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Evening journal., 1897-06-28

DO you WANT A GASOLINE STOVE?
Have you the Price?
If "YES'1 TO the FIRST question and mo"
to the second. call and see us. We have
a plan of easy payment that will just
suit you. II you would like to try a stove
few weeks before purchasing we have a
plan for you to do so.
GASOLINE, FIVE GALLONS, SOC.
Gasoline Stoves Repaired
Gasoline stoves Rented zoe. week up.
NJ. HUTCHINSON,
Sixth and King streets, Wilmington, ana
5ll Delaware street, New Castle.
Evening journal., 1897-06-28
FOR SALE.

seed. Now ready. Absolutely clean OF
Nth. Apply TO GEORGE @. KERR.
Newark, Del.
Evening journal., 1897-06-28
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

FOR. sALI1.-Good-w and fixtures OF
licensed saloon, centrally located. Pr S
session Immediately. Apply to William
Baxter. Fourth and Shipley streets.
Evening journal., 1897-06-28
SUMMER RESORTS.
HELP WANTED.

WANTED. -Middle-aged white woman
for seneral housework. 21S West street.
.iNANTED.--Ha grown girl for house
work. Apply Sl4 Poplar street.
WANTED-Salesm weekly salary ;ex-
periehce unnecessary; permanent Brown
Bros. Co, Nurserymen Rochester, N. Y.
Evening journal., 1897-06-28

LADIES' Dress Reform Parlors. !. b.
Wards, COS Market street. over 20 years
exp Corsets and waists for bicycle riding
Evening journal., 1897-06-28

THE annual meeting of the stockholders
OF the, Wilmington and New Castle Elec-
tric Railway Company will be held at the
company's office, No. 3 East Ninth street
Wilmington, Del, July 5. 1897, at o'clock
pm. l.. l.. DAY, Secretary.
Evening journal., 1897-06-28

Attorney for Proposed incorporators.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
The Popular Rsthetic. q Color.

While blue is -eminently and over
whelmingly the masculine favorite, it
is by no means SO general a feminine
favorite. The favorite woman's color,
standing at the head of the female list,
is red. Roughly speaking, of every 80
masculine votes 10 would be for blue
and for red, while Of every 80 femi-
nine votes A would be for blue and for
red. Red and blue are thus much more
nearly equally popular among women
than among men, Other relatively
marked masculine preferences are for
the colors related to blue (blue violet
and violet), and other feminine prefer
ences are for lighter red Tor pink and, to
less extent, for green and yellow
Further, men confine their selections to
relatively fewer colors than do women,
and, finally, while all men and women
alike are much more apt to choose a
normal thar transitional color and
darker than lighter shade, yet the tend
ency to do SO (about the same in the
former direction) is markedly different
in the latter respect. OF IL men 10 would
choose among the darker colors and only
2 among the lighter for the most pleas
ing color, while of 10 women would
choose among the darker and among
the lighter shades. -Professor Jastrow
in Popular Science Monthly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
FOOD IN THE ARCTIC.
Birds Have No Dinaculty Finding 1t In the
Snow.

Snow.
The number of birds that 90 to the
arctic regions to breed is "vast beyond
conception They go not by thousands,
but by millions, to rear their young on
the tundra. The cause which attracts
them is because nowhere In the world
does nature provide at the same time
and in the same place ''such a lavish
prodigality of food +" That the barren
swamp of the tundra should yield food
supply SO great as to tempt birds to
make journeys Of thousands of miles to
rear their young in a land of plenty,
only to be found beyond the arctic cir
Gle, seems incredible. The vegetation
consists of cranberry, eloudberry and
crowberTy bushes Forced by the per
petual sunshine of the arctic summer
these bear enormous crops of fruit. But
the crop is not ripe until the middle and
end of the arctic summer, and if the
fruit eating birds had to wait until it
was ripe they would starve, for they
arrive On the very day Of the melting Of
the snow. But each year the snow de-
cSOAAeAo I'll AUS OAOP VI II pO Ii ulO
before the birds have time to gather it.
1t is then preserved beneath the snow,
perfectly fresh and pure, and the melt
ing Of the snow discloses the bushes
with the unconsumed last years crop
hanging on them or lying, ready to be
eaten, on the ground. The frozen meal
stretches across the breadth of Asia. 1t
never decays and is accessible the mo-
ment the snow melts. Ages have taught
the birds that they have only to fly to
the arctic circle to find such a store of
tcrystallized foods" as will last them
till the bushes are once more forced into
bearing by the perpetual sunlight. The
same heat which frees the fruit brings
into being the most prolific insect life
in the world. The mosquito swarms on
the tundra. No European can live there
without veil after the snow melts. The
gun barrels are black with them, and
the cloud often obscures the sight Thus
the insect eating birds have only to open
their mouths to fill them with mosqui-
toes, and the presence of swarms Of ten
der warblers, of cliff chaffs, pipits and
wagtails in this arctic region is ac-
counted for.-New York Evangelist.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
Queen Victoria.

