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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

A lobster's legs, all told, are ten In
humber, but only eight of these are
largely used for walking. The front
pair, or big claws, have been specialized,
as in the crab, and most others of the
higher crustaceans, into prehensile or
gans for catching and crushing the prey.
Their use is obvious. Lobsters feed
largely off mollusks Of variors sorts and
other hard shelled marine animals. In
order to be able to break or crush the
shells Of these and so to get ut the soft
er flesh within they have acquired such
large and very muscular nippers or
pinchers. That is not oil, however. Not
only have the two front legs been differ
entiated and specialized from the eight
others in this manner, but also, by q
rare exception to the symmetry of the
body, the right claw has been special
lied from the left, each being intended
to perform distinct function. One is a
scissors, the other is mill; one is q
cutter, the other is cracker.
AS rule, the right claw is the slen-
derer and longer. It has toothlike pro-
jections or serrated edges on its nipping
faces, and it il rather adapted for Bit
ing and severing than for crushing or
grinding. The left claw, OH the other
hand, is usually thicker, heavier and
rounder. It's muscles are more powerful,
and in place of sharp teeth it has blunt
tubercles or hammers of different sizes.
1t acts, in fact, more like nut cracker
than like teeth or a saw. II is a smash
ing organ. Nevertheless you will find
It interesting to observe, by noting the
Holsters served to you at table, that this
differentiation has hardly as yet become
quite constant, for sometimes 1t is the
right claw that displays the hammerlike
nut cracker type and the left that acts
as nipper and bitter, while sometimes no
difference occurs at all, both claws alike
being sharp toothed or blunt hammered
in the same specimen. n.-Longman' q
Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
Tho 7runtmanusdorf Fiddle.

The curious affection for old Cremona
violins, tenors and basses is by no means
a modern fancy. The Stradivarius vio-
lin. which my excellent father gave me
when was 10 years Of age, was priced
at 400 guineas in 1924. But, to go still
farther back. we We're told by the Eng,
lisa newspapers that in September,
17zS, there was sold by auction at Dres-
den the famous violin of Count Traut-
m&nnsdorf, grand equerry to the EN-
peror Charles VI, which he had pur-
chased direct from the celebrated Tyro-
lean maker, Jacob Stainer. He paid
him down in cash 70 golden crowns
and undertook to provide the xender as
long as he lived with good dinner
every day. Us well as 100 forms a
month in cash and every year q new
coat, with golden brandenburghs. two
casks Of beer. lighting and fuel, and.
in case he should marry. as many hares
as he might require, with 10 baskets
Of fruit annually for himself and as
many for his old nurse (housekeeper).
-Phipson.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
Modern Fire worship In Scotland.

Burghead, in Morayshire, is unique
in one respect. 1t has "the burning of
the clavie.'' This ceremony is gone
through every New Years eve, old
style. 1t is supposed to be relic Of
fire worship. There is now only one
other community, it is said, in Britain
where the practice is carried ON. The
clavie consists Of half an Archangel tar
barrel fixed on the top of a fir prop
about four feet long. The second half of
the tar barrel is broken up, put inside
and mixed with tar. A stone must be
used to knock in tho nail which con-
meets the pole and the barrel. The bro
ken bits in the barrel are then lighted
by means of burning peat, no such thing
as lucifer match being allowed.
For over 80 years the clavie has been
made by the same man, and one partic-
ular townsman has provided the Give"
peat for 40 years. In the dark winter
night the blazing thing is borne up one
street and down another at high speed
then carried TO the Doorie hill in
the middle of the village. Here the pole
is fixed on a short, strong column, and
the clavie burns out The women rush
in, and, picking bits of the now dying
olavie to keep the witches away" dis
appear into the darkness. - Glasgow
Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
NUMBER q.
The Magnetism OF Rome.

The attraction of such church az is
that of Rome is partially, 10 doubt, an
imaginative attraction, but not purely
one of the imagination. Even DIR. Mar
tineau, whose point of view has been so
different that he regards apostolic au-
thority itself as by no means final, has
described the Church of Rome as "the
missionary Of nations, the associate Of
history, the patron of art, the van
quisher Of the sword" And yet he
would admit no final authority at all in
the dogmatic decisions of church
which he SO describes and '%uld make
very light of his episcopal lineage
Newman and Manning were neither of
them overwhelmed by the more imagi-
native grandeur Of tho church 8 history.
But they both came to believe that no
one generation Of Christians could
rightly emancipate themselves from the
guidance of all previous generations of
Christians on the strength of new
study Of the Scripture or q just indigna-
tion at the depth Of some of the prac-
tical corruptions Of the church.
They were i'm search Of an authority
at once in lineal connection with the
church of the apostles and full of visi-
BILE life and energy at the present day.
They thought that the Anglican church
could hardly claim anything like con-
tinuity with the church Of the apostles,
and that the Greek church could hardly
claim sufficient independence Of state
life, or, indeed, sufficient vitality and
energy, to mark it out az an institution
of the first order of originality and in
fluence at the present day. London
Spectator.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
Jay Gould's Nemesis.

