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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
CHURCH BELLS.
They Are Not Alto sether Useless in This

They Are Not Alto sether Useless in This
Age of Clocks and Watches.
What need for church bells in this
age of cheap clio ks and watches? A
Birmingham gentleman who pro-
pounded this question has been at the
pa ms to test the actual utility Of a bell
which the sexton of his parish church
is given to ringing with painful perse-
GRANGE
For the first few minutes after the
commencement of the ringing no one
appeared. About ten minutes later
people began to slowly filter in, the
advance guard being led by three
little maidens Of immature age, who
had the sacred cdifcc all to themselves
for at least ten minutes. For the
space of twenty minutes there were
not above a dozen people in the church,
most of whom were children. At
twenty-five minutes after they began
to hurry up; in the next five minutes,
when the bell stopped. ~siXty-tive had
passed in, and they continued doing so
for another thirty minutes, when an
equal number entered the sa red edi-
fee. Upon another occasion this pa
tient observer notes that from the
time the bell commenced till it ceased
about seventy-fivc persons vent in,
whereas in the succeeding fifteen min
utes as many as one hundred and twen-
ty entered, or nearly double the num-
Der who had gone in previously to the
stopping of the bell.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
III GLASS SNAKE.
Only a Brittle Lizard With a Few
Mysterious ways.

Mysterious ways.
The glass snake, which Is not a
snake any more than 1t Is a turtle,
has a tail about two-thirds Its entire
length. This tail, like the tails OF
about all lizards in the United States
that l have met with, is very delicate
and easily broken off at times. When
a fourth to a half, or ever more Of the
animal is detached and the head end
wriggles away and the remainder and
sometimes a larger part squirms In
sight, it is an astonishing spectacle,
and 1 am not surprised that the ignor-
ant should clothe the creature with
mysticism. ,
But, as a matter of fact, all sensible
people know that the fragments do
not reunite, for it would be impossi-
BILE to fit together the ruptured blood
vessels and shattered nerves and re-
store the animal. Still this story of
traditional force is believed by a host
Of people, along with other surprising
hoopsnake tales, m~ilksnake W~hoppers,
with qulll-throwing %porcIpine rela-
tons and a thousand and Il other
and lesser untruths.-American Field.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
NEW AFRICAN RAILWAY.
Runs Through II Garden-Likc Re.
EiOn I'm French Possessions.

NS"
Sion I'm French Possessions.
J There is a new railway in Northern
Africa. 1t connects the Bay of Tunis
with the Bay of Hammamet, and will
one day, the French hope, be of stra-
tegic value in tile administration of
their North Africa possessions. The
director general of public works rec
commended the building of this road
six years ago, and the line is now com
ple.ed from Tunis to Nabuel.
Aside from the strategic value of
the road, it has been built in response
to real commercial needs. The line
runs through a ~populous region of
great fertility, smiling with gardens
end producing large quantities of fruit
and vegetables. 1T is said that the
plain of Soliman, traversed by the
line, has a million and 4 half of olive
trees. Between the Gulf f HANNA
met and the mountains that extend
through the peninsula ending in Cape
Bond there is an almost unbroken Sc
lies of villages extending from the
town of Mammamct TO that of Kali
bia, the latter being near the south
eastern point of the peninsula Of
which Cape Bond is the northwestern
point. 1t is a branch road of the line
from Tunis that runs along this mar
row zone between the mountains and
the sea. There are valuable stone
Quarries in this region, once worked
by the Romans, and the towns Of
Nabuel and Hammamet are surround
ed by wide zones of gardens rich in
fruit. Beyond these n lies the
desert, so that the two places look like
GASES. The gardens are irrigated here
from shallow wells, and the irrigated
lands are worth from $3.50 to $3.50 an
acre, a very high valuation for farm
ing lands in the French North Ameri-
can possessions. The region traversed
by the railway is mainly occupied by
natives, and they are said to be un-
usually lntelligent.-New York Sun.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
Calendars and Coupons.