People often write to Queen Victoria
asking her to lend them small sums and
promising to repay her in installments.
Sometimes they write saying they are
unable to pay her taxes and trusting
that she will allow the account to stand
over bit. The presents the queen re-
oeives by post form a curious collection.
They are invariably returned. Poets
send her poems; tradesmen, specimens
of their wares; ladies' mittens, stock
ings and other articles Of attire worked
by themselves. When any member of
the household is i'll, medicines pour in
from all parts of the world, and at
Christmas the queen is the recipient Of
some hundreds of Christmas cards. many
Of them of the most expensive nature. -
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
A Monster musical Ipstrument,

The most gigantic harp ever con-
structed, as far as the record goes, was
that made by Veritan, the provost of
Burkl, near Basel, Switzerland, in
1887. That was long while ago, but
the fame of M. Veritan's gigantic
harp was such that it is still occasional
ly mentioned by writers ON the rare and
the wonderful, just as the sea serpent,
bloody rain, live mastadons, ETC., are.
M. Veritan's colossal musical instru-
ment was 800 feet in length, and, on
that account, was constructed in an open
lot instead of in harp factory. 1t was
most simple in construction, consisting
of 10 wires strung tightly between two
poles. These wires were of different
sizes, the largest being one-sixth of an
inch in diameter and the smallest one
twelfth Of an inch. They were stretched
north and south and inclined in such a
manner as to form an angle Of from 90
to 80 degrees with the horizon This
queer instrument was not intended as
an exaggerated toy, but was constructed
for the express purpose Of foretelling
changes in the weather, which were
calculated by Professor Veritan accord
ing to the different tones the instrument
made when the wind was blowing
through it.-St. Louis Republic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
The Wen Dressed Man.

There is a certain professor in a GER
tain university of the United States who
once, at the beginning of one of his lee
lures on fine arts, got on the subject of
the kind of pins worn in the neckties Of
young college men, He was a good lee
turer and was always interesting, but
this lecture was the most interesting of
his course to the 800 boys who heard
him, and the whole hour was spent on
necktie pins, their use and misuse and
what they suggested. The gist of what
he said was that there was no more
reason why boy should wear horse
shoe with whip across it all in gold
than that houses should have sleeves for
roofs, and that as it was extremely
foolish to put big sieve on your house
for roof so it was quite as foolish to
wear horseshoes on your neckties The
principle Of this is that you should have
a reason in what you wear as we'll as in
other things and that senseless decora-
lions, like horseshoes ON neckties or
neckties on horseshoes, are silly and I'M
becoming to self respecting person.
This particular example was only one
to illustrate principle, which is that
nothing unusual, queer, out of the or
binary, is in itself a good thing-that,
in fact, most things that are queer and
out of the ordinary are likely, in the
question of dress, to be in bad taste. A
mans dress ought to be quiet, but it
must be clean and well taken care of in
every instance. The best dressed man is
the man who, in whatever company he
finds himself, is inconspicuous; who.
you realize in an indefinite way, is well
appointed, though you cannot well tell
why. -Harper's Round Table.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
The whtppine Post In Boston.

