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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-03
ADJUSTMENTS.

Last night at the Opera House n
large and enthusiastic audience saw
a creditable presentation Of Sidney
Grundy's Sowing the Wind" The
plot 0: the play Is capable Of many
Intensely dramatic situations In the
hands Of capable artists, and last
nights presentation was all that could
be desired. Miss Maud Edna Hall. as
"~RosamoHd," gave an Interpretation
that vas free from rant. but sympa-
thctic. Marian Chylders. as Maud
Frctwell" and Mr.. William EvplIe, as
'Sir Richard Cursitur." were all tina:
could be desired. Marshall Stedman. as
Ned Ann.sley,' the romantic char
actcr " the play. shared the lronors
with Miss Hall md Mr.. Sears.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
81. Patrick and the Snakes.

There is an old legend to the effect
that st. Patrick banished all reptiles
from Ireland by beating drum, but no
one, probably, seriously believes the
story. According to the myth, he took
his drum out for the purpose mentioned
and commenced pounding it so vigor-
ously that he knocked hole in the
drumhead, thus seriously endangering
the success of the miracle. While pom
dering what to do st. Patrick was as
tonished by the appearance of an angel,
who Immediately set to work to mend
the broken musical instrument After
the hole had been mended the angel
vanished, and st. Patrick continued the
work of serpent banishing, being sue
cessful in Kidding the island of every
representative of the snake tribe except
one old slayer who had lived so long
that his tusks protruded from his mouth
like horns. This monster refused to
leave the "land of his fathers, y and the
good saint resolved to practice q little
piece OF strategy. He removed the patch
which the angel had put on the drum
head and then persuaded the serpent to
creep into the drum for the night When
the reptile had done as requested, st.
Patrick glued down the magic patch
and then threw drum, serpent and all
into the sea. A sunken .bowlder off the
west coast Of Ireland is called st. Pat
rick's drum. ST. Louis Republic.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
THEY BOTH GOT MAD.

A Mountalnecr Visits "a Postoffice and His
Experience There.
He was typical inountaineer from
his brogan shoes to his wool hat, and no
had walked TO neigbboring town to
visit relatives. Itwas his first visit away
from his homo. The second day after he
arrived he went to the postofIice 10 get
letter from his girl. He was sure it
would DO there, as she had tearfully told
him she would write him while he was
away.
"Air thar any mail fer me?'' he in
quired of the postmaster.
whats your manner" was the in
quiry.
Louder. "
II say. what's your name?" asked
the postmaster in little more positive
manner.
Louder. "
II say, what's your name?' yelled
the postmaster, sticking his head through
the window into the face of the young
man.
why, dad drat your ugly time, I've
told yer three times my name was Lou
DER" yelled the mountaineer, .'T. j.
Louder, and il yer didn't belong to Their
gov 'ment I'd crawl over thar and pick
your years. Soon es man gifts or gov
ment job round here he begins to put
on airs, and I'm not one to put up with
it,"
The postmaster fished out letter
from a musty hole and gave it to him,
although he was mad himself. WASH
inRton Star.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
LABRADOR DOGS.
M0w a Number of Them Went ON an I'M
promptu Hunt.

