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The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-02-06
RECKONING OF TIME slMPLlFIED.
Ten Hours in Day Being Advoca-
ted in France.

The news comes from Paris that the
former Assistant Secretary of the Colo
MES, Deputy Etiennes, intends at the next
meeting of the French Chamber to offer
a decimal subdivision of time for univer-
sal adoption as described in the Phila-
delphia Record some time ago.
Inc day Is divided into ten hours. the
hour Is 100 minutes and the minutes into
lOO seconds, making 1000 minutes or 1OO-
900 seconds per day.
The hour hand always points in the di-
rection of the sun. Consequently as the
uay begins and ends at midnight, the
hour hand points downward, as also do
the minute hand and second hand. at the
exact time of the change of day, or 10
o CLOCK. Thence 1t rises with the sun in
lts apparent motion around the earth,
points to the zenith at noon, after which
1t descends until it reaches its extreme
lower point again at midnight. Thus the
hour hand makes but one revolution
around the dial each day. 1t is, then, the
figure X on the dial at which the hour
hand commences and ends each day, the
minute hand each hour, and the second
hand each minute
The time indicated by the decimal clock
IS always positive time While o'clock
a. m. is represented decimally by 2:3O
o'clock, and o'clock p. m. is represented
by 1850 noon is represented by o'clock
anu HlunlBnI Dy III o CLOCK.
1t provides standard time for the en-
tire globe. 1t is proposed to divide the
terrestrial globe into 1.OOc degrees of lon
gitude' corresponding with the 1000 min
utes of the day, and, by grouping them
into 20 seconds of so degrees each, estab-
fish standard time for the whole world.
Giving to Greenwich, where the count
ing OF the meridians begins, the midnight
meridian, and making it 1000 degrees,
the 20 sections would all be reckoned east
of Greenwich and all the way around the
globe.
1t is said that this decimal system of
time originated in America being the in,
vention of United States citizen, al
though probably the French will be the
first to recognize and adopt it,
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-02-06
New Jerseys Famous Jackpot.


o'clock with no openers out and then
another 2-hour adjournment of the game
was taken, and there was then in the
jack pot nearly $500.
The crowd was wild The men who
had lost money on the deals were bewail-
ing their hard luck and the men who had
won their money were jubilant over their
success But the one man who was su-
premely happy, no matter whether the
men won or lost, was Isaac Hebron, be-
cause his toddies sold under any and all
circumstances at Is cents each.
The game opened in the afternoon at
the appointed hour, with a crowd on
hand, and the cards were not inclined to
change the style of running that they
had adopted two days before. The low
cards were paired, but nobody was able
to catch two picture cards" Of the same
denomination.
For II hours the cards were dealt and
nobody had been able to open the jack
pot. The pot had increased in value more
than $780,
A Negroes Kiss.
Finally Traverse brought his fist down
on the table with a thump ana said:
Boys, let's send a niger to Mays
Landing for a pack of cards. l reckon
thatll change our luck
The proposition was favored and a
negro was dispatched on horseback for
the cards. 1t was a long and tedious
journey in those days, and it was several
hours before the negro returned. When
he did the men sat down and opened the
game once more. Traverse shufled the
cards and Hebron cut them. They were
dealt and no openers fell. Each play
er wrinked his brow drew a long breath
and flung his cards into the middle of the
table.
"Fatten the wilder" said Potter, and
the dollars went up to the pile. 1t was
Potter's deal. where's the niger that
got these cards?" he asked.
"Hyar, sah' called out the man from
the crowd.
Come over here" commanded Potter.
The negro came over where Potter sat.
KISS those cards." SAID he, land I'll give
you a dollar"
Without hesitation thenegro kissed the
cards, took his dollar and retired
That means openers for somebody"
remarked Potter as he threw the cards
around.
III open it for $1,000" calmly remarked
Duncan.
Everybody whistled.
It's worth staying for" said Whit
comb. Give me five cards.
Everybody took five cards excepting
Duncan, who drew two, and then bet
$500 that the pot was his. Traverse and
Whitcomb dropped out. Potter raised
Duncan's bet $2O0O and was promptly sus-
pected of bluffing
Duncan saw the $4,000 and raised il the
cool sum of $4,000.
Il call you" said Potter.
Three kings said Duncan.
-Four deuces," said Potter. THAT was
a pretty good five card draw, and I'm go
ing to give that niger $50 for kissing the
cards. and he did.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-02-06
The Pope's Dominant Trait.

