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The record-union., 1896-11-24
SONS OF THE REVOLUTION.
Anniversary Exercises of the YER
mont Society.

MONTPELIER Vt), Nov. 23.-The
anniversary exercises of the Vermont
Society of Sons of the Revolution were
held in the Armory Hall this afternoon,
the chief feature being an Grafton by
Chauncey M. Depew. At the Armory
fully 5000 people assembled, including
delegations from Burlington, Rutland,
st. Adams and other places.
The hall was divided into three sec
tons, and the guests We're seated by
detail of twenty-four members of the
Vermont National Guard acting as
uShers.
The exercises were opened with
prayer. Ex-Governor Dillingham; then,
after a felicitous address, introduced
Mr.. Depew
Mr.. Depew devoted the major portion
of his remarks to a sketch of the colo
NAL history Of the Green Mountain
State, it's part in the revolutionary war
with the many glorious incidents ike
Bennington, Ticonderoga and Grown
Point, until in 1871 Vermont added an
other star to the flag of the Union.
Then after an eloquent extolment of the
principles of our Government and the
duties of patriotic societies to educate
the people, he said:
THE shifting standard of value is
not American. A paternal Government
is not American. Any effort to array
the people into classes when employers
and employees are constantly changing
places is not American. An assault
upon the independence of the judiciary
is not American. American liberty is
the liberty of law and order"
He concluded: Gentlemen, let us
learn and teach the principles upon
which our Government has grown to its
great and beneficent proportions Let
US enforce the lesson that American
liberty is the preservation of American
opportunity for every man to rise
above the condition in which he was
| born, and to receive the full fruit in
honors from his fellow citizens and in
protection from his country of the re-
suits which have come to him by his
talents, his industry, his wisdom, his
prudence, his thrift and his good citi
ZenShip.''
A reception was given to Mr.. Depew
after the exercises.
The record-union., 1896-11-24
DIAMOND ROBBERY.
A Thief Walks Off With Gems Valued
at SIS 200, Which Were Recovered.

CINCINNATI, Nov. GA man
wearing macintosh entered Clemens
Oskamp's jewelry store, at All Vine
street, at neon to-day. and while the
clerks were busy he slipped behind the
show case, took a tray of diamonds val
ued AT $1,000. and cody walked out.
When the robbery was discovered a
search was made. The thief was traced
TO the Western Union building. He
went up the stairway to the third floor,
wrapped the tray in his rubber coat
and hid the bundle under a stationary
wa.sl1stand. He then left by way of the
elevator. The diamonds were found
and returned to the owner.
The record-union., 1896-11-24
MADE NIGHT HIDEOUS.
Princeton Students Celebrate Their
Victory Over Yale.

PRINCETON On. j., Nov. 23.-All
Princeton was out tonight and cele
bratfng in earnest. A baseball cham
pionship and a football championship,
both in the same year, has filled the
undergraduates with enthusiasm, and
every one Of the greenest freshmen to
the graveSt sophmore felt himself in
duty bound tonight to make as much
noise as possible in honor of the occa-
sion.
AS soon as it became dusk whole sec
tons of fences together with ash boxes
and other property which 1T was not
convenient to get in broad daylight be-
gan to come i'm in response to the bulle
tin Everybody get wood" which had
been posted early to-day.
AT about this time pandemonium
broke loose. The BEN in the "Old North
Tower was kept constantly ringing,
and shotguns, revolvers and firecrack
ers added to the medley, while from the
region of the new library building came
the shrill notes of the steam whistles on
the hosting engines. A brass band
then came on the campus playing the
"Tringle Song" and the refrain was
caught up by over a thousand voices.
All the students formed in line and
marched about the town, fifty of them
drawing a coach decorated in orange
and black, in which We're the victorious
Tiger football team, the champions of
90
AT exactly 9 O'Clock Captain Cochran
applied the match to the big pile of
wood, and in few seconds flames shot
upward to the distance of nearly 100
feet. So intense was the heat that 1t
set on fire the trees surrounding the
quadrangle, making it necessary. to
turn the hose onto them. When the fire
burned the students gathered about the
steps of Clio Hall, and each member of
the team was dragged to the front and
cheered heartily, and each one spoke a
few words telling how Yale was de-
feated on Saturday. Alexander Moffatt,
Frank Moore and Scotty McMasters
also spoke, and all declared that Yale
must be beaten again in 1897.
The record-union., 1896-11-24

