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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1896-07-10
Mitchell at Madison Chautauqua

The university class gave an exhibi
tion at the Madison Chautauqua Friday
evening and in speaking Of the efforts
made by the class the Madison Sentine
says as follows:
A dozen representatives OF the schoo
of oratory of the Mitchell University
led by their director Miss Chandler
gave an entertainment Friday evening
that surpasses in many respects any
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1896-07-10

Work was commenced this morn
ing on an artesian we'll at the Catholic
cemetery and when a good supply of
water is obtained they hope to be able
to make some good improvements on
the grounds.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
The Plunge of a Glacier.

The fall of glacier in tho Bernese
Overland last autumn, from an attl'
tute of 1928 feet above eea level, IS
thus described by Engineering: The
whole mass, estimated to be holt as
large again as the largest of the pyra-
mids OF Egypt, leaped down 1900 feet
to the bottom of the valley, then up
1900 on the side, and back into the
valley just far enough not to destroy
the watercourse through it. 1t ap-
pears to have jumped the water.
course, moving as o solid mass Ii
took only about twenty seconds in Its
first downward plunge, ten in its leap
upward and ten in falling back, 50
that at the end Of forty seconds the
mass had changed its place from nea-
the top of the mountain to the farther
side OF tho valley, where it buried
nearly ono square mile of rich pasture
to the depth of six feet. A similar ice
avalanche is recorded as having oc
CURED at the same spot on the same
day OF the year in 1872.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
The Cleveland Plaindenler says that

The Cleveland Plaindenler says that
yourg bachelor OF Buffalo recently
gave.a bachelors dinner to eighteen
of his friends. All the details were of
the most lavish description, and to
wind up with the host had prepared o
dozen and half of lamplighters, each
made from 8 twisted one dollar bill.
These were placed alongside Of each
plate in readiness for the passing OF
the cigars. But the fates had better
use in store for these twisted ones.
Long before the cigars were reached
the guests had toyed with small bot
Ties until they couldn't tell O lamp
lighter from q corkscrew. Then it
was the turn of the willy walters.
Skillfully removing the precious
lighters. they substituted matches at
every plate, and had the satisfaction
OF seeing the cigars go round without
anybody missing the bills.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
NAyAr jacket OF BLUE WOOL.

For yachting, boating, seaside or
ordinary country wear no other style
OF Jacket is half as fetching or nppro-
pirate with sailor hat as. the one de-
lineated in the second large picture.
Navy blue wool canvas cloth and white
duck are the materials sclected, the
vest and collar of duck being decorated
with rows of blue braid. Single bust
darts and under-arm cores perform
the smooth adjustment, the neck IS
finished with standing collar and the
lower edge is shaped in rounded out
line. The naval iacket is of fnshlona-
BILE length and flares widely in trout,
the broad sailor collar forming pointed
re7ers to the waist line. The duck
collar is removable and oyerlaps the
canvas collar to within On inch of the
edge. Two handsome white peart but
tons decorate each front. The back
and sides fit closely to the waist line,
falling below in ripping folds that
are induced by the shaping. The
sleeves are i'll gigot style, shaped by
single seams and ore OF fashionable
size, the fullness ut the top being ar
ranged in side plaits with single boz
phit at the top. Jackets in this style
can be made to match or contrast witt
the skirt and are adapted to tho linen,
cotton and WOODEN fabrics that are now
en- vogue for summer wear. Insertion,
embroidery, bins bands, braid oi
gimp can be used in decorating or d
plain finish can bo given if SO pre-
ferred.
The quantity CT material Al inches
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
ABYsSINIAN DwARFs.

civilized troops. They are Central
African dwarfs, and in the service OF
Vegus Tor Emperor) of Abyssinia as.
sisted in the rout Of the Italian troops.
These pigmies are scarcely more than
half the height of on ordinary man.
Despite their diminutive height, they
are fierce, cruel and cunning, end
armed with firearms are as formidable
as big men.
tits only within the past few years
that the existence OF these little people
has been generally accepted. Herodo-
tus, the Greek historian, wrote about
them, but he has been scoffed at and
his accounts characterized as fiction.
Du Chaillu aud other African ex-
plorers who claimed to have found tbe
pigmies in Central Africa had to- en-
counter just ms scoptical public.
Stanley's account OF the dwarf people
of the Dark Continent is tho first that
really gained gene al credence.
Akkas is the name given to these
curious little people, who arc supposed
to be the survivors of the aboriginal
inhabitants OF Central Africa. There
have been three Akkas brought to
Europe. Two were men. They were
called Lebo and Chairallah. The third
was lady Akka, named Saida.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
Picks Tacks Ont Of Tires.

