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The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04
Bcarding school Food.

In The Marian, Du Maurier tells Of
she sort OF food supplied at French
boarding schools, and by 40 means
overrates its superior excellence. In no
other country outside of France does
the nutrition of growing youth receive
higher consideration. If the meals
served at schools there be compared
with those given at similar institutions
in England, the merit of the French
system will be apparent. The simple
first breakfast of coffee and rolls. the
second consisting Of hors d'1uvres, a
dish Of meat or fish, one vegetable, sal
ad and sweet, and the dinner at q
O'Clock Of similar con. position, with
the addition Of soup, supply just what
Is needed to encourage mental effort
and satisfy physical well being. In
England an entirely different system is
in vogue. Breakfast at an English
boarding school is Substantial meal,
served at O'Clock In most cases it
consists of fish, ham or bacon, eggs and
porridge three or four times week,
with plenty of milk and sugar. Dinner
/ Wv " SioSh 10 ~ iiO7t SOAio OptSs, iNSh
ing, however, in sufiicienoy of green
vegetables Supper AT 9 o'clock is main
| ~ farinaceous. 1t consists of tea, bread
and butter DIR. Savory, medical officer
of Haileybury college, in England, in a
paper treating Of this subject, says that
it is the CON plain5 of English teachers
that the worl. done by schoolboys after
dinner is not of much uso.
The doctor thinks that 1t is urfortu'
nate that they cannot have half holt
day every day to digest their dinner.
lie would also allow glass of milo
beer. He found chat about one boy il
four drank two glasses Of it in summer
He thinks it nnwise TO absolutely for
bid alcohol, as boy always Graves tina
which is forbidden. At French board
ing schools the pupils drink light clare
mixed with water at every meal excep
the first, breakfast The nutrition 0
French schoolboys is thoroughly adapt
ed to their habits and environment
The English in feeding theirs believe il
bulk in food us more conducive to di
gestion and the demands of intens
muscular effort exacted by the athleti
exercises in which they indulge. -NeN
York Sun.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04
Du EIaurier and Morris.

One of the most extraordinary paral-
lels in chronology is the almost exact
coincidence of the time spent in the
world by two men who had so much to
do with the molding Of the literature
and art Of their day as George Du Mau.
rier and William Morris. Du Maurier,
the elder of the two, was born exactly
l6 days before Morris, on March 9, 1884,
and he died but four days after him; SO
that these two great men, who lived
more than 60 years, were on the earth
for exactly the same time, with the ex-
ception Of less than three weeks, both
being born in March, 1884, and dying
in October, 1896. Similarly, both Sir
John Millais and the archbishop OF
Canterbury, who have died within a
month or two of each other, were borr
in 1899. 1t is one of the most striking
events in the long history Of the arch
bishops of Canterbury that the late
archbishop, who was one of Mr.. Glad
stones appointments and afterward d.
verged from him in political opinions
should have been stricken while sitting
in the squire's pew of his old friend al
Hawarden. 1t is a most merciful thinl
that Mr.. Gladstone did not happen tt
be in church. To man Of his years tb'
shock must have been most dangerous
What an archbishop of Canterbury Mr.
Gladstone would have made himself
He would have rivaled evon Dunstan O
Beckett and not improbably proved th'
greatest prelate Of them all.'--New Or
leans Times Democrat.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04
How She Dieted.