ing his attitude toward the present agi-
tation for the Dingley bill. there is sub
stantial authority for the statement
that Major Mckinley is averse to rails
ing expectation as to its enactment
which, in his judgment, cannot be real
lied.
community would become demoralized
should the bill be passed by the House
again, only to be laid aside by the Sem
ate, and he does not share Senator
Sherman's opinion that the measure can
pass the Senate before the TeorganiZa-
tion of that body on March 4Uh.'
The record-union., 1896-11-24

pressed over the dispatch from Madrid
seamng that a Spanish flag had been
burned here last Wednesday. The re
port mad been much exaggerated. At
meeting OF Company H, National
Guard, some one recalled a speech in
Whlch It was said that the belligerent
rights OF Cuba ought to be recognized.
one enthusiast is said to have then
jumped on table and tore down a
spanish flag used in the decorations and
destroyed IT. Some say it was not a
spanish flag. The officers of the guard
Will investigate the matter.
The record-union., 1896-11-24
THINK 1T A CANARD.
Chicago Inventors Do Not Believe an
Air=Ship Has Been Made.

CHICAGO, Nov. 23.-Chicago invent
ors do not put any credence in the re-
port of a successful flying machine hav-
ing been made in California.
Octavio Chanute, who has been MAX
ing long scientific investigation into the
complex physical problems which must
be overcome in the successful air mo-
tor, said to-day he could not command
patience to read the full account of the
new ship, because of its patent alb
surditieS
1.-THE solution of air navigation has
been 'sOluted' so often at one jump by
inventors. cranks and Journals said
he, that it is n5z~ e sso&t too late for
even the public, which does not lay
claim to any special information upon
the subject, to be fooled. 1 look conf
GENTLY for the eventual mastery of the
problem of air travel. SO do many
men whose opinions 1 respect highly,
and whose attainments in scientific
pursuits must command attention, but
l do not expect to see the whole COM
nlex problem with one fortunate
achievement.
Air locomotion is not merely getting
a vessel to rise in the air. Furnishing
a motive power sufficiently light and
strong is big part of the task Other
things must also be studied out just
as difficult. l do not believe this West
ern inventor, whoever he is, has mas
tered any single one of these problems.
and he will go down to fame if he shows
the way through the least of them
Williams, the inventor of the Alba
tross flying machine. who experimental
under Mr.. Chanute in Indiana last sum-
mer. is also skeptical of the California
achievement
William Avery, who operated one Of
.hr. ohahute's models, and VINO is work
ing on machine of his own conception,
says ne thinks the California story is a
canard.
The record-union., 1896-11-24
EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.
Now Said That One Will Certainly be
Called.

NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-The mail
and Express" to-day says: There is
going to be an extra session of Congress
called within twenty days after the in
auguration of President-elect Mckinley
This information comes from Canton
to-day in a positive and direct way and
its reliability cannot be questioned.
1T is the opinion of the President
elect that no revenue legislation can be
accomplished this winter, and though
newspaper dispatches disagree regard
The record-union., 1896-11-24
Niagara Hydraulic Plant Opened.

NIAGARA FALLS, Nov. 23.-At
noon to-day the new plant of the Mag
ara Hydraulic Power Company and the
new plant of the Pittsburg Reduction
Company was formally opened. The
opening was attended by many promi-
nent people, including a large delega-
ton from Buffalo and a number of
eminent electricians. A banquet fol-
lowed in the power-house.
The record-union., 1896-11-24
Consul.GeneraI Lee.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 23.-Consul-
wife and daughter through the State
Department this morning, making brief
calls on the various officials General
Lee has no idea when he will return to
Havana. He Is ready to go at any time
The record-union., 1896-11-24

the theory that the farmer vote is lost
to the Republicans, there can be no
doubt of the ISSUE
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-05-02
Courtroom Impudence.

