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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-08
SOLAR ECLIPSE NEXT YEAR.
America and Is Awaited by
Astronomers.

To determine the probable meteoro-
logical conditions likely to prevail along
the path of the total eclipse of the sun,
which will occur in the southern states
of America on May 2S, 1900, Prof. F. II.
Bigelow obtained observations of the
state of the sky aAd other meteorologi-
cal conditions along the path of total
ity for the period from May Is to June
IL in the years 1897 and 1898. The re-
suits for the former year have already
been referred to, and those for the
year 1898, containing reports from 81
stations, are given in the Monthly
Weather Review.
Last years observations give pre-
cisely the same result as was obtained
in 1S97-namely: The weather condi-
tions in the interior of Georgia and
Alabama were better than in Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana, and it would be
much safer for the eclipse expeditions
to locate their stations in tie northern
portions of Georgia and Alabama, upon
the southern end of the Appalachian
mountains, where the track crosses the
elevated areas, than nearer the coast
line in either direction northeastward
toward the Atlantic coast, or south
westward toward the gulf coast; on
the coast itself the weather is more un-
favorable than in any other portion of
the track. The inquiry will be repeat
ed during May and June of the present
year.-Nature.
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the idea that these trees are standing
upright, that they have roots, and that
they have branches, is a complete er-
ror, and has not the slightest founda-
ton in fact. Indeed, it is considered as
very doubtful that these immense pet
rifled logs grew within many miles of
the place where they are now found.
The supposition of the scientists is
that they flowed into what was then
an inland lake or basin from some
higher region, where a tremendous
flood had washed the great forest out
of existence. The recumbent trees
were then, during the subsequent cen
turies, covered with mud, sand and
limestone many thousands of feet deep,
and thus subjected to an immense pres
sure, and heat.
There must have been iron and other
minerals in the substances that washed
down and covered the trees, as well
as lime to solidify them, for, now that
thousands upon thousands of years
have passed away, and the everything
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-08

strata have been washed down by the
disintegrating forces of the centuries,
these once proud and lofty trees are
found TO be not only solid stone, but
colored into such variety of hues and
shades as to be the delight of the
collector and the charm of the artist
Here are actually millions of tons of
jasper, chalcedony, moss-agate, topaz,
amethyst and agates of every magma
BILE hue. Hundreds of square miles are
covered with this wonderful forest.
These large deposits of petrified
wood are found in Arizona, five miles
from the main line of the Santa Fe
railway to California. A little station
between Carrizo and Holbrook has been
named Adamana, after the old pioneer
who drives tourists out to the forest.
lie is one of the best-known characters
of the west. There are few people
in the west who do not know Adam
Hanna. Adam is a Scotchman, and is
a born pioneer. He was the sheriff in
Silyerton, Col. in its earliest and palm
lest days. He has arrested more des-
peradoes, perhaps, than any man now
living, and yet, for the past few years,
he has been content to reside at his
little ranch-house on the banks of the
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-08

horseback across it. This is one of the
bridges in the world, and that trans
continental traveller who journeys from
the east to California is not wise who
fails to spend the one day that is nec-
essary to visit this wonderful bridge
and the equally wonderful forest by
which it is surrounded.
To the Indians of Arizona this for
est has been an ineXhaustible mine.
For, from here, from time immemorial,
they have secured pieces of agate, jas
per and other petrified wood, of which
they have made some of the finest ar
row points, spear heads and stone
knives ever constructed. These abo-
riginal specimens have been found scat
tered all over the middle-western por-
ton of the United States, thus showing
that the Indians of this region made
quite trade OF petrified wood ar
ticles.
The petritied forest region is really
divided into three distinct sections;
the first section, which we have visited,
and two others. About two miles to
'AiS ocuiiiNdol VI lllG llSI utDOSll IL
the second. This is about the same
size as the first, but there is much more
of the petrified wood in the same
amount of space. The whole region
is wild, barren, desolate, cut and
scanned. There are so many wild gorges
in it that now and again it presents an
appearance as if it had been taken in
some gigantic hands and twisted out
of shape.
1t is frightful desert region, and
had an experience here that was as
novel as it was unpleasant. We had
come further than we had intended
and were not provided with a suffi-
cheney of water. The weather was in-
tensely hot, and soon our little stock
of water was exhausted. The thought
of waiting until we got back home
was maddening, but 1 saw no other
! course. Adam, however, knew a trick
far better than waiting. Riding along
until we came to the dry bed of a
; stream, that seemed as if not a drop
of water had been in it for ten years,
he quietly took the saddle and bride
from his horse, and, tying rope around
its neck, turned it loose. With an in
stinct as unerring as that of the bird
in its flight, the horse went to GER
tain spot in the wash and commenced
paving the sand with his feet. He
threw it out with almost as great ra-
pidity as dog paws the earth from a
squirrel hole, but in far greater guam
titles. 1 stood and watched him in
amazement, while Adam said: "Oh, he's
smart, he is. Did you never see hoss
dig for water? That hoss has save
my life many time, for he can fin,
water if it's to be had, where you anu
me would lie down and die. Now see
him!"
With intent gaze the horse drew back,
and steadfastly watched the hole he
had made. In few minutes a hall
bucket of water had collected at the
bottom of the hole, and, though the
water was neither cool nor fresh, il
was better than nothing. We quenched
cur thirst, and in the cool of the even
ing returned to the ranch.
@. WHARTON JAMEa
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-08
POINTS ABOUT MEASLES.
Not "a Dangerous Disease, But LinbIe
to Lead to More Serious
Affections.

