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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18

One pill taken every night stimulates the
i'seri CARRIERS LITTLE LIVER PILLS.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18

HOMEOPATHIC in size allopathic in ac-
ton. CARTER LITTLE LIVER PILLS.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18
WILL MEET MONDAY.

. The license commissioners will meet
Monday to consider the circumstances
attending the recent raid on william
r. Webster, druggist, at 131 Green
street.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18

Half a dozen fisherman went out
Friday after frogs, among them Ho-
race Long, Officer Millet of Station 1
and Charlie Lewis. Long and Millett
brought back 90 pairs of frog legs.
They got 1876 pairs the day previous.
Some of those secured yesterday were
record breakers, one bunch of six pairs
which they presented to friend,
weighing a pound.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-04-27
The Germ Hunters.

Tt 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
leges 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 producing
germs because of the spread of a 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;
and in each case they only need to
understand that these substances de-
siroy 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??, 1899-04-27
The Trekking Wagon.

The South African wagon is long,
heavy cart mounted on four high
wheels, as rule, with sort of can
vas tent over the back half, leaving
the front clear to carry the miscellane-
Gus furniture of its owner, drawn by
sixteen, eighteen or twenty oxen,
curiously ferce-looking with their inn
mense spread of horn, sometimes as
much as eight feet from tip to tip and
rarely less than six, but in reality as
patient and hard working beasts as
one could wish to find. Their mode
of progression is certainly slow, but
there is a straneeness and fascina-
tion about it which may draw men to
it almost as the Alps draws their de-
votees. In front there marches the
"voor-looper," generally small boy,
leading the two foremost oxen by
rein OF rope passed through their nos
trils. The driver walks alongside
with the long aud terrible whip he
uses so unsparingly, or else sits on
the front of the wagon and gets off
occasionally to lash up the whole team
with unfailing impartiality. The
travelling is all done at night, starting
q little before sunset and marching
till perhaps IL or II o'clock; then
there is halt till little before the
first signs of dawn, when they go on
again till the sun begins to get hot
overhead, and then they lie by for the
day. ay.-Gentleman's Magazine.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-04-27
LYNN's FLOATING BRIDGE.
In Use for Nearly q Century and Growing
Better All the Time.


The city of Lynn will have to ex-
planking the floating bridge on Glen
mere pond, announces the Boston
Transcript 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 fiexibility, 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 were hewed and put together.
Captain Moses Brown was the
originator of the idea of thus bridging
Collins pond, as it was then called.
T,, lo - 4
to the Salem Turnpike and Chelsea
Bridge corporation, and the bridge
was completed in 1904, at 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
cured together by three-inch bowels,
and covered with planking 1-2 feet
thick.
The bridge is 511 feet long, % 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 ap-
proaches.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-04-27
no State Bread Yyasted.

All bakers, wholesale and retail,
seek to produce at their several bak-
ings through the day only so much as
may be required to supply the wants
of their trade, but in making sure to
provide enough there is likely to be
some left over to get stale. There is
some demand for stale bread for house.
hold uses-for making toast and for
cooking purposes-but the demand is
limited. Such stale bread as may re-
main unsold in this manner is never
wasted; tits sold to farmers and mark ct
gardeners who drive into the city with
produce to sell, and who buy more or
less supplies here to carry back to feed
stock. When finally disposed of thus
it is sold by the barrel, at SO much a
barrel; the price being very low, but
depending somewhat oil the surplus
stock on hand on the day of sale.
New York Sun.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-04-27
Big Prices For Animals.

The biggest price ever given for a
horse was $3.50, 600, 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 Guineas, in
one year was recently sold for $685.
OOO-Galtee More. The most valu-
able collie dog known is owned by
Mr.. Megson, of Manchester, who gave
$6500 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 q game
cock named Peter Jackson, belonging
to q. gentleman in Plymouth. This
bird has been known to fight under q
bet of 5000, 900 to pinch of snuff.
Needless to say he won it. His owner
has refused $25OO for him. Tit Bits.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-04-27
The Value of African Ivory.

Africa remains the happy hunting
ground for the ivory collector. African
ivory fetches n 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 a 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 it's 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??, 1899-04-27
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 and worn
through the finger-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
ing them is the following memoran-
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 Lon Avon, at the time of the jubi-
lee there, 1869, 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 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??, 1899-04-27
WHEN THE FISHING BOATS COME IN.

