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The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
ODDS AND ENDS.

Next to our grape wine it Is believed
that Japanese sake, or rice wine, is the
oldest alcoholic beverage known to
man, it's use in Japan dating back over
1000 years.
So rapid has been the change in the
English language that the English of
today bears no more resemblance to
the English of 1000 years ago than it
does to German.
The amount of capital invested in
the manufacture of bicycle tires in the
United States is estimated by an ex-
change at $4,000, 900, the number OF
persons employed at 5000 and the
number of tires produced annually at
1900, 900.
"To run amuck" is properly to run
amok. Formerly in India, Siam and
other eastern countries, Malay men
driven mad by opium, hasheesh or 9TH
err drugs, would run about frantically
sword in hand, striking at any one
they might happen to meet and crying,
"Amok, amok"-kill, kill.
The surface of the sea is estimated
at $50, O0O, 900 square miles, taking the
whole surface of the globe at 1877, 0OO,-
600, and its great depth supposedly
equals the height of the highest noun
tain, or four miles. The Pacific ocean
covers Is, 200, 900 square miles, the At
Iantic 25, OO0, 900, the Mediterranean l.
GOO, 600.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
The Match of the Enture.

We are promised a revolution in
matches. There is a prospect of the
wooden match industry being appar-
ciably affected by a new invention for
manufacturing matches from paper, as
the best wood for this purpose is con
stantly growing scarcer and more
costly. The new matches are consid-
erably cheaper than the wooden prod
uct, and weigh much less, which counts
for much in expectation. The sticks Of
the matches consist of rolled paper i'm
mersed in a solution of wax, stearine,
and similar substances. They are made
in n operation, being turned by ma
chinery into long, thin tubes; pieces of
the ordinary length of wood of wax
matches being cut off automatically by
the machine, after which they are
dipped in the ordinary way.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
London.s Electric system.


The American system of using loco
motives with the third rail is the only
system which can be employed on the
Central Underground railway in Lon
don. This road. which is now ap-
preaching completion, is eighty feet be-
low the street level. 1t runs under
Oxford street and Holburn, from the
bank of England to Shepherds Bush, a
distance of about six and one-half
miles. Ali the electric plant will be
American. The power will be trans
mitted by an alternating current sys-
tenn, to be changed to a direct current
system at proper points. The motors
are to be small copies of the large cleo
trio locomotives now used in the Bal
timore and Ohio railway tunnel,
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
Natural Mistake.

Defective vision, a 'mannish" cos
tune and IN ambiguous name-these
were the elements of a recent bit of
social comedy. "Mr. B~rownsonby,"
said the host at an evening reception,
presenting to the principal guest a
rather strong-minded young woman
who wore a collar, necktie and shirt
front of decidedly masculine appear
ance, "let me introduce Miss Terhune."
Mr.. Brownsonby, who was somewhat
near-sighted, turned to acknowledge
the introduction. "Ah, Mr.. Hume" he
said, extending his hand cordially.
"Glad to see you, SIR"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
NOTES,

The Y. M. G. A. Of Calcutta, India,
will move into new quarters this
month.
John D. Rockefeller has given 81, 900
to aid the Methodist Episcopal
churches on the Mesaba range, Mime
sofa.
Rev. F. B. Meyer of London will
arrive in this country the middle of
January, and remain until the end of
February.
It is stated that the car has pardon
ed a large number of Catholics in
Poland, and sent special notice of it
to the pope.
In New York city there are about
five hundred Chinese scholars in the
Sunday schools. Throughout the coun-
try there are 271 Sunday schools for
the Chinese.
The two hundredth anniversary of
the completed rebuilding of st. Paul's
cathedral, London, after the great fire.
was observed with notable service on
Dec. 2.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
LITERARY PEOPLE,

