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The free press., 1897-02-11
An Ingenious Signal.

Few pedestrians who have passed
along Walnut street between 7th and
Sth have ever noticed the little black
shingle exte ending from the third-story
window of No. 715, and still fewer
know that it has any significance. DIR.
Henry w. Lsffmann, the well-known
analytical chemist, occupies the third
story front Office of the building, and
the shingle is a primitive means of
announcing to his regular callers that
he is in or out. The end of the board
nearest to the window is hinged, and
to the other is attached cord which
passes over pulley and bangles from
the wall inside of the room. When
the doctor is in he hangs his hat on
a hook on the end of the string, and
the weight pulls the shingle up into a
vertical position. When he puts his
hat on before going out the sustaining
weight is released and the sign board
drops to horizontal. 1t can readily
be seen from the street, and DR.. Left
mann says that automatic annunciators
are crude when compared with his
scheme. Philadelphia Record
The free press., 1897-02-11
POPLARVILLE, MISS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1897
Cost OF Wild Animals.

The most costly of wild animals held
in captivity is the elephant. A fine
ian elephant costs from $6, 900 to
20. A fine Indian elephant would
'st about IS, 900.
Giraffes cost about the same ns the
best elephants, about Sc 700 or 81, 900,
but that quotation is re- only nomi-
nal; it would be difficult to get a
giraffe at any price. This is due part
ly to their increasing scarcity and
partly to the Difficult OF obtaining
them, due to the il nal wars OF the
natives in the giraffe country. Giraffes
very rarely breed in captivity.
A fine hippopotamus would prob
ably cost about SO, 600.
A good African lion, with full and
perfect name, would cost from 81, 600
to 81, 800; fine lioness $500 or 5000.
Good Bengal tigers cost about the
same.
Camels usually cost from $400 to
$500 apiece.
Many wild animals breed in captiv.
ity, and the supply of wild animals is
now made up to some extent from thai
source. In New York's menagerie in
Central Park, for example, large
number of wild animals have been
born, some of them of rare kinds and
great value. The same is true, in a
greater or less degree, of menageries
and of geological gardens in various
parts OF the world It is customary
to sell or exchange the surplus ami
mails 50 born.
Wild animals in captivity may final
ly cease to breed. Wild animals born
in captivity are not 80 likely to be as
fine specimens as those born in a wild
state, and in succeeding generations
they degenerate and become weaker
and more susceptible to disease. This
stock is improved by adding to it,
from time to time, wild animals from
their native homes. New York Sun.
The free press., 1897-02-11
Numbering Planets.

The idea of the numbering of the
heavenly bodies, whether planets. sa-
tellites or stars of the smallest sizes
was formed at the Astronomical Con-
eress in 1887, and already 1S9 photo
graphs have been taken with view to
the publication OF an international
catalogue. Some of these photographs
only contain dozen stars, but others
are crowded even to the number of
1900. 1t is expected that the cata-
logue will enumerate about 5000, 900
stars. Boston Herald,
The free press., 1897-02-11
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

There is no water on the moons
surface.
Car axles are made by arccently- pat
ented mechanism.
The average death rate in English
cities is IT, 6 per l, 900, and in the rural
districts 1871 per l., 900.
Astronomers say that there is every
reason to believe that human life on
Mars is much like it is on this earth.
On the east coast of Ireland it rains
on an average of 108 days IN the year.
in England about $50 days, at Kazau
about ninety days and in Siberia only
sixty days.
Experiments of two Fronch chemists
showed lately that the same person di-
gested 95. percent Of ordinary butter
and SO of cocoa butter, the latter giving
less disturbance in excess.
Animals which live in absolute
darkness are of three kinds as to To-
cale:- Those in caves, parasites and
in the deep sea below 200 fathoms,
where no sunlight penetrates.
Professor Thompson thinks that
perhaps all insects communicate with
each other by means of some, to US. in
visible radiation. This would account
for the peculiar construction OF the
ewes of insects, which do not depend
upon refraction.
General Greedy has been expert
menting with bicycles in the signal
corps. Three of them were recently
sent to San Antonio, Texas, where
Lieutenant Reber has been testing
them. He reports that they are OF
great value when military telegraph
lines break, as repairs cali be made
quicker and less valuable time cost
than when a horse ana wagon have to
be secured.
The free press., 1897-02-11
NEW SCHOOL FOB MONKEYS

