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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20

It is now possible to change the face of
the type on machine in ten minutes
and substitute any Of the smaller or
reading type, such as "agate;" non
paren," "minion," BREWER" long
primer" ''small pica," and italics. Ev-
cry MACHINE, can Be fitted with two
molds, "solid..' and a 'leaded'' body,
which can Be interchanged in moment
and with a supply of molds and maya
zines on hand, one machine can be
made to turn out any of the faces
above mentioned on any length of mold.
1t will be surprise to learn that the
machine occupies a space of only five
pounds, and requires only onefourth
lorse-power-steam or electricity-tO
operate it. The gas jets used to keep
the type metal in molten state con-
sumo less than fifteen feet an hour,
and after an operator has become ac-
Quainted with his machine, the SER
vices of machinist are not required.
In large offices, of course, where speed
and time are the great consideration,
machinists are required to care for the
machines. Though twenty years were
spent in creating the linotype, it was
only a few years ago considered per-
feet. 1T is, therefore, in it's infancy.
The inventor has but begun to produce
a radical change in the printing world
which the superiority of his invention
will complete in a few years.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20
THE FLYING DRAGON.
A Lizard with Aeroplane and Balloon
Attachment.

A Lizard with Aeroplane and Balloon
Attachment.
The flying drag on is one of the freaks
of mammalia. Tt is nothing more than
a lizard that is fitted out with skin
aeroplane like the flying squirrels. 1t
is not adjusted in quite the same way.
but it amounts to about the same thing.
and enables the lizard that enjoys it to
take long, soaring leaps from tree to
tree. 1t sails ninety or 100 feet in this
way with apparent east. Not only does
the dragon use his aeroplane. but he
seems to have a balloon combination,
for he puffs up three pouches of the thin
skin that are placed under his neck
when he starts on a flight. When he
alights he let's the cir out.
One of the most interesting things
about the flying dragon (Draco volans)
is the supposition that he is the cousin
of some monster flying lizard that lin
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20

week he arrived in New York in charge
of a Wells-Fargo express car in which
81 100000 of gold and $4,000 in silver
was packed for transfer from the sub
treasury IN San Francisco to the sub
treasury in New York. The schedule
of such trip is always kept profound
secret, to avert robbery. For thirty
years Burns has been engaged in this
work, and in one year 1S85-he
guarded over $4NOOO,0OO in gold and
silver from the Golden Gate to Wash
ington.
did the robbers ever bother your
the colonel was asked. II never lost a
cent of all the millions intrusted to my
care" said he, in quiet sort of way
not with any suggestion of self-lauda-
ton, but in a tone intended simply to
let the facts be known. But I was
badly scared one time while travelling
from Kansas City to st. Louis on the
Frisco road. Two corpses frightened
me-not because they were corpses, but
because | was afraid they weren't. /
can't say what made me suspicious,
but 1 expected to see the sides of those
rough boxes flap down any moment
and couple Of robbers come rolling out
with reyo1vers in their hands. / sat
watching those boxes for many weary
hours with a carbine across my knee
and brace of revolvers near at hand
But after all it turned out they were
sure enough corpses." The colonel is
"a dead shot-one of the best in the Cal
,ifornia National Guard, with which he
has been connected since he ended his
service in the civil war.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20
HOUSES IN THE TREE-TOPS.
The Indians of Guiana Build Beyond
the Reach of Floods.

