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Watch Hairsprings.

The hair spring is strip of the
finest steel about 1-2 inches long,
1-1OOth inch wide and 27-10, ,000ths
inch thick. 1t is coiled up in spiral
form and finely tempered. The proc
ess of tempering these springs was
long held as secret by the few fortu-
nate ones possessing it, and oven now
is not generally known. Their manu-
facture requires great skill and care.
The strip is guaged to 20-1, 600 of an
inch, but no measuring instrument
has as yet been devised capable of fine
enough guaging to determine before
hand by the size OF the strip what
the strength of the finished
spring will be. A POI, ,0oOth part
of an inch difference in the thick
ness of strip makes difference in
the running of watch of about six
minutes per hour. The value of these
springs, when finished and placed in
watches, is enormous in proportion to
the material from which they are
mode. A comparison will give good
idea. A ton of steel made up into
hair SPRINGS when in watches is worth
once more than twelve and one-half
times the value of the same weight iii
pure gold. Hair spring wire weighs
one twentieth of grain to the inch.
One mile of wire weighs less than half
a pound. The balance gives five vi
brations every second, 800 every min
ute, IS, 900 every hour, 432, 900 every
day, and 157, $50, 900 every year. Al
each vibration it rotates about one and
one e-fourth times. which makes 1877,
| 100, 900 revolutions every year.
The free press., 1895-07-18

had hardly entered the yard when an
open shutter Tapping listlessly on its
hinges arrested his attention, and his
heart sunk within him. Penelope, he
thought, would never leave q shutter
that way under any conditions. The
key gave forth hollow lonesome
sound as he turned it in the lock, and
the sound of his footsteps on the floor
was altogether too weird and unusual.
Penelope, he called, with tremb-
ling voice. "Oh, Penelope"
But only the echoes answered him,
and the unwelcomed truth forced it
self upon him that Penelope was gone.
He went outside, and, sitting down
upon the step bowed his head in his
hands. just then the sound of wheels
fell on his ear, and buggy was driven
up and halted at the gate.
Then man helped woman to
alight The grocer recognized her,
and ran down the steps, crying
penelope, Penelope, amt you
ashamed-you've been riding
But here the voice of Holburn broke
in
Were married." he said.
"Well, well, Penelope Paine"
"Holburn, said Ned, proudly.
Penelope" went on the old man,
ignoring his son-in-law, ~ would
never have thought it of you.
The girl was silent, frightened and
fearful.
"And you, Ned Holburn, to think
of you beinga brother in tho same
lodge and all of that and then playing
me such trick.
81 guess I'm able to keep wife" )"
said the young man.
cable to keep her, able to keep her
That amt it, it's the way you got her
Penelope Paine, aud after all the rails
ing I've been giving you, do you real
ize what you have done? You've been
guilty of eloping eloping, do you
hear?"
That's all right, father-in-law,
said Holburn, "Penelope's past thirty
now, and she'll soon come to know
her own mind. When she comes to
know it hope she won't change; il
she doesn't, she'll never regret this
elopement," aud he kissed her. .-Buf-
falo News.
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The Drummer Boys.

The drummer boys in the Union
Army often got acquainted with the
Southern children, and were often
befriended by the Southern mothers
and daughters. Phil Corell, Pred
Ritschy's partner tells of how the two
were put to bed in the guests chamber
one night by motherly Southern
matron whose own boy was beating a
drum in Lees army. She tucked them
up, after they had got in bed, kissed
them good night, as their own moth
ers had done before they left New
York, and dropped II tear or two on
their upturned faces, as she said that
they and her own dear boy, too, ought
to be at home, and not in the field.
In the morning, after giving them u
royal breakfast, she gave them all tho
jams they could carry to take back to
camp with them. The offers and men
also were apt TO make great pets OF the
lads. New York Times.
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Thinks Himself a Horse.

