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The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
Odd Things.

A Seymour, Conn, pin maker has .
sidewalk made of defective pins.
Some of the young people in Baptist
church circles in Philadelphia danced
minuet recently at charity enter
tainment.
Electric and steam trains are running
on the same tracks between New Al
bany, Ind, and Louisville, Ky, the
only instance In the world.
Mademoiselle Dumas, an old maid.
who lately died at Paris, has bequeathed
1000 francs to the policemen patrolling
the district in which she resided.
William J. Moore of Toledo, O., aged
80, has recently died. He said he would
cat nothing for forty-seven days, and
didn't. On the forty-seventh day he
died.
Charles Book has been arrested in
New York for fishing. He angled sue
cessfully for the United States mail
with a fish-hook, lowered through the
Sits in letter boxes.
Martin Feifer has been arrested in
Pittsburg for keeping speakeasy. He
had lot of collins in the front part Of
his place but in the rear red liquor
flowed.
Tom Finley, Of La Grange, KY, got
crunk. While he was in stupor in a
ditch field rats ate the toes of his right
foot and the flesh from the sole. He
died Of lockjaw.
c. A. Tate is the Birmingham, Ala.
man who accidentally rode his bicycle
over porcupine the other night. Tate
says his tires were punctured in at
least million places.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
Utilizing Heat i'm Roller I.

The idea of having the gasses leave
a boiler at higher temperature, in
order that it may be more effectively
used by heating the feed water in an
economizer, ia reported by Schmidt, a
German engineer, to have been sue
cessfully applied by him in producing
a very economical engine by extraor-
binary heating. The gases are repre-
scented as leaving the boiler at tenn
perature sufficiently high to permit OF
supcrheating the steam to over Coo
degrees. 1t is thought by experts, how
ever, that though by this action the
economy of the boiler must be reduced
the question presents itself whether ii
is not preferable to permit of less econ
omy in the boiler, in order that the en-
CINE may be more economical--a point,
of course, Of special practical moment.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
NOTES..

Denman Thompson's forthcoming
play is entitled "The Sunshine in the
Alley"
Charles Frohman says that receipts
generally through the country on
Christmas day were about 33 per cent
less than last year. The matnees were
bad everywhere.
More places of amusement are now
open in New York than are to be found
in London or Paris. 1t takes 500 ,000,-
coo capital to run them, and they give
employment to 10000 persons.
The London Times says of w. d.
Howell's one-act comedy, "a Dangerous
Ruffian': 1T is not likely to enhance
his literary reputation or to lead to his
more intimate connection with the
stage"
After an absence of five years, Mis-.
Minnie Palmer renewed her acQuaint-
ance with tho American public in New
York last Monday night in "The School,
Girl" q musical farce, in three acts, by
George Manchester and Albert Maurice.
The comedy was pronounced poor stuff,
but Miss Palmer was well received.
A Cuban war drama has been inevl.
table for some time and Manager Lift Is
first in the ring with play that deals
with the struggles of the patriots for
freedom. 1t is to be called THE Last
Stroke" and will be produced In St.
Peul, February %. The drama is the
work of Isaac N. Morris, whose Rival
Candidates" had brief but profitable
run at Hoyt's two years ago. He Is
one of the youngest of the successful
playwrights of the day, and Is great.
grandson of Senator Morris, of Ohia
the presidential candidate OF the old
Liberty party.-New York World
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
Told I'm n Dream.

Mrs. John Reid went TO vist: rela-
t.veS at Point Lick. The next morning
after her arrival she announced at
breakfast that she had dreamed the
night before that some one had entered
her cellar at home and stolen some OF
her preserves. She was laughed at, but
sc deep was the impression made upon
her mind by the dream that she cur
tailed her visit and returned home.
She went into the cellar to find that
her dream was not all dream, for
some one had been in her preserves and
had taken thirty-two quarts in her alb
sence. The thief made careful selec-
ton, taking only preserves, and some
of every kind she had.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
Wonderful Petrlfactions.

