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The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-04
ENTERTAINME ENIS.
Hyperion 'riaenter.

"A Stranger in a Strange Land" will play to one of the largest engagements of the season at the Hyperion tonight. It is farcical play and has scored fine triumph. For weeks past it has kept the metropolis laughing and crowded the theater where it has been presented. It is entirely free from the suggestiveness that frequently taints the French farces with which the coun- try has been surfeited for two seasons. It is clean, pure and wholesome in it's fun and yet broadly farcical. The com pany includes George Osborne, as the North American Indian; Cyril Scott, in a breezy interpretation of the scape- grace nephew; M. A. Kennedy as the festive old uncle; Walter Clifford, Ed Chapman, James T. Galloway, Harrison Armstrong, Maud White, Kate Lester, Angela McCaull, Katherine Mulkins lone Chamberlain and others. Seats now on sale. Regular prices.
 A fine cast of clever artists has been selected by Daniel and Charles Froh- man for their production of At the White Horse Tavern at the Hyperion next Wednesday evening. The play is
  comedy presented in years Love pre- dominates of course, but laughter is in- cessant. The Germans have laughed themselves sore in Berlin over the piece and the picturesque settings, the cos tunes, the entire coloring are true to the life of the Valley, of the Tyrol. The company includes Leo Deitrichtein, Frederick Bond, Anne Sutherland, Richard Bennett and Charles Brad shaw. Seats now on sale. Prices, $1.50, $1 and 75 cents.
 Three Little Lambs,'' R. A. Barnets bright and merry musical comedy, is to be presented at the Hyperion on Friday and Saturday nights, December and 9. It engages the services of the very strong company organized by Ed win Knowles for the production of re- fined musical comedy at his Fifth ave- nue theater in New York. and in some of the more important cities. Seats on sale Wednesday. Prices $1.5, $1 and 75 cents.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-04

The monthly meeting of the Womans Church Missionary association will be held Tuesday, December 5, at 3 p. nl., in St. PauIs parish building, corner Chapel and Olive streets.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-04

Contractors are figuring on plans to make a private room for the assistant postmaster at the postoffice The room will adjoin the postmaster's room.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-04
SAMOAN TREATY SIGNED.

Washington, Dec. 2.-The treaty for the partition of the Samoan Islands was signed at the state department this afternoon.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-04
LOCAL FINANCIAL NOTES
CONSOLIDATED RAILROAD SECURI-
 TIES IN REQUEST.
Diamond Match Stock anu Boston Elec- trio --Clearings and Balances of tho Banks-the Dividend List. Etc.


 New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company has sold in small lots at 215 to 215h; the convertible fours are quoted at 1S7 to 1S7 flat.
 Diamond Match company has sold little lower, at 127.
 Boston Electric is offered at 173, with no sales
 Southern New England Telephone is offered at 135
 The Adams Express company divi- dend of per cent. will be payable De- cember 10, instead of December 1, as formerly.
 Cleerings and balances of the New Haven banks for the five business days ending December ?, and for the corre- sponding six business days of last year, are furnished by the secretary of the New Haven clearing house, by days, as follows:
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-04

The annual meeting of the Congrega- ton Mishkan Israel will be held next Sunday at 10 a. m. The pews will be rented on December 17.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-04
POLO

The polo games Saturday night re- suited as follows: ," At ovidence-Providence il, Spring field 6.
 At Meriden-Meriden G. Waterbury D. NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDING.
 The National Polo league standing is as follows:
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-04
The Grn d.


