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The sun., 1898-11-10
A Narrow Escape.

Patrick Vim, p, w. 4 B. nagman at
Market street crossing, at the risk of his
own life, saved the life of an intoxicated
man yesterday morning, who was almost
run over by shifter No. 10. Vim saw
the mans peril, although about half
square away, and calling to the engineer,
rushed forward and pulled the man from
the track. The engineer saw the man in
time and applied the brakes and stopped
the engine just in time. II was a narrow
escape for both men.
The sun., 1898-11-10

llc people must want thorough Re-
publican administration in Delaware,
and thoroughly Addicks Republican
one at that. At least they SO voted, and
we will all have to be satisfied Erry
EreniDJ.
My, oh my, how we Republicans are
celebrating to-day in Delaware. We are
pleased to be able to extend the same
The sun., 1898-11-10

Everything has been put in readiness
along the line of the p, W. NIB. rail-
road from Philadelphia to Washington
for the annual inspection, which takes
place to-day
The sun., 1898-11-10
Collar Bone Dislocatetl.

Sergeant Albert Foster, Of Company
G. First Delaware Volunteers, who is o.
his home in New Castle on o furlough,
slipped and fell on the pavement on
Tuesday, dislocating his collar bone and
sustaining bad wrench.
The sun., 1898-11-10
H District Map
of Delaware

The STATE SENTINEL of Dover is hav.
ing prepared and will soon be ready to
deliver New Map of Delaware, giving
the boundaries of the Representative and
Senatorial Districts as provided by the
New Constitution. $1.1O will secure
this valuable Map and the STATE SENTINEL
for one year. The number is limited;
subscribe at once. New subscribers will
receive the paper the balance of this year
free. Address, with remittance,
THE STATE SENTINEL, Dover, Del.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
A Rabbit Hunters Ingenuity.

AS everyone knows, Marshall Young
is great rabbit-hunter. Last winter
he was known to have bagged as many
as seventy in single three hours.
He has been at his old trick again this
season. The other day he went and
got so many that a committee was sent
to investigate and report what method
had been used. After tramping about
three miles they discovered the secret
Being unable to shoot tho frisky ami.
mala, and having nothing but bird
dog, he had resorted to stratagem. He
had blackened the end of log so that
it appeared to be hollow Then he
had chased the rabbits toward the log,
and they, mistaking the black spot for
hole, had knocked their brains ont.
His method is commended to any who
wish to try the experiment. -For.
Dodge Kan. Messenger.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
Boring for Steam.

The deepest well in the world will
soon be completed near Pittsburg. 1t
is now more than one mile deep, and
when finished it may reach down two
miles into the earth. 1t is being bored
in the interest of science. The
object in penetrating so deeply is to
determine just what the interior of the
human footstool is like. It is the in.
tention to continue the boring until
something entirely new is developed.
1t has been the theory that if it is
possible to go deep enough some new
geologic condition or economic feature
would be found to exist. AS the tenn.
perature increases the notion grows
that the natural steam" will be en-.
countered or the bottom will be so hot
that cold water may be pumped down
and superheated steam pumped up.
But if the auger should melt?-Law
Digest.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
A Gown in Colonial Times.

