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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05
Sinyin. Fishes.

Persons who catch catfish are famiI
lnr with the croaking noise they mako
when thrown in the bottom of the
boat. But they are credited with
sweeter caleuces under the surroc,
and when they touch the water edge
by the shore in the night A Wash.
InGton correspondent, who had been
proving about the Smithsonian Insti.
tuition, wrote that to most people tbo
notion that fishes have voices wouId
seem rather absurd. Yet there ara
many species which seem to talk. and
even TO sing. Some familiar ones. like
the blue fish, croak when thew are
pullel out OF the water They do like.
wise IN their native element and often
IN concert, producing quite musical
effects. \ school of ''grunters" will
furnish an example. From vessel
anchored in southern waters one fire.
quently hears at night the slow "boom
boom OF the Jew fish. Crews of ships
have been startle on occasions bv ex.
traordlnary noises like the beating of
many drums in the distance. Like.
wise produced by fishes we're sounds
heard Lieutenant White. United
stats Navy, in 1924, in the mouth of
IL river IN Cambodia. They suggest.
Ell mixture OF the bass of the organ.
the ringing of bells and the tones Of
an enormous harp. In Chilean waters
musical cndeuces are sometimes heard
rising from the sea and covering four
notes, resembling the notes of harm
strings. The maigres are famous for
their vocal powers, emitting loud
whistlings and cummings. Tho wav
IN which fish make these sounds il nc
yet mystery. Fishermen I'm Eastern
Asia ave said to hang little bells on tho
edges { their nets to attract victims.
The other evening mt Brighton Beach
n German observed that during the
progress Of the Seidl concert fisher
man might he very successful outside
me pavilion, because the music at
tracts myriads OF fishes. BROOKLYN
Eagle.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05
DEATH VALLEY.

A broad plain stretching westward dry md
dun,
sparse vegetation baking i'm the sun
Ana mountain ranges further to the west
with white snow masses on each lofty crr-t
Except when turned to rosy tints nj morn
OrglowinS blood-red just ere night is born
Noshade to soften heats or sun fierce wrath
Lizards and scorpions in tho dusty path.
Where giant spiders like gray shadows
swarm
Zach small gnome with mis.hapen form
inc yelio" rattlesnakc coiled low where
meets
The boulder's shadow and the suns white
heats.
At night strange reptiles crawled meath p,l.
lid moon,
Squat toads and insects join in lunches r,,ro
WINE coyotes howl, and heats are scarcel:
IMAM IN the MONDAY glare so shadowless.
"oriu 81 dust and sand, low shrubs and
Ssoncs.
Ahu/mid them. cleaning white blcached
f. skulls and bones.
Tho red Apache DER it sweeps somotiroa
10 reinforce its horrors with his crimes.
or heXicanos, on some sweeping raid
Ada TO its corpscs with their bandit trade;
within its silcnces their rifles crash.
In Its sunglares their crimsoned knife blades
flush.
100 oft enacted on this scenic stage
Are dramas red with gore and fierce with
rage
Thermometers vying with the reptile horde
Ihelr stines the bullet or relentless sword .
Death Valley! where the drought and hot
suns breath
Turn skies TO brass ana shrivel life in death
Boston Transcript
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05
Got a Valuable Pearl in Ills Lunch.

David Hirsch, the assistant cashier
of the Excise Board, bought h.lf
dozen clans at n saloon in Second ave
nue. on Friday night. The price WAS
nominal, for clans on the East Side
are cheap. But even la Mr.. Hirsch's
meal cost very much moro he would
not have objected to tho bill, for he
had captured 3 prize in one OF the
shells which would have PAID the reck-
onlnS dozen times over. Mr.. Hirsch
cannot remember how far he hal pro.
crossed in his repast when he struck
luck, but he thinks it was when he
was about to demolish the fifth biYalve
something held his teeth apart.
He thought he had hit upon n stone
picked up the clam in the indy shore
of Blue Point Bay. Had it been some
body not possessed Of the luck Of Mr..
Hlrsch, this might not have been so,
but Mr.. Hirsch, having been born I'M
der lucky star, could not thus acct
dentally bite upon anything of less
value than pearl. And, sure enough,
1t was pearl, aud n big one Mt that.
One side was Opalesccnt, the other II
clear blue, with intervening. tints of
purple. There was Just one flaw in
the gem, caused by Mr.. IIirschs eye
tooth, but the flaw is only the size of
pin head, while the pearl has IL dia-
meter of more than half an inch.
As the lucky cashier rolled the prize
around in his hand and uttered an ex-
ciamation of exultant surprise, the
proprietor stepped mp AMI wituouL
further Investigation hashe out So
and offered 1t for the pearl The offer
was refused.
At the Office Of the Excise BoarI
yesterday the assistant cashier dis
played his find to his many friends,
some OF whom declared 1t was worth u
fabulous sum. New York Herald.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05