 Charles H. Yale's Forever DevlP $ Auction" which is booked for the Grand Opera house tonight and to- morrow night, has number of special vaudeville features, whose speciality, although not strictly identified with the plot of this popular spectacle, is by clever stage management and costum- ing. made a most interesting part of same. In the past, Manager Charles H. Yale has been fortunate in securing at all times uncommon special features, or rather novelties, that have not been seen In other attractions, and in this seasons production there will be no de- viation from this rule. With the num- Der of exclusive features offered in the ever blooming spectacle, the gorgeous scenery, brilliant costuming, intricate tricks, bright pallets, pretty women funny men, clever dancers, male and female acrobats, gymnasts and panto- mimists, forms in it's entirety colos- sal entertainment presented only ~by Charles Fl. Yale's Forever Devils Auction The advance sale indicates big houses. Secure seats in advance and avoid the rush. Regular prices
 Another up-to-date attraction, "The Glad Hand Burlesquers' will entertain the patrons of the Grand next Wednes- day matinee and night. The company is composed of clever comedians and handsome women, who present strong vaudeville acts and for a closing feat ure, "A High Bull," in which twenty beautiful young girls in elegant cos- tunes appear. Regular prices; seats now on sale,
 On the last three days the splendid bill is Manager Dinl1in's "Utopians who are having great success. Seats now on sale; regular prices.
 At the Grand annex can be seen a grand old German military pipe placed on scene by John Thees; also new exhibits to the Marlin firearm col lection and Colonel Bartlett's Indian collection. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday, Doors open at 1:15 and 7:15. Performance commences at 1:45 and 7:45
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-04

At Grace church last evening the ser mon was preached by Rev. Stewart Means of St. Johns church.
 The East Haven grange will hold it's regular meeting tomorrow evening and elect officers for the ensuing year
 E. c. Warren & Son of Montowese are clearing up four acres of new ground upon which they will plant a peach or chard in the spring.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The chemical composition of nitride
of calcium is given as NJ CAB, and its
specific gravity at sixty-two degrees
Fahrenheit is 2.63. 1t melts at about
$500 degrees Fahrenheit.
Diphtheria prevails but little in
rural districts, for only five per cent.
of the cases in Massachusetts from
1887 to 1895 were in towns with less
than 5000 people.
The sanitary authorities of Sutton
Surry, England, have gone into the
perfume business in an unusual
manner, for they are producing laven-
der on their sewage farm.
A French statistician has calculated
that the human eye travels over 1000
yards in reading an ordinary sized
novel. The average human being is
supposed to get through 2600 miles
of reading in lifetime.
1t is claimed that with cotton COM
pressed in the round bale it is pos
sible to put 70, 600 pounds in single
railway car, while but $4,000 to a.
900 pounds of uncompressed can be
put in car, and 10000 to 40,
pounds of square-bale compressed
cotton.
Experiments as to the porosity of
thin sheets of metal carried out in the
United States Navy Yard at Washing
ton have shown that plate Of steel
one-thirty- second inch thick is abso-
lutely impervious to water, even
under pressure of six thousand
pounds to the square inch.
Users of electric incandescent lamps
are warned that, though the heated
flament is inclosed in Theoretically
sealed glass globes, they may set COM
bustible materials on fire. Dry goods
merchants, for example, who are in
the habit of placing such lamps
among their window goods, should
not have the lamps in contact with
the goods, or they may find their dis
play suddenly in flames.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
To Protect Old Document.

Collectors of old documents. rare en-
cravings, stamps or other valuable pa
pers that ought to be protected from
the noxiousl influences of the air and
from moisture can easily preserve them
in their original condition by covering
them with per cent solution of COL
lodion. This solution can be applied
with a soft brush without the slightest
danger to the objects thus treated.
This proceeding is mainly applicable
where delicate colors that are soluble
in water are to be preserved in their
pristine freshness and beauty. The COL
lodion covering is, therefore, most ex-
cellent for preserving water-color
paintings and pastels.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
The Origin of Soap.

The Consul at Havre, France, gives
an historical sketch, saying that, ac-
cording to some authorities, soap
(French savon) takes its name from
the town of Savons, near Genoa. A
wssherwoman of that place, while one
day warming solution of lye in an
earthen vessel which had contained
olive oil, found that the combination
of the two made q semi-solid mass
which very much resembled the arti-
ole at present in general use. From
the writings of Pliny the Elder, how
ever, it is evident that soap was
known to the Romans as early as the
first century. According to him that
ordinary article was prepared with
ashes and tallow, while better quail
ity of soap was made with goats fat
and beechwood ashes. Neither of
these products was hard, but of the
consistency of the common soft-soap,
and, curiously enough, were used fire.
quently by the Gauls in bleaching
their hair and by the Romans as q
perfume. Pliny says that the article
most in use for washing was saponin,
the mucilaginous product of Syrian
plant. New York Post.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09

