prosecuting attorney
Will, upon his attention being called to
the matter, prosecute any one who pre-
tends to make such sales.
Reputable grOcers have an equal in
terest with consumers in breaking up
these frauds. The goods sold by these
travelling agents are of an inferior char
acter. 1t is in this way the country is
filled with adulterated goods which the
farmer is buying at rate far beyond
their value, while the trade of the legit-
innate local dealer is being destroyed.
We are glad to know that the Royal
Baking Powder Co. will prosecute all
cases of fraud of this kind Of which 1t
is advised.
The sun., 1894-01-25
A SNAKE HUNT.
Capture Of "a Monster I'm an Indian
Jungle.


Jungle.
The way was through swamp
with bushes @ feet high, and these had
to be cut away. Finally we came to a
place where the grass was beaten down
as II hogshead had been rolled along
The guide went ahead, and then stop
ped, holding up his bow. Creeping for,
ward we saw an opening with a num-
Der OF palm trees around, and In low
place lay something bright yellow in
color. This was the snake coiled UP,
the head, big as barrel and covered
with scales, lying on the edge Of the
coils, and l could see the dead eyes
plainly. The captain sent Gordon, one
OF the Englishmen, powerful sailor,
and q native hunter around through
the high grass to fetch clump of trees
back of the snake, and then get hitch
on the brute's head. The native went
up tree like cat, and, after several
passes, got the hitch under the snakes
Jaw and back on the neck, and both
men took turn of the line around the
tree and pulled. The snake seemed
dead, but finally moved and gave hiss
ike steam whistle, and as the line
tlghtened the coils began to unfold like
d line OF battle cable, the sun flashing
ON the golden scales. 1t was an awful
sight In the middle the snake was as
thick as a mans body. The reptile be-
gan TO lash the reeds down with it's
tan. 1t lay quiet for a minute, and a
hitch was taken about 10 feet from the
fVWyn ntVyr
ON the body to keep it from cOiling.
III we had been frogs it would have
done as much good. The reptile gave
one twist and sent all hands flying I
was chucked 10 feet, and fell fiat OH
my back in mud foot deep. The line
was hauled taut. Our object was to
make it fast to a tree near by. Hitch
ed head and tail, the snake would wor-
ry itself out. For moment it ceased
to struggle. The line was made fast.
The snake appeared to lengthen out,
when, with a sudden twist, it parted
the line and lay in a half circle.
The captain was in the blight, shout
ing to us to get another line, when,
like flash, the snake threw his tail
around the tree and caught him and
drew him in, and In a second had three
coils around his body. "Good-byv He
gave one gasp and was a dead man.
We tried to uncOil the tail. You might
as soon have tried to straighten iron
bar. 1t was horrid sight The mans
face was like blood in color, and his
eyes started out of his head. Gordon
yelled out, "Cut the snake in twor'
and we went at it. The flesh was hard
as wood and tough like gutta percha,
but in two minutes we reached the
backbone; the long end reared 20 feet
in the air and came down with lash,
almost burying itself in the ground.
We pulled Capt. Kleffer out of the
coils. He was a very large man, broad
at the hips, but from the waist down
his body was crushed and no thicker
than hand-spike, and the broken
bones came through the skin. We dug
grave with our bush knives and bur-
led him, piling all the logs we could
find on top, and after skining the snake
which was 39 feet long, we started for
home. I dom believe we should ever
have brought 1t in alive. The skin and
head weighed over 200 pounds.-Ash.
ton Reporter.
The sun., 1894-01-25
Modest Request of Joe Jefferson.

Several weeks ago, when Mr. Jeffer-
son was playing rip Van Winkle'
at the Walnut Street theater, he found
among his mail one morning q letter
from furniture man. The epistle,
which was written ON a letter head
adorned with large cut of a folding
bed, ''closed" and opened" read as
follows: "Mr. Jefferson-Sir: I saw
you play rip Van Wrinkle last night,
and have a proposition to make to
you. When the curtain goes up on the
third act, and you rise all stiff and
sore after your long sleep, you might
say a few words something like this:
oh, how stiff I am! If had only slept
last night on one Of Blanks patent fold
ing beds, warranted safe, durable and
comfortable, how much better I would
feel this morning! / think it would
bring down the house. Now, am will
ing to pay you well for this, of course.
Let me know what you think of it."
The owner Of Blanks folding bed has
not yet heard from Mr.. Jefferson
Philadelphia Record.
The sun., 1894-01-25
Aiding Exhausted Nature.

Some new lights were thrown on the
subject of the recuperation of human
strength when exhausted by intense
physical strain, during a long distance
bicycle race, extending over six days.
The physician in attendance stated that
the staying powers and endurance Of
the men in general were astonishing,
and that the vital forces could sustain
such a powerful and protracted effort
seemed miraculous. In no case were
there manifestation of cardiac depres-
sion; the respiratory functions were
but slightly influenced, and the muscu-
lar system stood the strain equally we'll.
The loss of Sleep told only ON the eyes,
which in some cases became violently
infamed. The most remarkable mani
feStatlon of nervous disturbance was
that or the temperature. In every case
but one there was an increase of from
deg. to 4 deg, one of the contestants
registering as high as 103 IL deg. Oh
the fourth day, and another 103 deg,
on two occasions. This temperature
fell almost Immediately on the admins
tration of a bath and vigorous. clubbing
down. The winner, who rode 1000
miles, trained on Frankfurter sausages
and Cruel, and the second man used
cocoa in large quantities. The rider
who came in third was on the evening
Of the fourth day so nearly dead that
he begged to be allowed to leave the
track Caffeine was administered to
him in one-half grain doses at intervals
Of two hours. 1t acted like magic,
and he kept well in the race until the
morning Of the sixth day, when he said
he could go no further He was then
given one-haf teaSpoonful doses Of
fluid extract of cocoR every two hours,
and rode the rest 4f the day on this
alone. Another Of tie contestants, who
was riding in the ninth place, was about
to give up, when caffeine was pre-
scribed for him. His strength quickly
revived, and he rode on to the end Of
the race, finishing in the sixth place.
The sun., 1894-01-25
An English woman's Secret.

