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Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

Much has beon said of late about the
treatment OF tuberculosis by injections of
a compound containing creosote. In some
instances there has been notable improve.
ment, although as a rule the cough rel
mains. A patient was recently taken to
the hospital to be treated with this or, osots
preparation. Each day he received doses
Of in 10 solution, beginning with 100
grains on the first day and increasing the
dose ten grains each time until AZ ounces
had been reached. The patient at this
time was seized with violent delirium and
nervous agitation, alternating with semi
comatose conditions. He remained In
this state for nearly "a hours, when there
was change for tho better, and after three
days left tho hospital, as is supposed, en-
tirely cured. The only possible conclusion
Is that tho creOsote poisons the disease
germs in the body. This is an important
point for investigation and should DO care
fully noted, as it may lead to sumo unusu-
ally valuable disooyeries.-New York
Tadnar
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05
WHOPPERs TOLD IN ATHENS.
The Jokes OF American Athletes Published
There as Interesting Facts.


That the personalities of tho contestants
In the recent international athletic events
In tho stadium near Athens attracted most
earnest attention Is evident from the re-
ports in Greek newspapers that have roach
cd hero. One Of these The City, in the is
Sles of March 81 and April z has many
short paragraphs that bank president in
this city who is proficient in modern Greek
has translated literally. The writer appar-
emily was not well informed of track GUS
toms in this country, and he evidently
passed some hours in collecting infOrma-
ton from tho barbarians, the quality Of
tho facts obtained being proportiOned to
the sense of humor in the contestant CUES
toned OF tho custom Of picking up
contestant and carrying him TO his quar-
tiers the writer says:
"The feet Of ono OF tho American run
ners aro most strange. They have bun
Ions, small and large, and all tho muscles
stand out most tremendously. After u
RIM two lift him up and carry him to the
dressing room because he cannot walk. "
Tho writer next chronicles this as evil
dence Of Connolly's reliance on supernatu-
raj aid:
e "Tho American athletes, and especially
Connolly, pray before beginning the game
He covers his face with his hands and re-
cites some American invocations."
Credit is given to the mechanical quail
ties of chewing gum in this way:
"Tho American runners have the foot Of
a hare, and when about to run they muir
Inur something and then enter tho contest
Two Of them continually chew pitch.
This Strengthens the lungs"
The climax, however, was reached in
this:
"Ono of the Americans being asked
whether he had dono much running re-
piled, L have come from America to Eng
land on foot four times.
The college cries elected this comment:
"The shouts Of the Americans arc most
extraordinary and unintelligible. Every
province and university has its own war
cry. Even tho Greeks initiated this strange
custom. When the peasant Louos from |
the village Of Marousi was announced as
victor of tho Marathon race, this shout
was raised: Ma, MA, mol Rou, rou, rou
81, 81, 81 Hellasl Fetal"
Tho Greek reporter adds:
"a German photographer who takes pic |
lures especially OF athletic events says that |
though the Americans arc winners tho |
Greeks are nevertheless graceful. Now
York Sun.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

While the fashionably dressed members
of Partisan society who attended the YER
nissage were surveying tho pictures Of the
newly opened salon sounds of smashing
glass were heard in one Of the rooms. A
search was made in that direetion, and the
excited onlookors saw an elegantly dressed
young lady vigorously poking her sun
shade through ono Of the pastels.
She was removed by the guardians pres
ent, and it then transpired that the mis-
chief doer was the wife Of the painter
whose picture was destroyed. She said
she had committed the act because her
husband had persisted in displaying on can
vas the charms of lady whom she re-
garded as a rival. She also promised to
fecommence these vigorous circumstances
bn the first opportunity. London Tele-
graph.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

The dog has often been called mans
best friend, and one knows how often his
presence in the house is worth more than
any amount of moral maxims for children.
A very suggestive little instance Of this
cropped up recently at Corydon on the
hearing of summons for keeping a dog
without a license The offense was ad-
mitted, but the defendants wife pleaded
that she only kept the animal because the
children were so fond Of it. At that mo-
ment she had little girl i'll, and she
would not take her medicine unless the
mother pretended to give it to the dog first.
No doubt the child's principles were,
'Love me, love my dog, and If the nau-
seous medicine was necessary for the good
Of the animal the doggie's little friend
thought it must be good enough for her.
No wonder the magistrate adjourned the
case This story reveals such u valuable
discovery in domestic medicine that we
certainly think thia dog ought to be al
lowed to got liberty to have 10 license.-
Westminster Gazette
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

