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Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
IN The ODD CORNER.
QUEER AND CURIOUS THINGS
AND EVENTS.
Queer Birds and Insects of South Africa
/ How MILK and Water Can Be Made
I to Change Glasses = Earth's Wrinkly
/, Crust-MaGic of Figures.
Limos to a Skeleton.

(Old Favorite Series)
The MS. of this poem, which appeared
In 1897 was said to have been found IN
the museum of the Royal College of Sur
geons, in London. near perfect human
skeleton, and to have been sent by the
curator to the Morning Chronicle for pub
lication. 1t excited so much attention
that every effort was made to discover
the author and responsible party went
so far as to offer reward of so guineas
for information that would discover its
origin. Notwithstanding this, the au-
ithors name remained a secret until near
ly sixty years had passed. when 1t was
learned that the lines were written by
Robert Philip of Gormyre Cottage, Scot
land. Toward the end of the year 1926 he
Wrote the verses while watching for body
snatchers in the parish churchyard of
Torpichen. where. during the repairing of
the church. the unearthing of skeleton
suggested the subject. The verses were
shown to DR.. John Afford, who procured
copy. and either by accident or inten-
tion dropped a copy in the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons where they were found.
Behold this ruin, Twas "A skull
Once ethereal spirit full:
This narrow cell was life's retreat.
This space was thoughts mysterious seat
What beauteous visions filled this spot,
What dreams of pleasure long forgot:
Nor hope. nor joy, nor love. nor fear
Have left one trace of record here.
Beneath this mouldering canopy
Once shown the bright and busy eye;
But start not at the dismal void
If social love that eye employed;
If with no lawless fire 1t cleaned
But through the dews of kindness beamed,
That eye shall be forever bright,
When stars and suns are sunk In night.
Within this hollow cavern hung
The ready, swift and tunefu tongue.
If falsehood's honey it disdained,
And when it could not praise was
chained;
III bold in virtues cause 1t spoke,
Yet gentle concord never broke:
That silent tongue shall plead for thee
When time unveils eternity
Say. did these fingers delve the mine,
Or with its envied rubies shine
To hew the rock or wear the gem
Can little avail to them
But If the page of truth they sought.
Or comfort to the mourner brought,
These hands a richer need shall claim
Than all that wait on Wealth or Fame.
Avails 1t whether bare or shod
These feet the paths of duty trod?
If from the bowers of ease they fled
To seek affiiction's humble shed,
If Grandeurs guilty bribe they spurned,
And home to Virtues cot returned.
/These feet with angels wings shall vie
And tread the palace of the sky.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
rrlck Played Upon "a waitor.

Liquid air is perhaps the coolest
thing In the world. 1t is so cold that
a cake of ice is fierce fire compared
with 1t, for a kettle of liquid air placed
on cake of Ice will boil just as water
boils over hot fire. 1t freezes mor-
curry so hard that one can drive nal 2
with 1t. The story is told that Nj,
Charles Il. Tripler, the experimenter Ia
LIQUID air, recently took a quart can
of the remarkable substance with HIN
on visit to n friend. On the way he
stopped in restaurant to eat beef
steak. The waiter brought a ho,
broiled steak and placed II in front Of
Mr.. Tripler. AS soon as the walters
back was turned. Mr.. Tripler hastily
opened the can and exposed the meat
to the liquid air. Instantly the steak
was frozen as hard as n rock. When
the waiter came back his customef
complained that the steak was frozen
So the waiter called the head walter
and the head walter blamed 1t all on
the cook, and tho cook was at a loss
to explain. and the result was that the
frozen steak was taken back into the
kitchen as a mysterious curiosity. A
new steak was broiled for Mr.. Trip,er
and this one he ate with much relish
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
DESERT LANDS RECLAIMED.
Thousands of Acres In the West Made
Productive by Irrlgation.

