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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13
A Champion Breadmaker.

Mrs. Glenn B. Lincoln of Plattsburg,
claims to be the champion breadmaker
of Missouri. She has enough blue
ribbons, medals and like trophies to
make her claim to the honorable dis
tinction very strong one. 1t is a
matter of serious doubt il any other
woman in the state can show half as
many trophies for excellence in the
same line. Mrs. Lincoln is the wife
of well-to-do farmer. Mrs. Lincoln
made her first showing of fine bread
some years ago at the county fair at
Liberty. She has not won her medals
without competition, for there are
other women in the state who know
how to make excellent bread. She
has been a frequent exhibitor in Kan
sas City, where she has always won
first prize. Her supply of blue rib
bons is the source of much pride to
her, and the people who have had the
privilege of eating the bread she bakes
claim it is even better than it looks.
Recently Mrs. Lincoln won the first
honor at the fair held at st. Joseph.
She has three little girls who are
learning to make bread, and she ex-
poets them all to be prize winners.
Chicago Times Herald.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13

Reeve be left in charge. The Cover.
nor was almost stunned by the bold
plan, but Miss Reeve had proved her
self most efficient, being familiar with
all the routine work in the building,
and the Governor consented to the
plan, and Miss Reeve was left at the
State house clothed in full Guberna-
torial authority, which she exercised
in a manner that not only gave salts
faction to the Governor, but has won
her great distinction.
Before the Governor and party had
been absent twenty-four hours matters
of great Importance were brought to
Miss Reeves attention. The Cover
nor and Secretary of State had left q
number of important blanks to which
they had attached their signatures,
and it was left to Miss Reeves dis
cretion to issue them or not-requisi-
tions, applications for extraditions
from Governors of other States, and
many other matters.
She sought legal advice, but the at
torney informed her she must depend
upon herself, as he did not "care to be
mixed up in the acts of any female
Governor. When the Governor re-
turned he was surprised at the amount
of executive business his fair substi-
tute had turned out, and frankly ad-
mitted the excellence of her Judgment,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13

much of success that the company
operating them has just given out on
order for 100 new vehicles. During
June, the first month of their opera
tion, a total number of 632 calls were
received, averaging between thirty-two
and twelve per day, carrying 1880 pas
sengers 46O3 miles at rates similar to
the horse-cab system, and each month
since that time has seen steady in
crease in the service.
The best results obtained from these
vehicles show that about 1.25 horse
power is supplied for propulsion of
1000 pounds over ordinarily level roads
at speed of ten miles an hour. This
consumption of power is trife over
two and one-third times that of similar
work on rails, which indicates that the
equipment of the battery is carefully
adapted to the total weight of the vehi-
Gle and just sufficient for practical
travelling capacity. The maximum
weight Of battery for hanson weigh
ing 5000 pounds is 1900 pounds for a
distance of twenty-five miles at the
maximum speed of twelve miles or at
On average speed of six miles.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13
Nuns on BICYCLES.

Speaking of bicycles reminds me of
their latest uses in London. Hospital
nurses mounted on 'safeties' are not
unusual sights in our most crowded
thoroughfares, and with their gauze
wells, demure bonnets and jangling
steel chatelaines, are rather weird,
though not always unpleasant, spec
tacles. The latest members of the
divine feminine to take to the insidi-
GUS wheel, however, is certain COM
munity of nuns that lead their Sc
cluded lives behind the high brick
walls of convent in one of the West
End suburbs. There is always cer-
tain amount of romance and "the-
world-forgetting-andb by-the-world-for
got" atmosphere about convent.
Folded, prayerful hands, quietly serene
faces, gentle voices and midnight
vigils seem to breathe of all that is
reposeful and devotional. Now, how
ever, in the lovely grounds where at
other times the nuns walk and tell
their beads is heard the sound of the
bicycle bell, and from the mother su-
perior down to the youngest lay sister
all ride bicycles, of course ir the strict
seclusion of the convent walls. Lon
don Letter to New York Mail and Ex-
press.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13
A CELESTIAL FOOTBALL TEAM.
Club Which Would Prove Formidable to
Almost Any Team.

