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EASTERN LEAGUE.
TORONTO

WilkcsB Barre June l6.-Todays game
was q pitchers battle i'm which Patton
had the best of it. The score:
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LIVERY.

EDWARDS LIVERY - FIRST CLASS
double ana single carriage. cabs and
boarding. Joseph i\clly. successor.
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BUSINESS CHANCE.

RARE CHANCE TO BUY \ GOOD
paying well established business. only
small amount of cash required. Box
&C" Tribune office.
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CHAIRMAN GARMAN
TALKS POLITICS
Expects 10 See the Democracy Re.
united at Altoona.

HE DOES NOT EXrECT THAT THE
COMING CONVENTION WILL Re A
QUIET AFFAIR -- But BELIEVES
THAT MORE OR LESS ACTIVITY
WILL BE DISPLAYED.
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REWARD.

~---y-y-----~---~-~-~->-y-~~--
$500 REWARD FOR INFORMATION OF
the parties who have n.y. lemon and
white pointer dog, Max. EuGcrton j.
Smith.
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WIRE SCREENS

JOS KUETTEL, REAR on LACkA-
wanna avenue, Scranton, Pa, manufac-
tureT OF Wire Screens
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All trains run daily except sunday,
siguihes that trains stop on signal for pas
Bongers
secure rates via ontario Western before
purchasing tickets and save money. Day and
Night Express TO the West.
&c, Anderson, Gen. Pass Agt
T. EntcToft, Div Pass, Agt. Scr sntnn. Pa,
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PlTTSBURG RACES.

rttsburg, June ia large crowd at
tended the third days racing at McNccs
Rocks track. Three good races were
pulled on but nothing sensational de-
Ncloped, Sun mary:
rs tTut, purse $500. Continued from
Wr1nrS1IND
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HELP WANTED-EEMaLE.

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avenue.
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THE LEADER. l2i and l2G Wyoming ave.
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TO EXCHANGE.

A GENTLEMAN WOULD LIKE TO EN-
change n fine horse and buggy for
good upright piano. Address. stating
makers name, Box 30, Tribune office
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SEEDS

G. r. CLARK & CO. SEEDNEN AND
Nurscrymen; store liG Washington ave-
nue.; green house, 1850 North Main ave-
nue.; store telephone, 1872
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hotels AND RESTAURANTS
SCHOOLS
MIDWIFE

MRS. GABLE, GRADUATE MIDWIFE.
l5lS WashhUrn street. Scranton. En-
Gagements solicited. Rooms and pest
attendance for a limited number of pa
tients.
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Chicago ProLncn Market.

Chicago, June IA heavy decline at
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THE TRIBUNE'S OPPORTUNITY BURERU
":2:7e" ::F ,... ....s. .. tor the . Who Have Houses. . ::
n Estate m u Property @ Emw who Wan Situations
LAWYERS

FRANK =. BOYLE. ATTORNEY AND
Counsellor . at Law. Burr buildings,
rooms Is and Ii, Washington avenue.
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SITUATIONS WANTED

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man, age 81: willing to do anything
well recommended. Address j. M, az
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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-24

ants, however, are but minute frag
ments of cosmic mal1er, a belt CT
Which appears to revolve around the
SUI, and through which the 3a, Ii
travels in the months CT August and
Nov omber, which, rushing through
srace at an infinite speed, are raised
by friction with our atmosphere to
heat so intense that, in few sec
onds from the first impact with the
air, they are resolved into gas. The
average weight of these little bodies
is estimated at about two ounces, but
occasionally much larger bodies come
within our range, which continue in
an incandescent state for several Sec
onds before being cosumed, and pre-
senting a most brilliant appearance.
These are popularity termed meteors.
And occasionally yet larger bodies
of metallic Origin, which have been
wandering through space for ages,
come within the sphere Of attraction
of our earth, and plunge, with deaf
ening roar, INTO the soil. These are
the meteorites, or thunder bolts, I"
which may be seen in many of our
museums.
How absolutely regular and i'm
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-24
GIRL GOT THE BICYCLE.
Drawn as a Prize But Her Escort
Claimed It.