am seated before blazing fire in
the library of a man / Sc, at "a glance is
a book loving as well as book owning
man. Near me, by the center table, Jay
Gould is seated in low chair. The
shaded lamp throws food of light on
book he holds, and also shows in re-
Lief against the background of shadow
his clear cut features. 1t is the face of
a student, and az he turns TO answer
some questions I have asked about the
book find the happiest expression rest
ing on that face. The dark eyes are
brimming over with that thoughtful
look which shows free mind and o
happy moment. Then suddenly spasm
Of pain distorts the face, the eyes close,
the book falls from n nerveless hand.
For moment he seems to suffer the
torture of the damned Then he pulls
himself together, begs to be excused.
and then goes slowly up the broad stair
way, TO pass night Of anguish.
His Nemesis has struck home--neu.
ralgis, which has travelled with him 40
years--an enemy which all his wealth
could not bribe had claimed its pound
Of flesh. When heard of how he died
turned his face to the white wall, whis-
pered ~ am so tired, tired" and then
slipped into the unknown-this scene
came back to me with new meaning
Gould grabbed for Rold--got it. And
that was all he did get out of life. -
Cornhill Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
Teaching Them English.

The simple and effective method Of
teaching English to the children of Ital-
ians, Portuguese, Polish and German
Jews used in the north end schools of
Boston might profitably be adopted by
other cities which are obliged to face
the fact that within their borders are
thousands Of foreign children who know
nothing of the customs, institutions or
language of this country. A writer in
the Boston Transcript thus describes the
method:
The children, within few days after
their arrival, are sent to the public
schools, as a rule without compulsion,
and here they are first of all taught the
English language. 1t Is done by sys-
tenn of object lessons The teachers in
the elementary rooms are young women,
as men would not be patient enough to
accomplish the best results.
The teacher may point to her eye and
say, "This is my eye, repeating it sew
eral times and requiring the pupils to
repeat it in unison. Other portions Of
the body are pointed out in similar
manner, and then familiar objects in
the room are in the same way brought
to the attention Of the children.
Later. when they have made sufficien
progress in the language, it becomes de-
sirable to teach the different lenses. To
accomplish this. q boy or girl is directed
to run slowly round the room, when the
teacher and children say in unison,
"That boy is running" repeating the
sentence several times. The boy ia then
told TO halt, and the teacher and pupils
say IA unison, THAT boy did rum"
again. THAT boy is standing still,
''That boy can run" ''ThAt boy is
walking" "That boy walks fast, ""I
can walk. ""I can rum, az did walk"
etc.
These and other sentences. as they
are spoken. are written ON the black
board by the teaohar. and the pupils
write them ON their states. Tins they
are taught the language and taught to
spell. read and write almost simnltane-
ously.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
LUClEN BONAPARTE'S SONS.
rhey Were nm Energetic Lot, but Had
Few other Good Qualities.