So many beautiful calendars and enter
tanning novelties have been issued by tho
proprIetors of Hoods Sarsaparilla, hat wo
are hardly surprised to receive this season
in calendars, but with it coupons which on
title the recipient 10 a attractive novelties.
Every one who gets q Hoods Sar-aparilla
calendar for 1897 secures something that
will prove interesting and valuable rs we'll
as q beaut full specimen Of the lithogr piers
art. Tho calendar is accompanied this
season by an amusing little book on "lho
Weather" Ask your druraist %: Hoods
Coupon Calend II, or send 6 cents in stamps
for one to c. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

A short time ago some of thepupils
attending the Riverside school in Mon
treal took into the school a quantity
Of cured smoking tobacco. By way of
Furnishing them, w. A. Kneeland, the
principal, made an infusion of the
weed in a glass of water, and compelled
. number Of the offenders to swallow
some of the n%auseating dose. Mr.. Knee
land was summoned before the board
Of school commissioners and repri-
manded for infraction Of the regula-
lions on punishments. The board de-
olared that in future the authorized
modes Of punishment must be adhered
to.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
a Sbrowd Indian Girl,

The only zeal Americans in the
school boy parade in New York on
Columbus day were the 322 Indian
boys and girls from the Carlisle gov
eminent institute. Some of them were
very acute, for example, the Indian
girl who went down TO Ellis island and
saw q lot of immigrants land. Your
people," she said TO a young Caucasian
at her side, drove IS out centuries
ago. If you don't make them stop
coming you will be in II few centuries
what my people are now"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
A Present for Queen Victoria,

Princess Henry of Pleas, nee Corn.
wallis-West, has sent an appeal to ev.
cry English woman married to a Ger.
man in the German Empire. The prin.
cess wishes to collect from her fellow,
countrywomen a sum of money to buy
a handsome present to give Queen Vic
toria on the occasion of the conclusion
of the sixtieth year of her reign. Hun.
dreds Of Englishwomen have respond.
ed to the appeal, and the sum collected
is likely to be a large me-. More En-.
%glishwomen are married to Germans
than to members of any other foreign
nation,
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
POPULAR SCIENCE.

1t is claimed by DR.. Loew that a sim
gle microbe can become the parent of
one trillion offspring in t%wenty-four
hours.
Lord Kelvin, a noted authority, re-
jects the views of Ball, Langley ct al.
and declares that the earth is one hun
dred thousand years old.
The slowest breeders of all known
animals, a pair of elephants, would be-
come the p~rogenitors of 10, 000, 900 ele-
plants in $50 years if death did not
interfere.
A single bee, with all it's industry,
energy and the innumerable journeys
it has to perform, will not collect much
more than a t%easpoonful of honey in a
single season.
The proportion OF blood to the total
body weight is about one to ten. In
the infant the relative quantity of
blood is less than in the adult, and
is diminished. in old age.
The exact length of time it takes the
moon to complete one revolution
around the earth is twenty-seven days
seven hours forty-three minutes and
11.545 seconds, The second figure of
the fraction is known to be absolutely
correct.
Instances of illness following the
free use of a delicious product of the
fatted goose may have at times a raj
son d'etre in the fact that some goose
farmers have been found to possess a
secret of securing enormous livers in
their stuffed fowls by administering
the acid oxalate Of potassium. a pow
erful poison.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
Off {yO.Or.

Even the doctor, accustomed as he
was to all sorts of sights, ould not
help but notice that the girl with
brown ha r and blue eyes looked abso.
lutely bewitching in her white robes,
lying there and a wreath of ACE
drapery. When the physician had
felt her pulse he smiled. "Only q
fever" he remarked, with a reassur.
ing nod Raising herself upon her
eloows she glarel at him, "What
kind of a fever?" she demanded. II
should say,"-the doctor was still
smiling-''it was scarlet fever" With
a groan she fell among the pillows. "Oh,
~dear"-she was on the verge of Sob
bing-'why cou dn't I have yellow
fever? Scarlet'-she turned her face
to the wall-"is So awful y unbecom-
ing to my complexion" Then she de-
C ined to take any m.dicino by way of
WIRE liking vengeance on a cruel fate.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

A most eminent professor of divinity
at Edinburgh used to tell how he had
gone to a meeting Of a ladies' mission
airy society in that city, at which an
immensely stout and very repellent
speaker began his address with the
sentence: "My dear young ladies, I
loafe You very moshe." The feeling
was not reciprocal, And, having ended
his address, he said in a loud voice:
Let us bray" And the eminent
t~heclogian would add, with emphasis:
''And he did bray"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

