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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-10
REBBoLI.

Charlotte Russo is a dish that is a great
favorite and gives charm to a supper or
a light dinner table. BY whom this dish
was invented is a disputed point. British
CONNECTIONS claim it for the famous queen
Of George III; Charlotte Russo, Chantilly
Charlotte, Charlotte Russo au Cafe
Charlotte with maraschino can be had of
us by ordering in seasonable time Tinsel
ornaments for Christmas trees, Is cents
q dozen.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-10
NEW FIRE DEPARTMENT.

Havana viii Be Thoroughly Ameri-
canized in That Particular.
New York Dec. 9.-The Ward line
steamship Havana, which sailed for
Havana today. carried among her pas
sengers Fire Commissioner Scannell
and Corporation Counsel Whalen. Mr..
Scannell says he is going at the re-
quest of Havana merchants to reorga
nize their fire department, the insur-
ance rates of that city being at pres
ent so high as to deter the investment
of capital. He will be gone about
a month. Mr.. Whalen is taking the
trip for recreation
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-10
succI EXPOSED.

Rio Janeiro Dec 9-Succi, the Ital-
ian faster. has been unmasked here.
DR.. Daniel Almeida has discovered that
he used fibrous meat compressed into
the smallest size. This, with small
quantity of mineral water, was enough
to prevent starvation.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-10
PURvIs CALLED.

Princeton, N. j., Dec. 9.-Rev. DR..
George T. Purvis has received a call
to the Fifth Avenue church, New
York. A committee of eight, repre-
senting the Fifth Avenue church,
called upon DR. Purvis today and ex-
tended an invitation to him to become
its pastor.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-10

This circular was sent out yesterday
to over 100 of the representatives-elect
relative to the speakership:
Boston, Dec. 8, 1899.
Dear Sir-You are cordially invited
to attend meeting of republican
members elect of this House of 1900 at
the Quincy House, Boston, on Thurs
day, Dec. IA, at O'Clock :. m. Dinner
will be provided. The object is to con-
fer freely with reference to the speak
ership of the next House. No candi-
date will be indorsed at this meeting
Mr.. VIM. Schofield of Maiden will pre-
side. Messrs. Bennett, Reed and Saun-
ders win be present. Please sign and
return the inclosed card by next mail.
Representatives Lester L. Burning
ton, Franklin; J. Lewis Ellsworth,
Worcester; Frank w Francis, New
Bedford; Walter S. Keene, Stoneham;
Edwin J. Mills, Fall River; Edward E.
Willard, Chelsea
The members to whom the invitation
is said to have been addressed are all
anti-Myers men, in the sense that they
are either not pledged to Mr.. Myers or
are wholly unpledged, and the signers
are two each of the supporters of
Messrs. Bennett, Saunders and Reed,
who are the chief rivals of the Cam
bridge gentleman for the speakership
nomination by the vote of the repub-
lican members.
The movement is stated, however, to
be broader than that of the three gen
tlemen named, and is said to have
sprung from a more or less spontane-
GUS desire on the part of the so-called
anti-Myers republicans to assemble
themselves and take the first steps
toward selecting some candidate upon
whom all the Myers opposition can
unite, for the purpose of electing
for speaker one whose republicanism
has not been put on the defensive dur
ing the campaign. The meeting is not,
1t is stated, called in the interest of any
man now in mind, and the fact that
the three chief candidates will attend
and that a fourth, whose lightning rods
are up, but who has made no campaign,
will preside-these facts are said to
signify only that these men will sit at
the banquet table as individual mem
bers-elect and will take their chances
of promotion with the rest. Messrs.
Bennett, Reed and Saunders have had
very little to do with each other dur
ing the contest until last week. when
they united in a statement to the press
affirming that they knew of more than
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-10
WEATHER REPORT.

Boston. Dec. 9.-Local forecast Sunday:
Fair weather, followed by increasing
cloudiness Sunday night; light north
winds, becoming fresh easterly by Sun
day night.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-10
MILLER ONLY
A F|GUREHEAD.