Measles is one of the eruptive fevers,
usually regarded as peculiar to child
hood. 1t occurs chiefly in children for
the reason that it is so exceedingly
catching" that few escape it in early
life; but it is always ready to attack
anybody who has not already had it, if
he gets in its way. During the late war
measles was one of the commonest dis
eases in the different camps, and
mumps (also called children's disease)
was another.
Measles usually manifeSts itself about
week or ten days after exposure, with
the symptoms of bad cold in the head.
The nose runs, the eyes are infamed,
the throat is sore, and the patient soon
begins to be troubled with teasing
cough. At the same time there is fever
and the sufferer feels sick and miser-
able. Sometimes there is a series of lit
tt chills, or young children may have
convulsions.
The rash appears usually between the
third and fourth days, coming out first
on the forehead or behind the ears, soon
spreading to the face and neck, and
tinuing for about day it begins to
fade in the order in which it appeared,
from the forehead downward.
The eruption is first in the form of
thicltly-set, minute red pin-points,
which gradually increase in size, and
feel under the finger Eke little fiat PIN
pies. These spots are grouped together
IN form matches of a fluSliy red ppln1. and
often of crescentic shape.
Measles in itself is seldom serious
disease, and in this very fact lies its
danger to life. Indeed, the paradox is
true that were measles more fatal dis
ease, fewer people would probably die
of it. The danger in measles is the ten
dency to bronchitis and pneumonia;
yet the patients seem to be so little i'll
that often almost no care is taken of
them. They are allowed to get out of
bed and go about the room, or even
about the house, with no more precau.
ton against cold than if they We're well.
AS n rule, no drug treatment is re-
quired; but good nursing, which in
cludes fresh air, an equable tempera-
| ture in the room, and protection from
cold draughts, is most essential. A per-
son with measles has specially weak
ened lungs, and is in danger of serious
respiratory disease for some time after
convalescence is established, This is a
warning which cannot be repeated too
often. for upon the recognition of the
danger depends many a precious life.-
Youths Companion.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-08
THE PoPE's OBSERVATORY.
Photographs of the stars Taken for
the International Congress
mt Paris In 1850.

Writing about the pope's new
astronomer, correspondent says:
"The pope's observatory really owes
its establishment to Father Denza, who
rescued the large collection of astro-
nomical and meteorological instru-
ments that were sent as a memento of
his holiness jubilee in 1888. There has
been an observatory in the Gregorian
tower of the vatican since the time
of Gregory MIL, who founded it for
the correction of the calendar. 1t
lasted until the beginning of this cen
tury. In few months, Father Denza,
with his wonderful activity, implanted
the equatorial telescope and the pass
ages instrument, both taken from the
well-known observatory of the prince
of MontecuccoH, the meteorological in
struments enregistreurs constructedby
Richard, the most perfect which for
the first time came in Italy, and
soon the observatory began it's regular
work. But Father Denza was not sat
isfied with these achievements; the
use of photography, which created such
great revolution in the methods of
astronomy, induced Denza to think
about the construction of n photo
graphic observatory. In spite of the
opposition made by the Italian govern
ment, he succeeded in getting the vat
lean observatory appointed photog-
rapher of the stars at the international
congress of Paris in 1889. For that
purpose the Leonina tower was used. 1t
was built by Leo IN, n thousand years
ago, in order to defend Rome from the
Saracen incursions. This tower is very
adapted for astronomical observa-
tions, on account of it's solidity and
of it's being situated in the vatican
gardens, outside of the town. a pho
tographic equatorial, constructed by
! Gautier, of Paris, was there implanted,
and since then photography of the
stars is carried on with great activity
and accuracy. While Denza was con-
sidering the project of n new correc-
ton of the calendar, according to the
desire of some great astronomers, he
was struck by apopleXy and died on De-
cember IA, 1894. After his death the
life of the vatican observatory seemed
to be suspended until the election of
it's new director, Father Searle, who has
been lately appointed astronomer of
the pope. e."-London Sketch.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-08
In the Cnar'a Country.