Club Which Would Prove Formidable to
Almost Any Team.
China is not country in which one
would naturally expect football to be
popular, but the game has at last
been introduced among the celestials,
and team has been organized which
is said to be the strongest football
club in the world. The men who
form the team are natives of north
ern China, and are typical of the re-
markable race of giants produced in
that part of the world. There is not
a man among them who is not six feet
high, and several of the members are
three inches taller, while their average
weight is about 200 pounds.
When playing, the celestials give
vent to their feelings in the most pc
culiar noises, frequently shrieking
with delight. Their yells of triumph
which resound through the air when
ever the ball goes through the oppo-
site goal are likened, by one who has
heard them, to the "plaintive cry of
pig that has been speared. The
charging" is generally done with the
head.
The only precaution taken by these
giants in regard to their physical
strength on the football field is for
the preservation of their pigtails,
which are cared for rs though they
were worth thousand times their
weight in gold. With this exception,
they throw caution to the winds, and
devote themselves with all their
strength to the play.
The great drawback to Chinese foot
ball is want of discipline Every man
considers it his duty to instruct his
colleague what to do, and one-half the
team yells to the other half all the
time the game is in progress.
An attempt has been made to bring
about foreign tour of the Chinese
footballers, but has not yet been sue
cessful. In the event of such tour,
the team will take with them their
own doctors and cooks.-London Tit
Bits.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13

The largest gun ever built is now
beino constructed at the Bethlehem
Penn Iron Works. This enormous
piece Of ordnance will weigh, when
completed, 1876 tons. 1t will exceed
by six tons weight the monster gun
which Krupp, of Germany, exhibited
at the Worlds Fair, in Chicago, and
in length it will be nearly five feet
longer than the German gun.
This monster gun is being fabrl-
Gated under the War Department. 1t
is the biggest order ever given to any
establishment in the world.
The great gun is being built under
the superintendence of John F.
Meigs, formerly o Lieutenant Of the
United States army and a standard
artillery authority in this country.
With him is associated Captain E. L.
Zalinski, United States army ire
tired). The Government inspection
work is in the hands Of Captain Ira
McNutt, of the ordnance corps of the
army. All three gentlemen are on the
ground and personally see to every
detail of the immense undertaking as
it progresses.
The intention of the War Depart
ment, it is announced, is to mount the
great piece on specially built founda-
ton on Romer Shoals. The protec-
ton for this gun will be turret,
which will wholly inclose the crew
and the greater part of the gun. From
its position on Romer Shoals the great
piece of ordnance will have a full
sweep of the channels leading into
New York Harbor. There is not, it is
declared, vessel afoat to-day with
armor of sufficient strength to resist
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13
The New Hats.

The new hats are nothing if not
smart, with all their diversified shapes
and bewildering styles of trimming.
An attemptto choose a suitable hat for
divers occasions among all this con-
fusing variety is pretty sure to result
in failure, for they are so widely
different in shape that it is difficult to
decide which is the most becoming.
There is everything between a small
bonnet and large hat in all the odd
fantastic shapes imaginable.
Toques, both large and small, made
of shirred velvet, are prime favorites.
The brim may be plain and the crown
shirred, or the reverse, as is the most
becoming, and again the entire hat
may be made of shirred velvet. Vel
vet hats in any shape and size are in
vogue, and they are plated, shirred
or plain, as you fancy.
Little dressy bonnets have en-
broidered crowns of velvet in some
light color, with q finish of black
around the edge. And the small jet
bonnet is here again, gllttering with
every kind of jet. Some of the new
bonnets have strings, but it is entirely
a matter of choice whether you have
them or not.
Braided felts and braided effects as
glossy as satin form some of the new
hats, and feathers predominant in the
trimming. There are the most fascin-
ating pokes among the large shapes,
and there is, too, the low-crowned
hat with a. decided brim trimmed
with innumerable ostrich feathers,
which stand up and spread out on
either side, or curl over in the more
natural way, as if they were ready to
fall off. Two shades of velvet are
used in the large hats, one for trim
ming, which is sometimes in strong
contrast with the other, and an oc-
casional velvet hat in some bright color
is covered with black lace Wide
spreading bows in front trim some of
the hats, and one of the trying novel
ties of the season is a Wedgwood blue
felt with ''beefeater" crown trimmed
with three shades of the same blue
velvet and pheasants' tails. Birds of
the pheasant tribe furnish variety III
hat trimmings this season, and owls
feathers, too, are used.
The large toque with full, irregu-
lar brim and trimmed with ostrich
feathers, is one of the most popular
styles of the season. Boat shaped
felt hats trimmed with fancy ribbon
and stiff feathers are also fashionable
for morning wear.-New York Sun.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13
Her Ruse.