Punctures are curious things. Some
people will go for months without hay.
ing one, while others seem to pick up
all the.nails, thorns ana other pointed
objects which ere lying about. We
had sudden turn of luck ourselves
one day recently, says writer on bi-
cycling, and got nail in both tires in
o, single ride, after having escaped for
some eight or nine months. Now,
these two punctures might have been
avoided by very simple device,
which We may call nail catcher. 1t is
simply piece of string, wire or cat
gut tied across the front forks and the
upper backstays, just above the tire,
but not quite touching it. We believe
there is now special curved catcher,
made with attachment clips. Now,
when nail or other object is picked
up by the tire it does not, as we have
previously said, at once penetrate the
cover and inner tube. SO that this
catcher at once picks it out again be-
fore any mischief is done.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
LAMPS AND SHADES,

Lar1ps grow more artistic every day,
md In most homes O standard lamp
for the floors seemsalmost necessity,
TIE lamp itself is nothing, but it Is
the shade which gives it beauty.
a most artistic shade is made OF
white satin. cut to plainly Sit the frame
and then painted with scenes or flowers
in transparent colors
Quite new ones are those made OF
plain muslin, one of plain yellow look
ing exactly like d huge yellow poppy
Plain silk shades, having wreaths OF
flowers as border, with soft, frayed
out frill beneath, are very dainty.
With the electric light most beauti-
full effects can be obtained, but is
should be kept in mind that pink is
the only shade that is becoming the
complexion when used over such
brilliant light
Many lamps that are made to fasten
10 the wall are in lantern form, with
frames of scrolled ironwork hanging
from an arm of the same. With amber
or pink colored hammered glass globes
they ore effective additions to din
ing.room OF o hall.-.Chiccgo Record.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05

4 Here is curious calculation as to
the amonnt of energy expended by q
person Weighing 16S pounds in climb
ing a mountain peak of 1000 feet
high, the time allowed for the ascent
being five hours. By careful calcula-
lion it is found that the total amount
of labor performed is equal to raising
1880, 900 pounds to the height OF one
foot or that OF raising one pound to q
height of 1890, 900 feet. OF this
enormous amount of work 1,176.Ooo
foot-pounds is expended by the mus.
cles of the legs in raising or lifting
the body; $4,000 by the heart in cir
culating tie blood; 10000 by the
chest in bl sathing and $4,000 in the
various exertions in balancing the
body, overcoming friction OF the
ground, etc.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
THE B1cYcIE A REFoRMER.

A New York minister of tho gospel,
active in temperance work, said at q
public meeting that the bicycle had
done more for the cause of sobriety
than anything else in the past twenty
years. Keep man in health and he
will care nothing for rum. BY the
way, talking about the bicycle as an
aid to moral reform movements, the
Salvation Army will have fully
equipped bicycle corps for suburban
service on wheels, and the plan of Or
ganizatlon for the new military body
within tho ranks Of the Episcopal
Church, which is 10 be known as the
United States Church Army, calls for
bicycle corps with each regiment.
which, in New York City, will assume
theproportions OF @ "bicycle brigade.
New York Journal.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05

York Journal, you will see the first
really life-like picture OF him ever
printed.
This little animal is relative of the
monkey. Naturalists give the name
of primates to the group of animals
consisting of man, tho monkeys and
The lemurs because they come first for
description. Of all the primates the
spectral lemur comes first for oddity
of personal appearance.
His greatest but not his only pecu.
liarity is to bo founi in his eyes,
which are enormous. They cover the
greater port of his face, leaving only
room for ridiculously small nose
ncolor the eyesare greenish yellow
and GRE exceedingly luminous at night
They shine out green and brilliant,
when the rest of the body Is totally
invisible to man. This is how the
little lemur has acquired the title OF
spectral.
Tho spectre is only six or seven
inches long and lives in the dense
forests of the Malay Archipelago,
where there Is darkness at all times.
He makes sort of meet at roots OF
the great bamboos and climbs up
them with tho agility of o squirrel,
but by o different method.
In his tree.climbing operations he
is aided by large, round suckers, which
are attached to the ends OF oil his long,
slender fingers and toes. He glides
up shiny bamboo trunk with oil the
easeimaginable.
He is thoroughly harmless and would
be an ornament to any household.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
1TlIOs. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR
NEW DEVICES AND INVENTIONS.

