Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-09-12
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
To criticise was originally to pass
IN opinion upon, whether favorable or
otherwise, and the fact that most opin-
Ions are unfavorable is indicated in the
present Specification of the word.
"A big sheep ranch, which is some
thing of novelty this side of the prai-
rie states, has just been established
near Conshohocken, Pa A pale and
wire fence inclosing an area eight
miles in circumference has been erect
cd, and the fences inside this area
marking former fields removed. A
thousand sheep are to be turned into
the inclosure for wool growing pur-
poses
1t is stated that two prisoners un-
der sentence of death were recently
baptized in the river near Murphys-
boro, Ill They were chained together
and had fetters on their feet. Two
Baptist evangelists who had labored
with them in prison and had led them
70 make profession of faith, officiated
at the ceremony. The sheriff, with an
armed guard, WAS in attendance and a
great crowd assembled to witness the
novel spectacle.
Women came out ahead In an ex-
animation recently held for library
cstaloguer and library clerk for the
agricultural department at Washing
ton, d. C. Of the thirty applicants for
the former position, all of tho men
failed to pass, while only five out of
the sixteen women did So OF the ten
applicants for the latter, eight men
failed and two women passed. Al
though Secretary Morton wanted men
for the places, he was moved by these
results to change his mind, and ap-
pointed Miss E. B. Wales, of Chicago,
clerk, and Miss @. f. Leonard, of the
Albany State Library, cataloguer.
Allentown, Pa, has been greatly
pestered by tramps lately, and all the
usual methods of dealing with them
under the law have failed to abate the
nuisance The warden of the prison
thinks now, however. that he has hit
on a scheme that viii frighten ev-
cry tramp from coming within sight of
the town. He has bought two tons of
pig iron, and any tramp brought to
the jail-and the police have orders to
bring them all in-will be set to work
carrying the big billets from one end
of the Jail yard to the other for five
hours day. A strict and stern guard
will be put over them, and there viii
be no let up In their hard and useless
task
"A new method of measuring tenn
peratures, according to Industries and
Iron, has been devised by NJ. Berthelot,
the French chemist, by which the
temperature of an enclosed space can
tion into it of Thermometer. The
method Is stated TO be founded on the
examination of a luminous ray travers-
ing the space whose temperature IL Is
desired to ascertain The examination
of the1ray Of light at its points of entry
and exit gives the necessary data, and
enables the temperatures of the blast
furnaces, the electric furnace, etc, to
be fixed with certainty.
The word baffied has a meaning
entirely different from that applied to
1t three hundred years ago. It is now
understood to mean thwarted, foiled,
or-dissappointed, but then it was
applied to the process of degradation
by which a knight was disgraced. A
baffied knight was one who had been
pronounced guilty of conduct unbe-
coming one of his order and had ac-
cordingly been shorn of his plumes, his
sword was broken before his eyes, his
knightly robe torn away, his spurs cut
off with a cleaver, and after being
publicly chastised be was declared to
be bafied The word is used in this
sense by Shakespeare and other writers
of that time