mew Number of Them Went ON an I'm
promptu Hunt.
The dogs of Labrador are not only
most useful as draft animals, but for
hunting as well. A writer in Forest
and Stream, who has spent several sea-
sons in Labrador, relates rather thrill
ing experience with team of these
dogs, who, he says, trot along content
eddy enough so long as there is no game
i'll sight, but the moment they scent
game they seem to conclude that drag
ging sled is for them merely side is
sue; that their actual mission in life is
to go after the gamo whenever it is
within range Ho says:
A thaw had been followed by
frost, and the snow covering the ice on
the lakes was frozen hard So four Of
our party got on the sleigh to have
final drive. They started in great glee,
and just as they rounded the first point
they saw fine young caribou buck
about 500 yards ahead. As soon as the
dogs saw it they gave yelp like pack
of wolves and started like an arrow
from bow after the caribou, which
looked round on hearing the yelp saw
its pursuers and flew over the ice, keep
ing in the middle of tho lake. When the
dogs started with a jerk, one of the party
was thrown off violently and slid long
way ON the hard snow before he could
pull up, feeling redhot from the fric-
tion and gazing wistfully after his fast
disappearing comrades, who chung TO
4l,n ~ Ii 4 I'D
this novel hunt. OF course, there was
not the slightest chance of their catch
ing the animal, which, instead of maxi
ing for the bush on the nearest Shore
held on in the middle of the lake, right
up to the end, where it took to the
woods. The impromptu hunters soon
found themselves i'll u difficulty, for it
was impossible to stop the dogs, who
could not realize that they had sleigh
behind them with passengers. The
driver tried i'll vain to stop them, and
there was every probability of broken
limbs or neoks when they would strike
the bush. However, they soon made up
their minds and dropped off one by one,
rolling over and over in the snow, or
sliding some distance away, with much
damage TO their neither garments and
much abrasion of the cuticle Mean
while the dogs, relieved of the weight.
rushed after the deer, and, entering the
woods, got tangled up among the trees.
and, us usual on such occasions, wound
up with "a free fight among themselves.
After extricating them the party re-em-
barked and drove quietly back to the
house, where they repaired damages,
related their adventure and wrote it
down i'll the clubs logbook. I"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
MOuutaina.

There used to be held, in accordance
with Murchison's well known geoiog-
ical views, the general theory that
mountains were mainly due to cracks
which took place i'll the surface of the
earth in remote periods, but this idea is
no longer entertained by scientific men.
As to the form of mountains, that which
is known as table mountain finds the
best example, curiously enough, at the
cape of Good Hope, "a mountain, it is
believed, due not to any action or phe-
nomenon OF upheaval, but to the sink
ing Of the surrounding districts or ter
ritory. Why these peculiarly defined
areas did not sink was owing, il is
thought, to the probable fact that the
ground under them cooled before the
rest of the section, and thus the table
mountain had the earlier foundation
and has long retained its place. There
would always be denudation, however,
though proportionate with its surround
ings, and therefore, owing to this fact
Of being higher at the start, itstill keeps
to its approximate elevation.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
THE GIRL HERSELF.

Twas not her bonnet, it is true;
Twas not her bonnet nice and new
That fixed my idly rowing eye
That summer day as she passed by.
l cannot tell you how twas made;
/ cannot tell the ribbons shade.
Nor just the color Of the wreath
only saw the face beneath.
l noticed not her dress the while,
If it were made in latest style,
With Grecian folds and closest fit,
Or furbelows adjoining 1t.
1t may have been Of flimsy wear;
do not know, / do not care,
For all my thoughts that wandered wide
We're centered on the girl inside.
Oh, she was sweet from head to feet.
The p~ettiest girl upon the street,
Depending not on outward dress
To emphasize her loneliness.
Though many another maiden owes
Her chief attraction to her clothes,
This one, though well supplied with pelf
Would have no rival to herself.
II you should meet this maid by chance.
You'd give her more than passing glance,
And note perhaps with some surprise
Her perfect mouth, her lovely eyes.
But, oh, warn you not to let
Your heart escape its bounds as yeti
She's spoken for-the charming elf
I'm going to marry her myself
New York Ledger.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
JAWS AS WEAPONS.


