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The sun., 1897-04-13

Hanearys new bank notes have In one corner Q
visnette OF Frau Luisa Blsha. the soubreto OF tie
Budapest voiks Theatre.
Special stan uniforms to be abolished in the
British army for all ranks below Colonel STAG
oficers will be distinguished BY an aguillOtte.
Apollo Maikon. the Russian poet. died recently -
st. Petersburg at the age OF II. He started ~ Q
painter. weak eyes forced him into Literature.
DE- do Bossy, tho Havre senariAn physioian.
has dvd at the age of loS yearS. He practised and
went his rounds till few days before his death.
His father lived TO be loS.
Some ultra progressive French Jews havs started
q movement To transfer the sabbath from Saturday
TO sunday. adopt the areGoriAn calendar. and 70
make Yom Kippur coincide with the Christian
Easter festival.
A new method OF testing the hardness Of stss,
balls has been dsvfsed in Germany. The balls ere
dropped from nIed height Q glass plate set -
an angle, II properly tampsred they rebound into
receptacle and u tAsy ere tos soft they drop
into dnother.
Ls Chat Noir will probably not be revived. 90
Rodolphe Sails the founder. who intended to opAA
tho cafe again more gorgeous scale this spring.
is dead He made q good deal OF money from bis
enteIpris it Is said, at the expense of the
writers and artists he gathered about him.
A si1.inch HaIveyiEsd steel plate measuring
eight feet by six stood severe test in England.
fNo iUU'pounu hotLor pToJectlob "ore nrou ~ "
from distance OF thirty feet with . velocity OF
l.voo feet . second, and were shattered without
psrforatinR IL. only slight surface cracks being
found. Tho backing OF the plate was merely
bruised behind each impact.
Hamburg woman who insisted on committing
suicide . nxed date. with no apparent reason.
has beon discovered by Prof. Krant Ebing OF
Vienna 10 have been hypnotiIod by her husband.
Ho had insured her life for 10000 marks. the pol
icy holding good oven II the person Insured com.
mitted suicide within two months after it was L.
sued. She 10 suing for divorce.
Prince Albert of Thurn and TaIis 10 spending on
clothes the fortune accumulated by his ancestors
while they held the monopoly of the post heTedi
tary Grand PostmAsters of the Holy Roman Empire.
Ho wears new suit, perrumed with altar OF roSes.
every day. spending Slb 900 annually on his tailor,
who keeps twenty worEmen constantly at work for
him. He puts new necktie three times day
and uses up 900 pairs OF bootS . year. He spends
$1,000 year OH cigarettes and $4,000 On sports.
The Prince S 80 yearSof age ami married TO - 49,
sEiAn ArchduohssA.
The sun., 1897-04-13

are to be fined and generally interfered
with for having been successful Only a
very prejudiced witness would have had
anything to say about the public to the com
mittee. 1--WE do not believe that the peo-
pie Of Chicago want department stores
driven out Of business" said another de.
partment-store man, land II left to them
to decide the proposition would be defeated
by an immense majority" This is very re-
grettable language. What have the people
to do with the case Do the people know
where they want to trade9 Do the people
like to buy things cheap1
This second prejudiced witness asserted
that there is no sharper competition any.
where than between the department storcs,"
and that "thc general depression in bust.
ness has affected the department stores Just
as 1t has affected other lines of business"
He knew Of lone department store In Chi.
cago that has lost half million dollars"
Tho vacant stores are "due to too much
building. An additional population of
100000 will be necessary before all our
empty buildings are filled up" Surely tho
Illinois House Committee on Municipal
Corporations will not allow itself to be in.
fiuenced by mere unimpassioned remarks
like these. 1t takes the opponents of do.
partment stores to throw in the fury.
The sun., 1897-04-13
the mainspring OF action which then In
fiuenced the British Cabinet in it's policy


