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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15
The cZAR,6 CURIOSITY,
Ho Destroyed His Daughters Doll to SEQ
How the Mechanism Worked.

The heavy burden of autocracy has
not destroyed all the boyish instincts
in Nicholas II. disposition, as the fol-
lowing anecdote, heard at dinner
party given in honor of a gentleman
of NJ. Faure's escort in his late Jour
ney, proves. The President, after
having searched all of the best Paris
ian shops to find some toys worthy of
the two little Grand-duchesses' accept
ance, and, having bought the ever
lasting golden rattle for Miss Tatiana,
was IN despair for something out of
the common to give Miss Olga. He
at last chose two wonderful dolls, one
got up as an elegant lady, the other as
an overdressed little girl; and, after
much difficulty, a most complicated
piece of machinery was inserted, thanks
to which, when wound mp, the lady
and her daughter begin ludicrous bit
of conversation, which Is finished by
the little girl crying because she is not
allowed to ride donkey on account Of
her gauZe dress.
The baby Grand-duchess was de.
lighted, but not more so than her
father, who, it appears, spent an hour
on the floor with the child, listening to
the squeaky dialogue between the
dolls. But the time came when the
Princess had to go to bed, which she
did very reluctantly. AS for the EN-
peror, he remained M instant in the
boudoir after her departure with the
two clever artificial ladies who had
taken his fancy, while the Empress,
NJ. Faure and some ladies and gentle
men of the Court were talking In the
next room. Suddenly strange noise
like that of an Internal machine was
heard, followed by loud cry of dis
may, and everybody rushed to see
what it was.
There was the Emperor, safe and
sound, but with dismal face, looking
at the dolls, which he had partly un-
dressed to find out the secret hidden
in their bosoms, whilo the dolls were
chattering away as if they would never
stop. The Empress. unable to re-
strain her temper, snatched up the
carpeted board on which were stand
ing and shaking the two precious
ladies, and, after having crushed her
husband with whitening eye, she said
to gentleman near her: please send
this away; it is too bad, indeed. The
Emperor spoils everything he touches. :"
But Nicholas looked so penitent and
the mishap was so funny that she
could not help laughing. Philadel-
phia Times.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15

"Fruit cures" Just now n fad in
Continental Europe with people hay
ing real or imaginary diseases, is by
no means q new thing. In the tenth
century an investigator has discovered,
many medical authorities became en-
thusiastic in their writings over the
remarkable curative virtues of grapes,
while certain Van Swieten Of a more
modern date is said to have recon
mended in special cases the eating Of
twenty pounds Of strawberries q day"
The Same gentleman also reports a
case of phthisis healed by strawber-
ries, and cites cases in which maniacs
have regained their reason by the ex-
elusive use Of cherries as food. These
instances rather SAVIOR Of the miracu.
lous, but there is no doubt that the
so-called grape cure for indigestion
and other evils, is carried on in many
places on the Continent, and that peo-
pie beta5e themselves TO Merau, We
way. Bingen, or to Italy and the South
Of France with the intention of de-
voting six weeks to the cure, during
which time they are expected to have
gradually accomplished tho feat Of
consuming from three to eight pounds
Of grapes daily, as the case may be.
Grapes are said TO exercise n salutary
action on the nervous system, and to
favor the formation of fat; that is TO
say, when fruit Of good quality is en-
ployed; IL the grapes are not sufficient
Iyripe and are watery and sour the pa
tient may lose rather than gain in
weight. The valuable results obtained
by fruit diet in cases Of biliousness
are due to the fact that noxious germs
habitually present in the alimentary
,anal do not thrive in fruit juices.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15
Progressive Fish Propagation.

The yearly report Of United States
Fish Commissioner John J. Brice
shows that $50. 900, 900 of Goldfish eggs
were collected, from which 90, 900, 900
of cod fry were liberated on the
natural spawning grounds along the
coast of Massachusetts. This was an
excess over the. previous year of about
100000. OF winter founders the
output was over "a, 900, 900 of fry from
about 80, 90, 600 of spawn. The work
of propagating Holsters has been
largely extended, and, although there
was poor catch OF females with eggs,
over 1913, 900, 900 of spawn was secured,
from which were produced over 49,
600, 900 of fry, an increase of 20,000,-
600 over the output of the previous
year. OF shad spawn over 203, 900, 900
were secured, some 100000 more
than during the previous year. OF
whitefish the take of eggs was 2OO,-
900, 900; of lake trout, Is, 900, 900; of
Atlantic salmon, $4,000, 900; of land
locked salmon, 100000 of quinnat
salmon, 75,000,000, and season for
these had not ended when the report
was compiled. To test the probable
value of the quinnat salmon in Eastern
waters 100000 Of fry were liberated
last spring in the st. Lawrence, Hud-
son, and Delaware Rivers in New York,
and in the Indian and Penobscot
Rivers in Maine, and 100000 were
held to be liberated when yearlings in
the Penobscot.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15
Henry Genrre.s RenIr-