There has just been founded at Cal
cutta, India, an institution for the
education of monkeys.
A young monkey is taken, and be-
fore him is placed set of blocks on
which are painted in capitals the let
ters of the alphabet. These blocks
are, in fact, exactly similar to those
which children play with in every civ
lized country in the world, and they
are used in precisely the same way as
if the monkey were young specimen
of the human race. There is one pro-
fessor for each monkey, and the mon
key is taught by means OF the blocks
to spell certain words. If the word
is "fruit," for example, the monkey,
after having been taught to arrange
the blocks SO as to spell the word
quickly and without error, receives q
bit of fruit as his reward. The same
eNeIClS6 - repedheo "ish oehpA "oA"'
and it is hoped that in time the SINH
ans will learn how to read, and spell,
and understand English, if they can
not speak it. An effort will also be
made, it is said, to educate these
beasts so that they may become fairly
efficient domestic servants. The school
is SO young as yet, however, that what
it will accomplish is entirely matter
of speculation. It's professors" are
enthusiastic about their novel work,
and seem to think that new field of
usefulness will be opened up for these
chatterin2 little beasts.
The free press., 1897-02-11

boy came closer, ahd the stern old
schoolmastor saw his face, he set down
the switch inside the door and came
outside. One boy slipped to the win
dow and reported to the rest. The
old man was pouring water on Lys
Grants hands and having him wash
his face. He gave him his red
bandanna to wipe it dry. What
the schoolsaw minute later was
the schoolmaster coming in, patting
this very red and embarrassed boy on
the head"
The free press., 1897-02-11
CALI TIE KING's HORSES.


In tho Mother Goose verses about
Hump.3 4mpty, the horses are men
toned first:
"All the kings horses and all the kings
mca,
Can never put Humpty Dumpty together
again"
Certainly, some of the kings thought
quite as mighty of their horses as they
did of their soldiers, and gave them
more care and attention, snys the
Philadelphia Times. William the
Conquerer had splendid horse, which
he rode in battle. At his approach
the horse would paw and prance and
caracole, showing its agility and
grace to please its master.
King Richard, the Lion-Hearted,
was brave and gallant soldier, and
he loved his horses as we'll as he did
his friends. Although he was an Eng
lish king, he did not speak English,
but French. So all his horses had
French names given them for their
different colors, as the Black, the Bay,
the Sorrel, only the words for the
colors were French and with some
diminutive ending to signify affection.
He left most of his horses at home
when he went on q crusade to Pales-
tine, or else they were killed in battle
for his enemy, Saladin, the great Ma
hometan king, heard he was fighting
on foot He thought it O great dis
grace that SO famous warrior should
be dismounted, so he sent as gift o
magnificent Arabian steed. When
Richard saw how fiery it was he or
dered that one of his knights should
mount it first. Instantly the spirited
creature turned and darted away at
full speed, and in spite of spur and
bit carried its rider straight through
the camp of the foes and up to the
very door of Saladin's tent.
Saladin was deely mortified, because
it looked so much like an attempt to
entrap the English king and take him
captive. He sent the knight back with
an honorable escort, and another
horse, perfectly gentle and obedient,
was given to Richard, who rode it
until the end of his campaign in the
East.
King Edward and the Black Prince,
his brave son, were making war on
France, and in one of the battles the
war-horse of the French king was cap
tnred, although his master escaped.
The next morning the English king
courteously returned the horse, which
was a very generous deed, when a
well-trained war-horse was so valuable.
But it was not only kings that loved
their horses. Queen Elizabeth rode
ns feerlessly as her royal father, Henry
VIII. and went on horseback to review
her troops when the Spanish ships
were sailing over the seas to attack
her kingdom. Even ''good Queen
Anne" of later memory was devoted
to the chase and to driving, and she
often drove for miles before dinner on
a deer hunt or fox hunt
One of the finest pictures of Queen
Victoria represents her IN low phae-
ton drawn by beautiful horse and
surrounded by sportsmen, spirited
horses and dogs at inject" The
picture is called "The Queens Har-
riers. New York Mail and Express.
The free press., 1897-02-11
Taking Him Down.

