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Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
BLIND soYs PLAY BASEBALL.
Gamo Diners in Many Details from the
Regular One.

Gamo Divers In Many Details from ths
Regular One.
Prof. r. b. Huntoon, of the Kentucky
school, describing baseball among the
blind, says: The baseball game differs,
of course, in many of it's details from the
regular games. The diamond is not of
regulation size, but is of regulation
form. The distance between bases is
but 40 feet. The fielders are stationed
the same as in the National league game,
with the exception that there is a right
shortstop, thus making ten men to a
side. In the outfield, in public games,
there is an unlimited unmber of players,
each taking turn at the bat, first NOV
ing up enc position whenever a batsman
is put out.
The catcher sits on the ground, well
back from the home plate, and, to guard
against injury, he wears a mask and
chest protector. His position is such
that when a pitcher delivers a ball it
strikes the ground just between the
knees and is taken on the short bound.
The batsman takes his position at
the plate with a heavy fiat bat, sone-
what like those used in cricket. The
umpire, who must be man of unim-
paired vision, calls upon the pitcher to
get ready, and then clearly cings out;
"One, two, threel" At the word three
the pitcher must Loyalty deliver the ball.
He pitches in the slow, underhand way
peculiar to the game 25 or 80 years ago,
the idea being to deliver a ball that can
be hit by the batsman, who, standing
there in the darkness, with a sharpened
sense of hearing and wonderful con
ception of the time that must elapse be-
fore the ball reaches him, is prepared
to strike.
If the batsman should miss the ball
bounces into the catcher's lap, and is re-
turned to the pitcher by a single toss
with a precision that is wonderful. |
When the ball is batted the umpire calls
out quickly to the fielder in whose direc-
ton it is travelling, and he, guided by
sense of hearing, either catches the ball
or follows it in its course through the
grass. Six strikes are an out. In field
ing any number of bounds are permit
ted. If the Latted ball is "hot liner"
and travelling straight for an infelder's
head, the umpire shouts a warning, and
in such cases the player ducks or falls TO
the turf.
1t is possible, in fact, the ball is fire.
quently tielded TO first in time to put
out the runner. When throwing to first
the assisting player, who is guided by
the voice of the baseman, calculates the
distance with nicely and throws the ball
so that it strikes the ground a few yards
in front of the baseman. The latter
hears it coming and usually gets it with.
out further assistance. Running bases
was formerly difficult thing. There
were then three trees on the diamond,
toward which the runner ran with out
stretched hands, Bags have since been
for bases, and the runner is
guided by the voice of the baseman, who
is required to shout: First, first, frstl"
In like manner the other bags are won,
Once on base the runner is pretty sure
TO get home, unless his side dies at the
home plate. Six outs put side out
Boston Transcript.
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
QUEER NAME EoR A Fly.


It Deceived the Judge About to Start foi
His Vacation.
Police Judge Campbell announced
from the bench the other day that he
was DESTROYS of having all the business
of his court cleared up prior to the date
of beginning his vacation. He had
hardly descended from the judicial
bench when a solemn visaged friend
approached him and grasped his hand
"Glad to hear that you are going
away for relaxation, judge" said the
friend, 'but want to warn you against
the sarcophaga."
"Sarcophaga? What the deuce is
that?"
What! Never heard of the sarcop-
haga? Sarcophagus, which was origin
ally a stone coffin, supplied the name
for the sarcophaga-only it has been
Latinized.
"The dickensl" said the jurist.
"Yes, indeed. Rightly named, too.
You know that this climate encourages
noXious life with the same fecundity
with which it gives rise to leas. On
every scented breeze are bacteria,
pupae and larvae in siclxening profu-
sion. That is, they are siclening to
any man not as robust as you are. By
the way, how are you feeling?"
The jurist said that he felt fairly.
Perhaps you are all right then"
broke in the friend, cheerily "But to
return to the sarcophagus-no, sareo-
phaga, I should have said. Not a
sarcophagus, eh, Judge? Awkward mis-
take, that"
mo, not the sarcophagus, of course"
"Of course not. But the body of this
foe of man and beast, black and funer-
cal as his coat, is too suggestive for
comfort. A tracing would show the
main lines of the body to be shaped like
a coffin lid. All, yes; here you are; not
a good drawing, but still it shows
collin with wings on it. The wings be-
long to the sarcophaga, and not TO the
sarcophagus"
There was something eerie in Judge |
eyes as he edged slowly |
away, refusing to accept an invitation
to take a drink or cigar, or to receive |
further warmups. When his friend |
had gone away the jurist sought out an
work on entomology.
well, I'll be blessed" he said; that
IS a good joke, after all. The fellow
was talking all the time about horse
dy."-San Francisco Call.
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
A woMAN's HOUR.
A Mans Entire Dag Could Not 30 Filled
More CompIeteIy.

