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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-07-30

OLD POINT COMFORT VA. July p
sneci9l The new cafe which was opened
a week ago has proven m attractive fet-
fure and n great convenience 10 eNeur-
sionists. and DELIGHTFULLY."- supplies a long
felt want
The wednesday nirfi hon was wen at
,,rdsd bv VISITORS nom Norfolk. New
port News. and Hampton. as well as VS.
TORS around the Fort
The Richmond visitors registered al the
Chamebrlin the past week are; hr and
Mrs w. J. Payne James u. Vents. r.
s. Freeman. n. Theodore Ellyson, Geo.
schoen. b. r.. Llpscomb Vim. Cameron.
Jr.. Miss Louise Bascom Mr.. Lula Kane.
lanes Il. Robinson. NJ Eichel. Charles
T. O'Ferran. Mrs. J. Peierkin. Miss peter-
kin Or and Alfs. /. White Miss Sue ID.
Herring. and c. NJ. Wesibury.
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LITERARY LIGHTS.

over from the Rockbrldse Alum and
stanton. -
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-07-30
Iunenburg County.

HOLLYDALE. VA. July -. Special
Rev n. NJ Beckham. OF Richmond. will
aid the pastor "a meeting 10 be held
az Fietchers Methodist church. begin.
ming the first sunday in August
Mrs. Lucy A. Rash who died Sunday
morning az her home. was buried Mon
day. she was quite old and had been q
consistent member % Williams Meth
odist church for many year,
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-07-30

THO following are recent arrivals. VII
ham voorhees,. Lexington Vo: Mrs
". r. Harris Turner Harris Nelson Har-
fis. ~ DanvIilc Va. s w Hines OF
baltimore Nd. Hon Morgan Treat Ny
LELAND g. Treat ~ West Point Va
Mrs George W. Seymour. of Louisville
XIV. Ms Fred FGncor. of gfaunton
Va NJ David " Lea or Washington.
NJ = NJ. Funkhousor. of Siaunton
Va: Mr. and Mrs J T. Hardin. with
nurse and child or Columbus Ca. J. b
Buchanan. Of Columbus Ca. w Patton
% Lexington Va: Mr. ] n Cardoza. %
Virginia: Miss Kemper. OF Virginia;
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the jos Ol living. and continues h lhc
pursuit OF pleasure down the golden lane
vi optimism. li taeIo j. hnlsh d. haa
u0. set u.ou sighted.
Ia. promises of the future are bright
auI a.uru1 Some sappomtel "s,ay-
at-h1me' might suggest that 4 ann using
mi. endless chain .sa "dc.oy duck TO en-
ace other wary and uavary BIRDS" Not
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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-07-30
ENDLESS CHAIN
OF PLEASURES
Starts With the Mere Sense of Living
and Has No Stopping Place.
CASE OF BOWLING VS.. TENNIS.

Chappics i'm White Flannel and Girls
in short White Gowns. Wearing
Pretty Hosiery, Form a Part OF
the Picturesque scenes.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-28
ACAKfsIAGE

Always ready to attend depot calls: sirdS carriage and careful driver always foiiid TN the depot. GALWEY'S, 688 State streSfs x
 Telephone number, S53-3. d6 H 3sl
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WAN HID, ll53AaS A WAITRESS and parlor maid. Gall NJ ja2S It between 12 and o,clock
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TIER RRIRI. ID ACC'IDNNT

Rockville, Jan. 27-WiLiam Phillips, employed at the American mills, was this morning standing near a machine called an extractor" when suddenly in some unknown manner his left arm was caught and torn off just above the el- bow and thrown several feet. The man was taken to physician and will prob- ably recover.
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Headquarters Department of Fire Servic6sI
 New Haven, Conn.,, January 27th, 16o0s