Silent Partner Back of Concern, Who
Walked Away With Lions Share of the
Profts-From Humble Beginnings the
Fraud Assumed Large Proportions.
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31
A Rainy Day.

1t is not until we take the rainfall
in the bulk that we can realize what
stupendous quantity of water showers
down in Great Britain and Ireland in
one year, am even when we have the
figures before us it is difficult to realize
their magnitude. To say, for instance,
that 1882, $780, 900, 900 cubic feet of rain
on an average fell annually in the
united kingdom conveys little or moth
ing, though it implies something moist.
and when we further learn that the
weight of the same amounts to 258,-
126,5OO, 900 tons, except for 4. feeling OF
thankfulness that it did not fall on
our toes all at once, we are only con-
scious that it makes a very pretty row
of figures. With the laudable inten-
ton of making these latter figures look
small we will merely say that the total
weight Of the rain that falls in one
year on the British isles is only equal
to 1-119th part of the weight of one
paltry square mile of the earth's sur
face, from the surface to the center OF
the earth. When we consider that
there are $4,000 square miles Of such
surface in the united kingdom alone
one can understand what an infinitesi-
NAL fraction of the total weight of the
British isles the annual rainfall would
amount to. Why, 100000 Forth
bridges would almost equal it.-Lud-
gate.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31
Plans for Big Tunnel Under the Irish Sea
Which Will Connect Ireland and Scotland

Money is ready and plans are laid
Tor a tunnel that will make all tunnels
dug hitherto seem rather Insignificant,
and that incidentally will bring the
United States and Europe several
hours nearer. 1t is believed that it will
begin new era for Ireland and will
advance Belfast many steps in the
scale Of Importance. 1t is proposed to
perform all of these wonders by drill
ling a $50,000,000 hole thirty-five miles
through the rock under the northern
part Of the Irish sea, through which
passengers could be whisked by train,
and could thus travel from London to
Galway or Queenstown without chang
Ing cars. All that the plan waits for
now is a guarantee from the British
government of per cent on the capt.
tai invested from the time that the
tunnel is in working order. A big
meeting was held the other day in a
committee room of the house of COM
mons, presided over by the Marquis of
Londonderry, former lord lieutenant of
Ireland, in which the enterprise was
doomed vigorously by Lord Rosebery
and the Earl of Spencer and many 9TH
er important personages. A deputation
was sent to the first lord of the treas
ury to talk persuasively to him about
the per cent part of the business, and
the government is considering the
question. If the government guaran-
tees the interest the preliminary work
will begin at once, and it is expected
that the tunnel will be completed in
about ten years from the time the first
sod is turned. When the time comes
to turn that sod the man to do it really
ought to be Lord Londonderry, whose
powerful influence has been exerted for
1t ever since 1t appeared that the plan
was practicable. To him, therefore.
! applied for information on the SUBJ
ject, although lords of high degree are
not much given to granting interviews
in England.
Lord Londonderry's great down
house in artistocratic Park lane in
London is as grim and forbidding out
side as it is spacious and luxurious
within. The marquis was in his libra
ry, seated at flat-topped desk, which
one must suppose to be the grandfath-
er of all desks. for it was big enough
to make three or four ordinary writ
ing tables. Young couples have start
ed housekeeping before now in house
whose floor surface appeared no great
er than the top of that desk. 1t was
covered with newspapers and maps, in
which the marquis was evidently much
interested.
Il believe" he said, that the pro-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31