Thousands of Acres In the West Made
Productive by Irrigation.
OF recent years the vast desert plains
Of the west that were supposed to be
worthless have been made to produce
abundant crops and the finest products
by means of irrigation. This method
of reclaiming desert lands has been
been put into practice quietly, but to
the extent that today irrigation has re-
deemed hundreds of thousands of acres
of land in the states of Colorado, Ida
no, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and Cal
ifornia. In Idaho alone over 500 farm
ers water their lands by means of ir-
rigation ditches-little streams of wa
ter that cut the farms up into little
strips surrounded by water. Some of
the canals from which these small wa
ter bitches run are over fifty miles
long. The water that flows down from
the mountain regions in the spring is
preserved in huge reservoirs and given
to the thirsty land in small quantities
during the summer. By this means
the land can always be kept moistened
and there is no fear that the crops will
dry up through drought. though there
are long dry seasons when rain does
not fall for weeks at time.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
Very Latest in Files,

1t was thought that the limit had
been reached In flies when the wings
were put on with cement and line OF
silk. with reversed wings which could
not be pulled out. But now there is a
fly book in which are separated legs.
wings and bodies. They are adjusta-
BILE to ordinary bait hooks from Nos.
to ~, according to the fish wanted.
Each part is tied to bit of aluminium
tube. The bait hook Is separate. Tho
fisherman observes that the trout are
rising to n little fly Of which he has
no specimen. The real fly has gray
wings, brown legs and n white body.
He takes out the combination book
and puts white body on hook; then
he adds the legs and wings OF the right
color. and then he fishes.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
THE LATE DIR. WISE.
CAREER OF THE ILLUSrRIOUS
JEWISH DIVINE.
His Recent Death q Great Loss to That
Religion In the United states-Emi-
mont as q Reformer, Puipitesr and
Author.

American Judaism has sustained an
irreparable loss by the death of the
eminent and venerable divine, Rev. Dr.
Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati, which
occurred in that city recently. The de-
parted was the brilliant luminary with
in the ranks of American Israel. Let
there be light was always the motto of
this noble man, and the word enlight-
eminent sums up the object for which
he lived. He was editor Of the Ameri-
can IsraeNite. which he founded in
1854, and Die Deborah, which he found
ed in 1855. He was president OF the
Hebrew Union college of Cincinnati
since it's foundation twenty-five years
ago, president of the conference of
American rabbis since its inception in
1889, and a member of the board of
directors OF the University Of Cincin-
natl. Notwithstanding his great age
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
Mathematical Magic.

You can never tell what figures will
do. OF course they are truthful II
properly handled, but some of them
are capable of the most bewildering
antics. Here is method by which
figures may be made to tell secrets in
a way that will astonish those who are
not informed about how to do the
figuring:
Ask some person to put down un-
known to you number composed OF
three figures (say 1922. Tell him to
transpose the figures (making 26D and
to subtract the lesser from the great
er. Then ask him to tell you the first
figure of the result, and you can tell
him the entire number. For instance.
your first number in the present ex-
ample is 1862, which transposed makes
267. Subtract 267 from 1852 and you
have 495. The only figure that you are
told Is 4, the first of the result. All
you have to do is to subtract from g.
which will give you s. the last figure
and the central figure is always 8. So
your number will be 495. This Is true
in all cases where only three figures
are used in making up a number. The
central figure will always be when
the transposed number is subtracted
from the original number. and the two
end figures when added together will
make .. So, knowing either the hrst
or the last figure of the result, you can
give the entire number.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
Because They Arc Inry.

New York merchants and business
men who have been interviewed on the
subject express the opinion that the
reason why many young men do not
get along these days is precisely the
reason why young men did not get
along in other days, They are bright,
they are educated, they are in every
way equipped. but they are, sad to
say. lazy. They know how to work,
but they do not like to work. They
will do only what is absolutely re-
quired OF them. They are never look
Ing ahead and are not ready when OPP
portunity for advancement offers. The
man with the small talent and the
great energy continues to surpass the
man with the great talent and the
small energy
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
s1oRMlNo OF BADAJos.
The triumphant Enslish Soldiers Became
Drunken Wratchaa.

The fire of the French was fright
fully accurate and concentrated, says
New Lippincott. Gen. Walker himself
simply dripped blood; he was a mass
of wounds. His ladders were found to
be all too short. The walls of the
fortress were 80 feet in height. How
ever, through some lack of staying
power In the French. success at last
crowned the attack. One man
clambered somehow to the top of the
wall and pulled up others. until about
half of the Fourth Foot (now the
Kings Own Royal Lancaster regi-
ment) were fairly into the town.
Walkers men took three bastions
Gen. Picton. severely wounded, had
not dared to risk losing the castle but
now hearing the tumult of Walkers
success, he sent his men forth and
thousands went swarming through
the town. Phillipon saw that all was
lost. and retreated with few hun
dred men to San Cristoval. He sur
rendered next morning to Lord Fitz-
roy Somerset. The English now occu-
pied the town. With their comrades
lying stark, or perhaps in fearful tor
ment. in the fields beyond the wall of
Badajos. these soldiers, who had so
heroically won this immortal victory,
became the most abandoned drunken
wretches and maniacs. Crazed privateF
stood at the corners of streets and shot
every one in sight. Everywhere were
soldiers dressed in the garb of monks.
90 nt rt h n
wound about with gorgeous ribbons
and laces. Jewels and plate, silks and
satins, all suffered wanton destruc-
ton. Napier writes of Shameless ra-
pacity. brutal intemperance, savage
lust, cruelty and murder, shrieks and
piteous lamentations"
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
PROFESSIONAL APPLAUDERS
Excellent Job from . Financial Point
of View.

