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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24
Firecracker of Compressed Air.

The noisiest firecracker yet has been
approved by the New York Board of
Fire Commissioners. 1t Is warranted
to make more noise than the Chinese
kind, and to burn no awnings. It has
no reaction and no after affects. It
explodes with great force, and fills the
air with large quantities of noise and
lots of strawboard, but no spark.
1t is n plain United States fire.
cracker, composed of one-third of
chloride of potash aud two-thirds of
compressed air. The explosion of the
chemical bursts the chamber of com
pressed air, and the result is ON ex-
plosion which combines the delightful
nerve-annihilating properties of the
cannon and the pop gun.
This cracker is lighted by means of
fuse, just as is the Chinese crack er
of commerce. The air chamber will
not explode if it is stood on end or il
the cracker is held in the hand.
This American invention leaves no
sparks, for the fire does not cling 10
the tough strawboard as it does to the
porous rice paper used by the Chinese
maker. IT consists principally of a
pasteboard tube filed with compressed
air and stopped with a cork. Wash
ington Star.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24
Shooting a Captive balloon.

Recent experiments at Shoebury.
ness, England, by officers of the ord.
nance department show that, contrary
to the general belief, balloons may be
struck by projectiles from cannon. A
captive balloon was sent up over the
estuary of the Thames, attached by q
cable of about 700 yards to n boat
loaded with ballast, which was SET
adrift on the water. The weather
was somewhat boisterous and the
morning dull and hazy The field
piece was placed on the marsh land
beyond the school of gunnery, from
where the firing took place. The dis
lance of range was ascertained to be
about 1000 yards. Shrapnel shell was
used, and good practice was made
from the first. On the sixth round,
however, excellent elevation and di-
rection and distance were obtained,
and the shell was observed to burst
almost Immediately over the balloon.
After oscillating for few seconds the
balloon was observed to be collapsing,
and then it gradually fell. Its descent
was slow, and, as far as could be
judged, had the car contained any oc-
cupants it is possible they would have
sustained but little, if any, injury had
the balloon fallen on land. It was
impossible to ascertain the extent OF
the injury which was done to the bal
loon itself, but the wicker car ap-
peared to have sustained little or no
damage.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24

to their meaning, but to the experts o
very slight indication of the place to
which the letter is intended leads &c
its ultimate delivery. The department
instructs postmasters to whom these
letters are sent for delivery to return
the envelopes, if possible, so that the
expects handling them will be able to
see how nearly they came to decipher.
ing the addresses. In this way the
experts are constantly being trained
to greater and greater efficiency foi
their work. -Washington Star.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24
If WE ONLY KNEW.

Ali sisters, II we only knew each gridf
That rends the other. we could newell hato,
Nor oven think remorso could come TO
late,
SO she brought with her n more kind belief.
Most surely prejudice Is foul thief
Who steals loves blossom through tho
very gate
Which we would shut against him. IL is
fate
That hands which might extend us sweet
relief
Press down upon it's thorns our coronct.
And when we sob for water reach us gall,
And when our hearts ache thrust our
sides with scorn.
oh. women, womenl do we then forget
How oil must stumble, though some only
fall?
How ye might stay with hope the feet
forlorn?
-Amclie Riyes
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24
"scoTTlE" WAS REvENcEp.
Sure Vengeance For Eeing Duped Into
~Cooning" an Imaginary Log,