The sea dusk shrouds in violet gloom the
oceans silver blue,
And purples headlands whence, at dawn, the
milk-white sea-gulls flew;
The dances of the wild night-wincs DER
glimmering sweeps begin,
And the sun sinks down on couch OF fire
when the fishing boats come in.
The glorious arch of sky above is family
filmed DER
With silk-white Scarfs OF vapor, and along
the sunset shore
Vast cloud-fieets ride at anchor in seas of
gold and rose,
While with trembling splendor the wide
horizon glows.
The murmurous roar of far-off deep blends
with the plaintive sigh
OF wavelets that upon the sands of gleam-
ing silver die:
The darkling cliffs loom out behind, like
giants vast and grim,
Stern guardians of enchanted coasts en-
wrapped in shadows dim.
Like some great jewel burns the sea and on
its cleaning breast
The laden home bound boats glide o er each
shimmering, foam-belled crest.
Glad watchers scan each glowing sail, fond
eyes are straining still,
And with the stir of fearless life the dusk is
all athrill.
hearty shout goes up to greet the latest
furlng sail, o
The long shore rings with mirth and joy,th
ocean glmmers pale;
sea-bird flies athwart the sky and from the
fading west
One lingering rose-reu ray outfiames to
crimson wing and breast.
The wkds are revelling oer the reefs, the
rocky sea-deeps moan,
The silken slopes are dim and far, the fish
ing grounds are lone;
The sparkles of the mirrored stars among
the rippes spin,
And the shore is gemmed with hundred
lights when the fishing boats come in.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-04-27
A Wonderful Battl..hip.

A story is going the rounds in Cen
trail 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 guIlIble press,
will be 1000 feet long, with 207 feet
beam and displacement of 4S, ,41O
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 l2-inch
and 10-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 ITO officers and $500
men, and the cost of the completed
ship will be 100000, 0O0!--Chicago
Journal
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-04-27
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS,

A caterpillar can eat six hundred
times its weight of food in q 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 130 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, at atmospheric pres.
sure, are found to have these boiling
points, in Centigrade degrees below
zero. Sulphur dioxide, 10; chlorine,
80; ammonia, 3S; dioxide, rs; nitrous
oxide, So; nitric oxide, 1853; oxygen,
1873; carbon monoxide, 100; air, 1927
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 excitation.
An italian medical journal states,
according to the New York Medical
Journal, that while water will not
quench the flame of burning petro
leum in limited space, milk accom-
plishes the object by forming an emul-
sion with the oil, disturbing it's cohe
sion, and thus alternating the COM
bustible element.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-04-27
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 a 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 a fortnight in summer. =
Yorkshire tEnglandl Post
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-04-27
An American Naval Oficer's Spanish Wife

An American Naval Oficer's Spanish Wife
One of the passengers aboard the
United States transport Morgan
City was a 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
could picture the darling of selec!
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 unrutf1ed 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 N 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??, 1899-04-27
What She Was Not,

Cripple Greek is great on etiquette.
A man out there met a 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??, 1899-04-27

'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 50 much trouble, now
that the girl has gone away herself"
''Gone away-herself?" Mr.. Spat.
terdock stared.
'Why, yes, to-be- 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 OF 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.
81 thought you knew it was my
cousin that Mr.. Greenaway came to
see," eTclaimed 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.
urday Night.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-04-27
perhaps the mothers testimony should

perhaps the Wothef testlm0ny snouId
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.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-04-27
"And this is Miss Pettigill? Mis

''And this is Miss Pettigill? Miss
Penny Pettigill?"
eyes,
Mr.. Sratterdock 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 OF 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
lashes over cheeks that glowed like
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 a way he had never
known it to beat before.
Throwing himself away, indeed!
It's her that's a-throwing herself away,
if anything. Poor grill She'll be
lonesome while Rob's gone. 1 must
drop in often.
The villagers held quite aloof from
the Pettigills, Eut Mr.. Spatterdock
made ample amends for their neglect.
Mrs. Pettigill, Penny's mother, was
sweetfaced old lady, and Penny
herself was as piquant and changeabl'
as an April day.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-08-20
WHERE TO woRsHIp TO-DAY.

