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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1896-02-11
CALL 1T WHAT YOU PLEASE.
BARGAIN OR ANY OTHER
KIND OF A SALE.

KIND OF A SALE.
You can depend on this one fact
the lowest prices in this city.
Perhaps you ask-whau kind OF
goods2 Why, the brightest and
freshest.
Bear in mind-almost the entire
stock was made for this winters
Think of It. All-wool Storm Over
coats for a..
Meas Suits formerly es now s..
Mems Suits formerly $40 new $50.
Mems suits formerly Sl2 now So.
Mems Suits formerly Sl5 now $40.
Boys Refers formerly SO now 81.
Boys Reefars formerly 50 ana 50
Mems Overcoats formerly So now
Mems Fine Overcoats formerly $40
now 81.
MEMS Finest Overcoats formerly
SIS. SIS and so now SIP.
Germania Chinchilla Overcoats for
merly SIG now SO.
Meas Trousers at great reductions.
Children's Knee Pants 80 cents,
worth so cents.
All Neckwear 2Dc.
BOYS CLOTHES-You1l get them
for less money than ever. Have you
seen what we're doingY Have you
seen how we need room for greatly
increased business? Are you sur
prised We make such low pricesl
Bows Splendid Suits Sl.50, 81 and
81 80
store closed evenings at O'Clock
except Saturday.
Strictly one price ard II dlssatis-
fed with your purchase we will re-
turn your money.
Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1896-02-11

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WILMINGTON FURNITURE
STORAGE EXCHANGE,

STORAGE EXCHANGE.
All kinds Of Furniture bought, sold and ex-
changed. Stoves and heaters repaired, oil,
gas and gasoline stoves called for, thoroughly
ovsrbRuled and returned at q moderate cost
BiDVee taken down, stored for the season and
nut up in the fall Address or call,
1905 ORANGE STREET. WILMINGTON, Del.
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The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-08-08
HELEN,

Do you know since first met you,
Helen dear,
I've been powerless to forget YOU
Want you near?
That l cannot live without you?
There's a certain charm about you,
Causing me TO never doubt you,
Which is queer,
Since so many girls have told me
They'd be true,
And as regularly sold me
Not like you,
Who've been faithful to me ever,
Never sought our love to sever,
But with every fond endeavor,
Dearer grew.
Many times and oft, I've held you
On my knee,
Yet 1 never have compelled you
There to be:
Though l often used TO kiss you,
And when far away would miss you;
/ am certain that in this you
VIII agree
That you sanctioned such caresses
AS were those,
Yet their naughtiness no less is,
/ suppose.
If Dame Rumor would but drop her
Sly remarks-but 1 can stop her,
You're my daughter; SO it's proper
Now she knows.
Good Housekeeping.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-08-08
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

School directors in the district Of
Tuverne, Ia, have ordered cyclone
cave dug at each of the schoolhouses in
the district.
1t is said that there are only two
words in the English language that con-
tain all the vowels in their order. They
are "abstemious" and "facetious."
The archbishop of London esti-
mates the contribution of churchmen
10 religious objects during the last 25
years as amounting to about S4OO,O00,-
OOO. Over S1O5,O0O,O 900 has been spent
on elementary education.
Some idea of the amazing growth
of our universities is furnished by the
statement that nearly 1,2O0 students
have presented themselves for this
years examination for admission to
Yale alone; the prosperity of Yale is no
exception to the general rule.
Prince Nillita, of Montenegro, has
sanctioned the building of Roman
Catholic church at Cettinje, and will
himself supply the greater part of the
money needed. The church will be for
about $50 Albanians, Turks and Aus
trians who reside in the town, as no
Montenegrin is Catholic.
The Presbyterian church has made
wonderful progress in every Christian
country in the world during the CEN
fury that is nearly gone. The United
States 100 years ago Presbyterianism
held the eighth place among the evan
gelical denominations. To-day it is the
fourth largest body in this country.
Father Mortara, a regular canon of
st. Augustine, who has just been ap-
pointed to the charge of the Hospice of
the Great st. Bernard, is said to be the
Edgar Mortara whose kidnapping in 1858
by the archbishop of Bologna set all
Europe in a ferment. The child of jew
ish parents, he was alleged to have been
baptized by maid servant, and the
Church of Rome claimed him. Neither
Lord John Russell, nor the archbishop
of Canterbury, nor Sir Moses Monte
fore, who went to Italy for the pur-
pose, succeeded in obtaining his re-
lease.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-08-08