Alice Morse Earle, in an article on
"Punishments of Bygone Days, found
in The Chapbook, after giving John Tay-
lor the Water Poets rhymed descrip-
lions of corporal punishment in London,
explains how rapidly fogging came into
use in Boston:
The whipping post was speedily in
full force in Boston. At the session of
the court held Nov. 80, 1880, one man
was sentenced to be whipped for steal
ing loaf of bread, another for shooting
fowl on the Sabbath, another for swear
ing, another for leaving boat with
out a pylott. = Then we read of John
Pease that for "stryking his mother and
deryding her he shalbe whipt.'
Lying, swearing, taking false toll,
perjury, selling rum to the Indians-all
were punished by whipping. Pious re-
gard for the Sabbath was fiercely upheld
by the support of the whipping post. In
164S, Roger Scott. for repeated sleep
ing on the Lords day. and for strik-
ing the person who walked him from his
goddess slum Der, was sentenced to be Sc
verely whipped. Women were not
spared in public chastisement 1.-THE
gift of prophecy" was at once subdued
in Boston by lashes, as was unwomanly
carriage
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
The South Carolinian.

The South Carolinian has always ar
rogated to himself the name Carolinian,
and he has never been on very familiar
terms with his northern neighbor. His
feeling for his southern neighbor, the
Georgian, is also one of mere tolerance,
for the latter has long been called the
southern Yankee and fairly deserves the
appellation. He has much Of the
shrewdness and push that mark the
typical "down easter" and he has a
considerable share of that worthy's
moral earnestness. In addition he has a
good deal of the Virginian's geniality
and love of comfort, of the North Caro-
linian's unpretending democracy and of
the South Carolinian's tendency to ex-
hibitions Of fiery temper.
But over and above everything else he
has an honest and hearty and not I'M
founded pride in Georgia, and a sort of
Masonic utilization with every person,
animal, institution, oustom-in short,
thing-that can be called Georgian. He
may not always stand for culture, but
he does always stand for patriotism,
state and national. He loves success,
strength, ightforwardness and the
solid virtues generally-neither is he
averse to the snowy ones-but above all
he loves virtue in action. Though pos
sessed of strong, clear intellect, he is
more particularly man of five senses,
of which he makes as good use as he
can. He may not always taste the
sweetness or see the light of the highest
civilization, but he has a good healthy
appetite for life.-W. P. Trent in At
laptio
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
Tnnaeco an EssenriaI.

In a general order issued recently the
president virtually recognizes tobacco
as an article essential to the we'll being
and sustenanGe of the soldier in times
of great exertion, as we'll as in times of
peace and routine. The order, which
emanates from the war department.,
reads as follows:
"Under the authority vested in him
by section TAG, revised statutes, the
president hereby establishes an emer
gency ration for troops operating for
short periods under circumstances which
require them to depend upon supplies
carried upon their persons. Its compo-
nent parts are as follows: Bacon, 10
ounces; hard bread, l 6 ounces; pea meal,
ounces, or an equivalent in approved
material for making soup; coffee, roast
ed and ground, 2 ounces, or tea, half an
ounce; saccharin, grains; salt, "a
ounce; pepper, A ounce; tobacco, half an
ounce "
The secretary of war directs that this
emergency ration be resorted to only on
occasions arising in active operations
when the use of the regularly establish
ed ration may be impraoticable; that,
although its nutritive qualities permit
its use on half allowance, it will not be
SO used except in cases of oyerruling ne
oessity and never for longer period
than ten days, and that not more than
five days emergency rations be carried
on the person at one time.
By order of the secretary of war, the
subsistence department will provide
tough parafin paper for wrapping the
bacon; will furnish hard bread in grease
proof packages the pea meal in cylin-
drioal packages, and the coffee, tea,
saocharin, salt, pepper and tobacco in
suitable packages. Washington Star.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
HAS THE UMBRELLA FAD.
Chicago Man Who Carries 1t to Greater
Extremes Than Most People.