An amusing story comes from lndl'.
It concerns distinguished officer who
was constantly embracing some new
hobby, much to the disgust OF his
brother officers, and to the annoyance
of the soldiers on whom the hobbies
frequently involved extra duty. HIS
latest fail was amateur gardening. One
day.he was strolling past the officers
quarters, when he saw a couple OF
soldiers busily railing lot of gravel-
stones over patch of earth.
"Ah, men, I'm glad to see you TAX
ing an interest in gardening. It's
nice occupation"
One of the men, not knowing him
by sight, replied: "Niee, is 1T?
Umphl That's all you know. We
wouldn't be hidiag this earth with
gravel if we didn't have an old fool OF
a General that's mad on gardening.
Here we are scraping these stones
about in case he should pass this way
and want to grow cabbages on the bit
of earth underneath. = Harper's
Round Table,
The free press., 1897-02-11
POPPING CORN.

Just when the room is getting dark
And the night wind whistles low,
The children gather around the fire
All in a merry row.
Moons the time for the bubbles light,
And tops may spin at morn,
But just when the twilight shadows fall
Is the time to pop the corn.
See it hear it ! pop pop pop!
Hippity skippity hop hop hop!
Dolls and hoops may do for morn,
But nights the time to pop the corn.
Golden grains in your hands you hold,
But into the pan they go,
And quick as wink the wizard Heat
Will turn them all to snow.
Shake them up with steady hand
Over the freight bright,
Then turn them into the big brown bow
In their 6uted caps Of white.
See them hear them! pop! pop pop
Hippity skippity! hop hop hop!
Kites and tops may do for morn,
But nights the time to pop the corn.
Angelina W. Wray, in Woman's World.
The free press., 1897-02-11

GRANTS GAME OF MUMBLE-THE-PBa
"a fayorite game with the boys of
John D. Whites subscription school,
at Georgetown, was mumble-thc-peg.
Grant couldn't play the game very
skillfully, and the peg always got a
few clandcstine licks every time he
was to pull it," says McClure's Maga-
zine. "On one occasion it was driven
in 30 deep that the boys thought Lys
could never get it out. He set to
work with his forehead down in the
dirt, the sun beating hot upon him,
and the crowd of boys and girls shut
ting out every breath of fresh air.
The peg would not move. The red
faced, shock headed, thickset boy, with
his face now all over mud, had for
gotten his comrades, and saw only
one thing in the world-that was
this stubborn peg. The bell rang,
but the boy did not hear it. A
minute later, after final effort. he
staggered to his feet with the peg in
his mouth. The old schoolmaster
was in the door of the schoolhouse,
with his long beech switch-the only
person to be seen. There was glee
Inside at this new development.-here
was fun the boys had not counted on.
Imagine their surprise when, as the
The free press., 1897-02-11
VOL VII
The Wealth Of Love.

- roor as the poorest. dear,
sAs .As - me world--it passed me by;
Rssn NJ nv YOU walked Loves way
NO. ~. haven itself drew nigh
Sweetheart
vo- heaven itself drew nigh.
- 40 lone as the loneliest, love.
w,,h never a dream Of bliss
|ut not that day
Ehen YOU walked Loves way
IA "a loaned to his thankful kiss
Sweetheart
ID leaned to his thankful kiss.
| 4 dsar to my life is your love-your love,
I'd NV soul has ceased to sigh;
h sorrow seems
\ an echo Of dreams,
4 "A the stars are in life's sky
Sweetheart!
nd the stars are in life's sky
L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
The free press., 1897-02-11
THE LITTLE BUSY BEE.

Asingle bee, with all its industry,
energy, and the innumerable journeys
it has to perform, will not collect
much more than teaspoonful OF
honey in single season.
The free press., 1897-02-11
TIleor

Marie-He seemed somewhat dis
satisfied, although I assured him that
he held the first place in my heart
Edith-Perhaps he fears that some
one else may be close second. =
Puck.
The free press., 1897-02-11
FROM JIM