kentucky comes naturally bv its
inheritance Of sporting blood. II was
settled by Nirginian younger sons
VINO were to man lovers OF the
horse
In 40 there were in all Kentucky
probably 100 men who meant to be
permanent settlers. That year a kind
oil territorial Legislature met in
boonesborough, in the open air. and
passed nine laws, three of which were
rather remarkable. They were:
AN act to prevent profanc swearing
and Sabbath breaking.
An act for preserving game.
Thus the horse gets one-nintb of
Tue attention of the Kentuckian Mag
ma Charta.
LUIS same year, when in the Ken
tucklan wilderness there were only
rowing bands of Indians and. dotted
mere and there, n few whites in n
stockade; when there was vet not
even horse trail into the woods from
virginia, the first race track was laid
out IN the State, ut Shallow Ford sta
ton, or fort. Here "A man who was
speeding his horse was in that very
year of the Kentuckiun settlement
l"3, shot by an Indian hid in the
canebrake.s
with no horse trail through the
woods, how did these earliest racers
get into the State? There was but
one way. They must have been led or
driven along Braddock's bloody path.
now III English hands aud made some
what safer by Lord Dunmore's victory
over the Ohio Indians at Point Pleas.
ant, to Pittsburg. There their owners
built big hatboats, or even RATS.
whereon to float their horses, with
their less prccions household goods
down the great river to some point
near where Louisville was to stand 4:
'heh ied them through the painless
woods to their frontier home.
What shall surpass the love of .
Blue Grass man for his horse New
York Recorder.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05
Pernclnal Mn.inn Solved

A. q. Mott, of Plymouth. Mich,
representative OF several farm ma
chinery concerns, has studied perpet-
ual motion for several years, and, ac-
cording to the verdict of expert ma
chinist5, has succeeded in making an
effective machine His machine not
only runs itself, but develops power
10 some extent The machine con.
sists OF n shaft, upon which is a bal
ance wheel. Connected with one end
OF the shaft by hinged joints are two
frames, carrying arms, which radiate
nearly TO the circumference OF the
balance wheel The ends Of these
frames form the arms, aud are slotted
where they pass the shaft. To each
set Of arms are attached, by elbow
joints, the weights which furnish the
motive power. Each ball ms it reaches
the top OF the circle is thrown to tho
extreme limit OF its reach, the one OPP
positc being drawn by the same me-
chanical device closer TO the shaft. IL
is believed TO be a practical solution
OF the nuch-vexed question, although
It's utility IS another question. Chi
cngo Times-Herold.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05

In the Court OF tho Queens Bench.
London, there was case recently
which curiously illustrated the wan
OF conscience in honest people and
the tenacious hold which fallacv can
take on an intelligent mind. This wa,
the cause OF Cook q Sons, tho we'll.
known tourist agents, versus Mrs.
Jackson. Mrs. jackson asked for n
draft OF $500. The cashier by mis-.
take requested IN exchange tho
equivalent Of only 5000. The deficit
was, of courge, 5000 discovered, but
the unfortunate official could extract
nothing but promises from the worsqn.
Hence legal proceedings, whicA r..
suited, naturally enough, IN n verdict
for Cook ~ Son for the difference. A
strange item in the evidence was tho
testimony of p witness who trotted out
tho threadbaro fallacy that bankers
never recognize mistakes, and that he
himself had had the pleasant expert.
once OF receiving on one occasion 500
more than no was entitled to. One
hears over and over again that banks
never recognize mistakes, anil that.
therefore, it is quite USELESS to return
moneys received in excess OF the prop-
er amount, New York Press.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05

