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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-25

The collection taken atsall the masses
pit St. Johns church yesterday for the
benefit of st. Vincent's hospital result
ed in the netting of a neat sum for
the hospital ~
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-25

The funeral Of little Roger Burns, who
died in Holyoke, Saturday, was held
Sunday afternoon at o'clock. The in.
terment was in ST. Johns cemetery.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-25

The funeral of Frank, infant son Of
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Durham, &C.
curred at the home of the parents on
Washburn street yesterday afternoon
The burial was at ST. Johns cemetery
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-25
THE CITY.

The meeting of the Bi-n1etallic league
will be held either on Tuesday or Wed
resday night Of this week at Stephen
r. Littieton's office
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-25

The boats of the Quinsigamond Lake
Steamboat Co. leave Lincoln park week
days every half-hour from Il a. m. to
II p. M, until Oct. /.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-25

AS rule. Mr.. Mellen is suave. tao
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
A HINT FOR WARMTH.
Golf Stockings Are a Comfortable
Cold Weather Convenience
for the Ladies.

1t is we'll to remember that If the
wrists and ankles are warm the rest OF
the body is not likely to suffer. Worsted
.cristlets have gone out of fashion, bu'
he muff and the longsleeved coat serve
iuite as good purpose. Few thing
aowever, have been found to take tn.
)lace of leggings, which, if they are
of worsted, are apt to be awkward, anG
if they are buttoned are sure to tear
the skirts. The long knitted tight
were found a trouble to put on when
one was in a hurry to go out. Yet to
have something which can be easily
slipped on and off has become neces-
sity. Women in the overheated houss
of the present day have discovered thai
t is impossible to dress as their grand
mothers did in warm and unwieldy fan
nels, or even in the same warm clothes
N which they must dress for the
streets. They claim, too, that If one
dresses in light clothes for the house
ind in something warmer for the street
he dangers of taking cold are minl-
mized. The ingenious young woman Of
the present day buys golf stockings
without feet, and these she slips on over
her cotton stockings when she goes out
Of doors. They are snug enough not
to slip and slide, and, having no hooks
or catchable places about them, answer
a purpose in cold weather which moth
ing else has done.-Harper' Bazar.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
HARD ON HIS NERVES.
A Chicago Proof Reader Who Couid
Not stand for Badly Punctu-
ated Signa.

The old proof reader, who had been
for more than score Of years correct
ing the thousand and one minor errors
which the haste of newspaper-making
allows to creep into copy" before IT
reaches the printers hands, was most
methodical man, as proof readers are
likely to be. He came to work at the
same hour and minute every evening"
worked in the same methodical way
and knocked off at the same time, start
ing Immediately for home with one par
ticular chum. But one night he made
a change in his mode of procedure
which was the more remarkable COM
ing from him. go,
It was the end of the week, and IKE
all well-regulated printers, ne DOT
rowed his weekly dollar and started LOT
home. But instead of taking the near
est road he struck off on rounoa Dou'
course. b;s
"What's the matter" inquired niS
mariner. "why don't you 60 down
Twelfth street tonight ins'eao oi '@A-
ing this long route?
The proof reader hesitated moment
and then said:
can't hear Twelfth street any more
the signs over the stores are SO oaoiy
spelled and punctuated." -,-..---.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
Weapon and Lantern Combined.

A private policeman of Ludlow, Ky,
William Fritz, has in actual use the
very latest policeman's club. Aston
ishing as it may seem, the club con-
tains an electrical apparatus which fur
nishes powerful searchlight. 1t is a
weapon and lantern combined, and may
be used with equal effect in either ca
pacity, The construction is simple \
storage battery within the club, a push
button ct the handle &nd, where the
thumb naturally rests, and small but
powerful electric lamp behind a thick
glass bulls eye at the tip of the club,
covers it all. The electric apparatus
is so ingeniously devised that it is
not injured when a blow is struck with
the club,--Philadelph Record.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
DRApES THE WEDDING VEIL.
AFrench Artist Who Devotes HIS Tai
ents Exclusively to Beauti-
flying Brides.