The late Henry George, after his adj
dresses on the land tax theory, always
invited his hearers to ask questions,
which he delighted in answering. In
1888, after n lecture at Howard Uni
versity in Washington, Western Con-
gresham, accepting the invitation,
said:
''After all, Mr.. George, you advocate
n system of confiscation of property.
If / should take wild land and cult
vate and beautify it, would have won
undisputed title to the land itself, and
you should recognize my proprietor
ship in it"
This sally won loud applause from
the audience, but the applause was
deafening when Mr. George had flung
back this reply:
81 thought had explained that all
improvements ought by right to belong
TO the improver On that we agree.
= go farther. All that you produce
out of the land by your labor should
belong to you. II 1 should see you
sitting on the seashore fishing and
should see you catch large fish, or.
in other words, bring forth or produce
that fish, should maintain your right
to it as your property, TO use, TO self,
TO give or bequeath but I'll be hanged,
sir, il I'll agree that you own the
ocean from which you produce that
fish. Land stands in the same rela-
ton to man. springfield Republi-
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15
Scnwccd and Amber.

The main source Of tho amber sup
ply is the seacoast of the Baltic Ocean
1t Is fossil gum, originally the ex-
udation of species of confer now ex-
tinct. This grew in luxuriant profu.
sion hundreds of thousands of years
ago on the marshy coasts of Northern
Europe, when the climate was much
warmer than it is to day The natural
history of amber is thus explained:
The immense forests of amber pine
underwent their natural downfall and
decay. The resin of the woods ac-
cumulated in large quantities in boys
and ponds, and in tho soil of the for
ests. Where the coast was slowly
sinking, the sea by and by covered
the land, and the amber, which had
been gradually hardening, was Mt last
deposited at the ocean bottom. But
in the higher regions the pine contin-
ned to flourish, and SO amber would
still continue to be washed down to
the shore and deposited in the later
formed green sand. and the still later
formed stratum of Ignite or brown
coal
The gum became fossilized by It's
long burial under ground. More than
200 specimens of extinct life, animal
and vegetable, have been found i'm
bedded in amber specimens, including
insects, reptiles, plants, leaves, shells,
fruit, ETC., which had been caught in
the liquid gum and entombod there
for oil time. Some of these specimens
are so curiously beautiful MS to be al
most priceless, and one English COL
lector has q cabinet of them which is
valued at 100000. One piece en-
balms lizard about eight inches
long, little jeweled monster, perfect
in its form and coloring, which has no
like in anything existing now. In
deed, in many instances science is
able solely through this medium to
study details OF animal life which per-
ished from the earth many hun bred
thousands Of years ago. There are
flies preserved with wings poised rs il
for fight, where the prismntic sheen
glowing through the yellow sepulcher
is as brilliant rs if they were floating
alive in the sunshine.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15
WHOLE NO. 754.
POPULAR SCIENCE,