PROPOSAL. ss sASSs Sealed bids will be received by the Qonls' mttee on Houses and Apparatus at 5 6oscl0cEs p. m. February 6th 1899, for 4 Rebuilding one Babcock Aerial Truck f01S the City of New Haven, to include the B&lsS cock Semi-trus Aerial Ladder, in accOrd* ance with specifications on file at this 0fdcex The above proposal must be endorsed t6 < the Committee on Houses and AppArAtuGE@ Bids for Rebuilding one Babcock Aerial Truck" on outside of the envelope, and must be accompanied with certified chGcMN bid payable to Benjamin E. Brown, CoaIt troller.
 The Committee on Houses and Apparatug% N reserve the right to accept or reject any #o1# all bids. z
 s. J. METZGER sR ja2S St Clerk Dept of Fire Services
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FOR SHIPS DRAUGHTSMEN,

Postmaster Howarth calls attention to the fact that a civil service examina- tion for persons desiring to qualify for ships draughtsmen, will be held in this city February 71O, and that applicants should apply at once. So far only a few have applied to take the examina- tion It is said that in Yale only one student is taking this course of instruc- tion.
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Special Committee on MunicipAI
 Franchises.

The Special Committee of the Court ces matter of the municipal ownership of pu6.s lie franchises will meet in Rooms 10 and II, City Hall, Monday, January 30, 1898, said matter, who so desire, will be heards k
 Per order, HENRY DONOVANy..Aas K.
 Chairmantas ss Attest: JAMES B. MARlIN v ja27 St Assistant City Clerkssy
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-28
VARIOUS ITEMS.

| About sixty members of the Zion | Lutheran church of this city will go to Bridgeport tomorrow morning to at tend the dedication of the new church | of the Zion Lutheran church in Bridge port. Rev. MT. Spannuth is the pastor l of the church.
 Elhu Hubbard, an inmate of the Wal | lingford Masonic home, from Broad brook, some eighty-four years old, who was i'll with the grip, is now very de- | lrious, the epidemic having affected his | brain. There is very little hope of his | recovery
 Rev. A. Sprague Ashley, rector of All Saints Memorial church, Meriden, is seriously III and threatened with an att | tack of congestion of the lungs. He has been suffering with the grip for some weeks.
 Rev. Benjamin Eastwood. who found- ed two churches in Plymouth and Tor
 rington, then Wolcottville, has just died l in Pawtucket, R. I. He was rector emeritus of the Episcopal church there. Superintendent c. M. Williams of the State School for Boys, Meriden, has en- gagged MT. and Mrs. Arthur E. Richard
 son of Fitchburg, Mass, to succeed Mr. and Mrs. Owen as supervisor and teach CT in Cottage D at the State School for Boys.
 John L. Cam, a lifelong resident of Shelton, died. on Thursday evening, af- ter lingering illness caused by kidney troubles. He was sixty-seven years of age and was stone mason. The Rev. E. c, Tullar, pastor of the Methodist church in Seymour, is in
 Bridgeport this week, conducting evan-
 gelistic services in a Methodist church
 in that city. He will return to occupy
 his pulpit on Sunday.
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MILKMEN AGITATED.

MILK trusts and milk prices stir up milk men. We paclfy mllkmen by sklmming the profits off prices on Cans, Bottles, Racks, Brushes and all general Supplies. ja28 fl LINSLEY & LIGHTBOURN.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-28
LOST.

ON Chapel street on Friday, between Temple and Olive, an envelope containing q small sum of money. The finder will be suitably ia2s 3t 13s TEMPLE ST.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-28
District of New Haven ss. Probate oouI

January 27th, I888. V ESTATE of ELIZA MORRISSEY, lafe5 Sl& New Haven in said District, deceaS&d dl sS The Court of Probate for the DIstflcf oS z New Haven hath limited and appointed 4lS
 months from the date hereof for the crGdlf{8 prs of said deceased to bring in their claindN exhibit their claims within said time wiIIS be debarred. All persons Indebted to s&ld { estate are requested to make immediAt6A ia2S 3t Adninfafra Hi k Sssz
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-28
adsanIs.

One Cent Word for each insertion. five cents Word for a full Week. ssv- en times.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-28
RIDS..

