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Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
FOOL TRAIT OF BABY CRABS.
Make Prisoners of Themselves b
Crawling Into Live Oysters.

Make Prisoners of Themselves by
Crawling Into Live Oysters.
An oyster shucker found in the shell
of the bivalve what he called a baby
crab.
'.rhat's the first one of that kind 1
ever found in Long Island OYSTER"
said the old shucker, land I've been
shucking along the sound for twenty
years. But such crabs are frequently
found in Virginia oyster shells and are
considered great delfcacies when you
get enough of them. Last summer 1
was shocking while on visit in Vir-
ginia, and l found enough baby crabs
in oyster shells to fill an ordinary-size
coffee cup. A young woman saw them
and clapped her hands at the sight
She asked me what l would take for
them, and said So without thinking.
She took me up quicker than mice,
and off she ran with them as If she had
drawn prize"
"Why do they go into oyster shells7"
II don't know. asked an old Vir-
ginia shucker that same question, and
he said 1t was because they were lone
some and went in for company. But
don't believe it. That would mean
that crabs think, and we know they
don't. Neither does lobster. think
the biggest fool in water is lobster.
l suppose you know how we catch lob
sters in the sound? Take box, bore
holes in the side Of it, and sink it. Put
out your buoy so you'll know where to
find the box. Leave the box sunk all
night and go out next morning and
haul 1t up, and you've got box full
of Holsters. And the funny thing about
1t is that they go into the holes back
ward. Even people will put their
heads into holes where they are look
ing, but 1t takes a lobster to back into
hole. and they keep on doing it. Fish
are smart. You have to play with them
to get them to bite. But Holsters, they
back right into your arms. Biggest
fools that live."-New York Sun.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
Ballet Dancers Arc Long.Iavo.

A statistician has been devotlnc him
self to a study of ballet dancers, and
his investigation seems to establish the
fact that they are an unusually long
lived lot. The famous Carlotta Grisi Ia
living now ut the age of II. and one of
the ballet dancers at the Opera in Paris
Is 20; but he is man. Amalin Fer
raris Is still teaching at the age of IS
In Paris, and seems likely to continue
that work for some time to come.
Fanny Ellsler was "a when she died,
and Taglioni has passed her ,eightieth
year. Rosita Mauri. the popular pre-
miere at the Opera in Paris. is over so.
and has begun to talk of retiring.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

2,169 geese, turkeys, chickens and
ducks, from Boston, were landed re-
Gently ut London dock, where 1t was
found that they had decayed on the
voyage. They could not be condemned,
however, till they had been loaded on
wagons and carted to police court,
where police magistrate came out,
listened to the inspectors story, salts
fed himself by his own senses that the
fowls were unsound and ordered them
to be destroyed. A police magistrate
is apparently the only English official
who can condemn bad meat, and this
he can do only after listening to a COM
plant and examining the corpus deficit
personally In his own courtroom.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
"A NURsEMAID's CYCLE.

Brooklyn's Mans Invention Proves a
Boon to Babies.
A nursemaid's cycle is the latest in
vention in the wheel line Very appro-
priately, the inventor of this boon to
maids and babies is a Brooklyn man.
\. G. Kuster is his name.
1t is a tricycle., the two front wheels
of which are quite close together.
Above these is passenger seat resem-
bling small reclining chair. For use
in carrying an infant out to air the
passenger seat is provided with hing
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
sann Mines in Pennsylvania.

There are all kinds of mines in Penn.
sylvania. The greatest are, of course,
the iron and coal mines, but few people
would guess that the next extensive
mining industry are the sand mines in
Western Pennsylvania. These mines
are rarely underground, however. and
many Of them are viewed with wonder
by passengers on the Pennsylvania up.
proaching Pittsburg. Whole mountains
are being dug away. and the granular
rocks forming them are being reduced
to sand for the manufacture of glass in
and about Pittsburg.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
stin Paying cf HI, D.bt..

The way the President has cleaved
unto the saw-millionaire at the head of
the War Department, refusing to be
separated from him at the demand of
Democrats and anti-Algerlne Republic
ans, has had few parallels in the ex-
amples Of unquenchable friendship
with which history furnishes us. The
President has had enough sworn proof
Of Ayers utter incompetency and Grim
inal acknowledgement to convince a
deaf, dumb and blind skeptic. But he
owes to Alger political debts and will
not let him go.-St. Louis Republic.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
pitifn1 Echo I'D !. se..a.,

There is painful echo Of the canned
beef scandal in the reports from the
national insane hospital at Washing
ton. 1t appears that 147 soldiers Of the
Cuban war have been sent there on ac-
count of arrangement arising during
their service, and DR.. Godding, the su-
perintendent, In describing their condi-
tion, says: "They were suspicious of
their food. especially meats, but ate
when told to do So" Considering the
revelations that have been made 1t is
not surprising that they were suspi-
cious of their meats indianapolis Sen.
tinel.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