One day Tom Logan, an Oregon law
yer and an inveterate wag, was arguing
case before Chief Justice Greene, of the
supreme court, of what Nns then the
territory of Washington. Opposed to
him was backwoods lawyer named
Browne. Logan continually referred To
the counsel on the other side as il his
nane were spelled "Browny," to the
evident annoyance of that gentleman.
At last the judge interfered, remark
ing:
"Mr. Logan, this gentleman's name Ia
spelled Browne, and is pronounced
Browne, not Browny. Now my name
Is spelled Greene, but you would not
pronounce it Greeny, would your"
That" replied Logan gravely, but
with a merry twinkle in his eye, "de-
ponds entirely on how your honor de
cides this case. "-Northwes Magazine.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-05-02
A Johannesburg Monkey.

Among the passengers arriving at
Southampton lately by the steamship
Norman was monkey of large size
which came from South Africa in
charge of passenger, by whom he was
found after the late explosion nj johann
ns sburg, seated in the only room re
naming intact Of what had just be.
fore been n considerable sized cottage.
In the room were also discovered two
baby children, one of whom had been
KILLED., but the other was alive. and, II
Is said, In the arms of the monkey.
who was tcnderly nursing II. The liy-
Ing child was adopted by a resident in
Johannesburg, but the monkey, who
was noted on board for his extreme
fondness for children. was q popular
passenger by the Union compnny's mail
steamer. Westminstcr Gazette.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-05-02
A SULTAN'S DUAL NATURE.
Sometimes His Better and Sometimes Hia
Worse Nature Prevailed.

Sometimes His Better and Sometimes HA
Worse Nature Prevailed.
The two heroes of this tale, one the
original Ancient Mariner of the Ara
bian Nights" and the other bright
American lad, discover the city of New
Bagdad hidden away in New England,
The following is one of their expert
ences with its ruler, as recounted in the
April number of the magazine:
II thought you'd never be done" said
Selim in a whisper to his prisoners, as
Le escorted them from the courtyard.
81 never knew the sultan to be so talk
ative before; usually he's man Of
very few words. What in the world
were you talking about, anyway
"Oh, all sorts of things replied
Sindbad, evasively. "And now" he
added, quickly, "please tell me one
thing: What did the grand vizier mean
when he told the sultan that his better
nature was coming back?"
didn't you understand that? Why,
our sultan has two separate and dis
tinct natures-one of them very, very
bad, and the other, which comes on only
once in awhile, very good. The former
we call his bad nature, the latter his
better nature. Oh, how we do dread
the coming of that better nature!"
"Why, 1 should think you'd be glad"
said Tom. Isn't he very ugly when
his bad nature is on?"
Usually he is" answered Selim,
"but we can stand that better than the
freaks in which his better nature leads
him to indulge. Why, when that bet
ter nature of his is ruling him we can't
get man convicted of any crime, he
is so merciful. Life and property are
imperilcd. Two or three times he has
emptied the prisons while under the
baleful influence of his better nature,
and turned loose all sorts of dreadful
characters"
'IIow soon do you think another at
tack of his better nature is due?" asked
Sindbad, anXiously.
"Oh, we can never tell; sometimes
he has two or three a month, and then
again year will elapse without his
having one. AS he had n real bad spell
of 1t only last month, L think some
thing ought to be done for him; he
might be vaccinaIed, or something of
that sort, but I'm not medical man,
and l really couldn't undertake to pre-
scibe for him. He feels as unhappy
about II as anyone else, but be can't
help it; so, you see, we haven't the heart
TO blame him. But here we are at your
prison. Siearns, in st. Nicho-
las.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-05-02
TROUSERS MADE OF TIN.
Ingenious Costume OF Sailor VINO Wa
Caught Smuggling Rum.