John Demorest is man, but he is
convinced that he is horse. He
sleeps in stable and draws little
self-made wagon around all day on
Blackwell's Island, New York City,
with harness he rugged up himself.
When he gets angry he bites the bit in
his mouth and paws the ground. But
he is generally peaceful, having had
only three runaways in twenty years.
The commissioners of charities and
corrections found recently that owing
to transfer of patients they had room
for 100 more insanity cases on Wards
Island. The medical board was re-
quested to visit Blackwell's Island and
sort out about 100 patients for trans
fer. When they landed at the pier
the first person they set eyes upon was
Johnny the horse. When Johnny saw
the medical board he uttered n lot of
neighs by way of salute and he has
never ceased to regret his conduct on
that occasion. The medical board
exchanged glances and put his name
down in book, and Johnny was more
than tickled. But when they turned
in the list TO President Porter Johnny
the hor c's name led all the rest for
transfer from the island. Then there
was IL great outcry and petition that
he might be left behind, which was
granted. Chicago Times Herald.
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Panther Against Bear.

In the dense forests of Sullivan
County, Pennsylvania, Nelse Hoose, a
settler, was one day hunting for
stray COW, and presently he sat down
on fallen tree to rest, at the mouth
of a dark glen, on the north side OF
South Mountain. While he sat he
heard q bear growing up the glen,
and, as the sound came nearer, Nelsc
got upon the log and cooked his rifle,
which he always carried in that wild
country. In a moment big panther
came trotting through the bushes, with
a squealing bear cub in it's mouth. II
carried the cub as cat does mouse,
and did not seem to be i'll much of q
hurry. Close at the pan theirs heels
numbered the wailing mother bear and
when the panther, which evidently
knew the bear was afraid of him, put
the cub ON the ground as if to get a
better hold, the bear gained courage,
plunged at the panther, and caught it
around the body just in front of its
hind legs. Quick as thouuht the pan
ther flung the cub in the air, tore him
self lose and pitched into the bear. At
the first stroke the bear knocked the
panther to one side, and second
stroke sent him flying into the bushes.
But at this stage of the fight the cub
squeeled once more, and the mother
bear, seeming to forget everything
but her young one, rushed to its res
cue. She had not taken three steps
when the panther sprang at her and
settled his claws in her shoulder and
his teeth in her neck. The bear strug-
gled hard to shake off the great cat,
but she couldn't do it. just as she
gave her last kick and the panther
rose in triumph, Nelse took hand in
the fight and with two bullets killed
the panther. The cub also lay dead,
the panther's teeth having crushed the
tender bones in the neck, and further
up the glen Nelse found the bears
nest with live cub in it, which he
carried home Atlanta Constitution.
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QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