posed tunnel would bring a great
change to Ireland, and although, of
course, 1t is an undertaking that would
have appalled, the engineer of a gener-
alton ago, / am told that there is no
mechanical difficulty today that stands
in the way of it. The total length of
the tunnel under the sea would be
twenty-five miles and the approaches
on either side would be about five
miles each, making thirty-five miles in
all. OF course that is about three
times as long as any tunnel yet built.
The Simplon is about thirteen miles,
Isn't it? And the st. Gothard tunnel
is something like nine miles long. But
II is astonishing what progress the en-
gineers have made, and it is likely that
In the course of ten years it would take
to build the tunnel still further pro-
gress would be made, so that the sec
ond half might be done in less time
than the first half would take.
However, that is a matter for the
experts to talk about. What I am most
sure about is that the tunnel will be a
great saving of time. 1t takes six
hours to get from London to Carlisle.
BY means of the tunnel it would be
possible to go from Carlisle to Belfast
in from two to three hours. With the
improvements that are to be expected
IN ten years it should be possible to
get from Belfast to Galway in three
hours. That makes eleven or twelve
hours from London to Galway"
But why do you mention Galway?
That isn't especially noted as sea-
port, is it,"
1T is likely to be If the tunnel is
brilt. 1t is the most convenient port
to New York, and it is in the most cen
trail part of Ireland It is the natural
stopping place of the transatlantic
steamers, and may become a port of
great importance. 1t would cut sew
eral hours off the time of passage if
the steamers were to stop there, in
stead of going to Queenstown
But that program is rather disas-
trous for Queenstown, isn't it?"
Yes, rather
and Queenstown is going to be
heard from on the subject isn't she?"
mo doubt, but it is the voice of Bel
fast that will carry weight, for that is
the city most directly interested in the
tunnel. 1t is the chief city of Ireland,
and does much the larger part of her
business. Belfast would probably be
the railroad terminal Of the tunnel.
and doubtless the trains would run to
Belfast from the English side without
stopping. To go from Belfast to Gal
WAY without changing cars would re-
quire an entire new lire Of railroad.
cwlrg to the present difference in the
gauge between the English and Irish
roads. but that would come in time.
Il believe the passenger traffic alone
you'd go long way toward making
The line pay, for it is long disagree
able trip by boat across the channel.
But perhaps / am prejudiced. They say
am in favor of the tunnel because /
am such a VIGOROUSLY bad sailor"
IF the government refuses to guar
tee the per cent interest will the plan
fall through for the present?''
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31

has vast possibilities as yet undevelop-
ed, and only waiting for something to
come along and stir them up. Owing
to the efforts of Irish capitalists, tour
lists are beginning to take greater in
terest in the island than they ever
took before, and If it were not such
difficult place to reach, they could be
expected to go there in shoals. AS the
route to Scotland would be so short
and quick. it is expected that Irish pro-
duce would find new and profitable
market in the manufacturing towns Of
Scotland and the north of England
And, perhaps, most important of all,
it is rather expected that a tunnel
would induce some Of the Atlantic
transport lines to make Ireland their
terminus being the place in
mind.
asked representative of the White
Star line what he had to say about
that plan. He answered that it SEEM
ed feasible, and that it would especial
ly be worth considering when the day
came that Atlantic liners would be
built to carry only passengers. He
seemed to think that that day might
come pretty soon.
CURTIS BROWN.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31
Famous explorer Of tho philippIne..

john Whitehead, an English explor-
er, who died recently, had for three
years previous to his death been engag-
ed in the exploration of the Philippines
and by his work he added immensely
to the knowledge of the zoology of the
group. In his last expedition to the is
land of Luzon, Mr.. Whitehead made an
unexpected discovery of great scienti-
fic interest in the shape Of a new and
peculiar mammal fauna inhabiting the
Luzon highlands, and believed to be
isolated on a small plateau on the top
of Mount Data, in the center of nortn-
ern Luzon. at an altitude of from 1000
to 5000 feet.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31
RAILROAD LINES IN AFRICA.
Two Being Pushed Through Forests I'M
known to White Men.

Two Being Pushed Through Forests I'M
known to White Men.
When we hear that two railroad
routes are surveying through the dense
forest of equatorial Africa in regions
that have never been penetrated by
white men except when Emin Pasha
pushed through them just before he
was murdered, it is easy to say that
great changes are occurring in Africa.
A while ago men were exploring the
land merely to improve the maps and
see if the country was worth anything.
Now they are entering new regions
with the sole purpose of making pre-
liminary surveys for railroads. Bust
ness, and not research, is giving inn
petus to their efforts. The Congo state
has decided to have outlets to the In
dian ocean and the Nile as well as to
the Atlantic. 1t also desires to tap the
great central lake region and make a
highway for some Of its commerce to
the west and down the Congo There
is another potent reason for building
the proposed railroads. Beyond Stan
ley falls the Congo affiuents are so cut
up by rapids that they cannot be used
asroutes to connect the provinces of the
eastern frontier of the state and the
great lakes with the railroad and river
route below the falls. So railroads are
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31
AN INTERRUPTED HONEYMOON
He "Keeps His Eye Peeled Even to
This Day.

