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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
THE ECCENTRIC NEANDER.
Amusing Anecdotes Told Of the Great
Professor and Historian.

Prof. Lincoln, of Brown university,
whose death occurred a few years ago,
used to tell amusing anecdotes of
Neandcr, the great professor and his
torian of the Christian church of the
Berlin university, under whom he
studied for some time
Neander was accustomed when lee
turing 10 stand behind Il curious high
desk, with an open framework, and
with holes and pegs for letting it up
and down His costume was a very
long coat, coming down to the tops
of his great jackboots, and with a col
lar witch reached almost as high as his
head when he bent over his desk, and
with arms extended forward, twirled
in his fingers quill pen. Ifthis quill
dropped, there was a hiatus in the
lecture until some one would pick it
up and place it in his hands, and then
the wonderful flow of learned dis
course would proceed.
IT. is said that when Ncander went
to Berlin he happened, in going from
his home to the university for the first
time, to be with friend who, for the
sake of some GRAND, took most cir
cuitous route; Neander pursued this
roundabout course for years, and only
by accident discovered that there was
a shorter way.
On one occasion being jostled on
crowded sidewalk, in order to pass by
the crowd, he stepped off into the gut
ter with one foot, keeping the other
foot on the curbstone, When the
crowd was passed he continued alb
sentmindedly to walk on in this
curious fashion, and when he reached
home he complained of being ia
tigued from the disordered condition
of the streets An acquaintance, who
had followed him, was able to explain
his fatigue.--Youth Companion
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
/ HOW 0EILUI0fD is MADE.


A great deal Of secrecy is main
tanned by the manufacturers of cellu-
loid as to their respective methods Of
manufacture A method adopted by
a Berlin firm is to pour 100 parts Of
ether on 80 Of collodion wool and %
of camphor, and stir the covered mass
in earthenwarc vessels with rubber
sticks until homogeneousg elatinous
mass is obtained, which is then rolled.
AT St Denis ethyl alcohol is said to be
psed Apart from dyestuifs and other
additions, the celluloid consists on an
average of two-thirds of pyroxyline
and one-third camphor; moro cam
phor imparts an unpleasant smell and
impairs the strength Of the product.
The chemical constitution of cellu-
! loid is still doubtful. The material
is generally supplied in rods of three
feet in length, or in plates of 30 inches
by IL inches, of yellowish color, un-
less dyed. The dyes are generally
added at the time the pyroxyline and
camphor arc mixed. Striped articles
are obtained bysuperposition of plates
Wf different colors, and cross-cutting
of the compressed blocks. Celluloid
cannot be exploded by heat, blows nor
friction. 1t burns, but the flame can
easily be blown out. 1t leaves an ash
skeleton, which continues to sparkle
family for some time. 1t is soluble
in ether-alcohol, and is decomposed
or carbonized by concentrated acids
and caustic alkalies. While the fin
ished article is not dangerous unless
it is brought in contact with flame,
the manufacture is highly so. The
smaller articles are cut ready in the
cold, dipped into hot water, bent and
shaped, and plunged into cold water
again to retain their shape. Larger
articles are pressed in heated molds.
The comb manufacture is simpler
than with hard rubber. The teeth are
stamped with dies, by hand or ma
chinery, and then polished with pum-
ice stone and cold water Chicago
News.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
A pu Maurler Anecdote.

Here is a Du Maurier anecdote not
exactly new, but perhaps it will bear
repetition; There was some years
ago, in Hampstead road, pavement
artist into whose hat Du Maurier oft
en- dropped a coin. One cold night
the author of 'Trilby" told him to
leave his "pitch" and 60 to the model
soup kitchen in Euston road to get
some food. Du Maurier, as q joke,
consented to take charge of the hat
When the man was out of sight the
artist proceeded to wipe out the pic
lures of battle scenes, faithful dogs,
ETC., and commenced drawing por-
traits in chalk of society ladies and
gentleman made famous by him in
Punch. Passersby stopped to look,
and remunerated the deputy, and
when, an hour later, the mani re-
turned he was pleased to find so much
in his hat.
"But," he said, referring to the Du
Maurier sketches that had replaced
the regular pavement pictures, "these
may attract some people, but they
amt art"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
Revealed by the Camera.