fiuenced the British Cabinet in it's policy
toward the republic:
"They rthe british Ministersl equivocate on every
proposal of q treaty OF commerce, and authorize In
their communications with Mr.. MORRIS the same con-
clusions which been drawn from those they had
from time to time with Mr. ADANs and those through
Mayor BEcKwiTHi 70 wit, that they do not mean TO
submit their present advantages In commerce 70 the
risk which might attend discussion Of them whereon
reciprocity could not fail to DO demanded; unless
indeed would agreo to make II treaty OF alliance
a. well ns commerce, so to undermine our obliga
tions with France. This method Of stripping that
rival Of its alliances they tried successfully with Hoi
land endeavored at with Spain. and plainly and re-
peatedly suggested to FOR this they would prob
ably relax Of the rigors they exercise against
commerce"
The words "alliance" and commerce" In
the foregoing Quotation are italicized by
Mr.. JEFFERSON. A treaty Of alliance with
us, it will be seen, has been from tho very
beginning Of the Government selfish and
cherished idea on the part Of English Min.
listers, not because 1t would be Of advantage
to us, but for the reason that it would be of
supreme assistance to England In humbling
France or any other power with whom she
might be in conflict. WAsHTNGToNs warn
Ing, however, against foreign entangling
alliances became fortunately our fixed
policy. and 30 we have happily escaped the
horrors of European wars, in which Eng
land would have involved us in order to
subserve her Unsuitable ambition In the
pursuit Of territorial aggrandizement.
Now, at the end of q century and moro, she
seeks with us treaty of arbitration as the
next best thing to treaty Of alliance, long
since abandoned as hopeless Of accomplish
ment. In the light Of history, the Senate is
wise in writing into the Pauncefote Olney
agreement every provision possible for the
safeguarding of the republic.
The sun., 1897-04-13

Kentucky seems to suffer from such
twinship Of genius Affects Rhode Island.
Just as Brown and LIPPETr get no great
Federal ofioe because 1t would be unjust to take
one OF them and leave the other. so those great
sons of Kentucky. the Hon. SoUINCH CURp and
tho Hon. CUFF HoDpERsHINs neutralize each
other, and neither receives the post of which
both arc worthy. Yet the Hon. CUFF HoDDER-
sHINs Is the younger man. he was devoting
himself to mumblepcg when the Hon. SoUINCH
CURD was already tho oracle OF senates and the
idol Of the stump Tho next Postmaster at Big
Dog might we'll be the Hon. SoUINCH CURp.
The sun., 1897-04-13

An incident associated with the Cuban
question recontly occurred in Mexico. Tho
Spanish Minister called upon the Mexican Gov
ernment to take means to prevent the collection
Of funds in aid Of tho Cuban insurrection. Mex
leo declined to aocode to spain's request. 1t is
pointed out by Ell Mundo that there is no exist
ing treaty Of friendship and commerce between
Spain and Mexico, so that spain's impertinent
request was not based upon any treaty right.
The Spanish residents of Mexico live peacefully
and safely under tho broad provisions of inter
national law.
In Mexico the sympathy with the Cubans In all
tho stronger because tho Mexicans themselves
were formerly subject to spanish oppression.
The sun., 1897-04-13
News by Way OF London.


r
Mr.. ChAuncey Depew Ia confined 10 his house in New
York by q and very painful attack OF iritis
occasioned by a cnder which lodged in ono OF his
eyes during his recent visit TO Albany to attend
meeting OF the Regents State University. The ac.
cident Is the more remarkable as the meeting was
non.politcal one.
The sun., 1897-04-13
where tho Mourner. shoula DO FOR yIowers.

From the Wayne Republican.
When business man dies " no has been In the habit
OF sending his Job work out OF town get done the
local ought to let his folks get his obituary
notice published In the Job once that he patronEed
when eAEth
The sun., 1897-04-13

II our friends rho Jnror W. nth ndnuscrfpfsJor
publication uf,h TO hdue rejected articles returned
ep must IN all cases ssnd stamps for that purpose
The sun., 1897-04-13

rlnn.-Kiosque No ip, near GRAND Hotel
The sun., 1897-04-13

Property is surely right Of mankind as really
as liberty.-John adams. ToI. 6. papee.
The sun., 1897-04-13

Property must be secured or liberty cannot ex.
ist.-John adams, FoE. 6. page $50.
The sun., 1897-04-13

1t may crafty vulgar nalgnity and popular
envy to declaim eternally against the rich and
the great, the noble and the high; but, general
ly and philosophically speaking, the manners
and characters of nation are all alike.-John
adams, FOL. 6, page rs.
The sun., 1897-04-13

The moment the idea is admitted into society
that property is not as sacred the laws Of God,
and that there is not a force Of law and public
justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny COM
mence.-John adams. Tol. 6, pages.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1897-12-23
A KINGS APPAREL
The Crows. One siSrt. One Fair -
Epa panl~sses and Three Feathers-