BIDS will be received until next WednSxS8 day., January 31st, for the wardrobGS1 lunch counter, and bar privileges for th8SS City Guards Ball. Sa&s ia27 1t NEW HAVEN CITY GuARIlx8
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-28

Daughter-"Oh, yes; his family must be an old one, for he got commission as major general in the last war with out any trouble" Mother-"That sig nifies little, Louise. It takes three gen. erations to make gentleman, but it takes only two generations to make major general. Judge.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-28

WANTED, AN experienced second girl or housemaids reference required. Apply at sTS ja2S 3tp 578 CHAPEL ST
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-16

indeed, every engineer has his own pet
apparatus The principle of all is that
OF the Roots blower. A current OF
steam, or preferably air carrying with
it tine fuel in minute subdivisions, is
forced at high pressure through a noz-
zle, called a ''pulverzer." into the tubu-
lar interior of the boiler to be heated
The result is an intensely white, roar
ing tlame and in pulverizers of the
latest type the value of astatki as COM
pared with coal on a steam raiser is as
21a to l. The former sells at Baku at
81 so per ton. and when the pipe line
connecting that place with Batoum is
complete astatki will be delivered at
the steamers side at something like 81
At the latter price coal will clearly be
unable to compete with its youthful
rival Nor do the advantages of as
tatki end with its cheapness Engines
burning it require no army of stokers.
for all that is necessary in the largest
is a man to regulate the supply by
taps. There is no smoke, litter or dust.
Many a passenger by ocean steamer
will bless the day when astatki shall
supplant coal, and the stokers who are
roasted alive in tropical waters will
have still greater reason to be thank
full for th@revolution.
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boughs and umbrellas. This island is
12x16 feet in size and 10 persons have
been supported on it without reaching
it's capacity.
TT is anchored where the water is
20 feet deep, and remains perfectly
stable, without any rocking motion,
while the waves are rolling quite high.
When the wind Is not blowing it can
be easily moved about with a rowboat
and anchored at any place desired or
one person can move it about in shall
low water, and two can move it up high
and dry on the beach. There is novel
principle involved in it's construction
which will not be explained until let
ters patent are secured which will fully
protect the inventor"
Mr.. Flanders believes that his float
ing island idea can be used for saving
life at sea, as with the principle of con-
struction that he is trying to secure a
patent for an ''island' capable Of easily
supporting so people could be launched
from the deck of ship and could not
be overturned by wind or waves.
r. j. B.
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Floating Island Newest Sumner Idea.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Sturgis, Mich, July 10.-Man claims
that nature made the mistake, when she
constructed islands and set them up
in American lakes and rivers, of an
choring them too securely to one place
An original-minded individual is go
ing to show nature that the ideal ISL
and should be made to move from place
to place at the will OF the lords of
creation. The floating and movable
island idea is only in an embryonic
stage at present but so far the prop
osition to construct islands that float
has met with such approval that it is
intended to at once begin making them
on large scale. The Floating Island
company has been incorporated at this
place and the company will soon be
prepared to turn out islands to order
of any size, shape, or variety of ver-
dancy.
When the floating Island company
has its works in full running order it
will be possible for some millionaire
with the means to satisfy large ideas
to order an entire archipelago of ISL
ands moored off Newport, Bar Har-
Dor or any other fashionable lake or
ocean resort; thereby changing the
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-16

