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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-24
A Forest Buried by AlluYlal Deposits

\ remarkable instance OF the rapid
formation OF alluvial deposits from
overloaded streams has been discovered
by the Government geological expedI-
ton on the Yahtse River, in Alaska.
This river IN its course from the Chalk
Hills to the sea passes through a tun-
mel in the Malaspina glacier, some six
or eight miles in length. When it
emerges into the open mir it is very
swiftly flowing stream of dark muddy
water, 100 feet wide al about twenty
feet in depth. Near the point where
the river emerges from the ice it
flows through forest OF large trees,
and the gravel and sand carried along
by the stream are deposited here to
the depth of many feet. Some OF the
tallest trees still project through the
deposit and retain their branches.
The greater part, however, have been
broken oil and completely covered up
ty the sand. In other places the
presence OF vast forests is indicated by
few dead branches projecting through
the deposits. In places where the
deposits are thickest all signs of the
trees have disappeared and in their
place nothing may be seen but broad
land flats. These are Inundated in
stormy weather, and are of about the
consistency OF quicksand. Scientific
American
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-24
Oranges Both Food and Medicine

To thoughtful observer the time
has long since passed when oranges
were luxury to be INDUCED in now
and then and not an essential article
of diet. That this luscious fruit il
not moro generally considered AS one
OF the necessary household supplies is,
we think, IN great measure owing to u
mistaken idea as to its cost and keep.
ing qualities. Families who are ac.
customed to buying their apples and
potatoes by the barrel, their peaches,
pears aud tomatoes by the bushel, and
other household supplies in proper.
tionate quantities, ere satisfied to pro.
cure oranges by the dozen.
No policy could be more fallacious,
and the plan is doubtless so generally
adopted without second thought,
since no household supply is sold SO
prOportionately high N retail way.
With potatoes or apples at a dollar per
bushel the customer may usually pro.
cure peck for twenty-five cents, but
not so with the golden products of the
Florida orange groves. Oranges are
generally sold at retail at an advance
of from one to two hundred per cent.
on the price at which they are obtain.
able by the box. The regulation box
contains ll2, l26, 10, 176, 200, go
aud 300 oranges, the quality being, OF
course, according to the size OF the
fruit. The cost in this market will
generally run from $50 to $3.50 per
box. Take the average of 81 and the
cost by the box for 2OJ size would be
twelve cents per dozen; the usual re.
tail price is from twenty-five to thirty
cents; at the same price the l76 size
would cost by the box l3i cents per
dozen, and are retailel at thirty to
forty cents, while for the 100 size,
costing by the box sixteen cents per
dozen, the consumer is generally re.
quired to pay fifty cents. Oranges
retailed at lower prices are generally
frost bitten or culls and inferior fruit.
Is there any other item Of house.
hold supplies for which the consumer
Is willing to pay so large an advance
when bought at retail? The solution of
the problem is not hard 10 find.
Oranges decay II the hands OF dealers
when tightly boxed, and consumers
are told they will not keep. Under
similar conditions other fruits would
decay still more rapidly. 1t should be
remembered that the orange is accus.
toned to an abundant supply OF air
and sunshine, and as soon as received
oranges should be unpacked, the
wrappers removed and the fruit spread
on the floor in dry place with mod.
crate temperature, or otherwise ex.
posed to the air. With such proper
care the loss from decay will be but
trihing as compared with the differ.
ence in cost between buying by the
boz and by tho dozen, to say nothing
OF the vital importance Of a liberal
use OF this fruit as an article OF diet.
Physicians are unanimous in tho
opinion that a dozen oranges should
be eaten where ono is now used, but
the question OF expense alone has
hitherto prevented this advice from
being generally actel upon. II con.
sumers generally would buy oranges
by the box, this question would be
solved. though we doubt il either ply.
sicians or druggists would be bene.
fited by the solution. New York
Shipping and Commercial List.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-24
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Celery is good for the nerves.