Chief Means of Defense Among All Old
World Apes.
Among all old world apes the teeth
are the chief weapons for defense
against natural foes and for eombats for
mates or tribal supremacy. The CANNES
are i'll most cases enormously developed,
insomuoh that i'll informed naturalists
have suggested that near relationship
must exist between the primates and
the oarnivora. AS a matter of fact, these
formidable teeth have nothing to do
with Authorization, but are as purely
weapons of war as are the bayonet and
the maxim gun. In practically every
emergency demanding unusual energy,
obstinaoy and courage they come into
play.
In every conflict with the world, the
flesh and the devil-as such things are
understood in pithecoid society-the
temporal and masseter muscles are tho
chief arbiters Of war. TO become great
and powerful anthropoid it is absolute
ly and brutally necessary to have a
large and strong jaw, to give firm at
tachment TO the teeth and good leverage
to the muscles. That for an immense
epoch our prehuman ancestors achieved
success in life in like manner is as clear
as the print Of 'Maga" to those who
have learned to read natures handwrit-
ing.
Since those days of true Arcadian
simplicity our life has become bewilder-
ingly complex, and our methods for set
thing social difficulties have changed
generally for the better. But here, as in
SO many other instances, the habits of u
past age have left an indelible impress
on the nervous system. -Blackwood's
Magazine.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
Nature,s oold stornge mouse.

In tho valley of the Plethora river,
which flows from the Ural mountains
into the Arctic ocean near Nova Fem
bla, there is state of things which is
attracting tho attention of naturalists
and is only one more example of how
judioiously nature does her work when
her primitive conditions are observed.
This valley has a sturdy growth Of
crowberries, cloudberries, cranberries,
any humber of small fruit bearing
plants, with heath moss and lichens,
some of which bear seed and fruit in
great profusion. An eminent ornitholo-
gist, in tho course of his researches in
this locality, stopped for little time.
There were millions Of acres covered
with these growths. The arctic summer
has perpetual sun, and the indigenous
plants and trees grow and develop with
great rapidity. The summer comes sud-
denly. and with it innumerable birds
Of all varieties, but they come to what
seems barren waste, for there is moth
ing visible but snow and ice. Within "a
hours, however, this frostbound region
changes its appearance. The snow dis
solves, the ice melts away, and nature s
bounty stands revealed. The autumn
SHOWS fall here and cover the plants,
with their loads of fruit, keeping it in
the most perfect condition until the
springtime, when it furnishes food for
the millions Of birds that make this
their summer home. New York Ledger.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
A QUEER EPiTAPH.
IN Memory OF Two Boys Who Though
They Ate Mushrooms.

IN Memory OF Two Boys Who Thought
They Ate Mushrooms.
Piscataway is one of the oldest towns
in New Jersey. 1t was founded in 1868
and was intended to be the capital Of
the colony, but 1t did not grow, while
its rivals, New Brunswick, Railway and
Elizabeth, became thriving villages. At
present there is little to interest the cas-
ual visitor to the sleepy village, but that
little is good of Its kind.
There is old Mr.. Mundy, the village
wheelwright, who at so is still a fine
shot with gun or rifle. Twenty five
years ago he accompanied New York
merchant on a hunting trip to the far
west, and since then not year has
passed without their taking a hunting
trip to the west CIR south. Old as these
cronies are, they cannot make up their
minds to forego their hunting. Then
there is the old cider mill whose ram
shaokle appearance bellies the purity and
strength of the applejack resting in its
dark cellar. Finally, there is the ceme
terry of the old Episcopal church, the
first house of worship erected in the
place. In response to inquiries the other
day the sexton, who holds also the offices
of gravedigger and roadmaster said:
Well, there might be some interest
ing gravestones there, and then again
there mightn't. They don t interest me.
There is one old brown stone which has
fallen down and is out Of place. want
ed to throw it away, but the minister
wouldn't let me. That might be inter
esting to you"
els there any inscription on it?'
mo, there isn't 1t is just covered
with words from top to bottom-no
poetry, no nothing-just words.
The stone was found easily, although
partly oyergrown with moss and myrtle.
After much cleaning the following in
scription was made out:
Spectators, under
Here In this tomb
Lilo 2 boyos.
The elder was full
Ten years old, the yon-
Ger was twice
Told. BY eating
Mushrooms for
Food rare in day
Time they poyseoned
We're. A. X. Hard Hoop
er and Charlie Hooper,
Desesed, 1900
The meaning of "the younger was
twice told" is somewhat obscure, but it
is supposed that he was but five years
old.
An inscription upon the tombstone of
James Thompson, who died in 1853,
was once very popular with the country
people in New Jersey. Three others in
the graveyard are similar to it:
Remember, friend, as you pass by,
AS you are now SO once was l,
In health and strength. though here lie.
As am now SO you must be-
Prepare for death and follow me.
New York Sun.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
New York Chinese onarters.

