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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27
Cuban soldiers Return to W ork. j..

Havana. Oct. 27.--Advices received
here from Cardenas announce the dis
charge, by vol intary request, of 81
men belonging to the Cuban forces un-
der the command Of General Rojas.
whose headquarters are at VaraderO.
near Cardenas. These men asked for
their discharge In order to enable them
to return . cultivation Of their prop
erty.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27

Dyspepsia Cured. Shlloh's Vitallzer I'm
mediateiy relieves Sour Stomach, Coming
up of Food Distress, and Is the great kid
ney and liver remedy. Sold by N. B. Dan.
forth, Second and Market streets.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27

Charles W. NJ. Lee, Senator Gray's PRIV
ate secratary, Of Georgetown, attempted
to ssperate two dogs that were fighting
and was bitten on tho hip. Drs. Paynter
and Robinson cauterized the wound.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27
SOME LARGE CEMETERIES.
Amount of Land Required for Those in
Large Cities.

Amount of Land Required for Those in
Large Cities.
The dead of London require an an
nual waste of twenty-three acres Of
valuable ground If 1000 corpses are
crowded into the space Of one acre, the
limit in the case of the most popu-
lated graveyard. and if We accept the
present rate of mortality, 20 per 1000
inhabitants, as the standard, New
York, with population of $500 900,
would have to provide room for 10000
corpses, and would require annually
seventeen and half acres to bury
them in. Unless the custom is changed
the available room in the vicinity of
all large cities will gradually be ab-
sorbed by remains of the dead
In considering the welfare of indi-
viduals the expenditure of one may
benefit another; but citizens should De
treated on equal terms. With the ex-
ception OF Greenwood, almost all ceme-
teries used in the neighborhood of
New York are either poorly managed
by churches or administered for the
benefit Of few fortunate sharehold-
ers. The rural cemetery law, as
amended in 1870, allows them to divide
among themselves the net profits from
the sale of plots. Realizing about 500
W'o for an acre, which hardly cost s.
600, their investments bring large rev.
enues and are esteemed valuable. BY
assuming the guise Of benevolent socie-
ties owners succeeded in evading pay
ment of the taxes which their less for
tunate neighbors are obliged to pay.
The trustees are never called upon to
make reports to the state. and they
give but scanty information to their
stockholders.
The Elephant.
Few more impressive condolences can
be impaired than one in which Hin
doc describes how he knows his ele-
phant intends to destroy him. 1t is all
so seemingly trivial, and yet in reality
of such deadly Significance. His story
is SO full Of details thatprove the mans
profound understanding Of what he is
talking about that one remains equally
amazed at the brute's power to dissem-
BILE, and it's intended victims insight
into this would-be nurderer's charac-
ter. And yet, from the psychological
standpoint. an elephant never gives
any other indication OF mental power
as is exhibited in It's revenge. That
patient, watchful, impacable hatred
often provoked simply because a man
Is in attendance upon another animal
(for it Is the rule with tuskers to de-
test their next neighbors) speaks more
conclusively of high intellectual
guide than all stories, true or false,
that have been told Of their ability.
Such conc entration and fixeded Of pur-
pose, such careful, uunrelaXed vigil.
ance, such perfect and consistent pre-
tense, and, when the time comes, such
desperate, unhesitating energy as hon.
icidal animals exhibit, are impossible
without a very considerable. although
In this instance very irregular develop
ment.
No one can deny that If this creature
is great at all. it greatness shows itself
In its crimes. These have caused it to
be worshipped in the East, where men
venerate nothing but merciless, ire
tion of those qualities and traits des-
cribed fully accounts for the formula,
my Lord the Elephant.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27

For eastern Pennsylvania. New Jer-
spy and Delaware: Fair ana not so
cold tomorrow: high westerly winds.
diminishing in force
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27

The French steamship cleared from port
yesterday with n cargo Of GIG, SOB gallons of
crude petroleum. Her destination Is Ali
cato, France. Tho cargo is valued at
S4s Gel.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27

Stoeckle's extra fine beer always on tap
at James Furlong's, 18th and Fll5ocs
streets, Philadelphia,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27