of View.
The position of some of the Chefs
de claque" at large Paris theaters is a
very enviable one from financial
point Of view, says the Wide World.
They are capitalists and spectators.
Before the minister of fine arts. few
years ago, made the claque at the
opera state institution, they them
selves did the very same thing, and |
have known 9-franc tickets sold at a
little Office in the Rue Auber by the
former chef de claque" of the opera
for as much as 20 francs each. But
when an opera was a great success
and tickets were in demand, he nat
urally made people pay dearly for
them. Supposing play to be a great
success. then he quickly becomes a
rich man. and there are many cases
on record OF chefs de claque" who
have died worth hundreds of thousands
of francs. Auguste and Porcher of the
opera both died immensely rich. The
former was rich enough before he be-
came chef de claque" at the opera to
pay 10000 francs ($l6 ,O00) for his po-
sition. Besides the profit he made on
tickets, he received handsome presents
from actors and actresses.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
WILL RAISE EUFFALOES.
Government Disposed to Assist the Enter
prise,


prise.
Buffalo" Jones of Garden City, Kan
sas, has closed contract with the
Smithsonian Institute to spend the
summer in the Rocky Mountains cap
turing animals for the Washington
200" He has been instructed to
bring in mountain sheep, of which
there is none in captivity.
bill reported by Mr.. Lacy of the
committee on public lands reserves 2O,-
900 acres in Eddy and Lincoln counties
In New Mexico for n term of twenty
years rs n reservation for Buffalo"
Jones to raise buffaloes on. At present
Jones owns nearly all the buffaloes in
the United States. and he believes he
can breed n large herd within 4 few
years IL lie can have the encouragement
and protection of the government. In
New Mexico the buffalo finds his nat
ural home. and out of an area of CO.,
100000 acres it is proposed to set apart
n tract of 10000 acres, for which Jones
agrees to pay an annual rental of 1
cent an acre and furnish two young
buffalo each year to the government
for the use of the public parks. The
congressional committee, like the Acad-
emy of Sciences, thinks that Jones
ought to have n chance, and 1t has rec
commended the passage of bill au-
thorizing the secretary OF the interior
to lease him the tract mentioned and
making it unlawful for any person to
kill, injure or dispose of any bison Of
New Mexico.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
Queer Creatures. In South Africa.

Among the British soldiers who are
lighting in South Africa are many
naturalists, amateur and professional
and the result is that the folks 'at
home" have been in receipt of much
information that was the more inter-
eresting because it was unwarlike.
The first letters that arrived in Eng
land telling something about the
country in which the troops were cam
paigning contained many remarks on
the fact that the soldiers saw the
real locusts" all over the plains.
Tommy Atkins SHE'D sticks at them,
and men and officers wore the big,
bird-like insects on their hats or
pinned on their saddles. The birds
surprised the English pleasantly, be-
cause they found that many English
species migrated as far south as South
Africa, among them particularly tho
English swallow and the English
cuckoo. Shrikes. fy-catchers and
sparrows were among the familiar
birds. and it was with surprise as
well as pleasure that the Englishmen
found these old friends mingling with
strange. gaudy, tropical birds like the
purple and green turacos or plantain
eaters, and the grand sun-birds, which
are far more gorgeous than are the
Brazilian humming birds. The queer
work of the tailor birds has delighted
Tommy wondrously. One variety
stitches its nest to the leaves of trees
with silk stolen from giant spider
webs. and another uses thread made
/. from grass fibre. One shrike, which
has been named Fiscal after a
certain Dutch magistrate who had a
large latitude in the matter of in
fiicting capital punishment on negroes.
catches smaller birds, tears their
heads off, rips their bodies into four
pieces, and then impales the frag-
ments on convenient thorns to wait
until It needs them as food Two
birds have been called vultures in
discriminatory by the writer's who
describe the scenes on the battlefelds.
One of them is not vulture at ALL
but merely a carrion crow. known
properly as the whlte-necked crow.
The real vulture of South Africa,
many of which were seen after the
big battles, Is n huge bird, believed
to be identical with the mighty grif-
fon vulture of Europe, which, in turn.
is nearly the largest of the Hesh-eating
birds of the Old World. Then there
are the stately snake-killlng secretary
bird and a curious shrike. which has
acquired taste for cooked food. and
will follow bush fire as long as 1t
burns in order to feed on the burned
nj ,uIc frha In, 4,
Africa is the 'ring-hals,' meaning
ring neck. 1t is white and black, and
Its bite is fatal. Cobras Of all sizes
are common. and so are horned vlpers
'andNndders. ..Ts-. 10
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
LADY LOUISE TIGHE.