"A Mans Entire Dag Could Not Be Filled
More Completely.
''Please state to the court exactly
what you did between eight and nine
O'Clock on Wednesday morning" said a
lawyer, according to the Chicago Chron-
icle, to a delicate looking little woman
on the witness stand.
"Well." she said, after a moments
reflection, II washed my two children
and got them ready for school and
lsewed a button on Johnny's coat and
mended a rent in Nellie's dress. Then
j tides up my sitting-roOm and made
two beds and watered my house plants
and glanced over the morning paper
Then busted my parlor and set things
to rights in it. / washed some lamp
chimneys and combed my baby's hair
and sewed button on one of her little
shoes, and then swept out my front
entry and brushed and put away the
children's Sunday clothes and wrote
note to Johnny's teacher, asking her
to excuse him for not being to school
on Friday. Then fed my canary bird
and gave the grocery man an order,
and swept off the back porch, and then I
sat down and rested for a few minutes
before the clock struck nine. That's
ALL"
@Alli" said the dazed lawyer. "Ex-
cuse me, judge, must get my breath
before I call my next witness"
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
A WONDERFUL sEAwEED.
has a stem Sometimes Three Hundred
Feet Long.

has a stem Sometimes Three hundred
Feet Long.
One of the most extraordinary sea-
weeds among the Laminariacee is the
Nereocystis, the stem of which occasion
ally attains length of 500 feet, though
extremely slender, even at the top,
where it is surmounted by a huge float
ing bladder six feet or seven feet in
length, that affords favorite resting
place to the sea otter. This plant is
found on the northeast coast of
America and the opposite shores of
Asia. The filiform stem, which is
about as thick as pack-thread, sudden
ly swells above, when two feet or three
feet long, into n globose bladder, from
the top of which springs a tuft of ger
inmate leaves mostly rising on five
petioles. As the plant grows older the
stem increases enormously in length.
but only slightly in thickness. The
globose bladder swells into turnip-
shaped or retort~lile cyclinder, six feet
long and four feet six inches or more in
diameter in the widest part, the lower
extremity gradually passing into the
stem. The leaves, which at first were
marked with a few faint nerves, split in
the direction of the latter, cover a wide
space by their entangled mass, and at
tain length of so feet OF more. When
the plant grows in any quantity, it
forms large floating islands, and the
surface of the sea becomes impossible
to boats. The stem, when dry, is en-
ployed by the Aleutians for fishing
lines, some of which have length of
40 or more fathoms. The large bladders
are used by the same people as syphons
for pumping water out of their boats
Fishing Gazette.
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18

Icycling and Golf Rave Almost Killet
IL in England.

IL in England.
How comes it that, the champion
week at Wimbledon notwithstanding,
lawn tennis has umquestionably suf.
fered some eclipse, is played with less
/ eageness than heretofore, and has
fewer votaries? It has, we are afraid,
been eciipsed by more fascinating rivals.
and bicycling has completed what golf
had already begun.
It had reached all the perfection Of
which it was capable; and when that
stage is attained, sports, like painting,
like sculpture, like architecture, indeed,
like all the arts, begin to perish. In all
perfection are the latent seeds of decay.
As long as great many people played
lawn tennis tolerably well, but no one
supremely, and all were moving on 70
ameliOration, lawn tennis was safe. But
when a certain number of players got
TO play too well the fate of the game
was scaled, as far as universal popular
ity is concerned.
The inferior players did not care to
play with the superior players, and.
truth 10 tell, the superior ones did not
care TO play with the inferior ones.
Shall we be deemed very ungallant if
we add that, speaking generally, the in
ferior players were-well, not of the
male sex? They withdrew their coun-
tenance from the game in consequence,
and the result was that sank from the
position Of a national pastime to that
of n provincial or local one.
Moreover, bicycling is the chartered
libertine Of the day. Mount bicycle,
and the most dragooned young woman
MAY go where she likes, when she likes,
and as fast as she likes. If she attempt
ed to go in boat, in a hanson, or even
on horseback, as freely as she moves
about on her cycle. the mountains
would be called ON to cover her, and
she would swiftly be reminded of the
obligations and restrictions of her sex.
But n female cyclist can do no wrong.
Is it to be wondered at that. such being
the case, bicycling promises to kill not
only lawn tennis, but to run over every
thing that stands in its way London
Standard
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
RENTING MOUNTED ANIMALS.
Almost ANY Animal May BE Hired. from
a squirreI to an Elephant