An Atlanta dispatch says that the
famous bicycle suit that has attracted
SO much attention in that city for sew
eral weeks has been concluded.
Ray S. Stowe invited Miss Blanche
Kramer to attend a theatrical perform
ance with him. The company had off
cred a bicycle to the young woman who
should hold the lucky number, drawing
to be by lot Miss Kramer held the
right number and carried off a hand
some wheel.
A few days afterward young Stowe
called on her and borrowed the wheel.
He Gid not return it, and when she de-
handed it he replied that inasmuch as
it had been his money which drew the
machine he was entitled to it and pro-
posed to keep it. The young woman
began suit in the district court to re-
cover the bicycle. The trial developed
all the facts. It occupied day and
half, and was attended by large number
of people. The case went to the jury
Saturday afternoon.
The position of the attorneys for
Miss Kramer was that the management
specifically proposed to- give the wheel
tc a woman; that when the young man
invited Miss Kramer he did so with
the understanding that his invitation
included participation in the chance of
drawing the prize, and that for the
young man to claim it would be to
violate the terms ON which the tickets
were given out. The jury took this
view and gravely rendered verdict in
favor OF the girl.
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the pan-American exhibition of New
York
Special representatives from Scot
land are also expected, and these will
endeavor to interest exhibitors and
fish culturists in the Aberdeen fishery
exposition of 1899.
Among the most interesting reports
will be that of the California fish
commission, which claims that its
output of the fishers for the year was
1855, 900 salmon. It has in it's hatch
cries 100000 salmon eggs that will
be matched and liberated next year.
At the Baird station 100000 eggs
we're collected; at the Battle Greek
station 100000 eggs have been col
lected, and the season is not yet
closed. Last year the total collec-
tions at all the stations on the coast
amounted to only 100000 eggs.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-24

mutable are the laws which govern
the movements of the heavenly bod
les! The earth performs it's journey
of 58O,0OO,O00 miles around the sun
III 365 days, 6 hours,9 minutes, 10
seconds, and 75-hundredths of a sec
ond, never varying probably the huns
dl edith of a second, and, from year to
year, and from age to age, travelling
over the exact position, relatively to
the sun, it had previously traversed;
and this Notwithstanding that it is
rushing along at the rate of $4,000
miles an hour, and that it is also re-
yolving upon it's own axis at the rate
Cat the equator) of 1000 miles an
hour. These two movements are
performed with such exact and alb
solute punctuality that astronomers
can calculate with unfailing accuracy
and without the error of fraction
of a second, astronomical events
which will happen many years hence.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-24

angling and fishery associations, and
of persons interested in the CONNER
cial fisheries, fish protection and
fish culture. Special sessions will be
devoted to fish, oyster and sponge
cultivation, fishery protection and leg
islation, the economic fisheries and
angling.
Both the commercial fishes and the
game fishes will be considered with a
view to getting legislation to protect
and multiply them. For the benefit
of the man who fishes for sport a fly
casting tournament will be held, and
there are few finer places in the world
for game fishing than the coast and
inland waters of Florida, where the
tarpon, the red snapper, the pompano,
the mullet, the sheepshead, the Span
ish mackerel and many other vari-
cites Of fish which delight the angler
abound.
Another object is to awaken inVen-
tors to the need of a machine or pro-
cess for drying fish when taken from
the water so that they may be baled
for shipment, as cotton and tobacco
now are. It is believed that such a
process would be of the greatest i'm
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meeting, to give practical demonstra-
tons of the methods of Matching the
local marine food fishes, and to give
practical exhibitions of the manner
of conducting deep-sea dredging oper-
ations for fishes, coral, sponges, etc.
1t is proposed to organize at the
close Of the congress an international
Fishery association, having for it's
purpose the promotion of friendly re-
Iations and the interchange of ideas
among those interested in fishing and
fish-cultural matters in various parts
Of the world, through the medium of
an official publication, and call may
be issued for a session to be held at
Paris, 1900, during the great exposi-
ton.
The congress will consist of dele
gates from the national and state fish
commissions, representative of state
and foreign governments, members Of
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BALLADE OF ALTERNATIVES.

