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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-30
THE FRANCIS SCOTT KEY GRAVES.

ment, but the approaching civil war
prevented its accomplishment. The
funds then collected We're carefully pre-
served, however, and III 1894 the Key
Monument association was reoreanized,
and active measures We're adopted for
the early completion of this long delayed
tribute to tho memory of the loved poet.
The governor of Maryland has strong
~ Endorsed this association and its plans
and has appealed to the governors of all
other states to give this work their ap-
prevail and assistance. The association
asks the schools of tho entire country to
incorporate some recognition of the serv-
ices of Francis Scott Key i'll the patri-
otto exercises of Flag day, June Il, and
to forward to them small contributions
for the monument fund. They
to place the names of all donors in the
crypt of the monument. To assist in
such exercises they have prepared a
pamphlet containing many interesting
things about Francis Scott Key, which
may be obtained free by any one who
VIII send II 2 cent stamp for postage to
the Key Monument association Of Fred
erlck, Md w. Il BREARsLEY.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-30
THE OLD HIGH WHEELS.
They Have Disappeared From Earth. but
Where Are They Nowa

They Have Disappeared From Earth. but
Where Are They Nowq
What has become of all the big whesl
bicycles that cost 800 and $125 and
were frequently seen on this roads before
the "safety'' was invented? This is q
question that many people have been
asking in vain. Ask a junkman. He
will tell you that n bicycle, no matter
how old, is never sold for junk. Ask the
bicycle agent. He will tell you he
doesn't know. Ask tho bicycle rider him
self. He will tell you that only now
and then is one Of them to be seen on
the road.
In tho secondhand bicycle shops q few
OF the big wheel machines are still to be
seen. They are the worst kind of u drug
on tho market, being offered for $40 and
$15, with few takers. The negroes in
the south, however, have been buying
up these machines, which are just with
in their means. and the bicycle craze
has struck Blackville.
Many people think that the big wheel
bicycles have all been made into bird
cages, which have lately been very
cheap. Others believe that they have
found their way into corsets and crino-
line, which use up q lot of wire. While
this may be true to a small extent it is
yet fact that some parts Of the old ma
chimes have been made over for use in
safety bicycles. The hubs could SO be
used and parts of the handle bars. But
the rubber tires, the big backbone, the
little hind wheel and other parts have
been thrown in the ash heap and are to
DO seen here and there rusting III back
yards or gathering dust in an attic or
storeroom. The progressive growth of
bicycles can be identified from stage to
stage MS readily as was the rise of man
from the ape by his skeleton. New
York World.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-30
HIS NAME TO BE 4oNoReD.
4 Monument to 10 Erected to the Mem
ory Of Francis Scott HOY.

Org of Francis Scott Hoy.
Especial Correspondence.l
BALTIMORE, May 21.-Visitors enter
ing the cemetery Mt Frederick City, Md.
notice a well worn path leading to the
center of the grounds, where u tall flag
pole stands, from which usually floats q
large American flag. Near its base are
the humbly marked graves Of Francis
Scott Key and Mary Tayloe Key, his
wife.
1t may not be generally known, but
the author Of 1.-THE Star Spangled Ban
ner" formerly lived near this place, at
Pipe Creek.
While Francis Scott Key wrote and
published n volume Of poems his fame
will rest secure Oh the merits of the one
matchless national hymn with which his
name will be forever associated. l..
On the 18th of September, 1914, Fran
els Scott Key visited the British fleet,
off Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, to
arrange for an exchange of prisoners
and was detained for u time, lest he
should report the preparations then in
progress for an attack upon the fort.
The bombs bursting i'll the air" which
he saw that night gave him inspiration
to compose the poem which has done
more to waken true patriotism than any
other which has yet beon tten.
Since his death, in 1913, little has
been done to honor his memory. Sever
nj years ago-about l860-m associa-
ton was formed at Frederick, Md, to
collect funds and erect u suitable monu-
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-30
Good Stuff Being Sold Cheap.