A mechanical device recently pat
Gated pastes paper labels on 100, 900
tins in ten hours.
The city of Santa Fe, New Mexico,
is without rats, mice and cats, as the
air is too rarefied for those animals.
1t is estimated that greater quanti-
ties OF gold and silver have been sunk
in the sea than are now in circulation
in the whole world.
DR.. b. kossmann, Of Charlotten-
berg, Germany, has secured a patent
from the Imperial Government covering
rust preventing paint composed of
the peroxides of earths of the cerium
group.
The tanners, of Newark, n. J., are
said to get more money out of n hide
than anywhere else. Three, and some
times four, splits are made and fin
ished. 1t is estimated that SIG is
realized per hide and the yearly bust
ness done amounts to $4,000, 900.
1t has been calculated that the hair
of the beard grows at the rate of one
and half lines n week. This will
give length of Gi inches in the course
OF year. For man eighty years of
age no less than twenty seven feet of
beard must have fallen before the edge
of the razor.
Through the gift of Mrs. Charles
Pratt, the Pratt Institute, of Brook
Ign, n. Y, has come into possession
of 1000 examples of textiles, ranging
over several centuries of European and
Oriental manufacture. The collection
was purchased from Signor Salvador,
of Florence, Italy, by whom it was
collected, and, it is said, cannot be
duplicated.
AT Lynn, Mass, there is now in
practical operation new cotton gin
which is attracting much attention.
This is roll gin, no revolving saws
being used which cut tho fibre, the
seed being forced out by scrapinG
blade close to the roller. Iu recent
trial q long staple lint run through
this machine was declared to be worth
15i cents n pound against six cents
pound when run through the old style
gin.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15
Bass hibernate I'm Mud.

The draining of a pond at the State
Hatchery, st. Joseph, Mo, few days
ago for the purpose Of removing the
bass to another pond furnished a sur
prise TO Fish Comm. sioner Yenawine
and Superintendent Carson. So few
bass were found that they suspected
some thief had captured the former
inhabitants of the water, but q short
time after the pond was drained one
of the mon stumbled onto n fish in
walking over the partially dry bottom
Of the pond, and, upon picking it up,
he found bass, and investigation re-
vealed large number of the fishes
ensconced in the mud, some Of them
twelve inches below the surface. Com
missioner Yenawine thinks this ex-
perience should set at rest all doubts
as TO whether tho black bass hiber-
mates in the mud in the winter.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15
EVANSVILLE, W. VA, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY x

pose you mean to marry the beggar,
Nell?"
His name is Holland" she sug-
gested.
'Iknow that. You can see his por-
trait in any illustrated paper for six
pence. It's in them all"
(Which is really no reason why he
shouldn't be addressed properly, is it?
have some idea that 1 have seen an
other portrait in the same places, with
the letters D.S.O. after the name"
"You need not get nasty. Besides,
you haven't told me yet if you are en-
gagged to him."
"Well, you see"-here she ventured
another glance-''he hasn't asked me
yet"
II suppose you will marry him,
though, he persisted. "It's natural
enough, perhaps--he's n genius and
all that--and of course I'm not. Wait
minute, Nelll can't stand this any
longer, and I'm bound to have it out
for good. You wero always cleverer
than I was; but you know what I've
wished for ever since / was an unlocked
cub ut Eton. / wasn't afraid to tell
You then. You remember, Nell?"
81 remember thinking that those
lickings--which you did not get
might have done you good.
well, You didn't say sol And all
the time L was stewing in India it was
the same; and when was down with
fever in the plains kept shouting one
name-so the doctor told me-"
1T was in very bad taste" she
murmured.
ooh! Then that fort on the frontier,
with the Waziris bowling round-and
not five minutes sleep on end for fear
they should rush us-and the grub
running out-and the only idea in my
head was to see it through somehow,
and get home to ask you to marry me-
There, Nell, it's out at lastl'
She was looking at him now, but
there was a world OF reproach-and
perhaps something else-in her eyes.
"You haven't asked me yetr she
cried.
"But, Nell-good heavens!-you
don't mean to say"
And then-well, in some mysterious
fashion he managed to gain possession
of her hands, and to say the rest with
out words. AS for her:
"You might have seen it, you foolish
boyi" she said.
And that was all.
Except that, little later, she met
Mr.. Holland.
II have been looking for you, Miss
Lindsay" he said: 81 have something
to say. Not going already. surely? I
may call tonight, then? 1 need not
tell you what it is-perhaps you can
guess-I-I hope So
II think it would be better not to
come, Mr.. Holland" she replied, giving
him her hand. 1T am sorry, but
will you oblige me by considering the
episode ms closed? I am engaged to
Captain Hayelock. David l.. John
ston, in Chambers's Journal.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15
a Curious Freak OF Nature.