bell Irving tripped down the gar
path, with its fringes OF feathery
|us and pale, sweet faced violets.
was looking as cool as if the day
te filed with delicious sea breezes.
kcissors in hand, she stood and con-
pulated the sweetly-bloomiug flow
beds before her, filed with their
fashioned favorites; as we'll as
Ter, rarer fowersl
mother figure fitted up the garden
h-that of young man. tall, dark,
uart and handsome. The "dark,
/ eyes" lit up when he saw Dell,
be waved his hand gaily to her.
Isn't it warm today?"
ick said this with profoundly
look, as if afraid Dell might
yet have discovered the fact. Then
anued himself vigorously with his
W hat
Do you really think SOP" with
psm. "Why, I was laboring un-
the mistaken impression that it is
or cool. I'm glad you came to
Pceive me-" gratefully.
Don't be ridiculous!" said Ric k
Frton, severely. Then: "Won't
give me a flower, Dell?" with an
mating smile.
Here is the last rose of summer "
Dell, cutting the ''last rose" off
em with vicious snip of the scis-
'It's rather faded and old, but
urse you don't mind" in a tone
ssible to translate.
10, indeed" said Rick, provok-
while Dell pinned it to the la
I his coat. "Of course I don't
If it is tride faded"
was looking straight into her
ps he said it, and as he was her
Dell took very unfair inter-
tion of his remark.
Pell, where did you get that
* Anderton took Dell's snow
OF a hand on his own great,
3 one, and gazed at it, a frown,
playful, half real, in his eyes.
p somewhere |" said Dell, in
er as exasperating as it was
but which one do you mean,
This one? Why, you gave it
Don't you remember?"
aont mean that one," said Rick,
own in his eyes growing moro
'usly dark, the playful express
ntlrely gone.
lis one, then? Aunt Belle gave
pc on my last birthday. You've
ever SO many times before, I'm
Pure."
aon't mean that one:"
hlck's voice was SO harsh and
Rnd jealous that Dell almost
= out of her dainty slippers.
neaved a reluctant sigh; there
" one ring left--a delicately-
gold one-so she supposed shs
nave to tell him all about it.
cant to teach him lesson,
'ior being SO jealous.
U.s. she began, with a charming,
US exasperating air OF reluct-
er-Jim sent me yesterday.
lovely?"gazing up at him with
hing blue eyes.
made no reply. but held her
TO FARShed in his own, dis
ther goods n his eyes
dispose OF Mick" said Dell.
r Wheelbarkssaying to with
cotton Ron
Fencing. No tho sceno.
State AuditofN permitting
q ssmi-annual dill PTS.
onnon school fafure' SICK
In tho go. "a abruptly.
y y, has 1850 educabL ne; .e;.p h''a, ".n
III rsce,vs slsss ID S'sn sr,.ss,u you
as 204 educable CHI
Pcs'ys s2ss,o4.
The free press., 1897-02-11

General Booth has announced that
the Salvation Army is to extend its
operations over the whole Malay ar
chipelago. The movement will be
directed from the army's headquarters
in Australia,
The free press., 1897-02-11
No Room for Argument.

She-What were the happiest mo-
ments of your youth?
Hey When I'd hear father calling
my brother Jack to get up in the
morning, and knew that he'd make
jack get mp before he got after me. =
Truth.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-01

Beware of ointments for catarrh that con
tain mercury, as mercury will surely destroy
the sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it through
the mucuous surfaces. Such articles should
never be used except on prescriptions from
reputable physicians, as the damage they do
is ten fold to the good you can possibly de-
rive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure manu-
featured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.,
contains no mercury, and is taken internal
and acts dlerctly upon upon the blood and
muceuus sufaces of the system. In buying
Hal1's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genu-
inc. 1t is taken internally, and is made by
F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Testimonial
free, Sold by druggists, price 75c. bottle
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-01


