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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-06-17
Markings on Venus,


Mr.. Percival Lowell's observations at
Flagstaff of the markings" on the
planet Genus have proved of special
interest to astronomers. These mark
ings, as reported by him to the Bos-
ton Scientific Society, are surprisingly
distinct, in the matter of contrast as
accentuated, in good seeing, as the
their character they are much easier
to draw, in the matter OF contour, too;
perfectly defined throughout, their edge
being we'll marked and their surfaces
we'll differentiated in tone one from
another, some being darker than
others, while a large number of the
markings, but by no means all, radiate
like spokes from a certain center. Not
withstanding all this curious system
there is about them nothing of the ar
tificiality observable in the lines OF
Mars, they having the look, on the con-
trary, of being purely natural. Con-
tinued observation also show them tC
be not only permanent, but permanent
ly visible unless the seeing is very
poor, and they are to be seer in the
same places; moreover, the drawings
made show that the markings main.
tain their places with regard to the
terminator, the continuous watch up.
on them proving this completely. Tit
steadfastness of position is evidence o
the slowness of rotation, this being CO
incident with the year.
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The peculiarltles of the chlorine in
dustry as now conducted are due to the
recently improved methods by which
the ammonium chloride is obtained in
a crystallized state from the solution
as produced in the ammonia soda pro-
cess, the effect being to lower the tenn
~perature of these solutions consider
ably below freezing by means of re-
%frigerating machinery. The ammon-
ium chloride is then vaporized in long
cast-iron retorts, lined with thin DOul-
ton tiles, and the vapor is taken from
these retorts to large upright wrought
iron cylinders, which are lined with q
considerable thickness of fire brick,
and are filled with pills" made of a
mixture of magnesia and potassium
chloride mixed with a certain amount
of china clay. On passing through
these pills the chlorine in the vapor is
completely retained. setting the am
monia free; hot air is subsequently
passed through, which in its urn sets
free the chlorine. the pills being then
ready to decompose more ammonium
chloride, and so on in a continuous cy-
Gle. This, briear "-c"rliug to /, .
London Chronicle. is the perfected
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ONE SURVIVOR.
The Clergyman who Married President
HAYES IA still Living.


