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The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-03-04

TOR RENT NEW, HANDSOME DWELL.
ing n. f. corner I'd and King streets. be-
ing completed, Is rooms and bath. all modern
improvements, heated by hot water. Suitable
lar for rent. NJ, GRADY, 800 King street.
49, f1x,ts
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
The Queens stocki ,gs.

A little story, quite in the style OF
Hans Anderson, about the queen of
Italy and poor child is told in the
Daily Chronicle of London. Queen
Margherita was recently walking in a
Roman suburb when she noticed a
pleasant faced little girl and spoke to
her. There was little conversation,
and the queen asked the child what she
could do in the way of needlework.
i can knit stockings, signora," re-
piled the girl. do you know who
amp" continued the queen. Eyes,
signora, you are the queen Well,
then, make me pair of stockings and
send them to the palace. A few days
afterward the stockings arrived, and
Queen Margherita, in return for the
gift sent the child a beautiful pair Of
rose-colored stockings, the one filled
with sweets and the other with money.
Next day the queen received from her
little friend, couched in the following
words: "Signora: Your gift has
caused me no end of tears. My father
collared the money, my elder brother
grabbed the sweets, and as to the
stockings, why mother put them on
herself"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
How Much Sleep

From the st. Louis Post Dispatch:
The statistics and diagrams of sleep
in the Sunday Post-Dispatch are in
teresting as showing the influence of
occupation upon habit. The American
naval officer gets less sleep on the aver
age than any one else. 1t is with him
a matter of regulation, but he gets used
to his scant allowance and seems to
thrive under it. He sleeps six hours
in the twenty-four. The actor sleeps
ten, while the army officer is allowed
eight hours. There are two extreme
opinions on the subject of sleep. One
that men do not sleep enough, the
other that they sleep too much. Prob
ably the truth is that a tranquil and
evenly balanced mind not given to
worry, dissipation or needless excite
ment needs less sleep than the fussy
man who INDUCES in these respectable
and unrespectable vices. 1t is possible
to rest even when in the midst of work
But it requires much toll and self
control to achieve su-h a power OF rest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
Special Jag Cars"

During the year of no license in Ber-
lin, Conn, the residents of that COM
munity who may yield to the tempta-
tion to come to New Britain on Satur-
day night and libate to excess are to
be taken care of. At recent meeting
of the Berlin "Cits" a committee to
wait on Manager Mather was appointed
for the purpose of protesting against
allowing drunken men to ride to Ber-
lin in the trolley cars, particularly on
Saturday and Sunday nights. Mr..
Mather said this morning that he had
not heard anything from the commit
tee, but the company has already issued
an order that the jags of Berlin on
Saturday nights are to be taken home
in a special car. "A drunken man on
trolley car" he said, lis always a
nuisance to the other passengers, the
conductor and himself, and he is not
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
MODISH OPERA GLASSES.

The Cases for Them Are Very smar
Too.
The new opera glasses show small
mounts, not too heavy to be held by
the slender wrist of a young girl at
her first matinee, says the st. Louis
Republic. One serious trouble to the
older fashioned opear glasses is their
weight, making it fatiguing for women
to hold them up for a long time. The
lorgnette is the resource, or has been
heretofore, but now the new French
glasses seem to supply exactly what is
needed. They have the adjustable
shape which is necessary to bring an
object in range, either near or further
off. This advantage is lacking in the
lorgnette. The frame of the new glass
is small and extremely light of weight.
The cases for the new opera glasses are
very smart, indeed, and are as different
as possible from the leather case or the
brocaded bag lined with satin. The
new case is made of crocheted beads in
changeable colors. 1t has a purse top
with lid, under which folds a metallic
fence, which is flexible enough to COM
press into a small compass. The
beaded cases are in shaded steel beads,
silver gray and iron gray used togeth-
er, in rich coppery reds. yellows and
in several shades of purple combined
together
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
The Passing OF the Macintosh.

New York Evening Post: An OBJ
server of dress in New York comments
on what might be called the passing
of the macintosh for women. 1t has
been driven out by the short skirt, now
worn alike on rainy days, by the young
girl and the gray-haired matron. When
we recall the discomfort of attempting
to hold up gown by putting the hand
through slit in the macintosh,
while carrying the umbrella in the 9TH
er hand, with, perhaps, a parcel tucked
under the arm, there can hardly be too
much gratitude for the more sensible
fashion. With perfectly plain felt
walking hat, golf cape. high boots,
with cork soles, and this skirt of
waterproof material, clearing the
ground by several inches. comfort and
perfect protection are secured even in
the most severe storm.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
Homes Built on shore.

