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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

The success Of that Nashville air ship
merely proves that 1t is simply impos-
sible for the great American liar to
keep ahead of American enterprise and
achievement.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24
TIRE MADE OF CORK.

If 1t Il Success the lays of Pune
ture Are Over.
A tire invention which the inventor
intends shall be most successful ri
val TO the pneumatic tires now so wide
ly used is soon to be given a trial. 1t is
claimed 1t will not be susceptible to the
small tack, glass, etc. TO so disastrous
an extent as the pneumatic tires are.
1t Is made of sections of cork, which
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24
ELLIS ISLAND A MASS OF RIuNe
Loss TO the Government snid a.,

New York, June 16.-Ellis island 70
a mass OF smoldering ruins Tbe
huge buildings which since 1892 have
grants We're consumed in co,eo ellii-
uon which constituted the most Srii
iiant spectacle ever seen in New WI,
narbor. The loss is said to he Ssna 0oo
Stroyed we're de-
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

Simla, June 2l.-It is announced to-
day that over 5000 lives have been lost
by the earthquake disturbances which
recently visited the province of Assam.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

Mrs. Langtry has secured n divorce
In California, whittier she went to be
deserted by her husband, who remain
ed quietly at home.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

A New York paper remarks that "the
Late Mr.. Hayemeyers estate Is less
than $4,000,000." In this respect 1t re-
sembles a great many others.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

Dakota paper says: James Cyze-
whisk1 has renowned allegiance to
Prussia and Is now full citizen" Per
haps he swallowed a section of his
name
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

Steve Crane says that the battle of
Velestino sounded like "an avalanche
Of thunder" That sounds like Steve
Crane
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

A salt trust has been organized In
Pomeroy, Ohio. or late the monopo-
lies have shown a disposition to get
too fresh.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24
No More Boxing Contests,

New York. June 1s.-The police com
missioners have decided that the So
called boxing contests in this city
should be stopped.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

Chicago scores the first sunstroke of
1897. You can't beat the great Ameri-
can summer resort.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

The prosperity Of advice is dependent
upon thorough assurance that disin-
terested goodwill and honest intention
prompt ones adviser.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

The Greek soldiers dress in women's
skirts. Perhaps that accounts for their
retiring disposition in battle.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24
PerrImmonr Won rodnx

London, June 1S.-The prince of
Wales entry. Persimmons, winner of
last years derby. won the gold cup at
the Ascot races.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

Pisos Cure for Consumption has been a
family medicine with us since 1856. X.
Madison, 2l09 i2d Ave, Chicago. Ills.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

The New York health officer thinks
that the grip is transferred by kissing.
Pshawl Who's afraid?
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

The Greeks call their native land
"Hellas," but they fight like two-thirds
of 1t.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
AcHOicE COLLECTION OF INTER
ESTikC ITEMS.

Comments and Criticisms Based Upon
the Happenings of the Day---Histor.
ical and NSws Notes.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24

There's plenty of room at the top
Look at the baseball column of percent
ages
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24
oh. Tn working for Dr. J., dowr
there" answered the physician.

"What doin'?'
"Oh," went on the Doctor, 81 do ev-
erything for him. | take care of him,
you know. l dress him, and feed him,
and even wash his face and put him
to bed. | do everything he needs
done"
How much do you get for it," asked
the native.
MY board and clothes"
"And do you do all that for him
wash him, an dress him, an feed him,
an all thatF"
YES"
The countryman looked at the Doc
tor moment in silence. Then he lean
ed over the wheel and spat solemnly.
well, of all the dern fools l ever
see" was all he said.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-06-24
He Expressed His Opinion.