Rudyard Kipling is said to be devel-
oping into a confirmed joker and a
great tease. Possessed of a wonderful
fund of mental c~heerfulness, he has
been called by one Of his friends that
rare creature, a literary Mark Tapley."
Carmen Sylvia has elaborately-bound
copies of her W books preserved in
a specially-designed bookcase of which
she herself keeps the key. 1t is said
that many of these volumes contains
marginal notes and criticisms, written
with red ink in her own exquisite
handwriting.
Mr.. Hall Caine is a keen Judge of
character from facial expression; and,
while ~endeavoring to mitigate the Sc
verify of any expression, always knows
at first sight whether he will be dis
posed to like or dislike a person. o.
casionally the authors rapid judg-
ments have been proved at fault-when
he has been the first to own the fact
but, as a rule, they ere remarkably re-
liable.
Mr.. Haddon Chambers, at the age of
%, was a journalist and story-writer.
but had not yet written for the stage
Before this he had been in the Austria
liam civil service, also a stockrider in
the bush. Mr.. Chambers was born in
Sydney, N. S. W., and still cherishes
a~ffectionate memories of the land of
his birth. He is most accomplished
in nearly all sports-a splendid rider,
swimmer and billiard player, and is
fond of boxing, fencing, shooting and
driving.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
LETTER THAT GOES ROUNDS.
For Half a Century 1t Has Been on Its
Travels.

OSAS ~ Aia Dcoh Oh lBS
Travels.
Probably no letter in the whole
world in all time has been travelling so
long as that of the class of IA of Yale
college, says the Worcester, Mass. Ga
zette. Some fifty years ago some OF
the members undertook to keep a let
ter circulating, each man receiving it
adding whatever he considered would
interest the others, and when the epis-
tie got around to him again, removing
his previous effort and replacing it
with a new one. So the letter went on
its endless way, year after year, and
today it is still moving, telling to the
aged men who are left of the class of
IA what their fellows are doing, of
deaths, too often, as the class dwindles
away before the ruthless hand of time.
Not all the survivors are members of
the chain, but the letter writer's are so
we'll distributed that almost all of the
classmates are heard from and hear of
the news contained in the letter. At
present the letter makes a long jour
ney in the interval between it's arrivals
to any one man. A Worcester mem
Der is John A. Dana. He has just re-
ceived the regretful comments of his
classmates at the death of their old
friend at college, Col. John W. Weth-
erell, with comments on the newspaper
biography which Mr.. Dana had in
closed at his last sending. The letter
had gone from Worcester to Lee, Mass,
thence to Chicago, to Minneapolis, to
Pasadena, Cal, Birmingham, Ala,
Cape May and another New Jersey
town, Plantville, Conn, Pittsfield, Som
erville, and back to Worcester.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
just a Little Reminder.

They were sitting as far apart as the
length of the sofa would permit, and
after a lull in the conversation she re-
marked: Il think football is such a
lovely game, don't your" PERHAPS it
is" he replied; 'but what reason have
you for thinking it lovely?" why"
she answered, there are so many close
to%uchdowns in it. you know" Now,
the young mans mustache had reached
the proper stage and there was a series
Of close touchdowns then and there.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
Longevity of Animals.

1t is said that the giant tortoise OF
the Seychelles Islands is the longest
lived animal in the world. The known
age Of n now living is $50 years, and
this dates from the time the creature
was full grown. How old it was at
the time Of it's capture no one is able
to conjecture. A fine specimen has
been presented to the Geological So
ciety of London. 1t weighs about a
quarter of a tor and is an exceedingly
lively animal
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19

When the first electric telegraph was
established, the speed of transmission
was from four to five words a minute
with the five needle Instruments; in
1S49 the average rate for newspaper
messages was seventeen words a min
ute; the present pace of the electric
telegraph between London and Dub
lin, where the Wheatstone instrument
is employed, reaches 463 words; and
thus what was regarded as miraculous
sixty years g has multiplied a hun
dred-fold in half a century.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
A cINDER WAS IN HIS EYE.
But 1t Came Out After a Shaking On
In q Car.

