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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-10-11
STEAMER CHAIRS


A Piece of Furniture That Has Developed
Through Ocean Travel.
Steamer chairs were, when first made
in this country, called Devonshire
chairs. They were fashioned after a
chair used in Devonshire, England, on
verandas and lawns and in smoking
rooms and were first made here for the
same uses. The Devonshire chairs were
rather larger and more elaborate than
the steamer chair.
The use of this chair ON steamers was
begun about % years ago. It soon be-
came so popular that itreceived its pres
ent name Chairs of this style are still
sold for land use, both indoor and out
door, and their use ashore is increasing.
The principal manufacturer Of these
chairs in New York sells them III al
most if not quite every state i'll the I'm
/ ion and in Central America, South
America and as far away as Australia.
Steamer chairs are made of maple, Of
oak and of walnut, aud they range
in price from $3.50 to S. Children s
steamer chairs We're introduced not long
ago, but not many are sold. When
steamer chairs first began to be used,
one man in this city made small for
tune by selling them on the piers on
sailing days As much rs $15 was paid
to him for chair. For some years this
man controlled the bestof the chair sell
ing privileges, but others took up tine
business, and his large profits were soon
materially cut down by competition.
For a time sellers of chairs on the
piers handled more steamer chairs than
the regular dealers. The practice which
then sprang up Of Offering chairs in the
street ON sailing days in the open space
i'll front Of the pier shed is still contin-
ued to some extent. This space is called
the farm. There are offered on sailing
days fruit, tinware and other supplies
such as Storage passengers might re-
quire, and steamer chairs and other
folding chairs.
There is a company that makes a busl-
ness of renting steamer chairs. A num-
Der of the larger steamship companies
now rent steamer chairs to passengers.
The charge for a steamer chair across
the Atlantic is from 80 cents to 81.
Common as their use has become, it is
estimated that not much moro than half
the total number Of ocean travellers
provide themselves with steamer chairs.
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As for the people, bS oath Understood
that a BF-menquin is firm. ef II 5Faniard
than Snetlander is a Scot Like his
Moro-Aragonese forbears, he is lazy,
i'll conditioned, unenterprising sloth,
with but one idea Of life--that of siesta.
The number Of those who live by active
and visible labor is astonishingly small
The first thing that strikes you ON land
ing in Palma is that it is a place where
everything long ago left of happening.
OF life there it may truly be said, Lies
jours Sc suivent ct Sc ressemblant. "
Palma is as quiet as Malta is noisy, and
that is saying a good deal. Food is cheap
and abundant.
A robber is as rare as a beggar, and
life and property are perfectly secure in
every corner Of the island The people,
if not active in the cultivation Of moral
virtue, at least show a want Of sympathy
for that which is violent or uncharitable.
Though ignorant, idle anJ superstitious,
they are honest and inotfensive and live
in the bond of pence. II aconple Of COM
mon folk have a difference, they straight
en- it out with their fists, and neither is
the worse. Chambers Journal,
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The man who models the genealogical
specimens for the agricultural department.
is even more interesting than the division.
He is Mr. J. W. Hendley, a native Of Vir-
ginia, an over the world traveller, many
sided, all round genius. He has been first
violin in san Francisco theater he has
been inventor Of an instrument for giving
hearing to the deaf, he has been o self
taught portrait painter and a skillfnl
moldeF OF death masks, and he was the
modeler Of the most lifelike figures now in
the National museum. At present he Is
modelling fruit and vegetables for the de-
partmont of agriculture, and his apples.
peaches, pears and plums, his cherries,
blackberies, bannnas and melons are so
artistically true to nature that the visitor
admitted to his wOrlSrOOm fails TO find the
slightest difference of appearance between
the real fruit specimens sent by Secretary
Morton 20 be copied and the fruit looking
limitations made in wax by Mr.. Hendley.
Pomology agriculturally means more than
fruit in general, for in the division where
Mr.. Hendley models there arc pumpkins
and potatoes, with bcets and corn and
radishes and even dish Of oysters on the
half shell.--Washington Post
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-10-11