Astronomers are not yet all agreed as
70 the causes of the variations of color
and brilliancy which are exhibited by
many stars. In the constellation Ce-
pheus, in the northern sky, there is q
star named Delta Cephei, which in the
course of about three days alternately
gains and loses large part of its light.
The spectroscope has proved that Delta
Cephei consists of two stars revolving
around one another in a very elliptical
orbit, although they never get far
enough apart to be separately visible
from the earth. Even when viewed with
q telescope their light is blended into
a single star disk, although if we could
go near enough to them we should find
that they are, in reality, millions of
miles apart. When brightest, the united
light of the twin stars is two or three
times greater than when faintest. One
of the explanations recently offered BY
astronomers to account for these
changes is that one of the stars compos-
ing Delta Cephei has very thick at
mospheric veil, consisting of clouds OF
eoHuehSou AleIdIlic 'dpoTs, anu tnSt
when the stars draw near one another
in their orbital motion the increase of
heat dissipates the obscuring veil, and
permits the star to which it belongs to
shine with a splendor that it cannotob-
tain when its rays are interrupted oy its
envelope of clouds. 1t is hard 20 be-
lieve that the inhabited worlds could ex-
ist in the neighborhood of such pair
of suns as that.-Youth's Companion.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-08-08
HUMOROUS

-"When I'm a man" began Bobbie,
"What will you do?" asked his mother.
'I'n name my boy after pepper, and
my! how I'll spank hin!"-Harper's
BaZar.
What would you say" she asked
her dearest friend, ''if 1 told you was
engaged to the .count?" I'm sure |
don't know" replied the dearest friend
absent-mindedly, because / never did
think much of his taste."-Chicago
Post.
William" She said,
will you do something that is for your
own good" what is it?" 81 want you
to give up smoking. You are simply
running your health and my lace cur
tains. s."-Washington Star.
-Wraggles-"Well,A Adam was lucky
man." Barker-"In what particular
way?" Wraggles-"He didn't have to
prance around the garden like blamed
idiot holding Eve on a hundred-dollar
bike. Plain Dealer.
Young Medical Student Ito charity
patient)-'I-I think you must have
sohC hH'u VI ia IeNer, OuI OaH
class has only gone as far as convuls-
ions. I'll come in again in a week, when
we get to fevers. ."--Tit-Bits.
That's a curious typographical
error" said Mrs. Partridge. The titla
of this new book is printed The Viking
Age" We'll, why not?" asked Part
ridge. "What ought it to be ?" "Why-
Biking, oughtn't it?"-Tit-Bits.
-Tramp-'Want your grass cut,
NUM-" Lady-''No; no one cuts their
grass at this time of year." Tramp
well, I'll contracll for next year"
Lady-'Mercy! 1 may be dead by that
time" Tramp-"Pll contrack to see
that your grave is kept green."-N. Y.
Herald
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-08-08
PhotoRraphing Thought,

Thought has been photographed by
DR.. Baraduc, a Roumanian; at least
that is W hat he tells the Paris Academic
de Medicine, backing up his assertion
by many photographs. These are said
to be rather cloudy. though a few are
distinct, representing persons and
things. The method employed is for
the person whose thought is to be
photographed to enter a dark room.
place his hand on a Photographic plate.
and think intently on the object to be
reproduced. DR.. Baraduc asserts that
it is possible 10 produce Photographic
image at a great distance. and instances
the case of DR.. Istrate and Mr.. Hasdeu
DIR. Istrate, before going to Campina,
$50 miles from Bucharest, told his
friend, Mr.. Hasdeu, that he would ap-
pear on one of his Photographic plates
in Bucharest. On n specified night Dir.
Hasdeu went to bed at Bucharest with
a Photographic plate at his feet and an
other at his head, while DIR. Istrate went
to bed at Campina, willing with all mis-
might that mis- image should appear on
his friends plate. Persons who have
seeen the plate say that there is on it
luminous spot in the middle OF which
mans profile can be mede out.--Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-08-08
ST. PETERS EVE.
Pope Leo Goes to Pray at the Tomb of
the Chief Apostle.


