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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
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\ CURIOUS FACTS.

A printing machine to duplicate
type written work has been invented
by Chicago man.
The various countries in the world
now use more than 10, 400 different
kinds of postage stamps.
Unconscionable thieves stole the
roof of house of Skamokawa, Wash.
saving it of, ratters and NIL, just be-.
low the top of the walls.
Pineappleo, strawberries, tomatoes,
cucumbers, squash, etc., all grown in
the open mir, were upon Christmas
dinner tables in South Florida coun-
ties.
Most OF the shoes worn in Japan are
made OF straw or wood, there being
but one factory in the whole country
using leather for the footwear manu-.
featured.
glass headstone has been put up
over the grave of George Z. Evans, q
Mason, at Eugene, Oregon. It was
sent on there by his father from
Gideon, Neb.
A Boston man has invented support
to supersede the leather hand straps
IN crowded cars. The new support
will admit the whole hand and is nd
lusted to a person of any height.
Canon Fleming, of ST. Michaers
Church, London, has had n largo
telephone transmitter placed IL his
pulpit, so that his sermons may be
heard in a number OF hospitals and
other institutions.
One OF the candidates for tho page
ship in the Tennessee Senate, fifteen.
year-old boy of Fayetteville, made a
favorable impression on the mem ers.
elect by writing to each one of them
and inclosing his photograph.
CHARLES Stratton, better knova ar
General Tom Thumb" was thirty
one inches high at twenty-five years
of age. His wife was thirty-two
inches high at twenty. one. Their
child is said to have been the most
minute speck of humanity that prob.
ably ever appeared on the earth.
Motor cars being the sensation of
the day just now, wealthy natives in
India are introducing horseless vehi-
cles In big towns. Calcutta was very
much astonished by the appearance of
a motor wagonette driven by cleo
tricitY and capable of running twenty
five miles an hour for ten hours with
out recharging.
Shad are of different families, which
come from the ocean to the rivers
along the Atlantic Coast to spawn.
The shad Of Florida are not the same
ms those of the Hudson or the Connec-
ticut or the Susquehanna. The same
fish come each year to the particular
river where they were born, and in
their appearance are slightly different.
Each river is the homo OF a separate
colony.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
Cast Away sky Tons Of God.

Tons of coafsh ore spelling on the
Great South Beach opposite Eastport,
Long Island. The fishermen in the
holidays made phenomenal catches
Of these fish which, owing 20 tho low
price they commanded in tho New
York market, could not he sold nc n
price sufficient 60 pay the freight.
They were therefore buried in tho
snow by tho fishermen who, expecting
an increased price, hoped TO dispose
Of them later ut n profit.
As tho rise ia price has not come,
ana no snow remains wherein they
may be preserved, Tho discouraged
fishermen have been compelled 10
throw them away.
In this respect they parallclcd the
action Of tho farmers last sengcn, who
carried bushels OF potatoes ont Of tbs
fields to obtain room for the new crop.
It is estimated that the quantity oil
codhsh on hand will aggregate sixty
tons, tho major portion OF which will
be allowed TO spoil, Now York Prem
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
What is Curry?

AS the use of curry has often been
mentioned In the various recipes which
have found their way into this depart
ment from timo to time, several young
housewives have decided that they will
find out, if possible, just what curry
is, and have written, collectively, re.
questing description of it's growth
and preparation.
Curry is vegetable; rather, curry
is vegetables. 1t is anise, coriander,
cumin, mustard, poppy seeds, nllspice,
almonds, assnf@tida, ghec, cerdamon
seeds, Chill berries, cinnamon, cloves,
| cocoanut milk, oil, curds, fentgreek
seeds, an Indian nut that I cannot
spell, garlic, onion, ginger, lime Juice,
vinegar, mace, mangoes, nutmeg, pep
per, saffron, salt, tamarinds and
tumeric. Rather long list, but it is
claimed that all these Ingredients
really find their way into @ certain
mixture, which is our we'll known
curry. All these are pounded together
and dried in IN oven, or in the sun.
When bottled, it is the powder which
| comes to us MS Indian curry. Now, is
it not worth admlring the wit and skill
that have brought together such
number of ingredients, and out of
them have evolved an article so en-.
tirely different from each, and in
which there is not one elementary
| trace?
In India curry is produced at first
hand. Different provinces vary the
ingredients and the proportions. If
brought together, the ladies of Madras
and the ladies of Calcutta would proba-
bly, compare recipes, each OF course
with her own preferences, as do tho
ladies of Philadelphia and Baltimore
on the stewing of terrapln, and the
ladies from New Orleans and Charles.
ton over the boiling OF rice. In one
province coriander seeds predominant,
IN another tumeric encroaches. Doubt.
less there arc family recipes for curry
| among the Brahmins IA precious rs the
recipes of Aunt Glegg and Aunt Pull
let Home Queen.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
Art OF the Ice SCULPTOR