The largest national debt is that of
France, which is Sc, 000. 900, 900, or near
ly double the debt Of England, which
10 second on the list with SO, 300. OOO, 900.
Austro-Hungary is third, with $780,
000, 1000; Russia fourth, with $2,875, OO0,-
600. and poor old Italy fifth, with ST.
$40, 00O. 900; the United States seventh,
with $996. 141. 1852. Though Spain is
sixth, she is the only one of the lot
which may be said to be completely
bankrupt. Her debt is 81, 1895, 900, 900.
As far as lending power is concerned
the French are altogether the richest
people in the world, for it is an invaria-
BILE rule in France to lay aside a certain
percentage of ones income, no matter
how small the income is. Following
10 the comparative list of the debts of
all countries owing over $500, 900, 900 in
1896: France, $4,000, 900, 900; England,
$500. 000. 900; Austro- Hungary, $780,
900, 1000; Russia, $2,S75, 900, 900; Italy, 81
$50, 00O. 900; United States, 1895, 141, 952;
Spain. $1.3s5. 0OO. 900; Germany 420, OOO,-
600: Australasia. ST. 0 .0OO, 900; Turkey,
$500. 000, 900; Portugal, s765, 900, 900; In
dia. $685.. 900. 900; Brazil, $500, 900, 900:
Egypt. $3.50. 000. 900. The total amount
Of interest on the worlds debts approx
imates 81, lis. 900, 900 annually. TWEEN
ty years ago it was as much as 81, 000,-
600. 600. in spite of the fact of the pres
emit increase in the Indebtedness OF
more than S. 1000, 900, 900. In 1875 Spain
and Mexico were paying as high as is
and 18 per cent. Considering the
amount of her Indebtedness, France
pays the lowest amount of interest. She
pays out $1S5, O0O, 900 a year in interest,
as against England's $125, 600, 900, Rus
sia's $120, 000, 900, Austro-Hungary's
S186, DOC, 900. In round numbers,
but in fact, almost 81, 1000, 900 more
than France. though her debt is only
$50, 900 900 more than half as much.
Italy's Sill, O0O, 900, and SPANS $50, OOO,-
600. Every Frenchman pays toward
the interest on his country's debt each
year $4.75, every Russian S1.20, every
Englishman $3.15, every Austrian or
Hungarian $3.50, every Italian $3.50,
which comes harder than the Austrian's
$3.50. every Spaniard 1925, every
United Statesian 42c, every Portuguese
$3.50, and every German 33c.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

To add to the number of astonishing
things that are made of paper, Krupp,
the great German manufacturer of can
mons, has lately completed a number of
paper field pieces for the use of the
German infantry. Their caliber is five
~centimetres, or a little less than two
inches; and the pieces are so light that
one soldier can easily carry one. But
the resistance is greater than that OF
a field piece of steel of the same caliber
1t is not expected that these paper guns
will replace those of steel. They are
intended for use in situations where
the movement Of the field artillery
would be impracticable.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

Though some of the pho ographs of
the eX-Empress Eugene represent her
as wearing a widows cap, she has
rarely worn one. She once tried to do
So, out of respect to the example of
Queen Victoria, her best friend, but
the m~illincr's woeful emblem did not
suit her style of beauty and she gave
up the attempt. Now, at moro than
sixty years of age, she goes cap ess
when indoors, contenting herself for
the absence of the cap with a suitable
arrang. ment of her siivery hair.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

Summaries of the results of estab-
fishing postal savings-bank systems in
. few important countries have been
printed. Among these countries are
England, France, Russia and Austria
Hungary. The main feature of the sys-
TENS is that the government, through
its post-oft1ces. is the custodian of de-
posits in small amounts, especial at
tention being paid to encouraging the
young to acquire the habit Of saving.
In England n person in every seven
h q depositor in a postal bank, and the
total amount of the deposits in the
keeping Of the government is more
than four hundred million dollars. AL
though the system has never been test
ed In the United States, its adoption
has been urged by various public Off
cials Of high rank: and it is probable
than the more than satisfactory results
in foreign countries will lead to its
establishment here.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
WHY PRICES HAVE FALLEN OFF
Manufacturer Cites Some Examples in
the Case of Vehicles.