Near the close of December, 1853,
Rutherford B. Hayes was united in
marriage to Lucy Webb, says the To-
ledo Blade. Lucy Webb exerted a won
derful Influence 6ver him. She was a
refined, religious, fl~n-loving girl. She
was born in Chillicothe and her father
was a physician who died at LeXing-
ton, KY, in 1888. The widow, her two
sons and daughter came to Delaware
because of the educational advantages
the town afforded. Here Lucy was in
structed preparatory to entering the
Wesleyan female college at Cincinnati.
A few evenings ago the writer spent a
most pleasant hour with the venerable
DR.. l.. d. McCabe, vice president of the
Ohio Wesleyan university. DR.. McCabe
is an uncle of Bishop McCabe, better
known as Chaplain McCabe. For half
e century DR.. McCabe has been con
nected with the university work IN
Delaware. Eighty years has he lived
and the world is better for it. Now
he is old and feeble and the shadows
are stretching far toward the east. Sit
ting in his comfortable home, with a
picture of Lucy Webb Hayes hanging
on the wall over his chair, he spoke in
most glowing terms of her womanly
worth. DR.. McCabe performed the mar
riage ceremony which made Rutherford
Hayes and Lucy Webb man and wife,
and he also attended their silver we'd
ding, which event took place at the
white house in December, 1877. 1t is
also worthy of note thai DR.. McCabe
journeyed across the state to perform
the marriage ceremony for Senator
elect Joseph B. Foraker and wife.
Lucy Webb was one of the most
beautiful characters I have ever been
permitted to know said DR.. McCabe.
Her mother brought her and her
brothers here to educate them. At
versity here, but l was Miss Webb's
tutor in preparing her for a female
seminary. She was a beautiful young
woman, full of fun and just the kind
of a girl who would captivate a young
man like Hayes. The same qualities of
hSolC oi q Z III lCl iouSh iilO
and no woman as first lady of the land
or any other position eXerted a wider
or better influence. 1 remember we'll
how Hayes and Lucy looked when I
married them. Hayes was a splendid
looking fellow and in all my years
| never united a handsomer couple"
DR.. McCabe told an incident which oc-
cured one time when he was visiting
the Webb family in Cincinnati. Lucy
had a girl friend for a guest and the
two girls were in the kitchen washing
dishes when Hayes and a young friend
called. There was nothing formal
about the call, for the young men were
invited into the kitchen and the work
Of washing dishes wen right on. The
doctor thinks from the sounds which
proceeded from the kitchen that the
call was no less enjoyed for being in
formal. DR.. McCabe is now the only
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st. Louis Dispatch
His name is Bill Merkle and he lives
In the mountains of Texas. A party
of hunters from El Paso discovered
him, When they got back to town
they told the story.
1t might not have been believed but
one of the party backed it up by show
Ing the little toe of the stone foot. 1t had
accidentally been broken off some time
before and Merkle gave it to one of
his guests as a souvenir of the visit.
Merkle was a cowboy in the days
when the cowboy was in the height Of
his glory. He has lived in the hills
for twenty-five years. 1t was about 1875
that the accident befell him, which
caused him to be the ultimate possessor
of the only stone foot in the world
which is attached to a live leg.
He was rounding up a big lot of
cattle, when they stampeded. In try
ing to get out of the way his horse
slipped and he was thrown to the
ground, directly in the track of the
maddened cattle. How he escaped be-
ing trampled into a %shapeless mass is
a mystery. The probable reason is that
his body was partly sheltered by a very
slight rise in the ground and most of
the cattle went over without touching
him.. After the herd had passed his
companions fastened to him, expect
Ing to find his mangled corpse. They
were surprised to find him unhurt, ex-
cept for a compound fracture of the
left leg, below the knee, both bones be-
ing broken. They were far away from
a town or surgical aid and so the cow
boys carried him to camp and did the
best they knew how by him in the a
of splints and bandages. Apparently
the bones knit very rapidly, but be-
low the fracture the flesh seemed to
be undergoing a remarkable change in
color and texture. In a few weeks the
bandages were removed. The homes
had knit firmly, but the lower part of
the leg showed unmistakable signs of
having undergone a hardening process
which could not be explained. AS time
went on the foot continued to harden,
until the entire foot and the leg below
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Woman's Influence OF Old.

A writer in Mothers Journal is not
o. the opinion that women are now, for
the first time, of account in society.
She writes:
Women are new in literature and
journalism. Are they? Only the other
day, in a jug dug from the ruins of an
cient Greece, was found what must
have served for a daily paper in those
days, and a oma was one of the
writer's.
Have you any idea that the old
Egyptians doubted for one minute the
political power of woman as they
watched the career of Cleopatra?
WAS Miriam's music less inspiring
to the Hebrew warriors because she
was a woman?
ANY one might suppose from the
clamor and TODD that we were for the
first time of account in the world
when, as a matter of fact, we have
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of carrying malariai diseases, and
that 1t is possible that to this annoy
ing and persistent insect malarial dis
tricts wv their extremely bad reputa-
ton. An Italian scientist thinks he has
demonstrated beyond the shadow OF
a doubt that the mosquito is the cause
of a very great many Of the malarial
fevers and kindred diseases that at
fict the sons Of men. He says malaria
is not carried by wind, as in breezy To-
calities this disease Is comparatively
unknown; also-which fact will be adj
mitted by every ene-that malarial dis
tricts are mosquito districts. The
question, therefore, might naturally
arise whether the mosquito is not the
prime cause of the malaria as well as
the carrier of it. 1t might be we'll to
examine the blood of a mosquito, and
see If the malarial poison germ is no
found there. OF course, after the in
sect has taken its full of human gore,
the examination might reveal multi
tudes OF malarial microbes, and this
would prove nothing, except, possibly,
that the person from whom the insect
had fed was full of these same germs.
1t is too marked to be altogether a
coincidence, that people who live in
mosquito and malaria infected locali-
ties, and who rarely go out at evening,
and In consequence are rarely bit
ten by mosquitoes, are not likely to
suffer from malarial conditions. Ger
tain travellers who have peer noted for
their carefulness in protecting them
selves from mosquito bites, have de-
clared that they experienced no diff
Guilty whatever from malaria; but these
two facts have but recently been put
together to form a basis for a theory.
1t would be interesting to know if that
cutting and saw-like lance with which
the mosquito carves it's way through
the flesh of it's victim contains in it's
sharp teeth malaria parasites, which
need only the slight invitation extend
ed by this state of things to leave their
lodging places and take up their abode
in the quivering flesh of the bitten in
dlvidual. 1t is so frequently the case
that this lance is broken off in the
flesh that it would be worth while to
investigate and discover, if possible,
whether the violent Inflammation and
fever that follow this act is not to an
extent a malarial fever, and whether by
this course of reasoning we may not
arrive at the cause of malaria, and
through this same means discover a
cure.
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Electric Power Carriages.

