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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17


Saml. --Sneill, colored, died ut
Laurel, Prince Georges county,
aged over one hundred and SIX years.
United States Senator George r.
Hoar was nominated By the Massa-
chusetts republican legislative can
Gus TO succeed himself.
A hnmber of republican clubs arc
working for the nomination OF Mr..
VIM. L. Master as governor OF
Maryland.
Walter w. Taylor, FIRST State
treasurer Of South Dakota, is re-
ported $500, 900 short in his &C
counts. His bank at Redfield, s.
d., il closed and he cannot b
found.
The National Game, Bird and
Fish Protective Association, in an.
nual session in Chicago, is consider.
ing means to induce the Legisla,
lures of various States to adopt q
uniform series Of game laws.
At Hinton, W. Va, Ada Curray
aged four years, was buried to deatt
while playing in front of the FIRE
place. Her parents were away
burying another daughter and Ada
was ct the home of o neighbors.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17

Wednesday, January 9, 1895.
The New York health board will
furnish anti-toxine to physicians.
Japanese atrocities at Port Arthur
are severely condemned by English
newspapers.
judges Fowler and Burke fled
an opinion in the Nicholson case,
sustaining the general creditors.
Charges Of neglect OF duty have
been laid before Governor Brown
against Annapolis justices of the
peace.
The test case on the constitution
ality of the income-tax win be heard
before the District Supreme Court
OF Washington on the 18th inst.
Miss Mary Edna German, daugh-
ter of Senator and Mrs. German,
made be: debut to Washington
society at tea which was attended
by q large number Of well-known
persons.
Hon. William l.. Wilson was the
principal speaker at the jackson
Day banquet of the Young Mems
Democratic Association Of Philadel
phia last night. He said the recent
party reverses call for more loyal
and steadfast adherence to duty.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17


The best thing to seal q propo-
sal 10 kiss, is it not p
No, dear, q witness. Pick Me-
up.
Inkeeper--Have any luck /?
Srortsman-Yes; Poorshot, there,
missed me twice.-Tid- Bits.
It's the little things that tell, ,
as the man said when his five-year-
old boy saw him kiss the cook and
carried the news TO mamma.
Browning's illustrated.
First Little Girl--We didn't have
no turkey Christmas Day; my papa
10 q vegetarian.
Second Little Girl-We didn't
have no Christmas; my papa's q
Democrat.
Mother-Why did you pack up
your toys so carefully, Ethel?
Ethel-To keep them for my
children, mamma.
Mother-And suppose you never
have any children
Ethel-Then they'll do for my
grandchildren-Boston Home Jour.
nal.
Mrs. Smartset For mercy's sake
don't let me hear you talk about
books in society again.
Cultered Daughter Dear me
Why not !?
! Mrs. Snsrtset Strangers will
think you have been. cash girl in
u book store-New York Weekly.
But what can You, young man
Haven't you some special talent OF
taste--some bent, as they say p
Applicant (dubiously)-'N-no
not that / can think of-excepi
that am little bow-legged.
What do yen think of this por'
trait of me, my dear p asked With
erup.
1T is very smiling and pleasant,
said Mrs. Witherup. Then shs
added, wistfully. Il wish you'd look
like it once in a while, john
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17

A writer thinks IL il not 90 hard TO write
q capital continued story Of adventure a.
has been supposed. He gives the follow
ing outline Ut what he thinks would make
cheap novel at least as good as the aver
age:
CHAPTER |.
As he rode slowly over the trail the
crack of rife was heard.
Bill Dalton lay dead with q ball through
bis temples.
CHAPTER III.
The next morning Bill Dalton arose and
though somewhat panied by the wound
through his head. set forth 10 find his com.
rades.
As he reached the canon, his horse SHE'D
and lost his footing
Horse and rider went topping down two
thousand feet to instant death.
CHAPTER III.
Bruised and wounded he got up three
hours later, and, in a moment of despera-
ton rode of twenty miles TO the cave where
his brother desperadoes lived.
As he entered, long, low "HistP came
from the deepest corner of the cave There
was an instsnt's pause, the fash of bowie,
and Bill Dalton bit the dust, never more to
rise.
CHAPTER w.
Somewhat feeble, but strengthened by
the fresh morning air, Bill Dalton left the
cave next day.
i'll luck attended him. Riding all alone
through the mountains, he was startled by
horrible sound.
Looking up. he saw-an avalanchel II
came on with terrible speed. Il reached
him, pushed him into the chasm two miles
below, and buried him under thousand
tons Of rock and stone.
Poor Dalton was deadl
CHAPTER v.
The next afternoon he was arrested in a
frontier mining town while In the act of
robbing bank.
THE END.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17