various shades of blue. The relief of
the land susually shown bv color;ng
the lower lands green. the midland :
light brown or yellow, aud tho upiauds
dark brown.
Sometimes when the ..eliet o. both
the seabed and the land is sho xn ON
tue same map, rs many as fifty con.
tour lines are drawn and tic inter.
veninS spaces different, colored or
tinted, thus indicating in graphic
ana most unmiStakable way the alter
nations of level from the lowest depths
OF Che sea to the loftiest heights ON
land.
Quite number of the smaller maps
are printed at the same time on one
sheet. The sheets are folded aud the
edges cut Tor an ordinary atlas, or are
cnt INTO single sheets for separate sale.
Tor mounting ON guards" or for in.
sertion IN books.
maps which measure TWENTY-FIVE by
thirty inches are printed one at time ;;
l"rSer wall or schoolroom maps are
printed IN sections and Joined togeth-
er' when being mounted on cloth.
After beng mounted they are var
nlshed and then nailed to rollers.
Map making, then, even when the
material has been supplied by skillful
surveyors or adventurous explorers, is
lon", laborious aud costly matter.
Inc three essential processes. ms We
have seen, are the drawing, the en-
gr"ving and the printing, and a
good map must necessarily have
been well drawn, carefully engraved
and finely printed.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05
An Entirely Original Scheme.

A Nashville man came to tue front
yesterday with an entirely original
scheme, which he warrants to be
strictly pto date. 81 have been to =
good many exposItions, lie said.
land ! have always notice that there
was scarcity of women with small
children among the visitors, by which
| infer that either tho mothers whc
have babies TO look after are com.
PEELED to remain at home or suffer tho
suspense consequent upon leaving tho
little ones with irresponsible nurses.
J also noticed that those wh1 had
babies in their arms appeare to be
miserable because Of the little ones.
Now my plan IS to have department
IN the Centennial Exposition wher,
babies can DC left by mothers who
wish to see the show. Checks would
be given so that there would be II a.,
danger Of getting tue little one
mixed up, and experienced nurse,
could be put IN charge of tue infant
bureau. The thing could be made
self.sustaining by charging a small fee
for each baby cared for, and / think
the plan would work well. / am
thinking about submitting the propo.
sition TO the Centennial people any.
how. ~ Nashville TENN American.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05
PITH AND POINT.

Bighead IL am very careful how
spend my time" Pertly Natural
ly, as it is the only thing you have to
spend. Truth.
Critic is that sonnet You arc
w1iting?" Poet Cant tell vet. II
l can keep itup beyond the fourteenth
line it won't be.
Jones-"rhere is one thing worse
than dying" Brown "Whnt il that p
Jones-"Liying until all the people
you can borrow from are dead"
Flora lat The seaside) What sort
of fellow is he anyway" Julia-'I
don't know. I've only been engaged
to him since last evening. Life.
The world is like an ill-madc pie.
A, least | lind it So.
The upper crust as hard rs steel,
The under soft as dough.
Truth.
"Pa is it right to call man born
in Poland n Polc?" "Of course, my
child" "Well, then, if n man is
born in Holland, is he Hole ?"-Tit-
Bits.
Tho man who says to his wife:
Give me the baby, dear. and ] will
try and put 1T TO sleep" is greater
than he who taketh city. Texas
Siftings.
1t is not our custom to criticise M
ture, but we have no hesitancy in say
ing that she Tell down when she didn't
grow handles on watermclons-Wic
tn Eagle.
Shetland do You really think that
you would he happy with me as your
wife," He-"Oh, / nm sure; I have
always been n lucky fellow in games
of chance. " -Tit-Bits
He pointed the gun ut his lifelong friend
And pulled the trigger in merry glee;
There was nobody died,
But the funny mans hide
Was bruised and blasken9d from end Ia
end.
Chicago Record.
Grant-"Can it be possible that
Hawkins is in love with that fat girl?
Why, she weighs two hundred pounds
at least" Hobbs-"No; | don't be-
lieve he's in love; he's just infatuat-
ed. Tit Bits.
"Do You think, Professor" said the
unsteady ambitious youth, THAT
can ever do anything with my voice?"
"Wcll," WAS the cautious reply, ait
may come in handy to holler With in
case of fire. Washington Star.
Accepted She (coldIy) hardly
know how to receive your proposal.
You know | nm worth a million, of
course He (diplomatically)-s'Yes
worth a million other girls" She
(raPturously) ooh, Jack Truth.
'I see you've let your bull loose in
pasture, jim! Amt he leetle bit
sava2eY' 'You bet, he's n terror,
but cts tn only way can keep them
dad gasted city folks from digging lit
lie holes all over my medder and
playin' Skinny inter 'em. "-Brooklyn
Life.
He never saw anything like this
tide. Here I've been pulling steadily
for ten minutes, aud we don't seem to
have moved foot" She latter a
pause -"Oh, Mr.. Stroker, I've Just
thought Of something Il the anchor leiJ
overheard while ago, and i forgot
to tell You. Do you suppose it could
have caught on something? "-Truth.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05
LIFE AUD SONG.