The regions of the Little Colorado
river in Arizona abound in wonderful
vegetable etrifactions-whole forests
being found in some places as hard as
flint, but which look as If but recently
stripped of their foliage. Some OF these
stone trees are standing just as natural
as life, while others are piled across
each other just like the fallen mon
archs of real wood forest. Biologists
say that these stone trees were once
covered to the depth of 1000 feet with
mari, which transformed them from
wood to solid rock. This mari, after the
lapse of ages, washed out, leaving some
of the trees standing in an upright
position. The majority of them, how
ever, are piled helter-skelter ~ all di-
rections, thousands of cords being
sometimes piled up OF an acre OF
ground.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
Fierce Fight with an Owl.

From the Springfield Republican:
Colwell Smith was passing through q
piece Of woods one night, and without
hearing any sound or premonition his
tall beaver hat received a terrible thump
from behind. which knocked it off his
head to the ground. He heard no
sound, no fiutter of wings-for the wing
feathers of bird are especially adapt
ell by their downy edges to noiseless
flight. He replaced his hat and pro-
ceeded, but wondered at the circum-
stances, which he could not explain.
No limb of tree, to which he naturally
turned for an explanation, could have
brushed his hat off, for 1t came forward.
While he was deeply absorbed in
thought thump two came and off went
his hat again, and in front Of him as
before. He again replaced his beaver,
and then, with every sense on the qui
vive, proceeded end awaited results.
Again, as before. his head covering
was unceremoniously removed, but the
keenness and activity of his fully
aroused senses enabled him to detect a
slight flutter of wings. He was con-
vsnced now as to the source OF his sing
war experience.
But he outwitted the bird in this way.
He had stout walking stick and held
Il in front of him horizontally, firmly
grasped so as to strike upward with
1t should he be again approached. He
had walked but short distance when
tho time came for the sudden stroke up
ward and his owlship-for such 1t
proved to be-met with an obstruction
that was not ION the bill''' in one sense,
but was in another, and that striking
one The owls antics were ended and
he paid the penalty for his continued
attacks upon what he deemed an in
truder upon his dark domain. I have
known them to pounce down upon dogs
In the same way.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07

the Columbian were in high feather.
The club was only year old ana
each new success meant another
weight thrown on the side OF popu-
larlty and permanence.
So the conversation had in 1t some
of the spirit of the lively young men.
"By Jove," said Morris Habberton,
"this is what call real joy Of life. a
fellow attends to his business during
the day and feels that he deserves a
rest at night. So he HES him to the
club, where there are cards, cigars, con-
genial fellows and harmless glass"
Nothing like it," said old Hobbs,
who was gray as to the fringes of his
bald pate, but had left the Bachelors
because, as he explained 1t, "the fellows
were getting old and grumpy"
There's always glow about the
very appearance of the club entrance
to me-" said Habberton.
ooh, We know that's champagne
talking, but the vintage seems to have
the knack of uttering the truth to-
night"
button to the general talk.
Vintage be hangedw exclaimed tho
first speaker, turning on him in mock
fury
But old Hobbs interrupted him with:
Don't hang the vintage now, my dear
boy, and don't on your life underrate
Its power and influence"
II don't, but my words are the words
Of sane and sober truth. I say and
maintain and I reiterate that there is
a warmth and genial glow about the
very entrance to these rooms"
HE waxeth oratorical," Knocked
Mortimer.
Contrast" went on Habberton, with
out deigning to notice the interruption,
this Homecoming with the home-com-
ing of a fellow who is married to q
woman"
"Or one of these new women 4"
from Hensington, who had not before
Joined in the conversation.
"Ah, now you are talking sense"
said old Hobbs, rubbing his hands glee-
fully. at is the advent of the new
woman that is keeping so many limo
cent, eligible and worthy men from
matrimony."
How do you know" interrupted
Mortimer, with especial stress on the
you"
Some one threw an almanac at him
and old Hobbs remarked that he hated
weak attempts at sarcasm"
Reginald Vertress was a known and
reputed lady's man, so nobody paid
much attention when he observed,
rather tentatively: "Oh, l haven't
much faith in all this talk about the new
woman, anyway. If you'll believe me,
she's only the same dear creature with
the addition of bicycle, big sleeves
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
VINTAGE BE HANGED.