A tea-toning tablet is the latest In
vention or discovery Of amateur chem
istry. In shape they are like lozenges,
are of light purple color and are called
"tanoccas." One of these clapped into
pot of tea,-two II the pot is a large
one-effectually, it is alleged, destroys
the tannic acid and other harmful pro-
perties and removes the grim spectre
of Embellishments which has latter
ly begun to haunt seriously the most
comforting beverage. For the present
"tanoccas" are out of the reach of the
New York public, as their concoction
is a secret closely guarded by three la
widely known.-New York Times.
The sun., 1894-01-25
An Electric Seal-Unhairing Machine

An Electric Seal-Unhairing Machine,
1t is hard to conceive how electricity
can be directly utilized in ''unhairing"
the much-prized skin Of the seal and
making it ready for use as wearing ap-
parel, but this is actually done. Like
the skin Of the beaver and other ami
mails, the sealskin is covered with soft
downy hairs, among which are inter-
spersed a certain proportion of long
stiff hairs, which have to be removed
before the well-known glossy appear
ance of the skin can be produced.
Formerly this unhairing was done by
hand, and was naturally tedious pro-
cess. A machine has been invented for
doing it by electricity ,and both the time
and labor involved has been greatly
reduced. One New York firm alone is
now operating sixty Of these machines,
in the sewing and preparation of seal
skins for which 100 girls are kept con-
stantly busy. The machine somewhat
resembles the cotton-gin, and like it,
has rotary brush. But in the place
OF the saw used in the gin, platinum
wire 20 inches long is employed. The
wire is kept red hot by passing a heavy
current through it. The sealskin runs
through rollers up a fiat steel plate,
over the edge of which it turns sharp
ly. The long hairs stand out stittiy,
and pass across the hot platinum wire,
which is kept tightly stretched, low
enough down to burn the hairs off.
The skin then feeds 2-1000th OF an inch
before the hot wire comes down again.
AS 1t passes the rotary brushes the skin
is cleansed, the burned hairs are
brushed off, and the fur comes out
smooth and shining.
The sun., 1894-01-25
Legal Rec.pe for treating a burglar

The story told of great man and
very learned judge is related by an
earwitness to the following effect: Just
ice Willes was asked: "If look into
my drawing room and see burglar
packing up the clock, and he cannot
see me what ought 1 to do?"
He replied, as nearly as may be: my
ADVICE to you, which / give as a man,
as lawyer, and as an English Judge,
is as follows: In the supposed cir
cumstances, this is what you have a
right to do, and am by no means sure
that it is not your duty to do it. Take
double-barreled gun, carefully load
both barrels, and then, without attract
ing the burglars attention, aim steadily
at his heart and shoot him dead.-Sat'
urday Review.
The sun., 1894-01-25
HE FED AN ELEPHANT.
Was Too Exciting to Desire Any
More of 1t.

Was Too Exciting to Desire Any
More of 1t.
"No, wasn't born this way" replied
the man, as he backed up to a chair,
got his crutches from under his arms
and fell into the seat. This came on
me suddenly one day, about fifteen
years ago." quotes the Detroit Free
Press.
What do the doctors call it?"
''Damphoolism, l believe, That's
what 1t is, anyway"
Got fall from a balloon?"
Rather worse. / don't mind saying
that about fifteen years ago 1 used to
think I knew it all. You've heard Of
the town of Chillicothe, Ohio, maybe?"
YES"
''Well, I ornamented that town with
my presence and f1attered myself that
the people couldn't possibly spare me
over a day at a time. I was at the
apex of my conceit when a circus came
along There was a drove of eight ele-
plants in the menagerie, and as stood
before them I wanted to do something
awfully smart. One of the beasts was
reaching for cakes, and I determined
to give him lighted cigar. An old
gray-haired farmer who stood by twig.
ged my game and uttered a word of
caution, but I wasn't taking advice
from hayseeds at that epoch.
And you carried out your plans, eh?'
Il did. puffed on the weed until it
had lots of fire, hid it behind me for a
minute, 5nd when the elephant reached
again 7 let him have it fire end first.
Something happened, of course. had
just commenced to grin and look
around for applause when that probo-
scis suddenly picked me up, whirled
me high in the air, and then was flung
clean across the tent and landed under
the cage of serpents. knew when the
fun begun, but / couldn't see the end
of it. I was unconscious for two days,
and when I came to was knocked so
out of my plumb that the doctors could
not do any better than this for me. I
shall be cripple to the end Of my
days"
But
"Oh, certainly! I know more than I
did, and / shall never have the swell
head again. It seems that the ele-
plants trainer had his eye on me all
the time and I've often felt that it was
too bad he didn't feel inclined to kick
me all over town and thus enable me
to learn wisdom and keep my shape at
the same time"