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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-08-22
RIVAL CITIES.

If man does something big, the Chi
cago papers claim he is a Chicago man
whether he comes from Chicago or not
Los Angeles Express
In New York the people are SO mad at
trying to enforce the Sunday closing that
in thousands of side door saloons they
fairly frothed at the mouth.-Philadelph
Times.
Tho Suns latest fad is to drop the
"New" from "NeIv York. Then spell il
as many of your people speak it" Yo'k. !"
That's fine name for tho American me-
tropolis Buffalo Express.
Charleston people claim that is the cool
est city in the country during the summer
months. In this respect Charleston seems
to differ very materially from some of her
most prominent citizens. - Cleveland
Press.
Now that genuine reform has taken hold
of the New York police department. Chi
cago will have only San Francisco to dread
as rival in the production of murder
mysteries York Commercial Ad-
VertiSer.
Not content with stealing our territory
and pilfering our citizens, ST. Paul has
even the nerve to purloin the gallows that
we bought and paid for. Still it would be
all right if St. Paul would only make an
industrious use of the same-Minneapolis
Journal.
The esteemed Sun is busily advocating
the adoption of Manhattan as a name for
the Greater New York. Brooklyn is a
more appropriate name than Manhattan.
Park row, West Brooklyn, would look well
as the address on the envelopes of The
Suns correspoCdence.-Broo Ign Eagle.
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most suitable arrangement of the unstable
couch is said to be ono which is to be Ga
feet from the ground at tho head and ~
above it at the foot. Tho rope at the head
must DO l foot long, that at the foot feet
1t is necessary to employ u footstool to
mount into the hammock ut this eleya-
ton, but the skirts arc left free to swing
picturesquely. An outfit of cushions and
striped blankets is considered necessary
for fashionable effect.
Lace beading Is much used on nainSoOk
and dimity gowns, run with narrow rib
bon matching the figure printed on the
goods. Elbow sleeves are an almost inya-
riable feature of these gowns, which i'm
plies an impetus in the long glove trade.
Nainsook embroidery is cuIriously COM
bined with silk and even wool goods this
summer, which docs not seem very appro-
pirate except when the embroidery Is in
the shape of adjustable collars, cuffs and
vests which may be changed at will.
Lacemaking is a favorite industry with
Partisan ladies just now, and many elab-
orato designs arc supplied to furnish them
with n pretty prctense of fancy work. Nap
kin borders, doilies and traycloths in
renaissance style vie with more delicate
patterns intended for underwear and chill
drcn's clothing.
Hats of bluet straw trimmed with bluots
of various shades arc still greatly liked in
Paris, but are not much seen here. These
solid colorcd hats are sometimes very Of
fectivc, red straw trimmed with peoples or
cherries being particularly pretty.
The hat illustrated Is of black straw
with a wide, undulating briIn trimmed
with moss green and black plumes held to-
gethcr at the left sido by u large knot of
black taffeta forming four coques confined
| with paste buttons. JUDO CHoLLET.
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WHAT INSECTS M "a,
They are Both Friend :,u.; F..c-I. n
teresting Suhi CT

They are Both Friend au.; F"e--sn In
teresting SuiJ ca.
Few persons who have not given
the matter special attention have
any idea of the extent to which
grain, fruit and live stock are liable
to injury by insects. There are
nearly 100 species that prey on
grain and forage crops; upwards of
forty attack vegetables; no less than
fifty menace the grape, aud IS threat
en- the apple. The pine has 125
species as enemies; the oak. 200; the
elm, 80; the hickory, ITO; the maple,
76; the beech. $50; while the unfor
tunate willow battles against some
400 species of insect foes. Some
idea of the immensei loss that is sus>
tanned by the human race from i'm
| sect peses may be imagined from the
fact that in 1854, in the United
States alone, the amount is estimas
ted to have been 100000, 900; but
in 1891 it was $300,000,000, and i,
thanks to the investigations of Gov,
eminent scientists, it is believed
to be annually decreasing. 1t is not
to be supposed, however, that the
fullest knowledge available to man
will suffice absolutely to prevent
these losses; but the figures are so
| numerous that the reduction of them
| within smaller dimensions becomes
a matter of very great Importance.
All insects are not our foes; and
| just what birds are most fond of ben
efcial insects it would be interesting
| to be informed.
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DAILY.

