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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28
LYNN's FLOATING BRIDGE.
In Use for Nearly Century and Growing
Better All the Time.

The city of Lynn will have to ex-
pend about $500 next summer in re-
planking the floating bridge on Glen
mere pond, announces the Boston
Transcript. A new set of three inch
planks is required every third year on
the structure. Few people of the
hundreds who cross the bridge daily
have any idea of it's great thickness,
which has been proved by recent
soundings to be as much as seventeen
feet in some places. Although so
much thicker and heavier than when
first built, it seems to have lost none
of its fexibility, and always adapts
itself instantly to any changes in the
level of the water.
Floating Bridge is one of the curl
osities of Lynn, and it is claimed to
be the only structure of it's kind in
the world. In 1908 bridge of some
what similar design was built across
Lake Quinsigamond, near Worcester,
but it was constructed simply of two
tiers of logs, covered with planks, and
was never satisfactory The Lynn
bridge, on the other hand, has been
in constant use for nearly century,
and is stronger now than ever, as the
wood does not rot under water, and
the pine logs which form the founda-
ton are as firm as on the day when
they We're hewed and put together.
Captain Moses Brown was the
originator of the idea of thus bridging
Collins pond, as it was then called.
In March, 1902, charter was granted
to the Salem Turnpike and Chelsea
Bridge corporation, and the bridge
was completed in 1904, at a cost of
$50, 400. A diver has investigated the
foundations Of the structure, and has
found that the original bridge was
made of five layers of pine, laid at
right angles to each other. the first
two layers of pine logs were on one
side, and the upper three of hewn
timber one foot square, the whole Sc
cured together by three-inch dowels.
and covered with planking 1-2 feet
thick.
The bridge is 81 feet long, 2s feet
wide, and the pond which it crosses is
about seventeen acres in area and
about sixty-four feet above the sea
level. The bed of the pond appears
to be a bed OF quicksand, and it would
be very difficult to build road around
the pond without making very long
detour, owing to the boggy nature of
the soil. The bridge is kept from
tipping over by being moored at the
ends, imbedded in long trenches dug
in the shores OF the pond at the APP
proaches.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28

The biggest price ever given for o
horse was $3.50, 900, when Ormonde,
once the property Of the Duke Of
Westminster, was bought for that sum
by California millionaire. The fam
GUS winner of the Derby, st. Leger
and the Two Thousand Guinness, in
one year was recently sold for $105,-
0OO-Galtee More. The most valu-
able collie dog known is owned by
Mr.. Megson. of Manchester, who gave
$4,000 for him. He is the finest dog
of his kind that has ever been reared,
and has taken forty-eight prizes at
various shows. Perhaps the most ex-
pensive fowl ever heard of is game
cock named Peter Jackson, belonging
to gentleman in Plymouth. This
bird has been known to fight under a
bet of 5000, 900 to pinch of snuff.
Needless to say he won it. His owner
has refused $4,000 for him. Tit Bits.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28
The Germ Hunters.

It is recognized fact that the re-
searches of Monsieur Pasteur have
saved many millions of francs to the
French people by showing them how
to guard against the pests of their
herds, fields and vineyards, besides
reducing to remarkable extent the
mortality in their hospitals; and both
the medical practice and the hygienic
habits of all civilized nations are
sharing these benefits.
The courses of biology in our col
Ieges now include some knowledge of
bacteriology, and there are special
provisions for students who wish to
follow up this fruitful branch in the
laboratories. Happily for all the
people, the results of such inquiries
become part of common knowledge,
even while the processes are still
among the mysteries of science.
Thousands of homes and factories
are safer from disease pro oducing
germs because of the spread of kind
of knowledge which is quite super
fetal. The farmer sprinkles paris
green over his potato vines the house,
keeper buys of the druggist bottle
of carbolic acid, or some better disin-
fectant; the nurse, under the over
sight of the physician, treats the
diphtheritic patient with antitoxin;
aud in each case they only need to
understand that these substances de-
stroy parasitic life. Perhaps the few
wise ones, who know at what cost
these fruits of science and art are
brought within common reach, may
have their own quiet chuckle at the
complacent claim of popular in
telligence. Youths Companion.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28
The Value of African Ivory.