A year ago the United States We're
the worlds greatest republic and freest
country and occupying II position that
was Independent of the other countries,
but bound to them by the friendly ties
of trade interchange. To-day we are n
member of the family of nations and a
participant In the broils aud quarrels
of the other members. And too we
have become meanwhile the most
grasping of the powers for foreign ter
ritorial conquest, including purpose
to join in the spoliation of China. The
future historian will be obliged to quote
Senator Hoar: 1.-THE downfall of the
American republic commenced with
the administration of William McKin-
ley" KANSAS City Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

thus preserving the passenger from &C.
cidents from tipping over. The other
parts of the machine, frame, rear
wheel, pedals. saddle, ETC., are the same
as in the ordinary bicycle.
The steering is done with the front
wheels. Stability is maintained by the
support of the machine being constant
ly upon three fixed points, by mount
ing the front wheels in separate piv-
oted frames and connecting them with
the handlcbar SO as to turn them sim
ultaneously.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

1t is quite likely that we shall have to
stop talking about ga brainy man"
when it is intended to indicate that one
has unusual intellectual powers, or
about "a brainlcss man" when in
ferlority of mental capacity is to be in
dicated. The Medical Record shows
that men with the largest brains are
not necessarily those possessing most
brain power, talent or intellect, and
says that "many persons with brains of
unusual size have never risen beyond
mediocrity, while, on the other hand,
some of those men who have risen to
great eminence by reason of their pow
brains smaller than the average" An
other fact announced is that natives of
cold climates have larger brains than
those of the tropics and investigation
shows that in sixty given cases the
brains Of the Lapps and Swedes had
capacity, in cubic inches, of from 100
to 102, while the Egyptians and Ben
galese had a capacity of from Is to 80
cubic inches. 1t is claimed that the
Scotch have the largest brains of any
people in the world. The Record says
about 0 to 10 per cent. of men exam
ined in asylums registered brain
weight of more than 55 ounces, while
those of Daniel Webster Lord Byron,
Bacon and of many other renowned
men were between $50 and so ounces.
The average weight of the brains of
sixty famous men was found to be less
than the estimated brain weight of all
men, and the ten most weighty brains
in the list Of famous men averaged
more than nine ounces less in weight
than those of the ten heaviest belong
ing to the idiotic, criminal and ordin-
airy class 1t is evident that the dis
tinguishing mark of genius must be
sought elsewhere than in the size and
weight of the brain.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

The total appropriations of the Fifty
fifth Congress amounted to about ST.
567, 000,0 900, Of which sum about 1882
582,O 600 was directly chargeable to the
war with Spain or was incident there
to. 1t does not follow that the actual
expenditures Of the government for two
years will reach this large sum, for
some of the appropriations are for work
authorized to be done in the future; the
cost of which will be included in the
expenditures of the years Wien the
work shall be actually done.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

ed bottom, making the bottom part nd
Unstable ct a level with the seat in or
der to form bed for the infant while
sleeping. A foot rest at the bottom
serves as the foot of the bed.
The front wheels are pivotal in sep
arate forks and hold the machine up,
right under all ordinary conditions.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

They are still talking about WITCH
craft down East. A young man con-
victed of burglary alleges that he has
been "bewitched" by young. woman
and is no longer master of his actions.
This kind of witchcraft, however, is too
familiar spectacle to be regarded as
an extenuation.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

Asocietyin Edinburgh gives its atten-
ton to cabs that stand idle on fine DAYS,
and by engaging them provides free
rides for poor old people and invalids.
This is thoughtful and very exemplary.
but 1T is not ut all necessary to organ
ize a society for such commendable
purpose. If you chance to know poor
invalid or a convalescent, and have the
spare coin in your pocket, us well as
the generous impulse in your heart.
you needn't call a public meeting-iust
call the cabman!
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

The progress of surgery is shown by
comparing the operating rooms of a
generation ago and the apartments now
thought convenient and safe for the
surgeons work. ga dingy little place
In the basement" was the environment
OF the first operating table set up in
the Boston City Hospital. A few wears
later an amphitheater with wooden
floor and walls was devoted to the on.
Grating department. The germs of dis
ease found ready Judgment there. A
new building just completed is defend
ed in every way against the invasion of
microbes. The amphitheater has now
stone flooring, and walls of marble
and cement, while the operating tables
are Of glass and iron. Throughout the
structure the modern provisions for
helping the surgeon and the patient are
fully exemplified. The old professional
fatalism that accepted surgical fever
as inevitable, and high death-rate for
persons subjected to critical operations,
has practically disappeared.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