There is a man in New York - a
Frenchman, of course-wio devotes his
artistic fingers and brain to deftly ar
ranging the wings or flowers in his
customers bonnets and hats or to drap-
ing the long tulle veil that envelopes
the blushing brides of the season. A
recent visit to the Frenchman = studi 20
known in our philosophy Of clothes
Knoan IN oai ".s-.[ .
Our ring was answered by d small page
in livery, who ushered US into beau
tifully artistic room, with rare bits Of
carved Dutch furniture and gobelin
tapestries. About the room were odd
fancies OF brass and rare Eits OF china.
The door was presently opened and n
tall, sinuous woman in long, cling
ing black gown enters and informs us:
"Mr. LIE Blanc is az present engaged
in arranging a wing in Mime. Astor-
bilt's bonnet"
You wait. Your cab waits-at New
York prices. When your patience is
almost exhausted and you feel tha;
Dutch furniture and old brasses arc
br' small compensation for waning
afternoon. Mr.. LIE Blanc enters-a typ
ical little Frenchman in Tery English
clothes. When monsieur finds made
moiselle wishes several hats and for q
trousseau his interest increases per-
ceptibly. We are conducted into a
little. apartment hung with seductive
mirrors and softened lights. where eve:.
Medusa herself would find beco ming
bonnet. We are soon deep In the mys-
teries of deciding and buying dear tc
a v-oman's heart, but still dearer when
we found small fortune tied in de-
licious little bow. After severa' selec-
tions were made, monsieur, viewing
with an artistic eye every turn of the
head and droop of feather, asked who
would adjust mademoiselle'sv veil. Upon
her replying. the mcdiste who made her
n-"Mademoiselle is rather fer
tile" said monsieur; what is the
height of the gentleman rnademciselle
will wed?" With ring of pardon
able pride my little bIi6e replies:
"Quite six feet" Monsieur throws up
his hands in horror, exclaiunng: "Made-
nroiselle would go up ze aisle looking
like one mushroom Gr one flying hy-
ena." Appalled, by such a frightfui
prediction. my little friend sank into a
chair and implored monsieur tc save
her from such fate. She was placed
in front of a mirror and swathed III
folds OF white satin. while monsieur
studied the effects of Lights and shades.
The necessary folds OF white tullc were
then draped by monsie ur's skilled
fingers around a tiny cornet of orange
blossoms, and caught with a white
aigrette with the dexterity born only
of a Frenchman and a genius.-Chi
cago Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
COLONY OF Outlaws.

Writer'S of fiction have frequently
pictured the idea Of an unknown tropic-
al paradise being turned Into general
asylum for outlaws and criminals, says
the Western Morning News. In the
BONN isles, not far from Japan, such a
refuge has actually been discovered.
Men of every nationality, who have
made civilization too warm for them
selves, have decamped to tlis ideal rem
devious, leaving the police to record the
unsatisfactory result of their investi-
cations as "gone abroad" No rates or
taxes have to be paid, and government
seems to be entirely dispensed with.
The discovery was made by Japanese
vessel which called at tic island. In
future the aliens will have less freedom.
and consequently less happiness, for
the japanese dominion will have to be
recognized. Their dream is over.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
The Prince of Wales, Post Bag.

The daily post bag at Marlborough
house contains some extraordinary let
ters. By one post there arrived the fol-
lowing: A request for the loan Of $1,000
to enable a student of entomology to
start for Africa; petition from a poor
old lady to provide dowry for her
daughter, who is about to be
married; pressing letter from a
French inventor of new div
ing dress, begging the prince to
don it and dive into the Seine when he
next visited Paris, and calm request
for money to redeem a workman's tools.
Of course, few of these curious missives
ever reach the prince, for his expe-
rienced secretaries sift the correspond
ence with care and knowledge.-Tem-
ple Magazine.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The invention of the typewriter has
given employment to 100000 women.
In Buffalo a planer is in operation
which at each cut removes a shaving
full II inches wide from solid cast iron.
The knife is between 12 and 13 inches
wide.
The habit of reading at the dining
table is strongly condemned by LILY
giene Moderne, though it thinks look
ing over the paper at breakfast is COM
paratively harmless.
Important deposits of sulphur have
lately been discovered in Asiatic Rus
sia. In the Ferghana district there is
one which will yield about 10000
pounds of pure sulphur yearly.
\ London physician, Stanley Kent,
claims TO have discovered the specific
bacillus of smallpox, after five years
of experimenting. If he can substan-
tiate his claim the anti-vaccinationists
will have lost their chief prop.
4 School Dentists society has been
formed in connection with the Dental
hospital, Portland street. At the in
than 16 per cent. of schoolboys and
girls of an average age of IL do not re-
quire some treatment for .decayed
teeth.
The Deutsche Faber Zeitung recon-
mends that iron reservoirs should be
preserved from rust by cleaning off the
paint and rust with steel wire brush.
The surface is then to be heated by q
soldering lamp, bit by bit. and cobblers'
wax rubbed into the heated parts. The
wax enters the pores and protects the
iron.
According to the Journal d'Agricul-
ture; Mr. Dickson and Prof. Malpeux, of
Berthouval. Pas-de-Calais, find that mo-
lasses mingled with their fodder tends
10 fatten sheep, pigs. cows, and horses;
to increase the supply of milk, butter,
and cheese Though this does not OF it
self warrant the recommendation of
molasses as food for milch cows). The
treacle makes dry fodder like straw ap-
Petizing and easy to digest.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
OOurt ""NE HO1mGS IOn orc in tbi;
Joseph Jefferson.