The Atlantic takes its name from
Mount Atlas.
The japanese religion demands that
a man must worship ON the soil every
day.
Silk is 80 cheap in Madagascar that
the poorest people wear clothing made
of it.
One of the eccentricitiea of the
Chinese appetite is to eat live
shrimps.
The water of the Mediterranean con-
tains greater proportions of salt than
that in the ocean.
No part of the Atlantic Ocean be-
tween Europe and Newfoundland ex-
ceeds 2,400 fathoms.
When the Gulf Stream passes out
of the Gulf of Mexico its tempera-
ture is about 70 degrees.
A bunch of eleven rattlers was
killed recently within two blocks OF
the Columbus, Ohio, postoffice.
Only about one man in every twen-
ty-fve who seeks to enlist in the
United States Army is accepted.
Bicycles are SO common on Broad
way New York City, nowadays that
nobody pays any attention to them.
Carpets were introduced into Eng
land during the reign of Mary, in
1868. They were then considered
effeminate
A wealthy Englishwoman has mar
ried colored man, who, previous to
this union, has made his living as
clog dancer in variety halls.
The British Museum possesses
collection of old Greek advertisements
printed on leaden plates which show
that the practice is very ancient.
The remedial effects of laughter are
really wonderful. Gases have been
known where hearty laugh has ban
ishcd disease and preserved life by "a
sudden effort of nature.
At Gubbio, in Italy, spiritualistic
medium recently promised to put
mother in communication with her
and sulphurous smoke coming out of
| the cabinet she was convinced that he
was lost, went staring mad, and will
not recover. The medium is to be
prosecuted.
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SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Ventilated school wardrobes are
about to be introduced into the Brook
lyn schools.
A recent invention measures the
velocity of shot to the nine -bilionths
part of second
The newest puncture proof band
for use on cycles is made of strips Of
whalebone inserted between the air
tubes and the outer cover.
The cable cars of the Brooklyn
bridge are now supplied with electric
light by means of plan closely resem-
bling the now familiar trolley system.
1t is now proposed in England to
drive tram cars by power derived
from huge springs, which can be
wound while the whole is in motion or
otherwise.
A red sunset foretells dry weather,
because it indicates that the air tow
ard the west, from which quarter rain
may generally be expected, contains
little moisture.
A lens sixty inches in diameter, has
Just been cast at the Standard Plate
Glass Works, in Butler. Penn. 1t is
for the telescope of the American Uni
versity of Washington.
The Florida Legislature has passed
bill placing the care of animals af-
fected with rabies in the hands of the
state board of health. There has
been great deal of rabies in that state
lately.
Where the bottom of the ocean is
bad, an ocean cable will frequently
last only three or four years, but on
good bottom wire taken up after twen-
ty years, has been found almost as
good as ever.
! Professor Emmreich, of Munich,
Bavaria, is making experiments with
/ the serum of the blood of sheep, in
oculated with the cultivations of the
bacillus of erysipelas, rs a remedy for
cancer and sarcoma.
A new kind of cloth is being made
i'll Lyons from the down of hens,
ducks and geese. Seven hundred and
fifty grains of feathers make rather
moro than a square yard of light and
very warm water proof cloth.
Maxim's cavalry gun, which fires
700 shots q minute, weighs but thirty
pounds and can be strapped to sol
dier's back. The gun he made for the
sultan of Turkey fires TO shots min
ute, but it is field piece on wheels.
A collection of eighty thousand
stuffed birds, will be one of the attrac
tions of museum now i'll course of
erection at Leyden, Holland. The
building will in size outrank anything
of the kind in the world except the
British Museum.
DR.. Andrew Wilson, of London,
says that the odor of violets, mignon-
cite, tuberoses and heliotrope is in
furious to the voice. Vocalists are
especially susceptible to the scent of
these flowers. Violets are said to be
the worst in their effect.
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Dawn.

.. o,rtb awakcs with passionate thrill
r.or the iry thrall Of her winter dreams,
t,v,horns bloom on the opposite hill
Where tho shadows slant to tho curving
streams.
...los swallows and bluebirds throng-
Each heavenly voice that scars aud sings,
r,,b rapturous rush Of exulting song,
And a trsmulous llutter of glancing wings.
]. much more than we know IS meant,
q much more than we ask is given.
mi our hearts are filed with sweet con-
tent
Ind our pulses stillod with the peace Of
heaven.
FANNY JOHNSON. in Youths Companion.
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Yearly Additions 10 the Population

II everything has worked as the
statistieians think it has, this old
world is poopled by more than 1000,
600 more human beings than it was
in May, 1894. The death rate is G7
per minuts the world over and the
birth rate 40. Light as this percent
age of gain appears it is sufficient to
give a net increase in the population
each year of almost l. 200, 600 souls. -
San Francisco Examiner.
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Grateful.

"This is the last time l shall bring
this bill!' cried the enraged collector.
Thanks" replied the impecunious
debtor, "You are much more consid
crate than the other fellow; for he
said he was going to come again, ~
Atlanta Consti tuition.
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And Was SncedilY Shorn.

"You used to do little trading on
Change, didn't you, Higgs?"
eyes"
"Were you bull or n bear?"
"Noithcr, Blobbs. | was lamb -
Chicago Tribune.
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At Double Rates.

Wool-Dr. Emdee is an expert cx.
pert.
Van Pelt-- What is that?
Wool-Shows that the expert on the
expert on the other side is talking
through his hat.
The free press., 1895-07-18

The United States produced 353,
600, 900 pounds OF copper last year.
The production for 1891 was only
2S7, 900, 900,
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Excellent in Theory.

