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The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20
TIE SHIPS BELL .
1t Is Closely Identified With the Who'll
Career OF the Vessel.


Lieutenant John NJ Ellicott, U. S.
N, writes an article for st. Nicholas
on "What Is Told by the Bell" i'll
which he says:
Nothing i'll ship becomes so closely
identified with her throughout her
whole career as the ships bell. Officers
and crew come and go; masts, decks,
engines and boilers become old and are
replaced by new ones; but from the day
that she first glides into the water the
same ships bell remains always part
of her, marking her progress all over the
world, and finally going down with
her to lonely grave at the bottom of
the sea, or surviving her as Il cherished
souvenir of her existence and achieve
usually inscribed with her name and
the date of her launching, and as it is
probable that it may some day become
mementO of glorious history the bell
is often the subject of special care in
casting or selection. Sometimes the
hundreds of workmen who have built
the great ship contribute each silver
coin to be melted and nodded into a
bell, which shall be the token of their
love for the object of their creation and
their interest in her future career. Of
ten the people of the city or state after
which man-of-war is named may pre-
sent to her magnificent bell, appropri-
ately ornamented and inscribed with
words of good will and good wishes.
Such bell is usually presented with
ceremony after the ship goes into COM
mission.
Ships bells in general are made of
bronze, like other bells. The addition
of silver in their composition gives
them a peculiarly clear and musical
tone. They are placed i'll such a posi-
ton on the upper deck that they may
be heard from one end of the ship to
the other and are usually near the
mainmast or at the break of the fore
castle. One peculiarly exists in ships
bell which is necessary on account of
her motion at sea. The tongue is hung
so that it can swing in only one direc-
ton. If it We're not so, the bell would
be continually ringing as the ship roll
ed and pitched. The direction in which
the tongue can swing is another impor-
tant point If it were athwartships, the
bell would ring at every heavy roll of
the ship, and if it were fore and aft the
bell would ring at every deep pitch, so
the direction in which the tongue can
swing is nearly half way around be-
tween these two.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20
NEST OF PYTHON'S EGGS,
A Recent Arrival In Washington Gives a
Surprise.

A Recent Arrival In Washington Gives a
Surprise.
In a house on Rhode Island avenue,
Washington, is female python. This
reptile is the pet of young man who
is interested i'll herpetology. He bought
it recently in New York, whittier it
was brought by traveller from India.
To the complete establishment of the
young student of snakes, he lately
found in his python's quarters mess
of white objects unlike anything he had
before seen. They were eggs, and there
were 20 Of them. In size and color they
are much like hens egg. The shell or
skin which envelops the yolk is not
rigid as i'll hens eggs, but as flexible
and tough as leather. The shape is OBJ
long, but not symmetrical, being some
what irregular. The whole 25 eggs
were laid i'll few hours.
An effort will be made to incubate
these eggs. There are Il number of per-
plexities about Matching snakes eggs
In the first place, there is doubt as to
the temperature. Some say it is 70 de-
grees, others 1874 degrees. The former
seems unduly low, the latter too high
The temperature for Matching hens,
ducks and turkeys eggs is 1913 degrees.
The time it takes to hatch pythons' eggs
is said to be eight weeks. Washington
Star
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20
BOOKS FOR RAILWAY MEN.
A Novel Scheme For Giving Street Car
Men Library Privileges.

The board of managers of the public
library, st. Louis, are to inaugurate a
system for the distribution of books to
street car employees and their families.
The plan involves the establishment of
library stations at the power houses of
the various street car lines in the city.
Captain Robert McCulloch of the
Hamilton syndicate will be the first to
adopt the plan. He has been in confer
enCo with the free libr ny officials for
some time and is enthus' astic over the
scheme. At the power h(use or sheds of
each of his lines he will open public
library Office, which will be in charge
of one of the employees of the company
Books will be delivered by the library
wagons and the men and their families
will be supplied with all the reading
matter they want. Each will be issued
a certificate of membership, which will
also be given to the other readers of the
man home.
st. Louis is the first city in the Unit
ed States to use such means of circu-
lating books. In speaking of the idea
recently, one of the library attaches said:
''Wc think this plan will he success
full. AT present we rarely see street
Car man i'll the library. The reason is
patent. Thcir hours are long and they
seldom get an opportunity TO come down
town. Under this method the books
will be at their disposal i'll their very
workshops. Thou, again, the scheme is
designed just as much to educate the
members of their families. Most of
these people are not blessed with bur-
dcnsome lot of worldly goods, and the
item Of 10 cents car fare means a great
deal to them. AS nearly all the men
live within easy walking distance of the
power houses, the car fare expense will
be ont of the question and the waste of
time going to and from the branches
will be very small. st. Louis Re
public.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20
A STRANGE DISCOVERY.