From time immemorial the well con-
tanning the marble staircase which
| leads down to the tomb of st. Peter
has been called the Confession" The
word, believe, is properly applied to
the altar-rail, from the ancient prac-
tice of repeating there the General Con-
| fession Immediately after receiving the
communion, a custom now somewhat
modified. But 1 may be wrong in Civ
ing this derivation. Indeed, 4 mar
hle balustrade follows the horseshoe
shape of the well, and upon it are placed
9j gilded lamps, which burn perpetual
ly. There is said to be no special sig
nfficance in the number, and they pro-
duce very little effect by daylight.
But on the eve of ST. Peters day, and
perhaps at some other seasons, the pope
has been known to come down to the
church by the secret staircase leading
into the Chapel of the Sacrament, to
pray at the apostles tomb. On such
occasions few great candlesticks with
WAX torches are placed on the floor of
the church, two and two, between the
chapel and the confession. The pope,
attended only by a few chamberlains
and noble guards, and dressed in the
customary white eassock, passes swift
j. along in the dim light and descends
the steps of the gilded gate beneath the
high altar. A marble pope kneels there
too, Plus VI, of the Braschi family,
his stone draperies less white than
Pope Leo's cassock, his marble face
scarcely whittier than the living pontiff's
alabaSter features.
Those are sights which few are priv
ileged TO see. There is a sort of CEN
tralization of mystery, if one may
couple such words, in the private pill
grimage of the head of the church to
the tomb of the chief apostle, by night,
or the eve of the day which tradition
has kept as the anniversary of st. Pc
ter's martyrdom from the earliest
times. The whole Catholic world, if it
might, would follow Leo NH. down
those marble steps, and 2OO,OO0,OOO
voices would repeat the prayer he says
alone.
Many and solemn scenes have been
acted out by night in the vast gloom of
the enormous church, and if events do
not actually leave an essence of them
selves in places. as some have believed,
yet the knowledge that they have hap
pened where we stand and recall them
has mysterious power to thrill the
Lcart.-Martin Crawford, in Century.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-08-08
WONDERS OF BIRD MIGRATION.
Some Fly During the Day and Others at
Night.

The manner of travel differs greatly
among the birds. Nearly everybody
has seen or heard the flocks of wild
geese passing over in the night, max
ing tremendous leaps, so to speal-,
across the country on their way south.
That the shore birds bound to Pata-
gonia travel in like fashion has already
been told. Probably the great majority
of birds travel south in great f]ocks
at tremendous height from the earth.
They are thus able in pleasant weather
at least to see the landscape and SO di-
rect their way unvaryingly. In storms
and fogs they lose their way, become
confused, plunge about among the tres
tops, fly through the streets of cities
and dash themselves to death against
the windows of lighthouses. To my
mind this gathering of timid birds like
the thrush-birds that live the sum-
mer through close to the ground and
are never seen 100 feet above the soil
the gathering, 1 say, of birds like these
in great focks that go careening high
III air for vast distances over the land
DS hiSH1 10 lHC SIStiCSb HIdINtl VI IlI-
grafton. 1t seems q matter of course
that swallows should do so, for they are
tireless.
On the other hand there are birds
that are seen by day in "a ceaseless tide
of migration" They pass leisurely
from tree to tree, cleaning as they CO."
says one observer writing on the char
acteristics of warblers. 1t is worth not
ing that the birds who migrate in this
fashion are peculiar in their habits as
workers-they never waste any time in
play. The robins, the orioles, the bobo-
links make picnic excursion of their
annual flight, but the plodders of the
feathered race must needs carry their
knitting to camp meeting. 1t has been
supposed that the birds who migrate
by night do so to escape the attacks
Of predatory birds, but these plodding
migrants are quite as subject to at
taclls as any. Besides, on the clear
nights when the night flyers go they
are certainly subject to attacks from
owls. There are so many things we do
not know about the habits of birds
that it seems worth while to call atteii-
ton to points that may be disputed
in the hope that some who seek knowl-
edge out of pure love of it may turn
their attention to this most interesting
part of life in nature.--Colette Smiley
in Chautauquan.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-08-08
TO MEASURE A CORAL REEF.
The Object of an Expedition That Lately
Left Australia.