Mr.. /. Zangwill, at dinner OF ths
Maccabees, told the following story.
''The fat girl of O., gentlemen, is no<
q myth, nor a show person, but solid
private reality that have seen. Hes
fairness weighed upon her: SO she wenA
TO a physician to be rid of some Of IL
He drew up careful dietary. She VIZ
to eat dry toast, plain boiled beef. etc.
and to return in month to report 10
duction. At the end Of the month sic
could hardly get through the doctor's
doorway. He was aghast. Did you ess
what told your he asked. Religious
~. His brow wrinkled itself. SuddeA
~ he had fash of inspiration. Any
thing elseY he asked. My ordinary
meals'p
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Three large black bears have been
killed In the woods near Peshtigo, Wis.
The Ohio legislature Is to consider a
Dill forbidding the promiscuous distri-
button by patent medicine vendors of
pamphlets and bills describing the
symptoms of disease.
The Illinois councils of the Fraternal
Aid association are in session at Pana.
.. l.. Lewis of Pana was elected dele
gate to the grand council, which meets
at wichita, Kan, Feb. 16.
The Nebraska Beet Sugar association,
In session at Hastings. asks that beet
sugar and chicoiy be accorded proper
credit in the new tariff bill Ex-Gov-
ernor Thayer bitterly criticised the leg
islature for its attitude.
At Napanee, Ind, Paul Trillor beat
Jacob Holdeman with a monkey wrench
until his head was a mass of bruises.
His recovery is doubtful. Trillor es-
capped, but was captured.
James Nj. Chester. aged 20 years, was
married to Miss Flora A. Hammond and
took his bride on a wedding trip to his
mothers at Sycamore, o., where his
wife No. ] was living at the time. He
married Miss Hammond at Findlay, o.
For many seasons the weather sta
ton at Marquette, Mich, had the dis
tinction of reporting the greatest snow
fall In the United States. Last winter
the deepest snow fell at Sault Ste. Ma
RE. Now the copper country is the
place for the deepest snow.
The winter wheat crop in the vicinity
Of W rsIxylA - 100 4
The shoe and leather trade of Balti-
more has an invested capital of nearly
$7,000,000, and the amount of the whole
sale and manufacturing trade of the
city in this line is estimated at $4,000
600 annually, the retail and customs
trade adding 100000 more.
The Belvidere IN. j. Apollo in be
| ginning its seventy second volume say
that the first years publication of tn
| paper broke it's founder George G
Sickles, father of General Daniel L
Sickles. At the end of the year MI
Sicles' entire fortune consisted of bu
so cents.
The state labor commissioner Of Mis-
souri, has collected information showin
that in st. Louis franchises worth 500,
| Otl,OtV nave pctn given away NhiNi
upon the basis of q per cent. paymen
to the city, would yield annually 81
47S,5S2.
Mr.. Hays, the Sleepy Eye editor VIII
was the authority for the statemer
that Grant Bramble had sold his re
tary steam engine patents for $6,70O,0O
now owns up that he cannot discovt
that Bramble has received a cent.
Mrs. j. X Ritter. a director in tn
First National bank at Cassopoli
Mich, committed suicide while tempo
rarily insane
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04
TRYING TO GET EVEN.
C,ock and Watch Makers Get Into tia
bicycle Trade.

Clock and watch makers who found
.heir regular business falling of On ac-
:ount of the bicycle craze are now max.
ing mp for it in the manufacture and
sale Of cyclometers. Competition is ex-
,eedingly lively among the rival max.
srs, &c the great benefit of tie rider.
Three or four years ago there were
only few makes of cyclometers, and
they were very heavy and costly. Now
cyclometers are made as small as sill
yer quarter weigh almost nothing ana
can be purchased at trifiing cost.
Many dealers add cyclometer to the
equipment of the bicycle as an induce
ment to the purchaser, and as result
bicycles without cyclometers are the ex-
ception.
Cycling has brought many blessings
in its train, and one of the greatest OF
these is the neat little register which
records accurately the distance traversed
by the cyclist. 1t is practically 10, 600
mile tapeline in compact and conven-
lent form. IL is great satisfaction for
the rider to see the miles roll up on the
dial as he spins along. The present cy-
clometers are very simple In construc-
ton, and as a rule perform their duty
without error, but too much must not
be expected of what is merely me-
chanical continuance. A rider can hardly
expect his cyclometer to measure the
distance between two points accurately
if he wabbles from one side of the road
to the other. In this way a beginners
cyclometer might record n mile while
he has been pursuing his sinuous course
for only half that distance.
Cyclometers are made for wheels or
given diameter, and if 26 inch cyclom'
eter be fitted to 2S inch wheel the
figures will not be accurate enough &c
be valuable. For the same reason II the
front tire be soft an appreciable errol
I'm the measurement will occur, because
of the lessened diameter Of the bicycle
wheel. If the tire sinks in quarter O
an inch under the weight of the rider
the error in mile ride would amour
to IA yards. Thus the accuracy OF a cy
clometer measurement varies percepti
bly,, according to the hardness OF tn
tire. However, the average bicycle ride
is not an engineer or surveyor, and tn
popularity of the cyclometer is III II
way endangered because of this Sigh
variation from the truth, failing t
which the cyclometer is often driven b
the scorcher eager for huge mileag
/ record.
, So long as the variation is on the g
, clist's side the cyclometer's future
, safe. At any rate, the demand for I'll
, device is lively, and the makers are II
trenching their losses incurred by II
. encroachment of the bicycle upon IL
watch trade. - New Orleans Time
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04
THE CHECK SYSTEM.
An English Visitor Tells the People Abr
the American Way.