The eminent English scientist, Lord
Kelvin, who for many years has held
the chair Of natural philosophy at
Glasgow University, is the subject of
an amusing story illustrative of the
singular force OF habit. AS a professor
of science, Lord Kelvin can use long
words in such formidable array as to
paralyze the average layman, but the
Glasgow student is made Of sterner
stuff. During a course Of lectures on
magnetism, he once defined an ideal
magnet as IAN infinitely long, in
finitely thin, uniform and uniformly
and longitudinally magnetized bar"
and the misguided students vocifer-
ously cheered, which caused the ven-
cradle professor to say: "Silence!"
The definition was made and cheered,
with the usual reprimand, frequently
during the lectures. Once, near the
conclusion, however, the students did
not cheer, but Lord Kelvin promptly
raped out "Silencew as before.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
THE SKIRT PUZZLES WOMEN.
They Cannot Remembec Seeing Anything
Like 1t Irfore.

They Cannot Remembec Seeing Anything
Like 1t Erfore.
There are SO many changing styles
in skirts the average -rson can scarce
ly keep up with them The very newest
skirt is so decidedly new no one can
remember to have seen anything like
it. Not even old portraits show it or
heroines in out-of-date novels. 1t is
made absolutely without fullness in ell
ther back or front, not even SO much
as wrinkle. The top is perfectly plain
and smooth, fitted to the figure only
by gore on each hip and extending
to the knees in front, while the lower
part is graduated Spanish affair cut
on the bias that falls easily in godets
to fare at the bottom. 1t fastens in
the front, at the left side usually, but
some of them hook or button behind,
still without the least sign of fold
or plait. Some Of the skirts are elab-
orately braided in barbarous design,
WIN twists and turns and huge circies
and crossbars, and some are embroid-
cred or stitched in bias rows and Greek
lines. But, however trimmed, the new
skirt is the newest thing Dame Fash
ion has produced for long time.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
Hoods Sarsapari!la
PUDDING MADE OF CEMENT.
Mistake of Company Cook Spoils
Soldiers Desert

From the London Weekly Telegraph: :
Some time ago, writes q volunteer. l
spent week with garrison battery
In a south coast fort. On the last day
the sergeants sat down to an excep-
tionally fine dinner, the crowning glory
of which was large plum pudding.
had made the pudding two days before,
had it boiled. and now, reheated, it
made It's appearance, amid the welcome
shouts of my brother warriors, and /
naturally felt a bit proud Of it. for I
hadn't been a ships cook for nothing
Seems mighty hard" remarked the
sergeant major as he vainly tried to
stick his fork into it. Have you boiled
us a cannon ball, Browney?" "Or the
regimental football?" asked another.
Where did you get the -four from p"
questioned Sergeant Smith. Where
from?" l retorted. From store No.
6, of course" 1.-The deuce you did!"
roared the quartermaster sergeant.
"Then, hang you. you've made the pud-
ding with Portland cement" And so
it proved. That pudding is now pre-
served in the battery museum.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
NERVOUS DEPRESSION.
IA TALK WITH MRS. pINKHAM.l

A woman with the blues is very un-
comfortable person. She is illogical,
unhappy and frequently hysterical.
The condition of the mind known as
the blues" nearly always, with wo-
men, results from diseased organs of
generation.
1t is source of wonder that in this
age of advanced medical science. any
person should still believe that mere
force of will and determination will
overcome depressed spirits and nerv-
indications of disease.
Every woman who doesn't under
stand her condition should write to
Lynn, Mass, to Mrs. Pinl1hum for her
advice. Her advice is thorough COM
mon sense, and is the counsel of a
learned woman of great experience.
Read the story of Mrs. +. S. BENNETT,
Westphalia, Kansas, as told in the fol-
lowing letter:
DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-I have suf-
fered for over two years with falling,
enlargement and liberation of the
womb, and this spring, being in such
a weakened condition, caused me to
flow for nearly six months. Some time
ago, urged by friends, l wrote to you
for advice. After using the treatment
which you advised for a short time,
that terrible flow stopped.
81 am now gaining strength and
flesh, and have better health than 1
have had for the past ten years.
wish to say to all distressed, suffer
ing women, do not suffer longer, when
there is one so kind and willing to
aid you"
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
pound is woman's remedy for wo-
mans ills. More than q million wo-
men have been benefited bv it.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
ODDS AND ENDS.