Ladies Bleached Isle Thread Richelieu Ribbed. sill.
trimmed Vests, CSC; surely on each a saving of 125c.
1900 yards fancy Dress Pique Stuff, sold in Boston at
4oc; we closed importers stock, SO here 121c yard.
900 pairs Ladies Fine Stainless Black Isle Thread Stock.
lngs. plain and drop stitch, certainly 13 saved, &c pair.
Bicycle Corsets, usually $25o, to close sample lot, $15o.
Ladies, Silk Belts, with satiny silver finish bucki., 1oc.
Men 5 ocafts, not ike quarter stuff, but choice styles, silk,
like half stuff, Tecks and 4~-in-hands, &c.
One case White Plaid Muslin, special drive, SC a yard.
books, most any Novel you want, sc or &C.
Black Surah Silk. great bargain, come soon. soc.
superb quality, 75c. '
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-30
jack Actor yyil1 Not Raee.

There is a lot Of talk about Jack Astor
gong to make his debut on the running
turf with a great stable and all that sort
I thing, but you a depend on it alb
soiutely that he will do nothing Of the
kind this season.
What he may do another season is
quite another thing, but the present sea-
son will not see the Aston colors on the
turf.-New York Recorder.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-30
Thinks She Is q Snake.

There is n negro girl near Crawfords-
Vile, Ga, who n y she is a snake.
She coils and writhes about like mn ad-
dor. Doctors say that she is n~ervously
affected and from the teachings of some
one she has been led to believe hat she
has n snake about her person.-Albany
Herald.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-30
Shame.

A Missouri legislator threatens to sue
a st. Louis paper for charging that he
goes fishing on Sunday. We hope he will
recover large damages. 1t would be a pity
if a statesman couldn't go fishing with.
cut tho papers telling his wife all about
it.-Chica9o Dispatch.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-30

The system of washing linen with
petroleum which il customary in parts
OF Russia has recently been introduced
into a German military hospital. Fiji
teen grams Of petroleum are added to &c
pints of water containing soap and lyo,
and the linen is boiled in the mixture.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-30
And There's No Appeal From THAT,

Down in Kentucky every injured hus.
pane promptly appeals to the Colt of
sass resosk-Washipgtoa POST
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-30
GWAIHNEY, REAL IyTA7EAGENTS, yGNAIN s
FOR SALE.

We offer some of the most desirable in.
yestments no y ON the market.
No. lG7 CRANKY street.
No. 222 and 224 Bute steeet.
Tenement rental properties on Church,
Smith. W~Illoughby. James and ltoi!ey streets.
Vacant iots on Dnnmore. Brewer, Prin-
cess Anne. ! lume, Riverside, Windsor and
New Castle streets. and Park. Willoughby.
Central and IL avenues. aud many more at
La nbert's Point.
$50 Bank street.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-05-30
Ribbons Instead of Cur Bu.ton..

Much curiosity has been aroused in
london hy the costume Vesta Tilley
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
New Years wassail Bowl.

No English holiday was Of much ac-
count that was not observed with flow
ing bowl. On New Years eve the was
sail bowl was filled with spiced ale and
drunk in families, and poorer folk tied
q bowl with ribbons and begged for
money for ale to fill and refill the bowl,
singing:
Wassail, wassail all over the town:
Our toast 1t is white; our ale 1t is brown;
Our bowl 1t Is made Of q maplin tree;
We be good fellows all; drink to thee.
In some parts of England the old year
IL "swept out" by men and boys with
blackened faces, dressed to represent
sweeps; in others it is "burned out"
with bonfires Sometimes it is rung out
with mufled bells that are unmufied
and rung clear after 10 O'Clock. Indie
Dendent
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
What Happy New Year Means.

A happy New Yearl What does 1t
mean? Are not these words often thrown
out as a greeting without thought or
depth of meaning? Is it year in which
to ourselves come wealth and health,
prosperity and friendship; one spent in
the pursuit of fieeting pleasure and
filed with self centered interest? Mol
Rather let the wish be to each and all,
as the new year dawns with all its op-
portunities, that the days of 1895 may
be well spent-filled with thought and
sympathy for those around; that in self
forgetting and kindly deeds the happi-
ness of others may be ever sought, and
then most truly will each act rebound
again in joy and blessing to the heart
from which it springs. -Maud Booth.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28

toms wife npon this glorious sunahIny
New Years day. And Mrs. Vane and
Aunt Dora were compelled to confess
themselves outwitted and to accept
their defeat with as good grace as pos
sible.
"Fate is fate" said Aunt Dora grim.
ly
"And wash my hands of the whole
concern, said Mrs Vane.
But Paul and Muriel were serenely
happy. And what mattered aught elsei
New York Ledger.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
sIAMEsE NEW YEAR.
Evil Spirits Supposed to Infest the Z
parting Year-A Night Of Terror.

