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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-17
Correspondence.
kIMBLEs.

Especial Correspondence to the PRESS }
KnBLE, Jan. 15.-The last few
days of cold weather and snow re
mind us that winter didn't forget
us,although it was sometime getting
here. We are not satisfied now, for
there has been but little snow and
only once or twice have we heard
the merry tingle of sleigh bells.
The Excelsior mill has shut down
for an indefinite time, the men all
going to Lackawaxen to gather ice
for the Delaware house at that place.
They will then go to Westcolang and
I'LL the ice house there.
=. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Ekbeck was frightened by the ar
rival Of little daughter Jan. 5.
Mrs. E. Kimble and son returned
Friday after spending week with
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-17
RoWCANO.

Especial Correspondence 70 the PREss.)
ROWLAND, Jan. ia nice fall of
snow here january 9TH, but not
enough for sleighing,
Mr.. F. r. Brink, has sold his fast
trotter to w. j. Carhuff.
Sila Carhuff, returned home TO
Glen Eyre Friday evening, she has
been visiting friends and relatives
in this place since Tuesday.
Senator Lafayette Rowland is fl
ling his ice house.
The Oyster supper at Mr.. John
Adams house last Wednesday even-
ing was a success in every respect,
about 20 present t1s,2b to be ap-
piled TO minister's salary. A good
time was had by all:
J. Hogan, of Stairway, spent Sun
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-17

many of us went again Wednesday
evening, and felt well paid for going
From Ledgedale came Mrs. Ira Kill
lam and the Misses Becker, Walker
and Sheridan, Messrs Simons Bis
bing and Charles and Fred Killam,
Hawley Misses Schartt and Ames.
The net result twelve dollars and
seventy five cents the two nights
netted thirty seven dollars and sew
enty five cents clearing this place
fromdebt, to the Rev. JIG Raymond.
On Friday evening a jolly load of our
young people called on the minister
and replenished his purse, much to
his pleasure and theirs.
Mrs. Conrad Gumble, is still in
failing health. Her married daugh-
ter, Mrs. Fred Hochstern from Flor
ida, is expected home next month,
Some of the neighbors are busy
replenishing their coal bins and
wood houses. The wheeling is SO
good, it is almost better than sleigh
ing.
Mr.. Asher Kirkendall, is very busy
with his forces of men getting lum-
Der off the Ainesly lot. A READER
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-17
RAuRAo-

Especial Correspondence to the PREEs.)
AS stated last week we had our
chicken supper on Tuesday evening,
some of the invitations sent out,
said if 1t was stormy, it would be
the next evening. AS there was a
bounteous supply of provisions left
we took none of them away, and
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-17
MATAMoRAS.

Especial Correspondence TO the PREss.)
MATAMoRAs, Jan. 14.-Miss BERTHE
Mulley is lying dangerously i'll at
her home on Washington street.
Isaac Decker, son of Coe Decker,
was unfortunate in having his hand
so badly crushed that it was amput-
ated at the hospital Sunday morn
ing. II is hard to lose hand most
especially so if young man has
but little of this worlds goods.
saw the second issue of the " Ep-
worth Tidings. They are writing up
history of the Epworth Church.
wonder if tho half will be told.
Mr.. Jacob Biyer, is very, sick at
his home, with little propect of q
recovery very soon as it seems he is
suffering from a complication of dis
eases.
The river is frozen over at this
place, and the young people are skat'
ing merrily. TULY.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-17
iiNa NEARaV COUNTIES.

East Stroudsburg has distressing
case of poverty and sickness. The
family of James Howey consisting
of six children have been sick, and
three have died while the others are
critically ill. Howey has no work
andth charitably inclined are rend-
ering aid.
The Times says H. E. Kingsley Of
Brookfield N. Y, has taken the con.
tract to carry the mail between Say
lorsburg and Wind Gap in Monroe
county for $4,000 two trips per day
These must be good times indeed, il
man can be found to furnish 6
horse and wagon, and throw in hi.
whole time, for rs cents per day.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-17
FOR SALE.

A small farm located near
Matamoras, known as the Hensel
or Reinhardt place, containing 21
acres. Finely located, well watered.
House and barn. Fruit of all kinds.
Part improved. Title clear. For
Terms, price, ETC., address Lock box
G., Milford Pa.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-17

Notice is hereby given that tres
passing on the premises of the un-
dersigned, situated in Dingman
township, for any purpose whatever
Is strictly forbidden, and all Of
tenders will be promptly prosecuted
Oct. "a, 1895. IRA B. CASE.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-17

Correspondents are particularly
requested to send in all news in
tended for publication not later
than Wednesday in each week to
insure insertion.
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day with his father.