Caught Smuggling Rum.
"You would be surprised Mt the
amount of smuggling that is done BY
the crews of sailing vessels" said one ot
the customs inspectors over on the
Brooklyn docks. "Many rich cnrgocs
some In here from India, South Amert
ca and the West Indies, and the tempta.
ton to smuggle is too strong for the
average sailor to resist. There is some
thing fascinating about smuggling
which Is the only way / can account
for the fact that many an otherwise
honest man doesn't scruple to defraud
the government whenever he gets 2
chance. Among sailors this feeling Ia
almost universal. Indeed, they seem TO
think that their calling gives them the
privilege of bringing in few things
on every trip, and they are apt to make
it very uncomfortable for the officer
who attempts to enforce the law. The
articles they smuggle consist mostly OF
liquors, cigars, fine silks and such dell.
cocies as preserved ginger, curacao, etc.
But let me tell you how / discov-
cred one of the most ingenious schemes
for smuggling that was ever devised.
was in the habit of visiting little old
fashioned saloon, and one day the PRO.
prietor asked me IL 1 would sample
some of his rum. 1t was fine old Dem-
arara. l began to wonder where he
got it, for he didn't keep it in stock A.!
the time. Then noticed that he got n
fresh supply every time certain ship
arrived.
II thought saw a good chance for n
seizure, and kept a close watch on the
saloon the next time the vessel came In.
l hung around the place all night, but
not sign of smuggling could 1 see.
There was no doubt, though, that it had
taken place, for the next day the saloon
keeper was treating all hands to rum.
The only suspicious thing I saw was
that one of the sailors made frequent
trips from the ship to the saloon. Twas
morally certain that he was doing the
smuggling, but how he did it was my3-
terry, for never saw him carrying any
thing.
Zone day when he was returning tn
the ship 1 drew him into conversation.
He had been sampling some of his own
rum, and began skylarking. At last hc
made kick at me, and playfully hi;
him on the leg with my walking cane.
There was sharp metallic sound as the
blow fell. The mans face whitencd
and he sobered up In a moment. 1t was
plain enough to me then, and knew
that the wide trousers the man wore
meant more than a mere popularity Of
dress. There was no legal evidence
against the man, as no rum was found
in the ship, but l made him show me-
the contrivance. 1t was practically
pair of hollow tin trousers of the most
ingenious design, by which he could
carry gallons of the liquor with little
fear of detection. He never attempted
TO work the scheme again, and some
lime afterward he told me that he hal
sold the contrivance for good sum to
who piled his calling on tho
Canadian border linen. y. World.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-05-02
PERSONAL AND lMprasoNAL.

Tho German emperor has bought
two enormous bronze gates, which
formed part of the exhibit In the Ger.
man building at the Chicago worlds
fair.
Prime Minister Salisbury is di.
rect, ponderous and earnest speaker.
He never attempts oratorical flights.
He weighs nearly as much as President
Cleveland and wears as large a hat an
"Tom" Reed.
Charles I. Yerkes' New York man.
sion is to be a regular palace. Mrs.
Yerkes' boudoir is being finished he
CARELESS of expense. The decorations
alone will cost in the neighborhood Of
$4,000. One of the special features is
the perfumed wood used for paneling
in every available form.
Mr.. Gladstone still reads and writes
for hours at q stretch without showing
fatigue, and seldom leaves his library
except for exercise. At the dinner
table, after working all day, he aston
ishes his friends by the vigor and bril-
liancy of his conversation.
Mrs. Eva Manson, the wife OF the
famous Norwegian explorer, is one Of
those charmingly brave women who
place infinite trust in their husbands,
At the present moment she is awaiting
the return of her "lord and master"
in her snug little home some 20 minutes
railway journey from Christiania.
The collection of birds bequeathed
by the late Henry Seebohm to the Brit
ish museum consists of more than 49,
900 skins, with 235 skeletons. Taken
in conjunction with Mr.. Seebohm's
previous requests, tins constitutes one
of the most valuable gifts ever present.
ed to the museum, and it raises the coll
lection of birds from second-rate 70
first-rate Importance.
Mrs. Ormiston Chant, the English
reformer, has sailed for home after q
long visit to the United States. Mrs.
Chant dislikes the ballet because it is
so near to nudity, and dishkes high
trapeze work because she fears the per-
formers will get killed. While she has
been in this country the Empire the
alter in London has been granted oil
the privileges that she had had denied
them for two years.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-05-02
QUALITY OF CYPRESS WOOD.
The Trees Are Notoriously Slow Growing
but Are Durable.