Evil Spirits Supposed to Infest the De-
parting Year-A Night Of Terror.
The Siamese "Choola Sakarat, !" or re-
igious New Year, generally falls on the
day after tho first full moon in tho
month Of March. The Brahmin astrolo-
ger, whose sole duty it is to point ont
the aspect Of the sun, moon and stars,
heralds the approaching full moon by
setting in motion all the multitudinous
gongs and temple bells in the city far
and near. The people. who are always
ready, waiting, for this signal, have
generally finished their business for the
year. Debts have been paid off, accounts
closed. merchandise disposed Of and all
traffic Of buying and selling suspended
three days previous TO the expected
event.
The announcement made by the many
tongued instruments is received BY the
vast population that inhabits the valley
watered by the beautiful Menam river
with fear and trembling, for they firm
ly believe that this is the witching hour
when the very atmosphere of the world
is alive with gods, demons, genii and
hobgoblins, and forthwith the anxious,
superstitious people hasten to frustrate
their evil designs. They bind unspun
cotton thread, consecrated by the priest,
round their doors and windows, as the
sacred thread is supposed to prove an
efectual barrier in keeping out the ma
icious spirits. This done they place by
the doors of their houses and huts q
platter containing pigs head and
bottle of arrack, as conciliatory repast |
for the wandering ghosts that may de-
sire to regale themselves during the |
night, after which the whole city, like |
the snail. draws in its horns and no con-
sideration will tempt a mortal soul to
venture out Of it until sunrise the next |
At sunset every family offers to its
own household genii an oblation Of can
dies. perfumed tapers and roasted rice.
As for the royal palace, 1000 balls of
unspun cotton, of seven flbers, conse-
Grated by 81 priests, are reeled round
and round the walls, and from sunset
until dawn terrific and continuous
is heard from all the forts
Of the city to rout the evil spirits that
lnfest the departing year.
But once this dreadful night is passed,
The terror sticken inhabitants, with a
long drawn sigh Of relief, prepare to
the new year. Dressed in many
,olored silks, they repair first to the
;emples to offer praise and thanksgiving
or their deliverance and to make hand
'ome gifts to the priests, and not until
hey have propitiated Buddha and Bud
has earthly representatives do they
hink Of their own merrymaking. -Ex-
hange.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
Her Objections.

Her Objections.
0 maiden, thou are passing fair;
Nocharms with thine are worth comparing.
love thee, yes, Ivow, I swear
said she, L much object to swearing.
O, from my suit, love, do not shrink,
feel thy bright eyes fascination;
Intoxicating love-draughts drinks
Said she, 81 hate intoxication.
II thou reject, my race shall end
Beneath the turf the earth embracing,
The last remains of thy fond friend
Said she, 81 hate the turfand racing.p
But If he had taken with him as present,
. bottle Of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescriptions
he would have been more successful in his
suit. She doubtelss owed many OF the charms
which captivated him TO its virtues. For
Frightening woman's eyes, and giving her
that healthy look SO much admired by the
opposite sex, it has no equal. Send 10 cents
for Book {l6S pages) on woman's Disease.
Address World y Disptnsary Medical Asso-
citation, Bufalo, N. Y.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
New Year Means Progress.

A new year, not simply another year.
Many people may be said to live the
same old year over and over again. Each
succeeding year is the same unit added
once more to the sum Of life. There is
the same task performed in the same
spirit with the same motive; the same
imperfections of character, the same
failures of conduct. The times may
change and progress hasten, but if we
stand still, we live only the old year
once again. A now year never comes to
the contented OK; he simply grows old.
1t is not the lapse Of time or the prog
ress of civilization, but our progress,
which makes possible to us new year.
Josiah Strong.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
Debts Settled ON New Years.

On New Years eve in Japan handfuls
OF beans are thrown about the rooms and
over the threshold to exercise evil spirits
who may be about.
Before the new year the merchants
endeavor to get in all the money that is
owed to them and to pay or settle their
own debts. As a consequence many
things can be bought very cheaply at the
end of the year, for ready money is the
great desideratum. Men carrying trays
of something looking like white worms
go through the streets crying, "Soba,
soba +" the Japanese form Of macaroni,
which, eaten with soy sauce, is a IA
vorite delicacy with the coolies and
jinriksha men. For their little customers
these men make all sorts of figures Of
devils, gods and animals from this
paste. Exchange.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
Some Good and Bad omens.