A Manchester photographer re-
lates that he recently took a pho
tograph of child who was apparent
ly in good health and had fair
skin. The negative showed the face
to bethickly covered with an eruption.
Three days afterward the child was
covered with spots due to 'prickly
heat. The camera had seen and
photographed TIE eruption three
days before it was visible to the naked
eye. 1t is said that another case of
a similar kind is recorded, where a
child showed spots on his portrait
which were invisible on his face a
fortnight previous TO an attack of
smallpox.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
Hungarian Wedding Custom.

Brides in Alfoeld, Lower Hungary,
have been deprived Of their we'd
ding gifts by the government health
authorities. 1t was a custom of the
place for brides to wash with soap
and to comb the heads Of all guests,
they in turn throwing coins into the
basin. The result, according to the
doctors, was the spreading of dis
ease and an epidemic of opthalmia
led the government to put an end to
the custom.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
NOT EXACTLY MURDER.
But the Slow Torture Was just as
Bad.

''Murderl"
One afternoon q short time back
this cry in hotel, proceeding from
room on the third floor, caught the
ears of several chambermaids, and
created intense CONSERVATION.
ooh, heavensp
1t was the voice of man who
shriekcd the words from room No 40,
and the chambermaids at once sent
a messenger to the office with news
that murder was being committed.
Don't kill me by inchesp
These words alarmed others Ne
sides the chambermaids, and the
group of three or four presently grew
to a dozen. Who occupied the room?
One of the chambermaids recollected
seeing a beetle browed man of some
what piratical look, accompanied by
a woman closely yelled, enter the
room. Was he killing her?
"Oh-oh, you are killing meW
It was the voice of the man. The
yelled woman had him in her power,
and seemed to be submitting him to
some sort of torture. Several of the
crowd Knocked at the door, and one
of the chambermaids demanded in a
falsetto voice that itshould be opened
at once. There was ''Ha, Ha, Ha,"
from the yelled woman, and the voice
of the man cried out: "What! Do
You mock at my misery"
A clerk came from the office and
demanded admittance in the name Of
the law; after some little delay the
door was opened and a woman stood
in the opening and asked what was
wanted.
Whats going on in there? Who's
being hurt?" demanded the clerk.
She laughed her Ella, ha, ha,"
again and it was echoed by the voice
of the man behind her.
whats all this about?" shouted
the clerk.
"Why, sir" she replied, demurely,
81 was only pulling a porous plaster
off my husbands bach" -Tit-Bits
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
TALES OF hats.


and Changed, Too.
Here are some stories Of hats, just
plain, everyday hats, but the story
tells how the hats came back. One
was at Whites. A customer was
minus his hat when he had dispatched
his lunch. There was another I'M
claimed het in the place, but it was
not OF the style and the make of the
one that had taken unto itself wings.
It was different, very different-a
dollar derby, whilst the missing hat
was a Knox or Dunlap. lie kicked
Then the proprietor put this verse
On his menus and the hat came back.
The name, however, was not the
mans name, but he took the hint.
Win MIR. Joe Kahn
Please make himself known
And bring back the crown
He took for his own?
In some way or other two promi-
'nent business men exchanged hats
in a downtown Office. The mis-
take was not discovered until they
had reached their hilltop homes. AT
last one of them discovered the mis-
take, and when a Deighbor dropped
in that evening the story was told.
When the visitor left that evening he
exchanged hats also. And this was
purely accidental, too. The next
morning he discovered the blunder,
and to straighten things when he got
down town he sent the hat to the
other man who had made the first
exchange, but instead he made
mistake and got the wrong hat to
the right man. And before those
three got that hat mix-up straight
ened they had to have a con-
vention, with chairman, etc. BIT
it came out all right in the long run.
Here's another. a tailor bought
himself a four dollar straw hat. The
first night he wore it home he care
lessly hung it on gas bracket next
to the hatrack AS he started up
stairs. his wife, in her goodness of
heart, pressed the button near the
bed that lights the hall gas. Of
course, the gas under that hat burned
brightly and the straw hat burned
fiercely, and altogether too rapidly,
for when the tailor had rushed down
stairs his hat was all but a charred
mass of straw, with not vestige Of its
erstwhile beauty. He wasn't mad.
Oh, no. = Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
Scent, Not Color.