Tho progress Of photography under the
sea, by means of the newly devised mag
nesium light--a marvel of ingenuity-may
Justly be described as something wonder
ftl, though the timing Of the exposures is
said TO still present one Of the most seri-
GUS difficulties yet to be overcome. It is
stated with reference to this important
point that thus far in the process an ex-
posture Of ten minutes at a depth OF three
10 four feet viii give good results. At a
depth, however, of Is to IS feet an expo.
sure Is said to be required OF not less than
80 minutes when the sun is brightest,
though even at this depth it becomes nec-
essary to apply plate of blue glass in
front Of the lens in order to obtain pic
lures that are really clear while in deeper
regions photography would, it is declared,
be impossible but for this improved de-
vice. 1t not only saves time and trouble
but good pictures, it Is said, have been
taken during storms and without appreoi-
able Light from above.-Eew York Sun.
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rHe woRlp.s rAllesr srRuoTuRes.
A watsrworks Tower In Cincinnati Taller
Than the Washington Monument


Than the washington Monument.
The tallost chimney was huilt at Port
Dundas Glasgow, 1857 to 1859, for f.
Townsend 1t IS the highest chimney in
the world (4aA feet) and one Of the loftiest
masonry structures in existence. 1t is,
independent of its size, one Of the best
specimens Of substantial, well mado brick
work in existence. In Europe there are
only two church stoeples that exceed this
structure in height-namely, that Of the
Cologne cathedral (51O feot) and that of
the Strasburg cathedral (l6S feet). Hhe
great pyramid Of Tizeh was originally $50
feet, although not so high at present. The
United States outtops them all with its
Washington monument $50 feet high, and
the tower of the Philadelphia Public
building. which Is $50 feet high
The Eiffel tower at Paris surpasses all
other terrestrial metal structures with its
altitude of nearly 700 feet. The great
tower, - for London, in course Of construc-
tion from designs Of MIR. Horny Davey, G.
g., will outtop all metal structures, being
built of steel and its height viii be !, $50
feet when finished.
The highest and most remarkable metal
chimney in the world is erected ut the im-
porial foundry at HalshIuckc, near Erie
burg. in Suxony The height Of this
structure is 452 feet, it is 15.7! feet in in
ternal diameter and is situated on The
right bank of the Nude, at an elevation of
2l9 feet above that Of the foundry works
so that its total height above the sea is no
less than 7l1.75 feet. The works are situ-
ated on the left bank Of the river, and the
furnaces gases are conveyed across the
river to the chimney on bridge through
q pipe 3227 feet ia length.
The highest artificial structure in Amer
lea is the water works tower at Eden park,
Cincinnati The il0or of the tower, reached
by elevators, is 522 feet above the Ohio
river The base is 4O4 feet above the
stream If tine height Of the elevator shaft
be added to the observation floor tho grand
total height is $50 feet.
Tho highest Office building i'm the world
is the Manhattan Lie Insurance cnmpauy's
Of Kew York city. Its height above the
sidewalk is 3I7 feet and its foundations 90
down SO feet below she same, being 20 feet
below tide water level, making total OF
400 feet. The foundations consist Of Is
masonry piers and are carried by the Same
number Of steel caissous The latter were
sunk to bedrock by the pneumatic process.
Tho cantileyor system was used for tho
foundations Machinery.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-10-11

There are some bad bugs and worms In
the southern forests, but there are certain
ly none that is quite equal In endurance
and toughness to the worm that developed
himself from the great forest fires Of the
northwest. Scarcely had the fires cooled
sufficiently for tho owners to make inspec-
ton OF losses when they found that this
new worm had got there first, and was al
ready completing the destruction OF what
the flames had spared Both standing and
cut timber were attacked and the most Wig
orous measures have been resorted to and
with only partial success. This worm
seems to have evolved from the heat, and,
so far. the cold and SHOWS Of tho winter do
not appear to have affected his health or
lessened his voracity He certainly is a
new and unpleasant feature In the timber
question and nut that scientists have not
yet cracked. Chicago Chronicle.
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indian Territory Town sites.

