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The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21
Remarkable Juggling Feat.

There is always an abundant supply
of stories Of the experiences of Hindoo
jugglers and acrobats One who moves
about perched upon single long stick
is the latest novelty This performer is
mounted on bamboo pole about 10
feet high, the top of which is tied to a
girdle worn around his waist A small
cushion is fastened few feet down the
pole, which acts as leg rest. The aero
bat hops around large space in the
iveliest way, uttering cheerful shouts
and accompanied by the tapping Of a
curious drum. He also executes a sort
of dance and goes through little pan
tomime. 1t is a marvellous feat Of
equilibrium To walk on pair of stills
as high as this would be performance
worthy of exhibition on our variety
stage But to hop around ON one is quite
another thing.
The same man can do many other
wonderful things. He appears absolute
ly perfect in the art Of balancing. He
can balance very light stick on his
nose and heavy one on his chin and
then throw the heavy one into the air
with his head and catch it on the end
of the light. When balancing these two
sticks, end on end, he will make one
revolve in one direction and the other
in the other. He puts one hand on a
fiat, circular stone, throws his feet up
into the air and balances stick on
each of them. At the same time he re-
wolves rapidly on the pivot formed by
cnri nt
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21
Golf a la kamr.

An intelligent Hindoo has been heard
to define billiards as a game in which
two men, armed with long sticks, poke
at ball, while one player says, "Ohp
and the other Hard lines. -
Golf seems to have similarly impress
ed the native South African mind. A
Kaffir warrior was observed attentively
watching the efforts of certain unskill-
full players to extract their ball from
one OF those deep bunkers which greatly
abound on African courses. The follow
ing day this same Katfir was seen to be
belaboring a great bowlder with huge
pole and shouting Hang itP the
while
This white mans game" said the
dusky child of nature. "Welly good
game, white mans game"
The story has the merit of being true.
All golf stories are. -Pearson's Weekly.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21

Women as diners out are rarely sought
after. At conventional dinner party
they are present in numbers equal to
matching the men guests, but in select
ing the couples the hostess usually asks
her women for their beauty, toilet or
because they happen to be wives of the
men she desires-very seldom for any
individual quality they possess, not
more than one of the sex in 500 ever
being able to meet the requirements laid
down for men. One reason for this is
their incapacity to disguise their utter
indifference to stories and anecdote. -
New York World
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21
COnsOling.

A New England congressman once
went to Franklin Pierce demanding an
Office for constituent. Pierce sent him
to James Guthrie, secretary of the treas
ury, BY and by the congressman return
ed to the president in great dudgeon.
what did Guthrie say to you about
appointing your friend?" inquired the
president. HE said he would be ID
if he would"
did Guthrie talk that way to you?"
"He did"
well, that's the way he talks to
me, too, f" was Pierce's consoling reply.
San Francisco Argonaut.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21
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The Efficacy of PRAYER.

The other night, at the holiness meet
ing, the Rev. T. G. Eason astonished
many of those present by protesting
sanctifcation. He related his experience
at length, part of which is to the eff
feet that while trying to quit the use of
tobacco after being sanctified he felt
great annoyance and even pain over his
craving for the weed, but when he and
his friends prayed that such annoyance
be removed he received almost instanta-
neous relief. News.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21
JaYa's Formulation.

Java is very thickly populated, and
cultivation is pushed to an extraordina-
~ distance up the steep slopes of the
hills. The plain of Leles in the month
OF July lis one sea of ripe golden rice,
with here and there village of brown
thatch roofs nesting in a group of green
oocoanut trees" In the middle of the
island white chimneys of sugar mills
peep above miles and miles of sugar
cane fields.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21
Nevada May Have a Rival.

Idaho may go into competitive bust
ness with Nevada to secure prizefights
rs a means of advertising the state and
promoting the art of self defense.
A bill, which in many respects fol-
lows the lines of the Nevada law legal
izing glove contests, has been intro
duced in the house.
The license is fixed at S., 1000, but
this, it is understood, is for the purpose
of giving latitude in the matter of cut
ting.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21
Drink In the Middle Ages.