Epaul~sses ana Three Feathers.
An order which has been received in
.ngiand from iusky monarch in q
Jriiseh colony. for his regal robes and
rown. indicates that civilization Is
lakiEg very rapid progress in West
-frica. The kings who were content
, be clothed solely in a top hat and a
air OF ankiets, IL they have not actual
} al! gone, are fas; disappearing, says
ne London Telegraph.
TheenGmeration of the articles asked
Tor will no tloub; be of interest as show
ing the clothing of king-in West
africa. They are:
one pair trousers, black superfine
cloth. embossed in rich. heavy silk
Csc shirt. black superfine cloth. en-.
Leased with gilt, straight lines of gilt
,raid
One mantel TO design, lined black silk.
nbossed all around edge in gilt oak
.oaf. with fixtures for epaulettes.
Cnc gilt nine-inch crown.
One pair epauiettes. with gilt tops
and sit fringe.
oae ca? TO design (star in center).
Three feathers for ditto.
Six yards silk lining.
I; Is a circumstance worthy Of note
that a zap tstar in eentcr). with three
feathers. is an Indication of roy atty in
Africa when the crown tgiit. nine-inch)
Is absent. and also that his majesty is
the proud poSsessor of one shirt and one
pair OF trousers
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1897-12-23
SLEEPING HABITS OF THE SEAL


Fcarirs.p~ss OF Ono Kind and T1ai-
d,ty OF tnssh~r species.
The West Indian seals a, the Aquarf-
um are good sound sleepers, says the
New Yerk Sun. As likely as not they
win creep ou, on the platform al the
end OF their pool at IL O'Clock in the
morning. with the aquarium full of WIS.,
i,ors, and lie down and go to sleep and
sleep there maybe for hours. Some
times the flies bother them. Half
awake. a seal raises fiipper 10 brush n
fly Off its nose. and goes to sleep again.
sleeping, perhaps. till feeding time,
at four o'clock in the afternoon. And
the West Indian seals also sleep well at
night.
On the other hand. the hair or harbor
seal, in the other pool at the Aquarium.
and which has so long been an attrac-
tion there. while l, sleeps well at night.
rsvcr slceps in the daytime. The hab-
its of the seals in this respect are char
acteris,ic, West Indian seals are fear
less, hair seals timid. The fearlessness
of the West Indian seal has made II an
easy prey of hunters ard II has been al
most cxtcrminated; IL is now extremely
rare. The timidity of the hair seal has
helped to preserve II against the
hunters. and that seal is still compare
lively abundant in the northern waters
which Il inhabtts
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1897-12-23
A Fearful Experience
A POSTMASTER LOSES the USE OF HIS
LEGS and ARMS.
Edwin R. Tripp, of MiddIefeId Center, Meets with
Hazardous Encounter Which Renders
Him HelpIeSS

Mr.. Edwin R. Trip, the postmasser, at
Middlefeld Center, y. Y, recently had a
dangerous experienee which left him in a
helpless state His system was so much
shattered that il was feared he might never
recover.
In an interview with reporter of the
Republican, regarding this experience which
had attracted considerable attention, Mr..
Tripp stated.
SIN March. 1892, was taken with what
afterward learned was locomotor ataxia, and
was unable to walk, and / kept getting
worse until / lost the use of my arms
doctored with two skillful doctors but re-
ceiyed no benefit, and also used galvanic
battery but kept getting worse and the doc
tors told me they could do no more. This
wsz in May and June, 1892 | gave up all
hope of ever having the use of my limbs
again, and did not expect to live very long.
/ was unable to dress or undress myself, and
could not get around the house unless was
moved in chair
81 think it was in June that read of the
case of a man in Saratoga Co, N ", who
vas taken very much as nyself He had
taken DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People which contained, in a condensed form,
all the elements necessary to give new life
and richness to the blood and restore shat
tered nerves, and had been cured by their
use.
al learned that the pills were prepared by
the DR.. Williams Medicine Company, Sche-
nectaay. y. Y, and only cost 50 cents box
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1897-12-23
HUSBANDS NOT WANTED.
oklahoma Young Women Form
-BarheIor.- CIub.

.BacheIors- Club
club has been formed AT Ponce
City. o. T.. composed of the da aughters
of some of the best-known citizens. to
be known as the Bachelor Girls club.
II has been organized, so the members
Say for exaiting the conditions of old
msidenhood. 1t has fitted up elegant
elubrooms, where 1he mesnbers spend
their leisure hours. reports a local ex-
change.
New members are initiated with SOD
emn rites, in which they are compelled
TO make many strange VOWS and agree
TO severe penalties for their violation.
The ritual prescribes that the csndi-
date shall promise te remain single;
TO make a verbatim report in open meet
ing of every proposal of marriage re-
ceived; TO learn how to smoke cigar
cites. to write a poem or story every
month: 10 perfect herself in pistol prac-
tice; to practice fencing and boxing.
and aoi 10 permia her regard for any
young man 10 exceed Platonic friend
ship.
During the ceremony the members
are dressed in flowing white robes,
peaked caps and white masks, forming
. ghos;iy company. The reom is iilu-
N mated with two wax tapers, which
shed pale radiance over the scene.
The penalty for breaking the first cow
is that the bride shall have he members
Of the bachelors club. dressed in their
s7,oeky costumes. for her attendants.
The rest Of the pensisies are equally
curious
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1897-12-23
FLOORING MATeRiALa
ARtiAesal Much More Lasting Tha
the Natural.