Prince Lucien Bonaparte was the best
Of the four sons of Lucien l. The others
made the states of the church too hot to
hold them. All had impetuous, master
full tempers and literary and arch@olog-
ical tastes. In different ways each con-
trived 20 bleed the late emperor Of mon
ey. They wore brought up at Muignano
among the Etrurian remiins which
their father disenterred during more
than 30 years, to the enrichment Of
most of the great museums of Europe.
Pierre and Antoine lived like ban
ditti, carrying off women and shooting
the men who went to stop or came to
arrest them. Pierre fired his final shot
at Victor Noir, at Auteuil, and killed
him. The eldest. whom remember as
Prince Of Musignano, was married to a
daughter of his uncle Joseph. He re-
volted against the pope, was president
Of the Roman constituent, and such
violent domestic tyrant that his wife
ran away to Paris to supplicate the en-
peror to protect her and her son-the
future cardinal.
The Prince Of Musignano met this by
threatening to publish certain papers Of
the first Lucien proving over and over
again the dishonor Of Josephine and
Hortense. Louis Napoleon bought these
documents at his cousins price. The
death Of the wife, Zenaide, put an end
to the feud. The late Prince Lucien,
who obtained civil list pension Of
e250 a year-about the fourth of the en-
tire fund-fgured in Paris during the
second republic as an ultra Liberal. He
played this card until he got a large
sum of money and senatorship. This
post was honorary, as he had to live out
of France.
Antoine, the youngest of the four
brothers, led a charmed life. His life
was spared by the pope at the supplica-
ton of Lady Dudley Stuart and her
mother. The papal government banished
him, and he went to Greece, where he
got into another serious scrape. In New
York he had the narrowest escape Of be-
ing lynched for forgetting that he was
not at Musignano. Thence he went to
Mexico and Panama, with scheme in
his head that he and Louis had talked
over at Bordentown for making an in
teroceanic canal. He laid the egg at
Columbia (?) which his cousin Luciei
Wyse and De Lesseps Matched 10 years
ago. Thus, had the man sent to arrest
Antoine shot, instead of being shot by,
him, the Panama bubble would not
have been inflated in our time. Paris
Letter in London Truth.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
A Waning Custom.

"Do you notice how much the prac.
tice Of carrying the hands in the pocket
has been given up by all classes of men
within the last few years?" asked the
literary man. ut was never good form,
but still you would often see it. think
the newsboys are responsible for the.
change. Put your hand in your pocket
as you stand for an instant ON the street
some day and see if you don't agree
with me. If you are anywhere in the
lower or central portion of the city there
will be from one to dozen or more
newsboys in sight. Every one of them
will notice the motion of your hand in
your pocket, and if one is looking in
mother direction he is attracted by the
rush Of his fellows, and you are sur
rounded by a struggling mass of boys,
and as many papers as there are urchins
are thrust into your face. 1t is dam
gerous thing to put your hand to your
pocket unless you are willing to have
your progress delayed for a minute or
two. New York Times,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

The compass plant is one Of the odd
est creations Of the vegetable king
dom 1t derives its name from the fact
that its leaves always point directly
north and south. So II you are out ON
western prairie and lose your way
just look for one of these plants and re-
member that they always point in the
directions indicated Botanists call
this curious plant Selphium lsoinia-
tum. 1t is unpretentious in appearance
and bears yellow flowers that are not
unlike field daisies. 1t has q remark
ably thin leaf. 80 thin a. to be notice.
able even to the untutored eye The
compass plant 10 really western
flower and IL indigenous to the prairies
Of that section
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
An Important Question.

II your friends or neighbors are suffer-
ing from coughs, colds, sore throat, or
any throat or lung disease Including
consumption), ask them il they have
ever used Otto's Cure. This famous
German remedy is having large sale
here and is performing some wonderful
cures Of throat and lung diseases.
Reynolds Drug Store will give you a
sample bottle free. No matter what
other medicines have failed to do, try
Otto's Cure. Large Sizes 25c. and SOC.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
WORDS WITHOUT A RHYME.
English Language Contains Several which
Are Hard to Ron Against.

There are dozen words in the Eng
lish language in everyday use for
which enterprising people have de-
SPARED of ever finding a rhyme. The
word month, for example, il one of
these. "Silver" Is word it seems
very easy to secure q rhyme for, but as a
matter of fact, trying to find something
to rhyme with "silver" nearly drove
London writer Of verse insane long ago.
As a last resort he advertised In the
newspapers and received but one reply.
II came from the master of verbal con-
tortion, w. s. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sui
livan's erstwhile partner, who submit
ted the word "chilver." He wasn't
quite clear, he said, as to what n chill
yer might be, but he had seen the word
in advertisements of sales of farm stock
and had an idea, which is correct, that
1t described species Of sheep.
"Orange" is another word without
rhyme "Gulf" is also without an Eng
lish partner, and "culm" and "cusp"
are alike solitary. Many poets who have
sought in vain for rhymes to revenge"
and "avenge" will not be appeased
when they learn that but two exist
"penge" and "Stonehenge. " "Coif"
is now, happily for versifiers, growing
obsolete, for there is no word which
rhymes with it, "Scarf" has been dar-
ingly linked at the end Of line with
"half" or "calf," but this is practice
to be discouraged. "Scalp" rhymes only
with alp" but, like babe" and
"astrolabe, it would require much in
genuity TO find an excuse for bringing
these words into juxtaposition. False"
has ON several occasions. by an abuse Of
poetic license, been associated with
"valse, though the correct French pro-
nunciation Of the latter word would de.
stroy the rhyme.
OF the names of places the African
town of Timbuktu has long been fa-
nous for being without rhyme. The
nearest success that any poet has ever
attained in this respect was when In
some old verses describing desert hunt
"cassowary" was made to rhyme with
missionary" and "Timbuktu" witt
"thin buck too. New York Press
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
O'CONNELL'S ELOOUENCE.
Ho Had Some stereotypcd Ornaments
Which He Used Quite Freely.