~ life were caught by clarionet.
And wild heart, throbbing in the rect,
should thrill It's JOY and trill its fret
Aud utter Its love i'm loves own deed;
Then would this breathing clarlonet.
Tyne what would that might be,
For none of this poets ever vet
Has wholly lived in his minstrelsv.
Or wholly sung his true. true thought
Or utterly bodied forth his life.
Or made what God made when He wrought
One perfect self Of man and wife;
Or lived and sung. that Life and Song
Might each express the others all.
Careless if life or art were long.
Since both We're one. TO stand OF fall;
80 that the wonder struck the crowd.
Who shouted it about the land
His song was only living alou!-
Ills work was singing with his hand,
Sidney Lanivr.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05
S1.50 in Advance
The Propagation OF Roses.

writer In the Quarterly Review
says; The luxury OF the Roman EN-.
pre- created the first great devotion.
ment OF the cultivated rose. Lower
motives may lead to refine results. ma
Carlyle used to- insist. The first use
even OF the wreath, which seems tn
nave been to Greek the final cause
OF roses, Is said to have been only -
gioriiication Of the tight string tie
around the head To avoil the next
Gay headache? Thus, for example.
the great Narro, though he was MS ON.
hlsclent as our own Bacon, and wrote
most deliberately on cultivati n. a.
well as everything else de omnibus
rebus ct puIbusdam aliis-stlll seems
TO think OF roses as propayated only
by cuttings; that i, ON their own
roots, method in which no great AL.
vance IN the perfection of blooms is
possible.
Columella. on the other hand.
though he lived only IA century later.
says, very truly, that roses should be
budded on bushes (fruticibus)-bv
which we suppose he means wild
-brlars-with laterals left about a foot
long. And he adds, in words which
modern rose growers will be pleased
TO mud lnculcated SO long ago, that
the ground must thoroughly he hoed
over. and careful thinning out of the
shoots must he finished-here, of
course, we must allow something for
latitude-not later than the lst of
March. Pliny also gives us the goo
advice to have our plants quito II foot
apart, and 20 hoe around them well.
1t Is certainly unfortunate that Colu.
mella did not tell us little more
about his bushes :" whether they in
cluded anything like our Standards"
Tor example, and what species might
be used for budding or grating upon.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05
Birds FleeI ol VIM

Two Of tho carrier pigeons owned
by the Badger Flying Club which were
liberated at Scotland, South Dakota.
n distance Of 800 miles from Milwau.
kce, Wis. have returned to NIIlwau.
kec. One of the pigeons covered the
distance in exactly twenty-four hours
and hfty-fvo minutes, or ut an aver
age speed of 1898 yards n minute.
which - fast time considering that the
pigeon was out over night. This is
said to be tho fastest time ever made
west Of Philadelphia, New York Press,
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05
Sir Roberts Hat

The following story is told to ac-
count for the late Sir Robert Peels
habit of wearing his hat at n rakish
angle: Sir Robert, while on board
steamboat iu Table Bay many years
ago, jumped overheard to save a
drowning man, and was struck on tho
head by ono of the paddle-wheela
The blow left wound on one side OF
his head, aud thereafter Sir Robert
could never bear the weight OF any
thing upon the soar, which he car
rled to the end of his life. San Fran.
cisco Chronicle.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05
RUNNING OUT AN ANGEL,

ENTS," said Major
Fulton. ponder
ously, Eve saw
hundreds, mebbe
THOUSANDS, of 'em,
an 1 say tn fell
ler's bogus, anil
bear right smart
chance o wntchin'
= that's what l
think.
"H e s dea d
wrong" assentcd
little Ike IIulIa,
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ADVERTISING RArEs.