Milk, boiled with fine sugar, vin
keep during long voyage.
Cinnamon as n cure for cancer in a,
earlier stages is advocated by writ,
in the London Lancet.
Patents have Just been issued 4,
Washington TO q Western man 70, !,
electrical device making collision oi
trains impossible.
Paul Vern;er, mathematical prod
igy of eighteen, has been admitted
without examination to the Hicbs,
Normal School in Paris.
Pneumatic tires on the wheels A.
cabs have been successfully used !,
Glasgow AMI Dublin. Passenge,,
greatly prefer these cabs, as they les.
sen the jolting.
The New York Board of Health br
discovered that there is frauduleo,
anti-toxine on the market. 1t II
harmless, but absolutely va.ueles
and resembles the true serum only /,
color.
Chimneys smoke because the carlo,
of the coal is disintegratel and draw,
off by the heat instead of being con
sumed in the fire. A furnace props
ly tended would not smoke, us all M
fuel would he consumed.
A cat is enabled TO send out or
retract her claws, because the bon
to which the claw is attached has
rotary movement on the bone aloy.
and powerful ligament draws d
former down and exhibits the CLAW.
Professor Roux, of Paris, is crels
ed with the statement TINT IN the Pa,
hospitals seventy-iive per cent. OF |,
children inoculated with Behrinf
anti-diphtheritine Serum taken rd
horses) were saved, while only ior
per cent. of the uninoculated u
vived.
The coolest place in the world,
cording to Professor Wild, o.
Petersburg, is Werchoyansk, in
IBERIA. He found the mean tempt1
ture in July thirteen above zero,
January fifty-threc below, and 20!
entire year 1873 below zero lcs.
grade).
A remarkable case of rapid gro-
has recently been Investigated by
French Academic des Sciences. A
Mt the age of five began to gror
beard and to change his voice
seemed II man of thirty. At six "a
old he was five feet six and stt
enough to lift and carry on his
bags of grain weighing 200 poui
At eight his hair and beard tlr,
gray, at ten his teeth fell ont anu
hands and legs became palsied, az
twelve he died.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-24
Things Learned In the Nor.

The old keeper of the morguC
city, who has seen hundreds
known bodies exhibited for il
cation, has arrived at some int
conclusions. IL the face of q
person is perfectly composed
tural, OF course intimate fri
relatives recognize them imme
But, he says, if the face is d
through pain or dishguredb by !
n casual acquaintance can ideH
body much easier than the cl'
lation. He explains this by
that people who have known .
well for u long time lose sight
features and SEQ rather the per
reflected in tho lines of the I
casual acquaintance notes the I
and can recognize them vi
again, even ii considerably dish
Philadelphia Record,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-24
The Cars Income.

I notice u statement in tho news.
papers that the Gear 'has an income
Of Sl2, 100000 a year" do not
know what may DO the value OF the
crown estates in Russia, but, as mat.
ter OF fact, the Czar's private treasury
il practically inexhaustible, for he has
no settled civil list. but draws what
he likes from the Imperial Eychequer,
every ruble in which is supposed to
belong 10 him. London Truth.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-24
Chinese Prisoners.

Describing n visit to a priso
Canton, Florence O'Driscoll, Il.
says in the Century:
1 had hardly finished my inves
tion of this weird and morbidly
cinating picture when 1 heard a
mendous clanking of chains ovel
stone paving. Three men were,
ing along, and another walked u
twenty yards behind. All I
hobble.chains, and, in addition,
carried q large block of granite il
hands that must have weighed q;
fifty pounds.
As they drew closer, / saw thatt
stone blocks had holes IL the cz
and that through them ran long cEs
Each chain was love through sad
fastened around the mans waist
running free, was carried up
welded around his neck. The
men had hardly sat down when anoi
similarly fettered, appeared, cd
down the long courtyard. he 4
them, and they sat in row,
l had not seen these fellows 4
walking through the prison,
presented the usual semi-ragseL
shaven, unwashed, hungry, and "
rapacious appearance. Some 10
defiant, Others broken-spiritedi
looked coward and a sneak,
said in my own mind that he wa
worst scoundrel of all.
Still no magistrate appeared,
had leisure to examine the surFl
ings. The materials for turb
scene were present; first, the r
ers and, second, certain instru1
OF coercive nature.
There were four or five woode
lars stacked like states against
A narrow ring Mt the edge of tine
hole was worn bright and shin
ended abruptly in ridge OF
dirt, which edged Off outwari1
faded into the dull, dusty rous
of the main surface. A few k1
scourSes hung from n nail clos
and also piece OF heavy leeihd
u boot-sole.
The guide told me that this
beating the prisoners across the
when they cried out too muca
examination.
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The camel's loot is soft cushion pc.
culiariy we'll adapted TO the stones and
gravel over which it Is constantly
walking. During single journey
through the Sahara horses have worn
out three sets OF shoes, while the cam.
els feet are not even sore.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-24