One Of the most prominent physicians
In Washington owns farm somewhere
In New England, and whenever he
gets unbearably tired of his fashiona-
bic patients in town he goes there, puts
on his Oldest clothes, lays in a stock of
corncob pipes, and rusticates.
One day last summer he was jogging
lazily along country road in n rickety
old cart drawn by horse almost as
rickety. A countryman walking along
on the same road asked for lift, AN
"Who are y~rw6rkiA' fory asked
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-09

The Fall River Line P Pe go the boats Priscilla
miles
through Long Island Sound
York New Haven & Hartford Old em) Fall River to
all miles of
direct mnisaons the New
m aandvi visiting points - - - -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-09

STEAMSHIPS NORTH WEST AND NORTH
The Globes
of these inland floating
The Great Lakes OF America
The OF
tho
o changing
Detroit
out
Saturdays
dy
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-09
Below Niagara Falls
1.-THE Maid OF the MIST -

One Of the most interesting days of the vacation journey
OF the Globes guests will be spent Niagara Falls The
party will board the staunch little steamer Maid of the
Mist don rubber garments, and make of most ex-
citing and fascinating yet perfectly safe rides
known Above the Falls, they will visit Goat Island and
watch the everlasting torrents pass swiftly by and plunge
to the depths below
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-09

and other places interest
Three days in Boston, from which trips many
places of
To New
tic. Returning -
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-09
Hotel Iroquois,
Buffalo, N. Y.

One of the finest hotels in the country Absolutely fire
proof The luxury of its appointments and efficiency of
service well known to the travelling public. Solid
gance Of style has been adhered throughout the entire
structure Hotel 1roquois favorably located
from its tiled roof brdseye view Of Buffalo may be had
The Globes guests will spend day OF two at the
Hotel Iroquois.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
The ROthschild Business.

| The Rothschilds have done a great deal
for Frankfort in the way of benovelence as
well as business, and it is the custom of
the family to distribute large sum of
money among the deserving poor Of their
sect annually upon the Jewish New Year
The most conspicuous of their benevo-
lences is n public library, which occupies
the former residence of Carl Mayer Roths-
child and was founded by his daughter
several years ago.
The banking business of the family is
conducted in the same old fashioned build
ing it has occupied ever since the firm was
established in the early part of this CEN
fury. 1t is situated where once stood tho
gate of the .Iudengasse on the boundary
line between the Jewish and the Christian
cities. Everything about it is strikingly
plain and old fashioned. There are no
carpets on the floor, and the desks and
fnishings are of pine instead of the ma
hogany that you find in the newer bank
ing houses of the city. There is an air of
severity and frugality about the place. The
calculations of the clerks are made on tho
backs of old envelopes, and they still use
lamps and candles instead of gas and cleo.
trio light Most of the employees are mem
bers of the family The boys of the Paris
and London branches come to Frankfort
to begin their business career and learn
lessons In industry, accuracy and fidelity,
and they generally serve term in each
branch of the firm in order that they NAV
know the peculiar conditions and sur
roundings.
The business is conducted with great
secrecy. Nobody knows anything about
It, and therefore there is a great deal of
conjecture and gossip Some years ago
one of the employees of the house who was
not related to the family was defaulter
for large sum of money He was not
punished and not even prosecuted because
IL was said the members of the firm feared
they would be called upon to give evidence
concerning their business relations IL they
took him into court, and it would cost
them a great deal more money to have
their transactions exposed than the defal-
cation amounted to.-Chicago Record.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
Could See Through His Nose.

Several authors at the end of the six
teenth and beginning of the seventeenth
century mention man who had lost both
his eyes, but could see through his nose.
An account of him is given in the "Occu-
lus Artificialis Teledioptricus" of .Joannis
Zahn. 1t appears that he lived in the
country and had the misfortune to lose his
right eye when child, and his left, when
somewhat older, by falling from cherry
tree upon n spike, which mutilated his
nose and cheek. After the wound bad
healed he found that he could see, through
the cavity of his nose, not merely the day
light, but the colors of the flowers around
him. During the next five or six years he
learned to distinguish objects brought un
der his nose. M. f. Douillot French
Psychologist, explains the phenomenon by
supposing that the membranes, and par
ticularly the retina at the base of the eve.
were sound, and that an opening com.
municating with the nose permitted the
light to reach the retina through the nose.
1t Is we'll known that If light enters dark
room by narrow aperture it will form
an image or picture on a screen there. and
something of the kind happened i'm the
case of the man who saw with his nose.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
A GOOD STORY OF CLAY.
He Was Very Confident of Election as
President In 1874.