Chicago Man Who Carries 1t to Greater
Extremes Than Most People.
There is a man ON the North Side
who has the umbrella fad. 1t would
hardly be fair to tell his name, as it
was learned i'll confidence, and the fad
might not be regarded as mere eccen-
tricity by some people who have suffer-
ed from it and they might be tempted
to complain to the police. Again, every
body who has lost an umbrella-and
that means majority Of the people of
Chicago-would look up his address in
the directory and sweep down upon him
with the hope that his lost property
might be in his collection.
There are other men who have
weakness for taking umbrellas, but no
man is known to have carried it to so
great an extreme as this one He has
collection numbering 400 umbrellas Of
all kinds. A good many of them were
bought. Some of them were borrowed
from friends, with and without their
permission, and others were acquired in
other ways which it would be hardly
polite to mention The man is good
citizen in other respects, but he is a vic
tim of the umbrella habit, and when he
sees an umbrella he is compelled to
struggle very hard to resist the tempta-
ton to make himself its owner. Usual
ly he yields to the temptation, and the
coveted prize is transferred to his col
lection.
The umbrella collector does not make
any great display of his collection. The
umbrellas are piled up in big closet in
his bedroom, and he very seldom visits
it. Now and then he looks over them
and counts them with satisfaction. The
last time he counted them there were
S9S in the closet. He has added few
to his collection since that time.
In every other way except this pas
sion for umbrellas, which amounts to a
mania, the man is perfectly sane. His
friends regard him as a very clever
man, and he holds a responsible posi-
ton in big wholesale house down
town. But umbrellas are his weakness.
He is victim Of the umbrella habit
just as another man might be victim
of the opium habit or morphine habit,
and his relatives are in constant fear
that the habit may some day get him
into trouble. Chicago Times Herald.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
A Pointed Question.

The great question whether the use
of forks is understood in Chicago hav-
ing been happily settled in Paris, it
may be asked in seriousness whether
forks are not too much used in Chicago
and everywhere else. Not that anybody
wants to use the knife for conveying
food to the mouth, but might not the
teaspoon as part Of the dinner equip
ment be little more prominent?
People Of breeding train their chill
dren to eat peas, for instance. with a
fork, tabooing the spoon for no apparent
reason other than that its use would
simplify and facilitate the operation.
On the same principle they ought to eat
their peas with chopsticks, as a China
man could easily do. So with certain
kinds of pie and pastry. The relish is
marred by the loss Of juices too thin for
the fork to carry. Yet the man who
values his social reputation must not
ask for a spoon.
The proper use of the silver fork
might be better understood if it were
regarded as modified shovel with linn
itations imposed by its Sits. For solids
it is an excellent shovel. For liquids it
is naturally failure. The countryman
who on his first visit to a city hotel
asked the water for spoon with no
Sits in it was no legitimate subject of
ridioule. He was an impartial critic,
being without the prejudice of habit or
tradition. Hotel Mail.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
Eleven Times Around the Earth.

Just think of It'll eleven times
around this globe of ours in the space
of so seconds! Can you imagine any
thing that moves with such remarkable
speed? Sound travels only 10 1-2 miles
per minute, and rifle ball (if its speed
were not diminished by resistance)1 6 1-2
miles Light passes through distance
equal to Ia revolutions of the earth In
one minute, but electricity travels SO
astonishingly fast that it is able to COM
plete the circuit of the earth II Ia times
in go seconds. ST. Louis Republic.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
Alcohol From Apples.

Messrs. Vivien and Dupont have ex-
perimented as to the manufacture of al
cohol from apples. One hundred quarts
of apple juice contained SO. 70 per cent
of water, O.. 80 per cent Of ash, 2. 04 per
cent of pectin bodies and per cent Of
cane sugar, 2.97 per cent dextrose, s. so
per cent levulose and 0.84 per cent of
other sugars; total sugars, 14.31 per
cent. On adding phosphorio acid, pot
ash and ammonia Cor sodium nitrate)
the fermentation proceeds as quickly
and completely as with turnip juice,
and by this means 3 per cent alcohol is
obtained from the apples. This alcohol
was considered to be of better quality
than the ordinary alcohol from cider.
The grounds remaining equal IS per
cent of the apples taken and contain 2. 5
per cent of sugar.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
A FATHERLY ASSURANCE.
The Old Gentleman Was No Linguist, but
He Knew Life.