The latest device for the production
OF rubber tires, for which on American
patent has been secured, is officially
described Us "A protective covering
for pneumatic tires consisting of q
padding over the tire, circumferen-
tial spring-metal band lying upon eald
padding, and flexible metallic cloth
fitted over and surrounding said band
aud said padding and adapted to be
attached to the rim Of the wheel"
Nothing can stop the bicycle inven-
tor. His applications are received DIT
the rate of o hundred daily at WasA
ington, nnd already outnumber the
total of washing machines, churns and
automatic couplers for railroad cars.
He seemsto be filled with the idea that
o bicycle to he operated by hand in
stead of foot power is the real, origl-
nal, long felt want. Such machine
might be operated by the legless won
der of the dime museums, but what
any one else would want with 1t is aot
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
10 oooK THE SPRING oHIcKEE.

80
To many, spring chicken always sug.
zests q hSoiled cl,icken, mid this is
certainly delicious when raobod With
clarified butter and cooked over q ire
of clear GOALS, but there are other
ways of serving the young fowls that
are equally good. -
Southern fried chicken is famed,
and here is recipe that may veil
make tue mouth water. Cut up tw5'
drawn and picked chickens in this
manner: Lay them oG board, re-
move the feet, then cut off the wings
and legs, and last divide the breasts
and backs in halves. Roll these pieces
in -four aud dredso with pepper aud
salt. Have ready frying pan half
full Of boiling lard and into this drop
the portions of chicken. Fry nice
brown. Take up on heated platter.
md set to keep warm while cream.
gravy Ii prepared. Pour o teacupfni
of cream or rich milk into the frying
pan and thicken with q tablespoonful
Of flour and butter blended. Season
with salt. pepper and tablespoonful
of minced paraley. Allow it to come
to boil and pour over the poultry.
Garnish with sprigs of curled parsley.
Fried mush is often served with this
dish. !
Creole Fried Chicken-The Creolea,
who are fond of highly seasoned viands,
dip the pieces of chicken in an egg
batter to which have been added two
chopped tomatoes, one minced onion
| and little parsley, thyme. salt and
pepper. They ther fry 1t the same US
above and serve with tomato sance.
Steamed Spring Chicken--Split
! half grown fowl down the back and
rub with salt and pepper. Place in II
! steamer and steam an hour. Mean
while prepare sauce, using one pint
of cream, half pint of boiling water,
two tablespoonfuls OF flour, u table
spoonful OF cornstarch aud the same
! Of butter, seasoning with pepper aud
celery salt. Mix oil together and boil
! thoroughly. Pour over the chicken
Chicken in Viennese Style-With q
very sharp knife split two right young
fowls exactly In two parts. Rub the
halves with fresh salad oil and sprinkle
/ with salt and pepper. Then dip them
in beaten egg and roll in bread crumbs.
Slightly grease gridiron with C lit
tie suet and place over clear coal fire.
On this broil the chickens o fine
brown, turning often. Have at hand
four pieces of toasted bread on hot
dish and on these arrange the four
portions Of chicken. Pour over oil q
/ rich cream or white sauce.
! Chicken Gumbo-For this q young
chicken is cut up, rolled in -four and
fried in hot lard, together with few
slices of onion. Over it should then
be poured two cups of boiling water,
and it allowed to simmer ten minutes.
Drop in pod of red pepper, cook
until thick and then season with salt
and one tablespoonful OF butter.
Gumbo is served with boiled rice OF
stewed green okras.
Chicken pudding recalls old planta'
ton days. Cut up chicken and stew
tender. Season with salt and pepper.
Prepare a thick batter. Then butter
o pudding dish and in the bottom ar,
range layer Of the fowl and cover
with the batter. Then more chicken
and sbatter, alternately, until the re
ceptacle is full. Bake brown in tho
oven. Serve with butter sauce. New
England Homestead.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05