LAssoING A LocoMoTIvE.-A
good many years ago the chief OF
an Indian tribe in the West took
umbrage at locomotive that scared
some of his horses and caused q
stampede. Deliberately making all
his plans, he waited the next APP
pearance of the offending iron
monster, saddled his best horse,
coiled up his strongest lariat and
stationed himself close by the track
and in a suitable position for an at
tack. When the big iron bulk
came up abreast of him lie threw
his rope settled the loop accurately
over the smoke stack of the engine
and braced his horse and himself
for q pull. 1t was afterwards re-
marked in that tribe that they
didn't exactly know whether they
got all the pieces of horse and man
or not, but at all events they collect
ed enough fragments over which to
hold a grand pow WOW. None of
the members of that tribe felt any
ambition to renew the attack. and
to this dag the fame of that Indian
rests solely on the fact that he was
the chief who tried to lasso a loco
motive.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17
Saint Maru's Beacon

The RUNAWAY STAR.-The
greatest velocity that has been re-
cognized among the stars 10 found
in the motion of q star known as
1880 Groombridge, or the runaway
star" as il is sometimes called,
which is believed to be rushing
through space ut the rate Of 200
miles per second. This star ap-
pears TO be moving in q perfectly
straight line through the sky, and
it may be visiting our star system
for the first time, but whence ii
came or whittier it 10 going no one
can tell, and it is great enigma TO
astronomers.
Its wonderful velocity cannot be
explained, as it 10 far greater than
could be produced by the influence
of all known orbs in the universe,
and on the other hand, the combin
ed attraction Of all the stars cannoi
stop this wanderer in its SOLITARY
fight through space, until it hal
rushed on to the remote distances
beyond which the largest telescope
have never penetrated.
1t has been Essthematically de
monstrated that body approaching
the centre Of our system from an in
finite distance cannot move with
greater velocity than twenty-five
miles a second, il influenced by tn
attraction of the masses in our uni
verse alone, but here we have beel
considering star moving wit
eight times that velocity, and still
notwithstanding the fact that it ma
the greatest motion known anon
the stars, it would require 1876, 90
years for this remarkable star t
complete an entire circuit aroun
the heavens.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17


DARN THE REPTILES. Judge
Bell, of the Smithsonian Institute,
in Washington, was recently down
in Georgia buying snakes for medi-
cal experiments, and his mission
becoming well known, the amateur
snake catchers were out in force.
One day the judge met an Alachua
county editor on the street in
Gainesville, who greeted him with
a calm sweet smile, indicative Of q
restful mind.
'Hollo, Jedge,' said he. five
got most uncommon snake that /
ketched yesterday. amt much
on snake ketching, but ! come
across this Teller and bagged him
for you"
Whit kind of snake is it ?"
inquired the judge.
las one of them coral or thunder
snakes some folks calls them
"And where is it ?"
"Why, in my breeches pocket,
here iedge."
"My God, man, exclaimed the
judge, don't you know that that s
one of the most poisonous snakes
that crawl? It's sure to bite"
Poisonous % whispered the
scribe in q hushed voice, while his
eyes grew white and bulged out and
his face grew wan and pale. "Jedge
yer didn't say poison ? Jee-whit-
taker !-Pll-I'll-" and the editor
began letting go his suspenders in
stealthy sort of way, with rapid
ity that was Startling, as several
ladies were near.
POISON Ghost of Sam Hill,
there they go J" aud he dropped
his pants on the side walk and scut-
tied into store, where he got be-
hind the front door and with his
neck GRAINED around the edge of it
bawled out: Say, jedge just you
poke them breeches into the gutter
aud call to that grinning ape over
there in the clothing store to bring
me a pair OF pants quicker'n a
house on FIRE. Darn the snakes. {"
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17