Russia Is going to abolish the diff
culties Of navigation at the mouth of
the Volga by cutting canal directly
from the river to the Caspian sea.
Work on it began last summer.
The Oldest house in America is in
st. Augustine, Fla. In 1864 it was
built by the monks of the Order of
St. Francis and the whole of the solid
structure is composed of Coquina, a
combination of sea shells and NOR
tar, which is almost indestructible.
When Francis Drake sacked and
burned the town this was the only
house left In the trail of destruction
1t has been purchased by the we'll
known antiquarian, J. w. Henderson,
who will make it his winter residence
The way in which the United States
Is beirg Anglo-Saxonized may be gath
cred from the immigration statistics
of the last year; Austria Hungary
39,797; Belgium, sos; Denmark, 1,946;
France, 1890; Germany, 17,111; Greece
1889; Italy, 5S,613; Netherlands, 767;
Norway, 4,93s; Portugal. LIT; Rou-
mania, 900; Russia (proper). 27,221;
Finland, 2,607; Poland, 4.726; Spain,
577; Sweden, 1888; Switzerland, 1,246;
Turkey In Europe, 176; Mexico, 107;
Central America, Z; Cuba, 1877; other
West Indies. 247; South America, 80;
Turkey in Asia arabia and Syria),
a.275; China, 2,071; Japan, 2,23O; Ire
land, 25,12S; England, Wales and Scot
land combine to furnish 1888.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09

The seeds of the Datura stramonium
recently claimed their annual victim
in Newark, N. j., in the person of a
five-year-old child. 1t is said that
there has been in that city at least one
death from this cause every year for
the past twenty five years. The prac-
tice prevailing in many of our large
cities, as we'll as in the smaller ones,
of allowing vacant lots to produce
year after year crops of no1ious and
poisonous weeds cannot be too strongly
condemned. 1t was by seeds pro-
cured from such sources that the re-
corded fatality was effected.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09

Persian colors are obtained to a
great extent in the softer shades. Whole
gowns are made of the material with
the shawl effect. and one with pale
blue ground. the figures in soft tones
which blend with it, is lovely. A blouse
of delicate shade Of silk. with mar
row front of some soft white material,
has long lapels and standing collar of
silk in Persian colors. with a charm
ing effect
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09

'@The family doctor should din it in.
TO the mothers head all of the time,
chat the health of the children lies in
the feet. No child should be allowed
to go out into the snow or rain, or
when the walking is wet, without rub.
bers. When children's rubbers cost
only 25 or 80 cents pair, nobody can
plead expense as an excuse. Many u
fond mother who has lost child,
weepingly lays it all to the inscrutable
dispensation of Providence, when the
whole trouble was the child had no
rubbers." - American Journal of
Health.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
THE MERRY SIDE OLLIE.
STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE
FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS.

Still n Novice-Not Numerous-Extremo
Languor-Philosophy Thing
Entirely - No Room - Excusable - A
Graduate-A Quiet Talk ,iEtc., Etc.
In childhood days we played together;
kept store, she came to buy;
Sometimes was her little husband
And she would COOK and make mud pie.
Ali that was long ago and many
A country have l wandered through;
To-day she's married to another
And settled down and happy, too.
Last night they had me into dinner,
ate piece of pie she made
She knows no more about pie making
Than she did when we, as children.
played.
Chicago News.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09

SOs-+A DoupiD acrOSt1c.
The primals spell the name of a
famous poet, and the finals So
briquet which was given to him.
Reading across: l, A civil lawyer;
., somewhat aged; 2, q time-piece of
any kind; 4, a kind of spice; 5, a
Shakespearean character; 6, to dis
close; 7, special business intrusted
to messenger; 8. the act of going
out; 9, one of the minor prophets; 10.
a blue mineral; IL, upright; -, re-
Gently; 13, failure of any kind; IA,
"The Morning Star of the Reforma-
tion;" Is, the goddess of health; 16,
feeble; II, place of public worship;
IS, loquacious person; 10, a noun
tain in the Bolivian Andes; 20, not ma
tive; 81, novel which exposes the
wrongs of the North American Indians.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09

Quartermaster Murray of the auxil-
larry cruiser Yale (now the Paris) was
among party of bluejackets who went
aboard the Reina Mecedes a few days
after the battle of July 8 in search of
relics. The wreck of the Spanish
cruiser had already been stripped of
nearly everything portable by curiosity
seekers, even her figurehefH having
been sliced up into splinters to serve
us mementos; but Murray and others
of the Yale's crew found box of un-
used 7-inch shells, which they carried
off in triumph.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
ANSWERS TO PREVIOUS PUZZLES.