and a membership ticket in the v.
G. p. u"
well, whatever may be said," went
on Habberton Che had drunk consid-
cradle champagne), "the new woman
is painful reality. We hate TO admit
her presence, but she is here, though
we hope not to stay"
pray forbear," exclaimed the ire
pressible Mortimer. who knows but
some of our number have formed en-
tangling alliances with new women
who make political speeches and head
petitioning conventions?"
MAY gracious heaven forbidw re-
sponded Habberton, in such tone of
mock tragedy that the whole company
burst into peals of rollicking laughter.
There was one young man who had
not joined in the conversation and who
did not join in the laugh.
This was Tom Agnew. He sat
smoking in an obscure corner, and his
face flushed at the last words of Hab-
berton and Mortimer and the laugh
which greeted them. AS soon as con-
venience would allow. he arose and
slipped away.
In his mind strange fight was
taking place between resentment, love
and fear of ridicule.
He felt that in Lewis Mortimer's last
remarks there had been yelled allu-
sion to himself, though his engagement
to Helen Clayburn was supposed to be
q secret.
Helen he knew to be q leader in the
work of women, and he grew angry
with himself, with her and with his
companions when he thought that she
might be included in the category CT
new woman"
man Is not always reasonable after
champagne and q long game of whist.
So in his unreason Tom Agnew wrote
letter that night which in his saner
moments he would not have been guilty
Of penning.
Az! the next morning Helen Clay
burn received 1t just as she was going
out to attend meeting of the Kinder
garten association.
why, it's letter from Tom," she
said, I wonder II he is in haste to go
away, .aat he writes" And she tore
II open. 1t was not very long and as
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
Chase After q Train.

From the San Francisco Examiner:
Early on Wednesday morning the en-
gineer and fireman of the Santa Fe
overland train. bound east, when near
Cajon pass, imagined they saw some
thing on the track right ahead. Think
ing the train was about to be wrecked,
they both jumped. The engineer was
rather badly hurt, but when the fire.
man picked himself up out of the dust
he found that the engine had made
Mndling-wood of q wagon, to which
two horses had been attached Their
driver had seen the headlight and had
jumped in time to save himself, and
the animals themselves were cropping
the dried grass along the roadside,
which showed that they had not been
greatly disturbed by the accident. But
the train. with nobody at the engines
throttle, was plunging away through the
darkness. the passengers asleep in their
berths, utterly unconscious that they
were being drawn by wild locomotive.
The fireman, who had been left behind,
thought he would try to overtake the
flying train on foot. Then he changed
his mind, and, jumping astride one of
the horses, he set out after the runa-
way train. He knew it must stop short
ly, as it had to climb very steep grade,
and If the fire under the boilers was
not kept up the supply Of steam woIla
not furnish sufficient pressure to keep
the wheels going around. The yagrant
train did stop mile and a half from
where the accident occurred. There
did not seem to be any reason for an
interruption of the journey just at that
point, and so the conductor and brake
man hurried ahead with their lanterns
to ask the engineer what had given out.
When they found the cab empty, of
course the train hands were very much
mystified. They asked each other a
good many questions and were engaged
in looking up theories to account for the
strange disappearance Of the engine
crew, when the fireman came Looping
along on the horse he had borrowed.
After explanations had been made he
turned his horse toward this city and
brought the first tidings the railroad
people had of the missing train. A hack
was sent out to the scene with another
engineer, and as soon as steam was
raised the overland went on over the
hill through Cajon pass. The same car
riage brought the injured engineer to
the city.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
Had Good Credit.

Some time ago when Queen Victoria
was summering in the vicinity Of Loeb
Vennachar, Scotland, Princess Louise
drove into the village Of Calender to do
some shopping. She was trying to
match some velvet, and at last found
just what she wanted, but also found
that she had left her purse at home.
She fastened to explain the predica-
ment to the proprietor, and promised to
send the money the next day. "Dinna
fash yourself ABBOTT the money, men,"
answered the polite draper; your
mither has an account here
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
Mary's Calls.

Mary trotted into a neighbours house
one morning last week, climbed up in
to an easy chair and settled herself fol-
talk. II have been making calls,
she announced. "Ive been to Aunt
Lucy's and Mrs. C.'s, and the WIS. I've
been out ever since breakfast calling.
Her hostess thought it wise to ask
"And does your mother know where
you are, Mary?" All the glow died out
of her face. She pushed herself for
ward in her chair, with her finger to her
lip. "Let-me-see," she slowly
unused. II - guess Il - must - go -
homc-noW."
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
Sunday Closing n Favor.