Cats and severa, J.uer an..nais have
a false eyelid, when can DO drawn
over tho eyeDall, either 10 cleanse il
or TO protect 1t from too stgons y
light.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-24
Brazll's Miniature Mai

There 10 n miniature Ind
grown in Brazil. Tho cars
larger than u littlo finger
grains are tho sizo OF musta;
Chicago Times.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-24
The Vizier and the Fly.

HE Niz!cr Ali.Ben.
Hassan, Prime Min.
lister OF the Calf
Amgiad, was one
day walking in the
country in the en-
virons of Bagdad.
Since the morning
he had met with
nothing but vaNo.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-24

The eggs OF the Bahama cuckoo are
held at 800 per set by dealers IN
birds eggs.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-11

diminished to SIP. 620, $50 in 1885, a loss or
$40, S39, $50. Owing TO the increase i'll volume
of premiums andIthe legal reserve required,
the assets of the joint stock companies in
creased from 1914 704, 71 in 1889 to 1881, 195, 62f
in 1893, s gain of sic. 1871, 1923. The net surplus
of the companies fell from $103, So, 1e2 in 1889
to SOS, 373, $50 in 1893, a loss of 5,1S9, SOB. This,
4S3, 6T7 in 1889 to S164, 463, 64S in 1893, a gain
of $0.979, 91, proves how Improbable was
the business during these five years. This
is further shown by the losses paid, which
rose from $S4, 345, 1863 in 1889 TO sos, 49, 1868 in
1893, an increase Of $24, 529, 999 or IT'S per cent.
During this period dividends fell eff S23l ,O07.
expenses We're increased So, 925, 1874, and total
disbursements rose from $142, S66, 73 to Sl1t,-
450, 2o7, an increase of $33. $50, 415.
With this epitofne of the business of fire
underwriting in the United States for a
period of five Years. it would seem that
the duty of legislators is made plain
enough to set the political economist at
work. Evidently, all legislative enactments
should aim at a reduction of the fire waste
that is impoterishing the people. Good
building e1awS. should be enacted and in
ing, should be so restricted that owners
of property shall be compelled to share
the losses occasfoned by their own care
lessness or c~rir1inality. Establish a sys-
tenn of inquests by which the causes of
all fires shah be made a matter of public
record before companies are permitted to
pay losses, ana. the fire waste of Indiana,
would be SO reduced that an annual saw
ing of $40 900 or more would be easily
effected. Let the tide of insurance legisla-
ton be SO turned that prudent, good citi-
zens may be- benefited. II. c. MARTIN.
INDIANAPOLIS. Feb, @.
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Facts and Figures Showing the Pre-
cariOus Character of the Business.

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Fire underwriting at best is a precarious
business. 1t il, however, immense in its
proportions, requiring a. vast amount OF
capital to guard the business enterprises
of all classes of people. 1t has its vicissi-
tudes, sometimes for a term of years prov
ing a losing business, with now and then
years when large profits are realized. Ow-
ing TO the abnormal increase of fire losses
during the past five years. the companies
have diminished in number. and upon an
increasing volume of business have lost In
capital and net surplus. A summary of the
business fer the past five years is not only
interesting. but instructive now that SO
many measures seriously affecting fire uii-
derwriting are being considered by various
State Legislatures. The Insurance Year
Book for 1894 page 32D gives a
NINA of the business from which
is learned that in 1889 there were
3S4 joint-stock fire insur~ ice companies
engaged in business in the United States,
and in 1898 the number had been reduced to
sol. showing a loss OF eighty-three corn
panies; during the same period the number
of mutual companies IN the United States
was reduced from 226 TO lsS. a loss of thsr-
ty-eight. showing a loss of 121 companies.
The aggregate capital of the joint stock
companies In 1855 was s92, 100, los. which Was
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-11
The Shipments of January.
The following shows the SHIPMENTS from