Almost ANY Animal May Do Hired, from
q Squirrel to an Elephant
Mounted animals and birds are rented
for great variety of purposes, and al
most any animal or bird may be hired
The fur-bearing animals are rented prin
cipally to furriers for use as show
pieces. Many turner's buy show pieces
but there are others who prefer to rent
them, thus gerting new or different
show piece every season. Sometimes a
large number Of animals, from the
smallest squirrel to the largest tiger
and lion, are rented together for the
/ decoration of show room; and birds
in large numbers and in great variety,
from humming birds to peacocks, are
| sometimes rented for similar purposes.
Animals and birds both are rented
for theatrical purposes. A stuffed dog
was needed in play. Just the dog re-
quired was found at the taxidermist's.
There may be play with a scene in it
in which hunter comes in with fawn
over his shoulder. The fawn can be
| hired at the taxidermists. It may be
that in some play an eagle alights upon
the stage; an eagle may be hired. In
plays depicting circus life, if a parade
forms part of the representation, the
wagons can be filed with lifelilxe stuffed
tigers, bears and other animals, such as
might be found in a real circus. And
bears, elephants and various other
mounted animals are at one time or an
other used on the stage.
Mounted animals are renterd for va
rious civic displays and parades and for
ballroom decorations and other uses.
Tigers can be hired for political process
sions. For a presentation of Little Red
Riding Hood wolf can be hired. Swans
are rented and all sorts of birds. Some
times a dining-room, as on the occasion
of game supper, is decorated with all
kinds of game birds.
Lecturers hire mounted animals. Lee
turers on natural history to a school,
for example, the lecturer might upon
the stage caribou, an elk and deer, to
show the difference between them
Mounted animals and birds are rented |
for various photographic purposes. A
bear, or an eagle perhaps, to be photo
graphed for n tTnde mark, or n parrot |
TO be held by child. The live bird |
would not keep still; a stuffed bird will.
Birds are rented to artists to draw OF
paint from.
For fish store openings, big por-
poises, sharks and sturgeon are rented; |
and crocodiles and alligators are rented |
to leather and shoe stores.
The cost of renting mounted animals
and birds is much less proportionately
for longer than for a shorter period.
The charge for show pieces is a certain
percentage of the value, graduated ac-
cording to the length of time for which
they are taken. For a single day big
tiger could be hired for $40 and a small
tiger for IS; middle-sized elephant for
$25 a day; a big grizzly bear for $40, and
a small grizzly for IS. An eagle, for a
single occasion, one or two days, would
cost 50 to 81. A squirrel could be hired
for a day for so cents, a wolf for SO, Il
parrot for so cents, hummmg bird or
"a robin for 25 cents, and an ostrich for
s. a day.-N. Y. Sun.
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18

Fancy jacket effects are the latest
gowns, and the figaro is particularly
fashionable. A gown of dark blue
butchers linen is made with one of
the jackets deliberately embroidered
with white cotton braid. The skirt has
an odd pattern of the embroidery put
all around it, and over a plain white
silk shirt is worn the jacket. which is
also embroidered. The sleeves are odd.
with the white silk, showing like a
puff under half sleeve of the linen.
This white braiding will be seen on the
face of everything next season. At
present it is a novelty. The hat for
this gown is of dark blue straw,
trimmed with blue ribbon boas and
pink roses massed both on and under
the brim.-St. Louis Republic.
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
HIS LEG is PULLED.
The Way a Southern Congressman Re
pnrds His T,ot.