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cents iins. and no notice inherited for L.
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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05

Texas has the largest unimproved
acreage-3O, 66O,772,
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-11-05
MAP MAKING.
THE PROCESS Is BOTH LADO;;
IOUS AND COSTLY.
The Various Stages Through Which
the Ordinary School Atlas Passes
Data Supplied by Advcn-
turous Explorers.

x LII maps, large and small, are
"A practically produced in the
IN same way, and we can best
II. explain the process of man
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20
Little Peter.

This IS the real name OF the petrol, a
bird that lives on the sea. The harder 1t
storms the better he likes 1t, and the more
noise the sea makes the louder he cries.
The sailors, who are all SO jolly, never
like TO meet petrol. They are SO dismal
in their coal black coats, and seamen think
they bring them III luck too.
You could not guess how the petrol
sleeps. He first makes OF himself a feather
ball and sits on the water just as your
canary does on his perch.
Why doesn't he sinks Because his feath
ers are so oily he can't.
These birds grow SO fat that, to the poor
islanders in very cold countries, they are
invaluable. After they are dead "a wick il
drawn through their bodies and set on fire
and you can hardly believe how we'll this
queer kind Of lamp lights up their simple
huts.
The petrol never goes on shore except TO
build her nest. which is hidden snugly
away between rocks, or In the sand. There
she lays her one egg and brings up her ba-
by. All day the petrol lives on the water
but she never forgets at night TO feed il
Sometimes they are called Mother Ca
rey's chickens If you ever 60 across the
water, you may see them some day.-Our
Little Ones.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20

Five hundred Michigan Endeavorers
for Boston! The Bosten 1895 committee
is arranging for a special yestibuled
train to leave Detroit and go right
through to the convention city.
The Baptist juniors of Houlton, Me-.
have given window to the new church
The Congregational society of Calais,
Me, conducts a prayer service at the
city poorhouse on Sundays, alternating
with the Midtown IN. B. } Congrega-
tional society.
Fifty of the 60 members of the First
Presbyterian society of Santa Rosa, Cal,
give to missions according to the cents
q week plan Twentyseven associate
members united with the church during
the year.
Fifteen hundred invitations are dis
tributed every Sunday afternoon on the
streets, In theater entrances, hotels and
restaurants by the young people of the
First Baptist church of Kansas City,
Many souls have been won through this
work
A unique feature of the Boston con-
vention viii be the special state head
quarters, located in Machinery hall The
space will be portioned off among the
various state unions, and each will be
asked to decorate and fit up its own
share in characteristic manner.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20
A Household Endeavor Society.

What is probably the only society Of
its kind in the world is in existence at
Nalpa Station, Australia Nalpa Sta
ton is 60 miles from Adelaide, ON the
shores of Lake Alexandria, and it is
therefore cut off from the usual oppor-
tunities for Christian fellowship, But
the members Of the household Of Mr.,
Joseph Bonnin have organized them
selves into Christian Endeavor soci-
ETY.. This unique organization has been
in existence for more than a year, and it
has proved an entire success III develop
ing the Christian lives Of its members
and in promoting fellowship in the
household. SIX active members are now
ON the roll This little society takes up
a missionary collection at every consecra-
ton meeting, and IL other ways does
good work for those in the regions be
yond " There are three committees
prayer meeting, lookout and music
Australian Christian World.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20
Slipping the Pedal,

Slipping the pedal is an ugly bicycle &C
cident as it generally takes place at high
speed and may result in an ugly smash.
Golden Days says there are various causes,
the first and foremost being the lack OF
proper ankle action. Too long cranks are
also apt 10 give insecure hold when tray-
cling at speed Wrong position OF the sad
die is another cause If it is placed too far
forward or tilted too much downward, the
weight of the body is flung on the handles
of the pedals, and instead of the light, per
suasive movement of the foot that drives
the pedal around swiftly and safely the
motion becomes jerky and irregular, and
the foot flies off just when it is most de-
sirable that it should stay on.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1895-06-20

tell her brother that papa had said that
they must not pull the yellow popples, SO
Willie picked quite a lot of them.
While he was away Hilda looked fer
something to put the flowers into a pref
ty blue bowl stood on shelf above tho
sofa, and she thought it would do nicely.
Mamma won't mind, know, She
said and climbed on the sofa to reach 1t,
But as She got down off the sofa again. she
slipped the bowl fell on the floor and was
broken into little bits.
"Oh, dear, oh, dear cried naughty
Hilda, putting her finger into her mouth.
Just then Willie and mamma came into
the room together, and mamma scelded
both children. Poor Willie hung his head