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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-02-07
Some Rare Coins.

Numismatists have interesting OBJ.
jects of search in two coins which be.
long to the transition period between
the French republic and the second
empire. One of these is an extremely
rare coin which was struck off at the
moment OF the assumption of the rains
Of empire by Napoleon III. Only the
die for the diverse or head Of O new
imperial coin, had been completed,
and by some accident, or possibly by
mischievious design, a coin was struck
off which bore the head of "Napoleon
III, Emperor" on one side and
"French Republic on the other.
With the other coin similar story
is connected. While Louis Napoleon
was "prince president. aud just be-
fore he made himself Emperor, q de-
cree was issued ordering fve-franc
piece to be coined bearing his image.
The dies were made and the coin was
struck off as sample and sent to the
"prince president" for approval. But
some time passed tefore he examined
Il. When ut last he gave it his atten-
tion he was annoyed to find that he
had been represented on the coin with
"love lock-" or hooked lock of hair,
on the temple, which he did actually
woer at that period, but thought un-
suitable to so dignitied and permanent
representation OF himself as an eifigy
upon coin.
The prince president sent for the
director OF the mint and ordered him
to remove the ''love locks" Then he
found that his silence with regard to
the piece had been taken Tor approval,
and the stamping OF coins had com.
menced. The work was stopped and
the image deprived of its undignifed
look; but the twenty.three coins that
had already been struck off were not
destroyed, and are now regarded of
great value. Boston Transcript.
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Sneezlng.

DR.. Scanes Spicer, reading n paper
the other day before the Chemists
Assistants Association on "Sneezing,"
told his hearers that the act of sneez.
ing has always been regarded as super.
natural, and by many races was held
IN reverence. Hence arose the custom,
not even now altogether obsolete, OF
making some remark directly after
sneezing. Sneezing was regarded as
sign of impending death during the
plague of Athens. Many classical
writer's make especial reference to
sneezing, and some supposed that dur.
ing sneeaing devils were expelled.
Sneezing itself ia q reflex nervous
action, and Is brought about by me.
.chanical irritation TO the, ends of the
nerve fibers which OCCUR in the tissue
of the nose. When this irritation oc.
ours, whether il be due to q foreign
body or change Of temperature affect.
ing the tissue OF the nose, nerve i'm.
pulse Is transmitted to the brain and
certain nerve centres In the medulla
oblongata are affected; this results in
certain impulses being transmitted
along the nerves to the muscles oon.
trolling respiration. BY this means
the egress of air during expiration is
delayed, and tho various exits are
closed. When the pressure, however,
reaches q limit, tho exits are forced
open, ga powerful blast Of dir is ex.
PEELED and tho patient sneezes. -
London News.
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Talking 9'imeDIeces.

There is no longer any necessity OF
asking, "What time is it?" as now the
hour and minute are accurately spoken
by photographic attachment to
clocks and watches recently devised
by NJ. Swan, OF Geneva. The nearest
approach to this has been the repeat
ing watches having striking arrange
ment to give the hour aud minutes.
This is monotonous ind too much like
counting the strokes Of ON alarm bell
to locate fire. Swans watch is FREQ
from oil these objections; the pho
nogrophic sounding plate is made of
vulcnnized rubber with striated fur.
rows and q delicate point resting
thereon as in the ordinary phono-
graph. On this rubber plate are
forty-eight furrows, twelve of which
correspond to tho twelve hours and
thirty.six representing the quarter
hours traversed 10y the hands of the
watch or clock in each circuit OF the
dial plate. The traversing point
vibrating with the sinuosities OF the
furrows translates the vibrations into
spoken words as for instance; at is
6 o'clock" ''It Is quarter Of g." at
is haG-past TO-" and so on through Jl
the quarter-hours Of the day. This
rubber plate is only On exac. repro
duction upon plain surface Of there.
ceiving cylinder Of phonosraph.
The possibilities Of such o watch are
immense. II can wake you in time
for your early train or remind you
that you ought to be hungry for your
breakfast, or inform the long.winded
statesman that he is wasting too much
time and money on impracticable aud
tiresome oratory. What welcome
convenience such pocket piece
would he to the convivial club man
when in the wee small hours he could
gauge his gait by the oral passing of
time. However, this photographic
watch is practical and has come to
stay. Atlanta Constitution.
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A WOn6ariul Light,