Nearly all of the ice used in the con-
struction OF the ice fortress at Mon
treal, and the various exhibits, is cut
from the st. Lawrence River in blocks
two feet thick, four or five feet long
and three feet wide. Strangers are
greatly amazed because the structure
looks as if it had been chiseled out of
single block Of ice of colossal pro-
portions. No seams of joining places
are visible, but this is easily managed.
When any work in the ice scuItor's art
IS completed, water is poured over the
whole; the water is poured into every
crack and crevice, speedily freezing
and solidifying it into one mass.
The Canadian ice sculptor is some
thing OF o genius. He takes block
OF ice, has it planed with an iron plane,
places another block on TOP Of it SINH
larly planed, and keeps this up until
he has builded block of the desired
dimensions. Then he goes to work
with peculiar kind OF chisel made
especially for ice use and by which he
avoids splitting up the ice.
Beautifully proportional figures are
fashioned in this way and with start.
huS Ibpl'ltJJ COuSiueElDB INC 1nbrlCete
character of some OF the work. 4
regular zoologicnl garden is exhibited
elephants, lions, tigers, camels,
bears and beasts and birds of all vari.
cites. These animals are mounted on
pedestals of various kinds, somo of
solid Transparent ice, others of SEEM
ingly mottled marble and others of all
colors of the rainbow-red, blue,
green, black, pink and the many minor
shades.
How the ice is colored is mystery
to many, but il is very easily accom-
plished. Water is poured into the
molds md before IL hns n chance to
freeze dye of the desired color is
mixed in tho water. Then when it
freezes the sculptor has n block Of
blue, green or red ice.
Still more beautiful effects are ob.
tanned by pouring tho dyo upon snow
aud allowing IL to percolato through
1t in streaks Then, when ~ is frozen,
1T looks like clustering marble, created
by SON magician. Blocks of this
dazzling material IRE used for the
pedestals OF grcnt statues.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
WHY DON'T YOU 1AuoHp

Why don't you laugh, young man, when
troubles come.
Instead OF sitting round so sour and rlum;
You cannot have all play,
And sunshine every day;
when troubles come, say, why don't you
laugh?
Why don't YOU laugh? Twill ever hclp TO
soothe
The aches and pains. No road In life Is
smooth;
There's many an unseen bump
And many n hidden sturp
Der which you'll have to jump Why auu,ss
you laugh?
Why don't you iaugh2 Don't let your spirits
wilt,
Don't sit and cry because the milk you've
split;
Ii you would mend it, now,
Pray let me tell you how:
Just milk another cowl Why don't YOU
laugh?
Why don't you laugh, and make us an
laugh, too,
And keep US mortals all from getting blue2
A laugh will always win;
If you can't laugh, just grin
Come on, let's all join I'M Why don't you
laugh?
james G. Challiss in the independent.
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! stock and committing so many depre-
dations as to create panic among the
settlers of the sparsely cultivated re-
Sions. The party did not remain to.
gether long. The cavalry from Fort
Bowie were in hot pursuit and 100
cowboys and settlers Joined in the
chase for the fugitives. Holly pressed
the band separated and one by one In
time the Indians sneaked back to the
reservation. They have since told
stories, which have been verified, of
the murders of settlers both north and
south of the Rio Grande and in the
hincop range of mountains. All these
were prompted by the Kid.
In July. 1891, the Kid by night
travelled slowly down from the i'm
penetrabie Businesses of the Galliuro
mountains and crossed the cactus
deserts to the ella river country, where
he hid for days on the outskirts of the
San Carlos reservation. In some way
he got word to former girl companion
and she went ont secretly one night to
visit her Indian lover. He had at hand
an extra horse stolen from o ranch
near by, and when she came TO him he
forced her TO mount and fly with him
back to his retreat in the mountains.
The girl was compelled to live with
Kid and his gang for over year. She
returned to the family wickyup on the
reservation, after suffering severe
privations and at the risk of her life.
Several times in the Kids camp
when preparations were made for the
slaughter of party of ranchman or
travellers found along the mountain
trails or desert roads she was tied to a
tree and bag put over her head SO
that she could neither escape nor see
In what direction the murderers had
gone. When a day or two later the
savages saw that they were not being
followed by troops or avengers of their
latest crime, the Indians would return
to FIRE her, only to force her to &C
company them to new scenes of rob-
berry and murder. One or two of her
stories concerning the killing of
women and children, who were al
ways reserved until the last because
they could do no harm to the savages,
were most horrlfylng. She was blind
folded and could follow the move
ments of the band by sound. The
screams of the women indicated to her
INV AOpIiDlS were lQelr QeatDS.
1t may be said in defense of the Kid
that for years he has been charged
with crimes which were committed by
drunken cowboys or murderous Next
cans. His companions dwindled away
until he practically became an Ish-
maelite and q wanderer. alone. He
knows now that he is hated by oil
people and that price is placed upon
his head. He can no longer hope for
a friendly hand from any Indian skulk-
ing off from the reservation in search
of game. The last seen of the Kid was
about q year ago along the border,
when cowboy happened to get too
near to where the Kid was hiding. The
cowboy was wounded but escaped to
report having fully identified the
renegade.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
How Whnlers Get Native Crews.

