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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-04

The managers Of Manhattan fie'd no" Una, .o
i". .um ,,ov not be played in this city here
affer announce that they VIII put n D'cEc'e """ III
ALL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-04

l. G. Bald will be in the city on WEDNESDAY. IL
depends the conditions he nr can nni make whether
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-04

Tho Cvc,c Club Of Brooklyn Is again at Its old
winter quarters in the deserted lSth Regimen. puiu
,,,r,.,nments will be held there every week
ing LII arnhera will devote night 10 skating
~ ne &C. o'u rermont Avenue Rink each week
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-04

=. mos mot b,cvcle weather yesterday. yet num-
nor ~ riders were noticed in the Boulevard uptown
In Rrooklyn some OF the asphalt streets were IN
nassabe condition. and few cyclists maae th t
P'r,. ,brough Prospect Park. and some went as 1ar
"s 'conev Island. No stretch of the imagination
could make II good riding
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-04

,o,x barnett the president of the Logan Wheel
~ 70 =. candidate for the presidency of the AS
aao,a,ed cycling Clubs Of Long Island Mr. Barnett
% nopular and he seems likely to succeed NJ Fnrs,.
- Popu nrns.ents South Brooklyn. George w Shan-
ne ho Is also a candidate, represents the Bed
I'D distr
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-01
office Comforts.

Luxurious offices may be in bad taste,
but they are in no worse taste than the
poorly furnished and uninyiting offices
when the owners can afford Office comforts.
In everything appropriateness is con-
duciye to the best results.
The dress at the seashore should not re-
semble the theater gown, nor should the
piazza chair be like that in the parlor.
But there is certainly no reason why an
office should be barn, a shed or a dark
corner in the warehouse
No one of sense would suggest that there
should be a fountain in the center of the
office or counting room or that it should
be like a winter garden, but there is a
vast difference between these extremes
and the barrenness of the average Office.
A few potted plants cost nothing and if
they are of hardy species require but little
care.
Few men seem to appreciate the neces-
sity of an awning or curtain and constant
ly try their eyes by reading sunlighted
letters and papers.
An office, as l see it, should be the bust
ness home, not the headquarters of the
business treadmill. Everything that will
contribute to the comfort of the eye and
the body should be there.-Hardware
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-01
At the Universities.

Some man has discovered and called
general attention to the fact that in this
country the schools closed to male students
exceed in number those closed to female
students. Another man, Professor Won
Hartmann of Germany, consoles the wom-
en- who are shut out of the universities in
this wise:
"The lecture rooms seem to have mag
ical attraction for you. They are for you
the paradise of intelligence. Absurd mis-
takeI They are much more like barracks,
where one learns mechanically the manual
of arms. I am going to tell you the great
secret-the best means of education is
reading. Let those of you who care little
about diplomas and whose sole ambition
is to cultivate your minds stay at home
and read. Get it well into your heads
that your brothers and your future hus-
bands, who, after leaving the university,
do not read. will never be anything but
stupid ignoramuses, and that all the uni
yersities in the world are useless to a wo-
man who knows how 60 read. -
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-01
The Discoxerer of the Gladstone Collar.

The Discoverer of the Gladstone Collar.
/ believe 1 am generally supposed to
have invented Mr.. Gladstone's collars, but
as matter of fact l merely discovered
them. Many men wear collars quite as
large as, and even larger than, his, but
they are not so prominent in appearance
for the simple reason that when Mr.. Glad,
stone sat down it was his custom to sit
well forward. His body collapsed, SO to
speak, and his head sank into his coat.
The inevitable result was that his collar
rose, and, owing to this circumstance,
have frequently seen it looking quite as
conspicuous as 1t is depicted in my carica-
lures.
When Mr.. Gladstone upon one occasion
met the artist of Punch at dinner, was
ehagrined to find, when he walked into
the dining room, that he had discarded his
usual large collar for one of the tmasher"
type. l felt that my reputation for ac-
curacy was blighted and sought consola-
tien from the editor of Gladstonian or
gan, who happened to be present
Eyes, . he said, che is evidently dressed
up to meet the Punch artists. He is the
pink of fashion and neatness now, but last
night, when | met him at dinner, his shirt
was frayed at the edges and his collar was
pinned down behind, but the pin gave way
during the evening and the collar nearly
came over his head. Harry Furniss in
Century
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-01
HOW MANY PLANTs7
What the Naturalists Tell Us About the
Number of Species.