There is one feature of New York
amusements that is wholly unknown to
the Chinaman, and that is the concert
garden. To congregate in public place
to drink Intoxicating beverages, listen
to sensuous music and watch vulgar
displays of the human figure, to be
waited upon by young women of more
than questionable character, to take
part in profane and obscene talk, all
this is beneath the dignity of China
man, and nowhere in the Chinese quar-
ter, from beginning to end, can such a
place be found. But they are found on
the Bowery, and Germans, Irishmen.
Italians and Jows fill the places to the
doors. Helen T. Clark in Century.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
FIRST MAN 70 TAKE ETHER.
1t Was Administered to Him by DIR. Nor
ton In 1916.


1t Was Administered to Him by DIR. Nor
ton In 1916.
Some interesting facts regarding the
first patient under ether are told by DIR.
Samuel A. Green in his Groton Histor-
ical Series.
The subject was Ebenezer Hopkins
Frost, a native of Groton, now dead,
who is we'll remembered by many per-
sons in Boston. He was son of Solo,
mon and Dorcas (Hopkins) Frost and
was born ON Dec. Z, 1924. He became
noted as q singer and teacher Of vocal
music, and was member Of the Han
del and Haydn society of Boston.
DR.. Morton first tried on himself the
experiment of inhaling ether, and in
describing the effect it produced he said:
Delighted with the success of this
experiment. / Immediately announced
the result to the persons employed in
my establishment, and waited impa-
tiently for some one upon whom l could
make fuller trial. Toward evening
man residing in Boston came in suffer
ing great pain and wishing to have
tooth extracted. He was afraid Of the
anu unhSu II uO SOuio NO biCo-
merized. l told him 1 had something
better, and saturating my handkerchief
gave it to him to inhale. 1t was dark
and DIR. Hayden held the lamp while /
extracted firmly rooted biouspid tooth.
There was not much alteration in
the pulse and no relaxation of the mus
Giles. He recovered III minute, and
knew nothing of what had been done to
him. He remained for some time talk
ing about the experiment. This was on
the Both of September. 1916. / oonsid-
cred it to be the first demonstration Of
this new fact in science. have heard
of no one who can prove an earlier DEM
onstration. II any one can do so, l yield
to him the point of priority of time. ~
Immediately after the operation Frost
gave certificate corroborating the state
ments and signed himself as then living
ut AZ Prince street, Boston. Nearly 30
years afterward he died at Fitchburg,
on Sept z, 1865.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
No Thanks.

A Bath physician has been having
hard work to get one of his patients, u
small boy. to take the medicine that he
has prescribed. One day he offered the
little fellow cents if he would take it.
The offer was accepted, the medicine
taken, and the physician handed him
the money. "Aren'tyou going to thank
the doctor?' asked the mother. "No,
I'm not. don't thank people for pay
ing me what earn" was the reply. -
Augusta one. Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
pres.ure at tl,e Earll1,. centsr.

The philosophers who have figured on
the condition of things at the earth's
center give opinions which vary widely.
Some think that the earths interior is
composed Of white hot molten matter.
Others are Of the opinion that the pres
sure is 50 great that all substances have
been condensed beyond our powers of
conception. DR.. Young goes SO far as to
say that block of steel 10 feet square
would be pressed into block only 2
feet square if taken 1000 miles below
the earth's surface.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
CRADLE SONG.


To sleep the corn is sinking,
For heavy hangs its head;
The timid flowers are shrinking
From darkness in their bed.
The evening broezes flocking,
Like gentle angels blest,
Come softly, softly rocking
The corn and flowers to rest.
Just as the flowers are shrinking,
SO timid, too, art thou,
And as the corn heads sinking,
So mods thy dear head now.
And sounds of evening winging,
Like gentle angels blest,
Come round thy cradle. singing
My darling one to rest.
i. Edmund V. Cooke.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
English Stubbornness.