The ''all-wool goods a yard wide
which we SO easily purchase today
meant to the colonial dame or daugh.
ter the work of months from the time
when the freshly sheered feeces were
first given to her deft hands. The
e ,ects had to be opened with care, and
have all pitched or tarred locks,
brands, ''dag-locks" and ''feltings''
cut out. These were spun into coarse
yarn, to be used as twine. The white
locks were carefully tossed, separated
and cleaned and tied into net bags
with tallies to he dyed. Another
homely saying, "dyed in the WOOL"
demanded process of much skill.
Indigo furnished the blue shades, and
cochineal, madder and logwood beau
tiful reds. Domestic dyes of brown
and yellow, from the bark of the red
oak and the hickory nut, were univer-
sal. Copperas and sassafras also dyed
yellow; the flower of the goldenrod,
"set" with alum, was the foundation,
combined with indigo, OF beautiful
green. Pokeberry juice and violet
dye from the petals of the flower-de-
luce were other home made colorings.
After the woods were dyed the house
wife spread them in layers, if mixed
color was desired, and carded them
again and again. The wool was slight
ly creased with rape oil or melted
"swine's grease" to be carded-a try
ing process. At last the wool was
carded into small, light, loose rolls,
about as large around as the little fin
ger, which were then spun into yarn.
The yarn was wound as it was
spun upon a broach, which was
usually simply stiff roll of paper or
corn husk. When the ball was as
large as the broach would hold, the
spinner placed pegs in the spokes of
the spinning wheel and tied the end
of the yarn to peg. Then she held
the ball of yarn in her hand and
whirred the big wheel round, winding
the yarn on the pegs into hanks or
clews. If the yarn was to be woven,
the hank was placed on the reel or
swift. A quill made from piece of
reed was then placed on the spindle,
the wheel again set in motion, and the
yarn wound off on the quill, cut the
exact length of the loom shuttle, by
which the yarn was to be woven into
woolen cloth. When wound full the
quill was placed in the shuttle and
was then ready for the loom. The
home spun yarn was woven in hand
looms into heavy cloth, which was
washed, dyed, shrunken, dressed,
fulled, and then clothed the house
hold. The Chautauquan.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
Representative Native Women.

The American woman is to be per-
petuated in lasting stone and in a
place where all the world may look
upon her and marvel. She will be a
part of the superb capitol building in
Albany and will add much to the in
terror decoration of that structure.
In all the artistic work of the New
York capitol the part which woman
has taken in history has been over
'oo.ed, for not one face of woman
.ooks down upon the visitor. Super
intendent of Public Works Aldridge
has announced that he has selected
four women as types representing
women i'll four different spheres, and
has given directions that their por-
traits shall be carved in the stairway
caps. These four women are "Cap-
tain" Molly Pitcher, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Clara Barton and Susan B.
Anthony.-New York Journal.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
Moving a Big Blu ,lding.

A new and interesting experiment
is to be tried at the stock yards by a
local firm of house movers. The 1875
xl5O foot two-story brick boarding
stable owned by the stock yards COM
pany, located at 18th and Bell streets,
is being raised and will be moved one
block north on the site where the old
Colorado hotel was torn down during
the last few days. To raise the struc-
ture required the use of 400 Jack
screws and to move it 500 rollers will
be used. The movers are to receive
$4,000 if they successfully locate the
building on the new site and they
have given bond to protect the yard
company against damage to the build
ing. The barn is substantial stable,
and originally cost $22,00 1t will
require nearly four weeks to complete
the work.
The moving of the huge stable in
tact at the stock yards is the biggest
job of its kind undertaken in this city.
1t is made all the more difficult, the
contractors say, because of the numer.
Gus double doors and windows, but
the men in charge are confident that
the work can be done in the time set
without accident.-Kansas City Star.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
Found . Fossil CYPRESS sv.mn.

During recent excursion to Bodkin
Point, at the mouth of the Patapsco.
under the auspices of the Maryland
Geological Survey and the Woman's
College Museum, a fossil cypress
swamp deposit was found buried
twelve feet beneath the surface, it
having been exposed to view by the
action of the waves in wearing away
the bay cliffs. Numerous cypress
stumps were seen in upright position,
with their roots in place, and exhibit
ing the peculiar "knees" characteristic
of these trees. Some of the stumps
were of gigantic dimensions, the larg-
est measuring about ten feet in diam
eter at the top. The stumps, roots
and trees are in surprising state of
preservation as soft brown Ignite.
Baltimore Sun.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
Fashion Notes.