A Petriiied Wooden Cross Found Imbed-
ded In IA Rock.
Recently there was unearthed in the
store quarries of Ira W. Logan, at the
junction of the Ohio and Beaver rivers,
near Pittsburg, petrified wooden cross.
1t is rs by "a inches in dimensions and
was imbedded i'll the surface of q mas
sive limestone rock which had been
blasted from the quarry cliff.
The formation of at least century's
growth of limestone was above the
point where the rock containing the
cross was taken. The cross is supposed
to have been the property of a Jesuit
missionary and was evidently planted
to symbolic the Contamination of the
early Indian tribes.
Historians say it is relic of the ia
nous trip made by Celeron, the cele-
brated French commandment, who ex-
plored the Allegheny and Ohio river
valley i'll 1749. Numerous parties of
Indian relic searchers have hunted for
traces of the expedition, but beyond the
finding of one iron plate it is said moth
ing has been discovered. The cross will
be presented to the Carnegie museum.
Chicago Times-Herald.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20
WlNDFALLS FOR GAMlNS.


Bright Boys.
Quite recently the pretty wife of a
prosperous manufacturer was looking
into confectioner's window when a
barefootcd lad of about 10 coolly walk
ed up to her and placed his rugged arm
through hers.
''Excoose this liberty, num-" he
said, with comical ceremony, "but ]
amt got mother O my own, an feels
lonely. Will We kiss me?'
For a moment the lady was too as
tonished to speak, but the sight of tbs
dirty face turned so audaciously up
to hers drove away her indignation.
Much to the amusement of the passers-
by she kissed the lad soundly, asked
him where he lived and dismissed him
with a few cdppers. But that was not
the end Of the little incident, for some
weeks after the boy was hunted up by
the lady's husband and presented with
600" payment for the kiss taken in
front of the confectioner' window, "
the lady said.
A good natured gentleman who is
very stout, and on that account does
not care to stoop, once dropped his brier
pipe i'll the middle of busy street.
The pipe was great favorite of his,
but he dared not run the risk of bending
down, and after gazing regretfuIly at
his fallen treasure he decided to aban-
don it. Before he could do so, however,
a little street arab saw his plight, and,
running forward, picked up the pipe
and restored it to him.
The gentleman stared at the boy
without speaking for awhile, and then
pulled a handful of gold out of his
pocket.
'Tako this, kiddie, and be careful
how you spend it," he said. "Mind al
SO that whatever you do with it you are
not to spend it on butter scotch, for
that's the stuff that made me fat. -
He then walked away, leaving the
astonished urchin i'll possession Of a
windfall amounting to over G30.-Lon-
don Telegraph.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20
FISHING FOR PEARLS.


Flow 1t Is Conducted by the IroprietOrs
of q Concession.
The agent of the English proprietors
of the concession grante2 by the Mexi-
can republic for q monopoly of pearl
fishing i'll the gulf Of California recent
ly arrived i'll San Francisco and gave
some interesting details Of the present
methods employed i'll their industry
which has continued ever since the oc
cupation Of the country i'll the time Of
Cortes
The whole coast of the gulf of Cali.
fornia abounds i'll pearls, and the con.
cessions control the entire territory.
Until within the last few years native
divers were employed, and the depth tC
which they could descend did not ex-
coed 30 feet.
With the introduction of diving ap-
paratus the limit of depth was increased
to 30 fathoms. The best divers could
formerly remain under water not to ex-
coed two minutes. A modern diver
thinks nothing of two hour stop in
water 100 feet in depth, though at
greater depths the stay is necessarily
shortened on account of the enormous
pressure of the superintendent water.
A diver when upon the floor of the ocean
looks about for the oyster, which he
tears from the object to which it is at
tached and places i'll small bag hang
ing to rope, which is hauled into the
boat on given signal. Sometimes the
number of oysters secured is large, at
other times only few are caught San
Francisco Call.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20
Admiral Miller win En+arto,,