Gus Frisch, who lives near Thirty
seventh and Market streets, Is the
owner OF o curiosity for which he has
received many tempting offers from
museum managers, but which he re-
fuses to sell. About three months ago
Mr.. Frisch received from his brother,
who is n missionary in India, two eggs
that were joined together. A note ac-
companying them explained that they
were peacock eggs and great curios-
ity on account of their strange form.
Now, Mr.. Frisch has friend in West
Philadelphia who is n poultry farmer.
and the idea struck him TO have the
eggs Matched in On incubator. In the
course of a month the shells fell
apart, and, instead of two separate
birds stopping ont, the pair came
forth joined together by q thick band
of what appeared to be gristle. BY
dint of extreme care and careful feed
ing, the strange pair were nursed
through babyhood, and are now be-
ginning TO get pin feathers of various
colors. Their odd appearance excites
no end OF curiosity, and they nre inter
esting for another reason. Jack, the
right-hand bird, is very fond of Mr..
Frisch, while Ned, the other, shows an
extreme aversion TO his master. When
Mr.. Frisch returns homo from work he
gives shrill whistle, and then fight
ensues, Jack tugs toward his master,
while Ned pull the opposite way
Things are only settled by one or tho
other being whipped, when the victor
follows his inclination, dragging the
vanquished bird with him. -Philade.-
phia Record.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15
THE cHlLoREN's KINGDOM.

I hear of n wonderful Paradise,
A garden OF bloom under luminous
skies
Where summer lasts all the year.
know not whore such fair land may be,
But Paradise kingdom lies close to mo
In the hearts of the children dear.
1t is blessed and blithe and shining,
And never knows aught OF sin;
Gut, except yc become as the little chill
dren,
Ye cannot enter IN.
/ hear Of q country where angels dwell,
Where rapturous melodies cast their spell,
And gladness and peace endure.
i know not where such fair land may be;
But Kingdom OF angels lies close to mo
In the hearts of the children pure.
1t is blessed and blithe and shining,
And never knows aught OF sin;
But, except ye become rs tho little chill
dren,
Ye cannot enter In.
1 hear OF Heaven OF glory, where
NO sorrow can enter, or pain or caro-,
And life and its love are complete -
i know not where such a fair land IN ny be-
But Kingdom of Heaven lies close to mo
In the hearts OF the children sweet
1t is blessed and blithe and shining,
And never knows aught OF sin:
But, except yc become as the little chill
dren,
Ye cannot enter In
-Eev. l.. W. Allen
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15
PlTH AND POINT.

Jones says he thought his gas
meter had gas-trick fever, but now be-
lieves it to BIO affected with galloping
consumption. Observer
Ikey-"Who vas it dot sail, pay as
You go'?" His Father-"I don't
know. key. 1 suppose der poor fell
Ter didn't know no peter. Puck.
He-"Don't let your father put in
electric lights" "Why not?"
He-"Well, er, you can't turn it low,
don't you see?"-Detroit Free Press.
Amateur Sportsmau-"Yourh hounds
all appear to be sick" Backwoodsmaa
-"Oh, no!-they're only playing of
sick. They think you want to borrow
'em to go shootin' with. Puck.
Prisoner-"It's hard to charge mo
with forgery, for you see / can't even
sign my own name" Judge-"That
point is immaterial; it's another mans
name you are accused of signing.
Tit-Bits.
Bagley-"Do you recollect that five
dollars L let you have about year
ngo?" Brace -"Perfectly. Baglcy
That's good; see your memory il
oil right; how's your eyesight?"-
Harlem Life.
Lawyer-'It's too bad the way old
Squirt's fortune has been squandered
in litigation. Layman-"It is, in
deed" Lawyer-"Why, fully nine
tenths of it has gone to his heirs in
witness fees. Truth.
Anna-"And her uncle left her all
that money! Has it changed her at
alp" Belle-"No, indeedl Sho is
just as enthusiastic as ever over
from one-sixty. Puck.
Friend-"Andw what are you engaged
on now, Professor?" Flying Machine
Inventor OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 1 am
now trying to invent 'falling-ma-
chine Ny ideas always seem to turn
out exactly wrong, you know
Judge.
az wonder why it is that foreign
women never como to America for
husbands2" "They are probably
afraid. American girls give our men
such bad recommendations Ivy marry
ing foreigners. "-Philadelphia North
American.
Old Gentleman debating indignant
Iette-)-"Sir: My stenographer, be-
ing lady, cannot take down what L
think of you. ], being gentleman,
cannot think it; but you, being neither,
can easily guess my thoughts. -
Brooklyn Life.
81 will say" remarked Willie Wish
inSton, "that have attained remark
able self-control. Eyes" replied
Miss Cayenne listlessly, "some people
seem to have positive genius for at.
tending to the trifing details of life"
Washington Star.
"Seems to me it costs you good
deal to study" said the father as he
handed the son money to buy books
with. 81 know it, replied the youth,
pocketing gratefully ten-dollar bill;
land don't study very hard, either"
- Harvard Lampoon.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15
VALUABLE DOGS IN ALASKA.
How tho Faithful ShtruaIs Render Good
Service to the nrondike Miners.