Ex-senator Henry L. Dawes, the
chairman of the Indian commission, says
that the town site question in the Indian
Territory has become one Of great i'm
portance. There are now about 800, 900
white people in the Indian Territory.
They have built up towns, but are mere
tenants at sufferance, without particle
of title to the lands on which they built.
The Indian courts are closed against
them, as are the Indian schools to their
children, 80, 600 of whom have no other
opportunity for schooling, excepting
those whose parents are able to hire pri-
vate teachers. They have no voice in the
governments Of these five nations, nor a
police officer to protect them or their
property against violence.
1t will be the object Of the commits
sion, first, to obtain such solution of
the town site question that those who
have built up these towns and invested
large sums in costly buildings and ex-
pensive stores and trading places may
have some title to the ground upon
which the structures stand and some
voice in their government, and, secondly,
to see that the vast and valuable terri
tory shall be held either according to
the original title, for all Indians equal
", or shall be allotted in seyeralty to
them, so that each may hold his own
share in fee.
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HORSE STOCKS.



Not long ago a Star writer had occa-
sion to be in western Missouri. Just
north Of Kansas City about II miles
is the little town Of Parlville. tits built
up ON the two sides of valley which
opens against the broad Missouri, and
the hamlet might contain perhaps 90
houses. Among other matters, however,
it shelters a seminary Of considerable
local fame which teaches both boys and
girls the higher branches Of an educa-
ton, but with which just now we have
nothing to do The main street Of the
village runs along the bottom of the
valley at right angles with tho Missouri
river
The Star writer was sitting III front
Of one Of the stores smoking very bad
cigar Of local origin and conversing with
the merchant who had sold it. It was
about O'Clock in the afternoon, and
many of the country people were com
ing into town. A country girl Of the re-
gion came cantering up ON a bareback
horse and slid OF on what, now that
The Star mans attention was called to
It, he noticed was a queer sort Of horse
block.
It was nothing more or less than an
old rusty safeof considerable size. 1t
had apparently lain there for years and
when examined disclosed q suspicious
looking hole in one side, clearly the
work of explosives. AT this point the
attention Of the investigator from the
east was called to two other safes, SIM
ilarly exploded and also lying on their
sides in the street and doing duty as
horse blocks.
"How about these safes?'' asked The
Star man of the Parkville merchant.
"What story goes with them?"
"Nuthin much of a story, " remarked
the Parkville merchant, helping him
self to a thoughtful chew Of tobacco.
"Them safes have laid right thar where
You all see 'em since '73. They wuz
dragged out there and busted by Guam
trell and jess and Frank James and the
Younger brothers, along with the rest of
Quantrell's gang. They come chargin
down the street one day in June and
TUX the town in about a minute and a
half and then went fur them safes.
Money wuz mighty popular with Guam
trell and the James boys, and they usu-
ally Went arter all they heard of. -
Chow much did they get from the
SAFEST
II dunno how much they got from
them ON t'other side Of the street, " said
the Parkville man. "They hunted 49,,
500 out n mine, aud here he pointed
sadly at the safe nearest to him, the one
ON which the young rustic had just
alighted.
"Was that safe yours?" was asked.
Eyes, " he answered. Il KEEP store
then right whar 1 do now and jest as
I do now.
"Why haven't you removed the
safes?"
whats the use?" observed the Park
vile man. ''They amt in nobody's
way, and they do first rate far boss
blocks. Nuther thing, we aim got no
carts nor tackle strong enough TO move
'em nohow. So we jest let ON go as
they lay, as they say i'll faro. Wash
ington Star.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-10-11

1t is not easy to trace the origin of any
particular specimen Of slang We notice
that smart writer's are employing the cpl
thet 'fiimflnm, and win go out Of their
way for al occasion to use 1t as proof
that they are mp to date An Irish gentle
man tells us that no was entertained by
friend in Philadelphia whose porter came
back from answering the doorboll and
said to his MASTER Nobody but a bum,
i'And what is a bump inquired the guest.
This slang was explained to him. 1t is
not the same in Ireland. There, bum is a
diminntiye for bomhast. A bum is brag-
CART, what we should call blowhard
Flimfaln, Ike skedaddle and nearly all
the successful siangs, Is an onomatopoe6-
icism-which last IS among the great words
which we allow ourselves to employ only
on specially impressive occasions-in plain
terms, word the sound Of which indicates
les meaning A good slang word soon
wins its way TO proper use--though this IA
rather too fiimsy Aamsical to sast---Chsr
msgo Interior.
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sAVEp az ms cHEEK.
4 Railroad Depot Agents Experience
Will the GenerAI Manager.