Karl's Clover Root lea is pleasant lax.
ative. Regulates the bowels purifles tho
blood. Clears the complexion. Easy 10
make and pleasant to take. rs cents. Sold
by N. B. Dhnforth, Second and Market
Streets
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27

Tho Warren team will tackle the Eddy.
stone team Oh Saturday at tine Union
street grounds.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27

Theatre tickets free Ask Manhattan
Laundry, SOC King street.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27

American Laundry, No. 8l1 W. Front st,
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27
WEEK COM.1ENCiNO OCTOBER "A.
The BROS. BORANI
And Big Vaudeville Bill
MISS JENNIE AGNOT

And Stock Company in the Thrilling
Drama. "rhe Ranch King
2 Hours Vaudeville. Hour Drama.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27

Suits cleaned, Manhattan Laundry.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-27

Pianos $50 and 800. Ludwig Piano store
5l5Shlploy street.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02

of bark on the ice, jumps on it,
raises his long and bushy tail for
Il sail, and away the whole party goes,
kept in one direction by two or three
older squirrels who act as whippers.
in. The turning of the tails to the
right or left directs their course, just
as the sails of schooner are trimmed to
her course. When the skaters decide
they have had enough exercise they
run their queer barks on the bank
where they desire to land, and in a
few seconds thewhole crowd are chasing
away at the edge of the ice. Veracious
mountaineers aver that the squirrels
sometimes hold ice-yachtingraces. Two
or three champions select their pieces
Of bark with unusual care, and go over
them with the utmost care, biting away
with their sharp teeth any little ex-
crecences upon the bark so as to make
them as smooth as possible. Then upon
the ice there is high excitement among
the "dead-game sports" of squirrel
dom, and they-so these veracious
hunters say-promptly wager upon the
result their choicest stores of carefully
boarded nuts. When the race is sailed
and the victor has won, to chorus OF
squirrel squeaks and barks, the prop
erty changes hands, and the losers go
home in sad procession.-N. Y. World.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
SCHOOL FOR PARROTS.

How Birds Are Educated In "A Large
London Establishment.
According to Pearson's Weekly there
is school in London where parrots
are educated.
The parrots academy is conducted
on systematic lines, and resembles in
many of it's features an ordinary edu-
cational establishment. In Room l
are congregated the birds to be taught,
screeching and shriel1ing in the bliss
of ignorance. So soon as they have
become accustomed to their surround
ings and little of the natural wildness
that characterizes them has worn of, a,
q monitor, in the shape of a parrot that
has mastered the art of monosyllabic
utterance, is introduced, and under it's
tuition the class begins to show prog
ress by voicing such simple words as
Eyes" and mo"
Room or Standard II marks step
in the upward grade. Bi-syllables are
here introduced, and double worded
sentences of an easy nature repeated
The third standard comprises tri-syl-
Liable words and sentences of more
advanced kind.
Thus far the work is of a routine
character, the teachers being the birds
themselves. But with Standard Nv the
real work of education begins, and the
bird monitor gives place to the peda-
gogue proper. The blackboard, too,
now comes in. With piece of chalk
the teacher makes the letter "a" on
the board, pronounces it aloud, and the
birds repeat it, and, in turn, the whole
alphabet, after him.
By the time Standard V is reached
parrot Of ordinary intelligence can
read and spell such words as 'cat" and
"dog" with reasonable facility.
Standards V and vi continue the
process by gradual advances, simple
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
A BOYS DAIRY.
Each Worthless Article Was a Reminder
of Past Happiness.

Each Worthless Article Was a Reminder
of Past Happiness.
A mother describes how she came to
look upon the rubbish in her boys
drawer as his unwritten diary and the
basis of his autobiography. She said to
him one day:
''My son, your bureau drawer is full
of rubbish. You had better clean it
out"
Yes, that would be his great delight;
so we began.
This horseshoe is of no use"
"Oh, yes, tits; found it under grand
pas corncrib, and he let me have it,"
"These clamshells you'd better break
up for the hens
why, mamma, I got them on the
beach, you know, last SUMNER
''And this faded ribbon-burn it up" "
"Oh, no! That was our class badge
for the last day of school, and 1 want
to keep it."
Here is that old tin flute yet! Why
do you heap up such trash?"
THAT is nice flute that Willie gave
me two Christmases ago. Didn't we
have splendid time that day?"
"Well, this bottle is good for moth
ing"
"Oh, yes, it is. That is the bottle
used for a bobber when we went fish
ing at Green's lake. A black bass pulled
that bottle away under water"
Then the mother thought that to
destroy these historical relics would be
to obliterate pleasant memories..-In-
terror.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
BULL MOOSE AT BAY.
An Adventure That Came Near End.
ing in a Catastrophe.