An English woman who has been
travelling in Russia seems to have found
it easier to get in than to get out of
the czar's country. She sent her pass
port to the authorities before starting
in order to have it vised, and then
blithely made for the frontier. Ar
riving there, she was Immediately de-
tanned and taken before the powers
that not only be, but also do, at the
Russian frontier. Here she was i'll
formed that her passport did not per-
nit her to leave the country and that
she would be obliged to make herself
comfortable while the police found out
all she had done while in the country.
At first she was rather pleased at tho
thought of how she would tell her
friends about it when she got home.
But when she found that she had to-
pay not only for her room, her meals,
service, and all that sort of thing, but
also for long kilograms which the au-
thorities were exchanging in regard 10
her case, her pleasure dwindled rs
rapidly as her funds did. She finally
got off, however, but without receiving
any apology or any reimbursement
y, Z, Sun,
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breakfast Mumns.

Sift one pint of -four with one and
one-half teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der, add one-half teaspoonful salt, two
ounces butter, tv'o tablcspoonfuls
sugar; rub butter TO- d -four together;
mix the yolll of two eggs with half a
pint of milk, add them to the flour and
mix to smooth, thick batter, beat the
whites to stiff froth and stir yhem
lightly in the mixture. Butte. ten
muffin rings, lay them in buttered
shallow tin pan, fill them half full of
the mixture and bake in a hot oven
from 90 to 25 minutes. brooklyn
Eagle.
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just the Number.

"Here is an item" said Mr.. Wilson,
who was looking over his morning pa.
per, "abort u man who fell from the
thirteenth floor of a big factory in New
York yesterday"
"Did il kill him?" asked his little son.
"Kill him? Instantaneously OF
course"
81 migtS have known it," rejoined
the small boy. Thirteen is such an
unIuclfy numper!"-Tit-Bits.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-08
A Fair weigh.

Grocer-What do you mean by send
ing me only 12 ounces of steak when i
send for a pound?
Butchcr-oh, don't know; but I'll
tell you what did. lost my pound
weight, and so used one Of your pound
packets of tea instead.-1it-B Bits.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-30

Spanish as we'll as his native language.
In this community of home-staying
simple people the foreign ways and airs
Of the youth would have marked him as
one apart from the natives, but his stor-
les Of adventure made him as much a.
hero as if he were a character out of
a play. He had fought duel, he said,
with a Frenchman, and killed him; had
resented an insult in Holland and
knocked down nine Dutchmen who had
assailed him.
His ways were not like other boys.
After his return here from abroad, in
stead of remaining home evenings, or
Joining in the customary village amuse-
ments, he has often gone to the Erie
switch tower and spent his nights with
the operator and in riding ON the push
engine.
Bishops story of his actions that night
is apparently straightforward. He says
that when the rain came on heavy he
left his wheel at the roadside and got
under a tree for shelter. The rain not
ceasing he decided to go home, but in
the darkness coufd not locate his wheel.
He then went over to the Erie switch
tower and borrowed a lantern, found his
wheel, and reached home about 100. Not
feeling sleepy he went into the house
and read until o'clock At that
hour he left the house, returned the Ian
tern, to the tower, boarded "pusher'
engine to dry his clothes, made one trip
on the engine to the summit, and went
home at daylight, notifying his mother
when he reached the house.
This was certainly story of unusual
movements at unusual hours for a coun-
try boy, but, in view of Bishops peculiar
habits and the fact that he had been
frequently at the switch tower and on
the engine at late hours, would have
cleared him had it not been that there
was other testimony which contradicted
linn in the essential matter Of time.
The most important of this was the
story told by Martin Costello, night
operator at the Erie tower.
THE TEST OF TIME.
He said that Bishop borrowed the Ian
tern at 1880, saying he was going only a
short distance and would return in a few
minutes The operator is positive as to
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fies. Bishop never saw the young man
who was killed: he scarcely knew the
other Belmont boys. What was the mo-
tive? That is what the people are ask
ing themselves now that the inquest is
over. Many people think that the in
quest only added to the mystery instead
of clearing it away.
The finding Of the jury is as follows:
Everett Austin came to his death by
an explosion Of a cartridge of dynamite,
or some other high explosive, placed at
or near door of cottage or cabin, oc-
cupied on the morning of July g. 1892 by
the said deceased and others, at a body
Of water called Lake Cuba, in the town
of Cuba aforesaid. That the death OF
said Everett Austin was caused by the
act of another, to wit, Gabriel Bishop,
by criminal means and we, the jury
aforesaid, hold the said Gabriel Bishop
guilty thereof in so far as by, this investI-
cation we have been able to ascertain"
Morgan's alibi was satisfactory to the
jury and he was not held.
Bishop is under $4,000 bail.
e. w. Townsend.
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ing his coat, which he held in his hands
This evidence compelled the jury to
hold Bishop, although the boys mother
and sister corroborated his story as to
the particulars concerning time.
1t is claimed by Bishops friends that
at the court trial a witness will be pro-
duced who met Bishop on the streets of
Cuba at o'clock on the morning of the
tragedy, as he was on his way to the Erie
tower. 1t was brought out at the inquest
that he walked home, leading his bicycle
with empty tires. Mrs. Eaton, with
whom the Bishops board, testified that
she heard Bishop place his bicycle on the
porch and against her sleeping room door
on his return from the lake. Next morn
ing the wheel was still there and with
tires empty. She is positive that it was
not disturbed after Bishop came home,
about 1: 80 a. m.
The commonwealth was unable to prove
that he got a bicycle anywhere else,
though an effort was made. 1t would be
a physical impossibility for him to have
walked the two and three-quarter miles
exploded the dynamite and reached the
Erie tower at 1925. as the operator testi-
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liz is TO BE- KING
HOW PRINCE EDWARD OF YORK
LOOKS AND ACTS AT FIVE
YEARS
FUTURE KING OF BRITAIN