| An attempt is now being made, un-
der the auspices of the Royal society,
| to ascertain the actual thickness of a
coral reef. An expedition has started
from Sydney, in her majesty's ship Pen.
guin, in order to make deep boring
at Funafuti, one of the Ellice islands.
The idea was started five or six years
ago by Prof. Sollas, of Dublin, and after
| discussion at meetings of the British
association, was brought before the
government grant committee of this
Royal society last year, by whom it was
referred to the council of that society.
This body made application to the adj
miralty, who permitted her majesty's
| ship Penguin, now engaged in survey
ing in those seas, to convey the men,
ners of the expedition and their APP
paratus thither from Sydney, and to as
| sist them during the progress of the
| work.
The government of New South Wales,
on being approached by Prof. Stuart, of
the University of Sydney, and other men
of science in that place, have lent to the
expedition all the plant necessary for
boring and their own skilled workmen,
contributing to the payment of their
wages and in every way cordially CO.
operating. a sum of over e9OO has
been furnished by the Royal society,
from the government grant and other
sources. Prof. Sollas, with the other
members of the expedition, is now on
his way on board the Penguin to Funa-
futi. 1t is intended to make boring
into the atoll to depth of not less than
1000 feet, and to collect all the informa-
ton possible about the growth and
history of coral reef. On this subject
the examination, if no ill-fortune await
the expedition, can hardly fail to throw
much light, and to help in clearing up
controversy which has now been
waged for some time as to whether
Darwin was right or wrong in attrib'
uting atolls and barrier reefs to the
subsistence of an area on which cora!
was growing.-London Standard.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-08-08
INFLUENCE OF GLASS ON WINE.
A Singular and Almost Incredible Story
About Bottles.


Probably 80 persons out of every 100,
taken at random, would ridicuIe the
idea that the quality of the glass of
which bottle may be made can have
any influence on the taste or keeping
qualities of its contents. And yet that
it does do SO we have the best of evil
dence. We are not alluding TO the in
fiuence of light shining through TASKS
and its action on the substance con-
tanned, but the direct chemical reaction
occurring within the glass and the ma
terial within the flask.
Very recently the following case oc-
CURED in France: \ wealthy retired
merchant bought lot of very costly
and rar2 wine in casks, samples of the
wine from each cask being given him by
the wine merchant. The wine was de-
livered, and The new owner proceeded to
have it racked off and bottled. Some
time afterwards some of the wine was
brought to the table, and on tasting it
the host detected a strange, unpleasant
taste, which was also noticed by the
guests. a fresh bottle was found to be
similarly affected, and bottle after bot
tie was opened with the same result
An examination of the stock in the cell
lar developed the fact that every bottle
of the recent purchase was spoiled. 4
suit was brought against the wine mer-
chant, who declared that he had deliv-
cred the article exactly according to the
samples furnished. On examining
these latter they were found in excel
lent condition.
tits unnecessary to go into details, but
during the course of the action of the
law some of the bottles were produced
in court, when it was found that the
glass had become Opaque. The bottles
were handed over to a chemist, along
with one of the lot purchased for bot
Ting the wine, which had never been
used. This is what the chemist found
i'll the glass OF the unused bottle: Silicic
acid 52.4, potash and soda IA, lime 32.1,
argillaceous matter, iron, etc, Ill. In
the eXamina lion of the bottles that had
been used, while the silicic acid and
argillaceous material remained con-
start, or nearly so, the lime, potash and
soda were very much diminished, and it
was made evident that they had passed
into the solution, forming compounds
with the acid ingredients of the wine,
decomposing the latter and rendering
it unfit to drink.-Nationa Druggist.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-08-08
lary glance the rascal turned upon