In Tupuselei, in new Guinea, the
houses are built on piles in the open
ocean, good distance from the shore.
The object of this is to protect the in
habitants against sudden attacks of the
kindly head hunters, who always are
on the lookout for victims, whose heads
they need i'll their business. Other vii
lagos in this happy land are perched
up in all but inaccessible trees for the
same weighty reason.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
Cheap Gables and Costly Ones.

The difference in cost between long
cables in deep seas far away, and short
cables in shallow seas near manufac-
turing centers, is shown by the COM
parison of the contract price for the
Denmark Iceland cable. and the esti-
mates of the British commission for
the proposed British-Pacifc cable. The
distance from Denmark to Iceland,
with a landing on Scotland is 900
miles, and the route lies through shall
low northern oceans The contract
price is 100000 kromers, s134 or SGT
los. per mile. The estimate for the
Vancouver-New Zealand cable-a dis
lance of 1886 n. miles. with one long
stretch of 1861 miles-is $4,000 900,
equaling $3.50 or $1,220 per mile. The
annual maintenance of this long cable,
exclusive of operating expense, is put
at $350,000 annually. Owing to its long
stretch of 1861 miles, this cable costs
per mile nearly ten times as much as
the 900 mile Icelandic cable in two
stretches. These are extreme examples,
one, the cheapest long cable in the
world; the other the most expensive. -
Engineering Magazine for November.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
SOME POINTS ABOUT SINGING.
After the Change of Voice Absolute
Rest Is Necessary.


From the Nineteenth Century:
would draw attention to few facts
connected with the art of singing
which seem to me at present to be
either totally ignored or else neglected.
In the first place, | know of only too
many instances, especially in the case
OF males, in which the pupil has been
allowed to start singing too soon after
the natural change Of voice, which
takes place at the age of puberty. Be
fore this change the larynx is small
and situated high up in the throat. pro-
ducing high soprano notes, like those
OF female At the period of trans
formation it increases in volume and
sinks to its permanent position. 1t is,
therefore, fatal to disturb or exercise
It until nature has restored matters to
their normal condition, and the voice
Is once more settled in its new charac-
ter Of tenor, baritone or bass. Not
less than two years must be allowed to
elapse before the student should at
tempt to sing, and then only ON the
competent advice of a throat doctor
or professor of singing. Then, again.
as | pass alng the streets, am con-
stantiy hearing people singing wrong
ly They will persist in vocalizing the
"a as if 1t were spelled awe" where
by the mouth is forced up spoon shape.
Needless TO say that it should be enun-
ciated broadly like the mouth wide
open and slightly smiling. If the err
roneous method of vocalizing is the
result of the professors training. the
sooner the prfessor is changed the
better | am inclined to think it is
mainly due to this wretched system OF
yocalizing that it is so difficult to make
out in what language the majority Of
our artists and amateurs are singing.
| have alluded elsewhere to the APP
palling results attending a cockney ac-
cent, but, after all, that is better than
the incomprehensible and blurred
enunciation which seems Just now to
be fashionable. During the past season
heard debutante at fashionable
concert sing famous old ballad. She
had fine and sympathetic voice, but
had 1T not been for the well-known
tune she might have been singing Chi
nese for all the audience could make
out. This terrible defect is not, unfor-
tunately, confined to singers of the
third and fourth ranks. Many of those
who are stars" of the first magnitude
sin in this direction to an inconceiva-
BILE extent-an extent, indeed which
renders it possible for an opera to be
occasionally given in three different
languages at our leading opera house,
nobody being any the wiser.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
DlDNTwANTTo LOSE AFRrEND
So She Would Not Hire Her Servant,


So She Would Not Hire Her Servant
Girl.
A very good servant wanted to make
a change. She was not going to stay
with her present mistress under any
circumstances, says the New York
Times. The mistress was a good wom-
an, though it is acknowledged by her
friends that she has some peeuliarities
that may have been the servants rea-
son for leaving. The girl did not wish
to leave one place until she had a pros
pect of another, and she went, not I'M
naturally, to the house of friend OF
her mistress, whom she had reason to
think needed servant. and whom she
knew from seeing at the house. This
was perfectly legitimate She would
give fair warning when the time came.
But the woman to whom she went
would not take her. She would have
liked the girl, and she did need a SER
want. But" she said, Il can afford
better to be without a servant than
without a friend. Miss Blank might
think that / had tried to get you away
from her, and | would not take you for
the world That would appear to be
a trifie prescriptions, but then she
knew the woman of whom she spoke.
There are women and women.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