From Pennsylvania Grit: Some time
ago Grit printed a picture of one of the
electric carriages introduced in Lon
don, England, where a company has
established regular omnibus and sDe-
cial service routes. This form convey
ance is now in practical use in Phila-
delphia, New York, Boston, Chicago.
and other large cities of the Union,
where paved streets are the rule. A
concern which has begun the manu-
facture of these vehicles on a large
scale has established headquarters in
New York City. 1t is as yet only in
it's infancy, and has only about a dozen
vehicles on exhibition at it's salesrooms
These arrived from Philadelphia, where
the factory is situated, about two weeks
ago. Since then they have been oper.
ated about the streets. There is a mo.
tor vehicle which, on Sept. II, 1896
made a five mile run at the Narragan.
sett Park races, in Providence, R. l..
in II minutes and 27 seconds. The
average time per mile was two min
utes II seconds, and it covered the dis,
lance at the rate of little more thar
26 miles an hour, establishing a record
for motor vehicles. The hansoms an(
surveys in use are fitted with two ~
horse power motors, both attached tt
the front axle, n to each wheel, ant
driven Independently. The coupe ii
furnished with two two-horse powe.
motors. After Is minutes practice, sa.
the manufacturers, a man who ha
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process as o pursued by English
manufacturers.
About Products.

The ~by-products of the Pittsburg gas
works, says the Post of hat city, pay
the expenses Of that profitable estab-
l!shment, and leave it's receipts for gas
clear gain. Concerning by-products of
other industries, 1t Is said that those
of oil refineries are both profitable and
valuable; and the molasses of beet SUI
gar, one considered and treated as
comparatively of no account, now sup
plies very considerable quantities of
potash and alcohol. Ole.c acid, a resi-
due of stearine making, is now utilized
in soap making. The mother water Of
salt works furnishes much useful ma
~tefia1; the soapy liquor in which raw
wool has been washed Is made to pro-
duce large quantities Of grease known
as Rheims grease" for soap making
and, in fact, nearly half the weight of
some fleeces is Of a substance which,
treated with an acid, gives the Rheims
grease.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-06-17
ASSAULTS THE PRISONERS.
Peculiar Manner in Which n French
Judge Conducts Examinations.