Vicomte f. Melchior de Vogue writes
in the Forum: My friend Paul Bourget
defines the American as "a man who in
variably uses the newest method This
is also the dominant trait in the char
acter of Leo XIII. Within the measure
permitted him by a heavy chain of tradi-
lions, he does not hesitate to grasp the
most modern weapons in defense of his
ancient faith; and this deliberate bold
ness explains his penchant for the Ameri-
can character. Yet in those very inno-
vations which most alarm his timid adj
visers he is conscious Of being far less
an innovator than a restorer of forgot
ten traditions. He relies upon the ex-
amples set by the great popes of the
middle ages. who. in their day, came
down to the market place, stirred the
crowds, and led the people on to new
horizons"
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-02-06
WAS GREAT FISHING ONCE
STURGEON is RARELY SEEN IN THE
PORTLAND MARKETS.
If the Columbia Were RestOcked,
Under Proper Restrictions, the
Industry Might Thrive.

The sturgeon, once so common, is 4 fish
now rarely seen in the Portland markets,
says the Oregonian. Although highly
esteemed IN some countries aud finding
a ready sale in the cities of the east, 1s.~
pecially in a smoked condition. it. newer
was much of a favor1te here being chief
ly used by cheap hotels and restaurants,
where it was served up under the name
of "sea bass" or "fillet of sole"
few years since parties came here and
engaged in the business Of shipping stur-
geon east, and the fishermen went into
the business of catching them wholesale,
and soon the Columbia was strung with
sturgeon lines as numerous as the streets
of Portland are with electric wires, and
books by the ton were set for the doomed
sturgeon. Fish Commissioner James
Crawford has stated that over 10000
pounds of sturgeon was shipped from the
Columbia river in 1892, and also that over
$4,000 pounds Of caviare, sturgeon eggs,
was shipped the same year.
The number of sturgeon caught during
the winter and spring of 1928 in the Co
lumbia was over 10000, more than 20 per
cent of which were small fish. 1t is I'M
necessary to say that but few have been
shipped since, but as it was not practic-
able to catch them all at once, there are
still few in the river, but it is seldom
any find their way to this market.
Although there is no difficulty in pro-
curing sturgeon eggs, and the method of
propagating them artifically is well I'M
derstood, no steps so far have been taken
toward restocking the Columbia.
If the river were restocked and the fish
ing placed under some proper restrictions,
1t might again become a source of great
profit to the fishermen. 1t might be a
work of some difficulty to strip a female
sturgeon of her eggs, but 1t would not be
necessary to handle many of them, for
the full-grown fish yield on an average of
10 gallons, which at 16S,OOO eggs to the
gallon, makes 1,6SO,OOO eggs to the fish.
dozen or two fish would yield eggs
enough to stock any river
Just what legislation in regard to FISH
is coming before the legislation Is not
known, but fishermen should not forget
TO have something done to protect the
steelhead salmon and the sturgeon, which
are now in course of being extermnated
at a rapid rate.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-02-06
CUSTER LAUGHED AS HE DIED
Charles WOOdbury's Verses ON the
Hero of the Little Big Horn.

Apropos of the presence in Milwaukee Of the
widow of General Custer the Wisconsin prints
the following from a forthcoming volume en-
titled Songs Of the New Days" by Charles
Woodbury. Of that city. The volume is to be
brought out simultaneously in London and
New York:
CUSTER.
Sitting Bull told me at Rosebud, 30 miles
west of Fort Keogh, on The Yellowstone that
when General Custer died, he laughed.
There a death worth DYING
"Overbod?" Wen, drape with blame
And sneer and doubts. denying
If you will that soldiers fame.
What remains? We had at least
One brave like him who spread
The Roncesvalles raven-feast,
Symposium of the dead
One heart peer with his who fought
At Herewards side we've known
Where his broken sword hath wrought
BY the Yellowstone.
Proudly the story tell
OF his terrible ride
How he fought till he fell
And laughed he diedl
see that last, lost battle
When one of the young Morse Gods
Fronts hundred human cattle
Immortality OF oddsi
The Viking hair of him streams
There's Bereserker bale in his eyes,
And glee gds the sulphurous dreams
He dreams he dies
Heavily the shadows form:
The light that CLEANED is gone
Death Of a star in a storm,
Death of a storm in dawn
Proudly the story tell
OF his terrible ride;
How he fought till he fell
And laughed he diedi
Death shots asking ans replying,
Wounded shrieking all the while,
What dersion of dying
Was this shout smile?
know not May be, meeting at last
The lover he'd sought at many tryst,
He laughed low at pain as overpast
or as a dear evangelist
Laughed low and CHEEKY who fought
And in glad heartbreak died alone,
What time his broken sword had wrought
The story of the Yellowstone.
Proudly the story tell
OF his terrible ride:
How he fought till he fell.
And laughed he diedl
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-02-06
WALKING WHEELS THE LATEST.
Makes LocOmOtiOn Speedy. and Per-
mits a Perfectly Erect Attitude.