The idea OF an electric lightv
fed by current from a dynamo'
ated by a forty horse power e,
and giving 1000 candle powe,
have its illuminating power inteu
80, 900 times, is not easy TO grasi
means the projection OF a stieI'
light OF about $50, 900, ,00a q
power, and it Is no wonder ths
announcement that such q LID
about to bo used in this county,
been received with soma incga
in Europe. Yet this is the eiia
of the light which will be sa
erected at Fire Island for the lid
stion OF the adjacent coast ar.
protection of the fleet OF ships
ing New York Harbor. A remoi'
gestion of the power Of this lans
be arrived at by bearing in mini
an ordinary oil lamp is about 4
eight or forty candle pewer, and
trying to imagine the combined
of 100000 LAMPS. The ord
electric street light may be put
at 1000 candle power, and $50,
these would about represent
strength of the Fire Island light
The most powerful oil lamY
made is supposed to shine out
clear night for n distance of y
five or forty miles, but the nes
will flash its welcome rays to u
coming European liners whet
are 100 miles away. The hs
wolves rapidly and throws o.
beams with the intensity OF spa
lightning. The motive power
actuates it is u simple clockwo'
rangement contained in n bo1
feet square, and although the !
ing portion Of the light weighs
tons, the mechanism CONTROLLED
so delicate that tho pressure o
fingers will turn it. The value
marvellous lamp can only DO
mined by practical working,
promises to represent an in
stride in the science of coas!
house illumination. - Philad1
Press.
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ably be kspA u mind N ths msnage.
nsnt Of the qettysbufg and Chicks-

ably be kepA u thind III the msnagc-
ment Of the 0sttysbufg and Chicka-
mAuga fields, although there the es.
tablishment OF q park requires some.
what different rules. Yet the pur-
pose should be 70 keep them looking
as nearly os they were in 1863, except
for tho monuments and identifying
marks and the means OF trsnsporta-
tion. However, even at Antietam IL
is the purpose Of the War Department
to acquire certain lanes and roads
along which the most severe fighting
occurred, providing tho land can be
bought ut reasonable rate, and not
otherwise. Then tablets and markers
on such roads will DO set up. The
Antieta,n scene was, in fact, occupied
with cleared fields and cornfields, and
the famous ''sunken road ran from
tho Keedysville to the Hagarstown
pike. II is to be hoped that the effort
TO acquire some of the old roads and
lanes at reasonable price may not be
baillod. Still, at present il would not
be correct to speak of tho battle field
as park.
AT Shiloh, however. National mill
tary park is contemplated by the bill
of MIR. Henderson, which the House
has passed. Mr.. Henderson explained
that he and Mr.. Black, Of Illinois, and
Mr.. Wheeler, Of Alabama, had under.
taken TO look after the interests OF the
bill, and that options Of the land had
been secured at on average purchase
price of S12 an acre, whereas tho
Chickamauga Park had cost an average
of S2s an acre. The bill provides for
"A commission, TO DO selected from
what were once known as the armies
of the Tennessee, the Ohio and tho
Mississippi.
Thus two great battlefelds at the
East and two at the West will be APP
propriately marked for preservation,
assuming that the Shiloh bill is 60 be-
come law. They will form q remark
able series of memorials for future
generations. Gettysburg and Chicka-
muuga were in the broadest sense
National battle fields. The former
included troops from Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota
on the Union side, and from Louisiana,
Arkansasand Texas on the Confederate.
Chicknmauga and Chattanoogs, chiefly
the latter, brought in eleven regi.
ments and two batteries from Pennsyl.
vania, sixteen regiments and batteries
from New York, two regiments each
from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and
New Jersey, and On artillery battalion
from Maine.
All four we're battles which the sur.
vivors on both sides can look upon
with memories of pride as we'll as sor-
row. and with the feeling that military
laurels were won for both parts OF the
country. Orleans Picayune.
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set In the snow, and 10 whose great
aunt he had sent valentine; bat he
realized it now.
Well, IL was all over now. What q
bnlk from beginning to end His
heart thumped angrily. He would 40
home tomorrow. Home was the only
ft place for such an idiot
He thrust his hands into his pockets
and fairly rushed in his vehement inn
patience.
"Oh, don't, please--not again ~
somebody said, in meekly-pleading
voice.
Bentley gazed at the speaker. A
pair of brightly daring dark eyes
looked at him from out fuzzy, pink
hood, and a pretty voice laughed q
little.
Their owner had swerved out of his
poth, and paused.
'I was afraid yon were going to run
into me-again. Yol weren't look
ing," sne added, apologetically, and
made as if to go.
But Bentley was squarely in front
of her. his gloomy face suddenly
aglow.
"1f lose this chance" he was say
ing to himself, tremulously, 81 de-
serve hangingl
"Don't you, then--not again !" he
commanded, Don't leave me again
like that, and make me feel like n
brute, and the most wretched of be-
ingsl Didn't you know ] didn'tmean
TO, Miss Miss Wilson? You are not
angry yet?'
They were looking at each other
almost eagerly. Nor did they appear
to find anything strange in their situa-
tion. They did not seem embarrassed
over this their very first conversation.
She looked down at her muH.
81 know I owe you an apology !"
she murmured. 81 even thought of
mailing you one but then 1 thought
/ might I might meet you, was
very rude that day and stupid. But
you did hurt me little. and thought
1 wondered if you could have done
it purposely. l had heard how--how
peculiar you were, you know, and 1
wasn't sure; but afterward l knew
better, was ashamed of myself !" SAID
Teeny Wilson, herocically.
Bentley smiled rapturously.
"And my Valentine?" he said.
"Didn't you know it was yours?"
The ex.post-mistress turned prettily
red.
81 thought So" she confessed BASH
fully.
Then proprietY asserted itself.
"I don't know you!" she said, with
sweet, half laughing horror. ".And
here I'm talking to you in broad day
light, like--like an old friend!"
"Ars you going 20 the postodice?"
said the artist from the city, vslor-
ously. $50 am |. want some post
age stamps"
The fourteenth OF February was
some distance in the past by the time
Lemuel Parks's meadow was entirely
and satisfactorily put on canvas. 1t
was said in Trumbull by the moro far
seeing that if tho artist could have
made the task last all summer he would
have.
II it had been necessary, uudoubt-
edly he would. But il was, in fact,
only in the edge of spring that the
prestiest girl in Trumbull Tor any
!,vhsraalse, herslover firmly believed)
promised to marry him.
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'AIINTiNE