Joseph Jefferson was playing s one
night engagement in a small town. ap-
pearing in the part of Grip Van Win
kle." which he has so often and ably
personated. AT the hotel where he
stayed there was an Irishman who
acted as general assistant. Judged by
the great interest he manifested IN the
hotel, he might have been taken to be
the proprietor. AT about a quarter to
six in the morning Mr. Jefferson was
startled, not to say alarmed, by vio-
lent humping at his door. Wien he
recollected that he had left no orders to
be called so early, he was naturally in
dignant. His sleep was banished for
that morning, however, so he arose and
soon made his appearance before the
clerk. Look here, 1 say" he demand
ed of this functionary, "why was
called at this unearthly hour?' 81
don't know sir" replied the clerk "but
I'll ask Pat" Pat was summoned. Said
the clerk: "Pat, there was no call for
this gentleman. Why did you waken
him?" Pat led the clerk to one side
and said in a mysterious whisper: 'He
wor snorin' loike horse. sor: an Oi'd
heerd the bhoys sayin' something
about how he wor wanst afther stlapin
for twinty years, SO OF says to meself:
It's a-comin' unto i'm agin, an is yel
juty to git the crayther out O. yer house
at wanst.' IN. Y. Ledger Monthly.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
The Africans Endurance,

Two cases notably illustrative of the
African native power of endurance are
reported from the British central At
rican protectorate. In each instance
a man was dragged from his canoe by
a crocodile, and had an arm bitten al
most to a. pulp. The men had to b.
taken long distances overland. On
reaching Zomba each had the injure3
limb amputated and quickly recovered.
Dr. Douglas Gray, acting chief medical
officer there, remarks further in his
report upon the growing confidence ot
the natives in the European medicos.
Reports of cures-more especially in
relation to surgery-spread rapidly
among the natives, and the one old
e1re-a fiber band tied round the limb
:bove the seat of disease--is, he says
fast losing its experimentation
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
SOCIETY IN SITKA.
Strange as 1t May Seem, Dress SUITS
Are Important Requisites at
Social Functions.

That dress suits should be considered
what startling anomaly, says the San
Francisco Chronicle. The fact remains,
however, that the most rigid social rules,
prevail. Whether it be a ball, tea
fight or muffin struggle, evening dress
is imperative. Dinner parties of ten
and twelve courses are frequently on
the tapis, and, since none of the officials
come prepared to entertain on lavisi.
scale, every prospective hostess bor-
rows from her neighbors. All the day
long preceding an important function
more or less intermittent procession
| of men, women and children and hand
carts may be seen carrying lamps and
furniture, punchbowls, crockery, glass
and silverware and other paraphernalia
to the scene of festivity.
Everybody lives in small, cramped
quarters, and when an entertainment
| OF unusual scope is desirable a vacant
store or other unoccupied building is
| appropriated. Sometimes the court
room is deauded of its cumbrous furni-
ture, the walls decorated with flags,
punches of scarlet elderberry, festoons
or spruce and cedar, moss and ferns,
and behold an attractive ballroom. A
| guitar and c6acertina, or perhaps a
couple of banjos and flute, compose
the more or less tuneful orchestra.
Sandwiches of cucumbers or nastur-
tium leaves and blossoms are among the
surprises of the refreshment table.
The courtroom is over the iail. and
tie rhythmic tread of the dancers and
enlivening strains of music are vastly
enjoyed by the prisoners. In fact, they
look forward to these festive occasions
with quite as much pleasurable antici-
patton as the invited guests. The court
room is also used for divers other enter
tainments, the inmates of the Jail draw
ing the line at amateur concerts. They
think that they have already suffered
enough, and that it is taking an unfair
advantage of their limited sphere of ac-
ton.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
THE MOST NEGLECTED HOMES.
Those of the Women who Demand
am Expansion of Opportunities
for Their Sex.