day with his father.
Mr.. Geo. zimmerman, made a fly.
ing business trip in town, Saturday.
There will be a supper and enter
tainment in the new house at H. P.
James, Jan. 23rd, for the benefit Of
our minister, Rev. @. M. Bell. A
cordial invitation is extended to all
THRASH "
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-17

The school directors of Dingman
township will pay twenty dollars
for information which will lead to
the dissection and conviction of any
person or persons committing any
trespass or doing any damage to any
school house or property therein in
said township. .,
T. By order of the board,
p Nov, 2, 1895. IRA B.. CASE, Sec
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-17
TRESPASS NOTICE. Notice is

TRESPASS NOTICE. Notice is
! hereby given that trespassing
upon the property of the Forest Lake
Association in Lackawaxen town
ship, Pike county, Pa, for the pur-
pose of hunting or fishing or any
other purpose is strictly forbidden
under penalty of the law.
ALEXANDER HADDEN,
Nov. %, 1895. President.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-01-17

A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE. Letters
"A of administration upon the estate of
Frederick Meyer, late of Dingman town
ship deceased, have been granted to the un-
dersigned. All persons having claims
against said estate will present them, and
those indebted TO said decedent will please
make immediate payment to
JOHN 4. OLMsTED, Administrator.
Dingman township, Dec. 80, 1895.
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Address PIKE COUNTY PRESS,
MILFORD, PA.


7 OST. Between Milford bridge and
~ Court House, an open face silver
watch with gold chain. Finder will be re-
warded by leaving same at store of Brown
& Armstrong.
A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE. Letters
"A Of administration upon the estate Of
John H. Meyer, late Of Dingman town
chip deceased, have been granted to the
undersigned. All persons having claims
against said estate will present them, and
those indebted to said decedent will please
make immediate payment to
JOHN Il. OLMsTED, Administrator.
Dingman township, Dec. 30, 1895.
A DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Letters
N of administration upon the estate Of
Christian ID. Meyer late Of Dingman town
ship deceased, have been granted to the un-
dersigned. All persons having claims
against said estate will present them and
those indebted to said decedent will please
make immediate payment to
JOHN +. OLMsTED, Administrator.
Dingman township, Dec. 80, 1895.
A ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Letters
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-05
Motor Attachment for Vehicles.

Every man who owns buggy can now
have horseless carriage with little ex-
penditure. Heretofore one who would
own a horseless vehicle had to buy the
whole contrivance or build it himself
But Alfred H. Kennedy of Rockport, Ind,
has overcome this by inventing machine
that can be attached 10 any wheeled ve-
hicle.
Briefly, Mr.. Kennedy's invention con-
sists OF two-wheeled truck with motor
mechanism and flexible attachments for
fastening it to the vehicle to be propelled.
The attachment looks like an old-fash-
ioned cannon.
The details of the construction of this
device are two wheels mounted on shaft
with crank connection. Close to the
hubs is framework that extends forward
and carries the cylinder and other ma
chinery of gasoline engine. Connection
between the piston and the crank shaft is
made by a connection-rod in the ordinary
way. The gasoline tank is to be carried in
the bed of the buggy.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-05
Those Eartbouake Waves.

Science sometimes illustrates a homely
old saying about going away from home to
get the news. For instance, the tide roll
from the tide gauge at Sausalito has been
read by the Coast and Geodetic Survey
and the record marks with accuracy the
duration of the earthquake waves on the
Japanese coast on June 10. Such record
it would be impossible to make at the
scene OF the disaster, for the tide gauge
could not stand under a pressure of waves
thirty feet high sweeping over it. Obser-
vat1ons made by local spectators cannot
take the place of the gauge with which
the sea makes its own indisputabie record.
The first earthquake wave from Japan. on
June Is, arrived at Sausalito just about
twelve hours after it received its impulse
in Japan. The first wave was the largest.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-05
MoToR ATTACHMENT FOR VEHICLES.

dynamo or battery which will automati-
cally follow the company about the field
OF battle, remaining continually in the
proper position on the flank. As at pres
ent constructed dynamos and storage bat
teries would be difficult to handle in this
manner. Moreover, the dynamos or stor-
age batteries would in themselves have no
effect under any circumstances, but in
order to produce any effect it would be
necessary TO have wires carrying heavy
currents passing from the hanks many
hundreds OF feet toward the enemy, and
the writer does not explain how he in
tends to make these move about the field,
following the company on these various
maneuvers, always remaining in proper
position on the flank and always reaching
out the requisite distance toward the
enemy. 1t is conceivable that with an
army in a fixed position on the defensive
vast array of wires might be run out in
all directions in such a manner that any
particular company would have wires on
its fanks into which current could be
turned, but the shots so deviated would
be likely to invade the ranks of some
other company, with consequent pro-
duction of domestic discord."
With regard to the reference to Conan
Doyle's "Stark Munro Letters Stuart
Smith calls attention to the error in the
statement that the hero proposes to pro-
tect vessels by accumulators placed at
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-05
LATEST MoToR CYCLE.