Here is good yarn from q new book
called con Many Seas" explaining
how vhalers get native crews:
when a whaler is fitted out from
home, she takes her officers, boat
swains, and few foremost hands and
steers for the Western Islands, azores.
Arr cd There, boat is lowered, and
box OF new boots put in il. The
crew pull ashore, into some convent
ent little bay surrounded by woods.
and, landing, they open the box Of
boots and stand them all along in n
row. Then one man begins Mt ono end
Of tho row end pulls ell the boots on
and off again, one after the other
They then board their boats and pull
of around the point ont Of sight, and
the natives, who have been watching
them from the woods, como down and
try the boots on. Whom tho officer in
charge of tho boat thinks they have
had time enough to bo fitted, no comes
back, aud the poor Gees, being un.
able to run with tho boots on, nre
easily captured md carried OF whaling.
l know this 10 be fact, for the whalers
told me Of IL, Themselves"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
Air Used by a Human ReInc.

DIR. Radcliffe Hall makes tho follow.
ing interesting calculation on the
amount OF air human being OF the
average size and proportions will con.
sumo in The space Of one minute when
in repose and also when in the differ.
ent degrees for activity. When nc
rest we consume 500 cubic inches ~
air per minute; il VIC walk ND tho ratio
Of one mile on hour VIC uso 800; two
miles, 1000 three miles nm hour, 1000 ;
four miles an hour, 2300 If we start
out and run six miles an hours we Will
consume 5000 cubic inches Of air dur.
ing every minute of that time.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
PITH AND POINT,