Among the patents just issued from Wash
ingtn is a walking skating Cycle designed
by resident of Kansas City, who claims that
1t can be used with much less exertion than
a bicycle or tricycle. and with less exertion one
can travel several times as fast as when walk
ing. Inc vehicle, moreover, can be manufac-
tured and sold much cheaper than bicvcle
and it possesses great advantage over the lat
ter in that the rider maintains a perfectly
erect and healthful position, and uses practi-
cally the same muscles are employed in
walking. Two of these cycles comprise a set
and are precisely alike in construction except
that one is to embrace and support the right
leg OF the rider The wheels are preferably of
the pneumatic type, and from two to two and
one-half feet in diameter. When mounted the
body will be perfectly erect, with the arms
hanging straight down and grasping the ham
dies. To propel the cycle, it is only necessary
TO alternately advance and withdraw or swing
back and forth, ones feet, which, of course
causes the wheels to rotate continuously in the
direction desired, at speed proportionate to
the power applied Each cycle is provided
with brake of suitable construction No par
ucular effort is necessary in mounting or dis
mounting the cycle, and it is obvious that 1t
can be placed upon the market at compare
lively low figure. Furthermore, it will not be
clumsy and awkward to handle nor take I'd
halt as much room as ordinary bicycle 1t
also possesses many other desirable features
one Of which is that 1t can so easily and con-
Nenlently be taken upstairs.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-02-06

until after the lapse of six years. The
man had continued the use of galvanism
for Il time and did not resume his work
until more than year after his accident.
During the subsequent five years he had
not missed a days employment, attending
to all his duties, from wheeling a well la
cen barrow TO using a scythe. On exam
nation, the right arm was found scarcely
smaller than the left and power had re-
turned to all of the muscles except the
abductor of the thumb. Sensibility had
also been restored, and the electric reac-
tons we're normal except in the muscle
named.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-02-06
FARMER oUTwITs A BOLD THIEF.
Penetrntes His Female Disguise and
Drives on With His Plumber

To succeed in robbing a burglar dis
guised in woman's clothes was the unique
experience of James Young, a Klickner-
vile, Penn, farmer, while driving home
the other day. Along the road a woman
asked him to let her ride. He gave per-
mission, and she got in with her satcheI.
Penetrating the disguise Young saw his
passenger was man. He dropped his
whip and asked the stranger to please
pick it up, saying he dared not drop the
reins of the fractions horses. The ruse
worked.and as Young started his horse off
at gallop the skirted burglar shot several
bullets after him. Young ESCAPED. When
he got home he found in the satchel be-
sides burglars tools, about $500 wrapped in
brown paper.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-02-06
THE MANUFACTURE OF NAILS
Enormous Progress Has Been Made
During Recent Years.

The Berlin Industrie reports that 1.-THE
manufacture of nails in Germany. partic-
ularly in the provinces of Rhineland,
Westphalia, Hanover and Silesia, has
made enormous progress. In 1880 the out
put amounted to only 2,645 tons, Increased
in 1890 to 400, and reached in 1895 the
great extent OF 56424 tons. The value of
nails exported In the course of these ff-
teen years was 10000. 900 marks. The best
customers were: England, IA, 800; japan.
1850; India, $3.50, and Australia, 2,77O
tons.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-02-06
A Poor Rule Sometimes.

MY friend" said the large-taced gentleman.
you should not expect TO be a millionaire in
a minute. You must begin at the bottom"
II tried that dealln' a hand OF POKER said
the discouraged young man. IAN that's why
I'm on me uppers. "--Indianapolis Journal.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-01
DIAMOND DUST.