oycu this rhyme who sends,
Love. the best OF friends
you scorn this waif oisopg
,ho loved In silence long,
----l..-..-.ue then--be cruel then,
lndlan Md send young Cupid homo again
and he who loves with love forego
Because Loves frst reply Is Nol
T., But, swestheart, when this message lies
Beneath tho heavens OF your eyes,
dat And looking into them above,
whispers the secret OF my love,
Be kind pray-be kind pray;
Remember Valentine, his day,
When he who loves may love confess
And hope TO hear Love answer Yesl
p. d. Sherman, in Harper's Weekly.
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Government Lights,

The United States has 1912 light
houses, 33 lightships, % electric buoys
and 1859 lights Oh the Western rivers.
The coast lights of this country re-
quire 1879 men to keep them in order |;
the river lights, 1903. Great Britain
has 1877 lighthouses; France has 422 |;
Germany, 1873 Russia, l9i; Austria,
So; Italy, 263; SPAIN, 17S; Sweden
and Norway, 337; Denmark, G3; Hol.
land, l02; Belgium, 25; Greece, 5S:
Turkey, 1874; India, 90; Australia,
343; Canada. 65l. New York Ad-
vertiser.
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Flax In Oregon.

There are two values in tlsI
and the seed. Our Northwest
States are the best aax-growi
trict in the world. Many yea
the fbre was extolled by expeI
saw it. But We were distant
market aud did not press this
of industry. Conditions are eS
now. and the product of fai
and seed or oil, will now, Of
bear transport. This is one OF
dustries to be studied in these
--Portland Oregonian.
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India has $500 acres in tea.
Goldfish are Of Chinese origin.