Secretary Long of the navy has grant
ed to Admiral Miller special allowance
with which to entertain visitors and
high dignitaries aboard the Brooklyn
during the queens jubilee. Whitelaw
Reid, with his "attache, Ogden Mills,
and the two royal equerries assigned to
them, will entertain in an elegantly
furnished house specially secured for
the season. AS the Brooklyn will anchor
Off Gravesend the procession of hungry
visitors will be divided into two divi-
slons, one having for its objective Ad-
mlral Miller and the other conyerging
on Messrs. Reid, Mills and, their equer-
ries. Exchange.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20
itnny IN an ASH .IiarreI.

The cry of child was heard for halt
an hour in dark hallway IN New
York one night recently. Mrs.. Rose
Steinhouse searched the hallway, but
could find no one.
Mrs. Annie Mark later heard the same
pitiful wall coming from corner
where several ash barrels stood. She lii
the gas, and, looking into one of the
barrels, found bundle, from which the
cries We're coming.
On opening the shawl a boy, apparent.
ly weeks old, was found.
A policeman took the baby to Bellevue
hospital
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20
Falsifyinc an Old Saving.

The saying that lightning never
strikes twice in the same place is fall
lacy. Recently at Erath station, near
Abbeville, La, Stanville Theriot was
struck and killed by lightning in his
home, and two hours later Mrs Ernest
Carrie was instantly killed by bolt in
the same house while she was assisting
Mr.. TheriOt's family in their trouble.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20
The Political Handkerchief.

There has just been sold by auction
in France the complete set of an old
newspaper which was probably unique.
1t was called the Mouchoir de Poche
Politique political Pocket Handker-
chief and was published in 1881.
The proprietors hit upon the idea OF
printing it on cheap cotton stuff for the
purpose of evading the high paper duty.
The complete collection consisted of 144
numbers-just gross Of pocket hand
kerchiefs-for it is evident from the
title that the publishers believed the
newspaper would serve two purposes.
The price was pence-3 shillings
per dOzen-not high price to pay for
news, articles, theatrical criticisms and
a pocket handkerchief combined
Unfortunately the cotton required toe
much ink, and the scheme had to be
abandoned. London Globe.
Re Pitied Them.
Tramps sometimes try to indulge in
witticisms. according to the story of
lady on Euclid place.
This lady has very little sympathy
with Weary Willie, so that when
knight of the road knocked she told him
that she had nothing to give.
mo meat?' he persisted.
mo"
'No fire?'
"No."
''No bread"
"No."
"Well, could you give me basket"
he asked finally.
"What do you want basket for?'' i2'
quired the woman.
Ter get yer poor starvin family
somethin to eat, )" he answered sarcas-
tically as he edged away.-Cleveland
Leader.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20

liberal price will be paid at this
office for the delivery of any or all of
the following issues of THE TIMES
June %; August 6, s, u; September ID,
d, %; October ,, 4, >, p, %, 1896, and
April II, 1897.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20

Captain Francis Martin of Detroit,
who recently celebrated his ninety-sev-
enth birthday, was present at the Par
is funeral of Napoleon the Great.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20
PERSONAL POINTS.

There are three sisters living in Sa-
lem, Mass. direct descendants of John
Endicott, the first governor of Massa-
chusetts Bay Colony.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20

Henry Marion Howe of Boston, the
son of Julia Ward Howe, recently APP
pointed professor of metallurgy in Co
lumbia college, is cousin of f. Marion
Crawford, the popular novelist.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20

Professor Gustaf E. Karsten of the
University of Indiana has started a new
publication called The Journal of Ger
manic Philology.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20

Oxblood, tan, all shades, green kid,
Al Ii. E. Taylor q Co.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20

Senators and presidents have climbed
so high with pain enough, not because
they found the places especially agree
able, but to vindicate their manhood in
our eyes.-Emerson.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20