com pleted. will be of inestimable value to
astronomers. The idea is to show just
what aspect the heavens presented at the
period represented. Any changes subse-
quent to this period will be at once de-
tected and valuable information gained.
The observatories participating in this
work will each bear the cost Of and be
responsible for, its own particular piece of
sky. When completed the photographs
tory for the production of the map.
Stellar ph autographs are always used just
as they come from the camera, without
any retouching whatever. The number of
stars shown is proportionate to the length
of exposure of the sensitive plate. At
first it was intended to include stars of
the fifteenth magnitude in the measure
ments, but the trem endous additional
labor involved caused the congress to fix
the limit at the fourteenth magnitude.
Almost nothing is known of stars which
are such an enormous distance away, and
no map or record has ever before been
made of them. As matters stand at pres
ent few millions of them might disap-
pear without astronomers being any of the
wiser. This gigantic map was planned by
the Paris observatory in 1865, and propo-
sition made to all the big obs ervatories to
assist in the work. Since that date the
principal observatories have been busy on
the big scheme, which will certainly be
the most wonderful thing that modern as
tronomy has accomplished.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-05

This was one foot high at Sausalito. but it
will be recollected that on the Hawaiian
Islands the wave was thirty feet high.
Undoubtedly number one was higher
than one foot when it reached the Golden
Gate, but as it ran through the gate it
was much diminished in size and as it
ran around corner to get to Sausalito
there was further shrinkage. The crests
OF the waves as they arrived at Sausalito
were about fifteen to twenty minutes apart,
ana they continued to come for about
twenty-four hours. The time taken to
ransmlt the oscillation verifes the speed
observed IN the waves that ran here from
imoda in 1854, and is very interesting
demonstration.
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-05

engaged in the work. These telescopes
are all of II feet 3 inches focal length, with
an object glass 13 inches in diameter.
To take stellar photograph is not q
very difficult task, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch. The sitters do not have to look
pleasant, and the automatic movements of
the telescope keep the objective always
opposite the stars to be photographed.
The delicate part of the task consists in
the accurate measuring and placing of the
stars shown upon the Photographic plate.
Each negative will be transferred IN dupli-
cate on copper. and the two plates will be
kept in different observatories. This Is to
obviate any chance of accident to the
plates, Tor If both were lost the damage
would be almost irreparable. Some idea
OF the magnitude of the task undertaken
may be gained from the fact that to repro
duce the map from the plates will cost over
$2,O00,OO0 When to this is added the cost
OF the instruments, the time OF the cal
culators and measurers and the number
less ct cete-as which pertain to work of
so gigantic nature, the ultimate cost
will be tremendous. But the map, when
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-05

The principle of the invention consists in
making the two rails conform to the action
of centrifugal force; that is, to build them
at such an angle that they will axiallv con-
form to the curve of the roadbed.
This is, of course, an easy matter to
calculate, so that the cars will swing to
the center as a bicyclist does when turn
ing corner. By this arrangement there
will be very little strain on the upper rail
at any time, except the car should come to
standstiil, and none at all except gravity
on the lower rail.
Another point of Mr.. Boynton's inven-
ton lies in the fact that the rails can be
built parallel to one another and the same
center supports answer. Trains can even
run in opposite directions at the same
time and there would be little extra strain
as the axial center of the two trains would
be the same
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-05
LOWEST HUMAN FORM
FOUND IN JAVA.
Scientists Think It Will
Turn Out to Be the
Missing Link.
Coffin Torpedoes That Are Cal
culated to Blow Up Grave
Robbers.
Peculiar Devices for Securing the
Escape of Those Buried Alive
Recently Patented.

The "missing link" that scientists have
been searching after ever since Mr.. Dar-
win announced his theory of the descent
of man from the lower animals may have
been found at last.
There have recently been uncovered In
Java by French scientist, NJ. Dubois,
thigh bone, part of skull and two molar
teeth that seem without doubt to be the
fragments of one OF these extinct man
apes.
The teeth are as much larger then the
teeth of the African as the negro's teeth
are larger than the Europeans. The
thigh bone is the size of that bone in the
average man of to-day. The skull is
about the average in point of brain ca
pacity between the average European and
the highest ape.
The femur or thigh bone is said to be
unquestionably human. Authorities differ
as to the character of the skull and teeth.
Shall they be called human or apish2 The
answer can only be definitely given when
all the steps in the change from man to
ape are in evidence and the dividing line
conventionally established.
Professor S. E. Tillman, writing in the
Cosmopolitan, says about the Java dlscov-
cries:
"The consensus of scientific opinion,
however, decides that all the remains
must be regarded as human. 1t cannot
be definitely determined from this find
alone. but it is probable that this so
called Pithecanthropus (erect apel is the
lowest human form yet found, and is one
of the missing links connecting man
with earlier and less human forms, and
that he stands a long way off from man
on the line leading to these forms.
This statement should not be under
stood as implying any direct connection
between existing men and existing apes,
for it is pretty certain that while both of
these may be traced to a common ancestor,
they have not travelled the same path
from that ancestor to the present, and no
discovery will ever bridge the chasm be-
tWeen them"
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-05
A GREAT MAP OF
THE HEAVENLY ORBS.
1t Will Delineate Thirty
Millions of Spark
ling Stars.
Big Enough to Cover Two Acres
and Cost Two Million
Dollars.
Eighteen 0bservatories in All Parts
of the World Engaged in
the Mighty Task.