The middle ages lasted about 1000
years, and in that period the feudal
lords hunted the fox or the stag all day
and went to bed dead drunk every night
of their lives. Their existence was one
grand carousal. Kings, princes, lords
and vassals lived in their cups. New
York Press.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21

Pilger-T always pay as 1 go.

Pilger-I always pay as go.
Dickson-No wonder, then, that peo-
pie are unwilling to accommodate you.
Why, I always keep my tailor at least
one suit of clothes behind, and then,
when pay him, in addition to allow
ing me a good stiff discount, he 'nvaria-
bly, gives me box of cigars. You're too
innocent for this world. Cleveland
Leader.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21
The Oldest Doll.

A Massachusetts, exchange says that
tho oldest doll in America is the proper
ty of Mrs. H. o. Brown of Reading,
Mass. She is dressed in the Louis XIV
style, and Captain Gamaliel Hedges
brought her from China III years ago
for his little daughter in Salem.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21
A WOman's Hotel.

Real estate men are talking of the
project to erect a woman's hotel on
Fifth avenue, New York. 1t is to cost
So, 100000 and includes woman's
bank, apartments, exchange, hotel, re-
ception rooms-everything but wom-
ans cook stove.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21

'How is Diggles getting along? I
haven't seen him for long time. "
Worse than usual, was the reply
in tones of the deepest sympathy VERY
much worse than usual, poor fellowp'
Are you sure of that?''
Certain. l recently had my salary
reduced, and can't lend him nearly as
much as l used to. "-Washington Star.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21

"What made Homely so tearing mad
at the bal masque last night?"
They requested him to remove his
mask, and he had none ON. Detroit
Free Press
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21
Dog Extremes,

There are dogs standing over three
feet high at the shoulder, measuring
nearly seven feet from the nose to the
tip of the tail and weighing so much as
200 pounds, and at the other end of the
scale the little Mexican lap dog is un-
der seven inches i'll length from nose to
tail tip and weighs only few ounces.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21

1t is considered that japanese men
are among the best needleworkers iii
the world, their only equals being the
women of Russia
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21
The Safety Lamp.

The principle on which Sir Humphry
Davy made his safety lamp for the use
of GOLFERS is a very simple one. 1t is
that flame cannot pass through wire
gauZe.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21

Star Pointer, 2:021a, has been taken
to Boston, where he will be handled by
Dave McClary, who drove him in all his
races last season.
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21
Two Little Kittens.

Two little kittens one stormy night
Began to quarrel and then to fight
One had mouse, the other had none,
And that's tho way the quarrel begun.
"I'lI have that mouse" said the biggest cat.
"YouT have that mouse9 Wen see about
that"
IL will have that mouse, A." said the eldest son.
"You shan't have the mouse, " said the little
one,
l told you before twas a stormy night
When these two little kittens began TO fight.
The old woman seized her sweeping broom
And swept 1le two kittens right out of the
room.
The ground was covered with frost and snow,
And the poor little kittens had nowhere TO go.
So they laid them down on the mat at the door,
While the old woman finished sweeping the
floor
The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-03-21

Then they crept ill., quiet as mice,
All wet with the snow and as cold as ice,
For they found it was better that stormy night
To lie down and sleep than to quarrel and fight.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19

A controversy appears to have broken
out between the House Committee on
Accounts in Washington and an under
taker of that city, which may have an
especial interest to citizens generally.
1t relates to the bill presented by the
undertaken aforesaid for funeral ex-
penses of the late Congressman e. D.
Cooke. The bill, amounting to $3.50,
has been disallowed by Chairman Odell
of the Committee on Accounts on the
ground that it is excessive, exorbitant
and unreasonable. If this is to be TAX
en- as fairly representative of the cost
of a Washington funeral it is not sur
prising that so few Of Jingle Sans"
officials die there and ''none resign"
1t would seem that only Congressman
or some other representative of the
Government who is sure of burial at
the public expense can afford to indulge
in such a luxury. For the ordinary
citizen the only choice left would seem
to be between living always and being
buried in the "potter's field" One item
Of the bill was $50 for embalming and
another $40 for three days spent in
travelling from Washington to Chicago
and rn-transportation and other
expenses, of course, being furnished by
the Government-something more than
the per diem of a member of Congress
for the same time. The subject is a
grewsome one and is touched upon with
due respect to the memory Of the late
Representative. In view, however, of
the almost absolute certainty with
which these questions crop out after
each congressional funeral, it might be
we'll for Congress to settle them for all
time by fixing by law the rate of COM
pensation to be allowed undertakes
under such circumstances.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19