But Are Durable.
The cypress is VIGOROUSLY slow
growing tree, and its work is just as
VIGOROUSLY durable. 1t is capable of not
only resisting the action of the weather
in manner totally different to all other
woods, but is wholly uninfluenced by
immersion in water over long period
of years. 1t has many curious chemical
properties, which hold it's fibers and
other constituents together so indis-
solubly that the ordinary changes which
break down the tissues of ordinary
woods are in cypress wholly resisted.
Instances are known where the wood
of the cypress has endured for moro
than ! 900 years, leaving it still in n solid
condition, subject only to the attrition
of the elements, such as the gradua!
wearing away one sees in exposed rocks.
In the lower valley of the Mississippi
n species of cypress is extremely alum
dant and in New Orleans lately, while
some men were eXcavating a trench,
a cypress stockade was found which
was erected in 1880 by the French as a
protection against the Indians. Some
of the pieces measured 81 inches in
width, with thickness of about II
inches, and, though it had been buried
for so many years, it was in perfect
condition when exhumed, even the tool
marks being still clearly visible.
BY a series of experiments extend
ing over many years, it has been found
the cypress wood endures the varying
conditions of greenhouses better than
any other wood. Greenhouses exposed
to all the vicissitudes of heat, moisture
and changes of temperature, show the
cypress timber used in their construc-
ton to be practically unchanged after
more than so years of use; and, being
sufficiently tough for the purpose. il is
probable it will come more generally
into use for building where a wood of
great resisting power is required. Many
old doors made by the early Spanartls
in America are still as serviceable as
ever, although exposed to a most trying
climate.-Chicago News.
Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-05-02
THE RACEHORSE ANT.
A Concentrated Bundle OF Nerves and
Muscles and Brains.


Muscles and Brains.
Our Florida ants have not been very
carefully studied, and l think it quite
possible that this is an undescribed
species. Popularity he is known here as
the "racehorse" ant, and the name is
certainly appropriate. OF all the fast
und fussy little runabouts that his ON
nipresent family affords, he is far and
away the supreme. 1t would be hard to
find even among the marvels of the in.
sect Kingdom any such concentrated
bundle of nerves and muscles and brains.
He is a little black mite of fellow,
three millimeters (about an eighth of
AN inch) in length, and it takes 1862 OF
him to weigh one grain. His ordinary
walk is fast trot, but when he really
gets down to business even that kan
CARGO among insects, the flea, cannot
beat him in getting over the ground or
heing in dozen places apparently at
the same moment. Naturally he is a
terrible nuisance to housekeepers;
boraX, corrosive sublimate. cayenne pep
per, and all the other warranted
prophylactics against the plague of ants
simply amuse him. Not long since l
tried all the devices had ever heard of.
and which do often prove effective with
other species of ants, in vain effort to
keep this active little rogue out of new
barrel of sugar. A strong solution of
corrosive sublimate was poured in a cir
Gle on the floor around the barrel. He
simply waited for the floor to get dry
and calmly trotted over to the alluring
barrel of sweets. Three hours after try
ing this poison guard" found col
ony of 100 or so comfortably RECALLING
themselves upon the coveted treasure
Caustic potash dissolved and used in the
came way served little better purpose,
Lut this soon solidified into n carbonate,
and it's usefulness was at an end. next
procured some freshly ground and pure
Cayenne pepper, which some, "scie4,-
tific" newspaper correspondent had rec
commended. spread it in liberal meas
ure around the barrel, but, alas! for
newspaper science; IL is n positive fact
that before l had finished my circling
wall of cayenne pepper these little black
inps were racing over IL by hundreds.
i gave il up. There was nothing TO do
but TO build low table, put the legs in
cans of kerosene oil, and keep on il the
barrel of sugar and all other provisions
that / wished to protect against these
cunning little marauders. Since then
have had no further trouble with them,
save in one or two instances where the
kerosene was allowed to eyaporate. So
far as know, this particular species of
ant is rarely found-at least, gives no
trouble--here in the country. IL seems
to be especially partial to 'city life
Norman Robinson. in Appleton's Popu-
lar Science Monthly.