Africa remains the happy hunting
ground for the ivory collector. African
ivory fetches a higher price than any
other, being denser in texture, sus-
ceptible of higher polish and not so
liable to turn yellow when exposed to
the light as the Indian kind. In Africa
itself the quality is found to vary
greatly, the rule being that the warmer
the region the finer is the ivory found
there. The finest tusks, however, are
generally met with at some distance
from the equator. The finest pair of
tusks ever brought to Europe came
from Uganda, and are valued at $940.
Tusks of anything like these dimen-
sions are, however, very rare, and are
difficult to procure from the natives,
who value them highly, and use them
for door posts, especially in their
temples. The tusks of full-grown
''tusker" seldom measure over six
feet, and weigh from one to two hun
dred pounds. The tusk is usually
solid for about half its length, the
base being quite thin and therefore of
little use for commercial purposes.
Only from the upper portion of the
tusk can billiard balls and the bulkier
articles be made.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28
A Wonderful Iiattleship.

A story is going the rounds in Cen
tral and South American papers of
battleship to be called the American
Boy, which is to be built by popular
subscription among the boys in vari-'
GUS cities of the United States. The
description given OF the projected
American wonder is staggering. The
ship, according to the gullible press.
will be 1000 feet long, with 207 feet
beam and displacement of S,410
tons. Forty knots an hour is the
speed she is expected to develop.
Her guns are too numerous to men
ton, but among them are four 15-inch
monsters, while those of the 12-inch
and 1O-inch class mount up in the
scores. The armor-belt will be thir
ty-six inches thick, backed by eight
inches of asbestos felt! Then she will
carry 25, 900 tons of smokeless coal;
there will be gymnasium in the
cabin as large as small auditorium;
she will have 10 officers and $500
men, and the cost of the completed
ship will be 10000, Chicago
Journal ----
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28
Light From the wind.

An electric light installation which
has recently been laid down at Boyle
hall, West Ardsley, is interesting
from the fact that wind is the only
motive power employed for general
ing the current. There are fifty sails
set radially in circular frame about
thirty feet diameter. A large pulley
fixed on horizontal shaft in an adj
jacent building drives the dynamo.
The duty of this machine is to charge
the storage cells, which are sufficiently
large to run 100 lights for about eight
days in winter, should there be no
wind for that length of time, and for
more than fortnight in summer.
Yorkshire tEnglandl Post.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

A caterpillar can eat six hundred
times its weight of food in month.
A well-known pr ofessor asserts that
the smallest intervals of sound can be
better distinguished with one ear thar
with both.
A fossil dinosaur that must have
been 13O feet in length has been found
near Laramie, Col. The remains were
found by Professor w. H. Reed in the
Jurassic strata near Laramie.
A scientist OF note has discovered
that the smell of flowers is injurious
to the voice. He declares that several
operatic singers of his acquaintance
owe the loss of their voices to their
passion for certain sweet smelling
flowers.
Liquefied gases, atatmospheric at pres
sure, are found to have these boiling
points, in Centigrade degrees below
zero. Sulphur dioxide, TO-; chlorine,
SO; ammonia, 3S; dioxide, 78; nitrous
oxide, S9; nitric oxide, 1853; oxygen,
1873; carbon monoxide, 100; air, 1922
hydrogen, 23S.
The influence of colored light in the
treatment of nervous diseases has been
studied by DR.. Raffegan. From ex-
periments on twenty patients, he has
found that few hours stay in violet
light has marked quieting effect, red
light, on the other hand, producing
decided excltation.
An italian me lical journal states,
according to the New York Medical
Journal, that while water will not
quench the fame of burning petro.
leum in limited space, milk accom-
plishes the object by forming an emul.
sion with the oil, disturbing its cohe-
sion, and thus alternating the com.
bustible element.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28
Shakespeare's Gloves.