been driven into the continent of At
ginians. The first British wedge was
driven short way when the Amer
lean colonies declared their independ-
ence, and Holland relied on the men,
cries of Van Tromp for her naval
power. England seized South Africa
from the Hollanders in those troublous
days as the spoils Of war. Six nations
now contend for the primacy in the
once dark continent. England has two
great wedges, one from the north and
one from the south, into the heart of
Africa. when Drake went down to
the Horn and England was crowned
thereby" the beginning of the end was
accomplished. In the latter days Stan
ley so interested the various rich men
of Europe and made himself so much
of nuisance to them that finally the
rich and wicked king of the Belgians
gave to him money for the founding
of the Congo Free State. The United
States was party to the agreement
which made the desolate and blood
stained wastes of the Congo the -four
ishing region which it now is.
In 1885 the Congo International as
ISOLATION went out of existence. The
Congo Independent State was created
and placed under the sovereignty of
the king of the Belgians. In 1889 the
king made over to Belgium all his
rights in the Congo State. In 1890
a compact was made between the Con-
go State and Belgium by which the lat
ter was given the right to annex
formally the former after a period of
ten years.
In 1882, England, by the grace of
God and the guns of Sir Beauchamp
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

The duty of these historians is to write
plain accounts of all the events that
occur during their tenure of office. At
regular intervals their completed work
is taken from them and locked up in
an iron safe or vault. There it re-
mains until the first member of new
dynasty ascends the throne. 1t is
then given with all the other his
tories in the vault to the court his
torian who is then living, and from
the mass of documents he is expected
to prepare truthful history of the
dynasty which has just expired. The
present dynasty has been reigning
since 1640, and consequently no court
history has been published since that
date.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
war Arrows and Ancient BATTLES.

Among the flint, quartz and jasper
arrow-heads frequently found in this
country are certain forms known to
archaeologists as war points" For
arrows they were made small, some
times not more than three-f1fths of an
inch long. They are triangular in
outline, and were intended to stick
fast in wound. Prof. w. K Moore
head says that war points are found
abundantly scattered in certain locali-
ties where there are no indications of
villages having existed, and the infer
ence is that such places were battle
grounds, where the red men fought in
ancient days
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
Chance Helps Genius.

1T is odd" said Counselor Hummel,
how opportunity makes the author as
well as the man. One of the most
successful Of literary partnerships had
its origin in casual supper converse
ton at Bohemian club. Walter Be-
SAINT and James Rice, both young men
of literary ambitions, We're discussing
one of Dickens novels, when Rice said,
casually: If give you the plot of
story, Besant, will you write it?' I
don't mind trying, Besant answered;
and within a few weeks the first of
brilliant series of novels was under
way. Rider Haggard was reading for
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

Not many years ago Africa was
"the dark continent" Now it is fight
ing ground for all European nations.
Over in England is member of par
lament (who was once New York
newspaper MANI to whom more than
to any one else the splitting up Of the
dark continent is due. To the British
is due the initiative, but the man who
carried the flag of the United States
from west coast to the east proved that
Africa was not a hopeless country for
exploitation.
Various wedges of civilization have
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

wanted. But SO long as he pays his
we are compelled by law to carry him,
and should the conductor put him off
he could bring suit against us" The
special jag car is to make the best of
bad business. 1t will make it better
for regular passengers and better for
the jags themselves. The conductor
and motorman will be known as the
jag crew and may carry clubs.-New
Haven Register.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
How Africa IS Being Civilized" by the Euro
pean Nations.

Seymour's ships, took possession Of
Egypt and drove its wedge from the
north to the south. Gordon was de-
serted by Mr.. Gladstone and killed at
Khartum. but Kitchener avenged his
death. So the British wedges from the
north and the south were pushed on
until they almost met, and from Cairo
to the Cape" was the rallying cry of
these who were exploiting the dark
continent. On the northeast coast
England drove in another little wedge
from Somaliland, and on the east coast
one from British East Africa.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
ehlne.e History IN Arr.ar..

There are court historians in China,
as there are in other countries, but
there is one striking difference and it
lies in the fact that the works of the
Chinese court historians do not see the
light until the reigning dynasty comes
to an end, says the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch. This has been the rule for
more than 1000 years, tie first court
historian having besn appointed by
the imperial house Of Han. which
reigned from 2c6 3. c. until % 4. d
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
Fin-de-sIecle Danger sign.

The skull and crossbones which make
SO familiar a sign on apothecaries la
bells for poison have rival now in Ger
many in the form of a conventional
representation Of a zigzag bolt Of light
ming, which is painted on transformer
chambers. poles and other places where
there is danger from a high voltage
electric current.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
Memorial for a stewardess.