In the very center of a crowded cable
car stood a short but heavy man, with
a cinder in his EYE, says the New York
Tribune. Although the cinder evident~
ly gave him serious annoyance, he was
good-natured about it and In spite OF
the fact that his fellow-passengers
manifested the utmost indifference to
his personal affairs, he dubbed e
with information about that cinder-
HIS monologue was carried on in spas
modic paragraphs and each paragraph
terminated with the sentence: "Tlk
get 1t out when l get home" Wedged
IN next to the man with the cinder
were two women, each with more bun
dies than she could gracefully manage
some of the bundles were long ones,
n with the sudden starts and STOP
pages of the car those long bundles
poked about with much freedom among
the hats and bonnets worn by the oc-
cupants of the seats. An aristocratic-
looking woman, while clinging to a.
strap on the other side of the man
with the cinder, dropped her eyeglasses
on the floor and frantically ~endeavored
to make an open space in the closely
packed car in order that she might
rescue them before they were trampled
on. The gallantry of the man with the
clnde in his eye was awakened on the
instant. He, too, had been grasping a
strap, but he let go of it and stopped
to pick up the glasses. Just then the
car, with a suddenness born of pure
malevolence, stopped short. The heavy
body of the STOPPING man was hurled
violently against the two women with
the bundles, knocking one into the
laps OF the passengers on one side Of
the car and dragging the other down
upon his W PROSTATE form. Bundles
flew In every direction, mingling with
three or four hats which the general
mix-up sent spinning into the air. The
struggling women screamed and
caught eagerly at anything within
reach, whether it was a mans necktie
or a woman's ostrich plumes, and in
consequence there was quite an excit-
ing disturbance for a few seconds. The
artistocratic woman's glasses were
IIdllpleu Oh anu DTOkeU, anu the
crackle and crunching of the glass
ELECTED from her some remarks more
i~ncisive than soothing. One of the fe-
male passengers into whose lap the
heaviest bundle-carrier landed bump
ed her head against the side of the
car with so much force that she almost
went into Mysteries. While a compan-
ion was endeavoring to calm the injur-
ed m the owners of the bundles
raised their voices in loud lamentation
over their inability to find the products
of their shopping. Meanwhile the cal
had started with a jerk and given it's
occupants another vigorous shaking
up. Passengers who had been tumbled
upon, handled and crumpled, were be-
ginning to show signs of temper. There
was a lack of geniality in the car for
a moment. The short, heavy man had
managed to scramble to his feet and
get hold of a strap. Just as the atmos-
phere of the car was beginning to get
heavy with ugliness he beamed joy
ously upon his fellow-passengers and
exclaimed: BLAMED if that cinder
amt out of my eye"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
Slow, but Sure.

Doctor" said the young wife, 81 am
uneasy about my husband; I'm SURE he
is working himself into an early grave.
Can't you suggest something hat will
prevent his rapid decline?" you
might try getting him elected to the
vice presidency" replied the doctor;
"he would then have four years in
which to gradually decline before sink
ing into the depths of oblivion"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
MIXED PARAGRAPHS,

The first portable clock was mads
in 1880.
A gull can fly at the rate Of 100 miles
an hour.
The German government proposes to
try to grow potatoes in Africa.
In only three cases out of ten the
sight Is equally good in Each eye.
Marseilles has a 1~07-year-old woman
who still earns her living by keeping
a newspaper kiosk.
The average monthly cost of a pupil
In the Philadelphia schools is 49, S, and
elsewhere in the state 1922.
Christmas = The glorious season
when every man gets a divorce from
his coin.
Egotist-A man who talks about
himself when you want to talk about
yourself.
Intuition-What some people claim
to have when they succeed in making
a good guess.
Heathens-A class of people who
never waste their time quarreling
about religion.
A1S q oHlA WHO
believes she is an example of the sur
vival of the flttest.-Chica q News.
Wearing the White liiubop.
A writer in the Union Signal. the or.
gan Of the w. c. T. u, says: Do our
members wear the white ribbon? WHY
not? 1t speaks volumes! 1 am a very
busy business woman, but 1 stick to
my bow of white ribbon, and wherever
I go my little badge Of loyalty brings
me many a pleasure. In my work
among business men, often is my rib
bon mentioned. One gentleman said:
II see you wear the white ribbon; l
should like you to go home with me to
dinner, my wife would be pleased to
meet you" Another, pastor of a
church that 1 attend, said: 81 am
pleased to meet n one associated
with my wife in her work"
Do you not love to meet those wear
ing the badge Of your order? Why
should not we be as proud as our order
as the secret societies. the Free Masons
and Odd Fellows, and numerous others.
Is not our society as worthy our loyal
ty? Then let us stick to our badge.
Be sure we have enough white ribbon
to put a knot on every dress and out
side wrap, and let 1t speak a silent Ian
guage for cur grand cause of total abb
stinence.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19

