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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-30
begun to break him to work and think
he can pull as much as any OK.
DIR. John e. Grey"
LONDON BRIDGE.

When was the bridge built? 1t is i'm
possible to say. 1t was not there A. D.
81, when Queen Boadicea's troops sacked
the city and murdered the people. 1t was
there when Allectus led his troops out
to fight the Roman legions. 1t was there
very early in the Roman occupation. as
is proved by the quantity of Roman
coins of the four centuries of their ten
ure found in the bed of the river on the
site of the old bridge. 1t is also proved
by the fact that Southwark was a set
tlement of the Weather class, who
could not have lived in a place abso-
lutely without supplies, had there been
no bridge We may take any time we
please for the construction of the bridge,
so long as it is quite early-say, before
the second century.
The BritonS themselves were quite I'M
able to construct a bridge of any kind
unless in the primitive methods observed
at Post Bridge and Two Bridges, on
Dartmoor, by a slab Of stone laid across
two boulders. The work, therefore, was
certainly undertaken by Roman engin-
GERS. We have, In the next place, to in
quire what kind of bridge was built at
that time by the Romans They built
bridges of wood and stone; many of
these stone bridges still remain, in other
cases the pieces Of hewn stone still re-
main. The bridge over the Thames, how
ever, was of wood. This is proved by the
fact that, had it been Of the solid Roman
construction in stone, the piers would be
still remaining; also by the fact that
London had to be contented with a
wooden bridge till the year 1176, when
the first bridge of stone was commenced
Considerations as to the comparative in
significance of London in the first CEN
fury, as to the absence of stone in the
neighborhood, and as to the plentiful
supply of the best wood in the world
from the forests north of the city, con-
firm the theory that the bridge was built
of wood We have only, therefore, to
learn how Roman engineers built
bridges of wood elsewhere, in order to
know how they built a bridge of wood
over the Thames.-February Pail Mall
Gazette.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-30
HOW LABOR UNIONS DIsCRIMI
NATE,

An incident once occurred at Tuske-
gee itself, says John S. Durham in the
FEBRUARY Atlantic, which is sharp re-
minder of the labor unions discrimina-
ton against colored workmen. The
school had a contract in tinsmithing
which required that the work be done in
shorter time than it was possible for
the students to do it alone. The manager
OF the tin-Shop. sent to Montgomery for
tlnsm1ths They came, but when they
found that they would have to work
with the colored students, who had al
ready begun the job, they declined, ex-
planning that the rule of their union for
babe their working with colored men.
The manager. firmly declared that they
must work with the students or not at
all They had spent their money to go
to Tuskegee, and they were indignant
that they We're bound by such rule:
but, fearing the subsequent resentment
of their fellow craftsmen at Montgom-
cry, they spent the day in idleness, and
at night went home. The union offered
10 obstacles to their working for a col
ored mans money. The men personally,
in this instance, had no feeling against
the students There was no race antip-
athy shown by the incident; it was
simply the ancient idea of exclusion, of
obstruction, asserting itself through the
union with perfect and in this case dis
astrous consistency.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-30
port the twelve-inch orossbeams.

port the twelve-inch crossbeams. r.
Engineers who understand the mech
anlsm or the subway are not fearful Of
II, but the layman trembles lest the
street above cave in before the subway
IS complete. The feat is no more difficult
IMAM that of digging large cellars for
notel kitchens, such as lie under every
street IN great city, but the magnitude
ana publicity make it very daring.
From these subways the elevators
carry. people down to the electric rail-
way below and the trains whisk them
away.
Is. THE WORKING.
American street cars are to be used
The method of working the trains will
DC by electricity conveyed from the gem
Grating station at Shepherds Bush.
where the dynamos will be driven by
engines which have total capacity of
1900 horsepower. The current will be
sent throughout the tunnel by a copper
cable conductor, which will be insulated
clear of the rails. This cable passes
through all the signal boxes, so that the
current can be cut off at a moment
warning should emergency arise. The
motor in front of each train will pick up
the current by means of brushes which
slide over the cable. Thus the necessary
electricity will be collected as the trains
go along, and there will be no need for
accumulators. The trains will run at the
rate of fourteen miles the hour, includ-
ing stoppages, and the average time
taken between the stations will be a
minute and half.
The entire road VIII be in operation
this year, and the Princess of Wales
will open it. Vance Wilbur.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-30
too good Steer to die, and that it would
be worth while to experiment upon