by s plus 1. There We're nine muses.,
nine worthless, nine days wonders,
nine mems morris, nine-pns, ninety
and nine sheep safe in the fold. wom-
an is said to be dressed up to the mines
when she is clothed to perfection, a
cat has nine lives, we have all played
the game of nine-holes, it takes nine
tailorS to make a man. Nine is the
mystic number in bookkeeping. If
balance does not foot up correctly the
will tell instantly whether there Is
an error in addition. If, for example,
1t was intended to set down 26, but the
figures were reversed to 50. this trans
position will be proved by substracting
the former from the latter and dividing
by 8: difference, 36, into which 8 goes
four times. Take other figures-934 is
changed by accident to 439. the differ
ence is 495, into which 8 goes 50 times,
Nine hundred and twenty-three gets
to be 1929; difference, 594. divided by 9,
equals 66. This use of the 9 saves re-
footing of the whole ledger. All you
have to do is to go back and check up.
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appearance of the vicinity so that the
Oldest inhabitant will fail to recognize
it. Islands will spring up in a night
and disappear as quietly and quickly
as they came. When the millionaire
owner of an archipelago of floating
islands tires of one locality he can
have his islands removed anywhere he
pleases for the cost of towing, thus
adding to the floating island residence
the attraction that has heretofore be-
longed exclusively to the house boat
For summer resorts the floating island
will be particularly useful The fortu-
nate owner of an island who invites his
friends to stay few weeks and finds
the people of the neighboring main
land not to his taste, can remove him
self and his guests from that locality
with as little trouble as a yachtsman
who has merely to weigh anchor and
steam away. For the rowing landsman
who has hermit-like proclivities, the
floating island will be a boon and a
blessing in several kinds of colors.
When your correspondent interview
ed the inventor of the floating island.
Frank w. Flanders, the latter gave
the following description of the new
idea in movable habitatons, and also
supplied photograph of one of the first
islands constructed as a model to test
the practicability and utility of the
idea:
THE islands are so constructed" said
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CAT VERSUS COYOTE
Lively Scrimmage in the Sage Brush
Country in which the Cat Won.

Lively Scrimmage in the Sage Brush
Country in Which the Cat Won.
From the Idaho Daily Statesman.
Boise gentleman passing over the
sage brush plains near Meridian the
other day was treated to an exhibition
that was as strange as it was interest
ing. 1t was battle between a cat and
a coyote.
1t was early morning and plainly the
nights prowling over the prairie had
netted the coyote nothing in the way of
good. square feed. When first seen
he was steathily gliding about, his nose
to the ground, searching, as they al
ways are, for something to appease his
insatiate appetite. He stopped and was
surveying the surroundings from a
slight knoll, when there appeared on
the scene a great tomcat, burly fell
low, who also seemed on a quest for
breakfast-some toothsome morsel as
a cOttontail or a young grouse.
When Tom hove in sight the coyote
smiled a satisfied smile All things
come to the patient he must have
thought; and at once he prepared to
take unto his inner self the bountes
that nature provided. Tom had not at
first seen the coyote: in fact, was not
aware that foe was near until the
first charge, when the coyote sprang
at him. But, quick as flash. he par
ried the first thrust, then squared for
the cat stood his ground for the sec
ond onslaught
Ruff1an-like, the coyote plunged into
the battle intent on bearing down his
antagonist with brute force alone, and
this probably saved the day for Tom.
This time Tom got in a left swing blow
on the coyotes jaw, getting first blood;
then jabbed with the right, bringing
the coyote to a stand. The coyote went
to his corner under sage brush,
bleeding.
In the second round the coyote sprang
| into the fight much as in the first, and
with about the same result to him. The
cat uppercut him as he rushed in, then.
swinging, mauled him with left and
right until the air was full c. brown
gray hair. The round was furious
throughout, with honors clearly for
Tom.
The coyote might have been counted
out if the gophers that watched the
bout had counted. He delberated long
before coming in for the third round
ready. and rushed the fight. He crowd
ed the coyote and backed him over the
knoll, planting a left or right when
ever and wherever he pleased. Finally
after much sparring, Tom got in
deadly knockout blow. The fight was
his, but he took no mean advantage.
When the coyote was down he stood
over him, giving more than the limit
of time for him to come up, but CAMS
latranis had enough. He skunk away
to his sage brush, and Felis domestica
his back still up, with his head over
his shoulder to see that he was not
made the victim of treachery, sidled off
to continue his hunt for young cotton
tail.
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Mr.. Flanders, that the platforms are
high and dry above the water, being at
least three feet above the level of the
lake, so that we could splash on, rock
or disturb the island in any way. The
platform is floated above air-tight
casks, which are so arranged that they
will roll upon the bottom of the lake
when they strike shallow water, or
even upon dry land in moving from one
lake to another. These islands can be
built of any size, and being perfectly
safe (nothing can tip them over or sink
them), they make very desirable places
from which to shoot or fish. Instead of
sitting all cramped up in a boat for
hours, a large number of people can fish
at their ease. For timid ladies and
children they cannot be baten, and when
they are constructed large enough to
have bathing apartments and restau-
rants upon them, nothing will equal
them for place to spend an afternoon
on hot summer day.
Fish, like human beings, have GER
tain places where they feed and rest,
and when these feeding places are To-
Gated the islands can be anchored over
them and visitors can have the assur-
ance that they are in the vicinity of
good fishing grounds.
THE photograph of the experimental
model / have given you shows party
of seven or eight fishermen enjoying
themselves fishing under the shades OF
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-16
The Oldest Woman IN the World.