The number of different kinds of plants
that are to be found ON the surface of the
globe has long been disputed question.
The history of the efforts to determine it
is curious one. Those efforts began in
300 B. C. with Theophrastus. who emu
merated 500 kinds of plants. This may be
presumed to represent all that were then
known. The botanical knowledge of King
Solomon had, then, comparatively narrow
limits, even though he discoursed on all
the plants from the cedar of Lebanon to
the hyssop on the wall. Pliny-A. D. 70
increased the number to double that
named by Theophrastus.
In the beginning of the seventeenth CEN
fury the number had increased to 5000.
The second edition of Linn@us' great book
included no more than $500. Willdenow,
up to 1907, had detected II, 457 species of
Towering plants. From this period the
increase in the number of known species
is very rapid, as a result of the stimulus
given to botany by Linn@us and his sue
cessors, so that, at the beginning of the
present century Robert Brown had esti-
mated the towering plants at 81 900 and
Humboldt all plants, towering and non
Towering, at A, 600.
Progressing still further in 1920 De
Candolle estimated that at least Sc, 900
were known. 1t was found that the num-
Der of species preserved in the herbarium
at the Jardin des Plantes was estimated
at the same figure, and that the collection
of M. Delessert contained SO, 600 species in
1S47, although DR.. Lindley had estimated
in 1885 that all the plants in the world
might be included in that number
Humboldt entered upon a series of cal
culations about this time to show that all
these estimates fell short of the number
that might be supposed to exist Such
considerations, - he writes, "seem to verify
the ancient myth of the Zend- Ayesta, that
the creating of primeyal force called forth
800, 600 vegetable forms from the sacred
blood of the BULL
In 1916 r. B. Kinds estimated the phe
nogamic and cryptogamic plants at 1874, :
900 species. The next estimate we meet
with is in Henfrey in 1857, $4,000, but in
1856 De Candolle had by another process
OF. reasoning come to the conclusion that
the total could not be less than 375, 900 for
Towering plants.
At the present time the very lowest esti-
mate of authentic species of cryptogamia
cannot be less than 500, 900, and they prob
ably exceed that number. Here, then, we
have an approximate idea of what may be
regarded as very low estimate of the
number of species of plants scattered over
the face of the earth. If we feel confidence
in asserting that there are not less than
500, 900 distinct and different species of
vegetable organisms, including land and
water, it is because it has been proved that
the number is even in excess of that
PHILADELPHIA Times.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-01
PUNCHED ONIONS.

Practically No Longer Sold Here, but Ex-
ported In Large Quantities.
Onions were formerly very commonly
sold in strings or punches as well as in
bulk. The onions were tied by turn of
Irvine around their stems to punches of
straw In punching onions the largest
were placed at the bottom, and they were
graduated in size up to the very small
ones at the top, making slender cone of
onions, with the straw to which they were
tied projecting above the top, serving as
a handle for the bunch. The onions were
usually nicely graded and punched trim
ly. Forty years and more ago onions put
up in this manner were common sight
in the grocery stores Now they are rare
ly seen hereabout in that form, and al
most without exception are sold loose.
Onions are still punched in large quanti
ties for export
American onions are exported to all the
Spanish American countries, the West In
dies, Mexico and South America, and
about half the onions exported so out in
punches packed rather loosely in barrels
and crates. One New York firm export
ing potatoes, onions, apples, garlic, and
so on, ships hundreds of thousands of
annually, besides thousands of barrels and
crates of loose onions. The modern bunch
is not made so long as the old time
bunch, and it contains fewer onions, but it
is put up in the same symmetrical manner,
and with the wisps of straw rising above
the top. Bunch onions as now put up run
pound and a half to two pounds and
quarter to the bunch. The onions punched
In nod n fb q int bp
countries to which they are exported.
Bunch onions are now raised largely
on Long Island, and great many are
raised also in Rhode Island and in Con-
necticut. Care is taken in selecting them
to preserve the stem by which the onion
is bound to the straw. The punching is
usually done ON the farms where the on
ions are raised, but sometimes the supply
of punching onions is not equal to the de-
mand, and it is then supplemented from
other stock and the bunchers are brought
to the city and the onions punched here
The work is done entirely by hand. An
expert buncher can put up from 400 to 500
punches a day.
There is reason in the punching On
ions keep better put up in that form and
can be handled Sbetter. There have been
other changes ia the onion industry in
this country. Formerly Weathersfeld,
Conn, was the great center of onion rails
ing. A good part of the valuable land
there that had been devoted to onions has
now been given over to the cultivation of
tobacco, and the onion scepter has departed
from Weathersfeld. Orange county in this
state is now the greatest onion producing
section. New York Sun
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-01
He WIN Succeed.