1 told her that the rose was fair,
But she was fairer than the rose,
told her that her ripping hair
The sport of every breeze that blows!
Was brighter than the golden CLOVIS
Of dawn, and that for one small tress
give my blood that bounding goes;
And all she said to me was-''Yes? 2"
l said her blue eyes were a pair
Of brilliant sapphires set in SHOWS
Unmelting and as pure and rare
AS e'er on mountain tops repose;
And such dainty, scornful nose!
/ told her that all I possess
I'd give to kiss her lips sweet bows;
And all she said to me was s?''
| said she drove me to despair,
[ urged her to assuage my woes;
Her dimples darted here and there; :
I looked so foolish, I suppose!
"Your mortgage on my heart fore
close.''
I said: 'Rid me of doubts distress!
You could reward me if you chose!"
And all she said to me was-''Yes ?''
L'Envoy.
Accepted, prince? Jove only knows!
Rejected? That I'm left to guess
| know not, though I did propose,
For all she said to me was ''Yes?"
Harold MacGarth in Puck.
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WHERE LIFE IS LONGEST.

More people over 100 years old are
found in mild climates than in the
higher ATTITUDES, says The Detroit Free
Press. According to the last census of
the German empire, of a population of
55,000,000 only seventy eight have pass
ed the hundredth year. France, with a
population of 10000, 900, has 213 cente-
narians. In England there are LAG,
ireland SIS, and in Scotland forty-six
Sweden has ten, and Norway twenty
three; Belgium, five; Denmark, two;
Switzerland, none. Spain, with pop
ulation of 100000, has 4O1 people
over 100 years of age. Of the 100000
inhabitants of Servia 575 people have
passed the century mark. 1t is said
that the oldest person living whose age
has been proven is Bruno Cotrim, born
in Africa, and now living in Rio de
Janeiro. He is $50 years old A
&C achman in Moscow has lived 40
years.
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pressure of the atmosphere that YES
sci exhausted of air would weigh less
than when full; but he discovered
nothing to fill the resulting vacuum.
About 1870 Lana proposed to pre-
pare four hollow globes of copper, each
twenty feet in diameter, and so thin
that they would weigh less than an
equal bulk of atmosphere whein ex-
hausted of air. These globes were to
be attached to car and lift it into the
air, but when the air was exhausted
the globes collapsed.
The Torricellian tube or barometer,
discovered in 1643, by which the pres
sure OF the atmosphere was ascer-
tanned, was, no doubt, the stimulus of
Lanas proposition of the copper
globes.
In the Journal des Savans, Septem-
Der u, 1878, published in France, an
account is given of Besnier, lock-
smith, who succeeded in flying by
means of two rods, with rectangular
surfaces at each end, attached to the
feet and hands. His first pair of
thefeet andP-&6r f11a6thcandsr
wings were purchased by a Mr.. Bald
win of Guibre, who, it is said, used
them with remarkable success.
Besinier did not pretend that he
could fly a long distance, but would
raise himself from one height to an
other until the top of building was
reached, from which he would sail
over neighboring houses.
In 1909 Bartholomew de Gusman pc
titioned the king of Portugal to prohib-
it all persons from copying his flying
machine, which petition the king
granted by ordering that any infringer
be put to death.
Joseph Gallien published a book in
1755 in which he asserted that bag or
cloth of leather filled with air lighter
than that of the atmosphere might be
used for the purpose of aerial voyages,
but no one knew how to obtain the
lighter air.
In 1882 Stephen and John Montpelier,
without previously studying the mat
ter, decided after seeing smoke arising
from a chimney, that if a light paper
bag were filed with smoke or hot air
it would rise also. The experiment
was successfully made with bag of
forty cubic feet capacity, after which
larger bags were used until one with a
capacity of nearly $4,000 cubic feet and
a lifting capacity of 500 pounds was
made-Philadelph Record.
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in the latter structure will greatly
surpass in interest even those in the
famous fisheries building at the Chi
cago worlds fair.
One of the principal objects of the
congress is to consider the means to
maintain and increase the supply OF
fish and other products in the rivers,
lakes and coastal waters of the coun-
try. The commercial fisheries will
be discussed with reference to their
condition, extent, methods, and the
influence of special methods on the
supply. The relations of legislation
and protection to the economic fisher
les will be considerd. Artificial meth
DDS. as applied to the increase OF
water products, will be a prominent
topic. The cause and interests OF
the angler and sportsman will be duly
regarded.
The United States fish commission
is manifesting great interest in the
congress. A vessel Of this important
branch of the government service will
be stationed at Tampa during the
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portance, as it would open up new
fields of labor and at the same time
furnish a new and cheaper source Of
food supply.
Incidentally frog and sponge Gull
ture will be discussed. Already this
country consumes ten times as many
frogs legs as does France, and frog
culture promises to become an i'm
portant industry. In regard to
sponges, Florida already produces
some fine varieties, and it is expected
to increase the production very much.
The following special days have
been set apart:
Jan. 19.-For the commissioner of
the worlds fair columbian exposition
Of Chicago.
Jan. 20.-For the commissioner of
the Atlanta exposition.
Jan. 21.-For the commissioner Of
the Nashville centennial exposition.
JAM 22.-F'or the commissioner of
the Omaha trans Mississippi exposi-
ton.
Jan. 24.-For the commissioner Of
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THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR.