Syracuse again today
Lampe and Shaw VIII be today's Syra-
cuse battery.
Rochester and Dan Shannon here Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Syracuse returns home tonight to play
Wilkes-Barre a Sunday game.
The Stars will have a lovely time at
Scranton tomorrow. Wednesdays Syra-
cuse Courier. They had n "lovCly" time.
We have a sneaking idea that IL the
Stars continue their abusive tactics with
Umpire Kennedy today they will get the
short end of It.
Peter Eagan fe'l down hut arose and
caught Breckenridges high fly with muln
the same grace as would drayman have
caught a sack of flour.
Gillon and Boyd are down FOR today's
Scranton battery. Harper and O'Nell
will be on the card and IL the occasion
arises oNeill will. have few innings be-
hind the plate.
Walters knee was quite badly hurt. He
was able to walk about last night, but 1t
viii probably be several days before he is
In the game. His place II center field Will
be filled by O'Brien. The batting order
will be the sane.
Dick Brown the cx-Scranton pitcher has
been released to Toronto by Baltimore for
the season. He was offered to Griffin but
Richard was thought little too sulky to
shine I'm the present Scranton team. He
has good left arm, but his head.
Manager BuckenberEcr, of the Stars, Is
reported to have said that Providence
and Scranton were the strongest clubs in
! the Eastern.-Toronto Globe. Yes. and
he reiterated that opinion to several per-
sons before Thursdays game in Scran-
ton.
ono Of the best evidences Of what the
team will do when it really begins to hit,
is that Beard and DAILY, two of the heavi-
|
Clne hit between them in the two games.
Daily got the hit yesterday What will
| happen when the whole gang strikes its
gait?
f. j. Coleman has purchased the score
| card privilege for the season from the
| Scranton association and is issuing very
neat card on which large number of the
business houses of the city are represent.
ed. Mr.. Colemans representative in ar
ranging the details for the issuing of the
| card is Thomas Doyle.
Manager Powell ordered now uniforms
| for the Coal BaronS yesterday through
the Kress Stationery company. They will
| be of blue gray material, black belts and
| stockings. the caps having black stripes
with black buttons. The shirts will have
| "W.-B." lettered thereon and coats will
| be included in the uniforms. Wilkes
! Barre Record. Those letters "W.-B." will
stand for ''way-back' before the season
| is over
No wonder Buckenherger last year had
a gang of dirty players about him-and IT
! will be less wonder If he doesn't inculcatC
! the sams foul tendencies into his present
| Syracuse team. One of his players stole
| q ball during yesterdays game Manager
| Griffin went over to the Syracuse bench
and asked for the ball He was told by
| Buckenberger to go to a climate that Is
warmer than this. Is it any wonder thai
Bill Eagan and Ryan are foul and dirty
They certainly have an example in theil
! manager.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-01

Pottsville April 30.-Senators Will
lam B. Meredith, of Kittanning, chair
man; Harvey w. Haines, of York, and
Representative Dunlap, of Philadel-
phia; Campbell, of Perry, and Roberts,
of Wilkes Barre, the investigating
committee appointed by the legislature
to inquire into the case Of destitution
in the coal regions met here today.
Three sessions were held. The prinCi-
pal witness was General Manager
Leather of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Coal and Iron company. He testi-
fled that the companys annual capac-
fly was from 100000 to II, 900, 900 tons
per year at it's fifty collieries scattered
through Northumberland, Schuylkill,
Columbia and Dauphin counties. Last
year the output was 7,267,OO0 tons. Dur
ing January, February and March the
company had shipped $4,000 tons less
than for the same period in 1896. The
breakers operated but is $40 days in
December; $40 days i'm January; in
February and s $40 in March. He
said the extent of distribution Is not
as great as reported and attributed the
cause Of depression to lack of orders
for coal. The average cost last year
to produce a ton of coal was $l95 6-10.
In the charges against the company
are included cost of labor. supplies,
material, royalty, taxes and interest.
He denied that any preference was
given any nationality in employing
men.
The average wages paid last year
were $45 per month. of the 2S360 en-
ployes 12,5OD are of foreign birth. He
believed that in the event of dissolu-
tion of the combination that the coll
]ieries would shut down within ten
days. A number of miners were exam
ined at the evening session. At the
close of the testimony President John
Fahy, of the United Mine Workers,
was given permission to state his
views, which he did at length He e.
lieved that some legislation should be
adopted to bring relief.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-01
ROBBERS DROVE HIM MAD.
Prosperous New York saddlcr Sand
bagged and CraZed by Thugs.

