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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30
PICKING BILLIONS OF FLOWERS.
work Of women whers tho Perfume In.
dustry Is Carried on in France.

uhhNNy - OhHNh1u On IN ENbHcUs
Grasse, in the southern part Of
France, is the centre of the perfume
industry. There women aud girls
may be seen, with broad hats on their
heads, gathering flowers from B until
] a. m. and then returning with their
fragrant burdens to the houses, where
they pluck the leaves from tho blos-
SONS and pass the rest of the day in
preparing them for the work Of ex-
tracing the essences of essential oils,
which contain the perfume ITSELF.
In March they begin plucking vio-
let's, from which violet water is made,
and from the beginning of May TO the
end of June they gather the jessa-
mine, roses and orange blossoms, as
we'll as the tuberoses in July, the
mignonette in August and the cassia
in September The nimble fingers of
the women must move rapidly TO
pluck the millions and billions of
leaves that go to make up the 1,200,-
900 Kilograms OF rose leaves alone that
are used each season. Besides there
are million Kilograms of jessamine
W. D0 DluNhbug anu NAOiOlH anu OTdukb
blossoms TO the extent of two million
Kilograms year. To give an idea of
the number of plants that are raised
for this huge result, it is calculated
that each stalk of jessamine yields two
Kilograms of blossoms season. So
there must be at least five hundred
thousand stalks to yield the million
Kilograms required.
But the gathering of the blossom7
is only the beginning of the work, for
then the flowers must be picked apart
and all the spoiled leaves thrown
aside. Then the making of the per-
fume begins. The leaves are spread
one by one upon layers of pure lar.l
that cover plates of glass. Three or
four times these hower-layers are re-
newod before the lard has absorbed
all of the perfume that it can hold, 70;
the fat has a peculiar attraction for
the essential oils OF the flowers. This
perfumed lard is the pomade of com
mercc, not the ponade used for hal :
or beard, but the crude material on ;
of which this is afterwarl mauufac-
tured. The lard is then eithes
shipped as it is to other manufac.
turers, or put into alcohol which
draws off the perfume from the fat,
having a stronger attraction therefor
than the lard I'm the result is the
finest eau de cologne. Most OF this
pomade is shipped as it stands to all
parts of Europe and America, but
some of it. is reserved and the oils are
extracted by distilling processes, max
ing the purest extracts.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30
DO THE FISHES TALK?
QUEER PROPOSITION BROUGHT
FORWARD.
Both the Lungh.h and Drumfish Can
Bark Like Dog The Eel and the
Gixssrd-shad Emit Queer Sounds
whales Have Bcen Known TO Cry.

Plscatorial cranks are Just now pa
rading their knowledge on the subject
OF fish talk. 1t is freely admitted that
fish that utter sounds are not rare to
a remarkable extent; but TO translate
these sounds into the English or any
other language and be able to appre-
clate the feelings OF the denizens OF
the deep ct various thrilling stages OF
their uncertain careers is beyond the
ken OF ordinary mortals. We are told
that fisherman out at sea landed a
strange fish in his boat, and that the
finny captive Immediately opened Its
mouth and began to grunt and groan
so loudly as to attract attention. The
fisherman took 1t up and was so con-
vlnced that 1t was talking and beg
ging for liberty that he tossed II back
into the brine. More musical than the
noise made by any FISH is said to be
that of the eel, while the loudest
sound uttered by \ fish is that OF the
dogfish. Both the lungfish and the
drumfish utter singular barking sounds
Of peculiar resonance. and whk-ss have
been known to cry out as IL for help
when they have been stranded. or the
salmon and the trout little has been
learned. so far as hsh-talk on their
part is concerned. but this may be due
in measure to the fact that the man
with the rod has never felt inclined
to devote his ear to patient listening
Of well-stocked stream. II these
favorite fish could talk. what tales
they might unfold What regulations
might they blast! Perhaps II is best
for us all that the trout Is not gifted
with eloquence, like the eel and giz-
zard-shad. Perhaps, too, 1t were bet
ter for us to continue on merely a
glancing acquaintance. a astronomical
acquaintance If fishes talk they might
even betray us to ourselves and take
away from us the joy OF our own de-
ceptions Nevertheless it is ques-
tion for debate whether the noises
produced by certain fish can be con-
sidered as language, or as express
sions of the emotions, fraught with
meaning. Without doubt we shall
soon be in receipt OF C batch of COM
munications from mountain resorts
and watering-paces, throwing light on
the matter of fsh-talk, and 1t is not
improbable that we may learn that
some Bostonian scientist has already
| prepared a table of Goldfish sounds and
their meanings. so that a fisherman
may sit still with line or net and call
the fish to him at will.-San Francisco
| Newsletter.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30
Matter of Length.