The Indians of Guiana Build Beyond
the Reach of Floods.
Interest in the Guiana country natu-
rally centers about the most fertile
region, that which commands the
mouth of it's great waterway. AS you
approach the Orinoco from the gulf of
Para you will see that picturesque
sight to which Humboldt refers in his
travels, 'innumerable fires in the tall
palm trees the dwelling places of the
peaceful Guaraunos.
The legend that this strange tribe of
Indians, once the masters of the Grim
oco, live In trees the entire year, results
from the great annual rise of the Grin
oco. At Ciudad Bolivar, three hundred
miles up, this amounts sometimes, in a
contracted nlaee, to ninety feet. On
the broader is always sufficient
to cover islands and low ground; there
fore the inhabitants very wisely build
their houses well above the ground.
For this purpose four tall palm trees
are selected, and the crosspieces which
form the foundation for the houses are
dashed to the main support by pieces
of a tough vine Indigenous to the delta.
Upon these is laid the flooring, and
then the sides and roof are matched
with large palm leaves, to which the
Indians have given the poetic name of
Feather of the-sun."
There are many advantages which
this particular palm leaf possesses over
others of the same family, the principal
one being it's similarity to asbestos in
the quality of resisting fire. In the To-
cation Of his house the Guarauno takes
another wise precaution in building,
and it is one that carries with it a les
son for the government under whose
sovereignty he lives--Century.
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@glQQsNRA,
1D.U0S o vesS6Jp

Mrs. Garfeld's income is $21, 1000
$4,000 from the fund raised by Cyrus
w. Field and $4,000 from Congress.
Rudyard Kipling's present ambition
is said to be to serve as a war CORE
spondent. The next big war will take
him into the field.
Albert Curtis, SO years old, is the only
living selectman Of Worcester when
that city was town. He has seen the
city grow from 1000 to 100000.
Eunice Smith, of Lake View, N. H.,
undoubtedly holds the clover record of
New England with forty-one four-leaf,
fourteen five-leaf, and one seven-leaf.
Ex-Consul Waller intends to make his
permanent home in Kansas City, and
will become the editor of the American
Citizen formerly the property of G. III.
J. Taylor.
A beauty book is in course of prep
aration IN London. Among the por-
traits it will contain will be one of Mrs.
George Curzon, formerly Miss Letter,
of Washington, d. G.
Andrew Carnegie has sent check for
81 900 to the Oyster Bay free library.
Mr.. Carnegie has been interested in this
institution for some time and has made
several donations to it.
Gen. Booth, commander of the Saliva
ton Army, conducted weeks crusade
in Berlin with degree of success which
the Salvation Army has never hereto
fore been able to achieve in Germany.
The Japanese are up to date in the
sciences. A series of sixteen reproduc-
lions of photographs obtained by
means of RoentgeL rays has been issued
by Prof Y Yamaguchi and I. Mizuno,
of Toxic University.
George Welch, g Newk York florist,
who has had his entire tongue remov-
ed, although there is not a vestige of
that organ left, is still able to converse
almost as naturally as before the oper-
alton, and still retains the sense of
taste.
DR.. Conan Doyle has been speech
making in London, and has been tell
ing his auditors how much he owes to
Sir Walter. Scott and Lord Macaulay, a
queer combination, to which, he says
he is indebted for the inspiration of his
romantic stories.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20

oh;ne which brought this revolution to
nass is the Linotype, and the story OF
,ts Invention and that of its capabiil-
lies read like romance -,
Twenty years companionship with n
80 ;dea the expenditure OF over a
Y,;l,ion dollars, and the successful sur
a;ra1 Of many bitter disappointments
- Tho brief story of Ottmar Mersen-
4holar the German matchmaker, IN
swinging his invention up to it's present
a4andard Of perfection. During this
s,,oa It kept Mr.. Mergenthaler poor
s and. as failure after failure was
aade II nearly broke the inventor $
naa,+ He is still alive, however, and IS
: ~, roung-looking, almost boyish, man.
ue 1ives in New York and SPENDS ms
summers in the Adirondack Mountains
Ear his health is not good.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20

Speed is everything. Within five hours
the history Of a day must be intelli-
gently compiled and set in type. The
rapidity with which the linotype is
worked made it necessity. 1t can
cast four lines of type while a compost
tor is setting one, and as there is no
distribution of type, there are relative
ly few mistakes to be corrected, and
consequently little or no delay in get
ting the matter into the forms. The
men who have stood at the case for
wears are now seated at keyboard,
and all that the typo" had to do was
to learn the keyboard Of the machine
just as any stenographer learns the
keyboard Of a typewriter. The ma
chine is automatic and does the rest.
Al true description Of the linotype
would necessarily be technical one,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20

for many Of the most complex auto
matte movements known to the me-
chanic are involved in it's operation. To
describe what it does, can be done in
sentence. In answer to the opera tors
touch on the lettered keys, it assemblies
iettered brass matrices into Line, and
then in response to a touch OF the lever
it carries the line of matrices to a mold
where the line of type is cast from mott
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20