Davenport, Wash, has enforced the
Sunday closing law in a very exemplary
manner. A number of citizens of that
town called on all the saloon-keepers
and business men and asked that they
close their places on Sunday as a matter
of courtesy, to oblige the citizens whom
the committee represented. There was
prompt and general compliance with
the request.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
Schooner's Long Life,

Twenty-six years is good age for a
schooner. The Julia Ann of Winter
Harbor, Me-, has been in active service
for that period and is said by her cap
tain to be even now as good as she ever
was. The insurance companies back
up the captains statement, too. In her
long life the schooner has sailed over a
good part of the worlds salt water and
Is we'll known in every harbor on the
Maine coast.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07

she read IL she grew white and trem-
bled a little. But Helen Clayburn was
very sensible girl She handed the
letter to her mother, saying:
Something has gone wrong to vex
Tom. He should have come to me in
stead OF writing. 1 will wait for him
to come to his senses"
She read a paper that morning be-
fore the association and the ladies said
of it: "The paper was excellent, but
don't you think its value was much
added to by her manner Of reading?
1t was read with such spirit"
When she came home from the asso-
citation Helen Clayburn read Tom Ag-
news letter again and cried little
bit as she laid it down.
He cannot become the laughing
stock of men by marrying girl whose
actions place her Enthusiastically in the
ranks of that very undesirable creature,
the new woman Who has been talk
ing to him and what have l done en-
engage the attention Of every true wom-
an? Tom, Tom, love you, but you
must--you must come to yourself"
And she did not answer the letter.
Three weeks passed and Tom Agnew
grew uneasy. Why had Helen not
written? lie had expected letter from
her before this. He hoped he had said
nothing which she might construe into
desire on his part to break their en-
gagement. He had not meant to go
so far as that.
He was at the club one night again,
and in the meantime an election had
taken place.
There were only cigars on this night.
There had been no whist. no cham
payne.
1T is wonderful what a triumph we
have in electing pure and worthy men
to take charge Of our school interests"
said Morris Habberton, seriously.
Yes, we," sneered Lewis Mortimer.
"Betsey and I, we killed a bear, didn't
we? What are you talking about? 1t
was the women who did it. They
worked before election and then went
up to the polls ike-ahem-men."
well. I have no objection to that.
l don't want to rob them of their credit.
All honor to the women who rid us OF
boodlers and incompetents."
They acted nobly," chimed in old
Hobbs, "but much was due to the splen-
did leadership and wonderful genius for
organization of that Miss Clayburn.
She is indeed great girl. You know
her, Agnew, don't your"
"Ah, yes, yes, of course" stammered
Tom.
well, We'll expect you to see that she
Is one Of the patronesses on ladies'
day"
AS soon as Tom could get out he hur-
ried away mentally kicking himself
for weak fool.
And he called himself by no milder
name when he found Helen Clayburn
at home half-hour later. He ex-
planned it all to her, not for q moment
sparing himself.
II said that something had happened
to veX YOU" said Helen, "but oh, Tom!
] knew you would come to your senses.
But aren't you afraid of me as a new
woman? Just think, Tom, I've been
elected president of the Woman's So
cial Purity Club and won the annual
medal for the best mullins at the cook
ing school. Isn't that ominous?"
There was look in her eyes and a
half-humorous little tremor in her voice
that made him clasp her in his arms
as he said:
II don't care If you've been elected
sheriff If you'll just forgive me and
take me back to your heart again.
don't care how new a woman you are,
just so you are mine"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07

AS you advance further In your art"
said Gounod to young poet, you will
come to think Of the great poets of the
past as I now appreciate the great mu-
sicians Of former times. When I was
your age used to say T. at Is I said
4 and Mozart at 40, Mozart and L.
now / say Mozart"
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
FOUND A NEW WOMAN.

HERE had been
whist that evening
at the club, and,
incidentally, there
had been cham
payne. There were
now cigars and
conversation. The
meeting had been
q thorough success.
so in consequence
the members OF
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07

At last read the lesson taught
In joys mysterious eyes,
AS in some sweet wild creatures, caught
And brought me as a prize.
And this is life--that irksome gift
l longed to put away
The headlong force that strong anC
swift
Throbs in my veins today!
There is q host of secret signs
And symphonies half sung,
AS If read between the lines
In some forgotten tongue.
And drought 1t all meaning runs
/ surely used to know:
! must have lived and felt it once
Long centuries ago.
a sweet new message turks between
The pulsing waves of light;
Dear God. till now 1 have not seen
Thy lovely world Alright.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07
CORNER OF ODDITIES.
SOME QUEER AND CURIOUS
THINGS IN THE NEWS.