Written for the Sunday Standard
These are days when men and women
live rapid lives and King Death turks
in hundred places where there vas
once no room for him to hide. Gray
heads are scarce in America and white
heads are scarcer still. This may he
due to some extent to the cleverness
with which art nowadays can hide the
ravages of time, but it is also fact
that men and women die at younger
ages on the average than they did
century or so ago. To live to the al
something to be proud of; an octogen-
arian can hold his or her head, bent
with the weight of years, as proudly
aloft as waning strength will permit
for those who pass the eighties and
have any strength at all are very few
women of the present century. In the
nineties the living are so scarce as al
most to be curiosities. What then shall
be said of the centenarians? There are
still few of this almost extinct spe-
cies of long Lived human beings existing
Many of their claims are preposterous
as for instance that of the man who is
said to be $50 years old. Some claims
of lesser pretentiousness are opn to
doubt and some of more modest assert
iveness still lacking proof But a few
there are that cannot be doubted for
the records prove them true.
OF these cases that of Granny Nc
Grattan of Paisley street, Ardrossan,
Ireland, is without doubt authentic.
Granny makes her bow to the readers
of this newspaper in the accompanying
illustration. Her features are dignified
by the wrinkles and SHOWS of 106 years
AS the parish register of the town in
which she was born bears witness,
seven years before the present century
was marked upon the calendar. the
baby McGrattan was ushered into the
world. Granny McGrattan's span of
married life exceeds the scr'ptural
three score years and ten by nine years.
Her husband died 6S years ago. Her
son, too, died at the ripe old age of IA,
but the old lady still lives on with a
daughter surviving to console her.
Granny is a fine old lady, highly in
telligent and with wonderful me mory.
She is poor and blind, but she b ars
her Affections with wonderful foTti uda
The British public have just awakened
to the fact that the centenar an is a
parsonage of whom they Should be
proud and to whom they should extend
the protection of the empire. for they
are about to take steps looking to the
alienation of Granny McGrattan's pow
erty and the providing of a suitable
pension for the remainder of her ex-
ceeding old age.
There is little doubt that Granny Nc
Grattan is the oldest woman in the
world. OF the men and women who
can rightfully claim to have passed
the century mark there are so few that
they can soon be enumerated. Sarah
Terry of Philadelphia has celebrated
her 105th birthday with proof that she
has lived as long as she claims. Nne-
ty years ago Sarah sought employment
at the Danish embassy in Philadelphia,
which is conclusive evidence that she
is over 100 James Wood, now living
in Portsmouth, Me, can claim without
fear of contradiction to be 104 years of
age Wood was born in Chivelstona,
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Then second company came, whose
colors were pink. They were followed
by a third, whose colors were pink and
blue. Each company had a couple of
enormous drums, made from sections
of the trunks of the barringtonia, the
heads being of goat skin. They also
had a number of the ordinary wooden
drums and several tin washing basins
and paraffine tins, which served the
purpose of adding to the noises. AS
each company approached our seats the
members stepped out in turn, shook
hands and presented small gift usual
ly a handkerchief full of green coffee.
Then the three companies ranged them
selves in front of us and we addressed
them briefly, dwelling especially on the
question of temperance. Songs of well
come followed and then they enter
tanned us with some exceedingly pretty
native dances, each company perform