"How long should mourning gowns
be worn by widow of twenty-twoY'
was the question that came sobbing
through the mails.
Now it CHANGED to be the sporting
editors day of, and the religious edi-
tor, therefore, was attending TO the
Side Talks With Yourg Persons.
"There is no hard and fast rule, "
wrote the religious editor, confidently,
"but they ought to come down to the
boot tops, at least.
This incident illustrates the occa-
sional awkwardness of newspaper
standing as bulwark of morals to the
exclusion of everything else. Detroit
Journal
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30
Cane CoIon,,s peiepders.

The mountedpolice of Cape Colony
nre picked men, used to fighting and
proud of the high reputation of their
corps. The force consists of two thou
sand enlisted men and sixty eight off
GERS. The men are recruited almost
entirely in England, and are many OF
them the younger sens of gentlemen,
who have no means of making live
lihood at home. They are mounted
and receive $500 a year, out of which
they are obliged to keep not only
themselves but their horses. In ordi-
nary times they are scattered along
the frontier in little bands of thirty or
forty, their duty being to keep the
peace and prevent outbreaks on the
part of the natives. They are said to
cherish particularly bitter hatred of
the Beers, and the suicide of Major
Scott, their commanding officer, was
the outcome of his chagrin at being
tricked into the surrender of the town
sVryturg.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30

vouchsafed to our knocking; no faint
blue reek arose from chimney. The
children had behaved heroically up to
this instant. When their father an
nounced darkly that the villains had
never got his dispatch and had taken
themselves off upon q Thanksgiving
spree Of their own baby began to sob,
and silent tears glazed the purpled
cheeks of the eldest girls.
'"rhis is the tassel upon the cap of
the climax" said their mother in
deadly calmness. eve will go to the
house and break our way in. Since
starve We must, we will starve in our
beds, under plenty of blankets. -
She took child by each hand,
paterfamilias reshouldered the weep.
ing baby, and we pulled our feet out
OF the congealing snow. A plantation
of evergreens hid the turn in the path
at which we had our first glimpse of
the cottage. A weak cry from the
children, an astonished snort from
paterfamilias. devout ejaculation
from the mother, broke into the gusty
air. For royal banners of smoke,
tinted by the glowing west, streamed
from every chimney, each window was
stained by scarlet fre-gleams from
within; Frank, our faithful watchdog,
bounded from the porch with bay of
welcome, and at the joyous yelp the
front door was flung wide.
Our telegram had arrived in good
season; the sleigh had gone to meet us
by the road, and, being a little behind
time, had missed us, who came across
lots. While our trusty retainers made
breathless explanations the odor OF
roast turkey was borne to us upon the
flood of warm air pouring through hall
and doorway. Dinner would be on
table by the time we could get our
selves into dry clothes.
Never did another dinner taste so
good; never was wood fire more Jolly
than that in which the children roasted
chestnuts, and beside which pater-
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30

Colors are of great an tiquity, and fre-
queDt mention is made of them in the
Bible; they played an important part
in ligious rites and ceremonials. To
the -ochineai insects we are indebted
for carmine and scarlet ivory and bone
black are produced from ivory chip
pings; the cuttlefish supplies sepia;
and from the camel we have Indian
gold. Turkey red is procured from
the madder plant, which grows in
Hindoostan; Prussian blue is manu-
featured by fusing horses hoofs with
impure potassium carbonate; the ma
tural earth of Sienna furnishes raw
sienna, and that Of Umbria, when
burnt. umber.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30
Giant Policemen.