which is proving very. advanta-
geous to the settlers of North
Alberta, Canada, and is truly a boon to
the farmers, is the establishment of
creameries by the Government at regu-
lar distances apart. The Government
furnishes the entire plant, puts 1t in
and operates it without direct cost to
the farmer. From the sale Of the but
ter the Government retains 5 cents per
pound, the balance going to the farmer.
This Is continued for three years, when
the government turns over the plant
and business to the farmers, CIV
ing them a clear title Of 1t.
Thus these creameries are put in
at a minimum cost to the farmer
and paid for in a way hat he least
reels 1t. When we were there butter
was selling at 81 and % cents per
pound. Cheese factories were being es-
tablished, too, along the railroad and
much of the freight loaded on the cars
on our return trip consisted of butter
and cheese, as it was in the best sea-
son for milk. The produce found a
ready market in the mining and lum-
bering towns and districts beyond the
Rockies, through the British Columbia
country, where it was, we were told,
difficult to supply the demand"
The Klondike is another field now
open to the Western Canadian farmer
for all produce of the farm, and the
officials in the Department of the In
terror, Ottawa, Canada, are kept busy
sending out literature describing this
great agricultural countr.-. The agents
of the Government throughout the
United States are also supplied with
literature, which they distribute free.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
In the Far North.

The most %northerly hotel for a sum-
mer resort in the world is 500 miles
north of Hammerfest, in latitude 70
degrees and so minutes. 1t Is a wooden
building two stories high and will &C
commodate thirty guests. 1t looks out
upon Advent bay, upon the west coast
of S~pitzbergen. The season opens July
10 and closes Aug. Is. A p~ostofice is
to be established at the hotel to ac-
commodate guests.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
Prominent.

"How is it, colonel, that the people
engaged in those shooting ARRAYS in
your section are always mentioned as
belonging to prominent families'?"
by CAD, sab, it takes good shootin'
and willingness to engage in it to make
a family prominent, sab. "-Indianapo-
lis Journal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
Substitutes for India-Rubber.

Combinations Of linseed oil, peanut,
rape or mustard oil with sulphur form
rubber like substances which are said
to be largely used in the manufacture
of india rubber compounds. Pure, un-
vulcanized india rubber will float, near
ly submerged in water, while the oil
substitutes. being slightly heavier in
proportion to their bulk, sink.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
Burglar Proof shutters.

Is invulnerable to burglars, is made on
the principle OF the roller shutters, the
strips of hardened steel three-quarters
of an inch in diameter, placed over
rods or on pivots. The sides, the only
Vulnerable part, are hidden in grooves,
and as the tubs revolve freely. the
burglars tools can obtain no purchase
upon them, thus rendering strong
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19

gratifying and demonstrate that the
semi-arid portions Of the state by this
means can be made as productive as
any part of the northwest. There are
two distinct methods of irrigation in
this state-canals which receive their
supplies of water from the spring
freshets and from the overflow of riv-
ers, and canals whose water is obtained
from artesian wells. This season
about 10000 acres were irrigated in the
country. Among the noted irrigated
farms of the northwest is the Carpen-
ter.
The farm contains 800 acres of
slightly rolling prairie land. The ar
tesian well has an eight-inch pipe down
to sand rock. There the diameter was
reduced and a six-inch pipe reaches
to the artesian basin, 1000 feet below
the surface. The normal flow of the
we'll is 1900 gallons a minute, sufi-
cient to irrigate a tract of 1900 acres.
AS a matter of precaution the well is
not permitted to flow its full capacity,
being reduced to a flow of $50 gallons
a minute. The well was put down
six years ago and cost $500. At pres
ent prices it would cost not more than
SO, 900.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
Aluminium for Grain Buckets.