When he started to carry out his
idea, Mr.. Mergenthaler built work
shop in the loft Of his stable, and for
years he and his invention were the OBJ
jects Of as much curiosity as the famed
Darius Green and his flying machine"
He first tried to create machine that
would make a matrix from which a
column or page might be cast. Then
he produced one which would punch
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20

en- metal, after which it distributes the
matrices in their proper places in the
magazine from which they were taken.
The cast line is ready for printing with
out further labor
The almost human action of the ma
chine may be understood, when it is
said that the brass matrices, from
which the linotype slug is cast, are
handled automatically by the machine,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20

gered on earth until after the arrival
of men, and SO gave a historic basis for
the fiery and hideous dragon which
figures in the folklore or mythology OF
nearly all peoples. The dragon of fancy
could hardly have been built up from
the creature in the picture, for he is
only a few inches long in real life, and
possesses an extremely mild and af-
tectionate disposition. He is very cas-
ily tanned.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20
AFRAID OF TWO CORPSES.

An Experience of Burns, Who Guards
Millions Across the Continent.
Col. J. FL. Burns, of San Francisco,
has guarded so much government gold
across the continent that he could not
count it in lifetime-nOt if the sixty
five years he has already spent on earth
were doubled. The sum amounts into
the hundreds of millions. Only last
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20

IN MA rhiA' gent large body of skilled
men in the world, and their daily labor
is performed al an enormous draft on
their nervous and mental energy. In
this painful way the handicraft has
been conducted from the days of Faust
and Gutenberg. For four centuries and
a half there has been little advance in
this respect till now. The attempts to
set type by machinery have been many,
and generally unsuccessful. The Lon
don Times was fitted up a few years
ago with apparatus that would SIT
type, but the losses by breakage of type
and the expense of it's operations We're
too great. It was not till four Or five
years ago that the confidence of pub
fishers in the success of machinery to
take the place of ordinary hand COM
position was won. The improvements
steadily in progress since the inception
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20
MARVEL OF THE AGE.
THE LINOTYPE ECLlPSES ALL
MODERN INVENTIONS.
How 1t Has Revo1utionized the Old
Art of PrintinR-NOtes a New Era in
the Newspaper NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of the Machine.
Useful and Popular.

The art of printing has been a won
derful fundamentally in the dissent
nation of knowledge, the progress Of
good government, the defense of civil
rights and as a general aid to liberal
progress, but it has always been at the
cost of a slow and painful process, the
selection and placing by hand of each
letter and character and space of the
words and language. An ordinary col
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20

umn Of reading matter
uses about 5000 pieces of
type. Each piece must
be chosen from it's CLASH
fed box. Or fat pigeon
hole, and after being
used in print must be
returned to it's place
again. The tedious work
which attends this art
o,,o~lD ~ .4 :4o11:
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20

French Law as to Burial.
French law requires that body shall
be buried within forty eight hours af
ter death, unless it is embalmed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-08-20

of the most successful machine were
finally victorious over all obstacles.
They completely changed the old trade
of printing, and gave, especially to the
work of the daily paper, facilities which
till lately were only dream. The ma
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-12-24

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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-12-24
HER CHRISTMAS.
copyright 1905, by the Author. ]