It is an indisputable fact that there
are scores of American women to-day
connected with charitable, or club work
or organization work for which they
have no actual taste, and only forced
interest But the ipsufficiency of the
home as a place for women to develop
their fullest talents has been so inces-
sanity talked about that these women
have felt that, to be in touch with pro-
gressive ideas, they must take on some
outside Nork, even at the cost of leav-
ing something undone in the home ma
chinery Some women do not stop to
discern an incontestable fact: that
those of their sex who are forever cry
ing about the narowness of the home
for women are those who have either
never had homes of their own, or are
unhappy in the homes which they have.
No happy wife nor true mother ever
has a word to say in complaint CT the
narrowness of her home, or its INSULT
cheney for her highest development.
She knows all to well that home is
never narrow; that it can be made as
broad as a woman wills it. Where a
home is narrow, depend upon it there
IS always something wrong; something
is amiss. The most barren homes in this
country generally belong to one class
of women; those Who, on the platform
and with pen, are always Historically
and frantically demanding an expan-
sion of woman's opportunities. 1t is a
very fortunate thing for some of these
eXclaimers that those whom they ad-
dress cannot look into their homes and
see the true reason for their restless
ness and dissatisfaction. If they could
their platform careers would soon
come to an end.-Edward W. Box, in
Ladies' Homo Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
A Hear ON a Tear.

Some animals are initiative creatures
and have the poor taste to copy man
kinds weaknesses. They fall prey to
other things besides the hunters rife
occasionally, too. For instance: Pat
rick Walters, of Brackney. Pa, is "out"
several gallons of hard cider. but "in -
a iull-grown bear. Walters farm ad-
joins a strip of woods, which is in
habited by wild animals and deer. One
day recently Walters set kettle OF hard
cider indoors to boil it down. While al
work in the barn bear weighing 2O0
pounds approached from the woods
and shifting the fragrant dilution.
Tapped up good part of the cider. On
the approach of Walters the bear hur-
lied to the woods. A search was made
FOR him, and he was easily tracked
through the light snow. 1t was no
ticed that after the first half mile his
tracks grew unsteady, and finally the
searching party found him lying stone
blind drunk beneath a bash. He was
dispatched and cut up, then and there.
His flesh was taken 10 Brackney and
sold at the market, while the hide was
disposed of for $50. - Philadelphia
Press
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18

a BILE space to traverse. may be real
lied when it is considered that mes
senger boy, in order to accomplish that
total distance, would have to go about
1,100 times around the world, or fve
times to the moon and back.
1t appears, from figures furnished by
the post office department, that the
average person in Massachusetts,, in
cluding men, women and children
spends $3.50 on postage per annum
New York comes second with an ex-
penditure of 1927. The District of Co
lumbia third with $2.16. Colorado is
fourth with $1.93, and Connecticut is
fifth with $1.80. The states ranking
lowest in this regard are South Caro-
lima, with % cents per capita; Mississip-
pi, with "a cents; Alabama, with 81
cents; Arkansas, with 81 cents. and
North Carolina, with Al cents.-Wash-
ingtOn Star
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
Fortune Left to Science.

BY his will the late Alfred Nobel, the
Swedish dynamite manufacturer, left
almost the whole of his fortune to be
converted into an international fund
for the advancement of scientific re
search. The bequest, however, was dis
puted by the relatives of the deceased
and litigation ensued. 1t is now an
nounced that compromise has been
reached whereby the relatives receive
about 100000 of the property, the bal
ance, amounting to about 100000, be-
ing used as designated by Mr.. Nobel
This will give. under the terms of the
will, five prizes annually of about SAL
900 each to persons making the most
important discovery in physics, chem
istry, physiology or medicine.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
: MILES OF STAMPS.
Many Millions of Them Were Is
sued Last Year.
Some Mathematical Genius Has Fig
ured 1t Out That Piled One ON the
Other They Would Reach to
Height of Twenty-One Miles.