'hISehtc Dupcd Into
~Cooning" an Imaginary Log.
II played trick on ono of the cow
boys we called 'Scottie, >" said the ex.
cowboy. "But he got even with mo
in good shape. We were on the round
up, and within two days drive of
Ration, but 'Scottie' couldn't stand it
any longer, so he struck off for town
early in the morning to fill up. We
didn't sec anything of him till night.
After the cattle had been bedded and
the night herders stationed he came
into camp maudlin drunk. The boys
began to tease him about being drunk
but he swore that he was perfectly
sober, and offered to bet that he could
walk scratch.
81 noticed just then that the moon
cast my shadow like log across the
creek. I said, 'Scottie, I'll bet You
can't walk across the creek on this
log. Scottie looked Mt it n moment
rather obviously, then said: I don't
know as can walk it, but I'll bet
can coon it, All right said, coon
it,
$50 he got down on all fours to
coon it, and, of course crawled splash
into the creek. The boys set up a
howl. He scrambled out, spluttering
and GUESSING, pretty well sobered and
swearing that he would get even with
the kid for that trick And he did.
II had in my string of COW ponies
the meanest broncho in New Mexico.
No matter how often 1 rode him he
had to have his pitch-out every time
he was saddled. / made it point to
get off before the rest of the boys were
ready to start. Failing in that,
waited until they were out of the way.
One morning, nearly two years after
'Scottie' had 'cooned' the log, 1
saddled up and mounted. The broncho
put his head down to buck / jerked
him up sharply, aud the bride bit
broke and let the bride off over his
head. Then he began to pitch and
run right toward barbed wire fence.
81 heard 'Scottie's' voice say Il
catch him for you. Then his lariat
whizzed by my head and caught the
horse around the neck. L glanced
over my shoulder and saw 'Scottie' set
his horse back. 1t came over me in
an instant that he was going to throw
my horse and get even with me. So
1 jerked my feet out of the stirrups
md got ready to fall. L landed about
thirty feet away, fiat on my back.
After the boys had brought me around,
examined Inc and found me all there
and no harm done, 'Scottie' turned to
one of the boys and said: Il told you L
would get even with the kid. Chi
cago Times Herald.
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WHOLE NO. $50.
POPULAR SCIENCE.

Brussels streets are now sprinkled
with diluted disinfectant
The New York Board of Health has
passed an order requiring one in every
four street cars to be closed car.
In cases where nature intends that
insects shall feed on flowers at night,
the flowers they select are all q
white color.
The tartar on human teeth is filled
with animalcule, which are destroyed
by vinegar. Vinegar itself contains
eel-like insects.
Messrs. Eaton & Faxon have made
| collections of nearly forty species OF
North American Sphagna or peat
mosses, with many varieties, in all ~
| specimens.
Brooklyn is to have an electric
fountain which will have n throwing
capacity of 100, 900 gallons an hour.
Colored incandescent lights will be
used for prismatic effects on the great
variety of sprays.
Statistics published by Dr. Loddo
regarding the use of serum in diph.
liberia shows that in 10, 900 cases treat.
ed in eighty-six hospitals in Europe,
Australia, Japan and America, the
mortality was twenty per cent. in.
/ stead of 44.3 per cent, under the old
method, while in 3760 cases treated in
private practice the mortality was but
7.S per cent.
The fascinating iden that each dis.
ease germ has its one specific poison
Gus principle, its toxin, is attacked by
nj. A. Charrin, n French biologist He
shows from experiments that n single
microbe species may produce several
pathogenic compounds-th bacillus of
pms, for instance, yielding several
which are easily distinguished by their
prolonged effects.
The steamship Augusta Victoria, of
the Hamburg American Line, has been
heightened about sixty feet by the in
sertion of n new section amidship.
Her masts have been restepped and
her tunnels placed further apart. Her
horsepower has also been increased
by about 1900, which, it is expected,
will enable her to make twenty knots
an hour instead of eighteen, as hereto
fore.
After the spring pruning in the vine
yard, water is seen trickling down the
stems, and in France this is POLITICALLY
called the weeping of the vine" Pro-
lessor Cornu, n botanist, has recently
studied this phenomenon, and he says
1T is due to the abundant absorption
of water by the roots of the vine in
springtime. The water is forced
through all the branches and stems to
their very tips, and where they are
cut by the pruner it oozes out like
teardrops.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24

The railway hospital car is the latest
novelty in foreign railroading In the
event of n serious accident, these cars
can be run to the place of the disaster,
where the injured may be picked up
and carried to the nearest large city
for treatment instead of being left to
pass long hours at some wayside station
while awaiting surgical attendance.
1t also enables the railway companies
Mt certain seasons or upon special oc-
casions to transport large numbers of
invalids to health resorts or places of
pilgrimage. The interior of the car is
divided into main compartment, n
corridor on one side and two small
rooms at the end. The largest com
partment is the hospital proper; it
contains twenty-four isolated beds.
Each patient lies in front of two little
windows. Each bed is provided with
n movable table, and cord serves to
hold all the various small objects
which the patient may require. The
corridors on the outside lead to the
linen closet and the doctors apart
ment. Various trap doors in the floor,
when opened, disclose to view an ice
chest, n compartment for the disinfec-
ton of soiled linen, and provision
cellar. If necessary, portion of the,
hospital chamber may he transformed
into an operating room for urgent
cases. Finally, rs customary abroad,
small chapel for religious worship is
provided. This car will be put in
charge of a surgeon and nurses, and
will be chiefly used to carry invalids
from Belgium direct to the health re-
sorts of France.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24
Priceless rrophle. of tho Hunt.