India has 20, ,OOO acres in tea.
Goldfish are Of Chinese origin.
Egypt prohibits tobacco cul.lJ
6on.
Seeds 1000 years old have III
tnown TO sprout.
India in its Bo trees has the oul
trees in the world.
Orange trees were known 10 NJ
existed in England in 1895. n
San Francisco, Cal. is the third A.
uercial city in the United States. i
A man in Somerset, Mass, M
seven cents tax on pet monkey ~
nothing else.
The volcano nt Cotopaxi Will.
eruption early IN the century Sen, !
mass of rock 100 cubic yards in yolu,|
nine miles.
An alligator with q perfectly snol
body was seen on the banks Of M
Okeechobee, Fla, recently by |,
colored farm hands.
DIR. Alexander, of wyandot, OIL
tell into an unused we'll while respo,I
ing to a midnight call, and before
was rescued the patient died.
London fire engines often hav
stop on their way TO fire TO take
turncack. liveried functionary,
is alone allowed to have the key |.
6replug.
The great hearth fire in the hal
Roby Castle, England, is said ns
to have been permitted TO go ost
centuries. That in Warwick G.
will burn q quarter Of q cord Of VI
at once.
In siam, when funeral is pas,
the women take down their hair
unfasten their beads, and the
tumble around in their pockets ID
little piece of metal to hold beis|
their teeth.
Rats must have access TO wat,,
they die. A trapped rat may easilr
tanned by allowing no water bu,
offered in a spoon, for the creE
soon learns to recognize the b
which supplies this all.importaat,
essary.
Names oldest fisherman. Uncle
Lyer, died at Portland q few DAYS
at the age OF nincty-two years
worked at the nets almost up 10
day Of his death, and less than
ago captured, single-handed, q Ia.
weighing 332 pounds.
The earliest known contr:
weather record in the world, cos:
ing observations by the Rev. W. Y
from January, 1887, to January,
is in the Bodleian Library at 0h
This record shows the weather to
been similar to what it is now.
Ben Cook, of the West Philals
Stock Yards. has in thirty
handled S27, 900, 900 worth of d
weighing as much as 10000 loS
tives; enough to reach in q doubA
from Hong Kong to San Francis
furnish O bite Of mutton for ever
son on this globe.
AS far as is known, swallows n
tory flights are always carried q
day. The fact that. though va,
and other migrants are consh
found dead around lighthouses, b
dashed themselves against tbs.
dows of the lanterns, swallow
never been known to meet the,
in this way, furnishes strong prsa
tive evidence of this peculiarly
swallow tribe.
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vertiser,

There arc forty-tive survivors OF the
War OF 1912 on the roll of the Pension
Office, OF whom fifteen are one hun.
dred or more years old. There are
twelve pensioners OF the Revolutionary
Wsr. but they are all Widows.
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500 $40 snot. response.

ly, but it could not dim the prettiness
of her flushed face. What blooming
ripeness! What compleyionl
81 don't need to say that 1 didn't
mean to,-that l didn't see you p
sorryr
She bowed coldly.
She was looking toward n gray, cob.
webby article tossing merrily over the
= snow at some distance.
nj Your veill" Bentley calculated.
~ He rushed after it.
1.-THE wind whipped it from the spot
.v / ! waited il before him.
: here vas 1t now? lie WAS in full
?, but it had disappeared.
etley ground his teeth. What
che say now?"
did not say snything. She was
re when he got back She was
her way up the street, hsr
! blown wildly, both her
pned hands to her face.
e., watched her in a miserable
A. went into the postofice.
doing. lord oft the Trumbull Hotel,
the hurr., ds office. was astonished at
boarder, snod entrance of his best
the citYivba w-covered and excited
Opinion stSdi 'arder, whom general
Sratic a. Il lrau ed with being aristo-
Tho landTh .hty.
en- hrisl, ,,S 4 beamed his welcome
- Rnt .nN GOAT.
~ % paused, open-mOuthed, at
luery with which the young man
Uurst forth.
"Wbo's the prettiest girl in town."
Bentley demanded.
''Bless my soul l don't knowl"
said the landlord.
'+Pshaw haven't you got eyes in
your head?" the artist questioned
vigorously. "Why. she's beauty,
mani saw her just now and Knocked
her down in the snow," he confessed
grimly. "Who is shep She Vent in.
70 the postotlice. Does she do any
thing In the postoiIice?'
He bent over the startled old person
almost fercely.
Ivy, Teeny Wilson," he faitered,
in alarm. "reeny Wilson she's tend.
ing to the postotlice Jest now. while
her aunts away; great.aunt 'tisv
mle bemuipS, "Iuo", ouo 10 Oue
ben post-mistress here fer going on
twelve year. They can put in any
President they want to, they can't put
Ms Demming out; town wouldne
hev it. Wal, Teeny she's staying
there while Mis- Demming's gone"
''Is she NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
fulP" his boarder demanded, hotly.
''Wal, Teeuy's pretty good.look
ing" the landlord admitted, with {
dry moderation that oxasperated th'
Srtist. "Wal, guess the young mel
th.pk so, anyhow. Teeny's got plent,
- st--- -. .-s IsI-a !s,Isgs-"1-
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The Valentine He Sent.
FL EMMA A. oPPER.