Altoona, April 30.-George Hartman,
a prosperous New York saddler, aged
about 50 years, was captured in the
woods below Altoona today. after hav-
ing terrorized the inhabitants in that
section for six days. Hartman was
suffering from acute dementia, and was
a veritable wild man when taken into
custody.
A posse which apprehended the
shrieliing, foaming madman, after re-
peated failures, was made up of Stew
ard Bridenbaugh, of the Almshouse,
several assistants and six constables
The captive was taken to the Aims
house and confined in the insane ward.
He was emaciated almost to skeleton,
though his hands and feet were alb
normally enlarged from running bare
foot and digging after roots.
After receiving medical attention
and being fed the madman regained
his reason, and was bewildered at his
surroundings. lie gave his name as
George Hartman, and his address as
No. AIS East Eighty-flrst street, New
York.
The story he told after regaining his
strength was a narrowing one. Four
weeks ago he left his home in New
York to visit a sister, Miss Elizabeth
Hartman, in Pittsburg. He arrived in
that city on the evening of his depar-
ture. and some time during that night
was inveigled off Fifth avenue by two
crooks and conducted into a side street,
where he was sand-bagged and robbed
of $35 and his gold watch. His mind
was blank after this until today
The authorities telegraphed to Hart
mans home in New York, ascertained
that his stcry is perfectly true, and
sent him home tonight.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-01
PUBLIC SALE OF REAL ESTATE


THE UNDERSIGNED WILL SELL AT
public vendue on saturday, May 10,
1897, at 10 O'Clock n. M, upon the premises
described below, the following lots or par
GELS of land situate in .the sixth ward of the
city of Scranton, County of Lackawanna,
and state of Pennsylvania, bounded and de-
scrlbed as follows, to wit:
First Piece: Being one-half of lot number
one (1) on the town plot of the borough OF
Hyde Park as surveyed by H. II. Marcy,
September 9th, 1854. said lot being fifty
two (52) feet in front on Front street for
meTly Water now Third street, and one hum
dred and four (1OI) feet more or less In
depth to the bank of the Lackawanna river.
Containing about one-eighth of an acre OF
land, and being the same land conveyed by
Thomas Coyne ana wife to Mary Millet, now
deceased. Improved with IA three-stOry brick
house and store with one-story brick addl-
| tiOn, also barn and shed.
Second Piece: Being the nOrtheasterly
one-half of lot number fifteen (13l on Joseph
| T. Fellows plot of lots surveyed by said
| Marcy. said one-half of lot being forty-nine
| (40) feet in front on Fourth street and one
| hundred and four lOd) feet In depth. I'm
IEoved with one-story frame dwelling
houses.
Being the same lots of land conveyed to
| the undersigned by Frank II. Clemons, esq,
| high sheriff of Lackawanna county by deed
| bearing date the Sth day OF March, 1896,
| and duly recorded in Lackawanna county
| in book 4 of acknowledgment OF sherlffs
deeds at page lI5. Terms cash.
| LEONARD ID. HOSFORD.
| DAVID w. BROWN, Attorney.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-01
CHARTER APPLICATION.

IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
Il of Lackawanna County. In re inCor-
poration of Griffin Lake Fishing and Pro-
tective Association, No. 024 May Term,
1897.
Notice is hereby given that an application
Will be made to the said Court on Monday,
the 3lst day OF May, 1897, at 9 o'clock a.
m, under the "Act to provide for the incor-
peration and regulation of certain corpora
tions," approved April 20, 1874, and its sup
plcments, by Frank {. Johnson, Silas STAN
ton, Harry lripp y. ). Davis and II. T.. Low
in, for the charter of an intended corpora
tion to be called "rhe Griffin Lake Fishing
and Protective Association" the character
and object ofwhich is the propagation and
preservation of the fish and game in and
about Griffin Lake, in the Townships of
scott and South Abingdon, in said county,
and for these purposes TO have, possess and
enjoy, all the rights, benefits and privileges
conferred by the said Act and its supple
ments. II. IL, HOLGATE,
SollOltOr
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-01
MINISTER LOOMS MARRIES.
will Take TO Venezuela the Daughter
of a Springfield Millionaire.

Springfield, o., April 3O.-At G. 40 this
evening in the presence of a small COM
pany, Francis b. Loomis, recently
nominated minister to Venezuela by
President Mckinley, and Elizabeth.
daughter of Z. p. Mast, the millionaire
manufacturer, were welded at the Mast
mansion. The brides gown was heavy
white satin. trimmed with tulle and
duchess lace. Her veil was held in
place by a coronet of diamonds and
pearls, the gift of the groom.
At o'clock a brilliant reception was
given at the Lagonda club, which was
decorated with thousands of roses. The
bride and groom left for the east. Mr..
Loomis was formerly state librarian of
Ohio, and under the Harrison admins
tration was a consul in France Later
he was editor of the Cincinnati Trib-
une, and during the recent presidential
compaign he represented the United
Associated Presses at Canton.