| There never was more disappointed
candidate for the presidency than Mr.
| Clay was in 1914, says one who knew
him, for he fully expected to tenant the
| White House from 1915 to 1919 He was
then on his third run for the presidency,
| and had long been the idol of his party.
In his first run, against jackson and John
Quincy Adams, in 1924, he received less
than 10000 votes; in his second, against
jackson, in 1882, over 800, 600, and in his
third run he received in total popular
vote of =, GOO, 600 votes within 40, 900 Of
majority over Mr. Polk. Thus he had
much ground for hope, and his friends
both here and throughout the country
were certain of his election. In fact that
being the day for news by slow mail. it
was week before his defeat was acknowl-
edged, and several times was the victory
O. celebrated by the burning of bonfires.
l was then employed as a messenger boy
in the old lntelligcnccr office and by that
means / came TO know Mr. Clay frequent
~ being sent by Mr. Gales and Mr.. Scaton
with messages To him Sometimes | found
him at the capitol, but generally at his
rooms in the building at the northwest
corner of Eighth street and Market space,
the site now occupied by Mr.. William II.
HOeke. AT his rooms he was friendly
with me and seemed pleased with the
manner i'm which performed my duties.
One day he said: My lad, when / be-
come president, ! will do something for
you want you to come to see me at the
White House
Why, Mr. Clay, l responded, how
will ! get TO sec you when your doors are
guarded
sure enough, remarked Mr.. Clay,
picking up card, on which he wrote:
Admit Mr.. -. ii. Clay, Handing it
10 me, he said: Take care of it, and it
Will pass you. BE sure to come
Il fully expected to have occasion to
use it, but like Mr.. Clay and thousands
of Others, was disappointed. / have had
the card for over half century and have
treasured it as an evidence of Mr.. Claws
good intentions. Washington Star.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
I'D Like to BE "A Boy Again."

I'd like TO be n boy again without a woe
or care, with freckles scattered DER my
face and hayseeds in my hair. I'd like to
rise at o'clock and do hundred chores
and saw the wood and feed the hogs and
lock the stable doors, and herd the hens
and watch the bees and take the mules TO
drink, and teach the turkeys how to swim
so they will not sink, and milk hundred
cows and bring in wood to burn and stand
out in the sun all day and churn and
churn and churn, and wear my brothers.
cast of clothes and walk four miles to
school, and get licking every day for
breaking some old rule, and then get home
again at night and do the chores once
more, and milk the cows and feed the
hogs and curry mules a score, and then
crawl YEARLY up stairs and seek my little
bed, and hear dad say, THAT worthless
boy, he doesn't earn his bread" I'd like
To be boy again, "a boy has so much fun.
His life Is just one round Of mirth, from
rise TO set of sun. / think there's nothing
pleasanter than closing stable doors and
herding hens and chasing bees and doing
evening chores. Farm and Field.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
EXCELSIOR.
4 Msnufacture Of Wood That Has Many
Uses and is sold In Great Quantities.