Aluminium is being tried for grain
buckets by the India Wharf Brewing
company of Brooklyn. The buckets
are attached to an endless chain and
it is thought by making them of al
minimum that the decrease in weight
would result in a saving of power and
experience has proved the correctness
of the conclusion.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19

That the National Convention did
not name any particular party in iti
resolutions this year is not to be con.
strued as Indifference to prohibition
by a party" The National stands just
where 1t has stood for years in rela-
ton to this question. It believes in
prohibition by law, and that this is to
be accomplished by the ballot box. II
Toes not propose to desert a cause or q
friend. 1t will 90 with its principles
n mile, OR it will go with them twain,
II 1t can, but it will 60 no part of a mile
further than its principles go. In other
words, the National has declared its
principles, and will stand by then
wherever found. Therefore, to be con-
s~istent. 1t could not name and COM
mend n party embodying a funda-
mental principle and ignore another
having precisely the same principle, as
was contemplated by the resolutions as
first offered. 1t is we'll to keep in
mind that wherever parties have been
named and commended in state or Ma
tional conventions, it has been only so
far as they have exemplified our prin-
cfples and no farther. Sympathy and
af1liation have never been offered be-
yond this. 1t Is more than probable
that had Miss Wizards unique reso-
luton, formulated and passed unani-
mously in her own inner conscious
ness, and SO announced to the Conven-
ton, been presented for a vote, it
would have passed.-TTnicn Signal.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19

The amount of liquid refreshment
taken by a mar of 70 years would
equal rs, 700 pints, and to hold this a
pail twelve feet high and more than
$500 times as large as an ordinary pail
would be required. The weight of the
liquid would be over forty-two tons.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
A BicYcle of Glass.

The newest bicycle is made entirely
of glass, even the ball bearings being
of this material, which is exceedingly
hard. 1t is claimed that the machine
can be used just as if it were made of
steel.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
SCIENTIFIC POINTERS.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCov-
cry AND INVENTION.
Effects of n Bees Sting-The Amount
or Liquid Disposed by Man During
His Natural Life-various Notes of
Science and Industry.
Effects of a Bee Sting.

N English physi-
clan relates an in
stance of a lady
who was stung by
a bee. At the first
moment she SEEM
ed to pay very lit
tie attention to it,
but very soon her
face became flushed
and spots appeared
all over her body.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
Each Has Its Good Points.

Mr.. Callahan-Euchre is O O bad
game, but I'd rather play poker. Mr..
Cohen-Vell, euchre is chenerally der
best if you lose undt poker is der best
If you win.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
RanIy of the Victim.

Mr.. Gagger-I hear you have mar,
ried a widow, old
Mr.. N~agger-The other way. my
boy. the other way.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19

Talker-"I was but a little lad when
I started in business" Walker
That's been the Foundation of many
a business mans success" Talker-
What has?" Walker-"A little adj
Boston Courier.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19

rooms. ETC., absolutely inaccessible.
Theater curtains constructed on the
same plan would also prove invaluable
for the preservation Of life In case Of
fire.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19

criminal by allowing one drop to fall
on his outstretched hand every min
ute day and night the supply would
have dropped from the days of Nero
up to the present time and would not
now be exhausted.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19

A
s p o
of a Brown
City, Mich
igan, paper
w ties as
follows:
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d u 8 t r v
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
~CREAMERIES,

How They Are Operated and Made to
Pay the Farmer.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-03-19
ArtRsian Wella In Dakota.

The results of irrigation the past
season in South Dakota have been very