to yoke lining with straight lower
edge, the double pointed yoke being
placed over Tie gathers and stitched
firmly down on its lower edge, thus
insuring durable finish. A shaped
neck band completes tho neck when
tie rolling collar Is made separately.
The bishop shirt sleeves are slashed ut
the back and the opening finished
With cuff laps, wrist bands completing
the wrists to which the rolling cuffs
are buttoned. Plaits or casing aud
draw strings adjust the fullness ut the
waist line, and tho dress skirt is worn
over tho full lower edge. A narrow
belt Of white kid enclrcles the waist.
Perculc, cambric, lawn, batiste and
ginghem in stripes, checks, figured
and plain effects ull make up stylishly
by the mode.
The quantity of material 80 inches
wide required to make this shirt waist
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05

blue or black thread. The embroid.
cred linen is used for tie skirt and for
O deep square collar on the coat or
blazer, which is made OF plain linen.
The newest piques have tiny Dresden
sA:werets embroidered in silk scattered
ell over them. Sometimes tho entire
suit is made of the embroidered fabric,
but it is better to have the skirt plain
and the jacket embroidered. A skirt
of pale pink pique is effective with O
little coat OF embroidered white
piquc; aud the Same coat can beworn
with several ekirts. s.-Dcmorcst's.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
Waves OF On Iron Bridge

A train always exerts greater strain
on an iron bridge when going quickly
than when going slowly; but the
difference in tue strain depends on
the structure of the bridge, and is
much more in some cases than in
others. When the train goes over the
bridge 1t causes wave to travel
along the structure, owing to the
elasticity of the iron.
That part of the bridge just in front
of the train is raised o little, and the
part under the train Is lowered, 80
that each part of the bridge Is sue
ceesively raised and lowered as the
train goes over it, and the more quickly
the train travels, the moro sudden this
will be, and consequently the more
violent.
The strain produced will vary with
the square of the velocity Of the wave,
so that the train will exert four times
the strain when it doubles its velocity,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
nUMOn OF THE DAY.

''I love you unspeakably. Nc ""
'tBut perhaps you might speak to
mamma. "-Fliegende Blaetter.
Toacher-"What is on islandF'
Little Johnny Squanch-"A body OF
land almost entirely occupied by in
etrgents. Puck.
ToachefA''Can you give me any
idea of what o hollow mockery isT'
.Pupil-"Yessum our ice-chest IN win
ter is. "-Roxbury Gazette.
Once more these sad conditions como
To grieve the country and the town;
The mercury now runnetb up;
The perspiration runneth down.
Washington Star.
Very Amateur Singer lat evening
party)-"Let me like o soldier fall J.
Agonized Guest--"You certainly
should If I had gun anywhere handy. +"
Standard.
Depth OF Woe. "Did George look
anxious when he proposed to you,
Kitty2" eyes; he looked as if he
were learning to ride q wheel. "-Chl-
cago Record.
snobson-tI feel dweadfuIly. I
gave an at home yesterday and only
ten people came" Quiz-"Why don't
YOU give O funeral? You'd have 1t
crowded. Truth.
Attorney-"What was there about
the deceased that led you to believe he
was of unsound mipdP" Witness
"Weu, for one thing. he abhorred
bicycles. ."-Philadelphia North Ameri.
con.
Teacher Snow, Freddie, since you
have correctly spelled Philadelphia.
can YOU tell me what State it is in?'
Freidie-t'Yes, sir. l heard pa say
the other day that it was in state OF
coma.
Hicks-sT say your poem In the
paper last week. How did you get
your pull with the editor2" Wicks-
ooh, i didn't bother the editor, l
called upon the business manager. -
Somerville Journal.
sMow, johnny, do you understand
.tb9rpuahly why. lam going TO wlalp ],
3, Won I? - res N. foTfe ii iIa{i
iumor this morning, an you've got to
lick some one before you'll feel SAILS
fed. Harlem Life.
Margarot-"Don't you think Maude
loved CharlieP" Ethel--"No, dear !;
it is nv firm belief that she only mar
ried him for his beautiful collection
of striped outing shirts. '-Philadel-
phia North American.
He-"Which did you like best of my
verses?" She-"Why, the one on the
first page" He-'Les mo see. Which
one was thatP" She-"Don't you re-
memberP The ono in quotation
marks. Harlem Life.
"You do not go ont often to dinner,
Mrs. Waddington?" "No, l don't
think the best dinner on earth is sutfi'
cient compensation for making ones
self agreeable for three hours at @
stretch. chicago Hecofu'
Daughter-"This piano is really my
very own, isn't it, papaf" Pa-"Yes,
my dear" "And when l marry cal
take it with me. can II" Certainly,
my child /; but don't tell any Que. 1t
might spoil your chances. Tit Bits
Ferry-"Why don't you get mar
riod? Don't say you can't stand the
expense. That excuse is too thin. y
harereaves-"I could stand the ex'
pense well enough, hut tho girls father
SAYS he can't. "-Cincinnati Enquirer
Miss Bellefeld-"Do you like Mr..
Van Braam, Nellie" Miss Bloomfield
(who is addicted to slangl Yes,
like him don't think" Miss Belle
field "That is the great trouble witt
you, Nellie. You should cultivate {
habit of thought. "-Pittsburg Chron
icle.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05