BETWEEN RICHMOND and RALEIGH via
KEY
Leave Richmond II 40p daily leave Keys
vile 40 p m. arrive Oxford 6 05 m, Hender-
m, Returning leave Raleigh 45 a m daily,
Durham 10 90 a M Leave Henderson IS 80 a
m, Oxford I'll "a m, arrive keySVille 2 co d m
Richmond 81 daily.
Trains on o. s. H. R. r. leaves Oxford 5 90 a
m and 10 p m daily except sunday 40 D m
m daily except Sunday, and IL 80 p m daily.
Returning, leave Henderson 8 80 a m and 20 d
m daily except unday, and 3 d m daily and
arrive at Oxford % a and 10 p m daily ex-
cept aunday. and 5 IN daily.
SLEEPING CAR SERVICE.
On trains Nos So and s. Pullman Buffet
Sleeper between New York, Atlanta and Jack
SOnville, and between Charlotte and augusta,
On Nos 81 and IS. Pullman Sleeping Cars be-
and Jacksonville and Tampa, and between New
York and ASheville and Washington Memphis
and Augusta Dining Car Greensboro to
Montgomery.
On Trains Nos II and S5 Pullman Sleeper be-
tween Greensboro and Raleigh.
Trains Nos IL and ~ run solid between Rich
mond and Atlanta and carry Pullman Sleeping
Cars between Richmond Danville and Green's
boro
BETWEEN WEST POINT and RICHMOND.
Leave " est Point so m daily, and so
daily except Sunday and Monday; arrive
Richmond 05 and 10 30 m. Returning leave
Richmond 3 10 p and As D M, daily except
Sunday: arrive " est Point 90 and 6 o. p m.
bERKLEY, superintendent, Greensboro N G.
j. s. b. THOMPSON, : upt., Richmond, Va
w. A TURK. Gen1 Pass Agt Washington D G
8. 81 HARDwIcK, Ast.Gen- Pass Agt, Atlanta, Ga
w H GREEN, Gen. Manager, Washington. Dc.
J III CULP. Traffic Manager, WashingtonD. G.
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PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

After all the gossip and surmises Her.
will not star next year.
Carrie De Mar will support Joseph Hart
in the farce ga Gay Old Boy" in which
he will star next season.
Russ Whytal, the author of "For Fair
Virginia, y has jumped into prominence as
q playwright at a single bound.
Adelaide Randall, the once famous
prima donna, is now singing with q sum-
mer opera company in Minneapolis.
Wilton Lackaye may play the principal
role in Alfriend and Wheeler's new melo-
drama, The Great Diamond Robbery
Marie Bell has scored a great success In
many of the prima donna roles with the
Castle Square Theater company in Boston.
Olga Nethersole is to begin her second
American tour in dramatic version of
Carmen, which has been especially made
for her.
Edwin Hoff, the former tenor of the
BOstonians, has regained both voice and
health and win be with Lillian Russell In
The Tzigane.' %
The New York roof gardens have not at
tracted as large audiences this season as
formerly The novelty appears to have
worn of somewhat.
Eleanora Duse and Sarah Bernhardt have
been playing against each other In Lon
don, and the FrenohWonnn appears t.
hare had the bettex of e
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Our Greatest Corn Crop.

From the Atlanta Journal.
There is no longer any reasonable
doubt that the corn crop this year
will surpass the record. Not only is
the acreage larger than ever before
but the condition of the crop has
seldom been egualled. On July 1 it
was 99.3, which was exceptionally
high, but on August 1 it was 1925,
an average rarely known for the
whole crop. In Illinois the condition
was LOG; in Iowa, 1O7; in Indiana,
100, and in Missouri lis. These
four states produce two-fitths of the
entire crop. The crop is fast getting
beyond all danger and it is practical
ly certain that the yield will exceed
that of 1859 when it was 2,112,-
$4,000 bushels. The number of
acres planted in that year was about
100000. The acreage is at
least 100000 larger this year.
The condition of the crop on August
1, 1889, was only 9OS, whereas on
the first of the present month it was
1O2 5.
1t now seems probable that the
estimate of 2, 500, 100000 bushels is
none too big.
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PEN, CiISEL AND BRUSH.