Oleomargarine has been prohibited in
Martinique, Algeria, and all the other
French colonies, under the provisions
of law passed in France last April.
1t provides that no product which is not
exclusively made of milk or cream or
both, with or without salt or coloring,
can be brought in or sold under the
name of butter. All products which
have the same appearance as butter
and are used in the same way are to be
designated as ''margarin." 1t is fur
Their forbidden to any one manufacture
ing or preparing butter to make or hold
sor let any one else make or hold mar
garin on his premises. 1t can only be
introduced in places designated by the
municipal authorities. The quantity of
butter contained in it cannot exceed 10
Per cent. All premises in which it is
deposited must bear a notice to that
effect, and all receptacles of it must be
plainly marked on every side. Heavy
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19

The English libel law was illustrated
by the finding of a jury in the High
Court of Queens Bench, after three
days hearing Of the suit of Mr.. Andrew
H. Atteridge, the Chronicles special
correspondent during the Soudan cam
paign, against Mr.. e. +. Knight, the
special correspondent of the Times in
the same campaign. The jury award
ed Atteridge five thousand dollars dam
ages. The action grew out of letter
written by Knight to friend wherein
he called Atteridge "dirty cur and
declared that he left the Soudan after
the first battle at Firket because he was
in a "blue funk He further expressed
his opinion that Atteridge was "dirty
cur because he had treated Garrett,
the correspondent of the New York
Herald, in vile manner, turning him
out of his tent into the desert when he
was suffering from enteric fever, for
the reason that he was afraid Of chOl-
era. Knight also accused Atteridge,
who had previously been teetotaler,
of drinking champagne from o'clock
in the morning until bed time and pray
ing to God all day when the cholera
broke out He further described At
teridge as brute who never washed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19

difficulties are so much greater than on
an ordinary that no comparison can be
made. Both the Valdares practice two
or three hours a day to keep proficient
in their work. But in spite Of every
thing they can never be sure that all
their tricks will be successful.
AS is nearly always the case with per-
formances such as the Valdares give,
comparatively easy trick is quite as
likely to appeal to the public as one to
which they have devoted week after
week Of practice to accomplish. The
most difficult performance that Valdare
takes part in is riding his machine with
the front wheel taken off altogether. He
does this standing On the pedals, stoop-
ing slightly to hoid The steering head
tube in both hands, the body thrown
forward at an angle Of at least 10 de-
grees in front of an imaginary line
drawn from the axle upwards. In this
position lies the secret which it took the
best part of year to discover and ap-
preciate.
There is literally no position which is
impossible to the Valdares ON their
machines. They climb over them and
through them and round them until
you begin to think some supernatural
agency is preventing the bicycles from
falling.
The trick which entails the greatest
strain physically is that in which VAL
dare draws the front wheel by sheer
strength from the ground and rides
along gaily with his machine paving
the air, like a rearing horse.
Once in Cincinnati he rode one-third
of mile in this extraordinary position
in minute II 3-5 seconds. Until he
dismounted he had no idea what the
strain had been. The moment his feet
touched the ground they gave way as
if every muscle had been paralyzed.
10 climb through the diamond frame
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19