For jackass endowed with the
power of speech, Balaam's did very
little talking. Harlem Life.
Revolutionary Traveller ho gov
ems here?" South American Inhab.
itnnt-"Ob, We take turns. Puck.
Reginald-"My darling, will you
share my lot9" Miss -fatodeig6t-
us r.>-a..Y or subprs -.-s}ltimore
News NE4st &oeJcm".
She-"The hiAsf., plown usually
sing duets, do they not?" He
Eyes; they divide the responsibility. {"
Puck.
Tramp-'Madam, could You give
me somethIn' to eat?" Mrs. Brown
I'm call the dog if" Tramp
Madam, 1 don't eat dogs. Judge.
Sore dismayed was the Boston maid
When fractured was her bicycle;
She heayed sigh and from her ego
There fell a limpid iclcle.
indianapolis Journal.
"Men generally admire business
sense in woman, don't they ?" eyes
but they admire it only in other mems
wives and daughters. Chicago Rec
ord.
First Artist-"Where did Scratch
well get his artistic educationP" Sec.
ond Artist (savagely)-"At some
school for mechanical drawing. -
Cincinnati Tribune.
''He seems to take after his father, y,
said the visitor. ''I don't when thew
is apple dumplings," volunteered thu
little boy. "He don't leave none t.,
take. indianapolis Journal.
-Chollie Chapington-"Haw al
ways say just what 1 think, don't you
know! Hawl" Grace Golightiy-
"What an easy time your vocal chords
must have l'-Baltimore News.
She-"Once you vowed that ] was
the sunshine of your life. Now you
stay out night after night" He
"Er-why-I don't expect sunshine
after dark. Dublin Freeman.
She-'Tt seems almost impossible
that you should love me-" He
That's what my mother says. How
nicely you and she will get along il
You agree like that. - Harlem Lifo.
George-'1 just saw you coming
from the conservatory with Miss
Goldie, Rather handsome girl, but
too reserved, for me-. Thomas -"Yes.
/ just reserved her for life. "-Cinein.
natl Enquirer.
He-"When l was n child, don't
you know, l fell off my rockin' horse
and was knocked seuseless." She
''Oh, what a pity you weren't treated
for it of the time. It's too late now,
/ suppose. Pun.
'That woman over there looks as
il she were painted" "Sir, that is
my wife" 81 had not finished my
sentence. She looks as If she were
painted by Raphael and had Just
stepped out of the Frame" Clips.
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Spiders as Personal Pnfs.

The spider is ar obnoxious insect ia
one of the popular fallacies which
often diminish the real pleasure which
life holds for those who are capable of
enjoying it, The spider is not an OBJ
nozious insect ut all. In the first place
it is not nm insect In the second
place, so far is it from being hurtful
or offensive, that it can be made one
OF tine dearest little pets in the world.
Margaret Wentworth Leighton, in n
current magazine article, tells how
she collected common or garden
spider, and kept the sweet lady under
a glass tumbler for three weeks. She
watched her "building her house Of
snowy silk' and raising n family, and,
says the writer, "she soon learned TO
take flies from my hand and drink
water from leaf which I gave her
fresh every day" The dclicote beauty
and tender -henrtednesss of feeding,
presumably, live dies 20 tho dainty
pet, is TO DO noted with unbounded
admiration.
This shows how spiders may be
tanned mud made much OF by any one
who appreciates their ioveliness. That
they are useful beasts in relation to
the depletion Of flies aud mosquitoes
is we'll known, and n dozen or so pet
spiders in n bed room would do much
for the comfort and peace of mind OF
the summer boarder. New York Mail
and Express.
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ter, too, as only woman who lives O
life OF self-indicted suffering can love,
but she let her affection spend itself in
ambitious plans. But che never took
the trouble to understand the man with
whom she had linked herself, and now
he had risen in his might, and she felt
that defeat and utter misery were be-
fore her. She kissed her child again
and again, and pleading headache
left the two together.
What supper they had, and with
what dainty air Mile played the
hostess and poured his tea for him,
and how she ratified on about her
schoolmates and her little troubles,
while he listened with mis- face beaming
unbounded lovel After supper he
showed her that he had the valentine
in his pocket, and they pledged them
selves to be true to one another for n
year and day. She sat on his knee,
and ut last fell asleep while listening
to stories that he had heard from his
mother many hard and long years ago.
Then he carried her tenderly up to
her room and he helped nurse to put
her into her cot. After tucking her
In he stood looking at her innocent,
beautiful face buried in curls and rest
ing on her little tired arm. 1t was
something he had never seen before,
and was all so pure and sacred he
feared to stoop and kiss her ''good-
night"
His reverie was interrupted by the
sound of sob, and looking up hastily,
he saw his wife half-hidden in the
curtains at the other side of the bed.
Her face was haggard and miserable.
She had suffered too, but why? Then
the two souls, that were hitherto blind
and dumb and yet joined by the bond
OF great love for their child, at last
saw and understood. He tip-toed to
her side, and as he put his arms about
her she did not think him awkward.
She saw the great good heart that was
under all his uncouthness. and the
years OF misery were no more.
The little valentine was not put in
the frame that held the Meissonier. 1t
was altogether too sacred thing to
be profaned by the eyes of the care
less. p. Macarthur, in Truth.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
AncIent Geographical Datn.