Steem, water. cir and electricity
aie the only four agents for power
transmission. Air, in one sense the
cheapest as well as the most abundant,
is OF the same time the most elusive
aad the least docile. It's first use was
for diving. In, 1851 il was first en-
ployed for sinking bridge tiers. 1t
was elso employed in driving the
aames tunnsl 1856 iE E.Mas 1sed
Tor sinking colliery shaft. It was
employed for transporting goods in
&he early part ofthe century. I'm
successful tests were made of pneu-
matte railroads, but successful ones
for the transmission OF messages and
parcels. The foundation work Of the
partially destroyed bridge at st. Louis
was largely executed by James
Buchanan Eads with compressed air.
For the distribution OF motive power
by vacuum profitable plant has been
in operation for ten years at Paris.
The motors are worked by atmospheric
pressure, and exhaust into pipes in
which vacuum is maintained by air
pumps ut central station. There
are also plants for the distribution of
compressed air at Birmingham, Dres:-
cen, Berlin, Vienna, Leeds, Nor walk,
Conn.,, and Niagara Falls. For trac-
ton compressed air is still an expert
ment, admits the Chicago Times
Herald, although it is in use in several
European cities, and in Paris par
ticularly it has proved safe, economical
and popular for passenger transporta.
tion. The air is stored between the
wheels in cylindrical reservoirs, filled
at the terminals of tho line. The
elastic force of the air acts on ma
chlnery similar to that OF locomotive.
Between the reservoirs and the
cylinder in front OF tho car is the ex-
pansion engine, which regulates the
pressure. A car equipped with COM
pressor devised by the American in
Sentor Hoadley is the one tried on
the ca, on Lenox avenue, New York
City. Each car weighs 1000 pounds
less than o trolley of equal power and
like carrying capacity, and starts and
stops without noise. So certain seems
success that power-housc is being
built on 146th street. The expert
1aent in New York will be watched
with acute interest by all American
communities afflicted by the trolley
and afrighted by the cable. The sue
cess of the new motors may we'll be
Rrdently desired.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
A French Cafe Freak.

A man hanging by the neck thirteen
days and nights was the attraction OF
a Montmartre (Paris) cafe recently.
The doctors, however stopped tho per-
formance at the end of the fourth day,
the man being in o critical condition.
His name is Duraud. He attained no.
toriety some time ago by standing on
q pedestal at Marseilles for twenty
einnt consecutive days.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05

cuffs, which can be made removable
or attached permanently rs desired.
The great variety OF styles in the
hitherto popular GUNNER shirt waist
argues for it an unprecedented vogue
this season. The style here present
ed is unusually attractive and aensi-
BILE, being very generally becoming,
the fullness at tho neck and shoulder
edges produces soft and graceful eff
feet over the bust. A box plait fin
ishes the right front edge through
which buttonholes are worked to eE-
feet the closing with studs OF buttons.
The back is gathered at top and joined
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-08-05
A THREE-YEAR-oLD BICYCLE RIDER.

clear. Many of the Inventions ore,
however, of merit, and they relate to
details in the intricate portions of the
machine. There are some new things
in the line of package carriers, and in
the smooth paved cities year hence
at least ninety per cent. of the light
delivery of dry goods, millinery, hats,
shoes, flowers, confectionery, grocer
les, provisions, etc., will be through
the medium Of vehicles operated by
boys and young men.