too good a Steer to die, and that it would
be worth while to experiment upon
him.
A dog with a glass eye was recently
exhibited in New York museum. and
a society woman of Indianapolis had
an artificial wing put upon her parrot,
why not fit wooden leg to Mark
Hanna?
This course was finally carried out
with such success that DR.. Grey fell in
love with his patient and could not part
with him. He purchased the steer and
placed it out to pasture near his house,
where he could see him often and take
callers over to view hin-a walking
monument to his skill in surgery.
Mark Hanna is well nova steer with
a wooden leg. And this is the story as
told by his surgeon:
ITO the Editor:
"a tree blew down on this steer, and
one of the large branches striking the
right hind leg below the hook, shivered
it into minute pieces. His body and
side were badly bruised, but as the
weather was extremely warm, he could
not be used for beef. So his owner, :.
w. Sturgeon, of Plano, KY, called upon
me to see what could do.
II amputated the leg the same as I
would that Of "a human being. After
the operation, left him lying in the
shade of several large forest trees
near.
II called again on the ninth day to
dress the leg, and found him in cheer
full mood. 1 found that the leg had
healed more rapidly than had expect
ed l returned on the twenty-first day,
when, as the wound had entirely healed,
I set to work to make for him wooden
leg. The artificial peg was adjusted
easily and is a success.
My friend, Mr. Wright, and I bought
the steer and walked it twelve miles
into town. The animal covered the dis
lance as easily as if it had all of the
legs which nature gave it. He limps
less than a man with an artificial leg.
This OK IS two and half years old,
weighs about 900 pounds, and is about
seven-eighths Shorthorn. He is taking
on fat at the rate of a pound and half
a day, and will weigh at maturity 400
to 1900 pounds. We have trained him
to kick at people with his wooden leg.
and he never kicks with the other leg.
He was seen to kick an oak plank off
his stall the other day. We have just
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-30
LONDON'S
RAPID TRANSIT.
From Royal Exchange to Shep.
herds Bush for 6 IL Miles.
American Street cars Are to Be Used and
the Motive Power Will Be Ameri-
can Electricity.

London, Jan, 20.-London will soon be
the owner of the most daring rapid
transit ever attempted. A line is to be
run from. the Royal Exchange to Shep-
herds Bush, passing all the way in a
nearly straight line from Cheapside,
Newgate and oxford streets and the
Bayswater and Uxbridge roads 1t will
be between six and seven miles long and
will contain fourteen stations The en-
tire distance can be made in five min
utes were it not for the stops There
will be both express and way trains.
This rapid transit line will lie so feet
beneath the street surface, deep enough
down to escape all the sewers with
which London is perforated, deep enough
to avoid gas and water pipes and furth-
en- down tn; n he foundations Of the tall
est buildings.
When the Central London Railway OBJ
tanned the franchise to build it's rapid
transit it was stipulated that the work
shoutbjse done without interfering with
the surface traffic. Not for an instant
must the busy corners of Queen Vic
toria street the Poultry, Princess street,
Mansione House place, Lombard street.
Threadneedle a1ld Cornhill be interfered
WltRl nor must any debris eUnber the
thoroughfares.
With gthese enormous restrictions in
tlreils papers of agreement She engineers
set toaWork to build London's rapid
transit. .a.ta
a9g t.a THE BIG SHIELD.
There was only one way to do it, and
that was by the Greathead shield the
invention Of the recently deceased en-
gineer who designed it for the building
OF the City and South London Railway,
that marvellous tunnel affair that runs
beneath the Thames.
This shield tunnels rapidly without
debris, and, though expensive, it was
absolutely needed for this rapid transit
tunnel.-c
Fhe Shield is a wonderful invention.
1t consists of a great steel cylinder.
The front end is closed with a strongly
made bulkhead in which there are small
openings. The front Of the bulkhead is
also furnished with knives and chisels
for blowing their way through the
earth. All kinds of burrowing tools can
be fitted to the front of the bulkhead,
according to the substance to be pene-
trated There are tools sharp, round,
scoop-lil1e and of every other conceiv-
able shape
The shield is just little larger
than the tunnel which is TO be con
strueted. At the beginning it is put in
place Beneath the surface of the earth
at the right depth, and the machinery
set going. 1t is worked by hydraulic
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-30
DIAGRAM OF LoNDoNs