A pair of interesting gloves are in
possession of Miss Frances Benson.
Breathe low and speak in whispers;
they are Shakespeare's gloves. That
they are good specimen of the hand
covering of the sixteenth century is of
paltry interest compared with the we'll
authenticated statement that the great
man had soiled the leather aud worn
through the tinger-tips. Did he
squeeze the hand of Ann with them as
Intermediates? Have they, under his
guidance, grasped the handle of a
fagon or of an inkhorn? Accompany
dunn, which no one will care to dis
pute: ga pair of gloves worn by
Shakespeare. Presented to Garrick
by the Mayor and Corporation of STRAIT
ford Avon, at the time of the jubi-
lee there, 1769, in finely-carved box
of the mulberry tree planted by
Shakespeare, together with the lease
of his house, in Stratford and the free
dom of the town" These real work
a-day gloves, deemed worthy to be
placed with legal documents, have
plainly seen wear. They are of sub
stantial leather, and doubtless made
up in ornament what they lacked in
fit. The scroll stitching on the
knuckles has been in red and gold,
these two colors being maintained
throughout the accessories. The cuff
is of double leather, with a pattern
pinked on the upper skin. The rib
bon, outlining the cuff, is of yellow
silk, and that on the lower edge is of
crimson silk with yellow fringe
PHILADELPHIA Record.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28
An American Naval omcer's Spanish Wife

An american Naval Omcer's Spanish Wife
One of the passengers aboard the
United States transport Morgan
City was lovely matron of the per-
feet, highest Castilian type. She had
the deftly chiselled features, the be-
wildering wealth of hair, the deep
black soul windows beneath arched
brows, delicate as thistle down, the
lips of an aristocrat, the teeth of an
Oriental queen and all the elegance
and grace of bearing that could well
be imagined. She was all that one
could picture the darling of select
household of Old Madrid. Hers was
such personality as fete visions con.
jure. Sonora was of Spain. She is
the wife of an officer in the American
navy and journeys to join her husband
in the service of his country in the
Philippines. What her thoughts are,
what experiences are in store for her,
might be materialized into romance
with much shading of sadness. From
the expression of her features, uncon-
sciously betraying pride of family
and race, nothing could be guessed.
Sonora was unrutiied on the ship. 1t
is fancied that it would be difficult to
disturb her equilibrium. She travelled
before her marriage to the American
continent and has lived IN the United
States about five years. being promi-
nent in the society circles of one of the
large cities. Pacific Commercial Ad
vertiser.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28

''And so you sent Rob off to git him
away from that girl, Mr.. Spatter-
dock?"
The Widow Smilax, after lingering
on the way home from church until
Mr.. Spatterdock overlook her, was
making the most of the opportunity
thus afforded.
"That kind of girls is so artful, to-
be-sure! But it seems most pity
that you took so much trouble, now
that the girl has gone away herself"
Gone away-herself?" Mr.. Spat.
terdock stared.
"Why, yes, tobe-sure! Didn't you
know it? She went the week before
Rob did. Went to visit her married
sister, hear. alvin out at Sweetgum
Holier!''
Mr.. Spatterdock wondered whether
he really had gone crazy or not. But,
OF course, there was some mistake!
He declined the widows invitation
to dinner, much to her disappointment
and went at once to learn the truth of
the matter.
II thought you knew it was my
cousin that Mr.. Greenaway came to
see, e claimed Penny, dropping her
eyes, bashfully. "Her name is Penny,
too, though we generally call her Pen,
to distinguish us. Her sister was
taken sick, and she went to stay with
her, and so
'And so, Penny-my Penny-you
are really free, and you do care enough
for me to be my little wife?'
Whatever the answer was, there
was double wedding at the tiny cot
tage when Rob came home, and the
village criterions, who had refused to
receive the plebeian Pettigills, now
had occasion to wonder whether Mrs.
Simeon Spatterdock and Mrs. Rob
Greenaway would receive them. Sat.
urday Night.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28
What She was Not.