The Great Grandson of Queen Vic
tOria, who VIII Reach the
Throne If He Lives-The I'm
pcriOus YOungster Refuses to
Kiss His Grandma's Hand-A
Month en- Board Ship.
A character study of a boy of five may
or may not tell much of what the bow
will be when he grows up, but when
the boy is Prince Edward of York, who
one day is likely to become king of Eng
land, such study is at least well worth
reading. a woman writer in the Lady's
Realm says of this little prince that to
see him is to love him. Even at this
tender age he shows right kingly MEN,
and plays his part as if to the manner
born, yet with so pretty a childish grace
that he is absolutely irresistible
Prince Edward is of an exceedingly
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great had been the excitement, were eff
forts begun to trace the perpetrators of
the awful crime.
The evidence seeming to justify the
action of the eoroner's jury in holding
Bishop will be related presently, but first
some facts about the young man must
be told, as his personal history is an
element in making the sensation the
case has caused.
Gabriel Bishops father, Cuban bank
er, died here twelve years ago, and his
mother, having an independent fortune,
took her son and daughter. Aileen, to
Europe for their education.
The family, returned to Cuba only a
few weeks ago.
Young Gabriel was . romantic char
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should be sorry to compromise the little
grand duchess by any further reference
to the subject.


to the subject.
Prince Edward was also greatly charm
ed with his first visit to ''granny's ISL
and home, where the ships on the Solent
were an exhaustless source of interest
His great delight was to accompany his
parents on board the royal yacht and
scamper up and down the deck as hard
as he could go. Great was his joy when
he obtained a piece of the union jack,
and placing it around his body, let it
trail behind him as he promenaded. One
of the officers, to tease him, used to
throw a ball or some other missile on to
Prince Edwards train, and so impede his
movements, at which he would turn
around in great wrath, doubtless at the
insult thus offered to the British fag-a
very charming and reassuring sentiment
in our future king.
Last August Prince Edward had a
glorious time, as his father was COM
handing the Crescent, and he spent
much of his time on board. He had
emerged from petticoats into the full dig
nifty of short trousers, and the deck is an
excellent place for small boy to disport
himself under these circumstances. A
bonny little sailor he looked in his white
naval suit, and was very conscious OF
the dignity of being his parents COM
panion on board and Of having his photo
graph taken with them, while "the chill
dren''-Prince Albert and Princess Vic
toria-were along with the nurses.
There was no part Of his fathers ship
into which Prince Edward did not pene-
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the hour, his duties making him take par
ticular notice Of time. Bishop said MOTH
ing about wanting to look for his wheel,
and he did not return with the lantern
until 1925. Then he went to the pusher
engine, and the next day called at Co.'S
tellos home and asked the operator to
testify, if called upon to do so, that he
(Bishop) returned the lantern at $40.
This would be about the hour he would
have reached the tower If he had gone
there from his home, but the time (3:25)
would be about the hour he would have
reached the tower If he had hurried there
from the lake.
The fireman of the engine testified that
he found Bishop standing in front of
the open door Of the firebox at 3:S5 dry
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Some Strange Features of the
Murder for Which Young Gabriel
Bishop Has Been Held, Charged
With Homicide -Neighborhood
Jealousy at the Bottom of It
Finding of the Jury