An Adventure That Came Near End
ing in a Catastrophe.
A correspondent, writing from Me-
cunoma, Muskoka, gives an interesting
account of an adventure which he had
with moose few weeks ago. while
employed in making toboggan trail
through one of the pine forests in that
section of the country. While engaged
at work he came across moose yard,
and on looking round saw one of the
"giants of the forest" about 20 yards
distant. The story of his encounter is,
perhaps, best told in the correspond
ents' own words:
"After a moment" he writes, 1.-THE
moose turned and walked behind hill,
which, though not high, was steep.
ran to the top with all speed, hoping
to get view of the lordly creature as
he made his way through the bush.
l could not see him at first, but, on
looking down the steep incline, there
he was, not ten yards away. He turned
to make off, but, striking his ribs
against the projecting limb of small
hemlock, he was thrown down and
round the tree, and as he rose he faced
me.
ut was now my turn to run, for the
moose charged at me, expressing his
rage by fierce below. In turning l
stumbled, the ground being very un-
even, and his feet nearly came down
on me as lodged among some trees.
| tried to strike with my hatchet, the
only weapon had, but did not succeed
in injuring my pursuer. With scme diff
ficuty I at last got out into the deep
snow, wherein snowshoes were of more
nse to me. The moose still pursued me,
roaring at intervals, and one who has
not heard moose roar can form but
little idea of the terrible believing
noise. After several attempts IN strike
Inc with his front feet, he stopped and
stood about 90 yards away, paving and
roaring. / eagerly seized this opportu-
nifty to climb tree, and soon after
the animal turned and made off. Of
all my adventures in the bush, and they
number few, the one 1 have Just re-
lated came the nearest to being nv
DEATH"
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
AGES OF ANIMALS.
Elephants Live Longer Than Lions,
Horses or Cows.

Elephants Live Longer Than Lions,
Horses or Cows.
AS far as naturalists have been able to
discover, the elephant lives to the great
est age of any of the animals with which
we are familiar. 1t takes 25 to 81 years,
and sometimes longer, for elephants to
complete their growth. 1t is recorded
that certain specified animals have
lived more than $50 years, but the statis-
tics on subjects of this sort are neces-
sarily incomplete, and therefore unre-
liable.
The lion is supposed to live 10 years,
although it is claimed that one kept
IN the Tower of London attained the
age of 10 years. 1t is not supposed that
he would have lived to that age in his
natural condition.
The horse is a short-lived animal, but
when carefully kept and allowed to
spend great deal of it's time in pas
ture, it has been known to live past the
age of 40 years. The trouble with horses
is that they are fed for hard work, con-
sequently their feet and their diges-
ton wear out. Eighteen to "a years is
q very high average age for horses to at
tain.
Cows live 1s or 20 years, but they
have very little value toward the latter
portion of this period. save in excep-
tional cases.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
THE TROUBLESOME DUST.
Why the Scientist Appreciates 1t More
Than the Housewife.