The Way a Southern Congressman Re-
CARDS His Lot.
"Some people may think that con
gresham saves a pile of money out OF
his salary" said a well-knOwn southern
congressman, who was talking to a
Washington Star reporter on the vicis-
STUDIES of running for office, and espe-
cially for congress, ''butamanhas to be
small walking bank to accommodate
the large number of his friends and
supporters who need little money for
some urgent matter. In my state we
have to make campaigns and appear be-
fore the people at meetings. Well,
have never attended a meeting that
did not have some kind of a subscrip-
ton poked into my face. Somebody
wants something for church and for
missionary purposes or for helping
some fellow who has been burned out.
'You can't avoid subscribing, and
have to head the list with the largest
sum. Then about the time you think
you are through having your leg pulled
some lazy fellow viii walk up and say:
How do, general? I had ter quit my
work ter come out and hear you terday,
and thunk yer mout give me a dollar
While you have the greatest contempt
for the man, you give him the dollar.
"When you leave the meeting you are
out anywhere from 500 to $50. These
are just few instances of what can
didate has to spend money for. After
he gets through the campaign and is
elected he has to furnish every dead
heat from his district who should hap
pen to come to Washington with
money. I've actually given them
money and railroad tickets to get home
and have them go back and work
aOainst me"
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
ALLIGATOR PEARS.
To Acquire Taste for Them Is an Ex-
pensIve LUXURY.

To Acquire Taste for Them Is an tx
pensive Luxury.
Most interesting of all South Florida
fruits, because little cultivated, almost
unknown outside of the tropics, and
most highly appreciated when once in
troduced, is the alligator or aracado
pear-the aguacate of Cuba, says Har-
per's Round Table. A very few alligator
pear trees are grown in sheltered spots
of southern California; but South Flor
ida, below latitude 26 degrees, is the only
section of the United States where it
can be cultivated on large scale and as
a profitable crop. Here it grows as lux
uriantly and with as little care as the
guava, though it requires a greater
depth of soil. The tree is tall, slender.
and covered with dense foliage of dark
glossy green, while the ripened fruit,
also green in color, is smooth-skinned
and as large as a mans two fists. In
side is n great round stone or seed sur
rounded by a soft, yellowish-green pulp,
which, sprinxled with salt and eaten
with a spoon, or made into a salad, is
delicious beyond description. Noone ever
eats an alligator pear without wanting
another, and the taste once acquired de-
mands to be gratified, regardless of ex-
pense. have known so and even rs
cents apiece to be paid for these pears,
and when I once asked a Broadway
dealer which was the most expensive
fruit in his store, he promptly an
swered: ALLIGATOR pears"
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
THE HUB.
What Every Boston Man believes of His
CITY.

CITY.
When the young fellow they call
John" in the "Autocrat" accepts the
famous proposition that Boston state
house is the hub of the solar system
and adds that you couldn't pry that
out of a Boston man if you had the tire
of all creation Strengthened out for a
crOwbar," the Autocrat accepts the
"satire of the remark" and admits that
the axis of the earth sticks out visibly
through the center of each and every
town and city" But he does not pre-
tend to conceal that the sentiment, out
rageous if literally accepted, ticllles
his fancy agreeably. When we drink
mans health after dinner we often
express an estimate Of his virtues
which we might sometimes shrink
from maintaining in cold blood. Yet
our sentiment may be essentially gen
uine, though we have dropped some
implied qualifications.
Holmes as a man shares the young
fellows enthusiasm; though he wishes
us to understand that he is aware in
cold blood that it is not quite the whole
truth. The little deformed gentleman
in the professor" gives a still more
vigorous mouthpiece of the same senti-
ment: "A new race and a whole new
world for the newborn human soul
to work in! And Boston is the brain
of it and has been any time these hum
dred years! That's all I claim for Bos-
ton, that it is the thinking center of
the continent and therefore of the
planet!"-in which respect its superb
GRITTY to Philadelphia and New York is
easily demonstrated. The little gentle
man is one of Holmes most spirited
characters and makes convenient or
gan for the utterance of opinions not
to be turned into serious dogmas-but
also not to be overlooked. Boston is
an ideal as well as a real city; it repre-
sents "the American principle" what
ever that may precisely be. It is the
three-hilled city as opposed to the
seyen-hilled city, or reason against
Rome. Democratic America has a diff
ferent humanity from feudal Europe
'and so must have new divinity"
Religion has to be "Americanized" and
Boston is in the van of the struggle
National Review.
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
Psalllous SITUATION.