No social event of the century equals
in celebrity the ball given in Brussels
on the eve Of the battle OF Waterloo.
The last survivor Of this famous event
has just died at Woodstock, Ireland,
and in her last days she often referred
to that night Of gayety and tragedy so
graphically described by Thackeray in
Vanity Fair" and by Byron in "Childe
Harold" This woman was Lady Louisa
Tighe, daughter of the duchess of
Richmond, by whom the ball was CIV
en-. It was she who buckled on We'll
lington's sword ere he left the brill
liant ballroom to go out and begin the
fight which decided the fate OF Europe.
Lady Tighe's father. the duke of Rich
mond, had residence in Brussels,
near which city the British under We'll
lington were encamped. On the night
OF June 16. 1915, the duchess gave
ball in honor of the British officers.
Wellington was there. While the ball
was in progress a message from
,Blucher came to Wellington, and about
the same time the sound of guns was
heard. Wellington. after few mo-
ments OF abstraction, gave orders to
one of his staff officers, who instantly
left the room. Others saw him go,
and. one by one, they stole away from
their partners. who in many cases
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03


Hon. Dan. A. Grosvenor, Deputy
Auditor for the War Department, in .
letter written from Washington, D. c.,
says:
"AHow me to express my gratitude
to you for the benefit derived from ono
bottle of Peruna. One week has
brought wonderful changes and I am
now as well as ever. Besides being
one of the very Fest spring fonics 1t Is
an excellent cafarrh remedy" Very
respectfully, Dan A. GrOSvenOr,
Hal P. Denton, Chief National Ex-
port Exposition, Philadelphia, Pa.
writes: 81 was completely run down
from overwork and the responsibility
naturally connected with the exploita-
ton of great international exposi.
tion. My physician recommended an
almost a burden | began taking Pc
runa. and with the use of the fifth bot
tie l found myself in a normal condi-
tion. l have since enjoyed the best
of health"
Almost everybody needs tonic in
the spring. Something to brace the
nerves, invigorate the brain, and
cleanse the blood. That Peruna will
do this is beyond all question. Every
one who has tried 1t has hal the same
experience as Mrs. d. w. Timberlake,
OF Lynchburg. Va. who, in a recent
letter, made use of the following
words: Il always take a dose of Pc
runa after business hours. as it is q
great thing for the nerves. There il
no better spring tonic, and have used
about all of them
For free book on Summer Ca
tarrh." address The Peruna Medicine
Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
Cordage snow shovel.

What do you think of n snow shovel
made OF a metallic frame and n bag
OF flexible netting, devised by Charles
White Allen Of Manasquan. N. j.? A
namely, the substitution of metallic
rings linked together to form strong
bag. In the place of netting. makes 1t
also suitable for handling hard and
heavy material such as coal and
gravel. .4.. ..
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
gas. But being much smaller

Of a gas. But being much smaller
than the. sun 1t cooled, much moro
quickly, and became swhite-hot liquid.
And this, too, gradually cooled moro
and more. until at last a thin crust
began to form on all around 1t, as a
film forms on cooling molasses candy,
when 1t begins to harden. The water
In the air about it frequently formed
into rain and fell on the hot surface
and helped to cool 1t, though, of
course, 1t evaporated again very quick
ly, but remained on the crust
and gradually formed an ocean all
around the earth. And the inside of
the earth went on cooling under this
hardened crust and shrunk as it cool
ed, for all things grow smaller as
they cool off. You can easily prove
this yourself by heating the end of
key that fits a lock snugly; and you
will find that, when it is quite hot,
you cannot get it into the lock at all.
but soon as it cools it will go in again
as before. So the inner part of the
earth went on shrinking, and finally
it shrunk so much that the outside
crust, which was not so very thick
comparatively speaking, doubled up
and cracked at different spots all
round the earth, so that the surface,
which must before have been pretty
smooth, became rough with high ele-
vations and deep depressions. and
naturally all the water flowed into
those deep depressions and formed
oceans in spots where there had been
before a single ocean reaching all
around the globe.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
IT'S FREE TO ALL.