To meet red haired person on first
getting up indicates dull day in bust
ness, and If such one cross your door
on New Years day you will have an
unlucky year. While making trade, if
a cross eyed. person looks at you, it in
dicates that tho bargain will be unprofit
able. To hear q cricket chirp is good
luck. and it is always welcome sound
under the hearthstone of the farmers
house. Exchange.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
French canadian Jour de I,an.

A child prostrate before it's father ask
ing for his blessing on a New Years
morning. This is a typical custom
among the French Canadians Of the
province of Quebec, and undoubtedly
retained by French Canadians now resi-
dent in New England and other parts Of
this republic. The head of the family
rises early New Years morning, renews
the fire on the hearth and in the stoves,
and, seating himself in an armchair
within the shadows Of the Yule log,
watches the embers and awaits the first
Of his offspring to ask for the paternal
blessing on the glorious "jour de Ian. -
Boston Globe.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
The DYING YEAR.

My door stands oran wide tonight
In token Of a parting guest,
Who twelve months since, with keen delight
welcomed TO my homely nest.
He stands there now. wan. wasted, old,
His race quite run, mis- mission o. 'er,
And when the midnight hour is tolled,
We part. to meet on earth no mora.
He came to ne In merry guise,
With hopes and promises not few.
All, who could look within those eyes
And deem that they were all untruei
Bat expectations ali have fed
The promises are broken, too,
The hopes lie withered, crushed and dead
Not one of I'LL but proved untrue.
And there he stands. decrepit. wan.
Who came to me q merry elf,
A few sands more be will be gone,
And with him gone part Of myself
So come and 20 the passing years
That bear Us to the silent sea,
But bright with smiles or dim with tears,
They come in love, dear Lord. from thee.
Christian Work.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
New Year Fairies I'm wales.

Among the Welsh people fairies are
known by the name Of "y tylwyth tee" /"
which means the fair folk or family,
and are believed to have remarkable
privileges on New Years eve, at which
time they are said to be rampant and TO
possess unusual power. They are thought
to have great fondness for children,
and woe betide the fond mother who
has in any way offended the tylwyth teg
during the now dying year. Let such a
mother watch carefully and increasingly
at the cradle where her darling lies
sleeping on New Years eve, for II she
fails to do 80 the malicious fairies viii
come in her absence and steal away the
child and substitute for 1t "plentyn
neuid," or changing, who, though it
may at first be the exact counterpart Of
the stolen little one, will soon alter in
to frightful looking, shrunken, pulling
brat, not unfrequently becoming idiotic.
New York World.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
'tion-second ActIon-Third-Ac-

First ActfOn-Sec0nd Action-Thfrd-Ac-
tfon.
So said the wise Athenian, We shall be
wise to follow his advice In many matters; in
none more SO than in graphing with cold or
with dyspepsia; or in seeking relief from con-
sumption In Its earlier stages. 1t is absolutely
useless.to sit down and bemoan our bad. for
tune. We must act-act-act. The first and
most imperative action necessary is to pro-
cure bottle of DIR, Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery, The third action will naturally
follow-we shall proclaim abroad its virtures.
Sdrdis, Big Stone Co., MINI.
r. v. PIERCE, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y: Dear
felt 1t duty to write of the good
I received by taking your medicine, now
would say, than one year ago was given up
by my family physician and friends; all said
I must die. My lungs were badly affected, and
body reduced to skeleton. My people COM
menced to give me your medical Discovery"
and soon began to mend. 1t was not long
before 1 became well enough to take charge Of
my household duties again.
owe my recovery to DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. Respectfully,
MIRA MILLS.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
Hogamanay,
Trollolay,
Give rs Of your white bread
And none Of your grayi
New Years Ia 100.

New Years day, 1890, was one Of
special interest to those who delight in
tracing facts concerning this method Of
celebration. President Washington, then
in the first year Of his first term, lived
at the Franklin House, in Cherry street,
New York.
The city was then little Dutch town
Of cobblestones and gardens, containing
about l, 400 houses and 30, people,
most Of whom were tradesmen and me-
chanics of very limited means.
The president had lived among them
several months, but most of them had
held aloof through the awe inspired by
his great character and his high office.
But on this New Years day great num-
ber of them put on their best cooked hats,
their Sunday wigs and all their best
clothes and called upon the PRESIDENT
Philadelphia Times
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
A New Epoch.