Four brothers named Kavanagh,
from the county of Wexford, who have
just been admitted as recruits to the
ranks of the Dublin Metropolitan Po-
lice, have created mild sensation, as
each OF the brothers stands exactly six
feet six inches in height and is built in
proportion. They are sons of far
mer, and are men of splendid
physique, in addition to their unusual
height. Two other brothers remain
at home, who are presumably the
dwarfs OF the family, being each only
six feet three inches in height-but
perhaps they have not yet attained
their full elevation.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30

y
thoughts are while you are holding
the bone and looking down into her
eyes. If you have to look up into
widows eyes, there may be some hope
for you, but when she looks up and
you look down she can read every one
of your thoughts. BY the way, there
is only one, only has been one, only
can be one, thought passing through
a mans mind when he is breaking
wishbone with n charming young
widow-possessionl She knows it as
plainly as though written indelibly
upon your forehead. That is her
particular forte. And when you break
the bone aud find yourself possessed
of the short end she will look up into
your eyes with look that will cause
your poor back hair to crimp and say,
with that pityiuR tone of voice never
so we'll modulated as by widow:
IT am so sorry you lost"
No matter what the after result Of
good dinner may bring forth, you cam
not help but HE yourself away to
some quiet resort obscure from pry-
ing and meddling eyes and bury your
disappointment in books or blues.
But when you break wishbone with
a sweet young girl it is very different
thing. Sweet young girls hearts were
made to be broken like the wishbone.
You secure deal of paradise while
breaking bones with sweet young
girl, whereas you get generally worm
wood and gall when you break bones
with fair widow. You throw all
your art into the act of breaking bone
with young girl, but when you break
a bone with fair widow you throw
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30
Two Important Eactors.

Good roads add materially to the
value of any county. A recent visit
in the rural sections convinces us that
the two important factors in the i'm
provement of roads is the cutting down
of grades and thorough drainage to
prevent the damage done to roads by
streams of water flowing from water
sheds. Ii is waste of money simply
to repair the surface of road while
permitting high grades to continue.
preventing the transport of ecomoni-
cal loads of wood or farm produce
The practice should also be condemned
of covering boulders and rocks in the
roadway with earth in the fall They
should be removed by blasting or by
the use of the crowbar, thus remedy
ing the trouble once for all.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30

your heart in against her art, and she
beats you nine times out of ten.
The best place to break bone with
a fair widow is in the corner of a snug
sitting room, with the lights turned
low. A mans heart fire glows more
wildly upon his cheeks then; also it
is more fun for the widow. She quite
prefers earnestness of purpose and is
ever ready for tilt of hearts against
arts. You might win prize in the
lottery of life if you would break n
bone with fair young girl with your
heart as fixed upon the one purpose
possession-as it was with the widow
Did you ever break bone with a
staid old aunt whose fortune you hoped
to possess? If you lose your wish,
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30
Funny stories of Early ThankssivInns.

Funny Stories of Early ThanIssRivInRs.
q. Many funny stories are told of the
early Thanksgiving days, such as the
town of Colchester calmly ignoring the
Governors appointed day and observ-
ing it's own festival week later, in
order to allow time for the arrival, by
sloop from New York, of hogshead
of molasses for pies. Another is re-
counted of farmer losing his cask OF
Thanksgiving molasies out of his cart
as he reached the top OF steep hill
and of its rolling swiftly down till split
in twain by its fall. His helpless dis
com6ture and his wife's acidity of tenn
per and diet are comically told.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30
The AntI-Kut Agltation In nrlef.