Carlton Cornwell, foreman of the
Gazette. Middletcwn, N. j., believes
that Chamberlainss Cough Remedy
should be-in every home. He used
it for a cold and it effected speedy
cure. He says: "It is indeed a
grand remedy, can recommend to
all. | haze also seen it used for
whooping cough, with the best re-
suits" % and 80 cent bottles for
sale by Vim. +. Greenwell 4 Son,
Leoaardtown, Md.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17

A Louisiana gentleman was dis
cussing the tariff question with an
agent from Kentucky.
Sugar" said the Louisianian,
sis as much an article of necessity
as flour and meat"
ga great deal more, my dear fell
low" responded the Kentucky
agent; without sugar you can't
make your whisky toddy."
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17

Nor WHOLLY So. False one, he
said, would that | never had wed
you. Your teeth are false, your
complexion is store-made, your hair
is another's. You are wholly false.
No, not wholly, she replied. |
have mind of my own, as You well
know.
And he was forced to admit the
bitter truth of her statement.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17

The folly of prejudice is frequent
ly shown BY people who prefer to
suffer for years rather than try an
advertised remedy. The millions
who have no such notions, take
Ayers Sarsaparilla for blood-dis-
eases and are cured. So much for
common sense.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17

Little Daughter-.Oh, mamma,
didn't you say Dick mustn't go
with that neighbours boy!' Mann
ma-'Indeed / did, well, he's
with him behind the barn smoking
cigarettes Horrors Is that dirty
faced boy teaching Dick to smoke
cigarettes p Nom. Dicks teach
in him.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17

A farm of43i-2 acres, 80 arabic and the
balance in timber, situate near Oakley, 7th
district, on Canoe Greek. A new dwelling
in good order. Convenient to churches,
wharves, stores and school Apply 10
ROBERT r. LONG,
Oakley, IS. Mary's county, or
10. r. MORGAN,
Attorney. Leonardtown. Md.
Aug II I'll
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17

Please announce Mr. MoRGAx RALEY
o. candidate for the next House Of Dele
gates. He win be warmly supported by
tho 72 Oiefric<.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17
Real Estate Agency.

MESSRS. HERBERT r. MOORE, Of
Leonardtown, and T. j. MOORE, OF
Washington, ID. g., have entered into
partnership for the sale Of real estate
If parties having lands for sale will send
full description and the lowest price they
VIII take, we viii libeTzlly advertise theiI
lands free Of charge and make every posi-.
be effort tomake speedy sales.
HERBERT y. MOORE.
T. JACKSON MOORE,
Leonardtown, Nd.
Nov Git
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.

From the B.Itfmors Sun.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17
CHAPTER |.

As he rode slowly over the trail the
crack of rife was heard.
Bill Dalton lay dead with ball through
his temples.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17
| Saint Nafg's Bsacoq.

Don't give the latest foreign news.
hdoes not claim to circulsss ali over tho
earth, but it does give all the
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1895-01-17
CHAPrER v

The next afternoon he was arrested in q
frontier mining town while In the act of
robbing bank.
THE END.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-01-12
Grecian Washtnr.

A contributor to the Pail Mall Gaz
cite was travelling in Greece, and had
occasion to send to the laundry q white
shirt and a collar. He thus describes
the result:
The shirt came back resolved, as 1t
were, into its primitive elements--that
is to say, it was a piece Of linen of IT.
regular shape. The collar I never saw
again alive; but instead a curious strip
of linen, which baf1ed conjecture for
the time.
Grecian washing Is conducted in the
following manner: Some ten or twelve
women come down to the stream with
large masses Of garments, which they
throw indiscriminatcly into the water.
They then sit down and talk while
their children poke at the clothes with
sticks to prevent their being carried
down the stream and mingling event
ually with the Alpheius and the infinite
sea.
After this has gone on till the clothes
are all soaked and have every reason
to be as full Of holes as a net, and the
children are tired, they are taken out
on the bank, or more likely, on the dry
single of the river, and are encour-
aged to get dry, to which end they are
beaten in a lively and sympathetic
manner with a large, jagged piece Of
wood.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-01-12
Daniel Defoe, Draper and Hosfer.