r. III. Parks, the sculptor of Chicago, is
to make a bronze bust of the late Secretary
Gresham.
Charles G. LELAND, the greatest living
authority on gypsy Legendary, has been delv
ing into Italian folklore and will soon
publish his researches.
Among the French men of letters who
ride the bicycle Emile lola, Jules Le-
maitre, Jean Richepin, Henri de Regnier,
Octave Mirbeau and Arthur Meyer.
Frank r. Stockton recently told friend
that almost every fortnight still brought
to him some solution of the problem
couched in his famous story of The Lady
or the Tiger?"
Sir John Tenniel, the famous Punch
cartoonist, is tall, erect and slim. His ap-
pearance, with his straight shoulders and
white mustache, stiffiy curled, is that of a
soldier rather than an artist
Franz Defregger, the famous German
artist, passed his siXtieth birthday in his
villa near Bozen few days ago. He is
now at worksson a great altar piece st.
Joseph-for a new church of Bozen.
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ANEW BICYCLE.
A Device That is Claimed will Reduce
Ex=rtiOn and Accelerate Speed.


Ex+rtion and Accelerate Speed.
The New York Herald thus de.
scribes an improved bicycle:
A new bicycle, with an original
motor, sped up the hill at Riverside
Drive and 92nd street yesterday af-
ternoon. The inventor asserts that
the wheel will sage its rider vast
amount of exertion and give him
high rate of speed.
The most noticeable point about
the working qualities of the machine
was that the motion of the wheel,
mans feet was far slower than ON
the ordinary bicycle, high rate of
speed was maintained. The motor
consisted of two radius beams, full,
crumed, one on either side, to the
rear of the frame. From the for
ward ends of the beams arms exteu>
ded downward, to which the pedals
were attached. At the angles forms
ed by the beams and the pedals dry
ing rods connected with the crauks,
which were placed, as in the ordi.
nary bicycle, Gimetrically opposite
each other. The wheelman's foot,
instead of describing q circle, made
an oblong curve. Riding a wheel
geared to one hundred inches, each
time one foot was lowered the wheel
covered a space of twentyesiX feet
and two inches
The rider who was ii :, he II
nonprofessioual. claimed ~ h.vo
covered on this wheel y j, tame. II
| fifteen miles, and when ;im. q, mad.
the last third of a mite Al for'> =, I,
onds"
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cHIvALRY AND kNleHTHoop.

Hesse-C assel has an order entitled the
iron Helmet.
In 1859 tile Order of the Knot was
founded in Naples.
Four italian orders, established at differ
ent times, bear the title, "Order of the
Cross of Christi
Portugal has number of orders, the
most highly honored being the Order of
Avis, founded in 1852.
The Order of the Crown of India is one
of the latest. 1t is for the benefit Of the
ladies and was founded in 1877.
The most ancient English decoration
was the Order of the Round Table, said to
have been founded in Sic or 52S
There are eight Orders of Merit, belong
ing respectively to Bavaria, Belgium,
Hesse- Cassel, Baden, Oldenburg, Prussia,
Saxony and Wurttemberg.
The Scottish Order of ST. Andrew is
claimed to be one of the oldest in Europe
1t was founded in honor of the patron
saint of the country in 1877
The Order of the Elephant is the strange
and out of tho way title of nobility con-
ferred in Denmark by Christian 1. Why
the elephant should have been chosen has
never been made apparent.
The Order of St. Constantine claims to
be one of the Oldest in existence, dating
back it's history to a. ID. 313. For hun
drcds of years it was extinct, but was re-
vived by Russia i'll the last century.
The Order of the Bath was founded by
Henry " in 1899 and was revived by
George l. The number of knights is linn
tied, and to be q member of the order is
considered one of the highest distinctions
of an English nobleman.
The Order of tho African Star was
founded in 1888 for the purpose of reward
ing the adventures who took part in the
colonization of the Kongo valley. rs yet it
has achieved very prominent place
among the orders of knighthood.-St.
Louis Republic.
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THE TATTLER.