English pigheadedness was shown in
n recent block of 80 hours on the Grand
Junction canal in Northamptonshire
the captains Of two barges arriving at a
small lock from opposite directions each
insisting on going through first. Oves
100 canalboats were kept waiting till
one of the men gave way by order Of tho
proprietor Of his boat,
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
Too Much to Swallow.

"Inkwell nearly lost his job on the
paper yesterday"
GLOW was that?p
"He handed in an account Of the
athletic sports and said one of the win
ners Of the foot races was messenger
boy. - Washington Times.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02

When Nero made his artistic tour as
a musician and actor through the cities
Of Greece, more than 400 crowns were
bestowed upon him, and when he re-
turned to Rome he decreed himself o
triumph and entered the city with these
crowns borne in solemn procession.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02

II guess I've found way to take the
conceit out of that amateur actress, !" re-
marked the girl who is not always good
natured.
'How did you do it?'
introduced her to an amateur pho
tographer who wanted to take her pic
ture. Washington Star.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
snider Wort.

The Virginia spiderwort is apparent
yunable to endure high temperature.
During the day it is wilted and defect
ed. AS the evening comes on it reyiyes,
all its leaves assume lively appearance,
and the plant appears to flourish and
enjoy its life until the morning light
again returns.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02

The largest egg is that of the ostrich.
1t weighs 8 pounds and is considered
equal i'll amount to "a hens eggs.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02

BY the nearest mail route f:cm st.
Louis to Mobile a distance Of CAB miles
must be Travelled.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
The B usy Mans Paper

therefore, still originates, still leads, and
publishes MORE NEWS to the column
than its neighbors Of larger dimensions.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-12-02
NEWS CONCIOELY PUBLISHED

without the omission Of any essential
feature is still the BEST NEWS, not
withstanding the once more prevalent
tendency to pad it and stretch it out.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-05
At Unity Hall.

Rev. A l.. Hudson spoke yesterday
morning upon 1.-THE Worth of the I'm
agination." In opening he remarked
upon the tendency of the present time
to undervalue the use of the imagi-
nation. We pride ourselves on being
practical In fact the practical has be-
come for us fetch, before which we
bow down and worship with blind idol
airy. The typical man OF the world is
apt to regard the imagina ton with
mild contempt as a thing fit only for
preachers, poets. Populists and other
Missionaries; and altogether out of place
among the practical affairs of life.
Away with fancy he cries, "let us
hive hard facts"
This view arises from a superficial
Idea OF the imagination as a sort of
winged horse, forever in the air. whose
hoofheats never touch the earth. But
looking closer we shall find that on the
contrary the Imagination is a steady
going workhorse, which bears a large
share of the burden of human progress.
In the field of invention it is the chief
laoorer. Reason has no creative skill.
Memory makes no discoveries. But
the imagination is a wonder worker
we praise the practical usefulness of
the labor saving appliances. the new
dppiiS1llOlS Oh power that abound in
the machinery of our workshops. fac
tories and farms; but every detail of
these inventions existed first in the
imagination Of the inventor. before If
was wrought out in iron and wood. and
steel
In scientific discovery Imagination
plays the most important part. 1t TAX s
large array of isolated facts and
from them forms a theory of the uni
verse. By its aid the scientist looks
upon a ledge of rock and reads The
story of a world in process of forma-
ton. wherein the foot of man has never
trod; in the simple leaf he sees the
history Of plant life through all its va
ried forms: from a single bone he re-
constructs the animals that roamed
the earth in prehistoric times; out of
the protoplasnic cell he traces the de-
velopment of human life Truly a
wonder worker is magma ton, For it
unrolls the scroll of centuries and re-
veals to man the story of the ages.
Even in practical finance imagination
is an active worker. The great finan-
cier is one who sees what is as yet in
visible to others. Where others see
only range of hills, valley, OR a
river bend, his Imagination creates a
city with great buildings, towers and
spires, and under his leadership men
proceed to make the vision true. He