A London paper suggests memorial
to Mrs. Rogers, stewardess of the
steamer Stella, which was cast away
in March, with great loss Of life. After
aiding the women passengers, to the
last one, to secure life belts and take
their places in the boat, she refused to
overcrowd it by entering it herself, and
went down with the ship.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

The great libraries of Picking contain
volumes of books numbered by the
hundreds of thousands. In the archives
OF the government are still to be found
the ancient predictions of eclipses
made with great accuracy, together
with works on astronomy, which show
a fair knowledge of that interesting
science.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

Germany holds Damaraland, a barren
district. The chief value of Germany's
East African possession, a wedge
which was given to her for keeping
quiet, is that it crosses the Cairo to
the Cape railway. The most valuable
OF all the French possessions in Africa.
outside of Algiars, is Obock. ON the
northeast coast of Somaliland.
All this is not being accomplished
without few battles. On the border
the French are fighting the Moors, who
are trying to avenge the murder or
massacre of troop of cavalry which
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
The First Industrial Fair.

Perhaps the first industrial exhibi-
ton on record was held in 1869 in the
rathhaus of Nuremberg. A catalogue
published at the time thus states the
purpose of the exhibition: 1T shall
bring before the public all innovations
in the trade of the whole world in
modern times, together with domestic
art production"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

man wedge of the Gamer
oons." The Cameroons and the is
lands off the coast which go with them
do not form profitable colony, but It
has been administered well.
North Of the Cameroons the British
have four wedges Sokoto, Sierra
Leone, Ashanti Sierra Leone and Sene-
gambia. Lower down on the west coast
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
Free Telephnnes.

In some towns of Germany the tele-
phone is introduced by tobacconists as
an additional attraction to customers.
Anyone who buys a cigar may, if he
desires, speak over the tobacconist's
instrument.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
THE DIVISION OF A CONTINENT

is having more trouble on the shores
of that lake. In South Africa is the
war with the Beers, and in North Az
RIGA Kitchener is still trying to catch
the khalifa. Altogether Africa is a
lively place these days.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

Newpop--I have noticed that babies
always have very open countenanees
Oldpop-Yes, especially about mid
night. Stray Stories.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

The Portuguese
from Delagoa bay
have been trying to
make an entrance
into the continent
of Africa. They
were early in the
field, but their
wedge is small. The
French from AL
giers : ve taken
over n st of the
uninhabited land of
AFRICA, and the CIV
ilized world recog-
niZes the suzerain-
ty of France over
the desert of Saba
ia. Just below
where the coastline
of Africa turns
southwark after its
detection to the
east W a r d t h e
French have put in
another wedge, the
success of which
was exemplified re-
Gently by the muir
der of the French
officers sent to
relipve those in
charge. Just north
of this IL the Ger
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

He What lovely fiowers Do you
know, they remind me of you. She
They are artificial flowers. He Yes,
l know; but it requires close examina-
ton to detect it.-Stray Stories.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

a success mattered little; for it had
shown him his true sphere and paved
the way for King Solomon's Mines,
and all the gold they yielded. New
York Telegraph.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
Bailey's Laxative Tablets Cures ConstIpA-
tiOn.

The active principle is cascara sa-
grada, plant found in California.
1t does not do the work for the bowels
but makes the bowels do their own
work. It gets the bowels back in tho
habit of doing their own work, and
after they have been reused into
state Of healthy activity. and the liver
and other organs also, they will con-
time on without medicine. They
will cure sick headache, billiousness
and liver troubles and constipation
and remove poisonous matter from
the system. Put up in 10 and % cent
packages. For sale J. 7. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
one OF Them.

Daughter What is the dead-letter
office, mamma? Mamma Your fathers
pocket Brooklyn Life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

the bar in the early sos
with an eye on the wool
sack, and no dream of the
career in fiction that
awaited him, when it oc-
Cured to him, as a recrea-
ton from the dry bones of
the law, to weave a story
out of his South African
experience. To his sur
prise and delight the story
flowed fiuently under his
pen, and finally assumed
shape as The Witch's
Head That is was not
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

Speeches are made after dinner be-
cause when men have eaten they are
too torpid to resent old jokes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

had been sent from the desert with
friendly intent Further south the
French are fighting with the Tauregs,
who are opposed to the opening of
pathway for railroad from Algiers to
Lake Tchad. On the borderline of
Togoland the French and Germans are
having trouble with the natives. The
French expedition sent to Lake Tchad
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21
CAMEL CORPS IN THE FRENCH SOUDAN

and preparing the same for future
emergencies. The accompanying IL
lustration, for instance, shows a
French camel corps engaged in rifle
practice in the Soudan. These native
warriors, who are being pressed into
the service Of the French, are all
sharpshooters and warriors Of the most
courageous character.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-12-21

While all the rest of the world is
busy watching the struggle between
the Beers and the British in South
Africa, France is very quietly looking
after her own interests in the east Of
the French Soudan. Her officers in
Africa are day by day enrolling native
regiments and arming and training