Among the stereotyped ornaments of
his eloquence was a favorite reference
to "the majestic mountains and fertile
valleys of green Ireland" Once at
Athlone, in the very center Of the fiat
test part Of Ireland, he exclaimed in the
peroration Of patriotic speech, Look
around, my friends, ON the majestic
mountains" etc. - compliance with
which request would have severely tested
the optics of his audience.
Another time, when boasting at the
Corn Exchange of the great attendance
at meeting he had recently addressed
at Kilkenny, he Outdid Falstaff's 1 / men
in buckram somewhat after the follow
ing fashion: He began by stating the
numbers present at the meeting at 50,-
900. land who will deny" he contin-
ued, THAT the cause must be important
and the purpose strong that could as
semble together these 80, 900 men? Let
no pan say that they gathered merely
from a feeling Of personal regard or
curiosity ON my account. 1t would be
absurd to suppose that 100, 900 men
would leave their homes to look at an
elderly and rather corpulent gentleman.
No, sir, when that peaceful army Of
$50, 600 Irishmen congregated round
me, their presence spoke, trumpet
tongued, their firm resolution never to
desist from the struggle until Ireland
should have her own parliament again.
'And their multitudinous masses
were as orderly and pacific as they were
resolute and determined. Oh, with
what unspeakable delight do recognize
in the conduct Of those 200. 900 noble
fellows" etc And thus sailed along,
upborne upon the swelling tide of his
imagination, each sentence adding at
least $4,000 to the previous amount
until at last he arrived at, think,
800, ,00o.-Newcastle (England) Chron-
icle.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
VOLUME ).
Ratlrcuo Ttmr Cables.
O-S~SO-~ON-O-O4c4cDO~rN~N NNNN~N~N~0O0-oO0NNO0~N
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
IN EFFECT JUNE II, 1896.

Philadelphia 4 Erie Railroad Division Time
Table Trains ieaye S,, nriity2od'
a:Oi a m-Train s, daily except Sunday for
snnbury Harrisburg and interneais'e ~, = sta- "a
New York, 0:23 y. m; Baltimore, 500 y. MI
Washington, 7:l5 y. m Pullman Parlor car
from Willinmsport and passenger coaches
3:5s D. m.-Train 8, daily except Sunday for
Harrisburg and intermediate statlons, ar
irving at Philadelphia 4:O A. NJ; New YORK,
1893 4, NJ. Pullman Sleeping cars from
Harrisburg TO Philadelphia and New York.
Philadelphia passenger can remain III
sleeper undsturbed until 200 Al
p:a5 y. m.-Trnn 4, daily for Sunbury, Harris
burg and intermediate stations arriving az
Philadelphia, 6;52 A. MI New YORK v;55
day; baltimore, $500 A. NJ; Washington, 7:iO
AN. Pullman cars from Erie and Williams iinunsr
omSs g. PhadepnS in w sGepSss pSs
transferred into Washington sleeper nt Har-
risburg. Passenger coaches from Erie TO
Philadelphia and Williamsport to Balti-
more.
WESTWARD
v:2t q. m.-Train 1, daily except Sunday for
Ridgway, Dubois, Clermont and Inter
mediate stations. Leaves Ridgway at S;i0
$3.50 n. m.--Train 3. daily for Erie and inter-
mediate points.
5:26 D. m.--Train II, daily except Sunday for
Kane and intermediate stations.
THROUGH TRAINS FOR DRlFTWOoD
FROM THE EAST AND SOUTH
TRAIN II leaves Philadelphia s;23 4. M!
Washington, 1904. NJ; Baltimore, $3.50 4; NJ;
Wilkesbarre, 1918 A. NJ; daily except sum
day arriving at Driftwood st 5:26 T.. NJ with
Pullman parlor ear from Philadelphia 20
Williamsport
TRAIN leaves New York at s p. M; Pllla-
delphia, II 30 p. M. Washington, 10, 40 %. m.
Baltimore, 1850 p. M; daily arriving at
Drlftwocd at $3.50 "a. m. Pullman sleeping
cars from Philadelphia to Erie and from
Washington and Baltimore TO Williamsport
and through passenger coaches from Phila-
delphia to Erie and Baltimore TO Williams
port
TRAIN leaves Remove At $3.50 n. M, daily
except Sunday, arriving at Driftwood 7;2i
a. m.
JORNSONBURG RAILROAD.
DAILY except Sunday.)
TRAIN 40 leaves Ridgway at g:20 n. NJ; John
sonburg at 0:3s n. m, arriving at Clermont
at l0:85 n, m.
TRAIN 20 leaves Clermont at 10i5 a. m. ar
riying at Johnsonbvrg AT l1:4l d. m and
A Ridgway at 1900 n. m.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
A Short Cut to Health.