w. A. Baillie- Grohman writes OF
Sports in the Seventeenth Century
for the July Century: The author
says:
The stag was altogether the most
highly priced animal of the chase; and
his antlers, if they were of great size
or showed any abnormity in their
growth, were the most treasured
trophies of the hunt. When potentates
made one another presents, these usu-
ally consisted of some famous deer
head; for these Nimrods not only We'd
with one another in the quantity OF
game they laid low, but also regardinc
their collections of antlers. upon which
enormous sums were spent For the
famous sixty-six-tined head killed in
1896 by the Elector of Brandenburg,
aud which is still preserved at the Gas.
tie of Moritzburg. near Dresden, it ID
said that the Elector of Saxony gave
company of the tallest grenadiers in
his army For IN abnormal thirty
six-point head one of the Dukes OF
Wurtemburg gave whole village,
with its inhabitants, land, houses and
church, including even the parson' s
prebend, as the chronicler does not
forget TO mention. A Duke of Pom
erania for a celebrated thirty-two.
tined head, which he was anxious to
have for his collection, sum which
would correspond to $3.50 of our
present money, and what is more, hi.
bid was refused. Upon the spots
where great stays were killed monu.
ments were erected; aud in more than
one instance monasteries and cloisters
were founded in such localities, as
well as in those where some great
Nimrod had escaped mortal danger.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24
Bore IL Like n Soldier.

The real name of General Smolen-
ski, the gallant Greek commander, Is
Constantine Smolentz, aud he comes
of Dalmatian stock. His father took
part in the war of independence. set
tied ut Athens, aud married n Greek
lady. His two sons adopted n military
career, for which they were educated
partly at home, partly in France aud
Belgium. Constantine is the younger
of the two, aud besides possessing
strategetical abilities of n high order.
he Is endowed with great physical
courage. It is related of him that a
few years ago he had 20 visit Germany
for the purpose of undergoing n severe
surgical operation The doctors we're
proceeding to administer an anesthetic.
but Smolentz would have none of it.
"Chloroform, he exclaimed, els only
fit for womenm aud while the knife
was being used he said, 600 on,
gentlemanW as coolly as though he
we've n mere spectator, nor did q single
| expression Of pain escape him during
the most trying moments.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24

A German missionary named Elwin
recently delivered q lecture at Shanghai
in which he stated that the Chinese be-
lieve that ''justice" will he admins
tered in the next world very much as
it is in this-that is, chiefly by means
Of bribery, and that consequently it
happens occasionally that one Of two
litigauts commits suicide with view
70 getting at the judge w the other
world before his rival.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24
ADVERTISING Rarss.

Advsrtissnsnts viii b Inserted e enc aoIleA
par square for the Art insertioo aaA Af1v
sees for sash subsequent insertions.
Local, busineos and Special nstiess -
than sas dollar.
Legal advertisements will b fnssrtsS a
tAs issss allowed By law and will, IN all sass.
% ensged 70 the attorney. and payment viii
CnADeD SoR AUTOBIOGRAPHY
oeSnC smcssA. %; State and Congress. $40.
Terms for esaniinr advertisements made
kreva On application 70 the pablisher.
~. fhsHrINo executed with neatnsss and
psU0u4 aA<AntSon
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24

In Italy only half Of the criminals
escape detection according TO Signor
Farriaua, who has written q book on
"Cleyer and Fortunate Criminals. "
He asserts that while 1000 crimes
whose authors were not detected wero
committed in France in 1926, the
yearly number of such crimes is now
so, 600.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24
PlTH AND POINT.