Jacks Instantly the knives in the front
Dulkhe8d begin their work and the
shield is forced forward like a locorno-
tive. AS the knives cut away the sand
rock In front of them it is forced inside
the shield through the small openings
AS the shield fills up it is stopped, and
the. earth and rock are sent up to the
surface through shafts sunk at intervals
from the street for that purpose.
This machine burrows its way along
at the rate of sixteen feet per day,
which is wonderfully rapid There are
twenty eight of the shields buITowing
from each of the fourteen stations in
opposite directions, and they will keep
at work until they meet midway.
Meanwhile the workmen inside the
tube are busy. AS the shield carries
them along they are building up the iron
tube which forms the tunnel. This they
do from inside the shield AS
soon as the. iron tube is completed the
shield is moved along. There is no
chance for the earth above to slip, for
the tube holds it up. Just before the
tube is moved forward grouting is
blown in between it and the earth
above Grouting is a fluid cement,
which hardens and holds all perfectly
secure.
GETTING TO THE TRAINS.
One of the most interesting of the
features presented is that of reaching
these underground trains. The APP
proach will be by elevator. The pas
senger descends at the station and finds
himself in very beautiful sub-station
only few feet below the street. Here
he can rest or descend to the railway sta
ton sixty feet below. There are elevat-
ors for taking him down. Should he
merely want TO cross the street he can
cross underground and come up on the
other side, having avoided the rush of
Threadneetlle street and the bank.
Thus the problem of overerowded
streets Is overcome,
This upper underground station is in
tsresting from another point Of view. II
is barely below the street, and the
touch Of ythe horses hoofs can be dis
tinctfy heard In fact the ceiling Of the
subway IS Just I'VE inches below the
street sboFe. This ceiling is shored up
bysllufn erous wooden pillars, which sup
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-30

Singapore, Dec. 2.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-30
NIs1 BoNUM DE MoRTUIs.

I'm what waters" asked the pilgrim
from other lands, desiring to make fun
of our language, may fish for COM
pliments?'
The dark, thin man, or who was. at
most, thick with but Few PERSONS
bowed.
I'm the waters of the Styx," he re-
plied.-Detroit journal.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-28
THE KANSAS CITY TIMES.

The Kansas City Times, as the ex-
ponent of western beliefs and interests
! has become the most widely known
paper in the west. Its work for ali
that benefits the west and democracy
has gained for it thousands of ad-
mirers, and, backed by the rural press
and the approval of the major portion
of the people in this section, it's pow
er for good is constantly on the in
crease. The good it is now able to
render for democratic principles, as
embodied in the Chicago platform,
can be greatly increased by the sup
port of the people who live in south
ern and western states. The contempt
ible practices used in Ohio are but a
forerunner of what will be attempted
in the general State elections this
fall.
This year important elections will
be held in thirty-six States and Terri
tories. The most determined eff orts,
accompanied by every conceivable
species of political trickery and corr
ruption, will be brought forth to de-
feat the democratic forces. Events of
great Importance to the people will
transpire, and live, up-to-date news
paper will be a vital necessity in ev-
cry home if one would keep informed
on current events. The news service
of the Kansas City Times is in every
sense complete. In addition to the
Associated Press reports it receives
reports from its own correspondents
in every important news center in the
country. It's policy is unequivocally
democratic and for the interests of the
West. BY means of three fast early
morning trains north, west and south
the Times is delivered at points POO
miles distant in time for breakfast and
over western Missouri and three
fourths of Kansas the same day it is
printed 1t will be sent by mail for
one year for 81. for six months, 81;
one month, 81. The Twice-a-We
Times contains the cream of the worlds
news aid the best market report COM
piled in Kansas City. Sent one year
for ST.; six months, soc. Address,
THE KANSAS CITY TIMES,
Kansas City, Mo.
A postal brings a sample copy.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-28
,
49, .
First Published Jan. 81. 1898.
LEGAL NOTICE.-No. 1920.