The wire-wound cannon endures
greater explosive pressure to the square
inch of rowder-chamber than any other
form Of gun, and consequently assures
greater velocity of projectile and great
err power of penetration. An expert
mental shot from such gun recently
tried in England went through eighteen
inches of steel-faced compound armor,
backed by wrought-iron plate half
foot thick, eight feet Of oak timber, and
three inches of ordinary iron, and still
had energy enough to bury itself in
bank Of clay beyond. Gen. Grant, in
his autobiography, described some
wooden mortars, hoped with iron,
which were used under his supervision
in the West; but hundreds of years ear
lier the cannon of European armies
were made from logs, a knotty portion
forming the breech, while around the
barrel were wound strips of fresh raw
hide which contracted as it dried.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19

The proceedings of the House OF
Commons make very strange reading
for an American occasionally. Recent
ly that body Of august legislators called
up usurer before it and lectured him
solemnly upon the error Of refusing to
answer it's summons and reply to GER
tain questions of a committee. On the
authority toward man of means who
had offended it by the same cause. The
mother of parliaments" is not more
just than other and newer bodies of
lawmakers.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19

suitable tackle was made ready anil
separately the members ascended in d
chair to the legendary home of thu
Acomas. The legend proved to hays
been unfounded. Writing of the su
ject Prof. Libbey says: mo traces dI
former inhabitants were found. Fm
Their, no affairs Or traces of praye
sticks were found. This fact best Of
all shows the inaccessible character al
the place, because, if it had been ac
cessible, the medicine men of tha
Acoma tribe would have certainly us
it for such purposes.
''Not the slightest trace was found
which would enable me to believe thsI
a human foot had ever before passed
over the top of this famous rock. Al
few agile lizards and several graz
rats We're the only occupants of this
castle in the air. Some fine specimen
of stunted pines, a few species of flow
ering plants and the ubiquitous sagl
brush lent variety to the surface OIL
the line of color Of the bright SanlI
stone"
Thus dies a legend that has been tleI
inspiration Of poet and romanist,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19

The fact that the great tenor's name
is Jean Mecbzislaw Reschke, and not
De Reszke, as commonly supposed, may
be blow to some Of his admirers, but
it will not impair his popularity. This
fact has been brought out in commu-
nication which he has found necessary
to make in order to deny that he is not
an old man, as was reported, and COM
PEELED to make up for all his youthful
parts. He calmly declares that he was
born Jan. 3, 1850, at Kozija street and
the tracks, in Warsaw. The tenor is
therefore Al, quite ripe age, and it
will not be necessary for him to begin
his farewell tours for several years.
A man Of Al in any other business
would not be considered chicken, but
a tenor of that age is in the bloom OF
youth.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19
Occasionally there is found a man en-

Occasionally there is found a man en-
gagged in commercial pursuits who pos
eesses great talent in artistic lines
Rogers, the poet, was banker, and our
own Halleck and Stedman We're en-
gagged in business having little to do
with the muse. A noted poet of the
West is a marker in a poolroom, and
he doesn't write verse about Derby
day, either, but about daffodils and
azure skies. At least one successful
merchant in Chicago dallies with liter
allure, on the side. as it were. These
remarks are called out by the discov-
cry in London that the man who COM
posed the music for its latest successful
opera is a tinancier, whose musical ac-
cOmplishments have never been sus-
pected even by his intimate friends.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19
Something Nice.

According to the following anecdote.
from the Sacred Heart Review, people
who do right, as well as those who do
wrong, sometimes resolve never to do
it again:
A gentleman heard that a young girl
whose mother was in poor circum-
stances-was convalescing from a dan
genous sickness. Forthwith he went to
fruiterer's and secured some choice
punches of Hamburg grapes at 81, or
thereabouts, a pound.
He carried them, not without some
dissatisfaction, to the house of the
invalid, and left them with her mother
who received them in dubious kind of
manner that did not evince. as he
thought, much gratitude.
This did not trouble him greatly
however, but the next day when he
called he received blow which made
him resolve never again to be generous
to strangers
How did your daughter like the
grapes?' he said to the grim and I'M
demonstrative matron.
"Oh, pretty WELL" was the reluctant
answer.
did she eat them all?' was the next
query
Aes, she got away with Them was
the reply. But she is a good dea,
Like me; she likes something nice and
tasty-Ike canned corn"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19
his movements, provided they possess
Tho uoovorcon+ Uift of ma tiencp