The material known rs excelsior is not
refuse, nor is IL made of shayings; il is
an article Of regular manufacture. Ex-
celsior Is OF American invention, and it
was first made in this country 30 or 40
years ago. The present output amounts to
thousands OF tons annually, and the Use of
10 is all the time increasing.
Excelsior is made i'm many parts of the
country, almost always i'm mills that are
IN close proximity 10 the forests from
which the supplies of wood are taken A
considerable amount of excelsior is made
In conjunction with other manufactures;
Tor example it is not unusual TO set up "A
few excelsior machines i'm lumber mill.
but there is at least one concern in tho
United States that makes nothing but ex-
celsior and has at a number of different
points mills devoted solely 10 the produc-
ton of these curling lbcrs of wood
Eastwood and poplar are the woods used
In the production The logs are sawed
Into lengths of Is inches, which is the
length Of a fiber of excelsior. These blocks
arc split into halves and the wood is prop
erly seasoned. Excelsior is made of diff
terCnt degrees Of COarscness and fnencss
of fiber. I'm the manufacture a series of
knife points run down the face of the block,
cutting into the wood i'm parallel lines that
arc spaced according TO the width of the
dber to be made A following knife slices
OIL the whole face Of the block thus scored.
The iiberS curl and cOmmingle a. the knife
sets them free An excelsior machine
makes 200 10 300 strokes minute, every
stroke cutting off a tier of nbers across the
face Of the block The usual commercial
package Of excelsior is "a bale weighing
about go pounds At wholesale excelsior
soils at SIG 20 $40 a ton.
Excelsior is extensively used for packing
purposes and i'm the manufacture of bed
ding and in various other upholstery uses.
1t is also largely used for filtering pur-
poses, and ii has various other uses TX
colsiDr is now manufactured i'm Germany
and France, where it is called wood wool.
The wood used i'm the manufacture i'm
those countries is brought from Norway
and Sweden, and the manufactured product
costs more there than it does here.
American excelsior is exported to vari-
GUS foreign countries The export demand
has not been great, but it is now incrcas-
ing.-New York sun
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
The True Remedy

W. M. Repine, editor Tiskilwa, Ill,
"Chief," says: "We won't keep house
without DR.. Kings New Discovery fol
consumption, coughs and colds. Exper
imented with many Others, but never got
the true remedy until we used DR.. Kings
New Discovery. No other remedy can
take it's place in our home, az in it we
have certain and sure cure for coughs,
colds, whooplng cough. etc." 1t is idle
to experiment with other remedies, even
if they are urged on you as just az good
as DR.. Kings New Discovery. They are
not as goou, because this remedy has a
record OF cures and besides isguaranteed.
1t never fails to satisfy. Trial bottles
free at Macdonald's drug store.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
EIevatlng the Painter.

A Scotch journal says that a certain
well known painter went To u seaside VIII
lage to paint picture and put up at a
small public house. One day while in his
room he heard commotion, and on run
ming down stairs found that the chimney
was on fire. Two or three men were try
ing TO put out the flames by sweeping tho
SCOT down with brooms, but the blaze was
too high to be reached i'm this manner.
Seeing their want of SUCCESS, the painter
caught up thick mat, ran with il to the
roof, and, climbing up the stack Of chin
neys, placed it on the top of the one that
was on fire. His idea was, of course to
obstruct the draft 10 happened that "a
stiff breeze was blowing, and, as the mat
was in danger of being blown off, the art
list sat on it TO hold il down. He was lust
comfortably seated when he found himself
lifted bodily and landed upon the tiles of
the roof. What had happcnedS That was
more than he could imagine till he went
down stairs. No one knew that he had
gone aloft, and when the landlord saw
that sweeping down the SCOT was ineffec-
tual he tried the old fashioned remedy of
lighting charge of gunpowder. This it
was that removed not only tho SCOT, but
the mat and the painter.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
TIE NEW WORKER.
An Account 81 the Most Powerful Float
ing Pre- EAstns In the World.