Cripple Greek is great on etiquette.
A man out there met little girl with
whose family he is very intimate, and
said:
''Hello, Edith! How are you?"
The little miss drew herself up and
replied:
''I'se very we'll, but 1 amt no tele-
phone. Boston Globe.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28
"And this is Miss Pettigill? Mi

"And this is Miss Pettigill? Miss
Penny Pettigill?"
eyes"
Mr.. Spatterdock glanced sharply
around at the home-like appearance Of
the tiny room in which he was stand
ing, and looked curiously into the
elfish- brown eyes fixed on his own.
If this was Penny Pettigill he was
in deuce of pickle! Why, the little
witch was beauty, out-and- out-and
lady, too!
Buy her off? Mr.. Spatterdock would
as soon have thought of-of anything
else in the world!
And somehow or other, he could
never tell exactly how it happened, but
there he was, sitting in little, chintz-
covered rocking chair, chattering of
Rob, and everything else under the
sun, while Penny Pettigill's wonder
full. elt-brown eyes flashed and
sparkled, or dropped their dusky
crimson coral.
''H'm! Rob's lucky fellow, after
all, muttered the uncle, as he walked
home with his head in the clouds,
metaphorically, his heart beating,
meanwhile, in way he had never
known it to beat before.
Throwing himself away, indeed!
It's her that's a-throwing herself faway,
if anything. Poor girl! She'll be
lonesome while Rob's gone. I must
drop in often"
The villagers held quite aloof from
the Pettigills, hut Mr.. Spatterdock
made ample amends for their neglect.
Mrs. Pettigill, Penny's mother, was
a sweet-faced old lady, and Penny
herself was as piquant and changeabl'
as an April day.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-09-28

perhaps the mothers testimony should
be taken with some allowance.
'Poor as church mice, too," put in
the Widow Smilax, who was supposed
to have an eye on Mr.. Spatterdock
himself "Of course it's Rob's money
they're after"
And Mr.. Spatterdock had gone home
thoroughly convinced that it was his
duty to save his nephew from the
snare that had been spread.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-19
government FOR SAMOA
THE PLAN AGREED TO BY THE
SAMOAN CHIEFS.
Local Government by Samoans-Na-
tional Government by the Three
Treaty Powers-King of Sweden.

APIA, August 1.-THE document pre-
pared by the Samoan Commission out
lining the form of government they
proposed for Samoa, which was signed
by the twenty-siX chiefs representing
the two factions of Samoans, has just
been published. The Malietoa chiefs
hesitated about signing 1t, notwith-
stanuing what has been said to the
contrary, as they were opposed to alb
olishing the monarchy.
This document announces that the Of
| flee of king is abolished, but the right
of each high chief over every district in
Samoa is continued. Although the
kingship is abolished, vet we do not
wish to take away the Independence of
Samoa altogether and hand it over to
! the great powers
An administrator to advise the Sa-
moan Government is to be appointed.
THE said administrator shall be ap-
! pointed by the three powers if they UNI
amnously agree, but in case of any dis
agreement then this official shall be
nominated by the King of Norway and
! Sweden"
! A legislative council is created to con-
sst of the administrator and three 9th
er officials nominated respectively by
the three treaty powers. This legisla-
tive council shall have control of the
revenue, taxes and customs duties, the
mails and currency.
Each district is to elect it's high chief
who shall collect taxes as directed by
the legislative council. The old customs
of each district are to remain in force
The chief justice is to be nominated
by the three powers or in case they
cannot agree, by the King of Norway
and Sweden. He shall preside over the
annual meeting of the chiefs and gov.
ernors to be held in Mulinuu. This an.
nual meeting shall not extend it's SEES.
sions beyond thirty days except with
the consent of the administrator. Its
resolutions shall not have the effect OF
law until approved by the legislative
council.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-19

church and Congregation Celebrate
Five Years Of Work

The members and friends OF the
Methodist Episcopal church held their
nth annual meeting last night. The
night was ideal for a gathering on the
lawn where the exercises We're held.
The first hour was spent I'm social
converse; then all sat down to an eX-
cellent supper. Before rising from the
tables the company was entertained
with the following program:
Anniversary Hymn. .....................
Recitation--When Papa is Sick.
Edith Lyle.
Trio-Nymphs of the Ocean Spray.
Mesdames Chamberlain and Bemoose
and MIR. Webb.
Recitation-The Golden Eagles Nest
Miss Addie Farmer.
Chorus-Fairy Moonlight ...,..........
Recitation-The Church Choir .......
Miss Ethel Chamberlain.
Reports from the various depart
ments of the church were presented all
of which showed a healthy and pros
porous condition.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-19
CLAUS sPRECKELs. WIN. G. IRWIN
Claus SpreCkeLS 4 Go:
Il a ~ * IL IS - .

