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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23
THE TAME FAWN.
An Old Dame Who Narrowly Escaped
with Her Life.

An Old Dame Who Narrowly Escaped
with Her Life.
Although it does not appreciate oon-
inement in a paddock, it is easy TO
tame a fawn and it makes delightful
pet until it attains to years of indisere-
ton, says the Badminton Magazine. A
tame roe used to follow the children
everywhere round the old castle of
Duntroon and even up the stairs and
into the rooms. One of his little play
fellows had been obliged to give up his
room to a gentleman who had come to
stay there and the surprise of the guest
was unbounded when the head and
neck of a roe protruded through his
half-open door. "Dear mel" he said.
game must be extremely plentiful In
these parts"
Yet, just as kitten would be the most
delightful of pets except for its I'M
fortunate habit of growing into cat,
so a roe and especially buck, becomes
too much of handful as pet when 1t
grows up. Their beautiful little horns
are both sharp and dangerous and a
tame roebuck very nearly put an old
woman off the road and into the Crinan
canal by it's obtrusive attentions. 1t
meant no harm; it really expected to
get lump of rock salt, with which it
had usually been rewarded for it's
caresses. but the old dame did not ap-
preciate it's uncanny approaches and
narrowly escaped with her life.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23
STOCK AND DAIRY HINTS.

Butter makers motto: Cleanliness
is next to goodness"
"Make the COW happy il you would
have her do her best" says Prof. Will
lard.
Pasture and pure water are oft neg
lected essentials to successful summer
swine raising.
Better breeding, feeding and wedding
redemanded in the live stock and dairy
industries.
Ripened cream should be thick and
smooth when put into the churn-not
lumpy, neither sloppy.
Ticks and scab are overcome by dip
ping the sheep and lambs. This should
be done at shearing time.
The change from dry feed to pasture
should be gradual, thus making a clap
splice" between grain and grass.
Continue to feed little Of that Is
cents oats and corn. 1t doesn't pay
to cut the grain ration off entirely the
day the animals are turned out to
grass. D
Entirely too little attention is given
to the shape and fitting qualities of
the horse collars, particularly as to the
width thereof. The collars should fit
the sides of the neck closely, without
pinching.
United States butter cows produce on
estimated annual average Of 100 pounds
of butter per COW. This is not much
more than half the yield that should
be produced, and what are we going to
do about it?
Many successful swine growers we
know rake up the corn cobs, burn them,
and when in the form of bright, live
Goals, throw water on portion of the
pile, thus making charcoal and ashes
for the hogs to east. A little salt may be
added.
Sheep surpass all other domestic ami
mails in bringing up and cleaning up
weedy, brushy, pOverty-stricken lands.
If you have a patch of this kind, turn
them in and let them "subdue and re-
plenish the EARTH" in that particular
spot, at least.-Agricultural Epitomist.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23
ABOUT PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Gen. Cadorna, who commanded the
Italian troops when they took posses.
sion of Rome in 1870, died recently at
the age of So years.
DIR. Jameson, according to the Cape
Town Times, will return to South
Africa to carry the Rhodes transconti-
mental wire to Lake Tanganyika.
The duchess of York was married
July 6, 1893. June 90, 1894; December IA
1895, and April 25, 1897. are the dates of
the births of her three children.
Miss Mary Isabella Potter, who was
ordained as an Episcopal deaconess in
New Haven recently, is the first wom-
an to take orders in the diocese of Con-
necticut.
A movement is on foot to erecta monu.
ment to Henri Vieuxtemps, the famous
Belgium violinist. The monument will
be erected at Verviers, the birthplace
of the musician.
Gov. Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee
who, it is said, will resign, achieved no
toriety during his candidacy by playing
a violin, while making speeches. He
now says he is tired of the ingratitud'
of politics"
Senator Wellington. of Maryland. in
terests himself while the senate is il
session in looking over newspaper clip
pings about himself. He subscribes to
news-clippings bureau and reads every
thing that is said about himself with
great deal of interest.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23
IN THE MAILS.