To try to cure constipation by taking
pills is like going round in a circle.
You will never reach the point sought,
but only get back to the starting point.
A perfect natural laxative Is Bacon's
Celery King, the celebrated remedy for
all nerve, blood stomach, liver and
kidney diseases. II regulates the
bowels. Reynolds Drug Store will give
you sample package free. Large
sizes 25 cents and 80 cents.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

A good story of the late Princess
Alice has come out on the occasion Of
the striking Of medal for the fishermen
at Ushant She once visited the mint
unexpectedly at time when some
medals were being made for noncom-
questioned officers of the army. While
she was being shown through the build
ing, the officials thought it would be a
neat thing to stamp her name and the
date on one of the medals and present it
to her. She accepted the gift and then
burst out laughing. The inscription
reads, "For long service and good con.
duct. "
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
A woman's Criticism,

The woman who writes became sar-
castle in speaking of another woman
who not only writes, but who publishes
"She is very versatile" an admirer
had remarked.
"Um-yes. But l think she misap-
plies her talents.
''In what way?'
"Her cookbook reads like works of
fiction, and her works of fiction read like
cookbooks. "--Washington Star.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
Tho Fatal Horse and Wagon.

If the statistics oi accidents could bo
collected, it would li al! probability be
shown that the mos; ,,ngerous way of
travelling is with horae and wagon. We
believethere is authority for stating that
in proportion to the numbers Of people
travelling in various conveyances horses
and wagons kill more people than steam.
boats or railroads or trolley cars or BIZ
cycles. es.-Poughkeepsie Eagle
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

DR.. Coke, at one time chaplain Of
Greenwich hospital. was, according to
James Payn, "a churchman of the
tawny port wine school," When called
in to minister to one of the patients on
his deathbed and finding him perturbed
rs to his ghostly welfare, he comforted
him by saying: Don't concern yourself
about that. my dear fellow. That's my
affair.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

Upper - How wonderfully cheap
clothing is getting to bel Trousers have
come down one-half.
Chipper-Yes, just about one-half.
Since this bicycle craze they only come
down to the knees. Richmond Dis.
patch.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
Greek Fire.

Greek fire, which had several other
names-wild fire. liquid fire, wet fire
and fire rain-descriptive of its destruc-
tiveness. is said to have been the most
destructive engine of war previous to
gunpowder. Discovered by Callinicus.
a Syrian, it was first used in the siege
of Constantinople, 67S-S, and at Mecca.
600.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

An evidence Of the striking uniform.
ity OF size among the Japanese is found
IN the fact that recent measurements
taken Of an infantry regiment show nc
variation exceeding two inches in height
or 20 pounds in weight.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

In lS42 fire broke out in Hamburg
which soon passed beyond the control
OF the firemen. consumed large por-
tion Of the business quarter Of the town
and occasioned loss Of &35, 900. 900.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.

The best salvc in the world forcuts, Bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt thcum, fever sores, letter,
chappcd hands chilblans, cOrns, and all skin
eruptions, and positively cures piles or no
pay required. II Is guaranteed TO give perfect
satisfaction or money refunded. Price q
cents per box. For sale by II. Alex. stoke.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

Oh, guard thy rowing thoughts with
Jealous care. for speech Is but the dial
plate Of thought, and every fool reads
plainly in thy words what Is the hour
Of thy thought t-Tennyson.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

All patents are assignable by law,
and an interest in patent may be as.
signed A. easily ~ the whole
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-09-30

The eldest sons Of knights Of the gar.
tor pecede eldest Aons Of taropeta