Two Turks were at French banquet.
Toward the conclusion of the feast a
Frenchman selected a toothpick from
the tray near him and politely passed
the tray on to his neighbor, who, how
ever, peremptorily declined the offer,
exclaiming: "No, thank you. l have
already eaten two of the accursed
things, and l want no more. San
Francisco Argonaut.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20

1t has been finally decided that the
remains of the late Archbishop Benson
shall remain i'll the vault under the
nave of Canterbury cathedral, where
they were originally deposited.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20

Charles Henry James Taylor, the
well known colored man, who has taken
up his residence i'll Baltimore, was re-
Gently admitted to practice in the su-
preme court in that city.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-20

The Emperor Menelek of Abyssinia
has devised a gorgeous imperial stand
ard to float over his quarters, after the
fashion of European sovereigns.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01
Vbadfadqda.

There was no meeting of Pierian
Chautauqua Circle on March 14th on
account of the chapel being in use for
other services. On Sunday March 28th
the members assembled as usual and
the roll call showed an attendance of
thirty three. There were three new
names presented for membership, and
upon motion they were duly enrolled
and assigned to classes. The question
box was next taken up and produced
its usual amount of interest, after
which the program was submitted as
follows
BETTER Than Gold" ........... Perian Quartet
Paper
The ParthenOn. BY Member of Class
Special Paper
Cuba and Facts. By Member of Glass 3
Paper.
Natural Science BY Member of Glass d
Paper.
Uncle Sam and Cousin Cuba Observation-Disclosures.
BY Member Of Class
Paper.
United States and Her Wars. Observation-Disclosures.
BY Member of Glass B
Paper.
Hero Worship. 80. By Member of Class E
Piano Selection. ....... ......M Miss Granting
Paper.
Just Little Sunshine. By Member of Glass c
Chorus.
The critic pro tenn. made fair and
impartial report on the program and
the several selections. The Circle then
upon motion decided on Sunday April
18th as the date for holding the quar-
terly meeting. The president selected
the names Of those to report with in
formation that the program and papers
would be miscellaneous and general.
After remarks from members and book
circulation the meeting closed.
g. w., Sec.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01

ence from the time you were arrested.
You remember well how anxiously you
lOnged for drink the first day of con-
finement. You imagined that some
booze was the only thing to bring you
to yourself again. You were quite
right. 1t was the only thing to bring
you to what you enormously consid-
cred "YOURsELF." Having been in the
habit of keeping soaked in fusil oil and
brewery sweepings you recognized
only poisoned system and semi
mant mental faculties as YOURSELF
But in week or two when your brain
was aroused from it's enforced hiber-
nation, and good, old Mother Nature
stepped in to clean house and make
you what man ought to be, did you
notice the change or deem it worthy
of thought? Probably not. You
knew that you were feeling better;
your eyes began to have natural
sparkle again; you could eat we'll, sleep
well and thoroughly enjoyed drink
of cool, refreshing water. And all of
this though you were in jail-though
Nature was greatly handicapped in it's
work of renovation. And yet we will
go out of prison and again start in
at the same game, just to be "good" fell
lows-to help some poor saloonkeeper
buy an extra sparkler for his shirt bo-
som; to be one of "the boys" (Which
properly defined means a well-adjec-
lived fooD, these are the only reasons
we can give.
TX
Do not think it is necessary to "get
religion" to be able to quit drinking.
If your manliness will only assert it.
self sufficiently to depose the god BAG
chus then your own clear brain will
tell you that true belief of some kind
is the surest thing to hitch to if we de-
sire happiness now and in eternity.
The writer knows whereof he speaks
on the liquor question as he has been
among the leading fools of the many
we'll developed samples of that species
that have wound up in prison.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01

Warden Wolfer was this week the
recipient of a highly appreciated gift
from party of ten of his brother Elks
of the st. Paul lodge who were his
guests on their late visit to this city
The token consists of beautiful gold.
mounted Elk tooth, engraved on one
side: III. w. from friends of 3d." On the
other side in monogram form, "B. p.
O. E. 49," this being the number of the
lodge in this city of which the Warden
is member. A letter expressing the
good wishes of his brother Elks accom-
panied the gift. Following is the names
of the ten Elks who sent the priced
token and to whom Warden Wolfer
extends his sincere thanks for their
kindly remembrance:
John King, Dist. Deputy B. p. O. E.
F. H. Rice, Exalted Ruler
a. NJ. Knox, Past Exalted Ruler
Chester r. Smith, G. B. Bowlby
}. Il. Schusler, Stephen Conday
Wilbur Tibbils Sam Plechner
Ike Iedoror
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01