The first geographical datn, says tho
st. Louis Globe-Democrat, is found in
the Pentatouch. Homer describes
the shield Of Achilles as representing
tho earth surrounded by the sen, with
Greece and Troy in the centre. The
priesta OF Apollo, at Delphi, taught
that their temple was the exact geo.
graphical centre of the earth. About
56S %. Q. Annzimandor made maps OF
Greece md tho surrounding territory
md seas. Map-mnking and dcscrip-
tions Of countries wero improved by
Slrsbo and ptolemy. The Moors about
1910 mnde maps Of Spain and Africa.
--Atlnnta Contribution,
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
Largest Bicycle in the World

Beautiful Daisy Bells bicycle built
for two isn't circumstance to the bi.
cycle built for two thousand to be
seen at the Paris Exposition. This
latter is to be the very behemoth of
bicycles. the largest wheel ever built.
1t could be ridden only by n giant
more than twice as tall as the Colossus
of Rhodes. But the monster machine
will never be moved from its place on
the Exposition grounds. 1t is, in fact,
carefully constructed edifice of the
best Bessemer steel, and what the Eiffel
Tower was to the last Paris Exposition
the big bicycle is to this.
This monster wheel is taller than
any of the tall buildings surrounding
it. It's saddle would just overtop
Weather Prophet Dann's observation
tower on the roof of Gotham's tallest
Office building. Ali the other dimen.
sions are in proportion. But the big
bicycle is very complete building in
itself, 1t has two large entrances,
one at the bottom of each Of it's wheels,
cut right through the tires. Winding
stairways lead from the doors up the
front and back OF each wheel
through the forward and rear stand
ards to the backbone of the ma.
chine. Thence spiral steps ascend to
the handle bar and saddle.
The backbone of the big bicycle
contains q grand salon scarcely al
many spans in width as it is yards IN
length. 1t is intended principally for
use as banquet hall. One long table
runs down the centre through it's en-
tire length, at which six hundred per
sons may bo seated comfortably. -
Philadelphia Press.
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BnsInes. Ihat Nears PerpelnaI Motlor

$50 they have discovered perpetual
motion ont IN your State, Colonel
Blue sold Nejor Picker 20 the Ren.
rosontoti We at-Largo from Kansas, M
they took ssots in tic House restau
rant for an oyster fcnst.
"They have discovered oil tho other
crankIsns ont there, go I am prepared
for any now allegations. Elucidate ~
replied the Colonel, senteniiously.
why, man from Kansas has jusl
been telling mo that firm composed
Of monoyed men has borqht lot oil
land IN Knnaus, md will stock IL with
1000 blacl, cats and 5000 rnts. " i,
estimated that thc c0tg will increase tc
10000 IN year or two, and hlacl, cal
skins oro worth 81. The rats, he says.
will multiply five times as fast as the
cats. Tie rats will DO used to feed tha
cats, and tho skinned cats to feed The
rats, and il that isn't mighty near per.
petual motion, ] don't know what is. ?
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It is said that every hearty laugh in
which n man or woman INDUCES tends
to prolong life, rs it mako tho blood
move moro rapidly md gives n new
and different stimulus 90 all tho organs
of the body from what is in force as
other times. Therefore, perhaps, tho
saying, Laugh and grow fat, " is not
an exaggerated one, but bas q foundp-
fion i'm fact.
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When the train stopped at the sta.
ton the little girl that was carefully
helped OF by q prim teacher was
picked UP with such an embraced rs
sac had never felt before. She was
but n little wi5p OF thing, and he
Carried her in his arms to the carriage
Ms if sho were child Of three instead
of n young lady of ten, with the irri.
toting prown.up manners that children
Of these days have. OF course IL WIS
n shock TO her, but there is something
conquerinq in strength and love, and
she was soon cuddliug mp against his
shoulder, listening TO his occasional
broken expressions Of affection and
feeling tho pressure Of his protecting
nrm about her The intuition OF chill.
drcn is quick, and before thcy rcnchcd
home they wcrc like old cronios, and
shc even forgot 20 wonder why che
and her father hal not been like this
before.
The mothers fearful face was a sur
prise TO her, but the mother was too
much overcome by the conflict with
her husband in the afternoon 60 have
anything TO say, She loved her daugh.
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