Germany will initiate the example of
other European nations, and issue a
different set of stamps for each of her
colonies.
The prince Of Wales is interesting
himself in raising hospital fund, and
to help it along an English paper sug-
gests that a special postage stamp be is
sued to commemorate 1t.
Portugal will issue series of COM
memorative stamps upon the occasion
of the quadricentenary celebration of
the departure of Vasco de Cana on his
famous voyage to the Indies.
The commemorative stamps issued
last year by Bulgaria and commonly
known by the name of Boris stamps,
were Withdrawn from circulation on
February IA, the first anniversary OF
their issue.
Two years ago some 20-cent St. Louis
stamps were discovered, and the deal
ers promptly priced them at $4,000
each. At a recent auction sale one OF
these stamps sold for $500. That shows
tuS ulASlCuSc OVOW0SA COAuIuOu ScuSc
and fancy prices.
The most northern postoffice in the
world has recently been established by
the Norwegian government on the
island of Spitzbergen, off the north
coast of Norway. There are practically
no inhabitants in the vicinity, but the
office is established for the convenience
of excursionists who go there during
the summer months.
One of the cnriosities noted recently
is a letter on which there were seven
addresses. It was originally mailed
from Seattle, Washington, to party in
Yokohama, Japan; but they left before
the letter reached there. A label was
pasted on 1t, with the address at the
next station, and, not being received
It followed to number of other towns
in Japan and China. AT each station G
new label was put on it, but the party
was too far in advance, having in the
meantime sailed for home and the
letter was subsequently returned to the
sender. There were on it three stamps
q number of labels and 10 postmarks-
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23
RAILROAD ITEMS.

Nine-tenths of the railroad passen-
gers in England travel third-class.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad COM
pany has secured possession of dock
property at Chicago and Milwaukee
for the new lake line from Feirport.
The B. & o. has 22,252 miles of tele-
graph wire, of which they use 7,24o for
company's business and the balance is
leased by the Western Union. There
are 3S4 telegraph Offices on the line, Of
which 234 are reporting Western Union
offices. t
Interesting results ofan investigation
of the effect produced by a railroad
train on the air through which it moves
were presented at a recent meeting of
the St. Louis Academy of Science by
Prof. E. E. Nipher. 1t appears that mo-
ton is communicated to the atmos-
phere many feet away, SO that large
amount of air is dragged along with the
train A peculiar danger arises near a
swift-running train from the tendency
of the moving air to topple a person
over, and at the same time to commune
cate a motion of rotation to the body,
which may cause it to roll under the
train
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23
BRUSH AND Pallet TIE.


London city is go'og to hold au ex-
hloition at the Guildj:all of the progress
OF art during Queen Victoria's reign.
Henri Gervex, the Partisan artist who
painted the pictures of the corona ton
OF the car, has received the cross CT st.
Ahne OF the second class. lie is at ' 'ork
On panorama of Lac coronation.
Sir John Miller's "Yeoman of the
uuard has been presented to the Ma
lionai gallery by his half-sister. Sar-
gents portrait of Coventry Patmore aas
aiso been given to the nation by the
poets widow for the National portrait
gallery.
nieycling seems to be having bepe-
uclal effect on British art. A criti,> of
recent exhibition states that lowing.
pernaps' to the rage for cycling, The
a"lateur works are less numerous ttan
Nsual this year, and sE,sller in size
mere seems to be no demand tor
r,,sts houses in Lor-don. Sir John
Oo a,iaiS house. on which he spent So o.
w, was offered at auction recently, hut
q o,u was made. and after trying to sell
frederick Leighton's house with tut
ssaining q reasonable offer, his fan lily
.eieu u to the nation. but gift &. yes
seem TO have been accepted yet.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23
WoMAN's SOPRANO VOICE.
Why She Can Reach Much Higher
Tones Than Is Possible for Man,