Corsets of plaid ribbon are one Of
the novelties.
Moonlight gray is beautiful opal
inc tint of that very fashionable color.
Black gowns in cloth and various
other new black materials are very
fashionable.
Heliotrope, in all the shades imagin-
able, is in evidence among the new
colors for spring.
Petunia continues to be very fash.
ionable color, the pinkish rather than
the purple red Of the flower being ia.
vored.
Among the latest embroideries are
zouave and bolero fronts, with long
panels reaching almost to the hem Of
the skirt.
A novel trimming for velvet gown
is Valenciennes lace insertion over
white satin, outlined ON either side
with imitation pearls.
A summer novelty in jewelry will be
studs and buttons and pins of carved
pink and mother-of-pearl, set in sill
yer, or with skeleton silver patterns
cut out over the pearl
Something very fetching among the
new embroideries on net and chiffon
is combination of raised flowers in
lace and jet on steel sequins, which
form the stems and leaves.
Fichus aud sashes of net and chiffon
made to match and covered with
ruches and frills are displayed among
the new fancies. Bebe ribbon edging
the frills gives pretty effect
The new nuns yelling is the dainti.
est sort of summer fabric made of silk
and wool mixed. 1t is very thin and
sheer, and comes in lively soft colors
with striped border on the edge.
One of the shapes in spring wraps
is made like half handkerchief of
velvet and covered with Venetian lace.
1t is edged with fur in frill of chif-
fon, and supplied with the fashionable
high collar.
Tulles and gau2es woven with fill
gree gold, silver or steel are used for
making toques. Plain tulle and gauze
will be used for trimming all sorts of
spring and summer hats, and closely
spangled tulle will be used more for
the puffed borderings of straw toques.
A unique costume for bridesmaid
is built of white corded silk, with a
pink velvet zouave turned back in
front in draped revers. The back is
made sack fashion, falling from yoke
outlined with fur, in two box plaits.
The velvet capulettes and the revers
are also edged with fur.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
Smallest Republic in tho World.

Gaust is the smallest republic in the
world. 1t has en- area of one mile and
. population of 140. 1t has existed
since l64S, and is recognized by both
Spain and France. It is located on
the fiat top of mountain in the
Pyrenees and has president, who is
elected by the council of twelve. The
president is tax collector, assessor and
Judge. The republic has no church
or clergy. The people worship in a
church beyond their country, and
when one dies he is slid down the
mountain to cemetery in the valley
below.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

''Women in Turkey" says a recent
traveller, ''are not SO sadly lacking in
domestic virtues as the American
housewife thinks, and it must be con-
fessed that in some things they can
even give points to their sisters of the
complex civilization. If it is washing
day, the hanum, however high her
rank, attends personally to all the
rinsing of her husbands garments,
though it must be confessed that this
is not so much from fear that his
fannels may shrink as from a belief
that spell could be cast upon them
by any designing slave who wishes to
supplant her in his affections. AL
though every Turkish family, however
humble, has Mt least one black slave,
to do the ordinary washing, cooking
and scrubbing, every mistress, even
to the highest in rank, prefers to give
her individual attention to all delicate
and special culinary ventures.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

briskly, and shows his displeasure
when tormented by launching out his
wooden leg at the offender with force
and precision that makes his new
member more deadly means oil
offense than his horns.
DIR. John E. Gray cut off the broken
leg and made and fitted the wooden
stump. The doctor says:
"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, J. w. Sturgeon, of Plano. KY
called upon me 20 see what could do.
81 amputated the leg the same as I
would that of 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. found that the leg had
healed more rapidly than I had ex-
pected. I returned on the twenty
first day, when, as wound had entirely
healed, set to work to make for him
a wooden leg. The artificial peg was
adjusted easily and is success.
my friend, Mr.. Wright, and I
bought the steer and walked it twelve
miles into town. The animal covered
the distance as easily as if it had all
of the legs which nature gave it. He
limps less than man with an artificial
leg.
This OK is two and a half years old,
weighs about 900 pounds and is about
seven-eighths shorthorn. He is TAX
ing on fat at the rate of pound and a
half day, and will weigh at maturity
1400 to 1900 pounds. We 1--we trained
him to kick at people within 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 begun to break him to work,
and think he can pull as much as any
OK" .s4e
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
Feminine Diplomacy.