Gail Hamilton is said to have lost her
mind.
Mrs. Cleveland is settled for the summer
at Gray Gables.
Mile Lucie Faure, daughter of the
French president, writes tho Paris art crit
icisms for The Journal du Havre.
Mrs. Leland Stanford says she could be
comfortable on S25 week. She is paying
$500 day to keep Stanford university in
operation.
Mrs. Ii Hung Chang has 200 servants,
1000 coats, ], 200 pair of trouserettes and
500 fur robes. Her feet are SO small that
she cannot walk and she dresses her hair
in 80 different ways.
Miss Sarah Orne Jewett has retur1ed to
her homo at South Berwick, Me. 1t is
said that she will be an important factor
in the formation of the society which will
be known as the Daughters of Maine
Rev. Phebe Hanaford a prominent
member of Sorosis, has the honor of being
the first woman minister ordained in
America. At the time of Dr. Hannaford' S
ordination only three women besides her
self in the world had received orders.
The Baroness Burdett- Coutts, who is
sweet 81, continues to wear her evening
gowns decollete. To repair this error in
taste, the good Lady never appears without
Did fashioned lace mits ON her hands and
many splendid rings on her fingers.
Miss Helen Gladstone, the daughter and
companion of the Grand Old Man, is a tall
stately woman of 43. The genius of her
father seems to shine through her deep,
earnest eyes. For a number of years she
has been vice principal of the Newnham
College for Women at Cambridge.
Miss Harriet G. Hosmer is the foremost
woman sculptor of America She is the
daughter IF a well known physician and
was born in Massachusetts, 60 years ago.
For 40 years she has been a resident of
Rome, going there in 1852 with her father
and her friend, Charlotte Cushman.
Mrs. Cornelia Walter Richards of Boston
has just celebrated her eightieth birthday
Mrs. Richards is the first woman known
to have occupied the editorial chair of a
daily paper At the age of IS, when scarce
~ more than girl, she was editor In
charge OF the Boston Transcripts, and so
continued until her marriage.
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COILED AROUND HER NECK.
Experience of an Old Lady With &
Black Snake.


Concord Standard.
Aunt Betsy Freeman, the unfor-
tunate onelegged lady, who lives on
Mr.. Bill Winecog's place, a few
miles east of the city, had terrible
experience with a black snake. The
old lady occupies small hut to hers
self, haying only as her companions
cat, chickens, and such pets. An
old hen, with a brood of small chick
ems was underneath the house floor.
Some time during the night Sature
day the woman was awakened by
unusual noises and chirpings of the
biddies, whereupon she went to their
rescue. She raised plank and took
from the nest all the chickens except
the hen; she returned for the hen af,
ter safely placing the chickens in a
basket, and to her surprise black
snake, about four feet long, was
coiled about the hen. She lifted the
hen out and as she did so, the ser
pent coiled its cold form around
Aunt Betsy's neck. She did not
scream, but jerked the snake off her
neck aud placed her chickens in
safety before finishing the battle.
Miss Freeman is probably 60 years
of age, and in this struggle with her
assailant, she shows high mark of
womanly courage. Had the snake
got another coil about her neck she
would have been choked to death.
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retain all the dust there is going, while the
former shed at least a portion of it, besides
being better in point of wear. 1t is a mis-
take to use too heavy goods, even for riding
in cold weather. 1t is better to secure ex-
ira warmth by means of thicker under
wear than to increase the weight of the
outer attire.
Poplin and alpaca are worn this year
and are eminently desirable on account of
their lightness, stiffness (and therefore
suitability to the present flaring mode) and
dustproof qualities. For dust cloaks and
travelling gowns they are most satisfactory,
and as they are to be obtained in many
grades they are within everybody's scope.
The travelling costume shown In the
sketch is of French blue poplin. The skirt,
which is plain, has very full godets. The
blouse bodice is decorated with small gold
buttons. The draped collar is of poplin,
while the belt is Of plaid silk. The gigot
sleeves are tucked at the top and fastened
at the wrists with gold buttons. Batiste
collar and cuffs are worm The hat is Of
straw trimmed with hortensias and blue
and yellow glace ribbon.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-08-22
TIE CURIOSITY SHOP.
THE CURIOUS cANDLEF1sH.

candles during the long winter After
the Alaskan has had his dinner he takes
out q dried fish, stick the tail in a
crack of the table and touches match
to the nose Then the fish burns with a
bright and steady gimmer, and if unu-
sually large may burn for an hour or
more before it sputters out. The Alas
kans also use these fish at their rude re-
lgiouS ceremonies. Rows of candlefiSh
are stuck in Il board with their heads
upward. Before the ceremony an old
man lights the fish. They burn like a
row of candles and throw a weird light
over the congregation at their devotion.
The fish are so common in the water
of Alaska that the natives scoop them up
with board A large plank like a pad
die is studded with nails, and an Indian
standing on the shore or in boat sweeps
it through the water, gathering in great
the shoal is thick.
Another advantage about these can
dlefish is that if they are not available
as candles they may be eaten, and they
also make an excellent substitute for
cod liver oil They are SO full of fat as
to be almost transparent
Candlefish resemble the smelt IN form,
but with weaker dentition and smaller
scales and they are of dusky celebration,
growing to nearly q foot in length. In
the springtime immense shoals of these
fish are to be met with along the whole
northwest coast of America, and they
ascend all the rivers north of the Co
lumbia to spawn. The natives of Brit
ish Columbia call the eulachon the PAN
fish and use it as a candle by inserting
in it the pith of a rush or a strip of bark
as wick.
Another species is the naplopoma
fimbria. which resembles 10 pollock
and attains length of 20 inches and a
weight of five pounds. Such a candle
would burn for several nights. This lar
ger species is also called the black can
dlefsh, the horse mackerel and the be-
show, says the New York World, au-
thority for the foregoing.
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Facts About Aluminium.