The scientist who discovered in the
human larynx the anatomical reason
why woman has soprano voice and a
man a bass one was woman, Mrs.
Emma Seller, says the Philadelphia
Times. She was German, born in
Wurtzburg. Left a widow with two
children to support, she resolved to be-
come teacher of singing, but sudden
ly lost her voice. Then she determined
to find out why; also to discover the cor
rect method of singing, SO that others
might not lose their voices. For this
purpose she studied anatomy. She dis
sected larynx after larynx and spent
years in her search, trying to find for
one thing why women's head tones
could reach high G while men had no
soprano tones. At length her search
was rewarded. She discovered under
the microscope one day two small,
wedge-shaped cartilages whose action
produces the highest tones Of the hui
man voice. She made her discovery
public. 1t excited great attention
among scientists. Her own brother, a
physician, praised the treatise in the
highest terms till he found his own
sister had written it. Then he dashed
it down, saying ina rage that she would
be better attending to her homework.
Nine. Sellers portrait, a marble relief,
is in possession of the American Phil
,osophical society of Philadelphia, of
which she was a member. She wrote,
among other books, "The Voice in Sing
ing" and 1.-THE Voice in Speaking"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23
THE WORK-A-DAY WORLD.

There are in this country nearly co.
100000 people who live on wages, and of
these nearly 100000 are women.
The proposal to abolish barmaids
after the year 1900 was defeated in the
south Australian Legislative council by
nine votes.
President Mahon, of the National
street Railway Employees association,
is authority for the statement that
streetrailway men receive higher wages
n cities where three-cent fares prevail
than in those municipalities where five
cents is the ruling price.
For the first time in several years
every department. of the LaclSawanna
iron and Steel company, Scranton Pa.
steel mills, furnaces and rolling mills
are simultaneously in operation In
all over 1900 men have found work.
aimee the works began to resume.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23
ALL SORTS.

In the last 25 years, as indicated by
rio insurance statistics, the average life
Of woman has increased from AZ years
20 AZ wears, an increase of over nine per
cent
Near Lakewood, Nj there is ferret
farm. where these useful animals are
roised. The chief service is to cap
tnre rats in dwellings and storehouses.
last year 1900 ferrets were raised on
the farm.
A perilous performance is witnessed
nightly at London theater. The per-
former is tied up in sack soaked with
kerosene. The sack is then set on, fire.
and when it is all ablaze he leaps into
n tank of water.
Emma McCue, so years old, who mar
ried George McCue, three years older.
of Franklin, Ind, last December on his
promise to support her in ease and
comfort, has sued for divorce because
she has had to do farmhouse drudgery.
A citizen of Suffolk, Va, has Of
fered factory site free to anyone who
will establish a manufacturing indus
try there, and one Of the inducements
held out by local paper is that ''the
morals of the people are equaled in few
other places"
Farms in England are selling at a
ruinous reduction of their former value,
and in many cases cannot be sold at
all. In many cases farms have been
sold for less than one-tenth of their
value 20 years ago. Well-to-do farmers
are abandoning the business and 60
ing to the colonies or to cities to start
life anew.
A London court has recently done
something to settle the social status of
artists models. A young woman
brought suit for breach of promise
against man who had promised to
marry her, but had been alarmed by
the discovery that instead of sitting for
the head alone she had also sat for the
figure, though not without drapery. The
decision of the court was that the pro-
fession is respectable, and that she was
entitled to damages.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23
INTERESTING FIGURES.

Electricity moves 2ss,00o miles per
second.
About $4,000 vehicles pass over Lon
don bridge every day.
One million dollars in United States
silver coin at the present standard
weighs nearly 2sA tons.
The Brooklyn bridge is 3,475 feet
long, 160 feet high and cost S15,O00,000.
The old London bridge was begun in
the year 1176 and completed in 1909.
The greatest known depth of the
ocean is midway between the islands
the Rio de la Plata. The bottom was
here reached at a depth of 10000 feet
OF s34 miles.
The five largest rivers in the world
are as follows: North America, Missis
sippi and Missouri, 4,300 miles; South
America, Amazon and Benz, 1000 miles;
Asia, Yeneisy and Selenga, $3.50 miles;
Africa, Nile, 3,240 miles; Europe, Volga,
Russia, $500 miles.
The Chicago fire in 1871 suffered a
loss of 1880 buildings, amounting to
$780,, 1000, and ESQ lives lost. The fire
ragged over 2,124 acres of ground. In
the same year, Paris, fired by the Com
mune, lost property to the amount of
$160,OOO.OOO. The forest fires swept
through Michigan and Wisconsin in
1871, and it is estimated that 1000 hu-
man beings persisted and property to
the amount of over $4,000, 900 was con.
sumed.
The war of the rebellion cost the
United States $6,1s9, 929, 900; the num-
Der of federal troops was 1850, 1872.
The Mexican war cost the United States
S10O,o0O,O00; the number of troops en-
gagged was 101,2s2. The war of 1912
cost the United States $107. $4,000; the
number of troops engaged is estimated
at 1922. The revolutionary war cost
the United States S135, 19S703; the
colonies furnished. from ITS TO 1888,
3y5.064 troops.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23