tho American Way.
The American constitution has bee
called system Of checks. So in Amex
can life. When You want to travel. 20
give your baggage to the porter OF yon
hotel, and he gives you u check IN II
turn. At the station you reclaim
with the check and pass it in at ooun
ter and receive another check. AS yO
approach your destination another funo
tionary comes along the train, take
your check and gives you another checi
in its place. He fishes out your baggage
and conveys it to your hotel-for con
sideration. You have left your thirt
and last check at the Office OF the hote
when you enter it, and thence 1t Ii dc
iivered up on receipt Of the baggage
At first you bless this arrangement ~
the salvation of the traveller. After
few weeks of it the tyranny OF the check
becomes so CALLING that you begin to
long for the fine old English method OF
dumping down your goods in front OF
porter and leaving them to find the way
themselves. You would even hail it as
a personal triumph if some of your bag
gage would get lost. But it never does
Sometimes it arrives late, but it always
arrives.
Yet it seldom arrives in the shape il
which it started, if that is any consola-
| ton. They who have to do with bag
gage see to that. You very soon discover
| why Americans carry their goods III
| ironclad trunks. and why it is madness
| for anybody to do anything else.
started out, like an idiot, with new
leather portmanteau. They ripped the
stout brass lock OF the first week
not for plumber. apparently, but simply
| because it is the tradition of tho neryiceN
| They punched it and kicked and danced
on it. In softer hours, when Literary
| inspiration came, they wrote on 1t. My
portmanteau today is an epitome OF the
political sentiment Of the United States
from New York to San Francisco. AS
historical document it is beyond
price, and am contemplating the git
of it to the library of congress at Wash
ington. AS portmanteau 1t has botf
feet in the grave.
The system of checks is not confined
to travellers luggage. The conductor OF
the train passes carelessly to and frs
asking for your ticket and giving you
check in return, OF asking for you
check and returning your ticket. II yo'
hand your stick to boy in hote
while you write your name in the reg
lister, he dashes off to stow it away II
some secret place and returns triumphan
with check. In the very hotel bar
, when you buy sevenpence ha'porth
whisky you get check and walk tw
) Yards across the bar to pay at desk
, But the apotheosis of the check IS
Niagara. When you go down to th
Cave of the Winds, you strip OH q
your clothes and leave them, as well
your valuables, in a tin box with'tl
attendant Then you go down to batt
with the cataract attired only In 81
' of pyjamas, suit of oilsbins and
D check dashed around your neck and II
u ing and falling with the beating
your heart. No wonder the Americs
o speaks of death as "handipg IN h
9 checks. 1t is only by death that he ca
) rid himself of them. London Nail.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04
Enterprising.

Irate Business Man (white with an
ger at being disturbed) You book
agents make me so angry with your
COMPOUNDED nerve and impudence that
cannot find words to express my indig'
nation.
Book Agent Dumping with enthu.
siasm )-Then. sir, you are in luck.
have here the very thing you needs
dictionary of the English language
containing all the words and slang
phrases known, and only 8 shillings
Take it, and you will never be at los
TO express yourself again.-London Tit
Rita
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04
He Was Anxious.

"Your wife's just met with IN acoi,
dent. wilkins" said man who rusneu
into the grocery. "She ran over e dos
while riding her bicycle. and they We
carried her to thu hospital.
The mau sitting on the cracker barrel
rose to his feet excitedly, and his race
turned pale. :. .
"Did you notice." he asked in q
trembling voice, whether it was a NV
or colored dog. with two white spots on
his fore shoulder, or not?"-Detroit Free
Press.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04
UorrIble Railway Wreck.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Feb. A special
train on the Chicago and Northwest
ern road ran into a mixed train, No.
A, at Arlington, S. ID. Conductor Add
ington, Frank Hasac of Huron, ID. II.
Lotus, a merchant of Desmet, and
man named Harrison of Arlington, were
instantly killed. The wreck caught fire
apd the bodies were burned
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04
Takes His Fifth Wife.