HONOLULU, H. 1.
San Francisco Agents-The Nevada
National Bank of San Francisco.
DRAW EXCHANGE ON
SAN FRANCISCO-The Navada Ma
tional Bank of San Francisco
LONDON-The Union Bank of London
Ltd.
NEW YORK-American Exchange Ma
tional Bank.
CHICAGO-Merchan National Bank
PARIS-Credit Lyonnais.
BERLIN-Dresdner Bank.
HONGKONG AND YOKOHAMA-The
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation.
NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA
Bank of New Zealand.
VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER-Ban
of British North America.
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING
AND EXCHANGE BUSINESS.
Deposits Received. Loans Made on
Approved Security. Commercial and
Travellers Credits Issued. Bills of Elk
change Bought and Sold.
COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY AC-
COUNTED FOR.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-19
LONDON PAPERS.
Circulation of Some of Babylons Lead
ing Journals.

The London Daily Telegraph has an
average daily circulation from one
years end to the other of about $4,000
copies. Mr.. Harmsworth's Mail has out
stripped the Telegraph and has a cir
culation of 100000 copies daily, while
his Evening News has a circulation of
$50, 900 copies.
The London Chronicles circulation
will average as high as 10000 daily. 1t
is the organ of the labor unions, and
prints more Geographic news than any
other London daily. The Daily News
has about 125,000 circulation. The Echo
has $4,000, The Globe 1000, The Post and
Standard from 10000 to $4,000, but no
body knows how many. The circulation
of The Times, like the authorship of it's
editorials, is a mystery, but the paper
dealers say that it is not half as large
as it used to be. The Parnell affair in
jured it immensely, and cost it much
advertising as we'll as circulation The
Telegraph and The News have cut into
it, and although The Times still has
more influence with the British people
than all the rest of the newspapers
combined, it is not THE Thunderer"
that it used to be. Men have endured
the condemnation of The Times and sur
vived. Men have enjoyed its support
and failed. The Times sells for three
times as much as any other daily paper,
and is still the most important newspa-
per property as well as the most i'm
portant vehicle of intelligence in Eu-
rope, and probably in the world.-Chi-
cago Record.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-19
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LIMITED
HEAD OFFICE, YOKOHAMA.

BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.
Kobe. London. Lyons. New York.
San Francisco. Shanghai.
Bombay. Hongkong.
Tokyo. Nagasaki.
Transact a General Banking and EX-
change Business.
Agency Yokohama Specie Bank.
INTEREST ALLOWED.
On fixed deposits for IL monts, pei
cent per annum.
On fixed deposits for months, 31s per
cent per annum.
On fixed deposits for months, per
cent per annum.
Interest Allowed by the Head Office
at Yokohama.
On current deposits, 2-10 sen per day.
On fixed deposits for IL months 51s per
cent per annum.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-19
GOES TO THE COAST

Officer Nigel Jackson and wife sailed
by the Alameda last night for Califor-
MIA to visit the formers mother, who
is quite i'll. They will be away about
two months. At San Francisco, Jack
son will meet his two brothers who are
returning with the California regiment
from Manila
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-19
Fine Job Printing. Star Office.

That disagreeable state of mind, fire.
quent loss of temper and consequent
mental worry supernduced by the an
noyance of PRICKLY HEAT is quickly
dispelled by one or two applications
of DANDRUFF KILLER. While it's
effects in the eradication and final cure
of DandruGf are remarkable, the ease
with which it stops Prickly Heat is
none the less so.
For sale by all druggists and at the
Union Barber shop. F. PACHEO,
Proprietor.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-19

NOT AN AUTOMOBILE.
Sister Kitty, what is a Vehcle?"
It's a thing that won't go without
being hitched to quadruped."
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-19
MuSIC SCHOOL.

The largest music school in the world
is the Guildhall in London. The num-
Der of pupils this year was 5000. In
1898 the professors, 121 in number, were
paid the sum of something over $11S,-
900, and during the same period the
school received from students and en-
dowment the sum of $780, 525.