EhhNAhD BBN l.
ley, the young
artist from the
city, S n at c h c d
down his canvas,
strapped his easel
and paiut-box aud
cam PCS to ol t o.
gether, and strobe
toward home, or
toward the Trum-
bull Hotel.
There W as n
black snow. cloud
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in the west, the wind was spring.
ing up sharply, and needlo-lisc frozen
specks were beginning 60 prick his
cheeks.
EVERYBODY in Trumbull knew all
about him. it was known that he was
rising young landscape painter, that
nc was handsome in appearance but
unpleasantly citifed in manner. and
that he was taking down in oils the
February aspect Of Lemuel Parks's
creek crossed meadow; also, that he
wore gloves every day, and possessed
diamond studs anil smoking -iacket.
The flakes were coming down fast
and thick now, and their singing
quality was increasing.
Bentley pulled his collar up and his
hat down, lowered his head and hur.
ried.
Che Trumbull Hotel was not luxuri-
sas, but il was preferable TO Febru-
ary snow.storm. IT was binding.
He pushed around "A corner force
ial.y. Somebody was turning the cor.
nes from the opposite direction quite as
forcefully, aud
Bentley dropped his burdens. Sit
ting at his feet, in the prone attitude
TO which their violent collision had
forced her, was girl--a young lady,
he saw with Mortified eyes--and Il
young lady with the most charming
lace, framed in q soft, pink hood
quite the sweetest face, It seemed t.
the Young artist, he had ever seen.
just now the face was red as to the
cheeks and angry as to tae eyes
which did not look ut him.
Bentley stood with both arms Goa
fusedly extended, but his victim tool
neither of them. She got to her feet
deftly enough, and shook the anou
from her blue dress energetically.
> "Are you hurt?" cried the young
man--tba, helpless query OF oil dis
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-09-24
FEMININE VANITY.
1t Crops Out Even Among Women Be-
hind tho Bars. .

1t Crops Out Even Among Women Be-,
hind the bars.
Vanity in a female prisoner would
be merely laughable if it were not so
sad to behold. 1t is, however, the one
touch of nature which proves the hu-
man kinship, and there is perhaps aome
hope for even these poor, degraded
creatures, if they are thus swayed by
such harmless emotions. Prison ma
irons, saysthe North American Review,
would be perpetually busy if they
checked every attempt made by their
charges to adopt the last fashionable
couture. "Fringcs" are "going out"
perhaps, in general society, but they
are still amazingly popular in prison.
Criminals will trim their hair as it
pleases them, and the wiseSt disciplin-
arian affects to see nothing of the
fringe. In the same way, once. when
chignons were in voguc,t the female felt
happy whose locks escaped the prison
scissors and were long enough TO fold
over Il pad of oakum. The ingenuity,
again, with which some prisoners will
twist and turn their u~nbecominr uni
form into some faint notion of the
fashions of the day might have earned
lIicSc dfIlStS Soou wages III q dress
makers atclicr. I have seen panniers
countcrfcitcd and ~polonaiscs, skirts
drapcd or tied back, dress improvers
manufactured out of whaleboncs or
horse hair; no doubt when the present
bell" skirt is fading out Of fashion it
viii be largely patronizcd in jail. The
craze for personal adornmcnt leads
women to skim the grease OF their
scanty allowance of soup, with which
they plaster their hair. l once knew
an aged prisoner who was caught
scraping the dust from the red brick
cell wall to serve her as rouge.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-09-24
TURNING THE 3 L
The Unfortunate Lawyer md His Client,
the Nurse.

The Unfortunate Lawyer and His Client,
the Nurse.
The extent to which lawyers can ex-
ercise their imagination when pleading
in behalf of their clients is almost be-
yond belief; but sometimes the tables
are turned in a very unexpected fash
ion.
On one occasion, says the Florida
Times-Union, Mr.. Swan was engaged
in presenting the case of a woman who
petitioned the court to grant her a
judicial separation from her husband,
a worlingman, and urged that as she
was in extreme poverty she was en-
titled to alimony according to her hus-
bands means.
With n voice broken in it's pathos the
lawyer dilated onthe imperative neces-
sity of the case, declaring that his
client was utterly destitute, not having
I mattress TO lie upon, and not possess
ing the means to purchase a crust of
bread.
When the evidence had been heard
the judge, who well knew the counsel's
unlimited powers of exaggeration,
urned to the appellant and addressed
to her a few questions.
Have you, then, no occupation?"
Eyes, my lord; 1 am a nurse" was
the incautious reply.
And where are you employed?"
Il am at Mr.. Swans" she unwitting-
ly rejoined, pointing to her counsel.
1t was with the greatest difficulty
hat the judge refrained from joining
in the shout of laughter with which
this admission was hailed.