The annual report Of the Pennsyl-
vania department of agriculture for
1898 views the laws of that State,
passed In the spring of 1897, for the
preservation and protection of forests,
as Of vast Importance to the common
wealth. These laws recognized the
fundamental principle that "the forests
are actually of more use to the state
than to the individual" One Of them
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

Can there be any question that 1t is
the duty of the Republican party tc
abolish the protection which has fully
accomplished all its legitimate pur.
poses and which is now used only as a
shelter for an audacious scheme of pub
lie robbery? The only way to put
bounds upon the tyrannical rapacity OF
trusts is to abolish the tariff protection
under which they have combined tc
fleece consumers.-St. Paul Plonee,
prpgs
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

With wars, rumors of wars and
Algerism turning his hair gray, Presi.
dent Mckinley appears to be still hunt.
ing trouble. He has announced to his
cabinet that he will soon issue civil
service order placing $500 offices at
the disposal Of Republican spoilsmen.-
philadelphia Press.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

The Illinois suffragan is being asked
whom he favors for the next United
States Senator-John II. Tanner or In
Gle Shelby Cullom? John wants to go
there and Shelby wants to stay there.
Between the two, politics in the big
State across the river promises to be
kept in a stirred-up condition until the
Legislature decides between them.-St.
Louis Republic,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
MERlrEo THE LAETARE MEDAL

Nine. Caldwell, Now French Mar
quise, Receives n High Distinction.
Mary Gwendolin Caldwell, now the
Marquise of Merinville. was recently
given the Laetare medal by Notre
Dame University-an honor that is
yearly conferred upon some American
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

There is general protest against the
tendency to multiply holidays. AS a
matter of fact, it would be as well to
call a halt on the use of birthdays as
national events. The country is produc-
ing too many heroes to spare day for
each one of them.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
Euchrc an ON French G,me.

Euchre Is the ancient French game
of triomphe. The early French settlers
brought the game to America and
played 1t with thirty-two cards. AS
commonly played in this country to-
day, twenty-four cards are used in
four-handed games. The books general
ly give thirty-two cards us the proper
number. but that number is not justi-
fed by American usage.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

An exchange points out that Rud-
yard Kipling's recovery, SO plainly the
achievement of the closest medical
watchfulness and care, is going to make
1t hard for the doctors to lose pneu-
monia cases hereafter. The Ilipling
case was an extremely bad one, and
the skill that could save that ought to
avail with others. Still, it should be
taken into consideration that Mr.. Kip
ling's own pluck and his well-ordered
life had much to do with his recovery.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
CInb of south Paws

In southern California there is left
handed" club, with membership Of
nearly 1000 scattered throughout all
the principal towns. To be left handed
Is the only qualification necessary for
membership.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

Three gold shirt studs are the assets
Of Pennsylvania man who has filed
a petition of bankruptcy with liabili-
ties aggregaung $4,000. 1t cannot be
denied that the gentleman put up a
bold front.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
New Political, Align m =, e.

Taken altogether, the factors that
make for uncertainty in the future of
the Republican party and in the for
tunes of Mr.. Mckinley are not only
numerous but formidable. The Democ-
racy is having its internal troubles, but
Democrats can console themselves with
the thought that the slumbers of the
enemy are disturbed by frlghtful
dreams. The campaign of 1900 is not
far away and still there is time for a
political realignment that may be start
ling.-AIinneapolis Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

The Washington Star thinks the pre-
cocious pianist is preferable to the
S-year-old burglar. But it must be con-
coded that nobody is ever obliged. out
of politeness, to sit still and watch a
prodigy burgle.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

A contemporary expresses the opin-
ion that the young man who can win
and marry Miss Helen Gould and keep
her in America will be doing more for
his country than Hobson did.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

Success Rewarded Her pcrtinaci,y.
Mile. Rosa Bonheur. the veteran ami
NAL painter often tells with a smile
of the time when, laden with several
pounds of modelling clay and her lunch
of bread. she tramped miles into the
country in search of subjects.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

Bribery IN senatorial Elections,
When q man once accepts his first
bride to support man he would other
wise oppose he becomes n rapacious
scoundrel, seeking opportunities to sell
his vote for any purpose. Having flung
away the scruples that most men have
In their early public life, he is under no
restraint except the fear of exposure.
So out Of the present system of sena-
torial elections grows the utter rotten
ness of some public men, who will do
what they can to tempt others.-Wash-
ington Times.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

Those Cubans who want to be ban
dts have the reputation of being NAL
contents generally. Thus their trying
to combine the character Of kickers
and freebooters,
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
DEMOCRATIC DUTY.