II was Il glorious Christmas morning,
and Nirnnd,, stood in the doorway and
watched the sun climbing over the snow
capped mountains
she mad risen early AMI hurried through
all her duties. Long before her father
was up-for he was wont to sleep later
than usual on high days and holidnys-sho
had prepared the turkey and pudding and
set them aside, and had been to the dairy
for the cream and butter for breakfast.
Then she had dressed in her comeiest
gown and come and stood in the DOORWAY
Miranda. though, was not pretty even
at her best. She was tall, slightly built
and Of almost an angular form, with fe.-
lures characteristic ef the part of the coun-
try in which she lived. Her home was in
the extreme western part of Maryland, in
the Allegheny Valleys, or broad pluteaus
known Us The Glldcs.
Here sho and her father had lived and
farmed since she had been child. She
had never known any other section of tho
state and the sparkling, tumblng streams
which dashed past the house on their way
to either the Potomac or the Mississippi
seemed as though they were part and par
Gel of her.
AT one time she had been considered the
sprightlicst girl i'll all " Inc Gladcs " And
there had been women who had envied
and hated her and men who loved and
courtod her, but she had simply Judged
men and women alike, with smile, a
pleasant word, and passed them by. This
Indifference which both charmed and ex-
asperated At = sumo time she had allow
edto go oQ unlIl Robert Dodd, a neighbour
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with gray, and about his eyes and mouth
were burrows, prophetic of hard life and
intense feeling rather than of age.
Could she forgive Jim Clayton?
As she told the story of how she had
found him down in 1.-THE Glades" and of
all that he had said both Robert and her
father listened attentively.
ave must 90 to him, said her father.
eyes" added Robert, land the little
that we can do for him must be done now
at once"
There was no malice or unkind feeling
of any sort in his voice, and she wondered
how he who had been wronged so deeply
could forgive SO easily. He seemed to
know how to sympathize in way that but
few of US do, and which, when we lack, is
only taught Us by the trials and ordeals
Through which we ourselves pass. 1t was
something that she had never before seen
In ANYBODY, and it brought back to her
with full meaning the thoughts that she
had had that morning of Christmas.
As they went out she kuelt and prayed
to the great and glorious Saviour that she
misht be worthy to be Robert Dodd's wife.
Then she prayed for the soul Of the man
who had caused her all her SORROW.
FRANCES :. NEIRa
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STATE OF MAINE.