He "Keeps His Eye Peeled Even to
This Day.
Even now the old lawyer crashes his
teeth and says things under his breath
when he thinks of 1t. says the Detroit
Free Press.
Il followed my fathers advice and
went west" he tells. 81 haven't the
least doubt in the world that the old
gentleman got his idea from Horace
Greeley. / set up my Office in a new
town, where the crack of revolver
attracted no more attention than a fire
alarm in big city, and had hand in
almost every case that was tried. But
| declined to fall into the ways of the
community. l denounced lynching as
worse than barbarism, sailed into the
authorities as being parties to this
class Of crimes and even defied public
sentiment to the extent of defending
horse thieves. / received a good many
threatening letters, but stood by my
guns. During this exciting experience
fell in love with the lovliest girl on
the whole bounding west, and we were
married. Then my enemies began the
work Of fiendish revenge.
I'VE were actually at the depot and
about to start on long wedding tour
through the east when / was summon
ed as a witness in an important mining
suit, about which I knew nothing. In
vain l urged this fact, pleaded, de-
nounced and threatened. The officer,
WHO had evidently been coached, de-
clared me witness trying to escape
the jurisdiction of the court and very
promptly clapped me in Jail. The next
day l was fined 500 for contempt of
court and thirty days in Jail were add
ed because l talked back. That was
my honeymoon, and was the maddest
man within the pale of civilization.
Once free took the flyer for Detroit,
and the letter wrote that judge fairly
scorched the envelope. He tried to ex-
tradite me, but failed, and then he sent
me challenge. That failed, too, but
| have his assurance, written thirty
years ago that he would shoot on sight.
Do you know keep my eyes peeled
while on the streets, even to this day."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31

essential to unite the eastern and west
ern provinces. A party of six engi-
neers, headed by Mr. Adam, formerly
at the head of the engineer CORPS of
the Congo Railroad company, have be-
gun the survey for the railroads. The
station at Stanley falls is the point Of
departure. There will be only one
road for several hundred miles east of
Stanley falls. Then there will be a
bifureation, one line running to the
northeast to some station near the
south end of Albert Nyanza, where it
will be at the head of navigation in
the Nile valley. The other road will
turn to the south and terminate at the
north end of Lake Tanganyika, where
steamers will connect it with the south
end and with the Stephenson wagon
road between Lakes Tanganyika and
Nyassa, which was put into good con-
dltion last year. OF course, when Cecil
Rhodes gets his transcontinental rail-
road up into the lake regions it will
form junction with both these lines.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31
SAYS the Pope WIN Live to BE 100.

DR.. Mazzoni, who was successful re-
Gently in his operation on the Popes
swollen hip, was caller at the Vatican
a few days ago.
In the course of the conversation the
Pope asked the doctor how much
longer he would live.
The doctor deplied: 81 am confident
your holiness will live to be more than
100 years old"
THAT seems hardly probable" re-
torted his holiness. Il am feeling ex-
cellent. have perfect control OF my fac
u,ties and can remember incidents and
names more than fifty years back, but
to live to be centenarian is too
much"
The reverend father then entertained
the doctor with excellent conversation
on medical. political and religious SUBJ
jects.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31

non-political. At the house of com
mons meeting, over which 1 had the
honor to preside, one of the strongest
supporters of the plan was my oppo-
nent at the polls, and Lord Rosebery
wrote me that he had long believed
there were few more pressing objects
of policy, not only from the Irish point
OF view, but also from the British and
imperial viewpoints. He said he be-
lieved that 100000 was cheap, con-
sidering the advantages to be gained"
This tunnel is not new. Fifteen
years ago it was seriously discussed,
and later the Belfast chamber of COM
merce took it up, and asked for gov
eminent assistance in getting prelimi-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31