Some interesting gossip concerning
thel life and business career of the i'm
mortal author of Robinson Crusoe ap-
pears in the Drapery World, which Is
publishing a series Of articles on dis
dnguished Drapers." Defoe was for
many years a hosier in the city of Lon
don, of which he was a liveryman. He
was twitted with his trade when he be-
came a great political writer and the
enemy of oppression, and he was weak
enough to explain that he did not con-
slider himself a 'hosier," that is, one
who stood behind the counter selling
hosiery, out "a hose factor''-a ware
houseman in a small way. The son of
a London tradesman, he was born In
the parish Of st. Giles, Cripplegate, in
the year 1861. His father, James Foe,
carried on the business Of a butcher
In the parish, but retired from business
with a small fortune long before his
son had reached the zenith of his fame.
The father of the butcher claimed or
was claimed by some of his descend
ants to be a gentleman Of Elton, in
Northamptonshire, where he farmed
his W estate and kept a pack Of
hounds. The butcher Of Cripplegate
was, Notwithstanding his calling, a re-
ligious Dissenter, and a man of some
culture, with a limitless love Of learn.
ing. He sent his son Daniel to a cele-
brated Nonconformist academy kept by
II Of the elected divines, Charles Nor
ton. Of Newington Green, whence in
due course he took his place behind the
counter.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-01-12

A report has just been published on
the excavations which have been con.
Quoted during 1894 at Hissarlik, the hill
in which DR.. S%chliemann made his re-
markable discoveries on the site of
ancient Troy. The emperor William
granted 10000 marks out Of the Prus-
sian royal treasury for the purpose of
carrying on and bringing to O. close
the investigations of the scientists en-
gagged in the work. The principal task
this year has been the laying bare of
the entire fortified wall in the sixth
layer of the ruins, and the removal of
debris from the buildings discovered
with the enceinte of the western and
eastern portions of the fertilization.
This object has been accomplished. In
the portions brought to light the city
walls are found to be in a remarkable
state of preservation. Besides numer-
GUS doors, towers, and buildings in the
inner citadel, a large number of store
rooms have been excavated in the sixth
layer, and countless articles Of pottery
most notable among which Is q foun-
tain-have been found, while many
graves belonging to the ancient Greek
period have been laid bare. The results
of this years work are regarded as
being Of the most satisfactory charac-
ter. In the majority of cases, says the
report, in conclusion, so well preserved
and striking in their appearance are the
buildings in the sixth layer that the
buildings of ancient Troy must be
classed among the most noteworthy
architectural antiquities in the world.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-01-12
MilitnrN TeleernnhX.

Recent accounts of military evolu-
tons in Europe go to show that great
progress is being made in the utiliza-
ton of both the telegraph and the teIe.
phone, especially in cavalry work,
During the late cavalry aneuv IN
England the field telegraph accompan-
led the cavalry at Il trot, the wire being
laid as fast as the cavalry advanced.
When the cavalry retired it was rcelcd
up with equal rapidity. 1t is under.
stood that this demonstration of the
possibility of the telegraph wire being
used with cavalry will lead TO an ex-
tension of the scope of the telegraph
organization in the British army.
IN telephone work. an interesting
experiment between Berlin and Potts
dam is reported. A telephone line was
laid on the march by two cavalry pa
tfols, each consisting of an officer and
TWO under officers. One patrol started
from Beriin, the other from Pottsdam,
very early i'll the morning. Each pat
rOl was furnished with q compIetc
telephone set and a supply of reels,
each Of which contained about a mile
OF steel Wlr". The end OF the wire was
connected to tn" town circuits in Berlin
ana fotSdam respectively, and the reel
was so fiXed on Il carrier that the wire
could unroll rs the cavalrymen rode
along. y second man rode behind.
ana. catching the wire with Il sort of
TORN on the end of his lance, by which
1t was made about half as lonr uyain.
threw it into the upper branches of the
trees inning ihG road. The officer went
llfSt anu tn" two men runnin. the wire
were ABOUT thirty PAGES apart. When
tDe hrst reel was emptied, they hault-
ed The telephone was connected.
and Il horn blown TO signal the starting
point, from which M answering sig.
was sounded. After 4 talk over
the wire the new reel was Joined m.
and the process continued Midway
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-01-12