II seems to be the result of long-con-
tinued natural selection that the colors
of animals at night seem to blend with
their surroundings, and thus afford
protection. Dark brown, gray and
black animals appear so much like shad-
ows as to be nearly invisible. Patches
of white often appear like moonlight
effects. While the brilliant coloring of
butterflies serves to render them con-
spicuous in the daytime. when perched
upon golden-rod or other bright flowers
at night they are nearly invisible. The
stripes on the tiger and zebra help
to conceal them among the stalks and
reeds; and fishes which rest at night
among eel grass have longitudinal dark
stripes.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23
EASTER BREAD AND CHEESE.
Origin Of q Custom Still Maintained in
n Quiet English Village.

Origin Of q Custom Still Maintained in
n Quiet English Village.
An old ceremony which links the pres
ent with an epoch as nearly distant as
the Norman conquest has been duly OBJ
served in the quiet village of Biddenden,
in Kent, near Ashford. England. Easter
was celebrated by the distributing by
the vicar and church wardens of cakes
of gingerbread among visitors to the
place, while the residents were RECALLED
with hunks of bread and cheese. For
nearly 900 years these doles or gifts
have been dispensed, although now all
idea of charity has practically disap-
peared, and the distribution is used
more for an occasion of conviviality
and ale drinking than for the pious
commemoration of the two maids of
Biddenden who founded the feast.
These ladies were Eliza and Mary
Chulkhurst, who lived at the beginning
OF the twelfth century and were Joined
together like the Siamese twins. One
died day after the other, and they
left bit of land, of which the rental
is about 5000 year, to perpetuate
fund for the distribution of bread and
cheese at Easter. The doles are all
stamped with q likeness of the two
maids, with their names and the dates
of their birth and demise. Many peo-
pie go to Biddenden for the express
purpose of getting a cake and preserv-
ing it as curiosity.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23

The trains leaving Baltimore at V2O p. M.
daily, carries Pullman Buffet Sleeper New
York TO Nashville. and the train leaving Bal.
Buffet Sleeper New York 70 Salisbury, uniting
with Pullman sleeper (from Norfolk) 10 Nash.
Vile, Tenn, through The Land OF the Sky.T
without change.
For full particulars, descriptive matter, etc.,
call on or address:
]. G. HORTON, Pass. Agent
lO6 East German St., Baltimore, Md.
L. s. BROWN, GenI Agent Pass. Dept.
W. A. TURK, General Passenger Agent.
]. M. CULP. Traffic Manager.
w. h. GREEN, General Superintendent.
1900 Penna. Ave-, Washington, d. O.
June l1.4ms.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-07-23

At an experience meeting of bachei.
ors one of the most popular of the for.
eign lot confessed that years before he
had labored uader the delusion that he
was in love. and that he had escaped
matrimonv through the success of a
rival
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-01-14
CELEBRATED LAST NIGHT.
Thirtieth Anniversary of the Talcott.
vile Church

Thirtieth Anniversary of the Talcott-
vile Church.
South Manchester, Jan. lathe an
nual meeting of the Talcottville Con
gregational church was held this even
ing. and special exercises were held in
commemoration of the founding of the
church, this being it's thirtieth ami
versary The building was begun
April 9, 1866, and the first service, a
prayer meeting, was held December
of the same year. Deacon Horace w.
Talcott, who has been dead several
years, led the meeting. The first
preaching service was held Sunday, De-
cember 2, 1866, and DIR. Joel Halves
preached the sermon. A preaching
service and Sunday school has been
hald in the church every Sunday since
that time.
The church expenses during its eX-
istence amounted to more than $50 900.
Its benevolences to date amount to $31,-
SCI 07, the largest sum expended in this
way by any Congregational church in
Tolland county.
The exercises this evening consisted
of roll-caIl, reading of letters from
absentees, followed by social time
and supper.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-01-14
CUTTING INTO THEM.