State of Kansas tn William II. Miller. Elm
Miller aud George I. S. FoOte: You and each
of you will take notice th.,t William II. Male
r. niamiD Graham. William Halls Jr. and
Harris H. Hayden as plaintiffs. did on I he 29rh
day of - cember. 1897. file their petition in
the district court of Edwards county. Kansas
against you and Elizabeth l.. MOntgom' ry
and Alexander Montgomery. rs defendants,
setting forth that you, w. H. Miller and ELLA
Miller executed and delivered u mortgage to
to the American Investment Company. at
Emmettsburg. iowa. on the following de scrih-
ed land situated in Edwards county, Kansas,
tu-wit: The Northwest quarter of section
Nine ~ in Township Twenty four I2D South
Of range Nineteen Q9) West of the 6tn P. NJ,
to st cnrc the payment of tho sum of S575. 90
according to certain note or bond referred
to in said mortgage and praying judgment
against you the said defendants. William H.
Miller and Ella Miller for the sum of $575. 90
now claimed to be due and unpaid with II per
cent. interest thereon from the list day of
December 1892, less the sum OF s i6l 20 interest
palu, and for the further sum Of S94 ~ With
L. per cent interest thereon irDin TIC; ober rs,
1891. taxes paid on said premises by the plain
out appraisement To pay the same. That you
must appear and answer said petition on or
before the the 5th day of March, 1898. or said
petition will he token as II lie against yor ana
each Of you and Il Judgment fOf said amount
and decree forever barring you from any
right, title or interest i'll and to said lands
after the sale thereof will be rendered against
you, and u further decree that said lands be
sold to satisfy any Judgment found tn be
gage. A. Z. DYER, Attorney for Plaintiff.
Attest: G.. NJ. Boe.teher, Clerk.
}SEAL
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-28

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Imiis ~ IL ~
siSuatu1s + ~ NH~N every
S/<Hv ZkLc<zX v.aype1
The Surprise of All.

MI. James Jones, of the drug firm
of Jones' u Son. (owdpn. ILL.,. in speak
ing Of Dr. Kings New discovery, says
that last winter his wife Was attacked
serious thai physicians ~ Cowden and
rana could do nothing fer her. Ii
seemed ID deveIup into l,asly cnnsnnip-
ton. Having lr. Kings New Dis
cOvery III store and selling lots of it.
he took bottle home, and TO the SUI
prise OF all she began TO get better
from FIRST dose, and half dczen dollar
bottles curei her sound and well. DR..
Kings New Discovery for consump-
ton, coughs and colds is gnaran. cad
to DO tits good work. Try 1t. Free
trial bottles at POrter's drug store.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-01-28
First Published Jan. q. 1913.
LEGAL NOTICING. 1919.
TIE STATE OF KANSAS:

The MATE VI hAH9ASS
TO William H. Miller. Ella Miller and
you will take notice that William H. Male,
BENJAMIN Graham. u 1lliain Halls Jr. and Har-
ris H. Hayden ~ plaintiffs did on the 18th day
Of December. 1851. file their petition in the
District court OF Edwards county State of
Kansas. against you and Elizabeth L. Mont
geometry aud Alexander Montgomery as de-
PENDANTS. setting forth that YOU. William h
Miller and Ella Miller. executed and delivered
a mortgage to the American Investment Co If
EmmettsburH. Iowa, on the following describ-
ed land situated in Edwards county STATE of
Kansas tO-wit: The Northeast quarter Of
Section nine o. in township Tweniy-four (24)
south Of Range Nineteen (l9) West of the 9th
p. M. to secure the payment of the sum of
2ii5O. co according to certain note or bond
referred to in said mortgage. and pray
ing Judgment against you the said defendants
William H. Miller and Ella Miller for the sum
of g. ISL on now claimed TO he due and unpaid
with II per cent interest thereon from the LIST
day Of December, 1922, less the sum of 1922 w
interest paid, and for the further sum of
plaintiffs, with IL per cent interest theI eou
from October rs. 1897 and that said premises
be sold without appraisement to pay the
same. That you must appear and answer said
petition OIL or before the 5th day of March,
1898, or said petition will be taken as true
against you and each of you and judgment
for said amount and a decree forever barring
said lands after the sale thereof. will be rend
cred against you and q further decree that
said lunds be sold to satisfy any sums found
to he due The plaintiffs upon said note aud
mortgage. A. &. DYER. Atty. for Pitts.
ttest: J. II. Bo ,ttcnor, Gle rk of said court
( SEAL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-31