Darwin and other naturalists have
believed that the bright colors of flow
ers serve to attract insects. Prof.
Plateau, of Client, disagrees with this
opinion and thinks that the sense of
smell is the one chiefly concerned in
causing insects to frequent certain
flowers. He finds that the removal
of the brilliant petals of flowers to
which insects are accustomed to re-
sort does not decrease the frequency
of their visits, and on the other hand,
that when honey is placed on flowers
which are naturally scentless insects
Immediately begin to flock to them.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
THE MOUNT PlsaAH PLANE.
Oldest hclncd Plane RaiIway n the
World.

WOrlu.
The Oldest incline plane in Ameri-
ca, and probably the oldest in the
world, engaged in TIE transportation
Of passengers, is the Mount piseah
plane near llauch Chunk, in The
Lehigh valley, Pa. One Of the pc
culiarities of this plane is that the
ropes are not hitched to the passenger
carobut to special car or truck, known
in the anthracite region by the name
"barney" This truck acts as pusher
against the passenger car 1t is on the
lower side'of the ear, and thus, when
the hosting machinery is brought
into action, the barney is pulled up
and, in turn, pushes the car ahead.
There is a peculiar arrangement on
this barney that should be mentioned,
namely, instead of two axles it has
four half axles, each with wheel
mounted on it, and these axles are so
attached to the truck frame that the
wheels may be brought closer to-
gether, and thereby thegauge reduced,
or they may be spread for a wider
gauge, as the situation may require.
The barney does not stand on the
same track as the passenger car, but
on a track located within a sloping
trench and this track is considerably
narrower than the track on incline and
also on the ground level upon which
the passenger car stands. At the point
where the slope begins there is a
switch, by means of which the wheels
Of the barney are adjusted to suit the
gauge of one or the other of the tracks
upon which it is to enter.
When the barney descends into the
trench to a depth where it disappears
below the ground level the passenger
car is free to move back from the in
cline plane. The purpose of this ar
rangement is to avoid the necessity Of
permanently hitching the rope to the
passenger car, because this latter is
not only to travel on this plane, but
to continue its journey on two other
planes, all of which, combined with
several gravity inclines, constitute
circuit by which the tourist travels
over three inclines and three inter
vening slight down grades.-Samuel
Diescher, in Casters Magazine.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
INSANITY In ANIMALS.
The Lower Orders Sometimes Have
Mental Infirmites.

Mental Infirmities.
Insanity in the human subject is
supposed by some to have no ana
logue in the lower animals, says Pop
ular Science News. Yet many causes,
according to DIR. Snelison, will lead
to the permanent loss of self-control.
Cattle driven from the country
through crowded town will often
work themselves intoa frenzy. Horses
have gone mad on the battlefield. At
Balaklava an Arabian horse turned
on its attendant as he was drawing
water, seized him in his mouth, threw
him down, and, kneeling on him, at
tackled him like an Infatuated dog.
lie bit off another soldiers finger.
An instance is related of docile horse
suddenly going mad on hot day.
Everything that came in its way il
seized in its teeth and shook as ter
rier does rat. 1t raided the pigsties
and threw the inmates one after an
other in the air, trampling on the
bodies as they fell. Afterward it al
most killed its own master, after
manning for life the farrier who was
called in This must have been case
of insanity, the cause Of which is
often to be found in congenital mall
formations of the bones of the head.
A scientist of authority even goes SO
far as to prove by what appears to be
incontestable evidence that cats, dogs
and monkeys have been observed to
have decisions very similar to those
of insane people.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
PHOTOGRAPHIC TELESCOPE.
Magnificent instrument Being Con-
structsd by Sir Henry Grub.