Kankakee, Ills. Feb. 4.-B. f. Harris
of Champaign a banker, capitalist and
farmer, and the most wealthy man In
central Illinois, was privately married
here Wednesday morning to Mrs. Car
RE Noble of Kankakee. Mr. Harris is
80 years old, and this is his fifth WIFE,
nIrc IL q rris is 60
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04

On the day before the execution To
keeper informs the doomed man that y
visitor wishes to see him.
"Do you know who he lisp" asks Tie
doomed man.
emo"
"well, Just ask him IL he wants ~
collect bill, and IL he does tell him -
call tomorrow. Strand Magazi1ah.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04
Boards.

The plays, poems ana treatises OF the
-e;gps of Elizabeth, James l and Charles
I are full of amusing allusions to the
variety of fashions in boards. We learn
from them the various styles that were
adopted by different wearers' sqcn az
the French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian
cnts. the new, old. gentlemen's, COM
mon. court and country cuts.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04

"Do you know that your COMPOUNDED
dog banks all nightr =.
Eyes, suppose he does. But don't
vorrv about him. He makes up for 1t
By sleeping all day.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04

He-Nice dogl Have you taught him
any new tricks since was here lastf
She (sweetly)-Oh, yes; he will fetch
your hat il you whistle Boston G&oho
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04

''This is such a quiet neighbtrhood.
Don't you ever sit out on your front
steps?"
"No. There is an amateur photog-
rapher across the street. Chicago
Record.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04

When write poem, am SO q tcited:
M carried away from the world, chat
seem stranger to EMBELLISHMENTS
Ambrosius.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04

In England there are Ia widows TO
every 81 widowera
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-04

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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-02
DUNMOKE.

Mrs. Sidney Matthews, of Brook
street, has returned from Ancram. N.
Y, where for the past few weeks she
has been visiting relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Widdowf1eld, Of
West Ansonia, Conn, accompanied by
their sons, Harry and Thomas, are
the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Weber, Of Drinker street.
Miss Minnie Hennings, of Apple
street, has returned from short visit
with friends in Priceburg.
The members of the Guild of st. Ag-
mes are requested to meet in st. Marks
church this evening.
A Fourth of July celebration will be
held In Burschells grove on 1ndepend-
ence day by the Romo band. Refresh
ments will be served by G.. w. Jones
"A grand pyrotechnical display in the
evening will be one of the many fea-
lures.
A borough ordinance went into eff
feet June Is stating that all owners of
dogs should have them muzzled. Those
without them would be shot. The law
is not being rigdly enforced by our
police.
Reuben Dainty was thrown from his
wheel in front Of Louis Engle's resi-
dence last night and sustained serious
injuries to his right leg.
Miss Diana Capwell, of Cherry street,
has gone for a few weeks with her par
ents at Lake Winola.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-02
STRONG.ARMSTRONG NUPTIALS.
Ceremony Was Performed at Brides
Residence at FactoryyiIIe.