Much attention is being directed to a
material which has just been brought
into prominence in England, under the
name Of 'krushite," for the cutting of
stone. Krushite is made in different de-
grees of fineness, and is used by quarry
II and builders in saving and pol
ishing granite, stone, marble and other
hard materials, in lieu of sand. Its
inventor claims that it will saw a block
Of granite at the rate Of four inches In
depth per hour, and hard gritstone at
8 inches in depth per hour. One ton
of the material is claimed to be equal
to 300 tons of the sharpest sand. The
sizes already IN the market vary be-
tween the finest emery powder and
rape seed. 1t is without point or edges,
free from rust, and will not stain; it
is chilled to intense hardness without
being brittle, and In action it rolls be-
tween the block and saw blade Or rub
Der; hence it retains its spherical shape
and cutting power. 1t is used in sand
blast apparatus instead Of sand, and Is
substituted for diamonds in boring and
drilling. Unlike sand or emery, 1t does
not become imbedded in the blade or
rubber, but rolls backward and for
ward creating a crushing action on the
blocks sawn. The wear and tear of
the blade is said to be much lower
than when sand is used. For some
time the composition of krushite was
kept a secret. 1t is now declared to be
chilled metallic shot. The idea of using
chilled shot for saving hard stone is
not new, and the method was tried in
America several years ago. So that, al
though krushite is heralded as q new
material, it Is actually, while possibly
an improvement, but a modification of
all old adaptation. Krushrite is likely
to take the place of emery and the dia-
mond in quartz saving. Emery is
largely used in the rubbing of granite
and marble preparatory to the polish
ing process, and in saving stones of
the hardest kind, and diamond disks
may be found in the workshops of ev-
cry lapidary.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-01-12
Useful Sick-ROom Invention.

A simple apparatus called the "men-
otherm," has been devised by applying
steady and continuous heat to any part
of the surface of the body where it
is required for medical purposes. 1t
consists Of a fiat rubber pad connected
to a small copper cylinder or heater
by two rubber tubes, the whole being
filled with water and Theoretically seal
ed. In use, the cylinder is placed in
q can Of water over a lamp. The water
in the cylinder is thus heated and eau
ed to circulate through the pad, the
temperature being regulated by the
height of the lamp Observation-Disclosures
Budget.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-01-12
Applications Of CaIIuIOse.

Prof. G. A. Silberad has described
some of the recent applications of Gel
lulose. OF these the best known is
celluloid, whirh is made Of a combina-
ton Of camphor and pyroxyline. 1t
may be obtained either by direct ad-
dition Of pyroxyline to melted cam
phor, or by strongly COMPRISING the
W together, or, lastly, by dissolving
the two in some common solvent, as
ether-alcohol. The product is a trans
lucent mass, which is worked between
rollers, first in the cold. and then at
4 higher temperature. 1t is next sub
jected to hydraulic pressure at a tenn
p%erature of about 60 degrees contigrade
for twenty-four hours, I'D dried for
several days at a moderate heat, after
being cut into sheets of desired thick
ness. The substance is then quite
homogeneous, and may be cut and
turned in the cold or nodded under
pressure at a higher temperature. It
is readily colored by pigments or dyes.
which can be either mechanically
mixed in a state of powder or dissolv-
ed with the camphor in the alcohol.
Artificial tortoise shell is made by weld
ing together alternate plates of differ
emily tinted celluloids. Another appli-
cation of cellulose is to the manufact-
ure of vegetable parchment, or parch-
ment paper.
1t the cellulose DC rapidly passed
through moderately strong sulphuric
acid and then well washed in water,
it acquires properties very similar to
those of parchment, instead of which
it is extensively used. Another form
of cellulose, the thiocarbonate, pos
sesses a similar power of c%oagulation
either on standing for q considerable
period or on heating above 60 degrees
or by the action of an acid. This coagu-
lation forms a gelatinous mass which
gradually shrinks but in such a manner
as to form an exact miniature of the
interior shape Of the containing vessel.
All the sulphur and alkali are found in
the liquid which separates from tho
shrunken mass. In view of the newt
ably failing supplies of ivory and the
established success of the ebonite and
celluloid manufacturers, this material
is destined to attain great commercial
Importance. None of the materials re-
CURED in its production are expensive:
it is free both from the brittleness of
ebontite and the iniammability of cell
luloid, while the readiness with which
1t can be obtained in any desired shane
gives it a marked superiority over eth
er of these products.