Aluminium wire is increasing in use,
and if it continues to cheaper may be
the wire of the future. Its electrical
conductivity is three times that of iron
and more than half as great as copper,
while it's tensile strength is one-third
that of steel, and its resistance to corro-
sion phenomenal, according to The Alu-
minimum World, which says:
In 1885 France was the leading pro-
Queer. In 1886 Germany took the lead
and in 1889 England. Since 1890 Swift
zerland has outstripped the world. Dur
ing 1894, however, only three countries
were producers-F'rance, 10 per cent ;
Switzerland, 60 per cent; the United
States, 80 per cent. The price per pound
has gone from $12 in 1885 to 30 cents
in 1895.
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THE coLoRED BROTHER.

The high toned restaurants can endure
the colored brother with more equanimity
than the colored brother can the prices of
said restaurants.-TroyP Press.
Colored men have the best of it now. If
they not well served at a hotel or res
taurant, they get $500 damages. A
white man similarly treated, rs white men
often are, can do nothing but grin and
bear it.-Rochester Democrat.
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SCIENCE AND PROGRESS,

The Smallest Perfect Watch Ever Made
In America.
There was sent not long ago to a jew
elry firm in New York for inspection
what is claimed to be the smallest per-
feet watch ever made in this country.
This midget timepiece is the creation of
y. Aune of Columbus, O. The jewelers.
Circular, which illustrates the watch in
exact size, makes the following report
concerning it:
Mr.. Aune began the construction of
the watch about az years ago 1t is
smaller than gold dollar and is valued
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IuDIC CHOLLET.
SUMMER ITEMS.
Bright Colored Swings-EIbow Sleeves.
Nainsook Embroidery.

BrlgnG COlOreO SWintsS-N4iDoW SIeeVcSs
Nainsoolk Embroidery.
Tho hammock season has opened, and
the picturesque, tropical looking nets arc
offered for sale in great variety. There are
gayly colored ones of stout cotton cord,
fringed and cushioned until they look like
the housings of q knights horse in the
days of chiyalry; delicate silk ones, moro
for ornament than use, and last and least
expensive, but most suitable, grass nets in
GENEROUS tints that suggest the dyes used
by aboriginal Indians.
There are various modes of hanging a
hammock, as well as various modes of
falling out of it after it is hung. The
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1895-08-22
SMALLEST WATCH IN AMERICA.

at 81, 600 The material of which it is
made is of the very best quality, and
small as the watch is this material cost
Mr.. Aune several hundred dollars. He
designed the watch and figured out the
measurements before he put ON it one
stroke of work. He constructed the
watch first on paper, which was really
the easiest part of the whole work, but
when it is stated that the largest meas
urement does not exceed half an inch
and that the smallest is one thou
sandth part of an inch it will readily be
understood that the rule of absolute ac-
curacy had to be strictly adhered to.
The watch has nickel damaszeened
movement, with II ruby jewels set in
raised gold settings, stem winding and
pendant set, fancy dial, quick train and
lever escapement. The movement is ex-
act1y half an inch in diameter, with
about $50 different pieces in it.
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YOUNG EMMETT.

Young Joe Emmett initiates his father
in everything, even to drinking the same
kind of rum. brooklyn Eagle.
Actor Emmett is making good his name.
His bats seem to DO as monumental as any
that were ever recorded against the late
Observation-Disclosures ENQUIRER
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In Baltimore Thursday Mrs. Bet>
tie North threw her 10 day-old in>
FAINT and herself from third story
window. It's thought both will die
from their injuries.
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The negro Divers, who outraged
and murdered Mrs. Cain. was lynch
ed Thursday near Fulton Mo-. by a
mob, who dragged him by force
from the custody of the sheriff.