Indianapolis in the month OF January, as
reported to the Board of Trade:
Flour, 36,C13 brls: corn, AZ, 200 bu: oats, 1000
bu; barley. 2,400 blu; bran, As tons; hay, l
car; cement. 1885 brls: coal. 80 cars; coke, &C
cars; cooperage, 81 cars; corn meal and hon.
my, S,6ol $40 lbs; cattle, 3.T7e head; hogs, A.
$50 head; horses. $50 head: mules, 36 head;
sheep. 400 head; eggs, 10, $50 cases; fruit,
1871 83 lbs; hair and bristles, H.M0 lbs; hides,
2,o24 tierces; lime. II cars; logs. l car; lmm-
her; ITO cars; machinery, ll5 cars; meats.
bris; potatoes. liza bu; provisions, $751; 20
lbs; salt. S.6SS brls; spirits and liquors. 7,is5
brls; starch, 2,354, 900 lbs; stone, 80 cars; tai
low, 1900 lbs: tobacco 1000 lbs; miscel-
laneous. 20, 694,2 SS lbs; merchandise, 63, sS4.5e4
1hc
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-11

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:
Aprcpos of the now pending change I'm the
street cleaning department / call attention
to the remarkable efficiency shown by the
New York city street cleaning commission
er, who is certainly earning enviable laurels.
While the recent snowstorm was in prog
ress all the superintendent of the various
districts instructed their regular men and
a large force of extras to be ready to start
work the moment the storm ceased. This
occurred at 3 p. m. and the men worked all
right. Within tive nty-four hours all the
sire cts were free from 81 ow except a GER
tain district which, by petition, was left
for the pleasure of sleighing. When the
system was first -inaugurated some difficulty
was experienced in obtaining men SO
promptly. But now there is a list of regu-
lar men and also a list of eligible emergency
men, with the home addresses of all. The
in III mt a storm ceases the men and teams
are at their stations ready to begin work.
One feature of the department Is worthy OF
SPECIAL note: None but native born or natur-
allied citizens are employed. If a doubt
about this exists, the applicant must show
his naturalization papers. Isn't this a re-
freshing example of rogress in the right
direction? OF course Indianapolis cannot
afford to be as clean as New York, but In
what we can afford and do undertake, why
can we not show equal progress in prompt
HESTER NJ. M,CLuNG.
y T-I;,,.,~1Iir Fob q
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he had paid the expense Of delivering it.
While there is little danger Of indianapolis
past, IN coming years for prices to go be-
low 1894 would mean bankruptcy to the
dealer. The basis for the statement that
matter how mild be the winter and how
little ice is put up. the artificial ice manu-
factories will tie able to supply the market,
and it has been demonstrated that ice can
be manufactured as cheaply as it can be
harvested from the canal or any ice.pond,
and indianapolis now has artificial ice mar
ufactories of ample capacity to furnish this
market without one pound Of natural ice.
handlers of artificial ice and the handlers
of natural ice is to be very sharp, which
in itself means low prices for Ire, but none
lower than those of the summer of 1884,"
The dealer last sum ner delivered both
natural and artificial ice, finding that some
of his customers would not have natural
ice from ponds, canals and other places, but
preferred the artificial ice manufactured
from water taken one hundred feet or more
passing thro 'gh a distilling process. While,
on the other hand. some customers pre-
1t lasted longer and was free from the in
gradients used in artificial ice, SO that,
taken as a whole. he thought the honors
sumers of artificial and OF natural ice.
One of the larger of the ice dealers said
he thought it was nonsense for the arti-
fetal ice manufacturers to claim that they
can make ice as cheaply as It can be har-
vested from bodies of water. certainly it
was in such a season as this. If q dealer
had to harvest it away from home and then
ship 1t In here it might cost as much as
does artificial ice, which he did not think
could be manufactured at less than $3.50
per ton. The dealer. stated that there are
now five firms laying in q large stock of
ice. and they have been working five or six
hundred men for the last month. and he
thought fully 100000 tons would be put up
this season. The snow has troubled them
some of late. There are now five large ar
tifcial ice plants in this city and Kingan &
Co.., the Moore Packing Company, the Alb
hatnir CtnYnnanV and tho hrayypriac noch
have their own artificial ice plants, con-
sequently, under any conditions. the home
dealers will not be able to sell as much
natural ice as in former years, when the
packing houses and breweries depended Oh
them for ice. The Swift company will have
it's own ice for its dressed meat cars, SO,
summing all up. 1t is evident that the citi-
zens OF Indianapolis will not have TO pay
as last wear,
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To stop Speculation in Gold.