Ralliol, the most exclusive of Oxford
colleges, has among its undergraduates a
married Lancashire millhand 20 years of
age, who worked his way into the uniyer-
sity by studying after factory hours, with
the help of free libraries and university
extension lectures. He passed his Greek
examination Is months after learning the
alphabet, and within six weeks after adj
mission to college won the Brackenbury
history scholarship, worth $500 year for
four years. He is trying for an honor de-
gree in history.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-01
Japanese weather charte.

The japanese government issues every
day three weather charts. which include
observations in China and the Ldn-Kiu
islands, enabling captains to ascertain the
movements of storms several days in adj
vance.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-01
Heigoland.

Helgoland will continue to be the Greet
ma Green of Germany till 1918, when the
special privilege of the island expires. Pas
tor Schroeder, the minister, however, re-
quires certificates of birth, of the consent
of the parents if the parties are under age,
an affidavit that neither is already mar
ried nor divorced and statement of the
reasons for their coming SO far to get mar
ried. Then he charges fee Of $50. 1t is
so difficult to get married in Germany un-
less everything is in perfectly formal order
that 60 couples year prefer to make the
journey to Helgoland.-S Francisco
Argonaut.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-01
THE WEAVER.


Beside the loom Of life stand
And watch the busy shuttle go.
The threads hold within my hand
Make up the filing. Strand on strand
They slip my fingers through, and so
This web of pine 1lls ont apace
While stand ever in my place.
One time the wool is smooth and fine
And coloTed with a sunny dye.
Again the threads SO roughly Irvine
And weave so darlSly line on line
Ny heart misgives me. Then would
Fain lose this web, begin anew,
But that, alas, cannot do.
Some day the web will all be done,
The shuttle quiet in its place,
From out my hold the threads be run,
And friends at setting Of the sun
Will come to look upon my face
And say, Mistakes she made not few,
Yet woye perchance as best she knew"
independent.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-01
Fireboats and Burning vessels.

Mr. Charles T. Hill contributes an arti
Gle on Floating Fire Engines" to St.
Nicholas The article describes New York S
three freboats. Mr.. Hill says:
These boats serve a double purpose, for
they are not only effective water throwing
engines, but powerful tugs as we'll. When
a fire is discovered on ship lying among
other vessels a line is fastened to her, and
she is towed out into midstream, where
she cannot spread destruction about her.
A few dashes from the powerful monitor
nozzle soon put out any fire in the rigging
and upper works If the fire has spread to
the hold or has eaten in among the cargo,
she is towed down to the mud flats near
Liberty island or to the sand bars south
of Governors island and beached. Then
the big lengths of hose are passed aboard,
large metal connections are fastened to the
ends, and these are thrust into the hold or
into any compartment where there is fire,
and she is soon pumped full of water and
the fire drowned out. II boat like the
New Yorker has charge of this work, it is
quickly accomplished.
This saves the hull of the vessel and less
ems the damage considerably, for the own
ers can have her pumped out afterward,
and, the hull remaining intact, there is
nothing but the burned interior to repair.
If she were scuttled in midstream, the hull
would interfere with navigation, and it
would cost largo amount to raise the
vessel, SO it can be seen that these boats
can render other services than that of ex
tinguishing fires.
In fires on vessels loaded with cotton
(they make ugly fires to handle) lighter
is usually brought alongside, and after
the worst Of the fire has been subdued the
bales are hoisted out one by one and extin-
guished as they are brought out. BY this
means part of the cargo is saved, for only
the surfaces of the bales are on fire, and
they can be picked over and rebaled and
sold again, while to fill the vessel full of
water and drown out the fire would de-
stroy the whole cargo and a cotton fire
might burn for months if fought in any
other way.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-01
Pennsy lvania
RAILROAD.
On and after May Is, 1897,
Trains Leave Market Street, Newark, as
Follows:

For New York leave market Street,. S16.
5.47, go, SIS, ~, T2e, 7;45, 800, So 8dS,
1890, 1913, HOO, 11.17 a. M; 1900 l21 LOS,
1.26, i34 205, 235, 248 2.55 08, 3.29 3.59, 419,
1856 a. 5.25 5.4S 6.l8 $751; $780, 6.58 7.09 10,
7.38, sos, $50, 922 1904, II. p. M, and 1207
For Harrisburg, Altoona Pittsburg and the
West, with through Sleeping Cars and Day
Coaches, at S;2S. $50 Q0.27 a. m. limited) 2.2e.
6.27, Sl5 and 1872 p. m. every day.
For Baltimore, Washington and the South,
1247, 8.25, S.57, 1926 a.. m. LIMITED Express,
Pullman Parlor Cars 1887 a. ND and II .28 a.
M; 1885, 3.47, 4.56, 5.26 and $50 p. m. For Bal
For phia-Express, 12.47, 6.48. 7.5O
SIS. 8.57, 926. 95S a. m. 90, 81 Limited Express
2.35. 5.24 4.56 a. m. 526 627 3. " and g. 20 n.
For Trenton. l2.47, 6.48, 100, 7.50, 8.25, 8.57
26. Cl0.37 Limited Express Pullman Vestibule
Parlor Cars. Vestibule Passenger Coaches and
Dining Carr. 1l.2S and II. SO a. M; 1925. 1.2S,
2.35, 258. 324. 800. rs, 6.27. 1876 $50 and $50
p. m. For Atlantic City 1.37 p. m.
For Cape May l.37 p. m.
For Long Branch, Elberon, Asbury Park,
Ocean Grove. Spring Lake, Sea Grit, Manas-
uban, Point Pleasant and points on the New
a. M; 1875 255. 1885, 4.03 IA, .36, 1877 p. m
For Seaside Park, Island Heights and Toms
River, 1895 p. m.
For Boston, without change, la.48 p. m. and
8.55 D. m. daily.
For Phillipsburg, Easton and Belvidere, rs.
II .26 a. M; 3.24, 6.27 p. m.
For Lambertyille, $50, 11.2S a. M; 2.S5, 3.24
and 6.27 p. m.
For Flemington, $50. 1l2S a. M, and S24
M, daily except Sunday.
For Princeton, ZOO, 857, IL 33 q. m. LIS, 2. 3s,
:. 90, 5.26 and Z IS p. M. daily except Sunday.
For Bordentown, Burlington and Camden,
1926. 9.26, 9.36, u.3S a. M; 128, 2.38, 5.36 and
1882 D. M, daily, except Sunday.
For Freehold, Farmingdale and Sea Grit,
via Monmouth Junction, 7.50 and 11.33 a. M;
4.30 D. m. For Freehold only, 500 p. m.
For further information see time tables, or
apply to company g offices, 789 Broad street, or
at ticket Office at Market street station, New
ark Nj. J. r. WOOD,
General Passenger Agt
JB. HUTCHINSON,
General Manager
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1897-10-01
Whippany River Railroad.
Del, Lack. \ West R R.
MORRIS AND ESSEX DIVISION.
TO AND FROM NEW YORK,

MORRIS AND ESSEX DIVISION.
TO AND FROM NEW YORK.
Trains for New York leave Morristown at 5.14
$50, $50, t7.2O, tt755, 1859, 1872 10 H. 1910
Hos, II, AZ, am, Lis, *2.55, 1915, 4.23, 5.22
6.26, 7.O1, 800. 9.05, $50, 1915 p. m.
Leave New York for Morristown Ais, 6.00
$50, 800, 400, 4.30. 500, $50 $40, 500, $780,
73O, $50, 9.l5, 10.45, IL 90 m.
saturday only.
+Express trains; connections made with ac-
commodation trains making all stops
II orristown Express stops at Madison, $50,
Summit, 8.11. and Newark, 8.35 only.
+Morristown Express; stops at Madison S32
only.
New York, S85 per year.
Monthly tickets can be procured at any time
at the following rates: First, second and
third months, $11 each; fourth month, So.
fifth month, So; sixth month, 81 so; seventh
month. $3.50; eighth month. IS; ninth and tenth
months, $3.50 each; eleventh and Twelfth
Family Trip Tickets; Fifty single trips to
New York, $50. Ten single trips $5.35.
GOING WEST.
Leave Morristown for Dover, 6,O3 TAI. 8.38.
1915 1l53 a. M; LIS, rs, Al, s. So, $50, 732
1908 p. M, l.38 q. m.
Train leaving Morristown at 8.3S a. m. con-
meets at lDenville with train for Boonton, at
line train for local points between Washington
and Binghampton. at Waterloo with Sussex
Branch for Andover, Newton, Branchville and
Franklin and at EaSton with G. r. r. of N. .
j. for Bethlehem, Allentown and points in
Pennsylvania.
Train leaving Morristown 1918 a. m. con-
meets at Washington with the Queen City
special, leaving New York at 10 a. m. for
Scranton. BinghamtOn, Syracuse. Oswego,
Ithaca, Elmira Bath, Buffalo, and for all
points South and West.
Train Leaving Morristown at LIS D. M con-
meets at Denville for all points on the Boonton
Branch; at Dover with Chester Branch and
main line vestibuled train for Scranton. Bing
hamton, Owego and Elmira; Buffet parlor
cars attached. This train also connects at
Waterloo for Newton and points on Sussex
Branch; connects at Easton with G. r. r, of
N. J. for Bethlehem, Allentown and Points in
Pennsylvania connects at Monunka Chunk
with P. r.. r. for Belvidere, Trenton and
Philadelphia.
Train leaving Morristown at 4.41 p. m. con-
meets at Dover with main train for Scranton
and with Chester Branch train; at Waterloo
with Sussex Branch train for Andover.
Newton and Branchville, and at Easton with
O. r. r of N. J. for Bethlehem and Allen
town. The $50 p m. train connects at Water
loo with Sussex Branch train for Newton.
Train leaving Morristown at 7. 81 p. m. con-
meets at Dover with main line for Scranton.
st. Louis and all points South and West.
Train leaving MorristOWn at l008 p. m. con-
meets at Dover with main line vestibuled train
of Pullman coaches and Buffet sleeping cars
Buffalo and all points South and West.
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29