the Natural.
The comparative durability of diff
ferent flooring materi7iz IL set forth in
an article in the Scientific American
based upon careful and accurate in
vestigations. In these tests IN oIdi.-afs
iron rubbing wheel was used, l'l:f that
employed by stone workers for rubbing
a smooth face on marble or sandstone.
and the samples to be tested to blocks OF
sandstone. laid face downward on The
rubber wheel. which revcives at the
rate of rs revolutions a minute. being
supplied with sharp sand and water.
The blocks to which the flooring were
cemenfed were Of equal weight. so that
the rubbing was effected under nearly
the same pressure in all cases. Curious
ly enough. the material. which resisted
best this severe trial was India rubber
tiling. which, after an hours rubbing,
lost only oEe-sixty-fcurth of an inch of
its thickness: and, next to this. English
zncaustic tile gave the best results, los
ing only one-eigth of an irch in an.
hours treatment. The artificial stone
known as .'granolithic.- was third. los
ing three-eigths of an inch. while North
river bluesfone lost nine-ssxteer;hs of
an inch. All the marbles wore away
very rapidly; piece of marble mosaic
disappeared entirely in rs minutes.
while solid white Vermont marble lost
three-fourths of an inch an hour.
Most of the wood fioorings resisted
abrasion better than .the marble; thus,
white pine lost only seren-siSteenths of
an inch under treatment that removed
rearly twice as much from solid
marble; yellow pine about like white,
and oak lost more than either of the
pines
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1897-12-23

AT a meeting of the Coiorcd Progress
sive association near Pan Handle, Tex,
the qncstion of stealing chickens came
up for discussion. Prcsidcnt sinkilles
Jones offered prize of a box Of cigars
to any colored man present who could
swear he never stole chicken. In the
midst u the discussion Deacon Abra-
ham Lincoln Jenkins entered the hall.
Deacon" said Jones, 1--WE hab offered
n box ob cigars to de gemmAn wot Reb-
Der made away wild de contents oh his
naybur's hennery. Kin yo' win dc
prixes"
The deathlike ssillness Of eAe aasem-
blagc was 30 great that II cents could
have hcen heard distinctly II dropped
ON the floor.
The deacon was very much enbar-
rasscd for = moment. and fnAlly said;
"Scusc me, gemmen. hut I doAA
smohe."-.N. Y. world.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1897-12-23
TIED HIS COWS ON THE TRACK.
Fiorsaa Nas's I.G~.so.a scheme ss
RaAf the RAllroaAa.

The Louisville & Nashville railroad
has just uncovered a clever but old
fashioned scheme for robbery which
has pczz,ed its detectives for two years
jackson county raises n few cattle, but
IL isn't Texas ranch by n great deal
For two years past all the cattle in
this county seem to have cultivated the
Louisville & Nashville. The number of
cows killed on that line in this county
exceeds anything in the history OF the
road.
Detective Watts has been looking up
the previous condition of servituae of
these numerous valuable sacrifices to
engines and has disroreredz pot which
has cost the company thousands of dol
lars The man who conceived and exc.
cuted this coup il j. ID. Silly. He is
nm artist. II was stiiiyis idea to scour
the country adjoining thr railroad and
buy up all the lame. halt and blind cat
tie to be had
An old COW Is worth about $i-s0. Still
ly would purchase these attenuated
creatures aad drive then to his farm.
What he did with them the neighbors
neither knew nor cared until the rail-
read people began an investigation.
Then Silly took to the ssramps. The de-
toctive discovered fhai the COWS which
the slow Florida trains were killing all
belonged to tho tribe Of has beeus."
mud that in every case in the courts the
deceased mixers were paid for as thor
oughbred animals, which are not any
too common In jackson county.
The detective sought out the man
who could own so many. He discovered
a farm full Of eripples. and then he set
n watch on Silly. a few nights AFTER
that Silly led poor old COW down TO
the tracks, tied her securely 20 the cross
ties. and then waited while through
train swept her into kingdom come.
The usual claim followed. Next day
Watts went on hunt for Stiiiy. found
him in swamp. and brought Kim TO
jail-Charleston (w. Val Gazette.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1897-12-23
A CURIOUS POCKET PIECE.
Railroad EnGineers Transform Nick
els Into Buttons.