In the series ~ ARTICLES On New York s
fire department ny Charles 7, Hin in st.
Nicholas there Is one devoted % Floating
/ Fire RRS.poS In describing New York 5
feet 81 Srshoats Mr. nill Says;
FOrcnlnsi among ghose vessels stands the
fireh0at New Norkor officially known as
| Rnginc Company No s.. - she Is without
doubt the most powerful firehoat afoat.
| The New Yorker berth Is ~ the Battery,
where she licS beside = tasteful building
erscicd nv the FIRE department as hous-
/ ing for her crew ~ COMPANY. This build
ing i fijJcd up with al the requirements
Of an engine h0uSg-hunkroOm mp stairs,
sliding poles ~ make a quick descent TO
the ground floor, and a complete set of
telegraph Instruments 70 inform the com
many ~ al, alarms throughout the city.
She lies with steam up, al all times ready
- respond in an instant 10 any alarm,
whether IL hc by telegraph or a cry for AS
siStanoe from a burning boat in midriver.
She viii dash up the river 10 attack a
burning pier or warehouse or down the
hay 20 meet an incoming steamship with
its cargo afire with the same activity.
Her powerful pumps make her almost in
vincible in any kind of marine fire, and
she l. also a valuable assistant to the land
forces.
As she lies at her berth by the Battery
she attracts a great deal of attention from
all new arrivals in the harbor, and on ac-
count Of her formidable appearance she is
usually put down as some newfangled
torpedo throwing addition TO our navy,
for with the rows of brass headed hose con-
nections along the side of the deckhouse
and the vicious looking stand pipes, or
monitor nozzles, as they are called,
fore and aft, she certainly has
defiant and businesslike appearance.
In build she looks like a rather hand
some tug She is l25 feet long, 26 feet
wide and draws about 13 feet of water.
She is built of steel and iron throughout,
making her thoroughly flreproof, even tho
top of the whcelhouse and cabin being
made of kind of cement rs hard as stone.
There is little woodwork about her to ig-
mite, and she is thus enabled TO approach
very close % a fire and deliver her power
ul streams at short range. She has two
very large boilers and four sets (eight in
III of vertical, double acting steam pumps
md one additional small direct acting |
pump
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
SCHEME TO SWELL DIVIDENDS.
Dsvice Employed by Some Gas Companies
and How TO Thwart 1t.

Having graduated from the Sheffield
Scientific school, where he made special
study of the chemistry of illuminating
gases, he quickly found position with
one of the older gas companies in city
which shall be nameless. He remained
two years and then resigned. He had been
reared in the Methodist faith, and he con-
flded to friend that he could not retain
his position without doing violence to his
| protesting conscience.
'It is n good thing for corporations that
they have no souls, he said when chat
| ting about his experiences, 'as they are
relieved of all fear of future punishment.
| The eighth commandment is apparently
unknown TO the general manager of the
company with which | was associated
Did you ever have gas bills rendered for
amounts seemingly out of all proportion
TO the quantity of gas you thought you
had burned?"
Every member of the group nodded u
rigorous affirmative.
Possibly your meters are defective, Z"
lie observed, "but in the district served by
my former employers there was always u
kick coming from the consumers, and
yet the meters were absolutely accurate in
their operation. Every month the com
pany collected from 10 to 10 per cent more
than it was honestly entitled to, which
was n tidy little profit on the side. How
was it managedy Easily enough. Every
night shortly after midnight the pressure
in the mains was raised enormously. IN
der this increased pressure the gas was
forced through the meters and compressed
in the various pipes i'm the building of the
consumer Naturally the meters accurate
ly registered all the gas thus forced through
them. Later the pressure was reduced be-
low the normal, and there was n return
flow through the pipes, but rs the meters
would not back register the gas flowed
through them from the house to the mains
without producing any alteration in the
figures. Sticking TO this system of pump
ing the company succeeded in getting a
showing at the end of the month that was
largely in its favor. "
WAS there no way in which the con-
sumner could protect HIMSELF" inquired
one curious member of the circle of listen
crs.
Certainly, but as he knew nothing of
the method by which he was being swim
died the simple chcckmating scheme never
occurred TO him. The prudent man who
carefully turned off his gas at the meter
every night when he was through with it
paid only for what he got. The milking
of the meters was then impossible"
And every one who heard how il was
done made mental resolution to use the
meter shut off thenceforward, even while
consoling himself that the Chicago com
panies are above resorting to any petty
fraud of this character. Chicago Times
Herald
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-10-08
Instruction In Nursing.

Ladies desiring to avail themselves OF
a course OF lectures and instruction to
be given in nursing at the Lake Superior
Hospital at Lake Linden during the COM
ing fall and winter should, without de-
lay, call or write to DR.. George W. Orr,
Lake Linden. The lectures and instruc-
ton will commence on the I'd of Septem-
Der next at 10 a. m,