The great map of the sky upon which
astronomers have been working for the
last nine years is approaching completion.
1t is an intern ational affair, for no one
country could carry through such gIgan-
tic task.
The heavens have been mapped out in
sections, section being assigned to each
OF the principal observatories in the world,
and each of these eighteen observatories
must furnish map of its particular Sec
ton in 1900 parts. To do this 5000 photo
graphs have been taken at each obserya-
ory, making grand total of 81, 900 photo
graphs. The United States is not repre-
sented in the international congress for
the construction of this map. Professor
Pickering of Harvard wished to undertake
share of the work, but it was finally
decided that the great amount of time
required for the allotted section would
interfere with the general work of the
Cam bridge observatories. The Yerkes
observatory was not, of course. ready at
the time. and the others did not care to
lay out the money for the necessary in
struments. The observatories sharing in
the work are those of Greenwich. Rome,
Catania, Helsingfors, Potsdam, Oxford,
Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Alger1o, San
Fernando, Tacubaya, Santiago (Chile), La
Plata, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Of Good Hope,
Sydney and Melbourne.
The map will be in total area nearly two
acres. but must necessarily be divided up
into manageable size. For each hemi-
sphere there will be II, 600 little maps, or
%, 900 for the whole sidereal universe.
Upon it will be shown about 80, 000 600 of
stars. OF these 1000, 00will be catalogued
and numbered, so that any star up to the
eleventh magnitude can be located as easily
as an island in the map of the world. The
stars actually shown upon the map will
be all those up to the fourteenth magni-
tude. A great number of the stars
shown upon the map cannot be seen
by the human eye, even with the
aid of the most powerful telescope.
The Photographic plate, however, can de-
tect many millions of stars which no man
has ever seen.
The long exposure necessary in order to
Get photographs of stars beyond the four
teenth magnitude renders the operation
too difficult for the construction of a map.
The measurements and exact position of
each star have TO be recorded, and to do
this hundreds of astronomers have been
working for years.
Special apparatus was purchased by
each observatory for the work. All the
instruments must be similar in size and
construction, or the photographs would
not be alike. The international congress,
which was held at the Paris observatory
eight years ago. decided that telescope
must be constructed for each observatory
The San Francisco call., 1896-07-05

placed parallel with the rife range. This
condition must prevail in order to pro-
duce any appreciable detection. The
principle involved is that an electric
current in a wire produces q mag
netic field, this field theoretically ex-
tending to an infinite distance from
the wire. 1t is most intense in
the region Immediately surrounding the
wire and becomes weaker as the distance
increases. the law of variation being in
versely as the square of the distance Any
magnetic body placed In a magnetic
field Ia magnetic body" is not necessarily
one which is magnetized, but one capable
of being magnetized. Iron possesses this
property in far greater degree than any
other substance) is acted upon by the
magnetic lines of force and, in case the
field is one of variable intensity, tends to
pass into that portion of the field which is
most intense. Where a circuit carrying
an electric current is parallel with the line
of fire the shot, in its fight, is con-
tinually acted upon bv the lines
OF force of the magnetic field
through which it is passing, and is sub
jected to continuous pull toward the
wire or that portion of tie field which is
most intense. If the time during which
the shot is acted upon by the force is of
considerable duration the effect may be a
considerable deviation, as is reported to
have been the case in the Swiss expert
ments. 1t must not be forgotten, how
ever, that time is au important element,
and if a powerful magnet were placed
somewhere along the line of its flight its
effect on the shot would be but momen-
tary, and it could do no more than to
twitch the shot as it passed. This might
be sufficient to somewhat upset the calcu-
ations of a marksman who was endeavor-
! ing to make dead CENTER but would
| hardly be sufficient to cause the shot to
| fly wide of an army or fortifcation.
"With regard to the writer who pro-
poses to protect company of infantry by
placing a dynamo or storage battery oi
requisite power on the flank, 1t is probable
that he has in mind some new form oi