Ostensibly this war was to be unlike
any other so far waged. The secret in
struotions given to tho imperial Austrian
envoy in London clearly indicate that the
Hapsburgs hoped by victory to restore
their influence both in Italy and Germany,
for that was the meaning Of restitution
to rightful owners" and the "slight reoti.
flcation of their frontiers, " or, in other
words, tho restoration OF European cOndi-
tions to what thoy had been before Napo
Icons advent. This was the dynastio side.
The national side was also to he used fol
its purpo-ls 1.-THE liberties Of Europe have
taken refuge under your banner" ran
Charles proclamation to the army. Your
victories will break their bonds, and your
German brethren still in the enemy's
ranks await their redemption. To the
German world he said, "Austria fights
not only for her own autonomy, but takes
the sword for the Independence and ma
tional honor of Germany" Another mani
festo, written by Cent?, tho ablest states
man in Vienna, declared that the war was
to be waged not against France, hut
against tho system of persistent extension
which had produced such universal disor-
der in Europe. Life Of Napoleon, by
Professor Sloane, in Century.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

Members Of tho Ancient and Honorable
Artillery company who have not enlisted
for the London trip win have to abandon
az is's;Ps % going unless, perchancc, some
ono backs out or is prevented from sailing
at tho last moment. for every stnteroom
on board The steamer lihs teen taken, and
thero are several persons on the waiting
list to take advantage III the dropping out
Of any Of those 10 whom rooms have been
assigned The number Of those who will
surely go IS IN Tho neigahurhood Of 80, be-
sides the men;iers II the band, making
nearly 300 IN all Tho time Of sailing Is
June 60 Eoston Transcript.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

Maynooth collc-2, Ito famous training
college OF tha I'll "a priesthood, has just
celebrated tho centenary 81 It's foundation.
Tho instiiLtiUn was established in June,
1895, h. tho imperial government as an
act Of state policy to secure and retain on
the sido Of England in tho management Of
Sland tho influence Of tho Catholic church
in that country. During the greater por-
tion of tho seventeenth century tho Irish
priests wero compelled by the ponal laws
passed by the Irish parliament against
Roman Catholics to go abroad for their
education. they woro trained for tho
ministry in colleges at Paris, Lisbon and
Salamanca, which had foundations estab-
lished for their education and support
principally by tho French, Spanish and
Portuguese soverelgns.
At tho outbreak of tho French rovolu-
ton there were as many as 84a Irish CO.
clesiastical students in Paris out of total
Of AIS en- the continent, and one of the re-
suits of that tremendous social upheaval
was the closing of tho Irish college and tho
dispersal of its students The Irish Roman
Catholic bishops naturally viewed this
state Of things with alarm, for 1t might
mem Mt least "a serious diminution in tho
supply Of priests for missionary work in
Ireland. They were DESTROYS Of having
the priests educated and trained at homo
under their own immediate control; but,
though tho legal ban against the education
of Roman Catholic ecolesiastics in Ireland
had just been removed, to establish and
support a college for the purpose were ut
terly beyond their financial means. They
therefore approached the government ON
the subject. - Contemporary Review
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

Nerves are weak, many people say,
and yet they do not seem to know
that they are literally starving their
nerves. Weak, pale, thin blood can
not give proper sustenance - that is
why you are nervous, tired, exhausted.
The cure for this condition is to
purify, vitalize and enrich your blood.
Take Hoods Sarsaparilla fairly and
faithfully, and the rich, red blood,
which it makes, will soon feed the
nerves the elements Of true strength
they require; they will cease their agi-
tation and will resume their proper
place - being under the control in
stead of controlling the brain and
body. Read Miss Bartley's letter;
81 want to express my gratitude for
what Hoods Sarsaparilla has done for
me. My health has been very poor for
three years, due to trouble with my
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