ST expect you had an awful time at
the election last night" said the girl
who hadn't attended the annual meet
ing, ''for heard that nearly all the
girls wanted to be president, and that
there was going to be q terrible
fight"
''There wasn't, explained the presi-
dent, sweetly; ''not bit of trouble,
and all the old officers were reelected,
too You see, 1 wanted to be presi-
dent myself this year, and Alicia Smith
wanted to stay in Office, too, so we
fixed up little plan between us, and
it was famous success.
'What did you do? Hurry up and
tell mel" the other girl exhorted her
excitedly; show on earth did you
manage it?'
The president smiled happily.
sob, Alicia and talked it over be-
forehand," she said, ''and just as soon
as the meeting was called to order and
before the girls had got through talk
ing she made motion that the oldest
girl in the club be made president al
ways, and Lucille Hicks seconded it.
She wanted to be secretary again, You
see. So I put the motion, or the
question, whatever it was, and Alicia
and Lucille said yes very loud, and
all the other girls did the same, with
out understanding what it was all
about in the least. My but some of
them were mad afterward, though"
"What happened then?" asked the
other girl; "did they all tell their ages
under protest?"
"No, indeed; not bit of it, re-
sponded the president, smiling again.
81 just knew they wouldn't When
they found out what it meant, they
wouldn't say word, SO Alicia got up
again and moved all the old officers be
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
Red Ribbsons for women.

Heretofore the red ribbon of the
Legion of Honor has been awarded to
comparatively few women, but of late
the stringency Of the principle gov
erning the admission of women seems
to be somewhat relaxed. Now it is
said women who spend large sums of
money in philanthropic work will be
considered as eligible for the decora-
ton. Among the few women who
have been prominent in the Legion of
Honor roll have been Rosa Bonheur,
the artist; Nine. Dieulafoy, the ex-
plorer; number of Sisters of Charity
and some women who have shone in
hospital work.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

as the old miners say, there were no
surface indications to lead any one to
suppose that gold might be found in
them. SO hundreds of miners passed
by IN their boats, going to Forty Mile
and Circle City. The finding of such
gold is always an accident, and the
old hands are usually the last to real
ize the truth. ''Stick George" Cor
mack and his squaw's relatives camped
on the creek for dinner one day, and
somehow got to digging, and washed
out some gold. He went to Forty
Mile and made claim for discovery,
and soon the news spread like wild
fire.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
SCRAPS.
low hold that above
1000 feet from the
.mperature decreases
,e for every rise of $50

1000 feet from the
.mperature decreases
,e for every rise of $50
Ating pure food, fresh out.
.reathed, the blood will show
rease in red corpuscles, bni
ng stimulants, the red disks
eased in serious proportions.
ain Parry speaks of the great
ice that sounds can be heard
.ng intense cold. eve often" he
8, Sin the Arctic regions heard peo.
.e converse in common voice at the
distance of mile"
Bourrier, after series of expert.
ments, has come to the conclusion
that fresh meat in q room filled with
smoke of tobacco absorbs nicotine
readily, and may under circumstances
become so tainted as to lead to digss.
tive disorders.
The temperature of the suns sur
face has been measured and determined
to be between $4,000 degrees and 90, !.
600 degrees. The most accurate de-
terminations of the suns temperature,
made by Wilson and Gray, in Ireland,
place it as IA, 900 degrees Fahrenheit.
A celebrated family of lion tanners
are reported to use electricity. A live
wire is stretched across the cage and
serves as an impossible yet invisible
barrier which protects the performer.
1t is said that one touch of the wire
gives lasting lesson to the fercest
lion.
Foreign orders for aluminium are
constantly being received by the Pitts.
burg Reduction company of Pittsburg,
with works at New Kensington, Pa.
and Niagara Falls, N. Y. Shipments
have recently been made to Japan, Ger
many, Italy, Austria, Sweden, and
other foreign countries.
Greenwich observatory claims that
1T has little clear weather, sun and
stars are wholly invisible every other
day in winter, one day IN four in fall,
one IN eight in spring and one in six
teen in summer In the twenty years
ending with 1896, there were only
eight instances of sunlight for four
teen continuous hours.
Carbolic acid has been effectively
used for tempering steel tools by M.
Levat, French engineer. Two cast
steel gravers of fine quality were
heated to a cherry red, and one was
dipped into water and the other into a
solution of commercial carbolic acid.
They were then tried on chiselled iron
and on extra hard white cast iron.
The water-tempered graver, was
notched in several places, while the
other resisted perfectly.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
mali by the German explorer,

of Somali by the German explorer,
GrutZner
The building, though lavishly decor
ated within, resembles the work of
some industrious animal like the
beaver in its outward appearance.
Without particle of design, thrown
together hodge-podge, this strange
church seemed impossible to inspire
any kind of thoughts but those of
physical and mental discomfort.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
STRANCEST OF ALL CHURCHES.
Queer Structure Discovered by an Ex
plorer In Africa.