Day by day it is becoming evident
that the rank and file of the Repub-
lican party are prepared, complacently
and blindly, to follow their leaders in
the support of trusts.
Here is one of their recent utterances:
'Those who oppose trusts are simply
getting in the way of the car of prog
ress.' Trusts are the natural outgrowth
Of our advanced civilization. They les
necessaries of life within reach of the
poor. The trusts are big, but this is the
era of big things. The day of small
things has passed. The men who are
whining because they are about to be
driven out of business by the trusts
will make more money and have an
easier time working for these trusts
than ever before"
When men drift into the condition Of
mind to voice such sentiments or to ap-
prove of them they are ripe for serf-
dom. They already have passed the
prerequisite of pusillanimous servility
and there only remains to be branded
on their backs the ownership mark of
some trust to make them full-hedged
and contented serfs.
The claims made by the Republicans
In favor of trusts are brazenly false. 1t
is hardly possible to name single ar
ticlc that has fallen under trust control
the price of which has not been
marked up from % to 200 per cent.
That some of the trusts will be forced
temporarily to advance wages rs part
OF the general scheme to crush out COM
petition is almost inevitable. When
competition shall have been effectually
strangled, and the trusts have full con-
troll of the industries. the prediction
that they will voluntarily pay "gener-
GUS wages" to their employees is su-
premely absurd.
The trusts are always ready to spend
money lavislily in crushing out compe-
tition. 1t may be set down us certain
that they do not do this with the desire
and intention of enjoying a monopoly
of paying generous wages" or of SELL
ing merchandise to the poor at low
prices.
When tile trust system is more fully
established, and the compact between
the trusts shall be in good working
order, there need be no hope of high
rates of wages. On the contrary, it can
be predicted with fair degree Of GER
tainty that the rate OF wages generally
paid will very nearly represent the very
lowest amount, scientifically ascer-
tanned, upon which a man can keep
alive and work from twelve to fifteen
hours a day.
With McKinley's protective tariff
shutting out foreign competition. and
the trusts cutting off domestic compe-
tition, the question is not-whether the
people will have TO pray for mercy. The
only open question is: What can the
people do to save themselves?
The Republican party promised the
people big things" and they have CIV
en- them in the shape of trusts. After
taking good look at these "big things"
the chances are the people will turn to
the Democratic party and ask for some
old-fashioned "Jeffersonian simplicity"
Lenders of Democracy, get together
and redeem the nation from the pawn
brokers of Wall street.-Chicago Dem
ocrat.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

If China had newspaper organs on
the Caucasian plan doubtless some Of
them would now be intimating that
Italy is making monkey of itself in
that real estate affair."
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

The editor of Locomotive Engineer
ing declares that in describing rail-
road collision reporters make mistake
when they say that ION seeing the dan.
ger the engineer whistled down
brakes reversed the lever, and Jumped
off," The expression down brakes. /"
he says, has been obsolete for two gen
erations. What an efficient engineer
really does when collision seems i'm
pending is to shut off steam, apply the
air-brake, open the sandwiches, and
jump. This takes about five seconds.
and in that time all that human effort
Is able to accomplish for the train and
passengers may be done. Railroad en-
gineers are told never to reverse the
engine after the air-brake has been an
piled, because the reversal reduces the
resisting power of the brakes.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
Doubtless the bicycle trust will be
big thing on wheels. 1t may be expect
ed to do some exciting scorching.

As soon as the microbes hear Of Tes-
las invention for electrocuting them
they will doubtless wear gutta-percha
insulators.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

lay person in recognition of distin-
guished services rendered for religion,
education or morals.
Nine. Caldwell is the chief founder of
the Catholic University of America at
Washington, and has given many other
evidences of her philanthropy. She
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

A certain DR.. Peck, of New York,
claims to have made $4,000 matrimo-
NAL matches in dozen years. He Is
evidently the author Of peck Of trou-
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

Instead of developing her domestic
industries, Spain will borrow more
money and build more war ships.
Spain gives one brain flag.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
Made Hor Sleenv,

Hewitt your beauty, you have
robbed me of my repose.
Shell wonder If that is the cause Of
my drowsiness whenever you CALI
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

King Oscar of Sweden has succeeded
in doing what most men of his age
could hardly hope to do. He has got
his life insured at the age Of 70.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19

Though the first tank steamer was
built only thirteen years ago, there are
now $50 tank vessels in existence, near
ly all steamers, with a register of 4O1..
024 tons.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-04-19
Ibscn Was to Have Been Doctor

Ibsen Was to Have Been a Doctor.
Henrik IDsen, the Norwegian drama
fist, was intended at first for doctor
and at the age of 16 he had to don n
druggists apron. His ambitions car
red him a little beyond that, and he
decided to become doctor and read
up for examination at Christiana. In
the course of his study he was reading
Sallust, and the character of Cataline
so took his fancy that he wrote little
play introducing him. This was Ibscn's
first dramatic effort.