Scientific work is "a great thing, to be
sure, but 1t does not compare with that Of
common sense for practical purposes. The
object Of the expense Of the new terrace OF
the capitol at Washington was to improve
the proportion between the immense dome
and the squatty building, but the accom-
plishment Of that object was prevented by
making tho steps, constituting nearly the
whole Of its front, of dark cOlored slate,
and stranger still, by planting trees on
the top Of It, tho abSurdity Of the latter
being so apparent that they were removed
at once.
When the Improvement Of the Potomac
fats in front of Washington was COM
menced practical engineers said the
ground to be reclaimed should be sur
rounded by row Of piles driven close to-
gother and riprapped on the inside. But
scientific engineers did the riprap work
without piles. fhe consequence being that
the bottom of the new ground, being made
of silt, is constantly forcing its way back
into the channel under tho rocks and has
to bo dredged out every year or two.
An enormous sum of money has been
expended in the erection of now "fire-
proof postoGlce building in Washington,
but when the walls, composed solely OF
stone and iron, were completed the scien-
tiflc architects put an immense roof on 1t
composed Of pine wood. Science is great,
and its abiding place is Washington
Alexandria (Va.) Gazette.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

The popular conception OF tho path Of q
flash OF lightning is that it Is a zigzag,
sharper IN its outlines than tho average
Missouri rail FENCE Photography how
ever, has exploded that notion, the plates
showing that such flash tracks aro perfect
ly devoid OF angles, the blazing route
taken by the fluid hoing moro like he
course Of sinuous river. The first obs, ~
or to note this was Jnmes Nesmith who.
In 1856, before the British Society II Sci
enoes, declared that to his naked ego IL
was sinuous streak without branches,
dgzags or forks.-St Louis RI public.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

We fear tho house to house collection
scheme recommended by Postmaster Gen
eral Wanl maker and recently indorsed by
Postmaster General Wilson will make
moro crooked and slow thop path Of tho car
rier delivering letters. Whore the mail he
has to deliver may bring him over only a
portion Of his route on a trip that is light
and for which little timo is allotted, with
the above idea I'm practice, he will DO sup
posed or compelled to cover his entire dis
trict looking for mail that may not be
found. On the other hand, if he goes only
where the letters he has TO deliver bring
him, some people who have been expecting
him will DO disappointed. Too much reli-
ance will be placed on the regularity Of
the carriers visits, and mail for collection
will often remain in tho house box for
hours. We shall DO Interested in the OK
porimontal tests to BIO given the system.
House letter boxes arc all right, but house
to house collections we fear will not work
satisfactorily unless in rare instances.
Our understanding is that tho department
desires letter carriers to say good word
for the scheme whenever possible, but we
have been reliably informed that In talk
ing on the subject to patron on their
routes carriers should pause just long
enough to hurriedly say; Its a good
thing Put in a box, and then move
alOng.-POstal Record.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

"Historio painters, said Sir Godfrey
Knellcr, with some truth, make tho dead
live, but cannot live themselves. paint
the living and live by them" Nor did
Kneler fail TO natter his patrons with I'LL
tho devices Of his art, ard hence his por-
traits show mn inslneority that depriyes
them OF much value. a much better and
moro faithful portrait painter was John
Riley, who painted Charles II. is this
like mef" aslsild the king, examining tho
portrait with melancholy intcrcst. "Odd's
ash, am an ugly fellow p'-New York
Post,
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

-Four years of blood. Four years of hos
tilo experiences Four years of ghastli-
ness Four years Of gravedigging. -Four
years Of funerals, collins, shrouds, hearses,
dirges Mourning, mourning, mourning
It was hell let loose. What a time Of
waiting for news Morning paper and
evening paper scrutinized for intelligence
from the boys at the front First, an
nouncement that the battle must occur the
next day. Then the news Of the battle
going on. On the following day still going
on. Then news of 30, 900 slain and of the
names of tho great generals who had fallen,
but no news about the private soldiers.
Waiting for newsl After many days q
load of wounded going through the town
or city, but no news from our boy Then
q long list of wounded and long list Of
the dead and q long list of the missing.
And among the last list our boy.
When lnissinga How missing9 Who
saw him last2 Missing Missingl Was
no in the woods or by the streamP How
was he hurt? Missingl Missing What
burning prayers that he may yet DO heard
from. In that awful waiting for news
many n life persisted. The strain of anx-
Lefty was too great. That wife's brain
gave way that first week after the battle,
and ever and anon she walks the floor OF
the asylum or looks out of the window as
though she expected some one to come
along the path and up the steps as she
soliloquizes, Missing; missing"
What mado matters worse, all this might
have been avoided. There was no more
need Of that war than at this moment
should plunge dagger through your
heart. There were fow Christian phi
lanthropists in those days seOffed at both
by north and south, who had the right of
It, If they had been heard on both sides,
we should have had no war and no slavery.
1t was advised by those Christian philan-
thropists, Let the north pay in money
for the slaves as property and set them
freo" Tho north said, "Wo cannot afford
to pay" The south said, eve will not
sell the slaves anyhow" But the north
did pay in war expenses enough to pur-
chase tho slaves, and tho south was conf
PEELED to give up slavery anyhow. might
not tho north better have paid the money
and saved the lives Of 900, 600 brave men,
and might not the south better have sold
out slavery and saved her 800, 600 brave
nieng I swear .J graves OF your
fathers AID ar4.i.,ts and sons to a new
hatred for the champion curse of the uni
yerse-wGr. . Lord God, with the hot
test bolt OF thino omnip1tont Indignation
strike that monster down forever and ever.
Imprisnn il 81 tho deepest dungeon of tho
eternal lenitrutiary Bolt it in with all
the iron rStr forged IN cannon or nodded
INFO howita rs Clo,lir it With all the
sabers hat ry,r -ei q in hattlo and
wiring Is .n,.l i',e rnngs which 1t
sy,r cansca iaiI the connagra-
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05
EAT APPLES AT NIGHT.
Statement which Reverses the ola Pro
CRIB About the Fruit