You will 6ud the Weekly Post Dis.
patch indispensable during the year 1897
rne year Of 1897 is going to be brmtu
OF interest The incoming of the Mokln
ley Administration, with u new Congress
elected upon a gold platform, mean,
legislation of kind shat will vitality in.
'eress every newspaper reader in the
country, and especially in the West and
South. Special attention will DO PAL q
IN the Weekly Post Dispatch to thi
news of nstisnsl character, and it will
DO discussed editorialIy from the p,in,
Of view Of the West and South as Goa.
rastad with Wall street.
The campaign Of free silver will 20 on
in 1897 and nothing can do 10 much to
help along the campaign of education II.
a newspaper like the Weekly Pos,-Dis.
patch. This is shown in the fact tha. in
Missouri, and in every other locality
where the Post Dispatch has u large cir
oulation the gains Of Democracy and
free silver we're of . sweeping character.
Tho POST.DlSPATCH d, 4ervss the
aupport.of al Free SiivOr Democrats be-
cause of the great Eight it made ia the re
cent campaign for Democratic principles
and th' ticket Hsuce the tree silver
mes everywhere should rally to It's sup
port by sending in thor subscrip ton
aud Induce others to subscribe.
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29
Game Laws Of Arkansas

1t shall be unlawful to catch, xii
OF injure, or pursue or chase with
dogs any wild deer, buck doe o,
fawn, between February lst and
August lst.
Wild turkeys shall. not be killed
between May LIST and September lst.
Prairie chickens shall not be killed
between February lst and Sept. lst,
The use of traps, pens, nets OF
other similar devices to ensnare
pinnated grouse, quail or wild tur
keys Is prohibited.
Pinnated grouse, commonly called
prairie chickens, shall not be killed
before 1901.
a tar Of ten dollars il levied upon
all nonresident trappers, selners, or
meters Of fish. A license mnst be
procured tor hunting or fishing
from the county clerk of thu county
in which the sportsman desires to
hunt.
Sharp County record., 1897-01-29
just, Looking g, Around.

"rhere was an old fellow, Penn.
sylvanian, on our hoor IN Libby
Prison, said Colonel Richardson.
"He was tall, angular. .stoop-shouid-
cred, and had the regular North
Carolina dialect. Nearly everybody
liked him.,
He had been a prisoner sometime,
his SUIT of blue had become bunch
of rags. BY some means he man
aged to get new SUIT OF butternut
colored clothes, and after that we
called him sold North Carolina"
One of the prisoners asked HIM when
he was going to join his tarheeled
regiment.
you jest wait and watch.
In those days 1t was a common
thing for citizens to accompany
Major Dick Turner, who had charge
of Libby Prison, on visits to the
prison. One afternoon half dozen
citizens of Richmond were with HIM
and when they marched out our old
tarheel soldier fell in and out with
them. He was standing by the door
In Major Turner's room, when tina,
officer notlcing him asked well sil
what do you want here?
Oh, nothin IN particular; jes,
thought | would look around the
prison little,
Well you cant look around the
PRISON a little and you had better
move on.
But Cupps-that was his name
stood there, looking az innocent a,
a boy OH his first trip to town, when
Turner lost his patience and SAID
Come, move on! Get out of here
and gave hun a push into the street
As Cupps passed into the road
where we could sec him from our
windows he took of his hat made 4
low bow and started on Ia gentle
shamble ont OF town. lie made hi'
escape. After that there was q
large demand for butternut suits
but no more could be Struggled into
the prison