StruCtso pv Dir 7enrY 6ruDDs
The photographing telescope has
been under construction for three
years past by Sir Henry Grub,
of Berlin. The new Photographic
refractor has an object glass rs inches
in diameter, with a focal length Of
% feet 6 inches, and is the largest re-
tractor as yet specially made for pho
tographic purposes. Thephotographs
It will take will be on twice the scale
of the photographic map-two mil
limeters to one minute of arc-and on
account of its relatively short focal
length it will possess very great light
gathering power. For separating
close double stars and in other cases
in which a larger scale is desirable
and there is abundance of light, an
enlarging lens can be readily adapt
ed to magnify the image to any ex-
tent that may be thought advan-
tagcous. The function of the 1872
inch Merz refractor, which is mount
ed as guiding telescope, is to en-
able the observer to watch the star
during the time it is being photo
graphed, and by means of the deli
cate slow motions in right ascension
and declination to bring the image
back to the center of the sensitive
plate as represented by the cross Of
spider lines, should the telescope in
spite of all precautions fail to keep
precise time, with the star. Every
thing included, the telescope weighs
some 10 or IL tons, about half the
amount being accounted for by the
moving parts. The object glass of
the large refractor weighs, with the
cell in which it is mounted, about
$50 pounds, the flint disk being
about 1G0 pounds and the crown 90
pounds. The mirror of the reflector
weighs, with its cells, about 500
pounds, and the attached spectre
scope about $50 rounds.-Chicago
Tribune.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
An OId-T Dictionary.

One of the most interesting of the
old books lately unearthed is a little
volume about six inches square ent-
tied the Royal Standard Dictionary"
published in Boston in 1777 by Will
liam Perry. who announced that he
exhibited the pronunciation of words,
according to the polite pronunciation
of England,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
immense Oil Fields.

The Pennsylvania oil fields, which
are about $50 square miles in extent,
have already yielded SIG, 100000 bar
rels of petroleum. There are other
great fields in Russia. Mexico, India.
Canada and the Argentine Republic,
and it is said that the area of the oil
producing region in Peru alone is
$500 square miles.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
a Strange Birth.

A monster which resembles hare
down to the waist and is normal
baby from the waist down was born
alive recently in Leghorn, according
to the Lancet. The mother, the wife
Of a water-carrier, was strongly inn
pressed by the sight of a hare cut up
on a kitchen table before the birth of
her offspring.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
Shaping His Career.

"Why did / become a profession
alp" repeated the contortionist, mus
ingly. TYou see my wife had picked
out flat and wanted to getin shape
for it. After that, of course it was a
matter Of habit" IN. Y. Press.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10

Tests Made Of the Advanced System
Of illumination.