Manufacturer Cites Some Examples in
the Case of Vehicles.
P. e. Studebaker in Commercial Ad-
vertiser: l maintain that the true
cause of the change of prices in Amer
lea and the world over has been science
and improved machinery. Everything
can be produced cheaper than ever be-
fore. When we first commenced to
ufacture wagons steel was worth S120
per ton. To-day it Is worth $50 a ton.
Iron cost 500 a ton then; to-day the
price is $25. The freight on the first
carload OF wagons we ever shipped to
Chicago was SAL; to-day it is S12.
Freight wagons, such as the mine own
ers bought from us in 1865 and 1866 to
haul their machinery from st. Joseph
to Colorado, Utah, Montana, and Idaho,
and for which they paid us 5000, we will
sell them to-day for 800. The first car
Of farm wagons we ever shipped to
Kansas City was in 1865. We received
for each wagon $124. delivered on the
levee. The freight was SIS per wagon.
netting us $106 at the factory. To-day
we Will sell Iu6 same WdSou dt pow
Will deliver 1t to Kansas City for $53.
The reduction in freight from SIS to So
per wagon Is not 50 bad, considering
the wicked railroads did it. Our first
agent in Galveston, Tex, was ex-Gov.
Lubbock, a grand old He paid us
$110 for the same kind of wagons we
sell now for $50. His freight per car
was $500, the wharfage at New Orleans
was $24 per car, and the wharfage at
Galveston SIS per car. The freight now
is about S125 per car. Col. Trumbull
of Brennan, Tex, once paid me S4,4OO
in gold for wagons, and I had to carry
it in my gripsack to Galveston to get
New York exchange. Suppose he had
paid me in silver? 1t would have weigh
ed about $50 pounds, and I would have
had to ship it as freight. I don't be-
lieve Texas will vote for a silver stand
ard. The people are called a little
rough down there, but they have lots
of good. sound, business sense, even the
cowboys"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
The ~CutthrOat.

All eyes were turned upon the
coarse, squat rutiian, as if impelled by
some terrible fascination.
Again, the keen blade glittered in the
air, and. as if nerved to desperation,
the heavy hand closed convulsfvely
upon the heavy handle, and again the
social outcast stabbed wildly.
With means of horror the terror
stricken throng turned, sickeninG from
the sight,
Rut the Chicago MAJ kept on calm
ly-eating with his knife.-Puck.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
She Could Not Be Exact.

A story is told of the actress, Mile.
Marie Magnier and her pearls. One
day as she was about to appear on the
scene, somebody made The remark that
her pearls were really of an enormous
size. at is true" she replied; "the
lady whom 1 represent on the stage no
doubt wore smaller pearls in real life.
But what can l do? / have no small
paarls."
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
Cruelty at English Public Schools.

Augustus Hare, In his memoirs,
writes of his school life at Harrow, in
the f%orties: THAT I got on tolerably
we'll is a proof that l never was i'll
treated. l have often, however, with
Lord Eustace Cecil, who was at Har-
row with me, recalled since how ter
rible the bullying was in our time; of
the constant cruelty at Harris, where
the little boys were always made to
come down and box in the evening for
the d~electation of the sixth form; OF
how little boys were constantly sent
in the evening half way to the cricket
ground, to Famish's, to bring back por-
ter under their great-coats, certain to
be logged by the head master if they
were caught, and to be warped by thu
sixth form boys if they did not go, and
infinitely preferring the former; OF
how, if the boys did not keep up at
football they were made to cut large
thornsticks out of the hedges and
logged with them till the blood poured
down outside their jerseys"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

Some Of the experts employed dur
ing the trial of Maria Barberi charged
$500 q day for their services. The en-
tire cost of expert testimony in this
trial was SO, 900, and in the case of DR..
Meyer the expert testimony cost $685.
900. District Attorney Olcott intends
to draft a bill to be presented to the
New York legislature enabling the city
to employ its own experts at a stated
salary.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
THE VICTIM OF A FRAUD.
A Leading Geographical Magazine I'M
posed Upon by a Traveller II.