Statement Which ReVerses the OLD Prov
CRIB About the Fruit.
The apple is such a common fruit that
very few persons are familiar with its
remarkably eflicacious medicinal prop
critics, states the Bulletin of Pharmacy.
Everybody ought to know that the very
best thing they can do is to eat apples
just before retiring for the night Per.
sons uninitiated in the mysteries Of the
fruit are liable to throw up their hands
in horror at the visions of dyspepsis
which such a suggestion may summon
up; but no harm can come even to a
delicate system by the eating of ripe
and juicy apples just before going to
bed.
The apple is excellent brain food, be
cause it has more phOsphoric acid in
easily digested shape than other fruits. /
It excites the actionaof the liver, pro,
notes sound and healthy sleep, and
thoroughly disinfects the mouth. This !
lis not all. The apple helps the kidney /
secretions and prevents calculus
growths, while 1t obviates indigestioni
and is one of the best-Snown proven
tives or diseases of the throat. Every.
body should be familiar with such
knowledge.
Strange Changes In Family.
Tho Genoese are celebrating the inaugu-
ration Of a monument erected to two Of
the most remarkable philanthropists Of
modern times, the late Duke and Duchess
Of Galiera.
The career of the duke was a varied and
adventurous one. His father, the richl
GenOeso bunker De Ferrari, was a miser,
who was found one morning to be missing.
Search was made for him during several
days, and at last his body was discovered
in the treasury Of his bank. He had been
mysteriously locked in and literally died.
of starvation surrounded by his money!
bags. Some time afterward the son mar
ried the very wealthy coheiress Of the an
Client and now extinct house of BrignOlel
Sale, and went to Paris to live.
Their lives were spent in active benef-l
cence To the city Of Genoa they presented
e2, 600 600 to improve tho port, built SUI
perb hospital and erected model dwellings
for the poor. Tho duchess gave her ances-
trail palace with all its nrt treasures to the
city as museum and built refuge forl
poor priests.
The duke and duchess died q few yearsi
ago, and they have been succeeded in theitl
honors by their son, who has strongly
marked soclalistio tendencies and callsi
himself plain ". Ferrari. London Chron-
iole
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

''To run amuck" Is properly to run
amok FesMerly in India, Siam and
othor easter countries Malay men, driven
mad by opium, hasbeesh or other drugs,
would run about frantlcally, sword I'M
band, striking at any one they might hap
pen to meet and crying. "Anannk.
nmnnk ~ tkill.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

was nervous, had pains in my back.
cannot tell what suffered. My eyesight
became affected and was so respondent
1 did not have any interest in life. had
two physicians, but my complaints be-
came worse. Twas told that was affected
with Bright's disease. A relative urged
me to try Hoods Sarsaparilla. I did so
and in short time l began to notice a
change in my condition. Things began
to appear brighter, my eyes improved and
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-06-05