pecuiiar Manner in which II French
Judge Conducts Examinations.
M, Due Of Bayeuk, in France. has
sprung suddenly into fame as a Judge
who gives the prisoners brought be-
fore him d bloody nose If what they
say does not suit him; says an ex:
change. He is a "juge d~'instruction,"
whose business it is secretly to exam
inc prisoners, hearing only the evil
dence against them, and if there be
enough to bind them over to a regular
trial. Mr.. Dues original system was
first brought to notice by a day laborer,
who was both q thief and a poacher
if previous court records count for
anything. When he was brought be-
fore the assizes on the charge of steal
ing chickens he said he had not stolen
the chickens himself, but had mere
iy received them from the thief. But
you swOre before the JUICE d'instruc-
ton that O yourself" said the Judge
were the thief" Yes replied the
day laborer. II have been before M.
Due before, and l didn't want a black
eye or one of my teeth knocked down
my throat" What do you mean,
sir?" asked the judge. Il mean that
if you don't say what M. Due wants
you to he hits you in the face with his
fist" The judges thought that the day
laborer was lying, but concluded to
make a private investigation.
The next day one of them met the
local pharmacist, who was also a mu-
nicipal counselor. From him it was
learned hat prisoners who had been
wounded by NJ. Due were regularly
brought into the pharmacy to be
treated. NJ. Due has now been sus-
pended from his duties as a JUICE din
struction. The methods of other cruel
JUICES Construction are being exposed.
One of them has ordered prisoners to
be fed On salt fish and a small allow
ance of water. When brought into
court the prisoner has a jug of fresh
water placed just out of his reach. He
is told that he may have a drink it he
will confess.
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the fracture became completely petri-
fed, although remaining joined to the
live flesh. Merkle declares there is
no pain anywhere in the region of the
old fracture, and while the length of
the petrified limb necessarily retards
his progress he can stand upon it ami
even take a few steps, and his general
health is excellent. OF course, there
is no sensation in the petrified men,
Der; it may be struck or pricked with
impunity and lifting the foot across
the right knee Merkle uses it as a
milestone, sharpening knives against
the hardened sole. However, if the
foot be placed in the fire a sensation
of heat is transmitted throughout the
entire body, becoming painful in the
immediate neighborhood of the old
fracture. The gentlemen say that
Merkle is as jolly as the average mortal
and boots at the idea of placing himself
on exhibition in a museum. But you
could make your fortune" they re-
monstrated with him.
"Shucks.' was his Characteristic re-
joinder. What I'D life be with to a
Teller eff he jess had to set up an have
his OF rock foot stared at by a gang
of tenderfoot gawks frum mornin' till
pight?'
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The Midland Electric Railway of
Staten Island has added to it's rolling
stock a magnifcently furnished car for
the convenience of the bridal couples
who want rapid transit to New York
to escape the playful pranks of their
friends on their wedding eve.
Heretofore the happy bride and
groom have had to endure the long
drive to the ferry in a carriage, and
when the distance is ten or twelve
miles and the night is wet and stormy
it is far from a pleasant beginning OF
married happiness.
The new car arrived a week & and
has been standing in the sheds at Con-
cord. The wiring was completed last
week and it made its initial trip Fri
day night with a jolly party of Staten
Islanders. The car has been christened
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Singular Chinese Superstition.

The strange unwillingness Of the
Chinese to afford help to a drowning
man, or any one in absolute peril of his
life otherwise, is based upon a belief
that the ghost Of the last man killed
always acts as "watchman" of the
hades or purgatory into which, accord
ing to Chinese belief, the spirit of the
departed first enters, and from which
he can only be relieved by the arrival
of a fresh ghost. If, therefore, a mans
life be saved from accidental death,
the spirit of the person who died i'm
mediately before him is, in a manner
cheated out of his relief, and will as
suredly haunt the person whose mis-
placed humanity has condemned it tc
a fresh term of dismal servitude.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1897-06-17
THINGS TO TRY.