The great geometrician, Archytas,
four hundred years before Christ,
according to Aulus Gellius, con-
structed a wooden pigeon which
could fly by means of mechanical pow
ers, and an aura spirit the latter
probably referring to magnets.
During the reign of Nero, in Rome, a
man is recorded as flying high in the
air above the city, but he lost his life
in the descent.
Regiomontanus is said to have con-
structed an artificial eagle" at Nurem-
berg which flew out to meet the En-
peror Charles V. and accompanied him
back to town.
It is also stated th:t shout the sans
period a monk named Elmerus flew
about a furlough from the top of tow
er in Spain.
A person named Dante Of Perouse,
twas enabled to fly by means of a pair
of wings, but while amusing the citi-
zens with his flight he fell on the top
of ST. Mary's church and broke his
thigh.
Cuperus, in his treatise on 'The Ex-
oe1lence of Man." asserts that Leonardo
da Vinci, the great painter, successfully
practiced the art of flying, but his ac-
count is not we'll authenticated.
In John Wilkins work, '"The Discov-
cry of the New World (about 1860,
he mentions the belief of Albatus de
Saxonia that some part of the air is
navigable. because any iron or brass
vessel whose substance is much heavier
than water, if filled with air, would
swim upon it and not sink, this leading
him to suppose that a vessel in the at
mosphere would act in the same way if
the outward border could be reached.
For about 400 years before 100 one
generation after another conceived
more or less fully the principles and
truths of the theory of flying, without
any real success toward putting it in
practice.
Burton, writing about 1850, believed
that "some new-fangled wit will some
time or other find out this art" argu
ing that the flying artists of his time
only lacked experience.
Roger Bacon was probably the first
person to discover the principle of at
mosphere buoyancy, though he did not
Know how to apply it to the art of bal
looming. His principle was kept sight
of by his successors in the pursuit of
this ubject until it consummated in the
trial by the Montgolfer brothers, in
Paris, in 1882.
Francis Lana, a Jesuit, deduced from
the new discoveries of the nature and
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means distant star, but may be re-
garded as one of our nearest neigh
bors; another bright star, Capella,
being reckoned to be more than four
times her distance. But the vast
body of the stars are plunged in the
illimitable, fearful abyss of space,
infinitely more profound and meal
cu1able distances, it being only of
the very nearest stars that the par
allax can be taken, and the distance
thereby calculated.
A celestial phenomenon which has
given rise to much popular error, is
that of the shooting stars" It was
long imagined by the uneducated that
shooting stars were really fixed stars
falling from their positions in the
heavens, and brilliant display such
as that of November, 1866 (Which
will be repeated in 1899, gives rise
to considerable perturbation amongst
the ignorant. These brilliant visit
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This, however, is not so, as the whole
of the stars are in rapid movement.
AS an example, Arcturus is calcu-
lated to move through space at the
prodigious velocity of no less than
1916 miles an hour, or Sd miles per
second. In century, therefore, this
81 eat star traverses no less than one
hundred and seventy thousand mil
lions of miles. And yet to our vision
his position in the heavens is pract-
ically unaltered, SO vast is his dis
lance from us. Our sun itself is cal
culated to be travelling at the annual
rate of 153,000,0O0 miles toward the
bright star Vega, which is now such
a brilliant spectacle in the zenith;
but as that star is calculated to be
more than 115,000,0 900, 100000 miles
distant from the sun, we need not be
alarmed lest there should be col
lision in our time; as even supposing
Vega to be advancing towards the
sun at the same terrific rate, the
crash would not take place until 375,-
900 years hence, so prodigious is
space. Vega, however, is by no
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-24
THE WONDERS OF THE STARS.