Cut this out-thls coupon is worth S
cents to you in our Mail Order Depart
ment on every purchase of 81 or over: 100
of them Is worth $500. Send for cata-
!ogue or order through our ads. in the
Denver papers. Only one coupon accept
ed with each dollar purchase. The Golden
Eagle. Denver, Colo.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03

never saw their heroes again until
their dead bodies were brought In from
the bloody battlefield, Wellington
was one OF the last to leave the ball.
room. and ere he departed tho lady
who has recently died fastened his
sword about him.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
New Train TO Portland for cape Nome.

Commencing Sunday, April 22d. the I'm
ion Pacific lnaugurntc double daily
service Denver TO Portland. Trains leave
Denver $3.50 n. m. and y. M daily. arriv-
ing Portland $3.50 n. m aud p IN. sec
ond day, A business day saved by tray-
cling Union Pacific. See your local agent
or nddress Geo. Ady 81 18th street, Dem
yer Coloruuo
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
PincInc Tho Hnme.

Isabel. told you particularly not to
tel Blanche that secret. and you went
right OFF and told her"
We'll. II all your own fault. Eleanor;
you put i into my head by telling me
not to tell her"
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
100 600 AGENTS. WANrEp.

Men and women, boys and girls, all over
tho United States. Big money, easy work.
Valuable prizes in addition. Write q. H..
Marshall & Co., Dept 10, Chicago.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03

Softleigh--"You must apologize. sir
hear you referred to me as n pom.
pous ass" Cynicus-"Well, I'll take
half OF It back. You are not pom
pous. Record.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
WRINKLES and Hoiiows ON the Earth,
Surface.

Once upon time. the learned men
tell us. this world on which we live
was part Of the sun and was thrown
of from .it-taking the round form
It has, as 1t whirled about through
space. At that time 1t was terrihcally
hot. like the sun from which It was
thrown out. and probably ip the form
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03

Plso's Cure is the bost medicine we ever used
for all affections OF tho throat and lungs-wM.
o. ESpsLEY, Vanburcn. Ind, Feb TO- 1900.
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03

''wcll. doctor. ! suppose you are not SO
busy. now that the grip period IL over"
oh. yes; there's the early golf season,
you know"
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03

Have you got your orators picked out
yet for your socicty's colcbratIon2' mo
but we've got the baseball game al
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03

"Freddy not another cake. Youli be
sick" well, ma. you needn't to care;
there's half my medicine ief' from las
time"
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
Tho Makers OF Carter, Ink Say,

ave can't make any better ink than we do; we
don't know how to, We can make poorer ink,
but we won't" Carter's Ink is the best
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03

Edward Everett Hale keeps fifteen
cats" "Well. We keep about that many,
too. but they belong TO our neighbors'
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03

Hc-"Woman can't reason" she-"Sho
can II she has II reasonable being to
reason with"
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03

when would you call man really
grent ?" when he gets to be as great
ns his tcn-ycar-old nephew thinks he is.''
Gilpin observer., 1900-05-03
Hairs Catarrh Cur5

Is taken internally. Price, 75c.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-09-12
Large Crowds Still Continue TO Attend.

The City hall contained another good
sized crowd, last evening. when the
French fair was held. Since the night
before several additions to the tables
have been made 50 that now ii il pos
sible to supply almost every want
SO energetic are the people having
the fair in charge that a great many
Of the articles have already been dis
posed of and a large sum is assured
for the church treasury.
The diamond ring contest continues
as warm as ever with Miss Adelaid
Cloutier as the candidate Of the For
esters and George La Plante as the
candidate for the Artesians. 1t looked.
last night. as though the Foresters
would succeed in bestowing the dia-
mond on their candidate.
The fair will close, this evening,
when the prizes Will be awarded. The
entertainment, last evening, consisted
Of selections by the band and vocal
music by Charles Bilodeau. Every Sc
lection was Of such a character that it
received much we'll deserved applause.