4 Railroad Depot Agents Experience
Will the General hIanager.
A dozen Of us We're waiting at a rail-
road station in Georgia. As nobody
knew how long we must wait it was
only natural that one after another
should go to the ticket window and in
quire.
Dunno. was the grun response to
each inquirer.
That was about what was expected,
and yet it didn' please. We got togeth-
er on the platform and discussed the
matter, and while we We're talking
man drove up to the depot from the
town Seeing the crowd he came over
and asked what was up. When he had
been informed, he replied:
81 win try my luck with him and see
how come out -
He made the same inquiry, and the
agent looked up and replied;
How many more times am l going
to tell you l dunnog"
''Not more than once, said the gem
tleman as he reached for a telegraph
blank
Five minutes later he showed us the
dispatch 1t was to station agent 30
miles away, and it read, Leave assist
ant in charge and come down and take
full possession here The name at the
end of the dispatch was that of the gen
eral manager of the road.
"How muchf' he asked as he handed
it III to the agent, who was also operator
''This goes d. h., " replied the man
after reading it over.
he began ticking it off as cool as you
pleasea and when he had finished he
rose up, put on his hat and Overcoat and
came into the waiting room.
Have you any idea when that train
will be herer' quietly asked the man
who sent the dispatch.
''She's just coming around the curve
now. All aboard l' replied the agent
And as the train drew up he was the
first one to board it, leaving the office
to run itself till the other man could
come down.
Ibid we come out much ahead ON
that deal?'' asked Of the manager as
we got seated Oh the train.
"Well, moo, don't think we did, "
he drawled. 81 guess I'll send the
cheeky cuss back on the next train and
raise his salary IS month. st. Louis
/ Republic
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The Greek conception of their devil,
whom they call Yama, makes that per-
sonage one of the most satanic of tho
whole devil tribe According to their
ideas Of him, he is 24O miles high and
the hairs ON his body stand ont like
palm trees on a mountain side. He pun
ishes the doomed beings submitted to
his charge by putting them in beds Of
boiling oil, saving their bodies in two,
pouring molten lead in their ears and
such other little FRANKS as pulling out
their tongues, toe and finger nails and
gouging out their eyes. He is heart
less old devil Of the most devilsh kind
and has many other exquisite little tor
lures laid up for the helpless wretch
consigned to his chamber Of horrors. ."
st Louis Republic.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-10-11
MEERscHAUM.


How 1t Is Mined and Dried and Prepared
For Market.
Meerschaum is extracted in the same
way as coal. Pits from % feet to 1875
feet deep are dug, and as soon as the
vein is struck horizontal galleries,
sometimes Of considerable length, are
made, but more than two galleries are
seldom to be found in one pit. The
stone as extracted is called cham fash"
Trough block aud is soft enough to be
easily cut with a knife It is white,
with a yellowish tint, and is covered
with red clayey soil Of about one inch
thick In this state the blocks are pur-
chased by dealers on the spot, not by
weight nor by measurement, but ac-
cording to approximate quantity, either
per load of three sacks or per CARLOAD,
the price varying from 60 to $50 per
load, according to quality. These rough
blocks are dried and subjected to cor
tain preparation before being conveyed
to Eski-Shehir. Some of them are as
small as a walnut, while others attain
the size of a cubic foot. Those which
combine regularity of surface and size
are the best The manipulation required
before they are ready for expectation is
long and costly. The clayey soil attach
ed is removed and the meerschaum
dried. In summer exposure for five or
six days to the suns rays suffices, but
in winter a room heated to the required
temperature is required, and the dry
ing process takes eight OF ten days.
When we'll dried, the blocks are well
cleaned and polished. Then they are
sorted into about u classes, each class
being packed with great care in sepa-
rate cases and each block being wrapped
in cotton Notwithstanding and Min
ing Journal
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A most ridiculous discussion arose the
other evening at a cosmopolitan dinner
party. Conversation tagged slightly,
and wicked Yankee launched an APP
pie of discord in the shape Of the state
ment, now we'll known in London, that
bill was being framed in the house Of
lords forbidding a man to marry his
widows cousin A French lady made
cutting remarks about the established
church Of England and its restrictions.
A French colonel ponderously declared
that the depopulation Of France would
prevent the French government from
putting any such limitation on mar
riage, which was already difficult
enough in this fair land. Sundry Amer
leans re1oiced in a Phariseelille manner
over the absolute freedom Of our own
beloved country, as this was evidently
not case of the prohibited degrees,
and finally the discussion bid fair to de-
generate into a serious dispute, when
the author of this turmoil mildly sug
gested that as yet no man had after his
death taken any interest in any Of his
widows female relatives, which put a
sudden end to the political theological
debate then raging Philadelphia Tel
egraph.
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sepruAaEsIMA SUNDAY.