Tests Made Of the Advanced System
Of illumination.
The demonstration Of novel illum-
mating effects given recently in the
Moore laboratory, Newark, would
seem to mark distinct progress in the
development of phosphorescent light
ming. Many features Of the display
Observation-Disclosures Of
the exhibition OF the "ethcric" light
which was given at the electrical cx-
positioni in the Grand Central palace,
and the function was distinctly pop
ular rather than scientific Thereon
in which the demonstration tookplace
was 10 feet by rs feet in area, and was
lighted by II tubes, placed close under
the ceiling in the position occupied
by picture holding in an ordinary
room These tubes were z feet 6
inches long and p inches in diameter,
being, in fact, the same tubes as those
used by Mr.. Moore last year.
In a short address made by E. j.
Vessels it was pointed out that the
great improvement made by Mr..
Moore on his work of II months ago
lay in the substitution ofarotary cur
rent interrurter for a vibrating in
terrupter. With the vibrating inter-
rupter it will be recalled, only 6,000
breaks per minute could be obtained,
whereas with the rotator 10000 breaks
per minute are easily possible Of
course, this means an enormous re-
duction in the amount of apparatus
and current necessary to operate the
system. The effect of this increased
rate Of vibration was very marked in
the wonderful steadiness and even
ness Of tone of the light admitted by
the tubes An improvement equally
important in this substitution of the
rotator for the vibrator is that prac-
tically any number Of tubes can be
run from single rotator, whereas
formerly as many vibrators were re-
quired as there were tubes.
The Moore system is, therefore, at
present in exactly favorable condi-
tion. so far as working and general
distribution arc concerned, as or
binary incandescent lighting, that is,
it is operative on what electricians
term the multiple arc system, in which
any number of lamps can be run con
nected across two wires. 1t was, in
fact, the very adaptability of the Edi-
son system of incandcscent lighting
to this form Of arrangement that made
it practical, and the accomplishment
of the same object by MIR Moore must
be considered as n distant advance in
the field of electrical lighting. Mr.
Moore also showed number of very
interesting experiments illustrating
the use of the lightin decorative work.
Among these was "the candlestick of
the future" which consisted of glass
tube six feet high, carried in a can
dlestick Of corresponding proportions
This tube was lighted up by induc-
ton, having no connection with any
wires whatever A photograph Of the
hundred people present was taken by
the light of the tubes.-N. Y Post
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-08-10
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The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-03
SPAIN MAKES THREATS.
Hannis Taylor Has Stirred Up the
Spanish Capital.

Havana. Nov. 3.-MarshaI BIanco has
issued orders to the effect that all mon
ey found on the persons of killed or
captured insurgent officers is to be de-
posted in the fund for the relief of in
valid Spanish soldiers.
Orders have been issued that all
Spanish troops are to leave within two
months the unused churches in which
they have hitherto been housed for lack
of other accommodations
Marshal BlancO tomorrow will receive
the cOnsuls of the foreign powers, who
will, upon this occasion pay their first
official visit to the new captain general.
Special dispatches received here from
Madrid say that the recent magazine
article of Hannis Taylor, the former
minister of the United States at Ma
drid on Cuban affairs, has produced an
unpleasant feeling at the Spanish capi-
tai and it is added that the belief pre-
walls there that the government will be
compelled to intervene in this affair
The Impartial says:
1T is very strange that the Three
Friends should leave the United States
aged in lawful trade and yet have a
government official aboard as a guar
antee of the legality of her voyage. It
may be a trick of the United States
government to incite Spain to exercise
the right of search which is always Ii
able to bring about diplomatic cOmph-
cations
The Topeka state journal., 1897-11-03
THE MERcURIAL eAuLs.

Our French Cousins and How They De
Things In Books
''Ah, Francois, I die with grief Marie
laughs me to scorn for a drunken cab
mani
Courage, Eugenei It is the way of the
world -
''Ah, is it not cruel-this world-cruel
and coldl Life is not worth the living,
Francois
''Shan we not end it, then?"
with rapture All Francois, there is
not another head like thine in all Fraacel
We shall die in each others arms. "
But 1 only have one arm.
Mon Dieui Foiledi What can we do?"
''Live, Eugenel Live and become IA
mousr
'sGrandi GloriousI But hovY"
1--WE shall sssassinate the president. ="
Stupid me, not to think of it beforel
Let us prepare the bomb at onceI Ciell
Already l see my picture in the papers and
hear my name ringing around the world. "
10 work If we delay. somebody else
may kill him first. -
But Francois, hast thought of his
wife and children?'
''Sacre bleui Oh, my poor consciencel
It kills me with its stings."
LET US bow in thanks that we have
escaped the widows curse and orphans
moan.
"Ah, Eugene, think how they must suf-
fer even while he lives, for daily is his life
plotted against
Il weep for them. I would drown my
self in tears to succor them
l. too, am dazed with grief Come
let US to the florists We will send them
f1owers-heartease, balsa1n and immor-
teIIes-they will soothe the afflicted ones. -
Il come, Francois. I comeI"-New
Eork Journal