Try a sun bath for rheumatism.
Try buttermilk for removing tan and
freckles.
Try swallowing saliva when troubled
with sou stomach.
Try a wet towel at the back of the
neck when sleepless.
Try snuffing powder borax for ca
tarrhal cold in the head.
Try a cold, wet cloth around the neck
at night for sore throat.
Try to cultivate an even temper and
don't borrow trouble ahead.
Try a hot dry flannel over the seat
of neuralgia pain, and heat often.
Try a newspaper over your chest as
a chest protector in very cold weather.
Try walking with you hands be-
hind you if you find yourself bending
forward.
Try warm borax water for dandruff,
and brisk brushing each night to make
the hair silky.
Try cloves on the closet ehelves to
drive away ants, and sunflower seeds
are a protection from reaches.
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AS lnstancing the antagonistic atti-
tude OF Austria to all American arti-
Giles, Consul-General Max Judd, at vi
emma, calls the attention of the State
Department to an intended tariff meas
ure preventing further importation of
glucose into Austria-Hungary. All
producers of glucose in Austria have
formed a trust. The market price of
syrup has been made by them 81 forms
GS.44) per 100 Kilograms (220.46
pounds. This price has enabled Am
erican producers to sell their syrup,
which is even better in quality, at a
lower figure. The trust, seeing them
selves undersold, have now urged the
government to assist them, and have
succeeded in the effort. The duty on
glucose or syrup has been six forms
In gold ($2.99) on 100 Kilograms (220.46
pounds). A new tariff, to go into effect
January /, has now been published,
making the duty Is forms in gold
($7.23). "This rate" says the consul
general, 'is on glucose from all coun-
tries, but it is aimed only against the
United States, for it is only with syrup
from Dur country that the syrup trust
(home %producers) cannot compete.
American syrup is sold, landed in Ham,
burg, per 100 Kilograms at 1850 marks
$2.97k). The import duty for Aus
tria being also six forms in gold
G2.99) and freight from Hamburg to
Austria amounting to about one form,
makes the entire cost of 100 Kilograms
Of American syrup landed in Austria
about $6.4O against the trust price OF
syrup of 81 forms Gs.44). This new
duty will at once shut us out from
further sale of syrup. 1t has been this
way with other articles for which
Americans found a foreign market. II
it was not a tariff measure, some other
obstacles have crippled their efforts te
maintain the trade"
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with the rest of the scheme of decora-
ton. The arrangements are such that
the interior can be converted into a
dining car at a moments notice. At
one end is a refrigerator for liquids.
The car will be rented to private par
ties, who want to spend an evening
rolling over the twenty miles of track
embraced in the system.
The road expects to complete its
tracks to the st. George ferry within a
year and then the car will be used to
transport theater parties to and from
the ferry. The officials of the road
have not put the car in service with an
eye to profits. They do not expect &c
make any money by its operation, but
they want to give the people of Staten
Island the best going.-New York
Journal.
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A well known statistician has found
in the various European countries.
According to his calculations the per-
centages stand as follows: Portugal,
67.35, Italy, 52.93, Galicia and Bulk
owina, 45.6S; Poland, 1892; Hungary,
1853; Russia (proper) 36.42. Other
Austria, 32.70; Greece, 25.1s; Rouma-
mia, 17.75; Belgium, 1922; Turkey in
Europe, 14.79; Wales, 10.43; Bohemia
and Moravia, sos; Spain, S.71; Ireland,
1877; Finland, 3.5S; France Including
Corsica) $50; England, 3.49; Neither
lands, 3.3S: Scotland, 2.S3; Germany,
2.49: Norway. 1.02; Sweden, IA; Switz-
erland, 60; Denmark, 40.
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All criminologists agree that indi-
rect suggestion is one of the surest
ways of melting to crime; and an emf.
nent French writer has published a
volume on the "Contagion of Murder
in which he traces cases of homicidal
mania induced by pictures OF assassi-
nation. The regular reader of many
modern newspapers might imagine that
the world is much worse than it used
to be. This would be a mistake. The
difference is not only that the newspa-
pers exaggerate, and sometimes invent
details of crime, but that the facilities
for collecting news are so much bet
ter than formerly that everything is
reported. There is no part of the news
papers of the day which can be more
profitably skipped than the detailed
narratives of crime; and newspapers
which make a specially of the evil
there is in the world should not be TAX.
en- into any home.
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"The Midland" after the system. 1t
was manufactured by a st. Louis firm
and cost s. 5000.
1t is a beautiful specimen of the car
builders art. 1t is built on convention
a. lines, similar to those of other troll
ley cars of the line, but it is in it's
finishing and decoration that it eXcels
anything ever before seen on Staten
Island. The outside of the car is
daintily done in white M gold. The
two ends are v%estibuled, thus affording
the motorman al good a shelter from
exposure as the guests.
The interior is as luxurious as the
private car of a railroad magnate. The
woodwork is of quartered oak, delicate
ly carved. Soft velvet carpets cover
the focr and the chairs are comfortably
upholstered with material in harmony
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hoods Pills easy in eject. D cents.
The Greatest Murdcress.


Aqua TOffano, the p~oisoner, who
lived in the latter part Of the seven
teenth and the beginning of the eight
zenith centuries, was probably the.
greatest murderess the world has ever
known. 1t is estimated her victims.
numbered nearly 100. mostly men. 1he
poison was a colorlesS liQuiss. devoid
of taste, and put UP in small hottles
bearing the image of st. Nicholas Il
martyr, who is said to have been
boiled in oil. The illness produced by
the poison resembled cholera. Among
the noted victims were Pope Clement.
NV. In 1900 the arch conspivat0r was
arrested, and it was given ont that She
had been secretly ~strangled, but some
historians insist that she lived until
the year 1870. the Naples authorities
making good use of her abilities us 4
poison maker.