Twenty years ago there was scarcely
n mile OF good wagon road in Egypt.
During the last six years more than
1000 miles of fine roads have been CON
structed.
The recent good roads conventions
held by farmers in Minnesota, Wis
consin, Iowa and Illinois have given
substantial encouragement to highway
improvement.
A Toronto man wants his govern
ment "to enact law compelling all
vehicles carrying dead weight of
600 pounds or over OH the public
highway, to have tire not less than
five inches wide"
Governor Mounts determination to
make pretentious display of Indiana
roads at the Paris Exposition and the
work which he has already begun iu
collecting pictures from every section
of the State has occasioned great
deal of comment of an adverse nature
from the people of his own and of ad-
joining States.
State and county taxes being levied
upon every taxpayer in proper ton to
his wealth, the State aid system makes
it possible to obtain contributions to
the cost of good roads from railroad.
insurance, street railway and telegraph
companies, and from the wealthy citi-
zens in the cities, thus relieving the
farmer of considerable burden.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30
A Novel Iden.

The hostess of last-year's Thanks
giving dinner secured enough yellow
gourds to put one at each of the dozen
covers in stimulation of the Thanks
giving pumpkin. Each of these gourds
held tiny, growing fern in it's little
clay pot, the color effect around the
table beipg extremely good.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30

familias smoked the cigar of content,
and materfamilias dreamed and moral
lied. To the home nook, "curtained
and closed and warm, came the shout
of the wind-god, very pagean of re-
ioicing for mishaps overpast and for
the abundant compensations that
crowned the outgoing OF our one
eventful Thanksgiving Day.
York World.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30
Decorations For the Feast.

The decorations of the Thanksgiving
dinner-table should be seasonable.
The fruits and flowers that belong to
the late autumn ple the ones that
should grace tho November board.
Chrysanthemums are particularly MP
propriate, and their decorative effect
is excellent.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30

your fortune is made, for she'll put
you down as real nice nephew with
out sordid fancies, butif you win she'll
pierce you with look and say:
81 expected you wanted me to hur-
ry up and die"
Always make il q point to lose your
wish when breaking bone with an
expectant aunt who has fortune.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30

DESIRE TO warn
you that a charm
ing young widow
who wants to
break a wish =
bone with you is
one of whom you
should beware.
s h Q is very
tantalizing, chic,
clever, and, oh,
80 awfully sorry
you didn't get
your wishl The
young widow is
n mind readar
and knows just
W h at you +
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30
BREAKING THE WlsHeoNe.

When to Lose the wish and When to
Win II.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30

There are, it Is estimated, 500, 900
miles of highway roads in the United
States, about twenty per cent. of the
roads of all the world. Great Britain
has 100, 900 miles of roadways. and
these are some of the best in the
world. Germany has 275,000 miles
of roads, and some of them are as poor
as the roadways of great country eau
be. France, which has taken all en-
lightcned view of the good roads
question for many years and has spent
by governmental or local authority
more than 81, 900, 900, 900 on highways,
has road mileage of $50, 900, more
than any other country. Russia, with
an enormous area, has only 10000
miles of roadways, while Italy, a
smaller country, has $1,000. Wide
tires for heavy loads are prescribed in
all these countries.
A computation which finds much
favor among the advocates of good
roads is this: There are approxi-
mately, though the number is steadily
on the decline, 100000 horses in
the United States (there we're 49,
000,00 by the census of 1S90), and
there are about 1900, 900 mules, prin-
cipally in the South, the annual cost
of fodder for these animals being
81, 500, 100000. On fine stone roads
one horse can haul as much as three
can haul over the average dirt road of
this country. 1t is estimated that il
would be necessary to build about
1000, 900 miles of macadamized roads
in the United States in order to have
as good system as is found in several
European States. At $40C mile
this would involve an outlay of 81, ,000,-
900, 900, pretty large sum. But if
one-half of the draft animals could be
dispensed with by the building of su3h
roads there would be an annual saving
of$700, 900, 600 in the food bill. Conse-
quently il road bonds were issued
bearing three per cent. interest 6,00o,-
600 miles of macadamized road could
be built without increasing the annual
expenses one dollar.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30

1t is said that the study of German
is increasing in France, while the
study of English is on the decline.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-30
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8 GOOD ROADS NOTES. \
Money Lo.s By bad Rosa..