Robert Krook, the Swedish Klondiko
miner, tells the San francisco Examiner
that Esquimau dogs will draw two
hundred pounds each ON sled, so
that six dogs will draw a years supply
for one man. he, however, puts in
the proviso that the sleds should not
have iron runners, because the snow
sticks to the iron and increases the
friction SO much that the dogs cannot
haul more than one hundred pounds
apiece. With brass runners this
drawback is obviated. Last winter
Esquimau dogs cost from s75 to 5000
apiece, and he does not think the price
will increase materially, because when
the. demand is known the supply from
other parts of Alaska will be plentiful
ut Dyea and other points along the
Yukon. Sometimes the feet of the
dogs get sore, and then tho Indians
fit moccasins on them; as soon, how
ever, rs the tenderness is gone from
their feet, the dogs will bite aud tear
the moccasins off In speaking of the
dogs he said that they need no lines to
guide them and are very intelligent,
learning readily to obey command
to turn in any direction or to stop.
They have to be watched closely, as
they will attack and devour stores left
in their way, especially bacon, which
must be hung up out of their reach.
At night, when camp is pitched, the
moment blanket is thrown upon the
ground they will run into it and curl
up, neither cuffs nor kicks sufficing to
bulge them. They lie as close mp to
the men who own them as possible,
and the miner cannot wrap himself up
30 close that they won't get under his
blanket with him. They are human,
too, in their disinclination to get out
in the morning.
Where sleds cannot be used, tho
dogs will carry fifty pounds apiece in
saddle-bags slung across their backs,
paunier fashion. Nature has fitted
these dogs for their work, and so mas
tiffs and st. Bernards are not so SER
viceable. The two later breeds eau
not stand the intense cold SO well,
and, though Mt first they will draw the
sleds cheerfully, their feet cannot re-
sist the strain, and begin to bleed so
freely that the dogs are useless. The
pads under the feet of the Esquimau
dogs are of tougher skin.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15
Origin Of tho Nnmn.

The origin of the name doll" has
baffled some OF the wisest and most
learned, the majority of whom have
ut last come to the conclusion that IL
comes from dolly" the diDinutive
of Dorothy" a favorite name for
girls in England two hundred years
ago. The word doll" is not found in
common use in our language until the
middle OF the eighteenth century, and,
as far as one can discover, first appears
in the Gentleman's Magazine for Sep
TENDER, 1851, aud the following quota
ton: Several dolls with different
dresses, made in ST. James street,
have been sent to the Czarinn to show
the manner of dressing AZ present in
fashion among English ladies'" Prior
TO this, the word used TO describe the
favorite plaything Of oil girls in all
countries and in oil ages was baby"
which is to be found together with
"poppet" or "puppet" in this sense in
the works Of most Of the great earliest
writera
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1898-02-15
The Habit of Saving

Now that the good times are march
ing upon us, filling tho farm and the
factory, and making the people cheer
full and the country glad, it might be
well for oil to remember that the best
way to profit by the depression is to
save something out of the new pros
perity for any other possible season of
ldleness and distress. With the vast
abundance that this country has
known, the habit of economy has
como slowly. Many have seen the
wisdom of it, and they are our rich
people and the owners of our lands
and industries and banks and various
profitable properties. But the great
majority OF the people have lived up
to their incomes, and when the wages
stopped or the salary ceased, grim
want stalked in. And so good men
and wcll-bred women had to 90 to
charity to keep from starvation; had
to sacrifice their pride and accept Of
the public bounty, because in the
days of prosperity they had forgotten
the future
Saving comes easily when it is once
begun. Do not spend more than You
earn. When Peter Cooper earned 81
he lived on fifty cents OF it, and the
other successful men will testify how
hard the struggle was to save the first
money and how easy it was after the
habit had been formed. We are go
ing to have some of the greatest years
the world has ever known, but no one
should let that prospect delude him
into spending oil he gets. There is
safety only in saying.-Leslie's
Weekly