That's what we're doing to the
prices on our mems $500 Puri-
tan Calfskin shoes. We have
too many of them. We must
sell them. To sell them, we're
making the price $2.3S as long
as they last. These shoes are
cork-soled Balmorals and Con-
gress styles. They have never
been sold for less than $500, and
are worth every penny of it. We
invite all our customers to visit
our chiropodist and have their
feet attended to free of charge
A. B. GREENWOOD,
773 Chapel St.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-01-14

There is one direction, as DR.. George
f. Shrady, Americas first surgeon
distinctly says, in which people seem
to need enlightenment at present more
than they have for many years past.
"This is the rational appreciation of
the danger of quackery and fake
cures.'
DIR. Shradys article in the New York
World of Dec. 81 should be read by
every man and woman who is ever in
clined to listen to the nonsensical, but
too often plausible ramblings of trad
ers in patent medicines
When Prof Edward E. Phelps, MD,
LII. D., of Dartmouth college, after a
long life of study in the most recent
scientific investigation of diseases,
evolves the marvellous formula of
Paine's celery compound-when after
the closest possible observance by the
best practitioners it is found that this
greatest remedy of our generation not
only does all, but even accomplfshes
more than the modest doctor-the 81
ant among men that he has proved to
be-more than he was willing at first
to clain-When thousands of sufferers
in every walk of life, sufferers from
the ailments that come from overwork,
deranged digestive organs. impaired
nervous systems, too poor or too rich
living, inattention to hygienic laws,
have been absolutely restored to health
by Paine's celery compound, after
vainly trying every other possible
remedy, and being dosed by we'll
meaning but incompetent so-called
DhySjctanS
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-01-14
A DELIGHTFUL PARTY.
Enjoyed by Many Little Folks Last
Evening

Enjoyed by Many Little Folks Last
Evening.
A delightful children's party was
given last evening by Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur banks for their little daughters,
Miss Mabel and Miss Ruby banks.
Their home was brilliant with many
lights; the rooms decorated with palms
Mrs. banks and Miss Grace Greenwood,
Mrs E. J. Atwater Mrs. L. w. Rob
Finson assisted the young hostesses of
the evening receiving their guests.
The party was in honor of the young
ladies' birthdays, which occurred the
same week, but on different days. The
Misses Mabel and Ruby banks receiv-
ed many friends and birthday remem-
brances. Games entertained the COM
pany the first part of the evening, af-
ter which Miss Mabel and Miss Ruby
| banks led the way to the supper room
where a table lastly decorated with
an array of good things that especially
commended themselves to the little
ones. The pleasant evening was finish.
ed with music rendered by Mrs. f
Harvey Smith and dancing. They Their
babe their hostesses good night ant
happy wishes. Some of the children
present were Lois Robinson, Margaret
Robinson, Susie Kirby, Marion Nun
son, Harvey Munson, Stephen Whit.
ney, Harold Brooks, Percy Pauline
| Kenneth Alling, Raymond Smith, Mer-
Gill Smith, Elsie Liefield, Freddie Coe
Harriet Coe, Alice Brooks, Freddie Hol.
comb Robert Allen, Ruth Collins, Mar.
garet Atwater, Bertha Penney, Marion
Bunnell, Elsa Burwell and Grace Green
| wood.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-01-14
A VERY PLEASANT AFFAIR

Miss Nellie e. Young gave a recep-
ton to few of her young friends at
her home, III Columbus avenue, last
evening. The rooms were attractively
decorated with palms and fern plants
The affair was in celebration of Miss
Young's eighteenth birthday and many
gifts were received. There was infor-
NAL dancing throughout the evening,
with music and singing and a fine
spread, for which Watson of New York
catered. All present spent a thorough
ing supreme.