his movements, provided they possess
the Heaven-sent gift Of patience.
Valdare commences by standing on
the left pedal with the left foot, and,
swinging the right leg to the same side,
he thrusts it through the frame, sink
ing down till head and shoulders are
even with the front wheel on the left
side. Then, with both hands grasping
the tire of the front wheel, which is
turned at right angles, he swings the
head and body back on level with the
frame Now the head is put through,
and the easier half of the trick is ac-
complished.
He has still to come up on the farther
side, and to do this must shift his hands
from the wheel to the handle-bars.
Thrusting the right shoulder we'll for
ward, he grasps the left handle with
the left hand from the right side of the
machine, keeping the right hand still
on the front wheel. Then he lies well
forward and straightens up, swinging
the left foot over the saddle, and taking
care the while not to put too much
weight on the right-hand pedal, since
there is nothing to prevent the machine
starting backwards and throwing out
the balance. What could be more sim
pie?
There are several pretty exhibitions
which Mrs. Valdare gives alone. In
one she mounts her machine with her
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19
ROLL ON, OH BOATl
Curious Concern That's Going TO
Cross the Atlantic in JiHy.

Curious Concern That's Going to
Cross the Atlantic in JiHy.
A Canadian inventor has devised
craft which he is confident will solve
the problem of quicker ocean travel
This new boat is in the invention OF
a lawyer, Mr.. F. A. Knapp. In 1t, he
SAYS. he will be able to cross the Allan.
tic ocean in 48 hours, and thus COM
pletely revolutionize all present meth
DDS of navigation
Perhaps the best Illustration OF the
principle involved in this vessel is fur
nshed by the paddle wheel of an ordl
nary side wheel steamer. Imagine the
paddle wheel to be ITO feet in width
and 20 feet in diameter. The station
airy paddles on the outside cylinder of
this vessel will correspond to the pad
dies on a paddle wheel. In the center
Of this huge paddle wheel imagine a
cylinder - feet in diameter, braced
strongly to the outside cylinder, with
shaft in the center of this 12-fOot cylin-
der, and connected with q vessel one
would have an ordinary paddle wheel
in shape and principle. But in the yes
sci now under construction in place OF
the shaft there is third cylinder,
which, as before stated, is joined to the
outside or revolving portion Of the yes
sci by ball bearings.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19
Spiders Thread.

The spiders threads are esli1i',
to be 1OO,0OGth of hair in tElcAD !"
Three kinds of thread are spun, y
Of great strength for the radaa'lI :,
spoke lines of the web; the cross ~
are finer and are tenaciolls-'n''.
they have upon them little spe'"1r n
globules Of a very sticky gum 4
third kind Of silk is that wLl'r a,a
spider throws out in mass Vi u
by which it suddenly enve.ops I'D,
prey of which it is sometimes "i'
as, for example, a wasp.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19
of the engagement at Eccles Hill

of the engagement at Eccles Hill
November, 1870, and his men made
splendid record for themselves. Nj
Marchand's father was an old reslatD
and native Of Quebec, but in 1857
settled in st. John, N. B., and OecaD,
one of the most prominent citizens
the town. The premier-elect was ~ +
In st. John in 1882 in a Qualn' "
house, which still stands. lie al 70.
ward came to Quebec, where his puv.]
career for the past twenty-five OF Ii ~,
years has been of brilliance anu ''
fulnesS to the State.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19

Inside this third cylinder platform
Will be constructed, on both sides OF
Which engines of $50 horse power will
be placed. By means of friction these
engines will cause the outside cylin.
ders to revolve rapidly, while the in.
side cylinder retains it's equilibrium.
1t is intended to provide passenger &C.
commodations within the inside. or
third cylinder. The present idea of
the inventor is to utilize the space be-
tween the inner and outer surface of
the revolving cylinder for the storage
OF cargo. The ends of the inner cylin-
der will be open, and as they will be
eight feet above the water no trouble
is expected from waves.