HIS Wife
II see,n,said Mrs. Hardrocks, as sh,
crumplediup her morning paper, ethaa
you are advertising for a typewriter
Eyes, her husband replied. i had tc
come to it. My business is Of such a
nature that the pen won't do any
more"
"Humphl" his loving wife returned
staring at him hard. "And 1 see that
you say in your advertisement: Must
not be too old, and must come with a
good supply Of ribbons I want to
know what you mean by putting such
things in the paper over your name. l
shall be the one to decide whether your
typewriter is too old or not and wheth-
er she has enough ribbons or not. Have
you ceased to care for me that you can
deliberately
Pardon me for interrupting you.
Angelina" said Mr.. HardroelSs, 'but I
am merely advertising for a typewrit-
ing machine-not the other kind"
"Oh!" the lady retorted, 81 hope You
don't think it makes any difference to
me whether you have typewriter or
not, or what lHnd of a oneyou get"
"Ohl dear, no! I couldn't think that
for minute" Mr.. Hardroclls returned.
81 know that you are one of the most
sensible little women in the world, and
that. you have the confidence in me
that I deserve. OF course, if you don't
think 1 ought to have a typewriter,
why, I'll not get one. guess we could
worry along in the old-fashioned way"
"Not for the world" his wife said,
as she kissed him at the door. "You
must have one, dear; and get any kind
you want"
"By Jovel" said Hardrocks to him
self, after he had secured a seat in the
car, I'm almost sorry now that 1 en-
gagged that little brunette. "-Cleveland
NT,r,rc- ! Tar.a1H
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18

The opinion that hurry ia eating is a
prolific cause of dyspepsia is founded
on common observation. The i'll re-
suits of boiling food have been at
tributed to the lack of thorough masti-
cation and to the incomplete action of
the saliva upon the food. Two-thirds
of the food which we eat is starch, and
starch cannot be utilized in the system
as food, until it has been converted into
sugar, and this change is principally
effected by the saliva But there is a
third reason why rapidity of eating
interferes with digestion. The presence
of the salivary secretion in the stomach
acts as a stimulus TO the secretion of the
gastric juice. Irrespective of the me
chanical function Of the teeth, food
which goes into the stomach incomplete
~ mingled with saliva passes slowly
and imperfectiy through the process Of
stomach digestion. Therefore. as a
sanitary maxim of no mean value. teach
the children to eat slowly, and in giving
this instruction byexample the teacher,
as we'll as the pupil, may receive benefit.
Troy Times.
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18

Persons wishing to visit the city teither 70
pleasure or business) will fDd trip by this route
very delightful and pieasant,as they will get to Ell
joy the pleasant sea breeze, besides having a
splendid view Of the scenery along the by and
river.
Passenger accommodations flrst-class,
Ladies' saloon, genileman's saloon and private
state rooms. New dining room especially for
passengers.
All Handsomely furnished and lighted with
ELECTRIC LIGHTS,
Fare to Philadelphia, s.; Round Trip, $3.50.
Meals IS cents.
First-class accommodations under cover for
HORSES, and all kinds or Live Stock
MEALS. rs cents.
Address Philadelphia communications IN care
Gibbons, Rexsamer & Co, 80 South Front Street.
Lebanon Navigation Co.,
OGce-RIslNGSUN. DELAWARE.
Milford chronicle., 1896-09-18
THE NATIVE QUESTION.
In South Africa Ceased to Worry &c
onial or Imperial Statesmen.

In South Africa-Ceased to Worry Gel
Onial or Imperial Statesmen.
Since the breaking up of the Zulu
Matabele powers, the native question.
once so formidable in South Africa, and
still perhaps likely to give occasional
trouble, has ceased to be an anxiety to
colonial or imperial statesmen. Even in
OAKLAND the feeble Portuguese govern
ment has been able to deal successfully
with Gunbunhama, and southeast If
RIGA is practically freed altogether from
the curse of the descendants of MOST
likatse, the quondam Attila of this part
of the world. Yet this result has not
been gained without terrible expendi-
ture. To say nothing of the more re
cent wars with Cetewayo and Kreli, the
home government was throwing mil
lions of money broadcast over South
Africa in the SOS.
Sir William Wordsworth once stated
in parliament July 81, 1851 that our
military expenditure at the Cape then
amounted to e 100000 or G 100000 Ter
annum as a standing dish, whereas the
last Kafir outbreak Immediately sent
the bill up to eAOO0,OOO per annun.
Besides being costly, the five OF six
kafir campaigns of this century have
been extremely vexatious and inglori-
GUS, from the high military point of
view. The foe was always insidious
and crafty, and it was never easy TO
clear the valleys Of the Kei and Fish rlv-
ers, or to sweep through the Amatolas.
But it was work that had to be done on
the confines Of our gradually growing
empire, and it was generally done well.
At the same time it had to be done as
carefully as possible, for the philan-
thropic party at home was always on
the lookout for atrocities, and, in the
case Of the Glenelg policy, worked
round an absolutely unwise reversal
Magazine.