"Well," said Miss Twitters, 81
think am safe now."
''Safe from what?" asked Miss Kit
tisb.
Burglars"
"Were you in danger from burg
lars?"
''I think was. Everybody is, more
or less, especially an unprotected lady
in big house. I've been afraid of
burglars ever since John and his wife
went West and left me by myself"
"What have you done to insure
safety?"
'I have bought four mems hats, of
different styles and sizes, and have
hung them on the hat-rack in the hall.
When Mr.. Burglar surveys the array,
he will decide that there are too many
men in that house to make his exploit
rs safe as he might wish, and he will
go on to some other house. rather
tiatter myself that this is a pretty good
plan. Don't you think so?"-Harper's
Bazaar,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13

A vehicle to travel twice this dis
tance could readily be built, but it
would need to be twice its weight in
order to accommodate twice the bat
terry equipment. This type of vehicle
is constructed with the view of speed
of from six to twelve miles Jan hour,
but vehicle can be built to approx
mate thirty miles an hour, although it
would necessarily be made as racing
apparatus and not fit for street worF.
Two one-and-one-half horsepower
motors, weighing 1924 pounds each,
are found sufficient for hanson, and
are operated at maximum speed Of
1850 revolutions per minute.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13
She Had No "scolding Locks"

Some people are absolutely devoid
OF tact. One of these is youthful
matron, who, wishing to make her
very dearest friend--another young
matron-a birthday present, decided
on the purchase of a handsome pair Of
shell side combs.
Nothing could have been more ap-
propriate for the blonde tresses of her
friend, and the giver felt much pleased
with her selection when she went to
call on her to give her the pretty or
naments.
81 thought you would like them, "
she said, when her friend had admired
them and thanked her rapturously,
'you will find them so handy to fasten
up your scolding locks"
"What do you mean?" asked her
friend, in surprised tone.
''Did you ever hear of scolding
locks? They are the short ends of
your hair that are always flying loose.
They bother one so much, but side
combs keeps them in order, besides
being very becoming ornaments.
$50 you think 1 have scolding locks
then I must be scold. Thanks,
awfully, dear, but don't believe L
need any combs. Keep them for your
own scolding OUTFIT and the face of
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13
FUNERAL..WEDDlNCS.
The Strange Custom Observed by a Tribe
of Farther India.

of Farther India.
Among the Shan Karens of farther
India funerals are made the occasions
of grand wedding festivals, in which
all the manageable young men and
women of the village are privileged to
participate AS it is not always con.
venient to hold these interesting cere.
monies at the exact time a villager
may die, it is customary to deposit the
corpse in some temporary resting
place till the marriage market is ia
vorable to giving it obsequies worthy
of it's former estate. Consequently
pass before the memory of the dead
Karen receives the honor which is its
due.
When good time comes for we'd
dings the remains are taken from their
resting place and set upon u platform
which has been prepared for them,
and the eligible bachelors and mar
riageable young women are invited to
come and compete in a marrying
match. The funeral service" is then
begun with chorus of men celebrat-
ing tue DedutleS VI AuIcu lldlliclS III
general:s The girls respond in draw
ling falsetto. The bachelors, each in
his turn, begin usually for the sake of
peace, with the most muscular maiden.
If one of them is rejected, he waits till
his turn comes again, and addresses,
if he sees fit, some other girl.
The girls receive the proposals in
perfect self-possession and respond
10 them in phrases like those with
which they have been addressed, the
models of which have come down
from old times. Reflections seldom
occur, except when a man makes
mistake and applies to a girl who is
known to be reserving herself for an
other. The funeral service" goes on
ia this way till it is plain that no more
alliances can be made, when it is
closed, and the body of the deceased
is buried. The matches thus made
are binding, and no other way of max
ing them is in favor.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13
Decrease of Song Birds.