Wild Pursuit of u Runaway Engine by q
Fireman on tho Santa Fe Railroad
Massachusetts Man Has "a Desperate
Battle with q Night Owl.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-02-07

Denman Thompson's Forthcoming
play is entitled "The Sunshine in the
Alley"
Arizona republican., 1896-01-31
THE FLORENCE SQUABBLE.
Several Lawyers Reported to Be Cited
 for Contempt.

It would appear that Judge Rouse, on arrival at Florence, promptly served out law in large doses to the farmers who had dispossessed Receiver Hammond of the charge of the Flor ence canal. The leader of the farmers, Dan c. Stevens, one of Finals most prominent citizens, was adjudged guilty of contempt and fined and se- verely admonished. The attorneys for the farmers, Judges Kibbey and Stone, were also, it is rurnored, cited to ap- pear for contempt and placed under nominal arrest.
 AS for the court commissioner, Judge Miller, who had "overruled" the dis trict judge and displaced the receiver, all that Judge Rouse did to him was to declare his office vacant and in his stead appoint Thomas Weedfn, clerk of the Pinal county district court.
Arizona republican., 1896-01-31
THE PUG[LISTIC CENTER. Ell PaSo and the Big
 Mill. All the Fights Will Surely
 Occur. A Rumor that Hurdles Have Been Ordered to Prevent the
 Fight.

EL PASO, Jan. 30.-W. K Wheelock, secretary of the old Florida Athletic club, said to an Associated Press re- porter this eXening:
 'fWe have received from a most re- liable source a telegram from Chi huahua, Mexico, pronouncing as a fake the report sent out from the City of Mexico last night to the effect the minister of the interior had sent in- structions to Governor Ahumada to or der 800 rurales to Juarez to prevent the fight. The governor has received no such instructions"
 Dan Stuart said: ''I do not care to be serving notices on the public every few minutes and now give it out as an absolute certainty that all of the fights will take place. This is final and ir- revoea ble."
Arizona republican., 1896-01-31
A ROMANTIC WEDDING.
Union of Harry 2. Buck and Miss
 Myrtle Phillips.

Last evening at Tempe by Rev. Fred Sheldon, Harry E. Zuck and Myr- tie Phillips were united in marriage The groom is one of the brightest members of the legal profession of Arizona, partner in the firm of Van Horn & Zuck. The bride is from Car 5ondale, Illinois, of one of the oldest families of the state Her father is the well known Congressman Phillips of that district.
 There is romance in every wedding, but to this it is attached in an es- pecially notable degree. A few weeks ago MT. Zuck was lying i'll in Tempe of a sickness that was thought to be mortal. His fiance, like the true, piucky American girl that she is, on receipt of the news at once boarded the train for Arizona and came, to here assist the mother of her betrothed in nursing him back to vigor. Not un- naturally his recovery was assured from the date of her arrival and was not slow process.
 The wedding was quiet one, only few personal friends and relatives being present.
Arizona republican., 1896-01-31
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

Commercial: G. R. Reid, San Fran cisco; J. A. Young, Louisville, Ky; s. R. Hall, San Francisco; E. P. Smith, Riverside; L. w. Shinn, San Fran cisco; R. F. Lewis, San Francisco; A. V. Anderson, Riverside, Cal; H. D. Rowe, San Francisco; s. N. Wyckoff, San Francisco; H. J. Allen, Jerome F. M. Murphy, Prescott; F. H. Bruce Prescott; E. Carney, Chillicothe, O.; e. E. Goodall, Carrollton, Mo; M. L. Turmell, Santa Maria; R. R. Michael Ferndale, O.; c. B. Eggleston, Chicago
 Ford: e. L. Mcconnell, Chicago J. E. Serine, Chicago; F. B. Rogers Rochester; J. w. Searles, Skull Valley Utah; Oscar M. Gottschall of Ohio.
 Lemon: F. E. Rogers, Rochester N. Y; Chas. Brank, Winterside, o.