Below will be found \ complete list
of the churches of all denominations,
and those who fill their pulpits:
Court Street Baptist Church.-Sun-
day school at $3.50 a. M Preaching at
/ a. IN. and Sis p. IN. by the pastor.
Rev. II. b. Garrett. d. ID. Strangers
especially invited. Seats free.
South Street Baptist.-Preaching at
II a. m. and s p. IN. by Rev. Mr..
Whitehurst.
Wright Memorial NJ. Z. Church. Rev.
r. Is. Blankenship. pastor.-Sunday
school at 9:l5 II. IN. Preaching at IL
a. IN. by Rev. C. w. Petit. and At T..
III. by Rev. Chas. |. Stenglc.
st. Pauls Catholic Church. King
street. near Dnwiddie. Rev. T. j.
Brady. pastor: Rev VIM. Il. IIanley
assistant pastor-F'irst mass at a. IN.
Children's mass ut a. M. High mass
a; 1880 Il. IN. Nespcrs and bencdiction
AZ 100 y. IN.
Central NJ. T.. Church. South County
street, between Washington ana Din
wddie. Rev. II. +. Beadles. pastor
Sunday school ut ola a. IN. Preaching
by the pastor at IL a. IN. and S:15 p. III.
Central Mission. located between Cot
tagc Place and Scottsvilie.-Sunday
school at $3.50 p. IN. Preaching at 4:3o
y. IN. by the Rev. II. +. Beadles.
nor Court and King streets. Rev. II. b.
Eggleston. pastor.-Services to-day as
follows: Sabbath school at $50 a. III.
Preaching by the Rev. !. l.. Brown at
II a. m. and p. m. Seats free and n
cordial invitation to all OF these SER
vices.
Tho TAFT Memorial Presbyterian
Church. North Portsmouth. Dinners
PoinD Rev. G. -. Gilkeson. PASTOR
Sunday school at p. III. Preaching by
the pastor at 4 y. IN. y cordial invita-
ton is extended to all to attend both
the Sunday school and preaching SER
vices.
Park View Baptist Church. Rev. w.
u. Hines, pastor-Sunday school at
$50 a. m, j. NJ. Corbett. supcrintend-
ent. Preaching ut II a. nj. and p. m
by the pastor. Seats free. All receive
cordial welcome.
Rev. l.. l.. Mltier will occupy the
pulpit at the Port Norfolk Baptist
Church a IL a. m. and s p. m. to-day.
Calvary Baptist Church. Rev. Sam
uel Saunders. pastor.-Services to-day
will be as follows: Sunday school at
$3.50 a. m. T.. Il. Rodman. superintend-
ent. Preaching at II n. IN. and p. IN.
by the pastor. Everybody is cordially
invited to these meetings.
Fourth Street Baptist Church, Rev.
w. T.. Fisher pastor-Sunday school
at 9:15 a. m. Preaching ut II a. m by
Rev. Samuel Saunders. of Calvary Bap-
| fist Church. Scottsvillc. and at p m
by Ray +. Staples. u ministerial stu
| dent.
Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-08-20
NAVAL ORDERS

Paymaster George w Simpson. TO
duty Bureau Accounts and Supplies.
Assistant Paymastcr T.. p. Sackett,
detached Navy-yard, Boston, TO Pan
thcr.
Assistant Paymaster w. n. Wallace.
detached League Island, n. y, to
Scorpion.
Surgeon l.. p. Baldwin. to cxamina-
ton before Naval Retiring Board
Naval cadet K. n. Marble. Jr., de-
tachsd Marietta to Panther.
Lieutenant NJ. l.. Miller and Lieuten-
ant T.. W. 1Eberlce, to Naval Academy.
Lieutenant w. *. Giice. detached
from Texas. sick leave for two months
Lieutenant G. w. Williams. detached
torpedo station. Newport. to Panther.
Captain Joseph Thiley, detached
Mare Island Navy-yard. home on wait
ing orders.
Captain L. J. Allen. to Mare Island
as relief Captain Trilley
Commander Il. y. Stevenson. 10 duty
as Inspector Union Iron Works
Commander &. NJ. Brooks, detached
command Adams. ordered home
Commander Walton Goodwin. to COM
mand Of Adams.
Ensign \. Mansfield. to Scorpion.
Lieutenant Y. =. Magruder. to Naval
Academy.
Commander r. II. Jasper. to cxaml-
nation before Naval Retiring Board
Lieutenant T.. II. Durell and Lieuten-
ant II. W. Jones. detached from Solace
TO Naval Academy
Commander Asa Walker, to War Col
i"gc Newport. FOR instruction.