AS the sun completes his annual rev.
olution through the heavens by touching
the southern solstice, and then. COM
lnences his return to northern latitudes,
man is compelled to recognize new
epoch in his own career and is reminded
to pause moment for earnest reflection
in order to gather wisdom from vanish
ed months and to forecast the signs of
the future. Christian Work.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
For the Ensuing Year.

May the new year, just opening to
us. be signaled III public and in private
life by the growth of noble ideas-of
ideas that shall make men freer, truer,
better; that shall more and more reflect
the Incompatible teachings Of the Holy
Child whose nativity we have just cele-
brated, and whose spirit, initiated and
obeyed, can redeem the time and crown
Work.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
Read the Bible New Years Morning.

In many Welsh household the first
thing that is done by each member Of
the family on rising ON New Years
morning is to consult the family Bible
with view to learning from it what
the coming year has in store for the per-
son seeking the information. This is
done by reading tho first verse upon
which the eye falls, and tho verse in
question is believed to foretell i'll some
way tho coed OF ill fortune, the happi-
ness or unharpiness, during the just be-
gun new year ct the person making the
rial-Exchange.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
Birth Of the Year.

How like human birth tho waking hour
OF the child yeari The weak and querulous
gale
Mid tears of rain doth lift kindred wail.
Blankly the suns eye stares: the air doth
lower
Dense as iistless ear. Beneath shower
OF snow fresh fallen those branches, white and
frail
As nswborn limbs. lie prone, with only power
Given to endure what wind soe'er prevail
The baby lips that pout their hungering
Do not more wistfully the nurse invite
Than every spiral leaf bud yearns for spring.
And e. the young blue eyes wax deep and
bright
While the soul greatens, % the glowing light :
widsns by morn and eve its azure ring,
-Philade1phia Times.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28

Jinks-I am always embarrassed
when / want to say the word vase.
l don't know whether to say vaze, vace,
vahz or vawse.
Binks-Y on might take q hint from
our hired girl. She simply speaks Of
all ornaments as t'them there.u
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
Neg Year Bella.

Of all sounds, of all bells most SOL
emn and touching is the peal which
rings out the old year. never hear it
without gathering up of my mind to
q concentration of all the images that
have been ditfused over the past twelve
month. / begin to know the worth Of
that regretted time, as when a person
dies.-Charles Lamb.
Middletown transcript., 1895-12-28
WATCHING THE OLD YEAR OUT.

The Custom Once Common In New Eng
lasd Has Nearly Passed Away.
An old fashioned "watch night" in
New England or the middle states was
until recently one Of the institutions of
this country. The keen. frosty air Of the
early evening bore upon its crystalline
and twinkling depths the sound of nu-
merous strings Of sleighbells converging
at the church. The we'll loaded cutters
and the crowded sleighs hissed through
the creakiug snow. that stamped off
with loud emphasis at the porch door,
announced the arrival of each load. The
interior of the church, heated to almost
q point Of discomfort by big stoves, still
retains the decorations put up when the
Christmas tree did service before its re-
moval The usual chatter and gossip
soon subside. A solemn hush falls over
the assembly, and when the first hymn
is given out 1t is sung with more hearty
uplift Of tone than usual The prayer is
more fervent than usual, and the an
them that follows it is more like dirge.
The young elder, who is present,
breaches an address, the tones Of which
fall on all hearts with sadness that be-
gets repentance. No such theme as this
finds expression at any other portion Of
the year, .sWe all do fade as leaf, .
and then he CLOSES with Longfellow,s
mournful words:
Howl, howl. and from the forest
Strip the red leaves away.
Would tho sins that thou abhorest,
o SOUL could thus decay
And be swept awayi
Kyrie elcisonl Christie eleisoni
More singing. more prayers, all instinct
with earnestness, and then shrillI
voiced girl recites Prentice's "Dying
Year."
'Tis midnight's holy hour. etc.
Another Tennyson's 8 "Old Year. then
comes breathless waiting, and the bell
strikes, when joyous 'sAmenf' is fol-
lowed by a burst Of song that every one
joins In. Chicago Tribune.