Uncle Sam printed just few postage
stamps during the year 1898. The num-
Der of two-cent stamps issued during
the year was about 2,5OO,0O0,0G0. Such
number, obviously, is beyond the
grasp Of the human mind, but perhaps
the matter may be made more clear by
putting it otherwise.
An ordinary two-cent stamp is exact
ly one inch long. From this fact, by
little calculation, it is easy to discover
that the number of stamps of this de-
nomination issued in 1898, placed end
to end, would extend distance consid-
erably exceeding 10000 miles. In other
words, they would make a continuous
strip of stamps, each one adorned with
the head of the father of his country
stretching in belt more than once and
a half around the equator.
OF course, though the two-cent
stamps are those principally used, there
are others. Enough one cent postage
stamps have been issued during the
year 1898 to stretch from New York
city, by way of Europe and Asia, to
Bombay. India, if similarly arranged in
one strip. All other stamps, as to pro-
duction and sales, are of minor impor-
tance comparatively speaking. but it is
interesting to know that almost exact
ly one mile of one dollar stamps wert
manufactured for the demand of 1898.
Of five-dollar stamps the production
was equivalent to little more than halt
a furlong, or about one-ffteenth Of a
mile.
Now, if all the postage stamps print
ed by the United States government in
1898 were placed one on top another
as neatly as might be without putting
them under pressure, how high do yor
suppose the pile of them would be :
There is no use guessing; you would
never get it nearly right, unless yor
went to work to calculate it for your
self. The 3,5OO,OOO,OoO stamps of al
denominations printed during the cur
rent year-the statement, of course, is
approximate-would tower to an eleva-
ton of 21 miles. This is more than three
times the height of the highest noun
tain in the world-Mount Everest, ir
the Himalnyas. If the same number OF
stamps was piled up in the form of the
ordinary sheets of 100 each, it follows
that the stack would be over fifth of a
mile high.
During the year 1898 the number OF
special delivery stamps sold was about
5,25O,OC0. 1t is only reasonable to sup
pose that the average journey of the
special delivery messenger is half a
mile. Indeed, that is an absurd under
estimate; but let it go al that. On this
assumption tn total dist ance Travelled
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
On n Hot Sabbath.

This story is told of a promin ent
preacher: On a hot Sabbath as he was
prea ching he took from his pocket what
he thought was his handkerchief, shook
it out and wiped his face, intently talk
ing all the time. To his surprise broad
smile was on every face in his audience,
when he discovered that what he had
put in his pocket for handkerchief
that morning was a pair of his little
child's drawers, the legs of which were
quite visible as he wiped the perspira-
ton from his face. - Homiletic Re-
view.
The Winslow mail., 1899-02-18
LOTS OF WAR WIDOWS.
Fension Report Shows Remarkable
Facts I'm Regard to Lon
gevity.

One of the curiosities of the United
States pension service is the astonish-
ing survival of war widows. The re-
port of the United States commissioner
of pensions, just issued, shows some re-
markable and interesting facts in re-
gard to the longevity of the widows of
soldiers. For instance, while there is
not single soldier of the war of the
revolution alive to-day, there are still
IL widows and daughters of soldiers of
the revolution. OF the war of 1912
there are only three soldiers still alive,
but of their widows there are still sur
viving and drawing pensions the aston
ishing number OF 2,4o7, says the New
Orleans Picayune-
The war of the revolution closed in
1l0) OD1 0 DOSio1 Of l1E noOu0 poo
1888. and period of 11s years has
elapsed, and, while there are male
survivors, there are still some of their
widows alive. This state of affairs can
only be possible on the ground that
some of the soldiers, after they had at
tanned old age, married young wives.
The war of 1924 closed with the bat
tie of New Orleans on January 8, 1915,
S3 years ago. Supposing that the
youngest soldiers were Is years old, a
period of 10l years has elapsed since
the birth of such soldier. Evidently
many of them, after they were old, mar
ried young women, so that, although
all the men but three are dead, they
have left behind more than 1000 Wild
ows. By the same rule of procedure it
is plain that there will be widows of SOL
diers of the civil war on the pension
rolls in 1880, and even few in the year
1000, more than century hence, fori
a soldier of 1861 should marry when he
has reached the age of 80 years in 1923,
a girl 16 years old, she might hope to
live II years longer, or to the age of SO,
which would bring her up to the year
1000. OF course, it is not likely there
will be many such, but there will, in all
probability be some.