A bachelor farmer a little past his
prime, finding himself hard up, thought
the best thing he could do would be
to marry a neighbor of his who was
reputed to have some bawbees. Meet
ing with no obstacle to his wooing he
soon got married. One of his first
purchases he made with part of her
money was horse. When he brought
it home he called out to his wife to
see it. After admiring it she said:
We'll, Sam, if it hadna been for my
siller it wadna haze been here" "Jen-
NY" Sam replied. "if it hadna been fer
yer siller We wadna hae been here yer
sell !"-London Answers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31

Joined might spoil the whole plan, and
make it necessary to find some other
place of crossing than that now select
ed, connecting Stranraer on the
Scotch side with Magee island, TWEEN
ty miles northeast of Belfast on the
Irish side. This is not the narrowest
point in the channel, but it is the
most feasible. Even here the tunnel
would have to make detour of two or
three miles under water, to avoid an
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31

II can't say, but it seems hardly
likely that the government will refuse.
This case isn't parallel to that of Mr..
Rhodes RAILROAD. Africa is unknown.
and the receipts from the road were
problematical, but with this tunnel the
receipts can be estimated almost scien-
tifically, and besides the tunnel would
have an important effect upon the de-
velopment of Ireland 1t is an affair
of national Importance. The money,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31
Had Been studying I'm.

Father" said one of that type of
young men that is likened to the lily,
you have frequently advised me to
emulate the busy tees Yes, ard with
very unsatisfactory results. Well.
I've concluded to follow your advice.
/ have just read here, from one of the
most distinguished scientists Of the
age, that the busy bee never works
to exceed three hours a day. Detroit
Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31

required for this job to be rather lib
eral, for great progress has been made
in the speed of tunnel digging in the
last twenty-five years. When st. Goth
ard tunnel was begun in 1872 the high
est rate of progress was two and half
yards a day. Eleven years later the
average rate of progress in the Arlberg
tunnel was twelve yards day. Since
then the increase has been rapid, and
if chance is given to American con-
tractors to bid on the tunnel, the Brit
ish public will be rather likely to dis
cover that it wouldn't take ten years to
tie England and Ireland together with
steel
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31

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. 1t gets the bowels back in the
habit of doing their own work, and
after they have been reused into a
state Of healthy activity, and the liver
and other organs also, they will con-
tinue on without medicine They
will cure sick headache, billiousness
and liver troubles and constipation
md remove poisonous matter from
the system. Put up in 10 and % cent
packages. For sale j T. Bennett
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31

nary soundings, and also for guaran-
tee of interest on the capital invested.
But the enterprise looked bigger than
it does now, and e10.0OO.0OO sounded
like more money then than it does
now. and the government was afraid 70
go into it.
About the only danger now, from an
engineering viewpoint. is the POSSIBLE
ity of assures in the rock. The vari-
Gus strata that would be crossed are
known to be individually waterproof,
but assure where two stratas are
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31

Not little doubt has been express
ed about the financial feasibility Of this
extraordinary undertaking. Would the
government have to go down into its
pocket to find the per cent? It is
said in reply that large part of Ire
lands growing commerce would reach
England through the tunnel, which
would expect to compete with the
channel steamers in price. and. OF
course, far outruE them in speed 1t is
said, furthermore that the Green Isle
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31
How to Settle BOUNDARY DISPUTE,

AS matter of fact the boundary
line between the United States and
Canada should be located on the north
side of Canada by the consent of both
pations.-Danville Commercial.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1899-08-31
RAILWAY MILEAGE.

The total length of railroad in the
world amounted in 1897 to asa, 730
miles, and in the five years from 1893
to 1897 the total increase was "a ,4S5
miles, or S.9 per cent. The same year
the total length of railroad in the
United States was 1929 miles, an in
crease in re years of SO per cent.
North ar1 SNuth America and the
West India islands are credited with
over one-half of the total mileage, or
236,218 miles.