The rapid decrease of English song
birds is now attributed not only to
their being killed for millinery pur-
poses to supply the demand made by
English women, but to their being
used for food. An English traveller
asserts that in two or three italian
cities he saw, within the space of as
many days, some thousands of dead
English 'songsters exposed for sale in
the provision shops. 1t is southwark,
cf course, that they fly as soon as
there is the first touch of frost, and
then they meet this melancholy fate.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13

its shot. John F. Meigs estimates
that blow from the new gun would
have striking energy equal to that of
a 2000-ton ship when running at full
speed. The shot from the gun, he
adds, would smash, crack and batter
down any armor which it would be
possible for ship to carry.
The caliber will be sixteen inches,
the length, from breech to muzzle,
will be forty-nine feet two inches
Through the breech in vertical line
the gun will have q measurement of
exactly five feet. Mr.. Meigs COM
putes the weight of shot for the new
gun at little over 2300 pounds. That
means more than ton OF metal. The
heaviest shots fred in England have
not weighed over 1000 pounds.
The powder charge for the Ameri-
can gun will weigh nearly 1000 pounds.
Provided extreme elevation for range
could be obtained, shot from the
New York Harbor gun should be able
to travel more than sixteen miles.
The greatest known range ever at
tained was from the famous 'jubilee
shot" in England. The distance
measured about twelve statute miles.
The United States has never before
attempted any heavier piece of ord
nance for coast defence than q twelve
inch gun. The weight of a piece of
the latter caliber is approximately
fifty tons. In the sixteen-inch gun
there is observed jump of seventy
six tons increase in weight.
The first ingot for the new sixteen
inch gun was cast recently at Bethle-
hem. It was for the tube forging and
weighed $4,000 pounds. The jacket
forging is also out. It weighs 10000
pounds. Under the contract made
with the War Department the Bethle-
hem works will turn out all forgings
for the great gun. The tempering and
annealing process will also be applied
at the Bethlehem shops. When all
the parts are out, the tube, jacket and
hoops will be shipped to the United
States arsenal at Watervliet, West
Troy, N. Y. There they are to be as
sembled together, and the gun itself
rified and made ready for service.
All metal used is fluid compressed.
The specifications which are being ad-
hered to demand the most exacting
physical tests. Specimen pieces of
metal are taken from all forgings, are
subjected to elongation, breaking and
bending tests. Finally every part of
the gun must be of forged metal. The
tube, for instance, has been cast and
rough bored. 1t will next have man
drel introduced through its length and
then be placed under the hammer.
For this latter stage the Bethlehem
works have the largest hammer in the
world. It is capable of delivering q
blow of 100 tons, or some ten tons
more than the famous Krupp ham,
mer.
The building of the new sixteen inch
gun is an expensive Undertaking The
gun itself will cost abont $3.50 OOO
For single guns the average cost to the
Government for all fortifcation work
IN this country is roughly $1,000 per
ton of gun. ooo fsi
The cost of the gun carriece and tur.
ret Will bring the cost up to as mncb
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13

seventy-two inches in diameter on the
inside, and seventy-six and one-quarter
inches in diameter, outside measure
ment, and twelve feet six inches long
over all. The metal in it weighed 2O,-
900 pounds. The seventy-two-inch
pipe was moulded for the New Orleans
& Northeastern Railroad, to be used
for culverts under their tracks. A
small river can flow through one of
these pipes. 1t is as large as the great
sewers of Paris which were built of
brick and stone.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13
An Elephant Race in Ceylon.