IL is said that the direct money loss
by bad roads in New York State is
about $40. 900, 900 annually; this is no
guesswork, but the result Of careful
investigation and computation. Illi-
nois loses S25, 900, 900 annually from
the same cause, according to General
Roy Stone. New York and Illinois
are similarly conditioned as to city
and country population, and the main
object everywhere now is to bring the
cities to the aid of the country in
building roads. Professor w. G..
Latta, of Purdue University, Indiana,
has shown in a carefully prepared
statement that the loss by bad roads
for the whole farm area of the United
States is very close to $500, 900, 900
annually. He also pointed out that
permanently good roads would prove
financially beneficial to farmers in
these ways: They would eoonomize
time aud force in transportation be.
tween farm and market; enable fer
mers to take advantage of market
fluctuations in buying and selling;
permit transportation of farm products
aud purchased commodities during
times of comparative leisure; reduce
wear and tear on horses, harness and
vehicles; enhance the market value of
real estate.
II is as Gel tain that as long as rural
roads remain as they are, rural free
mail delivery will often be a physical
impossibility. General Stone states
that one OF the latest electrical car.
riages, or automobiles, for two per-
sons, weighs only little over ton,
including passengers and battery.
One horse power will move this We
hicle over a good stone road at fifteen
miles per hour, or 1000 miles per
week by daylight. This gives jour
ney of 1000 miles for two persons for
| 81, or at the rate of about one .fortieth
of the cost of railway travel This is
| progress enough in the art of trans.
portation to suffice for few years ut
least. The students of aerostation are
succeeding So we'll in the AIT of flying
that when they do equally we'll in the
art of alighting they may do away
with the need of roads altogether
but until then we must go on improv.
ing both roads aud vehicles and make
travel as much like flying as possible.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
TILTED.
Thrown Over by
Woman He Loved.
TOOK PRUSSIC ACID.
Swanstrom Ends His Life in
Sensational Manner.

Because he was Tilted in love by Miss
Annie Lund. who is a cook at res
taurant at 50 Park street, Frank Swan
strom took enough cyanide of potas-
SUM to kill at least four men last night,
and now lies dead at the city hospital
He boarded with Miss Mary McDougal,
20 Chandler street, and last night an
nounced his intention of quitting this
world forever He left the house about
7.30 O'Clock, after giving warning to ev-
erybody that he was tired of living, and
returned about two hours later and ap-
parently took the dose that ended his
life, for he lived but few minutes after
he came into the house for the second
time.
AS far as could be learned last night,
SWanstrom has for abo+lt three months
past been paying attentions to Miss
Lund and went SO far as to put up 500
of his hard-earned money to start q
restaurant at 95 Park street. with Miss
Lund in charge The restaurant
thrived under Miss Lund's manage
ment. and in order to make it as easy
as possible for the young lady, he
turned over every week what was left
of his week S pay, after settling with
his boarding mistress, Mrs. McDougal,
and for the past two weeks evidently
has turned it all in to Miss Lund, as
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-25
CROKER'S BATHROOM,
The Tammany Leader Calls the Turn on
Ribad Republicans.

New York, March 24.-If the example
of Richard Croker goes for anything,
the democratic party of New York can
never again be classed by ribald repub-
licans as "The great unwashed."
Mr.. Croker yesterday secured the en-
tire top floor of the new Syndicate
building, in Park row, opposite the
post office, for offices for the auto-tr
company and other compressed-a cor
porations in which he is interested He
will have a suite of rooms of his own,
which his friends say will be the finest
private offices in the city.
One of the features of the suite will
be magnificent bath room, in which
there will be conYeniences for not only
a tub and shower bath, but small
plunge as we'll
The room will be as luxurious as mar
BILE, onyx and encaustic tiling, plate
glass, steam heat and salt and fresh
water can make It,
1t is said that Mr.. Cookers suit will
be composed of five rooms, including
the bath, and that one of the rooms will
be reserved for his private use as a bed
and dressing room when he is detained
down town late.
The top floor of the Syndicate build
ing is not yet finished as to the in
terror and will be fitted up according
TO the ideas of Mr.. Croker and ]. H
Hoadley.