Give poor fellow lift" solilo-
quized the burglar, and he lifted
dozen diamond rings. Washington
Capital.
Lady-"Where is my trunkP" Por-
teri couldn't find any trunk, mum,
but I've got the handle with the label
on. standard.
What makes you think
these eggs were stolen?" Clubmate-
you can see yourself they've been
poached. Princeton Tiger.
Doctor-"Your friend shows some
improvement" Patients Friend
docs hep" Doctor-"Yes; he adj
mits that he's n crank. Puck.
Wife-"How people gaze at my new
dress. Ipresume they wonder if Two
been shopping in Paris" Husband
More likely they wonder if I've been
robbing bank. Tit Bits.
Hamm-"From the very first time
went upon the stage my aim has been
high one" Tom Mentor-"Yes,
I've always noticed that you invariably
played to the gallery. boston Trans
cript.
"What does that man Sticky do for
living?" "For board and lodging
he does the hotels, and for clothes
does his tailor. Outside of that he
doel the best he can. - Detroit Free
Press.
Observation-Disclosures evening Mon
sieur took me for his wife" Cook
"Ahl He kissed you, supposep"
"Not in the least! He called me names
and made terrible scene. "-Le
Figaro.
'T guess there's something the
matter with our rubber tree, observed
the small boy. eve been watching
it for year or two now, and it
hasn't sprouted any overshoes yet. -
Harper's Bazaar.
Mr.. Bedford-"I believe in reci-
procity in underwear Mr.. Webster
-"What do you mean by that?" Mr..
Stick to your winter fan
nels until they stick to you. Pitts
burg acknowledgement.
The Judge-''D Didn't i tell you the
last time that You were here that L
wanted to see your face in this court
no more?" Weary Watkins-"Y
did, yeronner, and that is exactly wot
1 tole the cop. indianapolis Jour
nal.
Telescope Proprietor" Step up,
ladies and gents, and view the planet
Mars. One penny, num-" Old Lady
-"Oh, law! Hain't it round and
smooth?" Telescope Proprietor
"Will the bald headed gent please step
away from in front of the instrument?"
>London Tit-Bits.
Husband pserest Mathilde,
have made up my nfsszs 2 grant all
your wishes. You shall g5r7rS'
mountains six weeks, you shall have a
new dress, and the parl0r shall be sup
piled with new rocco furniture.
Wife-"Oh, Charles! What have you
been doing?"-Fliegende Blatter.
Mercy" cried Mr.. Barker at the
restaurant waiter, is this Neuf-
chatel cheese?" eyes, sir" said the
waiter. "Well, I must say it tastes
like very old chatel cheese. Bring me
some cottage cheese instead, and be
sure it is made of some cottage since
the original Queen Anne period. -
Harper's Bazaar.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24
They DO Not HInrrY Ynnnc.

The average age ut which people in
England marry has steadily risen for
q good many years. Sir Brydges
Henliker, Registrar General for Eng
land and Wales, has only now com
pleted his detailed report for 1895, aud
he states that the mean ages of those
who entered wedlock in that year were
about twenty eight and half years
for men and slightly over twenty-six
years for women. Those figures, how
ever, include the ages of w1dowers
and widows who re-enter the matri-
monial estate, and who ought properly
to be excluded from the calculation,
for the average age Of widowers who
re-marry is over forty -four, while that
of widows is forty. If, therefore,
we deal only with the case Of bachelors
and spinsters, we find that the mean
ages on marriage are twenty-six aud a
half and twenty-five respectively. The
number Of undcr-ago marriages regis
tered in 1895 was the lowest recorded
for between forty and fifty years.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24
UndenIably Primitive.

Even now, ut the close of the nine
teenth century, the continent of South
America supports nations that are un-
deniably primitive in their manners
and arts. The tribe Of the Jivaros is a
large one, distinguished, independent
and warlike. The people speak a
language Of their own, Jivaro, and
occupy the country generally from the
upper Pestessa TO the Santiago River,
down 10 the Pongode Manseriche, on
the Maranon. They are hospitable,
and their houses are large and built
of palms. Great festivities take place
when a child, at three or four years of
age, is initiated into the art and
mysteries of smoking. They have q
most perfect method Of scalping, by
which the victims head is reduced Ia
the size of moderately large orange
maintaining tolerably we'll oil the
features, aud wear the hair Of Their
slain enemies around the waist.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24
NOT TO BE MENOED AGAIN.

can take OF byth
And can put the thing together
can mend the thing know
Ihat 1t has been shattered N
take heart
mend the
aY say that heart
orgets that
You can fail bicycle and OF
can break collar bone,
crush
And doctor he will fix 1t till A'e'
You can smash hat
You may break troting a marc
And leave the old standing
when 1t the jockeys
But a'Nsl II We angry words snv
silence ruet hednv
For silence that Is broken, by @ the
Is thing that can't be mended rendered whole
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24

Russian artillery officers stationed
at OtchahoR, on the Dnieper, have
been detected in selling large quaint
ties OF gunpowder aud other stores TO
Odessa junk dealers.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24
VIII the stoei-Frame Buildings Endure