a Leading GeograPnlcai tsaslne I'M
posed Upon by a Traveller.
One of the leading geographical
magazines, Peternann's MIttheilun-
gen, has been made the victim of liter
airy dishonesty. In the April and May,
1892. numbers of the magazine a Mr..
A. J.. Ceyp describes a journey which,
he asserted he had made recently to
the frontier of Beloochistan.
He described the country infinitely,
told of the desolate and sandy regions
he crossed on his way. of the robbers
who lurked in the ravinos ready to
plumber caravans, of the settlements
found here and there in widely sep.
arated GASES, and of the large town Of
Yezb. the original home of the Parsis.
His story was interesting, and as his
route lay through a region hat was
almost unknown, and as it abounded
with geographical detail of apparent
&C uracy, the magazine made the mar
rati7e very prominent.
In the August number of the Nit.
theilungen, the editor printed on
~spicuously the facts that Ceyp's nara
tive proves to be nothing more than an
accurate transcript of the travel
sketches of Gasteiger Khan, which
were published at Innsbruck in 1881.
The fraud is somewhat similar to
that imposed by Captain Glazier, when
he Sent an article containing large ex-
tracts from Schoolcraft's account of
his journey to the source of the Mis-
sissippi as a record of his own visit to
Lake Itasca. 1t is very seldom that
Petermann's Mittheilungen makes an
important blunder in geographical
matters, but it has beeA imposed upon
by the most glaring piece of plagiarism
that has come to light for a long time.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

Clarence Foster of New York has
just been sentenced to Sing Sing for
i've years for having within a year or
SO married five young women. When
he entered court and saw all of his
wives waiting to testify against him
he promptly pleaded guilty. Each of
the Mrs. Fosters was delighted, and
one Of them went so far as to call her
husband a gay deceiver. Clarence will
know better next time.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25
EcnrSia ENnchinG.

Jeffersonville, Ga, Special.-The jail
here was broken open by Il mol Of
masked men and two negroes, Will! m
White and Charles FOrsythe, impli-
Gated in the murder of Mrs. Rowland
of Adams Park, were taken nut ana
hanged to Il limb and their bodies rid
died with bullets.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

Millions o plant Salzer's seeds,
but millions more should; hence offer.
1 pkg. Bismarc Cucumber ........l5c
l pkg. Round Globe Beet . ........l0c
1 pkg. Earliest Carrot ............l0c
1 pkg. Kaiser Wilhelm Lettuce.....l5c
1 pkg. Earliest Melon .............lOo
1 pkg. Giant Yellow Onion .........l5G
1 pkg. 14-Day Radish ..............l0c
= pkgs. Brilliant Flower Seeds.....l5o
Now all OF above 10 packages. in
Guiding our mammoth plant and seed
catalogue, are mailed you free upon
receipt of only IA cents postage.
Is pkgs. Earliest Vegetable Seed $1.00
q Brilliant Blooming Plants. ....$1.00
John A. Salzer Seed Co.. La Crosse.
Wis. w.n.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

Nearly 3 in the morning! This is
a nice time for you to come home!"
you see, it was this way, my dear.
I was detained a little, so I put off
coming home for a bit longer, SO that
l should not disturb you in your beauty
sleep.'-Judy.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

Mamie-Oh, is was such a joke on
Arthur last night at the Christmas
party!
Gertie-What was it, dear?
Mamie-He thought he kissed me I'm.
der the mistlctoc, and he didn't at all!
Gertie-The idea!
Mamie-Ics! 1t wasn't mistletoe. II
was holly!-Illustrated Monthly.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

Minneapolis, Spccial.-William n.
Bovce, 73 years old, Il well known
North side paper hanger. died ut his
homo. Mr.. Bovee slipped and fell
hcadlong down Il flight of stairs. He
was picked up unconscious, aud death
followed in Il short time.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-02-25

Washington. Specialize supporters
Of the free homestead bill fear that the
measure has been killed, SO far as
this congress is concerned, by the ac-
tion of Speaker Reed in referring it to
the house committee on public lands
for consideration of the senate amend
ments. The house committee IS not
strongly in favor of the plan.