Mrs. Dorcas-Our League OF Eman-
cipated Women is going to have q lee
ture on the social equality of the sex,
You must be sure to come.
Mrs Cobwigger - Certainly, my
fear. | shall bring Miss Smith with
ile, as she believes ia social equality.
Mrs. Dorcas Not for the world.
You know she isn't in our set. Judge.
The free press., 1895-07-18

One OF the members of Governor
Morton's staff girds on a 81, 900 sword
when he is in full dress unifosm.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-07-11
PERSONAL MENTION.

Miss Alice Qussso and Miss Tile
Stucke left on the Arkansas Pass to-
day for Sayers, Texas, to spend a
few weeks.
Miss Katie Conner returned from
Corpus Christi yesterday, where
she has been spending several days
enjoying the breeze from the sea-
shore.
Prof. J. w. Schuwirth and wife,
of San Antonio, have arrived safely
in Hamburg, Germany, as an
nounced by cable to their nephew,
Henry G9rtz, OF this city.
J. B. Swain and daughter, Mrs
Sue Cameron, and granddaughter
Miss Birdie Barker, Of Ennis, are
visiting Officer Frank Dawson and
family. Officer Dawson is particu.
larly happy in again seeing his
grandfather, after an interval o.
many years.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-07-11
A Chance in a Life Time.

Four room house and stable,
m ust sell, and will sell; going to
leave San Antonio. II you want
something cheap call or address
304 Villita street, City. 6 II I'm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-07-11
SHARP CONTRACTORS.

The usually cautious "oid lady,"
the Morning Express, raises her
smoked spectacles, and says the
following on the transfer Of the
sewer contract:
The transfer Of the sewer con-
tract from Hindry to Messrs.
Wilding, Marshall, Backus &
Hines is one of the most import
ant transactions that has occurred
during this city administration.
The firm to whom the city has
trar erred the contracts has been,
from the beginning, the sewer con-
tractors. Hindry never intended
to build sewers. He was simply
speculator; he sold his contract
early in the transaction. That the
city authorities knew of this there
can be little doubt. The work on
the sewers has largely been de-
layed because Of the doubtful
standing of the real contractors.
Now that the contract has been
transferred by authority OF the
City Council there can be no ex-
cuse for futher delays OF work.
When the City Council had the
contract in their control it was
just the time to correct any mis-
understanding, and the most i'm
portant question was the sewer
connections. A futile attempt was
made to open this work to compe-
tition. The contractors were too
sharp for the Mayor and Council,
and the city surrendered its con-
troll of the streets to tho sewer con-
tractors. They have a monopoly
OF the work Of making connections.
Had the City Council possessed
grit and the courage to have insist
ed upon opening the work to COM
petition the sewer connections along
the business streets would have
been put down. Now 1t Is doubt
full IL there will be any connec-
tions made with the sewers until
after the contractors are done with
the streets, a work that should
have been done at first.
The first chapter, headed "Hind-
ry," has been closed. OF course
the more hidden mysteries OF tho
sewer contract will be left to future
disclosure. Who is or has been
with it must be told in another
chapter.
Among the numerous persons
who have been cured OF rheumat-
ism by Chainberlain's Pain Balm,
mention should be made Of Mrs
Emily Thorne, Of Toledo, Wash,
who says: 81 have never been able
to procure any medicine that
would relieve me of rheumatism
like Chamberlain's Pain Balm. j
have also used it for lame back
with great success. 1t is the best
liniment / have ever used, and ]
take pleasure in recommending IL
to my friends" For sale by f
Kalteyer & Son, G. Campbell and ]
Clsvin, druggists, San Antonio
Texas. tt
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-07-11

Judge King, John ]. Stevens, DR..
Clavin, DIR. Clifford and Jones
Irvine returned this afternoon
from three weeks visit to Ropes
vile.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-07-11

DRINK DUERLER's PEPsIN
Soda, 2 dozen bottles, all 75S box
Free delivery telephone 149
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HARDWARE