Some architects are still afraid OF
the Chicago method, as the steel cage
construction is called, and lean heavily
when they can on their masonry, but
for the lofty tower on n small base the
steel cage is inevitable. No one can
tell how long IL will stand the test OF
time. There are 1850 tons of steel in
q building $40 feet high, which weighs
in all 1910 tons, and the metal will
surely corrode; but how long before
its sustaining strength will be vitiated
TO the danger point is n question that
no one can answer empirically, and the
present generation of builders is not
likely TO know how well or how badly
it has builded. -Scribner's.
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EVANSVILLE, W. VA, TUESDAY, AUGUST "a. 1897

~ am perfectly sane, he told me,
but L can't bear the sight of fly"
New York Journal.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24

Greater New York is thirty-two
miles long by sixteen wide.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-08-24
lHE CAVERN OF FLIES
c. E RIA CRUZ,

g II A CIR U u,
Mexico, June 81
AT f 90 h,
State of Yucca
tan, and at other
places in that
State, the sun
has been OBJ
scured for sew
eral DAYS by
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clouds of flies, which came from the
interior country. The New York Sun.
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1897-06-23

sort unb ipeid lit; ipartst man bage&
aen, BIS es absebliibt bat, 70 iinb bic
etengel bart uRb frobig; aild3 ein
grpber She'll Der Ndbrfraft ipurbe
bann f1pn ben @tengeln inb 8ldtter1
burd ben @amen ent5osen. 9ieraus
eraibt Sih Der beipdbrte rgolbene Mita
teiipeg", ni1t gu friib unb nidt slt
ipdt, ettpa cine Mode nah benz Gr-
iheinen Der eriten Bliitben gu mdben.
Dies gift bann Bel siinitigem 9eu=
tpetter bas iinter benz Namen Gimotbe
SO. / befannte unb gut be5ablte 0en
i'm Wearfte. Beim 6euen laGe man
Simotbe nidt su lange ben beiben
Sonneni nitrablen ausgefebt fein. 8eim
@dneiben bes Morsens fei bas Gras
trpden bon Sbau; bel trodener 2uft
fann es bann fhon am Mbenb obne
@efabr einsebra9t tperben. gs 1T
bann ni6t rtobt trodsn" unb bre1=
biirr unb bat cine fhDne CRIME 5arbe.
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1897-06-23

biefe QGnber i'm Sabre 1894 tmportirz
ten, tpurben nur 6 procent IN ameriz
fani59en @diffen transportirt. Sn
bemfelben Sabre ipurben 3tptlhen ur1s
ferem 2anbe unb europa BON fremben
Sdiffen 1928 Sabrten gemadt, bon
ameritani5dhen baeegen nur 252.
Dieie 3ablsn biirften seniisen, I'm
ben Hd9tpeis gu fiihren, tpie gerine
unfer glntbeil an benz transoceanif4er
Werfebr 1T. Durd Gtabliruns bel
5ubfibirten rMmeriean Cine" nit Der
prGdtisen Oampfern REM yort"
,paris" st. 2ouis" unb .St. paul'
bat nnIere 9anbelsflotte 5lpar elmer
redt itattliden 3upa4s erfabren
allein biefelbe 1T INNER nod ohne all
8ebeutuna.
Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1897-06-23
elmer biibl1en @umme baaren geIbes

elmer biib1hen Gun,me buaren @elbes
getommer1 mar.
9rotpn mar Elm gans gutter Rerl, ale
lein elm 10 hummer Seiifel, bab er bon
csebermann iiber's DIR gebauen
ipurbe; ba er iid 3u ipenis I'm bic Be
iteuung Der 5arm. bic ih auf 200
9lcres DergrDBert bate, tiiinmerte. CAB
id ibm ben 2aufpaB, unb iebt bin id
pieber lebig. Da in Der Bibel itebt:
.Gs iit nidt gut, bab Der Menid al
lein iei," babe ih mid fdon pieber
nacb einem Manne umseiehen, allein
biesmal iperbe id mid ni9t blinblings
in bic gbe itiiraen. Msein Nusertpdbl.
ter arbeitet felt einiger 3eit auf meinel
Iarm unb tpenn er meinen @ripartun.
gen entipridt, tperbe id ibn beiratben
anbernfals tann er iid feiner @es'
{heeren."