HANCOCK ss:-Court of Probate, Bucksport,
December term 1895.
4 PETITION having been filed by the
~ widow of each deceased, for an allow
arce out OF tie personal estate in the states
of the following named persons viz:
Andrew }. Cole, late of Hancock, in said
county, deceased.
Edward ;. Fcrnald, late of Cranberry Isles,
in said county, deceased.
William A. MiIliken, late of Eden, IN said
county, deceased.
Ordered, That said petitioners give public
notice to all persons intercsIcd br causing a
copy of this order to be published three weeks
successfully i'll the Ellsworth american, a
newspaper printed or published il Ellsworth,
that they may appear at a court of probate for
said county, to be held at the probate Office in
said Ellsworth, on the second Wee nesday
in January next, at ten of the clock in the
forenoon, and show cause,if any they have,
why the same should not be granted.
0. z. CUNNINGHAM. Judge.
A true copy, Attest:-CHAs. p. DORK, Register.
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master But our colored soldiers had No
friends ot home to send them thace toknns
of love and rc1ne1nhrance Their friends
when NOT still in hondago wore moor and
homes were vet n thing of the f11turc But
thc men had tbeir nav and sutlnrs 1vera ,e
numerous as their prices were HIGH The
officer, Of fine reoinent both field and line
heIrcd o,,t tte festivities Of tbe black mon
in Lluo both bv combinations and Inv teacb.
inc them how and Whit To buv The rc
suit WAS that so far rs ere9tlIre comforts
1yerr concerned the men If tba Forty
fou,+h .eI.rpd rared re,uarl.ai,I. vveI1 ~,
their .,rst Christmas Of free. le,n;.ifl ms sal,
dierS
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i'm, ron,orfs,l,lv ,.ooi Tbo,, nl,-cd -
course. Nv ear. knowing nothing Of writ
ten music. There was one negro who
plaved the accordion With marvellous skill
He was from Mississippi and had acquired
this accomplishment at New Orleans,
where his old master spent his winters
this man having accompanied the planter
as his body servant The man had brought
with him the instrument his master had
bought him. Under his manipulation tho
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WHEREAS Frank b. Kelley, OF Hancock,
w in the county of Hancock, and State
of Maine, by his mortgage deed dated the
oath day of August, 1894, and recorded in book
276, page 547, of the Hancock county, Maine,
Registry of Deeds, conveyed to me, the
dersigned, a certain lot or parcel Of land sit
uated in said Hancock, and bounded and de-
scrbed as follows, to wit: Beginuiug at the
northwest corner of Nahum b, Grants home
lot on the east side of the town road; thence
east ten rods to a stake; thence north twenty
five feet to a stake; thence east thirty rods to
stake; thence north ten rods 80 " stoke;
thence west forty rods to the town road;
thence southerly along said town road eleven
rods and eight and one-hat .ctO g he fir t.
mentioned bound, containing two acres and
ninety-tive rods more less, together with
all the buildings situated thereon, and
whereas the conditions of said mortgage have
been broken, and now remain broken and
performed, now therefore, BY reason Of the
breach of the conditions of said mortgage, L
claim a foreclosure thereof, aud give this no.
tice in writing for that purpose provided
by statute.
Dated at Hancock, this 18th day of Dec,
a. d. 1896. HENRY c. CRABTREE.
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tlNtlE subscriber hereby gives public notice
i to all concerned, that he has been duly
trust OF executor of the last will and testa-
ment OF Joshua A. Whitmore, late of We
roma, in the county of Hancock, deceased,
by giving bond as the law directs; he
therefore requests all persons who are in
debted to said deceased's estate to make i'm
mediate payment, and those who have any
demands thereon to exhibit the same for set
Element. AVERY II. WHITMORE.
December 9, a. d. 1896.
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rINHE subscriber hereby gives notice that
4 he has been duly appointed admins
TRAITOR of the estate of William +. Eastman
late of Orland, in the county of Hancock
deceased, and given bonds as the law directs
All persons having demands against the estate
of said deceased are desired to present the
same for settlement, and all indebted thereto
are requested to make payment immediately.
December 9, a. d. 1896. +. w. Gross.
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yTHE subscriber hereby gives notice that
4 he has been duly appointed admins
traitor of the estate of John Gilley, late of
Cranberry Isles, in the county of Hancock,
deceased, and given bonds as the law directs.
All persons having demands against the es-
tate of said deceased are desired to present
the same for settlement, and all indebted
thereto are requested to make payment i'm
mediatelY. ORRIN A DoNNELL.
December g. a d. 1895.
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STATE OLE MAINE.
OK ss:-Court of Insolvency.

HANCOCK SS:-COurt OF insolvency.
NOTICE is hereby given that the following
~ matters in the case hereinafter
named have been presented to the court
of insolvency at a term begun and held
at Bucksport, in and for said county, on
the ninth day of December, a. d. 1896,
for the action thereupon hereinafter
indicated, and that it is ordered by said
court that notice thereof be published in
the Ellsworth American, newspaper printed
at Ellsworth in said county Of Hancock,
once Il week for three successive weeks,
that any person interested in either Of said
matters may appear at a court of Insolvency
to be held at Ellsworth, i'll AID for said
county, on the fourteenth day Of January
next, at ten o'cloci; in the forenoon. and be
heard thereon, and object if they cause.
In the case Of Edward K. wood Yt,rd and
George F. Woodward, both of Ellsworth,
Hancock county, Maine, as partners at said
Ellsworth, under the firm name Of Woodward
Brothers. and also as indiS iGU as, iilsolyent
debtors.
First account of Samuel \. Neil, assignee,
filed tor settlement.
Petition for discharge from I'll debts prov
able against their estate, both nurtaers I'M
der the firm name of Woodward Bro AeTs, and
as individuals, flied by said Edward j.. Wood
ward and George p. Woodward.
Attest:-CHAs p. ECBR, Register
of said court for said county OF Hancock.