The bane of the ideal housekeeper's
life is dust; and yet this seemingly in
significant, exasperating dust has been
study of scientists for a century.
When beam of sunlight enters a
darkened room it can be seen along it's
whole course" says one writer. "The
light is reflected to every side and made
TO reach the eye by the dust in the air
OF the room; we do not see the sunbeam,
out the dust which is illumined by it.
AS unimportant as this curious stuff
seems it plays a conspicuous part in
nature; it is what makes the sky APP
pear blue, and when we look at the sky
we see the dust illumined by the sun.
Light goes through all the gases-the
dust catches it, reflects it in every di-
rection and so causes the whole atmos-
phere to appear clear, in the same way
that it makes the sunbeam visible in
the dark room.
without this strange, wonderful
dust there would be no blue sky-it
would be as dark or darker than on
moonless nights. The glowing disc of
the sun would stand Immediately
against the black background, thus
producing binding light where the
suns rays fall and deep black shadows
where they do not. 1t is to dust that
we owe the moderately tempered day
light adapted to our eyes; and it is dust
that contributes to the beauty of the
scenery. The finest dust gives the blue
tone to the sky, while the coarser kind
produces an almost black appearance.
1.-The clouds consist of dust and va
por; if there be only little dust all
the vapor is precipitated upon it, and
SO loads the clouds with water that
they sink in heavy drops to the ground.
Without dust the vapor would pene-
trate houses, making everything mold
with damp; we should feel upon going
out that our clothes were becoming
saturated and umbrellas would be a
useless protection. 1t is hard, indeed,
to conceive how different everything
would be if there were no dust; this
trivial, common stuff has its considera-
BILE part in the processes of nature, and
there is much of the wonderful and
mysterious concealed in its flmy parti-
cleS. Detroit Free Press.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
TEACHING POLLY.

sums in arithmetic being added to the
curriculum and the method of telling
the time taught.
The seventh and last standard is de-
voted entirely to music, vocal and in
strumental. Not that parrots are
taught to play the piano. That stage
of development has not yet been at
tained, but the more proficient of them
are instructed in the art of singing a
song to the pedagogue's accompani-
ment on that instrument. When this
point has been reached the bird gets
his certificate.
There are only two or three of these
academies in England, and the fees be-
ing high and the business brisk, the
owners are doing well. 1t costs $50
to secure good education for par
rot, exclusive of extras in the shape
of food and one or two other things,
and it takes several months, in the case
of the most forward and intelligent pu-
pills, to pass in all the necessary sub
iectS.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
sPEoKLEp SQUIRRELS.
They Live in Georgia and Make Ice
Boats of Themselves.

They Live In Georgia and Make Ice
Boats of Themselves.
If you want to hear of squirrels which
know something besides cracking nuts
and climbing trees, ask the average
Georgia Cracker" Down in his piny
woods there dwells tribe of speckled
squirrels which has no use for those
northern brothers who shut themselves
up in hole all winter. Instead, they
gather near the banks of the frozen
creeks and prepare for enjoyable skat-
ing, or ice-boating parties. Often when
Georgia countryman is spearing fish
through hole in the ice, he hears the
squeak squeak" of score OF more
squirrels rushing to the trunk of some
decayed tree. After few minutes of
incessant chatter the whole party scam
pers up the tree, and then comes the
creaking of teeth upon bark as they
rip it off. Before very long the sounds
of gnawing and breaking cease, and one
by one the squirrels descend TO the
ground, each one bearing piece Of
bark. Each squirrel puts his own piece
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
Mixed.

A Mississippi girl described her first
visit to a city in the following rhapsody:
"Oh, l had such perfectly beautiful
time! Everything was so converted
you know. We stopped to a hour,
where we rode to our rooms in refrig
orator, and our rooms were illustrated
with election lights. There was no stove
in the room, but one of those legisla-
tors in the floor, and the heat poured
right up through. l did not have any
appetite and could not get thing 1
could realize. Honestly, when l got
home / was almost an individual. At
lanta Constitution.
The meancst thing one can do is not to ask
woman when she has a story to tell
Washington Democrat.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
THE MERCHANTS CHOICE.

A merchant, seeking for clerk,
Addressed two boys as follows:
Say, boys, which would you rather be,
Domestic ducks, or swallows2"
II would rather be a swallow, SIR"
Replied one boy with vim,
For swallows soar above the earth
While ducks just walk or swim;
"And ducks are such slow, stupid BIRDS
Such clumsy, waddling things
They have hard work to walk at all,
And seldom use their wings"
"Id ruther be duck, vow"
The other boy replied,
"Fer all the needs O. ducks, yer see,
Are easily supplied.
''They never work, ner worry much,
They jes trus' ter Their luck,
A gently fioatin' down the stream,
Oh, l wud be duck"
The merchant turned upon his heel,
What need to question more?
And now the boy who first replied,
Is head clerk in his store.
Rufus Clark Landon, in N. Y. Observer.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
A Cool Country.