nary glance the rascal turned upon
me.
well, of course, cases of hystericai
women having resources to such pieces
of imposture to gain certain ends are
common enough. But what could Miss
DevereuX have to gain" quoth he.
"'Ah, that is the interesting qoint,
and one firmly believe you to know
very great deal about
"I?' His eyes danced.
"'Yes, you
"'Oh. come, DOCTOR
Ills manner confirmed the fantastic
suspicion which had grated itself upon
NE.
Look here, young man. I ex-
claimed, thoroughly aroused, what
game are you playing?'
He broke into laugh.
"'Great heavens, doctor. don't scream
so! If you'll only keep still a moment
I'll tell you. But you must give me
your word first that you will not re-
peat
II shall promise nothing of the
sort" I cried. What preposterous piece
of imposture and tomfoolery is this?
wish to know. will be party to no
such scandal
eve had reached my own door, and
Haskins, hastily slipping his arm
through mine. dragged me within.
"'Now, I'll tell you,' he exclaimed.
breathlessly, ard half laughing still,
I'll count on your silence in spite of
your threats. Miss Devereux-'
"''What do you know of Miss Deve-
reuN"
Don't interrupt HE at every step"
he shouted. I'm in love with her
madly. passionately- and have been
ever since she first came here with
that old idiot of a father of hers three
months ago. l love her and she-she
loves me, l am not going to tell you
how we met first. 1t would take too
long. But Es-Afiss Devereux knew
very well that she could never get her
fathers consent to our marriage. [
should not wonder if the old dufrcr
thinks he will be able to buy up some
grand duke for her. Pshaw. Well,
the long and the short of the matter is
that Es-MisS DeverruX hit upon this
plan. Oh, she's a witch, can tell you:
When the game has been played long
enough | step in and cure her. Don't
you see? Great gratitude on the part of
the old men, paternal benediction, ETC.,
etc. See?'
"I see that you are a pair of dis
graceful young
"'Oh, no, doctor! Now, now. comet
he laughed. You know you'll stand
by us
"'And you and that previously de-
mure little maid were in collusion as to
the clairvoyance, the continued fasting
and all the rest of it?'
"Yes, yes! Come, acknowledge the
scheme was original at least! But it
has been played long enough. 1t must
stop now. Tomorrow | shall come
forward with a claim of having found
clew to Miss DevereuX's strange affec-
ton. Her amelioration will be miracu-
lousy rapid. l shall have established
a reputation for the greatest future
eminence in my future father-in-law'
sight, and'-hc broke into stentorian
laughter afresh and threw his arm
about my shoulder-'you, doctor, will
dance at our wcdding.'
What shall l tell you further. ladies?
l kept their secret after all. Miss
DevereuX grew steadily better, thanks
to young DIR. Haskins' medicines, and
now-they have, those two, been mar
ried nearly two years. boston Trav-
eler.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-08-08
CLEVER SAYINGS OF COL. NORTH
He Wanted Some New Words for His
Vocabulary.


The late Col. North, the nitrate king
had ready, if somewhat rough, style
of wit pecliar to himself. The trap in
which he was seated being on one occa-
sion blocked in a crowded thorough
fare in immediate juXtaposition to a
costermonger's cart laden with vege-
tables, the coachman, finding that the
horse was about to help himself to the
cabbages, would have backed the ami
NAL out of harms way.
Let him graze," said the colonel;
81 want to hear the man swear!" The
costermonger, turning his head around
at this moment, the colonels wish was
promptly gratified by an exceptionally
choice and extensive selection of ex-
pletives. "Bravo!" said North. as he
threw the man a coin that would have
more thar bought the whole cargo of
vegetables. Il thought 1 was pretty
well educated in your line myself, but
hang me if you haven't taught me four
new adjectives."
North, although fond of pictures, hated
what one calls ''doing galleries" Once,
being pressed to go and see a picture
after Rubens, he quickly replied:
after Rubens: Why, surely, Rubens
was the brute they were after last year
when you dragged me in here. Haven't
they caught the old cnss yet?" The
colonel loved children, but was not
wildly keen on kissing babies miscel-
laneously. Once, being implored by
handsome lady to kiss an exception
ally unwholesome-looking infant, of
which the mother stated herself TO be
the living image, well, here goes for
the image" said North, and he forth
with imprinted Il sounding kiss on the
fair mothers cheek-LOndon World
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-08-08

Jim Webster-Hain't seed yer in a
coon's age. Heard 5ofe yer fodder aud
yer mudder died. Am dat so?
Sam dohnsing (on the wagon)-Dat's
de fac. Dey's bofe dead.
What did yer git from 'em? Labe
yer much legacies?"
"Lemme see. From my fodder 1 got
a misery in de chest, an from my mud
der his heah lubly shaped mouf what's
talkin' ter yer."-Texas Sitter.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-08-08
Watar frnm Solid Rock.

A most interesting fact has been dis
covered by a Swedish scientist. 1t in
that water can be found by boring into
granite and other crystalline rocks to
a depth of 100 to 700 feet. A well was
sunk in the Island of Akro, eff the Swed-
ish coast, not long ago, and at depth
Of ITO feet fresh water was tapped, pro-
vieing an apparently inexhaustible sup
ply-ChicaRo Tribune.