Among the anomalous results that
geographical exploration is constantly
calling to the front is the humiliation
of landmarks which have been consid-
cred to be firmly established. Less than
three years ago it was discovered that
Mount Iseran, peak of the GRAHAM
Alps, which figured ON all detailed maps
of the Alpine regions with the very re-
spectacle elevation of upward Of 13, 900
feet, had no existence in fact, and the
assumed mountain has since been con-
signed to Oblivion. A somewhat less
complete effacement was announced in
the early part of the past year in the re-
moval of 1000 feet from the height of
Mount Brown, in British America
generally credited with IAN altitude of
16, 900 feet in place of the 5000 feet
which is now given to it by Professor
Coleman condition somewhat similar
to the experience of Mount Hood, in
Oregon, which, when being gradually
reduced from it's presumed height of
16, 900 feet to IL, 900 feet, brought out
the facetious remark that with a few
years more of grace the mountain would
be q hole in the ground. 1t is not alone
the miner explorer, however, who is re-
sponsible for the perpetuation of great
errors of observation. Sir Samuel Baker,
the discoverer of the Albert feyanza, tho
second great basin of the Nile, stated
that from his position ON the lake no
boundaries of it could be traced south
ward to the limits of vision, whereas
Stanley and others have since shown
that not only did the lake terminate
within a few miles of where Baker
stood, but that its southern shore was
actually bounded by high mountains.
Mr.. G. Scott Elliot, in his recently
published work, ga Naturalist in Mid
Africa, in turn corrects Stanley's errors
with the no insignificant statement that
Mount Gordon Bennett, Mackinaw
peak and Mount Lamson are not noun
tains, but quite insignificant hills, if
they had any existence at all" He also
said: IT spent much time and trouble
in trying to discover where on earth tho
enormous fresh water sea, discovered
and christened the Alexander Nyanza,
by Mr.. Stanley, could possibly be. This,
of course, it is now clear, has no exist
ence whatever. And, finally, as the
latest negative contribution to geo.
graphical knowledge, we have in the
Jackson Harmsworth reports from Franz
Josef Land (recently brought to London
by the vessel of the expedition, the
Windward) the assurance that not
trace of the so called Peterman Land of
Bayer could be discovered,
and that even Lichy Land was merely
disjointed archipelago mass of entirely
extent.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-01
Clever Commercial Lie.

"Ten Or 15 years ago, )" says bust
ness man quoted by the Philadelphia
Record, "the canned meats put up in
square tins by American houses were
sold in great quantities in Samoa. Ii
was not long before Australia and New
Zealand packers saw that they were
missing a good thing, SO they sent out
agents who circulated story among the
natives to the effect that cheap Ameri-
can meats wero composed in part of hu-
man flesh. They said that in the process
of preparing the bones of dead China
men for shipment to the Celestial en-
pire from San Francisco the meat was
canned and labeled beef for Pacific is
land consumption. The story gained
credence to such an extent that the ma
tives Stunned the square tins and could
only be induced to buy the round, fiat
tins put out by Australian and New
Zealand houses. That prejudice exists
today to such an extent that United
States Consul Mulligan has mentioned
it in his report to the state department. !"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-01
Estate Of William Drew of
Glover.

STATE OF VERMONT, ORLEANS DISTRICT.
- IS. In Probate Court, held at Newport,
in said District, on the 18th day of January,
A. d. 1897.
N. A. Norton, administrators of the estate
of William Drew, late of Glover, in said
District, deceased, presents his admin
lstration account for examination and
allowance, and makes application for decree
of distribution and partition of the estate
of said deceased.
Whereupon. it is ordered by said Court,
that said account and said application be re-
ferred to a session thereof, to be held at the
Probate Office in Newport, in said district,
on the 10th day of February, A. D., 1897, at 1
o'clock in the afternoon for hearing and de-
cision thereon
And, it is further ordered that notice hereof
be given to all persons interested, by publ
cation of the same three weeks successfully
in the Orleans County Monitor, newspaper
published at Barton previous to said time
appointed for hearing, that they may appear
at said time and place, and show cause, If any
they may have, why said accounts should not
be allowed, and such decree made.
BY the Court-Attest,
40 r. w. SPEAR, Register.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-01

The Mount Lebanon Shakers have invented
a great many valuable things. They were the
first to make brooms by machinery; the first
to pnt up seeds in little packages; the first to
manufacture cut nails. Now they out
with method of curing dyspepsia by resting
the stomach. Their remedy is known as the
Shaker Digestive Cordial. 1t supplies food
in artifcially digested form and at the
same time aids the digestion of other foods
in the stomach. In other words, by the use
of the Shaker Digestive Cordial a dpspep-
tic virtually gets along without the use of
his stomach until it is restored to its natural
strength and vigor. single 10 cent bottle
will oft times sive marked relief. Get bot
tie from your druggist and try it.
Laxol is the best medicine for children.
Doctors recommend it in place of castor oil.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-02-01

Mr.. Cleveland during the past few
weeks has transmitted to Major Nc
Kinley copy of every state paper and
official aocument concerning the bus
mess of the present administration
which may be of value to the next
administration. These include copies
of the treaties with foreign countries
which may not be concluded until af-
ter Mckinley Succession; CORES
dence in regard to Cuban affairs, etc.
This is an unusual courtesy on the
of a retiring president, and it is sug-
gested that Mr.. Cleveland's course
may be due to the unusual complica-
tions now existing in regard to the
diplomatic relations of the govern
ment.