Genesis /, l, I'm The beginning God created
lhe hei;ven and the earth. First Lesson.
Revelation xxi. /, "And saw new heaven
and a new earth. Second Lesson.
The Episile for the day speaks Of the inter
eel as q race or q fight; the gospel, az q day 3
work in a vineyard.
WhenceY and WhitherY cries the soul.
Here thy cradle, there thy goal.
Here they tell Of mans first birth
There they sing new heaven, new earth,
'Twixt the two a race to run
Till thy earthly course be done.
Life is battle; life is toll.
Man was born 10 till the soil
Who for fight the palm would bear
Plants his blows nor beats the air.
Whatsoe'er the Master send,
Work unenvi0us 10 the end
May they have who strive to teach
Grace to practice what they preachi
Made from dust and prone 10 sin,
May they feel Gods breath withinl
IF. Cornish in Week by Week.
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Emigrants from the northwest con-
tinue to arrive in Americas in small
parties, bound for Wilcox county, where
so, 600 people from that region will set
tie this winter ON land purchased for
the Fitzgerald colony Ex-Governor
Northen is now in Wilcox, where he has
options on 90, 900 acres Of land in addi-
ton to that already purchased through
him for the colony.
Many of the colonists are Union sol
diers. AS soon as the charter is granted
the land will be surveyed into lots to
suit purchasers, and $4,000 acres will
be laid off into town lots. The streets
will be wide, and doubtless it will be
one of the best laid off towns in the
south. The site for the township has
not been selected, nor has the name been
suggested, but it is Thought that one of
the most appropriate names that could
be given is Northen City. The colonists
will begin to arrive in full force about
Oct. J. 1t is claimed that many of the
colonists are worth from 50, 600 to
$50, 900. The company has a capital Of
5000, 900. They will expend $500
in buying the lands, and $3.50, 600 in
improvements. Sawmills and other in
dustries will be established schools and
churches will be established also. Those
who have come have met with a warm
reception from the good people of that
section, and genuine old Georgia well
come awaits those yet to come. Amer
icus (Ga. Times Recorder.
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Don't think that your knowledge of
wonder gems is complete till you have
seen an alexandria, green by day
and red by night And such green
olive bronze, with a potent suggestion
that red is there. Green when held in
the sunlight. IN darkened room with
artificial light ruby where the emerald
was a moment before-a tawny wine
red Of exquisite tone. Edmund Rus
sell
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Emonr the Rcathen

Helen, aged 4, was spending night
away from home. At bedtime she knelt
at her hostess knees to say her prayers,
expecting the usual prompting.
Finding Mrs J. unable to help hen
out, she concluded thus
PLEASE, God, sense me. / can't
member my prayers. and I'm stayip
with a lsdy that don't know any. -
Philadelphia Times.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-10-11

Superstition reigns tyrannically in
many rural districts in Italy. Lately a
fortune teller prophesied to a young
farmer and his sister, living near Motto,
Sicily, that ON the evening before a GER
tain feast day both would die violent
death This so affected the minds of the
poor dupes that they became insane and
rushed shrieking through the streets. A
brother of these unfortunates then came
somehow to the conclusion that the ca
lamity was due to the witchcraft of
their stepmother, and in a fit of blind
rage he killed the poor woman with a
Doe. philadelphia Ledger.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-10-11

One of the oldest bridge 'bents, - On
piers, in this country is to be found in
Sonoma county, Cal Two large red
wood trees growing side by side support
the timbers and rails of bridge which
crosses a small ravine or creek at a place
where the roadbed is rs feet above the
water. Californians refer TO it as "the
only natural wooden bridge in the
world, "--St. Louis Republic.