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
The way TO solve the financial question is
to make national banks subservient to the
federal government, instead of having the
federal government subservient TO national
banks. Congress has this power under
Article s OF the Constitution. To accom-
plish it. amend the greenback redemption
act with a provision that the notes shall
be redeemable 'in specie or its equivalent
If you want recommendation, change the
words ito gold Tor silver or its equivalent
Also. require national banks to redeem
their notes on presentation or specie or gold.
If you like. Then when your Syndicate of
prominent Hebrews" which has been 80
frequently mentioned OF late. goes 10 the
treasury with greenbacks for redemption,
they can be paid IN national bank notes.
This would send your uncle" to his nationl
bank for gold. and his banker could then
say to him. "Mr. Eichelheimer, j will
now redeem these notes. but IL you
insist on taking this gold from my bank |
will cease To do further business with you.
When excluded from one bank, MIR. Eich-
elhe.mer would have difficulty In finding am
other bank In which TO carry his accounts.
This would stop speculation In gold. Also.
levy an export duty on the favored specie
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-11
The Proposed shin Canal.

To the Editor of the indianapolis journal:
l notice in your Washington dispatches
that the House committee win
an appropriation for the surveying Of a pro-
posed ship canal from Lake Michigan TO the
Wabash river. intending. ultimately. TO con-
meet the waters of the lake with the Ohio
river by such j canal, but no route H. pro-
posed for the canal further than 10 the
Wabash river. There are certainly no
greater engineering difficulties In construct
ing a canal from the Wabash to the White
river. and then following that river to the
capital of our STATE. than there are In con-
structing such a canal from the lake to the
wabash, and If Indiana rs to have a ship
canal II certainly should be constructed az
near the center OF the state as practicable.
SO thai the commerce Of the Stale wiA de-
rive the greatest possible benefit therefrcm.
JOHN Il. MOORE.
Kokomo. Ind. Feb. 3
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of the government, and also require the use
of specie in the payment of import duties.
Then give us a good, stiff tariff, and the
credit of the country will cease to be a foot
ball.
National banks owe their origin to the
necessities of the commerce and credit of
the country following the war of the revo-
luton. Their function, as an arm of the
government, was to restore credit and main
entered into the extension of the system
after the war of 1872. In later years the
patriotic functions of the system seem to
nave been lost sight of. and the banks nave
been converted into institutions solely for
individual gain. WILLIAM V. ROCKER.
Indianapolis. Feb. Q.
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COST OF ICE.
Indications Point to an Abundan
supply mt Low Prices.

Said one of the largest dealers in ice TO a
representative OF the Journal. while the
largest ice crop ever harvested is doubt
less to be put up this winter. reaching into
thousands OF tons. consumers must not get
an idea that prices the coming summer are
TO be any lower than last year, when many
families were furnished at 20 cents per 100
pounds. and IN any case al not over IS
cents a 100 pounds, which. In fact, LETT a
vera limited margain TO the Ice dealer after
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Remain. of +. Win rantxer.

The remains of +. WIN Panther arrived
here at 4:3o o'clock yesterday afternoon in
charge of j. c. Sipe. who accompanied the
body from Denver. DIR. III. @. Painter left
for st. Louis Saturday night, where he
expected to meet Mr.. Slpc yesterday. but
on account of bad railway connections did
not arrive there until after the latter had
started for Indianapolis. DIR. Painter and
Mr.. Sipe left last night for Chicago with
the body. From there it will be taken to
Sheboygan, Wis, for burial.