21.-A Charade-Earnestly.
GA Novel Acrostic-First and
third lines, The Red Badge of Cour-
age. 1, Trend; Q, hoods; 8, elfin; 4,
racks; 5, ebony; 6, daubs; 7, bards;
8, agave; 9, doges; 10, green.
23.-A Travelling Puzzle Katydid,
idea, Easter, error, ortolan, angle,
lemonade, debate, tetrarch.
24.-Five Hidden States-Maine,
Utah, Missouri, Idaho and Oregon.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09

In accordance with the plans formulated
two years ago by the Receivers to place the
Baltimore 4 Ohio railroad in first-class ply
scal condition, considerable work is being
done on the Trans-Ohio divisions. The i'm.
provements are being made with a view to
using 10 ton locomotives on all portions of the
line, and since July $3.50 tons of Is pound and
l2,9i3 tons of So pound steel rails have been
laid on the Central Ohio Lake Eric and Chi
cago divisions. About II miles of new side
tracks have been constructed, fine telegraph
towers erected, a new freight depot built at
Mansfield, Ohio, an interlocking plant in
stalled at Plymouth, Ohio, and five water
stations, TO expedite freight traffic, con-
structed. Further improvements of more
extensive character are being planned, in
order to materially increase the ton mile
haul
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
ST..
JACOBS
OIL
TwENrY-FoUR HOURS
ST..
JACOBS
OIL

To New Orleans or to Jacksonville via the
Queen q Crescent Limited trains from Gin
3innati, 81 hours through to Havana To
Florida-Queen & Crescent Two Fast Vesti-
buled trains daily Cincinnati to Jacksonville.
Queen d Crescent Route and Southern R'y
indies. Asheville-Only Through Car Line is
via Queen q Crescent Route and Southern
R'y from Cincinnati. Cafe and observation
cars. Excellent service on superb through
trains. Queen & Crescent Route from Gin
cinnati South.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09

Leipsic University refuses to accept
time spent at the University of Frei-
burg, in Switzerland, in the count for
Its degrees, on the ground that the
teaching there has deteriorated below
university standards since the Domini-
can monks have obtained control The
other German universities are likely to
follow the example of Leipsic, and will
refuse to recognize the Freiburg de-
greeS as WELL
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
To Cure A Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money ifit fails to cure. go

Michigan pays a bounty for the
heads of dead English sparrows. 1t
has recently paid out over $1,000 to a
crowd of Indiana sharpers who had
killed the birds by strewing poisoned
wheat about the streets of Indiana
cities. The carcasses were shipped to
Southern Michigan towns and the
bounties collected as on birds killed in
Michigan.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09


LUCAS COUNTY. Iss.
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of +. j. CHENEY &,
Co, doing business in the City of Toledo,
County and state aforesaid. and that said
nrIn VIII pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of CATARRB
that cannot be cured by the use of HALLS
CATARRH CURE. FRANK J CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
( ~ presence, this 9th day OF December,
tO~) Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken informally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Send for testimonials, free.
F. j. CHENEY g. Co, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
Philosophy.

The Philosopher laughed aloud.
"A million?" he exclaimed. "Why,
such wealth would make me insanel"
For he, understand, had relatives
Puck,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
An American named Mohun. accom-

An American named Mohun, accom-
panied by five trained electricians, has
just left Brussels to extend the tele-
graph in the Kongo country from its
present terminus at Stanley Pool to
Stanley Falls, and thence in two diff
ferent directions to Lake Tanganyika
on the one side and to Redjof on the
Nile on the other. The work is to cost
about s500,000 and it is expected that
1t will be completed in 1900
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-02-09
Beauty Is Blood Deep.

Clean blood means clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar.
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all i'm.
Danish pmples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug.
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, 25c, SOC.