We had very instructive lesson in
Horticulture from the despot of the
greenhouse, Tuesday. He is ''floury"
in taste as we'll as being flowery in
speech and RECALLED us with the "classic-
al names, as he called them, of many
poetic fancies in the floral line. "Here"
said he, showing modest looking rose
that blushed as gazed at it, sis the Cas-
ibionio SonOfagOniO. Another beauti-
full flower is what you folks call the
Gala lily. We, of the trade, term it the
Calliopalla Lillitralala. And here we
have the beautiful marigold. 1t is
known to us and to many improvident
sprigs of the British nobility as Mari
ano Americana Heiresso." We sank in
amazement at the rich flow of his floral
technique, and begged Deputy Warden
Lemon to have the lesson continued to
further date as, to use the "classics"
we were then "fullio of flowerio."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01
Local.,
Lucid
and
Logical.
They are Coming.

Soon come the gladdest days of all
The glad days in the year,
The young man now thinks of baseball
The bum of cheap book beer;
The fair maid of an Easter bonnet
Ravishing with flowers;
The poet of his spring tide sonnet
The work of happy CD hours.
The good young man and meek young maid
Are still chOck full of lent,
With manner mild and face quite staid.
They're on repentance bent,
But when the gladstone tidal wave
Of Easter time has gone
The good young man and maiden naive
Their hiking suits will don.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01

The most convincing sign of spring
that has yet come to our notice was
the exceedingly large attendance of
citizen worshipers at our chapel serv-
ice Sunday. Male and female saw we
them, and all were respondent in those
little nicknacks in furnishing goods so
enticing as Lent begins to wane and
Easter beckons us to rejoice and be
glad that spring eternal is also with us.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01

The pair of shoes you don when re-
entering the world from here has gone
through twenty-six individual hands
and operations in their manufacture,
aside from packing, etc. You may
say, "that is nothing; any old pair of
shoes does that, nowadays" But just
remember that one foolish operation
of what they encase has the power of
bringing you back here again to wait
five or six years more ere you will
again recall the point of this trif1e to
mind. Studying up small details now
may save you the trouble of under
going another term to become posted
on what is vital to your welfare.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01

If China ever becomes sufficiently
civilized to have progressive" alder
men, city clerks and other functional
ries of city and county government 1t
will be vertable paradise for hood
lers. All that is necessary there is to
steal a few thousand dollars, plead
guilty to larceny in the first degree, be
sentenced to death, give some poor
Chinaman hundred dollars and he
takes your place in the the last act, af-
ter being allowed to spend the hun
dred as he pleases. Look out for an
exodus to the flowery kingdom when
the bOOdlers become aware of this
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01

When a man vOuchSafeS the infOrma-
ton that 'yOu are talking through
your hat thank him for the cOmpli-
ment. 1t takes the finest kind of ar
gument to percolate the headgear
Any old conglomeration of words may
come direct from the mouth.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01

The following comprised party of
visitors who were shown the various
parts of our enclosure by Asst.-Deputy
Coligan, on Tuesday: F. j. Kelly, II. j.
Burnan. and Miss Mamie Kelly, St..
Paul; Lillian Mork, Owatonna, and
Miss NetfrOn, ST. Paul.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01

Inmates should be very careful in
writing letters not to omit their sigma
lures. One letter addressed: Ole Olson,
9Th st. So, Minneapolis, Mimi, is held
in the usher's office for that cause. It
will be mailed as soon as writer sends
his name to the usher.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-04-01
Grace Congregational.

Corner 5th and Laurel streets. Rev. j. H.
ing 1880 a. m. and 7:45 p. in. Sunday School
Has a. m. Junior EndeavOr 500 p. IN.
Christian EndeavOr $3.50 p. m. Children S
Mission Band the second Sunday of each
month at 800 p. m. Midweek and Prayer
meetings, Wednesdays 7:45 p. M Ladies'
Aid Society, Thursday afternoons Ladies'
Missionary Society. the last Friday of each
month.