even to increase and flourish. In addi-
ton to the dangers already pointed out
new ones have arisen.
In a kissing contest for e5 d side,
which has just been declared off in a
small town in Lancashire, the challen-
ger sank exhausted at the seven-hun-
dredth smack; his opponent having
scored eighteen hundred in the hour.
over in Germany at about the same
time a young lover wrote to his sweet
heart that he sent her ten thousand
kisses. She sent back word that that
was all well enough on paper, but that
he had not the nerve to perform the
feat in a truly manly way. This chal-
lenge was likewise accepted, and ten
hours time was allowed with brief in
tervals for malt refreshments. At the
end of the first hour the score was two
thousand and the condition Of both
active and passive participant good
One thousand more were added in the
second hour, but at the seven hundred
and fiftieth kiss on the third round the
young mans lips became paralyzed and
he lost consciousness. This fate, which
some might consider merited, should
prove a warning to prOmiscuous kissers
as well as to those who concentrate
with persistence. 1t is not paralysis
alone, but insanity, which may follow
such efforts.
only a few weeks ago a. middle-aged
man attempted the feat of embracing
every woman on a busy shopping street
OF TINS city lie naQ TO De locked up Dy
the police to prevent his over-exertion;
but these efforts in his behalf were not
timely enough, for the next day he was
found to be a raving lunatic. During
the past week a man of so years, whose
name indicated his disposition, went
mad after an attempt to kiss all the
women on an elevated train. Sometimes
the effects are remote, or what the
French would call a resistance; that is,
the husband of the party kissed be-
comes enraged almost to a point of
madness. In Morristown, for example
a husband has been suing his cOachman
because the latter kissed the wife of the
former: but it was shown that the
cOachman merely allowed himself to be
kissed repeatedly without returning the
salute, and the law holds that this con-
stitutes no cause of action. Thus we
see that so many effects are directly or
indirectly attributable to OSCILLATION that
the whole chapter of its pathOlOgic and
SOciOlOgic features will have to be reWrit-
ten. Certain it is, in view of the more
recent exploits of our young, impress
siOnabIe and ambitiOusly amatOry naval
hero, that we are rapidly accommodating
data which may enable US in time to
form entirely new theories on lip SER
vice, and new notions on the actual
working capacity Of the puckering
muscle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-31
AS TO CATTLE QUARANTINE.
Bulletin Issued by the Kansas Live
Stock Sanitary Commission.

Kansas City. Dec. 31-The Kansas
live stock sanitary commission has is
governing Kansas quarantine regula-
tiOns:
Sec. lit is hereby ordered by the
live stock sanitary commission that no
cattle originating below or on sOuther-
~ side of the quarantine line described
in Governor Leedy'S proclamation.
dated Jan. 81, 1898 may come into Kan
sas during the month of January, 1899,
except as provided in our dipping bull
letin dated Nov. 5, 1898, hereto attached,
or for immediate slaughter in accord
ance with rules 1, 2, 3 and A. of said
proclamation and amendments thereto
" bulletins of this commission. All
southern divisions of stock yards locat-
ed in Kansas for the purpose of unload
ing, feeding and resting of southern
cattle in transit for immediate Slaugh-
ter, or for dipping during the year 1898
shall be maintained during the month
of January, 1899 exclusively for south
ern or infectious cattle.
Sec. 2.-NOtice is hereby given that
cattle infected with BOophilus Bowls, or
southern cattle tick, disseminate the
contagious of splenetic or southern fever
CTexas fever) Therefore cattle origi-
mating outside of the district described
by this order or amendments thereof
and which are infested with the BoOp-
hiluS BOWS tick shall be considered as
infectious cattle, and shall be subject
to the rules and regulations governing
the movement of southern cattle.
Sec. Stock yards and railroad com
panies receiving cattle infested with
said ticks shall place such cattle in the
pens set aside for the use of southern
cattle. And transportation companies
are required to clean and disinfect all
cars which have contained the same, &C
cording to the requirements of this de-
partment.
Sec. An cattle originating above or
on the northerly side of the quarantine
line, except as above set forth, will be
admitted to Kansas without any re-
strictiOns.
Accompanying the above bulletin is
the order issued by the Kansas commits
sion on Nov. g. 1898:
Whereas, The secretary of agriculture
of the United States. by order (B. A 1.
order No. 23) has announced that south
ern cattle, when properly dipped in a
solution of Sc pounds flowers of sulphur
to 1000 gallons of extra dynamo oil, can
be safely shipped
Now, therefore, this commission here
by modifies its quarantine rules against
| Texas or splenetic fever, so that cattle
are not excluded from Kansas by the
commission, if accompanied by a certif-
cate of an inspector of the United States
| bureau of animal industry that they
| have been properly dipped and have
| fully compiled with the requirements of
| said order No. %.