In northern Siberia the ground is
sometimes frozen to depth of 600 feet.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
AGRICULTURAL HINTS
ARouslNa mas PuRLIo.
That Is the First Great Duty of All
ROad RefOrmera.

Road RefOrmers.
At the meeting of the Evangelical al.
lance, held in Harrisburg, Pa, an ad-
dress on "The Necessity of Educating
Public Opinion" was made by A. B..
Farquhar, and one of the first subjects
he considered was the effects of roads
on urban and rural population, and the
importance of educating public opinion
on the subject. This portion of the ad-
dress was as follows:
"The rapid increase of our urban
population is fraught with danger.
Temptations increase with increased
facilities and opportunities. Children
are tumbled together in the streets as
indiscriminately as garbage in the
sewers, and they pass into the com
munity a mass of filth. People are
hocking to the cities, believing they
can live happier and a better life
there, and were they not debased by
concentration, there would be less dis
appointment. The evil conditions must
be discovered and rectified. The
thought that where society ought to
exist in its highest state, with most con-
genial environment, it must lapse into
vice and immortality is intolerable.
Country life has a thousand charms
and advantages over life in the city. Our
bad highways have a great deal to do
with driving the countryman to town.
The mud bitches in place of the beau
tiful, smooth roads of civilization shut
him out from society and make it cost
him more to carry ton of his produce
q few miles to the nearest market than
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
An Infant PhiIosopher.

Little three-year-old Ethel was very
fond of stories and rhymes. She fre-
quently begged her mamma to repeat
them to her and often made some
quaint comment. One evening her
mamma repeated the nursery rhyme:
when was a bachelor, lived by. self
All the bread and cheese got put upon
a shelf;
The rats and the mice made such a strife.
1 was forced to go to London to get myself
wife"
Before she had time to finish Ethel
said:
why, how sillyl He'd good deal
better have got cat."-Chicago Jour
nal,
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02

II you want Agricultural Land, yielding from
"- settler In WESTERN
CANADA. GOOD CROPS. GOOD PRICES,
Railroads, Schools, Churches; fuel In abund-
ance. rH-For Illustrated Pamphlets, Maps
and low railroad rates, apply to Dept Interior,
Ottawa, Canada, or to NJ. " McINNEs, Canadian
Govt Agent, No. Merrill Block, Detroit, Mich
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-02-02
The Female Hook Agent.

Tlmkins-There goes woman with
history.
Simkins-Yes, ! know; she was in the
Office yesterday trying to sell me a
copy on the installment plan, Chicago
News.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1898-06-04
DIRECTORY.
BERKELEY COUNTY

f,rRcrIT COURT Judge, Thirteenth
Judicial Circuit, E. Boyd Faulkner;
CLERK. L. Dew. Gerhardt, Prosecuting
Attorney, q. S. g. Pltzer; Sheriff, J. IL.
smith: Deputy Sheriffs, j. 4. Catrow.
M. s. Tabler, w. M. Hollis, 4. NJ. Hardy
Deputy Sheriff and Jailer.
Terms OF the Court commence on the
second TUESDAY in January, April, and
COUNTY COURT. President @. z. Ri
ner; Commissioners, Joseph Fiscus
arr r. j.. Thomas, Clerk, /. l.. Bender.
Terms commence, first Monday IN
March, June, September and December.
Commissioners of Accounts, John 4.
Picking. Adrian @. Nadenbousch, L..
Dew. Gerhardt; Surveyor of Land, l.
w. Woods; Assessor. First District, Y.
l.. Nicely; Assessor, Second District.
d. II. Fulk; General Receiver,
Henry J. Seibert, Coroner, VIM. Mckee;
Sealer of Weights and Measures, David
PitsnogIe; Steward of Almshouse mos.
Wolford.
Local Board of Health, E. L. Hof-
man. John L. Williamson, DIR. >. N
Myers, the President of County Court
and Prosecuting Attorney.