Occ:dentals are apt, when Moor
ish mosque is mentioned, to picture q
magnificent structure, with alabaster
walls, inlaid with jewels, and with
tapering minarets, from whose bal
comics the muezzin calls the natives to
their prayers countless times day.
Bingen, the French explorer, has
written extensively of the mud
mosques built by the poor villagers of
lower Africa. But even Bingen
never saw SO queer house of wor-
ship as the unsymmetrical structure
recently photographed in the interior
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
Russian Jewelry a Craze.

Russian iewelryis becoming Us much
of craze here as it has been and is
in Paris. 1t is quite the ''go"for chate-
LANES, belts, collars, clasps, buckles
and the many ornaments worn by
smart women of the day. India gold
work is also much to the fore for per-
sonal adornment, and beautiful as it is
in its elaborateness, it is still more so
when exquisitely ieweled.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
STEER WITH A WOODEN LEG.

uc Manages to Get Around Briskly Will
tho Artificial Member.
Contentedly chewing the cud on the
farm of Charles E. Wright, near Bowl.
ing Green. Ky, is wooden-legged
steer which manages to get arour d
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
A Pioneer Interview.

1t is said of the Aberdeen Journal
which has recently celebrated its one
hundred and fiftieth birthday, that
in one of its earliest numbers, now
unhappily lost from the files, partici
pant in the battle of Culloden was
interviewed two days after that his
toric combat. It was about the
earliest newspaper interview on re-
cord.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17
The Light Of the House.

Mr.. Romanz-I tell you what. a
baby brightens up the house, and
that's fact
Mr.. Practikel- Yes; we've had to
keep the gas burning all night ever
si-"e ours was BORN Philadelphia
Reed.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

elected over again unanimously, and
every girl in the room shouted Yes.
They were glad of any way out of the
difficulty. Chicago Times-H Herald.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

years OF age. He stumbled upon the
grating idea year ago while examin-
ing the phenomenon of cellular life
that is, the life of certain insects in
the pupae stage. He never made
much of his discoveries, and they
would not be known now were it not
that Professor J. B. Smith, who has
charge of the biological department of
the New Jersey State Experiment
Station at New Brunswick, N. j., in
an addressk before the New Jersey
Microscopic Society at New Brunswick
referred bri fly to them.
On December % last the American
Society of NatIralists held it's annual
convention at ithaca, N. Y. One of
the speakers at the convention was
Mr.. Champion. He had with hiul
twenty-five jars IN which were pre-
served in alcohol bat number of spec
linens of mqths ind butterflies with
their anatomies completely mixed.
These created profound sensation.
Mr.. Champion modestly explained
how he had achieved the wonder.
In his laboratory at New Brunswick
Professor Smith demonstrated to re-
porter for the New York World how
the grating was done. From his col
lection he took two caterpillars, in the
pup@ or third stage of the caterpillar's
life, when it is developing into moth
or butterfly.
In the pup@ stage the caterpillar
rests in cell somewhat like the she'll
peanut. but two and O half times
Vl'g and half again as large in di-
When this cell is cut open
'ting inmate is found to be a
oking object about an inch
half an inch in diameter
ply at one end and round
the other.
exhibited by Profess
h''own in color.
u the
"i1
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

on the Klondike.
to the Klondike"
.e Century by John
The author says:
Bonanza Greek and the
81 Dorado Greek are very
I everyday creeks in ap-
little less civilized, per-
creeks to be met with in
There are men living in
,-day who have hunted moose
,se creeks dozen of times; but,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-17

Chicago now has q public billiard
parlor for women players.