How mysterious are some of the
phenomena observed in the heavenly
bodies! How can we account for the
variations of come of the stars? AS an
example, the star Algol, in the con-
stellation Perseus, for days, Ii IL
hours is star of the second magni-
tt en- it suddenly decreases, and in
8 1-2 hours is diminished to
the fourth magnitude. 1t then
increases in brilliancy, and in
a further period Of 1-2 hours
again attains it's maximum. All this
takes place in days, q hours, ~
minutes. Another star, Mira, in the
constellation Cetus, for months re-
mains invisible, then it reappears,
it's light gradually increasing
for three months, and for Is
days it is equal to a brilliant
star of the second magnitude,
repeating the variations in a fixed
period of 331 days, Is hours, Z min
utes.
We are accustomed to regard the
so called fixed stars" as being alb
solute1y stationary in the heavens.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-01-24
EVERYTHING BUT FOOD.

"Well, dear me, Tottie Twinkle
toes!"
''Why, bless my soul, if it amt
Flossie Footlites!"
''How are you, anyway? Still in
the 'Twiddledum Tweedledee' chorus? p
"Yp. In front row now. Cora
Calcium had row with her Teller
who plays in the orchestra, an
wouldn't look that way, so they put
her back"
'She was always proud. Actually
wanted the boys to have an introduce
ton before they spoke to her.
Wouldn't that kill your"
"Thank heaven we amt that way!
Oh, yes, I wasn't a thing but out last
night"
Good timer"
Rather. My, but they were
spenders! Coupe with us all the
time-three dozen American Beauties
and three more when those withered
and wine till I couldn't rest!"
Gee! but they must have blown
you off SO you thought yourself in a
cyclone!"
Sure thing! They've got to do it
when they waltz with me. Say, lend
me dime, will your
whats the matter?"
'Ain't had a bite to eat since yes
+erday morning E. Creel, in New
York Journal.
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RETURNED TRAVELLER
And What He Learned on His Ex-
tended European Trip.

eve didn't miss anything at ALL"
said the man with side whiskers and
broad band around his silk hat
"Not a thing. Our party had the
money, and we had the time, and we
said that SO long as it had taken some
OF good many years to get to Eu-
rope we were going to take our time
about coming away. I tell you, gen
tlemen, for one solid year / haven't
done a thing but improve my mind I
wouldn't have missed seeing st. Paul's
for anything. just think of it! There's
a cathedral 500 feet long and 365 feet
high It was a loIg trip to take, but
it isn't every man who can say he has
seen cathedral 500 feet long and 365
feet high, and it was worth it."
''You went to the continent, of
course?"
oh, yes And we saw a lot of in
teresting things. I am going through
the guide books and learn all about
number Of them by heart. All, gen.
tlemen, tell you it is an impressive
thing to stand under the shadow of
cathedral 500 feet long and 365 feet
high"
you spent some time in Paris, OF
course?"
Eyes. We did the whole town
Never missed thing. Saw all the
cpriosities. But there was no
cathedral 500
Did you see the Latin quarter 2"
his friend interrupted.
The tourist hesitated
NO. he answered, reluctantly. ct
left all that sort of thing to a young
friend of mine, who was making
collection. To tell you the honest
truth I never did take much interest
in old coins, anyhow Washington
Star.