nur.wARv. MARYLAND & VIRGINIA K, R.
Lave Harrington for franklin and way statlon,
ffs7 A. NJ. and 6.2s D. m Tuesdays, IhursaAy
and Saturdays only Returning, train leaves rTsuk
ln City 3. so u. m. week days, l.4o p M 4uehuA1 D.
"bursdays aud Saturdays only. IT..
cave Frank!in City Tor Chlhc0teaRhe wa
rleamer) AZ D. IN. weekdays, Returning, leave
uhincOleague Az a. M week days
Leave Harrington for Georgetown and Lewea
III 1887 a. m weekdays and 6-.S p. a weekdays
Hsturning, leave Lswes sd a. m'' d'SV y III
ucek-dAys
For Berlin, leave har ngton lO.51 a. M ana
a.as o. m. Tuesdays Thursdays and saiuruays'
Htiurnine, leave Berlin B,og ~ NJ ana -.4' p ~
Taesdays, Thursday and Saturdays only
ouEEN ANNE & KENT X. R--Leave Townsend
of CentreVille aHd way stations s.2O H. m. ana
a.1O D. m. weekdays Reiurning1 leave OeuseI-
p'ne ISL q. IN. and $50 ,. La. weekdays
DFL. q CHEsArEAKE X. R-Leave Clayton foi
orlOrd and war stations ut 9.S6 q. m ana % 0 p
m weekdays. Returning, leave OXIOfo o'oe y. ~
and i.4J p. m. weekdays,
fAMBRIDGB & SEAFORD r. R.-LeaVe ssaioT ,
fdi Cambridge and intermediate sIatlohs ~ lilo
AZ - week. days and on Tuesdays, Thursdays,ahd
Rnlsrdays 7.U5 D. IN. Returning, leave CamOf ieSe
eeDa m and on Tuesdays, Thursdays ana sat
orlAYs S47 p. m.
coNEEcTIoN AT PorIer, with Newark Del
s,4tre CITY Railroad AT Townsend, with queen
A1ne 3 Kent Railroad. At Clayton, WIN Dei-
araru n Chesapeake Railroad aud balt''9te x
Naiaware Bay Railroad. At Harrington win
Dshware, Maryland & Virginia Railroad. AT
ntaford with Cambridge y y Afford Railroad. Al
Ds|mar, with New YORK, Philadel -nla y Norioik
WltomcO q POcOmOke. aud Peninsula Railroads
s. NJ, PROVOST, General Maj a4er.
uOOB Ganaral PASSENGER ARant
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TD8IIy. sDaIly tAUeVI ouuuaJ
say stops 70 leave passengers from Wilmington
ma poipts north, OF take passengers Tor points
south Of Delmsr'
KEW CASTLE ACCOMMODATION TRAINS; =
1-nva Wilmington - ID a. m. and 9.el D m daily
rnd sis, II is a. M. $50. 4'SO, 6l5, and B5S p m;
meek- dave Leave New Castle $50 u III. ana
1n.ls D. m. daily, 6.3l, 9.l5. ll.u2 am. LIS
Ia, ga and 1872 PIN. week days.
Fxpress trains leaving Harrington sos a, m,
ead arriving at ga p. m, weekdays, run tnreug1
eolid to and from Baltimore, Via Porter anu
Nawark.
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Again, by this national ceremony we
mean the future defense Of this nation.
BY every wreath Of flowers on the soldiers
graves we say, 'Those who die for tho
country shall not DO forgotten, and that
will give enthusiasm to our young men in
case our nation should in the future need
to defend itself in battle. We shall never
have another war between north and
south. The old decayed bone of conten-
tion American slavery, has been cast out,
although here and there q depravpd poll
tioan takes 1t up to see If he can't gnaw
something off it. We are floating off far
ther and farther from the possibility Of
sectional strife
No possibility Of civil war. But about
foreign invasion am not so certain. When
I spoke against war l said nothing against
self defense. An inventor told mo that he
had invented style Of weapon which
could be used in self Defense but not in
aggressive warfare. l said, "When you
get tho nations to adopt that weapon, you
have introduced the millennium" have
no right to go on my neighbours premises
and assault him, but If some ruffian break
into my house for tho assassination Of my
family, and l can borrow gun and load
It in time and aim it straight enough
win shoot him.
There is no room on this continent for
any other natiOn--except Canada, and a
better neighbor no one ever had. If you
don't think SO, go to Montreal and Toron-.
to and sec how well they will treat sou.
Other than that there is absolutely no
room for any othor nation. l have been
across tho continent again and again, and
know that we have not half inch Of
ground for the equity foot of foreign des-
potism 20 stand on. But l am not so surq
that some Of the arrogant nations Of Europe
may not some day challenge us. do not
know that tiosc forts around New York
lay i.re 10 sleep all through the lie xt cen
fury. do not know that Barnegat light-
house will not yet look of upon a hqstila
navy. I do not know but that o bali 4ozeR