Stoves, Euameled Ware, Iron, Nails,
Paints, Agricultural Implements and
House Furnishing Goods. Lowest
prices for best quality goods.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-07-11

The newest thing in Fashions World.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-03-28

This great. worl1-renowned preparation
Or. Greeres Nervura blood and nerve
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Now, In the spring. is the very best
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II is not a patent ucdlcine. bat the
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-03-28
to be gratiaed and much pleased with

TO be gratiAed and much pleased with
Staunton.
To-day J. j. Jamison. Of Alexandria,
grand vice regent, presented, on behalf
OF Council sg1, OF this city, TO the Grand
Council gavel made from bed-post
formerly owned by W. shlngton and
taken from Mount Vernon and kept as a
relic by General X. a.. Lee.
OFFICERS ELECTED.
The Grand Council officers elected for
the ensuing year are: Grand Regent, J..
J. JaInson. Alexandria: Grand Vice-Re-
gent. w. J. Williams. Portsmouth; Grand
Secretary. William I.oyenstein. Richmond;
Grand Treasurer. a. u. Bolts, Freder-
icksburg: Grand Orator. Sol. l.. Bloom
berg. Richmond: Grand Guide, c. ".
Lumsden. Lynchburg; Grand Warden,
Marx Gunst Richmond: Grand Sentry,
&. &. Berry. Strrn,on; Trus,ees-A.
Myers, Norfolk: James MscVerdy. Roa-
noke. and John Henry Ingram. Man
chester. These grand officers were in
stalled this afternoon. The Grand Regent
was directed 10 reply 10 congratulatory
kilograms from Minneapolis, 81. Louis,
and Boston. and message Of sympathy
was sent TO W. i. Irvine. OF Norfolk
whose Hines. prevented his presence
This afternoon the council, upon inyI-
ford visited the Western State Hospital
Tonight the Opera House was packed
with people, the occasion being a compli-
mentary recital rendered by the Stone
wall Brigade Band musical and dramatic
amateurs TO the Grand Council. This
Royal Arcanur Council IS the handsOmest
and best-dressed delegation ever seen ~
Stanton.
SEVERED RELATIONS.
Some weeks ago as detailed at the
time In the Dispatch the Baldwin Dis
trict Fair Association and the Virginia
Livestock and Fair Association formed
quasi coalition. and proposed to have
one joint fair each year. instead OF two.
as heretofore. The two societies severed
relations to-day. and the Virginia Live
Stock and Fair Association announces
that i; will 90 il alone and hold its fair
on September %. 30, 18th. and 5th-four
days
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-03-28
THE TIME HAS COME.
II Iiaa been Neglected Far Too
Long.
THE SPRING Is THE TIME FOR yOt
TO LOOK OUT FOR YOURSELF.
Symptoms ut This Season You Must
Heed ia Keep Well.

Most serious are those diseases affect
Ing the liver and kidneys. The very
| thought OF them sends a thrill OF horror
through the body. When the kidneys can
not work death must result
The symptoms pointing to weak or
diseased kidneys are headache. pain or
| weakness In the back. bloating. changes
IN the water tired feeling. loss OF appe-
tite gas In the stomach. indigestion,
dyspepsia. dimness OF vision. changes
In the skin, sleeplessness. and nervous
ness.
Here Is a most remarkable cure OF liver
and kidney disease:
Mrs &. II. Joyncr who resides at No.
10 Chapel street. Westheld Mass. states:
81 was troubled with severe kidney
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nervous. trembling feeling. and l could
not sleep very well. used to wear
plasters to relieve that miserable weak
ness in my Kidneys. My liver was also
in bad condition.
early In the spring ! was feeling so
miserable that ] decided 10 try Dr..
Greenc's Nvrvura blood and nerve RENE
dy. Up 10 this time ! have taken two
bottles. and il has done all for me that
l represent. and no one VINO sec and
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years.
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| don't even wear Il plaster now. and
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Some people VII not take one thing
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Ill