A pretty and quiet wedding took
place at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Da-
vid Armstrong. at Factoryville, We'd
nesday evening, when their youngest
daughter May j., was married to Har-
ry S. Stone, of this city. The ceremony
took place at 8 p. m. Previously the
spacious yard and broad veranda had
been brilliantly lighted, and a bower
of ferns arranged on the west side of
the porch. Hanging to the ceiling was
a marriage bell curiously wrought of
meadow daisies. At the appointed time
the first strains of the wedding march
from Lohengrin were heard, Miss X. s.
Cross presiding at the piano, and i'm
mediately thereafter the bridesmaid,
Miss Carrie tSimrell, and the grooms-
man. Fred E. Stone, appeared, followed
by the bride and groom.
They took their stations under the
bell of daisies. and then Rev. James
Rainey, of Laceyville. in very inn
pressive service, made the two one.
Thus was completed the uniting of one
of Wyoming county's most beauteous
daughters with one of Scranton's best
known young men.
After congratulations a wedding
ing being ended. the happy couple took
the 12.40 train for their wedding tour.
The wedding presents were many and
costly.
The following guests were present:
Mr.. and Mrs. f. Fl. Stone and daughter,
Oneonta. N. Y; Mrs. G.. A. Fiske. Miss
Ina Fiske. Dundaff, Pa; Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Tinkham. Miss Flora Tinkham.
Waverly; Miss May Johnson, Wilkes
Barre; Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Niuer, Miss
Electa Capwell. Mr.. George Warner.
Miss Carrie Stephens, Nicholson; Mr..
and Mrs. r. C. Cook, Miss Ada Cook,
Miss Minnie CapweIl Mr.. Burt Billings,
Tunkhannock: Rev. and Mrs. James
Rainey, Laceyville; Miss Gertrude
Capwell. Dallas; Miss Carrie Sinrell.
Miss June Wall. Mrs. X. S. Cross, Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Lindsey, Mrs. L. d.
Armstrong. Factoryville; Mr.. and Mrs.
Emory Stone, Mr.. and Mrs. B. H. Stone,
Miss Luella Frace, Miss Imogene Aker-
ly, Clarks Green: Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Lamont, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Stone
and Son, Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Brown
ing, Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Dale, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred r. Stark. Miss Name Beers,
Miss Hazel St. Amand. Miss Phoebe
Armstrong, Miss Emma Armstrong,
Mr.. Fred Stone, Mr.. Chas. Stone, Mr.
Oscar Stone, Mr.. Chas w. Davidson,
Scranton
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-02
Disclaimer from Frank Van Horn.

Editor OF the Scranton Tribune.
Sir; VIII you kindly publish in your
next issue the following statement as an
act OF courtesy towards my mother, for
which shall esteem it a great favor In
your issue of this date, July /, page g,
. fourth column. IL read thus: "It was also
reported at one time that Mrs. Van Horn
mother of the fugutive, was in the habit
OF carrying food to her son. She was
shadowed one day by the county detec-
tive from Dunmore TO Carbonate, but
here he last track of her. She had a
. large basket with her at the time"
hereby challenge the county detective
to verify this statement or otherwise
prove that my mother has ever been in or
near Carbondale for more than seven
years. She Is now 75 years of age and in
delicate health, caused chiefly by having
fugitive boy who is wanted upon a
charge of murder. If we examine this
detective statement in a common sense
way we mad he had secured the whois
county In the vicinity OF Carbondale in
search of George Van Horn; afterward
he received the information that he was
still In hiding in the neighborhood and
fed by his aged mother. Upon the
strength OF this information he shad-
owed this woman Of 70 years with largo
basket Of food "A distance of, say sixteen
miles, there he lost her. In my, opinion
any detective who would make such "a
statement Is disgrace to any detective
force. II II, therefore, any wonder SO
many escape the hands of justice in our
couuty2 Frank Van Horn.
Dunmore, July /, 1887
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-02
PERSONAL MENTION

Mrs. p. f. Madden, of West Locust
street, has returned from a visit at
Wilkes Barre.
Mail Carrier John II, Kelly and wife,
of Eynon street, attended the Blooms
ment exercises on Wednesday. Their
daughter, Miss Bertha, graduated.
Miss Pauline Pitcher will spend the
summer months with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. C. r. Pitcher. of Price street.
Miss Pitcher is a student at Wellesley
college, Massachusetts,.
Professor H. l.. Morgan has returned
from a visit to Wyoming.
T. w. Davis, of South Main avenue,
has returned from business trip
in Schuylkill county.
Miss Mary Jones, of the Oral school
for the deaf at Philadelphia, will spend
the summer with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. @. Jones, of Bellevue.
George w. Clarke, of Clarke Bros,
is in New York city.
The Misses Lucy and Ruby Graham
We're entertained on Wednesday by
Miss Marguerite Sweet, of North Hyde
Park avenue.
Mrs. M. j. Dunkerly, of Meridian
street, is visiting at Brooklyn, N. Y.
H. H. Bamford, of Clarke Bros, is in
New York city.
Miss Matte Edwards, of Edwards
dale. is visiting Miss Jennie Daniels, of
Division street.
a party of folks. consisting of Pro-
fessor and Mrs. George Howell and