He Knew Life.
Mr.. Cumrox's son was studying his
Latin lesson. There was the tremolo of
Encouragement in his voice as he re-
marked:
ST don't seem to get along with this
lesson very well, father
Cant you say any of it?'
eyes, can say 'amo, amas, amat, ;
and then 1 always forget what comes
next. -
what does those words mean, john
N.Y." asked Mr.. Cumrox, who deserves
credit for being always ready to add to
somewhat deficient early education.
They mean I love, thou lowest, he
loves. "
1T does seem too bad to see you
startin in so soon, the old gentleman
unused, with the difficulties that have
always surrounded that verb. But you
might as well commence young to learn
that them words in one way or another
cause two-thirds of the botheration that
occurs in this life. !"
Please, can I quit school, then?''
No. 1t wouldn't be any use. You
couldn't dodge 'em, and you might as
well go right along and get as familiar
with them as possible. You'll find that
learnin 'em amt half the worry that
handlin 'em is after you know 'em.
Cheer up, Johnny, and remember that
most of your trouble is still ahead of
you. Washington Star
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
HE MADE A MISTAKE.
And Didn't Mend Matters Bit When He
Discovered 1t.

The fine looking young man who was
shown into the parlor was a new one to
the old gentleman, who had lived in a
state of anxiety for years lest some one
would marry his charming daughter for
her money. All young men were under
suspicion with him, and he was partic-
ularly formal with those of fine appear
ance The caller intended to observe the
proprieties by introducing himself, but
the host said in his stiffest business
tones:
What can 1 do for you, sir?"
81 came to tell you, sir, that I have
asked your daughter
Just as l expected" was snorted
back cts pretty tough when man of
affairs at my time of life has to put in
half his time telling young whipper-
sEappers that they can't have that girl
of mine There is the most mercenary
lot of men just coming into active life
that | have ever seen. I'd better give
my fortune to some charitable institu-
ton. You can't have her. +"
Perhaps if should EXPLAIN
There's nothing to explain. I've
heard it all more times than l have
hairs on my head. OF course you love
her. You can't live without her. You
have no money, but you're educated,
possess a brave heart and will shield
her from all trouble. You will'-
''Just to shield you from little pres
ent embarrassment / will inform you
that I'm not in the least in love with
your daughter -
What in thunder did you propose to
her for, then? Have you the unmitigated
gall to come in here and tell me that
you want my daughter when you re not
in love with her and not expect to get
kicked out? Why, you"-
Break away, papar' laughed the
vision of loneliness who hurried into the
room. 'This is the gentleman visiting at
Mrs Winton's, and he is arranging her
private theatricals for her. He has asked
me to take part, and referred him to
you.
The old gentleman glared hopelessly
for full minute and In his confusion
said brokenly:
''Take her, my son, take her. De
troit Free Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
A Thirteen Month Year.

1t is suggested that on Jan. 1, 1900,
a new division of the year into IS
months be instituted. If such division
were made, the first 10 months would
have 2S days, or four weeks each, and
the new month 30 days, to make $50,
and 80 in leap years After few days
there would be no need to refer to calen-
dars, as the same day of the week would
have the same date through the year.
If Jan. were, say, Monday, every Mon
day would be the LIST, 8th, 18th and 22d;
every Tuesday the I'd, 9th, 10th and
Esd, and so on through the year. The
changes of the moon would be ON about
the same dates through the year, and
many calculations, like interest, dates
of maturing notes, Easter and many
other important dates would be simpi-
fed. Exchange.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
Could Be Reached SIN.

"Did you catch glimpse of the foot
pad?'' asked the policeman who was
STOPPING over the insensible victim and
examining his injuries.
Yes answered the man whose
timely arrival had scared the murderous
villain away. "He was tough looking
fellow, a little taller than 1 am and
wore chin whiskers. "
The PROSTATE man shuddered, gasped
and moved his lips. Consciousness was
returning.
Strictly speaking" the policeman
heard him mutter feebly, there is no
such thing as chin whiskers. Whiskers
grow ON the cheeks. He wore chin
beard. y
Then the Boston man became unoon-
scious again. Chicago Tribune.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-02-16
A ROYAL Rider.

Queen Henriette Of Belgium, by birth
an Austrian archduchess, continues, in
spite of her snow white hair and rank
as grandmother, to occupy her time
with circus riding. A year ago she gave
in the riding school Of the royal palace
at Brussels a semipubic performance,
in which she and her daughter Clemen-
tine put their horses through all kinds
of fancy PAGES and trick riding with the
skill of professionals. They leaped their
horses through burning hoops and over
flaming hedges, and her majesty jump
ed pet horse over a dinner table COW
cred with flowers and lighted Candida
bra Then she drove team Of 20-in-
hand herself, mounted on her favorite
mare