A Union Pacific engineer has fashion
of making unique pocket pieces for his
friends. says the Tacoma Ledger. He
runs n passenger engine west. and
when oiling previous to run he drops
a nickel five-cent piece into the brass
Gil cup on the cross head of the piston
rod. His run is 300 miles. When he
reaches his destination he unscrews the
top of the oil cup. and takes the nickel
out. 1t has been metamorphosed into
a curious little button with an evenly
turned rim. within which. on the one
side is the countersnnk head of Liberty,
divesied of her stars. and on the ether
side the V and the wreath. The edge of
the crown is as perfect as 81 ii had been
pounded on an anvil by an expert silver
versmith
The perfection of this is due to the
even vibration the coin has been sub
iected to. The motion of the piston In
horizontal and IL travels IS inches. back
end forth. with every revolution of the
wheels. The interior of the oil cup Is
7und and the edges of the nickel as IL
travels back and forth in the oil strik-
ing the sides of the cup, are turned over
I'D POUNDED into perfect roundness.
grctiEnrs nickel is left in the cup
'uEing the round trip of COO miles.
When taken out II is nickel bullet. a
perfect polished sphere. Who discov-
cred this unique method of turning the
edges of n nickel is not known, but
many engineers know of IL.
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1897-12-23
JAP Noylnfs MAKE Im ncfs1. xfArls1 palsans
TELEPHONE AND MESSENGER.

The Busfness Of One Goes Up While
That of the Other Goes Down.
The volume of business done by the
district messenger service is by NO
means So great as il was before the ex-
tension of the use of the telephone. Dur
ing the last four years the gross receipts
from district telegraph offices in New
York have declined steadily. The re-
ceipts for telephone service have in
creased more than correspondingly,
says the Sun.
There are now 250. 900 telephone SUBJ
ssribers in the United States, 100000
miles of telephone wires strung on
poles, 10000 miles of telephone wire
under ground, and 5000 miles under
water. a total of nearly 4oo, 900 miles.
The telephone business gives employ
ment TO more than Is, 900 persons in the
United States. The number of instru-
ments in the hands of licensees under
rental at the begin0iDe of 1896 was 5s2,-
5s6. The number OF exchange con-
nections daily in the United States i.
2.0ea,iaa. total per year of more than
6a0.Oo0.oo0. The average number of
daily calls per subscriber is nine. The
BeH company received in rentals last
year nearly s5.O00,ooo. of which very
nearly one-half was profit paid to stock
holders. The fact is to be taken into
consideration however. that telephone
patents, like all others issued by the
government. are subject TO expiration.
and that the capitalization of COM
panies operating under patent is neces-
sarily based on the conditions which
exist when the company was formed
rather than by the conditions which are
likely TO prevail at the time of the ex-
pirafion of snch patents An illustration
OF this. familiar 10 every one. is found
in the case OF the sewing machine. the
profits from the manufacture of which
have decreased materially since the ex-
piration of various patents and patent
apnliances
CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1897-12-23

or six bcxes for $3.50 ut any drusHise's, I'D
sent for two boxes l used the pills hith-
fully aud they gave me an appetite thea
sent for four more boxes. and before had
taken all Of them my feet and legs whieh
had been cold began 10 get warm.
was y member OF the Town Board that
summer and hsd to be carried and put into
wagon TO GO 10 the meetings, and in fhct vAs
helpless, as my neighbors know. In August
could walk around the house BY pushing
chair. | kept getting better and managed
to move around more uutil at election time
that year, L walked with cane to the polls,
a short distance from my home l continued
to take Dr. W:lI;.ris' Pink Pills for Pale
People until / had taken eighteen boxes I
could then get around. and to-day walk to
the post office and back, . distance Of one
quarter of a mile, three times = day, and
attend to my duties as postmaster.
''In the spring of 1888 | was elected town
clerk, which Office held for three years,
had previously been a Justice of the peace
for thirty-two years. am now 70 years Of
age, and have lived in this town for about
fosty-six years. For nearly fifty years
worked at the bIacksmirh's trade I an
able to do work in my garden now, and sav
some of my wood. I consider that my res-
loratisn TO health is due to the use OF DE-.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People.
EDWIN R. TRrPP."
Subscribed and sworn to before me thts
23d day of June, 1897.
HoAER HANNAH. Notary A4b,iA