An elephant is heavy looking ami
NAL but can be very quick in his
movements. There was an elephant
race recently at Nuwara Eliya, Cey-
Ion, in which nine elephants took part,
and in which an elephant belonging
to the Buddhist high priest of Handy
won easily. A local paper says: "The
race was won in heats and was most
interesting to watch, the animals seem
ing quite to understand what they had
to do, and moving regularly under the
guidance of their respective mahout OF
rider
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13
The First Woman Lawyer.

The first woman lawyer to practise
in British dominions is Miss Edith r.
Benjamin, LII. B., of Dunedin, New
Zealand. Her university career was
one of great distinction, and when she
graduated this year in law, she came
out first in Jurisprudence, constitu-
tional history and law, Roman law and
equity, and was bracketed first with
another in criminal law and real and
personal property.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13
WORLDS BIGGEST CANNON
TO PROTECT NEW YORK.

again as the weapon, while the cost
for foundation will, it is estimated,
round out grand total of at least
$500, 900. The foundation for the six
teen-inch gun will requires depth, it is
said, of fifty feet if earth be the basis.
This foundation must be constructed
of concrete.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13

Experiments have been going on for
the past two years for the purpose Of
trying to learn something Of the
characteristics of the Atlantic ocean as
a great moving body of water. AS a
result the whole Atlantic is shown to
be slowly circulating ndand round,
like an enormous pool.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13
Little Girls FrOcks.

Little girls frocks follow the styles
of their mammas in the blouse effects.
They also have the double skirts. A
pretty one, the upper skirt being half
the length of the under one, has the
edges of both trimmed with rows of
narrow satin ribbon. The silk of the
gowE has light foundation with a
tiny polka dot of delicate color. The
putfed sleeves come just below the ell
bow.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13

It has been calculated that the mum.
Ler of moles in cubic inch of any
gas is 100, 900, 900, 600, 600, 900, 600, 600,
and in each of these molecules there
are several atoms moving among
themselves at the ra: e of 20 miles
minute.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13

Largest Cast Iron Pipe Ever Moulded.
The largest pipe ever cast was turned
out at Bessemer, near Birmingham,
Alabama, the other day. The pipe was
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13

although in one instance-the case of
an application for extradition-he said
he would not have issuedit until he had
given the protestants hearing. He
has announced his determination to
defend with vigor every act Of "Gov-
ernor Reeve" including those quoted.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13

the dearest friend clouded with
anger.
every well. Just as you like.
Good bye, DEAR" and the donor Of
the combs snatched them up and car
ried them home, where she had fit
of Mysteries. And all because she
needed little tact.-Chicago Times
Herald.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13

A Church Literally Founded on a Rock.
The tenth anniversary of the Pres
byterian Church at Waterloo, Iowa,
was celebrated short time ago. There
would be nothing remarkable about
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-01-13

that, only that the church is part Of
solid rock, having been cut out of
big boulder ten years ago.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-02-11
A Day of Pleasure.

Mr.. and Mrs. Duryea en-
tertained very charmingly at
their magnificent winter
home in the suburbs of Hick-
DRY Valley Saturday. About
$50 guests were present, sew
eral of whom were from Boil
war. Upon the arrival OF
the guests they were invited
to the traps to witness clay
pigeon shooting. The con
test was participated in by
a dozen gentlemen. 1t
finally narrowed down be-
tween Mr.. Duryea and Mr..
w. A. May. The former won
the prize by breaking ten
pigeons out of a possible
eleven.
About l o'clock an elegant
luncheon was served, consist
ing of the daintiest and rarest.
of dishes.
The hnautifu1 residence
was thrown open and gone
over by the guests. 1t is
handsomely and richly fur
nished with all the conven-
fences that wealth can buy.
In the afternoon a fox
chase was the amusement. |
The number of horsemen
who entered was about IS, |
the balance of the ladies and
gentlemen witnessing the
scene from a commanding
eminence. The. fox was in
full sight from start to finish. |
The run lasted about one
hour, and the distance cover
ed was about Is miles.
Late in the afternoon the |
guests departed, with praise
for the hospitality of Mr.. and |
Mrs. Duryea.